Cover Story
The Bicycle Thief
Police say James Clayton befriended – then ripped off – many Austin bicyclists
Texas Teabagging Not So Sweet
Wednesday’s anti-tax protest show tensions in the conservative movement
Dismantling Family Planning Pt. 2
House budget amendment would subvert access to reproductive services
Toros Advance to Second Round of Playoffs
Austin defeats Idaho 119-116 in overtime
Reckless Kelly’s Celebrity Softball Jam
Local Americana group hosts charity softball game and concert at the Dell Diamond
Where in the World is HB 873?
Technical problem holds up film incentive bill for one day
An Interview with Kevin Shields
The sonic architect deals with the past
Aztex Mania, Champs League Quarterfinals
Pro soccer hits Austin Saturday night
Toros Playoff Run Begins
The Austin Toros host the Idaho Stampede Wednesday night
Menacing Behavior Under the Dome
Witness removed after threatening senators that dare to vote against sanctuary city bill
Arigatou Gozaimasu, Mr. Sakai
Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai looks back on 25 years of his samurai rabbit
Later, Brighter
Tommy Keene 2.0
Carona Push-Starts Stalled Bill
Local option transport funding proposal gets out of committee, but still under a cloud
This McCain’s Not a Pain
Meghan McCain gives logical reasons why the GOP needs to drop its gay hate.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 1950-2009
The loss of preeminent queer scholar will be felt.
How to Woo a ‘Wolverine’
Austin’s still in the running to host the Wolverine premiere, but that’s not gonna happen without your vote
It’s All About Bigamy
Human Services hearing on FLDS raid kicks off with Hilderbran bill
This Charming Man
Morrissey enraptured the Bass Concert Hall Sunday night
Kerlikowske Promises Change in Drug Policy
Czar says he’ll provide audience for all viewpoints
Committee Considers FLDS Raid
Invited testimony today related to last year’s raid in Eldorado
Wentworth Gets Council Thumbs’ Down
Council unanimously rejects legislature’s single-member district proposal
World Premiere of ‘One Peace at a Time’ Tomorrow Night
Turk Pipkin to premiere his followup to ‘Nobelity’ Tuesday night at the Paramount
Cheeky Monkey
The weepy rewards of watching Susan Boyle’s viral video
Keep Austin Kustom
Chrome lines South Congress this weekend, in the street and clubs
Single Stream to the Lege
Austin’s troubled recycling deal creates legislative ripples
Court Halts New DPS License Rules
Travis Co. judge says agency overstepped rule-making authority
Komen Grants Money for Austin Screenings
Planned Parenthood will provide breast cancer screenings for low-income women
Bloodytron
Are you kidding me?
Off the Record – 33 RPM
Closures during the Texas Relays, Fastball’s latest, and Arthuriosis
Is Legalized Poker in the Cards for Texas?
Poker is a game of skill, not chance
Carona Moves “Life” to New Committee
Not enough votes to move the “Choose Life” vanity plate out of Senate Transportation Committee
A Letter to Alberta
Leffingwell blasts the Statesman for their public safety scaremongering
Senton for the Camera!
WWE’s most recent Austin show to be broadcast tonight on myNetworkTV
Foreign Affairs
Visconti’s last film was a masterwork of late-19th century sexual mores and a crash course in the possibilities of set design, but this new release is marred by subpar subtitles
Phases & Stages
Black Dice Repo (Paw Tracks) Brooklyn’s Black Dice may be inextricably linked to their Animal Collective label heads, but it’s a comparison that serves the experimental trio well. Whereas Animal Collective has softened with pop precision, Black Dice’s fifth studio LP burrows deeper into the electronics toolshed, restlessly rolling between the undefined extremes of Lightning…
After a Fashion
Stephen pulls a rabbit out of his … hat
Point Austin: Madness in Many Packages
From Highland Mall to PACT, the lunatics are at large
Foreign Affairs
Il Generale Della Rovere is the bridge between Rossellini’s move from neorealism to artificial realism
Phases & Stages
The Coathangers Scramble (Suicide Squeeze) Since the bubbly hiss of their eponymous 2007 debut, Atlanta punk foursome the Coathangers have found confidence in dissonance. On sophomore LP Scramble, they do just that, guitarist Julia Kugel’s yelp, bassist Meredith Franco’s screech, and drummer Stephanie Luke’s growl meshing like a drunken 2am bar conversation from song to…
Oops!
In “How Many Cats Did Austin Save Last Year?” News, April 3, in briefly summarizing long-term trends, we mischaracterized the euthanasia rate over the last nine years, and we regret the error. Although the total numbers of animals killed at the Town Lake Animal Center slowly declined over the previous decade, the marked improvement in…
City Hall Hustle: Reading Place 1
Cavazos or Riley? You decide.
Foreign Affairs
This set features six of the expressionist’s most famous movies from his early years in Germany, each a masterpiece of symphonic chiaroscuro
Phases & Stages
Doom Born Like This (Lex) Since 2005’s The Mouse and the Mask collaboration with Danger Mouse, Doom’s activity sunk so low that rumors began about the London-born, New York-bred rapper, aka Daniel Dumile, hiring ghost performers to handle his sets. Born Like This, his third disc, won’t encourage the idea that he’s done much during…
Early Closing
On Thursday, April 9, the Chronicle offices will close at 4pm. We will resume regular business hours the next day, Friday, April 10.
Res Publica
Citizen’s calendar, April 9-16
Last Call With Lou
Remembering actor Lou Perryman
Phases & Stages
Neil Young Fork in the Road (Reprise) Neil Young’s topicality forever courts disposability. 2006’s Living With War and Are You Passionate? an administration earlier still ebb Bush-era bathwater. Yet when today transcends tomorrow, as on 1979’s Rust Never Sleeps and Freedom a decade later, there’s no stopping this “Old Man” whose ’59 Lincoln Continental drives…
Page Two: A Pleasant Summer Afternoon Outing
With an all-too-familiar rant recalled and reoffered
Headlines
• A report by Texas Campaign for the Environment says the city of Austin has already lost $900,000 on its recycling contract with Greenstar, which trucks recyclables to facilities in San Antonio. Everyone agrees the city could save a bundle by having its own sorting facility, and a recommendation on that front is expected in…
Crowded Canvas
Video artist Max Juren stakes his claim in the YouTube nation
Local Pork Gets Schooled
Austin restaurants and businesses are prepped to help you eat local and use everything but the oink
Playing Through
If you haven’t caught the NBA-level talent playing with the Austin Toros, don’t miss the game on Friday
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Beyond the Bourbon Legend
The bottle didn’t let Jason Boland down, and neither did his workingman’s honky-tonk
Film News
Friday Night Lights gets renewed for two more seasons, and the House passes the incentives bill. Are things looking up for the Texas film industry?
Local Pork Producers
The Austin area is blessed to have several dedicated suppliers of traditionally pastured, old-breed, all-natural pork, either selling their products as whole or partial carcasses or as cuts of pork by the pound. This is the pork of your great-grandparents’ dinner table. Countryside Family Farm 376 Jones Rd., Cedar Creek, 512/363-2310 Sebastien and Esther…
House Backs Strip-Club Tax
You may be adding 10% to your strip-club budget soon
Outlaw Band: The Boland Discography
Pearl Snaps (Underground Sound, 1999) Recorded locally at Cedar Creek Studio, Boland’s debut wrangles Austin notables such as Bukka Allen and Terri Hendrix behind Lloyd Maines’ production. The title track, “Drinkin’ Song,” and “If I Ever Get Back to Oklahoma” provide the radio playlist fodder, but the trembling vocal vulnerability of ballads “Proud Souls” and…
The Hightower Report
Watching You Watch Ads; and Obama’s Third Surge in Afghanistan
Local Restaurants Curing Their Own
Local restaurants have really taken the local pig to heart, and many are doing their own old-school house curing. This list offers some examples of local cured pig fare. Vespaio and Enoteca Vespaio (1610 S. Congress, 441-6100, 441-7672, www.austinvespaio.com): Ryan Samson buys whole local hogs to make guanciale, fresh sausages, bacon, pancetta, lardo, scrapple for…
Highland Mall Hysteria Over Texas Relays
Has reaction to Relays weekend revealed Austin’s true colors?
Observe and Report
With more of a resemblance to The Cable Guy than Paul Blart: Mall Cop, this Seth Rogen comedy about a bipolar mall security guard is decidedly dark.
Event Menu
Local food events for April 11-15
TV Eye
R.I.P. ER? Yawn. ‘TV Eye’ thinks replacement drama Southland could be even better.
A History of Pigs in America
The pig dates back 40 million years to fossils which indicate that wild porcine animals roamed forests and swamps in Europe and Asia. Remains of the earliest known North American peccary, Perchoerus, are from late Eocene sediments dating from 37 million years ago in North America. But it’s the domesticated pig that holds our interest.…
House Passes Journalist Shield Law
Will law protect bloggers and their sources, too?
The Black Balloon
This prize-winning Australian film is a moving, youth-oriented work, featuring lovely performances by Toni Collette and Gemma Ward.
Cissi’s Market
The new wine bar offers a superb wine list for the connoisseur and the neophyte alike
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cardboard Diners Club cards, Jerry Lewis loves clowns, and more
Further Reading
Bruce Aidells’ Complete Sausage Book: Recipes From America’s Premier Sausage Maker: Homemade Sausages and Recipes That Use Them. Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly. Ten Speed Press, 2000. Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking, and Curing. Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn. W.W. Norton & Co. 2005. Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery. Jane Grigson. Grub Street, 2001.…
Texas Lyceum: Stimulus Funds Debate Reverberates
How do you persuade Rick Perry to do the right thing?
Tokyo!
This triptych of short films by directors Michel Gondry, Leos Carax, and Bong Joon-ho is a gorgeous, sprawling mess.
Food-o-File
Adam Cotorceanu plays with his latte at Quack’s, while spring brings changes around town
New in Fiction
Ward has a heart for women, and these stories underscore that fact
Campaign Trailin’
Cop-shop talk on the campaign trail; and City Council candidate forums
12
Essentially a Russianized version of the courtroom drama 12 Angry Men, 12 is a moral powerhouse that’s both intellectually riveting and indescribably poetic.
The Common Law
Tax Return – Can I Get an Extension?
New in Fiction
Private Midnight vaults from police procedural to erotic thriller to occult horror to philosophical tome
Arts Review
This Feydeau farce is like an apple pie: familiar, and it tastes good going down
TechnoLegeBacklash: Strama Slags Twitter
At least one legislator thinks Tweeting is for the birds
Moscow, Belgium
Barbara Sarafian’s jaundiced but stoic portrait of exasperated middled-age womanhood is the big revelation of this Belgian import.
Wine of the Week
This region’s wines are pure, delicate, and elegant
The Oxford Project
Peter Feldstein talks about photographing an entire small town across a 20-year span
Arts Review
The debut of ReleaseMotion Dance Project was flawed conceptually but showed promise
LegeLines
What your legislators are up to this week
8 x 10 Tasveer
In this supernatural Bollywood thriller, a man has the ability to see a dead person’s past by staring into 8-by-10 glossies.
There Can Be Only One
Fronting and posting at B-Boy City 16
David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
Comedy and collaboration were distinguishing elements in the 2009 New Works Festival
Arts Review
This group exhibition spins an intriguing narrative of fusion and confusion
Experts Weigh In on Voter ID
The House Elections Committee heard public testimony on the voter ID bill
Letters at 3AM
Obama’s bank policy is good for bankers and reckless for us
Lou Perryman
Remembering a character actor’s character actor
Off the Record
If a Downtown venue closes down for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, does it make a sound?
Workers’ Comp Weakened
The Texas Supreme Court upholds Entergy v. Summers decision
Live Shots
Leonard Cohen The Long Center, April 1 & 2 With Leonard Cohen back onstage in 2009, approaching 75, there’s a serendipitous sense of purpose. The poet and musician should be meditating on a mountaintop somewhere, drawing nudes and writing his memoirs, but rectifying a criminal business situation has put him back on a quest for…
Day Trips
Chandor Gardens mixes the open space of a formal English garden with the intimacy of a Chinese garden and transformed one man’s dream into a magical, picturesque setting
Critical Mass Arrests
Recent arrests spawn debate about safety of Critical Mass and motives of traffic cops
Foreign Affairs
Is there any contemporary American director who can so effortlessly invoke the essence of tragic love and endless loss as easily as Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-Wai?
Live Shots
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Frank Erwin Center, April 5 “Talk about a dream, try to make it real,” rang Bruce Springsteen’s mountain baritone to a sold-out Frank Erwin Center on Sunday in opening state of the union “Badlands.” For decades now, the Boss has chiseled away at the dream, a distinctly American…
Gay Place
Race walk, do not walk, to see Adelina Anthony!
Eyewitness ID
Will Senate Bill 117 prevent wrongful convictions?
Luv Doc Recommends: Lyndon Lambert Memorial Easter Pet Parade Costume Contest
When you think about it, what better way to celebrate Easter than a parade? After all, Easter itself started out with a rather colorful (especially if you’re into crimson) parade up the Via Dolorosa. There weren’t any huge inflatable cartoon characters, floats made of roses, or insightful commentary by Kathie Lee Gifford, but credit the…
