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Eastward Expansion
Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside
Sleater-Kinney Atomizes Austin City Limits
Reunited power trio warms up for sold-out Stubb’s gig Friday
Moontower Comedy Fest: Comics to Watch
Because we know funny
Ten Minutes with Sally Timms
Brit-punk siren on her band’s new documentary and longevity
Call Girl of Cthulhu Comes Knocking
Director Chris LaMartina on puns and Lovecraft
It’s a Ron-derful Life
Wherein Moontower star Ron White reveals the keys to happiness
Don’t Go Away Mad!
Zimmerman’s Immigrant Affairs nominee withdraws
Austin’s Record Store Day Picks
Local releases and where to get ’em
The South Will Be Celebrated Again!
Historical revisionists urge Lege to protect the Confederacy
Happy Tax Day Hour
Ease your tax day woes (or celebrate) with a drink
Aaron Franklin Is on Fire
Local pitmaster does a victory lap
Q&A With Comedian Tig Notaro
Showtime documentary airs Friday
The AggreGAYtor: April 15
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Chronicle Donates Big to SIMS
Austin Music Awards raised $22,785 for local nonprofit
The Outskirts of Hope
Jo Ivester launches civil rights-era memoir
Paul Ozbirn Is Austin’s Newest Advanced Sommelier
Parkside Projects beverage director aces rigorous wine test
The AggreGAYtor: April 14
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Oh Me, Oh My, Oh iZombie
Writer Diane Ruggiero-Wright on the walking, talking undead
Senate Votes to Close Austin State Supported Living Center
Despite guardian opposition, Senate passes bill to close Austin SSLC
Desert Dancer
Young Iranians form a forbidden dance troupe in this biographical drama.
Adler’s First “State of the City”
Mayor Steve Adler calls for “inclusion, innovation, improvisation”
Bill Arhos 1934-2015
Austin City Limits creator left a worldwide legacy
Food-o-File: Monday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Gina Chavez Video Release Fills the Stateside
Newly minted Musician of the Year has come a long way in a year
Ex Hex Burns Off Jetlag at Red 7
Mary Timony’s D.C. power trio rips some TGIF
News Roundup: Antis, State and Local
Council appointee blames Hispanics; White won’t meet with LGBT group
A Triple Roller Derby Double Header
Roller Derby makes history at the Bob Bullock, plus upcoming bouts
DVDanger: From the Dark
Star and director talk monsters, mud, and New Kids on the Block
One in a Crowd: Bowbarian
2-D scrolling craziness needs crowdfunding support
Revving With Cora Vette
Texas Burlesque Festival MC tells dirty jokes and career truths
More April Arts Fests for Your Pleasure
Don’t forget International Poetry and Texas Burlesque
Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Jackie Davies
Austin entrepreneur was national restaurant delivery pioneer
Mr. Leather Bear Austin 2015
Where the crack of hide and the plush of fur meet
John Doe on SXSW Hit-and-Run
“Very strange feeling to be that close, but not be aware”
Austin Honors Selena
Remembering Preciosa in CenTex and beyond
The AggreGAYtor: April 10
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
White God
This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny
Lost River
Ryan Gosling’s controversial debut as a writer/director finally arrives
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
The “world’s first Iranian feminist vampire spaghetti western” is a spooky doozy
Girlhood
Being an adolescent girl of color in the working-class suburbs of Paris is no easy job
Freetown
The director of The Saratov Approach is back with another true Mormon epic
Merchants of Doubt
This doc calls out the spokesmen for Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Big Oil, as well as the tactics they use to blur the facts
Son of Satyamurthy
Telugu family drama.
Broken Horses
Anton Yelchin and Vincent Vincent D’Onofrio star in this contemporary Western
The Luv Doc: Shark vs. Peacock
(Ed. Note: During SXSW, the Luv Doc Question Box was placed at the Chronicle SXSW trade show booth. There seems to have been a considerable amount of confusion about the box. Judging by the questions received, most people believe the Luv Doc to be either a clairvoyant, a fortune teller, or both. While it’s tempting…
Woman in Gold
Helen Mirren plays an aging Jew who wants to win back a painting looted from her family by the Nazis
The Longest Ride
It’s the latest romancer from Nicholas Sparks’ by-the-numbers playbook
While We’re Young
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts suffer a midlife funk in Noah Baumbach’s latest
Good Sports
Austin food should go to bat
Council: More Brisket, More Staff
Talking around barbecue smoke, staffing up, and more
Food-o-File
Clearing the air
D4 Contest: Pressley Marches On
District 4 election contest arrives in court
Siempre Selena
Game changer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez prompts Corpus Christi’s inaugural “Selena Fest”
Lege Lines: Guns vs. Business, Strange Bedfellows, and More
Lege walks the line between proliferating guns, protecting businesses
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bert Hinkler was the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic. But he was the first to fly solo across the southern Atlantic. Raëlism, also known as Raëlianism or the Raëlian movement, is a UFO religion that was founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon, now known as Raël. Followers frequently use a swastika as…
Bill of the Week
Will third time be a charm for statewide texting ban?
Help Desk
Is attempting to hide baldness on your dating profile a losing proposition or par for the course?
Quote of the Week
“The mayor says he needs 12 staff. We have a staff member for nine of us, and we don’t get paid.” – AISD Trustee Paul Saldaña contrasts the school board life with that of a Council member.
Jacob’s Ladder
The hero of this Theatre en Bloc premiere wrestles with ethical issues while working for FDR
Short-Term Rentals: The Basics
Among the issues raised in the gentrification debate is that of “short-term rentals,” or in the lexicon of the city’s Code Department, “Vacation Rentals.” Under the city’s current vacation rental licensing law, there are three types of STRs which require city operating licenses: • Type 1: Owner-occupied (an owner’s principal residence, rented in part or…
Miró Quartet
The ensemble’s treatment of Schubert was like a ride along a winding road in a finely tuned Porsche
Death Watch
Just because you have a right to a lawyer, doesn’t mean that they have to be any good
416 Bar & Grille
Perhaps best without the “grille” part
“Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties”
“Witness” brings the Civil Rights Movement to the Blanton Museum of Art
Point Austin: Waging Peace
Our politics favors war as a first option
Phases & Stages
Kendrick Lamar To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope) A sampled vocal of Jamaican crooner Boris Gardiner poses a question as explicit and prescient now as when asked in 1974: “Who will deny that you and I and every nigger is a star?” Trekking barbwire thickets of the dense, pitfall-enriched forest called “existence of (successful) black men,”…
Day Trips: Katy Prairie, Hockley
Wildlife viewing platform give a bird’s eye view of Warren Lake
Public Notice: April Is the Coolest Month
Council staffs up, swings into committee action
Phases & Stages
In the age of social media, the overuse of superlatives tends to render each assessment meaningless. How many times was Joe Blow’s band “amazing” this week? Then someone like Stevie Wonder returns. His three-plus hour re-creation of the 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life laid out a sprawling extravaganza of song and emotion.…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex host Arizona United this Saturday, April 11 at 8pm at House Park. The Aztex lost 3-0 to Vancouver last Wednesday, then beat Tulsa on the road on Saturday, 2-0 on a pair of Kris Tyrpak goals. At 2-1 on the season, the Aztex are tied for the USL West lead with three…
UT Basketball Scores New Leadership
Rick Barnes exits, Shaka Smart takes the helm
Phases & Stages
Bob Dylan Shadows in the Night (Columbia) Despite his late entry in the standards album game, Bob Dylan actually proposed such an endeavor 35 years ago in the wake of Willie Nelson’s Stardust. Then-CBS Records president Walter Yetnikoff refused to pay for it. A questionable business decision, but one that probably saved Dylan’s take on…
Playback: Experiencing a Broadened Euphoria
EDM breaks out, Agony Column returns
Joining Forces Against HIV
Wright House reopens; continues the fight against HIV alongside other local orgs
Phases & Stages
The Decemberists What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World (Capitol) Indie rock fanatics and tastemakers have gotten so used to Portland’s Decemberists having a narrative concept (The Crane Wife, The Hazards of Love), or trying to prove something (the “We’re not a prog band – really!” songcraft of The King Is Dead) that an…
Symphony No. I-35
Finally, a Traffic Jam we can enjoy, thanks to composer Steve Parker
Headlines
No formal City Council meeting this week (next is April 16) while the committees get rolling and the reverberations proceed from the Zucker Report on Planning and Development. See “Public Notice,” and “Council.” Meanwhile, the Never-Ending District 4 campaign proceeds with defeated Council candidate Laura Pressley’s contest of last year’s election and run-off, which arrived…
Phases & Stages
Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love (Sub Pop) Layoff spurred no staleness in the newly regrouped Sleater-Kinney. The Olympia-born trio’s first LP in a decade sounds as brazen as ever. Coupling punk rock sass with unbridled passion, the Portlanders’ eighth album commences on a relatable blue-collar note, as fraught-rock opener “Price Tag” chronicles a kids-carting mother’s…
The Way Home
Zach Theatre gives Robert Schenkkan’s All the Way its Texas premiere on LBJ’s home turf
Permanent Markers
How a trailer becomes brick-and-mortar
Gay Place: Anything …
Selena’s birthday week is Dreaming of You
Don Hertzfeldt’s Digital Divide
Awards-sweeping “World of Tomorrow” is Don Hertzfeldt’s first digital film
The Hightower Report: Help Oust Junk Science From Our Public Science Museums
Climate change denialism comes for natural history museums
Grimm Guignol
Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut melds fantasy and realism
Can AISD Enable “Equity”?
School board makes another attempt to define and create equitable schools
