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Jackie Robinson’s story is told as a socially conscious moral tale about the malevolence of segregation.

by Louis Black

Food Events

› CultureMap Tastemaker Awards Celebrate Austin’s culinary movers and shakers as recognized by CultureMap at this second annual gala at the Driskill to benefit the Austin Food and Wine Alliance. Thu., April 11, 6:30pm. The Driskill Hotel, 604 Brazos, 474-5911. $50 ($100, VIP). austin.culturemap.com/tastemakers/tickets. › Art City Austin Food Truck Court Art City Austin takes…

by Virginia B. Wood

Texas Platters

Wayne Hancock Ride (Bloodshot) Titling his eighth album Ride disguises the fact that Wayne Hancock sounds tired. There are ways to make his musical framework – blues, boogie, rockabilly, and swing – come alive, even if those styles were only new several generations ago. Hancock’s proved capable of such moves in the past, but these…

by Jim Caligiuri

Texas Platters

The Beaumonts Where Do You Want It? (Saustex) Lubbock never ceases spewing forth great musicians. What else is there to do there, anyway? It seems unlikely, however, that the Beaumonts will be mentioned in the same breath as Buddy Holly or the Flatlanders mafia. With one foot in the honky-tonk and the other in the…

by Michael Toland

Trance

Danny Boyle’s film swerves unevenly between moods and motivations, from heist film to psychosexual thriller, and dreamy logic to amped-up action.

by Kimberley Jones

Texas Platters

Creationists Holy Wisdom (Super Secret) Behind some ancient mystical aesthetic, Austin quartet Creationists levies unholy post-punk jams on its debut LP. Cut and paste the Greek script of the record’s title into Google, and you’ll get Holy Wisdom, plus images of a mosque in Turkey. Be assured, that’s the only pretentious aspect of this vinyl…

by Kevin Curtin

Lege Lines

Weighing the Scales of Justice April promises to be a month packed with criminal justice matters to consider. Last week lawmakers heard testimony about whether to tweak language for the criminal definition of insanity – changing the word “know,” as in “know something is wrong,” to “appreciate,” as in “actually grasp the concept that something…

by Jordan Smith and Amy Smith

The Sapphires

Exuberant but fairly formulaic, this Australian film is a backstage story about an all-girl singing group from the outback in the Sixties.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Platters

The Saint James Society Bab(a/y)lon Rising (Tee Pee) Standing tall in glitter-painted cowboy boots, one hand spinning a Fuzztones LP and the other clutching the Necronomicon, the Saint James Society storms the church of Lone Star psych. Bab(a/y)lon Rising, full-length follow-up to last year’s defiantly odd eponymous EP, ebbs and flows like the ocean at…

by Michael Toland

Texas Platters

Bill Baird Spring Break of the Soul (Pau Wau) Bill Baird swims in his own ocean of shattered analog pop, tides that envelop in invitingly warm melodies and crash with sudden disorienting intensity. The local pop-savant lulls the listener out to sea, adrift and anchorless, clinging to the slightest hook as he constructs a Prospero-like…

by Doug Freeman

Gay Place

LoveBomb! (the fundraiser for QueerBomb), a coupla gay plays, a rainbow cutting, balls on fire, and more

by Kate X Messer

Texas Rollergirls Doubleheader

When the 2013 season began, there was some smart money saying this year’s Texas Rollergirls championships could well come down to the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers and the Hotrod Honeys. This weekend could see a preview of that matchup as the pair face off in the final bout before the June 8 playoffs. Both squads are…

by Richard Whittaker

Oops!

In our story last week on three pending executions (“Three Executions Pending,” News, April 5), we reported that a writ of habeas corpus was filed last week in support of Rigoberto Avila, who may be innocent of the 2000 death of a toddler left in his care. In fact, the writ has not yet been…

by Chronicle Staff

Soccer Watch

The Austin Aztex announced their 2013 preseason schedule this week: games against four local college teams in the next three weeks, with more to be announced later. Your first chance to get a glimpse of your 2013 Aztex comes when they take on Huston-Tillotson at 7:30pm this Friday, April 12, Stassney Fields, 1601 W. Stassney. The remaining games:…

by Nick Barbaro

Quote of the Week

“When I heard Google Fiber was coming to Austin, I thought, ‘well, of course.'” – state Sen. Kirk Watson, via video at Tuesday’s Google media conference

by Chronicle Staff

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Q-tips were invented in the 1920s by Leo Gerstenzang. He originally called them “Baby Gays.” Recent research by Dr. David G. Amen (of the Amen Clinics) says there are six types of ADD/ADHD, each requiring its own treatment protocol. And commonly prescribed medications like Adder­al and Ritalin can aggravate symptoms in four of the six…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Civics 101

Thursday 11 “PRICE OF CHILDHOOD” Director Kan Yan will be on hand for the first Austin screening of his documentary on the working children in Nepal. 8pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925. Free. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org. Friday 12 TAX HEMP DEMONSTRATION AND BANNER DROP Think it’s time for the drug war to raise a white…

by Chronicle Staff

Exhibitionism

Bastion Carboni’s new play is a confrontational mess, but it’s vital in its commentary on bigotry within gay communities

by Dan Solomon

Headlines

› City Council meets today (April 11) with a spotlight on Austin Energy governance – a pending proposal (first reading only) to create an independent board, and a related resolution to support state legislation. See “Council: Who Rules AE?” and “Then There’s This.” › Though they did it with considerably less fanfare than Google, AT&T…

by Chronicle Staff

Fusebox Menu de l’année

Art + Tech Cue China (Elsewhere, Offshore) Ant Hampton’s Auto Teatro performance for two audience members in which they see and re-create his video conversations with Chinese workers. April 18-28, various times, at Prizer Gallery, Fusebox Office, 2023 E. Cesar Chavez. Motion Bank This Forsythe Company research project digitally scores choreographic movement. Austin’s Deborah Hay…

by Chronicle Staff

Exhibitionism

Kelly O’Connor’s exhibit gives visitors a chance to escape into a fractured version of mid-century Vacationland

by W. A. Brenner

The Luv Doc: Nowhere to Poo

LuvDoc, I have a recurring dream where I am at a big rock festival – like ACL – and I have to use the restroom really badly, but all of the porta-potties are either in use, out of order, or overflowing. What does this mean? – Antsy Perhaps it’s your subconscious telling you to back…

by Chronicle Staff

Record Review

Willie Nelson Let’s Face the Music and Dance (Sony Legacy) Following last year’s resurgent debut for Sony Legacy, Heroes, Willie Nelson returns with full Family Band intact. The set captures Nelson again transforming the American popular songbook into his own with the ease of his distinctly languorous phrasing and guitar work. Starting in his birth…

by Doug Freeman

The Place Beyond the Pines

A melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie are all rolled into one in this Ryan Gosling and Bradley Cooper headliner.

by Leah Churner

Texas Platters

Quiet Company A Dead Man on My Back: Shine Honesty Revisited “I wanted to say that I had a dead man on my back yesterday, but I cut him loose,” croons Taylor Muse at the outset of “Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History.” The titled line serves well for Quiet Company’s re-recording of 2006 debut…

by Doug Freeman

Ginger & Rosa

The personal becomes political in Sally Potter’s story about a girl who comes of age in England during the early Sixties.

by Kimberley Jones

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