Moontower 2014, Day 1: Demetri Martin
Good: his set; Bad: when it ended; Interesting: the time
Estate Sale Roundup: April 24-27
Grab a tape measure and your pocketbook, we’re estate sailin’
New AISD Boss Already Out in the Community
After eight hours on the job, Cruz breaks bread with ed activists
ACL Fest’s Danceability Matrix
Sweaty dance pits to lawn-chair toe tappers
Bobby McFerrin Gets Happy – Tonight!
Pharrell Williams, Yo-Yo Ma & Esperanza Spalding can’t be wrong
Citywide 86’d Round at Central Market
April contest held in conjunction with Food & Wine fest
Kat Fight
Comic Kat Ramzinski mugged, jokes about it at Moontower
‘Limepocalypse’ Hits Austin’s Bar Scene Hard
Fresh lime juice is a precious product this margarita season
Mermaids, Then and Now. Especially Now.
Some of them even throwing a trashy sort of party in Austin tonight.
The Damage Before the Blue Ruin
Actor Macon Blair talks revenge and homelessness in the new thriller
The AggreGAYtor: April 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Austin Fashion Week Recommended: Friday, April 25
Eat your Wheaties, grab your wallet, and let us plan your day
Tilda Swinton and Jim Jarmusch Go Together Like Cream
The actress dishes on ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’
Diane Obomsawin’s ‘On Loving Women’
A graphic novel that any woman-loving queer can certainly relate to
Moontower Comedy: Jen Kober
Hairy lesbian tales on the comedy trail from the Louisiana comic
The Funambulist: Giulia Millanta
Florentine transplant walks the singer-songwriter tightrope
Moontower 2014, Day 1: Local Laughs
Feeling funny about Austin’s Mac Blake and Brendan K. O’Grady
Who’s Afraid of Gertrude Stein?
Not your Tender Buttons-loving friends at Monofonus Press, to be sure.
Weather Up Starts Brunch This Weekend
Popular Eastside cocktail spot adds brunch, bimonthly supper club
Mondo Presents Marvelous Munchkins
Exclusive: Mike Mitchell assembles the most adorable Avengers ever
TDCJ Fails to Protect Prisoners From Extreme Heat
At least 14 have died since 2007
David Lebovitz Does Austin!
Popular pastry chef, cookbook author, and blogger at Central Market
The AggreGAYtor: April 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
HBO Gets in Bed With Amazon Prime
Hey, no more stealing your parents’ HBO GO password!
‘Ain’t Nothing but a House Party’
Cole announces a 10-district ‘listening’ tour
We Think This Is a Great Way to Celebrate Earth Day
Because science!
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Godspeed You! Black Emperor spinoff loads into Mohawk tonight
The National: Fury & Squalor
One night at the Moody down, two to come
New Food Trailer Court is Ready to Picnic!
Barton Springs Picnic offers parking, comforts, amenities
Nice to Meet You, Bookwoman
Revisit Austin’s feminist hub with fresh eyes and World Book Night
The AIBA Armadillo Awards: Keeping Austin Local
The Austin Independent Business Alliance presents honors on Thursday
HB 2 Protesters Return to Court
Prosecutors juggle charges – A, B, C – without resolution
Austin Considers Film Incentives
Localized subsidies proposed to fight off in-state competition
The AggreGAYtor: April 22
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
2014 Austin City Limits Music Festival Line-up
Hip-hop tops the two weekends with ladies close behind
Make Way for Tomorrow
Make Way for Tomorrow 1937, NR, 91 min. Directed by Leo McCarey, Starring Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell. Better known for his comic touch with screwballs like The Awful Truth, director Leo McCarey delivers a career best with this touching, sorrowful drama about a long-married husband and wife who lose their home…
More Aziz, Please
Aziz Ansari launches comedy fest with killer set at Bass
Austin Reggae Fest’s Easter Sunday
Everton Blender closes down displaced event
That Humongous Hotel Going Up Next Door to The Hideout Downtown?
Yeah, say Badr & Janik, it’s gonna impact a thing or two, alright.
The AggreGAYtor: April 21
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Eat Local, Help the Earth on April 22
Supporting environmental nonprofits is as easy as eating lunch
Dorkbot Returns Tonight
The showcase features three sea-centric obsessives
Bevo Juice! Bevo Juice! Bevo Juice!
Perhaps UT’s new fragrances will conjure miracles next fall
All This and Beer Too
Rumors of City Hall intrigue – and everybody goes home early
La Cenerentola
La Cenerentola 2014. Encore presentation of the Met’s 2014 performance. Joyce DiDonato sings her first Met performance of the Cinderella title role, and tenor Juan Diego Flórez appears as her Prince Charming. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the Rossini score.
Texans Like Pot
Survey results clear: reform is needed
Texas Rollergirls Hit Home Season Half Point
Hotrods aim to wave checkered flag on 2014, Hustlers say no
DVDanger: ‘Flowers in the Attic’
1950s story, 1970s glam, old fashioned Gothic mayhem
It’s Record Store Day!
Come celebrate your local record stores
Medi-Pot Not Cause of Crime
UT Dallas researchers find certain crime dropped in medi-pot states
Why Can’t We Bee Friends?
Gala raises awareness and funds for Central Texas Bee Rescue
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Yo La Tengo soundtracks homage to the noted futurist
Chaos in Tejas Returns with A Weekend in Austin
Organizer Timmy Hefner books a mini fest May 28 – June 1
Talking About ‘My Generation’ at ATX Television Festival
TV celebration adds Austin-shot ABC drama to schedule
Farmers’ Market Report: April 19-20, 2014
The first summer squash, chocolate bunnies, and iceberg lettuce
Wines of the Week
Which Cabernet is right to drink for Earth Day?
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Bunnies & Chocolate Edition
Bonnets, egg hunts, and where to find the grrrls and bois this weekend
Estate Sale Roundup: April 18-20
Slow Weekends Often Yield the Best Steals
The AggreGAYtor: April 18
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘The Big Spoon’
A chance to help put more women behind the camera
Hi Fidelity
Trying – and failing – to make it work with Hi Hat Public House
After Carstarphen, What Then?
Austin ISD enters a new era, searching for a road map
Civics 101
Thursday 17 DEBATE – INEQUALITY: SHOULD WE CARE? Dr. James Galbraith of UT’s Inequality Project debates the Ayn Rand Institute’s Dr. Yaron Brook. 7pm. UT Burdine Hall #106. Free. www.facebook.com/events/276758032488057. Friday 18 SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ: A TRIBUTE TO MEXICAN WOMEN Two-day forum on issues women face in and out of prison. Schedule…
Cuban Fury
Nick Frost is a schlubby guy who’s gotta dance.
This Crispy Taco Brought to You by 50 Years of Tradition
Tamale House East has the Midas touch
The Long Journey Home
The Houston Kid comes full circle
Quote of the Week
“We need to make sure that not even a haze-filled dinner with Willie Nelson will make her record disappear in a big puff of smoke!” – Jim Graham of Texas Right to Life, in a fundraising email excoriating gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis for fighting for reproductive rights
Under the Skin
Scarlett Johansson is the blank alien who prowls for earthmen in this spare and disorienting genre smash-up.
Hannibal Buress
The effortlessness of Hannibal Buress? That’s just 12 years of him working to become a better comic.
Texas Platters
Eliza Gilkyson The Nocturne Diaries (Red House) “Songs that come in the night are very different than daylight songs,” claims Eliza Gilkyson. Except for two covers, the veteran Austin folksinger penned the entirety of The Nocturne Diaries after dark, some of its compositions even forcing her awake to deal with subjects like an adolescent with…
Project Connect: Central Corridor Options
Last public workshop considers the future of high-capacity transit
A Haunted House 2
More horror/comedy in the Marlon Wayans vein.
Demetri Martin
Whether making jokes with punch lines or with pie charts, Demetri Martin’s job is directed daydreaming
Here, the Writer Gets the Close-Up
‘On Story’ season four opens with Vince Gilligan
Point Austin: Perry’s Peacock
Wallace Hall’s abuse of power serves his governor
The Final Member
An Icelandic museum of mammalian penises is documented while seeking its final member – a human specimen.
Letters at 3AM: The Sadness That Stays
When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that’s called aging
It’s Cruz Control – for Now
The hunt is on for a new AISD superintendent, but that doesn’t mean the district is leaderless. On Tuesday, April 15 – after the board of trustees accepted departing Superintendent Meria Carstarphen’s resignation – they voted to appoint Chief Schools Officer Paul Cruz as her interim replacement. A South Texas native and a graduate of…
Council: Getting A Round Tuit
A crowded agenda as CMs head into budget season
Bears
Disneynature doc about an Alaskan bear family.
Measured Edge
Weige Knives crafts custom blades for local chefs
Texas Platters
Horse Opera (Telewreck) Practitioners of Texas dance hall tunes, Horse Opera, led by the songwriting team of Jimmy Deveney and Howdy Darrell, two-step their way through accordion-imbued Tex-Mex (“Look at Me”), vintage honky-tonk (“Same Ole Broken Heart”), and miles of classic country on their eponymous sophomore disc, released last fall. Deveney demonstrates a knack for…
Then There’s This: SMART Is as SMART Does
City housing program becomes a balancing act
Dom Hemingway
Jude Law, all piss-and-vinegar as the titular safe-cracker, can’t light the fuse of this dud.
Exhibitionism
Despite some casting questions, the Baron’s Men create a moving and involving version of this well-known tragedy
Texas Platters
Ray Price Beauty Is (AmeriMonte) Ray Price’s final recorded testament finds him justifiably reflective within lush orchestrations of the countrypolitan sound he helped pioneer in the Sixties and Seventies. Beauty Is showcases the East Texas native, who died of pancreatic cancer in December at the age of 87, still in fine (if audibly aged) voice…
UT’s ‘Shared Services’ Begins Sharing … Layoffs
Powers endorses controversial plan
2 States
Cultural opposites fall in love in this Indian romantic drama.
Exhibitionism
To see this show is to admire fine craftspeople who set out to tell a simple story in a simple way
Texas Platters
Weary Boys The Early Years From the early part of the last decade until 2007, the Weary Boys were among Austin’s best alt.country bands. Their breathless style and dedication to tradition made their live performances the equivalent of three chords and a cloud of dust. And it wasn’t just a local phenomenon. The Weary’s combination…
Headlines
› It’s a loaded agenda at City Council today (April 17), as they take up issues postponed from last week’s Civil Rights Summit-shortened session and a couple of hot-buttons: grandfathered development rights, a contentious Clarksville historic landmark case (the Baylor House), and lots more. See “Council: Getting A Round Tuit.” › The latest draft of…
Make Your Move
Two star-crossed, young dancers are caught in the middle of underground dance-clubs’ rivalries.
Exhibitionism
The Motionhouse dancers’ daring movements up and down a giant curved wall thrilled kids and adults alike
Texas Platters
Clay McClinton Bitin’ at the Bit Most second generation singer-songwriters (Colin Gilmore and Dustin Welch come to mind) aim to distance themselves from their makers. On his fourth disc, Clay McClinton doesn’t shy away from his dad Delbert’s influence. Instead, he revels in it to such a degree that the two can be indistinguishable at…
The Hightower Report
Pulling the curtain on an anti-minimum wage front group
The Good Eye: Closet Therapy
Peeling back the layers of clutter to an organized you
Day Trips
Explore the Big Thicket on a two-hour cruise up the Neches River from Beaumont
Post-Flood Report: Mixed ‘After Action’ Reviews
171 action items needing improvement
Playback: Record Store Day
Why Record Store Day matters
Gay Place: For the Love of Bunnies
Hop to some of the gayest fests of post-Lenten debauchery
Abbott’s STAAR Idea
Gubernatorial hopefuls battle it out over education plans
Texas Platters
Jeff Whitehead Bloodhound Heart Following up 2009 debut Outlaw in My Mind, Jeff Whitehead’s sophomore LP demonstrates a good sense for melody, but still a great deal of development needed as a country-loving songwriter. Opener “Shine” drifts in light tropes and metaphors that alternate between too trite and stretched, while “Something Never Known” strikes a…
A Walk Through the New Colony Park
New neighborhood master plan unveiled
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Nirvana’s first album, Bleach, was recorded for $606.17 in 1989. One day in a U.S. hospital, on average, costs $4,287. The country with the second-highest average is Australia at $1,472. The main character in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night is based on his friend, modernist painter Gerald Murphy. Murphy’s father, an upscale New…
The Luv Doc: Introducing
Dear Luv Doc, My boyfriend never introduces me to people. Not at parties or work or at the grocery store or whatever. It drives me crazy, and is really embarrassing. Should I start wearing a name tag? – A. Nobody Yes, you should. You can’t expect him to just remember your name at the drop…
Absolutely Confabulous
Austin Public Library’s New Fiction Confab focuses on buzz over brawn
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex split a pair of preseason exhibition games last weekend, losing 1-0 at Incarnate Word, then beating a pretty good local club called AC Milan, 4-0 on Sunday. The Aztex continue to try out a number of prospects – looking to add some names to the 16-player regular-season roster already announced – but…
Rio 2
The animated blue macaw family takes a trip back to the Amazon.
Food-o-File
Overheard at the East Austin Urban Farm Tour
Texas Platters
Kevin Fowler How Country Are Ya? (Kevin Fowler Records) A comedic intro explains the intended effect of Kevin Fowler’s seventh studio album: “It’s country that’s rockin’, the kind of music that makes you want to crack a cold one and put a good dip in!” From the title track, delineating his romantic dealbreakers and forcing…
Breathe In
A comely British exchange student in upstate New York upsets a cozy family dynamic.
Food Events
April 19-24
The Dancing Bear
Nick Frost realizes his secret rhinestone dream in ‘Cuban Fury’
Texas Platters
Girlie Action On the cover of Technicolor Hearts’ debut Under the Big Blue Umbrella Sky, the Austin/Los Angeles duo’s singer and onetime Agent Ribbons provocateur Naomi Cherie comes wrapped alongside co-conspirator Joseph Salazar in multicolored yarn and holding a dreamcatcher. It’s the kind of scene you expect from the freewheeling hippies at Eeyore’s Birthday, but…
Transcendence
Wally Phister, the Oscar-winning Inception lenser, takes the directing reins for this sci-fi puzzler that stars Johnny Depp.
