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The War on Women’s Health
To attack Planned Parenthood, lawmakers undermine health care … and promote more abortions
Has Doggett Found the Four-Way Map?
Plan to split Travis County even further surfaces
When Are We Supposed to Sleep?
Thursday’s Mouthfeel at Cheer Up Charlie’s shakes the midweek blues.
Ladies Are Funny Festival!
The biggest LAFF is just a week away
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Reckless Kelly swings for the fences
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 4-29
Foot Patrol gets down and dirty with Pussyfooting
Bedside Manner: In Media Res
False starts, slow reads
Take Me Home Tonight!
TLAC wants you to take home a friend this weekend
TDH: 4/27/11
The Hustle shares a scrumptious link round-up
Lamebook on the Go
The humor site debuts an iPhone app
Wednesday Rewind
Foot Patrol and Mother Falcon do the ‘Mudslide’
Watson Wants Travis Whole in SBOE
Senate committee moves map keeping Travis split
Things Not To Fear: 1) The Reaper, 2) The World Horror Convention in Austin
An Interview with Convention co-chairs Nate Southard and Lee Thomas
Sturgeon’s Revelation Revisited
The mystery of Mumford & Sons
Steel Wheels
Scenes from the Railroad Revival Tour
What’s in Steve Niles’ Head?
World Horror Con star signing at Austin Books today
Reality TV Update: ‘The Next Dragon’
Iron Dragon Productions gets closer to inking a TV deal.
House Passes Puppy Mill Bill
With Simpson arguing against, measure passes
Visit Your Local Library
Austin Public Libraries like local music
Urban Rail Comment Period Ends Friday
Proposed line would run from Mueller to ABIA via Downtown
…And In More Comedic News
A comic in Canada gets fined for insulting lesbian patrons
TDH: 4/26/11
This City Council agenda’s a little batty
The World Horror Convention? In Austin!
Lend us your fears
TDH: 4/25/11
The Daily Hustle asks if time’s up for Single Member Districts
Austin Rockin’ 4/25
Full week of live music, plus a Foot Patrol plug, on FOX 7
Close Your Eyes
James Taylor and company at the Bass Concert Hall April 23
From Watergate to Birtherism
Woodward, Bernstein and Redford ponder the Trump experience
‘Bringing Bill Back to His Cultural Home’
‘American: The Bill Hicks Story’ co-director talks post-SXSW success
Getting Sick With the Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast
Health care blues and Edujobs nightmares
Reefer Roundup: 4/22/11
It’s baaaaack!
Holding Light
A brief report on the vigil at Out Youth for Norma and Maria Hurtado
Out With the Old, In With the New
Round Rock Express take on Oklahoma City RedHawks
Grave Injustice
’48 Hours Mystery’ features Graves case
Perry Gonna Make it Rain
Governor picks prayer over investment in firefighters
Destination Dining Downtown
The Austonian’s three dining destinations are on the cutting edge of Downtown Austin’s future
Arthouse
The visual arts institution faces dissent over staff cuts and mistreatment of artists
Does Puppy Mill Bill Stand a Dog’s Chance?
Puppy mill bill stalls out
American: The Bill Hicks Story
The rants of the late, great stand-up comic Bill Hicks sound as fresh and brilliant as ever.
The Hightower Report
Just Like You – Only Way Richer; and Worst of the Worst Contest
Destination Dining Downtown
Austin is turning into quite a sophisticated bar town, and this one tops the list
Daniel Catán
Renowned opera composer dies while in residence at the Butler School of Music
Trying To Catch the Chan Train
What does the Place 1 candidate really think of rail?
Rio
In this animated film from the makers of Ice Age, a domesticated macaw finally learns to fly.
Last of the Delta Bluesmen
Pinetop Perkins goes home to Mississippi
What Does It Cost To Cut $62 Million?
The hidden costs, from cash to cancer
Off the Record
Asylum Street Spankers’ last laugh
Shade So Paid
Place 3 incumbent leads fundraising pack
Scream 4
This reboot of the franchise is too self-referential for its own good.
Letters at 3AM: Stirling at Road’s End
Stirling Silliphant had a marvelous gift for writing, but he sold it out
Event Menu
Foodie events for April 21-30
Day Trips
Texas avoided much of the devastation of the Civil War, but not all of it
TRC Swings Low on Holly Demo Bid
Council to consider Holly demo bid April 28
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Whether this is a real film or a priceless stunt, Morgan Spurlock has the goods on product placement.
TV Eye
Speculating on who will replace Steve Carell at Dunder Mifflin
Food-o-File
Gluten-free at Mr. Gatti’s, a smorgasbord of food fundraisers, and pastries fit for royalty
Gay Place
Austin Pride and QueerBomb drop dates for 2011
Cooper Rejects WTP Lawsuit
Lawsuit alleged city acted in ‘bad faith’
Potiche
Catherine Deneuve stars in this French comedy set in 1977 about a trophy wife.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Elvis Presley, Mulder and Scully, etc.
The Road Is Long
Michael Ventura’s many winding turns
Page Two: SXSW and 2011 Chicago International Movies & Music Festival
Part One: My Beginnings and Chicago
What’s Old Is Green Again
Eco-friendly, home-based funerals recall a bygone era
I Am
Tom Shadyac, the director of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective has found spirituality and now wants to fix the world’s problems.
After a Fashion
Stephen loves children, dons black, and gets blown (away)
Family-Planning Budget
Families don’t come first in this funding scheme
Small Audiences, Large Souls
At the Fusebox Festival, size matters, but that doesn’t always mean ‘big’
Drop in the Bucket: Disputed Fed Ed Funding Comes to Texas
Disputed fed ed funding comes to Texas
Mr. Perfect
New Tollywood romance.
DVD Watch
He was an innovating TV comedian and the least successful success in the business
Live Shot
Old Settler’s Music Festival Salt Lick BBQ Pavilion, Driftwood, April 16 Elliott Brood is no Scott Avett. The Avett brother’s last-minute paternity leave left the 24th annual Old Settler’s Music Festival without a Friday night headliner, but spring fever had clearly taken hold of Elliott Brood early the next day, Saturday, the 14-hour heart of…
Why They Come Back
Most of the artists who enliven your average Fusebox Festival are new to local audiences, but a few will be familiar from festivals past. Reggie Watts, Phil Soltanoff, and the dance company tEEth are all making return visits this year. What apart from the killer breakfast tacos keeps them returning to Austin when Fusebox rolls…
Headlines
� City Council meets today, April 21, and may take action on naming a recycling contractor. This week, the Solid Waste Advisory Commission recommended splitting the load between staff-recommended Balcones Resources and Texas Disposal Systems, although TDS still hasn’t agreed to all the city’s terms. � Council also convened Wednesday to receive the five-year financial…
Dum Maaro Dum
Multiple lives collide brutally one day at Goa Airport in this Bollywood film.
Living Music in the Live Music Capital
Echotone explores the intersection of art and commerce in Austin
Phases & Stages
Le Tout-Puissant Orchestre Poly-Rythmo Cotonou Club (Strut) Orchestre Poly-Rythmo practiced what it preached: vodoun. Formed in the late 1960s from the cradle of black magic – Cotonou, Benin – the West African ensemble fused hypnotic rhythms of traditional spirit possession ceremonies with the needlepoint efficacy of James Brown soul, Nigerian high life, and trans-Atlantic grooves.…
Art Week Austin
Hosting the 2011 Art Week Austin, Art Alliance Austin is taking advantage of the exceptional convergence of special arts events this month, including the annual Fusebox Festival and Umlauf Garden Party, the Texas Biennial, and the Austin Museum of Art’s triennial “New Art in Austin” exhibition. The events span April 27-May 1, with a special…
City Hall Hustle: Twisting the Knife
Is Austin heading for a double-dip recession?
Head for the Hills
The second annual Hill Country Film Festival
Phases & Stages
Tune-Yards Whokill (4AD) The spirit of Nina Simone is alive and well on Merrill Garbus’ second album. Chances are hers isn’t a conscious revival, but the Oakland, Calif., multi-instrumentalist has the lioness in her soulful voice and loops it with inventive results. Whokill follows Garbus’ self-recorded 2009 debut, Bird-Brains, by shifting focus to a woman’s…
Fusebox Music
For some time, music has been steadily becoming a major component of Fusebox, and that continues with this year’s debut of the Free Range Music Series, offering concerts in nontraditional spaces. The kickoff with Mother Falcon and 100 string players inside the Seaholm Power Plant has passed, but you can still catch Portland, Ore., jazz…
Point Austin: Making Women Suffer
The self-appointed defenders of life and family values are neither
Destination Dining Downtown
Former Driskill luminaries dazzle again at Congress
Take Five
Recommended at Cine las Americas
Rangers vs. Astros
AAA style
Naked City
Natalie Antonetti cold case; Forensic Science Commission
Destination Dining Downtown
You had me at mustachioed barkeep
Take Five
1) ‘Marimbas del Infierno’ At first glance, there is nothing funny about Marimbas del Infierno (Marimbas From Hell), the Guatemalan comedy that opens the 14th annual Cine las Americas International Film Festival. A miserable musician sits alone in his home, explaining to an unseen documentarian how extortionists have wrecked his family and his career. Don…
Soccer Watch
Real Salt Lake hopes to be the first MLS team ever to win the CONCACAF Champions League, and more
Quote of the Week
“We remain the gold standard of regulatory bodies in America.” – Railroad Commission Chair Elizabeth Ames Jones and Commissioner David Porter, recounting the (imaginary) sterling history of Texas oil and gas industry regulation
Arts Review
Zach Theatre makes you feel right at home with Tracy Letts’ epic family drama
Take Five
2) ‘La Vida Útil’ At first, the days and nights of soft-spoken film programmer Jorge (played by Jorge Jellinek) seem to be devoted exclusively to running an underfunded repertory screening house in Uruguay: wrangling finances, snarfing down takeout in the projection booth, taping translations to audiocassette to run alongside the night’s feature. Then we see…
Wiping Doggett Off the Map
Renewed efforts to redistrict Lloyd Doggett out of office
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, April 21-28
Arts Review
Charles P. Stites makes this two-hour one-man show look like a romp in the park
Take Five
3) Master Classes at MACC “Action! Comedy! Violence! Fantasy! Romance! Lust!” Okay, the exclamation points might have been our editorial add-on, but with that kind of a-little-something-for-everyone boast, it’s hard not to get exclamatory. Sergio Carvajal’s El Gallo is a locally produced miniseries in the making (a discrete short from the series, “Niño Gallo,” screens…
Getting Map Happy
Local districts might fare better than congressional ones
Davis Gets 36 Years for 1985 Murder
Conviction in death of Natalie Antonetti
Arts Review
Vivid photographs capture the possibilities and rebellions of modern youth
Take Five
4) ‘Bala Mordida’ It’s a good day for Lt. Hernandez (Miguel Rodarte) when he gets stabbed: Suddenly the brave barrio cop is the poster child for a valiant and poorly equipped police force. What the headlines miss is that he may have had it coming, as it seems that threatening a crowd after shaking down…
Bill of the Week
A quality control proposal for state government
Fire Officials Urged to Revisit Old Cases
Forensic Science Commission nears close of Willingham investigation
Take Five
5) ‘Nostalgia de la Luz’ Patricio Guzmán abandoned his homeland after he was imprisoned during Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s 1973 coup and has now spent more of his life outside of Chile than in it. Yet his films – including the influential three-part documentary The Battle of Chile – circle back again and again to his…
A Modest Compromise on Abortion
Lawmakers reach accord on restricting reproductive rights
Luv Doc Recommends: Michael Ventura ‘If I Was a Highway’ Booksigning
Right now is a really bad time to go hunting jackrabbits with that vintage World War II flamethrower you’ve been storing in your attic. Surely no one would argue that idea is positively rank with the stench of depraved genius (after all, who doesn’t want to woast those wascawy wabbits?), but it will have to…
