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When Worlds Collude
Two forward-thinking arts festivals make the most of sharing the same weekend
No Hablo Espanol
Rasmussen shows the perils of monolingual polling
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of April 29-May 6
Ricky Williams to Host ‘Run Ricky Run’ Screening
Candid doc follows Ricky’s controversial career
The Daily Hustle: 4/29/10 (Update)
Hittin’ you with your morning recap
Tour of Psychedelic Austin, Part 1
Roky Erickson and Okkervil River hit the historic streets
The Tire Keeps on Turning
More mess inside city’s Fleet Services
Casual Invisibility
Mississippi student edited from yearbook because she wore a tux
Call the Cops! It’s the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
Lotsa cop shop talk
High Voltage Fashion Show 2010
UT Design seniors show their talent
Cactus Decision Delayed
UT extends consultation through May 7, Texas Music Office backs current management
OTR – 33 RPM
The week in local music news
Confidence & Comedy
Steve Martin and Sarah Jarosz take it to the Limits
The Daily Hustle: 4/28/10
No 15% reduction to the Hustle’s grind
This Week in Campaign Fail
Kinky breaks party lines again, and Leo talks God with Glenn
Tossed Genre Salad
Church of the Friendly Ghost kickstarts its art
The Daily Hustle: 4/27/10
Sample some TDH — no permit required
Bill Minutaglio on Black Texas
UT journalism prof to talk Tuesday in San Marcos
Perry the Censor
Conservatives let slip governor’s role in play cancellation
HRC Director Tom Staley to Retire in 2011
Stepping down after 22 years turning center into a world-class institution
Giving Up the Gun
Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij hits the Fusebox Festival with strings attached
The Daily Hustle: 4/23/10
I wanna be … your sledgehammer!
Leader of the Pack
Texas Rollergirls go heavy on the D for second bout
The Brood
The Brood 1979, R, 92 min. Directed by David Cronenberg, Starring Samantha Eggar, Oliver Reed, Art Hindle. Eggar plays a disturbed woman with a history of child abuse who externalizes her anger in the form of a vicious brood of clonelike child demons. As her psychiatrist, Reed also poses a menacing influence.
Two Wheels Good, Eight Wheels Better
Texas Rollergirls get bike crazy for bout two
Jerrells and Gee Recalled by Spurs
Rewarded for outstanding D-League play
The Big Sigh
Beach House’s warm embrace
Kids Say the Darnedest Things
Celebrating young writers at tomorrow’s O. Henry Writing Club reception
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of April 23-29
‘FNL’ Star Drops Some Education
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson teaches acting class
The Daily Hustle: 4/23/10
Taxi crash at council
No Pot Love in the ATX?
Austin doesn’t crack Top 40 toking cities
Page Two: Days of Blame
The only enemy is us!
Fired Officer’s Hearing Concludes
Dunn defends his record
Before Save Our Springs …
Big events in Austin’s enviro history, pre-SOS
Phases & Stages
David Byrne & Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love (Nonesuch) David Byrne’s in a revisionist mood and has taken on quite the whopper. Here Lies Love, his “concept” album with Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), narrates the life of former Filipino first lady/shoe enthusiast Imelda Marcos with breezy strings, disco beats, and vocals from Tori Amos, Cyndi…
After A Fashion
Your Style Avatar loves Johnsons … ummm, the Johnsons
Restaurant Reviews
If this is diner food, then it’s from the best diner in the universe
Sanders Report Still Under Wraps
Pressure mounts for city to release full report
The First Earth Day, 1970
On its 40th anniversary, Earth Day has become a rather warm and fuzzy event. But at its inception in 1970, the first Earth Day was a radical uprising – born of anger over unregulated air and water pollution and directly inspired by the mass anti-Vietnam War demonstrations of the late Sixties. Among the idealistic college…
Phases & Stages
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (Third Man/Warner Bros.) Capturing the White Stripes’ first-ever Canadian tour in 2007 while also marking the Detroit duo’s 10-year anniversary and release of Icky Thump, concert film Under Great White Northern Lights became a true documentary when weeks after its completion, drummer Meg White canceled the remainder…
The Hightower Report
Wall Street’s Mitch; and That Can’t-Do Spirit
Restaurant Reviews
Georgetown’s Monument Cafe is a living testament to the classic roadside diner cooking of a bygone era
Media Watch
The Austin Bulldog, Statesman dabble in new business models
Book Review
Dash Shaw’s new graphic novel is a twisted masterpiece of storytelling built from stunning visuals and panel-manipulation
Austin’s Political Ecosystem
Swearingen’s Environmental City tells the inner history of city politics
Geaux Cherrywood!
This local coffeehouse is chock-full of Southern Louisiana flavor
Eco Currents
Saving the planet, one Earth Day activity at a time
Book Review
We know that Kim Gordon is expert at being watched, but this collection of her artwork turns the gaze around
Ajami
This Oscar-nominated Israeli film reveals not only the divides between Jews and Arabs, but also those between Muslims and Christians, young and old, men and women, and rich and poor.
Phases & Stages
Once disco took R&B electronic, soul music never looked back. Except in West Africa, where the concept of “back” begins. That circle remains unbroken in the West’s assimilation of blues, jazz, and James Brown. Where the previous teaming of Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté yielded 2005’s Grammy-garnering In the Heart of the Moon, follow-up…
Event Menu
Green living, whiskey drinking, and artsy eating
City Announces Composting Program
New rebates to encourage composting
‘Hansel and Gretel’
Mezzo Liz Cass lands a big break playing the familiar fairy-tale villainess
Death at a Funeral
A remake of a 3-year-old British comedy, Death at a Funeral transfers its farce from a predominantly white cast to predominantly black.
Old Settler’s Live Shots
The Infamous Stringdusters Camp Ben McCulloch, April 16 Warding off the rain as Friday afternoon rolled toward evening, the Infamous Stringdusters kicked into their second set at the Old Settler’s Music Festival with a pleading note. “I wish it was a sunny day, the clouds they follow me,” pined Andy Hall over his hot-lick dobro…
Wine of the Week
The Castagnedi brothers have made tremendous progress in a country where the top wineries measure their tenure in centuries, not decades
Generation Plan’s Day at the Dais
Council to vote on Austin Energy plan
UT Visual Arts Center
David Ellis creates a ‘motion painting’ – or is it several? – for the university
Vincere
The long-scuttled tragic story of Ida Dalser, the first wife of Benito Mussolini, and the child she bore him, is brought to the screen with arresting style by the Italian director Marco Bellocchio.
Old Settler’s Live Shots
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver Camp Ben McCulloch, April 17 If not quite liberating, 100-proof bluegrass in a downpour proved exhilarating for those of us grinning ear-to-ear through Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver’s truncated early-evening set at the Old Settler’s Music Festival on Saturday. “Sorry ’bout the rain ‘n’ stuff,” Buddy Miller muttered good-naturedly during his fat-droplet-inducing…
Food-o-File
Reflecting on the 25th annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Reckless Kelly Celebrity Softball Jam
A day of softball and music at the Dell Diamond
Arts Review
Erica Saenz has written an admirably funny family comedy that’s all sweetness
The Back-up Plan
Jennifer Lopez is back with a new romantic comedy about a woman whose biological clock is out of sync with her life.
Old Settler’s Live Shots
Patty Griffin Camp Ben McCulloch, April 17 There’s an old Chinese proverb that says, “When the flood recedes, the rock is there.” After a heavy downpour and lightning delayed Old Settler’s on Saturday night, Patty Griffin embodied that adage with simple beauty and efficient grace. The local singer-songwriter’s 75-minute set largely heeded the higher calling…
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
Our recommendations for the May 8 elections
Soccer Watch
Aztex host Haitian National Team, and more
Arts Review
These absurdist plays are more fun for those who’d rather think about it than get it
Best Worst Movie
Premiering in Austin, this documentary is about the purportedly “best worst movie” ever made, Troll 2, and its enthusiastic fans.
Old Settler’s Live Shots
7 Walkers Camp Ben McCulloch, April 17 Few knew what to expect from the local debut of 7 Walkers, the new collaboration between Austin funk godfather Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne and Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. If the assembled came looking for a spirited, decidedly Southern version of a Dead cover band, they weren’t disappointed.…
Off the Record
For those about to rock (we salute you)
Arts Review
The musical melting pot from new U.S. citizen Michelle Schumann was sweet indeed
A Stand-Up Guy
Steve Martin didn’t just incorporate a banjo into his early comedy routines for a laugh
Back to School
The ledger of candidates for school district trustee
Art Week Austin 2010 Schedule
Art Week Austin runs April 21-25, with the fair Art City Austin taking place April 24-25 along Cesar Chavez at City Hall. See www.artallianceaustin.org for more info. Thursday, April 22 10am-5pm: Art Spaces: Sodalitas Walk #1. Big Medium, 5305 Bolm #12. 12:30-1:30pm: Art Talk: Curator’s Walking Tour of Art Installations. Departs from 210 Guadalupe. 6-7:30pm:…
TV Eye
A recent slew of political, cultural, and environmental documentaries prove how indispensable PBS is
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Law & Order, beards, and more
Despite Victory, Businesses Still Riled Over Bike Plan
Business owners still riled by bike plans for Nueces
Fusebox Festival Schedule
The seventh Fusebox Festival opened April 21 and continues through May 2, with performances and exhibitions by 40 arts groups and more than 450 individual artists at venues across the city. For more information, visit www.fuseboxfestival.com. Ongoing April 22-25: Magda Sayeg/Knitta Please. Magda Sayeg (Austin). 2nd Street District. April 25-May 2: Quest for the West.…
No Failure to Communicate
Caroline Koebel grew up without TV. She’s been pursuing flickering images ever since.
Letters at 3AM: ‘O’ Is for Oligarchy (Continued)
The American Oligarchy has been growing for decades, and we’ve been its enablers
City Tire Manager Fired
City’s scrap tire investigation unearths surprising details
Point Austin: The Body of Christ
McNally play defies the fake religiosity of those who would suppress it
Something to Sink Your Teeth Into
Good advice from a guy who survived Troll 2, George Hardy, D.M.D.
Day Trips
The Texas South Wind Vineyard & Winery has only been open since December 2009, but it is already producing some interesting handcrafted wines
Cap Metro to Pay Up by 2019
Council to vote on new agreement regarding Quarter Cent program funds
City Hall Hustle: Güero’s Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Permits!
On second thought, why can’t we all just get along?
Aligning Body and Mind in an Unlikely Place
Trinidad premieres on LOGO and DVD
Gay Place
So randomly nostalgic, you may call us the ‘Gay Page Two’
Bus Route Changes Return
Cap Metro to discuss changes at upcoming meeting
Headlines
� Happy Earth Day today, Thursday, April 22, the 40th annual celebration of all things environmental. Go hug a tree. Then read “Austin’s Political Ecosystem,” and “The First Earth Day, 1970.” � The city of Austin has fired Fleet Services Tire Program Manager Bill Janousek over a scandal involving tires from city vehicles illegally disposed…
Phases & Stages
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings I Learned the Hard Way (Daptone) I Learned the Hard Way jumps off in dramatic fashion, 10 seconds of cinematic flair and brass fanfare as the Dap-Kings roll out a red carpet entrance for Sharon Jones, the undisputed queen of retro soul. The fourth LP from the Brooklyn soul scions…
DVD Watch
Battleship Potemkin still packs a lumpen proletariat wallop 85 years after it was first released
Imagining Austin
Public forums begin on comprehensive and mobility planning
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Phases & Stages
MGMT Congratulations (Columbia) “I see the signs of aging,” declares Congratulations opener “It’s Working,” and what follows is an awkward, though at times still exciting, adolescence: gangly and confused. MGMT’s sophomore outing seems as intent on confounding the Brooklyn duo’s actual success as infectious disco-glam debut Oracular Spectacular was at snarking a slacker vision of…
Preserving a ‘Special Kind of Place’
Scott Swearingen on the �environmental city�
SNAPPatx.org: Let’s Talk Transportation
New online hub greases wheels of transportation talk
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, April 22-29
Phases & Stages
Gorillaz Plastic Beach (Virgin) Lapping waves introduce Snoop Dogg dropping dystopian Planet of the Apes verse in opener “Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach.” Greenpeace ensues until Damon Albarn shuffles his best simian gene hop since “Feel Good Inc” with a synthetic ballad straight out of the Thompson Twins’ laptop. In the downbeat…
Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Burlesque Festival 2010
OK, here’s the deal: Burlesque involves stripping … but not that skanky, donkey show, picking-up-pingpong-balls-with-your-vajajay kind of stripping. No, modern burlesque is more about the dress than the undress. Sure, you can show up in your trucker cap and sleeveless camo T-shirt, flicking your tongue between your peace fingers and yelling, “Show us yer ta-tas,…
