Jillian Tamaki Schools Up Some Wicked Bittersweet Humor
SuperMutant Magic Academy, FTW
Kalu James’ Feel Music
Nigerian émigré makes Austin a better place one song at a time
Film Flam: Linklater, Krisha, and Slackerwood
Awards all around, and a sad farewell to the popular film blog
Opa! Your Passport for Greece has Arrived
Just bring an appetite, sunscreen not required
VOX Table Opens Today
Lamar Union new foodie destination
Shake Shack Opens May 5
Line up now for bragging rights
The AggreGAYtor: April 29
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Roar: The Blood Stays in the Picture
Star John Marshall on lions and the world’s craziest home movie
Kleinert Trial to Be in Fed Court
Yeakel rules in favor of defense motion
Austin Food and Wine Festival Bites: Part Two
Innovative vegetables and vertical integration
Austin Food and Wine Festival Bites: Part One
Savory tidbits and sweet treats
Body Cameras for APD, but When?
Likely two-year timeline before full implementation
ATX Television Festival Expands With Empire
“Creatives” panel added, plus an FX comedies night
Zak Starkey Ignites the Who
Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends
Original Omelettry Closing May 4
Diner will move to new location later in month
The AggreGAYtor: April 28
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Big Bend Pipeline?
Conservation Alliance opposes international gas project
Utopia Fest Announces Lineup
Explosions in the Sky, RJD2, Tune-Yards headline
Moontower Review: John Mulaney
An ideal headliner to bring the 2015 comedy festival home
Moontower Review: Super Show!
High-speed sets from a great gang of comics an ideal capper for fest
News Roundup: Covering the Waterfront
Council, more Council, and more
Nick Broomfield Tells Tales of the Grim Sleeper
Filmmaker talks about his new HBO doc, LA, race, and death
Moontower Review: Pete Holmes & TJ Miller
A one-two comedy punch from jokers as different as day and night
Moontower Review: Wanda Sykes
The uproarious Sykes’ return to Moontower was, um, double the fun
Moontower Review: Patton Oswalt
Stand-up vet delivers a great show talking about his worst one ever
Moontower Review: Unhinged
You don’t have to be on Congress to strike comedy gold at Moontower
Moontower Review: Dr. Katz Live
Comedian patients spill all to the droll therapist in inspired session
DVDanger: Supremacy
A timely and tragic depiction of intolerance and bigotry
House Republican Sneaks in Anti-Abortion Amendments
House GOP sought to slip anti-choice amendments in unrelated bill
Via 313 Expands Pizza Empire
Detroit-style trailer opens first brick-and-mortar
Moontower Review: Blue Moon
Who helped keep this raunchy set fun? Could it be … Satan?!
Chronicle Recommends: Rain in Films
Celebrate April showers with cinema’s most iconic uses of rain
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Terry Maker’s “Holy Fool” is a Divine Manifestation of Art
New show at grayDUCK Gallery rewards your closest attention
He Said/She Said: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Sell-out lacked only Amy Winehouse
One in a Crowd: Life Without Color
New color blindness doc seeks crowdfunding
Moontower Interview: Hasan Minhaj
Talking The Daily Show, storytelling, and the world of comedy
The AggreGAYtor: April 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
The Luv Doc: Sandwich Bags and Chocolate Syrup
Dear Luv Doc, I just realized my shopping list for this week is small sandwich bags and chocolate syrup. Do I need to get a life? (At least I don’t have a cat!) Talking about looking: How do I meet that smokin’ hot girl in your “date locally” ad? She tops (and I mean that…
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
Kevin James’ Segway-riding security guard is back
Monkey Kingdom
Disneynature doc profiles Sri Lanka’s famed Temple Troop of toque macaques
Unfriended
Social media strikes back in this grisly teen horror
Child 44
Tom Hardy leads an international cast in this Soviet-era serial killer thriller
The Age of Adaline
Romantic hokum, well done
The Water Diviner
Russell Crowe stars in and directs this historical drama
Adult Beginners
After failing in enterprise, a man returns to his childhood home
Road to Juarez
Conventional Mexican crime drama
Help Desk
Is asking your parents to unfriend an ex too much to ask?
Grimm ‘n’ Gravy
With its fairy-tale trappings and bluegrass score, this is the chicken and waffles of musicals
Point Austin: Budget in a Box
The budget year begins with the annual forecast
Wes Hurt Comes Clean
New premium water promotes sobriety
Austin Dance Festival
The debut of this new dance fest offered a range of interesting work, the best being fluent in musicality
Public Notice: Government by Committee
Council committees get up to speed
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Every second about 100 lightning bolts hit the ground somewhere on Earth. Right now, there are about 1,800 thunderstorms in progress. According to Tim O’Neill on Quora.com, for almost all of the Middle Ages – c. 500 to 1500 AD – the official Church position on so-called witches was that they didn’t exist. Neurologists believe…
“Blood and White”
Caitlin McCollom’s paintings seek to marry the limitations of the body with the reality of death and decay
Films Go Better With Beer
Smooth jams and fancy lads are the spotlight of the Off-Centered Film Fest
Texas Toast
Drinking up the Austin Food and Wine Festival
Day Trips: Regency Bridge Loop, Goldthwaite
Enjoy the wildflowers on this self-guided driving tour through the hills
Food-o-File
Texas, New York
Soccer Watch
Whose House? Our House! The Austin Aztex dropped a 2-1 decision at the LA Galaxy II last Sunday to fall to 2-3 on the season. The good news: They’re back in the friendly confines of House Park for the next three weeks – in what feels like a key stretch of games in the early…
A Hole in His Heart
Baritone Morgan Smith reveals how he becomes that lover we love to hate, Don Giovanni
Gay Place: Cheeky
This is the week to dance cheek to cheek
Bill of the Week: HB 2470
Lawmakers try to regulate ammonium nitrate storage
Phases & Stages
Reggae Fest Auditorium Shores, April 17 Ever gotten a new carpet and then started freaking out if a little mud got tracked on it? If so, you understand concerts at Auditorium Shores. Since the park’s east lawn reopened for South by Southwest after undergoing a barely noticeable multimillion-dollar renovation, a case of “turf paranoia” has…
Food Events
Austin Food & Wine Festival Austin’s biggest foodie confab returns with celebrity chefs and appearances from Texas’ brightest culinary talent. It’s like ACL, except you won’t need earplugs. April 24-26. www.austinfoodandwinefestival.com. eighth Annual Off-Centered Film Fest The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery host three days of “Yacht Rockin’.” Full schedule online, but…
La Lotería Returns
After community outcry, painted-over mural to be restored
Phases & Stages
Old Settler’s Music Festival Salt Lick Pavilion, Driftwood, April 18 For 28 years, Old Settler’s has endured its share of inclement weather, a consequence of occurring during rainy season. This year’s storms hit both Friday and Saturday. On the latter day, Oklahoma’s JD McPherson began rocking and rolling as the sky opened up with an…
Sala & Betty
Can Teresa Wilson define Austin dining again?
Council: If You Come to a Fork … Take It
Council faces choices on land use – and land use
Phases & Stages
Gruesome subject matter, dissonant riffs, time-signature-smashing blast beats; what’s a young death metal band to do in a subgenre now notching three decades of extremes? Diversify its portfolio. Scandinavian paragons of aural brutality including Opeth (prog), Amorphis (folk), and Entombed (rock) stomped left-hand paths, but few acts appear as capable as Tribulation of taking this…
Dark Yet Light
Her D in Biology notwithstanding, Maria Bamford is a genius at making dark comedy funny
Woman Suing APD Beats DWI
Caroline Callaway acquitted of DWI that led to her suing APD for alleged excessive force
Phases & Stages
We first met Father John Misty as Maryland native Josh Tillman, drummer for Philly post-rock act Saxon Shore at the turn of the millennium. After moving to Seattle and becoming a prolific singer-songwriter, he joined Fleet Foxes in 2008 after a slew of solo releases, three of which appeared on local imprint Western Vinyl after…
The Muse of Mediocrity
When someone else’s art isn’t that good, it just inspires Jena Friedman to take a chance herself
Can MACC and 70 Rainey Coexist?
Will the development of the Rainey Street District squeeze the MACC?
Phases & Stages
Los Angeles-via-Vancouver songwriter Tobias Jesso Jr.’s Goon comes across more like basement tapes reissued than a debut, akin to early demos from Randy Newman or Harry Nilsson – two artists he told The Guardian he’d never listened to. Tempting to call bullshit on the 29-year-old natural given that the piano balladry of Goon runs so…
Fired Up
Bridget Everett is bringing the good times to Moontower, so you best be ready
Lege Lines: Weak Oversight Rules, School Vouchers Pass Senate, and More…
Lege pushes weak oversight rules, school voucher bill sails through Senate, and more…
Films Go Better With Bluebonnets
The Hill Country Film Fest features cinema amid the wildflowers
Her Own Voice
The distinctive voice that got Erica Rhodes on A Prairie Home Companion finds its perfect outlet in stand-up
Death Watch: Killer or Fall Guy?
Was Daniel Nagle murdered by a man acting alone, or was it part of a larger conspiracy?
Playback: Record Store Crawl
The day after Record Store Day breaks the bank
Chris Cubas: Hashtag, You’re It
#PointsMe champion returns to take on the Moontower crowds
The Hightower Report: Corporate Weasels Try to Escape Paying for Workers’ Injuries
Who needs workers’ comp? Not big business.
Hey Beautiful
Hot Club of Cowtown fiddler Elana James calls the tune on her second solo disc
Climbing Mount Compost
In its past life, the steaming pile of compost at Organics “By Gosh” was jack-o’-lanterns and Christmas trees, pizza boxes and dried leaves. Coffee filters. Tree branches. Misshapen apples scorned at the grocery store. But inside the pile, where temperatures are as warm as 160 degrees, microorganisms are feeding on nitrogen- and carbon-rich organic matter…
The Race Is On
The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore takes TV comedy news to a surprising new place
From Farm … to Farm: Food for Animals
En route to compost, some food remains food
Headlines
City Council meets today (Thursday, April 23), following its Wednesday budget workshop, with the return of a couple of vexing land use issues, and more. See “Council: If You Come to a Fork … Take It.” Texas Civil Rights Project founder Jim Harrington, 68, announced his impending (September) retirement this week, marking 25 years since…
Record Review
Elana James’ Black Beauty
DIY Composting Basics: Tips From Austin Resource Recovery
A thumbnail of composting basics, with upcoming classes
Quote of the Week
“Through this amendment we are facilitating the victimization of the people we are sworn to serve, protect, and lead.” – APD Chief Art Acevedo, on state open carry legislation, specifically the amendment prohibiting law enforcement from confirming whether a gun-holder has a license to carry.
