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Never Adult Moment
Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center’s vaulted elegance
2014 Austin Food & Wine Festival Recap
Only one thing missing from the best fest yet
4:20 on 5/3: Rally for Pot-Law Reform
Million Marijuana March this Saturday in Austin
Estate Sale Round Up: May 2-4
… and a horse named ‘Patches’
APD Alerts Public to Synthetic Marijuana Threat
15 potential overdoses in last 23 hours
Headhunters Closes
Renegade venue leaves Red River
A Gilded Eternity: The Return of Loop
Seminal UK outfit returns to U.S. expressly for Psych Fest
Services Set for Robert Vasquez
Longtime restaurateur was mainstay of local Mexican food dynasty
The AggreGAYtor: May 1
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Housecore Horror Reunites The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Austin hosts the official gathering of the original Lone Star terror
The Capital Grille Steaks Its Claim on Fourth Street
And, boy howdy, does it come through with flavors flying
Warren Hood Settles Into Strange Brew
Second generation fiddler finds a home for Sunday residency
Deep Eddy Cabaret Sold
Will Bridges and father assumed ownership of iconic bar Friday
The Faces Behind the Beats
Thursday’s Flamingo Cantina Beat Battle puts mugs to the thuds
Citywide 86’d Holds Round 3 at Central Market
Local cooks competed for a spot in the June finals
Rape Victim Believes Rodney Reed Is Innocent
Tells story of being raped by murder victim’s former fiancé
APD Rules Train Death Suicide
13-year old was apparent victim of bullying
‘Mean Girls’: 10 Years On and Still Going Strong
That’s so fetch
The AggreGAYtor: April 30
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Festival International de Louisiane
Lafayette’s 28th annual dance blowout, April 23-27, hopped!
DVD Watch: ‘Hill Street Blues’
An aural history of the cop show that changed TV
Shell Shock
Open carry supporter posts 911 caller’s personal info
New Names for 10-1
Flurry of filings as OPM day approaches
Greg Nicotero, From Zombies to Snake Vampires
FX guru on ‘The Walking Dead’ to ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’
Possessed by Paul James at Chicago’s Moonrunners Fest
ATX folker proves a reaffirming antidote to shocking violence
The AggreGAYtor: April 28
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
How Do I Food & Wine Festival?
An Austin Food & Wine Fest newbie retraces her steps
Study: More Innocents on Death Row Than Previously Thought
Number could be higher in larger criminal justice system
Beck Previews ACL Fest at ACL Taping
Yelling out for ‘Country Down’ instead of ‘Where It’s At’?
South of the Border, and Much Further South
New films from Mexico and Chile dazzle at Cine Las Americas
Austin City Limits’ Hall of Fame Fireworks
Willie Nelson & SRV among the inaugural inductees
Moontower 2014, Day 3: Marc Maron
The comic’s comic again plumbed the depths of angst and anger
Moontower 2014, Day 4: Fred Armisen
Less comedy show than meet-and-greet, but oh, Armisen charmed
Elegy for an Invisible Hipster: Kelly Wayne Noel
Man behind anonymous Twitter feed killed by drunken driver
All About Ann
HBO spreads the legend of Ann Richards in new doc
Moontower 2014, Day 4: She Bang
Women comics take society put-downs, turn them into laughs
Moontower 2014, Day 4: Sklar Brothers
Sklared for life
Moontower 2014, Day 3: Mike Birbiglia
Storyteller’s ‘Thank God for Jokes’ considers their cathartic power
Austin Fashion Week Recommended: April 28-May 2
The new week brings more shopping
Creative Intersections
Candidates hear alternatives to SH 45
Austin Fashion Week Recommended: April 27
If Sunday is your holy day you may not make it to services
Cupcake Truck Tour Kicks Off Food & Wine Fest
Cupcake Vineyards pairs food with fun
Kickstart Your Weekend: The Austin Toy Museum
New collectibles archive launches fund raising with party
Guess the Fest
Predict Fun Fun Fun Fest’s line-up and win sweet prizes
Spring Sips
W Hotel unveils new spring cocktail menu
Chronolog Radio: April 25
What’s the frequency, Kevin?
Foreign & Domestic’s Indie Chefs Table: Chicago’s Jason Vincent
Ex-Nightwood maestro tag-teamed up a fine menu with Ned Elliott’s crew
Moontower 2014, Day 2: Dennis Miller
Whatever his politics, the man’s still a comedy treasure
Moontower 2014, Day 2: Bobcat Goldthwait
When the ‘Cat shrieks, we listen
Hammering ‘The Quiet Ones’
Director John Pogue talks spooks, science, and “Mad Men” stars
Havana-Inspired Bar Created Pleasant Soft Opening
Pre-opening night fun included ceviche bar and communal punch
Rev. Frank Visits FUMC
Defrocked minister brings message of LGBT acceptance
Pedaling Art
Art climbs on a two-wheeler at the ArtCrank show and sale
Dogfish Head Instigates Tap Takeover
Brewery sharing some rare brews at film fest
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Bucket List
Where to find the grrrls and bois of ATX this weekend
Justice Says Legalize It
Retired Supreme Court judge weighs in on pot prohibition
The AggreGAYtor: April 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Occupy the Tower
‘Shared Services’ protest leads to arrests
Austin Fashion Week Recommended: Saturday, April 26
A candy-themed runway and champagne awaits
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
Screamers and Cenobites It’s been 20 years since the Burkittsville Three disappeared in the Maryland Black Hills, and 15 since the footage of their uncanny fate terrified audiences and redefined modern horror. Now The Blair Witch Project acting trio – Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams – are finally reunited for the ninth…
Texas Platters
Tee-Double The Home Town Kid (Kinetic Global) Tee-Double is nothing if not prolific. The local hip-hop kingpin has released at least one LP per year for as long as anyone can remember. The Home Town Kid gives an insider tour of the ATX, throwing “word javelins” over synth-heavy midtempo minimalism. Lest anyone doubt his local…
The Luv Doc: Not Cool
Dear Luv Doc, Since getting pregnant, I have had a lot of men (and women, too) comment on how big my boobs have gotten. First of all, I think it’s rude to comment on someone else’s body and it’s definitely not cool to comment on another man’s wife’s boobs whether he is around or not.…
Tweeter Right
Brian Gaar’s monster following on Twitter paved the way for his first comedy album
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
A Legend Lives On Should the big guy, John Wayne, be more your cup of bourbon than scary monsters, Dallas offers a chance to dwell in his company this weekend, April 24-27, at the John Wayne Film Festival. Now in its fourth year, the fest has picked up its West Texas stakes for the bright…
The Good Eye: From Bauhaus to Bang-Bang
UT design students kick off Austin Fashion Week with a ‘Spectrum’ of influences
Blue Ruin
Writer, director, and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier colludes with actor Macon Blair to create an unusual spin on this revenge tale.
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
Texas Films Bloom in the Hill Country With its rolling fields of wildflowers and historic hot spots, the tiny Texas town of Fredericksburg makes a picturesque scene for an independent film festival. And so it will be, just over an hour’s drive from Austin, during the first weekend of May. The fifth annual Hill Country…
A Hip Girl Hops Into the Kitchen
DIY maven Kate Payne applies her prowess to cooking
Heaven Is for Real
Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son’s claim to have seen heaven.
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
The Cine Lights of Marfa Head west to Marfa, Texas, and you’ll find a small community of a couple thousand people that serves as home to not one, but two film festivals: CineMarfa and the Marfa Film Festival. CineMarfa distinguishes itself with its unique programming, and the fourth iteration of the festival takes place next…
The Other Woman
Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton play gals who team together to ruin the mutual philanderer in their lives.
First Quarter
Bradley Jackson and Andrew Disney kick off a festival run of their new comedy about the importance of intramurals
Food-O-File
National and local talent converge at the Austin Food & Wine Festival
The Railway Man
Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.
Bell Whether
Ready or not, W. Kamau Bell is leading us into a conversation about race
Seduced by Austin
When the history of Austin’s early 21st century culinary explosion is written, I’m betting one of the names prominently featured will be that of Jesse Herman. While it’s true that Herman isn’t a native Austinite or even a Texan, he recognized like so many before him the seductive “City of the Violet Crown” as an…
Playback: Festival Buzz
Festival, Texas – spring edition
Only Lovers Left Alive
In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.
Hit the Heights
Brad Williams will beat you to the punch (line) with jokes about being a dwarf, and his will be funny
Top Picks for Oenophiles at AF&WF
Wine gurus Mark Oldman and Ray Isle sure to attract big crowds
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
China consumes half of all the world’s pork products. Daisy was started in 1882 as Plymouth Iron Windmill Company in Plymouth, Michigan. In 1888 the company started to give BB guns with purchases of windmills. The gun was so popular the company started to sell guns instead of windmills. Subaru is Japanese for Seven Sisters…
Alan Partridge
Steve Coogan’s comical egomaniac Alan Partridge jumps from British television to the movie screen – with all of his smarm intact.
Gay Place
May Day! May Day! May Day! It’s May, gays!
Jezebel’s Friendly Little Sister Made Us Feel Right at Home
Tapasitas offers a tasty, reimagined bar menu and great cocktails
Council: The Budget Warms Up … and Ott’s Under Fire
With substantive postponements, this week’s Council meeting may bring fireworks
Watermark
This documentary explores the ways in which water and human beings shape one another.
Day Trips
Historic spring still an oasis in the West Texas town of Big Spring
When Confessions Prove False
Jonathan Holt told police he’d murdered his wife. But he hadn’t killed her, and the cops should have known it.
Election Info for the Rest of Travis County
Austinites won’t be headed to the polls May 10, but Travis County voters outside of Austin will have some ballot choices to consider. Early voting runs April 28 through May 6. You may vote at any early voting location in the county, or on election day at either your home precinct or at any other…
Walking With the Enemy
Ben Kingsley stars in this World War II drama that’s slipped quietly into Austin.
Irreconcilable Differences: The Austin Institute Tackles Divorce
The Austin Institute tackles divorce
Soccer Watch
Big congratulations to Leander’s Vandegrift High girls, who became the first Austin-area team to win a UIL state soccer championship. The Lady Vipers survived a semifinal shootout, before beating Wylie East, 1-0, in the final Saturday afternoon at the Georgetown ISD Athletic Complex. It was what happened next, though, that got Vandegrift’s win into the…
Texas Platters
Wild Desperation, debut solo EP from B.E. Godfrey, former frontman for exemplary Houston indie band listenlisten, launches on a warped, dark, subterranean note. “Get Your Gun” burrows with an intense bassline that by close erupts into a funky groove, unsettling behind Godfrey’s soft, nasal twang. The five-song offering thus reflects the stylistic drift of its…
ACC Faculty Pitches Staff Stability Plan
Two-part plan proposes creating 100 new full-time positions
Council Weighs Film Incentives Deal
City looks to keep film and digital production inside city limits
SoundSpace: Downtown NYC 1960
Blanton Museum’s music series turns the clock back to minimalism’s early years in Manhattan
Texas Platters
Black Pistol Fire Hush or Howl (Modern Outsider) Black Pistol Fire brandishes a fighter’s spirit on Hush or Howl, comparing romance to a barroom brawl on clapping soul-rock opener “Alabama Cold Cock,” which lands a jab with singer Kevin McKeown’s swaggering tag: “I’d like to hear the sound of your big mouth shut!” The heartbreaker…
Piper Kerman to Speak at CARY Benefit
Memoirist will relay ‘the real story’ of her year in a women’s federal penitentiary
The Hightower Report
Florida official can’t seem to get the hang of running elections
Studio Visits: Briar Bonifacio
East Austin artist gives good face
Texas Platters
The Clouds Are Ghosts Fractures Jason Morris’ yearning lyricism knows no middle ground. “There was a time when you wandered like a child, such innocent slumber,” he recalls on lithe, bounding centerpiece “Angelface.” The Austin electro-pop sextet’s second LP Fractures revels in melodrama, the heavy apocalyptic stuff that makes proletarians regress and tinfoil hats swoon.…
Same Ballpark, Different Positions
Kevin McDonald explains how the Kids in the Hall have worked together 30 years
Exhibitionism
After 18 years, Zach has remounted this mix of Greek tragedy and gospel, and miracles abound
Texas Platters
Ssleeperhold Ruleth (Holodeck) Dormant electronic trio Medio Mutante’s initial splash came in 2008 via Cititrax Records 12-inch Inestable, a glitchy, optimistic EP sounding like a video game knockoff of Octopus Project anthems. It doubled as the first time ATX made sense of José Cola, though the part-time Angeleno didn’t come upon his dark synth electronica…
Headlines
› The next regular City Council meeting is next Thursday, May 1, but the beat goes on – with today’s initial briefing by the Financial Services staff on the prospective 2014-15 budget kicking off the last budget cycle for the at-large Council. See “Council: The Budget Warms Up … and Ott’s Under Fire” for more.…
Chairman of the Board
Antone’s Blue Monday boss Derek O’Brien keeps the music alive and blue
Exhibitionism
Cyndi Williams’ study of a subterranean retirement community during a catastrophe has promise but isn’t always clear
Texas Platters
Symbol Online Architecture (Holodeck) This Will Destroy You guitarist Christopher Royal King abandons the mothership’s expansive melodics for ambient sonic waves favoring atmosphere. At least on the surface. Close attention reveals more than barely altered sine waves. Processed more than performed, Online Architecture amasses everything from harmonium and guitar to bowed cymbals and Tibetan singing…
Point Austin: ALEC by Another Name
Corporate advocacy group looks to deepen local influence
‘This Is Where I Belong’
How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther’s to ‘SNL’
Texas Platters
Scan Hopper Mariana Bridges (Simplexity) Seven tracks in 13 minutes, Scan Hopper’s latest EP – the quintet’s third release – is best consumed in one sitting. The experimental art-pop troupe re-posted the brief musical about a girl who “disappeared in a lightning flash,” the brainchild of singer/guitarist Scott Hopkins, on Bandcamp as one solitary track.…
Quote of the Week
“The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race [is] to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.” – Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting in the Supreme Court’s opinion on affirmative action.
My Party Country, ‘Tis of Thee
Colin Quinn exposes the rowdy Founding Fathers we never knew in ‘Unconstitutional’
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
Four Texas film festivals on the not-so-distant horizon
Texas Platters
Demitasse Blue Medicine (Bedlamb) Joe Reyes and Erik Sanden of San Antonio art-pop trio Buttercup go out of their way to avoid obvious musical and lyrical resolutions in this imperfect-yet-intriguing side project. Demitasse’s debut is a warm, modest-scoped meditation on loss and despair. The 10 songs find character in unvarnished acoustic guitar/piano instrumentation and range-testing…
Then There’s This: Grandfathered Death Star
The Vested Rights Ordinance is new, but is it improved?
