Well It’s About Damned Time
Seriously … we still haven’t ratified the 24th Amendment?
NOM NOM Demystified
National Organization for Marriage’s “Gathering Storm” is all wet.
The Line Between the Past and the Present
Grey Gardens airing on HBO April 18; queers rejoice.
Express Open Season Against Cubs
The Dell Diamond and the Express host the Iowa Cubs starting tonight
Toros Ticket Giveaway
Don’t miss the Austin Toros last regular season game
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Epistrophy Arts brings the noise
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of April 10-16
Watchmaker Films’ Mark Rance on Lou Perryman
Watchmaker Films’ Mark Rance discusses Lou Perryman
Meat Market Madness
Austin Police are asking for help nabbing two grocery store robbers
Voter Registration Deadline TODAY
Last day to sign up for May 9 municipal elections
Carona’s Costly Compromises
Senate Transportation chair guards local option funding bill from death by a thousand opt-outs
Welcome Home to DiversCity Q
Texas Christian University opens LGBT-friendly housing.
Gays Can Look for Artificially Dyed Eggs, Too!
Gay and lesbians get invited to the White House Easter Egg hunt.
Countdown to Aztex Season Opener
Austin Aztex season starts in 10 days; high school championships start tomorrow
How People More Important Than You Are Voting
McCracken, Leffingwell list prominent prog, small biz supporters
Innocence Commission Gets Nod From House Committee
On the heels of Texas’ first posthumous exoneration, House committee finally passes Commission bill
TYC: 11th Hour Reform or Midnight Sunset
Texas Youth Commission reformers keeping options open with alternate plans
Say Uncle
Reeling in the years at Threadgill’s
Lightweight Lightning Lives Up to Its Billing
Boxing fans got what they came for last Saturday night
C3 vs. KOOP and Why Softball Is More American Than Baseball
C3 beats KOOP Radio plus interesting softball historical facts
Where in the World is HB3?
Latest update on the ever-growing school accountability bill
More Voter ID in Committee
Public testimony today
WWE Smacks Down the Erwin Center
The wrestling goliath passes through Austin tonight for TV recordings
The Gay Marriage Train Rolls to Vermont
Gay marriage legal in Vermont!
Napoleon: Dynamite!
The former Zappa sax man does it for the kids
They Call Me Mister Spock!
Leonard Nimoy surprises Alamo audience with new JJ Abrams Star Trek film
Welcome Back, Cobra Commander
The international G.I. Joe Stop Motion Animation Festival makes a pit stop in Austin
Lawmakers Talk Pot
House Criminal Jurisprudence will consider drug-law reform bills tomorrow
TXRG: Barbarella Speaks
Hustlers, Hell Marys blow season wide open
Jackass Hits Austin, Makes Film, Gets Trashed
Dave England in Austin
DVD Review: François Truffaut’s The Last Metro
Truffaut review
The Reality of My Surroundings
The black rock discourse
Voter ID in House Committee Today
Or as the Democrats like to call it, “voter suppression”
Operation Iraqi… What?
Murders of Iraqi homosexuals on a terrifying rise.
TXRG Cleaning Up
Hustlers hope to even the score with Honky Tonks, while Hell Marys face Hotrods on the flat track
Final Four Preview
Busted brackets and Britney Spears
Local Actor Lou Perryman Murdered
The body of Lou Perryman, a longtime fixture in the Austin film and theatre community, was found by Austin Police Thursday morning
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of April 3-9
Toros Photo Gallery
Carlos San Miguel shares some Toros pics from Wednesday night
Alternative Softball League Kicks Off With Three-Way
Fans rejoice as the 2009 season gets under way
How Low Can You Go?
Dave England brings his special brand of jackassery to the Alamo Ritz
Songs of Love and Hate
Leonard Cohen was my two-night stand
Iowa WOO HOO!
Iowa the home of corn, dreams… and homos.
Austin’s Animal Partnership Model: Get Engaged
Spotlighting a handful of the nearly 100 local organizations working together to save Austin’s animals
Gay Place
GAY PLACE WANTS YOU! As we crank into social-season overdrive, remember: It’s a marathon, not a sprint; a long-term relationship, not an orgy. Pace, people, pace. We here at Gay Place are trying to keep up, really, but we need your help. It seems many of you find us, um, ubiquitous, reliable, old-shoe-ish. Well, we…
Point Austin: Campaign Trailing
A few notes from the run-up to your own participatory government
The Wild, the Innocent, and the Five Armadillo Shows
Local lore has it that Bruce Springsteen landed at Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters because local poster artist Micael Priest snuck a copy of The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle onto Armadillo founder Eddie Wilson’s turntable (see “Tales Behind the Posters,” Oct. 6, 2006). Wilson liked what he heard and booked Springsteen. True…
Phases & Stages
Mastodon Crack the Skye (Reprise) Mastodon is an unruly beast. Over the course of four conceptually linked albums, the Atlanta metal behemoth has (re)mastered the elements of existence: fighting fire with fire on blackened 2003 full-length debut Remission, taking to the seas a year later for Moby Dick-inspired watermark Leviathan, and scaling the more experimental…
Page Two: Love and Badges
The last ‘Page Two’ on SXSW 09 (probably)
Outside the System
Two artists go beyond the gallery walls to find new ways of sharing their work
Small World and Blurred Boundaries: AFS Essential Cinema
Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema
Phases & Stages
Marianne Faithfull Easy Come Easy Go (Decca) The Hal Willner-produced Easy Come Easy Go isn’t all-star nostalgia. Rather, it places Marianne Faithfull in a cultural context. Neko Case’s “Hold On Hold On,” redone as a duet with Chan Marshall, reminds us of Faithfull’s influence on Case, Marshall, and a whole generation of women and musicians…
Some Reforms Left Behind
Lege looks to account for school accountability
Book Review
This is Cinerama scholarship, as sweeping and expansive as the nation itself
After a Fashion
A postcard from prison? Wish you were here!
Phases & Stages
Great Lake Swimmers Lost Channels (Nettwerk) Plaintive echo from My Morning Jacket’s Jim James to Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell and even the Fleet Foxes’ choral has caught up to Great Lake Swimmers’ Tony Dekker. Neither freewheeling (MMJ) nor Foxy, Dekker’s tremulous intimacy precedes Bridwell’s underwater Americana. GLS’ first pair of (then local) Misra Records,…
SBOE: Out With the Old Weaknesses, In With the New
The State Board of Education has accomplished one step forward for science – and possibly two steps back
Book Review
Alan Wolfe turns his discourse on political theory into a work of energy and at times page-turning drama
City Hall Hustle: High Times at the Hunker A-Go-Go
Campaign antics are a good way to kill time in the mayor’s race
Phases & Stages
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! (Interscope) When Yeah Yeah Yeahs released debut disc Fever to Tell, frontwoman Karen O was full of her age, 24. Six years later, the New York trio’s third LP, It’s Blitz!, is only as subversive as its cover image. Synth-pop opener “Zero” busts out the glitter, while the Donna Summer/Cher…
Original Titty-Tax Bill Loses Bounce
A rival bill emerges to tax sexually oriented businesses
The Common Law
Legal Issues for Website Owners
Res Publica
For more details and events, see Community Listings. Thursday02 ADOPT-A-PARK SEMINAR Find out how you and your friends can keep your favorite park looking shipshape. Call or e-mail to RSVP. 6:30-8pm. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina, 477-1566. apf@austinparks.org, www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html. AUDITORIUM SHORES RENOVATION PUBLIC MEETING Let the Parks & Recreation Department know what you want changed or…
Live Shots
Stubb’s, March 31
State Budget Budges Forth
Legislators attempt to rein in governor’s spending habits
Event Menu
Local food events, April 2-8
Headlines
• April 9 – that’s just one week from today, people – is the deadline to register to vote in the May 9 City Council election, which this year features an all-important mayoral race. www.traviscountytax.org/goVoters.do. • A $116 million infusion could be just the ticket for getting a new federal courthouse off the ground in…
Phases & Stages
‘Tis Autumn: The Search For Jackie Paris
Docs Back Insurance Reforms
Can we make health coverage more transparent?
Food-o-File
Cake balls appear in Austin, finally, and sincere condolences to the family of Matt Martinez Jr.
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Carnival Ah!
ACC’s central campus becomes a cultural extravaganza of music, theatre, and more
LegeLines
A little bit of lowdown on big things at the Capitol
Review
Alissa Bassana and Doug Lyon ditch the factory and make their successful tortillas by hand
Fun Time With Austin Energy
Turbine, turbine, who’s fired up the wind turbine? Austin Energy has launched an information-packed, interactive online game for Austinites to play, to help decide how the city should be powered through 2020. Energy nerds will have a (natural) gas playing the laugh-a-minute Change Your Generation. It provides the cost, time requirements, and carbon emissions for…
Texas Medal of Arts Awards
The Texas Cultural Trust honors its fifth group of notable Texans in the arts
Judge Points Fingers
Keller tries to salvage her judicial career
Review
Enjoy the restorative effects of Zico
‘Floodlines’
Jaclyn Pryor’s site-specific performance can get you lost in a familiar neighborhood
Any Way to Run a Railroad?
Cap Metro temporarily derails MetroRail
What Becomes a Legend Most: The Architect or the Photographer?
AFS Documentary Tour: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
12 Rounds
WWE superstar wrestler John Cena teams with once-exciting action director Renny Harlin for this New Orleans-set action film.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bearded women saints, German ‘quiche,’ and more
City Counseling: Website Redesign Crashes
City goes back to the drawing board
Lucky Starr
‘Adventureland’s Martin Starr knows it’s good to be geek
Fast & Furious
This third franchise sequel doesn’t have as much smarts as speed, but it’s still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.
Arts Review
What makes Wendy Wasserstein’s play still relevant ekes through at City Theatre
No Home for Rhizome … for Now
Rhizome Collective looks for a new location
Review
Austin welcomes a new Ethiopian restaurant
Alien Trespass
Taking its cues from several classic 1950s sci-fi films, Alien Trespass is a deeply affectionate homage to the era when every kid on the block knew what “Klaatu borada nikto” meant.
Arts Review
Both dances in the show have great music, but only one delivers great choreography
Austin CarShare Shares the Road
There’s room in this town for two car-sharing programs
Review
Evita’s Botanitas is still open, for now
Adventureland
Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.
The Hightower Report
Obama and Congress Can End Mountaintop Removal; and A Bailed-Out Bank Bails Out Its Bankers
Arts Review
In the Dell Hall solo recital, the concert pianist proved to be a man for all seasons
Media Watch: ‘Statesman’ to Go Platinum?
Equity firm specializing in ‘distressed’ properties looking at Austin daily
TV Eye
ABC’s new comedies take a swing at motherhood and matchmaking. Home run or strikeout?
Beauty in Trouble
In this Czech film, the tumultuous marriage of a couple, who only stop quarreling for bouts of sex, faces a reckoning.
How Many Cats Did Austin Save Last Year?
By the numbers, shelter and animal advocate efforts show significant progress
Off the Record
Roscoe Beck helps bring the Tower of Song to Austin, and wine-tasting with Maynard James Keenan
Disharmony Over City Music Department
Live Music Task Force members resign from SAM board after Troy Dillinger criticizes city
Kingdom of Days
Bruce Springsteen doesn’t call E Street pianist Roy Bittan “Professor” for nothing
How They’re Doing It
On the road to no-kill
Day Trips
Leal’s Mexican Restaurants in the Panhandle named several of their combination plates after the customers who made the dishes popular
Playing Through
Oklahoma women’s basketball player Courtney Paris has it all backward
Bittan Bits
“Thunder Road” Hammersmith Odeon, London ’75 The Born to Run green light opens Springsteen’s UK bow in duet with Bittan, whose ripe touch falls like snow atop the frontman’s lighthouse harp and beacon supplication. A full concert unearthed on DVD for the LP’s 2005 reissue and subsequent 2-CD spin-off, Hammersmith Odeon’s band of gypsy pimps…
Disparity on the Dole
Democrats discuss the need for unemployment insurance reform for women
Luv Doc Recommends: Fourth Annual Urban Music Festival
When you’re out and about this weekend, you may notice a preponderance of black people. No, Austin is not the new Atlanta. We’re not Houston or Memphis or Detroit or even New Orleans, even though we are working pretty hard on building our own Bourbon Street. Austin may be a cultural Mecca, but it certainly…
