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The Sun Also Rises
Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.
Norman Lear to Receive AFF Award
Norman Lear will get AFF Outstanding Television Writer Award
Guitar Nerding With Chris Pérez
Selena lead man and Grammy-winning rock artist talks gear
School Finance Plan Headed for Hearing
Aycock promises no losers as Senate obsesses on vouchers
Beyond the Pale
Hops & Grain releases first year-round draft
The AggreGAYtor: April 8
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Death of an Extra: Odell Grant
Odell Grant, who had a face you couldn’t forget, has died
Show your local love
A guide to spending locally
Shout OUT: Now with More Social Media
These are the people in our gayborhood: Get to know them!
Live Review: The War On Drugs
Philly psych rockers tape Austin City Limits
Shout OUT: Micheal Foulk
These are the people in our gayborhood: Class act
The Heat is On
Live Fire cook-out is this Thursday
Action Bronson: Mr. Wonderful
Queens MC goes major label with third LP
District 4 Contest Arrives in Court
Pre-trial hearing in Pressley v. Casar election contest
Can You Say EAUFT?
Spring is the time to tour Austin’s urban farms
Songs in the Key of Stevie Wonder
Legendary hitmaker melts the Frank Erwin Center
Transmission Powers Paper Tiger
Austin promoters booking new San Antonio venue
HavenCon: the Happiest Fest in Texas
Cosplay madness, writing LGBT, and Janet Varney talks Korra
Food-o-File: Weekend Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Lit-urday: Burning Down George Orwell’s House
Whisky? Check. Women? Check. Weather? Check. Werewolf? Uh oh.
DVDanger: Here Be Monsters
Back in the home-release stack after SXSW
Thinking thinkEAST
How Fusebox has engaged stakeholders in the planning process
Wither Chain Drive
Longtime patrons at a loss over sudden closure
Dogs in Drag
Jo’s rolls out another parade of pets
There’s a THETH in My Mailbox, WTF?
The Shannon (McCormick) is a river of fiercely diverse pleasures
Texas Playboys Baseball Club
Keeping the sandlot field of dreams alive
Tanya Tagaq Owns Fusebox Music
Inuit throat singer reanimates Nanook of the North
One in a Crowd: Raymond Lewis: L.A. Legend
New basketball doc seeks crowdfunding
The Hunting Ground
Doc exposes rape culture on the university campus
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
In this Hindi film set in the Forties, a detective works his first case
Nannbenda
Tamil romantic comedy.
The Luv Doc: Facebook Official
Dear Luv Doc, So, I was seeing this guy for about a month right before SXSW. It was understood we wouldn’t see each other much during the Festival as we would both be very busy. We fell out of touch for a few days and, next thing I know, he is in a Facebook relationship…
Queen and Country
John Boorman’s follow-up to Hope and Glory observes the same boy who’s now a young man
Furious 7
Furiouser and furiouser
Danny Collins
Al Pacino is an aging rock & roller who makes an entertaining play for redemption
3 Hearts
A French love triangle loses its balance
Design for Living
Fusebox Festival creates a pop-up village as part of its thinkEAST Living Charrette
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex won their pro debut Saturday, 2-0 over the Colorado Springs Switchbacks, in front of 4,105 fans. They’re hosting the Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 as we go to press Wednesday evening, then go on the road to Tulsa Saturday; the next home game is Sat., April 11 at 8pm, hosting Arizona United. The…
Festival Flood
A brief guide to the 13 – count ’em, 13 – arts fests coming your way in April and May
Record Review
East Cameron Folkcore’s Kingdom of Fear
Lege Lines
School finance debate heats up, HHSC consolidation on hold?, and more
Baking Bonanza
There’s gold in them thar cakes
Gay Place: All Thumbs
HavenCon launches this weekend
Bill of the Week
House wants to throw some money at border problems
Food-o-File
Where there’s smoke …
The Good Eye: The Pulse
The Good Eye says goodbye
Death Watch: Meth, Madness, and Death
Capital case tests limits of insanity defense
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
First Lady Dolley Madison’s favorite flavor of ice cream was oyster (she was wife of James Madison, U.S. president from 1809 to 1817). The most efficient food you can carry, in terms of calories per pound, is butter, which is why Arctic explorers carry so much of it. Scientists at the University of Geneva recently…
Border Violations
What happened to the thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed the U.S. border last year?
Report: Texas Women’s Health Program Hit Hard
Thousands fewer women served by Texas Women’s Health Program
Background Locals
A six-pack of Austin’s most underrated beers
Not Fade Away
The evolution of the Blue Starlite Urban Drive-in
The Hightower Report: Turning Human Misery Into Corporate Profits
Corporations use the courts to prey on financially devastated Americans
Aubrey Plaza Takes a Dramatic Turn
Aubrey Plaza discusses acting dramatic in Ned Rifle
Oops!
In the March 20 News story “Behold the Texas Miracle!” a quote attributed to Ann Beeson of the Center for Public Policy Priorities mistakenly confused national data with Texas data. It should have read, concerning national employment statistics: “Sixty percent of the jobs that were lost during the recession were middle-range occupations, that paid between…
The Boy Wonder at 100
Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective
Point Austin: What Would Cole Porter Say?
Indiana’s RFRA is an invitation to progressive response
Civics 101
This week’s opportunities for public engagement
Headlines
City Council meets today (April 2) on a fairly concise agenda, but with a couple of contentious questions: administrative staffing at AFD, the smoke from barbecue joints, and the ongoing discussion of adding staff … to Council. See “Council: Where There’s Smoke, There’s BBQ.” The Jumpolin piñata keeps popping, with Status Labs employees forcing the…
Chi’Lantro
Chi’Lantro renews fast casual
Unanswered Questions at Status Labs
Jumpolin demo results in CEO resignation
Public Notice: Where Does Money Come From?
Council’s approach to money matters needs more work
Texas Platters
Bright Light Social Hour Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss) Five long years after the band’s eponymous debut rocked hard and free enough to garner its creators Band of the Year honors at the 2010 Austin Music Awards, Bright Light Social Hour returns with something else altogether. Worth the wait? And then some. Pared down…
Council: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Barbecue
Council takes on barbecue smokers, and smoke gets in their eyes
Quote of the Week
“My goal is for everyone to be abstinent until they are married.” – State Rep. Stuart Spitzer, R-Kaufman, when asked what he hoped to achieve by sponsoring an amendment that would divert $3 million from HIV/STD prevention to abstinence education.
Texas Platters
Mala Suerte Rituals of Self-Destruction (Illwill) True to its moniker, Mala Suerte always felt slightly out of step with Austin’s metal renaissance, never earning the same acclaim as the Sword or the Well. Rituals of Self-Destruction deserves a better fate, peak sludge and crunch from the psychedelic-edged quintet. Thundering from dark, thick depths, “Labyrinth of…
Hays County Water War
Private drilling threatens local water supplies
Texas Platters
Xetas The Redeemer (12XU) Fresh punk with all of the intensity and none of the cliches, the unusual attack of Xetas sparks angular riffs combusting into melodic hooks – all sped into the red by overdriven bass and slick-wristed percussion. The local trio, no relation to the narco-terrorists whose name strikes fear south of the…
All in the Timing
Penfold Theatre’s remount of The Last Five Years tracks a failed romance with intimacy and polish
Texas Platters
Sweet Spirit (Nine Mile Records) Four love songs, each one a different facet: confusion, rejection, criminal conspiracy, and fucking. Sweet Spirit thus tickles, caresses, and snaps heartstrings on its first offering, 10 inches of vinyl spinning a high-energy mix of Fifties pop, punk rock, and electric country. The clash of classicism and modernity characterizes the…
Director’s Choice
Jennifer Hart’s first commission for Ballet Austin was this triple bill’s highlight
Texas Platters
Gloves Get It Together A tight 37 minutes of “anti-garage,” Get It Together does exactly that for enigmatic outfit Gloves. The locals’ sub-genre shifts through multiple, syncopated veins, while never quite settling into any one of them, be it Ghanaian highlife, Parliament-era funk, juke-joint R&B, or riff-driven rock. Influences touch, as water and oil, preferring…
“Amy Yoes, Ezra Masch, Tim Schmidt: Ultraviolet”
Amy Yoes, Ezra Masch, and Tim Schmidt conjure the extrasensory
Playback: Upholding the Code
Keeping SXSW safe selectively?
Texas Platters
Cherubs 2 Ynfynyty (Brutal Panda) For a band whose initial run spanned only two years, Cherubs left a deep welt that still smarts hard and true. Splitting up just as 1994’s Heroin Man emerged as the pH unbalanced gospel of Texas noise-rock, the Austin trio’s legacy retained sufficient pungency two decades later to compel the…
Day Trips: Rio Taxis
Take the water shuttles around the San Antonio River Walk
