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Home Field Advantage
Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.
Cap Metro Responds to Sunset
Transit agency agrees with all report recommendations
OTR – 33 RPM
Tunnel vision and ‘Sweet Songs’
The Daily Hustle: 5/6/10
Food cart throwdown averted
Tour of Psychedelic Austin, Part 2
The saga of Roky Erickson and Will Sheff continues
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Can’t Be Watered Down!
AWU, Arizona, and more
Hangtown, Texas
Joe O’Connell’s guided tour of the True Grit set
It’s the Sound of 50 G’s, Baby
UT grad Nora Boxer wins the prestigious Keane Prize for her short story, ‘It’s the song of the nomads, baby; or, Pioneer.’
Imaginary Television
A conversation with Graham Parker
The Daily Hustle: 5/5/10
One dog of a post
Video: Flying Over the Bike Boulevard (With David Byrne!)
City of Austin video shows future Rio Grande/Nueces project
Banners Without Errors
Who wins the protest spelling bee, immigration reformers or tea baggers?
Stars vs. Wolves Game 3
‘All for One’ at the CPC
The Daily Hustle: 5/4/10
My breakfast with Marc
Adult Spelling Bee, May 20!
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Isaac on Line 2: It Could Be You
Bravo holds Austin casting call for The Fashion Show
Please Vote. Please. Please?
AISD and ACC elections are under way
Let the Good Times Roll
Checking out of the Festival International de Louisiane
The Daily Hustle: 5/3/10
Blue bins and ‘hood friends
Campaigning Fail: Perry Special
Will the coyote come back to bite him?
The Elements Covered for a Queen
Kate in NOLA for Jazz Fest 2010!
I Sold the Lousy T-Shirt Off My Back and All I Got Was This iPad
What’s Apple’s touch tablet actually for?
The Daily Hustle: 4/30/10
By the time I get to Arizona
When ‘Iron Man’ Royalty Walked Among Us
Harry Knowles and Tim League prove once again the power of their combined Rolodex
Show Me the Money, Sharon
Texas Ethics Commission fines Judge Keller for inaccurate report finances
Mariscos in Austin
Typical Mariscos Dishes Coctel de Camarones (shrimp cocktail): larger and sweeter than you’d expect, made from shrimp, ketchup, shrimp poaching liquid, orange and lime juice, diced onion and tomato, avocado, and cilantro garnish. Variations: diced jicama, Maggi sauce, Worcestershire, Valentina hot sauce, rarely chiles. Eaten with crackers. Campechana: basically the same as above, but with…
Texas Platters
Brandon Rhyder Head Above Water (Reserve) Head Above Water, Brandon Rhyder’s sixth CD, is the epitome of the Texas Red Dirt scene. Contemporary country with a hint of soul and moments of reflection, it’s undone by its complete lack of originality, songs so full of cliché that they border on embarrassing. There’s undoubtedly an audience…
‘Uncoordinated and Exposed’
Cmdr. Charles Johnson’s report of the shooting of Nathaniel Sanders
Day Trips
The famous trees of Texas
Oceans
The makers of Winged Migration are behind this documentary about the creatures that live in the waters covering nearly two-thirds of the Earth’s surface.
Mexican Guayabas Are Here!
Sweet and spicy
Texas Platters
Jennifer Ellen Cook called her latest CD A Storytelling of Crows, but she might just as easily have named it Je Ne Sais Quoi for all its elusive charm. Crows tells tales, some of them about Cook herself. Mike Stewart’s fine hand produced this 1960s-influenced indie pop, which lets us in on the wisdom and…
Off the Record
And then there were two (proposals for the future of the Cactus Cafe)
Gay Place
Let us honor the memory of a fallen comrade
Furry Vengeance
In this kids’ film, creatures of the forest rebel when a housing development threatens their forest home.
Recipes for Guava
Sweet and spicy
Texas Platters
S. Dot and Tuk da Gat White Boy Mixtape MelodicScience Recordings Formula 512 Vol. 2 Stormshadow The Sleeper Must Awaken With anticipation building for the May 7 release of the League of Extraordinary G’z Concealed Weapons 2 mixtape and the summer releases from the South Austin conglomerate of COD and Southbound and Dred Skott’s self-titled…
Rush to Judgment on Cactus?
KUT looks like the next stop for the Cactus
Arts Review
The strength of Vortex’s original musical adaptation is in its imagination
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Although it’s conventionally made, this documentary offers a streamlined and resonant account of recent history.
Thai Fresh Expansion
More dining room seating, a tea bar, a bakery case, and a case of homemade ice creams are just some of the things to look forward to
Texas Platters
Johnny Moeller BlooGaLoo! (Severn Records) Guitarist Johnny Moeller cut his six-string teeth in the second wave of Antone’s players, the 1990s Guadalupe Street era. He paid those dues playing for the Thunderbirds, and now he delivers a third solo album of estimable blues power and guitar soul. BlooGaLoo!’s bloodlines run hot with true believers Kim…
Norwood Moves Forward
Norwood House restoration begins, has long way still to go
Arts Review
This ambitious Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble program was like a tale of two choirs
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.
Event Menu
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Texas Platters
The Iron City Soul Shakers Shake Me Up, Judy! In nine steel-fisted tracks, the Iron City Soul Shakers hammer their ZZ Top-by-way-of-Memphis sound that frames Kristi Johnston’s soulful strut with Turner-esque panache. Santana/Journey vet Gregg Rolie brings his keyboards and voice in for a killer duet on the closest thing to a regional classic in…
‘Chronicle’ Disappearing Act at Airport
Chronicle trashed in dispute between workers and food franchise operator
Arts Review
Set in the Gilded Age, this operatic fairy tale really resonates with the present
Phish 3D
The movie highlights Phish’s Festival 8, a three-day, eight-set, 16-hour concert in the Southern California desert.
Free Comic Book Day
Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers
Food-o-File
This week’s local foodie news
Texas Platters
Jeff & the Jumptones Live on Red River Roll up the rug. The big-city blues sound of Jeff & the Jumptones fairly begs for a live setting, so here’s 15 shuffles and a few belly-rubbers for your living room dancing pleasure. Recorded at the Red Eyed Fly, Jeff Hayes keeps the rhythm upbeat and ditches…
Showdown at David Street: City Regs Broken at Will
Gasp! City staff helps developer skirt the law.
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
Our recommendations for the May 8 elections
North Face
Based on real-life events of July 1936 in the Swiss Alps, this German film is a gripping and epic account of men vs. mountain vs. other men.
Ladies Are Funny Festival
More East Coast comics and a full night of stand-up add more laughs to LAFF
New Day Rising
My Education puts music to an 83-year-old silent German expressionist touchstone
Texas Platters
Margo Valiante I Can’t Pray As produced by Rich Brotherton, Margo Valiante’s blues on five-song EP I Can’t Pray favor the Bonnie Raitt/Americana style. That’s a comfortable and expressive place for Valiante to be since relocating to Austin. With warm organ work from Riley Osbourn and supple suede vocals, there’s an overall soulfulness that buys…
Yellow Bike Project Rolls Into New Home
Nonprofit collective adds community programs to its mission
Page Two: Principle and Patriotism
‘We have met the enemy and he is us,’ Part II
The Little Traitor
Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.
What Would Owen Do?
Or, more to the point, what can’t comic, screenwriter, and now-novelist Owen Egerton do?
Record Review
My Education Sunrise (Strange Attractors Audio House) ST 37 (Metropolis), Golden Arm Trio (Battleship Potemkin), Brown Whörnet (Nosferatu), and the Friends of Dean Martinez (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari): Austin’s DIY film score contingent slays the silents. My Education (Sunrise) now enters that hall of fame. Compressing its live accompaniment to F.W. Murnau’s 1927 Oscar…
Texas Platters
Shawn Pittman Undeniable Shawn Pittman’s share of hard times makes for a good story, but it tells a better tale in his blues on Undeniable. His road-tested guitar work comes from a heavy recording schedule and touring at festivals and in Europe, the best practice in the world, and it explodes in killer tracks like…
State Report Slams Cap Metro
Transit agency in a crisis, Sunset Advisory Commission says
Soccer Watch
Aztex lose their perfect season
House Full
A man winds up married to three different women in this Bollywood romantic comedy.
After a Fashion
Your Cougar Avatar schools the young
Texas Platters
Willie Nelson Country Music (Rounder) When Billy Joe Shaver was found not guilty of shooting a man in the face earlier this month, Willie Nelson was there, supporting his friend from the back row. While Shaver embodies the roadhouse rebel archetype of the country singer, Nelson’s always been the flip side, the wise owl whose…
The Hightower Report
The Foreign Corporation Vote; and Forming a Beer Party
Sanders Report
City resists release of full report on Sanders shooting
AHL West Division Finals
The first-year Texas Stars have advanced to the second round of the AHL playoffs
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cats’ whiskers, 10-gallon hats, and much more
Texas Platters
Gary P. Nunn Taking Texas to the Country (Guacamole/Campfire Records) As head honcho of Jerry Jeff Walker’s Lost Gonzo Band, Gary P. Nunn helped birth ¡Viva Terlingua! in 1973, recorded in Luckenbach and one of the milestone recordings of the era’s progressive country movement. Nunn also composed “London Homesick Blues,” aka the Austin City Limits…
State of the Art
Austin gets to keep police chief
Point Austin: Tell Us Something We Don’t Know
Capital Metro report discovers that the agency’s been badly managed. Who knew?
Mariscos in Austin
Austin’s Mexican seafood restaurants are a gustatory vacation if you can’t leave the country
Texas Platters
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh (Motown) Two years ago, Erykah Badu dropped New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War, a dense, daring, politically charged manifesto. New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh finds the quirky Dallas diva cooing about the joys and jolts of love in a throwback to…
‘We’re the Guinea Pig’
A chat with FNL producer Nan Bernstein
Cherrywood: Neighbors Fear City Project’s Impact
Willowbrook Reach could be victim of city’s good intentions
Headlines
� Going nowhere – for now. Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday he’s decided to stay in Austin rather than continue to purse the police chief vacancy in Dallas. See “State of the Art.” � City Council meets today (Thursday, April 29), mulling items including a “form-based code” pilot zoning program for Airport Boulevard,…
Mariscos in Austin
Mariscos los Jarochos 9200 N. Lamar #100, 339-3022 Sunday-Thursday, 9am-12mid; Friday-Saturday, 9am-1am A Jarocho is a resident of Veracruz, so this 2-year-old restaurant in the strip center on the northwest corner of Rundberg and Lamar leans toward Veracruz specialties. You enter to a large full bar, with blaring Mexican music and soccer on the big…
Texas Platters
UT Jazz Orchestra with Carmen Bradford Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie (Naxos/Longhorn Music) Last spring the UT Jazz Orchestra in collaboration with the Huston-Tillotson University Concert Choir presented a rare performance of Duke Ellington’s comic folk opera, Queenie Pie. It was the first and only “official” production of Ellington’s sole opera, which he didn’t finish before…
Cram Session
Catching up on the first three seasons of Friday Night Lights
Through the New Wringer
A comprehensive new process will determine prioritization of transportation projects
City Hall Hustle: Strayhorn the Populist
Ex-mayor visits City Hall, blazing another nuclear trail
Mariscos in Austin
Mariscos Tampico Bar & Grill 10601 N. Lamar, 795-4147 Monday-Thursday, 10am-8pm; Saturday-Sunday, 10am-10pm www.mariscostampicorestaurant.com Tampico is on the north end of the Mexican flea market across from Chuy’s on Lamar. Warning: If you go on a Saturday or Sunday, be ready to deal with the crazed flea market parking lot traffic; it’s much more civil…
Texas Platters
Peter Stopschinski Sixth Symphony: Rough Night w/ Happy Ending (Pecan Crazy) Local pianist/composer/genre-hopper Stopschinski’s work is typically erratic and whimsical, but with the five movements of his latest, he’s nearly bridged the gap between the two. As one-half of the Golden Hornet Project with Graham Reynolds, Stopschinski’s in near-constant scoring mode, and this Sixth Symphony,…
Coming to America
Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done
City Counciling: City Budget Preview
Not great, could be worse
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Mariscos in Austin
Marisco Grill 211 E. Sixth, 474-7372 6444 Burnet Rd., 458-9440 Daily, 10am-10pm We went to the one on Burnet Road, which is directly across the street from the Poodle Dog Lounge, an Austin landmark. It has a pleasant blue marine motif, and the service is friendly and very attentive. We were happy with our starter…
Texas Platters
Bus Stop Stallions Don’t Block It! With sophomore effort Don’t Block It!, Bus Stop Stallions have joined the increasingly crowded ranks of throwback local R&B outfits. Formed in 2006, the 10-piece Stallions (including two backup singers) trot in the tradition of Austin’s mid-1970s Fable recording artists, channeling Starcrost on the spacey jazz fusion of “Never…
The Politics of Food Production
Austin’s first Fair Trade Film Festival sparks controversy
Possibility of Failure
Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won’t play it safe
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, April 29-May 6
Mariscos in Austin
Mariscos Seafood 1504 Town Creek Dr., 462-9119 Daily, 11am-10pm Located in a blue compound just off of Riverside Drive, Mariscos Seafood is half inside (more than half if you include the adjacent dining room) and half outside on the breezy patio. We left a little confused. The caldo de mariscos ($3.25, cup) was way too…
Texas Platters
Black Bone Child Alligator Black Bone Child Take You Blind Black Bone Child’s barreling, black-denim blues-rock boasts a full tank in the wake of the band’s eponymous debut in 2008, and the local quartet’s pair of simultaneous new releases is as ambitious as the Black Crowes’ complementary releases last year, Before the Frost … and…
Location, Location, Location
Previewing the Marfa Film Festival
Mystery Is Where It’s At
What you can’t see or prove is what composer David Lang wants to work with
Mariscos in Austin
Bejuco’s la Catedral de Mariscos Restaurant 2711 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-7878 Daily, 7am-10pm Every now and then you stumble onto a jaw-dropper, and for us, Bejuco’s is one indeed. Located just west of Pleasant Valley with a big parking lot in back, Bejuco’s has about 20 tables covered with oilcloth, friendly service, a menu with…
Texas Platters
Alpha Rev New Morning (Hollywood) Not since Fastball has an Austin artist received a major label boost on par with Alpha Rev. After signing last year to the same Disney offshoot, Hollywood Records, the local septet has appeared onscreen in ABC Family’s Greek, toured with Third Eye Blind, and been featured on VH1’s You Oughta…
Cutting on the Bias
Is Christopher Dunn APD’s designated fall guy … or a potential domino?
TV Eye
The surprising crossroads of Glee and local doc Sunshine
The Losers
In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.
Luv Doc Recommends: Lights Out! at Seaholm Power Plant
Occasionally, even right here in River City, you will meet people so stupid they make you want to tear your hair out. Why? Because you’re at least smart enough to know that if you choked them to death, you would probably end up in prison … a place with more people in need of Darwinistic…
