Acevedo to San Antonio?
APD chief finalist for SAPD chief
That’s So Cool: Celebrating Bob Johnston
The late producer’s staggering output somehow excluded his own renown
Fluoridation Survives
Zimmerman proposal to end city healthcare practice fails
Backmastering Painted Redstarts
William Harries Graham’s crew premieres a reverse love story
Eat. Drink. Empower. Gathers Dream Team
All-female lineup parties for SafePlace
First Look: Stella San Jac
Even more Southern hospitality
Health Inequities Dog Austin
Racial disparities are glaring
Austin Film Festival Announces First Wave of Titles
Lineup drops the latest from Todd Haynes and a Hank Williams biopic
“Sulma Is Welcome Here”
Guatemalan LGBTQ activist visits ICE office; is allowed to go home
DVDanger: Cult Film Corner
Burying the Ex and Patch Town
Suicide Notes Premiere “Kurt Cobain”
Hip-hop duo’s alter egos steal the mic
Pluckers Hosts Ultimate Lip Sync Battle
Contest entry deadline looming
Bob Johnston’s Great Lost Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan LP
Late producer set the mood for one of music’s great summits
Who Do You Love?
Jennifer Weiner returns with what might be her best love story yet
A Council’s Work Is Never Done
If this is Tuesday, it must be work session
Guardians of Gastronomy Win Grub Trivia
Slow Food Austin raises nearly $10,000
Blue Bell Returns to Market
Austin to be in first phase
One in a Crowd: Dough
Crowdfunding, with added raffle
Jill Scott Makes Love to the Moody
All while remaining a church crowd darling
Texas Teen Book Festival: The 2015 Lineup
Sesame Street and Star Wars collide in the 2015 TTBF
Big Gay Summer Closeout
The next few weeks bring an all-you-can-eat buffet of gay
News Roundup: Smoke and Fire
Arsonists, burn bans, and heated arguments
Lit-urday: The Same Sky
Compassion on divergent paths powers Amanda Eyre Ward’s novel
Bob Johnston 1932-2015
“The grand master waved his magical wand for the last time”
Time to Stomp Some Grapes
Hill Country wineries celebrate harvest
From Tokyo to Austin
The Japanese argument for the TPP and bullet trains
Houses of the Holy: Zeppelin Reissues Conclude
Year-long reissue campaign ranges over the hills and far away
Grove Matters
Council kicks the Shoal Creek Tract Case to October
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
Chronicle Recommends: Cold Climate Films
Chill out with these movies set in frozen lands
Red 7 Closing One Month Early
Red River club shuttering after August 28
Film Flam
The AFCA adds new members, plus some locals hit it big
Meet Me in Montenegro
Real-life couple and co-directors explore whether love is better the second time around
The End of the Tour
Fictional but satisfying portrayal of a David Foster Wallace interview by a Rolling Stone reporter
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
Napoleon Solo and and Illya Kuryakin don’t transition well to the present
Fantastic Four
Marvel not at this Fox flop
Straight Outta Compton
Picture about origins of rap group NWA shows off their snarly cool
The Look of Silence
Getting personal with Indonesia’s bloody past in follow-up to The Act of Killing
Prince
Impoverished Dutch teen is lured by promises of wealth
Brothers: Blood Against Blood
Bollywood remake of 2011’s underrated boxing saga Warrior
RangiTaranga
Kannada-language mystery thriller
Metallurgy
Digital releases and never playing live, Abyssal remains as dark and mysterious as its LP art. Darker, as the blackened death of third full-length Antikatastaseis indicates. “I Am the Alpha and the Omega” sets the grisly scene: furious blast beats, sweeping drill-bit riffs, and animalistic vox buried deep in the mix for maximum misunderstanding. “Telomeric…
Road Ahead Murky After Voter ID Ruling
County says ruling won’t impact November elections
Metallurgy
Half of The Insolent, Antigama’s seventh slab of flesh-rending insanity, makes other death grinders sound weak. Brief obliterations “Used To” and “Reward or Punishment” take prisoners only to torture them later. That’s when ambient synths presage the other half, the forward-thinking Warsaw quartet abandoning its wood chipper for a spin on the mosh floor. The…
Travis Voter Registrar Tests “Text Request”
New system allows citizens to register to vote by text
Metallurgy
Environmental degradation counts as a common subject in metal. For grindcore San Diegans Cattle Decapitation, it’s religion. Title based on the unofficial term for an epoch in which human behavior upends Earth, The Anthropocene Extinction holds nothing back in pursuit of eco justice. The brutally furious “Manufactured Extinct” and “Mutual Assured Destruction” blast bluntly, while…
The Hightower Report
A thousand cuts
Metallurgy
Metal propagates anew in Austin. Led by metal blogger Steve Colca, Destroyer of Light hones its psychotropic doom to a deadly hollow-point on this split LP. “Electric Shadows” and “Coffin Hunter” flow like molten gold down a dragon’s throat, so a cover of Pentagram’s “Forever My Queen” slots in perfectly. Tucson/Vancouver doom mongers Godhunter, meanwhile,…
Jenna’s Asian Kitchen
Changing the conversation about Cedar Park
After the Flood, Before the Flood
As the area recovers from the Memorial Day flood, El Niño looms
Metallurgy
Thriving on AC/DC’s tradition of making the same album over and over, High on Fire started getting stale in 2010 on Snakes for the Divine before bouncing back two years later with the PCP-like concept to De Vermis Mysteriis. On the Oakland trio’s seventh album, ingestions of new blood clearly continue. The band’s post-thrash attack…
Playback: Red River Optimist John Wickham
Red River poker king John Wickham remains optimistic, Nazis stab concertgoers at Trailer Space, and Fun Fun Fun Fest gets its acre at Auditorium Shores
How to Help
Weeks after the initial deluge, a team of Chronicle staffers dug our butts into the mud at the home of our colleague Dallen Terrell’s grandparents. If you’re committed to binning countless shards of glass and grubby screws, the occasional treasure waits to be pried away. A plastic bag with ancient ID cards (see “Lost &…
Metallurgy
= Horisont owned Master of Reality and Jailbreak a decade ago, but prog reared up on third disc Time Warriors in 2013 and now Odyssey gives it full exposure. The title track wigs out with multiple time signatures, soaring melodic licks, and a 10-minute run time. The Swedes consistently deviate from mere retro metal, spanning…
Council: For the Birds
Taking on bullhooks, FFF Fest, and more
Metallurgy
Australian hellraisers King Parrot made grindcore their bitch two years ago. Second LP Dead Set picks up where Bite Your Head Off left off, spewing sizzling Tourette’s-core like an axe maniac on meth. Matt “Youngy” Young both yowls like a were-panther and shrieks as if he’s its terrified victim. Similar to fellow Melbourners Blood Duster,…
The Austin One-Minute Play Festival Is Back!
ScriptWorks presents another round of locally penned 60-second dramas – 70 staged back-to-back
Aug. 13: In the Zone Again
Council plays musical chairs, because what else do they have to do?
Wise Guys
Blue Owl Brewing brings sours to the masses
Robin Hood: An Elegy
Rough edges aside, Generic Ensemble Company’s new work makes an urgent statement that #blacklivesmatter
Uber-Disgruntled
Those cheap Uber fares aren’t doing drivers much good
Confrontational Cinema
Companion doc to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence revisits Indonesian atrocities
The Tree Play
For this story of a rain forest over a lifetime, Robi Polgar created a living, breathing poem
Turning the Tide on the Eastside
Community activists want Council to pump the brakes on commercial development along East Cesar Chavez
Metallurgy
Following four albums of traditional metal that tunneled every last nook and cranny of Black Sabbath, the Sword needed sharpening. Turning to local music gadfly Adrian Quesada as producer, the Austin quartet proves itself broader than retro headbanging on its fifth full-length. Clearly a transitional LP, High Country varies in success, the locals eagerly trying…
Back in Black
Capital City Black Film Festival returns for round three
BOOKS by Kevin McNamee-Tweed
In this collection of faux book jackets, you can totally judge books by their covers
The Post-Marriage Equality Fight
Same-sex couples mount fight to ensure accurate birth, death certficiates
The Drifter
Mike Flanigin’s accidental (and all-star) organ-grinding
Help Desk
A smartphone first-timer tries to keep her head above the deep waters of interconnectivity
Day Trips: Sundew Trail in the Big Thicket, Kountze
Take a walk in one of the most biodiverse landscapes in the world
Violet Crown Trail Opens
First six miles of a planned 30 miles of trail open to the public
Metallurgy
Kadavar isn’t out to innovate. Hailing from the titular city of its third LP, the German power trio still plows early-Seventies proto metal, but they’re evolving nonetheless. Steadily improving its craft, especially the songwriting, the Berliners unleash cleaner melodies, sharper arrangements, and the kind of chemistry forged from a million miles of roadwork. Confident, crunchy,…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex are down to just three home games in the season, and they pretty much need to win them all to make the USL playoffs in their first pro season. That starts this Saturday night, Aug. 15, as they host the L.A. Galaxy II at 7:30pm at Kelly Reeves Stadium, 10211 W. Parmer.…
Headlines
City Council meets today (Aug. 13) with a new look (shuffled seating arrangement) and a heavy zoning agenda, and discussion – but not decisions – on revised short-term rental regulations and a baseline zoning for The Grove at Shoal Creek development. The short-term rental public testimony has been moved to the Planning and Neighborhoods Committee…
Metallurgy
Myrkur’s eponymous EP debut stirred a backlash when its goth/black metal mash-up revealed a member of indie rockers Ex Cops. Joined on her first LP by Ulver’s Garm and Mayhem’s Teloch, Danish raven Amalie Bruun integrates extreme intensity into both genres’ inherent drama. Ethereal crooning alternates with inhuman shrieks as she inserts pounded piano into…
Food-o-File
New honors and old traditions
The Luv Doc: The Willfully Ignorant
The real danger is believing you’ve done the homework when you really haven’t
Quote of the Week
“I view the [Balcones Canyonlands Preserve]’s appetite for land like the Bastrop wildfire. … It never says, ‘Enough.'” – D6 CM Don Zimmerman equating land conservation with setting things on fire
Metallurgy
South Carolina’s Nile never tires of Egyptology. Eighth hieroglyph What Should Not Be Unearthed keeps pharaoh tombs safe from grave robbers via Karl Sanders indulging his archaeological digs with brick-chewing vocals and riff dissonance. Despite the occasional Sumerian interlude, songs like “In the Name of Amun” and “Negating the Abominable Coils of Apep” fry meat…
AC Date Night: Royal Blue Grocery & Garage Cocktail Bar
Picnic and park it Downtown
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
While the U.S. has only 5% of the world’s population, it has between 35% and 50% of the world’s civilian firearms. You would have to consume seven glasses of milk a day for 78 years to drink a cow’s entire lifetime production of moo juice. According to author Bryan Garner, “forego” traditionally means “to go…
Point Austin: Intentional Ignorance
Voting rights decision fails to acknowledge the obvious
Mike Flanigin Record Review
The Drifter (Black Betty Records)
Sistering the Brothers Grimm
Austin-born artist Natalie Frank makes fables viscerally visual in her exhibition at the Blanton
AISD High Schools Hit Target
TEA results for Austin improved from last year
Public Notice: Moratorium Now!
Cutting through the bullshit on STRs
Metallurgy
Paradise Lost morphed from doom/death journeyband to gothic metal pioneer nearly 25 years ago, experimenting with electronica even. Back to headbanging basics, 14th LP The Plague Within finds the Yorkshire quintet in full-frontal metal mode. A wave of guitars swirl all their genre pledges into a lighter-waving metal anthemry of thickly sensual miasma. Nick Holmes…
AISD Debates Filling Board Vacancy
Austin ISD board defers vacant seat decision to subcommittee
Gay Place: Find Your Qummunity
Events for every stripe of the rainbow, especially Qumbia Queers and Going Grrls
There Goes the Neighborhood
Council digs into short-term rentals this week
