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Inability to Cater
What is so ‘punk’ about JT Habersaat and the Altercation Punk Comedy Tour?
Estate Sale Roundup: August 22-24
Be one of the few stalwart shoppers out before Labor Day.
Fake Person, Real Pancakes
Flapjack-loving Sim visits Kerbey Lane
First Look: Punch Bowl Social
Austin outpost opens in the Domain
MondoCon Unleashes Loaded Lineup
Just shut up and take our money!
Back-to-School Playlist
Even if your schooling’s out forever, we’ve got your soundtrack
Pulp Hope and Crutches for a Crippled Crab
Paul Pope and Dean Haspiel knock it outta the park for Z2 Comics
Pan Left with James Hoff
How to process despotism & hypocrisy
First Look: Dai Due
New eatery focuses on local
Capital City Black Film Festival Returns
Year two gets even more ambitious
Austin Film Festival Showcases Linklater, Cumberbatch
First round of films announced mixes world and Texas premieres
Jenni Finlay Promotions Turns 8
From sleeping on pool tables at Cheatham Street Warehouse to radio
Perry’s Mug Shot
Governor arraigned on two felony charges: Twitter goes dewy-eyed
Your Shortcut to FXX’s ‘The Simpsons’ Marathon
Who has time for 552 episodes? Here’s 11 to watch.
Vote for the VegNews Veggie Awards
Three local vegan businesses receive national recognition
KUTX Shuffles Programming
Longtime deejay Ed Miller is out, John Aielli shifts times, and more
A Place at the Table
Eat. Drink. Empower. celebrates women in food
Eden Foods Ban Heads to Wheatsville Vote
Boycott would be first approved in a decade
Housecore Horror Relights the Superjoint
Fest adds Superjoint Ritual, Voivod, and a resurrected Gwar
New Music: The Well
ATX doom rockers lower the bucket and pull up ‘Mortal Bones’
The Road to 10-1: WDAF Forum
10-1 is a marathon; not a sprint
The AggreGAYtor: August 18
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Smart Cookies
Austin foodies prove their Grub Trivia mettle
Many Ways to get to the Hot Sauce Festival
Quick tips on getting to and from this year’s Hot Sauce Festival
Wine of the Week
Kiwi Kim Crawford’s greatest hit
Perry Calls Indictments ‘Farce’
At least Bobby Jindal has his back
From Sin City to Odd City
Local poster crew providing special print for special screening
The Road to 10-1: 52 and Counting
With Monday deadline looming, 80 potential Council candidates
Lit-urday: NYRB Classics
Reissue series has some offbeat entries for the literary canon
DVDanger: Of Teenage Turtles and Grown-Up Bronies
Two documentaries tackle Eighties cults that won’t die
Perry Indicted
Governor faces two felony charges alleging abuse of office
Local Filmmaker Battles Plagiarizer
Clay Liford’s ‘My Mom Smokes Weed’ gets ripped off
The Take-Out: August 15
Your guide to the weekend’s best bites
Respectable Enemy: Curtis McMurtry
Lone star scion on Nashville, mom/dad/granddad, and Otto von Bismarck
Winedale’s Lauds and Losses?
Shakespeare program earns honors as historic buildings fade
The AggreGAYtor: August 15
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Double Your Pleasure Edition
Double the chances to hang out with the cutest Qs this weekend
Weekend Event Guide from Sarah Wolf + JB & Sandy
The Fringe + Austin Chronicle Weekend Event Guide Aug. 15-17
Turkey Trot Art Contest Seeking Submissions
Annual Thanksgiving tradition needs creative logo
One in a Crowd: ‘Calls to Okies’
Local documentarian Bradley Beesley hunts down prank callers
aGLIFF Announces Full Lineup
Festival to unspool at the reopened Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar
The Luv Doc: Gerbling
Howdy Doc, So, I was sitting at what I thought was just your average Tex-Mex joint that I’ve been to a hundred times when, the other day, I actually overheard someone say the words “we’re gonna need a bigger gerbil.” Time stopped. I could see people’s mouths moving, but heard no sounds. Everything was in…
Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry’s latest presents us with an elaborate yet handmade artifice that’s thoroughly charming until its color drains away.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The slang-slinging, sewer-dwelling, pizza-loving lot are back.
Step Up: All In
The dance competition continues – but this time in Vegas.
The Expendables 3
As action stars of yesteryear and tomorrow pop in and out, they demonstrate what expendable really means.
The Giver
This movie based on a Newbery Award-winning novel presents teens in a dystopic society that’s a manmade invention born of good intentions.
Calvary
Brendan Gleeson stars in this darkly hilarious and deeply ruminative update on the passion play.
Septic Man
This Canadian horror film wades through a cesspool of human waste and challenges our gag reflexes.
Anjaan
Tamil film.
Radio Coffee Beer & Folk
Native son Jack Wilson, behind the bar and onstage
Soccer Watch
It’s crazy how short the off-season is in this sport. Players are really still just recovering from the World Cup, and already: • Champions League play is well underway in both Europe and North/Central America. With some preliminary rounds already over, the U.S. teams and big European clubs enter the fray this coming week, with…
On Hold
Trial, etc., pending in SXSW crash
Texas Platters
There’s no musician alive equivalent to Dale Watson. Forty-two songs on three CDs about life as a trucker? Piece of cake. The genre flirted with the pop charts in the Sixties and Seventies, revving up fondly remembered twang tunes including “Six Days on the Road” and “Hello, I’m a Truck,” yet Watson comes to the…
Texas Rollergirls
The end of a Texas Rollergirls’ season is always a time of mixed emotions, and this year’s championship bout is no different. For familiar faces like hard-hitting Hotrod Honeys blocker Maso Kiss, and the Hell Mary’s feisty and cerebral jammer Sinnerfold (also responsible for their kick-ass publicity for years), this will be their last time…
Texas Platters
Philadelphia-bred singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, and TV soundtrack ace Ben Vaughn does his best work in classicist mode, applying a deep affinity for vintage rock, pop, blues, and country to his own witty, eloquent tunes. That’s the case with this tribute to the percolating, Tex-Mex beat of Doug Sahm’s Sir Douglas Quintet. Rather than attempting…
Texas Platters
For the past 19 years, Jason Roberts’ fiddle has been as hallmark to the sound of Asleep at the Wheel as Ray Benson’s hearty laugh. Stepping forward into his own spotlight with only his second solo album following 2005’s Texas Fiddle Man, the Grammy-winning, Texas Western Swing Hall of Famer assembled an expected all-star ensemble,…
Headlines
› City Council is holding no less than three meetings this week: a budget work session Wednesday, a special-called meeting Thursday to consider Austin Energy reserves and a transportation bond resolution, and another on Friday to consider an Onion Creek buyout plan. See “Council: Where’s the Meeting?” for more details. › Plan B for Urban…
Texas Platters
There’s a reason Whatever You Need sounds like more than Rosie & the Ramblers’ first full-length effort. For starters, they’re all well-worn professionals. Some might recall leader Selena Rosanbalm playing the title character in Always … Patsy Cline. The singer possesses a big, round voice, and she uses it superbly on self-written tunes both unflinchingly…
Point Austin: August Horribilis
The dog days bring bitter reflections
Anything for John
The making of John Cassavetes’ ‘Love Streams,’ as witnessed by Michael Ventura
Texas Platters
Right out of the gate, Sean Orr and Mark Rubin shift between a fiddle reel (“Crippled Turkey”), a schottische (“Chapel Hill Special”), and stripped-down conjunto (“Jessie/Jesusita”), with a banjo solo in the middle and a double-time rave-up at the end. That’s just the first three tunes of this 12-track, mostly instrumental odyssey into the possibilities…
Quote of the Week
“Welcome back to South Lamar! We’re back!” – Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar on its website, announcing its reopening Saturday, Aug. 16
Exhibitionism
This new musical looks to put a fresh spin on the familiar Land of Oz, but the storytelling isn’t always clear
Texas Platters
Eight albums into his career, Adam Carroll still paints vignettes in the simplest terms while making them sound like he’s filming in Technicolor. There have been some changes in his manner. Let It Choose You finds the Austinite sounding as confident as he’s ever been, and producer Lloyd Maines provides new licks for the songwriter…
Then There’s This: The Awesome Power of Women
Political group aims to increase voter turnout and so much more
Exhibitionism
Playwright / actor Rupert Reyes pays tribute to his father and the pull of the past in this sweet comic romance
Texas Platters
Shedding the Frank Smith moniker under which he’s performed for more than a decade, Aaron Sinclair finds a more confident and convincing sound with his debut EP. Though essentially the same band, the rebranding marks a significant, if still evidently evolutionary shift for the local songwriter, announced at the outset with the tight, rough riffs…
Sun to Set on Severely Disabled Patients
Austin State Supported Living Center cottages to be shuttered
Exhibitionism
The two works in this exhibit by Akiko Kotani show two sides of repetitive work and of madness
Better Eating Through Chemistry
Miche Bread rules the boule
AISD Accountability: Good News and Bad
New rating system poses challenges for educators, stakeholders alike
Food Events
Taste and Donate Happy Hour Ten percent of sales benefit the Austin Symphony. Mon.-Sat., Aug. 11-16, 3-6pm. Cafe Josie, 1200 W. Sixth, 512/322-9226. › Eat the Heat Local chefs take you to Wonderland. Thu., Aug. 14, 6:30-9:30pm. Marriott Renaissance Austin Hotel, 9721 Arboretum Blvd., 512/343-2626. $75. www.naceaustin.com. • Pluckers Wing Bar Second Annual Wing-Eating Contest…
How Not to ‘Stop Patriarchy’
New York group has a curious way of “helping”
‘Sure Thing (Live!)’
The joke’s on CD as Austin comedy gets its own record label
Food-o-File
Deep Eddy Vodka’s in high spirits
AISD Board Races Show Signs of Life
A sudden influx of candidates
I Wear the Black Hat
Klosterman’s critique of villainy over the last 40 years offers some surprisingly sharp analyses
The Good Eye: She of Many Hats (and Antlers)
Learn a little more about the woman who parties like it’s 1929
HB 2 Final Arguments
Judge Yeakel expected to rule before Sept. 1
A Song in His Heart
‘The Essential Jacques Demy’ anthologizes the French New Wave’s chief romantic
Playback: Nancy Fly Waves Bye-Bye
Pioneering Austin booker Nancy Fly retires, and ATX gets a hip-hop festival
Council: Where’s the Meeting?
Council wanders from room to room
Best of Both Worlds
El Sapo wows with Tex-Mex burger mix
Day Trips
Watch the world go about its business as you do yours in Sulphur Springs
The Hightower Report
The damning nuttiness of the GOP’s “Hell No” faction
Old Is the New New
Classic Game Fest
Gay Place: Words Escape Us
Another week with too much LGBTQ to do in ATX. Dang.
The 10-1 Ticker…
Election updates!
Betting on Cloud Juice
Richard’s Rainwater keeps its eye in the sky
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Middle English definition of the word “nice” (c. 1250-1300) was “foolish or stupid.” It came from the Old French word “nice,” which meant “careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish.” The Latin origin is nescius: “ignorant, unaware, not knowing.” By 1769, the word had come to mean “agreeable, delightful.” The strongest recorded…
Davis: Abbott Soft on Rape
Davis came out swinging with a heavy accusation
