Cover Story
A New Day
Life in Kat Candler’s cinematic world
Cops Given Choice Whether to Arrest for Minor Pot Possession
Texas police officers will be given a choice to issue a ticket instead of arrest individuals for certain Class A and B misdemeanors – including possession of up to 4oz of marijuana
Two Years Since Katrina Hit
It’s been two years since Katrina. Where is our heart?
Finally, a Final
UT ex Sanya Richards goes for a track & field world championship tonight.
Dinah Lakeshore Weekend Giveaway
The Gay Place gives you a chance to win another fabulous prize package: A weekend at HRC’s Dinah Lakeshore event!
Kenneth Foster’s Execution (Updated)
What you can do to stop his execution.
Rocky Morales, Con Savos
A tribute to Rocky Morales.
Longhorns Opener Friday; International Results; WC Around the Corner
The UT Lady Longhorns open their season this Friday with a No. 9 national ranking, and even higher aspirations. It’s a veteran team, with four senior starters, plus four juniors who are three-year starters on defense (Stephanie Logterman, Kasey Moore, Jill Gilbeau, and goalie Dianne Pfenninger). On top of that, this is supposed to be…
Women’s World Cup Schedule and Groups
FIRST ROUND GROUPS Top two in each group advance to quarterfinals Group A Germany England Japan Argentina Group B USA Sweden Nigeria North Korea Group C Norway Canada Australia Ghana Group D Brazil China Denmark New Zealand All Games are on ESPN2, except when two are simultaneous, one will be on ESPN. All times listed…
Did Someone Not Get the Memo?
Perry and Dewhurst send out contradictory messages about state’s rights.
Republican Hush-Hush
Larry Craig: Stalling for …?
Track & Field World Championships, Day 6: ‘Almost’
Lots of near-misses for Austinites in Osaka
Cute Band Alert!
The Hunnies are our new sweethearts.
City Council Notebook
What’s happening this week in Council chambers?
Katrina Benefit Tomorrow at 311
Tomorrow night, Club 311 (311 E. Sixth St.) hosts a two-year Hurricane Katrina anniversary show and benefit with a stellar lineup of performers, including East 35, V.I.P., the Culprit, Vice & Mic Trey, Goliath, SoBlaqq, Mike Money, Sincere, Two Brothers, Stacy Russell, Philliez Beatz, and D-Ray, among others. Gutta Gang, Devin the Dude, Chingo Bling,…
Town Lake Setback Variances Non-Starters for Martinez, Leffingwell
CMs already against variance request coming before boards and commissions starting tonight.
Perry Staying Put?
Has Gov. Perry given up on his rumored vice-presidential aspirations?
Sir Callahan Goes On the Road
Bill Callahan, on the road. Again.
Red Bull Flugtag Attracts Paul Wall (and 84,999 Other Spectators)
It seems without fail that “if you build it, they will come.” Build what? A homemade, human-powered flying craft that is. Who’s coming? Oh, something like 85,000 people. Aug. 25, 2007 marked a record-setting day for the Red Bull Flugtag USA. No, not the furthest flying distance, nor the best performance. It was the audience…
UT’s Priorities
Why has UT Austin decided to cancel the winter graduate convocation?
We’re Fat, But We’re No Mississippi
A new study on weight problems in America shows health concerns for the state.
End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement
End Game: Blueprint for Global Enslavement 2007, NR. Directed by Alex Jones. In his latest film, Jones exposes what he sees as the global elite’s plot to set up a world government and exterminate most of the world’s population. See www.infowars.com for more info.
Short Film Works by William Wegman
Short Film Works by William Wegman Directed by William Wegman. The renowned art photographer and his playful Weimaraner dog compositions on film are featured. Cocktails and hors d’ouvres will be served and all ticket proceeds benefit EmanciPet.
Preregister for the Austin Gamblers GLBT Bowling League!
Attention, Austin. The Austin Gamblers GLBT bowling league commences its 21st season this fall, and, specifically, they are looking for those of you who consider yourselves to be: G, L, B, T, all of the above, none of the above, or just really good bowlers. You don’t even have to be a good bowler; you…
Astros Eject Garner and Purpura
News came in today that the Houston Astros (58-73) fired head coach Phil Garner and general manager Tim Purpura. Cecil Cooper has been named the new manager with Tal Smith taking over as interim GM for the rest of the year. Purpura’s ousting was expected, and if anything, a little late, but the axing of…
Victory
Local theatrical troupe wins big overseas.
Gonzo Gone-So
Breaking news: US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales quits.
Update on Osaka Austinites
Day 2 of the Track & Field World Championships
Another Austinite in Osaka
Reagan High graduate Brendan Christian makes it to the semifinal in the 100 meters.
Oh, Kinky, You Crazy
Kinky Friedman thinks that being a Democrat governor would be nice.
None of the Hits, All of the Time
KVRX’s website launch takes off in T-minus 10, 9…
Total Request Live
Become ME Television’s next video star.
Mormon Expedition to Africa
Lee Leffingwell’s executive assistant Andy Mormon leaves to Ghana.
Chrontourage Ping-Pong Tourney a Rousing Success
Thirty-two players faced-off at the Chrontourage Balls of Fury Ping-Pong tournament held Thursday, Aug. 23 at the La Zona Rosa Backstage Bar. With three amazing prize packages up for grabs – see my preview here for a full list – competition was fierce and furious (pun intended) with paddlers competing in best-of-three preliminary rounds (first…
No Las Vegas-style Casino Gambling in Eagle Pass, at Least for Now
A federal appeals court has stopped – at least for now – the Kickapoo tribe’s efforts to add Las Vegas-style casino gambling to its reservation in Eagle Pass along the Mexican border. The Department of the Interior had given tentative approval for Class III casino gaming early this year over the objections of the state.…
A Rare Power Plan Occurrence
The announcement that construction will commence on a new coal power plant is rarely accompanied by words of praise from environmental groups, but that’s just the case with the NuCoastal Power Corporation plant located in Point Comfort, Southeast Texas. Operators of the plant, which will utilize petroleum coke, a refining byproduct that burns similarly to…
Trouble in E-Voting Paradise
In a blow for advocates of electronic elections, major manufacturer of digital ballot boxes Diebold Inc. has made steps to dump its beleaguered e-voting division. The firm announced on Aug. 16 that Allen-based Diebold Election Systems, which manufactures the controversial AccuVote TSX touch-screen voting system, will be renamed Premier Election Solutions and made more autonomous…
Worlds Away
Vacation, worlds away
R.I.P. “Granny” Groves
Eighty-six-year-old Alva Mae “Granny” Groves, who was sentenced to 24 years in the federal pen for what she and her supporters insist was solely refusing to testify against her children in a federal coke dealing case, died behind bars last week at the federal prison medical facility in Fort Worth, reports the Drug Reform Coordination…
SAFER to Denver Council: Let’s Make a Deal!
Proponents of a marijuana reform initiative that would make adult pot use the city’s lowest law enforcement priority have offered the Denver council and mayor – who are none too happy that the initiative earned enough signatures to make it on the November ballot – a chance to get the damn thing off the ballot.…
Austinites at Track & Field World Championships
Richards, Acuff, and Manzano are locals to watch in Osaka.
Mr. Smarty Pants
Montezuma Red by Elizabeth Arden: the lipstick that says sexy and deadly, perfect for your Marine daughter
The Hightower Report
Republican Presidential Hopes; and Schumer’s Wall Street Poverty Program
Day Trips
Cycle Ranch in Floresville features one of the top motocross tracks in the Southwest
Celebrity Judges
Robb Walsh (founder and head judge): Currently the restaurant critic for the Houston Press, Walsh is the former Food editor of The Austin Chronicle and former editor-in-chief of Chile Pepper magazine. He has received numerous nominations for journalism awards from the James Beard Foundation and is a winner of the International Association of Culinary Professional’s…
The El Paso Connection
Longtime Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest judges Henry and Fred Alvarado and Carlos Contreras
Soccer Watch
Lady Longhorns get their season started on the road, and more
Contest & Festival Facts
The Capital Area Food Bank of Texas presents The 17th Annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival Sunday, August 26, 2007 Waterloo Park, 12th & Trinity 11:00am-5:30pm Free parking is available in Capitol visitors parking garage Capital Metro has more than a dozen ways to get you to the Hot Sauce Festival. After all the sauce…
Ruth’s Easy Salsa Recipe
Makes 4-5 cups Henry Alvarado writes: “Ruth is our mom. She was born in Tucumcari, N.M., in 1930 and has been making salsa for almost 60 years. She and our dad, Alfred, live in El Paso and have been married for 53 years – they have five kids (Fred, Charlie, me, Laura, and Becky). She…
New Day Film
“Our target audience is mainly universities and other educational institutions and organizations,” says Austin filmmaker and New Day Acquisitions Co-Chair Heather Courtney (Los Trabajadores, Letters From the Other Side). “Kat was actually already doing that before she became a part of the New Day collective.” Founded in 1971 by Liane Brandon and Amalie Rothschild to…
Maxey Shows Moxie in Curious Bid for Tax Assessor
Glen Maxey defends his bid for tax assessor-collector
The ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Past winners
Chief’s BBQ & Grill
Pals since high school, Jeff Turner and Kelly Gartzke started this South First destination four years ago
(Don’t) Paint It Black
“The most impressive part of it for me is that the filmmakers didn’t intend for this film to necessarily do what it’s done,” says Baylor College of Medicine’s Troy Bush, “and what it’s done is to really get people talking about suicide and suicide prevention.” jumping off bridges has, during the past two years, affiliated…
Think (and Eat) Globally by Dining for Darfur
Local restaurants join in Darfur fundraising effort
‘The Texas Cowboy Cookbook: A History in Recipes and Photos’
by Robb Walsh Broadway Books, 256 pp., $17.95 The cowboys of the “great trail drives” were a beat-up gang of undesirables who had been displaced in various ways by the Civil War. Typically, they were fed the cheapest possible provisions, and they counted themselves lucky if their grub was “clean” (not infested with insects or…
TV Eye
The Ultimate Mother
She Could Do No Wrong – Until Police Hauled Her off to Jail
Interim director of WilCo animal shelter charged with theft
The Invasion
This fourth film telling of Invasion of the Body Snatchers appears to be made by pod people themselves.
Food-o-File
A refresher on how we do things around here
Arts Review
Capital T Theatre Company brings a brightness to Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade that keeps the whole affair surprisingly light
Naked City
Quote of the Week “Two hundred and thirty years ago, our forefathers fought a war to throw off the yoke of a European monarch and gain the freedom of self-determination. Texans long ago decided that the death penalty is a just and appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes committed against our citizens. While we…
The Last Legion
Although this story of ancient Rome offers guilty-pleasure fun, the film is not very inspired or well-conceived.
Event Menu
Aug. 23-30
Arts Review
Gobotrick Theatre Company’s One Flea Spare is a worthwhile production of a play that’s smart and crafted with a rare dexterity and elegance
City Planning: Goodbye Riley, Hello Weiss
Planning Commission loses attorney, gains architect
Resurrecting the Champ
Several morality plays vie for attention in this story about a workmanlike sportswriter who latches on to a tale told by a homeless alcoholic as his ticket out of palookaville.
What’s Happening?
Ruta Maya toasts the Summer of Love
Off the Record
Moronic punk band trashes local pizza place; Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears prep for a tour with Spoon; and Almost There Records turns 3
Crestview Neighborhood Development Buzz
North Lamar Transit-Oriented Development Zone changes and proposals abound at North-Central neighborhood meeting
Heyy Babyy
Hindi remake of Three Men and a Baby is set in Australia.
Marchand’s Top 14 1967 Albums
Blue Cheer, Vincebus Eruptum Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced The Velvet Underground & Nico Cream, Disraeli Gears Pink Floyd, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn Donovan, A Gift From a Flower to a Garden The Doors Love, Forever Changes Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man the Way I…
Off the Record
The Underdog Saturday night marks the end of an era at the Continental Club as the Weary Boys ride off into the sunset with original lead singer Mario Matteoli in tow. Don’t expect opener and longtime running mate Black Joe Lewis to pause and reminisce, though. “My new band is off the chain,” says Lewis…
Happenings
August 23-29
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
The comic Mr. Bean provides a so-so late-summer diversion, unlikely to reignite Beanmania – or repeat the previous film’s boffo box office.
Making the Scene
Looking back at the time when Austin was at the center of the Texas art world
Seven Not-So-Obvious 1967 Albums
Fifty Foot Hose, Cauldron Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Safe as Milk Sun Ra & His Astro Infinity Arkestra, Strange Strings Nilsson, Pandemonium Shadow Show Tangerine Dream, Kaleidoscope Scott Walker, Scott Bill Cosby, Revenge
Off the Record
Total Request Live Remember the disaster that was MTV’s first-ever Wanna Be a VJ competition or the burnout that won, Jesse Camp? Well, ME Television (Time Warner Cable Channel 15) is reviving the competition locally as part of a new reality series, The Next VeeJay, resulting in two new television personalities. The four-round interactive contest,…
Priming the Springs
Although last Thursday’s official City Council pool-cleaning was postponed by weather, the master-plan tour of the facilities at Barton Springs Pool proceeded despite the gentle rain
The Nanny Diaries
An awful lot of good talent was squandered on this by-the-numbers film version of the bestselling tell-all about the child-rearing habits of the rich.
Austin Shakespeare Festival: Changing of the Bard
Guy Roberts has resigned as artistic director of the Austin Shakespeare Festival, and Ann Ciccolella has been named his successor
A 1967 Hoot Happening Sampling
4:20pm: MILITANT BABIES “I Can See for Miles” The Who 4:50pm: ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON “I Am a Tangerine” Tommy James & The Shondells 5:15pm: ZOOKEEPER “Connection” The Rolling Stones 5:40pm: DJ SCORPIO & DJ WHIPLASH 6:05pm: JADE DAY “The Sound of Silence” Simon & Garfunkel 6:30pm: THE SUMMER WARDROBE “Fire Engine” 13th Floor…
Off the Record
If a tree falls… Sometimes It Rains Spacemen in Texas. The experimental electronic ensemble SIRSIT, comprising local scene veterans Rick Reed, Cory Allen, Brent Fariss, and Josh Russell, digitally released their first improvised studio recording, Colorblind Cycle, an intriguing 24-minute sequence of orbiting synthesizers and modified sound on Russells’ Bremsstrahlung Recordings. The label cancels out…
Hurricane Katrina Legal Roundup
A by-no-means-exhaustive recap of recent Katrina-related legal activity
Rocket Science
On the surface, Rocket Science is yet another quirky high school movie, but its story of a stutterer who’s enticed into joining the debate team is special in its own way.
10 Minutes Max: For 600 seconds, anything goes
The weekend forecast calls for an umbrella – Dance Umbrella, that is, and its annual showcase of short performance works
Phases & Stages
Car Stereo (Wars) Beauty Bar, Aug. 18 No turntables. No microphones. This is the new shit. Just point and click; adjust knobs as needed. Aside from a few new samples – most notably a reworking of the theme from Rocky and Fountains of Wayne’s “Stacy’s Mom” – and a couple of remixed remixes, Christopher Rose,…
Dynamics Dysfunctional and Otherwise
Julie Delpy on 2 Days in Paris
@ Chronic: Campaign Karl
Is his rep as the campaign killer still intact?
Molière
This ragtag biographical portrait plays something like Meet the Parents vs. Shakespeare in Love: A Farce in Three Acts.
In Memoriam: Joe York
Joe York, who for more than 20 years was the city’s leading leading man and one of its most gifted theatre directors and designers, has died
Phases & Stages
Headdress, Cavedweller, Silver Pines Carousel Lounge, Aug. 18 The carnivalesque climate of the Carousel Lounge lends itself well to psychedelic folk and flow. Saturday night, nomadic duo Headdress, Austinites of two months, filled in the corners and droned heavily from the dark, bruised blues plodding softly against the drunken noise in the back of the…
Film News
The Austin Film Festival gets Stoned; plus, a Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund update
Point Austin: Bad Loan
Las Manitas wins even without city loan
Right at Your Door
Harrowing doesn’t even begin to describe this low-budget exercise in siege paranoia, which builds on our current terrorist-related night sweats.
A Poet Warrior’s Reward
Amorindio: Tributo y Celebración for raúlrsalinas
Phases & Stages
Spot Barnett Victory Grill, Aug. 19 Good thing the Victory Grill was packed the first two evenings of its three-night 62nd birthday celebration, because Spot Barnett’s Sunday night set felt like a requiem for the past. Vernon “Spot” Barnett is the 71-year-old San Antonio tenor sax man who led the Revue behind Ike and Tina…
Gimme (Animal) Shelter
Swirling city politics, site selection, and – oh yes – animal welfare
Beside the Point
Council sharpens its pencil before tackling public safety budget
2 Days in Paris
Julie Delpy debuts as a feature-film director with this smart and funny romantic comedy.
After a Fashion
This week, Stephen dukes it out with a real queen
Phases & Stages
Storm the Tower Sound on Sound, Aug. 19 It was just another Sunday night at the record store, just another local band playing its final show. After seven years, a few 7-inches, and a couple of tours together, trio Storm the Tower has called it quits. As bassist Jason “Jug” Costanzo, owner of North Loop’s…
Page Two: Turn to Sinatra
Considering media objectivity and losing yourself in art
Reefer Madness
If the DEA has its way, hemp-farming will go to seed
Eye of the Dolphin
This family film is charming enough to inspire young girls to grow up wanting to swim with live dolphins rather than groom My Little Ponies.
The Common Law
Landlord & tenant issues – security-deposit issues
Pearce Gets a New Principal
High test scores at what cost?
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Our latest batch
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The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
You’re probably thinking, “Why even go to the Hot Sauce Festival if I can’t bring my dog or my cooler? Touché. Point taken. Nothing completes your festival experience like the companionship of a furry friend or the crisp, clean taste of your own choice of brew. What’s the use of attending a festival where you…
