Cover Story
Moving Pictures
Twenty years on, more than two dozen filmmakers pay tribute to Slacker and a city in transition
Longhorn Ethics
Where is the line between fan club and news for ESPN and UT?
‘Slacker 2011’ Debuts
A suitably rowdy crowd cheered on the affectionate homage
The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Geoff Marslett & Heather Kafka
Marslett and Kafka on Slacker 2011
Man of Many Moons
Danny Schmidt checks in for the Kerrville Wine & Music Fest
Up The Hill for ‘Slacker 2011’
On-set for the final scene of the remake (video)
Barrio Daze
La Raza’s Edge – with a sense of humor, ese
Wednesday Rewind
When pigs fly: Willie Nelson covers Coldplay
F1 Moves to November 2012
Update: Austin circuit boss weighs in on schedule change
Not a Bird, Not a Plane, But ‘Betty Superman’
Tiff Holland launches new chapbook at BookWoman
TDH: 8/31/11
No CURE for disagreement over Downtown zoning?
The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Chris Eska
Director Chris Eska on Slacker 2011
Sparks Grants Temporary Injunction in Ultrasound Case
Stops implementation of law for now
Happy Birthday, Blue Starlite Drive-In
Blue Starlite Drive-In celebrates anniversary
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival Picks
What the cool kids are catching at the OOB
Kickin’ It in Burnt Orange
Adidas releases ‘Back to Campus 80’s’ for Bevo
Vacation
Live Shot: Go-Go’s tour finale at the Paramount.
Giving in the Heat
You helped for the Hot Sauce Festival: Now puppies and kittens need you
The Passion of the Kinky
How the Kinkster did, then didn’t, endorse Perry
TDH: 8/29/11
City Manager’s silent raise raises questions
The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Scott R. Meyers
Director Scott R. Meyers on Slacker 2011
2011 Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund Recipients Announced
2011 TFPF winners announced
Releasing ‘Fireflies in the Garden’
Julia Roberts pic filmed 3 years ago in Austin area has U.S. release date
A-B-C-Dethklok
‘Metalocalypse’ director for Drafthouse anthology plus contest news
TDH: 8/26/11
Sanders settlement, elections, WTP4 and other items of actual import
Austin’s Planned Parenthood Loses State Funding
Among a host of providers losing all state funds
The Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast Splits
Redistricting, settlements and the Perry Trap gets sprung
This Week’s Waste of Time
We handicap the 600 playable games of Ludum Dare
Longhorn Network Adds More Providers
Still no Grande, Time Warner, Dish or AT&T (updated)
Austin Rockin’ 8/26/11
Margarent Moser visits Momo’s at 11 while Hot Sauce Festival hits 21
Nothing is Wrong is Right
Dawes stops into La Zona Rosa
The Slacker 2011 Interviews: Spencer Parsons 2
Spencer Parsons on Slacker 2011
Food-o-File
When the lord closes a door, he opens a Thai joint Downtown
Metallurgy
Tombs Path of Totality (Relapse) German expressionism as outlined by art deco glows monochromatic on the cover of this Brooklyn trio’s third kill. Fritz Lang’s cinematic fever dream, Metropolis, pulses in Path of Totality’s visuals and Teutonic punishment. “Black Hole of Summer” decays civilization, segued into the echoed toll of “To Cross the Land,” which…
Headlines
� City Council meets today, Thursday, Aug. 25. And no, you didn’t enter a time machine: On tap is a $750,000 settlement agreement with the family of Nathaniel Sanders II, who was shot and killed by an Austin police officer, as well as consideration of compensation for the city manager, a one-two punch that engendered…
High School Football
Friday night lights are back
My Children Are Becoming Heavy
When San Antonio rock ruled South Texas
Metallurgy
Toxic Holocaust Conjure and Command (Relapse) It’s no secret how one-man thrash brand Joel Grind keeps skate punks elbow-stomping: machine-gun hooks (“Bitch”). The fourth no-frills Megadeth runoff sprints through 10 hand grenades in 32 minutes (“Nowhere To Run”), Conjure and Command the perfect descriptor of Grind’s flawless production aesthetic – parking-lot minimalism with a blacktop…
Contest & Festival Facts
The 20th Annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival Presented by Capital Area Food Bank of Texas Sunday, Aug. 28, 11am-5:30pm Waterloo Park at 12th and Trinity No dogs. No coolers. Capital Area Food Bank’s Sizzling Summer Raffle All proceeds help to feed our hungry friends and neighbors throughout Central Texas! Parking Free parking will be…
Metallurgy
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising (Metal Blade) Double-decade Swedish vikings surf their ninth LP on Metal Blade into trademark waters with tales of Odin and the “Destroyer of the Universe,” Surtur (“I am pure and endless pain”). Full of old-school gallop and intelligible vox, the Digipak configuration bonuses a DVD plundering three unflagging hours of live…
Riding the Pinwheel
The GOP redraws the map of Texas – brazenly sidestepping most of the state’s newest voters
New Parking Rules Downtown
Council approves changes to paid parking hours
Soccer Watch
Longhorns split season openers, and more
Metallurgy
Autopsy Macabre Eternal (Peaceville) Having pulverized Chaos in Tejas 2011, these S.F. grindcore butchers hack up their first (s)platter since 2003, the gore explicit enough to come already registered for sex crimes (“Dirty Gore Whore”). Drummer Chris Reifert’s in spectacular throat (avant-schizo), Danny Coralles and Eric Cutler then chainsawing everything in sight (“Seeds of the…
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
To beat the heat, OOB offers improv and stand-up acts in the triple digits
Cap Metro Moves To Outsource
Collective bargaining rights remain in place
Hot Sauce Makers
One of the most popular features of The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is the giant tasting tent in the middle of Waterloo Park, full of tasty sauces free for the sampling! In order to have as many different kinds of sauces as possible under that tent, we need your help! The Austin Chronicle is…
Metallurgy
Church of Misery Vol. 1 (Emetic Records) First two albums now remastered with bonus tracks, 2001’s Master of Brutality and ’04’s The Second Coming, this new title from the Japanese serial hammers (see “The Gray Band,” Jan. 14) offers one liner note: “Unreleased album by original lineup – 1996.” Raining Black Sabbath – and the…
Conspirare
Austin’s Grammy-nominated choral ensemble releases a new CD of spirituals
Off the Record
Austin celebrates 20 years as the live music capital of the world; OTR bristles
Celebrity Judges
This year’s distinguished panel of judges includes: Adam Gonzales: As the executive chef of Serranos and Mama Ninfa’s, this South Austin native is one of Tex-Mex’s top guns. He started helping out in his mother’s tamale business as a young boy, and by the age of 27, he had founded the Austin Serranos chain with…
Letters at 3AM: Amber’s Question
The question ‘What’s your favorite word?’ launches a contemplative journey toward the answer
Metallurgy
Decapitated Carnival Is Forever (Nuclear Blast) Of Polish metal’s Van Halen brothers, guitarist “Vogg” Kieltyka and megaton drummer Witek Kieltyka, only the former now survives, dedicating this fifth technical death metal migraine to the late drum dynamo as well as the group’s previous exhorter, Covan, who’s still recovering from Decapitated’s fatal trek for previous high,…
Conspire Theatre
A new company uses theatre to transform the lives of female inmates
Wentworth Rides Again
State senator says he wants to stay put
Hot Sauce Fest Cooking Demo Tent
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival’s cooking demo tent is back by popular demand, with new faces this year as the chef instructors and students from the Art Institute of Austin culinary program join the fun as our sponsoring partners. AIA’s culinary academy opened in 2009, offering diploma, bachelor’s degree, and associate degree programs in…
Metallurgy
Demonaz March of the Norse (Nuclear Blast) Tendonitis-felled Immortal guitarist turned group lyricist revs up the Norwegian trio’s black-metal thrash, chugging rototill riffage in the tradition of band staples Damned in Black or even last year’s live blast, Live at Wacken 2007: The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh. Likewise, the titular trek and its twin, “A…
Arts Review
The Georgetown Palace’s Dirty Rotten is anything but
30 Things
The highs, the lows, the lists
Pepper Pairing Primer
There’s more to chiles than just the heat
After a Fashion
What’s that on Rick Perry’s head?
Metallurgy
Electric Wizard Black Masses (Metal Blade/Rise Above) Catalog monolith Dopethrone (2000), epic UK sludge equal to all of stonerdom’s unwashed bongs, overshadows most Electric Wizard dialogue, but Black Masses’ analog distortion and druid doom flourishes in the massive psych drone of “Venus in Furs” and succeeding “The Night Child,” 14 minutes combined. Ten-minute tar pit…
Arts Review
The patterned squares and rectangles rendered here suggest frozen music
AISD’s New Budget OK’d
Board also reinstates historic property tax exemptions
Chiltepins
The mother of all peppers
Countdown to Kickoff
The new Longhorn Network debuts this week … but good luck finding it
Metallurgy
Ghost Opus Eponymous (Metal Blade/Rise Above) Satan-happy Swedes led by demon pope the Ghoul with No Name debut a delicate masterwork. The opening church recital turns into an organ-broiled power chord and bass pile driver with Catholic school harmonies, some demon seed of late-1960s swinging London: Syd Barrett leading members of Deep Purple and the…
Arts Review
Moved to Texas with an all-female cast, the Bard’s comedy is a summer escape
File Under Neo-Confederacy
Land commissioner endorses Confederate flag on license plates
Oops!
In last week’s Go-Go’s feature, “Can’t Stop the World” (Music, Aug. 19), Kathy Valentine was misidentified on the cover of Beauty and the Beat. She’s seated third from left. Last week’s story on the closure of the Downtown location of Forbidden Fruit (“Forbidden Fruit: Exit, Chased by the Bare,” Aug. 19) incorrectly stated that store…
Say Hello Again to His Little Friend
Scarface blasts its way back to the big screen
Metallurgy
God Dethroned Under the Sign of the Iron Cross (Metal Blade) “For a Nihilist, nothing is at least something,” declares God Dethroned commandant Henri Sattler on the Dutch vets’ website. “2011 is [our] final year in existence.” Nine full-lengths in 20 years, peaking with previous disc Passiondale (Passchendaele), disqualify GD’s exit as premature, and despite…
Day Trips
Traveling across the country in an RV with the family
New Evidence Points to Trouble for WilCo D.A.
After 25 years in prison, Michael Morton sees a glimmer of hope
Film Flam
Fun with acronyms: aGLIFF, FF, and AFF programming, plus Computer Chess needs humans
Metallurgy
Graveyard Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast) The inevitable slump following the atomic “Submarine Blues” of this Gothenburg, Sweden, quartet’s self-titled 2007 debut nevertheless bottles a lightning shot or four of moonshine psych-blues. Analog-armored rifle shots in the crack title track, as well as 1960s rave-up “Ungrateful Are the Dead,” jacket another lysergic nod in mood alternator…
Gay Place
Gay Place goes back to her roots
AFD and Firefighters Union Broker Hiring Deal
Union and fire chief are still negotiating, but future looks bright
Conan the Barbarian
Robert E. Howard’s iconic Conan the Barbarian has been resurrected for a new generation, but our hearts belong to Ahnold.
‘Trash,’ Take Two
Allison Orr takes out the Trash a second – and final – time
Metallurgy
Malfunkshun The Andrew Wood Story (Hip-O Select) Pre-Pearl Jam, longhairs Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament backed glam Dallas Cowboys fan Andrew Wood in Mother Love Bone. Before that, Wood (1966-1990) and his fellow Kiss-loving brother Kevin fronted Malfunkshun. Disc one: messy, 100-minute DVD doc on the Wood family’s dysfunkshun and proto-grunge. Malfunkshun: Return to Olympus…
Quote of the Week
“A trial is a risk – it is a roll of the dice ….” – Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole on why she favors settling a lawsuit brought by the family of Nathaniel Sanders II
Welcome to the Heat
The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
Our most primal fears about what’s lurking in the dark lies at the heart of this Guillermo del Toro-scripted frightmare.
The Hightower Report
Obama drops the ball on jobs, and Glenn Beck moves to the suburbs
Metallurgy
Mastodon Live at the Aragon (Reprise) Forest-clearing for forthcoming fifth LP The Hunter includes closing 2009’s Crack the Skye cycle with this CD/DVD caterwaul from Chicago’s famed ballroom. Seventy-five minutes from the ambitious Atlantans untangles an actual hook in “Quintessence,” but perennial “Mother Puncher” and Melvins closer “The Bit” batten down the goods vs. Crackthe…
Point Austin: Have You Been Screwed by Rick Perry?
The governor’s political offenses outstrip his sexual ones
Is Perry All Hat, No Cattle?
Perry swaggers and stumbles in national spotlight
Redemption Road
This story about a musician who’s got the blues because he can’t play the blues is a mawkish misfire, but the roadside scenery from Austin to Huntsville, Ala., can’t be beat.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Chickens with white earlobes lay white eggs, and more fun factoids
Metallurgy
Pentagram Last Rites (Metal Blade) If Gene Simmons had abused substances as he did sex and money, he’d be Bobby Liebling, whose 40th anniversary this year as Pentagram anticipates that same Kiss milestone by a couple years. Considering Liebling took 15 of those summers hatching his Virginia doomsayers’ Relentless-ly lo-fi debut bludgeoning, that makes it…
City Hall Hustle: Still Unsettled
The Sanders saga, set to close before a changed council
‘Secure Communities’ Program Drives Fear
Local civil rights groups call for end to federal program
Senna
This British-made documentary about Formula One racing legend Ayrton Senna is gripping stuff.
Restaurant Review
Paul Petersen brings his pit master skills to Lake Creek
Metallurgy
Ravencult Morbid Blood (Hells Headbangers) Leave it to the Greeks to revitalize the old school and, in doing so, wreak subtly righteous havoc with a tried-and-true formula. Watain douses black metal with real goat gore, but this Athens quartet imbues the Scandinavian hybrid with the rootsy, post-Motörhead deforestation of Celtic Frost. Second coming Morbid Blood…
Res Publica
Civic calendar of events, Aug. 25-Sept. 1
City and CLEAT Settle Salary Scuffle
Settlement results in new payment arrangement for officers doing union work
Event Menu
Stomp out your aggressions at Becker Vineyards and help make wine juice
Metallurgy
Rotten Sound Cursed (Relapse) Finnish grind quartet swarms brutalizing, metallic hardcore (black metalcore?) on its sixth LP and first for Philly metal foundry Relapse Records. Dispensing 16 acid baths in 28 minutes, Cursed groups into six handy categories – Egotism, Vanity, Coercion, Vengeance, Exploitation, and Fear. Vanity’s unforgiving, Coercion’s sick (“Machinery”), Vengeance ends in an…
Page Two: Thrust and Perry
Advertising vs. Editorial Content 101
Burnt Orange Classic
Longhorn volleyball team hosts Israeli National Team amongst others
Steam Versus Cyber at ArmadilloCon
Bruce Sterling joins this weekend’s sci-fi/fantasy literary event
Luv Doc Recommends: 2011 ‘Austin Chronicle’ Hot Sauce Festival
The 2011 Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival is this Sunday at Waterloo Park. That’s all you really need to know. Even still, you might have some questions. You might, for instance, wonder why the Hot Sauce Festival logo features a dude on a dirt bike. Touché. Nailed us on that one. Dirt bikes are wicked…
