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Occupy Austin, 2011
Since early October, a few days after the Austin wing of the Occupy Wall Street national movement got under way, Chronicle photographer John Anderson has been following, photographing, and engaging with the Occupy Austin activists who have camped at City Hall, marched on Downtown streets, and rallied at the state Capitol. This photo essay is…
Rob’s Tops & Bottoms
Rob has top and bottom 11s for 2011. Did you make the list?
American Short Fiction’s Long To-Do List
Contests, classes, and Ben Marcus at BookPeople
Rejection Is Good for the Soul, and Also Viewer Hits
Doritos displays questionable taste
Bradley Complaint Dismissed
Bar ends inquiry in record time
Who the Hell is Fred Karger?
Latest polling shows why Perry is avoiding New Hampshire
Andy’s Tops & Bottoms
Sometimes you win, sometimes you nay
The Dead Zone
Sony sponsors Red 7 for SXSW
Frank’s Tops & Bottoms
Top and Bottom 10 of 2011 and what we’re hoping for 2012
The Perry Plunge
Iowa nightmare for Gov. Goodhair, but he carries on
Back When: 2011
One last look at 2011
Cinemad Podcast Hits Up the Zellners
Karo fake blood, people and their pets, and more
Get Smart
UT psychologist thinks you could think better
Gov. Jackson
With Dewhurst and Perry out of state, senator gets promotion
Do You Know This Man?
Suspect in attack – and possibly murder – sought by police
Known Pleasures
Anton Corbijn’s ‘Control’ plays the first Alamo Music Monday of 2012
Music Mo’nday: 5 Favorite Songs of 2011
Top 5 quickie, High Fidelity style
Baseball Hero To Be Honored With Mural
The late Willie Wells to be immortalized by Tim Kerr
Reefer Roundup: 12/30/11
Your drug war news
From the Vaults: A Smooch for New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve finds everyone In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Film Flam
Which ATX funnyman is on a first-name basis with Alex Trebek?
Are You Smarter Than a Texas Governor?
A year of questionable answers from Gov. Goodhair
Phases & Stages
A decade after alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, pianist Brad Mehldau, and double-bassist Charlie Haden collaborated on two absolutely sublime live recordings for Blue Note Records, Alone Together and Another Shade of Blue, this multigenerational trio reconvened on jazz/classical indie ECM Records with the addition of drummer Paul Motian on Live at Birdland. Motian, who died…
Civics 101
Fill your new year with meetings and recycling
All Over Creation: Home-Cooked Art
You can’t beat the taste of a concert or play reading made in your own home
After a Fashion
Traipse the holiday social trail and just try to keep up with Your Style Avatar
City Hall Hustle: The Hustle Bids Farewell …
A bittersweet goodbye to the city politics beat
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe
Austin Cider Houses Rule
Is hard cider ready to make a historic comeback?
Quote of the Week
“They are willing to spend whatever they want on law enforcement but then wring their hands over spending money on social services.” – Occupy Austin participant Snehal Shingavi on city costs
Lisa D’Amour
Where in the world is Detroit?
Reading Between the ‘I’s
The Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker on what your tweets reveal about your state of mind
Headlines
› City Council is on holiday break until Jan. 12, when it will soon face the particularly vexing question of how to respond to Austin Energy’s request for a new rate structure – AE says the increases are necessary for the city-owned utility to remain solvent, but environmentalists and advocates for the poor have argued…
Did City Stifle Free Speech?
Judge to rule soon on city’s trespass citations during Occupy protest
Letters at 3AM: What’s Your Sign?
Michael Ventura observes the Occupy signs of our times
Exhibitionism
This show offers a gleeful thrill like that long, first drop on a roller coaster
Free To Be Beer!
Hear, hear! Judge rules for breweries.
A Boy Named Emo
What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo’s?
Exhibitionism
Something in the season just makes leaded panes of glass apropos
The Resurrection of Mark Weaver
Pastor Mark Weaver spent Thanksgiving at Shoal Creek Hospital
The Darkest Hour
Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.
Live Music Lands on Police Radar
Live music capital of the world, my ass
Don 2
In this Bollywood film, an underworld boss, having conquered the Asian crime syndicate, now sets his sights on world domination.
The Hightower Report
The U.S. ranks low in standards of social justice
Austin Film Critics Association Announces Awards
Hugo wins Best Picture
Rajanna
this Telegu film set in the 1950s recounts the story of freedom-fighter Rajanna and the parallel story of his daughter’s struggle for personal freedom.
Food-o-File
Texas is still big on the small screen, plus a bounty of barbecue and burger joints and a Hill Country building boom
Two for One Times Three
AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters’ journeys from Old World to New
Cajun Heat
Thanksgiving fire takes out Sambets
Day Trips
Old Rip of Eastland lived a long and eventful life by the standard of most horned lizards
Restaurant Review
When fate closes a Streat, it opens a Jalapeno
Gayplace
Happy New Year’s Gay!
Phases & Stages
Tom Waits Bad as Me (Anti-) For Bad as Me, his 22nd recording – 17th in the studio, and first in lucky seven years – Tom Waits colors outside the lines with a grainy, black marker. The 13 tracks are his butcher’s dozen of yowling ballads, whiskey poems, and blustery blues aided by a heartbreak…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
‘The Custodians,’ ‘use-by’ dates, cheeseburgers, and more fun facts
Phases & Stages
Feist Metals (Cherrytree/Interscope) While Metals, Leslie Feist’s fourth full-length album, lacks the playfulness and élan of 2007’s The Reminder, which gave us “1234” and “I Feel It All,” it may actually be a far more precious document. Where those songs represented the buoyant marriage of indie sensibilities and a sweet pop tooth, Metals lacks any…
Toros Hold Early NBA D-League Lead
If you haven’t yet attended an Austin Toros game this season, then you need to seriously reconsider your priorities. Even with losing star players (and fan favorites) Lance Thomas and “Squeaky” Carldell Johnson to the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, the Toros lay claim to the league-best record of 7-3. They face a tough challenge with…
Phases & Stages
The Black Keys El Camino (Nonesuch) With last year’s Brothers, the Black Keys achieved overnight success a decade in the making. Breakthrough hit “Tighten Up” led to more commercial exposure than a season of Mad Men, not to mention appearances on Austin City Limits and Saturday Night Live. Quickie follow-up El Camino essentially offers a…
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro
The other music Halls of Fame have had their say – time to focus locally on the Austin Texas Music Hall of Fame
Phases & Stages
The Roots Undun (Def Jam) Late-night TV’s most famous house band rarely goes short on practice time these days, but what gets lost between Justin Timberlake guest spots and remakes of Fishbone’s “Lyin’ Ass Bitch” is “Thought @ Work.” There’s just not enough Black Thought on Jimmy Fallon. Undun, the Roots’ 11th album and first…
Point Austin: Activate This!
One insider’s fight to make ‘good old liberal Austin the city it thinks it is’
Luv Doc Recommends: NYE 1977
Saturday night begins the year of the Mayan apocalypse. Time to get your ducks in a row … just in case. It’s true the Mayans did’t invent the wheel or gunpowder or the Internet, but they did come up with the concept of zero and they estimated the solar year to be just slightly longer…
