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Dome Sweet Dome
How do you contain an international music festival? Build a dome, and they will calm.
Know Your Enemy: Iowa Cubs
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
A Novel Idea
J.J. Abrams to collaborate with Austin author Doug Dorst
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 4-8
The Heartsick Poet
Redistricting: Try This on for Size
One group’s idea for new Congressional lines
The Daily Hustle: 4/7/11
City Council meets today
Can Austin Be Reunited in One Congressional District?
Hearing on redistricting at 9am Thursday
Austin! International! Poetry! Festival!
Writ in thought, spoke in words.
Wednesday Rewind
New videos from Austin’s Extraordinary G’z
Senate Passes DNA Bill
Other criminal justice reforms stalled
Record Skipping
A fine frenzy of spring releases
The Daily Hustle: 4/6/11
Austin Energy meeting on residential rates
Cine las Americas Gets a Headstart
Even the Rain advance screening this Wednesday
Equity? Or Strategy?
“Family & Traditional Values Centers” at state universities?
2011 Heritage Society of Austin Homes Tour: The Bold and the Beautiful
Fire up the nav system on Saturday for the Heritage Society’s Homes Tour
Control
Janet Jackson smacks down the Moody Theater
The Daily Hustle: 4/5/11
Your City Council preview for Thursday
Pitching Propels Longhorns
Jungmann leads the charge
Small & Creepy (And That’s a Compliment)
AFF to honor Edward Scissorhands scripter
AISD Headed for Redistricting
Trustee boundaries need serious adjustment
Austin Rockin’ 4/4/11
Post-SXSW: Live music in the afterlife on FOX 7
Brutal Budget Amendments Target Family Planning Funds
Deep cuts proposed for health programs, more money for GOP pet projects
BREAKING: Travis Co. Rules Against Austin City Council
County attorney comes down hard on Open Meetings violations
New in Print
Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard
Arts Review
The mixed program offers a rich variety of dance that defies easy summation
City Hall Hustle: Recycling an Old Issue
Council weighs giving one company the entire heap
The Music Never Stopped
After 20 years and a loss of memory, a father and son learn to reconnect over the music of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Orchidometer, polystyrene cups, Liz Taylor, etc.
Page Two: High Dive
As they abandon their platform, Republicans threaten to take government down with them
Point Austin: Capitol Craziness
April Fools’ can’t compete with this year’s legislative follies
The Concert
A ragtag symphony orchestra travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses in this film that won a César award for its music.
After a Fashion
Elizabeth Taylor: heavenly star
Live Shots
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts/Rick Springfield/George Jones Rodeo Austin, Travis County Expo Center, March 22, 24, 25 Devo ACL Live at the Moody Theater, March 27 As South by Southwest 2011 ran the music industry version of the bulls of Pamplona through Downtown Austin, up north at the Travis County Expo Center, a two-week load-in…
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, March 31-April 7
Of Gods and Men
This Cannes Grand Prix winner is a spellbinding tale of Trappist monks amid Algerian civil chaos and finding purpose in faith.
The Hightower Report
Don’t Mess With Librarians; and Rising Economy, Downward Mobility
Oops!
Mr. Smarty Pants Doesn’t Know In the March 25 issue, “Mr. Smarty Pants Knows” reported that “House Joint Resolution 123 [was] passed by the Texas Legislature in 2011.” In fact, HJR 123 remains in committee and has not yet had a hearing as of press time. However, it remains true that this statement is something…
Quote of the Week
“Our school is not for sale.” – Arturo Garcia, Sanchez Elementary parent, in an attempt to ward off any notion of AISD selling the East Austin property
Rubber
Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.
TV Eye
In praise of TV that takes its time
Gay Place
Sometimes Gay Place even overwhelms itself
Headlines
� While City Council takes the week off, there was a trickle of additional e-mail-related open meetings developments: On Tuesday, Council Member Bill Spelman released three messages sent from his University of Texas account, and at a work session, council directed staff to begin work on ways to archive business-related messages sent on personal accounts,…
Game
Four strangers are summoned to a rich man’s island in this Bollywood thriller.
Senegal’s Père du Cinéma
AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène
Day Trips
Caddo Lake State Park is one of the most unique environments in the state, and it has a beauty all its own
Event Menu
Foodie events for April 2-5
Final Blow: AISD Approves Job Cuts
Days numbered for hundreds of teachers, staff
Naked City
Federal court upholds Open Meetings Act
Food-o-File
Four words: Texas straight bourbon whiskey
State Cuts Hitting the Bone
The tolls of a take-no-prisoners budget year
Naked City
Investigators still seeking information one year since Gonzalez�s disappearance
DVD Watch
Notes on an Englishman
Bill of the Week
Making progress toward a Flying Spaghetti Monster Studies department
Naked City
Controversy over new South by Southwest dome in Bastrop
April Fooles
Our nominees for Capitol expendables
If You Build It …
Turk Pipkin’s continuing adventures in making the world a better place
Concealed Carry on Campus?
Carry on campus bill spurs friendly fire concerns
Culture Flash!
Forklift Kickstarts Trash 2, and Austin artists get to hit the boards
The Lovers, the Dreamers, et al.
An April shower of Muppets programming at the Alamo Ritz
Might Makes Voter ID
Voter ID passes
Sucker Punch
In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.
A Maestro Prepares
Before the baton goes up, conductors have to know the score – every note of it
The Meat of the Matter
The best of the 26th annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Urban Rail Public Meetings
City seeks input on proposed rail project
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Wimpy kid, wimpy movie.
Art Galleries
A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due
MetroRail vs. Pickup Truck
MetroRail made it 367 days without a crash
Insidious
Insidious, from the original Saw team, lacks thrills and originality.
‘Play Me, I’m Yours’
Yes, that’s a piano on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge, and yes, you may play it. After all, it’s yours, as the title of this interactive art project explicitly states. “Play Me, I’m Yours” is the brainchild of UK artist Luke Jerram, who launched it three years ago by installing 15 pianos in assorted public spaces…
Off the Record
Sifting through the Austin sound ordinance, paying final respects to Pinetop Perkins, and catching up with Explosions in the Sky
Council Candidates Get Neighborly Grilling
Candidates field questions from Austin Neighborhoods Council
Hop
Some films are saccharine, but Hop is pure sugar – processed sugar.
April = Art
Festivals, galleries, and museums join forces to celebrate visual art all month long
Arts Review
For their debut, the Exchange Artists have created an engaging fairy tale of a show
Texas Football Spring Jamboree
It’s football season all year long round these parts, and University of Texas pigskin devotees will relish this chance to get a peek at the current squad (and buy a player-used locker). The event begins with the Fan Fest at 11:30am, and then the boys take the field for the orange-white scrimmage at 2pm (which…
Source Code
These strangers on a train are players in a gripping science fiction roundelay.
news/print
Festivals galore for poetry and prose enthusiasts
Arts Review
The Present Company’s debut with an open-air staging of the Bard’s comedy is magical
Soccer Watch
It’s the frantic season for soccer fans (and players)
The King’s Speech
This PG-13 remix (of a film we liked considerably upon its initial release) does nothing more or less than mute and/or modify the king’s utterance of the four-letter vulgarity that earned the film its initial R rating.
Luv Doc Recommends: Dane Sterling, Miss Leslie & the Juke Jointers
The old adage “It’s not what you got but how you use it” has always been the go-to phrase of the modestly endowed, but after several thousand years of selling the sizzle instead of the steak, it just may be that the little guys have a point, no matter how tiny. According to a recent…
