Richard Kern’s Daydream Nation
Richard Kern and Thurston Moore bed up together … again
Vegan Arm Wrestling Contestants
We here at the Score are lucky enough to have received a leaked copy of a partial list of the contestants competing in Friday night’s Vegan Arm Wrestling competition at the Parlor pizza joint (100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965). Here ya go: Doug “Unsweetened” Hart vs. Dugg “Googin the Choog” Nelson Naw Dude vs. Eating…
Reputation. Image. Perception.
When it comes to the world of sport, these three words are intertwined. An athlete’s reputation dictates an image. That image is based on how an athlete is perceived. This perception determines the reputation. When one is manipulated, all three go out the window. The business that is Major League Baseball shouldn’t be any different.…
Presenting the War Whoppometer
Center for Public Integrity lays out administration whoppers in handy chart form.
County Demographics: Reaching Out to Seniors
Travis County getting better educated, worse paid.
At the Altar of the Archival
Austin Cinematheque and the essentialness of the shared moviewatching experience.
The Mitt-mentum Ends
Romney leaves.
Poking Holes in Perfection
Striving for perfection interferes with perfection. This is the life lesson I learned at Monday night’s free hand-embroidery class at Design Within Reach. As Rachel Hobson of AverageJaneCrafter showed us a tea towel she’d stitched, she explained that her grandmother was the kind of woman who’d look at your work and then flip it over…
Patterson and the Press
Land commissioner and School Land Board seem to be coming to consensus on Christmas Mountains, but is agreement superficial?
Meeker Officially Declares for Council
RG4N spokesman challenges Leffingwell.
Aztex Tryouts, MLS Comes to CenTex, and More
The Austin Aztex U23 team will hold tryouts in early March, for the season that starts May 3. Players interested in trying out should send résumés to: players@austinaztex.com. See the Aztex website for more. The Texas Pro Soccer Festival will bring the Houston Dynamo, D.C. United, Toronto FC, and Chivas USA to the San Antonio…
Titman Feeling Out Place 3
A new name in Place 3 race …
French Market Comeback
The French Market comes back… gradually.
Toros All-Stars
The good news just keeps on coming for the Austin Toros. As of today, Feb. 6, coach Quin Snyder’s team is still in first place in the Southwest Division, three-and-a-half games ahead of the Tulsa 66ers. Their 18-10 record is also good for second place in the D-League, behind the 22-5 Idaho Stampede, who have…
Brodown Corner
This weekend offers more chances for high fives and male bonding than a damn Hold Steady concert. A mantage, if you will. Friday, the Parlor and ILoveMikeLitt, the local group that brought us last year’s veggie hot dog eating contest and veggie speed dating, present vegan arm wrestling. Now, we all know meat-eating has historically…
McCain Gets the Reagan Fever
McCain wraps himself in Reagan’s shadow to attract conservatives: but can it work?
Want to Have Some Fun?
Rush Limbaugh is having a meltdown.
Raw Power at the Erwin Center
Austin breaks its reputation as ‘not a wrestling town’ with WWE doubleheader
January in the Rear View
Bonneville and Marah tussle.
Flipper, Baby
Flipper flaps live, plus a skate-or-die benefit ollies into in town.
MAD as Hell
Why George W. Bush Is in Favor of Global Warming.
Perry’s UT Appointee Dem Donor? Dang!
New UT regent – horrors! – documented Dem donor.
My Great Big Booty
Taking home more than souvenirs from Mardi Gras lady krewes
Feeling Like an Idiot …
Um, what’s a delegate?
Feel the Meeker-mentum!
RG4N’s Jason Meeker enters the Place 1 election.
These Are the Breaks
Checking in with Austin’s new R&B boys and girls.
New Photos added!
New Photos added to “What you Missed” Album from the Sheboygan CD release party at Hole in the Wall Feb. 01, 2008! Sheboygan features, Corey “CG Lazer” Glaser, Chris “Rusty” Gebhart, Johnny “JV” Vogelsang and Gray “Possible” Parsons. Check them out now. All photos by Rebecca Sikes.
Sathyavan Savithri
Sathyavan Savithri 2007, NR. Directed by Ramesh Aravind, Starring Ramesh Aravind, Jennifer Kotwai, Daisy Bopanna. A bachelor dentist is afraid of commitment in this Indian film.
NOLA Gay, Too
For those with an appetite, the Clover Grill is the place for eye candy and good eatin’ in the French Quarter’s gay district.
The Ransom Center’s Hidden Riches
The UT History department continues their “welcome back” festivities.
Raul’s Redux
Toasting an old venue, and a new one.
‘A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius’
It should have been a sign. It should’ve been a bullet straight to the heart of the Boston faithful. In a championship game where the mightily favored New England Patriots were looking to go undefeated on the season, the first team to do so since 1972, the halftime gig was Tom Petty and the Heartbreaks.…
Attorney General, or Witchfinder General?
Can’t get a straight answer from Attorney General Michael Mukasey as to whether waterboarding is torture or not? Just ask the UT History faculty!
Voter Registration Deadline TODAY
You have until midnight to get signed up for the March 4 primaries.
The Road to Bad Law Is Paved With Good Intentions
Why is diversity so important on committees?
For a Limited Time Only: Sharks
Learning about sharks: an unexpected advantage of living in Austin.
Grimly and the Ghouls
Artist Gris Grimly has some blood-splattered lessons for debut filmmakers.
Rick Barnes Is the Ultimate Motivator
In perhaps the most ingenious move any of the Longhorns coaches have made in a long time, Texas’ basketball coach, Rick Barnes, called out one of his star players on live radio after an embarrassing loss to Texas A&M. And it worked to perfection. Barnes insinuated that Damion James might not play today against Baylor,…
London in Austin
WWE wrestlers Paul London and Melina talk life on the road, and how bigger isn’t always better
Mardi Blaggin’
Foul weather can only hold the parade up for so long. Tonight we roll.
How to Ask Nicely
What the Phelps phuks are up to Heath-wise.
Phony Boner Colons
When it comes to classic rock, I’m no conspiracy theorist. Like Cory Glover sang, Elvis is dead. So’s the Lizard King. George Harrison didn’t rip-off the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine” with All Things Must Pass sacrament “My Sweet Lord.” Scott Weiland, on the other hand, seemingly lived up to the ‘aka’ Gibby Haynes once bestowed…
More School Fingerprinting Fuss
Fingerprinting school employees is not off to a smooth start in Texas, but a project so massive it involves not one but two state agencies could hardly be expected to be easy. At the Texas Association of School Administrators’ Midwinter Conference, school officials groused about billing options, and rural school leaders scoffed at vendors’ ability…
Rick And Arnie, Not Sitting In A Tree
Can John McCain really sew the Republican coalition back together?
¡Viva Los Tejano Democrats!
Former Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos is making a valiant effort to revive the once-dominant Tejano Democrats, a statewide group that has fallen on rough times in recent years. Barrientos called last weekend’s endorsement convention “a new chapter” for the organization. Key endorsements from the group included Hillary Clinton for president, Rick Noriega for U.S. Senator, and…
Make It Work
Music to get down with
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Elvis Presley had a sense of humor, selective categorizations of sectarian violence in Iraq, and more
Day Trips
Roy T’s Old Salado Bakery is the home of legends, delicious pastries, and more
Voting Rolls Mystery Part 2
As we reported last week, Travis County election worker Mike Conwell says that while working the November 2007 election, he encountered a large number of voters whom he believes were improperly removed from county voting rolls shortly after voting in local elections. While doing a personal audit of the rolls, he says, he found hundreds…
Letters @ 3AM
Walking nervous breakdowns are so “normal” they’re barely noticed
Oops!
Last week’s “Looking for ‘Real’ Democrats” mistakenly reported that Fidel Acevedo won the endorsement of the South Austin Democrats for chair of the Travis County Democratic Party. Actually, he won the endorsement of the Southwest Austin Democrats. The South Austin Democrats endorsed Andy Brown for party chair. Also, we misidentified sculptor Peggy Maceo as Pam…
Dems Hunting Daugherty in Precinct 3
Dems Hunting Daugherty in Precinct 3, Voting Rolls Mystery Part 2: The County’s Side, and Voter ID Bill Redux
Event Menu
Feb. 2-3
Page Two: Kings of Mean
The worst legacy of this administration is the terrible behavior it fostered in its citizens
Voter ID Bill Redux
You can lead Republicans to your argument but can’t make them acknowledge it. That’s the lesson to be gleaned from last Friday’s House Elections Committee hearing. It was ostensibly a hearing on the broader topic of election fraud in Texas, but Democrats suspect a not very hidden agenda: to dig up ammo for a renewed…
Mardi Gras
Have your cake, and laissez les bons temps rouler!
Playing Through
Can soccer flourish in Austin? The Austin Aztex are about to find out.
AISD’s Fingerprints
Teachers speak out against having to get fingerprinted
Food-o-File
Patricia Bauer-Slate’s new company offers local, natural, and organic school lunches, and the Gallo Family Vineyards host third Gold Medal Awards
Soccer Watch
U.S. Men vs. Mexico, Arsenal vs. Man U, and the Aztex vs. El Paso
2nd Street District
Tennants say it’s the same old, same old
About This Long
Measuring the creativity of the 2008 FronteraFest Long Fringe
Restaurant Review
The new Kenobi emerges as a power player in Austin’s upscale Asian fusion scene
The Death of DRM
The recent decision of the Big Four major labels to forego embedding digital rights management restrictions into their online catalogs appears to be a step forward for the music industry. For years, labels have demanded copy-protection safeguards in licensing their music to online retailers. Proponents of new nonproprietary media Web standards have heralded the death…
Billy Bob DA Claims Cleanliness
Rumor that Jackson County’s Bobby Bell was popped for cocaine possession unfounded
Glynda Cox: In Memoriam
The co-owner of beloved arts venue Chicago House and one of the great moms of the arts scene has passed
Restaurant Review
Not-to-be-missed noodle house outdoes the owners’ first establishment, Tien Hong
Off the Record
Announcing the 2007-08 Austin Music Awards lineup; Charlie Sexton brings sexy back; and KOOP Radio returns to the airwaves
Joint Interim Committees
They’re finding themselves with few or no members on these vital policy-building bodies
David Mamet: Textual Perversity From Chicago
For his first residency at UT, Mamet discusses his work and career in a public conversation
A Market of Multitudes
Selling less of more is the new music industry economic paradigm
Beside the Point
Duckmobile politics
The Colosseum: There Will Be Oil
Arts on Real goes WWE with six seminaked, well-greased men wrestling for a championship title
Live Shots
Van Halen AT&T Center, San Antonio, Jan. 24 Sincerity doesn’t exactly define hard rock, but last Thursday night at San Antonio’s rafters-topped AT&T Center, Van Halen unleashed the love. “We’re in Texas!” exclaimed the Pasadena, Calif., quartet’s original frontman, David Lee Roth, at the start of a two-hour blast back to 1978-1984. Guitarist Eddie Van…
Mixed Use, Mixed Emotions
An anniversary review of Austin’s vertical mixed-use program discovers a range of responses to density, change, and planning
Rambo
In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo’s tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.
Arts Review
Zach’s ambitious new staging of the Gershwin opera says a lot about those things that matter more than money
Live Shots
Little Richard Paramount Theatre, Jan. 24 After Mingo Fishtrap’s locally brewed opening set of funkiness, Little Richard, the self-styled king (some say queen) of rock & roll shuffled onstage on crutches and seated himself at the grand piano. Dressed in what looked like rhinestone-studded buckskin and wearing the modified mullet he traded his pompadour for…
Preserving What’s Left
A 2,400-acre spot south of Buda could be the latest conservation easement purchased to maintain the health of the Edwards Aquifer
Meet the Spartans
The working title says it all: Not Another Scary Epic Teen Date Movie.
Arts Review
Wednesday’s show offered plenty of pleasant surprises in the form of good laughs and provocative moments
Live Shots
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings Antone’s, Jan. 26 Showmanship, while not what it used to be, isn’t dead. Slightly after 10:30pm Saturday night at Antone’s, the Dap-Kings filed onstage in suits, eight parts of a well-oiled machine, and began warming up the engine. Three songs later, Jones appeared in a white fringed dress and strappy…
John Sayles
The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper
Over Her Dead Body
In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it’s time for him to move on.
Arts Review
Can two failed ideas ever amount to greatness without creating more junk?
Live Shots
Rogue Wave The Parish, Jan. 25 Not even the damp, clingy air could keep Rogue Wave from selling out the Parish on Friday night. Los Angeles quartet Midnight Movies barely made it to the show on time, having zigged when they should’ve zagged on the way in from El Paso. They rocked a Lush-meets-Siouxsie sexy…
To Opt, or Not?
How one neighborhood-planning team carefully weighed VMU’s power to change its surroundings
Sharkwater
Rob Stewart, a marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety in this cautionary documentary about the eradication of the planet’s sharks.
Readings
In this remarkable debut novel, the decline of the great American experiment is written in the neon lights and decaying storefronts of Las Vegas
The Hightower Report
The Economic Trepidations of the Rich; and Molly Ivins
Prosecutor Times Four
Part 1: Meet the candidates for Travis County district attorney
Honeydripper
John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.
Readings
Barnes crafts one of the finest first novels of the young century
Big Time, Small Screen
Local filmmaker Ya’Ke’s ‘The Second Coming’ screens on HBO
Naked City
Quote of the Week “Three hundred fifty-seven days and counting …” – U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, reacting Monday after President Bush’s State of the Union Headlines • What if the president gave a State of the Union speech and nobody noticed? On Monday night, Bush cited Osama bin Laden as the foremost authority on…
Persepolis
This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.
The Common Law
Avoid Foreclosure Nightmare
Film News
We’re No. 1! We’re No. 1!
Point Austin: Union Goons
In Coxworld, the unions are always the enemy
After a Fashion
Keep in mind that Stephen’s views on death and dying are filtered through his D&Gs
TV Eye
The floodgates are opening with a whole host of premieres and returning shows
Reefer Madness
Is “Extreme Ecstasy” a serious or pretend problem?
Luv Doc Recommends: KLBJ’s Pleasurefest
If you can listen to KLBJ’s sausagefest morning show without wanting to put a fist through your windshield, then Pleasurefest ’08 is probably going to be right up your alley, especially if you’re thinking that “up your alley” is some sort of clever homo euphemism for your tradesman’s entrance. Whether you’re willing to admit it…
