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The Luv Doc: The Real Luv Doc

Dear Luv Doc, I’ve been wondering lately if the illustration you have posted with your column is really you. Well, is it? Also, you are often depicted with a diver’s mask and snorkel. Are you a snorkeling enthusiast? If so, I’d love to hear some stories about your explorations. You are also often depicted holding…

by The Luv Doc

Still Alice

In an otherwise tepid film, Julianne Moore delivers a terrific performance as a woman beset by early-onset Alzheimer’s.

by Josh Kupecki

Quote of the Week

“I think it is the morally right thing to do.” – UT Chancellor William McRaven on supporting the Texas DREAM Act, which allows undocumented students to pay in-state tuition rates at public state universities.

by Chronicle Staff

Waxing Queer

Performance artist Silky Shoemaker opens the doors to queer culture’s lost past with her gay wax museum

by Andy Campbell

The ATX Pro Challenge

It’s just preseason, but there’s actually a lot on the line this weekend for the Austin Aztex: For the players, many of who have major-league ambitions. For the team, which has been practicing together for less than two weeks, but wants to prove that it can be successful on the pro level, as it was…

by Nick Barbaro

Soccer Watch

Yes, the ATX Pro Challenge is going on, and there’s more soccer talent in Austin this weekend than anywhere else in the country, but that’s not the only soccer news this week, or even the only Austin Aztex news. For starters, USL PRO is now simply the USL, the Aztex’s league announced Tuesday, with a…

by Chronicle Staff

On Display

To give you a feel for what the gay wax museum will feature, here are descriptions from a couple of contributing artists. Name: Paige Gratland Home Base: Vancouver, BC How do you identify? Canadian artist, queer PGP (Preferred Gender Pronoun): She The installation: My installation references a previous body of work called Celebrity Lezbian Fist…

by Andy Campbell

Texas Platters

Grace London Brains Song titles such as “Boys” and “Imma Baby,” plus illustrated bathroom selfie cover art remind us of Grace London’s tender age, but the Austinite’s debut LP Brains isn’t kiddie pop. “I can’t be a pessimist; I hear that happiness is good for me,” she sings on “Mary Anne.” “But I can’t be…

by Neph Basedow

Texas Platters

T Bird & the Breaks Harmonizm Third albums normally lock in certain principles, fusing together influences on which an act expects to thrive. They can also serve as trip wire in sonically hazardous terrain, wherein Harmonizm stumbles. While 2009 debut Learn About It, and Never Get Out of This Funk Alive two years later, played…

by Kahron Spearman

Texas Platters

Kiko Villamizar La Remolacha (Discos Peligrosa) Local Latin DJ clique Peligrosa introduced its label last month with Kiko Villamizar’s La Remolacha. The Miami native grew up in the Andes, absorbing not just traditional Colombian roots, but also a genuine affection for world sounds and a knack for piecing them together. Thundering percussion tangles in Villamizar’s…

by Nina Hernandez

Complicated Game Record Review

James McMurtry Complicated Game (Complicated Game) Heightened by the long gap between Complicated Game and his previous studio album, 2008 breakthrough Just Us Kids, James McMurtry returns like a prophet wringing truth from the American soul. The longtime Austinite once again captures the tenor and time of our culture, weaving narratives that grapple with complex…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Obscured by Echoes Avidonia Pt. 1: The Escape Psychedelic rock thrives on long, strange trips. Obscured by Echoes elucidates on Avidonia Pt. 1: The Escape. Exploiting the more sinister sounds of its “Nuclear Winter” single rather than the Paisley Underground noises of 2013 debut Black Matter Manifesto, the Austin quintet crawls through outer space in…

by Michael Toland

Texas Platters

Gurf Morlix Eatin’ at Me (Rootball) After seven LPs, Eatin’ at Me makes eight and there are virtually no surprises in a new release from Gurf Morlix. That might be a concern to some, but there’s a depth to the veteran guitarist, producer, and singer-songwriter that others can’t touch. The longtime local remains an acquired…

by Jim Caligiuri

Texas Platters

Wood & Wire The Coast In spite of several talented entities working the genre, bluegrass remains a redheaded stepchild in Central Texas. Wood & Wire endeavors to change that. At the time they recorded their second disc, The Coast, the trio comprised guitarist Tony Kamel, bassist Dominic Fisher, and banjo player Trevor Smith. A recent…

by Jim Caligiuri

Oops!

In the Feb. 6 “Lege Lines: Guns, Islamophobia, and Budget Cuts,” we reported in error that Casey Monahan, former head of the Texas Music Office, had been fired by incoming Gov. Greg Abbott. Monahan was not fired, but was not reappointed; the change was an “at-will separation.”

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Nakia Live From the Good Music Club (The Good Music Club) Backed by a ninepiece band, Nakia’s powerhouse vocals fill up the North Door in this Good Music Club recording and accompanying DVD. Kicking off the first of five songs – all pulled from the local belter’s 2013 EP Drown in the Crimson Tide –…

by Nina Hernandez

Arts Review

Crank Collective revives Texas’ most infamous outlaw couple in a short and folksy musical that mixes fact and fiction

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

City Council meets today (Thu., Feb. 12) with a full agenda, including a couple dozen zoning cases and the mayor’s proposal to let the privately funded “Mayor’s Better Austin Foundation” expand the capacities of Council and the mayor’s office. See “Public Not­ice,” and “Council: Only the Strong Survive.” An Austin father is dead after being…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Knifight Live From the Good Music Club (The Good Music Club) Audiovisual brainchild of videographer Richard Whymark and KUTX deejay Laurie Gallardo, the Good Music Club continues its wide-ranging recruitment of local talent for monthly concert tapings. Recorded live at the North Door, Austin quintet Knifight’s November 2013 gig spurred this double-disc EP, the five-track…

by Neph Basedow

Public Notice: Speed Limit?

This week, Mayor Steve Adler and his office announced: • City Council Committee appointments, plus Council appointments to some 22 intergovernmental committees; • a revised Policy Workshop schedule; • finalized staff appointments, both paid and non-paid; • a brand-new “Community Cabinet” of Mayoral policy advisors, again paid and unpaid, plus; • a radical upgrade of…

by Nick Barbaro

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