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Knot a Secret
After 17 years, playwright Hank Schwemmer is finally getting seen
Comics? Zines? People who MAKE them?
Like, that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles guy, even?
Orun Cultural Arts Black History Celebration
Check out our video of the event.
‘The NFL Beat’: Combine Commentary
On the exceptional 2012 draft class
Back to Education Finance Reform
Updated: No education special, but interim committee called
Slim Richey Benefit
Slim Richey injured in hit-and-run accident.
The Good Music Club Part 4: Crooks
Three videos from one of our SXSW “Picks 2 Click,” Crooks
Grimes: Circumambient
Live Shot of Grimes at Lamberts last night
Gene Genie
Checking in on the frontlines of genetic research.
Face Off Recap: Loving the Alien
Two boldly go straight off the show
F-F-FASHION FREAKOUT F-F-FIVE on F-F-Friday, March 2
Fashion Freakout takes over Mohawk on Friday night
StarChefs.com Celebrates Rising Stars of Austin/San Antonio
Award ceremony comes to Texas
Nora Guthrie: Tourniquet in Cheek
More music history with SXSW Music panelist Nora Guthrie
The Science of Death
State says science proves Swearingen guilt
Court Releases Redistricting Maps
Federal judges break Senate, Congressional districts into fragments
He Said/She Said: Drake
Live Shot of last night’s Drake show at the Erwin Center
Top Chef Texas, Week 16: Preparing to Say Goodbye
Some thoughts on Top Chef: Texas before the lights go out
The Ice Storm Song
Email exchange with ‘The Ice Storm’ author/musician Rick Moody
Tuesday News Gay: Feb. 28
Lots of low-down dirty down-lowers in this week’s news round-up.
AISD Versus Representative Democracy
Board to push back union representation deal another two months
Beer, BBQ, Movies – and Mayoral Politics
Leffingwell opens headquarters with “Danke Schoen”
White Denim with My Empty Phantom Special Hotel Vegas Show
Chrontourager Brittany Campbell catches a secret show at Hotel Vegas
Conditions of Puscifer’s Parole
Live review of Puscifer at the Long Center last week
SXSW Springsteen Show Finally Announced
Tickets to Bruce Springsteen’s SXSW set will be by lottery
Toros Finish Busy Week With Lopsided Win
Leo Lyons named to All-Star team
‘The NFL Beat’: Scouting Combine Preview
‘Chron’ sportswriter reports from Indy
From the Vaults: “Comin’ at Ya!” Again
Drafthouse Films re-releases the 1981, 3-D spectacle, “Comin’ at Ya!”
Special Kaye
Vaudeville, Broadway, TV, film &ndash Kaye Ballard has done it all
Horns Men’s Basketball Team Out Snipe Hunting
Signature win alludes them
Notes from a Kitchen?
You don’t have to be Prince to call it foodsexy.
Texans Warm to Redistricting Reform
Sen. Wentworth greets new poll numbers
Reefer Roundup: 2/24/12
Your drug war news
Get Your Balls in the Air!
And clubs & hoops, as Jugglefest XIX cascades into the ATX.
SXSW Tips: Slow & Steady Wins the Race
IA has a few additions for your band’s SXSX to-do list
The Good Music Club Part 3: The Couch
Third TGMC drop, three more videos – this time by the Couch
Phases & Stages
Leonard Cohen Old Ideas (Columbia) Leonard Cohen, 77, doubtlessly always possessed wisdom and wit well beyond his years. Now entering his sixth decade of recording and more than 40 years after the prophetic passion of Songs of Love and Hate in 1971, the Canadian poet’s experienced tales of personal, sexual, and religious rapture have aged…
Quote of the Week
“It’s my uterus … bitch!” – Leslie Tisdale, with sign, at a Feb. 17 rally supporting Planned Parenthood
UT Baseball
UT baseball makes a brief stop at DFF during an early season road trip
Phases & Stages
Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan (Amnesty International) By the time Bob Dylan emerges on the title track closing out this epic, 4-CD benefit for Amnesty International, it’s a revelation. Dylan’s sinewy drawl grounds a contorting collection back to its purpose and struggle – personal, artistic, and social – and casts the varied…
Civics 101
Friday 24 FROM FRACKING TO THE 40 ACRES Associate professor and renewables expert Michael Webber examines the energy crisis and the viability of some possible solutions. 7pm. Welch Hall, Rm. 2.224, 471-5847. Free and open to the public. www.esi.utexas.edu. Saturday 25 FREE RABIES VACCINES The city’s Animal Services Office sponsors this clinic for dogs and…
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex release 2012 schedule, and more
Phases & Stages
Van Halen A Different Kind of Truth (Interscope) Van Halen’s first six albums, one a year beginning in 1978 except for a two-year swing for David Lee Roth’s final disc, 1984, homogenize the model efficiency of Britain’s two best quartets, mashing up harmony-laden Beatlesesque pop and Hammer of the Gods firepower. At 35 minutes, the…
Headlines
› City Council meets Thursday, March 1, to discuss, among other things, Austin Energy’s proposed rate increase, additional taxi permits, and a boating concession on Lady Bird Lake. › In a special-called meeting on Feb. 22, council tackled the AE rate increase in depth and ordered City Auditor Kenneth Mory to review the utility’s proposal.…
Gay Place: Show Us Your …
Oh, the wheels are turning toward a very gay South By �
Phases & Stages
Charlie Haden & Hank Jones Come Sunday (Decca) Finally, the long-awaited follow-up to the utterly sublime initial collaboration between bassist Charlie Haden and pianist Hank Jones, 1995’s Steal Away, one of my desert island discs. Like its predecessor, Come Sunday spreads a gentle, soul-soothing program of traditional gospel and spiritual touchstones. Both Haden and the…
Then There’s This: Utilities or Food?
The poor get poorer as electric and water rates rise
The Luv Doc: Toftation Island
Chronicle parties nearly always degenerate into depraved, drug-swilling freak shows that last into the wee hours. On the one hand, it’s goddamned shameful to see grown adults carrying on in such a reckless, irresponsible manner, but it’s also a lot of fun to watch. Besides, when you’re killing brain cells at such an alarming pace,…
Phases & Stages
Tim Berne Snakeoil (ECM) As dramatic as the weather, bright and diffuse one moment, then blustery – even sinister – the next, Tim Berne’s debut as bandleader on jazz and classical vanguard ECM frames a quartet blurring all lines of tonal and structural grounding with avian musical ascension. Produced in New York last January by…
All Over Creation: Dispatch From the New Theatre Front
Four new UTNT dramas prove you can’t go home again
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Nicolas Cage rides again.
After a Fashion
Tyler is back from Afganistan and Stephen cannot get his CO to obey orders
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Nudes no more
Scottish Rite Theatre
New manager Emily Marks is thinking outside the temple
In the Land of Blood and Honey
Angelina Jolie steps behind the camera to helm this picture she also wrote, which focuses on the emotional fallout of the Bosnian War.
Kickstart My Heart
Austin is one of 10 cities featured prominently on online fundraising platform Kickstarter
A 3-D Race for the Bench
Three Dems vying for high-profile felony court
The Secret World of Arrietty
Animated film from Japan’s Studio Ghibli is based on The Borrowers, a story about 4-inch-tall people who live undetected among their human hosts.
Austin, Kickstarted
First (and first successful) Austin-based Kickstarter Project “Sleeping in a Truck” by Language Room Funded on: July 14, 2009 Minimum To Fund Project: $10,000 Amount Raised: $10,328 Most Money Raised by a Local Kickstarter Project CineSkates Camera Sliders by Justin Jensen Funded on: Oct. 14, 2011 Minimum To Fund Project: $20,000 Amount Raised: $486,518 Second…
Restaurant Review
Cozy French classics
Not the Brightest STAAR
Under pressure from lawmakers, education commissioner defers 15% grading system
Rampart
Woody Harrelson reunites with the director of The Messenger to create this portrait of a very dirty cop.
Sixth Sense
Neighbors, business owners, and the city are all searching for the future of East Sixth Street
Food-o-File
Keep the state from taking a bite from cottage pies and cakes
Hightower Report: The Pampered Patient
Perverting health care into a luxury commodity
Confessions of a Mind on Overdrive
Troy Dillinger has so much to give
Food Events
You could keep Mardis Gras going for a week with this smorgasbord
Dissecting the Science of Death
1998 murder case will get a scientific examination
Domestic Terrorists? Or Activist-Acolytes Led Astray by a Mentor?
Documentary ‘Better This World’ ponders the endless shades of gray
Hoover Alexander and the Soular Food Garden
A whole new take on soul food
Rick Perry Death Watch
Governor goes two for two this week
DVD Watch
This 1994 film captures an alchemical moment of New York theatre lore, a prolonged experiment in Chekhov
Book Review
Cake decorating fundamentals from a pro
Paper Towel Choking Case Back in Appeals Court
Briefs filed for and against a new trial
Letters at 3AM: These American Dreams
Steve Erickson’s novel ‘These Dreams of You’ is a profound and hilarious salute to family values and America
That Takes the Cake
Austin cake artists strut their stuff at national show
The Charter, the Devil, and the Details
Charter Revision Committee sends its recommendations to City Council
Arts Review
St. Ed’s stages a chilling version of Arthur Miller’s indictment of McCarthyism
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: I Got a Line on You
Of poles and polls
AISD Board Postpones Union Vote
Trustees report almost $100 million in district savings by working with Education Austin
Arts Review
Jason Grote’s play comes off as fuzzy, especially in the half-light of SVT’s staging
Page Two: To Start, To Stop, and To Start Again
Dear reader, the day is yours
Police Chief Goes on the Offensive
Acevedo called Henson a “liar” to the Statesman
Arts Review
Panzer’s tetrahedons are no bull
Point Austin: Dick Brown’s Hermit Crabs
The outcries of HURF should make Austinites hurl
Day Trips
The Liberty Bar in San Antonio makes for a special dining experience whether for breakfast, lunch, or dinner
