Cover Story
Your Name Here
Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it
MetroRail Tries Evening Service This Month
Every Friday in March, plus Saturdays during SXSW
Behold the New Drafthouse
Groundbreaking imminent for new Parkside Alamo at Circle C
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 3/4
It’s full of bars!
The Daily Hustle: 3/3/11
City Council meets today
Energy at the Movies, March 9
What do the movies have to do with energy policy? More than you may think.
Reefer Roundup: 3/3/11
Your drug war news for the week
Wednesday Rewind
Literature, Motel Aviv, the Act Rights under the lens
This … is … Staple!
No, really: It’s Staple!, it’s Staple!
The Daily Hustle: 3/2/11
City gearing up for SXSW
Where There’s a Willie…
Billy Bob documents Willie Nelson in The King of Luck
Ultrasound Up For Debate
Speaking of Choose Life…
Choose Life!
Lawmakers again consider pro-life specialty plate
Newsgeist: 3/2/11
The spirit of the news
The Walking Dead Marathon, Friday, March 4
Did you miss The Walking Dead the first time? Here’s your second chance
A Sobering Look at Criminal Justice
Tony Fabelo tells us the way it is
UT Baseball Begins 2011 Campaign
Jungmann opens season with two complete-game shutouts
The Daily Hustle: 3/1/11
Comp Plan meeting tonight
Get Feathered
Feathers as hair extensions are all the rage
Austin Rockin’ 2/28/11
Live music picks for FOX 7
The Daily Hustle: 2/28/11
Council preview: Of parking, PUDs, and Project Recovery
Graves Sues for Innocence
Anthony Graves is seeking to have his name finally cleared
Newsgeist: 2/28/11
The spirit of the news
‘Ich Bin ein Cheesehead’
Austin unionists prove they are Madison as hell
Zach Anner Wins!
Anner wins his OWN TV show with a twist
First We Take the Convention Center
Texas Rollergirls explode into the 2011 season
The Totally Single Membered Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast
Sonograms, single member districts and ISD meltdowns
The Daily Hustle: 2/25/11
Leffingwell shares the State of the City
Newsgeist: 2/25/11
The spirit of the news
Texas Platters
Casual Victim Pile II (12XU) “Bullshit” is the first word sneered on Casual Victim Pile II – by Orville Bateman Neeley III on “Do My Thing.” Neeley then shows up on A Giant Dog’s dive bar rave-up “The Grand,” plus he also recorded Naw Dude’s hardcore hive “Steal From Your Parents.” That six degrees of…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Beetles, Scientology, questions, stars, and soft drinks
Our Bands Are Bands
Big Boys, 1978-1984 The socially conscious progenitors of skate-funk churned out hardcore with a sense of humor and an outlandish frontman, Randy “Biscuit” Turner. The Big Boys are as critical to Texas music history as the 13th Floor Elevators. Essential listening: The Fat Elvis (Touch and Go) Poison 13, 1984-1987 The chain gang of Austin…
Headlines
� City Council is quiet this week, with its next regular meeting scheduled for Thursday, March 3. Last week’s agenda was dominated by approval of a start for the Waller Creek Tunnel Project and a resolution questioning body scanners at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport; see “City Hall Hustle,” and “Money Flows to Waller Creek.” � The…
Endhiran (Robot)
This extravagant Indian/Tamil production is an apocalyptic science fiction rom-com with elaborate dance set-pieces and music by A.R. Rahman.
Texas Platters
Jesse Dayton One for the Dance Halls (Stag) Inspired by his Thursday residency at the Broken Spoke, Jesse Dayton tackles straight-up country the way he does everything else, with determined energy and well-cultivated taste. Sprinkled among the highly polished honky-tonk, there’s a tasty Nick Lowe cover and a sparkling duet with Brennen Leigh. These are…
‘The Trash Project II’
Forklift Danceworks reprises its extraordinary ballet for sanitation workers and trucks
Wreck Collection
Tim Kerr’s cassette for Monofonus’ Your Name Here
City Hall Hustle: What the Scan Revealed
Spelman’s anti-airport scanner resolution can’t quite achieve liftoff
Texas Platters
Will Taylor & Strings Attached House of Wills Will Taylor and his strings step outside their comfort zone and into what they dub the House of Wills, interpreting the songs of Willie Nelson in the style of Bob Wills. As with all of Taylor’s projects, the musicianship is top-notch and the spare arrangements are superb,…
Texas Medal of Arts
The Texas Cultural Trust honors its sixth group of notable Texans in the arts
The Single-Member Situation
Movement afoot – once again – to ask voters to endorse City Council districts
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Feb. 24-March 3
Texas Platters
Jon Wolfe It All Happened in a Honky Tonk A George Strait clone right down to the big ol’ belt buckle, Jon Wolfe redeems himself with a croon that’s obviously made for singing contemporary country. Subject matter no deeper than whiskey, babes, and hanging out in honky-tonks drags him down, but weepers like “Play Me…
‘The Working Homeless’
A new art exhibition speaks about and to people living on the streets
A Smarter Charter?
Austin could make big-city changes
Point Austin: Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One
Can the mayor persuade Austin voters this is a real city?
Texas Platters
The Dark Water Hymnal Collapse the Structure The Dark Water Hymnal’s previous two releases drew upon the evocative narratives wrought by Jeremy Ballard, but with Collapse the Structure, the locals finally deploy an equally powerful musical purpose. Ballard’s vocals swoon and peel as he unravels a teeth-clenched desperation, opening tracks “Whole City Glows” and “Chandeliers”…
New in Print
This debut novel boasts its own exclamation point for good reason.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame
Naked City
Arsonists, AISD cuts, and Brack tract
Texas Platters
Grady Calling All My Demons Audio and visual experiences being opposite inputs, this CD/DVD combo looks like Texas – the longhorn skull riding between Nina Singh’s bass drums – but in bullying Winnipeg instead, it sounds like Hell. As in black-hatted Canadian transplant Grady Johnson unleashing his slide guitar as if he were the Hell’s…
New in Print
A frank and charming portrait of an unconventional love
Off the Record
Austin Music Poll winners are just going to have to wait until the Austin Music Awards, plus a closer look at SXSW’s international acts
Quote of the Week
Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio
Texas Platters
Mirage The Savant Album (MelodicScience Recordings) When Mirage posits “I don’t get bitter, I get better,” it’s no empty boast. The fourth album from the local ’23 griot is a marked leap from 2007’s M.I.R.A.G.E. Buoyed by less-is-more beats that prove a perfect pairing for the MC’s conversational flow, this chronicle of daily grind comes…
Letters at 3AM: Some Kind of a Man
After a certain age, there’s no avoiding how death is a permanent part of life
Powers of Tenn
Talking Tennessee Williams’ genius with critic John Lahr
Naked City
UT regents reject renewal of city’s lease
Texas Platters
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar Games) Friends of Dean Martinez alert! Austinite Bill Elm’s been caught soundtracking video games, slumming to the tune of last spring and summer’s PlayStation/Xbox multiplatinum hit, Red Dead Redemption. (Voted No. 2 game of last year by the Chronicle.) Instrumentalism, thy name is virtual reality. Whistling a spaghetti Western tune in…
The Hightower Report
Scoring a Point for Community; and The Kochs Are Coming!
Page Two: Bright Light, Hot Smoke
Here we go again: South by Southwest 2011
Legends: The Next Generation
There’s something historic happening at the Austin Music Hall this Friday that fans of the sweet science won’t want to miss. Joe Dumas Productions is presenting Legends: The Next Generation, which will be the first time that the children of two world champions, male and female, will co-headline a card. Jennifer Wolfe, the daughter of…
Texas Platters
Sorne House of Stone Recognized locally for his visual artwork, Morgan Sorne’s debut LP complements the artists’ apocalyptic aesthetic with a tribal, 13-track conceptual score that alternately unfolds in shivering awe and delicate textures. The density of TV on the Radio pulses in the layers, while also hearkening an indigenously informed Microphones and more trance-inducing…
‘Karma’ Chameleon
Is crowdsourced content the wave of the future?
City, AISD Look for School Fixes
A vow to work together
Naked City
Carstarphen calls for cuts; Education Austin proposes different solution
Texas Platters
Conquistador Incorporated Ballads Because Tommy Wiseau clearly needed a theme song and Sarah Palin decidedly did not need another, the debut disc from local sign-of-the-times satiric quartet Conquistador Incorporated amuses at turns but has little endurance. Proving impressive in their musical reach and genre pilfering, the 10 personally addressed ballads mock and maul cultural moments…
Post-Production
Anish Savjani on where he’s been and where he thinks the industry is going next
Tuning In to Deaf Community
New TV program to widen civic life for deaf Austinites
Soccer Watch
U.S. men’s U-17 team qualifies for U-17 World Cup, and more
Gay Place
Of Oscar and schlucking
Game Changer
ESPN eyes prime real estate at UT’s College of Communication
Money Flows to Waller Creek
Council approves construction on tunnel project
Naked City
DPS narrows in on cargo-pants arsonist
Day Trips
La India Packing Company sells hundreds of different kinds of cooking seasonings and herbal remedies
Film Flam
Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more
LegeLand: Brew the Looking Glass
If Texas’ liquor laws look good, you must be wearing beer goggles
Review
Get your Francophile fix on Annie Street
TV Eye
The Oscars get hip
LegeLand: Bill of the Week
Not enough stuff ‘under God’
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.
Arts Review
Inventive direction and fun acting make a wonderful spectacle of Brecht’s dark world
Beer Flights: Talking Points About Drinking
What’s brewing in the brewing world
Restaurant Review
Cirkiel shifts his command to the backspace
LegeLand: Reinventing the Budget Wheel
Watson takes aim at roots of budget mess
Unknown
In this psychological thriller, a man awakens after a car accident to find his wife doesn’t recognize him and another man has assumed his identity.
Arts Review
Shaw does go on, but Austin Shakespeare delivers a strong show with tight acting
Event Menu
Let former Longhorns coach you in the art of eating ribs
Restaurant Review
Takeout gets the highbrow treatment
LegeLand: Redistricting Takes Shape
Block-by-block census maps released
Carbon Nation
Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.
Arts Review
This group show gives a sense of what real displacement – the forced kind – can be like
Food-o-File
No need to sugarcoat any of this news; it’s already pretty sweet!
LegeLand: Defunding Planned Parenthood
Abbott clears path to undermining Planned Parenthood
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never – Director’s Fan Cut
This newly crafted version of the Bieb’s life story lops out some earlier segments and inserts more hometown material, new songs and performances, and footage of the film premiere.
Luv Doc Recommends: That Takes the Cake! Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition: Caked Crusaders
Sure, you’re probably looking to hook up with someone who has an insatiable appetite for crazy monkey sex, but that kind of thing only lasts for a couple of decades or so … at most a half-century. After retirement age, the monkey won’t be able to hang upside down with a banana in its hand…
