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We Built This City
On rock & roll venues opening up left, right, and especially east
This Week’s Waste of Time
A free game, a dog, and a wasted work day
From Second Street to Carruth
AISD and city relations improving with concrete results
What about Brooke and the Wolves?
This is where the wild things art.
If the Horns Basketball Season Ended Today …
Impressive season-ending stretch needed
The Good Music Club: Debut Episode
Video of the Couch, Crooks, Not in the Face & Quiet Company
Martin Sexton’s Not Buying It
Q&A with singer-songwriter Martin Sexton
Diners, Tigers, and Pies, Oh My!
Mary Catherine Curren is the queen of pie at 24 Diner
A Brighter Idea?
Morrison and Tovo propose smaller rate increase
Film Flam
A Super Bowl surprise, SXSW Comedy news, & Kevin Smith
Charles O’Dell Dies in Crash
Longtime Hays County government watchdog died Feb. 1 in an accident
SXSW Scares & Shorts Revealed
Late-night fare and short film lineup announced
Small Invitations: Catching up with Trish Murphy
Trish Murphy’s enjoying herself
A Piece of the Poll
Shea campaign releases pollster memo on mayor’s race
Guess Who Went to Dinner?
Join the Chronicle at Project Transitions annual dinner party!
The Lijadu Sisters
Wislawa Szymborska meets the Lijadu Sisters
AE Rate Proposal Double-Edged
Ratepayers expense also city income
Voter Groups Blast New Interim Maps
AG claims he cut a deadline deal with MALDEF, cuts everyone else out
The Girls on the Bus
Girls groups, from the back of the bus to Rhino Records.
Top Chef Texas, Week 13: Life on Two Wheels
The chefs go mobile in an homage to “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”
Film Flam
Can’t stop noodling, festival news, & TX Film Hall of Fame
Music Mo’nday: Feb. 6
Spin, spin, sugar.
Bedside Manner: Into the Unknown (With a Slight Detour to New York)
What we’re reading these days
Crafting Music and Cocktails
Graham Reynolds brainstorms over tunes, Adam Bryan plays behind bar
Face Off Recap: All This Horror Business
FX god Tom Savini makes his SyFy judging debut
Got Soap in Your Eyes? Not Anymore.
Stop getting lathered up and try Wen by Chaz Dean hair care
Occupy Austin Evicted
APD move in to camp late Friday and arrest protesters
From the Vaults: Ti West Revives the American Horror Film
“The Innkeepers”‘ Ti West talks about his films
The ‘Chronicle’ Chronicles
Josh Trank talks YouTube, superheroes and Holocaust footage
Ladies Train
‘Soul Train’ reminds us of all music biz inequities
‘The NFL Beat’: Senior Bowl Recap
And a li’l Super news
The 10-Day Juice Cleanse Challenge
Get juiced the healthy way and feel the power
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex to play home games at House Park, and more
Headlines
� City Council meets today (Thursday), with Austin Energy’s proposed rate hikes still high on everybody’s agenda. The next public hearing on the hikes has been tentatively postponed to Feb. 9, but a presentation of alternatives is anticipated in the morning briefings. � Former Council Member Brigid Shea announced her candidacy for mayor Wednesday, taking…
Food-o-File
Austin’s beloved cheese shop expands
Second Helpings: Party of Two?
If you’re going to hit anything with that bow and arrow, you’d better make your reservations early this year. Here are some editors’ picks from The Austin Chronicle Restaurant Guide. BC Tavern Upscale comfort food in a romantic setting is what’s up in Bee Cave this Valentine’s Day. To mark the occasion, a special four-course…
Money for Nothing
Even while lawmakers voted for the draconian cuts for women’s health, and facing a $27 billion budget shortfall, they nonetheless saw fit in 2011 to increase – for the third time in as many sessions – the budget for the Alternatives to Abortion program created in 2005 by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands. That program…
Food Events
I’ve been locked inside your heart-shaped pie for weeks
Strange Bedfellows
Email hack job blows cover for undercover work within Occupy Austin
The Luv Doc: A Resurgence of Quality Programming
Dear Doc: In these exciting times, I often wonder: Why haven’t we seen a resurgence of quality programming like Battle of the Network Stars. Wouldn’t that be just great? (Your attention to this matter should include a clear addressing of the most up-to-date whereabouts of one Miss Joyce DeWitt.) – Kris In the words of…
Mother’s Little Monster
Lynne Ramsay and Tilda Swinton on the complexities of their Columbine-inspired collaboration
End of the Road for AISD Exigency
AISD is still in the red, but threat of mass firings has lifted
The Innkeepers
With slow-burn shudders, Ti West’s haunted-inn story provides a stellar model for creeping dread.
Arts Review
An election-year return to Oz finds the hit musical packing an extra punch
April 3 Primary in Doubt
San Antonio panel sets Feb. 6 deadline for new maps – or else
The Grey
Bloodthirsty wolves and the brutalizing Alaskan elements conspire against a band of airplane crash survivors.
Arts Review
Lyubov Petrova powers this Lucia with vocal fireworks and nuanced acting
Herding Cats … and Dogs … in Austin & San Antonio
The high cost of being a no-kill city
One for the Money
Heigl plays bounty hunter Stephanie Plum in this adaptation of the first book in Janet Evanovich’s bestselling crime series.
After a Fashion
Truman and Michael sittin’ in a tree �
Barrera Killer Dead?
Brown committed suicide in his home, mere blocks from Barrera’s
Big Miracle
Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski star in this fact-based story that shows us that whales are mammals too.
Jump, Jive, and More
SXSW Film announces its feature lineup
YMCA Has Designs on TLAC Site
Oh, so that’s why the city wanted to close the Town Lake Animal Center
Chronicle
Like a marriage of Cloverfield and Carrie, Chronicle blends faux-naif techniques with a teen telekinesis plot and gets fresh results.
Delving Deeper Into the Archive of a Dark Time
Doc Nights: Shoah: The Unseen Interviews
Porn Busters Return!
Roommate’s arrest sparks hope for Perez
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Tilda Swinton stars as the mother of a teen rampage killer who has a complicated relationship with her son.
The Destruction of Texas Health Care
Carole Belver, executive director of Community Action Inc. of Central Texas, spent Tuesday, Jan. 24, closing up the CAI women’s health clinic in Elgin. As she packed up supplies and prepared files to be moved to Lockhart, the closest of the group’s two remaining clinics, “the phone was ringing off the wall,” she says. Three…
Supremes Wink at Titty Tax
Constitutionality of less-than-lucrative tax at issue
The Woman in Black
Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie’s haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.
‘Long’ Haul
Delivering the goods on the 2012 FronteraFest Long Fringe
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
For pills, sure, but does color also affect how well Tic Tacs work?
The Hightower Report
Ally of Newt, Dough of Cog
The Common Law: The People’s Law School – Learn the Law for Free
People’s Law School
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
A peek beneath the tutu from Austin’s Mike McKinley
Gay Place: Don’t Stop, Get It Get It
We don’t ever want to hear you complain that there is not enough LGBTQ up in this town
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Freeway View
A fresh slap of paint and new ZIP code for Austin clubs
Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival
In Austin’s newest festival, stand-up finally gets top billing
Quote of the Week
“This is so much more than just [hurting] Planned Parenthood. And it’s so depressing.” – Sarah Wheat, co-interim CEO of Planned Parenthood, Texas Capital Region. See “The Destruction of Texas Health Care,” p.18.
Dinner Is Served
Two Austin takes on the supper club trend
‘The Austin Chronicle’ Short Story Contest Update
The field narrows to 10 finalists
Civics 101
Thursday 02 CHARTER REVISION COMMITTEE MEETING Get in on some city redistricting fun while we wait to hear from the Supreme Court about the state maps. 6:30pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second, Boards and Commissions room, 539-0070. www.austintexas.gov/charter. SUMMER PLAYGROUND PROGRAMS MEETING The Parks and Recreation Department seeks input on the community’s priorities for…
Dinner Is Served
Supper Friends at the Swoop House 3008 Gonzales www.supperfriends.com, www.2Dine4.com When Stephen Shallcross arranged to relocate an early 20th century Hyde Park bungalow to his 2-acre East Austin property, hosting a supper club in the building had never crossed his mind. “We planned to use the house as office space and as a nice place…
Day Trips
The hot mineral waters of Marlin have been curing the afflicted and maintaining the healthy for 120 years
Point Austin: They’re Not ‘Pro-Life’
The health care cuts are anti-women and anti-family
Dinner Is Served
Bread & Circus at the Palm Door 401-A Sabine www.pinkavocadocatering.com, www.palmdoor.com Bread and circuses have been a crowd-pleasing concept since the heyday of the Coliseum in Rome. In modern-day Austin, catering chef Brenton Schumacher and his staff at Pink Avocado Catering put the ancient concept to good use, satisfying supper club guests with delicious food…
UT Softball Texas Classic
The Longhorns softball team enters the 2012 season ranked 18th and 19th in the USAToday/NFCA and ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason polls respectively and have named three seniors as team captains – third basewoman/catcher Nadia Taylor, infielder Lexy Bennett, and outfielder Courtney Craig. Connie Clark returns as head coach for a team that last year boasted single-season…
Then There’s This: Away We Go
Who does Austin want to lead the way
