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Sons of Austin
Murph and Ben Willcott develop a new paradigm for the next generation of a beloved family business
OTR – 33 RPM
Cactus Gate, Crazy Heart, and more SXSW confirmations.
We’re Primarily the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
Primary elections, sound permits, and other tired topics
Running With Scissors to Savers
Getting scissor-silly in the wee hours
Across the Universe
Q& A with Karl Denson
Twin Liquors Tasting Cancelled for Feb 11
…so don’t come!
CenTex, Statewide Candidates to Debate
Forum Thursday at UT Bass Lecture Hall
Baby Boomers Still Using Drugs, Pt. 2
Feds harping on drug use among older Americans
Shami’s Shale Flail
Dissecting the latest attack on Bill White
Austin Gets Spiked
Buffy’s best big bad booked for Wizard World
Countdown to L-G-B-T
U.S. Census meets Austin LGBT Tuesday at the MACC
East Riverside
Master plan at Planning Commission tonight
What’s Your Mobility Fix?
Community forums continue all week
Speak Week Is for Lovers
Speak’s first release explodes on the scene
White vs. Shami, Round One
Who won the Democratic governor’s debate? (UPDATED)
KGSR hires Clear Channel’s Mark Abuzzahab
Jody Denberg’s replacement hits local airwaves on Feb. 22
Grounded in Music
Patty Griffin helps young people get grounded
Re-Dunking the Tea Bag
Looking back on our first Medina mention
A Super Bowl to Remember
Who Dat nation rejoices
Texies and the City
Council’s new partnership with flat-track Roller Derby league (video)
Go Greek
Austin’s Kate Beutner reads at BookPeople today
Criminal Lovers
Criminal Lovers 1999, NR, 96 min. Directed by François Ozon, Starring Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche. In this adult fairy tale – only the third feature from François Ozon (Under the Sand, Swimming Pool) – a man and woman venture into the woods to bury the body of someone they have just…
Mobility and You
Austin Mobility Forums start Monday
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of Feb. 5-11
Videos: Spoon and the Strange Boys
“Written in Reverse” and “Be Brave”
Dear Philip Huang, I Love You
California art student exposes lunar homosexual conspiracy!
Powers on the Spot
Footage from the UT budget town hall
Phases & Stages
Like Lennon & McCartney’s ‘Two of Us’ – Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe
A Nueces Bike Boulevard Plan
Note: This is not the city of Austin’s plan for a Nueces bike boulevard. It is a design being promoted by the League of Bicycling Voters and is offered here to illustrate what such a boulevard might look like. These captions detail some of the traffic-calming devices that might be used to force motorist deference…
City Takes Business to Task Over Cleared Trees
Cleared trees could lead to flooding and other hazards, says city
Michael Mogavero
The Austin painter explores taboo with images that blend classicism and sex
Off the Record
UT pulls the plug on the Cactus Cafe
Reefer Madness
Prospects look good for Criminal Justice Commission
Blanton Museum of Art
The University of Texas museum raises admission prices
City Hall Hustle: Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
Right behind the Hanger comes LegalZoom
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, Feb. 5-12
‘Spaceship Austin Downtown Cruisers’
Now docked at the airport are two spaceships that depict Austin’s skyline
Point Austin: Earthquake All Around
Central Texas hunger remains a slow-motion, invisible disaster
Soccer Watch
Aztex build a veteran roster, plus international news
Page Two: Before the Impending Flood
An erratic list of memories and some dates
Dance, Girl, Dance
It was a good year for women filmmakers at a recharged Sundance Film Festival
Mind Over Music: Austin�s Music Trivia Smackdown
The Chronicle‘s first-ever music trivia competition featured a who’s who of Austin’s vibrant music scene
Not Too Tight at All
The disciplined abstracts of Helmut Barnett
TV Eye
CBS OKs an anti-abortion spot from Christian conservative group Focus on the Family and nixes another from a gay dating site. Foul!
SXSW Film Announces Feature Lineup
MacGruber, Mr. Nice, Micmacs among titles
State of the City
Mayor Lee Leffingwell delivered his state of the city address at a Real Estate Council of Austin luncheon on Tuesday, Feb. 2
In Print
The latest from two celebrated elder statesmen of poetry
Arts Review
You can thank your lucky stars for this opera of big, colorful, bouncy fun
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, Feb. 5-12
Austin Comp Planning: A Brief History
As our 2010 comprehensive planning effort bumps and grinds, it lends perspective to realize that Austin’s impulse to do a grand city plan – a brilliant solution for all land-use, transportation, and urban growth issues at once – has been a recurring one for nearly a century now. History shows us that many of Austin’s…
After A Fashion
Your Style Avatar careens dangerously close to requiring an intervention. A Wal-Mart intervention.
Arts Review
Headlong Dance Theater’s study in domestic life was both cerebral and immediate
Headlines
� As soon as City Council passed last week’s incentives package for Hanger Orthopedic Group, along came another one. L.A.-based LegalZoom is considering relocating to Austin, and council will hear about potential economic incentives for the company Feb. 11. For more, see “City Hall Hustle.” � Capital Metro announced Wednesday that President Obama’s proposed 2011…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Celebrate Chinese New Year on Valentine’s Day, Russia’s stray dogs honored, etc.
Arts Review
Texas Early Music Project delivered a magical night of live music and discovery
Naked City
State of the City, Now and Beyond Mayor Lee Leffingwell (r) delivered his state of the city speech to a sold-out audience at a Real Estate Council of Austin luncheon on Feb. 2. While he didn’t mention the city’s comprehensive planning effort by name, he signaled its importance in noting that “an Austinite born today…
When in Rome
Kristen Bell stars as a woman who pulls three coins from a fountain … and three new beaus in the process.
Day Trips
The Blacksmith Shop in Bellville is a working shop, but the smith is always ready to show visitors around
‘A’ Is for Axed: UT Chops Cactus, Cuts Classes
What will the loss of the Cactus Cafe and informal classes mean to the UT community?
Dear John
In this obvious romance, a soldier on leave falls for a girl, which leads to an anguished correspondence.
Learning the Game
Learning Buddy Holly’s game, 203 tracks at a time
Gay Place
Don’t ask or tell them to stay in that stinky closet
Council Preview
Much ado on the dais
Ishqiya
This new Bollywood film is a realistically told story about two con men.
Phases & Stages
Mermen In God We Trust (KMA) “Starfish and giant foams greet us with a smile,” sang Jimi Hendrix on “1983 … (A Merman I Should Turn to Be),” Electric Ladyland’s watery ode. “Before our heads go under, we take a last look at the killing noise.” Mermen trident Jim Thomas remains that killing noise. Leading…
Event Menu
Things are heating up for local foodies with Valentine’s brunches, aphrodisiacs’ cookbooks, and mixology workshops
Guns, Property, and Public Nuisances: A North Austin Showdown
Gun rights activists up in arms over shutdown of gun show
The Yes Men Fix the World
These anti-corporate pranksters strike again.
Phases & Stages
Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop) Beach House’s previous two albums – 2006’s self-titled debut and Devotion two years later – worked well as set-pieces, jumping between stoned love songs and mystic invocations, accented with warm wind chimes and other shore sounds. Those albums were the aural equivalent of Xanax, and it worked for the…
Food-o-File
Romance available in paper bags, restaurant closures/openings, Girl Scout cookies, and more yummy news
Moriarty Case Back in Court
The former Austin Clean Water Program director is still trying to clear his name
Phases & Stages
Vampire Weekend Contra (XL) Vampire Weekend’s eponymous 2008 debut proved a rare pop triumph, succeeding in its creation of an entire aesthetic – Ivy League Afro-pop. The New York quartet works its way out of that corner on its meticulous sculpted sophomore LP, Contra, branching out with tangents into kinetic ska-punk (“Holiday,” “Cousins”) and hyper…
King Cakes
It may be the post-Katrina Mardi Gras diaspora that helped spread this delicious culinary component of the Crescent City’s favorite holiday
Muffing the MRF
Who’s left to bid on running the city’s recycling facility?
The Hightower Report
Obama’s Decline; and The Next Health Care Reform Battle
Beads Are Power
Bob Uhler’s Krewe of Utopia takes over Maggie Mae’s this Mardi Gras
Dome Sweet Dome
Nonprofit seeks to deliver durable homes to Haiti
History in the Making
A new exhibit at the Harry Ransom Center proves that no job is too small when it comes to ‘Making Movies’
Bicycle Dreams
A closer look at the Downtown bike boulevard proposals
Developing Stories: Task Force Tango
Comprehensive planning group struggles to find its role
Luv Doc Recommends: Bob Marley Birthday Party
Last Thursday Willie Nelson canceled his show in Kenansville, N.C., because of pain in his hand. Shortly before the announcement, six members of Nelson’s band and crew were charged with possession of moonshine and possession of marijuana by local law enforcement officers. The rest of the world understands implicitly that the pain in Willie’s hand…
