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The Luv Doc: Sweaty, Half-Naked Humping

Dear Luv Doc, I was at Carnaval on Saturday and I saw my ex-boyfriend humping on a sweaty, half-naked woman who wasn’t his wife (he has been married three years). I don’t know his wife very well, but I feel like she should know that he may be cheating on her like he did on…

by The Luv Doc

The Hightower Report

The California GOP’s Fake Health Care Website In this wicked world of woe, there are hucksters, flimflammers, plain ol’ crooks … and Republican members of the California Assembly. This last bunch of scoundrels went out of their way to monkey-wrench the rollout of President Obama’s new health care law. Obama’s computer geniuses were making a…

by Jim Hightower

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Elton John’s mother was a gunner for England in World War II. In ancient China, the red decorations put on the door for the New Year were meant to keep ghosts away – because it was believed that ghosts are afraid of red. Execution by dogs in Korean is “quan jue.” Seymour Cray’s first computer,…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Monuments Men

George Clooney’s star-studded account of the Allied rescue of the stolen art treasures of WW2 has many great scenes but no center.

by Louis Black

Texas Platters

Scott H. Biram Nothin’ but Blood (Bloodshot Records) Austin’s notorious one-man band returns with equal measures of gospel and Gomorrah on his eighth LP, Nothin’ but Blood. Delivering a motormouth baptismal rap on “Gotta Get to Heaven” and the Christ-conjuring country choir of “When I Die” on the same saturated platter as piss-drunk altercation “Only…

by Kevin Curtin

Texas Platters

Jazz Mills EP 1 If her name doesn’t ring a bell yet, Jazz Mills’ voice might. Founding member of Cowboy & Indian, collaborator with over 30 locals including T Bird & the Breaks and Leopold & His Fiction, and opener for Stevie Wonder and Arcade Fire, this Austin songbird finally struck out solo late last…

by Jessi Cape

Texas Platters

Simple Circuit All hail the return of Inhalants bassist Lisa Rickenberg to the local stage. While Simple Circuit still parks in the garage, it’s not sharing a two-car space with the late, lamented, local intoxicants. Simple Circuit fires synapses of every art school graduate to have navigated UK punk’s exhilarating first wave: Buzzcocks, Wire, and…

by Tim Stegall

Texas Platters

Kellye Gray And, They Call Us Cowboys: The Texas Music Project (Grr8 Records) These songs remain well-worn evergreens, virtually all written by native Texans, but we’ve never heard them quite like this, interpreted through a jazz prism by Austin veteran Kellye Gray. After stints in Houston and San Francisco, she’s back in town with this…

by Jay Trachtenberg

Texas Platters

Phranchyze 3 This online album doubles as Phranchyze’s seventh in four years. Though certain releases have boasted more original production than others (August 2012’s Phranye West), they’ve all been of the same ilk: clever and charismatic, with a penchant for rusticity. 3 spreads out from a cooler vein than many of the South Austin MC’s…

by Chase Hoffberger

Soccer Watch

Football season may be over in the U.S., but never fear, it’s just heating up in most of the rest of the world. With the Winter Olympics bumping lots of shows off the main NBC networks for the next few weeks, the USA Network picks up a great weekend of English Premier League games, with…

by Nick Barbaro

Texas Platters

After eight years riding shotgun with Asleep at the Wheel, Elizabeth McQueen makes a U-turn. Reworking songs from her solo jazz LP, 2010’s The Laziest Girl in Town, the local honky-tonker teams up with St. Louis quintet Brothers Lazaroff to add atmospheric grooves across six tracks on The Laziest Remix. Her vocals still slink and…

by Doug Freeman

Civics 101

Thursday 06 ’12 YEARS A SLAVE’ – PUBLIC ROUND­TABLE Roundtable discussion of the debate around Steve McQueen’s film. 5pm. UT Austin, Texas Union Bldg., Santa Rita Suite. Free. www.utexas.edu. WE GOT HOODWINKED: THE PROBLEM IS DRUG POLICY, NOT DRUGS Dr. Carl Hart speaks on the myths behind the war on drugs. 7-9pm. St. James’ Episco­pal…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Gleeson Gleeson II (Almost There) Even when they turn out to be lousy with filler, there’s something innately exciting about cracking the seal on a double vinyl album. Who can resist the allure of four-sided high-rock ambition and a grand gatefold to stare at (or roll a joint on) while listening? So crackles the spirit…

by Greg Beets

Tosca

Austin Lyric Opera brought all the power in Puccini’s opera to bear in a staging that pitted heaven against hell

by Robert Faires

Quote of the Week

“I’ve been over there. I don’t think I want to go back, so if anybody wants to have my spot on the tour, be my guest. It’s a big hole, a big, deep hole there.” – Mayor Leffingwell, on whether there should be public access to the Seaholm Power Plant building

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

› There’s no City Council meeting this week, but look for plenty of pre-Valentine’s Day love at the Feb. 13 meeting, when Council is set to approve dollars for several proposed affordable housing developments and for acquisition of water quality protection land. Slings and arrows will fly, too, in the form of occupancy limits for…

by Chronicle Staff

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