Cover Story
Chocolate Renaissance
The Food staff recommends local and online chocolate retailers for Valentine’s Day
Bringing Up Baby
Baby Dee creates magic out of life
Noriega Bloodied by McMurrey
Lesson number one: Your opponent can’t beat you if you don’t let him in the ring.
Community Meetings on Bike Projects Coming Up
Two new city projects could soon make Austin a better place to bike, if a convincing case can be made to give them federal grant funding through the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. One project has been a longtime goal of cyclists: a bike bridge along MOPAC where the expressway crosses Barton Creek. This area…
Elementary School Shuffle
The Austin Independent School District’s board of trustees approved a plan Monday to reduce overcrowding at Linder and Walnut Creek elementary schools. The plan will shrink the attendance boundary for the school, which has been operating at 155% capacity, and will enlarge the boundaries of nearby Brooke, Metz, and Sanchez elementaries, which have all been…
‘Chronicle’ Endorses Huber for County Commish Pct. 3
This endorsement was accidentally left out of the print edition.
Tom Russell’s Sound and Vision
Americana pioneer Tom Russell may be most widely known for his songwriting, which includes such classics as “Gallo del Cielo” and “Spanish Burgundy,” but his artistry spans across media. In addition to recording more than 20 albums, Russell has published a detective novel and a book of letters with poet Charles Bukowski, and is currently…
We Were Wrong
How could we be so wrong?
Raúl Salinas on YouTube
YouTube link to Raúl Salinas reading in San Antonio, Texas
Sister City by the Sea
What’s happening this morning …
Raúl Salinas Bio
Abridged Raúl Salinas bio from Arte Público Press (with link to site).
Four Continents, One Game: News From Around the World
Stoke City had a couple of good wins this week (4-2 at Wolves on Saturday, 3-2 over Southampton on Tuesday) to move into third place in the English League Championship. A win at home on Friday over last-place Scunthorpe would put the Potters into first place, at least temporarily. I bring it up, of course,…
Calling All Music Geeks!
Rhino brings the geekery to SXSW.
ACLU, Free Market Foundation Want In On Speaker Race
Rights group and religious right suing Texas Ethics Commission over right to pump money into speaker race.
Message From Red Salmon Arts & Resistencia Bookstore
News from Resistencia Bookstore and Casa de Red Salmon Arts
Watch McMurrey vs. Noriega Online
Streaming video of tonight’s debate between Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate
Remembering Raúl
Remembering Raúl Salinas
The Song Remains the Same
Led Zeppelin reunion boot
Asian American Democrats Event Tonight
Event will focus on importance of Asian American voters
The Passing of Raúl Salinas
Poet and community and human rights activist Raúl Salinas dies after a long illness on Wednesday, Feb. 13.
City Council Notebook
It’s a Valentine’s Day Massacre at City Council.
Clinton and Obama Looking for a Home (Updated)
CNN and Univision considering sites around UT campus for debate.
Spears Defends Her Voter ID Position
Incumbent calls Maxey “a blatant liar.”
SXSW 08 Gets Bloody
SXSW establishes it horror credentials.
ATX Facial Hair Watch 2008
Beards! Everywhere!
It’s Free Pancake Day
IHOP helps Shriners, fans of free pancakes.
Biden Says He’s Part of the Problem
Anyone addicted, as I am, to C-SPAN radio (I know, its sad) should know that right now members of the U.S. Senate are taking up the issue of sentencing disparities for crack vs. powder cocaine. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Delaware, just started things off by admitting, finally, that he is “part of the problem.” Indeed, Biden…
Longhorns a No. 2 Seed Now?
It’s been amazing what Texas can do on the Erwin Center floor. They carry one of the best home winning percentages – a statistic which got a little stronger last night when the No. 11 Longhorns knocked the No. 3 Jawhawks off their perch, 72-69. This was a small upset, but an upset nonetheless. And,…
South by So Real
Hustling SXSW hip-hop with Matt Sonzala.
‘In Rainbows’ in Texas
Radiohead has confirmed a few dates and venues for the first leg of its U.S. tour behind latest In Rainbows. Thom Yorke and company visit Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion May 17 and Dallas’ recently renamed Superpages.com Center the following evening. No opening artists or Austin dates have been announced. Presale tickets are scheduled to…
Sorry to Be Tardy to the Party, but …
More seating for Royal-Memorial Stadium? Just what we needed …
Photos from Art on Deck Opening!
The United States Art Authority will host “Art on Deck,” an exhibit of selected skateboards on loan from local private collector Warren McKinney. “This show is a fundraiser for the Austin EcoSchool, and this unique event should appeal to a wide range. There are a few decks from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, but most…
Watson Supports Obama
Austin state senator says candidate “offers hope.”
Spears Thinks Voter ID Is ‘Reasonable’
Democratic voter registrar out of step with her party on issue
Obama and Clinton to Debate in Austin
Clinton and Obama to debate in Austin.
‘Raw’ Back
WWE live (kinda) from the Frank Erwin Center tonight
Reeling in the Years with Ray and Rusty
It’s Saturday night before Valentine’s Day and I’m spending it with the man I’ve spent more Saturday nights with than all my husbands and boyfriends combined. He’s been married all these years so it’s been a little dicey, but we’ve managed just fine. We even got his wife to let me “borrow” him for a…
A Tale of Two Cities: Toronto vs. Seattle
Holy living Christ! T.J. Ford’s back, and back in a big damn way. On February 4, in Miami, Ford had been riding the bench for the first 14 minutes before this: Ford punched his time card with 9:55 left in the first half and immediately went to work. Now given, the Heat are about as…
Instant Replay
Filmmaking Frenzy plays fast and loose with your Hollywood favorites
McMurrey/Noriega Senate Debate Is On
Top two Democratic contenders will face off on UT-Austin campus.
Simien: An Evolutionary Step
The first Cajun/Zydeco Grammy goes to Terrance Simien.
The Great (but Emptier) Outdoors
New research shows a decline in outdoor recreational participation in the US.
A Ball of Illusion
At the Krewe of Illusions Mardi Gras Ball in Lake Charles, just try to figure out where the queens end and the back-pieces begin…
Disco Gay Art
Gay! Disco! Art! Go! NOW!
FLOWERS TREMBLE!
Prada. PRADA! PRA! DAH! Prada releases an animated short? SAY WHAT?! Click on the Prada link and then click on the Trembled Blossoms tab. Directed by James Lima, concept art by James Jean and music by CocoRosie. Still processing. What do you think?
Demling’s First Campaign Win?
First win, or only win?
Start Engines, Open Wallets
A little birdy told us where and where you can get your golden ticket to SXSW Film
High School Arena Pigskin Action
Looking for a good way to kill a Saturday? Howsabout the second annual Lone Star Arena Football Classic. Saturday, February 9, the Erwin Center plays host to Central Texas high school all-star seniors. The catch: It’s arena football. All of it, the padded walls, the full-field bombs, and two rosters of 18-year-old guys kicking the…
Questionable Meat Alert
USDA tracks 120,000 lbs of mystery meat from AISD back to “inhumane” California packing firm.
City Vehicle Fleet Getting More Alternative
City of Austin four months away from being halfway to a biofuel vehicle fleet.
Crawfish Boil kicks off tonight!
Friday, Feb 8, 6pm Shoal Creek Saloon Come kick off this new season event! Every Friday and Saturday night at 5pm, beginning Feb. 8 and going through the season! Check out their daily specials at shoalcreeksaloon.com. Shoal Creek Saloon 909 N. Lamar Austin, Texas 78703-4946
Counting Bones With Nina Nastasia
The mirror behind the Mohawk’s inside stage produces an oddly unsettling effect. The frosted glass reflects another world, one paralleling its own wood and brick reality. The audience stares dumbed upon themselves, and the performer is left naked and open in the hindsight. Seated before the full room with only her acoustic guitar Wednesday night,…
Flagrant Self-Promotion From the News Department
Good Morning, Austin!
Luchando por Comida Justa (Fighting for Fair Food)
Florida fruit pickers say Whole Foods produce may be cheaper than you thought.
How Would You Like Your School Bond?
AISD to hear more public testimony on the proposed bond.
See Yama-san Run
How the Japanese Do Democracy in Campaign
Luke Savisky: Creative Capitalist
Creative Capital helps Austin’s projector of large-scale images get his work that much larger
Texas Platters
The Moonhangers The Last of the New York Sessions (Bloodchili) Women, drink, and broken hearts: The Moonhangers like their country honest. And when Doug Strahan’s delicate voice starts a-quiverin’, it’s lights out. His warning shot, “Steppin’ Out,” deals in regret, just like the rest of these New York Sessions. Ethan Shaw’s baritone gets low-down and…
Naked City
Quote of the Week “Tonight, in record numbers, you voted not just to make history but to remake America.” – Hillary Clinton “Our time has come, our movement is real, and change is coming to America.” – Barack Obama The Democratic presidential candidates speaking in the aftermath of the Super Tuesday primaries in 24 states…
Event Menu
Feb. 8-14
The Relativity of Fineness
Crispin Glover on the It trilogy and his departed star and screenwriter
Point Austin: Special Treatment
The Statesman goes after Glen Maxey – and gays, and the mentally ill
Texas Platters
Calvin Russell Unrepentant (XIII Bis) A contemporary of Townes Van Zandt and Blaze Foley in the 1980s, Calvin Russell is an Austin native with a colorful past. He remains wildly popular in Europe, where he’s resided for nearly 20 years, still bearing the mantle of Texas outlaw. By some accounts, Unrepentant is his 13th album,…
Tempest in the PACT Teapot
Eruption over Public Access Community Television producer’s banning from premises roiling airwaves
Campaign Notes
• Voters can add two extra Lege races to their electoral calendar, although it seems unlikely either will shift the balance of power. On Jan. 29, Sen. Kyle Janek, R-Houston, announced he will be standing down on June 2, two years before his term expires. The next day, Rep. Robert Puente, D-San Antonio, formally confirmed…
Film News
Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March
Beside the Point
Zoning and development action doesn’t come any hotter and heavier than last week’s City Council meeting.
Texas Platters
Owen Temple Two Thousand Miles (El Paisano) Roots rock, alt.country, “Texas Music,” call it what you want, but it’s getting harder to breathe new life into a dying genre. A prime example is Two Thousand Miles, Owen Temple’s fourth disc, in which he digs up the same old clichés, recycles riffs from heroes like Steve…
Meeker Declares for Council
Will run against incumbent Lee Leffingwell and engineer Allen Demling.
Oops
In last week’s “Dems Hunting Daugherty in Precinct 3,” we reported that Travis Co. Commissioner Gerald Daugherty interfered with the efforts of Karen Huber and Scenic Texas to allow counties greater controls over billboards in the last legislative session. That was incorrect – in fact, Daugherty supported those efforts. That statement was followed by this…
DVD Watch
Five underappreciated films from the Japanese master
Texas Platters
The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath (Universal) “Follow me into oblivion,” shrieks vocalist Cedric Bixler Zavala during the hypercharged funk meltdown “Ilyena” on The Bedlam in Goliath. Anyone who’s followed the Mars Volta knows the El Paso-bred ensemble has been rocketing through space like a lethal meteor since 2003’s debut full-length, De-Loused in the…
Texas Platters
Lawrence Lander & the Best Friends Money Can Buy Cigarette Stars A dollar doesn’t go as far as it used to, but Lander & Friends ply a tried and true Southern-rock and college-jam tradition. Slower numbers (“Cigarette Stars,” “45/87”) show some songwriting promise, while “Friends Like These” culls the Black Crowes, and “The Senator’s Son”…
@ Newsdesk
The elite diversity of the new Select Committee on Public School Accountability
TV Eye
Eager for new content, the networks are dipping into premium cables coffers
Texas Platters
Shrapnel Torn From Existence Death metal, corpse metal, thrash: Makes 1980s Metallica sound almost quaint. Shrapnel’s sophomore release, Torn From Existence, opens immediately metallic with “Counterpart,” singer Aaron Canady evincing a dollop of Hetfield gristle. Canady’s a lot less successful when he’s singing (“Nameless Being”) rather than throating, the otherwise solid title track undercut by…
Texas Platters
Paula Nelson Band Lucky 13 (Justice) Pedigree aside, Paula Nelson’s debut kicks off smoking with “Fire Below,” sparking twang and sass with a stuttering strut. The players and production are spot-on polished, carrying Nelson’s vocals when they drift lackadaisical (“Baby You’re Mean”) or overaffected (“Being Alone”). “Overboard” strikes just the right swaying chords, though, even…
Texas Gets ‘F’ in Gun Control
State scores 9 out of 100 on laws aimed at keeping firearms away from “criminals and other dangerous people,” gun violence prevention group says
Spiral
Portland-based creeper about a lonely painter and his muse/potential prey was a big hit at last year’s Fantastic Fest.
Online & Wholesale
Fat Turkey Chocolate Co. 1300 S. Pleasant Valley #178, 637-0479 www.fatturkeychocolate.com Fat Turkey Chocolate Co. (so named for owner Jennifer Flood’s propensity for doodling fat turkeys) was founded in 2001 by Jennifer and her mother, Kathy Holberg. Now Jennifer and her spouse, chef Steven Flood, run both Fat Turkey and the annual Austin Chocolate Festival…
Prosecutor Times Four
The four D.A. candidates have their critics
Texas Platters
The Ape-Shits La Pollution Culturelle (Super Secret) Four guys sitting around a dinner table about to chow down on a giant rat: political statement or inside joke? Debut La Pollution Culturelle tackles a little of both. Much like their name, local fourpiece the Ape-Shits are all over the walls, the floor, and mashed into your…
Texas Platters
Jon Emery Early Morning Blues Diggin’ in his heels at 61, the self-professed “King of Hillbilly Rock & Roll” takes a turn toward the blues. Emery’s voice is caustic and tough, settling perfectly into the 12 originals, songs like “Prison Bound” and “Burn That Railroad Down” feeling lived in and raw. Jamming boogies (“All Right…
Christmas Closer for Big Bend?
General Land Office rejects private bids for Christmas Mountains.
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
The men don’t know, but the little girls understand.
Elemental Chocolates
IgnaFire Chocolates www.ignafire.com “And, now,” as they used to say on Monty Python, “for something completely different.” IgnaFire Chocolates is a brand-new company created by Clara Serrano. Travels throughout Mexico, especially around Oaxaca, exposed her to villages where they still consume the traditional, stone-ground, natural cacao beans. This isn’t the heavily processed and sweetened glossy…
Arts Review
A program designed for Conspirare to flex its muscles and show off its versatility, which it did with great success
Texas Platters
Foot Foot Everything Cool Has Been Canceled (Bunkhaus) Drawing on a brain-addling bouillabaisse of serrated psych-punk and surreal freak-folk, Foot Foot’s strange emanations make easy relations of their International Artists and Trance Syndicate forbears. With their third album, the Austin quartet builds up their own brand of rib-sticking iconoclasm. Beefed-up production helps, but sharpened songwriting…
Texas Platters
Danny Fast Fingers Snake Head Red Even taken with the grain of salt that fast digits demand, Snake offers little more than some decent 12-string strumming and local flavor. Odes to Buddy Holly (“Angels and Crickets”) and Redd Volkaert (“Code Redd”) are even a bit embarrassing, but “Debra in the Heart of Texas” trumps with…
Happenings
Feb. 9-13
Strange Wilderness
When a popular wildlife TV show starts slipping in the ratings, the clueless hosts go off to the Andes in search of Bigfoot and big ratings. Big mistake.
Baked Goods
Luxe Sweets 241-1544 www.luxesweets.com Austin-based husband-and-wife team Soraiya and Azim Nagree is the heart and soul of Luxe Sweets. Seeking her passion for food, Soraiya left her job as a chemical engineer to undertake Le Cordon Bleu pastry program at Texas Culinary Academy and soon was baking up a storm, with Azim as her taste-tester.…
Arts Review
In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes
Texas Platters
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating (Ettabelle) Marfa is mystical land. It’s in the middle of nowhere, spiced with culture, art, and the Pleasures of Merely Circulating. It’s appropriate, then, that the Pleasures’ visceral art-punk is more philosophy than raunch. Jeanne Sinclair takes cues from Sleater-Kinney as much as L7, but that’s not to say the…
Texas Platters
Peggy Wright Without You There’s a subtle elegance to Peggy Wright’s debut, even if never fully materializing. The soft jazz horns of the opening title track set the pop-lite tone, and the arrangements glisten throughout. “Carry the Grief” adds raw emotional weight to the gentle poignancy of “Chinaberry Tree” and “Trouble Moving On,” Cindy Cashdollar’s…
Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008
Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.
Retailers
Bakerman’s Patisserie and Chocolatier 120 E. Seventh (at Brazos), 476-0060 Monday-Friday, 7am-4pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm www.bakermansbakery.com Award-winning chef/chocolatiers Jeffrey Ontiveros and Hope Arabie took over this Downtown bakery in August 2007; they offer luscious pastries, specialty and wedding cakes, sandwiches, artisan chocolate bonbons, and chocolate showpieces. San Antonio native Ontiveros graduated from the Culinary Institute of…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A Jewish Native American chief? Germans not the biggest beer drinkers? And more.
Texas Platters
Lick Lick (Australian Cattle God) High time a band crossed fealty for organ-fueled shades of Deep Purple with blinding flashes of Japanoize and tongue-tying blasts of lyrical absurdity. Welcome to the inaugural ground burst from Lick Lick, where art-damaged coliseum rock is repurposed into poison-tipped barbs aimed at the starchy underside of bloated egos and…
Demand and Supply
The CBAC makes its recommendations, and the school board ponders its options
Somebody Need Purgation?
Former state Rep. Glen Maxey’s challenge to 16-year incumbent Travis County Tax Assessor-Collector Nelda Wells Spears has gone prime time. Or at least basic-cable time. In a television ad that aired repeatedly over the week leading up to the Feb. 4 voter-registration deadline, Maxey blamed Spears for purges that may have improperly knocked hundreds or…
The Eye
In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.
Third Annual Chocolate Show and Competition at TCA
Texas Culinary Academy hosts an afternoon of wining and dining on chocolate
Playing Through
UT’s female hoop star Ashley Lindsey is just starting to feel comfortable in her own shoes (and Tinker Bell socks)
Texas Platters
Chris Boehk The Day I Realized I Might Not Make It (Has Anyone Ever Told You?) Chris Boehk’s debut disc sounds like a lot of bands from the early 1990s. The current Beta Valentine drummer and former bassist for We Talked About Murder, finally out from under his Our Own Somewhere moniker, wears his influences…
AISD Payroll
While most of the school district bond proposals are about urgent or imminent problems, AISD is considering investing $1 million in a need that has been around a lot longer – a new, all-electronic payroll system. “I was on a committee in 1979 that recommended moving to a system like this,” said Paul Turner, AISD…
House Dem Feud: Back to the forward
A war of words has erupted among state House Democrats over claims made last month by Colin Strother, spokesman for Rep. Dawnna Dukes, that the House Democratic Caucus failed to show leadership in the opening days of the last session. On Jan. 29, 2007, a small group of state reps known as Democrats for Reform,…
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.
How About a Little Wine with That Chocolate?
Find the perfect combination for you and your sweetie
Soccer Watch
Aztex holds tryouts, MLS is coming to CenTex, and more
Texas Platters
San Marcos’ Silver Pines harvest serene, twilight folk on its 20-minute debut, Fort Walnut. Atop an achingly beautiful canopy of reverb-drenched slide guitar, sparse percussion, and banjo, occasionally lilted by a ghostly saw, Stefanie Franciotti lets her golden voice drip honey, like Hope Sandoval backed by Great Lake Swimmers. Act quickly; the EP is limited…
The Crunch at Linder
When the Citzens’ Bond Advisory Committee was looking for urgent and imminent needs, few facilities caught the members’ attention like Linder Elementary. Set on a hill in South Austin and designed for 600 students, Linder currently teaches 931, putting it at 155% of capacity, with a projected 194% by 2012. It depends on 25 portable…
Pun de Deux
Kathy Dunn Hamrick gives the lowest form of humor a lift in The BarreTenders
Fool’s Gold
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in this tale of two gorgeous, love-tossed, star-crossed treasure hunters who reunite to search for a lost 18th century galleon.
Page Two: A Living Constitution
The promise of liberty, unedited
Texas Platters
The Mercers Pretty Things Walk Above the melodic guitar and synthesizer, Peter Wagner’s distinctive voice soars, part Peter Gabriel, part Jeremy Enigk. It’s distracting at first, even a bit abrasive. Yet by the time the Mercers’ debut loops back ’round, Wagner has become inexplicably woven into the local fivepiece’s lyric-heavy songs, which are head and…
The PAC
For several years, certainly preceding the specific, successful bond proposal for the purpose in 2004, there have been calls for a districtwide performing-arts center for AISD. The mantra is that Austin’s is the state’s largest school district without one. Now, everyone continues to agree it’s a good idea – but no one knows where to…
Being Blocked
British author Jim Crace was struggling with a new book set in Austin. Then Austin came calling.
Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland
Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.
Retailers
Viva Chocolato! 3401 Esperanza Crossing #104 (in the Domain), 339-VIVA (8482) Monday-Thursday, 11am-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-11pm; Sunday, noon-10pm www.vivachocolato.com Modeled after European cafes and with a mission of “connecting people over chocolate,” this locally owned chocolaterie at the Domain is truly a paradise for chocolate lovers. Granted, it is high-end, and the prices are a bit dear.…
Day Trips
A short history of grain elevators in Texas
Texas Platters
Graham Weber The Door to the Morning If Graham Weber’s sophomore album, Beggars Blues, bowed to acoustic Dylan, his third rises with purpose. Door offers some of Weber’s finest songwriting but also a jolt to the arrangements courtesy of Leatherbag’s production, hand-claps, and Hammond organ punching up the rolling optimism of opener “Snow in July”…
The Pitonyak Case: When is a private-property search justifiable?
Because evidence was illegally obtained, Colton Pitonyak’s conviction should be tossed out, lawyers argue
The Michener Center for Writers Launches a New Fellowship
Jim Magnuson bounces into the room, white-haired and boyish. “I’ve decided what we should call it,” he says, beaming. “We should call them the Jimmies. It works.” It does work. Magnuson, author (The Hounds of Winter) and director of the Michener Center for Writers, is describing the award of which Crace is the first recipient.…
In Bruges
Playwright Martin McDonagh directs his first feature film, which is about a couple of hitmen caught between heaven and hell.
Austin Chocolate Festival
www.austinchocolatefestival.com Arthur Murray Dance Studio 2700 W. Anderson #504, 637-0479, 800/834-3498 March 7-9: Friday, 7-10pm; Saturday-Sunday, 10am-6pm Fat Turkey Chocolate owners Jennifer and Steven Flood are also the creative forces behind the Austin Chocolate Festival – a weekend extravaganza showcasing distinctive local chocolate products and sophisticated production techniques that will benefit the Susan G. Komen…
Off the Record
SXSW unveils the full band list. What more could you ask for?
Texas Platters
Danny Schmidt Little Grey Sheep (Waterbug) In today’s underground folk world, Danny Schmidt is spoken of in reverent tones, drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen, with words like “incredible” and “beautiful” used to describe his work. Little Grey Sheep, his fifth collection of songs, is likely to draw more people to the Austin singer-songwriter, simply because…
The Naked Court Report: From the Gilded Halls of Williamson County
Disorder in the courthouse
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar drinks the Superbowl away and eats his way through a Project Transistions fundraiser
Starting Out in the Evening
In this contemplative meditation on the pained aging of literary lions, Frank Langella delivers a brilliant performance as the story’s elderly New York City novelist.
In Her Own Time
Haunting the dark corners of Karen Dalton
‘Porgy and Bess’: Lawd, it’s on its way
Despite some offstage storms, Zach’s production made a big splash – and may win a second life
Texas Platters
The Belleville Outfit Wanderin’ Every couple of years, a group of acoustic musicians hits Austin and wins over an audience hungry for an eclectic musical mix. Like the Greencards and Hot Club of Cowtown before them, the Belleville Outfit possesses seemingly unlimited potential and youthful musical chops to awe the most jaded ears. Formed from…
KOOP Arson: The jazz behind the fire
Music dispute is reported motive behind crime
The Common Law
Foreclosure – Contact the Lender?
The Hightower Report
How About a Real Democratic Stimulus; and Google
‘Marathon’: Down the jackrabbit hole
Where else to workshop this new musical drama by Jesse Sublett and Darden Smith than the Continental Club?
Texas Platters
The Band of Heathens Live at Antone’s Eschewing the studio once again for their follow-up to 2006’s Live From Momo’s, Band of Heathens remain an oddly defined cadre of Austin songwriters. Though 11 of the 15 songs appear on solo efforts from Gordy Quist, Colin Brooks, and Ed Jurdi, and three retread the Momo’s set,…
Solar Celebrity HelioVolt Lands in Austin
Darling of international renewable energy circles to build its first solar-manufacturing plant here
Food-o-File
The possibilities for filling Austin gift boxes are endless
Luv Doc Recommends: The Reivers Reunion Show
Every once in a while when you’re stuck in gridlock on the upper deck watching some dirty construction worker in the back of a pickup dig a booger out of his nose that looks like a chandelier out of a Dr. Seuss book, you might start to wonder … how did this happen? All these…
