Nuevo Leon Lives!
Owner Rachel Davila sets the record straight
Austin’s Kerri Lendo Has Almost No Shame At All
The popular comedian runs one hella weird open mic
Austin’s Third Coast Coffee Roasters Provide a Very Human Bean
Taste buds, pleased; central nervous systems, awake; all systems go
Housecore Horror, Alive, Alive!
Horror/metal fusion festival announces Phil Anselmo, Down and more
‘The Voice in My Head’: Astros Must Sink to Reach for the Stars
Looking good, for 2015
Aliens in America
Q&A with speculative fiction writer Robert Jackson Bennett
Texas Beats Iowa State in Kabongo’s Return
Horns prevail 89-86 in double OT thriller
Valentine’s Day Sweets
Local companies have the treats you need
Kacy Crowley Stirs Strange Brew
Singer-songwriter-booker soundtracks South Austin hot spot
‘Dazed & Confused’ 20th Anniversary Screening Set
Can we still rock & roll all night with arthritic knees?
Audio Hype: Emily Wolfe
Emily Wolfe is set to play the Cactus Café on the 16th
SXSW Announces Closing Night Film, Additional Programming
SXSW sets on ‘The East,’ ‘Much Ado’ panel corrals cast and crew
I Didn’t Go Out for Mardi Gras
One special menu item almost inspired me to break my rule
Looking for Champagne on a Budget?
Champagne lovers should remember the word Cremant
TOFGA-Palooza
Celebrating 20 Years of education, organics, and attitude
Breaking News: Beer Bills Introduced
How to track latest proposed beer laws
Mirchi
In Telugu with no subtitles.
Witness Says Pardo Taught Her to Cut Heroin
Huang says she cut six ounces per week for Pardo to sell
Judge Declines to Unseal APD Documents Prior to Trial
Carter shooting case slated for July trial
Gotta Muffuletta?
New Orleans’ signature sandwich grows in popularity here
I Sh!t You Not: I Shat You Not
Derek tells a tale of scatalogical deception
Crystalised: the xx
UK trio dazzles the Moody in the first of two sold-out shows
King of King Cake
Tried the rest? Now try the best.
Trial Begins in Heroin-Trafficking Case
Was Jovita’s a hub for drug dealing?
Girl Fight: Rousey v. Carmouche
First UFC women’s bantamweight title fight
Emo’s Sold
C3 Presents adds another jewel to its concert promotions crown
Monday Means Red Beans & Rice
Mick makes ’em Cajun style, we guarantee
The Q&A Hole: What Extinct Animal Would You Bring Back To Life?
With Matt Oztalay, Peter-John Byrnes, Wiley Wiggins, and more
Nubian Queen Lola’s Cajun Soul Food Cafe
Authentically delicious cultural enrichment
Monday, Monday
Two events get this busy week off to a tasty start
On the Beignet Trail
It can take you to the most surprising places
Texas Rollergirls: A Decade of Aggression
Flat track Roller Derby originals roll into the 2013 season tonight
10 Years of Mardi Gras Revelry at Evangeline Cafe
Curtis Clarke and crew still bring les bon temps to Southwest Austin
Face Off Recap: Bad For Your Gums
Candy-coated nightmares as the contestants suffer sweet dreams
Mardi Gras Indians and Po’Boys
Chef Darold Gordon brings New Orleans traditions to Austin
Bill of the Week: Changing the Climate
Ellis hopes for a cooler future
From Africa to Zombies: Cori Stern Can’t Stop
The weird, life-changing story of the “Warm Bodies” producer
Downton Abbey recap: Episode 5
Cora gives Lord Grantham the cold shoulder
From the Vaults: Underneath With Soderbergh
When Steven Soderbergh Came to SXSW ’95 …
Peck Young Goes Away Mad
Young likes to insult people behind their backs – and deny it later
Home Is Where the Art Is
Time for FronteraFest’s ‘Mi Casa Es Su Teatro’ fun
Precious Lloyd
Butler School concert honors African American composer
Austin Food Blogger Alliance Cookbook Debuts in April
Collection of recipes now available for pre-sale
This Week’s Waste of Time
Three browser games to keep you occupied and unproductive
The AggreGAYtor: February 8
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Tim Doyle’s ‘Unreal Estate II’ debuts at San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery
Where Serenity lands, the TARDIS occurs, and there’s a certain Abbey …
CultureMap Reveals 2013 Tastemaker Award Nominees
Celebration to recognize winners scheduled for April 11
Farmers Market Report: February 9-10
One of the best times of the year
New Russian Drama Festival
Austin gets another taste of contemporary Russian drama, and so does actor Joey Hood
Phases & Stages
Year of the Goat Angel’s Necropolis (Van) With the rise of Ghost, the Devil’s Blood, Sabbath Assembly, and other melody-minded occult rockers, horns-throwers can pinpoint a movement of sorts. Add Year of the Goat to the decadent line of kings drawing blood from obscure forebears like Black Widow and Coven, where soaring hooks and prog…
TEDxAustin: Fearless Ideas Wrangled Here
This year’s attendees will engage in ‘participatory theatre’
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2013: Live Action
Childhood, aging, and geographic diversity are common themes in these dramas from around the world.
Studio Visits: Carin Rodenborn
This Austin artist loves having her entire home serve as her studio
Full Hearts Can’t Lose
The 21st annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Short Story Contest
Gay Place
Rihanna and Beyonc� don’t think you can handle this
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2013: Animation
A dog in Eden, Maggie Simpson in an Ayn Rand daycare center, and creative guacamole making are some of the ideas conjured in this collection.
Gang of Four
Kyle Henry’s ‘Fourplay’ fights expectations about what sex should look like onscreen
‘Better This Way’
The first-place story
Lege Lines
Committees, school finance, and more
Fourplay
These four stories of unabashed sexual intimacy are often funny, sometimes poignant, always unconventional and playfully erotic.
A Failure to Communicate
AISD’s community outreach needs to go back to school
‘Black and White Photograph’
The second-place story
Bill of the Week
Building a Better Texas
Side Effects
Jagged turns and sinuous style are the mark of Steven Soderbergh’s taut drama, which stars the very well-cast Rooney Mara and Jude Law.
Phases & Stages
Rage Against the Machine XX (Epic/Legacy) Self-righteous political fury loses its impact once the contemporaneous details fade into history. The trick remains to keep those riffs churning, so that the songs themselves outlast the polemic, a lesson learned by the MC5 and the Clash. Spiritual descendants Rage Against the Machine salute their place in that…
‘Another Long Stretch of Continuous Soft Rock’
The third-place story
Twitter Abuzz Over Texas Women’s Health
Apparently, not only is “Planned Parenthood” synonymous with “abortion”; so is “women’s health.” When courts ruled last summer that the state could exclude Planned Parenthood from the federally funded Women’s Health Program – providing the linchpin for the state’s argument against the clinics that served over half of the 100,000 women who sought WHP services…
Identity Thief
Melissa McCarthy is a comic storm system to Jason Bateman’s straight man in this latest variation on the road trip from hell.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
If you stomp out a cigarette on the streets of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, you could get a £75 ($118) fine. When the Soviet Union and Russia used to send monkeys into space, the names of the monkeys started with each letter of the Russian alphabet sequentially. Wallpaper, which was a cheaper…
Phases & Stages
Death Spiritual Healing (Relapse) The late Chuck Schuldiner may not have invented death metal, but with 1990’s third strike Spiritual Healing, he gave the genre its mighty hammer of tempo changes, its bloody battle axe of thrash-derived riffs, and its severed head of social consciousness, all filtered through clean, dry production today’s metal producers ought…
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison Cheater’s Game Reviewed
Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison Cheater’s Game (Premium) Extraordinarily talented on their own, Kelly Willis and Bruce Robison prove themselves greater together than apart on Cheater’s Game. Of the disc’s 13 songs, six are Robison originals and the rest are covers of songs from well-respected writers like Don Williams, Dave Alvin, and Robert Earl Keen.…
Texas Rollergirls
Flat-track Roller Derby season-opening doubleheader
Kadal
In this Bollywood drama, a Christian boy and Brahmin girl get trapped on the high seas and fall in love, far from the sectarian strife onshore.
The Common Law: The People’s Law School – Learn the Law for Free
People’s Law School
Phases & Stages
Ancient VVisdom Deathlike (Prosthetic) Had Townes Van Zandt formed a metal band, Ancient VVisdom would’ve backed him. On the Austin trio’s second LP, minor key melodies marinate in rattling acoustic strums and plush power chords, creating the perfect backdrop for Nathan Opposition’s furrowed-brow ruminations on death, rebirth, and the nature of good and evil. “Waiting…
Point Austin: Busy Being Born …
Leffingwell celebrates Austin and its future
Dietz Rules Against School Finance System
Judge rules school finance unconstitutional
Exhibitionism
The script and cast keep this drama of Beethoven and a modern scholar a human story
Phases & Stages
Bloody Hammers (Soulseller) Black lipstick and plastic fangs meet Marshall stacks on the debut full-length from Bloody Hammers, former synth-happy goth rocker Anders Manga. The North Carolinian’s baritone is certainly ripe enough for grave digging and female neck-sucking, but it’s his comfort with fuzzbomb riffola that keeps Bloody Hammers burly and attractive. That and his…
Quote of the Week
“There is no free lunch. We either want increased standards and are willing to pay for them, or we don’t.” – Judge John Dietz, ruling that the Texas school finance system is unconstitutional, Feb. 4
The Hightower Report: Outlawing Exposés of Factory Farm Horrors
“Ag gag” bill would classify exposing factory farm abuses as terrorism
Supper Club Love
Austin’s supper clubs and Valentine’s Day go together like chocolate and red wine
Phases & Stages
Corrosion of Conformity Eye for an Eye (Candlelight) Originally released in 1984 – seven long years before a Southern metal makeover – COC’s debut forged a minor classic of crossover hardcore. Avoiding breathtaking tempos while still cramming 26 tracks into 42 minutes (including the reissue’s Six Songs with Mike Singing bonus EP), the North Carolina…
Letters at 3AM: The Revolution Will Be Printed
Digital fabrication will change the course of the future
How’d He Do?
AFS Doc Nights: ‘Koch’
Exhibitionism
A talented, fiercely committed cast makes this drama of a family homecoming arresting
Phases & Stages
Ensiferum Unsung Heroes (Spinefarm) Given a moniker that translates out of Latin as “sword bearer,” you know what to expect from Helsinki’s Ensiferum: majestic, chest-beating black metal at a gallop. “Retribution Shall Be Mine” and “In My Sword I Trust” set new standards for blazing braggadocio, but Ensiferum also incorporates native folk music into its…
Then There’s This: Labor Reps Target Marriott
Labor representatives on Wednesday stepped up their claims that hotel developer White Lodging Inc. is violating the wage provisions the company agreed to uphold in exchange for $3.8 million in development fee waivers from the city. In response, White Lodging insists it is complying with the city ordinance. The new claims brought forward by labor…
Inside Austin’s Recent Gaming Shake-ups
Lots of layoffs, but a Nation of Indies rises from the ashes
Exhibitionism
Scott Gelber’s video installation will make you nostalgic for the early days of the Internet
Phases & Stages
Graveyard Lights Out (Nuclear Blast) Graveyard’s third slab bristles with all the burly muscle its North American adoptees have come to expect from these Nordic metal longhairs. The Swedish fourpiece clearly enjoys dropping acid rock in its black-light burrow, which, when combined with a propensity for vintage tones and Joakim Nilsson’s growing Chris Cornell resemblance,…
Soccer Watch
The U.S. stumbles in World Cup Qualifying, and more
SXSW Film Announces Midnighters, Shorts
U.S. premiere of Rob Zombie’s ‘Lords of Salem’ among after-dark selections
Cooking Is for Lovers
Love is on the menu at these Valentine’s Day cooking classes
The Bandera Way
Scenes from a marriage in four acts.
Council: Raise Your Hand If You’re Running for Mayor
It’s impossible to ignore Council members’ political aspirations
After a Fashion: The DIFFA Difference
Your Style Avatar gets an invitation he can’t refuse
Phases & Stages
Mother of God Anthropos (Small Stone) Like many Swedish hard rock acts, Mother of God clearly loves its Kyuss records. Between the melodic groove-grunge of opener “230” and guitarist Daniel Nygren’s soulful wail, the debt’s paid. That said, MoG reaches deeper into its stash than its forebears ever did, adding a bluesy boogie to the…
Day Trips
Follow the trail of a Comanche war chief
Restaurant Review
Gourdough’s Public House wins hearts and minds, one big, fat doughnut at a time
Phases & Stages
Neurosis Honor Found in Decay (Neurot) As a quarter of a century of blood and thunder approacheth, imitators and inheritors fall to the wayside (fare thee well, Isis), but the mighty Neurosis roars on. The Oakland crew’s 10th studio slab keeps the back-to-basics feel of 2007’s Given to the Rising, sloughing off recent overtures to…
Council: We Like Everybody, Except …
City Council takes on zoning, hiking, and more
Food-O-File
Austin’s DIY spirit invigorates the LongHouse Food Revival
Phases & Stages
Therion Les Fleurs du Mal (End of the Light) The band’s 25th anniversary album, Les Fleurs du Mal (“Flowers of Evil,” title courtesy of Charles Baudelaire), showcases what makes Therion great – or awful, depending on your perspective. The Swedes pioneered the “beauty and the beast” format, combining female opera singers, symphonic arrangements, and death…
Headlines
› The Texas school finance system is unconstitutional. On Feb. 4, Judge John Dietz ruled in favor of the hundreds of school districts that had sued the state over both how the current “Robin Hood” recapture system works, and how little money lawmakers allocated for public education (see “Dietz Rules Against School Finance System”). ›…
Food Events
Feb. 8-14 � Texas Hill Country Wineries Kickoff Tasting The monthly Texas Hill Country Winery Trail kicks off Friday at Woodrose Winery: wines from as many as 10 area wineries, plus culinary offerings from chef Ross Burtwell of Cabernet Grill. Buy tickets online or at the door. Fri., Feb. 8, 6-8pm. 622 Woodrose Lane, Stonewall.…
Phases & Stages
Venomous Maximus Beg Upon the Light (Occulture) Red eyes aglow and horns held high, Venomous Maximus waves its pentagram flag in the face of spiritually upstanding citizens everywhere. The Houston combo revels in black-lit tales of witches, mausoleums, gravestones at midnight, and the mystical pull of the moon, Gregg Higgins’ declamatory rants dueling with sludge-riffing…
Civics 101
Thursday 07 INEQUALITY AND INSTABILITY: WHAT’S AHEAD FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY? Economist James K. Galbraith talks about his forthcoming book, in which he argues increased inequality is a product of market deregulation and windfall profits in finance. 7pm. 5604 Manor Rd. $10 suggested donation. www.5604manor.org. TEXAS SUSTAINABLE FARMING CONFERENCE The Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners…
The Luv Doc: All Ears
LuvDoc, I have a problem with one of my oldest and dearest friends. She never listens to me. We go to coffee once a week and I spend the whole time listening to her talk about her life and her problems. She never asks about me or what I’m doing, and when I do bring…
