Cover Story
The Price You Pay
At what cost does the vinyl revolution come?
Estate Sale Roundup, Jan. 17-19
Buckle your seat belt, and start early.
Peas in a Pod
Gohmert and Thombs decry LGBT rights
Congress Putting Teeth Back in Voting Rights Act
New Section 4 would put Texas back under preclearance
Julian Assange’s SXSW Music Picks?
Rather, three suggestions for the SXSW Interactive Skyper
Arts + Labor Heads to Sundance
Local production house is freezing in Utah on our behalf
Everybody Wants a Few Good Dates
Two paper-based calendars for this year’s stream of days and nights
Secrets to Tony Bennett’s Success
What keeps the crooner going? Loving his job, and painting
The AggreGAYtor: January 16
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
A PSA for ‘Downton’ and ‘Sherlock’ Fans
Your DVR might be confused this weekend
Oscar’s Texas Ties
Academy Award nominations dropped this morning
SXSW Music Wristbands On Sale at 10am Today
South By’s first queue wraps around the block online only
Vinyl’s Tin Cup Chalice
Finyl vinyl thoughts from the stacks of Antone’s Records
’Twas the Night Before Sundance
I’m coming for you, Robert Redford!
Review: American Idiot
Green Day’s rock opera is gorgeously gritty, if not truly punk
This Is No Depression
Another look at Lone Justice, Uncle Tupelo, and some blues
Made for a Woman
Nonprofit teaches Centex girls to be strong enough for a man
Three Weeks of Bear(ing) Soul
Nakia begins his three-week residency at the Belmont tonight
Cine Las Americas and LatinWorks Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
Faux heist ad campaign is trying to raise $50,000
Swift’s Attic Hosts Family-Style Benefit Dinner
Uchiko server needs help with medical bills after tragic accident
The AggreGAYtor: January 15
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Brew News
Craft Pride hosts Karbach Brewing; Hops & Grain announces new venture
Brown and Eckhardt Face Off in Circle C
Circle C Area Dems host Travis County Judge candidates
Sons of Fathers Residency
A month of Tuesdays at the Mohawk begins tonight
Wine Enthusiast Picks Texas Hill Country as One of the 10 Best Wine Travel Destinations of 2014
All we can say is “It’s a about time!”
David Dewhurst: Auteur
Lite Guv’s latest campaign ad has some explaining to do
Tiffany & Leon Want to Bake You Some Cookies
Tiff’s Treats owners offer bargains to celebrate 15 years in business
Paramount Has Your Dollar Theatre Beat
Opening night of the Paramount100 does silent cinema right
Farewell, Neal Barrett Jr.
Texas’ sci-fi, fantasy, and crime author passes
The AggreGAYtor: January 14
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Get ’Em While They’re Hot
Acquisitions left and right in the Austin film scene
Fun Fun Fun Fest Returns to Auditorium Shores
Festival moving slightly for ninth year downtown, Nov. 7-9
‘Downton’ Throws a House Party
This one’s for the lovers
Get Bound With Butch Feelings
Free & Queer Cinema gets ready to outdo herself Tuesday night
Hair Analysis: The Root of the Evidence Problem
Texas takes on first-in-the-nation statewide case review
Cheer Up Charlie’s Last Hurrah on the Eastside
Beloved bar pays final respects to its East Sixth locale
‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ to See Light of Day
Debut date and all the details on Robert Rodriguez’s TV series
Downton Crabby
Lady Theresa Thombs classes up State Education Board race
Archer Five Is Alive
Recapping the live tour stop and looking ahead to tonight’s premiere
The AggreGAYtor: January 13
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
This Day in Queer History: One, Inc. v. Olessen
We celebrate a landmark case in the struggle for U.S. LGBTQ rights
Cold Case
‘True Detective’s missing spark
George Strait: The Cowboy Rides Away
The King crowns the Frank Erwin Center on his farewell tour
DVDanger: ‘Devil’s Pass’, ‘Die, Monster, Die!’, ‘The Whip and the Body’, ‘Birth of the Living Dead’
A modern shocker, two vintage terrors, and a history lesson in zombies
A Slice of Heaven
The Royer family finally brings its pies to Austin
Gay Place
Headliners and elevators, Pootin’ not Putin, a bear and a fox. That’s all you need to know, gaybirds.
Then There’s This: Clouds Over Solar
Is AE throwing shade at sun-powered energy?
Food-o-File
Whole Foods Market and Dolce Neve open the new year with a bang
Noise Over MoPac
Allandale residents look for alternatives
Headlines
• City Council doesn’t formally meet again until Jan. 23 (work session Jan. 21), although today (Jan. 9) they convene as the Council Committee on Austin Energy, with a session on solar energy policy, among other things. See “Then There’s This.” › Meanwhile, would-be Council candidates continue to queue for the long line forming to…
Food Events
Jan. 9-15
Just Drive, She Said
Judges defend abortion restrictions
The Luv Doc: The Over/Under
Dear Luv Doc, Please settle an argument. My wife likes the toilet paper to spool from the bottom. I prefer that it spools from the top. I know I am right, but she insists that we ask your opinion. So, which do you prefer? – Gruntled and Disgruntled Dear G&D, any day I get a…
100 Proof
Speed Rack Texas showcases the fastest, fiercest women bartenders around
City Council: The Line Forms Here
CMs take on solar energy as more candidates come to light
Escamilla’s Defense
Aftermath of Lehmberg removal trial leaves opponents still polarized
ACC Admits Fumbling Obamacare Memo
Administrators face grilling from local lawmakers
‘Prophecies’
The wisdom of Kahlil Gibran’s ‘The Prophet’ is translated into a new language: flamenco
Letters at 3AM: 3% Neanderthal
Our DNA has seen it all before – and survived
The Hightower Report
A whiff of cheese on Wisconsin streets
PrintAustin 2014
For the next month, all of Austin will find prints charming
AISD: Fall Election Drought?
Board balance in question as few candidates step up
Exhibitionism
A spirit of fun drives this Austin Playhouse comedy about power plays in the bedroom and the theatre
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dolly Parton is Miley Cyrus’ godmother. The bigger the holes in Swiss cheese, the older and more flavorful the cheese. Daisuke Inoue invented karaoke. An unemployed musician, he was approached by a company president in 1969 to record songs played on a keyboard so the man could sing songs with business clients. Karaoke machines hit…
Exhibitionism
Photography provides the impetus for improv in this new project from LuckyChaos Theater
Soccer Watch
A couple of big pieces of news out of the Austin Aztex camp this week: The Aztex announced Wednesday that Paul Dalglish, the only head coach the franchise has had, will be leaving to join the coaching staff of Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake. Dalglish finishes with a 26-8-4 record in two seasons in…
Exhibitionism
Renfro’s paintings elegantly evoke a sense of sorrow-tinged wonder about humanity’s triumphs of creation
Day Trips
How many longhorn are too many longhorn?
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow
‘Being Ginger’ screens at AMC Barton Creek for one night only
Oops
In Virginia B. Wood’s list of “Top 10 Savory Bites” (Food, Jan. 3), we incorrectly identified New York food writer and Meatopia founder Josh Ozersky as Joel Ozersky. The Chronicle regrets the error.
Change of Venue
This year, FronteraFest is takin’ it to the streets – and a chapel, a bookstore, a home …
Byington’s Back
Local writer/director to shoot Jason Schwartzman feature in town this spring
Free Week Live Shots
OBN III’s, Brain Attack, Pharoahs Beerland, January 3 Free Week freeloaders packed the floor of Red River blue-collar watering hole Beerland, except for a small semicircle in front of the ground level stage, where Brain Attack’s dual lead screamers took residence. Strangely, the joint smelled like a Middle Eastern corner store with sandalwood incense wafting…
FronteraFest: The Basics
Twenty-one years in, I expect you know the who-what-when-wheres of this winter wonderland of original performance, but a brief review is never out of place. The Short Fringe Five weeks of short-form works, each 25 minutes or less, with four or five pieces each night for five nights each week. Tuesdays through Fridays, you get…
Safe Start
Vivogig’s rebirth exemplifies a fundamental truth about the Austin start-up scene
Free Week Live Shots
Joanna Barbera Lamberts, January 4 Emigrating from her native New York City last year, Joanna Barbera swept in locally alongside a sophomore LP, Forget, that made you remember Sharon Van Etten and Laura Burhenn. She carries a heaviness in her songwriting and textured smoke in her delivery. Saturday brought less of that weight onstage, with…
Playback: Brian Beattie’s Wizard of Oz
A peak inside indie Austin’s new illustrated CD musical
Free Week Live Shots
American Sharks, Ditch Witch, the Well Hotel Vegas, January 4 A Free Week show should give you killer sets by a well-known act, fast-rising up-and-comers, and brand newbies. That’s exactly what the packed house at Hotel Vegas got. The Vomettes, from Redondo Beach, kicked things off with a set of brief, two-to-three-chord punk rock songs…
The Good Eye
New Year’s style resolutions
Free Week Live Shots
Berkshire Hounds Holy Mountain, January 5 Strange to think, while you’re watching the Berkshire Hounds set up, that such a hodgepodge crew could bust some of the city’s best young rock & roll. The sixpiece amalgamation’s a mess, with signals getting crossed everywhere, guys leaving the stage unannounced, and a horn section that looks like…
Point Austin: From Resistance to Sabotage
Obstructing health care navigators is GOP politics, not patient protection
The Tradition Continues With Schmidt Family Barbecue
Bee Cave gets good ‘cue
Free Week Live Shots
VIP, LOEGz, LNS Crew, Team Next, Phranchyze Mohawk, January 6 To crib a line from Phranchyze, the Austin rapper with a basketball jones and the wingspan of LaMarcus Aldridge, Monday night was “colder than a Packers game at Christmas.” The chill factor didn’t stop ATX’s hottest MCs from spitting fire on the indoor stage on…
Quote of the Week
“Do you know how long that takes in Texas at 75 miles an hour?” – 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones, questioning the hardship imposed on South Texas women who must now drive as many as 300 miles round-trip to obtain legal abortion care.
