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Two Sides to His Story
Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own
Armstrong Comes Clean … Sort Of
Lance Armstrong sits down for an interview with Oprah
Sundance Shares ‘Black Metal’
Watch Kat Candler’s new short drama online now
Three Aztex Players Taken in MLS SuperDraft
Austin Aztex players go early in today’s Major League Soccer draft
Chanteuse or Screen Star?
With Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, you get both
Purity Ring, Still Ungirthed
Megan James on social media: “It’s all of it”
Serve Gourmet Gadgets & Goods
Cookware for the new Downtown Austin scene
SXSW Music Wristbands On Sale Today
First batch of ‘golden tickets’ available at 10am!
Best Aggie Football Moments 2012-2013
Johnny Manziel and Deshazor Everett lead the way
Public School Bible Classes Run Afoul of Law
Classes violate state and federal provisions
Budget Imbalance, Yet Again
House and Senate spending proposals yet more slice and dice
Under the Canopy
New creative complex on Springdale Road close to opening
Theoretical Physicist Brian Greene Has a Few New Dimensions He’d Like You to Meet
The universe-explainer brings his ‘Hidden Reality’ show to Austin
Ten Minutes With Terry Allen
Q&A with Lubbock son, multimedia don, and Cactus Cafe ace
‘The Voice in My Head’: A Super Bowl for the Birds?
The birdbrains of Maryland and Georgia are an obscure nondescript folk
Welcome to the X-Men, David Marquez: Hope You Survive the Experience!
Local artist opens run on Marvel’s merry mutants today
Mo’ Music: Jan 16
The latest toots from the musical poop chute
Audio Hype: Purity Ring
A Canadian duo shaking up electronic music.
Breaking News: Lake Travis ISD on Lockdown
Emergency called at 2pm for all buildings, now just elementary
Wholly Kabob Trailer Funded by Kickstarter Campaign
Newcomer to Austin’s Middle Eastern Food Scene off to Great Start
Dear Mr. Plant …
An open letter to Robert Plant and other U18 happenings
‘Justified’ Recap: ‘Where’s Waldo?’
Episode 2 asks where’s Waldo Truth, and who is Drew Thompson?
The Pie and Ear Show: Old-School Austin Improv, Activate!
Bryce yourself for some McGehee-hee-hee on the cutting Egertons
Slender Student + Kitchenability: Tonight!
Students can get a leg up on swimsuit season at CYC Fitness tonight
DVD Watch: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much’
Hitchcock’s original 1931 take, newly restored, debuts on Blu-ray
‘Tuna’ Surprise
Joe Sears and Jaston Williams to receive Texas Medal of Arts
Face Off Recap: King of the World
Season four begins, and the sideburns are awesome
Lily Pad Farm Offers Free Aquaponics Seminar
Regional leader Adam Harwood shares technique
Something Wicked This Way Comes: Lucinda Williams
New songs, new outlook, new horizons
The AggreGAYtor: January 15
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
A ‘Third Way’ for Pot-Law Reform?
Marijuana Policy Project says ‘No’ to Kennedy proposal
Austinite Named One of America’s 50 Most Powerful People in Food
Whole Foods Market founder John Mackey recognized; debuts new book
Magic Gathering at SXSW Film
Carell & Buscemi comedy ‘The Incredible Burt Wonderstone’ to open fest
Texas Film Hall of Fame 2013 Goes Extra-Terrestrial
Elliott, Buttercup, Ma Kent, and Ned. Ned! join roster
Alamo Goes Steady With a New Slew of Programmers
Drafthouse adds four faces to creative team
Thanks for the Memories: ‘The Pioneers of Television’
Season 3 debuts tonight on KLRU with focus on ‘Funny Ladies’
Crystal Night
The Crystal Ark has sailed, but we’re still glowing
The Ballad of Alejandro Escovedo
Austin icon pulls off a marathon performance at the Moody
Derek On the Spot
Free Week Interviews with Megafauna and Whiskey Shivers
APD Officer Injured in Robbery-related Shootout
Officer sustained ‘non-life threatening injuries’
The AggreGAYtor: January 14
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Invitations are out for the coolest dinner parties in town
Coralled: Stevie Tombstone
Veteran roots rocker rides into Giddy Ups tonight
Dudes in Drag Shaking Drinks for a Good Cause
Tipsy Texan Hosts Cocktail Competition Jan. 15
The Q&A Hole: What’s Your Favorite Book Of All Time? (Part 2)
With Tim Doyle, Amparo Garcia-Crow, Kareem Badr, and more
‘Downton Abbey’ Watch
Another wedding, and the war between Thomas and O’Brien ramps up
Appeal Filed for Fran Keller: The Oak Hill Daycare ‘Ritual Abuse’ Fiasco
Appeal cites outdated medical evidence and Brady violation
Merlin Enchantment at Zach
Shana Merlin, that is – making improv magic with Wizards
TV Review: ‘Soul Food Junkies’
A documentary examining the past, present, and future of soul food
Bonus Bill of the Week: Corporations Can’t Vote, But Can Make It Rain
Dems seek constitutional overturn for Citizens United
Hunger Games
Lauren Kelley’s ‘True Falsetto’ exhibition reviewed
Bill of the Week: Protection, or Slut-Shaming?
Because what strippers really want is something else to wear
From the Vaults: Kathryn Bigelow Soldiers On
‘The Hurt Locker’ Oscar-winner was robbed of a ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ nom
Barge to Hell, Part 3
A final metal injection from HeadCrusher
Planned Parenthood Denied Injunction
Judge questions likelihood that provider will prevail in suit
Caught in the Orbit of ‘Shatner’s World’
Bad Billy re-runs his life from Captain Kirk to Denny Crane
The AggreGAYtor: January 11
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
The Bullet Hole in the Butterfly Bar
This East Austin joint’s a good story you could be part of
Farmers Market Report: January 12-13
Texas midwinter plenty
Restaurant Review
The craft brews are solid, but the pies are still evolving
Free Week Live Shots Part 1
Ume, the Calm Blue Sea, the Black & White Years, My Jerusalem Emo’s East, Jan. 4 Two years since its inception, Modern Outsider has corralled an impressively eclectic roster of Austin talent, all on display for the local imprint’s Free Week showcase. Emo’s bowed to the dark bellows of non-Modern Outsiders My Jerusalem, fronted by…
Snakes and Ladders
‘The Man From Orlando’ team recalls the high stakes of making their lo-fi first feature
Council Preview: A Bar on Burnet?!?
Neighbors aren’t pleased with Little Woodrow’s plan to move in
After a Fashion: Czarmazing!
Your Style Avatar examines the Crown Jewels. Don’t be nasty …
Free Week Live Shots Part 1
Eagle Claw, Tia Carrera, Megafauna, Flesh Lights, Smoke & Feathers, My Education Red 7, Jan. 5 The microphone was mostly ornamental, but when Matt Rade of “instru-metal” locals Eagle Claw stepped up to it in between songs to praise a bill he described as “eclectic,” he wasn’t blowing smoke. Saturday night, Red 7’s inside and…
Home’s a Brewin’
Why brewheads are buzzing about Pinthouse Pizza’s head brewer from Colorado
Under the Bus: Next Stop at the ATU
A former employee has filed a lawsuit of racial and sexual discrimination against the transit union
Food-O-File
Coterie Market brings locally crafted treats right to your door
Free Week Live Shots Part 1
Deep Space, the Boxing Lesson, Obscured by Echoes, Residual Kid Mohawk, Jan. 6 Free Week ended its first half in an acid haze at Mohawk, but first up sidled Residual Kid, a local power trio whose collective age hits 40. One wonders if the youngsters’ penchant for noisy grunge pop reflects their parents’ record collections…
The Luv Doc: Douchebaggery
LuvDoc, I am really, really tired of people using the word douchebag all the time. It’s disgusting. I don’t want to have to think about douches or douching or the bags used to do it. Can you please back me up on this? There must be a better word. – Done with Dbag Roger that,…
Food Events
� Winter Cooking Class Series Chef Bess Giannakakis’ winter cooking series is ongoing with small weekly classes scheduled in January and February at her lovely bed and breakfast overlooking Lady Bird Lake. Class schedules, prices, and registration info are online. Jan. 14 through Feb. 25. Gateway Guesthouse, 1001 E. Riverside, 326-2646. www.gatewayguest.com. � Farm to…
The Hightower Report: Fruitcake of the Year for 2012
Iowa Supreme Court out-crazies NRA, Santorum, et al.
Texas Chainsaw
Decades after the original, this story about the deranged, backwoods cannibal with a power tool still has legs – and extra 3-D torque.
Trading One ‘Community’ for Another
Dan Harmon is talking to you
Two Sides to His Story
Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own
Gangster Squad
Despite uneven filmmaking and questionable facts, an extraordinary cast brings this story about mobster Mickey Cohen’s attempted takeover of L.A. and the handful of honest cops who thwarted him.
To ‘Hell’ in a Hand Device
iPad trailblazer ‘Holy Hell’ available for two-day-only free download
Gay Place: TOPSY-PERVY
Queerbomb is always No. 1 (or at least No. 8) to us …
Zero Dark Thirty
The film is suspenseful, dogged, relentless, and determined – amazing considering we already know the ending of this story about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.
Playback: Winter Harvest
Digging up the roots of Free Week
Point Austin: Backstage at the Circus
The Lege melodrama can be a hard act to swallow
Naayak
Telugu action film.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Paris used its last horse-drawn streetcars 100 years ago this week. From 1957 to 1968, the U.S. had a plan to launch an automatic and all-out nuclear attack on both the Soviet Union and China if the president was killed or labeled missing in an attack. President Lyndon Johnson changed the policy in October 1968.…
Sad Music for Somber People
Toasting My Education and its dearly departed
Civics 101
Thursday 10 LEGISLATIVE WISH LIST Staffers from the Texas Observer want all sorts of things from this Lege session – from a state income tax to air conditioning for prisoners. What are their chances? 7pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop.
Letters at 3AM: Notes on a Long, Long Journey
Artists are but translators of that which flows through them
FronteraFest 2013
Performance jamboree’s 20th brings back old faves and welcomes new stars
Quote of the Week
“Bienvenidos, y’all.” – Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, following her election Tuesday as president pro tem of the Texas Senate
Exhibitionism
Different Stages doesn’t light up the dark corners of this gothic comedy about the Marquis de Sade
V Is for…
�Vagina� Editor-in-Chief Hillary-Anne Crosby on zines, feminism, and � well, you know
Headlines
› As the new year gets rolling, the first regular City Council meeting is next Thursday (Jan. 17, work session Tuesday), with a brace of Austin Energy solar rebates for nonprofits (“Then There’s This”), and some zoning cases from 2012 (“Council Preview: A Bar on Burnet?!?”). › Austin ISD trustees have revived their controversial plans…
Exhibitionism
This whodunit is all in fun, but Austin Playhouse isn’t having as much fun with it as it could
Free Week Live Shots Part 1
Foreign Mothers, the Dead Space, Horse + Donkey, Ghetto Ghouls, Feral Future Beerland, Jan. 3 Ninety minutes prior to the witching hour last Thursday, Austin registered a damp 45 degrees. Beerland only heated up – from the first act on to the fifth band off. Feral Future, initially atonal and amelodic in its proto-proggy post-punk,…
Then There’s This: Solar for Lease
It just got easier for nonprofits to afford to go green
Going With the Flow
The next life of Waller Creek
Lege Opening Day: Users and Abusers
Scenes from the floor of the Texas House and Senate
Day Trips
Local zoo committed to saving animals
Exhibitionism
La Follia takes the harpsichord beyond Bach and proves the instrument isn’t just for the baroque
Garza Cleared for Minority Business
City rejects complaint filed by black contractors
WWE Presents Raw World Tour
When did the WWE get fun again? The biggest show in pro wrestling returns for a Friday night showdown just as life is getting interesting. WWE champion CM Punk (r) is back from an injury and proving, night after night, that he is the best in the world. Now he’s heading to a Royal Rumble…
Record Review
My Education A Drink for All My Friends (Haute Magie) My Education has mastered cinematic expressionism. Whereas in 2010 the Austinites masterfully scored F.W. Murnau’s 1927 silent classic Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, sixth LP A Drink for All My Friends flips the script, providing its own sense of suspenseful grandeur. “A Drink for…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex held their first tryout Saturday, taking a look at about 20 players who were on last year’s roster, plus a like number of invited college players. Sorry I didn’t make it out to watch, but sight unseen, it looks like we’ll have another strong team to follow up on last year’s impressive…
