Cover Story
Sarah’s Muse
Sarah Jarosz, ‘tweener’ no more
California Judges Overturn Medi-Pot Restriction
Ruling backs patients’ possession rights
UPDATE 6: Shots Fired on Capitol Grounds
Fausto Cardenas charged with deadly conduct
This Week’s Waste of Time
Two free browser games zoom into playability
Meet n’ Greet!
Who? Your new blogger, Lil’ Roo!
Rest in Peace, Kate McGarrigle
Rufus Wainwright’s mother dies age 63
Allow Me to Introduce Myself
I’m Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer, a brand new blogger for the Gay Place.
Hello Cleveland!
Anvil frontman Steve “Lips” Kudlow wears his heart on his bondage gear
Worried He Might Be… Christian
There’s gotta be a gay inside The Onion.
Great White Lie
Catching up with Nic Armstrong
AISD Headed Back to Exigency?
Memo paints bleak portrait of school district budget
Don’t Be Dense – It’s the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
Density bonuses, death row and … orthopedics?
Where Is My Mind?
Texas Republicans and Democrats overreact to Massachusetts
Public Humiliation Is Punishment Enough
Ruling backs leaving Judge Sharon Keller in office
Haiti Relief Guide
Got an event or charity? Let us know.
MCW Alum Brian Hart Reads at BookPeople
Michener Center for Writers also announces hiring of Elizabeth McCracken and a reading by Richard Ford
White Stripes Doc to Ring SXSW’s Doorbell
Under Great White Northern Lights gets its U.S. premiere come March
Join the Chrontourage!
The Chrontourage wants you!
Money Makes Campaigns Go Round
First finance reports for the primary season in Travis County
Chaos In Tejas 2010
May’s lineup stops, drops, and rolls
Comp Plan Task Force: Awry?
Council and City Management to the rescue
Comp Plan: Time To Speak Up!
Deadline extended for visioning input
Get Out and Load Up
People’s Embroidery Moving Sale, Jan. 22-23, 10am-6pm
Earle Goes NXNW
Dem lite guv hopeful makes his case at Sherlock’s
You Down With Granny P? Yeah You Know Me!
Performance artist/burlesque star Granny P makes us sweat.
Update: Hope for Haiti
Local musicians extend a helping hand.
Perry’s Margin
New poll resurrects specter of GOP primary run-off
Whammy Round-Up
Texas Rollergirls gather for annual awards
Battlestar Galactica Fans, Hear My Call
TV Eye wants to hear what you think about prequel Caprica
Austinites Clean up in Shark Tank
Erin Whalen and Tim Stansbury get support for their product on ABC
The Politics of Debating
What Medina’s GOP debate inclusion and exclusion means for White and Shami
Flat-Track Fan Faves
Last chance to vote in the Texas Rollergirl Whammy awards
A New Budget Shell Game
Request for five percent agency spending cut doesn’t add up
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of Jan. 15-21
Off the Record – 33 RPM
SXSW, Sixteen Deluxe, and Rokkervil
Cap Metro Makes Changes to Service, Fares
Service adjusts Sunday, fares go up Monday
Texas Platters
Dana Falconberry Halletts Singer-guitarist Dana Falconberry’s full-length debut, 2008’s Oh Skies of Grey, brought to mind a time of white gloves, lace, and good manners, channeling Billie as much as Joni. On her follow-up here, she curiously returns to many of that album’s songs (see “Texas Platters,” Oct. 10, 2008). “Blue Umbrella,” “Singing Lullabies,” “Baby…
Day Trips
Several historic bridges around the state have been recycled as pedestrian promenades
Driving While Campaigning: Bill White Talking (Around) Climate Action
The gubernatorial candidate gamely navigates the politics of climate change
Texas Platters
Shotgun Party Mean Old Way As winter chills, Shotgun Party levels a warm blast of summery swing and bluegrassy-folkie bounce on Mean Old Way. The Austin-based trio is a perfect target for fans of anything Maryann Price does, meaning their gentle yet lively music is as loaded with bandleader Jenny Parrott’s mountain-cool vocals as it…
Letters at 3AM: Critical to the Success
Pakistani public opinion runs strongly against the United States, even though our president insists we’re partners fighting a common enemy
Are They Dreaming? Local Republicans Rattle Awake.
Travis GOP aims to turn county blue
Texas Platters
Crazy Heart Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (New West) “It’s all magic.” That’s the phrase the late Stephen Bruton used in September 2008 to describe working on the set of Crazy Heart, and with good reason. Actor Jeff Bridges embodies his role as an original outlaw songwriter – confident, crooked, and hardened with time. Paired with…
Event Menu
A guide to Austin-area foodie events – smackdowns, socials, and more
Texas Lege: The Shape of Things to Come
Wentworth predicts redistricting disaster
Texas Platters
The Sour Notes It’s Not Gonna Be Pretty Songwriter Jared Boulanger must keep Brill Building hours. Last year, the Sour Notes issued its engaging full-length debut, Received in Bitterness, chased with a 7-inch single. Sophomore LP It’s Not Gonna Be Pretty marks the local quartet’s sharpest and most cohesive work to date. Opener “Beyond Recognition”…
Food-o-File
Austin farmers’ markets are on the move, and several Downtown restaurants shuffle chefs
Soccer Watch
The Aztex have found a home in the USSF Division II soccer league, and more
Texas Platters
Robert Glasper Double Booked (Blue Note) Jazz traditionalists will wish they could have gotten more of Robert Glasper’s Trio on the Houston native’s most recent Double Booked, but anyone familiar with the 30-year-old pianist knows there’s no sense in confinement. As a longtime collaborator of Mos Def, J Dilla, Q Tip, and the Roots, Glasper’s…
Restaurant Reviews
Yes, these doughnuts definitely make your ass look fat, but who cares?
Point Austin: The Army Saves the Day
The Corps of Engineers speaks, and Travis County and TXI hang fire
The Hightower Report
Horse and Sparrow Economics; and Freedom to Protest
Everybody Must Get ‘Stoned’
Improv Guru Keith Johnstone brings his Maestro to the Long Center
Wine of the Week
High-quality wines from the Languedoc region, found locally
Headlines
• Council returns today (Thursday, Jan. 14) for its first regularly scheduled meeting of the year. Procedural business includes the approval of a slew of new contracts and appointment of new municipal court judges; additionally, the future of UT’s controversial Brackenridge Tract and Austin Energy’s 2020 generation plan are up for discussion – albeit in…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Harry S. Truman’s mother, little blue pills, and more
Arts Review
Another blast of otherworldly wonder and weirdness from Electronic Planet Ensemble
Off the Record
The Parlor family serves pizza by the slice at the Monarch, Zeale gets down with Grooveline Horns, and crunching numbers for South by Southwest
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
The Body as Canvas, Readying for Life in a Kill Zone
AFS Documentary Tour presents Tattooed Under Fire
Arts Review
The debut of Gina Patterson’s new company had everything you need in choreography
After a Fashion
On updo, blue rinse, hillbilly teeth, and Karl Rove, as only Your Style Avatar can muster
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Jan. 14-21
The Horton Foote Prize
The news last week that a major new playwriting award had been established in honor of the late Horton Foote was hardly a surprise. His reputation as a master of the dramatist’s craft had grown steadily over the past 25 years, and this year’s posthumous production of his nine-play magnum opus, The Orphans’ Home Cycle,…
Arts Review
A choral welcome to the new year that opened one up to all time and all creation
Oops!
In “Does the Open Meetings Act Go Too Far?” Jan. 8, we reported that Victor Gonzales was prosecuted for a Texas Open Meetings Act violation and that the suit was dismissed. In fact, though Gonzales was the subject of a complaint, he was not indicted. After an investigation, the complaint was dismissed in Williamson County…
La Fenice
After a seven-year hiatus, the Austin Commedia Society is up to its old tricks
Peace Through Pie
A sweet honoring of Martin Luther King
Page Two: Home Fires
Revisiting the smoking ban and the return of Otto Binder
Chance Pe Dance
A struggling dancer lives out his dream of becoming professional in this Bollywood feature.
TV Eye
ABC’s new show The Deep End lawyers up
Pie Social Menu
Want to join us as we savor pie to celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? Saturday, Jan. 16 Bring two homemade pies to share during the Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church Pie Social – one to be enjoyed by guests; the other may be entered in the Dream Pie Contest or donated…
Precinct 4: It’s Good to Be the Incumbent
Challenging an incumbent is a tough job, but somebody’s gotta do it
Zombie Girl: The Movie
This is a “making of” documentary about the 2005 filming of the zombie film Pathogen, made by then-12-year-old Austinite Emily Hagins.
The Long Vindication
After 35 years and a lengthy sentence for robbery, Ronnie Barrs remains determined to prove his innocence
Book Review
Day out of Days forms a pastiche of the cinematic cowboy at twilight
Democratic Endorsements: SAD
Democratic clubs kick off endorsements
The Lovely Bones
Peter Jackson forgets to imbue his living characters with emotional weight, and instead focuses on this story’s visually stylized netherworld between life and death.
Book Review
Ransom is akin to the director’s cut of The Iliad – albeit with a new director
What Would John Galt Do … About Global Warming? Deny It.
Is John Mackey’s ‘John Galt’ complex putting Whole Foods’ bottom line on the line?
A Single Man
Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.
Behind ‘Broussard’s Lament’
They told us Thursday they would come, They told us Friday they would come, Saturday came and still the dying lived on It’s one of the most striking tunes on Sarah Jarosz’s Song Up in Her Head, “Broussard’s Lament,” one that leaves the topic of love far behind the questions of governmental culpability and human…
DVD Watch
There’s a joyous skin-of-their-teeth incompetency any time Top Gear‘s hapless hosts get near a steering wheel
Frozen Assets: AWU and the Busted Pipes
Winter weather poses infrastructure challenges
Texas Platters
Ray Wylie Hubbard A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There Is No C) (Bordello) Any short list of top Austin artists of the last decade counts Ray Wylie Hubbard in its upper reaches. Eternal & Lowdown (2001), Growl (2003), Delirium Tremolos (2005), Snake Farm (2006), one after another, the Wimberley outlaw’s output bumps ‘n’ grinds a…
He’s Not a Lawyer, But He Plays One on TV
Austin actor Mehcad Brooks on his circuitous path from star athlete to Southern vampires and L.A. law on an Irving soundstage
Clearing the Path to Posthumous Pardon
A.G. opinion gives Timothy Cole supporters hope that Gov. Perry will issue a posthumous pardon
Texas Platters
Patty Griffin Downtown Church (Credential) After hinting at an affection for gospel music on 2007’s Children Running Through, her hugely successful last disc, and recording a duet with Mavis Staples on last year’s gospel celebration/compilation Oh Happy Day, Patty Griffin delivers a collection of spiritual moments with Downtown Church. The title refers to the album…
Gay Place
Is the Prop 8 trial our Brown v. Board of Education?
Conjuring the Radical Dr. King
A new MLK Day event emphasizes the reverend’s lesser-known orations
A Bit of Bettie, A Little Storm
An Austin tribute to the queens of burlesque at the Alamo Lake Creek
Luv Doc Recommends: Stool Pigeon Featuring the Stories of Charlie Hodge and Becca Peterson
Austin spends a lot of time staring lovingly at itself in the mirror, masturbating. Why not? It’s relatively young, good-looking, and well endowed. It’s full of parks, greenbelts, watering holes (both kinds), and lots of exciting live entertainment. Hey, not every city can be pretty and popular. There are also lots of shiny new buildings…
