Estate Sale Roundup: Jan. 24-26
Baby, it’s cold outside, but browsing can’t wait.
Transgender Dysphoria Blues
A “superior” golf club and Against Me! – common ground?
Austin Mic Exchange Grows Up
Weekly series looks to expand in Austin and beyond
10 Minutes with Slaid Cleaves
Woody Guthrie worship via life on the road
Texas Film Awards for Young Guns, Old Lions
Here’s the full list of inductees
C’mon-a Our House
City Council to vote on resolution to grow LGBTQ tourism
The AggreGAYtor: January 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Award-Winning Craft Brewery Expands Operation
Independence Brewing Co. to increase production and distribution
Roller Derby Update 1/22/14
From recruiting wranglers to world cups, start filling your schedule
Jake Gyllenhaal Is An Axe Murderer
Right now through the prism of actors in music videos
Deep Eddy Cabaret For Sale
Longtime owners reportedly shopping iconic bar to viable suitors
RIP Outbox
Austin-based mail service closes up shop
SXSW Accelerator Finalists Pick Up Speed
500 Web-based startups have been whittled down to 48
Under the Boardwalk
UT alum Sarah Cornwell shares her Jersey Shore-set novel
Birth of a Revival {UPDATE}
Holy, holy, holy: Austin’s working on a queer church
Texas Clemency Process Poor, But Good Enough for Government Work
BPP and court deny Tamayo execution reprieve. Last stop, Perry
The AggreGAYtor: January 22
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Guns Return to Travis County Agenda {UPDATE}
Saxet contract “left pending” once again
Blak and Blu Remixed
Gary Clark Jr.’s major label debut gets remodeled next month
‘No No’ Gets a Yes Yes at Sundance
Arts + Labor presents a webisode from the premiere
Mindy Kaling Comes to SXSW
The comedian and showrunner will speak March 9
Take a Bite of Whole Foods’ ‘Dark Rye’
Pivot series premieres tomorrow
Antone’s Former Home Becomes Midway Field House
East Riverside club goes to ex-Emo’s manager Jason Sabala
Ransom Riggs Has a Hollow City for You
And he’ll tell you all about it at BookPeople tonight … maybe.
X Games Music Lineup Announced
Kanye West, Flaming Lips, Bad Religion, Wavves, and more
Art Blondin is Smokin’ Once Again
Respected local ribman is back in business in nearby Florence
Lights Come on for Third Moontower
Aziz Ansari, Kids in the Hall lead the pack of 2014 jokers
The AggreGAYtor: January 21
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Holding Prosecutors Accountable
Anthony Graves seeking justice for wrongful conviction
A Poet’s Paper Trail
Billy Collins’ archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance
Can the Powerpuff Girls Save the Day?
Classic cute-smart cartoon returns for one night only
Chaos in Tejas in Doubt
Organizer Timmy Hefner says he simply can’t top himself
The AggreGAYtor: January 20
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Death Watch: Hearing in Tamayo Clemency Case
Judge will consider whether Texas process is fair
‘Downton Abbey’ Slips Into Something More Comfortable
Let’s talk about sex, darling
Steven Fromholz 1945-2014
Onetime Poet Laureate of Texas dies in a hunting accident
Council Preview: The Cloud of Athena
Healthcare software firm considering a deal for Seaholm
‘Sherlock’ Season 3: The Game Is Back On!
But can you still keep up with all the players?
Crawl for Gorillas, Then Rise for Apes
Annual Gorilla Run warms up with beer and movies this weekend
Kids These Days
Growing up on ‘Looking’ and ‘Girls’
Heroes and Villains: Mike Love
Q&A with Beach Boys mainstay prior to Sunday’s Moody show
Brown vs. Eckhardt vs. … McCombs? {Update}
Eckhardt push-poll implies Red McCombs “big supporter” of Andy Brown
DVDanger: ‘+1’
Teen parties and time loops merge to surprising effect
Josh Ritter’s Hungry
With ambition, for songs, and quietly at the Moody Saturday
Behind the Scenes With ‘Hellion’
Get to know the team behind the Sundance must-see
Eat a Cookie, Build a Future
Central Texas Girl Scouts learn the sweet taste of success
Happy Birthday to Q
Q Toys celebrates its first birthday with a party
The AggreGAYtor: January 17
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Kickstart Your Weekend With Yard Bar
Combo dog park/biergarten set to open this May
The RNC Has Twitter Issues
GOP asks for policy feedback. Twitter unleashes the trolls.
Dispatches From Sundance: Meet and Greet Edition
‘Hellion’ and ‘Rat Pack Rat’ premiere today
Larry Monroe 1942-2014
Beloved KUT radio personality had found a new home on KDRP
The Farmers’ Market Report: Jan 18-19, 2014
Broccoli, citrus, baby goats, salmon, soup, and syrup
Angeliska’s “Crowning Glory”
Because sometimes, a regular hat just doesn’t cover it
Liquor of the Week:
A perfect peach of a vodka from Enchanted Rock
The End of an Era
Charlie has left the building
Film Flam
Grist for the rumor mill abounds this week
Restaurant Review: Tadashi
Westernized sushi and a hapless waitstaff define the Tadashi experience
Free Week Live Shots Part II
Feral Future Holy Mountain, Jan. 12 “People listen to me, James!” yelled frontwoman Arielle Sonnenschien toward the end of Feral Future’s demonstration Sunday at Holy Mountain. Whoever “James” is, he obviously didn’t see the line of girls in the front row empowered by the local punk quartet’s aggressive feminism and infectious stage presence. Guitarist Stephanie…
Wrong Cops
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
Exhibitionism
Different Stages’ production explores the difficulty of articulating not just love but also marriage
Free Week Live Shots Part II
Alejandro Escovedo’s United Sounds of Austin ACL Live at the Moody Theater, Jan. 11 Introducing his curated tour through Austin music history, Alejandro Escovedo warned that no presentation on the subject could be justifiably comprehensive. Nevertheless, Austin’s ever-ambitious pater familias threw everything he and his parade of stars had into a three-and-a-half-hour oral/aural soundscape. While…
Karle Pyaar Karle
Bollywood romance.
Exhibitionism
Kahlil Gibran’s meditations on the human condition were fiercely grounded by flamenco in A’lante’s adaptation
Death Watch: Texecutioners vs. the World
Capital case raises questions of international consular rights
Exhibitionism
This concert of music by neglected composer Edward Burlingame Hill returned some lost gems to the concert hall
Death Watch: Reed Appeal Rejected at 5th Circuit
Lawyers consider next move
Tickle the Ribs
The first annual ‘Austin Chronicle’ Invitational BBQ Beef Rib Smackdown
HD 50 Run-Off Enters Final Lap
Campaigns get back into gear ahead of early voting
In Praise of Eyebrows
The brow beat
Day Trips
Old Town Port Aransas remains among the condos and high-rises
The Hightower Report
The highly educated working poor: Adjunct professors
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Quentin Dupieux is back with ‘Wrong Cops’
Soccer Watch
Congrats to Manuel Buentello, who’s been named the new head coach of the Austin Aztex, replacing Paul Dalglish, who moved up to Real Salt Lake last week. The Matamoros native has been an assistant coach with the Aztex since their inception in 2012, and also has an extensive, 20-year history with local youth programs. The…
More Agenda, More Council
This week brings 99 items – and a host of potential candidates
Introducing the Octopus Project’s Exquisite Corpse
The Austin Motion Artists Group frankensteins up a new music video
Gay Place: Behind The Masquerade
An Angel shows her halos and Queer Ride gets porny
On Writers and Con Men
James Magnuson’s roman à clef about a creative writing program in Texas is in many ways a loving tribute to James Michener
Playback: The King of Hip-Hop
MLK Day, ready-made for hip-hop, plus Fun Fun Fun Fest lands back at Auditorium Shores, and RIP Will Indian
Then There’s This: Overlooking the Springs
At first blush, a bid to build nine duplexes up the hill from Zilker Park sounds like a perfect infill project for a city trying to densify its urban core. In the same vein, neighborhood opposition to the plan could easily be dismissed in some circles as a classic case of – that awful catchall…
Food-o-File
Mettle GM Daniel Brooks stakes a new claim at Papi Tino’s old stomping ground
‘Pet Sounds’
Charles Long’s menagerie of blobby sculptures beg to be touched, and coo approvingly when they are
Quote of the Week
“Twelve weeks of [the Affordable Care Act] has done more to help Texans without health care than Rick Perry has done in 12 years as Governor.” – Ed Espinoza, Progress Texas
Meal Times
Jan. 16-22
Studio Visits: Matt Rebholz
Conspiracy theories and the painstaking work of being a graphic novelist
Point Austin: Texas Backward
County takes one small step toward sanity on gun control
Reconnect Austin: Part One
The Great Depression
Free Week Live Shots Part II
La Migra/Night Drive/… And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Cheer Up Charlie’s, Jan. 10-12 Rain, forecast for last call, began falling on the mob gathered outside Sunday night to witness the final show at Cheer Up Charlie’s. No one budged. As the beloved East Sixth bar readies a move across the…
Headlines
› No City Council meeting Jan. 16, but work resumes in earnest next week, with a Tuesday work session and Thursday (Jan. 23) regular meeting, to take up senior/disabled homestead property tax exemptions, parking rules in transit priority lanes, and the usual brace of zoning cases. See “More Agenda, More Council.” › AISD trustees got…
Fetch Me a Beer, Sparky
Yard Bar crossbreeds dog park and human bar
Free Week Live Shots Part II
Black Books Mohawk, Jan. 10 Largely unknown in town despite being one of only two local acts that’s toured with the Flaming Lips of late, space-traveling Austin fivepiece Black Books splits the difference between Sigur Ros’ delicateness and Tame Impala’s psychedelic soup. Much of that credit belongs to singer Ross Gilfillan, who stood center stage…
The Luv Doc: I Am a Sexaholic
Dear Luv Doc, I lost my virginity last Thanksgiving. Since then, I wanted to do it more, but my girlfriend does not. She doesn’t know that I was a virgin, and now she wants to leave me because she thinks I am a sexaholic, but I think she is just uptight – no pun intended.…
Klyde Warren Park: ‘Think About It Bigger’
As Austin considers Reconnect Austin, a Dallas project gives a taste of what could come
Free Week Live Shots Part II
George Strait Frank Erwin Center, Jan. 10 “I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song, and I’ll be an old troubadour when I’m gone,” declared George Strait on “Troubadour,” a raw, rich twang near the end of his two-and-a-half-hour set Friday at the Frank Erwin Center. The 2008 hit served as…
The Legend of Hercules
Kellan Lutz muscles his way into classical mythology.
‘Chronicle’ Endorsement
Here is the Chronicle editorial board’s endorsement for the Jan. 28 special election run-off, for which early voting runs Jan. 21-24. Texas House District 50: Celia Israel Israel was our choice over two other solid Democratic candidates running in the interim special election last fall. We again strongly endorse her candidacy as she faces a…
Free Week Live Shots Part II
Brian Beattie: ‘Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase’ BookPeople, Jan. 11 If it wasn’t obvious from his custom shirt, a crisp pearl-snap embroidered with the titular suitcase of his new release, Saturday was a big day for Austin’s Brian Beattie. His “illustrated ear movie-musical,” Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase, a five-year effort, had finally hit shelves.…
Ride Along
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart partner up in this rote buddy-cop action comedy that’s instantly forgettable.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 1867, Brooklyn pitcher William Arthur Cummings threw the first curveball in baseball. Also in 1867, Macy’s stayed open ’til midnight for the first time on Christmas Eve. But it wasn’t until 1875 that Macy’s became the first department store to open a toy department. When is the letter W used as a vowel? In…
Free Week Live Shots Part II
The Well, Bridge Farmers, Spiritual Wives Holy Mountain, Saturday, Jan. 11 Over the past year, doom/psych power trio the Well evolved from promising newcomer to essential cog in the local scene. After a triumphant set opening for American Sharks last week, the band ran its own victory lap at Holy Mountain. Guitarist Ian Graham plays…
The Nut Job
Everyone’s a rat, more or less, in this animated film.
