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Slanted & Enchanted
Matador Records magnate Gerard Cosloy turns the ‘live music capital’ into a Casual Victim Pile
Hanger Heading Here
Council backs cash for company relocation
Segretti, Rove, O’Keefe
Dirty tricks against Laundrieu seem Nixonian and Rovian
This Week’s Waste of Time
Hey video games, tell me a story.
One Fast Move
Ben and Jay’s excellent adventure
Judge Not the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
City incentives, AISD issues, and the sad saga of Judge Keller
Got Noise? Good. Then Make Some More.
UT student Chris Rajan makes a music video with Usher
Give Us Your Best Roundhouse Kick to the Head
Deets on local auditions for the new reality show The Next Dragon
Get Some Modern in Your Life With Modplexi
Making the world safe for modern
Jonathan Richman’s Eyes
The Modern Lover makes it to halftime
Sundance Report: Amy Grappell Honored
“Quadrangle” creator takes honorable mention at 2010 Sundance
Enterprise Fund Carrying Too Many Ones?
TPJ accuses Perry of over-inflating impact of TEF
Sundance Report
Negotiating hail, high altitude, and movies galore
I Like It Hard ‘N’ Heavy
For the purposes of this Anvil blog, that’s what she said
Spinning Wheels and Spinning Discs
Big day for Derby with ‘Whip It’ and WFTDA rankings both released
Astros Caravan Visits Academy Tuesday (That’s Today!)
Cedar Park location to host autograph session
Two Sexes Only, Please!
International Olympics Committee wants medical treatment for masculine women athletes
How to Keep Up With the Prop 8 Trial
Live Blogging better than Court TV
We Forgive You, Notre Dame. Just Don’t Do It Again.
Notre Dame student paper prints hateful cartoon.
Pot Reform Takes the Main Stage
Lawmakers and advocates introduce measures in multiple states
Tim Miller Has a ‘Lay of the Land’
Miller performs his new work at the Vortex, Jan. 29-30.
Linea Pelle’s Handbag Collection for Haiti Relief
A fashionable way to contribute
Troublemakers Embraced By Fox, Finally
Rodriguez signs with Fox on Machete distro deal
The Rasmussen Way
Leading pollster defends his methodology
Undead Alert!
Local author BJ Burrow hosts a reading/zombie rights rally at BookPeople
OTR – 33 RPM
Casual Victim Pile, Nick Curran, and C3 Presents
Criminal Justice Reform Heads to Senate Floor
Commission would conduct full review of nation’s criminal justice system
Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010 (Matador)
Austin 2010: Sounds both apocalyptic and Olympic, doesn’t it? Our city’s in an awkward place, on the long walk between skyward progress and preserving the past. Perhaps sensing a quake before it happens, Matador Records co-owner and local dweller Gerard Cosloy knows there’s no better time than the present. Casual Victim Pile, as he stresses…
Restaurant Review
Laissez les bon temps rouler you to Hiep Nguyen’s authentic Crawfish Shack & Oyster Bar
Conservatives Take Another Swing at Social Studies
Curriculum vote pushed to March
To Save a Life
This well-meaning but ineptly made message movie teaches that with the help of Jesus Christ, you, too, can prevent teenage suicides.
Day Trips
Grab your pole and some worms and head on down to the fishing house at Easy Street Marina on Lake Travis
Restaurant Review
The food is inventive, the wine list inspired, and the prices can’t be beat
Comp Plan
There’s still time to influence the vision for Austin’s future
Veer
Veer is the name of an Indian man who courageously fights against the British Empire in this Bollywood epic.
Gay Place
Austin’s rainbow of queer diversity comes together.
Texas Platters
Spoon Transference (Merge) Onetime local underdogs Spoon were recently calculated by Metacritic to be the most critically acclaimed band of the last decade on the strength of four indisputably great albums – Girls Can Tell (2001), Kill the Moonlight (2002), Gimme Fiction (2005), Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (2007) – each one reacting to and…
Cap Metro Changes Bus Routes, Hikes Fares
A few bus route changes and new rates take effect
A Town Called Panic
This whimsical, Belgian import is an animated stop-motion fantasy that uses childhood toys as characters who find themselves in all manner of goofy yet compelling adventures.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Tigers in Texas, Meryl Streep, and much more
Texas Platters
Sunset Gold Dissolves to Gray (Autobus) The Glowing City (2008) lifted Sunset into a new sphere, moving the project from Bill Baird’s intriguingly manic but often solipsistic Beck-isms to a vision that encompasses more of the full band. Accordingly, Gold Dissolves to Gray offers a realization of the band behind Baird while still surfacing the…
Nonprofit Offers Free Tax Assistance
Austin-based Foundation Communities spends most of the year creating affordable housing communities for low-income residents. But for a few months of each year, the nonprofit shifts deep into tax mode, providing free income-tax preparation for low- to moderate-income families drawing $50,000 a year or less annual income and individuals making $25,000 or less. The group…
Extraordinary Measures
Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford play a parent and a scientist who fight time, man-made obstacles, and each other to find a cure for a rare childhood disease.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar: A-one and a-two!
Texas Platters
DJ Jester the Filipino Fist The Inside Story In the seven years since San Antonian-turned-Austinite mixmaster Jester released debut disc River Walk Riots, the Recording Industry Association of America has, in no particular order, launched multiple lawsuits against the record-downloading public, watched its sales figures plummet from an all-time high in the 1980s, and become…
The Primary Candidates
Local and statewide candidates hit the campaign trail
Namo Venkatesa
This is a new Telegu-language romantic comedy.
The Hightower Report
Global Game That Never Ends; and A New Name for Occupation
Texas Platters
Arson Optics Plant the Seed (Word Power) Raised in West Lake but born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and currently operating out of Los Angeles, Arson Optics (né Aaron Krueger) fell in with locals Mirage and the Melodicscience crew at age 16 and – with the exception of 2008’s decidedly Houstonian Lion Heart and collaborations with candy…
Campaign Finance Reports
Cash makes the contender
Red Cliff
Tens of thousands of arrows darken the sky in John Woo’s epic retelling of an ancient Chinese battle.
Juggling Fire
Stroke survivor Alex Lemon chronicles the hard times in his memoir, Happy
Texas Platters
YellowFever (Wild World) Following a series of self-released EPs with a full-length debut on the Vivian Girls’ label isn’t a bad place to land. Austin trio YellowFever definitely has the same reference points and aesthetics as the Brooklyn gals, like those delightful minor-key harmonies tempered with more shape and structure, less amorphous reverb. If YellowFever’s…
The Junk Science Conundrum
Legislators ponder how to keep questionable forensics out of the courtroom
The Maid
In this acclaimed drama from Chile, the maid in question is a compelling enigma.
TV Eye
Caprica, a prequel series to SyFy’s Battlestar Galactica, is out of this world
Texas Platters
Hickoids The Hairy Chafin’ EP (Saustex) Texas Music Extravaganza The San Antonio Sound Larry Lange & his Lonely Knights San Antonio Serenade (My Tee Fine) Just when you thought the Hickoids were putting their tattered boots up and relaxin’ following the reissue of Waltz a Crossdress Texas, they uncork the five-song Hairy Chafin’ EP. It’s…
Rodney Reed Case Back in Court
Death row inmate’s attorneys file brief seeking hearing on evidence
The Book of Eli
In a post-apocalyptic time, Denzel Washington is the lone man who carries the world’s last remaining Bible.
‘Selkie Project’
Two artists use the seal-creatures of Celtic myth to get back to the sea
Can’t Get There From Here
While suburban rail spends and stumbles, Cap Metro’s transit-dependent riders wait at the end of the line
Point Austin: How Much for a Hanger?
Austin ponders the latest corporate incentive proposal
The Spy Next Door
Jackie Chan plays an undercover CIA agent who turns out to be a disastrous babysitter for his girlfriend’s three kids.
Art Work
Local artists convene for a conversation about art, labor, and the economy
In the Game
For her first museum work, Jade Walker steps up to the plate and swings big
City Hall Hustle: CURE-ing the Density Bonus Gridlock
Planning Commission wants more time to sort out public benefits
East Austin Studio Theft
The burglary of an Eastside metal arts studio hurts more than the owners
DVD Watch
Brigitte & Birkin, oh my …
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Jan. 21-28
Arts Review
The best way to describe Different Stages’ retelling of the myth: beautiful
Plastic Platoon
Paul Hanley and Kieran Healy on their 10-year tour of duty to make a stop-motion Vietnam epic starring action figures
Headlines
• The City Council holds a special called meeting today, Thursday, Jan. 21, to hear about a proposed economic incentives program to lure Hanger Orthopedic Group into relocating to Austin. A public hearing is set for the next regular City Council meeting, Jan. 28. For more, see “Point Austin.” Mayor Lee Leffingwell, meanwhile, will be…
Arts Review
A great showing of nearly three decades in the evolution of this Texas artist
Paul Hanley’s Top 10 Crazy-Ass ‘Nam Movies
Viva the Nam‘s co-creator talks about his inspirations
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Making Media-Watching a Little Less Wonky
UT’s online journal FlowTV seeks a balance between accessible and academic
From Beer to Infinity
Austin gets ready to host the nation’s first-ever cooperatively run brewpub
Kieran R. Healy’s Five Top-Drawer War Movies
Viva the Nam‘s co-creator talks about his inspirations
Soccer Watch
Still waiting for the Aztex schedule to be released. Meanwhile, in Africa …
Feral Cinema Released Into the Wild
The Chronicle‘s Marc Savlov teams up with forces from I Luv Video and the Austin Underground Film Society to celebrate films on the fringe
Event Menu
Wine, beer, and farmers’ markets for the upcoming foodie week
Off the Record
A flashback from Red River’s seedy past, the Sour Notes hit a sweet spot, and Patty Griffin gets Grounded in Music
Page Two: Reform School
Why throwing the bums out doesn’t work
Food-o-File
Winning piemakers, new restaurant openings, and more
Fed School Funding
Teachers’ unions say Race to the Top places too much emphasis on testing
Luv Doc Recommends: An Evening With Chastity and Alan Jr.
If it hasn’t happened already, there will come a time in your life when you have to show your ass in public. If you’re lucky, you’ll be really wasted and your face will be blurred when the video shows up on YouTube. The more likely scenario is that you will show your ass in a…
