Cover Story
Full Circle
The gospel according to Ruthie Foster
Charter Committee Endorses SMDs
The Charter Revision Committee votes for a 10-1 district system
A Helping Hand for Mitchie’s
An old-school rent party for an old-school community treasure
Modern Home Tour 2012: February 4, 2012
Rubberneck Alert: It’s time for the Modern Home Tour!
Jonathan Coulton: “Internet Rock Star”
They Might Be Giant opener has a successful business model
Missing Momo’s
Updating the closure of Momo’s
SXSW Music Wristbands On Sale Today
First batch of SXSW Music wristbands on sale this morning
King Khan & the Shrines with Jacuzzi Boys and American Sharks at Mohawk 2/4
Britt’s Pick of The Week
Long Fringe Review: Akimbo Bubble Scuttle Ruckus
A mess of sketches strung into a nonsensical hullabaloo
Long Fringe Review: Drawing a Paycheck
An ode to local artists who still don’t make a living at it
The Daily Deck at the Common House
Josh Row illustrates 365 skateboards everyday for one year.
Tuesday News Gay on a Wednesday: Feb. 1
This week’s LGBT news round-up has good news all around!
Long Fringe Review: Don’t Go in the House
A triple-megaton blast of power and cleverness.
SXSW 2012 Film Lineup Announced
’21 Jump Street’ selected as Centerpiece Film
Q&A With Janet Pierson
SXSW Film Producer breaks down the lineup for us
Music Mo’nday on a Wednesday: Twin Sister Live
All around and away we go…
Shut the Front Door: Proposed Rules Threaten Cottage Food Operators
DSHS takes a bite out of Texas’ celebrated Cottage Foods law
Long Fringe Review: Southern Fried Chickie
A one-woman meet ‘n’ greet with the gals at the trailer park
Don Cornelius, RIP
‘Soul Train’ Host Commits Suicide
The Ballad of the White Horse
The Saint James Society soundtracks East Sixth St.
‘At the Snap of a Finger’
Anti-IDEA activists keep up due diligence for AISD
Long Fringe Review: ‘Holier Than Thou’
The show where you compete for the powers of the Messiah
Shea to Run for Mayor
Former council member says city needs vision and leadership
Och, Aye, ’tis Almost Time for That Bur-r-r-r-r-rns Supper!
Haggis and all, yes, haggis and all
Mayor’s Roundtable Benefits Austin History Center
Luncheon named for Angelina Eberly
John Aielli Back in the Hospital; Stable
Wildly popular KUT personality back in the hospital
Toros Lose Nail-Biter but Remain Best in D-League
Austin holds best-ever NBDL record!
K-NACK Reunion, Night 2
Live review of K-NACK’s reunion concert Saturday
K-NACK Reunion, Night 1
Live review of K-NACK’s reunion concert Friday
Behind Closed Doors
As the Feb. 6 redistricting deadline gets close, what cost unanimity?
From the Vaults: Albert and Orlando
Women wear the pants in “Albert Nobbs” and “Orlando”
Face Off Recap: Nekkid Time
Week three’s body painting challenge spawns the assketball
Judges to State: Fix Your Maps Now
New districts by Feb. 6 or primary shifts
Cole Hosts AE Forum at ACC
Panel discusses rate proposal, consequences, possible alternatives
Roller Derby Update 1/28/12
Lonestar starts rolling, Texies on the road, and Whammy recap
Top Chef Texas, Week 12: Attack the Block
It’s a head-to-head matchup at the Pearl Brewery.
World Book Night Doesn’t Happen Overnight, You Know
BookPeople hosts planning session this Monday
This Week’s Waste of Time
A few free games to fill the waning work day
Pick a Map, Any Map
San Antonio redistricting hearing filtered through the Twitterverse
‘The NFL Beat’: Scouting the Senior Bowl
The ‘Chronicle’ has it covered
‘Time Freak’ in Real Time
UT grad Gigi Causey produces Oscar-nominated short film “Time Freak”
Golf Wang
Passionate about merchandising
Texas Platters
Willie Nelson Live at the US Festival (Shout! Factory) Waylon Jennings Live at the US Festival (Shout! Factory) The US Festivals were two early Eighties music and culture events produced in Southern California by Steve Wozniak of Apple Computer fame. The second was held Memorial Day weekend in 1983, with a lone day of country…
Letters at 3AM: NDAA: Obama’s Betrayal
NDAA: Obama’s Betrayal
The Texas Map Morass
SCOTUS sends San Antonio court back to the drawing board
Man on a Ledge
This semi-functional thriller tingles but never terrifies.
Texas Platters
Ghosts Along the Brazos Ghosts Along the Brazos’ cross-genre rural music is so vanilla it makes Asleep at the Wheel sound like the Hells Angels. The local fivepiece plays a mix of blues, folk, swing, and jazz so gritless and sweet that it boils all the members’ influences down into sterile pop. That isn’t to…
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Found a Job
If your job isn’t what you love, then something isn’t right
Ultrasound Reimposed by Appeals Court
Edith Jones and the 5th Circuits rule mandatory ultrasounds constitutional
Albert Nobbs
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close’s vanishing act in the titular role.
Texas Platters
Guns of Navarone Prize and Battlefield A decade before the term alt.country was coined in the Nineties, one roots-rock revival featured guitar bands like the Long Ryders, Rank & File, and Green on Red. The members of Guns of Navarone probably weren’t even born at that musical juncture, but Prize and Battlefield, the local quartet’s…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The heart of an adult blue whale weighs about 2,000 pounds and is about 9 feet wide. According to historians Walter Schiedel and Steven Friesen, at the height of Ancient Rome in around 150 B.C., the top 1% of Roman society controlled 16% of the wealth, less than half of what today’s America’s top 1%…
The Hightower Report
An ugly surprise from Big Oil
Agneepath
Bollywood action thriller.
Texas Platters
Frank Smith Before You Were Born (Big Snow) Since transplanting from Boston in 2007, Frank Smith the band has grappled with balancing its Northeastern rock roots with lessons gleaned from Austin’s alt.country scene. On two previous local releases, the group attempted, with varying degrees of success, to blend indie elements into its tears-in-my-beer country base.…
Page Two: Going Places
A metaphysical jumping-off point for a return to the good fight
School Finance Back in Dietz’s Court
Eight years after Dietz ruled for massive reform, school finance returns
SOPA: A Bad Idea Falls Off – For Now
After an Internet blackout, lawmakers see the light
Oops
In our article about the labor dispute between Bomax Contractors and Carpenters Local Union 1266 (see “Prevailing Wage Doesn’t Always Prevail,” Jan. 20) we said that Bartlett Cocke was hired by the Texas Facilities Commission as the general contractor on the Dewitt C. Greer State Highway Building renovation. The construction firm was actually hired directly…
Clinics Without Care
Council tries to rework its CPC regulations
Local Tech Creations That Scare Us
Hell on wheels, surveilling boozehounds, and more
Gerre Hancock
Remembering the renowned organist, choirmaster, composer, and educator
Trying To Hit the Right Note
City’s sound ordinance back on front burner
Austin and the Academy
‘The Tree of Life,’ ‘Bullhead’ score Oscar nominations
Austin Cabaret Theatre
Stuart Moulton is getting his ACT together and taking it on the road (MoPac)
Pressley Settles on Martinez
Businesswoman Pressley sells rainwater and is an anti-fluoride activist
The Spillover
SXSW Interactive loosens its belt, expands to 14 venues
Ballet Austin
Ballet Austin shines a light on human rights and the Holocaust in reviving its 2005 work
Who Leaked Police Info?
Police union president calls for city action
Creating Sustainability
City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood
Quote of the Week
“It’s time to apply the same rules from top to bottom: No bailouts, no handouts, and no copouts.” – from President Barack Obama’s State of Union address Tuesday
Day Trips
It serves your seafood both ways: fried and fried
Arts Review
This tale of a Scotsman who loved and sang country music rang Texas true
Method to Their Madness
Two leading ladies reflect on their psychotic characters’ unique relationships with the score
Point Austin: Shameless
Perry’s dismal campaign finds a worthy successor
AMA Arenacross Series
High-flying dirt-bike racers invade Cedar Park
Arts Review
A concert which proved that eloquence survives in the age of the sound bite
From Soup to Nuts (Hold the Nuts)
A hardly comprehensive look at Austin’s soup scene
Then There’s This �: Sound and Light
Council takes up thorny issues on land planning and utility rates
Soccer Watch
A possible milestone for the Austin Aztex, and more
Arts Review
The artist as data, casting the metrics of her life in visual form
Austin Sugarworks Cafe Sugars
Sugar cubes are so like, square, man
Headlines
› City Council meets today (Thursday, Jan. 26), with a morning quarterly briefing from Austin Energy (expect proposed rate schedules to be more than subtext) and a debate over how best to readdress the misinformation provided by local crisis pregnancy centers. › Specifically, two items on the agenda concern revising or repealing an ordinance requiring…
Gay Place
Take your typewriter, pencil, or pen, and if you make a mistake, you gotta do it again!
Food-o-File
Television’s appetite for Austin eateries is unslakable, plus a Hickory Street revival in this week’s food news
Civics 101
Thursday 26 UT PROFESSOR DANA CLOUD discusses her new book, We Are the Union: Democratic Unionism and Dissent at Boeing, which “analyzes the opportunities and forces at play in modern unions.” 7-9pm. 5604 Manor Rd. www.thirdcoastactivist.org. Friday 27 ‘HIDDEN BATTLES’ SCREENING This documentary tracks five soldiers as they contend with the psychological fallout of killing.…
Record Review
Ruthie Foster Let It Burn (Blue Corn) Given that the Blind Boys of Alabama grace the first notes of Let It Burn and the final ones of “The Titanic” in a set of mostly sanctified covers – the everlasting gospel group’s contemporary stock-in-trade – consider this Ruthie Foster’s Blind Boys of Alabama album. Coating four…
Food Events
Bathtub gin and other delights
Rick Perry Death Watch
Perry becomes killingest governor tonight
The Luv Doc: It’s Called Priapism
What does the doctor do to you if you have a hard-on for more than four hours after taking Viagra? And why is a four-hour hard-on a bad thing? – Chuck It’s called priapism, named after Priapus, the Greek god of fertility who had an absurdly large and permanently erect penis. As exciting as it…
Texas Platters
Danny Barnes Rocket (ATO) The Other Europeans Splendor (Kikiyon) Once the beloved Bad Livers, an Austin-based assault on traditional music, Danny Barnes and Mark Rubin now exist in entirely different musical circles. On Rocket, his second proper release for Dave Matthews’ ATO imprint, Barnes’ lyrics divvy up as two parts degenerate, one part altar boy,…
Food Review
Hempy hempy joy joy
Will Perry Throw His Weight Behind Disclosure Law?
Perry counsel conveys the governor’s concern about discovery practices
Red Tails
George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.
Texas Platters
“Sincerely,” the lead single from Coo Hand Bob’s Bobby, is the best hip-hop track Austin’s heard since last summer’s League of Extraordinary Gz hit, “Yes He Is.” Flowing with the West Savannah drawl of a young Andre 3000, the local MC sets things straight: “I hope you take into consideration that I’m not a rapper.…
After a Fashion
Dreams from Your Style Avatar’s father
Cain: 6,324 … Perry: 2,494
Rick Perry’s campaign fell hard and fast in 2012
Underworld: Awakening
When humans sniff out the existence of vampires and Lycans, all hell breaks loose.
