Adapting Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Writer/director Burr Steers mixes bonnets and the undead
Shorter Fuse, Bigger Bang
Fusebox Fest down to five days, but it’s as explosive as ever
White Denim 2.0
Frontman James Petralli talks of the old days and a new era
Study: Less Contraception, More Medicaid Births After Planned Parenthood Ban
Where contraception access is strained, Medicaid births rise
When Is Austin Comedy a Sure Thing?
Maybe on a Wednesday, definitely on a Saturday
Alicia Bognanno, Bully!
Engineering your own major label debut is no picnic
Patrizi’s Owners to Open New Food Truck at Scoot Inn
Cajun concept will be ready by March
Arro Restaurant to Close Friday
Site to be new Bridget Dunlap concept
Where the Money Went
Report targets Texas Enterprise Fund and other incentive programs
One in a Crowd: Sword of Gary 6000
Local Renaissance man Zach Hall looks to Kickstart a video game
Council: Incompatible Binaries
TNC debate still sucking all the available oxygen
Cruz Trumps Iowa
Now the spotlight turns to Texas’ problem
SXSW Film Announces Features Lineup
Competitive narratives and docs unveiled, plus more
Shearwater Revisits 1980
“It seemed like a good way to make sense of this time”
Voter Registration Deadline Monday
If you want to vote on March 1, register right now
News Roundup: Petitions, Put-Downs, and Peeling Out
Council keeps its eyes on the road
Austin Music Census Data Will Remain Private
Attorney General grants exemption from open records requests
Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup
Happenings from around the state
DVDanger: I Am Big Bird
Life inside the feather suit
How to Lose a Safe Seat
Dems point fingers after embarrassing defeat in HD 118
Remembering Monica Loera
Murdered trans woman has been treated callously by the media
Commute.ly Helps Predict Local Commute Times
Local site aggregates past traffic to help you get there on time
Chronicle Recommends: Films About Memory Loss
Forget your troubles (and everything else) with these movies
Laughing It Up with Kelly Willis
Well Travelled and lovely still a quarter-century down the road
SXSW List No. 5
NOFX, Leon Russell, and Trae Tha Truth join Iggy Pop
The Finest Hours
Perfect effects and performances made this sea-rescue movie a dandy
Lazer Team
The first feature film from Austin’s Rooster Teeth gang is a hoot
45 Years
A long-married couple begins to question their union
Mountain Men
Estranged brothers exchange truths while stuck in the woods
2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Live Action
Form an opinion instead of guessing what will win this category
2016 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animation
Watch and prepare for your Oscar pool
The 5th Wave
Chloë Grace Moretz battles Earth’s fifth wave of alien attacks
Dirty Grandpa
Robert De Niro and Zac Efron go on a raunchy road trip
The Boy
Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll
Airlift
Bollywood actioner
Kung Fu Panda 3
Now a kung-fu master, the panda is no longer a grasshopper
Gimme Shelter
Austin’s housing market is rough. It’s even worse if you have a criminal record.
Ringo Deathstarr Record Review
Pure Mood (Reverberation Appreciation Society)
Texas Platters
Over the course of three local releases, Ariel Abshire’s career arc bears a remarkable resemblance to redheaded wonder Jenny Lewis. Where 2008 debut Exclamation Love bore stark, wistful ballads, Unresolved drops full-scale pop/rock with Western twang, much like the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman. The title cut employs electric organ whine alongside warm electric guitar chords,…
All’s Fair in Love and Ridesharing
As she continues her efforts to regulate TNCs, City Council Member Ann Kitchen faces a movement to recall her. A PAC called Austin4All is collecting signatures to recall the District 5 CM because “she has purposefully hurt businesses that employ citizens of Austin,” according to the petition language. The petitioners claim Kitchen’s “kickbacks” from taxi…
Stephen Harrigan on A Friend of Mr. Lincoln
The Austin writer reveals the vision behind his portrait of the 16th president as a young man in his new novel
Texas Platters
In the past, Lew Card’s tunes were workmanlike at best. Follow Me Down ups his game to the point of comparisons to names like John Prine and Hayes Carll. Along with producer James Stevens (of Moonlight Towers), Card works the Texas side of roots-rock by combining the easygoing and the gritty. That results in a…
Meet the Candidate: Huey Rey Fischer
Fischer has spent time working under the Capitol dome for a trio of Dem legislators
Fantastic Four
Crowdfunded juggernaut Lazer Team hits screens big and small
Texas Platters
In the mid to late Nineties, the original heyday of alt.country (too country for rock, too rock for country), a band like the Harvest Thieves seemingly hailed from every burgh in America on a monthly basis. That happens much less frequently these days, making the local quintet’s first full-length a novelty, but one that’s backed…
Eastside Residents Protest STRs
Protesters don’t want to see homes turned into hotels
Two Americans in Paris
UT grads go abroad for “Margot”
Texas Platters
More compendium than new work, the sixth disc from Austin metal icon Jason McMaster’s Broken Teeth pulls together previously released singles, covers, and three new tunes. The latter Bulldoze. The amphetamine boogie/thrash of “Raining Fire” and “The Rough and the Tumble” crack concrete, while “Red River Rising” pumps snarling pound-up with hometown pride. Older tracks…
Blocked by the Cops
Choose your words carefully before tweeting at APD
Texas Platters
James Cotton Mighty Long Time (New West) Live at Antone’s Nightclub (New West) Pinetop Perkins Live at Antone’s Vol. 1 (New West) Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie (New West) Antone’s Nightclub unfolds a four-decades-and-counting musical history whose fabric weaves together greater blues history (Muddy Waters, BB King, Buddy Guy) with that of the Lone Star State and…
APD: The Facebook Friend You Didn’t Know You Had
As the Chronicle reported on Sept. 4, 2015 (“APD Tracks Social Media”), local social media monitoring software company Snap Trends had provided a document titled “Keywords” to the Austin Police Department. At that time, Assistant City Attorney Cary Grace told the Chronicle that she had asked the Texas Attorney General’s office to exempt them from…
Texas Platters
Given a decade’s hindsight, the role of Gimme Fiction in Spoon’s narrative has only grown in stature. Following a major label debacle with Elektra Records that would’ve doomed acts with less tenacity, songwriter/principal Britt Daniel and company solidified an enviable spot in the indie firmament by landing on Merge with 2001’s Girls Can Tell. Kill…
Point Austin: On the Endorsement Carousel
The Chronicle begins its endorsements process
Salvage Vanguard Theater’s Denim Doves
Adrienne Dawes’ play takes the idea of postapocalyptic sister wives in an original, amusing direction
Public Notice: Chaos Reigns!
City needs your help now!
Southwest Theatre Productions’ Exit 27
At its heart, Aleks Merilo’s play about boys exiled from their cultlike church is about mind control
Quote of the Week
“I will put it in my syllabus that the class is not open to students carrying guns. I may wind up in court. I’m willing to accept that possibility.” – Nobel laureate and UT professor Steven Weinberg taking his stand against campus carry at the Jan. 25 faculty council meeting
“Cali Thornhill DeWitt: This Magic Moment” at Farewell Books
Nineties youth rebellion meets millennial “meh” and resigned participation in this solo show
Headlines
City Council meets today (Jan. 28) with a full plate and a host of public hearings: short-term rental regs, PUD zoning rules, neighborhood plan contact team rules, parkland dedication fees – and more testy conversations about safety “incentives” for ridesharing services. See “Council: Let’s Face the Music” and “Uber Says ‘Thumbs Down’,” Jan. 29. Yes,…
Roe‘s End?
After nearly three years of fighting, Texas reproductive rights advocates will get their day at the U.S. Supreme Court
Assistance With Abortion Services
National Network of Abortion Funds www.fundabortionnow.org/get-help Referrals for direct funding sources Fund Texas Choice 844/900-8908, www.fundtexaschoice.orgProvides lodging and transportation The Bridge Collective 512/524-9822, www.thebridgecollective.org Provides lodging and transportation in Central Texas Shift Safe-Abortion Hotline 877/833-9190, www.shiftstigma.orgInformation about abortion in Texas Lilith Fund 877/659-4304, www.lilithfund.org Provides direct funding for abortion services for southern Texas Texas Equal…
Day Trips: Perky Breast Mountain, Bakersfield
Distinctive peak outside of Bakersfield has guided travelers for centuries
On the Record: Sexism and the City
Council should get serious about gender equality
Review: Geraldine’s
Rainey Street dining matures
Soccer Watch
FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne on Tuesday opined that if the 2022 Qatar World Cup bid is proven to be corrupt, the tournament should be moved to the United States, who were the runner-up in the voting. The corruption part seems beyond doubt; some three-quarters of the officials who took part in the vote are…
The Take-Out
One truck isn’t the only problem with how white Austin views “Asian” food
Hornography
The Boys Bounce Back A vengeful Longhorn team got payback, toppling the reeling TCU Horned Frogs, 71-54, behind Prince Ibeh’s monster night. Ibeh tallied 17 points, 10 rebounds, five blocks, and settled down to make five or six from the line – previously a point of struggle, as Ibeh is 14% on the season. (Yes,…
Queen Bee
Tara Chapman redefines local with Two Hives Honey
The Luv Doc: Cat Poop!
A pile of cat poop is hardly a severed horse head, but you should probably take it as a message
Playback: The Austin Music Poll’s 11th Hour
A final push to get out the vote in the Austin Music Poll
With the Grain
In the past decade, wheat-free lifestyles have become more mainstream, with gluten-free products experiencing a growth of 136% from 2013-15, according to a December report by research and marketing agency Mintel. Though only 1% of Americans are diagnosed with celiac disease, a quarter of Americans now consume gluten-free foods and that number is projected to…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
From 1670-1715, more Native Americans were exported into slavery through Charles Town (now Charleston, South Carolina) than Africans were imported. The first president actually born in the U.S. was Martin Van Buren, the eighth president. The first seven were born before 1776 – before there actually was a “United States of America.” When Larry Hagman…
The Hightower Report
Why the GOP’s fence fantasy is a farce
Gay Place
Some weeks are for the birds, others for the bears
Texas Platters
The haphazard sketch of a cowboy riding a bull – or perhaps the pilgrim mounting a Great Dane – amongst the scribbled liner notes of John Wesley Coleman’s facetiously titled Greatest Hits betrays his musical style: doodler. That uncanny knack for homey imperfection results in songs sans stress or pretense, and explains why the charismatic…
Council: Let’s Face the Music
Ring in the New Year with a marathon Council meeting
Texas Moonshine
Previously pigeonholed psych trio Ringo Deathstarr transcends its root crushes
Texas Platters
Long-awaited hardly covers the 13 years between El Jefe and its sole predecessor. Remarkably, the personnel of Texas Tornados drummer Ernie Durawa’s formidable sextet has stayed intact. Bassist Brad Taylor and keyboardist Terry Bowness round out the rhythm section, laying the foundation for a strutting, three-horn front line in Jimmy Shortell on trumpet, Freddie Mendoza…
Uber Says “Thumbs Down”
No truce in the TNC war
