Threat of Ice Means Austin Goes Nowhere Fast
UPDATE: Third day of school and city closures: Is this a record?
Is Austin Too Cold For Artist Tim Doyle?
No, he’s just got a sweet deal with San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery
Pussy Riot & ‘The Colbert Report’
Russian punks give as good as they get as Olympics begin
Estate Sale Roundup: February 7-9
Four big sales dominate the weekend
Staycation In Style and Altruism
Emancipet’s Sit Stay Kits of local goodies available this week!
Does DNA Testing Prove Skinner’s Guilt?
That depends on whom you ask
The AggreGAYtor: February 6
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Austin Studios Puts Out the ‘For Rent’ Sign
Austin Film Society seeks anchor tenants to build a new community
Alejandro Escovedo Hosts Matt McCormack Benefit
‘I looked at the windows to see water coming through them’
PBS Zooms In on Austin
‘One Square Mile: Austin’ premieres next week
Even If You Think You Wouldn’t Like A Comic Book Called ‘Monsters!’
OMG, lemme tell you about this hilarious thing from Gustavo Duarte …
Short and Sweet From SXSW
The full list of short docs, dramas and animation playing this year
Going ‘All Out’ for Sochi
Corporate actions still speak louder than words
CCA Denies DNA Testing in Swearingen Case
Death row inmate doesn’t have right to test murder weapon for DNA
The Omelettry to Lose Lease in 2015
Owners currently hunting for new location
SXSW Midnighters Bring the Fear
“Exists”, “13 Sins” and “The Guest” kick down the door
Sound Team’s ‘Marathon’
Bassist Bill Baird digitally re-releases lost LP
Food Network Debuts ‘Buy This Restaurant’ with Austin Entrepreneurs
Skinny Limits owners find brick-and-mortar spot with shows help
Black History Month and Austin’s Dirty Laundry
KLRU launches online series featuring ATX civil rights leaders
The AggreGAYtor: February 5
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
DVD Watch: ‘Night of the Demons’ / ‘Witchboard’
Director Kevin S. Tenney talks scream queens and classic posters
How Not to Talk About Single-Sex Schools
KLBJ’s Todd Jeffries calls middle school girls ‘split tails’
Chelsea Clinton to Keynote SXSW Interactive
Former first daughter coming to town
Austin’s Rubber Repertory Wins National Arts Entrepreneurship Award
Fractured Atlas gives a prestigious nod to Our Boys in Kansas
Scott H. Biram: No Regrets/Yes Regrets
Q&A about gritty bluesman’s new ‘Nothin’ But Blood’
Austin-Area Chipotle Grills Raise Funds for Urban Roots
Educational fields trips supported by Feb. 6 donations
The AggreGAYtor: February 4
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Texas Exonerates 13 in 2013
Nationally, more than 1,300 exonerated since 1989
Kickstart Your Week With Team Atlas
Live fitness tracker does what others can’t
The Cookie Crumbles
Pro-Life Waco wages Girl Scout boycott
Announcing the Finalists for the SXSW Interactive Awards
The best of the cloud is coming to Earth
Downton Abbey: ‘Come to Bed and Dream of Ragtime’
Everyone’s so well looked after at Downton Abbey
Sundance Recap: Part III
Mental instability, poverty, a disappearance, and a docu-thriller
Chronolog Radio (Feb. 3)
Someone old, something new, something SXSW
Disclosure/Darkside
Electro breakouts rattled C3 haunts Friday
The AggreGAYtor: February 3
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Welcome to ‘Sherlock,’ Where Everything’s Made Up and the Deaths Don’t Matter
The finale no one saw coming
Add Another Name … or Three
Potential City Council candidates continue to join the queue
The Pols Just Keep on Coming
Your Guide to Candidates for the New 10-1 Universe
Creating Change: USDA Protects Gender ID
Saturday at the conference: Dr. Joe Leonard, Jr.
Creating Change: Resting on Breasts and Peeing in Peace
Friday at the conference: Breastival Vestibule and bathroom salons
FronteraFest Review: ‘Iced Tea in Texas’
British ex-pat Bernadette Nason pours some sweet memories
DVDanger: ‘Dark Touch’ / ‘Argento’s Dracula’
Two very different dances with Irish Gothic
Infest Shows Relocate – And Then Some
D.O.A. moves to Red 7, while Waka Flocka Flame skips town
Soundtrack Series Returns This Weekend
What song got your dominoes falling?
Creating Change: “Take It In”
Thursday at Creating Change conference: Laverne Cox
Loss and Grief and the ‘Widdahood’
Catherine Tidd speaks on life after her spouse’s death
You’ll Never Hear Fred Frith Plunk
Avant-garde UK guitarist explores the notes behind the notes
Kickstart Your Weekend With ‘Arvind’
Austin teen’s story told onstage and onscreen
Latest Rainey Street Revamp Open At Last
Much anticipated cocktail menu from Chris Bostick getting warmed up
Film Flam
Including the first official ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ trailer
Sundance Recap: Part II
Musicals, sentimental journeys and a romcom farce
Farmers’ Market Report: Feb 1-2, 2014
Marinara, spinach, apples, rainbow trout, and strawberries
The AggreGAYtor: January 31
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Super (Reefer) Bowl I
Pot-state teams battle in game, pot advocates battle on billboards
Exhibitionism
A catalog of terrors quotidian and cataclysmic, interspersed with odd dances and the odd comic twitch
To C-Boy, With Love
Continental Club maverick Steve Wertheimer pays tribute to his mentor – with a nightclub
Whither Rosewood Courts?
The fight to save the first public housing complex for African-Americans in the U.S
We’re Such a Tease About SXSW Film
Just before the Chronicle headed to press late Wednesday night, our friends at South by Southwest Film gave us a sneak peek at tomorrow’s feature film slate. We can’t say for sure who made the cut until tomorrow at 2pm – so keep an eye on our daily coverage online for the full list –…
Tales From Reality TV
An Austin restaurateur and a Central Texas winemaker share the recipe for drama
C-Boy’s Design
Steve Wertheimer summed up his instructions to the interior design crew for C-Boy’s Heart & Soul with a simple suggestion: Make it look like it’s been around 50 or 60 years. Designer Jennifer Long, who usually works as a set decorator on Robert Rodriguez movies, decided to use only vintage lighting at the upstairs and…
Holding Prosecutors Accountable
Anthony Graves seeks justice in wrongful conviction case
Also Out Now
Check out these top picks from local studios
Who’s That Guy on the TV Set? That’s Not the Don I Know!
Winemaker Don Pullum samples ‘The Taste’
Playback: Heaven and Hell and Scott H. Biram
Scott H. Biram gets bloody, UT gets KUT’s music library, and Macaulay Culkin pisses me off
Skirting the Constitution
Texas rules Basso competent for execution
FronteraFest Long Fringe/Bring Your Own Venue
Fresh reviews of several shows in this year’s Bring Your Own Venue and Long Fringe categories
What If Your Restaurant Doesn’t Need Redemption?
Getting Satay ready for its close-up
Texas Platters
Had their 2004 Sony debut not gone double platinum – two million copies sold – Los Lonely Boys might still be the reigning blues-rock heavyweights of a town that barely recognizes the sport today. The San Angelo trio of siblings ripped through Austin’s club scene early this millennium with electrifying performances equaled only by Gary…
Perry Chills on Pot Decriminalization
Texas Gov comes out in support of less punitive drug policy
Exhibitionism
This dance work morphs, mixes, and disorients constructs of what’s typical and atypical in movement
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In 1937, the median age of orchestra concert audiences in Los Angeles was 28. Alfred Hitchcock made Psycho for $800,000. It was loosely based on a novel by Robert Bloch who based it on a true incident in Wisconsin. The same true incident would later inspire The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Insurance company statisticians and Nazi…
Texas Platters
Those lamenting a dearth of female MCs around town need look no further than Magna Carda’s Megz Kelli, who lights up Van Geaux mixtape with quick-witted flows evoking Jean Grae and Stasia Irons. Her band, led by keyboardist Chris Beale and the Chronicle’s Derek Van Wagner on bass, keeps pace, unfolding a slow piano melody…
The Hightower Report: Why are NFL cheerleaders booing their teams?
Let’s turn now to the Wide, Wide, WILD World of Sports. The big story at this time of year, of course, is the Super Bowl, that multi-multi-million dollar showcase of super-paid superstars, billionaire owners, taxpayer-financed sports palaces, extravagant corporate skyboxes serving deep-fried caviar, and TV ads running $4 million for a 30-second spot. But behind…
The Luv Doc: Trophy Wives
Dear Luv Doc, In this day and age, when women argue their case to be accepted to be equal to men and their riches, am I wrong to assume that trophy wives who sit in the stands or sidelines and end up kissing the man who makes the dough, the same women who complain about…
‘The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting’
Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke serve as inspirations for Ariel Dance Theatre’s new dance-and-music collaboration
Texas Platters
A quarter century after his murder, folksinger Blaze Foley won’t die. A societal outcast with a mythic reputation for boozy troublemaking and bone chilling songs, he hits deep in your soul. Repeatedly. Selling records was a success never realized in Foley’s lifetime (1949-89), yet here’s Cold, Cold World, released on CD in 2006 and now…
I, Frankenstein
Aaron Eckhart stars as a modern-day Frankenstein, who faces off against supernatural creatures in this film based on the graphic novel by Kevin Grevioux.
‘Faculty Showcase: Doug Jaques’
Austin Community College pays a memorial tribute to this late, great Austin muralist and teacher
Texas Platters
Forty years leading Asleep at the Wheel doesn’t mean there’s not life beyond Western swing for Ray Benson. A Little Piece finds the towering bandleader all over the musical map but always with a hint of country. Moving beyond the jazzy strains of his first solo work, 2003’s Beyond Time, he’s a crooner, a folk…
Then There’s This: High Water
After losing everything in the flood, onion creek residents still have nothing
The Saratov Approach
This faith-based, true-life thriller tells the story of two Mormon missionaries who were kidnapped and held for ransom while serving in Russia in 1998.
Get Your Arms Around CLAW
How one quirky hobby became an over-the-top phenomenon
Texas Platters
Following the departure of lead singer-songwriter Tim Smith, Midlake could’ve packed in its legacy of three acclaimed LPs and faded into the hinterland of influences spurring the new millennial resurgence of Seventies folk-rock. Instead, the Denton sextet scrapped its fourth LP and started fresh with guitarist Eric Pulido helming a more democratic process. Antiphon therefore…
Quote of the Week
“It’s time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a Mad Men episode.” – President Barack Obama, in this week’s State of the Union address, on creating gender equality in the workplace.
Labor Day
An escaped convict finds a family of sorts in this new drama by Jason Reitman.
No Heels, No Hipsters, No Highballs
Moontower Saloon finds success by keeping it simple
Texas Platters
What the cover would have you believe towers over the Austin skyline of the title is Evan Johns, his shaved head, and an odd-shaped electric guitar. And “odd-shaped” remains the perfect descriptor for what this D.C. export does with American roots music: You can never slot him into any genre straitjacket, be it jazz, garage…
Council Notes: Incentives, Booze, and More
Not quite as exciting as mayoral race buzz, but today’s agenda matters
The Past
Another masterstroke from Asghar Farhadi, The Past begins as a domestic drama and stealthily evolves into a kind of thriller.
Food-o-File
Cafe 909’s Mark Schmidt announces a new endeavor, Aaron Franklin doubles-down with KLRU, and more
Texas Platters
Austin’s been blessedly free of supergroups since the reign of the ARC Angels, but that doesn’t mean a group of likeminded pals shouldn’t kick out a few jams. Longtime local fixtures, barroom bard Mike Nicolai and explosive rock quartet Grand Champeen found common ground in Midwestern power pop and created the Bremen Riot as an…
Headlines
› Icy weather Tuesday morning forced City Council to cancel its work session, leaving several discussion-worthy issues up in the air. Among them: a resolution to gauge residents’ ability to pay for general fund services, proposed incentives for AthenaHealth, a settlement agreement on firefighter hiring, and more (See “Council Notes”). › Easy come, easy go.…
Heart Attack
Telugu romantic drama.
Food Events
Jan. 30-Feb. 6
Day Trips
Fresh Tex-Mex beer at Twisted X Brewery in Dripping Springs
Pandavulu Pandavulu Thummeda
Pandavulu Pandavulu Thummeda 2014, NR. Directed by Sriwass, Starring Mohan Babu, Vishnu Manchu, Varun Sandesh. Not reviewed at press time. Telugu family comedy.
Gay Place
The Gay Place goes back to her roots, just south of the Wild Side and a hair shy of a Moonage Daydream
The ‘Banner Saga’ Saga
The game that launched a thousand headlines has its roots right here
Reconnect Austin: Part Two
It’s a beautiful vision, but could it work?
Soccer Watch
Yet more good news for former Austin Aztex players Monday: The Houston Dynamo named Sito Seoane to their preseason roster as they open training camp this week. Seoane, born in Miami, raised in Spain, had a breakout season with the PDL Champion Aztex in 2013, culminating with being named PDL Playoff MVP for scoring the…
Exhibitionism
H.G. Wells’ novel of animal nature perverted, brought vividly and powerfully to life by Charles Stites
Who Benefits From a Reconnected Austin?
The “value creation” touted as a benefit of the Reconnect Austin plan may have side effects, says Bo McCarver. McCarver is chair of the Blackland Community Development Corporation, a provider of affordable housing in the neighborhood east of I-35 between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Manor Road. He wrote a resolution opposing the Reconnect…
Israel Win Gives Dems the Edge in November
Turnout impressive despite ice storms
Taking Candy From a Saga
Candy Crush Saga fever has swept the nation. For months, it has dominated dinner conversation, replaced reading as the popular pre-bedtime activity, and made obscene profits from people who just can’t stand to lose. Until a few weeks ago, many praised Candy Crush as a model for free-to-play games. The mechanics of the game prey…
Exhibitionism
Top-notch acting powers this claustrophobic confrontation between a dead boy’s grieving mother and his teacher
Go or No Go?
No Va is a promising addition to the Rainey Street District
Mayoral Dance Card Suddenly Shrinks
Martin and McLellan bow out of race
Exhibitionism
There’s plenty to find amusing in this unapologetically confessional show by Rebecca Beegle
The Good Eye
Beauty tips from a comedy queen
Club Endorsements Pile Up
Multi-club meeting scheduled for Jan. 30
