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Drinks Issue 2018

Sipping mezcal in Oaxaca. Drunk on the Red Line. Circling the globe via the ingredients in your cocktail shaker. No matter where you go this summer, bring a straw. It’s Destination: Drinks.

by Chronicle Staff

Who Killed Teddy Bear?

Who Killed Teddy Bear? 1965, NR, 94 min. Directed by Joseph Cates, Starring Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray. Cult thriller about a disc jockey who is stalked by a sexual predator was censored at the time of its release.

by Chronicle Staff

Taipei Story

Taipei Story 1989, NR, 110 min. Directed by Edward Yang, Starring Chin Tsai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, I-Chen Ko. This second feature from Taiwanese maestro Edward Yang explores the complicated relationship of a couple on different tracks.

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

For over 20 years, Carolyn Wonderland has strutted with ease as she reigns in the trades of singer, songwriter, and guitarist all at once. Back with her first studio album in six years, the Houston-born Austinite stomps trademark blues-rock in Moon Goes Missing. Once again, Wonderland turns troubadour, purveying the landscape of American roots music:…

by Alejandra Ramirez

Headlines

The Downtown real estate boys finally got their reward for successfully opposing the 2015 bond to underwrite a new civil and family courthouse at Third & Guadalupe. This week Travis County announced a 99-year ground lease to develop the county-owned property, for $430 million in lease payments over the next century, including an initial $13.4…

by Chronicle Staff

Soccer Watch

U.S. coach Bruce Arena brought a young and untested squad to the 2017 Gold Cup – the biennial championship of North, Central, and Caribbean America – and they didn’t look very good in their first game against Panama: a 1-1 draw that could have been far worse but for goalkeeper Brad Guzan’s repeated heroics. Sloppy…

by Nick Barbaro

Texas Platters

Slaid Cleaves feels the inevitable slide of time, but there’s still beauty to behold in its passing. A master of simple melody and sharp lyrics, the veteran singer-songwriter captures every slight nuance in the setting sun even as Ghost on the Car Radio layers melancholic. Unlike the sociopolitical punch of 2013 standout Still Fighting the…

by Doug Freeman

Page Two: The Good Songs We Need to Sing Together and Loud

Thirty years of confusions and change Thirty years of the stress and the strains Thirty years to be accused and to blame Ahhh thirty years that don’t mean a thing When you put them beside Them good songs we sang – Terry Allen, “The Thirty Years Waltz” There was a time, many a time, when…

by Louis Black

Public Notice: When the Cats Are Away …

With City Council on hiatus, they’ve left their surrogates on the Planning Commis­sion and Zoning & Platting Commission to keep working on the elusive pimpernel that is CodeNEXT. Problem is, at the moment no one can seem to find hide nor hair of the slippery beast. We thought we had it pinned down three weeks…

by Nick Barbaro

Texas Platters

Jason Eady’s sixth full-length reintroduces the Fort Worth songwriter, both in its eponymous title and substance. His previous pair of LPs, 2012’s AM Country Heaven and 2014’s Daylight & Dark, staked the Mississippi import as one of Texas’ best-kept songwriting secrets, and here he culls a collection of acoustic ballads that digs deeper than he…

by Doug Freeman

Texas Platters

Following a four-year gap between albums, Austin quartet KOSL returns with a new name – abbreviating moniker Kingdom of Suicide Lovers – and a record that’s leaps and bounds ahead of hazy, lo-fi debut Distant Waves. Bursting with a fuller, off-kilter sound, Kosmos weaves together guitar-driven post-punk, synth-pop, and No Wave influences into a collection…

by Libby Webster

Texas Platters

Being sole participant in your local scene pays off sometimes. Ask Tim Stegall, whose strident and singular POV was sharpened by growing up punk in the rough South Texas oil-and-ranching hamlet of Alice. Veteran Chronicle scribe and Hormones bandleader, he became a key figure in the insurgent scene that grew out of the Cavity and…

by Greg Beets

Texas Platters

Math rock: a musician’s wet dream brimming with dizzying guitar lines and sprawling drum work that often bogs down in technicality and lifeless bro-dom. Enter Hikes, who somehow make it all accessible. On four-song EP Lilt, the Austin quartet rises and dive-bombs like leaves in a fall breeze. Frontman Nathan Wilkins’ six-string picking approximates wind…

by Alejandra Ramirez

Lawmaker Files Bill to Strike SB 4

A Ft. Worth lawmaker is aiming to repeal anti-immigrant Senate Bill 4, the discriminatory “papers please” law passed by the Legislature earlier this year that punishes so-called “sanctuary cities.” On the first day of bill filing for the upcoming 30-day special session, which begins July 18, Democrat Rep. Ramón Romero filed HB 53, which would…

by Mary Tuma

Texas Platters

The path of stoner metal has been trod by so many bands that it’s now as smooth as a baby’s butt. Meaning, it’s no easy task to make chugging hard rock with a tripped-out vibe sound fresh again, but Austin’s Duel put a new coat of paint on a crumbling house with Witchbanger. Since last…

by Michael Toland

Texas’ Redistricting Case Is Underway

Texas’ redistricting case began this week with the bombshell allegation that the state had been withholding vital documents from lawyers challenging current House and Congressional maps. Last week, before the trial began Monday in San Antonio, lawyers for one of the litigating voters’ rights groups (known in the proceedings as the Quesada plaintiffs) accused the…

by Richard Whittaker

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Want to say “no worries” in Australia? Some say “no wuckers,” which is a spoonerism of “no effing worries.” According to AppAnnie.com, people will spend 3.5 trillion hours on mobile apps by 2021. Instead of Groundhog Day, in Korea they have Gyeongchip, the Day of Awakening. It takes place on the 74th day after the…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

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