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You’ll find fresh and flavorful sandwiches at this spot on a shady Downtown corner

by Mick Vann

Texas Platters

Alejandro Escovedo Street Songs of Love (Fantasy) At KGSR’s 2008 anniversary concert, when asked how his heralded Real Animal had performed at market, Alejandro Escovedo scowled. “The same,” he said. We were both disappointed. Always the bridesmaid. Or is that Animal gateway “Always a Friend” never the bride? Either way, now nine solo studio LPs…

by Raoul Hernandez

Predators

This Robert Rodriguez-produced film doesn’t try to be a sequel to the Schwarzenegger picture but, instead, is a new story about humans hunted by the merciless Predators.

by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

Blaze Foley Sittin’ by the Road (Lost Art) The legend of Blaze Foley continues. True to the scattered way Austin’s Duct Tape Messiah lived his too-short life – cut short by a gunshot in 1989 – the low-tech recordings on Sittin’ by the Road were left at a friend’s house in Georgia three decades ago…

by Lee Nichols

Texas Platters

Phranchyze The Black Larry Bird The stereotype’s nearly as old as hip-hop: battle MCs can’t cut proper studio albums. A veteran of both Grind Time and the World Rap Championships, Phranchyze is first and foremost a battle rapper, but as the intro to The Black Larry Bird professes, the 26-year-old local rhymesayer also has “the…

by Austin Powell

Event Menu

Iconic local restaurant closes, farmers’ market relocates, fundraising party for Barr, and two Austin sweet spots get some screen time

by Virginia B. Wood

Texas Platters

Riders Against the Storm Speak the Truth Austinites by way of Providence, R.I., transplants Riders Against the Storm are brimming with positive vibrations. The husband-and-wife team of Jbro and Tiger Lily declare themselves hip-hop healers, a maxim that might ring corny if they weren’t certifiably nice on the mic. Opening salvo “Notebook” is a stripped-down…

by Thomas Fawcett

Texas Platters

Hollywood Gossip Dear as Diamonds The opening track from local quartet Hollywood Gossip’s debut LP grabs you immediately: the combination of singer/guitarist Tyler Womack’s cadenced chant (“sleepwalkin’ walkin'”) and the song’s Smiths-esque trot get in your head like good pop hooks should. In that way, Dear as Diamonds works as a summer album, one you…

by Audra Schroeder

Texas Platters

Stonehoney The Cedar Creek Sessions (Music Road) With its lush, four-part harmonies and layers of ringing guitars, Stonehoney sounds like 1974. The locals’ country rock would fit nicely next to radio staples of the time like Poco, Firefall, and especially the Eagles. Not many acts today capture that sound with Stonehoney’s accuracy, and, to a…

by Jim Caligiuri

Headlines

� City Manager Marc Ott and a contingent of city officials and community members are expected to return today (Thursday, July 15) from a reconnaissance mission to Turlock, Calif., to see Larry Weis – one of the two recently interviewed candidates for Austin Energy’s general manager position – in his native habitat. Ott told council…

by Chronicle Staff

Standing Ovation

Not reviewed at press time. This musical is about a group of junior high students competing in a nationwide music video contest.

by Kimberley Jones

Off the Record

The Department of Homeland Security tries to take down YellowFever and KAOS Radio. Somewhere Harvey Pekar is laughing.

by Austin Powell

Jimmie Vaughan 2010

Austin Chronicle: Any reason it’s been nine years since your last solo album? Jimmie Vaughan: I didn’t plan it that way. I got married and had twins. And I wrote some songs but didn’t like them. Then I did the Jimmy Reed album with Omar [Kent Dykes], and that got me excited. Then I met…

by Chronicle Staff

Record Review

Jimmie Vaughan Plays Blues, Ballads & Favorites (Shout! Factory) File Jimmie Vaughan in that prestigious group of musicians who don’t make bad albums, but that does him a disservice. Co-founding the Fabulous Thunderbirds set up the master guitarist for a Grammy-winning solo career that’s produced four rock-solid LPs, never hurried and never overdone. New offering…

by Margaret Moser

Sustainable Planning

Our region certainly isn’t the only one struggling to get a cohesive act together. Recog­niz­ing that regional planning needs help nationwide, the U.S. Congress has provided $150 million to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for a Sustainable Com­mun­ities Initiative that integrates housing and transportation and environmental planning – funding land-use plans and zoning…

by Katherine Gregor

Restaurant Review

The fabulous cocktails, cool atmosphere, and plenty of garage parking will make this a favorite spot for meeting friends for drinks

by Claudia Alarcón

Luv Doc Recommends: Red Hot 2010

The oil business has been getting an especially bad rap recently, especially since the Deepwater Horizon blowout. As with all preventable catastrophes, there has been plenty of finger-pointing but no truly satisfying scapegoat. In fact, saddling an actual goat with the symbolic transgressions of the various parties involved might ultimately prove easier to watch than…

by The Luv Doc

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