Cover Story
We Were From Texas
Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt
Transport on a Road to Nowhere
House and Senate in conference committee as clock ticks down
No Monkeying Around for Alamo Apes
Classic Mondo print up for grabs at Planet of the Apes
Cafe Mueller Debuts Friday, July 26
First H-E-B in-house restaurant is just what neighborhood ordered
News Ticker: July 25
All the news that’s fit to blog
Almost Famous
Searching for soundtracks at j-school Meccas
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Again – Tonight
Jason Mewes on the duo’s ‘Super Groovy Cartoon Movie’
Their Satanic Majesties
Dark knowledge and Jäger shots with Austin’s Ancient VVisdom
What a ‘To Do’
Maggie Carey talks about improv, Clinton, and her daughters’ convent
The AggreGAYtor: July 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
News Ticker: July 24
All the news that’s fit to blog
Drafthouse Films at … Not the Drafthouse
Austin Film Society hosts four favorites from the collection
Sara Hickman and Darden Smith
A new-album roundtable for two
Royers Pie Haven Coming to Austin
Pie shop and coffee bar to take over space on Guadalupe by fall
Annotating the Austin City Limits Music Festival Schedule
What’s where and who’s when this year in Zilker Park
Don DeLillo Is Coming to Austin
Esteemed author reads at UT’s Homer Rainey Hall
Five Minutes at Holy Mountain
A trio of locals under the lens
Fantastic Fest Announces Keanu Reeves as ‘Man of Tai Chi’
Plus ‘Big Bad Wolves’ and ‘Nightbreed – The Cabal Cut’ and more
Accounting and the War on Women, Part 2
AG says Planned Parenthood defrauded Medicaid
Shelved Not by Color, but by the Character of Their Content
Director C. Mikki on ‘Black and White’
The AggreGAYtor: July 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Into the Pit
North Austin’s Hot Lava Obstacle Course makes fitness fun
Eternal Sunshine of the 23-year-old Mind
Ellen O’Meara dreams up her first disc
Love and Death, Underwater
Alison Ellwood’s No Limits premieres tonight on ESPN
She’s a Rainbow
Esme Barrera fundraiser reaps tribute single, rock camp scholarships
The AggreGAYtor: July 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
PDL Playoff Schedule Set
Aztex to Host Playoffs for First Time
DVD Watch: ‘Vanishing Waves’
Tender, shocking, erotic: Maybe not what you expect from Lithuania
The AggreGAYtor: July 22
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Fermentation Party in Your Mouth
New fermentation books rounded up
Film Flam
New Drafthouse, Sundance grants, and a 48-hour contest
Survey Says: Creative Spaces Needed
Artspace Market Survey results get presented tonight
Sowing the Seed
ACC launches sustainable agriculture program
‘Zero Charisma’ Rolls a Double Six on Distribution
Nerdist and Tribeca team up for Austin role playing comedy
Just Talkin’ ‘Bout Tacos
Shut your mouth! Around a taco!
Texas Rollergirls, Heartbroken No More
Honky Tonk Heartreakers end a six year championship dry spell
Film Flam
Law and order on the silver screen
DVDanger: ‘Wolverine Origin’
No, not the terrible movie. The groundbreaking comic, animated.
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Laika Believes’
New Minicore Studios project gives space-bound dog another life
Texas Department of Public Sexy
Dating site ranks Texas Troopers second most stylish in nation
Ricky Martinez Dead at 61
Ranch 616 mainstay was beloved of employees and customers alike
Cats in Crisis
Shelters full of felines waiting for forever homes
The AggreGAYtor: July 19
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Small Screen, Big News
Mark Gatiss, Lewis Black, and beyond
Don’t Let Us Get Sick
Sunday at the Saxon, Will Indian fundraises for a new liver
Fatal Subtraction
House bill ups the ante on 20 week abortion ban
Farmers Market Report: July 20-21, 2013
Summer salads and specials
Two Scoops of Jesse Eisenberg
Blue Starlite hosts ‘Zombieland’ and ‘Free Samples’
A Look at Lakeline
Behind the screens at the newest, biggest Alamo Drafthouse
The Full Monty
With the release of ‘RWBY,’ Monty Oum is officially Rooster Teeth’s rock star
Texas Platters
Earl Poole Ball Pianography Over the course of more than 50 years, Earl Poole Ball has lived a musical career that defines journeyman, inhabiting Mississippi, California, Tennessee, and finally Austin. He’s worked with Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons, Buck Owens, Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard, Linda Ronstadt, Phil Ochs, and many more. A local since 1999, his…
Lege Lines
With only transportation left on the special session agenda, the 2014 race begins
Red 2
No wonder Bruce Willis has become the king of the sequels: He reliably delivers more of whatever it is we liked the last time.
Have Your Lake and Eat There Too
The team behind the West Lake Hills outpost has another success on their hands
Day Trips
Central High School National Historic Site in Little Rock, Ark. is an inspirational landmark
Abbott Starts His Campaign Battle At the Alamo
The gubernatorial candidate is armed with a $21 million war chest
The Conjuring
This supernatural thriller from the director of Saw could be mistaken for The Amityville Exorcist.
Have Your Lake and Eat There Too
Sports bar concept gets the Lakeway treatment
WWE Monday Night Raw
To the victor, the spoils. At WWE’s Money in the Bank pay-per-view, Damien Sandow (pictured) snatched a guaranteed shot at the World Heavyweight championship. Others have done so before, to be dubbed “Mister Money in the Bank.” Yet for the ever-eloquent and self-proclaimed intellectual savior of the masses, that title is insufficient. To that end,…
Red Light Firm Red in the Face
Redflex claims no wrongdoing in Austin
Only God Forgives
Drive‘s Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.
Have Your Lake and Eat There Too
The service here is lacking, but chef Morris’ reputation is well-deserved
Soccer Watch
The big local soccer news this week: The Austin Aztex will host the PDL Southern Conference Final Four, July 26-27 at House Park, against the Panama City Beach Pirates, Ocala Stampede, and either Laredo Heat or Oklahoma City FC. The semifinals will be Friday, July 26 (matchups and times TBA, but the Aztex will play…
Girl Most Likely
Kristen Wiig plays the darker side of the girl who hasn’t fulfilled her potential and Annette Bening co-stars as her Atlantic City mom.
Have Your Lake and Eat There Too
The Chile Con Queso Especial is a thing to be reckoned with
Playback: Dialing In Birdlegg
Birdleggs, Strange Boys, Moonpies, Ed Hall / Gorch Fock / Brown Whörnet, and other weirdness
Fill the Void
In this fascinating Israeli film set within a community of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a young woman grapples with whether to marry her dead sister’s husband.
Exhibitionism
Shakespeare may not seem like experimental theatre, but it is when it’s being performed by improvisers
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In military terms, a “whiteout” is a loss of orientation with respect to the horizon caused by sun reflecting on snow and overcast sky. Barney Fife’s birthstone was the ruby. CBS brass almost didn’t go for A Charlie Brown Christmas because it only used child actors, most of whom didn’t have previous experience. They hated…
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Sports biopic from India based on the life of “The Flying Sikh” Milkha Singh.
Exhibitionism
As staged by 7 Towers Theatre Company, Martin McDonagh’s play takes storytelling too far in more ways than one
Crema of the Crop?
Pastry chef Jessica Forkner goes brick and mortar with a homey South Austin cafe
Exhibitionism
This photography exhibition at the Ransom Center demonstrates the life of archives
New in Print: ‘Austin Breakfast Tacos’
Blog Taco Journalism leaps to print with this ode to the best meal of the day
Civics 101
Saturday 20 WOMEN’S HEALTH, MOTIVATION, AND EMPOWERMENT CONFERENCE Ninth annual conference encourages whole health for women and teen girls. Sessions cover health, inspiration, relationship building, and career development. Breakfast and lunch provided. Registration is required. 8am-3pm. Austin Community College Eastview Campus, 3401 Webberville Rd., 512/223-5186. Free. www.austincc.edu. Sunday 21 BENEFIT AND LAUNCH FOR ‘RESISTENCIA: SANGRE’…
Food-O-File
Perdón! We didn’t mean to fall off the tapas truck!
Headlines
› The Texas House is adjourned until 2pm on Thursday, July 18 – a necessary break to find enough votes to pass essential road funding legislation. If they don’t do so, lawmakers could be back for a third special session (see “Lege Lines.”) › On Monday, Judge Tim Sulak ruled in favor of the Austin…
To Forgive, Divine
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite in ‘Only God Forgives’
Record Review
Guy Clark My Favorite Picture of You (Dualtone) After 71 years on Earth and 15 albums of unparalleled creative exuberance, what can one still expect from Guy Clark? Don’t anticipate he’ll continue to produce songs and tell stories with the same warmth and intelligence he always has or he’ll take it as a dare and…
Food Events
July 19-24
Quote of the Week
“Don’t know why some people are so shocked I’m pro-choice. The first line of ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ is ‘We’ve got the right to choose!'” – Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider on his band’s song becoming the unofficial anthem of HB 1 opponents
When My Big Star’s Beside Me
Cult-legend rock doc returns to Austin
Texas Platters
The Octopus Project Fever Forms (Peek-A-Boo Records) Crowned technoids, electro wizards, rock sprockets, etc., the Octopus Project still sounds the way a kaleidoscope looks. For 14 years, the local quartet has trafficked in a wild array of intensely curated and highly energetic sonic and visual explorations, but the longtime Peek-A-Boo players’ abilities to transfer that…
Gay Place: Down South
This week is Red Hot; your week ain’t doodly-squat
Then There’s This: The Race For Campaign Cash
County Judge and Pct. 2 Commissioner’s races don’t come cheap
The Making of a Movement
Moments from the battle on women’s rights … in progress
Texas Platters
The Gospel Truth A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things (12XU) Matador co-owner Gerard Cosloy isn’t adverse to saxophones, and neither is the Gospel Truth. The local crate digger’s personal imprint, 12XU, now hosts the Austin quartet’s first LP in its six-year history, A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things, which plays like a garage-punk album that’s…
The Hightower Report
Slaphappy politicos
Point Austin: United Defense of the Fetus
Campaign to end abortion is a national crusade
‘A Chorus Line’
Long Center launches its new musical series with a singular sensation
Texas Platters
Utley3 No More, No Less (Flak Records) If you’ve been hoping Eighties roots rockers Lone Justice would reunite with the sound of their first album and some added power-pop, Utley3 have made a disc to thrill your soul. Actually, No More, No Less would excite anyone who spent the Nineties at the Hole in the…
McAfee To Be Remembered at Childhood Home
Longtime activist dies Saturday, July 13
Senate Amendments: Proposed and Rejected
During the July 12 State Senate debate over the anti-abortion bill, HB 2, Democratic senators proposed several amendments to the bill. All were rejected, largely on partisan lines. The debate ultimately ended with the passage of HB 2, without any mitigating or clarifying language. The following amendments were proposed and rejected (i.e., “tabled”). – Jordan…
‘Anthem’
Austin Shakespeare takes its stage adaptaion of Ayn Rand’s novella to off-Broadway
Texas Platters
The Carrots New Romance (Elefant) There’s nothing more disappointing than digging out your dad’s vinyl and falling in love with a group that’s long since disbanded. Local sextet the Carrots has now rebooted this vicious cycle. Arriving five years after a series of retro-pop 7-inch previews, full-length debut New Romance also serves as the group’s…
City Promises to Obey Law … Eventually
JJ Seabrook neighborhood fights back against ‘ongoing construction site’
The Luv Doc: Contemplating Depilating
Dear Luv Doc, After a divorce several years ago I got back into the dating “scene.” I have dated several men since then and finally found a younger man that I really hit it off with. We get along great except for one problem: He constantly teases me about having pubic hair. It’s really starting…
Studio Visits: Jerry DeFrese
A new studio provides the space, and height, for this artist’s new body of work
Texas Platters
Troller (Holodeck) Troller’s album cover art, likely swiped from an Eighties swinger mag, sports an androgynous woman wearing only a leather vest – with an axe positioned strategically between her legs. That barbaric smuttiness defies the sonic polish positioning Troller as the most stylistically accessible project from local experimental label Holodeck. The group’s debut, originally…
‘The Fight for the Future … Is Just Beginning’
After weeks of drama, sweeping abortion restrictions pass the Lege
Grown Ups 2
Sandler and pals return to the well.
Have Your Lake and Eat There Too
‘Chronicle’ foodies dive into the fresh offerings out west
Texas Platters
Wiretree Get Up Following up a breakthrough LP ain’t easy. Make Up, Wiretree’s third album, launched the Austin quartet into the top tier of guitar poppers both local and national on the strength of its songs and performances. Get Up, the difficult fourth album, solidifies its predecessor’s success while building on its gains. Bandleader Kevin…
Aftermath: Troopers Bust Protesters
In the heat of the abortion protests, some say the DPS used excessive force
Turbo
A snail wants to race in the Indy 500 in this new animated comedy.
