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There Goes the Neighborhood
Austin’s paved over parking spots for its live music paradise. Take 10th Street, between the frontage road and Red River. My secret spot: gone. Vanished. Public. On Fourth, two blocks east of the highway, I encountered “no parking” signs lining the chain-link fence as I trolled for parking two Saturday nights ago. Re-routing southeast avoided…
Be Here Now: Ray Lamontagne
Writer’s block? Call Elvis Costello!
How Roger Ebert Showed Me the Light
Stateside screens Ebert darling ‘Dark City’ tonight and tomorrow
For Procreation’s Sake, Abbott Appeals Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
State champions marriage equality ban
Estate Sale Roundup: July 31-August 3
You could be swimming, but you’d rather be rummaging
William Dear Says Freedom, R.I.P.
Biker tale ‘The Northville Cemetery Massacre’ revs at Weird Wednesday
Loud, Fun, and Colorful
Arts in Context dives deep into the Octopus Project
10 Minutes with Nick Waterhouse
Crate digging in the Internet era and other retro pursuits
The AggreGAYtor: July 30
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
EDM: Etiquette to Dull the Masses
EDM bounds styles too astute for its vapid pursuits
Whodunnit All Over the World?
The Melville House International Crime series is ship-shape.
Admiral McRaven to Become UT Chancellor
Man who masterminded Bin Laden death to take over UT
Queen of the Hill: 3805 Red River Stands Another Day
Demolition efforts are delayed by the HLC
Stargayzer Fest Moves Downtown
Our city’s newest festival brings it home
A Big Texas Unwelcome in Dallas
‘Don’t Mess with Texas, ALEC!’
The AggreGAYtor: July 29
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Eve & the Exiles in August
Hanging out with Antone’s Records co-owner Eve Monsees
Mangia! It’s National Lasagne Day
Local eateries celebrate with lasagne specials
Peter Murphy the Lionhearted
Bauhaus dramatist prowls Belmont with old-school noir LP
The Long Trip up the ‘Dark Mountain’
Writer/director Tara Anaïse brings her wilderness horror to Austin
AISD: First Candidates File
One incumbent, one regular face confirmed, but still many vacancies
UT English Professor Joe Slate Dies
Slate provided inspiration, support for Austin’s first French bakery
Wines of the Week
25 of the Best Reds Under $25
The Road to 10-1: Catching Up
Who’s in, who’s out, who’s who?
The AggreGAYtor: July 28
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Tour de France Report: Stages 20-21
Show’s over, folks
Video Premiere: Wild Bill & the Lost Knobs
Romance escapes lovable goofball on ‘She Don’t Say No’
Aztex Host Conference Championship Tonight
Moment of brilliance highlights 3-1 semifinal win
The Road to 10-1: NAAO Forum, or …
How do you fit three dozen candidates into two hours?
Lit-urday: All the Single Ladies
The life cycle of a female worker bee sounds strangely familiar
DVDanger: All This Horror Business
Catching up with the major terror releases
The Take-Out: July 25
Our picks to whet your weekend appetite
Lager or Leave It
Austin Beer Guide to host Lager Jam at Billy’s on Burnet
Alphabet Soup: aGLIFF, IFP, and Other Announcements
Announcements from aGLIFF, Austin represents at the IFP, and more
SMTX Pride Gets Mayoral Nod
The inaugural 2014 San Marcos Pride event is now officially official
First Authors Announced for Texas Book Festival
Marquee names run the gamut from Amis to Ziggy
Strange Kids Doing Strange Things
Eighties retro-spoofers Strange Kids Club has real mutant turtles
Tour de France Report: Stage 19
The end is in sight
King Buzzo Unplugs
Melvins’ guitarist goes acoustic?
Where the Girls Go/ATX: Sensory Overload Edition
This weekend’s best bets for partying with the queers and QTs
What the Hell Is that Tentacle Fence on Koenig Lane?
It’s pastry chef and political gadfly Jen Cash’s noodly masterpiece
Kickstart Your Weekend: Send Danni Danger to the Geekies
Former ‘Chronicle’ cover star needs help getting to L.A.
The AggreGAYtor: July 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
I Origins
The director of 2011’s Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.
Lucy
Scarlett Johansson goes totally badass in this far-fetched but riveting Luc Besson action film.
The Luv Doc: A Lot of Guy Friends
Luv Doc, I just started dating a girl I really, really like except for one thing – she has a lot of guy friends that she spends time with. I have mentioned that this bothers me but she says I am being silly and that they are just friends and that’s all. Should I break…
Sex Tape
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel have escapades while trying to retrieve their sexcapade.
Persecuted
In this Christian-based thriller with a better-than-average cast, an evangelist is framed for murder by the government.
A Most Wanted Man
This post-9/11 espionage thriller is adapted from John Le Carré’s 2008 novel and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman at the head of a top-notch cast.
Wish I Was Here
Zach Braff explores life in one’s late 30s: troubles with unruly kids, ailing parents, and creative aspirations complicated by financial realities.
And So It Goes
Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas are ill-served by director by Rob Reiner in this odd-couple romance.
Golden Girl
In ‘Boyhood’ and beyond, Austin native Zoe Graham acts naturally
Playback: Cherubs Flit Back
The unlikely return of Nineties noisemakers Cherubs.
Home Sweet Home
Strange Brew 5326 Manchaca Rd., 512/828-7636 www.strangebrewaustin.com Square feet: 1,600 Capacity: 100 “We have a lot of people come to the venue who live in the immediate area, but it’s act driven,” says venue owner Scott Ward. “Bigger acts will get people from San Antonio/Houston. There are a lot of people who will do that…
The Racial Divide in Movies
The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on “race” movies
‘Kasey Short: 5 Plus Hearts’
The artist’s comparison of war and violence with spectator sport holds promise, though not all the work is equally strong
Ethics Commission: ‘Mucus’ Quacks Like a Lobbyist
TEC hits Michael Quinn Sullivan with maximum fine for acting as an unregistered lobbyist
Titaya’s, Take Two
Was it worth the wait?
Road to Freedom
The Cost of Art III: How the Fusebox Festival liberated itself from charging admission
SBOE: No Scholars Need Apply
SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a social studies textbook review committee.
Patricia Highsmith
The crime writer’s dark world is stranger than (literary) fiction
The Hightower Report: Can a $7 billion penalty be a good deal?
Citigroup made more money from the Fed than it got fined
Top Dogs
T-Loc’s Sonora Hot Dogs bring Mexico to Allandale
The Other Side
Memoir by Houston writer Lacy Johnson recounts a personal trauma with honesty and haunting beauty
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mozart may have died from complications stemming from strep throat or scarlet fever. His death has also been blamed on intentional poisoning, rheumatic fever, and trichinosis, a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork. Lauren Bacall and Shimon Peres are first cousins. In 2012, Steve Heydon of the Bohart Museum of Entomology discovered…
Food-o-File
Big changes at Olivia – and the Chronicle
Austin Chronicle Book Club: ‘The Long Goodbye’
Share your thoughts about Raymond Chandler with other Chronicle readers in a Twitter chat about The Long Goodbye
AISD Race: A Voice for Southwest Austin
Schneider faces two challengers as he seeks a fourth term
Point Austin: All the King’s Horses
Moving toward fairness on property taxes
Through Rosé Colored Glasses
Rae Wilson helps Austin reconsider the pink drink
Council: By the Numbers
Summer break is almost over for City Council
Quote of the Week
“I want them to work politically for change. I want them asking the deeper questions.” – Rev. Sid Hall, Trinity United Methodist Church, on exhorting his congregation to help Central American refugees.
Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
Twin Liquors Settles With TABC
The liquor giant will be allowed to keep open all of its retail operations, but faces a $500,000 fine and the end of wholesale operations in some stores.
Then There’s This: Suffer the Little Children
Some Texas communities turn their backs as young refugees seek protection
The Good Eye: In Praise of Last-Resort Wear
It’s official: You may wear caftans
Austin Responds to the Refugees
As the Central American refugee crisis unfolds, an Austin movement to offer aid is playing out quietly, behind the scenes.
Headlines
› City Hall’s summer break is nearly done – City Council budget work sessions resume July 31, and the following week (Aug. 7) the regular meeting will take up budget issues as well as the major rail and bond decision for November. › Meanwhile, the first campaign finance reports for November’s historic 10-1 Council election…
Even Flow
The Wounded Warrior Project and MSNBC bring the war home via an Austin connection
Day Trips
From wedding cakes to king cakes, Rao’s Bakery has you covered
Soccer Watch: Playoffs This Weekend … With Beer!
The Austin Aztex host the PDL Southern Conference Championships this Saturday-Sunday, July 26-27 at House Park, with a semifinal doubleheader Saturday, and the championship Sunday. The Aztex have made the playoffs in each of their three years in PDL, and host them for the second year in a row as the conference’s top seed, after…
All but Illegal
As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure
Gay Place: Neither Dazed Nor Confused
They may not come from the land of the ice and snow, but check out Zepparella anyway
Oops!
In “The Road to 10-1: Now We Begin,” July 18, the name of City Clerk Elections Coordinator Ann Franklin was misspelled; and concerning the opening of the official filing period of previously declared candidates for City Council elections, Franklin explained, “None of them are [officially] candidates until they file for office.”
All’s Well That Ends Well
In 7 Towers Theatre’s staging of the Bard’s tragicomedy, comic relief is never too far behind the tense moments
