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The Right Snuff
Savage survivor and Sex Pistols witness Artly Snuff isn’t just another face in Austin’s eccentric crowd
Brooks Brothers Fits Right Into the Scarborough Building
Menswear institution opening in Congress Avenue landmark Fall 2011
TDH: 7/14/11
Formula One committee shifts gears with new meeting
Kelly, Erma, Bruce & George
Q&A with Kelly Willis
Wednesday Rewind (Rewound)
Bleached by the sun with the Black & White Years plus Fun with flags
When Tragedy Overshadows Celebration
The story looming over All-Star break isn’t about baseball
Silent But Deadly
Bangable Dudes in History hits on Buster Keaton
Local App Alert: Connectrode
A casual game with something for everyone
TDH: 7/13/11
Mayor’s chief of staff shines his last Batsignal
Chadd Thomas Dead
APD looking for help in solving South Austin homicide
Texecutioners by Night(line)
Texas Rollergirls on ABC tonight, so mix up some Picklebacks
Illuminating ‘Incendiary’
Jordan Smith’s SXSW interview with the Willingham case filmmakers
TDH: 7/12/11
City soliciting people powered input
The Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast Gets Sandy
Chain saws, treaty violations and Minnesota beaches
Best of 2011, So Far
Wrapping up Christmas in July
Flamingoing, Going, Almost Gone
Brenner’s current bedside reading table
Oscar, Meet Mondo
Drafthouse’s art boutique partners with the Academy
TDH: 7/11/11
First meeting for F1’s local committee goes down today
Captain America
Captain America 1990, PG-13, 107 min. Directed by Albert Pyun, Starring Matt Salinger, Ronny Cox, Ned Beatty, Darren McGavin. Before Chris Evans took on Cap’s shield for the MCU, there was this low-budget curio from cult director Albert Pyun.
From Circus to Cocktails
Two nights, two very different shows from CircX and friends
Celebrate Reproductive Rights While You Can
A Planned Parenthood benefit party and props for Jordan Smith
Take It From a First-Timer…
The wisdom of experience at AFF’s Conversations in Film
They Dance Like Homicide Birthday Cake
Four in legion, going solo with motion captured
Grand Jury No-Bills in Maddox Murder
No charges against deceased assailant or widow
Roller Derby Update 7/8/11
Saddle up for a big weekend on and off the range
Humane Society of Williamson County Hosts Bowl-a-Thon
Ten pins, four paws
What Rocks FOX This Week
Events and new CDs
Prophet Fires Attorney…Again
A strategy to avoid July trial?
SoCo Gets a Bookstore
Official grand opening takes place July 9
Phases & Stages
Jim Lauderdale Reason and Rhyme (Sugar Hill) After Jerry Garcia’s death, no one would have pegged Jim Lauderdale as Robert Hunter’s favorite co-writer, but Reason and Rhyme teams Nashville’s song machine with the Grateful Dead lyricist once again. Last year’s highly-touted collaboration Patchwork River was a roots-rock affair, and this time they get high and…
From Shrub to Nub
City takes a chain saw to Laura Croteau’s wildlife habitat
New Crime Tracker Debuts
DIY crime-tracking coming to a neighborhood near you
The Common Law
Specific Performance – Forcing the Sale of Property?
Phases & Stages
Marianne Faithfull Horses and High Heels (Naïve) Ariel Abshire Still So New (Learning To Share) Age before beauty. Marianne Faithfull has both, but only at 64 does she get to flaunt it so nonchalantly, a diva grandmother dressed in furs and diamonds sharing her memory book with, say, a 19-year-old local songwriter named Ariel Abshire.…
Two Hotels for the Price of … Two?
Convention center hotels seek city waivers
Horse Gone; Barn Door Debate Continues
Hindsight is 20/20
TV Eye: That’s What She Said
After 10 years in print, ‘TV Eye’ has its series finale
Phases & Stages
Aurelio Laru Beya (Sub Pop) Honduran Aurelio takes the Garifuna mantle from his late, great mentor Andy Palacio (ACL Music Festival 2007), further evolving the musical moment an African slave ship broke free to the Caribbean. Light, coastal, airy rhythms and island cries smooth the Jimmy Cliff lilt of the title track and Wingless Angels-type…
Perry’s Pride: Not So Special Tally
Perry always declares victory, even when he loses
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, July 7-14
After a Fashion
From a new Hush and some new grooves to a big voice on The Voice, Your Style Avatar covers the sounds
Phases & Stages
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo The 1st Album (Analog Africa) James Brown, Parliament-Funkadelic, Fela Kuti: the funk band overlords. Into this mystic come four tracks – two previously unreleased – from Benin’s Kings of Vodoun. Cut one afternoon in 1973, its 33 minutes of French-kissed Afrobeat rings iron bell tones of raw percussion that outline an electric current…
U.S. Enters Death Row Fray
An act of Congress may spare inmate’s life
‘Tea in Tripoli’
A master storyteller spins the true yarn of a year spent in Libya
Phases & Stages
Sidi Touré & Friends Sahel Folk (Thrill Jockey) Recorded in Mali in 2009 and released in January on Chicago intelligentsia indie Thrill Jockey, Sahel Folk preserves stilling rural blues from the former Songhaï empire. Descended from the kings of the region, Sidi Touré, not unlike regional innovator Ali Farka Touré, boasts liquid picking and plucking…
Ultrasound Goes to Court
A group of doctors takes on ultrasound-before-abortion law
Monte Carlo
Cute-as-a-button Selena Gomez stars in this tweener mistaken-identity comedy.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sir Isaac Newton, krummhorn, celery, and more to chew on
Phases & Stages
Vieux Farka Touré The Secret (Six Degrees) Ali Farka Touré scion Vieux Farka Touré cakes his father’s mesmerizing guitar drone in a wasp’s nest of electric buzz. VFT’s third release for S.F. eclectics Six Degrees, The Secret whispers the title track’s final studio outing of the elder Malian, but it’s South African Dave Matthews stealing…
Oops!
A News story (“Police Group at Odds Over Property Deal”) in last week’s Chronicle included a parenthetical about a 2007 property purchase by the Austin Police Association. The money for that acquisition came from a reserve fund rather than that year’s budget.
Horrible Bosses
While this comedy aims for new nadirs in raunchiness, the rest of its humor coasts on obvious gags and recycled jokes.
‘Rivers’
In this bone-dry summer, one gallery group show has water in abundance
Poster Perfect
How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising
30 Things
Now well into our 30th year of publication (our 30th anniversary will be Sept. 4, 2011), we’re building up to that notable milestone by, among other things, republishing the first year’s issues online every two weeks and running a contest to spot vintage ads from some of our original advertisers in each week’s paper. In…
Queen To Play
In this French drama, a placid, working-class woman discovers passions she never knew she possessed when she learns to play chess.
Growing Up in War Zones
The magic of cinema inspires kids in a Kurdish village to take camera in hand
See Tom Run … and Run … and Run
Summer movie mayhem at Arthouse
Davis Cup Quarterfinal
World-class tennis event invades the Drum
Zookeeper
There are many things we can learn from the animals but lessons in love from talking primates is not one of them.
The Hightower Report
Budgeting Room for Ignorance; and Shocking: Fed-Up Voters
Access Denied
Cap Metro saving money means hardship for neediest riders
Soccer Watch
U.S. Women lose their first-ever World Cup group stage game, and more
A Better Life
An undocumented Mexican worker in Los Angeles who struggles to earn a living and keep his teenage son from joining a gang is the subject of this heartfelt drama.
Event Menu
Booze, a benefit, and Bastille Day
Arts Review
Maugham’s post-World War I marital mix-up is a quirky gem of a comedy
Headlines
� City Council has taken off for summer vacation, but not all city-related business is in a holding pattern, especially not when it comes to Formula One: It appears the state will go forward with a $25 million payment to Circuit of the Americas now that a lawsuit attempting to stop the deal has likely…
Food-o-File
Some spirited sightseeing and an eight-course cupcake dinner in this week’s food news
Arts Review
The Big Range Dance Festival shows why that art is worth everyone’s attention
Quote of the Week
“Put simply, this is the wrong approach.” – Randy Diehl, dean of the UT-Austin College of Liberal Arts, in a rebuttal this week to the market-based “seven breakthrough solutions” that Gov. Rick Perry favors for the state’s university systems
Wine of the Week
The ones from France are more complex
Arts Review
Two Austin artists create one hell of a fine show
Point Austin: Perry’s Odds
As the Lege dust settles, the speculation game begins
Family Style
The Threadgill’s secret to longevity
Day Trips
Hruska’s Store & Bakery offers weary travelers world-class kolaches and much more
Beside the Point: Sue Sue Sue-Dio
While City Hall slumbers, the law in its majesty marches on
Blist’ring Strings
This summer the Austin Chamber Music Festival really brings the heat
Chef Sonya Cote Is a Woman on the Move
Catch her when you can
Gay Place
Go, Skee-Ra, go!
Phases & Stages
Neil Young A Treasure (Reprise) Gillian Welch The Harrow & the Harvest (Acony) Jolie Holland & the Grand Chandeliers Pint of Blood (Anti-) As Neil Young continues to mine his archives, the live recordings from 1984-85 that make up A Treasure prove essential to the series. With support from Geffen Records waning, Young retaliated with…
Off the Record
Heavy lifting: No Control radio expands, hardcore punks hit the Monolith Training Center, and the Stocktons celebrate 10 years at Beerland
Bigger, Faster Buses
Cap Metro gets grants for Bus Rapid Transit
New in Print
Translating obsession
Phases & Stages
The Coathangers Larceny & Old Lace (Suicide Squeeze) The Coathangers get critiqued in terms of gender because, as an all-girl band, they write songs about having a good time instead of toppling the patriarchy or being heartbroken. For its third album, Larceny & Old Lace (also the name of a Golden Girls episode), the Atlanta…
Homeless Coach Bridges Digital Divide
Project provides digital connection for homeless
Labor Dispute Moves To Arbitration
Cap Metro punts decision over compliance with Senate Bill 650
Rule 33: Extra Pepperoni
‘Zombieland’ star slinging pizza on Monday
Luv Doc Recommends: Artly Fest
Here’s something the Austin Chamber of Commerce fliers fail to mention: Usually when some hoary old beer-bellied coot starts blathering on about the good old days when Austin was cheaper, cooler, friendlier, more relaxed, and less pretentious, he’s not fucking around. It’s true. Back in the days of the Armadillo World Headquarters, Lone Star was…
