Cover Story
Sheer Heart Attack
Chaos in Tejas is genre blind, e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y so
Dreaming Big With Lady Bird
Team’s preliminary recommendations for Lady Bird Lake’s south shore
The Intergalactic Nemesis Strikes Back
The live action graphic novel debuts book two this week
The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook by Angela Shelf Medearis
Goods for the glucose
The Good Music Club: The Dalles
The four piece returns with a little more pedal steel
Pies & Pigs Benefit
The Tastiest Food Party of the Year for a Great Cause
Gillian Welch Q&A
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlins return to Stubb’s
USL Pro Rocks the U.S. Open Cup
Third division success in national tourney
Poetry in Motion
Capital Metro partners with local society to feature poems in buses
Hughes Drinks the Conservative Kool-Aid
Speaker hopeful threatens lege process in far right pandering
‘Charred & Scruffed’ Review
Chef Lang roughs, scruffs, and spackles his way to grilled perfection
Tom Upthegrove Still One of the Best
Even with new bartenders in every corner of town
Film Flam
Birdsong, ‘Bindlestiffs,’ Amy Heckerling, and more
Oswalt Returns to the Express
Looking for a World Series ring
Some Things Demand an Answer
And never mind trying to blame the Louse
Ray Bradbury Has Gone to Mars …
Iconic author of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ dead at 91
Tejas Two-Step!
Poetry and Conjunto? Nowhere but Austin!
ATX Television: Bailey Breaks into Anime
‘Party of Five’s Scott Wolf hangs with the vocal elite for ‘Kaijudo’
Austin Grand Prix Announces Tickets
Prices, sale date confirmed as county approves permit
Reefer Madness: Betting on Beto
O’Rourke defeats drug warrior Reyes
Film Seeks Sounds
AFS hosts a contest for composer-hopefuls
ROT Rides Again
APD has tips for Republic of Texas Biker Rally riders this weekend
‘Alien,’ Auld Lang Syne
Ridley & Ripley in TAMI’s Carolyn Jackson Collection
Tameca Jones at Continental Club Gallery
Get your hips moving on SoCo every Thursday
Blues Broads
Angela Strehli brings her Blues Broads to Threadgill’s
Wolf At My Door, Sharpening His Teeth
Crime fiction bleeding into the literary fiction now
M83 Highlights From Stubb’s 5/18
If you missed the show, here is a little taste.
Fontana Candida Frascati Winemaker Comes to Town
High end Frascati for under $15!
‘Machete’ Don’t Queue?! As if.
Pics from the ‘Machete Kills’ extras casting call
ATX Television: Bill Lawrence’s TV Guide
‘Scrubs’, ‘Cougar Town’ creator educates the ATX Festival
ATX Television: TV Fantasy Goes Mainstream
Tales from ‘Firefly,’ ‘Teen Wolf,’ ‘Supernatural,’ & more
Aztex Draw 2-2 With New Orleans; Rematch Tonight
Austin still atop its division
ATX Television: Judy Greer Finds Her Voice
The star of ‘Archer’ and ‘Love Monkey’ hits the ATX Television Festival
Skinner Will Get DNA Testing
AG’s office reverses course
Chaos in ATX Festival!
Punk rock television
From the Vaults: God Bless Bobcat Goldthwait
The comedian-turned-director discusses “Sleeping Dogs Lie”
This Week’s Waste of Time
Two free games to kick off a lazy weekend
AM Country Heaven
Four new discs take back real country music
Should Yogurt Shop Investigation Be Subject of External Review?
Public Safety Commission member thinks so
COTA Snags American Le Mans Series
No longer just F1 at Austin Circuit
Manneh Named PDL Player of the Week
Aztex forward wins national honor
DVD Watch: ‘We Were Here’
SF survivors remember the early days of the AIDS epidemic
Mayor: Rail Should Wait
Mayor Lee Leffingwell says urban rail needs more time
Arena Finally Going Home
Homeward bound after more than a decade in prison
Rosey Times for the Texecutioners
Texas/Portland recap before this weekend’s Texas Rollergirls bout
Quote of the Week
“Drive eight hours. Speak for four minutes. Drive eight hours. Speak for four minutes.” – Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Paul Sadler explains life on the statewide primary campaign trail
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Archaeologists have never found horned Viking helmets. Poets and artists gave the Vikings their helmets in the late 1800s. John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are credited with the first onscreen, openmouthed kiss. The film was Flesh and the Devil (1926). The pair was having an offscreen affair at the time. The Hays Code, a set…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater By Gail Simmons (Hyperion, $26.99, 270 pp) Gail Simmons would probably be the first to acknowledge that she is the least famous of the three judges on Bravo’s Top Chef. While people have gushed over Padma Lakshmi’s voluptuous good looks and Tom Colicchio’s lovable…
Headhunters
This Norwegian crime thriller is anchored by a schemer who brings on his own ruin.
The Cable Guy: Paul Scheer
We get in ‘League’ with Paul Scheer
Point Austin: Primary Lessons
Doggett victory bracing in an otherwise gerrymandered day
After a Fashion: American Idle?
Let Your Style Avatar’s personal plight be a warning to you about the dangers of … reality TV
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
The Juice, Vinous Veritas by Jay McInerney (Knopf, $26.95, 304 pp) Jay McInerney is the author of seven novels, the big one being his first, Bright Lights, Big City. He writes a wine column for The Wall Street Journal and regularly travels the world meeting great winemakers, tasting their rarest wines, and eating at the…
Snow White and the Huntsman
Ambitious, brutish, and ruthlessly unromantic, this feminist reworking of the fairy tale has us under its spell.
Farewell to Allan
Eastside parents watch AISD and IDEA dismantle their neighborhood school
Then There’s This: Save the Trees!
Groups aim to spare seven Downtown trees
Letters at 3AM: ‘Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?’
“Route 66” spoke to the sense of change afoot in America
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Eat With Your Hands by Zakary Pelaccio (Ecco/Harper, $39.99, 368 pp) Pelaccio is founder and co-owner of the Brooklyn restaurants Fatty Crab and Fatty ‘Cue, known for big flavored food that blends Asian flavors with a European palette. The chef, food, and book are wildly irreverent, combining an emo ethos with sophisticated technique and innovative…
Piranha 3DD
Barely a step above a second-tier Troma film, this is one catch you’d do well to throw back.
Dyke in Gold Knickers
Austin�s third QueerBomb celebrates the right to bear sequins, assless chaps, and neon weave
Headlines
› City Council’s next regular meeting is June 7, when it’s expected to make a final decision on the long-vexing Austin Energy rate case and maybe address the controversy over short-term rentals. Recent work sessions have reflected progress on the rate case, and they’re working on urban rail – can they put together and sell…
Food-o-File
This week’s Austin food news
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Pie Though the appeal of cupcakes does not appear to be waning, pie is definitely the hottest emerging trend of the past year, as the bumper crop of pie books this season bears witness. I’ve spent plenty of time reading and baking from the books in this list,…
High School
You come in hoping to toke on a big ol’ fattie, but instead you find yourself wallowing in seeds and stems – again.
Arts Review
American Repertory Ensemble’s latest conveyed the mood and form of good poetry
Civics 101
Thursday 31 GREEN BUILDING NETWORKING Learn about the green building certification process from the LEED reviewers of Austin, then browse Austin’s newest green building supply store. 6-8pm. TreeHouse, 4477 S. Lamar #600. $5, students; $10, GBCI members; $20, nonmembers. DEADLINERS: RISK AND REPORTING THE WILDFIRES Panelists discuss the risks they took to get coverage of…
Food Events
A Roundup of Culinary Events around Austin
The Fraternal Order
The Duplass-a-Thon charts the evolution of a goofily lovable archetype
Rowdy Rathore
In this Hindi film, a conman turns out to have a heroic streak.
Arts Review
All the works in this two-man show will engage your eyes, and some will engage your brain
Seeds of Inspiration
The 2012 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
A collection of recent food literature
Getting Warmer
Essential Cinema tours contemporary Latin America
Dem Results: Few Surprises
Several Democratic incumbents easily secured victory Tuesday night
Chaotic Discs
Riverboat Gamblers The Wolf You Feed (Volcom) Divisive previous platter, 2009’s Underneath the Owl, peaked the Riverboat Gamblers’ organic evolution from Tim Kerr-produced Texas punks to national prize. Where the ex-Big Boys/Poison 13 guitarist controlled the splatter of the Denton émigrés’ eponymous 2001 debut and brought raw power to Something To Crow About two years…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Fritos® Pie: Stories, Recipes, and More by Kaleta Doolin (Texas A&M University Press, $22, 224 pp) You may have heard that Kellogg’s Corn Flakes were developed as a health food, but did you know the same was true for Fritos? Or that a Casa de Fritos was once a restaurant serving “authentic Mexican food” at…
Gay Place: BIG QUEER WEEKEND
This cram-packed week is kinda like Austin’s mini-Pride
GOP: Right vs. Far Right
Dewhurst heads to a run-off, Romney cinches 64%, and other Republican primary news
Chaotic Discs
The Young Dub Egg (Matador) Dub Egg represents the Young’s cosmic rebirth. Whereas 2010’s Voyagers of Legend delivered dank post-punk with heavy hooks, the locals’ Matador bow ventures further out to pasture – literally. The quartet cut the album at a rustic cabin in western Bandera County. In that capacity, early highlights “Livin’ Free” and…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Colonel Sanders and the American Dream by Josh Ozersky (UT Press, $20, 130 pp) According to Josh Ozersky, youth of today have no clue that the figure on the bucket of chicken was an actual person, not just a fictitious character like Betty Crocker or the Jolly Green Giant. But, as old-timers over 40 remember,…
Day Trips
The Number 1 British Flying Training School Museum remembers a short period of time when a few acres of North Texas farmland became British soil
WilCo D.A.: Duty Upsets Bradley
Incumbent unseated by opponent whose campaign emphasized his role in the Morton case
Chaotic Discs
Daughn Gibson All Hell (White Denim) On paper, Gibson’s combination of traditional country samples and electronics might appear ham-fisted. Well-worn lyrical imagery culled from the lonesome roads and hard-living country crooners of yore would be threadbare if not for the keenly sampled and looped instrumentation bolstering them. Gibson avoids awkward genre mash-ups with memorable vocal…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
The Wine Region of Rioja by Ana Fabiano (Sterling Epicure, $35, 256 pp) This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to understand Spain’s most famous wine region. Ms. Fabiano rightly considers the cultural, religious, and historical implications of life in Rioja as well as its agriculture and weather. Not only does she provide…
Rollergirls Vie for Playoff Seeding
Battlin’ babes on the flat track
Kicked Out for Nothing
Former home of Little City back on the market
Chaotic Discs
Best Coast The Only Place (Kemado Records/Mexican Summer) Fuzzy-buzzy starry-eyed beach-pop no longer, Bethany Cosentino’s Best Coast has mellowed in the wake of its fame. Smeared in placid, wheelbarrow country, its second album, The Only Place, plucks wholesome heartstrings, with both Loretta Lynn and Stevie Nicks as close overseers. Cosentino’s mostly concerned with boys and…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket By Katie Workman (Workman, $16.95, 352 pp) One of my goals for my nearly 7-year-old son this summer, in addition to finally ditching the training wheels on his bike, is for him to learn to cook simple, nutritious dishes for the family…
Soccer Watch
Aztex continue to dominate
Council: Green WTP Redevelopment, and a Few Other Things
APA secures a three-year lease at Town Lake Animal Center
Chaotic Discs
A Place To Bury Strangers Onwards to the Wall EP (Dead Oceans) Like a strawberry cupcake covered in Szechuan pepper, A Place To Bury Strangers finds the sweet spot by ripping its way through in Onwards to the Wall. The NYC troop endeavors to be inviting on this five-song EP, mixing thrusting bass and reverbed-to-hell…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
How To Cook Everything: The Basics by Mark Bittman (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $35, 496 pp) In my youth, the de rigeur cookbook that was presented to young people heading out on their own was The Joy of Cooking (usually in paperback). That book’s heyday has passed, and for several years there’s been no…
Hightower Report: Eau de Lobby
D.C.’s K-Street cleanup smells fishy
Chaotic Discs
St. Vitus Lillie: F-65 (Season of Mist) Largely responsible for the subgenre doom – one of the most deliberate and glacial flavors metal offers – this comeback from L.A.’s St. Vitus is surprisingly concise. The first LP to feature singer Scott “Wino” Weinrich in 22 years, Lillie: F-65 drops seven tracks ranging from leaden stompers…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
The Gardener and the Grill by Karen Adler and Judith Fertig (Running Press, $20, 224 pp) When I first glanced at this book, I was a little confused, because it seemed to me that the recipes in many cases did not need to be made on the grill; in fact, many might have been more…
Pilot Program
The first-ever ATX Television Festival celebrates cult, classic, and cutting-edge TV
Graduating, With Honors
Local awards are nice, but Austin artists are being recognized nationally all the time now
Chaotic Discs
Pop. 1280 The Horror (Sacred Bones) Lurching Brooklynites Pop. 1280 feed off borrowed nostalgia; No Wave’s serrated sneer certainly isn’t extinct on debut LP The Horror. “Waiting for my dutch/I suggest you start collecting dust,” cackles Ivan Lip with a nasty grin. This is dirty, dusty, disintegrated bay-music at its best. The drums reverberate from…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil by Tom Mueller (W.W. Norton & Company, $25.95, 256 pp) It is one of the food industry’s dirty little secrets that the extra virgin olive oil most of us buy at our local grocers is anything but. In fact, by some estimates, more than 50%…
The Luv Doc: The Friend of Your Friend’s Enemy
LuvDoc, One of my oldest friends (from grade school) recently broke up with his girlfriend. She and I have become really good friends in the last few years and she keeps calling me to hang out/go shopping, etc. I would like to hang out with her too, but I don’t want to take sides. Any…
The 43 Hour Improv Marathon
Comedy worth losing sleep over
Chaotic Discs
Royal Headache (What’s Your Rupture?) Royal Headache’s eponymous debut, reissued stateside after a 2011 release Down Under, strikes with a rugged fury that throws the Goner Records vault straight into Sam Cooke’s Harlem Square Club. It’s a sock hop in tattered T-shirts, kicked off with two-minute “Never Again” – none of Royal Headache’s 12 tracks…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Memories of Philippine Kitchens by Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan (Stewart Tabori & Chang, $40, 232 pp) Philippines natives Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan (husband and wife) own and operate Purple Yam, a popular restaurant they opened in Brooklyn in 2009. It followed their acclaimed Cendrillon which opened in 1995, an excellent restaurant where I’ve…
Chernobyl Diaries
When adventuresome tourists visit the town that housed most of the workers at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, they discover they are not alone.
Oops!
In the 2012 Restaurant Poll Results and Guide, the Readers award for “Best Mixologist” was erroneously given to Ace Manning and Carter Wilsford at Péché due to a clerical error. The award should read “Everyone at Péché.” We apologize for this error and regret any disappointment or confusion this may have caused.
Chaotic Discs
Absu Abzu (Candlelight) Abzu arrives as the meaty middle section of a three-album trilogy by Absu, a “mythological occult metal” band whose obsession with pagan idioms translates into ear-searing thrash – all of which makes it difficult to equate with their homebase of the uncelestial Plano. Guided by mainstay drummer/singer Proscriptor McGovern (Russ Givens), Abzu…
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Ice Cream Happy Hour: 50 Boozy Treats That You Spike and Freeze at Home by Valerie Lum and Jenise Addison (Ulysses Press, $14.95, 144 pp) With summer at our doorstep and temperatures well into the 90s, I’m ready to dust off the ice cream maker, and this cute little book arrives just in time to…
For Greater Glory
This epic starring Andy Garcia about Mexico’s anticlerical Cristero War of the late 1920s is a plodding and poorly plotted tale.
Playback
Storm (Thorgerson), Chaos (in Tejas), and gender dysphoria: Welcome to summer music!
Hillside Farmacy
Hillside Farmacy has the potential to cure what’s ailing you
Food for Thought: Summer Reading
Paletas: Authentic Recipes for Mexican Ice Pops, Shaved Ice & Aguas Frescas by Fany Gerson (Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 128 pp) In the summer of 2010, cookbook author and Mexico City native Fany Gerson launched her very own business, La Newyorkina, purveying paletas (frozen pops) at New York City’s Hester Street fair. As a result,…
God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed this seething comedy, which he describes as a “violent movie about kindness.”
Chaos in Tejas Lists
Crust Punk by Adam Schragin Antisect (Sat., 11:15pm, Mohawk) These UK crust progenitors formed in 1982 only to dissolve five years later. Their punk metal is resurrected at Chaos after the band’s reformation last year. Bomraw (Sun., 1:30pm, Scoot Inn) Very earthy hardcore out of Houston, straddling the urge to “party” with that to “resist”…
Chaos in Tejas Interviews
THURSDAY Ted Leo & the Pharmacists 9pm, Mohawk “People have been telling me I need to write a song for Occupy, and it’s like, I’ve been writing songs for Occupy for the last 20 years!” Ted Leo certainly keeps his well-marinated DIY ethos close at hand. The D.C. vagabond blends nostalgia, humor, and activism into…
Chaos in Tejas Picks
THURSDAY Pierced Arrows 12:45am, the Parish After nearly two decades of creating gritty blues melodrama as Dead Moon, Fred Cole, his wife Toody, and drummer Andrew Loomis called it quits after 14 albums and 19 years. Rather than a radical change, a tweak was all Fred and Toody needed, and with new drummer Kelly Halliburton…
