Cover Story
Family Affair
Akina Adderley adds her name to the family ledger
F1 Funds Handshake Deal Reached
Developers, not city, commit $4 million a year to release state funds
TDH: 6/16/11
We’ve got your single-member district maps
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Highland Lake Water
LCRA vote on White Stallion coal plant permit pushed to August
They Bring the Party
Party Down Ultimate Marathon: May make you kinda stalky
Will Legislation Save Humberto Leal?
Proposed law enforces international agreement
Reward Offered in Cap Met Assault Case
Veolia will pay $5,000 for info
‘Slut Walk’ Hits Austin
A photo gallery of Slutwalk Austin
The Most Wonderful Time of the Queer
A small photo gallery of Queerbomb 2011
TDH: 6/15/11
A first look at urban rail routes
Big ‘Catch’
Locally made sushi doc wins prize
Mall Madness
Christeene invades foodcourt and your eyesockets
Good Gossip Never Gets Old
Star-studier Anne Helen Petersen on old-school scandal
Strength in Numbers
Got MilkDrive?
Wednesday Rewind
Two versions of Black Joe Lewis’ “Livin’ in the Jungle”
Adopt-a-Cat Kickoff Today!
Get free advice about cats and adopt a new friend for free
Well, Duh!
Prop 8 News: “Judge Rejects Motion to Vacate Prop 8 Ruling”
Dr. Demento
Dick Price pops up again
Men, Lesbians, Blogs, WTF?
Two men have admitted they posed as lesbian bloggers. WTF?
Maxum Development And Worker’s Defense Project Make a Pact
Developer agrees to help eliminate construction site safety hazards
TDH: 6/14/11
Tovo knocks Shade in closing ad
AFF Honors Pixar’s John Lasseter
The writer/director will attend October fest
Last Day of Early Voting for Run-Off
Most polls close at 7pm; Election Day is Saturday
Vital Signs
Live review of Rush at the Frank Erwin Center
Mavericks Win, But Sports Fans Lose
The Heat losing is the worst thing that could happen
A, B, C, Die!
Alamo Drafthouse/Timpson Films film contest opens
TDH: 6/13/11
The Hustle talks to FOX about Formula One
Crabtree & Evelyn Gets a Makeover
New product lines are anything but stuffy
Lawsuit Challenges New Ultrasound-Before-Abortion Law
CRR files suit in Texas
Daikaiju Does Good
Godzilla drive-in double feature benefits Japan aid
Some Parts of the World Pt. 6
BettySoo wraps it up on the road from the Netherlands to Germany
BPP Retreats on Arbitrary Imposition of ‘Sex Offender’ Rules
New rules for “Special Condition X”
Excused Absences and Quality Subs
Depleted rosters mean high marks for newer Texas Rollergirls
Simon Pegg Gets the Kids All Swoony
BookPeople spies a Missed Connection for nerds
‘Slacker’ @ 20 Screening and Party
Celebrate the anniversary at Austin Studios on June 22
Roller Derby Update 6/10/11
Texas Rollergirls in school on Saturday, Lonestar on the road
The Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast Cuts Up
Drawing districts, locally and at the Lege
TDH: 6/10/11
Tovo’s robocall & tonight’s run-off forum
Some Parts of the World Pt. 5
BettySoo continues her road diary from Amsterdam
The Hightower Report
Onshoring Corporate Accounts; and From Regulating Comcast To Joining It
After a Fashion
Learn why Your Style Avatar is running around, flapping his arms, and shouting ‘bingo!’
Page Two: Band of Outsiders
Terrence Malick’s ambitious cinematic aesthetic
Art To Enchant
The winners of the 2010-11 Austin Critics Table Awards
So Many Elections, So Little Time
Senate bill could have unintended consequences for local elections
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, June 9-15
This Tangled Web He Weaves
Small-screen experimentalist Max Juren goes big
Califa Arts Collaborative
After season’s close, ballet dancers join forces in a unique new venture
Quote of the Week
“Hot and sunny. Highs from the 90s to the middle 100s.” – Southwest weather forecast, Tuesday, June 7, The New York Times
Film Flam
AFF on the tips of our tongues, Gallagher’s indieWIRE shout-out, local premeires in L.A. fest, and more
Dana Friis-Hansen
The former AMOA director is hired to lead the Grand Rapids Art Museum
Headlines
� Austin’s barreling toward the finish on two fronts: City Council is under pressure to sign onto a “risk-free” deal that would bring Formula One to town, and early voting is under way for the June 18 council run-off as candidates Kathie Tovo and incumbent Randi Shade sharpen their get-out-the-vote messages – one of which…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
PowerPoint, ditchweed, pink hair, and more
‘Tire Slasher’ Suspect Gets Day in Court
Is this the man who slashed a thousand tires?
Point Austin: Muffling the Monitor
Frasier’s reviews send salutary ripples through the APD pond
Dos Lunas Artisan Cheese
Central Texas cheese lovers have got a good ricotta, finally
Black Arts Movement
In Katrina’s wake, Samuel Thompson eased survivors’ pain with Bach
City Hall Hustle: Race to the Finish Line
F1 strangers bearing gifts offer council a ‘risk-free’ deal
New in Graphic Novels
These are two books so ripe with sex, it’s as if the subject has fermented in the pages
Blanco Valley Farms Tortilla Chips
These are not the same chips off the old block
The State’s Planned Parenthood Trap
Rule would eliminate group from Women’s Health Program
TV Eye
Noah Wyle spouts history, battles E.T. in new TNT show
Event Menu
You had me at ‘free crawfish’
God Hates Perry?
Westboro Baptist Church to picket Perry’s prayer event
Do Unto Others Y Otros
Texas execution flouts international law
Nerd Ascending
Simon Pegg’s star trajectory
Food-o-File
IACP conference smorgasbord pleases
Five Districts, No Representation?
With Travis split so many ways, it may not get representation at all
The World Is Your Precinct
Election day minus the hassle
Day Trips
Shamrock, Texas, is worth exploring if you’re ever near the intersection ofI-40 and U.S. 83
Off the Record
Don’t bother cleaning up after Chaos in Tejas; OBN III’s strike again this weekend
Reviving Bipartisanship
Can we bring a stop to these congressional redistricting debacles?
Gay Place
The Gay Place begs of you: Use us
Phases & Stages
My Morning Jacket Circuital (ATO) In the dozen years since debut long-player The Tennessee Fire sparked My Morning Jacket’s rise out of Louisville, Ky., the quintet redefined Southern rock for the new millennium in a reverb-raked haze and then shredded it, becoming one of the nation’s top live acts along the way. By naming sixth…
School Funding Bill ‘Could Have Been Worse’
Senate Bill 1 on deck for House debate
X-Men: First Class
The origins of the bad blood among Marvel’s mutants is explored in this new film from the franchise.
Arts Review
The Paradox Players effectively mine the emotions from this family drama
Phases & Stages
Fleet Foxes Helplessness Blues (Sub Pop) Fleet Foxes’ Sun Giant EP in 2008 took Beach Boys harmonies monastic with a rolling, chiming, Pacific Northwest folk begging instant timelessness. Two months later, the Seattle band’s eponymous LP flourished with a rich renaissance of indie roots and blues, bandleader Robin Pecknold following in the reverb-gilded footsteps of…
Special Session on a Binge
The call keeps growing
Super 8
This throwback to the monster movies of the Seventies evokes the early work of Steven Spielberg.
Arts Review
This improvised bat-tribute to the old bat-TV show nails its campy spirit
Live Shots
Chaos in Tejas Here, there, everywhere, June 2-5 Punk and metal don’t mingle much outside the actual musicians inciting all the moshing. Each strain infects the other irrevocably. And yet one would be hard-pressed to identify the crossover between the black-clad horde of hellhounds gathered Friday night at Emo’s for death metal legacy Autopsy and…
A Pay Day From Perry
Perry signs law targeting wage theft
The Double Hour
An Italian import, The Double Hour is a twisty psychological mystery.
Arts Review
This group show exploring organic forms displays work of top quality
Restaurant Review
Third time’s a charm for Thai Fresh’s third expansion
‘Chronicle’ Endorsement
Place 3 City Council run-off, June 18: Kathie Tovo
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris just goes to show that if you wait long enough Woody Allen will finally deliver another terrific movie.
Show Them the Need
The great GOP wave breaks on the realities of the actual cost of government
Place 3 War of Words: Historic Zoning, WTP4
Shade and Tovo battle over zoning and water
Teacher Appreciation Night
The Texas Rollergirls celebrate the teachers at Saturday’s bout
Worst Session Ever
A look at the mess they’ve made
Restaurant Review
Put this spot on your foodie radar
Soccer Watch
U.S. men win first CONCACAF Gold Cup game, and more
Luv Doc Recommends: ROT Rally Parade
Time to break out the halter top. By Thursday there should be 40,000-plus motorcycle enthusiasts rumbling into Austin. If you go a little extra slutty, maybe you can unseat one of their bitches. Kat Von D bounced sweet Sandy Bullock out of the saddle with some low-cut leather, cleavage, and roughly 14 square feet of…
