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Sharecropping on Wheels
While the city juggles taxicab franchises, drivers demand ‘a fair shake’
Linda Watson Hired as New Cap Met CEO
Opinions on the incoming transit chief
This Week’s Waste of Time
Are we getting too nostalgic with this week’s online game?
Cap Metro: It’s Watson
Board votes unanimously to hire Orlando transit chief
The Daily Hustle: 6/17/10
Taking a knee
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast is In the Red!
Bleeding budgets and busted prophets
Leffingwell Proposes Rail/Comp Bond Vote in 2012
Change to city attorney’s office, single-member districts also
This Week in Campaign Fail: Perry Special
GOP press event. Giant chicken. Awesome.
Cosmic Americans
Jumping in with Earl Poole Ball
The Daily Hustle: 6/16/10
Big ballin’ at the budget forum
Farewell to the Cathedral of Junk
City rules and city art clash, art comes off worse
Stars Fall Just Short of Winning It All
Texas’ exciting inaugural season comes to an end
Nonbaseball Highlights of the Super Regional
The good and bad from Longhorn land
This Week in Campaign Fail
Gilbert campaign questions ag commiss Staples’ election warning
Party On
Salvage Vanguard’s annual fundraiser tonight!
Texas, Big 12 Are Together Forever (At Least For Now)
The Big 12 and UT kiss and make up
Why Be ‘Normal’?
Debra Monroe to read from her memoir On the Outskirts of Normal Thursday
Free Dooney!
Dooney & Bourke at a bargain
Local to Be the Next Oprah?
Austinite Zach Anner wants to be the next daytime talk show star
The Daily Hustle: 6/15/10
Ott unveils proposed transpo package
Possession Not a Passport to Deportation
Supremes rule that deportation isn’t automatic
The Girls of Summer
Girls Rock Camp Austin is in session
Memo From the HTX: Summer Fest Postmortem
Street shots from Houston’s Summer Fest
The Daily Hustle: 6/14/10
No future for Red River?
Rules to Watch Out For
Changes to passports have a broader subtext for transgendered
The Sunday Survey, 6/13/10
Democracy and decisions delayed
AISD, ACC Final Results
Villarreal, Barksdale take trustee positions
AISD, ACC Early Voting Results (UPDATED)
Villareal, Cowan leading with knife-edge margins
Trash Humpers
Trash Humpers 2010, NR, 78 min. Directed by Harmony Korine, Starring Harmony Korine, Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis Nicholson. Harmony Korine’s latest provocation is this film, which is supposed to create the illusion of having been discovered in a junk pile. In it, a group of demented, middle-aged sociopaths vandalize property, dry-hump trashcans, and otherwise…
Nebraska? Gone. Texas? Gone (Probably). A&M? Answer Hazy.
Big 12 kids run off with their footballs in a huff
Poll Sites Merge
Reminder from county before election day
Calder Cup Finals Game Five
Last home game of the season for the Stars
Climate Plan Meet-Up: Better Late Than Never
Three months later, group meets June 16
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of June 11-17
‘Project Deliverance’ Nets Drugs, Cash, Cop
Texas police chief among those popped in drug sting
Climate Change Comes to Austin
Helen Plume hosted by U.S. Green Building Council
The Daily Hustle: 6/11/10
I don’t need no cure … sweet Council hangover
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Woody Allen, surpassing porn, etc.
Summertime Blues
What about Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food?
Arts Review
Capital T’s return to Tracy Letts territory hasn’t the buzz of 2009’s Killer Joe
Live Shots
Stubb’s, June 6
City Hall Hustle: History Abated
Council returns to the vexing question of historic zoning
Romeo et Juliette: Met Summer Encore 2025
Romeo et Juliette: Met Summer Encore 2025 2025, NR, 178 min. Directed by Bartlett Sher, Starring Nadine Sierra, Benjamin Bernheim. In this rebroadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 production, soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim play the star-crossed lovers in Gounod’s operatic adaptation of Shakespeare’s immortal love story. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
The Hightower Report
Plutonomism; and Don’t Regulate – Restructure
Summertime Blues
Elvis Presley’s 700 madonna/whores
Shaw Shuffled
City official transferred
Live Shots
Antone’s, June 8
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, June 10-16
Summertime Blues
Gonna raise a fuss, gonna raise a holler: rock & roll books
After A Fashion
Your Style Avatar gets picked up and put in a recliner in a very dark room
Jolly Designation
New effort aims to save salamander
Live Shots
Stubb’s, June 8
Headlines
� Voters head to the polls Saturday, June 12, to decide the run-off elections for open seats on the boards of the Austin Independent School District and Austin Community College. Turnout in early voting stood at a mere 0.96%, meaning the races could be decided by tiny margins. For more, see Chronicle endorsements and “AISD…
Summertime Blues
Texas blues couldn’t hide from Sam ‘Lightnin” Hopkins
Off the Record
Commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Saxon Pub and talking business with Kalu James and ME Television
Naked City
City Budget: What to Cut? City Manager Marc Ott delivered a budget development update to City Council this week – a memo outlining some $28.5 million in potential cuts. With a deficit estimated between $11 million and $28 million, dependent on the property tax rate council selects, Ott presented a “menu” of 39 reductions predicated…
Culture Class
The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards
Republicans Go Green
Are Republicns behind the Greens’ ballot access?
Summertime Blues
The Stones for the Sex Pistols? No wonder EMI missed the digital revolution.
The Velveeta Pack
An all-star team of Austin comics faces down the ROT Rally’s hordes of hogs
Page Two: Stagnation Is Apocalyptic
Neil Young’s solo tour, Part I
2010 Austin Super Regional
A best-of-three vs. TCU to decide who advances to the CWS
AISD Schools Avoid Repurposing
TAKS scores are up
Summertime Blues
Before babies could talk in TV commercials, there was World War II code-breaking technology
‘A Perfect Recipe’ Awards
A bake sale yields $1,000 in minifellowships for three Austin artists
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
Our picks for the June 12 run-off elections
Calder Cup Finals Game Five
Last game at the CPC this season for the Stars
How Low Can Voting Numbers Go?
Handful of voters likely to determine outcome of AISD and ACC boards run-offs
Summertime Blues
Kiss sang ‘Rock & Roll All Nite,’ and their label followed suit – and disco! Disco, from the inside out.
City Theatre Company
A pro-Catholic organization threatens City’s staging of a biblical comedy – sort of
Oops!
In last week’s “Trail Projects Coming Up Roses?,” News, we reported that the interlocal agreement for the Austin-to-Manor trail still awaited final approval by the Capital Metro board of directors. In fact, it was approved by the board at its May 24 meeting. In last week’s News feature, “Breakdown,” we incorrectly reported that the city…
Soccer Watch
World Cup preview, Aztex homestand continues
Pride Gets Queer
Alterna-Pride festivities emerge
Summertime Blues
Nas’ Illmatic: 16 years of oral street poetry in 308 pages of the written word
Gay Place
Pride Bomb, baby, yeah!
Post Pridematic Stress Syndrome
Shaking out Austin’s weekend of Pride
AISD Run-off Running Downhill Fast
A nonpartisan race turns partisan
Summertime Blues
Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue and everything after
Day Trips
Chickamaw Farm outside of McDade grows blueberries, and this year promises to be one of its best crops ever
Who We Are and What We Love
The full text of Silky Shoemaker’s QueerBomb speech
Final Appeals: Powell Set to Die June 15
Powell supporters join in last attempts to spare his life
Killers
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple, but the wife doesn’t know her husband is a government assassin. Comedy ensues.
Summertime Blues
Found country, the lost art of LP design, and Flatstock’s rock, paper, scissors
Arts Review
The Mamet-inspired troupe of improvisers nails it to the fucking wall
Conduct Unbecoming: Prosecutor Dealt Another Slap
Court finds assistant D.A. withheld evidence
Marmaduke
Owen Wilson gives voice to the Great Dane of the old single-panel comic about a big, dumb dog.
Summertime Blues
Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies should be at work here
Hailing the Cabs
What happens next
Event Menu
Supporting Urban Roots and eating Aquarelle for $10? Yes, please.
Jail Numbers Down … for Now
As Austin grows, jail population could inch upward
Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders
With an unflinching camera and candid observation, this documentary follows four medical volunteers, ranging from fresh-faced newbies to battle-scarred veterans of the organization.
Summertime Blues
You can take rock & roll out of the novels but not the novelist
Hard Act to Follow
Heather Kafka on a love/hate history with acting
Family Matters
Downtown dining with young ones doesn’t have to be daunting
Attorneys File Final Arguments in Dunn Case
Arbitrator’s decision expected
Please Give
The pleasure of Nicole Holofcener’s film – which stars Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, and Amanda Peet – lies in the honesty of its conversations rather than its plot.
Summertime Blues
‘Mine was a sort of Sex Pistols situation in reverse,’ writes Pakistani rocker Salman Ahmad
Me and Sailor Jerry
Tattooed for life
Benefit for Oaxaca’s MAMAZ Collective
Support contemporary Mexican art and the movement against genetically modified food
Our Bodies, Our Cars
Time to walk the walk on making cities healthy
The City of Your Final Destination
Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the co-stars of this James Ivory-directed film about a dead novelist’s reclusive family.
Such Great Heights
The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures
Summertime Blues
Snorting ants? Who can remember!
In Print
Tom Bissell’s latest book is an intelligent one-stop read that introduces modern gaming’s big questions
Food-o-File
Streat, from a founder of Mirabelle, offers a gustatory whirlwind trip around the world in a casual setting
EPA: Political Punching Bag or the New ‘It’ Agency?
Perry emits more hot air over state’s dirty air
Book Review
An enthralling account of the depictions and ramifications – social, theological, mercantile – of fingers through the ages
Summertime Blues
Stand for the Canadian National Anthem – Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, the Band, and … Charlie Daniels?
TV Eye
Long gone is the summer hiatus: These days, new programming knows no seasonal boundaries
Summer Wines From Argentina, Spain, and Austria
Affordable white wines keep you and your dinner crisp and cool this summer
Texas Gets Coal Shoulder for the Health of It
New EPA standards crack down on sulfur dioxide emissions
Book Review
UT prof David Oshinsky weaves a tight and compulsively readable account of the intersection of morality and legality in the jurisprudence of capital punishment
Summertime Blues
Neil Young’s comic morality tale
World Cup Watch
Where are you going to watch the World Cup?
Live Shots
Bass Concert Hall, June 5
Point Austin: Bad Advice
A few questions about the city’s designated experts
Luv Doc Recommends: ROT Rally Parade
If you’re into beef jerky, this weekend your meat market is going to get a whole lot bigger. The incessant rumble of Harleys should have told you something is up, and that something is the Republic of Texas Biker Rally, aka the ROT Rally, the annual gathering of 50,000 or so motorcycle enthusiasts that takes…
