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Proof of Nothing
When you were busted for public intoxication, were you drunk? Or did you just piss off a cop?
This Week’s Waste of Time
Virtual fireworks can’t be banned
Graves Gets $1.45 Million
Comptroller pays up for wrongful conviction
On the Couch
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt talk shop
Five on the Second and Four on the Fourth
Adoption fees reduced for holiday at two shelters
Don’t You Start Me Talking
Michael Corcoran sounds off on his recent retirement
Gaming Luminary Writes DuckTales Comic
And no one thinks this is weird?
Wednesday Rewind
Whut It Dew? Just ask Andrew Kenny.
W is for Windows
UPDATE: W Hotel management start repairs, ACL continues shows
Putting the Squiggle in Metal
Tombs, Kill the Client face their black metal Waterloo
Watson to Lead Senate Dems
Travis County senator to replace San Antonio’s Van de Putte
‘Rocket’ Away
How you can help save the ‘Bottle Rocket’ motel
TDH: 6/28/11
Controversy building around incentives to hotel developer
Big Brother Sets Eyes on Immigrants
Footage from last week’s capitol demo against new detention center
How Green is My SXSW?
Festival launches new Eco component for October
TDH: 6/27/11
Council inaugural, afterparty tomorrow!
A ‘Party Down’ Dispatch
Video from this weekend’s reunion and marathon watch
Get Your Stank On
Spy Kids 4 to open in Aromascope
Roller Derby Update 6/25/11
TXRD Lonestar bouting tonight and Texas Rollergirls warm up for July
The Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast Goes Downtown
Mouthing off on Sixth Street and the Waller Creek conundrum
Who’s Rockin’ Austin
Margaret Moser talks to MyFoxAustin about new releases and shows
Horns Baseball Year-End Wrap-Up
‘Two and Barbecue’
Castro Will Challenge Doggett in New District
Texas Tribune reports San Antonian wants seat
TDH: 6/24/11
Formula One returns to a reshaped dais
Better Now Than Then
Comparing the Express to the RedHawks
What Place for Muslims in DC Comics?
‘Superman’ writer Chris Roberson on the controversy of earthly aliens
‘Grooming’ on Trial: Science or Supposition?
Is grooming a science? Says who?
Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?
The answer might be a lot closer than you think
New in Print
A black-comic picaresque set in Gold Rush country
Point Austin: The Ultimate Game
The political ripples are uncertain but plentiful
Green Lantern
The beloved comic-book hero rediscovers his powers on the big screen.
New in Print
Where’s the drama in this family drama?
Headlines
� Although Randi Shade’s bid to keep her Place 3 seat generated robust turnout in last weekend’s run-off, voters held on to their general election pick, Kathie Tovo (for more, see “Place 3 by Precinct,” “Tovo’s Triumph,” and “Shade’s Farewell”). City Hall is already buzzing over how her ascent may change the council dynamic (and…
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Jim Carrey plays a man who inherits six penguins in this family film that finds the actor neither too manic nor mawkish.
Voyeur Discretion Advised
Hot town, smut in the city
Food-o-File
Sushi film nets award, food trailer troubles, chefs scramble, and a mysterious hiatus in this week’s food news
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar for June 23-30
Beginners
Christopher Plummer and Ewan McGregor play father and son in this lovely drama about what happens to both after the older man discovers near the end of his life that he’s gay.
Varsity Theater Mural’s Fate Comes Into Focus
Architect proposes mix of restoration and do-over
Restaurant Review
Aaron Franklin is king of all pit masters
Buck
The real-life “horse whisperer,” Dan “Buck” Brannaman, is the subject of this documentary that reveals how he derived his hard-won knowledge.
DVD Watch
‘Blood-red kisses,’ ‘white-hot thrills,’ and a radioactive Pandora’s box
Beer Convenience
Finding great craft brew selections in unlikely places
Poor Ratings for Pearce, Garcia?
Despite overall TAKS improvements, two middle schools lag behind
Cars 2
This Pixar sequel pops on the screen, but the story line is stuck in neutral.
Frameworks EAST Fund
Using microloans to help Eastside artists get their studios up to code
Arts Review
This funny, naughty musical is the perfect show for a Sunday afternoon
Vote Where You Live
Election day just got a lot more convenient
Double Dhamaal
Bollywood comedy.
Generous Art
A new gallery splits proceeds from sales between artists and nonprofits
Arts Review
Tension runs through this lean domestic drama like a taut steel cord
Tovo’s Triumph
Place 3 winner pledges to look out ‘for the public interest, not special interest’
Austin Lyric Opera
Despite its seven-figure debt, the opera lives to sing another day
Arts Review
The dance sparkles with captivating images of water and weightlessness
Shade’s Farewell
Shade vows to ‘be a part of this city going forward’
Wine of the Week
When I was just a little grape, I asked my vinter, ‘What will I be?’
Day Trips
Seven state parks to be closed or transfered
LegeLand: Mind Your Fingers and Your Vetoes
Bills lose life and limb on Perry’s desk
After a Fashion
This week, Your Style Avatar travels to Iran, Paris, and the land of sashimi
Event Menu
Delectable foodie events for the week of June 24-July 1
Gay Place
Hey y’all, Lez Go Tubing!
Which (East) Side Are You On?
Community plays tug-of-war over Eastside Memorial High School
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
What do Madonna, Hillary Clinton, and Geena Davis have in common?
Phases & Stages
Bon Iver Bon Iver, Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) After emerging from his Wisconsin cabin exile with 2007’s hushed and aching falsetto-bled debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon faced a dilemma: The defining debut was less representative of his compositional ambitions than of an anomalous mellow. Indie idolaters yearning for more “Skinny Love” from…
Soccer Watch
Women’s World Cup kicks off in Germany this Sunday, and more
Formula One Deal on the Bubble
What do council members have to say about the F1 deal?
The Hightower Report
Privatization: The Road to Hell; and Vermont: First in the Nation
Live Shots
Peter Gabriel Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, Houston, June 16 Youssou N’Dour ACL Live at the Moody Theater, June 18 Peter Gabriel’s mainstream coronation, 1986’s many-times-platinum So, guested Senegalese griot Youssou N’Dour on only one track (“Mercy Street”), but the two singers’ high-wire vocal act on “In Your Eyes” during the ensuing tour remains a global…
New Belgium Urban Assault Ride
The funnest and finest nonmotorized bike scavenger hunt is back where it all started, Austin
Animals Survive Perry’s Desk
Perry signs puppy mill/cockfighting bills
Accidental Electrician
Matt the Electrician has switched day jobs
Phases and Stages
The Feelies Here Before (Bar/None) Since Haledon, N.J.’s most famous export put out Crazy Rhythms in 1980, a new generation of bands has taken apart their anxious post-punk puzzle and reshaped it to the point of caricature. The Feelies’ latest album in 20 years certainly puts the punch line in the title, not to mention…
Place 3 by Precinct
A winning strategy loses, and which precincts saw the biggest increases in votes?
Emergency! Emergency!
Why rush Formula One?
Music Review
Matt the Electrician Accidental Thief After seven albums, you might wonder if Matt the Electrician is running out of ideas, steam. Nope, neither. Accidental Thief again exposes a combined lyrical and melodic sense that’s innocent, inventive, and seemingly bottomless. Where most singer-songwriters shy away from the folk tradition, Matt Sever embraces it fully. He employs…
Phases and Stages
Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin’ (Columbia) There was nothing revelatory about mining classic soul when Raphael Saadiq dropped The Way I See It in 2008. In fact, the practice was flirting with the point of saturation, yet what made Saadiq’s Motown homage special was its masterful execution. While others emulated Stax and the sound of young…
Off the Record
Seeking refuge at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater before the return of Joe ‘King’ Carrasco & the Crowns
Page Two: Going to Bat
The difference between defending Austin and bashing Houston
TV Eye: An Easy Sell
Web celebs Rhett & Link’s TV take on art and commerce
Blues Before and After
Gregg Allman Low Country Blues (Rounder) Soulful and earthy in a way few are, scraped and shaped by hard luck, bad love, and the devil’s music, Gregg Allman’s voice has carried him through decades of solo recordings and all incarnations of the mighty Allman Brothers Band. On Low Country Blues, it’s rightly his instrument of…
Quote of the Week
“You can always follow me on Tweeter.” – Gov. Rick Perry has an Interwebs moment during his acceptance speech for the Boot Up Texas new media award at the RightOnline conference.
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 anniversary 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. And…
This Is What Mourning Looks Like
Beginners sits shivah, postmodern-style and with profound humor and heart
Blues Before and After
The Steve Miller Band Let Your Hair Down (Roadrunner) A thousand bluesmen toiling for a thousand years might have come up with Let Your Hair Down. Covering the classics ribs the genre’s skeleton, from its progenitors to its practitioners large and small, but such LPs fall together perfectly only once in a blue moon. Cut…
City Hall Hustle: An F1 Piñata
Break it open, and out streams council confetti
Luv Doc Recommends: Shipe Pool Opening Party and Rally
Shipe Park isn’t Austin’s nicest use of green space – nor is it particularly spacious, well-designed, or attractively landscaped. It is, however, regularly used – not just by homeless people, dirty-faced toddlers, and anxious dogs looking to make a deposit, but by the sick freaks who insist on undermining evolution by experiencing life through something…
