Cover Story
Cult of Personality
Insect Records head and Attack Formation commander Ben Webster has never been photographed with Red River mascot-to-be Butcher Bear
Light Versus Night
UT’s video guide to cutting light pollution
This Week’s Waste of Time
Bad weather? Spend more time indoors. Here’s how.
Toros’ Snyder Headed to NBA
Coach earns well-deserved NBA gig
Guns, Drugs, and Greg Abbott
Abbott wants the border sealed – or maybe he wants war with Mexico?
Robots May Break Your Heart
But the Riverboat Gamblers Won’t
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Dims the Lights
Fleet Services, MRF, light pollution – that’s just how we roll
The Daily Hustle: 7/1/10
How can I be of service?
Gayly Fourthward!
How do The Ghey celebrate independence in the ATX in the USA?
Politicians Take a Header
World Cup woes spur government action in France, Nigeria
Public Forum Tonight: Austin Energy GM Candidates
Much rides on the decision over who will be the utility’s next boss
Still in the Game
AFF to honor The Wire creator David Simon
Just Keep Walking
Shannon McNally & Hot Sauce hit the Continental tonight
OTR – 33 RPM
Jesse Dayton steps into ‘The Sinner.’
The Daily Hustle: 6/30/10
Leffingwell takes stock
Girls Only
One of Austin’s smart girls goes national
The Hardest Hit
Texecutioners take Baltimore’s Charm City to the wire
The Daily Hustle: 6/29/10
Council Present honors Council Past
Round Rock Express: Know Your Enemy
Highlighting minor-leaguers from the opposing teams
Austin Energy GM Hunt Narrows
Burbank candidate drops out, AE adds forums
The Daily Hustle: 6/28/10
B&C meeting highlights ahoy
The Sunday Survey, 6/27/10
Dems on holiday, GOP shenanigans, and a monster council session
GOP Can’t Greenwash TRM-PAC 2.0
Ballot manipulation plots exposed
World Cup Bracket Set
A look at the WC knockout stage
BPness, Part 2: A (Long) Line (of Boom) in the Sand
Notes from Kate’s trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 2.
BPness: A Line in the Sand
Notes from Kate’s trip thru Lafourche Parish to Grand Isle, LA., Part 1.
In a Bind
Austin Book Arts Fair celebrates bookmaking with hands-on activities
Ride the Express
Why you should follow the Round Rock Express?
Austinites Asked to Do What Austinites Do Best
Weekend casting call for freak flag fly-ers
A Shot Across the Bow
GOP releases it’s 2010 party platform.
The Daily Hustle: 6/25/10
Getting to the point
TV Eye
TV Eye has girl crushes aplenty
Six Degrees of Attack Formation: A Sampler
Jeremy Allen (Lucky Jeremy, California Party Girls) Cilton Beard III (Fingaar Bangaar, Horse Rappaport) Terry Brown (El Santo, Galaxian) Paddy Costello (Dillinger Four) J.D. Cronise (the Sword) Lisa Dirocco (the Kodiaks, Bottle Service) Adam Hatley (Those Peabodys, Aadm Our Hatley, Fingaar Bangaar) Chris Hodge (Carbomb, Tune in Tokyo, Brick, Young Heart Attack) Jimmy Hollywood (White…
Arts Review
Steven Dietz’s fun comedy may have deeper meaning for viewers of a certain age
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, June 24-July 1
Texas Platters
Kevin Welch A Patch of Blue Sky (Music Road) After 30 years in Nashville, Kevin Welch now calls the Texas Hill Country home. His first solo disc in eight years, A Patch of Blue Sky also doubles as his local bow since he moved here two years ago. While the album isn’t specific to the…
Incubation Chamber
Georgia Anne Muldrow & Dudley Perkins, ‘Mama’s Place’ b/w ‘A Friend’ 7-inch “These two are making transformational music for our lives, positive with the FONK. I’m very blessed to be able to work with two of my favorite artists and to be able to help get their music out there as well. She makes all…
Arts Review
Even with an uneven staging, Paul Rudnick’s biblical comedy is a fabulous play
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Texas Platters
Shinyribs Well After Awhile (Nine Mile) Shinyribs spins off Gourds figurehead Kevin Russell, and if Well After Awhile were a new entry to the overstuffed roots market, he’d be hailed as one of the discoveries of the year. Instead, he’s Richards in the Jagger-Richards slot of the beloved Austin song farmers, rural mentalities in urban…
Hitting the Budget Barbells
The annual city budget workouts begin, and you’re all invited
Arts Review
Chung’s two new sculptures offer a sublime glimpse of heaven and earth in balance
World Cup Watch
A rundown of local viewing parties
Texas Platters
The Mercers Giant (Victim) Bolstered by the melodic brooding of Peter Wagner, the Mercers’ second seven-song platter following their 2007 debut LP, Pretty Things Walk, strikes as the local quartet’s most potent yet. Tempering their previous rock surges without compromising the power, Giant reins in to let go. Wagner’s gritty, understated vocals fall somewhere between…
Property Tax Time
Choosing a reasonable tax rate, what the voters say, and important dates
Page Two: Yes We Said Yes We Will Yes
The Chronicle in bloom
Urban Assault Ride
Bikes, booze, bands, and more
Texas Platters
Leatherbag Hey Day Ever since he adopted the moniker Leatherbag, Randy Reynolds has drawn Dylan comparisons for his raspy delivery and Blonde on Blonde-era poeticism. The most striking similarity is his ability to change directions, from the serene folk narratives of 2006’s So Long, Sweethearts and Love Me Like the Devil to his No Bridges…
‘Service Reductions’ and ‘Unmet Needs’
What the numbers show
Watson to Take Cap Metro Wheel
Public sector experience clinched the deal for transit board
Soccer Watch
Aztex start a new win streak; World Cup midway report
Texas Platters
Sarah Jaffe Suburban Nature (Kirtland) Denton’s Sarah Jaffe sneaks in during the first verse of “Before You Go”: “My heart pretends not to know how it ends.” It’s a crusher, but her voice is soft and haunted; she’s a singer-songwriter more in the vein of Jana Hunter than Patty Griffin. Suburban Nature, her first LP,…
The Things We Do for Love
One theatre ensemble just can’t quit that miss of myth, Psyche
AE Finalists: California Dreamin’
Greens question the need for Golden Staters
Texas Platters
Stone River Boys Love on the Dial (Cow Island Music) Guitarist Dave Gonzalez and singer-songwriter Chris Gaffney were the mainstays in the Hacienda Brothers, acclaimed for their mix of traditional country and old-school soul. After Gaffney succumbed to cancer in 2008, Gonzalez found Mike Barfield, Austin’s self-proclaimed “Tyrant of Texas Funk.” As the Stone River…
Frozen Dreams
Check out any of these frozen yogurt shops for a cool, tangy treat
Creationists Get Schooled in Court
No science ed degree with a biblical viewpoint for you!
Knight and Day
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz co-star in this overly cute action film about a rogue CIA agent and the woman along for the ride.
Texas Platters
Kalu James Live Kalu James opens Live with what would be awkward even at a collegiate open mic night: “Apparently I give really good hugs.” What follows on this hourlong disc recorded late last year at Ruta Muya, however, is no laughing matter. While the Nigerian-born Austin-transplant’s first two studio LPs leaned heavily on Tracy…
Marfa Shadows: A Chef Brett Mystery
The culinary-themed mystery genre isn’t new, but DeMers sidesteps the common ‘cozy’ into a world heavily influenced by noirs
Judge Orders Posthumous DNA Testing
Did the state execute an innocent man?
Jonah Hex
The disfigured Weird Western Tales antihero gets his own movie, which mixes elements of the Western and the supernatural.
Texas Platters
League of Extraordinary Gz Concealed Weapons 2 Connecting the dots from the Goodie Mob to the Geto Boys, the League of Extraordinary Gz – eight local rappers from Dred Skott, Southbound, and C.O.D. – is Austin’s first rap supergroup. Its latest mixtape builds off the buzz of the first Concealed Weapons assault and raises the…
Restaurant Review
In our atomic summer heat, Las Delicias makes an excellent chilly pit stop
City Announces ‘Multimodal’ Bond Package
Package notable less for its contents than for how it came to be
Grown Ups
Grown Ups is the latest in an ongoing series of achingly nostalgic Adam Sandler schmaltzfests.
After a Fashion
Stephen rubs and rubs and can’t make it smudge! No, we’re not talking about the Louisiana coastline.
Event Menu
More foodie showcases to fill stomachs and calendars
BPness: Louisiana’s Beleaguered Coast
A snapshot of life since the spill
Micmacs
This French-language film from Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet resembles a live-action cartoon.
Vengeance Is Fine
Jean-Pierre Jeunet wages war on war in the spirited Micmacs
Food-o-File
Two culinary programs change, Wheatsville wins, M Two debuts, and more
New ‘Action’ Park Rolls Closer to Reality
Skaters, BMXers collaborate on new digs
Cyrus
John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, and Marisa Tomei co-star in this Duplass brothers’ comedy about a young man’s obsessive attachment to his mother.
Players’ Guide
Zynga touches down in Austin, pixel-jamming at the Fantastic Arcade, and more
Men With Mommy Issues
Jay and Mark Duplass rock the cradle of love in Cyrus
1915 David St.
Project prompts rethinking on what it means to remodel
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
This documentary is a softball, entirely sympathetic, and wickedly funny portrait of the artist at an advancing age.
The Hightower Report
Uniting to Fight Citizens United; and Unshackling Pregnant Inmates
Off the Record
Discovered, covered: Robert Plant reimagines Milton Mapes, Eric Johnson eulogizes Hendrix, and more nuggets from the Texas Punk Treasure Chest
State Commission Considers Keller’s Fate
Keller’s execution-day decisions under microscope again
Winter’s Bone
Set in the Ozark Mountain backwoods of Missouri, this tense drama is an exceptionally good film.
Big Range Austin
The festival that packs a year of contemporary dance into two weekends
Inspiring Words
Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. keynotes the Austin African American Book Festival
Day Trips
The Angel of Goliad distinguished herself during the bloody months of the Texas Revolution with her compassion for Texan prisoners
Point Austin: Step Up to Citizenship
The curtain rises on the annual budget pageant – places, please
Ransom Center
All 210,000 prints from the Magnum Photos archive are available for public study
The Fourth Annual Austin African American Book Festival
Schedule and description
Gay Place
Act loco? You don’t have to ask us twice!
City Hall Hustle: Play It Again, MRF
There’s many a slip between the dais and the big blue bin
Arthouse
Rachel Adams hired to develop public programs for the visual art organization
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sharks, toilet paper, and more
Headlines
� City Council convenes today, Thursday, June 24, to tackle a crowded agenda of 152 items, cramming in recycling contract deliberations, Mobile Loaves & Fishes’ proposed RV park for the homeless, and more before a monthlong hiatus; see “Naked City” and “City Hall Hustle.” � Bonding and budget talk dominates City Hall, as Mayor Lee…
Luv Doc Recommends: Fan Fare Friday
Depending on your association with the beautiful sport of soccer, you may or may not have been in a bit of a huff last Friday. You might have been hunting up Mali on Google Earth trying to figure out the best place to lob a couple of cruise missiles, or you might have been chuckling…
