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Popcorn

Popcorn 1991, PG-13, 91 min. Directed by Mark Herrier, Starring Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Dee Wallace. A group of college students host a horror film festival, unaware there’s a killer among their ranks.

by Chronicle Staff

Exhibitionism

With this wild musical spoof, Doctuh Mistuh delivers a bigger buzz than its Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

by Jillian Owens

Exhibitionism

Aerial theatre company Sky Candy was created to mount a show like this, but it juggles too much to be effective

by Dan Solomon

Exhibitionism

Revel inaugurated its contemporary chamber music festival with three programs offering music for everyone

by Matthew Irwin

Food Events

• On the Porch Meeting with Andy Brown Travis County Judge candidate Andy Brown and former Texas Ag Commissioner Jim Hightower host a forum for area farmers and supporters of the sustainable agriculture community at Brown’s home. Sat., June 29, 1:30-3:30pm. 1403 E. Second. • Swoop House Pop-Up Dinner Series See www.supperfriends.com for menus. Fri.,…

by Virginia B. Wood

Exiled From Main Street

Last month, The Office ended its nine-year run on NBC with what was ostensibly a happy ending. At least three of its main characters threw caution to the winds and left their respectable office jobs in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to start a glamorous limo-laden life at their new company … in Austin, Texas. As a dedicated…

by Elizabeth Pagano

The Luv Doc: Is Your Neighbor a Prostitute?

Dear Luv Doc, I think my neighbor may be a prostitute. She moved into the apartment next door 6 months ago and ever since there have been men coming over day and night. They don’t make a lot of noise but sometimes I can tell that they are having sex. It usually doesn’t bother me…

by The Luv Doc

Expensive Geography

Earlier this year, the nonprofit housing advocacy group Green Doors, in collaboration with the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, released a report titled “The Geography of Opportunity in Austin and How It Is Changing.” The report builds on the work of a 2007 report that tracked the “geography of opportunity” across…

by Michael King

Texas Platters

Danny Malone Balloons Being an effective songwriter takes awareness, something local genre-bender Danny Malone demonstrates in droves. With his second LP Balloons, Malone flouts linear storytelling in favor of dreamlike recounts of love and loss. Cut over 10 days in Denmark’s Engelsholm Castle, Balloons calls on atypical instrumentation like handclaps and piano-lid slams in lieu…

by Abby Johnston

White House Down

Roland Emmerich blows up the White House real good, so who cares if it doesn’t all compute when you have Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx (as an Obama-ish prez) battling to become last men standing?

by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Latest in Density Bonuses: New Teeth

In December 2011, City Council passed the Downtown Austin Plan, intended to act as a guide for future Downtown development. Though years of work went into the DAP, unless Council codifies – enacts into city ordinances – the Plan’s contents, it remains a toothless framework. In the past year, with Downtown construction progressing at a…

by Elizabeth Pagano

Texas Platters

Scorpion Child (Nuclear Blast) Less enamored of the new wave of British heavy metal than its fellow contemporaries, Scorpion Child pledges troth to the early Seventies, when hundreds of proto-metal bands joined Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath in redefining the art of the riff. The Austin quintet doesn’t imitate the standard forebears on its full-length…

by Michael Toland

Soccer Watch

The Austin Aztex stayed undefeated Saturday in Oklahoma City, but the scoreless draw marked the first blemish on their heretofore perfect PDL season. This week, the 7-0-1 Aztex try to finish a season sweep of the Houston Dutch Lions, whom they’ve beaten three times already. Eberly’s Army is holding a “Let’s Kick Hunger Out” food…

by Nick Barbaro

The Heat

In his follow-up to Bridesmaids, Paul Feig re-employs Melissa McCarthy and teams her with Sandra Bullock for a comedy about a mismatched law-enforcement duo.

by Kimberley Jones

Texas Platters

The Carper Family Old-Fashioned Gal They remain anchored in the 20th century, but the Carper Family’s second effort moves away from an old-timey Andrews Sisters vibe and closer to the contemporary country of Emmylou Harris and bluegrass of Laurie Lewis. The local trio achieves this mostly through song choice, a ringing country-rock reading of Neil…

by Jim Caligiuri

A Hijacking

This psychologically tense Danish drama about modern-day piracy doesn’t cater to cliches or sentimentality.

by Steve Davis

Texas Platters

Chris Wall El Western Motel (Cold Spring) Chris Wall can turn a perfect country phrase; lines like “a night so black you start praying for the blues” in “Cruel to You,” and the barroom eulogy “now he’s only remembered by those trying to forget” from the title track. The local Westerner’s seventh official album –…

by Doug Freeman

Civics 101

Thursday 27 COOPERATION TEXAS VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Learn about the local nonprofit that’s dedicated to the development, support, and promotion of worker-owned cooperatives. Email to RSVP or for info. 5604 Manor Rd. info@cooperationtexas.coop, www.5604manor.org. Monday 01 TEXAS INMATE FAMILIES ASSOC­IA­TION MEETING Get your questions about the Texas Department of Criminal Justice answered on the first Monday…

by Chronicle Staff

A Band Called Death

A black proto-punk band from Detroit that wouldn’t compromise on its name is unearthed in this music doc 35 years after recording their original demo tracks.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Platters

Delbert & Glen Blind, Crippled & Crazy (New West) After recording two albums of blues and country-soul together in the early Seventies, Texans Delbert McClinton and Glen Clark went their separate ways. The former needs no introduction to anyone who loves Lone Star grit, while the latter went on to become a respected songwriter, keyboardist…

by Jim Caligiuri

10 ‘Austin Music Minute’ Bands Laurie Gallardo Loves

Paul Banks & the Carousels I’m smitten with Paul Banks’ voice. And on the AMM, I admitted that there was a time I was so taken by his singing that I went up to him and said, “I want to marry your voice.” He’s turned heads and stopped people in their tracks. They all have…

by Laurie Gallardo

Texas Platters

Walker Lukens Devoted Walker Lukens’ debut LP oscillates between wanderlust and loneliness, reflecting his years spent traveling from Brooklyn before settling in Austin. Rhythm driven, Devoted pines behind Lukens’ sweetened voice, from the sparse piano opener of “Drunk Logic” and the swooning Walkmen-esque “The Night I Was Kissed by Patti Smith” to the easy groove…

by Doug Freeman

Quote of the Week

“I’m rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of Texans.” – Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, at the start of her SB 5 filibuster Tuesday

by Chronicle Staff

Dirty Wars

Journalist Jeremy Scahill investigates the stealth operations of JSOC – the Joint Special Operations Command, an elite military outfit that performs targeted kills at the administration’s directive.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Texas Platters

Overseas Before divorce, there’s just decay: cold stares, silent dinners, Netflix evenings. Overseas – the debut collaboration between Austin’s Will Johnson (Centro-matic/South San Gabriel), David Bazan (Pedro the Lion/Headphones), and the Kadane brothers (Bedhead/the New Year) – isn’t an explicit concept album about the stages of separation, but it doesn’t stray far from the subject,…

by Austin Powell

Texas Platters

Krypol Haze (Opera House Music) Krypol Haze looks like a cross between Rittz and Roach Gigz, and he raps like a bass-heavy Tuk da Gat from Austin’s League of Extraordinary G’z. His debut LP, self-titled and released through local imprint Opera House Music, mixes murky and Memphian (“Almighty Dollar,” “Today Might Be My Last,” which…

by Chase Hoffberger

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

A klavierbaumeister is a master piano builder. Some believe that giants once lived in the area that is now the city of Rockwall, Texas. A giant human skull was unearthed there in 1886. A thousand Americans a day go to emergency rooms because of dog bites. More Americans seek medical attention for dog bites than…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Headlines

› Déjà vu all over again: Gov. Rick Perry on Wed­nesday announced a second special session of the Texas Legislature, the day after Senate Bill 5 was killed by Sen. Wendy Davis’ filibuster, parliamentary maneuvering, and citizen activism. Issues to be considered include transportation funding, mandatory sentencing, and, yes, abortion. › City Council meets today…

by Chronicle Staff

‘Chipping Away’: A Texas Abortion Rights Timeline

Legal abortion rights began in Texas with the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 decision in the Texas case Roe v. Wade, which confirmed that the “right to privacy” cleared the way for a woman’s right to choose. Accordingly, foes of reproductive choice would like to see those rights end here in Texas with Senate Bill 5.…

by Jordan Smith

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