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Class of 1984

Class of 1984 1982, R, 98 min. Directed by Mark L. Lester, Starring Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall. A music teacher faces drug dealers in an urban high school.

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Jack Wilson There appear to be many sides to Jack Wilson. The album art features a scruffy one on the front and a cleaned-up version on the back. The music on the onetime Seattle resident and current Austinite’s debut is just as multifaceted. While that makes Wilson difficult to pigeonhole, it’s also a problem when…

by Jim Caligiuri

Oops!

In last week’s cover story, “Summertime Blues,” Music, Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds’ ages were incorrect. They are 14 and 11, respectively. Note also that the breakout song of the sibling duo’s band Charlie Belle, “Strange Powers,” is a Magnetic Fields cover.

by Chronicle Staff

Ted

Mark Wahlberg and the teddy bear he willed to life as a child stay BFFs into adulthood in Seth McFarlane’s zany first foray onto the big screen.

by Marc Savlov

Texas Platters

Shawn Colvin All Fall Down (Nonesuch) After three Grammys, seven albums, and a spoof on The Simpsons, Shawn Colvin’s earned her keep as a singer-songwriter. The Austinite’s laid down her last 22 years in folk-pop confessionals – and most recently in new memoir Diamond in the Rough – but her eighth studio LP, All Fall…

by Abby Johnston

Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh directs this story about the male strippers of Tampa, whose lead characters are played by Matthew McConaughey and Channing Tatum.

by Marjorie Baumgarten

People Like Us

More Ordinary People Like Us than anything terribly original, this drama starring Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, and Michelle Pfeiffer still scores some good points along the way.

by Marc Savlov

‘Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness)’

Ruby Jane Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness) (Vinyl Records) Ruby Jane cut her teeth on the fiddle, but she’ll make her name with her voice. Languid and assured, it drifts drowsily on a higher plane throughout her official debut, Celebrity (Empire of Emptiness), with a penetrating twang that encompasses both patience and urgency. Opening on “The…

by Doug Freeman

Chew on This

Allez cuisine, with a generous helping of movie culture: Meet Ron Deutsch, Austin’s Chef du Cinema

by Marc Savlov

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Madonna loves Rice Krispies. It was once believed that a powder called usnea, made from the moss that grows over a buried skull, could cure nosebleeds and possibly epilepsy. Thomas Willis, a 17th-century pioneer of brain science, brewed a drink for apoplexy, or bleeding, containing powdered human skull and chocolate. Chimps can’t do distance running…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Quote of the Week

“Most Americans … are ready to have a change in Washington, D.C., in 2015.” – Gov. Rick Perry on Face the Nation, guessing wrong on the presidential election date by three years

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Jon Dee Graham Garage Sale (Freedom) With “garage” in the title, Jon Dee Graham’s eighth solo disc could be a blast of ruddy-cheeked punk from the Raul’s era Skunks guitarist. Instead, he presents a collection unlike anything in his past. Garage Sale is filled with languid moments, potent images, and – since it’s Jon Dee…

by Jim Caligiuri

Texas Platters

The Eastern Sea Plague (WhiteLabBlackLab) With its previous two EPs, Austin’s Eastern Sea swelled upon finely textured and intricate arrangements. While the band’s long delayed full-length retains that complexity, Plague bursts with more power and, somehow, even more tightly wound and layered movements. Sea centerpiece Matt Hines navigates the density with his own compressed lyrical…

by Doug Freeman

Civics 101

Thursday 28 LIONS MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE Save Muny representatives offer comments about county funding of a medical school and the preservation of the historic golf course. 1:30pm. Travis County Commis­sioners’ Court­room, Granger Building, 314 W. 11th. RALLY FOR THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT A U.S. Supreme Court decision that could overturn all or part of the…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

Belaire Resonating Symphony (Indierect) Belaire was last seen in 2011 local music documentary Echotone, carefully hand-printing and decorating copies of its proper 2007 debut, Exploding Impacting. That DIY aesthetic and attention to detail goes a long way toward explaining the splendor of the band’s follow-up, and perhaps why it took so long to arrive. Cari…

by Austin Powell

Headlines

› A newly refreshed (four reelected members) City Council meets today (Thursday) in its last meeting before its summer hiatus, and the agenda is stuffed – with short-term rentals and single-member districts likely to raise the most sand, but plenty more to fight over (see “New Council, Old Issues”). › The city of Austin is…

by Chronicle Staff

Texas Platters

White Widow A Psychological Thriller Billed as “an original motion picture soundtrack,” White Widow’s fourth album, A Psychological Thriller, connects the dots of its 10 songs with a vague narrative about overcoming emotional trauma. Like most concept LPs, however, no understanding of the storyline is required. Each song stands on its own, and whether that…

by Michael Toland

The Luv Doc: What a Man Drinks

Luvdoc, My friend Jeff says that the only real drink for a man is whiskey. I say it is beer. Which one of us is right? – Chugger Chugger – you have obviously mistaken The Austin Chronicle for Details magazine. It’s an easy enough mistake to make … what with all the hot metrosexuals tooling…

by Chronicle Staff

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