Cover Story
This Is My Life
LZ Love’s reveal: dance music!
Ballot on Hold
Dems, Greens reach temporary agreement on petition
The Daily Hustle: 6/10/10 (Updated x 2)
Water Treatment Plant No. 4 dominates low impact agenda
Texas vs. TCU: History Repeating?
Longhorns versus Horned Frogs Super Regional rematch preview
‘My First Place’ Is Looking for You
HGTV show casts an eye on Austin
This Week’s Waste of Time
Online tools for sounds and sand
See You On the Moon
Shel Silverstein gets a tribute, plus more new albums
Say Goodnight to the Big 12
Buffaloes jump to Pac-10
How to Get Ahead in Publishing
The Writers League of Texas 2010 Agents Conference
Go West Young Kinky
The Texas Jewboy rides again
The Meter’s Running on the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast
Taxis, taxes & travesties of justice
Long Live QueerBomb!
QueerBomb commemorates riotous beginnings of gay rights movement.
This Week in Campaign Fail
Gov. Perry makes fake turbine flap
‘No No: A Dockumentary’ Benefit
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Dock Ellis’ LSD no-hitter
Symphony of the Star (Wars)
Long ago in an Erwin Center far, far away
Samsung Invests $3.6 Billion
Austin gets biggest foreign investment in the U.S.
Calder Cup Finals Game Four
Stars hold tenuous 2-1 series lead
The Aerobic City
Ideas from “Rx for Healthy Places”
Wentworth Doesn’t Trust TSU Regents
Travis Co. Senator blasts new chancellor as “Johnny-come-lately”
Deep Relaxation
Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s in no big rush
Persecuting Judge Sharon Keller
Keller says case against her highlights injustice in system. No joke.
The Daily Hustle: 6/9/10
Austin and austerity as budget cuts come hither
Timbers in the House
Aztex host Portland Wednesday
Texas Baseball Flashes Sideways
Surprising similarities between ‘Lost’ and UT baseball
Stop That Bedroom Talk!
Notes from RECA’s Regional Mayors Forum
3,614 Is The Magic Number
Final day of early voting in AISD/ACC board elections
Feral Lansdale
Joe Lansdale heading to Austin, and Bubba’s comin’ with him
Reefer Madness: Medi-Pot Update
State lawmakers change pot rules and more states consider legalizing
The Daily Hustle: 6/8/10
Your council preview for this Thursday
Festival Brain
The Kid Are Alright Fest in retrospect
Stars Host Finals Starting Tonight!
Games three through five at the CPC
Sustainability Officer: Four Finalists
But only one can win!
The Daily Hustle: 6/7/10
Historic zoning haymaker coming to council?
The Sunday Survey, 6/6/10
Low turnout for elections and big bust-ups over Pride
The Brave and The Bold
Mayor Adam West talks Night of the Bat
Not “Message Films”
Scholar Curran Nault talks BLaB
UES + Steve Madden = The Pointer Sisters
Upper Echelon Shoes teams with Steve Madden for Fall 2010
Sunday Funday!
Grab that Pic-a-nic basket, Boo Boo
Cap Metro STILL Wants Your Budget Input
Give feedback in person or online
This Week’s Waste of Time
For pride, the gayest of free online games
OMGZ Sandra Tix!
Enter to win!
Anne McCue at Continental Saturday
Australian rocker plays Austin
Fewer Jail Inmates Last Year
But more on the way?
The Daily Hustle: 6/4/10
Night descends on Neighborhood Housing director
3…2…1… GLITTER!
Austin bloggers come out queer for QueerBomb.
Signs Point to Carson Brock
The young blues guitarist releases his first CD
TV Eye
The CW and Fox announce their fall programming
Conspirare
The esteemed choir scores a Dutch Grammy and support for a new commission
Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground
Interview with artist Leah DeVun
Trail Projects Coming Up Roses?
New hike-and-bike trail on the horizon
Sandra Bernhard ♥ America
Sandra Bernhard returns to Austin for We’re Still Queer Honey!
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sumo wrestlers, didgeridoo, and more
Page Two: Kool-Aid for the Sheeple!
Burning the Reichstag in a hall of mirrors
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Southwest Austin Dining
It’s very possible to enjoy a good meal in this neighborhood
Letters at 3AM: In the Margins of Oligarchy
Society is created by a mass of individual choices
Calder Cup Finals Come to Cedar Park
First-year Stars battle for AHL championship
Making Plans for Reagan and Pearce
AISD bracing for news on fate of Reagan and Pearce
Southwest Austin Dining
Satellite Bistro & Bar 5900 Slaughter #400, 288-9994 Monday-Thursday, 11am-9pm; Friday, 11am-10pm; Saturday, 9am-10pm; Sunday, 9am-9pm www.satellitebistroandbar.com The Kamburis brothers’ Austin restaurant empire has expanded and contracted along with the economy in recent years. Currently, their original Flipnotics serves coffee drinks, locally sourced snacks, and live music to a loyal clientele on Barton Springs Road…
Day Trips
National Trails Day launched in 1993 and has become a rallying cry to get Americans outdoors
Soccer Watch
A soccer cornucopia: Aztex & World Cup
Split Pride: Gay Event Plans Marred by Tension
Gay pride weekend marred by tension
Southwest Austin Dining
Brick Oven Restaurant 9911 Brodie, 292-3939 Sunday-Thursday, 11am-9pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-10pm www.brickovenrestaurant.com The newest Brick Oven in southwest Austin offers large, comfy dining rooms with curved windows and stone arches that mimic the curved shape of the signature brick oven in the kitchen. Pizzas and baked pasta dishes emerge from the big oven, complemented by a…
In Memory of Dennis Hopper
‘A walkin’ contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction’
History’s Morgue
We choose whether to let our stories live or die
Are You Sustainable?
Current and former Austinites vying for city post
Breakdown
Travis County’s mental health system is cracking under growing patient load
Outing the Archive
The Austin History Center stands ready to gay up its archives
ARA ‘Conversation’
Corridor discussion rings all the usual changes
Southwest Austin Dining
Blue Bamboo Viet Thai Grill Restaurant 5900 Slaughter, 288-8688 Daily, 11am-10pm www.bluebamboo71.i8.com Although the sign labels this eatery as Viet Thai, the family that owns Blue Bamboo is Vietnamese, and the dishes from their homeland really shine. The space is comfortable and clean, the service friendly, and delivery is available through ATX Delivery (see “ATX…
Founders Day
The 2010 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
PRIDE Weekend 2010: I Am QueerBomb. I Am Austin Pride.
How queer is your Pride? How Austin is your bomb?
Remembering ‘Easy Rider’ and ‘The Last Movie’
CinemaTexas program notes
Southwest Austin Dining
Yanagi Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar 4404 W. William Cannon Ste. B, 891-0989 Monday-Thursday, 11am-2:30pm, 4-10pm; Friday, 11am-2:30pm & 4-11pm; Saturday, noon-11pm; Sunday, closed www.yanagitx.com Another sushi restaurant in the heart of a strip mall, this one is laid-back and cool, and neither too fancy nor “strip-mall-ish.” Sushi is prominent, but other simple Japanese dishes…
Arts Review
Paper Chairs’ debut looks great but doesn’t keep this drama revved at full speed
UT Spending Squeeze: Departments Juggle Priorities
UT faculty attempt to do more with less
Southwest Austin Dining
Hecho en Mexico 6001 W. William Cannon, 301-0058 Daily, 9am-10pm www.hechoenmexico-restaurant.com I had read that these folks are striving to serve regional Mexican dishes not found on any other menu in town, so I was very eager to try it out. The menu boasts appealing items with a clear Central Mexico influence, which was confirmed…
Arts Review
This ancient satire is still timely, but new material here gets in the play’s way
Event Listings
Thursday 03 LEAH DeVUN: OUR HANDS ON EACH OTHER This artist explores lesbian space while “our hands” explore everything else. Gorgons r go! (See “Heads in the Sky; Feet on the Ground” for more). 6pm. Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org, www.leahdevun.com. WE ARE THE LIGHT OF LOVE This year’s Multifaith Pride Service,…
9500 Liberty
This timely documentary is a witness to the events in Prince William County, Va., whose board of supervisors voted in 2007 to require police officers to question anyone suspected of being an undocumented immigrant.
Vive la Résistance
Joshua Long talks about Austin’s evolution of weird, from organic to institutionalized
Demand vs. Supply
There is no doubt that Austin lacks enough inpatient beds to meet demand. In April alone, the city-owned University Medical Center Brackenridge emergency department saw 284 unique psychiatric patients in the ER, says Dr. Christopher Ziebell, medical director of the department. The number is about the same at St. David’s South Austin Hospital, the city’s…
Arts Review
ColdTowne as Sketch Central? With this comedy show, the club is halfway there.
The Tipping Point
Austin and Travis County fail to deliver mental health care
Get Him to the Greek
Jonah Hill and Russell Brand make a well-matched odd couple, and their path to Hollywood is littered with the excesses of drugs and rock & roll.
SPOT Festival
Making connections at Denmark’s SPOT Festival
Southwest Austin Dining
Homegrown restaurant chains seem to be flourishing in this fast-growing area of town
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar gets allergic smelling hay and hails a cab
City Hall Hustle: Ghost in the Machine
The council receives prophecy from an unexpected source
Mid-August Lunch
The director of this Italian film, Gianni Di Gregorio, also stars as a middle-aged bachelor who lives with his mother and cooks for her friends.
The Hightower Report
Full Disclosure; and Feisty Grannies Keep It Honest
Southwest Austin Dining
Taking care of dining-in needs for residents of far South Austin
Pride Piper
Artist and Pride piper Silky Shoemaker brings DIY joy to the Pride table
Headlines
� City Council is off this week, following a tumultuous meeting last week wherein City Manager Marc Ott received decidedly mixed reviews of his performance in the wake of the KeyPoint imbroglio. See “City Hall Hustle,” for a dramatic take. � The city last week announced six finalists for the new position of chief sustainability…
Princess Kaiulani
This costume-drama and historical romance tells the story of Hawaii’s last princess.
Two Brothers, Two Paths
AFS Documentary Tour: The Oath
Honduran Food Comes to Austin
You don’t have to be a Sandinista or a Contra to enjoy Honduran food in Austin
Preaching Beyond That Choir
San Fran Bishop Yvette Flunder has some ‘mighty real’ revelations
The Devil’s in the LGBTtails
Part 2 of our interview with the Austin History Center on gaying up the archives
Splice
Splice is a twisted little update of the Frankenstein story, as well as a thriller, love story, and meditation on the possibilities of science.
A Peek Into One Boutique’s Two Decades of Preservation
AFS Essential Cinema: Selections From Milestone Films
Food-o-File
Toni Tipton-Martin gets a move on up to the White House as Austin wades deeper into trailer mania
Common Law
Protest High Property Taxes
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, June 3-9
Raajneeti
This is a new Bollywood political drama.
Reunited
Alamo Drafthouses to merge, Tim League back in as CEO
BAM! Black Arts Movement Festival
ProArts’ showcase of film, art, music, theatre, dance, and food packs a punch
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
Our picks for the June 12 run-off elections
Armendariz to Texas: Don’t Make Me Federalize
EPA chief says he’s prepared to take over state permitting process
Knives Out
Two Austin chefs compete for the title of the Next Food Network Star
Paul F. Tompkins
Social media guarantees an audience before the stand-up shows up
Off the Record
The estate of Don Walser and Southbound’s Lowkey both get their respective days in court
Poverty Knocks at Texas’ Door
State’s top guns order more cuts
Luv Doc Recommends: QueerBomb
Why wouldn’t Austin devote a four-day weekend to the life and music of Charley Pride? Anyone who has sold more than 70 million records is worthy of a heapin’ helpin’ of A-Town adoration, but CP did it as a black country singer. That’s like a big slab of improbable sandwiched between a couple of slices…
