Age Correlation Found in Marriage Study
Who cares what anyone else thinks?
Gee Pee at da Ess Exxx
The Gay Place hits South by and launches a blog.
Masters of Our Domain!
The Domain has opened. For real.
Shake Yr Bloggy Down to the Ground
Requisite “First Blog” wherein we “blog” about “blogging”… née “Welcome.”
The Cyclopism Epidemic in Sports
The ‘Daily Show’s John Hodgman gets to the bottom of Human Growth Hormone doping.
UIL Update: Thorndale Advances
Thorndale is one win away from claiming Central Texas’ first boys’ basketball state championship since 1965. Led by Austin Falke’s 20 points, the Bulldogs routed New Deal 63-39 in their state semifinal this morning. Thorndale advances to play Martin’s Mill, which bounced Clyde-Eula 34-25, in the Class A Division I final 8:30am Saturday at the…
Can (or Will) the Lege Fix TYC?
The Joint Select Committee on the Texas Youth Commission meets for the first time today – but will they tackle the problem, or the symptoms?
Dylan Does Texas
Bob Dylan takes Theme Time Radio Hour down Texas way.
Captain America, 1941-2007
RIP Steve Rogers, AKA Captain America. 1941-2007
It’s All a Conspiracy!
SXSW appears on the City Council agenda.
Houston Dynamo Defeat Puntarenas, FIFA Bans Head Scarves, and More
The Houston Dynamo beat Costa Rica’s Puntarenas, 2-0, last Thursday night in College Station, avenging a 1-0 first-leg loss and advancing to the semifinals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. The goals came, one in each half, from Paul Dalglish and Kelly Gray, but the man of the match may once again have been keeper Zach…
RIP Stella Boes
The Carousel Lounge’s dancing waitress passed away Monday.
UIL Boys Basketball Tourney Runs Thursday Through Saturday at the Erwin Center
Congratulations to Rockwall, Fort Worth Dunbar, Canyon, Poth, Nazareth, and Lindsay, your 2007 UIL girl’s basketball state champions. This weekend it’s the boys’ turn, as their state tournament gets underway at the crack of dawn tomorrow with the Martin’s Mill-Clyde Eula Class A Division I semifinal, 8:30am at the Erwin Center. Local teams in action…
‘Hell on Wheels’ Roller Derby Doc to Premiere at SXSW Film This Sunday
Director Bob Ray and producer Werner Campbell have been documenting the hard hits and behind-the-scenes drama of Austin’s Roller Derby scene since its inception in 2001. After five long and grueling years, the boys have edited their 500 hours of footage down to feature length and are ready to share it with the world. Be…
Stadium Arcadium
The Red Hot Chili Peppers take down San Antonio’s AT&T Center
SXSW Metallurgy
SXSW’s metal offerings.
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth – Now at SXSW!
The de-fossilizing of SXSW.
Jody Conradt Earns 900th Career Win, Rick Barnes Named AP Big 12 Coach of the Year
Tuesday night the UT women’s basketball team succeeded in advancing through the first round of the Big 12 tourney and handed coach Jody Conradt her 900th career victory. The No. 7 seed Lady Horns defeated No. 10 seed Missouri 70-57 to advance to the second round today vs. Oklahoma at 6pm which will air on…
Ooh, Ooh … That Smell
If you thought your waster smelled funky lately … you’re right.
Don’t Make the Kids Smoke Pot
It makes for good TV, but the weed smoking toddler video is some pretty sad stuff.
Give Them All Your Lovin’, Money
ZZ Top add second show.
Spin Doctors
Spin reps Austin.
New Rule: No State Officials With MySpace Pages
It’s just wrong.
Death to the Sex Offenders!
Debbie Riddle truly lives up to her name.
Texas Rollergirls Season-Opener Recap
It was a night of firsts for the Texas Rollergirls this past Sunday. The first bout of the season, the first time on the track for the league’s many rookie skaters, and the debut of the Honky Tonk Heartbreakers’ sleek, onepiece unis (gone are the Daisy Dukes of years past). The Heartbreakers are hot off…
Beware the Drunken Birds
Fifty cedar waxwing birds migrating north through Austin got drunk on fermented yaupon berries, keeled over and died in the courtyard of the offices of the state Dept. of Aging and Disability Services on Monday, says state Dept. of Health Services spokesman Doug McBride. A drunk waxwing will do things it wouldn’t normally do –…
That Scooter Don’t Run No More
One down, so many to go …
Austin Bashing Bills Update
Why has it taken the Lege so long to get in Austin bashing gear?
Help a Neighbor Out
Heather Haenes benefit
RG4N Wal-Mart Presser Today
RG4N announcement to contrast Wal-Mart’s “open house” at Northcross
Catastrophe and the Cure
Explosions at the Hogg.
Taking ‘H’ Off the Street
APD on a recent heroin ring bust.
KVET Has Issues (But Not Like Her)
Racial epithet on local station = you’re out. Homophobic remarks at national conference = applause.
Wranglers Defeat Gladiators in Season Opener
Austin Wranglers win season opener
Toros Pay Tribute to Dennis Johnson, Fall to Colorado
Thursday night the Austin Toros returned to play after having postponed last weekend’s games due to the tragic loss of head coach Dennis Johnson. They paid tribute to Johnson before the game and they’ll wear memorial patches honoring DJ on their jerseys for the remainder of the season. I must say, my eyes teared up…
What Type of Wal-Mart Shopper Are You?
Divining the Wal-Mart shopper
Longhorns Topple Aggies in Double OT
[Editor’s note: Be sure to read John Razook’s excellent Big XII Conference tourney preview (“Out of Town, to a Conference”) in this week’s print edition.] For all the top-level nonconference games Big XII teams took part in this season, it is conference play that truly brings out the best in the Big XII. At least…
‘NFL Analysis 101’: NFC North
Welcome class, I am your instructor, Professor Timmy, and this be “NFL Analysis 101,” where we look at the wants, needs, and desires of all 32 National Football League teams in the fresh off-season and compare each team to literature, historical documents, and the reference guides that best represent them. Football, much like the written…
‘Jessica’s Law’ Update
HB 8 to return to the floor Monday.
This Is Campaigning in 2007
John Edwards campaign HQ vandalized – virtually.
Reno 911!: Miami
The gang from the Comedy Central show attend a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break.
The Number 23
Joel Schumacher and Jim Carrey combine their dubious talents to create an even more dubious movie in which a man becomes obsessed with the number 23.
The Abandoned
Creepy Eastern European atmospherics encase this horror film, which nevertheless suffers from an anemic script.
Wild Hogs
John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence, and William H. Macy star as middle-aged friends who seek life’s purpose while on a cross-country motorcycle trip.
Zodiac
The director of Fight Club and Se7en switches gears here from psychological thrillers to something that more closely resembles a police procedural.
Black Snake Moan
Like a steady 12-bar blues progression, Black Snake Moan lays down a groove and works the chords over and over ’til they’re all spent.
The Lives of Others
This recent Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is the story of the small redemption of one man, who happens to be a hated East German Stasi officer.
Nishabd
A 60-year-old man and an 18-year-old girl hook up in this Bollywood Lolita story.
Austin Wranglers Season Opener Sunday
More interesting than Canadian football and better smelling than the European league, arena football has definitely earned its position as the NFL’s socially awkward foster child. And with its new ESPN contract, this is the Arena Football League’s time to shine. It’s already moved up to second on the Google search results list for AFL…
Letters @ 3AM
Like everybody else, I�ve come to take the computer�s marvels for granted. I�ve even come to take for granted that, roughly every two years, I�ve got to shell out for a new model.
Smoke Trail
Artz Rib House (9)2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283 Monday-Saturday, 11am-10pm; Sunday, noon-9pm www.artzribhouse.com Art Blondin moved down from Vermont in the early Eighties to open a restaurant with friends on Sixth. He ended up instead with a caboose down the street. The caboose just happened to have a smoker in it, and when he won every…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
K-Rino’s “Ridin’ Dirty,” sonically.
Nichols Execution: Another Texas death row travesty
Prosecutorial misconduct includes hiding crucial witness
ScreenBurn
The gaming arm of SXSW Interactive gets pumped
TV Eye
Fix the Lines on My Screen!
After a Fashion
Stephen’s annual Oscar roundup of who DHOH (did her own hair), and look out, Neiman Marcus is coming!
Smoke Trail
Green Mesquite BBQ & More (10)1400 Barton Springs Rd., 479-0485 Daily, 10am-11pm www.greenmesquite.net Green Mesquite has been a fixture at the corner of South Lamar and Barton Springs Road for nearly 20 years, and they’re still going strong. All of their meats are smoked fresh daily over slow-burning, aromatic mesquite wood and served up with…
Phases & Stages
Arcade FireNeon Bible (Merge) Its title evoking sleaze, sin, and salvation, Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible stares down the sophomore jinx with a pissed-off preacher’s penetrating gaze. Whereas 2004’s Funeral, which outpaced even Green Day’s American Idiot and U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb for year-end accolades, was based around several family deaths that bonded…
Point Austin: Obama Mania
For the heady moment, everything he do b-be funky
Morgan Romine
Shooting her way into the public eye
Capitol Briefs
• As expected, a group of parents filed suit last week seeking to halt Gov. Rick Perry’s executive order calling for HPV immunization for all sixth-grade girls. Dallas attorney Kenneth Chaiken filed the lawsuit in Travis Co. District Court on behalf of the unnamed plaintiffs. “The school-aged girls of Texas are not guinea pigs who…
Day Trips
The Choke Canyon State Park is a haven for fishermen, birders, and campers alike
Smoke Trail
Ruby’s BBQ (11)512 W. 29th, 477-1651 Daily, 11am-12mid www.rubysbbq.com Authentic Texas barbecue with plenty of vegetarian options: All of the traditional sides are as good as the barbecue itself, which was rated by Esquire as the best in America. Ruby’s takes quality seriously and for almost 20 years has been serving lean, hormone-free natural beef…
Phases & Stages
Madeleine PeyrouxParamount Theatre, Feb. 24 Madeleine Peyroux isn’t an entertainer. The 32-year-old Athens, Ga.-born chanteuse doesn’t flirt, bat eyelashes, or doll up. Peyroux’s a musician alone, hiding behind her miniature Martin acoustic and fourpiece accompaniment, while growling Billie Holiday and cracking intermittent jokes about duel lovers, booze, and her father. The notoriously shy songbird seemed…
Beside the Point
City Council wants to grant workers collective bargaining rights, needs Lege approval
Connective Issue
Web 2.0, online gaming, but everything’s in-between
TCB
Roky Erickson gets his life back (literally), UT’s Harry Ransom Center and the White Ghost Shivers remember the 18th Amendment, and Shaft heading for SXSW? Shut yo’ mouth.
Soccer Watch
A new women’s U.S. soccer league to begin in 2008, and more
The Burger House
Jack Koustoubardis’ Dallas landmark opens a new location in Austin
Phases & Stages
Duke EllingtonThe Complete 1936-1940 Variety, Vocalion, and Okeh Small Group Sessions (Mosaic) Panic sets in initially: The first four discs of Duke Ellington’s The Complete Small Group Sessions sequence multiple takes atop one another. Blessedly, the longest track of the entire 7-CD set is five minutes, with another 18 barely more three minutes, and the…
Naked City
Quote of the Week “Clearly TXU has been exaggerating the need for these plants, and I think the speed with which they abandoned the project speaks volumes.”– State Sen. Rodney Ellis, on the proposed buyout of the utility giant that will derail eight of the 11 coal-fired power plants TXU sought to buildHeadlines• Democratic presidential…
Electric Sheep Co. of ‘Second Life’
Herding pixels for fun and profit
Bi-ology
The Texas Biennial’s second rising
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A Norwegian doomsday vault and Poe’s pussy muse.
Food-o-File
Revisiting Josephine Viscardi; plus, Cissi’s Market on South Congress
Phases & Stages
ChamillionaireMixtape Messiah 2 (Chamillitary) Chamillionaire’s road to a 2007 Grammy for “Ridin'” wasn’t always paved with platinum as the Houston rapper reiterates on Mixtape Messiah 2. “You wasn’t there when I was getting flat tires in the middle of nowhere ’cause I’m driving seven hours to go to a store that was buying 20 CDs.…
May the Circle Be Unbroken
The Urban Transportation Commission endorses Heritage Neighborhood Association’s city-contested traffic circle
Kevin Slavin
Off the screen and on the streets
‘Gyre’: A swirling vortex of plastic … and creativity
Ariel Dance Theatre revisits Gyre, its investigation of things we don’t want to look at, and pulls into its spinning mass bunches of new artistic collaborators
The Common Law
Family and Medical Leave Act – what rights does the employer have?
Event Menu
March 1-8
Phases & Stages
Lee HazlewoodCake or Death (Ever) Lee Hazlewood’s waiting around to die, but this isn’t his teary swan song. The 78-year-old baritone crooner that made Nancy Sinatra’s boots for walking has been rediscovered by indie icons like Beck, Jarvis Cocker, and the Tindersticks. He even has a MySpace page. And he’s pissed here in his twilight…
Happenings
Friday, March 2 – Wednesday, March 7
Paul Slocum
Modding the game
Arthouse Texas & Hunting Art Prizes: Art as big as Texas
The Lone Star State’s two biggest honors for visual artists are one step closer to awarding their respective five-figure prizes this year
Oops!
Our latest batch
Out of Town, to a Conference
A guide to the Big XII NCAA men�s basketball tourney
Phases & Stages
Caetano VelosoCê (Nonesuch) How’s your Portuguese? Me either. Surely, though, Cê means s-e-x. Either way, Brazil’s Lennon cum Sinatra, 64-year-old Caetano Veloso, is feeling randy. Without the lyric translation, the singer’s native tongue seduces nonetheless. With it, Cê goes NC-17. Rattlesnake “Other” fires first, with “a happy and cruel look on my face – happy…
The Capitol-View Corridors Conundrum
Downtown Commission gearing up for battle as it begins process of assessing status of city’s 35 Capitol-view corridors
The Future of Film on the Web
Part I: The means
Hogg Auditorium: $2 million to jump-start the renovation drive
UT’s historic Hogg Auditorium is in line for a makeover, and UT alums David and Ann Honeycutt have made a $2 million gift to support the hall’s restoration
Smoke Trail
Taking the central-city barbecue tour
There’s Nothing Going On Here the Weekend of March 9
So let’s go to OKC!
Lost in Cyberspace
Presidents and Pandagon
Marching for Educational Equality
Mothers Against Discriminatory Racism in Education and Society hopes to call attention to group’s cause
Where the Wild Things Blog
What we’re afraid of finding – or who we’re afraid is finding us – when we tell stories on the Web
2006 People’s Choice Winner: It had to be ewe
Visitors to Austin City Hall voted on the 101 works of art displayed in the 2006 People’s Gallery exhibition, and their top choice was Benge Elliott’s sculpture, Three Sheep
Smoke Trail
Iron Works Barbecue (1)100 Red River, 478-4855, 800/669-3602 Monday-Saturday, 11am-9pm www.ironworksbbq.com The red tin restaurant known as Iron Works started out in 1935 as Weigl Iron Works, where many of Texas’ decorative architectural metal works were built by Fortunat Weigl and sons through the years. Charlotte Finch acquired the space in 1977 and since ’78…
‘Possession Arrow’
Big XII tournament prediction edition
Austin’s Barbarian Blogger
Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon recounts her two weeks in the presidential crosshairs
Dirty-Coal Reversal
TXU agrees to buy-out, announces it will abandon plans for eight of its proposed coal-fired plants
Getting A Money Shot
John Halycon Styn on the Porn Model
Arts Review
Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro is a bold, daring play, and Austin Community College and ProArts Collective have given it the bold, daring staging it deserves
Smoke Trail
Stubb’s BBQ (2)801 Red River, 480-8341 Tuesday-Thursday, 11am-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-11pm; Sunday, 11am-9pm www.stubbsaustin.com Stubb’s BBQ is the legacy of C.B. Stubblefield, a Texan who grew up sharecropping in Navasota and Lubbock and went on to serve in the Korean War in the last all-black infantry unit. He served as both company cook and as a…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
SXSW Picks 2 Click raison d’être
Perry’s Big $$$ Ideas
The governor reaches for a legacy – is anybody listening?
Intel Building Demolition
Austin bids farewell to giant Downtown symbol of tech-industry implosion.
And I Approved This Instant Message
What will page views, YouTube clips, and MySpace friends add up to for Web-savvy Democratic hopefuls?
Arts Review
As written by Brian Friel and performed by Babs George and Don Toner, Afterplay is a waltz of the walking wounded danced with stately grace to a beautifully elegiac tune
Smoke Trail
Lamberts (3)401 W. Second, 494-1500 Monday-Saturday, 11am-2pm and 5:30-11pm Sunday, 11am-3pm and 5:30-11pm www.lambertsaustin.com Lamberts is the newest attraction on the Austin barbecue trail. Popular longtime chef Louis Lambert is back in business here, and his legion of fans couldn’t be happier. Lambert and chef Larry McGuire have teamed up to present upscale barbecue, grilled…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
Red Hunter can’t stop the voices
The Governor’s Lobbyists
Thumbnail sketches of members of Perry’s money circle
Supremes Deny Review of Springsteen Case
Supreme Court says no to Travis Co. prosecutors’ request to review case of Robert Springsteen IV, convicted in connection with infamous yogurt shop murders
Brooklyn’s Answer to Bristol
Will Leitch, World Wide Web leader in sports
Arts Review
In the same way that Aztlan Dance Company has revolutionized Latin dance, they take the circus and run with it in their new production, El Gran Circo: The Aztlan Circus
Smoke Trail
Ben’s Long Branch BBQ (4)900 E. 11th, 477-2516 Monday-Saturday, 11am-4pm www.benslongbranchbarb.ypgs.net Ben’s Long Branch is one of Austin’s institutions and a must for those seeking the true taste of Texas ‘cue. Ben has been smokin’ quality meats for more than 30 years, settling at his current location in 1981. Thanks to recent efforts to revitalize…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
What’s a nice Midwestern gal like Sara Beck doing with an alias like “Pink Nasty”?
Lege Notes: Taser talk and more
Stories from under the pink granite dome
Developing Stories
Tweaking Northcross
Community Access
The groundbreaking Austin Past and Present archive projects means free museums, movies, music, and more all over town
Man and Myth
Comic-book artist Dean Haspiel set to attend Staple! Independent Media Expo
Smoke Trail
Sam’s BBQ (5)2000 E. 12th, 478-0378 Sunday-Thursday, 10am-2am; Friday-Saturday, 10am-3am This ramshackle landmark, owned and operated by the Mays family, is where generations of musicians and clubgoers are known to go for some great down-home barbecue after a night of revelry onstage and off. Stop by and visit the Mays family for great barbecue, traditional…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
Birthing the Band – of Heathens
WilCo Lawsuit Settlement: Public Information Politics
County commissioners approve settlement of 2005 lawsuit by former sheriff’s office lieutenants against Sheriff James Wilson and county, but why did plaintiffs settle for nothing?
Media Watch
Not-so-hidden agendas orbit around satellite merger approval
Keeping It Together
You mean open source hasn’t saved the world yet?
Skewed Expectations
Alex Espinoza on Still Water Saints
Smoke Trail
House Park Bar-B-Que (6)900 W. 12th, 472-9621 Monday-Friday, 11am-2:30pm House Park may be the closest thing within the city limits to an old-time country barbecue joint – it’s small, smoky, utterly without pretension, and plays by its own rules. Open since 1943 and named for the venerable high school football stadium nearby, House Park only…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
Brothers & Sisters bring the Beach Boys
Fighting the War: Wilkerson sentenced, activists press Congress
Soldier faces seven months in prison for refusing Iraq service
The Hightower Report
Rein in Big Tobacco; and Bush Seizes More Power
Shooting the ‘Hard Time Killing Floor Blues’
Craig Brewer on Black Snake Moan
Readings
Steve Bickerstaff’s exhaustive history is at times too much of a bad thing, but in parts catches scholarly fire
Smoke Trail
Bowie Street BBQ at Whole Foods Market (7)525 N. Lamar, 476-1206 Daily, 10am-10pm Located in the back of the store, right next to the meat counter, Bowie Street BBQ serves only USDA “Natural” meats. Not only the beef brisket, but the chicken, sausage, pulled pork, and baby-back ribs are hormone- and antibiotic-free. The meats are…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
The Ugly Beats’ Bandstand pledge: It’s got a good beat, and you can dance to it
Mark Wilkerson: “My Conscience Is Clear”
Mark Wilkerson speaks out on his reasons for opposing the Iraq war
The Game of Life
An early look at Will Wright’s Spore
DVD Watch
A fitting epitaph for the always controversial Van Gogh
Page Two: Scratching the Surface
Festival films, the Austin Music Awards, and the truth about South by Southwest
Smoke Trail
Pok-e-Jo’s Smokehouse Inc. (8)1603 W. Fifth, 320-1541 Daily, 11am-9pm www.pokejos.com Pok-e-Jo’s is a local chain started in the 1980s that now has six locations around the city. The closest one to the center is the big old barn of a place on Fifth, about two miles west of Downtown. It’s spacious and spread out, friendly…
SXSW Picks 2 Click 2007
Svante Palm Elementary School’s breakout choir
Patriots for Peace: Doggett on Congress and the War
Rep. Lloyd Doggett responds to anti-war critics on congressional action against the Iraq war
From Cells to Celestials
The Concept At its core, Spore lets players create and nurture creatures, build communities and relationships, and advance a tribe until it’s capable of traveling to other parts of the world and, eventually, throughout deep space. Consider it hands-on evolution, where you not only can customize how the creature looks and walks and also shape…
Film News
The latest incentives push shows promise; Swingtown seeks extras
Luv Doc Recommends: 79th Zilker Park Kite Festival
Inconvenient statistical extrapolation (aka “truth”) has it that the remaining ice caps will calve and melt into the sea sometime soon. Bummer for penguins and polar bears, but does our blue Earth cocktail really need an ice floater? Not necessarily. In fact, if the entire population of mainland China started driving Hummers, hairspraying their black…
