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The Aftermath
Days later, the Red River rampage echoes through many lives
Carstarphen Headed to Atlanta
Update: AISD confirms it is prepping for superintendent’s exit
Fifth Circuit Upholds Provisions of HB 2
Exempts clinics that already applied for admitting privileges
Fourth Person Dies From SXSW Crash
DeAndre Tatum, 18, succumbs to injuries
Joanna Barbera’s Seven-Year Itch
On tour, in video, and at Holy Mountain tonight!
Violet Crown Supports One of Its Own
Cinema to donate 20% of sales to SXSW crash victim Evan West
The AggreGAYtor: March 27
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Film Flam
Festival fever, plus a big renewal and a bigger loss
Dinner Lab: You Never Know Where It’s Gonna Be, But It’s Gonna Be Real Damn Good
The stealthy supper club gives locals a taste of ‘guerrilla cuisine’
Hobby Lobby and the Supremes
Company asserts religious freedom from birth control
Doing It Their Own Way at Whisler’s
Owner Scranton Twohey lets his staff take the lead
Moontower 3 Schedules Its Jokers
100 comics into 10 venues into 4 days = thousands of laughs
Godzilla Versus Guzu Gallery Again
The king of the monsters returns for a second show
Mo’ Music: March 26
Supersonic song selections for spring
10 Minutes with Eliza Gilkyson
Things that go bump in the night: ‘The Nocturne Diaries’
Fight to the Death With the Dead Tree Brigade
Literary Death Match throws down at the Ritz
The AggreGAYtor: March 25
New drapes for the Overton Window. Forget that bitch of a bearing wall.
No More Than a Foursome
Council bumps exemption, buys golf course, squeezes “stealth dorms”
‘Against the Grain’ of Justice
Committee hears testimony on treatment of young offenders
‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Bites into a Big Kahuna
Director Eduardo Sanchez on El Rey, Rodriguez, and that tasty burger
Beck Confirms for Austin City Limits’ 40th Season
‘Morning Phase’ slotted for the Moody on April 27
Viva Lucha Libro
Egerton and Gonzales duke it out
Recap: Foodways Texas Fourth Annual Symposium
Foodways Texas looks at agriculture through different lenses
The AggreGAYtor: March 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Enviro Advocates Honored
Save Barton Creek Association hands out awards and barbecue
Wolf Children
Wolf Children 2012, PG, 117 min. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda, Voices by Aoi Miyazaki, Takao Ohsawa, Haru Kuroki. Winner of the 2013 Japanese Academy prize for animation, this film tells the story of a woman who raises her half human/half wolf children on her own.
Immortal Guardian Prepares for Revolution
Mobile prog/extreme metal quintet takes to the streets
The AggreGAYtor: March 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Sorcerer
Sorcerer 1977, PG, 121 min. Directed by William Friedkin, Starring Roy Scheider, Bruno Cremer. Friedkin’s taut thriller, which was largely underrated at the time of its 1977 release, has just recently been fully restored and remastered. Based on the novel, The Wages of Fear (which also inspired the revered French film of the same title),…
It’s Official: A-OK Chinese Opens Today
New eat-in, take-out Chinese eatery opens Sunday, March 23
DVDanger: ‘Frightmare’, ‘The Flesh and Blood Show’
Redemption resurrects the legacy of terror maestro Pete Walker
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Vampyres’
Local horror needs your blood. They mean help. Help!
Texas Rollergirls Get Heated for the Hotrods
Three years of runner-up status could end on the flat track
High School Thesps Earn More Than Applause
New area musical theatre awards announce first nominations
TABC Seeks Revocation of Twin Liquors’ Permits
Move could shutter chain’s area stores
Boomerang’s Throws Moving Party
Aussie pie shop to relocate and expand
UPDATED: Man Injured in Austin Police Shooting
Domestic disturbance leads to officer-involved shooting
P. Terry’s Launches Catering Truck
Local favorite burger chain goes mobile
Where the Girls Go/ATX: The Comedown Weekend
A helpful guide to find the G-grrrls about town in the ATX this weekend
Wines of the Week
Sampling northeast Italy’s brilliant wines
The Farmers’ Market Report: March 22-23, 2014
Feta, spring vegetables, lavender, and asparagus, if you’re lucky
The AggreGAYtor: March 21
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Austin Studios Sends Out the Welcome Wagon
Rooster Teeth has something to crow about
That Body, My Teacher
Deborah Hay dances her way into the Blanton to give us a lesson in expanding perception
Point Austin: Spending the ‘Surplus’
If there’s money left over, you’re doing something wrong
A Continuity of Discontinuity
In a darkened room, you enter a space semi-enclosed by four large screens arranged in a spiraling suggestion of a rhombus. The dance projected on them, Deborah Hay’s No Time to Fly, seems to have crashed into the center of the room and fissioned into multiple realities. No matter your viewpoint, you cannot take them…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Frank Sinatra hated carbonated beverages but loved electric trains. Approximately 2,500 left-handed people die each year using right-handed products. A new study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Evan Mills found that the pot that goes into a single joint requires 1,700 watt-hours of electricity to produce – the equivalent of leaving a 60-watt light bulb…
Headlines
›After a contentious Tuesday work session, City Council meets today (March 20) with a burgeoning agenda: a big, low-rate solar contract, a possible increase in the property tax exemption for elderly or disabled homeowners, and maybe we’ll buy a new golf course! › One out and one in: Place 4 Council Member Laura Morrison announced…
Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics
Get stuff out there; work with cause: That’s the genesis of LettersAt3amPress
Playback: Groping the SXSW Elephant
SXSW Music doesn’t just boil down to three power points
Then There’s This: Dangerous Path
Commissioners commit to $15 million toll project, minus enviro study
Gus or Bust
Spicy, fried Memphis deliciousness – just hold the Styrofoam, huh?
The Road to 10-1: The Winnowing
One mayoral candidate out, another in
Slam Sisters
The Women of the World Poetry Slam brings Austin a spoken-word contest that’s about more than scores
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex announced their 2014 preseason schedule this week: They’ll open against Southwestern Univ. in Georgetown on April 4, and continue with games against St. Edward’s, UT, Incarnate Word, and a couple of club teams, leading up to the PDL regular season opener May 10 at House Park. Additional preseason games, plus the U.S.…
The Luv Doc: Doomed
Dear Luv Doc, I am continually filing through women like that guy files files in Being John Malkovich. Though unlike that guy, I seem unable to find the right file. I go from high to low with enough women to confuse my senses and leave me feeling drunk and empty at the end of the…
Exhibitionism
Georgetown Palace Theater delivers the spectacle of this feline musical, and admirably
SOS Files Complaint Against Daugherty
Group charges commissioner deleted texts and emails
Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club
Tyler Perry makes a comedy about single mothers who don’t get enough credit.
Exhibitionism
City Theatre’s revival suffers from being neither a replica of the original nor a fresh interpretation
Day Trips
Wine, beer, and the Regency Bridge make San Saba a destination
Divergent
Yet another dystopic YA book series gets translated to film – and one that resembles thebestseller: engrossing yet flimsy.
The Good Eye: Auntie Miriam Is Not Impressed
Guest columnist Miriam Malinger is so over it
Gay Place
Sharon Bridgforth comes home for a bit to take us to the river
Muppets Most Wanted
This re-energized franchise has found its second wind: The Muppets’ eighth movie proves that eight is not enough.
Deliciously DIY
The accidentally punk rock story behind Skull & Cakebones cupcakes
Council: Have We Got Deals for You!
CMs postpone discussion on budget ‘surplus’
Bad Words
Jason Bateman plays a grown man who finds a loophole to compete in a kids national spelling bee, but the reasons are only known to him.
Food-o-File
The barbecue beat, plus big news for the Omelettry
‘Machete’ Sues Over Axed Funds
Do the rules for Texas’ film production incentives violate the U.S. Constitution? That’s what one of the production companies behind 2013 action-comedy Machete Kills argues in its lawsuit against the current and four former Texas Film Commissioners. On March 11, Machete Productions, LLC filed a request with Travis County District Judge Scott Jenkins for an…
Cheap Thrills
This grisly, dark comedy is last year’s winner of Fantastic Fest’s Midnighters Audience Award.
Food Events
March 20-26
Executing Youthful Offenders: The Doyle Case
Death Watch
Tim’s Vermeer
Vermeer must have painted by using a camera obscura and Tim Jenison spends four years proving the method in this fascinating documentary by Penn & Teller.
Shoot to Thrill
Sara Paxton on all the awkward and awesome moving parts behind E.L. Katz’s ‘Cheap Thrills’
Equal Pay: Abbott Breaks Silence
Davis campaign asks if attorney general would have vetoed fair pay act
‘Copland and Mexico’
Five-day concert series highlights this composer and orchestral music south of the border
Farewell, Jordan Smith
Staffer to join First Look Media
‘Surf Texas’
UT Press makes waves with ‘Surf Texas,’ a book of photographs by Kenny Braun
The Hightower Report
The spreading plague of anti-bacterial products
Studio Visits: Bobby Scheidemann
Stuck in Traffic? Say ‘Hi.’
Inside the Texas Wine Trade
Four Texas wineries are joining to launch Texas Fine Wine
We Are the World
Recapping this year’s Austin Music Awards.
Quote of the Week
“Men are better negotiators.” – Republican Party of Texas Executive Director Beth Cubriel explains why women are paid 77 cents of the $1 paid to men in comparable jobs.
