Cover Story
Hedda Games
Two productions take a new look at Ibsen’s troubled and troubling heroine
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 3-11
It’s not dirty.
Reality Show Call Board: Kitchen Nightmares
Chef Gordon Ramsay is looking to solve your kitchen nightmare.
The Daily Hustle: 3/10/11 (Liveblog)
City Council meets today – we’ll keep you updated.
sxswf: Even More ‘Incendiary’
More from our Q&A with filmmakers Steve Mims and Joe Bailey Jr.
Perry Versus School Boards
Governor punts blame for teacher layoffs
Illinois Kills Death Penalty
Becomes 16th state to abolish the ultimate penalty
Skinner Wins With Supremes
Death row inmate can sue for access to DNA evidence
Hey! Baby
Texas Heritage Songwriter’s Hall of Fame casts a wide net
Austin Chronicle Music Anthology Release Party
Major names in concert tonight at Antone’s!
Kathie Tovo Running in Place 3
Planning Commissioner sez Shade “doesn’t show respect for citizens”
Of Facilities and Communities
AISD facility master plan task force makes last draft changes
Bob Byington Sees the World, Writes Home About It
Harmony and Me‘s adventures in Australia
The Daily Hustle: 3/8/11
Five things about Max Nofziger
Are You the Gleekiest of Them All?
Fly your Gleek flag for a chance to be named Gleek of the Week
Apple on the Table
Breaking down the AISD RIF list growth
Longhorn Fans Expect the Unexpected
Horns remain unpredictable
The Daily Hustle: 3/7/11
SoCo parking, PSH, comp plans: Your City Council preview
Austin Rockin
Talking ‘Chronthology’ on FOX 7
Bedside Manner: Dystopian Dreams
Gilded Age Gossip Girls and the second coming of Upton Sinclair
Blame It on the Germans
Car2Go fleet change happens during SXSW
Staple! In Motion
‘Intergalactic Nemesis’, ‘Sundown’ trailers
A Lot to Crow About
Goth comic king James O’Barr at Staple! this weekend
Roped-Off Governor
Temporary barrier part of permanent changes to capitol
It’s the Totally Ultrasonic, Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast
Making abortions more onerous, the city more civil
The Daily Hustle: 3/4/11
Parking acrimony persists
Where Wolf? THERE Wolf
Yehudi Mercado’s animated Staple! promo
Newsgeist: 3/4/11
The spirit of the news
After a Fashion
Gushing about Coco Coquette, Snap Kitchen, the New Wave Ball, and Wet, � la Your Style Avatar style
Phases & Stages
Drive-By Truckers Go-Go Boots (ATO) Drive-By Truckers The Secret to a Happy Ending (ATO) Like every other disc they’ve made in the past decade, Go-Go Boots takes a few spins before you finally get it. It’s a grower if only because it’s quieter than the Athens, Ga., boys and girl have been lately, but also…
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Remembering the dance innovator as his troupe’s final tour stops in Austin
Gay Place
Feathers stick together, especially queer ones.
UT Baseball
Pitcher Taylor Jungmann has been practically unhittable
Quote of the Week
“How do you know?” – Rep. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, responding to Rep. Sid Miller’s remark – during the House debate on the sonogram-before-abortion bill – that sonograms aren’t intrusive
Let the Good Times Roll
Good food to get you in the mood for Mardi Gras
Live Shot
Live at the Moody Theater, Feb. 27
Dance Repertory Theatre
A new dance is more than compelling movement; it’s a life lesson for graduates
Day Trips
The King Ranch outside of Kingsville welcomes visitors, but the best way to see the most storied ranch in Texas is by guided tour
Soccer Watch
Barcelona looks to avoid elimination in Champs League, Vancouver and Portland join MLS, and U.S. men win U-17 championship
Let the Good Times Roll
Evangeline Cafe 8106 Brodie, 282-2586 Monday-Thursday, 11am-9:30pm; Friday, 11am-10pm (music starts after kitchen closes); Saturday, 11am-9:30pm www.evangelinecafe.com Louisiana native Curtis Clarke presides over this authentic Louisiana-style roadhouse in far South Austin. The rustic decor, large selection of Abita beers, live zydeco music, and bread regularly imported from the famed Langlinais Bakery in Lafayette serve to…
The New Evolution
Is technology providing the ladder to the next stage of human consciousness?
‘A Knitted Wonderland’
The cedar elms in the Blanton Museum’s plaza get new spring outfits
Off the Record
A personal introduction to ‘The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology’
God’s Gift to Forensic Science
Will Bradley remain chair of the Forensic Science Commission?
Let the Good Times Roll
Shoal Creek Saloon 909 N. Lamar, 474-0805 Daily, 11am-10pm; bar open till 12mid www.shoalcreeksaloon.com After the departure of longtime chef Bud George last fall, the kitchen of this popular Louisiana-style hangout is now in the capable hands of Reynaldo Rodriguez, who’s been working here since he was a youngster, creating menu favorites such as the…
Gaming the System
Applying the mechanics of play to the everyday
Sturgeon’s Revelation
On topic with South by Southwest Music panels
Less Is Still Less
A session budgetary snapshot reflects some progress, dim prospects
Paving the Way for Innocence
Bills attempt to right criminal justice wrongs
Hall Pass
Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis star in this Farrelly brothers comedy about two guys given a free pass by their wives from the vows of matrimony.
Let the Good Times Roll
Cajun Pizza Place 7318 McNeil #111, 291-7997 Sunday-Thursday 10:30am-10pm; Friday-Saturday 10:30am-11pm www.cajunpizzaplace.com I don’t know about you, but for me, the name “Cajun Pizza Place” conjures up the vision of an andouille and crawfish pizza made with a Tasso cream sauce or a blackened-shrimp calzone – foods along those lines. But Cajun Pizza Place is…
The World Is Your Cubicle
Making it work, geography of no consideration
Sturgeon’s Revelation
Tropical Hot Dog Wednesday, March 16, 12:30pm, ACC 12AB After Don Van Vliet left this mortal coil on Dec. 17, 2010, stories started popping up like constellations. Known as poet and musical prankster Captain Beefheart, Van Vliet is the subject of this panel swap meet, featuring anecdotes and tall tales from his cousin Victor Hayden,…
Show Your Work
How Texas ended up $27 billion short
Bill of the Week
Texans in space
Drive Angry
Nicolas Cage plays a parent on a mission to avenge the murder of his daughter and granddaughter.
Let the Good Times Roll
Cypress Grill 4404-L W. William Cannon, 358-7474 Monday-Friday, 11am-10pm; Saturday-Sunday, 8:30am-10pm www.cypressgrill.net The Cypress Grill’s location always surprises first-time visitors. Its drive-up appeal is zero, looking mostly like an anonymous chain restaurant locked in the middle of a strip mall. Once you’re through the doors, though, everything changes, and it’s like you just stepped into…
Reporting From the Front Lines
New media in troubled lands
Sturgeon’s Revelation
SXSW Interview: Chamillionaire Thursday, March 17, 3:30pm, ACC 18ABC Questing for knowledge is nothing new to Chamillionaire. “I used to get mad when I’d finish a test and have to sit there the whole rest of the time,” the rapper, born Hakeem Seriki, says. “But I’d finish early, and I’d feel like the whole time…
Schools: Under Siege
School districts around the state remember the Alamo
Redistricting: Unsavory Stew
What’s on Austin’s redistricting menu?
Barney’s Version
Paul Giamatti won a Golden Globe for his performance as Barney Panofsky in this film based on Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel.
Let the Good Times Roll
Hot Boiled Pho & Crawfish 2501 W. Parmer #550, 833-9057 Monday-Saturday, 10:30am-9pm; Sunday, 10:30am-8pm www.hotboiled.com Although at first the concept may seem foreign, it actually makes sense. After all, there are an estimated 25,000 Vietnamese immigrants living in Southern Louisiana, many working in the seafood industry. With food being one of the threads that holds…
Some (Re)Assembly Required
From mapping to extrapolating, recontextualizing the data we’ve been given
Sturgeon’s Revelation
Steady Diet of Nothing: The Road to Health Thursday, March 17, 12:30pm, ACC 16B Food and Music – One Big Happy Meal Friday, March 18, 11am, ACC 12AB Pairing music and food? No-brainer. You can get a slice of “death metal pizza” on Sixth Street any given night. That’s in part why Food Network personality…
The Alamo Schools Letter
Superintendent’s letter remembers the Alamo
Voter ID: Train Wreck Rolling
Dems have little hope of derailment
Rango
Watch out, cartoon critters: There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is Rango.
Let the Good Times Roll
Nubian Queen Lola’s Cajun Soul Food 1815 Rosewood, 474-5652 Monday-Tuesday, 11am-6:45pm; Wednesday-Friday, 11am-8:45pm; Saturday, 5-8:45pm www.nubianqueenlolas.com “Nubian Queen” Lola Stephens has a genuine Cajun pedigree, having relocated to Austin from Lake Charles, La., after learning to cook soul and Cajun food next to her mother and grandmother. Stephens learned well. She got sucked into the…
Long-Distance Theatre
Position of the speakers may affect the quality of their operation
Sturgeon’s Revelation
The Crowdfunding Manifesto: The Path to Creative Empowerment Wednesday, March 16, 3:30pm, ACC 12AB Over the past 12 months, crowdfunding has grown from a novel way for artists and entrepreneurs to raise money for target projects into a mainstream, start-here-first practice. By offering fans exclusive products and services in exchange for an online donation geared…
Higher Ed: Lower Priority
College coffers feel the squeeze
Lege Headlines
What’s up under the dome
The Adjustment Bureau
Based on a Philip K. Dick story, this multilayered romantic thriller stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt.
Let the Good Times Roll
Sambets Cajun Deli and Firey Foods Store 8650 Spicewood Springs #111, 258-6410 Monday-Thursday, 11am–8pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-9pm www.sambets.com This storefront sandwich shop evokes the spirit of po’boy dives along the river road outside of New Orleans, across the bayou in New Iberia, and along the back roads of small Southern Louisiana towns. That spirit includes some…
When the New Thing Is Old News Already
Call it Murphy’s nth Law of Computing: ‘Any given program, when running, is obsolete’
Sturgeon’s Revelation
I’m Not Old, Your Music Does Suck Thursday, March 17, 5pm, ACC 11AB The title of this panel is an abbreviated version of a bumper sticker you might have seen: “It’s not that I’m old; your music really does suck.” After more than 20 years of writing about music, and at least twice that as…
Environment: Finding Common Ground
Making arguments green in more ways than one
AISD’s Next Step After Exigency?
If exigency doesn’t mean cuts, what does it mean?
Beastly
Beauty and the Beast is refashioned here for the contemporary teen set and stars I Am Number Four‘s Alex Pettyfer and Vanessa Hudgens.
Let the Good Times Roll
Crazy Cajun Kitchen 8557 Research #126, 782-8597 Tuesday-Friday, 11am-3pm & 5-10pm; Saturday, noon-10pm; Sunday, noon-9pm www.crazycajunkitchen.com Another Asian Cajun restaurant, this small cafe in the shopping center that houses Hong Kong Supermarket is famous for its overstuffed New Orleans-style po’boys filled with fried shrimp, oysters, catfish, soft-shell crab, hot sausage, or Cajun roast beef. The…
Will Blog for Food
New stories – and problems – arise as foodie blogs proliferate
Sturgeon’s Revelation
The Importance of Bounce Movement Thursday, March 17, 12:30pm, ACC 9ABC Last year, bounce finally reached the masses at South by Southwest, but in New Orleans, rappers like Big Freedia and Katey Red had been doing their thang in clubs for a decade. Bounce is a physical experience as well as a community experience, mainly…
Page Two: Coming Down Fast
Barreling toward SXSW 2011
City Council Preview: Don’t Bogart That Space
Counting down the meter minutes
Tanu Weds Manu
This film is a Bollywood romance about a mismatched pair.
Cajun Roulette
Estimated meal cost per person: $=<$10 $$=$10-25 $$$=$25-40 $$$$=$40+ Downtown The Boiling Pot Sample fresh, boiled seafood of every variety: shrimp, blue crabs, and crawfish (in season). Also try the boudin, gumbo, oysters on the half shell, and red beans and rice. 700 E. Sixth, 472-0985. $$ Gumbo’s Louisiana Style Cafe This decade-old seafood emporium,…
The Fiction Writer as Futurecaster
Charles Yu is keeping his eye on the robots
Sturgeon’s Revelation
Your Financial Adviser Is Duff McKagan Thursday, March 17, 2pm, ACC 12AB “I was really hoping that we hadn’t been ripped off.” Duff McKagan recalls his first attempt at deciphering the financial statements from his time with the 100-million-record-selling Guns n’ Roses. Having almost partied himself to death – he was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis…
Health Care: Flirting With Armageddon
Choosing between a ‘firing squad’ and ‘death by starvation’
Quintana: Abused or Abuser?
Quintana denies abusing former fiancée
The Hightower Report
Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers; and Guess Who Wants Gun Control?
Larger Than Life
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
Sturgeon’s Revelation
What Would Gaga Do? Friday, March 18, 12:30pm, ACC 18ABC Last July, when Lady Gaga spanked even President Obama to become the first living person to have 10 million fans on Facebook, the controversial pop icon celebrated with a small act of gratitude. She posted a 34-second flip-cam video to the social networking site, saying…
Criminal Justice: Cutting the Three Ps
If lawmakers want to reduce criminal justice spending, they’ll have to cut the budget of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which operates the state’s prison system – currently housing about 155,000 inmates. According to the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, the department requested more than $6 billion in funding for the 2012-13 biennium, and the…
Point Austin: Behind the Numbers
What we talk about when we talk about budget cuts
Phases & Stages
Radiohead The King of Limbs (XL/TBD) Radiohead accomplishes a rare feat with The King of Limbs: a digital release that defies instant gratification. The pioneering UK quintet’s eighth and shortest studio album presents a challenging, beatific assemblage of grayscale electronica and glass-house frailty that, like 2003’s Hail to the Thief in the wake of Kid…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Lincoln, ‘sheep-dipping,’ Beaver, etc.
Cocktails for Mardi Gras
Laissez les bon temps rouler
Arts and History: The Way the Culture Crumbles
Cuts run deep for arts, historic preservation, and libraries
City Hall Hustle: Fan Mail From the Flounders
The Great E-Mail Scandal … or, Don’t Hit Send!
Arts Review
Teen actors show a good grasp of Kander & Ebb’s jaded Jazz Age satire
The Common Law: Different Options for Legal Help
I am trying to recover a few thousand dollars and need help from a lawyer, but I’m worried that I’ll spend all the money I may recover just to hire the lawyer. I tried free legal aid, and they said my income is too high to receive free help. Are there any other options for…
New in Print
A kooky, metafictional page-turner that doesn’t entirely pay off
King Cakes
If you bite the baby, you buy the next one
Transportation: Spinning in Place
Thinking local on transpo taxes
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, March 3-10
Arts Review
The mood of Revel’s inspired performance didn’t fade with the final note
Anonymity: Never Gonna Give You Up
Is 4chan Internet freedom’s best hope?
TV Eye: That’s Entertainment?
Why are we so interested in watching a TV star self-destruct?
Food-o-File
New food ventures temper a fond farewell to the folks behind Mama Roux
Perry’s Magic Wand: Disappearing Mandates
Texas puts its money far from where its mouth is
Headlines
� Capital MetroRail’s experiment with weekend service begins this week. Every Friday in March, the Red Line will run into the evening, with the last train leaving Downtown at 11:30pm. Also, the Red Line will run on the two Saturdays of South by Southwest (March 12 and 19), 11:30am-11:30pm, but excluding service to Leander. For…
Arts Review
For Jones’ latest solo show of drawings, bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
Phases & Stages
PJ Harvey Let England Shake (Vagrant) Much will be said about the continental drift of PJ Harvey’s latest, but compare the bodice-rippers of 1992’s Dry to the corseted piano penance of 2007’s White Chalk and the bigger picture becomes clear. In between, Harvey’s shrugged off expectations and criticism, made deviations, and channeled desire on her…
Congratulations! You Are Now the Proud Owner of Your Future.
SXSW Interactive: An Introduction
Event Menu: March 5-10
Wet your whistle and whet your appetite with a series of wine and beer tastings
Naked City
Cap Metro Paratransit Lawsuit A lawsuit filed last month in Travis County’s 201st District Court alleges that Capital Metro’s new paratransit policy violates state law. Advocates for people with disabilities have been unhappy that in recent years the transit agency has reduced its paratransit van service from the entire Cap Metro service area to just…
Luv Doc Recommends: 5X5Y: 25 Years of SXSW Music
If this year’s Academy Awards taught us anything, it’s that no matter how many successful flights you’ve had, you can’t just put the plane on autopilot and go take a nap in the back. Sure, it might work out … but there’s also a really good chance you’ll leave a charred crater in some wheat…
