Cover Story
The Best Medicine
SXSW Interactive 2010: an introduction
Catching Up With the No-Kill Millennium
A glance back at the road to council action
Who Loves Art? We Do!
The bidding war to keep APD Chief Acevedo in Austin begins
Before the Deluge
A look at three new discs from the past
SXSoGAY
Queers steer here whilst in the ATX
Staple! Storms Austin
Flicking through the pages of indie media
It’s a Jad World
Manor’s resident alien beams down
More ‘No Rail’ Reactions
Council members respond
Rail Reactions
Mayor Pro Tem chimes in on rail delay
Mayor Kills Nov. Rail Vote
No 2010 bond referendum for urban rail
You Better Cop the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
Art Acevedo drops by the Totescast, plus other city rumblings
My Dinner with the Tornados
Texas Tornados celebrate a new CD with a lengthy stay in Austin
Mendoza’s Mis-Step
When is an endorsement not an endorsement?
AISD Trustee Races Set
Place 9 tussle draws big-name endorsers
Harry Ransom Center + David Foster Wallace =
UT’s Harry Ransom Center acquires Infinite Jest author’s archive
That’s “邵氏片場” to You, Pal…
AGFA hires new director
These Streets Were Made for Talking
Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch to read from their experimental book, with special guest Alex Karpovsky
MP3: Grupo Fantasma “El Consejo”
Behind the scenes for ‘El Existential’
Riding MetroRail, Part 2 (Video)
The media goes for a ride on the new choo-choo
Acevedo Up for Job in Dallas
APD chief one of six finalists to take over as Dallas top cop
Riding MetroRail
A smooth ride this morning
SXSW for Civilians
A hot tip on how to get film tix for nonbadgeholders
Toros’ Gee Now a Wizard
Buffalo Billiards hosts Toros watch party on Tuesday
WWDD?
Girls Rock Camp gets a boost from St. Dolly
UT Football Open Practice Tuesday
Moved from Monday to Tuesday and from Denius Fields to DKR
The Average Student
Rising workloads, rising costs pressuring UT students
Thanking the Academy
You like us! You really really like us!
Political FAIL
Try not to take pleasure in someone else’s pain. With one exception.
Cap Metro: This Is Just the Beginning
Rail service to begin March 22
Time for Staple!ing
Annual indie media convention returns this Saturday
It’s On: MetroRail to Launch March 22
Cap Met says its commuter rail is ready to roll
Sports and Social Justice With David Zirin
On the Olympics, Mark Cuban’s fondness of Ayn Rand, and Howard Zinn’s love of the Boston Red Sox
‘A People’s History of Sports in the United States’
Zirin’s book rates amongst the best in his field
Green Fund: Aggies & Longhorns Unite
College Station students raise their fees to go green
We’re With the Brand
The fluxing future of brand identity
Back to School
Carstarphen and Austin ISD trustees wrestle over priorities, budget, and power
Point Austin: Scenes From an Election Day
A snapshot of one primary day’s political doings
MetroRail Watch
Our hopes are officially up
Asymptopia
Musical tech talk at SXSW Interactive and Music
Future Perfect
Contemplating the digital afterlife
Next Initiative
AISD aims to fix problems before state steps in
City Hall Hustle: Is There a Deeper Wave Than This?
Jobs come in one door, out the other
UT Cuts: Framing (and Reframing) the Message
The backstory to UT’s decision to axe campus institutions
What’s Up, Doc?
One of the lovely last gasps of classic screwball comedy
The Hightower Report
We the Corporations?; and Lawmakers Dance With the Devil
Now What?
Mediamakers consider what happens when traditional media meets its maker
Gay Place
aGLIFF honors little old us, and we dance like hypnotized chickens
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, March 4-11
Affordable Housing by the Numbers
Austin needs more housing to address homelessness
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Poison and sign language, cocktails in 1806, and more
Print & Paper Über Alles
A more perfect publishing today
Day Trips
Austin County boasts the most multisided, German-style community halls in Texas
Headlines
� November, here we come. Republican Gov. Rick Perry and Democrat Bill White both avoided run-offs in their March 2 party primaries. See more election coverage at austinchronicle.com/elections. � Another one on the bend. With filing for the May 8 Austin ISD board of trustees election closing March 8, three returning incumbents – Cheryl Bradley,…
New Hearing for Death Row Inmate
Charles Dean Hood heads back to district court for new punishment hearing
After a Fashion
The Swish Alps has added a gap-toothed fairy to its social olympics.
A Work in Progress
How technology is shaping the way we tell stories
Arts Review
This fantastical show, like a circus, delivers one engaging act after another
Travis County Commissioner: Gómez Pulls Through for Another Term
Alvarez forces Gómez to get tough
Downtown Austin Plan Needs You
The DAP re-envisions Downtown, district by district
Harmonic Convergence
Three stellar performers of Indian classical dance finally unite onstage
The Face of Inclusiveness
Hint: It isn’t white or male
Arts Review
TexARTS succeeds in telling the story of Williams’ sadly sweet play clearly
299th District Court: Montford and Sage Eye Next Stage
The two top vote-getters move to run-off
Drug Budget
What does Obama’s new drug budget say about his administration’s priorities?
Texas Platters
Soulhat Live at the Black Cat Lounge (Dualtone) “It’s just like any other night,” shrugs Kevin McKinney to open Live at the Black Cat Lounge. “It ain’t no different.” That was, of course, the point of both the Sixth Street live music venue and Austin itself in 1991. The biker bar’s Bowery charm flourished in…
Geeking Out
How gay community and the interwebs are enjoying a more than civil union
Arts Review
Debra Broz and Mark Johnson conflate and explode texts and images in their duo show
147th District Court: Brown Takes Gammon Down
Hands down for Cliff Brown
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Texas Platters
Overdue hatred for Blunt Force Trauma balls a fist almost a year after the self-proclaimed “ATX Trench Core” quartet first submitted its debut EP, Hatred for the State (Shattered World Records). Slayer massacre World Painted Blood late last year coincided neatly with BFT’s second submission of its own brutal bottom line. Bobby Fuentes’ vocal trauma…
Ska, Super-Animated
Gals Panic reunites to play a fundraising show for Lance Myers’ new project
Off the Record
Round five for the Cactus Cafe and the Texas Union board: The gloves come off
201st District Court: Meachum Runaway
Meachum handily fends off Patterson
Texas Platters
To borrow a line from Jack White’s Raconteurs, the Happen-Ins are consolers of the lonely. The local quartet’s self-titled debut, currently making the rounds on vinyl, shackles the roots flair of singer/guitarist Sean Faires’ short-lived Dedringers (the pedal-steel-accented “You’ve Been Bad” and “Don’t Look Back”) with the unabashed, Rolling Stones swagger of guitarist Ricky Ray…
Burn After Reading
ScreenBurn at SXSW Arcade: totally free, totally open to public
Long Center/Texas Performing Arts
Austin’s biggest concert halls team up to present touring Broadway musicals
County Court at Law No. 3: Lipscombe Brings It Home
Voters give Lipscombe 53% over Seelig
The Crazies
A mysterious pollutant in their water supply is making the residents of a small Iowa town insane in this remake of George Romero’s topical horror tale.
Texas Platters
Hug Cravings, Lust & Chaos (Australian Cattle God) Primitive synth punks Hug return with another party album about … well, lead track “Pants Off” spells it out. The local trio’s all about indulging baser instincts, but it gets political too on same-sex anthem “Caribbean Bathroom.” Oh, you want a ballad? “Hug Is Love” is basically…
‘Canción del Cuerpo’
Five dancers from UT cross cultures to partner with five dancers from Colombia
Clinchers for Congressional GOPs
Incumbent victories no surprise
Visual Acoustics
The architectural photographer Julius Shulman is the subject of this documentary, but through his work we learn an awful lot about modernist architecture.
Texas Platters
Superhouse TECHyes This local quartet’s 16-song sophomore LP is angled as a “rock opera,” and the soulful vocal harmonies of opener “Sacred Rings” are certainly an interesting warm-up. Stylistically, TECHyes is all over the place, from Latin to prog lite (“The Courageous Confidence Character”), leaving the listener a bit light-headed. Still not sure what the…
TV Eye
The games are finally over. Time to get back to regular programming.
McCallum Fine Arts Academy
The high school theatre crafts a bilingual take on the Webber-Rice musical
SBOE: Without Darkness, There Can Be No Light
Centrists on path to loosen right-wingers’ hold
Cop Out
Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan star in Kevin Smith’s painfully unfunny throwback to the Eighties buddy-cop movies.
Texas Platters
NS/NS Pleticulous Thoughts (Cable Kid) Pleticulous Thoughts, the third LP from one-man Canyon Lake band Josh Rice, is a mostly instrumental affair but carries the freak flag of local bygones like Ed Hall, with nods to obvious heroes Ween, on Casio ode “Theme Song to Octomom IV” and smooth jam “Tokyo Burrito.” Impressive orchestration for…
Book Review
Mankell’s latest is an international bestseller – it proudly says so on the cover – and so, unsurprisingly, it reads like an international bestseller
Page Two: Everlasting Love
Our annual ode to South by Southwest
Lege Races Yield Weak Brew
Texas tea party efforts peter out
Alice in Wonderland
Sadly, the mirth-to-muck ratio in Tim Burton’s new film is deeply imbalanced.
Texas Platters
My Milky Way Arms Light Saber Circuit Breaker (Milky Syndication) Another solo experiment, this one from former Houstonite Chase Hill, meditates on the future, balancing blips with humor and silver-tinged melodies on this debut. His alter ego in this intergalactic opera is named Space Kill and jumps through electronic flights of fancy like it’s a…
Book Review
A murder mystery with a healthy dose of Freudian psychoanalysis
Locavores Before It Was Cool
Kerbey Lane Cafe has been helping Austinites eat local 24 hours a day, seven days a week for more than two decades
Perry and White Gear Up for a Fight
November, hair we come!
Brooklyn’s Finest
Richard Gere, Ethan Hawke, and Don Cheadle star in this clichéd police drama that’s capped by an outlandish third act.
Technology, Take Us Away
Are our gadgets and gizmos troubleshooters or troublemakers?
Event Menu
Dining, drinking, and farming in Austin
Soccer Watch
Aztex training camp opens with new arrival
Developing Stories: East Riverside: The Road Ahead
Let’s capture the value – and federal funds
Fish Tank
In this raw and award-winning film, a prickly British teenager hurls herself into scenarios fraught with danger.
Mind Games
New science that gets in your head
Food-o-File
That Takes the Cake! recap, Central Texas food on the national level, and more local deliciousness
Other 24/7s We Love
Magnolia Cafe www.themagnoliacafe.com 2304 Lake Austin Blvd., 478-8645 1920 S. Congress, 445-0000 Always busy, Magnolia Cafe consistently turns out fresh, well-made food. The prices are quite reasonable, and the staff is efficient and hardworking. The menu is extensive and includes every imaginable breakfast item, a good deal of Tex-Mex, salads, hot and cold signature sandwiches,…
Election Results
State and local tallies
District 13: Ultimatum
This French import is a nervy, comic action sequel that weds the sport of parkour with detective work.
The Revolution Will Be Tweeted
Harnessing social media’s potential for political change
Restaurant Review
Check out this newest addition to Austin’s round-the-clock restaurants
Spirit of the Wolfe: Brawl in the Hall
Eight-time world champ Ann Wolfe tops the card
Bike Boulevard: City Study Supports Project
Study shows bike boulevard would not negatively impact surrounding streets
Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
In this Bollywood comedy, the household of a married Mumbai couple is disrupted when a houseguest overstays his visit.
Luv Doc Recommends: 82nd Zilker Park Kite Festival
Sometimes a really cool kite can be almost as effective as a Labrador puppy in a bandana for attracting members of the opposite sex. It really depends on how you work it. Either one can set up the shot, but it’s up to you to actually score. If you don’t watch your puppy, there isn’t…
