Soccer Watch

As revealed here last week, Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole’s office is presenting a resolution at City Council today (March 6), asking the city manager to help facilitate a push for a soccer stadium and MLS team in Austin. (See the text of that resolution here, plus an Austin Aztex letter in support.) In explaining…

by Nick Barbaro

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› City Council meets today (March 6) with a less than bulky agenda made thinner by postponements and Mayor Lee Leffingwell’s absence (off on a London junket); nevertheless, grandfathered development rights and the Fiesta Gardens/Festival Beach master plan are scheduled for public hearings. › The mayor is in England to confirm the “sister city” relationship…

by Chronicle Staff

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

In the 16th century, toothpicks – even combination toothpicks and ear wax scoopers – became fashionable and were worn around the neck. In 2009, for the first time in the U.S., the amount of data sent from mobile devices exceeded the sum of transmitted voice data. Want to protect your countertop with an easy-to-clean, water-resistant…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

The Luv Doc: Falling in Love

Dear Luv Doc, I think I am falling in love with the Google Maps lady. Every time she mispronounces Koenig or Manchaca in her sexy robot voice I get a semi. She is literally driving me crazy. – Conrad Conrad, I think there was a movie that came out recently about a scenario like this.…

by The Luv Doc

Civics 101

Thursday 06 PEOPLETALK WITH DAN GRAHAM OF BUILDASIGN Dan Graham discusses his road to success. 11:30am. Alamo Village, 2700 W. Anderson. $15. www.peoplefund.org/peopletalk. BARATUNDE THURSTON TALK Cultivated Wit co-founder and bestselling author speaks as part of UT’s J-school centennial celebration. 3:30pm. Belo Center for New Media, 2.106, 300 W Dean Keeton. Saturday 08 TRIBUTE TO…

by Chronicle Staff

SXSW Tuesday Review

Not in the Face Though begun as something of a tongue-in-cheek bash by Jonathan Terrell and Wes Cargal in 2009, Not in the Face’s aggressive throw-back rock & roll struck an immediate chord with audiences, debut 2011 LP Bikini rising behind driving streetwise anthems like “Downtown Girl.” Now a quartet, the locals’ new EP follows…

by Doug Freeman

Quote of the Week

“My hunch is that more people voted for her.” – Travis County judge candidate Andy Brown, when asked why he thought he was trailing Sarah Eckhardt in the early returns

by Chronicle Staff

Grand Piano

Elijah Wood and John Cusack play cat and mouse in this concert-stage suspense dazzler.

by Marc Savlov

Exhibitionism

Austin Playhouse’s colorful production gives heightened dimension to an already heightened farce

by Adam Roberts

Exhibitionism

The Cleveland Orchestra and three violinists gave performances that had the crowd on its feet after every piece

by Natalie Zeldin

SXSW Comedy 2014 Picks

If you do the math on the seventh edition of SXSW Comedy – full schedule at www.sxsw.com/comedy – you’ll count 33 official events, three official parties, and 60-plus performers squeezed into its eight days, March 8-15. But unlike the My Little Ponies or Micro Machines of our youth, you cannot possibly collect them all. So…

by Russ Espinoza

Oops!

In “O Death, Here Is Thy Sting,” our preview of the SXSW Interactive event led by Jim Olson, we mistakenly listed the event time as 9:30pm. In fact, “Inventing Tumor Paint: Tapping Into Nature’s DNA” will be held at 3:30pm on Sunday, March 9.

by Chronicle Staff

The Stratfor Emails: A few highlights

August 19, 2011 [Stratfor’s Reva Bhalla to Stratfor’s Rodger Baker] What is the APD bomb field training? and is that really only limited to APDs? [Baker] APD – Austin Police Department. Maybe it is DPS. They are doing the follow-up to the classroom session they had by having us to the bomb testing ground and…

by Chronicle Staff

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