Cause of West Explosion Undetermined
Probe remains criminal investigation
Housecore Horror to Open the ‘The Profane Exhibit’
Festival to debut extreme horror anthology
Trailer Park Is in Trouble
‘As I Lay Dying,’ ‘Last Vegas,’ and more
El Valiente
The South Texas authenticity of S.A. accordion punks Pinata Protest
Aztex at JELD-WEN?
A win Tuesday earns a date at the MLS Portland Timbers
News Ticker: May 16
All the news that’s fit to blog
UT’s Gaming Academy: Facts & Inferences
What is this post-baccalaureate program all about?
The Very Last Night at Wardenclyffe
The Eastside art gallery and cultural powerhouse is moving on
May Paper Cuts Featuring The Peterson Brothers
Teen blues duo from Bastrop wowed crowd with their grown-up sound.
God Fearing Texans Stop Steven Hotze
Auto-Tune and politics don’t mix
News/Print
Headlines from the local literati
Summer Fun: Free Parking
Movies in the Park, that is
How to Prepare a Possum: 19th Century Cuisine in Austin
Austin History Center exhibits local food history
T for Texas, T for Tennessee
Nashville twofer invades Austin with proper panache
Time to Re-Learn Your ‘ABCs’
Magnet announces ‘ABCs of Death 2’ loaded with Fantastic Fest faves
Summer Fun: Woody on Ice
Nina Hernandez talks to Disney on Ice’s lead skate cowboy
East Austin Arts Puts It Into a FRAME This Weekend
Big Medium, Co-Lab, Tiny Park, MASS Gallery: Four in Legion
Summer Fun: Sweatin’ It Out
Pay no mind to the fact that you might smell like a barn
Summer Fun: It’s a Pagan Thing, We Might Just Understand
Celebrating the solstice with some of that old-time religion
Is Tonight’s ‘Pie and Ear Show’ All Wet, or What?
Nobody says the rain’s gonna drown out the improv
Summer Fun: Join the (Book) Club
Summer reading programs for Austinites young and old
DVD Bonus: Meet the Fraggles
Jim Henson’s fantastical creations dance our cares away
DVD Watch: ‘The Bletchley Circle’
Four British women, one dangerous serial killer
All Aboard the Grupo Fantasma Mothership
Adrian Quesada’s departure coincides with another offshoot
Aztex Host U.S. Open Cup Tonight!
First home game of the year for the Austin Aztex
News Ticker: May 14
All the news that’s fit to blog
Summer Fun: Kids These Days
Summer Fun continues with Nina on the Texas State Capitol
Thinking About Stephen Bruton
There’s just no getting over some people
Summer Fun: Season’s Screenings
Austin filmmakers pick their favorite summer movies
Morton Bill Poised to Become Law
Measure seeks to prevent wrongful convictions
The Lee Bros. Bring Their Charleston Kitchen to Austin
Television personalities to teach a class at Central Market
Lehmberg to Enter Treatment
Expert says she’s able to perform job duties
There Will Be Mondo
Print series celebrating P.T. Anderson on sale this week
The Peterson Brothers
Paper Cuts, May 14, 2013 at the Palm Door
Summer Fun: You Might Wanna Schlitt Down for This
Our Summer Fun extras begin with ‘the hottest, coolest time in Texas’
News Ticker: May 13
All the news that’s fit to blog
Summer Fun: 50 Ways & Then Some
We’re gearing up for summer fun, how about you?
Small Screen, Big News
‘Revolution’ comes to Austin, plus ‘Modern Dads’ and more
¡Pachanga Playback!
Rain or shine, Pachanga Fest played out all ‘corazon’
Glutard Girl: Traveler Snacks
What to take with you into the desert of gluten-plus foods
Taste Test
Farmers market food sampling bill passes Texas House
AISD Bonds: Half Pass, Half Fail
Two propositions pass, but voters reject two more
David Lindsay-Abaire: The Interview
The ‘Good People’ writer goes back to the old neighborhood
Texans Rookie Mini-Camp Report
Texans welcome their newest additions
Gatsby Cocktails: Classic Cocktails from The Jazz Age
Sturdy little page-turner shakes up some winning drink recipes
Bill of the Week: Surviving Sexual Assault
Bill would ease ability of victims to get medical care
Longhorn Food Trailer Court Closes May 13
Real estate prosperity equals change in the food truck game
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Freedom Fighters’ and ‘Above All Else’
Crowdsourcing gets political in this week’s projects
West Investigation Now Criminal Investigation
Law enforcement makes arrest, will not state if connected
A Taste of CineMarfa 2013
Archival programs and current works blend in West Texas fest
Drawn and Quarterly? Fantagraphics? A Few Recent Releases?
Yes: Our new comics-reviewing team gives ’em a look-see
From the Vaults: All for the Love of You
Carey Mulligan steals hearts as Daisy Buchanan in ‘The Great Gatsby’
Nick Offerman Loves All His Bitches
Ron Swanson meets Miley Cyrus
News Ticker: May 10
All the news that’s fit to blog
The Pachangón Begins!
Latino festival ushers in sixth year starting tonight
Film Flam
Michael Shannon, casting call, and Bad Movie Bingo
Fantastic Fest Heads to Lakeline
Genre festival moving to newest, biggest Alamo
Farmers Market Report: May 11-12, 2013
Tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans are starting to arrive
Exhibitionism
Shanon Weaver’s play puts a spin on the hit-man genre with some unusually gentle and refined assassins for hire
Hungry for ‘Fruit Hunters’
Cinedigm Docurama gets a taste of exotic produce
Quote of the Week
“I’m probably more popular now than I’ve ever been.” – Travis County Judge Sam Biscoe, on the jockeying to win his appointment to serve as interim Precinct 2 commissioner
Exhibitionism
Observations on the artist in this group show who doesn’t give an eff what I think
The Changing Face of Mueller
A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
Then There’s This: Biscoe: The Most Popular Guy in Town
Flattery will get you nowhere in the race for interim commish seat
Studio Visits: Akirash
This intermedia artist from Nigeria isn’t satisfied unless his studio includes his backyard
The Changing Shape of Austin Studios
There’s not much to see at the old National Guard Armory on East 51st Street. A couple of unimposing office buildings, a shuttered helicopter hangar, and a long swath of empty parking lot. However, viewed from the Austin Film Society offices on the other side of a wire fence, the armory space is all potential.…
Headlines
› President Barack Obama is scheduled to make a whistle-stop visit to Austin on May 9, visiting Manor New Tech High School and Applied Materials. The trip launches his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour,” part of an effort to put pressure on Congress over economic policies. › The City Council meeting today includes an…
The Art of Moving Books
The Nobelity Project taps Baylor Estes to put his art all over a bookmobile in Honduras
Labor Group Seeks to Depose White Lodging
Downtown Marriott developer accused of breaking incentive agreement
Up at VIII
With its heartbeat pulsing at Austin’s tempo, choral group Ensemble VIII continues to climb
CommUNITY Walk
Law enforcement officers join with East Austin residents to march against drugs
Food Events
• Buzz Mill Jamboree The first Jamboree will offer live music, a pig roast, flapjack eating, beef jerky making, games (hatchet throwing!), and a raffle to win free coffee for a year. Fri., May 10, 4-11pm. Buzz Mill Coffee, 1505 Town Creek Dr. www.buzzmillcoffee.com. • Peace Through Pie Fundraiser Drop by Boomerang’s on Saturday and…
Playback: The Boxing Lesson Goes Rambo
Boxing Lesson’s not afraid of ‘Big Hits’
The Hightower Report
Oh joy – the branch bank of the future is here!
Taste of Texas Revisited
Texas’ best chefs strut their stuff for festival visitors
Saborcito
Latin melting pot fuses into Pachanga Fest
Lege Lines
It’s a mad rush at the Lege before sine die
Food-O-File
Austin Bakes for West a winner, plus accolades and openings
Heavy Cumbia: Celso Piña
More than 30 years ago, Celso Piña introduced cumbia into Mexico and established his native Monterrey as the seat of the genre. In this millennium, the accordionist then revolutionized the popular Afro-Latin dance music and its cousin vallenato when he collaborated with acts like Mexican electro-rockers Cafe Tacuba to produce otherworldly fusions. “El Rebelde del…
AISD Board Picks Johns Hopkins as Eastside Partner
Unanimous vote has community support
Brown Sound: Los Lobos
Of all six members of Los Lobos, Louie Pérez might be the most artistic. When he and David Hidalgo founded the Grammy-garnering rock & roll institution out of their East L.A. high school in the early Seventies, Pérez was stuck behind the drums, singing only a couple of songs despite his being the band’s primary…
City Council: Austin Energy (Again) and the President’s Visit
With Barack Obama coming to Austin, the Council agenda is slim
May 11 AISD Bond Election: The ‘Chronicle’ Endorsements, With a Note From the Publisher
Austin Independent School District School Bonds: YES The long-delayed Austin American-Statesman election endorsement arrived Sunday (“For Mia’s future, say ‘no’ to bonds,” May 5), and it was … how to put this delicately? … a steaming pile of disingenuous bullshit. I am certain that someone on that editorial board understands how bond issues work, so…
Death Watch: New Appeal Argues Ineffective Defense
New appeal argues Williams’ mental impairment
Day Trips
This is no ordinary campus malt shop
The Luv Doc: Boxers or Briefs?
LuvDoc, What’s your take? Boxers or briefs? – Pantsy Pantsy, you are to be commended. It’s been a long time since someone dipped a bucket into the LuvDoc’s deep well of fashion knowledge. A lot of people don’t know this, but I’ve spent more time in Goodwills than most recovering alcoholics and meth addicts –…
Gay Place: Liberace Was Gay???
Adelina Anthony comes back to town, and Liberace on the radio
The Great Gatsby
A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
After a Fashion
Last night a hairstylist saved my life… no, really
Soccer Watch
Unless you’re heading to Oklahoma City for the season opener Saturday night, you’ll get your first chance to see the 2013 Austin Aztex on Tuesday, when they host the NTX Rayados of the U.S. Adult Soccer Association in a first-round match in the centennial edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Tuesday, May 14,…
Renoir
Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.
Mapping Out Mueller
Airport redevelopment project continues spreading its wings
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Recent research suggests that Ernest Hemingway never wrote the six-word story, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” It’s more likely this urban legend of an alleged story was based on a 1921 newspaper column by Roy K. Moulton, who printed a brief note he attributed to someone named Jerry: “Baby carriage for sale, never used.”…
A Tale of Two Roller Derbys
The Texas Rollergirls put the home season on hold this week, but that doesn’t mean no flat-track roller derby in Austin this May. Instead, it’s track time for the travelling Texecutioner all-stars as they face one of the toughest teams from the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association uber-competitive Western Region: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280…
Arthur Newman
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.
Exhibitionism
It may help to know sci-fi B-movies, but this space spoof by Electronic Planet Ensemble is silly fun for everyone
Get a Job, Kid!
Local food and wine pros host career conference for high school culinary arts students
Civics 101
Thursday 09 CONTROL OF AUSTIN ENERGY VOTE AT CITY HALL Clean Energy for Austin invites citizens to voice their opinion on who should govern Austin Energy. 4-11pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second, 512/974-2220. Free. www.cleanenergyforaustin.org. YOUTH ON VIOLENCE AND FAITH Join the Institute of Interfaith Dialogue for a dinner of Abrahamic traditions, followed by…
(Apple) Core Values
The East Side Compost Pedallers are cycling across a gardener’s gold mine
AFS Doc Nights: ‘How to Survive a Plague’
When desperate times called for desperate measures
Point Austin: The Reading Railroad
Mayor’s search for rail funding earns cheap shot from ‘Statesman’
