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Pressing the Flesh
The world’s leading adult toy manufacturer for men wants to take the stigma out of sex
Horns Look To Fend Off Bears
Forty-four slots separate UT and Baylor in the national rankings
They Won’t Leave You Hanging
The High Five triumvirate? Prints among men!
Adopt Me. Please.
Austin Humane Society waives adoption fees
IDEA’s Admission Lottery Today
If only Vegas gave these odds
The Good Music Club: Paul Banks & the Carousels
Paul Banks & the Carousels gotchya by the throat
The Preservation, Tonight at Beale Street Tavern
Cara’s pick for tonight!
Cannes You Dig It?
Our man in Cannes Vincent Van Horn sees famous people
Not So Much With Teh Suck, Actually
Or: What, things aren’t awesome enough for you yet?
Domaines Paul Mas Winery Tasting
Tasting French wines on Mother’s Day at Justine’s
Houston Men Reunite Over Texas Wine
Texas wine hits Mandola’s stores
Local Board Game Gets $900K
Those ogres better thank the Kickstarter gods
Derby’s Hipster City Showdown
Texas Rollergirls’ B-Team plan to knock Portland’s PBR over
Jonathan Toubin Returns to Austin
Call it a comeback. And a miraculous one.
‘Do-Deca-Pentathlon’ Descending
AFS hosts DUPLASS-A-THON on June 4
‘The NFL Beat’: USFL Making NFL Inroads
First NFL minor league in the works
The Nazer’s Edge
Ramin scores the crown of Funniest Person in Austin 2012
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[UPDATED] No-Kill Nightmare
Austin Animal Center forced to euthanize animals for space concerns
A Closer Look at the Paramount Lineup
Spike Lee, Amy Heckerling to present films
Golden Boys
Paper Cuts, May 15, 2012 at the Palm Door
The Boxing Lesson
The Boxing Lesson: weavers of a new drug dreamscape.
Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
A new law review article raises questions about the Carlos De Luna case
Film Flam
Cinema East and Paramount summer series news
Bigger, Better, Older
Game Over Videogames expands to South Lamar
Stage, Left: Exit Josh Meyer
The co-honcho of Rubber Repertory heads for Hollywood
Blue Starlite at the Studio
Austin’s own mini-drive-in heads to Austin Studios for the summer
Jamie Stewart: The Sent Down Boy
Rob yaks with Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu
New, Not Improved
A familiar cover in an unfamiliar place
Into the Mystic
RIP: Traci Hancock, Duck Dunn, Tony Offender, Robert Vignaud
Victory at the Victory
Bill Spelman and Sheryl Cole celebrate reelection at the Victory Grill
Down But Not Out
Shea urges supporters to keep fighting
Meet The New Council, Same as The Old Council
Brigid Shea concedes as Leffingwell avoids run-off
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Incumbents Ahead Early on Voting [UPDATED]
Cole, Leffingwell, Martinez, Spelman all avoiding runoffs (so far)
First Look at Whole Foods Bee Cave
We get a sneak peek at the new Whole Foods location
‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ of Wrestling?
or dammit Janet – I love lucha libre!
Local Elections Today
Time for the other 95% of you to vote
Alamo Summer of ’82: “Do You Want to Live Forever?”
Alamo ’82 debuts with ‘Conan the Barbarian’
The GOP Friends of Laura Pressley
Council candidate gets Republican backing
From the Vaults: Tim Burton & Johnny Depp
Reviewing our reviews of the 8 Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaborations
This Week’s Waste of Time
You have died of dysentery
Lawyers Like Hampton
Bar members would oust Sharon Keller
Attendance Records
Jenna Carrens’ AISD outreach via the CD release
East Cameron Folkcore Hit the Road
CD release party and tour send-off at the White Horse
Your Weekend’s Not All Wet, Citizen!
Regardless of whatever else might be happily moist
For the Fallen
APD hosts a benefit and memorial ride for slain Officer Jaime Padron
Restaurant Review
‘Top Chef’ alum turns out swell sandwiches
Travis County Constable, Precinct 2: Mud & Experience
Incumbent files defamation suit against opponent in this particularly bloody battle
Hightower Report: Mormon or Narcissist?
Could Romney ever reconcile Mormonism’s egalitarianism with his plutocratic narcissism?
Sleepless Night
Purloined cocaine, his kidnapped son, and a den of thieves who wish him ill cause one man to have a very desperate night in this taut French thriller.
Arts Review
The follow-up is no mere epilogue but a powerful tale that stands on its own
Constables, Precincts 1, 3, 4: Nature of the Job
Spit flies in other constable races, but no lawsuits (yet)
Day Trips
Mission San Francisco de los Tejas was the beginning of European settlement in East Texas
Gabbar Singh
Gabbar Singh 2012, NR, 153 min. Directed by Harish Shankar, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Pawan Kalyan, Shruti K. Haasan, Abhimanyu Singh, Srinivasa Rao Kota. Not reviewed at press time. This Telugu action movie is a remake of the Hindi film Dabangg.
Arts Review
Penfold Theatre offers an example of a great production built on an almost-great script
Tax Assessor-Collector: The Ghost of Nelda
Nelda Wells Spears may have retired, but she still has her hand in politics
Soccer Watch
Aztex season begins with a big W
Arts Review
This year the fest’s dance works provoked questions about inequity, grrrl power, fame, and change
Judge, 167th District Court: Two Sides of the Law
De La Fuente vs. Wahlberg for the 167th bench
Gay Place: Work It
Working out with Erica Nix may not make you gay, but it’ll sure make you gayer
School of Dance
Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin’ new choreographic point of view
Other Contested Dem Races
And the rest of the ticket
Lucha Libre: Masked Warriors Live
The Dell Diamond welcomes high-flying wrestling mayhem
Phases & Stages
Father John Misty Fear Fun (Sub Pop) Josh Tillman bears an old soul. And not just in his wise-beyond-his-years demeanor. He’s crotchety, riddled with existential angst and a dimming worldview. On his Sub Pop debut, the self-anointed and self-aware Father John Misty bemoans everything from his birth name (“Everyman Needs a Companion”) to the petroleum…
Oops!
Gals Panic singer Lance Myers alerted us to our mistaking Gal Pals for Gals Panic in the Music Listings last week, noting, “I’d hate to see thousands of angry Gals Panic fans rioting in the streets when we don’t show up. Har har. Yes, we do reunion shows occasionally – the last one was in…
Then There’s This: Skid Marks
The mayor’s race takes a sharp turn in the final lap
Phases & Stages
M. Ward A Wasteland Companion (Merge) Although recorded in six cities – including Austin – and at eight studios, with guests from Sonic Youth and Dr. Dog to Bright Eyes, A Wasteland Companion coheres. While not as sunny as 2009’s Hold Time, it’s confident and multifaceted, the first half hook-filled pop (“Primitive Girl”) highlighted by…
Playback: Red River’s Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Red River venues re-entrench and Panchanga Fest once again settles comfortably into Fiesta Gardens
Point Austin: Vote Early and Often
The collision of elections leaves many voters in the dust
Phases & Stages
Jack White Blunderbuss (Third Man) “I want love to grab my fingers gently, slam them in the doorway, put my face into the ground,” declares Jack White in a butterscotch croon. For a guy defined by stark iconography, media-mystifying biographies, and liquid-hot guitars, his proper solo debut, Blunderbuss, finds the Detroit godhead and onetime savior…
Civics 101
Thursday 10 AUSTIN CHRONICLE ADULT SPELLING BEE Join our fine proofing staff and volunteers from BookPeople and the Austin Public Library in this scintillating evening of vocabulary edification. Registration begins at 4:30pm. 6pm. Threadgill’s World HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 472-9304. Sunday 13 WDP FIELD WORK DAY Help the Workers Defense Project improve its soccer field,…
Phases & Stages
Spiritualized Sweet Heart Sweet Light (Fat Possum) Things haven’t gotten better for Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce. Sweet Heart Sweet Light proves they’ve only gotten worse. Diagnosed with a liver disease that debilitated him throughout the recording of Spiritualized’s seventh LP, the embattled frontman paints a sprawling, majestic, troubled blur of a songwriter on the edge. “Sometimes…
Headlines
› With the City Council elections on Saturday, May 12, there is no regular council meeting this week, but Wednesday was devoted to another budget review work session, focusing on these often controversial departments: Austin Water Utility, Austin Energy, and Economic Growth and Redevelopment Services. › Speaking of elections, registered Travis County voters can vote…
The Waiting Game
With its campus soon expanding, Austin Studios hopes city funds will take the facility to the next level
Live Shots
Roger Waters Frank Erwin Center, May 3 Virtual bombers dropping payloads of crucifixes, Stars of David, and McDonald’s logos on impoverished landscapes; biographies from across the last century of dead soldiers superimposed on the same massive, white brick wall; an enormous, inflatable praying mantis vixen suspended from the rafters, flames for hair and saw blades…
All Over Creation: Crossbred and Circuses
Fusebox’s hybrid artworks get more exhilarating as they get more innovative
Quote of the Week
“Put bluntly, I believe you are a snake oil salesman; a narcissist that would say anything to draw attention to himself.” – Dallas Sen. John Carona, in an email exchange with fellow GOP Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston (pictured)
Film Student Swagger
Longhorn Showcase’s show and tell
Live Shots
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Frank Erwin Center, May 5 Thick, chunky, middle-aged “Listen to Her Heart” rang open Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers’ first Austin arena appearance in nearly a decade. 2006 Austin City Limits Music Festival headliners (in a downpour), the Floridians of 40 years ago configured in the Frank Erwin Center on…
Austin Creative Classroom Fund
The Arts in Austin ISD get a million-dollar boost
May 29 Primary Elections: The ‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
The editorial board offers the following endorsements. We note hesitations about some candidates where applicable, and we had a difficult time making decisions in more than one race – some due to more than one good candidate, some due to too many bad ones, and some due to the proximity of the May 12 municipals…
What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?
UT student frequency KVRX struggles to stave off the nationwide downturn in collegiate media
Austin City Elections
Time to get creative with your vote
Early Voting & Election Day
You may vote at any early voting location in the county in which you are registered. On election day, you must vote in your precinct. For a list of precinct locations: 238-VOTE or www.traviscountyelections.org. Williamson County: www.wilco.org/elections or 943-1630. Hays County: www.co.hays.tx.us/elections or 393-7310. EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS Open Mon.-Sat., 8am-6pm, and Sun., noon-6pm, unless noted…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
But the real question is: Can hamsters remember to call on their mothers’ birthdays?
After a Fashion
Exhausting! That’s what spring has been for Your Style Avatar as he reflects on a life holding court.
Charge It: Council Cash on Hand
A flurry of last-minute fundraising – and charges and counter-charges between mayoral candidates
The Luv Doc: Italian Boyfriends and Perky, Bleach-Blonde Updos
Dear Luv Doc, My best friend is getting married next fall to a guy I really hate. She wants me to be the maid of honor and all she ever talks about is her wedding. Should I be honest with her about my feelings or just go along? – Molly This one’s easy, Molly, which…
Beer Flights: News on Austin Brews From Alpine to Munich
A roundup of local beer news
Primary Primer
After the May 12 municipal election, start cramming for the May 29 primaries
Union Charges Cap Metro Subcontract Conflicts
Was cronyism involved in picking those new subcontractors?
Dark Shadows
Sometimes it might be best to let sleeping vampires lie.
Food-o-File
Get your joie de vivre on at Central Market’s Passport France celebration
CD 35: Doggett, Romo, Alvarado
Democrats face off in (or just outside) this gerrymandered district
Staley’s Fourth Execution Date Approaches
A paranoid schizophrenia diagnosis could disqualify him
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
A troupe of top-tier British thesps raises this crowd-pleasing pap into something enjoyable,
Food Events
This week’s collection of culinary events
D.A.: Lehmberg and Baird Have Issues
Rosemary Lehmberg and Charlie Baird go a few rounds
Planned Parenthood Back in the WHP – Again
In the latest move in this tennis match, 5th Circuit overturns last-minute stay
Girl in Progress
The roles of mother and daughter get mixed up in this old story told in a smart way.
