Cover Story
‘Reckless Tactics’ … and the Blowback
Suppressed KeyPoint report charges APD negligence in Sanders shooting
Aztex: We’re Still Top of the Table
Austin draws with Tampa Bay, stays in first
This Week’s Waste of Time
We get nostalgic for handheld LCD video games
City Launches Car2go Service
Program expanding after six month pilot phase
Game Developers Give Great Five
Developers get five minutes to wow a crowd of developers
UT Softball Hosts NCAA Regional
Four-team double-elimination tourney through Saturday
The Daily Hustle: 5/20/10
David Smith’s head rolls over Keypoint fiasco
My Name Is Frank J. Rivera, and I’m Here to Recruit You
Saturday, 6:30pm, Austin celebrates Harvey Milk with a march.
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Hooks ‘Em!
UT budget brouhaha & fusion center follies
City Attorney David Smith Retires
Departs amid controversy over Keypoint release
UT Announces KUT/Cactus Deal
NPR station takes over music, Texas Union keeps bar
78704 Is a Historic State of Mind
The Louis and Flossie John House opens to the public
‘What’s My Name, Fool?’
Dave Zirin’s history of sports and politics still timely
Leather Jacket Weather
This year’s Chaos in Tejas blobs Austin
Hempsters Take D.C.
Hempsters deliver bag of seed to U.S. Attorney General
Cactus Decision Today?
UT holding press briefing on venue/bar future
The Daily Hustle: 5/19/10
Help a desperate housecat
Stars Return Home Down Two
Game 3 a must-win for Texas
A Billion Down
Gov. Perry cuts $1.2 billion from his “balanced” budget
Rawks Off
Sin City Social Club is both the stone and the moss
The Daily Hustle: 5/18/10
Org urges bond ‘reconsideration’
Long Road Out of Eden
The Eagles, Muse, and Phish to headline ACL 2010
This Week in Campaign Fail
Lubbock: Primary, run-off, and now special?
Meet (and Grill) CapMetro’s CEO Candidates
Public forum today at 3pm
The Daily Hustle: 5/17/10
MRFs, oh my!
Hotrods on the Road
Blackout fundraiser for the pink and black skaters
Tour of Psychedelic Austin, Part 3
More of Roky Erickson’s tales from the crypt
Attack of the TV Production in Texas
ABC picks up Austin-based drama My Generation
‘MLB 2K10’ for Xbox 360 Impresses
Gives ‘The Show’ a run for its money
Bounce House
Azz Everywhere #2 goes down (and up)
The Daily Hustle: 5/14/10
Bond study postponed; Shelter director scuttled sideways
McGuinness: SB 1070 A-OK
Strama’s GOP opponent gets into council tussle over Arizona
Mondo Mink
Mink Stole on life with John Waters and death in the new horror-comedy All About Evil
Phases & Stages
Black Tambourine (Slumberland) Black Tambourine was one of the first acts on D.C. collective imprint Slumberland Records, peaking from the halcyon years of 1989-1991, when punk was “breaking” and 120 Minutes kept the alternative stable well-fed. The Maryland fourpiece may not have had much cachet originally, but theirs was a perfect squall: Pam Berry’s cool-breeze…
Soccer Watch
Aztex host two home games, WC rosters announced, Boom Sumting!
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
DVD Watch
The generous, forgiving humanity of Godard’s third film still beats through
Phases & Stages
Chin Chin Sound of the Westway (Slumberland) Originally released in 1985 and then relegated to the dustbin, Sound of the Westway is one of those “huh” moments, almost tailor-made to be ignored in its day and rediscovered 25 years later just as its sound is being carbon-copied left and right. Swiss trio Chin Chin –…
Page Two: Mutiny: A Ballet in Several Parts
Part II, Illustration Not Validation
A Year’s Cheers
The nominees for the 2010 Austin Critics Table Awards
Phases & Stages
The Runaways The Mercury Albums Anthology (Hip-O Select) Dakota Fanning’s ass-kicking inhabitation of “Cherry Bomb” on the soundtrack to The Runaways matches her and biopic foil Kristen Stewart trading teen melodrama on the epic “Dead End Justice.” The real thing, fronted by Cherie Currie (Fanning) and Joan Jett (Stewart), shouts equally contrived and no less…
AISD: Barksdale, Cowan Go to Run-off
Voters in Austin, other school districts choose new trustees
La Mission
Benjamin Bratt plays a reformed convict and recovering alcoholic in this film written and directed by his brother Peter Bratt.
Day Trips
At the Mineral Wells Fossil Park, visitors are guaranteed to find 300-million-year-old fossils and may keep what they find
Phases & Stages
Paul Revere & the Raiders Featuring Mark Lindsay The Complete Columbia Singles (Sony/Collectors’ Choice Music) Paul Revere & the Raiders didn’t just hold down the fort against the British Invasion – between 1966 and 1969 they sold more records than any band except the Beatles and the Stones. Via television and 16 Magazine, the Raiders…
Trailer Snack Smackdown
More regs for food cart vendors?
The Exploding Girl
Zoe Kazan stars in this perfectly paced movie about a 20-year-old home from college for the week.
Gay Place
A boo! A bounce! And a bomb!
Phases & Stages
Kris Kristofferson Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends: The Publishing Demos 1968-72 (Light in the Attic) Two souls loom large over Kris Kristofferson’s Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends. The first and most obvious is Janis Joplin in that “Me and Bobby McGee” opens the collection. Kristofferson sings his most famous…
ACC: A Second Round for Villarreal and Reiter
Sosa prevails while two others return to the trail
Robin Hood
Ridley Scott’s revisionist rendering of the Robin Hood tale is full of well-staged battle sequences and is something of an origins story.
TV Eye
Two legendary ladies, Betty White and Lena Horne, made news last week
Outstanding in Their Field
Like father, like son
Phases & Stages
Galaxie 500 Today (20-20-20) Galaxie 500 On Fire (20-20-20) Galaxie 500 This Is Our Music (20-20-20) “In 2010 the American ‘alternative’ music scene is an historical artifact,” declares Byron Coley in the liner notes to Galaxie 500’s deluxe reissues. True, but the Cambridge, Mass., trio always sounded authentically British, Dean Wareham like Bowie’s more sensitive…
Is Austin Getting Left Behind on the ‘Livability’ Front?
‘Sustainability’ is much more than a 14-letter word
Just Wright
Queen Latifah co-stars with Common in this rote romantic comedy in which the only surprise element is the success of the New Jersey Nets.
Round-Trip
Filmmakers and filmgoers make the journey from Austin to Marfa, with an ever-expanding footprint
Outstanding in Their Field
Jack Allen’s Kitchen 7720 Hwy. 71 W., 852-8558 Sunday-Thursday, 11am-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-11pm; Sunday brunch, 11am-2pm; happy hour, Monday-Friday, 3-7pm; Saturday-Sunday, 3-6pm www.jackallenskitchen.com Every city has them – locations where several restaurant ventures have failed. Buildings that seem to exist under an invisible decree that no one will make a living in that particular space. The…
Phases & Stages
Selena La Leyenda (Capital Latin/EMI) The electroni-fried brassiness of Tejano music makes many music lovers cringe, but Selena, queen of Tejano music, was on the brink of a crossover into the mainstream. It’s been a decade since the 23-year-old Texan’s tragic murder, and books (including a fine academic tome by UT professor Deborah Paredez, Selenidad:…
Eco-Currents
A green (and blue and brown) grab bag of enviro tids and bits
Letters to Juliet
There’s a lovely little arthouse movie buried in this romance starring Amanda Seyfried, although the film’s commercial aspirations get in its way.
Coming Home: ‘The Dry Land’
Ryan Piers Williams and America Ferrera on their Iraq vet drama, The Dry Land
Outstanding in Their Field
Executive chef and restaurateur Jack Gilmore has cooked all over the place and absorbed a little from each spot. The conversation we had at his new restaurant, Jack Allen’s Kitchen, might bring his story into sharper focus. Austin Chronicle: Where did you grow up, what kind of family background did you have, and how did…
Phases & Stages
Ella Fitzgerald Twelve Nights in Hollywood (Verve/Hip-O Select.Com) Immaculate swing visited L.A.’s Sunset Strip when Ella Fitzgerald dug her heels into a residency at the 200-person Crescendo Club in 1961, jazz giant Verve Records then cutting to vinyl 12 live tracks as Ella in Hollywood. A half-century later, every night of the Virginia oracle’s 12-night…
UT Urged to Consider ‘Win’ for Cactus
‘Friends’ provides a 25-page proposal for fate of Cactus
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Documentary? Artwork? Puzzle? Prank? Social commentary? This film by the British graffiti artist known as Banksy is, indeed, all of the above.
Jim Caruso’s Cast Party
NYC cabaret star on what makes his Cast Party more than a night at a piano bar
Outstanding in Their Field
Odd Duck Farm to Trailer 1219 S. Lamar, 695-6922 Tuesday-Saturday, 5pm until sold out www.oddduckfarmtotrailer.com Bryce Gilmore’s Odd Duck is on the east side of South Lamar at Treadwell Street, a block or so north of the big Genie Car Wash, in a culinary trailer park teamed with Austin Brevità and Gourdough’s (see “Gourdough’s,” Jan.…
Phases & Stages
Wilson Pickett Funky Midnight Mover: The Atlantic Studio Recordings (1962-1978) (Rhino Handmade) Alabama-born and shipped to Detroit in his troubled teens, Wilson Pickett (1941-2006) hollered biodiesel R&B from heaven to hell. Taking a page out of Hip-O Select’s magnificent Complete Motown Singles series, the 6-CD Funky Midnight Mover employs expert annotator Bill Dahl to biograph…
Reefer Madness
Even under a new administration, the nation’s drug policy looks the same
Harry Brown
Michael Caine gets his Charles Bronson on in this British vigilante drama.
Young Austin Artists
Local, state, and national awards for a host of the city’s student artists
Event Menu
It’s a week of fundraisers and fests for Austin foodies
Off the Record
Juan González answers to no one
How to Get Connected? First, Be Connected …
MoveOn and the Coffee Party raise the stakes on corporate lobbying reform
A Surprise in Texas
This documentary presents the 13th annual Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas.
Arthouse
The Jones Center is closed, so Arthouse just hangs its art sale on other walls
Outstanding in Their Field
Running his own innovative food trailer operation makes young chef Bryce Gilmore a hard man to catch up with, but we did manage to squeeze in a phone interview while he was prepping for Tuesday evening service. You’ll want to try the food he’s doing at Odd Duck now, so that when he becomes famous,…
Arts Review
Shakespeare’s troubling comedy, done old-school, gets a new lease on life
Bus Stops Here: Two Finalists for Top Spot
Agency looks outside for new leadership
The Secret in Their Eyes
Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film award at this year’s Oscars, this Argentine film is a reflective mystery story.
Not Necessarily Stoned but Beautiful
Are you experienced? The answer lies in Sony Legacy’s new Jimi Hendrix reissues.
Food-o-File
Making sure ‘Food-o-File’ better serves you
Arts Review
This rock & roll take on the Bard aims for spectacle more than meaning or heart
Cap Metro Promises To Be Good
Transit agency formally responds to Sunset findings
Define ‘Normal’
Debra Monroe on the families we’re born with and the families we build
Market Finds
Farmers at the bakery? No, bakers at the farmers’ market.
Arts Review
This touring show is so rich in history and beauty, you can get lost in the maize
Point Austin: Read It and Weep
The suppressed KeyPoint report raises questions that still need answering
After a Fashion
Find out why Your Style Avatar deems Kevlar this season’s must have fabric!
Book Review
A friendly instruction manual for wine by our favorite Wes Marshall
City Hall Hustle: How Many Bonds to a Season?
Rumblings at the council that not everyone’s on board for November bond election
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Greyhounds, goldfish, and much more
Phases & Stages
Moby Grape Live (Sundazed) Taking cues from Dark Magic, a vintage bootleg fusing disparate sonic sources into a representative and revelatory whole, Live proves both the first commercially available live document of Moby Grape’s peak performances and a definitive encapsulation of the original San Francisco quintet’s alchemic earthquake. The raw fidelity of a 1967 Avalon…
The KeyPoint Report
What APD didn’t want the public to know
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar: May 13-19
The Hightower Report
The Tactics of Talx; and Wall Street’s Slap on the Wrist
Phases & Stages
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now I Got Worry (Majordomo) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Dirty Shirt Rock ‘n’ Roll: The First Ten Years (Majordomo) The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Controversial Negro (Majordomo) History remembers the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as predecessor to the bass-less, post-millennium blues of the White Stripes and Black Keys, but…
Stars Advance to Western Conference Finals
Jamie Benn takes Texas one step closer to the Calder Cup
Headlines
� The police shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II reignited with a vengeance last weekend, following a leak of a mostly unredacted version of a heavily redacted report, which stated Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana acted “reckless[ly] to the point that he needlessly endangered himself, his fellow officers, the suspects and the onlookers.” See “‘Reckless Tactics’…
Luv Doc Recommends: 35th Annual Deutschen Pfest
Nothing brings people together like a shared enemy – except maybe a shared enema. It’s one thing to share hatred with other people – even complete strangers. It’s quite another to share an enema tube – even with your bestie. It should come as no surprise then that statistically, at least, hatred tops enemas by…
