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The Luv Doc: Keeping the Sparks Alive

Dear Luv Doc, How do you keep the sparks alive in senior years? – Leslie Dear God, Leslie, it was my hope that at some time in my future I could just lie down and take a nap – or maybe watch baseball, or reruns of Murder, She Wrote, which, as far as I can…

by The Luv Doc

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985, R, 121 min. Directed by Paul Schrader, Starring Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Junkichi Orimoto, Naoko Otani, Go Riju, Roy Scheider. Schrader fashions a highly unconventional biopic from the life of Japanese post-war writer and political traditionalist Yukio Mishima, who shocked the world with his ritual suicide in 1970.

by Chronicle Staff

Iris

In one of his final films, doc legend Albert Maysles profiles fashion maven Iris Apfel

by Kimberley Jones

Glamp Up Your Gearface (Locally)

We know we’re going off-script by not recommending a bunch of high-end online retailers, but we’d rather get our camp on locally. (List culled from various “Best of Austin” winners, guide entries, and personal experience.) Charm School Vintage Shari G’s eye for breezy/gauzy, leather/Western, glitzy/spangly has the outfits to outfit outfitters. 1111 E. 11th #150.…

by Kate X Messer

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Honda’s first product was a motor for a bike (1946). One can use the starch derived from tubers of greenbrier to make vegan Jell-O shots. Greenbrier is a viny plant that grows in Texas. The hospital of choice for the royal Windsor family, St. Mary’s in Westminster, is famous for being the site of the…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Super Android vs. The Morphs

The story behind the photo shoot, compiled straight from a storyline originally created by Milo, aka Super Android: Super Android was just walking around snacking on sun butter-and-jelly sandwiches one day, when his eagle-eye vision homed in on a group of Morphs up to no good. The half-human hero, armed with cloning and cloaking powers,…

by Milo X with J.C.

Propositions for a Taxicab Petition

Tensions between the taxicab franchises and their drivers’ local union are on the rise this week after the association caught wind of news that Yellow Cab President Ed Karg­bo had introduced a petition opposing City Council’s consideration of awarding 405 new permits to the proposed driver-owned taxicab co-op. Kargbo told the Chronicle on Monday that…

by Chase Hoffberger

City Pools by City Council District

The PARD Aquatic Division operates 50 public pool facilities – among them seven Municipal Pools, including Barton Springs, and 29 Neighborhood Pools. District 1 Dottie Jordan* Givens Rosewood Kealing (closed) District 2 Dittmar Dove Springs District 3 Mabel Davis Municipal Civitan* Gillis* Govalle* Martin Montopolis Parque Zaragoza* Metz District 4 Bartholomew Municipal Kennemer* St. John’s…

by Chronicle Staff

Think Interstellarly; Costume Locally

Austin features many megachain retailers with costuming gear, but you know our hearts bleed local. Consider these independent retailers (culled from various “Best of Austin”s, guide entries, and personal experience): The Bazaar Just a skip off of I­-35 is the coy, stylish boutique, where those in search of a variety of identies have guiltlessly dropped…

by Kate X Messer

Headlines

Local social media was agog this week over the Statesman’s report that in March, city management hosted a staff training session by a Florida consultant mansplaining how to work with a majority-female City Council, e.g., women ask many questions, and don’t like numbers. At a Wednesday press conference, Council members reacted with outrage and mockery.…

by Chronicle Staff

Cenicienta

Zach Theatre wondrously conjures the enchantment of Cinderella’s tale and a child’s imagination

by Elissa Russell

Quote of the Week

“We can’t do this with people in cars by themselves.” – Travis County Judge Sarah Eckhardt, arguing that the CAMPO 2040 Regional Transportation Plan cannot succeed without more attention to mass transit and multimodal alternatives.

by Chronicle Staff

Report: Most Women Face Barriers to Repro Health Care

A new survey by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project (TxPEP) – a multiyear effort examining the impact of state budget slashes to family planning from 2011 to 2014 – shows that a majority (55%) of women face at least one barrier to reproductive health care access, including access to cervical cancer screenings, with cost being…

by Mary Tuma

Soccer Watch

The Austin Aztex open play in the U.S. Open Cup this Wed., May 20, facing either the NTX Rayados or Laredo Heat, who are playing in the first round as we go to press. Laredo was a fierce rival back in the Premier Development League days, and the Rayados are the Dallas Premier rec team…

by Nick Barbaro

The Highway to 2040

After a couple of hours of what at times seemed like a freshman seminar in medieval linguistics, late Monday evening the 20-member Transportation Policy Board of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (which does transportation planning for the five Central Texas counties) voted to approve the final draft of its 2040 Regional Transportation Plan, without…

by Michael King

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