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Surfer Girl
Raleigh Hager has been wakesurfing Lake Austin – or as she hashtags it, #LATX – for the past four years. A two-time women’s world champion with eight other first-place titles under her belt, Hager is kind of a big deal, not only in the sport but also as an emergent, bona fide, locally sourced Austin…
On the Run with Jay & Bey
First couple of hip-hop’s cinematic ruse – or was it!?
‘Chrome Underground’ Goes Classic Car Hunting
Motoreum’s Yusuf & Antonio talk about the biz and their reality TV debut
Book Review: ‘The Last Kind Words Saloon’
Jes’ Wyatt and Doc and the setting sun in McMurtry’s latest
Estate Sale Roundup: May 22-25
Take Monday to admire your loot.
No, No, They’re Not Just Slimy Lizards
Art.Science.Gallery. brings salamanders up-close & personal
Mixin’ It Up at in.gredients
No longer package-free, neighborhood grocer expands offerings
Margaret Moser Exit Interview
No Cassandra complex for Austin’s senior music journalist
The AggreGAYtor: May 22
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Bethany out of Saturn?
Theatre En Bloc’s new show explores a world of economic desperation.
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Summer Fun: A [Revised] Guide to Floating the River
Lessons learned during a Texas summer staple
Debates: Davis Raises, Abbott Sticks
Dem attacks GOPer for limited schedule and bypassing big cities
Operation: North by Northeast
Fundraisers to send six Austin musicians to NXNE
Your Mom’s Burgers on Airport is Closed
Owners of popular local Asian chain will bring new concept to space
The AggreGAYtor: May 21
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Yeakel Rules for Diane Hyatt
Shea supporter fired by Texas Water Development Board
DVD Watch: ‘Grand Piano’
Elijah Wood’s thriller heads up this week’s releases
The AggreGAYtor: May 20
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Margaret Moser Plaza
Austin’s senior music critic honored by the City Council
President of Austin LDEI Chapter Dies
Denice Woods led culinary service group during productive era
Grand Jury Hammers Owens
SXSW hit-and-run driver receives additional charges
Summer Fun: Obviously, It’s Not Summer Without Them…
No, we didn’t forget these perennial faves
Always Darkest Before the ‘Dusk’
Wilmer Valderrama on the twists and turns of Carlos the killer
Judas Priest Pounds Fun Fun Fun Fest 2014
Some heads are gonna roll
First Listen: A. Sinclair
Frank Smith frontman’s ode, ‘Pretty Girls in Pretty Tights’
The Debating Game
Abbott offers two face-to-face meetings, Davis to demand more
The AggreGAYtor: May 19
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
A Symbolic ‘No’ to SH 45
Council passes resolution opposing toll road
Eels/Chelsea Wolfe Live Shot
Divergent fans, but a united bill Friday at the Paramount
A Food-Loving Mom’s Response to ‘Fed Up’
Who is responsible for what we eat?
Summer Fun: Some Like It Hot Cold & Dreary
Counterprogramming Gidget: 11 icy, downer movies
Chinatown Is Back in Westlake
Chef Ronald Cheng re-opens original outlet
DVDanger: School’s Out!
“Evil Speak” and “Final Exam” vie for murder cum laude
Summer Fun: A Cheeseburger at the Blue Hole
An extra pair of tickets for Jimmy Buffett in Austin May 31
The AggreGAYtor: May 16
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Greg Abbott Trolls Wendy Davis
Abbott’s lame attempt to roast gubernatorial challenger
Where the Girls Go/ATX: DIY Edition
Where the punk-inspired, DIY-loving queers will be this weekend
S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y? Night!
And so many A-T-X options for what you wanna do with it.
Summer Fun: Find Yourself in a Swimsuit
Custom or retail: Do swimwear your own way this summer.
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Texting With Gosling’
Star struck romance for the web
The Luv Doc: Scoring Chicks
Dear Luv Doc, How can a coed soccer team get more female players signed up? – Lube That’s easy, Lube: cuter uniforms. Actually, in the soccer world they’re known as “kits”, which is a much cuter word than uniforms, so you’ve already got a leg up there. Kit is like a shortened version of “kitty,”…
Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return
Animated Dorothy goes back to Oz for further adventures.
Mom’s Night Out
The moms take a girls’ night out and leave the kids home with their hapless dads. Chaos reigns.
Godzilla
These monsters have more audience appeal than their human co-stars – which is good and bad.
Million Dollar Arm
Jon Hamm stars in this story of a sports agent who hits on the idea of turning Indian cricket bowlers into talented baseball stars.
The German Doctor
This Argentinian film uses the country’s dark history as a haven for escaped Nazi war criminals as fodder for this atmospheric tale.
Locke
In this bravura movie, Tom Hardy plays a man who tries to mend the unraveling threads of his life while behind the wheel of a car for 85 minutes.
God’s Pocket
Philip Seymour Hoffman, in one of his last performances, heads up a terrific ensemble cast for this offbeat drama adapted from a Pete Dexter novel.
Riding the Wave of Rum Punch
Pleasant Storage Room 208-D W. Fourth, 512/322-9921 Tue.-Sun., 5pm-2am; happy hour, 5-7pm www.pleasantrumbar.com Timing can be everything when it comes to new restaurants and bar concepts. Too early and people won’t come because it’s not yet in their comfort zone; too late and, well, been there and done that. In the two years that lapsed…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In the U.S. alone, there are more than 11,000 species of moth, and that’s more than 10 times the number of butterfly species. William Faulkner once served as a scoutmaster for the Oxford Boy Scout troop. According to Salon, Texas has more minimum-wage jobs than any other state, and only Mississippi has more minimum-wage workers…
By the Numbers
Campus sexual assault
Far Away, From Home
Laura Long’s debut novel chronicles the tug-of-war between moving forward and staying the same in a small town
Davis: Abbott Failed to Police CPRIT
Senator accuses attorney general of turning a blind eye
All in the Family
Olive & June 3411 Glenview, 512/467-9898 Sunday dinner seating from 5pm www.oliveandjune-austin.com Vino Vino 4119 Guadalupe, 512/465-9282; Paella served at 7pm until they run out www.vinovinoaustin.com Lenoir 1807 S. First, 512/215-9778 Sunday dinner seating from 6-8:30pm www.lenoirrestaurant.com Among my favorite childhood memories are the Sunday dinners we would share with my stepmother and her big…
Swell!
Surf Texas: It’s not a question, it’s an invitation. Just ask Kenny Braun.
The Good Eye: Swimming While Fat
Does this swimsuit make me look fat? I hope so.
Far Away, From Home
In her most ambitious novel, Sarah Bird entwines the tales of two teenaged girls, both on Okinawa but in different eras
Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper
Robert Bryce book-signing at BookPeople
Letters at 3AM: The Nameless Moon, Etc.
Ventura unpacks his folders full of sentences without homes, and other remnants excised from this and that
Exhibitionism
Poor Shadows of Elysium boils this powerful Shakespearean tragedy down to its essential elements
Far Away, From Home
Elizabeth McCracken’s stories examine the humanity of the mildly freakish and unspoken freakishness of daily life
The Hightower Report
Look out – the ‘yummies’ are coming!
A Tall Drink of Water
The 2014 Paramount Summer Classic Film series kicks off May 22 with a 35mm print of The Wizard of Oz and runs through Sept. 7. See the insert in this issue and www.austintheatre.org for complete schedule. Films screening at the Paramount Theatre (P), 713 Congress, are presented in 35mm; films at the Stateside (S), 719…
Raleigh by the Numbers
12) Pro wakesurfer Raleigh Hager’s current age 11 … or 10) Number of pets, including Fergus the pig and her horde of gerbils 9) Her age when she switched to all wakesurfing 8) Current number of first-place titles 7) Current number of professional sponsorship contracts 6) Number of states in which she has podium’d 5)…
Exhibitionism
This classic’s technical challenges were cause for concern, but Ballet Austin’s staging boasted wonders as well
Far Away, From Home
Through research and case studies, Robert Bryce argues that human ingenuity will beat environmental collapse to the punch
Summer Fun Guide
Attractions, Gear hubs, Instruction outlets, and general Resources to let you make your own waves
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Being Cary Grant “Everyone wants to be Cary Grant,” Cary Grant once reportedly said. “Even I want to be Cary Grant.” Or, he might have added, to be in the arms of Cary Grant. This summer’s series offers no less than four occasions to imagine such a metamorphosis, certainly no more magical than the one…
Just Don’t Call It Wakeboarding
It’s a perfect Austin afternoon; we walk the dock between Hula Hut and Abel’s on the Lake just a hop, skiff, and a puddle jump from Tom Miller Dam. Leigh Fulkerson gently pulls up in her Super Air Nautique G23, a boat the sales brochures say was “created from the wake up.” The boat is…
Exhibitionism
This book by the author of The Hours is a frozen confection of a novel, at once simple and intricate – and gorgeous
Fun in the Sun
Planning your summer early? Check out our roundup of the season’s big events.
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Central Casting’s Girl Next Door Blond bombshells seduced Hollywood beginning in the silent era with Dolores Costello – Drew Barrymore’s grandmother – but brunettes maybe never improved on violet-eyed Elizabeth Taylor. Central casting’s girl next door rather than cat on a hot tin roof, Teresa Wright could almost pass for Taylor’s baby sister. Sweet, slender,…
Slippery Slope
To water-park jefe, Schlitterbahn’s Jeff Henry, salvage equals whimsy not whim
Phases & Stages
Honing its vision to a skin-flaying edge on third long-player Maximalist, Austin threesome Megafauna blends genres the way a good cook melds ingredients. Dani Neff employs multiple genre-licious ingredients to make each track simultaneously punchy, complex, and catchy, while her prodigious six-string technique shines brighter than the sun. In a town full of guitar wizards,…
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The Weight of Norman Bates By his own admission, Anthony Perkins would have taken any role, big or small, in any Hitchcock film. But when the Master of Suspense gave him the role of the deranged motel owner Norman Bates and told him, “You are the film,” Perkins had no idea how to take it.…
Day Trips
Student rockets scream across the sky at Willow City
Phases & Stages
Compiled by Pure X’s Jesse Jenkins and Kyle Dixon of Survive, Holodeck’s second Brainclub collection offers a heady overview of Austin’s electronic music subculture. Analog archeology is the unifying element here, the lab coat-clad wonderment of electronic music’s pioneer days reimagined through the prism of retro-futurism. Taking structural cues from the minimalist tradition, seven instrumentals…
Then There’s This: Water Talk Bubbles Forth
Exploring the unknown future of Austin’s water supply
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Mad for Tracy Some film actors work from the outside in: They wear a prosthetic, adopt a mannerism, speak with an inflection to communicate the nature of their characters. These performers carry on the tradition of silent-screen chameleon Lon Chaney, who distorted his face to play an opera-house madman, and his body to portray a…
When the Clock Strikes 12
Bill Haley died for rock & roll – in Harlingen
Phases & Stages
A quick return to the studio after last year’s celebrated duets debut, Cheater’s Game, finds Kelly Willis & Bruce Robison recapturing the magic on Our Year, a tighter, more controlled set that expands the longtime Austin couple’s harmonies and kinetic interplay. Keeping it all in the family, Robison leads with sister Robyn Ludwick’s “Departing Louisiana,”…
Point Austin: Campaign Summer Fun
On the road to 10-1, race begins to take shape
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Sweet as Candy It was the late Eighties. It had been some 18 years since Maude taught us how to love. It would be another seven before we’d meet and then complete Mr. Jerry Maguire. But for a brief moment there, we weren’t alone. Writer/director John Hughes broke our romantic doldrums with a little help…
Playback: Margaret Moser Retires
‘Chronicle’ Senior Music writer Margaret Moser retires after 33 years on the beat
Phases & Stages
After years as both the garage blues-bashin’ Chili Cold Blood and more countrified Moonhangers, this gritty local trio decided guitarist/vocalist Doug Strahan should go solo – with the same supporting cast: Ethan Shaw engineering and playing bass, steel guitar, and banjo, and Matt Puryear on drums. Gone “solo,” Strahan revives the lonesome, orn’ry spirit of…
Headlines
› City Council meets today with plenty of gristle to chew: a proposed consent decree with the feds on Austin Fire Department hiring, a resolution to resist regional plans to build SH 45, and a step toward approving rideshare systems for peak-time Downtown service. See “Council: Fire, Flood, and Men on Horseback.” › Fundraising season…
Barton Springs Underwater
Photographer Martha Grenon dives deep into Austin’s beloved swimming hole
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Me and Orson Welles The trouble with touting a movie as the greatest ever made is that for successive generations of filmgoers it becomes something like schoolwork. But in 2012, Hitchcock’s Vertigo – not his best, by the way – overtook Citizen Kane as No. 1 in the Sight and Sound poll, the British Film Institute’s…
Gay Place: Cheer Up, Goth
Austin’s gay summer is off to a bright and sunny start: It’s World Goth Day
Phases & Stages
Mixed and remastered from DIY releases at the behest of Ardent Records, the label arm of the famed Memphis recording studio that once rolled tape for Texas luminaries ZZ Top and the Vaughan brothers, Accumulator marks the first of three albums from guitarist Andrew Trube and organist Anthony Ferrell. This collaborative debut between the imprint…
Quote of the Week
“It has passed the point of no return.” – UC-Irvine glaciologist Eric Rignot announces the imminent collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which could raise global sea levels by 3 feet in the next century.
WEST 2014: Ink Tank
Artists host a yard sale of their work, offer soothing tunes from a vending machine
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Scrappy Joan Crawford Joan Crawford made clawing out of the gutter an art form. By the time the San Antonio-born actress with the angular body and streetlamp eyes starred in Mildred Pierce, she’d been doing it onscreen for 20 years. But Mildred Pierce, a single mother who builds a successful chain of restaurants in the…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex got their 2014 season off to a flying start Saturday night, with a comprehensive 5-0 win (I called that score in my preview), featuring five different goal-scorers, and two real stunners. The first one, in the 10th minute, started with a gorgeously hit long through ball into the corner by Walker Hume…
Phases & Stages
Presale customers of Full Service’s ninth studio LP received regionally specific tree samplings with this disc. That loving connection to nature reveals itself immediately on Carousel, with opening pair “Honeybee” and “Evergreen” setting love stories amongst the flora and fauna. Downplaying the reggae and metal influences of previous efforts and finding a comfortable zone of…
Council: Fire, Flood, and Men on Horseback
Contentious issues fill this week’s slate
Summer Fun: The Classic Beach Read
Recommendations for the ideal read when you’re camped out in the sand
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Lake Sure Drives a Movie Home She’d already sparked attention with her peek-a-boo hairstyle in the war drama I Wanted Wings, but Preston Sturges’ comedy Sullivan’s Travels (1941) was the first starring role for the Brooklyn-born Veronica Lake. Brightening the screen opposite lead Joel McCrea, Lake’s a cynosure of streetwise loveliness as her smooth way…
Phases & Stages
Ben Mallott’s debut salvo, 2008’s Look Good, Feel Good, delivered an eclectic and versatile backing to his soft yet gritty, Ray LaMontagne-esque tenor. Taking time off to regroup, the local songwriter returns with a full quintet project, Machine Don’t Lie. His breathy drawl still drives the tunes, but the band solidifies his sound in a…
Poor Planning
Planning Commission has painful meeting
Food Events
› The Grapevine in Gruene Wine Tasting Sample wines from Duchman Winery and craft beers from Real Ale at this monthly event. Thu., May 15, 6-8pm. Gruene Hall, 1281 Gruene Rd., New Braunfels, 830/606-1281. › Supper Friends: Land and Sea Enjoy a multicourse meal of meat and seafood in a convivial atmosphere. Fri., May 16,…
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‘Bursts of Being a Lady’ It’s an inappropriate reaction, but I can’t help laughing every time I watch The Night of the Hunter. Sure, there’s those heavy-handed knuckle tattoos and the derailing lisp Sally Jane Bruce uses to say, “My name’s Pearl.” But those examples perversely add to the menace. Shelley Winters, sinking long before…
Phases & Stages
In the Nineties, Amy Atchley flitted between NYC and this Southwest music mecca she currently calls home with husband Elias Haslanger. The seven songs here constitute her first release in five years, and Where You Go settles into a laid-back ethos blasted with a summery, Barton Springs vibe. A tribute to the couple’s daughters Lulu…
Committee Finds Grounds For Hall Impeachment
Regent accused of Bill Powers witch hunt
Texas ‘Forev’
These days Molly Green and James Leffler are writing and directing movies together, but when they first met, standing in line for a South by Southwest film screening in 2007, they were just a couple of University of Texas undergraduates with a similar Hollywood dream. They struck up a conversation, and Green told Leffler about…
A Tall Drink of Water
An Offer You Can’t Refuse In the realm of acting, no modern-day practitioner has been more influential than Marlon Brando. Maybe Laurence Olivier, but even Olivier’s craft seems more dated and theatrical than Brando’s; Olivier belongs to another era, an era rooted more in the stage than the cinema. Although he started on the stage…
Fighting Sexual Assault
Amid growing national momentum, UT-Austin takes steps to protect incoming students
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
Here are the Chronicle editorial board’s endorsements for the May 27 party primary run-offs. There are only two races on the Democratic side, and we’re between a rock and a hard place on one of those. We make no recommendations on the GOP side; when David Dewhurst starts looking good by comparison, it’s time to…
Ex-APD Detective Indicted in Shooting
Kleinert released on personal bond
Drive, He Said
A conversation with ‘Locke’-smith Steven Knight
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It’s Bogie, Baby I was just a kid the first time I laid eyes on Humphrey Bogart, but his classic brand of broodiness is still a personal favorite. There he was, as Linus in Sabrina, starring opposite the sunshine and sparkle of glamour personified – Audrey Hepburn and William Holden – and I was mesmerized…
Far Away, From Home
Local authors’ summer lit-aways to distant places
Except for Eanes, Area School Bonds Win Big
Low turnout election sandwiched between primaries
Food-O-File
Local gelato maker heads to the finals, delicious tacos at Pachanga, and to-go orders at Sway
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My Cool Aunts I discovered two of my favorite actresses when I was fairly young, in performances that affected me in very different ways. Both Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest made me want to be close to them, somehow. While I never fantasized about replacing my mom and these two were too old to be…
Far Away, From Home
Elizabeth Crook’s new novel charts the ripples radiating out from the Whitman shootings
Primary Run-Offs: Tea Party vs. Old Guard
Establishment gains traction toward election
From Prisoner to Reformer
A Q&A with ‘Orange Is the New Black’ author Piper Kerman
