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Oops! In our May 6 issue, we erroneously listed First Plates winner Valentina’s Tex Mex BBQ (7612 Brodie Ln.) in the Lower East neighborhood, when in fact the trailer is located in South Austin. Apologies to Valentina’s and our readers for any confusion.

by Chronicle Staff

Rick Reed Sampler

Elevator Bath Catalog: Music for Performance (2003) Limited to 44 CD-R’s and thus mostly unheard compositions for performance and installation in handmade paper packaging. Dark Skies at Noon (2005)Drifting currents across three elongated pieces open with the 30-minute title track, one of Reed’s signature works of diffusing tones and disintegrating particles. Dreamz/Blue Polz (2008)A stunning…

by Conor Walker

Looking at the Big Picture

The Third Man Fingers poking through a sewer grate – not an image you’d figure for a cinematic showstopper. But in the tense climax to this peerless film noir – a deep dive into espionage and paranoia in postwar Vienna as penned by Graham Greene (with an assist from star Orson Welles) – we’re sunk…

by Robert Faires

Looking at the Big Picture

Jaws I saw Jaws at a Massachusetts drive-in when I was a kid – though I’ve seen the film so many times, growing up not far from its filming location, that it’s actually become embedded, in itself a childhood memory. My grandparents had a boat in Gloucester, Mass., and my mom spent all of her…

by Danielle White

10-1, Take Two

Greg Casar: Youthful Energy District 4 Council Member Gregorio Casar defeated seven candidates in 2014 to ascend the dais, although his run-off opponent, Laura Pressley, continues to deny reality. Defeated handily, she first demanded a recount (same outcome) and then sued to overturn the results. That dismissed lawsuit lingers on appeal (even while this year’s…

by Michael King

Looking at the Big Picture

Cabaret “What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play.” Films can be watched anywhere, but cinema is a communal experience. That’s why they call it the theatre. Cabaret, based on the musical by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the play I Am a Camera, based on the novel…

by Richard Whittaker

10-1, Take Two

Delia Garza: Equity Advocate District 2 Council Member Delia Garza served on the charter revision committee that brought 10-1 to Austin in 2012, and since her inauguration, the former firefighter and assistant state’s attorney general has embodied the spirit of equal representation. She currently chairs the Public Util­ities Committee, serves as vice-chair of the Open…

by Chase Hoffberger

Shoulders to the Wheel

From starting out as a pop-up service four years ago, to opening a 150-square-foot space in the back of Farewell Books, Flat Track Coffee owners Sterling Roberts and Matthew Bolick have always been on the move. In fact, “anything with wheels” has become a slogan at Flat Track. One quick look at their Instagram –…

by Neha Aziz

Looking at the Big Picture

The Thing One of the best sci-fi horror movies ever made, of course its provenance is impeccable, director John Carpenter having disregarded the earlier cinematic version (which, you may sadly recall, featured James Arness as a sort of menacing rutabaga) and gone straight to the source material: John W. Campbell’s “Who Goes There?” from the…

by W. A. Brenner

10-1, Take Two

Leslie Pool: Neighborhood Defender Before she got comfortable on the dais, District 7 Council Member Leslie Pool was already heavily involved with city government. By appointment, Pool served on various commissions, including Arts, Downtown, Tele­com­muni­ca­tions, and Water/Wastewater. She spent time on the Liveable City board, the Downtown Develop­ment Advisory Group, the Travis County Citizens Bond…

by Mary Tuma

Looking at the Big Picture

Adaptation When I first saw Adaptation – on DVD – the mythos of Charlie Kaufman’s genius took hold of my brain. Then it screened at a theatre at my college; I soon became obsessive. His scripts for Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind had brought him wider attention, but the theatrical…

by Sean L. Malin

10-1, Take Two

Sheri Gallo: Go Your Own Way Amid the dramatic, attention-getting changes the first 10-1 City Council brought to Austin, there’s a quieter one in the person of District 10 Council Member Sheri Gallo. Only in a city as reflexively and smugly liberal as Austin could someone like Gallo get lumped in with the conservative faction…

by Amy Kamp

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Spray paint was invented in Chicago in 1949. Duffel bags are named after the town of Duffel, Belgium, where they were first made. In Chinese, “wu er ling” translates into “five two zero.” It has a faint similarity to “Wo ai ni” (pronounced “whoa I knee”), which translates to “I love you.” Therefore, May 20…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Looking at the Big Picture

Moulin Rouge In May of 2001, Baz Luhrmann released Moulin Rouge. A “rock opera” starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman – this was not my mother’s musical or my mother’s love story. Five years after the Australian writer/director reinvented Romeo + Juliet for the millennial generation, he outdid himself with a stunning unification of Broadway…

by Sarah Marloff

10-1, Take Two

Don Zimmerman: Unapologetic Conflict has been the overwhelming theme of District 6 Council Member Don Zim­merman’s term. The software engineer and anti-taxation activist earned a reputation early on as a time-waster on the dais and a fire-starter off of it. His interrogations of city staff over procedure, costs, and perceived cover-ups are by now routine.…

by Nina Hernandez

Looking at the Big Picture

Hoop Dreams One of the finest achievements in documentary film, Hoop Dreams is a feature that almost wasn’t, as it was initially scheduled as a 30-minute PBS short. Centered on the lives of two inner-city Chicago prep hoopsters – William Gates and Arthur Agee –the viewer witnesses their struggles through socioeconomic hardships. While commonplace for…

by Kahron Spearman

Looking at the Big Picture

Dirty Dancing Fourth grade marked the first time I witnessed Patrick Swayze’s hip swivel, and though it wasn’t in a theatre, the giant projection big screen TV at my friend’s house seared those steamy rehearsal scenes into my young brain forever. It was also the first time I was introduced to the sketchy sides of…

by Jessi Cape

Quote of the Week

“If two-thirds of your clients think your product or services are broken, then you need to do something about it.” – AISD Board President Kendall Pace, imploring Texas lawmakers to fix the state’s school finance system after the Texas Supreme Court found it was constitutional but dysfunctional

by Chronicle Staff

Looking at the Big Picture

Gigi Gigi came out the summer before I turned 6. It can’t have been the first movie I’d ever seen (I don’t think), but it’s definitely the first movie I remember seeing. It was at a movie palace off the boardwalk in Asbury Park, N.J., right next to the Palace arcade later immortalized in photo…

by Marjorie Baumgarten

Headlines

Another election, yet again: Early voting began May 16 for the May 24 primary run-offs, with a total of some 332 Democratic voters coming out on the first day – something like 0.05% of the registered voters – and two locations not getting a single customer. Early voting continues through May 20. See our endorsements.…

by Chronicle Staff

Looking at the Big Picture

Purple Rain I wasn’t old enough to see the Purple One’s screen debut in theatres, but 32 years after its summer 1984 release, I finally got my chance to see the Kid and Apollonia do their thing at the drive-in theatre. Despite being a tribute screening – R.I.P. sweet Prince – seeing the film as…

by Jessi Cape

Hornography

Coming hard and fast toward the end of their respective seasons, the University of Texas softball and track teams will attempt to stretch things out. Horns Running Roughshod Winning in dominant fashion, the Texas men’s and women’s track teams swept the outdoor titles in consecutive years. Led by the nation’s top sprinter Morolake Akino­sun, who…

by Kahron Spearman

West Austin Studio Tour 2016

The fifth edition of Big Medium’s West Austin Studio Tour winds up this weekend with more than 300 artists, exhibitions, and happenings spread across the sunset side of I-35 May 21 & 22, 11am-6pm each day. The best guide to all that WEST has to offer is the catalog published by Big Medium, though these…

by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

AS Roma legend Giuseppe Giannini, known as Il Principe in his playing days, will attend a meet and greet hosted by the AS Roma Austin Fan Club, 6:30-8:30pm at Numero28, 452 W. Second. He and Alessio Fazi from the AS Roma Academy are in town working with the players and coaching staff at Lonestar SC…

by Nick Barbaro

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