Cover Story
Inching to the Finish
Bob Sabiston’s winding road to Inchworm Animation
Weekend Warriors for Public Schools
Save Texas Schools and Texas AFT to rally at capitol
This Week’s Waste of Time
Point and click your way to free gaming
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 6-3
Queerbomb goes KABOOM!
David Zirin Has a Large Head, and Other Matters He Shouldn’ t Apologize For
In town to screen new doc
The Lineup
Playing duck, duck, goose with Chaos in Tejas
TDH: 6/2/11
Will Senate bill spell the end of May elections?
Some Parts of the World Pt. 2
Every day is moving day
Some Parts of the World Pt. 1
Singer-songwriter BettySoo battles elasticity in Italy
Up in the Air, Down in the Dust
Photogallery from this weekend’s Texas Toast Jam
Wednesday Rewind
Live shots of Sorne and Atomic Duo
Here We Rest
Alabama slammers with Jason Isbell
Bill Debates Begin Tomorrow
First real debates for school finance and more
Special Bills for a Special Session
UPDATE: Measures mix unfinished business, new ideas, grandstanding
Congressional Redistricting by the Numbers
Four of five proposed Travis districts likely Republican
Doggett Responds to Congressional Redistricting Maps
Congressman says he’ll move if necessary
Congressional Redistricting Map Released
Lege says ‘Screw you, hippies!’ and divides Travis five ways
PB&J Hold the “P”
Peter Bjorn & John’s first name at Ruta Maya tonight
TDH: 5/31/11
Spelman ‘splains delay of changes to historic tax breaks
Special Session? Sure
GOP’s bad timing opens door to Dem filibuster
Of Comics and ‘Immortals’
‘Kabuki’ creator David Mack talks about Tarsem’s new epic
Putas Put it on the Line
TXRD Lonestar skaters bout this weekend, talent scouting soon
School Finance Agreement? Maybe
Conference committee nearing deal, but let’s see what chambers say
‘Everybody Loses’
Anti-abortion crusade will devastate health care
TDH: 5/27/11
Council (non)action on historic tax abatements, non-profit funding
Eff This Budget
CPPP sharply disses the nearly adopted budget
The Totally Awesome Auschron Newscast Loses Control of Its Facilities
AISD facilities plan, Lege & elections rile Totescast crew
More Things to Remember on Memorial Day
Basically, don’t be dumb.
This Week’s Waste of Time
Prepare to die (a lot) with this week’s free browser game
2011 ‘Austin Chronicle’ Adult Spelling Bee
Video highlights from the 2011 Adult Spelling Bee.
Moving Day
Darling New Neighbors say goodbye
Worst. Session. Ever.
With three days left, legislature hurtling to the abyss
Read Local!
H.W. Brands’ The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Manfield
A Knead To Read
This exercise in simplicity is beautiful and infinitely useful
Austin Theatre Alliance
From TV and the LPGA comes the man who will run the Paramount and State
Headlines
� It was a good week for the challenger in the Place 3 run-off campaign, with Randi Shade’s ethics claims against Kathie Tovo proving fruitless in the incumbent’s attempts to prevent Tovo from accessing $64,000 in public funds, per Tovo’s signing of Austin’s “Fair Campaign Pledge.” Also this week, Tovo was endorsed by Place 3…
Read Local!
Also out this summer
A Knead To Read
Now I think you’re ready for this jelly
Texas Toast Jam
Austin’s rep as a town that knows an ice-pick grind from a handrail jam is catching big air
Quote of the Week
“I’m sorry, but I’m getting pretty sick of it.” – Austin state Rep. Donna Howard on male legislators who are leading the effort to further restrict women’s health care rights
Read Local!
Recent recommended reads
A Knead To Read
Home is where the heart is
2011 ‘Austin Chronicle’ Adult Spelling Bee
Geoff Thevenot wins again!
Say What?
Mapping the Rolling Roadshow tour in movie quotes
A Knead To Read
Dive into the culinary genius within the pressure cooker of elBulli
Oops!
A highway heading south from Lake Tahoe was misidentified in “Letters at 3AM,” May 20. The correct highway is U.S. 395.
Naked City
Proposal marries Global Tech, Green Tech high schools
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar keeps his rapturous feet on the ground … with the Chihuahuas
A Knead To Read
This is the definitive handbook to the world’s most fascinating wine area
Page Two: Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful
Just because you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean they are out to get you, either
Naked City
No New Jersey flight on Cap Metro’s dime
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Liz Taylor, the Beatles, inventor of the Pringles can, etc.
Gay Place
Countdown to QueerBomb
Off the Record
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Kerrville Folk Festival one year at a time
Naked City
Violent crime takes a dip
A Knead To Read
From Spain’s elBulli and France’s wines to Baghdad’s Green Zone and your own backyard: Bring cooking home with these new tomes
The Hightower Report
The Kochs Take One on the Chin; and Muzzling Michigan Professors
Soccer Watch
It’s looking to be an exciting Eurpean Champions League final, and more
City Hall Hustle: Do You Feel Lucky, PHHS?
Council committee takes next step in reorganizing social service funding
Talking Sugar With Gesine Bullock-Prado
How to not sweat candymaking, sugar
Day Trips
The Pratt Stone Cabin is worth the five-mile, round-trip hike up McKittrick Canyon
A Night at the Opera
Opera for dummies: Name one male tenor
Res Publica
Citizens calendar, May 26-June 1
Wine of the Week: Pink Syrah? Why Not?
A Rosé is a Rosé is a Rosé
Arts Review
A long yet insightful look into families where love and kindness are rare
Emailing Plácido Domingo
Austin Chronicle: My father’s from Mérida, Yucatán. Famous in our family lore is your parents’ zarzuela company playing there. Plácido Domingo: My parents came to the Americas in the 1950s and to Mexico in particular to bring Zarzuela to these parts of the world. The Theater is the tradition and Zarzuela the music with which…
Point Austin: The Monitor Comes Knocking
The police monitor and the chief share an exchange of views
A Knead To Read
The best books transport us to worlds outside our experience. Unequivocally, this is one of those books.
What the Task Force Wrought
Austin ISD’s facilities review became a panic drill of cuts, closings, and contradictions
Leaked AFD Exam Adds Fuel to Fire
Allegations of cheating exacerbate Fire Department’s diversity woes
Event Menu
Delicious ways to savor May 28-June 2
Arts Review
A relaxed tempo can’t obscure the lyricism and dark beauty of Steinbeck’s tale
Fightin’ Words in Council Run-off
Shade swings; Tovo ducks
Kung Fu Panda 2
In this visually enticing sequel, the panda voiced by Jack Black is tasked with finding inner peace.
Of Family Heirlooms and Industrial Films
The Texas Archive of the Moving Image preserves the state’s cinematic roads less traveled
A Knead To Read
This is the food that a stellar cook actually makes at home from the bounty of his garden
Arts Review
A host of colorful, expertly crafted prints celebrates the two-wheeled world
Out of the Schools and Into the Polls
Lege (and voters) still fighting over how much to cut public schools
The Hangover: Part II
The action moves from Vegas to Thailand – but someone forgot to send along a new script.
Top of the Line
The nominees for the 2011 Austin Critics Table Awards
Food-o-File
A food and wine festival reboot, the best barbecue in Texas, and more in this week’s food news
What’s in the Report?
Whatever the Austin ISD board of trustees decides to do with it, it now has in its hands the Facility Master Plan Task Force report. Formally delivered on March 28, the report combines conceptual changes to the district’s approach to facilities planning with more specific brick-and-mortar plans for repairs and new buildings through the 2020-21…
From Womb to Bill to Law to Court?
Perry signs ultrasound-before-abortion bill
The First Grader
In Kenya, an octogenarian takes the government’s promise of an education for all to heart and joins the 6-year-old reciting their ABC’s.
Read Local!
Summer books by Austin authors
A Knead To Read
An utterly compelling self-portrait told in terms of hunger, sustenance, and nurture
TV Eye
Franklin & Bash‘s dude charm
Bill of the Week
Last-minute school finance fix near collapse – special session beckons
Nora’s Will
This Mexican award winner is a melodrama with a darkly comic streak about a Jewish woman who masterminds her family’s lives even after her death.
Read Local!
Stephen Harrigan’s Remember Ben Clayton
A Knead To Read
An engaging book that’s easy to pick up and consume in small bites
Culture Flash
A dozen NEA grants, an Austinite for State Artist, and Austin High takes state
End of the Road for Five-Way Stop?
A proposal to close Bruning Avenue stirs neighborhood debate
Winter in Wartime
This coming-of-age story is set in the Dutch countryside during the Nazi-occupied winter of 1944-1945.
Say What Answers
1) June 3: The Searchers at Old Fort Parker in Groesbeck 2) June 4: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre at Junction House in Kingsland 3) June 5: Blood Simple at Dessau Hall in Austin 4) June 11: Hud at the railroad tracks in Claude 5) June 17: Red River at the Fort Worth Stockyards in Fort…
A Knead To Read
Become inspired to look at gardens as flexible canvases
Dana Friis-Hansen
AMOA’s former director presents his first independent show with an old friend
Cops Don’t Let Cops Drive Drunk
SWAT officers busted after partying too hard
Luv Doc Recommends: The White Party
The White Party sounds like the political wing of the Aryan Brotherhood – sort of the same way Sinn Féin is to the IRA – but it’s not. Don’t get all creeped out. The White Party is simply a party where people dress in white clothing. It’s a party, not a rally. Here’s the difference:…
