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Written in Stone

This spring, the University of Texas at Austin made national headlines for a racist frat party, and then again for the unlikely success of newly elected, satirical student government President Xavier Rotnofsky and Vice President Rohit Mandalapu. Now, some UT students – the new student government included – are generating attention once more by advocating…

by Mac McCann

I Know Where I’m Going!

I Know Where I’m Going! 1945, NR, 91 min. Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Starring Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey. An Englishwoman falls under the spell of rural Scotland while en route to a planned marriage of convenience.

by Chronicle Staff

The Luv Doc: Being Yourself

Dear Luv Doc, Some months ago a CEO of a major computer company came out of the closet declaring his homosexuality. I have no comment on this event except to say that I wish someone in the media would have asked him the question everyone really wants to know. (Do you plan to surround yourself…

by The Luv Doc

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

93% of Campo, Colo.’s annual budget is generated from traffic tickets issued by one police officer. A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime. The term “ultima Thule” in medieval writings denotes any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world.” Nazi occultists believed in a distant land in the…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Local Heroes

Fidencio Duran Simply put, Fidencio Duran is a family man. The paintings and murals that have been his calling card for more than three decades draw fundamentally from his family experience and Latino heritage. The son of tenant farmers and the seventh child of 10, Duran grew up listening to his father’s tales of his…

by Robert Faires

Read My Lips

Famed Austin composer appraises the autobiography of Philip Glass, father of the modern classical avant-garde

by Graham Reynolds

Local Heroes

Heloise Gold “Restless” is one word that applies well to Heloise Gold, and not in a negative sense. She’s been on the move since her arrival in Austin in 1978, intently figuring out how to move, working out new ways to move, never pausing in her quest to make movement that entertains, that enlivens, that…

by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

The biggest local soccer news this week had nothing to do with soccer: House Park was under a reported seven feet of water in Monday’s flood, and it appears unlikely at press time that it will be useable in time for the Austin Aztex’s next home game on June 20, or indeed for the rest…

by Nick Barbaro

Local Heroes

Allen Robertson “Go make music.” Long before that simple directive became the sign-off to every Biscuit Brothers program, Allen Robertson was living it. The ever-active, productive music director-composer-performer came to Austin in 1989 to obtain a master’s degree in children’s theatre and soon started scoring family-oriented plays at the University of Texas and Second Youth…

by Robert Faires

Read My Lips

A lavish diary of Poland’s black metal breakout Behemoth, and a book-length Q&A defense of frontman Adam Darski

by Raoul Hernandez

Headlines

“Texas weather can be cruel” – Nina Hernandez, “Flood of Memories,” May 25. Every Austinite, and seemingly every Texan, is exchanging flood tales this week, some of close calls and others of real disasters. See “Flood of Relief” for updates on events and local aid resources. City Council meets today (May 28) with a couple…

by Chronicle Staff

Read My Lips

Johnny Rotten’s second autobiography picks up from the Pistols’ demise and pistons into the present

by Tim Stegall

Quote of the Week

“You cannot candy-coat it. It’s absolutely massive.” – Gov. Greg Abbott on the damage caused by the Memorial Day weekend floods

by Chronicle Staff

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