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He Makes What He Loves and Then They Consume It
YouTube phenom Jon Cozart is more than just Ariel/Belle/Jasmine/Pocahontas
Nothing’s Obscure: Five Local Art Treasures You May Have Overlooked
Because who can be in all the loops all the time?
Drafthouse Films Heads to ‘A Field in England’
Local distro house acquires newest shocker from Ben Wheatley
Lawmakers Reject Medical Marijuana Protection for Patients
Despite emotional pleas from seriously ill and their caregivers
Unplugged at the Grove Rolls On Tonight
Free summer concert series now in its 20th year
ACL Music Fest Swap-Outs
Two-weekend music festival earmarks 33 bands for single sets
Trailer Park Goes Big
‘Ender’s Game,’ ‘The World’s End,’ and ‘The Butler’
‘Chronicle’ Adult Spelling Bee Takes Place Tonight
Calling all wordsmiths! Or just people who like to watch! And drink!
Notes from the Chemo Lounge
Welcome to what’s left of the rest of your life
UPDATED: Lehmberg Released From Jail
Will now seek treatment
A Second Chance for Drug Dealers on ‘The Corner’
The Drug Market Intervention project in action
The Frank Erwin Center: 1977-2023?
UT Medical School will likely shut down tenured arena
Phoenix Keeps Austin Weird
French quartet wows ‘Austin City Limits’
News Ticker: May 8
All the news that’s fit to blog
Legislative Update
Passage of bills spells progress for local food movement
El Chile Slated to Leave Manor Road
Eatery is moving from one busy restaurant row to another
After Dark
Young promoter David Ziolkowski nabs Tito Larriva, tonight!
Texas Cookbook Authors Out of the Kitchen, Into the Bookstore
BookPeople hosts Robb Walsh and Austin Food Blogger Alliance members
Presidential Visit Causes Road Closures
Capital Metro bus routes to be detoured
Review: ASO With Quattro Mani
Symphony scores with new works by Lansky and Fitkin
Lost and Found
Found Footage Festival helps you find your way
Austin Teen Book Fest Snags Rob Thomas
‘Veronica Mars’ creator and Sarah Dessen added to lineup
News Ticker: May 7
All the news that’s fit to blog
A Necessary Eastside Experience
3 Little Pigs and East End Wines invite you to dine
It’s Official: APD Chief of Staff to Take Reins at UTPD
Carter will start this summer
Alamo Drafthouse Goes All Out for Gatsby Opening
Dress up, drink up, and party like it’s 1929
Farewell, Ray Harryhausen
The master of stop motion passed on at 92
I Sh!t You Not: Creepy Intuition
Kat tells a few stories about her extra intuitive child
AFF Has the Right Idea About ‘Wrong Numbers’
Made in Texas series revisits Alex Holdridge’s first film
Patients Urge Lawmakers to Pass Medical Marijuana Measure
Whether lawmakers have compassion remains to be seen
Break On Through
Doors drummer John Densmore riffs on commercial licensing
Give Back to Queerbomb
Queerbomb 2013 seeks the community it creates
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
Two cults beat as one: Jimmy Buffett & Sixto Rodriguez
Docurama Film Examines Indian Culture’s Split Personality
The women of Indian beauty pageants and Hindu Nationalist boot camps
Austin City Limits Music Festival Lineup Unveiled
Fall free-for-all bags 134 acts minus black metal
BioWare to Fight New Star Wars
Locally based Mass Effect creators one of three firms on new games
You Can Dance If You Want To
Alamo Danceoke has all the moves
Lawyer and 39 Others Seek to Intervene in Lehmberg Suit
Say county should not settle for less than removal from office
News Ticker: May 6
All the news that’s fit to blog
Jim James Haiku
Amusing the muse at the Moody
Community and Committee Back Johns Hopkins as Eastside Partner
AISD Trustees to vote tonight, but deal still needs TEA approval
Austin Fashion Week Challenge: Black and Tan
What Would Tim Gunn Say? That AFW’s Black and Tan rocked.
‘The Happy Poet’ Hits Stateside
There’s something sweet about this veggie stand
Glutard Girl: Life After Beer
What’s next?
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 1974, NR, 144 min. Directed by Jack Clayton, Starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Karen Black, Sam Waterston. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic Jazz Age tale of a self-made man, a ruinous love affair, and America’s obsession with class.
West, Ammonium Nitrate, And the Myopia of Terrorism
House hearing shows emphasis on public safety, not health and safety
Here’s Your History Lesson for the Day
‘Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla’ bursts onto the scene
A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence 1974, R, 155 min. Directed by John Cassavetes, Starring Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk. Rowlands’ searing performance as a mentally unstable housewife is almost too much to bear. Cassavetes offers us a portrait of mental illness as a family disease in which all the well-meaning relatives are hapless players. The filmmaker’s…
Star Wars Day: Happy May the Fourth, And a Very Merry Revenge of the Fifth
One man’s 35 year trip to a galaxy far, far away
Cinco de Mayo Fiestas Tonight and Tomorrow!
Food, music, dancing, and a bonus Sangria recipe: ¡Olé!
Lemonade Day Austin is Sunday May 5
Pint-size entrepreneurs at your service
Bill of the Week: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
Companion bills aims to give more local control of wire taps
Free Comic Book Day: Local Stores, Local Artists
Austin and beyond, where to get your free comic books Saturday
Three Chefs Compete in Austin’s First Trailer Truck-Off
Winner will operate Zorro trailer at Historic Scoot Inn
Peter Stopschinski CD Release
Live show celebrates “Now Would Be a Good Time” debut
News Ticker: May 3
All the news that’s fit to blog
Urban Farm Redux
Community stakeholders address future of city’s urban farms
Trailer Park Is Young at Heart
‘Violet & Daisy,’ Judy Blume, and ice cream
From the Vaults: Talking ‘Trash’
Andrew Garrison discusses filming Allison Orr’s ‘Trash Project’
Austin Bakes for West Locations Disclosed
Baked treats for a good cause selling at 8 locations citywide
Ride the Local Through This Mega Movie Map
250 films, 20 lines, 1 amazing visual
Summer of 1983: The Sequel
Alamo Drafthouse hits the wayback button and finds a ‘Jedi’
Kickstart Your Weekend: ‘Skunk’
Annie Silverstein, pit bulls, and the road ahead
News/Print
Headlines and updates from the written world
Five Questions for Jim James
My Morning Jacket captain talks ‘Light,’ ‘Sound’ & ‘God’
Austin Fashion Week: Go Local for ‘Noir & Encore’
Austin Fashion Week gala benefits Arc of the Capital Area
Farmers Market Report: May 4-5
More summer vegetables arrive
Free Comic Book Day: Picking Through The Shelves
The annual graphic giveaway is this weekend, so what should you pick up?
Letters at 3AM: An Arbitrary Nation, Part 2
Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws
AISD Bonds: Moving Parts
Half a percent of registered voters cast ballots on first day of early voting
Point Austin: The Cartoon Governor
Willful official negligence destroyed a small Texas town
The Angels’ Share
Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.
Come Into Focus
Semester’s final Focus Group screening features Jonas Mekas
Council Preview: The Budget … and Everything Else
After a daylong budget work session, the Council still have a lot to take on
Free Comic Book Day 2013
The 11th giveaway of four-color fun runs the gamut from ‘Archie’ to ‘The Walking Dead’
No Place on Earth
A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.
Veni, Vidi, Vici at Vaca y Vino
Multitasking hospitality pros tackle a 1,000-pound steer at benefit event
TAVP: Trying to Heal After Violence
Project hopes to broaden concept of justice
Then There’s This: Housing Bond Back on Ballot?
After voters’ rejection in 2012, November may bring another try
Blancanieves
A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.
Pairing the Pour
South American wines at Vaca y Vino
Death Watch
No place for mitigation
Quote of the Week
“With all due respect to the attorney general, we believe his opinion on this question is not correct.” – City Attorney Karen Kennard, in a memo to Council members on Attorney General Greg Abbott’s opinion on municipalities and school districts providing domestic partner benefits
Vaca y Vino in Your Own Kitchen
Warm New Potato Salad and Fennel and Carrot Chimichurri recipes
Keeping the Faith
Lesbian couple seeks ordination
Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Class of 2013
The Austin Critics Table has honored five more pioneers in the Austin arts community
Wimberley Water Wars
Community activists protest Needmore Ranch development
Gay Place
From Outerspaces to Deep Inside, this is the week that is… gay
What Happens Next?
As D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg serves her sentence, the county attorney takes on the civil lawsuit and the next steps
The Hightower Report
The irony in Bush’s dandy new library
Day Trips
Little cafe in Winnie has big flavor
Lege Lines
The Lege looks at campus guns, the Rainy Day Fund, and the West explosion
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex alum Kekuta Manneh got a chance this weekend to show what he could do in the big leagues, and it was an eye-opener. The 18-year-old striker came on as a second-half sub for the Vancouver Whitecaps and promptly scored a goal and an assist, as the Whitecaps came from behind to tie league-leading…
Exhibitionism
Austin Playhouse stages this chaotic, ridiculous backstage farce with precision and fun
King of the Hill
It’s lights, camera, action for the Hill Country Film Festival
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
By his own admission, David Sedaris cleans up rubbish off the streets of Sussex with naughty boys. Pigeon racing is the sport of releasing specially trained racing pigeons, which then return to their homes over a carefully measured distance. It was introduced into the United States about 1875, although regular racing did not begin until…
Exhibitionism
In wrestling valiantly with David Lindsay-Abaire’s tough play, the artists of Different Stages prove themselves good people
Wine of the Week
Friulano from northeastern Italy
After a Fashion: Dear Francis
A DJ saved my life …
Exhibitionism
Austin Lyric Opera closed its season with a haunting and powerful production of Gounod’s devilish work
Food Events
� American Whiskey Festival Opal’s annual event presents the best of American bourbons as well as Tennessee and Canadian ryes, over 60 varieties in all. Thu., May 2, 7-10pm. Opal Divine’s Penn Field, 3601-K S. Congress, 512/707-0237. $35 ($30, advance). � Austin Bakes for West More than 80 Austin bakers and confectioners, both professional and…
Phases & Stages
Iggy & the Stooges Ready to Die (Fat Possum) This has to be the most severely misnamed album in history. After the misstep of 2007’s The Weirdness, the 33-years-overdue fourth Stooges LP, Ready to Die, arrives definitely as the work of a band too alive for its curtain call. All it took was the return…
Oops!
The April 25 “Mr. Smarty Pants Knows” incorrectly identified Irving Berlin as the composer of the song “Blue Moon,” when it was actually written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Mr. Smarty Pants apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused. Last week’s “Then There’s This” column misidentified the chair of the city Historic Landmark…
Food-O-File
We picked up lots of newsy tidbits at last weekend’s Austin Food & Wine Festival
Phases & Stages
Charles Bradley Victim of Love (Dunham/Daptone Records) Brooklyn soul embodiment Charles Bradley achieved hero status in Central Texas last October when, caught in a torrential downpour at UtopiaFest, the 65-year-old “Screaming Eagle” refused to leave the stage. “I love you!” he pleaded. “I need you!” 2011’s No Time for Dreaming brought sunshine to the shower…
West Austin Studio Tour
Another weekend in which to go WEST, young man
The Luv Doc: A Certain Lack of Sophistication
LuvDoc, A guy I am considering dating recently told me he stopped going out with a woman because she didn’t know the difference between “you’re” and “your.” I’m not illiterate, but I’m not a grammar Nazi either. Do you think it would be a mistake to go out with him? – Misti It would be…
Restaurant Review
Superior pizza served with Rat Pack panache
The Unknown Soldier
Bill Carter steps out from under the shadow of Captain Jack Sparrow
Playback: Conjunto Los Pinkys
Jim Morrison plays Conjunto (Los Pinkys) at a Full Service Circus and other strange days
The Big Wedding
In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.
Restaurant Review
Pinkies up! The Steeping Room brings its delectable teas and tea sandwiches to Rosedale.
Phases & Stages
David Bowie The Next Day (ISO/Columbia) Whether you think David Bowie a thieving magpie lifting others’ ideas or a genius twisting passions to his own vision, there’s no denying The Next Day cannibalizes one particular artiste: himself. Reunited with longtime producer Tony Visconti, Bowie revisits creative visions past on his first album in a decade.…
Civics 101
Thursday 02 CAPITAL METRO FARE STUDY PUBLIC MEETING Cap Met is reviewing their fare structure, trying to create a simplified, equitable and sustainable system. Here’s your chance to be heard. 6-7:30pm. ACC South Austin Campus, 1820 W. Stassney. feedback@capmetro.org, www.capmetro.org/farechange. CREATING WALKABLE URBAN PLACES Learn how to make your neighborhood safe, attractive, and walkable with…
Iron Man 3
It’s more of the same, but the same is pretty good.
Studio Practice
Canopy tenants love the Eastside artist studio complex, even if they aren’t from the Eastside … or artists
Live Shot: Austin Psych Fest
Austin Psych Fest Carson Creek Ranch, April 26-28 The night before Carson Creek Ranch opened the cattle gates and let the freaks in for the sixth annual Austin Psych Fest, a horde of music fans lined around the block for Red 7’s kickoff party featuring South by Southwest standouts the Allah-Las and reunited Paisley Undergrounders…
Headlines
› It’s a mini-marathon for City Council on Thursday, May 2 – a 9am-4:30pm budget work session means that, with any luck, they’ll adjourn before dark. Not so next week, May 9, when they’ll be revisiting Austin Energy governance (second reading) and short-term rental regs, and Mayor Leffingwell plans to discuss leasing Austin-Bergstrom International Airport…
Trash Dance
The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.
