Cover Story
Medicine Men
The Band of Heathens’ collective mojo
The Ficklish Bone
Bryan Poyser debuts a new short as part of USA’s the Character Project
Rep. Rodriguez on Senate Redistricting
Are Texans with Spanish surnames all the same?
De-Registering Romeo and Juliet
Modest reform to sex offender laws goes to guv
‘Austin Chronicle’ Uncovered 5-13
The color of fire
Party Over Here!
Tort reform crew moving into House members Lounge
Watson Says 4-Way Travis Split Unnecessary
Senator submits own map that keeps most of Austin in Dist. 14
Senate Redistricting Chops Up Travis County
Austin split four ways in proposed map
Another Wrongful Identification And No End In Sight
Another man goes free in Dallas
The Lotions Rub It In at Steamboat
Reggae favorites the Lotions get funky for the Steamboat Reunion
Winning the Future, Part One
Young writers incite local shindig
Making Mjolnir Out of a WiiMote
Local game developers Red Fly talk ‘Thor’
Wednesday Rewind
Los Lonely Boys, Pure X, Fresh Millions plug in
Check This Action
The LeRoi Brothers at 30
TDH: 5/11/11
Real talk on politics and race at council work session
Rain Dance
Fleet Foxes wets the sky at a sold-out Stubb’s.
Boogie 4 Stu
Ben Waters’ boogie for Rolling Stones sideman Ian Stewart
‘I am Not a Problem That Must be Handled’
The speech that reveals the agony of the sanctuary city bill
Let Your Feet Do The Talking
Donate those barely-worn shoes from the closet floor to someone in need
No Sanctuary
Sanctuary city bill set to pass House today
Analyzing the Texans Draft: Part 1
In what will be remembered as the ‘Phillips draft’
TDH: 5/10/11
On Council agenda: Historic tax abatements, Holly decommission & more
Last Day of Early Voting
Turnout low, strongest in West Lake Hills
Budget Busters or Busted Budget
Conference committee to close $11 billion gap
TDH: 5/9/11
Fundraising reports in competitive Place 3 race
Austin Rockin’ 5/9
Live music handicapping around town on FOX 7
After Bin Laden
Local experts discuss how one raid reshapes the world
House Grinds to Halt
Will quorate rules scupper GOP agenda?
Know Your Enemy: Nashville
Round Rock takes on the Sounds
Roller Derby Update 5/7/11
Small skaters, small wheels, big trip
Over the Wall With Will Sergeant
Rob yaks with Will Sergeant of Echo and the Bunnymen
This Week’s Waste of Time
A free (and kind of broken) game to play
The Magnificent Six
Local stores prep for Free Comic Book Day
Follow Me Down
The Ladies have it: New music
Quote of the Week
“Geronimo EKIA” – University of Texas journalism graduate and Vice Admiral William McRaven, confirming via code word to President Barack Obama that Osama bin Laden was killed in action
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Sinatra loved electric trains, right-handed products kill left-handed people, etc.
Day Trips
Dude, Sweet Chocolate isn’t your typical neighborhood candy store
Letters at 3AM: Miss Beaufort
‘If you’re to be a writer, you must write every day,’ said Miss Beaufort
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, May 5-12
New in Print
A mutilated body on a beach sends an elementary school teacher into a tailspin
Gay Place
Communication with Austin Pride is a two-way street
A Splash of Fun for Cinco de Mayo
Make some drink-os for Cinco!
New in Print
A dark horse for pre-summer beach reading
Live Shots
Austin Psych Fest 4 Seaholm Power Plant, April 29-May 1 “We’re doing this for the city of Austin,” proclaimed Black Angels frontman Alex Maas toward midnight on Sunday inside Austin’s decommissioned power plant. After three consecutive days/nights headquartered at the 60-year-old concrete bunker and almost as many acts to match that double digit, the Black…
Live Shots
Lauryn Hill Stubb’s, May 1 “Long time no see,” deadpanned Lauryn Hill, striding onstage at Stubb’s on an unusually chilly night. After conquering the pop world with her sensational solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998, the singer chose motherhood over music and has lived a famously private life. The rust showed, beginning…
Traffic Jam? Call Management.
New alliance forms to address mobility issues Downtown
TV Eye
News of the bin Laden killing stirs up a mix of emotions
Live Shots
Arcade Fire, Explosions in the Sky Backyard, May 3 “We call ourselves lucky,” prefaced guitarist Munaf Rayani at a sold-out Backyard on Tuesday night. “Everyone else calls us Explosions in the Sky.” Schmillion lucked out as well, the local teens landing this dream gig even if it was missed by most due to traffic and…
Hitting the Brakes on Rolling Blackouts
Can electric cars help keep the grid going?
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar packs away his trunk
Echotone
This locally made documentary looks at the city of Austin through the eyes of its working musicians.
Pride Goeth to the Fall
Pride parade postponed
Headlines
� Early voting is under way for three City Council contests, with turnout predictably underwhelming so far. Election day is Saturday, May 14; early voting runs through May 10. For the latest campaign consternation, visit Election Central at austinchronicle.com/elections. � City Council forgoes a regular meeting today (Thursday, May 5), convening instead for yet another…
‘The Dudleys!: A Family Game’
Video games fuse with live theatre with a little help from Tito’s
Fast Five
Those renegade street racers reassemble for the fifth installment in the franchise, this time in scenic Rio de Janeiro.
Longhorns for Laborers
Is Longhorn clothing made in sweatshops?
Developing a Holly Hobby
Getting to the bottom of the bid-price drop
Blanton Museum of Art
After two years heading UT’s art museum, the director leaves it for the classroom
Hoodwinked Too!: Hood vs. Evil
Back for another installment is this rude animated riff on Red Riding Hood and other fairy tales.
Latest Map ‘Looks Like a Whirlpool’
Doggett accuses GOP of fracturing Travis County district boundaries
Keep the Meals Turning
Meals on Wheels and More in need of donations, volunteers
Miró Quartet
The acclaimed string ensemble’s second violinist of 15 years takes her leave
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night
Brandon Routh stars as this film’s titular paranormal investigator.
SBOE Map Dilutes Austin Vote
Proposed State Board of Education boundaries would still deflect local influence
City Hall Hustle: It’s Not Easy Being Single
For the seventh time … the SMD devil is in the details
Arts Review
Both versions of Albee’s two-man confrontation deserve to be seen and in tandem
The Beaver
Jodie Foster directs Mel Gibson in this odd family drama.
Women Can’t Win for Losing
New bill has self-destruct mechanism for Women’s Health Program
Point Austin: Race-off
Tovo’s Place 3 council campaign gets off to a dubious start
Arts Review
This black comedy delivers everything you expect from a Hyde Park Theatre show
Jumping the Broom
This urban family rom-com actually has something interesting to say about race and romance.
The Road Against Hate
The Hurtado murders measure the distance Austin and Texas must travel
Bill of the Week
Giving yacht buyers a reason to rock
Restaurant Review
Get in on this hit early
Arts Review
What might have been a night of dry British music was instead delightfully fresh
Something Borrowed
Kate Hudson and Ginnifer Goodwin co-star in this kicky portrait of narcissism unbridled.
The Common Law
Protest High Property Taxes
Eastside Art Spaces Under Siege?
Code crackdown on eclectic studio space
Food Artist at Work
Great bites for pork enthusiasts
There Be Dragons
Roland Joffé wrote and directed this drama set during the Spanish Civil War in which one of the protagonists is Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá.
Event Menu
Raise a glass to Ma, or drink bourbon and watch the ponies
Public Ed’s Future Hangs in Balance
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week, but you’d never know it at the Lege
A Band Apart
Colin Brooks Chippin’ Away at the Promised Land Brooks’ 2002 debut smooths his tougher roots impulses with reaching polished guitar tones. Since it was recorded in New Mexico and New York, shades of jazz crouch in the edges of “Nobody” and “Show Me the Way,” while his cover of Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” manages to…
Restaurant Review
All-City is a cut above
Thor
Marvel Comics’ muscle-bound mook with delusions of demi-godhood is well-played by Chris Hemsworth.
Go Into the Light
Jodie Foster on striking a balance between lightness and darkness in The Beaver
City Budget Meetings
Departmental budget presentations continue
More Than Just a Giggle-O
The Ladies Are Funny Festival brings the distaff laffs and more
Off the Record
Across a Wire: Okkervil River and Nakia hit prime time
Hobo With a Shotgun
Though it’s a great title, this Rutger Hauer movie is an unfocused throwback to Seventies exploitation films.
Food-o-File
A grill big enough for Texas, some morsels for Mother’s Day, and other food news
AFD’s Volunteer Hire Department
AFD recruitment efforts not unlike speed dating
Into the West
Kelly Reichardt re-creates the hazards of the Oregon Trail in Meek’s Cutoff
Page Two: The Suburbs
Growing up with Phoebe Snow, whose presence and music transcended the ordinary
Meek’s Cutoff
The epic and the elementary combine in Kelly Reichardt’s Western survivalist tale that stars Michelle Williams.
A Song of Skid Row
AFS Documentary Tour: On the Bowery
Soccer Watch
Crunch time in Euro football
The Hightower Report
Won’t Take Nuke for an Answer; Drat. Oiled Again.
Oops!
Last week, in a graph (“Spring Council Elections,” News, April 29) depicting highest and lowest voter turnout in each decade over the last 90 years, the final two years (2000 and 2005) were plotted incorrectly such that the highest turnout of the last decade appeared lower than the lowest turnout. Also last week, in “No…
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
May 14 City Council elections
Texas Ski Ranch Cablestock
Wakeboarding, skateboarding, and bikinis, oh my!
Luv Doc Recommends: Undie Run
By now you’ve probably had quite a few Osama Bin Laden death video links posted on your Facebook wall. You know the one: It was censored by the Obama administration due to its level of violence? Well, curiosity might not have killed the cat but it certainly fueled a fairly successful Facebook scam, didn’t it?…
