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A Declaration of Independence
Zavala Elementary and Principal Sean Fox are succeeding at going their own way
The Road to 10-1 — New Names
Three More for District 4, One for District 3
Kat Roast: A Beneficial Beatdown
Ramzinski’s funniest friends gang up to add insult to injuries
Estate Sale Roundup: May 15-19
Sales may be few this week, but the pickings are hardly slim.
Summer Fun: Desert Island No-No’s
Which musicians NOT to get stranded with
Gelato World Tour in Austin
Italians on a mission to share gelato with the world
A Characterless Tweeter
Two Bit Art eschews typing for drawing
Eels = E = Mark Oliver Everett
Naked ‘Cautionary Tales’ Friday at the Paramount
The AggreGAYtor: May 15
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Council Preview: Where There’s Smoke
AFD hiring consent decree under fire by AFA
Mimi Pond Knows From Waitressing
And dishes it up perfectly in her new ‘Over Easy’ graphic novel
Summer Fun: Jean Grae on the San Marcos River
Femcee summer floats of days gone by
Forever Fest Snags ‘Fault in Our Stars’
Sneak preview plus Q&A with John Green simulcast nationally
The AggreGAYtor: May 14
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Summer Fun: Into the Mystic of High Road Pool
Plunging back in time with my iPod
Summer Fun: Texas Surf, Turf, and Tequila
Kenny Braun celebrated the release of his ‘Surf Texas’ this Saturday
The AggreGAYtor: May 13
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Charles Kleinert Indicted for Manslaughter
Former APD detective released on bond
The AggreGAYtor: May 12
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Summer Fun Is Coming: Chill Out
Draw on our past years’ special issues to inspire your Summer Fun
Hall Gets Hooked by Lawmakers
Transparency committee moves forward to impeach UT regent
Pachanga Recap: ¡Otra, Otra!
Compressed to one day, the Latino Fest packs Fiesta Gardens
More in the 10-1 Mix
City Council candidates are multiplying like …
Homophobe! Homophobe! Homophobe!
Your AggreGAYtor begins hir search for a kinder, gentler word
Godwin’s Not Dead
Louie Gohmert: LGBT activists like Nazis
Chris Tellez Says: “Shit’s Golden!”
At his stand-up comedy showcase tonight, anyway.
‘You Come at The Queens, You Best Not Miss’
Last year’s Texas Rollergirls champs face their heirs apparent
John Carpenter Lit Up By El Rey
Legendary director first guest in “The Director’s Chair”
Catching up with 10-1
Candidates queuing up at sound of the money bell
The ‘Revolution’ Will Not Be Televised
NBC cancels locally shot show
Slews of Brews
Hops & Grain to celebrate American Craft Beer Week
Where The Girls Go/ATX: Mix It Up Edition
Your best bets at finding the ladiez and friendz this weekend
Great Austin Food Race Extends Entry Deadline
Teams have until Sunday, May 11 to register for foodie scavenger hunt
From Prisoner to Reformer
A Q&A with ‘Orange Is the New Black’ author Piper Kerman
HAAM’s Corporate Battle of the Bands
Working stiffs rock for musicians health care network
Patterson Tars and Feathers Patrick as Chicken Hawk
GOP primary run-off drags up war service and draft dodging claims
Kickstart Your Weekend: Get Stephen Romano Back on His Feet
Local author needs your help after getting hit by a truck
Thongs for the Memories
Registration for the Thong Jog kicks off in high style
The AggreGAYtor: May 9
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
The Luv Doc: The Greatest Love of All
Dear Lovedoc (sic), My roommate is a liar. He says he never masturbates and has never masturbated ever. That’s impossible, right? He’s 22. – Calling BS You’re right BS, that’s pretty unbelievable, but not impossible. Is your roommate’s name Justin Bieber by any chance? My bet is that Justin started getting laid shortly after puberty…
Neighbors
Lively performances from Seth Rogen and others brighten an otherwise perfunctory revenge comedy.
Fed Up
Most everything we’ve been taught about eating and exercising is wrong, and Katie Couric breaks it down for us.
Fading Gigolo
John Turturro directs himself and Woody Allen in this movie that gently cruises but but never drives it home.
Jodorowsky’s Dune
What’s tantalizing but never was? This Fantastic Fest award-winner talks with the famed surrealist and others about their plans for this aborted project.
Exhibitionism
Wura-Natasha Ogunji: ‘Your heart is clean’ MASS Gallery, 507 Calles #108 www.massgallery.org Through May 31 Wura-Natasha Ogunji’s “Your heart is clean” immerses itself into the heart of Lagos, Nigeria. In addition to calling Austin home, Ogunji lives in Lagos and has documented the landscape and cultural flow of the city. She studied the implications of…
‘Play Ball’
Allison Orr finds dance at the diamond, choreographing baseball moves in a tribute to Downs Field
Quote of the Week
“At this point, it’s all just election time.” – Travis County Election Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir on the elections on May 10 and 27, the potential June run-off, and the November general election.
Exhibitionism
Dulcey and Roxy at City Hall Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/761-3247 www.breakingstring.com Through May 17 Running time: 2 hr., 10 min. Imagine a death knell ringing in your ears, one that’s heard by no one else. You know from its tolling that catastrophe is imminent, death and destruction certain. But how do you…
Council: The Budget Starts Buzzing
Vested interests on the dais
Dolce Neve
Small-batch, traditional gelato inspires devotees
Austin Critics Table Awards 2014
Nominees announced, with top honors to a ‘Vibrator,’ a fixed ‘John,’ and a merry ‘Roll’
Food-O-File
Food truck musings, Citywide 86’d finalists, and finito for two Italian eateries
Vested Interests on the Dais
A new vested rights ordinance – also known as “grandfathering” rights and formerly known as the Project Duration Ordinance – passed on first reading last week, and is set to return to City Council May 22. Until then, there could be heavy lobbying by the Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA) on one side and…
Food Events
May 10-14
Eighth Inmate of the Year Set to Die
Eighth inmate of the year set to die
The Good Eye – Clothes-Minded: An Eyeful of Austin Fashion Week
Austin Fashion Week comes to a clothes
The Hightower Report
In death, Margaret Mary Vojtko reaches out to the Pope
Pushing Air
Game audio design firm GL33k sounds off on whale calls, light sabers, and sweet jams
May Elections: Twice the Fun
Double election strains Travis County resources
Life Is Sweet
Vilma Mazaite stands before a sea of onlookers, preparing her exegesis on wines by female winemakers in a seminar called Tour de Femme. “I don’t want to start a feminist debate,” she tells the attendees of the 2014 Austin Food & Wine Festival, “but it’s important to showcase the good work that female winemakers in…
Limón y Sal
Pachanga Fest headliner Julieta Venegas – Mexico’s Feist?
LaV
A new contender for Austin’s best restaurant
More Pachanga Preview
Blurbing Pachanga Fest
Return to the WEST
The third time is, as they say, the charm, which is just added incentive to dive into WEST over the next two weekends, as this will be the third round of the West Austin Studio Tour. The first two proved this spring sibling to autumn’s East Austin Studio Tour to offer a comparable wealth of…
Can Project Connect Connect?
Advisory group receives preferred corridor recommendation
Soccer Watch
Aztex Season Preview
Playback: Headhunters Closes
Headhunters shuts down, Psych Fests both successful and contentious, and Wayne ‘The Train’ Hancock recuperates while Sons of Fathers call it a day
Day Trips
Take a bite out of boredom at Gator Country outside of Beaumont
APD Brass Shifts Up, Down, Across
Musical chairs at Downtown HQ
Gay Place
How could we not get behind a fun run that features thong, thong, thong, thong, thongs?
High Waters: Questions at Onion Creek
Residents still frustrated six months after flood
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Jimmy Stewart once gave Olivia de Haviland flying lessons. The global average consumption of soda is about one can per person every five days. In the U.S., it is estimated at about one can per person each 18 hours. A can of soda contains about 2.2 grams of carbon dioxide. Out of 178 nations, the…
Point Austin: The Best of Times
Cutting a city budget easier said than done
‘Church of the Passionate Cat’
Underbelly Theatre takes you down some delightfully mean streets in its immersive noir adventure
Then There’s This: Decoding the Code
Next step: untangling 30 years of regulatory layers
International Frozen Treat Tour Stops in Austin
Local gelateria Tèo is contestant in regional competition
HOPE Rolls Out Bike-Powered Farm Stand
Farmers market takes its act on the road
Headlines
› No regular City Council meeting this week, so that Council members can begin getting into broad details of the proposed city budget – all day today, May 8 – followed by regular departmental presentations, heading toward a September vote. See “Point Austin.” › On May 2, the Project Connect Study Team presented its “locally…
Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Loop
APF’s closing hymn of feedback and distortion
Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Earthless
An axe god, drumming deity, and Rickenbacker bass to rule you all
Austin Psych Fest Live (Sunday): Kikagaku Moyo/Bo Ningen
A second Japanese twofer pilots the APF mothership
Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Temples
UK quartet’s airy psych-pop finds aid in a crescent moon
Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Bombino
African guitarist whips up a sandstorm
Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Destruction Unit
Arizona triple axe beast recalls Amphetamine Reptile Records
Austin Psych Fest Live (Saturday): Mark McGuire
Drone optimist hits it out of the park and into the river
Austin Psych Fest Live (Friday): The Zombies
Baroque-pop UK legends arrive road-tested and hardy
