Cover Story
Psychotic Reaction
Golden Boys ringleader John Wesley Coleman indulges his compulsion
Just Lose, Baby
Texas Volleyball’s winning streak makes it hard to find flaws
This Week’s Waste of Time
There’s time to be wasted playing Independent Games Festival entries
The Daily Hustle: 11/18/10 (Update)
City Council meets today
Gay Place Goes to Comic Con Austin
What? Gays who like comics, card games, and roleplay? Shut yo’ mouth!
You Want to Do What? Where?
Internal Pelvic Floor Therapy gives new meaning to inner journeys
‘Chronicle’ Cover Revealed 11/19/2010
VRRRROOOOOMMM!
Stars Skate by Wolves in Huge Win
Records fall in 8-2 victory over Chicago
The Wizardly Way
Human Centipede, Abe Sapien and more speak at Austin Comic Con
Wednesday Rewind
Another local highlight reel with Spoon and Matador at 21
Reefer Roundup
Drugs in the news
Son of Old Guy Radio
New discs from Steve Wynn, Whitey Morgan, and more
The Daily Hustle: 11/17/10
Re-election announcements from Morrison, Riley & Shade
To The ‘Lighthouse’
Susan Cowsill’s new CD illuminates loss and growth
Mo’ ’Mo Music: The Return of Girl Talk
The mash-up maestro returns with a new album.
DJ BJ’s List for Wed., Nov. 17
It’s still a G6 week.
theGlitoris’ Top 5 Music Videos for the Week of November 16
Listing off the Top 5 music videos: Chromeo, Ratatat, and more.
‘Mo Music: Best of 2010 Countdown: Lindstrom + Christabelle
Rob and Dandy prance to Lindstrom + Christabelle
News of the Day: 11/17/10
Welcome to our new collection of news stories
The Daily Hustle: 11/16/10
City Council Agenda 101
Slop Culture
Human Eye crashes on Red River
Why, I Must Confess!
Bedpost Confessions blends the literary and the erotic.
At DEA, Business As Usual
And more of the same if Leonhart is confirmed as agency head
Jeffs Headed Back to Texas?
Not yet – if he can help it
Stations of the Voice
Vox populi: Levon Helm, Ray Lamontagne & Secret Sisters reviewed
Lifeline
A Harry Nilsson doc asks a simple question
Austin Rockin’ 11/15/10
Live music handicapping on FOX 7 for the week
The Daily Hustle: 11/15/10
No time like the present(ation)
News of the Day: 11/15/10
Welcome our new collection of news stories
News AggreGAYte for the Week of Nov. 15
Catch up on the queer news beat with Gay Place
Bedside Manner: Let Freedom Ring
The latest invasion of privacy, another Chronicle bedside table.
Gay Place Trips on the Road
Galveston, New Orleans, Queer as Sh*t.
Of Bats and (Human) Centipedes
The first two days of Wizard World
Oz Clarke Picks A Few Texas Favorites (Me, Too)
More travels on ‘The Wine Roads of Texas’
Battle Chasers and Darksiders
Joe Mad talks ESRB versus Comics Code before Wizard World
Vermont Waste, Lone Star Storage
Vital vote on radioactive waste this morning
More Recycled Material From the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast
Returning favorites like recycling, Quintana and more
Evans Johns is da Bomb
Guitarist Evan Johns is honored at the Longbranch
State’s Case Hung by a Hair
New DNA testing calls into question execution of Claude Jones
Code Red
Art and music go visual on the Eastside this weekend
The Daily Hustle: 11/12/10
Remembering the homeless
Discount for Go Local Scavenger Hunt!
Cheap fun fitness for a good cause!
Gavel Hunt Is Go
GOP eats its own in House speaker struggle
Friday Blingee: NOLA Realness
We be off… to New Orleans
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Cap’n Jazz Waterloo Park, Nov. 6 The promise and peril of Fun Fun Fun Fest rests on the exhumation of erstwhile heroes, exposing what ages well and what should remain relegated to the dustbins of adolescent angst. Cap’n Jazz, performing the last show of its yearlong resurrection, tipped more toward the latter. The nostalgia evoked…
Page Two: Running With the Wild Gang
Self-proclaimed patriots don’t seem to have much love for their country, except on their own terms
Austin Gets the Geek Stamp of Approval
Wizard World Comic Con brings Lando, Lee, and the Centipede three to town
The Man From Nowhere
This ultraviolent South Korean film tells a story about an ex-con lured back into the drug trade.
Review
Chef Tyson Cole and company continue redefining ‘revelatory’ at Uchiko
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Slick Rick Waterloo Park, Nov. 6 Rocking his signature eye patch and a gold medallion the size of a dinner plate, Slick Rick performed every track from 1988’s The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, although not in the order they appear on the album. “The Ruler’s Back” served as a fitting introduction, but here’s guessing…
Austin Energy’s Wrinkle in Time
Early GreenChoice customers’ low rates will soon be gone with the wind
Massively Multiplayer Partying
SXSW ScreenBurn and the Chronicle host Game On Austin
Review
Streat struggles to execute a broad menu but still hits some sweet spots
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Dâm-Funk/RJD2 Waterloo Park, Nov. 6 It’s never clear what you’ll get when Dâm-Funk is on the bill. Sometimes DJ and sometimes Master Blaster band leader, the Los Angeles ambassador of boogie was a bit of both on Saturday, performing as a one-man band at the helm of four turntables, drum machines, a strap-on keyboard, and…
House Districts 47 and 48: Suburbs Flex Muscle
Anti-Obama sentiment motivated Republican voters
TV Eye: No Matter Where You Go, There You Are
Conan returns to late-night television
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Kylesa Waterloo Park, Nov. 7 Laura Pleasants is a badass. While her Kylesa co-leader Phillip Cope sports Southern trucker garb and hollers through echo effects in Grand Canyon modulations, Pleasants bellows hard as her tight Black Flag T-shirt and gold Les Paul. Bassist Corey Barhorst smiled through his longhair headbanging, and double drummers did the…
Prop. 1 Voters: ‘What’s in It for Me?’
Central city voters turned the mobility bond election
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Pregnant Puritans, potatoes, and more
Review
John Wesley Coleman Bad Lady Goes to Jail (Goner) John Wesley Coleman churns out garage rock the same way a seasoned alcoholic passes a field sobriety test – bleary-eyed and at relative ease, but never quite in a straight line. Surely no shortage of bourbon and Lone Star beer fueled the latest solo effort from…
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Jean Grae/Pharoahe Monch Waterloo Park, Nov. 7 “If you in the front row and you ain’t gonna act like you in the front row, get the fuck out the front row.” Rappers are known for giving a lot of instructions, but few get more crowd participation than Jean Grae. Flanked by Brooklyn soulstress Mela Machinko,…
City Expands Recycling Reach
Office and multifamily complexes will have a home for paper, cans, and bottles
The Hightower Report
GOP Blocks Mine Safety Efforts; and Pulp Nonfiction
Pies for the Holidays
Area bakeries, restaurants, and market bakers are gearing up to create delicious sweets to grace the holiday table
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Polvo Waterloo Park, Nov. 7 Can a band become a jam version of itself in its second act? That’s what 1990s Chapel Hill, N.C., guitar heroes Polvo returned as Sunday night. Or re-tuned. Polvo’s four albums between 1992 and 1997 were predicated on whiplash tempos and intricate shredding, but “Lazy Comet” off 1993 sophomore landmark…
Fluoridation Under the Microscope
Conflicting opinions on the safety of what’s in our water
Event Menu
There’s something for everyone this week, even if you don’t want to leave the house
Food-o-File
Austin foodies welcome a new KOOP show, a new specialty spice shop, and a new Food Code ordinance
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
The Descendents Waterloo Park, Nov. 7 “I’m actually relieved I can still do it,” grinned Milo Aukerman, almost to himself, as the Descendents settled back onstage for a three-song encore, which included one-second “magnum opus” and life concept “All.” That the Reagan-era SoCal punk institution, all but dormant since a mid-1990s reunion and remaining so…
Planting a Place in the Shade
Volunteers help Pease Park turn new leaf
A Chocolate Focus at Fête Accompli
Take a trip to chocolate land
East Austin Studio Tour
The city’s autumn marathon of art covers work by some 300 artists in 175 venues
Day Trips
The White House Cafe and Saloon is a veritable time capsule with its pressed tin ceiling, arched windows, and wooden floor that creaks with age
Putting the Brakes on Congress Bus Stops
Citing accident rate, Cap Metro retools Downtown stops
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar runs down what’s trashy in the ATX
Gay Place
More gay in the A, that’s what we say
Point Austin: Fed Up Yet?
Republican politicians propose pulling Texas out of Medicaid
Dogtooth
This willfully perverse Greek drama is a far cry from the Hellenic classics.
Arts Review
Palindrome makes Albee’s old/new play remarkable, insightful, and unsettling
Headlines
� City Council is off this week, but we sort through its recent actions requiring citywide recycling (see “City Expands Recycling Reach”) and council’s consideration of a new Convention Center hotel (see “City Hall Hustle”). Council next convenes Nov. 18, for its third-to-last meeting of the year. � Elections for three City Council seats are…
For Colored Girls
Tyler Perry tackles Ntozake Shange’s beloved play.
Arts Review
A tremendous, memorable production that even an opera novice will love
2010 B. Iden Payne Awards
Four shows took home nearly half the honors at this year’s ceremony
City Hall Hustle: Cheap at Any Price
How to get richer while getting poorer
Morning Glory
Well-acted and ingratiating, this rom-com starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, and Diane Keaton should still be tarter than it is.
Arts Review
The artist’s fine technique and odd juxtapositions are enchanted and enchanting
Oscar Brockett
Remembering the world’s foremost theatre historian
Naked City
Victory in Defeat After the years of protests, testy neighborhood meetings, and a bitter lawsuit, the controversial Walmart at Northcross quietly opened last week to minimal fanfare. A few ads popped up on Facebook, and people started heading in to shop. Responsible Growth for Northcross, the organization that filed the lawsuit to block what was…
Boxing Gym
Famed documentary maker Frederick Wiseman directs his camera on Richard Lord’s Austin boxing gym.
Good Listening
Meryl Streep speaks on the key to acting and its importance to life
Off the Record
Fun Fun Fun Fest kicks up dust at Waterloo Park while Lyle Lovett closes down Studio 6A
Res Publica
Thursday11 CONDOLEEZZA RICE discusses her Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family. Booksigning wristbands are available starting at 9am. 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. NAVIGATING A POST-FACT WORLD Slate tech columnist Farhad Manjoo speaks on the ideology-driven modern media landscape. 7pm. Peter T. Flawn Academic Center Auditorium, UT campus, 773-0673. Free. www.communication.utexas.edu/students/srfellowevents.html. PLANETARIUM FUNDRAISER…
Welcome to the Rileys
Though the story is preposterous, terrific performances by James Gandolfini, Kristen Stewart, and Melissa Leo save the day.
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Waterloo Park, Nov. 5 Possibly even “Weird Al” Yankovic is surprised he’s still relevant, but the Fun Fun Fun Fest crowd Friday night ranged from toddlers to tweens and their parents. Folks love parody and popular culture, and that’s what the 51-year-old Californian synthesizes best. The accordion maestro’s opening pop starlet medley…
University of Texas Basketball
UT men’s and women’s basketball teams start their seasons with predictably impressive results
Golden Moments
Golden Boys discography
Cool It
Based on the book by Danish environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, this documentary approaches the problems caused by global warming without panic.
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Os Mutantes Waterloo Park, Nov. 6 Sérgio Dias Baptista was only 15 when he and his older brother debuted Os Mutantes in their native São Paulo in 1966. Early next decade, Arnaldo Baptista had become a psychedelic casualty, while singer Rita Lee flew the original trio’s coop for solo obscurity. Beatles-esque Brazilian pop, dubbed “Tropicália”…
Football Watch
Phillips out; will Gilbert be next?
A History of Violence
AFS Documentary Tour presents Boxing Gym
Tamara Drewe
Stephen Frears directs this romantic romp that combines the bedroom farce and the pastoral and stars Gemma Arterton.
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
The Gories Waterloo Park, Nov. 6 “Witty stage banter has never been our strong point,” stalled Gories guitarist/vocalist Mick Collins during the first of several technical difficulties. “But then neither was our musicianship.” The influential mid-1980s garage rock trio was once minimalist in every regard – negligible musical experience, no bassist or kick drum, and…
Soccer Watch
Horns, Hilltoppers hit playoffs; more Aztex fallout
On the Seventh Day
Judith Shulevitz considers the Sabbath at the Austin Jewish Book Fair
Howl
Howl is a must-see for Beat freaks and poetry geeks but might not be an enriching experience for newcomers to the work of Allen Ginsberg.
Luv Doc Recommends: Game On Austin
If you’re looking to get laid, there’s probably an app for that, it just won’t be as good as the real thing. Building a program that simulates a pan flute isn’t exactly the same as building one that stimulates your skin flute. This may come as a shock, but there are already several masturbation apps…
