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Like a Hurricane
Harnessing Lauren Larson’s live hurricane on Ume’s new Phantoms
Happy Thanksgiving from Eli Roth!
Trailer for his fictional (but not for long) film
Drafty on the Flat Track
New Texas Rollergirls roster picks mix rookies, transfers, retirees
Coffee Sergeants’ Spencer Berry Dies
Bassist for the indie rock favorites passes away
Court Issues Congressional Map
Updated: Democrats respond to new boundaries
‘The NFL Beat’: Real Talk With Amos Lee
On ‘Shady’ McCoy, PPR vs. non-PPR, and more
In Defense of the Forever Lazy
This footie-pajama for the whole family inspires Laura Walters
Time Travel Is Possible… Texas Renaissance Festival
Scott bravely travels to a world of turkey legs and hot elves.
Merlin works? Gandalf goes on vacation?
DJ Manateemann warps space and time!
Perry is a Margin of Error
New Hampshire polls place gov on two percent
Doyle Bramhall Tribute at Antone’s
Musicians gather Monday to honor the Austin R&B legend
From the Vaults
Kristen Stewart and Kirsten Dunst star on Austin screens this week
Fallen Warriors Remind of Roosevelt Leaks
Victory in adversity
Stop When the Red Lights Flash
Review of Green Day’s surprise Red 7 show last night
Re-Re-Redrawing the Delegation
Federal panel split on how to cut Travis House seats
‘Ice’ and Slice
Carnival o’ Pizza and Rick Moody on the horizon
Recommendable Boxes Ranked by Flight
(Prices vary by as much as $5 a box depending on stores and sales.) Pinot Grigio Pinot Evil ($23) Bota Box ($18) Chardonnay Big House Unchained Naked Chardonnay ($20) Bota Box ($18) Black Box Wines ($24) White Blends Jack Tone Vineyards White Wine ($20) Big House White ($22) Red Blends Jack Tone Vineyards Red Wine…
Fiends With Benefits
The art in ‘Monster Show 6’ celebrates the horrifying, deliciously so
Morton Prosecutor Wrote the Book on Crime
Judge Ken Anderson as a prosecutor leapt to judgment on Morton
Arts Review
Steven Dietz’s new adaptation of Schnitzler’s Reigen is solid and intriguing
Shorn of Plenty
Surviving Haircuts by Children
Formula One on the Brink?
Work stopped while F1 factions feud
Arts Review
This group show boasts striking art worth leaving the Eastside for Hyde Park
Letters at 3am: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 2
You cannot arrest a population
Gay Place
Nuts: not just for trucks
Hancock Not Up to PAR(D)
The Community Engagement Process has begun
Arts Review
While maybe not Sam Shepard’s best, the play has worthwhile material to chew on
Game Changer
How Austin’s indie gaming scene got cooking as Juegos Rancheros
All Over Creation: For Those Who Took Us In
Raising a glass to the generation that gave us a place in this community
Tire Slasher Convicts Himself
Determined to defend himself, the Hyde Park tire slasher gets 10 years
After a Fashion
The monster is not a monstrosity. In fact, Your Style Avatar is putting it on his wall.
Making Love and War
Love is a battlefield in the comedies of remarriage
Austin Creative Alliance
Marcy Hoen’s work for the ACA has won her the executive director gig permanently
Victory for Vincent in APA Election
Vincent wins in 554-345 vote
Texas Platters
Charanga Cakewalk El Brown Recluse (Cosmica) As third album overall and first in five years for Charanga Cakewalk, El Brown Recluse takes its double entendre to heart. A multi-instrumentalist of all-star repute, Michael Ramos is the CC moniker’s piñata-maker with a baseball bat, and El Brown Recluse swats it out of the park. Loteria de…
To Preserve and Project
Moving image archivists in action
Austin Playhouse
The theatre company makes a temporary home for itself in an industrial tent
Perry’s Poll Dance
Our governor’s free fall is almost too painful to watch
Texas Platters
Flesh Lights Muscle Pop (Twistworthy) Named for a torch-shaped rubber vagina, Austin’s Flesh Lights pungently encapsulate the sorry state of sexless males with this 12-song scuzz-punk meditation. While the Motards/Chumps are clear hometown antecedents, the trio’s loco-motive mash of distorted guitar yaps played out against dramatically garbled shout-along vox and caffeinated surf beats has a…
Beer Flights
Local brews make good
Day Trips
The Franklin County Museum holds a treasure trove of artifacts and stories
Rick Perry Death Watch
Another Execution for Texas
Texas Platters
Muchos Backflips! Curtains I Tell You (Do for It) Scan your ticket and climb aboard this wild ride channeling Edgard Varèse by way of Frank Zappa and Mike Patton. Muchos Backflips! specializes in mostly instrumental avant-rock incensed with cinematic jazz-creep horns skittering though Herb Alpert-like bullfights, Ennio Morricone spaghetti Westerns, and Tom Scott cop shows.…
Food-o-File
A German street-food fave makes its way to Austin
UT Women’s Basketball
Ashley Gayle should become school�s all-time block leader this Sunday
2011 Thanksgiving Feasts Around Town
Note: These listings are from 2011. For updated information, check out our Thanksgiving Dining page. Hotels The Driskill Hotel The famous brunch tradition continues, with multiple seatings between 10am and 2:30pm. This is a popular event, so be sure to reserve early. Downstairs, the 1886 Cafe & Bakery will offer a seasonal menu for lunch…
Texas Platters
The Pheromoans Bar-Rock (Monofonus Press) This locally labeled UK quintet specializes in difficult listening that demands engagement on its own warped terms. Proffering eerie, pitch-shifted vocals against a disorienting backdrop of sparse guitar/keyboard interplay, the Pheromoans reside in the vicinity of avant-punk and denuded psychedelia. Opener “Let’s Meet Our Captains” scrawls a jagged line in…
Food Events
Feed yourself and your community with these foodie events
Soccer Watch
Aztex introduce Paul Dalglish as head coach, and more
Texas Platters
Palit Popt (Pecan Crazy) Led by multitalented visual artist/songwriter Lance McMahan, Palit taps a Shimmy Disc-inspired strain of mutant sleepwalk pop from the outside looking in. Most songs on Popt are catchy at heart, but forlorn vocal delivery and melancholic shoebox arrangements undermine their conventionality. The pleasantly tweaked “Pirates” resonates like a muffled Bowie/Eno outtake,…
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro: Lives Well Spent
Life cycles of those who sold their souls for music
Page Two: Fatty and Mabel
On writing and muses in the bright, fresh morning
Immortals
There’s lots of numbingly choreographed chaos and lascivious bloodletting in this megabudget picture about the Greek gods by the visual stylist Tarsem Singh.
Texas Platters
Rick Broussard’s Two Hoots & a Holler Come and Take It (Rick Broussard Records) The phrase “come and take it” is experiencing a rebirth, so it’s no surprise that Rick Broussard co-opted it as title for the only instrumental on his new CD. It’s a muscle-bound rocker, one of many shades of roots rock he…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dr Pepper was caffeine-free until 1917, and more tasty facts
Point Austin: Suburban Nightmare
PromiseLand West amphitheatre plans drown out neighborhood opposition
Jack and Jill
Two Adam Sandlers for the price of one? And Al Pacino?! It’s still not worth it.
Texas Platters
Graham Weber Women The Graham Weber of Women is a desperate man, broken and beaten and confronting all of his own excuses. “I’m searching for escape from all the things I do to keep myself immune,” the local singer-songwriter declares on his fourth LP. Weber’s a master of narrative and image in his songs, capturing…
Designed To Fail
As Pearce may face another repurposing, AISD gets excited about single-sex schools
Civics 101
Civic events calendar, Nov. 17-22
Happy Feet Two
Some penguins march; these animated penguins dance – and sing – just like they did the last time around, only with a little less novelty.
Texas Platters
Will Sexton Move the Balance Although he never really went away, here’s a signal that Will Sexton is back. He suffered a mild stroke late in 2009, after which the homegrown singer-songwriter realized he could remember very little of his music. Move the Balance was initially issued early in 2010 but was hardly noticed at…
Quote of the Week
“I will not allow taxpayer dollars to be placed at risk.” – Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, on the precarious status of the Austin Formula One race and its $25 million annual state subsidy, as promoters and backers feuded, legal questions mounted, and track construction was halted indefinitely
Into the Abyss
In his latest documentary, Werner Herzog tackles the subject of the death penalty in Texas.
Restaurant Review
This new Lavaca Street restaurant specializes in fresh, uncomplicated food
Quip ‘n Slide
How’s your 20/20 vision?
The Hightower Report
The hype about border violence is a big political lie
Melancholia
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier brings his vision of human annihilation to the screen in this visually stunning and thematically rich film.
Sipping From the Spigot, Vol. 2
The second Great Boxed-Wine Challenge, plus a very important lesson
So You Think You Can Paint?
Reality TV-style art competition returns for Season Two
Headlines
› It rained Tuesday! Hallelujah! › City Council takes a break from official meetings until Dec. 8 (with a work session Dec. 6), when the various amendments of the Downtown Austin Plan are expected to return. For more, see “Beside the Point.” › While council rests, the 2012 Charter Revision Committee will be busy today,…
Rockstar
A young man in Delhi dreams of becoming a rock idol but meets only ridicule in this Bollywood film and seeks to correct the problem.
Our 2011 Top 10 Boxed Wines
1) Jack Tone Vineyards Red Wine 17.2 2) Big House Unchained Naked Chardonnay 16.6 3) Patch Block Merlot 16.3 4) Jack Tone Vineyards White Wine 15.7 5) FishEye Shiraz 14.3 6) Bota Box Chardonnay 14.0 7) Big House Red 13.5 8) Bota Box Cabernet Sauvignon 12.4 9) Pinot Evil Pinot Grigio 11.9 10) La Vieille…
Five Brenner Tips To Spark Your EAST Experience
Top stops, cheap art, and good eats on the 2011 East Austin Studio Tour
Beside the Point: We Love Us!
Just ask anybody – Austinites approve of Austin
Luv Doc Recommends: East Austin Studio Tour
Any artist who can afford a studio in East Austin must be doing pretty well, right? Those digs ain’t cheap. If you’re doing the EASTside shuffle this weekend, don’t expect kegs of PBR and Cheez Whiz on saltines – well, unless it’s being served ironically, which is difficult to prove without seeming like a huge…
