From the Vaults: Reheating Old Dishes
The studios serve up a sequel and a spinoff for Thanksgiving audiences
Food-o-File: Wednesday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news, a little early
All Hail the Queen of Rural Media!
Jay Byrd brings Pat Hazell’s Kodachrome Christmas to cheery life.
Protesting the Police
Hundreds gather outside APD in wake of Ferguson ruling
Judge Rules Against DNA Testing in Reed Case
Resets the execution date for March 5
Heard at Wine and Swine
New venue was the perfect setting for porky party
The Blacker the Face
A WWE-type gimmick further devalues rap music
Film Independent Spirit Award Nominations Announced
Boyhood, Kumiko earn multiple nods
The Archive of the Patriarch
Ransom Center acquires Gabriel García Márquez papers
Easy Tiger’s Bread and Butter
David Norman talks about new expansion
UFC Fight Night Pounds the Erwin Center
Edgar dominates, but it’s a mixed night for Texas fighters
First Listen: Mrs. Glass “When the Levee Breaks”
ATX blues trio captured live at the Blackheart
Rodeo Austin Re-Enlists Dwight Yoakam
March madness at the Travis County Expo Center unveils lineup
The AggreGAYtor: November 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Private Prisons Seek Broader Markets
Latest corporate wrinkle: “Treatment Industrial Complex”
News Roundup: Immigration, Coyotes, and Convictions
Cruz continues to cavil, Council protects coyotes, and more
DVDanger: Nick Damici Sees Late Phases
Werewolves, contact lenses, and the Hap and Leonard series
Lit-urday: Inherent Vice
Pynchon’s mystery soaks in the Sixties and SoCal surf culture
Fighter Inside and Outside the Octagon
Cub Swanson talks UFC Fight Night and how MMA saved him
Cruelty-Free Produce?
Coalition of Immokalee Workers comes to Austin
The Universal: Mary Gauthier
Louisiana truthsayer plays twice at the Cactus Cafe Saturday
Food-o-File: Friday Lagniappe
A little extra Austin food news
One in a Crowd: Leslie
New doc seeks funding, plus updates on more local crowdsourcing
“So my family is in town…”
Events for Thanksgiving and beyond
Despite “Flawed” Process, SBOE Votes for Social Studies Textbooks
Vote on books falls along party lines
Where the Girls Go/ATX: The Peculiar Edition
Queertastic grrrl events this weekend, and every weekend
Empty Bowls Represent Hunger
Area potters create the vessels and chefs fill them at annual benefit
Estate Sale Roundup: November 21-23
We cover a lot of ground this week, so gas ‘er up!
Housing Authority Gets Free Google Fiber
City, Google aim to bridge digital divide
Happy Ending
Bollywood romantic comedy.
The Luv Doc: Where is Dan Savage?
Dear Luv Doc, Why isn’t Dan Savage’s column in the Chronicle? – Santorum First of all, Santorum, let me just state for the record that Dan Savage is a true gentleman, a man of letters (and words and paragraphs, even), a devoted father, and an American patriot. If I wasn’t busy mercy-killing rats out by…
Dumb and Dumber To
They’re ba-ack!!!
Beyond the Lights
A popular singer finds the courage to be herself with the help of a friendly cop.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
Katniss Everdeen goes from Hunger Games victor to emblem of the revolution
Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
Touching documentary captures Campbell’s final tour, which is made more poignant and brave because of the musician’s worsening Alzheimer’s.
The Theory of Everything
Based on Jane Hawking’s memoir about her marriage to the scientist Stephen Hawking, this film really shows what goes into a relationship.
Texas Platters
John Schooley & Walter Daniels Dead Mall Blues (12XU Records) John Schooley The Man Who Rode the Mule Around the World (Voodoo Rhythm Records) Punk vets John Schooley and Walter Daniels certainly know the blues and wide-open countrysides. For Dead Mall Blues, the former One Man Band loses electricity and gains a cohort, the garage…
Get in Line
Counter service takes its turn
Proceed With Caution
Sunset Commission looks to combine five health care agencies into one
Texas Platters
I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness Dust (Secretly Canadian) A band so bold they sealed a seven-word sentence for their name is equally blasé about between-album lag times. Dust marks the local quintet’s sophomore LP, first peep since 2006 debut Fear Is on Our Side. Again produced by Ministry’s Paul Barker, its opener “Faust”…
Into the Fold
Does Fork & Taco stand out on taco row?
Wages up in the Air
Will ABIA vendors get away with another 10 years of paying less than living wages?
Texas Platters
Israel Nash Rain Plans (Loose Music) He spent time in New York City before relocating to Dripping Springs within the past year, but Israel Nash originally hails from Missouri. That’s important because the music he makes possesses a Midwestern sensibility, with lots of wide open spaces blowing through his aural palette. Nash describes Rain Plans…
Touring the Tour
A very meta experience, guided by Heather Pesanti, senior curator of the Contemporary Austin
NLRB Settlement … Cap Metro Politics
Union President Wyatt says it’s a vindication of workers’ rights
Texas Platters
Stephen Doster Arizona (Atticus) Among a handful of Austin musicians that can rightfully be called under-appreciated, Stephen Doster should get the recognition he deserves, finally, with this masterpiece. Doster’s name might be familiar from his work with Bill Carter, Will Sexton, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith, or from compositions he’s had cut by Willie Nelson,…
Brian Willey’s EAST Tour
1) Rebecca Marino (photography) – Pump Project, 702 Shady 2) Co-Lab Projects (exhibition space) – 613 Allen 3) Binary Ontology (transmedia) – 3007 Castro 4) Jason Webb (acrylic painting) – Fisterra Studio, 1200 E. Second 5) Private tour of the Sumner Collection – 2013 E. Third
Workers Protest Gables
WDP wants developer to ensure its subs pay fair wages
Texas Platters
Dat Boy Supa SupaCabra (The Fraternity) Aside from overtones of street grit mixed with occasional camp, tonal gradation existed within the blaxploitation film genre. Filled with biting social commentary and stereotype inversions, it also gave glimmers of hope for the inner city. Camp Lo’s slept-on Uptown Saturday Night highlighted the lingo-heavy, Black Hollywood take on…
Troy Campa’s EAST Tour
1) Ender Martos (optical art painting) – 2803 E. Fifth 2) Paul Clarence Oglesby Jr. (cast concrete sculpture) – Artpost, 4704 E. Cesar Chavez 3) Michael W. Hall (gouache, watercolor) – East Side Glass Studio, 507 Calles 4) Sarah Collins (textile collage) – 1402 Concordia 5) Katy David (Batik on eggshell) – 2204 Palo Pinto
The Lege Stirs Into Action
And the member shuffle continues
Texas Platters
Smokey Emery Soundtracks for Invisibility, Vol. III: Qui Mal y Pense (Holodeck) Surrounded by a patchwork of recently antiquated playback devices, Houston-born vagabond Smokey Emery (aka Daniel Hipolito) summons wave after harrowing wave of impending cataclysm with his adroit tape manipulation. Initially released in 2011, this cassette-reissued third volume of Emery’s Soundtracks for Invisibility series…
The Hightower Report
Exposing the secret corporate coup of our democratic elections
Texas Platters
Ancient VVisdom Sacrificial (Magic Bullet) Ancient VVisdom seduced locals and beyond almost immediately with distinctive folk metal, like a sensitive singer-songwriter that data-dumped Black Sabbath instead of Bob Dylan. Three LPs in, acoustic textures survive only as intros and interstitials, as erstwhile Austinite Nathan Opposition (now relocated back to his native Cleveland) and crew wade…
Hamlet
The melancholy Dane gets fierce in this most professional staging by Mary Moody Northen Theatre
Point Austin: Color Me Exempt
Homestead exemption comes at a price
Gay Place: Stand for Our Family
How do we honor those who’ve fallen?
Texas Platters
HOD Book of the Worm (Arctic) San Antonio – metal town. A homegrown troop of extreme headbangers thus surprises no one, but the sheer, brutal force driving Book of the Worm, HOD’s second full-length, will turn heads if not twist them off altogether. Consider the savage, blackened death metal of “Through the Gates (They Come…
Aye, No!
This Teatro Vivo show finds its comedy in the contradictions within us and the way we relate to our families
Quote of the Week
“Fifteen months ago, a pen or pens was shuffled between two attorneys in a courthouse.” – Spokesman Anthony Holm explaining why his boss, future Attorney General Ken Paxton (left), pocketed another lawyer’s $1,000 Montblanc from a courthouse metal detector.
All Over Creation: Renewed Faith
On coming back to an appreciation of poetry’s remarkable resonance and relevance
Day Trips: Eisenhower State Park, Denison
Activities abound at this state park
Headlines
City Council meets today (Nov. 20) with a massive 182-Item agenda, and only one more meeting this year (and in its tenure). Prominent are the Decker Lake golf course proposal, and the revision strategy for CodeNEXT. See “Council,” Nov. 21. Chief Art Acevedo suspended the two officers involved in the rape joke story from two…
Playback: Grohl Call
Nirvana drummer, Foo Fighter, and documentarian Dave Grohl passes it on
The Right Man for the Job
APD welcomes its first openly trans officer
Hornography
Texas is going bowling. The Longhorns battled back from a rough start to 2014 by going 4-1 in their last five games. Next Thursday, on Thanksgiving, they close out the regular season against TCU. Gary Patterson’s squad will have a lot more on the line than the Longhorns that evening. The Horned Frogs are currently…
Public Notice: November Song
Will Council make a golf course its parting act?
Anarchy in Paris
French electro anarchist Éric Débris resides in South Austin
Transgender Day of Remembrance
Members of the gender-diverse community and allies have come to mark Nov. 20 as the Transgender Day of Remembrance. In 2014, 11 transgender people (most of them women of color) have been murdered in North America for being gender-diverse, trans, or perceived as such. The most recent death came last Wednesday, Nov. 12, when Gizzy…
Soccer Watch
The Austin Aztex made some moves this week, announcing their first player signings on Monday (holdover local products Andres Cuero and Travis Golden, plus USL-PRO veteran midfielders Drew Yates and Lance Rozeboom), and promoting their 2015 Launch Party, being held next Tuesday, Nov. 25 at PGi Austin (612 W. Fourth, the former La Zona Rosa),…
Where Does It Hurt?
With The Inside Story, Scott Rice gets people talking about mental health
Food-o-File
Austin’s newest culinary hot spot
Turnout in the Council Races
Lots of “undervoting” in the 10-1 races
Polished Apples
Culture and craft at Texas Keeper
Cui Bono: Who Benefits?
Guess which part of the city will get the lion’s share of a 20% homestead exemption?
The Good Eye: On Productivity and Reproductivity
You could pick this column up and read it right now or …
A Few Rounds Over Decker
How many golf courses does Austin need?
Texas Platters
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead IX (Superball) For 20 years, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has barreled head first into each of its musical immersions. Over the course of nine albums, the Austin quartet has ratcheted punk, baroque pop, and prog, often all at once.…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters: A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, and W. According to one amateur mathematician, a pound of dimes (2.268 grams per dime) is worth exactly the same as a pound of quarters (5.670 grams per quarter). Worldwide, people drink 1.6 billion cups of coffee each…
Council: So Nice They’ll Hold It Twice?
Council prepares for a marathon session
Texas Platters
Matthew Robinson & the Jelly Kings Work That Jelly! Born in Austin in 1948, Matthew Robinson remains a rare breed: genuine Texas bluesman. His first new music in more than a decade, Work That Jelly! preserves Robinson’s guitar style as round yet still piercing. His trio of Jelly Kings lay down dependable backing, while guest…
You Oughta See the Pictures
Hollywood forever: New film books reviewed
10-1 Ticker… Run-Off Endorsements!
Elected officials and rejected candidates make their picks
