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Becoming an Enlightened Carnivore
Outrider helps facilitate responsible hunting experiences
Your Weekend in Film
These people go forth by going for broke
Five Arty Things to Do: Dec. 1-3
Lot of notches in Father Time’s varmint-poking stick by now, right?
Shuck It 101
Making the case for cracking your own oysters
Holiday Movie Advent Calendar
Ugly sweaters. Secret Santa gifts. Tree lightings. That inedible fruitcake your sweet Aunt Gladys sends without fail. These are some of the time-honored markers announcing the holiday season is upon us. But for us film-lovin’ folks at the Chronicle, what gets us most merry is revisiting, or newly discovering, the movies and TV offerings inspired…
The Parish for Sale … on eBay
Bidding starts at $1
Don Hertzfeldt and His “World of Tomorrow”
Austin animator screens his acclaimed shorts
Judge Blocks Driftwood Music Fest Dates
Old Settler’s competitor concedes April weekend
Dangerous Toys This Holiday Season
Is that fidget spinner really a killing machine?
Mazel Tov Kocktail Hour
Klezmer in context
Texas Platters
Featherlight keyboards brush against solemn horns at the beginning of “El Unico Para Mi,” lead-off title track to Leti Garza’s third album. Don’t let the introduction fool you; trumpet taunts a galvanizing strut into the sultry “Mis Ojos Sobre Ti” as further brass bursts and electric fretwork carouse through a carnival of timbales and clavinet…
Seen / Soon, Nov. 24
Seen Co-Lab’s Demo Gallery ends its four-year existence stunningly with the massive multi-artist show “Good Mourning Tis of Thee.” Curators Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Co-Lab Artistic Director Sean Gaulager employ every inch of the space to present works by more than 65 artists musing on matters of mortality and death. The effect is the sense…
Dem Donor Steve Mostyn Dead
Mostyn, a Houston attorney, was 46
Texas Platters
Architects of San Antonio’s Westside sound, Sunny & the Sunliners remain undersung everywhere outside of the Alamo City limits. Brooklyn’s Big Crown Records aims to correct that with Mr. Brown Eyed Soul, a lovingly curated set of 15 English-language lowrider oldies recorded 1966-72 for Sunny Ozuna’s indie imprint Key-Loc Records. Dripping nostalgia, these soul slices…
Era Ceramics Creates Dinnerware for Austin’s Top Restaurants
Local couple creates dinnerware for Austin’s top restaurants
Cap Metro Board Approves Frequency Changes
14 bus routes will now run every 15 minutes during peak times, as opposed to the current total of six
Texas Platters
Live billed as the Mike Flanigin Trio featuring Jimmie Vaughan, the locals’ recorded debut flips the original Fabulous Thunderbirds guitarist to star billing over the local organist-to-the-stars (Billy Gibbons, Gary Clark Jr., Steve Miller). What’s in the grooves, however, documents an instrumental three-way tie to the finish line preserving the final evidence of late drummer…
Time to Come Out and Play
Game On highlights Texas gaming scene
Florence’s Comfort House: Love’s in Need of Love Today
Montopolis refuge kicks off fall donation drive for goods, toys
Texas Platters
Chicagoan Nathan Dixey’s sophomore album squeezes the Grateful Dead’s psych-folk over earnest Fleet Foxes fusion flavor. The Austin act shares Venice, Calif., label Cosmic Dreamer Music, as well as backing members, with reverberative buddies RF Shannon. The nine tracks hold a marching, mantra-driven recursiveness, intro’d with Dixey’s naturalistic ruminations on protest in “Ring Them Bells…
City Theatre’s The Seafarer
Karen Sneed’s staging is shot through with compassion for the play’s hard-luck, hard-drinking Irishmen
CodeNEXT’s Delay, “Good for Austin”
Land-use rewrite gets punted to little complaint
Texas Platters
“Desert rock from the sun stricken soil of Austin,” Greenbeard unfurled its QOTSA quotient on an eponymous 2014 debut: monolith riffs and Gibraltar rock. Primitive sonics left Chance Parker’s clean, lordly vox decidedly unintegrated, but that improved on the next year’s sativa-soaked Stoned at the Throne. Third full-length Lödarödböl conjoins the two, only not really.…
Austin Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing
Shakespeare’s rom-com gets a light staging with fine performances and lots of genuine laughs
Council: Meet the Candidates
Names of city manager suitors may be revealed by the time you read this
Texas Platters
“I wish I was clever enough to invent characters that never existed, doing things that never happened,” admitted Jon Dee Graham to Texas Monthly in 2012. “But I’m not. The songs are how I work things out.” At the time of his solo debut – after two decades being Everyone Else’s Guitar Hero (Skunks, True…
Murder Ballads
This blues-infused crime thriller suggests a number of Dangerous Things to Do Outside Shreveport Until You’re Dead
Vision Zero: Remembering Is Not Enough
Friends and family gather for third annual Day of Remembrance Vigil
Rooster Teeth Beams Out Lazer Team 2
Sci-fi comedy sequel lands on YouTube Red
Day Trips: El Cosmico, Marfa
The alternative hotel of tepees, yurts, safari tents, and retro trailers is funky, fun, and functional
Health Care for All … or Just Some?
Misappropriating funds or marketing?
The Trauma of Thanksgiving Films
Or, how to alienate your family this holiday season
Soccer Watch
The Texas Longhorns’ best season in a decade (14-4-3) came to a close Sunday with a 3-0 loss at top-seeded Duke in the NCAA third round. Next year should be even better, as the Horns graduate only two seniors, neither of whom were a factor this season. With this paper going to press two days…
Gay Place
We are thankful – for you
Headlines
No regular City Council meeting for a couple of weeks – the next is Dec. 7 – but backstage work includes ongoing interviews with city manager candidates, with a list of semifinalists released on Monday. “Council: Meet the Candidates,” Nov. 24. Planned Parenthood plans to open a 9,000-square-foot clinic in Waco this month. The Audre…
Project ATX6
The city’s unofficial music ambassador program turns 4 thanks to the sweat equity of founder Chris Brecht
Quote of the Week: Shudde Fath
Fath resigns from the Electric Utility Commission
Austin Energy’s Quest to Bring Solar Power to Renters and the Less Wealthy
What can new incentive programs and community solar projects do for the city’s most abundant energy source?
Public Notice: CodeNEXT Wrecks Austin?
Only if we let it continue to fester in darkness
What’cha Watchin’?
Marketing Manager Karena Rogers on her favorite background shows to watch while multitasking
Point Austin: Reasons to Be Thankful
At holiday time, mixed blessings are all we have
Luv Doc: Giving Thanks
The Luv Doc is not not conned by the deluded nostalgics who claim that turkey is their favorite meat
Former Firefighter Out on Bond
James Baker facing charges of invasive video recording
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Fake blood for movies is sometimes called “Kensington Gore,” after the street of that name. The Vans Warped Tour traveling music festival, which began in 1995, is ending in 2018. In 1973, Gary Busey got a guest role on the TV show Kung Fu. When he said he was thirsty, star David Carradine offered Busey…
(Frank) Leffingwell for Judge
Former mayor’s son is up for WilCo judge
Playback: Austin’s Rarest Vinyl
Want exclusive vinyl for Record Store Black Friday? Check out some of Austin’s rarest wax.
Reposa’s Reroute
If you can’t beat ’em, run against ’em
Texas Platters
The Golden Boys’ previous album, 2012’s Dirty Fingernails, flexed top-notch production of epic and widescreen roots punk while staying lo-fi filthy. The Panavision warmth of a big, block-chorded Hammond B-3 organ, guitars alternating big open chords, and squalling noise hawking bright and sunny anthems like “California” and “We Are Young” generated more grit than four…
Turk Pipkin’s Book of the Every Other Month Club
When you subscribe to this service, you get six volumes, Kenya gets three libraries
Let Leticia Speak
Initial script for new film about Wendy Davis filibuster may have missed a few historical marks
