Cover Story
Swampadelic
Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers
XBRMNT’s Top 10 for the Week of Dec. 1
Buttheads, boots, bullies, and Dykes help make up this week’s Top 10.
Video Game Gift Guide
Downloadable edition
OTR – 33 RPM
Willie and Weed
Express Reveal New Logo
Latest look for Round Rock baseball
It’s a ‘Community’ Christmas
Holiday episode of ‘Community’ done in stop-motion animation.
The Daily Hustle: 12/2/10
All I want for Xmas is a new website, Downtown plan
Weedaholic
The unofficial Teapot Party anthem and other half-baked ideas
It’s Russia, and …
Russia and Qatar picked for WC 2018 and 2022
Reefer Roundup 12/2/10
News from the frontline of the War on Drugs
‘Austin Chronicle’ Cover 12/3
everywhere signs
Will Sheff, Grupo Fantasma Earn Grammy Nods
A brief breakdown of Austin artists headed to the red carpet
Mondo del Toro!
Mondo T’s debuts Director’s Series with Guillermo del Toro
Sundance Announces Competition Slate
Austinite Jeff Nichols will compete in Park City
Wednesday Rewind
Sahara Smith’s late night debut and the Sword’s odyssey
Austin Rockin’ 11/29/10
Live music picks for Wednesday and Thursday on FOX 7
DJ BJ’s List for Wed. Dec. 1
DJ BJ tracks the hot tracks of the last month of 2010
Casting Calls
TV shows want you!
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez – Encore!
Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez revive their magic
Travis County Recount Begins
GOPer Neil targets Dem Howard’s 16 vote lead
The Daily Hustle: 12/1/10
Sunny outlook for economic incentives?
theGlitoris’ Top TraXXX for the Week of December 1
theGlitoris lists her Top 10 TraXXX for the first week of the last month
Newsgeist: 12/1/10
The spirit of the news
‘Mo Music: Throbbin’ With Robyn
Celebrate the return of Robyn with Gay Place.
‘Mo Music: New Music Wednesday
Catch up on the latest tunes with Gay Place
Today in “It Boggles the Mind”
Two recent stories that are discombobulating…
SXSW Interactive Goes International
Festival adds technology summit, keynotes
Bedside Manner: Mogwai’s Travel Reading
What Savlov’s dog is napping on these days
The Daily Hustle: 11/30/10
Of social service contracts and shared lanes
Austin’s Indie Spirit
Anish Savjani and Bryan Poyser score noms
News AggreGAYte for the Week of Nov. 29
Local and international gay news with Gay Place
Last Chance to VOTE!
Three Texas acts compete in School Jam USA
Bedside Manner: Midnight Library
The more books there are, the less reading there is
The Daily Hustle: 11/29/10
Urban rail pulls into town. Sorta.
Roller Derby Update: 11/27/10
The off season is on
Converse All-Star Watchtower: Jimi Hendrix Redemption
No dead rock star is safe
Texas Platters
Dubbed to limited-edition cassettes, the Boxing Lesson’s Fur State offers a low-budget instrumental affair with an unusually high return. Recorded with a four-track in 2004, the eight-part sequence spins a distant carousel waltz of melody and mood, layering elongated vintage synthesizers and drum machine loops over stretches of acoustic guitar. It’s a mellow, delirious listen,…
ARTroduction to Austin
Glass artist Morgan Graff wins Hanger’s $10,000 art competition
Books for Cooks 2010
Need help making that Black Friday shopping list? Here’s a selection of great cookbook ideas with something to delight any foodie you know.
Off the Record
A Thanksgiving feast with Speak, A Welch Family Affair, and Ornette Coleman
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Texas Platters
Ghostbeard Stochasticity (C-Side) The latest offering from C-Side Records, Austin’s revolving door folk-pop family (the Channel, Golden Bear), doesn’t stray far from the label’s mellow gold standards. The group asserts the title of the album as a noun first, “the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan,” so it feels like they just showed…
‘Charlie Ferguson: Wasted Expressions’
Austin photographer finds painterly strokes in trash bins’ rust and scratches
Books for Cooks 2010Books for Cooks 2010
A fascinating look, in recipe form, at the last 150 years of cooking
Day Trips
14 Pews in Houston’s the Heights is a beautiful community center that screens indie films, books live music, and hosts community events
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Nov. 25-Dec. 2
Texas Platters
Elizabeth McQueen The Laziest Girl in Town (Freedom) Forget trying to pigeonhole Elizabeth McQueen. Her first disc, 2003’s The Fresh Up Club, was a little bit country and a whole lot of rock & roll. She followed with Happy Doing What We’re Doing, a tribute to 1970s British pub rock. The Laziest Girl in Town…
‘Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake)’
Ghostly celebs and a killer apartment make a holiday show for the rest of us
Books for Cooks 2010
A near foolproof cookbook for the reluctant chef
Gay Place
Dinner and yard sale-ing with the fam. How ho(mo)liday-rific!
Texas Platters
Dax Riggs Say Goodnight to the World (Fat Possum) The cultish career of Dax Riggs has taken the backwoods less traveled. In the early 1990s, he fronted pioneering Louisiana sludge metal outfit Acid Bath, which spawned Goatwhore and the more melodic Agents of Oblivion before re-emerging in the blues-rock duo Deadboy & the Elephantmen for…
Wine of the Week
Holiday wines for everyone from carnivores to vegans
Books for Cooks 2010
This isn’t a story about amusing misadventures of a hapless but lovable forager for forgotten recipes
Page Two: Budgetary Fantasies
Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise
Tangled
Disney does Rapunzel.
Texas Platters
Frank Smith Nineteen Aaron Sinclair draws serrated melodicism through a clenched jaw, an uneasy bitterness lingering ominously behind every utterance. In the past, Frank Smith exploited its frontman’s impulses by shifting between dire alt.country and unleashed rockers, the two strains coming together nicely on 2009’s Big Strike in Silver City. For the local quintet’s eighth…
Event Menu
Run, walk, eat, or drink away the week of Nov. 25-30
Books for Cooks 2010
The oversized graphic novel for the chemist chef in your life
AISD: Balancing Teachers and Tech
AISD must ensure that new technology helps more than it hurts
The Next Three Days
Russell Crowe plays a man who improbably springs his wife from prison where she’s been incarcerated for life.
Texas Platters
Brennen Leigh The Box If what passes for country music these days gives you a headache, Brennen Leigh has the remedy. The Box is traditional. No loud guitars or booming drums, just simple instrumentation, uncomplicated sentiments, and the local’s honeyed vocals. The young singer-songwriter has an obvious affection for the Louvin Brothers. Contemporary artists like…
Food-o-File
News for foodies to chew on
Books for Cooks 2010
Does the avid gardener in your life know how to care for Australian finger limes or Buddha’s hand citrons?
All Rolled Up in Formula One
F1 backers receive a key vote from City Council
Faster
Dwayne Johnson is an ex-con out to avenge his brother’s death and Billy Bob Thornton is the junkie cop on his tail.
Texas Platters
White Denim Last Day of Summer Austin’s White Denim makes the most of every “staycation.” Like Workout Holiday, the then-power trio’s 2008 European debut, Last Day of Summer was cut between tours and taken from sessions that will comprise the band’s forthcoming third LP for Downtown Records. Despite the circumstances, Summer’s actually the band’s most…
Target Markets
The season’s DVD box sets hit the spot
Not So Hot TODs
Sputtering rail, sputtering economy – the uncertain fate of Red Line development
Tightening the Noose on Defendants
Court rulings whittle away Sixth Amendment
Break Ke Baad
In this Hindi rom-com, two lovers undergo a separation in order to discover each other once again.
Texas Platters
Eagle Claw Poacher Sixty minutes of instrumental surf and turf from this Austin metal quartet flies highest on oceanic opener “Helm” and forest-clearing follow-up “Elephant.” Eagle Claw’s debut stalks sea and sky and everything between with equal measures of gravity and soar. Prog pretensions go extinct in the sharp-beaked visage of the group’s ever-moving flow,…
Target Markets
Doctor Who: The Complete Fifth Series
Books for Cooks 2010
These easy to follow recipes help you produce fun, nutritious, memorable meals
DeLay Trial: Jury Hanging Fire
No verdict, but ‘making progress’
Texas Platters
Dikes of Holland (Sundae Records) The Young Voyagers of Legend (Mexican Summer) Like a spitfire punk version of the Band, Dikes of Holland takes a Russian roulette approach to songwriting and live performances, trading instruments and lead vocals on nearly every number. That versatility – unapparent on earlier 7-inch singles – works wonders on the…
Target Markets
Apocalypse Now: Full Disclosure
TODs and Their Zones
What’s what (and what’s planned) at Austin rail stops
Politics Gift Guide
Curios for current-events connoisseurs
Texas Platters
The Ugly Beats Motor! (Get Hip) In both aesthetic and sound, the Ugly Beats have always kept it real. The whole 1960s revamp has gone limp in lesser hands, but on its third LP, the local quintet reasserts that, in the right hands, such sounds remain timeless. Motor! is a solid effort, “Harm’s Way” and…
Target Markets
The Quintessential Guy Maddin!
Books for Cooks 2010
Cookie lovers beware – you’re in for a dare. Dare: Try out all of these cookie recipes.
WTP4: Council Takes a Swig
No more piecemeal votes on funding for Water Treatment Plant No. 4
Review: 7 Walkers
7 Walkers (Response) An “open love letter” to Louisiana and New Orleans, 7 Walkers’ debut is funky, spooky, jazzy. What began as a late-night jam session between local blues shaman Malcolm “Papa Mali” Welbourne and Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann blossomed into a supergroup with Meters’ bassist George Porter Jr. and Austin multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard.…
After A Fashion
Stephen on the It Gets Better Project and recapturing the passion in life as a result of reconnecting with an old schoolmate
Target Markets
ESPN Films 30 for 30 Gift Set Collection: Volume 1
Books for Cooks 2010
With Nick Malgieri’s baking tips, you won’t get stuck staring into a KitchenAid bowl and hoping what’s there is even halfway right
Soccer Watch
St. Edward’s women end NCAA run, and more
Texas Platters
Broadcasts Vol. 18 (93.3 KGSR Radio Austin) Now that KGSR personality, identity, and Broadcasts architect Jody Denberg has ceded the sound of Our Town to local airwaves still void of his absence, the FM frequency’s annual 2-CD smorgasbord of Triple-A chronicling tweaks its formula ever so subtly. More than 2½ hours of intimate, mostly acoustic…
Her Fair Ladies
Cristina García’s antidote to the so-called ‘spicy señorita’
Target Markets
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Books for Cooks 2010
Fresh ingredients prepared simply can yield the most delicious and desirable dessert results
Football Watch
Young out, McCoy banged up, Texans collapse, and more
Texas Platters
Darden Smith Marathon (Darden Music) Named for the West Texas town near Big Bend, Darden Smith delivers an affecting song cycle about physical and spiritual desolation. A peak in his 25-year songwriting career, the veteran local weaves atmospheric instrumentals with a tableau of folk, jazz, and blues that’s equally introspective and hard-hitting. A triumph of…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Black panthers, Sherwood Forest, Texas mortgages, not Snoop Dizzle, and potato-time
Arts Review
Assessing Paper Chairs’ excavation of young Brecht is, put simply, difficult
Books for Cooks 2010
A guided tour of the many threads that weave the tapestry of French Jewish cooking
Austin Toros Home Openers
Toros call the Cedar Park Center home
Texas Platters
Jimmy LaFave Favorites 1992–2001 (Music Road) A best-of collection from Jimmy LaFave’s tenure on Colorado-based imprint Bohemia Beat, Favorites will be particularly interesting to longtime fans for three re-recordings, including the local Okie’s signature tune, “Desperate Men Do Desperate Things.” Lauded as a premier Dylan interpreter, his rendition of “Sweetheart Like You” is sure to…
TV Eye: The Fix Is In
Making the world a better place with David Brancaccio
Arts Review
The program of music from Mexico was unfortunately uneven in quality
Books for Cooks 2010
These recipes infuse a healing change with zest and fun
Point Austin: A Thanksgiving Miscellany
Picking the bones of Thanksgiving blessings
Texas Platters
Adam Ahrens Prize Fight Known for his guitar playing, both as an acoustic finger-picker and on Hawaiian slack key, Austin’s Adam Ahrens stretches his style on his third effort. With the assistance of producer Michael Ramos, the nine tunes on Prize Fight approximate Beck meeting Calexico at Tom Waits house as wobbly beats and bubbling…
Weaves of Glass
The art of Markow & Norris
Arts Review
The look and sense of the raw materials creates compelling harmony here
Books for Cooks 2010
Rest easy knowing that what a Thai vendor produces from a rickety cart on the side of a busy thoroughfare, you should be able to approximate in a modern kitchen
City Hall Hustle: In the Historical Zone
If only the Pequot had filed for landmark status … before the massacre
Texas Platters
King Fisher EP The follow-up to last year’s debut, Sweet Tea & Cigarettes, finds King Fisher moving away from its alternative and blues rock musings toward a more roots-oriented vibe. The lead duo, vocalist Val Link and guitarist Catlin Rutherford, offer four songs that lilt by quickly but leave little impression. Closer “Runaway” suggests Pearl…
The Hightower Report
Hard Times, Soft Heads; and Wall Street’s Resilient Greed
Those Lazy, Crazy Days of Winter
Holiday rituals are nice, but sanity is nicer
Books for Cooks 2010
Writing a guide to wine is fraught with problems, but both of these books are highly recommended for their combination of accurate information, unstuffy knowledge, and delightful prose
Headlines
� City Council has slipped into a turkey coma this week and will convene for a special-called meeting Dec. 2 to consider an incentives deal for SunPower Corporation, then meet for a regular session Dec. 9. Its last regular meeting of the year is Dec. 16. See “City Hall Hustle,” as well as “All Rolled…
Luv Doc Recommends: Marmalakes, the Frontier Brothers, Mother Falcon
Simmer down, Aggies, simmer down. Yes, the rotting corpse smell of the Longhorn football season has you deranged and howling like a pack of starved coyotes, but remember: Like Jesus, the Longhorns will rise again. Texas may be 5-6, but they’re still sick with talent. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that…
