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By Land and by Sea
Two new experiences for drinkers on the go
Nude, or Crude: The Pantyhose Debate Rages On
Meghan Speakerman’s thoughts on nude pantyhose and proper shoe fit
No Biscoe on the Ballot in 2014
County judge says he won’t seek re-election
‘The NFL Beat’: Week 10
‘Chronicle’ fantasy column debuts
Stars, Bars and Radiator Grills
Texas DMV votes no on Confederate flag license plates
Sondre Lerche w/ The Marmalakes at the Parish Friday
Ashley’s concert pick for Friday night.
Interesting Creatures
Graham Weber knows ‘Women’
Look of the Day: November 9, 2011
Our intern Rob is too snazzy today to ignore
Push! Push!
Austin Bat Cave thisclose to Kickstarter goal
Arrest Made in Morton Murder Case
Mark Alan Norwood’s DNA found at two crime scenes
Illuminating Austin Authors
Dagoberto Gilb, Gregory Curtis among Illumine honorees
Tonight: Mail Art with Dandy & Friends
Get crafty with Dandy for some good causes
Progressively More Sexy
Radio host Stephanie Miller gets her Long on this Saturday
‘Where Soldiers Come From’ on POV
Heather Courtney doc debuts on KLRU Thursday night
This Is Only a Test
Emergency Alert System test today
Allez Cuisine and John Candy
Planes, Trains and Iron Chef Austin
Election Night Results
By the numbers: What passed, what failed
Biff Parker (1962-2011)
The Reivers’ John Croslin remembers Biff Parker
Feds Toss Out Election Maps
Three judge panel stick sword in heart of the Gerrymander
Late in the Evening
Live review of Paul Simon at the Cedar Park Center
A Taste of ‘Threats’
Vice excerpts Amelia Gray’s new novel
Tapas, Wine, and Almodóvar
Drafthouse debuts a limited-run special menu
Adoption Options
In preparation for move, TLAC adoptions are free
FFF Fest Saturday: Three acts I don’t dare miss…
Listen to Ben, he knows whats up.
Texans Fans Break Out the Wave in Win
Next victim: the McCoy-led Browns
From Hooves to Claws: The Nail Dilemma
Current nail art sometimes makes a statement confusing
This Week’s Waste of Time
Independent Games Festival = cubicle fun = no productivity
AFS Selects “Le Havre”
AFS and the Violet Crown initiate AFS Selects series with Le Havre
AFF Audience Awards
The Artist, Restive among winners
Longhorns Pop Some Viagra to Battle the OU-beaters
Virile D should dominate Tech
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Boris Heavy Rocks (Sargent House) Attention Please (Sargent House) New Album (Inoxia) As if forging an alternate history, Boris’ Heavy Rocks shares a title and comparable artwork with the Japanese outfit’s 2002 LP, a classic power trio rendering of modern doom metal. That’s where similarities end. Heavy Rocks (2011) improves on the glam thrash of…
Gibney Dance Community Action Residency
Training dancers to help victims of abuse
Restaurant Review
It’s the sweet life at Dolce Vita
City Hall Hustle: Downtown CUREs
Epic Downtown plan continues, and the devil’s always in the zoning details
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life
The notorious life of Serge Gainsbourg is whimsically re-created onscreen.
A Fish Called Wanda
A Fish Called Wanda 1988, R, 108 min. Directed by Charles Crichton, Starring John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin. This hilarious crime movie turns into a comic series of double-crosses, all handled deftly by the impeccable cast. Kline won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Fun Fun Fun Lists
Austin City Limits by Austin Powell TV Torso (Fri., 12:30pm, Orange stage) Matt Oliver’s Sound Team, version 2.0. Ocote Soul Sounds (Fri., 3:05pm, Orange stage) Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra meets Grupo Fantasma. Heartless Bastards (Fri., 3:55pm, Orange stage) “The Arrow Killed the Beast” and other new epics from Erika Wennerstrom. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears…
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Hull Beyond the Lightless Sky (The End) Hull twisted heads off at South by Southwest sampling the band’s moody, doomy, sometimes boisterous post-rock debut, 2009’s Sole Lord, best defined by its three titles: “Endless Obsidian Abyss,” “Wrath of the Sands,” and “Born From Flesh and Stone.” Everything’s doubly so for the Brooklyn fivepiece the second…
Austin Jewish Book Fair
Community reads
Texas Daily Harvest
Get your daily dairy
School Lawsuits Multiply
Three groups of Texas school districts are suing the state over the public school finance system
Ra.One
In this Bollywood film, a video-game character comes to life and causes lots of destruction.
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Black Lips Arabia Mountain (Vice) Over the past decade, Black Lips has gleefully scrawled squalor across the walls of garage punk, shooting fast and loose in the face of expectations. The Atlanta quartet’s teaming with überproducer Mark Ronson for its sixth studio outing thus works its own twisted logic. Ronson reins in the raucousness without…
After a Fashion
Undead or nonliving, Your Style Avatar dutifully shuffles along the coil of costume contests
Food-o-File
Austinites prepare to cheer on Qui and Curren
Point Austin: Buckle Up
The 20-year argument over SH 45 resumes apace
Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki’s distinctive blend of deadpan humor and quotidian melodrama comes through in this new film.
Friday Interview
Chuck D raps that the real Public Enemy involves not living locally
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Girls Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther Sounds) Christopher Owens turns the simple into the sublime with disarming vulnerability. The San Franciscan’s near-perfect Girls debut, 2009’s Album gave slow nods to Elvis Costello and David Bowie with bleached song cycles about almost androgynous love. FSHG continues this wheelhouse effect, drifting from Smile session bounce on…
The Common Law
Small Disputes – Should I Hire a Lawyer?
Food Events
An abundance of benefits and other foodie events
Bradley Draws Challenge
Dem candidate throws hat in D.A.’s race
Friday Interview
Darin Childs talks up Anarchy Championship Wrestling
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Mates of State Mountaintops (Barsuk) Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel have re-embraced the organ-meets-drum dynamic for their quirky, lo-fi indie-pop. Mountaintops, the pair’s seventh studio album, feels like a long mash note between the long-married couple, charting the highs and lows of connubial (sometimes) bliss. The melancholy “Unless I’m Led,” a tale of loneliness in…
The Uses of Joy
When Conspire Theatre helps incarcerated women, it’s all in the game
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements and Election Info
Our recommendations for the Nov. 8 election
The Hightower Report
Contributing to Rick Perry’s campaigns can produce a great return on investment
Friday Interview
Syrian Omar Souleyman does weddings
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Lykke Li Wounded Rhymes (LL Recordings/Atlantic) Produced by Björn Yttling of Peter Bjorn & John, Lykke Li’s sophomore Rhymes spins rich electronic and organic instrumentation both deep and broad. Meanwhile, her reedy Swedish timbre coats melancholic. Though written and recorded in Los Angeles, there’s not much sun here. Li’s at turns woeful, resolving to “get…
Arts Review
The Rude Mechs’ re-creation of the Mabou Mines work is necessary but strange
Dead Man Smiling
Mondo stages a zombie apocalypse at Highland Mall
City Chews on Food Scraps
Garbage disposals vs. composting
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Hysterical Following the reactionary fissure of 2007’s Some Loud Thunder, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah went on an almost-five-year hiatus that appeared permanent in the wake of 2009’s Alec Ounsworth New Orleans sojourn, Mo Beauty. Led by Ounsworth’s blurry crow and polished by producer John Congleton, Hysterical comes as a…
Arts Review
These macabre and darkling woodcuts are powerful enough to fell a tree
Off the Record
All the fun fun fun that fits
Quote of the Week
“It’s an absurd waste of tax money to spend police time and energy to break up a pure First Amendment demonstration.” – The Texas Civil Rights Project’s Jim Harrington, assessing the city’s decision to arrest Occupy Austin participants
Saturday Interview
B L A C K I E Forget Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-hour rule. B L A C K I E’s thinking 40,000. “You gotta spend 40,000 hours doing something before you become a master at it,” says the Houston rapper, real name Michael LaCour, about perfecting his hard-banging noise-rap. “I don’t think words do justice to…
Fun Fun Fun Platters
M83 Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute) Deregulation under the Reagan administration proves the 1980s were no dream. Frenchman Anthony Gonzalez thrives on the era’s bourgeoisie New Order, programming a new millennial mind eraser of New Age raves. Sixth spectacle Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming lights up like a Times Square billboard, 1,000 individual lights: the euphoric…
Arts Review
The novella’s nightmare world is so engrossing, you can’t tear your eyes away
Page Two: In Memoriam
Biff Parker (Steven Stelmach), 1962-2011
Last-Minute Appeals on Skinner Execution
Skinner denied access to DNA testing
Saturday Interview
Tune-Yards Every five years, an album comes along that won’t remove itself from your brain stem. That’s Whokill, second album from Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus. Gritty urban clank on “Gangsta,” the sultry NSFW slink of “Powa,” and the Afrobeat clatter of “Bizness”: How’s a crazy patchwork of loops and cross-fade trickery like this born? “It started…
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Joe Lally Why Should I Get Used to It (Dischord) This third solo LP in the wake of Fugazi’s 2003 hiatus finds group co-founder/bassist Joe Lally couching his life questions in bookend mantras. Barbwire guitar work from Lally and Elisa Abela laces spare ribs of bass and drums (Emanuele Tomasi) as queries are posed: “Who…
Letters at 3AM: Flash Mob Dance Revolution: Part 1
It is only a matter of time before an interconnected world work force begins to ask, ‘Who are we really working for?’
Oops!
In last week’s “City Hall Hustle,” News (Oct. 28), we misquoted Mayor Lee Leffingwell as saying 96% of Austin citizens “chose not to participate in the most recent City Council election.” Leffingwell actually said 92%.
PEST Treatment for Pedestrians
APD ticketing jaywalkers
Saturday Interview
Paint It Black, Dan Yemin’s therapeutic night job
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Russian Circles Empros (Sargent House) Rather than a continental drift, Empros maps the Earth when it yielded a single landmass. The Chicago instru-metal trio’s fourth LP coalesces suitelike from sea to sea, beginning with the dive-bombing doom of nine-minute opener “309.” Big-gun recoil in the seventh and final minute of the succeeding “Mládek” (Czech music…
Restaurant Review
El Chile collaborates with a well-seasoned chef
Walking the No-Kill Tightrope
As Austin’s animal welfare center moves to a new building, will the delicate balance of ‘no-kill’ and resources be maintained?
Perry’s Picks for Forensic Panel
New faces will serve on Forensic Science Commission
Saturday Interview
Neal Brennan’s glad you didn’t ask about Dave Chappelle
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Tinariwen Tassili (Anti-) Hailing from the southern Sahara, Tinariwen’s nomadic guitar mantras encompass the spiritual hypnotism of Tibetan chants, the bare grittiness of Malian blues, and the rebel soul of reggae without sounding like any of those genres. The musical tribe’s debut for Anti-, Tassili, serves as a proper stateside introduction, partially recorded at the…
Day Trips
Brilliant Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb gets due respect in Navasota
Headlines
News from Austin, Texas, and beyond
Saturday Interview
Those Damned Pro Tools!
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Cold Cave Cherish the Light Years (Matador) Cold Cave is the NYC-based brainchild of Wesley Eisold, who fancies himself the poster child of 21st century nihilism. Light Years is supposed to be a modern re-envisioning of New Wave, but there’s a blurring of the lines here between building upon an existing genre and merely being…
By Land and by Sea
Drunk if by land and booze if by sea?
Soccer Watch
Catch Rise & Shine: The Jay Demerit Story in its limited Austin engagement, and more
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Jim Ward Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins (Tembloroso Recordings) Enter Jim Ward of Sparta and At the Drive-In – only you’d never know it. This compilation of acoustic solo EPs pushes farther down the bluegrass road than he traveled in alt.country vehicle Sleepercar. Ward’s sound got wider and wilder over…
By Land and by Sea
The Dutch invented a mobile bicycle bar? File under ‘Not Shocking.’
Halloween Crackdown on Occupy Austin
Total of 45 people arrested over weekend
In Time
Andrew Niccol writes and directs this science fiction thriller that stars Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried.
Sunday Interviews
Henry Rollins “I’ve got a bad problem where I can’t say the word ‘no’ to work,” mused Henry Rollins on his 1993 spoken word album, The Boxed Life. “The output is up,” he admits, “because there’s more opportunity for me.” Singer, poet, raconteur, National Geographic host, publisher, label manager, and now photographer, Rollins presents his…
Gay Place
Zombies ‘R’ Us � eventually
From Łódź With Love
Previewing the Austin Polish Film Festival
City Council: Butler Honors and Charter Foresight
Council on the trail to honor the Butlers and revise the charter
My Afternoons With Margueritte
Gérard Depardieu plays an oafish man who bonds with a cultured older woman, who teaches him to read and alters his life.
Sunday Interviews
Slayer Double-bass-drum behemoth Dave Lombardo has an update on founding Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, who went down last year on the World Painted Blood tour with necrotizing fasciitis, a rare bacterial virus that attacks body tissue. “He’s been rehearsing with us,” reveals Lombardo. “He’s doing better, but he still has to go through a lot…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
‘The roller coaster capital of the world,’ no bears in Africa, etc.
The Shell They Sell (He’s Swell)
Viral cuddlebomb Marcel the Shell makes the move to book and TV
Where Do I Vote on Election Day?
Voters have their choice of polling sites this year
Tower Heist
Sensitive to the zeitgeist of the moment, this Brett Ratner film with the A-list cast is a real people-pleaser.
Fun Fun Fun Platters
Spring’s hype machine broke out Odd Future, but L.A.’s little rascals back it up. The teen mob collective stunned South by Southwest, and two months later, Tyler, the Creator’s proper solo debut, Goblin (XL Recordings), and single “Yonkers” thrust MTV’s Best New Artist into stardom despite the album’s lack of direction. OF’s guided alternative is…
All Over Creation: Award Fever
Whenever you feel like throwing a pillow over the Payne Awards, consider this
DVD Watch
Ten international filmmakers reflect on their careers and concerns for the medium
Civics 101
Calendar of civic events, Nov. 3-8
Martha Marcy May Marlene
A psychological thriller that’s stripped of the usual Hollywood trappings, this film maintains a sense of oppressive threat throughout.
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Tequila Fest
If you’ve ever woken up shirtless with your pants around your ankles, upside down in a stranger’s bathtub with a knot on your head, a missing tooth, a bloody nose, inexplicable bruises, dried snot(?), dirt, and blood splattered across your body, you’ve probability overindulged in tequila. If there were a goat/circus clown/homeless person/transvestite passed out…
