Cover Story
God Save the Screen
Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film
As the Season Rots Away
Fair-weather fans flee the rotting burnt-orange corpse
Watering the F1 MBE/WBEs
F1 gets pro-active on small business involvement with commission vote
The Daily Hustle: 11/11/10
The check is in the … mainframe?
BookPeople Celebrates 40 Years
Magic, Mystery, & Condoleeza Rice
Funny How Time Slips Away
ACL staff members reflect on their first memories of Studio 6A
‘Intelligent???’
Anti-LGBT propaganda video
DJ BJ’s List for Tuesday, Nov. 9
Travel back to the Eighties with DJ BJ
A Musical Journey
…with JWC
The Rocky Road to Victory
Notes, photos from the WFTDA championship
Roadhouse Rags
Gary Stewart’s early stuff comes to light
Vast Majority Believe in Death Penalty
Republicans most likely to believe death is a deterrent
Checking All the Connections
Intersections of the inside and outside and queerness…
Wednesday Rewind
New videos from Sunset, Band of Heathens, and Buttercup
The Daily Hustle: 11/10/10
All along the water tower
Hey, It’s Art Night Austin!
Hot-pimping the righteous qualia
Gay Place Interviews Stephin Merritt
Gay bars, film in L.A., country houses, and 12-year-old pop stars.
theGlitoris’ top 10 traXXX for the week of November 9
theGlitoris’ Top 10 traXXX: Let’s talk about Girls.
Secret Ray LaMontagne Show?
Artists Den to host an intimate performance in Boerne
Devil’s River Lives to See Another Day
TWPD Commission decision on natural area postponed
Austin Rockin’ 11/8/10
Live music primer on FOX 7 for the week
The Daily Hustle: 11/9/10
WTP4 update
‘Mo Music: New Music Tuesday
Breaking news with Michael Jackson and ‘Mo Music.
Big Beards, Big Booties, Big Fun
Yes, my weekend actually was filled with fun and lots of it.
News AggreGAYte for the Week of Nov. 8
Catch up on the queer news beat with Gay Place
Donna Howard Still the Winner
Dist. 48 incumbent increases lead by one vote
Austin Sommelier Runs Second Marathon of Triple Crown of Racing in NYC
Local runner follows his dreams
I Don’t Want to Grow Up
Another Fun Fun Fun Fest in the can
Texas Rangers to Play in Round Rock
Express host new parent club
Strange Powers Q & A
Check out Strange Powers while it’s in its run at The Alamo
The Daily Hustle: 11/8/10
Meet six finalists for Police Monitor
More Treat, Less Trick
Halloween is about the children, right?
New York Skate of Mind
Texecutioners fall to Gotham in Windy City
Texies on the Move
Flat-track league moves Downtown, hits Chicago
Howard-Neil Race Still Twisting in Wind
Lots of ballots still to be counted
Throw Out the Records, It’s a Rivalry Game!
UT plays OU in a surprisingly lopsided rivalry match
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Nurses a Bruised Ballot
Election fatigue, Totescast style
1000 Days of Vinyl
Digging through the crates, one day at a time
Longhorns Live the Struggle for Another Week
and another season and another …
What’s That on Your Blog? Fred Schneider, Part 2
One part of the B-52’s/Superions front man was not enough.
The Lineup
Your ears for Fun Fun Fun Fest weekend!
Magnetic Fields Party & Ticket Giveaway
Celebrate the Austin screenings of Strange Powers w/ Gay Place and WIN!
Tweet This Mess Around: Fred Schneider Tells It Like It T-I-Is! Part 1
What’s that on your head? An interview with the B-52’s lead man?
The Daily Hustle: 11/5/10
Public meeting for new Animal Services Officer
Friday Blingee: Sh*t Sparkles
How do we feel about the elections?
Event Menu
Local foodie events for the week of Nov. 6
Reviews
Kylesa Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist) Crackling with jam band elasticity, Kylesa’s 2009 Prosthetic disc Static Tensions broke from these Savannah, Ga., marauders’ more staid metal past. Spiral Shadow assimilates both paradigms as if Jane’s Addiction and Kyuss shared leathers. Poster Children’s indie chants underlie “Cheating Synergy,” but the snake-charming slide guitar a minute and…
Gay Place
The Gay Place hosts a Fagnetic Fields party!
ACC Wins Some, Loses Some
Hays and Elgin ISDs vote to become part of ACC taxing district
Inside Job
This documentary, which is narrated by Matt Damon, illuminates the U.S. economic crisis with detailed yet engaging analysis.
The Chris Trew Project
The comedian’s trifecta in Waterloo Park includes shaving off half his beard
Food-o-File
Chef winners, restaurant openings, and more
Reviews
GWAR Bloody Pit of Horror (Metal Blade) Saluting Emerson Lake & Palmer on opening invocation “Zombies, March,” Richmond, Va., papier-mâché performance fivepiece self-soundtracks 1965 Italian cinema splatter Bloody Pit of Horror, adapted from the Marquis de Sade’s self-help tale of “The Crimson Executioner” and what he does to his former girlfriend and her pal-ettes. Thrash…
Graves Wakes From Justice System ‘Nightmare’
After almost two decades behind bars, Graves declared innocent
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Nov. 4-11
Red Hill
Genuine passion for the Western genre is displayed in this Australian take on High Noon that stars True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten.
Anne Akiko Meyers
The world-class violinist pays a record price for a world-class violin
Criminally Innocent
How can you be exonerated of a crime that never happened?
Reviews
Suicidal Tendencies No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal Records) Mike Muir’s Venice Beach bum crew repurposes its back catalog by re-recording swaths of 1987’s Join the Army and Suicidal offshoot No Mercy’s sole LP, Widespread Bloodshed Love Runs Red. “Suicidal Maniac” speed thrash (“I Feel Your Pain … and I Survive”), plus pit anthem “Join…
DeLay Trial: How Soft Money Gets Hard
DeLay trial begins
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Action Replayy
This Bollywood film mixes science fiction and romantic comedy.
‘Celebrity Autobiography’
The twaddle peddled by celebs in memoirs is even funnier when read aloud
Letters at 3AM: Who’s That Girl?
Singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom is an inimitable genius
Reviews
Butcher Bear & Charlie Carbomb (Insect) Butcher Bear & Charlie, the new collaboration between Attack Formation leader Ben Webster (the bear) and former Dallas Lyric Opera singer Maricela Mayo (Charlie), might be Austin’s oddest couple. The two display obvious chemistry on their debut, Carbomb, with the former’s unique, saturated beats setting the stage for the…
AISD Braces for Budget Talks
AISD could be facing a $30 million shortfall in the next school year
GOP Takes Travis Seat in House Rout
Bolton loses while Howard squeaks by
Golmaal 3
Warring siblings are the subject of this Bollywood comedy.
Something ‘Weird’ This Way Comes
Amelia Gray’s winning experiment in oddity
Reviews
Best Coast Crazy for You (Mexican Summer) Wavves King of the Beach (Fat Possum) Blazed West Coast couple Bethany Consentino (Best Coast) and Nathan Williams (Wavves) seem like the perfect pair: She’s got the blissed-out melodies, and he’s got the danked-out pop-punk. Best Coast’s debut is ostensibly about her boyfriend, if breezy opener “Boyfriend” or…
A Cure for the Two-Party Hangover
Washington rally offers political street rally
Commissioners Court: Incumbents Stay Put
Some precinct returns reflect red discontent in blue county
After a Fashion
It’s the SoCo Social Club, 10 years after
Interview
The other king of pop sounds off on his newfound indie cred
Reviews
Magic Kids Memphis (True Panther Sounds) Even though Hanson broke out at South by Southwest, Magic Kids aims for some of that Okie mojo with the FX3 demographic. The Memphis-based, mixed-gender sextet stuffs 11 originals into its debut, a backpack of a recording fitted neatly together, stacked like schoolbooks with such forever-young titles as “Skateland,”…
A Race To Stop the ‘Race to the Bottom’
Austin does its hand at restoring sanity
Mobility Bond: Ready, Set, Go
Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Spam in Hawaii, toads in China, and more in here
Interview
Detroit MC making the revolution irresistible
Reviews
Peelander-Z P-TV-Z (Chicken Ranch) What’s Peelander-Z if not a Saturday morning cartoon? The NYC-based, Japanese action-troupe lost nothing in translation during its early Ramones upbringing, and in that regard, its kiddie-aimed P-TV-Z – fully realized locally in a mere nine days – sounds like most Peelander-Z albums. Nonsensical, three-chord J-pop aimed at the inner child…
Off the Record
Fun Fun Fun Fest by the numbers and Asleep at the Wheel’s Top 40
Headlines
� Back to the grind: City Council meets today, Thursday, Nov. 4, with agenda items including an item phasing in citywide recycling at apartments, condos, businesses, bars, and restaurants. See “City Hall Hustle.” � Proposition 1, the city of Austin’s $90 million mobility bond package, won by a comfortable margin on election night – a…
Taco Wars
Three homegrown chains thrive on the competition
Interview
The ground zero of Motor City rhythm & blues
Reviews
Kaki King Junior (Rounder) Given her smoky, Suzanne Vega-esque vocals leading into the Belly-like burst that kicks off Kaki King’s fifth LP, Junior, the six-string acrobat has traversed many a musical lifetime since debuting as a young twentysomething virtuoso crafting instrumental discs. Same goes for “Spit It Back in My Mouth,” featuring the still-young Atlantan’s…
Page Two: That Was Then
The case for improving the quality of strategic political fictions
Travis Judicial Dems Win One, Lose One
Democrat secures county judicial race, while Republican wins 3rd Court seat
The Hightower Report
Save the Billionaires; and Monsanto Takes a Tumble
Interview
Greg Graffin’s evolution of anarchy
Reviews
Deerhunter Halcyon Digest (4AD) “You can’t take too long making up songs,” reasons Bradford Cox at a near-whisper halfway through the frail “Sailing” on Halcyon Digest. That’s an apt summation of the Deerhunter and Atlas Sound frontman’s aesthetic. He’s a bedroom pop provocateur, crafting meticulous neo-gaze confessionals with various levels of awkwardness and anxiety, masked…
Soccer Watch
Aztex fallout continues, and more
Doggett Defeats the Doctor
Dem congressman manages narrow win
Interview
Nineties guitar heroes return to Today’s Active Lifestyles
Comedy
Saturday and Sunday, 1-8pm, Yellow stage Fun Fun Fun’s ever-expanding Yellow stage reminds me of, you know, that one movie where nerds get revenge on jocks and in the end everyone learns a little bit about themselves. Last year’s highlight may have been Metallagher, the Metallica cover band fronted by a Gallagher impersonator, so this…
National Pro Fastpitch All-Stars Back to School – College Tour
Cat Osterman returns to the 40 Acres
Same Board of Miseducation?
Republicans to represent Travis County on SBOE
Go Big or Go Home
Drafthouse Films gets into the distribution game with Four Lions
Interview
Craig Finn walks into a bar …
The Common Law
Can the City Inspect My Backyard?
Football Watch
Another tough week for football in Texas
Everything’s Coming Up Polish
Highlights from the fifth annual Austin Polish Film Festival
Preview
Fun Fun Fun Fest by the blurb
The ‘It’ Program
Musical theatre struts back onstage at Texas State to rave reviews
30 Things
The highs, the lows, the lists
Saw 3D: The Final Chapter
This seventh film in the horror series promises to be the last.
SXSW 2010 Alums on the Big Screen and Small
Screening news for Marwencol, Strange Powers, and Lovers of Hate
Saturday Preview
Beat Box Noon-8:45pm, Blue stage NickNack (noon): Preeminent mover and shaker of Austin hip-hop, producer, DJ, and Crowd Control label owner NickNack kicks the fest off at noon with the moody/melodic instrumentals of Dearly Departed. The League of Extraordinary Gz (1:05pm): This ATX hip-hop conglomerate, featuring members of Dred Skott, Southbound, and C.O.D., is the…
Arts Review
Modern couples revert to savagery in a savagely funny diorama come to life
City Hall Hustle: Waste Not, Want Not
Council considers closing loopholes in recycling code
Due Date
Road comedy hits the sweet spot with Robert Downey Jr. and Zach Galifianakis.
TV Eye: Forgotten Heroes
The Longoria Affair chronicles a moment in Mexican-American history most people have never heard about
Sunday Preview
Mother Falcon 12:15pm, Orange stage An orchestral group of various sizes and shifting personnel, Mother Falcon delivers on every level. Fronted by Nick Gregg, the locals’ symphonic pop is at once ethereal and organic on this year’s five-song debut EP, Still Life, a feathery swoop of strings, horns, and vocals taking flight majestically on stage.…
Arts Review
Despite its faults, City Theatre’s staging stirs up strong emotions
Perry: Onward and Fed Upward
Is Perry eyeing something bigger and better than his Texas victory?
Megamind
This animated film is vibrant and exceedingly clever, but also a rather slight thing for such mega-sized proportions.
Gypsy Picnic Trailer Food Festival
Has the food trailer fad gotten away from you? Catch up at this weekend’s trailer food fest.
Reviews
Mastodon Jonah Hex EP (Warner Bros.) Polarizing hysteria caused by 2009’s Crack the Skye recoils a 33-minute download of six movie-score instrumentals from this past spring’s straight-to-infinity DC Comics Western Jonah Hex. Nine minutes of hardening cement on “Death March” become a demo by Atlanta’s indie metal behemoth given its alternate take, a third-act holocaust…
Arts Review
Spoken word added spark, but dance still spoke the loudest in Tapestry’s show
GOP Keeps Grip on High Court
Austin attorney loses bid to break lock
Four Lions
This very black comedy about a group of bumbling jihadists is farce that ain’t foolin’ from the mind of British satirist Chris Morris.
Beer Flights
New brews bring much good news to choosy brew consumers
Reviews
High on Fire Snakes for the Divine (E1) Motoring a German Messerschmitt, Snakes for the Divine’s eight-minute opening title track (“rise up, fall down”) notches a peak blitzkrieg for Oakland metal trio Matt Pike, Jeff Matz, and Des Kensel. Final Relapse anvil Death Is This Communion (2007) might never be breached, but lacking such compositional…
Day Trips
Mission Nuestra Señora del Refugio was the last Spanish religious outpost established in Texas and the last one to be closed
Point Austin: Big Wounds, Small Comforts
The early lessons of a backlash election
Fair Game
The performances of Sean Penn and Naomi Watts make this film rendition of the Valerie Plame affair a study in acting.
Luv Doc Recommends: 2010 Lone Star Vegetarian Chili Cook-Off
The world is teeming with all kinds of animals you can kill and cook and eat. A good number of them taste like chicken – at least that’s what the man at the fried-rat stand in Taipei is going to tell you. Of course, pretty near anything is going to taste like chicken if it’s…
