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Mars Needs Shock Jocks?

“An educated city like Austin deserves a news/talk radio station that at least attempts to provide professional news and honest commentary,” said Dean Navarro. “KLBJ-AM ain’t that station.” Navarro and his political action committee – Save Our Ears – is leading a petition campaign either to recall the entire radio station or send it into…

by Michael King

Food for Thought

The current vogue for recalls in Austin has spread far past the political realm. The latest wave, started by anonymous political action committee We Have Reservations, seeks to remove pretension and snark from local food journalism by removing Austin Chronicle Food Editor Brandon Watson. (Editor’s note: Since I am the only staffer in the Chronicle…

by Brandon Watson

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

According to Joseph Boskin of Boston University, April Fools’ Day began under the rule of Constantine. A group of court jesters told Constantine they could do a better job of running the empire, and he allowed a jester named Kugel to be king for one day. Kugel passed an edict calling for absurdity on that…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

#AustinRecallAll

Various political action committees are pushing a variety of other causes. A few of the petitions currently trending are listed here, along with the primary PAC supporting the effort. Recall: Police Chief Art Acevedo (The “Stop Killing Folks” Coalition) Mayor Steve Adler’s Whispery Voice (Citizens With Ears That Like to Actually Hear Things) Statues of…

by Kevin Curtin, Chase Hoffberger, Kimberley Jones, Amy Kamp and Mary Tuma

Quote of the Week

“He says he voted. He sent it within 72 hours of receiving it.” – Jeff Miller, former Rick Perry campaign manager, denying reports that Perry requested, but did not actually fill out, a ballot in this year’s Republican primary (via KENS-5 San Antonio)

by Chronicle Staff

Headlines

After passing a handful of labor-related issues last week, City Council meets today, March 31, to consider investing in social services, changing up their campaign finance reports, and City Manager Marc Ott’s job performance. Also on the agenda are some 34 Items related to construction contracts and purchasing. See “Council: Labor Protections and Job Evaluations,”…

by Chronicle Staff

Phases & Stages

Obliging NBA superstar LeBron James’ call for “those untitled tracks,” Untitled Unmastered shouldn’t be considered an uncalculated affair. In one of the better uses of B-sides in recent memory – if they could reasonably be called such – the Compton MC got the jump on March Madness 2016 with a creatively unhinged and politically charged…

by Kahron Spearman

Phases & Stages

Ever heard of the Tunguska event? In 1908, a massive explosion in the sky permanently impacted remotest Siberia. Austin’s own Explosions in the Sky managed the same epoch-changing kind of experience for a brimming hometown audience at designated historical marker the Paramount Theatre. After quickly selling out the evening set, local demand for the instrumental…

by Richard Whittaker

Hornography

Death by Huskies For the second year in a row, the forever-dominant Connecticut Huskies buried the Texas Longhorns, 86-65, behind AP Player of the Year candidate Breanna Stewart’s 21 points and 13 rebounds. The Horns, who entered the tournament with one of their best teams in years, ran up against a Huskies squad on a…

by Kahron Spearman

Phases & Stages

Black metal psychedelia, Oranssi Pazuzu spirals out of any known universe on fourth album Värähtelijä. This isn’t the space that Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about, but rather the acid-laced galactic territory of Sixties mind warps like 2001: A Space Odyssey. Finnish fivepiece named for the Babylonian demon made famous by The Exorcist, Pazuzu, they field…

by Michael Toland

Soccer Watch

Mixed results for the U.S. Men’s program Tuesday night – wrapping up the international break by staying on track to qualify for the 2018 World Cup, but missing out on this summer’s Rio Olympics. The national team thrashed Guatemala, 4-0 in a World Cup qualifier in Columbus, to reverse a dismal 2-0 loss in Guatemala…

by Nick Barbaro

Phases & Stages

For a brief instant, the future of White Denim seemed uncertain. Despite the departure of second guitarist Austin Jenkins and drummer Joshua Block to soul wunderkind Leon Bridges, however, Stiff picks up where the Austin quartet left off. Frontman James Petralli and bassist Steve Terebecki have regrouped in another tight unit with Jonathan Horne, stick…

by Alejandra Ramirez

Spring Cleaning

On May 7, voters will go to the polls to decide whether to go with City Council’s regulations for transportation network companies like Uber and Lyft, or with the very limited rules the TNCs themselves prefer. While the success of that referendum did not carry over to the petition to recall Council Member Ann Kitchen,…

by Amy Kamp

Resident Barack Obama?

Apparently President Barack Obama just can’t get enough of Torchy’s Tacos, traffic, and tech: The first family is set to announce on Friday that they plan to relocate to Austin once the president’s term is up. “The president has been impressed by the city’s natural beauty and bustling economy,” according to a statement issued in…

by Amy Kamp

Public Good or Protectionist Racket?

“Why should one transportation option get the unfair advantage of city funding?” asks Freedom to Ride Austin PAC founder Cyrus Bailey. Bailey’s PAC seeks to recall Capital Metro, arguing that the very concept of public transportation puts a damper on the market for ridesharing. “Of course they’re going to be able to charge $1.25 for…

by Amy Kamp

Don’t Let the Door Hit You on the Way Out

Austin for Austinites: That’s the mantra of rival groups vying to get every non-local to go back to wherever they came from. In an unprecedented push to thin the population, they want everyone deemed insufficiently Austin to be recalled to whence they came from, and for no one else to move here, ever. However, the…

by Richard Whittaker

Call an UberCop©

Uber’s disruptive new on-demand policing solution has hit a temporary snag as authorities take a second look at the company’s app-based firearm licensing. Since the first of the year when the new open-carry gun law went into effect, Uber has been offering on-demand “Citizens on Patrol” services on a limited basis, and says they’ve had…

by Nick Barbaro

Ken Herman —30—

A newly formed political action committee calling itself Austinites4MercyOnUsAll has submitted to the city clerk what members say are sufficient petition signatures to recall Austin American-Statesman metro columnist Ken Herman from his position at the daily. “We just can’t take it anymore,” said A4MOUA organizer Ambrose Pierce. “Whether it’s meathead politics, lame jokes, mirthless puns,…

by Michael King

Austin Diocese Implicated in Child Abuse Suit

On March 10, Father Milton Eggerling became the seventh Austin-based priest to be accused of sexual abuse (according to the Database of Publicly Accused Priests in the United States). Attorney Tahira Khan Mer­ritt filed a civil suit for her client, John Doe 120, who claims he was sexually abused by Eggerling from the ages of…

by Sarah Marloff

Ban the (Honey)Bomb

Following the city’s unsuccessful trade talks with Lubbock for the ghost of Buddy Holly, a group of concerned citizens are calling on the Austin Music Awards to recall at least five of the 30 nods Bob Schneider has amassed over the years. Noting that 2001 was “a long fucking time ago,” the group says this…

by Nina Hernandez

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