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Halloween Mask Instructions
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This Week’s Waste of Time
The playable Independent Games Festival entries, part 2
The Daily Hustle: 11/4/10
State rep’s death passes pallor over council
Chris Morris Talks Terrorist Comedy
UK hit Four Lions touches down in Austin
Cover Reveal 11/5/2010
Please ignore the continuity errors.
Doggett Victory Speech [Video]
Congressman survives Tea Party challenge
Another Hill Country
Cody Dickinson’s Hill Country Revue is a different kind of zebra
Wednesday Rewind
Quiet Company gets Rock-afired, plus Darden Smith and Kydd Jones
AFF Announces Audience Winners
Phil Rosenthal doc nabs prize
Grabbing the Season by the Horns
UT volleyball dominates of late
Vote for (Harmony and) Me
Bob Byington’s latest up for a Gotham Audience Award
Happy Birthday to The Ritz
Austin’s historic Sixth St. theater is 81 years young.
The Daily Hustle: 11/3/10
City Council weighs in on local losses
APD Sucks Blood And Calls it a Success
Drivers refusing breathalyzer get blood sucked
Pot Still Illegal in California
At least as of midnight in the ATX
Updated Travis Results, House Races
Counting complete: Howard survives, others don’t
Doggett Declares Victory
Dem apparently holds off Tea Party challenge
Prop 1 Partying
Council members toast passage of transpo prop, look to future
CD 25: Up in the Air?
Campbell’s challenge to Doggett turns out to be strong
Writing on the Wall in SBOE Races
Republicans notch solid wins in Districts 5 and 10
More Bad News for Area Democrats
Rose, Maldonado getting hammered
Travis County Early Voting Results
Democratic incumbents in trouble early
Early Returns for Commissioners Court
Incumbents safe so far
Early TX-25 Results
Doggett appears to have comfortable lead
Prop 1 Up in Early Voting
Transpo bond supporters lead by 10,000 votes
XBRMNT’s Top 10 for the Week of Nov. 2
After a weekend full of fright and frolic, Manic Monday was laid back.
DJ BJ’s List for Tues. Nov. 2
“G6” hits G1, aka number one.
TheGlitoris’ Top TraXXX for the Week of November 2
Top traXXX for you to get your whacks.
Pot at the Polls
Things not looking too good for pot-law reform measures
‘Mo Music: New Music Tuesday
Get some with Lykke Li and Gay Place
Milezo on the Rise
Why Austin’s U21 bands are unique
The Daily Hustle: 11/2/10
Closing arguments in bond bout
Today Is Election Day
Polls open 7am-7pm
News AggreGAYte for the Week of Nov. 1
Catch up on the queer beat with Gay Place
Well, That Was Quick…
In this week’s Biznasty: The end of the “It Gets Better” campaign.
Governor Don’t Care
Book tour plans and talk of partial term
So Who’s Trying to Steal the Election?
Republicans and Democrats trade accusations
I Can’t Get No…
Devo canceled, but a good interview remains
The Daily Hustle: 11/1/10
Your City Council agenda preview
Road Trip: H&M to Open in Dallas
First Texas location opens Summer 2011
Bedside Manner: Tales From the Commute
What’s crowning Jay Trachtenberg’s bedside table
Mourning Hickenlooper and Blount
Two friends of AFF die suddenly
Happy NaNoWriMo!
What better time to get cracking on that novel?
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 1982, R, 114 min. Directed by Colin Higgins, Starring Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise, Charles Durning. Dolly, Burt, and the gang at the Chicken Ranch invite you to join them in song, if not in the flesh, in this musical comedy.
Oz Clarke on Texas Wines
A private tasting with the English wine expert
Spookin’ Up Sixth Street
More debauchery and less clothes than usual on Sixth Street
Final Early Vote Totals
2010 voting well ahead of 2006
Invierno for Inverts
Winter is all up on us…
Travis GOP Calls DeBeauvoir Incompetent
County clerk argues last-minute call for workers is normal
Fun Fun Fupdate
Descendents and more added
Travis Dems Allege GOP Voter Intimidation Plot
Claim East and SE Austin minorities targeted
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Gets Gubernatorial
Race for guv, Prop 1 and more APD drama
Travis County Needs Poll Workers
Clerk asks for 100 to fill paid positions
The Lineup
Recommended music for Halloween weekend and beyond!
The Daily Hustle: 10/29/10
Ex-Mayors jam City Hall to support Prop 1
Last Day of Early Voting
No excuses, people
Arts Review
Owen Egerton brings several of his characters from page to stage in hilarious style
Point Austin: Why Vote?
The real choices at the top and bottom of the ballot
Like Dandelion Dust
This adoption drama tells a story about the biological parents of a 10-year-old boy who want to reclaim their child from his adoptive parents.
Space Invaders on a Shoestring Budget
Monsters is the best monster movie of the millennium (so far)
Arts Review
TexARTS’ revival boasts a lovely Patsy, superb music, and a killer green dress
Get in the Ring
Perry’s refusal to meet challengers – and editorial boards – is all swagger, no sweat
City Hall Hustle: Trying to Share the Work
Council tweaks MBE/WBE rules to broaden contract participation
All Down the Line
Forget the Exile on Main St. reissue. Here’s the 1972 Stones in all their cinematic glory, plus a 1981 bonus to make it a double feature.
Austin Lyric Opera’s Stampede
The opera launches a festival to celebrate Austin’s musical diversity
Attorney General: Abbott Amps Up Conservative Credentials
Radnofsky points to attorney general’s flip-flop on immigration
Headlines
� City Council convenes today, Thursday, Oct. 28, to a 75-item agenda without much controversy. However, Water Treatment Plant No. 4-related road improvements and changes to women- and minority-owned business contracting may be the exceptions to the rule. See “Running the Numbers,” and “City Hall Hustle.” � In the wake of his reinstatement, Austin Police…
Phases & Stages
Neil Young Le Noise (Reprise) From its first chord hit and sustained, distortion displacing air, Le Noise courts Neil Young’s classic platters. “I feel your love,” begins the forever Bay Area Canadian. “I feel your strong love. I feel the patience of unconditional love.” Good thing, too, since we the planet gave that up beginning…
Tapestry Dance Company
Poet Zell Miller III joins the dancers of Tapestry to make music together
Reading the Redistricting Tea Leaves
What havoc will redistricting wreak this time?
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Phases & Stages
Frank Erwin Center, Oct. 22
New Works Theater Community
Austin theatre groups band together and land $90,000 to support making new work
All Workman and No Play
House District 47’s Republican candidate fights battles on three fronts
Quintana Reinstated … and Reterminated
Arbitrator rules in favor of fired Officer Leonardo Quintana … then Quintana gets fired again
Phases & Stages
Superchunk Majesty Shredding (Merge) Of all the 1990s acts reconvening for albums, none picks up where it left off quite like Superchunk does on its first LP in close to 10 years. The Chapel Hill quartet’s label, founded by singer/guitarist Mac McCaughan and bassist Laura Ballance, is now home to heavies like the Arcade Fire…
After a Fashion
A child is born … in a manger … in New Orleans
EMS Group Rescinds Eckhardt Endorsement
Eckhardt loses backers over support of response-time study
The Case That Never Closes
SCJC seeks reconsideration of Keller ruling
Phases & Stages
Die Antwoord $O$ (Interscope/Cherrytree) South Africa’s great white hype, Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for “The Answer”) is a NSFW riddle wrapped in an enigma and uploaded to YouTube. The duo – Ninja, a skeletal, tattooed rapper obsessed with his namesake, and sidekick Yo-Landi Vi$$er, an albino nymphet who recently turned down the heroin(e) role in David…
An Altar-nate View
Liven up the boo-ring Halloween season with Día de los Muertos celebrations
Tea Party Group To Release Financial Records
Texas Dems wrangle with Houston’s King Street Patriots
Phases & Stages
Warpaint The Fool (Rough Trade) Warpaint’s 2009 EP, Exquisite Corpse, hinted at the L.A. quartet’s ambidexterity, but its colors were muted. On debut LP The Fool, the highlights and lowlights intensify with every cut. Standout “Bees,” with its pinging guitars, and “Composure,” a slow-burning cheerleader chant, demonstrate how all four women work to tangle and…
Inside Kate Heyhoe’s Skull
Wimberley resident Kate Heyhoe has a long history in the food business as one of the pioneers of online food writing, an editor of The Global Gourmet for 14 years, and author of eight books on food and wine. But her latest endeavor is a complete 180-degree turnaround. Inspired by Day of the Dead sugar…
Election Headlines
� Election watch parties: Travis County Democrats and their candidates will hunker down Tuesday at the Driskill Hotel, 604 Brazos, while state Republicans will gather at an exotic game ranch in Buda. Both groups will get their respective parties started at 7pm. � Are Democrats worried about Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s job security? “If we wake…
Raising the (Green) Roof
Austin’s Green Roof Advisory Group to deliver its report to council
Phases & Stages
Charles Lloyd Quartet Mirror (ECM) As the title of Charles Lloyd’s 14th ECM release implies, Mirror largely reflects back. Revisiting a handful of tunes he’s previously recorded for the label over the past two decades, the Golden State saxophonist and composer offers fresh interpretations of the title track, “Go Down Moses,” “Desolation Sound,” “The Water…
Book Review
This cookbook isn’t for beginners, but the recipes are meticulously documented, gorgeously photographed, and delicious if you take your time with them
Dollars to Donors in Bond Election
Who’s giving what to which group?
Teachers Want Books Checked at Pension Fund
TRS internal investigation isn’t credible, union president says
New in Print
This ingenious debut novel is set in a time-skipping future
Book Review
This hefty tome is an unparalleled resource, but it’s not for everyone
Dark Insinuations
Ray Donley steps from the shadows to talk about his art
The Real Cost of a Lap Dance?
Lawsuit cites violation of wage laws at strip clubs
New in Print
In this fourth Tiffany Aching novel, the young witch becomes a woman
Event Menu
Spooky foodie events
Day Trips
Mustang Island State Park consistently rates among the busiest parks in the state system
Running the Numbers
Previewing this week’s agenda
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Jimmy Carter, loam, Lassie, figs, and expenses
Time To Talk Turkey
Local farms prepare pastured turkeys for holiday tables
Gay Place
Democracy is ugly
The Hightower Report
Free (Corporate) Speech; and Corporations Take the Money and Run
Round Rock Honey Celebrates a Million Bottles
The bee man with the honey plan makes a million
Soccer Watch
Austin Aztex skip town, and more
Monsters
In this startlingly original indie film, a road trip combines with an alien invasion to remind us of our ageless fear of otherness.
‘Chronicle’ Endorsements
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A1101588
Food-o-File
Green Corn, Bola Pizza, holiday baking contests, and more
Eastside Lacrosse Tourney
Introducing lacrosse to the Eastside
Paranormal Activity 2
Although this follow-up is considerably spookier than the original, there are only so many gotcha moments that can transpire without feeling wholly contrived.
Nov. 2 Joint General and Special Elections
Early voting continues through Friday, Oct. 29
Hellraisers
How classic horror movies made misfits out of these rockers
Football Watch
Brokenhearted, broken, and torn � the story of football in Texas
Conviction
Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell star in this real-life legal drama in which a woman goes to law school in an attempt to exonerate her brother.
TV Eye: Gleering
Parents Television Council chides Glee, misses the point
Austin Film Festival Announces Juried Competition Awards
UT alums came up big at Saturday’s awards ceremony
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Oct. 28-Nov. 4
Last Train Home
This small masterpiece of documentary filmmaking offers an intimate look at the impact of China’s industrial growth.
Luv Doc Recommends: Butthole Surfers Halloween Shows
The best thing about Halloween isn’t the candy; it’s about making memories. Sure, it’s plenty of fun to get all jacked up on candy corn and Pixy Stix and run through the neighborhood wilding trick-or-treaters in your flammable Chinese-made Darth Vader costume, but when the sugar rush subsides, a night of whacking unsuspecting kids on…
