Cover Story
Sex Offenders Exposed
Are sex offender laws causing more harm than good?
This Week’s Waste of Time
Take a bad trip courtesy of the Web
Fantastic Fest Flashback: Adam Green’s ‘The Tivo’
FF alumnus slays TiVo, once and for all
Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. III)
The ancient Chinese knew precious little about football
The Daily Hustle: 9/16/10
Don’t miss the Comp Plan boat
TBF Announces Schedule, ‘Chron’ Announces Media Onslaught
Making Texas Book Festival prep easy for you
MTV Meat: It’s What’s for Dinner
2010 VMA Awards Wake: The Postmortem
Preserve the Paramount
Your vote could net the Paramount a nice-sized preservation grant
Festival Daze
A new district throws a party
The Daily Hustle: 9/15/10
Spelman waxes on WTP4, rate increases
UFC’s Erwin Debut
Full card and weigh-in for Fight Night 22
Fantods Gonna Howl: Consider the Archive!
Harry Ransom Center previews its David Foster Wallace collection
Playing With Fire
Perry gets credit when good bills pass (but no blame if they fail)
The Daily Hustle: 9/14/10
Council makes amends, amendments
Dining for Foodies
Foodies + ASA = Appetizing!
Two Off the Stack: A Bible to Party By, and Hints From Heloise
Handy Household Hints From Heloise and The Party Bible
Cho My God!
Nobody does scat so sweetly. Nobody.
Austin Rockin’ 9/13/10
FOX 7 Music picks for the week from a Chronic hairball
The Daily Hustle: 9/13/10
Live-blogging the budget business
The Sunday Survey: 10/12/10
A storm, a firing, a budget and Four Lions
Dinah Ticket Update
You can still get tickets for Dinah at the door
Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. II)
A roundup of pro and college football
MetroAccess Public Meetings Begin
Expect fierce discussion over paratransit changes
The September Issue
Chronicle Creative Director Jason Stout unveils this week’s cover
Aztex Shorthanded in Puerto Rico; Playoff Date Set
Injuries take toll on Aztex travel squad
And the Winner Is…
Let’s see who won tickets to HRC’s Dinah party!
Refilling the Charity Coffers
CenTex Red Cross stretched by floods
The Best of the Best in Gainesville
No. 5 UT volleyball takes on two of the Top 4 teams in the nation
Step Inside
The Cult’s Ian Astbury on Boris and “The End”
‘Footloose’ and Fancy-Free
A crowdsourced parody/homage – with puppets! – plays tonight
The Daily Hustle: 9/10/10
Sheryl Cole knows what’s up
Muñoz’s Cactus Cafe Plans
New manager talks old traditions, new plans
New in Print
The onetime king of modern sci-fi is becoming less Ray Bradbury and more John le Carré
APD vs. Quintana
Officer Quintana’s arbitration hearing raises additional questions
Péché
What first opened as a new home for absinthe has been reimagined as a comfortable and elegant dining destination
Everyone Else
A German couple teeters on the jagged peaks of passive aggression and self-doubt.
New in Print
What makes this novel and its fresh English-language publication so timely is that its themes have become uncomfortably familiar
City Budget: Here’s Your Adoption Punchlist
When the roll is called up yonder, don’t expect a slam dunk
Asi Es Colombia
This 16-table spot features authentic, homestyle Colombian cuisine in mass quantities for very reasonable prices
The Virginity Hit
This faux documentary chronicles the efforts of a 17-year-old kid to lose his virginity.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar’s Swish Alps of the social season loom on the horizon. Time to strap on those designer skis.
Cap Metro FY 2011: The Highs and Lows
Transit agency looks to partly cloudy budget future
Off the Record
KUT announces a new Cactus Cafe manager, plus this week at the movies
Dabangg
This Hindi action film tells the story of a fearless but corrupt police officer who learns the value of family ties.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In a cost-cutting move, David and Victoria Beckham have laid off six of the gardeners at their estate in France. Park officials in China have found a way to stop people from hogging their benches for too long by fitting steel spikes on a coin-operated timer. If visitors at the Kunlun Mountain National Forest Park…
The Man Who Wasn’t There (If Only)
Gov. Perry’s campaign trail tricks
Point Austin: Drinking, Driving, Shooting … and the APD
Leonardo Quintana hearing full of unintended revelations
TV Eye
Hellcats makes for a kicky start to fall programming
Gay Place
HRC’s Dinah will be chillaxxified by the Gay Place
City Hall Hustle: Ready to Wrap
Budget is ready for council approval, but a few sticking points remain
The Hightower Report
Mott’s Workers Make a Stand; and It’s Raining Overdraft Fees
Headlines
� City Council is still away from the dais but returns Monday, Sept. 13, to adopt the new city budget and set property taxes, utility rates, and more. See “City Hall Hustle” and “City Budget: Here’s Your Adoption Punchlist.” � KUT Austin has selected Matthew Muñoz to lead venerable music venue Cactus Cafe into its…
Phases & Stages
Iron Maiden The Final Frontier (UMe) Having flagged any remaining uncharted territory on Flight 666, Iron Maiden mobilizes The Final Frontier. The British troopers’ 15th studio album, a deep space oddity only a galaxy removed from the Sword’s Warp Riders, matches the renewed vigor of millennial reboot Brave New World. Opening preamble “Satellite 15 ……
Day Trips
Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine is like a year-round summer camp and water park for the whole family
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Sept. 9-16
Phases & Stages
Queens of the Stone Age Rated R Deluxe Edition (Interscope/UMe) Songs for the Deaf was QOTSA’s commercial breakthrough, but 2000’s Rated R, which came before it, notched the eternal “Feel Good Hit of the Summer,” a Rob Halford-backed seven-step program of rock & roll debauchery. Josh Homme fused his Californian stoner metal in Kyuss with…
Cho Jam
Comedy is her life, but Margaret Cho is just mad about the music
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Phases & Stages
Neurosis Live at Roadburn 2007 (Neurot Recordings) Neurosis’ rare live performances double as exorcism ceremonies. The Bay Area avant-metal act taps into something ineffable during the 80-minute spiritual reckoning of Live at Roadburn 2007, its third and strongest authorized bootleg. Split primarily between that year�s Given to the Rising and 2006’s The Eye of Every…
Arts Review
Aerialists add theatrical magic to the myths here, but a Texas twang sounds off
Stranger Than Paradise
Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow’s Parties stages a music festival for its own
Sabores Auténticos de México
This black-tie affair celebrates the anniversary of Mexican independence
Phases & Stages
John Mellencamp On the Rural Route 7609 (Mercury/Island/UMe) Welcome to the chopped-and-screwed version of John Mellencamp. Like 2005 Billy Joel box set My Lives in its anti-hits recasting of the singer’s songwriting auteurship – and falling short of Austinite Ian McLagan’s stream-of-consciousness Faces treasure chest, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar … – this 4-CD…
Arts Review
This site-specific show is in a lovely home, but the characters in it lack depth
Oops!
A passage in last week’s News story “Louis Malfaro and 18 Years of AISD Politics” contained the wrong acronym. The passage refers to Malfaro’s optimism that “the statewide TFA” could “follow the Education Austin model.” In fact, “TFA” should have been “AFT,” for the American Federation of Teachers.
Event Menu
Eating and drinking, drinking and eating, all the while helping others
Phases & Stages
Grass Widow Past Time (Kill Rock Stars) There’s nostalgia for the Xeroxed and stapled not-so-distant past on Grass Widow’s Kill Rock Stars debut. Fortunately, the San Francisco female trio’s circumvention of gender-based comparisons comes in deconstruction, making shaky tempos and tiered harmonies work as a group. In less than 30 minutes, guitarist Raven Mahon, bassist…
Arts Review
Two artists make dazzling use of artifice to explore and explode the artificial
UFC Fight Night Live
Unpacking the octagon for the first time in Austin
Food-o-File
Austinites love local, fresh foods and doing the food-truck shuffle
Phases & Stages
The Walkmen Lisbon (Fat Possum) No one captures a drunken stupor better than the Walkmen. Reportedly inspired by two rainy trips to the Portugese capital, Lisbon nevertheless sounds like a continuation of the NYC outfit’s 2008 turning point, You & Me, a dramatic din of last-call waltzes and dimly lit remembrances. That’s especially true of…
Letters at 3AM: The ‘Austin Sun’ Gets Hung
Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum
Soccer Watch
Aztex top of the league, Longhorns unbeaten
Wine of the Week
An afternoon at a vineyard uncovering what Texas wines have to offer
Phases & Stages
Menomena Mines (Barsuk) Menomena’s made quite the case for the nonconcept concept album. Across three LPs, the last being 2007’s glittering Friend and Foe, the Portland, Ore., trio’s penchant for looping has come down to the micro level. You’re never exactly sure where the sound came from, and just as quickly it’s replaced with something…
But Texas Wants You Anyway
Warren Jeffs resists extradition
Football Watch
Football has begun and all is well in the land
‘MilkMilkLemonade’
Why the Shrewds are doing a play with a giant talking hen and how one plays her
A Legacy on Trial
AFS Documentary Tour presents Killing Kasztner
Feeling a Trifle Damp?
Global warming report predicts ‘extreme precipitation’
Free Dance!
Complimentary classes at Ballet Austin and Tapestry, plus a free monthly tap show
Way, Way Outer Space
Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler
Sierra Sues Luminant
Sierra Club targets one of nation’s ‘dirtiest coal plants’
I’m Still Here
Is Joaquin Phoenix having a meltdown, or is he putting us on? Only his brother-in-the-law, the film’s director, knows for sure.
Culture Flash
Exploring the meaning of public art and competing for a $10,000 commission
Fire It Up
AFS Essential Cinema: Viva la Revolución: Films of the Mexican Revolution
Braise
Braise is a charming place to get an impressive meal for $30 per person
Anton Chekhov’s The Duel
This is an even-handed portrait of discontented lovers: A love that starts out in a fever winds up with lots of pistol-waving.
Luv Doc Recommends: AGLIFF
Don’t let this freak you out, but there are gays all over Austin. Whoa, right? What’s even crazier is that a lot of them don’t even act gay. So, you could be at some totally straight place (like a cigar shop, a Harley dealership, or a Hooters) and bend over to tie your shoes and…
