Cover Story
The Play’s the Thing
Nine local directors on the secrets of season selection
FF2012: Day One of Fantastic Arcade
It’s all about money, stories, and nerds.
Farmers Market Report: September 22, 2012
What to expect at the Farmers Markets this Saturday
Texans Cage Jags, Face Familiar Foe in Manning
Houston (2-0) faces first real test of the season
Waller Creek Revisioned
Four design concepts ready for public viewing
FF2012: Kier-La Janisse is in the House…
…of Psychotic Women
ATTN: Traveling Musicians
Fiona Apple arrested, bypassing Sierra Blanca possibly prudent
The Good Music Club: Moonlight Towers
Live from the ND at 501 Studios
79-Cent Pork Chop Friday at Perry’s
Deluxe steakhouse offer incredibly delicious deal.
Arkie’s Resurrection
Longtime Eastside Diner to be Re-imagined and Re-opened
Headlines: Bonus Round
Trail of Lights, Endeavour, Obama, and more
Apple Busted for Hash in West Texas
Fiona Apple’s show tonight will be rescheduled
Austin Police: Suspect Charged in Downtown Death
One arrested and one still at large in death of Matthew Casey
The AggreGAYtor: September 20
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
The Push Pens at Pride
Texas Hip-Hop with a Positive LGBT Message
Mo’ Music Pride Party Playlist
A fun mix to get into the spirit
FF2012: Tim League Speaks!
What not to miss, why not to miss it
Local Food Companies Win Awards
Austin Slow Burn and Michael Angelo’s Gourmet Foods are big winners
That’s What Friends Are For
PFLAG Austin are always in step
Everything Went Black: Why Fantastic Fest is Motörhead…
…And vice versa.
The Football Prophecies
Journey’s Steve Perry gives a pep talk
Watching on the Web
Famous names like Seinfeld & Hanks ride the web series wave
Dripping Springs Re-con
Tasty new things are happening at the gateway to the Hill Country.
Portraits of Presidential Losers All Over the Walls
SVT Gallery goes national with its newest exhibition
Record Roundup: Election Special
New discs from Ry Cooder, Aimee Mann, Waylon Jennings, and more
The AggreGAYtor: September 19
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Austin Film Festival Unveils Complete Lineup
David Chase’s ‘Not Fade Away’ opens fest
Sons of Fathers
Paper Cuts, September 18, 2012 at the Palm Door
Come Out to StartOut
Bi-coastal non-profit, StartOut, may add Austin as its third home.
Meet Your Grand Marshals
They will be wearing sashes, right?
Realer and Queerer at Bernadette’s
Get Real, Stay Queer
The AggreGAYtor: September 18
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Alamo S. Lamar & Highball Redesigned
The future is now, in the third quarter of 2013
DVD Watch
An on-set ‘Raiders’ doc distinguishes this new Indy collection
Harmonies for the Elderly
Deepa Rajan serenades victims of Alzheimer’s and dementia
Romney: Nearly Half of All Americans Lazy Mooches
Prez hopeful caught on video by Mother Jones
FF2012: An Hour With the Gamemaking Frenzy
Fantastic Arcade incites a 48-hour creative explosion
Calling All Sportsmen – It’s Rugby Time
Austin Rugby Club open tryouts loom
Music for the Soul
Michael Franti spearheads KING fundraiser Thursday
Puerto Rican Inspiration
Simply made delicious food
Hurts So Good
Aggies ATX billboard vandalized
APD Responding to Reported Shots Near LBJ
Campus placed on lockdown as precaution: Suspect now in custody
The AggreGAYtor: September 17
Your daily dose of LGBTQ news
Outlandish OUTlander Lineup
Two venues, five stages, over 40 bands… whoa.
ACCESS News Back on the Air
Innovative news program for Austin’s deaf community
‘Doctor Who’ Watch
7.3: “A Town Called Mercy”
Horns Run, Pass All Over Ye Olde Miss
Ash is almost perfect, defense not, in 66-31 win
Second Round of Papi Tino’s Culinary School Competition
Week Two: Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts
‘The NFL Beat’: Week Two
Back to the grind
Consistenty Will Define Texans in 2012
Should easily cage Jaguars
From the Vaults: Keeping Up With the Jareckis
Nicholas Jarecki, the Arbitrage helmer, joins the Jarecki juggernaut
The Football Prophecies
NFL week two
Radioactive Material Missing in West Texas
Law enforcement on the hunt for small cylinder
Be True to Your School
Members of Growl, Little Lo, and Mother Falcon navigate UT
Nevermind the Score, Texas State Beat Tech
Bobcats enjoy Big-Time Football
Headed Out To See UT Beat Ole Miss in Oxford?
We’ve got some inside info on the best places to eat
The Naked Authenticity of Amanda Palmer
Dresden Doll bares all about Kickstarter and her new album
Cookbook review: Baked Elements
Bakery owners share recipes based on their ten favorite ingredients.
UT Bomb Threat Update
University of Texas’ main campus was evacuated this morning
UT Evacuating
University of Texas under orders of evacuation due to bomb threats
Mondo’s Gallery Show Unveils Today
And we’ve got exclusive Craig Drake artwork right here
Meal Times
Beer pairings, baking demos, and savory Independencia
Council Passes Budget – Minus Mayor’s Vote
A $3.1 billion financial package took two days of wrangling
The Cold Light of Day
A young businessman on vacation in Spain with his family becomes caught in a tangled web of espionage and intrigue in this lackluster follow-up by the director of JCVD.
Food-O-File
Diez y Seis kicks off a season of food and wine fiestas
Cop Terminated After Filing for ADA Accommodation
Amy Lynch wanted to come to work one hour later to help with a sleep disorder
Arbitrage
Richard Gere stars in this thriller as a duplicitous hedge-fund manager who, nevertheless, has all the right moves.
Season Selection Case Study
“To do, or not to do?” That is the question faced by the artistic leadership of theatres across the globe every year. And what these leaders decide to do in terms of programming is most heavily influenced by what they want their theatres to be. That’s especially crucial when opening a new theatre, as Dave…
Exhibitionism
An award-winning new script is staged with passion, but the show doesn’t quite come together
Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Intervention
Original defense attorney called no witnesses and presented no mitigating evidence
Samsara
The director of Baraka returns with this wordless tone poem filled with stunning images and scant meanings.
The Stats
Factors that contextualize and drive the decision-making process for the theatre’s season. AUSTIN PLAYHOUSE www.austinplayhouse.com Don Toner, producing artistic director Type: Professional – Actors’ Equity Association union contracts with actors and stage managers; all artists and technicians paid Venue: After producing a season in a temporary facility, the Playhouse has broken ground on its long-planned…
Classic Jewish Comfort Food Elevated With Modern Techniques
Traditional Jewish food your Bubbe would be proud of
LCRA and Utilities Fight Over Contracts
River authority could lose half of its electric revenues
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie
This documentary, co-directed by the film’s subject, is both the realization of a lifelong dream and an intriguing, if incomplete, portal into the way the subject’s brain works.
Fall Arts Issue Critics Picks
From the arts harvest, our critics pluck choice treats
Exhibitionism
This meditation on the blurring of theatre and life doesn’t quite seem to fit in a punk club
Hightower Report: Paul Ryan’s Run-in With Truth
About that marathon time …
Wild Horse, Wild Ride
In this documentary, nine horse trainers have 100 days to transform their mustangs from wild creatures to trusting companions before competing in the Extreme Mustang Makeover.
Locavore Chef
Jesse Griffiths on fishing, hunting, and ‘French encouragement’
Exhibitionism
A breathtaking aerial dance that successfully connects the earthly with the heavenly
Civics 101
Thursday 13 AISD BOARD OF TRUSTEE FORUM NO. 2 Learn more about the candidates before the AISD board of trustees election Nov. 6. Sponsored by Education Austin. 7-9pm. Texas State Teachers Assoc., 316 W. 12th. DEMOCRACY AND THE NEW ECONOMY Gar Alperovitz speaks on “Democratizing the Emerging Economy,” with insights on cooperative ownership, the failures…
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
There’s just too much everything in this chop-socky actioner by Tsui Hark.
Texas Book Festival Announces 2012 Lineup
Hot off the press: Justin Cronin, Junot Díaz, and Cheryl Strayed among 200 authors to attend
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
According to Oxford University Press, shine can be a transitive verb (shine, shined, shined) or an intransitive verb (shine, shone, shone). Toilet paper used to be advertised as “splinter free.” The Tampa-St. Petersburg area has the highest rate of homelessness in the U.S., according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness. There are 57 homeless…
Quote of the Week
“Sausage.” – Council Member Bill Spelman, filling a pause on the dais as council members haggled over a budget item. For more on the budget, see p.16.
Barfi!
This heartwarming Bollywood tale tells the life story of a man who is deaf and mute but lives life to the fullest.
East Austin Studio Tour
When local artists open their spaces, follow the crowd
Fall On Me
Three fall Austin music perennials.
Then There’s This: Redemption, Texas
Theatre en Bloc Brings one gay rights activist’s fight to the stage
Life Is Beautiful
Life Is Beautiful 2012, NR, 167 min. Directed by Sekhar Kammula, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Abhijith, Kaushik, Rashmi, Zara. Not reviewed at press time. Six youngsters come of age in this Telugu film.
Afield: A Chef’s Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish
Afield: A Chef’s Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish by Jesse Griffiths; photos by Jody Horton, foreword by Andrew Zimmern Welcome Books, 272 pp., $40 Afield is more than a cookbook. It’s also a collection of true short stories about a man enamored with the philosophy and practice of living from the…
AISD’s Wish List
Superintendent Meria Carstarphen gave her facility recommendations, but what’s next is up in the air
Blue Baker
This bakery satisfies your sweet tooth
Phases & Stages
Dead Can Dance ACL Live at the Moody Theater, Sept. 7 Romantic couplings in music – Sonny & Cher, Fleetwood Mac, Sonic Youth – seldom reach happily ever after. English liaisons – Richard & Linda Thompson, Cocteau Twins – smolder mostly below the surface, and once breached – Eurythmics, Wham – die. Australian Dead Can…
Headlines
› With Mayor Lee Leffingwell voting no, City Council on Tuesday approved a $3.1 billion budget for the 2012-13 fiscal year, which takes effect Oct. 1. See “Council Passes Budget – Minus the Mayor’s Vote.” › City Manager Marc Ott says more funding is needed to finish building the problem-plagued Water Treatment Plant No. 4.…
A Woman’s Place Is in the Mosque
AFS Doc Night: ‘The Light in Her Eyes’
Phases & Stages
Swans The Seer (Young God Records) Veterans of avant-garde post-rock, Swans bring 30 years of experimental experience to a dramatic peak with two discs of chaos and beauty. Anchored by three tracks stretching past 19 minutes with only momentary lapses of Western conventionality, The Seer stands as an immense and jarring homage to unpredictability. Clocking…
Playback: I’m Sorry, I Can’t Rock You All Night Long
An epic GrulkeFest fires the fall season, including John Prine
The Med School Solution
A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?
Phases & Stages
Purity Ring Shrines (4AD) Like many electronic pop contemporaries, Purity Ring made its rounds on the Internet first. Canadian duo Megan James and production guru Corin Roddick took their time capitalizing on the hype, which now makes debut LP Shrines all the sweeter as it pulls through ghostly head-trips of throbbing bass. Single “Obedear” has…
Day Trips
Mount up for the King Ranch Annual Ranch Hand Breakfast
That Time We Blowed Shit Up Real Good
Rambo 101 at Fantastic Fest
Phases & Stages
Dirty Projectors Swing Lo Magellan (Domino) High art concepts executed with tyrannical precision: 2005’s The Getty Address recounts an Aztec vision quest in search of Don Henley; 2007’s Rise Above reimagines Black Flag’s hardcore classic Damaged; and 2010’s Mount Wittenberg Orca weaves eccentricities with Björk. On Swing Lo Magellan, head Projectionist David Longstreth finally loosens…
Soccer Watch
The UT Longhorns are 2-6, riding a four-game losing streak, and they seem to have lost any sense of rhythm and ball control they had in the early season. On the bright side, they have two final nonconference games in the friendly confines of Myers Stadium to get recalibrated before the Big 12 conference season…
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar goes glam. No, really. You should go to Facebook and see the pictures.
Phases & Stages
Steve Von Till/Scott Kelly/Wino Songs of Townes Van Zandt (Neurot) Given the thick streak of darkness running through the Townes Van Zandt oeuvre, it’s no surprise his tunes appeal to like-minded musos outside the folk universe. Scott Kelly and Steve Von Till of art-metal aggregation Neurosis and Scott “Wino” Weinrich of pioneering stoner rockers Saint…
Gay Place: Austin Pride Parade
A look back at the 2009 Pride Parade as we prepare for 2012
Keeping Busy
Armendariz moves from the EPA to the Sierra Club, still defending the environment
Phases & Stages
Inscrutable indie songwriter in conversation
Hornucopia
Saturday’s 45-0 victory over the New Mexico Lobos, a team that has won four games in four years, concludes the Mountain West Conference portion of the Longhorns schedule. Texas (2-0) paid a million dollars to the university of the state best known as where Breaking Bad takes place, just so the Horns could keep mountin’…
Wine of the Week: William Chris Vineyards
This Hye, Texas vineyard is worth a trip
SXSW Eco and TribFest: Festivals for the Rest of Y’all
Sate your inner policy wonk at these two fall favorites
The Luv Doc: Rubber Bands
Good Morning Dr. Luv I have to admit your voicemail was pretty original. I loved it. I left you a voicemail about a sale on rubber bands we are having right now at Band-it Rubber Company. I don’t know the quantity you use, but the pricing changes a little if you order less than 500…
