Cover Story
Collective Burgeoning
For the artists of Okay Mountain, it was a very good year
Fantastic Fest: ‘Let Me In’
Opening night at the Paramount, with the geeky spirit of FF fully intact
‘Lone Star’ Needs Your Love, and Is Not Afraid to Beg for It
Show creator Kyle Killen writes an open letter on his blog
The Daily Hustle: 9/23/10 (Updated)
Lil Wayne, Lil Kim – Lil Zilker? Park naming, rezoning & more
This Week’s Waste of Time
A free browser game from Fantastic Fest that you can play at home
Notes of a Football Addict (Vol. IV)
College and pro rundown
Fantastic Fest: ‘Tetsuo: The Bullet Man’
Shinya Tsukamoto returns to his cyber-horror roots
Fantastic Fest: ‘Redline’
Madhouse Studio’s hi-octane anime burns the competition
Fantastic Fest: ‘Golden Slumber’
Nakamura’s ‘Slumber’ is golden.
Fantastic Fest: ‘Machete Maidens Unleashed!’
Q&A with documentarian Mark Hartley
Jonathan Blow Talks Fantastic Fest
Indie gaming stalwart talks ethics, elves, and Braid: The Movie
Austin’s Promise Deferred
Neighborhoods miss out on initial Fed grants
Games People: Play
Twenty Four Game Poems explores an engaging form of expression
UT’s Day After Tomorrow Is Here
Maybe Dennis Quaid was right about UT athletics
The Daily Hustle: 9/22/10
Comp Plan passes the Doobie
It’s 4pm, Do You Know Where Your Kids Are? Stitch Lab!
Afterschool classes for tweens and teens
AFF Announces Film Lineup
Black Swan! Meek’s Cutoff! Blue Valentine!
Victore, Victorious!
James Victore reveals his hot-as-shit graphics at the HRC tonight
No Aloha
Going long distance with Kim Deal
Review on the Fly: The New ‘Hawaii Five-0’
CBS reboots a Seventies favorite
The Daily Hustle: 9/21/10
What’s on the council agenda?
Austin Rockin 9/20/10
HAAM Day takes center stage this week in Austin music on FOX 7
Where Do Terror Babies Come From?
Debbie Riddle digs that conspiracy hole deeper
Monday is Bunday!
…give our sponsors some love…
The Daily Hustle: 9/20/10
Unpacking items from council
The Sunday Survey: 9/19/10
Perry debate-dodges and council budget-passes
Bloody Good and Scary Bloody
Being Human season 2 airs tonight, hits DVD Sept. 21
Roller Derby Update: 9/18/10
Lonestars finish the season, Texies pack their travel bags
‘Cowboys Chronicles’
Book covers every season and every game
Four Pawed Unveiling
Ad Hoc Creative Director Evee Barbaro unveils the 9/17/10 issue cover
One Step Closer for Marquardt?
‘The Great’ one dominates at UFC Fight Night 22
Longhorns Face the Horror of Leach-less Tech
In search of …
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Is up for Adoption
The city budget, pedicabs, and faulty fire science
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Billy Corgan on the Smashing Pumpkins, the Source Family, and Sky Saxon
The Daily Hustle: 9/17/10
Volunteerism event asks, ‘WWGD?’
Texas Platters
The Black Angels Phosphene Dream (Blue Horizon) Cold sweat beading the Black Angels’ full-length debut, 2006’s Passover, on boutique Seattle indie Light in the Attic, still pools like malaria. “The First Vietnamese War” teamed with “The Sniper at the Gates of Heaven” (also an EP) power a dread electric hum of reverberating chants, conspiracy guitars,…
After a Fashion
Like God on the seventh day, Your Style Avatar deserves a rest after schmoozing with Carson Kressley
How the West (Lynn) Was Won
Jeffrey’s half-price happy hour menu is a great way to introduce yourself to this West Austin bastion of fine dining
Soccer Watch
Aztex on the road; Champions League, here and across the pond
Texas Platters
Randy Rogers Band Burning the Day (MCA Nashville) The fifth studio release from the Randy Rogers Band is supposed to be a groundbreaker. After having Radney Foster produce its last two discs, the Hill Country fivepiece moved to studio vet Paul Worley, who’s worked with the Dixie Chicks and Big & Rich, among a long…
In Print: Texas Book Festival Authors
In this beautifully written short novel, García revisits the theme of cultural identity that arises from the isolation and dislocation from one’s homeland
How the West (Lynn) Was Won
Chef Daniel Hunt’s revamped menu offers surprising, transcendent flavors
Bracing for Impact
Boxing, wrestling, and Roller Derby are on the card this weekend
Texas Platters
Windsor for the Derby Against Love (Secretly Canadian) The tortoise of Austin’s Trance Syndicate era during the 1990s, Windsor for the Derby continues inching forward. Recalling the duo’s collaborative process at the millennium, Against Love was hatched long distance, Dan Matz and Jason McNeely exchanging static drones and shaping them into something more substantial. WFTD’s…
In Print: Texas Book Festival Authors
A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud
Pick Your Poison
The sweetest little bar in town serves up classic cocktails
Point Austin: Saving the Animals
City considers outsourcing all animal adoption programs
Texas Platters
Bee vs. Moth Acronyms (Aggraveire) Take the opening clamor of “Salisbury Steakhouse” into the more subdued mood music of “Now More Than Ever” and “Tuesday in Tuskegee,” and this instrumental quintet’s second and latest is a study in symmetry. Though Bee vs. Moth’s tempos can change on a whim, there’s never a feeling of disarray.…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Peter Gabriel won the most Video Music Awards in one year – he won 10 in 1980. Madonna has won the most in her career with 20. Batman’s first female ally was named Vicki Vale. If you shake a cocktail for around 12-15 seconds, neither the type of ice you use nor your shaking style…
Pick Your Poison
The old Whisky Bar location has a ritzy replacement
Headlines
� City Council adopted the new city budget on Monday; with that behind them, they’ll skip the regular meeting today (Thursday) and will next meet Sept. 23 to consider social services contracts, an amendment to the Domain agreement, Waller Creek, Airport Boulevard, and more. See “City Hall Hustle,” for a budget breakdown. � Portions of…
Texas Platters
The Service Industry Calm Down. (Sauspop) Onstage antics are a large part of the appeal of the Service Industry, but the sextet on disc is more restrained. Calm Down., its fourth, finds the local crew all over the musical map as ever, skewering modern life with spiked assurance. With a pedigree that includes Cher UK,…
The Hightower Report
Chickens Come Home To Roost; and Cut Congress, Not Food Stamps
Culture Flash
The city helps artists plan, and a writers’ organization edits its own name
Football Watch
Cowboys fall flat, Texans dominate Colts
Texas Platters
James Hyland & the Joint Chiefs Celestial Navigation If there’s a betting pool for next big singer-songwriters in Austin, James Hyland’s name floats at the top. Hyland initially showcased his talents as founder of the South Austin Jug Band, but Celestial Navigation clearly sets his course for the stars with wonderfully crafted Americana such as…
Texas Preps for Its Close-up
Two fall shows bring it on home
Tommy Tune
The master hoofer isn’t getting older; he’s getting more nonchalant
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Sept. 16-23
Texas Platters
Deadman Live at the Saxon Pub The band name belongs on a metal outfit, but local sextet Deadman bursts with life, resurrected from its previous incarnation in Dallas. Frontman Steven Collins’ facility with songwriting skews the band’s harmonious sound more toward rock than roots (“Absalom! Absalom!,” “Don’t Do This to Me”), yet “The Ballad of…
Behind Bars, But Bucking the System
Women inmates find redemption in the doc Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
Horton Foote Prize
The plays Ruined and Middletown take the new national playwriting award
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
On the evening of Thursday, July 29, in Austin, noon Friday loomed in Brisbane, Australia. At 9pm sharp, Central Daylight Time, Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and bandmate David Lovering called their respective Chronicle inquirers from their tour stop Down Under. An hour later, bandleader Charles Thompson and Kim Deal phoned another pair of writers. Actually,…
Gay Place
The overwhelment of LGBTQ Austin
Austin Restaurant Week
Jeffrey’s and Cipollina will be among more than 70 local eateries taking part in Austin Restaurant Week, Sunday through Wednesday, Sept. 19-22 and 26-29. Participating restaurants will offer three-course, fixed-price lunches for $10-$15 and/or fixed-price dinners for $25-$35. Restaurant Week provides a great opportunity for substantial savings at many of Austin’s most popular dining spots,…
Resident Evil: Afterlife
This 3-D continuation of the video-game-to-movie series sees the virus spread.
Texas Platters
The Lucky Tomblin Band Honky Tonk Merry Go Round (Texas World) Lucky Tomblin makes no pretense of his disdain for thinly disguised country rock. He loves the real thing, and that’s what his band of locals delivers (“Forbidden Lovers,” “Hello Heart”). No question his stellar band plays a big role in that sound – Redd…
Day Trips
The Wonder Cave has the unique quality of being the only show cave in Texas created by an earthquake
Oops!
In last week’s “Point Austin” (“Drinking, Driving, Shooting … and the APD”), we mistakenly attributed Loretta Lynn’s “Don’t Come Home a’ Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” to Tammy Wynette. Wynette did record the song, but it is indubitably Lynn’s composition and a signature tune. Michael King profusely apologizes for the error.
Catfish
This “reality thriller” is a sour cautionary tale about social media.
Naked City
Remember To Take Your Meds (Back) Don’t know what to do with all those old pills crowding your medicine cabinet? Flushing prescription drugs contaminates drinking water, while keeping meds around the house can make it easy for kids to try sneaking a high. So what should you do? Turn all those old meds over to…
Texas Platters
Horse Opera Sounds of the Desert The easy two-step (“Save My Tears”) that kicks off Sounds of the Desert belongs more in neon honky-tonk than under a coyote moon. That’s okay, because Horse Opera’s country twang is designed to please dancers and pack dance floors. “3 to Closing,” “Devil You Love Best,” and “St. Cecilia”…
Arts Review
No showdown shows up, but Stephanie Keeton shares the thrill of the dancing body
Page Two: Nightmares on Main Street
New media, same old story
The Town
Ben Affleck directs, co-writes, and stars in this gripping action-drama about bank robbers.
City Hall Hustle: Everybody Makes Do With Less … Except APD
Council tweaks the minor numbers on the FY 2011 budget
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
Charles Thompson: Here Comes Your Man “Everything’s the same, and everything’s different at the same time,” reflects Charles Thompson, better known as Black Francis, on the two decades since the release of Doolittle. At the very least, touring has become more comfortable: plush hotels, yoga in the mornings, and, in this case, a Vietnamese restaurant…
Arts Review
Shakespeare’s last play is ably acted, but the staging lacks heart
Perry Poisons Education Funding
How will Texas schools fare without federal education money?
Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo
An engaging doc about the Oklahoma State Prison Rodeo.
Double-Faced
Social media sends one man on a tailspin in Catfish
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
The Pixies aren’t a family and that’s a good thing, according to Kim Deal
Arts Review
A gay elementary school love story with palpable resonance for everyone
Fire Marshals Stand by Original Arson Report
Forensic Science Commission to make final decision on whether faulty science was used in Willingham investigation
Easy A
The Scarlet Letter is refitted for the app age in this winning high school comedy.
TV Eye
FX’s new drama Terriers is another entry in the growing male-bonding genre
Texas Platters
The Beaumonts Get Ready for the Beaumonts (Arclight) Looking like they rifled ZZ Top’s video wardrobe, the Beaumonts’ boozy country sounds like the bastard sons of the Hickoids showing up to take your daughter on her first date. Fueled by enough har-har jokes about queers, ugly women, smoking speed, and bestiality to make Dash Rip…
Off the Record
Forsaking the Song, the final chapter
Police Pushing Pedicabbers’ Patience
Are pedicab regulations out of touch?
Virsa
A joint India-Pakistan musical production about opposites attracting.
Taking Politics Back to School
State Board of Ed races highlight educational tensions
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago sounds the call … for balut!
Beer Flights
This week, it’s tripel the good news
Cap Metro: The Fewer the Merrier
Budget cuts target Cap Metro’s most vulnerable riders
Finding an SBOE Balance: District Roundup
SBOE contests around the state
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
Pixies drummer David Lovering by the numbers
Event Menu
Moveable feasts and roving wine tours
Cap Metro on Board With Transparency
At least the comptroller likes you, Cap Metro
Activated: Texas Freedom Network vs. Liberty Institute
The education of polar opposites
Food-o-File
Apples, Hatch chiles, ice cream, and so much more to sink your teeth into
Sober Living Dealt Splash of Cold Water
Staying dry would be easier without the extra heat
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Pagan Pride Day
Ancient religious texts are hard to burn, aren’t they? It’s not like they’re something useless like science textbooks or old Mad magazines. People really get touchy when you start torching the word of their Lord. You might as well be pitchforking puppies into a wood chipper. With the right publicity campaign, pitchforking puppies might stir…
