News Ticker: September 26
All the news that’s fit to blog
Conversations With a VEVO Pickup Artist
Tommy Wooldridge brings his Lyric Lines to the ATX
(Tom) Petty Fest
‘Southern Accents’ pack the Mohawk
25 Questions You May or May Not Be Wondering Before the ‘Breaking Bad’ Finale
And if you weren’t before, you are now
Luis Miguel – Otra, Otra!
Crooner dazzles the Frank Erwin Center
There’s No Escape From Tomorrow
Director Randy Moore on fair use and Disney princess culture
Rob Thomas’ Unlikely Route to Young Adult Fiction
‘Veronica Mars’ creator dishes on teens, fans, and the movie
The Universal High School Experience
Sarah Dessen’s latest novel is ‘The Moon and More’
New Campus-Area Food Court Celebrates Grand Opening
Tasty trailer lineup, live music, giveaways, and food specials
The AggreGAYtor: September 26
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
The Weeknd, Denied
Internet sensation proves NSFW at Cedar Park Center
News Ticker: September 25
All the news that’s fit to blog
Alamo Drafthouse Gets a Little Girlier
Forever Fest will be held Nov. 1-3 at the Ritz
All ATX: The Concert
‘A time to celebrate collaboration and community’
Austin’s Lenoir Does NYC
Local chef couple present dinner at James Beard House
How Many Banned Books Have You Read?
Redefine appropriate, suitable, proper, and honest.
Melvins Fete Eyehategod at Housecore Horror
Latest fest addition fills in for Eyehategod drummer
David Barrow: The Revivalist
Local filmmaker and activist showcases local food movement
The AggreGAYtor: September 25
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
‘Arise’ Screens Tonight at Alamo Slaughter
Award-winning film documents women working for social change
East Cameron Folkcore: Tour Diary, Part I
Cruising through Germany with the cursers of disgust
DOJ Plays Peacemaker
Public meeting to address slate of officer-involved shootings
Too Cool For School
Schoolhouse Pub is welcome addition to Manor dining
UT Crowd Welcomes Junot Diaz
Pulitzer Prize winner spoke about doubt, masculinity, and more
The Daily Miracle of Gregory Alan Isakov
Guy Clark and Townes Van Zandt if they’d done folk pop?
Take a Ride With ‘Blue Ruin’
Revenge proves tricky in Fantastic Fest gem
‘Grand Piano’ Is a Virtuosic Instrument
Craft and performance anxiety rule this Fantastic Fest dazzler
The AggreGAYtor: September 24
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Feeding the ‘Afflicted’
Clif Prowse and Derek Lee have a new angle on found footage
And the Fantastic Winners Are
Fantastic Fest awards go to ‘Jodorowsky’s Dune,’ ‘Afflicted’
Chef Janelle Reynolds Competes on ‘Chopped’ Tuesday Night
Watch party scheduled at Willie G’s Steakhouse
Big Ups for ‘Detective Downs’
Norwegian P.I. at Fantastic Fest updates the gumshoe tradition
Daughter of Craft Brewing Pioneer Returns with ‘Gypsy Collaborations’
Christine Celis will be brewing family recipes in Austin by 2014
Ecstatic Highs, Then Bluer Than Blue Can Be
Last shots to see Michel Gondry’s ‘Mood Indigo,’ still no U.S. distro
The Boxer Rebellion Gets Yang’d But Good
Graphic Novelist Gene Luen Yang brings his newest work to Austin
Celebrate HAAM Day
SXSWfm and the ‘Chronolog’ sponsor Wooldridge Park concert
Connecting to the Cosmos at Utopia Fest
I got in the van, the psych beehive, and Silent Disco
Parkour and Slapstick Comedy Combine in ‘Journey to the West’
Here’s hoping Stephen Chow’s latest makes its way west
‘The Congress’ Future Imperfect
FF2013 screens Ari Folman’s dystopic followup to ‘Waltz From Bashir’
‘Narco Cultura’ Sings a Song of the Drug War
Director Shaul Schwarz explores the balladeers of crime
Aggies Get Back on the Horse
Texas A&M resets with easy win over SMU
‘R100’ Is the New NSFW
Bizarre, charming Japanese gutbuster finds the heart of S&M
Fourth Annual Bourbon, Bluegrass & Barbecue
Bourbon, bluegrass, or barbecue; which is your favorite?
Texas Football Steered Straight
Longhorns return to form Saturday with 31-21 victory over Kansas State
25 Years of Mr. Smarty Pants for R. U. Steinberg
Austin’s favorite factoid-man celebrates a quarter-century.
Whitelisting ‘The Blacklist’
Can James Spader and Megan Boone pull this off all season?
The AggreGAYtor: September 23
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Floating Weeds
Floating Weeds 1959, NR, 119 min. Directed by Yasujirô Ozu, Starring Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, Hiroshi Kawaguchi. In this Ozu gem, another bit of family life is up for examination. The leader of an itinerant acting troupe is the father of a young man who believes him to be his uncle. The mistress…
Isolation, Death, Romance, Death, Repeat
‘Love Eternal’ is anything but a minor threat
Fantastic Arcade Awards Announced
Samurai Gunn slashes & shoots its way to victory
Dive Into the Great ‘Unknown’
Errol Morris and Don Rumsfeld take us on a tour of U.S. history
J’accuse! In Korean!
‘Confession of Murder’ is guilty … of being pretty kickass
Burn, Witch, Burn
The Pope still loathes Ken Russell’s ‘The Devils,’ and with good reason
Fantastic Arcade Day 3
Another day, more lessons learned
‘Coherence’ Makes a Multiverse Out of Nothing
Micro-microbudget mindbender makes every restriction a virtue
‘Patrick’ Is a Solid Little Creepfest
Ozploitation psychic killer classic remade and revamped
Devil Times Five-ish
‘A Field in England’ might remind you of a field in Bastrop
What Did You Shoot on, Keanu Reeves?
‘Man of Tai Chi’ director answers the immortal question
Fantastic Arcade Day 2
More lessons I learned from a bunch of indie devs in a dark theatre
The One About Erotic ‘Harry Potter’ Fan Fiction
Filmmaker Clay Liford on fan fiction from ’50 Shades’ to ‘Star Trek’
The Guerrilla ‘Escape’
‘Escape From Tomorrow’ crew talks Disney-dodging at Fantastic Fest
Kickstart Your Weekend With ‘Preternatural’
These fairies will give you nightmares – in a good way
Thomas Toots to Town
Everyone’s favorite li’l blue engine that could comes to Burnet
The AggreGAYtor: September 20
Best of Austin roundup… for Queers!
Film Flam
Machete, Muppets, and more
Farmers Market Report: September 21-22, 2013
Roasted Hatch chiles, cantaloupes, bacon, and sausages
Officer Will Not Face Criminal Charges in Connection with Traffic Stop Shooting
Whether officer will be disciplined by chief remains unknown
Clash City Rockers
Unexpurgated Clash box set review
Ellie Rucker: You Could Ask Her Anything
Consumer columnist was Austin’s own finder of facts
How Do You Define Soul Food?
Adrian Miller explores where Southern food ends and soul food begins
Cold Lampin’
Sunday Sock Hop spinners launch a vintage hip-hop night
Spotlight: Dylan Moran
Comic Genius From Across the Pond
It’s About Bloody Time: Austin’s First Trader Joe’s Opens Today
The beloved cult grocery chain opens its first of three Austin stores.
Creepy Uncle Sam Ad Suggests Young Women Should Opt Out of Healthcare
Ironic GOP-backed ad says gov’t shouldn’t play doctor
Takeaways From Fantastic Arcade: Day 1
Life lessons learned through video games and the people who make them
Checking In to Short Term 12
Brie Larson talks about the drama and heart of foster care
Wheatsville’s New South Location Opening Today
Austin hippies strike another blow against soulless capitalism
Letters at 3AM: He Took the Cat to Texas
This is the final story in the many-storied life of Mayer Vishner
Restaurant Review
North Austin fave expands to UT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
25 is a perfect square. At age 25, Martha Stewart was on her way to becoming a stockbroker for Monness, Williams, and Sidel. Tommy Hilfiger went bankrupt. Mark Cuban was a bartender in Dallas. And J.K. Rowling came up with the idea for the Harry Potter series on a train. According to SplashData, a provider…
The Family
The family that slays together, stays together – even in witness protection.
One-Two Punch
Gene Luen Yang’s ‘Boxers’ and ‘Saints’ duo takes on the Boxer Rebellion
Wine of the Week
Homefront Red: grapes for a good cause
East Side Tubes Deflated In Court
Dan Walker facing business closure
Insidious: Chapter 2
All the same gang’s back for this follow-up to the hit spooker.
Vincent Mantsoe and Dance Theatre X
Defining African-derived contemporary dance with professor Charles O. Anderson
Who’s Afraid of Big Bad Wolves?
Gobbling up the new Israeli horror from Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales
Power to the People
Cue the linemen! ‘Trash Project’ choreographer Allison Orr is making Austin Energy dance
Thanks for Sharing
This story about sex addicts is top-heavy with healing bromides and romantic-comedy beats.
Keepin’ Up With the Jones Family
The Jones Family Singers hear the spirit speak in Austin
Playback
HAAM Day to the rescue!
Short Term 12
This indie drama starring Brie Larson has an emotional honesty that reaps fans and awards.
Box Sets
The Clash Sound System (Sony Legacy) In 1976, the Clash was three UK art students and a scab drummer patched together by a cohort of Sex Pistols’ manager Malcolm McLaren and directed to “write about what you know.” They would warp history as the last truly heroic band rock & roll’s seen. Punk couldn’t contain…
Commissioners Punt Southeast Roads One More Time
Margaret Gómez agrees to compromise
Salinger
The reclusive author is dragged posthumously into the light.
Box Sets
Bob Dylan Another Self Portrait: The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (1969-1971) (Columbia) Hard to convey the critical shitstorm Bob Dylan’s Self Portrait generated in 1970. Arriving at the peak of his cultural cachet, the album’s half-baked assortment of country, folk, and early rock & roll covers led fans to dismiss it as an elaborate joke,…
No Botox at the Death Cafe
Meeting looks past the ‘wrinkles’ of a taboo subject
Grand Masti
Three men have too good a time at their college reunion in this Bollywood film.
The ‘Revolution’ Will Be Televised
NBC ready to debut Texas-shot second season
Abbott: More Twitter Troubles
Gubernatorial candidate makes another social media gaffe
Phata Poster Nikla Hero
In this Bollywood comedy, an aspiring actor is mistaken for a cop.
Exhibitionism
This struggle between an aging Mark Rothko and his idealistic assistant is a good fit for Penfold Theatre
Clips and Sips at Republic Square Park
New Belgium Brewing hosts short film festival Downtown
Council: Return to Forever
No regular meeting this week as Council takes on the Barton Springs Pool
Mission Park
Two turn to crime, two go undercover with the FBI – the old gang ain’t what it used to be.
Exhibitionism
Astonishing comedic dancing by the enchanted lovers stole the show in this revival of Stephen Mills’ Shakespearean ballet
Box Sets
The Beach Boys Made in California (Capitol) The Beach Boys have been compiled and repackaged more than any other major rock act, but their sprawling body of work doesn’t lend itself to easy anthologizing. The band’s catalog follows a fairly linear trajectory up until Brian Wilson’s post-Smile flameout, at which point it breaks down into…
Convicted Killer Cites Inept Counsel
Arturo Diaz makes bid for new trial to avoid Sept. 26 execution date
Exhibitionism
It’s having so many artists working at such a high level that makes this show of past Biennial participants a success
Box Sets
Sly & the Family Stone Higher! (Epic/Legacy) Sly Stone’s infamous reclusiveness obscures the fact that the Denton native, upon his musical maturation in Southern California, casually spat in the face of racial barriers and remade soul-hued twist & shout music so well that, when Columbia A&R man David Kapralik first requested something big, Stone laid…
The Hightower Report: A Tomato Tale That’s Hard to Stomach
“I’m 98 percent confident we can make a tomato that tastes substantially better,” Professor Harry Klee recently exulted to The New York Times. Hmmm. Excuse me, professor, but “substantially better” than what? One of Momma Nature’s own heirloom varieties perhaps? No, no – Klee knows that tomato-tampering flavorologists like him can’t get near that quality. Rather,…
Wade in the Water
Geto Boy rap icon keeps Austin in ‘Checks & Balances’
Box Sets
Nirvana In Utero 20th Anniversary Edition (Universal) Aiming to restore its credibility after the atomic overexposure of Nevermind, Nirvana solicited Steve Albini to record a follow-up. The post-punk icon accepted, but penned a letter warning of “front office bulletheads” who would “yank the chain at some point, hassling you to rework song/sequences/production, calling-in hired guns…
Food Events
› End Of Summer Sour-bration Taste a sampling of aged sours, sour beer cocktails, and sour food pairings while the Sour Notes provide a special musical performance. Sat., Sept. 21, 2-4pm. Black Star Co-op Pub and Brewery, 7020 Easy Wind #100, 512/452-2337. › Farm & Food Summit The Pitres host a kickoff party for the…
Box Sets
Harry Nilsson The RCA Albums Collection (Sony Legacy) How much Harry Nilsson is too much? For the casual fan familiar with the hits, “Everybody’s Talkin’,” “Coconut,” and “Without You,” the 17-CD RCA Albums Collection is clearly overkill. For those who know Nilsson as the so-called Fifth Beatle, composer of songs covered by the Monkees, Three…
Quote of the Week
“I’m a solid creationist.” – State Board of Education Vice Chair Thomas Ratliff, offering his opinion of the debate over teaching creationism instead of, or alongside, evolution during science textbook hearings this week, suggesting that teaching evolution does not violate divine creation.
Food-O-File
It’s been a while since we had a whole column full of chef news, but here we go. First up, an important correction to last week’s online column: I misquoted chef Bryce Gilmore about the estimated opening date of the new brick-and-mortar Odd Duck (1219 S. Lamar) being “next year.” Gilmore says that, after several…
Day Trips
San Antonio institution serves up comfort food with a capital C
Then There’s This: Double Standard
UT’s football losses bring to mind successes of ousted track coach Kearney
Reclaiming ‘The Corner’
Neighbors, police, and prosecutors applaud the ‘Drug Market Intervention’ at 12th and Chicon
Fantastic Mr. League
Alamo Drafthouse honcho Tim League on debates, distro, and the change in venue
Hornography
Texas last began a season 1-2 in 1998. It was Mack Brown’s first season in Austin, a year in which, much like this one, the Longhorns got drubbed in consecutive contests before conference play even started. That herd, which featured eventual Heisman Trophy winner Ricky Williams, ended up winning its next six games and eight…
Point Austin: The Affordability Conundrum
If we want an affordable Austin, we’ll have to afford it together
Matchmaker, Matchmaker
As the hotel system’s only official forager, Valerie Broussard brings chefs and farmers together at the W
Dark, Darker, Darkest
‘Narco Cultura’ and ‘Escape From Tomorrow’ subvert the mainstream
Soccer Watch
Colorado? Really? Even as that whole part of the state was being declared a disaster area, the St. Edward’s men and women, and the UT Longhorns, all headed up there last weekend, and got out Sunday with mixed results. The Horns beat Air Force on Friday, 3-1, on a pair of goals by freshman striker…
Headlines
› If you hurry, you can swim with a Council member at Barton Springs. No regular meeting today (Sept. 19), but the whole dais is expected at the pool this morning (9am) to review improvements in progress. See “Council: Return to Forever.” › At press time, the Austin Business Journal reported that White Lodging has…
The Bonneville’s a Beaut
Exceptional New American cuisine craftsmanship
Keanu Reeves Is in Fighting Trim
Actor takes over the director’s chair for ‘Man of Tai Chi’
Gay Place: Packin’
Gay Place lays out a week as packed as a drag queen’s lingerie
The Luv Doc: An Acceptable Amount of PDA
Dear Luv Doc, After six years of being married to an Aggie, I made my first trek to College Station last weekend for midnight yell practice before the A&M – Alabama game. Along with a dozen friends, we loaded up our coolers and climbed on board the Party Bus Lounge. This wasn’t just a hollowed…
