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All across “gay” Austin, “queer” Austin, LGBTQ Austin, conversations are happening. Discussions, arguments, Facebook fracases – all about the nature of gay community. What makes “community” out of a shared human rights struggle? How does community emerge from a political movement that makes strange bedfellows, if you will, out of subcultures that often have little…
Fantastic Fest Is Here To Bash Your Brains In
Shock, schlock, and awe at America’s premier genre fest
Oooh Wa
Rubblebucket’s return to the Beauty Ballroom
To Zhoosh or Not to Zhoosh: aGLIFF Spiffs Up in a Word
The Polari Fest (nee aGLIFF) asks “What’s in a name?”
Headlines: Bonus Round
Bettie Naylor, the DEA, hipsters, and more
The AggreGAYtor: September 27
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Manischewitz Releases New Products with Modernity and Health in Mind
Blogger Amy Kritzer gives some new products a trial run.
Judge: City of Austin Policy Violates Free Speech
Trespass notices given to Occupiers by city not legally sound
The Football Prophecies
Stone cold locks for week 4
Everything Went Black: Why Fantastic Fest is as Fantastic As it Is
The best place to recalibrate your cinematic soul
Early Warning: The Lege is Coming!
Tribune Fest offers a taste of things to come
Texas’ Attack on Planned Parenthood Leaves Women’s Health in Its Wake
Article by UT researchers paints grim picture
Burgers & Booze: Spec’s is the Place
Burgers and tots make good eating and good memories.
‘Key & Peele’ Season 2 Premieres Tonight
Forget Saturday night: This is the sketch comedy show to watch
FF2012: ‘Aftershock’
Much more realistic than ‘Last Night at the Alamo’
Kind of Blue
Jeff Lofton blows tribute to Miles Davis
FF2012: James Moran Climbs The ‘Tower Block’
UK writer and Fantastic Fest veteran on genre TV and ghettos
FF2012: ‘Young Gun in the Time’
Korean time travel with a twist and a lot of heart at Fantastic Fest
Wil Wheaton: Austin, He Will Be In You
‘Star Trek: TNG’ cast reunion complete for Wizard World
FF2012: Austin’s Mayor Proclaims “It’s Fantastic Fest Week”
Huzzah hizzoner
VOD Watch
Adapting Robert E. Howard’s ancient scrapper to screen
Two Men Attacked Friday
If you know anything please step forward
FF2012: I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for ‘The American Scream’
Fantastic Fest premieres home Halloween haunt doc
Perry’s Steakhouse Runs Like a Well-Oiled Machine
Austin outlet of Houston-based steakhouse chain is very impressive
What’s Swedish for Good Corporate Citizen?
IKEA Round Rock flips the switch on one very large solar project
The AggreGAYtor: September 25
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
What’s Cool and Where It’s At
What Austin teens are reading, wearing, eating, hearing
FF2012: Fantastic Fest Awards
‘I Declare War’ and ‘Flicker’ take top prizes
Utopiafest Survival Guide, Version 20.12
All the info you need for a truly epic weekend
Put a Fork in Vince Young?
Longhorns hero is unemployed and nearly broke, but can he come back?
FF2012: ‘The ABC’s of Death’
A literacy tool for the damned
Football and Existentialism
Aggies annihilate Bulldogs 70-14
A Son of the Fathers of Texas
Steve Mendell’s life, work, and music filled in the gaps
Film Flam
ATX, prepare yourself for a whole lotta Nacho
FF2012: ‘The Conspiracy’
Who can you trust at Fantastic Fest?
The AggreGAYtor: September 24
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
FF2012: ‘The King of Pigs’
And you thought your schooldays were hellish
FF2012: ‘The Warped Forest’
Fantastic Fest continues its celebration of Japanese oddities
Agnes & Alfred: A Relationship Forged in Fire
Steve Moore and Carlos Treviño’s Physical Plant Theatre Returns
FF2012: Bumper Scars
Fantastic Fest announces top six bumpers
FF2012: Fantastic Arcade Award Winners
Lord British showed, clothes were swapped, weapons were brandished
FF2012: ‘Dredd’ Heads
Alex Garland and Karl Urban talk politics and hard R comic adaptations
FF2012: ‘The Final Member’
The long and short of the world’s only penis museum at Fantastic Fest
FF2012: Why ‘The Collection’ is All About Character
Marcus Dunstan brings the mask back for Fantastic Fest
FF2012: ‘Wake in Fright’
Yabba-dabba-doom
FF2012: ‘Combat Girls’
Aryan youthquake, blood and dishonor at Fantastic Fest
FF2012: Fantastic Arcade Day 3
In which I get a taste of blood and victory
FF2012: ‘Hail’
Australian crime drama makes men of gods and monsters
‘Doctor Who’ Watch
7.4: ‘The Power of Three’
2012 Texas Monthly BBQ Festival: Last-Minute Guide & Judging Primer
Can Dallas’s new darling joint end Central Texas’ brisket dominance?
FF2012: ‘Doomsday Book’
Two bangs, one whimper on Fantastic Fest apocalypse anthology
Papi Tino’s Culinary Student Competition Has Its Finalists
Week Three: Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
FF2012: Gamers Get Down
Fantastic Arcade snaps
‘The NFL Beat’: Week Three
Survive and advance
FF2012: Barking Up a Storm at the ‘Frankenweenie’ World Premiere
Fantastic Fest holds star-studded premiere for Tim Burton’s latest
From the Vaults: Amy Adams Rules Local Screens
This week’s ‘It Girl’ Amy Adams first enchanted us in ‘Junebug’
Murder and Football
East Texas visits Bobcat Stadium
Metric’s Emily Haines
Extra ACL Music Fest sound bites in advance
About AIDS: September 21
Updates from the epidemic
The AggreGAYtor: September 21
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
FF2012: Rock the Red Carpet
Scenes from the ‘Frankenweenie’ and ‘Dredd 3D’ premieres
FF2012: Friday Morning Server Error!
Today’s screenings not actually sold out
Consider ‘The Source’: Crisis Pregnancy Center Transforms Into Women’s Health Program Provider
If Planned Parenthood’s out, are CPCs in?
FF2012: ‘Dredd 3D’
It took until 2012 to get 2000 AD right
Bite Into Fantastic Fest
Black-and-White Dogs, Monster-Themed Vodka Cocktails, and more
Moser 101
Austin’s Eastside Music History “Bright Lights, Inner City,” July 4, 2003 austinchronicle.com/music/2003-07-04/166659 Tommy Hancock “Roadside Playboys & Texana Dames,” Dec. 31, 2004 austinchronicle.com/music/2004-12-31/244698 Carolyn Hester “Double-Barrel Beautiful,” Dec. 19, 2008 austinchronicle.com/music/2008-12-19/717772 Beulah and Jimmie Jones “Keeping Up With the Joneses,” June 18, 2010 austinchronicle.com/music/2010-06-18/1042038 Esteban Jordan “Chac-Mool,” Aug. 8, 2008 austinchronicle.com/music/2008-08-08/658161 Ernie Mae Miller “The…
Secondhand Stores to Council: ‘Wait a Second!’
Proposed ordinance designed to help recovery of stolen goods
Resident Evil: Retribution
In the fifth installment of this horror franchise, Milla Jovovich again stars as the saga’s heroine Alice, who fights the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.
Orbiting Game Culture
Brandon Boyer launches Venus Patrol
Rick Perry Death Watch: Former Army Recruiter Scheduled To Die
Cleve Foster was convicted of a 2002 rape and murder
Chicken With Plums
From the makers of the animated Persepolis comes this modern-day, live-action Arabian tale.
Pride Events
Pride Prep PRIDE FLASH MOB Let’s show Austin what we’re all about with this spontaneous show of pride. Keep your clothes on though, it ain’t that kind of flashing. Send an email with full name. Sat., Sept. 22. Rain on 4th, 217 W. Fourth, 494-1150. WWalker07@yahoo.com. DYKES ON BIKES/LADIES ON WHEELS RIDER SEARCH Dykes on…
The Hightower Report
People are being replaced by robots who don’t take coffee breaks
End of Watch
This believable L.A. cop drama, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, is from the writer of Training Day, David Ayer.
London Falling
Writer James Moran on his FF twofer, ‘Cockneys Vs. Zombies’ and ‘Tower Block’
Wimple Me!
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence come to town
Raising Their Voices
An Austinite in Russia hears theatre’s rising dissent
The Master
Philip S. Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix act out the internal (and eternal) war between the analytical and implusive that is the principal inquiry of P.T. Anderson’s film.
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Nathan Garcia and the board of Austin Pride make good
Texas Platters
Jimmy LaFave Depending on the Distance (Music Road Records) These proliferation end-times – call it post-music – dictate that 13 tracks and an hour run time of singer-songwriter soul-searching weigh way too heavy in this multitasked millennium. Not for Jimmy LaFave. Austin’s honorary Okie doesn’t reach full saturation of his lavish, lady-killing nasal whine with…
Rate of Exchange
Why the Russian connection matters to Austin theatre
Trouble With the Curve
Despite its love of baseball lore, this film, starring Clint Easstwood and Amy Adams, is really a melodrama about the reconciliation of a father and daughter.
Geometry Test
Artist Emily Roysdon queers art’s white cube
Texas Platters
Black Pistol Fire Big Beat ’59 (Rifle Bird Records) Bold clap ‘n’ moan opener “Beelzebub” marks a departure for Black Pistol Fire’s bread-and-butter blues rock. Bowing last year on a razor-sharp eponymous debut, the Austin duo evolves on second LP Big Beat ’59, where rootsy midtempo tunes define the disc. “Hot Mess” touches greatness, Kevin…
Day Trips
An oasis in a wasteland of convenience-store coffee pots
Unconditional
In this inspirational film, a woman loses her faith after her husband is killed in an act of senseless violence.
Parades Go By
The history of the rainbow lineup rolls forward into a spectrum of Austin Pride 2012
Texas Platters
Kingdom of Suicide Lovers Distant Waves (Golden Hour Records/Super Secret Records) Like fictional lovers disappearing into a fog-shrouded abyss, the debut LP from this Glorium/Faceless Werewolves amalgam channels darkness and romance in equal parts. Kingdom of Suicide Lovers combines sizzling post-punk impressionism with breathy, boy/girl vocal interplay in a manner finding antecedents in dreamlike dystopian…
Gay Place
What else is happening during the rest of Pride Week?
2 Days in New York
This ebullient domestic comedy by Julie Delpy, in which she co-stars with Chris Rock, is a follow-up to 2007’s 2 Days in Paris.
Exhibitionism
This Vortex dance exploring water as sacred is often beautiful but not always deep
Texas Platters
Lace Curtains The Garden of Joy and the Well of Loneliness (Female Fantasy Records) Slop-pop romantics Harlem dropped off the radar after what should have been the local trio’s national breakout on Matador Records, 2010’s Hippies. Perpetually disheveled co-founder Michael Coomer appears to have sobered up for his proper solo debut, The Garden of Joy…
Soccer Watch
The St. Edward’s women, unranked at the beginning of the season, jumped to No. 6 in the country this week, after destroying previously ninth-ranked Dallas Baptist, 5-1, on Saturday. The Hilltoppers host UT-Permian Basin at 1pm this Thursday, Sept. 20, and then McMurry at noon on Saturday. The UT Longhorns ended their nonconference schedule on…
Toys in the Attic
In this animated Czech film, a teddy bear, a mechanical mouse, and a marionette join forces to save their kidnapped friend.
Exhibitionism
This theatrical riff on loneliness in space looks great, but we’ve seen it all before
Texas Platters
Guy Forsyth The Freedom To Fail (Blue Corn Music) “Balance is a process of constant correction” croons Guy Forsyth midway through his seventh release, as if reiterating the willfully eclectic stylistic swath of the entire LP. While The Freedom To Fail refuses to settle into an easy sound, it’s the constant shifts expertly deployed by…
Hornucopia
Goodwin shakes the ‘Obama curse’ in big win over Ole Miss
Heroine
Heroine 2012, NR, 140 min. Directed by Madhur Bhandarkar, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Emraan Hashmi, Divya Dutta, Lillete Dubey. Not reviewed at press time.
Kids Eat Free
Taking the tykes out to eat without breaking the bank
Exhibitionism
This new exhibit of Garza’s work with color constitutes a win-win-win
Texas Platters
Chris McFarland Beauty and Undertow (End Up Records) Singer-songwriters are often heralded (or sneered at) for pinning their emotions to their chests in pursuit of a tune. Brooklyn-born/Austin-based Chris McFarland doesn’t hide his feelings on this five-song EP, but the guitarist’s approach is more measured than maudlin, with melody foregrounded and plainspoken vocals never pushed…
Civics 101
Thursday 20 BICYCLE ADVISORY COUNCIL seeks new members. Come to its monthly meeting tonight to see what it’s all about and pick up an application. 6-8pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second. groups.google.com/group/austin-bac. WATER CONSERVATION WORKSHOP Utility customers are invited to comment on the proposed rules for the Water Conservation Code. 6:30-9pm. Waller Creek Center,…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Grover Cleveland was a duck hunter. He named his gun “Death and Destruction.” In a recent visit to Singapore, William and Kate (the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) revealed that if they could have a superpower it would be invisibility. About 98% of the pot destroyed by the Drug Enforcement Agency each year is worthless…
Laurie Anderson: ‘Dirtday!’
A chance to see this shapeshifting performance artist spin stories up close
Texas Platters
Elias Haslanger Church on Monday (Cherrywood Records) From the moment Church on Monday opens, with saxophonist Elias Haslanger leaning into a finger-poppin’ boogaloo on the title track, there’s no letting up. Native Austinite and pillar of the local jazz scene, the tenor hornsman leads his sterling quintet in a set of tunes inspired by sax…
Then There’s This: Bond Election Crib Sheet
Here’s a thumbnail of the seven bond propositions, from transportation to film
Fighting for Justicia
Workers Defense Project celebrates 10 years on the front lines of Texas labor
Studio Visit: Lily Brooks
This photographer’s move from Boston to Austin meant a change in the weather and more
Report Highlights Inequities in AISD Funding
Title I cash and private fundraising don’t align in most local schools
Headlines
� City Council’s next regular session is Sept. 27 – when it will take up marriage equality and taxi cab permitting (again), among other things – but members may take part in a Saturday session on homelessness (First United Methodist Church, 1201 Lavaca, 11am-noon), and there’s a work session scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 25. ›…
Workers Defense Project’s 10th Anniversary
WDP commemorates the achievements of its members and honors the leadership of Executive Director Cristina Tzintzún alongside labor luminaries Linda Chavez-Thompson, former vice president of AFL-CIO, and Dolores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers. Thursday, Sept. 27, 6:30pm. Seton Administration Offices, St. Vincent de Paul Auditorium, 1345 Philomena. For tickets: 391-2305 or www.workersdefense.org. $30 ($60,…
After a Fashion: Wandering Lust
Finally! Details about Your Style Avatar’s return to fashion
Playback: Coolest Board in Town
Arlyn Studios just upped its ante
Quote of the Week
“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what” – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, at a private fundraiser secretly recorded and released this week by Mother Jones
New in Print
How celebrity worship has metastasized into the defining American obsession
Letters at 3AM: A Century Since ‘The Water Nymph’
On September 23, 1912, Keystone Films released its first comedy, which starred Mabel Normand
Council: A Tapestry Dance for Fall
Cabs, parking, and marriage equality are all on the docket next week
Point Austin: Chartering a New Course
A thumbnail portrait of the proposed City Charter propositions
Food-o-File
The new Mueller Farmers’ Market satisfies local appetites
Hot for Teacher
History’s sexy at UT Informal Classes
IDEA Enrollment Numbers Fall Short
Charter school sits at 93% capacity
The Luv Doc: Mistakes and Shortcomings
Dear LuvDoc, My wife is always bitchin’ at me about something or other. She’s always saying I need to “fix this” or “do that” or asking me why I am doing something the way I’m doing it. It’s really getting on my nerves. What should I do? – Henpecked. Dude, when are you going to…
Food Events
Lagunita’s and Breckenridge Brewery host beer pairings, and Austin Restaurant Week
Home with the Armadillo
For nearly 100 years, Continuing and Innovative Education (CIE) at the University of Texas at Austin has offered a variety of credit and noncredit courses, services, and programs that include informal classes. Typical courses tackle topics on language, business, arts, travel, and cooking. “Home With the Armadillo: Four Decades That Changed Austin Music” is a…
Oops!
In the Sept. 14 Music news column, “Playback: I’m Sorry, I Can’t Rock You All Night Long,” missing Doctors’ Mob wedding anniversary celebrant Don Lamb was misidentified as Steve Collier, who led the band through its sparks-throwing GrulkeFest set. South by Southwest reported this week that the benefit concert raised more than $75,000.
Last Ounce of Courage
A dead veteran’s family heals their loss through their “free speech” battle to save Christmas from the godless ACLU.
