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Obamacare 101
The Affordable Care Act rolls out October 1 – here’s your first day’s syllabus
The AggreGAYtor: October 3
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Wendy Davis: In For Governor Race
UPDATE: Fort Worth Dem to challenge GOP stranglehold next November
Navigating ACL in a Slow Service Zone
Technology left on ‘airplane mode’ is about to become your lifeline
Acevedo Fires Officer in Connection With Off-Duty Employment Incident
Second APD officer fired this week
ACL Saturday: Ladies Day?
Under-represented music fest sex triumphs!
Okkervil River Announces ACL Aftershow at Club de Ville
NBA ties, online gaming promotion, and a pixelated Will Sheff
ACL Interview: Haim
‘Oh my God, Lionel Richie? I’m going to cry.’
Shutdown Showdown
Rep. Neugebauer tries to shame park ranger
Feds Take Wind Out of Dread Pirate Roberts’ Sails
Austinite accused of being one of Internet’s biggest crime lords
News/Print
Book Fest shorts, upcoming readings, and more
News Ticker: October 2
All the news that’s fit to blog
ACL Interview: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Your basic sweaty rock & roll revival
Immerse Yourself in Anne Hull’s Words
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist exposed Walter Reed
The AggreGAYtor: October 2
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Metallica Creates a New Monster
Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo, and Nimrod Antal go ‘Through the Never’
Vespaio Is Still Buzzin’ After All These Years
SoCo mainstay celebrates 15th anniversary tonight
Where’s the Joy in ‘Super Fun Night’?
ABC’s new show gets the comedy kiss-of-death: It’s boring
Two Actresses, Fat and Thin
Staging Neil LaBute’s ‘Fat Pig’ is a heavy proposition
ACL Interview: JD McPherson
Uncanny rockabilly from the time warp
ACC Culinary’s Cafe Bistrette Opens for Lunch Today
Culinary students serve tasty, affordable lunch
Texas Craft Brewers Festival Mashup
We came, we saw, we drank them all
ACL Interview: Grace London
The rise and return of the local classicist and prodigy
First They Take Manhattan … Then They Don’t
The Alamo Drafthouse abandons the Upper West Side
Twerkin’ for the Weekend
GirlFriend and Cheer Up Charlies’ gAyCL brings fest fun home
SXSW Drafts Sports to the Team
SXsports debuts with big-name panelists Bill Simmons, Nate Silver
East Cameron Folkcore: Tour Diary, Part II
Local collective ponders fans, family & musicians in Hamburg
DVD Watch: ‘Downton Abbey’
Limited edition box set is out today on DVD and Blu-ray
Not Just Another Pretty Face
By way of introduction, please welcome new GP blogger Sarah Marloff
Aloha, Milly Littlejohn
Hawaiian farewell to a classic newswoman
The Government Shutdown Hits
Affordable Care Act takes effect as Tea Party throttles government
Josh Watkins and Carillon Team Are Barbecue Champs!
Local team wins top prizes at first year barbecue event in NYC
The AggreGAYtor: September 30
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Five Minutes at Utopia Fest
Video encore of the first music festival of the fall season
Double Jeopardy
Two Austinites spent two weeks dominating the trivia show
Dicks Hate Police, Love David Yow
Jesus Lizard/Scratch Acid screamer headlines benefit
Acevedo Fires APD Officer for Use of Force
Officer can appeal termination
Thorn in My Pride
The Black Crowes take the Moody Theater back to 1970
In Soggy Affair, Aggies Best Razorbacks
Texas A&M rolls with convincing win over Arkansas
Let’s Talk About Sex
‘Masters of Sex’ stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan
The Man Behind the Leatherface Mask
Gunnar Hansen signing “Chain Saw Confidential” at Bookpeople Sunday
Esther’s Alumna Joins ‘SNL’ Cast
Former Follies performer Noël Wells debuts in season premiere tonight
Review: Russell Brand
Comedian proves a classy, philosophical pervert at the Paramount
Abortion Opponents React to HB2 Lawsuit
AG’s office silent, but Lifers denounce suit
From the Vaults: Harry Dean Stanton – Partly Musician
The actor partly reveals himself in song
Review: Mark Morris Dance Group
‘Mozart Dances’ exhilarates with exuberant playfulness
Drinking for a Good Cause
Cooler weather means falling into good beer and great deeds
‘Zero Theorem’ Doesn’t Quite Add Up
More questions than answers in Terry Gilliam’s sci-fi head-scratcher
The House Is Rockin’
A final tune for ‘Breaking Bad’
Saengerrunde Hall Hosts Inagural AustOberFest
Event at historic German venue offers beer, sausages, and live music
Petition Filed in Willingham Case
Innocence Project alleges misconduct in death row conviction
Product Review: Cake Boss Flower Cakelette Pan
Michael’s and Cake Boss partner up for a new line of baking products.
Indulge Yourself Austin, Beers are Brewin’
Plans September 28th? Do you enjoy your pints? Do like Ales or Lagers?
Farmers Market Report: September 28-29, 2013
Meat Fest at the HOPE Market on Sunday, and maybe a little rain
Lawsuit Filed Against HB 2
Reproductive rights groups take state abortion restrictions to court
The AggreGAYtor: September 27
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QUILTBAG recap of queer news.
Exhibitionism
This new baseball musical hearkens back to both a simpler era and a simpler, sweeter kind of musical
Texas Platters
Suzi Stern Romancing the Dark (Bus Biscuit Records) Although usually associated with the Austin jazz community, Suzi Stern transcends the limitations of genre with this subtly compelling, quietly evocative collection of original compositions and imaginative arrangements that prove to be her most ambitious project to date. Stern surrounds herself with a cast of local virtuosos,…
Council: Short-Term Rentals, Long-Term Meeting
After clearing the budget hurdle, Council is back to the grind
The Luv Doc: Cheech and Chong Child Care
Dear Luv Doc, My boyfriend likes smoking the reefer … a lot. I generally don’t have a problem with it so long as he moderates his use and it doesn’t get in the way of our relationship. Hell, I even smoke it with him occasionally. He recently visited his sister and brother-in-law in Seattle -…
Exhibitionism
Hyde Park fave playwright Will Eno keenly satirizes the TV news biz when a team covers the day the sun doesn’t rise
Texas Platters
Girlie Action You can tell Greezy Wheels frontman Cleve Hattersley has a sense of humor. Kitty Cat Jesus (MaHatMa Records) features sister Lissa Hattersley singing the sly title track and more, wife Mary Hattersley on summery fiddle, and the throaty punch of Penny Jo Pullus (“Blowin’ Up Stuff”). Over the decades, Greezy’s developed a jazz-swing…
Soccer Watch
All three of the local NCAA soccer programs open conference play this weekend. The UT Longhorns (6-3-1) go in on a roll, after a pair of 3-0 wins over Texas State and UTSA last weekend. They host two of the weaker teams in the Big 12: TCU at 7pm Friday, and Iowa State at 1pm…
Prisoners
Jake Gyllenhaal is a detective working a troubling case, and Hugh Jackman’s wound-up father of the victim is just one of his problems.
Exhibitionism
Forklift Danceworks’ showcase of Austin Energy employees doing what they do was dazzling and inspiring
Texas Platters
deEP end Soul royalty Akina Adderley crosses over to jazz and world music with her new troupe Nori, a Bob Hoffnar-assisted fivepiece whose self-titled EP carefully dances around Japanese (“Will Walk Looking Up (Sukiyaki)”) and Italian bossa nova (“Chovendo Na Roseira”) before circling back toward Erik Telford’s horn work and the spiritual minimalism of “Liberation…
Adapt or Fry: UT Climate Adaptation Symposium
Forum focuses on local solutions to climate change
Battle of the Year
In this dance competish, it’s U.S.A. all the way.
Young at Heart
The Austin Teen Book Festival is coming of age
Texas Platters
Avalanche of local releases for the fall
Atharintiki Daaredi
Telugu comedy.
‘Small Stories That Feel Huge’
‘Veronica Mars’ creator Rob Thomas shares his youthful energy
White Lodging Sues City Over Fees
Hotel developer seeks injunction against city for canceling agreement
Still Mine
James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold star in this octogenarian love story.
Before Google, There Was Ellie Rucker
Consumer columnist was Austin’s own finder of facts
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
It’s comestibles gone wild in this animated follow-up.
After the Frost
Superhero Max Frost takes on the Death Star!
Park, Pond, or Ballfield?
Three rivals vie for a stretch of city land
Rush
In Ron Howard’s Formula One racing pic, the drama trails the action.
Texas Platters
Aisha Burns Life in the Midwater (Western Vinyl) Aisha Burns adds violin and occasional vocals to local orchestral-folk sextet Balmorhea, and now offers her solo debut. Caught in the sea change indicated by its title, the album equivocates between demure vulnerability and a steadfast self-assuredness. At times, that thrust can be misleading. Opener “Sold” stretches…
The Hightower Report: Roast, Grill, and Fry This Chicken – Then Toss It Out
Roast, grill, and fry this chicken – then toss it out
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a guy who prefers porn to his girlfriend Scarlet Johansson in this film which also he wrote and directed.
Texas Platters
Friendly Savages O, Joshua! “We may have lost our way/but do not count us lost,” swells John McDonald in the climaxing calamity of “Counted Lost,” which opens Friendly Savages’ debut LP. It’s a call to the ambitiousness of the local quartet, kicking high-energy, folk-rooted tunes through 16 tracks. “I Have Your Ghost” unravels a string…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
In the U.S. each year there are about 160,000 prosecutions for truancy. Of those, about 118,000 are in Texas alone. Bonnie Parker (of Bonnie and Clyde fame) had a tattoo on her knee with intertwined hearts and the names “Bonnie” and “Roy,” because until the day she died she was legally married not to Clyde…
County Commissioners Approve Fast-Tracked Road Project
With three votes and two abstentions, Travis County Commissioners on Tuesday approved an expedited but scaled-down road construction plan proposed by Commissioner Margaret Gómez for her Southeast Travis County precinct. The controversial plan calls for extending Kellam Road from Pearce to SH 71, providing an entrance to the Circuit of the Americas racetrack. The $13…
Baggage Claim
Paul Patton stars in this rom-com about a desperate-to-wed flight attendant that never achieves liftoff.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Naked Truth
For his first turn in the director’s seat, JGL tackles pornography … sort of
Texas Platters
Roky Erickson The Evil One (Light in the Attic) Roky Erickson Don’t Slander Me (Light in the Attic) Roky Erickson Gremlins Have Pictures (Light in the Attic) While Roky Erickson’s pioneering output with psychedelic trailblazers the 13th Floor Elevators remains rightly celebrated for its power and originality, his subsequent solo work offers the clearest glimpse…
Playback: Still Weary
Weary Boys reunite, Red River vies for cultural district designation, and MusicMania to close
Headlines
• On Tuesday, Travis County Commissioners Court approved a scaled-down version of the Southeast roads, pushed by Pct. 4 Commissioner Margaret Gómez, that critics call “corporate welfare” for Formula One Circuit of the Americas. The vote was 3-0-2, with Commissioners Bruce Todd and Ron Davis abstaining. › In the wake of budget adoption, the meeting…
Enough Said
James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-star in this delicate, uncommon picture of middle-aged new love.
Fade to Black
Black filmmakers take center stage at the inaugural Capital City Black Film Festival
Texas Platters
Alpha Rev Bloom (Kirtland) Unplugged from corporate resources after a sojourn with the majors, Casey McPherson keeps his vision of widescreen Americana intact on Alpha Rev’s third album Bloom. Sounding as if they were recorded on a Hollywood soundstage, “Highways” and the Civil War-themed “Lexington” manage the difficult trick of sounding lush and spare at…
‘The Book of Mormon’
Welshman Mark Evans is on a mission to make you believe he’s an all-American prophet
Civics 101
Thursday 26 EMPOWER THE VOTE TEXAS FUNDRAISER Help Empower Texas continue its work educating voters about the electoral process. 5pm. Uncle Billy’s Brew & Que, 1530 Barton Springs Rd. Free with suggested donation. www.empowerthevotetx.org. Friday 27 AN EXTRAORDINARY EVENING Fundraiser for the Center of Survivors of Torture with music, a silent auction, and more. 6-9pm.…
Metallica: Through the Never
The 32-year-old British quartet is shown in depth that only begins with the 3-D.
Restaurant Review
Divine lobster rolls that don’t require a plane ticket to Cape Cod
Prognosis
Prognosis Puzzling that a town not only intensely music-centric but one that also values virtuosity hasn’t spawned more progressive rock bands. Fortunately, some adventurous souls persist, encouraged by code words like “post rock” and “math rock.” Halaska embodies the label on Mayantology, the local quartet’s knotty, complex music borrowing as heavily from mavericks like Frank…
Laurie Anderson
The musical pioneer reveals multiple facets of her artistry in multiple visits to Austin
Point Austin: Burning Down the House
Deadlock between city and firefighters reflects deeper problems
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Less a doc than a lyrical presentation of the cult actor and surprising song man.
Drink Your Veggies
A cancer survivor preaches the gospel of Daily Greens
Texas Platters
Charlie Robison Live at Billy Bob’s Texas (Smith Music Group) Except for the occasional live gig, Charlie Robison has been missing in action since his last disc, 2009’s Beautiful Day. He’s gearing up for a new album due in October, so here’s an excellent placeholder, a live date captured last year in Fort Worth. Always…
Gay Place
Where the Gaycation is Endless and the Orita Project comes to town
Quote of the Week
“Twenty years from now, if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.” – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, mid-filibuster against Obamacare
The Wizard of Oz 3-D
Watch out for the flying monkeys.
Food-O-File
AFWA grant deadline looms; no more Artz at Abel’s Rib House; and where La Condesa’s new truck will be wheeling next
Texas Platters
Chili Cold Blood And Now the Dawn (Blood Chili Records) Dropping XXL riffs with enough roadhouse twang to put Tony Iommi into a cowboy hat and bolo tie, Chili Cold Blood dials its Texas doom boogie to Seventies metal in a Southern Gothic style on album No. 7. Pedal steel delinquent Ethan Shaw and axeman…
Day Trips
‘Daytrips’ jumps the pond to burn some rubber in Scotland
Then There’s This: Tuning In to Austin
Before revising land code, city performs field work with ‘Code Next’
Weird Science
Paul Qui may be some mad genius, but the alchemy at his eponymous restaurant fizzles
Texas Platters
Carson Brock Finding Frames It seems inevitable that the scions of Austin music icons hit the stage. Carson Brock, son of virtuoso Eric Johnson bassist Kyle Brock, joins the rush with his second full-length, Finding Frames. Despite the influence of his dad’s onetime employer, Brock essays a different kind of guitar-slinging, preferring grungy blues rock…
Jackson’s Parents File Suit
Family alleges racial profiling
Enforcing the ‘Double Standard’
Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin
Food Events
Sept. 27-29
Texas Platters
Patricia Vonne Rattle My Cage (Bandolera Records) Notching a decade of local discs, Patrica Vonne’s fifth full-length prevails in any Cage match over its predecessors. The opening title track may be the best hook in her catalog, its riff half “Day Tripper,” half Bryan Adams’ “Run to You,” even if her voice plays second fiddle…
Hornography
Even after their unfortunate 1-2 start, the Texas Longhorns’ oft-repeated objective remains winning the Big 12. The company line rang ludicrous to the point of delusion after Texas debased themselves against BYU and followed that up with a second double-digit nonconference loss, this time at home, to No. 21 Ole Miss. Head coach Mack Brown…
Enforcing the ‘Double Standard’
Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin
