Cover Story
Sym the Prole
A radical takes on the practical in the fight against HIV stigma
Abbott Complains About Davis Book Tour
Dems slam complaint as “frivolous”
DJ Shadow on Afrika Bambaataa
Sampling the godfather turntablist
Culinary Ladies of the Eighties: Judy Willcott
Bread baking hobby led to successful local business
Three for District 2
Dove Springs media forum addresses southeast voters
Estate Sale Roundup: September 11-14
It’s only rock & roll, and we like it.
Texas Book Festival 2014: The Full Party List
Among the 275 authors: Oates, Ellroy, Mosley, Lear, Dean
The AggreGAYtor: September 11
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Loading Up The Method Gun
The Rudes’ latest run at UT caps eight-year odyssey with the play
Down Low Deconstructs the State Divide Part 2
Texas techno with Bill Converse
Food-o-File: Early Edition
Austin’s restaurants go prix fixe crazy
BFFs: Lady Bromance or Romance?
Exploring the gray area between friends and girlfriends at aGLIFF
Panel Finds ‘Serious Flaws’ in SBOE-Backed Social Studies Textbooks
Independent reviewers find more than a dozen factual distortions
Lights! Camera! Ice Cream!
Iconic Texas brand seeks video auditions for commercial
Fantastic Fest Gives Us the Horns
Daniel Radcliffe’s latest heads up final wave of films
TIFF Files: Fest Dibs, Good for Squibs?
Fest competition for bragging rights benefits journalists
The Road to 10-1: District 2 Steppin’
Media City Council forum continues tonight, 7pm
Ill Communication: Transmission No. 1
Fear not of rap and hip-hop, but rather FOR rap and hip-hop
The Daily Show Is Coming to Austin
A week’s worth of midterm election coverage set for Oct. 27-30
The AggreGAYtor: September 9
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Rookie Cop Keeps His Wits About Him
Disarms man who tried to shoot him
Bret Anthony Johnston at BookPeople
Corpus Christi author’s novel revels in a parent’s worst fear
The Road to 10-1: Meet District 1
Media forums begin tonight, 7pm
SXSW Interactive Adds Speakers
A chef, a cybernetic man, and a political firebrand walk into a bar
Aaron Behrens Keeps Rising
Ghostland Observatory singer sounds a battle cry in Midnight Stroll
Thunderbird Hearts Austin Coffee
Cafe invites customers to try competitors with (dis)loyalty cards
Stargayzer Festival
Austin hosts inaugural LGBTQ music festival
Brigham Down the Horns
BYU Cougars feast on too-green Texas talent
The AggreGAYtor: September 8
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
DVDanger: Retro Redemption
Nerd out with The Stream, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie
TIFF Files: Off to the Races
Reports from the Toronto International Film Festival
Where the Girls Go/ATX: September Edition
Where to find the cutest and coolest queers about town this weekend
Obscene Beauty
New series Sunday Bloody Cinema makes the weekend transgressive
The AggreGAYtor: September 5
What happened today in gay? Here’s your QILTBAG recap of queer news.
Danny Schmidt: Slow & Easy & Winning the Race
Doing business with a native Austin writer
One in a Crowd: Gaming Edition
Three games, all worthy of the crowd’s funds
Pot Brownies Case Moved to November
Hearing rescheduled for November, potential December trial
A Summer’s Tale
Eric Rohmer’s 1996 film gets its first Stateside release – and the wait was worth it.
Venus in Fur
The play’s the thing in Roman Polanski’s erotic screen version of the Tony Award-winner.
Mary Kom
Hindi biopic about the legendary boxer.
The Luv Doc: What is Wrong
Dear Luv Doc, What is wrong with you? – Anonymous Good question, Anonymous! I am still figuring that out, but fortunately I get lots of help from family, friends, and complete strangers like yourself. Here’s a short list, but I could go on and on. My feet. Whenever I take my socks off, the most…
As Above/So Below
There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.
Cantinflas
Mexico’s most beloved comedy film star gets the biopic treatment.
The Last of Robin Hood
Kevin Kline is Errol Flynn in this confused story of his late-life affair with 15-year-old Beverly Aadland.
No No: A Dockumentary
Famous for pitching a no-hitter while high on acid, Dock Ellis the man was so much more.
The One I Love
Mark Duplass and Elizabeth Moss shine in this rom-com-dram with a twist.
The Identical
The fabricated ghost of Elvis Presley’s twin brother hangs over this complete muddle.
Innocence
This story about a damaged, young woman mired in the mundanities of boarding-school life is utterly bloodless.
Frank
Arthouse comedy amuses yet disappoints.
Truvada & PrEP Facts
• Truvada blocks reverse transcriptase, an enzyme necessary for the virus’ reproduction in immune cells. • PrEP reduces infection rates in gay/bisexual men, transgender women, and heterosexual couples, as well as intravenous drug users. • People starting or maintaining a PrEP regimen still need to get tested regularly. • Taken daily as recommended, PrEP is…
Day Trips
San Luis Spirits invites visitors to their Dripping Springs stills
Mr. Smarty Pants
According to News21.com, at least 28,000 children and teens were killed by guns over an 11-year period in the U.S. Thelonious Monk is the second most recorded jazz composer ever, after Duke Ellington. Note that the Duke recorded over 900 songs to Monk’s 70-some songs. The word “lady” is derived from the Old English word…
If You Build It, They Will Come
Hump! Tour’s DIY porn pit-stops in Austin
Hornography
Charlie Strong needs to deactivate David Ash for the rest of the season – if not the rest of his college career. Texas’ QB needs to stop playing football for the sake of his mental health, and part of that responsibility should lie with the coaching staff. The bullshit tough-guy mentality of “shaking off the…
It’s aGLIFF Time Again
The 27th annual fest of LGBTQ films begins
The Making of Gone With the Wind
The Ransom Center’s epic retelling of how this epic motion picture came to be
Soccer Watch
The UT Longhorns remain unbeaten (at 2-0-2) after a scoreless tie against nationally ranked Arkansas on Friday, and a comprehensive 5-1 drubbing of Nevada on Sunday, with two goals by each of the Brook twins – senior defender Brooke Gilbert, and freshman striker Olivia Brook. It’s early, but this Longhorn team might be very good.…
Civics 101
Duty now for the future
Letters At 3AM: Karen Holden’s This Music
This Music, Karen Holden’s new poetry collection, expresses the connection between the self and the world
Gay Town in the A-Town
It was a big deal, almost 10 years ago, when Austin Pride Parade numbers solidly settled in a five-figure mark. Last year, we cracked over 100,000 spectators to the parade alone, not counting participants and fest-goers. Now, Austin Pride serves as a wild bookend to a crazy month that has exploded with multiple, fully formed…
Headlines
• After a split (Thursday/Friday) meeting last week that raised plenty of sand, City Council was in the final stages of budget hearings Wednesday, with three budget adoption days (Sept. 8-10) scheduled next week. There’s a work session on Wednesday, Sept. 10, and the next regular meeting is Sept. 28. See “Council.” • A voting…
The Common Law: Does An Old Arrest Show Up on a Criminal Background Check?
What’s best to do after a case gets dismissed
About a Girl
Dani Neff shreds Megafauna to Maximalist effect
Gay Place
SMTX IS ON! Happy first Pride, San Marcos! Keep those Bobcat claws where we can see ’em.
Point Austin: The Dietz Decision
Will Texas fulfill its constitutional promise?
The Good Eye: How Should a Fall Fashion Preview Be?
The “Good Eye” does herself
Texas Platters
Pedigree doesn’t guarantee talent, but Curtis McMurtry clearly inherited a deep narrative inclination from his father and grandfather. That familial tradition surfaces in the 23-year-old’s character-driven songs and thoroughly realized, detailed settings, though the scion’s debut LP also begins carving out his own distinct path. Signaled at the outset with the southwestern sway and Calexico-brushed…
Yeakel Again Rules Against HB 2
5th Circuit denies A.G. Abbott’s emergency motion to stay ruling
Public Notice: Drama on the High Seats
Reading (not too far) between the lines of Thursday’s marathon
Change for the Better
How one West Texas family brought the cows to town
Texas Platters
Memories run both warm and sad for the posthumous comeback by Texas’ most operatic rock & roller. The melancholy comes naturally: Mystery Girl came out nearly two months to the day after Roy Kelton Orbison of Vernon died from heart failure on Dec. 6, 1988, at the age of 52. David Lynch utilizing Big O…
Abbott Waffles on Debating Davis
Guv. candidate can’t decide if he’s up for a debate
Quote of the Week
“[T]he clinics’ closure statewide would operate for a significant number of women in Texas just as drastically as a complete ban on abortion.” – U.S. Judge Lee Yeakel on ruling Texas’ abortion law, House Bill 2, unconstitutional.
Texas Platters
Debut albums elucidate direction, a delicate titter of what, and exactly how much, to present. Epirus Quartet blows Fifties-and-everything-after jazz in the same tone as the translucent gray artwork of its seven-song, half-hour bow. Transatlantic’s lean silhouette necessitates much-needed additional chub, for which there are moments of local flash by tenor saxophonist/flautist Nikolas Bouklas, organ…
Campaign Snapshots
City Council districts 1 and 2 forum preview
Texas Platters
In the essay accompanying this CD/DVD set, Deadman leader Steven Collins notes the point of EP How Shall We Then Live? and companion film Chimes at Midnight “was to create a piece that focused on the mystery, beauty, and romance of creating something in general.” He also includes dialogue adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry V. If…
Council: Here Comes the Sun
Council recovers from last week’s multiday meeting
All Over Creation: Glory Days
When is gazing back at the past looking in the wrong direction?
Texas Platters
As the name implies, Austin’s Mole People haven’t tunneled up into the light of broader recognition, but on debut Lost Age, informed by the psychedelicized nuggetry of Sixties garage rock and overdriven sugar of Seventies power-pop, there’s plenty to dig. Over ice-creamy power chords that could be mistaken for the Misfits’ “Some Kinda Hate,” soulful…
10-1 Ticker…
Election updates!
Playback: The Big Three
Remember major labels? Meet three underground locals on them.
Texas Platters
Americana journeyman Seth Walker made his name slingin’ axe on the not-so-mean streets of Austin, though he’s since made home bases in Nashville and New Orleans. The latter location informs his sixth album Sky Still Blue, but not in overt ways one might expect. Rather than giving himself a N’awlins funk makeover, Walker adds some…
Texas School Funding
Still unconstitutional
How to Build Neighborhoods
Erin McGann is the sole newcomer in a race dominated by incumbents
The Art of the Brew Will Quench Your Aesthetic Thirst
Co-Lab Projects’ second annual celebration of beer and visual art
“Magistration Center” for APD?
Plan could save money, sidestep S-Comm immigration holds
The McGann Alternative
The third candidate in the District 9 race is Erin McGann, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice program supervisor who lives at the southern end of the district, near Oltorf. McGann hopes to win those District 9 voters who want a representative with a fresh perspective, but she acknowledges she has struggled to raise funding…
Food-o-File
Mourning the restaurant that brought Thai to Austin
Oops! Fluid Correction!
The Aug, 22, 2014 edition of “Mr. Smarty Pants Knows” stated that Michael Nesmith’s mother invented Wite-Out when in fact she invented Liquid Paper. George Kloosterhouse is credited with inventing Wite-Out in 1966 with the help of Edwin Johanknecht. Bette Nesmith Graham invented Liquid Paper in 1956. Mr. Smarty Pants apologizes for any inconvenience this…
Death Watch
Trottie is scheduled for execution next week
When David Met Sym
I met Sym in 2010 at one of his Tranarchy parties. Or was it Bearracuda? I certainly saw him make his debut as drag terrorist Merci Killingspree at Tranarchy; I think it was the first onstage abortion I’d ever witnessed. He’s subversive, astute, and unafraid. Even his merchandising and window display shenanigans at his day/not-always-day…
Exibitionism: Road to Nowhere
Capital T’s Detroit is a destination worth a visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there
Facebook “Threat” Case Proceeds
Judge declines to dismiss case against Carter
HIV in Travis County
• The number of people living with HIV in Texas has increased by more than 20% since 2008. • 90% of new cases in 2013 were among men who have sex with men. • More than half of those cases identified as black or Hispanic. • Women account for about 15% of the population living…
Exhibitionism
This solo show explores new existential threats in sharp analytical prints and layered chaotic collage
The Hightower Report
Scary Perry foments fear that terrorists “could be” coming from Mexico
A Wild Pitch of a Life
No No: A Dockumentary chronicles the legendary life of pitcher Dock Ellis
