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In the Aug. 30 news story “UT Regents Fight Heats Up as Board Reshuffles,” we incorrectly reported that UT System Regent Jeff Hildebrand is a graduate of Texas A&M. He is in fact a two-time graduate of UT, holding both a BA in Geology and a Masters in Petroleum Engineering from UT Austin. We regret…

by Chronicle Staff

Exhibitionism

Reina Hardy’s update on ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is fascinating, but the premiere is oddly lacking given the talents involved

by Elizabeth Cobbe

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

People used to sleep twice a night, according to Roger Ekirch of Virginia Tech. We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of 3-4 hours, wakefulness of 2-3 hours, then sleep again until morning. The name “Oklahoma”…

by Mr. Smarty Pants

Phases & Stages

Killer Mike & El-P Run the Jewels Black thunder, white lightning. “The most beef and broc on your fucking block.” Run the Jewels, the free, downloadable tag team from longstanding East Coast rappers Killer Mike and El-P, doubles as the freshest, most exhilarating rap album of 2013: two long lost brothers pushing prophecy (“crew drops,…

by Chase Hoffberger

Exhibitionism

Choreographer Ellen Bartel opened her home and heart to friends for a dance about her late husband, Dave Woods

by Jonelle Seitz

Hornography

UT lost something of value on Saturday night against lowly New Mexico State, but the Longhorns’ school-record 715 yards of total offense deserves its own memorial library. Mack Brown and co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite harped on the importance of ball control like a two-headed parrot this summer, with a target offensive output of 80 plays…

by Russ Espinoza

Phases & Stages

Church of Misery Thy Kingdom Scum (Metal Blade) Coffins The Fleshland (Relapse) Raining bodies and bones beginning a decade apart, Tokyo cults Church of Misery and Coffins both reached sonic summits on their third U.S. full-lengths. Respectively, Houses of the Unholy (2009) and Buried Death (2008) fissioned a nuclear-strength sheen that recedes organically on their…

by Raoul Hernandez

‘Eggheads’

Novelist Joseph Skibell reflects on his adventures in the screen trade that produced this screwball comedy

by Robert Faires

Soccer Watch

It’s a busy time on all fronts in the soccer world, with MLS heading into its final weeks, domestic leagues just underway throughout the rest of the world, Champions League action in Europe and the Americas, and the next-to-last major weekend of World Cup qualifying. Meanwhile: The first Austin edition of the Kicking + Screening…

by Nick Barbaro

Conspirare

New CD of Kevin Puts’ music allows the company of voices to be a ‘Swan’ and ‘Touch the Sky’ once more

by Robert Faires

Phases & Stages

The Civil Wars (Sensibility Music/Columbia) Barton Hollow, the Civil Wars’ 2011 debut, garnered such unexpected success that the follow-up arrives with all kinds of drama. “Irreconcilable differences of ambition” now put the Nashville duo on indefinite hiatus, it turns out. It’s through that lens with which one must hear their eponymous sophomore LP. While there…

by Jim Caligiuri

Phases & Stages

Oblivians Desperation (In the Red) The Oblivians’ catalog set the standard great garage-punk albums get measured against. From 1993-97, the lo-fi trio – Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright, Jack Yarber, and Goner Records founder Eric Friedl, each sharing duties on guitar and drums – cut three LPs of rabid R&B about guitar-shop assholes and Memphis creeps.…

by Austin Powell

Civics 101

Thursday 05 GETTING FISCALLY FIT The Austin Chapter of the Society for Financial Awareness hosts a seminar on the basic principles of cash management and the roadblocks to financial success. 6pm. Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe, 512/974-7400. Free. www.library.austintexas.gov. BACK TO SCHOOL: TIME TO PUT ON YOUR (CRITICAL) THINKING CAPS UT Journalism professor Robert Jensen…

by Chronicle Staff

Phases & Stages

Grant Hart The Argument (Domino) Hüsker Dü was a partnership or a rivalry depending on your POV. Two restless Midwestern auteurs, charismatic control freak Bob Mould and hardcore melodic Grant Hart, stoked a competition during the trio’s legendary run in the Eighties that guaranteed the absence of a reunion tour even 30 years later. Mould…

by Luke Winkie

Headlines

› No regular meeting of City Council this week; instead, three days – Sept. 9, 10, 11 – of “budget readings,” usually a pro forma affair but likely more intense this round, as Council spent Tuesday’s work session trying to adjust the budget to avoid or diminish a property tax increase – we’ll find out…

by Chronicle Staff

Phases & Stages

Camera Obscura Desire Lines (4AD) Guest spots from Neko Case and Jim James fold into Desire Lines, but amid its dreamlike immensity you might not notice. The pop-loving Glaswegians cultivate smart, sugar-coated camp in the vein of countrymen Belle & Sebastian, but their fifth LP resists harvesting low-hanging fruit, including the big-name heavyweights honeying the…

by Abby Johnston

Phases & Stages

Capsula Solar Secrets (Krian) Today’s episode of “Meet Your Heroes” features Spanish power trio Capsula hooking up with Tony Visconti. The Bowie/T. Rex/Alejandro Escovedo producer knows hot rock when he hears it, and the Buenos Aires-to-Bilbao band has burned up stages for 15 years and over a half-dozen LPs. Solar Secrets divulges the textured psychedelia…

by Michael Toland

Pride Events

Each year, since 2011, since the current crop of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board members have been at this game, Austin Pride has ramped up the ante with more acts, more events, more more, more, and more. The quality has matched the quantity, too, with last year’s expanded and remapped parade route,…

by Kate X Messer

Phases & Stages

Laura Mvula Sing to the Moon (Columbia) Don’t lump British soul singer Laura Mvula in with retro revivalists. A classically trained composer, Mvula marries the smoky solemnity of Nina Simone with the daring whimsy of Björk, filling a dozen songs with lush orchestration, soaring choral harmonies, and a thousand strings tickling the senses like tiny…

by Thomas Fawcett

HD 50 Special Election Candidate Snapshot

Democratic Candidates Celia Israel (www.celiaisrael.com) * Political activist, realtor * Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Advocacy Chair * Active in Alliance for Public Transportation, Stonewall Democrats, Sustainable Food Center, Capital Area Food Bank, Robert Mueller Redevelopment Committee * Priority issues: higher ed, health care, defend the vote, public transportation * Notable endorsements: Ann Kitchen,…

by Chronicle Staff

AUSTIN PRIDE 2013

I can’t get too werked up, uhh, worked up about the whole Miley Cyrus thing. I’ve seen too many local, recently post-jailbait darlings of the non-African-American variety absolutely lose their gourds once the tempestuously titillating torrent of booty music gushes over them for the first time. Seriously, especially you, Austin gay community: Throw the first…

by Kate X Messer

The Luv Doc: A Remarkable Debut

The hipsterati were out in full force Sunday evening for the debut of local dry-rub barbecue mogul Mark Fagan’s new band, the John-Pauls, a threepiece alternative ensemble featuring Fagan on guitar, Phillip Niemeyer on guitar and vocals, Mikila Zaorski on drums, and the prophet Elijah on bass, who was on loan from his other gigs…

by The Luv Doc

Doubletime

GayBiGayGay showstoppers DavO and Krylon Superstar – aka Double Duchess – just can’t quit us

by Rob Cohen

Okkervil River Record Review

Okkervil River The Silver Gymnasium (ATO) Will Sheff strikes hardest when he’s strafing the cultural subconscious, exhuming within his dense, hyper-literate narratives the tenuous traumas and defining details of his characters that sync to larger, and deeper social truths. He’s also one of the few songwriters who works better behind a theme, his allusion-laden lyrics…

by Doug Freeman

Instructions Not Included

In this Mexican film, a man who’s raised an abandoned child for six years is confronted by the birth mother who suddenly wants the girl back.

by Louis Black

Texas Biennial 2013

The 2013 curators are Bill Arning, René Paul Barilleaux, Christian Gerstheimer, K8 Hardy, Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler, Annette Lawrence, David Pagel, Bárbara Perea, Christina Rees, Dario Robleto, Noah Simblist, Jeremy Strick, and Clint Willour. Fifth anniversary exhibitions are curated by Michael Duncan (2009 curator) and Virginia Rutledge (2011 curator and 2013 curator-at-large). Artist lists, curator…

by Robert Faires

Food Events

Kiolbassa & Kabernet Each of the 13 wineries or tasting rooms along Highway 290 West will partner with an area restaurant to present a distinctive sausage from Kiolbassa Provision Co. paired with a fine Hill Country Cabernet Sauvignon. Some tasting fees may apply. Sat., Sept. 7, 10am-6pm. Fredericksburg Wine Road 290, Gillespie County. www.kiolbassa.com. •…

by Virginia B. Wood

Austenland

Keri Russell plays a woman who vacations in a Jane Austen fantasy camp, but the film is lacking in sense and sensibility.

by Kimberley Jones

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