* ACTUALLY, IT WAS PRETTY CHILL … SEE P. 18 THE HARDCORE PUNKS OF THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE BRING DOWN THE ESTABLISHMENT FROM WITHIN* CHAOS IN TEJAS CHAOS IN TEJAS PREVIEW P. 42 SKINHEADED: The Only Mexican Debbie Riddle Wants in Texas Is FOOD STRAIGHT EDGE: ‘Doc’ Anderson Keeps Salvia Divinorum Out of the Hands of FILTHY HIPPIES ANARCHY: Donna Campbell: Just Straight-Up, Tea Partying, Bats ** t CRAZY NO FUTURE: Dan Patrick Has Had Enough of This BOURGEOIS EDUCATION Junk VOL. 32 , NO. 40 n CHECK US OUT AT AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM AND ON FACEBOOK, TWITTER, GOOGLE+, AND THE USUAL SOCIAL TIMESUCKS n NEVER MIND THE BALLOTS MAY 31, 2013
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VOLUME 32, NUMBER 40 H MAY 31, 2013CONTENTS
CALENDAR BACK78 SHOT IN THE DARK THE LUV DOC
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MR. SMARTY PANTS
79 CLASSIFIEDS
87 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
COVER BY JASON STOUT, PHOTOS BY JOHN ANDERSON
AND JANA BIRCHUM
NEWS9 POINT AUSTIN BY MICHAEL
KING
10 THEN THERE’S THIS
BY AMY SMITH
12 ‘Suicide by Cop’ or Preventable Tragedy?; Lege Lines; Springsteen Sues for Wrongful Conviction; and more
16 THE HIGHTOWER REPORT
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
18 THERE THEY GO … HERE THEY COME AGAIN A no-drama ses-sion ends – will a high-drama special follow?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
22 LETTERS AT 3AM BY MICHAEL
VENTURA
ARTS25 Studio Visits:
Manik Nakra; and ASO spices up its menu with fresh compositions
26 CULTURE CONNECTORS The 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
28 EXHIBITIONISM Gruesome Playground Injuries, Twelve Angry Men, and “Not How It Happened”
29 AFTER A FASHION BY STEPHEN
MACMILLAN MOSER
FOOD31 Salt & Time
Butcher Shop & Salumeria, Food-o-File, and Meal Times
32 READ IT AND EAT New cookbooks and food culture tomes
47 NEWS OF THE WEIRD
SCREENS37 AFS Essential
Cinema: Marilyn Monroe; and Texas Film Incentives
38 ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION The Last Unicorn takes a victory lap at the Alamo Drafthouse
BY AMY GENTRY
MUSIC41 PLAYBACK
Chaos in Tejas courts hip-hop, Los Crudos, and local experimental cassette label Holodeck
BY KEVIN CURTIN
42 CHAOS IN TEJAS A huge circle pit
of interviews, record reviews, lists, and picks for the mayhem punk/metal/and more fest
46 CHAOTIC PLATTERS
Chaos in Tejas acts includ-ing Iceage, Grouper, Framtid, Krömosom, Rotten Sound, etc.
4 POSTMARKS
54 FILM After Earth, Frances Ha, Kon-Tiki, Love Is All You Need, American Mary
56 SHOWTIMES
62 MUSIC RECOMMENDED Chaos in Tejas folk druid Jessica Pratt admits to her first tour, plus Japandroids, Postal Service, Kopecky Family Band, Lydia Lunch, Arum Rae, Ana Egge, Indian Jewelry, Los Amigos Invisibles, Mobb Deep, and much more
64 VENUES66 ROADSHOWS + CLUB LISTINGS
48 THIS WEEK Shake and shimmy all raks-sharki-style at the Austin Belly Dance Convention this weekend
THE ARTS GAY PLACE BY KATE X MESSER
DAY TRIPS BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
SOCCER WATCH BY NICK BARBARO
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Reader CommentOn the parking problems of Casa de Luz: That sounds like a pretty unfavorable prec-edent, reducing access to the parks just because some business “needs” more parking.
– DHHiltbrand
“Open City Parks for Business Parking?” News, May 24
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Parking Solution: Meter the MillionaireSDear Editor, As one of the many fans of Casa de Luz, I read with interest about [Council Member] Chris Riley’s proposal for allowing businesses to pay to use underutilized park parking [“Open City Parks for Business Parking?” News, May 24].
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While I appreciate Riley’s efforts to be a problem solver, I can see the issues with this proposal, as outlined in the article. I have a much better suggestion: How about installing parking meters for every parking space in every city park where there is high demand or potential use by nearby businesses? Not only will this provide the Parks Department with a much-needed infusion of cash, but with metered parking, as a taxpayer, I couldn’t care less who uses the parking spaces at Butler Shores Park (or Auditorium Shores, Zilker, Deep Eddy, etc.) as long as they’re feeding the meter. While “many members of the community” will howl in rage at such a proposal, the real ques-tion to be asking is why the more than 700,000 Austinites who never use these parking spaces are being asked to subsidize the handful of – let’s face it – mostly upper middle-class citizens who regularly utilize these free parking spaces? The
reason we don’t have bike lanes on Riverside Drive next to Auditorium Shores is because some people in Bouldin Creek insisted that they needed free parking at Auditorium Shores in order to drive the two blocks from their house to the park; no, I’m not making this up. I frequent urban parks with my two children as well, but we almost always go by bike. By not metering the parking spaces at Auditorium Shores, the city is basically asking me to pay for free parking for some self-entitled Bouldin Creek millionaire who is too lazy to walk or bike the two blocks from his or her
house to the park. That’s fucking absurd. Meter that shit, and let’s move on. Patrick Goetz
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Food, May 24]. A friend and I got short ribs, pork ribs, and brisket there the day after the Chronicle article. What Vann refers to as “bark” was a burnt, half-inch crust of mostly salt and pepper on all-the-way overcooked meats. The pork ribs were burnt, dry, and tasteless, except for the salt, of course. The short ribs were a study in char that even the house pets here disdained. The brisket was another exposition on char, with the, uh, “bark” soaked in grease, the meat vainly seeking a mouth to melt in. Hey, the yellow summer squash in cheese glop was at least edible: Too bad folks were there for the meat. Vann’s piece is a dishonest review, and I bet that Anthony Bourdain would not like being attached to a review of such appallingly bad food. To compare this ghastly barbecue to Franklin is close to outright lying. Richard Tedhams
writer with green rooM BlueS?Dear Editor, It was the review of Black Flag that was muddy [“Black Flag Returns,” earache! Music blog, May 24]. I find it difficult to accept a freelancer’s opinion who may be miffed because he was not allowed into the green room. Maybe the stringer would have been more comfortable sitting in an air-conditioned skybox at the McCartney show. I understand you can’t always get all of them right, so despite this piece, I continue to trust the Chronicle’s reviews. Jim Corry
[Music Editor Raoul Hernandez replies: Indeed, Tim never made it into the green room. Invited there by one of the show’s promoters, he was barred from entry by security. As you’ll note from the review, he took issue with the sound, not watching the show from the floor, or the actual performance.]
where’S the Video?Dear Editor, What ever happened in the John Schaefer shooting case? And why haven’t we seen any dash-cam video? All the reports and affidavits released so far seem to make clear that Mr. Schaefer refused to obey a lawful order from a police officer to temporarily disarm while a (potential) crime was being investigated, and that he drew and pointed a gun at a police offi-cer resulting in his death. I’ve read the reports, but it seems that releasing corroborating video evidence in this shooting should not take the two months it has. Where is the video? Steve Basile [Editor’s note: We continue to monitor the case, but note that it’s standard practice to withhold video and other evidence while the incident remains under Austin Police Department review.]
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Now the fun begins. That’s one way to look at the instanta-neous return of the Lege, in a “special ses-sion” called by Gov. Rick Perry nominally for the purpose of redistricting, and more specifically to formally adopt the “inter-im maps” drafted by a San Antonio federal court to replace GOP-authored maps that the courts had concluded dis-criminated against minority voters. It’s not entirely clear why the rush – since the courts are still reviewing the Texas maps and might start the whole process over again – but Attorney General Greg Abbott thinks approving court-drawn maps will strengthen his hand in the ongoing litigation. In response to earlier Democratic objections, Abbott wrote, “I am left to wonder, howev-er, if it is the position of the Texas House Democratic Caucus that the three federal judges who crafted the interim plan includ-ed racially discriminatory features.”
The problem with Abbott’s supercilious response is that the judges, in issuing the interim maps, made it clear that they were doing only enough to enable interim elec-tions. “This interim plan,” they wrote, “is
not a final ruling on the merits of any claims asserted by the plaintiffs
in this case.” Nevertheless, Perry, Abbott, and the GOP
figure they’ve done alright under the interim maps – packing-and-cracking minority districts suffi-ciently to maintain Republican dominance for another decade – so they’ll hope to dance
through the courts with what brung ’em.
Of course, badly out-numbered Democrats will be
bringing the thunder as best as they can, and a few disgruntled Repub-
licans may press for changes of their own. Austin’s Kirk Watson (Senate Dem Caucus chair) engaged in a testy exchange with Lite Guv David Dewhurst over the lack of a “two-thirds rule” in the special – mostly to
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First Bread, Then CircusIf the 83rd Lege gLazed your eyebaLLs, act two mIght wake the baLcony
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Headlines› After a marathon session May 23, City Council
doesn’t meet again until June 6 (work session June 4), when it will take up at least some of the postponed matters: EMS changes, city park parking exchanges, and maybe even ridesharing. See “Council Notes: Never Do Today …”
› Although it may have resprouted your lawn – at least the weeds – recent heavy rains have done little to ease the Central Texas drought, and Highland Lakes levels remain at about 40%, and are expected to drop another 10% over the sum-mer. For the moment, Austin remains under Stage 2 watering restrictions.
› How could you tell it was Memorial Day? Because, out of the 94 arrests during APD’s no refusal weekend, 90 were for DWI and four for BWI: boating while intoxicated.
› The famous South Congress trailer park – arguably ground zero for the Austin food trailer revolution – rolled off into the sunset on May 28. Property owners the Congress Avenue Baptist Church have leased the land to SoCo ATX Development to become a three-story hotel.
› The annual Community Action Network “dash-board report” of socio-economic conditions in Central Texas, just released, reflects a mixed bag of changes in the past year: As the regional pop-ulation continues to grow, there were slight drops in the crime rate and homelessness, but increas-es in the poverty rate and housing costs, and a post-presidential decline in voter turnout. See the full report at www.cancommunitydashboard.org.
› The regular session of the 83rd Texas Legislature ended, sine die, at around 5pm on Monday, May 27 – and lawmakers were back an hour later for their first special session. Gov. Rick Perry called them back to rush through new House, Senate, and Congressional maps, and there will be committee hearings at 9am at the Capitol, May 30-June 1.
› Perry’s gerrymandering plans may be pre-mature. On May 29, the San Antonio court cur-rently reviewing the last Lege-drawn maps held its latest hearing and requested briefs from all parties by next Wednesday on whether or not to use new census numbers in their deliberations.
› Comptroller Susan Combs will not run for any office in 2014. A line of wannabe successors is forming, including Tea Party fave Debra Medina and former Republican House Speaker Tom Craddick. Combs, who took flack for major data leaks from her office and for championing the controversial Major Events Trust Fund, had been rumored as a contender for lieutenant governor.
› The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 5-4 that Texas doesn’t provide a meaningful way for inmates to raise on direct appeal issues of ineffect ive assistance of counsel. The ruling expands their decision last year in an unrelated Arizona case, providing Texas inmates an oppor-tunity to raise for the first time in federal appeals the issue of deficient lawyering. (See “Supremes Agree Texas Inmate Should Have Appeal Heard,” Newsdesk, May 29.)
create a legal record – and Dewhurst brushed it away. With rushed public hear-ings scheduled in both chambers already this week, we’ll soon find out whether Pandora’s Redistricting Box can be opened and closed without the demons escaping.
The Bare Minimum Of course, there are plenty of folks who would prefer to blow open the box altogeth-er. Legislators on both sides have been busy congratulating themselves for a “biparti-san” session, most notably in the agree-ments to create a water infrastructure fund (if November voters approve) and to return some funding to the public schools. Neither measure would have been possible without 1) a marginal increase in the number of House Democrats, whose votes became nec-essary to touch the Rainy Day Fund; and
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One o’clock in the morning isn’t the best time for critical decision-making about Austin Energy governance issues, but the City Council took the bold step last week to … maintain the status quo. That may sound like an anticlimactic deci-sion after nearly five months of drama over who should control the city’s largest asset, but at that slap-happy hour, a 7-0 vote to re-examine the governance ques-tion was really the safest path to follow. How they arrived at that decision in the wee hours was, unfortunately, clear as mud. Only two members – Mayor Lee Leffing well and Council Member Bill Spelman – were fully pre-pared to create an inde-pendent board to manage the utility. The remaining five – each of them with an eye on either a run for mayor or another term in 2014 – decided that the wholly unpopular idea of relinquishing control of the utility merited more consideration. Earlier last week, the mayor decided to post-pone indefinitely the original proposal to grant a nonpolitical board sovereign powers over AE, but he resisted deep-sixing it altogether, even though it doesn’t appear to be going anywhere. Meanwhile, Chris Riley, with Mike Martinez and Laura Morrison, moved ahead with a new proposal to create a council subcommittee to study the governance question. When the item came up for public comment at Thursday’s meeting, consumer activists expressed ambivalence about the subcom-mittee idea; as they saw it, it still left open the possibility of a governance shake-up that would result in a non-elected, non-account-able board riding herd over the utility. Somewhere between midnight and 1am, Council members concluded that they should all serve on the committee (Morrison and Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole both retracted
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2) the explosion of natural gas production, a fracking throwback to the days when the state lived entirely off hydrocarbons. Before we all sing “Happy Days Are Here Again,” it’s worth emphasizing that our state leadership did the bare mini-mum to keep the public schools from entirely imploding, under the shadow of yet another pending court decision unlike-ly to be kind to the state’s inadequate and unconstitutional funding system. As the Center for Public Policy Priorities’ Eva DeLuna Castro told the Dallas Morning News, the persistent underfunding of edu-cation and health care for a growing state is “like a middle-aged person trying to fit into the clothes they wore in high school.” So the schools will just have to muddle on, and the governor has already made it abundantly and repetitively clear that there will be no expansion of Medicaid, despite millions of Texans without health insurance (not incidentally ceding billions in federal funds to other states). He’s been coy about adding anything else to the ses-sion call, leaving to others the demand for partisan fireworks. GOP back-benchers disappointed at a relatively calm 83rd are demanding action on their “anti-abortion” obsessions: protection of “pain-capable unborn children”; restrictions on abortion clinics and doctors; and petulant insis-tence that any national health care insur-ance exchange (that they don’t want to participate in) not cover abortion. In other words, having been denied their morality melodrama in the regular ses-sion, they’ve asked Perry to revive the play.
Let the Games Begin! Trying to shore up his badly Cruz-bruised right flank for his re-election cam-paign, Dewhurst has echoed the outcry for more “pro-life” legislation – comically add-ing to the Perry’s honey-do list such pro-life notions as more guns on college cam-puses and a ban on enforcement of federal gun regulations. What else does Dewhurst want? More “school choice” (i.e., multiplying charters and – dream on – vouchers); more drug-testing for welfare recipients (an expen-sive, pointless, but symbolically punitive exercise); a constitutional cap on state spending (to make certain that the state’s grown-up clothes never fit). There’s more where that came from, of course, but we’ll have to wait until the opening redistricting act concludes before we learn if Perry is on board with the rest of the circus. He might well decide that the right-wing agenda serves more politi-cal usefulness as a wish list than an action memo; it should leave plenty of room for more fundraising letters from Texas Right to Life on behalf of those “80,000 tiny Texans” who won’t ever get to vote Republican. Those observers who are dis-appointed at the relatively sedate regular session can only hope that the governor will let the dogs out and re-confirm Texas’ reputation as the “National Laboratory for Bad Government.” n
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T H u r s d A y 3 0MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS DAY: VOICES OF RECOVERY II Join Austin in celebrating the second annual Mental Health Awareness Day. Fight the stigma associated with mental health issues, learn about peer support, and find resources within the community. 5:30-8:30pm. Austin State Hospital, 4110 Guadalupe, Bldg. 631, Free. www.beyondtoday.us.
F r I d A y 3 1LEAP SPRING FLING Become a jet-setter with-out leaving Austin. LEAP’s annual benefit visits Spain’s Costa del Sol in support of LifeWork’s work for homeless youth. Ticket includes paella and signature cocktails; VIP lounge includes bites from Jezebel restaurant. ¡Delicioso! 8-11pm. Bar Mirabeau, 800 W. Sixth. $35 presale; $50 day of; VIP tickets available. www.leapforlifeworks.org.
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previous comments that they didn’t want to serve). Any discussion about governance of the utility, they decided,
should be a matter for the entire Council. “There are
some really good things that can come out of having a sub-
committee,” said Morrison. “My frus-tration is that we’ve talked about governance for the past four months, and I would hate to have this new committee just be a discus-sion about governance. There is so much more good work that a [committee] can do.” And since the word “governance” was, as Martinez noted, “giving everyone heartburn,” it was stripped from the final language on a motion by Kathie Tovo, and replaced with new language directing the committee to determine the “mission, scope, and responsibilities” of two existing advisory committees – the Electric Utility Com mis sion, and the Resource Manage ment Com mis sion, which provides input on renewable energy and conservation matters. “I believe that will allow us to talk about the future of the [two commissions], and whether one or two should be reconstituted as an electric utility board and be given additional responsibilities or additional scope,” Tovo said. Tovo also sought to broaden the scope of the new Council committee to include more
oversight on a wide range of issues, from low-income customers, to chiller plant opera-tions, fuel hedging, and competitive matters, effectively doing the job currently under the purview of the city manager. As Riley had already pointed out, an inquisitive Council committee would shine more light on how the utility is run, as opposed to City Manager Marc Ott and AE General Manager Larry Weis making key decisions “in a way that is not transparent at all.” Then there’s the issue of the new 10-1 City Council that will be elected in 2014. Critics have questioned why a lame-duck Council would take on such a massive endeavor in the first place. That complaint is said to be one of the main reasons Sen. Kirk Watson’s legislation – enabling Council to make the governance switch without a charter amend-ment – died in a House committee. It’s not so much that the GOP-friendly State Affairs Committee actually listened to the grass-roots activists who testified against the bill; in fact, committee members appeared ready to approve the bill and move it to the floor. But, according to some sources, committee members were privately swayed by some of the muckety-mucks behind the 10-1 plan. In a press release sent out May 8 by Austinites for Geographic Repre sent a tion (the group responsible for getting the 10-1 question placed on the 2012 ballot), Roger Borgelt, vice chair of the Travis County Republican Party, joined former Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos and other Democrats in calling for a stop to Council’s move to create a new gov-erning board. “Whether the utility should be run by a commission or the Coun cil should be a major topic of the new council,” said Borgelt, an attorney who last year represented an appeal of AE’s rate hike by out-of-town ratepayers’ (resulting in reduced rates for the plaintiffs). On that note, we should all be careful of what we wish for – but the Council last week made the right decision, thus avoiding a major shake-up that the next Council would likely undo. n
s A T u r d A y 0 1SOLAR POWER WORKSHOP Whether you’re a homeowner looking to go green or a jobseeker considering a career in the industry, this one-day workshop has you covered. Participants learn the basics of solar power and of building a solar PV system. 8am-5pm. Imagine Solar, 4000 Caven Road, 512/443-5725. $195. www.imaginesolar.com.
W E d N E s d A y 0 55604 MANOR FUNDRAISING DINNER Break bread in support of the continued renovation of 5604 Manor while learning about the Workers Defense Project and Third Coast Activist Resource Center. Seatings are available throughout the evening; contact Brigid Hall for reservations. 5pm. Botticelli’s, 1321 S. Congress, 512/391-2305. $35. [email protected], www.5604manor.org.
AUSTIN WATER OPEN HOUSE for Austin Water customers interest-ed in the budget process; staff will provide an overview of the budget process and financial forecast, and take public input on next year’s proposed budget. 6-8pm. Austin Water office, 625 E. 10th, Rm. 104. Free parking in the AW parking garage.
O N G O I N GART IN THE PARKS Want to wrap Pease Park in yellow plastic? Maybe lead a multimedia performance inspired by Judy Chicago? Art in Public Places wants to hear from you. Creative types who live or work within 35 miles of Austin are invited to submit proposals for site-specific, short-term artworks or time-based performances for Austin parkland. Through June 13. www.publicartist.org.
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‘Suicide by Cop’ or Preventable Tragedy? By Sunday night, April 21, Michael Park knew his friend was in trouble. During the 10 years that he’d known 54-year-old Herbert “Denny” Babelay, Park had wit-nessed his friend’s ongoing struggle with mental illness. Babelay was in good shape when his meds were working, when he was well-rested and staying away from alcohol. When off his meds or when the meds need-ed adjusting, Babelay’s mind would race, he told Park, and he couldn’t sleep. And so it was in late April; this time, however, nei-ther Babelay nor his friends and family were able to get him the help they say he needed to get back on track. Instead, on April 23, Babelay died in a hail of bullets fired by four Austin Police Depart ment offi-cers. APD Chief Art Acevedo says officers heard the distinctive latching of a .410 shot-gun being loaded and then saw the gun raised in their direction. It appeared, Acevedo told reporters, to be a case of “sui-cide by cop.” The four officers – all relative newcomers to the force – are currently on leave pending the outcome of both criminal and adminis-trative inquiries into what happened just before 9pm outside the house that Babelay shared with Park and another friend in the Montopolis neighborhood of Southeast Austin. For Park and others, the shooting raises questions not only about the lack of effective mental health services in Texas, but also about how officers decide what weapon to use in a given situation. Three of the four officers who responded to the call at the home shared by Babelay and Park used their high-powered rifles, sending rounds not only into the shed where Babelay was standing, but through the walls of nearby homes. There’s no doubt that Babelay was dis-tressed in the days before his death, Park said. In the middle of the night on April 21, Babelay was shooting a gun in the back-yard, he said. The next day Babelay went to the doctor. Returning home, Babelay told Park that the doctor said he was fine but needed rest. “He needed to be hospitalized,” Park said. Monday night Babelay was back in the yard, setting off Roman candles and revving up his motorcycle. On Tuesday morning, Park called Babelay’s sister, and she called the police. But by the time an APD mental health officer arrived, Babelay had left, eventually ending up at the Continental Club, where he was a regular at the Tuesday “hippie hour” show with Toni Price. While he was gone, Park and Babelay’s brother, Scott Hardy, raided a small shed behind the house, where Babelay kept some of his belongings – including several fire-arms. “We took all the guns we could find,” Park recalls. They didn’t find the .410 shot-gun – nor, as it happened, a .45 automatic that Park said he saw Babelay wearing in his rear waistband when he returned home that evening. At 8:19pm, Park called Hardy, and Hardy immediately called police. The
goal, Park said, was to get a mental health officer over, to have Babelay hospitalized. Hardy said he was on the phone with Park trying to find out what was happening, and whether the mental health officers had arrived, when he heard gunshots ring out. “That sound still echoes in my mind and makes me physically nauseous,” he wrote in an email to the Chronicle. Indeed, before a mental health officer arrived, four other officers appeared, Park said, three of them armed with M&P15 rifles, the fourth brandishing his .40-caliber duty pistol. Babelay never fired any weap-on, but police did later collect from the scene a number of .223-caliber cartridge cases from the driveway and backyard of the home, and .40-caliber casings from the backyard. Park said that he understands that the cops felt they had to take action not only to protect themselves, but also to pro-tect him and others. Park says the last thing he heard before the gunfire was Babelay saying, “‘You’d better get off my property!’” followed by “a cacophony of gunshots.” But he wonders about the use of multiple high-powered rifles in a confined backyard area in a densely populated neighborhood adjacent to an elementary school. “I don’t understand that at all,” Park said. Indeed, the front of the shed, sitting at the end of a short driveway behind the modest home where Babelay lived, is pocked with bullet defects from low to high sprayed across its front. Bullets fired from the weapons also went through the walls of neighboring homes – some as far as a block away, YNN Austin reported. According to APD Sgt. Duane Peed, a 21-year department veteran who supervis-es the APD academy’s Learned Skills
Unit, police cadets begin firearm training not long after entering the academy as part of their months-long academy train-ing. Officers learn to use each of the weap-ons available to them – including shot-guns, Tasers, and less-than-lethal options like bean-bag munitions – but are not taught when to use which weapon. Put simply, he said, “There are too many vari-ables” that come into play to have any hard-and-fast rules. Cadets, however, train most often with a pistol, which is the weapon they’ll keep on their hips. In the academy, cadets are trained to aim well and to manipulate the trigger properly before being run through “force-on-force” training scenarios where instructors place stress on cadets – time limits, other offi-cers firing colored, soap-filled simulated ammunition at them – in order to induce stress and teach them to think well under pressure. Repeated lessons and drills of
that sort are more important than trying to create rules governing weapon choice, he said. It isn’t until an officer has been in the department for a year that he or she can even take a special two-day rifle train-ing class. There are approximately 400-500 rifles in use in the department, Peed esti-mated, a majority attached to patrol units. Of the four officers involved in the Babelay shooting, the three that used their rifles had been with the department between one and three years; the officer who used his pistol had been commissioned for just a month. Park said he understands that if Babelay brandished his shotgun at the officers they had to respond, but he wonders why they didn’t approach more cautiously or even wait for the MH officer. Hardy said that he does not believe that his brother pointed a weapon at anyone – this was not a case of “suicide by cop,” he insists – and he notes that even if he had raised his weapon, the cops’ decision to close in on him was not a sound one. “[W]ith such escalated contact,” Babelay, an Army veteran, “was literally and figuratively cornered and certainly felt that there was little or no escape given his current state of mind,” Hardy wrote. In fact, it was at least the third time that friends and family had sought help from police, and the third time that a MH officer arrived too late. According to APD, there are 139 officers who are paid a stipend as mental health responders. In 2012, APD received 8,216 mental-health-related calls for service; in all, APD responded to 575,802 calls for service in 2012. In a letter to the mayor and City Council two days after the shooting, Jim Harrington, executive director of the Texas Civil Rights Project, asked that the city, via the Office of Police Monitor, appoint an “independent professional consultant on handling police mental health calls.” Harrington argues that APD officers do not use best practices in dealing with mental health calls and that a failure to employ such tactics has resulted in police killings. Confrontation by armed officers with a mentally ill person is “one of the most common ways to [predict] the shooting death of the individual,” he wrote, noting that Acevedo’s description of the Babelay confrontation as an incidence of suicide by cop is a self-serving rationaliza-tion. Hardy firmly agrees. “[T]his horrible scenario was escalated with way too much firepower and contact,” he said. Park said that his friend was a good man and a talented carpenter who also suffered with mental illness and symptoms that waxed and waned. In the end, he said that Babelay’s actions in the days leading up to the shooting may have been fatalistic, but he still struggles with whether his friend had to die violently. Hardy doesn’t believe that had to happen. “I … never thought I would be one of those people with a date that I would never forget,” he wrote. “I lived in New York City during 9/11. I watched those towers fall. [That] was a bad day for many, many people. But April 23 is bur-nished into my soul.” – Jordan Smith
Above: Bullet holes appear on both sides of a cross outside a shed where Babelay was killed by police. At right: Herbert “Denny” Babelay.
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Lege Lines: The Score Over the next few issues, the News staff will be summarizing 83rd Session action on legislative categories we’ve been following since January.
Women’s Health Care: Coulda Been a Lot Worse The best news for women’s health advo-cates in 2013 may lie in what did not pass. Indeed, although Texas Right to Life pushed hard to build on its significant suc-cess in restricting access to abortion in 2011, its progress was blocked when not a single abortion-related measure was called up for a full vote in either chamber. Key among the dead bills were Rep. Jodie Laubenberg’s House Bill 2364 – the so-called “fetal pain” measure – which would have outlawed all abortion after 20 weeks. (A similar measure that passed in Arizona was struck down as unconstitutional by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.) Also dead on arrival was Senate Bill 537 by Sen. Robert Deuell, R-Greenville, which would have regulated abortion clinics as ambulatory surgical cen-ters – and would likely have shuttered all but three of the state’s abortion providers. Other measures that died would have restricted judicial bypass for minors seeking abortion and required parental notification for each outside speaker used in sex educa-tion classes. On the other hand, so did another that would have corrected medical misinformation contained in the “Women’s Right to Know” pamphlet required to be given to women seeking abortion. Lawmakers also sought to restore fund-ing for family planning and basic women’s health care that had been slashed from the budget in 2011 – in an explicit attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. The cuts were devastating for low-income, unin-sured women, more than 127,000 of whom lost access to services. In an attempt to undo the massive damage, lawmakers have agreed to put more than $43 million back into the state’s traditional family planning budget, and to add in an extra $100 million over the biennium into the state’s “Primary Care Program,” to serve women in need of basic health and family-planning services. Whether this will work to expand access to care, crippled by the budget decisions of 2011, remains to be seen. The PCP targets a wider population than just child-bearing-age women, and providers would be required to offer com-prehensive care, which would knock out of participation the cost-effective and effi-cient family-planning providers. Additionally, the Department of State Health Services will need to engage in rule-writing in order to ensure those funds go to their intended target – giving anti-abortion lawmakers another opportunity to try to bend the rules to their purposes. And speaking of second chances: The special session is currently earmarked for redistricting, but there’s plenty of buzz that “social issues” – abortion, drugs, et al. – are waiting in the wings.
Drugs: Stop That Salvia! Third time was the charm for Waco GOP Rep. Charles “Doc” Anderson’s bid to add to the state’s Controlled Substances Act salvia divinorum, a hallucinogenic mem-ber of the sage family. The measure makes possession of any preparation of the plant illegal. That’s problematic for medical researchers who had previously been suc-cessful in letting lawmak-ers know that salvia is a promising plant for use in treating a number of serious illnesses, includ-ing Alz heim er’s and schizophrenia. The ban passed with little opposi-tion – 17 no votes in the House, just three in the Senate – despite the lack of any concrete evidence that the ban is actually neces-sary. If signed by Gov. Rick Perry, it will foreclose any Texas-based medical research with the plant. Otherwise, on drugs it was pretty much business as usual under the Dome. Measures that would decrim-inalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and other drugs died, as did Austin Rep. Elliott Naishtat’s perennial bid to pass the nation’s most limit-ed medical marijuana law (HB 594) – a measure not to legalize its use for seriously ill patients, but just to pro-vide the sick with an affirma-tive defense to prosecution for pot possession. Elsewhere, a bid to drug test welfare applicants died in the House (after passing the Senate on a unanimous vote), but a bill to test some applicants for unemploy-ment did pass (unanimously in the Senate, and 104-42 in the House). Ironically, a measure that would have required drug testing for state law-makers (Sen. Eddie Lucio’s SB 612) lan-guished without ever being called for a vote.
Criminal Justice: Win Some … Lose Some It was a decidedly mixed bag for crimi-nal justice reforms. There were high-pro-file successes – notably with passage of the Michael Morton Act (SB 1611, by Sens. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, and Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock), which codifies open-file discovery in criminal matters and is
named for Morton, who wrongfully spent nearly 25 years in prison for murder, part-ly because of withheld evidence. (Morton’s grace and persistence throughout the pro-cess was admirable.) And there were some unfortunate misses – including the untimely demise of Dallas Sen. Royce West’s SB 1439, which would have required training for police evidence technicians tasked with storage and preservation of hundreds of thousands of items of evi-dence in criminal cases. It died on the
House floor as a result of the protracted debate over drug testing for wel-
fare recipients. Both chambers readily
approved Sen. John Whitmire’s SB 825, which extends the statute of lim-itations for claims of prosecutorial miscon-duct made to the State Bar of Texas, but failed
even to consider Rep. Harold Dutton’s HB 328, which would have criminal-ized intentional prosecuto-rial misconduct. Lawmakers easily passed SB 1292, the measure backed by Attorney General Greg Abbott that would require DNA testing in all death penalty cases before trial, and handily endorsed SB 344, Whitmire’s attempt to ensure defen-dants can appeal their con-victions if junk or outdated science was used to convict – though whether that mea-sure has any real teeth remains a matter of debate among criminal law practi-tioners. Also of note is the passage of SB 369 (Whit mire), which would remove from the pub-licly accessible Sex Offender Registry details about an offender’s employer. That measure has been a goal of the sex offender law reform group Texas Voices for Reason and Justice; it got a favorable hearing last year in the House, but ultimately failed to move. This time around, with the backing of
the Texas Association of Business – which helped to reframe the measure as a “Business Rights Act” – ample support was there for passage. On the other hand, anoth-er measure that Texas Voices strongly opposed, HB 424, that would require group living homes – including not only halfway houses, but assisted living facilities, nurs-ing homes, and the like – to disclose to all residents when a sex offender lives among them, also passed readily. Advocates fear the measure will make it even more diffi-cult for elderly or disabled offenders to find a place to live. – Jordan Smith
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AISD: How Much Single-Sex Is Enough? Austin ISD trustees are moving forward with their plan to open two single-sex mid-dle schools at Pearce and Garcia middle schools in East Austin. However, with the failure of the May bonds, the proposal to build a male equivalent to the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders at the old Ander son High may be in jeopardy. On May 20, the board voted to hire Sterlin McGruder – currently principal of the Young Men’s Leadership Academy at John F. Ken nedy Middle School in Grand Prairie – to run the new boys’ school at Pearce. Prior to running the single-sex campus for grades 6-8, he was principal at Grand Prairie’s David Daniels Elementary. McGruder’s hiring goes back to the Jan. 28 vote by trustees to merge the Pearce and Garcia middle school attendance zones and turn each campus into a sin-gle-sex school – one for boys, one for girls (see “AISD: The Resegregationists,” Jan. 29.) The two campuses are sched-uled to re-open with their new gender-divided model in 2014. Board President Vince Torres said McGruder “will spend the next six to eight months hiring folks, getting the programming, and working with the community.” Meanwhile, however, the planned boys’ academy at the old Anderson campus is back to the drawing board. In the short term, it comes down to finances. The dis-trict had planned to spend $20 million in
bond money to convert the Ridgeview cam-pus, currently serving as the Alternative Learning Center. But that spending was to be underwritten by Proposition 4 of the May bond elections, which failed at the bal-
lot box. Indeed, some feel that the boys’ academy may have dragged down the entire $169 million proposi-tion for arts, athletics, and academic initiatives, which lost by 836 votes district-wide. Without the $20 mil-lion, and with the decision to fit the campus into the next round of facility planning, the development of the campus may not fit in with current scheduling requirements from the project’s major grantor, the Moody Foundation. Torres said, “There’s a very strong possi-bility that that funding will have to be reapplied for.” Longer-term, Torres con-ceded that the board may have to reconsider the whole policy surrounding the young men’s academy, in light of the bond elections. He said, “We’re going to have to go back and look [at] why those propositions failed.” With the rejection of the Anderson spending, Torres argued that the board will have to exam-ine “the deeper issues” sur-
rounding the policy. He said, “Is the com-munity saying, ‘School for young women? Fine. School for young men? No.’ Why is that? Is it the Pearce and Garcia situation? Is it different? Or are times different now?” – Richard Whittaker
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isolated urban ghettos. This kind of poverty persists, but today’s big jump in numbers comes from families that have been knocked down from a middle-class life – dismayed to find themselves among the long-term unemployed, grabbing at temporary low-paying jobs, and buying meager groceries with food stamps. These are the new poor, but they also constitute a new demo-
graphic phenomenon: the suburban poor. Once the secure base of the middle class, suburbs have become the fastest-growing home of American poverty. Since 2000, the number of suburban poor has surged by 64%, twice the rate of urban poor. By 2011, America’s suburbs held
3 million more poor people than were in our core cities. American poverty is no longer about “them,” but us – people in our own close circles, living where we live. To learn more about it in your area, check out a new report by the Brookings Institution, titled “Confronting Suburban Poverty in America”: www.brookings.edu.
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Springsteen Sues for Wrongful Conviction
Since Travis County District Attorney Rose mary Lehmberg in 2009 dismissed all charges against Robert Springsteen in connection with the notorious 1991 yogurt shop murders, Springsteen has twice sought compensation from the state for being wrongfully convicted of the quadruple murder. Twice he’s been denied. Now he’s taking his case to federal court.
Spring steen have been dropped, but without a declaration that he’s actually innocent, state Comp troller Susan Combs, whose office administers state funds that compensate the wrongfully convicted, has now twice declined to release funds. The charges against Springsteen and Scott were dropped after new DNA testing revealed the profile of an unknown male, taken from inside the youngest victim. That profile, found in 2008, has not been matched to any suspects, and its presence directly contradicts the so-called “confessions” Aus tin police obtained from Springsteen and Scott, in which they implicate each other and two others, but make no men-tion of a fifth man. Springsteen and Scott have each said repeatedly that the confessions were coerced after hours of intense questioning by Austin detectives. Springsteen was sentenced to die for the murders – a sentence overturned after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juvenile offenders could not face execution. (Spring steen and Scott were both teens at the time of the crime.) Scott was sentenced to life in prison. To date, the case remains open and unsolved. Springsteen “was not involved in these crimes and is abso-lutely innocent,” reads the lawsuit, filed on his behalf by Austin lawyer Broadus Spivey. (Former state Judge Charlie Baird and attorneys Amber Farrelly and James Hackney have also signed onto the case.) Because he is no longer incarcerated, Springsteen cannot prove his innocence via the appeal process and has “exhausted” any administrative rem-edies. Now he is asking the federal court to hold a hearing and to declare him “actually innocent of the crimes for which he was wrongfully imprisoned” for roughly nine years, includ-ing four on death row. The lawsuit also asserts that Spring-steen is due more than $700,000 in compensation and other benefits earmarked for the wrongfully convicted. – Jordan Smith
A NEW HOME FOR POVERTY IN AMERICA It’s been nearly 50 years since poverty in America was a front-burner issue on our nation’s political agenda – and it’s time to move it up again. Even as those at the top of our society have grown fabulously richer in the past decade, those in the economic middle have seen incomes stagnate and fall, opportunities decline, and poverty become not about some-one else, but about them. Numbers that were not even imaginable half a century ago are now our cold reality – 50 million poor people, 51 mil-lion more who are “near poor,” almost one-in-four children under 5 years old living in poverty, and no sign of this mass decline decelerating. The face of American poverty, however, has changed somewhat. In the Sixties, the poor had largely been born into it and were out of most people’s sight – tucked away in backwater rural counties and
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In a petition filed May 23 in federal district court, Springsteen argues that he has been “dangling under the sword of Damocles” ever since October 2009, when charges against him and another defendant, Michael Scott, were dis-missed in connection with the grisly murder of four teen girls inside a North Aus tin yogurt shop. The charges against
You’ll be forgiven for wondering if you stumbled through a time warp after a look at next week’s draft City Council agenda (for Thursday, June 6; no meeting this week, work session June 4). It sure appears suspiciously like the May 23 agenda, when Council stayed up to the wee hours of the morning to hear a lot of public input – and then postponed or punted much of the pending list until June. Some of the delay was expected – members have worn to the nub the debate over Austin Energy governance and worked it over a bit more after midnight. The latest wrinkle is no independent board at all – just a sub com-mittee of the whole, meaning Council will be governing AE pretty much as it always has, but occasionally in a different room. In the preceding work session, most mem-bers wanted nothing to do with the subcom-mittee; by the time they took up the subject after midnight, they were all volunteering for the job. Seems like yet another byproduct of “open meetings syndrome”; since Council members seldom talk to each other outside of formal meetings anymore (even Adelaide Deputy Lord Mayor Michael Llewellyn-Smith joked about having to meet them sin-gly), the level of mutual trust on the dais has steadily dropped – so now they’re uneasy about letting their colleagues supervise AE without supervision. Officially, the AE issue was “postponed indefinitely” – meaning it’s dead until the next rate crisis. At any rate, the May 23 agenda was long enough to split off a brace of items with bare-ly a ripple. Returning for consideration next
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week will be the vexed interlocal agreement with Travis County (three items) concerning Emergency Medical Services; this is nomi-nally a money matter, but it has gotten cross-ways with staffing issues and other adminis-trative questions. Also in the postponed argu-mentative pile is the revision of the “rideshar-ing” ordinance; staff have been trying to come up with a way of handling the unofficial, online “sharing” trade – in which riders “donate” for the privilege of accepting a “rideshare” – with-out effectively sanctioning an unregulated taxi service. Currently, it’s an unacknowledged,
pseudo-libertarian black market, and it’s not clear if it can be brought under the transporta-tion umbrella without jeopardizing established cab companies and their drivers. A surprising, late-hour controversy had to do with new building regs meant to guaran-tee “visitability” or adaptability for disabled and elderly residents or visitors. Although the regs seemed largely commonsensical – and were stoutly defended by speakers from the Mayor’s Committee for People With Dis-abilities as both necessary and fully vetted by stakeholders – they passed on first read-ing only, when some members questioned the details and wanted more accurate cost estimates. So we’ll hear much of that again.
As we will about the University Neigh-bor hood Overlay, affordability matrices, and perhaps about trying to figure out a way to share underutilized city park parking spaces with neighboring businesses (aka the Casa de Luz Proviso). There are also scheduled morning briefings on the Waller Creek devel op ment, and the latest on Rainey Street transportation issues. (Council did manage to approve a plan allowing certain historic Rainey Street build-ings to be relocated for preservation.) The scheduled music honorees are GOBI – “Indie-Dance-Rap” – and you can be sure by Friday we’ll have plenty of proclamations. – Michael King
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There’s a line in the film Magnolia: “We might be through with the past, but the past ain’t through with us.” As the 83rd Legislature’s regular session limped to an end on Memorial Day, lawmakers knew they would be back for a special session; what they didn’t know was how fast. Ultimately, they didn’t even have time to return to their hotel rooms, as Gov. Rick Perry called them back less than an hour after both chambers gaveled out, sine die. But as they return this week, legislators won’t be dealing with leftover issues from this session. Instead, they will return to tackle the damage done back in 2011 by the 82nd session, and they may be doing that for months to come. The meat of the first special is one issue: redistricting. Perry wants the Legislature to return and quickly adopt the interim maps drawn by judges in San Antonio to replace the unconstitutional maps the Legislature drew in 2011. The timing could barely have been more aggravating for lawmakers and
their staffs. Rather than give them a respectful few days to recover after a brutal weekend of long nights, Perry issued the call for a special just after the House wrapped up its regular business a little after 5pm on May 27. (A semi-joke quickly did the rounds that lots of seats on flights to Las Vegas were coming open as staffers canceled their post-session plans.) The Senate scarcely broke stride, recon-vening at 6pm and going back into recess until Thursday, May 30. Senate Finance Committee Chair Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, commented that the time between the regular and special sessions was less like an interim and more like a bathroom break. Meanwhile, the House had already scattered to the winds, heading either home or to sine die parties – only to quickly learn that they would be back, bright and early, on Tuesday, May 28. As Rep. Van Taylor, R-Plano, ruefully tweeted, “Started to go home to my family, then had to turn around.”
No Stress Straus Perry’s call also gave lawmakers no chance to reflect on the regular session. In the early days, it had the makings of a cha-otic mess. There was an almost unprece-dented number of freshman and sopho-more lawmakers and, as any Lege-watcher can tell you, nothing derails the legislative process more than amateur hour at the back mic. They spilled in from a combination of the Tea Party revolution of 2010, the 2011 gerrymandering, and a series of brutal GOP primaries in 2012. At the beginning of the session, many seasoned lawmakers feared months of carnage. In fact, nothing much happened. No Tea Party rebellion, no mad dash to the right, no heavy push on hot topic issues like fetal pain bills. Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin, said, “It seemed like Republicans didn’t want to tackle some of these controversial issues.” He credited the management style of Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, for placating the Tea Party
ground troops after their failed attempt to remove him at the beginning of the session. “Every bill got a fair hearing and a fair shake,” Rodriguez said. There was the odd dash of venom in the soup. In the closing days, a handful of state reps took revenge against their Senate counterparts for killing their bills by shov-ing in measures from the upper chamber. But that was about as brutal as it got on the floor. Instead, the bitterest fight was between lawmakers and lobbyists. In an attempt to crack down on dark money in elections, Sen. Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, authored Senate Bill 346, which would require 501(c)4 nonprofits that cross the line between advocacy and politics to file campaign finance reports. Cue the fury of right-wing pressure groups like Empower Texans, whose executive director, Michael Quinn Sullivan, twisted so many arms that the Senate tried to recall the bill. However, the House wouldn’t play ball. When the mea-sure looked in danger of veto by Perry, Rep. Charlie Geren, R-River Oaks, tried a Hail Mary, bolting some of its terms into SB 219, the Ethics Commission Sunset bill. In a dou-ble blow over the weekend, first Perry vetoed SB 346, then the SB 219 conference commit-tee ripped out Geren’s amendment. Seliger’s fury was immediate. In a press release, he fumed against Perry’s veto, stating that, “as other states have stepped forward to ban elec-tion money laundering by dark money 501(c)4 non-profit corporations, it is embarrassing that the Lone Star state is now an official safe haven for political money launderers.” But more generally, the session was free of drama. Even the old legislative sport of Austin-bashing seemed to have faded away. The local delegation worked – mostly behind the scenes – to counter the drumbeat against Travis County D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg; her DWI conviction had allowed the GOP to ramp up perennial calls to move the Public Integrity Unit (the prosecutorial office, with statewide authority, designed to police law-makers and officeholders) out of her office. That measure failed, and there were few other measures designed to make life diffi-cult in the ATX. Rodriguez put that down to the city’s growth as a major city and commer-cial center. He said, “Picking on Austin isn’t as fun for these guys as it was in the 1990s.”
Minority Leverage As always, the one must-pass measure was the budget, and the House and Senate finally agreed on a $197 billion spending plan for the next two years. That’s a 3.7% increase from the current biennium, but the surprising component is an 8.3% rise in the state’s general revenue spending, up from
There They Go … Here They Come AgainA no-drama session ends – will a high-drama special follow?B Y R I C H A R D W H I T T A K E R
In the closing days, a handful of state reps (l-r, Ruth Jones
McClendon, Debbie Riddle, and Senfronia Thompson) took
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bills by shoving measures from the upper chamber.
“It seemed like Republicans didn’t want to tackle some of these controversial issues.” – Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, D-Austin
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The active phase of his lame-duck term is extended by the special session: It could run for just a few days, depending on how fast the GOP can move on the maps, and whether Perry adds more items to the call. Or he may not be handing his office keys back any time soon, as the redistricting push could yet hit rough waters. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has already made it clear he intends to abandon the Senate’s two-thirds rule for the special, meaning maps only have to pass by a simple majority, not the two-thirds majority required in a regu-lar session. The San Antonio courts have already expressed their discontent about legislative trickery in the 82nd session, and there is no reason to believe they will be any less forgiving in the 83rd. The judges, in fact, are not done with the maps themselves: They are awaiting a rul-ing from the U.S. Supreme Court on Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act before they revisit the matter. Even if the Legislature passes the maps this week and goes home for a long weekend, they could be back again before candidate filings begin at the end of the year. They may think they’ll be done with the past, but if the long, bloody history of Texas redistricting is any mea-sure, the past is far from done with them. And then there’s still education funding. Early in the session, Judge John Dietz issued a ruling from the bench that the cur-rent school finance system is unconstitu-tional (see “Dietz Rules Against School Finance System,” Feb. 8), but he was hold-ing back on his full written ruling until he knew what the session would deliver. That modest $3.9 billion boost for education is unlikely to soften his language. The last time the Legislature tackled school finance, back in the mid-2000s, it took multiple spe-cial sessions over several years to come up with what seemed to be a workable solution. If any part of Dietz’s ruling survives the seemingly inevitable legal challenge from Attorney General Greg Abbott, it could be a long time until the past is done with the 83rd Legislature. n
$87 billion to $95 billion. House Approp ri a-tions Committee veteran Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, said this was the least painful budget building process since 2003, “when we had to make deep, deep cuts to the bone marrow.” But this wasn’t just about pouring limited funds out of one bucket and into another. “The frustration that still exist-ed was the uncertainty of knowing what monies were truly available to make restora-tions,” Dukes said, and that was exacerbated by warring definitions of how to calculate the constitutional cap on spending increas-es. In the final weeks, the fight came down to what Dukes described as a daisy chain of legislation. Three bills became logjammed together: House Bill 7, an omnibus revision of fees and dedicated funds; Senate Joint Resolution 1, which, if approved by voters in a November constitutional amendment, will establish a statewide water infrastructure investment bank; and HB 1025, the supple-mental appropriations bill. Dukes said, “The appropriations bill was dependent upon all of those three.” By the middle of the last week, it had come down to a staring match: The Senate wouldn’t pass HB 1025 unless the House passed SJR 1, and vice-ver-sa. So who blinked first? From where Austin Rep. Donna Howard sat, in her first session on Approp ri ations, it looked like both cham-bers quietly agreed to blink at the same time: “Some of the votes that were done on the House side, and some of the votes on the Senate side, were done in order to give the other side the cover they needed to move forward.” While the end result is far from perfect, she said she’s “extremely pleased” about the general outcome, and surprised overall at her first session on the House budget-building body. She said, “For one that thought she didn’t have a way with numbers, I have been finding more and more that I really enjoy understanding the weeds in regards to the numbers.”
It’s been a long time since any Democrat declared themselves happy with a budget, and there was still discontent over mea-sures like an extra $667 million in franchise tax exemptions. But the Democrats’ overall happiness came down to numbers not in the budget, but rather in the vote totals. Tea Party Republicans would not back the bud-get or SJR 1, so the GOP leadership knew it would need Democratic votes to pass vital legislation. The small gains made by Demo-crats in the 2012 elections were enough to change the balance of power, Rodriguez said: “The difference between 49 Democrats and 55 Democrats may not seem like a lot, but it’s all the difference in the world when you need 100 votes.” In return, Democrats got an extra $3.9 bil-lion into public schools. That falls short of the $5.4 billion cut inflicted during the last session, but it will reduce some of the dam-age. Dems also won increased contributions to the Teacher Retirement System of Texas,
and ended an accounting trick that used the mal-functioning System Benefit Fund to balance the state books. Originally designed to help poor Texans with their utility bills, it had barely been touched for its intended use, so Democrats
and Republicans struck a deal to distribute it out to the state’s poorest ratepayers over the next three years, and wind it up in 2016. There is even extra cash for the Women’s Health Program. Dukes said, “We saw them as negotiable points that were unbending to us. If you needed our votes, that was what Democrats required.”
Getting an Education In hindsight, the 83rd regular session may well be seen as an education session. Firstly, SB 2 opened the door to a slow increase in the number of charter schools. It was a victory of sorts for Senate Education Committee Chair Dan Patrick, R-Houston, but it was nothing like what he wanted. His
bill originally wanted the cap completely removed; instead, he got a phased increase, from the current statewide limit of 215 to a new maximum of 305 by 2019. (Patrick’s newfound willingness to negotiate, after a run of Tea Party absolutism, was one key indicator of the decline in the Republican radical fervor that blew up the last session.) Then there was HB 5, a radical overhaul of the school accountability and high school graduation system. It dumps the current “4×4” testing regimen and replaces it with the foundation plan, whereby students have to receive 22 credits to graduate high school. Meanwhile, schools will no longer be gauged as academically acceptable, unac-ceptable, recommended, or exemplary, but instead graded A to F. Supporters argue the changes will relieve pressure on schools to teach to the test, and will give kids more pathways to graduation. Eddie Rodriguez, who added two amendments increasing the amount of student graduation planning, called it “Landmark legislation. … Greatly reducing the number of end-of-course exams and creating curriculum paths more relevant to the real world are real reforms parents have been asking for.” Rodriguez’s fellow Travis County Dem o-crat, Rep. Mark Strama, was less convinced. He originally voted against the bill, warn-ing that it placed too little emphasis on academic rigor, and he has continually spoken up in favor of high-stakes testing. “Most of the people who are most upset about testing are really upset about the cul-ture of testing in the classroom,” he said, adding that “those parents don’t realize what testing has done to focus attention on kids who need the most from the school system.” In fact, he argues that the reforms will actually worsen the situation: There will be less longitudinal tracking data and, by reducing the number of tests, “All that does is concentrate the stakes on a smaller number of tests.” This was supposed to be Strama’s last tour under the Dome, since he had already declared he would not run for re-election.
House Approp ri a tions Committee veteran Austin Rep. Dawnna Dukes said this session was the least painful budget-building process since 2003.
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On May 23, President Obama gave a speech billed as his most important foreign policy statement. It concluded with a resolve to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That evening on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow interviewed Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, who said of the speech: “When you get to the level of details, a lot sort of slips between your fingers. It’s very difficult to pin down the language of this speech.” Let’s do exactly that. Obama: “We unequivocally banned tor-ture, affirmed our commitment to civilian courts, worked to align our policies with the rule of law, and expanded our consultations with Congress.” Item 1: Torture. “The changes [regarding torture] were not as drastic as most Americans think. … Americans can now boast that they no longer ‘torture’ detainees, but they cannot say that detainees are not abused, or even that their treatment meets the minimum standards of humane treat-ment mandated by the Geneva Conventions” (The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2010). Item 2: “Working to align” one’s policies with the rule of law is an admission that those policies weren’t aligned – i.e., lawful – in the first place. And “working to” means that they’re not lawful yet. Item 3: “Expanded our consultations with Congress.” The Constitution requires the
president to do considerably more than con-sult Congress, but President Obama “reject-ed views of top lawyers at the Pentagon and the Justice Department in deciding that he had the legal authority to continue American participation in the air war in Libya without Congressional authoriza-tion” (The New York Times, June 18, 2011). Since Libya, Obama hasn’t sought authori-zation for drone actions in Yemen or in Africa. The president has no constitutional right to go to war on his own. Obama: “In Afghanistan, we will complete our transi-tion to Afghan responsibility for that country’s security. Our troops will come home. Our combat mission will come to an end.” What about U.S. presence that isn’t technically “combat,” like our so-called “contractors”? It’s well-documented that thousands of American paramilitary contractors operate in Afghanistan. Also, what about the enormous State Department presence? Not to mention the CIA. Obama: “[O]ur actions are effective. … Moreover, America’s actions are legal. … Under domestic law, and international law, the United States is at war.”
Item 1: International law. As we’ve already seen, U.S. treatment of prisoners falls way below Geneva Convention stan-dards, though the Geneva Conventions are binding as international law. In my series, “An Arbitrary Nation” [April 19, May 3, May 17], Part 4 will detail the extent to which Obama’s claim of compliance with interna-tional law is flat-out false. Item 2: “America’s actions are legal.” In this White House, legal is a permeable notion, as in: “Senator Ron Wyden [D-Ore.] … a member of the Intelligence Committee, said that the executive branch had come up with a secret legal theory about what it could collect under a provision of the Patriot Act that did not seem to dovetail with a plain reading of the text. ‘I want to deliver a warning this afternoon: When the American people find out how their gov-ernment has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.’ … Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, [added that] ‘Americans would be alarmed if they knew how this law is being carried out’” (The New York Times, May 27, 2011). When the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on Detainee Treatment examined George W. Bush’s policies, it con-cluded that his administration “redefined the law to create the appearance of legality” (The New York Times, April 22, 2009). As Senators Wyden and Udall reveal, Obama’s administration does the same. Obama: “[O]ver the last four years, my administration has worked vigorously to establish a framework that governs our use of force against terrorists – insisting upon clear guidelines, oversight and accountabil-ity that is now codified in presidential poli-cy guidance that I signed yesterday.” Oh? “A new classified policy guidance signed by Mr. Obama … will impose the
same standard for strikes on foreign enemies now used only for
American citizens deemed to be terrorists” (The New
York Times, May 22). Excuse me, what stan-dard? No standards have been published or explained. Therefore: What clear guidelines? What accountability? Obama: “[B]efore any
[drone] strike is taken, there must be near-certain-
ty that no civilians will be killed or injured, the highest
standard we can set. … [B]y narrowly targeting our action against those who want to kill us, and not the people they hide among, we are choosing the course of action least likely to result in the loss of innocent life.” He’s speaking as though he’s never heard of so-called “signature strikes,” as in: “The United States has begun launch-ing drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire
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even when the identity of those who could be killed is not known” (The Washington Post, April 25, 2012). Obama: “[Congress] is briefed on every [drone] strike that America takes, every strike. … Going forward, I’ve asked my administration to review proposals to extend oversight of lethal actions outside of war zones that go beyond our reporting to Congress.” That’s quite a mouthful. The “briefings” Congress receives merely report. Notice Obama doesn’t say he’ll extend oversight; he says his people are reviewing proposals. The assumption is that the extent of con-gressional involvement is up to the White House and not the Constitution. Obama: “For the record, I do not believe it would be constitutional for the govern-ment to target and kill any U.S. citizen – with a drone or with a shotgun – without due process. … But when a U.S. citizen goes abroad to wage war against America and is actively plotting to kill U.S. citizens … his citizenship should no more serve as a shield than a sniper shooting down on an innocent crowd should be protected from a SWAT team.” Sneaky little metaphor, dishonest to the core. See, you don’t have to prove a sniper is shooting; it’s self-evident. But you must prove a plotter is plotting. That’s what due process means. On to Gitmo. Obama: “During the past decade, the vast majority of those detained by our mili-tary were captured on the battlefield.” Liar, liar, pants on fire. A Wikipedia entry quoting from a Huffington Post article posted December 7, 2009: “[In] a 2006 report prepared by the Center for Policy and Research, Seton Hall University Law School reviewed [Department of Defense] data for … 517 men [at Gitmo] in 2005 and ‘established that over 80% of the prisoners were captured not by Americans on the battlefield but by Pakistanis and Afghans, often in exchange for bounty payments.’ The U.S. offered $5,000 per prisoner and distributed leaflets widely in the region.” Obama: “I transferred 67 detainees to other countries before Congress imposed restrictions to effectively prevent us from either transferring detainees to other coun-tries or imprisoning them here in the United States.” Maureen Dowd: “[S]ince 2012, Congress has granted authority to the secretary of defense to waive those restrictions on a case-by-case basis. The administration hasn’t made use of that power once. So it’s a little stale to blame Congress at this point” (The New York Times, April 30). Gitmo hunger-strikers and a newly anx-ious Congress put the heat on, and Obama responded with a speech that deftly weaves vagueness, misdirection, and a few outright lies to make his usual good impression while committing to nothing concrete except “engaging Congress” – which, as even his supporters must admit, is some-thing he really sucks at. n
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Austin Chronicle: That painting was up at Cheer Up Charlie’s, right?Manik Nakra: Yeah!AC: I remember it from a year or two ago …MN: It was two summers ago; I hung it up for the summer. At the time, Tamara Hoover [owner of Cheer Up Charlie’s] had the inside stage built as a kind of jungle out of the card-board, and she asked if I would hang up something jungle-themed. I actually just sold that one, during WEST!AC: Oh, congrats! Well, talk to me about your studio.MN: I don’t work well out of the environment I’m used to. I love being around other creative people … who come by to visit my studio [laughs]. I paint my canvas paintings on this wall, and it’s covered in a tarp. One side is paper and one side is plastic; it’s actually really great for oil paints. Nothing matches the density of oil paint – I love smelling it, I love squeezing it out of the tube, I love seeing the brushstrokes. I mix and test colors directly on the tarp-covered wall, and it dries quickly because the paper absorbs the oil. I prefer it
over having a palette. Sometimes I paint in the shed in my backyard – I call that my [Julian] “Schnabel Room.” Schnabel’s a real Romantic painter; his studio in Montauk doesn’t even have a roof! So I imagine him, and that helps me get messy. I’m starting to not care so much about being messy in this studio.AC: Were you fastidious about this space at any point?MN: Oh yes. And at one point, there was a computer desk and a couch in this room, if you can believe it.AC: You use a lot of gold leafing. That’s a really difficult material!MN: The leafing takes me just as much time as the actual paintwork. Gold leafing, silver leafing, copper leafing, yeah. I just started recently using gold paint, but it’s not shiny enough. I want it to be bling-ed out. Because the leafing reflects light,
my paintings are often a pain to photo-graph. And I often try to “age” the leafing. I
accidentally discovered this technique of aging the leafing, after I spilled turpentine on
some gold leaf. My initial thought was: “Shit! This stuff is expensive!” and I just set it aside. I
came back to the material maybe two weeks later, and in the intervening time a chemical reaction had taken place and the gold leaf oxidized. All these blues and greens started to come out. Even now, the stuff is still changing colors. More of Manik Nakra’s work can be found at www.maniknakra.com.
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Austin Symphony OrchestraCONDUCTOR PETER BAY SPICES UP THE SYMPHONIC MENU WITH SOME NEW COMPOSITIONS
THE ARTS@ Au s C h ron A r t s
If planning what music is played at a con-cert is like crafting a menu, Beethoven is the meat and potatoes. It’s an easy choice. The music is rich and will always hit the spot, leaving audiences satiated and smiling. But what if all we ate was meat and potatoes? Don’t get me wrong; I love lis-tening to Beethoven sympho-nies, but there’s just so much more out there that’s worth hearing that’s never even seen the light of day. In the last two concerts of its 2012-13 season, the Austin Symphony is bringing some fresh flavors to the din-ner table. Three weeks ago, it performed two contemporary works by Paul Lansky and Graham Fitkin (the latter a U.S. premiere). Despite the positive feedback,
the spicy sounds were also met with a strain of resistance, even from regular subscription
holders. ASO Music Director Peter Bay explains, “New music can be stimulating and exciting for many, but for oth-ers it’s too modern or too dissonant. When people react negatively, I under-stand. But I feel, as a musi-cian, committed to doing music of our times.” Bay truly is committed to serving Austin new music. This weekend, the ASO will be fin-ishing the season with a world premiere, the Fourth Symphony by Edward Burlingame Hill (1872-1960). This American
composer taught some of the most innovative composers of the 20th century, including Leonard Bernstein (also on the program) and
Elliot Carter. Hill’s first three symphonies were performed by the Boston Symphony, conducted by famed composer Serge Koussevitzky in the early 20th century, but the fourth mysteriously never made it off the shelf of the Harvard library – until this week. Bay said he first heard about this piece from his friend Karl Miller, a composer and music collector. The process of bringing the piece to life was a huge project. When a copy of the unedited orchestral score arrived in Austin, ASO librarian Alison Mrowka scrupu-lously entered it into a software program, note by note. From there, Bay edited the score by correcting harmonic discrepancies and adding detailed musical markings. He said the score had little indication for tempo and dynamics, so he’s had to play through bits on the piano. “The more you play it, the more you feel it … you know when to breathe,” the conductor says. Even so, the piece will only truly be resurrected in the first
rehearsal, which Bay says will be “a revela-tion.” The ASO is planning to record Hill’s Fourth for its first commercial release, and more works by the composer, for piano and orchestra, are slotted for next season. Bay reminded me of a famous example from music history as a way to maintain con-viction about presenting adventurous, even risky programs. Beethoven is a classic now, but the critics’ response to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was “puzzling.” Critics didn’t like that there was singing and drums in a sym-phony, but, today, nobody would even think twice about those complaints. Bay candidly admits that he’s never going to be able to please everyone with his programming choic-es. “I have to go with my gut and find the right balance,” but he also divulges that there’s a “backlog of new music I’d like to program.” In a city that prides itself on food-truck staples of kimchi fries and artisan donuts, we should be more daring and eager to expand our musical palates, too. – Natalie Zeldin The Austin Symphony performs Hill: Symphony No. 4 May 31-June 1, Friday & Saturday, 8pm, in Dell Hall at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside. For more infor-mation, call 476-6064 or visit www.austinsymphony.org.
Manik NakraON A TARP-COVERED WALL IN A STUDIO ON BURNET ROAD, THERE LURK TIGERS … This self-taught artist mixes a love for ancient history with ambitious studio practice. With a floor covered in cut bamboo branches, Manik Nakra made good on his defacement of the West Austin Studio Tour sign hanging outside of his pier-and-beam, north Burnet Road house: “Badass Jungle Show” was scrawled in thick Sharpie enlivening the design-y Big Medium signage. Such emendation is typical of Nakra’s artwork and ethos. Never having taken a studio art class or formally trained as an artist, Nakra makes work that springs from “a love of ancient civilizations, mostly the architecture, which is quite figurative.” While Nakra’s paintings are big, ambitious, and brightly colored, his drawings have the preciousness of Marcel Dzama’s figurative work. He snipes from Southeast Asian sources, like Mughal miniature painting, and reconfigures stylistic norms to fit a postmodern sensibility. An example is Nakra’s recent drive to render all 400-plus kills attributed to the Champawat Tiger, a series he’s titled (and verbified) “THE TIGERING!” Leaning against his studio wall is a sil-ver painting of a leaping tiger. The awkward and magnificent creature’s stripes are made of disparate words and phrases: “Supercreep,” “Acts R 4 actors,” and “I understand your mother is having an affair.”
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component of AMOA-Arthouse) and 17 years at the Blanton – between which Carlozzi spent a decade outside the city, directing the Aspen Art Museum and the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans and serving as visual arts producer for the 1996 Olympics Arts Festival – she has succeeded spectacularly. That isn’t to say that Carlozzi is all talk. She’s also a gifted writer, whose 1986 book, 50 Texas Artists, was a groundbreak-
ing effort in treating contemporary Lone Star artmakers seriously at a time when the national arterati still dismissed the state as little more than bluebonnet paintings. But whether her comments are written or spoken, Carlozzi consistently delivers a thousand words worth a picture.
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Culture ConnectorsThe 2013 class of the Austin Arts Hall of FameB Y R O B E R T F A I R E S On any given date, Austin’s cultural calendar offers so many options that it’s almost overwhelming. That vitality in our cultural scene is owed not only to the creative types working today but also those individuals of earlier times whose initiative and commitment ensured that the arts had a place in the life of Austin. The Austin Critics Table established the Austin Arts Hall of Fame to honor those artists, educators, patrons, and arts advocates for their pioneering efforts in nurturing the visual arts, dance, theatre, and classical music, and for helping them to flourish. The Class of 2013 includes five local heroes whose years of activity in the arts made significant connections – between art and audience, between yesterday and today, between highbrow and lowbrow. They will be inducted in a ceremony during the Austin Critics Table Awards on Monday, June 3, 7pm, at the Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research. Here is a brief introduction showcasing why they matter.
Michael Barnes The arts are news. That message may not stop the presses in this post-Richard Florida era, but in 1993, when Michael Barnes started covering the cultural beat for the Austin American-Statesman, the arts rarely rated notice outside the Lifestyle section. Over the next decade, though, this theatre historian from Houston proved himself a
dogged reporter who regularly landed arts stories on Page One. Already an established critical voice – he began penning Statesman reviews in 1989 – Barnes became invaluable to the scene with canny reports on the arts’ economic impact, attendance, and construc-tion projects such as the Long Center and Mexican American Cultural Center, giving legitimacy to the creative sector at a time of unprecedented development. Wherever he saw an opportunity to increase the arts’ vis-ibility or impact, he took it – even within the critical community. He suggested that the local theatre reviewers who met regularly for lunch hand out group awards as critics in other cities did, and the Austin Critics Table was born. Later, he encouraged the expansion of the Critics Table Awards to include all performing and visual arts. His work in the American Theatre Critics Association led to three terms as chairman of that organization, and two terms on the Pulitzer Prize jury for criticism. He’s also shared his knowledge with the next genera-tion of arts writers, through ATCA Young Critics Seminars, which he co-founded, and entertainment journalism courses at local universities. Though he has in recent years moved on to the post of the Statesman’s social reporter, Barnes continues to show-case the arts’ vitality and importance through profiles of Austin creatives.
Competition – has nurtured dozens of aspir-ing composers. But he’s been just as active off-campus, accepting commissions from organizations of all sizes and levels of experi-ence, and always delivering scores of remarkable feeling and lyricism. Whether it’s with tender memorial choral pieces such as “We Remember Them,” frisky frolics for wind ensembles such as “Baron Cimetière’s Mambo,” or his award-winning score inspired by a museum’s art collection, Music for the Blanton, Grantham has displayed a desire to explore new musical territories and open them to all corners of our community.
Stanley Hall Ballet at the ’Dillo – hold that image in your head: Austin’s quintessential music venue, the Armadillo World Headquarters, and in the midst of all the cosmic cowboys and blues-lovin’ hippies, among the nachos and longnecks, were ballerinas doing ara-besques and jetés – and not just as a one-off, but every month. That is part of the remark-able legacy of Stanley Hall, made all the more remarkable because he wasn’t a laid-back native but a classically trained Englishman with credits in the Vic-Wells company (later the Sadler’s Wells, then Royal Ballet) and Les Ballets de Paris. But before settling in Austin in the late Sixties, Hall had made the leap to Hollywood and Broadway, dancing on stage and film in shows such as Carousel, Oklahoma!, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, as well as nightclub acts with Abbott and Costello, Betty Grable, and Liberace. Hall was invited to town to take over artistic direction for Austin Civic Ballet (now Ballet Austin), but it was after launching his own company, Austin Ballet Theatre, in 1972, that Hall’s impact was most felt. For 14 years, the company provided low-key access to highbrow dance, building an unusually large and diverse audience for ballet – atten-dance at ABT’s ’Dillo performances topped 1,200. And through the company and classes that Hall taught through UT’s physical edu-cation program, he trained many of the city’s leading dancers, including Greg Easley, Terri Lynn Wright, Septime Webre, Arletta Howard, and John Logan. In many ways, Hall – who died in 1994 – was a father to Austin’s early dance community.
Annette Carlozzi Most people probably imagine being a “curator” means just choosing which paint-ings to hang on the wall and where. For Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, though, the job description includes starting conversations. Through her carefully considered placement of works in an exhibition – such as the recent “Through the Eyes of Texas” or the Austin Critics Table Award winners “Desire” and “Mike’s World” – the Blanton Museum of Art’s curator-at-large can use the works’ similarities and differences in the treatment of subject matter, form, color, composition, and the like to set up dialogues among them, and that in turn sparks dialogues with and among viewers. Since Carlozzi first arrived on the local scene in 1979, stimulating lively chat with art and about it has been her goal, and in her seven years at Laguna Gloria Art Museum (currently one
Donald Grantham Austin Symphony Orchestra. Austin Civic Orchestra. Conspirare. University of Texas Trombone Choir. Chamber Soloists of Austin. Chorus Austin. Austin Chamber Music Center. Wild Basin Winds. UT Wind Ensemble. Texas Choral Consort. Austin Chamber Ensemble. UT Chamber Singers. Waterloo Sound Conspiracy. Hill Country Middle School Symphonic Band. If you were asked which composer has had his work performed by all these area ensembles, you’d probably go to one of classical music’s Big Boys: a Bach or a Beethoven. The fact that Donald Grantham can claim the same speaks to both the community’s interest in the music created by this Butler School of Music professor of composition and his deep commitment to the cause of classical music in Austin. In his 38 years on the faculty at the University of Texas, the award-winning composer – the Prix Lili Boulanger, the Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition Prize, first prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony’s Awards to American Composers, first prize in the National Opera Association’s Biennial Composition
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ting as Tom Lehrer’s or Peter Schickele’s, this classically trained musician sliced his way through the classical canon, typically weaving sitcom tunes, pop hits, and com-mercial jingles through their majestic pas-sages. From 1977 to 1996, Saugey mocked the masters regularly at Esther’s Follies, playing accompanist to the fractured oper-atics of William Dente’s Dame Della Diva, making Beethoven roll over with his “Ode to Joy (Detergent)” and cramming every pop song ripped off from a Bach melody into his “Brackenridge Concerto,” not to mention roasting chestnuts of all kinds in the parody musicals A Mall and Its Night Visitors and Westward Hose! With his fre-quent partner in musical mischief, Lyova Rosanoff – also a Follies alum and an Austin Arts Hall of Fame inductee in 2003 – Saugey has worked his parodic genius in independent projects such as Austin Flops Orchestra, Beethoven’s Birthday, and Forbidden Classics. And the two master-fully and riotously transmuted the lyrics for Strauss’ Die Fledermaus into a current-day Austin-centric version, The Bat, for Austin Lyric Opera. While he’s capable of being serious for brief periods – as evidenced by his work as music director for musicals with Arts on Real and Penfold Theatre Company and rehearsal accompanist for Austin Musical Theatre and Ballet Austin – Saugey is best at his worst – mockingly making fun. n
Steve Saugey When classical music gets too stiff and stuffy for its own good, someone has to knock the powdered-wig brigade off its pedestal, and, for 35 years, Steve Saugey has proudly done that duty in Austin. With a satirical scalpel as sophisticated and cut-
LINKSThird paragraph, third sentence: ““Through the Eyes of Texas”http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2013-03-01/matchmaking-masterworks/
Third paragraph, third sentence: “Desire”http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2010-03-19/981785/
Last paragraph, fifth sentence: “the two masterfully and riotous-ly transmuted the libretto”http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2008-05-30/629518/
Last paragraph, fifth sentence: “The Bat”http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2008-06-06/632098/
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T H E A RT S REVIEWS
Gruesome Playground InjuriesThe Museum of Human Achievement, 916 Springdale, 512/736-8827www.streetcornerarts.org Through June 1 Running time: 1 hr., 30 min. For many Americans, high school is wrought with nostalgia even before graduation. It’s at once a time of discovery and a time to prepare for the rest of our lives. When life turns out dis-appointingly, however, that sense of nostalgia risks regret and resentment. Gruesome Playground Injuries, the Rajiv Joseph play currently being produced by Street Corner Arts (and staged earli-er this year by Capital T Theatre in the FronteraFest Long Fringe), balances that line. Though we meet Kayleen (Molly Karrasch) and Doug (Benjamin Summers) when they are 8 years old and leave them at 38, the play stays in high school – that is, it’s wrought with pathos and meaning. The set, designed by Director A. Skola Summers, sug-gests the bedrooms of teens identifying themselves through pop culture and various extracurriculars. The soundtrack is a panoply of sentimental tunes that currently infest the airwaves. It appro-priately contrasts the counter-high-school narrative of two teens whose lives seem destined for suffering and failure, lives without those nostalgic sentimental moments. The scenes jump ahead 15 years or back 10. Joseph, play-wright of the Pulitzer-nominated drama Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo (and graduate of the same undergrad writing pro-gram I attended in Oxford, Ohio), explicitly states in the script that all scene changes should take place in front of the audi-ence, in particular the application of Doug’s wounds. “There is no need to hide any of this work from the audience,” Joseph writes. These devices, of course, draw our attention to the fact that we’re watching a play, but they also give us the feeling of watching an accident in slow motion, unable to do anything about it. Worse, they suggest that time is fixed, and like Billy
Pilgrim in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, our only option is to bounce around it. For all the work that the playwright and Street Corner Arts do to distance us from the characters, however, I find myself empathizing with the idea of them. Kayleen’s injuries are internal, though the result of external forces, such as an abusive father. Doug, on the other hand, is accident-prone, a term to which he explicitly objects, but nevertheless, his enthusiasm for life and its adventures repeatedly land him in the infirmary, and it is there, more or less, that the two reunite over and over again. Both Kayleen and Doug bear the scars of their experiences, and they don’t let those experiences alter their outlooks on life. Kayleen remains cynical, Doug enthusiastic. And though Doug attempts to turn their friendship into a romance, they remain only pals. We might feel unsatisfied, but before the lights dim for the last time, the two take a nostalgic look back, more hopeful than the narrative we witnessed might have suggested. – Matthew Irwin
‘Not How It Happened’Tiny Park Gallery, 1101 Navasota #2www.tinyparkgallery.comThrough June 22 In “Not How It Happened,” artists Joel Ross and Jason Creps play with language to compose quick, sardonic statements and imprint these mes-sages on signs. The signs are then installed on either public or private property, photographed, and then abandoned. The exhibition is com-posed of these messages sketched out on paper, sculptural signs, and photographs of the signs in their installed space. When asked about tracking the lifespan of a piece, Ross and Creps laughed, both chiming in to say that if they stumbled upon a piece later and it was on fire, they’d happily take a picture and let it burn. They’ve watched pieces get picked up, kicked around, and end up blocks away from their original installation site. Both art-ists were elated to find their work trashed. It’s not solely the renegade attitude of the exhibition that’s appealing, though it’s exciting to see installation artists invested in the larger impact of their work instead of confining their collection to a gallery.
Ross and Creps took a very accessible approach with their work, making the pho-tographs captivating as stand-alone imag-es. In contrast to the immediate impact of their messages, Ross and Creps’ photographs are quiet, subtle, suburban scenes. The large-scale photographs help identify physical space as either a frame for the text or a backdrop to the artists’ punch line that is made all the funnier by its surroundings. It helps contextualize the whole process of Ross and Creps’ work, from the brainstorming about messages to the scouting for installation locations.
Everything is meticulous – nothing is happenstance. In one of the images, titled “IN THE FUTURE,” a faint “Famous” is painted onto a concrete wall in a drainage ditch while bright white signs in the foreground state “In The Future.” It’s an optimistic statement embedded in a truly unfortunate landscape. It’s this humorous dichotomy of expecta-tion and reality, a spectrum in which Ross and Creps excel. Ross’ piece “#UC!*&+%” sits in the middle of the gallery. Seven blocks with individual letters are haphazardly stacked on top and against one another. The
nod to building blocks takes on a darker tone when you realize the jumbled piece spells out “Fuckable.” It’s so profane, in such a pristine presentation, that it’s hard not to laugh. “Not How It Happened” forces its audi-ence to embrace the tone of the exhibition or risk a comfort zone being breached. It’s an exhibition worth spending time with, and audiences should visit the artists’ off-site installation in the front window of Okay Mountain on Cesar Chavez. – Caitlin Greenwood
Twelve Angry MenCity Theatre, 3823-D Airport Blvd., 512/524-2870 www.citytheatreaustin.org Through June 9 Running time: 2 hr., 10 min. As I walked into City Theatre to see Reginald Rose’s Fifties jury-room drama Twelve Angry Men, I wondered how the hell Director Karen Sneed found a baker’s dozen of middle-aged-to-elderly male actors for the show. If it were called Twelve Angry Ingénues, she’d have her pick of talented perform-ers. But men? I was skeptical. Two hours later, I left amazed that Sneed not only brought 13 actors out of the woodwork, but her cast is also pretty damned good. With a strong ensemble and Sneed’s excel-lent direction, Twelve Angry Men was the best City Theatre Company production I’ve ever seen. It would have been easy for the cast to allow their anony-mous characters – called Jurors 1–12 and the Guard – to blend together. But the actors expertly articulate the distinct personalities that Rose created; each character is memorable, and there’s not a moment of upstaging throughout. The cast’s chemistry and attentiveness create many powerful moments of sus-penseful silence and explosive fury as Juror 8 slowly convinces the others of a reasonable doubt that the accused 16-year-old committed murder. The skilled Jim Lindsay establishes from the play’s opening moments that his Juror 8 will be the audi-ence’s hero, the one who votes “not guilty” at the outset, arguing, “It’s not easy for me to raise my
hand and send a boy off to die.” At the opposite end of the table, Rick Felkins delivers a superb perfor-mance as Juror 3; his final, heart-breaking conces-sion made me cry. Other notable performances (though there’s not a weak link at the table) include John Meadows as the steadfast, senior citizen
Juror 9; Brian Miller with perfect comic timing as geeky Juror 2; Freddy Carnes as the jabbering, preju-diced Juror 10; and Johnny Stewart, looking very Don Draperly as adman Juror 12. Sneed’s careful staging fits the large cast comfortably onstage, and very little in the production feels forced – even the con-vention of having actors rise from the long jury table as they speak seems natural. The production mostly looks straight out of the Fifties. Andy Berkovsky’s utilitarian set, though clearly created on a budget (but hey, what govern-ment building isn’t?), serves the production well; old-school windows and a mid-century fan add to the illu-sion of a muggy pre-A/C courthouse. Rosalie Oliveri outfits most of the cast in era-appropriate suits and skinny ties, except for Juror 6 (Michael Rains), who oddly looks like he stepped out of an Eddie Bauer catalog. City Theatre Company’s Twelve Angry Men is a period drama, but in the hands of a great direc-tor and cast, its characters and themes – a cross-section of citizens grappling with their constitutional duty to serve on an impartial jury – seem strikingly contemporary. – Jillian Owens
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Beyond a reasonable doubt: Rick Felkins’ Juror 3 makes the case for guilt
Binding wounds, bound by wounds: Molly Karrasch as Kayleen and
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Victim X Last week I received a disturbing email offering me the chance to buy pre-makeover photos of an old friend. My friend has become incredibly successful and has made a lovely life. As I have learned from firsthand experi-ence, success brings the pissants out of the woodwork. My friend has remained very private, risen above it all, and does not deserve this. No one does. The idea that someone would confuse The Austin Chronicle with The National Enquirer is insulting all the way around. The issue here is whether it’s okay to make over or reinvent yourself. We no longer live in the world of Jacqueline Susann novels, where charac-ters cannot let anyone know who they really are. Today, decent people understand and accept that some choose to deal with the hand they are dealt by throwing the cards away and starting with an entirely new hand. I’ve rather done that myself and am not at all unhappy with the results. I began a process of overhaul-ing myself, to create the image and persona of what I wanted to show the world. Why on Earth would I expose someone else for it? This despicable human being overlooked the fact that we are a community that supports one another rather than one that retreats into taw-dry salaciousness, stabbing one another in the back. As Austin pole-vaults into its place as the 11th largest city in the country, will the influx of new hordes rip at the fabric of our once intimate community? God, I hope not.
swangin’ It’s almost time for Texas Swing, one of Project Transitions’ major fundraisers, on Saturday, June 8, 7:30-11:30pm, at the Shoal Crossing Event Center. Tickets are available at www.projecttransitions.org.
model models In all the mentions of my recent fashion show, the common thread is the praise for my models. When I started thinking about doing that show, I immediately envisioned some of the most inter-esting characters I know. I knew I wanted Fets Benavides as my Pagan Prince. Though a profes-sional model, Fets is a true character who inspires me to design beyond anything my training ever taught me. I knew I wanted Grant Hicks as the Shaman. Grant has completely changed the way I feel about clothes; every-thing I design, for both men and women, has
him in mind. Eva Strangelove is practically a professional muse as it is, and, coupled with her willingness to help in the studio, I always want her on my runway and in my heart. Sabra Johnson walks in beauty like the night, and her jaw-dropping stage pres-ence (and that of her sister Kierstin) was invaluable to the scenario I wanted to create. Allyson Garro is so fabulous and full of imagination that I knew I had to have her on my runway as well. I knew that Jay Woods and Jonathan Horstmann would be fabu-lous, each of them imbuing their own brand
of style and attitude as they walked. Lucy Secord is simply fabulous. Margo
Aleman, Matthew Redden, and Lydia Hutchison, know-
ing of my design work, all wanted to be involved. I was very flattered. Elle LaMont was my gor-geous Pagan Princess, referred to me by head-dress designer Jennifer Ayers. I trusted Jennifer’s
intuition, and she was absolutely correct. Mary,
Caitlin, Callisto, Rosaline, Rocio, Skye, and Kasey all
came to me through Austin Fashion Week, and their personalities and
presences made the runway sparkle. I am incredibly blessed to have such devotion from my friends and fans.
Model Margo Aleman helped make the runway sizzle during Made In Heaven’s finale at the Austin Fashion Awards.
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By the time Austin’s Pizza owner J.D. Torian called me from his own office phone at the end of last week, he was finally able to see the silver lining around the AT&T snafu that cut off vital phone service to his 12 pizza outlets for several days, costing him tens of thousands of dollars in sales. “Eighty percent of our business is phone orders, so there’s no way to say exactly how much money we lost,” Torian said. “Online ordering really saved us. People had to work harder to order pizzas, but they did it, and when the phones came back on, they rang nonstop. The other cool thing that happened was that after the story broke [in the Austin Business Journal], I heard from people in the industry, offering to help any way they could. There wasn’t anything anyone could do, but the calls made me aware of our value in the community, and that felt good.” Torian’s AT&T rep has promised to let him know just what triggered the costly series of intermittent shut-offs. For the moment, the company’s plans to open another local store this summer are on hold.
Now that barbecue lovers have digested Texas Monthly’s quinquennial Top 50 list and paid homage to newly anointed Barbecue Editor Daniel Vaughn on his triumphal statewide book tour, I thought there might be a breather, but no. Last week marked the launch of TMBBQ.com with Vaughn anchoring the franchise, dubbed the hub for the magazine’s “ramped-up barbecue madness.” They are promoting the first in a series of TMBBQ Road Trips (Saturday, June 1 to Snow’s, Louie Mueller Barbecue, and Franklin), the already sold-out Texas Barbecue Pop-Up in NYC with Aaron Franklin and Shiner Beer on June 6, and the first ever Texas Barbecue Week, July 15-19. I was pleased to see almost all my personal favorites made the Texas Monthly Top 50 this year (I’m curious about what’s going on at Smitty’s), but the cool-est aspect of the whole shootin’ match was observing the three listed Mueller siblings’ out-fits (Louie Mueller Barbecue, La Barbecue, and John Mueller Meat Co.) congratulating each other via Twitter. Can’t help but feel their father and grandfather would be proud.
Peached Tortilla food truck entrepreneur Eric Silverstein isn’t sure how his business was chosen as one of 20 nationwide contestants in Live With Kelly & Michael’s Truckin’ Amazing Cook-Off, but when a producer called a few weeks ago saying he had 24 hours to submit a video about his business, he got busy. “We sent them a video, and I guess their viewers voted for us. We found out last week we’re in the top ten,” he said. Now every Friday until the end of July, a different contestant will prepare a signature dish on the popular syndicated talk show and viewers will be encouraged to vote for their favorites. Four finalists will be chosen from the online votes and then compete in another cook-off before a panel of judges to win a $20,000 prize. Silverstein flies to NYC on June 11 for taping, but no word yet when his barbecue brisket taco segment will air. We’ll keep you posted.
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and cut on the bias, the cold slices arrayed around a serving of rustic home fries and the same green salad. It tasted every bit as good as it looked, but we were both still hungry and counting on luxurious French toast to fill out the meal. My personal taste in French toast calls for moist, custardy slices of bread, crisped in butter on the griddle or a skillet, doused with syrup and a generous sprinkling of powdered sugar. The Salt & Time brunch version offers two slices of Simon Perez’s excellent white sandwich loaf with no evidence of custard under a buttery crisp exterior and scant flavor
of syrup. The saving grace was a topping of sautéed local peaches. Given the superior qual-ity of the bread and fruit, there was a missed opportunity for greatness there. A few days later, a friend dropped by Salt & Time and picked up sandwiches for us to enjoy after a few hours of pickling peaches. I insisted on a muffaleta ($8), of course, and we also got the roast beef ($10) with pickled
green tomatoes, aioli, and lettuce on a fresh ciabatta bun, as well as the Texas Cheese Steak ($11) with queso, roasted jalapeños, and mushrooms on a growler roll. Each sandwich came with a bag of house-made potato chips, a delicacy for chip lovers. All three sandwiches start with truly wonderful breads and are dressed with innovative condiments, although I prefer a chunky olive salad to a puree on a muffaleta. Both beef sandwiches were packed with plenty of shaved roast beef (albeit a little on the dry side), making the thin single slices of mortadella, cotto salami, smoked ham, and provolone on the muffaleta seem skimpy in comparison. Much like some other aspects of the operation at Salt & Time, all the sandwich components haven’t quite coalesced in just the right way yet, but the basic quality here still gives me great expectations. I’ll be back. – Virginia B. Wood
Earlier this spring, I put up what I thought was a fairly compre-hensive blog post about the available muffaletas around town just in time for Mardi Gras. Not long after the post went live, several readers were quick to point out I’d overlooked a version of the NOLA-born sandwich being served at the brand new Salt & Time Butcher Shop. That was my first inkling that store owners Ben Runkle and Bryan Butler intended to be somewhat more than Austin’s newest artisan butchers. Salt & Time debuted in February of this year, selling fresh cuts of locally sourced meats, sausages, salumi, charcuterie, and some prepared foods in a very attractive shop on Austin’s Eastside. The shop’s retro, artisan attitude is supported by the use of some stylish antique refrigerated cases and wooden furniture created by a local company called Petrified Design. There’s a lunch counter with stools and a few tables with benches inside, and a few dainty cafe tables on the porch. The atmosphere is casual and unpretentious, not quite a restaurant but not just a butcher shop, either. In addi-tion to their exemplary meats, Runkle and Butler have assembled a selection of fine local products to serve as enhancements. As Baked in Austin, baker Simon Perez works overnight in the Salt & Time kitchen, turning out baguettes, ciabatta, focaccia, white sand-wich loaves, and several kinds of sandwich rolls in addition to breakfast pastries every morning. The breakfast pastries are complemented by bev-erages from a Cuvee Coffee kiosk, and local deli-cacies from Confituras are served when toast and jam ($3) is ordered. Beer cocktails are made with craft brews from the neighborhood. Knowing what I knew about the fine quality of all the basic ingredients in the mix here, I head-ed to brunch at Salt & Time with great expectations and discovered that the food service aspect of the company is still in the process of coalescing. We ordered coffee drinks, plus fried chicken ($9), an omelette roll ($11), and a plate of French toast ($10). We met our first stumbling block. Although they serve Cuvee’s wonder-ful cold-brewed coffee, there’s no ice (for any drinks), and the only sweetener is simple syrup. Stumbling block number two was the fried chicken: The thigh was perfectly cooked under a marvelously crispy mahogany crust, but the leg portion had lost most of its crust, displaying a clammy skin and meat that wasn’t done at the bone. The salad was a handful of lettuce and cherry tomatoes sim-ply dressed in oil and vinegar, and the jalapeño cornbread packed much more sugar than spice. My friend’s omelette was lovely – a flat omelette filled with cured meats and mayonnaise was rolled
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› SEXY SUMMER FASHION BENEFIT FOR AIDS SERVICES OF AUSTIN Enjoy a sexy bathing suit fashion show on the outdoor patio at Garrido’s with appetizers and cock-tails. Donations encouraged. Thu., May 30, 6:30-8:30pm. Garrido’s, 360 Nueces, 512/320-8226. Free (reserve front-row tables for four via phone, $100).
› GARZA GARDENS TOUR Students in the Garza horticulture program host a tour of their herb garden, and Austin pastry chefs will discuss how they use herbs from the garden in baking. Sat., June 1, 10am-3pm. Gonzalo Garza Independence High School, 1600 Chicon, 512/414-8600. Free.
› OLIVE & JUNE FIRST FAMILY BRUNCH Enjoy a family-style brunch where proceeds will benefit the Sustainable Food Center. Sat., June 1, 11am-2pm. Olive & June, 3411 Glenview, 512/467-9898. $25 ($10, kids). www.oliveandjunefirst.eventbrite.com.
› ELGIN’S SAUSAGE & OPERA FESTIVAL Food booths, arts and crafts, choral presentations, and a live performance of Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne. 310 N. Main at Depot Street in Downtown Elgin. Sat., June 1, 3:30-10:30pm.
› TOMATO DINNER Chefs from Swift’s Attic, Cafe Josie, and glass2plate present a six-course meal featuring heirloom tomato varieties, paired with wines and Tipsy Texan cocktails, to benefit Austin Food for Life. Mon., June 3, 7pm. Springdale Farm, 755 Springdale, 512/386-8899. $100. www.austinfoodforlife.org.
› SUMMER TEQUILA DINNER SERIES Chefs Rene Ortiz and Rick Lopez create a five-course feast with Ocho Tequilas. Tue., June 4, 6pm. La Condesa, 400 W. Second, 512/499-0300. $100. www.lacondesa.com/austin.
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Read It and EatNew cookbooks and food culture tomes Whether you’ve got a taste for food politics, food history, vegan meals, or dramatic and delectable baked goods, the Chronicle Food contributors and I have reliable recommenda-tions for every palate. Here’s what we think you should be reading this summer. – Virginia B. Wood
straightforward. Lee has some really great dishes in this cookbook: miso-smothered chicken with shiitakes; potato-stuffed roast chicken; edamame hummus; tamarind-straw-berry glazed ham; frog legs in fish sauce and brown butter; catfish in bacon vinaigrette; collards with kimchi and ham; cornbread with lardo and cheddar; and lamb braised with sorghum, bourbon, chocolate, and black bean sauce. You get the idea. He does a whole riff on pickles, and, when you think about the similarities between Southern pickles (chow chow, spicy pickled okra, etc.) and kimchi, it only seems natural. Smoke & Pickles is straight-up filled with Southern soul cuisine with its roots firmly planted in Asia, and it’s a very tasty blend of cultures. – Mick Vann
Food: An Atlas edited by Darin Jensen and Molly RoyGuerrilla Cartography, 172 pp., $30 Darin Jensen is a professor of cartography and geographic information systems at the University of California at Berkeley. He’s also a food enthusiast and activist and – perhaps most importantly – a visionary about how to quickly and inexpensively publish a serious book of important information, presented in a lively graphic format. The result of Jensen’s vision is Food: An Atlas, a fascinating, stimulating compendium of 80 maps about various aspects of food across the planet. He contacted the North American Cartographic Information Society, U.S. food policy networks, and food profes-sionals, soliciting maps that graphically dis-play aspects of food production and distribu-tion, food security, and cuisine. Jensen says, “Atlases take a long time; this was an experi-ment in doing it faster.” Within six months, Jensen had a host of submitted maps; he enlisted an editorial
panel of cartographers, food writers, academ-ics, data visualizers, graphic artists, and production people to vet the submissions for accuracy, logic, and good design. About 100 volunteers contributed to the effort. But the collaborative vision didn’t stop there. The project raised more than $29,000 via Kickstarter to publish the book. Copies were distributed to donors (full disclosure: I am one), and the book is now for sale on the Guerrilla Cartography website (www.guerrilla cartography.net). Profits are donated to food-related nonprofits chosen by the book’s crowd of contributors. Want to see a map of the U.S. “beer shed,” the regions where ingredients used to make beers are grown? It’s here. How about a tomato tour of Europe, or a map of the global consumption of spaghetti? Check and check. For local specificity, there’s a map of Texas Seafood Landings, contributed by the UT Food Lab’s Robyn Metcalfe and Jeff Ingebritsen. – MM Pack
Bake It Like You Mean It: Gorgeous Cakes From Inside Outby Gesine Bullock-PradoStewart, Tabori & Chang, 252 pp., $29.95 In the introduction to her newest bak-ing tome, baking instructor and cookbook author Gesine Bullock-Prado explains that the title is also her guiding philosophy and baking mantra: “I remind myself to bake with patience and love, to bake with an eye to the details and the beauty of the process.” Fans of Bullock-Prado’s three books, and the many
members of the online baking forum she hosts on Facebook (also called Bake It Like You Mean It), take that inspiration to heart. This third book focuses on cakes, with recipes and techniques for creations ranging from the simple to the spectacular. As she has in previ-ous books about sugar art and baking pies, Bullock-Prado arranges recipes and chapters like the building blocks of a good baking course. She starts with simpler cakes such as meringues and sponges, then works her way through cheesecakes and mousses, buttery batters, and yeast cakes, giving novice bak-ers the time and experience to develop skills, while more experienced hands can choose to jump in where the spirit moves them. Bullock-Prado’s trademark sly sense of humor is ever-present in the text, as are her
Smoke & Pickles: Recipes and Stories From a New Southern Kitchenby Edward LeeArtisan, 304 pp., $29.95 Edward Lee was the Asian chef (the one not named Paul Qui) and fan favorite on Season 9 of Top Chef whom everyone was surprised lived in Kentucky and cooked Southern food. He went to Kentucky for the Derby in 2003 and fell into a Louisville restaurant deal too good to pass up; after a decade cooking there, his style has evolved into classic Southern cuisine filtered through a Brooklynese/Korean colander, with all kinds of ethnic accents thrown in. Lee completely embraced the foodstuffs and methods of the South, but his cultural background and the training he received in New York kitchens demanded a place on the stage. His cooking style has become “New Southern”; think com-forting soul food massaged with Korean spice and garlic. A multiple regional James Beard Award winner, his cuisine has been called innovative and adventurous, soulful and spir-ited, original yet familiar. Smoke & Pickles is divided into chapters that each begin with a story. Growing up working in diners and restaurants in New York City, becoming the first graffiti tagger in junior high school, and hanging with food growers and chefs provides a background for great stories. All of the chapters are based on extraordinary foodstuffs produced in the Louisville area: lamb, beef, bourbon, turkey and chicken, etc. The recipes are logically written, easy to follow, and for the most part
Vegetable Literacyby Deborah MadisonTen Speed Press, 416 pp., $40 Although Deborah Madison has writ-ten a wealth of compelling books and is widely considered the foremost authority on vegetarian cuisine, the botany geek in me thinks this may be her best, and most complete, work to date. Combining her extensive knowledge of cooking, gardening, and botany, Madison looks at edible plants from a new perspec-tive: Rather than considering them as merely cooking ingredients, she treats them, first and foremost, as plants. In a unique format for a cookbook, she groups them in chapters dedicated to their botanical families instead of the usual A-to-Z approach. She explains that, because of their shared botanical
characteristics, plants within the same family can be used interchangeably in cooking and in fact complement each other’s flavors. Think of how well carrots go with dill, or how tomatoes and eggplant pair up in recipes the world over. While this is not entirely new to me – I’m a cook and a gardener, as well – Madison’s in-depth study of these relationships has brought new insights (who knew that artichokes, lettuce, sunflowers, and calendula all belong to the daisy family?) followed by a desire to try new recipes in the kitchen and seek more varieties for the garden. Within each family chapter, each vegetable gets its own treatment with recipes, growing tips, recommended varieties, bits of kitchen wisdom, and preferred culinary companions. As usual, Madison’s recipes are simple yet elegant, suited for everyday suppers and fancy dinners alike. As a curious and frugal cook, I love her root-to-seed approach to cooking from the garden, with useful tips on using all edible parts of the plant, from carrot greens to artichoke stems. After experi-menting on my own, I can’t wait to try her recipe for radish top soup. This is an excellent reference book that I will revisit again and again, both for gardening and cooking advice. – Claudia Alarcón
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Natural History of Transformation, around the dinner table. Cooking, he postulates, “situ-ates us in the world in a very special place, facing the natural world on one side and the social world on the other.” However, aside from occasionally romantic logic as related to political and philosophical reasoning, socio-economic and environmental concerns, and even gender roles, Cooked wonders, “Why cook?” The act of cooking is largely consid-ered a defining human characteristic, yet the corporate food industry is vying to redefine this measurement of humanity by shifting the definition of cooking. With suggestions that time spent in the home kitchen or grocery store is wasted, industrialized food swoops in to save us from ourselves. Stuffed with an encyclopedic wealth of information, Pollan’s latest manifesto is divided into sections corresponding with the four classical elements – fire, water, air, and earth. Cooked follows his journey toward a self-imposed higher education in culinary enlightenment as he learns from pit masters, chefs, millers, bakers, artisanal picklers, and expert fermenters. Pollan’s storytelling rivets, steeping the reader in delicious details (gut bacteria, anyone?) and historical tales of ancient ceremonial animal sacrifice. Pollan’s vividly recounted experiences of learning bar-becue techniques, cheese making, craft beer brewing, and the history of white bread are fascinating to anyone remotely interested in food, culture, environment, or politics. Yet herein lies the book’s not-so-secret weakness: Though Pollan skillfully dances with the warring sides of modern cooking, he stumbles in his quest to engage the “passive consumer.” Still, his passionate belief that “to join the makers of the world is always to feel at least a little more self-reliant, a little more omnicompetent” inspires, acting as a catalyst for change, especially for those with one foot already in the kitchen. Perhaps the way to build healthy, sustainable food communities is found in a home-cooked meal, surrounded by all sides of the human story. – Jessi Cape
The Working Class Foodies Cookbookby Rebecca LandoGotham Books, 288 pp., $20 There has been a certain amount of backlash against the “eat local”/organic/Slow Food movement on the basis that regular, working-class stiffs just can’t afford it, money-wise or time-wise. This cookbook is a rebuttal to that argument. The author, Rebecca Lando, graduated from college swearing to never eat cheap processed
no-nonsense and informative sidebars, here called “Notes From the Sweet Talker.” The reci-pes are clear and concise, written specifically to be accessible to home bakers. The book is beautifully produced but definitely something any serious baker will want in the kitchen. There are American regional delicacies such as the Baked Vermont (a maple-laced version of Baked Alaska) and New Orleans King Cakes, plus several lovely European tortes. The more ambitious recipes begin to appear about halfway through the book, where the author’s inner cake architect really takes over. Luckily, the more dramatic and intricate productions such as the Chocolate Pyramid, the Because You Are Mine carousel, the Interior Heart, and the Checkerboard come with thorough, step-by-step instructions and a series of pictures to guide the first time efforts. Creating some of these cakes would indeed be challenging, even for an accomplished baker, but they are all guaranteed to make a dramatic statement on any dessert buffet. With the Sweet Talker right there on the counter, you too can bake it like you mean it, and everyone will be glad you did. – Virginia B. Wood
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformationby Michael PollanPenguin Press, 480 pp., $27.95 Michael Pollan, whose name is synony-mous with food culture writing, focuses the conversation of his seventh book, Cooked: A continued on p.34
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engaged, Todd dared to advise Ellen’s father to use less oil to fry his latkes, or how Ellen thought for years the only way blintzes came was frozen in a package. There are more than 100 recipes in the tome, organized according to seasons and meal types, from brunch to desserts. Chef Gray values seasonal, farm-to-table ingredi-ents, and summer cannot come soon enough with recipes such as Fig and Port Wine Blintzes or Smoked Salmon and Sweet Corn Beignets. The tasty recipes are accompanied by vivid and inspiring photography. This is not a kosher cookbook, but the recipes are noted as dairy, meat, pareve (neither milk nor meat), and “mixed,” though there are notes on how to adapt recipes to keep them kosher. Not all the recipes are even Jewish, but with a three-cheese and truffle oil Equinox Mac and Cheese, no one is complaining. Food is about the memories. A bite of brisket can transport you to bubbe’s kitchen; a nibble of Israeli salad, and you are frolick-ing on the beaches of Coney Island. The New Jewish Table honors these traditions and builds new ones with recipes that can only be called modern American. – Amy Kritzer
food again. She quickly learned, however, that her entry-level, post-crash paycheck would not even begin to cover grocer-ies from Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s. In des-peration, she figured out how to make delicious, local, and organic meals very, very cheaply. Initially, Lando intended to blog about her experiences, but, like many another would-be blogger, she found she didn’t have time to write long, detailed posts. Instead, she vid-eotaped herself making dinner, and the web series Working Class Foodies was born (www.wcfoodies.tumblr.com). This cookbook is a distil-lation of all those webcasts, and it is an awe-some resource. Each recipe is food-cost analyzed, with most clocking in at around $3 per person; none exceed $8 per person. Lando spells out with great clarity every shortcut and frugality possible to bring the grocery bill down while still enjoying fabulous meals. Though some of her directives are obvi-ous ( join a CSA, buy directly from growers, eat seasonally, utilize leftovers), many of the skills she teaches are fairly advanced (make your own condiments, simmer your own stock, bake your own bread, make your own ravioli). The techniques she teaches are frugal with time as well as money; every labor-saving and multitasking trick she knows is explained in detail. The recipes are nutritious and inventive without being outlandish: Sweet Potato Gnocchi, Ricotta Ravioli With Brown Butter and Sage, Roasted Tomato Soup, New Potatoes in Herb Butter, Roasted Carrot Salad, Cheddar Shrimp and Grits, Maple Mustard Roasted Pork, Sweet Potato and Corn Empanadas, Sea Salt Honey Caramels. The Working Class Foodies Cookbook makes a strong case that, with frugal habits and intel-ligent shopping, anyone can enjoy “real food, for real people, real cheap.” – Kate Thornberry
The New Jewish Tableby Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray With David Hagedorn St. Martin’s Press, 352 pp., $35 When a five-time James Beard Award nominee and CIA graduate marries his clean, local cooking aesthetic with his wife’s classic Eastern-European Jewish heritage, the result is anything but traditional. Chef Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray examine how delicious the melding of two very different traditions can be in The New Jewish Table. Though this cookbook is of course about food, it is equally about family. The book begins with a conversational telling of how the duo met, married, and opened a trio of Washington, D.C., restaurants together, including the award-winning Equinox. Though their backgrounds were quite different – Chef Todd grew up in rural Virginia, while Ellen was a city girl in D.C. – they both had an urge to get back to their family roots and blend them into a unique cuisine. I watched the couple in a recent interview about crafting these modern Jewish recipes, and I was struck by how they spoke primar-ily about the history behind the food. That
emphasis on storytelling continues in the book, with family anecdotes and gracious tips and tricks that sound as if they could have come from your mother or friend woven throughout. There are amusing stories on every page, such as how, before they were
Texas Eats: The New Lone Star Heritage Cookbookby Robb WalshTen Speed Press, 304 pp., $25
For 20 years or more, food writer and culinary historian Robb Walsh has branded himself as the culinary expert on all things Texan, successfully carving out a place as the definitive source. He’s published a slew of award-winning cookbooks covering a wide range of topics, but with Texas Eats his knowledge of cooking in Texas coalesces into a unified whole, provid-ing a colorful culinary amalgam of history, anecdote, and 200-plus rock-solid recipes from the five culinary regions of the state. He divides the state into East, West, Central/Hill Country, South, and Coastal Bend, the most obvious separation geographically and ethnically. Rather than sort by courses, Walsh organizes by category, such as seafood, Tex-Mex, etc., with a rough alignment by historical timeline. The arrangement works well for what can be a widely varied yet cohesive cuisine. Each section opens with a historical section to frame the populace, the cooking styles, and the ingredients. For example, there is an illuminating section describing life on a Texas shrimp boat, with details about bycatch and what used to be considered trash fish by pre-Vietnamese shrimper standards. The recipes included here would make Bubba Gump proud. There are side-bars in each section that feature well-known food producers, culinarians, and restaurants, and the recipes are derived from famous cooks both professional and casual, from winners in local cooking contests as well as from Walsh’s own research. The numerous and lush illustrations reveal the delectable character of Texas cuisine. All of the standards are included, as well as some of the more modern fusion dishes that combine elements of two ethnic cuisines. The bottom line is that the recipes are easy to follow, not too fussy, and yield damn good food that any Texan granny would be proud to serve. Walsh has managed to produce a cookbook that is honest to the varied foods of Texas and shows why Texas is “a whole ’nother country.” Published in March of last year, this is the Texas cookbook that I refer back to in my own kitchen, and the one I give as a gift to non-Texans. – Mick Vann
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People’s Pops: 55 Recipes for Ice Pops, Shave Ice, and Boozy Pops From Brooklyn’s Coolest Pop Shop by Joel Horowitz, Nathalie Jordi, and David CarrellTen Speed Press, 128 pp., $16.99 If you’re wondering just how many ice cream and frozen treat cookbooks can one person have, you are not alone. Nevertheless, I am thankful I came across this one, written by a trio of friends whose future was forever changed by their delicious frozen creations. Born from a small batch of goodness-on-a-stick whipped up for a street market
Vegan Secret Supper: Bold and Elegant Menus From a Rogue Kitchenby Mérida AndersonArsenal Pulp Press, 224 pp., $26.95 Through recipes that were more approachable than I, an omni-vore, anticipated, Mérida Anderson positions vegan cooking as a cuisine in itself, the next foodie frontier. Big, Instagram-pretty pho-tos accompany nearly every recipe, enticing your inner glutton like a streetwalker. Anderson is not a trained chef. She is a gourmand who gained her street cred through hosting a popular supper club by the same name as her book and blog in Vancouver, Montreal, and most recently in New York City. She doesn’t believe in “substitutes,” so this cookbook scarcely calls for dairy or meat replacements. The resulting meals are defined by surprising flavor profiles rather than righteous deprivation. For example, I’d serve the blue corn empanadas with pecans, black beans, mole pipian, red cabbage, and avocado to anyone. Scratch that. Summer is coming to Texas, so I’d serve four courses of ice cream. The dessert chapter has three times the recipes as the other chapters organized by course, and it’s separate still from the ice cream chapter. I’d serve Anderson’s ice cream recipes for coconut lemon, lavender vanilla, avocado mint, and dark chocolate almond. She addresses gluten and sugar intolerances while managing to avoid impossible-to-find ingredients. This is not a book for a new vegan looking for a daily meal plan, though a chap-ter on vegan pantry essentials would kick up your gourmet game. Vegan Secret Supper is an incredibly helpful book for someone who likes to host dinner parties where every single guest feels honored. – Ivy Le
event, New York City’s People’s Pops is now a growing emporium serving out-of-the-box flavors like raspberries & basil, peach & jalapeño, and cantaloupe & tarragon. In this book they share the story of their unlikely beginning, followed by 55 easy yet alluring recipes, organized by seasonal availability of fruits, herbs, and even vegetables. With an obvious passion for their craft, the authors freely offer inspiration and tips for prospective ice-pop impresarios and home enthusiasts alike, as well as their knowledge on the how and why of ingredient pairing. Although they source most of their ingredients from NYC farmers’ markets, they highly encour-age experimentation based on what’s available in local areas. So while fresh sour cherries may be unattainable to us Central Texans, suggestions are given for substitutions. And they offer a plethora of fun recipes using cantaloupes, peaches, watermelons, cucum-bers, and other produce abundant during our long growing season. Cantaloupe & Campari? Check. Watermelon & parsley? Check. Fresh fig jam & yogurt? Oh yes, please. With summer already upon us, every ice-pop lover should get a copy of this inspiring little book. I am already envisioning how to use the huge crop of figs waiting to ripen on my tree. – Claudia Alarcón
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“Dear Marilyn …” There, below the famously simple name-plate on Marilyn Monroe’s remains in Westwood Cemetery, Los Angeles, a note wrapped around a single red rose lay on the ground. “… Your movies have brought us such great pleasure. Thank you.” It was signed by a man and woman with very German names for whom, decades after her death, Marilyn Monroe’s work meant something. And what is it about her that still beguiles? The nine films and lone documentary of the Austin Film Society’s aptly named series More Than Meets the Eye: The Life and Films of Marilyn Monroe balances the appeal of her still-luminous beauty and onscreen charisma with the recogni-tion of her acting talents working with such directors as Howard Hawks (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), Otto Preminger (River of No Return), Billy Wilder (Some Like It Hot), and even Laurence Olivier, with whom she also starred in The Prince and the Showgirl. Truthfully, Monroe was at no career peak when she died, yet the series arcs her growth by including her first role of
real note – 1948’s Ladies of the Chorus – plus 1953’s sultry Niagara and the scenery-chewing staginess of 1956’s Bus Stop. She showed a better flair for comedy (1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire) than drama, but by the early Sixties, roles for thirtysomething sex kittens were beginning to thin. Her role opposite Clark Gable in 1961’s The Misfits is captivating, though she argu-ably performs her finest comedic turn in 1959’s Some Like It Hot, when her experience, effort, and beauty meet in the matchless role of a 1920s performer mixed up with the mob. (Noticeably absent from the series is her most famously pho-tographed role in The Seven Year Itch.) Monroe sought to improve her acting with various coaches and through classes at the Actors Studio, and she evinced yearning for approval all her life, according to Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess, the 1994 documentary that kicks off the series and included Arthur Miller, George Cukor, Jane Russell, and Joe DiMaggio. But if that note at the cemetery is any indication, she was an immortal goddess, too. n
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Big Money, Big MoneyFILM INCENTIVES SEE MASSIVE BOOST Good news from the Legislature for Texas-based film-makers and game developers: The Texas Moving Image Industry Incentive Program is getting a massive financial boost, tripling the amount of money available over the next two years to $95 million. The program’s fairy godmother, Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, says filmmakers and game developers have hotel owners to thank. The TMIIIP is designed to keep Texas competitive with other film-producing states that offer incentives, but it was always limited by small cash reserves. Two years ago, law-makers slashed the funds available to $32 million. When they passed the state’s new biennial budget over the weekend, the investment in the incentives had soared to a new high. Dukes explained that the negotiations had been complex. When the House first started running the numbers, she only proposed $22 million for 2014-15, say-ing she took “a conservative approach, because we knew there were so many conservatives.” However, the Senate was considering not simply restoring the fund to pre-cut 2009 levels, but actually raising it slightly to $70 million. When the two chambers finished negotiations, there was a total of $95 million in the kitty. Dukes credited the Texas Motion Picture Association and her fellow lawmak-ers for understanding the program’s value, but said the key was the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association, which lobbied lawmakers to allocate $68 million generated by the Hotel Occupancy Tax. Dukes said, “Having film produc-tion in Texas created heads in beds, and therefore they felt that it was in their best interest to put up a small per-centage of the tax.” – Richard Whittaker
T I M E L I N E O F T E X A S P RO D U C T I O N I N C E N T I V E S2005: The Texas Legislature passes Senate Bill 1142,
creating the Film Industry Incentive Program. However, they do not fund it.
2007: Rep. Dawnna Dukes, D-Austin, authors House Bill 1634, renaming the incentives as the Moving Image Industry Incentive Program, and extending it to cover video games and digital media. The Legislature finally funds the program with $22 million for the 2008-09 biennium.
2009: Dukes authors HB 873, adding educational and instructional videos to the list of eligible projects, dropping the minimum qualifying spend for TV and film, and boost-ing incentives for productions in historically underutilized areas like East Austin. The Legislature ups the biennial budget to $62 million.
2011: As part of dramatic statewide budget cuts, the program’s budget is cut to $32 million.
2013: Lawmakers allocate a record $95 million.
America’s Mortal GoddessAFS ESSENTIAL CINEMA ENCHANTS WITH MARILYN MONROEby Margaret Moser
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More Than Meets the Eye: The Life and Films of
Marilyn Monroe This installment of the Austin Film
Society’s Essential Cinema series runs June 4 through July 30. Screenings are
at 7pm weekly at the Alamo Village (2700 W. Anderson) and the Marchesa Hall & Theatre (6226 Middle Fiskville).
See www.austinfilm.org for ticket and location information.
June 4: Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (D: Kevin Burns, Jeff Scheftel, 1994)June 5: Ladies of the Chorus (D: Phil Karlson, 1948)June 11: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (D: Howard Hawks, 1953)June 18: Niagara (D: Henry Hathaway, 1953)June 25: How to Marry a Millionaire (D: Jean Negulesco, 1953)July 2: River of No Return (D: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco [uncredited], 1954)July 9: Bus Stop (D: Joshua Logan, 1956)July 16: The Prince and the Showgirl (D: Laurence Olivier, 1957)July 23: Some Like It Hot (D: Billy Wilder, 1959)July 30: The Misfits (D: John Huston, 1961)
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Endangered Species Conservation‘The Last Unicorn’ takes a victory lap at the Alamo DrafthouseB Y A M Y G E N T R Y
“Don’t you want to try something else?” Throughout the 1980s, this chorus rang out from video stores across America as parents watched their daughters reach for a VHS tape with a vaguely menacing cover of a unicorn battling a fiery red bull. Despite their protestations, The Last Unicorn was the repeat rental of choice for a generation of bookish, introverted young girls. I should know; I was one of them. So was Alamo Drafthouse programmer Sarah Pitre. “When I was a kid, my mom would take me to the video store once a week to pick out a few movies,” she says. “Without fail, I would always rent The Last Unicorn. My mom was understandably per-plexed. I’d seen it at least 20 times, not to mention that a few scenes scared the living daylights out of me.” Three screenings of the film at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz will not only give fans a chance to relive their childhoods, but also convince newcomers that the 1982 animated film from production house Rankin/Bass (founded by directors Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass) is more than just nostalgic 1980s kitsch. The new digital print features crisper, brighter animation and restores origi-nal dialogue excised from DVD ver-sions of the film. Even more exciting for die-hard fans, Peter S. Beagle, who adapted the film’s screenplay from his own 1968 novel and whom Neil Gaiman calls “the gold standard of fantasy,” will be pres-ent to answer questions after the film. What sets The Last Unicorn apart from its animated brethren? Well, for starters, there’s the dark, moody plot, infused with Beagle’s wry, deadpan humor and laced with melancholic themes of mortality and regret. Upon discovering that she’s the last of her kind, a lone unicorn (voiced by Mia Farrow) sets out to find the rest of her kin, undergoing a startling transformation into a human woman at the height of her quest. Along the way, she encounters a series of ghoulish and grotesque characters, includ-ing a mad king (Christopher Lee), his demonic minion bull, a snickering skeleton (Rene Auberjonois), an evil carnival witch (Angela Lansbury), and a bloodthirsty, tri-ple-breasted harpy – not exactly kiddie fare. Its shape-shifting love story owes more to Greek myth than to The Little Mermaid; in the end, the unicorn gives up love, along with her human shape, to save her people. It’s Casablanca for fourth graders, with Ingrid Bergman recast as the hero. There’s also the unusually strong cast of voice actors, which includes Alan Arkin and Jeff Bridges in addition to Lee, Farrow,
and Lansbury. In an interview with The Austin Chronicle, Beagle explained how the film wound up with such an enviable cast. “Most of them knew the book, and that made a lot of difference,” he says. Bridges reputedly offered to do the part for free out of love for the book, and venerable fantasy aficionado Lee once named the Beagle novel as one of his top two desert-island picks (the other being The Lord of the Rings). Beagle remem-bers the first time he met Lee: “He had just recorded King Haggard’s speech about the first time he ever saw unicorns. I told him that he had recorded my favorite speech in the book, and he immediately offered, in this grand Christopher Lee style, to re-record it if I didn’t like it. ‘We’re right here in the studio, I can tape it again if you like.’ And of course he’d done it perfectly.”
The film’s animation is remark-ably sophisticated as well, especially given the budget constraints of the Rankin/Bass production studio. Producer Michael Chase Walker had pitched the film to Disney, Warner Bros., and a succession of other major animation studios, but, despite interest from individual ani-mators, the story was too dark and too quirky to be considered a good box-office risk at a time when many studios were backing away from features to concentrate on the safer television market. “The film was always almost getting made,” says Beagle. When he learned that the film had been signed with Rankin/Bass, best known at the time for producing stop-motion holiday specials like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Year Without a Santa Claus, he was furious. “I remem-ber screaming, ‘Why didn’t you just go all the way and sell it to Hanna-Barbera?’ And Michael looked immensely sad and said, ‘They were next.’” Surprisingly, the animation studio of last resort proved to be a perfect fit for the idio-syncratic screenplay. Like all Rankin/Bass productions, the film was animated by the Japanese studio Topcraft, whose major ani-
mators, including studio head Toru Hara, went on to work on the highly regarded Hayao Miyazaki features Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and My Neighbor Totoro. The film’s animation aesthetic resembles the Studio Ghibli style: Alternately graceful
and grotesque, Lady Amalthea’s furtive movements, eerily enlarged eyes, and deli-cate limbs link her visually with her uni-corn alter ego. The film’s richly painted backgrounds borrow from medieval tapes-tries, and Janet Maslin called the film’s climactic animation sequence “startling and lovely” in her 1982 New York Times review. In one particular standout chase sequence, the Red Bull was animated “in ones,” meaning that a new image was drawn for each frame, rather than every other frame. The resulting fluidity and vibrancy of the moving image may explain why those who watched the film as children always remember the Red Bull so vividly. According to Beagle, “While children are terrified by the Red Bull, they remember
the Red Bull; they come back to see it and be scared again.” One final aspect of the film that sticks with fans is its music. Rather than using their in-house music team, Rankin/Bass hired experienced songwriter Jimmy Webb, whose catalog included hits like “Up, Up and
Away” and “MacArthur Park,” to write original songs for the score, which was performed by 1970s folk-rock group America. Moreover, in a practice that is more or less unheard-of in commercial animated features, the film was scored before it was ani-mated, meaning that the flow of images was created to follow the music rather than the other way around. This gives the film a pecu-liarly dreamlike quality. According to Beagle, him-self a musician, Webb has
written that The Last Unicorn was his best experience working on a film. “It opened his work up to an entirely new audience of 7-year-old girls.” Even fans who grew up with an appreciation for these aspects of the movie, however, may not know its troubled history – or the fact that for three decades after the film’s release, Beagle made not a dime in royalties from the film’s theatrical, VHS, and DVD releases. The film was plagued with difficulties from its inception. First, the film had dif-ficulties finding a distributor, then the small distribution company that accepted the film, Jensen Farley, folded just 17 days after the film’s theatrical release. In those 17 days, the film earned $6.5 million at the box office; there is no way of know-ing how much the theatrical release actually grossed, since private the-atre owners undoubtedly kept run-ning the film and pocketing the profits long after the distributor’s demise. For 20 years, the film float-ed around on VHS released by British company ITC, which had acquired the film with 90 others in
the type of batch deal often used to get around paying royalties. Then, in 2004, there was the disastrous DVD release: a shoddy, fourth-generation transfer saddled with childish, oversimpli-fied cover art that Beagle’s business manag-er Connor Cochran describes as “My Little Pony on steroids.” Soon Wal-Mart, which stocked the movie at its checkout line, start-ed getting phone calls from mothers who had picked up the DVD for very young chil-dren based on the misleading cover art. They were particularly disturbed by three uses of the word “damn,” which Wal-Mart obligingly pressured Lionsgate Films, the new distribu-tor, to chop out of the soundtrack. All subse-quent releases of the film have kept the sanitized soundtrack in place; only a 2011
“I met – I always feel embarrassed by this word –
I met my fan base.” – writer Peter Beagle on
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Beagle’s fan base has always been strong in Austin. In fact, the first contem-porary screening of The Last Unicorn Beagle attended was at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek in October 2009. He was overwhelmed with the positive response from locals who bought out both the first show and an added-on second show. The feeling is mutual; Beagle calls the Drafthouse “the only civilized way to watch movies.” Now embarking on a cross-country tour with the film, Beagle and Cochran hope to introduce a new genera-tion of fans to the film. Asked about why the film continues to have such an impact, Beagle speculates: “There’s a lingering quality that I think it has. The fact that it’s a bittersweet sort of ending, which is the way I tend to work, stays with people. A lot of people come to me to talk about the ending, wishing there could be a perfectly happy ending but real-izing that it can’t be.” With long-delayed financial restitution, a taste of public recognition, and the accumu-lated love of a generation of fans, The Last Unicorn is getting something as close to a “perfectly happy ending” as such things can get. The only thing that could make it sweeter is a whole new chorus of children’s voices begging their parents to rent it just one more time. n
The Last Unicorn will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz on Sunday, June 2, at 1pm; Monday, June 3, at 7pm; and Tuesday, June 4, at 7pm. All screenings will be followed by a Q&A session with screenwriter Peter Beagle.
Blu-ray release offers a choice between the original and the doctored version. During these 30 years of crooked deals, corporate neglect, and plain bad luck, Beagle’s only earnings from the film besides an initial screenwriting fee came from over-seas video releases, which amounted to less than $4,000. When Cochran met Beagle in 2001, the author was in severe financial dis-tress, about to lose his house to foreclosure and, as Cochran puts it, “six weeks away from being homeless and almost penni-less.” Cochran began a decadelong fight to secure royalties for Beagle’s work, and in 2011 Beagle finally began to earn money from the film, along with some remunera-tions for the preceding years. Perhaps just as importantly, Cochran began dragging Beagle to conventions, where Beagle made an amazing discovery. For years he had assumed that his book and film, though moderate successes in their time, had been largely forgotten. “Peter kept track the way most writers keep track of their work, which is by the royalty checks,” Cochran explains. “The checks were not large, or in some cases existent, so he just assumed that it wasn’t selling.” This, as millions of fantasy readers, anime enthusiasts, and grownup girl-nerds can attest, was not the case. Beagle still sounds reverent when he talks about going to the 2011 New York Comic Con. “I met – I always feel embarrassed by this word – I met my fan base. I realized I had one.”
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Back in February, Chaos in Tejas proudly announced it had booked Queensbridge, N.Y., rap duo Mobb Deep to perform its 1995 album The Infamous. The duo then quietly ditched the music festival this weekend to headline a show Friday at Antone’s. With a vacancy in CiT’s hip-hop program, mostly one-man festival booker Timmy Hefner scored Internet sensation Antwon, who hits Hotel Vegas Sunday with gangsta rapper/noise producer Lil Ugly Mane, and Geto Boy Bushwick Bill, who’s spent much of the past four months in town readying a comeback album. Hefner also land-ed respected Long Island rapper Roc Marciano, who tops a bill tonight, Thursday, at the North Door that includes Queens spitter Meyhem Lauren. “I like to put hip-hop shows on the Thursday and Sunday of Chaos to break up all the punk and metal,” explains Hefner, who debuted his heavily curated matrix of one-of-a-kind talent in 2004 and added rap two years ago. “It goes
hand-in-hand with the heavier music we have because both make a really big statement.” Antwon, whose hefty voice draws constant comparisons to the Notorious B.I.G., tells “Playback” he’s wanted to attend CiT as a fan for years, and that his only concern about rap-ping at the predominantly extreme music fest
is that his set time might cause him to miss Infest, one of his favorite
hardcore bands. “I grew up in California
going to punk shows every weekend,” says the MC, whose February release In Dark Denim went nuts online. “That’s how I learned to put on a high-energy performance.” Indeed, footage on
YouTube finds Antwon sharing the microphone with
a screaming crowd at historic Bay Area punk venue the Gilman
as kids stage dive to his raps. “It’s street music,” offers Antwon. “That’s where punk and hip-hop came from. And the attitude for both is rebellious. Not with every type of hip-hop and punk band, but with the good shit.”
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Los Crudos at Chaos Martin Sorrondeguy should be counted among the most righteous frontmen in punk music history. With his Chicago hardcore band Los Crudos, which mangled guitar necks 1991-1998 and reforms this weekend to mangle minds at Chaos in Tejas, the Uruguayan native screamed en Español about issues facing disen-franchised Latinos. Later, in quintessential queercore band Limp Wrist, Sorrondeguy raged, “Fake fags in Hollywood don’t impress me/Try to demonstrate how I’m supposed to be!”
Austin Chronicle: What’s the extent of the Los Crudos reunion?Martin Sorrondeguy: It’s weird how these things happen, because we have no plan. We re-formed to raise money for a friend with cancer, but then decided to do a few more shows and ended up playing South America and Chicago. Then [Chaos founder] Timmy Hefner threw it out there that he’d like us to play Chaos again.AC: In your documentary, Behind the Screams, you describe how the political climate of the early Nineties made the Latino community feel targeted and cornered. How has that situation changed?MS: Not that long ago we saw Arizona lawmakers completely ignoring the Constitution and Latino’s civil rights. That stuff’s not going away. I look back and think about Crudos lyrics and realize they’re just as relevant today as the day we wrote them.AC: A ton of punk bands sing in Spanish now. How many were there when Los Crudos formed?MS: It was a relatively new approach to address punk in Spanish. When I was going to school in Chicago, we weren’t allowed to speak Spanish in school. We were being told to assimilate and be ashamed. We knew it was bullshit. That’s where Crudos stems from. We were told what we spoke was wrong, what we ate was wrong, who we were was wrong, and our response was, “Fuck you! There is nothing wrong with us.”AC: You’re among the best known homosexual punk singers, but Austin had its greats long before. Were you into the Dicks or the Big Boys growing up?MS: It always blew my mind they were from Texas, which has such a conservative reputation. It impressed me, like, “Man, these guys are really fucking with stuff.” Right now, I’m staring at original Dicks and Big Boys fliers, and they say “Kill the Klan,” “Commie rock,” “Faggot rock.” Holy shit. It’s intense! That was the Eighties! I’m not kidding: I’m looking at the flier right now! Man, they took a fucking stand and stuck to their guns. I love that!
Gimme Gimme Gimme Black Flag The crotchety old punks who saw Black Flag in the Eighties stood along the back with arms crossed as wiry youths provided a constant aerial assault of stage diving. Hardcore icons Greg Ginn (l), Ron Reyes, and a couple alternates played every old song the band’s fans wanted to hear and five new ones at Infest last Thursday. Rising above leery expectations, Black Flag’s proved that, unlike people, songs don’t mellow with age.
Hands on a Holodeck
What We Do Is Secret
Aside from obvious imports like Michigan noise terrorists Wolf Eyes and Portland, Ore., drone whisperer Grouper, the bulk of Chaos in Tejas’ experimental roster comes from Austin’s backyard. With a small number of boundary-pushing musicians mounting a large number of proj-ects, the local scene remains collaborative-ly incestuous, emi-nently creative, and, with the help of home-grown label Holodeck Records, extremely prolific. “There was this critical mass of cool music coming from our experimental scene, especially on the electronic side, that wasn’t being amplified enough,” says Jon Slade, who with four others formed the imprint last April and began releasing small runs of cas-sette tapes, which carry the advantage of
being inexpensive, collectable, and good for transferring analog music. “We’re not alone,” affirms co-founder Adam Jones, a multi-instrumentalist involved in five local bands. “There are hundreds of tape labels through-
out the country as more and more peo-ple are being reintro-duced to the format.” Much of Holodeck’s catalog has sold out, largely through inter-national online sales, and their first vinyl issue, Troller, an
exquisitely dark and bassy synth pop-project with badass beats, required a second press-ing almost immediately. Momentum, it seems, is on the side of this small local label that, as they build a reputation for themselves, can do the same for Austin’s experimental artists.
Holodeck at cit:ThursdAy: Survive, 8pm, Mohawk;
Troller, 12:40am, MohawkFridAy: Silent Land Time Machine,
8pm, Central Presbyterian ChurchsATurdAy: Thousand Foot Whale
Claw, 10:45pm, Holy Mountain
› Set your alarm to 11am on Saturday for a CiT breakfast show at Cheer Up Charlie’s. Along with Iron Lung, No Statik, Replica, and Common Fears, “vegan bacon cheeseburgers” have also been promised. As of press time, the Chronicle remains uncertain as to whether that’s referring to actual food or another obscure crust band.
› You don’t have to be homeless to hang out on the Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge all night. Head down to the Colorado River crosswalk after the bars close tonight, Thursday, to catch Krömosom, No Statik, and Long Knife. Joyce Manor, Power Trip, and Hoax play the same time on Friday.
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Damned, Damned, DamnedChaos in Tejas, forever extreme
The DamnedThu., 11:15pm, 1100 Warehouse “I didn’t think punk would last five min-utes to be honest,” emails the Damned’s manic guitarist, Captain Sensible. “I thought I’d be going back to cleaning toilets at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon.” There worked young “hippie with teeth” Ray Burns when co-worker Chris Millar returned from an audition in London, bear-ing severely cropped hair and a new stage name, Rat Scabies. Guitarist Brian James, responsible for Scabies’ haircut and name change, “had a vision of the future in which hippie haircuts were not going to play any part,” according to Burns. “I soon found out there was also a bassist vacancy,” he adds. That found Burns similarly transformed into Captain Sensible, and, alongside Draculoid vocalist Dave Vanian, the four became the most explosive and humorous wrecking machine in English punk rock. The first UK punk single (“New Rose”) on the UK’s first indie punk imprint (Stiff Records); the first UK punk LP (Damned Damned Damned); the first UK punks to play the U.S. in 1977; the first to split up in 1977 – and first to reform in 1978 – the Damned set the standard. They also became far more musically accomplished than other punks, imbuing prog, psych, and evolving songwriting on 1979’s third LP Machine Gun Etiquette into a legacy that’s continued to develop across their on-again/off-again career. “What I like about the UK ‘class of ’77’ is that the bands all sounded different, had their own version of punk,” writes Sensible. “Most members of ’77 bands had been at the Ramones’ London gig a year or so ear-lier. That kickstarted the whole scene. Theirs was a spectacular fusing of wall of noise, garage, and pop music. “But the Stranglers sounded nothing like the Buzzcocks, who were in turn quite dif-ferent to the Clash. We all agreed on one thing though, and that was that the old dinosaur acts like ELP and Yes were past their sell-by date and they could take their 20-minute drum solos and songs about wiz-ards and pixies and fuck right off. “I was lucky punk came along, as I wouldn’t have lasted long in a Seventies rock band. Not that I’d have wanted to. Me and punk were made for each other. It’s all about stretching yourself and mak-
ing something fabulous out of a mini-mum of fancy electronics, gizmos, and fancy studios.” Sensible advises that Chaos in Tejas audiences will be treated to a set “covering all periods of Damned history, including adrenaline-fueled punk, anthemic goth, and some psyched-out improvising to keep us on our toes musically.” Joining Sensible
and singer Vanian are longstanding mem-bers Monty Oxy Moron (keyboards), Pinch (drums), and Stu West (bass). Sensible also promises a trademark wardrobe he says still features the pink gorilla costume (“needs a wash, tho”) and 10 red berets he “purchased from a tourist shop near Paris Notre Dame Cathedral recently.” – Tim Stegall
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To paraphrase the grand finale of the Beatles’ Abbey Road (thanks again, Paul McCartney at the Erwin Center), “And in the end, the sounds you take are equal to the effort you make.” Austin’s final major music festival of the spring, Chaos in Tejas saves some of the very best for last. South by Southwest more or less places out of “fests,” but of the others – Old Settler’s, Psych Fest, Pachanga, etc. – much of the talent remains in known quantities. Conversely,
here at the Chronicle, Chaos pulls us down an editorial wormhole precisely because there’s so much that’s unknown to us and thus ripe and ready for exploration. From emerging hip-hop (see “Playback,” p.41) to young gal druids on their first tour (see “Music Listings,” p.62), Chaos in Tejas’ exclusive and international curat-ing of vanguard punk and metal begs discovery, immersion, and yes, complete and total mayhem. – Raoul Hernandez
HardcoreB y M i c h a e l T o l a n dThe Casualties (Thu., 9:10pm, 1100
Warehouse) NYC veterans blaze through latest LP Resistance with all two decades of muscle.
Cold World (Thu., 11:30pm, North Door) Hip-hop meets hardcore for a sweaty fuck session birthing a bouncing baby with power-chord hair and scratch-beat eyes.
Vaginors (Fri., 8:35pm, Mohawk) Adelaide screechcore preps the states for a Nuclear Papsmear.
Infernöh (Fri., 9:20pm, Mohawk; Sat., 7:15pm, 1100 Warehouse) Musclebound Swedish speed-punk with no subtlety and plenty of rage.
Terveet Kädet (Fri., 10:05pm, Mohawk) Finland’s first hardcore band remains as sav-
age on new LP Musta Hetki as when they first arrived 30 years ago.
Sudor (Sat., 8pm, 1100 Warehouse) Spain’s young hardcore unit makes new noise stateside.
Night Birds (Sat., 12:15am, Hotel Vegas; Sun., 6:15pm, Mohawk) Dick Dale meets Black Flag in this New Yawk/Joisey hybrid.
The Rival Mob (Sun., 5:15pm, Red 7) Boston traditionalist maintains a “Hardcore for Hardcore” worldview.
Final Conflict (Sun., 9:45pm, 1100 Warehouse) One of the original Eighties Cali ’core acts reunites the lineup of its classic debut Ashes to Ashes.
Asile (Sun., 1:15am, Beerland) Francophone melodicore from Ottawa, good for singing along even if you don’t speak French.
Parquet CourtsLight Up Gold (What’s your Rupture?) Andrew Savage might be familiar: He’s spent quite a bit of time playing with the fidgety, quippy, Denton rockers Fergus & Geronimo. A couple of years ago he moved to Brooklyn, hooked up with Austin Brown, and made Light Up Gold as Parquet Courts. It’s a Fergus-bred mainline of smarts, savvy, and soul-skimming honesty, like the deficient nutritional livelihood of making Swedish Fish a dinner (“Stoned and Starving”), or resigning to the fact that you’ll never be able to articulate yourself (“No Ideas”). It’s an album of brainy rock songs that state their claims then defiantly step out from beneath the ethereal haze. (Thu., 10:40pm, Red 7)HHHH – Luke Winkie
ATX Attack B y K e v i n c u R T i n
Survive (Thu., 8pm, Mohawk) Brooding tones, pulsing drum loops, and interwoven melodies make this synth quartet so dark they keep candles burning atop their retro analog gear.
Deep Time (Thu., 9pm, Mohawk) Lovably eclectic pop duo follows a similar path to singer Jennifer Moore’s past project Yellow Fever.
Mammoth Grinder (Fri., 6:30pm, 1100 Warehouse) A constant for Chaos, local punk/metal hybrid turns more brutal with every passing year.
Same Sac (Fri., 11pm, North Door) Tough-as-nails doom jazz played on two distorted bass guitars and Butthole Surfer King Coffey beating drums.
“I was lucky punk came along, as I wouldn’t have lasted long in a Seventies rock band.” – Captain Sensible
Spray Paint (Fri., 12mid, Beerland) Angular, noisy, bassless post-punk trio with surfy guitar leads and shout-along vox.
Criaturas (Sat., 3pm, Beerland) D-beat with Mexican-accented, Banshee-gal vocals and sweet dual guitar lead.
Concrete (Sat., 10:30pm, Red 7) Tough, growly, midtempo street punk with melodic guitar leads and red, white, and blue skinhead song themes.
Thousand Foot Whale Claw (Sat., 10:45pm, Holy Mountain) Effect-addicts throw a black-hole party with psychedelic drone.
Blotter (Sun., 6pm, Mohawk) Fast, disjointed, hardcore punk topped with vocals that rage.
Hatred Surge (Sun., 6pm, 1100 Warehouse)
Sometimes sludge, some-times blast, always brutal.
Kurraka (Sun., 10:15pm, Beerland) All-female elementary punk with dark tones and awesomely spazzy Spanish language vox.
The Hex Dispensers (Sun., 11:30pm, Mohawk) Blood-sucking power-pop quartet with dark wave progressions and ghostly garage intonations.
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The BatsThu., 12:30am, Red 7 Few 31-year-old acts put out new albums that equal the vitality of their best-known work. So how did beloved New Zealand proto-indie quartet the Bats crank out 2011’s Free All the Monsters, a front-to-back triumph that more than holds its own against mid-Eighties Flying Nun classics like “North by North”? “I don’t feel it has any particular link to earlier recordings,” says vocalist/guitarist Robert Scott of Monsters. “We try and look forward more than back.” For history’s sake, the Bats coalesced in 1982 in the wake of the Clean’s (temporary) demise. Scott and the Clean had relocated from Dunedin to Christchurch, where he met bassist Paul Kean, drummer Malcolm Grant, and guitarist/vocalist Kaye Woodward. The Bats’ lineup hasn’t changed since. Scott, who continues to perform with the Clean and has a solo album called The Green House coming out later this year, attributes the band’s longevity to long breaks and longer fuses. “When we get back together it’s fresh and fun,” he says. Nor has the Bats’ songwriting formula changed. Scott comes up with chords and a vocal idea, then the band develops the song collectively. “We always try and go for a good, natural sounding take,” Scott says. “Go for the essence of the tune.” The band’s penchant for melancholic, guitar-driven melodies met its visual match last year when they filmed a video for “Simpletons” in Christchurch’s city center, which was closed to the general public after
T h U r S dayBlank Realm9pm, Red 7 With Australia undergoing one of its rock renaissances, Blank Realm makes big noise Down Under. The co-ed quartet stands out with a psychedelic post-punk sound not eas-ily codified. Go Easy, the band’s third, arrived last year via hip British imprint Fire Records. – Michael Toland
Pinkish Black9:20pm, Red 7 Fort Worth’s Pinkish Black may break down to drums and synthesizers, but that does nothing to tell their story. Singer Daron Beck’s keyboard washes would work just as easily on guitar, and the duo’s melodic drone has as much in common with doom metal as Suicide. Last year’s self-titled LP, Pinkish Black’s second, sets up its Century Media debut this fall. – Michael Toland
UV Race9:50pm, Red 7 (also Friday, 12:45am, Beerland) Part of the loose collective of anti-professionals surrounding Australia’s short-lived but highly influential Eddy Current Suppression Ring, UV Race never lets an
uncertain grasp on arrangements or a tenu-ous hold on melody slow them down. Such cavalier attitudes to conventional notions of musicality – plus lyrics like “I’m a pig/Take a swig/Oink oink oink oink!” – give the cheeky sextet considerable charm. – Michael Toland
DiiV10pm, Mohawk Only last spring, DIIV stakeholder Zachary Cole Smith was playing guitar with go-nowhere indie poppers Beach Fossils. A few singles from a solo side project later, the NYC songwriter suddenly had one of the biggest names in indie. Last year’s sunny, disarming Oshin barely qualifies as more than glorified studio jams, but you can’t argue with easy endorphins. – Luke Winkie
The maRkeD men10:10pm, 1100 Warehouse (also Friday, 1am, Red 7) Denton’s southern-fried sons of the Buzzcocks support pioneering UK punks the Damned, which means the Damned, great as they are, will have to work that much harder. The Marked Men are notorious for laying audi-ences to waste with insane energy and tune-ful aggression – pure pop acceleration for pogo pit casualties. – Tim Stegall
a devastating 2011 earthquake. Although Scott now lives back in Dunedin, the destruction in the so-called “red zone” affected him. “Seeing what the damage was like was quite scary to say the least,” he says. “Depending on who you speak to, there’s a range of answers as to how the place is doing, but I do think the people have found the strength to deal with it and carry on.” – Greg Beets
How did beloved New Zealand proto-indie quartet the Bats crank out 2011’s Free All the Monsters, a front-to-back triumph holding its own against mid-Eighties Flying Nun classics like “North by North”? Mobile?
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Baronesssat., 10:45pm, Mohawk Last August in England, on its first dates supporting tour de force third album Yellow & Green, Baroness’ bus plunged off a via-duct and nearly killed everyone aboard (www.baronessmusic.com/update-from-baroness). Almost a year later, the Georgia-born heavy rock quartet counts Chaos in Tejas as the seventh of 18 shows on its first U.S. trek in support of the double disc. We spoke to group leader, guitarist, and graphic artist John Dyer Baizley for nearly an hour about the incident, a full transcript of which can be viewed at austinchronicle.com/blogs/music. – Raoul Hernandez
AC: Given what you’ve been through and your continued healing, do you have any trepidation about what will come up natu-rally in writing again? Like, “Gee, the wounds are just now healing, do I really want to poke back at it?”JDB: Yeah … that’s, that’s who I am. That’s who we are, anyway. We’ve got to poke back at it. That’s always what we’ve done in this band. We’ve never shied away from the hard truths. I don’t think now’s the time to shy away from it. If anything, now’s the time to really take a look. It wouldn’t serve any purpose to push that any further down the road. Who knows? Who knows what will
come out in our songwriting? Certainly we’ve had to take a break – from touring and writing and all that. We’re just now get-ting back to it. I wouldn’t say that I’m fear-ful about what’s going to come out of us next. In fact, I’m kinda excited to get to the point where it’s time to tackle these sub-jects. Time to write songs about what we’ve been through – recently.AC: What level of post-traumatic stress dis-order have you experienced? They use that term for war, but it’s likely the same for any cataclysmic event.JDB: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, look, the short and simple truth of it is that we all came within a microsecond of dying. That’s going to change you, if it’s through post-traumatic stress or whatever. I can only speak for myself, but there are definitely psychological effects. I’m very aware of them. It’s not like I don’t understand where they’re coming from or why I’m having them, but they’re present. They’re frustrat-ing. It’s almost to the point of dull annoy-ance – constant annoyance sometimes. And sometimes a little less subtle than that, but it’s there. Obviously, it’s different from somebody that’s been in war, but our guitar player, Pete [Adams], has also been through war. He served in the U.S. military – and was injured. So he’s been able to help me have some initial perspective on the way that ball rolls downhill. As such, I’ve been aware of it. I’ve been ready for it as much as one can be, but that doesn’t mean you can stop it. It’s a very strange, unpredictable thing, the PTSD, because you can’t pre-envision things in the right way to stop them from happening. You can only accept it as it’s happening and try to understand it.
“The short and simple truth of it is that we all came within a microsecond of dying.”
– John Dyer Baizley
S aT U r daymeRchanDise8:15pm, cheer up charlie’s Tampa, Fla., rarely earns distinction as a hotbed of alternative music, but Merchandise has become one of the primary faces of 2013’s indie-rock fresh-men. In bleary Eighties color and detached Nineties airiness, the trio writes melan-choly tunes that warm to the ears. This year’s Totale Nite EP plays like an infinite, artificial sunset. – Luke Winkie
low cUlTURe10:45pm, hotel vegas Las Cruces, N.M., gutterballs Low Culture ripped a hole in their ratty jeans when the quartet released its debut Screens on the mighty Dirtnap Records in January. The 14-track LP pushes an agenda as fiery as Aussies Royal Headache’s, with segues from song to song that will make you want to take up the drums. – Chase Hoffberger
Puncture WoundsB y G R e G B e e T sThe Impalers (Thu., 7pm, 1100 Warehouse)
Local Mammoth Grinder/Hatred Surge offshoot beefs up hardcore rage with pulverizing metallic land speed.
Long Knife (Fri., 9:40pm, Red 7; Sat., 4:15pm, Beerland) Surly hardcore quartet from Portland, Ore., celebrates delinquency with Sabbath nods and apeshit vocal fury.
Stab (Sat., 3:45pm, Red 7) Impressive London quartet rails against better living through pharmaceuticals between tell-tale bleats of low-rent feedback.
Cut Hands (Sun., 11:15pm, North Door) After pioneering post-punk with Essential Logic and electronic noise with Whitehouse, Cut Hands finds Edinburgh-based William Bennett mining industrialized African rhythms.
JapanB y l u K e W i n K i eSete Star Sept (Thu., 11:30pm, Holy
Mountain) Noise-infused grindcore from Tokyo will clock 15 songs in 15 minutes.
The Novice (Fri., 5pm, Beerland) Scuzzy, scraped-knee garage-rock from a Mito fourpiece.
Strange Factory (Fri., 10:25pm, Red 7) Hardcore styles with enough cultural prescience to name a recent album Fukushima Nightmare.
Palm (Fri., 12:15am, Hotel Vegas) Grizzly, brown-note hardcore from a quartet that’s evidently into Trash Talk.
Framtid (Sat., 11:50pm, 1100 Warehouse) Overpowering D-beat masochism from Osaka.Abigail (Sun., 11pm, Red 7) Long-running black
metal outfit dub themselves “the most evil band in Japan.”
The MenNew Moon (sacred Bones) Great albums have arcs. They have beginnings and ends, crescen-dos and centerpieces. They catch you off guard, make you remember every song, and queue up on your Spotify, in your car, and on your phone. Fourth LP New Moon finds Brooklyn fivepiece the Men shed-ding five years of crashing and burning within the first seven seconds of lead track “Open the Door.” Acoustic guitars come into play this round, along with pia-nos and harmonicas (“Bird Song”), shared vocals (“Half Angel Half Light”), and contained chaos (“The Brass”). It’ll evoke memories of Wilco’s Being There (“Open the Door”), GNR around Lies (“The Seeds”), and Neil Young doing “Big Time” (“Freaky”). 2014 marks anoth-er Year of the Horse. (Fri., 12:15am, Red 7)HHHH – Chase Hoffberger
F r I dayminD sPiDeRs5:45pm, Beerland With Denton punk legacies the Marked Men getting chaotic Thursday and Friday, guitar sniper Mark Ryan ropes in his diaboli-cal offshoot. “Four-track hiss radiates a sci-fi glow, with double-tracked drums and weirdo-ripping guitar hooks that stick like gum to hot cement” wrote this mag about the quartet’s red-hot 2011 debut, followed up last year by another Meltdown. – Raoul Hernandez
magic ciRcle7:10pm, 1100 Warehouse Magic Circle ties together several Boston bands, including the Rival Mob, No Tolerance, Step Forward, Mind Eraser, and World War 4. The most common of those threads is Chris Corry, who finds the Sabbath doom metal this band proffers a relaxing way to start a bruis-ing weekend of amplifier and cochlea abuse. – Michael Toland
silenT lanD Time machine 8pm, central Presbyterian church Last year’s I Am No Longer Alone With Myself and Can Only Artificially Recall the Scary and Beautiful Feeling of Solitude proved a real mouthful, but the music soothes. Stretching six songs and 27 minutes, SLTM’s second EP finds the local loner falling in line with fellow chamber-pop instrumentalists Balmorhea. – Chase Hoffberger
wiccans11:00pm, Mohawk Half Austin, half Denton, all violent, Wiccans force-feed hardcore attitude down the throats of medium-speed punk rock with lyrics soaked in occult science fiction and guitar riffs angling for catchiness as much as dissonance. Think of Wiccans as the punk Blue Öyster Cult. – Michael Toland
BolT ThRoweR11:30pm, 1100 Warehouse German bombers almost leveled Coventry in World War II. No wonder the UK death masters absorbed the darker spirit of their hometown’s blitz. Forever honored as John Peel’s favorite grinders, Bolt Throwers burn through 27 years of not splitting up and eight since last barrage Those Once Loyal, an album so batteringly exqui-site that these hammering leviathans have con-scientiously objected to sullying their war record with a lesser attack. – Richard Whittaker
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PARAMOUNT SUMMER SERIES Things are just starting to heat up outside which means it’s time for air conditioned flicks in Austin’s historic theatre. Friday has two double features with Bullitt and Cool Hand Luke at Stateside at the Paramount. Jezebel and Ni-notchka show in the main theatre. Fri. May 31, 7-11:30pm. www.austintheatre.org/film
ESTHER’S FOLLIES Musical comedy skits, magic, and a political satirical revue with the bustling backdrop of Sixth Street on view through the stagefront window! And now the gang’s getting merry in the month of May with “Guns and Texas” and “Goin’ Postal” and “The King of DC” and more – new sketches and clas-sics skewering White House shenanigans, gun-control legislation, Martha Stewart, and more, bringing the laughs all night long. Bonus: The large-scale illusions and arch antics of magician Ray Anderson. Reservations recommended. Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. Esther’s Pool, 525 E. Sixth, 512/320-0553. $22-27. www.esthersfollies.com
Violent WorldB y G R e G B e e T sViolent Affair (Thu., TBA, Beerland)
A “live today/fuck tomorrow” ethos, this Oklahoma City quintet expands on tourmates the Casualties.
Violent Future (Sat., 3pm, Red 7) Scoff at the botched fills if you must, but these screaming miscreants from Toronto defy hard-core convention.
Violent End (Sat., 3pm, Beerland) Chicago-bred quartet slings hard-boiled Midwestern hardcore that pins you to the wall.
International MetalB y M i c h a e l T o l a n dBenediction (Thu., 12:45am, Red 7) British
death metal vets were the original home to Napalm Death roarer Barney Greenway.
Cruciamentum (Fri. 9:35pm, 1100 Warehouse) Old-school death metal crunge from Merry Olde England.
Morbosidad (Sat., 11pm, Red 7) Transplanted to Oakland, Morbosidad keeps its Mexico City origins embedded in its demonic black metal.
Left for Dead (Sat., 12mid, Red 7; Sun., 9pm, 1100 Warehouse) Reunited metallic HC crew descends from Ontario to thrash new comp LP Devoid of Everything.
Akitsa (Sat., 1am, Red 7) Deep, dark, black metal with a crust-punk edge from this Francophone Montreal death squad.
World War 4 (Sun., 4:30pm, Red 7) Ottawa thrash brigade throws a Bush Bash.
Mitochondrion (Sun., 10pm, Red 7) Vancouver death-metal beast celebrates 10th birthday with new 7-inch Antinumerology.
Absusun., 12mid, Red 7 Absu holds hidden knowledge, the Dallas-reared, mystical black met-allers more secret order than band. While rhythmic pounder Proscriptor McGovern wasn’t a founding force, his discipline and devotion bound them together through two decades of shifting ordinants. References to arcane texts aren’t just set dressing, but rather a life-long study for McGovern. From age 12, he immersed himself in ancient lore and modern conjuration, call-ing the Typhonian Trilogies by 20th century mystic Kenneth Grant “a favorite inspiration of mine.” “I then became beguiled by the tracing of our ancestral attribu-tions,” he writes. “Mainly Scotch/Irish, which formulated the lyrical conceptions of Celtic lore.” When the urge to reincarnate Absu emerged in 2007, he attempted to summon semi-nal members and co-celebrants of 2001 masterwork Tara, guitarists Shaftiel and Equitant Ifernain. “[They] didn’t show any interest, which was perfectly fine. So yes, it was definitely start-ing over as a new band.” It took failed experiments with four guitarists until he found “the perfect union for live performances.” Joined in the ritual by guitarist Vis Crom and bassist Ezezu, McGovern’s studies have shifted from Northern Europe to Sumeria. Those secrets now lie in the midst of a three-album invocation – Absu, Abzu, and the foretold Apsu – unleashed in part in the trio’s second-ever video, the chthonic and Chthonian “Hall of the Masters,” released through Adult Swim’s William Street Records. Its swirling tentacles and dark summoning result from surprising inspiration. “The folks at Adult Swim decided to create a video for that song, so it is more their video than an Absu video,” emails the drummer. “With a slight dash of my approval.” – Richard Whittaker
S U n dayThe RaTs 9:40pm, Mohawk A lost chapter in Fred Cole’s long musical his-tory, the Rats began as Cole and wife Toody’s predecessor to the much-beloved Dead Moon. Inspired by punk rockers like the Ramones, the Coles and various drummers stripped down and jacked up a distinct garage rock sound. The trio’s LPs languish in limbo, but this rare appearance outside the Pacific Northwest should change that. – Michael Toland
saTan’s saTyRs 11pm, Red 7 These Northern Virginians combine the frenzied aesthetic of Sixties exploitation flicks with the dark abandon of Seventies scuzz-rock and the no-futurism of Eighties L.A. punk. The trio’s gut-churning debut LP, Wild Beyond Belief, makes falling from grace sound like a stone blast. From puking Mogen David on shag carpet to acid-induced fits of parakeet-eating, this is the sound of subur-ban Saturday nights gone awry. – Greg Beets
Domestic Metal B y M i c h a e l T o l a n d
Lotus Fucker (Thu., 10:45pm, Holy Mountain) D.C.-area grindcore beast proves that being straight-edge and vegan makes you just as mean.
Iron Lung (Fri., 8:50pm, 1100 Warehouse) Seattle grindcore explosion returns for another round of chaos fol-lowing SXSW.
Tragedy (Fri., 10:30pm, 1100 Warehouse) Memphis-to-Portland transplants beat hardcore to death while warn-ing of Darker Days Ahead.
Gag (Fri., 11:30pm, Hotel Vegas) Olympia punk-metal featuring
grinding riffs and a vocalist two steps from the loony bin.
Full of Hell (Fri., 1am, Hotel Vegas) Furious Pennsylvania/Maryland grindcore outfit preps Rudiments of Mutilation LP for summer.
Integrity (Sat., 1am, Red 7) Veteran deathcore from Cleveland via Belgium as accompanied by a Suicide Black Snake.
Anhedonist (Sun., 9pm, Red 7 Inside) Seattle gloom spawned this blackened doom combo moving inexorably Netherwards.
Eternal Champion (Sun., 9:30pm, Red 7) Splitting membership between ATX’s Iron Age and H-town’s Venomous Maximus, this epic metal act resides in the Moorcockian universe from which it takes its name.
Speedwolf (Sun., 10:15pm, Red 7) Denver thrash & roll in the vein of Motorhead and Zeke.
Infest (Sun., 10:45pm, 1100 Warehouse) L.A. metallic hardcore pioneer playing first shows in more than 20 years.
Andy StottLuxury Problems (Modern love) Manchester producer Andy Stott might be an egghead, the sort of buttoned-up auteur concerned with how sound can be stretched or turned around, but third effort Luxury Problems has its priorities straight with its shifting, grayscale noise, sometimes sharpened, siphoned, or chopped off at the neck. The woolly vocal sample that spearheads “Numb” or the compressed, stair-stepping nudge that makes the title track a banger prove Stott’s genius rises from a perturbing deftness, turn-ing indifferent, everyday sound into a singular artistic statement. What a sublime hush of an album. Your iPhone dreams about this music. (Sat., 12:45am, Holy Mountain)HHHH – Luke Winkie
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undermine reality in the dis-tance. The esoteric “Druglore” drones and pulsates like a cho-rus of hallucinogenic night crea-tures. (Fri., Red 7, 11:25pm)HHH – Greg Beets
Krömosom Live Forever (Southern Lord) From Melbourne with rancor, Krömosom’s blurry hardcore stains the walls with layers of grime and filth. This artifact collection wastes no time on subtlety, exploding with ferocity and getting more teeth-gnashing from there. “Paranoid,” “Are You Free?,” and “Hysteria” grind out thick crust that would wither a redwood. The title cut slows down just enough to crush every boulder in its path. Such relent-less fury has its cost: Even at 23 minutes, the disc gets old before its time. Yet musical appeal ain’t the point. Nailing an unfiltered expression of rage to your forehead is. (Sat., 8:45pm, 1100 Warehouse)HHHn – Michael Toland
Rotten Sound Species at War (Relapse) If Rotten Sound singer Keijo Niinimaa looks familiar, it’s because he screamed through Chaos in Tejas last year with Nasum, the iconic Swedish grindcore crew whose found-ing frontman, the late Mieszko Talarczyk, died in Thailand during the 2004 tsunami. The Vaasa, Finland, native leads his original outfit through January EP Species at War, the four-some’s 13th release since 1993. Unloading six songs in eight minutes, its second track, “The Game,” is the only deviant from the grindcore script, its introductory riff more akin to stoner metal until Niiminaa’s howl breaks through 22 seconds later, “scorched by wrath/razed through divinity.” Rotten Sound finds “Peace” alone. (Sat., 9:30pm, Mohawk)HHH – Chase Hoffberger
Coliseum Sister Faith (Temporary Residence) Doomy trappings disappear out of this Kentucky trio’s barn for fourth LP Sister Faith. Metallic hardcore still gallops in short, sharp, steely blasts on a pair of two-minute openers, but Nineties grunge-dripping Seaweed now coats Ryan Patterson’s punk heroes. More extreme exhales the five-minute push/pull of “Love Under Will,” with its Joy Division bassline and siren riff relieving the pummel that segues into the BÖC-like best chorus of “Under the Blood of the Moon” and taut, insistent “Used Blood,” a pulse-quickener gnashing akin to the Foo Fighters’ red-line debut. Freight yard guitars, “Black Magic Punks,” and room to breathe – Coliseum expands. (Sat., 12:45am, Mohawk)HHHHn – Raoul Hernandez
M U S I C REVIEWS
Iceage You’re Nothing (Matador) This Danish quartet writes toothy, blackened, and thor-oughly foreign two-minute punk songs that escape classifica-tion in any niche. Matador signed them, international tours roll regularly, and a number of stoic, antagonistic interviews have been written in their honor. Sophomore effort You’re Nothing remains a people’s album nonetheless. More than any rainy, apocalyptic hardcore, Iceage owns the craft of rampaging, chugga-chugga guitar hooks. Chain-breaking, neck-snapping lead single “Ecstasy” has its name for a reason. We all want to feel violent and invincible sometimes. For a band with so many fascinating implications, You’re Nothing’s catchiness shouldn’t be overlooked. (Thu., 8:20pm, 1100 Warehouse)HHHHn – Luke Winkie
Power Trip Manifest Decimation (Southern Lord) Blazing out of Dallas like a kaiju armed with amp stacks and Jackson guitars, Power Trip busts down doors and stomps spinal chords with Manifest Decimation. The quintet’s first LP brandishes muscle at the easiest provocation, bench-pressing power chords like rolls of paper towels and ripping T-shirts through sheer machismo. The blazing chug of “Crossbreaker” stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the hair-swinging thrash of “Heretic’s Fork,” blades unsheathed and bones piling at their feet. If Slayer ever decides to abandon its path to destruction, Power Trip is ready to step into those bloody boots without missing a beat(down). (Thu., 10:55pm, Red 7) HHH – Michael Toland
Grouper The Man Who Died in His Boat (Kranky) Grouper, the project of Portlander Liz Harris, has ruptured decrepit, blind ambience for almost a decade, but 2008’s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill arrived slightly askew. Deciduous, misty, and undeniably folky, it brooded like the rest, but strummed instead of bleated, like a country ghost story. The Man Who Died in His Boat summons that same murk. Spanning glacial, lonely instrumentals (“Being Her Shadow”) and muffled Americana (“Vital,”), this abyss proves worthwhile. (Fri., 10pm, Central Presbyterian Church)HHHHn – Luke Winkie
Framtid Defeat of Civilization (Crust War/Black Water) Raw doesn’t begin to describe the long-awaited new full-length from these Japanese crust vets. The guitars sound like someone stole the copper wires out of the pickups and ran the cable through three broken distortion pedals with every knob turned past 10. Drummer Shin takes center stage, new songs introduced by dizzying rolls that snap back to breakneck D-beats, over which singer Makino’s deep roar remains vis-ceral. Defeat of Civilization also demonstrates musical growth with songs running longer (two minutes) than on Framtid’s four earlier releases, which allows for ripping, four-note guitar solos. While showcasing the powerful battle cries that made 2002’s Under the Ashes an instant hardcore classic, it feeds on inten-sity and passion, making a return 11 years later no letdown. (Fri., 11pm, Mohawk; Sat., 11:55pm, 1100 Warehouse)HHH – Kevin Curtin
Destruction Unit Void (Jolly Dream) These Arizona practitioners of high-desert noise-punk take drought resistance to a new level. As a SXSW set on the Beerland porch demonstrated, Destruction Unit’s feedback-inflamed warble thrives in scorching daylight. Void may not capture the sweat-spurting transcendence of the band’s live shows, but it allows listeners to step inside the dark psyche-delic arts at the heart of their sonic attack. “Evil Man” thunders down back roads at ramming speed as atmospheric tracers
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Screaming Females Chalk Tape (Don Giovanni Records) During a SXSW day party last year, Titus Andronicus singer Patrick Stickles followed up fellow New Jersey rock squad
Screaming Females’ breakneck set by call-ing chief screamer Marissa Paternoster and the trio’s overfueled sound the perfect bal-ance between immense pain and euphoric pleasure. Consider Chalk Tape reinforcement. Crafted conceptually through chalkboard wish lists rather than practice-room improvisation-al culls, the New Brunswick crew’s second EP and seventh official release drops a jaded “Wrecking Ball” on seven unique songs, with breakneck pacers “Crushing the Kingdom” and “Poison Arrow” flattening landscapes for low-key middlemen “Bad Men” and “Into the Sun.” The EP’s closer “Green Vapors,” a 1:47 blast of Nineties alt-rock, sounds stripped from A Giant Dog’s Bone. (Sun., 6:55pm, Mohawk)HHH – Chase Hoffberger
Lower Walk on Heads EP (Escho) Copenhagen’s become a hot spot for fero-cious, glass-and-nails hardcore. A quartet of angry young Danes, Lower has a vintage charge with waterlogged intensity that’s dangerously unwieldy in the most seductive ways. Deadened bass, brittle guitars, and cadaver vocals cross-pollinate with a distinct-ly 21st century brand of isolated angst. Walk On Heads shoots straight for eight minutes, but it’s one of the most convincing eight min-utes on this planet. From the knuckle-drag-ging “Craver” to the subtly groovy “Pictures of Passion,” Lower’s the only target in sight. (Sun., 11:30pm, Holy Mountain)HHHHn – Luke Winkie
Wolf Eyes No Answer: Lower Floors (De Stijl) Strange to think that in the teeming network of noise musicians only one band has ever achieved something approximating crossover success. Wolf Eyes, the long-run-ning project of three Michigan troublemak-ers, has ruptured conventions for nearly two decades with loud, uncompromising pay-loads of absolute discord. Things are differ-ent on No Answer: Lower Floors. Wolf Eyes play things a little softer, focusing more on the creep than fear. The spartan, glassy-eyed chant of “Choking Flies” and bounding emptiness of “Confession of the Informer” are still creepy, and still singular, yet entire-ly different. It speaks to their talent that an anti-Wolf Eyes album sounds just like a Wolf
Eyes album. (Sun., 10:30pm, Holy Mountain)HHH – Luke Winkie
Manilla Road Mysterium (Shadow Kingdom) Thirty-five years on, Manilla Road keeps its loins girded and sword loose in the scabbard on its 16th LP. Guitarist/songwriter Mark Shelton and his Wichita, Kan., combo don’t mess with their perfected formula: epic, rifftastic ironmongers that sound as timeless now as they would accompanying a Saxon invasion. Melody paces might even in the most brutal of crunchers (“Only the Brave”), giving the burliest anthems (“The Battle of Bonchester Bridge”) dragon wings. With such a dedication to tunefulness, it’s no wonder the acoustic “The Fountain” lilts startlingly lovely. (Sun., 11:45pm, Red 7)HHHHn – Michael Toland
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The Department of Agriculture reported recently that in four of America’s largest cities – New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Denver – nearly one home out of 100 keeps chickens either for a fresh egg supply or as pets, giving rise to chicken services such as Backyard Poultry magazine, MyPetChicken.com and Julie Baker’s Pampered Poultry store. Among the most popular products are strap-on cloth diapers for the occasions when owners bring their darlings indoors, i.e., cuddle their “lap chickens.” Also popular are “saddles” for roosters, to spare hens mating injuries – owing to roosters’ brutal horniness, sometimes costing hens most or all of their back feathers from a single encounter.
Government in Action “Consider all the ways we’re taxed,” wrote Maryland’s community Gazette in April – when we’re born, die, earn income, spend it, own property, sell it, attend entertainment venues, operate vehicles, and pass wealth along after death, among others. Maryland has now added a tax on rain. To reduce stormwater runoff into the Chesapeake Bay, the Environmental Protection Agency assessed the state $14.8 billion, which the state will collect starting in July by taxing “impervious surfaces” – any land area in its 10 largest counties that cannot directly absorb rainwater, such as roofs, driveways, patios, and sidewalks. The Washington Post reported in April that the federal government is due to spend $890,000 this year to safeguard ... nothing. The amount is the total fees for maintaining more than 13,000 short-term bank accounts the government owns but which have no money in them and never again will. Closing the accounts is easier said than done, according to the watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste, because the accounts each housed separate government grants, and Congress has required that, before the accounts are closed, the grants must be for-mally audited – something bureaucrats are rarely motivated to do, at least within the 180 days set by law (though there is no penalty for missing the deadline).
It’s good to be the county administrator of Alameda County, Calif. (on San Francisco Bay, south of Oakland). The San Francisco Chronicle revealed in March that somehow, Susan Muranishi negotiated a contract that pays her $301,000 a year, plus “equity pay” of $24,000 a year so that she makes at least 10 percent more than the next highest paid official, plus “longevity pay” of $54,000 a year, plus a car allowance – and that she will be paid that total amount per year as her pension for life (in addition to a private pension of $46,000 a year that the county purchased for her). The Way Washington Works: 1) Congress established a National Helium Reserve in 1925 in the era of “zeppelin” balloons, but most consider it no longer useful (most, that is, ranging from President Reagan to the Democratic congressman who, in 1996, called it one program that, if we cannot undo it, “we cannot undo anything”). The House of Representatives recently voted 394-1 to contin-ue funding it because of “fears” of a shortage that might affect MRI machines and, of course, party balloons. 2) In rare (these days) biparti-san action, congressional military “experts” of both parties are about to force the Army to continue building Abrams tanks – when the Army said it doesn’t want them and can’t use them. The tank manufacturers, of course, have convinced Congress that it needs the con-tracts, no matter what the Army says (accord-ing to an April Associated Press analysis).
GreAt Art! The Jewish Museum in Berlin is currently staging what has become popularly known as the “Jew in the Box” exhibit to teach visitors about Judaism – simply featuring one knowl-edgeable Jewish person who sits in a chair in a glass box for two hours a day and answers questions from the curious. Both supporters (“We Germans have many insecurities when it comes to Jews”) and critics (“Why don’t they give him a banana and a glass of water (and) turn up the heat?”) are plentiful. The weather in Hong Kong on April 25 wreaked havoc on American artist Paul McCarthy’s outdoor, 50-foot-tall piece of “inflatable art” in the West Kowloon Cultural District. “Complex Pile” (a model of an arrangement of excrement) got punctured, which mostly pleased McCarthy’s critics since his recent work, reported the South China Morning Post, has often centered around bodily functions.
Police rePort “News of the Weird” has reported several times on the astonishing control that inmates have at certain prisons in Latin American countries, with drug cartel leaders often enjoying lives nearly as pleasurable as their lives on the outside. However, accord-ing to an April federal indictment, similar problems have plagued the City Detention Center in Baltimore, where members of the “Black Guerrilla Family” operated with impu-nity. Between 2010 and 2012, corruption was such that 13 female guards have now been charged, including four women who bore the children of the gang’s imprisoned leader, Tavon White. Cell phones, drugs, and Grey Goose vodka were among the smug-gled-in contraband, and the indictment charges that murders were ordered from inside. (Baltimore City Paper had reported 14 stories in 2009 and 2010 on the gang-related corruption at the center, but appar-ently state and federal officials had failed to be alarmed.) Frequent Flyers: 1) Chicago police have arrested Ms. Shermain Miles, 51, at least 396 times since 1978, under 83 different aliases, for crimes ranging from theft (92 times) to prostitution and robbery. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, she is a virtuoso at “playing the system” to delay her proceedings and avoid jail time. 2) Alvin Cote, 59, passed away in February of poor health in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, following a “career” of 843 public-intoxication arrests. Somewhat Backwards DUI: Danielle Parker was hospitalized and awaiting DUI charges after a crash near Gaston, N.C., in March, even though she had been in the passenger seat of the car. She had handled the wheel momentarily because Brittany Reinhardt, 19, in the driver’s seat, was busy texting. (Reinhardt, apparently sober, was charged with “aiding and abetting” a DUI.)
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TheaTreOpeningJ THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE Capital T Theatre’s Mark Pickell is trying to bring about the thespian Singularity, maybe, by having Lowell Bartholomee, Joey Hood, and Jason Liebrecht working the stage at the same time. And that trio’s only part of the killer cast for Martin McDonagh’s twisted black comedy about the trail-of-vengeance mayhem that ensues when some fool dares to kill an Irish terrorist’s cat. “Warning,” says a note in the press release, “Graphic Violence and Gunshots.” Yeah, no shit. Thu.-Sat., May 30-June 22, 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, 512/479-7529. $15-30. www.capitalt.org.AVENUE Q You know this isn’t a children’s show, right? You know this Tony-winning Broadway musical is about as sexed-up and queercentric as puppets can get, right? Well, open Sesame, here comes the singing, dancing, puppet-boinking show of the season, as presented by the folks at Austin Theater Project. May 30-June 2: Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. June 7-16: Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 3pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 800/838-3006. $25-30 ($20, students). www.austintheatreproject.org.30 DATES IN 60 MINUTES Lucky Chaos Theater, because they can never be too busy, also debuts this new show featuring 30 extremely short plays about “the good, bad, and downright ugly of dating in the 21st century.” So, ah, after the show – you wanna grab a coffee somewhere? Or maybe, I dunno, jump right into some velvet-lined sex pit? Fri.-Sat., June 1-8, 10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/474-7886. $5 (+ roll-of-dice, so maybe it’s free). www.luckychaos.com.JOAN OF ARC, THE NIGHT BEFORE Daniela Palu selli’s one-act monologue portrays the eponymous saint on the night before she gets burned at the stake. Sat., June 1 & 22, 6:30pm. Boyd Vance Theatre at the Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina, 512/974-4926. $20 ($15, students, military). www.joanofarcthenightbefore.com.NORMAL LIKE US! THE DEPRESSION CHRONICLES Lucky Chaos Theater invites guest artists to use monologue, music, humor, and drama to present the realities of life with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other mental-health conditions. Tonight: Emily Breedlove, Jeff Luna, Eddie Lehwald, Ann Sauder, and Tyler Mabry. Sat., June 1, 10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/474-7886. $10. www.luckychaos.com.INSPIRO FEST Here’s an afternoon brimming with eclectic artstuff. Five original 10-minute plays written and performed by local artists; musical performances by Meagan Jacobsen and Hillie Lyman; visual art, dance performances, stand-up comedy, beat-boxing, and a festival-capping performance by the genre-defying art-ist ExStus. If that’s not enough creative modern bohe-mia for you, Austinite, you’ll have to wait ’til Burning Man. Sat., June 1, 1-7pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 512/553-1878. $12 ($10, in advance). www.btruarts.com.
J THE DIONYSIUM: SPACE The monthly conflagra-tion of intellectual and wine-swilling entertainment takes on the final frontier – in fact, there’s a debate
to decide if space truly is “the final frontier.” As hosts LB Deyo and Buzz Moran calibrate the crowd, a galaxy of presentations will put all this star stuff into human perspective. You can also count on a fine cartoon from Lance Myers, and Graham Reynolds will be pro-viding the live music. Mind the attack ships, though – they may well be on fire off the shoulder of Orion. Wed., June 5, 7pm. Alamo Village, 2700 W. Anderson, 512/459-7090. $10. www.dionysium.com.CIRCUS GIRL This is the debut production from Hat Tree Theatricals. It’s a near-Brechtian epic with dance and music in which the eponymous young woman embarks on a journey through the troubled yet beautiful world of 1890s America. Ah, the Chicago World’s Fair! Ah, a lively cast and crew! Written and directed by Rocky Hopson and starring Michelle Keffer as Circus Girl. Thu.-Sun., June 6-16, 7:30pm. Museum of Human Achievement, Springdale & Lyons. 512/663-2648. $10-25 (pay what you can, Thursdays). www.thehattreetheatricals.com..SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY Here’s the new touring musical comedy that “brings all the naughty fun of the bestselling book to life.” Thu.-Sat., June 6-8, 8pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 512/457-5100. $39 and up. www.thelongcenter.org.SHIPWRECKED! The Pulitzer-winning playwright Donald Margulies wrote this 19th-century maritime adventure based on actual events, and here it’s brought to life by three actors for Penfold Theatre’s latest production out in Round Rock. Thu.-Sat., June 6-29, 8pm. Round Rock Amphitheater, 301 W. Bagdad. 512/850-4849. Free. www.penfoldtheatre.org.
ClOsingAN OBVIOUSLY FOGGOT Bastion Carboni and his Poison Apple Initiative present the return of this “collision of scenes, mashed-up pop songs, and dance parties about internalized homophobia in gay bars and what happens when a haven is … a little less than safe.” Ahem: Age 18 or older only. Through June 2. Thu.-Sun., 8:30pm. Castro’s Warehouse, 213 W. Fourth #100. $10. www.poisonappleinitiative.com.GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES Here’s the Rajiv Joseph play, a FronteraFest favorite, that explores the lives of Kayleen and Doug, lives that “intersect at the most bizarre intervals, leading the two childhood friends to compare scars and the physical calamities that keep drawing them together.” Starring Molly Karrasch and Benjamin Summers, directed by A. Skola Summers and Rommel Sulit for Street Corner Arts. Through June 1. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. Museum of Human Achievement, Springdale & Lyons, 512/298-9776. $10-25. www.streetcornerarts.org.THE BROTHERS MERLIN Loaded Gun Theory pres-ents this “comedic carnival of carnage” that’s part Rocky Horror, part Freaks, with a little Abominable Dr. Phibes thrown in for good measure. It’s a Frank Benge-directed stageshow where two brothers unearth a mysterious ancient secret to immortality, yes; but this isn’t just a play, it’s a night of wild char-acters and weird entertainments that also include magician Jack Darling, a roomful of pickled oddities, carny games and snack booths, and the Anna Larson
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Blood, Sweat, and Cheers We reckon this high-energy comedy about the world of competitive cheerleading in Central Texas will make you sweat just from watching it. Besides the kick-ass cast directed by Roy Janik for Mr. & Mrs. Danger Productions, this comedic spectacle – written by fre-quent Chronicle contributor Amy Gentry and Parallelogramophonograph’s Kaci Beeler – features a full competitive-cheer routine starring national champion athletes from Austin Cheer Factory.
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and Her SleightofHand Sideshow Band. Through June 1. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Extra show: Wed., May 29, 8pm. The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo, 512/476-7833. $18-28. www.brothersmerlin.com.
OngOingTWELVE ANGRY MEN A new production of Reginald Rose’s classic courtroom drama in which a jury decides the fate of a teenager accused of murdering his father. Directed by Karen Sneed for City Theatre. Through June 9. Thu-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5:30pm. City Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 512/524-2870. $15-25 ($10, Thursdays). www.citytheatreaustin.org.QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT Here’s the Texas pre-miere of Gabriel Jason Dean’s twisted comedy about “the expansion of the universe and the contraction of a troubled family,” directed by Rudy Ramirez. Through June 15. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 512/478-5282. $10-30. www.vortexrep.org.HARVEY Martin Burke stars in Mary Chase’s classic (and Pulitzer Prize-winning) comedy about a happy-go-lucky man with an invisible best friend – a six-foot-tall
rabbit named Harvey. Also starring Lauren Lane; directed by Dave Steakley. Through June 16. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey, 512/476-0541. $18-65. www.zachtheatre.org.
Comedyin THe ClUBsCAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research #100, 512/467-2333. www.capcitycomedy.com.
Rachel Feinstein This daughter of a civil-rights lawyer and a blues musician was a finalist on Last Comic Standing, does a plethora of voices on Adult Swim’s Venture Brothers, and reviews hip-hop as her Grandma, “Ice Cold Rhoda, World’s Oldest Hater.” And tonight, Trey Galyon opens for her. Through June 1. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. $9-19.
Kurt Metzger The Best Week Ever and Ugly Amer-icans regular brings his festival-pleasing takes on life to Cap City, with Danny Palumbo opening. June 5-8. Wed.-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm. $9-19.
This Week in Coldness: They’re right there on Airport Boulevard, where the goodness is funky and the funk is getting good. The JTS Brown Experience Seriously: One of the most challeng-ing, and most freeing, longform improv structures there is. See what Arkay have wrought with a little help from Buckman, Dearing, and Cackowski. Thu., 8:30pm. $5. Raney Nights is Scott Raney’s talk show, of course. Thu., 10pm. $5. Bad Boys, featur-ing improv by boys who are, well, somewhat rude, let’s say. Fri., 8:30pm. Live at ColdTowne is stand-up comedy. Fri., 10pm. Braised in Texas Some of the best performers in the ATX are honing their pitmaster skills, improv-wise, for “A day in the life of a barbecue competition in Central Texas,” yeeeeeeee-haw! Sat., 8:30pm. The Frank Mills and their smart, character-driven improv, run rampant with Midnight Society. Sat., 10pm. Big Beautiful Warriors Game Show Sat., 11pm. And don’t forget the rest o’ the week: Stand-up with The Jam (with Oh, Science!) on Sundays, Maggie Maye’s stand-up mic on Mondays, the ongoing Stool Pigeon on
Tuesdays, improv antics with Miller and Purselly and Cagematch on Wednesdays, and – yes, check the website!
ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 512/320-0553. www.esthersfollies.com.
Esther’s Follies Musical comedy skits, magic, and a political satirical revue with the bustling backdrop of Sixth Street on view through the stagefront window! And now the gang’s getting merry in the month of May with “Guns and Texas” and “Goin’ Postal” and “The King of DC” and more – new sketches and classics skewering White House she-nanigans, gun-control legislation, Martha Stewart, and more, bringing the laughs all night long. Bonus: The large-scale illusions and arch antics of magician Ray Anderson. Reservations recommend-ed. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. $22-27.
THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress, 512/476-0473. www.hideouttheatre.com.
It’s Hideoutrageous! Here’s your one-stop emporium of laughter and sweet coffee drinks (and now: wine cocktails!) Downtown, run like a brilliant clockwork made from Del Close’s skull.
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BEARAOKE WITH KENNY Goes ’til close. Wednesdays, 9:30pm. The Iron Bear, 121 W. Eighth. Free.
KRUDAS CUBENSI East Side Latin Jam plays early; Krudas at midnight with open mic. Thu., June 6, 9pm. The Sahara Lounge, 1413 Webberville Rd. $5. www.facebook.com/KrudasCubensi.
THIRST FURRSDAY Monthly array of performative oddities, this month including: Moron Mountain, Babyasprindvd, Ibn Ubo, Mirror Travel, and your hosts, Attic Ted and DJ Stephy B. First Thursdays, 10pm. Chain Drive, 504 Willow, 512/480-9017.
ho-riZon‘COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER’ SCREENING Polari presents some serious sociosexxeh with directors in attendance for a Q&A. Fri., June 7, 7pm. The North Door, 502 Brushy. Free. www.vdb.org/titles/community-action-center.
Jay Douglas, G-Luve, and JJ Booya. Sat., June 1, 9:30pm. The North Door, 502 Brushy. $8. www.ndvenue.com/event/246447-blow-pony-austin.
ALIEN SHE, QB EDITION The Shesters are back with Total Unicorn, Fannnnntasssy, and Mom Jeans in tow. (Pretty sight, ain’t it? You’re wel-come!). Sat., June 1, 10pm. Elysium, 705 Red River.
AZZ WILL SAVE THE WORLD Don’t kiss it “goodbye.” Kiss it “hello.” LZ Love, C-Bass, Shook Nite, and Disco Tits keep things nice and firm. Sat., June 1, 10pm. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth.
MOUTHFEEL AND ALTHEA POST-QB Mouthfeel and Althea Trix share a post-queertal cigarette. Offer the ladies a light, would you? Sat., June 1, 10pm. Castro’s Warehouse, 213 W. Fourth.
BLESS THIS MESS POST-QB BRUNCH No need for a walk of shame. Bring that shit out into the light, player. Brunch it up with the Drunk Dial babies, Mouthfeel, Young Creature, and C-Bass, oh yes. Sun., June 2, 11am. Yellow Jacket Social Club, 1704 E. Fifth, 512/480-9572.
CASH MOB FOR BOOKWOMAN Beer, wine, and light refreshments provided as you shop to support our feminist book-store. Sun., June 2, 2-5pm. BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Ste. 105-A, 512/472-2785. www.ebookwoman.com.
‘SAN ANTONIO FOUR’ SCREENING Remember that news story from the early 2000s about the four women convicted in the weird lesbian/satanic ritual brou-haha? The Chronicle’s own Jordan Smith speaks at this in-progress screening and Kickstarter launch for the film doc about it. Sun., June 2, 5-8pm. Getaway Motor Club, 3000 Thompson. Free. [email protected], www.sanantoniofour.tumblr.com.
HOTNUTS BOOT DANCE Mary, Proddy, and Christeene present the Austin debut of the Toronto dance party. Sun., June 2,7-11pm. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth. Free. www.cheerupcharlies.tumblr.com.
IVY WINTERS FROM RU PAUL DRAG RACE Come feel the fierce queen from season 5. Sun., June 2, 10:30pm & 12mid. Oilcan Harry’s, 211 W. Fourth, 512/320-8823. www.oilcanharrys.com.
GEEKS WHO DRINK QUIZ GAME Be a geek. Be a bear! Buy a drink! Win cash prizes! Mondays, 8-10pm. The Iron Bear, 121 W. Eighth. www.theironbear.com.
AGLCC JUNE LUNCHEON This month’s speaker is Tina Cannon from Napkin Venture. Tue., June 4, 11:30am-1pm. WildWood BakeHouse, 3016 Guadalupe. $20 with RSVP. www.aglcc.org/calendar.
hanG ToGeTher Or we might hang sepa-rately. Queerbomb (see Saturday) exists as one night of discrete queer-community threads merging together to feel the exact fluffy wonder of that crazy quilt. Stand by the side and watch, or weave yourself in. This year, the QB kids are not hosting an afterparty and instead have handed that mantle over to the rest of the queers. So many have stepped up to the challenge. Plus, the party con-tinues all weekend long, to boot, including brunch and the in-progress screening of San Antonio Four (see Sunday).
on our GaydarSWOON WITH CURRAN NAULT Well, duh. What else would you do at an event featuring Polari poobah Curran Nault? Siiiigh. Thu., May 30, 7:30-10:30pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.
PATRICE PIKE Take a hike, and see the Pike. Thursdays, 8-10pm. Saxon Pub, 1320 S. Lamar, 512/448-2552. www.facebook.com/PatricePikeBand.
TEXAS FILTH Get to the core of queercore with Elvis, Feral Future, the Atomic Tanlines, and Clitfit. Thu., May 30, 9pm. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth.
POO POO PLATTER: GAUD SAVE THE QUEERS Now what indigenous subculture will the Poops skewer? Punk Rock? Fri., May 31, 10pm. Elysium, 705 Red River, 512/478-2979. $5, 18+. www.facebook.com/poopooATX.
QUEER UP CHARLIE DJ Dylan Reece spins for what is billed as “Nymph Circus meets Boy Carnival.” Fri., May 31, 10pm-2am. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth, 512/431-2133. No cover. www.cheerupcharlies.tumblr.com.
MOORE, OK FUNDRAISER Get your last-minute, pre-Queerbomb rainbow gayness and large-sized, all--gender-expression loveliness at this north-end consignment shop. Proceeds go to the Red Cross tornado relief efforts. Sat., June 1, 9am-1pm. Venus Envy Consignments, 1810 W Anderson. Free. www.venusenvyconsignments.com.
BIG BOI YOGA Hatha flow with big boi (and whom-ever) modifications. You can dooo eeet! Saturdays, 11am. Soco Yoga, 1109-B S. Congress, 512/445-0773. $5-10. www.facebook.com/groups/QYogaAustin.
POETRY EVENING with Anne Champion and Sheila Maldonado. Sat., June 1, 7-8:45pm. BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Ste. 105-A. Free. www.ebookwoman.com.
QUEERBOMB 2013 You are the party. You are the sponsor. Everyone’s a VIP. Everyone is welcome, invited, and incited to rally. Rally, then march, then afterparties happen all over creation. Yes, babies, it’s
time for Queerbomb: “To honor the courageousness of the Stonewall riots, while reclaiming the radical, carnal, and transgressive spirit of our community.” Get ready to make some (acoustic) noise. Bring: maracas, shakers, cymbals, kokirikos, triangles (duh!), cabasas, horns, whistles, agogos, castanets, chimes, signs, glitter, confetti, bells, claves, jinglesticks, vibraslaps, tambourines, your fine ass, your big fat heart, the god-damn Liberty Bell, and of course, more cowbell! Meet at the Pine Street Station, get pumped up, then take to Sixth Street like we own it. Because we do, you beautiful queers and queer-supporters, we do. Sat., June 1, 6pm. Pine Street Station, 1101 E. Fifth. Free.
QUEERBOMB PEDICAB & MOBILITY-IMPAIRED CONNECTION GROUP
Sweet, sweet pedicabbers have again volunteered to haul those in need of free ride services along the Queerbomb proces-sion route. And a sweet sweet volunteer (DJ Pasht!) will catalyze the connection. Services available on a first-come, first-served basis. Email Dren Pasht right now. Sat., June 1, 6pm. Pine Street Station, 1101 E. Fifth. Free.
CHAOS IN TEJAS Talk about your helluvan afterparty. Chaos
is part of the East Fifth QB street closure, and a big chunk of it happens
right across from the Queerbomb rallying point. Sat., June 1. 11E5, 1100 E. Fifth.
www.chaosintejas.com.
RUSTY’S REUNION Dance with your old Rusty pals at this eve featuring Dames of Deception and DJBJ. Sat., June 1, 6-10pm. Maria’s Taco Xpress, 2529 S. Lamar. $5. www.facebook.com/MariasTacoXPress.
ALOE VERA: AN AFTER-BURN AFTERPARTY Post-Burn, post-Bomb, annnnnnd Acro Yoga! Sat., June 1, 8pm-2am. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth. Free, donations. www.facebook.com/Bildings.
QUEER NIGHT GEAR NIGHT With clothes check and in support of Queerbomb. Sat., June 1, 8pm. Chain Drive, 504 Willow. www.facebook.com/ChainDriveATX.
BLOWPONY QUEER MUTINY PDXers come straddle our big Texas saddle with DJs Airick X, Fingerbang,
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Above: Hotnuts Boot Dance (see sunday)
left: Krudas Cubensi plays the sahara (see Thursday).
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The Threefer Three improv shows for the price of one! Thu., 8pm. $5. The Free Fringe Improv goes experimental. Thu., 10pm. Free. 2 x 4 It’s … improv duos. Two-two-awesome! Fri., 8pm. $5. The Spectacle presents the homebase leg-ends Pgraph with The Glamping Trip. Fri., 10pm. $10. Theatresports: Anything Can Happen The Hideout returns to its short-form and battle-ready Johnstone roots with this ongoing team tourna-ment in May and June. Like the Olympics, but without drug-testing! Sat., 8pm. $12. Maestro Improviser against improviser, a whole stagefull of them, battling for victory. Sat., 10pm. $12. Another Weekender brings a student showcase and The Intentions. Sun., 8pm. $5.
It’s Institutional! The Next Chapter has impro-visers riffing on a local author’s work – with the author starting the antics off. Directed by Justin Davis, this series of literary transmogrifica-tions runs for two months with Matt Sturges, Katherine Catmull, Beth Kander, Suzy Spencer, and Daniel Quinn among the authors who’ll be featured. Fridays, 8pm. Through June 28. $12. The Suitcase In which Asaf Ronen presents an immersive show where the audience follows the characters to sit up-close and personal while the cast of lowlifes improvises a narra-tive from objects the audience has provided. Recommended! Fridays, 10pm. $12. The Hell and Back Cabaret Music, improv, and parlor games from “the darker side of the tracks.” Saturdays, 8pm. Through June 29. $7. Ronen & Ruckus Talk Shit About Movies Asaf Ronen and Keith Ruckus give modern cinema its comeuppance in this live podcast. Sunday, June 2, 6pm. Free.
NEW MOVEMENT THEATER 616 Lavaca, 512/788-2669. www.newmovementtheater.com.
The New Movement It’s that new space Downtown – an underground space, literally, right there on the corner of Seventh and Lavaca. And this is what’s up: Block Party Open mic hosted by Rob Gagnon. Thu., 9:30pm. Free. Heckle Factory Yeah, they want you to heckle! Fri., 8pm. $5. The Franchise Fri., 9pm. $5. TV Dinner: Liar, Liar Hey, BYOB. Sat., 10:30pm. $5. Duocity: Best Friends Edition Sat., 9pm. $5. Shit’s Golden Sat., 10:30pm. And look a week ahead to the Megaphone Show: Wednesdays, 9:30pm. $5. And there’s Clubhouse, where Kath Barbadoro hosts the open mic. Mondays, 9pm. Pay what you wish.
VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 512/469-9116. www.thevelveetaroom.com.
Friday Night Fracas New season, new hosts! Last Chance Comedy is presented by Chance Royce and features only the finest regionally available comedy stylists. 9:30pm. $5. The Late Slot with Lucas Molandes One of Austin’s funniest people curates this late-night lineup of laughter each week. 11:30pm. $5.Aaron Aryanpur The man was voted Funniest Comic in Texas 2012 at the Addison Improv, and you know that’s gotta mean something – as does being part of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. And tonight, Jay Whitecotton and friends open the show. Sat., June 1, 9:30 & 11:30pm. $10.
BUT WAiT – THeRe’s MORe!THE AUSTIN COMEDY HOUR: SKETCHFIGHT! A night of sketch comedy featuring Bobby DiPasquale, Scott Moss, Aimee Thomas, Heath Thompson, and Brett Tribe. Sun., June 2, 8:30pm; Sat., June 8, 10:30pm. City Theatre, 3823-D Airport, 512/524-2870. $10. www.citytheatreaustin.org.AVALANCHE COMEDY & MUSIC This weekly show-case is hosted by the incredibly funny Chris Cubas, who unleashes a few of his own stand-up stylings and presents comedians from all over the country. And some of his favorite bands, too. Recommended. Mon., June 3, 10pm. Holy Mountain, 617 E. Seventh, 512/391-1943. Free. www.holymountainaustin.com.MERLIN WORKS IMPROV MIXER Meet, mingle, practice and play with talented improvisers from all over town, some of whom just might be Known Wizards, right there in the Long Center. This month’s theme is: Gender Bending! Sat., June 1, 2-4pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 512/657-3005. Free. www.merlin-works.com.TRACY MORGAN: EXCUSE MY FRENCH Everybody wants to see a popular stand-up comedian who’s been such a fierce part of “30 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live,” right? Yeah, best to reserve your tickets ASAP, citizen. Sat., June 1, 8pm. Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress, 512/472-5470. $40.50. www.austintheatre.org.
JAZZ CIGARETTE This new stand-up showcase is hosted by Joe Hafkey and Mac Blake. (We mean, 2013 Funniest Person In Austin winner Mac Blake, of course.) Mondays, 9pm. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. $5 ($2, students). www.spiderhousecafe.com.
danCeLOOKING FOR DANCE CLASSES? Swing? Ballet? Tango? Hip-hop? Pole-dancing? We’ve got a myriad of classes listed online, waiting to get your feet firmly on the floor to joyful moves.DOUBLE STEP Two of Austin’s favorite dance compa-nies, Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance and Circuitous Dance/Kate Warren, join forces to present this daring diptych of kinesis for one wekend only. June 6-8. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 3 & 8pm. Ballet Austin, 501 W. Third, 512/934-1082. $17-20 ($12, students, seniors). www.kdhdance.com.
THE AUSTIN BELLY DANCE CONVENTION Raks Sharki, anyone? Here’s a hip-twitching weekend of workshops, free open-stage performances, shopping, and evaluations in which professional instructors give new dancers feedback on performance skills. Bonus: Friday night shows feature guest performers and workshop instructors; Saturday night’s gala show features Ava Fleming. May 31-June 2. Fri., 4-10pm; Sat., 9:30am-10pm; Sun., 10am-4pm. Holiday Inn Austin Midtown, 6000 Middle Fiskville, 512/451-5757. $5-200. www.theabdc.com.
ClassiCal musiCCONSPIRARE: SONGS OF THE SOUL Robert Kyr’s “Songs of the Soul,” a modern cantata originally commissioned in 2011 by Conspirare, is reprised by that glorious gang of singers and the Victoria Bach Festival string orchestra. Bonus: The world premiere of Kyr’s “Cloud of Unknowing,” based on 14th-century mystical texts. Featuring soloists soprano Estelí Gomez and baritone David Farwig. Fri., May 31, 8pm. St. John Neumann Pastoral Center, 5455 Bee Caves Rd., 512/474-5664. $18-60 ($10, students). www.conspirare.org.ASO: VADIM GLUZMAN Austin Symphony Orchestra welcomes the internationally renowned violinist for a solid concert of classics, played on a 1690 Stradivari. Fri.-Sat., May 31-June 1, 8pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 512/457-5100. $23 and up. www.thelongcenter.org.
J TEXAS TOOT The Texas Toot Early Music faculty and members of Texas Early Music Project present a concert of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, played on recorders, viols, harp, lutes, sack-buts, and more; human voice will also be in glorious evidence at this 15th annual series of concerts, directed by TEMP’s Daniel Johnson. Convivencia at Concordia Music from early Renaissance Spain and its three great cultures: Moorish, Sephardic, and Christian. Tue., June 4, 7:30pm. Mediterranean Café Music from France, Italy, Spain, and the Mediterranean – from circa 1400 to circa 1800. Fri., June 7, 7:30pm. Black Box Theater, Building B-230, Concordia University on FM 620. $20 ($15, seniors; $5, students). www.early-music.org.ONE VISION: MUSIC OF QUEEN The Canadian group Jeans ’n Classics combines classic rock and the talents of local symphonies to present a pops concert like none other, this time featuring much of what the late great Freddie Mercury wrought. Perhaps Beelze bub has a devil put aside for someone here? Wed., June 5, 7:30pm. Long Center for Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 512/457-5100. $25. www.thelongcenter.org.
Visual arTseVenTsDAVID THORNBERRY ART & FUNDRAISER Paintings by the beloved local artist and art professor (and paintings by similarly illustrious others) will be sold to help pay for the costs of repairing his broken leg. Takes a lot of scratch to mend a bone, and there’ll be a lot of art at this show. Bonus: free food, y’all, and the miracle of human kindness. Sun., June 2, 4pm. Amaz for Hair, 1509 Old W. 38th. www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/yk92/davidthornberrys legsurgerywasexpensive.CO-LAB: WE ARE ALL ASTRONAUTS For one night only, Co-Lab presents this collection of video works by students of UT’s Digital TimeArt program who use their tech arsenal to explore media aesthetics, expanded media, and the intersection of cinema and art. Screening will loop continuously from sundown until 11pm on Sat., June 1. 613 Allen, 512/300-8217. www.colabspace.org.
OpeningAUSTIN ART SPACE: COOL … HOT Group show featur-ing resident artists Jan Knox, Marilyn Rea Nasky, Debra Wilson, Nikki Atkinson, and more. Exhibit: May 31-July 6. Reception: Sat., June 15, 6-8pm. 7739-Q Northcross, 512/970-1700. www.austinartspace.com.BATIK BY DESIGN SUMMER SHOW Batik fabric col-lage art by Melissa Knight. Reception: Sat., June 1, 5-9pm. 1907 Forestglade. 512/318-1847. www.batikbydesign.com.CO-LAB: WORTH ITS WEIGHT Tamara Rodriguez’s work here uses satire to examine the quest for beau-ty and associated consequences. Reception: Sat., June 1, 7-11pm. Exhibition: Through June 8, by appt. 613 Allen, 512/300-8217. www.colabspace.org.DAVIS GALLERY: DIANNE GRAMMER This is a retrospective of work by the late artist who “captured the beauty of the landscape with a true sense of light and color. Her pastels and oils depict deep canyons, tranquil lakes, and shimmering creeks and rivers, all taking different expressions as they cut through the Texas landscape.” Indeed; we’ve seen only a few of her works before, and even that made us glad we live in the Lone Star state. Reception: Sat., June 1, 7-9pm. Exhibition: Through July 6. 837 W. 12th, 512/477-4929. www.davisgalleryaustin.com.LA PEÑA: NUESTRA COMIDA/OUR FOOD Maya Indian photographers in Chiapas have captured the life of their people and culture through the lens of a camera. Reception: Sat., June 1, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through June 31. 227 Congress, 512/477-6007. www.lapena-austin.org.NATURE-INSPIRED WATERCOLORS EXHIBIT Sat., June 1. 512/232-0100. Exhibit included in the price of admission for the center. www.wildflower.org/exhibits.PUMP PROJECT: NEW FOUND GLORY Balcones Recycling presents an exhibition of art created from what’s been recycled, up-cycled, found and reused. Works by Leslie Uppinghouse, Corey Chambers, Landry McMeans, Jamie Panzer, Jerry de Frese, Virginia Fleck, Jason Mecier, and Christine Terrell will deck the lucky walls. Reception (with live graffiti by Nate Nordstrom): Sat., June 1, 7-11pm. Exhibition: Through June 15. 702 Shady. www.pumpproject.org.
ClOsing02 GALLERY: IMPRESSIONS The compelling wood-cut prints of Craig Mindell, featuring architectural scenes from Galveston, are on display here. Through May 31. 2830 E. MLK, 512/477-9328. www.craigmindell.com.NORTH HILLS GALLERY: BLOOM AND GROW New work by Austin artist and calligrapher Stacy Sakoulas. Through June 2. 7060 Village Center. 512/345-1743.
OLD BAKERY ART GALLERY: EXPLORATION & WITH A ROCK Rock sculptures by Cat Quintanilla; paintings by Betty Jameson. Through June 5. 1006 Congress. 512/573-8177.
RUSSELL COLLECTION: THE SEASONS OF ROYO The artist Royo’s newest show includes more than 30 paintings created specifically for this Austin show. Through May 31. 1137 W. Sixth, 512/478-4440. www.russell-collection.com.
OngOingARTWORKS GALLERY New space, new art, and a new opening attended by artists Su Allen, Lisa Chandler, Enid Wood, Linda Wilde, and others; featuring Luca Vidal glass imported from Murano, Italy. 1214 W. Sixth #105, 512/472-1550. www.artworksaustin.com.BIG MEDIUM AT CANOPY: FRAME What happened, you wonder, to that tall drink of Fanta Orange named Russell Etchen after Domy Books closed? Right now the affable art maven’s presenting “The F.R. Etchen Collection” at this new Big Medium venue, while Fahamu Pecou’s incredible “All Dat Glitters Ain’t Goals” is also on display. Through June 22. Canopy, 916 Springdale. www.bigmedium.org.CO-LAB: THE STORIES OUR NEURONS TELL Brooke Gassiot’s installations reflect on the relationships between the body and the stimulus surrounding it, including drawings generated from last weekend’s “Scar Party,” where the artist depicted visitors’ scars using vellum, felt, thread, and ink. Through May 25, by appoint-ment. 613 Allen, 512/300-8217. www.colabspace.org.DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY Stained and leaded glass and mosaics. 701 Tillery Ste. A-11, 512/389-2266. www.decola-eusebi.com.FACES EAST: PHOTOS BY MARTHA GRENON Behold: the best of Grenon’s photos from several years of participation in the “Facing East: 48 Hours in the Life of East Austin” project. Through June 28. 1601 E. Fifth #106, 512/538-5657. www.diversearts.org.FLATBED PRESS: ARCHIVE A retrospective of work by SMU’s Larry Scholder, featuring relief or intaglio printmaking techniques. Reception: Fri., June 21, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through Aug. 24. 2830 E. MLK, 512/477-9328. www.flatbedpress.com.
J GRAYDUCK GALLERY: RED LEFT BLUE RIGHT This group show of art and design for anaglyph 3D glasses is curated by Phillip Edward Niemeyer and features vision-galvanizing works by Alec Dartley, Dan Forbes, Dana McClure, Hannah Cole, James Blagden, Joseph Phillips, Mike Reddy, Nicole Stone, Rebecca Rothfus, Ryan Junell, Shawn Camp, and Tanya Newton-John. This gig’s got a sound component, too: experimental label Aagoo’s compilation recorded in double mono: The left and right channels play distinct sounds, featuring music and sounds by Palaxy Tracks, John Saba Jr., Devin Maxwell, !!!, Jim Eno, The Octopus Project, AU, and Erin Flannery & Zach Layton. Through June 16. 608-C W. Monroe, 512/826-5334. www.grayduckgallery.com.
Party Animals
This is the third solo show at WWG for Austin’s Ian Shults. He’s best known for depicting (stunningly depict-ing) the “debauchery and subversive behavior” of mod-ern humans; now let’s see what painterly deconstruc-tions he performs on some-thing as innocent as a sub-urban lingerie party.
Reception: Sat., June 1, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through June 29. Wally Workman Gallery, 1202 W. Sixth, 512/472-7428. www.wallyworkmangallery.com.
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liTeraReADings, signings, AnD peRFORMAnCesTHE LIVINGROOM: STORYTIME FOR GROWNUPS This is the spoken-word series where Amparo GarciaCrow brings together an eclectic mix of stories around a specific theme, featuring tales conjured by your own talented friends and neighbors. This month’s theme is: Foreign Unlikely Connection, featuring Ram Rani, Chris Cavello, Nelson Guda, and Cindy Pitts. Sat., June 1, 7:30pm. Galaxy Dance Studios, 1700 S. Lamar #338. 512/441-6085. $10. www.amparogarciacrow.com.FUN PARTY READING Organized by Dan Boehl and Cindy St. John, featuring an Austin and an out-of-town writer – Krystal Languell and Robert Alan Wendeborn – along with a film or visual performance, this event makes Tiny Park a place where literature, art, and film truly connect. Thu., May 30, 8pm. Tiny Park, 1101 Navasota #2. Free. www.funpartyatx.tumblr.com/.AUTHORS AT BOOKPEOPLE Ace Atkins The Broken Places. Fri., May 31, 7pm. George Wier Long Fall From Heaven. Sun., June 2, 4:30pm. H. W. Brands The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace. Tue., June 4, 7pm. Alfredo Corchado Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter’s Journey Through a Country’s Descent Into Darkness. Wed., June 5, 7pm. Phillip Meyer The Son. Thu., June 6, 7pm.HOME COOKED STORIES Stories – with food! Because Lucky Chaos Theater is celebrating AsianAmerican Heritage Month with this night of home-cooked Asian appetizers, entrees, and desserts … and stories from the cooks themselves. Fri., May 31, 7:30pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/474-7886. $10. www.luckychaos.com.AUTHORS AT BOOK WOMAN An evening of poetry with Anne Champion and Sheila Maldonado. Sat., June 1, 7pm. Barbara Ann Wright For Want of a Fiend. Tue., June 4, 7pm. Book Woman, 5501 N. Lamar, 512/472-2785. www.ebookwoman.com.
WRiTing/BOOK gROUpsSTORY CIRCLE NETWORK Nonprofit organization for women, offering monthly reading and writing circles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin. 512/454-9833. www.storycircle.org.WRITE BY NIGHT Write, read, collaborate, or just kick back and dream: This is the writerly sanctum you’ve been looking for, right there near Downtown. See web-site for details. 512/322-5242. www.writebynight.net.
Open MiCsNEO-SOUL LOUNGE Where great poetry gets its fla-vor. Hosted by South Flavas. Thursdays, 9pm-12mid. 1050 E. 11th. $6. www.southflavas.com/neosoul.html.OPEN MICS Austin Poetry Slam Tuesdays, 8pm. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth. Ruta Maya Poetry Tuesdays, 6-9pm. 1209 S. First. Full English Tea Room Thom hosts. Saturdays, 6-9pm. 2000 Southern Oaks. Spoken & Heard Sundays, 7-10pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725. More listed online!
pOeM OF THe issUeEXIGENCIES Only the meagerest flowersstill bloom at heart’s core,their petals darkened with blood,rough with the soil of dreamsonce vivid but now half-rememberedwithin memory’s floral ruin.
– Marguerite Gallion
CommuniTyAFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY CONVENTION & SHOW Now’s the time to stock up. Or perhaps you’d just rather see master growers show off their best plant art. That can also be arranged. Fri.-Sat., May 31-June 1, 9am-4pm. Renaissance Austin Hotel, 9721 Arboretum Blvd., 512/365-1818. $5. www.faavs.org.TEXAS LINUX FEST Raise your hand if you love Linux. OK, just a few of you, but lovers of the open-source software are usually pretty serious about it. Come out for two days of talks, panels, and open-source conversations. Fri.-Sat., May 31-June 1. AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, 1900 University Ave., 818/442-1865. $20. www.texaslinuxfest.org.
AMAZING SCAVENGER HUNT ADVENTURE Bring your smart phone and go on a scavenger hunt while learning about the history of our fair town. The quest will take about three hours and teams can embark at any time. Through Sept. 30. Start location: Texas State Library, 1201 Brazos, 805/603-5620. $50. www.urbanadventurequest.com.HOGS FOR DOGS SCAVENGER RUN Bring your motorcycle and cruise around town acquiring scaven-ger hunt items. Return to Cowboy Harley for lunch, music, and other fun and games benefitting Austin Pets Alive! Sat., June 1; 9am registration, 10am start. Cowboy Harley-Davidson, 10917 S. I-35, 512/584-1753. $15. www.starcrazyevents.com.GARZA HIGH STUDENT-LED GARDEN TOUR Students show you around their garden that provides herbs to local restaurants. Homemade baked goods will be avail-able and local chefs will be on hand to talk about how they use the fresh ingredients in their dishes. Sat., June 1, 10am-3pm. Garza High School, 3000 S. I-35, 512/414-8600. Free. www.garzaindependencehs.weebly.com.GRAND OPENING OF PAGGI SQUARE Get acquaint-ed with this new park in Mueller with music, kids’ activities, petanque lessons, and trailer food galore. Sat., June 1, 10am-noon. Paggi Square Park in Mueller, Robert Browning & Page Streets, 512/344-2010. Free.
AUSTIN FLEA Browse for handmade and vintage wearables, housewares, and more. Sat., June 1, 11am-5pm. Rattle Inn, 610 Nueces St., 512/373-8306. Free. www.austinflea.net.OUTDOOR LIVING TOUR Tour some of Austin’s finest yards complete with water features, unique patios, color-changing LED lights, and lush gardens. Go online for tickets and a list of participating homes; tickets can also be purchased at tour locations on the day of the event. Sat., June 1, 11am-5pm. $40 ($30, advance). www.outdoorlivingtouraustin.com.CRAFT RIOT CRAFT PARTY Bring a T-shirt or tote to screen print or just get schooled in the ways of basic hand-sewing. Sat., June 1, 12-5pm. Remnants: Fiber Culture, 10435 Burnet Rd. #106. Free (donations appreciated). www.austincraftriot.com.WEST, TX BENEFIT CONCERT Shelley King, Penny Jo Pullus, Ben Baxter, and others play to raise funds for the Waco Foundation that go directly to victims of the West explosion. Food, beer, auctions, raffles, and more keep the funds flowing. Sat., June 1, 2-8pm. Red Shed Tavern, 8504 S. Congress, 512/280-4899. $20. www.redshedtavern.com.TRAVELLER DENIM CO. LAUNCH PARTY Austin’s first custom denim shop; surely that’s a good reason to celebrate. Sat., June 1, 6-10pm. Traveller Denim Co., 1403 Chestnut, 512/689-2460. Free. www.travellerdenim.com.
GROWING ROOTS FUNDRAISER Help Growing Roots which supports low-income families with special needs children. Sat., June 1, 7-10pm. Carver Museum, 1165 Angelina, 512/974-4926. $20 donation. www.growingrootsaustin.com.COOL HOUSE TOUR Purchase your ticket online and tour 10 local green homes. Builders and architects will be on hand to give you the inside scoop on build-ing with the planet’s health in mind. Sun., June 2, 10am-6pm. Austin. $20. www.txses.org.BRIDAL EXTRAVAGANZA Whether your wedding is in a week or a year, get ideas or get everything you need for your nuptials. Sun., June 2, 12-6pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd., 210/599-0336. $15. www.austinweddings.com.CREATE AN ONLINE PORTFOLIO If you need a web-site to show off your art or projects to the denizens of the interwebs, the good folks at the public library can show you how. A valid Gmail account is required. First Sundays, 4pm. Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe, 512/974-7400. Free. www.library.austintexas.gov.EL TACO CIEGO It’s your usual fundraiser with din-ner and entertainment, only this time the event is in complete darkness to give attendees a sense of what it’s like to be blind. Proceeds go to the National Federation of the Blind and Sports Vision 20/20. Mon., June 3, 6-9pm. Maria’s Taco Xpress, 2529 S. Lamar, 512/444-0261.
STEPS TO HOME & BUSINESS OWNERSHIP If your artistic career has reached a point where purchasing property for yourself or your studio is realistic, learn the ins and outs of mortgages, work/live spaces, and more. Wed., June 5, 6pm. Greater Austin Creative Alliance, 701 Tillery, Box 9, 512/247-2531. Free. www.austincreativealliance.org.AMY’S ICE CREAMS TRICK OLYMPICS The frozen dairy concoctions will be flying to benefit CASA of Travis County. We’re guessing the 3-second rule will be sus-pended for the contest. Where else are you going to see spade juggling and team ice cream tricks? Wed., June 5, 7-9pm. Amy’s Ice Creams, 1012 W. Sixth, 512/480-0673. Free. www.amysicecreams.com.POOCHINIS & PETICURES COCKTAIL PARTY Bring your pet and celebrate the passing of humane laws for pets thanks to the efforts of the Texas Humane Legislation Network. Everything is free, but donations to the cause are welcome. Thu., June 6, 6-8pm. Lofty Dog, 403 W. Second. Free. www.austinloftydog.com.KABARETTE WITH A K! HISTORICAL ACTS All the usual shaking and shimmying you expect from caba-ret but with a side order of circus acts, freak shows, theatre, and performance art. Thu., June 6, 8:30-11pm. Spider House Ballroom, 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. Free. www.facebook.com/KabarettewithaK.
Many of the swimmers and fishermen don’t realize that the recreation area is actually part of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area. This part of the coast is on a critical migratory bird route. Crowds of waterbirds fill the sand flats around the mouth of the Brazos River at the end of the island. Bryan Beach is near the end of TX 36/288 at FM 1495. There is no camping on the beach. Limited lodging is available in Quintana, but your best bet is in Freeport or Lake Jackson. For information, go to www.visitbrazosport.com.
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Bryan Beach State Recreation Area outside of the seaside village of Quintana plays with the imagination. A popular local swimming hole near Freeport, it can be a deserted beach one day and a parking lot the next. With about three miles of golden-brown sandy beach, the undeveloped state prop-erty is at the southwestern corner of a barrier island chiseled off the mainland by the Intracoastal Waterway. If you want luxuries, like porta-johns, you have to go to Quintana Beach County Park at the other end of the island. The beach is relatively clean because of the contour of the coastline and the jetties to the north at Freeport Harbor Channel that push debris away from the shore. The park is not widely known out-side of residents of Freeport, whose taxes pay for litter pickup.
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Mail to: Day Trips, PO Box 33284, South Austin, TX 78704.
LA PEÑA: MINDSCAPES New photographs and paintings by Rama Tiru of Austin: East of I-35 fame. 227 Congress. 512/477-6007. www.ramatiru.com.LEWIS CARNEGIE GALLERY: VISITORS New works by Caroline Wright, Leon Alesi, and Rino Pizzi, with the artists “framing and using the patina of marks left around the studio, in an attempt to save what is otherwise ephemeral.” Through June 9. 1312 E. Cesar Chavez.LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY: GRAHAM DOLPHIN The artist’s solo show, “RIP ,” fills the gallery with vari-ations of memento mori: sculpture, graphite drawings, and ink drawings on found newspapers, each piece exploring the posthumous absence of a specific, well-loved public figure. Exhibition: Through July 6. 360 Nueces #50, 512/215-4965. www.lorareynolds.com.MACC: MARGARITA CABRERA AND PALOMA MAYORGA The Mexican American Cultural Center presents works by Cabrera in the Main Gallery, Mayorga in the Community Gallery. Through June 29. 600 River, 512/974-3772. www.maccaustin.org.MASS GALLERY: WALLY Painting, drawing, printmak-ing, collage, and sculpture by six artists from across the United States: Leah Bailis, Kyle Bravo, Ryan Davis, Yashua Klos, Isaac Lin, and Lee Piechocki. Through June 22. Fri., 5-8pm; Sat.-Sun., noon-5pm. 916 Springdale. www.massgallery.org.ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival ban-ners, and other tributes to U.S. popular culture by Todd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 512/442-6366. www.roadhouserelics.com.SOUTHPOP: JACK JAXON’S ‘EXILE INTO CONSCIOUSNESS’ A celebration of work by the late cartooning maestro, the graphic novelist who helped put the ATX on the alt-comix map with his Rip Off Press and posters for Family Dog, this show will exhibit the kind of old-school illustration that beats Photoshop filters all to hell. Through June 8. 1516-B S. Lamar, 512/440-8318. www.southaustincenter.org.STUDIO L GALLERY Sculptural work by Rita Marie Ross, Jacob Colburn, Daryl G. Colburn, Dorthy Crummer, and more. 2309 Thornton. 512/577-3479. www.darylgcolburn.com.TINY PARK: NOT HOW IT HAPPENED Joel Ross and Jason Creps play with the ambiguity of language to create phrases that can have multiple meanings, are highly sensitive to context, and open to interpretation by the viewer; these messages are constructed into physical signs and secretly installed and abandoned in parking lots, yards, and alleyways to be discovered by the public. Through June 22. Saturdays, noon-5pm. 1101 Navasota #2. www.tinyparkgallery.com.UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN: FAMILY Charles Umlauf’s sculptures of human, sacred, and ani-mal families. Through Aug. 25. 605 Robert E. Lee, 512/445-5582. www.umlaufsculpture.org.UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN: TEXAS MODERNISM Works by David Adickes, Kelly Fearing, Kenneth Fiske, Seymour Fogel, Constance Forsyth, Michael Frary, John Guerin, Paul Hatgil, Jeff Jeffreys, and more. 605 Robert E. Lee, 512/445-5582. www.umlaufsculpture.org.WOMEN & THEIR WORK: FALLING HIVE Monica Vidal’s complex and compelling paintings and con-structions are based on a childhood dream of a world saturated in blue. Recommended. Through July 3. 1710 Lavaca, 512/477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org.YARD DOG FOLK ART: SCOTT GRIFFIN’S SHIPWRECK The Toronto artist paints with encaustic on salvaged lumber, rendering images of a life adrift at the farthest reaches of the Earth, sent crashing on the rocks, then rescued (or captured) by mermaids. Mon.-Fri., 11am-5pm; Sat., 11am-6pm; Sun., noon-5pm. 1510 S. Congress, 512/912-1613. www.yarddog.com.
CReATiVe OppORTUniTiesADULT DAYTIME CLAY POTTERY CLASS From FirePit Ceramics, with clay and tools provided. Six weeks toward your own handmade works of art. See website for details. 11150 Research #102, 512/420-9141. $200. www.firepitceramics.com.AUSTIN ART BOARDS: CALL FOR ENTRIES Ten local artists will be selected and their work will be displayed on billboards throughout the greater Austin area. See website for details. Deadline: June 28. www.austinartboards.org.AUSTIN FIGURATIVE GALLERY Art Seen Alliance presents a live-model painting and drawing session. Bring your own supplies. Mondays, 7-9pm. 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. $5. www.artseenalliance.com.
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sporTsTHe MAin eVenTsKEEP X GAMES WEIRD RALLY Exact time and date info has yet to be announced, but watch their Facebook page. If the party rages hard enough maybe they’ll have the games here in 2014. The only hint we’ve gotten is “Prepare to shred one of the most iconic spots in Austin.” Hippie Hollow? Wed., June 5. www.facebook.com/events/100927240116331. ROUND ROCK EXPRESS Your local diamond squad takes on Nashville in four games. Monday is Military Appreciation Night. June 1-4: Sat., 6:05pm; Sun.-Tue., 7:05pm. Dell Diamond, 3400 E. Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock, 512/255-2255. $7-16. www.roundrockexpress.com.
THe HOMe TeAMsAUSTIN TOROS & LEADING THROUGH READING BOOK DRIVE Bring a new or gently used book and get a ticket voucher for your local basketball squad’s upcoming season. Thu., June 6, 7-9pm. Cover 3, 2700 W. Anderson #202, 512/374-1121. www.facebook.com/events/592008054163091.AUSTIN AZTEX The Aztex are undefeated after three games, but mathematically sit in second place below this week’s opponent, Oklahoma City. We doubt math is going to stop the Aztex from keeping their record spotless. Sat., June 1, 7:30pm. House Park, 1301 Shoal Creek Blvd., 512/335-8881. $10. www.austinaztex.com.
ReCReATiOn & FiTnessATHLETA IRON GIRL Noobs and fitness freaks are invited to get physical surrounded by supportive women. Sun., June 2, 7am-3pm. Walter E. Long Park, Decker Lake Road, 512/974-6700. $95-105. www.irongirl.com/Events/Austin.htm.RYDE FOR THE ARTS CHARITY EVENT Saddle up on one of the stationary bikes and get spinning while enjoying tunes and the view of Downtown from the Long Center terrace. Money goes to the Long Reach for the Arts Fund. Sat., June 1, 8-11am. The Long Center, 701 W. Riverside Dr., 512/422-8094. $25. www.pureryde.com.
RUns, WAlKs, & RiDesCRITICAL MASS Bicyclists have been “subverting the paradigm” in Austin since ’93. Let’s keep it civil, everybody. Last Friday of each month. Fri., May 31, 5pm. Meet at the UT West Mall (Guadalupe between 22nd & 23rd). www.critical-mass.info/austin.html.TEXAS 4000 FOR CANCER ATLAS RIDE Rides range from 25 to 70 miles and help raise funds for this UT student org that in turn helps those with cancer. Sat., June 1, 8am-8pm. Running Brushy Middle School, 2303 N. Lakeline Blvd, Cedar Park. $50-70. www.texas4000.org/atlas.
DOG SOLDIER CHALLENGE It’s just 3.3 miles, but there are military-style obstacles all along the way. It’s designed for all fitness levels and no one will be left behind. The course starts every half hour, so pick a convenient time to get sweaty. Sat.-Sun., June 1-2, 8am-3pm. The Crucible Obstacle Course, 12801 Lexington St., Manor. $75. www.dogsoldierchallenge.com.
kids18 BELOW Teen bands, teen DJs, and enough partying to make anyone with a beer in their hand feel old. Last Fridays of the month, 6-10pm. Spider House Ball room, 2906 Fruth, 512/480-9562. Free. www.18below.org.WESTBANK LIBRARIES: SUMMER READING PARTY Performances by the Texas Dragon/Lion Dance team, live music, mini-horses, a book walk, crafts, balloon animals, and more to entertain fami-lies with children. Sat., June. 1, 10am-1pm. Laura’s Library, 9411 Bee Cave Rd. www.westbanklibrary.com.BE WELL BEE BOOK LAUNCH PARTY Local author Cabe Lindsay hosts this kid-friendly event that’s a book swap, bee party, and book building soiree all in one. Sat., June 1, 10am. Soma Vida, 1210 Rosewood, 512/628-1580. $10 (kids, free). www.bewellbee.com.SMUDGE STUDIOS GRAND OPENING Kids can get their hands dirty with free art activities if they aren’t distracted by the DJ’s tunes or the chainsaw artist’s creations. Sat., June 1, 11am-4pm. Smudge Studios, 500 W. 38th, 512/777-1742. Free. www.smudgestudiosaustin.com.ENVIRONMENTAL CHILDRENS’ STORYTIME Get an environmentally themed story and craft while brows-ing the cheap books. Sat., June 1, 1-3pm. Recycled Reads, 5335 Burnet Rd., 512/974-7400. Free. www.recycledreads.org.FIRST SATURDAYS AT THE BULLOCK Kids and adults can check out the museum for free every month. First Saturdays of the month, 2-6pm. Bullock Museum, 1800 Congress. Free. www.thestoryoftexas.com.GENERATIONS: FAMILY FIRST SUNDAY Stories and crafts keep the kids busy as the sculptures all over the museum grounds inspire young and old alike. First Sundays, noon-4pm. Umlauf Sculpture Garden, 605 Robert E. Lee, 512/445-5582. Free. www.umlaufsculpture.org.FLYING THEATER MACHINE: GRYFFINPUFFLE-CLAWSIN Get your Harry Potter glasses on because it’s time to choose a wizard clan and start bringing the funny. Kids are encouraged to get in on the improv action. Sundays, 2pm. The Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 512/971-3311. $7. www.hideouttheatre.com.DALLAS NIGHTCLUB TEEN PARTY It’s wholesome fun with music and dancing without the alcohol and curse words. Bring your student ID and a portion of the evening’s money will go back to your school. Tuesdays through Aug. 20, 7-11pm. Dallas Nightclub, 7113 Burnet Rd. www.danceatdallas.com.
Two dramatic substitutions headline Soccer Watch this week:
Seth Casiple made his debut for the Austin Aztex Saturday night as a 57th-minute sub, and, with his first touch of the season, scored the only goal of the game on a free kick as the Aztex beat their perennial rival, the Laredo Heat, 1-0. Casiple is one of the Aztex’ late arrivals, just in from UC Berkeley; he may be new to Austin, but after the game he said all the right things: “I was really thankful, and I immediately ran towards Eberly’s Army because they were giving me a push the whole time and they really hyped me up.” This Saturday, with the full roster finally in place, the Aztex face a top-of-the-table match-up, hosting first-place Oklahoma City FC to end their five-game homestand. OKC lost to the Aztex 2-1 at home in the season opener, but since then have won three straight and lead the Aztex (3-0) in goal differential. Saturday, June 1, 7:30pm at House Park (15th & Lamar). Pre- and post-game fan gatherings will be at the Tavern (12th & Lamar).
Robbie Rogers became the first openly gay male athlete in a major American team sport*, when he took the field for the L.A. Galaxy Sunday night, coming out of a brief retirement that coincided with his coming out. Hats off for the way they handled it to both Rogers and the Galaxy (who had to give up leading scorer Mike Magee to get the rights to Rogers; in return, they get a winger with international-level talent, and their first big post-Beckham PR coup). And the overwhelmingly positive response – both to Rogers and to the NBA’s Jason Collins – has been heartening.
The U.S. Men are playing friendlies against Belgium and Germany this week, in prepara-tion for World Cup qualifiers June 7, 11, and 18.
* Note that there are five separate qualifiers in that statement: women don’t count; tennis players don’t count; ultimate frisbee players don’t count; effete Europeans don’t count, and of course, those who suck it up and just lie about themselves like men don’t count. Ponder that on your own time.
Soccer Watch by nick barbaro
AMBERNICK KIDS NIGHT Amber and Nick host this evening of song and dance from the Twenties to the Fifties. Kid musicians and big-band sounds along with dance instruction and games keep the little ones entertained. Tuesdays through June 11, 6-8pm. Freddie’s Place, 1703 S. First, 512/494-1411. Free. www.ambernickmusic.com.
ouT of TownNATIONAL TRAILS DAY Most of the state parks in the Austin area offer guided hiking tours or just a chance to hit the trails on your own. Sat., June 1. State Parks. Free (regular park entrance fees apply). www.texasstateparks.org.SAUSAGE & OPERA FESTIVAL Opera Without Fences brings “La Vie Parisienne” to the Sausage Capital of Texas with an art show at 3:30pm, barbecue at 6:30pm, and music at 8pm. Sat., June 1. Elgin, 512/487-7975. Free, reservations recommended. www.favaopera.org.OLD FIDDLERS’ CONTEST AND REUNION Musicians from the state will be showing off their chops for the annual fiddling and acoustic guitar-picking competi-tions. Sat., June 1, 9am. Courthouse Square, Athens, 888/294-2847. www.athenstx.org.PUBLIC STAR PARTY View the night sky through the observatory’s two telescopes or one owned by a mem-ber of the Austin Astronomical Society. Sat., June 1, 8:30pm. Canyon of the Eagles, Eagle Eye Observatory, Burnet, 800/977-0081. www.austinastro.org.AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY JUNE FEST The commu-nity settled by German families presents their annual party in the old dance hall with barbecue, music, gar-den exhibit, auction, cake walk, and a country store. Sun., June 2, 11am. Agricultural Hall, Cat Springs, 979/865-1313. www.catspringagsociety.org.THE WRITER’S ROAD: SELECTIONS FROM THE SAM SHEPARD PAPERS This first-ever exhibition from the archives of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-nominated actor features rare photos, letters, and writing. Mon., June 3-Feb. 14. The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University, San Marcos, 512/245-2313. Free. www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu.
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D: Noah Baumbach; with Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Michael Zegen, Adam Driver, Grace Gummer, Charlotte d’Amboise, Michael Esper, Patrick Heusinger. (R, 86 min.)
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and co-conceived by Greta Gerwig, who shares screenwriting credit – is a study in contradictions. A modern dancer whose career is winding down before it ever really got going, Frances is gorgeous yet ungainly; sturdily built but a bit of a flibbertigibbet; and 27 going on 14. She is ill at ease with romance – she makes a honking noise like a human error message when a man overtures a kiss – but no matter: Frances already has a love of her life, and she’s named Sophie (Sumner). Sophie is Frances’ best friend, co-conspirator, and roommate, and she is moving out of their Brooklyn apartment to test out the world alone. Frances is lost without her. Baumbach and Gerwig use real estate to structure the episodic ramblings of Frances as she apartment-hops from Brooklyn to Sacramento to Paris, Poughkeepsie, and Washington Heights – although she’s really more of a scamperer than a rambler, as evidenced every time Frances picks up speed and jetés on the streets of New York. One sprint lovingly lifts from Leos Carax’s deliri-ous tracking-shot trot in 1986‘s Mauvais Sang, same-tuned to Bowie’s “Modern Love,” and there’s an obvious and joy-ful French fixation here, with music cues plucked from The 400 Blows and Contempt, among others (it’s wall-to-wall Georges Delerue, to the happy sigh of Francophiles everywhere), and a matte-gray palette piped in from the French New Wave. (The film is shot by Sam Levy and dedicated to the late cinematographer Harris Savides, who lensed Baumbach’s last two films, Greenberg and Margot at the Wedding.)
Even Frances’ last name – Halliday – puts one in mind of a Frenchie, the velvet-crooner Johnny Hallyday, especially when you start thinking about one of his hits, “J’ai Oublié de Vivre.” In a way, Frances has forgotten how to live without Sophie. (When Frances tries to usher Sophie away from her boyfriend toward girl talk in the bath-room, Sophie puzzles, “Are we still doing that?”) Their physical separation charts the same course as a romantic breakup, from hopeful we’ll-still-be-friends vows to a burned-bridges drunken break to a tentative glasnost; there’s even a the-way-we-were relapse before Frances, quite literally, dis-
covers she has her own two feet to stand on. Frances Ha takes its pri-mary female friendship seri-ously, and it takes a generous view on the endless 20s, too.
Funny and touching, Frances Ha may very well be the most eloquent take yet on a generation in flux – a cinematic talk-back to so many Atlantic articles, minus the scolding and the statistics, and uncharacteristically (for Baumbach) uncynical. Sometimes the older viewer wants to knock Frances about and strongly encourage her to get a job with benefits or acknowledge she’s not always the most interesting person in the room, and the film subtly signals that there will be a time – maybe sooner than she thinks – when Frances’ haplessness will no longer be oopsy-daisy endearing but an embarrass-ment. But Frances is quick to find magic in her life, and it’s infectious. There’s no small amount of magic in this winning movie about a woman who hasn’t lost her way – she’s only taken the long way to get there.
by kimberley jones
Noah Baumbach specializes in character studies, and Frances Ha’s Frances Halliday – portrayed
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new reviewsAfter eArth D: M. Night Shyamalan; with Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Sophie Okonedo, Zoë Kravitz, Isabelle Fuhrman. (PG-13, 100 min.) A millennium after humans have been forced to abandon Earth, the planet has reverted to a wild, malevolent landscape filled with mutated creatures and inhospita-ble dangers. Legendary United Ranger Corps hero Cypher Raige (Will Smith) is traveling with his son Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith), who is still a cadet because he hasn’t performed well enough to make the Rangers. They and the crew are on a routine space run when they hit an intense, unexpected asteroid storm, which destroys the ship and causes it to crash into a nearby planet. It turns out to be inhospitable Earth. Only the two Raiges survive the crash landing. Cypher’s legs are damaged, so he stays behind and sends his son in pursuit of a rescue flare that remains with the other half of the damaged ship, 100 kilometers away. Kitai must battle the elements and the crea-tures of the wild, but also must find a route to succeed in his mission. It is a voyage of rescue but also a journey of personal discov-ery, facing his past in order to find out what he is made of. After Earth is an ambitious man-against-nature epic, although keep in mind that in science-fiction nature is always made-up con-struct and not real. This results in a sense of the deck being stacked and a diminishment of the heroics. The film is repetitive and not as suspenseful at it tries to be. Often gor-geous, sometimes fascinating, it is ultimately unwieldy and unsurprising. It fails as a Smith-family project. Jaden Smith, who was fine in The Karate Kid, is flat here. He doesn’t bring any more force to the role than a persis-tence of action and a constant undercurrent of brooding. Given the talent involved, one hoped for so much more.HH – Louis BlackAlamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Westgate
AmericAn mAry D: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska; with Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren, Paula Lindberg. (R, 103 min.) Half the fun of a slasher film lies in its title. With deliciously tongue-in-cheek names like Chopping Mall and I Dismember Mama, you know what to expect: blood, guts, and more blood and guts. American Mary, however, communicates nothing along those lines. In fact, it communicates nothing at all. On its face, it suggests a biopic about America’s Sweetheart, silent film star Mary Pickford, or possibly a queer comedy riffing on old-school gay-speak. To be fair, American Mary (which made its American debut at last fall’s Fantastic Fest) is not a slasher movie, and it barely qualifies as a horror film, which may explain why the filmmakers settled on such an unsatisfying title. Rather, it’s purportedly a psy-chological study imbued with horror elements such as dismemberment, mutilation, and tor-ture, but with all the blood drained from it. Mary Mason (Isabelle) is a promising but broke medical-school student who starts per-
forming elective plastic surgery on patients seeking to transform their appearances in unconventional ways. Her first patient is a Betty Boop look-alike who wants her breasts and genitalia to resemble a doll’s plastic features. (Insert Barbie joke here.) Soon, Dr. Mason’s specialty practice is booming. Other clients request horn implants, tongue-splitting, and – in the case of identical twins played by the film’s sibling directors – trans-planted appendages. For most of us, the subculture of extreme body modification is unsettling and incomprehensible. (Admittedly, today’s ubiquitous piercings, tattoos, and spray tans also alter human appearance, albeit less drastically.) American Mary doesn’t explore (much less hint at) what motivates individuals to undergo such radical physical transmutations. The persons playing the clientele in this film are not professional actors whose appearances have been digi-tally or prosthetically enhanced – they’re the real deal. While the movie does not demean them, they’re presented more or less like freaks in a sideshow, there for us to gawk at. The Soska sisters might have looked to Thirties’ horror film director Tod Browning for guidance on how to handle this tricky subject matter more humanely. American Mary ventures into genre terri-tory only briefly, after its unlicensed practi-tioner is drugged and raped by an authority figure for no apparent reason. (The film’s spotty script is rife with many such WTF moments.) She exacts vengeance on her perpetrator with the zeal of Dr. Mengele, giv-ing new meaning to a patient going under the knife. (Luckily for those of us on the squeamish side, we don’t witness these operating skills firsthand.) As the good girl gone bad, Isabelle demonstrates little screen presence. Although blandly pretty, her impas-sive face registers little emotion; she looks like Katy Perry on a Botox binge. Even the rubber apron she wears during working hours fails to bring out something interesting in either the actress or the character she plays. Given its many failings, nothing short of an extreme makeover could save American Mary. Scalpel, please.H – Steve DavisAlamo Village
Kon-tiKi D: Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg; with Pål Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tobias Santelmann, Gustaf Skarsgård, Agnes Kittelsen. (PG-13, 101 min.) The color blue dominates the filmmakers’ palette in Kon-Tiki: the azure expanse of open sky, the aquamarine sheen of boundless ocean, the cerulean eyes of Pål Hagen in the role of real-life adventurer Thor Heyerdahl. Geir Hartly Andreassen’s beautifully saturated cinematography nourishes the senses like a photo spread in National Geographic. The semblance is no small irony, given the maga-zine’s refusal to finance Heyerdahl’s daring 1947 expedition across 4,300 miles of the Pacific on a balsa-wood raft christened Kon-Tiki to support his thesis about the settle-ment of Polynesia. (Contrary to conventional belief, he contended that South Americans from the east populated those islands in the pre-Columbian era, rather than Asians from the west.) He and his five-man crew set sail from Peru with no surveillance to monitor the expedition’s progress and no motor to navigate his primitive vessel in the event of
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an emergency. He used nothing more than a sextant to plot his raft’s course. In keeping with the objective of authenticity, there was no back-up plan. Like Lindbergh’s trans-Atlantic solo flight or John Glenn’s maiden orbit in space, Heyerdahl’s maritime journey captured the public’s insatiable need for heroes who succeed against the odds. His published account of this bold adventure remains a literary phenomenon – it sat on every baby boomer’s family bookshelf – selling over 50 million copies in almost 70 languages, while the documentary compiled from film footage he shot during the voyage won the Oscar for best documentary in 1951. Though many anthropologists today dis-count Heyerdahl’s theory, the audacity of his undertaking has forever ensured his place in modern history. The narrative feature film Kon-Tiki revives the Heyerdahl mythos with mixed results. (A recent Oscar nominee for best foreign film, it was simultaneously shot in Norwegian and English to better tap the international market; this release is the latter version.) Kon-Tiki respectfully renders its 20th century explorer as an obsessed but genial every-man who seldom loses his composure. With each destructive squall and circling shark, Heyerdahl’s confidence drifts into self-doubt, particularly when the lives of his inexperi-enced crew are endangered, but it never falters. It’s this resolve that keeps both the raft and the film on course. Yet, at the same time, it also keeps Heyerdahl life-sized. He
doesn’t quite fit your expectations of the kind of man capable of his achievement. Where is the charisma that convinced others to voluntarily participate in a potential suicide mission, or the megalomania that compelled him to risk everything, including his marriage and family, for an ideal? Granted, Heyerdahl was no Captain Ahab, but the hero depicted in Kon-Tiki is sometimes just plain ordinary. This flaw in character development, how-ever, doesn’t shipwreck Kon-Tiki. Although a Norwegian production, the film has a muted Hollywood sensibility that keeps things real. It’s an absorbing and often lyrical piece of storytelling that doesn’t overembellish the facts or rely on a pumped-up score or whiplash editing to heighten the dramatic action. Indeed, the occasional (and welcome) appearance of a stowaway crab adopted by Heyerdahl as the boat’s mascot is as emotionally manipulative as the film gets. In setting sail on his famed raft, Heyerdahl saw the Pacific Ocean as a pathway rather than a barrier. It’s a lovely Zen-like philosophy that befits a lovely movie.HHH – Steve DavisArbor
J Love is ALL you need D: Susanne Bier; with Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastian Jessen, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia, Christiane Schaumburg-Muller, Micky Skeel Hansen. (R, 117 min.) As romantic comedies go, Danish helmer Susanne Bier’s follow-up to her Oscar-winning In a Better World percolates more than it froths – but that’s a good thing.
openingsAfter Earth (Pg-13)
American Mary (R)
Frances Ha (R)
Kon-Tiki (Pg-13)
Love Is All You Need (R)
Now You See Me (Pg-13)
ratingsHHHHH As perfect as a movie can be
HHHH slightly flawed, but excellent nonetheless
HHH Has its good points, and its bad points
HH Mediocre, but with one or two bright spots
H Poor, without any saving graces
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Steeping in its flavors rather than chasing bubbly gags, Love Is All You Need breaks no new narrative ground but trusts the genre’s formulas to provide the underpinnings for a realistic comedy about marriage and its discontents. That the film’s central couple are a middle-aged pair only heightens the film’s sense of realism over idealism, even as Italy’s Amalfi-coast setting where much of the film transpires recalls the romantic sur-rounding of films such as Under the Tuscan Sun and Mamma Mia! Since Pierce Brosnan stars here as he did in Mamma Mia!, a certain amount of comparison seems unavoidable, as the viewer might occasionally fear that the actor will break into an uncontrollable burst of song and dance. But have no worries. Philip, the widower Brosnan plays in Love Is All You Need, is a dour businessman who would probably recoil from ABBA even more than he does from his own family and employees. He and Ida (Trine Dyrholm) meet cute in an airport parking garage when she accidentally backs her subcompact into his luxury vehicle. Ida is a cancer survivor who has recently completed breast surgery and chemotherapy, and the uncertainty regard-ing her future has already put a chink in her naturally sunny disposition. Then she comes home from a hospital appointment to find her husband, Leif (Kim Bodnia), on the couple’s living-room couch schtupping a woman (“Thilde from accounting,” played by Christiane Schaumburg-Muller) half her age. Complicating matters is the upcoming wed-ding in Italy of their daughter Astrid (Molly Blixt Egelind) to Patrick (Sebastian Jessen), whom she has only known for three months. Of course, the man she literally bumps into while traveling alone to Italy is none other than the father of the groom, Philip. It’s hardly love at first sight, though: In true romantic-comedy fashion, he thinks she’s an idiot, and she thinks he’s a jerk. Nothing occurs in Love Is All You Need that you can’t see coming from a mile away. There’s the premarital jitters of the betrothed, the monstrously self-deluded sister-in-law of Philip (Paprika Steen, in a hilarious turn), and Leif’s boorish behavior in bringing his young new squeeze to the wedding. In the hands of a master farceur, these would be the ingredients for rollicking humor. Bier and her screenwriter and regular collaborator Anders Thomas Jensen aim elsewhere. There are smiles and laughter to be found in Love Is All You Need, but they’re not the gossamer sort that evaporate in the moonlight.HHHHn – Marjorie BaumgartenArbor
now you see me D: Louis Leterrier; with Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Mélanie Laurent, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Common. (PG-13, 116 min.) Not reviewed at press time. In this high-con-cept crime thriller, a team of illusionists con-duct bank heists during their performances and give the money to their audiences. – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Ritz, Alamo Lake Creek, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
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ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ 320 E. Sixth, 512/476-1320. Showtimes at this venue are subject to frequent change. Please confirm daily by phone or website.
ATX Television Festival: Thu (6/6) Action Pack: The Big Lebowski Quote-Along: Fri, 11:50pm *Epic: 8:55pm *The Hangover: Part III: Fri, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10, 10:40; Sat, 12:40,
Action Pack: The Jiggy Crunk Sing-Along: Thu (6/6), 10:00pm Large-Scale: Experimental Film on 35mm: Sat, 1:00pm The Last Unicorn: Sun, 1:00pm Cinema Cocktails: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life:
Mon, 7:00pm; Tue, 7:30pm *Now You See Me: 8:55pm Terror Tuesday: Psycho II: Tue, 10:45pm Summer of ’83: Risky Business: Sat-Sun, 4:00pm; Wed, 7:00pm Zzang: Screwballs: Sun, 6:00pm Master Pancake: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Fri-Sat, 7:00, 10:00 Bangarang!: Stay Tuned: Sun, 9:30pm Action Pack: Totally Eighties Sing-Along: Sat, 11:35pm Summer of ’83: Twilight Zone: The Movie: Mon, 10:00pm Weird Wednesday: Vigilante: Wed, 9:45pm
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK 13729 Research, 512/219-5408. Showtimes at this venue are subject to frequent change. Please confirm daily by phone or website.
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SLAUGHTER LANE 5701 W. Slaughter Ln., 512/476-1320. Showtimes at this venue are subject to frequent change. Please confirm daily times by phone or website.
ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W. Anderson, 512/459-7090. Tuesday matinee Baby Day shows (first show of the day) are intended for parents and their children younger than 6. Showtimes at this venue are subject to frequent change. Please confirm daily times by phone or website.
ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS 9828 Great Hills Trail (at Jollyville), 512/231-9742. Discounts daily before 6pm.
At Any Price (CC): Fri-Wed, 1:00, 10:05; Thu (6/6), 1:00pm Before Midnight (CC): 12:50, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 The Company You Keep (CC): Fri-Wed, 4:00, 7:20 Frances Ha: noon, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 In the House: Fri-Sun, 12:40, 9:40; Mon, 12:40pm; Tue-Wed, 12:40,
9:40; Thu (6/6), 12:40pm Kon-Tiki: 12:20, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Love Is All You Need (CC): 12:10, 3:00, 7:30, 10:20 Mud: 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 The Place Beyond the Pines (CC): Fri-Wed, 2:30, 6:40;
Thu (6/6), 3:10pm Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s: Fri-Wed, 12:05, 9:50;
Thu (6/6), 12:05pm NCM Fathom: Swan Lake Live (2-D): Thu (6/6), 6:30pm
BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton Creek Square mall, MoPac & Highway 360, 888/262-4386. Matinee discounts available before 4pm daily. Bring Your Baby matinees the first Tuesday of every month.
Iron Man 3 (3-D): Fri-Tue, 12:10, 6:30; Wed, 6:30pm; Thu (6/6), 12:10, 6:30
Iron Man 3 (digital): Fri, 3:20, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 9:10am, 3:20, 9:40pm; Mon-Thu (6/6), 3:20, 9:40
Now You See Me (digital): 10:00am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00pm Star Trek Into Darkness (3-D): 10:50am, 2:10, 5:00, 8:20pm Star Trek Into Darkness (digital): Fri, 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00;
5:25, 6:45, 8:40, 9:55pm The Great Gatsby (3-D): Fri-Wed, noon, 7:00 The Great Gatsby (digital): Fri-Wed, 3:40, 10:10 The Hangover: Part III (digital): Fri-Wed, 11:10am, 12:25, 1:50,
3:10, 4:30, 5:50, 7:10, 8:35, 9:50pm Iron Man 3 (3-D): Fri-Wed, 12:50, 7:20 Iron Man 3 (digital): Fri-Wed, 4:05, 10:20 Classics: Jaws: Sun, 2:00pm; Wed, 2:00, 7:00 Mud (digital): Fri-Sat, 12:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; Sun, 10:55am, 6:40,
9:45pm; Mon-Tue, 12:10, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; Wed, 10:55am, 10:00pm Now You See Me (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:50am, 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30pm Star Trek Into Darkness (3-D): Fri-Wed, 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 Star Trek Into Darkness (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:55am, 2:15, 5:30, 8:50pm
CINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK 2120 N. Mays, Round Rock, 512/388-2848. Discounts daily before 5pm.
4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30pm The Great Gatsby (3-D): Fri-Wed, 10:25am, 4:55pm The Great Gatsby (digital): Fri-Wed, 1:45, 8:10 The Hangover: Part III (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:20am, 11:10, noon,
12:50, 1:40, 2:40, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 6:10, 7:35, 8:00, 8:50, 10:20pm Iron Man 3 (3-D): Fri-Wed, 1:20, 7:45 Iron Man 3 (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:15am, 4:35, 10:45pm Now You See Me (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:45am, 1:35, 4:25, 7:50, 10:35pm Star Trek Into Darkness (3-D): Fri-Wed, 11:45am, 2:50, 5:55, 9:00pm Star Trek Into Darkness (digital): Fri-Wed, 10:10am, 1:15, 4:20,
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CINEMARK SOUTHPARK MEADOWS 9900 S. I-35, 800/326-3264. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a $3.50 premium.
The Great Gatsby (3-D): Fri-Sun, 3:30, 10:00 The Great Gatsby (digital): Fri-Sun, 12:30, 7:00 The Hangover: Part III (digital): Fri, 1:00, 1:50, 3:30, 4:20, 6:05,
Iron Man 3 (3-D): Fri-Sun, 1:25, 7:25 Iron Man 3 (digital): Fri, 4:25, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 10:25am, 4:25, 10:25pm Mud (digital): Fri, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10; Sat-Sun, 10:10am, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10pm Now You See Me (digital): Fri, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30;
Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30pm Star Trek Into Darkness (3-D): Fri-Sun, 12:10, 6:45 Star Trek Into Darkness (digital): Fri-Sun, 3:45, 10:10
CINEMARK STONE HILL TOWN CENTER 18820 Hilltop Commercial Dr. (southwest corner of highways 130 & 45), 512/251-0938.
3:45, 10:15; Thu (6/6), 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 The Great Gatsby: 11:15am, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30pm *The Hangover: Part III: 11:45am, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45pm Iron Man 3: 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Star Trek Into Darkness: 10:15am, 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30pm
GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 N. I-35 & Middle Fiskville, 512/467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatre on Friday or Saturday after 7pm without an adult.
8:05, 10:45pm Iron Man 3: 9:15am, 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35pm *Now You See Me: 10:15am, 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15pm Star Trek Into Darkness: 9:30am, 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15pm
LAKELINE Lakeline Mall at Highway 183 & RR 620, 512/335-4793. Discounts daily before 6pm.
Fast & Furious 6 (XD): 12:50, 4:00, 7:25, 10:40 The Great Gatsby (3-D): Fri-Wed, 3:10, 9:55; Thu (6/6), 3:10pm The Great Gatsby (digital): 11:50am, 6:35pm The Hangover: Part III (digital): Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 10:50, 11:35,
VIOLET CROWN CINEMA 434 W. Second, 512/495-9600. Four-hour parking validation in attached garage with ticket purchase. Reserved seating; bar and cafe on-site.
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J the compAny you Keep D: Robert Redford; with Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick Nolte, Chris Cooper, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Richard Jenkins, Anna Kendrick, Brendan Gleeson, Brit Marling, Sam Elliott, Stephen Root, Jackie Evancho. (R, 121 min.) Boomers, unite. The Company You Keep fore-grounds some historical combatants of yore: mem-bers of the Weather Underground who, threatened to be exposed, resurface after 40 years underground. Tastefully combining elements of the thriller and newspaper procedural, Redford has created a con-temporary saga about political idealism, stone-cold realities, and the repercussions of past deeds. When a middle-class housewife and mother (Sarandon) – actually a long-sought-after Weather Underground fugitive – is captured by federal agents, newspa-per reporter Ben Shepard (LaBeouf) starts sniffing around, which in turn leads him to question public-interest lawyer Jim Grant (Redford) and uncover his deep, dark secrets. The Company You Keep progress-es in episodic fashion as Grant goes on the run and hooks up with various figures from his radical past. Though often platitudinous, and lacking sizzle, the film reminds us that homegrown terrorism is noth-ing new, and that the idealism of the Sixties has not gone completely underground. (04/26/2013)HHH – Marjorie BaumgartenArbor
J the croods D: Kirk De Micco, Chris Sanders; with the voices of Nicolas Cage, Emma Stone, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Clark Duke. (PG, 98 min.) Stoopid title. Sweet movie. DreamWorks Animation’s spirited and eye-popping stealth charmer The Croods tracks the title’s family of “crude” cave dwellers, who struggle to stay alive after the ele-ments have claimed their Neanderthal neighbors. Dad Grug (voiced by Cage) is a nervous nelly: “Stop looking for things!” he wails at his feisty, adventurous daughter, Eep (Stone). But soon, with the Earth frac-turing around them in a continental-drift doomsday scenario, the clan is forced to leave the cave and fol-low Eep into the new world – a riot of color and gonzo imagining, reveling wholly in “what might have been” (e.g., flying turtles) and utterly untroubled by “what actually was.” And the fact that Eep, that rare inven-tion in contemporary animation – a dizzyingly fierce female hero whose sex isn’t her defining character trait – is afforded that breadth of motivation without it once being tethered to her “girlness”? That’s a win. (03/22/2013)HHHHn – Kimberley JonesGateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
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At Any price D: Ramin Bahrani; with Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens, Clancy Brown, Maika Monroe, Chelcie Ross. (R, 105 min.) Writer/director Ramin Bahrani specializes in small-scale, hyper-regional studies of livelihoods that remain all but alien to the world of fiction films. His latest, At Any Price, puts human faces to the phrase “corporate agribusiness” with a family drama set amid the present-day Iowa cornfields. Dennis Quaid plays third-generation farmer Henry Whipple. Less saintly underdog than unctu-ous creep, he’s ready to lie, cheat, and steal, all in his dogged attempt to maintain his family’s parcel of land as corporate megafarms, with their high-tech systems, threaten to push out traditional corn-growers. Next in line to take over the family business would be young, volatile Dean Whipple (Efron), who defies his dad’s wishes by pursuing a career as a NASCAR driver. Though well-researched and competently acted, At Any Price doesn’t risk much, having neither a thesis nor a resolution. Like an awkward hug between estranged relations, there’s a lack of confidence in the execution. (05/17/2013)HHn – Leah ChurnerArbor
J Before midnight D: Richard Linklater; with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Prior, Charlotte Prior, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Walter Lassally, Ariane Labed, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Panos Koronis. (R, 109 min.) The romantic optimism of people in their 20s, the regrets that begin to encroach in one’s 30s: These are part of life’s natural ebb and flow, captured with exquisite detail and notable flourish in Richard Linklater’s touchstones of modern romantic cinema, Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004). I’m not spoiling much by telling you that Before Midnight picks up with intercontinental lovers Celine (Delpy) and Jesse (Hawke) another nine years down love’s road. They are an established couple, though not mar-ried, and are the parents of twin girls. Now in their early 40s and on summer vacation in Greece, their love is still palpable, but so is the passage of time and the weight of life’s constant demands. An intri-cate depiction of romance ripening with time, Before Midnight surpasses the two previous films in this tril-ogy in terms of its intelligence, narrative design, and vivacity: It’s a grand accomplishment. (05/24/2013)HHHHHn – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Slaughter Lane, Arbor, Violet Crown
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J epic D: Chris Wedge; with the voices of Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Beyoncé Knowles, Aziz Ansari, Amanda Seyfried, Steven Tyler, Jason Sudeikis. (PG, 102 min.) An imaginative 3-D animated fantasy begins with Mary Katherine (Seyfried), a young teenager, arriving to visit her eccentric, almost-mad scientist father (Sudeikis). Claiming there are elaborate, hidden kingdoms in the woods surrounding his house, he comes across as a bit daft. But, when MK (as she calls herself) is shrunk down to the size of the forest creatures, she discovers her father is not mad after all: There is a magnificent world deep in the woods ... and an ongoing war between good and evil, too, with two contrasting societies arrayed against each other in a near-medieval setting. The plot is both obvious and innovative. A dozen small touches – including great voice work, stunning visuals, a wide variety of interesting characters, and a witty, full script – make this film entertaining for all ages. Fast-moving, involv-ing, and entertaining, Epic sweeps you deep into its current and carries you swiftly along. (05/24/2013)HHH – Louis BlackAlamo Ritz, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Westgate
eviL deAd D: Fede Alvarez; with Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, Elizabeth Blackmore. (R, 91 min.) Fans of the original trilogy of The Evil Dead films have nothing to fear: This new reworking has the blessing of the cult horror series’ holy trinity of progenitors – original director Sam Raimi, producer Robert G. Tapert, and star Bruce Campbell. Evil Dead (version 2013) smartly retools the original outline and delivers far more bloody mayhem than is usu-ally considered acceptable. The template is familiar: Five attractive young adults are holed up in a remote cabin in the woods when they discover a hidden chamber of unimaginable horrors and naively unleash the evil forces contained within. In his first feature film, Uruguayan director Fede Alvarez demonstrates a fertile imagination and talent for delivering squirm-inducing images of bodily mutilations and other atrocities. Though it lacks some of the original film’s tongue-in-cheek humor, this Evil Dead accomplishes what it sets out to do: scare viewers silly and uphold a tradition. (04/05/2013)HHH – Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown South
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meled island off the Mississippi River to investigate. Soon, they discover they’re not alone: A chip-toothed drifter named Mud (McConaughey) has been squatting in the hull, skulking the small stretch of land in his boots with nails cross-hatched on the bottom to “ward off evil spirits.” Mud asks the boys for assistance, first with food, then with delivering messages to the mainland, where his childhood sweetheart Juniper (Witherspoon) holes up in a hotel room. Austin-based writer/director Jeff Nichols smartly yokes Mud’s hyper-masculine stories – of blood feuds and gruff family men buckling under stress – to a soulful romanticism. As American independent film teems with so many shaky-cam snarksters, what an electric riposte to the status quo is Nichols, with his masterfully wide-vistaed eye for the epic and the elemental. (04/26/2013)HHHH – Kimberley JonesArbor, Hill Country Galleria, Southpark Meadows, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Violet Crown
oBLivion D: Joseph Kosinski; with Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Melissa Leo, Zoe Bell, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. (PG-13, 126 min.) In Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski’s new science-fiction outing, Jack (Cruise) and Victoria (Riseborough) are a couple who help maintain giant machines that suck out vital resources from what’s left of a future, devastated Earth. Decades ago, the alien Scavs destroyed Earth’s moon and invaded the planet, although they lost the ensuing war. With Earth in ruins, though, most of the population has fled to an orbiting spaceship. Only a handful remain to main-tain massive ocean-mining operations, while fighting the renegade Scavs that survived the war. Visually, the film is stunning, and Kosinski is a hell of a direc-tor, even if the result provides more surface than depth. The film is a voyage full of underlying myster-ies, twists, and curves, in which it turns out that noth-ing is what it seems. Though admirable in its look and style, Oblivion is not exceptional. Nevertheless, the film does hold its own. (04/19/2013)HHHn – Louis BlackMetropolitan
pAin & gAin D: Michael Bay; with Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Anthony Mackie, Ed Harris, Tony Shalhoub, Bar Paly. (R, 130 min.) Usually Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest-type com-edies leave me cold, but this tale of the crime spree of three near-idiots is somehow both comical and charming. As it asserts more than once, the film is based on a true story. Fitness trainer Daniel Lugo (Wahlberg) talks two friends, Doyle (Johnson) and Doorbal (Mackie), into kidnapping profoundly obnoxious millionaire Victor Kershaw (Shalhoub) and making him sign over all his holdings, although every-thing goes almost exactly the opposite as planned. One of the dirty secrets of modern American film-making is what a skilled director Michael Bay really is. He doesn’t make great movies, but rather cold, explosive, larger-than-life, CGI cinematic thrill rides. But here, the focus is more human. It’s a cops-and-criminals story economically done, with Bay’s usual excesses all running toward documenting the dumb and clueless. Boasting limited ambitions, there is something raw and funny about this tale of the spec-tacularly inept. (04/26/2013)HHHn – Louis BlackMetropolitan
pietA D: Kim Ki-duk; with Lee Jung-jin, Cho Min-soo. (NR, 104 min., subtitled) South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk’s provocative and frequently abrasive films have generally relegated him to international arthouse ghettos. Kim’s 18th film, Pieta, is full of queasy-making moments, but neverthe-less reveals a dark humor as well as thematic through-lines about redemption and capitalism’s proclivity toward devouring its most vulnerable. Kang-do (Lee Jung-jin) is a ruthless enforcer for a loan shark in the Cheonggyecheon section of Seoul. We observe him doing nothing but masturbate, work (i.e., maim and cripple), and kill his daily dinner meat. Then, into his life arrives Mi-sun (Cho Min-soo), who claims to be the mother who abandoned him at birth. Over time, he soft-ens to her presence and shows glimmers of the child he never was. For all its violence, Kim’s morality tale demonstrates that, even if forgiveness is not always viable in the human condition, expiation of one’s sins is still within the realm of possibility. (05/17/2013)HHH – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Slaughter Lane
iron mAn 3 D: Shane Black; with Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau. (PG-13, 130 min.) The second directorial effort by star screenwriter Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) is the latest entry in this unusually fine Marvel superhero series. The film pro-vides more of the same and nothing startlingly innova-tive, but what’s here is good. This is a comic book with action – expect explosive maneuvering, endless soar-ing, and a cavalcade of impressive pyrotechnics – but also heart. As usual, there are twists and turns, acts of betrayal and treason. Through it all, Downey’s Iron Man teeters between being a reluctant yet vainglorious hero. In spite of being a genius billionaire industrialist, Stark is almost too easily disenfranchised and dispos-sessed. But then isn’t that a typical Iron Man theme, both in the movies and in comic books: exile, degrada-tion, and then redemption? As mighty and superhuman as the Iron Man hero is, he must be assailed and tarnished if he is to return in glory. (05/03/2013)HHHn – Louis BlackAlamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Westgate
J mud D: Jeff Nichols; with Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Ray McKinnon, Sam Shepard, Michael Shannon, Joe Don Baker. (PG-13, 130 min.) Mud begins with a boat in a tree. Its other-worldly presence lures 14-year-old best friends Ellis (Sheridan) and Neckbone (Lofland) to a tiny, untram-
the greAt gAtsBy D: Baz Luhrmann; with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Amitabh Bachchan, Elizabeth Debicki, Jason Clarke, Isla Fisher. (PG-13, 141 min.) Is it any wonder that Baz Luhrmann, cinematic circus master of delirious excess, was drawn to the riotous bender that was the Roaring Twenties? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s required-reading source novel has been notoriously tricky to transpose to screen, and Luhrmann’s version – the fifth whack at bat – gets some elements right, and others spectacularly wrong, in its retelling of the doomed Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio), a self-invented entrepreneur who’s anxious to woo back his first love, Daisy (Mulligan). Gatsby, Daisy, and Daisy’s husband/Gatsby’s rival – that pencil-mustachioed old-money thug Tom Buchanan (Edgerton) – make a combus-tible mix. Luhrmann works double-time to make the material fresh, and the strain shows. There are bright spots: I counted one moment when time stood still, but I wanted more than one moment from material this fertile, from a filmmaker this attuned to the fever of passion. Here, Luhrmann only catches high fever’s empty gibberish. (05/10/2013)HH – Kimberley JonesAlamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Violet Crown, Westgate
the hAngover: pArt iii D: Todd Phillips; with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Justin Bartha, John Goodman, Melissa McCarthy, Jeffrey Tambor, Heather Graham, Mike Epps. (R, 100 min.) Calling to order another meeting of the “Wolf Pack” – as dubbed by Alan (Galifianakis), the idiot glue in this series’ quartet of friends forever finding themselves in mortal peril – The Hangover: Part III makes it immediately clear that this is the last out-ing. Is it worth your while? Well, how much is your while worth? And on a scale of 0 to 10, how funny do you find giraffe decapitation? With this third film, series helmer Todd Phillips burns at least part of the schematic – no hangover, no piecing together a night lost to a blackout. The tight timeline remains, though: When Bartha’s character is kidnapped by Goodman’s gangster, the remaining bros must jour-ney into another dark night of the soul to save their friend. In the end – and this is the end – it is what is. We’ve had some good laughs. Let’s part amicably. (05/24/2013)HHHn – Kimberley JonesAlamo Ritz, Alamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
J in the house D: François Ozon; with Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet, Bastien Ughetto, Yolande Moreau. (R, 105 min., subtitled) In the House, from the eclectic French filmmaker François Ozon, is an almost perverse delight, an egghead thriller that slyly shell-games its truer purpose as an inquiry into the construction – and deconstruction – of fiction. Middle-aged Germain (Luchini) is a failed novelist teaching Flaubert to bored, barely literate teenagers – “barbarians,” as he dismisses them to his wife, Jeanne (Scott Thomas). Then, one day, a soft-spoken, lower-income student named Claude (Umhauer) submits an essay in which he describes how he has observed, from afar, a fellow classmate’s happy home life, and set about infiltrating it. Claude continues to turn in essays (or are they wild fictions?) about his maneuverings, and soon, ignoring his inner warning bells, Germain takes Claude under his wing. This pleasurably heady film is rife with twisting corridors. Sympathies shift, the reliability of narrators is called into question: there’s only one person perfectly in charge here, and that’s Ozon. (05/17/2013)HHHH – Kimberley JonesArbor
fAst & furious 6 D: Justin Lin; with Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Gina Carano, Sung Kang, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, Elsa Pataky. (PG-13, 130 min.) Every picture in this curiously addictive franchise has built on the excess of its predecessor, as if it’s engaged in an endless, double-dog-dare-ya game of one-upmanship with itself. In this fifth sequel, profes-sional outlaws Dominic Toretto (Diesel) and Brian O’Conner (Walker) are holed up in the extradition-free Canary Islands, enjoying the spoils of Fast & Furious 5’s epic heist. But when Dwayne Johnson’s federal agent Hobbs shows up brandishing pictures of Dom’s dead girlfriend Letty (Rodriguez) looking very much alive and in league with an international thief named Shaw (Evans), Dom swiftly reassembles his team. There is a plot – a clunky one, jerry-rigged with cli-ché riddled dialogue and character motivations that amount to one long “huh?” – but who needs plot when we can have mayhem? Fast & Furious 6 offers mayhem to burn (pyrotechnics, too!), but we’ve seen this all before, and it hasn’t gotten any better with time. (05/24/2013)HHHn – Kimberley JonesAlamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Westgate
42 D: Brian Helgeland; with Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, T. R. Knight, Ryan Merriman, Lucas Black, Andre Holland, Alan Tudyk, Hamish Linklater, John C. McGinley. (PG-13, 128 min.) Inherently, the story of Jackie Robinson leaving the Negro League to join baseball’s major-league Brooklyn Dodgers is fascinating any way you tell it. The real problem is that there are so many ways – the historical story, a baseball drama, the tale of a great man, a take on a great couple (Jackie and Rachel Robinson). Writer/director Helgeland, however, took the gutsiest route, presenting a socially con-scious moral tale about the pervasive evil and sheer malevolence of segregation. Intellectually admirable, 42 tells a very human story of an extraordinary man in outrageous and exaggerated circumstances. Yet, in earnestly telling the story of segregation, the film is so steadfastly determined to get at political realities that it often feels like an overly sincere history les-son. Still, it’s a history lesson of which we regularly need to be reminded. Entertainingly, comprehensively, and in very human ways, that is what this film does. (04/12/2013)HHH – Louis BlackMetropolitan
D: Sidney Lumet; with William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Robert Duvall, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight. (1976, R, 121 min.) Summer Film Classics: TV Movies. This is a prescient, sharply drawn, and award-winning comedy writ-ten by Paddy Chayevsky about the depths to which one unscrupulous television station will sink. It makes Howard Beale (Finch) “mad as hell,” and he memorably raises his window to announce that he’s “not going to take it any-more.” (Double bill: Good Night, and Good Luck.) (*) @Stateside at the Paramount, Tuesday, 7:15pm; Wednesday, 9:10pm.
NetworkD: Phil Karlson; with Adele Jergens, Marilyn Monroe, Rand Brooks. (1948, NR, 61 min.) Austin Film Society: The Life and Films of Marilyn Monroe. Rarely shown, this B-film fea-tures Marilyn Monroe as a working actor under contract before she became a star. She plays a chorus girl who falls in love with a wealthy man. @Marchesa Hall & Theatre, Wednesday, 7pm.
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D: Treva Wurmfeld. Austin Film Society. The tur-bulent but creative connection between theatre legend Sam Shepard and writer and collector Johnny Dark is explored in this documentary. The film also features the work of a couple of Austin film mavericks: editor Sandra Adair and musician Graham Reynolds. @Alamo Village, Sunday, 4pm.
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sion to these historic figures. When flame-haired young Andrée (Theret) inquires about modeling for Renoir père (Bouquet), a recent widower suffering from terrible arthritis, she soon begins coming to his atelier daily, reviving the artist’s verve for his art. Meanwhile, World War I looms: Renoir’s two oldest sons have volun-teered to go to the front. After suffering egregious inju-ries, Jean (Rottiers) comes home to convalesce, and develops a loving relationship with Andrée. Vibrant, yet dramatically inert, Renoir is great at capturing details and an Impressionistic film sense, but as far as telling us a story, the film is a washout. (05/10/2013)HHHn – Marjorie BaumgartenArbor
scAtter my Ashes At Bergdorf’s D: Matthew Miele; with Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Candice Bergen, Joan Rivers, Susan Lucci, Nicole Richie, Karl Lagerfeld, Rachel Zoe. (PG-13, 93 min.) So what’s it like to try on clothes at one of the most expensive stores in the world? You won’t find out in Matthew Miele’s documentary about New York’s Bergdorf Goodman. Though the title would seem to promise effervescent fun, that’s not what’s in stock. The film’s primary focus is the Bergdorf’s staff: the same solemn, purse-lipped people who fired Joan Rivers and Miss Piggy for having a laugh behind the cosmetics counter in The Muppets Take Manhattan; they’re like sadistic wizards waving Swarovski-Crystal-encrusted magic wands. Fashion docs bore me to my core, but a good retail movie is different. Scatter My Ashes isn’t about shopping, but about branding – or rather it is branding, and remains relentlessly on-mes-sage. Everybody’s tantalized by the store’s exclusivity because next to nobody makes the cut: Having some-body sprinkle your mortal remains on the marble floor is the only way you’d ever fit in. (05/24/2013)HHn – Leah ChurnerArbor
J spring BreAKers D: Harmony Korine; with Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine, James Franco, Gucci Mane. (R, 94 min.) No less a cinema provocateur than he was when he debuted in the Nineties, Harmony Korine has finally found popular success with his new film Spring Breakers. Besides the technical upgrade from his lo-fi origins, Korine seems to be working in a more populist key, using attractive, scantily clad young women (a couple of them Disney alums) in central key roles and obscuring the line between carefree indulgence and dangerous sociopathy. “Pretend it’s a video game. Act like you’re in a movie or something,” says one of the quartet of college coeds before robbing a restaurant to get cash so they can head to Florida for spring break. This teen exploitation film has all the booze and bikinis a glutton could want, parading its excesses through candy-colored lens filters and a backing soundtrack by Cliff Martinez and Skrillex. In turns appealing and horri-fying, Spring Breakers is Korine’s most cogent take yet on society’s outsiders. (03/22/2013)HHHHn – Marjorie BaumgartenMovies 8
J stAr treK into dArKness D: J.J. Abrams; with Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, John Cho, Alice Eve, Bruce Greenwood, Karl Urban, Peter Weller, Anton Yelchin. (PG-13, 132 min.) J.J. Abrams doesn’t seem to have the itch to start from scratch. He rebooted Star Trek in 2009 with a narrative loophole that gave him free rein, and yet he still seems hesitant to test just how much rope he has. Abrams’ space isn’t the final frontier: The landscape reads more like, “Haven’t we been
J the pLAce Beyond the pines D: Derek Cianfrance; with Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Eva Mendes, Mahershala Ali, Ben Mendelsohn, Ray Liotta, Emory Cohen, Dane DeHaan. (R, 140 min.) Running almost two and a half hours, writer/director Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond the Pines is a melodrama, multigenerational epic, heist film, and motorcycle-fetish movie all rolled into one. Arguably, it’s a bit overambitious, but good God, look at Gosling! A ripped, inked, peroxided carny-cum-bandit – and erstwhile frontman of “Handsome Luke and the Heartthrobs,” a traveling troupe of motorcycle acrobats – he positively radiates tragic gutter glory. In a series of spectacular single-take chase scenes, the film follows Luke’s descent. Pines develops as a trip-tych, and its tonal shifts can sometimes be disorient-ing. In one scene, Luke bungles a bank robbery and crosses paths with an ambitious rookie cop, Avery (Cooper) – who’s the subject of the film’s second story. With so many people and ideas flying around, the contrivances start piling up, but Cianfrance’s film is so velvety textured and dreamy, I would’ve stuck around for more. (04/12/2013)HHHH – Leah ChurnerArbor
renoir D: Gilles Bourdos; with Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Romane Bohringer. (R, 111 min., subtitled) Colorful and lighter than air, the Impressionist paint-ings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir bring almost universal contentment to those who gaze upon them. And, though his artistic temperament was less radiant, Pierre-Auguste’s middle son, Jean Renoir, is beloved ’round the world for the humanistic qualities of his films. It’s too bad then that Renoir adds little dimen-
D: Lloyd Bacon; with Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. (1933, NR, 89 min.) Summer Film Classics: Musicals. This quintessen-tial backstage musical features great Busby Berkeley production numbers, and such tunes as “You’re Getting to Be a Habit With Me” and “Shuffle Off to Buffalo.” (Double bill: Gold Diggers of 1933.) (*) @Paramount, Thursday (6/6), 7pm; Friday (6/7), 9pm.
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here before?” Well, yes, but a whirligig doesn’t go anywhere, either, and it’s still fun to watch it spin. Cumberbatch, playing a Starfleet officer gone rogue, is especially good as the morally complicated villain, and screenwriters Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and fanboys’ favorite whipping boy, Damon Lindelof, keep the film moving at a quippy clip.There’s really no fat here until the film feints a climax only to lurch the coaster-car back up the hill again. The tentpoles are famous for tacking 20 minutes too long onto their summer cine-spectacles, and Abrams’ is no different. He just does it better. (05/17/2013)HHHHn – Kimberley JonesAlamo Lake Creek, Alamo Slaughter Lane, Alamo Village, Barton Creek Square, Bullock Museum, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Flix Brewhouse, Highland, Gateway, iPic, Lakeline, Moviehouse, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
J trAsh dAnce D: Andrew Garrison. (NR, 68 min.) One man’s trash may be another man’s treasure, but it takes Austin-based choreographer Allison Orr to demonstrate that one city’s trash collection can provide the foundation for an amazing work of art. Orr envisioned a dance piece performed by waste management workers, a celebration of the interplay between humans and machines, and the rhythms, movements, physicality, and precision teamwork that go largely unnoticed. If dance, Orr explains, is simply the coordination of space, time, and energy, then the orchestration of garbage trucks, trash receptacles, and the human beings who maneuver them is the dance equivalent of a city symphony. Only about 15 minutes of this brief film showcase the actual piece, which was performed live only once. The collaborative process of creating the performance forms the heart of Garrison’s film. A winner of numerous festival awards, Trash Dance is now ready for its bow on the national stage. (05/03/2013)HHHHn – Marjorie BaumgartenViolet Crown
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Thursday 30J Bullitt (1968) D: Peter Yates; with Steve
McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Duvall. (PG, 113 min.) Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. One of the cinema’s very best car-chase sequences – set amid the hilly, windy San Francisco streets – caps this quintessential Steve McQueen policier. (Double bill: Cool Hand Luke.) (*) @Stateside at the Paramount, 9:45pm.
J Cool Hand Luke (1967) D: Stuart Rosenberg; with Paul Newman. (NR, 126 min.) Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. No failure to communicate here – Cool Hand Luke is one of the sharpest prison dramas ever, although it’s graced with some very humorous portions as well. It can also be seen as a quintessentially Sixties parable about non-conformity. (Double bill: Bullitt.) @Stateside at the Paramount, 7:15pm.
First: The Official Film of the London 2012 Olympic Games (2013) D: Caroline Rowland. NCM Fathom. This film follows 12 first-time Olympic athletes on their journey to the London Olympics from their homes around the world. The presenta-tion includes exclusive interviews with swimmer Missy Franklin, gymnast John Orozco, boxer Queen Underwood, and BMX racer Caroline Buchanan. @Southpark Meadows, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, Cinemark Stone Hill Town Center, Tinseltown North, Arbor, Metropolitan, 7:30pm.
The Jiggy Crunk Sing-Along Action Pack. @Alamo Ritz, 10:30pm.
Stars Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983) D: Richard Marquand; with Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher. (PG, 135 min.) Summer of ’83. On the film’s 30th anniversary, the Alamo is one of two venues where this original trilogy classic will screen. @Alamo Ritz, 7pm; sold out.
SPACESJ Swoon (1992) D: Tom Kalin; with Daniel
Schlachet, Craig Chester, Ron Vawter, Michael Kirby, Michael Stumm, Valda Z. Drabla. (NR, 92 min.) Cinema41. This classic of the New Queer Cinema intrigues with its dreamy romanticism and eroticiza-tion of the infamous child murder committed by Leopold and Loeb in 1923. A conversation with Curran Nault, the director of programming at the Polari Film Festival, will follow the screening. (*) @Salvage Vanguard Theater, 8pm.
Friday 31The Big Lebowski Quote-Along (1998) (R, 117
Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. @Stateside at the Paramount, 7:15pm. (See Thursday, 5/30.)
J Cool Hand Luke (1967) Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. @Stateside at the Paramount, 9:30pm. (See Thursday, 5/30.)
Jezebel (1938) D: William Wyler; with Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Spring Byington. (NR, 104 min.) Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. In the title role, Davis delivers one of her most memorable performances as a head-strong young woman whose plan to win back her former fiancé has dire repercussions. (Double bill: Ninotchka) @Paramount, 7pm.
Ninotchka (1939) D: Ernst Lubitsch; with Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Bela Lugosi. (NR, 110 min.) Summer Film Classics: Celebrating the 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Pictures. Garbo and a wonderful supporting cast star in this romantic com-edy in which Garbo plays a no-nonsense Russian agent who is sent on a mission to Paris but suc-cumbs to the city’s romantic charms. (Double bill: Jezebel.) @Paramount, 9:05pm.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) D: Nicholas Meyer; with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban. (PG, 113 min.) Master Pancake. Owen Egerton joins the nerd mockers. @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10.
SPACESJ Before Sunrise and Before Sunset Blue
Starlite Drive-In: Double Feature. Catch a real sun-down at the drive-in while catching up on the first two parts of the trilogy. @Austin Studios, 8:30pm.
J Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) D: Woody Allen; with Allen, John Carradine, Lou Jacobi, Louise Lasser, Gene Wilder. (R, 88 min.) Austin Film Society: Summer Free for All. Inspired by David Reuben’s popular sex manual of the time, Allen created seven comedy segments that purport to come from the book. Some of the skits miss the mark, but who can forget Gene Wilder’s love affair with a sheep or Allen dressed as a sperm awaiting his launch? @Marchesa Hall & Theatre, 8pm; free.
saTurday 1Horror Remix: Don’t Clips from horror movies.
@Alamo Lake Creek, 10pm.J Large-Scale: Experimental Film on 35mm
Experimental Response Cinema. This rare 35mm screening of classic and contemporary experimen-tal films features work by Christina Battle, Louise Bourque, Stan Brakhage, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Lawrence Jordan, Chris Kennedy, Peter Kubelka, Kerry Laitala, Pat O’Neill, and Peter Tscherkassky. @Alamo Ritz, 1pm.
J Risky Business (1983) D: Paul Brickman; with Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Bronson Pinchot. (R, 98 min.) Summer of ’83. Part caper comedy, part suburban satire, and all Eighties, this film was Cruise’s breakthrough perfor-mance, albeit dancing in his underwear. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 4pm.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) (R, 95 min.) Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” thing live for more than three decades. For more info, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Village, 12mid.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Master Pancake. @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10. (See Friday.)
Library, 2pm.Chimpanzee Free. (*) @Windsor Park Branch
Library, 2pm.Epic (sensory friendly) Sponsored by the Autism
Society of America. @Barton Creek Square, 10am.J The Rookie The film recounts the baseball
career of Texan Jim Morris, who, in 1999, became the oldest rookie major-league pitcher to take the field in 40 years. (*) @Texas Spirit Theater, 3pm.
Monday 3J Elemental (2012) D: Gayatri Roshan and
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. (NR, 92 min.) Stateside Independent and Austin Film Festival. In this docu-mentary, three individuals from around the globe confront pressing ecological challenges occurring in their different parts of the world. A panel discussion, led by Cora Lennert of Keep Austin Beautiful, follows the screening. @Stateside at the Paramount, 7pm.
The Last Unicorn (1982) Peter S. Beagle Live. @Alamo Village, 7pm. (See Sunday.)
J Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) D: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones; with Gilliam, Jones, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland. (R, 103 min.) Cinema Cocktails: Summer of ’83. One of the Python’s very best films returns the group to a sketch comedy format with hilarious results. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) D: Joe Dante, John Landis, George Miller and Steven Spielberg; with Dan Aykroyd, Albert Brooks, Vic Morrow, Doug McGrath. (PG, 101 min.) Summer of ’83. Four seg-ments by four different directors are newly told versions of stories created by Rod Serling on his television classic. @Alamo Ritz, 10pm.
Tuesday 4J Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) D: George
Clooney; with Clooney, David Strathairn, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson. (PG, 93 min.) Summer Film Classics: TV Movies. Director and co-screenwriter George Clooney strikes just the right tone of gripping entertainment and understated cautionary tale in this thoughtful portrait of newsman Edward R. Murrow’s confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy. (Double bill: Network.) (*) @Stateside at the Paramount, 9:40pm.
The Last Unicorn (1982) Peter S. Beagle Live. @Alamo Lake Creek, 7pm. (See Sunday.)
Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (1994) D: Kevin Burns and Jeff Scheftel. (NR, 92 min.) Austin Film Society: The Life and Films of Marilyn Monroe. The life and career of the screen legend is documented in this A&E Biography production. @Alamo Village, 7pm.
J Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (1983) Cinema Cocktails: Summer of ’83. @Alamo Ritz, 7:30pm. (See Monday.)
J Network (1976) See p.58.Psycho II (1983) D: Richard Franklin; with Anthony
Perkins, Vera Miles, Meg Tilly, Robert Loggia, Dennis Franz. (R, 113 min.) Terror Tuesday. Norman Bates (still played by Perkins) is released from psychiatric confinement after 22 years. Guess what happens next? @Alamo Ritz, 10:45pm.
J Tootsie (1982) D: Sydney Pollack; with Sydney Pollack, Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Geena Davis, Bill Murray. (PG, 116 min.) Summer Film Classics: TV Movies. In this superlative comedy of the Eighties, Hoffman plays a fussy, underemployed actor who finds work only when he disguises himself (superb-ly) as a woman. (Double bill: The Truman Show.) @Paramount, 7pm.
sunday 2J Jaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg; with Roy
Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. (PG, 124 min.) Cinemark Classics. Spielberg’s interpretation of Peter Benchley’s ultimate beach story is a near-perfect blend of popcorn thriller and well-crafted narrative. (*) @Hill Country Galleria, Tinseltown North, 2pm.
The Last Unicorn (1982) D: Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr.; with the voices of Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Robert Klein. (G, 92 min.) Peter S. Beagle Live. In this animated feature, a brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil king who wants to exterminate all unicorns. Author and screenwriter Peter S. Beagle will be in attendance and available for booksignings an hour before each show. See “Endangered Species Conservation,” p.38, for more. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 1pm.
Mad Men @Violet Crown, 9pm.J Risky Business (1983) Summer of ’83.
@Alamo Ritz, 4pm. (See Saturday.)Screwballs (1983) D: Rafal Zielinski; with Peter
Keleghan, Linda Shayne, Alan Daveau, Kent Deuters, Jason Warren, Lynda Speciale. (R, 80 min.) Zzang!!!: Summer of ’83. Can you say Porky’s clone? @Alamo Ritz, 6pm.
J Shepard and Dark See p.58.Stay Tuned (1992) D: Peter Hyams; with John
Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, Eugene Levy. (PG, 88 min.) Bangarang!. Satan has developed an ingenious new way to garner souls: He forces them to run a gauntlet through various caustic television shows, and if they survive 24 hours they’re free to go. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm.
SPACESJ Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972) Austin Film Society: Summer Free for All. @Marchesa Hall & Theatre, 2pm; free. (See Friday.)
Game of Thrones Free. @Jo’s (Downtown), The North Door, 8pm.
San Antonio Four (work in progress) D: Deborah S. Esquenazi. This documentary about four Latina lesbians from San Antonio who are seek-ing exoneration from wrongful convictions is being shown as a work-in-progress in order to raise funds and launch its Kickstarter campaign. The Chronicle’s Jordan Smith will be giving a keynote address and the director and one of the San Antonio Four will also be in attendance. See www.sanantoniofourmovie.com for more details. @Getaway Motor Club, 5pm.
KIDSJ The Adventures of Robin Hood Mixing a
touch of self-mockery with all its derring-do and romance, this Errol Flynn classic remains fun through the decades and is also marked by its rav-ishing color and score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold. (Double bill: Looney Tunes.) @Paramount, 2, 6:20.
J Looney Tunes Ninety minutes of cartoon clas-sics. (Double bill: The Adventures of Robin Hood.) @Paramount, 4:05pm.
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The Truman Show (1998) D: Peter Weir; with Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney. (PG, 104 min.) Summer Film Classics: TV Movies. Life is a ‘round-the-clock “reality” TV program in this before-its-time film, and Truman Burbank (Carrey) is its unwitting subject/hero/leading man. (Double bill: Tootsie.) (*) @Paramount, 9:10pm.
SPACESLove Free or Die (2012) D: Macky Alston. (NR,
82 min.) Austin Public Library and KLRU. Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop who set a prece-dent in New Hampshire state politics, is the subject of this documentary, which also looks at the LGBT community and otganized religion. @Windsor Park Branch Library, 7pm.
Wednesday 5Before Midnight Feast (2013) D: Richard
Linklater; with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. (R, 109 min.) Food & Film. See www.drafthouse.com for menu. @Alamo Slaughter Lane, 8pm.
J Big Easy Express (2012) D: Emmett Malloy. (NR, 66 min.) Three bands – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons, and the Old Crow Medicine Show – travel to New Orleans on the Big Easy Express for a series of outdoor concerts. @Alamo Village, 9pm.
Clueless Quote-Along (1995) D: Amy Heckerling; with Alicia Silverstone. (PG-13, 97 min.) Girlie Night. @Alamo Lake Creek, 7pm.
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) D: Michael Patrick Jann; with Kirstie Alley, Ellen Barkin, Kirsten Dunst. (PG-13, 93 min.) Classics. This parody of beauty pageants in the flyover states takes the form of a mockumentary filmed at Minnesota’s Sarah Rose Miss Teen Princess America Pageant. (*) @Flix Brewhouse, 7:30pm.
J Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Summer Film Classics: TV Movies. @Stateside at the Paramount, 7:15pm. (See Tuesday.)
J Jaws (1975) Cinemark Classics. @Hill Country Galleria, Tinseltown North, 2, 7. (See Sunday.)
J Network (1976) See p.58.J Risky Business (1983) Summer of ’83.
@Alamo Ritz, 7pm. (See Saturday.)J Tootsie (1982) Summer Film Classics: TV
Movies. @Paramount, 9:10pm. (See Tuesday.)The Truman Show (1998) Summer Film Classics:
TV Movies. @Paramount, 7pm. (See Tuesday.)Vigilante (1983) D: William Lustig; with Robert
Forster, Fred Williamson. (R, 90 min.) Weird Wednesday. When his family is murdered, a New York factory worker joins a vigilante group of ex-cops. @Alamo Ritz, 9:45pm.
SPACESDownton Abbey Tea Time. @Lake Travis
Community Library, 2pm.J Ladies of the Chorus (1948) See p.58.
KIDSCars Free. (*) @Manchaca Branch Library, 6pm.
Thursday 6J American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny (2013) D: Kevin Booth. (NR, 90 min.) Brave New Books. Local media maestro Kevin Booth continues his documentary exploration into the conspiracy against cannabis and the real victims of the war on drugs. @Alamo Slaughter Lane, 7pm.
J 42nd Street (1933) See p.59.J Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) D: Busby
Berkeley; with Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers. (NR, 96 min.) Summer Film Classics: Musicals. This Berkeley backstage musical is a saucy Depression-era spectacle that features a host of talent and Rogers in a costume of shiny coins singing “We’re in the Money” in pig Latin. (Double bill: 42nd Street.) @Paramount, 8:50pm.
The Jiggy Crunk Sing-Along Action Pack. @Alamo Ritz, 10pm. (See Thursday, 5/30.)
Risky Business (1983) Summer of ’83. @Alamo Village, 7:45pm. (See Saturday.)
Scarface (1983) D: Brian De Palma; with Al Pacino. (R, 170 min.) Tough Guy Cinema: Summer of ’83. Pacino’s drug lord Tony Montana holds a special place in the warped iconography of the American dream. @Alamo Lake Creek, 7pm.
Swan Lake Live (2013) NCM Fathom. Ballet performed live at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. @Arbor, Metropolitan, 6:30pm.
SPACESCordoba Nights (2007) D: Luke Campbell and Andy
Campbell; with Raymond Turturro, Ashleigh Holeman, Duane Whitaker, Joe Estevez. (NR, 86 min.) Austin Film Society. In this indie adventure comedy from Cleveland, a rock drummer turned pizza-delivery guy meets a free-spirited girl as he makes his rounds in his Chrysler Cordoba. The co-directors will be in attendance for a Q&A. @Austin Studios Screening Room, 7pm.
J Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) D: Edgar Wright; with Michael Cera. (PG-13, 112 min.) Austin Parks Foundation: Movies in the Park. This glad-hearted and furiously funny piece of pop entertain-ment is told in the vernacular of video games. (*) @Republic Square Park, 8:30pm; free.
There’s Something About Mary (1998) D: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly; with Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Matt Dillon. (R, 119 min.) Blue Starlite Drive-In: Date Night. A classic from the kingpins of comedy. (*) @Austin Studios, 8:45pm.
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Flight of the Butterflies (2012) D: Mike Slee; with Gordon Pinsent, Patricia Phillips. (NR, 44 min.) The life cycle of a monarch butterfly and its long-distance migration from Canada to Central Mexico is captured in this 3-D nature documentary that also focuses on the decades of fieldwork conducted by Canadian scientist Fred Urquhart.
Rocky Mountain Express (2011) D: Stephen Low. (NR, 45 min.) Giant IMAX cameras were strapped to a 1930s steam engine from the Canadian Pacific Railway to follow its trek through the Rockies, from Vancouver to Calgary.
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) D: J.J. Abrams; with Chris Pine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zachary Quinto. (PG-13, 132 min.) See “First Runs” for review.
Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: Scott Swofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39 min.) Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screen as the state is shown to be a land capable of producing everything from grapefruit to microchips.
FesTivalsATX Television Festival Now in its second year,
this festival (June 6-9) celebrates television and looks at its history, present practices, and future possibilities. See www.atxfestival.com for details. Thu. (6/6) @ Stateside at the Paramount, Stephen F. Austin Hotel, Alamo Ritz
oFFscreenAustin Film Festival: Screenplay and Teleplay Competition Whether your dream is signing a contract, landing an agent, learning craft from an industry icon, or taking home the coveted Bronze Typewriter Award, you can’t win if you don’t enter. Drama, comedy, horror, sci-fi categories and more. If you write it in proper format and submit it, it’ll be considered here. Listen: Past competition entrants have signed with Artisan, CAA, Brant Rose Agency, Metropolitan, William Morris, DreamWorks, Pixar, and Miramax. See website for details. Deadline: June 1. www.austinfilmfestival.com.
CinemaEast Launch Party Celebrate your love for indie films with the launch party for another summer of motion-picture goodness under the stars. Mon., June 3, 8pm. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth, 512/431-2133. www.cinemaeastaustin.com.
Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a state-of-the-art screening room, which is available to the public on a rental basis. Community and indie rates are available for the room, which sports an 18-foot-by-7-foot screen, 28 fixed theatre seats, a sur-round-sound system, and supports Super 35, 35mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD formats. Accessibility, rest-rooms – the works. It also has a break room suitable for presentations, meetings, and general cinematic tomfoolery. 512/322-0145. www.austinstudios.org.
Upstart’s Off-Kilter Xmas Film Fest: Call for Entries This fifth annual Bastrop-based festival is looking for DVDs of your short films – 10 minutes or shorter – preferably comic – about holidays gone awry. See website for details. Mail the DVD (with a $10 entry fee, payable to Upstart) to: Carolyn Banks, 223 Riverwood Drive, Bastrop, TX, 78602. Deadline: Sept. 1. www.upstartbastrop.com.
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in-stores: Friday: Parquet Courts, Milk Music, End of an Ear, 2pm; the Features, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Burywood, Monster Stellar, Savage & the Bad Beat, Trailer Space, 7pm; Saturday: Trek’s Hardcore Showcase: NASA Space Universe, Coletraness, Lumpy Dumpers, Trailer Space, 7pm; Monday: Kopecky Family Band, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Tuesday: Los Amigos Invisibles, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Wednesday: Cabra, Inflatable Best Friend, Trailer Space, 7pm; Thursday: the Will Callers, Waterloo Records, 5pm
Hot Club of Cowtown CD Release, CaRpeR familyContinental Club, Friday 31 Inspired local pairing – two super-talented acoustic trios, both with new albums out this week. The Hot Club of Cowtown celebrates Rendezvous in Rhythm, a collection of Gypsy and American songbook standards. It’s Elana James, Whit Smith, and Jake Erwin’s jazziest set yet, confirming the obvious: These cats can swing. The Carper Family updates their sound while straddling a similar throwback era. Second effort Old-Fashioned Gal finds otherworldly harmonies plugged into traditional country, bluegrass, and Western swing, including covers of Neil Young, Brennen Leigh, and Floyd Tillman. – Jim Caligiuri
up in smoke touR: CHeeCH & CHong, waR, toweR of poweRACL Live at the Moody Theater, Friday 31 After their late Seventies/Eighties comedy film heyday, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong survived lame network TV gigs and federal incar-ceration, respectively, to remain the best-known stoner duo of all time. Sorry Harold and Kumar/Method Man and Redman/Jay and Silent Bob/Tenacious D. The iconic potheads, now aged 66 and 75, drag their com-edy and songs onto the big stage tour-ing with similarly irrepressible multi-ethnic hit machine War and the funky horns of Tower of Power. – Kevin Curtin
JapanDRoiDsEmo’s, Friday 31 Vancouver thunder-punk twosome Japandroids makes superhero rock. Skying high above any remorse or doubts, embracing insecurities as the rallying cry that unites us all, last year’s galloping Celebration Rock proved that with enough propulsion, smudgy garage-rock can be the most encom-passing thing in the world. Forget Pavement or Sonic Youth; Japandroids fall back on Jimmy Eat World and the Get Up Kids. New York noise-rockers and recent Psych Festers A Place to Bury Strangers open. – Luke Winkie
aRum RaeLamberts, Saturday 1 Former White Dress frontwoman Arum Rae Valkonen has a five-song EP, Waving Wild, and one fiery voice that blends into heavy riff rock (“You Can’t Tell,” “Let’s Shake”) and bodies up against soulful ballads (“Heaven”). Since going solo, she’s toured alongside North Mississippi Allstars, the Civil Wars, and Gary Clark Jr. Jangly pop-punk trio Dangeresque hits first. – Chase Hoffberger
ana eggeCactus Cafe, Saturday 1 The quiet, homespun folkie living here in the late Nineties has been sup-planted by a NYC singer-songwriter with an East Coast edge. Ana Egge’s latest, the Steve Earle-produced Bad Blood, deals in a natural and uncompromis-ing way with her emotional struggles following a family member’s bouts with mental illness. Appearing on campus unaccompanied, she continues to tell
previously unsung stories with simple melodies, compassion, and charm. – Jim Caligiuri
postal seRviCeCedar Park Center, Sunday 2 The word “reunion” sounds strange applied to an act with a single album to its name, but the Postal Service’s electronic pop prize Give Up made music history with prescient verve. Sub Pop’s bestseller after Nirvana’s Bleach just received a double-disc upgrade, so in marking the 10th anniversary of the fearless debut, Death Cab for Cutie driver Ben Gibbard gathers original members Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) and Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley) for one of the most anticipated revival tours of the last decade. Ra Ra Riot opens. – Abby Johnston
kopeCky family banDStubb’s, Monday 3 What’s in a name? The members of this Nashville sixpiece may not be relat-ed, but you’d be forgiven in thinking oth-erwise given the chemistry that perme-ates debut LP Kids Raising Kids (ATO). Strings blend with horns while sweet boy/girl harmonies ride a folk-rock cas-cade that alternates between jangly fin-ger snapping (“Heartbeat”) and sweet lullabies (“Change”). Expect a lively performance inside Stubb’s after the Icelandic indie pop Of Monsters and Men outside. – Josh Kupecki
lyDia lunCH & weasel walteRNorth Door, Monday 3 More than 35 years after No Wave chopped and scrambled the musical sensibilities of New York’s underground,
boundary-pushing remains the only constant for vocalist/poet/actress Lydia Lunch. The perennial provocateur from Teenage Jesus and the Jerks conquered yet another subchannel last year by publishing a cookbook called The Need to Feed. Lunch delivers darkly hued spoken word Monday against a multi-instrumental, musical verité back-drop provided by Weasel Walter from departed Chicago jazz-punk ensemble the Flying Luttenbachers. – Greg Beets
tHe gReenStubb’s, Tuesday 4 An epic boat ride from the genre’s Caribbean homeland, reggae standouts the Green hail from an ocean away in Hawaii. Regardless of the young sextet’s Pacific position, they nail the smoother side of roots reggae – less Peter Tosh, more Gregory Isaacs – with impressive musicianship, pitch-perfect harmonies, and dub details for a good-time island sound. Expect fresh hits from an upcoming third LP, follow-up to 2011 chart topper Ways & Means. – Kevin Curtin
los amigos invisiblesThe Belmont, Thursday 6 Does this Venezuala-born/NYC-based sextet do anything but rehearse when they’re not eating or sleeping? Possibly the tightest band in the world, Los Amigos Invisibles mastered their blend of salsa, disco, and funk on lat-est LP, Repeat After Me, the way Pablo Picasso mastered Cubism: busting grooves so infectious they’d make Mitt Romney a dancin’ fool. Austin’s Latin electro-funk fusionist Cilantro Boombox swings first. – Michael Toland
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“I remember looking at the lineup and being a little sur-prised that I was playing at Chaos in Tejas,” admits Jessica Pratt. “But I’m certainly happy to not be put in a corner.”
Chaos in Tejas: Jessica Pratt
Strange seeing Pratt’s name in such close proximity to names like Bolt Thrower and the Damned, but accept it as confirmation of the 25-year-old’s uncommonness. The San Franciscan songwriter mines traditionalism but prefers things curiously upturned. From the faint clip in her voice to the naturalistic darkness in her songwriting, she recalls obvious touchstones like Vashti Bunyan and modern-day auteur Grouper, another CiT attendee. She’s also quite new to this. Last year’s self-titled debut wrapped up five years of writing. This tour marks her first round on the road. “It was scary at first, but it feels normal now,” says
Pratt. “I have no interest in returning to my normal life.” Enrapturing people with a gleaned lucidity, she’s near-ly druidic, her voice and guitar proving mystical in the right light – almost elf-like to the naked ear. When her LP arrived last November, it seemed to exist outside the daily pejorative. Comparing it to indie-rock peers didn’t make sense. That’s made Pratt appear like an old soul, even if she speaks like somebody in her 20s. “I don’t know if it has to do with subject matter or the way I sound or a combination of things, but I take it as a compliment,” she says. “I feel pure. I hope I am.” – Luke Winkie
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THe AveTT BroTHerSAustin 360 Amphitheater, Friday 31 Virtual ACL fest, with fiery Grace Potter and Laurel Canyon crusaders Dawes.
MoBB DeePAntone’s, Friday 31 Onetime Chaos in Tejas headliners now rap legendary on the Eastside.
PeTer BrözTMANN & joe MCPHeeWaller Creek School Auditorium, Friday 31 German saxist meets Floridian hornman for free-jazz skronk.
jAAP BLoNK & DAMoN SMITH PLAy HUgo BALLCarousel Lounge, Saturday 1 Avant-garde Dutch poet/sax-ist teams with Houston double bassist and Austin percussionist Chris Cogburn to cover German Dadaist Hugo Ball.
jAMeS MCMUrTry/jIMMy LAFAveSaxon Pub/Threadgill’s World Headquarters, Saturday 1 Fire & brimstone songcraft on South Lamar, angelic folk on Riverside.
THe 20TH ANNIverSAry oF gg ALLIN’S DeATHInfest, Sunday 2 Celebration or wake? Murder Junkies, Hammercocks, and more hold punk-rock court to decide.
oF MoNSTerS AND MeNStubb’s, Monday 3 Icelandic folk pop lowers temps.
reMPIS PerCUSSIoN qUArTeTVictory Grill, Wednesday 5 Afro-Latin jazz-funk from Chicago.
INDIAN jeWeLryHotel Vegas, Thursday 6 Houston psych.
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SALESMAN WITH PAST PRAYERS & BEN BALLINGER
sat june 29
CACTUS SUMMER FUNDRAISER SHOW IN THE TExAS UNION BALLROOM
FEATURING DANA FALCONBERRY, ELIzA GILKYSON, CHARLIE MARS
& PATTY GRIFFIN
601 Chestnut st • bastrop— hIstorIC Downtown bastrop on the ColoraDo —
512.321.1144
Live Music. Local Cuisine. Handcrafted Ales.
tICKets/InFo:www.bastropbrewhouse.Com
FRI
31MAY
SAT
1JUNE
SAT
15JUNE
SAT
29JUNE
2 tIme GrammY nomIneeFastball 8:00pm - $10
GuY ForsYthtrIo 8:00pm - $10
From tV’s “the VoICe”naKIa 8:00pm - $10
Del CastIllo 8:00pm - $12
AMP BENEF IT N IGHTAMP BENEF IT N IGHT :MIKE & THE MOONPIES MIKE & THE MOONPIES @ Midnight@ MidnightLA TAMPIQUEANALA TAMPIQUEANA @ 10pm@ 10pm
MODERN DON JUANSMODERN DON JUANS @ Midnight@ MidnightELSA CROSSELSA CROSS @ 10pmOH BY JINGO!OH BY JINGO! @ 8:30pmOH BY JINGO! @ 8:30pmOH BY JINGO!CONJUNTO LOS PINKYSCONJUNTO LOS PINKYS @ 5pm @ 5pm
TWO HOOTS & A HOLLER @ Midnight@ MidnightROBERT BANTA Y LOS CUATROSROBERT BANTA Y LOS CUATROS FANTASTICOS - CD RELEASE @ 10pm @ 10pmDAVE INSLEY’S CARELESS SMOKERSS CARELESS SMOKERS’S CARELESS SMOKERS’ @ 7pm @ 7pmS CARELESS SMOKERS @ 7pmS CARELESS SMOKERSS CARELESS SMOKERS @ 7pmS CARELESS SMOKERSFREE TWO STEPPIN’LESSONS @ 6pm @ 6pmEAST SIDE FLEA MARKET @ 3pm @ 3pm
URBAN ACHIEVERS BRASS BANDURBAN ACHIEVERS BRASS BAND @ 11pmSTEVE JAMES @ 9pmCONJUNTO LOS PINKYS @ 5pmCONJUNTO LOS PINKYS @ 5pmCONJUNTO LOS PINKYS
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Live Music venues1100 WAREHOUSE, 1100 E. Fifth 290 WEST BAR & GRILL, 12013 Hwy. 290 W.,
512/288-0808ACL LIVE AT THE MOODY THEATER,
310 W. Willie Nelson Blvd., 512/225-7999AMAYA’S TACO VILLAGE, 5804 N I-35, 512/458-2531AMPED AUSTIN, 300 E. Sixth, 512/469-7655ANTONE’S, 2015 W. Riverside, 512/800-4628AUDITORIUM ON WALLER CREEK, 4100 Red River,
512/467-7756AUSTIN 360 AMPHITHEATER AT CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS,
9201 Circuit of the Americas Blvd., 800/745-3000THE BACKYARD AT BEE CAVE, 13801 Bee Cave Pkwy.,
512/651-5033BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL, 3003 S. Lamar, 512/691-9140BAR 141, 141 E. Hopkins St., San Marcos, 512/558-7399BAR LOUIE, 213 W. Sixth, 512/730-3032BARBARELLA, 615 Red River, 512/476-7766BAT BAR, 218 E. Sixth, 512/474-6363BB ROVERS, 12636 Research Ste. B-101, 512/335-9504B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB, 204 E. Sixth, 512/494-1335BEERLAND, 711 Red River, 512/479-7625THE BELMONT, 305 W. Sixth, 512/476-2100THE BLACKHEART, 86 Rainey, 512/391-1566BOAT HOUSE GRILL, 6812 RR 620 N., 512/249-5200BOURBON GIRL, 212 E. Sixth, 512/433-6983BRASS HOUSE, 115-B San Jacinto BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 512/442-6189THE BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 512/480-8330BUENOS AIRES CAFE, 13500 Galleria Cir., Bee Cave,
512/441-9000BUFALO BOB’S CHALUPA WAGON, 2201 S. First,
512/662-2801CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 512/475-6515CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 512/452-6790CEDAR PARK CENTER, 2100 Avenue of the Stars,
Cedar Park, 512/600-5000CEDAR STREET, 208 W. Fourth, 512/495-9669CENTRAL MARKET NORTH, 4001 N. Lamar, 512/206-1000CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, 200 E. Eighth,
512/472-2445CHAIN DRIVE, 504 Willow, 512/480-9017CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham St.,
San Marcos, 512/353-3777CHEER UP CHARLIE’S, 1104 E. Sixth, 512/431-2133CHERRY CREEK CATFISH RESTAURANT,
5712 Manchaca Rd., 512/440-8810CHEZ ZEE, 5406 Balcones, 512/454-2666CHUGGIN’ MONKEY, 219 E. Sixth, 512/476-5015CLUB 1808, 1808 E. 12th, 512/524-2519CLUB DE VILLE, 900 Red River, 512/457-0900CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 512/441-2444COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla St., Granger, 512/859-0700COUPLAND DANCEHALL, 101-103 Hoxie, Coupland,
512/856-2226DIZZY ROOSTER, 306 E. Sixth, 512/236-1667THE DOGWOOD, 715 W. Sixth, 512/531-9062DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 512/478-0336THE DRISKILL HOTEL, 604 Brazos, 512/474-5911EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE, 301 E. Fifth, 512/472-1860EL SOL Y LA LUNA, 600 E. Sixth, 512/444-7770ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 512/473-2279ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 512/478-2979EMO’S, 2015 Riverside, 512/800-4628END OF AN EAR, 2209 S. First, 512/462-6008EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie, 512/282-2586FADÓ IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, 214 W. Fourth,
512/833-6400THE GRAPEVINE, 1612 Hunter Rd., New Braunfels,
830/606-0093GREEN PASTURES RESTAURANT, 811 W. Live Oak,
512/444-4747GRISTMILL RIVER RESTAURANT & BAR, 1287 Gruene Rd.,
New Braunfels, 830/625-0684GRUENE HALL, 1281 Gruene Rd., New Braunfels,
830/606-1281GÜERO’S TACO BAR, 1412 S. Congress, 512/447-7688
HALCYON, 218 W. Fourth, 512/472-9637HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 512/302-1470HOLY MOUNTAIN, 617 E. Seventh, 512/391-1943HOTEL VEGAS, 1500 E. Sixth, 512/524-1584HOUSE WINE, 408 Josephine, 512/322-5210HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL, 4521 Westgate Blvd.,
512/899-2700INFEST, 213 W. Fifth, 512/291-9700JASPER’S BIG DOG SALOON, 1310 RR 620 S. Ste. B12,
Lakeway, 512/432-5073KINGDOM NIGHTCLUB, 103-B E. Fifth St. LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290 E., 512/459-8729LAMBERTS, 401 W. Second, 512/494-1500LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 512/327-9889LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,
701 W. Riverside, 512/457-5100LUCKY LOUNGE, 209-A W. Fifth, 512/479-7700LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS BAR & RESTAURANT,
506 West, 512/236-0083MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 512/444-0261MOHAWK, 912 Red River, 512/482-8404MOONTOWER SALOON, 10212 Manchaca, 512/712-5661NASTY’S, 606 Maiden, 512/453-4349NEWORLDELI, 4101 Guadalupe, 512/451-7170THE NOOK, 309 E. Sixth, 512/709-1551THE NORTH DOOR, 502 Brushy, 512/485-3001NUTTY BROWN CAFE, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 512/301-4648THE OASIS, 6550 Comanche Trail, 512/266-2442ONE-2-ONE BAR, 1509 S. Lamar, 512/473-0121THE PARISH UNDERGROUND, 214 E. Sixth, 512/494-6078THE PARISH, 214 E. Sixth, 512/473-8381PATSY’S CAFE, 5001 E. Ben White, 512/444-2020PEDRO’S PLACE, 1601 Guadalupe, 512/472-2369PFLUGER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE, Lamar & Riverside PIZZA BISTRO, 12001 Burnet Rd., 512/832-5550POODIE’S HILLTOP ROADHOUSE, 22308 Hwy. 71 W.,
Spicewood, 512/264-0318POODLE DOG LOUNGE, 6507 Burnet Rd., 512/465-9468RAIN ON 4TH, 217 W. Fourth, 512/494-1150REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Hwy. 183 N., 512/335-5115RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 512/476-8100RED SHED TAVERN, 8504 S. Congress, 512/280-4899REUNION GRILLE, 1501 E. New Hope Dr., Cedar Park,
512/528-5644RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter, 512/392-3132ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder St., Round Rock, 512/218-0813RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE, 107 W. Sixth, 512/477-7884THE SAHARA LOUNGE, 1413 Webberville Rd., 512/927-0700SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 512/282-0083SATELLITE BISTRO & BAR, 5900 Slaughter #400,
512/288-9994SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 512/448-2552SCHOLZ GARTEN, 1607 San Jacinto, 512/751-5650THE SCOOT INN, 1308 E. Fourth, 512/478-6200SHADY GROVE, 1624 Barton Springs Rd., 512/474-9991SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL,
512/401-2060SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 512/476-8017SPICEWOOD TAVERN, 8127 Mesa, 512/386-1464THE STAGE ON SIXTH, 508 E. Sixth, 512/614-1540STOMPIN’ GROUNDS COFFEE & COCKTAIL LOUNGE,
3801 S. Congress #116, 512/394-6999STRANGE BREW LOUNGE SIDE, 5326 Manchaca Rd.,
512/828-7636STUBB’S, 801 Red River, 512/480-8341SWAN DIVE, 615 Red River, 512/994-2819TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 512/255-1300TEXAS MIST, 1115 Bastrop Hwy., 512/385-3553TEXAS MUSIC THEATER, 120 E. San Antonio St.,
San Marcos, 512/667-7216THINGS CELTIC, 1806 W. 35th, 512/472-2358THE THIRSTY NICKEL, 325 E. Sixth, 512/473-8891THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 512/472-9304TRAILER SPACE RECORDS, 1401-A Rosewood,
512/524-1445TRIPLE CROWN, 206 N. Edward Gary St., San Marcos,
512/396-2236VICTORY GRILL, 1104 E. 11th, 512/291-6211VOLSTEAD LOUNGE, 1500 E. Sixth, 512/680-0532W HOTEL, 200 Lavaca, 866/961-3327WATERHOLE SALOON, 5244 Hwy. 71 E., Garfield,
512/247-5119WATERLOO ICE HOUSE, 1106 W. 38th, 512/451-5245WATERLOO RECORDS, 600-A N. Lamar, 512/474-2500THE WHITE HORSE, 500 Comal, 512/502-4637Z’TEJAS, 1110 W. Sixth, 512/478-5355
Live Music venues
Thu 5/30 Randy SternFri 5/31 The StudebakersSat 6/1 Devin PreitaurThu 6/6 Fono Kiser
7:00-9:00PM
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3201S. Lamar
442-6189
THU, MAY 30 6-8PM TONY HARRISON 8-9PM DANCE LESSONS
9PM JESSE DAYTONFRI, MAY 31 8-9PM DANCE LESSONS
9:30PM THE DERAILERSSAT, JUNE 1 8-9PM DANCE LESSONS
9:30PM TWO TONS OF STEELTUE, JUNE 4 6-8PM THE DERAILERS 8PM WELDON HENSONWED, JUNE 5 6-8PM TRACI LYNN 8-9PM DANCE LESSONS
9PM CHAPPARAL W/JEFF HUGHES
• • C O M I N G S O O N • •8/6 DEXTER ROMWEBBER DUO8/12 BUCK OWENS 20TH ANNIVERSARY
8/13 ELVIS 25TH ANNIVERSARY 2 SHOWS 3PM & 7PM ADV. TIX ON SALE
• • C O M I N G S O O N • •
1315 S. CONGRESS • OPEN: TUES.- FRI. 4PM • SAT. 3PM • SUN. 6:30PM • 441-2444
THU 10:30 TAMECA JONES8:30 DAN dYerFRI 10:30 MIKE FLANIGIN TRIOW/ JOHNNY MOELLER & FROSTYSAT 10:30 MIKE FLANIGIN TRIOW/ DEREK O’BRIEN & FROSTYSUN 10:30 DUPREE W/ MIKE FLANIGIN,JAKE LANGLEY & KYLE THOMPSONFRI 8:30 ROBERT KRAFTSAT 8:30 SCARLETT OLSONSUN 8:30 JON DEE GRAHAM & FRIEND
MON 10:30 JAMES ROBINSON WITH B. TEMPLE, D-MADNESS & S. GREER8:30 CHURCH ON MONDAYELIAS HASLANGER & DR. JAMESPOLK AND JAKE LANGLEY
TUE 10:30 EPHRAIM OWENS EXPERIENCE8:30 BILL CARTER SOLOWED 10:30 TRUBE, FARRELL, SNIZ8:30 BARBARA KHECTOR MUNOZ & MIKE HARDWICK
10 :30PM
ARTSHOW
T E R T U L I A
U P S T A I R S I N T H E G A L L E R Y • GALLERY OPENS AT 8 :00PM
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IN ITS 56 YEARS, THE CONTINENTAL EVOLVED FROM BURLESQUE HOUSE TO ANYTHING-GOES ROCK ROOM TO REVAMPED
ROCKABILLY JOINT WITH A KILLER JUKEBOX.SQUEEZE IN, GET SWEATY. - ROLLING STONE
• •• •• •• •• •• •• •
IN ITS 56 YEARS, HOUSE TO ANYTHING-GOES ROCK ROOM TO REVAMPED
ROCKABILLY JOINT WITH A KILLER JUKEBOX.
C O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O N • •• •• •C O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O NC O M I N G S O O N • •
EVOLVED FROM BURLESQUE HOUSE TO ANYTHING-GOES ROCK ROOM TO REVAMPED
ROCKABILLY JOINT WITH A KILLER JUKEBOX.
THURS
MAY 30
HAPPY HOUR 6:30PM $5 COVER
WHISKEY
SISTERS
10PM
BILL
KIRCHEN
A L L N I G H T
L O N G !
FRIDAY MAY 31
H. H. 6:30PM
THE LEGENDARY BLUES SPECIALISTS
12AM
THE
CARPER
FAMILY
HOT CLUB OF
COWTOWN
SATURDAY JUNE 1
MATINEE
DOORS 3PM REDD VOLKAERT
12AM BARFIELD
THE TYRANT OF TX FUNK
10PM tameca jones
SUNDAY JUNE 2
MATINEE 3PM NO COVER
PLANET CASPER
WITH BUTCH MORGAN & THE BAND-O-HOLICS
7:30PM EARL POOLE BALL
WITH
REDD VOLKAERT,
EARL POOLE BALL
PLUS
DALLAS
WAYNE
10PM
CDRELEASE
P A R T Y
MON JUNE 3
HAPPY HOUR
6:30PM•NO COVER THE PETERSON BROTHERS
10PM DALE WATSON
& HIS LONE STARS
TUESDAY JUNE 4
HAPPY HOUR
7
PM TONI PRICE
12AM THE FRANK
MUSTARD PROJECT
10PM ALEJANDRO
ESCOVEDO
SE S S IONS ON SOUTH CONGRESSS
WEDNESDAY JUNE 5
HAPPY HOUR 6:30PM, NO COVER “SWING & SOUL”
WHIT SMITH & DAVE BILLER WITH EMILY GIMBLE
12AM JAMES
M
CMURTRY
10PM
JON DEE
GRAHAM
& THE FIGHTING COCKS
THURSDAY JUNE 6
H
APPY HOUR
$5 COVER WHISKEY SISTERS
12AM THE WILL CALLERS
CD RELEASE PARTY!
10PM LOVES IT
FRIDAY JUNE 7
H. H. 6:30PM
THE LEGENDARY BLUES SPECIALISTS
12AM DALE WATSON
& HIS LONE STARS
10PM DOUG MORELAND
S
ATURDAY JUNE 8
MATINEE
DOORS 3PM REDD VOLKAERT
12AM NICHOLAS TREMULIS
10PM CHARL I E
SEXTON
6/13 DAVE ALVIN6/21 IAN MOORE
& THE LOSSY COILS6/22 C.C. ADCOCK
& THE LAFAYETTE MARQUIS
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CLUB listings
A all ages venue R roadshow Ñ reCoMMended ♪ hear MusIC onlIne
ThuRSDAY 301100 WAREHOUSE Chaos
in Tejas w/ the Impalers, Bloodkrow Butcher, Iceage, the Casualties, Marked Men, the Damned (7:00) R
AMAYA’S TACO VILLAGE Johnny Gonzales (6:00)
BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL Omnicolor Waves
Maythu 30Marked Men, the Casualties, Iceage, Bloodkrow Butcher, the Impalers, 1100 Warehouse
Choctaw Wildfire, Evangeline CafeWestgate Revival Band, Hole in the Wall
Power Trip, Joyce Manor, Hoax, Pfluger Pedestrian Bridge
Destruction Unit, Lust for Youth, Pharmakon, Marshstepper, Body of Light, Marked Men, Parquet Courts, Joyce Manor, Strange Factory, Long Knife, Red 7
Killswitch Engage, Miss May, Affiance, ISHI, Stubb’s
Guilty Pleazures, the Thirsty NickelThe Features, Waterloo Records
Junesat 1Framtid, Los Crudos, Criminal Damage, No Tolerance, Krömosom, INFERNÖH, 1100 Warehouse
Bloodkrow Butcher, Vaginors, Neo Cons, Long Knife, Violent End, Beerland
The BoDeans, the BelmontJaap Blonk, Damon Smith, Carousel Lounge
Iron Lung, No Statik, Replica, Common Fears, Cheer Up Charlie’s
Merchandise, Total Control, Destruction Unit, Lower, Nasa Space Universe, Cheer Up Charlie’s
Andy Stott, Total Control, Vulgar Fashion, Holy Mountain
Joyce Manor, Night Birds, the Novice, Hotel Vegas
Need, Common Ignorance, InfestVadim Gluzman, Long Center for the Performing Arts
Coliseum, Kill the Client, Baroness, Rotten Sound, True Widow, Mohawk
Blow Pony, the North DoorAkitsa, Mitochondrion, Anhedonist, Marching Church, Integrity, Left for Dead, Palm, S.H.I.T., Step Forward, Waste Management, Stab, Violent Future, Red 7
Nasa Space Universe, the Coltranes, Trailer Space Records
sun 2Infest, Final Conflict, Left for Dead, Mind Eraser, Hoax, Strange Factory, 1100 Warehouse
Asile, Distort, Sete Star Sept, Beerland
Krömosom, BeerlandThe Postal Service, Ra Ra Riot, Cedar Park Center
Iceage, Total Control, Lower, Wolf Eyes, Puce Mary, Antwon, Full of Hell, Holy Mountain
Bushwick Bill, Antwon, Lil Ugly Mane, DJ Dog Dick, Hard Stripes, Hotel Vegas
The Coltranes, Peaks Ohio, Nasa Space Universe, Infest
Murder Junkies, Hammercocks, Infest
The Rats, Merchandise, Milk Music, Screaming Females, Night Birds, Mohawk
The Field, Cut Hands, the North DoorYoung Empires, Generationals, the Parish
Rival Mob, Power Trip, Red 7Absu, Abigail, Mitochondrion, Anhedonist, Manilla Road, Satan’s Satyrs, SpeedWolf, Red 7
Zest of Yore, the Sahara LoungeHanna Barbarians, Stubb’sMulti-Tracker, Volstead Lounge
mon 3Lizards Have Personality, For Want Of, Club 1808
Lydia Lunch & Weasel Walter, the North Door
Reverend Red, the Parish Underground
Of Monsters & Men, Half Moon Run, Kopecky Family Band, Stubb’s
Kopecky Family Band, Waterloo Records
tue 4King Amy, Carousel LoungeDwight Smith, HalcyonRadiation City, MohawkMade Do & Mend, Cheap Girls, Diamond Youth, Red 7
Sylvia Black, the Sahara LoungeThe Green, the Expanders, Stubb’sLos Amigos Invisibles, Waterloo Records
wed 5The Heavenly States, Hole in the Wall
Phantom Lake, Hotel VegasChvrches, Still Corners, MohawkMilo Green, the ParishCabra, Inflatable Best Friend, Trailer Space Records
Dan Navarro, Cactus CafeSkyacre, Hole in the WallIndian Jewelry, Hotel VegasReed Turner & the Revival, Lamberts
Night Beds, Jenny O., MohawkAaron Lee Tasjan, Strange Brew Lounge Side
road shows
CLUB listings
A ALL AGES VENUE R ROADSHOW Ñ RECOMMENDED ♪ HEAR MUSIC ONLINE
LISTINGS ARE FREE AND PRINTED ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS. ACTS ARE LISTED ChRONOLOGICALLy. SChEDuLES ARE SuBjECT TO ChANGE, SO CALL CLuBS TO CONFIRm LINEuPS. START TImES ARE PROVIDED whERE kNOwN AND ARE Pm uNLESS OThERwISE NOTED.
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Austin bAnds: We WAnt to heAr from you. if you hAven’t registered And uploAded your mp3s to the musiciAns register, go to austinchronicle.com/register. AnyWhere your bAnd is mentioned, your music Will be feAtured.
BAR LOUIE Sound Advice (8:00)
BAT BAR John Frischer (4:00)
B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Kristen Smith (8:00)
THE BLACKHEART Mrs. Glass (10:00)
BOURBON GIRL Derik Kroetz (4:30), John Reynolds & the Stoneface Cowboys (8:30)
BRASS HOUSE Magnificent 7
BROKEN SPOKE Tony Harrison, Dance Lessons, Jesse Dayton♪ (6:00)
BUFALO BOB’S CHALUPA WAGON Justin Lambert (7:00)
CAROUSEL LOUNGE Deadly Buzz, the Footnotes, John Gomez & Creek Mud, Southeast Players (9:00)
CENTRAL MARKET NORTH Flying Balalaika Brothers♪ (6:30) A
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EVANGELINE CAFE Choctaw Wildfire (7:00) RA
FRANK McMercy Family Band, Raina Rose (9:30) A
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GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Alvin Crow (9:00)
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MOHAWK Chaos in Tejas, Inside: Phantom Lake, ((Pressures)), Troller; Outside: Survive, Deep Time, DIIV (7:00) R
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THE NOOK Erik Zamora
THE NORTH DOOR Chaos in Tejas w/ Tough Luck, Soul Search, Cold World, Meyhem Lauren, Roc Marciano (10:00) R
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THE SCOOT INN Whiskey Shivers Friendship Thursday w/ Holiday Mountain, Maryann (8:00)
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THE THIRSTY NICKEL Austin English & the Resurrection (8:30)
TRIPLE CROWN Erickson (6:00), Lesser Antilles♪, Sp_aces, James Jessie, July (9:00)
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LAMBERTS Greg Mullen & the Cosmic American Band, Blue-Eyed Son, Holy Ghost Tent Revival (9:30) R
LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Vadim Gluzman w/ Austin Symphony Orchestra (8:00) R
MARIA’S TACO XPRESS Leeann Atherton (7:00) A
MOHAWK Chaos in Tejas, Outside: Wiccans, Effluxus, Vaginors, INFERNOH, Terveet Kadet, Framtid; Inside: Inservibles, S.H.I.T., Sad Boys (7:00) R
MOONTOWER SALOON Amber Lucille♪, the Whiskey Sisters (6:00)
THE NOOK Rubber Crutch (8:00)
THE NORTH DOOR Chaos in Tejas w/ Same Sac, Henry and Hazel Slaughter, Regression (10:00) R
THE PARISH UNDERGROUND Yuma, Civilized Tears (10:00) RA
PATSY’S CAFE The Studebakers (7:00)
PFLUGER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Chaos in Tejas w/ Hoax, Joyce Manor, Power Trip (2:00am) R
PIZZA BISTRO Jeff Lofton Trio (9:00)
CACTUS CAFE Ellen O’Meara (8:30) RA
CAROUSEL LOUNGE Chapparal Dixielanders (7:00)
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Chaos in Tejas w/ Silent Land Time Machine, Jessica Pratt, Grouper (8:00) RA
CHUGGIN’ MONKEY Aaron Navarro (9:00)
CLUB 1808 Annex: The Heard Theorem, Hey Hey Compadre, Stumbledrunk♪ (7:30)
CLUB DE VILLE Oklahoma Tornado Victims Benefit w/ Graham Weber, Bryce Clifford, the Memphis Strange, Ben Ballinger
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DIZZY ROOSTER Aaron Navarro (4:30), the Bomb Squad (8:30)
DONN’S DEPOT Donn & the Station Masters
EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Robert Kelley (7:00) A
EL SOL Y LA LUNA Mariachi Los Toros (8:00) A
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EMO’S A Place to Bury Strangers, Japandroids RA
END OF AN EAR Parquet Courts, Milk Music (2:00) R
EVANGELINE CAFE Ted Roddy & Backwoods Hipsters (10:00) A
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FRANK Night Fever (9:30) A
GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Dane Sterling, Bracken Hale (6:00)
POODIE’S HILLTOP ROADHOUSE Jon Napier (6:00) A , Brandy Zdan, James Hand♪ (9:00) A
POODLE DOG LOUNGE Derral Gleason (9:00)
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RILEY’S TAVERN Jeremy Steding♪ (9:00)
SATELLITE BISTRO & BAR Jackie & Andrew Venson (7:00)
CAROUSEL LOUNGE Damon Smith (7:00); Jaap Blonk (8:00); Hugo Ball Tribute w/ Jaap Blonk & Damon Smith, Chris Cogburn (9:00) R
CHEER UP CHARLIE’S Chaos in Tejas w/ Common Fears, Replica, Condition, No Statik, Iron Lung (11:00am) R , Nasa Space Universe, Lower, Destruction Unit, Total Control, Merchandise, the Men (5:00) R
CHERRY CREEK CATFISH RESTAURANT Off the Grid (6:00)
CHUGGIN’ MONKEY John Chavez (4:30), Tish & Misbehavin’ (9:00)
CLUB DE VILLE Michael St. Clair, Mike Booher, Modrag
CONTINENTAL CLUB Gallery: Scarlett Olson, Mike Flanigin Trio (8:30); In the Club: Redd Volkaert (3:00), Barfield (12mid)
DIZZY ROOSTER Mike V (4:30), Hitsquad (8:30)
FADÓ IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT Blaggards (9:30)
FRANK Under the Sun, Soup, Holiday Mountain (9:00) A
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GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Mike & the Moonpies♪ (9:00)
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FRIENDS J.T Coldfire (5:30), Blues Jam (9:00)
GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Dale Watson (4:00)
GREEN PASTURES RESTAURANT Jacques Vilmain (11:00am) A
GRISTMILL RIVER RESTAURANT & BAR Sylvia Kirk (noon)
GRUENE HALL Milkdrive (12:30), Jeff Strahan (5:00) A
GÜERO’S TACO BAR The Recuperators (3:00)
HOLY MOUNTAIN Chaos in Tejas w/ Full of Hell, Boy Friend, Antwon, Puce Mary, Wolf Eyes, Lower, Total Control, Iceage (7:00) R
HOTEL VEGAS Chaos in Tejas w/ Hard Stripes, DJ Dog Dick, Lil Ugly Mane, Antwon, Bushwick Bill (10:00) R
HOUSE WINE Justin Landers (6:00)
HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL Natalie Zoe♪ (7:00)
INFEST Nasa Space Universe, Peaks Ohio, Burnt Skull, the Coltranes (noon) R , GG Allin Anniversary w/ Badnotes, Bear Suit Sucker Punch, Hammercocks, Murder Junkies (8:00) R
KINGDOM NIGHTCLUB DJ Andrew Parsons (10:00)
MARIA’S TACO XPRESS Rockin’ Gospel Project (noon) A
MOHAWK Chaos in Tejas, Outside: Blotter, Night Birds, Screaming Females, Milk Music, Merchandise, the Rats; Inside: the Young, Hex Dispensers (10:30) R
MOONTOWER SALOON Jennifer B & the Groove Kings (3:00), Mayeux & Broussard (6:00)
INFEST Record Swap w/ Common Ignorance, Need (noon) R
LAMBERTS Dangeresque, Arum Rae (9:00)
LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Vadim Gluzman w/ Austin Symphony Orchestra (8:00) R
LUCY’S RETIRED SURFERS BAR & RESTAURANT Party Rockers (9:00)
MOHAWK Chaos in Tejas, Outside: True Widow, Rotten Sound, Baroness (8:30); Inside Later: Kill the Client, Coliseum (11:00) R
MOONTOWER SALOON Max Rios (8:00)
THE NOOK Palacios Brothers (8:00)
THE NORTH DOOR Queerbomb Afterparty w/ Blow Pony (9:00) R
PATSY’S CAFE Devin Preitauer (7:00)
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SATELLITE BISTRO & BAR Paula Maya♪ (7:00)
SAXON PUB Writers in the Round (3:00); Curtis McMurtry, James McMurtry (8:00)
THE STAGE ON SIXTH Austin Heat (9:00)
STUBB’S Rikavista, O Conqueror, Sounds Under Radio (9:00)
THE THIRSTY NICKEL John Reynolds & the Stoneface Cowboys (8:30)
THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Allie Farris, Jimmy LaFave (9:00) A
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AMPED AUSTIN Clay & Derek (5:00)
BAT BAR Brian Wolfe (5:00); Amber Lucille♪, Brian Wolfe (8:00)
CEDAR PARK CENTER Ra Ra Riot, the Postal Service (7:00) R
CHUGGIN’ MONKEY Mike V. (4:30), Bob Floyd (9:30)
CLUB DE VILLE Heart & Soul Sound System
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COTTON CLUB Can’t Hardly Playboyz (7:00) A
DIZZY ROOSTER Greg Talmage (4:30); Jo Hell (9:00)
EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Kris Kimura (7:00) A
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BROKEN SPOKE The Daliens♪, Weldon Henson (6:00)
CAROUSEL LOUNGE King Amy (7:00); Vinyl Night (9:00) R
CEDAR STREET The Chris Castaneda Project, Safety Patrol (8:00)
CHUGGIN’ MONKEY John Chavez (4:30); Sonny Wolf (9:00)
CONTINENTAL CLUB Gallery: Bill Carter, Ephraim Owens Experience (8:30); In the Club: Toni Price (6:00), Alejandro Escovedo, the Frank Mustard Project (10:00)
DIZZY ROOSTER Lucas Cook (4:30), Tish & Misbehavin’ (9:00)
THE DOGWOOD Colt Landon Baker (7:00)
DONN’S DEPOT Donn & the Station Masters
EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Mark Goodwin Trio (7:00) A
HOLE IN THE WALL Shawn Nelson, Warplanes, Jackie Meyers (9:00)
HOTEL VEGAS Low Times, Pangea (10:00)
HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL Off the Grid (7:00)
LA PALAPA Baby Dallas
MOHAWK Radiation City (9:00) R
ONE-2-ONE BAR Lisa Marshall, Ghosts Along the Brazos, Karl Morgan♪ (7:00)
POODIE’S HILLTOP ROADHOUSE Jerry Kirk (4:00) A
RED 7 Diamond Youth, Cheap Girls, Made Do & Mend (9:00) R
THE SAHARA LOUNGE Sylvia Black, Black Cadillac (9:00) R
SAXON PUB David Grissom (6:00), Bruce Hughes & the All-Nude Army, Shawn Pander♪ (8:30)
STRANGE BREW LOUNGE SIDE Durawa, Apostles of Manchaca, Miles Zuniga (7:00) A
STUBB’S The Expanders, the Green (8:00) R
THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Sons of Fathers (8:30) A
WATERLOO RECORDS Los Amigos Invisibles (5:00) RA
THE NORTH DOOR Chaos in Tejas w/ Orthy, Shit & Shine, Cut Hands, the Field (9:00) R
NUTTY BROWN CAFE Java Jazz (11:00am) A
THE OASIS The Brew A
ONE-2-ONE BAR The Derailers (7:00)
THE PARISH Generationals, Young Empires (9:00) R
POODIE’S HILLTOP ROADHOUSE Tessy Lou & the Shotgun Stars (4:00), Bracken Hale (7:30) A
RAIN ON 4TH DJ Protege’s First Aid
RED 7 Chaos in Tejas w/ Back to Back, Power Trip, World War 4, Rival Mob (3:00) R ; Outside: Eternal Champion, Speedwolf, Satan’s Satyrs, Manilla Road; Inside: Anhedonist, Mitochondrion, Abigail, Absu (9:00) R
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THE SAHARA LOUNGE Izzy Cox, Zest of Yore (10:00) R
SATELLITE BISTRO & BAR Mente Clara (11:30am)
SAXON PUB John Gaar (5:30), the Resentments (7:30), Allie Farris & Korby Lenker (10:30)
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SPEAKEASY Clay Compania (10:00)
SPICEWOOD TAVERN Soul of a Musician w/ Matt the Electrician♪ (7:30)
STRANGE BREW LOUNGE SIDE Purgatory Players (11:00am) A
STUBB’S Hanna Barbarians, Leopold & His Fiction (9:00) R
THINGS CELTIC Celtic Song Session (2:30)
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VOLSTEAD LOUNGE Multi-Tracker, DJ Boozwa, No Kid$ (10:00) R
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Austin Blues Society Open Mic Jam (8:30) A
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Management Consultant Req. TX19 Create data driven customer insights that drive the appropriate messages/offers to the target market.Marketing Operations Advi-sor Req. TX20 Partner with segment marketing teams, global operations, product management groups, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and sales organizations to build product family demand plans that support segment P & L.Merchandising Consultant Req. TX21 Drives the vision and strategy of assigned product line(s) and manages the product throughout its lifecycle.Metrics and Reporting Advisor Req. TX22 Provide analytical support to a business unit, segment or function. Maintain, analyze, interpret, and report data.
Platform Software Engineer Req. TX23 Responsible for the design and development activities associated with BIOs software using a range of ap-plicable technologies and state-of-the-art software engineering methodologies.Pricing Advisor/Consultant Req. TX24 Develop and implement pricing strategies to maximize sales and market penetration and ensure long-term profitability objectives are met.Product Consultant Req. TX25 Responsible for solutions and technology marketing activities designed to increase sales growth and expand market share.Program Mgmt Advisor/Con-sultant Req. TX26 Responsible for leading the worldwide management and execution of cross-functional programs throughout the product/solu-tion lifecycle.Project Program Mgmt Advisor Req. TX27 Manage projects, typically from initia-tion through delivery.Security Systems Advisor Req. TX28 Design, develop or recommend security systems solutions that ensure propri-etary/confidential data and systems are protected.Services Account Executive Req. TX29 Responsible for identifying, developing, and closing the breadth of Dell services including managed services, application services, consulting and IT outsourcing.Software Developers/Engi-neers Req. TX30 Responsible for the design and development activities associated with software using a range of appli-cable technologies for products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer programs.Software Development Advi-sor Req. TX31 Plan, conduct, and coordinate programming activities supporting applica-tions services built on JAVA, Oracle RDBMS, LINUX, and SOA (TIBCO ActiveMatrix) infrastructure.
Software Development Con-sultant Req. TX32 Configure and administer middleware tools to create and support service oriented architecture, business process management and complex event processing solutions for clients.Software Development Engi-neer Req. TX33 Responsible for the design and development of BIOS using a range of applicable technologies (e.g., programming languages, com-pilers, assemblers, debuggers, ITP, Scopes, Logic Analyzers and other tools) and state-of-the-art software engineering methodologies.Software Development Engi-neer Req. TX34 Responsible for development and design in cloud computing. Responsible for creation of next generation cloud computing services, solu-tion design, prototyping and software engineering.Software Quality Assurance Advisor Req. TX35 Respon-sible for software Quality control and Quality Assurance of all processes associated with internal and external customers.Solutions Architecture Advi-sor/Consultant Req. TX36 Responsible for translating the client’s business requirements into specific systems, applica-tions and/or process designs for custom technical solutions.Storage Development Engi-neer Req. TX37 Responsible for the design and development activities associated with stor-age enhancements and/or new systems.Storage Services Advisor Req. TX38 Designs, installs, and administers storage systems. Implement and man-age storage solutions tailored to specific client deliverables, including performance targets, multi-site replication, and targeted capacity management and reporting tools.Strategic Planning Advisor Req. TX39 Drive key strategic initiatives and support the development of long-term growth plans and profitability objectives.Supply Chain Advisor Req. TX40 Coordinate or manage supplier relationships and performance in development and execution of functions related to procurement, plan-ning, management and delivery of services and parts.Systems Engineer Req. TX42 Responsible for design, defini-tion, and implementation of complex system requirements for customers, and/or prepares studies and analyzes existing systems.Systems Engineering Advisor Req. TX43 Responsible for the overall infrastructure including engineering, implementation and integration, and technical services and support.
Systems Integration Advisor Req. TX44 Design, develop, and implement total systems solutions to the enterprise-wide technical requirements of
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FAMILIESTO PARTICIPATE IN PROBLEM SOLVING STUDYThe Daily Living Project is looking for families to participate in a study of family problem solving at The University of Texas at Austin. Participating families will be asked to come to campus for about an hour, during which time they will complete a few fun activities, and parents will be asked to respond to two brief questionnaires. Families will be compensated with $40 in gift certifi cates, and a t-shirt for each member of the family.
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APPLICATION HAS BEEN MADE WITH THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMIS-SION FOR A WINERY PERMIT BY FOWMAR ENTERPRISES, L.L.C. D/B/A LAKEVIEW WIN-ERY, TO BE LOCATED AT 6550 COMANCHE TRAIL, UNIT B, SUITE 115, AUSTIN, TEXAS. THE SOLE MEMBERS OF THE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ARE KEN-NETH W. FOWLER AND GAIL A. FOWLER. ITS PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT IS KEN-NETH W. FOWLER, AND ITS SECRETARY AND TREASURER IS GAIL A. FOWLER.
Application has been Made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Code for A Mixed Beverage Per-mit (MB) & Food and Beverage Certificate (FB), DBA/Restaurante Jasmines At 2463-B Hwy 71 East, Austin,TX 78617, Travis County. Sole Proprietor: Lazaro Martinez Garcia.
Application has been made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Mixed Beverage Per-mit with FB & Mixed Beverage Late Hours Permit by TRB Bever-age LLC dba Twisted Root Burger Company, located at 510 West 26th St., Ste B, Austin, Travis County, Texas, Jason Christopher Boso, Mgr./Mem.CITATION BY PUBLCIA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED IN THE ESTATE OF KYLE LANSING MCNEELY De-ceased, No. C-1-PB-13-000995 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas.DAVID LANSING MCNEELY and JANIET ONION MCNELLY and all The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered
and entitled estate, filed on May 23, 2013, an Application to Determine Heirship and for Appointment of Independent Co-Administrators in the said estate and request(s) that said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said KYLE LANSING MCNEELY, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on May 23, 2013.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ O. RUIZ
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION AUSTIN CHRONICLETHE STATE OF TEXASTO: AUGUSTINE DIAZ Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your Attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance of this citation, the same being MONDAY JUNE 24, 2013 a default judgment may be taken against you.CAUSE NUMBER: C-1-CV-13-001941, filed in COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2WASHBOURNE V DIAZFiled in COUNTY COURT AT LAW #2 (Travis County Court-house, corner of Tenth Street and Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas) on February 28, 2013.STYLED: WASHBOURNE V DIAZNATURE OF SUIT: MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTGiven under my hand and seal of Dana DeBeauvoir, County Clerk on May 06, 2013.County Clerk, Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325, Austin, Texas 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ A DURANPlaintiff Attorney:JOSHUA A FOGELMAN3839 BEE CAVES ROAD, SUITE 100AUSTIN, TX 78746
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO: D-1-FM-13-001741To: SALOMON ARREDONDO URBINA and to all who it may concern, Respondent(s); GREETINGS: YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expi-ration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COMMAND-ED to appear and answer before the Honorable District Court, 200TH JUDICIAL DIS-TRICT COURT, Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse of said County in Austin, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service of this citation, then and there to answer the filed in said court on MARCH 25, 2013, and said suit being number D-1-FM-13-001741 on the docket
of said Court, and entitled “IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF LAURA LOPEZ SANCHEZ and SALOMON ARREDONDO URBINA, ET AL CHILDREN, and In the Interest of GABRIELA URBINA AND GUSTAVO URBINA, CHILDREN”. The nature of said suit is a request to DISSOLVE the marriage of the parties, appoint managing and possessory con-servators, and divide the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right.The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the child’s interest which will be binding on you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity, and the appointment of a conserva-tor with authority to consent to the child’s adoption.Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said court at Austin, Texas, May 06, 2013.AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MENDOZATravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701By /s/ ELIZABETH GARCIA, DeputyREQUESTED BY:IRIS ALBIZU RIVERAP.O. BOX 202943AUSTIN, TX 78720BUSINESS PHONE: (512) 861-5638FAX: (866) 584-6996
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED IN THE ESTATE OF MI-CHAEL ALLEN OSBORNE De-ceased, No. C-1-PB-13-000988 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas.TERESA A OSBORNE AND ALL The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on May 23, 2013, an Application to DECLARATION Heirship and for Letters of Independent Administration in the said estate and request(s) that said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said MICHAEL ALLEN OS-BORNE, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on May 23, 2013.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ ABRAM GONZALEZ
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED IN THE ESTATE OF RANDALL JAY HARBISON De-ceased, No. C-1-PB-13-000968 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas.ANGELA L HALEY and all The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on May 21, 2013, an Application to Determine Heirship and Letters of Admin-istration in the said estate and request(s) that said Court de-termine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said RANDALL JAY HARBISON, Deceased, and their respective shares and
interests in such estate.Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on May 21, 2013.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ O. RUIZ
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTEREST-ED IN THE ESTATE OF SCOTT RANDALL KENNEDY De-ceased, No. C-1-PB-13-000956 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas.JACKIE RANDALL KENNEDY AND ALL The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on May 16, 2013, an Application to Deter-mine Heirship and Letters of Independent Administration in the said estate and request(s) that said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said SCOTT RANDALL KENNEDY, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on May 16, 2013.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ ABRAM GONZALEZ
CITATION BY PUBLICA-TION THE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED IN THE ESTATE OF VERA PLATT AKA VERA LEE PLATT AKA VERA L PLATT De-ceased, No. C-1-PB-13-000553 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas.IRIS JEAN HUBBARD AND ALL The alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on May 21, 2013, an First Amended Application for Probate of Will as Muniment of Title, for Declaratory Judgment regard-ing partial intestacy, and for Determination of Heirship in the said estate and request(s) that said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said VERA PLATT AKA VERA LEE PLATT AKA VERA L PLATT, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate.Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in
Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so.If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on May 22, 2013.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ GLORIA CANTU
NOTICE The City of Manor, City Council will conduct a Public Hearing on June 19, 2013 at 7:00PM at 201 E. Par-sons St in the City Council Chambers. Consideration and possible action to approve a First Reading of an Ordinance to rezone From: Interim Single Family (R-1) District To: Single Family/Duplex Residential (R-2) District 43.1 acres, out of 211.953 acres, Abstract 546, Survey 40 Known as Las Entradas North located on the North side of US HWY 290 E. Applicant: Brett Burke, AECOM Technical Services, Owner: 2010 Shadowglen, LLC. Staff: Thomas Bolt.
NOTICE The City of Manor, Planning and Zoning Com-mission will meet on June 12, 2013 at 6:30PM at 201 E. Parsons St. in the City Coun-cil Chambers. Consideration and possible action on an Ordinance to rezone From: Interim Single Family (R-1) District To: Single Family/Du-plex Residential (R-2) District 43.1 acres, out of 211.953 acres, Abstract 546, Survey 40 Known as Las Entradas North located on the North side of US HWY 290 E. Applicant: Brett Burke, AECOM Technical Services, Owner: 2010 Shadowglen, LLC. Staff: Thomas Bolt
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE K & S Tow-ing-512-291-3672-1999 Ford Ex-plorer LL Black Okl. Vin #1fm-zu34x4xzb18946. Authorized by: Travis Co. Sheriffs Office on 12/24/2012. Storage charges as of 05/16/2013 $308.25. Vehicles released with a 1 hour notice 24 hours a day to the Registered owner of the unit. Location: 11617 Manchaca rd. Austin, Tx 78748 vsf#0644201.
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLE Pursuant to the Texas Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act, the following unit will be sold at a public auction unless charges are satisfied and unit retrieved: 16’ Channel Sign “Cody Ray’s Saloon” picked up from 9012 Research Blvd. Austin, TX 78757 on 5/24/13 at 9:30am. There is currently a Hold on this sign by Travis County Constable Precinct 2, Sign stored at 1408 Three Points Rd. Pflugerville, TX 78660. Call (512) 836-7443 for more info.
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES Attention the following vehicle(s) will be sold at public auction if not claimed within 45 days. [FIRST NOTICE]Stock# B3051141993 Chevrolet SuburbanLicense Plate: 5LMB808 - CAV.I.N: 1GNGC26N6PJ349793Towed From: 1950 WebbervilleA&A Wrecker and Recovery, LLC.2963 Manor Rd.Austin, TX 78722PH:512-670-7578Fax:512-479-7578
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES PURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED
WITHIN 30 DAYS.GARAGE KEEPER: SOUTH-SIDE WRECKER,0615801VSF, 8200 S CONGRESS , AUSTIN, TX. 78745. (512)441-7094.ROCKWOOD XL POP UP CAMPER TRAILER 1RKTC100EVINRUDE MOTOR SER # J017071ASTROGLASS BLUE FIN BOAT 37228023MERCURY BOAT MOTOR 4383722EVINRUDE MOTOR 25202RE0006157MERCURY 65 HP MOTOR 4048012
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES Pursuant of the TX Abandoned Motor Vehicle Act, the following vehicles will be auctioned off by Public Auction unless charges are satisfied within 10 days. 2013 FORD ESCAPE LP:889J0N (OK) VIN:1FMCU0HX2DUA81256 INTERSTATE CHAPARRAL TOWING INC. 1604 Howard Lane Austin, TX 78728 (512) 835-6580
NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES Pursuant to the Texas Abandoned Motor Ve-hicle Act, the following vehicles will be auctioned off by V.S.F., TX VSF # 0646275VSF, located at 2501 E.5th, Ste B, Austin,TX 78702, phone 512-480-0299, unless charges are satisfied within 10 days. 1998 Chevy S-10 , LP: (IL) 5459d, VIN: 1gcbs14e6j2239816, $286.60 owed as of 05/21/131998 Chevy S-10, LP: (IL) 5459d, VIN: 1gcbs14e6j2239816, $546.40 owed as of 06/01/13
NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION In accordance with the provisions of State Law, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner and/or manager’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Uncle Bob’s Self Storage location(s) listed below.And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated location(s) to the highest bidder for cash or otherwise disposed of on June 18th, 2013 at 8:00AM starting at the North Lamar #231 loca-tion, immediately thereafter, auction proceeds to the next listed location.Uncle Bobs Self Storage #2318227 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78753Anastacia Walker: hsld gds,furn,boxes,TV/Stereo equipEva Hernandez: hsld gds,furn,boxesMichelle Perry: furn,boxes,TV/Stereo equipChristian Cornelius: hsld gds,furn,boxesAimee Faughn: hsld gds,furn,boxes,tools,applnces,TV/Stereo equipSharon D. Wesley: hsld gds,furn,boxes,tools,applnces,TV/Stereo equipAndrew Bradley: furn,boxesWanda D. Hendricks: hsld gdsUncle Bobs Self Storage #2859717 US Hwy 290 E. Austin, TX 78724Diane Simmons- Hsld gds, Furn, Boxes, Applnces, TV/Stereo Equip, Off Furn, Off Mach/EquipTatiana Lamela- Rabell- Hsld gds, Furn, BoxesDebbie Luna- Hsld gds, Furn, Boxes, Sprtng gds, Applnces, TV/Stereo EquipAnnette Brooks- Hsld gds, Furn, Boxes, TV/Stereo EquipVictoria LeDoux- Furn, Boxes, Applnces, TV/Stereo EquipSherina Jenkins- Hsld gds, Boxes, TV/Stereo EquipUncle Bobs Self Storage #2762830 S. AW Grimes Blvd. Round Rock, TX 78664Gabriel Alvarez - Furn, Boxes, Applnces, TV/Stereo Equip;Tory Carr - Boxes;Michelle Salinas - Hsld gds,
NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION PS Orangeco, Inc. hereby gives notice that the property generally described below is being sold to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms: All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 19th of JUNE 2013 on or about the time indicated at each self-storage facility identified: NO CHILDREN PLEASE. NO SMOKING, PLEASE.Wednesday, June 19, 2013.9:00 a.m. Public Storage @9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin, TX 787480172 - SHOURD, DAVIDTools0173 - SHOURD, DAVIDBoxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture; Tools0179 - Nguyen, AnhElectronics / Computers0185 - Brown, DianaBoxes / Bags / Totes0339 - Montoya, RobertBedding / Clothing; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Electronics / Computers0370 - MARFIN, DAVIDBooks / Files / Cabinets; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Electronics / Computers; Furniture0392 - Gamble, Devin JElectronics / Computers9:30a.m. Public Storage @
NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION FOR PUBLICATION A public auction will be held to satisfy Landlord’s lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code. Sale will be held at 10AM on the 1st day of June, 2013, at A-A-A Storage located at 1710 S. Lamar, Austin, TX 78704. All units will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. Clean up and removal deposit will be required. Seller reserves the right to withdraw any property from sale, and reserves the right to reject any bid. Sales include items from the following tenants’ storage spaces:D25 McCord, R.: furniture, small refrigerator, kids toys, boxesA03 Haught, B.: lg. tool box, compressor boxes
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE In accordance with Chapter 59.044 of the Texas Self Storage Law, a public sale is to be held to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien at STORE MORE! Self Storage, 9023 Hwy 71 W, Austin, TX 78735 on or after June 8th, 2013 at 12:00 pm. Said unit will be sold at public auction through online auction services of www.storagebattles.com with bids opening on May 22nd, 2013 and ending at 12:00 pm June 8, 2013. Seller reserves the right to withdraw the property at any time before the sale. Unit items will be sold for cash to the highest bidder. All goods are sold as is and much be removed within 24 hours of the time of purchase. Property being sold is as follows:Unit 252 belonging to Fran Epps – contents include mattress, bed frame, papa san chair frame, sofa/cushions, end table, miscellaneous totes and boxes of unknown contents.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PS Orangeco, Inc. hereby gives notice that the property gener-ally described below is being sold to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms: All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 20th of June 2013 on or about the time indicated at each self-storage facility identified: NO CHILDREN PLEASE.Thursday June 20th, 20139:00 a.m. Public Storage @ 1033 E. 41St. Austin, TX 787512042 - Prior, SuzetteElectronics / Computers3015 - Wright, DakinaBoxes / Bags / Totes; Electron-ics / Computers; Furniture; Tools3067 - Arnold, LatoyaBoxes / Bags / Totes; Electron-ics / Computers; Furniture5015 - Stewart, RobertFurniture5060 - McCarthur, Sonya LanellBoxes / Bags / Totes; Electron-ics / Computers; Furniture5103 - Mays, JosephineBedding / Clothing; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture9:30 a.m. Public Storage@ 10001 N. I-H 35 Austin, TX 787531027 - Davis, Izelia Boxes/bags/totes1054 - Estrada, Florencia boxes/
NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTIONPS Orangeco, Inc. hereby gives notice that the property gener-ally described below is being sold to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms: All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 21st of June 2013 on or about the time indicated at each self-storage facility identified: NO CHILDREN PLEASE.Friday June 21st , 20139:30 a.m. Public Storage@ 1517 Round Rock Ave. Round Rock, TX 786811118 - Brooks, BennieBedding / Clothing; Furniture1139 - Santos-Sazon, PaulaBooks / Files / Cabinets; Boxes / Bags / Totes1157 - Tarawally, CatreaceBoxes / Bags / Totes4110 - Hughes, EricBedding / Clothing; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture; Tools5115 - Moffett, DonnaBedding / Clothing; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture; Tools5137 - Rhymer, MarilynBedding / Clothing; Boxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture; Tools7137 - Christoph, DarleneBoxes / Bags / Totes8118 - Miller, VonettaBoxes / Bags / Totes; Furniture8123 - Lewis, TanyaneakaBedding / Clothing; Boxes /
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to Ch 59 of the Texas Property code, Decker Lane Storage located at 5807 Strath-ern Dr, Austin, TX 78724 will hold a public auction of prop-erty to satisfy a landlord lien. Auction will take place on June 13, 2012 at 10 am. Property will be sold to the highest bidder and includes household items from units of the following ten-ants: Rebecca J Henson – furni-ture, tool box; Arturo Serrano – table saw, tools, supplies; Orlis G Martinez – plate glass, flooring board; Lydia Ortiz – riding mower, lawn equipment, bicycles; Juan S Rodriguez – household goods; Jamie G Cavanaugh – household goods, furniture; Margarita Campos – VW engine, roofing materials, tools; Reyna Mondragon – floor tile, tires; Juanita Hernandez – Misc. boxes; Carol Martinez – Misc. bins; Maribel Dominguez – refrigerator, stoves, freezer, game; Ronald Keeney - 1971 Vista Queen VIN# 7120293; Sotero Perez - box trailer; aceauctioncompany.com (512) 219-0209 K. Wares #16014
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to Chapter 59, Texas Property Code, Stor-A-Way- Slaughter Creek which is located at 9706 Manchaca Road, Austin Texas 78748, will hold a public auction of property being sold to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Sale will begin at 11:00 o’clock AM on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at 9706 Manchaca Road, Austin Texas 78748.Property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. Clean-up and removal deposit may be required. Seller reserves the right to not accept any bid and to withdraw property from sale. Property in each space will be sold by the space. Property being sold includes contents of spaces of following tenants:Pete Arispe – mattress, lamps,
NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST ESTATE OF DOROTHY JANE GRIMM Administration of the Estate of Dorothy Jane Grimm, deceased, has begun with the issuance of Letters Testamen-tary to the executrix on May 1st of 2013, by the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas in case no. C-1-PB-12-002058. All persons having claims against the estate are hereby notified to present them to the executor at the address shown below within the time prescribed by law. Allyssa Ann Juby Indepen-dent Executrix of the Estate of Dorothy Jane Grimm. Address: 9109 Atwater Core, Austin, TX, 78733
NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF HENRY WARREN DRIGGS, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Henry Warren Driggs were issued to Cindy Lyne (Driggs) Udelhofen, on May 7, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000781, now pending in Probate Court One, Travis County, Texas, Sitting in Mat-ters Probate. The residence of the Independent Executor is 3610 Bobby Jones Way, Round Rock, Williamson County, Texas 78664. All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being admin-istered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law DATED May 7, 2013 WALKER ARENSON Attorney for Cindy Lyne (Driggs) Udelhofen 512.327.4422
NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed proposals addressed to Cypress Ranch, Ltd. (“OWNER”) on behalf of Cypress Ranch Water Control and Improvements District No. 1 (“DISTRICT”) for furnishing all labor, materials, equipment, and performing all work required for the construc-tion of CR WCID 1 - Water Plant Expansion: Ground Storage Tank 2013 will be received at the office of Texas Engineering Solutions, LLC (“ENGINEER”) at 5000 Bee Caves Rd, Suite 206, Austin, Texas 78746 until May 31, 2013 at 2:00pm. Bids will be opened publicly and read aloud. Any proposal received after the closing time will be returned unopened. Proposals shall be plainly marked with name and address of the BIDDER and the follow-ing words:PROPOSAL FOR CYPRESS RANCH WCID 1 – WATER PLANT EXPANSION: GROUND STORAGE TANK 2013The CYPRESS RANCH WCID 1 – WATER PLANT EXPANSION: GROUND STORAGE TANK 2013 proposal includes the addition of a 250,000 welded steel ground storage tank, associated yard piping and appurtenances. All work must conform to State of Texas, County of Travis and Cypress Ranch Water Control and Im-provement District No. 1 rules and criteria.Copies of the Plans, Specifica-tions, and Bidding Documents will be on file at the office of Texas Engineering Solu-tions at 5000 Bee Caves Rd, Suite 206, Austin, TX 78746, where they may be examined without charge. Copies may be examined or obtained from the ENGINEER on or after May 15, 2013 for a non-refundable fee of $75.00 per set. Checks for Plans and Specifications, and Bid-ding Documents shall be made payable to Texas Engineering
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NOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULAT-ING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.
THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A CERTIFI-CATE OF TITLE.
I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRA-VIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT;
JUNE 26, 2013 @ 9:30 AM @ SOUTHSIDE WRECKER, 8200 S. CONGRESS, AUSTIN, TX 78745
Solutions.A Cashier’s Check, Certified Check or acceptable Bidder’s Bond, payable to Cypress Ranch, Ltd. in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the Bid must accompany each bid as a guarantee that, if awarded the Contract, The BIDDER will enter into a contract and execute bonds within ten (10) days of award of the Contract. Performance and Payment Bonds shall also be executed on the forms furnished by the OWNER and shall specifically provide for “Performance” and for “Labor and Materials Payment”. Each bond shall be issued in an amount of one hundred percent (100%) of contract price by a solvent Surety company, au-thorized to do business in the State of Texas and acceptable to the OWNER.The OWNER reserves the right to reject any and all bids to waive any and all technicalities and formalities in bidding. The OWNER reserves the right to determine which bids are most advantageous to the OWNER and the DISTRICT, and to award the Contract on this basis. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after opening of the bids. If a submitted bid is withdrawn within said period, bid guaranty shall become the property of the OWNER, not as penalty, but as liquidated dam-ages, or OWNER may pursue any other action allowed by law. A mandatory pre-bid con-ference will be held on Mon-day, May 20, 2013 at 2:00pm at the West Cypress Hills Amenity Center located at 5620 Cypress Ranch Blvd, Spicewood, Texas 78669. Prospective bidders are encouraged to visit the site before or after the meeting.
NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of MaryFrances Haas, Deceased, were issued on May 9, 2013 under Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000493, pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to Virginia Louise Haas.Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the estate, addressed as follows:Representative,Estate of Mary Frances Haas, Deceasedc/o Bethann EcclesEccles & McIntosh, PC506 West 16th StreetAustin, Texas 78701All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the man-ner prescribed by law.Dated May 9, 2013.Eccles & McIntosh, PCBethann EcclesAttorney for INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Susan A. Winn, Deceased, were issued on May 21, 2013 under Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000808, pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to Douglas Robinson Keenan III.Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the estate, addressed as follows:Representative, Estate of Susan A. Winn, Deceasedc/o Bethann EcclesEccles & McIntosh PC506 West 16th StreetAustin, Texas 78701All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the man-ner prescribed by law.Dated May 21, 2013.Eccles & McIntosh, PC Bethann EcclesAttorney for INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that
original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Bettie Jones Petrucci, Deceased, were issued on May 21, 2013, in Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000871, pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to: Lillian Michele Petrucci. The address of the Independent Executor is in Houston, Harris County, Texas, the mailing address is: c/o Scofield & Sco-field, P.C., 1411 West Avenue, Suite 200, Austin, Texas 78701-1537 All person having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the man-ner prescribed by law. DATED the 21st of May, 2013. Scofield & Scofield, P.C. Attorneys for the Estate by Janice Pierce
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Bill F. Cum-mings, Deceased, were issued on May 21, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000654 pending in the Probate Court No. One of Travis County, Texas, to: Carol Ann Cummings. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the under-signed within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Carol Ann Cummings, Indepen-dent Executor Estate of Bill F. Cummings, c/o Jaime M. Lynn, 411 Mandarin Flyway, Cedar Park, Texas 78613 DATED the 22nd of May 2013. Jaime M. Lynn, Attorney for The Estate of Bill F. Cummings, Bar No.: 00796973, 411 Mandarin Flyway, Cedar Park, Texas 78613 Telephone: (512) 346-2100 Facsimile: (512) 472-1180
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Donald Neil Cain, M.D., Deceased, were is-sued on May 16, 2013 in Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000613 pending in Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to Donna C. Couch, Independent Executor. All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being administered, may address them in care of the attorney for the Estate within the time and in the manner prescribed by law, as follows: Representative, Estate of Donald Neil Cain, M.D., Deceased, c/o Sal Levatino, attorney for the estate, 1524 South IH-35, Suite 234, Austin, Texas 78704. Dated the 21st day of May 2013.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Edward L. Nichols, Deceased, were issued on May 23, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000889 now pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to Carol E. Nichols. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being admin-istered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Claims may be presented in care of the At-torney for the Estate, addressed as follows: Charles F. Daily, Jr., Attorney, 1313 Lost Creek Blvd., Austin, TX 78746, Bar# 05317300, Phone #512-524-0055. Dated: May 24, 2013./s/ Charles F. Daily, Jr., At-torney
NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Edward Wilfred Odell, Deceased, were issued on May 23, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000427, pending in Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to: Gail Topper Odell.The notice to the Independent Executor may be delivered at the following address:c/o Barnes Lipscomb & Stewart
PLLCAttorneys at Law2901 Bee Caves Road, Box DAustin, Texas 78746All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.Dated the 23rd day of May, 2013./s/ Barbara J. LipscombAttorney for Independent Executor
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Elvira Henkes, Deceased, were issued on March 26, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000518, pending in the Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to: Joyce Henkes.All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.c/o: Kay LivelyAttorney at Law2107 Tishomingo TrailAustin, Texas 78734DATED the 31st day of May, 2013.Kay LivelyAttorney for Joyce HenkesState Bar No.: 240254952107 Tishomingo TrailAustin, Texas 78734Telephone: (512) 215-8597
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Hubert Nathan Dean, Deceased, were issued on May 14, 2013, in Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000749, pend-ing in the Probate Court of Travis County, Texas, to the Independent Executor, Sharla Lynn Willis.The residence of the Indepen-dent Executor is in McLennan County, Texas, and the post office address is:Sharla Lynn Willis17115 Wall Ridge RoadMoody, Texas 76557All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.DATED the 21st day of May, 2013./s/ J. David CarpenterBar Card #03845800SEGREST & SEGREST, P.C.28015 W. Highway 84McGregor, Texas 76657Telephone: (254) 848-2600Facsimile: (254) 848-2700Email: [email protected] for the Estate of Hubert Nathan Dean, Deceased
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Patricia L. Miller, Deceased, were issued on May 23, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000687, pending in the Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to: Earl D. Miller.All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.c/o: Earl D. Miller2334 Chateau Village WayAustin, Texas 78744DATED the 31st day of May, 2013.Mark C. TarrantAttorney for Earl D. MillerState Bar No.: 1964965012600 CinchringAustin, TX 78727Telephone: (512) 297-3331
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Robert Sterling Moore, Deceased, were issued on May 16, 2013, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000685 pending in Travis County Probate Court
No. 1, Travis County, Texas to Edna Lois Moore. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present the claims within the time and in the manner prescribed by law in care of the representative, Edna Lois Moore at P.O. Box 558, Pfluger-ville, Texas 78691.Dated: May 21, 2013./s/ Vivian E. Ross-BennettAttorney for the Independent ExecutorState Bar No. 24049665Telephone: (512) 330-4099Facsimile: (512) 331-0872
NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF THE ESTATE OF DOROTHY FINLEY WEAVER, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Dorothy Finley Weaver, Deceased, were issued on May 14, 2013, in Docket No. C-1-PB-13-000844, pending in the Travis County Probate Court #1 of Travis County, Texas, to David Weldon Weaver, Independent Executor.Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the estate, addressed as follows:Mr. David Weldon WeaverIndependent Executor for the Estate of Dorothy Finley Weaver, Deceasedc/o Mr. Roy O. SmithersLAW OFFICE OF ROY O. SMITHERS, P.C.4200-A Manchaca RoadAustin, Texas 78704-6736All persons having claims against this Estate which is cur-rently being administered are required to present them to Roy O. Smithers, Attorney, within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.DATED the 23rd day of May, 2013.LAW OFFICE OF ROY O. SMITHERS, P.C.By: /s/ Roy O. Smithers, Attor-ney for Independent Executor
NOTICE TO CREDITORS On May 21, 2013 Terry Jo Lawson Glenn was issued original Let-ters of Administration for the Estate of Robert Ben Lawson, Deceased, in Cause 13-0188-C4, County Court at Law 4, William-son County, Texas. All persons having claims against this estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them in the time and manner prescribed by law c/o representative’s attorney, Wil-liam Peckham, 1104 Nueces St # 104, Austin TX 78701.
NOTICE TO CREDITORS On May 21, 2013, Barbara Jean Brooks qualified as Indepen-dent Executor without bond of the Estate of Charles E. Sack, Deceased, in Cause No. C-1-PB-13-000843 pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas. The address of the Independent Executor is 400 W. 15th, Suite 808, Austin, Texas 78701, and all persons having claims against this estate are required to present them to such address in the manner and time required by law.Barbara Jean BrooksIndependent Executor of the Estate of Charles E. Sack
NOTICE TO CREDITORS Original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Gus R. Herzik Jr, Deceased, were issued to Cathlyn J Gilbert on May 21, 2013, in Cause No C-1-PB-13-000696, Probate Court No 1, Travis County, Texas. All persons having claims against the Estate are required to pres-ent them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law to: Estate of Gus R Herzik, Jr, c/o The Smith Firm PLLC, 1011 W 31st St Ste 504, Austin, TX 78705
NOTICE TO PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF LUCILLE O. GARNER TIMBERLAKE Notice is hereby given that on May 23, 2013, Walter E. Timberlake was issued original letters of independent administration on
the Estate of Lucille O. Garner Timberlake, deceased, Cause No. C-1-PB-12-001101, now pending in Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas.All persons having claims against this estate are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law to Walter E. Timberlake, Independent Administrator of the Estate of Lucille O. Garner Timberlake, c/o Charles O. Grigson, 604 W. 12th St., Austin, Texas 78701. Charles O. Grigson, Attorney for Walter E. Timberlake, Independent Administrator.
OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given that sealed bids for the Ned Granger Building HVAC Renovation (IFB No. 1304-010-PS), a project consisting primarily of HVAC system upgrades at the Ned Granger Building in Travis County, will be received electronically through www.bidsync.com. Bids will be accepted until 2:00 P. M. CST, June 12, 2013, then publicly opened and read aloud. Travis County will also accept paper bids received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, marked “Sealed Bid (Ned Granger Building HVAC Renovation, IFB No. 1304-010-PS)” at the Travis County Purchasing Office, 700 Lavaca Street, Ste. 800, Austin, TX 78701. Note: The Time-Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of paper bids.Estimated Construction Budget Range: $750,000 - $800,000You may print the Plans and Specifications from the link at www.bidsync.com or they can be obtained in the Travis Coun-ty Purchasing Office. Hard copies (printed) of Plans and Specifications may be obtained from the Travis County Pur-chasing Office for a refundable deposit of $100.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County.” The deposit will be refunded if the drawings and specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid open-ing. In addition, Plans and Specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-area Plan Rooms.A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. IF A COPY OF THE BID SECU-RITY IS SUBMITTED ELEC-TRONICALLY THROUGH WWW.BIDSYNC.COM, AN ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY WILL BE DUE (BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS) ONE BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE BID OPEN-ING DATE. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Pay-ments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Perfor-mance Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidders should use lump sum pricing. Project performance period is 240 calendar days. IF THE CONTRACTOR FAILS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT IN THE WORKING DAYS SPECI-FIED, LIQUIDATED DAMAGES OF $550.00 PER DAY OF DELAY WILL BE ASSESSED. Historically Underutilized Busi-nesses including Contractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers are encouraged to participate in this project consistent with the goals of the Travis County Commissioners Court. Contractors will be required
to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportu-nity laws and regulations, all Federal, State, and local regula-tions for construction safety and health standards.The successful bidder must commence work upon issu-ance by County of a written Notice to Proceed. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in the bids received. Bids may not be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which they are opened.
OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given that sealed bids for the NED GRANGER BUILDING FIFTH FLOOR RENOVATION (IFB No. B1305-006-JT), a project consisting primarily of an interior renovation of the fifth floor of the existing Travis County Ned Granger Building, including some demolition and asbestos abatement, and the fire sprinkler and fire alarm system, at 314 W. 11th Street in Austin, Texas, in Travis County, will be received electronically through www.bidsync.com. Bids will be accepted until 2:00 P.M. CST, JUNE 12, 2013, then publicly opened and read aloud. Travis County will also accept paper bids received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Pur-chasing Agent, marked “Sealed Bid NED GRANGER BUILDING FIFTH FLOOR RENOVATION (IFB No. B1305-006-JT)” at the Travis County Purchasing Of-fice, 700 Lavaca Street, Ste. .800, Austin, TX 78701. Note: The Time-Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office will serve as the OF-FICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of paper bids.You may print the Plans and Specifications through www.bidsync.com. In the event of a large file size, please be patient when downloading or viewing. Hard copies (printed) of Plans and Specifications may also be obtained from the Travis County Purchas-ing Office for a refundable deposit of $100.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County.” The deposit will be refunded if the Plans and Specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid open-ing. In addition, Plans and Specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-area Plan Rooms.A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. IF A COPY OF THE BID SECU-RITY IS SUBMITTED ELEC-TRONICALLY THROUGH WWW.BIDSYNC.COM, AN ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY WILL BE DUE (BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS) ONE BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE BID OPEN-ING DATE. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Pay-ments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Perfor-mance Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidders should use lump sum pricing. Project performance period is 150 calendar days. IF THE CONTRACTOR FAILS TO COM-PLETE THE PROJECT IN THE WORKING DAYS SPECI
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OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given that sealed bids for the Replace-ment of HVAC System at USB Building (IFB No. B1305-001-AG), a project consisting primarily of demolition and removal of the existing HVAC system, repair and installation of a new HVAC system at the USB Building in Travis County, will be received electronically through www.bidsync.com. Bids will be accepted until 2:00 P. M. CST, June 19, 2013, then publicly opened and read aloud. Travis County will also accept paper bids received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, marked “Sealed Bid (Replacement of HVAC System at USB Building, IFB No. B1305-001-AG)” at the Travis County Purchasing Office, 700 Lavaca Street, Ste. 800, Austin, TX 78701. Note: The Time-Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office will serve as the OF-FICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of paper bids.You may print the Plans and Specifications from www.bidsync.com or they can be obtained in the Travis County Purchasing Office. Hard copies (printed) of Plans and Specifications may be obtained from the Travis County Pur-chasing Office for a refundable deposit of $100.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County.” The deposit will be refunded if the drawings and specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid open-ing. In addition, Plans and Specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-Area Plan Rooms.AN OPTIONAL PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 5, 2013 AT 10:00 A.M., C.S.T. at 1010 Lavaca Street, USB Building, 4th Floor Conference Room, Austin, TX 78701. A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. IF A COPY OF THE BID SECU-RITY IS SUBMITTED ELEC-TRONICALLY THROUGH WWW.BIDSYNC.COM, AN
ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY WILL BE DUE (BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS) ONE BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE BID OPEN-ING DATE. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Pay-ments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Perfor-mance Bond is required in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidders should use lump sum pricing. Project performance period is 60 calendar days. IF THE CONTRACTOR FAILS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT IN THE WORKING DAYS SPECI-FIED, LIQUIDATED DAMAGES OF $100.00 PER DAY OF DELAY WILL BE ASSESSED. Historically Underutilized Busi-nesses including Contractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers are encouraged to participate in this project consistent with the goals of the Travis County Commissioners Court. Contractors will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportu-nity laws and regulations, all Federal, State, and local regula-tions for construction safety and health standards.The successful bidder must commence work upon issu-ance by County of a written Notice to Proceed. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive any informality in the bids received. Bids may not be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which they are opened.Estimated Project Range is $95,000 to $108,000.
OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO BIDDERS TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given that sealed bids will be accepted by Travis County for the following items:1. Tree Pruning and Removal Services, B1305-004-LDOpens: June 10, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.2. Septic and Holding Tank Services, B1304-013-NBOpens: June 17, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.AN OPTIONAL PRE-BID WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 5, 2013 @ 10:00 A.M.3. 10’ X 6” Precast Concrete Box Culvert, 1305-013-SC Opens: June 17, 2013 @ 11:00 a.m.Bids should be submitted to: Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 800, P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767. Specifica-tions can be obtained from or viewed at the Travis County Purchasing Office at no charge or by downloading a copy from our website: www.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp. Bidders should use unit pricing or lump sum pricing, if appropriate. Payments may be made by check. The successful bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance Bond in the amount of One Hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded, if applicable.
OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO PROPOSERS TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be ac-cepted by Travis County for the following items: 1. Security Cameras and Ac-cess Control Systems for Travis County Correctional Complex
(TCCC), 1211-005-LCOpens: PROPOSAL OPEN-ING DATE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO JUNE 25, 2013 @ 2:00 P.M.2. Forest Assessment of Travis County Park System, S1305-014-JWOpens: June 19, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m.PRE-PROPOSAL CONFER-ENCE WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 5, 2013 @ 10:00 A.M.Proposals should be submitted to: Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 800, P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767. Proposal Documents can be obtained from or viewed at the Travis County Purchasing Office at no charge or by downloading a copy from our website: www.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp. Proposers should use unit pricing or lump sum pricing, if appropriate. Payments may be made by check. The successful proponent shall be required to furnish a Performance Bond in the amount of One Hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded, if applicable.
PUBLIC NOTICETHE STATE OF TEXASTHE COUNTY OF TRAVISTo those indebted to or holding claims against the ESTATE OF ROSS AUGUSTINEMALONE, Deceased: The undersigned Independent Executor of the Estate of Ross AugustineMalone, Deceased, of Travis County, Texas, having been granted Letters Testamentary by theProbate Court of Travis County, Texas, in Probate Cause C-1-PB-13-000789 on May 21, 2013,hereby notifies all persons indebted to said Estate to make payment, and those having legal claimsagainst said Estate to present them within the time pre-scribed by law at the address below. Datedthis May 28, 2013, Eleanor Irene Malone, Independent Executor of the Estate of Ross AugustineMalone, Deceased, c/o MARI-LYN G. MILLER, Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 917, DrippingSprings, Texas 78620.
PUBLIC NOTICE DISAD-VANTAGED BUSINESS ENTERPRISESCapital Metro hereby announc-es its Fiscal Year 2014-2016 goal of twenty percent (20%) for Disadvantaged Business Enterprises (DBE) participation in federally funded contracts.A description of how this goal was established is available for public inspection Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the CMTA Of-fices, 2910 E. 5th Street, Austin, Texas for forty-five (45) days following this notice.Capital Metro will accept informational comments for a period of thirty (30) days fol-lowing the date of this notice. Address comments to:Capital MetroAida Douglas, DBE Officer2910 E. 5th StreetAustin, Texas [email protected](512) 369-6200Fax: (512) 369-6235Dated: May 30, 2013
STATE OF WISCONSIN Cir-cuit Court – Sheboygan County Publication Summons - Case No. 13-CV-0231 - The Honorable James J. Bolgert - Case Code 30404 (Foreclosure of Mort-gage) - The amount claimed exceeds $10,000.00 - Pusic, LLC, c/o BSI Financial Services, Inc., 314 S. Franklin St., Titusville, PA 16354, Plaintiff vs. Wallace L. Biederwolf & Jane Doe
Biederwolf, 1551 Florida Ave., Sheboygan, WI 53081-7115; Midland Funding LLC, c/o CSC Lawyers Incorporating Service Company, Registered Agent, 8040 Excelsior Dr., Ste. 400, Madison, WI 53717-2915; Collins Financial Services Inc., 2101 W. Ben White Blvd., Austin, TX 78704-7516; LVNV Funding LLC, 3033 Campus Dr., Ste. 250, Plymouth, MN 55441-2662 and Kohler Credit Union, 905 S. Taylor Dr., Sheboygan, WI 53081-4766, Defendants – The State of Wisconsin - To each person named above as a defendant: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff named above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. Within 40 days after 5/31/13 you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the com-plaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the court, whose address is 615 N. 6th St., Sheboygan, WI 53081 and to Gray & Assoc., L.L.P., plaintiff’s attorney, whose address is 16345 W. Glendale Dr., New Berlin, WI 53151. You may have an attorney help or represent you. If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within 40 days, the court may grant judg-ment against you for the award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to ob-ject to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgment may be enforced as provided by law. A judgment awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you own now or in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure of prop-erty. Dated 5/22/13, William N. Foshag, State Bar No. 1020417, Gray & Assoc., L.L.P., Attys. for Plaintiff, 16345 W. Glendale Dr., New Berlin, WI 53151, 414-224-8404/414-224-1244. Gray & Assoc., L.L.P. is attempting to collect a debt and any informa-tion obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in a chapter 7 bankruptcy case, this communication should not be construed as an attempt to hold you personally liable for the debt.
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Japan it’s not rude to slurp while you eat your ramen noodles out of a bowl. That’s what the Lonely Planet travel guide told me. In fact, some Japanese hosts expect you to make sounds with your mouth; they take it as a sign that you’re enjoying your meal. In that spirit, Gemini, and in accor-dance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to be as uninhibited as you dare this week – not just when you’re slurping your noodles, but in every situation where you’ve got to express yourself uninhibitedly in order to experience the full potential of the pleasurable opportunities. As one noodle-slurper testified: “How can you possibly get the full flavor if you don’t slurp?”
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s a thought from philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A person will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push that door.” I’d like to suggest that his description fits you right now, Cancerian. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I’m wrong? Reflexively agree with me? I’ve got a better idea. Without either accepting or rejecting my proposal, simply adopt a neutral, open-minded attitude and experiment with the possibility. See what happens if you try to pull the door open.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If you have been waiting for the right moment to perfect your party skills, I suspect this might be it. Is there anything you can do to lower your inhibitions? Would you at least temporarily con-sider slipping into a chronic state of fun? Are you prepared to commit yourself to extra amounts of exuberant dancing, ebullient storytelling, and unpredictable playtime? According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos is nudging you in the direction of rabble-rousing revelry.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Where exactly are your power spots, Virgo? Your bed, perhaps, where you rejuvenate and reinvent yourself every night? A place in nature where you feel at peace and at home in the world? A certain building where you consistently make good decisions and initiate effective action? Wherever your power spots are, I advise you to give them extra focus. They are on the verge of serving you even better than they usually do, and you should take steps to ensure that happens. I also advise you to be on the lookout for a new power spot. It’s available.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Reverence is one of the most useful emotions. When you respectfully acknowl-edge the sublime beauty of something greater than yourself, you do yourself a big favor. You generate au-thentic humility and sincere gratitude, which are healthy for your body as well as your soul. Please note that reverence is not solely the province of religious people. A biologist may venerate the scientific method. An atheist might experience a devout sense of awe toward geniuses who have bequeathed to us their brilliant ideas. What about you, Libra? What excites your reverence? Now is an excellent time to explore the deeper mysteries of this altered state of consciousness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When explorer Ernest Shackleton was planning his expedition to Antarctica in 1914, he placed this ad in London newspapers: “Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success.” Would you respond to a come-on like that if you saw it today? I hope not. It’s true that your sense of adventure is ratcheting up. And I suspect you’re itching for intense engagement with the good kind of darkness that in the past has inspired so much smoldering wisdom. But I believe you can satisfy those yearnings without putting yourself at risk or suffering severe deprivation.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’d rather not sing than sing quiet,” said the vivacious chanteuse Janis Joplin. Her attitude reminds me a little of Salvador Dali’s. He said, “It is never difficult to paint. It is either easy or impossible.” I suspect you Sagittarians may soon be in either-or states like those. You will want to give everything you’ve got, or else nothing at all. You will either be in the zone, flowing along in a smooth and natural groove, or else totally stuck. Luckily, I suspect that giving it all and being in the zone will predominate.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1948, Nelson Mandela began his fight to end the system of apartheid in his native South Africa. Eventually he was arrested for dissident activities and sentenced to life imprison-ment. He remained in jail until 1990, when his government bowed to international pressure and freed him. By 1994, apartheid collapsed. Mandela was elected president of his country and won the Nobel Peace Prize. Fast-forward to 2008. Mandela was still considered a terrorist by the United States, and had to get special permission to enter the country. Yikes! You probably don’t have an antiquated rule or obsolescent habit that’s as horrendous as that, Capricorn. But it’s past time for you to dissolve your attachment to any outdated attachments, even if they’re only mildly repressive and harmful.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a renowned artist, photographer, and fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has overflowed with creative expression for 50 years. His imagination is weird and fantastic, yet highly practical. He has produced a profusion of flamboyant stuff. “I’m very down to earth,” he has said, “just not this earth.” Let’s make that your mantra for the coming weeks, Aquarius: You, too, will be very down to earth in your own unique way. You’ll follow your quirky intuition, but always with the intent of channeling it constructively.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the following passage, French novelist Georges Perec invites us to renew the way we look upon things that are familiar to us. “What we need to question,” he says, “is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us.” A meditation like this could nourish and even thrill you, Pisces. I suggest you boost your ability to be sincerely amazed by the small wonders and obvious marvels that you sometimes take for granted.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Back in the 1920s, the governor of Texas was determined to forbid the teaching of foreign languages in public schools. To bolster her case, she called on the Bible. “If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,” she said, “it’s good enough for us.” She was dead serious. I suspect you may soon have to deal with that kind of garbled thinking, Aries. And it may be impossible to simply ignore it, since the people wielding it may have some influence on your life. So what’s the best way to deal with it? Here’s what I advise: Be amused. Quell your rage. Stay calm. And methodically gather the cool, clear evidence about what is *really* true.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A few weeks ago, the principal at a school in Bellingham, Washington announced that classes would be canceled the next day. What was his rationale? A big storm, a bomb threat, or an outbreak of sickness? None of the above. He decided to give students and teachers the day off so they could enjoy the beautiful weather that had arrived. I encourage you to make a similar move in the coming days, Taurus. Take an extended Joy Break – maybe several of them. Grant yourself permission to sneak away and indulge in spontaneous celebrations. Be creative as you capitalize profoundly on the gifts that life is offering you.
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