Alienated Majesty Books
features
Deprogramming Dave
Drummer Lisa Cameron talks with ex-bandmate Kathy McCarty about her transition into self
BY KATHY MCCARTY
news
How Not to Pick a Police Chief
As the search reaches full speed, so do complaints about the process
BY JORDAN SMITH
APD Shooting: What went down
Officer shoots and kills 25-year-old after scuffle early Sunday in East Austin, Department of Justice to investigate APD's use-of-force tactics
BY JORDAN SMITH
Homeless Funding Struggle
Agency overseeing Austin's most comprehensive web of homeless services scrambles for funding
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Sally Shipman, Good Samaritan
Community says farewell to former City Council member
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
80TH LEGISLATURE
On the Lege
Looking back at the Lege through local eyes
BY AMY SMITH
Rodeo 80
The 2007 Legislature in a quick-step roundup
Developing Stories: Counting Cars and Fears
Officials say their hands are tied at Northcross – but is that true?
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Congress' War
The Texas congressmen look for a way out
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
With only one meeting to go until summer break, City Council should be mob scene
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Developing Stories
Five Good Reasons Las Manitas Deserves a City Loan
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
The Hightower Report
Corporate Creeps Bilk the Elderly; and Al Qaeda Banks on Bush
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Yummer Reading
From How to Pick a Peach to going Backstage With Julia Child
Hill Country Flourish
The third annual Blanco Lavender Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Barbecue, wine, sushi, and crepes, that sort of thing
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
June 8-15
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mighty Atom
Atomic City's Jim 'Prince' Hughes is punk rock daikaiju at a whole different level
BY MARC SAVLOV
TCB
TCB shakes a maraca in Spoon’s new video, stakes out the Belmont for a supersecret Prince show, and talks street with Krum Bums singer Dave Tejas.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
DOCTORS' MOB
Texas Platters
Tia Carrera
Heaven/Hell EP, Vous Êtes la Guerre
Doctors' Mob, the Wannabes
Doctors' Mob, Wannabes
Golden Arm Trio
The Tick-Tock Club
Bee vs. Moth
Soundhorn
The Golden Boys
Whiskey Flower
Mandible
(Here Comes the) Mandible
The Jesus Lizard
The Jesus Lizard Live
screens
A City in Fits and Starts
AFS Documentary Tour: Austin Time Tours
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Brutal Youth
Eli Roth on Hostel: Part II
BY CARSON BARKER
TV Eye
Network Failure
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Mike Figgis
Digital Filmmaking
Film Reviews
Cheeni Kum
A chef falls for a woman 30 years his junior in this new Bollywood comedy romance set in London.
Hostel: Part II
Roth has accomplished the near impossible: He's crafted a vastly superior sequel to Hostel, one that supersedes the original's sadistic quotient, gore effects, and narrative subversiveness.
I'm Reed Fish
The ultimate indie self-indulgence, this film (with a script by Reed Fish) is weighed down in its own coming-of-age angst.
Offside
Deeply immersive, thought-provoking, and quite often funny, Offside depicts the resourcefulness women in Iran must rely on in order to enter a stadium to watch, no less play, soccer.
Provoked
What should have turned out as a terrific movie about the crime of spousal abuse has instead received the equivalent of a ham-handed molestation by director Jag Mundhra.
Severance
This British horror comedy ricochets from violence to vengeance to outright survivalism, with comedy – some brilliant, some less so – underlying it all.
Surf's Up
This animated avian surf epic is most alive when its radio-friendly pop hits accompany beautiful CGI waves.
arts & culture
And the Award Goes to ...
The 2006-2007 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Junk: When you're jonesing for the good stuff
The four improvisers who constitute the Austin troupe Junk prefer to work in long-form, and long-form certainly seems their forte
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Salvage Vanguard Theater: The rebel sets down roots
After 13 years of staging shows in bars and other companies' theatres, Salvage Vanguard Theater is opening its own all-purpose arts space in a 9,600-square-foot warehouse on Manor Road
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks: Save the last dance for me
When the curtain falls on the final performance of its 24th season, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks will dance away into history and an era of dance in Austin will end
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Full Monty
Naughty Austin's production of the musical The Full Monty gets off to a clunky start, but once it hits its stride, it generously delivers a fun night for its audience
Jeff Williams: Thickly Settled
For his exhibit 'Thickly Settled,' artist Jeff Williams has blanketed an array of everyday objects in an electrostatic flocking fiber that looks a lot like dust from an AC window unit
'Tom Molloy: Lone Star'
Tom Molloy's exhibition at Lora Reynolds Gallery may be critical of current U.S. leadership, but it also wisely opens queries instead of plugging in answers
columns
Page Two: Free Means Free
Knee-jerk support of Chavez's TV-station shutdown legitimates all censorship
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters @ 3AM
Excerpts from Cassavetes Directs, Ventura's forthcoming book about the making of the film Love Streams
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen drowned his sorrows in Houston after not being invited to that exclusive shindig at the Belmont. Perhaps they would have let him in if he donned one of those notorious Britney Spears hat-and-wig combos?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
DeZavala Vineyards, between Franklin and New Baden, grows the sweetest blueberries in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Einstein's slippers, and playing six degrees of alcoholism
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Protesting high property taxes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: The Miracle Bash
Sky Lounge, Saturday, June 9, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Lightning on the road, U.S. defeat China, and more
