Volume 33, Number 1
ON THE COVER:
news
AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Lege's bullying tactics have winning record at City Hall
BY AMY SMITH
Council will consider remedy for expired site plans and lake protections
BY AMY SMITH
Hearing in Austin ritual abuse case questions evidence of sexual abuse
BY JORDAN SMITH
Emails do little to prove security threat
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Groups ask city to investigate animal welfare
BY JORDAN SMITH
Investigation into Wallace Hall continues
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hancock Golf Course plan stokes outrage
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Spelman and Martinez drill staffers over cost projections and turnover
BY MIKE KANIN
Gruesome slaying in West Campus revisited by federal jurists
BY JORDAN SMITH
Commissioner says she's concerned about access and safety issues in her precinct
BY MIKE KANIN
Police destroy the 'Garden of Eden'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The heat was on
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
One restaurant's epic fail is a lesson for us all
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Are chef shuffles any of our business?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Aug. 29-Sept. 3
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Walkman revolutionized portable music. Can their fodder – cassettes – jump the shark?
BY TIM STEGALL
R&B, race relations, and rap: Black Joe Lewis and the League of Extraordinary G'z, plus Ginny's Little Longhorn
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Electric Slave
Get Your Burdens Lifted
Spare Key
Take It and Break It
The Wild and Hollow
Runnin' with the Wolf
"The Waters" b / w "Roll the Bones"
The Wolf That Howls
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" b / w "A Wake for the Minotaur"
screens
AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Paranoia strikes deep in this Brit courtroom suspenser.
The 40-year marriage of two visual artists is explored in this documentary.
Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez try, but they can't getaway from this action mess.
Visual master Wong Kar-Wai tells the story of the legendary martial-arts practitioner and teacher Ip Man.
A bunch of sixth-graders playing capture the flag in the park lays the groundwork for a disturbingly inventive film.
This big, fat kiss to the band's young, female fans is directed by that advocate for good nutrition: Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock.
Indian film.
arts & culture
The nominees for science fiction's best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old
BY AMY GENTRY
For this Michener Playwriting Fellow, autumn brings local premieres of two of her plays
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Paper Chairs stages a life drawing session in which those who pose speak out about what they do
BY ROBERT FAIRES
OOB's comedy podcasts will make your Labor Day weekend less labored
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Monologist Annie La Ganga enchanted a crowd with tales of tarot decks and her personal connections with the cards
The Georgetown Palace production isn't always effective, but it gets at the continued relevance of Aaron Sorkin's script
columns
The new Crossvine Market brings back the old-time grocery store and barbecue joint
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Can you handle a week of PRIDE? We know you can!
BY KATE X MESSER
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Waiting for the other person to die
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Announcing the 121st running of the University of Texas Longhorns
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW