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After the Storm
Austin's Louisiana exiles remain suspended between before and after
BY CHERYL SMITH
Petty Nastiness in WilCo
After more than a year of legal wrangling, federal judge sets date for jury to decide whether Williamson Co. Sheriff James Wilson demoted former WCSO officers Barry Simmons and Ralph Fisher in retaliation for reporting wrongdoing within department and/or for supporting Wilson's rival, former sheriff Jim Wilson
BY PATTY RULAND
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Beside the Point : A Ton to Chew On
City grapples with weight loss, forcing bicycle helmets, and public safety staffing, among other issues.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Bad Bosses; and a Bill to Ban Sweatshop Labor
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL
Flame On
Hot-saucy legends get fired up for the festival
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Sweet Heat
The 16th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival
BY ROBB WALSH
The 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival 20,000 Lb. Challenge
How you can help the Capital Area Food Bank while having a blast at the 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Iron Chef Alamo Battle Celluloid Episode I
Bullington vs. Eichelberger
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Movers and shakers, ranges and changes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Aug. 24-31
music
TCB
Nineteen days on the road with Moonlight Towers later, TCB arrives in Austin a bitter, broken man but with plenty to report.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Reissues & Box Sets
Depeche Mode, the Cure, the Jesus & Mary Chain
Speak & Spell, Music for the Masses, Violator, The Top, The Head on the Door, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic, Honey's Dead, Stoned & Dethroned
Spoon
Telephono, Soft Effects EP
Windsor for the Derby
Calm Hades Float, Minnie Greutzfeldt
Wire
Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, 154
Sonic Youth, Ciccone Youth, Thurston Moore
Sonic Youth, The Whitey Album, Pyschic Hearts
Plasticland
Make Yourself a Happening Machine:A Collection of
Harry Nilsson
Son of Schmilsson, A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night, Everybody's Talkin':The Best of Harry Nilsoon
Johnny Cash
Personal File, Man in Black:Live in Denmark 1971
Matthew Sweet
Girlfriend
Kashmere Stage Band
Texas Thunder 1968-74
Big Bill Broonzy
Amsterdam Live Concerts 1953
various artists
Panama! Latin, Calypso and Funk on the Isthmus 1965-75, Ethnic Minority Music of Northeast Cambodia, Radio Thailand, Radio Algeria
Billy Bragg
Volume 1
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
Legends of Country Texas
various artists
Rockin' Bones; '50s Punk & Rockabilly
Bruce Hornsby
Intersections 1985-2005
the Beatles
The Capitol Albums Vol. 2
Bjork
Surrounded
various artists
The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 5
various artists
The House That Trane Built:The Story of Impulse Records
Sonny Stitt
Stitt's Bits:The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952
screens
How He Made 'Fried Worms'
The dirt on director Bob Dolman
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Grant Recipients
$125,000 to 18 filmmakers
Film News
It's dry as a bone out there, but this verdant pasture of industry info and celebrity gossip is no mirage
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Extended networks
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Beerfest
The jokes in this latest film from the Broken Lizard comedy troupe are about as potent as near-beer.
How To Eat Fried Worms
This kids movie, which was filmed in Austin, is not as wormy as it sounds.
Idlewild
OutKast has been operating as two separate and distinct musical personas for at least three years now, and Idlewild unwisely continues this trend into the cinematic realm.
The Illusionist
Surprisingly, this atmospheric movie starring some of the greatest actors of our time is a dull and enervating bore.
Invincible
Mark Wahlberg plays footballer Vincent Papale in this story about how he captured a spot on the Philadelphia Eagles team in an open tryout.
Material Girls
The Duff sisters star as heiresses who must learn to earn a living when their cosmetics firm goes belly-up.
My Country, My Country
Using the Iraqi democratic elections in early 2005 as its focal point, this powerful documentary is the sad lament of Iraqis who truly want the best for their homeland, despite seemingly overwhelming odds.
Quinceañera
Don't confuse this Sundance charmer with My Big Fat Mexican Debut, for its farcical scenes of high hair and waltzes form a genial, light-comic prism for watching race, age, class, and sexuality collide in one of America's most economically and ethnically complex cities.
Snakes on a Plane
This solid little B-movie arrives cloaked in the dodgy garb of a fanboy phenomenon.
arts & culture
Mission: Improvable
Austin's improv community gathers intelligence
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
American Repertory Ensemble: Flight risk
American Repertory Ensemble had no trouble getting to Scotland for its recent weeklong gig at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival but had a devil of a time getting back home
BY ROBERT FAIRES
100 Proof Comedy: Shot down stand-up
Four of Austin's funniest comics have created a new showcase in which the hook is the comics doing what the audience does, i.e., taking a belt, knocking one back, hitting the sauce
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Paramount and State Theatres: Archives to UT
Some 3,000 items – from playbills and posters to contracts and correspondence – from the Paramount and State theatres are being donated to the UT Fine Arts Library
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
A Blanton curator goes south, a solo show master goes back to Houston, an area quilter and portraitist go national, and the Long Center and KMFA go to the bank
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
I Am My Own Wife
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's staging of I Am My Own Wife draws us intimately to its protagonist, German transvestite Charlotte van Mahlsdorf, and caught in this mystery man-woman's spell
Sodomy and Pedicures
Monologues about single women in New York may be overdone, but Jessica Hedrick redeems the genre with Sodomy and Pedicures, the story of a sex-starved communist's daughter that's self-aware, smart, fresh, and far from cliché
'Making It Together'
"Making It Together," the second part of the summer UT art grad shows at the CRL, gives quick answers to questions surrounding the idea of collaboration in art
Web Extra: B-Boy Bluez / Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower
In his 'B-Boy Bluez,' playing on a double bill with Maggie Gallant's 'Hot Dogs at the Eiffel Tower,' Zell Miller III creates whole worlds on stage and performs his heart out for whatever audience he gets
columns
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Fresh off the hunt from Dallas Market Center's Holiday/Resort Show, your Style Avatar goes off on what's good about Austin fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Turkey Shop Smokin' Cafe in Abbott is back and cookin'
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Can galvanic skin response tests be trusted?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Security deposit – can they charge me for that?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Charles Lindbergh's Lindy and Fred MacMurray's Marvel
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Waterloo Park, Sunday, August 27, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The Lady Longhorns beat UT-San Antonio in an exhibition match, and more
