Volume 26, Number 45
ON THE COVER:
news
At intermission, we talk to the headliners
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Animal rights activists who recently vandalized Downtown
restaurants that sell duck liver or veal may be
unintentionally screwing up efforts of separate animal
rights campaign focusing on banning foie gras
BY AMY SMITH
Supremes' June 28 ruling in case of Texas death row
inmate Scott Panetti concludes that law requires
condemned inmates have some 'rational understanding'
of why they're being executed in order to satisfy Eighth
Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment
BY JORDAN SMITH
Austin, Hill Country's animals getting hammered by rains,
other harsh conditions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
KXAN promises a new approach to 'Austin News'
but will it go beyond just a new set?
BY KEVIN BRASS
As the city manager looks homeward, odd old business
erupts
BY MICHAEL KING
Telling ghost stories around the summer campfire, the
Statesman imagines a grisly end for Futrell
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Taking Taxpayers for a Ride; and Thompson the Actor
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
I've been a food critic for 15 years. I've been overeating
all my life. Recently, I decided enough is enough!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A letter from Boggy Creek Farm
BY CAROL ANN SAYLE
Try France
BY WES MARSHALL
Caffe Medici celebrates a big win at the South Central
Regional Barista Competition
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
July 13-19
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Blues Boy Hubbard strolls down Eastside Austin's Chitlin'
Circuit memory lane
BY JONNY MEYERS
Austin's musical landscape and its evolution continue
rumbling down on Red River, documenting Roky Erickson,
and the Weary Boys call it quits
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Noble Creatures
You're Gonna Miss Me
Wedding Songs
Se Dice Bisonte, No Bufalo
Living Joe to Joe
In Good Time, One Lump or Two?
screens
Nine nonfilmmakers artists out of place
make one in 48 hours
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
George Ratliff on Joshua
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The Fiction Liberation Front
BY RICK KLAW
Austinite Chris Eska's August Evening wins big at
LAFF, a year after locals Gretchen and
Chalk did
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Walls come tumbling down
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Luc Besson delivers a gorgeous-looking but ill-conceived mash note to the city of Paris that stars a petty crook and an ethereal beauty.
In this new Bollywood film, a gangster has the job of keeping an eye on his boss' mistress, a girl who was sold to him in the flesh trade.
Parker Posey gives a lovely, toned-down performance as Nora Wilder, the single, mid-30s Manhattanite at the heart of this romantic comedy.
Yes, it's true: Harry Potter manages his first kiss, in between all manner of expository storytelling, and never was a young man's wand more ever-ready.
The privileged nuclear family becomes a hellish dystopia as a result of a 9-year-old child's subtle, nuanced, unspoken manipulations.
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates a baffling yet intriguing film of meandering abstractions. (AFS@Dobie)
Cuddlier and more charming, this alcoholic-hit-man comedy isn’t your typical John Dahl noir, but it is offbeat, lovably deadpan, and just tart enough.
arts & culture
Looking at two art exhibitions that both survey 100 years
of imagery, the more things change ...
BY ROBERT FAIRES
For the first time in its 11-year history, the annual Austin
Chamber Music Festival will present an opera: the Texas
premiere of Grigori Frid’s The Diary of Anne Frank
BY BARRY PINEO
Girls Girls Girls launches its Boys of Summer series with
guest male improviser Jeremy Lamb
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The skinny on selecting public art, Cookie leads Dance/
USA, Conspirare goes worldwide, and a UT playwright's
scholarly honors
Arts Reviews
The strength of The Buttons and Bows Show is
Buttons and Bows, beautiful souls whose innocence is
charming and heartbreaking
The Zilker Summer Musical production of My Favorite
Year triumphed over the recent storms and occasionally
over the show's weak material
columns
A swan song for the conspiracy series
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our latest batch
Wynn bares all, Sills trumps Ivana, and when Stephen
wishes for something, it comes true
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Lake Mackenzie, north of Silverton, a historic and scenic
oasis in the Panhandle
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The arguments against ties and flip-flops
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Bad Credit Should I Hire a 'Credit Repair'
Company?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Paramount Theatre, Friday, July 13, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Lightning on the road, and more on the Asian Cup, Copa América, Under-20 World Cup, MLS …
BY NICK BARBARO