Todd V. Wolfson
Volume 26, Number 49
ON THE COVER:
news
An American reporter films his own murder in Oaxaca, and Mexican and U.S. authorities look the other way
BY JOHN ROSS
Eastside revitalization or private profit on public dime?
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Austin-based inmates' rights group hopes to shine daylight on inhumane conditions and mismanagement in county jails
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
French capitalism meets community bicycling
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
City budget: A study in haves and have-nots
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Pushing for shared prosperity; and Bush's Iraq oil law
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The time has come for the great boxed-wine challenge
BY WES MARSHALL
Gene's gumbo fakes not the funk on the nasty dunk
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Aug. 10-16
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
A dad comes out of retirement to help his daughter expand the family business
music
The 'Rockabilly Filly' bucks back into Austin
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Off the Record goes the distance at the Virgin Festival in Baltimore; Snake Eyes Vinyl relocates; Belaire and Tacks, the Boy Disaster ship overseas; and more
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Under the Influence of Buck
2006 Flim Flam Follies: Hallowe'en Ball at the Oaks
The Little Darlin' Sessions
Beyond the Purple Hills
Coalinga
Recado
Pretty World
I'm Still Curious
Solitude
screens
Revisiting Renaissance man Robert Thom's prolific and hellish Hollywood visions
BY LOUIS BLACK
Forgiveness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Dan Brown's "Pierre" heads list of Web-fest shorts
BY MARC SAVLOV
Rebels, Rogues, and Rascals
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Jane Austen could spot a phony, and, as a result, she would not have been happy with this romanticized account of her early years.
Bollywood film about a male coach who teaches the ragtag women's national hockey team to believe in themselves.
Someone should blow "Taps" for this outing and put it out of its misery.
Neither a biopic of the artist nor a historical epic, Goya's Ghosts is a timeless study of the human potential for barbarism and hypocrisy.
Billed as the “Gypsy Caravan,” five bands travel across America making music from across the Romani diaspora.
This Australian film puts a modern, hyperstylized spin on an old tale: Should it be, "Out, damned spot" or "Off, damned Ray-Bans"?
It's The Bourne Ultimatum's evil twin, relying, as it repeatedly does, on tired, cookie-cutter, cliché action set-pieces.
This uneven adaptation of Neil Gaiman's bestselling novel is clogged with too much fairy dust.
A mad scientist's experiments provide a beagle with superpowers and the ability to speak in this children's comedy based on an old cartoon.
arts & culture
A new Austin gallery captures dancers with paint
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
BY BARRY PINEO
David Pratt and Susan Maynard, who helped make South First artsy and cool, are closing Spunky Monkey Ranch for life in the country
BY RACHEL KOPER
New and rough-edged as the improv troupe Look Cookie is, it's still worthwhile watching them do their thing
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
The art camp Nohegan is back for a second summer, with more camping, camaraderie, and creating art at McKinney Falls State Park
BY SALVADOR CASTILLO
Arts Reviews
Zachary Scott Theatre's Almost Holy Picture might work better with a thousand different words
The Zachary Scott Theatre Center's peppy staging of Disney's High School Musical proves the live version can beat out what's in the box
In 'New American Talent: The 22nd Exhibition,' we may be witnessing a return to structure
columns
Aesthetically, we have gone insane and dull
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our latest batch
Our social butterfly, your Style Avatar, keeps it indoors and parks it in front of the tube for a bit
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Samuel Mirelez builds birdhouses like Michelangelo paints ceilings
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Spatial-temporal reasoning, Hitler's favorite movies, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Sell your home and get a tax break?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Paramount Theatre, Friday, August 10, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Manchester United takes home the Community Shield trophy, and more
BY NICK BARBARO