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Angels in South America
Round Rock-based Bolivian missionary project in crisis
BY DAN SELINGER
Are We Masters of Our Domain?
Critics are concerned that rather than boosting local shops, a subsidy deal struck by City Council with developers of the Domain is dropping cash into an already successful project, filled with high-end stores
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Landfill Expansion Trashed ... for Now
Opponents of revised contract between Williamson County and Hutto landfill operator Waste Management Industries celebrate county commissioners’ decision to postpone voting on contentious new deal
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Cool City: The Leffingwell Lens
One council member's view of the Austin Climate Protection Plan
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Naked City
Beside the Point: An Open Letter to Rich Oppel
Sometimes it's hard not to agree with Rich Oppel
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Reefer Madness
Q & A with Rob Kampia, co-founder of the Marijuana Policy Project
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Rebuild the Middle Class; and Life in Iraq
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Among the Smoldering Embers
The 17th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival: Contest results
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Central Market's No Holds Barred Hatch Chile Pepper Recipe Contest Winners
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A Culinary Passport to Asia
Asia Food Fest 2007
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Summer Rosés
BY WES MARSHALL
17th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Food-o-File
Another Austinite takes first at the Texas Sommelier Conference; plus, how about Italian tonight?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Aug. 31-Sept. 6
music
Hey, Hey, Hey!
No. 2 hit from 1965, 'Treat Her Right,' by Roy Head & Gene Kurtz: 'Just one of them songs that hangs around"
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
Inside Western Vinyl's ambience, talking Prince and side projects with Grupo Fantasma's Adrian Quesada, Table Manners Crew operate on all fours, and a 1967 Hoot Night Happening
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Car Stereo (Wars)
The Bandit
Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State
Dave Oliphant
White Denim
Let's Talk About It
UGK
Underground Kingz
Omar Kent Dykes & Jimmie Vaughan
On the Jimmy Reed Highway
Ian Moore
To Be Loved
John Schooley & His One Man Band
One Man Against the World
screens
GAMING
Cooperative Play
Richard Garriott and his team at NCsoft unveil their new online game
BY JOEY SEILER
No Noobs
Why the Austin Game Developers Conference Isn't for Gamers
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Game Review: BioShock
BY ERIC SEBESTA
The Austin Premiere of Short Film Works by William Wegman
Sept. 6 event at the Design Center benefits EmanciPet
BY TODDY BURTON
Cinematexas Heads for That Big Screening in the Sky...
But festival season soldiers on
BY MARC SAVLOV
AFS Essential's Blokes 'n' Birds: British Realist Cinema
Sept. 4-Oct. 9
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
TV Eye
Baffled Intrigue
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Balls of Fury
Goofy pingpong comedy gets by on the amiable nerd panache of chunky lead Dan Fogler.
Black Sheep
It's smart; it's silly; it's shear terror, as the ruminants develop a taste for human flesh.
The Boss of It All
Lars von Trier assures us at the outset that this will be a "cozy comedy," the last thing you might expect from this prickly filmmaker. (AFS@Dobie)
Illegal Tender
A throwback to the Eighties crime dramas and Seventies blacksploitation films, this Latino action thriller about family ties and blood feuds rarely transcends clichés.
Ladrón Que Roba a Ladrón
This Spanish-language caper film, made in Los Angeles, offers grand entertainment and sociological import.
No End in Sight
If you're growing as weary of Iraq war documentaries as you are of the war itself, then this sobering, information-filled study of the war's origins is the film for you.
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
This new release is a remake of the popular Bollywood film Sholay.
Self-Medicated
It contains some freshman mistakes, but this microindie has such dramatic momentum, such a need to tell its story, that it's well worth a look.
September Dawn
This movie about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of Sept. 11, 1857, during which local Mormons murdered 120 members of a wagon train heading West, reeks of ulterior motives.
War
Jet Li and Jason Statham spar and provoke all-out war among the Asian mobs.
arts & culture
De-Spurring the Moment
The making of the 2007 Out of Bounds Improv Festival
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Long Center: Countdown to opening and beyond
Summer at the Long Center meant lots of construction activity and two hefty contributions from the corporate community
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Going Over the Top and Other Outrageous Behaviors: Being melodramatic – on purpose
Karen Hastings, a specialist in melodrama and vaudeville, is offering locals a master class in acting the old-fashioned way
BY BARRY PINEO
Rude Mechs: How great it was, how great
The Rude Mechs' Bush-whacking version of Get Your War On nets raves and a festival prize at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Conspirare: My favorite year
In a banner year, Conspirare signs with the prestigious Harmonia Mundi label and plans a powerful Long Center debut with the Verdi Requiem
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Dragonfly Princess
Despite its fairy-tale trappings, ethos' opera The Dragonfly Princess takes us down a dark path of intrigues, heresy, power struggles, and death
Babble For Your Soul
Babble for Your Soul is a rare opportunity to see live theatre with very minimal commitment and the pleasure of being entertained, engaged, perhaps edified
Radical Nautical
'Radical Nautical,' maybe the most jam-packed show in Gallery Lombardi history, is a quirky, energetic celebration of water
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Letters @ 3AM
The current economic crisis is real, probably systemic, and maybe dire
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen is too early to know about Norah and too late to pay tribute
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Honky-tonking with history at the White Elephant Saloon in Fort Worth
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Drinking under the influence of no sleep, Schulz on skates, and busty suicidal women
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
My roommate moved out – Do I have to pay the entire rent myself?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Rock and Roll Karaoke with Nathan Black
Beerland, Monday, September 3, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Lady Longhorns open their season this Friday, and more
