Jason Stout
Volume 28, Number 2
ON THE COVER:
news
CAPITAL METRO GREEN LINE
How Elgin got the New Urbanist transit dream
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
The Green Line takes conceptual shape
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
SOLAR POWER
Thanks to neighborhood-based nonprofit Blackland CDC
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
This week's civic agenda, Sept. 11-18
Opposition starts to mobilize against Stop Domain Subsidies' charter amendment
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
UT professor John Slatin was a pioneer in making websites usable for people with disabilities. Who will continue his work now that he and the institute he founded are gone?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
CAMPAIGN TRAIL
In a tough race against Cornyn, Noriega tries to distinguish himself on health care
BY LEE NICHOLS
Voters are already turning out to see what the candidates have to offer
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
After rejecting a road bond proposal in 2007, Hays voters asked to reconsider in November
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
Another Republican throws his hat in the ring for the 2010 governor's race ... or at least thinks about it
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas' Democratic and Republican voters might just have to write in their favorite candidates this year
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Months after completing work on houses for KB Home, seven construction workers still haven't seen their paychecks
BY DIANA WELCH
Feds bully local juicer into closing operations – for now
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Shakeout at local CBS affiliate takes toll on station staff
BY KEVIN BRASS
After a few bad years, SOS finally wins a court case
BY AMY SMITH
Court of Appeals rejects city's effort to thwart lawsuit
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
You need a Texas scorecard to sort out the pretenders from the real thing
BY MICHAEL KING
Council spreads a few extra dollars and covers its bets
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Price of Autocratic Arrogance; and Guilt by Association
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin landmarks 25-49 years in the making
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Pay tribute to old Austin with a visit to one of these 19 landmark restaurants
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
New local beers bring flavor Austin's way
BY LEE NICHOLS
Open your wallets, and join in local support whilst filling tummies
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Texas loses a barbecue legend, Las Manitas closes its doors, the Rude Mechs celebrate a new adventure, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Retiring the dean of Texas songwriters? Fat chance.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Alpha Rev goes Hollywood, Book of Shadows pen a few new chapters, and Alejandro Escovedo meets a Man From Plains
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Harps and Angels
That Lucky Old Sun
Ten Stones, Live March 2001
Angles
Feed the Animals
The Hawk Is Howling
Nudge It Up a Notch
screens
The many genre delights of Fantastic Fest 2008
BY MARC SAVLOV
AFS Documentary Tour presents Please Vote for Me
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The fake perils of Pop Rocks in Web series Never Do This
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Pirates and ninjas, video-game art, and the lucky few whose DNA will wing its way into space
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Mad Men and the mad men of the Republican National Convention
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Pang brothers' remake of their own film is all cock and no bang.
The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously.
This remake of the 1939 George Cukor film isn't particularly fun or funny.
arts & culture
What a difference a year makes with Ann Ciccolella at Austin Shakespeare's helm
BY HANNAH KENAH
New Dietz play focuses on the 19th century engineer who designed the first computer
BY HANNAH KENAH
Remembering one of the city's best-loved musical-theatre actors
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Free museums, FronteraFest applications, Gray's tap award, and new Salon leaders
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ariel Dance Theatre's latest creates something original, moving, and truly beautiful
Barnett's precisely rendered colorful abstractions afford your eyes maximum enjoyment
Exquisitely toned black-and-white images transport us to a twilight world of thrills
columns
If one is to vote for McCain-Palin, what, precisely, would one be voting for?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Jump on Stephen as he luges through the Swish Alps of the Social Olympics
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Don't mess with javelina, and they won't mess with you (hopefully)
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Kings N Things' almost decade of performance and community service culminates in Drag King: The Musical
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
The Texas Rollergirls on Sarah Palin and what it takes to be both tough and feminine
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Tina Fey, D.W. Griffith, and jass, the American art form
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Citizenship and the Selective Service
BY ANNIE SCHWARTZ
Antone's, Friday, September 12, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily