Jana Birchum
Volume 28, Number 40
Issue Supplement
Pride Guide 2009
ON THE COVER:
features
PRIDE GUIDE 2009
Making the case for an Austin gay barchive
BY KATE X MESSER
Why are gay bars not counted within Austin club histories?
AGLCC's Jimmy Flannigan ponders the pitfalls of a complacent gay place
BY KATE X MESSER
BY ASH BELL
Event listings
Homo up your house with these gay history titles
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
The story of Austin's straight allies and gay bars
BY ANDY CAMPBELL AND KATE X MESSER
An interview with UT professor and archive expert Ann Cvetkovich
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Gayborhood? What gayborhood?
BY ASH BELL
news
Austin programmers look to create a public redesign of the city's website
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Did we learn anything more than the meaning of 'chub'?
BY MICHAEL KING
City announces SWS 'reorganization' – Rhodes to head 'Code Compliance'
BY MICHAEL KING
Citizens' calendar, June 4-11
ON THE LEGE
Perry says he has no immediate plans to call legislators back to Austin
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
3rd Court of Appeals will rule on existing surcharge at sexually oriented businesses
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Senate Dems successfully block Perry's nomination
BY LEE NICHOLS
Don't put your television set in the garbage
BY LEE NICHOLS
Lege gives creative industries incentive to live
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Kuempel bounces back, and Maldonado takes home a prize
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
House Bill 3 holds a glimmer of hope for Pearce Middle School
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Making up for lost time on the wrongful-conviction front
BY JORDAN SMITH
Stakeholders agree on a proposal for closing streets for special events
BY LAUREL CHESKY
An attempt to develop a Neighborhood Plan Contact Team for Holly Street went down in flames – again
BY MICHAEL KING
John Sharp explains why he's the best man for the job of filling Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's seat
BY LEE NICHOLS
Acevedo apologizes to family of Nate Sanders II
BY JORDAN SMITH
Family says officer who shot Nate Sanders didn't follow protocol
BY JORDAN SMITH
Soft Landing in Rough Times; and The Price of Pie
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
From earth to table and back again
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Dripping Springs-based Genesis Today has come out with a line of bottled drinks that are unusually healthy and nourishing
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Lucky J's chicken is both greasy and salty; this is not a criticism
BY RACHEL FEIT
A new burger joint opens, and Kerbey Lane offers incentives to 'eat local'
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Local food events, June 4-11
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Thin Lizzy's 'Cowboy Song' comes alive in rodeo vet turned Red Dirt ranger Ryan Bingham
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Surveying the aftermath from the Red River shootout outside Spiros
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
The Eternal
21st Century Breakdown
White Lies for Dark Times
Veckatimest
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
The Bright Mississippi
Potato Hole
Let's Do It Again
Everlasting: The Best Of
Mama Rosa
Welcome to Mali
Forever: The Complete Motown Albums, Volume 1
screens
In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, a group of teenage filmmakers galvanize the tales of their island
BY KATE X MESSER
AFS Documentary Tour presents Forbidden Lie$
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
It's raining cash for film in Texas ... but not a drop leftover for Waco
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Yep, it's another show about a pill-popping health-care professional with chronic pain. But Nurse Jackie gets it right.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Opening this week in only 4 U.S. cities, this self-described psycho-thriller has selected Austin as one of the lucky few.
This pleasingly meta documentary about the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line intersperses clips from Michael Bennett's original interviews with key players with scenes from the exhaustive search for a new cast.
The Hangover is deliciously darker than Todd Phillips' previous comedies, Old School and Road Trip, but it isn't as thick with malice or drenched in the "bromance" creed of the present.
Will Ferrell's remake of the beloved Sid and Marty Krofft TV show lacks virtually everything that made the original series so memorable.
This moving Israeli film tells the fraught story of a Palestinian widow whose lemon grove is threatened when the country's defense minister moves next door.
Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is on shakier ground with this clichéd story about an American tourist guide in Greece.
arts & culture
The 2008-2009 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A new-to-town dance duo pushes movement–music fusion further
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Local song-and-dance wunderkind David Bologna is up for a top stage honor
BY ROBERT FAIRES
As Conspirare's choirs all come together in song, its executive director departs
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ar Rud's production is how O'Neill's study of family and fragility is supposed to be
A lovely, loving tribute to the Eastside's Blackland neighborhood and playtime past
In his second Art Palace solo show, Green throws a powerful punch of relentless joy
columns
Rash judgment and vitriol don't validate simplistic morality
BY LOUIS BLACK
Anthony Powell is the least known of the greatest 20th century novelists
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Stephen rests then divests
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Post-Katrina New Orleans is returning to form as a tourist destination for people from across the globe
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The sports world is rife with dickish behavior
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Squirrel-flavored potato chips, John Lennon's Elvis, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
High Property Taxes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Qua Bottle Lounge, Saturday, June 6, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Will the Aztex cower or conquer?
BY NICK BARBARO