Jason Stout
Volume 29, Number 41
ON THE COVER:
features
Shaking out Austin's weekend of Pride
BY KATE X MESSER
The full text of Silky Shoemaker's QueerBomb speech
BY SILKY SHOEMAKER
news
While the city juggles taxicab franchises, drivers demand 'a fair shake'
BY WELLS DUNBAR
A few questions about the city's designated experts
BY MICHAEL KING
Council returns to the vexing question of historic zoning
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Our picks for the June 12 run-off elections
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Citizens' calendar, June 10-16
A nonpartisan race turns partisan
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Powell supporters join in last attempts to spare his life
BY MICHAEL KING
Court finds assistant D.A. withheld evidence
BY JORDAN SMITH
As Austin grows, jail population could inch upward
BY JORDAN SMITH
Arbitrator's decision expected
BY JORDAN SMITH
Time to walk the walk on making cities healthy
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Perry emits more hot air over state's dirty air
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
New EPA standards crack down on sulfur dioxide emissions
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Are Republicns behind the Greens' ballot access?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
TAKS scores are up
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Handful of voters likely to determine outcome of AISD and ACC boards run-offs
BY LEE NICHOLS
Alterna-Pride festivities emerge
BY KATE X MESSER
City official transferred
BY WELLS DUNBAR
New effort aims to save salamander
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Plutonomism; and Don't Regulate – Restructure
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Downtown dining with young ones doesn't have to be daunting
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Support contemporary Mexican art and the movement against genetically modified food
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Affordable white wines keep you and your dinner crisp and cool this summer
BY WES MARSHALL
Streat, from a founder of Mirabelle, offers a gustatory whirlwind trip around the world in a casual setting
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Supporting Urban Roots and eating Aquarelle for $10? Yes, please.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Summertime Blues
Gonna raise a fuss, gonna raise a holler: rock & roll books
Live Shots
Bass Concert Hall, June 5
Stubb's, June 6
Antone's, June 8
Stubb's, June 8
Commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the Saxon Pub and talking business with Kalu James and ME Television
BY AUSTIN POWELL
screens
The agony and ecstasy of Powell and Pressburger pictures
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Heather Kafka on a love/hate history with acting
BY MARC SAVLOV
Tattooed for life
BY MARGARET MOSER
Tom Bissell's latest book is an intelligent one-stop read that introduces modern gaming's big questions
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Long gone is the summer hiatus: These days, new programming knows no seasonal boundaries
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg are among the co-stars of this James Ivory-directed film about a dead novelist's reclusive family.
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple, but the wife doesn't know her husband is a government assassin. Comedy ensues.
With an unflinching camera and candid observation, this documentary follows four medical volunteers, ranging from fresh-faced newbies to battle-scarred veterans of the organization.
Owen Wilson gives voice to the Great Dane of the old single-panel comic about a big, dumb dog.
The pleasure of Nicole Holofcener's film – which stars Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, and Amanda Peet – lies in the honesty of its conversations rather than its plot.
arts & culture
The 2009-2010 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
An all-star team of Austin comics faces down the ROT Rally's hordes of hogs
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A bake sale yields $1,000 in minifellowships for three Austin artists
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A pro-Catholic organization threatens City's staging of a biblical comedy – sort of
BY BARRY PINEO
Arts Reviews
Capital T's return to Tracy Letts territory hasn't the buzz of 2009's Killer Joe
The Mamet-inspired troupe of improvisers nails it to the fucking wall
columns
Neil Young's solo tour, Part I
BY LOUIS BLACK
Pride Bomb, baby, yeah!
BY KATE X MESSER
Chickamaw Farm outside of McDade grows blueberries, and this year promises to be one of its best crops ever
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Woody Allen, surpassing porn, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your Style Avatar gets picked up and put in a recliner in a very dark room
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Congress Avenue, Friday, June 11, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Where are you going to watch the World Cup?
World Cup preview, Aztex homestand continues
BY NICK BARBARO
A best-of-three vs. TCU to decide who advances to the CWS
BY MARK FAGAN
Last game at the CPC this season for the Stars
BY MARK FAGAN