Jason Stout
Volume 31, Number 42
ON THE COVER:
features
As Austin's gay chamber of commerce turns 15, what have we learned?
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
news
The pain and politics of raising electric rates as a means of controlling our destiny
BY MIKE KANIN
Beneath the AE rate debate stands the strong ground of public process
BY MICHAEL KING
How green was my Austin Energy
BY AMY SMITH
Tavo Hellmund agrees to out-of-court settlement of suit filed against Austin F1 investors
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Design team makes preliminary recommendations for lakeside redevelopment
BY MONICA RIESE
In the state's latest plan, Planned Parenthood clinics would need to change their name to participate in the Women's Health Program
BY JORDAN SMITH
Stars aligning for an Austin science museum
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Plus SH 45, White Lodging, frat houses, and more
BY AMY SMITH
A former TDCJ employee sues, claiming gender discrimination
BY JORDAN SMITH
A new partnership will bring poetry to the Cap Metro fleet
BY MONICA RIESE
The city program that charges for classes in parks gets its six-month review
BY NICK BARBARO
Fortune 500 firms are dumping the bill mill left and right
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Local distillery serves up organic corn whiskey
BY WES MARSHALL
Juneteenth, Father's Day, and wine on the road
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
This summer brings a bumper crop of fresh chefs and local foods
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Fresh ingredients and generous portions highlight this noodle bar
music
Now if Judge Reinhold had been reading at the pool instead of in the bathroom, we might never have experienced Phoebe Cates the way we did in 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High'
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
RUN SILENT, RUN DEEP
A live score
BY RACHEL FEIT
Eye to eye with the Man of Thousand Faces
BY MARC SAVLOV
On 'Schoolhouse Rock!,' bebop, and being forever beatnik
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Film noir's shadowy look and bleak attitude get their clutches into this melodramatic corker from 1946
Film Reviews
Good vibrations flow from this fictional story about the invention of the vibrator in Victorian England; Maggie Gyllenhaal stars.
Tom Cruise playing a dissolute rock god is the main attraction of this jukebox musical.
Love and time travel commingle in this debut feature which stars Aubrey Plaza and Mark Duplass.
arts & culture
Turns out theatre is a great place for getting schooled
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Trappings of a transnational studio
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
With this clever comedy, Capital T treats us to a kinder, gentler doomsday
Heck revitalizes the ancient art of printmaking by making fierce use of its potential
This Gilbert & Sullivan Society production has something for every connoisseur of comedy
columns
Our piping-hot reading issue welcomes the season
BY LOUIS BLACK
In the early part of the Sixties, television's "Route 66" offered a taste of the new American consciousness
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
A fitting and loving tribute to the father of a Style Avatar
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Stick a toe into this week's pool of events!
BY KATE X MESSER
Bracken Bat Cave outside of New Braunfels is home to the world's largest bat colony
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
You’re more than just a collection of productive hair follicles.
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Find out what this Formula One thing is all about
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Aztex suffer first home loss, and more
BY NICK BARBARO