Volume 33, Number 6
Issue Supplement
ACL Music Fest Preview
ON THE COVER:
features
ACL MUSIC FEST
Interviews, album reviews, and recommendations for the first weekend of the fest
news
Reproductive health care for young Texas women is limited, costly ... or nonexistent
BY JORDAN SMITH
IDEA was sent packing – now AISD and the neighborhood face the school's 'repurposed' future
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The road from Haltom City to Austin
BY MICHAEL KING
Judge's order offers only clue that talks are in progress
BY AMY SMITH
BY JORDAN SMITH
With the EMS contract filed away, Council moves on to the South Lamar PUD
BY MICHAEL KING
A centennial celebration provides platform to stump for county judge
BY AMY SMITH
Front-runners emerge in the race to replace Strama
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
County officials scramble to tell voters what Texas GOP doesn't want them to know
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Two capital cases raise psychological and evidentiary issues
BY JORDAN SMITH
Conference slate features diverse range of speakers
BY BRANDON WATSON
Ryan rants, and a new voice of morality responds
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
ACL MUSIC FEST
ACL food vendors talk strategy for the two-weekend challenge
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
ACL Festgoers' guide to nearby restaurants
ACL aftershow eats
From kolaches to tacos to West African fare, this trailer park packs in a lot of flavors
BY GRACIE SALEM
Exclusivity has its perks – and its price – at ACL's VIP Grove
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
We go weak at the knees for Barlata
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Persian wraps and bowls carpeted with big flavor
BY MICK VANN
As the weather cools down, the food event calendar heats up
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Oct. 3-10
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
ACL MUSIC FEST
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
ACL Music Fest 2013 Friday Interviews
Talking with ACL Friday performers
ACL Music Fest 2013 Friday Reviews
Blurbing Friday ACL
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Friday, Oct. 4
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Friday, Oct. 11
BY KEVIN CURTIN
ACL Music Fest 2013 Saturday Interviews
Talking with ACL Saturday perfomers
ACL Music Fest 2013 Saturday Reviews
Blurbing Saturday ACL
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Saturday, Oct. 5
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Saturday, Oct. 12
BY KEVIN CURTIN
ACL Music Fest 2013 Sunday Interviews
Talking with ACL Sunday perfomers.
ACL Music Fest 2013 Sunday Reviews
Blurbing Sunday ACL
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Sunday, Oct. 6
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Austin bands at ACL Fest, Sunday, Oct. 13
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Austin Kiddie Limits
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Zilker Tent stage
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
The Lebanese connection: ACL booker Charles Attal's bond with Zilker Park
BY MICHAEL CORCORAN
ACL arrives
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Build Me Up From Bones
Radio Ready – Lost Power Pop Hits 1978-1983: Texas, Vol 1, Permanent Basement, Truck Month, Christ Adonis Algiers, yr4 pt5
American Sharks
Seeds and Stems
Follow Me
Messenger
screens
How Josh Baer helps people 'quit their jobs' to join the bustling hive at Capital Factory
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Ten notable start-ups born out of Capital Factory's Demo Day
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Bringing gaming, film, music, and mobile tech together
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
In this gross but smart comedy from Jacob Vaughan, a man's stress grows into a monster that explodes from his rectum.
Bollywood romantic comedy.
This doc about bodybuilders vying for the Mr. Olympia title is narrated by Mickey Rourke.
Sandra Bullock is lost in space – alone with the beauty, terror, and the laws of gravity.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tackles income inequality in this documentary.
The events surrounding the assasination of JFK are witnessed through the eyes of those who were there in this made-in-Austin film.
An Afghan woman finds her true voice while speaking her true thoughts about their marriage to her comatose husband.
This bilingual romantic comedy hopes to follow in the footsteps of the U.S. box-office sensation Instructions Not Included.
Tamil romantic comedy.
arts & culture
How Trouble Puppet creates those ingenious, inhuman figures that populate its plays
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
This painter logs long hours at his easel in an open, airy space at the front of his apartment
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Tony-winning playwright takes up residence at Texas State
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Tina Howe's satirical study of the people viewing a contemporary art exhibit becomes a fast, over-the-top romp at St. Ed's
At its best, this program of five choreographers riffing on 'Heart' pulled me in and provoked me to deeper exploration
Exhibition of photography and mixed media carries emergent Austin art to new heights
columns
Suicide was the last lens through which Mayer Vishner gazed upon life
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Time to dig in the crypt of queer music history
BY KATE X MESSER
Up, up and away, my beautiful balloon!
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
New Texas laws affect eating, drinking, weapons, and tanning
BY LUKE ELLIS
Some really heavy, dark, first world, existential shit
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE