Volume 24, Number 50
ON THE COVER:
news
Not students, but teachers AISD struggles to retain qualified educators
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Republicans aim to kill federal appeals law
BY JORDAN SMITH
McCracken leads charge against 'moral objections' prescription refusals
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Sensenbrenner aide gives bad, bullying legal advice ... and then vanishes
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
A lack of democracy turns education 'reform' into an unfunny joke
BY AMY SMITH
Bushites squelch negative Central American labor conditions report; and sustainable food program teaches students more than they'll ever learn in a sterile classroom
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Super Suppers, Dream Dinners, and the new family meal
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Big changes for two local favorites; plus, Bistro le Marseillais, feeling and eating the heat, and more.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Austin's (and Corpus Christi's) other psych-era survivors
BY MARGARET MOSER
The Applicators apply themselves, inside the Bubble Empire, and more
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Paradise Hotel
Live shot
Somebody as Anybody
Feathers From the Wing EP
Still
1986
The Greater Good
screens
The TFPF panelist screenings
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Summer's almost gone, which with apologies to South by Southwest and Cine Las Americas means Austin's film-festival season is about to get going
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
John Kricfalusi, in town this weekend, on 'Ren & Stimpy's staying power.
BY KEN LIECK
Where does the theatre rank in 'EW's best of the best?
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
There's nothing like contemporary television to remind us how miserable we are
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
In making its big move, the French New Wave was never about polarizing class, but that hasn't stopped some critics and contemporaries from all but labeling Claude Chabrol's work as bourgeois, processed, and better suited to the small screen
Film Reviews
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
The single dullest war film of the past decade from the once promising director John Dahl.
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
arts & culture
Director David Yeakle revisits 'The Three Cuckolds,' the commedia classic that got his Tongue in Groove
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin's newest theatre company serves up the musical tale of a very famous French clown suffering an existential crisis
BY BARRY PINEO
Ballet Austin to Big Apple
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Heroes of Comedy boldly go to the 'Star Trek' Las Vegas Convention 2005, and Arthouse says, "We are family"
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A review of Roho Productions' "junk melodrama."
Review of F8 Gallery's Retro Show
Review of Tina Medina's 'Pochismas' at Women & Their Work
columns
"Page Two" is taking a break
Our readers talk back.
Your Style Avatar weighs in on Daisy Duke, life's rich (Republican???) pageant(s), and the passing of a style great. Read on!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Doug's House: your help enables their help
BY SANDY BARTLETT
If the mineral gallium is good for lame horses, as I have heard, is it also good for humans with joint problems?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Pro se divorce in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS AND LISA MCMORRIS
Reimers Ranch in southwestern Travis County is about to go the way of the Armadillo (World Headquarters)
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The first annual Auto Glass Industry Technician Olympics will be held Oct. 17-18, 2005, at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Our latest batch
Ruta Maya, Sunday, August 14, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The fall soccer season is already under way
BY NICK BARBARO