Volume 25, Number 50
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news
A conflict with neighborhoods has made the previously independent street taco vendors organize in self-defense
BY MICHAEL MAY
Austin's new commercial design standards are ready for prime time
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Parks and Rec, Library funding, Health and Human Services, Neighborhood Housing and Community Development, and Solid Waste Services to be discussed; citywide increases proposed across the board
BY MICHAEL KING
District 25 will now be more rooted in Travis County, yet also more conservative
BY LEE NICHOLS AND KIMBERLY REEVES
Female team targets local vintage store employees' purses and wallets
BY SEAN O'NEAL
Federal Clean Air Act critics say it's an unrealistic, paper-only policy
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
FDA officials to meet with representatives of Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. about long-stalled plan to sell Barr's emergency contraceptive Plan B sans prescription
BY JORDAN SMITH
We have less than four months to go to beat our national minimum wage stagnation record, and we're doing great!
BY CHERYL SMITH
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
On seeing the world through blood-drenched eyes
BY MICHAEL KING
Council members take to the waters, al fresco
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Another Front Group for George; and Protecting America from Fair Drug Prices
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
One year later, a commemorative ritual for New Orleans
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The perfect guide to a yummy summer
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
A bittersweet weekend for Taco Xpress
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Go forth and feast
Food Reviews
Revisting a Seventies standout
Shelter from the gluten storm
music
Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Mourning Kim McLagan, the return of Dale Watson, flipping over C-Side Records' Golden Bear and the Channel, Patrice keeps hope alive, and the loss of Love's Arthur Lee and Sahm saxophonist Rocky Morales
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Texas Platters
The Trials of Van Occupanther
Unloaded
Slept for Seven Days
Blues Bullets
Jubilee Dive
Shrimp Boat Town
Live at the Ryman, Let's Step Outside, First Things First, Impossible Sun, Autumn Blues
screens
Why Monument Valley again part of the Netflix / Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow this summer is such a magnetic place for me
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Local doc on local band opens locally on Aug. 11
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Local intrigue abounds; plus, SXSW 07 is ready for your best shot(s)
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Roaring at the Static
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
This trip through musical Istanbul is a little prettier than it is deep, but it provides a window into the variegated subcultures of a city one musician calls “a bridge crossed by 72 nations.”
Not reviewed at press time. This Indian drama revolves around the subtle development of attraction between a man and a woman who are married, but not to each other.
Like any indie comedy worth its weight in quirkiness, Little Miss Sunshine is packed with offbeat characters, all struggling to find meaning in life – in this case on a road trip to a children's beauty pageant. And the film is so much fun, it's almost impossible not to enjoy the journey.
Austinite Hector Galán’s reverential look at Grammy-winning "Texican" rockers Los Lonely Boys is a document of persistence, passion, and some of the finest rock & roll since Stevie Ray Vaughan’s untimely exit.
The unexpected rise and meteoric fall of the North American Soccer League in the heady, silly mid-Seventies is chronicled for the first time in this charmingly chatty documentary, which ably tracks both the birth of the sport on these shores and its ignominious downfall, which arrived almost overnight with the leave-taking of Pelé.
A Bollywood love story about an upper-class man who marries a liberal woman and the problems that inevitably arise in their union.
This snooty-dancer-meets-street-dancer musical romance is so painfully intent on teaching its characters life lessons every few minutes that it forgets to be trashy.
This is not the 9/11 film we expected from Stone, who tells the fact-based story of two individuals who somehow survived the collapse of the World Trade Center and with a remarkable economy of expressionistic detail and bombast.
arts & culture
Artist and historian Jack Jackson remembered by those who knew him well
BY MARGARET MOSER
Celesta Danger presents a show of her favorite photographs, including images of her partner, art teacher Tamara Hoover, that led to Hoover's suspension by AISD
BY KATE X MESSER
Folks don't often make a big deal out of a seventh anniversary, but with all the changes in REALMdanceproject this year, the troupe thought it a good idea, hence its new show, 'Seven Year Itch'
BY BARRY PINEO
In addition to ruining the State Theatre stage, basement, and much valuable equipment, the June flood of the arts venue has washed away most of the State's 2006-2007 season
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The revival of Steven Tomlinson's American Fiesta arrives with such hype, one might think it would have difficulty living up to it; but with this uplifting, transcendent show, one would be wrong
Prairie Oyster Productions' staging of 'Psycho Beach Party' is trashy, but it's meant to be: a campy, albeit loving, send-up of all things beach, all things Sixties, and all things Hitchcockian
In 'Beast-Footed Feathered Serpents,' artist Jules Buck Jones and writer Caitlin Haskell playfully call into question the facts we use as human beings to make sense of the world.
In both halves of the Marjorie Moore and Jeffrey Dell joint show, "Below the Surface: A Different Order," a sense of loss is communicated, sometimes in terms of artistic technique, sometimes in terms of life
columns
As friends and legends pass, art and memory burst from
the present and warn the future
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Stephen gets all artsy and somehow manages to not even get any on himself. He also encourages men to wear fewer clothes.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Although hemp protein is by no means a perfect food, it is a valuable source of fiber, proteins, and essential fatty acids
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Landlord & tenant issues security deposit issues
BY LUKE ELLIS
Looking for a nice B&B in Chicago with a terrific porch? Try the Benedictine Bed & Breakfast.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Keeping Ronald Reagan moving
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Ruta Maya, Saturday, August 12, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
UT's Lady Longhorns back in action, and more
BY NICK BARBARO