Volume 26, Number 38
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features
GREEN ISSUE
Take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but carbon footprints?
BY KATE X MESSER
The citywide Kill-a-Watt Challenge kicks off
BY NORA ANKRUM
news
GREEN ISSUE
Austin company plans an eco-colonial retreat in Mexico
BY KEVIN BRASS
Daryl Slusher hops from Austin Energy to Austin Water Utility to serve as first assistant director of environmental affairs and conservation
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
AE's Duncan pushes for new power paradigm
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Electric cars could both run clean and boost our power supply
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
State Rep. Dianne White Delisi all but kills legislation that would let local health departments establish one-for-one anonymous needle-exchange programs
BY JORDAN SMITH
TAKS scores for district's two most struggling schools confusing
BY MICHAEL MAY
GREEN ISSUE
Libertarian/Republican presidential candidate discusses hemp farming and other 'crazy' ideas
BY JORDAN SMITH
When suffering the Lege, just remember: It could always be worse
BY AMY SMITH
GREEN ISSUE
Saving the planet begins at the grassroots
BY MICHAEL KING
We know what won't be going in at Webberville ... at least for now
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Vacation on Warming Island; and A Chocolate Mess
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
GREEN ISSUE
Solutions happen one consumer or farm or restaurant at a time
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The Austin Wine Festival, May 26-28
BY WES MARSHALL
Georgeanne Brennan
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
One man's green issues are another man's Foie Gras Cotton Candy
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
May 25-31
music
GREEN ISSUE
From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T
BY MARGARET MOSER
The bottles and cans keep piling up, but two venues catch green-building fever; a local pirate plunders the music business; and Kelly Clarkson now employs the entire Austin music scene in some capacity
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Live Shot
Crooked Smile, Gut Bucket Blues, Soul Garden
Silver City
It Came From San Antonio
Cimarron Manifesto
Red Dog Blues
The Real Deal
screens
GREEN ISSUE
Can a bunch of toddlers watching television save the world?
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Last thoughts on Planet Earth
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
May 24-Sept. 9
Meet ME TV's Paul Saucido, if you haven't already
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Herschell Gordon Lewis releases his inner Herschell Gordon Lewis
BY CARSON BARKER
GREEN ISSUE
If Kermit could see this
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.
In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.
Maverick lawmen chase Mumbai extremeists in this new Bollywood film.
Filmmaker Robinson Devor sadly sabotages his own attempt to bring the practice of bestiality into the light.
arts & culture
GREEN ISSUE
For Austin Green Art, every day is Earth Day or
eARTh Day
BY NIKKI MOORE
Denise Prince Martin's photographs transport us to places
within where the unspoken waits
BY CLAYTON MAXWELL
As local playwright Dan Dietz prepares to leave Austin for
a teaching gig at Florida State, he talks about his
experience here and what he sees happening down the
road
BY BARRY PINEO
For nearly two decades, Andy St. Martin has been making
large, mixed-media paintings, and a recent run of sales
and new solo exhibition suggest he's finding an audience
BY DAVID BRADFORD
Ruth Denney, the powerfully influential theatre educator
who passed away March 26, will be remembered in a
memorial service on May 27
Arts Reviews
For fans of the contemporary musical, City Theatre
Company's production of the Jason Robert Brown revue
Songs for a New World is a welcome opportunity
for fresh, engaging entertainment
The animated personality of painter Andy St. Martin
shines through all the careful color fields he creates in
the abstracts populating his new solo show at 4 walls fine
art
Basim Magdy's "The Common Deceit of Reality" questions
the scientific and historical postulates we derive from
partial evidence, but parts of the installation undercut the
whole
columns
Nashville, Coconut Grove, and points in between
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our latest batch
No class can cultivate what a writer most needs, the gift I call the 'talent of the room'
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Stephen goes green and manages to work both Maureen
and Scarlett O'Hara into the same bit
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Five quick getaways in Central Texas to recharge the
internal batteries without draining the gas tank
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Camels have come a long way, baby
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Title Insurance the basics
BY ANDREA LOWRY
Emo's, Thursday, May 24, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Lightning play twice at home this week, and more
BY NICK BARBARO