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Volume 26, Number 41
news
Unsuspended Judgments
Battle lines drawn over the police shooting of Kevin Brown
BY JORDAN SMITH
Proposed Animal Shelter Move Gets Community Howling
Plan to move ailing Town Lake Animal Center to East
Austin creates strange bedfellows
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Media Watch
Public radio wants to hook up with your friends
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Developing Stories
More lessons from Seattle
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Reefer Madness: Closing the Crack-Cocaine Gap
U.S. Sentencing Commission votes to close disparate gap
between federal sentencing guidelines related to crack
and powder cocaine
BY JORDAN SMITH
On the Lege
Eminent-domain fight moves to Perry's desk
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Knee Jerks
Quick! Let's jump to conclusions!
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
The budget circus rolls into town
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
A Sick Policy; and Bush's Imperial Designs on Iraq
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Bocaditos
Jeremiah Cunningham's World's Best Eggs
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Wine of the Week
(oops) they did it again
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Taqueria Zocala Fresca on West Lynn and a dessert tasting with Amanda Rockman
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
June 15-21
Food Reviews
Jorge's
A return to tradition with a West Tex-Mex twist
Curra's Long-Bar
Oh, Curra's, how could you?
music
Reissues
Chase your rock & roll summer reading with the Traveling Wilburys, Love, Leonard Cohen, Betty Davis, Run-DMC, Warren Zevon, and more.
TCB
Flashing back to the origins of Emo's, peering inside the Broken Clock Cabaret, and celebrating Juneteenth with a heapin' helpin' of blues
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Manu Chao
Live shot
Boris & Merbow, Boris & Michio Kurihara, Earth, Earthless, Neurosis, Bergraven
Walrus/Groon, Rainbow, Hibernaculum, Rhythms Froma Cosmic Sky, Given to the Rising, Dodsvisioner
Rufus Wainwright
Release the Stars
Ibrahim Ferrer
Mi Sueno
screens
GAMING
Degrees of Design
The game-design programs at ACC and DeVry face off
BY CARSON BARKER
Players Guide
Pseudo-reliable gaming news from Austin and beyond
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Joystuck
The New York Times Crosswords
BY JOEY SEILER
No Strangers to Drama
Austin couple rescues Vernon Plaza Theatre
BY RICK KLAW
Film News
The governor signs off on incentives, leads chorus of
dumb quotes
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Tenacious Kiwi
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Crazy Love
Documentary portrait of a mutually obsessive, interdependent, tabloid-fodder marriage going on 30 years.
Day Watch
The second in a Russian science-fiction trilogy is a fantastic sight to behold, but don't try explaining the plot.
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
New Bollywood romantic comedy filmed in London and Paris.
Nancy Drew
Historically, Nancy Drew may be the best teen detective around, but in this new screen incarnation, she is definitely no spy kid.
Ocean's Thirteen
This heist franchise has settled into a kind of hipster equanimity.
Red Road
This subtle psychological thriller from Scotland holds its cards close to the vest while keeping viewers intrigued but perplexed.
arts & culture
Risk for Beauty
Sally Jacques sends dancers flying off a pair of federal buildings to give us a moment of transcendence
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Visual Arts Association: Thrilled to be hitting the big 3-0
The Austin Visual Arts Association is celebrating its 30th anniversary in high style, with a pair of exhibitions and a big reunion party for local artists
BY BARRY PINEO
The Arts Alive Institute: Reaching all learners with art
VSA Arts' Arts Alive Institute brings together artists and educators from across the state to discuss best practices for using the arts to reach everyone in the classroom
BY BARRY PINEO
Get Up: How funky and strong is their fight
Shannon McCormick and Shana Merlin – who make up the improv duo Get Up – are comfortable working together, like two parts of an interlocking dream machine
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Mud
Salvage Vanguard Theater's staging of Maria Irene Fornes' Mud has plenty to compel our attention, most of it coming from the three gifted actors in the cast
Intermission
Gobotrick Theatre Company's Intermission isn't a musical but kind of a live concert with real musicians pretending to be characters in front of a pretend audience in front of a real audience
Ruddigore, or The Witches Curse
With Ruddigore, the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin has provided a welcome opportunity to experience one of the less seen works of the G&S canon performed with aplomb
columns
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Our latest batch
After a Fashion
Stephen flits about town and sends a little love to Micael Priest
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Gus Engeling Wildlife Management Area has so many animals that they give you a scorecard at the front gate to keep track
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Scaredy-cat Sylvester Stallone and state security smell samples
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Providing evidence when protesting your high property taxes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Keep Austin Weird Festival
Republic Square, Saturday, June 16, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Make this weekend an all-soccer one, and more
