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The Last Last Sunday?
Austin organizing project contemplating its future
BY ROBERT JENSEN
Down but Not Out: Ararat moving to new location
What happened to North Loop's rough-around-the-edges, perpetually crowded, BYOB purveyors of Mideast
eats?
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Unfair Firing at AISD?
In few-month span, Travis Heights Elementary custodian
placed on administrative leave, fired, restored, placed on
leave again, and finally terminated – stories behind
ordeal vary
BY JUSTIN WARD
So Long to My Other Brother Daryl
Slusher remembers Janes
BY DARYL SLUSHER
Naked City
Developing Stories: Compact & Connected
All aboard for Transit-Oriented Development
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Gov. Perry's Ham-Fisted Veto Pen Strikes Again
Lege coverage
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Perry Flips on Private Property Rights
Guv vetoes bill offering protections from eminent domain
BY AMY SMITH
'Texas Monthly' Legislative Top 10s
Best and worst of the Lone Star State
BY AMY SMITH
Beside the Point: Game Over
How to win friends and influence budgets
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Casualties of Bush's Contract Army; and Outsourcing
America
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eating Fresh in Texas
Local foodies are reveling in a festival of produce
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
In Memoriam
Bobbie Covey
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Off with my head, etc.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
June 22-28
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Chado Tea Market
An infatuation becomes a market dedicated to the art of tea
music
Descent Into the Maelstrom
Radio Birdman surfs out of Edgar Allan Poe's
maelström a quarter-century later
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
DIY or Die
Red 7's house rules are hardcore, so stop whining
BY AUSTIN POWELL
TCB
The final countdown continues with a dance diva, close
call for Ornette Coleman, and a bunch of other stuff
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Norah Jones
Live Shot
Monterey Pop Tribute
Live Shot
The Polyphonic Spree
The Fragile Army
Abra Moore
On the Way
Two Nice Girls
Two Nice Girls
Beta Valentine
"Gold"
The Drawing Board
Clear to the Far Side of Way Over Yonder
Haunting Oboe Music
Haunting Oboe Music
The Jungle Rockers
The Jungle Rockers
$hane
Music for Bathtubs
screens
The Truth Hurts
Rowdy Stovall's Mexican Sunrise was inspired by
his real life, whether it be football injuries or run-ins with
satanists
BY CARSON BARKER
A Closing Credit for The Alamo at 409 Colorado
June 27
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The Territory
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Bamako
This Malian courtroom drama is like nothing you've ever seen: The people put the institutions of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on trial.
DOA: Dead or Alive
Female fighters start out as enemies but strip down to their bikini tops to fight a common foe.
Evan Almighty
Steve Carell's new film is a mild laffer instead of a divine comedy.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Although it tries mightily to top 2005's origin story by introducing fanboy favorite the Silver Surfer, this film is nevertheless relentlessly dull and curiously bombastic.
1408
Even though 1408 is one of the best Stephen King adaptations ever, this movie belongs to star John Cusack and director Mikael Håfström all the way.
Golden Door
Despite the hardships depicted, Golden Door is a sweet film that plays witness to the immigrant birth pangs of modern America.
A Mighty Heart
Based on the true events surrounding journalist Danny Pearl’s kidnapping and murder in Pakistan, this drama by Michael Winterbottom and starring Angelina Jolie is more aloof than melodramatic.
Paris, Je T'Aime
Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.
La Vie en Rose
How do you tell the true story of the nearly mythical popular performer Edith Piaf? In epic proportions, of course.
arts & culture
Brass Ring Lessons
How TexARTS' first two go-rounds in staging classic musicals are helping to make its new Carousel ride a winner
BY ROBERT FAIRES
21c Austin: Mints on your pillow and prints, to boot
The developers of the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky., are planning their second such combo of contemporary art and lodging for Downtown Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
McNichol & May: Harking back with style
Bob McNichol & Erika May are among the most literary improvisers in town, each of their spontaneous narratives carried along by the depth of the characters they create
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Zachary Scott Theatre Center: Enter stage left, a new managing director
After a national search, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center found its new managing director, Elisbeth Challener, right in its own back yard
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Pillowman
Hyde Park Theatre has mounted an excellent production of The Pillowman, Martin McDonagh's immensely challenging tale of gruesome crimes, accountability, and storytelling
love conjure/blues
Sharon Bridgforth's love/conjure blues is a ritual steeped in the magic of the Southern black oral tradition and West African spirituality but encircling all of us
'Cantanker/us'
'Cantanker/us,' a show of artwork by the staff of the visual-arts magazine Cantanker, is a rare opportunity to consider both sides of each artist/staffer's practice
columns
Page Two: Conspiracy Theories
Can you handle the truth?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Our latest batch
Letters @ 3AM
Financially and militarily, we're not a superpower anymore
– though no presidential candidate can admit that
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen drops a gay bomb and salutes the dreck that is
Mahogany
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Eilenberger's Bakery, in Palestine, may be best known
around the world for its holiday fruitcakes, but locals
know it as a year-round bakeshop
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Basinger's fowl collection and breadcrumbs for boo-boos
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Homestead exemption – why & how?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: FanFare Friday
Threadgill's World HQ -, Friday, June 22, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Weathering the Storm
The Austin Lightning look to gain a foothold in Austin as soccer is primed for the national spotlight
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Soccer Watch
Hard-luck weekend for the Lightning, Beckham reinjures his ankle, and more
