Volume 26, Number 44
ON THE COVER:
news
Stations, labels, and musicians wrestle over new Web royalties
BY KEVIN BRASS
Animal shelter conditions draw outrage and accusations
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Kenneth Foster's capital case highlights arbitrary state law
BY JORDAN SMITH
Neighbors file similar suit to RG4N's
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Join the fight for universal health care
BY MICHAEL KING
Apparently, the mere mention of drugs justifies suppressing student speech
BY JORDAN SMITH
Why Not 'Drink Local'?; and Clogging Up Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Andrew F. Smith at Central Market
BY MM PACK
El Gringo morphs into Molto, and chef Kristine Kittrell couldn't be happier
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
July 6-12
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Not only does Marion Gilchrist make great food, day after day, but the restaurant is actually better for every year it has been open
A longtime team on top of their game
music
Swinging across the century with Ernie Mae Miller, 'a little blues, a little bawdy'
BY MARGARET MOSER
Promoters square off on Red River, Daytrotter comes to Austin, Explosions goes international, and live music in Austin continues grinding
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Twilight on Sometimes Island
Meet the Monstas
Translated From Love
Down the Road
The Essential
Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana
Low Pining
Murder and the Art of Dance
Liquidation
Moving Backwards
Living for the Sunshine, Dollar Theatre Movie, Lullagoodbye, Another Day in Texas
Scandinavian Friends: A Tribute to Roky Erickson
You Love This!
The Last Soundtrack
...Still Too Young to Care
Voodoo Dream, Come and Take It, Crazy Crazy Baby, Goofin', Live at Eddie's Club
screens
The Austin Film Society Documentary Tour: Hear and Now
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Catherine Parrington and the future of the Austin film industry
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Nine people who have never made a film make one in a weekend
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
SXSWclick announces finalists in fourth annual competition
Robosaurus sighting
Can't live with it ...
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
A couple seeks connubial advice from a celibate with an affinity for Popeye impressions.
What matters most about Transformers isn't subtext (this is Michael Bay after all), but what happens when big, loud, heavy things bang into other differently colored big, loud, heavy things.
arts & culture
Thriving under Jack Allen's leadership, KMFA endures as Classically Austin radio
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
In the improv created by Craig Kotfas and Ted Rutherford as the duo Vertigo Ramp, the unintentional chaos in the patterns is often as delightful as the patterns themselves
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Kevin Patterson of Pittsburgh Opera has been hired to serve as Austin Lyric Opera's new general director
BY ROBERT FAIRES
After a second national search, a design for UT's proposed statue of Barbara Jordan has been chosen, this one by California sculptor Bruce Wolfe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
After three years as artistic director of Austin Script Works, playwright Colin Denby Swanson is leaving her leadership post at the organization to focus full-time on her writing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Different Stages has put together a production of Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, which makes for an elegant, enjoyable, urbane evening of theatre
Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney's Parallel Lives was a cult classic in the Eighties, but in the City Theatre production, it still feels fresh
Artist Whitney Lee has taken cute farm animals and adorable house pets icons of traditional domestic crafts and postered them across the streets of Austin
columns
The only problem with wide-ranging, all-encompassing
conspiracy theories is that they're wrong
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our latest batch
The craziness of this country is that our public and
private discussions have almost nothing to do with each
other
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Summer fashion no-no's
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame & Tex Ritter
Museum honors and remembers state luminaries
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The argument against ties and flip-flops
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Class-action lawsuit should I participate?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Barton Springs Pool, Saturday, July 7, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Looks to be three and out for the U.S. team at Copa América, and more
BY NICK BARBARO