Zilker Park
Jason Stout
Volume 28, Number 33
news
Two Years Gone – How Many Left to Save the Planet?
This Earth Day, urgent evidence of global warming should kick the Austin Climate Protection Plan into higher gear
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
ON THE LEGE
Budget Uses Stimulus to Hide Flaws
Why solve today what you can suffer in 2011?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Fighting the Green Fight
A roundup of this session's environmental legislation
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Betty's 'Icky Poo' Boo-Boo
Betty Brown's ignorance catches media attention far and wide
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What's in the Capitol Bins?
Legislators are recycling more than ever
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
LegeLines
What kept your lawmakers busy this week
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Single-Stream Recycling
Why is Austin losing money from recycling when Dallas and San Antonio are making money?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Thirty Days Away: What the C&Es Tell
Who's paying the big bucks to see their candidate win?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Carole's Greatest Hits
When Strayhorn was Rylander on the LRB, she screwed Travis County
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Targeting Wrongful Convictions
Bills attempt to right the wrongs that put Texas at the forefront of wrongful convictions
BY JORDAN SMITH
Pocket Parks Popping Up All Over Town
Miniparks stake out green space in a crowded city
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
To the Cyber-Barricades!
Time Warner wants to meter broadband, and the techno-peasants are revolting
BY KEVIN BRASS
Reefer Madness: Saint or Salvia?
One man's medicine is another man's monster
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Astroturf and Grass
More than one way to spark a demonstration
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Behind the Numbers: Who's Still Got Cash?
A look at who's financing the candidates
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
The week's biggest little news blips
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Res Publica
The Hightower Report
Reactivating the CCC for National Recovery; and Pothole Advertising
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
24 and Counting
A plethora of foodie events at the 24th annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Cathy Cochran-Lewis
Cathy Cochran-Lewis has been instrumental in putting Austin on the global culinary map
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Wheatsville starts a 'Gro-op,' and the Alamo Drafthouse premieres its namesake beer
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Local food events for April 16-22
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
OLD SETTLER'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Bluegrass Up in Her Head
On another Old Settler's weekend, festival perennial Sarah Jarosz is out of braces and into big-time bluegrass
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Record Reviews
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record
Freddie's Place unplugs, crate digging for Record Store Day, the second coming of Arc Angels, and sitting stage left at Austin City Limits
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
UGK
UGK 4 Life
the Flatlanders
Hills and Valleys
Bill Callahan
Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
Wayne Hancock
Viper of Melody
Seth Walker
Leap of Faith
Willie Nelson
Naked Willie
Uncle Lucious
Pick Your Head Up
Elvis
Heavily Decorated
Del Castillo
Del Castillo
Black Cock
Robot Child With a God Complex
Doug Sahm
Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm
Johnny Goudie & the Little Champions
El Payaso
The Story Of
Until the Autumn
Fastball
Little White Lies
Tee Double
Bio-Music
screens
CINE LAS AMERICAS
Lights, Camera, Latin!
The 12th annual Cine las Americas International Film Festival
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Ecuador v. Big Oil
Joe Berlinger documents the case against Chevron in Crude
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cine las Americas Previews
Chile on the Menu
Cine las Americas screens Chilean Cinema of the Post-dictatorship era
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Roof-Riding to an Uncertain Fate
First-time feature filmmaker Cary Fukunaga captures the immigrant experience in Sin Nombre
BY MARC SAVLOV
Gold for Green
Laura Dunn's environmental doc wins UT award
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
TV Eye
Hodgepodge of Happenings
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Dragonball: Evolution
Live-action versions of animé/manga hits are notoriously hard to pull off, and Dragonball: Evolution proves no exception.
Everlasting Moments
Swedish master Jan Troell's period drama tells the story of a woman who learns new ways to see herself and her life as she discovers the art of photography.
Hannah Montana: The Movie
"Pop it, lock it, polka dot it," sings Miley, while also learning worthy messages about responsibility to family, community, and Mother Earth.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
Even if you're familiar with the details of this legendary game, this suspenseful cultural documentary draws you to the edge of your seat and beyond, back into 1968 itself.
17 Again
Tween idol Zac Efron graduates into a nonsinging and nondancing world in this body-switch movie, and the result should keep ’em coming back for more.
Sin Nombre
Winner of dual awards for directing and cinematography at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, this immigrant drama is suffused with gritty realism, poetic imagery, and melodramatic hokiness.
Skills Like This
Winner of the SXSW Audience Award in 2007, Skills Like This is the story of a would-be writer and his impulsive, overnight career as a bank robber.
State of Play
Starring Russell Crowe, this American redo of a great BBC miniseries about investigative journalism and nefarious institutions neither embarrasses the original nor is superior to it in any way.
arts & culture
God Save the Queenie
Duke Ellington's almost lost opera of a Harlem beautician gets rescued and a makeover
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Testperformancetest
A new multiyear program will ensure that Austin sees what's on the cutting edge
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Dialogues of the Carmelites'
Soprano Virginia Zeani recalls working with Francis Poulenc as a beautiful dream
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Boy Returning Water to the Sea'
Poet Andrea Selch saw so much in Kelly Fearing's artwork, she had to write about it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Mister Z Loves Company
Rubber Repertory's revival is a marriage of depravity and delight, of filth and fantasy
Austin Art Space Gallery & Studios
Austin Art Space offers happy art rainbows hidden in a strip mall
Arthuriosis
Getalong Gang's heavy metal opera rocks Camelot with badass-itude and lots of hair
columns
Page Two: Long Days of Journeys Into Nights
In quest of a simple metaphor
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar's Lindsay Lohan connection. You knew there had to be one.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
South Shore Park on Lake Bastrop preserves a corner of the Lost Pines for all to enjoy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Ahh, the bear necessities!
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Playing Through
Brian Davies looks to stoke the local urban cyclo-cross scene
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Twittering terrorists, 'Facial Expressions of Chicken,' and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Tax Deadline Hangovers
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: ArtErotica 2009
Copper Tank Brewing Co., Saturday, April 18, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Chapter One: A Team Is Born
A season preview for the Austin Aztex and the United Soccer Leagues
BY NICK BARBARO
USL First Division 2009 Forecast
Predicted order of finish, last season's record, and more
