Jason Stout
Volume 28, Number 38
ON THE COVER:
news
Barack Obama may not be coming to get your weapons – but he's sure doing wonders for gun & ammo sales
BY JORDAN SMITH
Revised waterfront ordinance returns to City Council today (Thursday, May 21)
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
A MetroRail update – and an update on the next update
BY LEE NICHOLS
Defendant's bond hearing delayed
BY JORDAN SMITH
ON THE LEGE
Bad bills fly, while good bills die
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Two competing bills at play over admission fees at topless clubs
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Quickies from the Capitol
BY THE NEWS STAFF
At long last, some changes afoot in state schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Kenneth Foster Act aims to clean things up
BY JORDAN SMITH
Council rejects proposals for the creation of city music and arts departments
BY WELLS DUNBAR
If it's May, it must be Bike Month
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Clayton cops a plea deal
BY ROB D'AMICO
How agencies are faring at the Sunset Advisory Commission
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A bill to help Webberville fight the landfill has found few friends
BY LEE NICHOLS
See what happens when you dis sex toys?
BY JORDAN SMITH
People generally call 911 for help, but one guy is calling to make terroristic threats
BY JORDAN SMITH
The recession has hit at KLRU
BY KEVIN BRASS
Retiring Pat Forgione considers a decade mostly well spent
BY MICHAEL KING
Reorganizing the AFD is about money ... and justice
BY WELLS DUNBAR
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Good times for good citizens, May 21-28
Too Big to Punish?; and Begging for Regulation
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
While higher-end restaurants may be struggling in the current economy, the local burger business is booming
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The best burgers from established beef palaces
Emotions flow at Tower of Salsa benefit, and Texas recognizes the good will of Les Dames
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Local food events
music
Timmy Hefner sleeps in a fortress of vinyl just to bring you Chaos in Tejas
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Striking down the Thunder of Gods Festival
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Seasons Change, MC Overlord, Crew 54, Hello World, When the Day Breaks, Errybody Hates Me!!
What Is Is?
Shark Tank
The Truckin' Sessions Vol. 2
Chili Cold Blood
Crazy Days
Woodsboss II
The End of Feel Good Music
Down at the End of the Bar
Boom and Chime
Top of the Holler, Those Words, Those Frames, Circles, Dressed for Success, Fever Medicine, A Dance in Red
Fifty Miles Into the Main
Let's Fake It
Chief Rival
Chub
The Great Nostalgic
screens
The Paramount Summer Film Classics' season of stars
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
After kicking around for months, The Brothers Bloom finally makes its mark
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
News from Cannes and nearer climes
BY JOE O'CONNELL
What's In and What's Out
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Steven Soderbergh directs this DV-cam look at the life of a high-end Manhattan call girl (played by porn star Sasha Grey).
Jim Jarmusch tells an elliptical, European-set story about a loner and the criminal activity in which he's involved.
Despite a couple of good action sequences, Terminator Salvation is loud, talky, and entirely lacking any sort of soul or sense of good old summer-matinee fun.
arts & culture
Celebrated British artist Edward Povey has good reasons for making Austin his new home
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A team of local improvisers has acquired the home base for Austin's improv revolution
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Anthony Garza fuses animals and man-made structures to make monumental nature paintings
BY RACHEL KOPER
From a strong field of 14 comics, Bryson Turner took this year's comedy crown
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ned Rifkin, former Smithsonian undersecretary of art, is the new director of the Blanton
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Vortex's latest theatrical immersion in myth sinks you down 20,000 leagues
The heart of this Tejano-style retelling is not the lovers but the people around them
Both artists here bend and even break rules to elevate humble materials into art
columns
Along the path back to wonder
BY LOUIS BLACK
'A brilliant cascade of cause and effect' can describe my life
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar is back. In black.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
A guide to the Big Bend region of Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Can you feel it? Pride is coming.
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Sixteen-year-old Chelsey Sveinsson is on her way to becoming an elite runner
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Catfish hate cold water, Americans chew less, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Deferred Adjudication – What Is It?
BY STEPHEN TOLAND
Threadgill's World HQ -, Thursday, May 21, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily