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LEGE AFTERMATH
How Long Is 140 Days?
As the 81st Legislature departs, does it leave a footprint?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Scorecard: Grading the CenTex Delegation
How did our legislators do?
The Big Legebowski
The session will be remembered largely as an opportunity lost to partisan displays
BY LEE NICHOLS AND JORDAN SMITH
Local Impact
Austin doesn't win some, doesn't lose some
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD Ledger
Feds to the rescue
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Travis Gains Little Ground on Land Use
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Straus Lines Up Votes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Out of Balance
As we sit down to balance the books, we might consider our largest deficits
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: The Reaper Cometh
Deep in the hole, the city offers its budget-cut proposals
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Res Publica
Citizen's calendar, June 11-18
AISD 'Efficiency' Study: Not Exactly What the Doctor Ordered?
An efficiency study commissioned by AISD comes back with some surprising recommendations
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City Council
The upcoming council meeting has a full agenda
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Dallas Re:Visions Itself
Dallas aims to move ahead of the class in sustainable development
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Drug Ring Comes Full Circle
Cinco-Tres gang members go to prison
BY JORDAN SMITH
Suicide by Cop
Man shot while trying to commit suicide loses lawsuit
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
AGLCC Ousts President in Pride's Wake
… And tries to hide it
BY KATE X MESSER
The Battle Over This Old House
When property rights collide with the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association
BY AMY SMITH
Statesmanship: Watching the Editors' Ink Dry
The Statesman's retooling isn't fooling anyone
BY KEVIN BRASS
The Hightower Report
Make 'Em Shudder: Go Organic; and Rick Scott's Latest Fraud
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Taste of Honey
How we get honey now, and what might happen to the industry in the future
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Food-o-File
Missing out on buttermilk and chatting up the Voice of America
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Foodie events for June 14-16
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
The Mighty Cone
Head to South Congress for the best Hudson's meal available for less than $10
Turtle Mountain Dairy-Free Products
Turtle Mountain offers low-fat, low-calorie treats that won't cause a spike in your blood sugar
music
Sometimes the Bride
Greezy Wheels vocal point Lissa Hattersley steps out
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
Spiros closes and now Room 710, too? Meanwhile, the Bizarros' long, strange trip returns them to the Hole in the Wall.
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Sarah Jarosz
Song Up in Her Head
The Flatlanders
Live Shot
Michelle Shocked, Beth Black, Susanne Abbott, Amanda Mora, Michael Scott Parker
Soul of My Soul, Everything Unsaid, No History of Prevention, The Ribbon, Naked
Girl in a Coma
Trio B.C.
Tish Hinojosa
Our Little Plane
Paul Wall, Slim Thug
Fast Life, Boss of All Bosses
screens
Pops on Top
Father may not know best, but DadLabs has made it its mission to make sure knows a little bit better
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
10 Pins and a Dream
The Alamo Drafthouse empire expands to include bowling, karaoke, and cocktails
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
'The Friends of Eddie Coyle'; 'The Hit'
It's all about the snitches in two new Criterion releases
TV Eye
Ajua, Austin! The Latin Comedy Project, Paul Saucido, and Los Bad Apples make a summer splash.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Adoration
Atom Egoyan returns ambitiously to form with this probing, if not always successful, drama that reveals his ongoing fascination with the subjective nature of truth.
Beer Wars
This documentary goes inside the brewing business to show the truth behind our favorite labels.
Imagine That
Eddie Murphy has made an agreeable, family-friendly, kid-centric film without – lo and behold – a single fart joke.
Kal Kissne Dekha
This new Bollywood film tells the story of a country boy who makes it to the university in Mumbai, where he finds love and discovers his power to see the future.
Summer Hours
The French filmmaker Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep, Demonlover) has upped his game with this new work of uncommonly lyrical humanism.
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
Loud, abrasive, and featuring performances seemingly calibrated to be heard over the cacophonous roar of Travolta's mad, bad overacting, this is an unnecessary and ill-advised remake.
Treeless Mountain
So Yong Kim is an astute observer of young people as demonstrated with this film whose story is mostly told on the expressive faces of its two very young protagonists. Never overly sentimental or forcibly cute, Kim’s austere shooting style and scarcity of narrative accouterments provide a nice counterbalance to the sweetness of her young stars.
arts & culture
The 'It' Perspective
Photographer Fritz Henle seen through the lens of Austin image-maker Matthew Fuller
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Esther Pearl Watson
The artist's new UFO-centric paintings are rooted in the saucers her dad used to build
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Robert Dale Anderson
Remembering the much-loved artist and teacher of art at UT
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Big Range Austin
With improvisational movement, the performers work to play – to free up the ways they move
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Arts Reviews
Killer Joe
It won't warm your heart, but this tour de force of dark humor ought to thrill you
Guilds of Steel / Faster Than the Speed of Light
Improv offers a nerdgasm for fantasy fans, but the sci-fi musical's gears rarely mesh
Ghostsongs
Two makers of narrative figurative art grapple with death in a striking show
columns
Page Two: Winning the West
Cowboys, Indians, and the irresolvable contradictions between freedom and order
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
In the afterglow of Austin Pride, Stephen implores us to 'keep our dicks in our pants'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Playing Through
Nine-year-old Ryan Brown and 10-year-old Madison Boreman brought the pint-sized gender war to the Congress Avenue Mile
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Day Trips
Stephen F. Austin is honored with a statue south of Angleton
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
AGLCC's new leadership
BY KATE X MESSER AND ASH BELL
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cod, Beatles, Bush and Babe, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
How Do I Win My Property-Tax Protest?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: The Jump at the Capitol
Congress Avenue, Friday, June 12, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
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