Black Sheep Lodge is still pulling in a crowd every night, despite the fact that the liquor license has arrived, so you now have to pay for your drinks

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Wrangham posits that cooking and the dietary benefits it confers played a crucial role in hominid evolution and the entire arc of human social development

Food-o-File

Sweet news from Panaderia Chuy, Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., and Treat

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Event Menu

Local foodie events for July 24-29

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

March of the Flower Children

The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Off the Record

Coma in Algiers hand-delivers its goods, while Tia Carrera and Ignitor pay their last respects to Room 710

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Texas Platters

Ocote Soul Sounds & Adrian Quesada

Coconut Rock

The Mars Volta

Octahedron

Rusted Shut

Dead

D-Madness

Equinox/Funk Fest

Two High String Band

Hot Texas Bluegrass Burrito

Ted Hadji

The Particles Don't Care

David Ducharme-Jones

Weeds

Fatback Circus

Dark World

King Fisher

Sweet Tea & Cigarettes

Watch Out for Rocks

Beasts With Hearts of Gold

Language Room

One by One

The Blue Hit

Move In

The Soldier Thread

Shapes

Til We're Blue or Destroy

Til We're Blue or Destroy

screens

What Would Jean-Luc Do?

In a post-digital world, is cinema dead or just rebooting?

BY MARC SAVLOV

The Love Connection

Michael Moore hearts Austin and two of its funniest filmmakers, Bob Byington and Ben Steinbauer

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

After Life and Liberty

Andrew Shapter's Happiness Is

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

Screens Reviews

A Married Woman;
Made in U.S.A.;
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her

Go, go, Godard!

TV Eye

Remembering Walter Cronkite

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

(500) Days of Summer

This romantic comedy is a deeply funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.

Luck

New Bollywood film is an action thriller featuring characters who court Lady Luck.

The Ugly Truth

In this formulaic battle of the sexes, no one will be mistaking Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler for Hepburn and Tracy.

arts & culture

Street Connections

Reclaiming the humanity of people living on the streets by telling their stories

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Paul Mooney

This cutting-edge comedy legend talks about Richard Pryor, SNL, and race

BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM

American Repertory Ensemble

Coming soon to a computer or TV screen near you: dance and classical music from ARE?

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

The Music Man

Even in the record heat, Zilker Theatre Productions' revival delivers a good time

The Rivals

This 1775 English comedy of manners is reset in 1980s America and suffers for it

'Colby Bird: Cold End'

This stark exhibit conjures a melancholy introspection rare in art about male identity

columns

Page Two: Variation on a Theme

Following the logical threads of a revolution

BY LOUIS BLACK

Oops!

Playing Through

The reason we need to explore the heavens is the same reason we need to sing arias and write poetry and hit baseballs – to transcend our lesser selves