Jason Stout
Volume 28, Number 47
ON THE COVER:
news
The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
When free speech becomes hate speech
BY MICHAEL KING
Maybe they could use a few more members after all ...
BY WELLS DUNBAR
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Citizens calendar, July 23-30
Pearce community is trying to work through the closure crisis
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Will the Irving decision affect elections in Austin?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Clean Air Force aims to keep the Austin area out of the ozone
BY LEE NICHOLS
State Board of Education strikes again!
BY LEE NICHOLS
Friends with money giveth to Perry and Hutchison
BY LEE NICHOLS
Public safety spared; fee increases and other cuts likely
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Cycling advocates scratch their heads at Perry's veto of the Safe Passage bill
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Judge Baird wants some answers from an assistant district attorney
BY JORDAN SMITH
Dicking around with the 'Dillo
BY LEE NICHOLS
Sen. Rodney Ellis has requested an opinion from Attorney General Abbott
BY JORDAN SMITH
Remaking Trade Policy; and Wall Street's Fee Scammers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
West Texas' wee oasis of fine dining is just six hours of driving from Austin
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food Reviews
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
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
Sweet news from Panaderia Chuy, Sticky Toffee Pudding Co., and Treat
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Local foodie events for July 24-29
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The last interview with Seeds frontman and oh-so-brief psychedelic Austinite Sky Sunlight Saxon
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Coma in Algiers hand-delivers its goods, while Tia Carrera and Ignitor pay their last respects to Room 710
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Coconut Rock
Octahedron
Dead
Equinox/Funk Fest
Hot Texas Bluegrass Burrito
The Particles Don't Care
Weeds
Dark World
Sweet Tea & Cigarettes
Beasts With Hearts of Gold
One by One
Move In
Shapes
Til We're Blue or Destroy
screens
In a post-digital world, is cinema dead or just rebooting?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Michael Moore hearts Austin and two of its funniest filmmakers, Bob Byington and Ben Steinbauer
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Andrew Shapter's Happiness Is
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Screens Reviews
Remembering Walter Cronkite
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
This romantic comedy is a deeply funny, seductive, and surprisingly honest dramatization of the ways we snooker ourselves into incompatible love.
New Bollywood film is an action thriller featuring characters who court Lady Luck.
In this formulaic battle of the sexes, no one will be mistaking Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler for Hepburn and Tracy.
arts & culture
Reclaiming the humanity of people living on the streets by telling their stories
BY ROBERT FAIRES
This cutting-edge comedy legend talks about Richard Pryor, SNL, and race
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Coming soon to a computer or TV screen near you: dance and classical music from ARE?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Even in the record heat, Zilker Theatre Productions' revival delivers a good time
This 1775 English comedy of manners is reset in 1980s America and suffers for it
This stark exhibit conjures a melancholy introspection rare in art about male identity
columns
Following the logical threads of a revolution
BY LOUIS BLACK
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
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Was Austin Fashion Week a "Fashion Week"?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Set up the spankin' machine for Charlie's and 'Bout Time!
BY KATE X MESSER
Terry Jones of Jewett in Leon County is a shade-tree sculptor who destroys illegal firearms in the making of his art
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Saltwater crocodiles, Beatles, toddlers, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Composting Your No. 2s? Austin Officially Welcomes the 'Humanure' Movement
BY LUKE ELLIS
B.D. Riley's Irish Pub, Sunday, July 26, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO