Room 710 goes out with a bang as roundball ruckus takes over Red River, an all-American night at the ballpark, and more confirmations for the 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Texas Platters

Spoon, the Authors, Mercers, Lennings, We'll Go Machete

Got Nuffin', the Authors, Hovercraft, Geographic Tongue, We'll Go Machete

Oikos, Mother Falcon

Oikos/Mother Falcon

Joe King Carrasco

Rancho No Tengo

the Alice Rose

All Haunt's Sound

Invincible Czars

Fortissimo

screens

Occupational Hazards

Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video

BY MARC SAVLOV

A First-Class Seat to Stargazing

Austin's Beef & Pie Productions shines a light on Richard Garriott's space travel in Man on a Mission

BY MARC SAVLOV

Something Woolly This Way Comes

The Wild Man of the Navidad premieres on DVD

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

TV Eye

The Emmys bump two writing categories from the live telecast. Bad move.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

Aliens in the Attic

A group of kids save their vacation home from extraterrestrials while keeping their clueless elders out of the loop.

The Cove

This marvelously made agitprop documentary exposes the dark secrets that underpin the world’s dolphin mania.

Julie & Julia

Meryl Streep is irresistible as Julia Child as is Nora Ephron's direction, but Amy Adams' Julie Powell is a dud – a mousy, grouchy irritant.

Little Ashes

Robert Pattinson costars as Salvador Dalí in this sexually speculative history of the artist's student years spent with friends, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel.

Love Aaj Kal

This Bollywood musical romance is the story of a young couple in London that discovers a laissez-faire attitude toward marriage and romance won't suffice.

O'Horten

This strange little Danish gem tells the story of the aptly named Odd Horten, a man cut from his moorings when he's forced to take retirement at age 67.

A Perfect Getaway

This is a smartly paced and ultimately pure exploitation head trip that's a lot of fun if you can get past its third-act meltdown.

arts & culture

Get Back

Francisco Matto created bold modern art with the timeless graphic style of the past

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Amy Grappell's 'Quadrangle'

The Austin filmmaker's video installation unveils an unusual family history

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

Zach Theatre

Zach selects an architect for its third theatre and starts renovating a fourth space

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig

This Michener Center grad wins a second major prize and more national notice for her drama

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY LOUIS BLACK

After a Fashion

In the beginning, Stephen created the Austin and the fashion. And the fashion was without form and was void, and darkness was upon the face of South Congress ...