Bob Schneider
Volume 29, Number 5
ON THE COVER:
news
Facing a personnel dilemma, the commissioners respond: Fire everybody!
BY AMY SMITH
Local activists kick off co-op project with a visit from Omar Freilla
BY MICHAEL KING
One man's diversity is another woman's usual suspects
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Citizens' calendar: Oct. 1-8
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Will we vote on urban rail in November 2010?
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Cap Metro board reluctantly passes budget
BY LEE NICHOLS
How long will we wait for the train?
Transit agency's eye follows union leader's moves
BY LEE NICHOLS
Dem candidates for the SBOE hope to fight Cynthia Dunbar with the moderate Republican vote
BY LEE NICHOLS
You'll be on the edge of your seat for this week's council agenda
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Rejected by AISD, Community Education Partners blames an academic paper – and sues its author
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Energy's solar rebate program is out of money – are Austin's solar installers out of luck?
BY NORA ANKRUM
More of the same under Obama's new drug czar?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Health Care Tidbits; and Loco for Local
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Take an ACL break Austin-style with local eateries and portable fine dining
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Beer news from Austin and Central Texas
BY LEE NICHOLS
How 'bout them apples?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Central Texas foodies are already fully in fall mode, with upcoming events that include the fifth annual Texas Fall Fest & Wine Auction this weekend and an Octoberfest party at Zax next week
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Fortune: We welcome you to Austin
With a little tightening of the ship, Tarbouch may yet avoid the rocks
Try this UT-area eatery for an interesting balance between Mediterranean fare and New Orleans standards
music
Don't hate Bob Schneider because of his Lovely Creatures
BY MARGARET MOSER
David Garza maps The Road to ACL, inside Ghostland Observatory's new crash pad, and other strange insights into this weekend's festival
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Box Sets
The Beatles, The Beatles in Mono
ACL MUSIC FEST
The blurbing of ACL 2009
ACL Music Fest Friday Interviews
ACL Fest Friday Review
The blurbing of ACL 2009
ACL Music Fest Saturday Interviews
ACL Music Fest Saturday Reviews
The blurbing of ACL 2009
ACL Music Fest Sunday Interviews
ACL Music Fest Sunday Reviews
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Take an ACL break Austin-style with local eateries and portable fine dining
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
screens
Kino goes back to the classroom with How to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman
BY JAMES RENOVITCH AND KIMBERLEY JONES
Whip It director Drew Barrymore and scribe Shauna Cross roll with the punches
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Thanks for all the memories, FF. Oh, the bleary, beery memories.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye likes what it sees in the new Fall lineup
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Clive Owen is a widower in Australia who learns to become a hands-on dad to his sons.
Michael Moore wants to know where our money went.
New Bollywood comedy.
Fame: Some stories live forever. It's more or less the same story as before, just a different generation.
Dan Merchant seeks to uncover why the gospel of love is dividing America.
Renée Zellweger stars in this 1950s-set story that's based on George Hamilton's memories of his early years traveling with his mother while she searched for a new husband.
Two crew members wake up aboard a spaceship with no knowledge of their identities or their mission in this horror/science-fiction amalgam.
Bruce Willis is a cop in a future society where human beings live in isolation and interact through robots.
"To infinity and beyond" gains new dimension in this 3-D-improved double feature.
The addition of 3-D perks up this second entry in the series.
This documentary probes the human, medical, and political dimensions of Lyme disease, its treatment, and diagnosis.
New romantic comedy from Bollywood.
Drew Barrymore makes her directing debut with this Austin-set story about the modern age of roller girls.
Gertrude Berg, the woman behind the radio and TV icon Molly Goldberg, is profiled in this documentary.
A hilarious script and seamless performances make this a quite tasty zomcom.
arts & culture
New director Ned Rifkin wants to bring more people to the feast that is the Blanton
BY ROBERT FAIRES
It takes a village to raise a city
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Remembering the longtime costume designer and teacher at St. Edward's University
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A leap to Conspirare from the Blanton and a resignation at Zilker Theatre Productions
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Puppets add humanity to Upton Sinclair's story, retold here with a lean, mythic power
Few young stage companies risk as much or succeed as well as Penfold Theatre Company does
For real spelling bee champs, see Spellbound. For their comic counterparts, see this.
columns
The eternal winter of our discontent
BY LOUIS BLACK
This week: Your Style Avatar was brought to you by the letter "E"
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Highway 16 winds through the heart of Texas like the seam of a colorful quilt
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Set your harmonics for another month's queer convergence, as Gaytober begins
BY KATE X MESSER
New Traffic Laws
BY LUKE ELLIS
Drunk sex, anal glands, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Toney Burger Activity Center, Saturday, October 3, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Last chance to catch the Aztex in action this year and more
BY NICK BARBARO