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Volume 29, Number 35
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news
Our recommendations for the May 8 elections
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Is Christopher Dunn APD's designated fall guy ... or a potential domino?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Capital Metro report discovers that the agency's been badly managed. Who knew?
BY MICHAEL KING
Ex-mayor visits City Hall, blazing another nuclear trail
BY WELLS DUNBAR
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Citizens' calendar, April 29-May 6
KUT looks like the next stop for the Cactus
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Norwood House restoration begins, has long way still to go
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Chronicle trashed in dispute between workers and food franchise operator
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Gasp! City staff helps developer skirt the law.
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Nonprofit collective adds community programs to its mission
BY LEE NICHOLS
Transit agency in a crisis, Sunset Advisory Commission says
BY MICHAEL KING
City resists release of full report on Sanders shooting
BY JORDAN SMITH
Austin gets to keep police chief
BY JORDAN SMITH
Willowbrook Reach could be victim of city's good intentions
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
A comprehensive new process will determine prioritization of transportation projects
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Not great, could be worse
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Foreign Corporation Vote; and Forming a Beer Party
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin's Mexican seafood restaurants are a gustatory vacation if you can't leave the country
BY MICK VANN
Sweet and spicy
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
More dining room seating, a tea bar, a bakery case, and a case of homemade ice creams are just some of the things to look forward to
BY KATE THORNBERRY
This week's local foodie news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Check out these tasty events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
My Education puts music to an 83-year-old silent German expressionist touchstone
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
And then there were two (proposals for the future of the Cactus Cafe)
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Country Music
Taking Texas to the Country
New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie
Sixth Symphony: Rough Night w / Happy Ending
Don't Block It!
Alligator, Take You Blind
New Morning
Head Above Water
A Storytelling of Crows, Happy Now, Things Worth Keeping, Love Comes Home, Bitter Pills & Delicacies, Thirteen
White Boy Mixtape, Formula 512 Vol. 2, The Sleeper Must Awaken
BlooGaLoo!
Shake Me Up, Judy!
Live on Red River
I Can't Pray
Undeniable
screens
Sure, Austin can become a sustainable center for TV production. Just ask the Friday Night Lights gridiron gang.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Native Nigerian filmmaker Joy Dickson on getting the job done
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Austin's first Fair Trade Film Festival sparks controversy
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Previewing the Marfa Film Festival
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The surprising crossroads of Glee and local doc Sunshine
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
In this kids' film, creatures of the forest rebel when a housing development threatens their forest home.
This rollicking South Korean film mines the traditional Western genre and infuses it with fresh, frequently hilarious life.
A man winds up married to three different women in this Bollywood romantic comedy.
Set in the British Mandate of Palestine in the summer of 1947, The Little Traitor stars Alfred Molina and tells its story through the eyes of a young innocent.
In this action movie, a U.S. Special Forces unit on a mission in the jungles of Bolivia becomes the target for assassination and must figure out who is double-crossing them.
Although it's conventionally made, this documentary offers a streamlined and resonant account of recent history.
Based on real-life events of July 1936 in the Swiss Alps, this German film is a gripping and epic account of men vs. mountain vs. other men.
The makers of Winged Migration are behind this documentary about the creatures that live in the waters covering nearly two-thirds of the Earth's surface.
The movie highlights Phish’s Festival 8, a three-day, eight-set, 16-hour concert in the Southern California desert.
arts & culture
Pulitzer or not, composer David Lang won't play it safe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Nine years in, the annual event is winning big crowds and new comics readers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
More East Coast comics and a full night of stand-up add more laughs to LAFF
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
The strength of Vortex's original musical adaptation is in its imagination
This ambitious Austin Vocal Arts Ensemble program was like a tale of two choirs
Set in the Gilded Age, this operatic fairy tale really resonates with the present
columns
'We have met the enemy and he is us,' Part II
BY LOUIS BLACK
Your Cougar Avatar schools the young
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The famous trees of Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Let us honor the memory of a fallen comrade
BY KATE X MESSER
Cats' whiskers, 10-gallon hats, and much more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Seaholm Power Plant, Friday, April 30, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The first-year Texas Stars have advanced to the second round of the AHL playoffs
BY MARK FAGAN
Aztex lose their perfect season
BY NICK BARBARO