Jason Stout
Volume 30, Number 2
ON THE COVER:
news
Are sex offender laws causing more harm than good?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Budget is ready for council approval, but a few sticking points remain
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Leonardo Quintana hearing full of unintended revelations
BY MICHAEL KING
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Citizens' calendar, Sept. 9-16
Officer Quintana's arbitration hearing raises additional questions
BY JORDAN SMITH
Warren Jeffs resists extradition
BY JORDAN SMITH
When the roll is called up yonder, don't expect a slam dunk
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Transit agency looks to partly cloudy budget future
BY LEE NICHOLS
Gov. Perry's campaign trail tricks
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Sierra Club targets one of nation's 'dirtiest coal plants'
BY MICHAEL KING
Global warming report predicts 'extreme precipitation'
BY MICHAEL KING
Mott's Workers Make a Stand; and It's Raining Overdraft Fees
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
This black-tie affair celebrates the anniversary of Mexican independence
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Braise is a charming place to get an impressive meal for $30 per person
BY KATE THORNBERRY
What first opened as a new home for absinthe has been reimagined as a comfortable and elegant dining destination
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
This 16-table spot features authentic, homestyle Colombian cuisine in mass quantities for very reasonable prices
BY MICK VANN
An afternoon at a vineyard uncovering what Texas wines have to offer
BY WES MARSHALL
Austinites love local, fresh foods and doing the food-truck shuffle
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Eating and drinking, drinking and eating, all the while helping others
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Tucked up in the Catskill Mountains, All Tomorrow's Parties stages a music festival for its own
BY AUSTIN POWELL
KUT announces a new Cactus Cafe manager, plus this week at the movies
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
The Final Frontier
Rated R Deluxe Edition
Live at Roadburn 2007
On the Rural Route 7609
screens
AFS Documentary Tour presents Killing Kasztner
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Dusting off Starcrash, an interstellar swashbuckler
BY MARC SAVLOV
AFS Essential Cinema: Viva la Revolución: Films of the Mexican Revolution
Hellcats makes for a kicky start to fall programming
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
This is an even-handed portrait of discontented lovers: A love that starts out in a fever winds up with lots of pistol-waving.
This Hindi action film tells the story of a fearless but corrupt police officer who learns the value of family ties.
A German couple teeters on the jagged peaks of passive aggression and self-doubt.
Is Joaquin Phoenix having a meltdown, or is he putting us on? Only his brother-in-the-law, the film's director, knows for sure.
This faux documentary chronicles the efforts of a 17-year-old kid to lose his virginity.
arts & culture
Comedy is her life, but Margaret Cho is just mad about the music
BY KATE X MESSER
Why the Shrewds are doing a play with a giant talking hen and how one plays her
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Complimentary classes at Ballet Austin and Tapestry, plus a free monthly tap show
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Exploring the meaning of public art and competing for a $10,000 commission
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Aerialists add theatrical magic to the myths here, but a Texas twang sounds off
This site-specific show is in a lovely home, but the characters in it lack depth
Two artists make dazzling use of artifice to explore and explode the artificial
columns
Old Austin Sun writers may have expected to hang, but not in a museum
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar's Swish Alps of the social season loom on the horizon. Time to strap on those designer skis.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
HRC's Dinah will be chillaxxified by the Gay Place
BY KATE X MESSER
Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine is like a year-round summer camp and water park for the whole family
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Thursday, September 9, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Unpacking the octagon for the first time in Austin
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Aztex top of the league, Longhorns unbeaten
BY NICK BARBARO
Football has begun and all is well in the land
BY MARK FAGAN