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news
Time Bandits in Uniform?
APD officers question whether union 'leave time' deal violates their contract
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Eat the Heat
Capital Area Food Bank extends its reach and relevance
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Cole on Water
The mayor pro tem considers WTP4, transparency, and necessity
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Civic Events, Aug. 11-18
Quote of the Week
Naked City
West Lake Comes Out Swinging Against LCRA
West Lake Hills wants to regain control over its wastewater line
BY MIKE KANIN
Workers Fight Unpaid Holiday (Inn)
Construction workers stiffed on pay – and wait for restitution
BY MICHAEL KING
End of the Road for Baylor Street Art Wall?
When renowned street artists and local graffiti artists collide
BY RAMON MARTINEZ
Time To Tweak Code Compliance
Wildlife Habitats could see reprieve with revisions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Heat Wave Renews Call for Renewable Energy
Solar and wind could do the job more efficiently, advocates say
BY LEE NICHOLS
First Project Under New Ordinance Gets Nod
Project in Barton Springs Zone wins unanimous council approval
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Both the feds and the corporations are abandoning the middle class
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Mapo Doufu Beatdown
Yum, like it hot
BY MICK VANN
New Products From Cocoa Puro
Do yourself a favor and visit Tom Pedersen's booth at the Downtown Farmers' Market
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Wine of the Week
Chablis – The Thinking Person's Chardonnay
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
More Lone Star master sommeliers, Hatch chiles return, and foodies see if their brains are bigger than their stomachs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
The harder they come, the harder they nosh
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Free as a Bird
Andrew Kenny, leader of the American Analog Set, watches his phoenix rising in the Wooden Birds
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Off the Record
Sad Days, Lonely Nights: Visiting the Sahara Lounge and The Jon Dee & Friend Show
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Jean Caffeine
Geckos in the Elevator
Christian Bland & the Relevators
The Lost Album
My Education / Theta Naught
Sound Mass
Reverse X-Rays
RXR
The Calm Blue Sea
The Calm Blue Sea
Quin Galavis
Should Have Known You
Michael Martin Murphey, Brad Dunn & Ellis Country, The Duqaines, Wheeler Brothers, Jubal's Lawyer, T Jarod Bonta
Tall Grass & Cool Water, Ranch Cat, The Duqaines, Portraits, Ashley and the Wonderful Confidence, White Lines
Bad Chapters
Edge of Collpase
Old Gray Mule
Forty Nickels for a Bag of Chips
Lex Land
Were My Sweetheart To Go
screens
TOBE HOOPER
The Spine Tingler
Horror pioneer and first-time novelist Tobe Hooper plays with the medium and metafiction in Midnight Movie
BY LOUIS BLACK
Monster Movies
Tobe Hooper on his new film, Djinn
BY LOUIS BLACK
Things That Make You Go Boom
Bellflower's broken hearts and homemade bombs
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Screens Reviews
In Print: Paul on Mazursky
The Seventies couldn't have asked for a more empathetic chronicler of the human condition than filmmaker Paul Mazursky
Film Reviews
Aarakshan
The story of Prabhakar Anand, a legendary educator, is told in this new Indian film.
Bellflower
Hellaciously original, this low-budget, post-apocalyptic film looks like no other in recent memory.
The Devil's Double
Saddam Hussein's decadent and monstrous eldest son Uday forced Latif Yahia to serve as his body double, and this movie recounts his experience.
Dhada
New Telugu-language romance and action film.
The Future
As an unsparing portrait of disaffection among the small-paycheck, faux-creative class, Miranda July's film is on the mark but her performance grates nevertheless.
The Help
Based on a bestseller, this Southern civil-rights era story about white women and their black maids is saved by the film's deeply moving cast.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The special effects in this prequel may be infinitely more elaborate, but they hold little of the charm and "humanity" of the original.
30 Minutes or Less
Jesse Eisenberg reunites with his Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer for this action comedy about a hapless victim forced to rob a bank or be blown up.
arts & culture
Little Big Plan
The Austin Creative Alliance proves it can think big by thinking small
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Blanton Museum of Art
The UT museum acquires 12 works by Texas artists through an art lottery
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Harry Ransom Center
The papers of director Peter Masterson and actor Carlin Glynn land at the HRC
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Cow Parade Austin
Ornately decorated fiberglass cows are herded into Austin for a good cause
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
An artist turns editor, a play tours Oz, and calls for new work
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Servant of Two Masters
A straight-up goofball comedy makes an ideal outdoor summer show
The Imaginary Invalid
City Theatre's satire can't decide what – or when – it wants to be
'Audrey Fox: Ephemera'
A coffeehouse exhibit boasts tasty nectars in the form of nature paintings
columns
Page Two: No Virtue
The vicious circle of constitutional desecration
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: An Extraordinary Silence
Oddly, American progressives don't protest Obama's war in Pakistan
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Oops!
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar's new lease on life as an affirming and supportive avatar starts, ahem, with Fashion Week
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Oh, the planets are aligning for some late summer fun, darlings, we promise
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Pizzitola's BBQ is an East Texas-style barbecue joint with a funny name in the heart of Houston
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Vampire bats, watermelon, and more to sink your teeth into
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: 20th Annual Buck Owens Birthday Bash
Continental Club, Friday, August 12, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Reel Paddling Film Festival
The best paddling films of the year, and more
Soccer Watch
UT soccer gets started with a friendly, and more
