Volume 30, Number 51
ON THE COVER:
features
The Highs, the Lows, the Lists
news
Capital murder case highlights Texas courts' resistance to physical evidence
BY JORDAN SMITH
At budget time, the public safety numbers become sacrosanct
BY MICHAEL KING
Absent state action, council moves to regulate payday lenders
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Civic calendar of events, Aug. 18-25
Naked City
Pre-election antics get off to a roaring start
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Physician says she was fired for speaking out against bad management
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Florida contractor still withholding payment for Holiday Inn remodeling
BY MICHAEL KING
Judge rejects lawmakers' attempts to join ultrasound lawsuit
BY JORDAN SMITH
Board says it can't risk jeopardizing its overall health care mission
BY JORDAN SMITH
Austin's favorite naughty business closes Downtown location
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
A compromise on paid parking hours is steering its way toward council approval
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Obama drags his feet on jobs, and tea party politicians scramble for earmarks
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Shoreline should be applauded for taking a step to help preserve our seas without ever making us feel deprived
BY WES MARSHALL
RSVP for a Kitchen Nightmares taping – if you dare
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Enjoy a dance party, pies, beer, Hatch chiles, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Here you'll find some of the most delectable, exotic sandwiches and appetizers in Austin
South-of-the-border treats for the south-of-the-river crowd
music
Austin's native contribution to the Go-Go's, guitarist/bassist Kathy Valentine, relives 30 years of Beauty and the Beat
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Gary Clark Jr. and the Cactus Cafe go under the lens
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Yellow Television, Patience
Wiggle Room
Songs and Stories
Texas Songbook
Random As I Am
More Like a Good Dog Than a Bad Cat
Live by Your Word
Milkwood Thistle Promenade, The Bees, We've Got Tonight, Songs of Food, Love & Mayhem, Reset
The Bright Lights EP
screens
The movers and shakers behind El Gallo want you to rethink how movies get made
BY MARC SAVLOV
A collaborative filmmaker, friend to AFF, and mentor to many
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Screens Reviews
As with the proto-New Wave French gangster epics of the period, the heist's the thing in this early Kubrick film
Film Reviews
In case we've forgotten, this series returns to remind us that death does not like to be cheated.
The new Fright Night isn't a prick on the neck of the 1985 original, but what it does it does well.
They're on TV. They're on tour. And now they're onscreen in a concert film recorded during their summer tour.
A daffy, delightful Irish yarn capped by fabulous performances by Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle.
This gimmicky romantic drama charts 20 years of one British couple's ups and downs in one-day blips.
The family-friendly spy franchise is revived once again, this time with a "fourth dimension" of scratch and sniff.
What a bizarre, beautiful, and tonally askew sex-and-sadism romp this Hong Kong freak show is.
The international crime of human sex trafficking is the subject of this melodramatic and often harrowing drama.
arts & culture
The aerial arts troupe's circus adaptation of the fairy tale flies again
BY RAVEN HINOJOSA
The Georgetown Palace Theatre tours its hit musical to the State Theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ALO is selling its headquarters and losing its community music school
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The leads put so much of themselves in this new play that it transcends fiction
You can feel Elizabeth Doss' new play rising from deep in her past and this land
Ales has captured panoramic, full-color miracles with his cunning lenses
columns
The only thing the founders agreed on was the need to compromise
BY LOUIS BLACK
Birthdays of art and birthdays of heart
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
'It's up to you to heed these call-ups': not exactly what the Clash said, but close
BY KATE X MESSER
The Wyler Aerial Tramway State Park in El Paso offers a breathtaking view of the Rio Grande Valley
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Charlie the Tuna and Mr. Bubble both turn 50 this year, prostitutes win Oscars too, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Zach Theatre's Whisenhunt Stage, Friday, August 19, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Skipper Bobby Jones reaches milestone
Longhorns open their regular season this Friday, and more
BY NICK BARBARO