Sandy Carson
Volume 31, Number 33
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news
Candidate and campaign profiles for your consideration
BY MICHAEL KING
Campaign questionnaires offer a window into the city's political obsessions
BY MICHAEL KING
City Council takes its rate case to the people of Lakeway
BY AMY SMITH
Jaime De Luna-Padron was the first APD officer shot and killed in the line of duty since 1978
BY JORDAN SMITH
Law enforcement groups endorse candidate running against John Bradley
BY JORDAN SMITH
Ahmede Jabbar Bradley was fatally shot by an APD officer
BY JORDAN SMITH
ATU 1091 President Jay Wyatt has some choice words about Martinez
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
IDEA begins recruiting districtwide, magnet-style
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hancock neighbors want to keep the golf course open
BY NICK BARBARO
Familiar tree at North Lamar and Martin Luther King may get a reprieve
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Barbaro vs. BOR, round 2
BY NICK BARBARO
Texas' taxpayer till tapped to fund failure
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Central Texas Beer Festival cancels; Poteet Strawberry Festival celebrates 65 years
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Well, if Zagat says it's good ...
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A stunning wine at one-seventh the price
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews
Local couple provide Austin Farmers' Markets with (reasonably) local, fresh seafood
Lenoir dazzles with a French spin on 'hot-weather cuisine'
music
Meet the Wheeler Brothers and their armload of Austin Music Awards
BY LUKE WINKIE
In with the new, out with 'someone's scary grandmother'
BY MARGARET MOSER
Texas Platters
Live Shot
Dirty Fingernails, The Last Donkey Show, Nightmare on Silly Street
State Machine
Recidivate
Disco Dance Party 2000
screens
New on DVD
Reality TV staple and (ahem) silver fox Tim Gunn opines about art, Alexander McQueen, and queer youth
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
James Franco-produced Web series tracks UT film students
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Based on the bestseller by Donald Miller, this is the story of a Texas-raised Southern Baptist who finds maturity on the liberal campus of Reed College in Portland, Ore.
The documentary Bully is devastatingly effective when it comes to putting faces on harassed children and giving them a voice.
Cabin in the Woods is the most intoxicating morsel to hit the horror circuit since Scream or, at least, Paranormal Activity.
The usual strife between fathers and sons charts an uncommon course through academia in this laceratingly comic and award-winning Israeli film.
This latest film from Belgium's Dardenne brothers is a towering achievement, perhaps all the more so because of its deceptive simplicity.
This faith-based film soft-pedals the Christianity while playing to the anti-abortion faithful.
It’s a Wonderful Life meets Twilight Zone in this film about a high school quarterback a second chance to score during the big game.
arts & culture
How far can Rubber Repertory push you?
BY DAN SOLOMON
As April overflows with comedy festivals, an overview of Austin's celebrations of funny
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin's urban core gets more playful with surprise swings and bubble sofas
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Jenny Connell's drama lets us see ourselves reflected in the mythical beast's scales
A lack of scenery distracts from an otherwise fine adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel
The three artists showing here exhibit so much sentience, mystery, and grace
columns
Star light, star bright: Ross Bennet could be our 'Fashion Star'!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
We recommend the one with the unicorn in it
BY KATE X MESSER
Stonehenge II beckons from its home near the Point Theater in Ingram
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Well, where else are we supposed to play 'Bejeweled'?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
A great body doesn’t make you interesting, it just makes your dullness slightly more tolerable.
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Toros bring the playoffs to the CPC Sunday
BY MARK FAGAN
Only three weeks till the Austin Aztex's opening day, and more
BY NICK BARBARO