Volume 32, Number 36
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news
As D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg serves her sentence, the county attorney takes on the civil lawsuit and the next steps
BY JORDAN SMITH
May 11 AISD Bond Election
Willful official negligence destroyed a small Texas town
BY MICHAEL KING
After voters' rejection in 2012, November may bring another try
BY AMY SMITH
Half a percent of registered voters cast ballots on first day of early voting
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
After a daylong budget work session, the Council still have a lot to take on
BY MICHAEL KING
Project hopes to broaden concept of justice
BY JORDAN SMITH
Lesbian couple seeks ordination
BY BRANDON WATSON
Community activists protest Needmore Ranch development
BY RUSTY MIDDLETON
No place for mitigation
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Lege looks at campus guns, the Rainy Day Fund, and the West explosion
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The irony in Bush's dandy new library
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Multitasking hospitality pros tackle a 1,000-pound steer at benefit event
BY MICK VANN
We picked up lots of newsy tidbits at last weekend's Austin Food & Wine Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
May 2-9
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Friulano from northeastern Italy
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews
Superior pizza served with Rat Pack panache
Pinkies up! The Steeping Room brings its delectable teas and tea sandwiches to Rosedale.
music
Bill Carter steps out from under the shadow of Captain Jack Sparrow
BY MICHAEL CORCORAN
Jim Morrison plays Conjunto (Los Pinkys) at a Full Service Circus and other strange days
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Phases & Stages
Ready to Die
Victim of Love
The Next Day
Live Shot: Austin Psych Fest
screens
YouTube phenom Jon Cozart is more than just Ariel/Belle/Jasmine/Pocahontas
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
It's lights, camera, action for the Hill Country Film Festival
BY JESSI CAPE
Semester's final Focus Group screening features Jonas Mekas
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
Film Reviews
Scottish social-realist director Ken Loach is back with a new movie about young delinquents and a whisky-distillery heist.
In this wedding comedy, a bridegroom’s bitterly divorced parents (De Niro and Keaton) must pretend they’re still married to appease his Catholic birth mother.
A period piece about two generations of matadors is fused with the Snow White fairy tale in this black-and-white Spanish charmer.
It's more of the same, but the same is pretty good.
A spelunker in the Ukraine turns amateur sleeuth as he tries to make sense of the remnants he finds in a cave: They were left by Jews who hid there from the Nazis.
The process used by Austin choreographer Allison Orr to create this dance piece for garbage trucks and sanitation workers is revealed in this fascinating documentary record.
arts & culture
Canopy tenants love the Eastside artist studio complex, even if they aren't from the Eastside ... or artists
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
Another weekend in which to go WEST, young man
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The 11th giveaway of four-color fun runs the gamut from 'Archie' to 'The Walking Dead'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Austin Critics Table has honored five more pioneers in the Austin arts community
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Playhouse stages this chaotic, ridiculous backstage farce with precision and fun
In wrestling valiantly with David Lindsay-Abaire's tough play, the artists of Different Stages prove themselves good people
Austin Lyric Opera closed its season with a haunting and powerful production of Gounod's devilish work
columns
Laws arbitrarily enforced (or not enforced) according to the whims of the authorities are no longer laws
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
A DJ saved my life ...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
From Outerspaces to Deep Inside, this is the week that is... gay
BY KATE X MESSER
Little cafe in Winnie has big flavor
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Even the most vigilant grammarian is prone to the occasional slipup
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE