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Volume 32, Number 37
news
MUELLER DEVELOPMENT
The Changing Face of Mueller
A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
BY MICHAEL KING
Mapping Out Mueller
Airport redevelopment project continues spreading its wings
The Changing Shape of Austin Studios
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The 'Chronicle' Endorsements
May 11 AISD Bond Election
Point Austin: The Reading Railroad
Mayor's search for rail funding earns cheap shot from 'Statesman'
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Biscoe: The Most Popular Guy in Town
Flattery will get you nowhere in the race for interim commish seat
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Civics 101
Quote of the Week
Lege Lines
It's a mad rush at the Lege before sine die
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD Board Picks Johns Hopkins as Eastside Partner
Unanimous vote has community support
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City Council: Austin Energy (Again) and the President's Visit
With Barack Obama coming to Austin, the Council agenda is slim
BY AMY SMITH
Death Watch: New Appeal Argues Ineffective Defense
New appeal argues Williams' mental impairment
BY JORDAN SMITH
Labor Group Seeks to Depose White Lodging
Downtown Marriott developer accused of breaking incentive agreement
BY MIKE KANIN
CommUNITY Walk
Law enforcement officers join with East Austin residents to march against drugs
The Hightower Report
Oh joy – the branch bank of the future is here!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
(Apple) Core Values
The East Side Compost Pedallers are cycling across a gardener's gold mine
BY JESSI CAPE
Taste of Texas Revisited
Texas' best chefs strut their stuff for festival visitors
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Get a Job, Kid!
Local food and wine pros host career conference for high school culinary arts students
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-O-File
Austin Bakes for West a winner, plus accolades and openings
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
May 10-15
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Saborcito
Latin melting pot fuses into Pachanga Fest
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, KEVIN CURTIN, THOMAS FAWCETT AND CHASE HOFFBERGER
Playback: The Boxing Lesson Goes Rambo
Boxing Lesson's not afraid of 'Big Hits'
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
AFS Doc Nights: 'How to Survive a Plague'
When desperate times called for desperate measures
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Hungry for 'Fruit Hunters'
Cinedigm Docurama gets a taste of exotic produce
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
Arthur Newman
Colin Firth and Emily Blunt star in this road picture about two people who try to escape their identities but fall in love and learn to accept their responsibilities.
The Great Gatsby
A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
Renoir
Renoir is great at capturing an Impressionist atmosphere on film but this story about the family relations is dramatically inert.
arts & culture
Up at VIII
With its heartbeat pulsing at Austin's tempo, choral group Ensemble VIII continues to climb
BY ADAM ROBERTS
Studio Visits: Akirash
This intermedia artist from Nigeria isn't satisfied unless his studio includes his backyard
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
The Art of Moving Books
The Nobelity Project taps Baylor Estes to put his art all over a bookmobile in Honduras
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Chimponauts and the Mechanical Phantom
It may help to know sci-fi B-movies, but this space spoof by Electronic Planet Ensemble is silly fun for everyone
HIT.
Shanon Weaver's play puts a spin on the hit-man genre with some unusually gentle and refined assassins for hire
'Everything'
Observations on the artist in this group show who doesn't give an eff what I think
columns
After a Fashion
Last night a hairstylist saved my life... no, really
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
This is no ordinary campus malt shop
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place: Liberace Was Gay???
Adelina Anthony comes back to town, and Liberace on the radio
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Boxers or Briefs?
There should be at least one piece of clothing on your body that doesn’t chafe
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
A Tale of Two Roller Derbys
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
comics
