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BACK 2 COOL
Back 2 Cool Reunion
We return to the Griffin School, 11 years later to see what the new school year will bring
BY KATE X MESSER
Sharpening More Than Just Pencils
Sometimes 'Back to School' means way more than Trapper Keepers and book bags
BY JORDAN GASS-POORÉ
news
The Egg & I
How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine
BY GREG HARMAN
Point Austin: Finding the Right Ratio
Budget debate considers best approach to police staffing
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Even More Reason to Buy Local
City may restore funding that was cut to indie business group
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Much Heat, Some Light at Forum on APD Shooting
APD Chief Art Acevedo comes under sharp questioning at town hall forum
BY MICHAEL KING
Peaceful Streets Summit: Avoiding Vertical Video Syndrome
Police watcher summit spills lots of rhetorical blood but little in the way of achievable action
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
City Budget: Open Season on 'Vacancies'
Council has little thirst for raising property taxes
BY MICHAEL KING
Council: Google Fiber, Music, Monuments, and More
CMs take on high speed Internet, but don't expect a quick meeting
BY AMY SMITH
City Deflates Tube Business After Blowup
Code Compliance shuts down Eastside Tubes' walkway
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Windmill State of Mind
A Q&A with the authors of a new book on the story behind Texas wind power
BY NORA ANKRUM
Special Prosecutor Named to Probe Perry's PIU Motives
Attorney Michael McCrum has worked both sides of the legal arena in white-collar crime cases
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Renegade Regent
House committee investigates claims that Wallace Hall abused his office
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Wal-Mart Clan Buys Tex-Mex Site
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Militarizing America's police forces
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
2013 AUSTIN CHRONICLE HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL
Eat the Heat
'Peace, Love, and Chiles, Baby!'
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Celebrity Judges
BY ROBB WALSH
Cooking Tent Demos
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Contest & Festival Facts
Salsa Town
Meet Austin's civic leaders in mouth burn
Scott Willis Wants to Be the Tito of Tequila
Sipping tequila with the spirited founder of 512
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-O-File
Dai Due sets up shop on Manor Rd., and thumbs up for A-OK Chinese
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Aug. 23-29
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Fusion Confusion at La Mancha Tex-Mex Tavern
But the quest for a great plate of food is no impossible dream
music
Reservoir Dogs
Churchwood's Beefheart blues
BY MARGARET MOSER
Playback
Austin Music People wants to meet up
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
A magnificent seven Texas Platters
screens
Back to 'School of Rock'
Get schooled on the film by Mike White, Jack Black, and Richard Linklater in time for its 10th anniversary
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Better Than OK 'Computer'
Andrew Bujalski's 'Computer Chess' is an unlikely winner
BY DAN SOLOMON
Another Dimension
UT3D program launches this fall
BY JOEY KEETON
Dropbox Like It's Hot
The data storage giant is opening its second U.S. office in town later this year
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.
Computer Chess
Andrew Bujalski’s Austin-made film is a boldly original, black-and-white portrait of computer culture in the early Eighties.
In a World …
Lake Bell wrote, directed, and stars in this ambitious comedy about about a female voiceover artist trying to make it in Hollywood.
Jobs
Ashton Kutcher plays Apple visionary Steve Jobs in this unrevealing biopic.
Madras Cafe
Political spy thriller from India.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Paranoia
This techno-thriller starring Liam Hemsworth, Harrison Ford, and Gary Oldman arrives inert.
The World's End
Twelve pints in 12 pubs – what could go wrong for the Shaun of the Dead gang?
You're Next
What begins on a familiar slasher/home-invasion note quickly escalates into a hellishly suspenseful, take-zero-prisoners affair.
arts & culture
Improv-Educated
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival makes more room for Austin's increasingly savvy audiences
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Om Shanti – Once Upon a Time in Bollywood'
The cinematic musicals of India dance their way onto the stage in Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Studio Visits: Isabella Bur
Talk of doughnuts, divorce, and departures in a borrowed studio space
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
Zeus in Therapy
Tutto Theatre's stage adaptation of Douglass Stott Parker's poetry is less a play than a cool presentation of poems
The Motherfucker With the Hat
A German Requiem
Texas Choral Consort's performance proved how strikingly different Brahms' Requiem is and how compassionate
columns
Letters at 3AM: Just Since April
Secret surveillance efforts fly in the face of our Constitution
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Gay Place: Big Top
See you at the Circus – in your red tutu, we hope
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
How the chicken-fried steak was invented in Lamesa, Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: An Unhappy Spirit
It's not easy to get a hippie in-law to stay at a hotel
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
This Modern World
BY TOM TOMORROW
Maakies
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
Eyebeam
BY SAM HURT
Jen Sorensen Comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
