Volume 34, Number 6
Issue Supplement
ACL 2014 Preview
ON THE COVER:
news
Three contenders try to write a personal tale that will convince the voters
BY MICHAEL KING
What the campaign finance reports say about Austin's politics
BY MICHAEL KING
It's way past time for some new voices on education policy
BY NICK BARBARO
Sheriff and ICE eager pen pals
BY TONY CANTÚ
Will TNCs make it back to the agenda?
BY MICHAEL KING
Council continues debate
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD at-large seat draws five contenders
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Crimes and misdemeanors
BY THE NEWS STAFF
10-1 30 days out
Consultants don't quite get arms around megaevent
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Family continues to mourn
BY AMY KAMP
A gross purchase of GOP governors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
ACL MUSIC FEST 2014
ACL and foodies consciously couple
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Meridian Hive produces one honey of a drink
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Balkan Cafe rises to the top
BY MICK VANN
Red Star dishes hospitality and humor
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Texas invades South Carolina
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
ACL MUSIC FEST 2014
Blurbing the second Friday of ACL 2014
Toronto duo's visas call Austin home
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
St. Vincent's Annie Clark: Great Texan
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
ACL MUSIC FEST 2014
ACL Music Fest 2014 Friday Interviews – Second Weekend
Grilling TGIFriday ACL performers – again!
ACL Music Fest 2014 Friday Reviews – Second Weekend
ACL Friday live shots
Blurbing the second Saturday of ACL 2014
ACL Music Fest 2014 Saturday Interviews – Second Weekend
Saturday ACL performers mouth off – again!
ACL Music Fest 2014 Saturday Reviews – Second Weekend
ACL Saturday live shots
Blurbing a final day of ACL 2014
ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Interviews – Second Weekend
A sole Sunday act speaks for the Sabbath – again!
ACL Music Fest 2014 Sunday Reviews – Second Weekend
ACL Sunday live shots
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Weekend one ACL Fest wrap
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Filmmaker Andrew Shapter's battle to make art and beat cancer
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The Austin Film Society presents a series of rarely screened early films by Satyajit Ray
BY VIJAY GANJU
Videographer Duke O'Connor brings ambient sounds from Central
Texas to the world
BY R.U. STEINBERG
Film Reviews
This pleasant throwback to the live-action Disney films of yore provides brisk fun for all.
The doll from hell is back.
Prince Vlad fights off the Turks with with a little old-school vampirism.
This drama starring Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall sounds better on paper than it is in practice.
Jeremy Renner stars in this crusading-journalist story that recounts the downfall of real-life San Jose Mercury News reporter Gary Webb.
God help us: Nic Cage is up against the Rapture.
This documentary seeks to debunk stereotypes by introducing us to six Mormons from around the world.
In this inspirational true story, striking Welsh miners and the local LGBT community find common bonds.
arts & culture
How musical innovators Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet made Landfall together
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
In The Great Society, playwright Robert Schenkkan and his subject, LBJ, both gamble big
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In a new staging of The King and I that's long on Asian authenticity, audiences are "getting to know" this Rodgers & Hammerstein classic in a most personal way
Austin Playhouse finds the raw pain in this drama of a photojournalist wounded in the Iraq War
columns
OUTober is in full swing: Swing and you'll hit an event
You would kill for this suit
BY AMY GENTRY
Waco zoo has unexpected visitors
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
This is AMERICA, and we can talk about anal sex without speaking in hushed voices or using obfuscating metaphors
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE