Cover Story
Occupational Hazards
Close encounters of the clerking kind at Vulcan and I Luv Video
Texas Stars Inaugural Season Schedule Released
Host first regular-season home game Oct. 3
I Can’t Believe It’s the Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast!
The newscast tackles historic preservation, the Nate Sanders shooting, Mina Brees and more
This Week’s Waste of Time
Meta Games That Run Deep by Staying Shallow
One Season Winding Down, Others About to Begin
Aztex, Longhorn preview, plus WCQ and WPS
They’re Coming To Get You, Barbara…
Fantastic Fest Round Two
Andrew Bujalski talks it out
The Reverse Shot Talkie web series goes vintage shopping with the Beeswax filmmaker
TXRG Still Number One
Texas heads up South-Central rankings heading in to flat track Roller Derby regional tourney
Citizen Review Panel to Consider Sanders Shooting Investigation
CRP will hear public comment Tuesday night (Aug. 18) at City Hall
His Year
Colin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore split the family tree
Legelines Returns
Bond bonanza, Patrick rules nothing out, and Watson tells us to take a break
Yogurt Shop Hearing Postponed
Judge Mike Lynch postpones today’s hearing until October and says prosecutors cannot delay trial again based on an inability to find donor of male DNA
32 Pages of Vindication
Results from the Forth Worth gay bar raid investigation are in. Guess who’s to blame?
Connie Wodlinger out at ME Television
Former CEO of troubled 24-hour Music and Entertainment network has resigned
Wheatsville SKUs Skewer BookPeople
Divisional play in the Alternative Softball League gets crackin’
Paper Art: Still Obsessed
Papercut, Part. 2
The Other Cambridge
Healthcare reform opponents show weak grasp of geography when they drag Stephen Hawking into the debate
American ‘Bandslam’
Dazes, Jokers, and more
Off the Record – 33 RPM
This week’s episode brought to you by… caffeine!
In the Monitor
Locals get love from NPR
Mina Brees Dies in Colorado
Lawyer involved in dust up with local restaurants died while visiting son
Hotrod Two Times
Hotrod Honeys repeat their title run in TXRG championship
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of Aug. 7-13
A First-Class Seat to Stargazing
Austin’s Beef & Pie Productions shines a light on Richard Garriott’s space travel in Man on a Mission
Arts Review
Summer Stock Austin’s Sweeney Todd, aside from a few tech mishaps, is a bloody good thrill of a show
Wheels Within Wheels
Council’s boards and commissions appointments are always good conversation fodder
Something Woolly This Way Comes
The Wild Man of the Navidad premieres on DVD
Arts Review
You’ll find striking examples of people depicted in this rush of new artistic creation
Health-Care Hysteria Dogs Doggett
Critics of health-care reform exercise their vocal cords in U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett’s general direction
Amy Grappell’s ‘Quadrangle’
The Austin filmmaker’s video installation unveils an unusual family history
Journey Through the Past
Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1
Media Watch: Unwinding the Twine at KUT
Listeners protest cutbacks of legendary DJs Paul Ray and Larry Monroe
Zach Theatre
Zach selects an architect for its third theatre and starts renovating a fourth space
What’s Next for the ARA?
As the longtime director departs and an audit looms, does the Eastside nonprofit have a future?
No Criminal Indictment in Sanders Shooting
The criminal investigation into Nathaniel Sanders’ death has come to a close
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
This Michener Center grad wins a second major prize and more national notice for her drama
Off the Record
Room 710 goes out with a bang as roundball ruckus takes over Red River, an all-American night at the ballpark, and more confirmations for the 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest
Waiter, There’s a Lawyer in My Soup
Austin attorney blasted for trying to extract money from several restaurants
Get Back
Francisco Matto created bold modern art with the timeless graphic style of the past
TV Eye
The Emmys bump two writing categories from the live telecast. Bad move.
Page Two: Printing the Legend
A brief history of Austin’s improbable weekly, 28 years on
Judge and OAS Find T. Don Hutto Lacking
Judicial oversight of the T. Don Hutto immigration detention center ends soon – then what?
The Town Crier
Oscar Casares dips back into Brownsville for his new novel, Amigoland
Point Austin: Work in Progress
Susan Herman of the ACLU on the long fight for liberty and justice
Christmas Carols With Walter Cronkite
Holiday memories of the legendary TV newsman
The Common Law
Laid Off and Never Got Paid?
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Elephants, fizz, orange juice, tankinis, and more
City Hall Hustle: Council Kix Pix to Click!
Music, water, and fusion in the air
Christmas Carols With Walter Cronkite
Holiday memories of the legendary TV newsman
After a Fashion
In the beginning, Stephen created the Austin and the fashion. And the fashion was without form and was void, and darkness was upon the face of South Congress …
Day Trips
Steam trains played a leading role in the development of Texas
Headlines
• An Austin police officer will not be indicted in the fatal shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II, the District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. See “No Criminal Indictment in Sanders Shooting.” • Pearce Middle School got its reprieve on Aug. 4 when Education Commissioner Robert Scott approved Austin ISD’s repurposing plan for the East Austin campus.…
Food-o-File
Food news from in and around Austin, from farming to freebies
Gay Place
Congratulations on your retirement, Lee Manford!
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Aliens in the Attic
A group of kids save their vacation home from extraterrestrials while keeping their clueless elders out of the loop.
Event Menu
This week’s local foodie events
Texas Platters
Leave it to Spoon to clinch the feel-good hit of the longest, hottest summer. The title cut to the underdogs’ latest, Got Nuffin (Merge), retraces the steps of 1998’s A Series of Sneaks, Jim Eno’s resilient Krautrock percussion grounding a No Wave groove streaked with jagged guitar tears as Britt Daniel spits with confident dismissal,…
Boards & Commissions
Here�s a list of 122 board and commission appointments made by City Council at the end of July, listing the board or commission, the newly appointed member, and the nominating City Council member. NEWLY APPOINTED MEMBER NOMINATING CITY COUNCIL MEMBER 2006 Bond Oversight Committee Moses Garcia Bill Spelman African American Resource Advisory Commission Dr. Chiquita…
A Perfect Getaway
This is a smartly paced and ultimately pure exploitation head trip that’s a lot of fun if you can get past its third-act meltdown.
Knife Sharpest
The Stuckey family has been keeping Austin sharp for years
Texas Platters
Oikos/Mother Falcon Lamberts, July 30 How many local musicians does it take to fill a stage? At Lamberts, all of Mother Falcon and its offshoot Oikos. Ten Oikosians crowded onto the small, low, wooden stage at the tony Downtown space fast becoming a hub for that which it’s seeded and nurtured from the very start:…
Res Publica
For more details and events, see Community Listings. Thursday06 CITY EMPLOYEE RALLY City employees are getting hit hard by city budget cuts, and today they’re gathering to send their message loud and clear: Enough is enough! 5:30pm. City Hall Plaza, 301 W. Second, 477-5544. www.afscme1624.org. PUBLIC HEARING: DOWN WITH THE ‘DILLOS? Capital Metro has proposed…
Julie & Julia
Meryl Streep is irresistible as Julia Child as is Nora Ephron’s direction, but Amy Adams’ Julie Powell is a dud – a mousy, grouchy irritant.
Wine of the Week
Light Mediterranean wines cool off Austin’s hot, dry summer
Texas Platters
Rancho No Tengo D: Joe King Carrasco; with Carrasco, Kari Sites, Danny Crooks, C.K. McFarland. (NR, 96 min.) Joe King Carrasco Rancho No Tengo (Anaconda Records) “I’m the king of hillbilly crank!” declares methed-up madman dealer Poodie Rodriguez (Carrasco) just before the sheriff’s car comes crashing through his speed lab’s walls and all hell breaks…
A Plan and the Man With Its Fate in His Hands
The repurposing of Pearce Middle School
The Cove
This marvelously made agitprop documentary exposes the dark secrets that underpin the world’s dolphin mania.
Restaurant Review
Bee Cave begins to refine its palate
Texas Platters
The Alice Rose All Haunt’s Sound (Emerald Wood Records) Not since Robert Harrison’s Cotton Mather has an Austin band so successfully churned out power pop nuggets like the Alice Rose. While not as tightly wound as its 2006 imagistic predecessor, Phonographic Memory, the local quintet’s All Haunt’s Sound possesses a subtle, psychedelic streak, fitting considering…
The Proposal
Anatomy of a repurposing plan
O’Horten
This strange little Danish gem tells the story of the aptly named Odd Horten, a man cut from his moorings when he’s forced to take retirement at age 67.
Restaurant Review
Dim sum without carts?
Texas Platters
The Invincible Czars Fortissimo (Future Banana Replacement) To call the Invincible Czars’ latest an “odyssey” would be violating rules of decorum, but damn if they don’t wind us up for one. Woodwinds and strings still serve as the Czars’ backbone, but there’s a decidedly heavier vibe here, and more rabbit holes to fall down. The…
AISD Accountability Ratings
Some make the grade; some don’t
Little Ashes
Robert Pattinson costars as Salvador Dalí in this sexually speculative history of the artist’s student years spent with friends, Federico García Lorca and Luis Buñuel.
The Hightower Report
Neighbors and Fruit Trees; and Some Peace of Mine?
Arts Review
Arthur Simone’s Dear Frailty uncovers a dark and twitchy side of humanity
AISD Budget: Holding the Line
Funding the new school year
Love Aaj Kal
This Bollywood musical romance is the story of a young couple in London that discovers a laissez-faire attitude toward marriage and romance won’t suffice.
Luv Doc Recommends: Dart Music International Benefit
Foreigners … it seems like they’re always coming to America, taking our jobs, stealing our women, and forcing us to endure all that multilingual gibberish when we’re on hold. Why can’t they be more like us? Why can’t they be awesome? Why do they have to wear hipster shoes and carry murses? Why are their…
