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The Lewis File
Park Police personnel record casts a harsh light on small law enforcement agencies
BY JORDAN SMITH
Read the Coy Report (PDF file)
Streetcar Plan Takes Shape
Rail advocates hope a downtown circulator will help boost usage of the new commuter rail
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Campaign War Chest
Secretary of State Roger Williams' officeholder account is brimming with more than $200,000 in donor cash, suggesting that he has been stumping for dollars ever since Gov. Perry appointed him to the post in 2004.
BY AMY SMITH
Weed Watch
Stoner-culture icon in Austin Friday to read from his first book, penned straight from the pen
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Beside the Point: A Vegetative State
The City Council tries to move the budget beyond meat and potatoes
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Paris Hilton Minimum-Wage Hike; and Superrich Tax Cheats
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Margaritas vs. Mojitos
It's Mexico vs. Cuba, tequila vs. rum, mix vs. muddle, in this battle for lime-infused-libation-sensation supremacy in the Lone Star State
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
HATCH
A Hatch Crash Course
Hatch Chile Festival, Central Market: Aug. 20-21 and Aug. 27-28
BY MICK VANN
New and Noteworthy
Simply Sauces' Hatch Queso
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
News that will make you smile
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Choose wisely
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Zen of Revolution
Career sideman Michael Ramos steps out with 'Charanga Cakewalk'
BY DAVE MARSH
The B-Side
As the ACL Music Fest looms, at least one venue on Red River hopes to be ready for the overflow. The Las Vegas Emo's won't quite be ready by then, however.
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Phases & Stages
Heartless Bastards
All This Time
Carrie Rodriguez, Chip Taylor
Seven Angels on a Bicycle, Unglorious Hallelujah
Corinne Bailey Rae
Live shot
screens
When :-( = $
Despair.com, demotivation, and capitalizing on the variables of Web content
BY TODDY BURTON
Irvine Welsh
'Trainspotting,' 10 years later, and a new book
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Panel Meets and Metes
Plus, Allison Anders' 'Gas Food Lodging' screens Aug. 21
TV Eye
Not as Seen on TV
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Accepted
Accepted asserts that a college run by students might be better than its institutional alternative, but who wants education advice from the creators of such a witless, uninspired excuse for a college comedy?
Jailbait
The stage origins of this low-budget, indie prison movie are simply everywhere, but it is so fantastically acted that it inspires indulgence of its first-timers’ mistakes.
Lower City
The toastiest summer on record is but an intermittently flickering 40-watt bulb compared to this positively incendiary sexual firestorm.
The Oh in Ohio
This story of an uptight corporate go-getter (Posey), her sad-sack high school science teacher husband (Rudd), and her search for her first orgasm is intended to invoke rolling laughter but instead results in repeated sighs.
Pulse
Pulse, the American remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 horror film Kairo, is the McDonald's Unhappy Meal to the original's elegantly obtuse sashimi o' sorrow.
Zoom
This superhero sci-fi farce drags its feet, while the sappy sweetness will make you wince.
arts & culture
Cartoon Heritage
Food faces, renegade puppets, rainbow purses, and nicotine washes – it's all part of the art of Matthew Rodriguez
BY RACHEL KOPER AND KRISTIN UNGER
Summer of Solo Shows: The Second Wave
In Austin theatre, solo shows sometimes come in waves, as in the second half of August, which has four one-person theatrical vehicles opening the same weekend
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Texas Arts Exchange: CultureCon 2006
The Texas Commission on the Arts' latest biennial conference draws together artists and arts professionals to discuss ways to integrate the arts more fully into the lives of our communities
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Police believe they have the killer of Esther's juggler Warren Ryder Schwartz, Jenny Hart puts 'Space Ghost's Brak in stitches, more stage hits are back by popular demand, and construction starts on Ballet Austin's new dance center
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Red Cans
Rubber Repertory's 'Red Cans' is an experiment in new realms, one that puts you in another world, and so long as you bring your curiosity, you'll be surprised how engaging this world is
The Biscuit Brothers: Live From Symphony Barn
Allen Robertson and Jerome Schoolar, better known as the Biscuit Brothers, have carved a vigorous musical stage show out of their Emmy-nominated PBS program
'All Dressed in White'
Each of the seven video / multimedia works in Women & Their Work's "All Dressed in White" grapples with what the institution of marriage means or should mean in the life of a contemporary woman
columns
Page Two: Light and Darkness
Light and Darkness: In the bright cacophony of black and white, a confession of despair and an ode to uncertainty
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Letters @ 3AM
To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Is DIY design? Your Style Avatar weighs in ... like the 500-lb. gorilla in the middle of the room.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Hanna Springs Sculpture Garden is just one of many reasons to visit Lampasas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
When organic produce is not available or is too expensive, are those grown in water or in greenhouses less likely to be contaminated with pesticides?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
My lease says what? – Issues to consider when signing a new lease
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The politics of Fluffernutter and Dylan channels the Everly Brothers
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: White Ghost Shivers
Central Market North, Saturday, August 19, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Lady Longhorns face UTSA in season opener
