AFS Cinema
features
GREEN ISSUE
Viridian Ventures
Take nothing but pictures; leave nothing but carbon footprints?
BY KATE X MESSER
A Long, Watt Summer
The citywide Kill-a-Watt Challenge kicks off
BY NORA ANKRUM
news
GREEN ISSUE
Keepin' It Jungle
Austin company plans an eco-colonial retreat in Mexico
BY KEVIN BRASS
Cool City: Water Utility Flows Green
Daryl Slusher hops from Austin Energy to Austin Water Utility to serve as first assistant director of environmental affairs and conservation
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Profitable, but Clean
AE's Duncan pushes for new power paradigm
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
AE & Plug-In Hybrids: Power Coming and Going
Electric cars could both run clean and boost our power supply
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Needle-Exchange Bill Barely Hanging On
State Rep. Dianne White Delisi all but kills legislation that would let local health departments establish one-for-one anonymous needle-exchange programs
BY JORDAN SMITH
AISD's Johnston and Webb: Test Score Role Reversal
TAKS scores for district's two most struggling schools confusing
BY MICHAEL MAY
Naked City
GREEN ISSUE
Reefer Madness: 'Let's Embarrass Ron Paul'
Libertarian/Republican presidential candidate discusses hemp farming and other 'crazy' ideas
BY JORDAN SMITH
On the Lege
When suffering the Lege, just remember: It could always be worse
BY AMY SMITH
GREEN ISSUE
Point Austin: Green Is as Green Does
Saving the planet begins at the grassroots
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
We know what won't be going in at Webberville ... at least for now
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Vacation on Warming Island; and A Chocolate Mess
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
GREEN ISSUE
Contributing Factors
Solutions happen one consumer – or farm or restaurant – at a time
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
With a Twist
The Austin Wine Festival, May 26-28
BY WES MARSHALL
In Person
Georgeanne Brennan
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-file
One man's green issues are another man's Foie Gras Cotton Candy
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
May 25-31
music
GREEN ISSUE
If You're a Viper
From 'La Cucaracha' to Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson: P-O-T
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
The bottles and cans keep piling up, but two venues catch green-building fever; a local pirate plunders the music business; and Kelly Clarkson now employs the entire Austin music scene in some capacity
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Road to Austin
Live Shot
Stephanie Fix, LZ Love, Erin Jaimes
Crooked Smile, Gut Bucket Blues, Soul Garden
Joe Ely
Silver City
Bruce Robison
It Came From San Antonio
screens
GREEN ISSUE
Beyond 'The Electric Company'
Can a bunch of toddlers watching television save the world?
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Chewing Up the Scenery
Last thoughts on Planet Earth
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Paramount Theatre Summer Film Classics Series
May 24-Sept. 9
The Go-To Guy
Meet ME TV's Paul Saucido, if you haven't already
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Wizard of Gore Returns
Herschell Gordon Lewis releases his inner Herschell Gordon Lewis
BY CARSON BARKER
GREEN ISSUE
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
After the Wedding
An expat Danish aid worker in Mumbai returns to Copenhagen to meet with a benefactor, only to discover that the world is even smaller than it seems.
The Page Turner
In this quiet, French revenge film, a creeping malevolence wreaks havoc on an otherwise normal bourgeois family.
Shoot Out at Lokhandwala
Maverick lawmen chase Mumbai extremeists in this new Bollywood film.
Zoo
Filmmaker Robinson Devor sadly sabotages his own attempt to bring the practice of bestiality into the light.
arts & culture
GREEN ISSUE
Inner Worlds We Inhabit
Denise Prince Martin's photographs transport us to places
within where the unspoken waits
BY CLAYTON MAXWELL
Dan Dietz: The exit interview
As local playwright Dan Dietz prepares to leave Austin for
a teaching gig at Florida State, he talks about his
experience here and what he sees happening down the
road
BY BARRY PINEO
Andy St. Martin: Break on through to the other side
For nearly two decades, Andy St. Martin has been making
large, mixed-media paintings, and a recent run of sales
and new solo exhibition suggest he's finding an audience
BY DAVID BRADFORD
Ruth Denney: Remembering Ruth
Ruth Denney, the powerfully influential theatre educator
who passed away March 26, will be remembered in a
memorial service on May 27
Arts Reviews
Songs for a New World
For fans of the contemporary musical, City Theatre
Company's production of the Jason Robert Brown revue
Songs for a New World is a welcome opportunity
for fresh, engaging entertainment
'Andy St. Martin: Selected Works From 1999 to 2007'
The animated personality of painter Andy St. Martin
shines through all the careful color fields he creates in
the abstracts populating his new solo show at 4 walls fine
art
'No American Talent 3 – The Common Deceit of Reality: Basim Magdy'
Basim Magdy's "The Common Deceit of Reality" questions
the scientific and historical postulates we derive from
partial evidence, but parts of the installation undercut the
whole
columns
Page Two: A Personal Journey, Part 2
Nashville, Coconut Grove, and points in between
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Our latest batch
Letters @ 3AM
No class can cultivate what a writer most needs, the gift I call the 'talent of the room'
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen goes green and manages to work both Maureen
and Scarlett O'Hara into the same bit
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Five quick getaways in Central Texas to recharge the
internal batteries without draining the gas tank
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Camels have come a long way, baby
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Title Insurance – the basics
BY ANDREA LOWRY
Luv Doc Recommends: Emissions From the Monolith 9
Emo's, Thursday, May 24, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Lightning play twice at home this week, and more
