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So, Who's Your Contractor?
How to find the contractor needle in the Cro-Magnon haystack
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What Would Martha Do?
If the ideas are there, design it yourself!
BY TERRY ORNELAS WOODROFFE
You Don't Have to 'Do It Yourself'
When DIY doesn't cut it, hire an expert
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Going Green
Going green is easier than it seems
BY ABE LOUISE YOUNG
news
Making Waves
Barton Springs Pool in line for a fixer-upper
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Kill-a-Watt Challenge Champs
BY NORA ANKRUM
Attack of the Crickets
UT suffering under plague of field crickets
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Naked City
Beside the Point
If it's August, it must be budget-making time at City Hall
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Developing Stories
Getting back to our Wooldridge Square roots
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Media Watch: Bow Chica Wow-Wow
The life and times of a porn-music impresario
BY KEVIN BRASS
Reefer Madness: Green Alert
"These people are armed; they're dangerous ... violent criminal terrorists," says drug czar John Walters.
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
New Grounds for Leaving Iraq; and Strengthen the FDA
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eating ... Crow?
Fried chicken revisited
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
No Reservations, Mindy Kucan's Hot Summer Night, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Aug. 3-9
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Jasper's Gourmet Backyard Cuisine
The Dallas destination opens in Austin's domain
Sazón
Huitlacoche!
music
Rockabye Baby
Rockabye baby, on the treetops, when the bow breaks, the cradle will rawk!
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Off the Record
Remembering blues drummer 'Uncle' John Turner, tracking the devil and Daniel Johnston, on-air with Seattle's KEXP, Abandoned Love Records, and more
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Okkervil River
The Stage Names
Spoon, Aliens, Aliens, Party Garbage
The Underdog (demo) b/w It Took a Rumor to Make Me Wonder, Now I'm Convinced I'm Going Under, Live at CBGB, Committed to Wind b/w Stow Away, Cut the Kite String b/w Circumsize Me
Rachel Loy
Tongue & Teeth
Eliza Gilkyson
Your Town Tonight
The Little Bicycles
Broken Hearts and Tired Legs
Opposite Day
Safety First
The Strange Attractors
The Strange Attractors
Mice & Rifles
All Kites Up
screens
For TLC, With a Little TLC
Is a local production company that recently finished its first documentary too good to be true?
BY TODDY BURTON
Pearls on Film
Home Movie Day takes personal memories, preservation to the public
BY CARSON BARKER
TV Eye
Indie Accomplishments
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
DVD Match
Antonioni vs. Bergman from beyond the grave
Film Reviews
The Bourne Ultimatum
The third film in this series is the best one yet about the rogue CIA spook with the memory of a goldfish.
Bratz
Bring some bratitude and a passion for fashion, and you'll be almost as giddy as a 10-year-old girl.
Cash
Bollywood thriller.
El Cantante
Jennifer Lopez and her real-life husband, Marc Anthony, portray the lives of salsa star Hector Lavoe and his wife, Puchi, in this biopic overstuffed with music-industry clichés.
Gandhi, My Father
Although Mahatma Gandhi was the father of his nation, he was unable to help his troubled son Harilal Gandhi.
Hot Rod
Cross Napoleon Dynamite's endearing optimism with Ben Stiller's total commitment to his goofy characters, and you'll wind up with a character something like Andy Samberg's hapless stuntman.
I Know Who Killed Me
Lindsay Lohan knows there are fates worse than her current legal quagmire – starring in this clunker, for example.
My Best Friend
An antiques dealer is more at home with his silent artifacts than with his fellow Parisians, until a cabbie teaches him the basics of social interaction.
The Simpsons Movie
The film delivers familiar hilarity and some treats you’ll never get on the show (nudity and drunkenness) but steers shy of anything bold and new.
Talk to Me
Cheadle leads a great cast through a musical glance at D.C. in the Sixties and Seventies.
Triad Election
When the time comes for an aging gangster godfather in Hong Kong to step down, a bloody battle for control ensues in this vivid story about thug life.
Vitus
This Swiss film tells the story of a child prodigy torn between his parents' desires to further his career and his own need for normalcy.
Who's Your Caddy?
Hip-hop culture invades the golf course in this instantly disposable and not terribly funny comedy.
arts & culture
Elvis Lives!
Allison Orr choreographs a new comeback special for the King
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Radical Nautical': Awash in water works
For its annual juried show, Gallery Lombardi asked artists to dive into the fantastical and mythical depths of the ocean
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
'AlienNation': Making cabrito of immigration scapegoating
In its first new show in two years, Austin's Latino Comedy Project roasts the immigration debate
BY BARRY PINEO
ColdTowne: Home on the strange
When it comes to the improvisers of ColdTowne, you're in for a really enjoyable time watching these guys do their stuff
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Words for Words
Spoken-word artists on their art form, the National Poetry Slam, and one another
Arts Reviews
Brilliant Traces
If you go see the Vestige Group production of Cindy Lou Johnson's Brilliant Traces, go for the performances
A Skull in Connemara
Martin McDonagh's A Skull in Connemara teeters between the absurd and the just plain silly
Lingo
Lingo's mosaic of dance and music was accessible, unpretentious, and full of life – much like its creators
columns
Page Two: Free to Be You and Me
'Chronicle' letter-writers and the editors who love them: a field guide
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM
8:15am, the moment Hiroshima was bombed, comes around every morning: It is something we live with
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen pulls a Carly Simon and gives a wannabe critic one huge eye roll
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Crandall Cotton Gin Restaurant offers comfort food cooked all sorts of ways
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
7-Eleven for the homeless and underpants for the illiterate
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Flaming Lips Hoot Night
Stubb's, Friday, August 3, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Iraq wins Asian Cup, rec leagues currently enrolling, and more
