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DEATH PENALTY
The Death Penalty in Practice
BY MICHAEL KING
Those Who Are About to Die
Your Texas death machine gets rolling again
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Quote of the Week
Res Publica
Your good-citizen calendar for July 31-Aug. 7
Front-Runner Emerges for CAMPO Seat
Capital Metro board mounts search to fill vacancy
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
McCaul's Islamic 'Rescue'
Congressman jumps on wrong bandwagon in quest to show his anti-terrorist stripes
BY LEE NICHOLS
Permit Woes
South Austin art and music venue trying to reopen
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Not So Walkable
BY LEE NICHOLS
Driver Sentenced in Bicycle Fatality
Family of victim, cyclist Vilhelm Hesness, agreed to plea deal
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
PUC Gathering the Western Wind
A new source for electricity is on the wind
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Austin's Clean Energy Future
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Noriega on Energy ... Looks Familiar
Rick Noriega announces his energy plan
BY LEE NICHOLS
Nader Stumps for Prez
Remember Ralph Nader? He's running for president again.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Breast-Feeding Campaign Kicks Off
BY SARA ROBBERSON
Report Details DPS Failures in Fire Case
Lack of training, staff shortages among DPS' shortcomings
BY LEE NICHOLS
Hays County Turns Blue – and Green
New county leadership is keen on environmental stewardship
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
Phone Use Cut at Hutto
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Austin May Join Effort to Buy Aquifer Property
Finally! A piece of environmentally sensitive property that won't be developed.
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
City Hall Hustle: Budget Time
The annual budget melodrama rounds up the usual suspects
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Developing Stories
Plans unveiled for rail transit
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Impeaching the Empire
The House Judiciary Committee considers high crimes and misdemeanors
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
DHS Border Fence Will Split Campus; and Dodging a Tax by Dissing Pringles
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
An Avocado Story
From the Aztecs to the Austin Aztex, everybody's eating avocados
BY MM PACK
Shirataki Noodles
Japanese diet noodles can be substituted in many dishes
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
From campus to the convention center, new executive chefs are courting culinary connoisseurs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Wine tastings and kitchen-tool demonstrations keep the weekend ahead well-informed
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Williams-Sonoma Wine & Food: A New Look at Flavor
Josh Wesson delights with his wine and food pairing expertise
music
The Mayor of Washington Boulevard
The first Beach Boys' solo album, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue, washes back ashore after more than three decades
BY BILL BENTLEY
Off the Record
The Dedringers and James McMurtry visit VideoRanch, the Strange Boys land In the Red, the Decoder Ring crosses paths with the Hold Steady and Modest Mouse, and Full Service amps up in a parking lot near you
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Harlem
Free Drugs
Mammoth Grinder
Rage and Ruin
The Dirty Hearts
Pigs
Sales Bros.
Hired Guns
Watching the Moon
Perception Is Bent
Sunset
The Glowing City
Hug
Live at Room 710
Full Service, Point of Contact, Ember, Deejer, Rockland Eagles, Distant Light, Goldcure
The Dig, Human, Under Pressure, Dark Summer Dawn, Osaka Cocka Rocka, Simulacrum, Portuguese Prince
Micky & the Motorcars
Naive
Crystal Flavola
Automatic Monkey
Dr. Zog
Going to the Zydeco
Chris Van Loan
Rebirth
Young Nick
Gone EP
Denice Franke, Shotgun Party, Patty David
Gulf Coast Blues, Shotgun Party, One Step Above the Blues
Owl Morrison
Playing With Matches
Hans Frank & the Auslanders
Glambilly!
Abi Tapia
The Beauty in the Ruin
Izzy Cox
Love Letters From the Electric Chair
screens
Don't Fear the Devil
Some glorious bastards, new to DVD
Of Strip Clubs and Hash Stashes
On location: Dance With the One
BY CLAY SMITH
Spandex Not Required
Comic-Con 2008
BY ZACK CARLSON
Film News
Remakes and revisitings from Austin's cine-making kings
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
AMC's Mad Men is back, and boy, is TV Eye glad
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Brideshead Revisited
It's a film, not a miniseries, but this rendition's attention to the steep divides of class and religion in prewar England remains as sharply etched as ever.
Elsa & Fred
A septuagenarian love story from Spain, Elsa & Fred will likely warm the cockles of your heart, even though it’s hardly the stuff of great romance.
Kuselan
In this Indian remake of the Malayalam hit Kadha Parayumbol, a film star gives an assist to an old acquaintance.
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
This third outing makes it abundantly clear that this once-fresh mummy franchise is dead in everything but name.
Ripple Effect
Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, Ripple Effect is awash in self-important questions, becoming an exercise in pop mysticism which stars Forest Whitaker.
Swing Vote
Kevin Costner’s new comedy may be timely, but that doesn’t make it funny or worthwhile.
Tell No One
The many pleasures of this riveting psychological thriller from France derive more from the perplexing questions it raises than the discovery of the answers.
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
Mulder and Scully, these once-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS and masters of the painfully engorged tease, have become deadly dull in this newest incarnation.
arts & culture
Striking Sparks
When strangers team up to create a play and a video game in 10 weeks, sparks fly – in a good way
BY HANNAH KENAH
'Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit'
Katie Pell's new exhibit channels the artist's positive energy and desire to celebrate everyone
BY BARRY PINEO
United States Art Authority
A zoning glitch forces the UT campus-area arts space to close down temporarily
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Don Howell: In Memoriam
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Clean House
Zach Theatre's production is so good that you wish you were onstage with the characters
Skate! A Night at the Rink
Forklift Danceworks' latest was a big wet kiss to the communal joys of roller-skating
Passion at Play
Though at times exciting, this program lacked American Repertory Ensemble's usual spark of artistic fusion
columns
Letters at 3am
The "Situation" is upon us: China and Southern Asia can support their own growth and have no more use for us
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Oops
After a Fashion
Stephen was never one for backpedaling
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Check here each week for excerpts from our Gay Place blog and highlights from the week's listings.
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Central Texas rodeos feature some of the finest live-action entertainment in the Lone Star State
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
King of Kombat fighters know the therapeutic benefits of taking and receiving a spinning back fist
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A toilet-seat art museum, aliens exist, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
What's the deal with my security deposit?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Erotica 2008
Gallery Lombardi, Saturday, August 2, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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