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Promises, Promises
Two Austin neighborhoods vie to bring down federal dollars to help transform communities
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Hanging Together or Apart
Sanders vote less about money than community, race, and justice
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: In the Shadow of Sanders ...
Council facing less dramatic agenda this week
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Aug. 5-12
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Sanders Settlement Collapses
City Council rejects payment to family, will proceed to trial
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Former Fleet Services Manager Says Scrap Tires Only a Symptom
Fired whistle-blower says management has ignored serious problems for years
BY JORDAN SMITH
Climate Protection: City in No Hurry To Cool It
Checking in on the Climate Protection Program's progress – or lack thereof
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
A Closer Look at AISD's Ratings
Many schools improved over the last year – but not all
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City Website Redesign: Pick Your Fave
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Getting the Formula Just Right
Austin's Formula One track faces engineering hurdles
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cap Metro Survey Shows Drop in Satisfaction
Express and UT shuttles make for happier customers
BY LEE NICHOLS
Media Watch: Shiver Me Timbers
Pirate radio station tells FCC to go walk a plank
BY KEVIN BRASS
The Hightower Report
Wall Street's Mom-and-Pop Bankers; and Don't Go Barefoot in GOP's Grassroots
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Mike Rila Cooks With Fire
Savory experiments in robotics
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Explodes Over Historic Sixth Street Entertainment District; S'mores Served
Watching Ghostbusters is now a civic duty
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Champagne through a straw!
BY WES MARSHALL
Event Menu
A guide to foodie events around town
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Austin restaurateur Parind Vora soldiers on after fire, and more foodie news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Nasty Dogs & Funky Kings
Rockpalast, German for DVD gold mine
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Off the Record
Pulling back the (iron) curtain on Fun Fun Fun Fest and the Flying Balalaika Brothers in time for the 40th anniversary of the Armadillo World Headquarters
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
the Arcade Fire
The Suburbs
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Couldn't Stand the Weather
Colin Gilmore
Goodnight Lane
the BlueBonnets
Boom Boom Boom Boom
Patricia Vonne
Worth It
Miranda Dodson
Change a Thing
the Apple Trio
the Apple Trio
Amy Annelle
The Cimarron Banks: A High Plains Emanation
Ginger Leigh
Better Than Well – Live at the Saxon
screens
Emily Hagins' Unsucky Movie Career
Austin's zombie girl taps into vamps for her third feature
BY MARC SAVLOV
On the Download
New in downloadable games: DeathSpank and Limbo
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
What Are You Looking At?
A rundown of our staff's most recent pop-culture fixations
Screens Reviews
The Eclipse
A curious little Irish film that mixes relationship drama with a ghost story and only gets it half right
TV Eye
The Big C offers a clear-eyed, sometimes comic look at cancer
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Aisha
Bollywood takes on Jane Austen's Emma.
Dinner for Schmucks
Corporate climbers get their schadenfreude on in this new Steve Carell comedy.
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
A kidnapping caper with only three characters and one basic location, this masterful British film ratchets up the suspense to mind-frying proportions.
Flipped
Rob Reiner's best film in a decade is another coming-of-age story set in small-town America.
Middle Men
Middle Men journeys backward in Internet history to 1995 when two coked-up ne'er-do-wells created the first dial-up, porn-on-demand website.
The Other Guys
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star in this buddy cop comedy that takes some digs against corporate criminals.
Step Up 3D
Not as exciting as the two previous installments, this new dance film is overwhelmed by the 3-D.
Twelve
The private-school kids on New York's Upper East Side are definitely not all right in Joel Schumacher's sordid tale of young promise gone wrong.
arts & culture
Theatre in the Round (Rock)
Penfold Theatre makes its entrance up north – where it's always wanted to be
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Blue Theatre
Despite fire damage, the Eastside venue's managers say the show will go on
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Metamorphoses'
Zach's take on Greek myths takes flight with help from Blue Lapis Light aerialists
BY BARRY PINEO
Arts Reviews
Melancholy Play
A funny, charming, truly sweet staging of a play that's not melancholy at all
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
City Theatre's solid staging gets an extra charge from Rachel McGinnis' Maggie
Escher String Quartet
Despite flashes of fire, this concert by ACMF's 2010 quartet-in-residence felt cold
columns
Page Two: Between the Lines
What editors blog about when they blog about editing
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar detests Snooki so much he dedicates half of his column to her
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The Gay Place Blog wants you! Bloggers sought!
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Harriet Ann Moore Page Potter Ames is known as the bravest woman in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The criminal justice system, Barry Manilow™, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Austin's Urban Livestock Movement – Chickens & Goats Anyone?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Micro Championship Wrestling
AFS Cinema, Friday, August 6, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
National Pro Fastpitch Softball Series
Cat Osterman and Jennie Finch lead a gold-medal cast of Olympians in a four-day fastpitch softball series
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Streaking Aztex host Tampa Bay, and more
