March 27, 2009 - The Austin Chronicle

MUSIC Live Shots From the Fest P.56THE ARTS Cohen New Works FestivalFOOD Downtown Living and DiningSXSW09wrapupFILM Reviews and Red Carpets P.50scary momstersThe little kids at Fran’s Day Carein Oak Hill played games, gardened,and rode horses. Then one troubledgirl told her mom that “bad things”happened there. When the grownupswere through “investigating,”Fran and Danny Keller wentto prison for life.BY JORDAN SMITH P. 22SEE austinchronicle.com FOR BREAKING NEWS, DAILY LISTINGS, CARSTARPHEN’S SHOOING-IN, THE SECOND SEX AT SXSW, SCHOOLING THE ‘STATESMAN,’ PAGING DR. STRAYHORN, AND BYE, BYE MADNESS

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PAGE TW0CONT. FROM P.6I honestly believe people like you justlove being … willfully ignorant, TheTRUTH … YOU WANT THE TRUTH????YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!,Republicans hate truth almost as muchas they hate America, In lieu of soundreasoning skills and clouded by steadfastpreconceived notions, the … acolyte willresort to distortions, name calling andthreats, ‘Mean ole elitist hater,’ why dothe ultra lefties use so much profanity?,in your response I see … dribble. Youaccuse other people of ‘not caring,’ ‘madmax country,’ ‘bitching and whining’… you and you and you Hernandez,and shame on you Chronicle … there’snothing wrong with razorboy cutting andpasting. … pasting liberal drivel straightoff the web … adding coarse sexist to hisracist and moron status. You don’t evenrise to the level of jackass … And in themorning light I saw … the queers stopsodomizing one another … the junkiesquit sharing needles, AIDS become eradicatedin the United States. Then moreresearch funding could rightfully go into… both parties are loathsome … patriotism,other than being the last refuge ofthe scoundrel, my patriotism is patriotismis the Constitution is I loving one’s countryand doing one’s part to sustain, protect,and improve it. By hating. By shapingthe Constitution to me.”■PostmarksLETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed withfull name and include daytime phone number,full address, or e-mail address. Letters shouldbe no longer than 300 words. We reserve theright to edit all submissions. Letters may notbe edited, added to, or changed by sender oncewe receive them.General e-mail address: mail@austinchronicle.comPostmarks forum:austinchronicle.com/forums/postmarksMailing address: The Austin Chronicle,PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765TXDOT OVERSIGHTDear Editor,The Texas state Legislature is currently insession, and the Transportation Committeeis looking at much-needed reforms of theTexas Department of Transportation recommendedby the special Sunset Commission.TxDOT has reportedly had only “internal”oversight for the tens of billions of state andfederal dollars spent in recent years. Newlegislation could change that and possiblyinvestigate how the billions of our taxpayerdollars have been spent. If you are a CentralTexas driver, you may want to contact yourdistrict representatives or the TransportationCommittee’s chairs (Joe Pickett in the House,joe.pickett@house.state.tx.us, and John Caronain the Senate, john.carona@senate.state.tx.us)with your input, suggestions, driving experiences,etc. For example, the two-year-plusdebacle at Hester’s Crossing, on I-35 southof Round Rock (not finished yet).John CallaghanRound RockHey pal.Wanna join my book club?This month, “Little Women.”*Finddiscussiongroupsin your neighborhood88 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mClassifiedsMORE than a listaustinchronicle.com/classifieds

MARGARET MOSER’S ‘DEEP EASTTEXAS ROOTS’Dear Editor,In all fairness and in response to Nederland’sKathy Hollier, what Margaret Moser failed tomention in her response to Hollier’s letter[“Postmarks,” March 20] about the SchoolJamDaze vote [Earache! Music blog, March, 2] is thatMargaret has deep East Texas roots. I’ve met heraunt and nephews in the Golden Triangle, andshe is much loved. Trust me, she is most awareof Southeast Texans the Bopper, Johnny andEdgar, George, Janis, Tex, Tracy, Mark (one namewill suffice), and many other amazing East Texasmusicians. She does not have a biased bone inher body. Period!Sincerely,Jack Ortmanp.s. Isn’t Margaret due for a raise? Whatanother great awards show!Go Green!WE SELL...o Biodegradeable Pet Waste Bagso Beds Made with RecycledPlastic Bottleso Natural Flea and Pest Control4604 Burnet Road(1 block north OF 45th St.)512-452-3883www.barknpurr.comCREATED BY OR CREATING PARANOIA?Dear Editor,Conspiracy theories make you paranoid. Ormaybe it is the other way around.Johnny HughesECHO & THE BUNNYMEN DISAPPOINTEDDear Editor,Those who walked away from the 5pm Echo& the Bunnymen show at the Austin ConventionCenter Saturday were the lucky ones. As weCONTINUED ON P.10COMEON INWE DO‘EM RIGHT!CRAWFISH BOILS909 N. Lamar • 512.474.0805Check out our daily specials atshoalcreeksaloon.comFriday 4pm-CloseSaturday &Sunday All Day!850% +PAISLEY HOMEelegant home furnishings50% OFFENTIRE STORE6015 DILLARD CIRCLEACROSS FROM HIGHLAND MALL NEXT TO TEXAS FLOORS331-4285 [your newimportconnection]DENSONKOENIGHIGHLANDMALLa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 9LAMARGUADALUPEDILLARD CIRCLEReg $1599Sale $899AIRPORTIH-35290N

P0STMARKSCONTINUED FROM P.9passed anxious faces with their tickets in their hands, my husbandand I were happy to have our wristbands as we poured intothe show at 5:05pm. No sooner had we found a place to standthan the band started, after the crowd had been cued to “applaudloudly.” What ensued was an artificial, American Bandstand-styleshow that was empty and boring. It was obvious by the end of thefirst song that the band did not want to be there. Needless to say,neither did we. The people next to us tapped my shoulder to askwho the band was, and it was was regrettable to have to say, “Theyare supposed to be Echo & the Bunnymen.” After 42 minutes (Iknow this because singer Ian McCulloch remarked, “What can youdo in 42 minutes?”), we left feeling that we’d been “had.” All in all,it began the last night of South by Southwest on a bad note.Morgan VierhellerPATHETIC AND INSULTING,AND TOTALLY INFURIATINGDear Editor,Absolutely outrageous. The documentary film Drunken Angel:The Legend of Blaze Foley was to be screened at the ConventionCenter as an official South by Southwest event (including anadmission charge of $10 to non-badge-holders). The film took10 years to make, and literally hundreds of people came to thisevent, many of whom had flown in from out of town specifically forthis celebration of Blaze’s life and posthumous major success (asmany know, Blaze’s songs have been recorded by Merle Haggard,Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, John Prine, and others; “Drunken Angel”was of course written about Blaze by Lucinda Williams). AfterBlaze’s tragic death in 1989, his songs live on as does the highregard in which he is held by thousands already; this film waspositioned to be a “breakout” premiere event attended by peoplein the film industry as well as the music community. The audiencealso included several disabled people – all of whom braved thehorrendous traffic, parking, etc. After more than an hour of beingasked to “vamp,” the filmmaker, Kevin Triplett, was told his screeningwas canceled and would be “rescheduled” because of thelack of a lightbulb for the projector! This was after a “tech check”less than an hour before screen time. With the billions of dollarsgenerated by SXSW, you guys didn’t have an extra lightbulb?! Andthe wherewithal to take care of this? Disgraceful, disgraceful.People were offered $10 refunds, but what about having paid topark, paid for a plane flight to Austin, paid for a cab, etc., etc.,and without even consulting the filmmaker, an alternate screeningwas announced out of nowhere at the Paramount in the middleof the afternoon (!) two days later on a workday. What good doesthat do the people who flew in from out of town? They can’t gethotel rooms for two more nights; there isn’t a room to be had!Demonstrating this truly shameful lack of professionalism for aFestival that is purportedly “state of the art” is an unbelievablefailure of your obligation to your participants and your audience.Shame, shame, shame on you guys. Really pathetic, not to mentioninsulting. Absolutely and totally infuriating.Madeleine Mercier[Louis Black responds: The situation was not as simple as a“bulb” for a “projector,” as you state. This was an advanced highdefinitionprojector. There was a spare bulb, but the projector had tobe reprogrammed in order for that bulb to work. The estimated timefor this reprogramming was at least one hour, but after a couple ofhours into the reprogramming, it was realized that the “one hour”minimum was ridiculously overly optimistic.]REMEMBERING DAN DEL SANTODear Editor,Re: Dan Del Santo [AMDB]: I met Dan in 1978 straight out ofNorth Texas State as a sax player who would soon be a Professorof Pleasure. Dan hired me to write down some 500 tunes he hadswimming in his head for a new band he was forming. Dan couldn’tread or write music and was with one of the craziest cats I wouldever encounter! He had just finished living the life of a Deltablues man with Alligator Records, I think … but by the time I methim, he was drawing back on his Italian roots and was starting to“fuse” Italian, blues, jazz, reggae, New Orleans, and Texas swing.Crazy stuff! Totally impossible to write down because he was notonly jumping styles but jumping meters and tempos. He got the“Professor” part from Professor Longhair and got the “Pleasure”part from King Pleasure. But looking back, Dan was sort of apioneer of world beat. I would have to say that we never really“fused” styles, but the music was much more like shiftinggears without a clutch. He turned me onto the Meters and reggaeand Fela Ransome-Kuti. We (his sidemen) were basicallyjazz cats trying to keep up with this madman! He was nonstopmusic and could go days straight. I had heard a rumor thatDan skipped town and was on the run from the law years ago.Not surprised. Dan was a bigger than life guy. When I met him,he was so against alcohol and would lecture that that stuffwould kill you. Dan loved milk, and I would literally watch himdown a gallon of milk at a sitting. He was the original “GotMilk?” guy … maybe because he had a bad stomach. Henever told any of us about his early years. I knew he was fromNew York but not much else. He also loved Southern cultureand so revered the old black cats like Lightnin’ Hopkins andRobert Shaw. He also so much wanted to be counted in thoseranks. I left Austin for a lot of reasons and never kept up withDan, not that he would be the kind of person who would keepup with folks. I suppose he could have coined the term “worldbeat,” but I don’t think his music was world beat. It was agrand sampler of styles – very angular like a modernist paintingwith hard edges. Yet Dan had this amazing Texas Bob Willsside to him where he would “slide into” his notes as he sangwith a yodel. I never liked the name Professor of Pleasure asit was a pretty dumb name but none the less a tribute to theold school of territory musicians. We only did original music …nothing else. So I guess I’m proud I made my living with Danas a Texas Outlaw, too.John Eric CathcartWashington, D.C.TOO MUCH IMPERVIOUS COVERDear Editor,Austin is proposing more impervious cover with itsWebberville solar panel farm than exists in the whole ofDowntown Austin. The proposed 300-acre solar-panel farmincludes neither a quality pond nor a detention pond. We needto ask why, and we need to demand an answer. Is the citysidestepping this by granting itself a variance? The city needsto step up to the plate and practice not only what it preachesbut what it imposes on others. In short, it cannot be aboveits own law, law it imposes on small-business owners in theAustin jurisdiction. It cannot grant a variance to itself in thename of sustainability, which it may well try to justify by sayingthat rainfall will just run off the solar panels onto the groundanyway (so does the rainfall from Austin rooftops).This 300-acre solar-panel farm will eat up 550 acres of landbecause of the 65% impervious cover limit and would almostcertainly be better outfitted on rooftops, saving 550 preciousacres in the process. A total of 5,500 homes with an averageroof size of 2,375 square feet would achieve the samething. Or how about 11,000 homes with 200 square feet ofsolar panels? Or how about just placing the panels on parkinggarages (we’ve got a few of those). If we absolutely have todo this in Webberville, we’d better see some ponds. Big ones.Ponds that are probably not included in the cost approved forthe solar-panel farm by the council.Jim LaceyVALUE OF ‘ROOFTOP’ SOLARDear Editor,Robert Duncan’s letter, “Solar Power Way Too Expensive”[“Postmarks,” March 20] is partially true but misses the value of“rooftop” solar.Centralized solar power is currently more expensive than thewholesale cost of coal power, but rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV)is less expensive than the retail price of coal-based grid electricityduring the solar window, which is the highest-cost time for gridelectricity.“Rooftop” solar is clean and cost competitive, especially afterdoing everything energy efficient (EE) and time-of-use metering andpricing based on good cost-of-service studies, which would showthat the cost of grid electricity during the “solar window” is nowhigher than the cost of photovoltaics – plus net metering up toone’s own usage, offsetting one’s own usage at the retail rate. Thiswould create a hot market for EE and solar on the customer side ofthe meter.Add in a carbon tax with 100% return across the board (so the peoplewho conserve get more money back than they pay in carbon tax) andcreate a really hot market. (Why a cap-and-trade system for carbondioxide after the massive market collapses of the last few months?)Add in local financing for EE, PV, small wind … more than 20 yearsconnected to the local property tax and create a sizzling market.Distributed generation also 1) avoids new, expensive, landscapedespoiling,and energy-depleting transmissions lines, which lose asmuch as 10% and 2) adds redundancy, responsibility, and value forpeople rather than for corporations.Roland JamesSeguinHYMN TO OUR OWNDear Louis,A personal thank you note for your piece in last week’s Chronicle,“Hymn to My Own” [“Page Two,” March 20]. I’m a 42-year-old writerand camera operator who moved to Austin seven weeks ago todo exactly what you discussed in the piece – move forward, livedreams. Of course, it’s been a tough ride, but after 26 years of notever getting what I was promised from my three degrees in the corporateworld and with no one relying on me currently for economicsalvation, now is actually the right time to make it happen. But inthe days when I’m pushing it 18 hours and sitting questioning everypossible way of earning a living and making my life finally what Iwant it to be, your piece was a clarion call for me to hold tough,“rope-a-dope,” and it reminded me specifically of the 14 years ofsmall steps that have led me to this place. Your cry of “forward” iswhat’s kept me getting incrementally closer year by year and helpedme to overcome every bruise and setback, but it’s easy to forgetwhen the sticks are bigger than the carrots.I hope to be a part of the positive change coming to your city. Tothrow my shoulder to the wheel and make something new, to helpto create a place for others to create. I trust now that the answersand way to earn my living will come.Your editorial is now pasted on the dashboard of my car, and acopy will be on the mirror of every house I stay in.Thank you for articulating that when I really needed it.Most sincerely,Gabrielle Bouliane10 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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news16 On the Lege 20 City Counseling 21 The Hightower Report 22 Believing the ChildrenJOHN ANDERSONHeadlines› Cap Metro’s plans to launch the CapitalMetroRail Red Line have been put on indefinitehold after allegations of violations of state andfederal safety rules by rail contractor VeoliaTransportation. See “Cap Metro: The WheelsCome Off,” p.18.› By unanimous vote on March23, the Austin IndependentSchool District board of trusteesconfirmed MeriaCarstarphen (r), the sittingsuperintendent of publicschools in St. Paul, Minn., asAustin’s next superintendent.She takes charge July 1. See“AISD: Carstarphen Seals the Deal,” p.18.› Endorsements in the mayor’s race continue tocome in, while at council, news that a Californiafirm may redesign the city website has become acampaign issue for Brewster McCracken; hesays he won’t vote yes unless it “improves governmentefficiency and stimulates the localeconomy.” (He says it doesn’t.) See “City HallHustle,” p.14, and “City Counseling,” p.20.› In the Capitol, theHouse finally broke thelegislative logjam bypassing House Bill 873,Rep. Dawnna Dukes’ (l)film incentive bill. On theSenate side, lawmakerstackled the thorny top10% university admissionsrule. Both chambersare still talkingabout a special session.› At press time, the State Board of Educationwas poised to throw the book at science as thecreationist-leaning board moved toward a vote onscience curriculum in public schools; a final voteis expected late this week.› Mixed news for Texas pollution: In the latestToxics Release Inventory, released by theEnvironmental Protection Agency, Texas hasmade significant cuts in its emissions, but it’sstill one of the biggest polluters in the nation.› Austin Chronicle fashion columnistStephen Moser (r) wasarrested Monday and chargedwith arson after a March 13 carfire at City Hall.› Rest easy, Tweeple: Popularsocial media site Twitter suspendedthe account of userAustinPD after complaintsfrom the city of Austin LawDepartment and Texas attorney general that theaccount amounted to police impersonation.Yeah, because tweets like “Trollin flickr for crimenotes” sound real official.› With her career onefoot in the grave,Sharon Keller (l), presidingjudge of thestate Court of CriminalAppeals, deniedresponsibility for closingher court before alast-minute appealcould be filed onbehalf of death rowinmate MichaelRichard on the day ofhis 2007 execution.12 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mJANA BIRCHUMSANDY CARSONLast week’s South by Southwest created some fascinating streetscapes, including this one at Sixth and Red River.Legitimate Public ConcernThe Keller prosecution is an enduring stain on Austin’s honorBY MICHAEL KINGVijay talked about going to Zilker Park in thevan. They got a baby gorilla. Danny took Christiinto the park. Fran stayed with Vijay. Fran cut afinger off of the gorilla and drained the bloodinto a water can.– From the 1992 Austin Police Departmentinvestigative report of the Fran andDanny Keller child molestation caseJordan Smith’s story in this issue,“Believing the Children,” p.22, is theresult of several months of her hardand detailed work – reviewing the trialdocuments and related materials of the1992 Fran’s Day Care prosecution, interviewingas many of the principals she could find whowere willing to talk, plus doing a good deal ofbackground research into the period and thedecadelong era of “satanic ritual abuse” hysteriaof which it was a part. It’s one of the longest andmost difficult stories we’ve ever attempted, andwe hope readers will see why we did so. Webelieve it recounts a fundamental miscarriage ofjustice, one that condemned to ruin at leastthree lives and sadly affected many more, withdamage that persists to this day.Already difficult enough, Smith’s tale took yetanother tangent in her attempt to get access tothe Austin Police Department investigative reporton the Keller case. Rather than provide the publicdocument, city attorneys requested an advisoryopinion from the state attor ney general, whoseoffice responded that the 17-year-old materialcould be withheld as “private” (“highly intimateand embarrassing”) and “not of legitimate concernto the public.” That opinion waswrong on both the facts and the law,but the city attorneys relied on itpointaustinand convinced a judge to supporttheir discretion. Thanks to theChronicle’s attorney, Pete Kennedyof Graves Dougherty, the 3rdCourt of Appeals found the argumentsof the city, the A.G., and thehearing judge unpersuasive andordered the report released. (Kennedyworked on the case essentially pro bono; whengovernment agencies violate open records law, hegets really annoyed.)The APD document Smith finally receivedserves the very legitimate public interest of confirmingwhat a travesty the entire Keller investigationhad been. Indeed, if the city had argued itdidn’t want to release the report because its contentsare deeply “embarrassing” to the APD, thecity, and Travis County prosecutors, it would havehad a much stronger case.Absurdities and AtrocitiesVoltaire famously remarked that those whobelieve absurdities can be made to commitCONTINUED ON P.15JOHN ANDERSONQUOTEof theWEEK“You’re not fromMoscow. Weunderstand that.”– Sen. Craig Estes, placatingSen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston(pictured), who took umbrageover suggestions that hisamendments to Senate Bill175, the top 10% rule,amounted to Soviet-stylecentralized planning

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Naked City› POST-RACIAL OR POST-TRAUMATIC?Pretty much since Barack Obama hit theground running all those primaries ago,we’ve had the privilege of witnessing punditsbloviate about our now presumably“post-racial” society. While realities on theground have hardly had time to catch upwith the ennobling act of electing our firstAfrican-American president, some questionsaround race and ethnicity do seemto have taken on a new urgency. What, forinstance, will folks too young to rememberDo the Right Thing make of the ideas ofPortland State Univer sity professor Joy DeGruy (pictured), authorof Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of EnduringInjury and Healing? A onetime social worker, DeGruy applies theoriesof individual traumas and adaptive behaviors to the socialtrauma of slavery and its legacy. Meanwhile, Austin Bahá’í haschallenged local college students in an essay contest with thetheme Establish ing Race Unity: Personal Steps to Move theWorld. DeGruy and contest finalists will meet up at the thirdannual Louis Gregory Symposium on Race Unity on Thursday,April 2, at Huston-Tillotson University (11:30am-5pm, King-Seabrook Chapel, 900 Chicon). And while the theme is unity,don’t expect a singular vision: “Each essayist tends to have apretty unique perspective,” says Simonetta Rodriguez, whoserves on the symposium’s planning committee. – Cindy Widner› WHAT TO DO ABOUT TECOLOTE? Travis Co. commis sionersremain deadlocked for another week on what to do about the waterstarvedTecolote Farm, a popular family-run organic grower east ofAustin. Katie and David Pitre have been rallying their many fansand supporters for months and appear on the verge of getting thecounty to help them with a severe water shortage that’s cripplingthe farm. Judge Sam Biscoe on Tuesday introduced a resolutionthat would have the county “sharing” water with the farm and layingpipes from the county wells in East Metropolitan Park to thefarm. In exchange, the Pitres would provide produce for the TravisCo. Jail in Del Valle and no longer hold the county responsible fortheir dry wells. For nearly a year the Pitres have been assemblingdata and hydrology reports that cite the two massive county wellsin the nearby park as the proverbial straw that broke the local aquifer’sback. Commis sioners had questions about the cost to thecounty and the value of the produce, as well as the precedent suchaction would set. Informed of the delayed decision, Katie Pitre said,“I’m just sorry that Judge Biscoe worked so hard on a very simplesolution and that we’re drawing it out more, but I’m also hopefulthat they’ll come around.” The item is expected to return to nextweek’s agenda.– Jacob Cottingham› NEW PLACE TO PLAY The Trust for Public Land presented adeed to the city of Austin on Wednesday for 14 acres of newparkland in the Barton Creek Greenbelt. TPL recently acquiredthe land in the Gaines Ranch area to protect it from developmentand preserve it as open space. (To hike, bike, or jog onnearby trails, use the Gaines Ranch Greenbelt entrance, locatedon the MoPac Expressway South access road at the Capital ofTexas Highway North exit.) The gift is one of a series made byTPL to create the Barton Creek Wilderness Park and expandthe greenbelt for public use.– Katherine Gregorres publicaTHURSD A Y 26HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE featuresthree days of lectures, workshops, and otherspecial events exploring the “intersection of academicsand advocacy.” Thu.-Sat., March 26-28.UT campus, Mezes Hall (Rm. 1.306) and TexasUnion. Free.www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/human-rights-at-ut.F R IDA Y 27MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES STREETRETREAT Spend a few days without food, water,or money, and find out what it’s really like to behomeless. For details, see www.mlfnow.org/streetretreat. Fri.-Sat., March 27-29.HILL COUNTRY GROWTH Land-use planner,site designer, and author Randall Arendtdiscusses the rapid growth of the Hill Countryand the economic benefits of conservation-baseddevelopment. 9am-4:30pm. Lady Bird JohnsonWildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse, 828-0076.$35. www.hillcountryalliance.org.NEWSSATURDA Y 28AUSTIN PROGRESSIVE COALITION CANDI-DATE FORUM Meet the City Council candidates.9am-noon. UT campus, Graduate School of Business,21st & Speedway, Rm. 2.122.EARTH HOUR WITH CHRIS RILEY Enjoymusic and smoothies while you schmooze with CityCouncil Place 1 candidate Chris Riley.8:30-11:30pm. Daily Juice Cafe, 4500 Duval St.NEIGHBORFEST The Neighborhood Housingand Community Development Office gathers citydepartments and nonprofits to help you learnabout important topics such as lead poisoningand consumer credit counseling. Face-painting, amoon walk, and other activities keep things festive.10am-1pm. Palm Elementary, 7601 Dixie.SHAKESPEARE, POLITICS, AND WOMENA public forum where theatre meets politics.Speakers include former UT women basketballcoach Jody Conradt, Rep. Donna Howard, CityCoun cil Member Randi Shade, and others. 8pm.Curtain Theatre, on the estate of Richard Garriott,14 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCIRCLING THE WAGONSLocal pols start sorting candidatesBY W ELLS DUNBARIn that most peculiarly American ofsports, NASCAR, the athletes are coveredhead-to-toe in their endorsingbrands. What would it look like locally ifour politicians were, too?In the mayor’s race, Lee Leffingwellwould be the most heavily patched.Counting one dual endorsement from theAustin Lesbian/Gay Political Caucus,the outgoing Place 1 council memberhas collected all the group endorsementssave one. It’s perhaps not surprisinghe’s taken all Democratic groupendorsements, as Leffingwell’s staff isthe most closely aligned with local Ds.There was even a minor kerfuffle overthe McCracken camp not filling out allthe endorsingDems’ surveys,which didn’t bodewell for his chances.To counter this, BrewsterMcCracken has taken to collectingendorsements from local celebrities,exemplified by the fundraising screeningof Dazed and Confused this week,arranged by director Richard Linklaterand the Alamo Drafthouse’s Tim League.And there are several major endorsementsyet to come, notably those of theAustin Neighborhoods Council (occurringat press time) and the Statesman, whichappears to be McCracken’s to lose. (Theeditorial board resumed its fact-free anti-THE ENDORSEMENT SCORECARDMayor: Lee Leffingwell (LL), Brewster McCracken (BMC), Carole Keeton Strayhorn (CKS)FOR MORE DETAILS AND EVENTS, SEE COMMUNIT Y LISTINGS , P.66.on Lake Austin off City Park Road. Call 474-8497for tickets. $35. www.austinshakespeare.org/drupal.SI SE PUEDE! MARCH & RALLY March fromthe Pan Am Rec Center to the Mexican AmericanCultural Center, and, in the spirit of Cesar E.Chav ez, demand social and economic justice forall. 9:30am. A.B. Cantu/Pan American RecreationCenter, 2100 E. Third, 472-9921.S U NDA Y 29MARCH MADNESS WITH CHRIS RILEY Yetanother chance to meet the Place 1 council candidate,hosted by the ATX Socialites. 2-4pm. TheHub, 3815 Dry Creek Dr. www.chrisforaustin.com.STATE LEGISLATIVEEDUCATIONAL FORUMState Rep. Rafael Anchía(r) discusses voter ID legislation.4-6pm. First UnitedMethodist Church,1201 Lavaca. Free.www.davidhasissues.com.cityhallhustlePlace 1: Perla Cavazos (PC), Chris Riley (CR) Place 5: Bill Spelman (BS)Place 2: Mike Martinez* (MM), Jose Quintero (JQ) Place 6: Sheryl Cole* (SC), Sam Osemene (SO)*incumbentsLL BMC CKS PC CR MM JQ BS SC SOCentral Labor Council Austin Firefighters Association Austin Tejano Democrats noneBlack Austin Democrats Capital Area Progressive Democrats Mexican American Democrats South Austin Democrats North by Northwest Democrats Stonewall Democrats of Austin Texas Environmental Democrats Building Owners and Managers Assoc. Small Business Group of Central Texas Austin Lesbian/Gay Political Caucus Austin Police Association Austin-Travis Co. EMS Employee Assoc. Capital Area Asian American Democrats none Capital City Young Democrats Circle C Area Democrats League of Bicycling Voters Sierra Club (Austin Regional Group) West Austin Democrats Tim LeagueRichard LinklaterRobert RodriguezMayoral candidates David A. Buttross and Josiah James Ingalls have not received any endorsements.Leffingwell jeremiads this week,baselessly insinuating that MarcOtt’s days were numbered ifLeffingwell wins.) And to some surprise,Carole Keeton Strayhornsnagged an endorsement fromboth the Building Owners andManagers Association, still smartingover Leffing well-sponsored waterconservationregulations and perhapsalert to Strayhorn’s cut-the-budget rhetoric,and the Small Business Group,which also endorsed Place 6 long shotSam Osemene.In Place 1, the other closely contestedrace, Perla Cavazos and Chris Rileycontinue to split endorsements almostevenly (although Cavazos’ nod from theCentral Labor Council, representing 23separate unions, allows her to swell hernumerical count over Riley). Neither theDem clubs nor public safety providersmoved in blocs to either candidate. It’spossible the pending endorsementscould tip the tight race.There are fewer surprises in theremaining races. Unchallenged Place 5contender Bill Spelman racks ’em up,except when groups aren’t endorsing inuncontested races (e.g., the CapitalArea Asian American Democrats). Place2 incumbent Mike Martinez has steamrolledlate-registering challenger JoseQuintero. Quintero was, however,endorsed by the Mexican AmericanDemocrats, an Eastside-centric clubthat apparently harbors a grudge againstMartinez. Living up to its name, MADalso endorsed Osemene over SherylCole in Place 6. The Austin TejanoDemocrats elected not to endorse inPlace 6, signaling pockets of dissatisfactionwith the council member’s meekperformance and opposition to singlememberdistricts.Oh, and in case you’re wondering,look for the Chronicle’s endorsements inlate April. Early voting starts April 27. For more race reporting, visitaustinchronicle.com/hustle.MONDA Y 30CLEAN ENERGY MARCH/LOBBY DAY Jointhe march to the Capitol to push for legislativeaction on climate change. 9am. Huston-TillotsonUniversity, 900 Chicon.PUBLIC FORUM ON POLICE BLOOD WITH-DRAWALS A panel – Police Chief Art Acevedo,City Council Member Mike Martinez, and others– discusses training police to draw blood in theevent that a driver refuses a Breathalyzer. 6-8pm.Council Chambers at City Hall, 301 W. Second.T U E S D A Y 31JOHN GIBLER The author ofMexico Uncon quer ed discusses thedivisions in wealth between Mexico’srich few and destitute millions.7-9pm. Monkey Wrench Books,110 E. North Loop, 407-6925.SOCO SMALL BUSINESSHAPPY HOUR with special guest Chris Riley.Yep, that’s right: City Council candidate for Place 1.6-7:30pm. Tesoros Trading Co., 1500 S. Congress.

POINT AUSTIN CONTINUED FROM P.12atrocities, and it’s a maxim that certainlyapplies to the Keller prosecution. Althoughthe APD report is an unedited collection ofinvestigative notes, it documents an episodeof adult and official credulity thatalmost defies comprehension. What beganas one troubled child’s complaint about analleged “spanking” steadily grew – underthe relentless questioning and magnificationof parents and authorities alike – intoan utterly preposterous and literally impossibleplot involving groups of children,numerous adults, chain saws, shootings,graveyards, airplane trips, bones, and deadbodies (and dead bodies reconstituted).Oh, and animals – the Zilker Park gorillastory quoted above is but one representativeexample of the sort of tales the supposedgrownups elicited from the children,who generally began by denying any abusebut soon understood what was expected ofthem, the more fantastic the better. Massmurder, cannibalism, bloodbaths, satanicthreats and rituals, whatever you (or aninventive child) can imagine … Fran andDanny (and a host of unrelated third parties)did it, in broad daylight, in a quietOak Hill neighborhood.Accordingly, the adults then sorted thephysically impossible from the theoreticallypossible, disregarded the former, and decidedthat whatever was possible and criminalcertainly happened.Making It RightIn short, the prosecution of Fran andDanny Keller was a failure of rational justiceon a tragic scale, and the Kellers became thecentral figures in what was in fact a hystericalwitch hunt where there were no witchesat all. The children, of course, were not toblame. At some point, a grownup needed tostand up and say – and keep saying – this isnonsense. The Travis County Sheriff’sOffice’s Roger Wade had a shot – but whenthe children began naming former sheriff’spersonnel, he had to recuse himself (only toWOMEN OF THE COMMISSION: PAST,PRESENT, & FUTURE Learn about the city’sCommission for Women at this evening reception.5:30-7:30pm. Austin City Hall, 301 W. Second. Free.E-mail to RSVP: lindadmedina@gmail.com.WEDNES D A Y 01CANDIDATE FORUM FOR THE ARTS Councilcandidates discuss and answer questions aboutthe future of local arts. (See “Candidates Forum onthe Arts,” the Arts, p.35.) 7pm. Paramount Theatre,713 Congress, 472-5470. www.austintheatre.org.CHARLES RAMIREZ BERG,author of Latino Images in Film:Stereotypes, Subversion, & Resistance,talks about the Latino experienceas seen on film. Noon-1pm. BullockHistory Museum, 1800 Congress. Freewith museum admission.TAKE BACK THE NIGHT MARCH/RALLYShow your support for survivors of sexual violence.6:30-10pm. UT Main Mall in front of theTower, 475-6630. www.cmhc.utexas.edu/vav.html.become yet another named suspect in theAPD report). Social worker Vivian Lewistried her best, telling prosecutors bluntlythat their case was “incredible.” They simplyignored her.As I said, the official credulity is almostincomprehensible. But investigators had ahighly dubious and recanted confessionand one piece of putative physical evidence– the qualified testimony of the examiningdoctor of the first alleged victim. They werealso living in the midst of a national panicabout “satanic ritual abuse” tied to daycare. None of us is immune to such headlines,rumors, sexual social panics (whichhave hardly ended: witness Michael Hall’sstory of the “Mineola Swingers” case inApril’s Texas Monthly).As Smith’s story reports, the examiningdoctor has effectively retracted his testimony,and by now we should be far enough removedfrom the Satanic Panic to review the Kellercase with a cold and honest eye. Having beenhorribly served by the courts and their owncounsel, the Kellers have few legal avenuesfor redress. But by virtue of her position ashead of what was then the child abuse unit,current Travis Co. District Attorney RosemaryLehmberg was nominally in charge of theKeller prosecution, presumably signing offon decisions that she is now in a position toreview and reconsider. It would certainly takea lot of courage and a willingness to admitserious mistakes – the latter trait not in greatsupply among prosecutors. I urge Lehmbergand her colleagues to read Smith’s article andthe associated documents; to review theembarrassing, useless forensic interviewswith the children; and to take a fresh look atthe Keller case that was assembled, prosecuted,and decided in hot blood.If she honestly and thoroughly does so, Idon’t believe she can come away believingthat justice was served.The substantive section of theAPD investigative report on theKeller case is posted online with this column ataustinchronicle.com.THURSD A Y 02AUDITORIUM SHORES RENOVATION PUB-LIC MEETING Let the Parks & Rec Depart mentknow what you want changed and left alone atthis beloved open space. 6-8pm. Town Lake CenterAssembly Room, 721 Barton Springs Rd.LOUIS GREGORY SYMPOSIUM ON RACEUNITY A panel of diverse guests discusses unitywithin the community, with a keynote from specialguest Joy DeGruy, author of Post TraumaticSlave Syndrome (see “Naked City,” p.14).11:30am-5pm. King-Seabrook Chapel, 900 Chicon.Free. www.austinbahai.org.F R IDA Y 03TEXAS LYCEUM CONFERENCE gathers politicaland economic experts from around the state todiscuss the 2009 Stimulus Package: What’s inIt (or Not) for Texas? Attendees will hear the latestrelevant information, including a discussion ofwhere TxDOT proposes to spend its dollars.8am-3:30pm. AT&T Conference Center, UT campus,1900 University Ave. $35. www.texaslyceum.org.Support your lifestyleTRUNKSHOWFriday, March 2710 am - 3 pmWhole Earth Westgate,South Lamar @ 290W899.0992Whole EarthProvision Co.South Lamar @ Westgate, 899.0992www.WholeEarthProvision.comGlorious Music from Conspirare!Four-time Grammy-Nominated Company of VoicesContinues Its 2008-2009 SeasonHANDEL’S MESSIAHCraig Hella Johnson leads an “intimate” Easter-time performance of this eternal classic with a chorusof 26 voices, an orchestra of 24 virtuosic players on period instruments and soloists stepping forwardfrom the choir to sing Handel’s immortal melodies.Saturday, March 28, 7:30pmSunday, March 29, 2:30pmConcert Preview with Margaret Perry one hour before each performance.St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, austinPRESENTING SPONSOR:south texas money managementROCK MY SOULFor the first time ever, all of the Conspirare choirs gather on stage for a jubilant and moving programrooted in the tradition of African-American spirituals - timeless music that will also include WestAfrican chant, American blues, and words and music inspired by American slam poets.Saturday, June 6, 8:00pmSunday, June 7, 2:00pmLong Center for the Performing Arts, austinconspirare (professional chamber choir), conspirare symphonic choir,conspirare children’s choirs, guest artists to be announcedTo reserve, call 476-5775 or purchase online at Conspirare.org.2008|09SEVENTEENTH SEASONwww.conspirare.orgCraig Hella Johnson & Company of Voicesa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 15

NEWSPity the Family-Planning ClinicAs reported last week (“Low-Income WomenCould Take a Hit,” March 20), family-planningadvocates are up in arms over a proposedstate Senate budget rider they fear woulddismantle a health-care system that providescare for thousands of uninsured and underinsuredTexas women. Senate budget rider 56,by Sen. Robert Deuell, R-Greenville, proposesawarding more than $50 million in fundsover the 2010-11 biennium solely to “publicproviders” of family-planning services and to“private and not-for-profit contractors” thatprovide “primary and preventative care” inaddition to family-planning services.Roughly two dozen traditional providers offamily-planning health services, such asPlanned Parenthood, could be renderedineligible for public funding under the proposal.For many uninsured and poor women, familyplanninghealth services are the only medicalcare they receive. According to the Guttmach erInstitute, 60% of women who access servicesat family-planning clinics consider the clinicstheir primary source of health care. In additionto providing access to contraception, traditionalfamily-planning services typically alsoprovide annual gynecological exams and regularscreenings for cervical and breast cancer,sexually transmitted diseasesand HIV, diabetes, hypertension,and anemia.This is the second time thatDeuell has authored a budgetrider diverting family-planningmoney from traditional providers.In 2005, he offered aversion of the current rider,diverting $10 million in fundsto first fund federally qualifiedhealth centers, which provide anumber of other primary care servicesin addition to family planning. Whilethe idea was, in theory, a good one – toexpand access to comprehensive healthcare for poor and uninsured women – therider did not have that effect. In 2005,before it took effect, the state’s family-planningprogram – funded with federal tax dollars– provided services to nearly 670,000clients. In 2006, after the rider took effect,the number of clients served dropped to442,000. That number hascontinued to decline to fewerthan 371,000 served lastyear. Meanwhile, the federallyqualified health centershave not been able to pickup the slack. Instead, therehaven’t been enough federallyqualified health centersusing the funding opportunityto spend the entire $10 million,so the centers haveactually been returning millionsin unspent funds to theDepartment of State HealthServices. As the number ofclients served decreasedfrom 2006 through 2008,the amount of Deuell’s 2005federally qualified health centerset-aside funding returnedto the state increased, fromabout $2.5 million in 2006to more than $4.2 million in2008. Meanwhile, the numberof women in need continuesto grow: Under the current funding structure,just 17.5% of women in need ofreproductive services are actuallybeing served.Despite that lack of success,Deuell – who is also amedical doctor – now wantsto direct the entire familyplanningbudget to countyhealth departments andother private and not-for-profitentities, including thesesame federally qualified healthcenters. If his new rider were tobecome law, it would “literally devastatethe family-planning program inTexas,” says Fran Hagerty, CEO of theWomen’s Health and Family PlanningAssociation of Texas. “It would dismantle itfrom the inside out – it would be a travesty.”Deuell’s office did not return numerous callsrequesting comment for this article. But JoePojman, executive director of the Austin-basedanti-abortion Texas Alliance for Life, saysthe rider “would be excellent policy.” It’s reallyCyclists Hope for Safe PassageBicycle advocates hope the third time’s the charm for the Safe Passing Bill, whichwould establish mandatory minimum distances that motorists must keep when passingbikes on the road. Historically, enforcement against motorists who’ve harassed, injured, orkilled cyclists has been weak, in part because few laws specifically address proper carbikeinteractions. A similar bill filed in 2005 was narrowly defeated in the Senate, and a2007 bill died. The current bill broadens its protections to more than just cyclists, requiringthat vehicles keep more than 3 feet of distance (or 6 feet for commercial vehicles)when passing any vulnerable road users, including bicyclists, disabled persons, maintenanceworkers, stranded motorists, runners, skaters, equestrians, motorcyclists, and farmequipment. Violation would result in a misdemeanor, incurring a fine of up to $500 forproperty damage; causing bodily injury would be a class B misdemeanor, with a fine ofup to $2,000 and sentence of up to 180 days in jail. The bill also includes penalties forharassment, throwing objects, and turning dangerously in front of vulnerable road users.Authored by Rep. Linda Harper-Brown, R-Irving, in the House (House Bill 827) and DallasRepublican John Carona and longtime bike-boosting Dem Rodney Ellis of Houston in theSenate (Senate Bill 488), the bill had five bipartisan co-sponsors at press time and avote was pending in the House Committee on Transportation. – Daniel MottolaJANA BIRCHUM“in the best interest of women,” offeringaccess to one-stop comprehensive healthcare. For example, he said, if a woman were togo in for an exam and find out she had tuberculosis,she could get her TB treatment rightthere, without having to wait. And he doesn’tthink the system would have a problem absorbingthe hundreds of thousands of women whowould have to find new health-care providers.“Typically, providers expand to meet the need,especially when there are public funds available.”In fact, he said, women would have theability to be served at the office of “any primaryphysician.” Pojman would not say whetherhe saw this as a way to defund PlannedParenthood but said he thinks PlannedParenthood “does not serve women well.”What exactly that means isn’t clear. Fully97% of Planned Parenthood’s services are forfamily planning and preventative care, saysSarah Wheat, the group’s Central Texas vicepresident for community affairs. (Abortionrelatedservices make up a small percentageof Planned Parenthood’s business and, bylaw, are not paid for with public funds.)When to Stop Punishing SchoolsHouse Bill 3, the mammoth public school accountabilitybill, and its Senate counterpart, Senate Bill 3, are takinglonger than expected to come back to committee after publictestimony showed broad concerns that the new rules keep punishingschools for failure rather than helping them reform. Afterlengthy hearings March 17, the Senate Education and HousePublic Education committees started gathering the materialtogether for a new committee substitute that would take theconcerns into account. House committee staff confirmed thatChair man Rob Eissler, R-The Woodlands, had planned to bringthe bill back March 26, but the sheer volume and complexity ofmaterial made that impossible. The process is further complicatedby the two committees working together on the draft languagebefore it gets to the floor rather than hammering out aconsensus document in conference committee later. The currentplan is to start discussion again next week.– Richard WhittakerPlannedParenthood'sSarah WheatWheat agrees that diverting the state’s family-planningbudget would completely cripple asystem that, at present, provides critical servicesto an otherwise underserved population.“It’s just raw politics versus good policy,”she said. Indeed, according to Hagerty, ifthe rider were to become law, the state’s biggestproviders of services would be cut offfrom funding. While her group representsnearly 100 family-planning providers, theroughly two dozen that would likely bestripped of funding serve roughly half of thewomen that seek services each year.By attaching the measure as a rider andnot filing it as a bill, Deuell is able to avoidhaving it vetted by a wider body of lawmakersand can circumvent any public hearing process.(Sources say that not even theDepartment of State Health Services wouldhave an opportunity to weigh in on the measure.)Traditionally, riders are meant to clarifydetails of funding directives, not to make newlaw. But the new-law line is a gray area thatoften hinges on the interpretation of a committeechair – in this case the chair ofSenate Finance, Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan,who has previously made it clear he is not afan of a family-planning system that grantsfunds to Planned Parenthood.Still, it’s unclear whether Deuell’s riderwould pass legal muster, says Anne Dunkelberg,associate director of the Center forPublic Policy Priorities. “I don’t think it wouldbe legal from the federal sense” to restrictthe potential recipients of funds any furtherthan do the federal agencies, she said. Inother words, it would not be legal for Texasto restrict federal family-planning funding toexclude groups eligible for that funding underfederal rules. “It is very likely that it wouldnot survive legal challenge,” said Dunkelberg.“I also think that it would be flat bad forwomen’s health. It would exclude a lot of providersbeyond Planned Parenthood.”– Jordan Smith16 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

NEWSAdding Teeth to Hazing LawsStudent hazing has a body count. In the last five years at the University of Texas alone,two students – Tyler Cross and Phanta “Jack” Phoummarath – died in hazing-related incidents,and eight fraternities are currently in disciplinary status for hazing offenses. Senate Bill 48,currently on the Senate intent calendar, attacks the legal defenses that have curtailed somecriminal prosecutions. The bill, authored by Senate Higher Education Chair Judith Zaffirini,D-Laredo, clarifies the legal definition of hazing to include forced drinking and drug taking,allows prosecutors in both the school’s home county and counties where hazing occurs tomount prosecutions, and changes the immunity rules so that students are no longer protectedfor reporting their own hazing activities. Zaffirini introduced a similar bill last session, but itdied in the Senate Education Committee without a hearing. This time, her Higher Ed Committeevoted SB 48 out 5-0 on March 23. She said the problem remains pressing, in spite of apathyin some quarters. “What do you say to people who say, ‘We don’t need a bill like this; boys willbe boys’?” she asked. Her advice? Introduce them to someone who suffered hazing or lost aloved one.– R.W.Events at BookPeopleROCK ’N’ ROLL CAMP FOR GIRLSThursday, March 26 6:30 PMChronicle BooksJoin us tonight for some inspirational, kick butt rock ’n’ roll and meet ladies who makeit happen. A panel of representatives from these rock camps all over the world will bemoderated by Dr. Mary Kearney. The panel will focus on how these rock camps providea creative haven for young girls allowing them to become well-adjusted, confident androckin’ women. Join us for this great event. Music by Austin’s own Fabi Reyna and otherbands starting at 6:30 PM.WINTERGIRLSLAURIE HALSE ANDERSONSaturday, March 28 7 PMPenguin BFYRWe are proud to host the acclaimed teen author Laurie Halse Anderson. Wintergirls isAnderson’s most emotional tale since the multiple-award-winning Speak. It is the storyof Lia and Cassie, two best friends and competitors in a sick contest to see who can bethe skinniest. Anderson explores the powerful descent into the vortex of anorexia and herpainful path toward recovery. Come meet this extraordinary author and get a copy of hernew book signed. Tonight at 7 PM.Former Travis Co. Green PartyCo-Chair Bill Hollo way(see “LegeLines,” below)COURTESY OF THE TEXAS GREEN PARTY Matrix Sofalegelines BY THE NEWS STAFFAfter a slow start to the session, theHouse finally started hearing substantivebills on March 25. Topping the calendarwas House Bill 873, the film incentivesreform bill, by Rep. Dawnna Dukes,D-Austin… After a daylong debate on March24, the Senate voted 22-8 to place a 60%cap on university admissions under thetop 10% rule. The bill, Senate Bill 175,now heads to the House, where near-identicallanguage failed last session… Withfinal rules pending for the federal stimuluscash, Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston,said the House Appropriations Committeeis still working on the state budget, andit will be up to Gov. Rick Perry to veto itand force a special session… HouseAppropriations approved more than $800million from the Rainy Day Fund on March20 for Hurricane Ike reconstruction,including $300 million for University ofTexas Medical Branch. Rep. Craig Eiland,D-Galveston, had originally asked for $933million; the new figure gives schools more,state agencies less, and adds $250 millionfor future disaster relief… Attorney GeneralGreg Abbott has issued an opinion sayingthe Lege can pass laws forcing cities tobecome more active in enforcing federalimmigration law. The opinion, requestedby Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, couldopen the door to legislation ending sanctuarycities… Lege TV: Time Warner Cablewill start providing live floor broadcasts forits San Antonio cable customers in April, andAT&T U-verse will roll out House coverage inselect markets. The Texas Cable Assoc ia tiontold legislators Lubbock may have to waituntil at least 2011… House Resolu tion 285,memorializing the life of former Travis Co.Green Party Co-Chair Bill Hollo way, isscheduled to be read on March 30. Hollowaydied on Jan. 8… For breaking news and analysis,visit austinchronicle.com/legeland or sign upto www.twitter.com/legeland.“ON THE LEGE” CONTINUED ON P.19SALE PRICE $899Arms and backrachet down to make a bed.Available in black or ivory puMatching chair available.Available in topgrain leather for $1199a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 17

NEWSAISD: Carstarphen Seals the DealWhen the Austin Independent SchoolDistrict board of trustees voted March 23 toconfirm Meria Carstarphen as the district’snext superintendent, it was, in many ways, arubber-stamping exercise.There was more public discussion on thenight the board considered naming a newSouthwest middle school than there wasabout who the district is getting as its newchief executive. After a brief introduction byboard President Mark Williams, Carstarphenwas nominated by board secretary andDistrict 6 trustee Lori Moya, seconded byVice President Vince Torres, and elected bya unanimous show of hands.In a moment of stagecraft, Carstarphenthen appeared from the back of the boardauditorium to a standing ovation.Now begins the real getting-to-know-youprocess. On Feb. 26, when the St. Paulsuperintendent was announced as the solecandidate to replace Superintendent PatForgione, the consensuswas that the state-mandated21-day public vetting periodwas strictly pro forma. Infact, the 21 days turned outto be 26: If the board hadkept to the state-mandatedminimum, it would have hadto make the announcementon the Thursday of springbreak. Instead, even pushingthe meeting back to March23, the district was in theless than ideal position ofholding a public consultationprocess while its schoolsand offices were closed for aweek. In addition, as a sitting superintendent,Carstarphen still had a job to do inMinnesota. Since the Feb. 26 announcement,she had spent a total of seven daysin Austin and had been in St. Paul sinceMarch 10.Carstarphen’sContract Four-year term, with anoption for a fifth $275,000 annual base pay $25,000 cappedperformance bonus $15,000 annuity $1,000 a monthautomobile allowance Health insurance,relocation, and temporaryhousing costsWhile most Austinites understoodCarstarphen’s appointmentwas a done deal, the terms of hercontract were only released at themeeting. Initially, she has signedfor four years, with an option forthe board to extend for a fifth. At$275,000 plus bonuses and allowances,her starting pay is up fromher St. Paul salary of $195,000 butslightly below Forgione’s $285,000a year. Williams called the package“reasonable and fair” and comparableto superintendent salaries inthe rest of the “Big 8” of Texasindependent school districts(Brownsville, Dallas, El Paso, FortWorth, Houston, San Antonio, andYsleta). Forgione said he would beworking with Carstarphen on thetransition while she finishes out hercontract in St. Paul and added, “Ipromise you thatMeria and I willwork together toensure that workis productive and that wepass that baton together.”After June 30, it’sCarstarphen’s district.While Williams praised heras a “passionate, energetic,reform-minded visionary,”St. Paul has actuallyexperienced that energyand vision. Sources withinthat district who prefer toremain anonymous saidCarstarphen is notoriousfor her hardworking attitude. As onelongtime observer put it, she’ll squeeze 17hours of meetings into a 15-hour day, andshe expects the same commitment of herstaff. (Before the vote, St. Paul Federationof Teachers President Mary Cathryn RickerJANA BIRCHUMNew AISDSuperintendentMeria Carstarphensaid she understood the sources’ caution:“If she signs today … she still has a fewmonths up here.”)Her proactive style has been a big hit withthe Austin business community, and in heracceptance speech, Carstarphen said, “All ourchildren must be successful if Austin is goingto continue as a vibrant, healthy, economicgenerator.” Her commitment to the best educationpossible for all children is also widelyapplauded, especially her belief in personalmentoring of students. However, like Austin,St. Paul has seen its share of rocky schoolrepurposings, and her take-charge style cancause friction. Even her biggest supportersfrom St. Paul said her relationships with staffand teachers have become strained. “It willbe interesting to see if folks from St. Paulstart following her [to Austin],” said Ricker.Carstarphen will now face the “People’sRepublic of Austin” attitude that there is nosuch thing as too much public input, as wellas groups that are wary of lip service. With aschool accountability system that even itsold defenders now say is far past time forreform, the AISD community will also bewatching to see whether her reported datadisaggregation skills really get to the rootproblems of struggling schools or becomeanother part of the “blame the teachers”official ethos.Education Austin President Louis Malfaroremains cautiously optimistic. However, hesaid, “She’s not here yet, so we’re not reallygetting any time to work with her.” With themajor focus of his union and the district onmore immediate issues like the current legislativesession and the next budget, headded, “She’ll have to drop into the middleof that when she gets here.”– Richard WhittakerCAP METRO THE WHEELS COME OFFFred GilliamTo say things are not going well at CapitalMetro right now … well, let’s not even botherwith polite euphemisms. It’s all going to hell.More than a year behind schedule, thetransit agency’s new commuter train hasbeen delayed yet again – this time indefinitely.And that announcement came after revelationsin the Austin American-Statesman thatthe agency owes millions of dollars to the cityof Austin and other communities it serves –but has drained its cash reserves to build itsnonfunctional train and other pricey projectsand apparently can’t pay it back. According tothe States man’s Ben Wear (March 15), CapMetro’s savings, which once reached into thehundreds of millions, are now down to a meretwo-month safety cushion.Simultaneously (as we reported last week),Cap Metro announced that employees of oneof its labor subcontractors, Veolia Transportation, had driven trains into unauthorizedareas of track during testing and thatthe March 30 launch of the Leander-to-Downtown Red Line service would be delayedby about a month. Then it got worse – it wasannounced that Veolia is under investigationby the Federal Railroad Admin i stra tion,the March 28 kickoff party has beenscrapped, and nobody knows for sure whenMetroRail will begin operations.“At this time, I am not satisfied with theprogress Veolia has made with safety andtraining,” said Capital Metro President/CEOFred Gilliam in a statement. “Capital Metrois deeply disappointed over this delay, butunder no circumstances will we jeopardizesafety by rushing this process.” Gilliam calledfor Veolia to replace its safety director,announced that experts from the MassachusettsBay Transportation Authority will bebrought in to advise (ironic, since MBTA isrun by Veolia), and said the community willreceive an update by May 15.Don’t think this will go down well amongcity politicos. In a statement, Austin CityCouncil Member Mike Martinez supportedthe delay, but concluded, “We must also seekanswers to the many questions surroundingCapital Metro and judgment errors that haveplagued the agency for some time now.” Hewas far less polite talking to the daily – heopined that Veolia was simply a “scapegoat”in the fiasco, and said: “Other folks are goingto have to accept their responsibility as well.… It really brings into question the competenceof the organization.”– Lee Nichols18 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

ON THE LEGE CONTINUED FROM P.17Rep. Leo Berman &CREATIONISTS GETCREATIVE AT THE CAPITOLFrustrated thus far by failed attempts topromote creationism at the State Boardof Educa tion, proponents of the pseudoscienceare now taking their battle to theLegislature. Two bills have caught the eyeof the Texas Freedom Network, a nonprofitadvocacy group that combats the religiousright.Last year, the Dallas-based Institute forCreation Research’s proposal for offeringonline master’s degrees in scienceeducation got shot down by theTexas Higher EducationCoordinating Board, whichhas legal authority to shutdown diploma mills. In an8-0 unanimous vote, theboard said the institute’sproposal wasn’t based in… um … science.Rep. Leo Berman, R-Tyler,has come up with a simpleenough way to deal with that:Write a bill (House Bill 2800) sayingthat the board no longer has authority overprivate “schools” that do not accept stateor federal funding.The problem with this is rather obvious:“If HB 2800 became law,” said StevenSchaf ersman of Texas Citizens forScience, “it would be a gold mine to everyfly-by-night, degree-granting outfit in thecountry.” Berman wasn’t the least bit apologetic,telling the Austin American-Statesman,“I don’t believe I came from a salamanderthat came out of a pond.”Almost as blunt is HB 4224 by Rep.Wayne Christian, R-Center. Attempts tokeep a requirement that public schooleducators teach the “strengths and weaknesses”of scientific theories have narrowlycome up short at the State Boardof Education, but the proposal to retainthe language in the Texas EssentialKnowledge and Skills rules comes up fora final vote next April. (An SBOE-appointedpanel of scientists and educators favorsdeleting “strengths and weaknesses,” inpart because creationists have seized uponthe wording as a wedge to push creationisminto classrooms – or at least createdoubt about evolution.)Christian would short-circuitthat vote by just flat-out orderingthe SBOE to keep the language.The bill also wouldmandate that “no studentin any public school orinstitution shall be penalizedin any way because heor she subscribes to a particularposition on scientifictheories or hypotheses” andthat “no governmental entity shallprohibit any teacher” from teaching“strengths and weaknesses using scientificevidence and information.”“Lawmakers should call this the ‘KillScience in Texas Act,’” said TFN’s KathyMiller. “It would open the door to teachingpublic school students almost anynotion that someone wants to portray as‘science,’ regardless of what schooladministrators and real scientists have tosay about it.“This bill is so bad that someone couldteach that maybe the sun really revolvesaround the Earth, and school administratorscouldn’t do anything about it,” Millersaid. “Does Texas really need that kind ofcrazy in the 21st century?”– Lee NicholsJOHN ANDERSONa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 19

NEWSBACK TO THE DAISBY WELLS DUNBARBack after a week off, council brings forthseveral items of note this Thursday, March26. Getting the local technorati all atwitter isItem 38, which, if approved, would awardredesign of the city’s website to Californiafirm Cignex Technologies (though at presstime, council was expected to delay thevote). Apparently the Left Coasters were oneof a whopping three firms torespond to the city’s request.Will the city shop local, evenif it’s at a premium?Elsewhere, Randi Shadeand Laura Morrison sponsortwo items, one allowingfor limited “on-premise”signs advertising homebusinesses in designatedcore transit corridors (Item48), which was not allowed underthe existing development code. Thesecond (Item 50) is a neighborhood-association-friendlyresolution directing the city managerto discontinue considering amendmentsallowing one-time extensions of developmentsite plans. The council also considers creatinga board to oversee tax increment financing(capturing a portion of newly createdsales tax to funnel back into the project) forthe Seaholm redevelopment (Item 24).cityCOUNSELINGAUST I N C HRONICLE.C O M / N E WSDE S KTravis Co. District AttorneyRosemary Lehmberg saysDNA evidence is extremelyimportant to have, to test, andto use, whenever possible. But,she said, her office is still consideringthe significance ofDNA evidence found in connectionwith the infamous yogurtRosemary Lehmbergshop murders.Last week, Joe James Sawyer, an attorney for yogurtshop defendant Robert Springsteen, told reporters thatprosecutors are ignoring the discovery of DNA that proves hisclient is innocent. Sawyer also said he would seek a bond hearingin the hope of having Springsteen released from jail whileawaiting retrial for the grisly 1991 quadruple murder.At issue is male DNA found last year in the body of the youngestyogurt shop victim, 13-year-old Amy Ayers, that does notmatch any of the four original defendants – Springsteen,Michael Scott, Maurice Pierce, and Forrest Welborn – or anyoneelse known to be at the crime scene, inside a North Austinyogurt shop. Prosecutors requested the testing that firstrevealed the male DNA profile in March 2008, and since then,both prosecutors and defense attorneys have sought furthertesting on that profile and on other pieces of evidence found atthe crime scene.7-9amYogurt Shop DNA Saga Continues, Part 2Defense attorneys say the additional testing has revealed atleast one male DNA profile, if not two or possibly three. The discoveryof the DNA, they say, proves that their clients are not guilty.But Lehmberg isn’t sure that’s what the DNA suggests – at leastnot yet – but she says that testing available DNA is important toher office in this and every other case. “What I know right now fromthe expert we’ve hired is that we have one unknown male donor,”she said. “It is unclear what the significance of some of the othertests are. There may or may not be, as the defense claims, morethan one” donor. Indeed, right now, she said, there’s still work to bedone. “When, and we hope real soon, we know the [answers] we’reseeking … we’ll act accordingly,” she said. “If that means going totrial with the evidence we have, we’ll do that.” However, she said, “ifit leaves us in a situation where we have reasonable doubt, I’ll stepup and suggest a bond.”Lehmberg says her office has in fact been in the forefront ofusing DNA evidence to prosecute cases and has long sought touse DNA to exonerate the innocent. Indeed, Carlos Lavernia, whowas convicted as the Barton Creek rapist and sentenced to 99years for a 1983 assault he did not commit, was ultimately exoneratedafter DNA cleared him in 2000. In that case, Lehmberg notes,the D.A.’s office worked with Austin Police to have DNA testing completed.“It is absolutely untrue that we discount the value of DNAevidence,” Lehmberg said. “We test for DNA whenever we can, andwe value it, [we] believe in it, and [we] use it.”– Jordan SmithJoeBickett20 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mThe Chronicle’s Raoul Hernandez joinsJoe and Katherine every Monday on Good Day Austin.

the hightower reportBY JIM HIGHTOWERA BLUE-GREEN VICTORYFOR AMERICATo paraphrase the well-known bumpersticker, “Stuff Happens.” But sometimes, it’sgood stuff.This story began with bad news. InDecember, a corporation called RepublicWindows & Doors abruptly shut down itsChicago factory, giving the boot to 250union workers. Republic officials said thatBank of America had yanked their financing,so, with only three days’ notice, the workerswere shown the door, their health coveragewas canceled, and they were denied the severanceand vacation pay they were owed.Next came surprising news. The workersdidn’t go along with this raw deal. In fact, theydidn’t go at all. For six days, they protested bysimply staying in the factory, refusing to leaveuntil they were paid. Their defiant stand capturedthe public’s imagination, generatingwidespread news coverage and support. Then,some good stuff happened. Bank of America,which had just taken a $34 billion bailoutfrom us taxpayers, couldn’t withstand the publicoutrage that its Chicago terminations generated– so it finally had to give in, shellingout nearly $2 million to cover the pay thebank had taken from these union workers.That’s good, but here comes the greatstuff. In February, a California company calledSerious Materials announced that it hadbought the factory and would soon reopen itto make energy-efficient windows. It thenreached an agreement with the union torehire all of the terminated workers at theirformer levels of pay. The company, which manufacturessustainable green-building materials,says that it views the skilled, blue-collarworkers in Chicago as terrific assets to help itand the country develop the emerging greeneconomy that President Obama is advancingwith the new economic stimulus plan.So workers win, the environment wins, andthe economy wins. What we have here is ablue-green victory for the red, white, and blue.THE MILKMAN DELIVERSThe most amazing thing to me about RobertHolding, a milkman in Lancashire, England,is not that he was delivering little packetsof marijuana to a few of his elderly customersalong his milk route – but that the Britscan actually still get home delivery of milk!Imagine. Our national Postal Service saysit can’t even keep delivering our mail to ussix days a week, and here’s a 72-year-oldmilkman still schlepping pints of cow juicedoor to door each day.It was his little side business, however, thatprompted British authorities to crack down onHolding. It seems that he would also drop offsmall bits of cannabis to 17 of his clientswho requested the extra service. “They wereold,” he said, “and had aches and pains.” Thecustomers, who were pensioners ranging upto 92 years of age, would leave little notes ontheir stoops alongside their empty bottles,asking, “Can I have an ounce?”Holding, who sold the stuff on the cheapside and apparently was not raking off muchof a profit, felt he was doing a public servicefor the old folks. “They enjoyed it,” he says.“They saved a lot of money while I wasdoing it, and I only did it for a short time.”Indeed, after only six months as a dealer,our Lancashire milkman was ratted out bysomeone. British Bobbies raided Holding’shome, found 6 ounces of the dreaded weed,and arrested him. Alas, while England’s marijuanalaws are not quite as insane as ours,they’re still unforgiving, so he was sentencedto 36 weeks in prison and given a stern lectureabout the “harm” he had been doing byspreading marijuana to the old folks.However, after the scolding, the judgenoted that Holding’s wife has Alzheimer’sdisease and that he visits her every day inthe nursing home, thus the jail time wassuspended – provided, of course, that hedelivers nothing but milk.Imagine the disappointment of hiscustomers.For more information on Jim Hightower’s work – and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter,The Hightower Lowdown – visit www.jimhightower.com. 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NEWSBelieving the ChildrenIn 1992, Fran and Danny Keller were convicted of multiple counts of child sexual abuse at theirOak Hill day care center and sent to prison for 48 years. It’s likely they were innocent. Indeed,it’s very likely that no crime ever occurred – except an absurd and overzealous prosecution.BY JORDAN SMITH PHOTOS BY JANA BIRCHUMWhen the little girl on the witness standsaid, “No, it didn’t happen,” Frances Kellerput her head in her hands and began to sob.It was the second day of what would be asix-day trial of Keller and her husband, Danny,on charges that they’d sexually assaulted ayoung girl, Christina Chaviers, in the summerof 1991, when the 3-year-old was an infrequentdrop-in at their home-based Oak Hillday care. Among the multiple counts wereallegations that Danny had forcibly penetratedChristina with a pen and his penis and thatFran had performed oral sex on Christina andforced the girl to do the same. The chargeswere based on statementsChristina had made, first toher mother, Suzanne Guinne,and then to her therapist,social worker Donna David-Campbell. There was no definitivephysical evidence.On the witness stand, thelittle girl sat on her older sister’slap, chewing on a lollipop.“Did Danny ever touch you ina way you didn’t like?” Assistant DistrictAttorney Judy Shipway asked.“No,” Christina replied.“Did Fran ever touch you [in] a way youdidn’t like?” Shipway asked.“No,” the girl replied.Shipway tried a different approach. DidChristina tell anyone else that Danny had hurther? She did not reply. Shipway asked if Christinawould like to “whisper to me” her answer.“No,” she said.“Christy, when you say no, do you meanyou don’t want to talk about it, or do youmean, no, it didn’t happen?” Shipway asked.“No, it didn’t happen,” Christina repliedonce and then again. “No, it didn’t happen.”“But did you tell somebody it happened?”Shipway asked.“Yes, yes, yes,” she answered.Fran held her head in her hands; all theemotion of the last year and a half welled up.Finally, she thought, everyone in the courtroomhad heard the truth: Nothing had happened.Fran felt a measure of relief – certainly,this whole ordeal would soon be over.But that’s not what happened. Instead, Franand Danny Keller were each convicted of sexuallyassaulting Christina Chaviers, and each“Christy, when you say no, do you mean youdon’t want to talk about it, or do you mean,no, it didn’t happen?” prosecutor Shipwayasked. “No, it didn’t happen,” ChristinaChaviers replied once and then again.“No, it didn’t happen.”was sentenced to 48 years in prison. For theKellers, now 58 and 68, respectively, it waseffectively a life sentence. They’ve since comeup for parole, but neither will acknowledgethe remorse that is a requirement of release –after 17 years, the Kellers still fiercely maintaintheir innocence.And in fact, the Chronicle’s reinvestigationof the Fran’s Day Care case has revealed seriousproblems with the state’s case against theKellers – including questions about the qualityand reliability of the state’s medical evidenceand forensic interviews. Moreover, the sensationalnature of the charges themselves, in aperiod of hysterical national rumors aboutsupposed “satanic ritual abuse” at day carecenters, made it virtually impossible for theKellers to receive a fair or even rational trial.Finally, our investigation has uncovered potentiallyexculpatory evidence that the Kellers’defense attorneys say they were not aware of atthe time of the 1992 trial.In light of the problems with the originalprosecution and this additional evidence,there remain substantive doubts about theKellers’ guilt. Indeed, it’s an open questionnot only whether the Kellers were rightly convicted– but more fundamentally, whether anycrime ever happened at Fran’sDay Care at all.Taking Care of KidsFrances was devastated by thecharges, which she and Dannyvociferously denied. She lovedchildren. She had three of herown, already grown, and shemissed having little ones aroundthe house. In late 1989, Francesdecided to quit her job in the deli at the OakHill H-E-B and to open a day care in herhome just off Highway 71. “My boss was havinga baby, and I told her I was just gettingtired of working, and she asked, if I was goingto quit, would I watch her baby? Well, I’vewatched children … all my life,” Frances, orFran, as the kids called her, told the Chroniclein an interview at the Sycamore Unit of thewomen’s prison in Gatesville.“Even when my kids were little I watchedchildren. And … it just started with her [baby]and then with a couple more. I was in heaven,you know, staying home and taking care ofkids. I just loved it.” She insists consistently tothis day that she would never even think ofhurting a child – and that neither she nor herhusband ever abused Christina Chaviers.Yet following a half-day at the Kellers onAug. 15, 1991, Christina told her mother thatshe didn’t like Danny, because he’d spankedher – just “like daddy” used to, Guinne said incourt. (At the time, Guinne and her husband,Rick Chaviers, were engaged in a bitter divorce.)Mother and daughter were en route to a scheduledappointment with therapist Donna David-Campbell, who had been seeing Christina forseveral months to work on the toddler’s ongoingbehavior problems. By the time Christina’shalf-hour appointment was finished, however,the allegation that Danny had spanked her hadgrown in severity and scope. According to aTravis County Sheriff’s Office report, Guinneand David-Campbell told investigators thatduring the therapy session, Christina toldthem that Danny had penetrated her vaginawith an ink pen on numerous occasions andthat he “‘pee[s] and poops’ on her and itcomes out of his bottom.”In the following weeks, Christina’s allegationsagainst the Kellers became more disturbing andconfounding. By the end of the year, Christinahad said not only that Fran and Danny hadmolested her but that two other people – a darkhairedwoman and a man that looked like countrysinger Kenny Rogers – had also come to theday care to partake in the abuse. She said thatshe’d been poked with needles by the Kellersand that Danny had dug a hole in the back yardand put her in it. She related tales of the Kellerstorturing and killing animals and said that theKellers had murdered, decapitated, and disemboweleda baby. According to case records,all these horrific actions had occurred duringthe 13 times Christina had attended the daycare, without any parent or other adult noticinganything amiss.By the end of 1991, two other childrenbegan to tell similar stories. Vijay Staelin, whowas also seeing therapist David-Campbell, toldDaniel Keller22 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

his mom that Danny had made him eatpoop and drink pee. And Brendan Nash –his mother told the television show AmericanJustice – said the Kellers had held a gun tohis head and forced him to assault his infantsister while they videotaped the abuse.There was little physical evidence to supportthe children’s stories. Christina wasexamined at Brackenridge Hospital theevening she made her first outcry, and theemergency room doctor said that he sawsigns that her outer genitalia were red andthat there was some deformity to herhymen. He concluded that the injuriescould be consistent with sexual abuse butcould not rule out the possibility that therewas another cause – a tentative conclusionthat would turn out to be the only physicalevidence ever provided in the case. Christinaand Brendan were subjected to forensicinterviews by the Sheriff’s Office, but nonewas certainly confirming nor corroboratedby any physical evidence.Most damning at trial was a statementgiven to police nearly a year after Christina’sfirst outcry by an acquaintance of theKellers, Doug Perry, who told investigatorsthat he and his wife, former Travis Co.Precinct 3 Deputy Constable Janise Whiteand her Precinct 3 partner, Raul Quintero,had taken part in abusing the childrenwhile at the Kellers’ house one Friday afternoon.Perry recanted that confession shortlythereafter, however, claiming he’d beencoerced into making it by Texas Rangers.No videotape or photographic evidence ofabuse was ever found, and police neverfound any corpses – animal or human – toback up any of the children’s wilder tales.Nonetheless, a grand jury indicted theKellers in late 1991 for sexually assaultingChristina – and, subsequently, indictedPerry, White, and Quintero on similar charges.Fran and Danny Keller were shocked. “Itwas like a nightmare,” said Fran. “I thinkwith an accusation like this, the presumptionthat you’re guilty is strong.”CONTINUED ON P.24SPRING SPEAKER SERIESSAT, MARCH 282730 South Congress448-2992Please see our websitefor future speaker topics!MIX IT UPURBAN CONTAINER10 AM - Urban Pulse Container Basics11 AM - Urban Pulse Workshop1 PM - Urban Pulse Container DesignGARDENING FORCENTRAL TEXASWITH DAVE MIXwww.GOnursery.comSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE30K-60K-90KTUNE-UPSEXHAUSTCALL FORESTIMATES326-3555www.jeepmasters.com2617 SOUTHFIRST ST.vancouver film schoolis on the road searching for& YOU could win a scholarship!Austin, TXWednesday, April 8 at 6:00pmHilton Garden Inn Downtown500 North IH 35Vancouver Film School is coming toyour area, and we’re offering up to$200,000 in scholarships to talentedand passionate artists. Join us for aninfo session near you, where you’ll:to join the world of entertainmentFind out why VFS is renownedaccepted, and how you couldwin a scholarship.Frances Kellerfor more info and to register: vfs.com/austina u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 23

NEWSBELIEVING THE CHILDREN CONTINUED FROM P.23Traumatic OriginFran and Danny Keller had been marriedabout a year when they moved into a ranchstylebrick home on Thomas Springs Road,northwest of the Y in Oak Hill. They’d beenliving in an apartment, but Fran, a country girlat heart, was eager to find something out oftown. “I like gardens, and I like animals,” shesaid recently. “I just wanted someplace in thecountry.” The couple found the three-bedroomhome owned by Julia Dietz, who hasremained friends with the Kellers. “They werenice people,” she says.The couple leased the home on July 1,1988, and immediately began work on theproperty. Danny, a manager of the county’sPrecinct 3 road crew, put in a stone walkwayto the front door and began clearing cedar inthe back yard, where the couple pastured theirhorse, Fancy Dancer; Fran planted a garden.The couple had been in the home just morethan a year when Fran decided she was tiredof working at the H-E-B. When her formerboss gave birth to a son, Fran began to care forhim while his mother was at work. It wasn’tlong before Fran was taking in other kids,referred to her by friends and neighbors.Eventually, she put a sign up in the front yardadvertising her services. “It was wonderful. Itaught the kids how to garden,” she says, “andwe had a big back yard, and we bought a poolfor the kids. And we had sand all over theyard. … We built one of those big woodengyms. … We had a horse, and [the kids]would take rides on the horse.”By 1991, Danny had retired; he tended theproperty and helped with the kids, takingthem out for rides on the horse or pullingthem in a large wagon behind his riding lawnmower. Teresa Chambers, a former paramedic,says the environment the Kellers had createdwas the main reason she put her two childrenin day care with Fran. “I took a tour of thehouse; it was clean. There was one particularroom that was the kids’ room. There was fishingnet on the wall holding up stuffed animals,”Chambers recalled. She was alsoimpressed by the animals (in addition to thehorse, the Kellers had six doves, a pair ofparakeets, a dog, and a cat) and the garden. “Ithought … this is so cool for kids!” By thesummer of 1991, the Kellers were regularlytaking in between eight and 10 kids each day– including Christina Chaviers and VijayStaelin, both 3, and Brendan Nash, then 5.By all accounts, before she ever spent amoment at the Kellers, Christina was a troubledchild. In the summer of 1991, her parents,Rick and Suzanne, were embroiled in abitter divorce, marked in part, recalls Rick, byaccusations that he had been abusive towardhis wife and toddler daughter. “We were bothevaluated, and [Suzanne] came out as passiveaggressive,and I was a dumbshitwith an average IQ,” he says. ButSuzanne “got to court first andsaid I was abusive and all thatstuff.” (Suzanne Guinne, nowStratton, did not respond to phonecalls or e-mail requesting an interviewfor this story; ChristinaChaviers did not respond to similarrequests.) Guinne, an interiordesigner, told the court that thereason she sought day care forChristina was so she’d have aplace to take her daughter whileshe ran errands related to the divorce – tocourt, to see her lawyer, to attend counseling.Christina attended Fran’s Day Care no morethan 13 times; prior to that year, she hadrarely been away from her mother’s side. Atthe same time she began dropping Christinaoff for day care at the Kellers, in May 1991,Guinne began taking her daughter to seeDavid-Campbell.According to the therapist’s testimony atthe Kellers’ trial, Christina’s behaviors wereamong the worst she’d ever seen. Christinahad been “acting out” for months, she said,long before the child began going to Fran’sDay Care. She was violent toward her motherand often bit her; she once tried to jump outJulia Dietzof a moving car; she was behaving like a dog,eating and drinking from a bowl and defecatingin the back yard; she once tried to stab thefamily’s dog with a fork. She was inserting toysinto her vagina – mostly marbles and crayons– and she was already using rough language,including the phrase “butt fuck.” WhetherDavid-Campbell was able to identify the causeof Christina’s behavioral issues or whether herbehavior improved with therapy isn’t clear.(David-Campbell told the court that, by theend of 1992, she’d seen Christina roughly 150times and that Christina’s behaviors wouldwax and wane.) But as the summer of 1991wore on, she said, Christina’s behaviors weredefinitely getting worse.In mid-August, Guinne and David-Campbellsaid later, they believed they hadfound the answer to why Christinawas so ill-behaved. It didn’t explainwhy Christina had been acting outfor so long and in so many differentways, but neither her mother nor hertherapist acknowledged that in court.Instead, they moved quickly to asingle explanation: Christina hadbeen abused at Fran’s Day Care.On Aug. 15, 1991, Guinne pickedChristina up from the Kellers’ atabout 1:30pm, to take her to a 2pmsession with David-Campbell.According to Guinne, she was driving onMoPac toward the therapist’s office whenChristina volunteered that she didn’t likeDanny. “I asked her why,” Guinne testified inNovember 1992. “She said that he hurt her –he had hurt her and pulled her panties downand spanked her and he pooed and peed on herhead.” Guinne said she decided not to ask toomany questions, “because I didn’t know how tohandle that exactly and figured that we weregoing to counseling and that was the best placeto handle all of whatever she had to say.”At the office, David-Campbell brought out apair of anatomically correct dolls for Christina– so she could show the therapist and motherwhat it was that Danny had done. After Dannydefecated on her head, she said, Fran washed itout “with blue shampoo.” Then, she said,Danny “had taken a writing pen and put it upher,” Guinne told the court. Christina thenstarted pointing to the hole on the female dollthat represents a vagina and “started showingus” where the pen had gone. “[W]e asked her,‘One time?’ And she said no,” Guinne said. “Shestarted counting on her fingers, lots of times,started going, ‘One, two, three, four, five.’”That evening at home, Guinne said sheheard Christina crying in the bathroom. Shetold her mother that it “hurts inside” whenshe urinated. Christina kept pointing to hervagina and contorting her labia to make hergenitalia look like “a face.” She said thatDanny had taught her that. Then Christinasaid that there was also “glue” stuck inside her– she said, “Danny took his pee-pee and put itin her hole and got glue all stuck inside and allover her, and it was yucky.” Guinne called thedoctor and rushed Christina to Brackenridge.Dr. Michael Mouw was on duty in the Brackenridge emergency room when Guinne arrivedwith her daughter just after 11pm. In five yearsof medical practice, Mouw had evaluated approximately30 children who were suspected victimsof sexual abuse, but he did not have specializedtraining in that area, he told jurors. Guinne toldMouw that in the previous weeks her daughterhad been “crawling behind furniture and tryingto insert toys into her vagina,” Mouw recalled incourt. Guinne also told him that Christina hadpreviously been abused. Mouw tested for semenbut found nothing. He did, however, find thatChristina’s genitalia were red and noted “whatappeared to be lacerations to the hymen at threeand nine o’clock,” he testified.Could the injuries be “of a traumatic origin?”Assistant District Attorney Bryan Case asked.“Yes,” he said, and could be “consistent”with an allegation of sexual abuse.Under defense questioning, Mouw testifiedthat the injuries could also have been theresult of Christina’s own actions.The SatanicAbuse ScareThe sensational charges against Franand Danny Keller and their home daycare were not unique. By 1992, the yearthe Kellers were tried, about 100 childcareworkers across the country hadbeen charged with ritual sex abuse ofchildren, and 20 day care workers hadbeen convicted in similar cases. Themost notorious concerned the McMartinPreschool in Manhattan Beach, Calif. There, more than 300 childrenwould eventually make statements accusing their teachersnot only of sexually violating them but also of subjecting them tobizarre, ritualistic abuse. Many of the allegations made by childrenin the McMartin case were curiously similar to those that would bemade against the Kellers. In 1990, after a decade in the courtsfor what became the longest and most expensive criminal case inAmerican history, the McMartin defendants were acquitted.But the public hysteria surrounding alleged day care abuse,exemplified and fed by the McMartin prosecution, was still verymuch in the cultural atmosphere. So was a widespread notionthat a vast network of Satanists was intent on corrupting andsexually abusing children and that many of its practitioners couldbe found working in child care. (The cults avoided discovery andprosecution, some claimed, because law enforcement memberswere themselves part of the satanic network. In the Kellers’case, one parent told Texas Monthly writer Gary Cartwright shesuspected longtime District Attorney Ronnie Earle – in partbecause he lived near a goat farm.)Partly for this reason, the allegations made by the childrenagainst the Kellers were hardly tested at all. Apparently, theprosecutors and some of the police investigators believed atleast some of the wildest allegations – specifically, that therewas cult abuse at work.Satanic ritual abuse is a fictional pop-culture archetype – mostlyin horror movies – but it was widely introduced to the public as areal, hidden conspiracy with the 1980 publication of the bookMichelle Remem bers. The co-authors, Canadian psychiatristLawrence Pazder and a longtime patient of his, Michelle Smith(whom Pazder later married), recount the therapy that led to herpurportedly “remembering” that she had been abused in the 1950sby her mother and other members of a “satanic cult” in BritishColumbia. The book has since been exposed as a hoax by severalresearchers, but at the time, its revelations – including the notionthat there was a widespread cult of Satanists torturing and sexuallyabusing children – caught public attention and fed the fears of parentswho, with many women now in the workplace, were increasinglyleaving their children in the care of others during the day. Thenotion of a powerful, underground cult of Satanists convinced manyparents, therapists, and credulous prosecutors, leading to a seriesof satanic ritual abuse-related child-care cases, beginning with thenotorious McMartin case. By the time of the allegations against theKellers, the satanic ritual abuse script for child abuse was alreadywell established and had not yet met much meaningful challenge.An excellent history of the satanic ritual abuse panic is Satan’sSilence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American WitchHunt, by Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker (Basic Books, 336pp., 1995). For more information on people wrongly accused orconvicted of crimes against children, visit the website of theNational Center for Reason and Justice, www.ncrj.org. – J.S.24 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

Sgt. LarryOliver“We heard from the kidsthat they dug up a bodyat the cemetery.”– APD investigatorSgt. Larry OliverBad WitnessesRoger Wade, now the affable spokesmanfor the Travis Co. Sheriff’s Office, was thedepartment’s only child abuse investigatorat the time. When he arrived at work onAug. 16, 1991, there was a new case waitingfor him: an allegation that Christina Chaviershad been sexually abused at Fran’s DayCare. Immediately, Wade thought of theMcMartin Preschool case, a notorious daycare abuse case in California that haddragged on for a decade – he did not wantthat to happen here. “My greatest fear wasthat it would turn into a long, drawn-outMcMartin case. I didn’t want that to happen;I wanted to do it right,” he recently recalled.(See “The Satanic Abuse Scare,” left.)Wade set out to investigate. He visitedChristina, her mother, and therapist David-Campbell that day and called in one of theTCSO’s video interviewers, Karen Knox, tosit down with Christina for a forensic interview– a 13-minute session that produced,at best, mixed results. Under Knox’s urging,Christina, at one point, said thatDanny had touched her with his penis, butseveral minutes later said that Danny hadneither touched nor hurt her. (See “Childrenand Testimony,” p.26.)CONTINUED ON P.26Production SponsorsThe Studio Theater ProjectAn intimate evening in the casualenvironment of our downtown theater.Mar 26-Apr 5, 2009AustinVentures StudioTheaterLeft Unsaid (Austin Premiere)Choreography by: Nicolo Fonte | Music by: J.S. BachSongs of Innuendo (World Premiere)Choreography by: Stephen MillsMusic by: James Brown, Ray Charles and Aretha FranklinTickets starting at $25!Visit www.balletaustin.orgor call 476.2163Best prices and seating always available by ordering online!Season UnderwriterPromotional SponsorSeason SponsorsMedia Sponsors2008 Impreza 2.5i Sedanwith Auto-dimming mirror with compass$15,418+TT&L27MPGEST. HWY.MSRP $17,832. Stk# Z31302009 Forester 2.5xMotor Trend’s 2009 Sport/Utility of the YearAuto-dimming mirror with compass, Tailpipe covers,Cargo cover, Cargo tray, Splash guards$19,341+TT&LOR26MPGEST. HWY.TT&L TOTAL DUE AT LEASESIGNING9FA. WITH APPROVED CREDIT.$288ModelDEALER CONTRIBUTION MAY AFFECTFINAL NEGOTIATED PRICE. 36 MOLEASE, $288 + TT&L TOTAL DUE ATPER MONTH / 36 MO. LEASE INCEPTION, NO SEC. DEP. REQUIRED,36 MONTHLY PAYMENTS OF $288,FINAL PYMT / RESIDUAL = $12,788. BASED ON 10K MI. / YR WITH $.15 PER MI.EXCESS CHARGE. MSRP $21,314. Stk# Z2970APRFinancing**Available on allremaining new2008 Subarusin stockFREECAR WASHFOR LIFEwith new Subarupurchase.Available on purchased Subarus only.All lease payments include tax credits while supplies last. *Based on 2008 model year EPAcombined estimated fuel economy for AWD and 4WD. Subaru average EPA city estimate is18.8 mpg and highway estimate is 25.1 mpg. Actual mileage may vary. **WITH APPROVEDCREDIT ON SELECT TERMS IN LIEU OF ANY OTHER OFFER. DEALER PARTICIPATION MAY AFFECTFINAL NEGOTIATED PRICE. ALL PICTURES FOR ILLUSTRATION ONLY. OFFERS EXPIRE 3/31/09.SUBARUOF GEORGETOWNONLY 15 MINUTES FROM AUSTIN7501 S IH-35 - EXIT 257(512) 930-2111FOR MORE SPECIALS VISITwww.subarugeorgetown.comSALES: M-F 8:30 - 8:00, Sat 9:00 - 8:00SERVICE: Open on Sat 9:00-4:00a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 25

Wade called in a state child-care licensinginvestigator, and the pair went to visit Fran andDanny. They told them there had been an allegationof sexual abuse; the couple denied anywrongdoing. Moreover, Fran told Wade heshould be wary of any allegations coming fromChristina, because she was a troubled girl whomshe’d caught in several small lies. Wade toldDanny there was medical evidence that showedthe girl had been molested. Danny again deniedhe’d done anything and “continued to say thathe did not abuse any kids and that anyone whowould should be shot and put out of their misery,”Wade wrote in his report. Wade and thelicensing investigator advised the Kellers thatDanny should have no contact with the childrenwhile the investigation was ongoing.Five days later, Wade got a call from David-Campbell, who told him that during theirsession that day, Christina had picked up theanatomically correct dolls, undressed them,and then demonstrated how Danny had penetratedher with his penis. Moreover, David-Campbell said that Christina was now sayingthat Fran had performed oral sex on her andhad forced her to perform the same on Fran.NEWS BELIEVING THE CHILDREN CONTINUED FROM P.25 ing that Vijay told her the Kellers had madeChildren and TestimonyThere is a growing body of psychological research reflectingthat children can easily be led to make up stories, often with thehelp of inexperienced or credulous interviewers. Much of thatresearch did not fully develop until the mid-Nineties, after theKellers’ trial and conviction. “Until the 1980s, the common wisdomamong experienced professionals was that [children] werefairly suggestible and that you had to be careful in questioningthem,” says James Wood, UT-El Paso psychology professor andexpert in children’s suggestibility. “That was clinical lore, basically.There were a few studies … but there was not a dense clinicalliterature on children’s suggestibility.”In the Eighties, Wood says, the field was bombarded by a“propaganda blitz” from the “Believe the Children” movement.The thinking was that “children don’t lie to get into trouble; theylie to get out of trouble,” he said. “And it mainly came from thesocial workers; that’s where it got started.” The lore became thatchildren were too frightened to tell about abuse and that socialworkers – with little training in child development – needed touse “vigorous methods to get kids to talk.” For nearly a decade,he said, “you had these so-called experts, without a scientificbasis, promoting … crappy interviewing.”It was during the Believe the Children years that stories of ritualabuse at day care centers swept the country. By the time the Kellerswere tried, 20 day care workers had been convicted of abusing childrenin their care – and nearly every case involved accusations similarto those in the Keller case. In subsequent years, all but threehave been released, most because their convictions were overturned.Two of the three still incarcerated are Fran and Danny Keller.Some so-called experts explained the similarities among the allegationsas evidence that there was indeed a vast network of cultiststhat had infiltrated the nation’s child-care system. Wood and otherresearchers believe the similarities have a far less fantastic origin:poor interviewing and therapy techniques undertaken by therapistswho either believed or were caught up in the sensational concept ofritual abuse and allowed that to affect their interactions with childrenthey were interviewing. In short, in many instances, the therapistswere the actual sources of the stories the children told.There is a research-confirmed formula for eliciting false storiesfrom children, says Wood. First, the interviewer motivatesthe children to talk by offering either positive or negative feedbackand consequences and then “introduces information” thateffectively suggests what they want to hear.“The McMartin [therapists] pioneered that,” said Wood. “Theylearned how to make kids make false statements.” Moreover, thenumber and type of allegations increase when children are repeatedlyinterviewed – by law enforcement, therapists, and parentswho are alarmed by the possibility that their children might havebeen molested. “They’re frightened, right?” says Wood. “You getthe parents urgent enough, and they think [the child is] holdingback, and they just keep prying and prying, and they won’t take nofor an answer. And eventually, the little kid gives it to them.”That is exactly what Wood believes happened in the Kellercase. Wood reviewed the videotaped interviews of ChristinaChav iers and Brendan Nash conducted by the Travis CountySheriff’s Office and portions of trial testimony – including that ofChristina’s mother, Suzanne Guinne, and therapist Donna David-Campbell. What he found, he said, was very disturbing – particularlythe three recorded interviews with Christina. In those sessions,conducted in August 1991 at the Sheriff’s Office, Woodfound a laundry list of the interviewing techniques that researchersknow increase the likelihood that a child will make falsestatements. “For a little girl it was … highly suggestive anddidn’t shed much light on whether she’d been abused,” Woodsaid. “It looks very much like they did not know how to avoidsuggestive questioning. There is a huge amount of contamination.That’s a huge cause for concern.”From the start of the very first interview with Christina, forexample, TCSO examiner Karen Knox provides a negative “stereotypeinduction,” linking bad things happening at Fran’s DayCare to Danny and a penis. When Christina denies that Dannyever hurt her, Knox follows up by asking whether Danny had toldher not to say that he’d touched her. Shortly thereafter, she asksChristina how many times Danny touched her with his penis.Wood says that this initial interview quickly diminishes the likelihoodthat police would ever receive an honest or accuratereport. Instead of asking Christina questions designed to elicither independent account of life at the day care, Knox introducesa narrative for Christina to follow.The pressure on Christina increases during the second interview,with Ester Vela, when Guinne tries to convince her daughterUT-El Paso psychologyprofessor James Woodto talk. Christina is the “biggest girl,” her mother says, and shemust help “save the other kids and protect them” because what“Fran and Danny did was very, very, very mean. And it hurts people.And you’re the only one that can keep people from gettinghurt.” And when Christina finishes telling Vela her story, hermother says she can have some candy. “This is a very powerfulmotivator for children,” said Wood. “The scientific researchshows that can lead to false statements: ‘There’s candy,’ and,‘You can help.’ These are two powerful motivators.”Finally, in her third interview with the Sheriff’s Office, a fidgetyChristina is told by Knox that she needs to sit still, pay attention,and answer Knox’s questions; finally Knox even holds still Christina’shands and feet to induce her to cooperate and agree thatDanny abused her. Knox’s physicality is one “major reason whythese are terrible interviews,” said Wood. “Clearly the interviewis a power relationship,” he concluded. “I can and will make youdo what I want, and one thing I want you to do is make accusations.”(Knox could not be reached for comment.)Moreover, Knox appears to ignore each of Christina’s responsesdenying that any abuse has occurred – and there are dozensof such negative responses throughout the three interviews.There are more subtle signs, which Knox ignores, like Christina’sseveral baffled “What’s this?” responses when she first seespubic hair on the adult doll. “It’s called confirmation bias,” saysWood. “You are just trying to confirm what you already believe tobe true, instead of objectively gathering information to determineif something is true. There is no hypothesis testing here.” – J.S.Christina’s story was “believable,” David-Campbell offered, “and she has no doubt thatthe sexual abuse took place,” Wade wrote inhis report. The therapist also said that she hada new patient, Vijay Staelin, who was also achild in day care at the Kellers’ – if shethought the child had been abused at Fran’s,she told Wade, she’d be sure to call.Wade brought Christina back to the officefor a second interview, this time to discuss theallegations regarding Fran. But Christinarefused to talk with the interviewer, Ester Vela,who was filling in for Knox; Christina left theinterview room several times, pretended to beasleep, and tried to convince Vela to let herwatch TV. Vela ended the interview, and Wadedecided to reschedule the meeting after Knoxreturned from vacation.But Wade’s straightforward investigationsoon began to go sideways. Vijay’s father, EarlStaelin, called to say his son was acting strangely– crawling around on the floor when healready knew how to walk, for example. And, hesaid, Vijay was coming home “exhausted afterjust a half day at Fran’s.” Indeed, Earl told theChronicle that he and his wife began to suspectthat Vijay was being drugged by the Kellers. Hiswife, Carol Staelin, “observed that he’d come[home] like he had been drugged, with ringsaround his eyes,” he recently recalled.As the investigation moved into the fall,allegations against the Kellers began to accumulate.Sandra Nash called to say that her5-year-old son, Brendan, told his therapistthat there were “secrets at Fran and Danny’shouse.” The day care was officially shut downin September, pending the outcome of theinvestigation, and Wade began getting regularphone calls from the parents of all three children,wanting to fill him in on allegations theirchildren were making during therapy sessionsand at home under questioning by their parents.In early October, Carol called to say thatVijay said “pee pee on hair” and that Dannydid it; later, she said, Vijay told her that Dannyhad put a rope around all the kids’ necks andsaid he would “cut off [Vijay’s] head with aknife” if he told “any secrets.” Suzanne Guinnecalled to tell Wade that Christina said theKellers had poked her legs with needles –Guinne also now thought the kids may havebeen drugged. Carol Staelin called again, say-him drink “pee” and eat “poo”; in a subsequentcall, she told Wade that Vijay reportedthat Danny had killed the Kellers’ dog. Wadeassured her that he’d seen the dog when hewas at the Kellers’ house and that he was“very much alive.”In mid-October, David-Campbell called tosay that Vijay and Christina were now tellingher similar stories about the Kellers abusinganimals – stomping on cats, sticking themwith pens, and putting them in bags and tossingthem in a Dumpster. And, she said, she’dcome to the conclusion that the children mayhave been victims of “ritual abuse” at the daycare. Later, Wade said, the therapist said theabuse might have been “satanic.”The allegations against the couple, Wade saidrecently, kept coming, each more elaborate thanthe last. The children said the Kellers took thekids on plane rides, dug up bodies at a cemetery,made them drink Kool-Aid infused withblood, killed a baby, and tortured several smallanimals. The Kellers “had chopping knives,and they tied [Brendan’s] arm down and toldhim to lay with his arm out and to close his26 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

eyes, and they made a big chop down withthe knife,” Sandra Nash told the televisionshow American Justice in 1993. “And theytold him not to look, that Daniel Keller hadchopped off his arm, [and] that they took outthe bone and they put … Satan’s bone” in itsplace. (Sean and Sandra Nash did not respondto an interview request. Brendan Nash couldnot be reached.)All of these elaborate abuses, the childrensaid, happened at the Kellers’ day care – aplace where parents (and often neighbors)dropped by at all different times of the day.Wade was becoming increasingly skeptical.He began to question David-Campbell’smethods and expertise. “That was one of thethings about this case. … To me it appearedshe was … someoneunfamiliar with forensicinterviewing,” Wade saidrecently. “I was continuallytrying to figure outhow the little girl would’vecome up with [these stories].As we got furtherinto the case and I startedtalking to the therapist,”Wade began to suspectthat some of the storieswere coming from her. Hecontinued, “You can aska child a certain thing acertain way, and they’llsay, ‘yes.’ And you can ask a certain thing adifferent way, and they’ll say, ‘no.’” (David-Campbell did not respond to phone callsrequesting an interview for this story.)Wade was also concerned that the children’sparents had (perhaps unwittingly)influenced their children by repeatedly questioningthem about what bad things happenedat day care. The investigation wasbeginning to look more and more like theMcMartin fiasco. Indeed, many of the allegationsby the children from Fran’s Day Carewere eerily similar to those made by childrenin the McMartin case. In that case, a numberof the children, now adults, have come forwardto say that the allegations they madewere not true. Notably, in a 2005 Los AngelesTimes story, former McMartin child KyleZirpolo said that he’d made up stories after“I was scaredbecause the officerswere not believing me,so I started makingup a story. I basicallystarted telling themwhat I thought theywanted to hear.”– Doug Perrystrenuous and repeated questioning by therapistsand parents who simply wouldn’t accepthis early assurances that no abuse had takenplace. “It was an ordeal,” he told journalistDebbie Nathan. “I remember thinking tomyself, ‘I’m not going to get out of hereunless I tell them what they want to hear.’”Wade said dealing with the parentsinvolved in the Keller case was frustrating. Toan adult, for example, Christina’s allegationthat Danny had put “glue” into her mightsound damning, but Wade wondered whereshe might have come up with that language.He asked Christina’s mother. Actually,Guinne told him, Christina “had been playingwith glue at the house” that night beforetelling her mother “that Danny put glueinside of her,” Wadewrote in his report.“Suzanne said shethought that [Christina]just put the two together.”But Guinne insistedshe never told Christinato “say anything” andhad “no reason to ‘get’”the Kellers.When other parentsbegan calling him,Wade asked Guinnewhether she’d had anycontact with anyonefrom the day care sincereporting the alleged abuse. Guinne told himshe’d “purposely” stayed away from theother children but that she had called theparents to tell them about the allegations ofabuse and that they might not want to taketheir kids there. During October 1991, Wadeadmonished her on at least two occasionsnot to contact the other parents – whethershe heeded his advice is unclear. “It wasrather frustrating when you have parents thatare connected to each other … that reallywant to get together and compare notes, butI tried to discourage that because it madethem bad witnesses,” said Wade. “I was gettingfrustrated with the whole case. And thelonger it went on, the more embellishmentswere coming from the kids. Part of the problemwas that … the kids were going to theCONTINUED ON P.28DONATE YOUR CAR TODAY!Keep Austin WeirdSupport Local CharitiesTheTMOASISLake TravisLIVE MUSIC AT THE OASIS!FIVE nights a week on The Starlight Terrace7PM to 10PM Wed-Sun … rain or shine!Wed. 3/25 GABE NIETO Thur. 3/26 TED LONG & THE 7-1-6ersFri. 3/27 THIRD LANGUAGE Sat. 3/28 TWO TONS OF STEEL Sun. 3/29 THE BREWGreat Food, Perfect Margaritas, & FREE dance lessons on Wed. and Sun. evenings!a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 27

NEWSBELIEVING THE CHILDREN CONTINUED FROM P.27same counselor.” The other problem, he feltsure, was that the parents were urging theirkids to reveal more details – and as it was withMcMartin, Wade feels certain that was theorigin of many of the allegations. Many yearslater, Wade believes that some abuse hadtaken place – but that the wild tales made itimpossible to determine the nature or extentof any actual abuse. “Overzealous parents andtherapists who wanted more information,” hesaid. “I think [they were pushing the kids] tryingto get them to talk, and the kids wereexpanding on things to get them to be quiet.”Graveyard RitualsThat’s not how prosecutors Case and Shipwaysaw things. “I think kids are pretty easilyintimidated, and they don’t always understandwhat is going on,” said Shipway. While some ofthe allegations might sound wild, she and Casebelieve they were actually the result of consciousactions by the Kellers that were designedto scare the kids. For example, said Shipway,one of the allegations Christina made was thatthe Kellers had threatened to throw her to thesharks. “Well, we didn’t know where that camefrom” until the end of the trial, when a witnessmentioned that the Kellers had small blow-upsharks in the backyard pool. “So you could seehow somebody says, ‘You [tell], and we’regoing to throw you in with the sharks,’” shesaid. “Because she’s real young.” Case agrees:“That’s pretty common. And sometimes thethreats are strange. … That wouldn’t makesense to an adult, because an adult would say,well, a person could never do that,” he said.“But nevertheless, that could intimidate achild.” Overall, the prosecutors say, the children’sallegations were believable.Wade still wasn’t convinced, but then thecase shifted in yet a different direction.According to Christina, the Kellers had helpabusing the children from a dark-haired womanand a man that looked like Kenny Rogers. As itturns out, Danny Keller was a longtime friendof Precinct 3 Deputy Constable Janise White,and it wasn’t long before White and her partner,Raul Quintero, were in the investigativespotlight. Wade, who was close to White,didn’t feel that he could go any further with thecase, which is what he told Rosemary Lehmberg,then head of the D.A.’s child abuse divisionand recently elected Travis Co. D.A. “We all satdown, and I said, ‘I’ve gone as far as I want togo, as far as I can go,’” Wade said.As a result, to avoid potential conflicts, thecase was moved to the Austin PoliceDepartment, where then-Sgt. Larry Oliver wasone of two officers who took up the investigation.Oliver’s job was to get to know the kidsand their families. “I’m dealing with the kids,”he said, “not … the bad guys.” The familieswere suspicious of him at first, he recalled,because they didn’t think the Sheriff’s Officehad taken their stories seriously.Oliver did. “My job was to establish trust sothat I could interview the kids.” He met withChristina and her mother at the Oak HillMcDonald’s and went on drives in the area,during which the little girl would point outplaces she said she’d been taken by theKellers. “We heard from the kids that they’ddug up a body at the cemetery,” Oliverrecalled. So he took Christina to a small privatecemetery just down the road from theKellers’ home. To Oliver it seemed clear thatChristina had been there before – moreover,he said, there was at least one grave site therethat “looked like” it had been disturbed. “Iwalked around with a video camera; shewalked around and said, ‘Yes, we’d been here,and we did this,’” he said. At the Kellers’ trial,police witnesses revealed that they’d even hada Department of Public Safety helicopter flyover the cemetery with an infrared camera,looking for a heat signature that would confirmthat a grave had been disturbed. Casetold American Justice that he too had seendisturbed graves at the cemetery – includingone from 1970 that had fresh dirt on it.Asked recently about this history, a cemeteryrepresentative told the Chronicle that thepolice had indeed been to the site askingquestions, and they were told that there was asimple explanation for the grave that lookeddisturbed: A man had been buried there withouta concrete vault, and his coffin kept sinking,so the man’s son often added dirt to thesite. “It was a continuous thing,” the cemeteryrepresentative said. “There was nothing goingon there.” Although the police supposedly hadthis information, Danny Keller’s defense attorneyDain Whitworth said it was not disclosedto the defense. “We never got it,” he said.Knowing that information, Whitworth added,would have helped the defense counter thesensational testimony, suggested the children’saccusations were unreliable, or evenprevented the state from introducing thatentire line of testimony.Case said that Shipway recently reviewedthe APD reports and found no mention ofanyone from the cemetery telling police abouta reason that fresh dirt would be used on thegrave. She asked APD’s Oliver if he had anyindependent recollection of that exchange,Case wrote, but Oliver said that “no one toldhim that anyone had been pouring earth onany of the graves as maintenance.” In fact,while Oliver did record details of visiting thecemetery in his report, there’s no indicationthere that anyone from the department eversought out the cemetery owners to inquireabout the possibility that graves had beendisturbed. That entire line of investigation, itseems, was ignored.The state’s case against the Kellers wasstrong enough to secure indictments againstthe couple and, eventually, against deputycon stables White and Quintero, thanks inlarge part to a “confession” provided to TexasRangers by White’s ex-husband, Doug Perry.White was a good friend of Danny Keller’s,and after she and Perry married, the two couplessocialized regularly. Nearly a year after theinvestigation began, Texas Rangers questionedPerry at the DPS offices. After four hours ofquestioning, he signed a confession, saying hehad participated in a “beer and sex party” (asit was described in news reports) with the“And they told him not to look, that Daniel Keller hadchopped off his arm, [and] that they took out the boneand they put … Satan’s bone” in its place.– Sandra Nash on American JusticeThe private Oak Hill cemetery where investigators alleged that children were taken by the KellersKellers, White, and Quintero, where the adultstook turns abusing Christina and Brendan,whom Perry identified only after the Rangersshowed him video of the two children. Whitesupposedly took pictures of the incident,which Perry said he’d seen.Within weeks, however, Perry recanted, sayingthat the Rangers had coerced him intomaking the statement. He said they had toldPerry there were several witnesses who said hehad been at the day care. “At this time I startedgiving them the first statement,” Perry wrotein an August 1992 affidavit. “I was scaredbecause the officers were not believing me soI started making up a story. I basically startedtelling them what I thought they wanted tohear.” Notably, the Rangers made no audio orvideo recording of Perry’s interview. His confessionwas graphic but not particularly compellingin detail. What details there were,Perry said, were gleaned from informationcontained in a TCSO report that White hadbrought home. (White later denied ever readingthe report.)The prosecutors did not – and do not –believe Perry’s recantation. “I don’t think weput too much stock in the recantation,” saidCase, in part because it is not uncommon forsuspects to recant – particularly in universallyunsavory child sex-abuse cases. But it is alsonot uncommon for innocent people to confessto notorious crimes – it’s one of the reasonsinvestigators withhold significant details thatonly the actual offender would know.Wade does not believe Perry’s confession atall. “I never understood why he would confess,when, obviously, he didn’t have anyinvolvement and none of that happened,” hesaid. “It came out afterward that [White andQuintero] had nothing to do with it.” After theKellers were convicted, the D.A.’s officedropped the charges against White andQuintero. Perry was never tried but pled guiltyand was sentenced to 10 years probation. He’snow in prison for failing to keep current hissex offender registration.The Keller prosecutors dismiss Perry’s assertionthat he’d repeated details from the TCSOreport, but Wade believes that was preciselythe source of Perry’s information. Wade said anumber of TCSO employees were logging onto the department computers to read Wade’sreports, and he was alerted by a clerk thatWhite, a former deputy, was among them. Itgot so bad, he said, that for a while he stoppedentering any information into the computer.Attorney Joe Turner, who represented Quintero,said that Perry’s confession was not at allbelievable and that it calls into question thecase against the Kellers. If the case was sostrong without Perry’s confession and if thestate was sure about the stories the childrenwere telling them, why were the chargesagainst his client dropped? “If [Christina] isnot believed on my case, how is [she] believablein a case that ends up with people servingtime in prison?” he asks. “Anybody looking atit would have to question” that. (In a letter tothe Chronicle, Perry insisted that his confessionwas coerced. “I wish that I could changeeverything, but I can’t,” he wrote. “I’m onlyhoping that the Kellers will find it in theirhearts to forgive me.”)Although Perry had recanted, Shipway andCase successfully argued to District JudgeWilliam Flowers that he should be compelledto testify – and when he said on the stand thathe had not abused the children and that theKellers did not either, they were able to introducehis confession as a means of impeachinghis testimony. Defense attorney Whitworthargued that it was improper for the state to calla witness only to impeach him. Flowers allowedthe questionable testimony to go forward butapproved a jury charge instructing jurors not togive evidentiary weight to any impeachmenttestimony affecting a witness’ credibility.The damage, however, had been done, saidWhitworth. One juror, a University of Texasprofessor who spoke to the Chronicle but askednot to be identified by name, was convincedduring the trial that the Kellers were being28 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

subjected to a witch hunt, as part of thenational wave of sensational day care abusecases. That was until Perry took the stand. Afinal holdout, the juror recalls ultimatelyvoting for conviction because of Perry’sintroduced confession – once it was outthere, how could the jury be expected toignore it? Still, the juror had serious qualmsabout the evidence – and after the verdictwas read, fled to the bathroom and wept.Satan’s Arm BoneProsecutor Case insists that the state didnot rely solely on Perry’s confession for itsconviction. What “cinched” the case, Casesaid recently, was the testimony of BrendanNash. Brendan spoke to jurors via closedcircuitTV and was very vocal about all thethings he said happened at “hate care.” Hesaid he’d seen Fran and Danny abuseChristina and that the couple had taken thekids to a “graveyard and dug up this body.”They made Christina carry all the bonesthat they dug up, he said.Yet Brendan’s testimony at trial departedstrikingly from what he told TCSO interviewerEster Vela during his first interviewin 1991. There, Brendan said that he didknow that there were some things thatDanny did that were wrong – he took out achain saw to cut down trees in the backyard; he allowed Brendan to ride on thelawn mower; he had two guns in the house,a pistol and a shotgun; and he let Brendanride in the pickup truck to get hay for thehorse, Fancy Dancer. When Vela asked ifBrendan knew about Christina getting hurt,he said he knew she had and said that“Danny could’ve been the one that did it.”But he said he liked the day care and thatno one had ever touched him improperly.When Vela asked if he had any secretsabout day care, he said no. “Are you tellingme what really happened over at Fran andDanny’s house?” Vela asked.“Yes,” he said.It’s not surprising that Brendan did notmake any allegations during his first forensicinterview, insists Case, because it is not“unusual” for kids not to open up aboutabuse the first time around. “It would take along time, because a child of those yearsmight be very uncomfortable and uneasy withit.” Case said that it wasn’t until right beforethe start of the trial that Brendan finallyacknowledged what happened at day care,and in fact, Case said that he was the one towhom Brendan opened up, during an interviewin his office on a Sunday afternoon.Case did not record that interview.“Frankly, it never crossed my mind torecord him,” he said – but, in retrospect,he said he wished he had done so, “becauseyour hair would stand up too if you heard”what Brendan had to say. Case said thatBrendan said the Kellers had performed aritual on him in which they said theyreplaced his arm with the arm bone ofSatan. When asked at trial why he didn’tCONTINUED ON P.30DSHS#7882 and Abortion Pill Abortion CareHere, it’s all about you.512-443-2888austinwomenshealth.com Convenient local office Convenient Money-saving local local discounts office Money-saving Low down payments discounts Low Low Monthly down paymentsplans Monthly 24-hour payment service and plansclaims 24-hour service and and claims732-2211 ext. 39041 Research Blvd. Suite 240Austin(Hwy 183 at Burnet Rd., above Black-Eyed Pea)Home, renters, and boat coverages are written through non-affiliated insurancecompanies and are secured through Insurance Counselors Inc, the GEICO Property Agency.Some Home,Home,discounts, renters,renters,coverages, andandboatboatcoveragescoveragespayment plans, arearewrittenwrittenand features throughthroughare non-affiliatednon-affiliatednot available insuranceinsuranceall states orcompaniescompaniesin all GEICO andandcompanies. arearesecuredsecured© throughthrough2007 GEICO. InsuranceInsuranceThe CounselorsCounselorsGEICO gecko Inc,Inc,the imagetheGEICOGEICO© GEICO PropertyProperty1999-2007 Agency.Agency.SomeSomediscounts,discounts,coverages,coverages,paymentpaymentplans,plans,andandfeaturesfeaturesarearenotnotavailableavailableininallallstatesstatesororininallallGEICOGEICOcompanies.companies.© 20072007GEICO.GEICO.TheTheGEICOGEICOgeckogeckoimageimage©©GEICOGEICO1999-20071999-2007 When youPay cash atthe time of the sale(cash, credit card, check)* Limited time offer LegeLandIt’s our Capitol.The Legislature’sjust borrowing it.Visit austinchronicle.com/legelandfor breaking news and in-depth analysisfrom the House and Senate fl oors.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 29

NEWSBELIEVING THE CHILDREN CONTINUED FROM P.29tell Vela what had happened with Christina,Brendan said that was “because Fran andDanny … gave us these drugs that won’tmake us remember … very long.” He knewhe’d been drugged, he said, because “Godtold me.”Defense attorney Whitworth cross-examinedBrendan. “How many times have yourmommy and daddy talked to you about all ofthis?” he asked Brendan. “Well, I have tocount that one,” he said. Brendan said that inaddition to talking with the prosecutors,police, and a therapist, he’d talked with hisparents 21 times about the Kellers’ day care.Case says he tried to determine whetheranyone had been suggesting things to Brendan,but the child’s mother, Sandra Nash, insistedshe had not. “I mean, you know, could peoplebe pulling the wool over our eyes?” Caseasked. “They could, yeah, theoretically.”Ultimately, he does not believe that a childwould make these things up. That belief wasshared by APD’s investigator Larry Oliver and,especially, therapist David-Campbell, who toldjurors that children simplydon’t create storiesout of whole cloth. “Witha child … they don’t havethe cognitive, the mentalabilities to make up storiesunless they have seensomething or if a storyhas been read to them,”David-Campbell said.In fact, there is a growingbody of psychologicalresearch reflecting that,essentially, the opposite istrue – that children caneasily be led to make upstories and even come tobelieve those stories –often with the help ofinexperienced or credulousinterviewers. Moreover, experts on theforensic interviewing of children say that therecorded Keller case interviews are primeexamples of poor technique and manufacturedtestimony – effectively useless as evidence.(See “Children and Testimony,” p.26.)‘Your Case Is Incredible’Veteran Austin social worker Vivian Lewis,who began her career as a teacher and ChildProtective Services caseworker (and, eventually,a child interviewer for the Austin Police Department),says she was first shown the interviewtapes from the Keller case by prosecutors. Now,she says, she actually uses them in seminarsacross the country (notably, with Depart mentof Defense child abuse investigators), as examplesof how not to interview children. Theinterviews are rife with “pressure, leading questions,promises of rewards: ‘Tell me whatDanny did’ – really leading questions for a childthat age,” she said. “I don’t know about you,but if you’ve got a surprise for me, I’ll tell youwhatever you want to know.”In fact, Lewis says that after the allegationsof abuse at Fran’s Day Care broke, a number“I was gettingfrustrated with thewhole case. And thelonger it went on, themore embellishmentswere coming fromthe kids. Part of theproblem was that …the kids were going tothe same counselor.”– InvestigatorRoger Wadeof parents of children who’d taken their kidsto the Kellers’ brought their children to Lewis.“I did extensive interviewing. I feel strongly[that] I did not interview any child who hadany [signs of being] abused in their care,” shesaid. “So it was very peculiar to me. I probablyinterviewed eight or nine of those kids, maleand female. The parents brought them to mejust frantic,” she continued. “There was justnothing that I could get out of them.”The fact that the children Lewis independentlyinterviewed showed no signs of abusepiqued her interest about what Christina andBrendan had told prosecutors, so she asked tosee the tapes. What she saw intensified herconcern that the D.A.’s case was withoutmerit, which is exactly what she told Case, shesaid recently. “I said, ‘Your case is incredible.’He said, ‘That means it’s not true.’ I said,‘That’s why I used that word.’” She said sheexplained the problems she found on thetapes, but her concerns were ignored by theD.A.’s office, so Lewis sought out the Kellers’defenders. “I left a message for the defenseattorney, that I was veryconcerned about the videotapes.I never heardback.” Whitworth saysnow he was not aware ofLewis’ involvement, andCase did not respond toadditional questionsregarding Lewis’ account.But in a recent interview,prosecutors said they wereonly aware of one parent– a friend of the Kellers,they said – who came forwardsaying that she didnot believe her childrenhad been abused and thatthe Kellers were innocent.Yet at least one otherparent, Teresa Chambers,who had two children in day care at theKellers’ home, told the Chronicle she alsofound no signs that her children had beenabused. Chambers interviewed Fran Kellerbefore deciding to enroll her kids there; shewas cautious because her older son had previouslybeen physically abused in day careand sustained a serious head injury. She metwith Fran and toured the house before decidingto leave her children there. When theallegations of abuse broke, Chambers saidshe was contacted by investigators who toldher that there was video evidence of abuse. “Iwant[ed] to know if my children are on thosevideotapes. I wanted to know what [police]had, specifically,” she recalled. The investigator,whose name she could not remember,“said, ‘Just assume that all the children atthat day care were abused.’ This is verbatim;I remember it as if it were yesterday.” Shelooked for signs, but never found any.And police never found any photos or videotapeevidence of any abuse.Prosecutors Case and Shipway say theyreviewed the children’s interviews, keeping aneye out for any bias from the interviewers orproblems with suggestive questioning. TheyCOURTESY OF THE KELLERSsaid they found none. “I think they were conductedwell,” said Shipway. “The importantthing was that it was on video. So if it wasleading questions or something was improper,the defense could see that and bring it to thejury.” But if the accusations made on the tapesare the result of flawed interviewing techniques,it becomes difficult, if not impossible,to determine whether Christina (or other children)was actually abused, says James Wood,a psychology professor at the University ofTexas at El Paso and a nationally recognizedexpert in children’s suggestibility and childinterviewing. In other words, it raises questionsabout whether a crime ever happened.Sheriff’s investigator Wade says he felt thatthe parents and therapists were complicit ineliciting the more fantastical allegations fromthe children – allegations he did not believe.And those just got in the way of the basic, firstabuse allegation that Christina made, the onefor which the state had its single piece ofphysical evidence – Dr. Mouw’s report thatChristina might have been sexually abused.That convinced Wade that Christina had beenabused at the day care. “I truly believe therewas some abuse, and I believe Fran and Dannydid it,” he said. “Had we not had the physicalevidence, it wouldn’t be as good a casebecause there would have been … doubt.”Doubtful DiagnosisBut was there really any physical evidenceof abuse?Contacted for this story, Dr. Michael Mouw,who examined Christina at BrackenridgeHospital on Aug. 15, 1991, now says he’s notso sure that what he saw during his genitalexamination was, in fact, abuse. “I’ll be straightuphonest with you, I could’ve been wrongabout [this],” he said. “At the time, in goodfaith, I saw something [I thought] was abnormal”about Christina’s hymen. “However, inretrospect, knowing what I know now, [having]seen more detailed photos” of normalhymens and “knowing how to do exams” withnewer, more precise medical equipment,Mouw said he isn’t at all sure he would comeDanny Keller riding FancyDancer with one of thekids at the day careto the same conclusion. He said he rememberssitting in a presentation several years afterthe Keller case where he was learning aboutadvancements in the understanding of what“normal” genitalia look like “and thinkingback to this case,” he said. Mouw said heremembered being shown pictures of “normalvariants” on the appearance of hymens, “andI remember seeing a picture that kind ofreminded me of that case, and I said, ‘Huh.’ Ihadn’t seen it before, but it was described inthat talk as being normal,” he said. “I thinkthat if I had that case now, I’d probablydecline to [do the exam and would] send it toan expert. And I would decline to testify.”Mouw said he had been unaware, but isconcerned, that his was the only piece ofphysical evidence prosecutors had to back upthe allegation that Christina had been abused.In part, he said, his conclusion might havebeen influenced by the guilt bias that tends toprevail in the emergency room: “In the ER it isalways guilty until proven innocent. I’m serious.My attitude has evolved away from that,”he said. “And I’m always interested in protectingchildren, but I think there is a lot of rushto judgment.” Although Mouw said that hesaw something that night that was not “normalto me,” he might have been wrong. “Thisis my long way of saying that I wouldn’t touchthat [case] with a 10-foot pole now.”Without the physical evidence provided byMouw, the state’s case against the Kellerswould have been seriously weakened. Defenseattorney Whitworth thought the fantastic allegationsof the children – graveyard rituals,airplane flights to Mexico that could not haveoccurred, physically impossible actions –would undercut their believability. It didn’twork that way in court.Instead, prosecutors called to the stand aclinical psychologist and controversial “expert”in satanic ritual abuse. On the stand, psychologistand self-described satanic ritual abuseexpert James Noblitt said that he had reviewedDavid-Campbell’s files on Christina as well asthe video interviews of the children and foundno evidence that anyone was influencing themto make the allegations. Because of the level of30 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

detail in her allegations, Noblitt testified, “Idon’t think it is likely that [Christina] gotthese ideas from any external source.” Hetestified about the “death and rebirth themes”in cult rituals and, without objection from thedefense, laid out his version of the infamousSalem witch trials and described how thiscase was definitely different than those. Inthat situation, “little girls” were describing“fantasy events” that didn’t happen. Here,the children have described real events. “Thisis no witch hunt,” he said.Professor Wood was stunned that Noblitt’stestimony was allowed into evidence: “Austin,you know, has a reputation for being progressiveand an intellectually enlightenedcity. So it is really shocking to learn that aD.A. there put an expert on the stand totestify to the reality of ‘witchcraft’ – satanicritual abuse – and that a judge allowed it intoevidence. … I’ve never seen that on anyother case I’ve been on.”Withheld InformationThe defense was hamstrung at trial andincapable at times of countering such testimony,in part because of their restrictedaccess to critical evidence – such as David-Campbell’s reports, the children’s videos, thepolice reports, and Dr. Mouw’s medicalreport. For example, while the state had theluxury of giving to Noblitt all of the documentsrelated to the case before he testified,the defense had no access to any of thosedocuments until the trial, which meant itsexpert, psychologist George Parker, had fewspecifics to offer the jury about his assessmentof the case. Moreover, the defense wasnot given documents – such as David-Campbell’s therapy notes – until it cametime for them to cross-examine the state’switnesses, which often made their examinationsof the witnesses seem choppy at bestand inevitably incomplete.Whitworth said recentlythat he was frustrated bythe way the D.A.’s officemade information availableto the defense. “Theyhandled it differently thanother cases,” he said. “Onother cases, they alwayshad an open file policy.Here, they’d read parts ofthe file [to the defense],but we never knew whatthey were referring to –you never knew what theywere reading from” or how it fit into the biggerpicture. “They’d read us parts of thereports, but they wouldn’t give us any of thestuff until it was our turn to cross[-examinewitnesses].” As a result, he said, the wholetrial was “what’s going to happen next?”It also appears there was a good deal ofinformation that Whitworth and co-counselLewis Jones simply did not have any accessto during trial or thereafter – informationthat could have cast further doubt on thechildren’s stories.For example, in August 1993, nine monthsafter the Kellers were convicted, BrendanNash’s parents, Sean and Sandra, filed civilsuits against a laundry list of defendants theyclaimed were responsible for their childrenbeing abused at Fran’s Day Care, seeking atotal of $12.5 million in compensation. Inaddition to suing Fran and Danny Keller,Raul Quintero, Janise White, and Doug Perry– in hopes of getting a judgment against theirhomeowners insurance policies – the Nashes’suit cited a host of other defendants, includingthe Kellers’ landlord, Julia Dietz, andothers in the neighborhood: Hillside Barowner Marilyn Cobb, the Oak Hill GymnasticsAcademy, and a man named John Trigg.According to the civil suit records, Brendan(and, likely Christina) had told police theseadditional people had also abused them. TheNashes claimed rituals were held on Dietz’sproperty that “left physical evidence, such asplaces where fires had been, holes in theground, animal bones, and dismemberedchildren’s toys,” and Dietz knew, or shouldhave known, the Nash boy and his infantsister were abused there. They alleged furtherthat the children were taken to the OakHill Gymnastics Academy and to the HillsideBar and were abused there and, finally, thatthey were taken to another private residence,where a man named John Trigg lived, wherethe children were “filmed while being abusedat this property.”Although these broader allegations by thechildren are summarized in the APD investigativereport, the Kellers and their attorneysonly learned of these additional defendantsafter the trial and conviction, when the civilsuits were filed. Indeed, responding to theallegations in the Nash suit, Trigg noted thathe had been identified as a suspect duringthe original police investigation. Accordingto the APD report, on a drive around theneighborhood withpolice, Brendan hadpointed out the homeTrigg had been living inas a place where he hadbeen abused – “badthings” had happenedthere, he said. Accordingto Brendan, Danny hadtaken the children thereand abused them; filmshad been made, and thehouse had been modifiedin some way to “facilitatemaking these films,”Trigg’s attorney wrote in a court document.The court files also reflect that Trigg’s possibleinvolvement was investigated by police,and Trigg was ultimately cleared as not havingbeen involved.Trigg “didn’t know these people; he didn’thave a relationship with any of them,” saidGinny Agnew, Trigg’s attorney. “But because ofthe frenzy of the moment, when the child[pointed out the house Trigg was renting] andsaid something untoward had happened in his“I said, ‘Your case isincredible.’ He said,‘That means it’s nottrue.’ I said, ‘That’swhy I used thatword.’” – APD childinterviewer VivianLewis, on what shetold prosecutorsCONTINUED ON P.33a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 31

Even the FluxIs in FluxBY MICHAEL VENTURANewt Gingrich speaks of President BarackObama’s “European socialism transplantedto Washington” (The New York Times, Feb. 28,p.15). Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of SouthCarolina calls Obama “the world’s best salesmanof socialism,” and presidential hopefulMike Huckabee says of Obama’s policies that“Lenin and Stalin would love this stuff” (TheNew York Times, March 1, p.WK1). HouseMinority Leader John Boehner of Ohio,preening for the 2012 GOP nomination, callsthe stimulus a “down payment on a newAmerican socialism” (Associated Press online,Feb. 28). And the ever more bombastic LouDobbs, plugging his broadcast on CNN’s TheSituation Room (March 17), warns, “Liberalreporters, left-wing writers, and socialist academics– they’re on the loose!”Well, something sure feels loose. Even theflux is in flux.Boehner: “I told my colleagues … [t]heyought to get the idea out of their minds thatthey are legislators. But what they can be iscommunicators” (The New York Times, March14, p.19). In this emergency, theRepublican Party’s congressionalstance is: Contribute nothing.And reject everything. TexasGov. Rick Perry recently “rejected$555 million in federal stimulusmoney that would expandstate unemployment benefits.… Perry’s decision comes despitewarnings from Texas WorkforceCommission Chairman Tom Paukenthat the state’s unemployment compensationtrust fund could be operating at a deficit byOctober” (Associated Press online, March12). Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is doingthe same, though his state “ranks fourthin children living below the poverty line”(The New York Times, March 11, p.WK10).South Carolina has the second highest joblessrate in the country at 10.4% (AssociatedPress online, March 11), but GOP Gov. MarkSanford is rejecting elements of the stimulusand was against its passage, though it “wouldbring South Carolina an estimated $2 billion-3billion” (The Economist, Feb. 14, p.38).Are these Republicans “irrelevant, clownishand childish,” as Frank Rich writes (TheNew York Times, Feb. 1, p.WK9)? Perhaps. Arethey crazy? Maybe. Scared stiff? Absolutely.Rich, in the same article, quotes a Galluppoll showing “only five states (with 20 totalelectoral votes) now lean red in party affiliation.”But Republican politicians who agreewith Rush Limbaugh’s “I hope he fails”verdict on Obama may be doing so out ofcynical calculation.As has been widely documented, whitemale workers are the core voters of thelettersat 3amRepublican Party. In this crisis, “men areexperiencing 82 percent of the recession’sjob losses” (Slate.com, quoted in The Week,March 6, p.14). That’s a staggering number.Its political significance is equally large.The people hurt worst in this crisis are theRepublicans’ core constituency. These arealso the people who will be helped most andfastest by Obama’s stimulus. If Republicanmen substantially benefit from the policies ofa Democratic administration, many will voteaccordingly. Right-wing Republican politiciansare doomed if they allow Obama to helptheir own constituency, so they’re acting toharm their own people – because, paradoxically,that’s their only chance to stay in power.Refuse to legislate. Reject stimuli. To retainwhat clout they have, they do all in theirpower to ensure that their own constituencycontinues to suffer.It may seem like political suicide now, butit won’t if Obama fails. Should his stimulusnot work, Republicans can say, “We told youso.” Then they’ll be the party many turnto in the elections of 2010 and 2012.(A Leninist tactic if ever therewere one.)Not that this is unheardof for a political party. Butour economic crisis makes itfar more stark, and this timepeople seem to be catchingon. “About three-quarters [in arecent New York Times/CBS Newspoll], including 6 in 10 Republicans,said Mr. Obama had been trying to work withRepublicans. But only 3 in 10 Americanssaid Republicans were doing the same. …[Sixty-three] percent … said Republicansopposed the [stimulus] for political reasons,not policy ones. … [Obama’s] job approvalrating of 63 percent includes 88 percentof Democrats and 44 percent of Republicans[my italics]” (The New York Times, Feb. 24,p.1). In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll,“Republicans trailed by more than a 30-pointmargin on the question of which party is bestpositioned to end the recession” (AssociatedPress online, March 8).The other stalwart GOP voting blockhas been evangelicals. Obama won 24%of the white evangelical vote in November(The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2008, p.24).Combine that with surveys showing thatAmerican religiosity is in decline, and yousee more trouble for the GOP. A recent poll“found that most faiths have lost groundsince 1990 and that the fastest growing religiouschoice is ‘None,’ up from 8 percentto 15 percent (which makes it larger thanall denominations except Roman Catholicsand Baptists)” (The New York Times, MarchPEAT DUGGINS15, p.WK12). That article reported “twice asmany Americans have a ‘great deal’ of confidencein the scientific community as do inorganized religion.”Which may be why there was little brouhahawhen Obama reversed Republican policieson stem-cell research and abortion – thoughthat may also be the fruit of Obama’s strategyof confronting all the big issues at the sametime. Deer-in-the-headlights Republicans haveso many things to yell about, it’s hard toprioritize. They’re reduced to ranting aboutsocialists and sounding not quite sane.Politically, Obama’s strategy is Republicanobliteration. “According to an analysis bythe Congressional Budget Office, more than74 percent of the [stimulus] money will bespent within the next 18 months” (The NewYork Times, Feb. 14, p.15). “The boost todemand is backloaded to 2010 and beyond”(The Economist, Feb. 14, p.13). In otherwords, the stimulus plan is designed to bein full swing in time for midterm electionsin 2010. Whether this will ultimately begood economics is questionable for reasonsI’ve not space to go into, but it certainly isgood politics.Obama’s strategy seems to be working“on the ground,” as they say. Chattanooga,Tenn., is just across the border from Georgiaand maybe 30 minutes west and a hopnorth of Alabama. The Chattanooga TimesFree Press is the area’s sole daily newspaper.Something’s going on when a publicationso situated prints this political cartoon, byClay Bennett: a presidential election posteron a brick wall, featuring a smiling RushLimbaugh dressed in a suit, a “Rush” buttonon his lapel. On the poster, in large caps:“HOPE” – and beneath that now-loadedword, in smaller caps, “For Failure” (reprintedin The New York Times, March 8, p.WK2).Hope for Failure.Satirizing Rush Limbaugh on cable andlate-night talk shows is to be expected. WhenLimbaugh is fair game in Chattanooga, changeis afoot.After the mad Republican excesses of theselast eight years, there’s something deliciouslysatisfying about all this. But don’t get carriedaway. We may come to regret that there are sofew intelligent, classically conservative voicesmaking themselves heard – voices to questionhow the Constitution applies to thesenew economic structures and proposals. IfObama’s plans come to fruition, governmentwill have unprecedented influence in housing,banking, insurance, health, and even employment.It’s not socialism, nor capitalism, either,but it does give the government far morepower in many more avenues of daily life –and you never know who’ll be running governmentin several years’ time or how they’lluse that power.Given the present global collapse of capitalism,there are cogent arguments to be madethat this new governmental economics is necessaryfor our well-being, even for our survival.Still. Just because it’s necessary doesn’t meanit’s good.■32 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

NEWSBELIEVING THE CHILDREN CONTINUED FROM P.31house,” he got dragged into the case. Agnewsays the police investigated and cleared Triggbefore the Kellers ever went to trial. That informationshould have been in the police report,and prosecutors certainly should have given itto Whitworth. But it never was, Whitworth said,and it could’ve been extremely valuable for thedefense to know that the children had fingeredother suspects who were cleared by police ofbeing involved in any abuse. “They knew stuffthey did not provide to us,” Whitworth says.Additional information was uncovered byformer Precinct 3 Constable Drew McAngus,who in 1992 worked for the Kellers’ defensecounsel as a private investigator. After the civilcase was filed, he signed an affidavit saying hehad discovered that Nash had made severalallegations that were proven not true, informationthat had not been turned over to thedefense. Whitworth filed a motion with the3rd Court of Appeals,asking it to remand thecase to district court for ahearing on the state’s“failure to disclose exculpatoryevidence.” Thatdid not happen, however,in part because shortlyafter they were convicted,the Kellers fired theirappointed attorneys, optinginstead to representthemselves on appeal.Pain, Suffering,and Legal ProcedureAmong the saddest aspects of their case isthat in the quest to prove their innocence,Fran and Danny Keller may have been theirown worst enemies. When initially indicted,they fled Austin, traveling to Las Vegas to staywith Fran’s daughter. The media had a fieldday, and prosecutors played up the “flight” attrial as an indirect admission of guilt. TheKellers say they acted out of fear and were notin hiding. Neither had been in trouble withthe law before, and they misunderstood theprocess, particularly the bonding process.Fran insists that when she asked their attorney,then Revis Kanak, what they should do,he responded that if he were in that position,he’d leave town. Taking the remark literally,Fran and Danny left, although they were readilytraceable through their relatives. Kanak didnot return phone calls from the Chronicle.(Federal public defender Mike Charlton, whoworked on the Kellers’ case for a while in themid-Nineties, said that when he asked Kanakabout the incident, the lawyer said only thathe didn’t recall making that remark.)The Kellers were also blamed for not showingmore emotion during the trial, with the implicationthat an outraged or shocked demeanorwould have lent credence to their claims ofinnocence. Yet they recall that they were sostunned by the charges they felt as though theywere living in a fog. Fran says she was determinedto present a stoic, unwavering front –looking at the prosecutors would make her“I think that if I hadthat case now, I’dprobably … send it toan expert. And I woulddecline to testify.”– Dr. Michael Mouw, whoexamined Christina atBrackenridge Hospitalangry; looking at the jury would make hersituation too real. “I never looked at thejury,” she recalled last summer, “because Ididn’t want to seem weak. I didn’t want tocry.” Only when Christina took the standon the second day of the Kellers’ trial anddenied that anything bad had happened atday care did Fran break down in tears. Inthe end, it didn’t matter.The Kellers’ certainly erred in their decisionto fire their appeal attorney – who Fransaid she didn’t think was paying enoughattention to their case – and instead haveDanny file their appeals on his own. Appealswork is detail-oriented and requires specializedlegal training, and Danny did not dowell. He did not make the right arguments– for example, he did not argue that Perry’stestimony had been admitted improperly,an oversight that meant that argument wasnot preserved for lateradjudication. Thatmeant that the Kellershave never had theircase fully reviewed byan appeals court.Whether they’ll getthat chance now isuncertain. Their caseis being reviewed bythe Innocence Projectof Texas, says projectgeneral counsel JeffBlackburn. “Webelieve that the Kellers are completely innocent,”he said. “The problem is that becauseof the way this case has been handled bythe previous lawyers and by the court system,we have to get through a proceduralminefield to get back into court. But we aredetermined to do so, no matter how muchmoney, time, or energy it takes.”Even should the Kellers ever be proveninnocent, much damage has already beendone – not only to the Kellers, or to theother “suspects” fingered by the childrenonly to be cleared of any involvement, butalso to the children themselves. When theKellers were convicted and sentenced in1992, Sandra Nash told local TV news thatshe would tell her son he’d done a goodjob. “We’ll tell him that all of his pain andsuffering and his coming forward hastaken the power away from Fran andDanny,” Nash said, “and given it back tothe children.” One of the other childreninvolved in the case, Vijay Staelin, now 21,declined to be interviewed, except to brieflyreiterate that Fran and Danny Keller hadabused him.During an interview at the state women’sprison in Gatesville, I asked Fran Kellerabout Vijay’s assertion. She broke down intears. “On my life, on my children’s lives,”she said, “it did not happen.” Posted online with this story is a video produced byJana Birchum, including excerpts from one of the childforensic interviews with commentary by psychologyprofessor James Wood. For more on the Keller case, see“Point Austin,” p.12.February 21–May 17, 2009Downtown • 823 Congress Ave. Tuesday–Friday 10–5Suite 100 • Austin, TX 78701 Thursday 10–8512.495.9224 • www.amoa.org Saturday 10–6Sunday Noon–5ONE PEACE… IN PICTURESFREE TO THE PUBLICOn view in the Community Room through April 14, 2009Austin writer, actor and filmmaker Turk Pipkin traveled to several locations during themaking of his critically acclaimed film Nobelity. Investigate what his lenses captured.Lordy Rodriguez, Texas, 2006, Ink on paper, triptych 63 x 45 inches each, Courtesy of the artist & Finesilver Gallery, San AntonioThe Austin Museum of Art is Funded in part by Art Alliance Austin, Museum Trustees, Members and Patrons. Additionalsupport is provided by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and the Texas Commission on the Arts.$ 5a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 33

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THEarts36 David Mark Cohen New Works Festival 40 After a Fashion 74 Arts ListingsPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYForget the labels, enjoy the danceThe origin of modern dance is usually attributed to thebarefoot dance-makers who rebelled against ballet from the1930s to the early 1960s. After that, the Judson Churchmovement (which included Austin’s own Deborah Hay) usheredin the new avant-garde, further unraveling dance. Nowwe are in the era of contemporary dance, an overarchingphrase synonymous with “postmodern dance” and rooted inNew York City’s downtown art scene of the 1980s. It owedmuch to the explorations of Judson Church but with renewedtechnique and inventive formalism.As history is not always neat and linear, labels don’talways apply. For more than 50 years, choreographer PaulTaylor has been making masterful dances, and when hiscompany performs next Wednesday at Bass Concert Hall,distinctions between modern and contemporary dance willblur. What makes Taylor interesting is that he is both behindand ahead of the times simultaneously.In 1957, Taylor presented his radical 7 New Dances, predatingthe Judson Church revolution. During one section,Taylor stood silently on stage for several minutes withoutmoving his body or even blinking his eyes. (Keep in mindthat John Cage’s infamous 4’33” debuted only five yearsearlier.) Responding in kind, Louis Horst’s review consistedof 4 inches of blank white space, mentioning only Taylor andthe theatre’s name. Touché.Taylor was, like Merce Cunningham, a Martha Grahamdancer who went on to establish his own company.Cunningham veered to the edges and became known as theintelligent, arty one. With the exception of works like 7 NewDances that broke form, Taylor more often than not chosethe middle of the road, trying to please audiences along theway. He struck gold with great, influential works such as“Esplanade,” “Cloven Kingdom,” “Company B,” and“Promethean Fire.”Taylor once said he “had no idea what modern dance wasanymore.” Over the years, audiences have witnessed therange of Taylor possibilities: serious, traditional, humorous,human – all with a grand sophistication. To really understandall the styles of Paul Taylor, one need only to look atformer Taylor dancers who have become respected choreographersthemselves: Laura Dean, Twyla Tharp, Dan Wagoner,Senta Driver, David Parsons. It’s as if each extrapolated aparticular Taylorism and singularly built upon it.In Austin, Paul Taylor Dance Company will perform threenew works featuring the choreographer’s contemplativeside. “De Sueños (Of Dreams)” and “De Sueños Que SeRepiten (Of Recurring Dreams)” are companion pieces intertwiningMexican culture and Jung’s collective unconscious.With lighting designer extraordinaire Jennifer Tipton, SantoLoquasto’s fantastic costumes and sets, and the music of“De Sueños Que Se Repiten”Kronos Quartet, Taylor creates an extravagant hallucinogenicworld. “Beloved Renegade,” inspired by Walt Whitman andset to choral music by Francis Poulenc, was hailed by TheNew York Times as “one of the great achievements of Mr.Taylor’s long career and one of the most eloquently texturedfeats of his singular imagination.”Opportunities to see large touring dance companies inAustin are few. Taylor is one of the last remaining titans of abygone era of dance that is still extremely fresh and relevant.It is worth a night out to the theatre. – Andrew LongPaul Taylor Dance Company will perform Wednesday, April 1, 8pm, atBass Concert Hall, East 23rd & Robert Dedman Drive, on the UT campus.For more information, call 477-6060 or visit www.utpac.org.ANTON NEL‘Do I have the piano for you!’Anton Nel really likes the new Hamburg Steinway at theLong Center for the Performing Arts. And why shouldn’t he?He picked it out himself.Three years ago, the celebrated concert pianist and professorof piano at UT’s Butler School of Music was playinghis regular summer gig at the Aspen Music Festival, where,he says, truckloads of Steinways are brought down fromNew York every year. And upon playing this one particularHamburg Steinway, he was, he says, “completely smittenwith it. It was the funniest thing, because I play lots of pianos,and I’m blasé about these things now.” But this onewas so remarkable that he had the impulse to buy it, eventhough he knew he couldn’t afford it. “So I played it happilyabout 10 or 12 times for the concerts that summer, and itwent back to New York,” he says. “And that fall, I was puton the committee to find the pianos for the Long Center.And I said, ‘Boy, do I have the piano for you!’”What drew Nel to the instrument was its versatility. “AHamburg Steinway is a tricky piano,” he notes. “In America,people don’t play them that much. They have a darkersound, so sometimes they may not be ideal to play the reallybig concertos on. But this one can do it. It can do everything.It also has this wonderful range of softer colors. It’sreally amazing. They can use it in that space for concertosand recitals and chamber music. It does everything well.”Based on Nel’s recommendation, the Long Center securedthe instrument. The pianist has played it publicly in its newhome at the Long Center’s grand opening and, more recently,with the Austin Symphony, but until this week, he’s neverbeen able to put it in the spotlight. This Sunday, he givesthe first piano recital in Dell Hall, and he’s eager to showcasehis discovery. “I love playing this instrument,” he says.“It gives me great pleasure. And the music that I’ve chosenis going to show off the piano fabulously in every possibleway. The Brahms is going to show the piano off magnificently,because it has such a dark side to it. The piano has avery sparkly upper register, which the Schubert is perfect for.“It’s a very mainstream program, but I adore it. I justwanted to play things that I like. I’m at the age now whenI don’t do politically correct things anymore. I’m over that.I play things that I like and that I feel I have an affinityfor. I wanted to put Haydn and Mendelssohn on itbecause it’s their years. That’s important to me. And therest of it is just really stuff that I like. It’s a Sunday afternoonconcert, and I wanted something that everyonewould enjoy, myself included.”– Robert FairesAnton Nel plays a recital Sunday, March 29, 4pm, in Dell Hall at theLong Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside. For more information,call 474-5664 or visit www.thelongcenter.org.CANDIDATES FORUMON THE ARTSAll you creatives,it’s time to show upHey you, with the brush/script/instrument/camera inyour hand: If you care about creativity in Austin, you needto be at the Paramount Theatre Wednesday, April 1. That’swhen all the candidates for mayor and City Council will beonstage telling you where they stand with regard to thearts, culture, and creativity. And if there are only a dozenbodies scattered around the first few rows, well, they won’tfeel much need to treat the city’s creatives as a priorityonce they take office.And they should. Pardon my soapbox, but collectively thecreative sector in Austin – music, film, the arts, digitalmedia, et al. – generates $2.2 billion in economic activityevery year and employs 44,000 people. That sector is notonly responsible for a lot of the city’s international rep(Austin City Limits, Slacker, Stevie Ray, Willie, South bySouthwest, to name a few), but it’s grown steadily over thepast 30 years, even through the real estate and dot-combusts. Hey, if you’re looking for economic stability …But when money gets tight, if anything gets cut fasterthan library hours, it’s arts and culture. And part of thereason is we don’t show up. Let’s not make that mistakethis time. A packed Paramount would send a pretty powerfulmessage to City Hall. I think I saw it on a trailer at theSXSW Film Festival: Creativity is all. All is creativity.Betty Dunkerley will moderate. The action starts at 7pmat the Paramount, 713 Congress. You can park free at OneAmerican Center, 600 Congress, after 6pm. TheParamount bar will even be open. So come on, let’s fillthe joint.– R.F.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 35

THE ARTSResearch and DevelopmentBack in the performance laboratory of the David Mark Cohen New Works FestivalBY ROBERT FAIRESExpect sparks in the Winship Drama Building this coming week.As has happened there every other spring since 2001, the Universityof Texas Department of Theatre & Dance is hosting the David MarkCohen New Works Festival, and so much creative experimentation willbe taking place – more than 30 projects this year, covering theatre,ballet, contemporary dance, cabaret, film, theatrical design, musicaltheatre, and mash-ups of two or more of the above – that friction isinevitable and fireworks quite likely.This will be the fifth edition of the festival, named in honor ofthe influential playwright, critic, and educator who did so much tochampion new work as head of the department’s playwriting programfrom 1990 until his death in 1997. Part of Cohen’s legacy nowis this intense biennial exercise in experimentation, with the entiredrama building and its immediate environs becoming a laboratory forperformance, with directors, designers, choreographers, composers,dancers, actors, musicians, playwrights, videographers, technicians,and dramaturges conducting research into what is possible in drama,in dance, in telling stories and not telling them, in fusing disciplines,in collaboration.“The spirit of collaboration and excitement that I witness in the playwrightsand artists, as they support and help create each other’s work,is always inspiring,” says playwright Sherry Kramer (When SomethingWonderful Ends, David’s Redhaired Death), a participant in previousfestivals. “It’s like you can actually see the spirit of performance inmaterial form.” She believes the size, interdisciplinary approach, andinclusiveness of UT’s festival make it unique on the festival landscape.“While some events are higher production values than others, there isa democratic aspect about the sheer variety of events that makes everythingequal,” Kramer notes. “Each event is what it is.”“What distinguishes NWF from other festivals is the same intangiblequality that helps a script in development: optimism!” That’sSuzan Zeder, who succeeded David Mark Cohen as head of the department’splaywriting program and has been co-producer of the festivalwith dance professor David Justin and department producing directorDenise Martel. Zeder says that the three of them, along with every studentand faculty member of the festival committee, “try to treat eachcreative team with the respectand rigor that it deserves. Theinvestment of money is not verygreat in terms of production.The promise of critical recognitionis not likely, since mostprojects are not even reviewedindividually. The real investmentis an act of faith, that eachproject, play, piece of creativework will have a life-changingeffect on its creators, and thatis priceless.”This year, Zeder will have adramatically different role inthe festival. After four runs asproducer, teacher, and midwifeto other writers’ plays, she willbe giving birth to one of herown in the festival. For the pastyear, Zeder has been hard atKENNY BRAUNSuzan ZederMeg Rushing in Look, Listen, Look Again!The spirit of collaboration at the NewWorks Festival is so strong, saysplaywright Sherry Kramer, “it’s likeyou can actually see the spirit ofperformance in material form.”work on the conclusion to a trilogy that began with what may be hermost produced and acclaimed play, Mother Hicks, a drama of outcastsin a small town in Illinois during the Great Depression. A prequel, TheTaste of Sunrise, told another story of the town, Ware, in the 1920s.Now Zeder is finishing the Ware Trilogy with The Edge of Peace, whichtakes the town into the last days of World War II and shows a family’sstruggle with the possible loss of a son in the great conflict. Theplay has already been through two workshops with Seattle Children’sTheatre, which commissioned it, and will be further developed at theAsolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Fla., following Zeder’s writingresidency at the Hermitage retreat, but “none of these venues will giveme what the New Works Festival will provide: a chance to stand on anequal footing with my students and learn from them and to bring thiswork in its formative stages to children and adults, deaf and hearingaudiences.” Zeder wants from the festival “exactly the same chanceand gamble it gives to every student courageous enough to bring hisor her best work to the table: a place to make something new, a timeto take the first step, an audience to see it and hear it for the first time,and the belief that at the end of the day, someone will care.”If the festival’s prior editions are any indication, finding someoneto care will not be a problem. It was from the festival that some ofthe most remarkable original scripts of the past decade first saw light,and the strong response there helped propel them toward more fullyrealized productions: Steve Moore’s Nightswim, Carson Kreitzer’s Fleshand the Desert, Dustin Wills’ Ophelia, Ryan Pavelchik’s Static, GeorgeBrant’s Elephant’s Graveyard, Eve Tulbert’s Ashes, Ashes. UT’s biennialperformance lab offers us an opportunity to discover more works likethese in an environment supercharged with inventiveness and enthusiasm.“Basically, until they invent the warp drive and time travel,” saysKramer, “the New Works Festival is pretty much the best way I knowto walk through 20 or 40 doors into other worlds in one building in aweek … and what’s not to like about that?”COURTESY OF J. ELISSA MARSHALLA GUIDE TO THE WORKSThis year’s New Works Festival runs for six days,with performances beginning at 10am each day andending by 11pm. Works are being performed in avariety of spaces around the Winship DramaBuilding, 23rd and San Jacinto, some of them quitesmall and able to seat only 15 to 50 people, so it’sa good idea to arrive early if you want to be assureda seat.Thanks to sponsorship from the University Co-op,all performances and events are free. For more info,visit www.coopnwf.org. Descriptions provided byUT’s Department of Theatre & Dance.101 Ways To …written and performed by Jenny Connell, Tim Longo,Carra Martinez, Steve Moulds, and Sarah Myers;created and directed by Halena KaysHigh-energy, physical theatre extravaganza usingthe world of women’s fashion magazines as itsinspiration. Mature content. (90 min.) BrockettTheatre, Tuesday, noon; Wednesday, 5:30pm;Friday, 5:30pm.Autopilotby Anna Fugate and Ashley HayesFour relationships facing the same problem: “Thecourse of true love never did run smooth.” Maturecontent. (60 min.) Winship 1.134, Monday, 1pm;Tuesday, 9:30pm; Friday, 11am; Saturday, 4pm.Chest Scaledesigned by Sarah Lankenau; aided by SarahThornell; curated by Jenna Penick; documented byMichael HowellHanging installation that looks back through 150years of pattern drafting for tailored menswear.Winship atrium, Monday-Saturday. Reception:Monday, 2:30pm, Winship upper atrium.Dream Sequenceconceived and directed by Fadi SkeikerA performance based on the dreams of the castusing a process that was improvisational. (90 min.)Winship 2.180, Monday, 8pm; Tuesday, 11am;Wednesday, 3pm; Friday, 12:30pm.The Edge of Peaceby Suzan Zeder; directed by Wendy BableIn the final months of World War II, a local boy isdeclared MIA, and his younger brother refuses tobelieve what seems inevitable. (90 min.) LabTheatre, Monday, 4:30pm; Tuesday, 6pm (AmericanSign Language interpreted); Wednesday, 10am.Fernando and the Killer Queenby Kyle John Schmidt; directed by Elizabeth C. LayIn a bloody fantasyland wracked by revolution, aqueen fights to keep her government. Maturecontent. (60 min.) Lab Theatre, Wednesday, 9pm;Thursday, 6pm; Friday, noon; Saturday, 1pm.Foodstuffby Meghan Kennedy; directed by Erin Meyer & NoelGaulinWork exploring identity through a ritual we all takepart in every day: eating. Mature content. (60 min.)Winship 1.134, Monday, 7:30pm; Tuesday, 7pm;Friday, 6:30pm.Footprints: A Musical Eco-Talebook by Lindsay Genshaft; music/lyrics by JenniferHartmann with Lindsay GenshaftStaged reading of a musical for young audiencesabout a young girl’s quest to save a forest. (90 min.)Payne Theatre lobby, Monday, 8pm; Tuesday, 2pm;Thursday, 6pm; Friday, 1:30pm.Funky Snowmanby Wendy Bable; music by Michael Bowman;directed by Brian C. Fahey; choreographedby Molly SearcyA play/ballet for young people in which littleFritzie brings a groovalicious snowman to life. 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THE ARTSmin.) Winship 1.134, Tuesday, 4:30pm; Wednesday,6pm; Thursday, 9:30pm; Saturday, 1pm.“Fusion”by Nathan Brittain, Zachary Dixon, and YonatanMendelsberg; video by Cesar ObregonA project that demonstrates ways technology can beintegrated into performance. (40 min.) BrockettTheatre, Monday, 6pm; Tuesday; 6:30pm;Thursday, 11am; Saturday, 11am.“Harvest Mandala”by the Living Colors Class, School of ArchitectureA community-based performance to promote theharvest in its most aesthetic form. (Presented with“The Roaming Bassoonist.” 30 min.)Payne Theatre, Tuesday, noon; Thursday, 9pm;Friday, 11am; Saturday, 6pm.Look, Listen, Look Again!conceived by J. Elissa MarshallSeven dances created from seven original musicalcompositions inspired by seven meaningful orprovocative photographs. (60 min.) Lab Theatre,Tuesday, 9:30pm; Thursday, 9:30pm; Friday, 6:30pm.Looking at Dance: A JourneyThrough the Blantonby Mary Chase, Charlotte Grifin, and Julie NathanielszA showcase of divergent perspectives in dancepresented throughout the museum. (90 min.)Blanton Museum of Art, Wednesday, noon;Thursday, 1:30pm; Friday, 7pm.Made From Scratchwritten and directed by Avital BiskAn innocent, playful relationship between two girlstransforms into a naively abusive friendship. Maturecontent. (60 min.) Winship 2.180, Thursday, 12:30 &9pm; Friday, 7:30pm; Saturday, 1:30pm.The Marinerby Esme Lejeune; directed by Glen HallTwo seafaring enemies strive to escape from thebelly of a whale. Inspired by the Decemberists’ “TheMariner’s Revenge Song.” Mature content. (60 min.)Winship 1.134, Tuesday, 1:30pm; Wednesday, 9pm;Thursday, 5pm; Friday, 9pm.The Nomadic Dream Projectcreated by Alison Heryer, Sonja Rainey, EmmaLawrence, and the Nomadic Dream CollectiveAn outdoor performance exploring the landscapebetween waking worlds and dreams. (90 min.) EastMall, Tuesday, 8pm; Thursday, 8pm; Friday, 7:30pm.The 100 Dresses Projectcurated by Heather Koslov and Ruthie FisherA community outreach project that includes aninteractive workshop for young women and an artinstallation showcasing designs by women in Austin.Brockett Theatre hallway, Monday-Saturday.Reception: Saturday, 3pm, Winship atrium.“On these four matterswe cannot agree …”conceived by Diana Mino; co-created by Mino, MatthewBunker, Jordan Loveland, and Zachary DixonA duet for a male dancer and a female upright-bassplayer. (10 min.) Winship atrium, Monday, 7pm;Wednesday, 6pm; Friday, 4:30pm, Saturday, noon.Phoenix Unforgivenby Martin Zimmerman; directed by Kelly HoweA woman’s investigation into her family’s historyleads her to question who she is. (100 min.) PayneTheatre, Tuesday, 3pm; Wednesday, 7:30pm;Thursday, 2:30pm; Saturday, 1pm.The Poet and the Philosopherdesigned and created by Jennifer MadisonCostume and movement tell of two people’s fights todiscover their hero. (Performed with The 7. 120 min.)Lab Theatre, Tuesday, 11am; Thursday, 11am;Friday, 3pm; Saturday, 4pm.“Poof!! In Movement”created and directed by Lindsey Bailey;choreographed by Janna RockTHEATRE DAVID MARK COHEN NEW WORKS FESTIVAL CONTINUED FROM P.36A colorful, whimsical performance using dancers andsoft sculptural objects. (30 min.) Gregory Gym,Wednesday, 9pm; Thursday, 8pm; Saturday, 1 & 4pm.Problem Boxby Steve MouldsBill doesn’t know why he’s being held prisoner or whoimprisoned him. Mature content. (60 min.) Winship2.180, Monday, 1:30pm; Tuesday, 2:30pm; Friday,10pm; Saturday, 11am.The Psyche Projectby Jenny Connell & ensemble; directed by Marie BrownFast, funny, irreverent retelling of the myth of Erosand Psyche. Mature content. (120 min.) BrockettTheatre, Wednesday, 1 & 9pm; Thursday, 6:30pm;Friday, 11am.Resabios de Amargura orThat Bitter Cabaretby Beliza Torres NarváezCampy mixture of song, comedy, and social critiquefollowing a Puerto Rican diva. (60 min.)Winship 2.180,Tuesday, 8:30pm; Wednesday, 11:30am & 9pm;Saturday, 5pm.“The Roaming Bassoonist”written and directed by Ilana MarksAn exploration in new media that combines stopmotionanimation and performance. (Performed with“Harvest Mandala.” 30 min.) Payne Theatre, Tuesday,noon; Thursday, 9pm; Friday, 11am; Saturday, 6pm.RTF FilmsA selection of short works by filmmakers from theDepartment of Radio-Television-Film at UT-Austin. (60min.) Smith Building, Blanton Museum, Monday, 6pm.The 7created and directed La Tasha StephensAn autobiographical work about an inner-cityAfrican-American woman. Mature content. (Performedwith The Poet and the Philosopher. 120 min.) LabTheatre, Tuesday, 11am; Thursday, 11am;Friday, 3pm; Saturday, 4pm.“So/La Spaces: BodiesJourney Into Rhythm”by Angela Ahlgren and Meg BrookerTwo pieces exploring the intersections between light,sound, and female bodies in motion. (30 min.) PayneTheatre, Monday, 6:30pm; Tuesday, 8:30pm;Wednesday, 2:30pm; Friday, 3pm.Workshop 1: Winship 2.120, Tuesday, 2pm (120 min.).Workshop 2: Winship 1.172, Tuesday, 4pm (120 min.).The Shape of Whiteby Yvonne Boudreaux, Chih-Feng Chen, & Andee ScottA multimedia, site-specific dance exploring theconcept of deterioration through repetition.(120 min.) Bridge behind Etter-Harbin Alumni Center,Tuesday, 8:30pm; Wednesday, 8:30pm;Thursday, 8:30pm, Friday, 8:30pm.The Tides of Aberdeenby Erin Phillips; directed by Sarah BensonTwo best friends embark on breaking the worldrecord for holding their breath under water.(60 min.) Winship 1.134, Friday, 3:30pm;Saturday, 10:30am.“What Started HereChanged the World”by Neil Ames, Trang Bui, Jessica Evans,Priscilla Hill, Kelsey Hayenga, Andrew Hlinsky,and Matt WassonCollaborative piece examining violence in schools,especially school shootings. Mature content. (30 min.)Winship 2.112, Tuesday, 11:30am; Wednesday,6:30pm; Thursday, 2pm; Saturday, 2:30pm.Writing a Letter to Fidelby Amanda CayoOral history interviews exploring the experiences ofpeople who left Cuba for the United States. (60 min.)Winship 1.134, Monday, 4pm; Thursday, 7:30pm.Blanton Museum of Art, Wednesday, 10:30am;Thursday, 3:30pm.Festival ScheduleAll room numbers are for the Winship Drama Building.MONDAY, MARCH 3011am Keynote address by Rubén Polendo,Payne Theatre11:30 Opening reception, Payne lobby1pm Autopilot, 1.1341:30 Problem Box, 2.1802:30 Chest Scale reception, Upper AtriumPanel: The Business of Show Business, 2.1124pm Writing a Letter to Fidel, 1.1344:30 The Edge of Peace, Lab Theatre6pm “Fusion,” Brockett TheatreRTF Films, Smith Building, Blanton Museum6:30 “So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm,”Payne Theatre7pm “On these four matters we cannot agree ...,”Atrium7:30 Foodstuff, 1.1348pm Dream Sequence, 2.180Footprints: A Musical Eco-Tale, Payne lobbyTUESDAY, MARCH 3111am Dream Sequence, 2.180The 7/The Poet and the Philosopher,Lab Theatre11:30 “What Started Here Changed the World,” 2.112Noon 101 Ways To …, Brockett Theatre“Harvest Mandala”/“Roaming Bassoonist,”Payne Theatre1:30 The Mariner, 1.1342pm Footprints: A Musical Eco-Tale, Payne lobby“So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm”Workshop 1, 2.1202:30 Problem Box, 2.1803pm Phoenix Unforgiven, Payne Theatre4pm “So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm”Workshop 2, 1.172Focus Group: Intellectual Property Law,2.1124:30 Funky Snowman, 1.1346pm The Edge of Peace, Lab Theatre6:30 “Fusion,” Brockett Theatre7pm Foodstuff, 1.1348pm The Nomadic Dream Project, East Mall8:30 “So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm,”Payne TheatreResabios de Amargura, 2.180The Shape of White, bridge behindAlumni Ctr.9:30 Autopilot, 1.134Look, Listen, Look Again!, Lab TheatreWEDNESDAY, APRIL 110am The Edge of Peace, Lab Theatre10:30 Writing a Letter to Fidel,Blanton Museum of Art11:30 Resabios de Amargura, 2.180Noon Looking at Dance: A JourneyThrough the Blanton, Blanton Museum1pm The Psyche Project, Brockett Theatre2:30 “So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm,”Payne Theatre3pm Dream Sequence, 2.180Focus Group: Directing New Work, 2.1365:30 101 Ways To …, Brockett Theatre6pm Funky Snowman, 1.134“On these four matters wecannot agree,” Atrium6:30 “What Started Here Changed the World,” 2.1127:30 Phoenix Unforgiven, Payne Theatre8:30 The Shape of White, bridge behindAlumni Ctr.9pm Resabios de Amargura, 2.180Fernando and the Killer Queen,Lab Theatre“Poof!! In Movement,” Gregory GymThe Mariner, 1.134The Psyche Project,Brockett TheatreTHURSDAY, APRIL 211am “Fusion,” Brockett TheatreThe 7/The Poet and the Philosopher,Lab TheatreFocus: New Play Development,2.13612:30 Made From Scratch, 2.1801:30 Looking at Dance: A Journey Through theBlanton, Blanton Museum2pm “What Started Here Changed the World,”2.1122:30 Phoenix Unforgiven, Payne Theatre3:30 Writing a Letter to Fidel, Blanton Museum5pm The Mariner, 1.1346pm Fernando and the Killer Queen, Lab TheatreFootprints: A Musical Eco-Tale, Payne Lobby6:30 The Psyche Project, Brockett Theatre7:30 Writing a Letter to Fidel, 1.1348pm “Poof!! In Movement,” Gregory GymThe Nomadic Dream Project, East Mall8:30 The Shape of White, bridge behind Alumni Ctr.9pm “Harvest Mandala”/“Roaming Bassoonist,”PayneMade From Scratch, 2.1809:30 Funky Snowman, 1.134Look, Listen, Look Again!, Lab TheatreFRIDAY, APRIL 311am Autopilot, 1.134“Harvest Mandala”/“Roaming Bassoonist,”Payne TheatreThe Psyche Project, Brockett TheatreNoon Fernando and the Killer Queen, Lab Theatre12:30 Dream Sequence, 2.1801:30 Footprints: A Musical Eco-Tale, Payne Lobby3pm “So/La Spaces: Bodies Journey Into Rhythm,”Payne TheatreThe 7/The Poet and the Philosopher,Lab Theatre3:30 The Tides of Aberdeen, 1.1344pm Focus Group: Dance, 2.1364:30 “On these four matters wecannot agree,” Atrium5:30 101 Ways To …, Brockett Theatre6:30 Foodstuff, 1.134Look, Listen, Look Again!, Lab Theatre7pm Looking at Dance: A Journey Throughthe Blanton, Blanton Museum7:30 Made From Scratch, 2.180The Nomadic Dream Project, East Mall8:30 The Shape of White, bridge behind Alumni Ctr.9pm The Mariner, 1.13410pm Problem Box, 2.180SATURDAY, APRIL 410:30 The Tides of Aberdeen, 1.13411am Problem Box, 2.180“Fusion,” Brockett TheatreNoon “On these four matters wecannot agree,” AtriumFocus: Photography, 2.1121pm Fernando and the Killer Queen, Lab TheatreFunky Snowman, 1.134Phoenix Unforgiven, Payne Theatre“Poof!! In Movement,” Gregory Gym1:30 Made From Scratch, 2.1802:30 “What Started Here Changed the World,”2.1123pm The 100 Dresses Project reception, Atrium4pm Autopilot, 1.134“Poof!! In Movement,” Gregory GymThe 7/The Poet and the Philosopher,Lab Theatre5pm Resabios de Amargura, 2.1806pm “Harvest Mandala”/“Roaming Bassoonist,”Payne Theatre7pm Closing party, Brockett Theatre38 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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ARTS THE ARTSBOOKSSTYLEafter a fashionBY STEPHEN MACM ILLAN MOS ERPerez HiltonSXSOMETHING It’s all a blur of activity after awhile, and everything runs together like the colorsof a pastel sidewalk drawing in the rain. Iwent to some parties; skipped others; sawFilm, Music, and Interactive delights; hung out;and ran around. The Texas Film Hall of Famewas the best one yet, and we covered that inlast week’s column. My friend Mark Mueller’smovie, The 2 Bobs, was roundly acclaimed asa hit comedy (Mark is developing quite an eyeas a producer), and virtually the entire cast wasin attendance, including star-to-be DevinRatray, who also worked the Music Conferenceand the 27th annual Austin Music Awards.Just don’t say he’s the next Chris Farley orJohn Candy – he’s his own man in everysense. My favorite party may have beenAustinVentures’ unofficial afterparty for theSXSW Web Awards. Packed to the gills, newclub Malverde (featuring fabulous interiors byJoel Mozersky) was ultrastylish and chic, justas we expected. Speaking of the Music Awards,my posse and I prepped by hanging at the fabulousRoyal Blue Grocery (www.royalbluegrocery.com) at the 360 for flowers, snacks, and adivine bottle of Louis Roederer Champagne.Great prices on the bubbly and the added treatof being able to sip it at Royal Blue’s outsidedining tables. Talk about service – ownerGeorge Scariano Jr. waited on us personally,and by the time we left for theMusic Hall, we almost didn’t wantto leave at all. But we did, and surprisesfrom the Music Awardsincluded Exene Cervenka showingup to present an award withDavid Yow inducting the Dicksinto the Hall of Fame and stayingto present Best Punk Band toKimberly Freeman of One-EyedDoll. All I can say is that Ms.Freeman must be shitting prettypink bunnies for that accolade…That was indeed Dotty Farrellsinging backup for the Dicks…Felicity Fromholz of UrbanDecay Cosmetics brought a teamin who did amazing make-up onthe nonstage staff… NakiaReynosa was the surprise in theset of Southern Sirens, also featuringSuzanna Choffel, CarolynWonderland, and Ruthie Foster… Nice tosee Jon Dee Graham appear to receive (alongwith the fabulous Alejandro Escovedo) theHall of Fame award for the True Believers.Considering his health and recent bad luck,he’s a real trouper for being there… Film landglitterati was everywhere: sometimes not onthe screen or streets or during the Film portionAngry vs. the Bearof South by Southwest but in other unexpectedplaces. Juliette Lewis, for instance, in herrock star incarnation showed off her new bandJuliette & the New Romantiques, dressedto the nines in fabulous couture and rockingher way through her sets at the ConventionCenter and Emo’s, followed by set after set ofsurprise appearances around town. EverybodyPHOTOS BY SEABROOK JONESgets to reinvent themselves now and then,don’t they? Musically, Devo packed ’em in atthe Music Hall and packed the same kind ofwallop they did a thousand years ago, with fansscreaming in reply, “We are Devo!” when theband played their art-punk classic hit “JockoHomo.” At an interview, it was obvious that theband had attracted a large following from citi-All Things Adult24 HOURSSexy Shoes • Hosiery • ClubWear • Sexy Lingerie • DanceWear • Bachelorette Supplies •Specialty Adult Toys and GiftsBUY 2 DVDs($14.95 each)AND GET 1 FREE*10% OFFALL BOUTIQUE ITEMS290 EastU-Turn @ Giles Rd./Johnny Morris Rd.exp. 3/31/09278-8260*OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUECLOTHING ACCESSORIES GIFTS2005 South Lamar512.441.7370815 W. 47th Street512.467.737040 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCONTINUED ON P.XX

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food44DRINKING DOWNTOWNWine bars have been sprouting up around Austin almost asfast as wineries have been expanding through the Texas HillCountry. This is a wonderful trend for folks who live and/orwork Downtown; a nice drop of wine is never too faraway. And given how crowded most of these placesare, more will probably be opening.It seems every place Downtown is offering somesort of happy hour discount, and the wine bars areno different, putting forth a cornucopia of discountdelights for the 4-7pm drinker.We left out restaurants, even if they have great winelists, and bars, such as TRIO at the Four Seasons or IIIForks to name a couple. Though some of these wine bars offersuperb and inventive cuisine, this list is for places that are primarilyfor the love of wine.Cork & Co. (308 Congress, 474-2675, www.corkandco.com): Morethan 300 different wines at retail prices. Take away or drink therewith no corkage fee. Wines also by the glass and in flights. OpenMonday-Friday, 3pm-12mid; Saturday, noon-12mid; Sunday, 1-10pm.Crú – A Wine Bar (238 W. Second, 472-9463, www.cruawinebar.com):Extensive wine list with several brave international choices.Thursday is half-price Champagne night! Light food menu is wellchosen to complement the wines. Open Sunday-Wednesday,4-11pm; Thursday-Saturday, 4pm-12mid.House Wine (408 Josephine, 322-5210, www.housewineaustin.com):A comfy old house with a brief but nicely chosen wine list, all atgood prices. Happy hour is all day every day with two whites andtwo reds available at $5 a glass or $18 a bottle. Food is simplebut geared toward accentuating the wine. Open daily, 3pm-12mid.mulberry (360 Nueces, 320-0297, www.mulberryaustin.com): Likebeing on the Upper West Side of New York. Tight, crowded, andcozy, with good service and a nice selection of wines. Francophilescan find some bargains. The bar is open Sunday-Thursday, 5pm-1am; Friday-Saturday, 4pm-2am. Dinner is served daily, 5-11pm,and brunch is available Saturday-Sunday, 10am-4pm.Taste Select Wines (202 W. Cesar Chavez, 478-2783,www.tasteselectwines.com): Forty-eight premium wines in an ItalianEnomatic system, allowing you to buy wine by the ounce. Also a verynice selection of retail wines with a $10 corkage fee. Taste alsomakes some of the best bacon you’ll ever have. Open Monday-Thursday, 11am-11pm; Friday-Saturday, 11am-1am; Sunday, 3-10pm.Uncorked Tasting Room & Wine Bar (900 E. Seventh,524-2809, www.uncorkedtastingroom.com): Gorgeous views of Downtown,a nicely chosen wine list, lots of wines by the glass, and an inventivekitchen staff creating delicious food. Open Monday-Friday, 3pm-12mid; Saturday, 3pm-1am; closed Sunday. – Wes Marshall› Actor/director Danny DeVito will bein Austin this weekend signing bottles of hisnew Limoncello liqueur at the Twin LiquorsMarketplace (1000 E. 41st, 451-7400, www.twinliquors.com). Saturday, March 28, 11am-1pm.› Chefs Tim Kartiganer and Cesidio D’Andreawill present a class on the techniques of moleculargastro nomy at the Culinary Academy ofAustin (6020-B Dillard Circle, 451-5743,www.culinaryacademyofaustin.com). The class is forboth amateurs and professionals and willinclude demonstration as well as hands-oninstruction. $100 per person with a 15% discountif two participants register together.Saturday, March 28, 10am-1pm.Retirement and the City 46 Restaurant RouletteliquidassetsEvent Menu March 28-April 2House WineUncorked› Kahuna’s Tiki Bar & Grill (6301 W. Parmer,336-7873, www.kahunastikibar.com) celebrates itsgrand opening with a surf-inspired party to benefitthe Make-a-Wish Foundation. Proceedsfrom the event will help fulfill the wish of a localteenager to travel to Hawaii. Surf-movie celebrityRobert August will be on hand to sign posters,DVDs, and photos. Some complimentary foodand drinks will be served. No charge for entry;donations accepted. Sunday, March 29, 4-7pm.› Culinary adventurers are invited to attend aclass on Bizarre Foods taught by chef/entertainer/UnitedStates Air Force Survival Schoolinstructor Jerry Pizzitola at Faraday’s KitchenStore (1501 RR 620 N., 266-5666,www.faradayskitchenstore.com). Pizzitola’s menuwill include such unique comestibles as tenderloinof kangaroo, saffron rice stir-fry with barbecuescorpions, bow-tie pasta with basil pestoand giant Oaxacan crickets, and vanilla-bean icecream with chocolate-ant wafers. If this soundsyummy, the class costs $60, and reservationsare necessary. Wednesday, April 1, 6pm.› Aspiring chefs interested in studying abroad willwant to attend an information session presentedby Italy’s University of Gastronomic Sciences(www.unisg.it/eng) at the Habitat Suites(500 E. Highland Mall Blvd.). To attend the freesession, e-mail name and phone number tod.szanto@unisg.it. Thursday, April 2, 7-9pm. – V.B.W.PHOTOS BY JOHN ANDERSONfood-o-fileBY VIRGINIA B . WOODWhile thousands of loyal fans were tryingto snag invitations to her big party at MaggieMae’s last week, media queen Rachael Ray,her musician husband John Cusimano, anda film crew from her Rachael’s Vacation programwere enjoying a delectable farm-to-tablemeal prepared by Dai Due chef/owner JesseGriffiths at our favorite urban organic garden,Boggy Creek Farm (3414 Lyons,926-4650, www.boggycreekfarm.com). The crewalso visited Olivia (2043 S. Lamar,804-2700, www.olivia-austin.com) and shot footageof chef/owner James Holmes shoppingfor ingredients at the farmstand. We’ll let youknow when the segment is scheduled torun… Speaking of urban organic gardens,gardening and healthy eating advocates allover the country celebrated last week when itwas revealed that a group of Washington,D.C., elementary school students helped firstlady Michelle Obama begin planting anorganic kitchen garden on the lawn at theWhite House on March 20. Some produceand herbs from the new garden will be usedin the White House kitchen, and some will bedonated to a neighborhood soup kitchenwhere Mrs. Obama volunteers… Kudos toTexas Culi nary Academy (11400 BurnetRd., 837-2665, www.tca.edu) wine educator“Miss Jane” Nickles, who was named theUltimate Culi nary Educator in a competitionheld at the inaugural summit of theFoodservice Educat ors LearningCommunity last month in Charleston, S.C.Nickles’ winning presentation, a 15-minutewine-tasting class titled “Ready, Set, Sip”was described as a “combination of lecture,stand-up comedy, beat poetry, rap, and interpretivedance”… I’m amazed by the proliferationof wholesale and online custom bakeriesaround town recently. Sharing the variety ofsweet samples has made me very popular ateditorial meetings at the office. After yearson the West Coast, dessert maker MichaelHurd, who styles himself as the CinnaMan(673-0565, cinnamandesserts@yahoo.com), hasreturned to Austin with a tasty line of cheesecakes(his specialty), cakes, cookies, tortes,and tarts for any and all special occasions.Alexan dra Bruskoff provides the imaginationfor Alexandra’s Cookie Dreams(482-8210, www.alexandrascookiedreams.com), anonline bakery featuring a delectable line ofsignature cookies that can be custom packagedin bags, boxes, and tins to solve everypersonal, corporate, retail, or wholesale giftgivingdilemma. Austin native Laura Livelyoffers two sizes of delightful cupcakes (regularand miniature poppers) for every occasionthrough L’s Cupcake Cafe (689-7566,www.cupcakecafeaustin.com). We’re told the1,000 cupcakes she served at the annualprerodeo Cowboy Break fast disappeared inless than an hour. Former baking and pastryinstructor Angela Giles turns out customsculpted cakes and elegant miniature dessertsfor weddings and other celebrations ather Blue Note Bakery (4201 S. Congress,797-7367, www.bluenotebakery.com). Check outher work online, and then make an appointmentfor samples and consultation.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 43

FOODRetirement and the CityLike many longtime Austinites, I’ve watched the Downtown landscapefill up with high-rise condo towers and new shopping districts with a mixtureof curiosity and consternation. Were people really living in all thosecondos, and now that there’s no place left for those of us who don’t livethere to park, will there be enough actual foot traffic Downtown to supportall the new (and established) restaurants and stores in the neighborhood?For the last few years, my mantra had been “I don’t know a living soulwho’s bought one of those condos.” Then my friends Linda Ball and ForrestPreece bought one, and I had to change my tune. I’d got to know themAfter we both retired, we started thinkingabout how to downsize our lives, reduce ourcarbon footprint, and generally make thingseasier on ourselves. Through some mutualfriends, we got to know the developer of the360 Condos being built at Third and Nueces.The more we talked about it, the better movingthere sounded. We have both subscribedto The New Yorker since college and alwaysdreamed of living a Manhattan lifestyle. Sincewe can’t imagine actually living anywhere butAustin, living in a Downtown high-rise soundedlike the best of both worlds.Last summer, we sold the house on ShoalCreek Boulevard, where we’d lived for 31 ofthe 32 years we’ve been married, and madethe move. We couldn’t be happier. Here’s asample of what our new life looks like. Thenewspapers plop outside our door before6:30am every day. On any given day, we godownstairs to the mail room. We leave off drycleaning at the concierge desk, and theydeliver it back to us. The workout center isacross the hall from our unit, and there’s atrash chute about 12 paces from our door.Recycling containers are on the parking level.Anytime we want fresh air, we step out ontoour balcony or go down to the pool deck, onefloor below us.We can walk out the side door on the streetlevel of our building and go to Royal BlueGrocery for essential groceries and preparedfoods from its new commissary kitchen andseveral local artisan food companies. If wewant breakfast, light lunch, or coffee, we canduck into the Blu Cafe. The snug little mulberrywine bar is great for a nightcap. We’relooking forward to the arrival of DavidGarrido’s new restaurant later in the spring.Forrest has been active in Ballet Austinsince the early Nineties, and the headquartersare across the street, so he spends some timethere. We can walk to more bars and restaurantsthan we can count and never worryabout a designated driver. We try to see howmany days we can go without having to start acar (we went three days one week) – andwe’ve walked to the Erwin Center, to parties inWest Austin, to the Long Center, and downSouth Congress, South Lamar, and South First.The Austin Film Festival last October andSouth by Southwest Film and Music last week?44 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mBY LINDA BALL ANDFORREST PREECEyears ago, when native Austinite Preece ran the volunteer publicity committeefor the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival. I know they’re filmand music buffs, tireless supporters of the local arts scene (he’s on theboard of Ballet Aus tin), generous philanthropists (especially to ProjectTransitions), and true aficionados of fine food and wine. I figured ifanybody could give curious Chronicle readers some sense of what the newDown town loft-dweller’s life is really like, it would be Ball and Preece, so Iasked them to keep a diary of their activities for a week and share it withus. Here’s what they had to say.– Virginia B. WoodYeah – we walked to it all. And as for how manypeople we’ve met in the building – we’re writingthis after returning from the Texas Film Hallof Fame Awards, where we were driven by twofriends from floor 15. Among our fellow residentson floor 10, we’ve met a financial analystfor an architectural firm; a University of Texasstudent; an interior decorator; a Dell employee;an investment banker; an AMD employee andhis wife, who teaches kindergarten; an orthodontist;and several more. The fact is, wheneverwe’re out strolling through the neighborhood,we invariably see someone from the building,and we‘ve been known to make spontaneousplans when we run into friends in the elevator.Here are some highlights from a recent week.TUESDAY, FEB. 24We were invited to a party for theBrotherhood of the Knights of the Vine (a funbunch of folks in the local chapter of a nationaloutfit) at a beautiful home on Niles Road.The weather was fine, so we decided to walk.The valet and a waiter from Jeffrey’s were outfront of the famed eatery as we went by andgave us a shout as we headed north to braveJOHN ANDERSONcrossing busy Enfield Road. After some nicetastes of wine and hors d’oeuvres at the party,we walked back to Jeffrey’s and got seats at thebar. We sampled new chef Deegan McClung’soyster preparation and some sliders, plus anightcap. We called a cab and were whiskedback to the 360 by a Bulgarian cab driver havinga tres personal conversation on his headsetphone. It felt very New York. Except for theNiles Road part, which was very West Austin.WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25We walked to the Headliners Club for a funconcert called Piano Four Hands, sort of a proamgame of musical chairs for pianists andHeadliners members, who joined world-classpianist Anton Nel and some other UT professionals.They switched around from pageturnerto second seat to first, doing Brahms’Hungarian Dances. Dinner was a buffet ofHungarian food. Great fun. Strolled home.THURSDAY, FEB. 26We walked a few blocks to Antone’s, whereour friend Dean Lofton had put us on a guestlist for the Austin Music Vol. 8 CD release party.Jeff Lofton (Dean’s husband) and his quartetwere playing first. They took the stage afterKat Edmonson’s group did a few tunes. Weeschewed the free barbecue and strolled overto the Belmont, where Jeff’s group was settingup for its regular gig. We joined friends forsalads, some tuna, and Cuban sliders. To topoff the evening, we went to the private openingof Malverde. Very hip young people (andus) climbed the stairs to the festivities in thischic, Mexico City-inspired bar above LaCondesa. Nothing against the place – it’slikely to be very successful – but we definitelyfelt like chaperones here.FRIDAY, FEB. 27This afternoon we walked to the FourSeasons to run an errand and then stopped offat Halcyon for iced coffees while we read TheAustin Chronicle. We were amazed at howmany Apple laptops there were and that everyonein line but us paid with credit cards. Thegirls next to us were having the tabletops’mores, while some guys at the bar were kickingoff Friday with Lone Stars.We decided to go to Restaurant Jezebel fordinner and were joined by a friend who livesone flight up. We walked up the avenue andsettled in for a leisurely meal. Genial chef/owner Parind Vora came over to welcome us.A nice Pinot was selected, and dinner followed.The plan had been to have a nightcapsomewhere else, but this substantial mealpretty much finished the evening for us.SATURDAY, FEB. 28We went out briefly for a stroll around theAustin Farmers’ Market on this windy morning.The cold wind sent us back inside the building(only a block away, after all) pretty quickly, butwe stopped at Royal Blue Grocery first. Westayed inside making our own food and watchingthe wind blow. At a bit before 7pm, weslipped over to the Whole Foods CulinaryCenter for the release party for the latest issue

of L Style G Style. Then it was up to the Paramountfor Lily Tomlin. We wanted to see theMiles Davis tribute at Elephant Room butchanged our minds when we saw a line of 20people already on the waiting list standing onthe sidewalk. Marched briskly down to TasteSelect Wines in the cold wind and weregreeted by chef Bill McGrory. The place washopping with wine-savvy patrons, but it wassoon time for the old folks to head home.SUNDAY, MARCH 1We stayed in until the afternoon, readingthe papers, watching Sunday morning shows,doing chores, Forrest writing. Finally decidedwe had to walk. The day was glorious. Wewent to Zilker Park, where there were probablytens of thousands of people and dogs andkites. All the casual restaurants along BartonSprings Road were packed with people who’dworked up thirsty appetites flying kites. Wewere so glad we weren’t driving a car – trafficwas stacked up back over the bridge. Wewalked back over the lake to the condo,grabbed a book and The New York TimesMagazine and went to Taste. The outsideseating area makes for good people-watching.We weren’t the only ones to figure this out,and the tables were soon full, with a nearbyfoursome getting a bottle of bubbly. After wefinished up at Taste, we stopped at RoyalBlue Grocery for some things for dinner,went upstairs, and settled in for the night.MONDAY, MARCH 2We walked to our CPA’s offices on SoCoand then back up Congress to Jo’s on Second.Said hi to Mayor Will Wynn, who was hustlingout with his morning snacks, suited upfor work. We’d last seen him yesterday runningthe trail. Jo’s on Second is a favorite withlocal politicians; we saw council candidateChris Riley meeting with Mobile Loaves &Fishes’ founder Alan Graham. Lots of peoplewith laptops here, just as at Halcyon. But atJo’s, there doesn’t seem to be the Macrequirement.Late that afternoon, Forrest headed out toa meeting. Linda talked to her friend aboutgoing to Taste. “Weren’t you just in there?”her friend asked. “Yes,” L.B. replied, “but it’shappy hour, ladies night, Restaurant Week,and Liz Morphis and Trevor LaBonte are performing.”Later, Forrest joined them for asalad and the last of the music.FRIDAY, MARCH 6Forrest did errands on foot today. We decidedit would be fun to see Houston Nim itz’sBrittney Griner dunk at the UIL Girls BasketballState Championships. We fortified ourselves forthe long walk with a meal at La Condesa, a newtrendy Interior Mexican place a couple ofblocks away. Then we walked off some of thatmeal on our way to the Erwin Center. We sawNimitz play, and Griner indeed dunked withease and style. We strolled back Downtown andreturned to La Condesa for a nightcap. Seatedon the balcony that juts out over Guadalupe,the glass panel provided us a great view of thepassing parade of people, many headed forMalverde above. The hour was 11:30pm,though: bedtime for these urbanites.SATURDAY, MARCH 7Perfect day for a museum crawl. Wewalked through the Farmers’ Marketcrammed with people and reached Congressjust in time to see the last of the TexasIndependence Day parade pass by. We hitthe Austin Museum of Art for the CliffordRoss photography exhibit and the LordyRodriguez “States of America” exhibit. Whenwe stopped by the Texas Chili Parlor, it wascrowded with people going to or comingfrom the open house at UT, the UIL basketballtournament, and the parade.After lunch, we headed on to the Blanton tocatch the “Birth of the Cool” exhibit. Wechecked out the (new) gift shop across the wayand then wandered back home through theCapitol grounds. Weary from the long walk, werested up before meeting friends at the AthenianBar & Grill for dinner. We arrived there at6:30pm to find they had staked out a four-topon the patio. The wind was down, and itcouldn’t have been more pleasant. The bottleof red from Crete they were enjoying was soquaffable, we ended up getting another to pairwith the very tasty meal. We split the reasonabletab and walked (the husband driving hiswheelchair) back to our friends’ building.Retirement is tough. Living Downtownmakes it all better. SalvationPizza$5. 99 lunch special Mon-FriJoin us forHalf Priced Draftsfrom 4-6pm daily!535-0076 - 624 W. 34THSALVATIONPIZZA.COM $5 OFFA LARGE PIZZAOR DINNER ENTREENOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFERSMUST PRESENT COUPONLIMIT ONE PER TABLEEXPIRES 4/22/09RED CROSSFUNDRAISERMONDAY EVENINGMARCH 30A THIRD OF ALLPROCEEDS DONATED!TEN FOR TENTUESDAYS10 GREAT WINESFOR $10 A BOTTLEDowntown12th & Red River477-7006BricktheOvenSouthBrodie & Slaughter292-3939ArboretumJollyville Rd 345-6181WWW.BRICKOVENRESTAURANT.COMa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 45

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I-35,419-1220. www.carrabbas.com. $$$JAPANESE, KOREAN: KIMCHI SUSHI This simplydecorated Lincoln Village sushi bar features amenu of Korean favorites.6406 N. I-35 #2343, 453-4111. $$PIZZA: THE PARLOR Great pizza, overflowingpitchers, and a punk feel come together amidthe strains of a stellar jukebox.100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965.www.myspace.com/theparlor. $$SEAFOOD: CAPT. BENNY’S SEAFOOD A fullrange of both fried and broiled seafood inthe boat formerly occupied by the Captain’sSeafood & Oyster Bar. 5700 N. I-35,452-1417. www.captbennys.com. $$TEX-MEX: TAMALE HOUSE An Airport Boulevardinstitution, T-House offers authentic, no-frills Tex-Mex. Pull up a chair on the sunbaked concrete,and forget about tamales; it actually does notserve them. 5003 Airport, 453-9842.www.myspace.com/tamalehouse. $S OUTHAMERICAN CAFE: GALAXY CAFE French-presscoffee and jazz on Saturday nights up the coolfactor, while bargain prices and delicious foodkeep you coming back. 9911 Brodie #750,233-6000. www.galaxycafeaustin.com. $$AMERICAN CAFE: THE WOODLAND Sophisticationmeets comfort at this South Congress restaurantwith exceptional but simple burgers, grilledmeats and fish, and tantalizing pies. Tastycocktails, too. 1716 S. Congress, 441-6800.www.woodlandaustin.com. $$BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: DOMINICAN JOE Thisplace offers a variety of pastries and bakedgoods, as well as light lunch fare.515 S. Congress, 448-3919.www.dominicanjoe.com. $BARBECUE: CHIEF’S BBQ & GRILL If Mom’sbarbecue sauce doesn’t bring you back, JoeBob’s Beans will. You’ll also feast on ribs,brisket, sausage, turkey, ham, and barbecuebologna. 7811 S. First #104, 444-BEEF.www.chiefsbbq.com. $$BRAZILIAN: ESTÂNCIA CHURRASCARIA Thislocally owned Brazilian steak house boasts arelaxed, fine-dining atmosphere and the onlyBrazilian wine list in town. 4894 Hwy. 290 W.,892-1225. www.estanciachurrascaria.com. $$Bite Sized Red VelvetCake BallsJust one ofthe manysweetsavailable atLux Bakeryand Cafe!½ price sweets after 6pmCoupon valid for any of our remaining itemsin our display case after 6pm each day.Expires Apr 4 2009. Special orders excluded.Limit one coupon per visit.CHINESE, INDONESIAN: JAVA GARDENS Thelunch buffet is almost entirely Chinese, whilethe evening menu is mostly Indonesian with afew Chinese items remaining for the regulars.The Sunday buffet menu changes weekly.1717 Pleasant Valley #280, 385-8858.www.javagardens.net. $JUICE BAR, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: DAILY JUICEThis friendly and popular juice bar nearBarton Springs, offers fresh juices, smoothies,froths, and nondairy ice cream. You’ll feelbetter on the way out than you did going in.1625 Barton Springs Rd., 480-9501.www.dailyjuice.org. $PIZZA: CONANS PIZZA Thick, cheesy Chicagodeep-dish by the slice or pie. The lunch buffetwill satisfy your appetite without emptyingyour wallet. 2018 W. Stassney, 441-6754.www.conanspizza.com. $$TEX-MEX: BABY ACAPULCO NO. 2 Try this placefor great enchiladas and multiflavored margaritasthat should come with warning stickers:“Muy bueno!” 1628 Barton Springs Rd.,474-8774. www.babyacapulco.com. $$TEX-MEX: EL MERCADO RESTAURANT &CANTINA Nestled in a neon rain forest, thiscantina sports a very happy hour and is theplace for 99-cent appetizers. 1302 S. First,447-7445. www.elmercadorestaurant.com. $$UTAFRICAN: ASTER’S ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT Inaddition to the vegetarian selections, you’ll findfragrant chicken, lamb, and tender beef. Don’tforget to take home the special Ethiopian saucesand a bundle of injera bread. 2804 N. I-35,469-5966. www.astersethiopian.com. $$AMERICAN CAFE: HOLE IN THE WALL Music: It’snot just for breakfast anymore. Food is finallyback on the menu here. Try a burger at one ofthe picnic tables in back. 2538 Guadalupe,477-4747.www.myspace.com/holeinthewallaustin. $CHINESE: MINGS CAFE Applying the concept ofyin and yang in Chinese cooking, this casualspot offers simple, recognizable food that peoplelike to eat. 2604 Guadalupe, 476-8888.www.myspace.com/mingsaustin. $DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: SPICY PICKLE Panini,salads, subs, and soup with 21 different toppingsand 10 varieties of cheese. 404 W. 26th,473-8441. www.spicypickle.com. $INTERNATIONAL: BOOMERANG’S GOURMETVEGGIE & MEAT PIES Find more than 11different flavors of authentic Aussie meat piesin flaky crusts. Very friendly counter folks andgreat coffee, too. 3110 Guadalupe #150,380-0032. www.boomerangspies.com. $MIDDLE EASTERN: KISMET CAFE Kismet servesMediterranean-American cuisine, Philly subs,gyros, and salads. 411 W. 24th, 236-1811.www.kismetcafe.net. $$PIZZA: MANGIA CHICAGO STUFFED PIZZADelectable and deceptively filling stuffed pizzaat a reasonable price. Now going cross-culturalwith breakfast tacos. 3016 Guadalupe#100, 302-5200. www.mangiapizza.com. $$THE AUSTIN CHRONICLEPIZZA: MILTO’S This longtime UT-area institutionserves both Italian and Greek specialties.The wonderful weekday lunch specials areboth filling and cheap. 2909 Guadalupe,476-1021. $$TEX-MEX: TORCHY’S TACOS Have a damn goodtaco (the Ranch Hand is highly recommended),or build your own breakfast taco anytime.2801 Guadalupe, 494-8226.www.torchystacos.com. $THAI: THAI NOODLES ETC. 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G, 306-1998.www.lamadeleine.com. $$INDIAN: BOMBAY GRILL Be sated by one of thebiryanis or the aloo paratha, whole-wheatbread stuffed with potatoes and peas.3249 Bee Caves Rd., 329-0234.www.bombaygrilltexas.com. $$INTERIOR MEXICAN: LAS PALOMAS Twenty-fiveyears young and serving up delicious InteriorMexican in a lovely setting. Empanadas, frijolesa la charra, beef tenderloin, and anythingwith mole sauce is not to be missed. Try themango margaritas. 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122,327-9889. www.laspalomasrestaurant.com. $$PACIFIC RIM: BISTRO 88 Offerings include someof the more popular Pacific Rim dishes, plus anarray of Continental meat, poultry, seafood, andvegetarian items blended with ingredients fromaround the Pacific Rim. 2712 Bee Caves Rd.,328-8888. www.bistro88austin.com. $$$TAKEOUT, TEX-MEX: FREEBIRDS WORLDBURRITO One of four hot-spot locations offeringcustomized Tex-Mex and fresh ingredients.2765 Bee Caves Rd., 330-0040.www.freebirds.com. $TEX-MEX: SANTA RITA TEX MEX CANTINA Freshsauces, rotisserie meats, and a friendlyatmosphere make this a welcome addition toAustin Tex-Mex. 1206 W. 38th, 419-7482.www.santaritacantina.com. $$TEX-MEX: ZOCALO CAFE This Old West Austin takeon the taqueria offers a limited menu of freshMexican dishes with a healthy slant and plenty ofvegetarian options, including tasty beans madewith no animal products. 1110 West Lynn,472-8226. www.zocalocafe.com. $restaurantguideTHOUSANDSOF AREARESTAURANTSSEARCHABLEBY CUISINETYPE ANDAREA OF TOWNCrawfish Shack & oyster barlivecrawfishyearrounddaily lunchspecialslivecrawfishsold bythe sack2013 Wells Branch Pkwy 512-252-7556∏∏EAT GREENLEAF HAPPYTHE PLACE FOR A GREAT SALADTues thru Thurs: 11-9pm | Mon, Fri, Sat: 11-4pmToo busy to cook!!Try our “Little Joe”1.5 lbs meats 2 pints side ordersplus fixin’s (feed 3-4) for $19.99WE CATER as low as $6.99 pp(call for details).All you can eat Bar-B-Qonly $14.99 on Sunday419 W. 2ND STREET512.474.LEAF (5323)WWW.LEAFSALAD.COMBUY ONE PLATEat regular price get2nd one HALF PRICE!of equal or less value,VALID after 4PM ONE PER GROUPnot valid with other offers.Exp: MAR. 31 200912005 Hwy 290 W (6 miles W of the Oak Hill “Y”)Mon-Thu 10:30-8 Fri-Sat 10:30-9 Sun 11-8288-7879New location coming soon Mar, 2009 in the Groveat Southpark Meadows next to Quiznos 9600 South IH 35.Website: www.cartwrightsfamousbbq.com3601 W William Cannon #175 • 891-9850Wm Cannon/Brodie - Next to FirestoneLuxBakeryAndCafe.comaustinchronicle.com/guides/restauranta u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 47

Brunch...Spanish StyleTICKETS: $5 and Kids Under 10 FREE11am - 6pmCASUAL LUNCH,STYLISH DINNER.HAPPY HOURMONDAY-FRIDAY4:30PM-7PMSUNDAY4:30PM-11PMCelebrate the delicious flavors, diverse cultures,and unique talents that keep Austinour favorite place in the world. The festival promises to provide a great mix ofmouth-watering dishes and exceptional, family-friendly entertainment with an Asian flair.Benefiting SAHELI for Asian Families, SafePlace and Capital Area Food BankDelicious Food Prepared by Clay Pit, Jade Leaves Tea House, Dragon Gate, Cafe De Bella, TC Noodle House, Momoko, Deli Bento, Thai Fresh and many others!Entertainment by Texas Dragon Dancers, Oliver Rajamani, Austin Taiko Drummers, and many more great Asian Acts!Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Jesse E. Segovia Street (Bergman), East of I-35 on Lady Bird Lake“Inspired by the fare that has made Spain famous!”____________________________________________________________________________________Agua de Valencia Spanish MimosaMade with fresh orange juice, Licor 43and Cava ChampagneSample Menu(All items served with fresh fruit and toast or spicy potatoes )Manchego cheese and Serrano ham omelette Fried eggs over seared beefPoached eggs over chicken & Serrano ham croquettesOrange & Cinnamon Spanish Style French ToastEnjoy $1.00(with the purchase of entrée, limit 3pp)Sangria Blanco, Tinto or RosadoMade with brandy, orange juiceand fresh fruit__________________________________________Every Saturday & Sunday 11:30am - 2:30pm440 W 2 nd donate foodSt. Austin, Texas 512-236-8020 www.malagatapasbar.comvolunteerHUNGER INSURANCE.HUNGER INSURANCE.austinfoodbank.org8201 S. Congress Ave.Austin TX 78745512.282.2111give moneyspeak outgive money donate food volunteer speak outaustinfoodbank.org 8201 S. Congress Ave. Austin TX 78745 512.282.2111give moneydonate foodvolunteerspeak out48 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o maustinfoodbank.org8201 S. Congress Ave.Austin TX 78745512.282.2111

screens50UNDER THE STARS ANDMAYBE SOME SPACE ALIENSThe LBJ Library screens sci-fi classicsBY MARC SAVLOV“No one would have believed in the middleof the 20th century that human affairswere being watched keenly and closely byintelligences greater than Man’s. Yet,across the gulf of space on the planetMars, intellects vast and cool and unsympatheticregarded our Earth with enviouseyes, and slowly and surely joined theirplans against us.”Those lines are adapted from H.G.Wells’ 1898 pacifist cri de guerre, The Warof the Worlds, but for kids growing up inthe Fifties, they were probably first heardspoken aloud by Sir Cedric Hardwicke asthe narrator of producer George Pal’s riotouslycolorful, Oscar-winning 1953 film version.And, chances are, those selfsamekids more than likely got their sci-fi on atthe local drive-in theatre, or possibly at aSaturday afternoon, triple-feature, monstermovie matinee. Not so anymore: Drive-insare as rare nowadays as to be consideredkitschy-quaint. There hasn’t been a theatreregularly running a triple-feature Saturdaymatinee since Dealey Plaza took it “backand to the left” and the popcorn-and-Jujube generation lost the last of its innocence,trading the thrilling darkness of itslocal theatre for the horrifying blue-whitelight of Walter Cronkite’s daily dose ofcathode ray Vietnam-ization.FRANKLY, MY DEAR:GONE WITH THEWIND REVISITEDby Molly HaskellYale University Press,272 pp., $24With Frankly, My Dear,what Molly Haskell does sodeftly is dismiss conventionalwisdom about GoneWith the Wind – still theall-time box office champwith an inflation-adjusted$1.3 billion gross – and whyit’s perceived as film fluffand the book as sentimental twaddle. Thenearly unequivocal critical consensus ofFrankly, My Dear is that oh my, oh yes,GWTW is indeed a reputable cinematicand literary work worthy of respect. Thequestion becomes: What choir is Haskellpreaching to?Maybe she’s not preaching. Haskell,film critic turned academic and author ofFrom Reverence to Rape: The Treatmentof Women in the Movies, once stood upLuckily for those of us who missed outon all that 1950s sci-fun, this Friday theLyndon Baines Johnson Library andMuseum, in conjunction with the AlamoDrafthouse’s Rolling Roadshow, is presentingthe next best thing: an outdoor screeningof The War of the Worlds on the LBJLibrary lawn via the Alamo’s 40-foot-by-60-foot road-show screen. Bring your blanketsand the kids, but no alcohol.The event, part of the library’s exhibit“To the Moon: The American SpaceProgram in the 1960s,” kicks off at 5pmwith a chance to visit the exhibit beforerockin’ out, daddio, to the groovy soundsof the Rockit Scientists (incredibly,they’re actual rocket scientists from theJohnson Space Center). Then at 8pm, themartians invade!But wait, there’s more: a real, honest-togoodnessSaturday afternoon triple sci-fimatinee inside the LBJ Library’s theatre.Seriously, this is one lineup not to bemissed by any monster kid or film studiesmajor: sexy space babe Anne Francis andRobby the Robot battling it out with the“monsters from the id” in the classicForbidden Planet (10am), George Pal’s gorgeouslyapocalyptic When Worlds Collide(1pm), and the awesome Ray Harryhausenstop-motion destruction of our nation’s capitalin Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (3pm).to a 1972 panel of fellowfeminists and disputedGloria Steinem’s contentionthat Scarlett O’Hara was asymbol of female repression.Moreover, Haskell is nostranger to the moonlightand-magnoliasSouth thatcreated Scarlett O’Hara.A Southerner herself,Haskell delves into heranalysis using thefilm and the book,alternately positingthe book’s Scarlettwith the film’s Scarlett and theMargaret Mitchell-authored storywith its screen script. The true purposeof Frankly, My Dear, then, seems lessto defend GWTW’s undeniably tarnishedreputation than to make it okay to admit toliking GWTW.And for what has GWTW been pilloriedover the years? Even in 1939 when GWTWwas released, it was not considered anaccurate account of plantation life, slavery,SXSW Reviews 52 SXSW Red Carpet 53 TV Eye 78 Film ListingsBest of all, it’s totally free! So grab your picnicbasket, and go relive the anxious days ofthe Red Scare era, UFO mania, and the U.S.Air Force’s now declassified (or so they say)tantalizing search for earthbound extraterrestrials,Project Blue Book.And, hey, while you’re at it, “Keep watchingthe skies!”■War of the Worlds screens Friday, March 27, at 8pmon the LBJ Library lawn (2313 Red River). Triple-FeatureSci-Fi Saturday takes place Saturday, March 28, startingat 10am, in the LBJ Library’s third-floor theatre. Allevents are free and open to the public. For more info,visit www.lbjlib.utexas.edu.or the Civil War. Accusations of racism weredisputed by its black stars, such as HattieMcDaniel’s famous rebuke that she wouldrather get paid for playing a maid than workas one. Gone With the Wind, then as now, isstrictly entertainment minus any pretense ofpolitical correctness.At Haskell’s most compelling, she acknowledgesthe film’s casting for its magic andromantic allure. Vivien Leigh’s luminousbeauty perfectly fit Mitchell’s descriptionof Scarlett, yet Haskell findsinprintOlivia de Havilland’s Melanieintriguing and considers her thecharacter around which Scarlettdoes her most important selfgrowth.Haskell also points out thatfemale fans had the rare opportunity toexperience the virgin-or-the-whore choices socinematically available to men: Ashley Wilkes’intellectual vs. Rhett Butler’s rakehell.Frankly, My Dear imbues Gone With theWind with far more intention and contextthan Margaret Mitchell ever intended, butleave it to Molly Haskell to reinforce itsenduring appeal. – Margaret Moserfilm newsBY JOE O ’CONNELLSEEN AND HEARD AT SXSWRobert Rodriguez confirmed during aSouth by Southwest Film Festival panel that hewill shoot his next film, a futuristic thriller, inAustin this June. He called it Nerveracker, butprevious reports have it as the pluralNerverackers. Rodriguez said he sold the filmas a scriptless title 10 years ago to theWeinstein brothers. Rodriguez also revealedthat he finally became a college graduate lastyear… Tim McCanlies, whose wacky comedyThe 2 Bobs premiered at SXSW, said he tookon the directing chores for Alabama Moon,based on Watt Key’s young-adult novel of thesame name, with only a few weeks’ notice. Thefilm was shot in New Orleans but could haveeasily been lensed on McCanlies’ 350-acreBastrop County ranch if not for the larger financialincentives offered in Louisiana, he said.Famed more as a screenwriter and script doctor,McCanlies is having a hot year behind thecamera with the two films in the can and seekingdistribution. Little known fact? McCanliesput himself through Southern MethodistUniversity film school as a Dallas cop.AUSTIN-RAISED ACTORHONORS 9/11 HEROESAustin High School grad Todd Allen hasbeen in 50 or so film and television projects,including Grand Canyon and AMC’s Broken Trail,but he says his latest, the short “AmericanIdentity,” is perhaps the most personally fulfilling.Set around the events of 9/11, it will tourmilitary bases, starting with Fort Hood. The ideacame from fellow producer Stephen Rollins,who had a birthday dinner Sept. 10, 2001, in arestaurant atop the World Trade Center. Whilethere he received a telephone call from oldfriends in Boston, who would die the next day ina hijacked airplane. “As the son of a Naval aviatorand the nephew of a Marine who fought inVietnam, it is particularly gratifying,” said Allen,who also recently starred as a Texas Rangerwho brings down a drug cartel in AmericanCartel, which shot in San Antonio and Uvalde.AND THE REST …Reel Women presents Lunafest at 2pmSunday at the Dell Jewish Community Campus(7300 Hart). The program includes 10 shortfilms that deal with what it means to be awoman in a new century. Proceeds benefit ReelWomen programs and the Breast CancerFund… Actor Danny DeVito will be signing bottlesof his new Limoncello at Twin Liquors inHancock Center from 11am to 1pm onSaturday… Will Moore’s Cowboy Smokescreens at 7:30pm tonight, Thursday, March 26,at the Alamo Lake Creek as part of the ongoingAustin Film Festival series AFF Presents.Brian Satterwhite, the film’s composer, recentlywas honored for his score at the Park CityFilm Music Festival… The Texas-shot“Desdemona: A Love Story” premieres at theAFI-Dallas International Film Festival on Tuesday.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 49

SCREENSSXSW Film ReviewsAMERICAN PRINCEDocumentary Feature, Special ScreeningsD: Tommy PallottaIn 1978, MartinScorsese releaseda legendary but little-seendocumentaryabout StevenPrince, an exheroin-addict,formerroad managerfor Neil Diamond,and heavyweightraconteur. For 55minutes Scorsesegave his friendthe floor to tellstories of his hectic life (some of which wouldlater make appearances in films by QuentinTarantino and Richard Linklater). “AmericanBoy,” which saw a limited release and is allbut unavailable now (it screened at South bySouthwest 09), has become a sort of holygrail for Scorsese fans: his “lost movie,” amyth spoken of in hushed tones. More than30 years later, director (and former Austinite)Pallotta found Prince and convinced him to doit all again, this time pulling back the curtainon the making of “American Boy” and thewild, indulgent, drug-fueled, gun-crazed, sexaddleddays he spent with Scorsese in late-Seventies Hollywood. Prince is so engaging asa storyteller, so brimming with experience, sofull of life, that Pallotta’s film can’t help butmove by in a flash: Close your eyes, and anhour has passed. Best, however, not to closeyour ears.– Josh RosenblattTHE LAST BEEKEEPERDocumentary Feature, Spotlight PremieresD: Jeremy SimmonsAlmond milk, almond butter, almond cookies,Almond Joy, almond lotion … almonds areubiquitous. However, their existence is threatenedby the extinction of one very hardworkingcreature: the bee. Almond trees dependon bees for pollination, and bees are rapidlydying thanks to Colony Collapse Disorder(think bee HIV). This caused Simmons towonder: What is the fate of all living creaturesshould bees go extinct? Considering the grav-ity of the question, it’s obliquely asked, ormaybe the fascinating beekeepers Simmonsprofiles inadvertently cloud the question. Eachis enormously captivating, coming to the tradedifferently but sharing an understanding oftheir intimate, hands-on work. In the end, it’san ancillary character that sagely pronouncesthe upshot of the film: Man has demandedtoo much for too long from the earth andgives nothing in return. Once those wordsare spoken, the message the vanishing beesbring is frighteningly clear. – Belinda AcostaWOMEN IN TROUBLENarrative Feature, Spotlight PremieresD: Sebastian Gutierrez; with Carla Gugino,Adrianne Palicki, Connie Britton, Josh Brolin,Simon Baker, Marley Shelton, EmmanuelleChirqui, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sarah Clarke,Cameron RichardsonBefore reaching the verge of a nervousbreakdown, the subjects are generally womenin trouble … and that’s more or less how itgoes in this derivative comedy that might havebeen cobbled together from pages left overfrom some forgotten Pedro Almodóvar shoot.Writer/director Gutierrez is actually a pal andwriting buddy of Almodóvar’s, so the influenceis hardly a shocker. Although both filmmakersoffer female ensembles a generosity ofcharacters, Gutierrez’s women seem a bitwan by comparison. Still, Women in Trouble’scanvas of intersecting characters can be awhole lot of fun, even if the women’s variouspredicaments don’t always follow through withthe zaniness of their setups. A pregnant pornstar, a sister with a secret about her niece, atrysting flight attendant, a couple of call girls,a therapist whose marriage is in crisis, andnumerous others cross paths over the courseof one day and night. Original music by RobynHitchcock helps brighten the mood.– Marjorie BaumgartenSTRONGMANDocumentary Feature, Special ScreeningsD: Zachary LevyThere seems to be an unspoken ruleamong documentarians that anything or anyoneis worthy of a documentary if you canjust get the right footage and edit it enter-Final Audience Awards AnnouncedSXSW announced two more audienceawards near the end of the Festival: IronMaiden: Flight 666 (D: Scot McFadyen,Sam Dunn) took Best in Show for the24 Beats per Second sidebar, and Overthe Hills and Far Away (D: Michel OrionScott), about one Austin family’s strugglewith living with autism, won Best inShow for the Lone Star States sidebar.You can read more about both films, aswell as find all our prior SXSW 09 Filmreviews and Conference coverage, ataustinchronicle.com/screens.Over the Hills and Far Awaytainingly. Hoop Dreams comes to mind, asit followed two inner-city teens and endedup being a transcendent film about theAmerican dream. Strongman either finallyproves the adage wrong or was mishandledby the director and editors. It’s the story ofan average joe (or Stan, in this case) with aunique ability (viz, bending steel and otherfeats of strength), who finds his talents lessin demand, which makes it increasingly hardto maintain his insufferably positive outlook.His girlfriend, Barb, is his rock. His alcoholicbrother serves as a cautionary tale of whatStan could become. What results is an excruciatingtwo hours that could have been cutin half and still retained the film’s ultimateeffect of verité and little else.– James RenovitchBURMA VJDocumentary Feature, Special ScreeningsD: Anders OstergaardThis film is the backstory to the mediafootage we watched on TV in the summerof 2007, when 100,000 Myanmar citizens– joined by the country’s usually apoliticalBuddhist monks – marched against a 40-yearlongrepressive military regime. (The iconicimage of the all-too brief and horribly doomeduprising was that of the orange-robed monksmarching through Rangoon with their blackalms bowls held upside down, indicatingtheir refusal to take alms from the regime.)Recording it all surreptitiously with video camerasand cell phones and then transmitting itto the world was a cadre of brave Myanmarvideo journalists, members of the NorwaybasedDemocratic Voice of Burma. The film isa compelling presentation of a tragic situation,but it has been criticized, and rightly so, for itsliberal use of re-enactments, which are onlygenerally acknowledged at the beginning ofthe film and not specifically denominated.– Anne S. LewisTHE BIG SQUEEZEDocumentary ShortD: Hector GalánWhat starts as a trailer for the AustinbasedTexas Folklife Resources and its annualAccordion Kings & Queens competition veersinto a narrow examination of traditional accordionmusic. Galán has made a career celebratingTejano and conjunto music with todoJANA BIRCHUMJONATHAN DEMME‘Neil Young Trunk Show’Despite filming a couple of Hollywoodremakes (The Truth About Charlie and TheManchurian Candidate) in the past, directorJonathan Demme has always resisted thelure of the easy sequel (he left it to othersto continue the Hannibal Lecter brand). NeilYoung, however, is another story entirely.Demme followed up his 2006 concert doc,Neil Young: Heart of Gold, with this newperformance film, which made its worldpremiere at the Paramount Theatre on theclosing day of South by Southwest. Thatauditorium proved the perfect screeningroom, as the venue replicates the ornatebut well-worn vibe of the Tower Theatrein Upper Darby, Penn., where the concertwas filmed. Asked during the Q&A how thisnew film compares with his previous Youngmovie, Demme replied that Trunk Show isa “reaction to Heart of Gold.” Everythingabout the earlier film was carefully planned;“this one is unplanned.” Demme then wenton to tell an amusing story about beingwith Young at Farm Aid and learning thatthen-Sen. Barack Obama was visiting WillieNelson’s bus. Already a supporter of thepolitician, Demme managed to get the senatorover to listen to Young’s rehearsal andasked if he knew the song. Obama replied:“‘Southern Man’? Give me a break.”– Marjorie Baumgartencorazón. However, this documentary, preparedfor PBS to air later in the year, barely scratchesthe surface in its painfully scant 26 minutesand, as a result, has several missed opportunities.Conjunto is king in the film, but zydeco– a parallel accordion tradition – only receivespassing reference. The film celebrates severalteenage accordionists, but why they persistin a period of aggressive modernization is notdeeply examined. And the fact that there areother young musicians exploding conjunto whilewhole-heartedly embracing it (punk conjunto,anyone?) is never approached. The newcomermay be engrossed, but for those who knowand love conjunto, “The Big Squeeze” leavesyou wanting more. – Belinda Acosta50 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Next-Generation TVBY B ELINDA ACOSTAWith all the Twittering, geek madness,star-sighting, walking, screening, rocking,and partying, it might seem inconceivablethat TV had any sort of presence at Southby Southwest, but it did. Two panels inparticular piqued my “TV Eye” interest:Old Man Nielsen vs. New Market Research(March 16) and Beyond Apple TV: Next-Generation Systems for Acquiring Content(March 17) provided valuable insights tounderstand the current media climate andTV’s future in it.What could have been a smackdownat the Old Man vs. New Market ResearchInteractive panel between Michael Lambie,who represented the Nielsen Co., and panelistssuch as Daniel Neely of NetworkedInsights turned out to be a spirited discussionabout the way audiences are changing.Neely pointed out that social media –Twitter, Facebook, Meebo, among others– provide a means for audiences of variousproducts, be it a TV show or shampoo,to share insights or impressions, create adialogue, and establish that valuable thingcalled buzz. “Consumers are looking tohave a voice, out in the open,” Neely said.“Nielsen should measure impressions, notjust exposure. … The TV rating system isbased on exposures as opposed to measuringwhat people are talking about.”Nielsen’s Lambie didn’t disagree butpointed out that discerning what wasa true groundswell of interest vs.the chatter of “a vocal minority”was still the challenge to allclaiming to measure audiencesand the ability to deliver themto advertisers.There was a lot of shoptalkabout “metrics” and “high andlow engagement.” As an average TVviewer, that didn’t interest me, but the ideathat social media was identified as a crucialelement in the future of determining how(or if) the Nielsen ratings would continue tobe viewed as a bellwether for TV programmingand consumption struck me as crucial.More so when I sat in on the BeyondApple TV panel.Now, for as long as I’ve been going toSXSW Interactive, talk of new TV, interactiveTV, and convergence has reared its headin some way – mainly, as panelists on theBeyond Apple TV panel agreed, because theholy grail of the next generation of TV is stillbeing defined.“Twelve percent of broadband users watchtheir TV online,” Colin Dixon of the DiffusionGroup said. In the past, the emphasis was onthe type of delivery system to bring contentto viewers. But that emphasis is surely shifting,given the fact that consumers don’t careabout the device as much as they care aboutease of use and the ability to watch what theywant, where they want.“The only real closed system is iTunes.They’re still a download-only technology,but streaming content is going to overtakedownload content,” said Richard Bullwinkleof Macrovision. “A spinning drive [e.g., theDVR] in every home is the wrong way to go.iTunes, I like your music, but I can’t accessHulu or Pandora” or any other content provider.The death grip on the device has toend, Bullwinkle said.“Whomever owns the EPG [electronicprogramming guide] rules the world,” MarciaZellers of the Fashion Institute of Design &Merchandising suggested. “I wonder if thesocial network [for TV] is, indeed, the EPG.”The EPG as the “Twitter space” for TVviewers that you can participate inor not struck a chord because itfocuses on the “value add” tothe viewer, not the ability oftveyeWhat’s next?advertisers to sell pizza, aswas the emphasis in the past,but to provide a companionexperience to the viewer if theywant it, when they want it.“There have been plenty ofmisfires in the content space in thelast 15 years,” Zellers said. “To make contentthat has it all is not what people want.”Authoring standards for creating contentfor TV is on the way, the panelists agreed,and the “walled garden” that prevents viewersfrom selecting content from one providerwhile using an “outside” platform is disintegrating.The frustration is in the speedof this change, as providers still figure outwhat viewers want and viewers wait for thetechnology dust to settle. The bottom line is:TV is not going anywhere. It’s just anotherscreen to capture your content, wherever itcomes from.As always, stay tuned.Worth repeatingElectronic-waste drive – Saturday, March 28,from 9am to 3pm in the LBJ Library parkinglot at Red River and Dean Keeton. For moreinformation, e-mail the Student EngineeringCouncil at service.sec.ut@gmail.com.E-mail Belinda Acosta at tveye@austinchronicle.com.FEATURINGBEN WALSH$ OFBEN’S LONGBRANCH BBQ900 East 11th St. - 499-0910WWW.THEALLIGATORGRILL.COM512 444-6117 3003 S. LAMARSOUTHAUSTINF A TT UEA YS D$4 00HURRICANES20¢ SHRIMP50¢ OYSTERS$4 00ABITA BEERSSERVING THE BEST ROMANIAN FOODNOW SERVINGEUROPEANWINE &BEERM-F 5-10 SAT 12-10 SUN CLOSED Sa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 53

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music56Austin Music Awards Encore 57 SXSW 09 Live Shots 88 Music ListingsJane’sAddictionOFF THE REC RDNothing’s ShockingKanye West came to South by Southwest09 to party. Decked out in black sunglassesand a gold bullet chain, the illustrious rappertook the stage at the Third Street block partyknown as the Levi’s/Fader Fort on Saturday,lighthearted and with little agenda, essentiallycurating a two-hour mixtape for his GOODMusic imprint that included appearances fromCommon, lead Cannabinoid Erykah Badu, andthe ever-entertaining Fonzworth Bentley.Although it was an unofficial SXSW event,West’s appearance still speaks to the magnitudeand stature of the annual Music Conference,which can no longer be considered merely anindustry affair. This was the year that the Festivalfirmly established itself as an essential pop-culturedestination, where bands and brands – notto mention celebrities such as Rachael Rayand Perez Hilton and the media that coverthem – look not only to make a name for themselvesbut more so to retain relevance.Punching in “SXSW 2009” generates morethan 4,000 hits on Google News, nearly fourtimes the amount of media impressions fromjust two years ago. In fact, the biggest breakthroughat SXSW was actually that of Twitter,the microblogging mechanism that allows forcasual updates and observations, such as thisinsightful aside from Grizzly Bear’s EdwardDroste from the Pitchfork/Windish bash onFriday at Emo’s: “Department of Eagles withVictoria Legrand [of Beach House] covering the Dead. Sohilarious and awesome.”Media outlets from around the world covered and documentedSXSW from every possible angle. Daytrotter.com recorded sessionsfrom locals T Bird & the Breaks, Corto Maltese, andthe Strange Boys, who had Rolling Stone’s David Fricke bobbingaway during their riveting SXSW showcase at Beauty BarBackyard. Andrew Bird and Ben Harper & the Relentless7took flight for the 35th anniversary season of Austin CityLimits, while Carlene Carter, the Oak Ridge Boys, andTinted Windows – the unremarkable grouping of members ofHanson, Cheap Trick, and the Smashing Pumpkins – wentlive from the Austin Convention Center on DirecTV.NPR further bolstered its indie tastemaker credentials withthe transmission of the Decemberists’ staging of The Hazardsof Love with Lavender Diamond’s Becky Stark and MyBrightest Diamond in tow, while stations ranging from KCRWin Santa Monica and Seattle’s KEXP to the online-only WOXYall broadcast their picks of the litter from the front lines. PJHarvey & John Parish even stopped by Buffalo Billiards tochat with OTR on 101X.“Usually after I finish a project, I go back and sort throughmy old tapes,” Harvey revealed. “That’s how I came across‘Black Hearted Love.’ I felt like that song needed to be heardand demanded a body of work to go with it.”More than ever, nostalgia reigned supreme last week, thanksin no small part to Metallica’s colossal 90-minute electrocutionat Stubb’s, which James Hetfield deemed “the worstkept secret in rock & roll history” and is now available fordownload at www.metallicalive.com. The recently reunited Jane’sAddiction in kind launched a full-blown stadium spectacularfrom inside the old Safeway in East Austin early Friday morning.(Tickets for the band’s stop at the Frank Erwin Center,May 12, with Nine Inch Nails, go on sale this Saturdaythrough Texas Box Office, 10am.) Lest we forget, flashbacksMUSIC NEWS by Austin Powellwere also incited by Devo, Echo & the Bunnymen, theSonics, Japan’s Flower Travellin’ Band, and the acid-housedementia of Primal Scream.There was no shortage of new talent, though – quite the contrary.Some personal highlights included the patient sedation ofHere We Go Magic’s psych pop and the looped neoclassicalwonderment produced by Peter Broderick. Women’s indieKrautrock workouts made for cold sweat at Urban Outfitters,while J. Tillman delivered quietly disarming mountain songs thatcalled to mind Neil Young at the Canterbury House in 1968.“The truth is that different acts have always used South bySouthwest for different reasons at different stages of theircareer,” reasoned SXSW Music Creative Director Brent Grulke.“Really, the most important thing that someone can come awaywith is the names of some people they might want to collaboratewith creatively or professionally, the opportunity to meet like-mindedpeople and exchange phone numbers or e-mail addresses.”Indeed, the malleability of SXSW remains its greatest asset,allowing the Conference to grow each year and introduce newfacets, such as the Austin Record Convention – a mereteaser for the upcoming spring show at the Crockett EventsCenter April 3-5 – which was teamed alongside the inauguralTexas Guitar Show in the Austin Convention Center. It’s worthnoting though that in order for the Austin Record Convention toreturn to the spring prominence it once held at PalmerAuditorium before the dawning of day parties, the Festival willneed to make adequate room for it, perhaps beside Flatstock.The greatest expansion in activity this year occurred on theEastside, in both the number of official SXSW venues (theMusic Gym, the Independent) and nonsanctioned hideoutssuch as Club 1808 and the Compound, where Wu-TangClan’s GZA got crunk with Black Lips. The French LegationMuseum boasted some of the best lineups of the week,including Dirty Projectors, Camera Obscura, and SouthAfrican breakout Blk Jks, oftentimes with longer lines to get inthan all but a select few SXSW showcases.Farther south on Cesar Chavez, the private Red Bull MoonTower established an after-hours/early-morning hot spot, withperformances from the Riverboat Gamblers, I Love You butI’ve Chosen Darkness, and Lady Sovereign. Domy Bookstransformed its back lot into something resembling LosAngeles’ the Smell scene on Saturday, compliments of the riotousMika Miko, noise-punk zeitgeist No Age, and Nite Jewel,whose narcotic synth-pop glow defied the afternoon daylight.Down the street, Okay Mountain hosted Autobus Records,lilted by the heavily syncopated lullabies of Andrew Kenny’sthe Wooden Birds. The award for most creative day party definitelygoes to MyOpenBar.com’s presentation of Four SquarePunk, where bands such as Finally Punk and the Mae Shialternated songs across four decidedly DIY stages within astone’s throw of a free roller-skating rink.With so many variables at hand, there’s bound to be a fewnear natural disasters each year, and one such unofficial SXSWincident occurred at Ballet Austin during the second annualKVRXplosion, when Monotonix’s pro-wrestling-style falsecount-anywherepunk freak-out “left 10 dead and five injured,”according to the mock tagline for the YouTube video that’sbeen circulating ever since. “It was about as controlled aschaos can be,” recalled KVRX business manager MichaelSedillo via e-mail. “Of course, we had our share of spills andmarks on the wall, but besides that it was relatively unharmed.”That was SXSW 09 in a nutshell: chaos and confusion, exhilarationand exhaustion, erupting in transcendent bursts ofexcitement and color like the choreographed fireworks overAuditorium Shores for the finale of Explosions in the Sky.One couldn’t ask for a better week in Austin.SANDY CARSON SANDY CARSON AUBREY EDWARDS GARY MILLER GARY MILLERMetallicaSchool ofSeven BellsBlk JksThe Strange Boysa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 55

MUSICTODD V. WOLFSONDavid YowThe Fireants(L-r) Augie Meyers withShawn and Shandon SahmTODD V. WOLFSONRuthie FosterMARY SLEDDSANDY CARSON2008-09Austin MusicAwards EncoreAustin Convention CenterWednesday, March 18Pinetop PerkinsTODD V. WOLFSONNakiaThe Dicks’Gary FloydMARY SLEDDCarolynWonderlandSuzannaChoffelSANDY CARSONSANDY CARSONTODD V. WOLFSON56 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

THE DECEMBERISTSStubb’s, March 18Despite a tentative beginning, theDecemberists pulled off the live premiereof their magnificent fifth album, TheHazards of Love, a rock opera of sortsbased on archetypal characters from thefolk music lexicon. Skeptics might arguethat to re-create the album live robs aperformance of its own natural, organiclogic and the element of surprise for anaudience, yet the set came with built-insurprises, namely Shara Worden (akaMy Brightest Diamond) voicing the characterof Hazards’ Forest Queen. Wordenvamped it up in a flapper-style dress andClaudette Colbert bob, belting out hervignettes so powerfully as to be heardfrom mountaintops without the aid of amicrophone. “The Rake’s Song,” villaintheme of the opera’s narrative, thunderedwith the might of five sets of drums,singer/guitarist Colin Meloy and bassistNate Query the only two band membersthat skipped the skins in favor of theirown instruments. The Portland, Ore., quintet, plus Worden and singer Becky Stark,who voiced the lead character of Margaret, closed to wild approval from the audienceand encored, fittingly, with “I Was Meant for the Stage.”– Melanie HauptSXSW MUSIC 09ÉRIKA MACHADOThe Rio, March 18Érika Machado traveled 5,000 miles to playa 40-minute set to 20 people in a Tex-Mexeatery. Such is the fate of a largely unknowninternational act performing at a music festival.Acoustic guitar in hand, the Braziliansinger loped through much of 2007’s NoCimento, including “Perna,” “Tédio,” “Cançãodo Coração,” and the title track. On disc,mellow pop melodies are wrapped in anelectronic chill, and for several songs here,Machado strummed along with the soundsdrifting from her laptop, though the LP’smore adventurous Nintendo-biting beats werereplaced with acoustic lullabies. Everyonein the Brazilian-dominated room knew oneanother, and the intimate atmosphere andsmall stage led to a coffeehouse vibe, mostof the crowd sitting cross-legged on the flooras Machado’s dreamy voice massaged itsgray matter. Utterly unpretentious, Machadoand her sleepy, bossa nova-inspired tuneswere a world away from the rocking & rollingof Red River. After closing with “Óculos deGrau,” Machado met the calls of “Otra! Otra!”with a touch of humor: “Sorry, we don’t speakPortuguese,” she deadpanned.– Thomas FawcettKID CONGO POWERS & THE PINKMONKEY BIRDSEmo’s Jr., March 18Batting last in Leafy Green Booking’sformidable showcase, guitarist Kid CongoPowers & the Pink Monkey Birds delivereda workmanlike set. As a founding memberof the Gun Club, longtime member of theCramps, and onetime sideman to Nick Cave,Powers proved himself the veteran amongrelative newcomers still capable of shimmeringthe glow of new discovery. The promulgationof the reverb-laden trash rock aestheticmakes it easy to forget that Powers is oneof its avatars, but the impeccably bespectacledand mustachioed performer still findsroom to keep the template fresh. Openingwith “I Found a Peanut” from his new disc,Dracula Boots, Powers and company conjuredup the boozy air of a basement B-side soulparty. While the frontman’s guitar soundjuxtaposed punk rock insouciance with theunderside of midcentury retro-futurism, drummerRon Miller’s backbeat gave the hips aNew Orleans-style workout. The recent deathof Cramps founder Lux Interior promptedthe quartet’s “I’m Cramped” in well-receivedtribute. The memory of departed Gun Club cofounderJeffrey Lee Pierce was also invoked inspirited versions of “Sex Beat” and “For theLove of Ivy.” Although old songs clicked onfamiliarity, the rhythmic undertones of morerecent tunes like “LSDC” and “Black Bag”proved every bit as intriguing. – Greg BeetsPETER MURPHYElysium, March 19The former goth godhead and currentvamp-in-residence for Turkey may be sportinga bit of a paunch these days, but hismultioctave pipes have maintained a darklygolden sheen, surpassing even those of hisglam-pop hero, one David Bowie. Murphy’sElysium gig managed barely half the blackmagic of his Emo’s birthday gig last summer– no cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt,” noa cappella serenading of “Wild Is the Wind,”zero Bauhaus – and instead focused almostentirely on recent solo material, including aSHELLEY HIAMTODD V. WOLFSONFor more SXSW “Live Shots” and daily coverage, see austinchronicle.com/sxsw.grimly fiendish version of “Blinded Like Saul”from 2004’s Unshattered and the funereal“Secret Silk Society.” Questionable stagepatter aside, Murphy, bedecked as ever incouture noir, stalked and flailed across thestage, mounting the monitors with a cheergrimace, while guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite,late of the Mission UK, pulled grindingly heavyand distorted notes from his six-stringer thatbordered on the industrial. The capacity crowdlooked happy enough to see Murphy up closeand personal, but it wasn’t until the encorethat the show caught fire with an incandescentcover of Joy Division’s “Transmission”:“No language, just sound, that’s all we needto know, to synchronize love to the beat of theshow.” Ian Curtis lives. – Marc SavlovBEACH HOUSEVolume, March 19Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, deckedout in black leather vest and ironic mustache,respectively, echoed dream pop in directcounterpoint to the family-style orchestrationsso prevalent over their past half-decade.Opening the cavernous Volume with a squallof unintentional feedback, the Baltimore trio(now including drums!) launched into a fuzzhappy“Wedding Bell” from 2008’s still-reverberatingDevotion. Legrand plays a modernGene Autry, her voice layered and distortedyet still heart-wrenching. With pals (and collaborators)Grizzly Bear hollering at the backof the room, Beach House eased throughDevotion highlight “Gila,” a kick drum framingLegrand’s croon; new 7-inch “Used to Be”;and a gorgeous newbie that had Legrand begging,“I’ll take care of you if you ask me to.”Beach House is an air conditioner set on 65,aural Xanax that brilliantly calms without puttinganyone to bed. The crowd began thinninghalfway through, perhaps with the knowledgethat Beach House would be making a halfdozenmore appearances over the next twodays, but that lulling gallop remained.– Darcie StevensROSALIE SORRELSVictorian Room at the Driskill, March 19At 75, Rosalie Sorrels was among the moreveteran performers at South by Southwest,yet as she reminded her audience, “Little oldladies are sometimes surprising.” Sorrelsperformed only eight songs over 50 minutesbut charmed the audience with tales of theartists she’s met and worked with, mainly thelate Utah Phillips, whose songs make up herlatest, Grammy-nominated disc, Strangers inAnother Country, as well as the work of poetLawrence Ferlinghetti, writer Ken Kesey, andSANDY CARSONlive shotsfolksingers Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and KateWolf. The material was in the folk tradition,majestically standing apart from contemporarysongwriter fare. “Don’t call me a singersongwriter,because that’s not what I do really,”Sorrels explained. She spoke of how sheand Phillips were co-conspirators for nearly 50years and how he was inspired by the storyof Woody Guthrie’s ashes being thrown to thewinds of Coney Island for “Ashes on the Sea.”Finishing on the bittersweet “My Last GoRound,” which was uplifting despite its title,Sorrels was rewarded with a standing ovation,not as a living legend but for a performancethat was as thoughtful and galvanizing as anyduring SXSW.– Jim CaligiuriBIG BOIAustin Music Hall, March 19Even without Andre 3000, OutKast rapperBig Boi still brought the bangers. After assuringthe modest crowd that his heavily leakedsolo album Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son ofChico Dusty would be out soon, the man bornAntwan Andre Patton offered a lesson in flowdrawing heavily on early ’Kast cuts. The billingof a live band as part of the venue’s AfroPunkshowcase was an oversell; beats and orchestrationremained dominated by DJ CutmasterSwift. Yet “Ms. Jackson” and “The Way YouMove” were off the hook, Big Boi demandingthat the band and crowd “speed this up” for“Ghettomuzik,” which made clear he has fewrivals when it comes to superfast flow. Withthe club rumbling like the trunk of an Olds 88,musicians from the wings presently joined BigBoi onstage for the set’s latter half. Hypedprotégé Janelle Monáe lockstepped her waythrough a light-speed “B.O.B.,” and with ahouse party breaking out, it was hard to saywhether the band or the audience was havingmore fun.– Dan OkoCONTINUED ON P.58a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 57

MUSIC SXSW 09 LIVE SHOTS CONTINUED FROM P.57 THE BAR-KAYSPRIMAL SCREAMCedar Street Courtyard, March 19By now it’s obvious: Scottish rockers PrimalScream are the true inheritors of the Stones’battered, jagged, yet ultimately glorious Britrock& roll crown. Both Keith Richards andScream frontman Bobby Gillespie have prieda few jewels off that tarnished old topper, thebetter to barter for illicit consumables overthe years, but the eminence fronted by thenewly sober Gillespie and backed by guitaristAndrew Innes, former Stone Roses bassistMani Mounfield, keyboardist Martin Duffy,and new guitar recruit and snappy dresserBarry Cadogan proved yet again why the formertrain-spotters continue to be the mostSANDY CARSONexhilarating UK rockers 25-plus years on.Their Cedar Street gig ranged from 1990’sclassic Screamadelica (“Loaded”) to a thunderingversion of new single “Can’t Go Back.”Gillespie looked and sounded a full decadeyounger than the shorn, scrawny blowhardthat staggered through his last Austin incarnationin 2000. With demon-green laser beamsshooting over the sardine-tinned audience’ssea of raised hands, the Scream’s skintightrenditions of classic hyper-rockers “SwastikaEyes” and “Miss Lucifer” twice resulted in astage-front scrum that brought security intothe crush. Encoring the 50-minute set with anelectrifying version of “Rocks,” Gillespie andcompany exited slapping front-row flesh, grinning,laughing, and looking altogether pleasedwith their own beautiful future. – Marc SavlovLADY SOVEREIGNClub de Ville, March 20Beginning 20 minutes late, LadySovereign’s set initially reigned chaos. Theshowcase MC tried to keep the crowd energizedwhile Sov’s DJ Annalyze spun andscratched, and seven or eight entouragerswandered onstage sipping beers and impatientlysigned orders to the sound booth.Suddenly the trademark “S-o-veee” motif burstfrom the speakers, and the diminutive Ladybounced onstage. Sov seems to have lessof a shell than most rappers, which probablyincreases the risk of nervous breakdownsbut also makes for uncommonly emotionalperformances; witness the explosive energyof the set’s second song, “Love Me or HateMe.” Starting out by demanding to see “everysingle middle finger in the house,” Sov roaredthe song at the top of her lungs, and yet,when she accidentally kicked an audiencemember, she had the presence of mind toapologize midchorus. Following “Love Me”with two lackluster new tracks, including theCure-biting “So Human,” Sov ramped thingsup at the close with “Public Warning,” whichshe delivered with ferocious precision. Aftercommanding the audience to mosh, she finishedthe song, tossed a beer on the crowd,spiked the mic, and exited, leaving it allonstage after only five songs. – Daniel MeeAUBREY EDWARDSDirty Dog Bar, March 19Call it the Beale Street Invasion. Memphis Music Foundation’s Thursday night showcasewas a reminder that the resilient Tennessee town is forever a haven for Americanmusic. After hip-hoppers Free Sol filled in for 8Ball & MJG, who missed their flight, androckers Lucero drenched the crowd in bourbon-inspired grit, the Bar-Kays headlined witha Delta soul/funk party they’ve pumped for the past 40 years. The faces have changed– only bassist James Alexander plays on from the original lineup that lost four of itssix members in the plane crash that also killed Otis Redding – but the groove’s just astight; the spirit’s just as high. The 10-piece roared through a 20-minute funk odysseybefore howler Larry Dodson called for 1967 classic “Soul Finger.” Caught up in classicStax fervor, Dodson and Alexander moved into a five-song Redding medley – “Can’t TurnYou Loose,” “Try a Little Tenderness,” “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “(Sittin’ on) TheDock of the Bay,” “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” – which kick-started a “Freakshow onthe Dance Floor” and proved that time-tested vets shake intergalactic 1980s funk justas well as they blast 1960s soul. The Bar-Kays were a thrill. – Chase HoffbergerDEVOAustin Music Hall, March 20Given Devo’s emblematic role in shapingcontemporary 1980s nostalgia, thequestion was whether the Akron, Ohiobredquintet would scare up a 21st centuryversion of Ricky Nelson’s “GardenParty.” A competent running of the hitswould’ve sent the crowd home happy,but the group performed as if it wereJOHN ANDERSONWOVENHANDSpiros, March 20“Weave together anger and grief, bow down, bow down, and sing,” growled DavidEugene Edwards during a rare South by Southwest Music Fest encore of his former band16 Horsepower’s “Horse Head Fiddle,” his blues moan scouring atop droning guitar. Fewphrases better capture the preceding 40 minutes of Wovenhand’s set, Edwards unleashingthe ferocity of a Pentecostal firebrand. With only bass and drums backing his scorched,raw guitar, the band powered through opener “Kicking Bird” and a rumbling “Beautiful Ax”from latest Ten Stones, though live, the songs were rent with an intensity matched by theseated Edwards’ relentlessly twitching right leg, convulsing in the air as his left shuffledthe beat against the floor. The jackknife rhythm of “Tin Finger” serrated into a wail of distortion,while “Your Russia (Dance Without Hands)” was bone-rattling, Wovenhand unravelinga deep Southern Gothic through spoken verses and dark-holler tales that summonedprog proportions in their mythic scale and conceits. The drama of Edwards’ delivery attimes overwhelmed the songs, but the Colorado dweller seemed possessed beyond hissweat-drenched frame, quivering and intently staring down the front-row fans with wild-eyedabandon. Edwards captivates a room, like a fire and brimstone revival that unleashes arapturous spirit coursing through the waves of dark sound, terrifying and redeeming like asummoned apocalypse.– Doug FreemanAUBREY EDWARDSstill trying to seal the deal. As the house lightsdimmed shortly after midnight, Devo openedwith “Don’t Shoot, I’m a Man” from its forthcoming(and still untitled) first new album in nearlytwo decades. Video made this and two othernew songs, “Fresh” and “What We Do,” seemmore familiar than they had a right to be. “Peeka-Boo!”was accompanied by scenes of dollsodomy that were too hot for MTV circa 1982,while “That’s Good” recalled Muffy Tepperman’sbat mitzvah on Square Pegs. After “Whip It” midset,Devo focused on its first two LPs, couplingits deconstructed version of “(I Can’t Get No)Satisfaction” with “Secret Agent Man” and following“Uncontrollable Urge” with fan-pleasingdeeper cuts like “Mongoloid” and “Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA.” Finally, Mark Mothersbaugh appearedin full Booji Boy attire to squeal his way through“Beautiful World,” solidifying the notion thatDevo’s joke-theory of humanity in reverse hasaged frighteningly well.– Greg Beets58 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

PJ HARVEY &JOHN PARISHStubb’s, March 21Predictably, Saturday’s mellow 45-minute set only featured songs PJ Harvey and longtimecreative partner John Parish have written together for 1996’s Dance Hall at LousePoint and their new collaboration, A Woman a Man Walked By. Still, it was a thrill to seeHarvey come alive in a white strapless gown with straitjacket belts and a peacocklike hairaccessory, which made her look like a virgin mermaid from a Dalí painting. Against hersurreal figure center stage, set and new album opener “Black Hearted Love” was rathersubdued; on “Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen,” Harvey let it rip, prophesying like the secondcoming of Patti Smith, though it felt like she was deliberately trying to keep things calmand restrained, giving the set a sort of speakeasy trot. She played percussion here andthere, gently shaking her hips, but Parish and the backing band held down the instrumentation,and the spotlight fell on her voice, which still sounds crystalline. The 21st centuryhas seen lukewarm albums from Harvey, 2007’s White Chalk exorcizing the sounds fromher haunted house. A Woman’s not the best representation of Harvey’s talents, and live,the more vitriolic tracks, such as closer “Pig Will Not,” felt spiritual rather than sexual. Inthat gown, she looked like she was channeling something higher. – Audra SchroederTHE STRANGE BOYSBeauty Bar Backyard, March 21You know it’s a great show when a Southby Southwest showcase by an Austin band ischock-full of locals. The garage rock of Austinpride the Strange Boys isn’t some derivationof the past. It’s original and genuine. EveryouthfulRyan Sambol led his Boys – brotherPhilip on bass, guitarist Greg Enlow, and kitmaster Matt Hammer – through new debutLP triumph And Girls Club, calling out theset list as the mood fit. Beginning a bit lowenergy, the Boys slowly built speed, and whenSambol’s guitar strap escaped his frame, itwas no cause for pause. “I don’t want to singright now,” Sambol called back to his bandmatesbefore launching into an instrumentalduo completely at home in 1963. His boogietwitch ruled And Girls Club opener “Woe IsYou and Me” and a dozen other nuggets.There’s something both innocent and dirtyabout the Strange Boys, and with his cuffedjeans and bounce, Sambol’s effect was perfectlydescribed by one onlooker: “I wannamake him a sandwich!” – Darcie StevensSILVERSUN PICKUPSAntone’s, March 21This wasn’t Silversun Pickups’ night. Thecapacity crowd at Antone’s grew increasinglyimpatient as a couple of the group’s earnestroadies sound-checked endlessly. Then wewaited. And waited. Finally, the L.A. quartetemerged onstage, beatific grins on themembers’ faces, before ripping into “WellAUBREY EDWARDSTODD V. WOLFSONThought Out Twinkles” from their 2006 debut,Carnavas. Singer Brian Aubert gushed abouthow mind-blowing SXSW is and thanked theaudience for coming to see them, especiallygiven the magnitude of choices across thecity. This led to a horrible false start for thenext song, which disintegrated a few bars in.Aubert laughed it off: “That sounded awful!Did you hear that? Do you know who that was?Me!” A few other technical difficulties ensued,causing further delay, but the Pickups weatheredit with good humor, clearly thrilled to beplaying right at that moment, even though theset devolved into sameness. “We’ve got a newrecord coming out soon,” Aubert said by wayof good night. “This song is not on it.” Andso it was that “Lazy Eye” closed the door onanother SXSW.– Melanie HauptJUSTIN TOWNES EARLERed Eyed Fly, March 21Justin Townes Earle tried to start his setwith “They Killed John Henry” but forgot thewords and gave up. It was the last misstep ofthe evening. Earle’s a natural performer, andaccompanied only by banjo and mandolin fromCory Younts, he offered effortlessly perfectrenditions of his own songs, country standardsfrom Woody Guthrie and the Carter Family, andthe Replacements’ “Can’t Hardly Wait.” Thecrowd even coaxed an encore from him, Earleobliging with standard “Hesitation Blues” andcovering both the rhythm and solo at the sametime. A tall man, Earle positions the microphoneso that he has to hunch over to sing.Coupled with his extremely thin frame and tradition-mindedaesthetic choices, this gives himthe air of a bent but spry old man. The cornersof Earle’s mouth pull up naturally, so he wearssomething between a grin and a smirk; evenon “Walk Out,” his scowl fades after only oneverse. He mugs and bows relentlessly, and it’stempting to wonder if he’s actually that happyor it’s all just an act. Whatever the case,Earle’s impossibly beautiful vocals on “Mama’sEyes” brought the audience to ecstasy. Youcan’t argue with results. – Daniel MeeTHE WOODEN BIRDSThe Parish, March 21Turning repeatedly to his band betweensongs, Andrew Kenny offered soft encouragement– “That was pretty good guys” – as ifsurprised at the tightness of the mellow soundrolling behind him. There was little surprisingabout the Wooden Birds, however, as thequintet couched comfortably familiar in Kenny’sgentle voice and heavy-lidded, narcotic rhythms.While the recently returned Austinite’s newproject recalls his American Analog Set, even tothe point of delivering AAS’ “Aaron and Maria,”AUBREY EDWARDSand at times shaded his recent support of OlaPodrida on songs like “Never Know,” Kenny’ssongwriting remains mesmerizing and cut witha twisted sense of nostalgia. There is tenuousbalance between the Wooden Birds’ lullingpull and the songs’ lyrical push of disillusion,the traps of memory stretched across opener“Sugar” and the odd skew on love of “SevenSeventeen,” the band’s melodic somnambulisminvoking dreamscapes of reflective disappointmentand possibilities. The female harmonieson “The Other One” and the somewhat heavier“Anna Paula” added an echoing depth toKenny’s languid delivery, while the low guitarchime of “Believe in Love” rippled through theroom. Finishing the set with the closer fromupcoming debut Magnolia, “Bad,” left theimprint of its calm repeated chorus cauterizedinto the night’s restless regrets. While theWooden Birds revisit familiar terrain, Kenny’sreturns are always stunningly fraught with anuncanny recoil of memory. – Doug FreemanCONTINUED ON P.60JIMMY WEBB & THE WEBB BROTHERSPrague, Saturday 21Jimmy Webb has been in the biz since the mid-1960s.During that time, the 62-year-old has penned a handfulof platinum-selling hits. He also had six kids, three ofwhom put together the literally named Webb Brothers, yetSaturday night was the first time he had shared the stagewith his sons to play live. Ever. For the sheer improbabilityof the moment, the rest of the setting wasn’t really upto moment. The sound in the cellar venue was less thanstellar, and the longish sound check made for a remarkablyshort set. Rather than mar the showcase, however,it just made it seem that much more like the packedhouse was privy to a unique rehearsal. Plus, the hallmarkof something so undeniably cool is that it’s hard to ruin.Watching Webb swap vocals with his sons on “Galveston”was a genuine treat, and it only got better watching himtake the full turn doing “Wichita Lineman.” The Webbshave been recording together, so while “Adios” might haveseemed like a natural closer, the family needs an “Hola,”as it’s more apropos moving forward. – Michael Bertina u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 59

MUSICSXSW 09 LIVE SHOTS CONTINUED FROM P.59THE CANNABINOIDS FEATURINGERYKAH BADUAuditorium Shores Stage, March 21To answer the question: No, the Cannabinoidsfeaturing Erykah Badu weren’t worth seeing.As a matter of fact, the hour the packedcrowd at Auditorium Shores spent waiting forBadu to show up was a complete waste oftime. The Cannabinoids, Badu’s 11-man DJcollective, used eight MacBooks and a coupleof keyboards to do what a single laptop coulddo. A DJ hollered, “Are y’all ready for ErykahBadu?” every few minutes until the crewwalked offstage to some vague announcementof Badu’s tardiness and a few well-deservedboos. They came back 10 minutes later withSHELLEY HIAMthe frontwoman and Dallas native, who wason for 10 minutes, singing “The Healer” and“Danger” and noodling on a drum machinebefore shouting, “South by Southwest, let’sblow up the sky!” alien-speak for “Explosionsin the Sky are up next.” Then she left. Onedisgruntled attendee summed it up succinctly:“Erykah Ba-don’t.” – Chase HoffbergerTHE KNUX/DEAD PREZVice/Austin Music Hall, March 21Though it fades slightly on the back end,last year’s Remind Me in 3 Days … was one ofthe most promising albums of 2008, hard-copyproof that hip-hop can sound like 1996 even ifartists can’t afford to use samples anymore.Knux brothers Krispy Kream and Rah Almilliolayed down completely original material, usedlive instrumentation almost exclusively, andmade 3 Days sound like OutKast’s ATLiens.That’s what made it so disappointing to seethe NOLA natives start album opener “TheList” with a DJ handling the drum duties anda guitarist and keyboardist riffing like sessionplayers. Krispy and Rah made up for it withtheir charisma, ripping through “Cappuccino,”“Bang! Bang!,” and “F!re (Put It in the Air)” intandem like inspirations Big Boi and Andre3000. Headlining at the Austin Music Hall,Tallahassee, Fla., duo Dead Prez ripped throughabbreviated versions of “Radio Frequency,”“That’s War,” and “Assassination Day” butcouldn’t hold the attention of a crowd visiblyfatigued at the Festival’s finish line. Only setcloser “Hip-Hop” whipped the audience into afrenzy. The rest was too methodical, uninspired,and split up by too much Dead Prez banterbetween tracks. Goes to show it was a longweekend for everybody. – Chase HoffbergerFUTOMOMO SATISFACTIONOpal Divine’s, March 21The Tokyo 10-piece that paraded down Sixth Street earlier in the day with homemadesigns to promote its stateside debut wowed a bewildered crowd with big-band covers and“the power of the bikini.” As the band launched into the driving spy-funk of the “PeterGunn Theme,” a trio of trombonists strutted onstage, one clad in a red kimono, the othersin bad-cop leather. The garb stayed in place for a single song before the bikini-cladhorns led romping covers of the Ramones and rocking jazz standards. At some point thebassist and keyboard player stripped to their Skivvies, the latter nearly baring all after awardrobe malfunction. Sure, the group has a fairly ludicrous gimmick, but it plays everythingfrom hardcore funk to screamcore punk with a dash of bossa nova lounge thrownin for good measure. After closing the set with “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” the bandobliged raucous chants of “one more song” by recycling “Goro Goro Nyang,” its biggesthit of the night, where audience members mimed tiger claws in sync with wicked hornstabs. Bemused spectators shared what-the-hell-just-happened looks while Futomomofanboys snapped pictures and snatched up every last T-shirt for sale. – Thomas FawcettSANDY CARSONSXSW panelsDOUG SAHM’S ‘MENDOCINO’Austin Convention Center, March 21Although this lively panel was ostensibly about the Sir DouglasQuintet’s landmark 1969 single, “Mendocino,” anyone who knowsanything about the late Doug Sahm could guess tangential asideswould overwhelm the assigned subject matter. Moderator BillBentley chose the 1966 Corpus Christi dope bust that compelledSahm’s move to California as the starting point. “The judge said,‘You can’t come into my court unless you cut your hair,’” recalledSDQ organist Augie Meyers, “‘but before you cut your hair, mydaughter is a big fan, and she wants a picture of you.’” Once inthe Bay Area, Sahm appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone withson Shawn to represent the tide of Texans fleeing cultural repression.He also met girls, including the “teenybopper” who inspired“Mendocino.” “I had stepmothers in every corner of the world,”joked Shawn. “Mendocino” became a national hit, but to 15-year-oldfuture Chronicle Music writer Margaret Moser, the song’s Chicanosoul and country undertones encapsulated San Antonio’s musicalessence. From there, the discourse rolled from how SDQ stashedpot in microphone stands and Bob Dylan hiring Sahm to babysit sonJakob to George Lucas expressing interest in having SDQ appear inMore American Graffiti, only to be rebuffed because Sahm thoughtit might interfere with watching baseball. Off topic or on, the panelfound Sahm’s storied “groove” in spades.– Greg BeetsPHOTOS BY SANDY CARSONNEIL YOUNG ARCHIVESAustin Convention Center, March 21Ten minutes into his panel, Elliot Roberts’ phonestarted ringing. It was his most famous client, NeilYoung. Roberts declined to answer the call as he wasbusy with something more important. He was unveilingYoung’s oft-delayed Archives box set. Volume 1(of perhaps up to five) covers 1963-1972 and nowhas a firm release date (June 2). The panel even hadcopies people could touch. The bits demoed showhow ridiculously complete the set is, which shouldn’tbe surprising since Roberts and Young have hadsome kind of a collection in mind almost since theymet back at Woodstock. The real “wow” factor hereis the interactivity of the Blu-ray set (CD and DVD versionsof the Archives will also be available). Not onlycan one peruse several layers of associated artworkwhile listening, when new material becomes available(e.g., Motown’s Mynah Birds tracks just receivedclearance), the Blu-ray set will “phone home” and getthem for you. Young better hope fans still have theirjobs come this summer, because at $399 ($99 forthe CD, $199 for the DVD), this kind of cool doesn’tcome cheap.– Michael BertinWOODSTOCK: UNTOLD STORIESAustin Convention Center, March 21Woodstock occurred 40 years ago this August, but just talkingabout it can still draw quite a crowd. Author Holly George-Warren led a group of Woodstock veterans through a panel soenjoyable that it went 30 minutes over and no one seemed tocare. It started with a 10-minute teaser from the upcoming,newly expanded movie, coming this June, and then everyone hadsomething interesting to add. Musicians who were there, GreggRolie and Michael Shrieve of Santana, Stu Cook of CreedenceClearwater Revival, and Jocko Marcellino of Sha Na Na, ranthrough personal memories of the mud and how much they werepaid. Hugh “Wavy Gravy” Romney rambled on about how membersof the Hog Farm were flown in from New Mexico to act assecurity. Famed recording engineer Eddie Kramer gave insighton what he discovered and was allowed to use on the new DVDand CD, while festival producer Michael Lang gave backgroundon Woodstock’s beginnings while dispelling, and sometimesconfirming, rumors of what really happened. Among those in thenearly full room were several behind-the-scenes participantswho shed some light on what it was like in the trenches. Kramerremarked with a sense of amazement how “it still resonates witheverybody,” adding: “It wasn’t really three days of peace andmusic. It was three days of drugs and hell.” – Jim Caligiuri60 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

THE GAY PLACEON THE GAY ANDGAMERCONNECTION:“Although SXSW Interactive is over,the smell in ExhibitHall 2 still lingers.”– ANDY CAMPBELLaustinchronicle.com/chronicTHISSATURDAYONLY!This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austinthrough the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the TexasCommission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment forthe Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 61

Arriving in AustinApril 20, 2009The human body as thecanvas for moving art.Electrifying musicin an unforgettable show.TUACA Body Art Ball Go totuacabodyartball.comfor your ticket.Stay inside the lines.Drink responsibly.www.tuaca.comTuaca Italian Liqueur, Livorno, Italy.35% Alc. By Vol. Imported by Brown-FormanBeverages, Louisville, KY. ©2009Tuaca and Body Art Ball are registered trademarks.BY CHUCK SHEPHERDOnce again, a man was found to have climbed into the waste tank of anoutdoor toilet, but according to a March report in the Twin Falls, Idaho,Times-News, the emergency crew seemed to accept his story that it was alla mistake and not a manifestation of perversion. Rescuers from the townof Filer, Idaho, said the man told them he was just looking for his keys thathe had accidentally dropped and had been in the tank for 15 minutes beforehelp arrived. The man declined to identify himself, and no official report wasrequired, but after the man was hosed off by a fire truck, he “discovered”that his keys had been in his pocket all along, and he drove away.LEAD STORYAmericans’ Special Relationship with“Taxes”: It is not just that the secretary of theTreasury owed back taxes for years or thattwo other presidential cabinet-level nomineesowed back taxes. In January, federal prosecutorsrevealed that District of Columbia CouncilMember Marion Barry, who was already onprobation after a 2005 conviction for failing tofile tax returns for the years 1999 through2004 and subsequently almost tauntinglyfailed to file a return for 2006, has now doubled-downthe taunt by failing to file for 2007.And in March, a Georgia state senator proposedpunishment for the 22 members of theLegislature who either owed back taxes orhad failed to file returns for at least one yearsince 2002. The 22 were not identified, incompliance with privacy laws, but the Senate’sDemocratic leader, Robert Brown, outed himselfas one of the 22 in the course of callinghis scolding colleague a “bloodsucker.”PRODIGIES1) The Two-Legged Dog: Pet rescuer JudyWalker of Oviedo, Fla., and Oklahoman JudeStringfellow are battling over custody ofWalker’s two-legged puppy, who Walkerbelieves has special needs but whoStringfellow is seeking to adopt, in part toportray Stringfellow’s own famous, hind-legswalkingdog, Faith, as a puppy in a movie sheis working on. Stringfellow said Walker hadreneged on a firm Feb. 2 adoption date andimplied that she had hired celebrity attorneyMark Geragos to get the puppy. 2) The11-Year-Old Bullfighter: Michelito LagraverePeniche killed six young bulls in a singlefight before 3,500 spectators in Mérida,Mexico, in January, despite the mayor’s banon the event as a child-labor violation (butwhich was allowed to proceed afterMichelito’s father appealed to a state prosecutor).Michelito began his career in thering at age 4.INEXPLICABLEA 25-year-old man was arrested in FortWalton Beach, Fla., in February after anapparent suicide attempt. According topolice, the man tried to gas himself insidehis car in a closed garage but apparently didnot have a garage himself and was arrestedfor trespass when he drove into a stranger’sgarage for the attempt, causing about$1,000 worth of damage.Total nudity is prohibited during Brazil’sannual Carnival as immoral and, especially,artistically tacky, but samba dancer DaniSperle appeared in the street parade in Riode Janeiro in February wearing a headdress,necklace, matching armbands, and nothingelse except a patch 3 centimeters long (1.2inches) covering an intimate area.ROY TOMPKINSLEAST COMPETENT PEOPLEHow Could These Victims Have AcquiredSo Much Money in the First Place? 1) A27-year-old “psychic” was sentenced to twomonths in jail in San Jose, Calif., in Decemberafter somehow convincing a woman, whohad come to her for a $10 reading, to payher, in ever-increasing increments, $108,000for a “spiritual cleansing.” 2) Charles Silveirafiled a lawsuit in March in Morristown, N.J.,to recover the $250,000 he had incrementallypaid to a “psychic” who said she neededto make a golden statue for him to wardoff negativity. The woman also convincedSilveira to buy her a $700,000 home, butthat house is in Silveira’s name, and he hasasked a court’s permission to evict her.Crime Doesn’t Pay (except maybe $25 anhour): According to police in Longview, Wash.,a 57-year-old woman entered a WinCo Foodsstore at 5am on March 2 and did not leavethe store until 5pm and upon exit, paid forabout $80 worth of groceries but also possessedabout 100 other small, concealeditems such as greeting cards, sunglasses,and batteries (the total value of which wasabout $300). She had spent at least part ofthe day surreptitiously removing the items’packaging so they would not appear to bethe store’s stock.A ‘NEWS OF THE WEIRD’ CLASSIC(JULY 1991)In March 1991, Florence Schreiber Powers,44, a Ewing, N.J., administrative law judgeon trial for shoplifting two watches, calledher psychiatrist to testify that Powers wasunder stress at the time of the incidents.The doctor said Powers did not know whatshe was doing “from one minute to the next”for the following reasons: recent auto accident,traffic ticket, new car purchase, overwork,husband’s kidney stones, husband’sasthma (and noisy breathing machine intheir bedroom), menopausal hot flashes,“ungodly” vaginal itch, bad rash, fear ofbreast and anal cancer, fear of dental surgery,son’s asthma, mother’s and aunt’s illnesses,need to organize parents’ 50thwedding anniversary, need to cookThanksgiving dinner for 20 relatives, purchaseof 200 gifts for Christmas andChanukah, attempt to sell her house withouta broker, lawsuit against wallpaper cleaners,need to return newly purchased furniture,and toilet constantly running. (Nonetheless,she was convicted.)UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPTIn Airdrie, Alberta, in January, police officersresponded to a report from the RalphMcCall Elementary School that a man wasstanding in the yard yelling with a portableloudspeaker toward a group of frolickingkids, calling: “Girls in the field, come over tomy truck. Come pet my dog.” When alarmedadults nearby approached him, the manquickly got in his truck and took off.Visit Chuck Shepherd daily atwww.newsoftheweird.blogspot.com(or www.newsoftheweird.com).Send your Weird News to: Chuck Shepherd, PO Box18737, Tampa, FL 33679 or weirdnewstips@yahoo.com.©2009 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE62 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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THURSDAY 26CAP CITY CONCERT All you have to do tohelp Cap City Kids help homeless Austinchildren stay in school is enjoy some top-notch livemusic. See Club Listings, p.95, for a complete lineup.6-10pm. Antone’s, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424. $15.www.capcitykids.org/antones09.html.ED WENDLER BENEFIT DINNER The local shelterfor immigrants and refugees, Casa Marianella, presentsthe Ed Wendler Award for Outstanding Serviceto the Immigrant Community. 6:30pm. Mercury Hall,615 Cardinal, 576-1913. Free (donations appreciated).www.casamarianella.org.HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST FILM THEMES (& FOODDRIVE) The Austin Wind Symphony blows some ofcinema’s most memorable tunes. Bring nonperishablefood items for Food Lifeline if you’re feelingcharitable. 8pm. Monarch Event Center, 6406 N. I-35#3100, 532-7944. $10. www.austinwindsymphony.org.` HOLY CROSS SUCKS! One guy, 30 characters,Eighties overload! Rob Nash is back as a Jesuit highschool’s worth of Reagan-era ribaldry. Through April 4.Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282.HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE The Bernard andAudre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justicehosts this multidisciplinary conference showing offthe advocacy of UT students and faculty. Workshops,keynotes, and performances are on tap. Go onlinefor a complete schedule, including the locations ofindividual events. Thu.-Sat., March 26-28. UT campus,Mezes Hall (Rm 1.306) and Texas Union. Free.www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/human-rights-at-ut.INFANT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Meet with otherfamilies that have lost a child to sudden infant deathsyndrome. Fourth Thursdays of the month, 7pm. St.David’s Round Rock Medical Center, 2400 Round RockAve., Classroom 3, Round Rock, 512/341-1395. Free.w NERD NITE Do you have encyclopedic knowledgeabout something obscure? Share your dorkinesswith people who appreciate an obsessed mind. Thisweek, prepare for a rousing discussion of post-SovietBelarusian society and Ebola rates among gorillas.7pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth,477-3308. Free. www.nerdnite.com.PREVENTING & HANDLING ARTHRITIC PAIN thenatural way. 6:30pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. CongressSte. D-200, 892-3366. Free.www.naturalhealthaustin.com.QUILLING WORKSHOP Learn the ancient art ofrolling thin strips of paper into different shapes andusing the shapes to form designs. 3pm. Ruiz Library,1600 Grove, 974-7500. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/library.` UT-GSC PRESENTS NORTH COUNTRY Mmmm,Charlize Theron. Sigh. Bring a sack lunch, and takein this tale of trail and triumph in the mines ofMinnesota. And Charlize Theron. Noon-2pm. UTcampus SSB 3.406. gsc@uts.cc.utexas.edu,www.utexas.edu/diversity/ddce/gsc.SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Cowboy Smoke @ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek,7:30pmJaws 3-D With Brad Neely @ Alamo DrafthouseSouth, 7pmThe Chaser @ Alamo Ritz, 10pmThe Visitor @ Texas Spirit Theatre at the BobBullock Texas State History Museum, 7pmthis week’scommunitycalendarTHURSDAY, MARCH 26 TO THURSDAY, APRIL 2listingsBY JAMES RENOVITCHFRIDAY 27w BROTHER LUCIAN BLERSCHSYMPOSIUM Learn about swarms oftoday and tomorrow, from honeybees to nanobots.Really smart dudes will enlighten you withoutbeing condescending … we hope. 10am-12:30pm.Ragsdale Center, Mabee Ballroom, 3001 S. Congress,448-8400. Free. www.stedwards.edu.d GOLDILOCKS PUPPET SHOW See how thethree bears will react to the porridge-curious andsleepy little girl who comes into their lives. 10:15am.Oak Springs Library, 3101 Oak Springs Dr., 974-7400.Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.HILL COUNTRY GROWTH Land-use planner, sitedesigner, and author Randall Arendt discusses the rapidgrowth of the Hill Country and the economic benefitsof conservation-based development. 9am-4:30pm.Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse,828-0076. $35 ($20, advance). www.hillcountryalliance.org.PEOPLE UNITED features activist and scholarAndrea Smith on her book Native Americans andthe Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of UnlikelyAlliances. 1pm. KOOP Radio 91.7FM. www.koop.org.` TRASH + FASHION = ? Recycle! Reuse!Revamp?! Heck yeah. Austin’s Kings N Things presenttheir cooky couture-y concepts in A Night ofTrashy Fashion. 10pm. Elysium, 705 Red River, 478-2979. $7. allison.stelly@gmail.com,www.myspace.com/faggaustin.` HOLY CROSS SUCKS! (See Thursday, 3/26.)HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE (See Thursday, 3/26.)LITERA (See Arts Listings.)Five Things United States Art AuthorityART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)La Peña, NomadSPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)The War of the Worlds @ LBJ Library Lawn, 8pmThey Killed Sister Dorothy @ Ragsdale Center,Jones Auditorium (at St. Edward’s University), 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Tribute Band Marathon Emo’sFrank Gratkowski Salvage Vanguard TheaterThe Dicks Room 710White Denim, Built by Snow, Harlem Antone’sSATURDAY 28AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN & BOYSCONFERENCE Everyone’s welcome (thatincludes women and girls) to this conference encouragingkids to keep their eyes on the prize of individualresponsibility, education, and future employment.Keynote speakers will be followed by workshops in smallgroups. 10am. Dobie Middle School, 1200 E. Rundberg.Free. www.aambharvestfoundation.com.ALL ACCESS ACC CelebrateAustin Community College’s 35thbirthday with free classes, music,food, games, a custom-car show,and more. Learn all about whatthe school has to offer your career.10am-3pm. ACC Eastview Campus,3401 Webberville, 223-7595. Free.www.austincc.edu/allaccess.w RECOMMENDEDd YOUNG ONES` GAY PLACESANY BABY CAN ROCKIN’ ROUNDUP Get yourtwo-steppin’ boots on, and dance, eat, and partythe night away while supporting ailing children. Livemusic, a silent auction, and a photo booth will all beavailable to ensure that your boots scoot. 6-11pm.Texas Disposal Systems Exotic Game Ranch andPavilion, 11508 Carl Rd., Buda, 512/334-4452. $125.www.abcaus.org.ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING WORKSHOPDon’t remember your dreams? This workshop helpsyou recall and interpret their wisdom. 2pm. AustinEckankar Center, 223 W. Anderson Ste. B-206,453-0331. Free. www.eckankar-texas.org.` AUSTIN EQUALITY GALA 2009 The HumanRights Campaign honors Woodie Jones and CliffRedd. Featuring Thelma Houston, the Capital CityMen’s Chorus, and Cuc Vu, and hosted by TylerSieswerda and Michelle Valles. 6pm. Hilton HotelDowntown, 500 E. Fourth, 485-5999. $175($275, couple). info@hrcaustin.org, www.hrcaustin.org.BACA FAMILY BENEFIT The vice president of BikersAgainst Child Abuse died recently, and this eventbenefits his family. The money from the food,music, and raffles helps give back to a familythat has been doing the giving for a while.1-7pm. Roadhouse Bar and Grill, 1103 WonderSt., Round Rock, 512/970-7867.BEER SCHOOL What you don’t know aboutbeer could hurt you. Call or sign up online toregister. 11am. North by Northwest Restaurant& Brewery, 10010 Capital of TX Hwy. N.,467-6969. $35. www.nxnwbrew.com.BIKERZ, BEARZ, & DOGZ This ride from Cowboy Harleyin Austin to Cindy’s Gone Hog Wild in Cedar Creek benefitsthe Austin Junior Forum Teddy Bear Program, whichsupplies stuffed animals for kids in crisis. 9am. CowboyHarley Davidson, 10917 S. I-35, 810-8223. $35, driver;$25, rider. www.austinjuniorforum.org/teddybear.html.d DRAWING WORKSHOP BY SCOTT E. SUTTONChildren’s book author and illustrator Scott E. Suttonis having a drawing workshop for ages 7 and older.1pm. Wells Branch Community Library,15001 Wells Port Dr., 989-3188.BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER gayplaceWHEW! Wow, what a month! For those of us balland-chainedto South by Southwest, Marchcomes in like a lion and goes out like asweet li’l fluffy baby lamb. Finally, somedays of rest for us wicked. That said, webarely can take a breath before the gaysocial calendar starts going cuckoo, allleading up to the first week of June (whichcomes in like a unicorn) for Pride. Dang. Towit: This Saturday is HRC’s big hoopdedooEquality Gala and afterparty. It featuresThelma Houston! Yesss! (See Saturday. And see theSend gay bits togayplace@austinchronicle.com.Visitaustinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.Gay Place Blog, austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog, fora chance at two afterparty tickets.) Now don’tget too cozy. The next few weeks promise agay old time, as local nonprofits and queergroups roll out for spring. And while we’rethinking about Pride, your friendly neighborhoodGay Place will be interviewing fora few Pride Parade/Festival interns. It’s acommitment, so think about it before gettingall excited. If you are interested, tell uswhat you know about float-building. E-mail usfor more details!| L - R: KEEP AUSTIN SPICY (SEE SATURDAY) | TEXAS RELAYS (SPORTS, P.73) | ‘THE GRAPES OF WRATH’ (ARTS, P.74)| ‘MONSTERS VS. ALIENS’ (FILM, P.78) | LEONARD COHEN (MUSIC, P.88)66 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSBY GERALD E. MCLEOD daytripsSandstone Cellars Wineryand Santos Taqueria aren’twhat you would expect to find ina small town. But Mason isn’tyour normal small Texas town.In a rather remote corner ofthe Hill Country, Mason grewup at the base of a hill whereFort Mason was built to protectearly settlers and travelers.For the next 150 years,the town prospered as aranching community. In 1949,native son Fred Gipson put thetown on the map with the publicationof Hound-Dog Man andlater Old Yeller.In the winter, the area is popular with deerhunters, spring brings wildflowers along thehighways, in summer the bats emerge fromEckert James River Bat Cave, and in fall theapples are ripe at Sonlight Apple Orchard.Over the last couple of decades, Mason hasbeen discovered by artists and retirees whosupport a barista, an 81-year-old theatre, anda golf course. The area also has been discoveredby grape growers, and that inspired twofriends to plant roots in town.Manny Silerio and Scott Haupert were bestof friends while attending college in SanAntonio. After graduation, they met up againin Mason. In 1998, they opened SantosTaqueria in an old gas station building usingManny’s mother’s recipes.An immigrant from Durango, Mexico,Santos Silerio raised eight children and lotsof their friends on her cooking. The food atSantos Taqueria is inexpensive, fresh, anddelicious. This isn’t your usual Tex-Mex enchilada.Rather, the cafe offers taquitos, gorditas,and salsas made the Old World way.| MANNY SILERIOAfter you’ve placed your order at thecounter and grabbed a table inside orunder the covered porch, you can thencheck out the wines next door at Sandstone Cellars Winery. This isa dry county, so Santos can’t sell alcohol, but the winery can.GERALD E. MCLEODIn 2004, the business partners brought inwinemaker Don Pullum to take advantage ofthe vineyards around Mason County. Pullumhas had success in blending Syrah, Primitivo,Mourvèdre, and Grenache grapes. “All of thegrapes we use are locally grown,” Mannysays. In addition to their own wines,Sandstone Cellars also stocks a nice mix ofTexas’ best wines.Sandstone Cellars Winery and SantosTaqueria are at 211 and 205 San AntonioSt. (U.S. 87), respectively, across from thesoutheast corner of the county courthouse.The cafe is open Thursday throughSaturday, 11am-9pm, and Sunday, 11am-2pm, and can be reached at 325/347-6140. The wineshop is open Thursdaythrough Saturday, 11am-6pm, and Sunday,11am-2pm. For more information about thewinery, call 325/347-9463 or go towww.sandstonecellarswinery.com.Mason is about two hours northwest ofAustin. There are more than two dozen innsin the area, many on the Llano River. For alist of activities around Mason, call325/347-5758 or go to www.masontxcoc.com.925th in a series, Day Trips, Vol. 2, a book of“Day Trips” 101-200, is available for $8.95, plus $3.05 for shipping, handling, and tax.Mail to: Day Trips, PO Box 33284, South Austin, TX 78704.68 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m*

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSoutoftownRITES OF SPRING celebrates the bloomswith garden talks, a cake walk, live music,artists, a kids fishing pond, wine tastings, andmore. Fri.-Sat., March 27-28. CourthouseSquare, Lockhart, 512/398-2818. Free.www.lockhartchamber.com.TEMPLE COLLEGE JAZZ FESTIVAL begins withperformances by local talent before evening concertswith Suzie Stern, Bill Watrous, or Randy Brecker. Fri.-Sun., March 27-28. Mary Alice Marshall PerformingArts Auditorium, Temple, 254/298-8282. $5-20.www.templejc.edu/dept/music/jazz/jazz2009.htm.BLOOMS, TUNES, & GRUB is more than just poinsettiasas they throw open the doors to the greenhousesfull of blooming and garden plants, showcaselocal musicians, cook barbecue, and a whole lotmore. Sat., March 28, April 25, May 30; 9am-5pm.Ellison’s Greenhouse, Brenham, 979/836-6011. Free.www.ellisonsgreenhouses.com.TEXAS INTERNATIONAL OLIVE FESTIVAL showcasesTexas olive-oil products, wine, food, and musicon a working ranch and olive orchard. Sat., March28, 10am-5pm. Sandy Oaks Olive Orchard, Elmendorf,210/621-0044. $10. www.sandyoaks.com.TEXAS MEN’S STATE CHILI & BARBECUE COOK-OFF fills the air with the aroma of hundreds ofcooks competing for best beans, chicken, spareribs, chili, and brisket with the top chili chefs goingon to Terlingua and the barbecue champion earningan invitation to the Kansas City Championship. Sat.,March 28. Blanco County Fairgrounds, Johnson City,830/868-7684. Free. www.johnsoncitytexaschamber.com.SHORT SHORTS FILM SHOWCASE is hosted byJade Esteban Estrada and features 10 local filmmakersscreening their recent works. Sun., March29, 6-9pm. Overtime Theater, 1216 West Ave., SanAntonio, 210/380-0326. $8. www.theovertimetheater.net.w EARTH HOUR Is Earth Day just too much ofa commitment? Can you at least spare an hour?Around the world, 2,300 cities are going dark as astatement of solidarity with the environment. Flipthe switch, and show the world you care. At leastfor an hour. 8:30pm. www.earthhourus.org,www.earthhourkids.org.EBONY FASHION FAIR Help the AKA Foundationand the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. gainfunds for their scholarship programs. Models willbe hitting the runway, keeping you up with thelatest fashion trends. 7pm. Riverbend Centre,4214 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 944-4876. $40 ($35,advance). www.betapsiomega.org.ECOLOGICAL LITERACY DAY Volunteer for somehabitat restoration work with the Austin ParksFoundation today, followed by a seminar about localecology. 9am. Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory,2210 FM 973 S., 972-1960. www.travisaudubon.org.ELECTRONIC-WASTE DRIVE Bring your computers,telephones, printers, mobile phones, fax machines,copiers, televisions, VCR/DVD players, scanners,cable wires, monitors, and networking equipmentto be recycled. 8am-4:30pm. LBJ Library parking lot.www.engr.utexas.edu/sec/service.d ENGINEERING SATURDAY The UT StudentEngineering Council hosts hands-on activities for thekids. 10am. Austin Children’s Museum, 201 Colorado,472-2499. $4.50-6.50. www.austinkids.org.FOSTER PARENT INFORMATION EVENT Learnabout the criteria and process of being a fosterparent. 1-4pm. Neighbor to Family, 8011-A Cameron#103, 491-7895. Free. www.neighbortofamily.org.d GAMING AT THE LIBRARY Play your favoriteWii, PlayStation2, and GameCube games at thepalace of the written word. It might seem counterproductive,but at least the young ones are at thelibrary for a change. 1pm. Manchaca Library,5500 Manchaca Rd., 974-7400. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/library.GARDEN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help buildorganic vegetable gardens around Austin. All thetraining you need will happen on the day of theevent. Bring gloves and a dirt-friendly attitude.Sign up online to attend. 8:30am-2pm. GreenCorn Project, 249-3171. www.greencornproject.org.d GUITAR HERO TOURNAMENT Show offyour riffing skills at this qualifying round. TheTop 2 finalists from each tournament will moveon to the championship at the University HillsBranch library on May 30. 2pm. Milwood BranchLibrary, 12500 Amherst, 974-7400. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/library.w HERITAGE FESTIVAL Cedar Park’s biggestparty of the year. This year is no different withlive music from Jason Allen, oodles of gamesand activities for the kids, food, a hamburgercook-off, horse riding, historical displays, andmore. 4-10pm. Elizabeth Milburn Park,1901 Sun Chase Blvd., Cedar Park. Free.www.cedarparkfun.com.` HRC GALA AFTERPARTY Whether you’rea working stiff who can’t get off shift earlyenough or just a ’mo without the dough, youcan still join the HRC gala at the afterparty. DJSeth Cooper spins. Price includes a one-yearHRC membership. See the Gay Place Blog fora pair-of-tickets giveaway! 10pm. Hilton HotelDowntown, 500 E. Fourth, 485-5999. $30.info@hrcaustin.org, www.hrcaustin.org,austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.JUNK-A-THON In an attempt to be the mostAustin-y event of the week comes a combinationart show, garage sale, and film projection withmusic performances. It’s like doing South bySouthwest in just two days. Sat.-Sun.,March 28-29, 10am-7pm. 2608 Rogers. Free.www.palfloat.com.Sun, mar 29cherry bombslive music byvs.Holy rollersthe bulemics & the 13th victimaustin convention center, Hall 5doors open at 6pm, bout at 7pmget ticket and all other info atwww.txrd.comThe University Co-op PresentsThe Cohen New Works FestivalMarch 30th - April 4thFilmArtTheatreMusicDanceDesignmendestein@hotmail.comBOLD. INSPIRED. INNOVATIVE.THE FESTIVAL IS NOW.Sites in and aroundThe Winship Drama Buildingwww.coopnwf.orgall events freea u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 69

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSKEEP AUSTIN SPICY Go around the world in anafternoon with eats, sounds, arts & crafts, and morefrom foreign lands. Proceeds go to Saheli for AsianFamilies, SafePlace, and the Capital Area Food Bank.11am-6pm. Fiesta Gardens, 2101 Bergman,356-1636. $5 (free, kids).www.keepaustinspicy.com.LANDSCAPE DESIGN WORKSHOP This two-partclass will teach you the skills for better landscapedesign from the pros. 10am-3pm. Laguna Gloria,3809 W. 35th, 323-6380. $99 ($89, members).MARTIAL ARTS FOR PEACE The Still Point AkidoCenter has been designated an International PeaceDojo. Celebrate with free classes and seminars ledby Robertson Sensei. Beginners welcome. Sat.-Sun.,March 28-29. Hancock Recreation Center,811 E. 41st, 703-8942. Free. www.stillpointaikido.com.NATURAL SOLUTIONS TO SLEEP PROBLEMS Getto sleep the drug-free and holistic way. 2:30pm.Peoples Rx, 3801 S. Lamar, 892-3366. Free.www.naturalhealthaustin.com.NEIGHBORFEST The Neighborhood Housing andCommunity Development Office gathers city departmentsand nonprofits to help you learn about importanttopics such as lead poisoning and consumercredit counseling. Face painting, a moon walk, anda performance by the transcendent Palm SchoolChoir keep the proceedings light. 10am-1pm. PalmElementary, 7601 Dixie.d PHOTOGRAPHY BASICS Latinitas continues itsSaturday Camp series with this photography primerfor girls in grades fourth through eighth. 10:30am.Carver Library, 1161 Angelina, 974-1010. Free.www.latinitasmagazine.org.` RUSTY’S RAD EIGHTIES PARTY Take it to themax at Rusty Spurs for Eighties night. Totally tubularfashion will be rewarded with happy hour prices allnight long. Fresh! 9pm. Rusty Spurs,405 E. Seventh, 961-1746. jim@therustyspurs.com,www.therustyspurs.com.SHAKESPEARE, POLITICS, AND WOMEN Theatremeets politcal forum. With speakers Jody Conradt,Donna Howard, Randi Shade, UT prof/Shakespeareexpert Susan Todd, Amalia Rodriguez-Mendoza, andhosts including Elizabeth Christian and Bruce Todd,this list reads like a who’s who of kick-butt Austindames. That’s a compliment, Bruce. 8pm. The CurtainTheatre, on the estate of Richard Garriott, on theshores of Lake Austin off City Park Road, 470-4505.$35. alex@austinshakespeare.org,www.austinshakespeare.org/drupal,www.nowplayingaustin.com.SI SE PUEDE! MARCH & RALLY March from thePan Am Rec Center to the Mexican American CulturalCenter, and, in the spirit of Cesar E. Chavez, demandsocial and economic justice for all. 9:30am. A.B.Cantu/Pan American Recreation Center, 2100 E. Third,472-9921.SPRING GARDENING SPEAKER SERIES Learn containerpatio gardening from an expert. 10am. GreatOutdoors, 2730 S. Congress, 448-2992. Free.d TEEN AUTHOR LAURIE HALSE ANDERSONfollows up her award-winning Speak with anotherbeautifully written story, Wintergirls, the story of twobest friends in a sick contest to see who can be theskinniest. Highly recommended. 7pm. BookPeople,603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.TRANSLATORS AND INTERPRETERS MEETINGKeep up with the latest technologies and issuesfacing modern working translators and interpreters.1-4pm. International Center of Austin, 201 E. Second,479-8865. Free.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is duethe Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline forthe April 10 issue is Monday, March 30. Include name of event,date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a description, and anyavailable photos or artwork. Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer (seeroster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, 78765;fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:| WORLD FAMOUS LIPIZZANERSTALLIONS (SEE SATURDAY)WOMEN’S CLOTHING SWAP Bring or take clothingitems while surrounded by live music and seamstressesat your service. Child care will be available.Proceeds from the event go to the Fistula Foundationand its efforts to bring medical service to impoverishednations. Leftover clothing will be donated toSafePlace. Noon-6pm. Mosaic, 5619 Airport. $5 suggesteddonation.www.austinclothingswap.giving.officelive.com.WORLD FAMOUS LIPIZZANER STALLIONS They’llbe prancing, jumping, and bowing their sweethindquarters off for your enjoyment. 2 & 7:30pm.Frank Erwin Center, 1701 Red River, 477-6060.$24.50-29.50.` HOLY CROSS SUCKS! (See Thursday, 3/26.)HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE (See Thursday, 3/26.)ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)PositionSPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Black Stallion @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 11amPrincess Mononoke @ Alamo Ritz, 4:15pmThe Rocky Horror Picture Show @ AlamoDrafthouse Village, 12midTriple Feature Sci-Fi Saturday @ LBJ Library,Third Floor Theatre, 10am, 1, 3pmWhisper of the Heart @ Howson Library, 2pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Bugs Henderson Saxon PubDan Dyer, Suzanna Choffel LambertsJacob Fred Jazz Odyssey The ParishMasshysteri BeerlandSUNDAY 29` CHASE THEM CHUBS Just to ensurethat the chubs stay chub, RCC offers afree lunch buffet and $1 drafts at its weekly ChubChaser Bear Cub Experience. Free food! Here,Chubby, Chubby, Chubby! 1-9pm. Rainbow Cattle Co.,305 W. Fifth, 472-5288. www.rainbowcattleco.com.CINE, MUSICA, Y ALMA This benefit for the Cinelas Americas International Film Festival featurespreviews of the upcoming festival, live music, raffles,auctions, and, of course, soul. 6-9pm. Gibson GuitarShowroom, 3601 S. Congress Ste. G-400, Penn Field,692-4191. $30. www.cinelasamericas.org.Kate X Messer or Ash Bell (Gay Place):gayplace@austinchronicle.com.Mark Fagan (Sports):gameplans@austinchronicle.com.James Renovitch (everything else):calendar@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listingseditor, 454-5766 or brenner@austinchronicle.com.w CLEAN ENERGY LOBBY DAY TRAINING If youwant to inform state officials of the possibilities forsustainable energy, you need to brush up on yourinfo. Register online for this class, and tomorrowyou’ll join the march and spread the green word. SeeMonday for more details about the march and lobbyday. 3:45pm. Huston-Tillotson University, 900 Chicon,477-1155. www.reenergizetexas.org.` CREATIVE SPIRIT UCC MOVES TO SUNDAYS!The sweet folks of this progressive community of faithare making it official on each day of rest. What’s notyet official is “where?” Sundays, 4pm. Call for location,527-4455. cheatham@austin.rr.com,www.creativespiritucc.info, creativespiritucc.wordpress.com.DANCING TOGETHER World music, bare feet, and adelightful lack of self-awareness bring people togetherfor an all-out dance jam every week. Sundays,10am-noon; Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,7:45-9:45pm. Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar,916-4499. $7 suggested donation.ETHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTIN COLLOQUY EthanLove leads this discussion of heroes. 10am-12:30pm. Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th, 835-9008.Free. www.esoa.org.d FLYING THEATER MACHINE’S WILD, WILDPUPPETS Puppets, actors, and your 4- to 10-yearoldswork together to tell tales from the Old West.Don’t forget your improv skills. Sundays, 2pm. TheHideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 971-3311. $5.www.flyingtheatermachine.com.` GAY MEN’S MEDITATION GROUP What isthe sound of one finger clicking? Check the websitefor the latest. H-ohhhhhhhmmm-o. Sundays,7pm. Shambhala Meditation Center, 1702 S. Fifth,699-3218. Free.info@gaymeditation.org, www.gaymeditation.org.IRISH LANGUAGE CLASSES No Blarney stonebut actual lessons in the gift of the original gab.Beginning and advanced Gaelic speakers are invited.Sundays, noon. Fiddler’s Hearth, 301 Barton Springs Rd.,535-5008. Free. www.fiddlershearth.com.` LAID-BACK CHURCH God bless everybody,no exceptions. Join the progressive, all-inclusive,and laid-back God Squad at MCC at Freedom Oaksevery weekend. 9 & 11am (also Saturdays, 6:24pm).Metropolitan Community Church, 8601 S. First,291-8601. office@mccaustin.com, www.mccaustin.com.LUNAFEST Now in its eighth year, Lunafest screens10 short films by and about women. Empowermentanyone? 2pm. Dell Jewish Community Center,7300 Hart, 735-8000. www.reelwomen.org.` RECONCILIATION First United Methodist ChurchAustin hosts its annual Reconciling Service to celebratethe inclusion of all God’s people. The servicewill feature David Smith, director of the Hill CountryRide for AIDS. Sun., March 29, 6:30pm. First UnitedMethodist Church, 1201 Lavaca, 478-5684.recservice2009@gmail.com,www.fumcaustin.org/news/details/reconciling.html.d SCIENCE SUNDAY Engineering isn’t only forboys. Let the girls get their hands on science withfun, educational games. 3pm. Austin Children’sMuseum, 201 Colorado, 472-2499. $6.50-4.50 (free,4-5pm). www.austinkids.org.STATE LEGISLATIVE EDUCATIONAL FORUM StateRep. Rafael Anchia discusses the status of voter IDlegislation. 4pm. First United Methodist Church,1201 Lavaca, 478-5684. Free. www.davidhasissues.com.d YOUTH ART MONTH RECEPTION showcases artfrom local elementary, middle/junior, and high schoolstudents. See the future of visual arts now. 1pm.One Congress Plaza, 111 Congress.GARDEN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED (See Saturday.)` HOLY CROSS SUCKS! (See Thursday, 3/26.)JUNK-A-THON (See Saturday.)MARTIAL ARTS FOR PEACE (See Saturday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Lunafest 2009 @ Dell Jewish Community Center, 2pmSiegfried @ Alamo Ritz, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)The Calm Blue Sea Alamo Drafthouse at the RitzDouglas Ferguson, Yellow Crystal Star, AmirCoyle Salvage Vanguard TheaterMONDAY 30CLEAN ENERGY MARCH &LOBBY DAY Want more sustainableenergy choices inTexas? Today’s the day tojoin voices with othersolar, wind, or hamsterwheellovers and marchto the Capitol for a lobbyday. If you went to thetraining day (see Sunday),you can even plead your case torepresentatives and senators. 9am.Huston-Tillotson University, 900 Chicon,477-1155. www.reenergizetexas.org.FED BY JAZZ BENEFIT The Austin Jazz Bandtears it up to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank.7:30pm. Unity Church of the Hills, 9905 Anderson Mill,335-4449. $15. www.unityhills.org.GREEN YOUR HISTORIC HOME Learn to green yourhome without losing its charm and uniqueness. 6pm.Carver Library, 1161 Angelina, 474-5198.www.hsaustin.org.KABBALAH PRIMER One two-hour lecture is all ittakes to learn the basic tenets of Kabbalah. If it’sgood enough for Madonna and Ashton Kutcher, whoare we to judge? 7pm. Renaissance Hotel,9721 Arboretum, 888/898-8230. Free.austin.kabbalah@gmail.com, www.kabbalah.com.` MANTIE MONDAYS Get your undies in a wadfor the Wet Underwear Contest. Kelly Kline hosts,and the Manwatch Dancers set the standard for thecompetition. Mondays. Charlie’s Austin, 1301 Lavaca,474-6481.w PUBLIC FORUM ON POLICE BLOODWITHDRAWALS A panel including Police Chief ArtAcevedo and City Council’s Mike Martinez, amongothers, discusses training police to draw blood in theevent that a driver refuses a Breathalyzer. Is it for oursafety or an attempt by the man to keep the sheepdocile? 6pm. Council Chambers at City Hall,301 W. Second, 974-2000.SELF-HELP MENTAL HEALTH GROUP Help manageyour depression, stress, OCD, anger, anxiety, bipolardisorder, and other emotional problems. Mondays,7:30pm. Unity Church of the Hills, 9905 Anderson Mill,233-0650. $4 suggested donation. www.recovery-inc.org.STORY OF THE TEXAS AUCTIONEER Rare archivalphotographs, artifacts, audio clips, and interviewswith Lone Star State auctioneers puts this Texastradition in the spotlight. Mon.-Fri., March 30-April 3,8am-6pm. State Capitol Rotunda, 11th & Congress,799-6842. Free. www.polkaworks.org.SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Audience of One @ Alamo Ritz, 7:30pmJules and Jim @ Texas Union Theatre, 7:30pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Plutonium Farmers Austin Moose Lodge No. 173570 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSTUESDAY 31BIRDING TUESDAYS means two hours oftrail-walking and bird-watching with StanVanSandt of the Travis Audubon Society leading theway. Go online for specific directions to the meetingpoint. Bring your binoculars. 9am. Roy G. GuerreroColorado River Park, 8200 Grove Dr., 300-BIRD. Free.www.travisaudubon.org.w DOING IT FOR THE LADIES If you didn’tknow that Austin has a Commission for Women,its upcoming Women of the Commission: Past,Present, and Future Reception sounds like a greatway to find out. If you think so too, RSVP by Friday,March 27. 5:30-7:30pm. Austin City Hall,301 W. Second, 419-8988. Free.lindadmedina@gmail.com.FEMALE ORGASM SEMINAR Both sexes are invitedto learn about girl parts and what one can dowith them. Learn about female anatomy, the physiologyof arousal, masturbation, and sex toys from theexperts. No live demonstrations. 8pm. Home SlicePizza, 1415 S. Congress, 609/742-5175. Free.jenna.marie.mellor@gmail.com.HOW TO BOOTSTRAP YOUR BUSINESS TheAustin chapter of the Rice Alliance guides you inthe art of funding a new business without spendingyour own cash. 6-9pm. InterContinental StephenF. Austin, 701 Congress, 457-8800. $20 ($25,advance). alliance@austinricealliance.org.LIBBY LANGDON of HGTV presents her SmallSpace Solutions: Secrets for Making Any Room LookElegant and Feel Spacious on Any Budget. 7pm.Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158,418-8985.MEXICO UNCONQUERED Author John Gibler discussesthe divisions in wealth between the fewrich and the destitute millions of Mexico. 7pm.MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop,407-6925.SMALL BUSINESS SEMINAR Learn some of whatyou need to know to start or invigorate your smallbusiness. For what you don’t learn at this seminar,the experts can point you in the right direction forthe answers. 9-11:30am. Workforce Solutions,6505 Airport. Free. www.wfscapitalarea.com.SOCIAL MEDIA FOR YOUR NONPROFIT Are you anonprofit looking to capitalize on all that Web technologyhas to offer? Learn to blog, share, post, andtweet before the morning is through. 9am.Texas Hillel, 2105 San Antonio St., 228-0390. $169.www.socialmedia4nonprofit.eventbrite.com.` STEAK NIGHT & CHOCOLATES FOR CHARITYCome early for a $6 steak (or chicken) with all thefixin’s, plus the adventure in mouthfeel known asChocolates for Charity, run by the United Court tobenefit local nonprofits. Then stay late for JamePerry’s original amateur strip-off. Tuesdays, 6pm &12mid. Charlie’s Austin, 1301 Lavaca, 474-6481.www.charliesaustin.com.WORKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS MEETINGS Youknow who you are. Get your work habits under yourown control. Tuesdays, noon; Saturdays, 11:30am.St. David’s Episcopal Church, 304 E. Seventh,295-6816. Free. www.workaholics-anonymous.org.STORY OF THE TEXAS AUCTIONEER(See Monday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Audience of One @ Alamo Ritz, 7:30pmUnder the Bombs @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Neko Case Stubb’sWEDNESDAY 01ADULT BEGINNERS COMPUTER CLINICfeatures one-on-one help with everythingfrom typing and mousing to using Microsoft Word,e-mail, and the Internet. No registration required.Wednesdays, 5:30pm; Thursdays, 9:30am. AustinFree-Net Computer Lab, DeWitty Center, 2209Rosewood, 236-8225. Free. www.austinfree.net.DIETING SUPPORT GROUP Break the cycle ofyo-yo dieting, surrounded by understanding folk.Wednesdays, 8pm. La Madeleine, 701 Capital of TXHwy. S. Ste. G, 771-3447. Free.w HIGH NOON TALKS Author of Latino Imagesin Film: Stereotypes, Subversion, and Resistance,Charles Ramírez Berg, talks about the Latino experienceas seen on film. Noon-1pm. Bob Bullock TexasState History Museum, 1800 Congress, 936-8746.Free with admission to museum.www.thestoryoftexas.com.METROPOLITAN BREAKFAST CLUB Mark Finger,vice president of human resources at NationalInstruments, talks about how his company alwaysgets on the Fortune list of the best places to work.7am. Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, UTClub, sixth floor, 2108 E. Robert Dedman, 479-9460.$15. www.mbcaustin.org.MOMENTUM: INAUGURAL MEN’S NIGHT OUT TheJewish Community Association’s Men’s Divisionbrings comedian Aaron Freeman to emcee and BretStephens, Wall Street Journal global affairs columnist,to keynote. Cocktails, kosher barbecue, andbeer will be served all night. 6:30pm. Dell JewishCommunity Center, 7300 Hart, 795-9937. $40, plus$180 donation. www.shalomaustin.org/momentum.w TECHNOLOGY FAIR Informative sessionsfrom local reps of IBM, Apple, Sony, and Dell occurthroughout the day while software demos, games,vintage computers, prizes, raffles, and snacks keepyou entertained. Bring unused or outdated computerequipment to donate to those in need. 4-8pm.Concordia University, Bldg. D, 11400 ConcordiaUniversity Dr. Free. mary.smith@concordia.edu,www.concordia.edu.` THE TRIVIA NIGHT SHUFFLE We know moreuseless facts than the Guinness Book of WorldRecords. You, too? Well, Quiz Mistress Lois will thrillyou to the bones, plus, she’ll be giving away an iPodShuffle. Kitchen opens at 6pm. 7pm. Nueva Onda,2218 College Ave., 447-5063. www.nuevaaustin.com.VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE MARCH Violence,no way it’s ever OK. Take a stand against it. Comespeak out, and show your support for the survivorsof sexual violence at the Take Back the Night!March and Rally. 6:30-10pm. UT Main Mall in frontof the Tower, 475-6630. cmhc.utexas.edu/vav.html.YOGA IN THE PARK Austin Parks Foundation,Downtown Austin Alliance, and Yoga Yoga unite tooffer free yoga instruction every week. Wednesdays,noon. Republic Square Park, 422 Guadalupe, 380-9800. Free. www.yogayoga.com.STORY OF THE TEXAS AUCTIONEER(See Monday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Ben X @ St. John Library, 6:30pmStrangers When We Meet @ Alamo Ritz, 7pmThe Trip @ Alamo Ritz, 12midMUSIC (See Music Listings.)April Ghouls Day Red 7Leonard Cohen Long Center for thePerforming ArtsCheck out our online list of local summer camps nowat austinchronicle.com/sc before next week when they’ll be allprettified and included in our print issue. It’s your last week to get a leg up on the Luddites whostill read print media. If you have a camp you’d like included in our guide, now’s your last chance.72 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mTHURSDAY 02w ADOPT-A-PARK SEMINAR Bring yourcommunity group, parish, water-coolerpals, or just a group of friends, and see if there is apark that’s right for you. If you choose to adopt, youcould be cleaning, mulching, building trails, or whoknows what. The representatives from the Parks& Recreation Department and the Austin ParksFoundation know, that’s who. Call or e-mail to RSVP.6:30pm. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina, 477-1566.apf@austinparks.org, www.austinparks.org/itsmypark.html.ARCHITECTURE AT THE UMLAUF Nosh on somelight hors d’oeuvres before feeding your brain witha lecture touching on honesty in architecture. 7pm.Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, 605 Robert E.Lee, 992-3574. $5 (free, members).www.aveone.com/community_nav.htm.AUDITORIUM SHORES RENOVATION PUBLICMEETING They’re renovating Auditorium Shores?Where are we going to have our pillow fights? Let theParks & Recreation Department know what you wantchanged and left alone at this beloved open space.6pm. Town Lake Center assembly room,721 Barton Springs Rd.CONCORDIA SPEAKER SERIES LUNCHEONElizabeth Christian discusses being a good businesspersonand just a good person. 11:30am.Concordia University, Bldg. A, 11400 ConcordiaUniversity Dr. Free. www.concordia.edu/speakerseries.COSMETICS RECYCLING PROGRAM KICKOFFBring your lipstick tubes, shampoo bottles, moisturizerjars, compacts, etc., and check out thisnationwide cosmetics recycling program. 10am-8pm.Origins, Central Park Shopping Center, 4001 N. Lamar.Free. www.origins.com.FIRST THURSDAY Music, food, and shopping. Fromthe river, south on South Congress. Free.GETTING CONNECTED BUSINESS RESOURCEFAIR Small-business owners can hobnob andschmooze with other little guys and hopefully createa little synergy. 3-7pm. Palmer Events Center,900 Barton Springs Rd., 974-7800. free.www.cityofaustin.org/sbdp.INFANT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP Meet with otherfamilies that have lost a pregnancy or had an infantdie. 7pm. St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center,2400 Round Rock Ave., Classroom 3, Round Rock,512/341-1395. Free.LOUIS GREGORY SYMPOSIUM ON RACE UNITY Apanel of diverse guests discusses unity within thecommunity. The three winners of the essay contestpresent their words, and Dr. Joy DeGruy, author ofPost Traumatic Slave Syndrome, keynotes. 11:30am-5pm. King Seabrook Chapel, 900 Chicon. Free.www.austinbahai.org.` MAS MAS MAS: HOW DO YOU LIKE IT? “Aspringtime bonanza of avant-garde live music and performance”?Yes, please. The Mas Mas Mas SpringParty features new works by Silky Shoemaker and NoMas Bodas. And in the Silkiest tradition, it’s absolutelyfree. 7-10pm. Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca,477-1064. Free. mcqueen@womenandtheirwork.org,www.womenandtheirwork.org.OXJAM FESTIVAL Oxfam hosts this music and FairTrade fashion extravaganza. Local thrift stores supplythe threads while the Eastern Sea, Follow ThatBird!, and other rock outfits supply the jams. Partyfor human rights. 7-11pm. UT campus, Main Mall,817/992-2121. Free. oxfamut@gmail.com,www.utexas.edu/txunion/calendar/event/863.UNIVERSITY OF GASTRONOMIC SCIENCES INFOSESSION This Italian school of food studies wantsyou to know more about it. E-mail your name andphone number to d.szanto@unisg.it to attend. 7pm.Habitat Suites, 500 E. Highland Mall Blvd.,467-6000, 800/535-4663. www.unisg.it.` HOLY CROSS SUCKS! (See Thursday, 3/26.)ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Art on 5th, Davis Gallery,Wally Workman GalleryMUSIC (See Music Listings.)The Alice Rose MohawkLeonard Cohen Long Center for the Performing Artsnow . . .HELPING HANDS CENTER needs strong,dependable males to help load/unload groceriestwice monthly. Helping Hands Center,1151 San Bernard St., 472-2298.w COMMUNITY TAX PREPARATION Don’t have themoney for a professional tax service but still unsureabout adding everything up correctly? If your income isless than $25,000 for an individual or $50,000 for afamily of two to four people, then you’re likely eligible.Call 211, or go to www.communitytaxcenters.org for a completelist of criteria, locations, and hours, as well as informationabout which forms to bring.d AQUATIC SCIENCE ADVENTURE CAMPSCHOLARSHIP Get your 9- to 15-year-old to write a onepageessay on why he or she wants to attend EdwardsAquifer Research and Data Center’s camp, and he or shemight just end up attending for free. The deadline foressays is April 3. www.bseacd.org/scholarship_program.htm.PUBLIC INPUT ON ZERO WASTE Austin wants to reducethe amount of landfill-bound waste by 90% by 2040. Thecity will need your help. Go to www.austinrecycles.com, andgive your two cents on the city’s attempts to curb garbage.TALK TIME features conversation practice for Englishlanguagelearners hoping to fine-tune their skills in a nonthreateningatmosphere. Call or go online for a schedule oftimes and locations. 974-7529. www.cityofaustin.org/library.FINANCIAL COACHING Mondays through Saturdays, individualsearning less than $25,000 and families earningless than $50,000 can get free, one-on-one help reducingdebt, fixing credit, and elucidating other money matters.Foundation Communities, 3036 S. First #200, 247-8613.katie.hazekamp@foundcom.org, www.foundcom.org.` HOMOS READ POMO Do you read? Eat? Drink? Likethe ladies? Do democratically chosen books such asOrlando: A Biography by Virginia Wolfe turn you on? They dopomo; they don’t even read pomo. pseudopants@gmail.com.DONATION REQUEST FOR ARCH Serving 400 homelessa day, the soap desk at the ARCH is in need of all mannerof toiletries (feminine-hygiene products, disposable razors,etc.), magazines, activity books (crosswords, etc.), gift cards,and phone cards. Check the website or call for specificitems. ARCH, 500 E. Seventh, 305-4174. www.frontsteps.org.HILL COUNTRY PHOTO CONTEST Start exploring the 17counties that make up the Hill Country, and find one ofthe myriad natural and picturesque spots. Snap it, andsubmit it to the Hill Country Alliance online, where youwill also find a complete list of rules. Deadline for submissionsis May 31. 560-3135. www.hillcountryalliance.org.VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE is April 9 if you wantto vote in the May 9 election. And you want to, becauseit’s the ever-popular joint and special elections. Hearthat? They’re special. 854-9473. www.traviscountytax.org.HEARING LOSS SCREENINGS Hearing HealthcareManagement is offering free hearing screenings throughoutMarch to make Austin aware of the link between diabetesand hearing loss. Better Hearing of Austin, 8700 Manchaca.` KISS & FLY Word on the street is that there’s a newkid in town, and by kid we mean club, and by new wemean it used to be Vicci. Now it is Kiss & Fly, namedafter a well-known airport drop-off point in gay Paris. It iscalling itself the largest gay night club in Austin. Kiss &Fly, 404 Colorado, 476-7799. www.kissandflyaustin.com.& later` COMING THIS FALL! AGLIFF 22 Twodecades and two years of Austin-bound LGBT cinematicsweetness. This fall marks year 22, but nowis the time for you to get hooked up while the hookingis cheap. Membership has its privileges. Tue.-Sun., Sept.8-13. Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar,302-9889. $40-1,200. info@agliff.org, www.agliff.org.FARM TO PLATE FUNDRAISER The city’s finest chefswill be using local, seasonal food items to create theirdelicious wares. Silent auctions and a not-so-silent setby La Strada await you if you go to the Sustainable FoodCenter’s website and buy tickets now. Thu., May 7, 6:30-9:30pm. Barr Mansion, 10463 Sprinkle Rd., 371-8770.$85. www.sustainablefoodcenter.org.

The global economy may be in free fall, butthere’s nothing a little pep can’t cure.OK, I don’t actually believe that. Yet there wassomething altogetherheartening about thedozen or so youngwomen who auditionedlast weekend to cheer forthe Austin Turfcats.Never heard of theTurfcats? I hadn’t either.But they’re a startupteam in a start-upleague – the SouthernIndoor Football League,consisting of six squads,unaffiliated with theArena Football League.If you go to the Turfcatswebsite and check outthe team roster, you’llsee pictures of only twoplayers. With the seasonstarting April 18, we canassume they’ll be fillingout the roster in the nextfew weeks. Even if theydon’t, I’m not particularlyworried, knowing thatthe organization already has a fulllitter of turf kittens. Ten of them –women with other jobs and otherresponsibilities who are neverthelessdetermined to entertain themultitudes for next to no money.Take Rhonda Robinson, 21.She’s a single mom of a 3-year-oldgirl. She’s attending two colleges.She drives a city bus. For all that,she felt there was somethingmissing in her life. Afterhigh school, she and somefriends formed a dancesquad, making up littlehip-hop routines. But thatwasn’t quite the same asdancing professionally infront of a big crowd.“I just want to get back into thedancing business,” she told me.“I have the cheerleader smile – abig cheesy grin – and I have a lotof spirit. Once you put me in frontof a bunch of people, I’m a differentperson.”Yet when she showed up forthe tryouts Saturday, Robinson gotcold feet. She had paid the $50audition fee, filled out the application,got into her tights – and thentook one self-critical look in themirror. “I was like: ‘I’m too fat. I’msportsBY MARK FAGANBY THOMAS HACKETT playingthroughPlease writeMr. Hackett atplayingthrough@austinchronicle.com.Rhonda Robinsonthe only one with a jiggly belly. Ishouldn’t be doing this.’”Honestly, I have no idea whyRobinson was so worried. She’slovely – and she’s right about thatkiller smile.As one girl after another waspicked for the squad while shejust sat there, Robinson tried totake solace in the fact that, even ifshe didn’t make the cut, she hadstill worked up her courageand gone through with theaudition. Jiggly belly orno jiggly belly, she’d putherself out there. Thenight before, she’d spenthours practicing the routinein front of her daughter.And even though she sort ofmessed up at the end, she’d givenit her all. She couldn’t ask anymore of herself than that.It came down to just her and oneother girl. One of them would getthe boot.“The whole time I was saying aprayer: ‘God, please just give meanother chance. I’d like to do this.I’ll be good at this.’”Finally, they called her number.“I didn’t care that I was the lastgirl to make the team – I was justso happy.”THOMAS HACKETTlistingsTHE MAIN EVENTw TEXAS RELAYS One of the topevents of the U.S. Track & Field calendarstarts Wednesday. More info next week.Wed.-Sat., April 1-4, all day. Mike A. MyersTrack & Soccer Stadium, Red River &Manor Rd. www.texasrelays.com.THE HOME TEAMSw AUSTIN TOROS are our own pro b-ballteam and San Antonio Spurs affiliate playingin the heart of Downtown. High-qualityhoops for a bargain price. Vs. Tulsa: Wed.,April 1, 7:30pm. Austin Convention Center,500 E. Cesar Chavez, 236-8333. $8-23.www.nba.com/dleague/austin.w TXRD LONESTAR ROLLERGIRLSBanked-track Roller Derby mayhem fromthe Cherry Bombs and Holy Rollers withlive music by the Bulemics and 13thVictim. Sun., March 29, 6pm. AustinConvention Center, 500 Cesar Chavez, Hall5. $15 ($13, advance). www.txrd.com.HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITYBaseball Vs. Texas Southern University:Tue., March 31, 1pm. Downs Field.Track & Field Texas Relays: Wed.-Sat.,April 1-4, all day. Myers Stadium.SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SoftballVs. Hendrix: Sat., March 28, 1 & 3pm(doubleheader); Sun., March 29, noon& 2pm. Women’s Golf SouthwesternInvitational: Mon.-Tue., March 30-31, allday. Tennis Vs. McMurry: Thu., April 2,2pm. www.southwesternpirates.com.CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Baseball Vs.Hardin-Simmons University: Fri., March 27,1pm; Sat., March 28, noon (doubleheader).Vs. Southwestern: Tue., March 31, 2pm.Nelson Field, 7400 Berkman. Softball SulRoss State: Fri., March 27, 5pm; Sat.,March 28, noon. athletics.concordia.edu.UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Softball Vs.Texas Tech: Thu., March 26, 6:30pm.Oklahoma Alumni Day: Sat., March 28,1pm. Vs. Oklahoma: Sun., March 29,noon. Vs. Texas A&M Corpus-Christi:Thu., April 2, 4 & 6pm (doubleheader).McCombs Field, 2001 Comal.Baseball Vs. Texas Tech: Fri., March 27,6pm; Sat., March 28, 2pm; Sun., March29, 1pm. Vs. Oral Roberts: Tue., March31, 6pm. Disch-Falk Field, 1300 E. MLK.Men’s Golf Morris Williams Collegiate:Mon.-Tue., March 30-31, all day. UT GolfClub & Academy, 2200 University Club Dr.Track & Field Texas Relays: Wed.-Sat.,April 1-4, all day. Myers Stadium. Men’sTennis Vs. Baylor: Thu., April 2, 6pm.Penick-Allison Tennis Center, 1701 Trinity.www.texassports.com.ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY Softball Vs.St. Mary’s: Sat., March 28, noon.www.stedwards.edu/athletics.TEXAS STATE Baseball Vs. Stephen F.Austin: March 27-29, Fri., 6:30pm; Sat.,2pm; Sun., 1pm. Bobcat Baseball Stadium,San Marcos. www.txstatebobcats.com.RECREATION & FITNESSHILL COUNTRY OUTDOORS Learn moreabout Austin’s most active outdoors andsocial club. More than 40 events eachmonth: hiking, camping, biking, kayaking,sports leagues, socials, and more. Mon.,March 30, 6:30pm. Opal Divine’s at PennField, 3601 S. Congress. Free. And don’tmiss the open-to-the-public HCO BirthdayBash Sun., March 29, 2-6pm. WalnutCreek Park. www.hillcountryoutdoors.com.ARCHERY Wanting to learn the sportof target archery? Spring classes startMarch 28. USA Archery-certified instructorswith all equipment provided.www.aajoad.com, www.archery.meetup.com/14.w BEYOND THE LIGHTS CELEBRITYGOLF CLASSIC Returning hosts BradLeland and Kyle Chandler of NBC’s muchbelovedFriday Night Lights will be joinedby football coaches and players, film andTV actors, and other notables for a funday of golf with breakfast, cocktails, anawards dinner, silent and live auctions,gift bags, prizes, and more – all benefitingtwo charities whose work is researchand care related to spinal cord injury. Fri.,March 27, 9:30am. Wolfdancer Golf Club,Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa,Lost Pines. www.beyondthelights.org.RUNS, WALKS, & RIDESJUNIOR ’DILLO KIDS RUN is a certified1-mile course for kids aged 15 and younger.All participants receive a commemorativeaward, and the Top 3 in each agegroup receive shiny medals. Sat., March28, 7:30am. Auditorium Shores and WestRiverside, 445-3598. www.statesman.com/sports/content/cap10k/index.html.AUSTIN AUTISM AWARENESS BIKE RIDEEnjoy a lovely spring bike ride along thecountry roads of Williamson County. Lastyear’s ride raised more than $2,000 tosupport the Autism Society of GreaterAustin’s efforts to connect parents andschools with autism info and resources.Sun., March 29, 9am. Berry Springs Parkand Preserve, Georgetown, 512/479-4199.$15-35. www.austinautismbikeride.org.ST. JAMES MISSIONS 5K/1K RUN ANDWALK A fun run or walk in East Austin witha portion of the proceeds being donated tothe Alzheimer’s Foundation. Sat., March28, 8am. St. James Baptist Church, 3417E. MLK, 928-2753. 5K, $20; 1K, $10.bobbyc@austintexas.net, www.stjamescmbc.org.austinchronicle.com/sportsWILDCAT FAMILY 5K RACE AND KIDSFUN RUN The course is semiflat, fast,and finishes in front of the school. Sat.,March 28, 8am (kids fun run), 8:30am (5Krace). Walsh Middle School, 3850 WalshRanch Blvd., Round Rock, 512/704-0880.CRITICAL MASS Bicyclists have been“subverting the paradigm” in Austinsince October ’93 with this monthly ridecelebrating two-wheeled transportation.Let’s keep it civil, everybody. Held on thelast Friday of each month. Fri., March 27,5pm. Riders meet at the UT West Mall(Guadalupe between 22nd & 23rd).www.critical-mass.info/austin.html.DANSKIN TRAINING INFORMATIONThis 10-week training program prepareswomen at all experience levels for theTrek Women’s Triathlon and the DanskinTriathlon. Sat., March 28, 8:30am. RogueEquipment, 500 San Marcos, 731-6603.ruth@roguerunning.com, www.roguerunning.com.RUN FOR THE BLUEBONNETS 5K ANDKIDS 1K FUN RUN runs through the historicaldistrict of Bastrop, providing a flatcourse with a fast downhill finish. And ifyou’re really lucky, you might get to meetthe Bluebonnet Elementary Cardinal. Allproceeds benefit Bluebonnet Elementaryactivities. Sat., March 28, 8:30am.Fisherman’s Park, Bastrop, 512/636-4934.www.signmeup.com/63686.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published everyThursday. Info is due the Monday of the weekprior to the issue date. The deadline for theApril 10 issue is Monday, March 30. Includename of event, date, time, location, price, phonenumber(s), a description, and any available photosor artwork. Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the appropriate writer(see below). Mail to the Chronicle, POB 49066,Austin, 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:Mark Fagan (Sports):gameplans@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner,List ings editor, at brenner@austinchronicle.com.BY NICK BARBARO soccer watchState high school playoffs started this week, with a heavy suburbanflavor locally. In 5A, the local reps are Bowie, Westlake, and Akins from theSouthwest, plus northerners Pflugerville, P’ville Connally, Georgetown, CedarPark, and all four Round Rock high schools. 4A looks like Lake Travis andDripping Springs again – especially the girls, who’ve already notched 10-0and 9-0 wins. Too bad those two meet in a regional quarterfinal; either onecould go a long way in this tournament. Sectional finals and regional quartersare going on this week; regional finals April 3-4. The state tournamentis April 9-11 at the Georgetown ISD Athletic Complex.The Austin Aztex lost to Real Salt Lake, 3-1, on their first ever road trip.There’s lots of roster decisions being made now, with a week to go beforethe final preseason game, hosting the Puerto Rico Islanders, Friday, April3, 7:30pm, Nelson Field.The Islanders, remarkably, beat Mexican giants Cruz Azul, 2-0, in aCONCACAF Champions League semifinal last week; the return leg in MexicoCity is Tuesday, April 7, 9pm (live on FSC), just four days after the game here.The CONCACAF finals are April 21-23 (first leg) and 28-30 (second leg).Aztex affiliate Stoke City beat Middlesbrough on Saturday, to pull threepoints clear of the EPL drop zone, with eight games to play. No leaguegames this week – it’s World Cup qualifying, around the world, Saturday,then again Wednesday. The U.S. is at El Salvador, Saturday, March 28,8pm, then hosts Trinidad & Tobago in Nashville, 6:30pm, Wednesday, April1 (both live on ESPN2). Other big games on every continent.Got a sporting event you’d like to see listed in The Austin Chronicle?Submit your sporty happening online at austinchronicle.com/commform.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 73

artslistingsblowing our way. Dirt covers the stage, andbeating down on it is a broiling orange lightthrough which more dirt appears to gust. It’sreally fog, but the illusion is so convincingthat your throat tightens. Before a word isspoken in Zach Theatre’s moving productionof The Grapes of Wrath, you feel the ariddesolation of the Dust Bowl and the windsthat scattered its people from their homes.When the large ensemble ambles ontothis barren patch, you grasp the desperationin their characters’ lives, the sense thattheir world has shriveled up as thoroughlyas their crops. What once held them to thissoil – the land they farmed, the means itgave them to live, their neighbors – has, asone says, gone with the wind. And as theirstory unfolds, all the talk of drought, foreclosures,arrests, and poverty makes clearthat they’re bound to be leaving themselvessoon, more human tumbleweeds blownacross the scorched and empty plains.But it isn’t only the land that’s parched;the souls of these people are, too. Beatendown by callous banks, police, and otherauthorities, they’ve lost their faith in what’sright and in themselves. The Joads, theclan at the heart of John Steinbeck’s noveland this Frank Galati adaptation, abandonOklahoma and, like so many Dust Bowlfamilies, head to California, lured by thepromise of steady work picking fruit in greenorchards. But as they suffer misfortune uponmisfortune, they speak again and again ofsin and the law, no longer sure what eithermeans. Some, like Harvey Guion’s ebullientPa Joad and Paul Mitchell Wright’s genialUncle John, erupt in anguish, fearful that thesource of their woes is their transgressionsThe Grapes of WrathZach Theatre Kleberg Stage,through May 10Running time: 2 hr, 30 minA long, low horizon stretches across the back of the stage.Below it is earth baked bone-dry, above it thick, roiling cloudsthat blot out the sky – a dust storm like the wrath of Jehovahagainst God. Some, like David Christopher’sTom Joad and Jarret Mallon’s Floyd, seetheat the injustices committed by those withpower on their side and fight back, though itmeans going against the law. Jim Casy, thepreacher who has lost his calling, repeatedlyquestions his faith, his doubt traced withtouching humility by Marc Pouhé. Then thereis Janelle Buchanan’s Ma Joad, the heart ofthis production; she is no less shaken bymisery than anyone – feelings revealed inpauses and flashes across her face – yetshe remains steady, a rock in a harsh wind,answering any questions to her or in herown heart with the refrain that one doeswhat one has to do. It’s a hallmark of DaveSteakley’s staging that, just as Cliff Simon’sset, Jason Amato’s lighting, and CraigBrock’s sound make us feel we’re in a physicaldesert, the performers collectively makeus feel we’re in a spiritual desert.There is moisture to be found here, thoughin the music woven through the scenes.Traditional folk tunes, hymns, and songs ofthe Great Depression, arranged sensitivelyby Allen Robertson and performed with deepfeeling by John Pointer, Sarah Gay, Rich Upton,and others in the cast, are a wellspring ofcomfort and compassion. Even when theyexpress pain, the beauty of their deliverygrants a measure of solace. And in the end,that is as much what the show is about astribulations and sorrows. The haunting finalimage, of a young mother of a stillborn childsuckling a starving man, is of profound kindnessand grace – qualities desperately neededas we come into our own hard times. Thisproduction does the good service of showingus that with beauty and power. – Robert Faires74 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mtheatreOPENINGAUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS: TIME STEPS: 10-MINUTEPLAY SHOWCASE Flashbacks, maternal admonitions,and all kinds of dances promenade throughthis 11th annual Out of Ink showcase. Eight playswere selected from submissions created duringa locked-door, 48-hour writing retreat. Scripts byKatherine Catmull, Aimée Gonzalez, Meg Haley, MaxLangert, Marshall Maresca, Susan McMath Platt,Sarah Saltwick, and Timothy Thomas get a fine stagingby local directors and actors. Thu.-Sat., March26-April 4, 8pm. The Blue Theater, 916 Springdale,927-1118. $12 ($10, students, seniors, ACoT; paywhat you wish, March 26). www.scriptworks.org.AUSTIN CABARET THEATRE: SHARONMONTGOMERY The former Texan returns to her rootswith much glamour and Broadway savvy in tow fora night of songs and banter. Thu.-Fri., March 26-27,8:30pm. Mansion at Judges’ Hill, 1900 Rio Grande,495-1800. $39. www.austincabaret.blogspot.com.THE HEIDI CHRONICLES Wendy Wasserstein’s sharpcomedy traces the coming-of-age of Heidi Holland, asuccessful art historian, as she and her friends charttheir path for personal fulfillment in the tumultuousSixties and through the isolated Eighties. FeaturingRachel McGinnis and Charles P. Stites and directedby Susie Gidseg for City Theatre. March 26-April 19.Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5:30pm. City Theatre, 3823Airport Ste. D, 524-2870. $15-20 ($12, students; paywhat you wish, Thursdays). www.citytheatreaustin.org.HAL HOLBROOK: MARK TWAIN TONIGHT Need wesay more? OK: The man’s been doing this for almosthalf a century; it’s like a marathon of actorly reincarnation,an American institution, and it’ll do you upright for an evening of entertainment and edification.Fri.-Sat., March 27-28, 8pm. Paramount Theatre,713 Congress, 472-5470. $25-75. www.austintheatre.org.ACOT READING: SEVEN JEWISH CHILDREN AustinCircle of Theaters and Cambiare Productions presenta staged reading and discussion of Caryl Churchill’scontroversial new work about seven key moments inIsrael’s history. This Austin premiere will be followed bya discussion facilitated by the Chronicle’s own RobertFaires and playwright C. Denby Swanson. Fri., March 27,8pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.,397-1468. Free. www.cambiareproductions.com.A FLEA IN HER EAR Georges Feydeau’s classic farce,predicated on suspicions of marital infidelity, is directedby Don Toner for Austin Playhouse and featuresAndrea Osborn, David Stokey, and a fine cast of charactersin period costumes by Buffy Manners. March27-May 3. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. Austin Playhouse,3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, 476-0084. $26-30 (halfprice for students). www.austinplayhouse.com.THE DAVID MARK COHEN NEW WORKS FESTIVALThe University Co-op presents this diverse biennial celebrationof new theatre works and informative panelscreated by UT students, showcased in various venuesaround the Winship Drama Building (23rd & San Jacinto),with all performances free and open to the generalpublic. Comedy, drama, dance, music – something forevery taste and all of it rendered fresh from fledgling ormore storied academic minds. There’s a new play (TheMariner) based on a Decemberists song, for instance,and Mac bloody Wellman is attending this festival. (See“Research and Development,” p.36, for details – and afull schedule!) March 30-April 4. www.coopnwf.org.THE DIONYSIUM returns with its monthly slate ofdebates, lectures, and aesthetically invigorating entertainment.This time, it’s all up in the science-y side ofthings, with a debate on nanotechnology, a talk on “junkscience,” a possible mad-scientist cartoon from LanceMyers, and more – as presided over by Buzz Moranand L.B. Deyo, abetted by the live keyboards of GrahamReynolds. Wed., April 1, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse South,1120 S. Lamar, 707-8262. $8. www.originalalamo.com.THE REAL THING IN REAL TIME The fourth annualDavid O. Nilsson Lecture in Contemporary Dramatakes on meta-theatre as noted stage actors tacklescenes from Tom Stoppard’s play-within-a-play TheReal Thing. Wed., April 1, 5pm. AT&T Executive Center,1900 University Ave. Free. www.lib.utexas.edu.MY CHILD, MY CHILD, MY ALIEN CHILD Zell MillerIII heeds popular demand to restage this funny andmoving story about his son crash-landing into hislife. The award-winning presentation (David MarkCohen New Play Award 2007) will take you throughall the frustration, confusion, and supreme joy ofparenthood. Directed by Ken Webster. Thu.-Sat., April2-18, 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, 479-PLAY.$18 ($16, students, seniors, ACoT; pay what you can,Thursdays). www.hydeparktheatre.org.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Infois due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. Thedeadline for the April 10 issue is Monday, March 30.Include name of event, date, time, location, price, phonenumber(s), a description, and any available photos orartwork. Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer(see roster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066,Austin, 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:Wayne Alan Brenner, theatre, comedy.brenner@austinchronicle.com.Robi Polgar, performance art, dance, classical.dance-classical@austinchronicle.com.Ric Williams, litera. litera@austinchronicle.com.Benné Rockett, visual arts. art@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listings editor.brenner@austinchronicle.com.STEPHEN LYNCH The comedic singer-songwriter,star of Broadway’s The Wedding Singer, brings hisdulcet tones and wisenheimer words to the hallowedstage Downtown. Thu., April 2, 8pm. ParamountTheatre, 713 Congress, 472-5470. $24-28.www.austintheatre.org.CARNIVAL AH! Austin Community College Arts andHumanities Division’s festival kicks off with studentpresentations and more, offering a variety of instructionand performance for the theatrically and literarilyoriented (see our Litera listings, p.77, for instance).Details to follow in our next issue, or see the ACCwebsite for more. April 2-4. ACC Main Theatre,1212 Rio Grande, 223-3245. www.austincc.edu/carnival.COMMON GROUND Antoinette Winstead’s compellingstory of a post-Vietnam Texas homecoming, directedby Stephen Gerald, is a world-premiere production fromProArts Collective. April 2-5. Thu.-Fri., 8pm; Sat.-Sun.,3 & 7pm. Boyd Vance Theatre at Carver, 1165 Angelina,474-8497. $20. www.proartsaustin.org.CLOSINGBOMBS IN YOUR MOUTH This is the world premiereof Corey Patrick’s dark comedy about a long-estrangedbrother and a sister reuniting after their father dies.This damned funny comedy stars Joey Hood and LizFisher and is directed by Ken Webster for Hyde ParkTheatre. You saw HPT’s Dog Sees God? You saw theirThe Pillowman? This shit’s good, too. Recommended.Through March 28, 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd,479-PLAY. $18 ($16, students, seniors, ACoT; pay whatyou wish, Thursdays). www.hydeparktheatre.org.ONGOINGGREASE The popular Fifties musical gets a boldrevival out in Georgetown. Through April 19. Fri.-Sat.,7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. Palace Theater, 810 S. Austin Rd.,Georgetown, 512/869-7469. $22 ($20, seniors; $12,students, military; $8, age 15 or younger).www.georgetownpalace.com.MACBETH The Austin Drama Club, under the directionof Japhy Fernandes, presents this bloodiest of theBard’s tragedies. E-mail for location. Through April 4.Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Pay what you can. ceasarbnice@yahoo.comTHE TEXCENTRIC SHOW The madcap jesters ofEsther’s Follies branch out with this send-up of oldtimeradio shows: sketches, skits, live music, and soon, like a sort of locally warped version of A PrairieHome Companion to enhance your dining pleasure.With Sand Sheff, Ellana Kelter, and Ted Meredith,directed by Doug Ewart. Wednesdays, 7:30pm. Patsy’sCowgirl Cafe, 5001 E. Ben White, 444-2020. Free (forthe month of April). www.patsyscowgirlcafe.com.HUMAN SKETCHES This is an original contemporaryplay, by local playwright Trey Deason, about twowomen from wildly different lifestyles trying to findwhat they need in each other and ultimately findingmuch more than they bargained for. Directed by SeanHunter. Through April 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. SamBass Community Theatre, 600 N. Lee, Round Rock,512/244-0440. $15 ($13, ages 12 and younger).www.sambasstheatre.org.HOLY CROSS SUCKS! Rob Nash took his one-man,multicharacter production to the wilds of off-Broadwayand impressed even the jaded likes of The New YorkTimes, but the man is Austin’s own powerhouse of

multiple personalities onstage, and this is a fiercelyfunny and poignant evocation of three best friendsnavigating the painful, life-defining, and humiliatingyears at a Jesuit high school in the Eighties. We’repleased to recommend this highly engaging show.Directed by Jeff Calhoun for Vortex Repertory. (Seereview, p.76.) Through April 4. Thu.-Sun, 8pm. TheVortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $10-30.www.vortexrep.org.SHOOTING STAR This romantic comedy, written anddirected by local theatre savant Steven Dietz, concernstwo ex-lovers who unexpectedly reunite after 20 years– while snowed in at a Midwestern airport. Starring– hurray! – Jamie Goodwin and Barbara Chisholm.Through April 5. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. ZachTheatre, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541. www.zachscott.com.THE GRAPES OF WRATH The famed SteppenwolfTheatre fashioned a masterpiece with Frank Galati’sadaptation of Steinbeck’s great novel. Now DaveSteakley directs that epic version for Zach Theatre,with a huge cast and a live fourpiece band re-creatingDepression-era music. Check your retirementfunds, and feel an instant resonance with thoseJoads. (See review, p.74.) Through May 10. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey,476-0541. $20-45. www.zachscott.com.DINNER THEATRETHE LINGINI CODE Gary Payne and his madcapCapital City Mystery Players present this humorlaced,interactive murder mystery replete with corporateespionage among competing pasta-makers.With full-course Italian fare sating your appetite asyou sleuth out the culprits. Sat., March 28, 7pm.Spaghetti Warehouse, 117 W. Fourth, 404-9123.$29.95. www.meatballs.com.AUDITIONSKILLER JOE Capital T Theatre is looking for twoactors for its June production of this very dark comedyby Pulitzer winner Tracy Letts. Paid leading roles:Sharla (age 30-40, female; negotiable seminudityrequired); Chris (age 18-25, male). E-mail for appointment.Sat., March 28. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd,479-PLAY. info@capitalt.org.AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE’S ROMEO & JULIET isgonna be a regular zoot suit riot in May and June, so itseems, with a 1940s setting and incorporating a shardor two of Spanish within the Bard’s glorious speech. Allethnicities encouraged to apply. Prepare a two-minutespeech from Shakespeare; e-mail for appointment.Sun., March 29, 7-9pm. ACoT Headquarters, 701 Tillery.comedyIN THE CLUBSCAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research #100,467-2333. www.capcitycomedy.com.Jimmie Roulette Why was he the host of the AustinFilm Society’s annual awards ceremony at Southby Southwest this year? Because he’s sharp, he’sfunny, and he knows how to handle a stage. Nowhe’s back in the comedy spotlight, with no hostlyduties, with nothing in mind other than to makewhatever you’re drinking come right out your nose.That’s professional, man. And Tom Steffen opens.March 26-28. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.Maria Bamford & Her Austin Friends The onewomanlaugh factory returns to Cap City with aposse of local humoristas to pick your spirits upfrom the post-SXSW doldrums. Comedy? Tonight!Tue.-Wed., March 31-April 1, 8pm.Brian Posehn The geeky goofball par excellencesteps briefly out of your TV screen (The SarahSilverman Program, Just Shoot Me, etc.) to brightenyour existence via the Cap City stage. Jacob Sirofopens. April 2-4. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.Cap City Open Mic Hey, it could be you up thereslaying your friends and neighbors as they’ve slainyou. Sundays, 8pm. Free with college ID.COLDTOWNE THEATER 4803-B Airport,524-2807. www.coldtownetheater.com.This week: The unstoppable Parallelogramophonographbrings its best to bear on unscriptedshenanigans, now with Murphy. Thu., 8pm. UnfurledThe house troupe’s trippy tropes. Thu., 10pm.Proctor The ColdTowne improv school facultycuts loose with the Midnight Society. Fri., 8pm.Residencies features the Frank Mills and VennDiaphragm. Fri., 9pm. Punchline The weekly collectionof stand-up goodness continues. Fri., 10pm.Stool Pigeon features Bill Clabby, InternationalStudies Abroad polyglot, jump-starting the improvwith a thrice-told tale. Sat., 8pm. Cage Match Twoimprov teams wreak that sweet old havoc uponeach other for your grins and giggles. Sat., 9pm.Cold, Cold Improv The house troupe does its thingwith, this week, Midnight Society. Sat., 10pm.ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553.www.esthersfollies.com.Esther’s Follies The most popular troupe in townsays, “Yes, we can ... entertain the hell out ofyou!” with its new spring show of musical comedyand sketches, now with the Unleaded Supremessinging “The Big Three Bailout,” Espie Randolphas Barack Obama with some special words forour beleaguered nation, and the EF regulars slicingand dicing the likes of Rush Limbaugh, BernieMadoff, and Octomom. Also, whoa, a new illusion(called “Wink and a Smile”) from master magicianRay Anderson. Thrills! Chills! Ripped-fromthe-headlinesevents turned into comedy gold!Reservations highly recommended. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts available Thursdays& Fridays for seniors, students, military). Additional$5 for special reserved seats.THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress,443-3688. www.hideouttheatre.com.Thursday: It’s Threefer Madness time, in whichthree different troupes, drawn from the best intown, battle for improv supremacy. 8pm. $10.Friday: Double Barrel has two teams of improviserscompeting for your laughter and applause.8pm. $10. Next comes the eminently topical ThisWeek Tonight show, working its wild improv offthe news (of the weird, of the wonderful, of thejust plain newsworthy) of the past seven days.Holy current events, anchorman! 10pm. $10.Saturday: After School Improv Here’s some freshimprov based on audience suggestions and performedin the style of those old-school teenage cautionarytales. Marijuana! Gangs! Sexual predators!Oh noes! 8pm. $10. Maestro is a fierce, multipartitebattle for supremacy among improvisers, scored byyou, the audience. Highly recommended. 10pm. $10.VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116.www.thevelveetaroom.com.Howard Beecher That crusty barnacle on the GoodShip Comedy sails into the Cheese Palace onceagain, with Nick Aluto and Shawn Maddox opening.Fri.-Sat., March 27-28, 9:30 & 11:30pm. $5.BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!THE AUSTIN COMEDY TRAINWRECK Stand-upcomedy – right there in the Hole, on the Drag, in theheart of collegiate Texas. Tuesdays, 10pm.Hole in the Wall, 2538 Guadalupe. $5.www.myspace.com/austincomedytrainwreck.COMEDYSPORTZ Competitive improv? Well, ofcourse – and maestro Les McGehee and his talentedfriends bring it in full force every Saturdaynight to this newest little coffeehouse in the 78704.Saturday, 7pm. Cafe Caffeine, 909 W. Mary.www.comedy7.com.KICK BUTT COMEDY Monday Night Mash: ImprovMondays, 8pm. Open Mic Comedy Wednesdays, 8pm.Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425.LAST GAS COMEDY Stand-up comedy everySaturday. Sat., March 28, 9pm. Homer’s Bar & Grill,1779 Wells Branch Pkwy. #114. Free.www.lastgascomedy.com.AUSTIN’S NEXT TOP IMPROVISER Improviserscompete in challenges to win points, get boosts,be the star of their own show, and earn the titleof Austin’s Next Top Improviser. You, the audience,reap the rewards of much laughter. Fri., March 27,10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.,474-7886. www.gnaptheater.org/anti.html.SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Gnap! Theater Projectspresents this double whammy of uncanny improv,featuring two handpicked improv troupes certainto make your Saturday sizzle. This week: TheTetraMin terpsichore of Fishbowl Soldiers and thecrunk funk of a troupe called Junk. Sat., March 28,10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.,474-7886. $10. www.salvagevanguard.org.danceCALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G SBALLET AUSTIN: CALL FOR ENTRIES:NEW AMERICAN TALENT/DANCE Earlycareer choreographers are invited to submit their workfor consideration for Ballet Austin’s third Biennial NewAmerican Talent/Dance, a competition that brings thecountry’s most compelling artists to Austin to showcasenew work before a nationally renowned jury andlive audiences. Applicants must be 21 years of age orolder. See website for details. Deadline: March 30.www.balletaustin.org/newamericantalent.BALLET AUSTIN: THE STUDIO THEATER PROJECTAn NEA grant helps fund this showcase featuringworks by Nicolo Fonte and Stephen Mills, set tothe music of James Brown, Aretha Franklin, B.B.King, Nina Simone, and J.S. Bach, performed in anintimate setting. Through April 5. Times vary; see thewebsite. Ballet Austin, 301 W. Third. $25-30.www.balletaustin.org.PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY Taylor’s workexudes athleticism, insight, and beauty. The showincludes a mix of timeless Taylor classics and newerworks, including the commissioned work, “De SuenosQue Repiten (Of Recurring Dreams).” (See “PaulTaylor Dance Company,” p.35, for more.) Wed., April1, 8pm. Bass Concert Hall, UT campus, 23rd & EastCampus Drive, 477-6060. $26-46 ($10, students; discountsavailable for UT faculty, staff). www.utpac.org.TWO LEFT FEETLUCILA DANCE PRODUCTIONS: CLASSESFORMING Belly dancing (all levels), flamenco, salsa/merengue, hip-hop, creative movement for ages 5-10,and tai chi. Lucila Dance Studio, 1700 S. Lamar,416-8800. www.luciladance.com.MODERN DANCE CLASSES Ellen Bartel of SpankDance Company leads a series of classes in moderndance (all levels). Times and prices vary. See thewebsite for details. Tapestry Dance Company studios,2302 Western Trails. www.tapestry.org.THE CONTEMPORARY CLOGGERS Enjoy beginnerlessons in Appalachian Clog Dancing in this twomonthclass. No partner necessary. Call for details.Through May 26. Tuesdays, 5:30-6:30pm.7402 Brodie. 292-1030.ESTUDIO FLAMENCO Flamenco dance classes,centrally located. Saturdays, noon-1pm (beginner) &1-2:30pm (intermediate). 2801 W. 45th, 382-1366.Fees vary. www.estudioflamenco.com.AUSTIN BODY CHOIR Freestyle ecstatic dance tospiritual and world music! Wed. & Fri., 7:45-10pm;Sun., 10am-noon. Amala Foundation, 1006 S. Eighth.Through March 29. $5. www.bodychoir.org.DANCE INTERNATIONAL Each night features a varietyof ballroom and Latin dances; each month seesthe start of a new course. No partner necessary.Sundays, 6-8pm. Dancers Workshop, 183 & BalconesWoods. Weeknights, times vary. Hills Fitness Center,4615 Bee Caves Rd., 32-DANCE. Fees vary.www.dancein.org.DANCE ASSOCIATES AND AUSTIN PARD: DANCECLASSES Kids (ages 24 months and older) can participatein dance, gymnastics, and movement classesall over town, courtesy of Dance Associates and thecity’s Parks & Recreation Department. See websitefor details. 323-6838. www.danceassociatesaustin.com.BELLY DANCE WITH FINGER CYMBALS StaceyLizette teaches all levels of dancers, using differentcymbal rhythms with a focus on fluidity of hand andarm movements. (Finger cymbals are available for purchaseor loan.) Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm. Tapestry DanceCompany, 2302 Western Trails. www.staceylizette.net.FLAMENCO CLASSES Intermediate classes at theKhabele Studio Downtown. Call Chloe for details.923-3270.ZUMBA DANCE The Latin-inspired internationalmusic and dance steps are designed for everyone.Tuesdays, 5:45am; Thursdays, 7pm. Brushy CreekCommunity Center. E-mail for details.zumbaaustin@yahoo.com.AUSTIN BALLROOM DANCERS ABD sponsors ballroomdancing with DJ’d music weekly, year-round.Saturdays, 7:30-11pm. Austin Uptown Dance, 8868Research, 989-3939. www.austinballroomdancers.org.THE DANCE ZONE: ADULT DANCE & FITNESSCLASSES Unique twists on standard favorites. Seethe website for details. The Dance Zone, 2323 SanAntonio. 236-9328. www.inthedancezone.com.EGYPTIAN BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH DRAKONBeginners to advanced dancers are invited to learnfrom one of Austin’s favorite belly dancers. Variouslocations, 295-2036, 750-7037. $15 per class or sixfor $75. www.desertpassion.com.SCOTTISH BALLROOM DANCING Learn the ballroomdances of Scotland: lively jigs and reels and elegantstrathspeys. No partner needed, but couples welcome.Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. Quicksilver Dance Center,8711 Burnet Rd. Ste. H-100, 327-2869. First class free.BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH TWYLA GRACETwyla of Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble teachesongoing classes in belly dance. Call or write fordetails. Mon. & Wed., 8:30-9:30pm, 12687 Researchat Oak Knoll, 971-0188. www.twylabellydance.com.FREE SALSA LESSONS AT APL Various branches ofthe Austin Public Library host weekly salsa lessons.Raul Ramirez teaches the steps and spends a littletime filling you in on the history and background ofthe music and dance. Lessons take place throughoutthe week at the Carver, Cepeda, Pleasant Hill, andUniversity Hills branches. See the website for times.974-7400. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.CONTACT IMPROVISATION DANCE JAMSParticipants move in and out of contact with one ormore people through a common center of gravity. Allare welcome. Tuesdays, 8-10pm; Sundays, 4:30-6pm.Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar. $5.DANCE CLASSES FOR BIGGER BODIES A plus-sizedprofessional dancer leads classes based on having funmoving your body and exploring jazz, ballet, ballroom,hip-hop, and other types of dancing. Open to anyonewho is size-positive regardless of size! Saturdays.Beginners, 2pm; intermediate, 3pm; performance team,4:30-6:30pm. E-mail for location. www.danceswithfat.org.ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES Laura Pellegrino offersongoing classes for beginners, experts, and you inbetweenersin her country’s sexy dance of record.Khabele Studio, 701 W. Seventh. Full-time university studentsreceive 50% discount. www.tangointexas.com.ESQUINA TANGO Salsa time with O Positivo Theband blends salsa standards with classic son,mambo, and modern Cuban timba; come for theearly salsa class. BYOB. Fri., March 27, 9pm-1am(early class, 9pm). $10. Youth Open House Youngpeople can get a taste of tango, Tejano, salsa swing,and more. Demonstrations and refreshments roundout the afternoon. Tue., March 31, 5:30-6:15pm. Free.See the website for details. EsquinaTango,209 Pedernales, 524-2772. www.esquinatangoaustin.com.SCANDINAVIAN DANCING Turning and improvisedcouple dancing for beginning to advanced dancers. Nopartners needed; wear slick-soled shoes. Thursdays,7:30-9:45pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church,4700 Grover, 454-0598. $3. www.austinscandi.org.AUSTIN BARN DANCERS: CONTRA DANCE Traditionalsocial dances to live music every week. You don’t needa partner, and every dance will be taught before youstride out on your own. Wednesdays, 7:30pm. HancockRecreation Center, 811 E. 41st, 453-4225. $3 donation.www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.NIA CLASSES The Nia technique is an energizingworkout inspired by dance, martial arts, and healingarts. First class is free. Mon. & Fri., 9:30-10:30am;Mon. & Thu., 6-7pm; Sat., 10:30am. HancockRecreation Center, 811 E. 41st, 922-1581. $10 perclass. www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS Learn avariety of couples and line dances from around theworld. All levels of experience welcome. No partnerrequired. Saturdays, 7:30pm (lessons); 8:15-11pm(open dance). Hancock Recreation Center,811 E. 41st, 481-9362. $5. www.aifd.cc.KICK BUTT BLUES DANCE Ass-kickin’ blues for youto shake your booty to! Food and beverages available.Fridays (except third Friday each month), 9pm-1am. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 736-2662.$5. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE A couple hundredswingers hit the dance floor once a week for DJ-spunsounds of past blasts. A beginners’ lesson startsthe evening. Thursdays, 8pm-12mid. Texas Federationof Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel,476-5845. $5 ($2, members).www.austinswingsyndicate.org.FOUR ON THE FLOOR: CLASSES Ongoing classesfor various levels of expertise in swing and Lindy Hopculminate in a weekly dance. New classes usuallystart the first Tuesday of the new month. Tuesdays,7pm (classes), 9:30pm (open dance). Texas Federationof Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel,453-3889. Prices vary. www.fouronthefloor.com.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 75

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G Sthe characters in them. Beginning with 12Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas,Nash and the Vortex have premiered 12of his original shows, including all fourof the high school plays, Freshman YearSucks!, Sophomore Slump, Junior Blues, andSenioritis, that form the basis for Holy CrossSucks!, which premiered at the Vortex in 2000and enjoyed a run off-Broadway in 2005.The thing about Nash, the thing thatshould make anyone who hasn’t seen himsee him, and the thing that should makeanyone who has seen him see him again:He makes it all look so easy. Often doinglittle more than sitting in a chair or standingin place, Nash plays two, three, four, ormore people, switching characters at lightningspeed while never failing to embodyall distinctly, physically and vocally, sceneafter scene. At one moment, he’s a Hispanicseductress; the next a fat kid. At anothermoment, he’s a teen rebel, then a Jewishrabbi. Kids, their parents, their friends, theirgirlfriends, their teachers, the Taco! Taco!Taco! lady, Nash nails them all. He’s creditedwith 29 characters in the program, butI remember some that weren’t listed, and Idistinctly remember 23 of them.Which amazes me. If 23 actors were ina play, I don’t think I’d be able to recognizethem all in a lobby, but I distinctly remember23 of Nash’s characters, so greatly did theystrike me as people. And that’s the magic ofRob Nash.Holy Cross Sucks!The Vortex, through April 5Running time: 1 hr, 40 minOne-person, multicharacter shows have become ubiquitousin contemporary theatre, but few perform them like Rob Nash.The Austin-based theatre artist has been creating one-handersfor 17 years – writing them, performing them, and playing allBut seriously, I don’t mean to gush. Youmight want to know something about theplay. Well, it’s exactly what you would expectfrom a story about Catholic teens coming ofage: rebellion, sex, and self-discovery. In onestoryline, a young man accepts his homosexuality.In another, a teenager impregnateshis father’s girlfriend, who then becomeshis stepmother. While such themes may notnecessarily sound like the stuff of comedy,Nash mines them for all the comedic goldthey’re worth. He packs four years of highschool into less than two hours, makingfriends, losing friends, reconciling, going out,smoking bongs, and having sex with himself.In one scene, Nash plays eight characterswho say hello to one another as each joinsa group, and the names, the looks, theposes go flashing by like frames flippingpast a lens, like a living, speeding cartoon. Iwanted Nash to slow down so I could enjoyit even more.Four years of high school in 100 minutes.Twenty-nine characters. Sound andlight cues like so many candies in a comedyjar. (Kudos to stage manager TamaraL. Farley for keeping up with them all.) AndNash makes it look easy! But you knowthe truth, don’t you? There’s nothing easyabout it. Write and perform 30 characters?Easy? Are you kidding me? If you haven’tseen Rob Nash, you should. And if youhave seen him, you might want to take alook again.– Barry Pineo76 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mclassicalmusicOPENINGLONG CENTER FIRST ANIVERSARY PARTY Awardwinningcomposer Marvin Hamlisch and Broadway starLinda Eder, backed by a 32-piece orchestra, are headliningthis celebratory concert. Thu., March 26, 8pm.Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside,474-5664. $39. www.thelongcenter.org.IMANI WINDS The Grammy-nominated Imani Winds traversethe boundaries of the traditional wind quintet repertoirefor an adventurous evening of classical music.Thu., March 26, 8pm. McCullough Theatre, UT campus,23rd & East Campus Drive, 477-6060. www.utpac.org.HOLLYWOOD’S GREATEST FILM THEMES TheAustin Wind Symphony blows some of cinema’s mostmemorable tunes. Bring nonperishable food items forFood Lifeline if you’re feeling charitable. Thu., March26, 8pm. Monarch Event Center, 6406 N. I-35 #3100,532-7944. $10. www.austinwindsymphony.org.UT SCHOOL OF MUSIC UT Wind Ensemble inConcert Jerry F. Junkin leads the ensemble inworks by Strauss, Steven Bryant, John Adams, andCorigliano. The concert will feature Hila Plitmann,soprano, and is part of the College Band Directors’National Convention. Fri., March 27, 8pm. BatesRecital Hall. $10 ($5, students). Miro Quartet at theBlanton This intimate chamber music concert will featureworks by Haydn, Barber, and Dvorak. Sun., March,29, 2pm. Blanton Museum of Art. UT SymphonyOrchestra Maestro Gerhardt Zimmermann conductsworks by Rossini, Mendelssohn, and Dvorak, featuringElizabeth Lee, cello. Mon., March 30, 8pm. BatesRecital Hall. $10 ($5, students) Bach Cantata ProjectGuest conductor Jeb Mueller leads this month’s work,“Himmelskšnig, sei willkommen, BWV 182.” Tue.,March 31, noon. Blanton Museum of Art. St. John’sCollege Choir One of the finest men and boys collegiatechoirs in the world. Tue., March 31, 7pm. St.Austin’s Catholic Church, 2026 Guadalupe. $20 ($15,seniors, UT faculty and staff; $10, students). NewMusic Ensemble Music with a Latin flavor and a definitepolitical bent, including works by Gabriela LenaFrank, Juan Trigos, and UT student composer IanDicke. Tue., March 31, 8pm. Bates Recital Hall. Free.471-5401. www.music.utexas.edu.CONSPIRARE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH Best known asa Christmas season performance, the “Easter” sectionof this excellent work gets an airing of a more intimatenature with a 26-voice choir accompanied by a smallorchestra playing period instruments. March 28-29.Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2:30pm. St. Martin’s LutheranChurch, 606 W. 15th. 476-5775. www.conspirare.org.THOSE VANISHED HANDS (CONCERT FOR FLUTE)Australian flutist Janet McKay performs a concert ofcompelling new works by emerging Australian andAmerican composers. The program also featuresAustin flutist Seetha Shivaswamy. Sun., March 29,7pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd.,397-1468. Free. www.cityofaustin.org.ST. DAVID’S: LENTEN CONCERTS AT NOONInspiring music, reflective hymnody, and food for souland stomach, featuring a different artist each week.This week: Gitanjali Mathur, soprano. Through April2. Thursdays, noon. St. David’s Episcopal Church, 304E. Seventh, 415-5688. Free ($8, with lunch; e-mail forvegetarian entree). www.stdave.org.ST. MATTHEW’S: LENTEN SACRED CONCERTSSolo vocal music for the Lenten season, featuringspirituals, contemporary works, and traditionalpieces. This week: The LBJ High School CamerataOrchestra. Through April 2. Thursdays, 12:05pm. St.Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 8134 Mesa, 345-8314.Free. www.stmattsaustin.org.| THE COLORFUL LITHOG-RAPHY OF THE SERIEPROJECT AWAITS YOURDISCERNING GAZE ATCORONADO STUDIOS.visual artsEVENTSART IN PUBLIC PLACES: GROTTO WALL ATSPARKY PARK Public art dedication for a masonryart wall by artist Berthold Haas. Sat., March 28,10-11am. 3701 Grooms.TEXAS BIENIAL PERFORMANCE: LOOKING GLASSFree public performance by artist Jill Pangallo. Fri.,March 27, 8pm. Fiesta Gardens Pavilion, 2101 Bergman,480-8318.EAST END GALLERY ANNIVERSARY PARTY celebratesthe venue’s first year, with burlesque dancers,beer, and barbecue. Sat., March 28, 7-11pm.1101 Navasota #4. www.myspace.com/eastendgalleryOPENINGFAB GALLERY: URBAN/STREET New works for theseconcrete and crumbling times by Bethany Johnson(!),Russell Burns, Tim Creswick, Krutie Thakkar, BonnieGammill, Mala Kumar, Kallista Stephenson, and others.Reception: Fri., March 27, 6-8pm. DFA Building,23rd & Trinity. www.thefabgallery.com.GENERACIONES: CELEBRATING WOMEN AND THEIRART features the artwork of Ines Batllo, Maria Bravo,Christina Cardenas, Pilar Castrejon, Celina Hinojosa,Cecilia Colome, Courtney Enriquez, Sandra Fernandez,Marsha Gomez, and many others. Reception: Fri.,March 27, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through April 30.227 Congress #300, 477-6007. www.lapena-austin.org.1305 POSITION GALLERY Linear B is a paintinginstallation by Shawn Camp. Boustrophone: Calling theBull is a video installation by Diana Carulli. Exhibition:March 28-April 18. 1305 E. Sixth #3, 495-9578.WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: AUSTINCALLIGRAPHER’S GUILD The classical and experimentaltreatment of text doesn’t get much moreinspiring and lovely than this. Reception: Thu., April2, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through April 18. 1202 W. Sixth,472-7428. www.wallyworkmangallery.com.DAVIS GALLERY: THREE TO GET READY Vivid andelegant new works by Ave Bonar, Nancy Scanlan,and Peggy Weiss. Reception: Thu., April 2, 7-9pm.Exhibition: Through May 9. 837 W. 12th, 477-4929.www.davisgalleryaustin.com.ART ON 5TH: MEET THE MUSTARDS Whimiscal artworkby British artist Sam Toft. April 2-May 2. 1501W. Fifth, 481-1111. www.arton5th.com.CLOSINGEAST END GALLERY: KERRY AWN AND CINDYRASHKE The works of popular comedian and painterAwn are featured with Rashke’s hot-rod-pimping, Tikiinflectedcreations in this ferociously local pairing.Through March 29. 1101 Navasota #4.www.myspace.com/austineastendgallery.GAY FAY KELLY: BEYOND RECOGNITION Curatedby Jerry de Frese and featuring works by CynthiaAlderete, Debra Broz, Brian Johnson and Tim Kerr.Through March 29. 1811 W. Eighth, 478-7676.www.gayfaykellyart.com.ART ON 5TH: ROBENA Large-scale paintings providinga sense of peace, harmony, balance, and beauty.Through March 29. 1501 W. Fifth, 481-1111.www.arton5th.com.STUDIO2GALLERY: MODELS AND ARTISTS Juried byRick Fink and featuring works by George Anderson, MarkCallie, Laura Grimes, and more. Through March 28.1700 S. Lamar #318, 386-9233. www.studio2gallery.com.WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: CHERYL FINFROCKThe artist’s deceptively childlike paintings brightenthese fine walls. Artist Talk: Sat., March 28, 3pm.Exhibition:Through March 31. 1202 W. Sixth,472-7428. www.wallyworkmangallery.com.ONGOINGDIBONA STUDIO Oil paintings and “sculptural tattoos”by Joyce DiBona. 404 W. Milton, 851-2646.TEXAS BIENNIAL It’s big; it’s diverse; it’s here againbut completely different. So many artists, so manyvenues, so much visual and spatial work to delight theeyes and divert the attention from one’s own mortality.Through April 11. Mexican American Cultural Center,600 River St.; Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca; MassGallery, 916 Springdale; Big Medium, Bay 12 Gallery,5305 Bolm; Okay Mountain, 1312 E. Cesar Chavez;Pump Project, 702 Shady Ln. www.texasbiennial.com.

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G SSTUDIO C GALLERY: PONIES & PENGUINSNew works by Holly Bronko and Alexandra Valenti.2309 Thornton.EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of JoshuaGarcia and others. 12400 Amherst #102, 825-8577.www.eyecontactart.com.LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY: TOM MOLLOY “Lucid” isMolloy’s second exhibition at this fine gallery; his workdeals with current events - the economy, war, the media– with a focus on the Unites States. Through April 25.AUSTIN GALLERIES: 20TH CENTURY MASTERSOriginal lithographs, etchings, intaglios, and screenprints by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso,and more. 1219 W. Sixth.CORONADO STUDIOS The Serie Project, a nonprofitLatino arts organization hosted by Coronado Studios,produces, promotes, and exhibits serigraph printscreated by diverse artists. 6601 Felix, 385-3591.www.serieproject.org.LOWBROW EMPORIUM: NECK OF THE WOODS It’sa group art show; it’s a beer-fueled public party; it’sa celebration of lowbrow creations by local artists.2708 S. Lamar. www.lowbrowemporium.com.AUSTIN ART IN PUBLIC PLACES: TEXAS BIENNIALThis is the first time that AIPP has commissionedtemporary public art! Ryah Christensen’s Door/NotDoor is near the Eastside Hike and Bike Trail, justsouth of Nash Hernandez Road. Bill Davenport’sGiant Mushroom Forest is on the west end ofAuditorium Shores, near the Lady Bird Lake Hikeand Bike Trail. Sasha Dela’s Variegated Continuumis at the Mexican American Cultural Center. BusterGraybill’s Bait Box is adjacent to the boat launchon the Eastside Hike and Bike Trail. Ken Little’sHomeland Security is in the clearing between DougSahm Hill in Butler Park and the Palmer EventsCenter. Colin McIntyre’s Emergence is on a landscapedmound immediately east of the Dougherty ArtCenter’s parking lot. Through Dec. 31.AMOA DOWNTOWN: OUTSIDE REALISM ANDSTATES OF AMERICA The photographer CliffordRoss uses inventive film and camera technologyto produce epic, 10-foot-long photographs thatre-create mountain vistas. By combining WorldWar II-era aerial photographic equipment with contemporarydigital postproduction techniques, heachieves brilliance in this “Outside Realism” show.Alternative cartographer Lordy Rodriguez presentsthe ink-on-paper maps of his “States of America,”the culmination of 10 years of work, into which he’sincorporated five original (and searingly appropriate)states. Through May 17. 823 Congress, 495-9224.www.amoa.org.ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY Artists fromArgentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paintings byAugustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, and PabloTaboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; and metalsculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos,457-0171. www.pablotaboadastudio.com.ARTSPOKEN GALLERY: FROM A TO Z Photographsby Bill Oakey and Jack Marshall, glasswork by KimBrill. 1507 W. Koenig, 589-2905. www.artspoken.com.AUSTIN ART GLASS This glassblowing studio andgallery offers functional and decorative glass art, aswell as glassblowing classes and free demonstrations.1608 S. Congress, 916-4527.www.austinartglass.com.BIRDHOUSE GALLERY: I THINK I LOOK LIKE ME Thisshow of diverse media features the work of more than40 artists. Through April 12. 1304 E. Cesar Chavez,789-9242. www.birdhousegallery.com.BLANTON MUSEUM: BIRTH OF THE COOLCalifornia Art, Design, and Culture at Midcenturytakes a look at the broad cultural zeitgeist of “cool”that influenced the visual arts, furniture, architecture,music, and film produced in California in the 1950sand early 1960s. Through May 17. MLK & Congress,471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org.BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmadeglass art and jewelry. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770.www.austinbluemoon.com.THE CATHEDRAL OF JUNK is approximately 60 tonsof junk wired together over 15 years to form intricatetowers and rooms in the back yard of a South Austinhome. Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, noon-9pm, orby appointment. 4422 Lareina, 299-7413.www.keepaustinweird.com.SYNCHRONICITY OF COLOR is Margo Sawyer’s sitespecificwork for the AT&T Executive Education andConference Center. Through May 9. 5004 Burnet Rd.,371-1292.D BERMAN GALLERY: LESLIE MUTCHLER ANDNAOMI SCHLINKE These two Texas artists displaynew works that explore the intersection of contrast.Through April 11. 1701 Guadalupe, 477-8877.www.dbermangallery.com.DOMY BOOKS: DO YOU BELIEVE IN ART? Thefounding member of Philadelphia’s Space 1026 artcommune presents an exhibition of his colorful andquirky paintings, drawings, videos, collages, photography,and screen prints. Through April 19.913 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-3669. www.domystore.com.FRANCOIS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 309-B Bowie,320-0072.WILDFLOWER CENTER: SHOU PING Scissor-cutimages of hummingbirds and other subjects. ThroughMay 31. 4801 La Crosse, 232-0100. www.wildflower.org.MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART presents an eclecticselection of African and African-American artwork.6406 N. I-35 #2800, 323-6901. www.mitchie.com.MUSEUM OF NATURAL & ARTIFICIALEPHEMERATA: WONDEROUS INSTRUMENTS Take acurator-led tour and see homemade, odd, or rare musicalinstruments; exotic tools; miraculous and magicalobjects; and more. Tours: Saturdays, 1-4pm, throughMay 30. 1808 Singleton, 320-0566. www.mnae.org.PRO-JEX: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIMEfeatures Depression-era photographers Russell Lee,Walker Evans, Marion Post Wolcott, and others.Through April 11. 1710 S. Lamar Ste. C, 472-7707.SOUTH AUSTIN MUSEUM OF POPULAR CULTURE:POWELL ST. JOHN He wrote songs for the 13thFloor Elevators. He was in the band Mother Earthwith Tracy Nelson. Now you can see his visual work:drawings and watercolors of surreal fantasy thatreveals his “obsession with the female figure.”Through April 11. 1516-B S. Lamar, 440-8318. $5.www.samopc.org.ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY: SIMULACRA Newwork by graduating seniors in photocommunications.Through April 3. 3001 S. Congress, 448-8740.www.simulacra2009.com.STEPHEN CLARK GALLERY: JACK SPENCERThrough May 30. 1101 W. Sixth, 477-0828.SPACESAMPLIFY CREDIT UNION Photography by MattLankes and George Holmes. Through April 18.2608 Brockton.DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY Stained and leadedglass and mosaics. 701 Tillery Ste. A-11, 389-2266.www.decola-eusebi.com.CAFFE MEDICI: LANCE ROSENFIELD New photography.1101 West Lynn, 569-0432.www.rosenfieldphotography.com.HYDE PARK GRILL WESTGATE: SKIP HUNT Vibrantcolor photography. Through March 29. 4521 WestGate Blvd., 899-2700. www.skiphuntphotography.com.MAGNOLIA CAFE: CAROLINA HARDIGREE ThroughApril 2. 1920 S. Congress, 445-0000.www.cafemagnolia.com.MAGNOLIA CAFE WEST: TEAM PHOTO MAGICThrough March 29. 2304 Lake Austin Blvd.,478-8645. www.cafemagnolia.com.MANUEL’S MICRO GALLERY: TERRENCE MOLINEJoin New Orleans native and artist Terrence Molineas he honors the legends of soul, blues, jazz, andfunk in “Patron Saints of Sound.” Through April 9.310 Congress, 472-7555. www.manuels.com.NOMAD: HERE’S MY PHOTOS Photography by SamMarx. Reception: Fri., March 27, 7-10pm.1213 Corona, 628-4288. www.nomadbar.com.ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival banners,and other tributes to U.S. popular culture byTodd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 442-6366.www.roadhouserelics.com.TEXAS FRECH BREAD: THE SOUND OF ARTMultimedia work by local artists. Through March 27.1722 S. Congress, 440-1122. www.texasfrenchbread.com.THUNDERBIRD COFFEE: IMAGINE ART The 12x12 ArtShow. Through March 31. 1401 W. Koenig, 420-8660.WESTS Artwork by Dan-Ramone Vivan Chavez,Raquel Reyes, and others. 408 Josephine.CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIESBLUE MOON GLASSWORKS: CLASSES ThisHyde Park epicenter of everything silica-based andlovely offers instruction on glass fusing, leaded glass,precious-metal clay, and much more. See website fordetails. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770. www.austinbluemoon.com.STUDIO2GALLERY: CALL FOR ENTRIES A Passionfor Polaroid II. Deadline: April 10. 1700 S. Lamar#318, 386-9233. www.studio2gallery.com.SUNSET VALLEY ARTFEST: CALL FOR ENTRIES Thisgrowing community event, taking place adjacent to theSunset Valley Farmers Market, is in its fourth year ofcelebrating Central Texas artists. They’re looking fororiginal paintings, sculpture, creative woodwork, photography,fiber art, and more. See website for detailsand application. Event date: Sat., April 25, 9am-3pm.3200 Jones, 414-2096. www.sunsetvalleyarts.org.literaREADINGS, SIGNINGS,AND PERFORMANCESNATALIE GOLDBERG follows up her classic WritingDown the Bones with an equally brilliant guide tomemoir Old Friend From Far Away. Tue., March 31,7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.JILL PANGALLO The artist presents a performanceof spoken word, movement, and video projection. Andthe Let Me Entertain You compilation is released, featuringan assortment of monologues, poetry, creativewriting, e-mails, and other miscellanies from MikeAlbo, Dan Boehl, Eric Bryant, Karen Davidson, HilaryGraham, and others. Sat., March 28, 7:30pm. FiestaGardens, 2101 Bergman, 480-8318.FIVE THINGS Join readers Doug Dorst, MatthewStuart, Mike Whalen, David Jewell, and Tony Jacksonas they spelunk the dark comedic caves of femininity,followed by music from the Bubbles. Recommended.Fri., March 27, 7pm. United States Art Authority,512 W. 29th, 313/478-5791. $1.BRIGIT PEGEEN KELLY The author of 2004 Pulitzerfinalist The Orchard reads from her works: Songand To the Place of Trumpets. Highly recommended.Thu., March 26, 3:30pm: Alkek Library, Texas StateUniversity. Fri., March 27, 7:30pm: Katherine AnnePorter House, 508 W. Center, Kyle.SHAILA ABDULLAH shares her Saffron Dreams, atale of a Muslim artist facing the devastation of theWorld Trade Center on 9/11. Thu., March 26, 7pm.Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158,418-8985.WRITING/BOOK GROUPSSTORY CIRCLE NETWORK Nonprofit organizationfor women, offering monthly reading and writingcircles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin.454-9833. www.storycircle.org.SOUTH AUSTIN SPIRITUAL GROUP features FarnazMasumian, world religion lecturer at UT, speakingon Choosing a Personal Mantra based on EknathEaswaran’s The Mantram Handbook. Thu., March26, 1-2pm. Barnes & Noble South, 5601 Brodie,892-3493.VOYAGE OUT CLUB Brian C. and Daniel guide usthrough the American South via The Heart Is a LonelyHunter by Carson McCullers. Sun., March 29, 5pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.NEW & NOTEWORTHY CLUB conjures The Uses ofEnchantment by Heidi Julavits. Mon., March 30, 7pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.REWRITTEN HISTORY CLUB Homecoming byBernhard Schlink. Wed., April 1, 7pm. BookPeople,603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: LOVE & FORGIVENESS is afive-part series exploring the themes of love and forgivenessin everyday life through literature. Next upis Jazz by Toni Morrison. Thu., March 26, 7-8:30pm.University Hills Library, 4721 Loyola, 929-0551.SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPSTHE YOGA OF WRITING is a three-day women’s meditationand writing retreat presented by the SedonaMeditation Training Co. and featuring Sarah McLeanand Victoria Nelson. See website for details. Alma deMujer Conference & Retreat Center, 13621 FM 2769,484-0811. www.sedonameditation.com.OPEN MICSTANTRA POETRY IN SAN MARCOS Mondays, 8pm.Tantra Coffeehouse, 217 W. Hopkins, San Marcos.CITY WIDE YOUTH POETRY SLAM: LAST CHANCETO QUALIFY To qualify for the nationals in Chicago,that is. Come on down: This is entertainment thatresonates long after the applause scatters into theconcrete of the closeting night. Sat., March 28, 7pm.501 Studios, 501 N. I-35, 485-3000. $5 (free for slamparticipants). www.501studios.com.GENUINE JOE Thursdays, 7:30-10pm. Genuine JoeCoffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson, 220-1576.www.genuinejoe.com.THE HIDEOUT Hosted by Thom the World Poet.Martin Woldman offers his new book, new material,and new attitude. Mondays, 7-10pm. The HideoutTheatre, 617 Congress, 476-0473. $2 (or canned foodfor Poets Pantry). www.hideouttheatre.com.HOT MAMA’S OPEN MIC Food, beer, wine, and caffeineavailable. Tuesdays, 7:30-9pm. Hot Mama’sEspresso Bar, 2401 E. Sixth, 476-6262.www.myspace.com/hotmamasespresso.SPOKEN AND HEARD is co-hosted by StaceyShea and Element 615. Uncensored round robin.Sundays, 7-9pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725,454-5425. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.RUTA MAYA POETRY is one of the longest-runningweekly open mics in Texas. Uncensored. Hosted byDavid Bates. Tuesdays, 6-9pm. Ruta Maya,3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637.www.rmpoetryaustin.com.THE AUSTIN POETRY SLAM Mike Henry and a rotatinggroup of slam ninjas captain the crew that hasall the best of stand-up, pomo theatre, rock & roll,and phone sex rolled into one cosmic-heat blast ofan evening. Open sign-up, 12 poets per week. $100cash prizes. Wednesdays, 8pm. Scoot Inn & BierGarten, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200.www.austinslam.com.FIRST WEDNESDAYS @ VINNY’S Hosted byKathleen Romana or a rotating cast of local stalwarts.Vinny’s Italian Cafe, 1003 Barton Springs Rd.,482-8484. Free.CALL FOR ENTRIESBARBARA BURNETT SMITH ASPIRING WRITERSPROJECT Six aspiring writers will be chosen andeach matched with a published mentor for one-ononesessions. This is not a contest; there is nojudging and no fee; it is an opportunity for writersunpublished in the mystery field to talk to and bementored by published authors. See website fordetails. Deadline: March 31. www.hotxsinc.org.AUSTIN POETRY SOCIETY AWARDS More than$1,300 in prizes. Nonmember entry fee is $30, butyou can join APS for only $15 and then pay a $5fee for entering. Register online.www.austinpoetrysociety.org.MISCELLANEOUSMORE POETRY! draw a line with a stick in the dirt& the first rain cannot be the first rain to wash yourname from the earth the children watch the birdspeck at the thrown seed laugh & run in circles untildrawn down to dream again how she takes the days& keeps them safe from breaking her orphan heartgives them power of lasting of taking what can neverbe said alone: say nothing unkind; brush away theselines these orphan words & the fig still blooms pulsingin the hand that clutches fast to the cast of its firstfire. Namaste. Vaya con dios.POEM OF THE ISSUENothing random in the clock of timeWe live between limits longing to be loveWhile all around us changes camouflageHeat of fires warms and burnsWaters heal and drownAll elements within us and surroundEvery poem is found– Thom the World Poet, “Apply Yourself Everywhere”a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 77

filmlistingsderomanticizing of the myth of the suave,Michael Corleone-style gangster icon, thefilm is overwhelmingly effective. But consideringthat what you’re seeing is, essentially,what’s actually happening in and aroundNaples right now, Gomorrah begins to feelmore like a weird, Jodorowsky-esque surrealistnightmare. It’s amoebic in its portrayalof the society-wrecking, viral natureof organized crime, and it has no room forsentimentality or even, in the end, hope.For sure, it’s a violent gangster movie; itdoesn’t glamorize the lifestyle one bit.(Saviano, who had a hand in the screenplay,has been under police protection sincehis book was published three years ago.)Shot in a flat, unobtrusive documentarystyle by cinematographer Marco Onorato,Gomorrah weaves together five separatestorylines, all of which, in turn, revolvearound a seedy, crumbling tenement onthe outskirts of Naples. There’s 13-yearold Totò (Abruzzese), an inherently goodkid sucked into the vortex of the Camorrawhen he does some low-level hoods asemiaccidental favor involving a misplacedhandgun. There are two Scarface-quotingteenage lamebrains, Marco (Macor) andCiro (Petrone), who scheme to steal acache of weaponry from some other localhoods, with predictably disastrous results.And then there are the weasely, haplessmoneyman Don Ciro (Imparato); his unctuous,casually evil boss, Franco (Servillo);and, finally, Pasquale (Cantalupo), a frazzledhaute-couture tailor who’s in a bind overhow to keep up with the protection moneyhe owes the Camorra. All the charactersare brilliantly delineated, the grimy plazasand parking garages equally, drably arresting.This film is gorgeous like a corpse,but there’s no rigor mortis yet; it moves tothe inexorable beat of 9mm slugs hittinghuman meat. Director Garrone’s unflinchingportrait of a very real hell on earth wonthe Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes FilmFestival (plus a boatload of other awards),but this isn’t some pomo arthouse picturelooking to score points by subverting thegangster paradigm; it’s a killer film aboutkillers who idolize film but are unable orunwilling to parse the doom that always cropsup come Act III. “Gomorrah: See Naplesand die,” or, more accurately “Gormorrah:See Naples die.”– Marc Savlov★★★★ Dobie78 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mGomorrahD: Matteo Garrone; with Salvatore Abruzzese, Toni Servillo, Gianfelice Imparato, Maria Nazionale,Carmine Paternoster, Salvatore Cantalupo, Marco Macor, Ciro Petrone. (NR, 136 min., subtitled)Based on Roberto Saviano’s bestselling exposé about theItalian crime machine known as the Camorra, Gomorrah(pun intended) is riveting from its first frame to its last. As anewreviewsCROSSING OVER D: Wayne Kramer;Characters of various nationalities, allwith Harrison Ford, Ray Liotta, Ashley Judd, JimSturgess, Alice Eve, Cliff Curtis, Alice Braga, Summer Bishil,Justin Chon. (R, 113 min.)ensnared within the incongruous machineryof the American immigration system, arethe subjects of the interlocking stories ofCrossing Over. Framed as a multistrand narrativein the manner of Crash and Babel,Crossing Over also echoes those titles inthe way its pastiche of stories creates awell-intentioned social message. The objectiveof writer/director Kramer (The Cooler)is to show us what a mess the post-9/11U.S. immigration and naturalization processhas become. Somewhat patronizingly,Crossing Over shows us how our government’sunfeeling and easily inveigled systemsacrifices innocent human beings tothe letter of its laws while exempting othersthrough sheer dumb luck or willful chicanery.The individual stories seem tailoredtoward making points rather than creatingrealistic characters and situations. At thecenter of the drama is Ford’s Max Brogan,an Immigration and Customs Enforcementagent who’s having trouble sleeping at nightafter busting a Mexican seamstress in aCalifornia factory, whose son will be castto the streets after she is deported withouthim. But even before his insomnia kicksin, we discover he’s a softie when a fellowworker bellows: “Jesus Christ, Brogan!Everything is a goddamn humanitariancrisis with you!” Max’s partner, HamidBaraheri (Curtis), is of Iranian descent andhas issues with his soon-to-be-naturalizedtraditionalist father and his sexually defiantAmerican-born sister. In another storyline,Sturgess plays musician Gavin Kossef, whotries to get a green card by overinflating theimportance of his Jewish faith. His wouldbegirlfriend, Claire Shepard (Eve), is anAustralian actress who is willing to tradesex for a green card, which works to theadvantage of dishonest immigration adjudicatorCole Frankel (Liotta). Cole, in turn,is married to an immigration lawyer whoseheart bleeds for an African child trappedin a government detention facility. Also inthe same lockup is adolescent TaslimaJahangir (Bishil, last seen in Towelhead),a Bangladeshi who is arrested by antiterroristforces when she reads aloud aschool assignment which expresses herunderstanding of the frustrations thatguided the actions of the 9/11 bombers.The movie practically grinds to a halt, however,with the story of Yong Kim (Chon), aKorean teenager caught up by peer pressurein a convenience-store robbery. Alsoin the store is ICE agent Hamid, who, afterkilling the other two robbers, delivers anunbelievably lengthy lecture to Yong aboutAmerican values while the teen holds hiscocked gun to an employee’s head. The latticeworkof social meaning that makes upCrossing Over is ultimately a flimsy structurethat pays lip service to liberal valueswhile only occasionally inventing anything ofdramatic significance. – Marjorie Baumgarten★★ ArborEK: THE POWER OF ONENot reviewed at press time. This Hindiremake of the Telugu film Athadu is anD: Sangeet Sivan; with Bobby Deol, Shriya Saran, NanaPatekar, Chunky Pandey. (NR, 158 min., subtitled)action film about a professional assassinwho is accused of killing a politician.– Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown SouthTHE HAUNTING INCONNECTICUT D: Peter Cornwell; withVirginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Martin Donovan,Amanda Crew, Ty Wood, Sophi Knight. (PG-13, 103 min.)The Haunting in Connecticut opens witha title stating that what follows is “basedon a true story,” which is all well andgood and practically a mandate for thistype of haunted-house film. But what gallsme – and what will have other genre fansgnashing their teeth down to the sublingualtissue – is that Cornwell’s film, stylisticallyat least, is really “based” on snipsand snatches of Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond,Mario Bava’s Shock, Alejandro Amenábar’sThe Others, and, of course, The AmityvilleHorror. The film is based much more onthese film forerunners than it is based onany supernatural events alleged to haveoccurred in the real world. Technically, thefilm is adapted, loosely, from splatterpunkauthor Ray Garton’s book In a Dark Place:The Story of a True Haunting, but TheHaunting in Connecticut has the patchworkfeel of a director at odds with himself.Cornwell, who shot the immensely popularstop-motion short “Ward 13,” doesn’t geta lot of help from his screenwriters, AdamSimon (Carnosaur, Brain Dead) and TimMetcalfe (Revenge of the Nerds, Kalifornia).Their stilted dialogue and endless streamof expository yakking seem better suitedto one of the post-dubbed Euro-shockersmentioned above. As for the story, true ornot, Madsen and Donovan are ill-cast asSara and Peter Campbell, a fiercely boringupper-middle-class couple who neverthelessmake the potentially exciting decisionto move their family into a house thatformerly served as both a mortuary andnexus of eternal evil. (They don’t know thatgoing in, but still.) The move is predicatedon situating the family closer to a hospitalwhere son Matt (Gallner) is being treatedwith chemotherapy and experimental drugsfor an unspecified, rapidly metastasizingcancer. Living as he is in the borderlandbetween life and death, Matt is able to seevisions of the house’s tortured past, thoughit’s not long before the entire Campbell clanis surrounded by haints and horrors. Whoyou gonna call? Elias Koteas! (Duh.) Theveteran character actor (The Thin Red Line,Zodiac) appears here as a priest who, likethe increasingly horrified Matt, is also sufferingfrom a dearth of decent dialogue anda surplus of cancer. Koteas’ overearnestperformance almost makes The Hauntingin Connecticut worth a look, but ultimatelyeven the star of Cronenberg’s Crash can’tsalvage what is essentially a substandardrip-off of The Amityville Horror. – Marc Savlov★■Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, SouthparkMeadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate

KNOWING D: Alex Proyas; with NicolasCage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, D.G. Maloney,Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend, Alan Hopgood, AdriennePickering. (PG-13, 122 min.)The precipitous decline of NicolasCage from moody arthouse upstart tomuscle-bound action hero to popcornselling,check-cashing hack has been welldocumented,so I won’t go into it here. I’lljust say that it can’t be any good for anactor’s reputation when he’s outemotedby a quartet of faceless CGI space aliens.In Knowing, Cage is nearly somnambulantas John Koestler, an astrophysicist,widower, and father of one who divideshis time between raising his son, Caleb(Canterbury), contemplating the randomnessof the universe, and drinking heavily.When Caleb brings home a mysteriouspiece of paper covered in seemingly arbitrarynumbers that was pulled from a50-year-old time capsule, Koestler useshis skills as a math wiz to determine thatthose numbers aren’t random at all but theexact dates, locations, and death countsof every major global disaster that hasoccurred since that paper first went intothe ground. Koestler’s friends, of course,think he’s a drunken paranoid, clutchingat straws as a way to make sense ofthe senseless death of his wife. But itbecomes harder to argue with him whenplanes and subway trains start crashing oncue and deadly energy bursts start workingtheir way from the sun toward the Earth’sozone layer. In true mid to late-period-Cagestyle, Knowing is a film in which little thingslike acting and writing and intelligibility takea back seat to special effects. But, my,oh my, what special effects Knowing has.Proyas (I, Robot) may not care much for thesubtleties of social behavior, but the manpulls no punches when it comes to humancarnage. I’ve never seen so many peopleon fire before or been forced to contemplateat such length the death throes ofwoodland creatures. And the film’s coupde grace – an apocalyptic wave of fire andbrimstone – is so beautiful and terrifying,it will make the filmgoers both thank Godfor their quiet little lives and forget theyever saw Independence Day. Knowing isa nonsensical, pop-philosophical stew ofbiblical prophesy, meteorological aberrations,spooky kids, and aliens disguisedas German techno artists, but damned ifit isn’t an anxiety-fueled kick in the teeth As perfect as a movie can beGomorrah (NR)Crossing Over (R)EK: The Power of One (NR)The Haunting in Connecticut(PG-13)Slightly flawed, but excellentnonethelessHas its good points, and itsbad pointsthat feels just right in shaky 2009. It’s justengaging enough to make you accept thepossibility that two kids from the Bostonsuburbs may just be mankind’s only hopefor the future and just exciting enough tomake you forget that you’re watching aNicolas Cage movie. – Josh Rosenblatt★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, CMCedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM RoundRock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway,Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South,WestgateMONSTERS VS. ALIENSD: Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon; with the voices ofReese Witherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett,Paul Rudd, Rainn Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland. (PG, 94 min.)Back in 2007, DreamWorks mogul JeffreyKatzenberg rather boldly stated that heintended to only release films in 3-D fromthen forward, making the studio’s Monstersvs. Aliens something of a gauntlet throwdown.While the flagship film’s effect happilydoes not induce the eye-crossing andstomach-turning so common to motion pictures’attempts to bully two dimensions intothree, one would hope for an endorsementmore ringing than “Monsters vs. Aliens:Doesn’t give you a migraine!” We meetthe pert, if unremarkable, Susan (voicedby Witherspoon) on the morning of her weddingto Derek (Rudd), whose vacantness istelegraphed in his job title of TV weatherman.(Curiously, we never learn how Susan spendsher days; her ambition appears limited toa desire to see Paris – and really, whodoesn’t?) Soon, an errant meteor pulsatingwith a mysterious substance signalsceremony-interruptus; Susan, in closestproximity, gets her DNA scrambled andmorphs into a literal bridezilla by sproutinglike Jack’s beanstalk some five stories tall.The government quickly whisks her away toa containment center, where Susan – nowcalled Ginormica – makes reluctant friendswith a whole host of monsters, which iswhere the film finally has some fun. TheArea 51 residents include a half-man, halfcockroach,the product of a mad scientist’sself-experimentation (a deliciously acerbicLaurie); a lovable fish-ape hybrid called theMissing Link (Arnett); and, perhaps mostwinningly, BOB (Rogen), an amorphousBicarbonate Ostylezene Benzoate so dafthe tries to woo a plate of jiggling Jell-Oat a backyard barbecue (he is, after all,technically brainless). The film filters theopenings & ratingsMonsters vs. Aliens (PG)Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (NR)Sunshine Cleaning (R)12 Rounds (PG-13)/Mediocre, but with one or twobright spotsPoor, without any saving gracesLa bombafantastical plot doodlings of those campysci-fi classics of yore – the tin-can flyingsaucers and marauding 50-foot woman –through the modern formula for animatedpictures (morality plays tempered by a chorusof wiseacres). It’s a shame the balancedidn’t tip more in the direction of the former,because there is something rather dopilysweet in its story of a misfit band of monstersunleashed from quarantine to defendEarth from an alien invader. The misfits, asever, must take a back seat to the morality,and the result – while in no way migraineinducing– traffics in rote truisms (love theskin you’re in; leave no man behind; etc.)that are admirable but perfunctory and leaveno greater an impression than BOB did onthat Jell-O mold. – Kimberley Jones★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square, CMCedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM RoundRock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie, Highland,Gateway, IMAX Theatre, Lakeline, Metropolitan,Tinseltown North, Westgate VULCAN VIDEOFOREIGN. CULT. CLASSIC.112 WEST ELIZABETH ST & 609 WEST 29TH STtwo-for-one tuesdays & wednesdaysstudent discount thursdaysbuy-sell-tradeopen til 2am on weekendsGO TEAM VULCAN! a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 79

showtimes FRIDAY, MARCH 27 – THURSDAY, APRIL 2ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ 320 E. Sixth,476-1320.Audience of One: Mon-Tue, 7:30pm; Wed, 7:15pmJustin Timberlake Sing-Along: Sat, 10:00pm; Thu (4/2), 9:40pmMaster Pancake: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of theRing: Fri-Sat, 7:30, 10:30Terror Tuesday: Pigs: Tue, 10:15pmBig Screen Classics: Princess Mononoke: Sat, 4:15pmAV Geeks and Hey Homo!: S Is for Sissy: Sun, 7:15pmScott Walker: 30 Century Man: Fri, 9:55pm; Sat, 4:00pm; Sun, 4:00,9:50; Mon-Tue, 9:50pm; Wed, 9:40pm; Thu (4/2), 9:50pmMovies and Music: Siegfried: Sun, 7:00pmSlumdog Millionaire: Fri-Sat, 7:00pm; Sun, 4:05, 10:00;Mon-Tue, 7:00pm; Wed, 9:30pm; Thu (4/2), 7:00pmBirth of the Cool: Strangers When We Meet: Wed, 7:00pmWeird Wednesday: The Trip: Wed, 12midMusic Monday: Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story:Mon, 10:00pmYoung Frankenstein Quote-Along: Thu (4/2), 7:00pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK13729 Research, 219-5408.*Duplicity: 11:50am, 3:10, 6:50, 10:20pmGran Torino: 3:15pmTV @ the Alamo: Heroes: Mon, 8:00pm*I Love You, Man: 12:10, 3:25, 7:10, 10:10*Knowing: 12:20, 3:35, 7:20, 10:35TV @ the Alamo: Lost: Wed, 8:00pmMonsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 11:00amSlumdog Millionaire: 12:05pm*Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2009:7:30, 10:30Watchmen: Fri-Wed, 11:15am, 3:05, 6:40, 10:25pm;Thu (4/2), 11:15am, 3:05, 6:40pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar,707-8262.Kids Club: Black Stallion: Sat, 11:00am*The Great Buck Howard: Fri-Sun, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45;Mon, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Tue, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45;Wed, 5:00, 9:50; Thu (4/2), 5:00, 7:30*I Love You, Man: Fri-Sun, 11:15am, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15pm;Mon, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15; Tue, 11:15am, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35,10:15pm; Wed-Thu (4/2), 4:45, 7:35, 10:15*Knowing: Fri-Sun, 12:40, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10; Mon, 3:45, 7:10,10:10; Tue, 12:15, 3:15, 10:10; Wed, 3:45, 10:10;Thu (4/2), 3:45, 7:10, 10:10Sunshine Cleaning: Fri, 11:00am, 1:35, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40pm;Sat, 11:00am, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40pm; Sun, 11:00am, 1:35, 4:10,7:00, 9:40pm; Mon, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40; Tue, 11:00am, 1:35, 4:10,7:00, 9:40pm; Wed, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45; Thu (4/2), 4:10, 7:00, 9:4012 Rounds: Fri, 11:05am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20pm; Sat, 1:50,4:35, 7:40, 10:20; Sun, 11:05am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20pm;Mon, 4:35, 7:40, 10:20; Tue, 11:05am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:40,10:20pm; Wed-Thu (4/2), 4:35, 7:40, 10:20AFS: Under the Bombs: Tue, 7:00pmWatchmen: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 3:10, 7:05, 10:30pm; Mon, 3:10,7:05, 10:30; Tue, 11:30am, 3:10, 9:35pm;Wed-Thu (4/2), 3:10, 7:05, 10:30ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE2700 W. Anderson, 459-7090. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day”shows (first show of the day) are intended for parents andchildren aged infant to 6 years old.TV @ the Alamo: Dollhouse: Fri, 12mid*Duplicity: Fri, 12:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:25; Sat, 11:05am, 2:20,5:30, 8:45pm; Sun, 11:05am, 2:20, 10:25pm; Mon, 3:40, 7:10;Tue, 12:20, 3:40, 7:10, 10:25; Wed, 3:40, 7:10;Thu (4/2), 3:40, 7:10, 10:25TV @ the Alamo: Heroes: Mon, 10:00pmTV @ the Alamo: Lost: Wed, 10:00pmMonsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri, 11:00am, 11:45, 1:20, 2:15, 3:55,4:45, 6:30, 9:00, 10:00pm; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 11:45, 1:20,2:15, 3:55, 4:45, 6:30, 9:00, 11:30pm; Mon, 2:15, 3:55, 6:30,9:00, 11:30; Tue, 11:00am, 11:45, 1:20, 2:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00,11:30pm; Wed-Thu (4/2), 2:15, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00, 11:30The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12midTaken: Fri, 7:25pm; Sat-Sun, 7:25, 10:00; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:45,7:25, 10:00Watchmen: Fri-Sun, 11:20am, 3:10, 7:00, 10:30pm; Mon, 3:10,7:00, 10:30; Tue, 11:20am, 3:10, 7:00, 10:30pm;Wed-Thu (4/2), 3:10, 7:00, 10:30ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS9828 Great Hills Trail (at Jollyville), 231-9742.Discounts daily before 6pm, all day Wednesdays.The Class: 12:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45Crossing Over: 12:30, 3:10, 6:40, 9:40Doubt: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05The Reader: 12:10, 3:00, 6:30, 9:35Revolutionary Road: Fri-Sat, 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00; Sun, 4:20,7:00, 10:00; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 10:00Sunshine Cleaning: 11:50am, 12:20, 2:20, 2:50, 4:50, 5:20,7:20, 7:50, 9:50, 10:20pmThe Wrestler: 12:50, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton CreekSquare mall, MoPac & Highway 360, 888/AMC-4FUN.Matinee discounts available before 6pm on weekdays andbefore 4pm Friday through Sunday and holidays.Confessions of a Shopaholic: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 12:20pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:40, 5:20*Duplicity (closed captioned): Fri-Sun, 11:15am, 2:05, 4:55,7:45, 10:35pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri-Sun, 10:40am, 12:55, 3:15,5:35, 8:30, 11pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:15, 5:35, 8:30, 11:00He’s Just Not That Into You: Fri-Sat, 10:45am, 1:40, 4:35,7:30pm; Sun, 1:40, 4:35, 7:30; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:35, 7:30*I Love You, Man: Fri-Sun, 10:30am, 11:30, 1:00, 2:00, 3:30,4:30, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 11:00pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00,3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45, 11:00*Knowing: Fri-Sat, 10:25am, 11:25, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7:05,8:05, 9:55, 10:55pm; Sun, 11:25am, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10,7:05, 8:05, 9:55, 10:55pm; Mon-Wed, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7:05,8:05, 9:55, 10:55; Thu (4/2), 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7:05, 8:05, 9:55The Last House on the Left: Fri-Sat, 12:25, 5:15, 10:05;Sun-Tue, 5:15, 10:05; Wed, 4:15pm; Thu (4/2), 5:15, 10:05*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 11:30, 12:30, 2:00,3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30Race to Witch Mountain: Fri-Sun, 10:15am, 12:40, 3:05, 5:30,7:55, 10:20pm; Mon-Wed, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20;Thu (4/2), 3:05, 5:30, 7:55Slumdog Millionaire: Fri-Sun, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45;Mon-Wed, 8:00, 10:45; Thu (4/2), 8:00pmTaken: Fri-Sat, 10:10am, 3:00, 7:50pm; Sun-Tue, 3:00, 7:50;Wed, 2:00pm; Thu (4/2), 3:00, 7:50*12 Rounds: Fri-Sun, 10:05am, 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:15,10:50pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:05, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50Watchmen: Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 1:35, 5:05, 8:35pm; Sun, 1:35,5:05, 8:35; Mon-Thu (4/2), 5:05, 8:35CINEMARK CEDAR PARK 1335 E. Whitestone,800/FANDANGO.*Duplicity: Fri, 3:45, 7:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 12:45, 3:45,7:20, 10:10; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:45, 7:20, 10:10*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri, 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:30;Sat-Sun, 11:50am, 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:30*I Love You, Man: Fri, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45;Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45*Knowing: Fri, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 1:15, 4:20, 7:30,10:25; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:20, 7:30, 10:25Metropolitan Opera: Encore Presentation: La Sonnambula:Wed, 7:00pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8:00,9:15, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 11:15am, 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15,5:30, 6:45, 8:00, 9:15, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:45,3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8:00, 9:15, 10:30Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Fri, 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:00;Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:00Race to Witch Mountain: Fri, 2:45, 4:00, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50,9:00, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45, 4:00,5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:00, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:45,4:00, 5:15, 6:30, 7:50, 9:00, 10:15Taken: Fri, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 1:00, 3:15,5:40, 8:10, 10:40; Mon-Tue, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40;Wed, 3:15, 10:40; Thu (4/2), 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40*12 Rounds: Fri, 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 11:30am,2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:10, 5:00,7:40, 10:20Watchmen: Fri, 3:30, 7:00, 10:35; Sat-Sun, 12:00, 3:30,7:00, 10:35; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:30, 7:00, 10:35CINEMARK HILL COUNTRY GALLERIA 1412812 Hill Country Blvd., 800/FANDANGO.*Duplicity: 12:40, 3:55, 7:15, 10:15*The Haunting in Connecticut: 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 7:50,10:10*I Love You, Man: Fri-Sun, 11:35am, 2:10, 4:45, 7:25,10:05pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05*Knowing: 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50Metropolitan Opera: Encore Presentation: La Sonnambula:Wed, 7:00pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri-Sun, 11:40am, 12:35, 1:30, 2:25,3:20, 4:15, 5:10, 6:05, 7:00, 7:55, 8:50, 9:45, 10:35pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:35, 1:30, 2:25, 3:20, 4:15, 5:10, 6:05,7:00, 7:55, 8:50, 9:45, 10:35Paul Blart: Mall Cop: 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55The Pink Panther 2: Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 2:05, 4:50, 7:10,9:35pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:05, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35*Race to Witch Mountain: Fri-Sun, 11:50am, 1:20, 2:40,4:00, 5:20, 6:40, 8:00, 9:20, 10:35pm; Mon-Tue, 1:20,2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:40, 8:00, 9:20, 10:35; Wed, 1:20,2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35; Thu (4/2), 1:20, 2:40, 4:00,5:20, 6:40, 8:00, 9:20, 10:35Taken: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25*12 Rounds: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30Watchmen: 1:00, 4:35, 8:15CINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK2120 N. Mays (Round Rock), 512/388-2848.Discounts daily before 5pm.Bedtime Stories: Fri, 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40;Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40Bolt: Fri, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:55; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:00,4:45, 7:30, 9:55pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 4:45, 7:30,9:55Bride Wars: Fri, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 12:00,2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:05; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:30, 5:15, 7:50,10:05The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: 1:30, 5:00, 8:30Inkheart: Fri, 2:15, 5:10, 7:40; Sat-Sun, 11:45am, 2:15,5:10, 7:40pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:15, 5:10, 7:40Last Chance Harvey: Fri, 1:45, 4:20; Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 1:45,4:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:45, 4:20My Bloody Valentine 3D (2-D): 10:10pmSlumdog Millionaire: Fri, 3:30, 7:00, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 12:15,3:30, 7:00, 9:45; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:30, 7:00, 9:45Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li: Fri, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20,9:50; Sat-Sun, 11:15am, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50Twilight: 6:50, 9:35CINEMARK ROUND ROCK 4401 N. I-35,800/FANDANGO. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticketprice plus a $2.50 premium.*Duplicity: Fri, 1:10, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 10:10am,1:10, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:10, 4:05,7:20, 10:25*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00;Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00*I Love You, Man: Fri, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35;Sat-Sun, 12:00, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35*Knowing: Fri, 12:50, 2:10, 3:40, 5:00, 6:30, 7:50, 9:20,10:40; Sat-Sun, 10:00am, 11:20, 12:50, 2:10, 3:40, 5:00,6:30, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:50, 2:10,3:40, 5:00, 6:30, 7:50, 9:20, 10:40*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 12:40, 2:30, 3:25, 5:15, 6:10,8:00, 8:55, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 9:55am, 11:45, 12:40,2:30, 3:25, 5:15, 6:10, 8:00, 8:55, 10:40pm; Mon-Thu(4/2), 12:40, 2:30, 3:25, 5:15, 6:10, 8:00, 8:55, 10:40*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50;Sat-Sun, 10:50am, 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50Race to Witch Mountain: Fri, 1:00, 2:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20,7:40, 9:05, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 10:20am, 11:30, 1:00,2:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:40, 9:05, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu(4/2), 1:00, 2:20, 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:40, 9:05, 10:20Taken: Fri, 1:50, 4:35, 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:50,4:35, 6:50, 9:10pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:50, 4:35, 6:50,9:10*12 Rounds: Fri, 1:20, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 10:30am,1:20, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:20, 4:00,7:15, 10:10Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: Fri, 3:00, 6:40, 9:30;Sat-Sun, 9:45am, 12:20, 3:00, 6:40, 9:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:00, 6:40, 9:30Watchmen: Fri, 4:30, 8:15; Sat-Sun, 12:30, 4:30, 8:15;Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:30, 8:15> An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes orspecial admission discounts will be accepted.> Changes may sometimes occur; viewers are encouragedto call theatres to confirm showtimes.80 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCINEMARK SOUTHPARK MEADOWS9900 S. I-35, 800/FANDANGO. Cost for 3-D shows isregular ticket price plus a $2.50 premium.*Duplicity: 1:15, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri, 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40;Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40*I Love You, Man: 1:25, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50*Knowing: Fri, 1:00, 2:05, 4:05, 5:00, 6:55, 7:45, 10:05,10:35; Sat-Sun, 10:55am, 1:00, 2:05, 4:05, 5:00, 6:55,7:45, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:00, 2:05, 4:05, 5:00,6:55, 7:45, 10:05Metropolitan Opera: Encore Presentation: La Sonnambula:Wed, 7:00pmThe Last House on the Left: Fri-Tue, 1:35, 4:25, 7:40, 10:15;Wed, 1:35, 4:25; Thu (4/2), 1:35, 4:25, 7:40, 10:15*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30,8:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30,6:30, 8:30, 9:30pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:30, 2:30, 3:30,5:30, 6:30, 8:30, 9:30*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30;Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Fri, 1:40, 4:10; Sat-Sun, 10:40am,1:40, 4:10pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:40, 4:10Race to Witch Mountain: Fri, 12:35, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:35,6:45, 8:00, 9:15, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 11:05am, 12:35, 1:45,3:00, 4:15, 5:35, 6:45, 8:00, 9:15, 10:25pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:35, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:35, 6:45, 8:00,9:15, 10:25Taken: 7:20, 9:45*12 Rounds: Fri, 1:55, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 10:50am,1:55, 4:40, 7:35, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 1:55, 4:40,7:35, 10:10Watchmen: 1:50, 5:25, 9:20DOBIE THEATRE 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall,second floor), 472-FILM.Coraline: Fri, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35; Sat-Sun, 2:25, 4:45, 7:15,9:35; Mon-Thu (4/2), 7:15, 9:35Gomorrah: Fri, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00,9:50; Mon-Thu (4/2), 7:00, 9:50Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 4:35, 7:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 2:00,4:35, 7:30, 9:45; Mon-Thu (4/2), 7:30, 9:45Watchmen: Fri, 5:10, 8:30; Sat-Sun, 1:45, 5:10, 8:30;Mon-Thu (4/2), 8:30pmGALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North I-35 & MiddleFiskville, 467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowedin the theatre on Friday and Saturday after 7pm withoutan adult.Duplicity: Fri-Sat, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35, 12mid;Sun-Thu (4/2), 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 2:35, 4:40,7:05, 9:10, 11:35; Sun-Thu (4/2), 12:30, 2:35, 4:40, 7:05,9:10I Love You, Man: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40,11:50; Sun-Thu (4/2), 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40Knowing: Fri-Sat, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00, 11:45;Sun-Thu (4/2), 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri-Sat, 12:10, 12:30, 12:40,2:25, 2:45, 3:00, 4:40, 5:00, 5:20, 7:00, 7:20, 7:40, 9:20,9:40, 10:00, 11:50, 12mid; Sun-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 12:30,12:40, 2:25, 2:45, 3:00, 4:40, 5:00, 5:20, 7:00, 7:20,7:40, 9:20, 9:40, 10:00Race to Witch Mountain: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:3512 Rounds: Fri-Sat, 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45, 12mid;Sun-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45Watchmen: Fri-Sat, 1:00, 4:30, 8:00, 11:30;Sun-Thu (4/2), 1:00, 4:30, 8:00GATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake, betweenCapital of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in theGateway shopping center, 416-5700 x3808. Costfor 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a $2.50premium.Duplicity: 11:30am, 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:35pmThe Haunting in Connecticut: Fri-Sun, 9:50am, 10:30,12:10, 12:50, 2:30, 3:10, 4:50, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 9:50,10:40pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 12:50, 2:30, 3:10, 4:50,5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 9:50, 10:40I Love You, Man: Fri-Sun, 10:05am, 11:35, 12:30, 1:55, 2:55,4:20, 5:25, 7:10, 8:05, 9:35, 10:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:35am, 12:30, 1:55, 2:55, 4:20, 5:25,7:10, 8:05, 9:35, 10:30pmKnowing: Fri-Sun, 9:55am, 11:25, 12:45, 2:05, 3:50, 4:45,6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:25am,12:45, 2:05, 3:50, 4:45, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:25pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 10:20, 10:40,12:20, 12:40, 1:00, 2:40, 3:00, 3:20, 5:00, 5:20, 5:40,7:20, 7:40, 8:00, 9:40, 10:00, 10:20pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:20, 12:40, 1:00, 2:40, 3:00, 3:20,5:00, 5:20, 5:40, 7:20, 7:40, 8:00, 9:40, 10:00, 10:20*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri-Sun, 9:40am, 12:00, 2:20,4:40, 7:00, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00, 2:20, 4:40,7:00, 9:20Race to Witch Mountain: Fri, 1:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00;Sat, 11:20am, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00pm; Sun, 1:40, 4:00, 6:40;Mon, 1:40, 4:00, 9:00; Tue-Thu (4/2), 11:20am, 1:40,4:00, 6:40, 9:00pmRace to Witch Mountain (open captioned): Fri, 11:20am;Sat, 1:40pm; Sun, 11:20am, 9:00pm; Mon, 11:20am,6:40pm12 Rounds: Fri-Sun, 9:45am, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45,10:15pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15Watchmen: 11:40am, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55pmIMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum,1800 N. Congress, 936-IMAX.Across the Sea of Time 3D: Fri-Sat, 12:00pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00pmMonsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00;Sat-Sun, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00;Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00Texas: The Big Picture: Fri, 10:00am, 1:00pm; Sat, 10:00am;Mon-Thu (4/2), 10:00am, 1:00pmUnder the Sea 3D: Fri-Sat, 11:00am;Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:00amLAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway183 and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before6pm; all day Wednesday.The Haunting in Connecticut: 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:25,10:05I Love You, Man: 12:15, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25Knowing: 12:25, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00*Monsters vs. Aliens: 12:00, 12:20, 2:20, 2:40, 4:40, 5:00,7:00, 7:20, 9:20, 9:40Race to Witch Mountain: 11:50am, 2:15, 4:50, 7:10,9:50pmTaken: 12:35, 2:50, 5:25, 7:35, 10:1512 Rounds: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:20METROPOLITAN South I-35 at Stassney, 447-0101.Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a $2.50 premium.Duplicity: 12:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40Friday the 13th: 11:30am, 2:10, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 10:40, 12:20, 1:00, 2:40,3:20, 5:00, 5:40, 7:20, 8:00, 9:40, 10:20pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:20, 1:00, 2:40, 3:20, 5:00, 5:40, 7:20, 8:00,9:40, 10:20*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri-Sun, 9:40am, 12:00, 2:20, 4:40,7:00, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20Race to Witch Mountain: 11:30am, 12:10, 2:00, 2:45, 4:30, 5:15,7:10, 7:40, 9:50, 10:35pmTaken: 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:4012 Rounds: 11:50am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30pmTyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: Fri-Sun, 10:10am, 11:40, 12:40,2:10, 4:10, 4:50, 7:05, 7:35, 9:55, 10:45pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:40am, 12:40, 2:10, 4:10, 4:50, 7:05, 7:35,9:55, 10:45pmUnderworld: Rise of the Lycans: Fri-Tue, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10,10:45; Wed, 12:30, 3:00, 10:45; Thu (4/2), 12:30, 3:00, 5:30,8:10, 10:45Watchmen: Fri-Sun, 10:30am, 2:05, 3:10, 6:30, 7:05, 10:05,10:35, 11:35pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 2:05, 3:10, 6:30, 7:05, 10:05,10:35, 11:35MILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932.Located within the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex.Adults, $6; children, $4.Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 12:30, 3:30,5:30, 8:30pm; Wed-Thu (4/2), 10:30am, 12:30, 3:30, 5:30pmTEXAS UNION THEATRE UT campus, 476-6666.Cinematheque: Jules and Jim: Mon, 7:30pmMACC: The Other Side of Immigration: Tue, 8pmTINSELTOWN NORTH North I-35 and FM 1825(Pflugerville), 512/989-8540. Cost for 3-D shows isregular ticket price plus a $2.50 premium.*Coraline: 11:45am, 2:15, 4:45pm*Duplicity: Fri, 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40, 10:05;Sat-Sun, 10:45am, 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40,10:05pm; Mon-Tue, 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40,10:05; Wed, 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 8:40;Thu (4/2), 12:10, 1:35, 3:00, 4:25, 5:50, 7:15, 8:40, 10:05*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri, 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00,6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 10:45am, 12:00, 1:15, 2:30,3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00,1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00*I Love You, Man: Fri, 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30,8:45, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 10:45am, 12:00, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5:00,6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00, 1:15, 2:30,3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 10:00*Knowing: Fri, 11:55am, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:35, 7:00, 8:25,9:50pm; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 11:55, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:35, 7:00,8:25, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:55am, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:35,7:00, 8:25, 9:50pmMetropolitan Opera: Encore Presentation: La Sonnambula:Wed, 7:00pmThe Last House on the Left: 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:40, 3:20, 4:00,5:10, 5:50, 6:30, 7:40, 8:20, 9:00, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 10:20am,11:00, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:40, 3:20, 4:00, 5:10, 5:50, 6:30,7:40, 8:20, 9:00, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 12:50, 1:30,2:40, 3:20, 4:00, 5:10, 5:50, 6:30, 7:40, 8:20, 9:00, 10:10*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00,9:30pm; Sat-Sun, 9:00am, 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pmPaul Blart: Mall Cop: 11:50am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50pmRace to Witch Mountain: Fri, 12:10, 1:50, 2:45, 4:25, 5:20, 7:00,8:00, 9:35, 10:35; Sat-Sun, 11:15am, 12:10, 1:50, 2:45, 4:25,5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:35, 10:35pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 1:50,2:45, 4:25, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:35, 10:35Taken: 7:20, 9:40*12 Rounds: 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30pmTyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15pmWatchmen: 11:40am, 3:20, 7:00pmTINSELTOWN SOUTH South I-35 at Stassney, 326-3800.$10 “special event” ticket prices apply to Indian films.Coraline: Fri, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; Sat-Sun, 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55;Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:45, 7:20, 9:55Defiance: Fri, 3:20, 6:25, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 12:25, 3:20, 6:25, 9:45;Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:20, 6:25, 9:45*EK: The Power of One: Fri-Sat, 3:00, 6:30, 9:45; Sun, 3:00, 6:15,9:30; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:30, 8:30Fired Up: Fri, 5:25, 8:05, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 12:35, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05,10:20; Mon-Thu (4/2), 5:25, 8:05, 10:20Gran Torino: Fri, 3:55, 7:05, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 9:50;Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:55, 7:05, 9:50*The Haunting in Connecticut: Fri, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:15,9:30, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 12:45, 2:00, 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:15,9:30, 10:40; Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:15, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:15, 9:30,10:40He’s Just Not That Into You: Fri, 4:35, 6:05, 7:30, 9:00;Sat-Sun, 1:20, 4:35, 6:05, 7:30, 9:00; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:35,6:05, 7:30, 9:00Hotel for Dogs: Fri, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20; Sat-Sun, 12:20, 1:40, 2:45,4:20, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:20, 6:45, 9:20*I Love You, Man: Fri, 3:05, 4:55, 5:45, 7:45, 8:35, 10:35;Sat-Sun, 12:15, 2:05, 3:05, 4:55, 5:45, 7:45, 8:35, 10:35;Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:05, 4:55, 5:45, 7:45, 8:35, 10:35*Knowing: Fri, 4:05, 5:05, 7:15, 8:25, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 12:55, 1:55,4:05, 5:05, 7:15, 8:25, 10:25; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:05, 5:05, 7:15,8:25, 10:25The Last House on the Left: Fri, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 1:00,4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Mon-Thu (4/2), 4:00, 7:10, 10:00Paul Blart: Mall Cop: Fri, 3:45, 5:20, 6:15, 7:40, 8:45, 10:15;Sat-Sun, 12:30, 1:10, 3:00, 3:45, 5:20, 6:15, 7:40, 8:45, 10:15;Mon-Thu (4/2), 3:45, 5:20, 6:15, 7:40, 8:45, 10:15WESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White, 899-2717.Discounts daily before 6pm. Cost for 3-D shows is regularticket price plus a $2.50 premium.Duplicity: 11:25am, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25pmThe Haunting in Connecticut: Fri-Sun, 10:05am, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30,8:00, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15I Love You, Man: Fri-Sun, 9:45am, 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50,10:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20Knowing: 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30pm*Monsters vs. Aliens: Fri, 10:10am, 12:30, 2:50, 5:00, 5:10, 7:20,7:30, 9:40, 9:50pm; Sat, 10:10am, 12:20, 12:30, 2:40, 2:50,5:00, 5:10, 7:20, 7:30, 9:50pm; Sun, 10:10am, 12:20, 12:30,2:40, 2:50, 5:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50*Monsters vs. Aliens (3-D): Fri-Sun, 9:40am, 12:00, 2:20, 4:40,7:00, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20Race to Witch Mountain: 11:40am, 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10pmTaken: Fri-Sun, 10:20am, 12:35, 2:50, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00pm;Mon-Thu (4/2), 12:35, 2:50, 5:25, 7:45, 10:0012 Rounds: 11:35am, 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05pmWatchmen: 11:40am, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55pmwSCOTT WALKER: 30CENTURY MAN D: Stephen Kijak.(NR, 95 min.)A solo career spanning 40 years andspawning fans such as Brian Eno and DavidBowie (the film’s executive producer and oneof its interviewees) isn’t a bad place for ScottWalker. The elusive musician is in the spotlight,even if he’s not that fond of it, and Kijakmanages to keep him at a reverent distance,the film padded with gushing interviews frommusician fans. Far removed from his swoonpopdays in the Walker Brothers (achievingcommercial success with such amplified croontunes as “Make It Easy on Yourself” and “TheSun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”), we seehim in the studio recording 2006’s criticallyacclaimed head-scratcher The Drift and creatinghis singular sound through such meansas punching a slab of pork. Much like thatmeat, Walker’s music is cold and rare, but theeven rarer interview and studio footage offera glimpse into the avant composer’s closelyguarded mind – one that seems gripped bybrilliance and fear – and assuages with thatheavenly baritone. When asked to explainhis once-a-decade album style, a somewhatjovial Walker replies, “That’s my bad faith.”Kijak (Cinemania) avoids portraying the tragicgenius and instead likens Walker to Orpheus.Reinvention cannot be rushed or, often, articulated.(A shorter version of this review ran in theMarch 16, 2007 edition of The Austin Chronicle,when the film made its U.S. premiere at theSXSW 07 Film Festival.) – Audra Schroeder★★★ Alamo RitzSUNSHINE CLEANING D: ChristineJeffs; with Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, JasonSpevack, Steve Zahn, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Clifton Collins Jr.,Eric Christian Olsen. (R, 102 min.)Rose Lorkowski (Adams) is a thirtysomethingsingle mother living in a tiny house in abland city. By day, she slaves away cleaningother people’s bigger and better houses; bynight, she carries on an affair with her highschool sweetheart (the perpetually underusedZahn) and pines for her dead mother.Her father (Arkin) is a quirky old man with athousand get-rich-quick schemes, her son(Spevack) is a quirky young man with emotionalproblems, and her younger sister, Norah(Blunt), is a sarcastic depressive who paintsher disaffection in thick black lines under hereyes. Together the sisters try to remedy thefinancial and emotional paralysis of theirlives by starting a company that specializesin crime-scene cleanups, meaning they’llhave plenty of opportunities to confront thelingering damage of their own lives while siftingthrough the emotional detritus of otherpeople’s. Rose, in other words, is the heroineof a Sundance-ready independent movie.Produced by the same team that scored a hitin 2006 with Little Miss Sunshine, SunshineCleaning isn’t much more than an exercisein style and behavior, a blueprint for youngfilmmakers hoping to get their dark comediesabout working-class despondency into RobertRedford’s hands. This is a shame becauseAdams and Blunt are full of potential as sisterswho have never recovered from the traumasof their childhoods and who consistently look

C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI NGSStrangers When We MeetStrangers When We Meet (1960) D: Richard Quine;with Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, WalterMatthau. (NR, 117 min.) Blanton Museum of Art and Austin FilmSociety: Birth of the Cool. In this Fifties epoch-ender, Douglasplays a married architect who’s lost the passion in his workand marriage, then has a steamy affair with a married neighbor(Novak). These sympathetic adulterers, of course, threatensuburban values but also provide an uncommon glimpse of theAmerica that was to come. @Alamo Ritz, Wednesday, 7pm.for salvation in the wrong places and withthe wrong men. As the more troubled andirresponsible of the two, Blunt, in particular,is a whirlwind. The protective walls she’sbuilt for herself – the eye shadow, the ironicsense of humor, the loveless sex – comecrumbling down at a moment’s notice andoften in the company of complete strangers;she may be a loose cannon, but she’s onlycapable of injuring herself. Watching her, Iwanted to believe she was going to grantme some insight into the souls of damagedpeople. But Sunshine Cleaning doesn’t existin relation to the outside world but only toother movies. Its characters aren’t humanbeings but cultural signifiers and indie-moviestereotypes created to survive in the laboratorysafety of the festival circuit but nevermeant to actually walk the streets or talk tostrangers. And Norah, though full of passionand contradiction, is just a conglomerationof tics, gestures, and reactions that will berecognizable to anyone who’s spent anytimewatching IFC but irrelevant to anyone interestedin the emotional complications ofreal life.– Josh Rosenblatt★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, ArborNot reviewed at press time. WWE superstarwrestler Cena teams with once-excit-12 ROUNDS D: Renny Harlin; with Johning action director Harlin (Cliffhanger) forCena, Aidan Gillen, Ashley Scott, Steve Harris, Brian J.White. (PG-13, 108 min.)this New Orleans-set story about a detectivewho has to undergo 12 challengesin order to secure the safe release of hiskidnapped girlfriend. – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Drafthouse South, Barton Creek Square,CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CMRound Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland,Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, TinseltownNorth, Westgatefirst runs*Full-length reviews available online ataustinchronicle.com. Dates at end of reviewsindicate original publication date.wTHE CLASS D: Laurent Cantet; with FrançoisBégaudeau, Rachel Régulier, Esméralda Ouertani,Franck Keita, Wei Huang. (PG-13, 128 min., subtitled)The gulf that sometimes emerges betweenmeaning well and doing well is just one of thesharply observed human experiences illuminatedin this French classroom drama. Whenthe best-laid lesson plans fail, liberal-mindedteachers faced with insolent-by-nature adolescentscan find themselves choking on theirpedagogical ideals, while students can findtheir hopes for academic progress derailed bydistractibility, inattention, self-disciplinary deficiencies,and lowered expectations. The kineticand perceptive realism of The Class forges abare narrative that seeks no winners or losers.Winner of the Palme d’Or last year at Cannes,the film depicts a French-language class in aParisian junior high school in which virtually allthe students are of African, Caribbean, Asian,and Arab backgrounds. The Class is based onFrançois Bégaudeau’s 2006 novel, Entre lesMurs, which encapsulates the teacher’s year inthe classroom. Bégaudeau also stars in the filmas the teacher, and all the students who appearin his French class are also nonprofessionals.(03/06/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★★ Arbor“! ONE HELL OF A JOLT!A FIRST-RATE FILM ABOUT ORGANIZED CRIME. ”Michael Phillips, CHICAGO TRIBUNE“BRILLIANT. ’’A.O. Scott,THE NEW YORK TIMES“GRADE A. ’’Lisa Schwarzbaum,ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYUnder the BombsUnder the Bombs (2007) D: Philippe Aractingi;with Nada Abou Farhat, Georges Khabbaz. (NR, 98min.) Austin Film Society: Children of Abraham/Ibrahim – Films of the Middle East and North Africa.Shot on location in the summer of 2006 during acease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict, this narrativefeature tells the story of a Christian cabdriver anda Shiite woman who develop a bond while searchingthrough the rubble of southern Lebanon lookingfor the woman’s son. @Alamo Drafthouse South,Tuesday, 7pm; $4, AFS members free.MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTSA FILM BY MATTEO GARRONE©2009 IFC IN THEATERS LLCBASED ON THE BEST SELLING EXPOSÉ BYROBERTO SAVIANO ABOUT THE NAPLES MAFIASTARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 th !VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.IFCFILMS.COMMONSTERS VS. ALIENS 3D (PG)Fri. & Sat. 12:10 12:30 12:402:25 2:45 3:00 4:40 5:00 5:20 7:00 7:20 7:40 9:20 9:40 10:00 11:50 11:59Sun. - Thu. 12:10 12:30 12:40 2:25 2:45 3:00 4:40 5:00 5:20 7:00 7:20 7:40 9:209:40 10:0012 ROUNDS (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 12:10 2:30 4:50 7:15 9:45 11:59Sun. - Thu. 12:10 2:30 4:50 7:15 9:45THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT (PG–13)Fri. & Sat. 12:302:35 4:40 7:05 9:10 11:35Sun. - Thu. 12:30 2:35 4:40 7:05 9:10I LOVE YOU, MAN (R) Fri. & Sat. 12:30 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:40 11:50Sun. - Thu. 12:30 2:45 5:00 7:20 9:40KNOWING (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00 11:45Sun. - Thu. 1:45 4:30 7:15 10:00DUPLICITY (PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:35 11:59Sun. - Thu. 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:35RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (PG) Fri. - Thu. 12:15 2:35 4:55 7:15 9:35WATCHMEN (R) Fri. & Sat. 1:00 4:30 8:00 11:30Sun. - Thu. 1:00 4:30 8:00a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 81

C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI NGSSiegfriedSiegfried (1924) D: Fritz Lang; with Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön,Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos. (NR, 100 min.) Movies and Music. Thefirst part of Lang’s Die Nibelungen epic will screen with a live musical accompanimentby the Calm Blue Sea. @Alamo Ritz, Sunday, 7pm.Audience of OneAudience of One (2007) D: Michael Jacobs. (NR, 88 min.) A Pentecostalpreacher receives a vision from God to make a biblical film epic. This documentary(which premiered at South by Southwest Film 07) follows him as he leadshis congregation in this grandiose endeavor that is underwritten with very littlebut faith. @Alamo Ritz, Monday-Tuesday, 7:30pm; Wednesday, 7:15pm.CONFESSIONS OF ASHOPAHOLIC D: P.J. Hogan; with Isla Fisher,Hugh Dancy, Krysten Ritter, Joan Cusack, John Goodman,John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Robert Stanton, LeslieBibb, Julie Hagerty, Fred Armisen, Christine Ebersole,Wendie Malick, Lynn Redgrave, John Salley. (PG, 104 min.)The girl can’t help it: The shopaholic character,Rebecca Bloomwood (Fisher), may be the inventionof Sophie Kinsella’s bestselling novels, but onscreenthe character appears to be an immaculate conceptionborn of Bridget Jones and the ladies from Sexand the City. Many have rued the luck of Confessions’unfortunate release date, worrying that the film’scelebration of conspicuous consumption occursjust as our national consumption has fizzled intoanything but conspicuous. That’s hardly the problemwith Confessions of a Shopaholic, however. No, theproblem nipping at the designer heels of Confessionsis not the state of the economy but, rather, thefilm’s predictability. What distinguishes this moviefrom other interchangeable Renée Zellweger/KateHudson/Sandra Bullock career-girl rom-coms is theluminous presence of Isla Fisher. With her tiny frameand massive screen charisma, Fisher commands thisfilm with the akimbo aplomb of a seasoned screwballcomedienne. (02/20/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Barton Creek SquarewCORALINE D: Henry Selick; with the voices ofDakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, JenniferSaunders, Ian McShane, John Hodgman, Robert Bailey Jr.,Keith David. (PG, 100 min.)Just as 3-D is heralded as the newest old trickin the cinema showman’s grab bag, along comesCoraline – the first animated stop-motion featureto be created in 3-D – to remind us that therecan be more than mere gimmickry in the soupedupimagery. Writer-director Selick (James and theGiant Peach and Tim Burton’s The Nightmare BeforeChristmas) again demonstrates his unparalleledmastery of the phantasmagoric image. Selickadapted Coraline for stop-motion screen puppetsfrom versatile author Neil Gaiman’s prize-winningyoung-adult novel. The storyline is a classic “grassis always greener” fable that perfectly reflects achild’s provenance of whims and fears. Particularlyat the end, when the ghosts of missing childrenenter the picture, Coraline may prove unsuitablymacabre for the youngest viewers. Yet your childrenand you are unlikely to see a film anytime soon thathas more of a handmade feel – a value unto itself.(02/06/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★★■Dobie, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown SouthTHE CURIOUS CASE OFBENJAMIN BUTTON D: David Fincher;with Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Julia Ormond, Taraji P.Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Jared Harris.(PG-13, 159 min.)It’s quite a feat, really, to have stretched F. ScottFitzgerald’s slender, unsentimental curio into athree-hour-long – very long – motion picture aboutBenjamin (Pitt), who is born with the arthritic creakof an old man and proceeds to age in reverse.Everything that was sharp in the original text hasbeen rounded and buffed; Fitzgerald’s cynical eyetoward humans’ fleeting attractions, and attractiveness,has been junked for a love story – you knowthe kind – that spans decades of rising hemlinesand missed opportunities. Screenwriter Eric Rothtransposes the action from antebellum Baltimore toArmistice Day in New Orleans (which accommodatesan ineffective framing story involving HurricaneKatrina). The problem with this kind of episodic (un)coming-of-age tale – as with Roth’s previous Oscarbait, Forrest Gump – is that too often, transitions,major life decisions, feel unmotivated. Fincher is amaster craftsman, to be sure, but I didn’t buy thisstory for a second. (12/26/2008) – Kimberley Jones★★ Movies 8DEFIANCE D: Edward Zwick; with Daniel Craig,Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos, Allan Corduner,Mark Feuerstein, Tomas Arana, Jodhi May. (R, 137 min.)Defiance is the true story of the Bielski family,three Jewish brothers who, in 1941, escaped intothe forest of their native Belarus to elude capture bythe Nazis, set up a small ad hoc village, and endedup saving more than 1,200 Jewish lives through daringrescue raids and armed resistance. The story,in other words, is pure Hollywood gold, full of opportunitiesfor stirring speeches, ethical quandaries,lessons about tolerance and humanity, and violenceagainst Nazis. Zwick (Glory, Blood Diamond) hasspent his entire career struggling to find the balancebetween opposing impulses – the sentimentalist’sdesire for emotional-historical heft and the artist’sfascination with conflicted humanity – a strugglethat’s all over Defiance. Standing in for the firstimpulse is composer James Newton Howard, whonever met a tender moment he didn’t want to choketo death, but representing the second, thankfully, areCraig and Schreiber, who are more interested in psychologicalambivalence than unblemished heroism.(01/16/2009) – Josh Rosenblatt★★★ Tinseltown SouthDOUBT D: John Patrick Shanley; with Meryl Streep,Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis,Joseph Foster II. (PG-13, 104 min.)Shanley adapted his Pulitzer- and Tony Awardwinningplay, Doubt, for the movies and also choseto direct the film. The cast he gathered is peerless,but unfortunately, the actors don’t all behave asthough they’re performing in the same movie. Acollection of acting styles, from the broad to thecontained and the exacting to the unrestrained,creates an unevenness of tone and interpretation.Streep plays Sister Aloysius, the unwavering principalof the St. Nicholas school, into whose dominioncomes the new young priest, Father Flynn (Hoffman).The ensuing struggle between the two over moralityand power carries with it all the baggage of Catholictradition and hierarchy, as well as the period’s secularstrife between men and women. It’s a cerebraltug-of-war for the viewer, a struggle that’s made onlymore opaque with the film’s closing line of dialogue.Meanwhile, storms suddenly stir up outside, andlightbulbs repeatedly burst in Shanley’s effort tocinematically underline the pent-up emotions within.(12/26/2008) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★ ArborDUPLICITY D: Tony Gilroy; with Clive Owen, JuliaRoberts, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Giamatti, Denis O’Hare,Thomas McCarthy. (PG-13, 125 min.)A longtime screenwriter of lean and mean actioners,such as the Bourne trilogy, who made hisdirectorial debut with 2007’s terrifically malevolentMichael Clayton, Gilroy is still trafficking in schemingand double-dealing, but he makes a bid here forsomething brighter, in the wink-and-a-smile traditionof Ocean’s Eleven or Out of Sight. Owen is a very fineactor, but when stripped of his signature menace,he has a slack, dopey look about him. He plays RayKoval, an MI6 agent who butts heads with a CIA opnamed Claire Stenwick (Roberts, with whom Owenshad more compelling chemistry in Mike Nichols’acidic Closer). The overlong film plays fast and loosewith timelines, so I will say very little about the plotitself. Gilroy zings the film with tantalizing bits of82 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mabsurdity, but too often he returns to his darker,more ponderous instincts, which has an enervatingeffect on a film that lives and dies by its fleetness offoot. (03/20/2009)– Kimberley Jones★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North,WestgatewGRAN TORINO D: Clint Eastwood; with ClintEastwood, Bee Vang, Ahney Her, Christopher Carley,John Carroll Lynch. (R, 116 min.)Nick Schenk’s Gran Torino screenplay wasn’twritten with Eastwood in mind as the film’s starand director, but you’d never guess that was thecase, so comfortably does the film fit the laudedfilmmaker and icon’s public persona and body ofwork. Eastwood’s performance as Walt Kowalskiperfectly caps his long career as an actor. As director,Eastwood’s usual economical yet efficaciousstyle marks the film, but it is his performance thatis really the heart of this show. Still lithe and tautin his movement, Eastwood nevertheless allows hisaging body to sag in places and fail him on occasion.Eastwood also finds the humorous aspects of thecharacter – heard often in the instinctive growl thecharacter directs toward all annoyances, be they hisown money-grubbing family members, gangbangers,or the neighborhood priest. Eastwood plans to goon making more movies, but it’s doubtful any will beas satisfying a career culmination as Gran Torino.(01/09/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, TinseltownSouthTHE GREAT BUCK HOWARD D: SeanMcGinly; with Colin Hanks, John Malkovich, Emily Blunt,Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn. (PG, 90 min.)Disillusioned with law school, Troy Gabel (ColinHanks) drops out to become a writer but takes apaying job as the assistant to the has-been mentalistBuck Howard (Malkovich). Thus begins thisyoung man’s coming-of-age story, a pale journeymade even more flimsy when compared with theintriguing life history of his idiosyncratic employer.Malkovich’s performance in this small film is one ofcontrolled eccentricity, and the character’s offbeatcharm and ineffable oddness add another triumphto the actor’s pantheon of weirdos. The greatestproblem with The Great Buck Howard is that writer/director McGinly shapes the story with young Troyas the protagonist, when the really interestingcharacter is the one for whom the movie is named.Unfortunately, Malkovich’s commanding performancealso accentuates the limits of young Hanks’ actingskills. Troy’s voiceover narration recurringlyinterrupts the film’s enjoyment while it points outlife lessons. Despite the drawbacks, however, TheGreat Buck Howard puts on an unforgettable show.(03/20/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Alamo Drafthouse SouthJust Not That Into You charts a loose constellationof Baltimore residents as they date, marry, breakup, and make up. (Remember The Wire’s ethnicallydiverse, rough-and-tumble take on the town?Welcome to the Bizarro Baltimore, populated bythe White and Whining.) There’s some funny stuffhere that doesn’t involve degrading its female protagonists,and the cast, by and large, is appealing(especially the nicely dry Aniston and Goodwin, whohas the eyes of a mischief-maker). But for everygenuine moment of relationship insight the scriptproffers (and there are a few nuggets of gold), thereare another five wincing examples of female delusionand hysteria. And how come none of these womenappears to have anything to talk about other thanhow to get a man? These are funny, smart, goodlookinggals. Forget getting the man; work on gettinga life. (02/13/2009)– Kimberley Jones★★ Barton Creek Square, Tinseltown SouthI LOVE YOU, MAN D: John Hamburg; withPaul Rudd, Jason Segel, Rashida Jones, Jaime Pressly,Jon Favreau, Jane Curtin, J.K. Simmons, Andy Samberg. (R,105 min.)Looking back a few years from now, we might seethe release of I Love You, Man as the tipping pointof the Golden Age of Bromance, the moment whena trend became a formula, when inspiration becameimitation, and when avid fans became a target demographic.Bromance pioneer Rudd plays Peter Klaven,a real-estate agent living in Los Angeles who seemsto have everything: good looks, a good job, a greatapartment, and a beautiful fiancée (Jones). What hedoesn’t have is male friends. So off he goes to finda best friend and a best man. The joke is that courtingmen for platonic relationships is really no differentthan courting women for romantic ones. In theend, you’ll fall for a guy like Sydney Fife (Segel), whoembodies all the raw, unfettered maleness you’vebeen missing in your metrosexual, monogamous littlelife. (03/20/2009)– Josh Rosenblatt★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseSouth, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, WestgateLAST CHANCE HARVEY D: JoelHopkins; with Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, EileenAtkins, Kathy Baker, Liane Balaban, James Brolin, RichardSchiff. (PG-13, 99 min.)There’s about a 20-year age difference betweenHarvey (Hoffman) and Kate (Thompson), and he’sa Yank, and she’s a Brit, but otherwise, they aresolidly middle-aged characters who meet and enjoyeach other’s company over the course of a day andthen mutually grab on to what seems to each likea last chance for love. With its thin plot and itstitle character an American abroad in London, LastChance Harvey comes across as something like aBefore Sunrise for the less-than-nubile set. Werethat writer/director Hopkins’ dialogue and visualizationas scintillating as Richard Linklater’s is in hisSunrise/Sunset romances. Of course, the combinedacting brilliance of Hoffman and Thompson couldelevate the hoariest of clichés and turn almostanything they touch golden – and that is most oftenthe case with Last Chance Harvey. These two provea pleasure to watch in tandem, and their work iscomplemented by an outstanding supporting cast.(01/16/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Movies 8HE’S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOUD: Ken Kwapis; with Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore,Ben Affleck, Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Connelly, ScarlettJohansson, Justin Long, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Connolly.THE(PG-13, 129 min.)LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFTD: Dennis Iliadis; with Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter,Adapted by Abby Kohn and Marc Silversteinfrom the bestselling book of the same name, He’sTony Goldwyn, Sara Paxton, Martha MacIsaac. (R, 109 min.)Although Wes Craven’s 1972 The Last House onthe Left presented familial vengeance as proxy forVietnam outrage, Iliadis’ remake is more concernedwith cranking out suspense by the dollop (whichoften works), and upper-middle-class moralizing(which doesn’t work at all). The script hews fairly

C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI NGSclosely to Craven’s original, but the act of morallyrepugnant retribution that drives the story, whileessentially timeless, seems devoid of meaningin our modern age of torture imagery. Goldwynand Potter are well-cast as the vengeful parentsof a girl (Paxton) who is brutally raped and thenleft for dead by a quartet of psychopathic killers.Well shot throughout and edited with an eye onthe clock as opposed to the body count, The LastHouse on the Left is perfectly adequate as a contemporaryhome-life-invasion film but also utterlydevoid of the gag-inducing visceral sadism of theoriginal, a film that was very much of its time.(03/20/2009) – Marc Savlov★★■Barton Creek Square, Southpark Meadows,Tinseltown North, Tinseltown SouthPAUL BLART: MALL COP D: SteveCarr; with Kevin James, Jayma Mays, Shirley Knight,Raini Rodriguez, Keir O’Donnell, Stephen Rannazzisi, BobbyCannavale, Peter Gerety, Adam Ferrara. (PG, 87 min.)With this film, comedian James graduates fromsecond banana to leading man. From the premiseonward, Paul Blart: Mall Cop revels in fat jokes andthe gunless impotency of mall security guards. Themovie presumes the image of a fat mall cop patrollinghis cathedral of commerce on a little Segway tobe endlessly hilarious. Give the character a goofyname like Blart and a dopey-looking mustache,and what more does a movie need to do to hit ahome run? The film provides James with ampleopportunity for knockabout physical humor, at whichSTARTS FRIDAY, MARCH 27 AT THESE THEATRESAMCBarton CreekCINEMARKTinseltown USACINEMARKCedar ParkREGAL CINEMASGateway Stadium 16CINEMARKHill Country GalleriaREGAL CINEMASLakeline Mall 9CINEMARKSouthparkREGAL CINEMASWestgate Stadium 11CINEMARKTinseltown PflugervilleGALAXYHighland 10“HUGELY ENJOYABLE.PAUL RUDD AND JASON SEGEL ARE HOWLINGLY FUNNY. ”Peter Travers“ONE OFTHE FUNNIESTMOVIES OFTHE DECADE. ”Steve Oldfield, FOX-TV“THE SMARTESTCOMEDY OFTHE YEAR! ”Liam Mayclem, CBS-TV“IT’S THEREAL DEAL –A HILARIOUS,FOUL-MOUTHED,BIG-HEARTEDSURPRISE.”Stephen Rebello, PLAYBOYNOW SHOWING AT THEATRES EVERYWHERECHECK LOCAL LISTING FOR THEATRES AND SHOWTIMESSPECIAL ENGAGEMENTS NO PASSES OR DISCOUNT TICKETS ACCEPTEDText Best Man to 48211 for movie updates and free downloads from Paramount!Special ADVANCE ScreeningWednesday, April 1, 7:30pmTo sign up for a chance to win apass to this screening, go toaustinchronicle.com/contests byMonday, March 30No purchase necessary. Passes are limited and available on a first-come,first-served basis. Seating is limited. Passes do not guarantee admission.In Theaters April 3austinchronicle.coma u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 83

C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI NGSLunafest 2009Lunafest 2009 Reel Women. The nationally touring festival ofaward-winning films is produced by Luna Bar and sponsored locallyby Reel Women and the Jewish Community Association of Austin’sWomen’s Division. This eighth edition includes 10 short films madeby, for, and about women. They embody a wide range of topics dealingwith what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. One ofthe films in this year’s collection is by UT student Nazanin Shirazi."Big Girl"All proceeds benefit Reel Women’s membership and education programs and the Breast Cancer Fund. @DellJewish Community Center, Sunday, 2pm; $10.They Killed Sister DorothyThey Killed Sister Dorothy (2008) D: Daniel Junge. (NR,93 min.) Screen Door Film: Texas Cinema Series. Last year’s winnerof SXSW’s Best Documentary award recounts the details of themurder in the Brazil rainforest of the 73-year-old nun and activistDorothy Stang, a champion of indigenous workers and environmentalists.Sister Dorothy’s brother, David Stang, will be in attendanceto provide an update on his sister’s murder trial and conduct a Q&A.@Ragsdale Center, Jones Auditorium (at St. Edward’s University),Friday, 7pm; free.the comedian appears reasonably adept yet hardlycapable of the surprising gracefulness of a fat comicmaster such as Jackie Gleason. The plot has Blartproving his mettle when robbers hijack the mall andhe becomes the city cops’ eyes and ears on theinside. Director Carr adds nothing to the overall mixwith his rudimentary point-and-shoot visual strategy.(01/23/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★ CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, SouthparkMeadows, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown SouthTHE PINK PANTHER 2 D: HaraldZwart; with Steve Martin, Jean Reno, Emily Mortimer,Andy Garcia, Alfred Molina, Yuki Matsuzaki, Aishwarya RaiBachchan, John Cleese, Lily Tomlin. (PG, 92 min.)I don’t care how many pieces he’s written for TheNew Yorker, how often he’s been honored by theKennedy Center, or how many times he’s hostedSaturday Night Live; Steve Martin is going to haveto answer to a higher power for The Pink Panther 2.There’s only so much mileage you can get out of aguy falling down stairs and speaking in a ridiculousFrench accent before the gag runs dry, and PeterSellers pretty much got it all. Clouseau is his ownodd blend of klutzy and sophisticated, constantly fallingass-backward into forensic revelations while strenuouslymaintaining his sense of deductive superiorityand Gallic haughtiness. Which, again, was funny 40years ago, when Peter Sellers was the guy doing allthe falling and maintaining, but Martin has sucked allthe wit out of Clouseau, all the carefully consideredcomic delusion, and turned him into a blockheadedclown. (02/13/2009)– Josh Rosenblatt★ Hill Country GalleriaRACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIND: Andy Fickman; with Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino,AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Ciarán Hinds, GarryMarshall. (PG, 99 min.)This third Witch Mountain outing is essentially thesame stop ’n’ go chase film as its predecessors, butall things considered, it’s not half-bad. Dwayne “Don’tCall Me the Rock” Johnson, who appears to be followingIce Cube’s lead in his lateral career move fromnarcissistic, violent cartoon character to goofy, familyfriendlycartoon character, is spot-on as Jack Bruno,a self-doubting former racer and current Vegas cabbiewho, with an assist from discredited but still, like,totally hot astrophysicist Dr. Alex Friedman (Gugino)saves the planet and the tweenage ETs (Robb andLudwig, dialogue-coached, it would seem, by StephenHawking). Edited with zero tolerance for boredom andfeaturing a typical Disney self-empowerment morality,this race is entertaining and patently inoffensivematinee fare for kids 12 and younger and their adultoverlords. (03/20/2009)– Marc Savlov★★★■Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, TinseltownNorth, WestgatewTHE READER D: Stephen Daldry; with RalphFiennes, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Bruno Ganz, LenaOlin. (R, 123 min.)The question at the heart of The Reader is whathave we learned (and forgotten) from history’s bloodybackwash? Luckily for The Reader, the angelic Ganz,as a sage professor of law, is on hand to nudge thequestion of wartime culpability to the fore. But that’snot what’s most remarkable about The Reader, it’s justwhat’s most intellectually chewy. The real red meat ofDaldry’s film is the May-December romance betweena weary-looking, sexually rapacious streetcar tickettaker(Winslet, shockingly good throughout) in postwarBerlin and the sickly young schoolboy (an enthusiastic,excellent Kross) on whom she initially takes pity andthen seduces, ravenously and to his great delight.One day she’s gone, with no explanation, and the boygrows into a promising young law student and, later,into a sorrowful-seeming Fiennes. Daldry, working froma superior script by David Hare, has crafted a filmabout guilt, love, and history and how the three skeinscreate human beings or, alternately, human monsters.(12/26/2008) – Marc Savlov★★★★■ArborREVOLUTIONARY ROAD D: SamMendes; with Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, KathyBates, Michael Shannon, Kathryn Hahn, David Harbour,Dylan Baker, Zoe Kazan, Richard Easton. (R, 119 min.)I suppose you could call Revolutionary Road amovie about the killing effects of the suburbs –something director Mendes previously explored inhis debut film, American Beauty – but that would bea facile reduction of a film that aims, far more cuttingly,to sandblast the myth of “specialness” – thatvery American idea that we are all destined for greatness.A seductive opening scene introduces Frank(DiCaprio) and April (Winslet), before they’ve marriedand moved to Revolutionary Road. The film thencuts to a half-decade later: The Wheelers are expertbrawlers by now, both of them chafing at the expectationsof their gender roles. There’s an airlessnessto Mendes’ picture that doesn’t leave much roomfor error. One slight bobble from the (admittedly verygood) leads, and the illusion crumbles. Not a bobblein sight, though, from bit player Shannon, who stealsthe whole picture in two short, shattering scenes.(01/09/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★★ ArborwSLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE D: DannyBoyle, Loveleen Tandan; with Dev Patel, Anil Kapoor,Freida Pinto, Madhur Mittal, Irrfan Khan, Ankur Vikal.(R, 120 min.)Slumdog Millionaire is a mad, thrilling, and perverselyluminous film. It may be drenched in thesaffron and violet palettes of its Mumbai setting,but it plays like a classic Hollywood rags-to-richeslove story, albeit one with Bollywood roots and a fullyglobalized desire to survive, succeed, live, and lovewithin the teeming megalopolis formerly known asBombay. It’s a natural fit for Boyle and director ofphotography Anthony Dod Mantle. Mumbai is nothingif not giddy chaos incarnate. Patel, in his featuredebut, is the “slumdog” of the title, a reed-thin youngstriver named Jamal Malik. Jamal has managed tosurvive the crushing poverty and daily tragedies ofhis birthplace and has somehow landed himself onthe Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.It’s a doozy of a story that piles on the traditionalHolly- and Bollywood melodrama but never shiesaway or strays too far from the Ganges and theghetto. (12/12/2008)– Marc Savlov★★★★ Alamo Ritz, Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek,Barton Creek Square, Movies 8SPIKE & MIKE’S SICK &TWISTED FESTIVAL OFANIMATION 2009 D: Various. (NR, 90 min.)Not reviewed at press time. This tasteless-andproud-of-itcartoon collection presents its annualextravaganza. (02/27/2009) – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek84 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mSTREET FIGHTER: THE LEGENDOF CHUN-LI D: Andrzej Bartkowiak; with KristinKreuk, Chris Klein, Neal McDonough, Robin Shou, MoonBloodgood, Josie Ho, Taboo, Michael Clarke Duncan.(PG-13, 96 min.)Based, in name only, on the classic Capcom videogame, this kinda-sorta sequel to 1994’s Jean-ClaudeWATCHMEN Van Damme-meets-Kylie Minogue kick-fest is set inD: Zack Snyder; with Billy Crudup,Bangkok – one of the few cities in the world whereMalin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley,you can aim your camera at a lint ball in the gutter Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino.and end up with a neon-streaked, hyper-saturated, (R, 161 min.)dead sexy action-adventure film. So it boggles themind that The Legend of Chun-Li is as vapid and dull While scrupulously faithful in nearly every regardas it is. The film is jaggedly edited, poorly paced, (save the ending) to writer Alan Moore and artistand, above all, as underwhelming (if less cartoonish) Dave Gibbons’ landmark DC Comics series (whicha martial arts movie as its predecessor. Althoughdirector Bartkowiak has previous experience helmingvideo-game-inspired crap action films (Doom),the former director of photography’s latest is ladenwith godawful dialogue (and worse line readings), alame vendetta plot, and a witless and scattershotnarrative. Smallville’s Kreuk is easy on the eyes andmemory as Chun-Li, a Hong Kong concert pianist whotransforms herself into a two-fisted killing machine.(03/06/2009) – Marc Savlov/Movies 8wTAKEN D: Pierre Morel; with Liam Neeson, MaggieGrace, Famke Janssen, Holly Valance, Leland Orser, JonGries, David Warshofsky. (PG-13, 94 min.)Taken begins with an act of violence against anAmerican. Ninety minutes and dozens of fights,chases, and explosions later, it ends with a sheikassassinated, at least 50 people murdered, acouple of swarthy foreigners tortured, and Francepretty well knocked about. Call it the last cinematicgasp of the Bush era, with a Hollywood hero evenBill O’Reilly could love. Bryan (Neeson) is a a formerU.S. spy who goes on a vigilante rampage when hisdaughter (Grace) is kidnapped by a gang of Albaniansex traffickers after she goes to Paris to attend aU2 concert (which should be a lesson to teenagerseverywhere). It’s a brilliantly devious setup,conceived by co-writers Luc Besson and RobertMark Kamen, who know that moviegoers will give awide ethical berth to any father fighting to save hisdaughter’s life, while kicking feeble notions such asplausibility and morality out the window as they go.(02/06/2009) – Josh Rosenblatt★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton CreekSquare, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM RoundRock, Southpark Meadows, Lakeline, Metropolitan,Tinseltown North, WestgateTYLER PERRY’S MADEA GOESTO JAIL D: Tyler Perry; with Perry, Derek Luke,Keshia Knight Pulliam, David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, IonOverman, RonReaco Lee, Viola Davis. (PG-13, 103 min.)I can honestly say I’ve never been more confusedin a theatre than I was while watching TylerPerry’s Madea Goes to Jail. And not because Madeadoesn’t actually go to jail until the film is almostover (though also that); I just couldn’t find a wayto reconcile the comic absurdity of Mable “Madea”Simmons (Perry) – the sassy, crass, belligerent,bawdy, self-righteous, over-the-top, I-can’t-believe-shejust-said-thatcenter of the Perry multimedia empire(with outposts on television and Broadway) – withthe maudlin melodrama of Candace Washington, atwentysomething drug addict and streetwalker playedby Pulliam (The Cosby Show’s Rudy, another image Icouldn’t quite get my head around), who is a lifelongvictim of sexual and emotional violence. It’s as ifPerry took Big Momma’s House, slapped it togetherwith The Accused, closed his eyes, and prayed forcoherence. Taken separately, the two parts of Madeawould probably make for fine, if unremarkable, movies.(02/27/2009)– Josh Rosenblatt★★ CM Round Rock, Metropolitan, Millennium,Tinseltown Northran from 1986 to ’87 before being collected into asingle-volume graphic novel), the film itself is bizarrelycold and uninvolving. Snyder’s film is as meaty anadaptation of this meta-comic as we’re ever likelyto see, but it never quite clicks, and I think thathas everything to do with both the medium and thecontemporary world we live in. Simply put, Watchmenthe comic is, as it turns out, unfilmable, and so whatwe’re left with are the comic panels made mobile,the dialogue spoken aloud, but none of the visceralpunch that comes from discovering the comic firsthand.Watchmen is beautifully designed, stoicallypaced in the finest film-noir tradition, and awash inarresting imagery, but it never manages to make theexquisite emotional connection the comic so handilydoes. (03/06/2009)– Marc Savlov★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseSouth, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square,CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,Southpark Meadows, Dobie, Highland, Gateway,Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, WestgatewTHE WRESTLER D: Darren Aronofsky; withMickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, MarkMargolis, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens, Judah Friedlander,Ernest Miller. (R, 109 min.)In the latest from Aronofsky, Rourke rips his tatteredname out from the dustbin of history with hisportrayal of Randy “the Ram” Robinson, an agingprofessional wrestler (and fellow dustbin inhabitant).Those looking for a grand discourse on the sufferingnobility of the aging pseudo-athlete in modern,youth-obsessed America will probably go away disappointed.Aronofsky and screenwriter Robert Siegelare less interested in tragedy than they are the intimacythat develops between men engaged in closecontactbattle and the contrivances needed to makethat contact look as “real” as possible. Together theycreate innumerable fascinating moments that havethe air of documentary truth. But let’s be honest: Thestory of the waning athlete, the stripper he loves,and the daughter he left behind is an old one, and ifThe Wrestler is ever in danger of slipping into sentimentality,it’s here. Thankfully, whenever the risk ofcliché arises, Aronofsky takes us back into the ring.(01/09/2009) – Josh Rosenblatt★★★★■ArborCheck Film Listings online for full-length reviews,up-to-date showtimes, archives, and more!austinchronicle.com/film

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special screeningsBY MARJORIE BAUMGARTENThe symbol (*) indicates full-length reviews available online: austinchronicle.com/film.Forbidden PlanetScience FictionFilm Festival(See FridayandSaturday)THURSDAY 26The Chaser (2008) D: Hong-jin Na;with Yun-Seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hieSeo. (NR, 125 min.) This Fantastic Fest favorite fromSouth Korea returns to tell its crime story about anex-cop turned pimp who revives his detective skillswhen a serial killer starts attacking the local callgirls. It’s a gritty and taut crime drama. @AlamoRitz, 10pm.Cowboy Smoke (2008) D: Will Moore; withChad Mathews, Mike Lutz, James Paul, EstellaPerez. (NR, 92 min.) Austin Film Festival. A suburbanconvenience-store clerk dreams of being acowboy and moves to South Texas to pursue hisgoal but becomes caught up in a human-smugglingring. The cast and crew will be in attendance.@Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm; $4, AFFmembers free.Dazed and Confused With RichardLinklater (1993) D: Richard LInklater; with JasonLondon, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, MatthewMcConaughey. (R, 103 min.) Brewster McCrackenfor Mayor Fundraiser. Event chairs are ElizabethAvellán and Robert Rodriguez; there will be a Dazedand Confused memorabilia raffle. Tickets are $50(or $350 sponsorship level) and are only availableat www.brewstermccracken.com. @Alamo DrafthouseSouth, 7pm.Flatliners (1990) D: Joel Schumacher; withKiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, WilliamBaldwin, Oliver Platt. (R, 115 min.) Kevin BaconBacon Feast. Medical students experiment on themselves,with near-death consequences. The moviewill be paired with six courses of bacon. @AlamoDrafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm; $50.Jaws 3-D With Brad Neely (1983) D: JoeAlves; with Louis Gossett Jr., Simon MacCorkindale,Bess Armstrong, Dennis Quaid. (PG, 97 min.) Localanimator savant and all-around funny guy BradNeely delivers hilariously impassioned renderings ofdialogue from this cinematic bottom feeder to thedelight of viewers. @Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pm.Martyrs (2008) D: Pascal Laugier; with MorjanaAlaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, RobertToupin, Patricia Tulasne. (NR, 97 min.) Fantastic FestPresents. Two women seek revenge for their childhoodabuse in this film garnering notoriety for itsshocking violence. @Alamo Ritz, 7:30pm; free.Monty Python and the Holy GrailQuote-Along @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.SPACES“An Accident Without End … an IndustryWithout Answers” and “Everything YouAlways Wanted to Know About NuclearPower … but Were Afraid to Ask”Sustainable Energy & Economic DevelopmentCoalition. These two short films help mark the 30thanniversary of the meltdown at Three Mile Island.@St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7pm; free.“Barbecue: A Texas Love Story” (2004)D: Chris Elley; narrated by Ann Richards. (NR, 46 min.)Texas Spirit Documentary Series. It’s enough tomake even a vegetarian drool. Elley gets some of thestate’s favorite sons and daughters (Ann Richards,Dan Rather, Kinky Friedman, etc.) to testify abouttheir barbecue beliefs and rituals in this SXSW 04favorite. @Texas Spirit Theatre at the Bob BullockTexas State History Museum, 5pm.The Visitor (2008) D: Tom McCarthy; withRichard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Jekesai Gurira,Hiam Abbass, Marian Seldes. (PG-13, 108 min.) AustinFilm Society, aGLIFF, Austin Film Festival, Cine lasAmericas. This interpersonal drama is both strangelypredictable and unpredictable as seemingly unrelatedworlds collide. (*) @Texas Spirit Theatre at the BobBullock Texas State History Museum, 7pm; $5, freeto sponsoring organization members.86 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mFRIDAY 27offscreen501 Studios: Soundstage + HD Theatre 501 Studios’ soundstage inDowntown Austin now doubles as one of Texas’ largest public theatres – with aSony Qualia HD projector, a 28-foot screen, 180 (removable) seats, a vintage popcornmachine, and affordable rates. Need a venue for premieres, wrap parties, orconcerts/plays/performances featuring projection? This could be the place. Alsostill available as a soundstage/green screen. 485-3000. www.501studios.com.Austin Film Festival: Call for Entries Sure, you want to have your workconsidered in one of the most prestigious of festivals. You have a screenplay or acompleted movie; you have something you’ve crafted to within an inch of its virtuallife. Don’t hide that light under a bushel, hoss: Submit today. See the AFF websitefor details. Screenplay and teleplay deadlines: early, May 15; late, June 1. Filmdeadlines: early, June 3; late, July 3; very late, July 15. www.austinfilmfestival.com.Austin Film Society Summer Youth Camps You know those kids wantto learn how to make movies; AFS youth filmmaking camps teach hands-on narrativeand experimental techniques using digital video. The camps run Mondaythrough Friday (9am-5pm) in June, July, and August and are appropriate for ages12-15. See website for details, and register soon. $250 ($225, AFS members).www.austinfilm.org.Austin School of Film Classes An excellent slate of classes is availablefor your cinematic advancement at the Austin School of Film, with professionalinstruction in Final Cut Pro, DV and HD cameras, animation and lighting techniques,and more. See website for details. www.austinfilmschool.org/classes.Dollhouse TV @ the Alamo. @AlamoDrafthouse Village, 12mid.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship ofthe Ring (2001) D: Peter Jackson; with Elijah Wood,Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler,Billy Boyd, John Rhys-Davies, Cate Blanchett, DominicMonaghan, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving,Sean Bean. (PG-13, 180 min.) Master Pancake Theater.Finally, the Pancake comics can pick on subjects theirown size: hobbits. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7:30, 10:30pm.Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) D: Rob Lettermanand Conrad Vernon; with the voices of Reese Witherspoon,Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, Paul Rudd,Rainn Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland. (PG, 94 min.) VarietyChildren’s Charity. The lighting will be raised and thevolume lowered at these screenings for kids with specialneeds and their families. (*) @Alamo DrafthouseLake Creek, 11am, noon, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10pm; free forkids with special needs and their siblings.SPACES“Barbecue: A Texas Love Story” (2004)@Texas Spirit Theatre at the Bob Bullock Texas StateHistory Museum, 5pm. (See Thu., 3/26.)They Killed Sister Dorothy (2008) See p.84.The War of the Worlds (1953) D: ByronHaskin; with Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne,Robert Cornthwaite. (G, 85 min.) Science Fiction FilmFestival. This outdoor screening of the 1953 originalis presented in conjunction with the LBJ Library exhibit“To the Moon: The American Space Program in the1960s.” View the exhibit from 5 to 7pm, enjoy music bythe Rockit Scientists (real scientists from the JohnsonSpace Center) on the lawn from 6 to 7:30pm, andeat your picnic dinner on a blanket (both brought fromhome) at 8pm. See www.lbjlibrary.utexas.edu and “Underthe Stars and Maybe Some Space Aliens,” p.49, formore on the festival. @LBJ Library lawn, 8pm; free.SATURDAY 28Black Stallion (1979) D: CarrollBallard; with Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, TeriGarr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton. (G, 118 min.) KidsClub. This quiet story about a boy and his horsestands out from the pack because of its exquisitecinematography by Caleb Deschanel and the touchingperformance of Rooney as the veteran horse trainer.(*) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am; free.Justin Timberlake Sing-Along @Alamo Ritz,10pm.The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship ofthe Ring (2001) @Alamo Ritz, 7:30, 10:30pm.(See Fri., 3/27.)Princess Mononoke (1999) D: Hayao Miyazaki;with Jada Pinkett, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, ClaireDanes, Billy Crudup, Gillian Anderson. (PG-13, 135 min.)Big Screen Animated Classics. This Japanese animatedfeature is packed with an environmentally awarestoryline, breathtaking animation, and English dialoguepenned by Neil Gaiman. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 4:15pm.The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick,Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fans havebeen dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” thing livefor more than 30 years straight. For more info, seewww.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 12mid.SPACES“Barbecue: A Texas Love Story” (2004)@Texas Spirit Theatre at the Bob Bullock Texas StateHistory Museum, 5pm. (See Thu., 3/26.)S Is for Shooting AV Geeks. Safety trainingand shooting at the Capital Area Trap and Skeet Clubat 5:00pm will be followed by beer, barbecue, andan evening of gun-safety films on the Leagues’ lawn.Limited to 25 participants. @Tim and Karrie League’shouse, 6pm; $35.Triple-Feature Sci-Fi Saturday Science FictionFilm Festival. The festival moves indoors on Saturdayfor this triple feature of these science-fiction classicsfrom the Fifties: Forbidden Planet at 10am, When WorldsCollide at 1pm, and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers at 3pm.See www.lbjlibrary.utexas.edu and “Under the Stars andMaybe Some Space Aliens,” p.49, for more on the festival.@LBJ Library, third-floor theatre, 10am, 1, 3pm; free.Whisper of the Heart (1995) D: YoshifumiKondo; with David Gallagher, James Sikking, JeanSmart, Harold Gould, Courtney Thorne-Smith. (G, 111min.) We Heart Totoro: Studio Ghibli Film Festival.In this animated Japanese film, a young girl and boyconnect over their love of books and writing.@Howson Library, 2pm; free.SUNDAY 29S Is for Sissy AV Geeks and HeyHomo! A collection of classic, now-campy16mm educational films which examine the behaviorof potential wimps and what has to be done to fix it.@Alamo Ritz, 7:15pm.Siegfried (1924) See p.82.SPACES“An Accident Without End … an IndustryWithout Answers” and “Everything You AlwaysWanted to Know About Nuclear Power … butWere Afraid to Ask” @Agard-Lovinggood Bldg.,Huston-Tillotson University, 8pm; free. (See Thu., 3/26.)“Barbecue: A Texas Love Story” (2004)@Texas Spirit Theatre at the Bob Bullock Texas StateHistory Museum, 5pm. (See Thu., 3/26.)Lunafest 2009 Reel Women. See p.84.MONDAY 30Audience of One (2007) See p.82.Heroes TV @ the Alamo. @Alamo DrafthouseVillage, 10pm; Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 8pm.Cine las Americas International Film Festival: Volunteer CallThis 12th annual cinematic event galvanizes Austin in late April, and you couldbe a part of it. From helping at the box office to assisting with production operationsand more, volunteers help keep the whole operation running smoothly.Interested? E-mail for details. volunteers@cinelasamericas.org.Cine, Musica y Alma: Benefit for Cine las Americas This evening oflive music, film, food, and fun benefits the Cine las Americas International FilmFestival. Featuring performances by Michael Ramos, Brian Ramos, and DJ ManoloBlack. Sun., March 29, 6-9pm. Gibson Guitar Showroom, 3601 S. Congress. $30.www.cinelasamericas.org.Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a state-of-the-art screeningroom, which is available to the public on a rental basis. Community and indierates are available for the room, which sports an 18-foot-by-7-foot screen, 28fixed theatre seats, and a surround-sound system and supports Super-35, 35mm,16mm, VHS, and DVD formats. Handicap accessible, restrooms – the works. Italso has a “break room” suitable for presentations, meetings, and general cinematictomfoolery. 322-0145. www.austinstudios.org.The Screenplay Workshop The new five-week workshop will cover scene/sequence writing, pacing, and transitions; theme, tone, and voice; the business ofscreenwriting; and more. Prerequisite: basic understanding of screenwriting andformatting. Tuesdays, 7-9:30pm. Through March 31. $225. Also available: Privateinstruction and story consultation packages, 7½ hours of private instruction,$370. All classes are taught by professional screenwriters and meet in CentralAustin. See website for details. www.thescreenplayworkshop.org.

Jules and Jim (1961) D: François Truffaut;with Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre. (NR,104 min.) Austin Cinematheque. In this enduringlytranscendent love story, Truffaut traces the relationshipsbetween three lovers and friends over theyears. Moreau dominates every fragment of themovie with her magisterial eroticism. (*) @TexasUnion Theatre, 7:30pm; free.Unknown Passage: The Dead Moon Story(2004) D: Kate Fix and Jason Summers. (NR, 88 min.)Music Monday. The trajectory of the Portland, Ore., trio,Dead Moon (including the prior solo and garage rockcareers of Fred Cole), is documented. @Alamo Ritz,10pm.SPACES“Barbecue: A Texas Love Story” (2004)@Texas Spirit Theatre at the Bob Bullock TexasState History Museum, 5pm. (See Thu., 3/26.)Rock ’n’ Roll High School (1979) D: AllanArkush; with P.J. Soles, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel,the Ramones, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard. (PG,93 min.) Monday Movies. One of the very best highschool movie ever. @Cafe Mundi, 8pm; free.TUESDAY 31Audience of One (2007) See p.82.Pigs (1972) D: Marc Lawrence; with MarcLawrence, Toni Lawrence, Jesse Vint, Paul Hickey,Katharine Ross. (R, 80 min.) Terror Tuesday. Thepigs in this low-budget horror film have a taste forhuman flesh, which is further stoked by the corpsesthat keep piling up. It’s written and directed by (andco-stars) tough-guy actor Marc Lawrence. @AlamoRitz, 10:15pm.The Other Side of Immigration (2009)D: Roy Germano. Mexican American CulturalCenter. UT doctorate student Germano presentsthe world premiere of his new film, which examinesundocumented immigration from the perspective ofthose in the small Mexican towns which many peopleleave to go work in the U.S. The film also providesinsights about ways to better manage undocumentedMexican immigration (i.e., alternatives toborder patrol). The music is by My Morning Jacketand Conor Oberst. @Texas Union Theatre, 8pm.Under the Bombs (2007) See p.81.WEDNESDAY 01Audience of One (2007) See p.82.La Sonnambula (2009) D: Mary Zimmermanj.(NR, 160 min.) Metropolitan Opera: EncorePresentation. Bellini’s lyrical score is performed byNatalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez and is set inthe present day. Evelino Pidò conducts. @SouthparkMeadows, CM Cedar Park, Tinseltown North, HillCountry Galleria, 7pm.Lost TV @ the Alamo. @Alamo DrafthouseLake Creek, 8pm; Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10pm.Strangers When We Meet (1960) See p.81.The Trip (1967) D: Roger Corman; with PeterFonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper.(NR, 85 min.) Weird Wednesday. In this JackNicholson-penned film, Fonda plays a TV directorwho drops LSD for the first time and, after discoveringthat his living room is really his “living room,”wanders the City of Angels. @Alamo Ritz, 12mid.imaxSee Showtimes for dates and times.Across the Sea of Time 3D (1995)D: Stephen Low; with Peter Reznick. (G, 51 min.)An 11-year-old Russian stowaway arrives in NewYork hoping to meet up with a branch of his familythat came to America decades earlier. Armed witha stereopticon (a primitive precursor to today’s3-D) and a handful of old family photographs, hesuddenly encounters the sights and sounds ofmodern New York.Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) See p.79.Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: ScottSwofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39min.) Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screenas the state is shown to be a land capable ofgrowing everything from grapefruit to microchips.U2 3D (2008) D: Mark Pellington andCatherine Owens. (G, 85 min.) Last Day: Thu.,3/26.Under the Sea 3D (2009) D: Howard Hall.(NR, 40 min.) The impact of global warming isexamined in the waters of Southern Australia, NewGuinea, and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region.Wild Ocean 3D (2008) D: Luke Cresswelland Steve McNicholas. (NR, 40 min.) Filmed offthe coast of South Africa, this film examinesthe food chain, starting with the sardine runs,which are followed by dolphins, sharks, birds,humans, and other fish that opportunisticallyfollow the migration.SPACESBen X (2007) D: Nic Balthazar; with MarijkePinoy, Greg Timmermans. (NR, 93 min.) ReelIndependents. A boy with Asperger’s syndromeretreats into the fantasy of his online gamingworld, while also getting bullied by the other students.One day, he figures out how to turn thesituation around. @St. John Library, 6:30pm; free.TNURSDAY 02Justin Timberlake Sing-Along@Alamo Ritz, 9:40pm. (See Sat., 3/28.)Young Frankenstein Quote-Along (1974)D: Mel Brooks; with Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle,Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Teri Garr, ClorisLeachman. (PG, 105 min.) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. 87SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Infois due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date.The deadline for the April 10 issue is Monday, March30. Include name of event, date, time, location, price,phone number(s), a description, and any available photosor artwork.Send submissions to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066,Austin, 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail.Contact Marjorie Baumgarten (Special Screenings):specialscreenings@austinchronicle.com;Wayne Alan Brenner (Offscreen): calendar@austinchronicle.com.OPENS THISWEEKEND!BRING YOUR LITTLEMONSTERS IN MONSTEROR ALIEN COSTUMEFirst 50 kids in costume for the 1 pm show this Saturdaywill win a Monsters vs Aliens limited edition trading card set.*FOR SHOWTIMES & TICKETS VISIT WWW.THESTORYOFTEXAS.COM* While supplies last“I WAS ENCHANTED.It gives John Malkovich the showcase he deserves.”Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLYjohn malkovich colin hanks.Get ready for the comeback of a lifetime.emily blunt ricky jay griffin dunne with steve zahn and tom hankswritten and directed by sean mcginly©COPYRIGHT MMVIIIBRISTOL BAY PRODUCTIONS LLC.ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.WWW.GREATBUCKHOWARDMOVIE.COMEXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT NOW PLAYINGWWW.MAGPICTURES.COMALAMO DRAFTHOUSESOUTH LAMAR • Austin 512-476-1320ALSO AVAILABLE ON DEMAND THROUGH YOUR VOD PROVIDERFRI-SUN 12:20, 2:40,5:00, 7:30, 9:45a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 87

musicRECOMMENDED EVENTS FOR MARCH 27 TO APRIL 2NEKO CASE THE ALICE ROSEStubb’s, Tuesday 31Mohawk, Thursday 2EDITED BY AUDRA SCHROEDERThat sound you hear, the wind No one churns out classic powerpopin Austin quite like the Alice Rose.listingsin the willows, something’s blowingin. Our rain-parched wellspring After two addictive singles, the localwelcomes the Middle Cyclone (Anti-)THEquintet, led by the emotive JoDeeDICKSPurkeypile, hit its stride with recentRoom 710, Friday 27sophomore effort All Haunt’s Sound,which takes all the right cues fromForget the jokes about “WheelchairSqueeze and early Elvis Costello. Likemindedlocal female trio Tribella andEpidemic” being the theme song foraging punks. Anyone who saw theDicks’ incendiary performance at theLeonard CohenLeonard Cohen’s probably the closest a musicianhas come to beatification. The Canadian poet, artist,and singer always radiated a mystical worldliness,The Long Center, Wednesday 1 & Thursday 2especially when women broke hisheart and wine didn’t take theweight off his shoulders. Songremains his redemption and communion,from 1967’s Songs ofLeonard Cohen through 1977’sDeath of a Ladies’ Man, the holytrinity of sex, death, and religion.Approaching 75 and on his firsttour in 15 years, Cohen kicksoff his hotly anticipated NorthAmerican tour here in the hometownof musical director RoscoeBeck and drummer Rafael Gayol.When I spoke with collaboratorPhilip Glass before his musical productionof Cohen’s Book of Longingstopped at the Bass Concert Hallin February, he shed some light onthe thread that makes Cohen’s arttimeless: “With Leonard’s work,you have to take several looksto figure out what he’s doing.Some of his work is angry. Someof it is whimsical. Some is funny.There’s not a deadly seriousnesswith him, which can happen withpoetry. Leonard Cohen is alwaysthere. He hides behind poetry, butI feel every word counts with him.”Tickets are still available for bothnights. 8pm. – Audra Schroeder88 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mAustin Music Awards last week knowsGary Floyd and company still striprock music to its bare bones andrattle the cage with anti-authority likethey’re twentysomethings at Raul’s.C’mon, when’s the last time youbraved the pit? – Margaret MoserFRANK GRATKOWSKISalvage Vanguard Theater,Friday 27No Idea Fest organizer and localpercussionist Chris Cogburn continuesinternational band immersion withCologne, Germany-based saxophonist/multireedistGratkowski. Cogburnaccompanies, along with double bassistKurt Johnson, lending the blower’sunpredictable, jazzy tones somerhythmic backbone. Gratkowski plays asolo set first. 8pm. – Audra SchroederMASSHYSTERIBeerland, Saturday 28Proof that the garage rock resurgenceextends globally, Sweden’sMasshysteri keeps its catchy crunkpunkin the red and out of control, harnessingan irresistible male/femalevocal front that should sound right athome at Beerland. On the local front,headliners the Strange Boys had evenRolling Stone’s David Fricke bobbingand weaving at South by Southwest,and the quartet’s In the Red debut,And Girls Club, should be the feel-goodhit of the summer. Local quartet HexDispensers open. – Austin PowellTHE CALM BLUE SEAAlamo Drafthouse at theRitz, Sunday 29Three years before expressionistmasterpiece Metropolis, Viennesevisionary Fritz Lang wielded Norsemythology in Die Nibelungen:Siegfried (1924), Wagner operasamping princesses and dragon slayers.The Alamo’s history of local actsscoring visual retina burns continueswith the largely instrumental explosionsin the sky of Austin fivepiecethe Calm Blue Sea, staking its oneoffperformance against local psychsST 37’s occasional reanimation ofMetropolis. 7pm. – Raoul HernandezWe’re all hosed down and ready to talk aboutSouth by Southwest 09 at austinchronicle.com/earache.herself, proclaiming on her new disc,“This Tornado Loves You.” Neko Caselast visited her Mother Nature vocalizationsat Stubb’s one hot Augustnight in 2007, and a post-SXSWpunctuation to PJ Harvey’s intergalacticcharisma on the same stagepromises Canada’s national anthemwooing all “Prison Girls.” LocalsShearwater open. – Raoul Hernandezin-storesTuesday: The Flatlanders, WaterlooRecords, 5pmHouston’s Arthur Yoria get the nightstarted softly. – Austin PowellBY AUDRA SCHROEDER soundcheckWHITE DENIM, BUILT BY SNOW,HARLEMAntone’s, Friday 27Three locals bucking in the garage.TRIBUTE BAND MARATHON/NIGHT OF 1,000 STEVIESEmo’s/Club de Ville, Friday 27The Orgasm Addicts, Big Mess,Barracuda, Joy Division Cover Band, andmore get under the covers at Emo’s;Stevie Nicks fans twirl at de Ville.BUGS HENDERSONSaxon Pub, Saturday 28Austin gets the blues.JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEYThe Parish, Saturday 28Set funk phasers on stun.DAN DYER, SUZANNA CHOFFELLamberts, Saturday 28Smooth sounds from Austin’s kingand queen.‘PAINT THE TOWN’Salvage Vanguard Theater, Sunday 29Milwaukee’s Insurgent Theatrebrings a revolutionary tale to the stage.Douglas Ferguson, Yellow Crystal Star,and Amir Coyle play around it. 8pm.PLUTONIUM FARMERSAustin Moose Lodge No. 1735,Monday 30Double-drummered noise-rock trioseeks moose head to love.APRIL GHOULS DAYRed 7, Wednesday 1The Henchmen and Pickled Punksjump out of the casket, put toothpasteon your Q-tips.live music venues p.92roadshows+ club listings p.95| CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:FRANK GRATKOWSKI (FRI., 3/27)MASSHYSTERI (SAT., 3/28)THE ALICE ROSE (THU., 4/2)NEKO CASE (TUE., 3/31)

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JEFFGALLAGHER’SDEBUT ALBUMLISTEN TO & BUY THE ALBUM THAT’S BEING CALLED“THE NEW COSMIC COUNTRY” AT JEFFGALLAGHER.NETSATURDAY, MARCH 28 MIDNIGHTCOUGARPRODUCTIONSwhitetiger122112@gmail.com311 CLUB, 311 E. Sixth, 477-1630ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ, 320 E. Sixth,476-1320THE AMSTERDAM, 121 W. Eighth, 236-1606ANTONE’S, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424ARTZ RIB HOUSE, 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283AUSTIN CITY HALL PLAZA, Cesar Chavez betweenGuadalupe & Lavaca, 974-2000AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET DOWNTOWN, Fourth &Guadalupe, 236-0074AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735, 2103 E.M. Franklin,926-0043AUSTIN’S PIZZA, 1817 S. Lamar, 795-8888B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB, 204 E. Sixth, 494-1335BACKSTAGE STEAKHOUSE & GARDEN BAR,21814 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood, 512/264-2223BASTROP SENIOR CENTER, 1008 Water St., Bastrop,512/321-7907BB ROVERS, 12636 Research Ste. B-101, 335-9504BEERLAND, 711 Red River, 479-ROCKTHE BELMONT, 305 W. Sixth, 457-0300BOAT HOUSE GRILL, 6812 RR 620 N., 249-5200’BOUT TIME, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189THE BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 480-8330CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 475-6515CAFE CAFFEINE, 909 W. Mary, 447-9473CAFE MUNDI, 1704 E. Fifth, 236-8634THE CANARY ROOST, 11900 Metric, 836-6360CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790CENTRAL MARKET NORTH, 4001 N. Lamar, 206-1000CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH, 4477 S. Lamar, 899-4300CHAIN DRIVE, 504 Willow, 480-9017CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham, SanMarcos, 512/353-3777CHESTER’S ICE HOUSE, 9611 McNeil, 836-0558CHEZ ZEE, 5406 Balcones, 454-2666CLEMENTINE COFFEE BAR, 2200 Manor Rd., 472-9900CLUB 1808, 1808 E. 12th, 524-2519THE COCKPIT, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 441-2444COOL RIVER CAFE, 4001 Parmer, 835-0010COPA BAR & GRILL, 217 Congress, 479-5002CORK & CO., 308 Congress, 474-2675COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla, Granger, 512/859-0700CREEKSIDE LOUNGE, 606 E. Seventh, 480-5988CUBA LIBRE, 409 Colorado, 472-2822DAILY JUICE CAFE, 4500 Duval, 380-9046DETOUR BAR & GRILL, 1113 RR 620 N., 266-2279DOLCE VITA GELATO & ESPRESSO BAR, 4222 DuvalSt., 323-2686DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 478-0336THE DRISKILL HOTEL, 604 Brazos, 474-5911DRY CREEK SALOON, 4812 Mount Bonnell Rd.,453-9244EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE, 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 473-2279ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 478-2979EMO’S, 603 Red River, 477-3667EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie, 282-2586FIDDLER’S HEARTH, 301 Barton Springs Rd., 535-5008THE FIFTH GALLERY, 305 E. Fifth, 669-6558FLAMINGO CANTINA, 515 E. Sixth, 494-9336FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE, 4600 Guadalupe,380-0097FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd.,480-8646FRIENDS, 208 E. Sixth, 320-8193FURR’S FAMILY DINING, 4015 S. Lamar, 441-7825GIDDY UPS, 12010 Manchaca Rd., 280-4732GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON, 5434 Burnet Rd.,458-1813GREEN MUSE CAFE, 519 W. Oltorf, 912-7789GREEN PASTURES, 811 W. Live Oak, 444-4747GRUENE HALL, 1281 Gruene Rd., New Braunfels,830/606-1281, 830/629-5077GÜERO’S TACO BAR, 1412 S. Congress, 447-7688HANOVER’S, 108 E. Main, Pflugerville, 512/670-9617HEADHUNTERS, 720 Red River, 236-0188HILL’S CAFE, 4700 S. Congress, 851-9300HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747HOUSE WINE, 408 Josephine, 322-5210IT’S A GRIND COFFEE HOUSE, 4005 W. Parmer Ste. A,833-5858JOVITA’S, 1619 S. First, 447-7825KEY BAR, 617 W. Sixth, 236-9389LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290 E., 459-8729live music venuesLAMBERTS, 401 W. Second, 494-1500LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 327-9889LATITUDE 30, 512 San Jacinto, 472-3335LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,701 W. Riverside, 482-0800LOUIE’S 106, 106 E. Sixth, 476-1997LUCKY LOUNGE, 209-A W. Fifth, 479-7700LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE, 141 E. Hopkins, San Marcos,512/558-7399MAGGIE MAE’S, 323 E. Sixth, 478-8541MANUEL’S, 310 Congress, 472-7555MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 444-0261MEAN-EYED CAT, 1621 W. Fifth, 472-6326MOHAWK, 912 Red River, 482-8404MOMO’S, 618 W. Sixth, 479-8848MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUB, 715 W. Sixth, 478-7747MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN, 4215 Duval St., 451-3994MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS, 3825 Lake Austin Blvd.,477-2900MULLIGAN’S, 900 RR 620 S., 263-3305NEWORLDELI, 4101 Guadalupe, 451-7170NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT & BREWERY,10010 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 467-6969NUEVO LEÓN, 1501 E. Sixth, 479-0097NUNO’S ON SIXTH, 422 E. Sixth, 833-5133NUTTY BROWN CAFE, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 301-4648ONE 2 ONE BAR, 121 E. Fifth, 473-0121ONE WORLD THEATRE, 7701 Bee Caves Rd., 330-9500THE PARISH, 214 E. Sixth, 479-0474THE PARLOR, 100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965PARMER LANE TAVERN, 2121 Parmer #1, 339-0663PATSY’S COWGIRL CAFE, 5001 E. Ben White, 444-2020PLUSH, 617 Red River, 478-0099POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL, 22308 Hwy. 71 W.,Spicewood, 512/264-0318QUA BOTTLE LOUNGE, 213 W. Fourth, 472-2782RACK DADDY’S, 4410 E. Riverside, 389-1577REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Hwy. 183 N., 335-5115RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 476-8100RED EYED FLY, 715 Red River, 474-1084RED FEZ, 209-B W. Fifth, 478-5120RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter,512/392-3132ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder, Round Rock, 512/218-0813ROADHOUSE RAGS, 1600 Fortview, 762-8797ROOM 710, 710 Red River, 476-0997RUTA MAYA, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER, 2803 Manor Rd.,474-7886SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 282-0083SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200SEGOVIA SPANISH RESTAURANT, 7010 Hwy. 71 W.#180, 579-0726SHENANIGANS, 13233 Pond Springs Rd., 258-9717SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL, 9012 ResearchSte. C-1, 380-9443SHOOTERS BILLIARDS, 11416 RR 620 N., 401-2060SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 476-8017STARDUST CLUB, 11940 Manchaca Rd., 280-8590STUBB’S, 801 Red River, 480-8341T.C.’S LOUNGE, 1413 Webberville Rd., 926-2200TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 255-1300THREADGILL’S OLD NO. 1, 6416 N. Lamar, 451-5440THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. 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Saturday, March 28, 8pmVIDEOGAMESLIVEThe Long Center701 W. Riversidewww.thelongcenter.orgMonday, March 30, 7:30pmTHEAUSTINJAZZBANDPRESENTSFEDBYJAZZUnity Church of the Hills9905 Anderson Millwww.austinjazzband.comYou DESERVE free stuff!austinchronicle.com/contestsCheck out photos of what you missed ataustinchronicle.com/whatyoumissed.SXSW Interactive ClosingParty at La Zona Rosa(3/17/09)MATTHEW WEDGEWOODaustinchronicle.com/chrontouragea u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 93

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RILEY’S IRISH PUB EricTessmerBEERLAND Contact High FivesTHE BELMONT Jeff Lofton Quartet(7:00), DJ Veg (10:00)BROKEN SPOKE Jesse DaytonCACTUS CAFE The Refugees (8:30)CAFE MUNDI Mike Wood (7:00)CAROUSEL LOUNGE GB Mojo, BigChris Gates & GatesvilleCENTRAL MARKET SOUTH Ruby JaneSmith (6:30)CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSEEmory Quinn (9:00)CONTINENTAL CLUB Woodsboss(6:30); the Jungle Rockers,Grady, Chili Cold Blood;Gallery: Oliver Giraud (10:00)COOL RIVER CAFE TubCOPA BAR & GRILL Salsa Lessonsw/ Tony, the Brew (8:00)DOLCE VITA GELATO & ESPRESSO BARDJ Pop Noir (9:00)marchTHU 26Scott Coffman, LennyCochrun, the AmsterdamKara Grainger, Antone’sThe Refugees, Cactus CafeEmory Quinn, CheathamStreet WarehouseGordee Tentrees, GrueneHallWizard Boots, WorldwideRiot, HeadhuntersRat King, Strider, Room 710Doug Burr, Aaron Sinclair,Stubb’sFRI 27Governours, ClementineCoffee BarMasshysteri, Club 1808Sons of Hercules,Continental ClubOne Pin Short, FlamingoCantinaMartha Reich, Green MuseCafeLeon Russell, Gruene HallGive Er Hell, Cirkus,HeadhuntersErin Harpe, Maria’s TacoXpressUnwed Sailor, Clouds AreGhosts, MohawkBuster Jiggs, Momo’sNajee, One World TheatreHarry Bodine, Patsy’s CowgirlCafeThe Dicks, Masshysteri,Room 710DONN’S DEPOT Murphy’s InlawsTHE DRISKILL HOTEL Lobby Bar:Jeremy Slemenda, Hilary YorkEDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE KatEdmonson (8:00)ELEPHANT ROOM Nathan Hook,Greg Williams Quintet (6:00)EMO’S Confuzatron, Cry BloodApache, Elvis, PataphysicsFLAMINGO CANTINA Cali Zack(9:00)FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE Mattthe Electrician, SouthpawJones (8:00)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE Abi Tapia(8:00)FURR’S FAMILY DINING CarltonLombard (noon, 6:00)GIDDY UPS Mike Morgan (5:30),Open Mic w/ Dewey Lyon(8:30)GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOONAlvin Crow (9:00)GRUENE HALL Gordee Tentrees &Mark Jungers (7:00)HEADHUNTERS Worldwide Riot,Wizard Boots, Sunglasses &Mushrooms, Streetlight SuzyHOLE IN THE WALL The BloodyTears, Sally Crewe & theSudden Moves, Shenanigans(10:00)HOUSE WINE Kelly Mickwee &Andy Hardin (6:00)JOVITA’S The Cornell Hurd Band(8:00)LA PALAPA Brewer NationFrank Gratkowski, SalvageVanguard TheaterBryan Gutmann, Scoot Inn &Bier GartenTwilight Broadcast, Stubb’sEl Paso Heist, Trophy’sSAT 28Masshysteri, BeerlandEleven Hundred Springs,Continental ClubStick to Your Guns, In Fear &Faith, Stray From the Path,Kid Liberty, Katsumoto, NoBragging Rights, Emo’sRook, Raptors in theRafters, Drew Fish Band,Flamingo CantinaJacob Fred Jazz Odyssey,the ParishJeff Strahan, Poodie’s HilltopBar & GrillHammerwhore, Room 710Filastine, Salvage VanguardTheaterMoot Davis, Saxon PubHowie Day, Nick Zuber,Stubb’sGovernours, ThunderbirdCoffee HouseBridges & Blinking Lights,Trophy’sSUN 29Blue Voodoo, BeerlandBenjy Davis Project, CactusCafeBugs Henderson, Gruene HallWade Bowen, RandyRogers, Gruene HallSweet Chariot, Prancer,Hole in the WallLISTINGS ARE FREE AND PRINTED ON ASPACE AVAILABLE BASIS. Acts are listedchronologically. Schedules are subject tochange, so call clubs to confirm lineups.Start times are provided where knownand are PM unless otherwise noted.SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Musiclistings deadline is Monday mornings,9am, for that week’s issue, publishedon Thursday. Please indicate roadshowsand residencies. Send venue name,address, phone, acts, and start times to:Club Listings, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX78765; fax, 458-6910; phone, 454-5766x159; e-mail, clubs@austinchronicle.com.Austin bands: We want to hear fromyou. If you haven’t registered anduploaded your MP3s to the MusiciansRegister, go to austinchronicle.com/register. Anywhere your band ismentioned, your music will be featured.LUCKY LOUNGE Ian McLagan &the Bump Band (6:00); EaglePritchard Murray, MC Overlord(10:00)MARIA’S TACO XPRESS Phil Brown,Jimi Project (6:00)MEAN-EYED CAT Damon Bramblett(7:00)MOHAWK The Bubbles, the GreatNostalgic, Frantic Clam,WhitmanMOMO’S Jim Halfpenny, WynnTaylor, David Shehane, BlackBone Child, Second Day RedMOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN Thomas“Doc” Grauzer (6:00)road showsAmir Coyle, Salvage VanguardTheaterBugs Henderson, Saxon PubMON 30Dark Castle, AbandonKansas, Companion, Emo’sThee Headliners, Hole inthe WallWhiskey Business, RedEyed FlyChris Cornell, Stubb’sTUE 31The Tank, Combat Shock,Emo’sChris Jamison, Jovita’sBell Curve, Momo’sShurman, Saxon PubNeko Case, Stubb’saprilWED 1Zenith Fuzzbomb, BeerlandBig John Bates & theVoodoo Dolls, Emo’sLeonard Cohen, Long Centerfor the Performing ArtsHoyle Bros., Mean-Eyed CatThe Henchmen, PickledPunks, Red 7THU 2Ari Hest, Amy Kuney, CactusCafeJohn Craigie, Cafe MundiLeonard Cohen, Long Centerfor the Performing ArtsFree to Kill Again, Room 710Somebody’s Darling, Stubb’sLiveMusicEarly ...SAT, MAR. 28, 9PM 9PM FRI, MAR. 27, 6PM 6PM THU, MAR. 26, 4PMSUN, MAR.29, 9PMMON, MAR. 30, 9PMWED, APR. 1, 7PM TUE, MAR. 31, 10PM 11PM10PM10PM THU, APR. 2, 6PMODELOONDAYLateNightLoungin’AND THE LATER THROWDOWN THURSDAYSFEATURING andBEERSPECIALSALL NIGHTLONGOPENS FORCHARLIETERRELL LOVE AT WARF E A T U R I N G Call us to book your private party!www.theluckylounge.comwww.myspace.com/theluckyloungea u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 95HAPPY HOUR FEATURINGLATER: DJ DIAMOND TIP SPINS TIL 2AMANGELOJ & THEBRONCOS“THEINCOMPARABLE” HAPPY HOURF E A T U R I N G‘THE LEGENDARY’ AND THE LATER THROWDOWN THURSDAYSFEATURING opening for FERRERDJ PROTEGE SPINS ’TIL 2AMHAPPY HOURF E A T U R I N G‘THE LEGENDARY’

TICKETGIVEAWAY!CHICK COREA &JOHN MCLAUGHLINFIVE PIECE BAND withCHRISTIAN McBRIDE,KENNY GARRETT &BRIAN BLADETHURSDAY, APRIL 2, 8PMBASS CONCERT HALLTickets available at utpac.org, the Bass ConcertHall ticket office and (800) 982-BEVO.to WIN TICKETS to see CHICK COREA &JOHN MCLAUGHLIN at Bass Concert Hall, log on towww.austinchronicle.com/contestsMAY 12, 20097PMFRANK ERWIN CENTERFULL BAR & LIVE MUSICTHU 3/26DALE SPALDING 6PZHENYA ROCK OF RED ELVISESW/ IMMIGRANT KREW 8PFRI 3/27, 8PPHILLIP’S SINGER-SONGWRITERROUNDTABLESAT 3/28, 8PDALE SPALDING OF CANNED HEATSUN 3/29, 11ASUNDAY BRUNCHW/ FELIX PEREZ-BONOBOSTUE 3/31, 7PLEEANN ATHERTON & ZEEGYPZEE HEARTWED 4/1, 8PTBA7010 HWY 71 WAT THE “Y” @ OAK HILL, HEB SIDEBREAKFAST 8AM MON-SAT9AM SUNDAYOPEN 7:30A MON-SAT, TIL 9P SUN & MON10P TUE-THU, 11P FRI & SATHAPPY HOUR 7 DAYS/WEEK 3-7PM$2 MARGS THUR 5-8PM$1.50 LONESTARS EVERDAY 5-7PM579-0726segoviaaustin.coma u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 97

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIST ING SCLUB LISTINGS FROM FRIDAYTHREADGILL’S WORLD HQ MingoFishtrap (9:00)TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL LuckyStrikes (7:30)TRIPLE CROWN Rabb Rodriguez ylos Killa Hawgs, the Organics,Winter Dance PartyTROPHY’S We Werewolves, El PasoHeistSAT 28THE AMSTERDAM Jodi Adair(9:00)ANTONE’S Mingo Fishtrap, theScabs (9:00)ARTZ RIB HOUSE Danny Britt, MarvinDykhuis (7:30)AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET DOWNTOWNSteelbeam (10:00am)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Altar BoyzBACKSTAGE STEAKHOUSE & GARDENBAR Michael Samuels (7:00)BB ROVERS Brigitte London (8:30)BEERLAND Hex Dispensers,Masshysteri, the Strange Boys(9:00)THE BELMONT Crawfish Boil w/ Dr.Zog (noon), DJ Veg (10:00)BOAT HOUSE GRILL The Sevilles’BOUT TIME DJ Element (9:00)BROKEN SPOKE Dance Lessons,Alvin Crow (8:00)CACTUS CAFE Dramatic MonologueMarathon (7:00, 9:30)CAROUSEL LOUNGE Duff Walsh,Graham WeberCENTRAL MARKET NORTH Djembabes(6:30)CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSEPaula Nelson (9:00)CONTINENTAL CLUB Eleven HundredSprings, Two Hoots & a Holler;Gallery: Mike Flanigin (10:00)COOL RIVER CAFE Groove DaddyCOTTON CLUB The DebonairesCREEKSIDE LOUNGE Bryce Clifford,Radar Radar, the ShineBrothers, SlowtrainDAILY JUICE CAFE Chris Riley’sEarth Hour w/ David Israel,Mysterious H, That DamnedBand, Hollywood Gossip (8:30)DOLCE VITA GELATO & ESPRESSO BARDaetron Vargas (9:00)DONN’S DEPOT Austin HomegrownTHE DRISKILL HOTEL Lobby Bar: 34thStreet Jazz, Patricia G.ELEPHANT ROOM Kat Edmonson(9:30)EMO’S Inside: Opposite Day,Churchwood, Brass OvariesDancers, Baby Got Bacteria;Outside: No Bragging Rights,Katsumoto, Kid Liberty, StrayFrom the Path, In Fear & Faith,Stick to Your GunsFLAMINGO CANTINA Drew Fish Band,Raptors in the Rafters, FullService, Rook (9:00)98 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m11 LOCAL DRAFTS 2 full bars2 stagesTHURSDAY, MARCH 26, 8PMFRIDAY, MARCH 27, 8PMSWELLEPHANT & LAST GASP PRESENTSATURDAY, MARCH 28, 8PM*SHOWTIME 8:30PMSIN CITY SOCIAL CLUB PRESENTSSUNDAY, MARCH 29, 5:30PMTUESDAY, MARCH 31WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 8PMTHURSDAY, APRIL 2, 8PMFRIDAY, APRIL 3, 8PM1308 EAST 4TH STREET AT NAVASOTA-

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Music Line-upTuesWedThuFriSatLive Music!Cold Drinks!Hot Food!Good Times!all ageswelcome!Chicken Dog(super fun kids show)The Texcentric Show(comedy, radio style)Americana SongwritersHarry Bodine 5001 E.Jon Burkland Ben White512-444-2020CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIST ING SCLUB LISTINGS FROM SATURDAYGIDDY UPS Jason Arnold & theStepsiders (9:00)GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOONBilly Dee (9:00)GRUENE HALL Gary Claxton &Erik Hokkanen (1:00), CaseyDonahew (9:00)HANOVER’S Pride & Joy w/ MojoFilter (8:00)HOLE IN THE WALL Trucker Slang,Monahans, Li’l Cap’n Travis(9:00)HOUSE WINE Havilah (8:00)IT’S A GRIND COFFEE HOUSE JoshCaldwellJOVITA’S Jerry Sires, Crystal Flavola,3rd Try Lefty, Run Amok! (6:30)LAMBERTS Suzanna Choffel, DanDyerLATITUDE 30 Jabarvy (9:00)LOUIE’S 106 Kenny Luna (6:30)LUCKY LOUNGE Angel Ferrer, DJProtege (9:00)MOHAWK Outside: Afrofreque, T Bird& the Breaks; Inside: The SeasCD Release (9:00)MOMO’S Darcy, Paperwork, AmyAtchley, Patrice Pike & Joy DavisMOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN Thomas“Doc” Grauzer (11:30am)NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT& BREWERY Stephen Doster &Bill CarterNUTTY BROWN CAFE CarolynWonderlandONE 2 ONE BAR Jon Napier & ColinMcDonald, Lisa Tingle (8:00)THE PARISH Jacob Fred JazzOdysseyTHE PARLOR The No No No Hopes(9:00)PATSY’S COWGIRL CAFE JohnBurkland (7:30)POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILLJeff StrahanQUA BOTTLE LOUNGE DJ DojoRED FEZ DJ Kurv (10:00)RILEY’S TAVERN Dale WatsonROADHOUSE RAGS Ted Roddy & theBackwoods Hipsters, Teddy &the Tall Tops, Eve & the Exiles(7:00)ROOM 710 Buthered Saints,Hammerwhore, Disfigured,Mala Suerte, HOD CD ReleaseSALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER FilastineSAXON PUB Bugs Henderson(8:00), Lisa Hayes (10:30),Jeff Gallagher (12mid)SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN ShawnNelson, Dave Insley’s CarelessSmokers, Heybale! (8:30)SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILLThe Space RockersSTARDUST CLUB Johnny TequilaSTUBB’S Nick Zuber, Howie DayTHREADGILL’S OLD NO. 1 The Fireants(10:00)THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ TheBeatles w/ Will Taylor &Strings Attached (9:00)THUNDERBIRD COFFEE HOUSEGovernoursTREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL Casa delSwanka (7:30)TRIPLE CROWN Turbo 350, theBeaumontsTROPHY’S Bridges & Blinking LightsSUN 29ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THERITZ Siegfried w/ theCalm Blue Sea (7:00)ANTONE’S Girl Guitar, Van Wilks(9:00)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Irish TunesSession (8:00)\LIVE MUSIC @FRIDAY &SATURDAY6:30 - 9 PMSUNDAY12:30 - 3 PM@ CENTRAL PARK40th and North Lamarcall 512.206.1000 for detailsFRIDAY, MARCH 27WHITE GHOST SHIVERSamericana, hot jazzSATURDAY, MARCH 28THE DJEMBABESall female african drum ensembleSUNDAY, MARCH 29JITTERBUG VIPERShot jazzFRIDAY, APRIL 3EL TULElatin@ WESTGATE4477 South Lamarcall 512.899.4300 for detailsTHURSDAY, MARCH 26RUBY JANEtx fiddle, americanaSUNDAY, MARCH 293 JAZZ COLLECTIVEjazzWEDNESDAY, APRIL 1THE HUDSONSamericanaTHURSDAY, APRIL 2TWO HIGHSTRING BANDamericana, bluegrassWEDNESDAY& THURSDAY6:30 - 9 PMSUNDAY12:30 - 3 PMupcoming at central park:SATURDAY, APRIL 4H ERB F ESTIVAL12-2:30 PM - LAURA SCARBOROUGH’SHULA HOOP PARTY WITH DJ MANNYA FREE PUBLIC HOOP-OUT6:30-9 PM - “BETWEEN EARTH & SKY”ART OPENING RECEPTION BYJOYCE DIBONA, MUSIC BY FLYJACKSUNDAY, APRIL 5PASSOVER IN THE HOODWITH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONOF AUSTIN. A COMMUNITY SING-A-LONGAND DONATION DRIVE FOR THECAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK.12-2 PM - MADY KAYEAPRIL 10 - VENSON & LEEAPRIL 11 - T-BIRD & THE BREAKScafé open 7am-9pm sunday-thursday; 7am-10pm friday & saturday at both locations.FREE MUSIC, GREAT FOOD, COVERED PATIO & KIDS PLAYSCAPE100 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

CAFE & AMPHITHEATRE12225 HWY 290 WESTFRI, MARCH 27GARETT ENDRESSAT, MARCH 28CAROLYNWONDERLANDTransmission Entertainment - Transmit SociallySINCE1933TAVERNTHU 3/26 JENNY & THECORN PONIESFRI 3/27 ANDREA MARIE &THE MAGNOLIA BANDSAT 3/28 DALE WATSONSUN 3/29 OPEN MIC WITH GLENN ALLENMON 3/30 FREE POOL & JUKEBOXTUE 3/31 FOREST WAYNE ALLANWED 4/1 TBA912 RED RIVER 611 E. 7TH3/25 - Guest Bartender Happy Hour w/BIRD'S BARBERSHOP - 5-8pm3/25 - MIKE AND THE MOONPIES (EPRelease) w/ Joanna Barbera - 10pm3/26 - WHITMAN, Frantic Clam, The GreatNostalgic, The Bubbles - 10pm3/27 - UNWED SAILOR, Clouds are Ghosts- 10pm3/28 - T-BIRD AND THE BREAKS, Afrofreque- 9pm (out)3/28 - THE SEAS CD RELEASE - 10pm (in)3/29 - East Cameron Collective productionpresents: Bankrupt and the Borrowers videorelease party w/ BANKRUPT AND THEBORROWERS, Hobomouth, The VanBurenBoys, The Bridge Farmers, Follow thatBird!!!, The Bread - 8pm4/1 - Guest Bartender Happy Hour w/AUSTIN FACIAL HAIR CLUB - 5-8pm4/2 - THE ALICE ROSE, Tribella, Arthur Yoria& DJ Minor Strachan - 10pm4/3 - SMOKE AND FEATHERS, Cavedweller,Silver Pines - 10pm4/4 - CLEM SNIDE, Broken West, TheHeligoats - 9pm (outside) // Sad Accordions- 12am (inside)4/6 - PIXIES HOOT NIGHT - 10pm4/7 - BLIND PILOT, Loxsly, Golden Bear -8pm4/8 - MUCHOS BACKFLIPS, YoungMachines, Hotel Hotel - 10pmLIVE MUSIC CAPITAL OF SAN MARCOSTriple Crown featured shows3/26- CAPITAL SCAM, CLR, MolotovCompromise, Black Market Syndicate - 9pm3/27 - EARLY SHOW: THE CABARET (finalshow) w/ Year of the Kid - 5pm3/27 - LATE SHOW: HIGH WATTCRUCIFIXERS, The Hoodrats, Devil Rides - 10pm3/28 - POCKET FISHRMEN, Crapulence, BlackCock, The El Paso Heist - 10pm4/1 - KLUB SIN: APRIL GHOULS DAY w/ THEHENCHMEN (from LA), PICKLED PUNKS,ROYAL - 9pm4/2 - LISA'S SONS w/ Hurricane Bea, FultonRead, The Couch - 10pm4/3 - Benefit for Houston w/ SONS OFHERCULES, New Disaster, Flash Boys, BornTo Lose - 10pm4/4 - SUFFOCATION, Whitechapel, Veil ofMaya, Decrepit Birth, Psycroptic, Pinhed -9pm4/5 - EARLY SHOW: THE WAY IT IS FEST4/6 - NANDA DEVI, Skin Horse4/8 - EARLY SHOW: HOODS, Beg For Life, InCase We Die, Alaris + TBA4/9 - THE LIFE AND TIMES, Low Line Caller,Magnet School4/10 - EARLY SHOW: NAPOLEON MURPHYBROCK (Zappa’s Band) with the Paul GreenSchool of Rock - 6pm4/11 - EARLY SHOW: NAPOLEONMURPHY BROCK (Zappa’s Band)with the Paul Green School of Rock -6pmSAT, APRIL 11GIT YER TICKETS!PATGREENwww.transmissionentertainment.com611 E. 7TH FREE ALL THE TIME! POOL, SKEE BALL, GAMES, ETC3/25 - THE GET $ BROTHAZ- old school hiphop, free pool and $2 wells all night3/26 - DJ MIKE HOOKER3/27 - KARAOKE APOCALYPSE4/2 - DJS BEN BLACKOUT & STEVIESPARKXX4/3 - DJ PETER DAZE4/8 - DJ MIKEY HOOD ANDDJ RICHARD CRENWELGE4/9 - RED DAWN4/10 - Waterloo Records DJ night with ANDYAND KEVIN4/11 - HOOLIGANS BANQUET4/13 - DJs POLECAT & JOHIO4/17 - FETISH NIGHTWRECK ROOMUPCOMING4/19 - TWILIGHT SAD (MOHAWK), 4/21 - SPOON SOLD OUT (SCOOT INN), 4/25 -ANGRY SAMOANS (RED 7), 4/27 - DENGUE FEVER (MOHAWK), 4/28 - EDDIE AND THEHOTRODS (RED 7), 5/3 - SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM (RED 7), 5/3 - MC CHRIS (MOHAWK), 5/4 - MV& EE (MOHAWK), 5/6 - WYE OAK/POMENGRANATES (MOHAWK), 5/8 - THE PAPERCHASE (MOHAWK), 5/9 -SCREAMING FEMALES (MOHAWK), 5/13 - HER SPACE HOLIDAY (MOHAWK), 5/16 - GHOST(MOHAWK), 5/16 - DUANE PETER'S GUNFIGHT/PRIMADONNAS (RED 7), 5/20 - PONYTAIL (RED 7),5/21 - PROPAGHANDI (MOHAWK), 5/22 - THE THERMALS, 5/23 - THE BUSINESS (RED 7), 5/24 -HARVEY MILK (RED 7) 5/28 - BOB LOG III (RED 7), 6/2 - BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW(MOHAWK), 6/2 - MR. LIF (RED 7), 6/4 - SIR RICHARD BISHOP (MOHAWK), 6/4 - BRUTALJUICE (RED 7), 6/5 - BONNIE PRINCE BILLY (MOHAWK), 6/13 - DOUG STANHOPE(RED 7), 6/28 - THE BROTHER NATIVE/RELIGIOUS GIRLS (MOHAWK), 7/11 - THECOATHANGERS (MOHAWK)a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 101

EARACHE’S THOUGHTS ON PJHARVEY’S SATURDAY NIGHTSTUBB’S SHOW:“I am not feeling your newalbum, but that fact that youcame out onstage dressed like apsychedelicvirgin mermaid makesme love you even more.”- AUDRA SCHROEDER,SCHADENFREUDEaustinchronicle.com/chronicQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM123434 567THURSDAY 3/26NOCOVER!CORNELL HURDFRIDAY, 3/27MONDAY, 3/30BAND8-10pmVBNM1102 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m$8 COVER!GIRL GUITAR 6:30-7:30pmSATURDAY, 3/28CLOSED8qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbvbncDERTYBIRD8-9:30pmNAKIA & HISSOUTHERNCOUSINS 10-12amNO COVER!THE ANNUAL HAT PARTYWEAR A HAT!JERRYSIRESBAND 6:30pmCRYSTAL FLAVOLA7:30pm3RD TRY LEFTY8:30pmRUNAMOK!9:30pmSUNDAY, 3/29TUESDAY, 3/31NO COVER!CHRIS JAMISON6:30-7:30pmMARSHALL FORDSWINGBAND8-10pmWEDNESDAY, 4/1NO COVER!SEADAR ROSE6:30pmAMANDAMORA8-9:30pmNO COVER!MJTORRANCE6-7:30pmMARSHALL FORDSWING BAND8-10pmCALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIST ING SCLUB LISTINGS FROM SUNDAYBB ROVERS Jollyville City Limits w/David Patrick Dunn (7:00)BEERLAND Deuce Coupe, MichaelHolt & the Trophy 500s, BlueVoodooTHE BELMONT Jane Bond Band’BOUT TIME Karaoke w/ A.J. Kline(8:00)CACTUS CAFE Benjy Davis Project(8:30)THE CANARY ROOST Karaoke w/ BrianCENTRAL MARKET NORTH TheJitterbug Vipers (12:30)CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH Three JazzCollective (6:30)CONTINENTAL CLUB Heybale!;Gallery: Mike Flanigin (10:00)COTTON CLUB Can’t Hardly Playboyz(7:00)DOLCE VITA GELATO & ESPRESSO BARTrio Gallerio (4:00)EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE KrisKimura Quartet (7:00)ELEPHANT ROOM Peter StoltzmanTrio (9:30)ELYSIUM Regression: RetroEighties w/ DJ Pumpkin SpiceFLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE JackieBristow (8:00)FRIENDS Open Mic Blues Jam (8:00)FURR’S FAMILY DINING CarltonLombard (noon, 6:00)GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOONDale Watson (4:00)GREEN PASTURES Jacques Vilmain(11:00am)GRUENE HALL Chip Dolan &Marvin Dykhuis (noon); BugsHenderson (3:00); LonestarMusic Awards w/ BrandonJenkins, Randy Rogers, TejasBrothers, Wade Bowen (7:30)HEADHUNTERS Outside: 23 RainyDays, Set Adrift; Inside: Ike &the Moonpies, Horse Opera,the Original Mexican BobHOLE IN THE WALL Prancer, ColdHard Facts of Life, SweetChariot (8:00)JOVITA’S Seader Rose, AmandaMora (6:00)STEELBEAMPlutoniumDowntown Farmers Market,Sat. 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METROLicensedReal Estate AgentMark Freeman512-422-2709STUDENTS!!!OFF CAMPUS HOUSINGPRE-LEASING NOW!!!2/2 $729, 885 sq.ft. Greatlocation, on the UT Shuttle!2Bd, $763, 16x12 master,wood flrs, UT shuttle 1/2 blckShared Student Housing aslow as $399, w/d included, 2pools, game room, WiFi, etc.On the Cap Metro 983 X-press, 1/1, $625, full sizeconn, pool, weight rm, 26minbus ride.(512) 422-2709METROBankruptcy or foreclosureaccepted. Three bedroom$1136 on a 12 month leaseor $1299 on a 6 month lease.$99 gets you in. Luxurybrand new community withgarages available, gorgeouspool and workout facility,North Austin, near Parmer.Call Martha 512.567.6089 oremailmartha@greenlightlocating.com. You deserve a break!NORTH Come home to comfort.Fans, wood fireplace,outside storage pantry, patioand screened-in balcony,vaulted ceilings, and largewalk-in closets. Sparklingswimming pool, 24hr Emer.Maint., BBQ Grills/PicnicClubhouse, Handicap Modified,Laundry Rms, volleyballcrt. 1/1 start at $525 and 2/2Flats start at $700 w/$100dep. Call Chris Bee/Agent ofAvignon Realty: 512-293-7737NORTH Broken Lease, BadCredit , $99 Total Movie In!Eff $499, 1B $555, 2B $765SAME DAY RAY512-496-3725CALL, LOOK, LEASE TODAY!NORTH Fabulous 4-plex!$199 total. Large dogs ok. W/D & free WI-FI! Brand new 2-2 $879. 231-9888.www.apartmentlocating.comNORTHArboretum: One bedroomwith study, quiet smallcommunity with all theamenities. Huge master,great closets 842sf only$816. Garages available,steller management company,gated and lovely! CallMartha 567-6089 for a tour!NORTH 2 BD $610 1 mo.free. 3 BD $738 1 mo. free.SAME DAY RAY512-496-3725CALL, LOOK, LEASE TODAY!NORTH Hardwood floors$515!!!!! Great downtown access.Best kept secret inAustin. This will be a shorttermed special on a greatapartment so call soon! 1-1$515, 2-2 $745. 231-9888.www.apartmentlocating.comNORTH Cool 1bd N. Austincommunity.Large Floor Plans 1/1 as lowas $615.Now working with bad credit/Broken Leases.Tap Realty Travis Evans 512-589-2353NORTH CENTRAL CoolGarage Apartment, 900sf 2/1with 2 parking spaces,connections near BrentwoodPark and Justin Lane. $1100on a 12 month lease. Marth567-6089 ormartha@greenlightlocating.comNORTH CENTRAL Housesfor Lease, 3/1 near 51st andAvenue H with connections,$1425, great location forcampus-goers. Availablenow. Or 3/2 near 48th andDuval with washer and dryerincluded for $1475 on 12month lease, a huge 1462sf!Available now, not a prelease.Call Marth at 567-6089or emailmartha@greelightlocating.comNORTH CENTRAL CrestviewStation 1-1s from $550; 2-1sfrom $650. Located near futurecommuter rail stationand multiple bus routes.brian@cbimanagement.com.658-9493.NORTHWEST Tranquilityawaits you. W/ BBQ grills,carports, garages avail., CyberCafe, fitness center, & apool for laps. 9 ft. ceilings,walk-in showers, lrg privatebalconies, & detached remotecontrolled garages.With 1/1 starting at $596, 2/2at $1041. W/deposits for 1bdrm being $150 & 2 bdrmsbeing $250. Call Chris Bee/Agent of Avignon Realty:512-293-7737NORTHWEST Off of FarWest. 1Bd-$535. On UT Shuttle.Last stop to pick up, firstto drop off.SAME DAY RAY512-496-3725CALL, LOOK, LEASE TODAY!NORTHWEST $575 1br, 692 sqft NO deposit Must rent ASAP,call: 832-326-3317NORTHWEST $480 Jr 1 BR.2/2.5 $850. 3/2 $925, BIG ASA House! 231-9888.www.apartmentlocating.comNORTHWEST $599 NorthAustin Hidden Gem. Gatedcommunity.Playground & W/D conn.2 beds $689. 231-9888.www.apartmentlocating.comNORTHWEST $785 2 BR inprestigous Murchison/Dossschool district. Walking distanceto Doss & Murchison.Pet friendly. 1/1 $579. 692-4525 agent.NORTHWEST Two LeashDog Parks! Indoor Basketball.Hill Country Views. Garages,patios, townhomes,and much more.$734+ 692-4525.www.apartmentlocating.comSOUTH Hidden South AustinGem. 3/2 only $999 & $500off 1st month’s rent!Tap Realty Travis Evans512-589-2353.SOUTH http://AustinCool.com693-7231 78704 near cafes &shops, mins to dwntwn. Wellmngd 2BD W/D $785 mo freeSOUTH $599 2/2, TownakeAccess. Free Cable. BusRoutes. Call 512-293-7443ronjontheapartmentmon.comSOUTH South Austin, WilliamCannon to Manchaca, 1 Bedrooms$499 & up. 2 Bedrooms$700 & up.. Call Rick@ 447-RENT with PropertiesPlus.SOUTHAUSTIN FINEST - $902, 2/1Pay no rent in March! Brandnew with stainless steelappliances, granitecountertops, designerkitchen, two pools, businesscenter, state of the art fitnesscenter and a garage. Donna970-5554.SOUTH $185 Total Move-Infor March! $549 1BD.Call 512-293-7443ronjontheapartmentmon.comSOUTH www.AustinCool.com693-7231 Greenbelt trail atdoor, W/D incl, walk toshops/cafes-cool 78704 $640SOUTH 1/1 $550 Remodeled.Dream Flat woodFloors. Tap Realty TravisEvans 512-589-2353.evanstravis2008@gmail.comSOUTH http://AustinCool.com693-7231 Total urban livingexperience. Stained concretefloors, art deco, W/D, 2/2$789. 1/1, $599.SOUTH 1/1 $600 1 Monthfree. Huge Floor Plan. Lots ofWindows. Travis EvansAgent: 512-589-2353.evanstravis2008@gmail.comSOUTH University Living. Afully furnished place you canactually call home. W/upscaleamenities like a patio/balcony, bball & tenniscourts, Cyber Coffee Bar,brand new blue pool/hot tub,24 hr fitness ctr, tech lab forcomputer usage, & curbsideshuttle. 2/2 start at $550/rm,4/2 for $399/rm w/ all billspaid on 2/2 and 4/2. CallChris Bee/Agent of AvignonRealty: 512-293-7737SOUTH www.AustinCool.com693-7231 Small propertySouth Central. Wood floors,W/D, Zen Garden 2BDR $800SOUTH 2/2 $850 W/D Conn.Luxury for under a dollar/SQFT. Travis Evans Agent: 512-589-2353.evanstravis2008@gmail.comSOUTH 3/2 $1099 Stay Cool@ Resort Style Pool. TravisEvans Agent: 512-589-2353.evanstravis2008@gmail.comTap Realty Travis Evans 512-589-2353SOUTH $475 1 Bed,Townlake Access. Hiddenlocation. Free Cable.Call 512-293-7443ronjontheapartmentmon.comSOUTHwww.AustinCool.com(512)693-7231WOODED PARKSETTINGLarge decks, trees, big dogsSOUTH Crazy SpecialSpacious 2/2. $843-1250SQFT Resort StylePool/Fitness Center. NOWWORKING WITH CREDITISSUES. Tap Realty TravisEvans 512-589-2353.SOUTH $529 Move In Today!Private pond, tanning beds.Call 512-293-7443ronjontheapartmentmon.comSOUTH CENTRAL$899, 2/1.5 Bath. Two storyTown Home. Full size W/Dconnection. Small communityin south central 2.5 milesfrom Downtown. No Petweight limit! Call Phillip619.0657 orPhillip@greenlightlocating.comSOUTH CENTRAL 2/2, $859,Full size W/D Connection,993sqft, 1st and 2nd floor.Large open living space, lessthan 10 mins from downtown.Small complex tucked awayin the heart of south CentralAustin. North of 290, Westof I35, East of Mopac.Contact Phillip, 512.619.0657or Phillip@greenlightlocating.comSOUTH CENTRAL CozyCommunity off Manchaca.$625 1 mo. free. W/D Conn.Low Deposit. Tap RealtyTravis Evans 512-589-2353.SOUTH CENTRALSoLa $635, 1/1, Greatlocation! Walk to coffeeshops, restaurants, livemusic, and greenbelt trails.Donna 970-5554SOUTHEAST Minutes toDowntonwn, 1/1 $535, 2/2$685. Water paid, gated, freerent! Call Rick 447-RENT,Properties Plus.SOUTHWESTwww.apartments-austintx.com693-7290 Min.todowntown, custom kitchens,granite/wood, 2/1 $899.1 month free!SOUTHWESTwww.AustinCool.com(512)693-7231UPSCALE 2BDRM,W/D $815Sunset Valley area3BDR $985High end Propertiesfor your high end StyleWHEN ONLY THE FINEST W ILL DOWeekly Downtown Tours ...Call for appointment.DOWNTOWN1br $1079 / 530 SQ FT2br $1749 / 1148 SQ FT3br $3568 / 2105 SQ FTCENTRAL1br $979 / 652 SQ FT2br $1124 / 1094 SQ FT3br $1504 / 1545 SQ FTTAP REALTYCall Travis Evans, Relocation Director: 512-589-2353FREE APT. LOCATORSSAME DAY RAYRonJon theApt MonKeeping Austin weirderCall, Look & Lease Todayone day at a timeEFF: $430 - Nice and cozy1 BR: $479 or 1 BRwith study: $629 - private pond1 BR: $475 - Free cable, gate access, HUGE!!!2 BR: $650 - W/D conn., great locations2 BR LOFT: $900 - W/D conns., incredible, TREES GALORE3 BR: $895 Gigantic, skateparkCURRENT SPECIALS: $99, $185, $200 total move-in prices!CLARKSVILLE AREA 1BD $750, 2BD $1095, free cable, gas$299 1ST MONTH Efficiency $495, 2BD $595, 5 min to dtwnCHEAP RENT 2 BD $610, 1 month FREE! 3 BD $738, 1 month FREE!2 EXITS TO DOWNTOWN 1BD $525, 2BD $670, W/D conn.,water paid, 3BD $775. Bad Credit, Broken Lease, Big Dogs.1 MONTH FREE 1BR, $495, 676sf, 2 BD townhome, $675 w/dBACKYARD 1 BR $770, 2 BR $1101-Brand new, 2 BR, 2 monthsFREE, 40” plasma, W/D, granite countertops & stainless steel.WE SPECIALIZE IN IMMEDIATE MOVE-INS, CHEAP RENT & DIFFICULT SITUATIONSWE ARE FAST, FRIENDLY, AND BEST OF ALL FREEapartments*Rates reflected may be starting prices only. // Rates & specials subject to change without notice.** Pet restrictions do not apply to pets assisting the handicappedTo advertise in this spaceplease call 512/454-5767centralPHONEAREA CODE(512)WEBSITEEFF/STUDIO*1 BD* 2BD* 3BD* BATHThe Castile | Clarksville/Downtown 512.626-2903 burlingtonventures.com $825 $inquire 1 and 2 ● ● on-site ● 1 rsv./cov.open forguests/rmmts.Gables 5th Street Commons 512.474-0900 gables.com $1210-1235 $1535-1635 $2030-3155 ● ● ● in apt. ● ● yes ● no ● ●FITNESS CENTERPATIO/BALCONYPETS**WASHER/DRYERPOOLWIRELESSPARKINGALARMFIREPLACEBUS LINE●UTILITIES PAIDtrash/recyclingBUSINES CENTERSTORAGEPLAYGROUNDEast Village | East/Central 512.480-9886 roscoeprop.com $695 - $725 $825 1 cat on-site surface ● trash/gasCentury Square | Central/UT 512.478-9775 roscoeprop.com $595 & up $750 & up $995 & up 1 on-site ● cov. ●Archways | East/Central 512.480-9886 roscoeprop.com $495 & up ● on-site surface ● cable/trashSagebrush | East/Central 512.480-9886 roscoeprop.com $595 & up $725 & up 1 cat on-site surface ● trash/gasnorthBrentwood Townhomes 512.626-2903 burlingtonventures.com $725 $inqure 1 ● ● on-site surface ● trash/gas/recyclinga u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 115

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MatthewsProperties 454-0099, Rollo731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRAL Off Enfield -Unique 2/1 4-plex builtaround private courtyards,clay tile throughout, fireplace,CA/CH, gas/water paid, quietneighbors, pet friendly! NOW/D connections. $915 w/$100 move in special. 1603Woodlawn. Matthews Properties454-0099, 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comEAST Near Mueller,3B/2B,1400sqft, no smoking/pets, $950monthly, $800dep, 1yr,1412 Waldorf Ave, 563-0559home gallery1 MILE TOUT!Walk to greatrestaurants. Tree-linedstreet near French Place.OPEN HOUSE SUN 1-4pm Built 2009, 10foot ceilings, hardwood floors, stainless kitchen.3Bed/2½Bath. Beautiful 2-unit Bungalow homeLow-maintenance living with a private backyard.3207 A or B Merrie LynnAve 422-1903 $284,000The Biggest Names in Modern Architecture alongsideThe Smallest Energy Costs... & Affordable Pricingwww.NineSixtyNine.com / 512.927.2626NORTHEAST NearWebberville 18733 FM 969#1. A great place to live. 14miles to UT. 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(In RemOnly) are defendant(s), in favorof said plaintiffs, for thesum of $3,971.77 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit,that being the amount ofjudgment recovered by thesaid plaintiffs, in the 126thDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on April 11,2002.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Being all that certain Lot14158, Bar-K Ranches, Plat14, Plat No. 68/20, and beingmore particularly describedin Volume 10583,Page 289 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $3,971.77 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.92-12476CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 119

continuedlegalnoticesBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 331ST District Court ofTravis County, on the 26thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered 92-12476, wherein TravisCounty, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District, TravisCounty Emergency ServicesDistrict No. 1, City ofLago Vista and County EducationDistrict are plaintiffs,and Blas G. Alvarado, MariaG. Alvarado and City of Austin,Claims Division (In RemOnly) are defendant(s), in favorof said plaintiffs, for thesum of $5,395.08 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit,that being the amount ofjudgment recovered by thesaid plaintiffs, in the 331STDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on October 6,2000.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 16087, Bar-K RanchesPlat 16, Plat No. 66/78 asdescribed in Volume 7573,Page 428 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $5,395.08 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYCOMMON LAWLuke EllisThe material in this column is for informationalpurposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it a substitutefor, legal advice. For advice on your specific facts andcircumstances, consult a licensed attorney.TAX BREAK FOR SELLINGYOUR HOME?I am worried about losing my job and am thinkingabout selling my house and downsizing. I think myhome has appreciated since I bought it. Will I have topay taxes if I make a profit on the sale of my home?It depends (as with many tax issues). Tax incentivesintended to encourage people to own a homehave underscored Internal Revenue Service taxschemes for years (this general policy is currentlyreflected in the federal government’s stimulus packagetax breaks for some first-time homebuyers).One of the biggest tax breaks offered to homeownerscan occur at the sale of the home.Individuals who have gain from the sale orexchange of their main home may be able toexclude from income all or part of the gain. TheIRS defines your main home as the one in whichyou live most of the time. This exclusion is up to$250,000 for individuals and $500,000 for marriedtaxpayers filing joint returns. The exclusionmay be allowed each time that a person sells his orher main home but generally no more frequentlythan once every two years.To qualify for the exclusion of gain for a mainhome, a person must meet the following tests.Ownership test: Person must have owned thehome for at least two years during the five-yearperiod ending on the date of the sale.Use test: Person must have lived in the home ashis or her main home at least two years during thefive-year period ending on the date of the sale.There are numerous rules and exceptionsthat could impact potential tax breaks concerningthe sale of your home that are notdiscussed in this column. Simply put, it pays tolearn the rules and nuances about the potentialtax breaks associated with selling your home.Anyone interested in learning more about tax benefitsrelated to selling your main home, check outthe IRS’ “Publication 523, Selling Your Home,”available at www.irs.gov.Please submit column suggestions, questions, and commentsto thecommonlaw@austinchronicle.com. Submissionof potential topics does not create an attorney-clientrelationship, and any information submitted is subject to beingincluded in future columns.AT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.92-12493CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 98th District Court of TravisCounty, on the 25th dayof February, 2009 in a certaincause numbered 92-12493,wherein Travis County, LagoVista Independent SchoolDistrict, City of Lago Vista,Travis County EmergencyServices District No. 1 andCounty Education District areplaintiffs, and David Luna,Myrna E. Luna, NRC, Inc. (InRem Only), United States ofAmerica (In Rem Only), TheOffice of the Attorney General,Child Support Unit (InRem Only) and Edna L. Luna(In Rem Only) aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$5,342.70 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 98th District Courtof Travis County, Texas, onJune 22, 2000.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 15155, Bar-K Ranches,Section 15-A, Plat No.79/142 as described in Volume10312, Page 747 of thedeed records of TravisCounty, Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $5,342.70 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.92-12495CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 147th District Court ofTravis County, on the 27thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered 92-12495, wherein TravisCounty, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District, TravisCounty Emergency ServicesDistrict No. 1, City ofLago Vista and County EducationDistrict are plaintiffs,and Roger R. McCunis andSandra McCunis aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$4,960.36 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 147th DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on October 26, 1999.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 11210, Bar-K RanchesPlat 11, Plat No. 68/11 asdescribed in Volume 11271,Page 458 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $4,960.36 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.94-03894CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 200th District Court ofTravis County, on the 24thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered 94-03894, wherein TravisCounty, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District, TravisCounty Emergency ServicesDistrict No. 1, City ofLago Vista and County EducationDistrict are plaintiffs,and Larry Thomas, Ruth T.Gisi, NRC, Inc. (In RemOnly), Lago Vista PropertyOwners Association (In RemOnly), City of Austin, ClaimsDivision (In Rem Only), TexasWorkforce Commission f/k/aTexas Employment Commission/LaborLaw (In RemOnly), United States of America(In Rem Only), StateComptroller of Public Accounts/RevenueAccounting(In Rem Only) and StateComptroller of Public Accounts(In Rem Only) aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$5,929.47 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 200th DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on August 29, 2000.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 14076, Bar-K RanchesPlat 14, Plat No. 68/20 asdescribed in Volume 10422,Page 879 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $5,929.47 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.94-05468CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 53rd District Court of TravisCounty, on the 26th dayof February, 2009 in a certaincause numbered 94-05468,wherein Travis County, LagoVista Independent SchoolDistrict, Travis County EmergencyServices District No. 1,City of Lago Vista andCounty Education District areplaintiffs, and Stephen Hornand Barbara Horn aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$5,906.14 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 53rd District Courtof Travis County, Texas, onAugust 23, 2002.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 12107, Bar-K RanchesPlat 12, Plat No. 61/84, TravisCounty, Texas and beingmore particularly describedin Volume 7808,Page 298 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $5,906.14 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCOUNTY OF WILLIAMSONTO: TOMAS VARELA LUNA2301 S LAKESHORE 23-207AUSTIN TX 78741You have been sued. Youmay employ an attorney. Ifyou or your attorney do notfile a written answer with theclerk who issued this citationat or before 10 o’clock a.m.of the first Monday next afterthe expiration of 42 daysfrom the date of issuance ofthis citation, the same beingthe 30th day of March, 2009to Plaintiff’s Petition for Petitionfor Suit on Vehicle Accidentfiled in County Courtat Law #4, WilliamsonCounty, 405 Martin LutherKing Street, Georgetown,Texas 78626 on the 23rd dayof October, 2008 in causeNo. 08-1437-CC4 on thedocket of said court andstyled:BEVERLY CULVER ANDJUDITH WRIGHTVSTOMAS VARELA LUNAa Default Judgment for reliefdemanded in the petitionmay be taken against you.Given under my hand andthe seal of office in Georgetown,Texas, on this the 12thday of February, 2009.Nancy E. RisterWilliamson County Clerk405 MLK Street, Box 14Georgetown, Texas 78626By: /s/ Regina Cockrell, DeputyPlaintiff’s Attorney:SCOTT P OGLE1715 E 6TH ST STE 112AUSTIN TX 78702CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCause No. D-1-GV-07-001382AUSTIN CHRONICLE To: LucioReyes Solis,Respondent(s), in the hereinafterstyled and numberedcause: YOU (AND EACH OFYOU) HAVE BEEN SUED. Youmay employ an attorney. Ifyou or your attorney do notfile a written answer with theclerk who issued this citationby 10:00 AM on the Mondaynext following the expirationof 42 days from the date ofissuance hereof; that is tosay at or before 10:00 a.m. ofMonday the 20th day of April,2009, and answer the petitionof Plaintiff, The State of Texas,filed in the the 147TH JudicialDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on July 5,2007, a default judgmentmay be taken against you.Said suit being number D-1-GV-07-001382, in which TheState of Texas, PetitionerAnd $2,332.00 U.S. Currency,Respondent and the natureof which said suit is asfollows:On or about the 22nd day ofJune, 2007, the Austin PoliceDepartment, located at 715E. 8th Street, Austin, Texas,seized the above contraband,which was used or intendedto be used in thecommission of a felony pursuantto Art. 59.01 of Tex.Code Crim. Proc.ALL OF WHICH MORE FUL-LY APPEARS IN PETITION-ER’S ORIGINAL PETITIONON FILE IN THIS OFFICE,AND WHICH REFERENCE ISHERE MADE FOR ALL IN-TENTS AND PURPOSES.Issued and Given under myhand and the seal of saidCourt at Austin, this the 5thday of March, 2009.Amalia Rodriguez-MendozaDistrict ClerkTravis County, TexasBy /s/ Brittany N. Hannah,DeputyRequested By:Robert SmithAssistant District AttorneyState Bar No. 18677700P.O. Box 1748Austin, Texas 78767(512) 854-9795CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCause No. D-1-GV-08-000024AUSTIN CHRONICLE To: MiguelJaimes, Respondent(s),in the hereinafter styled andnumbered cause: YOU (ANDEACH OF YOU) HAVE BEENSUED. You may employ anattorney. If you or your attorneydo not file a written answerwith the clerk who issuedthis citation by 10:00AM on the Monday next fol-lowing the expiration of 42days from the date of issuancehereof; that is to say ator before 10:00 a.m. of Mondaythe 20th day of April,2009, and answer the petitionof Plaintiff, The State of Texas,filed in the the 147TH JudicialDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on January 9,2008, a default judgmentmay be taken against you.Said suit being number D-1-GV-08-000024, in which TheState of Texas, PetitionerAnd $3,638.00 U.S. Currency,Respondent and the na-ture of which said suit is asfollows:On or about the 21st day ofDecember, 2007, the AustinPolice Department, located at715 E. 8th Street, Austin, Texas,seized the above contraband,which was used or intendedto be used in thecommission of a felony pursuantto Art. 59.01 of Tex.Code Crim. Proc.ALL OF WHICH MORE FUL-LY APPEARS IN PETITION-ER’S ORIGINAL PETITIONON FILE IN THIS OFFICE,AND WHICH REFERENCE ISHERE MADE FOR ALL IN-TENTS AND PURPOSES.Issued and Given under myhand and the seal of saidCourt at Austin, this the 5thday of March, 2009.Amalia Rodriguez-MendozaDistrict ClerkTravis County, TexasBy /s/ Lydia Ann Maty, DeputyRequested By:Robert SmithAssistant District AttorneyState Bar No. 18677700P.O. Box 1748Austin, Texas 78767(512) 854-9795CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO. D-1-FM-08-001972 To: JESSICA LENIA-LEE TAPIA and to all who itmay concern, Respondent(s):GREETINGS: YOU HAVEBEEN SUED. You may employan attorney. If you oryour attorney does not file awritten answer with the clerkwho issued this citation by10:00 A.M. on the Mondaynext following the expirationof 20 days after you wereserved this citation and petition,a default judgment maybe taken against you. YOUARE HEREBY COMMANDEDto appear and answer beforethe Honorable District Court,353rd JUDICIAL DISTRICTCOURT, Travis County, Texas,at the Courthouse of saidCounty in Austin, Texas at orbefore 10 o’clock A.M. of theMonday next after expirationof 20 days from the date ofservice of this citation, thenand there to answer to ORIG-INAL PETITION IN SUIT AF-FECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP filedin said court on APRIL 15,2008 and said suit beingnumber D-1-FM-08-001972on the docket of said Court,and entitled “IN THE INTER-EST OF ROBERTO ADOLFOJR”. The nature of said suit isa request to Appointment ofPetitioner’s as Sole ManagingConservator’s of The ChildSubject of This Suit. Thecourt has authority in this suitto enter any judgment or decreein the CHILD’S interestwhich will be binding on you,including the termination ofthe parent-child relationship,the determination of paternity,and the appointment ofa conservator with authorityto consent to the CHILD’Sadoption. The Court has authorityin this suit to renderan order in the child’s interestthat will be binding onyou, including the terminationof the parent-child relationship,the determination of thepaternity, and the appointmentof a conservator withauthority to consent to theCHILD’S adoption. “Issuedand given under my handand seal of said Court atAustin, Texas, the 11 day ofMarch, 2009. Requested byEhren Ezzell, 1011 West 31stSTreet, STE 514, Austin, Texas78705; PH (512) 243-6709; FAX (512) 243-7205;AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MEN-DOZA Travis County DistrictClerk, Travis County Courthouse,1000 Guadalupe, P.O.Box 679003, Austin, Texas78701.CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO: D-1-FM-08-006001 To: KEITH BRIANSTEPHENS and to all who itmay concern, Respondent(s);GREETINGS: YOU HAVEBEEN SUED. You may employan attorney. If you oryour attorney do not file awritten answer with the clerkwho issued this citation by10:00 A.M. on the Mondaynext following the expirationof twenty days after you wereserved this citation and peti-tion, a default judgment maybe taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COM-MANDED to appear and answerbefore the HonorableDistrict Court, 345TH JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT COURT, TravisCounty, Texas, at theCourthouse of said County inAustin, Texas, at or before 10o’clock A.M. of the Mondaynext after expiration of twentydays from the date of serviceof this citation, then andthere to answer the ORIGI-NAL PETITION PETITIONFOR DIVORCE AND TRAVISCOUNTY STANDING ORDERfiled in said court on NO-VEMBER 25, 2008, and saidsuit being number D-1-FM-08-006001 on the docket ofsaid Court, and entitled ”INTHE MATTER OF THE MAR-RIAGE OF QUINCY STE-PHENS and KEITH BRIANSTEPHENS”.The nature of said suit is arequest to DISSOLVE themarriage of the parties, appointmanaging and possessoryconservators, and dividethe estate of the parties in amanner that the court deemsjust and right.The Court has authority inthis suit to enter any judgmentor decree dissolvingthe marriage and providingfor the division of propertywhich will be binding on you.Issued and given under myhand and the seal of saidcourt at Austin, Texas, March12, 2009.AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MENDOZATravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701By /s/ COURTNEY MOREAU,DeputyREQUESTED BY:GREGORY LOUIS VALDES-PINO700 EAST 11TH STREET STE105AUSTIN, TX 78701BUSINESS PHONE: (512)832-8663CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO: D-1-GN-07-000654 To: OLIVIA MAY-FIELD, AND ALL PERSONSINTERESTED IN THE PROP-ERTY AND ASSETS OF OLIV-IA MAYFIELD Defendant(s),in the hereinafter styled andnumbered cause: YOU (ANDEACH OF YOU) HAVE BEENSUED. You may employ anattorney. If you or your attorneydo not file a written answerwith the clerk who issuedthis citation by 10:00A.M. on the Monday next followingthe expiration of 42days from the date of issuancehereof, that is to say ator before 10 o’clock A.M. ofMonday the APRIL 20, 2009,and answer the FIRSTAMENDED ORIGINAL PETI-TION AND PETITION FORBILL OF REVIEW ofPlaintiff(s), filed in the 345THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURTof Travis County, Texas, onMARCH 5, 2009, a defaultjudgment may be takenagainst you.Said suit being number D-1-GN-07-000654, in whichPAUL H. RIOS Plaintiff(s),and OLIVIA MAYFIELD, TRA-VIS COUNTY ET AL AND ALLPERSONS INTERESTEDDefendant(s), and the natureof which said suit is as follows:THIS SUIT IS AGAINST UN-KNOWN CLAIMANTS OFAND UNDER OLIVIA MAY-FIELD (”MAYFIELD”), OROTHERS, WHO MAY CLAIMANY INTEREST IN LOT 3,120 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

BLOCK 11, OUTLOT 58, DI-VISION B, FOSTER SUBDIVI-SION, AUSTIN, TRAVISCOUNTY, TEXAS(”PROPERTY”) AND/OR OLIV-IA MAYFIELD’S PERSONALPROPERTY, AND IS TO ES-TABLISH THAT A MAR-RIAGE-WITHOUT-FORMAL-ITIES EXISTED BETWEENPAUL H. RIOS AND MAY-FIELD AND THAT RIOS,UNDER THE LAW OF TRES-PASS-TO-TRY-TITLE, TEX.CIV. PRAC & REM. CODESECTION 17.005, DECLARA-TORY JUDGMENT, ADVERSEPOSSESSION, AND COM-MUNITY PROPERTY LAW,HAS TITLE/OWNERSHIP INTHE PROPERTY AND INOLIVIA MAYFIELD’S PER-SONAL PROPERTY. THISSUIT ALSO CONTESTS CER-TAIN AD VALOREM TAXESALLEGEDLY OWED AGAINSTTHE PROPERTY AND AJUDGMENT ENTERED AL-READY FOR THE TAXES.ALL OF WHICH MORE FUL-LY APPEARS FROM PLAIN-TIFF’S FIRST AMENDEDORIGINAL PETITION ANDPETITION FOR BILL OF RE-VIEW ON FILE IN THIS OF-FICE, AND WHICH REFER-ENCE IS HERE MADE FORALL INTENTS AND PURPOS-ES.Issued and given under myhand and the seal of saidcourt at Austin, Texas, March06, 2009.AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MEN-DOZATravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe, P.O. Box679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701By /s/ LYDIA ANN MARTI-NEZ, DeputyREQUESTED BY:WILLIAM T PECKHAM1104 NUECES ST. STE 104AUSTIN, TX 78701-2128BUSINESS PHONE: (512)472-8126FAX: (512) 478-1790D-1-GV-07-002335CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 98TH District Court ofTravis County, on the 24thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered D-1-GV-07-002335, wherein Cityof Lago Vista, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District,Lago Vista IndependentSchool District-County EducationDistrict, Travis County,Travis County EmergencyServices District No. 1 andTravis County HealthcareDistrict are plaintiffs, andJames Wesley Steele (InRem Only), Stacey M. Martin(In Rem Only), if alive and ifdeceased, the unknown owners,heirs, assigns and successorsof the Estate ofJames Wesley Steele (InRem Only), Stacey M. Martin(In Rem Only), and RobertBelt (In Rem Only) aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$6,100.49 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 98TH DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on August 6, 2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 9, Block M, Lago Vista,Section 3, Phase 3, Plat No.30/40 as described in documentnumber 2007145084 ofthe deed records of TravisCounty, Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $6,100.49 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.D-1-GV-07-002447CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 126th District Court ofTravis County, on the 24thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered D-1-GV-07-002447, wherein Cityof Lago Vista, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District,Travis County, Travis CountyEmergency Services DistrictNo. 1 and Travis CountyHealthcare District are plaintiffs,and Nazem (Nazen) Nahousand Jinan Nahous aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$6,375.75 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 126th DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on August 6, 2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 33057, Highland LakeEstates, Section 33, PlatNo. 78/265, Travis County,Texas, and being more particularlydescribed in Volume7189, Page 2255 of thedeed records of TravisCounty, Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $6,375.75 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.D-1-GV-07-002476CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 201st District Court ofTravis County, on the 26thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered D-1-GV-07-002476, wherein Cityof Lago Vista, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District,Lago Vista IndependentSchool District-County EducationDistrict, Travis County,Travis County EmergencyServices District No. 1 andTravis County HealthcareDistrict are plaintiffs, and JoeSifuentez, Josie Sifuentezand NRC, Inc. f/k/a NationalResort Communities, Inc. a/k/a Bar-K Corporation (In RemOnly) are defendant(s), in favorof said plaintiffs, for thesum of $6,582.99 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit,that being the amount ofjudgment recovered by thesaid plaintiffs, in the 201stDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on May 14,2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 14183, Bar-K RanchesPlat 14, Plat No. 68/20 asdescribed in Volume 10163,Page 906 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $6,582.99 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.D-1-GV-07-002507CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 126TH District Court ofTravis County, on the 24thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered D-1-GV-07-002507, wherein LakeTravis Independent SchoolDistrict, Lake Travis IndependentSchool District-County Education District,Travis County, Travis CountyEmergency Services DistrictNo. 6, Travis County Farm toMarket Road, Travis CountyHealthcare District and WaterControl Improvement DistrictNo. 17 are plaintiffs, and Hermilo(Herrmilo) Herrera (InRem Only), Ronald W. Hofer(In Rem Only), ApacheShores Property Owners Association(In Rem Only) andUnited States of America (InRem Only) are defendant(s),in favor of said plaintiffs, forthe sum of $8,953.08 Dollars,together with all costs of suit,that being the amount ofjudgment recovered by thesaid plaintiffs, in the 126THDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on June 19,2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 11, Block 4, MountainView, Plat No. 4/243 as describedin Volume 8093,Page 65 of the deed recordsof Travis County, Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $8,953.08 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.D-1-GV-08-001056CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 250th District Court ofTravis County, on the 24thday of February, 2009 in acertain cause numbered D-1-GV-08-001056, wherein Cityof Lago Vista, Lago Vista IndependentSchool District,Travis County, Travis CountyEmergency Services DistrictNo. 1 and Travis CountyHealthcare District are plaintiffs,and Nazem Nahous, JinanNahous, aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$6,342.96 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 250th DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on October 2, 2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 33058, Highland LakeEstates, Section 33, PlatNo. 78/265 as described inVolume 7189, Page 2251 ofthe deed records of TravisCounty, Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $6,342.96 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.GV-203528CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 98th District Court of Tra-vis County, on the 25th dayof February, 2009 in a certaincause numbered GV-203528,wherein Austin CommunityCollege, Austin IndependentSchool District, City of Austin,Travis County and TravisCounty Healthcare Districtare plaintiffs, and DomingoG. Juarez a/k/a Domingo G.Juarez, Jr. (In Rem Only) andHenrietta G. Juarez (In RemOnly) , if alive and if deceased,the unknown owners,heirs, assigns and successorsof the Estate of DomingoG. Juarez a/k/a DomingoG. Juarez, Jr. (In RemOnly) and Henrietta G. Juarez(In Rem Only), Sarah R.Ojeda, Amador R. Ojeda, Jr.,Peggy Ojeda a/k/a MargaretOjeda, Cheryl Ojeda, FelixLoranzo (Lorenzo) Ojeda,Austin National Bank n/k/aCitibank Texas, N.A. n/k/aCitibank, N.A. (In Rem Only)and United States of America(In Rem Only) aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the sum of$23,988.45 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 98th District Courtof Travis County, Texas, onOctober 22, 2008.I, on the 3rd day of March,2009, at 9:00 o’clock A.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of April, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Lot 3, Block 2, River ViewAddition (Olt. 41, 42 & 53,Div. O), Plat No. 2/212 asdescribed in Volume 6629,Page 1876, Volume 11491,Page 26 and Probate CauseNo. 43,232 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.THE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor $23,988.45 Dollars in favorof plaintiffs, together withthe costs of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 3rdday of March, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ Joe Rosser DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.Kashiv, Inc. DBAT. Liquor #4,Kukoo Sharma,President, SunitaAV0409 POUND SALENOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLESIMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICEIN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ.,TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULATINGTHE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THEMOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENSAND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLEDTO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLEAND RECIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TOTHE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OFAUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOTBEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOFTO WIT;APRIL 9, 2009 @ 10:00 AM @AUSTIN POLICE DEPT.,4308 TERRY-O LANE,AUSTIN, TX 78745095015128 1998 FORD SW 25J4285 TX 3FALP15P2WR150999095014896 1997 NISS PK 46LKT2 TX 1N6SD16S4VC305225095014890 1984 CADI 4DR J37NKY TX 1G6AW6986E9138727095014209 1995 ACUR 2DR 954SGF TX JH4DC4356SS026700095014046 2004 STRN LL Z94FDM TX 5GZCZ33D84S887200095014045 1998 CHEV LL 6DPS08 TX 1GNCS13W6WK216789095014043 1989 JEEP LL W25FDV TX 1J4GS5873KP106499095014042 1981 BUIC 4DR J93DWD TX 1G4AP69Y1BX120164095014039 1995 PONT 2DR 242JGM TX 1G2NE15M4SM584346095013783 1977 TRI SONIC BT 9454WK TX TRS102890277095013781 1979 TOYT 2DR NCV07L TX MA46013415090681404 2001 FRHT TT R9XC97 TX 1FUJAPBD61PH24967WHAT’S THE DEAL WITHNEW-TIRE PLACEMENT?Dear Tom and Ray:The other day, I went to purchase two tires formy Dodge Intrepid. I wanted to replace the frontpair and move my old front tires to the back.That way, I’d get good tread for the snow in thewinter. The local tire store told me that due toinsurance regulations, when a customer buysjust one pair of tires, they must go on the rear. Theemployee said that the tire manufacturers advisethe same thing. I argued back at him and saidthat because my car is front-wheel drive, I needgood tread on the front tires more than on therear. “Well,” he replied, “then you’ll have to buyfour new tires.” Is this true? I think he just wantsto sell me four tires instead of two.– ChesterTOM: Of course he does, Chester. But he’salso technically correct.RAY: Tire manufacturers and safety peoplenow recommend that your “better” set oftires go on the back, even if you have a frontwheel-drivecar.TOM: It does sound crazy at first. It alsosounds suspicious, because it provides ahighly convenient argument for selling twoextra tires. When we first heard about thispolicy, we said: “That’s a fraud! It’s a blatantrip-off! Let’s implement it at the garageimmediately!”RAY: But the logic is actually sound.Putting tires with brand-new tread on thefront certainly would help you get started inthe snow, but having worn-out tires on therear could cause the rear end to slide outwhen you try to turn or stop.TOM: And since you can steer the frontwheels, you have a better chance of maintainingcontrol of the car if the front wheels slidethan if the rear wheels slide. Once the backend starts to slide, it’s a lot harder to controlthe car, and an accident is often the result.RAY: Of course, having four good tires isbest. But my guess is that this policy camefrom the tire companies’ legal departments,not their sales departments – despite theconclusion it leads to. Although I’m surethe policy has been warmly embraced by thesales staff, too.***Don’t get stuck with a lemon. Be an informedshopper. Read Tom and Ray’s guide “How to Buy aGreat Used Car: Secrets Only Your Mechanic Knows.”Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Used Car, POBox 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.***Get more Click and Clack in their new book, AskClick & Clack: Answers From Car Talk. Got a questionabout cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of thisnewspaper, or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talkwebsite at www.cartalk.com.Tune in to Car Talk each Saturday at 9am on©2009 by Tom & Ray Magliozzi and Doug BermanDistributed by King Features Syndicatea u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 121

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Sharma, VicePresident and Secretaryis MakingApplication withthe Texas AlcoholicBeverage Commissionfor a BeerRetail Dealer’s Off-Premise License,Package Store Permit,Local CartagePermit, PackageStore Tasting PermitOn the Addressof 8557 ResearchBlvd, Suite #144,Austin, TravisCounty, Texas.NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES 1988 ISUZU PKARKANSAS VIN #JAACL11E8J7214951 IM-POUND DATE 01/08/09 BYAUTHORITY OF HAYS COSHERIFFS CHARGES AS OF03/24/09 $1845.40 DAILYSTORAGE 20.00 PERDAY+TAX. 2006 CHEVY IM-PALA 4DR VIN #2G1WC581369389316 IM-POUND DATE 12/31/2008 BYAUTHORITY OF HAYS COSHERIFFS CHARGESAS OF03/24/09 $ 2023.60 DAILYSTORAGE 20.00 PER DAY+TAX BOTH UNITS @ 21681-B IH-53 KYLE TX 78640VSF#06040160NOTICE OF NEW TRAFFICREGULATIONS Notice ishereby given that TravisCounty, Texas, proposes theapproval of the following trafficregulation:SET MAXIMUM PRIMA FA-CIE SPEED LIMITON DOSS ROAD IN PRE-CINCT THREE.Any resident of TravisCounty, Texas, aggrieved bythis proposed action maymake written request for amandatory public hearing.Such request must be addressedto the Transportationand Natural Resources Department,Travis County, P.O.Box 1767, Austin, Texas78767, and must be receivedwithin seven (7) days of thisnotice.NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION A Public Auction will beheld to satisfy landlord’s lienpursuant to Chapter 59 of theTexas Property Code. Saleswill be held on April 18,2009. A sale will be held at9:30 a.m., at A-A-A Storage,4405 Highway 71 East, DelValle, TX 78617, phone 512-247-9708. A sale will beheld at 11:00 a.m. at A-A-AStorage, 10707 IH 35, NorthAustin location, phone 512-977-9775. All units will besold to the highest bidder forcash. Clean up and removaldeposit will be required. Sellerreserves the right to rejectany bid. Sales include itemsfrom the following tenants’storage spaces. Jo Ann Mata317: bedroom items, andmiscellaneous boxes. DianaAguilar 2261: furniture.James Coar 6129: tools. HoracioBarrera 6241: householditems. Jaqueline Estrada6505: household items.Jesse Gonzales 6842: tools.David Robinson 7029: householditems. Olivia Gutierrez7061: household items. LatishaDavis 8020: householditems. Carlos Salicrup 6854:household. Elmer Capetillo6239: miscellaneous householdfurniture.NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEDelinquent TenantsPS Orangeco, Inc. herebygives notice that the propertygenerally described below isbeing sold to satisfy a Landlord’sLien pursuant to Chapter59 of the Texas PropertyCode, at the time and placeindicated below, and on thefollowing terms: All propertygenerally described belowwill be sold at public sale tothe highest bidder for cash,or credit cards, NO CHECKS,with payment to be made atthe time of the sale. Seller reservesthe right to refuse anybid and to withdraw any itemor items from the sale. Theproperty will be sold on the9th & 10th of April 2009 on orabout the time indicated ateach self-storage facilityidentified: NO CHILDRENPLEASE.Thursday April 9, 20099:00 a.m. Public Storage @1033 E 41st Street, Austin,TX 787512012 COREY GORDON, BED,BOXES, TABLE2035 BERRI MCBRIDE,CHAIR, BOXES, BED2067 ROSE SILVA,DRESSER, DESK, COMPUT-ER3157 WILLIE HUNTER, BOX-ES, DRESSER, TOTES4154 TORIE DANIELS, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTES4165 CLINT WHITE, SOFA,BAGS, CLOTHING9:30am Public Storage @10001 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX787531016 Pauline Pickett, Boxes,bags, furniture3003 Maryann Gillespie,Bags, boxes, furniture3030 Maria G Esparza, Furniture,boxes, electronics3086 Jennifer Hughes, Totes,toys, electronics5036 Melissa Spears, Boxes,furniture, electronics9030 John Farmer, Furniture,electronics, tools9033 John Farmer, Furniture,electronics, tools10:00am Public Storage @10100 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX78753B066 Oran Greene, Electronics,totes, toolboxD025 Janice Gray, Boxes,bags, booksD121 Antone Muhammad,Furniture, bags, bicycleD141 Phillip Jones, All itemsin unitE036 George Allen Lumsford,Totes, furniture, refrigerator10:30am Public Storage @937 Reinli, Austin, TX.,78751122 Jennifer McFarlin, Allitems in unit123 Larry Cabrera, Totes,Furniture, Bedding394 Cecil Gregg, Boxes,bags473 Edgar Meza, Boxes, furniture,golf clubs722 Michael Shelly, Bedding,books, electronics11:00am Public Storage @8101 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753131 Sam Stone, Bags, boxes,totes605 Covenant Painting LLC,Tools, ladder, lawn equipment647 Annette G. Luna, Boxes,bags, toys1111 David Buckingham, Allitems in unit1460 Dustin Wilborn, Allitems in unit3111 Dekko Realty Corp.,Boxes, furniture, electronics3181 Athayde Motta, Boxes,furniture, electronicsN1385 Lindsey Moers, Electronics,Furniture, boxesN3360 Stevin Woody, Allitems in unit12:00pm Public Storage @8525 N Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753A040 Luis Ochoa, Boxes,toys, clothesB020 Ella Maltby, Bags, boxes,totesB058 Kimberly Tucker, Boxes,totes, furnitureC011 Yvonne Carmean, Boxes,toys, furnitureE002 Mckenna Wright, FurnitureE004 Rudolph Trevino, Bags,boxes, totesG005 Eduardo Ramirez, Furniture,lawn equipment, toolboxG013 Lyn Weldon, Bags,boxes, furniture12:30pm Public Storage @8128 N Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753B008 Kim Johnson, All itemsin unitC012 Timetria Barfield, Electronics,bicycle, fanE013 Dorina Rodriquez, Boxes,totes, toysE042 Adolphus R. Kimbrough,Boxes, furnitureE080 Dorothy Aguilar, Bags,boxes, toysFriday April 10, 20099:30am Public Storage @1517 Round Rock Ave.,Round Rock, TX 786814106 Lori Sumner, Furniture,toys4138 Joshua Smith, Boxes,furniture, totes6114 Debbie Roy, Boxes,totes, furniture8121 Alicia Komorowski, Allitems in unit8122 Virginia Rosalez, Allitems in unit8129 Joel Deas, Totes, boxes,pictures10:00am Public Storage @13675 N US HWY 183 Austin,TX 787500301 Melvyn Jones, Boxes,toolbox, electronics0433 Carlos Cali, Boxes, furniture,toolbox0517 George Butler, Bags,furniture0601 Mike Calvert, Boxes,toolbox, furniture1167 Lynelle Casillas, Bags,boxes, totes1326 Rolinda Salinas, Bags,boxes, toys2179 Siona Vizzard, Boxes,totes, furniture10:30am Public Storage @12915 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 787505062 Kurt Stangl, Bags, boxes,totes11:00am Public Storage @10931 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 787592060 Texas Department of Insurance,BoxesA017 Texas Department ofInsurance, BoxesB013 Texas Department ofInsurance, Boxes11:30am Public Storage @12318 N Mopac Expressway,Austin, TX 78758A006 John DeLeon, ChevroletPick Up truckA062 Chris Simmons, Allitems in unitA092 Craig English, All itemsin unitB244 Carlos Reyes, Bags,boxes, electronicsC318 Henry Rountree, Electronics,furnitureD553 Jennifer Oestreich,Boxes, totes, furnitureD612 Cora Haywood, Allitems in unitD634 Juan Martinez, Allitems in unit12:00pm Public Storage @9205 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 78758D041 Holly Reed, Boxes,Totes, ToysE183 Jabari Stone, Boxes,furnitureNOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEof property to satisfy landlord’slien. Sale is 9:30amApril 7, 2009. Property will besold to highest bidder forcash at the time of auction.Cleanup and removal depositmay be required. Seller reservesright to withdraw propertyfrom sale or not acceptany bidder. Property will besold in entire contents ofeach individual storage unit.Property includes contents ofspaces of following tenants:Robert Tatonka, BryanWelch, Richard A. McGhie,Jason Wofford, PhillipStrauss, Algie Bunton, StevenDouglas. Property being soldincludes the following: headboards, ladder, weightbenches, work benches,bikes, toys, rocking chair,beds, shelves, blankets,clothes, boxes, lamps,couches, baby crib, entertainmentcntr, mirrors,clothes, stove, fridge, golfcart, car parts, computerparts, sink, tools, suit cases,back packs, sleeping bag,mustang car frame anddoors, and misc. items. ContactLockaway Storage 9910Slaughter Creek Dr., Austin,TX, 78748. 512-282-7807NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEU-STORE-IT hereby gives noticeof Public Sale under theprovisions of Chapter 59 ofthe Texas Property Code.This sale will be held onApril 7, 2009 beginning at10:00 A.M. at the U-STORE-ITlocated at 10025 ManchacaRoad Austin, Texas. Thissale will continue to eachdesignated address locationlisted below after the completionof the beginning sale.This sale is being held to satisfya Landlord’s Lien. Everythingsold is purchased “asis” “where is” for cash. U-STORE-IT reserves the rightto set a minimum bid, refuseany bid, or to cancel anyPublic Sale that is advertised.Announcements made theday of the sale take precedenceover any printed materialsrelated to the sale.U-Store-It #75310025 Manchaca RdAustin, Tx. 78748512-292-1760Evale Adams - Bags, Bed,Books, Chairs, Dresser Drawers,Blanket Holder, WineRack, Christmas TreeU-Store-It #751610 E. Stassney LaneAustin, TX 78745512-441-8300Joseph Pena - EntertainmentCenter, Metal RackErik Orr - Bookcase, Chairs,Ladders, Rugs, Speakers,Table, TV stand, Totes, BambooBlinds, Picture, GarbageDisposal, Sink, Animal Cages,Skateboard, Water hose,Marble table top.Sergio Guerrero - Books,Dresser, Lamp, Speakers,Tables, Totes, Appliance,Cabinet, Desk, Frames,Chair, Assorted WoodAndrea Dunn - Boxes, Suitcase,Pet Carrier, TotesU-Store-It #74812006 RR 620 NAustin, Tx. 78745512-336-5333Richard Guthrie - Bed Frame,Bicycles, Boxes, Cabinet,Chest of Drawers, Desk, Ladder,TV, Car Jack, Guitar,Computer, WeightsFanny Price - Bar, BedFrame, Boxes, Chairs, IroningBoard, Lamp, Artificial Plants,totes, Candle Stand, BagsAUCTIONEER: KENNETHHIERHOLZER 6568NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEPS Orangeco, Inc. herebygives notice that the propertygenerally described below isbeing sold to satisfy a Landlord’sLien pursuant to Chapter59 of the Texas PropertyCode, at the time and placeindicated below, and on thefollowing terms: All propertygenerally described belowwill be sold at public sale tothe highest bidder for cash,or credit cards, NO CHECKS,with payment to be made atthe time of the sale. Seller reservesthe right to refuse anybid and to withdraw any itemor items from the sale. Theproperty will be sold on the8th of April 2009 on or aboutthe time indicated at eachself-storage facility identified:NO CHILDREN PLEASE.Wednesday, April 8th 2009.9:00 a.m. Public Storage@9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin,TX 787480092 CATHY YERBY, TABLE,CHAIR, SOFA0111 MATTHEW KOCH, FUR-NITURE0159 TASHARA MITCHELL,FURNITURE, BEDDING, MINIBIKE0353 MICHAEL LUMBLEY,DRESSER, BED, TRUNK0370 DAVID MARFIN, DESK,CHAIR, BICYCLE0404 ELAINE DAVIS, CHAIR,TABLE, BOXES0408 CASSANDRA CHAPA,FUTON, BOXES, BOOKCASE0472 TAD BONNELL STOO-KEY, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT0522 THALYA BALLARD,BEDDING, ELECTRONICS,BOXES0546 MICHELLE THOLE,FURNITURE, BOXES, BAGS9:30a.m. Public Storage @7200 S 1st Street., Austin,TX 78745B031 CYNTHIA LOPEZ, ALLITEMS IN UNITI002 MELODY JONES, BAGS,BOXES, TOTESK291 DAN OGILVIE, LAD-DER, LAWNMOWER, TOOLBOXN415 RICARDO MARTINEZ,SOFA, CHAIR, BEDN435 COURTNEY WHIDDON,TOTES, VACUUM, OTTOMANP482 MESHAWN REED,DRESSER, LOVE SEAT,CHAIRP488 KRIS MARTINEZ,SOFA, DESK, BOXESQ501 MASON HOLT, BOXES,BAGS, MIRRORW790 CRAIG PURIFOY, LAD-DER, LAWN EQUIPMENT, PI-ANOW814 SARA ROSE WIL-LOUGHBY, TVW840 MICHAEL BARRERA,BOXES, BAGS, LADDERW848 TAMBRA PATTERSON,ALL ITEMS IN UNIT10:15 a.m. Public Storage @7112 S Congress, Austin,TX 78745A4 NEDRA JOHNSON,DRESSER, LADDER, TABLEB26 TERESA WAICHLER,SOFA, BED, TABLEE37 CESARIO CAVAZOS,WASHER, DRYER, TABLEF3 DIANA GUZMAN, TRUNK,BAGS, TOTESF4 ROBERT RENTERIA, BOX-ES, COMPUTER, LAMPF30 CARLOS RIVAS,DRESSER, DESK, STEREOG14 CHRISTIAN SABON,YARD TOOLS, COUCH,HAND DOLLYJ15 ALICE COLLINS, TOOLBOX, ENTERTAINMENT CTR,BOXESJ58 JACKIE AUGUSTIN, ALLITEMS IN UNITL2 JIMMIE THOMAS, BAGS,CLOTHING, SLEEPING BAGL55 LINDA CHANDLER, TA-BLE, BOXES, BED11:00 a.m. Public Storage @4202 Santiago, Austin, TX78745134 MICHAELA VILLENUEVE,TOOL BOX, TRUNKS, TA-BLES378 KAREN DAVIS, BOXES,HAND DOLLY, CAR SEAT502 CHELSEA SUTTON,RUG, BOXES, BAGS611 GLORIA WOLDRIDGE,TV, BOXES, TOTES734 JULIE BRYANT, WASH-ER, DRYER, SOFA11:30 a.m. Public Storage @2301 E Ben White, Austin,TX 787411025 JANE TUCKER BRAD-LEY, BOXES, TOTES, EN-TERTAINMENT CTR3037 TERRY TAYLOR, DESK,CHAIR, BOXES3125 JEFF MATHIS, DESK,COMPUTER, BOXES12:00 p.m. Public Storage@ 5016 E Ben White, Austin,TX 78741C109 VIRGINIA MENDOZA,LADDER, BOXES, TABLEC110 GARRETT TIDMORE,BOXES, CHAIR, TOTESC171 DAHIANA ARIAS, TA-BLE, SPEAKERS, SOFAC295 PLAZA VENTURAAPARTMENTS, ALL ITEMSC314 MARK MORENO,CHAIR, TABLE, BOXESC319 ALBERT RIOS, CHAIR,TABLE, SPEAKERSE005 EVETT RUIZ, ALLITEMS IN UNIT12:30 p.m. Public Storage@ 2121 S IH 35, Austin, TX787410114 HORTENCIA CAS-TRORENA, TV, CHAIR, BOX-ES1100 JENNIFER ANDRADA,TABLE, BOXES, TOTES2054 DEBBIE FROST RYER-SON, BOXES, TOTES, GOLFCLUBS4080 TALIA BOCANEGRA,LADDER, WASHER, DRYER1:00 p.m. Public Storage @5220 US 290W, Austin, TX787351230 JOHN NAVE, COM-PUTERS2148 THE CHURCH AT THEWELL, SPEAKERS, CHAIRS,TABLES4202 BRUCE WILLIAMS,BOXES, LADDER, BAGS1:15 p.m. Public Storage @1213 W 6th Street, Austin,TX 787032094 CHRIS SAUNDERS,BOXES, TOTES, MONITOR5021 PATRICIA DANIEL,DRESSER, CHAIR, LOVESEAT2:00 p.m. Public Storage @3911 RR FM 620 S, BEECAVE, TX 787381100 JENETTE WILLIAMS,SOFA, CHAIR, TABLE2007 JENETTE WILLIAMS,LADDER, DESK, TRUNK2201 JENETTE WILLIAMS,BOXES, HAND DOLLYS,LOVE SEATNOTICE OF SALE OF REALPROPERTYTHE STATE OF TEXASCOUNTY OF TRAVISCause: C1CV06001276By virtue of a Writ of Executionissued by the clerk ofCounty Court 2 Court of TRA-VIS County, Texas, February11, 2009, in cause numberedC1CV06001276, styledPORTFOLIO RECOVERY AS-SOCIATES versus JOE YRAMIREZ on a judgment renderedagainst JOE Y RAMI-REZ; I did on February 17,2009, at 1:30 PM, levy uponas the property of JOE YRAMIREZ the following describedreal property:IN LOT TWO (2), BLOCKTWO (2), OLT 55 DIV O ELMGROVE ADDITION, AS AD-DITION OF TRAVIS COUNTY,TEXAS, ACCORDING TO THEMAP OR PLAT THEREOF RE-CORDED IN THE MAPRECORDS OF TRAVISCOUNTY, TEXAS. (THE“PROPERTY”) ALSO KNOWNAS 1003 HOLLY ST. AUSTIN,TX 78702-5219 of the map orplat records of Travis County,Texas.On May 05, 2009, being thefirst Tuesday of the month,between the hours of 10:00A.M. and 4:00 P.M., beginningat 10:00 A.M., at theTravis County Courthouse,1000 Guadalupe Street, Austin,Texas, I will sell for cashto the highest bidder, all theright, title and interest of JOEY RAMIREZ in and to the realproperty described above.Dated at Austin, TravisCounty, Texas, February 17,2009Bruce Elfant,Constable Precinct 5Travis County, Texas/s/ Joe Rosser, DeputyNotice to Bidders: You arebuying whatever interest, ifany, the Debtor has in theproperty. Purchase of theDebtor’s interest in the propertymay not extinguish anyliens or security interestsheld by other persons. Thereare no warranties, express orimplied, regarding the propertybeing sold, including butnot limited to warranties of title,merchantability or fitnessfor a particular purpose.Notice to Judgment Debtor: Ifthere is any property, real orpersonal, you want to pointout for levy in lieu of theabove described property,you must contact this officeimmediately.Bidders shall present anunexpired written statementissued to the person in themanner prescribed by Section34.015, Tax Code, showing thatthe Travis Country Assessor-Collector has determined thatthere are no delinquent advalorem taxes owed by the person.In addition, an individualmay not bid on or purchaseproperty in the name of anyother individual.NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF JAMESMONROE FALKNER, DE-CEASED Notice is herebygiven that Letters of DependentAdministration for the Estateof James Monroe Falkner, Deceased,were issued on March13, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-089974 pending in ProbateCourt No. One of TravisCounty, Texas, to TheodoreJ. Owens, Dependent Administrator.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theEstate addressed as follows:Theodore J. Owens,Dependent Administrator, Estateof James Monroe Falkner,Deceasedc/o Don E. Walden7200 North Mopac, Suite 300Austin, Texas 78731All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated this 23rd day ofMarch, 2009./s/ Don E. WaldenState Bar No. 206728007200 North Mopac, Suite 300Austin, Texas 78731(512) 349-9595(512) 795-8079Attorney for Dependent AdministratorNOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF RICHARDWILLIAM ROBY, DE-CEASED CAUSE NO. C-1-PB-09-000066NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTNotice is hereby given thaton March 13, 2009, LettersTestamentary were issued to:ROBERT RICHARD ROBY bythe Honorable Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,in Cause Number C-1-PB-09-000066 pending upon theProbate Docket of said Court.All persons having claimsagainst said estate are onnotice of this administrationand are hereby requested topresent the same within thetime prescribed by law to:THOMAS O. BARTONMCGINNIS, LOCHRIDGE &KILGORE, L.L.P.,600 Congress Avenue, Suite2100, Austin, Texas 78701.NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF MARIONDONALDSON FURR, DE-CEASED CAUSE NO. C-1-PB-09-090039NOTICE OF APPOINTMENTNotice is hereby given thaton March 19, 2009, LettersTestamentary were issued to:CAROL LEE (FURR) LEA bythe Honorable Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,in Cause Number C-1-PB-09-090039 pending upon theProbate Docket of said Court.All persons having claimsagainst said estate are onnotice of this administrationand are hereby requested topresent the same within thetime prescribed by law to:THOMAS O. BARTONMCGINNIS, LOCHRIDGE &KILGORE, L.L.P.,600 Congress Avenue, Suite2100, Austin, Texas 78701.NOTICE to All Persons HavingClaims Against the Estateof Gary Neill, DeceasedNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Gary Neill,Deceased, were issued onMarch 10, 2009, in CauseNo. C-1-PC-09-090052 in ProbateCourt Number One ofTravis County, Texas.The post office address formailing of claims is:Barbara E. Neill, Executorc/o Rash, Chapman, Schreiber& Porter, L.L.P.2112 Rio Grande StreetAustin, Texas 78705(512) 477-7543 (PHONE)(512) 474-0954 (FAX)All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated this 11th day of March,2009.By: /s/ Mark B. SchreiberAttorney for the EstateNOTICE to All Persons HavingClaims Against the Estateof Stephanie S. Waters,Deceased Notice is herebygiven that original LettersTestamentary for the Estateof Stephanie S. Waters, Deceased,were issued onMarch 17, 2009, in CauseNo. 08-0580-CP4 in theCounty Court of WilliamsonCounty - In Matters Probateof Williamson County, Texas.The post office address formailing of claims is:Christopher C. Waters, Executorc/o Rash, Chapman, Schreiber& Porter, L.L.P.2112 Rio Grande StreetAustin, Texas 78705(512) 477-7543 (PHONE)(512) 474-0954 (FAX)All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated this 17th day of March,2009.By: /s/ Mark B. SchreiberAttorney for the EstateNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Edith Case,Deceased, were issued onMarch 3, 2009, in Cause No.C-1-PB-09-090016, pendingin the Probate Court No. 1,TRAVIS County, Texas, to:Carole A. Case.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.Jeffrey J. BarnettBarnett & Associates, P.C.13740 Research Boulevard,Suite N5Austin, Texas 78750DATED the 20th day ofMarch, 2009./s/ Jeffrey J. Barnett(SBN: 00792346)13740 Research Boulevard,Suite N5Austin, Texas 78750Telephone: (512) 336-1529Facsimile: (512) 336-1550Attorney for the EstateNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters of IndependentAdministration for the Estate ofJAMES EDWARD WEHMAN,Deceased, were issued onMarch 3, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-089979, pending in theProbate Court No. One, TravisCounty, Texas, to: GuyBob Wehman.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.c/o: Karl A. ShackelfordAttorney at Law1608 West 34th StreetAustin, Texas 78703DATED the 18th day ofMarch, 2009./s/ Karl A. Shackelford, Attorneyfor Guy Bob WehmanState Bar No.: 007958381608 West 34th StreetAustin, Texas 78703Telephone: (512) 472-1678Facsimile: (512) 236-9227NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Conrad FrancisSansoucy, Deceased, wereissued on March 19, 2009, inCause No. C-1-PB-09-000036,pending in theProbate Court No. 1, TRAVISCounty, Texas, to: Mark AndrewSansoucy.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.Jeffrey J. BarnettBarnett & Associates, P.C.13740 Research Boulevard,Suite N5Austin, Texas 78750DATED the 20th day ofMarch, 2009.122 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E MARCH 27, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

s/ Jeffrey J. Barnett(SBN: 00792346)13740 Research Boulevard,Suite N5Austin, Texas 78750Telephone: (512) 336-1529Facsimile: (512) 336-1550Attorney for the EstateNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Z.D. Bonner,Deceased, were issued onFebruary 3, 2009, in CauseNo. 89850, pending in ProbateCourt No. 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to David C.Bonner, 4023 Swarthmore,Houston, Harris County, Texas77005, and to Julie AnnBonner, 8402 Andrews, AUstin,Travis County, Texas78759.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.All claims should be addressedin care of the IndependentCo-Executors’ attorney,Steven J. Tackett, atSchurig Jetel Beckett & Tackett,100 Congress Ave., 22ndFloor, Austin, Texas 78701.DATED this the 17th day ofMarch, 2009.SCHURIG JETEL BECKETT &TACKETTBy: /s/ Steven J. TackettATTORNEYS FOR DAVID C.BONNER AND JULIE ANNBONNER, INDEPENDENTCO-EXECUTORS OF THE ES-TATE OF Z.D. BONNER, DE-CEASEDNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of JAMES HEN-RY CLUISS, SR., Deceased,were issued on March 19,2008, in Cause No. 08-0137-CP4, pending in the CountyCourt at Law No. 4, WilliamsonCounty, Texas, to:BRANDY NORRIS.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.c/o: Bradley B. ClarkGRAY & BECKER, P.C.Attorney at Law900 West AvenueAustin, Texas 78701DATED the 18th day ofMarch, 2009./s/ Bradley B. ClarkAttorney for BRANDY NOR-RISState Bar No.: 24040697900 West AvenueAustin, Texas 78701Telephone: (512) 482-0061Facsimile: (512) 482-0924NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatLetters Testamentary for theEstate of Amy M. Young, Deceased,were issued on the24th day of February, 2009,under Docket No. C-1-PB-08-089833, pending in the ProbateCourt No. 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to Donald R.Young.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theestate addressed as follows:Donald R. Young, Administrator,Estate of Amy M.Young, Deceasedc/o Mr. Christopher B. KellerAttorney at Law8235 Shoal Creek Blvd.Austin, Texas 78757All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.DATED the 27th day ofMarch, 2009.By: /s/ Christopher B. KellerAttorney for Donald R. YoungNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Thomas L.White (a/k/a Thomas L.White, III, a/k/a “Trey” White),Deceased, were issued onTuesday, March 10, 2009, inCause No. C-1-PB-09-089988, pending in the ProbateCourt Number 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to SusanCanavespe.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theestate, addressed as follows:Susan Canavespe, representative,Estate of ThomasL. White, Deceasedc/o Law Offices of BrookeHardie816 W 10th St.Austin, Texas 78701DATED the 17th day ofMarch, 2008.NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of DwightEmerson Urelius, Deceased,were issued on the 17th dayof March, 2009, pending inthe County Court at LawNumber One of TravisCounty, Texas, Cause No. C-1-PB-09-000098, to RamonaUrelius. Claims may be presentedin care of the attorneysfor the estate, addressedto Gibson, Hotchkiss,Roach & Davenport,4214 Medical Parkway, Suite202, Austin, Texas 78756. Allpersons having claimsagainst this estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated the 17th day of March,2009.NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of TERRYGENE HANCE, Deceased,were issued on March 5,2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-090026, pending in theProbate Court No. One, TravisCounty, Texas, to: MarkD. Holom.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.c/o: Karl A. ShackelfordAttorney at Law1608 West 34th StreetAustin, Texas 78703DATED the 17th day ofMarch, 2009./s/ Karl A. ShackelfordAttorney for Mark D. HolomState Bar No.: 007958381608 West 34th StreetAustin, Texas 78703Telephone: (512) 472-1678Facsimile: (512) 236-9227NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Dorothy G.von Merveldt, Deceased,were issued on February 24,2009, in Cause No. 89977,pending in the Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,to Joseph Philip von Merveldt.All persons havingclaims against this Estatewhich is currently being administeredare required topresent them within the timeand in the manner prescribedby law. All claims should beaddressed to Joseph Philipvon Merveldt, IndependentExecutor, in care of REGANLAW FIRM, Roderick J. Regan,at 11120 Wurzbach,#204, San Antonio, TX 78230.DATED this the 17th day ofMarch, 2009. REGAN LAWFIRM, by Roderick J. ReganATTORNEY FOR JOSEPHPHILIP VON MERVELDT, IN-DEPENDENT EXECUTOR OFTHE ESTATE OF DOROTHYG. VON MERVELDT, DE-CEASEDOFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICETO BIDDERSTRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNotice is hereby given thatsealed bids will be acceptedby Travis County for the followingitems:1.Plumbing Services,B090176-NB=Opens: April 6, 2009 @ 2:00p.m.2.Armored Car Service,B090187-RG=Opens: April 13, 2009 @ 2:00p.m.AN OPTIONAL PRE-BIDCONFERENCE WILL BEHELD ON APRIL 7, 2009 @2:00 P.M.3.Sheriff’s Uniforms,B090197-LDOpens: April 13, 2009 @ 2:00p.m.AN OPTIONAL PRE-BIDCONFERENCE WILL BEHELD ON APRIL 2, 2009 @10:00 A.M.Bids should be submitted to:Cyd Grimes, Travis CountyPurchasing Agent, NedGranger Building, 314 West11th, Room 400, P.O. Box1748, Austin, Texas 78767.Specifications can be obtainedfrom or viewed at theTravis County Purchasing Officeat no charge or by downloadinga copy from our website:www.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp.Biddersshould use unit pricingor lump sum pricing, if appropriate.Payments may bemade by check. The successfulbidder shall be requiredto furnish a PerformanceBond in the amount ofOne Hundred percent (100%)of the contract amountawarded, if applicable.PUBLISHED NOTICE TOCREDITORS Notice is herebygiven that Letters of Guardianshipfor the Person andEstate of VICTOR SELVERASOLIZ, An Incapacitated Person,were issued on December23, 2008 in the ProbateCourt Number One of TravisCounty, Texas to FAMILY EL-DERCARE, INC. as Guardianof the Person and Estate.The office of Guardian is inTravis County, Texas, andthe mailing address is: FamilyEldercare, Inc., Guardianof Victor Selvera Soliz, 5205Airport Blvd. Suite 200, Austin,Texas 78751..All persons having claimsagainst this estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.SIGNED on the 19th day ofMarch, 2009.Christine P. 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For best results, blame no onefor any sadness you may feel, and take full responsibility for creating your own happiness.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Please do not snort meth in a hot-air balloon with fake Peruvian shamansas you fly to a secret CIA fortress where you put on a mask and play strip poker with high-rankingmembers of the conspiracy to create one world government. April Fools’! There’s no way you’ll beinvited to a whacked-out spectacle such as that. Your wildness does in fact need expression, but it willbe perfectly satisfied with less whacked-out adventures that are healthy for you and leave no messesin their wake. Monitor yourself for any urges you may feel to seek out over-the-top melodramas.CANCER (June 21-July 22): So many miraculous images of Jesus have been appearing inCheetos lately that a new cult of “Cheesus” worshipers has sprung up. I suggest you consider thepossibility of joining them. 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I suggest you proceed according to the hypothesis that radiatingyour highest integrity is the finest form of self-promotion.LETS MAKEOUT AGAINyou passing out wristbands inshorts, hoodie and tattoos. me inblack tank, white skirt and tattoos.you put naughty thoughts in myhead. must see you again When:Friday, March 20. Where: freshfriday house party e. 12th st.. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903975JIFFYLUBE SOUTH LAMARWe had small talk today while waitingon our cars. We were at the Jiffy Lubeon south Lamar, you have lived here fornine years, I have five. When: Monday,March 23. Where: Jiffy Lube. You:Woman. Me: Man. #903974MAGNOLIA COOKTo the Lake Austin Magnolia cutiewith the spiked-up baseball cap.Who I am is irrelevant- just want tolet you know you’re pretty damnfoxy! When: Friday, March 20.Where: Magnolia Lake Austin. You:Man. 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You asked me“How’s your day”; I’m kicking myselffor giving a lame reply. Your sweetsmile and warm eyes made my day:)When: Friday, March 20. Where:Central Market @ Westgate. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903960CAVERN SAMANTHASamantha, we spoke briefly at InnerSpace Caverns gift shop. You w/ achild (hence more?) and I have a gf.Found you so gorgeous. Meet for anothercave tour? When: Friday, March20. Where: Inner Space Caverns.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903959S. LAMAR TCLOUDsparkly eyes, sexy tall, wacky furrybeard,you make the best sandwichesever, my heart beats fast everytime inthere wish I never had to say goodbyeyou make my day When: Monday,March 16. Where: TCloud S. Lamar.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903958BLOWING KISSES?You pointed and blew kisses acrossthe bar... were they for me (in greenwith a ponytail) or the blonde girl infront of me? When: Sunday, March15. Where: Hotrod Hoedown atGinny’s Little Longhorn. You: Man.Me: Woman. #903957POSSESSED BY PAULJAMESYou were wearing a black/green plaidshirt and white shoes. I had a mohawkand plugs. was standing nearstage. Up for coffee or somethingless cliche? When: Tuesday, March17. Where: Emo’s. You: Man. Me:Man. #903956DAHLIA SERVERI was in and out. Caught you bothtimes at the door but didnt take thechance to get your number. Tryingnow. You: grey vneck. Me: thecolored hair. When: Monday, March16. Where: Blue Dahlia Bistro. You:Man. Me: Man. #903955ELYSIUM RETRO NIGHTYou were the tall, blond haired,handsome guy wearing a black LarkTattoo hoodie. I was too shy to sayanything. Smiled a few times though.Wish I said hello. When: Sunday,March 15. Where: Elysium. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903954BRAVE NEW BOOKSYou wore a black coat. With niceblack heels. Loved everything aboutyou. “Whats really going on”” andall! Would love to see you again andmaybe take it further! When: Sunday,March 15. Where: Brave New Books.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903953BRUNETTE, RUSTY SPUR.You - cell camera in my face. Issues??You are way hotter than yourfriend. Reminded you of your father?I can work with that. Invite yourfriend. When: Saturday, March 14.Where: Rusty Spur. You: Woman.Me: Man. #903952MY JIMMY PUNKYou: brought me a sandwich onyour sleek aerobars. Me: lost in yourbrown eyes on a gloomy day. Areyou that adorable kid on that tallbike? Bike ride? When: Saturday,March 14. Where: West Campus.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903951PAUL BUNYANP PECHEYou changed my drink order now i amready to change your live. See younext Saturday, will have a dog bonebollo. We can sip cocktails all nightWhen: Tuesday, March 3. Where:Peche. You: Man. Me: Man. #903950AUDRA L.I’ve been trying forever to get intouch with you! Wasn’t sure if youwere still in Austin but if you are lookme up! -Dan A. When: Wednesday,March 11. Where: South Austin.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903941ALSO ONLINE: Shot in the Dark!FREE!VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This is an ideal time to have sessions with a sex therapist so asto get to the root of any inhibitions that might be preventing you from claiming your full measureof orgasmic enlightenment. April Fools’! While this is a fantastic time to deepen your access tothe spiritual gifts of erotic bliss, you won’t need a therapist to accomplish it. Here’s all you reallyrequire: 1) a fantasy of making love with an inscrutable deity who has four arms, the better tohug you with; 2) a pretend aphrodisiac made from the peaches of immortality that you’ll stealfrom the tree of life in your dream tonight; 3) an invisible sex toy that you create in your mind’seye while you’re meditating about the most sublime situation you’ve ever been in.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Maybe someday you will allow yourself to act more like an Aries. Youknow, you’ll barge ahead along a path of your own making. You’ll follow the siren call of your goodinstincts instead of the waffling questions of your fine mind. You’ll relish the scary sounds fromup ahead as potential opportunities to triumph over your fear and hone your willpower. Don’t doany of that stuff yet, though. You’re not ready for the challenge. Maybe in a few years. April Fools’!Here’s the truth, Libra: Now is an excellent time to act more like an Aries.SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime in the next week, the spirits of Nostradamus, EdgarCayce, John the Baptist, and Jean-Paul Sartre will come to you in a vision to tell you how toprosper during the coming Great Depression. With their expert tips you will spend the years2010-2013 safe and sound and well fed in a gated community while millions of your fellowhumans are rioting in the streets over scraps of food. April Fools’! Everything I just said is a lie.The more modest truth is that you now have access to great insight about how to increase yourlong-term stability and security. Take advantage!SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In a letter to Santa Claus last December, a child fromSeattle wrote: “Dear Santa, Can you give me a very special superpower? What I want is to beable to make up songs everywhere I go and not have to work so hard to think of things to say topeople, because a fresh, beautiful song will magically pour out of my mouth for all occasions.”I’m happy to announce that if this child is a Sagittarius, his or her wish could soon come true.April Fools’! What I just said is not a literal reality. But it may have metaphorical value. The truthis, many of you Sagittarians will be very fluid and imaginative in the coming weeks. You may beable to create pretty much anything you put your mind to.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m definitely not encouraging you to go to YouTube and watchthe music video of the hamster eating popcorn on a piano. You’ve got more important things todo and shouldn’t waste your time on trivial diversions. So get down to business! Commit yourwhole being to the crucial work you have ahead of you! Don’t waver from your laser-focusedintention! April Fools’! The truth is that if you want to succeed in the coming days, you will haveto stay loose, indulge in at least a few blithe diversions, and not be a stern taskmaster demandingperfection. So go watch the hamster. It’s at www.tinyurl.com/agywon.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Nothing but great news for you as far as the eye can see, Aquarius.You’re much more likely than usual to win a contest and be told you’re hot and find loose money onthe sidewalk. I bet you’ll also get an invitation that you never imagined possible and an offer to have aconversation with a person you admire. Nor would I be surprised if you finally garner a certain form ofrecognition you’ve been pining for, get a message that will change your life in a sweet way, and discovera brand-new trick for experiencing pleasure. April Fools’! I was exaggerating. Maybe one or two ofthose wonderful things will happen (at most, three), but not all of them. Don’t be greedy.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I predict that sometime soon you will time-travel to 2012 andthen return to the present. While on your journey, you’ll learn the outcome of three major sportsevents that will happen between now and then. This knowledge will eventually help you win largebets that earn you millions of dollars. April Fools’! I lied. You won’t literally engage in time travel,and you won’t get access to valuable sports scores. I bet you will, however, take a semimagicalexcursion into the future via a vivid dream or meditative vision, where you’ll get a clear idea ofwhat would ultimately work and not work for your current experiments in happiness.Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’sEXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877/873-4888 or 900/950-7700.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m MARCH 27, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 127

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