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contents4 POSTMARKS A call to fireMarc Savlov, a criticismof Josh Rosenblatt’s ignoranceregarding science,and more24 THOSE WHO ARE ABOUTTO DIE Your Texas deathmachine gets rolling againBY JORDAN SMITHnews13 Hays County Turns Blue –and Green; Trying to Seethe (Enchanted) Forestfor the Trees; Noriega onEnergy; and MorePOINT AUSTIN Impeachingthe EmpireBY MICHAEL KINGRead the resolution forimpeachment submitted byRep. Dennis Kucinichaustinchronicle.com/webextra14 CITY HALL HUSTLE BudgetTime: Who You Gonna Cut?BY WELLS DUNBAR16 DEVELOPING STORIES Who’llTake a Streetcar? 32,000Riders a Day.More on the possibility ofa streetcar electionaustinchronicle.com/webextra23 THE HIGHTOWER REPORTDHS Border Fence WillSplit Campus; and Dodginga Tax by Dissing Pringlescalendar58 COMMUNITYIt’s appropriate, we think, that Friday’sWorld Breastfeeding Week celebrationis followed by Saturday’s Austin KidsDay. Also, Sunday’s Lammas Ritual atthe Vortex and a big ol’ yard sale atMonkeyWrench Books.60 DAY TRIPS Central Texas rodeo featuressome of the finest live-action entertainmentin the Lone Star State63 SPORTSPLAYING THROUGH King of Kombat fightersknow the therapeutic benefits oftaking and receiving a spinning back fistSOCCER WATCH Aztex inaugural campaignconcludes, and more64 ARTSTheatre: The Clean House, Passionat PlayDance: Skate! A Night at the RinkTHIS WEEK @Texas Death Row:Executions Begin Again, anaudio essay by Jordan Smithand Jana Birchumaustinchronicle.com/webextra30 LETTERS @3AM Issues ’08:‘The Situation’BY MICHAEL VENTURAbooks31 REVIEWS Boring BoringBoring Boring BoringBoring Boring by ZachPlague; and The TruthAbout Sascha Knisch byAris Fioretosarts33 Remembering Don Howell;Big Fun With ‘Tiny Acts’;and the Enchanted Forestand USAA Closings34 STRIKING SPARKS Strangersteam up to create a playand a video game in 10weeksBY HANNAH KENAH36 AFTER A FASHION Stephenwas never one for backpedalingBY STEPHEN MACMILLANMOSERfood39 Shirataki Noodles; Williams-Sonoma Wine & Food: ANew Look at Flavor byJoshua Wesson; EventMenu: Aug. 2-7; and Foodo-File40 AN AVOCADO STORY Fromthe Aztecs to the AustinAztex, everyone’s eatingavocadosBY MM PACKMore avocado funaustinchronicle.com/webextra44 RESTAURANT ROULETTE A spinaround our Restaurant Guidescreens46 TV EYE Truth in AdvertisingBY BELINDA ACOSTA47 On Location: Dance Withthe One; Comic-Con 2008;and Film News48 DON’T FEAR THE DEVILSome glorious bastards,new to DVD70 FILMSwing Vote, The Mummy: Tomb of theDragon Emperor, Brideshead Revisited,Tell No One, Elsa & Fred, Ripple Effect,The X-Files: I Want to Believe72 SHOWTIMES78 SPECIAL SCREENINGS The HudsuckerProxy, Paths of Glory, The DiscreetCharm of the Bourgeoisie, ThatObscure Object of Desire, No Man’sLand, Jump!, Okie Noodling II, Kicking It80 MUSICRECOMMENDED Bill Frisell adores theContinental Club, plus Sonny Landreth,Blue Mountain, Emmylou Harris, FreedyJohnston, Forever Changes, Lair of theMinotaur, Secret Machines, etc.82 VENUES86 ROADSHOWS AND CLUB LISTINGSCOVER PHOTO BY BEN FINK, courtesyof InterCourses: An AphrodisiacCookbook (www.intercourses.com), whichincludes 20 more images of food set onthe backdrop of the human body and145 couple-tested aphrodisial recipes.austinchronicle.comaustinchronicle.com/chronicNewsDesk debunks MCCAUL’S MADRASSA > Picture in Picture on what blew SIMON PEGG’S NUTS off > Earache!hears out CHARLES WRIGHT & THE WATTS 103rd Street Rhythm Band > Gay Place only has ears for MAMMA MIA!VOL. 27, NO. 48 AUGUST 1, 2008music51 OFF THE RECORD FullService, the Strange Boys,James McMurtry, and moreBY AUSTIN POWELL52 DENNIS WILSON PacificOcean Blue rolls back inBY BILL BENTLEY53 MORE REISSUES KarenDalton, Elton John,Blondie, etc.BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ54 TEXAS PLATTERS Harlem’sFree Drugs, ‘Girlie Action,’Mammoth Grinder, the DirtyHearts, and much more57 NEWS OF THE WEIRDInadequate fruit, deadlyjoyrides, and moreback103 COMICS Coffee Man, Troubletown,Bitter Yeti, and moreMR. SMARTY PANTS A toilet-seat artmuseum, aliens exist, and more104 CLASSIFIEDS113 THE COMMON LAW What’s the DealWith My Security Deposit?114 CAR TALK Wife Need Not WorryAbout Gas-Tank Location117 EASY STREET,PERSONALSTHE LUV DOC A rambling recommendationto shore up your socialcalendar119 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Now is thetime for you to be bold and forthright,maybe with some cashmereleopard-print pants, LeoSENIOR EDITORSMANAGING EDITOR Cindy Widner FILM Marjorie BaumgartenARTS Robert FairesMUSIC Raoul HernandezNEWS Michael KingNEWS MANAGING EDITOR Amy SmithFOOD Virginia B. WoodSCREENS, BOOKS Kimberley JonesSPECIAL ISSUES, GUIDES, INTERNS Kate MesserASSOCIATE EDITORSNEWS Nora AnkrumCALENDARARTS LISTINGS Wayne Alan BrennerMUSIC Audra SchroederThe Austin Chronicle offers nonpaying internships.Contact Kate Messer at the intern hotline, 454-5765 x303.The Austin Chronicle (ISSN: 1074-0740) is published byThe Austin Chronicle Corporation weekly 52 times per year at4000 N. I-35, Austin, TX 78751. 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PostmarksLETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed with full name and include daytime phone number, fulladdress, or e-mail address. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. We reserve the right to editall submissions. Letters may not be edited, added to, or changed by sender once we receive them.General e-mail address: mail@austinchronicle.com Postmarks forum: austinchronicle.com/forums/postmarksMailing address: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765“PAGE TWO”WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK.SHARED LANES VS. RESERVED LANESDear Editor,Re: “Students Weigh In on Streetcar” [News,July 25]: It would be really swell if every timethis issue came up, people writing articleswould be really clear about what’s being proposedby various folks, especially on the issueof dedicated running-way (shared lane vs.reserved lane).For instance, a streetcar on Speedway soundsa lot better to me, too, and Guadalupe soundsbetter still, since Guadalupe is where all the currentand most of the future residential densityand other activity is. But are Sinclair Black andGlenn Gadbois and whoever else suggestingreserved lanes on their routes (as in 2000’slight-rail plan on Guadalupe) or that it wouldbe sharing a lane with buses/cars (as in CapMetro’s original, execrable, Future Connectionsproposal on San Jacinto)? This makes a hugedifference – a streetcar without its own lane isactually even worse than a bus in speed andreliability – and is thus a complete waste of timeand money.While we probably can’t now justify takinga lane on Guadalupe without the suburbanridership the 2000 route would have broughtin, at least the Brewster McCracken/Will WynnTransit Working Group proposal (streetcar runningin dedicated lanes, albeit on San Jacinto)is capable of being expanded that directionlater on, while commuter rail is a completedead end.Regards,Mike Dahmus[Katherine Gregor responds: The rail transitproject analysis presented by consultant ROMAAustin at City Council on July 24 recommendedthat streetcars run in dedicated lanes, that is,without vehicles in the same lanes. Streetcarswould operate in shared lanes only where necessary,due to narrow right-of-way – primarily alongManor Road and in small portions of Mueller.ROMA recommended crossing the UT campus oneither Speedway or San Jacinto; moving the lineto Guadalupe was not addressed, as exploringthat alternative was not included in the directivesfrom council.]BIGGEST PROBLEM IS COST OF LIVINGDear Editor,Re: The letters in response to “Can theBands Play On?” [News, July 18]: So many letters,so little sense. First, Mr. Tom Bowman’s[“Postmarks” July 25]: One of the top bandleaders,songwriters, and leaders in her chosengenre was the most incompetent (technically)guitarist I had ever played with at onetime. Through hard work, creativity, vision, andpersistence, she is (by the Chronicle’s owndesignation) at the top of her game today. Somuch for Red River folks not knowing enoughchords. To Mr. Hank Startrain [“Postmarks,”July 25]: The way the game works now, by thetime an artist has enough income stream tojustify giving anyone one-quarter of it, theyprobably have a pretty good idea how to managethemselves and just need a booking agentso they have time to write some new songs orfulfill all the jobs they have already booked. Itis not the Forties, Fifties, or Sixties anymore.To Mr. Ravner Salinas [“Postmarks,” July 25]:Austin, like every good alternative culture town,became a hip music town when it was cheap.People could pay rent without having to spendall their time working to pay rent. Austin is notvery affordable even if you look. Maybe aftera few developers lose their shirts catering toyuppies, but it is a big problem. I have beenworking steady in Austin as a musician inseveral genres; when I moved here during theSlackertown version of groover’s paradise, myrent for my room in West Campus was $100. Icould tour and not work all the time. So I knowof what I speak.Tom CuddyNO MENTION OF ARMADILLOCON?Dear Editor,Re: The Science Fiction Issue [July 25]: Notone interview with a local sci-fi writer or one mentionof Austin’s 30-years-running sci-fi convention,ArmadilloCon? Try Googling “science fictionAustin, Texas” and tell me what you get. Greatreporting, as usual.Lillian ButlerWEST OF MOPAC (NOT EAST)Dear Editor,Just in case someone actually tries to locateBright Leaf Preserve [“Day Trips,” July 25] on amap, it is west of MoPac (not east) and south ofFM 2222 at Mesa.Philip RussellTHOMAS M. DISCH, R.I.P.Dear Louis,I enjoyed your “Page Two” [July 25] memoriesof Otto Binder; we all need a mentor at acrucial point in life who can show us how toford the streams. And thank you for dedicatingthe issue to Howard Waldrop, a truly wildtalent. Something else that needs mentioningis that Thomas M. Disch, author of such classicsas Camp Concentration: A Novel, 334: ANovel, and On Wings of Song, took his ownlife on July 4. There are several articles worthreading, but Elizabeth Hand’s obituary in Salon(www.salon.com/books/feature/2008/07/11/disch/index.html) is perhaps the best.Regards,Richard DorsettTIME TO LET SAVLOV GO?Dear Editor,I respectfully must say that it might be timeto let Marc Savlov go. If you read the commentson his review of the Batman movie [FilmListings, July 18], I think you will agree thathis reviews in general are not providing anyvalue to your readership. I personally use yourreviews if they are written by anyone other thanSavlov; for the movies he reviews, I go to othersources for reviews. His writing is complex,confusing, and is of a literary style that istotally out of place for something as simple asa movie review.I would urge you to read the commentson the Batman film and give my suggestionsome thought.Sincerely,Dan McAllisterVACANT OF ANY REAL OOMPHDear Editor,This is a response to Marc Savlov’s piece: “TheFuture’s So Dark I Gotta Wear Mirror-Shades”[Books] in the July 25 edition of the Chronicle.As usual, Marc Savlov imbues his review withflaring acrobatic literactrics, like a racehorse sojacked up that it can’t even see where it’s going.Mr. Savlov’s idea of a review seems to consistof nothing but the effort to eclipse whomeverhe might be talking about with his own ranting,reference-loaded, jargon-overdosed, slash-andburnstyle of prose. Just once, could I read areview from Mr. Savlov with an ounce of objectivity?Sure, some movies are bad, and maybecyberpunk isn’t what it was, but that opinionbecomes disgusting through Mr. Savlov’s work,like throwing ice-cream sprinkles onto an undercookedpiece of steak and calling it “done.”In “Mirror-Shades,” Savlov claims that cyberpunkis dead; cyberpunk is already obsolete.The irony of this point, and the creativity in it, heproceeds to completely shovel under a 100-gallondrum of fireworks, set to go off, but strangelyvacant of any real oomph. You keep expectingto hear something serious, but it simply doesn’tcome. Mr. Savlov entirely misses the point about agenre which couldn’t give the slightest damn aboutwhat it, itself, is, or how it ought to be defined.Cyberpunk authors don’t sit in a room chortlingand debating about the “futuristicness” of theirwork. They simply create, like any other artists.Categorizing their genre or projecting your ownpredictions on it is as fallacious as it is childish.Savlov says, “Noooo, the future is already here!”Well, what then? In fact, the future is everyone’s todescribe, but Savlov really doesn’t describe muchfor all of his blistering, festering prose.Good critics provide insight. They don’t justload guns and pull triggers. Savlov needs tofind a way to inject some actual analysis into astyle which has absolutely nothing to say. Savlov,the acrobatic critic, dancing enticingly on a wireabove the art below, spewing diarrhea out of hisass which is so opaque and empty, nobody caneven see it. But everyone smells it.Mordechai RorvigCONTINUED ON P.6$0 DOWNPAYMENTLEASES †Roger Beasley SUBARU OF GEORGETOWN7501 S IH-35 - EXIT 257WESTINGHOUSE RD(512) 930-2111EXIT 257ROUND ROCKPREMIUMService Dept open Sat 9AM-4PMN 1431OUTLET MALLwww.subarugeorgetown.com2008 Impreza 2.5iSedan$229PER MONTH/24 MO. LEASE 1Model 8JA. 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POSTMARKS CONTINUED FROM P.4 SAVLOV’S CRITICISM MULTIFACETEDReader COMMENTSof the Weekaustinchronicle.com/commentsRe: The safety of attending concertson Red River/Sixth Street:“Part of the real problem I and many otherswho have been seeing shows in Austin since 1995have, is the kinda people and problems in theDowntown area. Take any given night coming out ofEmo’s … the last three shows I went to, there was ashooting, a fight, and two arrests. Sixth Street looksworse than Bourbon Street now and cops have doubled,maybe even tripled, since I moved here. Theentire aesthetic on Sixth and Red River has totallychanged. This may not be the politically correctanswer, but it’s definitely one to consider. I and mywife are constantly harassed Downtown, and othersI talk to who would go out to shows say they havestopped going because it’s just a nightmareDowntown. I have been in four bands and run alocal record label, so I am one to see shows five-tosixtimes a month at least. I probrably go one time amonth now … and I pray it’s at the Continental orthe Hole in the Wall so me and mine don’t have todeal with the nightmare that is Downtown.” – Guest“Can the Bands Play On?” News, July 18Oops! Due to an editing error, the “Campaign$$” chart accompanying last week’s article“The November Election” indicatedthat congressional candidate Larry JoeDoherty loaned himself $100,000 in the April-June quarter. In fact, Doherty loaned himself that money lastDear Editor,As a founding member of Sequential Tart, a web-comic writer,a manga adaptor/editor, and a comic-book writer, I want to thankMarc Savlov for his insightful, evenhanded reviews of comic-bookrelatedand geek-culture-related films. Some geek-culture fans havea rather immature sense of “fannish entitlement” when it comes to“their” geek-culture films. If a critic doesn’t like a geek-culture film,he/she must be automatically prejudiced against geek culture orhe/she just “doesn’t get it” or is just unwilling to “commit” to it,whatever the real case may be. They also mistakenly believe that ifa geek-culture film throws enough budget at CGI and art direction,other factors, by which all other films have always been reviewed,somehow shouldn’t apply to “their” films. To them, a “fair” critic issupposed to disregard script quality, the level of acting and direction,as well as pacing, if their pet film has enough eye candy orpumps up their adrenal responses adequately or is based on somecomic they’ve been reading since they were 9 years old or adaptedfrom some cartoon they dearly loved as a child.I’m not one of those people – I love good filmmaking as muchas I love geek culture. I believe the two can, and should, gotogether. Any geek-culture movie that can’t manage that deservesa bad review. It’s that simple. A critic’s job is to judge a moviebased on all standard, applicable criteria, in a way that informsall potential viewers of its worth. The critic stands in as a kind ofproduct tester for the audience in its entirety, not just those wholike geek films. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. Few doit as well as Marc Savlov. Keep up the good work.Barbara Lien-Cooperyear, and the loan should have been noted in the “Cash onHand” column instead.In “Point Austin,” a quotation from Jeremy Scahill shouldhave read, “I’m not asking you to divorce Obama, just tocheat on him with a little bit of conscience.” A tip of the blogto Rachel Farris of Mean Rachel.POOR GRASP UNDERMINES CREDIBILITYDear Editor,I had problems with Josh Rosenblatt’s overblown sensationalismin his article “One Quadrillion … and Then Some” [News, July25]. I had more issues when he started to explain the science.The article did try to explain that power is energy per time,but the author did not show that he understood it. He refers to“more energy than courses through the … United States,” whereinstead a meaningful statement might say, “more power.” He continuesthe confusion by writing “a petawatt of energy.” A “watt”is power. A “joule” is energy. The statement “biggest explosionof … energy the universe had seen since its birth” is quite likelyfalse, but while you continue to use improper units, it’s impossibleto refute.If you need a science editor, I’m available. When you garblethe science so badly, it makes it easier for the pseudo-scienceto gain credibility.Just one page earlier, in that same issue, Andrea Grimestalked about Don McLeroy, State Board of Education chair, in anarticle titled “Texas Fiction Science” [News]. She made a convincingargument that our highest official of education in Texaswas ignoring science.One page later, the Chronicle ignored science. This hurts yourcredibility amongst those of us who know better. If all you wantto do is convince those people who “want to believe,” you maycontinue your propaganda as is. Many of us know better.I wish you would improve your science credibility. Then thosetechnical professionals, who make up a good portion of Austin,might take you more seriously.Paul SchnizleinVENTURA WRONG ON OIL PRICESDear Editor,Re: $4 a Gallon Redux [“Letters @ 3am”]: In the name of pattinghimself on the back, Michael Ventura conflates the credit crunchCONTINUED ON P.8Apply Now.Classes Start August 25.July 21–August 20:Open registration for new, current, and former ACC studentsSee course schedule for details:www.austincc.edu or (512) 223.4222CLEARANCESALE20-70% OFFEVERYTHINGhip + lofty east side 1BR pads3 minutes to UT and downtownattached garagesat the coming soon (2008)MLK commuter rail stopjust a few flats remain -check out our model todayfrom the $140s323-5495asianlivingimports.com2135 W. Anderson Ln. 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POSTMARKSCONTINUED FROM P.6and rising oil prices. Either that or he is wallowing contentedly in ahell-in-a-handbasket scenario he thinks he foresaw. Kinda weird.The credit crunch is a result of the housing crisis. Oddly, Mr.Ventura seems to be implying the housing situation is a result ofgas prices and not subprime predatory-lending practices. Odd.To debunk the role of speculation in rising oil prices, Venturacites a report headed by the current U.S. Commodity FuturesTrading Commission chairman, a member of the pro-deregulationBush administration. In response, I can cite the man who wrotethe CFTC deregulation policy, the former CFTC chairman who doesblame deregulation and speculation. Ventura also cites T. BoonePickens, who is pushing two alternate industries in which he isheavily invested, wind and natural gas. And in citing a GoldmanSachs analyst, Mr. Ventura might want to ask why someone in thefinancial industry (a speculator) is in a better position to predictthe price of oil than analysts in the energy industry. Lastly, Mr.Ventura might want to investigate why oil dropped $20 a barrel inone week, coincident with U.S. calls for increased drilling and legislationagainst speculation, if prices are predominantly a functionof global supply/demand.Noel GonzalesIDIOTS CLAIMING TO BE AUTHORITIESDear Editor,The letter “Musicians Need To Be More Informed” [“Postmarks,”July 25] by Hank Startrain (who claims to be a “savvy, professionalcareer [manager]”) repeatedly accuses studio owners of rippingoff musicians by taking their publishing rights. Let me clarify somebasics here: Recording studios are “for hire” facilities that recordmusic … they do not take musicians’ publishing or royalties. If stu-POSTMARKS ONLINEUPDATED DAILYaustinchronicle.com/postmarksdio owners invest in a project, then they might get a percentage,but this is a rare event in professional studios … most of us arejust trying to pay the bills. Perhaps you are confusing studio ownerswith record companies. Sadly, many record companies do havea long, sordid history of “stealing” artists’ publishing and lyingabout sales and royalties. That is but one of the reasons majorlabels are failing.Mr. Startrain, your clueless complaint shows a level of ignoranceand stupidity that should make any artist think twice beforetaking advice from you, much less signing a management contract.I can only imagine your instructors’ disappointment at hearing aformer student crow about his superior education while at thesame time displaying a lack of understanding about the mostbasic concepts of the music industry. Hank, please read a book,intern for a real manager, or take another class and pay attention,but stop pretending to be an artist manager and get a life outsideof music … this industry has more than enough idiots claiming tobe authorities as it is.Stuart SullivanOwnerWire Recordingp.s. Insulting your potential clients is an odd sales pitch.CALIFORNIAN MESSING WITH TEXASDear Editor,After just enjoying a wonderful visit from our Austin relatives, adiscussion ensued concerning our belief in California that Texasmakes embarrassing choices that are difficult to explain to others.While on a recent trip to Germany, I was “grilled” as to why moreguns in the hands of citizens makes a world with too many gunssafer, referring to the Texas law allowing such. I had no answer, asthere is no logic to the solution.I was also asked why Texas executes more people than all otherstates combined. As the death penalty is illegal in the EuropeanUnion, this solution to crime is considered barbaric to them andmost modern, first world nations.Now I read that the Texas State Board of Education has givenapproval to have Bible classes in public schools, despite warningsabout the constitutionality of this move.Don’t mess with Texas? Someone needs to straighten “y’all”out and bring you into the 21st century!Mark HeinzeSan DiegoCONTINUED ON P.108 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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POSTMARKSIT’S NOT JUST GASCONTINUED FROM P.8Dear Editor,Nearly every week there are letters to theeditor in the Chronicle about the need to drivefuel-efficient automobiles. Obviously, less gasequals saved money. Cutting down on our needfor oil will improve our world security. Burningless oil is better for the environment. I get all ofthat. However, I feel that most people don’t realizethat the gas in your car is not your only useof oil. An alarming amount of products use oilin their production: shoes, Coke bottles, chewinggum, the packaging from your frozen dinner,ReaderCOMMENTSof the Weekaustinchronicle.com/commentsOn the APD’s cite-and-release option:“Another great report by JordanSmith. Debbie Russell’s hard workwill save the taxpayers of Austinsignificant taxes without jeapordizingour citizens’ safety. It may alsocontrol the mean-spirited and criminalpolice who love to jail innocentcivilians knowing that while they‘can beat the rap, they can’t beatthe ride,’ which is costly, allowsphysical brutality to go unchecked,and other needless adverseconsequences.”– Guest“APD,” News, July 25paint, dye, ink. How about your guitar pick,your kids’ crayons, your jar of Vaseline? Thedashboard in your car, your car seats. The tiresyour car rides on, the road on which those tirestravel. Your TV, radio, printer, fax, monitor, iPod,and cell phone all probably use oil in production.The bumper on your Toyota Prius. All thesepoorly worded, fragmented sentences probablycontain oil in some way.I’m not saying that driving a fuel-efficientauto doesn’t help all our oil problems, just thatpeople need to realize that saving 10 gallonsof gas a week isn’t going to magically fix ouroil dependency.Lastly, I find it interesting (and somewhatrelated) that Osama bin Laden said thatthe evil Americans will be punished whenoil reaches $144 a barrel. It did last week.When he made that statement, a barrel of oilcost around $7-$10. You know, less than adecade ago.Steven McCloudBEST OF A FREE PRESSDear Editor,Please tell Andrea Grimes how much weappreciate her “Texas Fiction Science” piece[News, July 25]. She pulled no punches andher analysis is thoroughly accurate. I am gladto know that while government employees inTexas are pressured into an Alice-in-Wonderlandacquiescence, The Austin Chronicle representsthe best of a free press.David AlmandsmithThe National Center for Science EducationOakland, Calif.austinchronicle.com/postmarks UPDATED DAILY Includes every item ....Choose from Bedroom, Dining Room, Living Room,Wall Units, TV carts, Desk, Recliners, Sleeper Sofas, OccasionalTables and Lamps. So you will receive an extra 8.25%off all our sale prices. In stock or Custom Order.www.gagefurniture.com 10 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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news16 Developing Stories 23 The Hightower Report 24 Those Who Are About to DieHeadlines› The cargo-pants arsonist just became a Longhorn,as investigators of the Governor’s Man sionfire released video showing one or two people atthe site, at least one wearing a gimme cap witha Longhorn logo. Meanwhile, the Department ofPublic Safety issued a scathing internal reporton mansion security. Read all about it, p.21.› The next City Council meeting is Aug. 7, as thebalancing act represented by the proposed citybudget simmers at City Hall. See our first printedition of “City Hall Hustle,” p.14.› Last week’s council meeting featured the latestplans for an Austin streetcar, as consultantspresented a road map for building the project inincrements over several years. See “DevelopingStories,” p.16.› Larry Davis is scheduled to die today (Thursday,July 31), becoming the fourth Texas inmateexecuted in 2008. Six executions are scheduledfor August. See “Those Who Are About toDie,” p.24.› Texas RioGrande Legal Aid today (Thursday, July31) said it would file a complaint againstCapital Metro over proposed fare increases.Joined by House the Homeless and threeAustinites, the organization will file the complaintwith the Environmental ProtectionAgency, as Capital Metro didn’t perform anenvironmental assessment study beforeannouncing the increase.Naked City› NEW REGIONAL GROWTH STUDY EnvisionCentral Texas released a study this week (availableat www.envisioncentraltexas.org) documentingCentral Texans’ concerns about planning forregional growth. The study found the Top 5 concernsto be: improving the transportation system,water availability and quality, maintaininghousing affordability, the lack of planningresources, and greater coordination on regionalissues. An emerging topic of citizen and corporateconcern was climate change and energy efficiency.“Across the board there was a strongsense that linking economic, land use and transportationplanning is essential,” noted the nonprofit.ECT commissioned the study to update itsRegional Vision, a plan developed five years agowhen ECT solicited public input to produce a“preferred scenario” for growing more compactlyand limiting the negative effects of sprawl.Earlier projections that the regional populationwould double from 2000 to 2020 have beenborne out by growth to date. Consultant TIPStrategies worked with ECT staff and leadershipto conduct a Vision Progress Assessment, which,according to ECT, included “a detailed series ofinterviews with local businesses, institutions,and public officials … [plus] focus groups andpublic workshops, and … online questionnairesin the five-county Central Texas region.”– Katherine Gregor› AN ODE TO WATER “The hard part was finding aclean word that rhymes with greenhouse gases,”said country music legend Ray BensonWednesday at a City Hall event hyping his newTV and radio ad encouraging Austinites to conservewater. “For me, the most important thingwas understanding the connection betweenwater use, energy use, and emissions.” CouncilMember Lee Leffingwell said that more than 40%of residential water use is devoted to lawn wateringin summer months, when citywide consump-CONTINUED ON P.14JOHN ANDERSONAsleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson was at City Hall Wednesday to plug a new water-conservation campaign. See “Naked City,” left.Impeaching the EmpireWhat if they held a hearing, and nobody heard?BY MICHAEL KINGI haven’t written much about impeaching theBush administration, although I readily concedethere is more than ample justification to indict andconvict President Bush and Vice President Cheney(and numerous accomplices) on an itemized list ofhigh crimes and misdemeanors, only the mostprominent of which would be conspiring toviolate international law, engaging in illegalwars, and imprisoning and torturinghundreds of people without regard forpointaustinnational or international law or theU.S. Constitution. But since there hasseemed so little chance that anythingapproaching impeachment would actuallyoccur – for many reasons, but certainlyin part because our last congressionaladventure in that vein had left such a bitterpublic taste – it has seemed pointless to belaborthe procedure except as an exercise in hypocriticalmoralism. I frankly don’t much care for symbolicpolitics unless there is some substantive goal in play– and handing beleaguered Republican incumbentsa martyrdom card does not strike me as a usefulpublic purpose.Nevertheless, I was pleased to see the U.S. HouseJudiciary Committee convene last week for its hearingon Executive Power and Its ConstitutionalLimitations, the polite euphemism conceived tomollify both the Republican opposition and thoseDemocrats so afraid of their own shadows that eventhe word “impeachment” gives them the fantods (aliteral impeachment hearing would require a formalHouse vote). Thus Chairman John Conyersreferred obliquely to “the [congressional]power to remove through the constitutionalprocess officers who may haveviolated their oath,” a phrase instantlyseized upon by GOP members to blastthe Dems for talking-about-somethingthey-were-not-supposed-to-be-talkingabout.Arizona Republican Trent Franksboomed, “I hope that none of the witnesseswill even mention the word ‘impeachment,’”and then went on to pound plangent variations on“terrorism” until all ears were bleeding.That went on for six hours last Friday, although Idoubt many of you knew it. A handful may havewatched on C-SPAN, and I thought at least the“major newspapers” would report the parade ofwitnesses – from Rep. Dennis Kucinich and formerRep. Elizabeth Holtzman through GOP mavericksCONTINUED ON P.15QUOTEof theWEEK“This week, it seems thatwe are hosting an angermanagement class.Nothing is going to comeout of this hearing withregard to impeachment ofthe president. 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Naked City C O N TIN UED FR OM P.13tion nearly doubles. Pumping and treating that water accounts for about 60% of allpower used by city departments. In May 2006, council passed a raft of water conservationpolicies, including mandatory watering restrictions that took effect in May, designatingtwo days a week when folks can water (odd addresses, Wednesday and Saturday;evens, Thursday and Sunday; apartments and businesses, Tuesday and Friday – allbefore 10am and after 7pm only). Beginning this Friday, Austinites can call 311 to reportwater waste or watering violations. City conservation efforts, which also include fixing 12million gallons a day in city pipe leakage and providing customer rebates on efficient fixtures,are expected to save 32 million gallons a day and eliminate 19,000 tons per yearof CO 2 emissions. See www.waterwiseaustin.org for more.– Daniel Mottola› FLDS MEMBERS IN JAIL Five members of theFunda ment al ist Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter-day Saints indicted by a Schleicher Co.grand jury last week have turned themselves in toauthorities. Four of the men are each charged withone count of sexual assault of a child, whichcarries a possible penalty of between five and 99years or life in prison. The fifth man, LloydHammon Barlow, is charged with three counts offailure to report child abuse, a class B misdemeanorpunishable by up to six months in prison.According to The Salt Lake Tribune, Barlow postedbail Tuesday and was released; the others remainbehind bars on $100,000 bond. FLDS prophetWarren Jeffs also faces a charge of sexual assaultof a child. He has been convicted of rape asaccomplice in Utah, for his role in marrying an underage girl to her cousin, and is currentlyin jail in Arizona awaiting trial on similar charges. The indictments against thesix FLDS members grew out of the investigation begun by Texas authorities this spring,which led to the state taking custody of more than 400 children from the FLDSYearning for Zion compound outside Eldorado. The children were subsequentlyreturned to their parents.– Jordan Smith› ROUGH PATCH FOR MONKEYWRENCH Six yearsago, a handful of activist-oriented UT students, alongwith the creators of underground activist weekly TheAustin Javelina, got their wish for a radical communityspace in Austin. Through fundraising, donations, and afew investments of personal funds, the group formed acollective and opened up MonkeyWrench Books withonly $3,000 to its name. Today, the modest space at110 E. North Loop has become a nationally recognizedDIY community hub, playing host to a variety of freeevents, including movie screenings, book talks, skillshareworkshops, kids’ reading groups, and meet-upsfor local organizations. The store is completely nonprofit:Book sales pay for the space and more books,while everything else is done through volunteers. “If we had to pay staff, we wouldnever survive,” says founding member Cale Layton. Whether it’s the floundering economyor just Austinites fleeing the heat, the store is feeling the pinch this summer. Toboost funds, they’re hosting a book and yard sale on Sunday, Aug. 3, 8am-8pm. Formore, see www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.– Sara Robberson› TEACHER GROUPS BACK DOHERTY Democraticcongress ion al candidate Larry Joe Doherty, running forthe Austin-to-Houston District 10 seat currently occupiedby Republican Michael McCaul, received the endorsementsof major teachers’ unions last week, including theNational Education Association, the Texas State TeachersAssociation, and the American Federation of Teachers. Ina press release, Doherty attacked McCaul for voting “tostrip $806 billion in vital funding” from the No Child LeftBehind program and for voting against federal student-aidprograms. At press time, McCaul’s office did not return acall from the Chronicle.– Lee Nicholsres publicaTHURSDAY31PUBLIC MEETING: NORTH CENTRAL COMMUNITYHEALTH CENTER Learn about the new communityhealth center scheduled to open in 2010 at 1200W. Braker, and share your input with the folks fromthe Travis County Healthcare District. 7-8:30pm.St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11201 Parkfield.www.cityofaustin.org/traviscountyhd/northcentral.SO MANY DOCUMENTARIES,SO LITTLE TIME Join the AustinPerma-culture Guild tonight for afree screening of The Power ofCommunity: How Cuba SurvivedPeak Oil (7pm; Habitat Suites, 500 E.High land Mall Blvd., www.permie.us);head over to the Mexican AmericanCultural Center to watch Hard RoadHome, the story of a drug-dealingWarren Jeffs14 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mJOHN ANDERSONLarry Joe DohertyNEWSFOR MORE DETAILS AND EVENTS, SEE C OMMUNITY LISTING S , P.58.gang leader who dedicated his life to breaking thejail cycle (7pm; 600 River St., 478-6222; free); or jointhe Austin Film Festival folks for Uncounted: The NewMath of American Elections (7:30pm; AlamoDrafthouse Lake Creek, 13729 Research; $4).FRIDAY01WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK CELEBRATIONStop by for some music and tasty treats as youlearn all about the “I breastfeed because …”campaign. (For more, see “Breast-FeedingCampaign Kicks Off,” p.21.) 11am-1pm. AustinCity Hall, 301 W. Second, 974-2220. Free.www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/usa.htm.S A TURDAY02RIVER MONITORING TRIP Like being a hall monitorbut way cooler: Explore the Colorado River,CITY HALL HUSTLEBudget Time: Who You Gonna Cut?BY WELLS DUNBAROne week after the release of the proposed 2008budget for the city of Austin, we know which cutsthe public can’t abide. Unsurprisingly, it’s all thosethe city’s proposing.That’s overstating it perhaps a tad, assuming that– with endless stretches of 100-plus days and multiplex-bustingsuperheroics – the citizenry’s trulyattuned to the finer points of its municipal budget.Despite the embankment of camera tripods and talkingheads at the budget work-session, followed byabove-the-fold coverage, why do I get the impressionthat most Austinites have a mild impression that, uh,their trash bill’s going up, and that’s about it? It’sunsurprising, as pocketbook and quality-of-life issuesare always the big takeaways at budget time.Maybe it’s time to start looking at the biggerpicture: why we’re always scrambling toand help keep tabs on the birds and vegetationalong the way. (You’ll need your own boat; e-mailfor details: cgmorris@flash.net.) 8am-5pm. Centerfor Environmental Research, 2210 FM 973 S.CENTRAL WEST NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNINGMEETING 9am-1pm. Lower Colorado RiverAuthority, Red Bud Facility, 3601 Lake Austin Blvd.,974-2857. Free. victoria.craig@ci.austin.tx.us,www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/central_west_austin.htm.CHILDREN’S HEALTH COVERAGE BASICS Findout if your child is qualified for the CHIP programor Children’s Medicaid, and get help with fillingout applications at participating HEB stores. Call211 or visit www.chipmedicaid.org for details.CITY SERVICES COMMUNITY FAIR 10am-1pm.Hampton Branch Library, 5125 Convict Hill,892-6680. www.cityofaustin.org/library.play catch-up.Immediate attention focuses on theGeneral Fund departments – city endeavorslike libraries and parks that generallyfeel the first brunt of a tight budget year.But it’s the city’s enterprise departments –money-earning enterprises like the airportand Austin Energy – that see the most money-shiftingaction. Let’s return to the refuse: namely,Solid Waste Services’ proposal to boost fees on30-gallon trash tubs by $4.40 a month, with increasesalso slated for 60-gallon ($6.15) and 90-galloncontainers ($6.90). While the city argued it would bethe first fee increase in more than a decade, publicreaction appears to be solidly against it. While noone’s clamoring to pay extra, Rick Cofer, a SolidWaste Advisory Commission member and ramrod ofthe “Bag the Bags” campaign, issued an e-mailblasting the proposal on economic and environmentalfronts: “Customers should be incentivized to recyclemore and waste less by reducing the cost of the30-gallon carts and increasing the cost of only the60- and 90-gallon carts,” he wrote, also noting, “It isirrational to change the fee structure now, before single-streamrecycling has been introduced and beforeits effects are known.” As he surmised, “A one-time40% increase is beyond the pale.”Another sore spot with budget watchers – councilseemingly included – is Public Works’Transportation Fund, largely funded by road, parking,and meter fees. Contentious here is the cut in proposedstreet maintenance, shrinking from the currentgoal to maintain 9.5% of the city’s trafficlanes annually to a proposed 8% in fiscal year2009. While a small correction on paper, fallingbelow 10% establishes a tipping point at whichroad repairs steadily grow more backlogged andcostly. “We strive to reach a target of 10% [peryear], that being the magic number,” CouncilMember Lee Leffingwell said at the work-session.“And now we’re taking this giant leap backward.”Leffingwell announced his intention to closethe gap to the current 9.5% at least, a positionWill Wynn’s echoed.Aside from fee increases – that old budget-balancingstandby – another time-honored belt-tightenerwas cinched: shuttering all branch libraries oneadditional day. But as reported last week, theshocker here wasn’t decreasing libraryhours to shift city money elsewhere; it’sthat the juggling proposal came fromcityhallhustlelibrary staffers themselves, who hopeto improve much-needed janitorial,maintenance, and security services,as to remain habitable on the daysthey are open.It’s a reminder of the twofold failurethat unfurls every city budget season(well, every budget of late, at least): First,the lie at the state level that the clamor for shrinkingtaxes outweighs all other considerations. It’sRepublican starve-the-beast grandstandingresulting in nothing but constricted and abysmallocal policy, preventing cities from levying taxes afraction of a cent above a random rate without callinga special election. Which ties into the lie we tellourselves locally: that our unbounded growth willpay for itself. Train your attention on this budget,and it’s clear: It does no such thing.BLOCK THAT HOUSING!Last week’s City Council meeting was as notablefor what transpired as what didn’t: the promisedyearlong delay of the Mobile Loaves & FishesHabitat on Wheels program at Harold Courtoccurred, but zoning for the severely embattledCommunity Partnership for the Homeless developmenton Manor Road was postponed until council’snext meeting, Aug. 7. Back from break andalready taking time off?Not us. Everyday we’re hustling at wdunbar@austinchronicle.com.POLITICAL ACTION BOOK CLUBmeets to discuss Melody Petersen’sOur Daily Meds. 11am-noon. WellsBranch Community Library, 15001Wells Port Dr., 989-3188. Free.politicalactionbookclub@yahoogroups.com.SUNDAY03MONKEYWRENCH BOOK & YARDSALE See “Naked City,” above. 8am-8pm.MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop,407-6925. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.MONDAY04BEYOND THE BARS: THE PRISON INDUSTRIALCOMPLEX kicks off a series of discussions onAmerica’s prison system. This week, you’ll hearfrom families of inmates on death row. 8pm.

P OINT AUSTIN CONTINUED FROM P.13Bruce Fein and former Rep. Bob Barr – whoitemized at length the executive actions thatshould be called to direct account by thisCongress, greatly abbreviated in Conyers’opening statement addressing the “imperialpresidency”: “the politicization of theDepartment of Justice; misuse of signingstatements; misuse of authority with regardto detention, interrogation, and rendition;possible manipulation of intelligence regardingthe Iraq war; improper retaliation againstcritics of the administration, including theouting of Valerie Plame; and excessive secrecyby the administration, including themisuse of various privileges and immunities.”Concluded Rep. Tammy Baldwin,D-Wisconsin, a few minutes later: “Althoughthe call to impeach is one that I take neithereasily nor lightly, I now firmly believe thatimpeachment hearings are the appropriateand necessary next step.”One Hand ClappingThat’s only the tip of a very large andsmoking volcano, but one quite beneath seriousmedia attention. I was of course wrongabout the “major” newspapers. A few fromcommittee members’ districts (Cleveland,Madison) mentioned the roles of Ohio’sKucinich or Wisconsin’s Baldwin. The NewYork Times, our presumptive national newspaperof record, mentioned the hearing notat all. The Washington Post – currently lecturingthe Russians and Chinese about officialaccountability – featured only Dana Milbank’scondescending recapitulation, leading withAustin’s gerrymandered GOP Rep. LamarSmith’s sneer, “It seems that we are hostingan anger management class.”At home, Our Local Daily – still fresh fromlast week’s editorial declaration of highreporting “standards” – provided only anational digest paragraph (“Bush critics airwoes at hearing”) redacted from an AssociatedPress commentary dismissing the hearing asa Dem effort to make impeachment charges“quietly fade away.” Despite public sentimentpolling for a Bush impeachment at50% or better for several years now, thenational media long ago decided the subjectis “off the table” – is it any wonder that theMonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop,407-6925. Free. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.PUBLIC MEETING: NORTH CENTRAL COMMUN I TYHEALTH CENTER (See Thursday, July 31.) 7-8:30pm.St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11201 Park field.TUESDAY0521ST CENTURY TRANSPORTATION Take a peekinto the future of transportation in Austin at thismeeting of the Austin Regional Group of theSierra Club. 7pm. Texas State Teachers Association,316 W. 12th, 476-5355, 877/ASK-TSTA. Free.EARTH-WISE LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP If CityHall can be a wildlife habitat, so can you – or youryard, at least. Tuesday & Thursday, Aug. 5 & 7,8:30am-noon. Zilk er Botanical Garden, 2220 BartonSprings, 974-3032. $15.www.cityofaustin.org/greengarden/training.htm.Dem leadership should take its political bearingsfrom those prevailing winds?Two Plus TwoAs I said, I don’t doubt that the legal conditionsexist for impeachment. The politicalconditions are something else again, andmuch smarter politicians than I have understandablyconcluded that in the face of amedia blackout (or backlash), it makes littlesense to expend public energy on an effortdoomed not just to fail but to backfire on itssupporters. Certainly our own moral satisfactionat calling out Bush and company is insufficientmotivation for demanding headlinecongressional action; the best we can hopefor, it seems, is continued amplification ofthese charges in the public mind by whatevermeans we otherwise possess. “The questionfor Congress is this: What responsibility dothe president and members of his administrationhave for that unnecessary, unprovoked,and unjustified war?” asked Kucinich. “Therules of the House prevent me or any witnessfrom utilizing familiar terms. But we can puttwo and two together in our minds. We candraw inferences about culpability.”The Judiciary hearing, circumscribed as itwas, accumulated and narrow-casted thebasic public charges against the administration.The major U.S. media have made it clearthat such charges will not be widely disseminated,and certainly not reiterated, betweennow and November and, therefore, will notbe addressed as “impeachable” offenses. Ifthey are at least to be sustained as politicaloffenses, that will have to be determined atthe ballot box.For your enlightenment, major submitted testimonyfor the Judiciary Committee hearing is available atwww.judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_072508.html.The Kucinich impeachment resolution, as submittedto the House June 9, is posted with this column ataustinchronicle.com.Corrections: Last week I quoted Jeremy Scahillsuggesting that citizens “cheat [on Obama] with theConstitution”; more precisely, he said “with a little bitof conscience.” (Thanks to Rachel Farris of Mean Rachelblog.) And Omar Gallaga of the Statesman called toinform me that his interview with “Obama Girl” was thefirst video to be posted from the Netroots Nation convention,but not the daily’s first story on the convention.(Out of professional courtesy, I had omitted his byline,but no good deed, etc.)T H URSDAY07THE FUTURE OF WATER IN CENTRAL TEXAS TheLCRA wants your input tonight, on long-term plansfor meeting regional water demands. Call to reserveyour seat. Open house, 6-6:30pm; discussion,6:30-9pm. Dalchau Service Center, 3505 Montopolis,Bldg. A. www.lcra.org/watersupply.AUSTIN TELETHON EXECUTIVELOCK-UP Police Chief ArtAcevedo joins local businessleaders behind fake bars to helpraise funds for Jerry’s Kids, akathe Muscular DystrophyAssociation. 9am-4pm. Eddie V’sEdgewater Grille, 301 E. 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NEWSdeveloping storiesWho’ll Take a Streetcar?32,000 Riders a Day.BY KATHERINE GREGORAt long last, real systems planning for aCentral Austin streetcar have arrived at theCity Hall station. At the July 24 City Councilmeeting, consultants ROMA Austin and LTKEngineering unveiled the highlights of adetailed proposal for circulator rail transit. ThePhase I analysis includes essential data on:1) projected ridership and benefits for mobility,environmental, and other regional goals and 2)a route alignment and estimated cost. Thebroad outlines: Recommended is a 15.3-milesystem projected to serve more than 32,000riders daily by 2030, at an estimated capitalcost of $36 million to $40 million per mile,or $550 million to $614 million overall.Electric-powered streetcars would run every10 minutes from about 6am to 11pm, alongtracks in dedicated street lanes (outside ofvehicular traffic), with two overlapping linesconnecting major central-city destinations.(The ridership estimates assume no transitorienteddevelopment upzoning; in fact, ridership-boostingdensity increases along ManorRoad and Riverside Drive are likely.)“I was really pleased with the level of detailthat staff and the consultant team were able topresent Thursday,” said Mayor Will Wynn. “Theproposal is far more refined than lots of folkshad anticipated.” Council could act as soon asSTREETCAR SYSTEMAT A GLANCEKey recommendations from the DowntownUrban Rail Connections PlanSize of System: 15.3 milesType of Cars: StreetcarsPower Source: ElectricityOperator: Capital MetroTraffic Lanes: Dedicated-lane, with shortportions shared-laneLines: Two overlapping routes:Seaholm to Mueller(6.7 miles); Airport to UTcampus (9.9 miles)Headways: Ten minutes between trains(six-seven minutesDowntown)Ride Time: Downtown to airport,25-30 minutesRidership: 32,200 estimated averageweekday trips in 2030Capital Cost: $550 million to $614 millionSee the complete report at the Downtownpage of the city of Austin website:www.cityofaustin.org/downtown/downloads/dap_rail_brief_072408.pdf.its next session, Aug. 7, to direct the city managerto move forward on the recommendations.Under the current political mandate, via theTransit Working Group of the Capital AreaMetropolitan Planning Organization: Items 1and 2 above must be fully vetted before proceedingto: 3) a financing analysis and planand 4) a voter referendum. Thus, key goalsdefined in the CAMPO TransportationInvestment Decision Tree informed theROMA recommendations: Connect existingdestinations, link jobs and housing, serve lowincomeand transit-dependent populations,maximize ridership, support and catalyze transit-orienteddevelopment, and be cost-effective.Assembling a viable, multipartner financingplan is considered a Phase II project forcity staff, Capital Metro, and other potentialpartners. Only after benefits, ridership, andcosts are vetted will a financing plan and voterreferendum become politically viable. Yet, dueto the financing complexities of engaging multipleregional partners, that research needs tomove forward now on its own parallel track.Notable progress: For the first time, adetailed phasing plan was publicly aired forhow to build the system in increments. Eachcould be submitted separately to voters forapproval. (State law appears to allow a publicvote on a system expansion of “not more than12 miles of track” – perhaps an ultimate rationalefor short increments – in theory, enablingan election that could be ordered by the CapMetro board at any time.) ROMA recommendeda four-stage construction project, addingvehicles at each stage:Increment 1: 4.4 miles (Seaholm to ManorRoad), $192 to $231 million capital cost.Serves Downtown, Capitol Complex, and theUT campus. Connects with two Red Line commuterrail stops (and thus potentially Leander,Cedar Park, Manor, and Elgin) and proposedfuture Austin-San Antonio passenger service.Increment 2: 3.2 more miles (Downtown toRiverside Drive at Pleasant Valley),$133 to $147 million capital cost.Includes spur to Long Center andAuditorium Shores.Increment 3: 2.2 miles (ManorRoad to Muel ler), $68 to $78 million.Increment 4: 5.4 miles (Riverside Drive toAustin-Bergstrom Airport), $157 million.Future Expansion: The core system could beexpanded later to serve additional destinationsin North, South, East, and West Austin and toconnect with expanded regional-rail service.The estimated capital cost per mile steadilydrops (from as much as $53 million down to$29 million per mile) with each successiveincrement. Brewster McCracken later noted:“Toll roads were coming in with per-mile costsof $70 million-plus back in 2004. The pricetag needs to be viewed in a context comparedto roads – this is cheaper than roads to construct.”He also pointed to ROMA’s data that16 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCOMMUTER RAILTO GEORGETOWNSEAHOLMFourthLONGCENTERLamar11thGuadalupeINCREMENT 1Seaholm to Red Lineat Manor Road$192-231 MILLIONCOMMUTER RAILTO SAN ANTONIODOWNTOWNSan Jacintoan electrified streetcar would be less expensiveto operate than diesel-powered publictransportation: “We’ve long talked about atransportation crisis, but always in the termsof the roads. But as a city, we’re now like theairlines – locked in 100% to running on a fuelsource that is experiencing massive cost inflation.”Overall, the annual operating and maintenancecost estimate for the proposed systemis $21 million to $23 million or less.ROMA emphasized that the Downtown UrbanRail Connections plan – even upon officialapproval – represents just the first 2% of thenecessary system design and planning process.Corridor planning would take the project to 10%web extracompletion; preliminary engineering, to 30%completion; final design, to 100% completion.Then it would take another year or two to completeconstruction and take delivery on vehicles.Questioned by McCracken at council, consultantTom Matoff, director of Transportation Planningfor LTK Engineering Services in California, saidthe project-cost numbers are highly reliable – infact conservative, as they are based on a“string of conservative assumptions,” includinga 30% construction cost contingency.But City Manager Marc Ott took pains towarn everyone against locking into any costnumbers. “There’s a lot to be defined andrefined along the way,” cautioned Ott. “YouUTINCREMENT 2Downtown to Pleasant Valley(Downtown to Long Centernights and weekends only)$133-147 MILLIONTO LEANDERManorPleasant ValleyRED LINECOMMUTER RAILMLKRiverside DriveFor additional comments fromthe Austin transit reps on thepossibility of a streetcar election, see “Austin Streetcar Proposal:A Play in Two Acts?” online with this story at austinchronicle.com.MUELLER51stINCREMENT 3Red Line at Manor Roadto Mueller$68-78 MILLIONCOMMUTER RAILTO MANOR/ELGININCREMENT 4Pleasant Valley to ABIA$157 MILLIONAUSTIN-BERGSTROMINTERNATIONALAIRPORTdon’t get numbers you can truly rely on untilyou get to 60%” completion of planning anddesign. He specifically referenced the mediain warning, “The numbers are going tochange; we’re very early in this process.”A risk now is that City Council may get miredin early-stage planning. “That’s the perennialstruggle for Austin: to stop talking and makehard decisions,” observed transit advocateGlenn Gadbois of the Alliance for PublicTransportation. “Increment one should be a nobrainer;frankly, we’ve been talking about thislong enough. If we sit around and wait to getthe finances perfect, it keeps it stuck at thecouncil decision-making level. We’ll never get itdone. Let’s go forward and letstaff and the Transit WorkingGroup do their stuff.”ROMA’s presentation includedthree recommended next steps(already blessed by Ott) thatrequire council direction to staff: 1) Seek furtherpublic input, 2) work with Capital Metro toprepare a submittal to the Transit WorkingGroup, and 3) present that submittal to councilfor final approval, prior to going forward toCAMPO. But will council members – particularlynewbies Randi Shade and Laura Morrison –be ready to take action at their next session?“Above all, we need to proceed with asense of urgency,” said McCracken. “The risein gas prices is hurting Central Texans’ familybudgets. The modern electric-powered rail system,operating in a dedicated lane that ROMArecommended, will save Austinites time andmoney, and it will improve air quality.”

FRONT-RUNNER EMERGES FOR CAMPO SEATWith so much bubbling at Capital Metro,eyes are on the selection of a new Cap Metroboard member to replace Lee Walker as theCapital Area Metropolitan PlanningOrganization representative – and, separately,on the board’s selection of its new chair. OnJuly 25, the CAMPO selection committee metto review the six applicants: Austin CityCouncil Member Mike Martinez, LeanderMayor John Cowman, John Trube, NormChafetz, Paul Hamilton, and Mike Manor.The committee decided not to consider currentCap Metro board members who wanted tomove over to the CAMPO seat; it thus declinedCowman’s application, and Martinez withdrewhis name from consideration. The remainingfour applicants will be interviewed soon.Martinez explained that he was initiallyinterested in moving to the CAMPO seat toexpand Austin’s representation on the CapMetro board. Austin provides 92% of the transitagency’s funding yet has just two representatives(Martinez and Brew ster McCracken) onthe nine-member board. He has since concludedthat the peer review of Cap Metro beingconducted by CAMPO is the best way toaddress the issue. Leading that effort, whichshould be completed by December, is formerCity Council Member Betty Dunkerley.Martinez also said he withdrew his name toencourage serious consideration of applicantMike Manor, an African-American. MartinezMcCaul’s Islamic ‘Rescue’In recent weeks, Republican Rep. MichaelMcCaul of Austin has been championing adocumentary, Karachi Kids, that purportedlytold the story of two American boys beingheld against their will at a radical madrassa(Islamic holy school) in Pakistan after beingsent there by their father, an Atlanta cabdriver. The representative of CongressionalDistrict 10, which stretches from Austin toHouston, even went so far as to introducelegislation “Encouraging the United StatesSecretary of State to work with the Governmentof Pakistan to secure the return to theUnited States of all American children beingeducated in madrassas in Pakistan,” and hemet with Pakistani President PervezMusharraf to secure the boys’ release.But in the famous words of Gilda Radner’sEmily Litella character: “Oh. Never mind.”On Sunday, CNN aired a report showing thatthe filmmaker, Imran Raza, apparently focusedon the wrong madrassa. The teenage boys,Noor Elahi Khan and Mahboob Elahi Khan,were sent to the Jamia Binoria SITE madrassain Karachi, but CNN received documents, actuallysent to them from McCaul’s office, notingthat, “because of its name, this madrasa isoften confused with the more prominent andpowerful Binori Town Madrasa” – an avowedlyradical and pro-Taliban madrassa located rightacross the street. CNN also quoted U.S. StateDepartment officials saying, “The JamiaBinoria SITE Madrassa is known to U.S. officialsas a moderate institution favored byPakistani-Americans for its moderate and tolerantIslamic instruction.”said that after learning about the Travis Co.employee and his background, he felt “itwould be an interesting perspective to have.”Support for Manor’s candidacy has grown.(The selection committee includes all four cityof Austin CAMPO board members: Will Wynn,McCracken, Lee Leffing well, and Sheryl Cole.)In his application, Manor noted that he grewup in East Austin. He said: “My parents themselvesneither owned a car for their sole personaluse nor did my parents ever drive a car.My parents relied primarily and heavily uponpublic transportation.” He also wrote: “WhyNow? Why Me? My personal passions areaddressing race, cultural, geographical andeconomic equality, and ameliorating, eliminatingthe adverse effects of poverty throughbusiness and family-friendly policies andmacro relationships facilitated through publicsector governance and private sector ingenuity.My professional convictions are: affordability,accessibility, availability, appropriateness,and adequacy.” Manor is a social-services programadministrator with Travis Co. and hasserved on numerous community boards,including Austin Area Interreligious Ministries.But don’t count him in just yet – the selectioncommittee still has four interviews to conduct.They will interview all candidates on Friday, Aug.22, at the Travis Co. Commissioners Court from 1to 4pm; members hope to make a decision immediatelyafter the interviews. – Katherine GregorAccording to CNN, the boys’ father, FazalKhan, was “astonished” by the allegationsmade by the film and said McCaul nevercontacted him. The boys said that theynever received any sort of militant trainingand were only taught to read the Quran. “Iwasn’t brainwashed at all,” said one of theboys. McCaul may have some apologizing todo: On Fox News, McCaul said, “I think wehave to question the loyalty of this father.”Filmmaker Raza stands by his depictionof the teens’ education, but, “I takeresponsibility” for “errors that sort of spunout of control” in Karachi Kids, includingallegations that Osama bin Laden spoke atthe school before 9/11. He said he’ll be reeditingthe film.At press time, McCaul’s office had notresponded to the Chronicle, but told CNN:“The Taliban is known to recruit fromDeobandi [an Islamic revivalist movement]madrassas, including Jamia Binoria, and traintheir recruits as terrorists. … Any Americansamong the recruits represent a potentialthreat to the United States because of theirunfettered access to this country.”Jon Niven, spokesman for McCaul’sDemo cratic opponent, Larry Joe Doherty,called McCaul’s actions a “failed publicitystunt.” McCaul, he said, “has been proclaiming‘Mis sion Accomplished’ for weeks,and now we find out it was all a fraud. Justas the director of this documentary is takingresponsibility, Michael McCaul must takeresponsibility instead of shifting the blame.”– Lee NicholsWhile Supplies Last.Offer Ends 8/31/08.FREE BAGOF DOGTREATS!Buy one bag of SOrganic Treats atBark ‘n Purr and get one bag ®of treats of equal orlesservaluefree!4604 BURNET RD. 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NEWSPERMIT WOESSeeing the (Enchanted) Forest for the treesEver since the July 18 announcement that the AustinEnchanted Forest may face permanent closure over permitproblems, there’s been a remarkable outpouring of publicsupport for the unique 3½-acre outdoor art space on Oltorfnear South Lamar. (Just ask any media outlet or local officialwith an e-mail account.) But both the forest’s owner and citystaff stress they are working together to find ways to keepthe site open and legal.Owner and operator Albert DeLoach created the forest byconsolidating three plots. His family lives on one, and artistsuse the other two for large installations. DeLoach estimatesmore than 150 artists have displayed their work there thisyear alone. That’s very different to how the place looked whenhe took it over, which he described as “a grown-over jungle”and home to the nation’s oldest hobo camp. Initially he washappy to share the property with them, but “as far as theywere concerned, I was trespassing on their land,” he said. Sohe moved them off, built a back fence, and started the longand expensive process of cleaning the land.He also tried to make sure he followed city ordinances bygaining a temporary-use permit in 2006, renewable every sixmonths. That’s the same kind of permit normally granted forshort-term events like Christmas-tree sales – “basically, any timeyou put up a tent,” explained Battalion Chief Don Smith, whoserves as spokesman for the city’s Public Assembly CodeEnforcement team. Smith explained: “They were doing someacoustical music under that tent, and it wasn’t really a big deal.As a fire department, we didn’t know of any problems with it.”The venue’s troubles began after the city received a noisecomplaint on May 27. On July 4 the PACE group informedDeLoach it would perform a site inspection the next day.Accord ing to Smith, there had been a series of changes to thesite, including construction and electrical work that were out ofcode. His group informed DeLoach the violations meant thepermit could not be renewed. While DeLoach has tried to fix theimmediate health and safety problems, he says the evolvingnature of the site is part of the process. He explained: “YouAustin NotSo Walkable“Walkability” has been anavowed goal of Austin’s cityleaders and plannersfor sometime now. Sohow are wedoing? Well,according toWalkScore.com, wecould still use a lot ofimprovement. Using GoogleMaps technology, Walk Score calculatesthe “walkability score” of a location bytaking into account nearby stores, restaurants,schools, parks, etc., and measuring“how easy it is to live a car-lite lifestyle” inthe area. Among America’s 40 largest cities,we ranked a paltry 29th, with a scoreof 49 out of 100. By comparison, top-ratedSan Francisco scored 86, and Portland,Ore. – a model for many of Austin’s transitideas – ranked 10th with a 66. WalkScore said Austin’s most walkable neighborhoodsare Downtown (90) and the UTand West Campus areas (both 87). Downat the bottom, Southeast Austin rated onlyan 8. The site will also calculate a scorefor your exact address. – Lee Nicholsknow how people say, ‘Build it, and theywill come’? Well, we said let us build ourcommunity first, and then build a buildingthat will specifically house the needs ofthe community.”While there are stages and live performancesin the forest, he said: “I don’twant to be forced into being an outdoorevent space, because that’s not thedrive for what we are. … Our goal is tobuild a self-sustaining arts and communitycenter.” He says he’s already consultedwith businesses that have goneenergy-, waste-, and carbon-neutral.Contrary to rumors, Smith said, thePACE group is not trying to close anything,but there are serious code concerns todeal with. Yet even before the storm ofcomplaints, Smith’s group was feeling theeffects of the potential closure. “Captain [Jeff] Solomon went outthere on the 17th, and he was very upset that he had to tell[DeLoach] this,” he said. DeLoach echoed this, praising Solomonfor working toward finding a solution. Smith advised DeLoach tocontact the city’s Devel op ment Assistance Center and saidhe hoped they could find “some kind of zoning allowance thatwould fit what they were doing.” But this would need to satisfynot just DeLoach and his supporters but city regulations andDeLoach’s neighbors, too. “It is a unique spot, and it is somethingthat helps the ambience of Austin, but there are two sidesto every story,” said Smith. “The quality of life can go both ways.”Now there’s a ray of hope. DeLoach said that he has a meetingorganized with the mayor’s office for this Thursday (July 31)to discuss potential zoning and permitting solutions. Oneoption is a special-events permit (“Chief Smith explained to meit’s like for when the circus comes into town,” said DeLoach),which would give him more flexibility than a new temporary-useDriver Sentenced in Bicycle Fatality“Vilhelm Hesness was a man who had a profoundreverence for all life. He rescued dogs andstray cats, healed their wounds, and made thempart of his family. He was the kind of man whotaught adults to read and volunteered at Hospice.He held degrees in philosophy, library science, andlaw.” Those were the words ofCOURTESY OF LUKE KIMBLEVilhelm HesnessMOLLY WHITTENChildren get some hands-on experience at a recycled-materialworkshop hosted by Greater Austin Garbage Arts andpresented at the Enchanted Forest's annual Art Outside event.Gerd Hesness-Frudakis as shechoked back tears followingthe July 24 sentencing ofmotorist Richard Alan Lee,who struck and killed herbrother, a respected 56-yearold Austin attorney, as he wasbicycling along ManchacaRoad on July 11, 2007.Lee pleaded guilty to manslaughter,a second-degree felony,as part of a plea agreementwith Travis Co. prosecutors.He drew a sentence of eight years probation,200 hours of community service, and 60 days injail, in addition to losing his driver’s license for oneyear. Bicycle advocates and others following thecase expressed disappointment in the sentence.Though Lee was initially charged with intoxicationmanslaughter, which carries a minimum 120-dayjail sentence, a grand jury handed down a manslaughterindictment. Accident reports cited “failureto control speed” as a contributing factor inthe accident, and toxicology reports found five prescriptiondrugs in Lee’s bloodstream, includingsedatives, an antidepressant, and a tranquilizer.Assistant District Attorney Laurie Manske saidLee’s “reckless acts formedthe basis for his indictment,”and his sentencewas based on his “lack ofprior criminal history.”“This is a tragedy,” Leesaid as he left the court. “IfI could trade places withhim I would.” He said drugsdidn’t play a role in theaccident. “I’ve been takingthem for years, and I’m stilltaking them today.” Thedrugs were prescribed bytwo different doctors, Lee said, adding, “I had topresent an affidavit that each doctor knew whatthe other was prescribing.” To other drivers, Leesaid: “Slow down and be real careful. This cameup so quick, I had no way to avoid it.”The Hesness family agreed to Lee’s plea dealas an alternative to a jury trial. Evangelos Frudakis,Hesness’ brother-in-law, said, “We were led topermit. Describing the city’s response so far as “very amiableand very hospitable,” he said that Mayor Will Wynn’s Chief ofStaff Rich Bailey “had already talked to the City Council individually,and none of them wants to see the forest closed.”For the time being, DeLoach has had to cancel a fundraiserfor several local co-ops and performances by two theatrecompanies. But his biggest immediate concern is that thepermit problems may derail his annual Haunted Forest trail.The Halloween event pays for property taxes, subsidizes exhibitions,and contributes seed money to the annual ArtOutside event. DeLoach estimates he is already personally$12,000 down this year, but that’s a small cost. “I havealways paid all the artists,” he said, “and I continue to do itbecause there’s a need.”– Richard WhittakerMeanwhile, Spider House and the United States Art Authorityare facing similar issues at their venue; see “United States ArtAuthority,” Arts, p.33, for more.believe by the district attorney that juries were historicallylenient on local motor vehicle accidents.”Hesness-Frudakis added, “No punishment is strongenough for the loss we feel, but we were afraid thatif it went to a trial, there would’ve been no punishmentat all, which would’ve been unbearable.”Anytime a case goes to trial, the outcomebecomes unknown when a judge and jury selectthe sentencing,” said Manske. “We felt like alengthy period of supervision would assure thedefendant could be held accountable and remainresponsible to the community. We take bike safetyvery seriously and remind everyone that recklessacts can lead to tragedy.”In a letter responding to the outcome of thecase, Luke Kimble, a longtime friend and ridingpartner of Hesness, said: “What I have learnedfrom following this case is that a cyclist’s life haslittle value in our court system. You can be rundown and killed by a driver under the influence,and the penalty for this action is minor comparedto the cost of a human life.”Following the court proceedings, Hesness-Frudakis said: “I have this horrible, scary thoughtthat there are actually people out there who resentbicyclists and who try to scare them. That kind ofthing has to be punished. With the country’s fuelproblems, bicycles will become more well-used, andif better accommodations aren’t made for them,there will be more terrible accidents.”– Daniel Mottola18 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

PUC GATHERING THE WESTERN WINDIn July, the Public Utility Commission ofTexas approved a plan to build nearly 5 billiondollars’ worth of power lines to carry wind-generatedelectricity from West Texas’ boomingwind farms to the state’s major cities, includingAustin. The decision will boost Texas’standing as the nation’s No. 1 wind-producingstate, while supplying enough new energy topower roughly 4.6 million homes. Advocatessay the plan could cut statewide electric bills,create in excess of 8,000 new jobs, and evenserve future West Texas solar farms. But thedecision over just how much line capacity toapprove wasn’t without turbulence. Someobservers cast the debate as a showdownbetween status-quo fossil-fuel forces protectingtheir turf and a large contingent of investorsstruggling to bring something new and cleanto the market. In the end, the PUC chose acompromise plan that will vastly boost thestate’s wind capacity. But many believe regulatorsmissed a rare opportunity by not pickingthe most ambitious power line build-out, whichwas favored by greens, lawmakers,and major investors alike.The number of wind farms builtover the past several years has grownrapidly, causing a transmission bottleneckout west, thereby leaving availablewind power underutilized. SenateBill 20, passed in 2005, directed regulatorsto lay the groundwork for newwind-facilitating power lines. Duringthe subsequent deliberations, everyonefrom utilities to oil and gas companies tobillionaire investors weighed in. Three proposalsemerged, with the first, Scenario 1, adding5,150 megawatts to the grid at a cost of $3.8billion and the last and most ambitious,Scenario 3, adding 17,956 MW at a cost of$6.4 billion (see chart). Forty-nine state legislators,including 19 GOP lawmakers known asthe Conservative Coalition, formally favored themost ambitious scenario. But the PUC – whichis made up of all Gov. Perry appointees –approved the middle-of-the-road option,Scenario 2, by a 2-1 vote. “This decision was acompromise, but it’s still a huge step forward,”said Austin-based energy consultant and windexpert Mike Sloan. “On the other hand, establishedcoal and natural gas interests shouldfeel fortunate that Texas is delaying an additional6,400 megawatts of new wind power …as part of Scenario 3 – enough power to produceabout twice as much electricity as theentire city of Austin currently uses.”City-owned utility Austin Energy is knownfor its green initiatives yet initially backedScenario 1, which would add to the grid lessthan half the amount of power as the middlescenario and decrease smog and CO 2 by anunderwhelming 4%. The utility eventually supportedScenario 2 but stopped short of supportingNo. 3 because of uncertainty aboutwhere the future concentrations of wind farmswill be and how many will be needed in thefuture. “We do not take Scenario 2 to be a midrangeor moderate build-out. It includes over2,300 miles of new high-voltage transmission,will cost $5 billion … and will allow the amountof wind power from West Texas to more than triple,”said Mark Dreyfus, Austin Energy’s directorof regional and government affairs. By2014, the expected completion date for thebuild-out, he said, “We’ll have a better idea ofwhere people have developed wind farms, whatthe new challenges in the transmission gridare, and what the next stage should be.”“Austin Energy has some great people anddoes many good things,” commented Sloan.“However, coal remains Austin Energy’s numberone fuel source. For renewable energyand for the environment, it will be ahappy day when Austin is no longerin the coal business.”The parties thatfavored Scenario 1,calling it themore “measured”approach, includecompanies such asExxonMobil, Chevron,ConocoPhillips, Halliburton,and Luminant (formerly TXU), whichT RANS MISSION LINE PROP O S A LSNew Megawatts Cost Est. CO 2 /NOx Reductions*Added (billions) (smog)Scenario 1. 5,150 $3.8 4% 4%Scenario 2: 11,553 $4.9 10% 9%Scenario 3: 17,956 $6.4 16% 13%*SOURCE: PUBLIC CITIZENprofit from coal or natural-gas-generated energy.Their arguments cited wind’s intermittence,its inability to be scaled up when needed, andits tendency to diminish around hot afternoonenergy-demand peaks. But the ElectricReliability Council of Tex as, which overseesthe state’s power grid, said that powersupplies would remain reliable even in themost ambitious scenario. Spokes womanDottie Roark said ERCOT uses a sophisticatednew wind forecasting tool and will contractwith existing power plants (typically naturalgas) to remain ready to mitigate wind dropoffsduring high demand. During the July proceedings,PUC Commissioner Paul Hud sonquestioned the “cautionary tone” of Scenario1’s fossil-fuel-friendly supporters, saying,“Aren’t you asking us to constrain the marketby virtue of asking us to constrain transmissiondevelopment?” His comments pointed tothe irony of their position, suddenly favoringthe kind of constraints energy producers andrefiners have long blamed for high prices.Meanwhile, diversifying oil companies BP andShell formally broke ranks with their petrocompetitorsand threw their support behindthe most ambitious scenarios. Both co-ownwind projects and are planning new ones.Private investors, including billionaires T.Boone Pickens and Warren Buffett, as wellas a list of major utilities, have lined up to fundthe upfront cost of the lines. Under state regulations,they’re allowed to recoup costs fromratepayers. While most market watchers estimatethat the lines will add about $4 to anaverage electric bill, wind boosters say that inthe five or so years it will take for lines to bebuilt and charges to show up on customers’bills, prices for natural gas (which suppliesabout 40% of the state’s energy) are likely torise. By then, cheap, new wind power shouldoffset the natural gas costs, resulting in netsavings for customers (assuming energy retailerspass along some of those savings). At apress conference in support of Scenario 3,state Rep. Mark Strama said, “The benefitsof investing in a renewable energy source suchas wind power outweigh the costs 3-to-1.”State Sen. Kirk Watson, who joined Strama’scall for maximum wind, said: “Every majorTexas city has smog and air pollution problems.More wind energy will result in significantimprovements in air qualityin all metropolitan areas.” Watsonnoted that more wind may alsoensure Texas’ ability to supplyaffordable energy, given recentDepartment of Energy estimatesthat statewide powercosts could rise up to 62% iffederal carbon dioxide emissionslimits are enacted.“While we would have preferredthe most aggressive scenario,we think the commissiondid a good job of balancing theneed to use more wind to lowerfuel costs and to develop waysto assure the grid remains stableto prevent blackouts,” saidPublic Citizen’s Tom “Smitty”Smith. “However, dark cloudsmay be looming on the horizon.The commissioners delayed adecision until the end of the month onwhether to give priority on these lines to socalled‘clean’ coal and nuclear plants.”Smith has called for separate hearings online prioritization.– Daniel MottolaAustin’s CleanEnergy FutureIn a presentation to City Council lastThursday, Austin Energy General ManagerRoger Duncan laid out how the utility hopesto meet the city’s future energy needs. AE’splan includes building a large-scale solar farmon city-owned land in Webberville and spending$2.3 billion to construct and source powerfrom a wood-waste-fueled biomass plant inEast Texas. Duncan also detailed AE’s plan tocap carbon dioxide output at 2007 levels andreduce it to 2005 levels by 2014, partiallythrough the use of purchased carbon offsets.The city will continue to employ aggressiveenergy-conservation tactics to offset powerneeds, Duncan explained, including enhancingcity codes for zero-energy-capable buildings.AE won’t add any new power from coal ornuclear sources but will expand its Sand Hillnatural-gas plant near the airport, adding 300megawatts by 2013. By 2020, AE will addnearly 600 MW from wind as well as 100 MWfrom solar sources like the Webberville site, alarge-scale West Texas solar farm, and spacesin Austin deemed “solar-applicable” (thinkparking lots). The utility is also investigatingcoastal wind power and energy-storage technology.Austin Energy begins gathering publicinput this fall and will present a formal recommendationto council in 2009. – D.M.A GracefulCurve JoinsAnotherFrom the Passion CollectionSCHEDULED MAINTENANCE30K-60K-90KTUNE-UPSEXHAUSTCALL FORESTIMATES326-3555www.jeepmasters.com2617 SOUTHFIRST ST.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 19

NEWSNoriega on Energy …Looks FamiliarYou know those kids’ puzzles where you have to find thefour or five differences between two nearly identical cartoons?That’s how Texas voters might feel as they try to distinguishbetween the energy plans of our incumbent junior U.S. senator,Republican John Cornyn, and his Democratic challenger,state Rep. Rick Noriega of Houston.On July 15, Noriega unveiled his energy plan, in an attemptto attack Cornyn on one of the few issues that Republicanshave going for them this election. Noriega’s ideas – availableonline at www.ricknoriega.com/energyplan – contain some surprisesnot normally expected from a Democratic candidate. Forexample, rather than shunning the idea of offshore drilling,Noriega embraces it.Noriega – an employee of CenterPoint Energy – leads witha big emphasis on renewables, but tucked away on p.4 of the11-page document is a call to lift the ban on offshore drilling.“Rick Noriega believes that we cannot drill ourselves outof our current problems but recognizes that we must attack ourenergy problem from all angles,” the policy paper reads, “whichincludes allowing offshore drilling as long as that oil is requiredto be used in the United States, not exported overseas. TheNoriega plan will encourage states to decide for themselves ontheir drilling plans and will support lifting the congressionalban on offshore exploration.”Noriega’s plan also includes a call for oil companies to wringwhat they can from currently unused leases they hold. Callingsuch leases “potentially highly productive,” he demands thatthe companies “drill or give up the leases they hold on 68 millionacres of undeveloped federal land.”Noriega does propose ambitious renewable-energy goals, themost notable being “100% in 10”: He calls for all of Texas’household electricity usage to come from renewable sourcesby 2019 – “10 years after Noriega will take office,” as thepaper puts it. He also calls for a national renewable portfoliostandard (requiring 20% of the nation’s electricity to come fromrenewable sources by 2020), a renewable fuels standard (makingavailable more alternative-fuels gas pumps), heavily investingin research and development of alternative fuels, safernuclear and “clean coal” technologies, and improving thetransmission grid to deliver wind power from West Texas. Otherinitiatives include raising Corporate Average Fuel Economystandards – the average miles per gallon of automakers’ fleets– to 50 mpg by 2020, establishing a National Energy Secretaryoffice in Texas to capitalize on our state’s role in the energyindustry, strengthening the Federal Trade Commission’s authori-NADER STUMPS FOR PREZHe’s run for president as an independent, aGreen, and even a write-in Democrat: Notedconsumer-rights activist Ralph Nader was inAustin July 27 to promote his 2008 presidentialcampaign as an independent. This makeshim the fourth presidential hopeful – alongwith Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney,Libertarian Bob Barr, and presumptiveDemocratic presidential nominee Sen. BarackObama – who’s visited Austin this electioncycle. (Sen. John McCain only made it toRound Rock.)During a speech before an estimated300-strong crowd at the Trinity United MethodistChurch, Nader attacked the two-party system,the corporate influence on Congress, and whathe called Obama’s right-wing voting record. Hehad particular criticism for the way presidentsare elected, noting that eight of the last 2420 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCOURTESY OF TEXAS STUDENT MEDIAty to investigate artificial price hikes, and subjecting OPEC toAmerican antitrust laws.Cornyn quickly counterattacked. The morning after the plan’sunveiling, spokesman Kevin McLaughlin issued a pressrelease stating, “Maybe today he will explain why he thinksmost states should choose their energy destiny, but notAlaska,” McLaughlin wrote, referring to popular sentiment inthat state that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge shouldbe opened to drilling. Asked about that later at a UT campuspress conference, Noriega replied that if Alaskans vote in favorof drilling the refuge, “I would certainly take another look at it.”However, in a Monday teleconference, Noriega backtracked andsaid that he regarded the refuge as federal property and differentfrom the offshore waters of states. (It’s worth noting thatstate authority over coastal waters extends only three miles –after that, it’s federal property for about 50 miles.)Following the UT event, McLaughlin pointed out the obvious– that offshore drilling has been part of the Republican “DrillHere, Drill Now” campaign, not the Democrats’ agenda.“Eighty percent of his plan is pretty much the same as JohnCornyn’s,” McLaughlin said. “The only difference is where hegets off the rails a little bit and talks about suing OPEC andinvestigating American energy companies regarding price gouging,and that’s his solution for immediate relief. Quite frankly,basic economics tells us this is a supply and demand issue.”The drilling component wasn’t enough to deter LukeMetzger of Environment Texas from heaping praise on thecommanders-in-chief were elected without amajority of votes cast (sidestepping the factthat it took third-party and independent candidateslike himself to make that happen). Hismost vehement attack was reserved for “thecontented classes,” which he accused of confusingpersonal liberty with civic liberty andbecoming politically disengaged.His vice presidential running mate MattGonzalez, the former president of SanFrancisco’s Board of Super visors, praisedNader and said, “As an outsider, he haspassed more significant legislation than anyother candidate.” Stressing their platform ofuniversal health care, workers’ rights, andholding companies more accountable, headded, “Despite much of the criticism you willsometimes hear of our candidacy, on theseparticular issues, we have majority support.”Rick NoriegaNader, who again claimed that his 2000 candidacyhelped Vice President Al Gore becauseit forced him to take more populist positions,argued that it is essential to raise these issuesin the context of the presidential campaigns.Much like presidential contender and U.S. Rep.Ron Paul, R-Texas, who plans to turn themomentum of his primary run into a “Campaignfor Liberty,” Nader hopes he will at least sparkdebate. He asked, “If [the issues] are not goingto be discussed in the campaign, do you thinkthey’re going to be considered by whichevercandidate from the two parties wins?”That may be the biggest impact of his candidacy.While Nader’s staff said he was pollingbetween 5% and 6% (the latestRasmussen numbers put him at 2%), as anindependent he faces an uphill struggle forballot access. According to his campaignplan: “It’s pretty good. I’m pretty excited about it. There’s definitelya few things I don’t agree with, but overall it’s pretty boldand really takes advantage of a lot of what Texas has to offeras far as renewable energy. The 100 percent renewable energyfor homes is a pretty big deal. … I’m not excited about thedrilling offshore and the support of nuclear power, but by andlarge, it’s pretty impressive.” Metzger called the “100%” proposal(which echoes a similar national challenge recentlyissued by former Vice President Al Gore) “entirely realistic.”As for Cornyn, “He’s routinely voted against ambitious energyplans,” Metzger says. “On a number of issues, he’s been onthe wrong side. … His emphasis is definitely on maintainingthe status quo and trying to eke out the last bits of fossil fuelswithout having a strong plan to break our dependence.”Both Metzger and Noriega targeted Cornyn for voting lastyear against House Resolution 6049, a renewable-energy bill.McLaughlin defended the “nay” vote against a bill that “raisedtaxes, gave benefits to trial lawyers, and contained numerousearmarks that disadvantaged Texas.”Former Austin Chronicle environmental reporter RobertBryce offers quite a different take from Metzger, dismissingboth Noriega and Cornyn. Bryce, now the managing editor ofEnergy Tribune, a trade publication, doubts that energy independenceis even possible – in fact, his most recent book istitled Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “EnergyIndependence”. Bryce supports offshore drilling but says, “The‘energy independence’ line polls well, but they both shouldknow it’s hogwash.”“The first thing that jumps out to me is that Noriega isbreaking with the Democrats and saying that he is in favor ofmore offshore drilling,” Bryce says. “The Democratic leadership– [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, [Senate Majority LeaderHarry] Reid, and [House Majority Leader Steny] Hoyer – are all[in] lockstep against that. … And he says, ‘Let’s lift the ban onoffshore drilling,’ but he doesn’t say a word about [the ArcticNational Wildlife Refuge].“If you look at Noriega’s [energy plan] and Cornyn’s [literature],they both have the big pictures of the windmills. And so,windmills are fashionable now, and everybody’s saying, ‘This isthe solution to the future.’ Well, no, it’s not. It’s just flat not.It’s not going to necessarily reduce our foreign oil consumptionas Boone Pickens claims, but they make pretty pictures, andso people use them. … Noriega’s plan seems to be standardDemocratic Party boilerplate, except for the offshore drilling.”Noriega says the plan’s ambitiousness is not a reason todismiss it. “I have full faith and confidence in our capacity torealize that new mousetrap,” Noriega said. “How absurd didwe all think it was when the president [Kennedy] stood upthere and said, ‘Before the end of the decade, we’ll put aman on the moon’?”– Lee NicholsRICHARD WHITTAKERRalph Naderwebsite (www.votenader.org), the only statewhere he’s been certified for the Novem berballot is Washington. Applica tions, petitions,and litigation in other states are pending.– Richard Whittaker

Breast-Feeding Campaign Kicks OffResearch shows thatbreast-feeding aids mentaldevelopment, increases emotionalbonds, reduces the riskof type 2 child diabetes, and ismore cost efficient than formula– yet the majority of Texasmothers stop breast-feedingbefore the recommended 6months. Accord ing to GailGresham, breast-feeding coordinatorfor Women, Infants,and Children, the problem is alack of support for mothers inthe face of social and physicalroadblocks. WIC has partneredwith Capital Metro, the AustinPublic Library, and the Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition to help mothers overcome these hurdleswith the “I breastfeed because …” campaign. “We want to demystify it,” says Gresham. “As a promotionalcampaign, we wanted to make it real, not just from doctors but from mothers.” Capital Metro has donatedmore than 6,000 dollars’ worth of free bus space to display ads picturing women breast-feeding andincluding real Austin mothers’ testimonials, such as, “I breastfeed because it’s normal and natural.” The adswill be rolling down the streets of Austin through October. In addition, the campaign is providing free classes,networking opportunities, and health resources to the community. This Friday, WIC hosts a WorldBreastfeeding Day celebration at City Hall. See “Res Publica,” p.14, for details. – Sara RobbersonReport Details DPS Failures in Fire CaseThe Department of Public Safety onMon day released its internal investigation intothe security failures that allowed the firebombingof the Governor’s Mansion on June 8.The memo, from Sgt. Michael A. Escalante ofthe DPS’ Narcotics Service – and a formermember of George W. Bush’s security detailwhen he was governor – to Allan B. Polunsky,chair of the state Public Safety Commission(the DPS’ oversight body), outlines both eventsthe night of the fire and more importantly,events in the months leading up to the fire.Although Escalante doesn’t come to any finalconclusions assigning blame, he does noteseveral gaffes in chain-of-command reportingand staffing that certainly appear to havecaused the security lapse.The report examines the scheduling of DPStroopers for mansion security, problems withthe mansion’s electronic security equipment,trooper training, and mansion security policyand procedures. One key failure seems to bethe staffing of only one trooper on the June 7-8nighttime shift. Escalante notes that beforethe First Family moved out of the mansion lastfall so that a renovation project could begin,Chief Randall Elliston of the Texas HighwayPatrol (a division of the DPS) authorized onlyone trooper during the construction work. Lt.David Armistead of the Governor’s ProtectiveDetail worried that this would be insufficientand said as much to his superior, Capt. DaleAvant. A shift was eventually settled on for twotroopers on weekdays and one on weekends.No reason was given in the report for thesmaller weekend shift, and DPS officials saidthey have no comment on it at this time.Apparently, an additional trooper shouldhave been requested on weekends that constructionoccurred. The construction managertold Escalante that he informed Avant thatconstruction would be occurring on the June 7weekend, but Avant said he didn’t rememberthis. Also, another trooper should haveinformed Avant if additional troopers wereneeded, but he was incorrectly told to reportto someone other than Avant. “As a result ofnot following the proper chains of command,only one trooper was scheduled. … Two troopersshould have been scheduled.”As for electronic-monitoring equipment, bothinoperable equipment and insufficient trainingof troopers on the equipment were identifiedas problems. Four cameras were known not tobe working before the fire, but after the fire,seven cameras were discovered to not beworking. Also, a perimeter system of infraredbeams was not monitored by troopersbecause a piece of equipment known as aCrestron monitor was not installed, and thetroopers were not aware that the beams couldbe manually operated without it. And, “Even ifthe Crestron monitor was installed, the beamswouldn’t have worked because constructionwas blocking them,” wrote Escalante. “No DPSofficers surveyed the grounds to ensure thebeams were not blocked. None of the troopersknew they were supposed to do this as part ofthe property inspection duties. … CaptainAvant did not communicate the security equipmentfailures up his chain of command.”Finally, none of the troopers received formaltraining on mansion security but simply hadinformation passed on to them by other troopers.There were written procedures on smokealarmresponse, but “these procedures werenot made available to troopers working duringthe construction project.”On Tuesday, the DPS released two videoclips – possibly of two individuals, possibly ofthe same person – taken by security camerasoutside the mansion at the time of the fire.You can see the videos at our Newsdeskblog, austinchronicle.com/newsdesk. If you thinkyou can identify the individual(s) in the video,call 506-2849, 506-2861, 506-2862, or theCrime Stoppers toll-free hotline at1-800-252-TIPS (8477). – Lee NicholsCOURTESY OF WOMEN, INFANTS, AND CHILDRENTuesday, August 55 - 7 PM6800 Burnet Road • Suite 5Offer Valid Aug. 5 • 5-7 PM /First Treatment OnlyYOU THINK YOU’RESO SMART!Join us for...EVERY TUES. 7pmBring in your laptop. We’re WI-FI connected!Flying SaucerDraught Emporiumbeerknurd.com. .The Triangle 815 W. 47th St. 454 - 7468a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 21

The Hightower ReportBY JIM HIGHTOWERDHS BORDER FENCEWILL SPLIT CAMPUSThe Bushites like to bill themselves asconservative, freedom-loving patriots. Butwhat they’re doing in Brownsville is theexact opposite.The people of this city, located at thesouthernmost tip of Texas, right across fromMexico, are locked in one of several nightmarishbattles that Bush’s thuggish, autocraticDepartment of Homeland Security hasforced on border communities. At issue isthe multibillion-dollar, ineffectual, and offensivefence that DHS is erecting in the nameof deterring terrorists. Operating as a tyrannicalpolice bureaucracy, department officialsare shoving their fence right through people’shomes and public parks, as well as runningover ordinary civility and common sense.In Brownsville, for example, the fencewould cut a jagged line through University ofTexas-Brownsville, severing 180 acres of theschool from the rest of campus. That’s afourth of its total landmass. This divisionwould put various students on opposite sidesof the barrier, even though all are on the U.S.side of the border.It also cuts off the university’s golf course.Not to worry, though, for the DHS geniusesdesigning this Alice in Wonderland structuresay they’ll leave an opening so students andothers can freely pass through. Hmmm.Wouldn’t “others” possibly include the terroriststhis thing is supposed to keep out?Then there’s the fact that this university hasa unique cross-border mission, serving peopleon both sides – people who will now be separatedby armed agents. As the school’s presidentnotes, “To slice off the ‘bi’ part of binationalviolates the essence of this university.”But forget logic and good will. DHS’ autocratsassert that they can build the fencewherever they want, with or without universityconsent, and they are proceeding with condemnationof the land. Tell me: What’s conservative,freedom-loving, and patriotic about that?For more information on Jim Hightower’s work – and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter,The Hightower Lowdown – visit www.jimhightower.com. DODGING A TAXBY DISSING PRINGLESCorporations commonly try to dodge theirtax responsibilities, but it’s unusual for one todis its own product in order to avoid paying.Yet that’s what Procter & Gamble hasdone with Pringles, the salty spud snacksstacked in a tube. When Pringles were introduced,they were pitched as a sort of superpotato chip, touted as superior because thetube prevented the terrible tragedy of chipscrumbling. Personally, I’ve always liked chipcrumbles. But so what? Pringles were a triumphof neatness over nature. And nowthey’ve triumphed over the tax man.England’s tax office claimed that Pringleswere subject to a tax that’s applied to productsmade from potatoes. P&G lawyers, however,scoffed at the idea that a Pringle meritedpotato status. It doesn’t taste like a chip, theyconfessed. It gives no crunchy sensation, theydemurred. It has a shape that “is not found innature,” they conceded. Plus, they revealedthat while the thing contains some potatoflour, it is not made from potato slices.Still, the tax office argued that Pringles area potato “crisp,” the British word for chip.Not so, cried P&G’s lawyers, even though thelabel on tubes of Pringles boldly declares theproduct to be “potato crisps.” Forget whatthe label says, countered the lawyers –labels are designed as consumer come-ons,not as legal proclamations. Look at theingredients, they said – the bulk is corn flour,wheat starch, rice flour, fat, emulsifiers,sugar, monosodium glutamate, and such –not potato. Therefore, concluded thedefense, it’s more of a biscuit.The judge, perhaps taking a bite of thething, agreed, ruling that Pringles were not“made from the potato” as defined by thetax code. Thus, P&G avoided a tax bymaligning the product it advertises so heavilyas potato crisps. One wonders: Will theynow change the label? Nah – that would betoo honest.A BETTER EXPERIENCE LIVES HERE!3 DAYACL PASSESAVAILABLE!472-TIXXTICKETCITY.COM/AUSTINYour One Stop Before New ***All Parts and Labor Warranted for 90 Days! We Pay for Computers, Laptops & Parts*** BurnetRail-Road Tracks183/ResearchCorporateCenterPutnam a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 23

NEWSThose Who AreAbout to DieThe needles are charged and ready.After a brief legal hiatus to determinewhether the commonly used drug-injectioncocktail can stand constitutional muster – andthe courts having ruled that we shouldn’t paytoo close attention to such things – the Texasdeath machine, headquartered in Austin andadministered in Huntsville, is again buildingup speed. Two Texas inmates were executed inJuly, with one more scheduled at press time;at this writing, six are scheduled to die inAugust, three more in September, and two inOctober. That pace will allow Texas to maintainits long-running leadership in the capitalpunishment sweepstakes. Although in recentyears some states have approached Texas inper capita executions, in raw numbers ofstaged homicides, Texas has no peer.Speaking in Austin last month, LawrenceLessig recalled his own experience as aSupreme Court clerk (to Justice AntoninScalia) and specifically the bureaucratic nightmareof capital punishmentlitigation, in which issues oflife and death regularly deferto obstructive legislation,biased courtrooms, and arbitraryjudicial deadlines. “Youcan have differing views aboutthe death penalty,” Lessigsaid, “but you cannot support the death penaltyonce you see how the system actuallyworks.” Reporting on the death penalty –especially as practiced in Texas – deliversmuch the same impression: Once you lookclosely at almost any capital punishment case,you discover how arbitrary, capricious, andpoliticized is the administration of death.Virtually every capital case record is tainted byincomplete investigation, inadequate defensecounsel, overzealous prosecution, pre-emptivejudgment, and a political and cultural atmospherethat makes a mockery of the fair applicationof justice. The more heinous the crime,the less likely a fair trial or subsequent appeal– too much is at stake for the state to risk itsauthority to kill.In her story this week, Jordan Smith looksclosely at just three of the upcoming string ofdeath row executions scheduled this month.The first case raises issues of international law,for which Gov. Rick Perry and Texas are defyingthe federal government, President Bush,and U.S. treaty obligations in order to makecertain the state can kill one young thug withoutdelay – and ignore the legal claims ofThe DeathPenalty inPracticeanother 15 Mexican nationals on death row.The second undermines the state’s continuingreliance on an unexamined and unregulatedmethod of poisoning its victims and demonstratesthat the state is officially uninterestedin examining its casually adopted executionprocedures, designed chiefly to hide the effectsof our actions from our own eyes. The thirdcase involves a mentally disabled young manwho wasn’t even present when his “capitalcrime” took place – the state’s unique “law ofparties” provides a special adaptation toamplify the ricochet of a single murder.As Smith’s story documents, the applicationof the death penalty will always bearbitrary and capricious, and thereforeunjust. The three cases reported here aremore rule than exception, and the appealprocess is a sham. When President Bushchose to commute the sentence of Lewis“Scooter” Libby for obstruction of justice,David Dow of the University of HoustonLaw Center pointed out in aletter to The New York Times:When George W. Bush wasgovernor of Texas, he presidedover more than 150 executions.In more than one-third of thecases – 57 in all – lawyers representingcondemned inmatesasked then-Governor Bush for a commutation ofsentence, so that the inmates would serve life inprison rather than face execution.Some of these inmates had been represented bylawyers who slept during trials. Some were mentallyretarded. Some were juveniles at the timethey committed the crime for which they weresentenced to death.In all these cases, Governor Bush refused tocommute their sentences, saying that the inmateshad had full access to the judicial system. …President Bush’s commutation of Mr. Libby’ssentence is certainly legal, but it just as surelyoffends the fundamental constitutional valueof equality.Because President Bush signed a commutation,a rich and powerful man will spend not aday in prison, while 57 poor and poorly connectedhuman beings died because Governor Bushrefused to lift a pen for them.In short, you can hold any number of theoreticalopinions about capital punishment.But in good conscience, when you honestlyconsider how the Texas capital punishmentsystem actually works, you cannot support thedeath penalty.– Michael King24 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCRAIG STAGGSYOUR TEXAS DEATH MACHINEGETS ROLLING ONCE AGAINBY JORDAN SMITHA NATION OF LAWS?Scheduled for ExecutionAug. 5: José MedellínThere is no doubt that the crime for which33-year-old José Ernesto Medellín was sentencedto die was horrific. And there is noarguing that Medellín did not participate inthe brutal gang rape in Houston that claimedthe lives of two teen girls. There is also noquestion that Medellín, a Mexican national,was denied the opportunity after he wasarrested to consult with Mexican consularofficials regarding his detention and prosecution,as guaranteed under provisions of the1963 Vienna Convention on ConsularRelations, to which the U.S. is a party.At issue now, just days before his Aug. 5execution date, is whether that violation ofConvention protection prejudiced Medellín’sdefense and, more broadly, whether the stateof Texas (or any other state) is actually requiredto enforce the provisions of international law.To international-law experts, including SarahCleveland, a former UT law professor whonow teaches at Columbia, Texas’ failure tocomply with the provisions of internationaltreaties could have far-reaching implications.The U.S. “has relied repeatedly on the enforceabilityof this and other treaty obligationsabroad,” she said. “If we do not keep ourpromises to our international partners, welose the ability to protect our own citizensabroad and damage our nation’s reputation asa reliable player on the world stage.”On June 24, 1993, then-18-year-oldMedellín and six other young men gathered ina Houston park for a fight that served as aninitiation rite into the Black and White gang.After the fight was over, the teenagers werewalking along a set of nearby railroad trackswhen they passed two young girls, 14-year-oldJennifer Ertman and 16-year-old Elizabeth

An Unlimited Success Hypnosis web site.Peña. The boys grabbed them; the two girlswere raped multiple times, strangled, and leftfor dead. Medellín was charged, tried, andconvicted of capital murder, but it wasn’t untilafter he was sentenced to death that theMexican government was contacted about hissituation, when Medellín wrote to Mexicanofficials from his cell.Ultimately, Medellín was one of 52 peopleon death row in the U.S. named in a lawsuitfiled in the International Court of Justice(often called the “World Court”) by theMexican government, which argued that theU.S. had failed to meet its obligations underthe Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.The relevant section of the Convention providesthat in an effort to maintain “internationalpeace and security,” people travelingabroad should have the right to talk with representativesof their home nation “withoutdelay” if arrested, “committed to prison or tocustody pending trial or is detained in anyother manner.” These rights “shall be exercisedin conformity with the laws and regulations”of the detention state, reads theConvention, “subject to the proviso, however,that the said laws … must enable full effect tobe given to the purposes” for which the consularrights are intended.Although Medellín tried to raise the violationof the Convention as a claim on appeal,the courts rejected his argument. In 2001, theTexas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled: 1) thatthe claim was procedurally moot becauseMedellín had failed to raise the issue at trial,2) that as a private individual he didn’t havestanding to enforce the provisions of the internationaltreaty, and 3) that he failed to showthe violation caused him any harm since hehad been provided with “effective legal representation”at trialand that his “con-José Medellínstitutional rightswere safeguarded.”Whether Medellínwas in fact providedwith adequate representationisn’t atall clear. Accordingto court records,one of his courtappointedattorneyswas actually suspendedfrom practicinglaw during the time he was representingMedellín. And the question of whether theseviolations caused harm to his defense hasnever been adequately addressed.While Medellín’s appeal was pendingbefore the federal appeals court, the ICJ ruledthat the U.S. had failed to meet its obligationsunder the Vienna Convention and that theU.S., “by means of its own choosing,” had tohave the cases of every Mexican nationalreviewed by the courts. In response, Bushissued a memorandum on Feb. 28, 2005,that, in essence, ordered the state courts to“give effect” to the ICJ decision. (Bush alsosubsequently withdrew U.S. participation inCONTINUED ON P.26. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .SMOKING CESSATION | WEIGHT LOSSKICK-THE-HABITHypnosis will GREATLYincrease your oddsof success. I’ll teachyou how to guideyourself toLose Weight,Quit Smokingand be FREE ofPhysical Pain.—CALL TODAY FOR A FREE SCREENING—512-852-4387UNLIMITED SUCCESS HYPNOSISWEB SITE: WWW.XPERTHYPNOSIS.COMAll Women’sSpring & SummerStylesRegular up to $89.00Now $49.90Austin’s Affordable Fashion BoutiqueAcross from Northcross Mall • 323-0554www.shoeboxesaustin.comFitting shoes since 1976Barton Creek Mall • 328-0682“Oh, my! What bigdiamonds you have!”www.franzettijewelers.com©2008a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 25

NEWSTHOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE CONTINUED FROM P.25Names on a ListScheduled Texas Executions,August to NovemberCurrently, of 20 executions planned nationwide, 13 Texasinmates are scheduled to die through Nov. 19. In addition toJosé Medellín, Heliberto Chi, and Jeff Wood, here are notes onsome of the others.– J.S.Aug. 12: Leon DorseyDorsey was 18 years old and had no prior prison record onApril 4, 1994, when he robbed a Dallas video store and killedtwo employees. He stole a total of $392.Aug. 14: Michael RodriguezRodriguez was one of the “Texas 7,” who escaped fromprison on Dec. 13, 2000. The men robbed a sporting-goodsstore at gunpoint and ultimately killed Irving Police OfficerAubrey Hawkins.Aug. 20: Denard MannsManns had two previous convictions in New York for armedrobbery and had just been paroled when, on Nov. 18, 1998, hebroke into the Killeen home of 26-year-old Army Spc. MichelleRobson. He stole her credit cards, cash, and car, sexuallyassaulted her, and shot her five times with a .22.Sept. 9: Gregory WrightWright was convicted and sentenced to die for the 1997 robberyand stabbing murder of Donna Vick, a Dallas woman whoreportedly provided assistance to homeless people in herneighborhood. The state says that after smoking crack cocaine,Wright murdered Vick while another man, John Wade Adams,was present. Prosecutors submitted as evidence a bloody pairof blue jeans they alleged Wright had been wearing. Wright hasmaintained his innocence. Indeed, Adams repeatedly confessedto committing the crime alone. DNA testing performed last yearexcluded Wright as a contributor to DNA found on the murderknife and found his profile was “inconsistent” with biologicalmaterial found on the bloody jeans.Sept. 17: William MurrayMurray was 30 years old in February 1998, when he beat,strangled, and raped 93-year-old Rena Ratcliff in her home inKaufman, Texas, where she lived alone. He stole change from aglass jar and a small knife, he later told police. Reportedly,Murray later told his mother that he had killed Ratcliff while ina “drug-induced frenzy.”Oct. 16: Kevin WattsWatts says he had been on a binge and was suffering from a“drug-induced psychosis” when he walked into the Sam WonGarden restaurant in San Antonio and shot three employees inthe back of the head.Oct. 28: Eric NennoNenno was tried and convicted for the March 1995 rape andmurder in Houston of 7-year-old Nicole Benton. Police foundBenton’s body in Nenno’s attic, after neighbors told investigatorsthat Nenno had previously been accused of fondling aneighborhood child.Nov. 6: Elkie TaylorTaylor was convicted of the robbery-murder of 64-year-oldOtis Flake in Tarrant Co. Taylor and an accomplice reportedlystole dishes, pots, and pans, which they later sold for $16.Taylor has been mentally impaired his entire life, his familyand supporters say. He dropped out of school at 15, when hewas unable to complete the sixth grade, and reads and writesat a first-grade level. It is unconstitutional to execute thementally retarded, and Taylor’s supporters say that his mentalimpairment is such that he should be rendered ineligiblefor death.And so the trichemical method was adopted and is nowcentral to the claim that the method, as practiced in 36 states,is unconstitutional. In general, the three chemicals – sodiumthiopental, pancuronium bromide, and potassium chloride –are injected in succession, and each functions in order to: 1)sedate the prisoner, 2) paralyze all voluntary muscles, and 3)stop the heart. The ability to achieve this goal in a humanemanner, however, rests upon the skill and expertise with whichthe drugs are administered and monitored. The risk of severepain turns on the proper injection of the first chemical, a mildsedative generally used to temporarily render a patient unconsciousduring the introduction of anesthesia. Sodium thiopentalis “ordinarily used to render a surgical patient unconsciousfor mere minutes only in the induction phase of anesthesia,specifically so that the patient may reawaken and breathe onhis own power if any complications arise,” Dr. Mark Heath, aprofessor of clinical anesthesia at Columbia, said in a declaratheportion of the Convention that grants the World Courtjurisdiction over Convention disputes.) Texas officials balkedat the order, and the Court of Criminal Appeals agreed, notingthat while the feds may have to honor treaty obligations, individualstates were under no obligation to do so.The question of enforceability made it to the U.S. SupremeCourt, which sided with the state, ruling that the state courtswere not bound by the ICJ ruling absent any binding actionof Congress. Medellín’s case has since been put to rest by theCCA, but scheduling his execution has caused a last round ofwrangling: On July 6, the ICJ issued an order calling for astay of execution, and on July 14, U.S. Rep. Howard Berman,D-Calif., filed legislation that would offer criminal defendants“any relief required to remedy the harm done” by violatingthe Convention. That legislation has not yet movedbeyond committee assignment, prompting state Sen. RodneyEllis, D-Houston, to appeal to Perry to postpone Medellín’sexecution. It is “inappropriate” fora state government to “undermine”foreign policy obligations – and it isespecially important to considerthe effects that dismissing theseconcerns would have on “Texansliving, working, and visitingabroad,” he wrote.That argument doesn’t appear tohave impressed Perry. “The worldcourt has no standing in Texas andTexas is not bound by a ruling oredict from a foreign court,” spokesmanRobert Black told the HoustonChron icle. “It is easy to get caught upin discussions of international lawand justice and treaties. It’s veryimportant to remember that theseindividuals are on death row for killingour citizens.”FEEDING THEDEATH MACHINEScheduled for ExecutionAug. 7: Heliberto ChiHeliberto ChiIs the Texas method of execution by lethal injection a “crueland unusual punishment” that violates the Eighth Amendmentto the U.S. Constitution?According to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, thestate’s highest criminal court, the answer is no. The method,at least as it is set forth in the written protocol by the TexasDepartment of Criminal Justice, is legally sound, said the CCAearlier this year. On June 9, the court ruled that Heliberto Chi,scheduled for an Aug. 7 execution, is not entitled to a hearingto argue otherwise.Yet in carrying out its executions, does the state actually followits own protocol? If not, how can the CCA be certain thatthe injection method would actually withstand strict scrutiny?And if an inmate isn’t entitled even to a hearing on the matter,will we ever know the truth?In fact, according to recently filed appeals – and, it wouldappear, to deposition testimony under seal in a Houston federalcourt – it’s hard to tell if Texas officials exert any meaningfulcontrol over the lethal-injection process. In 1977, Texasfollowed Oklahoma’s lead, adopting trichemical lethal injectionas our method of execution, even though the only expertTexas officials consulted – a veterinarian – advised that themost humane method would be a single, massive dose of thebarbiturate pentobarbital. Texas ignored that advice, however,opting for the trichemical cocktail developed for Oklahoma byits medical examiner, Jay Chapman, who, according to courtdocuments, was not of the opinion that execution should bepainless. “Perhaps hemlock is the answer for all the bleedinghearts who completely forget about the victims – and their suffering,”Chapman has said. “And we should worry that thesehorses’ patoots should have a bit of pain,awareness of anything – give me a break.”"I conclude to areasonable degree ofmedical certainty thatthe Texas lethal injectionprocedure createsan unnecessary andmedically unacceptablerisk that an inmate willexperience excruciatingpain and suffering."– Dr. Mark HeathCONTINUED ON P.2826 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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NEWSTHOSE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE CONTINUED FROM P.26tion filed with Chi’s appeal. In the context of lethal injection,the sedative is problematic because, if it wears off after theinjection of pancuronium bromide, a drug that immobilizes allvoluntary muscles – including the diaphragm – the inmatemay feel excruciating pain, and, while conscious but incapableof communication, “suffocate to death while experiencing anintense, conscious desire to inhale.”If monitored properly, these pitfalls might be avoided, but lawyersfor Chi (and other death row inmates) argue that the absenceof any oversight by medical experts or trained administratorsrenders the Texas execution method a torturous experience thatcertainly falls outside the parameters of the Eighth Amendment.The CCA’s assurance that Texas’ lethal injection method issound relies exclusively on the U.S. Supreme Court decisionthis year in the case of two inmates who challenged Kentucky’suse of the method. The Kentucky courts held a seven-day hearing,out of which came a full record for the Supremes toexplore. In the end, the high court concluded that the mannerin which Kentucky administers lethal injection, using the sametrichem cocktail as Texas, is constitutional.But that does not mean, the high court noted, that all protocolsare created equal. In fact, it seems the only thing Texas andKentucky have in common is that both states have writtenprotocols. In practice, the differences are striking – includingthe fact that Texas does not use medical professionals to carryout or monitor the execution process, not even to ensure thatthe IV line is secured properly, that the individual drugs aremixed properly, or that the inmate is unconscious prior tobeing dosed with the second and third drugs. And that createsa strong likelihood for painful error.Quantifying that likelihood, however, has been difficult atbest for the lawyers representing death row inmates like Chi.State statutes governing lethal injection require only that executionhappen by the “injection of a substance or substancesin a lethal quantity sufficient to cause death.” The only restrictionTDCJ places on the process is that no “torture, or illtreatment, or unnecessary pain, should be inflicted.” Whatthat means in practice has been hard to determine. TDCJ’swritten protocol remained secret until 2006, when it was disclosedduring discovery in a federal civil lawsuit. What thestate – or the CCA – has known about this protocol over theyears is also unclear.However, recent court filings suggest that the TDCJ and theTexas Attorney General’s Office may have been aware since atleast March 2007 that Texas’ written protocolhas little relevance to the realities of the deathchamber. In a recent appeal (for inmate CarltonTurner, executed July 10), lawyers argued thatthe contents of a 280-page deposition of deathunit Warden Charles O’Reilly reflect that “thewritten protocol is effectively irrelevant to thereality of how Texas carries out execution bylethal injection in practice.” The deposition remains undercourt seal and was only made available to defense attorneysunder a confidentiality agreement inhibiting their ability toprovide more specific detail. However, Turner’s attorneysargued, the information in O’Reilly’s deposition “demonstratesthat the TDCJ’s assertions that the protocol is applied in Texasjust as it is in Kentucky are unsupported allegations and, inlarge measure, simply false.”So far, such arguments have not impressed the CCA. In Chi’scase, Judge Barbara Hervey opined for the court majority thatbecause the Kentucky execution protocol is “materially indistinguishablefrom Texas’ … protocol … Chi’s Eighth Amendmentclaim has no merit.” At present, it appears that only oneCCA jurist, Judge Tom Price, has any reservations about thelegality of the process: “Apparently the Court will not tolerateactual litigation of the issue if it means the death machinemeanwhile must stand idle,” Price wrote in dissent. “But wecannot fix the machine while the cogs are turning.”SHOULDHAVE BEENANTICIPATEDScheduledfor executionAug. 21:Jeffrey WoodJeffrey Wood did not enter theGold Star Texaco in Kerrville untilafter he heard the gunshots.He was sitting in a pickuptruck parked outside the gasstation – almost a second hometo him, his sister Terri Beensays, a real hangout whereWood often went to socialize with friends who worked there,including clerk Kris Keeran – when he heard gunfire. He raninside, where he found his friend Keeran slumped over nearthe counter, dead from a single .22-caliber round that caughthim between his left eye and the bridge of his nose. Holdingthe gun was another friend, Danny Reneau. Wood was shocked.Reneau pointed the gun at Wood and barked an order for himto grab a video surveillance camera and VCR. Wood was afraid,he later told police, and did as he was told. Reneau removedthe store safe and the pair fled to the home of Wood’s brotherin Devine.Wood did not fire the fatal shot and did not participate in therobbery that preceded the Jan. 2, 1996, murder. Nonetheless,Wood was sentenced to die, based on the state’s “law of parties,”also known as the “conspirator liability” statute. The lawprovides that if two or more people agree to commit one crimebut in the process commit another, each person is guilty of thecrime committed – if the crime was “one that should have beenanticipated.” This is a more nebulous form of traditionalaccomplice liability (aiding and abetting) that requires the stateto prove specific, individual culpability. The difference here is inintent and foresight: Accomplice liability requires intent; conspiracyrequires only a finding that the crime was foreseeable.In Wood’s case, the state argued that he had planned withReneau to rob the Texaco and therefore was responsible forKeeran’s death. But it isn’t at all clear that Wood was planningto rob the store.Wood told policethat he’d heardweb extraJeffreyWoodFor additional documents and a video by JordanReneau talkingSmith and Jana Birchum on these Texas death penaltywith someonecases, see this story online at austinchronicle.com.else (the storemanager, Beensays) about a possiblerobbery – the place had taken in $17,000 over Christmas,and the pair speculated that a similarly hefty stash could beexpected just after New Year’s Eve, since the bank holidaywould mean the money would not yet have been deposited –but Wood also said he believed the talk was “bullshit in thebreeze.” (Family members have said that Wood did initially talkabout robbing the store, along with Reneau, the store manager,and Keeran, but insisted that Wood, Keeran, and the managerall dismissed the idea.)Critics have argued that Texas’ use of the law of partiesunconstitutionally broadens the field of death-eligible defendants;the death penalty, they argue, should be reserved for themost culpable and most heinous crimes. In fact, Texas is theonly state that uses a conspiracy statute to make defendantseligible for the death penalty. “To pass constitutional scrutiny,”Wood’s attorney Scott Sullivan argued on appeal, “a sentencingstatute must not only narrow the class of persons eligible forthe death penalty, it must also ensure sentencing decisions areCOURTESY OF THE WOOD FAMILYbased upon an individual inquiry” of culpability. Texas’ law ofparties fails to do that, he wrote. The state, however, arguesthat the law of parties is not implicated in a decision to imposedeath: “The Texas capital murder scheme does not allow anindividual to be put to death merely for being a party becausethe law-of-parties cannot be applied in answering the specialissues” that jurors must answer, argued then-Bexar Co.Assistant District Attorney Lucy Cavazos. A death sentence isassessed only if jurors find that a defendant would pose a continuingthreat to society and that there is no mitigating evidencethat might lessen the defendant’s culpability. YetCavazos’ argument evades the fact that without the law-ofparties,defendants like Wood wouldn’t be eligible for death inthe first place. The courts have sided with the state.Wood’s case is similar to that of Kenneth Foster, who wassentenced to death for the 1996 murder of Michael LaHood bya companion, based on the Bexar Co. district attorney’s use ofthe conspiracy statute. Foster was scheduled to die last yearbut was spared when Gov. Rick Perry accepted the recommendationof the Board of Pardons and Paroles and commuted hissentence to life in prison. “I believe the right and just decisionis to commute Foster’s sentence,” he said. Perry did not directlyimplicate the law of parties in explaining his decision but didraise the issue of culpability, saying he was “concerned” thatstate law allowed Foster to be tried jointly with triggermanMaurecio Brown.Given the parallels between the Wood and Foster cases,Wood’s supporters question how the state can execute Woodwithout further damaging the credibility of the Texas deathsystem. (Indeed, Wood’s sister, Been, argues that her brotheris even less culpable of murder than was Foster.) “There willbe a full package going to the governor, and I think you willsee a lot of similarities between us and Foster,” Sullivan saidlast week.Wood’s family and supporters also question whether Woodis actually competent to face execution. He was originallyfound incompetent to stand trial, because he could not adequatelywork with his attorneys and participate in his defense.During the sentencing phase, District Judge Stephen Ablesruled that Wood would not be allowed to fire his courtappointedlawyers and represent himself. Nonetheless, Woodwould not allow his attorneys to present mitigating evidence– including evidence that Wood was abused as a child andhad been diagnosed with serious learning disabilities.Moreover, school records show that Wood’s maturity wasnotably retarded – school officials noted that although helooked his age, he behaved like a child, constantly soughtapproval for actions, and was easily led and influenced by others.The evidence further erodes Wood’s culpability, Beenargues. “Jeff was just dumb. He’s so trusting of people and hasto get burned in order to learn a lesson,” she says. “He doesn’tdeserve to die.”28 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Issues ’08‘The Situation’BY MICHAEL VENTURAOn Oct. 29, 2004, days before our lastpresidential election, this column ran with theheadline “Welcome to the Situation.” Afterhuffing and puffing about the inability and/or unwillingness of the candidates to discussthe capital-S Situation frankly, I defined theSituation thus: “The great days of the UnitedStates of America are over.”It was a sloppy use of the word “great.” By“great,” in that sentence, I meant powerfuland rich. What could I have been thinking?On any more-or-less sane day I know powerand riches are not necessary for greatness. Theblacks and Creoles of New Orleans were neitherpowerful nor rich when they invented jazz,nor were the Wright Brothers when they gaveus flight, nor was Italy when it produced thecinema of Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini,Michelangelo Antonioni, and Luchino Visconti.For that matter, America wasn’t powerful andrich when it created its Constitution. Examplesabound. America can be great without beingpowerful and rich. But to get on with theSituation, in 2004 I defined it like this:“China has become a manufacturing colossuswhile our factories are gone or going. …China invests vast sums … in its infrastructure… from cultural and educational institutionsto grand construction projects; we’respending comparable sums futilelyin Iraq, while our infrastructure …crumbles. We’re fighting for oilin the Middle East; China is innegotiation with Russia to haveoil piped through its back door– while, through its front door, ithas a sweet deal with Australia fornatural gas (while we spend millions“defending” Australia against – China!).… As to our heavily indebted federal government,its solvency is now supported mostly byAsians buying our bonds. Why do they buyour bonds? Because the American consumeris still the engine of world prosperity. How isthis possible? Because of credit cards and thelike [“the like” being mortgage refinancing,etc.]. Without the American way of credit, we’dbe in a depression. The paramount fact: TheUnited States … is now important economicallyonly because of its citizens’ consumption.That consumption is fated to decline, while inthe near future … China will prosper enoughfor its 1.3 billion citizens to become significantconsumers. … When that happens, China andSouthern Asia [India, etc.] can support theirown growth and will have no more use for us.Then they need not defeat us militarily. Theyhave merely to stop buying our bonds. Or evento threaten to stop. … That is the Situation.”Fast-forward to the present. You don’t need arehash of our economic morasses to know theshape we’re in; you just need to buy groceries,pump gas, or try to get a loan. Meanwhile, theSituation is upon us, and the Chinese don’tlettersat 3amneed us anymore. “Chinese retail sales rose 22percent in April [!], an indication that domesticdemand is increasing, offsetting the effectof declining exports [to the U.S.]. … It wasthe fastest rise since the government startedgathering monthly data” (The New York Times,May 14, p.C9). Says Robert Rubin, formerU.S. Treasury secretary, “My impression is thatChina and India both have sufficient domesticdemand-led growth to continue to have vibrantgrowth even if the U.S. has a sustained periodof difficulty” (Newsweek, June 16, p.21).And now that they don’t need us, what’shappening? “India’s foreign ministry says theU.S. dollar will no longer be accepted at the TajMahal” (CNN, Jan. 4). That’s because “since2002, the dollar has fallen by 25% against thecurrencies of its major trading partners. … [A]further decline of the dollar is likely, especiallyagainst key Asian currencies” (USA Today, July23, p.B3). And, because of that, foreign capitalhas been fleeing U.S. markets for the past year;in a report on CNBC’s Power Lunch, March 4,no one consulted has ever seen anything likeit. (Capital flight? From the USA? Doesn’t thatonly happen in the troubled Third World?) And“foreign investors are losing their appetite forU.S. bonds. Foreigners represented only 5.8percent of bidders at [a March] auction,down from an average 25 percent”(The Week, March 28, p.40, quotingLondon’s Daily Telegraph). That’sbig trouble because “the barefacts are that the nation – heavilyindebted – needs to attract some$800 billion a year from abroad,either by borrowing the money orby selling American assets. No seriousanalyst believes that an imbalance of thatmagnitude is sustainable” (The New York Times,Aug. 19, 2007, p.WK9).The Chinese, our principal bankers, don’tbelieve it either. “China Less Willing to BeAmerica’s Piggy Bank,” headlined a New YorkTimes story on Dec. 22, 2007 (p.C3): “For thelast three years, China has been the financierthat kept the American government well funded.… But … China reversed course in 2007 andhas become a net seller of Treasury securities.”You’ll notice that since China “reversed course,”our economy has gotten shakier and shakier.After I wrote “Welcome to the Situation” in2004, I received a handwritten letter in excellentEnglish from a Chinese student in Beijing,accusing me of being anti-Chinese. (They readthe Chronicle in Beijing?! Guess so.) If I wereChinese and wrote as freely as I do, I’d beimprisoned; so – there’s that. Aside from that,I’m not anti-Chinese. I’m merely assemblingthe facts as accurately as I’m able. To wit, TheEconomist, May 17, p.89:“‘The credit crisis has cooled Asia’s ardourtoward Western banks.’ … A senior Chineseregulator recently described to this newspaperPEAT DUGGINShis view of big global investment banks in onegraphic word: ‘shit.’ … [And] Jiang Jianqing,chairman of Industrial and Commercial Bank ofChina, the world’s most valuable bank by stockmarketvalue, recently talked down the merits ofinvestment in American bonds and banks.”Nor am I anti-The Economist, probably themost respected Western news magazine in theworld, but even I was surprised when they led offan editorial with “Time to Break Free: The MiddleEast’s oil exporters should end their currencies’peg to the dollar” (Nov. 24, 2007, p.18). TheEconomist is a financially conservative, sociallymainstream British outfit, so traditional that, in19th century fashion, articles are rarely signed.Take it from a journalist, they don’t headline aneditorial that radically unless they’re repeating theundercurrent of talk in their very well-connectedcircles. On July 17 (p.15), they led an editorialwith, “It was another one of those frantic weeksthat were never meant to happen in the world’smost advanced economy” (meaning the U.S.).You need a little familiarity with posh Englishhumor to get that as scathing sarcasm. Even so, Iwasn’t prepared for the last line of a major articlein that issue, chillingly titled “End of Illusions”(p.79): “Perhaps it is no surprise that traders inthe credit-default swaps market have recentlymade bets on the unthinkable: that America maydefault on its debt.”Again, take it from a journalist: An outfitlike The Economist doesn’t pull a sentencelike that out of thin air – nor would they giveit starring position as the article’s finale –unless privy to serious off-the-record talk thatAmerica might, just might, default.And: “The FDIC said the combined profit ofthe financial institutions it regulates plunged 46percent … during the first three months of theyear” (The New York Times, May 30, p.C6). “[T]he American economy has shed jobs in each ofthe first six months of the year” (The Economist,July 10, p.17). “Blue-chip stocks down 21.2% inpast year. Wholesale prices have risen 9.2% sinceJune 2007. U.S. dollar down 13.2% vs. euroduring past year. Foreclosures up 53% since thistime last year” (USA Today, July 16, p.1). Whileour numbers are down, “China’s [gross domesticproduct] rose by an estimated 10.1% in thesecond quarter” (The Economist, July 17, p.105).And there’s this: “Perhaps more than 50% ofAmerican currency resides outside the U.S.”(CNBC, Kudlow & Company, Aug. 22, 2007),and “the 50 biggest stocks in the U.S. have halftheir earnings abroad” (CNBC, Street Signs, Aug.23, 2007) – meaning we have no control overour currency and our biggest corporations staysolvent only by investing abroad, while our financialinstitutions have lost almost half their value(some have lost much more). “[F]oreigners mustpurchase more than $3 billion every businessday to fund the [U.S.] imbalance. … The loss ofthe dollar’s purchasing power and internationalrespect has some experts worrying that the euromight replace the dollar as the so-called primaryreserve currency … a withdrawal [from the dollar]could have enormous consequences” (APonline, July 6).Fortunately for us, greatness does notrequire that one be rich and powerful, onlythat one be creative and have strength of character.Ready?■30 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

ARTSBOOKSBORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORING BORINGby Zach PlagueFeatherproof Books, 288 pp., $14.95 (paper)A tragicomedy. A satire of art-world corruption,drenched in hyperbole and cloaked in thetheme of wasted life. All right, groan already,but Zach Plague’s Boring Boring BoringBoring Boring Boring Boring is one of the bettermodern satires I’ve read in a while, if onlybecause it doesn’t pound the reader over andover with a hammer, pestering her to acceptsome pithy moral. Boringdoesn’t even appear to havea moral; it’s seemingly just amere distraction from the boringboring – in other words, afun read.“Boring boring”: That’swhat Plague’s characters callthe emptiness in their monotonous,rich, white-suburbia-ishlives, one they perpetuallyfill with dirty drugs and evendirtier sex. And it’s not angstthey feel (thank God); they’retoo bored to be anxious, atleast a sober kind of anxious.Life in Boring revolves around theUniversity of Fine Arts and Academia, afactory posing as an art school. The administratorsat Uni-Arts have managed to suckall the creativity, meaning, and beauty outof visual art in order to guarantee all of itsstudents a successful career making money– and lots of it. The talentless louts whoinhabit the school produce collages of trashand canvases mounted with feces.THE TRUTH ABOUT SASCHA KNISCHby Aris FioretosRookery Press, 306 pp., $25.95Sascha Knisch. Even the name promptsthe question. Male or female? And isn’t aknish a doughy treat my grandmother usedto bake for us as kids? Perhaps the name ismeant to raise ambivalence as, indeed, anintegral part of this story explores the “sexualquestion,” that large gray areabetween definitive, black-andwhitesexuality. But the bookis also a suspenseful murdermystery that entangles Knisch,a movie-house projectionist,in a web of intrigue when hebecomes the main suspectin the death of his close butsecret confidant, the inscrutableDora Wilms.The story is set in the summerof 1928 in Weimar Berlin,with its palpable tensionbetween personal and artisticfreedom on the one handand impending, dictatorial repression onthe other. The latter is more implied thannecessarily overt, but the writing is on thewall for those who read between the lines.Central to this dichotomy is the Foundationfor Sexual Research, an enigmatic and notaltogether aboveboard institute. While someof its research has been supportive of thatThe town is structured as a miniature artkingdom, and it is owned by the Platypus,the story’s villain and leader of the WhiteSodality, an incompetent group of thugs whowear white suits, drive white cars, and do thePlatypus’ bidding. The Platypus’ foil is Ollister,his former student and current threat in theart kingdom. What Ollister lacks in fortunes hemakes up for in aesthetics, and thus, he mustbe destroyed. Ollister’s muse, the thorn in hisside, is Adelaide, the only othercharacter with true potential,artistic and otherwise. She isthe pawn in the antics betweenthe White Sodality and Ollister’sridiculous art terrorists.And the rest is one absurdplot twist after another, a tiedyedspiral of schemes, porn,and drug-induced insanity. It’sall pretty funny – a hearty jab atthe nature of art school that’smuch less inside-jokey thanDaniel Clowes’ middle finger toart school, 2006’s Art SchoolConfidential. And thoughBoring’s style and theme make it easily likenedto Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (actually,Boring reads more like a play than a novel), itsmade-up slang, depraved characters, and sourending bring it closer to A Clockwork Orange.An art piece in itself, Boring is a hybrid ofdiscrete formats and fonts, typos, and illustrations,which provide needed breaks in a twistytale that, at times, can be a little boring boring.– Sofia Resnickliberating, gray area of sexual identity andexploration, the foundation also conductsexperiments with male virility that wouldlater be associated with notions of Aryansupremacy.To help prove his innocence, Knisch mustfigure out Wilms’ relationship to the foundation.Swedish author Fioretos – who translatedthe novel into English himself– is at his best in this final lap,as Knisch ties the disparateclues together to unravel thedizzying mystery. Originally publishedin Europe in 2006, thebook is populated with somefascinating characters. Besidesthe two principals, there areKnisch’s lifelong friend, thesleazy entrepreneur AntonLakritz; his work colleague OneleggedElse; the foundation’sspatula-toting Dr. Felix Karp;and tenacious Chief HomicideInspector Karla Manetti.There certainly could have been more presenceof place in describing Berlin during thisfascinating period, but the author accuratelycaptures the tenor of the times. The book’sshort, chilling coda – in the form of an officialreport dated January 1934 – leaves no doubtthat the inevitable has already arrived.– Jay TrachtenbergAustin Women MDsDR. ENZIE BRISKEYandDR. 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THEarts31 Books 34 ArtSpark Festival 36 After a Fashion 64 Arts Listings‘TINY ACTS OF IMMEASURABLE BENEFIT’Transformed by art into artIf you live a full life, then your life is full ofepiphanies. San Antonio artist Katie Pell,whose exhibition with the utterly charmingtitle “Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit”opens at Women & Their Work next week, hadjust such an epiphany a couple of years ago.For most of her artistic life, Pell was a visualartist working in acrylic. In other words,she was a painter. “And then a few yearsago,” says Pell, “a friend asked me to be in ashow, and the theme was chairs. And Ithought, ‘Well, that’s kind of not for me,’cause I’m not gonna make some craftychair.’ So I staged a Mexican chair fight. Idrew a chalk circle, attached the chairs tofishing wire, operated them like marionettesfrom these ladders, and I photographed allthe people gambling and betting on thesefighting chairs. The neighborhood I live in hasa lot places where Spanish is sort of writtenoutside on the stores, and I took the photosthere, and people at the show asked: ‘Wheredid you photograph this? Where did you seethis? Where in Mexico was this?’ And I gotsuch a kick out of that because, you know,chairs don’t fight in Mexico.“We’re not really seeing what’s there.We’re using what’s there as a visual cue todefine other things through that image. And Ibecame really interested in that idea. Thatreally was transformative for me.”So transformative that Pell now considersherself as much storyteller as visual artist. “Itry to do inspirational. The stories that interestme are stories that are inspirational andyet ambiguously beneficial. Like it’s not reallyclear whether any progress has been made,whether something is good or bad. I try toexpress the complicated nature of life.”Such will be exactly the case in “TinyActs,” which consists of 40 screen prints,typically simply drawn figures such as threemushrooms and a butterfly accompanied bytext such as: “You deserve more love. Don’tlie any more.” Most interestingly, the exhibitioncontains five sculptures, three of whichthe audience can choose to interact with – ornot. “I don’t encourage anything,” says Pell.“People just end up interacting with them. Idon’t forbid it, nor do I encourage it. I don’twant to make it like some theme show. I’mnot trying to get everybody to come andclown around or anything. Usually, somebodygets inspired.”Talking with Pell, you can understand whypeople might get inspired, if even the slightestsmidgen of the positive energy andintense commitment she exhibits in herconversation finds its way into her art. “Iwant to celebrate us. I want us all to get alittle positive feedback and feel good. I wantto make work that, when you interact with it,you can have this transformative experienceby being in it. You become the art, and youare also physically in a position of opennessand exposure. You’re making yourselfvulnerable to all these strangers, and we’reall in it together.”– Barry Pineo“Katie Pell: Tiny Acts of Immeasurable Benefit”is on display Aug. 7-Sept. 13 at Women & TheirWork, 1710 Lavaca. For more information, visitwww.womenandtheirwork.org.DON HOWELLIN MEMORIAMSeven weeks after being honored for hismeaningful contributions to and support ofthe arts in Austin, Don Howell has passedaway. The former high school theatre teacher,patron, and new inductee into the Austin ArtsHall of Fame died peacefully in his home onMonday, July 21. He had been fighting throatcancer for many months. Howell was bestknown and appreciated for his interest infledgling theatre companies and his willingnessto share his experience, expertise, andencouragement with them as they try tomake a go of it. He came to Austin in 1992and made a critical difference in the survivalof several now indispensable theatre companies:Vortex Repertory Company, FronteraProductions (now Hyde Park Theatre),Physical Plant Theater. He was also a greatfriend to some that came and went too soon:the Public Domain, Troupe Texas, and DeusEx Machina, among them. His patronage wasintensely personal: seeing shows, havinglong conversations with artists, and sharingtheatrical goods – costumes, set-pieces,props – from his own collection, gatheredthrough his years of teaching in Alice, Texas.July has been a roughmonth for funky Austinarts venues. First, theEnchanted Forest inSouth Austin shut downover a city permit issue(see “The EnchantedForest,” below). Then, littlemore than a weeklater, in the UT campusarea, Spider House’s sisterspace, the UnitedStates Art Authority,announced it would be closing its doors indefinitely while itworked to iron out some issues over – wait for it – permits withthe city of Austin. In the case of the new performance venueand art gallery, the sticking point involved zoning for the property,which housed a plasma center previously. When businessTHE ENCHANTED FOREST NOT CHOPPED DOWN YETUnited States Art AuthorityAuthorities shutter AuthorityLast week’s news that the Enchanted Forest had its operating permit yanked by thecity has had fans of the South Austin outdoor gallery and performance space up inarms. But owner and operator Albert DeLoach is determined to deal with any code violationsand work with city officials to find ways to get the 3½-acre facility open again assoon as possible. To that end, he has a scheduled meeting with the mayor’s staff totalk possible zoning and permitting options. See Richard Whittaker’s “Permit Woes,”News, p.18, for the scoop.– R.F.partners John Dorgan and Conrad Bejarano acquired theproperty to expand their entertainment empire betweenWhitis and Guadalupe at 29th Street – the two also ownSpider House, EcoClean, and I Luv Video – they thought theyhad dotted all the i’s and crossed all the t’s regarding health,safety, and fire inspections, not to mention the Texas AlcoholicBeverage Commission permits to extend the Spider House footprintinto the new space. Unfortunately, according to Bejarano,somebody lodged enough complaints about USAA events thatthe city was led to take another look at the business’ paperwork,at which point it was discovered that the venue didn’thave the proper certificate of occupancy.“This one person who was upset that we were operating abar didn’t take into account our cultural contribution to thecity,” says Bejarano. “In half a year of operation, we’ve donatedour space to artists, musicians, filmmakers, and over adozen nonprofits who would otherwise not have a venue fortheir performances and fundraisers.”“We really thrive on the vibrant culture ofAustin, and our efforts have always been to participatein and promote this scene in our ownsmall way,” adds Dorgan. “That’s our greatstrength, and that’s why we’re hopeful that we’llbe able to work with the city to reopen the ArtAuthority in the coming months.”Meanwhile, though, Art Authority events bookedfor August are being relocated to other venues.Updates can be found at www.spiderhousecafe.com.– Robert FairesWhen about 20 mostly young, mostly pooralternative theatre companies from aroundthe country decided to meet in Iowa City inDecember 1994, Howell organized a contingentof local companies to go. Thus,Frontera, Physical Plant, the Public Domain,and Salvage Vanguard Theater were at theforefront of the national alternative-theatremovement called the RAT Conference, amove that had a profound effect on theatrein Austin and around the country in theNineties. Perhaps Howell was just repaying adebt to the legendary Texas theatre artistswho had nurtured him in the Forties, Fifties,and Sixties, notably Margo Jones, Paul Baker,and Nina Vance. In addition to assistingyoung theatre companies, Howell volunteeredfor the Austin Circle of Theaters, was anindependent producer, acted and worked as adramaturge for the Austin ShakespeareFestival, and served as a panelist for theTexas Commission on the Arts and AustinArts Commission. He will be missed. Howellinsisted that there be no funeral service, buthis friends may put together a memorialevent in the future.– R.F.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 33

ARTSStriking SparksWhat happens when strangers team upto create a play and a video game in 10 weeksBY HANNAH KENAHTo the average person, “hybrid” refers toa vehicle that runs on gas and electricity.To an ArtSpark participant, “hybrid” meansdouble down.Team Chimera is one of seven teamscompeting in HBMG Foundation’s ArtSparkFestival this year and only the second hybridteam in the competition’s four-year history.Whereas most teams are responsiblefor creating either a theatre piece or a videogame, Team Chimera’s “hybrid” status meansits members are responsible for creatingboth. Why did this group of artists decideto take the most ambitious route? HBMGFoundation founder Manuel Zarate may bepartly to blame, er, thank. Most peopleapply to ArtSpark as part of a fully formedtheatre or video-game team; however, individualartists who want to participate butdo not have a team can apply to the TalentPool. When Zarate addressed this year’sparticipants, he “talked for a while about thefestival and, in particular, about some of theinteresting things that had come out of havinga hybrid team in the past,” says WalterBadgett, the video-game project leader forTeam Chimera. “We liked what we heardand took the plunge.” Chimera’s playwright,Sarah Saltwick, says: “The foundation wasvery excited about the possibility of having ahybrid team. I was a little nervous. It seemedhard enough to create theatre with strangers.But on the other hand, why not try somethingnew and truly challenging?”Chimera and its fellow competitors – fourtheatre teams and two video-game teams –were set up in an office complex in NorthAustin, each team with its own office, computer,software, copier/printer, and budget forcreating a new theatre piece or video game (orboth) from scratch in 10 weeks. “It’s a festivalfor crazy people,” says Bethany Perkins, TeamChimera’s theatre director. “I’ve never seenanyone throw strangers into a room togetherand then give them money.”Ah, but there’s a method to ArtSpark’smadness. Zarate believes that artists mustlearn to make a profit with their endeavors tolead a more sustainable creative life. The festivalis a means of “empowering creative thinkersto understand business concepts.” Thoseare the words of Aaron Sanders, a participantin the first ArtSpark Festival in 2005 andcurrently the marketing director for HBMGFoundation. He explains that each team mustdevelop not only a creative work but alsoa strategy for marketing it. ArtSpark assiststhe teams by holding workshops on topicslike intellectual-property rights, royalty agreements,fundraising, and marketing. At the endof the festival, HBMG Foundation distributes$15,000 in prize money to the teams that havedemonstrated the strongest creative and marketingwork. “The biggest message we wantto convey is that artists are entrepreneurs,”says Sanders, “and with the right knowledge,they can continue to pursue their passion andmake a profit at the same time.”Meanwhile, back in Team Chimera headquarters,sparks begin to fly – as in the“sparks” of artwork and music that will serveas a catalyst for the team’s creative process.Each team is paired with a musician and avisual artist who provide an original piecefrom which the team draws ideas for its newtheatre and/or video-game work. In TeamChimera’s case, the visual artist is Keith Ellis,a professor of graphic design who traveledall the way from Michigan to take part in thefestival, and the musician is Lauren Morris,a Celtic and world-music artist who hasrecently relocated to Austin from California.The artwork they provided for Chimera “hada very mystical quality,” says Perkins. “We allinstantly thought of relics, ancient civilizations,and things lost at the bottom of theSarah Saltwick, Alyssa Borg, and JohannaHerre as the three Sleets in SublimationAs the five differentdisciplines collide inTeam Chimera, one thingbecomes clear: Everyoneenjoys this level of demandand collaboration.ocean.” These “sparks” inspired the birth ofSleet, the main character for Team Chimera’sproject, Sublimation.Sleet is a creature made of water, andher underwater world is dying. The show’stagline reads, “Sublimation explores the choiceswe make and how those choices makeus.” Choice is central to the story of Sleet,and it is also central to the effect theatre andvideo-gaming have had on one another inTeam Chimera’s process. Perkins says: “Thestructure of the play is heavily influenced byvideo-game structure. There are three womenplaying Sleet, and each time they get to a forkin the road, we see them make a choice, andtheir stories split from there.” Aaron Eastburn,a programmer/designer for the team, said,“After numerous discussions, we decided togo with a game that would act as a prequel tothe play and support it in that manner.”Video games and theatre are not commonlypaired together. When asked how ArtSparkcame to be a platform for such disparate disciplines,Sanders explains: “The hope was tocreate an environment where a traditional artform could be influenced by technology andvice versa. Theatre can influence the plotlinesand presentation of video games, and videogames can help move theatre into the future.”As the two forms come from different financialand technological ends of the artisticspectrum, one might well wonder what thevideo-game world and the theatre world thinkof each other. For the video-game side, Badgettsays: “I enjoy the stories and characters intheatre or any media involving storytelling. Ialso like the feedback and audience rapportthat is generated from a live performance.”Eastburn adds, “Theatre has pretty much setthe standard for our media for so long that thechance to work with it and get a better understandingis a big draw.” On the theatre side,playwright Saltwick is curious: “The level ofdetail and invention intrigues and impressesme.” Meanwhile, theatre director Perkins ismore fascinated with the gamers than thegames. “My boyfriend can spend an entireday playing NHL 07 on his PlayStation. Videogameplayers are a total mystery to me.”As the five different disciplines collide inTeam Chimera, one thing becomes clear:Everyone enjoys this level of demand andcollaboration. “Overwhelming,” “crazy,” and“scary” are words used to describe the process.But artists thrive under pressure, as teamvisual artist Ellis explains, “It is noteworthythat the process between all the mediums isvery different, and most of the challenge hasbeen working with people who work in a differentmindset than you.” Musician Morrisis exhilarated: “This feels like one of thosetimes in my life I’ll never forget. The creativityof the people around me is tremendous. Weare all burning it at both ends.” In describingher favorite thing about working with HBMGFoundation and ArtSpark, Saltwick says: “Theforced creativity. The confidence. It’s onething to say you’re a writer. It’s another thingto walk into a room with a group of reallyTheatre ShowcaseAll performances at the Off Center, 2211 Hidalgo.After Life’s Loose LipsThursday, July 31 & Aug. 14, 8pmOphelia, Beatrice, and Juliet – three practitionersof the “oldest profession” – make it as best as theycan until one day, everything changes.Poison Apple Initiative’sUgly Ways: Leaving the NarrowFriday, Aug. 1 & 15, 8pmWith Jimmy’s help, Lauren’s becoming more likeher mother than she expected. Kendra doesn’t knowwhat she’s coming to, and Dorian doesn’t knowwhere to go.Chimera’s Sublimation Saturday, Aug. 2 & 16, 2pmAs her underwater world slowly dies of a terribleand mysterious illness, the water-creature Sleetmust will herself into human form and break thesurface into our strange dry world.Stamp Lab’s HushSaturday, Aug. 2 & 16, 8pmInfluenced by the silences of urban spaces, Hushexplores ways in which matriarchal lineage survivesin the face of isolation, distortion, and confinement.Élan Productions’ di[verge]Sunday, Aug. 3 & 17, 2pmA play with music that looks at crossroads and asksif we ever really accept our present or just continue todream about our past and what might have been.Music ShowcaseFriday, Aug. 8, at Scoot Inn, 1308 E. Fourth. Doorsopen at 6pm.Featuring musical performances by DanielChapman & Adam Kreft, John P. Funk, Lauren Morris,Jonathan Myers, Single Frame, and Ashleigh Stone.Visual Arts ShowcaseSunday, Aug. 10, reception at 6pm, presentationsat 7pm, at Pump Project Art Complex, 702 Shady.Exhibit continues through Sunday, Aug. 17.Featuring artwork by David de Lara, SenalkaMcDonald, John P. Funk, Keith Ellis, VeronicaVasquez, David Ohlerking, and Patrick McDaniel.Video Game ShowcaseMonday, Aug. 11, reception at 6pm, presentationsat 7pm, at ACC Highland Business Center, 5930Middle Fiskville.Alchemic Studio’s EyrusTo get home – if you still want to – you must firstfind your way out of Eyrus, the city of the Sun, wherea broken recording plays a public serviceannouncement commanding residents are to leavethe city immediately.34 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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food40SHIRATAKI NOODLESThere is a new diet food out there, but the Japanese have beeneating it for centuries. Known as shirataki, meaning “white waterfall,”these white, thin, round noodles are made from the largebulbs of the subtropical konjak plant (Amorphophallus konjac, akadevil’s tongue or snake palm). The starchy bulbs are very high in awater-soluble dietary fiber called glucomannan, which has the benefitof making one feel full while promoting gentle regularity. Thebig bonus is that noodles made from the starch have no calories,gluten, fat, carbs, or sugar. Essentially tasteless, they absorb theflavors of what they are cooked with.You may have eaten shirataki noodles in your past and notknown it. The Japanese use them in sukiyaki and gyudon (beef noodlebowl), while a block-shaped form called konnyaku is sliced andused in a dish known as oden, a fish-cake stew eaten as a sidedish with udon noodles. Shirataki also come in a dark form, grayishwith dark speckles; the color and speckles come from the additionof hijiki seaweed. This darker form is used most often in stir-fries.Shirataki noodles are cooked and packed in water, and they needonly to be well-rinsed and added to a dish right at the end of thecooking process, just to be coated with the flavor of the sauce; cookthem too long, and they can become rubbery. I tested them severalways and liked each version. Thrown into a heated Bolognese, theydeliciously adopted the role of an al dente cappelini. Tossed withslivered carrot, scallion, bamboo shoot, and dried tofu and toppedwith a spicy soy dressing, you’d be hard-pressed to distinguish themfrom thin rice noodles. Added to steaming bowls of chicken soup,they were a delight.Do a search online, and you’ll find many recipes adopting shiratakito standard dishes, and to find them here in town, visit AsahiImports, in the strip center on the northeast corner of BurnetRoad and Koenig (6105 Burnet Rd., 453-1850). – Mick VannWILLIAMS-SONOMAWINE & FOOD: A NEWLOOK AT FLAVORby Joshua WessonFree Press, 176 pp., $29.95Event Menu Aug. 2-7› When the owners of Faraday’s Kitchen Store(1501 RR 620 N., 266-5666) throw themselvesan anniversary party, customers get thegifts! Drop by the Foodie-Palooza, where localand regional celebrity chefs will demonstratethe use of all kinds of kitchen equipment –learn about everything from knife skills to foodprocessors to stove-top smokers, completewith recipes and free product giveaways duringeach demo. See details and a complete scheduleat www.faradayskitchenstore.com.Saturday, Aug. 2, 8am-6pm.In this new, highly informative,and entertaining book from theWilliams-Sonoma collection, JoshWesson shares with the reader hisno-frills philosophy to wine-and-foodpairing. Wesson, the co-founder ofBest Cellars, is a pioneer in thewine-styles retail concept: classifyingwine around flavor groupsinstead of grape varietals, demystifyingwine-buying for the novice,and making it easy to turn it intoan everyday drink.The book starts with the basicsof wine, from grape varietals, wineregions, and bottle shapes to howto read a wine label and evaluatea wine using all the senses. Thechapters that follow offer advice onAn Avocado Story 44 Restaurant Roulettewine-and-food pairings focusing onwine styles: sparkling, crisp whites,soft whites, rich whites, pink wines,juicy reds, smooth reds, bold reds,and sweet wines. Each category isthen deconstructed into its characteristicaromas, tastes, and textures(illustrated by full-color photographicons), while the text explains howand why we taste such different elementsin wine.Each chapter features recipes forappetizers, entrées, and dessertswith complementing and contrastingflavor profiles (Wesson’s principlesof wine-and-food pairing) for eachspecific wine style. The recipes featuresuggested wine pairings fromboth Old and New World regions,› Cannoli Joe’s (4715 Hwy. 290 W., 892-4444) commemoratesits first year in business with a series ofTex-Italia Wine Celebrations designed to introduceits patrons to fabulous wines and benefit selected localnonprofit organizations through the month of August.Each Wednesday and Thursday, four wineries will berepresented. Guests can taste the featured wines forfree and buy them by the glass or the bottle at greatlyreduced prices. Proceeds from the wine sales willbenefit different charities each week. See detailsand a complete schedule at www.cannolijoes.com.Wednesdays & Thursdays in August, 6-9pm.as well as alternative matchesfrom other chapters, say, a Roséinstead of a juicy red. The bookalso includes sample menus forentertaining or for everyday casualdinners, as well as a comprehensiveglossary of wine terminology.Through clear text – peppered withWesson’s incomparable sense ofhumor – and beautiful full-colorphotographs, everyone can feelempowered to take a stab at the artof combining the sensual elementsof wine and food. As Wesson putsit, “Trust your palate rather than anyrules etched in stone.” Then head tothe wineshop and into the kitchento experiment with your newfoundknowledge. – Claudia Alarcón› Damon Young of WineBat and GreenPastures (811 W. Live Oak, 444-1888)Executive Chef Charles Bloemsmahave announced their events for Augustthrough October. They will offer wineand-cheesetastings every Wednesdayevening and winery dinners on Thursdays.For details, schedules, and necessaryreservations, call 961-6151 or go towww.winebat.com. Wednesdays &Thursdays, 6:45 and 7:15pm.– V.B.W.JOHN ANDERSONFood-o-FileBY VIRGINIA B. WOODMy personal feeling about birthdays is that youmight as well consider the alternative and throwyourself a big ol’ party. The Red House Lounge(1917 Manor Rd., 391-1501) is just the place todo it. More than 50 friends joined me there for myannual potluck birthday bash in mid-July, and wefound the venue delightful. Joel Mozer sky’s hip,retro Western decor in the homey old cottageoffers plenty of comfortable furniture for lounging,both inside and out, plus a well-stocked bar and afriendly, attentive waitstaff. We noshed on anastounding array of party foods created by myguests (two kinds of fried chicken, two flavors ofhomemade ice cream, Tipsy Watermelon Salad, afresh berry crostata, and on and on), as well as asteady supply of excellent thin-crust pizzas fromthe Stortini kitchen, just across the patio. All thatand presents, too! What more could a gal askfor? Owner Carlos Rivero and his gracious teammade us feel right at home. Now I understandhow this place became a favorite neighborhoodhangout so quickly… All kinds of interestingthings are happening in the local hotel businessthis summer. When chef Josh Watkins left theDriskill Grill, it was announced that he would beworking with a New York outfit opening an upscalerestaurant on the ground floor of one of the newbuildings Downtown. That turned out to be a temporaryconsulting job, and the accomplishedyoung man soon moved on to another post.Watkins is now the executive chef at the brandnew UT AT&T Executive Education andConference Center, at the southern edge of theUT campus on MLK Boulevard. According toWatkins, the conference center has seven foodserviceoutlets, including a fine-dining restaurant,a sports bar, casual eateries, plus banquet andconference dining facilities. Watkins’ executivesous chef is Egil Valen tin, formerly of the TexasCulinary Academy. Look for the new conferencecenter to be open in time for football season…Finn & Porter, the fine-dining restaurant in theHilton Austin (500 E. Fourth), has a new executivechef and restaurant manager. Chef JeffreyCummins and general manager John Maroonare both well-traveled culinary-school graduateswho also have certification from the Court ofMaster Sommeliers. That is good news for localsand travelers looking for a quality meal of steaks,seafood, or sushi with the perfect wine pairing…In the fine old community tradition that made theHeritage Society’s 1886 Chocolate Cake one ofthe most popular desserts at the 1886 Cafe &Bakery, the Driskill is searching for a signaturepie to add to the cafe’s dessert menu for thecoming year. The pie recipe contest is open to anynonfood professional who is 18 years or older, andculinary students are encouraged to enter. A panelof judges will choose the winner from finalists featuredat A Taste of the Driskill event Aug. 30. Thewinner will receive a $500 Driskill gift certificateand other prizes. The deadline for submitting originalrecipes is Aug. 15. Application forms and contestguidelines are online at www.driskillhotel.com…Euphoric readers wrote in about the reopening ofthe Athenian Grill (600 Congress, 474-7775) atthe corner of Sixth and Congress (entrance onthe Sixth Street side). The owners and menuremain the same, but the new space has a fullbar and offers some outside dining. Down townersare so happy the Athenian’s back that thelunchtime line stretches out the front door. Opa!a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 39

FOODAztec pictogram for thetown of Ahuacatlan, a“place where there aremany avocado trees”A billion pounds. That’s the weight ofavocados that Americans eat each year. Andit’s no quirk that the two biggest consumptiondays in the United States are Super BowlSunday and Cinco de Mayo. If we ever neededa food metaphor for the culinary melting potthat is Amer i can food, avocados and guacamolecould be it.That said, unless you live in an avocadogrowingregion like Southern California orFlorida (or perhaps the Rio Grande Valleyin Texas), you probably haven’t given muchthought to the avocados that are availableyear-round in grocery stores. Where do theycome from? How do they grow? How did wedevelop such a taste for this odd, semitropicalfruit that seems more like a vegetable, containsa significant amount of oil, and is almostexclusively consumed raw?Avocados, the Early YearsThe avocado tree, Persea americana, is amember of the laurel family, related to cinnamon,bay, and sassafras. Along with corn,beans, and peppers, the fruit was one of thestaples of the pre-Columbian Mesoamericandiet. Archaeological evidence indicates thatwild avocados probably originated in South-AnAvocadoStoryBY MM PACKCentral Mexico and were cultivated throughoutMexico, Central America, and SouthAmerica as early as 7,000 years ago.The first published Western account ofavocados is from 1518, when conquistadorMartín Fernández de Enciso described theHass avocados growing near Uruapan,Michoacán, MexicoMM PACKfruit he ate in Colombia. When Hernán Cortésentered Tenochtitlan (now Mexico City) in1519, he found avocados an integral partof sophisticated meals consumed by AztecEmperor Montezuma, including a sauce ofmashed avocado, tomato, and onion calledahuaca-mulli.The Aztecs called the fruit ahuacatl, thesame word they used for testicle, believingthem to be aphrodisiacs with male-strengtheningproperties. Food historian Sophie Coetells us that avocadoswere critical to thelow-fat Mesoamericandiet because they containup to 30% oil.Spaniards transcribedahuacatl to aguacate;in a 1526 report toCharles V of Spain,New World chroniclerFernández de Oviedodescribes a paste similarto butter that is“very good eating.”With the Spanishconquest and Europeanexploration, avocadosspread around theCarib bean and ultimatelyto the Pacific,the Philip pines, andSoutheast Asian countries.The first mentionof avocados in Englishwas in 1672 by W.Hughes, physician toKing Charles II, after visiting Jamaica. He callsthem “one of the most rare and pleasant fruitsof the island. It nourisheth and strengtheneththe body, corroborating the spiritsand procuring lust exceedingly.” During the1700s, avocados became known as alligatorpears, subaltern’s butter, midshipman’s butter,shell pears, and Spanish pears. GeorgeWashington wrote of “agovago pairs” whilevisiting Barbados in 1751, but confessed hereally preferred pineapples.Agustín Audiffred Ayala, organic avocadogrower at Rancho Milpillas, NuevoParangaricutiro, Michoacán, MexicoTen Things You May Not Know About AvocadosCalavos: Avocados in CaliforniaAvocados from Cuba were probably plantedin Florida by 1833, but Mexican avocadosweren’t introduced into California until about1848. Plantings are documented around SantaBarbara and Los Angeles through the 1890s,but the real birth of the California industryoccurred after a single Mexican variety namedFuerte survived the great freeze of 1913; afterthat, Fuertes were planted with wild abandon.As part of the largerboom in subtropicalcrops, SouthernCalifornia real estatedevelopers promotedavocado-growing as ameans to live easy andget rich quick; thousandsof acres werecultivated betweenSan Diego and SanLuis Obispo. However,beyond the traditionalavocado-eatingSouthwest, there wasn’tmuch of a demand,and as productionexploded, growerswere forced to createa market. Calavo, thegrowers’ cooperativeformed in 1924, advertisedin such upscalevenues as The NewYorker and Vogue anddistributed recipes for“calavos” to food editors around the country.Avocados were promoted as the last word inchic elegance; their traditional ethnic heritagewas downplayed for decades.The ubiquitous Hass avocado, developed in1926 by L.A. mail-carrier Rudolph Hass, caughton in the Fifties and now is a virtual monoculture– it constitutes 90% of California’s commercialcrop, which in turn represents 95%of all avocados grown in the U.S. Hass is wellCONTINUED ON P.421) An avocado tree can bloom four or five times a year.2) Avocados grown in sunlight are sweeter; avocados fromthe shady interior of the tree have a higher oil content.3) Avocados can be “stored” on the tree for as long assix months and picked as needed. The longer the fruitstays on the tree, the higher the oil content.4) Avocados must be harvested by hand.5) Mature avocados don’t become soft and ripeAvocado blossomuntil after they’re picked.6) Avocados should be ripened at room temperature until they yield slightly togentle pressure. A hard avocado can take up to two weeks to ripen.7) Avocados are grown commercially in the U.S., Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Israel,and New Zealand.8) Half of the avocados consumed globally are grown in Michoacán, Mexico.9) Avocado wood is sometimes used for making guitars.10) Avocado honey is thick, rich, and reddish in color. And it doesn’t taste like avocado.– MM.P.MM PACKCOURTESY OF BOBBY MATHERNE40 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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FOODAN AVOCADO STORY CONTINUED FROM P.40Sorting avocados by size and grade, at AvocadoExport Co. S.A. de C.V. in Uruapan, Michoacánsuited to Southern California growing conditions, andunlike the more delicate varieties, it withstands shippingvery well – it’s the only type that most Americansever see in the store. However, enthusiasts and connoisseursgrow myriad other varieties; the Universityof Cali for nia South Coast Research and ExtensionCenter in Irvine maintains more than 150 species. In2008, the California Rare Fruit Growers Association iscelebrating the Year of the Avocado.During the 20th century, the California avocadoindustry built a flourishing market in the Southwest,where Latin American culinary influences were wellestablished. However, it wasn’t until the Latinomigration of the 1970s that theavocado market expanded muchinto the rest of the country. TheCalifornia industry’s success wasaided significantly by 1914 federallegislation that – in the nameof pest and disease control –prohibited any importation fromMexico and other countries.Some 80 years later, Chileanavocados were first permittedinto the U.S. In 1997, limitedimportation of Mexican Hass avocadoswas allowed – only fromthe state of Michoacán and onlyinto 19 Northeastern states. Thisoccurred after a longstanding collaboration betweenthe United States Department of Agriculture andits Mexican counterpart, Secretaría de Agricultura,Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentación(SAGARPA), wherein the two countries developedand enforced strict compliance with phytosanitarystandards and procedures for picking, packing, andshipping to the U.S. As of 2007, avocados from Michoa cán are now imported into all 50 states.The fears of the California industry that Mexi canavocados would introduce disease and a marketglut haven’t materialized. In fact, the U.S. demandfor avocados now far exceeds California’s capacity,particularly after the crop-debilitating freezes andsevere water shortages of recent years. In 2007,Tom Bellamore, then-vice president of the CaliforniaAvocado Commission, said: “Our partners in Chileand Mexico are needed. … They’ve earned theright to ship their product to the U.S. market.” AnPHOTOS BY MM PACKweb extra(vaganza)Avocado GelatoAvocado MargaritasEarly Guacamole‘El AguacateroMichoacano’ by LosOriginales de San Juaninteresting spirit of international collaboration hasdeveloped among producers, and some of the largestCalifornia packers such as West Pak, Mission Produce,Prime Produce, and Calavo now maintain plants inMichoacán. Charley Wolk, a grower who leads theHass Avocado Board, puts it this way: “The Mexicangrowers are not our enemies. They are our partners.”Aguacates: Avocados in MexicoSo what about the avocado industry in Mexico, anancient source of avocado trees and the world’s largestavocado-producing country? Not too surprisingly,Mexico has the highest avocado consumption rate onthe planet – 20 pounds per person per year.As in the U.S., where more than 90% of avocadoscome from one state (California), the vast majorityof Mexican avocados are exported from the stateof Michoacán, centered around the small city ofUruapan. Michoacán exports avocados to France,Japan, the UK, Canada, and now, the United States.And, as in the U.S., most Michoacán avocados arethe transport-friendly Hass variety, grafted onto theindigenous Mexican Criollo rootstock.Directly west of Mexico City, Michoacán is a beautiful,mountainous region with porous volcanic soil,lush vegetation, and significant rainfall for half theyear that supplies much of the water needed for avocadoproduction. As in California, most Michoacánavocado growers are small, with orchards of 10 hectares(24.7 acres) or less.Victor Moreno Torres, promotions director for theAvocado Producers and Exporting Pack ers Associationof Michoacán (APEAM), explains that avocados,directly and indirectly, provide about 300,000 jobsin the state and that the purpose of APEAM is notonly to support the members andexport more avocados but to regulatethe expansion rate, not floodthe market, and not cut down thestate’s forests in the process.Michoacán is home to a small(80), viable group of certified organicavocado growers. Third-generationgrower Agustín Audiffred Ayalatransitioned his family’s 60-yearoldgroves to organic 11 yearsago; the farm now operates in aclosed-loop system – pigs are fedthe fallen avocados that cannot beexported to produce the compostthat fertilizes the trees.Avocado commercialization occurs via the packinghouses; a packer’s agents go into the growers’ orchardsto assess and buy the crops and then send experiencedpickers to harvest the fruit by hand. More than 4,000Michoacán growers and 30 packers are certified as meetingthe stringent USDA/SAGARPA standards enforced byteams representing both agencies. They regularly inspectthe fruit and the process, from the orchard to the packingplant to the shipping in sealed, refrigerated trucks.Typically, it’s about a four-day trip from the treein Michoacán to a U.S. grocery store. Accordingto Salvador Ortiz Briones, internal communicationsmanager of APEAM: “Every box of avocados has anumber that identifies the grower, the orchard, andthe packer. If there’s ever a problem, it’s clear exactlywhere the avocado comes from. The orchard would bequarantined, and the packing system shut down andcleaned. But, in the 10 years since we’ve exported tothe U.S., there haven’t been any problems yet.” Bill SchneiderGrow Avocados in Texas? Yes, We Can.Most people associate avocados with Mexico, California, and Florida, butthere’s a small thriving avocado business right here in Texas. Along with its famousgrapefruits and oranges, the Lower Rio Grande Valley is home not only to myriadbackyard avocado trees but to a number of commercial enterprises, as well.Typically, Valley avocado growers maintain orchards smaller than 10 acres, primarilyserving farmstands and specialty mail-order businesses. An exception is CiomperlikFarms in San Juan, near McAllen. With a 6-acre orchard, Stanley Ciomperlik began aweekend sideline 18 years ago; now he farms 40-plus acres and harvests about half amillion pounds of avocados per year. “It’s a great business,” he says; he’s currently developing150 additional acres. Despite regular pruning, his trees regularly reach 40 feet tall.Not only does Ciomperlik wholesale fruit to Wal-Mart, HEB, Winn-Dixie, andLuby’s, but he also sells Lula avocado seeds to California growers for disease-resistanthosts on which to graft the Hass avocados that dominate the American market.(The smooth-skinned, bright-green Lulas are popular in South Texas, but the darker,rough-skinned Hass variety is better able to withstand shipping around the country.)Avocados in Texas aren’t a new idea – in 1895, John Bourke, a U.S. cavalry officerstationed on the Texas-Mexican border and an avid anthropological observer, wrote:“When the custard-like pulp is beaten up with egg, oil, vinegar, and spices, it makesa most delicious salad and when sliced seems to be equally good. This fruit resemblesa pear in shape; is purple in color; the pulp is sweetish and can be eaten raw.”The Texas Avocado Society was formed in Weslaco in 1948 as an association ofgrowers and horticulturists seeking promising varieties from Mexico and Florida todevelop a major commercial crop for South Texas. While the Texas industry didn’tquite take off as hoped, the soci ety’s research and development legacy remains.In Devine, half an hour southwest of San Anton io, retired state employee BillSchneider turned his avocado hobby into a full-time business. Since 1983,Schneider’s mission has been testing, grafting, propagating, and selling avocadotrees developed to withstand the cooler temperatures of Central Texas. “I wasinspired by people always planting seeds and failing to get healthy, bearing trees,”he remembers. “The late Dr. Nor man Maxwell at A&M gave me some pamphlets,showed me how to graft, and I just kept at it.”Grafting onto hardy Mexican rootstock, Schneider’s experiments resulted in threetrademarked types (Opal, Wilma, and Pryor) suitable for growing in Central Texas;they usually bear fruit at three years, and their fruits have delicate, edible skins.Each spring, he sells year-old trees for $40 (by appointment: brs@devtex.net or830/663-2492); he plans to have 1,000 trees available in 2009. Schneider is somethingof a celebrity in Devine – the Chamber of Commerce’s annual fall celebration(www.devinefallfestival.com) is called the Devine Fall Festival and Avocado Showcase.A San Antonio source for avocado trees is Fanick’s Garden Center (www.fanicks.com). Its catalog offers six varieties deemed appropriate for this region, and thirdgenerationnurseryman Mark Fanick says the center has many customers from Austin.And in Austin, the Great Outdoors Nursery (www.gonursery.com) carries both Lulaand Hass avocado trees from Florida for $37.95.However, not everyone is enthusiastic about avocados in Austin. Julian W. Sauls,professor and extension horticulturist at Texas A&M’s Texas AgriLife ExtensionService in Weslaco, wrote the definitive 1992 growing guide “Home FruitProduction: Avocado” (aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/homefruit/avocado/avocado2.html).He says by e-mail, “The best advice for wannabe avocado growers inthe central part of the state is to expect to experience serious tree damage and/ordeath from freezing temperatures sooner or later.”– MM.P.42 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Themenu also includes requisite manicotti, lasagna,and spaghetti options. 6406 N. I-35,419-1220. www.carrabbas.com. $$$MEDITERRANEAN, PIZZA: ARPEGGIO GRILLTry this much-loved neighborhood spot for25 flavors of tasty wings, an interestingselection of pizzas, and a full complement ofMediterranean dishes prepared from familyrecipes. 6619 Airport, 419-0110. $PIZZA: THE PARLOR HYDE PARK The jukebox maybe different, but expect the same fresh, innovativepizzas at this new outpost of the popularpunk parlor on North Loop. 4301 Guadalupe,323-0440. www.myspace.com/theparlor. $TEX-MEX: EL POLLO FELIZ Tender, juicy, rotisseriechickens by the plate, whole bird, or party packpaired with reliable side dishes will make yourwallet happy. 6801 Airport, 323-6604. $THAI: THAI VILLAGE Enjoy a classy but stillaffordable meal and very artful food presentation.6406 N. 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Lamar,442-8283. www.artzribhouse.com. $$BURGER JOINT: SANDY’S FROZEN CUSTARD &ROOT BEER The cool relief of a chocolatevanillaswirl cone and the neon sign, notto mention the sinful smell of decades ofsublimely greasy burgers, transport us back intime. 603 Barton Springs Rd., 478-6322. $CHINESE: NG HOUSE A spare and spiffy Cantoneseoasis for the Chinese-deprived in South Austin.You’ll find a huge menu, big portions at low prices,and great specials. 6800 West Gate Blvd.#112, 416-9888. www.nghouse.net. $RANEAN BUFFET The buffets are arranged on two8 hot dishes, nine cold dishes, rice pudding, andn options. 12636 Research, 258-0395.TOO BUSY TO COOK!TRY OUR “LITTLE JOE”WINE BAR You’ll find a simple yet sophisticatedtfully planned flights 1.5 LBS of OF Argentinean MEATS, wines.2 PINTS SIDE ORDERS PLUSFIXINʼS (FEEDS 3-4) FOR $19.99CALL, ORDER AND RELAX.WE DELIVER AFTER 5PM.MIN DELIVERY AMT. $14.99BUY ONE PLATEAT REGULARPRICE ANDGET 2ND ONEHALF PRICE!OF EQUAL OR LESSER VALUE.VALID AFTER 4PM. ONE PER GROUP.NOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFERSEXP 08-30-08WE CATER as low as $6.99pp (call for details.)S UNDAY - ALL YOU CAN EAT B AR-B - Q only $14.9912005HWY 290 WEST (JUST 6 MINUTES PAST THE “Y”)MON-THU 10:30-8 FRI-SAT 10:30-9 SUN 11-8 288-7879CUBAN: HABANA SOCO Rising from the ashesof a fire, Habana has opened bigger andstronger. The Lechon Asado roast pork is amust, as is the Cubano sandwich for a lighterbite, with lots of appetizers to go with thedrinks. 2728 S. Congress, 443-4253.www.habana.com. $$ITALIAN, PIZZA: BRICK OVEN RESTAURANT Theyserve some of the best pizza in town with apersonal touch. 9911 Brodie, 292-3939.www.brickovenrestaurant.com. $$TEX-MEX: CHUY’S ARBOR TRAILS This newestlocation is serving all of your familiar favoritesin a brightly painted atmosphere punctuatedby velvet paintings and metal palm trees.4301 W. 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Pick up some brined grape leavesto cook with at home. 2928 Guadalupe,479-7337. www.tomstabooley.com. $PIZZA: DOUBLEDAVE’S PIZZAWORKS Shootpool, enjoy good beer specials, and stuffyourself with the campus area’s greasiest andmost satisfying indulgence: DoubleDave’sPeproni Rolls. 3000 Duval St., 476-3283.www.doubledaves.com. $$TEX-MEX: TACO SHACK Good, substantial, andcheap Tex-Mex. 2825 Guadalupe, 320-8889.www.tacoshack.com. $WESTAMERICAN CAFE: KERBEY LANE NORTHFamously fabulous breakfast, lunch, anddinner and a favorite of the late-night set.12602 Research, 258-7757.www.kerbeylanecafe.com. $$BARBECUE: RUDY’S COUNTRY STORE &BAR-B-Q Good-quality smoked meats areavailable by the pound, along with all thewhite bread, pickles, onions, and peppersyou need. 11570 Research, 418-9898.rudysbbq.com. $BURGER JOINT, PUB GRUB: SHERLOCK’SBAKER ST. PUB & GRILL ESPN Gameplanevery Saturday while you choose from anenormous list of imported beers and enjoygenerous meal portions. 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Truth in AdvertisingBY B ELINDA ACOSTAFinally, a reason to watch TV again: MadMen (AMC) is back! After a summer ofloathsome reality series, reruns, and nonstopinfotainment, how refreshing it is to see thishour of TV magic back on the air after a long,long year.A lot has been written about how wellMad Men captures the early Sixties. Indeed,it is gorgeous to watch, and the trip backin time to when racism, sexism, and almostevery other “ism” you can think of was soovert is sobering. But I think the larger questionin my mind when I watch Mad Men is:What is it about the period piece that resonatesin the present?Part of the answer might lie in theapproach. And in this, not all period piecesare alike. Take a look at the almost unwatchableSwingtown (CBS). Set in the 1970s,this series about suburban swingers (marriedcouples who swap partners) is so selfconsciousof its milieu that its dramaticmoments feel contrived. Not so with MadMen, which is all the more spectacular sinceboth series are anchored around desire.Mad Men’s Don Draper (Jon Hamm) isthe show’s central character, a handsome,Madison Avenue ad exec married to a beautifulwoman. He has a lovely house in thesuburbs and a picture-perfect life. As theseries has progressed, we see that he wants adeeper experience, an experience that eludeshim – aesthetic, intellectual, perhaps evenspiritual. He wants to experience thatthing that is larger than himself.It’s the reason he’s a successfulad man – he knows thatstriking those notes under thesurface is what will ultimatelysell the product. But he hasneglected to strike the samenotes in his own life – a life that’sbased on a lie. (Watch season one,which just came out on DVD, to discoverhis secret.)Mad Men is one of those series thatrequires your attention. You can’t watch itwhile doing something else (you wouldn’twant to, anyway). Many scenes are understatedyet so layered with meaning that they achewith melancholy. But it’s not all longing andpensiveness. There are moments of humor,as in the scene when office manager JoanHolloway (Christina Hendricks) is debatingwhere to put the brand-new, mammoth-sizecopier, explaining that she does not want tokeep it in the hallway because she doesn’twant the office to look as if it’s bursting at theseams – all the while she’s wearing anotherone of her painted-on dresses.But why do Mad Men’s era-specific storiesand themes play so powerfully in the present?Maybe it has something to do with theshow’s exploration of excess. If pre-1965 wasall about keeping up appearances, the presenttveyeJon Hamm stars inMad Men, the AMCoriginal series thatmines the pastto say somethingrelatable aboutour present.is about making appearances. Don Drapermay have taken a shortcut to reinvent himselfcovertly, but there isn’t that much differencebetween him and a reality-show contestant,particularly in those shows where the goal isfor one winner to rise above the rest to be thebest chef, the top model, the next star, thelone survivor. There is always that momentin these reality series where a “confession”occurs. This is where the contestant offersa “candid” expression of his need to provesomething to himself or his family or thedesire to reignite his life after some failure,false start, or bad luck.It’s the rah-rah moment thatis supposed to rope us in to rootfor the contestant. Reinventionis the American way, after all.If you allow yourself to getwrapped up in some of thesecompetitions, particularly of thewinner-take-all variety (AmericanIdol is a good example), you getto see the “transformation,” and thenwhat? When it’s all said and done, the experiencewas only a vicarious experience for theviewer, not a real one.When I watch Mad Men, I know I’m notDon Draper or the rest, but somethingin their stories feels familiar and full andgratifying. You walk around with the episodefor a day or more, replaying sceneswith friends who also watch the series,sharing their equally vague ideas of whatdraws them to the series, because it’s muchmore than the handsome characters, thelush sets, the fine attention to detail inset decoration, language, and costumes.When it comes right down to it, the searchfor deeper meaning never goes out ofstyle. And through Mad Men, you take thejourney with some of the most intriguingcharacters to appear on TV.Mad Men airs Sundays at 9pm on AMC.E-mail Belinda Acosta at tveye@austinchronicle.com.46 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

screensOF STRIP CLUBS AND HASH STASHESOn location: ‘Dance With the One’BY CLAY SMITHThe most jaded pessimist wouldbe hard-pressed to concoct a localemore depressing than the parking lotof a strip club at 8am on a Tuesday,but the cast and crew of Dance Withthe One seemed almost grateful lastTuesday morning to be at the parkinglot of Sugar’s, near HighlandMall. Dance With the One is thefirst movie made by the Universityof Texas Film Institute, a nonprofitin the College of Communication,and the crew is made up almostentirely of UT students. One of thefilm’s producers, Bryan Sebok, saysDance With the One has an “ultralowbudget,” so when the manager atSugar’s told the crew that theycould shoot scenes in the parkinglot as long as they weren’t therewhen the club was open, they leaptat the opportunity.UTFI exists to give UT film studentsa chance to work on a filmshoot that is longer and more difficultthan the typical three- or fourdaystudent-film shoot; Dance Withthe One is planned as a 22-day shoot.“We’re trying to teach them thatwhen you get into 22-day shoots,you need a lot more planning; youneed to be aware that we may shoota scene on day one and then shootthe second half of that film on day15,” says Glen Moorman, the film’sfirst assistant director, who is one ofthe only crew members who isn’tassociated with UT. “It’s just likerunning a 400 [meter dash], but itnever ends,” says the film’s director,former actor Mike Dolan.The lead actor, Gabriel Luna,plays Nate, whose mother died ofa heroin overdose and whose fatheris a “grief-stricken psychedelic cowboy,”as Joshua Smith Henderson, agraduate student at UT’s MichenerCenter for Writers (who co-wrotethe script with Jon Marc Smith),puts it. “This kid Nate has kindSPANDEX NOT REQUIREDComic-Con 2008BY ZAC K CARLSONTo the socially well adjusted, the San DiegoComic-Con International is almost certainly anexcruciating hell. But to those willing to embracelife’s most isolating pleasures, it’s a comprehensiveand vindicating panorama of dweeb entertainment.Thirty-nine years ago, the gatheringbrought 300 locals to a small hotel; now theearth-shattering event draws upward of 150,000to the massive San Diego Convention Center,creating an unignorable global “buzz” while jammingup the city’s hotels and public transportlike nobody’s business. The scope has reachedso far beyond comics that a focus on sequentialart sometimes feels obligatory, chugging dutifullyalong in the shadow of Hollywood blockbusterpanels and gargantuan architectural displayserected to debut video games and action-figuredesigns. Celebrity guests from Elvira to the Rockshake hands and kiss babies. Large-scale corporateplayers this year included Fox Entertainment,Warner Bros., and Mattel, the latter presenting a30-foot-tall re-creation of Castle Greyskull fromMasters of the Universe, guarded by a real-life versionof the nefarious Evil-Lyn.Skeletor’s right-hand woman is impressivelyaccurate in her appearance but also indicative ofComic-Con’s rampant transformations. Severalof the companies and dealers now employ …Spidey and CaptainAmerica compareshoe sizes.of fallen into taking care of hisfamily, and … he’s got trouble,”Henderson says. In need of somequick cash, Nate decides to hedgehis bets and potentially make a lotof money by guarding a motherlode of hash. In the scene shotlast Tuesday, Nate’s love interest,Nikki – played by Xochitl Romero– and Nate are looking for a manthey suspect has stolen somethingthey need. They find his truck, andas you might expect in any moviethat features a young man whoprobably shouldn’t be guardingsomeone else’s hash, they begin torifle through property that doesn’tbelong to them. “This is where thefilm takes a certain Nancy Drewdetour,” Dolan explained beforeshooting the scene. “But it onlylasts as long as it takes to say‘Nancy Drew.’”The Sugar’s locale may give theimpression that Dance With theugh … “booth babes,” aka California blondespaid $40 an hour to don crime-fighting spandexand wiggle in an effort to entice the virginalhordes. However, these seducers of the agedbut-still-innocentmake up only a small percentageof the costumed Con-goers. Thousands ofattendees spend the entire five days of the conventionroaming the aisles in their fantasy finery,exhibiting equal parts ambition and obsessionin aping beloved fictional icons, from Wolverine(I counted four) to the Baroness of G.I. Joe fame(two) to Heath Ledger’s Joker (countless), oftenshowcasing some unfortunate biology in theprocess. Less eyeball-punishing personal favoritesincluded a mustached doughnut and five46 TV Eye 48 DVD Roundup70 Film ListingsZACK CARLSONSANDY CARSONDirector Mike Dolan on setOne is raunchier than it actuallyis. Although the film’s producersexpect it to get an “R” ratingbecause of its language, Hendersonand Smith’s script went through afar more involved vetting processthan most first-time screenwritersexperience. “I have a feeling thatif it were a Hollywood production,we would have gotten a check, andthey would have said goodbye,”Henderson says. “Every scene,every word got a lot of scrutiny,and we had to change a lot ofthings, and that process was great.They don’t let you do that veryoften on a first movie.” ■teenagers dressed as the geometric shapes ina game of Tetris.The majority of badge-holders seem inexplicablycontent to wait hours in a network TVswag line for a poster tube filled with glossybullshit, which leaves the remaining geek herdthe chance to focus unimpeded on the convention’sactual core: comics. Strangely enough, itmay currently be Comic-Con’s greatest secretthat it’s still an incredible place to meet classiccreators, to find back issues of every conceivabletitle, and generally to be exposed to thevery best (and worst) in the medium. Thoughplayground bullies Marvel, DC, and Dark Horseclearly take up the lion’s share of the building’scomic-designated floor space, there’s an inspiringnumber of self-publishers and long-runningindependent heroes like Fantagraphics andLast Gasp, who continually show up eachyear to carry the banner of creative drive andfinancial risk. While cavernous ballrooms fillwith zitty youths hungry for Watchmen gossip,smaller sections are home to panels celebratinglow-art pioneers like Jack “King” Kirby andForrest “Famous Monsters” Ackerman.So yes, in the recent superheroization ofthe silver screen, the San Diego Comic-Conhas inevitably gorged itself on media attentionand Hollywood glamour. But beneathits bloated skin beats the enduring, humbleheart of a genuine comic-book nerd, destinedto outlast all the bright lights and dark tansthrown in its path.■Film NewsBY JO E O’CONNELLRODRIGUEZ ON THE (RE)MAKEHe’s a king of the Austin film scene, andtight-lipped be the royal Robert Rodriguez.But Rodriguez opened up at a Comic-Conpanel with news that he’ll be kinda,sorta still directing parts of the remakeand Conan the Barbarian spin-off RedSonja starring Rose McGowan, thoughfrequent assistant director DougAarniokoski will be the credited director,according to E! Online. Red Sonja will beshot “on location,” with scouting reportedlytaking place in incentive-lovingLouisiana and Michigan, though the latterseems less likely. Rodriguez willshoot the many green-screen shots athome in Austin, we can presume. Oh, healso said Frank Miller has a Sin City 2script in the can but gave no clues on ashooting date. The biggest news?Rodriguez firmly tossed his hat in the ringfor a Conan remake, though he may againbe listed simply as producer because ofhis longstanding dispute with the DirectorsGuild of America. And don’t bet on himdirecting a Barbarella remake anytime soon.HONORING A FILM SHEPARDMultiple hyphenate Sam Shepard(screenwriter, playwright, actor, director) willreceive the Distinguished ScreenwriterAward at the 2008 Austin Film Festival onOct. 18, and he may not have far to travelto receive it. He’s attached to star inSerenity Falls, a noirish Western that LisaJenkins’ DreamFly Productions is lookingto shoot in Dallas in September with writer/directorMark Millhone, director ofphotography Jim Denault (Boys Don’t Cry),and already-cast Omar Epps and EdwardJames Olmos. Why should Austin care?Jenkins hopes to follow it immediately witha local shoot – the romantic comedy TheOther Jennifer, also based on a Millhonescript, with Meryl Streep’s daughter MamieGummer starring. Jenkins, a former FoxSports Net producer, is aiming to amass agroup of private Texas investors to shootfilms in Texas. “We have the infrastructure,”she says. “We can do it here.”AND THE REST …An open casting call for Latino boys ages4 to 6 is set for Aug. 2 in San Antonio, for aprincipal role in The Girl. The film starsEmily Blunt (The Devil Wears Prada) as “ayoung mother from South Texas who isthrown into an unexpected and life-changingjourney when her attempt to smuggle immigrantsacross the border goes terriblywrong.” Call 512/586-5904 for more info…Kat Candler is teaching a 13-week Scriptto Screen class on Tuesday evenings startingSept. 16 at Arts and Labor Productions.Get more info at 771-5863… FilmmakerMagazine chose the brothers Zellner(Goliath) as among its 25 New Faces ofIndependent Cinema, although the pair’sfilmmaking savvy is old news in Austin.Send tips to filmnews@austinchronicle.com.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 47

SCREENSDon’t Fear the DevilSome glorious bastards, new to DVDSATANTANGOFacets Video, $79.95My friend Rachel has me pretty much convincedthat Hungarian film director Béla Tarris the devil. I leave it to hardcore theorists tofix whether he’s truly the devil, a devil, or justdemonic, but check this out: Exhibit A is the7½-minute opening shot of the 7½-hour-longSatantango. Herded neither by dog nor manand distracted only by their bored-looking (butexquisitely composed) attempts at copulation,a herd of cattle fully enters and exits a framethat smoothly, perfectly tracks with them pasta series of farmhouses, as their movementsrepeatedly complicate and complete a compositionthat effortlessly evolves over a coupledozen feet of dolly track. The camera is rigidlycontrolled, and the cows are … cows. Dimly persuadable,sure, but somehow also more perfecthere than the camera, in a shot that would bedifficult enough with people. Did I mention thething about 7½ minutes and 7½ hours? Plus Iheard this was take 1. The devil.Speak of him long enough, and he arrivesfrom Facets. Worshipped and talked up by a cultof international festivalgoers since its premierein 1994, Satantango’s mythic status owes partlyto diabolical genius, partly to influence on thework of Gus Van Sant (particularly Elephant),and, let’s admit, partly to bragging rights. Younot only make it through but actually enjoy nearlyeight hours of rainy, black-and-white bleaknessabout the failure of a communal farm at a festivalin, say, Greece (as I did), and you’ve earnedsignificant envy in some quarters. The bonus isthat it’s way too big and way too Hungarian toplay any local theatre soon, so your friends can’treturn glumly from the Arbor to tell you it sucks.Perhaps there’s an interesting experimentin cinephilia to be observed with a long-formlegend finally set upon a market where it’s notunusual to hole up for a weekend with 14-oddhours of The Wire. Not to say that any Béla Tarrmovie remotely plays like HBO, but whateverTarr’s protestations to the contrary, I’ll submitthat he’s actually a hell of a storyteller and farmore accessible than his rep would suggest,with the most graceful and straightforward controlof nonlinear chronology going. Patience andattention to detail can be learned anywhere,perhaps in most places better than they’re coveredin film schools. And they’re not handed outwith film-festival badges, but they’re more thanamply rewarded by Satantango. Think of thosecows, imagine what he can do with seven hoursfollowing people, and allow me to advocate thatyou make him a devil you know.– Spencer ParsonsTHE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS:3 DISC EXPLOSIVE EDITIONSeverin Films, $29.95Marry the gut-level contradictions foundin Samuel Fuller’s movies, the action poetryof Sam Peckinpah’s work, and the verveand intensity of the exclusively male combatunits seen in the war films of any numberof American filmmakers from Robert Aldrichto Darryl Zanuck, and you’ll get a sense ofwhat you’re in for when you strap on thenewly released disc of Italian director EnzoCastellari’s The Inglorious Bastards. ThisEnglish-language war film was made in Italyin 1978 and is set in Nazi-occupied Francein 1944. At the outset, a paddy wagon ofAmerican soldiers who are being driven to thestockade to await court-martial comes underGerman attack while en route. Five prisonerssurvive the assault, and with nothing but certainrecapture if they return to the Americanbase, they decide to push on through enemyterritory to neutral Switzerland. On the runfrom the Germans and the Allies, this band ofbastards fights its way forward with cunning,daring, instinct, and, ultimately, altruism, oncethey inadvertently land in the midst of a precariouscovert operation.It’s this nugget of a plot setup that issurely what Quentin Tarantino will borrowwhen he makes his own World War II movietitled Inglorious Bastards. While Castellari’smovie, which is receiving its first real U.S.release with this DVD, stands on its own as aterrific war film, it’s naturally receiving heightenedinterest because of Tarantino’s interest.Tarantino has never made any secret of hislove for “men on a mission” movies, and TheInglorious Bastards is a glorious example ofthe form.Severin Films’ three-disc package showcasesa pristine print. The film’s actionsequences are truly impressive, even moreso when you see stars Bo Svenson, FredWilliamson, and some of the others performingtheir own stunts. On disc one, extras includeCastellari’s commentary track and a conversationbetween Tarantino and Castellari that wasrecorded just a few weeks ago, as Tarantinowas finishing his own script. While naturalseeming(Tarantino’s markedly disheveled lookalmost denies the presence of a camera), thetalk ultimately reveals more about Tarantinothan Castellari. The documentary on disc two,Train Kept a-Rollin’ by Federico Caddeo, featuresinterviews with Castellari, Williamson,Svenson, special-effects artist Gino de Rossi(nicknamed Bombardoni), and others andoffers the most significant insights into thefilm. Another locations featurette contributeslittle extra value, and, on the whole, the extrasbecome rather repetitive when viewed as aset. The third disc is a soundtrack CD.– Marjorie BaumgartenVAMPYRCriterion Collection, $39.95Early soundies, besides stoning many blackbirdswith a single title – French, German,and English versions of the same film wereoften shot simultaneously – inhabit a netherworldcustom-made for the crypt. In thevelvet-lined case of Great Dane Carl TheodorDreyer (1889-1968), first intertitles and thenlong passages from a book play a leadingrole in the silent scream of 1932’s Vampyr,filmed about the same time as Dracula butreleased the following year. Fluttering light,milky screens, and voyeuristic cameraworktrack the film like nine out of Dreyer’s 14total titles – sans sound – but the voices outof the abyss are all too audible. Here, whenanyone speaks (German – the English versionis lost, and the French master helped piecetogether this composite), their words oftenerupt from the audio track in barked challenge,as if talkies were still a novelty to test.Predictably, to a lesser degree than Dreyer’smonumental, silent The Passion of Joan of Arc,this stakeout visualizes its horror rather thanwags tongues ripe for cutting. Vampyr’s titularwitch, another of Dreyer’s nonactors, takesher place in the mausoleum of cinematicbloodsuckers, though don’t put her ashesnext to Nosferatu, because as Tony Raynes’illuminating commentary track details, Dreyerwas no fan of F.W. Murnau’s genre progenitor.Funny, then, that Vampyr flashes Germanexpressionism with iconic determination. Theheart-stopping coffin scene belongs on theuppermost shelf of filmdom’s nightmare vault.In fact, the whole tale of Allan Gray, “preoccupiedwith superstitions of centuries past,” andhis arrival at the roadside inn of his deepest48 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

dreams, falls together both as disorientingas the director/original screenplaywrightintended and, by the final scene, as effective.A 30-minute documentary from 1966captures Dreyer meeting French DiaboliqueHenri-Georges Clouzot, while a 23-minuteradio-cast of the Copenhagen-born filmmakerdelivering a paper in English (“Art is notreproduction but subjective choice”) provesas methodical as his filmography. Dreyer’sscreen story comes bound with Vampyr’sunholy book of secrets as well. “Here thesilence of death prevails,” he wrote. Thatwhimpering sound is you.– Raoul HernandezANDRÉ TÉCHINÉLions Gate, $34.98Though little-known here in the States,the biography of André Téchiné reads likethe impossibly perfect résumé of a Frenchfilm director in the second half of the 20thcentury. He began writing articles for thelegendary Cahiers du Cinema, spiritual homeof the French New Wave, at age 21. (His firstreview? Cahiers alumni François Truffaut’s TheSoft Skin. So you know he chose his wordscarefully.) He lived through the revolutionaryMay of 1968 in Paris; he screened his firstfilm, Paulina S’en Va, the following year at theVenice Film Festival; and he’s worked with justabout every famous French actor one couldname, including Gerard Depardieu, JeanneMoreau, Juliette Binoche, and – his muse –Catherine Deneuve. Now Lions Gate Films ismaking its pitch for greater American appreciationof this Gallic hero by releasing four of hisbest movies in one package – though the factthat it’s making that pitch without DVD extrasis almost unforgivable. Hotel America, from1981, explores the emotional consequencesof a doomed love affair between a successfulmiddle-aged woman (played by Deneuve)and an emotionally unstable and jealous man(Patrick Dewaere). Shot a decade later, I Don’tKiss finds Téchiné’s realist aesthetic in fullbloom, as he tells the melancholic story of anaive young actor (Manuel Blanc, in a CésarAward-winning performance) who finds nothingbut heartache when he moves to Paris. Withthe release of Bergman-esque My FavoriteSeason in 1993, Téchiné established himselfas one of Europe’s most able chroniclersof modern domestic life, leading Deneuveand Daniel Auteuil, as estranged brotherand sister, through a minefield of bitternessand disappointment after their mother takesill. Masterpiece Wild Reeds closes the set,bringing to life slowly and subtly the comingof-agedramas of four teens living in Provencein 1962. Set against the backdrop of theAlgerian War for Independence, this Césarwinningdrama is a compelling, beautifullyacted look at the dovetailing of political andsexual passions in the lives of young peoplestraining for meaning … even as Téchinéstrains believability to conjure his film’s Julesand Jim-like ending. – Josh RosenblattCorner of Riverside @ Barton Springswww.zaxaustin.comThanks Austin, for voting usBest Pizza and Best Delivery Service3 years in a row!PLUGGED IN • TUNED UPTURNED ONALL AUSTIN. ALL MORNING. a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 49

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OFF THE REC RDCOURTESY OF FULL SERVICEmusic52The Young and the RestlessMUSIC NEWS by Austin PowellThe Strange Boys sealed a deal with renowned In the Red Recordingsin wax, issuing 7-inch single “Woe Is You and Me” b/w “Baby Please Don’tGo.” The local garage punks first caught the label’s attention during a brieftour of California last summer with Jay Reatard, who produced what wassupposed to be the Boys’ label debut. “I didn’t really care for it,” confessessinger/guitarist Ryan Sambol. “It was a lot of new songs, and I hadn’t reallyfinished them. When I came out of it, I already wanted it to be different.We probably have about four or five records now that haven’t been released.”After fleshing out the new songs live and writing a few more, the fourpiecereturned to the studio earlier this month with Orville Neeley. “We did it inhis garage, and we did it right,” Sambol says of the album And Girls Club,tentatively scheduled for release in January. “I think you can go through ournew record and see where I got everything from, but maybe we’re starting toput a bit more of ourselves in there.” The Strange Boys reunite with Reatardin Houston, following his stop at Red 7 on Sunday.Don’t Tread on MeThe target demographic for Full Service is pretty easy to pinpoint: alternativelyinclined youths, aged 12-24, capable of getting down to both 311 and SnoopDogg (see “Texas Platters,” p.54). For the past month, the local jam band hastailgated alongside the 4:20-enthusiasts’ joint tour, playing generator-powered,guerilla-style sets in the parking lot before each show. “Daily confrontation withpolice and security can get pretty stressful,” relays guitarist/vocalist Bonesawvia e-mail. That’s putting it mildly. The quartet was barred from setting up inHolmdel, N.J., and two members were arrested and held overnight in Brooklynafter being busted with a spliff that was supposedly confiscated by a parking-lotsecurity guard and given to the band. It’s a good thing the group brought alongits own crew to document the trip (www.fullservicemusic.com). “Our website hits perday have tripled, and so all seems to be going according to plan!” says Bonesaw,who’s handed out more than 1,200 demos to date. Full Service gears up for onelast takeover Saturday at the sold-out Backyard (they’re sitting out Sunday’sshow there), with an official homecoming at Flamingo Cantina on Friday.Full Servicetailgate turn-onGuitars and AvatarsNot everyone has the opportunity to see James McMurtry onnearly any given Wednesday at the Continental Club. EnterVideoRanch.com, a virtual music venue that allows patrons tocreate their own avatars, interact with other users, and watch liveperformances from Americana artists such as Hayes Carll. Bandsare filmed against a green screen at a studio in Santa Cruz, Calif.,and simultaneously embedded into the program atop a virtualDennis Wilson Reissued 54 Texas Platters 80 Music ListingsAUBREY EDWARDSTheStrangeBoysStuck Between StationsThe Hold Steady’s latest, Stay Positive, debuted earlier this monthat No. 30 on the Billboard 200. That’s a lot of free exposure for DecoderRing Design Concern, the local multidisciplinary design company thatconstructed the album’s artwork. Co-founded in 2004 by ChristianHelms and American Poster Institute President Geoff Peveto,whose work with the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn dates back to his daysin Lifter Puller, Decoder Ring has collaborated with Spoon, the Decemberists, and Wilco,along with designing cover art for What Made Milwaukee Famous and Modest Mouse. Thecreative differences between the leaders of the Hold Steady and the latter were particularlystriking. “Craig is a really easy guy to work with,” says Helms. “He’s much more logical andlinear in the way that he works on things: A leads to B leads to C. Whereas Isaac [Brock] isexceptionally brilliant but very lateral. With him, A leads to fish leads to green.” Keep youreyes peeled for the Decoder Ring’s latest Hold Steady show poster, Aug. 6 at the Parish.Random PlayJon Dee Graham was involved in a singlecaraccident late Friday night while returninghome from a gig in Dallas and had an emergencysplenectomy on Monday. As of presstime, he remains in intensive care at theUniversity Medical Center at Brackenridgebut is expected to make a full recovery. Formore information, see austinchronicle.com/earache and www.myspace.com/jondeegraham.Fellow True Believer Alejandro Escovedo,meanwhile, postponed shows this week dueto acute exhaustion. The Real Animal shouldbe well rested for his Aug. 7 appearance onthe Late Show With David Letterman.James Henry, revered owner of the nowdefunctHenry’s Bar and Grill on BurnetRoad, which helped launch the careers ofWayne Hancock and Don Walser (see“Song for My Father,” Sept. 29, 2006), diedWednesday, July 23, due to an undisclosedillness. He was 71.stage. It’s like watching private detective Eddie Valiant in WhoFramed Roger Rabbit? Last Wednesday both McMurtry and localnewcomers the Dedringers visited the Ranch. “People were ableto watch us sign albums for them and chat with us after theshow,” says Jonny Burke of the Dedringers, which used the gig asa virtual CD release party for the band’s debut, Sweetheart of theNeighborhood. “It definitely felt like we were playing in the future.”The United States Art Authority ceasedoperations Tuesday, due to zoning issues (see“United States Art Authority,” Arts, p.33). For afollow-up to last week’s announcement regardingthe closure of Austin Enchanted Forest,check out “Permit Woes,” News, p.18.Following nearly a year of Internet-basedactivity, Snake Eyes Vinyl reopens at its newlocation, 1101 Navasota, on Sunday with an alldaysludge-fest, featuring Doom Siren, PantherZora, and 26 Beers among others. Elsewhere,vinyl emporium BackSpin Records hosts athree-day summer clearance sale this weekend,with everything in the store 20% off and DJsspinning around the clock.Local label Western Vinyl recently securedthe North American distribution of the thirdsolo album from J. Tillman of Fleet Foxes,Vacilando Territory Blues, which arrives in storesJan. 9. “I feel like this incredible album just fellout of the sky and landed on my lap,” enthusesWV head Brian Sampson, who lulls ghostsfrom the machines as Bexar Bexar at theHideout on Tuesday with labelmate Balmorheaand San Marcos’ This Will Destroy You.OTR’s Next Big Thing on 101X airs livethis weekend from Lollapalooza in Chicago,6-10pm. Tune in for backstage interviews withlocals Black Joe Lewis & the Honey Bears,the Octopus Project, and Okkervil River.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 51

MUSICThere’s a problem in paradise.At the far left side of America, near a perfectspot of beach where bohemian Venice, Calif.,blends into the tony Marina del Rey, all’s notright on Washington Boulevard. It’s fall 1983,and things are turning crispy. Reaganomicshas started to make itself seen and felt. Streetsaren’t being swept, and those trying to liveon them no longer feel quite as welcome.Summer’s over, and the crowds have left:gone back to school or the Midwest, wherelife might not be as exciting but is a whole lotsafer. There’s even a new drug sneaking aroundthe underground: crack cocaine. Those tryingit are gone, and they’re not coming back.At the end of Washington is the Venice Pier.The serious fishermen show up at midnightand stay all night. They’ve got company froman assorted batch of 1960s hippies whocouldn’t quite figure out the 1970s and arenow caught on the treadmill of chasing ahopeless high. When the marine layer is sothick that it blocks the morning sun and thePacific Ocean has lost its summer joy, lifedown here edges more toward a nightmarethan the promised land.Perfection has a downside, and this is whereit lives.One man among these street regulars stillhas a shine. Dennis Wilson helped create theCalifornia dream. As a youngster, he was anatural athlete, and once he discovered surfing,Wilson found his groove. His brothers,Brian and Carl, were starting a band, andtheir mother insisted they add Dennis as thedrummer. Before long, the Beach Boys wereplaying teen hops and recording local hits. By1963, they’d become America’s most gloriousgroup, and their drummer, even sitting in theback behind his swirly kit, was the one everyonewanted to be. He was a powerhouse, apounder who sent out an animalistic strength,someone who carried himself like he knew hehad few equals. Carl, Brian, and singer MikeLove might have formed the front line, butDennis Wilson was the Beach Boy. He knewit, and now he can’t forget it.Twenty years later, the curse of having everythinghas taken its toll. The drummer is nolonger even allowed at Beach Boys shows. He’sliving on his past but doesn’t seem to care. Hemade that deal a long time ago and now followsthe thread to the very end. Some days he howlsat the sun, gripped by walking dementia, andon others he’s all smiles, with his new baby ina crushed-velvet stroller that probably costs asmuch as some cars. Or he’ll pull up in frontof Nick’s liquor store in a cherried-out 1956baby-blue T-bird convertible, leave it running,and hurry back out with a half-gallon of vodkahe’s stolen from behind the counter, cacklinglike he just graduated from the cuckoo’s nest.We bump into each other for the first timeon one of those days, literally, and he stepsback like he’s ready to take a swing. Wilson’seyes are flying saucers, spinning in their ownorbit, though it’s not even noon. I say helloand ask if it was hard playing a right-handeddrum kit left-handed, hoping that takes thebite out of him. Obviously thrown, he pets thelarge dog at his side, looks at me sideways, andtells me that the animal can smell “queers,”The Mayor ofWashingtonBoulevardDennis Wilson’s California dreamBY BILL BENTLEYthen jumps in the Thunderbird and roars off.The next morning Wilson’s back for morevodka, but without the dog. He sees me andsmiles, like I passed the dog test. Relieved, Iask him about his 1977 solo album, PacificOcean Blue, and if he’s going to make anotherone, telling him those songs are like white soulmusic from some secret planet. His eyes tearup, and I’m afraid he’s going to have a nervousbreakdown right there on the sidewalk.“I can’t,” he says. “It hurt too much.”We go sit down on the low seawall, wherehe immediately jumps into the bottle of vodka.For the next hour, Wilson tells me how muchthat album meant to him andhow many more songs he’sgot squirreled away. He justdoesn’t have thick enough skinto try it again.“No one listened,” he moans,“not even my brothers.”I can feel what’s happenedto him, the chance he took asthe first Beach Boy to make asolo album and then havingit largely ignored. Underneath the lion’s glare,there’s clearly the soul of a child that nevergrew up, one that’s been patted on the head allhis life as the problem brother, never heard.It wasn’t really a surprise when DennisWilson died a few months later. As one of hisclose friends said, “He drowned way before heever hit the water.”He was running out of options in December1983, living on a boat in Marina del Rey. Hedove beneath it – said to be looking for anold photo of first wife Karen Lamm – and hedidn’t resurface. Or so the legend goes.For many, that was the end of the originalBeach Boy, Dennis the man who brought oneof the biggest rock & roll bands of all time tolife. Like all great legends, that’s not wherethis one ends, because through the sonicmiracle of reissues, Wilson’s Pacific OceanBlue has come back to life 31 years later inglorious expanded form from Sony’s LegacyRecordings. There’s now a chance to hear howmuch more there was to the black sheep of theWilson clan, the one who did everything frombefriending Charles Manson to living withFleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie. It turnsout that deep in his heart, Dennis Wilson wasa true believer in the power of love and wasable to create songs of such sophisticationthat many musicians didn’t believe they werehis. Beneath all the headlines of fast cars, wildwomen, and bountiful drugs was a composer,someone who spent endless months in hisBrothers Studio in Santa Monica, chasing themusic in his head even more than he did thehedonistic lifestyle he helped conceive.The first track on Pacific Ocean Blue is “RiverSong,” and for those who listened in ’77 whenit was released, the music felt like a jolt to themind. By then, the Beach Boys were tryingto reinvent themselves with each new album,sometimes with more exciting results thanothers. There were different versions, whetherBrian Wilson was really “back” or not, but itwas obvious the band was being torn in differentdirections. What was amazing aboutPOB was the singular strength of its vision. Itwas like the drummer had been taking nightclasses and suddenly became the star student.His voice may have been shredded aroundthe edges, but the depth of Dennis Wilson’sfeelings was floating right on the surface. Theman who played the drums like he was in themiddle of a bar fight was transformed intosomeone who was ready to take our hand andlead us into the light of love.As the album’s songs progress, they startsounding like the great lost Beach Boys album,one that had been submarined because thesinger wouldn’t behave.Carl, Brian, andsinger Mike Lovemight have formedthe front line, butDennis Wilson wasthe Beach Boy.“You and I,” “Time,”“Dreamer,” “Rainbows,”and “Thoughts of You”could take their placeson any of Brian Wilson’slong-players and holdtheir own. Even when therecordings drift towardan overclutter of players,there’s always a force ofvision that keeps the sound centered andmoving forward. By the end, Pacific OceanBlue stands as a landmark in the Wilson family’shistory, and its lack of success didn’t stopDennis from chasing his California dream.A second album’s worth of songs was started,to be called Bambu, and makes up a seconddisc of the POB reissue. By then, Wilson’svoice was falling victim to continuing abuse,and he couldn’t catch his breath long enoughCONTINUED ON P.5552 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

More ReissuesBY RAOUL HERNANDEZTHE COMPLETEMOTOWNSINGLESVol. 10: 1970(Hip-O Select/Motown)Detroit’s Camelotended Jan. 14,1970, in Las Vegas,when Diana Ross deigned one last performancewith the Supremes. Two years later,when Motown Records huckster Berry Gordy(Antony) relocated his Cleopatra (Ross) to LosAngeles for her close-up, so too went MotorCity’s assembly line of miracles. With TheComplete Motown Singles march on box-sethistory coming to a halt the same year Rossstarred as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings theBlues (1972), this 6-CD cliff-hanger beginswinding down a tale that just won’t quit. Thedizzying, dazzling, star-studded plotline highsof ’64, ’65, ’66, and ’67 have long beenresolved, the greatest hits of the Supremes,Vandellas, Four Tops, and Temptations behindthem, which makes Vol. 10: 1970 all the moreremarkable. Even on a downgrade, Motownproduced Excaliburs. Consider the vinyl 45housed in another hardbound scrapbook ofthe highest grade: “Tears of a Clown,” musicby Stevie Wonder, Pagliacci lyric and vocal byone William “Smokey” Robinson. “The Bells,”from Marvin Gaye-produced protégés theOriginals, then opens a set that never tollsanything less than heartwarming soul, funk,blues, even jazz. And just when you thoughtMartha Reeves had run out of gas, “I ShouldBe Proud” lashes out at her brother beinga Vietnam casualty. Post-Diana Supremes’launching pad “Up the Ladder to the Roof,”Jackson 5 “I Want You Back” response“ABC,” Gladys Knight & the Pips sizzlingNorman Whitfield’s “You Need Love Like I Do(Don’t You)” – there’s no stopping this juggernaut.Marvin and Tammi might be down totheir last layer on “The Onion Song,” but thelashing count-off into the Tempts’ mushroomcloud of psychedelic soul, “Ball of Confusion,”vaporizes any tears. On disc three, Mr.Wonder-full’s “Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I’mYours” posts into Edwin Starr’s perennial“War,” topped by the Spinners’ silken “It’s aShame.” CD four kicks off with Rare Earth’s“(I Know) I’m Losing You,” remembers girlgroups in Yvonne Fair’s “Stay a Little Longer”and even Diana Ross’ pompous “Ain’t NoMountain High Enough,” before doing the reggaewith Bob (not Marley) & Marcia (Griffiths)on “Young, Gifted and Black.” Hard, otherworldlymetallic funk from the Temptations,“Ungena Za Ulimwengu (Unite the World),”leaves no survivors. Hugh Masekela’s VanillaFudge (“You Keep Me Hangin’ On”) and moretrue grit from Gladys Knight (“If I Were YourWoman” b/w “The Tracks of My Tears”) gettop billing on disc five, six coasting home onthe Jackson 5’s effervescent “Santa Claus IsComing to Town.” Christmas in July? You betyour monarchy.KAREN DALTONGreen Rocky Road(Megaphone)Posthumous outputof the Ode Banjo covergirl now doubles hercurrent discographywith this solo set ofbanjo and 12-string acoustic guitar off thesame tape reel as the ancient blues austerityof last year’s 2-CD, Cotton Eyed Joe. Thecold crystal folk of “Katie Cruel,” from 1971sophomore album In My Own Time, hissesequally primordial here, the better part of adecade before either Dalton (1938-1993) studioLP, entrancing on a vocal quaver half BillieHoliday, half Cherokee sharecropper (see “InHer Own Time,” Feb. 8). Time-honored. ELTON JOHNElton John Deluxe Edition(Mercury)ELTON JOHNTumbleweed ConnectionDeluxe Edition (Mercury)Bennie jetted skywardwith 1970’s eponymousdebut and its Tumbleweedfollow-up, the former commercial(“Your Song”), rootsy(“Take Me to the Pilot”),and grandiose (“The King Must Die”), the latterdisguising its sophomore paucity with Band-likeAmericana and stately EJ standards “ComeDown in Time” and “Burn Down the Mission.”A wealth of demos, piano run-throughs, andBBC treats make both “bonus” discs a mainattraction, particularly future faves “Grey Seal”and “Rock and Roll Madonna” on Elton Johnand Tumbleweed’s “Country Comfort.” Highinterest vault yield. (Elton John) (Tumbleweed Connection) BILLY JOELThe Stranger 30thAnniversary Edition(Columbia/Legacy)Taking a long boxfrom Sony’s recentBorn to Run reissue,1977’s similarlystar-making vehicle for this pug-faced LongIsland pianist contextualizes The Stranger’sremastering with a tightly orchestrated audiotriumph that same year at Carnegie Hall(“They’re gonna have to drag me off thisstage”). A DVD unveils 45 “New York Stateof Mind” minutes on The Old Grey WhistleTest, plus the principals documenting the sessions.“Scenes From an Italian Restaurant”as an Abbey Road-cruising suite? “EverybodyHas a Dream.” DIANA ROSS & THE SUPREMESMotown Lost & Found: Let the Music Play:Supreme Rarities (Hip-O Select/Motown)Like Martha Reeves & the Vandellas’precursor Spellbound, this 2-CD set overflowswith Supreme Rarities, 1960-69. 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PERFECT GREAT GOOD MEDIOCRE COASTERtexas plattersHARLEMFree Drugs (Female Fantasy)Former Tucsonites Harlem are sittingon a pretty crowded bench in Austin,“garage rock” having become the currentnom de guerre for anything thatsounds “lo-fi,” gritty, or as if it wererecorded on “druuuugs, man.” The trio’snot breaking any new lyrical ground onits local debut: The band sings aboutgirls, drugs, and … well, that’s it really.Happily, there’s an anxious, stutteringcharm to Free Drugs, tightly coiled withpunchy, solid songs and memorablehooks. The coulda-been-written-in-1965bomp of “Caroline” and “Irresistable”are insta-catchy under the band’sstripped-down ooh-ahs. “PsychedelicTits” pays lip service to a girl’s magicalmammaries, singer Michael Coomerscalling them “the color of a rainbow”over a witchy guitar riff, while “Think I’mThinkin Bout” goes down like polishedcandy dug from the Cramps’ sweatyarmpit. “I’m on Drugs,” true to its name,is a hit of tempo change and gunkyfuzz in less than two minutes, and the“Red Herring” line, “Tell me girl where’dyou sleep last night, and don’t you lie,”catches efficacy with a buzz-saw menace.In 12 songs, Free Drugs managesretro-replication without Harlem soundingconfined to a two-car you-know-what.– Audra SchroederDVDndsHUGLive at Room 710Yes, Hug at Room 710. Thelocals’ post-peyote musicalspasms certainly sound offensiveon album, but a live performanceis much more entertaining, becauseHug is, if anything, a visual beast (that includesChronicle photographer John Anderson). Thisrecording, from February 2007, looks like somethingcable access would air at 3am, which isthe best way to try to channel and absorb thetrio’s wigged, puerile, WTF-punk humor. Whocould forget such classics as “Shit Sex” and“Pussy Bomb”? And now, you can enjoy themin the comfort of your home. Be warned: Duringone song, there’s a shot of a dancer’s fakealien vagina-looking thing that’s more genuinelyperplexing than Hug’s reggae spoof “SmokeMarijuana.” Yes, the hits are all here, and youwill be mildly unsettled. – Audra SchroederMAMMOTHGRINDERRage and Ruin(Depleted Resource)Changing metallicspeeds with precision,from a Birmingham lumberto a lightning ride, Austin’s Mammoth Grinderbattens down an exacting bellow. Snakingunder the local trio’s rhythm pummel, guitaristChris Ulsh’s moto-metal drag-stripping – classicand modern in the same fluid downstrokeof Brian Boeckman’s demon-fast drum rollsand the splattered basslines of Chris Camp– proves the titanium spine of this thrashingbeast. The exhaling flail of starter pistolwhipping“Two More Classes Until BlackoutWeekend” segues directly into the expulsivefuror of “Iron Pigs” (“You’ve got the bite of alion, but no fucking pride”). “Voice of Rageand Ruin” also shifts smoothly in tone andspeed with Hummer gravitas. Side two ofthis marble-colored vinyl, which also comesin crimson-drenched cassette, dominateswith the no-quarter charge of epic “DeadRednecks,” sandwiching theological quandary“God Is Stuck in a Black Hole” with the closingdoom glower of “Curse Breeder.” Rage andmofo Ruin.– Raoul HernandezTHE DIRTYHEARTSPigs (Socyermom)On this heavy, solid,grittily professional followupto their 2006 eponymousdisc, Austinitesthe Dirty Hearts re-create the sound of thealt-rock salad days of the early 1990s withuncanny precision. With the music divorcedfrom historical context, the appeal of the sortof shackled punk that dominated alternativeradio for half a decade is surprisingly obvious:Songs such as Pigs’ raging title track and thesnotty yet sensitive “Where I Come From”hit hard and square for a quintessential rockpayoff. At the same time, music this humblerock boxFull Service isn’t ashamedto ride the coattails of 311and Snoop Dogg. The localquartet is currently trailing the4:20-enthusisiasts’ joint touracross the country,setting upimpromptu showsin the parkinglot beforehand.That samesort of mentalitypermeates the band’s fifthalbum, The Dig, with decidedlywhite reggae-rock grooves thatwander into frat-rap (“TastelessGravy”) and funk-pop (“BlueberryFarm”). Likewise, Point ofContact’s second album,Human, proves an ample opiatetends to live or die by the quality of its hooks,and here, some are better than others.Probably none is classic. For those with fondmemories of workhorse alternative bands likeNada Surf and the Meices, Pigs is a dose ofwelcome nostalgia. For the rest, it’s nothingmore or less than a pretty good punk album. – Daniel MeeTHE SALES BROS.Hired Guns(Perseverance)Although best knownfor backing Iggy Pop andDavid Bowie, Austinbaseddrummer HuntSales (he of the “Lustfor Life” intro) and his guitarist brother Tonypay tribute to the Stax/Volt renaissanceon this previously unreleased 1979 demo.Recorded in a Beachwood Canyon, Calif.,basement that had once been a swimmingpool, Hired Guns mines a sound right out oftime. The sons of Soupy accent blue-eyedsoul rave-ups such as “Buzz in Your Hive” and“My Baby” with subtle garage rock gnashes,reconciling the Sam & Dave legacy into theheart of L.A.’s late-1970s power-pop explosion.It’s not a perfect fit, but the call-andresponseplayfulness of “Someone’s GonnaLose” and James Brown-style pleadingson “Let Me In” are oddly endearing. Sadly,the Sales Bros.’ soul-revue ambitions werederailed by Tony’s near-fatal car accidentright after their debut engagement at theStarwood, leaving Hired Guns as a fond footnoteto history. – Greg BeetsWATCHINGTHE MOONPerception Is Bent(Universal Warning)The competent debutby these Pennsylvaniaimports nicely splitsthe difference between the raw pop ofNirvana and Girls Against Boys and thefor Tool aficionados, guitarist/vocalist David Cloud channelingthe cryptic croon of MaynardJames Keenan. With 17 songsclocking in at nearly 70 minutes,however, the placebo effectquickly wears off. Ember’s thirdEP, Under Pressure, throbs majorlabel potential, recalling thegeneric drivel of Blue Octoberand Nickelback and having someedge, though not enough to slicean apple. The same goes for thesecond outing from Deejer, DarkSummer Dawn, which adds abit of political angst and moodinessto the equation but littleelse. Rockland Eagles’ firstnew album in six years, OsakaCocka Rocka (Almost There),sounds rocketed straight fromDetroit Rock City circa 1975,stuffing its pants with threeprongguitar pyrotechnics andstadium-sized bombast.Distant Lights is nothingif not ambitious. The quintet’sdebut, Simulacrum, is a conceptalbum that details the internalstruggle of a straggler in a postmodernwasteland, landing in theblack hole between the alt-rockslick, post-hardcore of Rival Schools andthe Constantines. Vocalist Pete Brown doesparticularly well, recalling Trail of Dead’sConrad Keely in his deft shifts from butchscreaming (“Squatter”) to a hoarse emocroon (“Mr. Microphone”). There are goodriffs here, too, but not enough to fill all ofthe available space. Even at a reasonable 44minutes, Perception Is Bent could stand tolose some weight, starting with the two underwritteninstrumentals and crass, silly rap“Browntown.” Homogeneity is part of the problem,though the music seems more monolithicthan it really is, due to a certain sensethat this has all been done before. That said,Watching the Moon looks like a worthwhileband, and with ruthless editing and a bit moreoriginality, they could be an exciting one.– Daniel MeeSUNSETThe Glowing City (Autobus)Bill Baird treads on aslightly different plane, likePeter Sellers in Being There,yet always is aware of theludicrous world around him. His music slipsbetween frustrated flailing at our modern,media-blitzed existence and the comicalembrace of it to both obscure and exposehimself. The Glowing City wrangles the eccentricturns of Baird’s earlier lo-fi cassettes andCD-Rs, serving as an 18-track clearinghouseand statement of Sunset’s finally dawningwith coherent vision. Re-recordings “Your EyesAre Mirrors” and “New York Love” are beautifullytextured arrangements of keys and hornsthat match Baird’s more subtle vocal touch.The pop of “Theme From ‘A Perfect LightAwaits Me’” and “Twenty-Four Karat Soul,”plus dueting female vocals on the cabaret-ish“When Perfect Flames Expire,” are Baird athis best, while the throbbing “Graveyard Dog”and its touches of ambient found sounds andclimaxing bursts retain his experimental playfulnessand collective-styled exuberance.– Doug FreemanCONTINUED ON P.56epics of Coheed & Cambria andMuse. At its best, Goldcure’sdebut, Portuguese Prince (Sorin),finds the local quartet waveringfrom the more guitar-orientedmoments of Coldplay (“NeverAlone,” “Beautiful Disaster”) andArcade Fire’s anguished romanticism(“Too Long”),only without the orchestral swellsor dire sincerity. Their Christianundertones only thicken the positivevibes rippling through theharmonies and earnest lyricism.There’s no telling how far coattailswill take you. – Austin Powell54 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

MUSICDENNIS WILSON CONTINUED FROM P.52MARINA DEL DENNIS“My dog smells queers,” he saysThe voice scraped dry from swigging malted sandHe’s the dream kid at the tail end of AmericaBurnt red to a scruffy crispHigh and dry behind the wheel of a baby-blue T-birdNow left to listen for a silent station on his holy radioNo way would Popeye be too proud of this beached boyProwling the street named after our most famous father George“Colonel Smirnoff,” I sayA southpaw living on cottage cheese and bad bloodEvery day it’s the sameTwo eyes that go out with the tide while he salutes an invisible flagNo stripes, no stars, just a shaggy dog bar backed by an endless buzzSo what’s left? Stick Old Glory in his skullA few lit sparklers in each armAnd turn him toward the ocean for one last lonely danceBut drummer Dennis, the sweet and sour Marina menaceHas it figured differentThere’s no one behind himNo mosquitoes to swim in his ears or words to rain on his heartThat’s the way it has to be when you’re nearer the end than the start“Don’t worry baby, there’s still the sun,” he barksI listen, he looks, we smileWhile the surf applauds its most famous friendThen with a wicked grin to match the new moon he asks,“The dog smells junkiesHow much for the dog?”There are no takers tonight in Marina del Rey© 1983 ERASTUS STREET PUBLISHINGto stop the slide into self-destruction. Hehad changed producers but lost some ofhis vision. Family battles kicked in harder,and the drummer saw his place in the bandshrinking. By the start of the 1980s, he wasMIA onstage and spending more time withthe street characters in Venice than with theband he had inspired into being.Many would say Dennis Wilson lived a tragiclife, and depending on how you keep score,they’d be right. He died at 39, with a stringof defeats behind him. He also accomplishedmore than anyone ever predicted. During the1960s, the young musician from Hawthorne,Calif., had the run of Hollywood, his generositypreceding him everywhere he went. There arehundreds of Dennis Wilson stories still told inREISSUES CONTINUED FROM P.53Flo Ballard-leaningBeatles cover “I SawHim Standing There”to Diana Ross’ coyreading of “(I Can’tGet No) Satisfaction”and “Baby Love” precursor“It’s All YourFault,” the treasure’sin the shifting. Lots of dental floss (“Overthe Rainbow”), but 24-karat fillings on theorder of Norman Whitfield’s “Ain’t No SunSince You’ve Been Gone” abound. Radio airchecks remind you we’ve come a long way,baby.the city, and when thesun’s out and the surf’sup in Venice, the man’sspirit comes in with eachwave. His brother Brianis adamant that Dennis’talent equals his own.“He might havelooked out a differentwindow than me andCarl,” says Brian Wilsontoday, “but he had thebiggest view. I loved himso much.”Fall 1983, I was askedto write and record aspoken-word piecefor an album calledNeighborhood Rhythms.The assignment was tochoose a subject thatreflected where I lived.In the Venice/Marinadel Rey area, that couldonly be Dennis Wilson.He was the mayor ofWashington Boulevard,someone who’d walkdown the street anddraw a crowd, whetheryou knew who he wasor not. Wilson had aninner spirit that radiatedout, casting a spell onthose around him. His secret was that he wasjust like everyone else, but more so, and thatincluded his mad dash toward the finish line.When the musician who sparked a milliondreams drowned on Dec. 28, 1983, my poem“Marina del Dennis” felt like an obvious afterword,and I always thought it didn’t really reflecthis majesty. Yet there’s a beginning and end toevery life, we find out, and while Wilson’s finaldays may not have been pretty, they were alwaysreal, which is what made him the happiest ofall. Life isn’t for everybody, it’s said, but for somany years, Dennis Wilson lived his like he hadinvented his own dream.Visit www.sonicboomers.com for an interview withDennis Wilson collaborator Stephen John Kalinich andother music coverage.LIZ PHAIRExile in Guyville(National Anthem/ATO)“There are womenwho wouldn’t beinvolved in music atall if not for beinginspired by [Exile inGuyville].” So states noted feminist SteveAlbini in Liz Phair’s feature-length DVD docon her “Fuck and Run” love note to UrgeOverkill’s Nash Kato. Rather than addressingindie rock’s supposed Tapestry herself, thedirector exhumes Chicago 1993 ad infinitumthrough John Cusack and other scenesters,all cued to a notable absence of soundtrack.Three B-sides add to the you-had-to-bethere.Nice G-string, Lizzie. 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MUSICTEXAS PLATTERS CONTINUED FROM P.54MICKY & THEMOTORCARSNaive (SmithEntertainment)With their fourthalbum, Micky & theMotorcars can hardlyclaim naivete, but theyhaven’t progressedmuch either. As long as the local quintet ledby Micky and Gary Braun remains in the sametown and works the same sound as fellowBraun brothers Willy and Cody of RecklessKelly, it’s unlikely to emerge from under thelatter’s shadow, and production from Codyand RK guitarist David Abeyta likely doesn’thelp. At its best, the group approachesReckless’ rocking roots, but Micky’s vocalstoo often lack any real feeling, as with theparadoxically lifeless “Everything I’ve Got”or unconvincing jilted spite of the innocuoustitle track. Slower tracks “Don’t Be Sad”and, especially, “Seeds” fare better, and“Bloodshot” injects some needed fuel intothe veins behind Mickey Raphael’s harmonica,but Jon Dee Graham cover “Twilight” fadesin comparison. Familiar fare from a band thatshould know better by now.– Doug FreemanCRYSTALFLAVOLAAutomatic MonkeyUp from theAustin theatre scenebounces CrystalFlavola, a sevenpiecefronted by awardwinningactor turnedsinger-songwriter David Jones, and AutomaticMonkey is the band’s first full-length disc.With its taut vocals and pristine harmonies,Crystal Flavola betrays its theatrical background,but the band also possesses a folkrocktinge that lends it a frivolous air sharedwith They Might Be Giants. Tunes such as“Dance,” with its herky-jerky rhythm, and thepoignant “Guitar and an Ashtray” are twogirlie actionexamples of the troupe’s deceptive abilityto present simple ideas with an abundanceof sound. Not everything works. On “LikeYesterday,” Jones’ vocals are too stiff tomatch the tune’s breezy organ riffs, and thepiano-based “Ruined” feels like an attempt atSondheim that never reaches the stars. To itscredit, Crystal Flavola is an honest attempt atsomething different. That the band succeedsas much as fails is nothing to scoff at.– Jim CaligiuriDR. ZOGGoing to the Zydeco(Zog)Over the course ofa decade or more,Dr. Zog’s bands havegone through severalmusical permutations,including blues, rockabilly,folk, and funk. A native of Port Arthur,a hotbed for the sounds of Louisiana justacross the border, the good doctor’s mostrecently taken to the good-time sounds ofGoing to the Zydeco, the accordionist’s fifthalbum. While his previous discs were morediverse, including some Latin rhythms, this isa nonstop party disc filled with driving beats,never-ending accordion riffs, and hearty calland-responsevocals. It’s not deep, just 30minutes of butt-shaking tunes with typicaltitles such as “Zog Frog,” “Funky Zydeco,” and“Mardi Gras Second Line.” The playing’s topnotch,and Zog’s occasional harmonica workstands out. If you’ve experienced him live,this is an accurate representation of the dusthe raises from the stage.CHRIS VAN LOANRebirth (CVL Music)“If this were jazz,it would be bebop; itwould be Coltrane,”boasts Chris Van Loanon the title track ofRebirth. Not quite.Denice Franke’s Gulf Coast Blue (Certain) comesby comparisons to Eliza Gilkyson and Nanci Griffithhonestly. Mark Hallman, the man behind Gilkyson’sstellar recordings, produced this CD, and Frankesang backup for Griffith, as well as Lyle Lovett andRobert Earl Keen. Her tenure as one-half of the folkduo Hudson & Franke polished her songwriting to ahigh gloss, reflected beautifully in Blue. With heavyweighthelp from the likes of Gilkyson, Rick Richards, SpencerStarnes, and Robert McEntee, Franke’s voice is dusty-sultry,and her songs of life on Galveston Island ring as bright asthe sun rising over the Gulf of Mexico. Shotgun Party’s selftitledrelease steps into the swing-trio wake, as if the HotClub of Cowtown rear-ended the Damnations. Slap-bass manChristopher Crepps most recently thumped for the BastardSons of Johnny Cash, but it’s the divine teaming of fiddlerKaty Rose Cox (ex-Uncle Fucker) and singer/guitarist/composerJenny Parrott that makes this roots-rock outfit crackle.Parrott reveals a marvelous feel for back-porch poetry in herlyrics; with good-humor titles like “Haunted House Bear,”– Jim CaligiuriThe acoustic set overflows with humorlessphilosophical musings like a recitalof Chicken Soup for the Soul set to guitar.“Life Is Fleeting” and “This Is the Day”prove the Philly native earnest to a fault,and reading what sounds like a list ofnew year’s resolutions on “True to Me” hedeclares, “I resolve to be patient yet persistent,knowing that you get more fromlife when you flow with it than against it.”Accompanied solely by his own pluckingon all but two tracks, Van Loan offerssounds remarkably similar to the last, themold only broken on “The More I Learn,” aclichéd coffee-shop recitation on transcendentalmeditation. In the end, Rebirth israther lifeless.– Thomas FawcettYOUNG NICKGone EP(Dirty PoliticsEntertainment)With the souledout“Don’t Feel It”dropping ill communicationon rappers“spitting that nonsense,all violence,” Young Nick’s Gone EP,his first, crosses over to the local’s eclectictendencies. The Dirty Politic head honchospits (throughout) and spins his way throughseven of 11 bangers, fronted by the sweepingswagger of “Back to Hip Hop” and theplayground-stomping title cut. That’s wherethe uniformity ends. Shifting from cruiseto crawl, the intergalactic minimalism of“N*ggas” cuts out of L.A. to “Act Hood” forHouston, while Dresta’s bullish growl thattremors “The Madd Bomber” finds itselfin one corner opposite the Track Bangers’“Drop,” nodding to Swizz Beats with itsNew York bounce. It’s Nick’s way of flashinghis deep arsenal. On the mic he fills barsrelentlessly (“Needed You”), and the ATLsoaked“Dirty Politic Boys” gets Gone onanother laudable journey.– Chase Hoffberger“Devil Town,” and “Pickled Eggs,” they’ll appeal to Southern Cultureon the Skids fans. The information that Patty David appeared on StarSearch, the American Idol of the 1980s, isn’t as impressive as who shechallenged: powerhouse vocalist Linda Eder, still the best-kept secretamong American female vocalists. No surprise then that David’s recentCD, One Step Above the Blues, is a solid, well-constructed flight of popsoulfancy. All 10 songs showcase her heartfelt songwriting, heavy,with an unabashed love for 1980s blues-rock and jazzy 1990s loungenot far below the surface. It’s an appealing combination, bolstered bythe pure pleasure of David’s summery vocals (“You Stole My Heart,”“Faith in Love”).– Margaret MoserbonustracksBY MA RGARET MOS EROWLMORRISONPlaying WithMatchesNothing’s toosacred or eclecticfor Owl Morrison, aworldly gypsy traveling a silky-stringedplane and cleverly high-stepping JohnPhillip Sousa (“Washington PostMarch”), jigs around Sweden andIreland, and rides on the magic carpet(“Love You To”), while matching violinand viola with a variety of instrumentalists.Exercise caution when exposing toopen flame. HANS FRANK & THEAUSLANDERSGlambilly!Strip-clubrhythms to theMan in Black?Hans Frank’s takeon Johnny Cash,“Folsom PrisonRhumba,” is as wicked cool as theSkynyrd sneer of “Regular.” Frank’svoice swaggers and menaces like JimLauderdale on a bender over the toughTelecaster of ex-Ernest Tubb guitaristPete Mitchell. Pure rock-roots, not theother way around. ABI TAPIAThe Beauty in theRuin (MoonHouse)Bittersweetis more than anundertone in AbiTapia’s latest CD,but that’s not theprevailing emotion here. Beauty weavesstrong Southern influences with an oldschool1970s country-folk sensibility,mastering the understatement in hersongs and avoiding cutesy-rootsy overkillwith intelligence and a fine tenor on thisturning-point recording. IZZY COXLove Letters Fromthe Electric ChairAustin’s got noshortage of bandswith a taste forthe macabre, sowelcome murder balladeer Izzy Cox tothe hot seat. She’s Texan and French-Canadian via California, a confluencethat shapes Love Letters’ electrifiedvoodoo-billy with a Crampsy twist ofSouthern cabaret and silent-moviepanache. It’s the anti-book of love, 50ways to grieve your lover. 56 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

LEAD STORYThe European Union allows fruits and vegetablesto be sold only in prescribed sizesand colors (such as its 35 pages of regulationsgoverning 250 varieties of the apple,or rules that cucumbers must be straightand bananas curved). In June, British marketerTim Down complained that he wasforced to discard 5,000 kiwi fruit becausethey were 1 millimeter in diameter too smalland one-fourth ounce too light. (It is illegaleven to give them away, as that wouldundermine the market price.)“Improvements” in the EU system continue,according to a July Washington Post dispatchfrom Brussels: Despite 10 pages of standardson the onion and 19 amendments,the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture recentlyissued a report urging further refinements,using 29 pages and 43 photographs.BY CHUCK SHEPHERDThursthruSunwww.backspinrecords.netLEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALSFailure to Communicate: 1) The man whotried to rob the Cafe Treo in Salt Lake Cityin April likely told the employee to “fill” thebag, but when the employee reached overand earnestly started to “feel” the bag(according to police), the robber said,“You’ve gotta be kidding me,” and ran outof the store. 2) Another man who cameaway empty-handed had tried to rob aWalgreens in Port Richey, Fla., in July, handinga clerk what appeared to be a holdupnote, except that nothing was written on it.The clerk, sensing the forgetful robber’scluelessness, boldly dialed 911 right infront of him, causing the man to flee.CREME DE LA WEIRD“[A] person with a sneeze fetish can finderotic pleasure in those few seconds,”according to the ABC News Medical Unit, inan April report, when “the eyes close as thebody prepares to forcefully expel air,” but“experts are stumped as to why.” AnInternet “sneeze fetish forum” allows membersto wax rhapsodic (“She has the cutestsneeze ever”) and recall pleasurable experiences(such as the thrill of discovering thatone’s new college roommate has allergiesand will be sneezing frequently), and manyuse language and suggest visions thatmimic sexual behaviors.RECURRING THEMESRonald McDade, charged with raping ateenager in Lansdale, Pa., in January, petitionedto be allowed to submit a plastercast of his penis to the jury, to demonstratethat, since he is an “extremely large” man(according to his lawyer), he could not physicallyhave penetrated the girl without causinggenital injury (and no such injury wasfound). “News of the Weird” has reportedpreviously on rape defendants offering togive the jury either a photograph or a liveexhibition to make the same point.THINNING THE HERD1) An 18-year-old man was killed inMarch while riding in a shopping cart andholding onto an SUV racing down a WinterROY TOMPKINSArtist Michael Fernandes’ exhibit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in June caused acommotion, because it was merely a banana on a gallery’s window sill, andFernandes had it priced at 2,500 Canadian dollars (down from his originalthought, 15,000 Canadian dollars). Actually, Fernandes changed bananasevery day (eating the old one), placing progressively greener ones out todemonstrate the banana’s transitoriness. “We [humans] are also temporal,but we live as if we are not,” he wrote. Despite the steep price, two collectorsplaced holds on the “work,” requiring the gallery’s co-owner Victoria Page toget assurance from callers: “It’s a banana; you understand that it’s a banana?”Park, Fla., street, when it hit a speed bump.2) A 13-year-old skateboarder was killed inMay at a railroad crossing in O’Fallon, Ill.,when (according to police) he was unsuccessfulin beating a train to the crossing. 3)An 18-year-old man was killed in June inBlaine, Wash., when the steamroller he wastaking for a joyride at a construction siteoverturned and fell on top of him.POLICE BLOTTER Police, including SWAT officers, werecalled to an apartment in Mesa, Ariz., inJune after neighbors reported a fightbetween a man and a woman that includedyelling and breaking things inside. When theyarrived, they found only a 21-year-old man,conducting the fight by himself, alternating ahigh-pitched voice with a low-pitched one. Hewas referred for a medical exam. Need for Speed: 1) Ontario’s recent lawagainst street-racing snared two noteworthydrivers in April: a 26-year-old man who wascited when he passed a marked police carwhile doing 178 kilometers per hour (110mph) and the driver of a garbage truck, racingat 112 kph (double the posted speedlimit). 2) A 3-year-old girl was seriouslyinjured in Huntsville, Ala., in May in a collisioncaused, said witnesses, by a speedingcontest between two men, both employeesof Comcast Corp., driving company vans.GOVERNMENT IN ACTION! In May, the school board in Barrie,Ontario, notified Children’s Aid Society tointervene with mother Colleen Leduc andher daughter Victoria, 11, because ofsuspected sexual abuse, angering theconscientious Leduc, who until that pointhad taken extraordinary measures to protectthe girl, who is autistic. Upon investigation,it was revealed that the suspicioncame from a teaching assistant who saidher psychic had told her that a girl with a“V” in her name was being abused by aman aged 23 to 26. Leduc now refusesto trust Victoria to public schoolsbecause, “They might want to take out aOuija board or hold a seance.” The June transfer of a prisoner fromlockup to Britain’s Northampton CrownCourt, just across the street, required summoningthe closest prison van (57 milesaway) to come give him a ride. The prisoner(accused thief Mark Bailey) could notsimply be walked across the streetbecause officials feared that public, custodialexposure (a “perp walk”) would embarrasshim, in violation of his “human rights.”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.©2004 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATEsearch for bands, browse by genre,listen to mp3s, comment on yourfavorite artists, view upcoming showsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 57

THURSDAY 31w BASTROP HOMECOMING & RODEONow in its 61st year, this parade, carnival,and rodeo started as a celebration for GIs returningfrom World War II. The parade through downtownBastrop takes place on Aug. 2, 10am. See thewebsite for a full schedule of events. Most of thefestival’s events are free, including the horseshoeand Texas Hold ’Em tournaments, the carnival, andthe barrel-racing demo. The dance and rodeo price is$30 for all three nights. Thu.-Sat., July 31-Aug. 2. Bastrop,512/303-0558. www.bastrophomecomingrodeo.org.COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR HEALTH CENTEREven though the projected 2010 opening date forthis North-Central Austin community health center isa long way off, now is the time to add your 2 cents.Learn more about the plans for the center, and tellthem what you and the community want from it.The two meetings will be identical but for the publicinput. Thu., July 31 & Mon., Aug. 4, 7-8:30pm.St. John’s Episcopal Church, 11201 Parkfield.www.cityofaustin.org/traviscountyhd/northcentral.DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING The doc HardRoad Home tells the story of drug-dealing gangleader Julio Medina and his transition to the founderof the Exodus Transitional Community, dedicatedto breaking the jail cycle. 7pm. Mexican AmericanCultural Center, 600 River St., 478-6222. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/macc.EAST SIDE BLUES Come for the screeningof Austin, Texas: East Side Blues, andget a lesson in the segregation-era bluesmusic scene on East 11th and 12thstreets. DiverseArts will also be honoringErnie Mae Miller and Henry “Blues Boy”Hubbard, two of the legends featured inthe film. 7pm. New East Arts Gallery,1601 E. Fifth #106. $25 minimumdonation. www.diversearts.org.LEO BIRTHDAY PARTY CONCERT Allyou Leos and Leo lovers, it’s time to celebratewith live music, belly dancing, andmore. Bring a drum if you want to join inthe jam. 8pm-1am. Ruta Maya, 3601 S.Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. $5. www.rutamaya.net.d NATURE NIGHT Tired of spending a mint on yourchild’s edutainment? Then has the Wildflower Centergot a series of outdoor exploring, habitat hikes, andcrafts for you. This week’s theme is fossils. 6pm.Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse,232-0100. $1 (free for members). www.wildflower.org.TEARJERKER IN THE PARK Following the preshowentertainment from the people at Nintendo, the cryfestknown as The Notebook will be shown. 7pm.Republic Square Park, 422 Guadalupe, 477-1566.Free. www.austinparks.org.TEXAS GREEN NETWORK MEETING RSVP online,and prepare to meet other greens and maybe saya few words on the open mic. 4pm. Opal Divine’sFreehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308.www.texasgreennetwork.org.SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Planet of the Apes @ Paramount, 9:15pmThe Time Machine @ Paramount, 7pmUncounted: The New Math of AmericanElections @ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Will Johnson, Chris Flemmons MohawkThe Crack Pipes BeerlandTony Joe White Cactus Cafew RECOMMENDEDd KIDS` GAY INTERESTthis week’scommunitycalendarTHURSDAY, JULY 31 TO THURSDAY, AUG 7listingsBY JAMES RENOVITCHFRIDAY 01ALTERNATIVE RADIO features JeremyScahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise ofthe World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, on theprivatization of war in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2pm.KOOP Radio 91.7FM. www.koop.org.PATRICIA VONNE BENEFIT CONCERT Like youneeded another reason to see Vonneperform her tantalizing tunes. With themoney going to help Latinitas empowerLatina youth, you really have no excuse.Bid in the silent auction for bonus pointsin life’s “civic duty” category. 8pm-12mid.Jovita’s, 1619 S. First, 447-7825.www.latinitasmagazine.org.PEOPLE UNITED has a live conversationwith members of Code Pink abouttheir recent action during House SpeakerNancy Pelosi’s visit to Austin, as well asother matters involving this prominentanti-war group. 1pm. KOOP Radio 91.7FM.www.koop.org.d SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL What kind of kid (oradult, for that matter) doesn’t like a Seussian turnof phrase? Well, prepare to have them accompaniedby song and dance. Too much? You bet. ThroughAug. 10. Fridays, 7pm; Saturdays, 2 & 7pm; Sundays,2pm. Texas School for the Deaf, 1102 S. Congress,476-0541 x1. $36-40 ($22, under 12).www.zachtheatre.org/stages/seussical.html.` TEXANA DAMES AT PATSY’S COWGIRLCAFE Texas darlings the Texana Dames take overevery first Friday at cowgirl central on Ben White.YeeeeeHAW. Fridays, 8pm. Patsy’s Cowgirl Cafe, 5001E. Ben White, 444-2020. $5. www.texanadames.com,www.myspace.com/patsyscowgirlcafe.d TWILIGHT RELEASE PARTY Breaking Dawnis the latest in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series.Celebrate the midnight release with a dance party,a costume contest, and a preview of the upcomingmovie. A must-attend event for all fans. 10pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.UNDERGROUND BIBLE STUDY A new lookat the word of God in a question-friendlyenvironment. Fridays, 8pm. Brave New Books,1904 Guadalupe Ste. B (downstairs), 480-2503.Free. www.myspace.com/undergroundbiblestudy.w WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK CELEBRATIONIt’s time to “Keep Austin Breastfeeding.” Austin’sbreastfeeding resources have teamed up to celebrateand support healthy motherhood. The festivities willkick off World Breastfeeding Week and the “I breastfeedbecause …” campaign. In addition to information,there will be music, T-shirts and baby sun hats,Amy’s Ice Creams, and Good Flow lemonade. Formore, see “Naked City,” p.13. 11am-1pm. Austin CityHall, 301 W. Second, 974-2220. Free.austinworldbreastfeedingday@gmail.com,www.worldbreastfeedingweek.org/usa.htm.BASTROP HOMECOMING & RODEO(See Thursday, 7/31.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Kicking It @ Treasure City Thrift, 8pmPlanet of the Apes @ Paramount, 7pmThe Time Machine @ Paramount, 9:30pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Tangled Snark Summer PartyMonarch Event CenterI Kill Cars Scoot Inn & Bier GartenSATURDAY 02d AUSTIN KIDS DAY Kick off the lastmonth of summer with the kiddie-musicstylings of the Biscuit Brothers, Joe McDermott, andAunty E. On top of that, the Riverbend Center will betransformed into a festival of attractions for the weeones, including a video-game theatre, magic shows,educational lessons, food, drinks, and more. Withthis much excitement, the kid might just go to bedwithout any argument. 9am-4pm. Riverbend Centre,4214 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 866/I-GET-TIX. $12.50,general admission; $24.50, reserved seats.www.austinkidsday.com.d AUSTIN SUMMER MUSICAL This musical varietyshow based on Aesop’s Fables brings the noiseof an all-singing, all-dancing variety. Learning life lessonsnever sounded so good. Aug. 2 & 9, 11am, 2,& 4pm; Aug. 3 & 10, 2 & 4pm. Boyd Vance Theatre atCarver, 1165 Angelina, 619-0730. Free.www.summermusical.com.BODY MIND SPIRIT EXPO Holistic exhibitors, lecturesto improve your body-spirit connection, andgood vibes all around. Aug. 2-3, Sat., 10am-6pm;Sun., 11am-5pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 BartonSprings Rd., 541/482-3722. $10. www.bmse.net.CENTRAL WEST NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNINGProperty owners, business owners, and renters inCentral West Austin can add to the discussion ofland-use in their neighborhoods. Speak up now,before there’s a Linens ’N Things on your front lawn.9am-1pm. Lower Colorado River Authority, Red BudFacility, 3601 Lake Austin Blvd., 974-2857. Free.victoria.craig@ci.austin.tx.us.d CHICK LIT SLUMBER PARTY Noon might bea bit early for bedtime, but when you’re surroundedby young-adult authors, games, snacks, and beautytips, it’s hard not to get in the slumber-party spirit.Pajamas and pillows are optional. Part of TeenFest 2008. Noon. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina,974-1010. Free. www.austinlibrary.com.BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER gayplaceHey, Gay Placers! Welcome to our new, clearer,hopefully more reader-friendly format.Beginning this week, we dispense with thebox of segregated listings and integrateall of our hot gay picks for this week andbeyond into the full calendar of listings.Hey, why should we keep all this big gaylove to ourselves?Kate Getty and I will continue to pen thedang things and try to bring you the best.Just look for the ` in each of the Calendardays as well as in the Now & Later section.Send gay bits togayplace@austinchronicle.com.Visitaustinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.This box? Check here each week: It will servemore as a true column, offering excerpts fromour Gay Place blog and highlights from theweek’s listings. To wit:This week we exclaim! Mamma Mia!,quite simply the gayest portrayal of heterosexuality,ev-arrr. Check our blog for fullrave and fiercely earnest defense of themuch maligned moneymaking mess ... andbe sure not to miss Softball Austin’s fundraiserthis week at the Alamo South. It’s anABBA Sing-along. Nuff sed. See Monday, Aug. 4.KID ROW | L - R: CHICK LIT SLUMBER PARTY (SAT., 8/2) | MALL MADNESS (SUN., 8/3) | SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL FINALS (SAT., 8/2)| PAPERDOLLS SUMMER FILM NIGHT (WED., 8/6) | TWILIGHT RELEASE PARTY (FRI., 8/1)58 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

CHILDREN’S HEALTH COVERAGE BASICSParticipating HEB stores will be offering assistancein Texas’ CHIP program, and Children’s Medicaid.Find out if you’re qualified, and get help filling outthe application. Call 211 or go to www.chipmedicaid.org for more info and the address of a participatingstore near you.CITIZINE MUSIC SHOWCASE Banjo-pluckin’ punksBlack Irish headline this showcase and giveawaypresented by Citizine, Austin’s new music and communitynews publication. Wait a minute, that soundslike competition! Never mind, this event sounds boringand stupid. 8pm. Spider House Patio Bar & Cafe,2908 Fruth, 480-9562. $5. www.citizinemag.com.CITY SERVICES COMMUNITY FAIR Learn whatour fair city’s services – Office of EmergencyManagement, Austin 311, Neighborhood Housing andCommunity Development, and Austin Energy – can dofor you. Kids can visit the K-9 unit dogs, get fingerprinted,or check out the Learning Tree and Trail whilethe adults discover what 311 is really for. 10am-1pm.Will Hampton Branch Library, 5125 Convict Hill Rd.,892-6680. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.DAI DUE SUPPER CLUB Seven courses of fine localfood and wine all benefiting the Green Corn Project.E-mail to register for either date and for location info.Sat., Aug. 2 & 9, 7pm. $150. info@daidueaustin.com,www.daidueaustin.com.` DRAG IDOL Bored with Paula, Simon, and Coca-Cola product placement? Try a different kinda Idol. It’san annual fundraiser for Austin Roundup, an alcoholrecovery conference for GLBT. All of the things you’dthink an event named Drag Idol would have: theglamour, tons of the drama, and a chance to stuffdollar bills where the sun should be shining. 8-10pm.Journey Warehouse, 3009 Industrial Terrace, 439-7410.$10, suggested donation. www.austinroundup.com.d FAMILY YOGA Bring the little yogis. It’s nevertoo early to start. Saturdays, 10-11am. Ruta Maya,3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. Free withcafe purchase. www.rutamaya.net.GALA FOR MUSLIM WOMEN Central Texas Muslimaatpresents this party for local Muslim ladies only.Women will have an area to change out of their abayatand hijabs, as well as dinner, music, dancing, games,and a station for photos. 6pm-12mid. Pat HayesConference Center, Dell Children’s Medical Center,4900 Mueller Blvd., 577-7844. $50. www.ctmaustin.org.IPHONE DEVCAMP Is your iPhone not as cool asyou’d like? Perhaps a little hacking will tweak it toyour liking. E-mail iphonedevcamp-austin@ddg.com toregister, and don’t forget your MacBook. Be preparedfor a day of technical discussions, tutorials, and livefeeds from the larger event in San Francisco.Con junc tured, 1309 E. Seventh. www.iphoneaustindev.com.d LITTLE LOUNGE LIZARDS Bring the 10-andunderset for a night on the town. Well, more like anafternoon at Momo’s, but there will be dancing to alive DJ. All kids must be accompanied by an adult.First Saturdays, 12:30-3:30pm. Momo’s, 618 W. Sixth,479-8848. $10-12. www.littleloungelizards.com.MARIACHI WORKSHOP All are welcome to learn theart form’s history and some simple exercises fromZeke Castro of the Mariachi Vargas. 10am. SouthwestKey Community Center, 6002 Jain, 462-2181. Free.www.swkey.org.MOVIE IN THE PARK Come see Beat the Drum, afilm from South Africa and winner of 30 internationalawards. 8:45pm. Dottie Jordan Park, 2803 Loyola,971-7907. Free.CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | L I S TINGSd MR. LEEBOT performs his new kind of musicalfun, complete with retro beeps, blips, drummachines, and synthesized wackiness. 11:30am.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.w NATURAL BUILDING PRESENTATION Listen totwo natural-building pros as they drop some knowledgeabout using straw, timber, thatch, and livingroofs for your abode. Stop clashing with the environmentaround you, and start building green. 1-2:30pm.Habitat Suites, 500 E. Highland Mall Blvd., 467-6000,800/535-4663. www.the-shire.org/presentation.d PETER PAN You know what to expect: fantasy,wonder, some fairy dust, and some happykids. Scottish Rite always makes ’em smile withits engaging performances. Through Aug. 24:Saturdays, 10am; Sundays, 2pm. Austin ScottishRite Theatre, 207 W. 18th, 472-5436. $10 ($7, kids1-12; $3, infants). www.scottishritetheatre.org.PETLAND PROTEST Spay Austin Coalition joins withother animal advocates today to protest Petland,charging not only that the East Coast chain’s animalscome from unsavory puppy mills but that Austin hasinsufficient demand for new pets, considering thethousands that must be euthanized at Town LakeAnimal Center each year. Join in the protest, or callor e-mail for more details. Saturdays, 1-3pm. Petland,9900 S. I-35 #400, 656-6299. info@spayaustin.com.PHOTOVOLTAIC DESIGN WORKSHOP Registeronline for this solar-panel installation class.Improve your own abode or start training for thatgreen-collar job you’ve longed for. Learn where toput your panels and how to lay them out for maximumenergy collection. 10am-2pm. 4704 E. CesarChavez. $60. www.hubbertspeak.org/classes.html.POLITICAL ACTION BOOK CLUB This book clubdoes more than read; they act. This month, whenthey’re done discussing Our Daily Meds by MelodyPetersen, they will put their heads together to be apart of the solution to the problem. You’re invitedto participate. 11am-noon. Wells Branch CommunityLibrary, 15001 Wells Port Dr., 989-3188. Free.politicalactionbookclub@yahoogroups.com.PRAYER, MEDITATION, & CONTEMPLATION Notclear on the spiritual differences between thethree? Well then this workshop is for you. 2pm.Austin Eckankar Center, 223 W. Anderson Ste.B-206, 453-0331. Free. www.eckankar-texas.org.RIVER MONITORING TRIP BYOB (bring your ownboat) to this day of exploring and monitoring thebirds and vegetation along the Colorado River.Meet at the Center for Environmental Researchparking lot at 8am to participate. 8am-5pm. Centerfor Environmental Research, 2210 FM 973 S.www.cityofaustin.org/water/cer2.htm.w SEEDS TO STARTS WORKSHOP Learn togrow your own vegetables by attending one or bothof these outdoor instructional workshops fromGreen Corn Project. Sat., Aug. 2 & 16, 9-11:30am.1210 Rosewood, 249-3171. $5 suggested donation.www.greencornproject.org.` SHHHHHHHH! Inspired by the silence of spaces,it’s an experiment in theatre. It’s called Hush,brought to you by Stamp Lab, a different kind oftheatre experience. It’s less thinking outside the boxand more, simply, recreating the box, instead. Sat.,Aug. 2 & 16, 8pm. The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo,476-7833. $10, door; $8, students. hush@stamplab.org,www.stamplab.org.SOCIETAL MESSAGES AND THEIR IMPACT ONWOMEN is an interactive workshop lead by Dr.Karen Wilson, director of community education forSafePlace. Men are welcome to attend, but onlywomen participate in the group exercises.Sat. Aug. 2, 10am-noon. St. Andrew’s Presbyterian,14311 Wells Port. 251-0698. www.staopen.com.STARTUP CAMP This informal “unconference” isfor individuals who hope to start a start-up company.Expect free-form discussions and networkinggalore. Attendee? Presenter? Pshaw! Everyone’sa participator. Noon-8pm. Santa Rita Room, TexasUnion, UT campus, 394-4379. Free.www.barcamp.org/StartupCampAustin.STEWARDS OF CASA DE LUZ Join other communitymindedgreen thumbs to do some small repairs, weeding,pruning, and trimming on the grounds of this localeatery. Tools, tea, and snacks will be provided, andvolunteers earn a free meal token. 8-11am. Casa deLuz, 1701 Toomey, 350-8505. Austin Skiers has chosen ten destinations for the 2008-2009season, from skiing in France and Colorado to bathing in the sunin Panama.Sign-up soon to guarantee your placeat these affordable rates.Visit us online to learn more about the clubʼs frequent local socialactivities, details about our trips and the sign-up process for them.www.austinskiers.orgSpiritual Wisdomin Daily Life on ...Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation ... August 2Conquering Fear .................................. August 9No workshop this weekend ................ August 16Health and Healing ............................ August 23Relationships ................................... August 30| PHOTOVOLTAIC DESIGN WORKSHOP (SAT., 8/2)Free Workshops: Saturdays 2:00-3:30pmECKANKAR Center of Austin223 W. Anderson Lane, Suite B-206Hwy 183 Access Road at Northcrest, between Lamar and IH-35,behind the Red Lobster. Call for Directionsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 59

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | L I S TINGSBY GERALD E. MCLEOD daytripsCentral Texasrodeos featuresome of the bestlive-action entertainmentin thestate. It’s a smalltowntraditionthat keeps growingin popularity.So far this year, many ofthe area rodeos have seenrecord attendance. “I don’tknow why it is,” saysJohnny Hoyle of CadillacRodeo Co. in Mexia.“Maybe people are juststaying closer to home.”Hoyle supplies the livestockfor the rodeo. He’s already produced shows in Marble Falls, Stonewall, and Eldoradothis year. Coming up, he’ll be in Schulenburg (Aug. 1-2), Boerne (Aug. 29-30), and Rockdale(Oct. 17-18).One of his favorite rodeos is the Bastrop Homecoming and Rodeo. Part of Hoyle’s affection forBastrop might be that he won the bull-riding competition there in 1982, 30 years after his father,Booger Hoyle, won the same event.“The Bastrop Rodeo is a great atmosphere,” Hoyle says. “It’s a small arena, and you’re right ontop of the action.” The event began 61 years ago as a homecoming celebration for soldiers returningfrom World War II. It now includes a parade, carnival, dance, and high school reunion.“The smaller rodeos are the place to go if you’ve never been to a rodeo,” Hoyle says. At the bigstock-show rodeos, you might be too far away from the action to smell the excitement. At the smallerarenas, you can get up close and personal. “At Bastrop, you can stand on the fence and meetthe cowboys,” he says.Bull riding is the most popular event among fans. Hoyle says it’s not a matter of if a bull rider isgoing to get hurt, but when. Sharp Dressed Man, one of his bulls who was honored as Bull of theYear, can be particularly brutal when a cowboy gets on his back. But put him in the pasture with hisbuddies, and he’s as gentle as the cows, Hoyle says.The horses are a different matter. They’re a breed that has retained its wildness. Built like drafthorses, the bucking horses are bigger and heavier than saddle horses. Hoyle advises newcomersto the sport to pay special attention to the characteristics of a bronc. “If it weren’t for rodeos, thisbreed probably wouldn’t exist anymore,” he says.After working with the same livestock for eight to 10 years, Hoyle says he grows fond of some ofthe animals. He tries to have a consistent group of good quality animals for the competition, buteach animal has its own personality. Sharp Dressed Man and Bo Diddley, a saddle bronc, are hiscurrent favorites. “You become attached to them like you would a dog,” he says.The Bastrop Rodeo takes place Aug. 1-2 with performances at 8pm. For information, visitwww.bastrophomecomingrodeo.org or call 512/303-0558. For a schedule of other area rodeos, go towww.cprarodeo.com.891st 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.outoftownSTAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS EXHIBIT isthe world debut of movie props from the upcomingfilm and previous Star Wars movies, includingObi-Wan Kenobi’s lightsaber and a full-sizedStarfighter. Through Sept. 1. Space Center, Houston,281/244-2100. $19 & $15. www.spacecenter.org.CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO has provided live entertainmentwith bull riding, saddle-bronc riding, steerwrestling, calf roping, and ladies barrel racingsince 1951. Friday and Saturday nights throughSept. 27. Resistol Arena, 1818 Rodeo Dr., Mesquite,972/285-8777. $7-30. www.mesquiterodeo.com.FIRST SATURDAYS means free admission to thegalleries and gardens of one of the most excitingart spaces in Texas that includes activities forthe adults and the kids. Sat., Aug. 2, 10am-2pm.Nasher Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St., Dallas,214/242-5100. Free. www.nashersculpturecenter.org.TEXAS enters the last two weeks of its 43rdseason, with cowboys and cowgirls singing anddancing about Panhandle pioneers. Aug. 1-17. PaloDuro Canyon State Park, Canyon, 806/655-2181.www.texas-show.com.MARKET DAY attracts buyers and sellers fromaround the state to one of the largest flea marketsin Central Texas. Sat., Aug. 2. Lions Field, Wimberley,512/847-2201. www.shopmarketdays.com.COUNTRY MUSIC MONDAY presents this Oprystyleshow with local and guest musicians.Mon., Aug. 4, 7:30pm. Sons of Hermann Hall,Highway 77, Giddings, 979/366-9341.www.countrymusicmonday.com.SHAKESPEARE UNDER THE STARS features actorsof high school age and younger presenting The Comedyof Errors and King Lear on the outdoor stage. ThroughAug. 9. EmilyAnn Theatre, Wimberley, 512/847-6969.$15 adult, $10 student. www.emilyann.org.60 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o md SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL FINALS Try yourskills at this Wii blockbuster, and see if you’ll get oneof the last wild-card slots and play in the finals. Bringyour skills, or prepare to be stomped like a koopa.Part of Teen Fest 2008. 1pm. Carver Library,1161 Angelina, 974-1010. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/library.` THE CAN ROCKETH Just as long as the ladiesstay outta the “crapper,” bringing some hard-rockingladies to the Fourth Street queer-boy haven shouldwork out just fine. It’s everybody’s favorite, KatyKoonce with the Hell Words. That sounds like it’sgonna kick some major ass. 9pm. Oilcan Harry’s,211 W. Fourth, 320-8823. Free.VIDEO & DISCUSSION features a screening ofElling, followed by a guided group discussioninspired by the movie’s themes. 7pm. HumanPotential Center, 2007 Bert, 441-8988.www.humanpotentialcenter.org.` YOU FEELIN’ POTLUCKY, PUNK? The fine folksat Creative Spirit UCC invite you to break bread withthem at an informal potluck. 5pm. Call for location.,527-4455. cheatham@austin.rr.com,www.creativespiritucc.info.BASTROP HOMECOMING & RODEO(See Thursday, 7/31.)SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL (See Friday.)ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Domy Books, Gallery Lombardi,Wally Workman GallerySPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Journey to the Center of the Earth@ Paramount, 2pmJump! @ Arbor, 2pmPlanet of the Apes @ Paramount, 4:45, 9:40pmThe Time Machine @ Paramount, 7:20pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)The Secret Machines Stubb’sForever Changes, the Bellfuries LambertsThe Pack A.D. Hole in the WallBill Frisell Continental ClubOmar Tamez Salvage Vanguard TheaterBlue Mountain Continental ClubSUNDAY 03ETHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTIN Today’splatform will be on ethical dilemmas, byESA member Ethan Love. 10am. Laguna Gloria,3809 W. 35th, 835-9008. Free. www.esoa.org.d KIDS CONCERT Local singer Staci Gray gets thekids dancing and singing along. 10:30am. Ruta Maya,3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. Free.www.rutamaya.net.LAMMAS RITUAL Celebrate the first harvest withthis ritual of sacrifice and rebirth. Bring a dish for thepotluck and donations for Diana’s Grove, a spiritualretreat center that is being threatened by logging.7pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282.www.tejasweb.org.d MALL MADNESS On the off chance your kidsaren’t completely hooked into the pop-culture merry-go-round,you can always take them to this mallevent featuring all the latest styles, games, andbrands. Pop sensation Kate Voegele will performand sign autographs to keep ’em screaming withglee. Noon-6pm. Lakeline Mall, 11200 LakelineMall Dr., Cedar Park, 512/257-8500. Free.www.simondtour.com.w MONKEYWRENCH BOOK & YARD SALE Yourfavorite radical bookstore is looking for donationsto its book and yard sale. Or perhaps you’re in themarket for some books or other general stuff. Eitherway, you’re in the right place, because the revolutionmight begin at the bargain book bin. 8am-8pm.MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925.www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.NATARAJA ECSTATIC DANCE Come and dance yourbody electric. This week’s theme is baroque pop.7:30pm. Khabele Studio, 701 W. Seventh, 832-6011.$6. www.natarajadance.com.PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY Local teacher andmaster storyteller Bob Lively will lead this classbased on Rabbi Jesus by Bruce Chilton. Sundays,10am. First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa,345-8866. Free. www.fpcaustin.org.SCRAPBOOK YOUR SUMMER Bring your scissors,photos, paper, an album, and anything else you mightneed to preserve your memories. Professionals willbe on hand to make those memories seem evensweeter. 2pm. Faulk Central Branch Library, 800Guadalupe, 974-7400. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.WOMEN’S SCHMOOZE EXTRAVAGANZA Localvendors hock their wares and hand out goodie bagswhile you schmooze and relax in a capitalist haze.A photo booth, readings, and demos complete theafternoon. Enter the raffle (the proceeds benefitbreast-cancer awareness), and you could be lookingat a day of spa pampering. 1-6pm. Marriott at LaFrontera, 2600 La Frontera, Round Rock. Free.www.thepowerofwomenevent.blogspot.com.d AUSTIN SUMMER MUSICAL (See Saturday.)BODY MIND SPIRIT EXPO (See Saturday.)IPHONE DEVCAMP (See Saturday.)d PETER PAN (See Saturday.)SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL (See Friday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)“Nobody’s Girl” and Other Short Videos@ The Blue Theater, 9pmJourney to the Center of the Earth@ Paramount, 3:30pmSolaris @ Paramount, 7pmSummercamp! @ Alamo Ritz, 6:30pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Jay Reatard Red 7Bill Frisell Continental ClubMONDAY 04` FERNANDO WOULD BE PROUDOh man. The gayest words ever: “ABBASingalong brought to you by Softball Austin.” Queerjust got queerer. How fun will this be? Dancing in theaisles, singing along, getting all gay on that movietheatre. Pass the popcorn. And Chanel. (See the GayPlace Blog for our love letter to Mamma Mia!) 6pm.Alamo South Lamar, 1120 S. Lamar, 707-8262.www.originalalamo.com, austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.BEYOND THE BARS: THE PRISON INDUSTRIALCOMPLEX The first in a series of discussions revolvingaround America’s prison system. This week, familiesof death-row inmates describe their experienceswith an unjust system. The mother of death-rowinmate Rodney Reed will be among the speakers.8pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop,407-6925. Free. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.w BILINGUAL COMPUTER LITERACY COURSESLearn the basics of operating a computer and surfingthe Web at this new technology center provided bySouthwest Key. Feel free to jump in anytime duringthe eight-week program, or just use the comput-

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | L I S TINGSCOMMUNITY WORKSHOP: WRITING YOUR LIFEAS A WOMAN Need a nudge to get those creativejuices flowing? Women looking for a casual, creativeenvironment where they can share their wordswould do well to sign up for this motivating andpositive experience. Tuesdays, Aug. 5-26, 7-9pm.Unity Center, 9603 Dessau, 636-1346. $100, fourweeksession. www.deanlofton.com.ers on your own. Class will be taught in Spanishon Mondays and English on Tuesdays, and thelab will be open to the public on Wednesdaysand Thursdays for individual use. 6:30-8pm. AMDCommunity Technology Center, 6002 Jain, 462-2181.Free. www.swkey.org.JAPONICA SALON This series from the Japan-America Society of Greater Austin meets monthlyfor different programs exploring Japanese culture.Tonight’s presentation discusses the Art ofJapanese Acupuncture. 7pm. Casa de Luz,1701 Toomey, 476-2535. www.jasga.org.STONER LOVE SONGS BENEFIT Jet Baker andfriends sing songs that only a stoner could love.Actually, as a benefit for NORML, anyone who likesfreedom would love this evening of live tunes. 9pm.Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637.$5. www.rutamaya.net.d SUMMER WRITING CAMPS These two-hourclasses for the little writer in your family are taughtby some of Austin’s finest children’s book authorsand illustrators. Mon.-Wed., Aug. 4-6, 2-4pm.Windsor Park Library, 5833 Westminster, 499-8914.Free. www.writersleague.org.w WORLD RELIGION WORKSHOP This weeklyseries of lecturing and discussing world religionsfeatures an introduction to the Islam and Bahá’ífaiths. Award-winning author and UT professor ofworld religions Farnaz Masumian leads the discussion.A bit more understanding of different faithscould do the world some good. 7pm. HamptonLibrary, 5125 Convict Hill, 892-6680. Free.www.cityofaustin.org/library.COMMUNITY MEETINGS FOR HEALTH CENTER(See Thursday 7/31.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Pete Seeger: The Power of Song@ Alamo Ritz, 10pmSolaris @ Paramount, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Underwater Sleep Project Carousel LoungeTUESDAY 0521ST CENTURY TRANSPORTATIONJoin a meeting of the Austin RegionalGroup of the Sierra Club, and see who is doingwhat when it comes to our transportation options,both present and future. Too many experts to namewill share their expertise so you can be informedand possibly participate in the molding of Austin’stransportation infrastructure. 7pm. Texas StateTeachers Association, 316 W. 12th, 476-5355,877/ASK-TSTA. Free. www.texas.sierraclub.org/austin.BUSINESS STARTUP ORIENTATION These two identical,hourlong sessions will offer instruction on gettingyour small business off the ground. Before youknow it, you will have done your research, prepared,and finalized your business plan. Tue., Aug. 5, 4:30 &6pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd.,974-7800. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/sbdp.EARTH-WISE LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP Thistwo-part course will have you planning irrigation,harvesting rainwater, and creating wildlife habitatsin your own yard in no time. Tue. & Thu., Aug. 5 &7, 8:30am-noon. Zilker Botanical Garden,2220 Barton Springs Rd., 974-3032. $15.www.cityofaustin.org/greengarden/training.htm.` LADIES NIGHT. OH. WHAT A NIGHT. Broughtto you by the crew that knew how to do it atGirlzCellar (Bobby Cook, U.S. Senate), boys andgirls, it’s time for another installment of your favoritefirst Tuesday ladies night, LuSHE, hooked upwith cheap drinks and hot lady ’tenders by the eyeful.Enjoy. Race you to the ceiling on that stripperpole. 9pm. Rain on 4th, 217 W. Fourth, 494-1150.LEGALLINE This free, once-a-month hotline is availabletoday for answering any legal questions youmay have. First Tuesdays, 5:30-7:30pm. 472-8303.MEET THE LENDER BUSINESS LOAN FAIR Whetheryou’re looking to expand or start a business, youcan’t do much without a lender. Meet, network, learnabout the lending process, and impress would-belenders with your airtight business plan. 4-8pm.Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd.,404-4500. Free ($7, parking). www.cityofaustin.org/sbdp.w TEACHER CERTIFICATION INFORMATIONSESSION Interested in becoming a teacher in CentralTexas? If you have a bachelor’s degree, then come ondown, and find out what you need to do to earn yourRegion XIII certification. 6-8pm. Education ServiceCenter Region XIII, 5701 Springdale, 919-5366. Free.ecp@esc13.txed.net, kids.esc13.net/ecp.TOUR OF MEDITATION PRACTICES convenesregularly to explore a new relaxation or meditationapproach at each meeting. 6:15-7pm. HumanPotential Center, 2007 Bert, 441-8988. Free.www.humanpotentialcenter.org.w BILINGUAL COMPUTER LITERACY COURSES(See Monday.)d SUMMER WRITING CAMPS (See Monday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)That Obscure Object of Desire@ Paramount, 9:10pmThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie@ Paramount, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Freedy Johnston Saxon PubWEDNESDAY 068MINUTEDATING SINGLES PARTY Don’tget down on the dating scene, all you 45-to 59-year-olds. There’s at least eight dates waitingfor you. Who knows, maybe you’ll be the next quickdatesuccess story. 7:30pm. Legends Sports Bar &Grill, 8901 Business Park Dr., 696-8444. $40.lisa8mdaustin@yahoo.com, www.8minutedating.com.BUST A MOVE – SAVE A BOOB This group ofwomen will be attending the Breast Cancer Walk inSan Francisco. Help them collect more money forthe cause by dancing, drinking, and donating. Localsingles will also be up for auction, with the biddingstarting at sexy. 6-8pm. J. Black’s Feel Good Lounge,710-B W. Sixth, 653-1966. Donations appreciated.tausha@taushacarlson.com, www.marathon-re.com.EUROPEAN MOVIE NIGHT The final installmentof this series features No Man’s Land, a film fromBosnia/Herzegovina that is set during the mostintense fighting of that area in 1993. 6pm. SpicewoodSprings Branch Library, 8637 Spicewood Springs Rd.,974-3800. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.GATEWAY TO RECOVERY: ADDICTION Thistwo-part series repeats monthly. Today’s sessionaddresses abuse and dependence, the stages ofLive Music with The Biscuit Brothers,Ruby Jane and More!a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 61

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | L I S TINGSchange and recovery, and more. Next week you’lldiscuss addiction as a family disease. First & secondWednesdays of the month, 7-9pm. Austin Recovery,8402 Cross Park, 697-8528. Free.` HUMP MY MUSICS Bands that know how to doit. The lineup is good. Tommy Hall Schedule, FaultyChromosome, and Shand Walton. Grrrr. 10pm. ChainDrive, 504 Willow, 480-9017.` LAS DAMAS Rock. Ladies. The Parlor,100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965. Free.www.myspace.com/lasdamas.MASSAGE SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE includes sampleclasses, a chair massage, and application informationfor this school of muscle soothing. Classes startSept. 15. 7pm. Lauterstein-Conway Massage School,4701-B Burnet Rd., 374-9222. Free. www.tlcschool.com.PAPERDOLLS SUMMER FILM NIGHT The onlinezine PaperDolls is geared toward girls who have abit of the “alt” spirit. Having just launched on Aug.1, they’ll be showing themed double features. Thisweek is queer night, with All Over Me followed by ButI’m a Cheerleader. Both movies are rated R. 9pm.PaperDolls Headquarters, 1610 Nickerson. $5 suggesteddonation. info@paperdollsmag.com.PICNIC IN THE PARK Live music, water games,and more fun will accompany your summer produceshopping at the Austin Farmers’ Market, Wednesdaysthrough the summer. 4-8pm. The Triangle,4600 Guadalupe. www.austinfarmersmarket.org.UNDERSTANDING FIBROMYALGIA WORKSHOP Callto register for this holistic workshop. Noon. NaturalHealth Center of Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd.Ste. B-202, 892-3366. Free. www.nhcaustin.org.WINE & CHEESE TASTINGS Each week of blindtastings features wines bound by a theme or region.If that’s not classy enough for you, there will also becheeses to sample. And if that’s not enough food,you can spend another $25 for a three-course mealat the end of the evening. Wednesdays, 6:45pm.Green Pastures, 811 W. Live Oak, 961-6151. $25.www.winebat.com.d SUMMER WRITING CAMPS (See Monday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)No Man’s Land @ Spicewood Springs Library, 6pmPaths of Glory @ Alamo Lake Creek, 7:30pmThat Obscure Object of Desire @ Paramount, 7pmThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie@ Paramount, 9:10pmThe Hudsucker Proxy @ Arbor, 7:30pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Emmylou Harris Stubb’sIndian Jewelry Emo’sBlack Cobra Red 7Sonny Landreth Zilker Park Rock Island| MURRAYHILLSEE QUEER& SHORT(SAT., 8/2)DON SPIROTHURSDAY 07BACKYARD BIRDS OF AUSTIN CLINICIsn’t it about time you got to know yourneighbors better. And by “neighbors,” we mean thewinged creatures living around your house. Learn toidentify by sight and sound common Austin birds,and attract desirable birds to your yard. 7pm. REI,9901 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 343-5550. Free.w COMMUNITY INPUT FOR FUTURE WATERSUPPLY Call to reserve your seat at this meetingdiscussing the future of Austin’s water supply andwhat areas upstream and downstream think aboutit. Join the discussion online anytime at www.lcra.org/watersupply or attend today’s meeting. 6-9pm.Dalchau Service Center, 3505 Montopolis Bldg. A,800/776-5272 x3380.FIRST THURSDAY Music, food, and shopping. Fromthe river, south on South Congress. Free.FIVE FILMS ON FRAUD Check out these shortfilms about recognizing fraud, from the people whocan spot it a mile away: the U.S. Postal Service.7-8:30pm. A+ Federal Credit Union, 6420 Hwy. 290 E.,421-2818. Free. www.aplusfcu.org.FOOD FOR THOUGHT LECTURE Learn about thelittle creatures that live on and in you and how parasitesare affected by your sexual activity and theclimate around you. 7pm. Old Quarry Branch Library,7051 Village Center Dr., 345-4435. Free.www.centerforinquiry.net/austin.GET OUT MORE TOUR Backpacker Magazine presentsthis evening of tips for the trails. 7pm. WholeEarth Provision, 4477 S. Lamar. Free.www.backpacker.com/getoutmore.` GLBT BOWLING LEAGUE Come on down. Havea hot dog and some strikes and spares. Bringingyour own ball is optional. Some of you have two. Whydon’t you share? Dart Bowl, 5700 Grover, 809-2082.$14 weekly. austin.gamblers@gmail.com.MDA EXECUTIVE LOCK-UP Local business and communityleaders will be on “lockdown” in an attemptto drum up money for the Muscular DystrophyAssociation. The day’s proceeds benefit more than650 local MDA client families. 9am-4pm. Eddie V’sEdgewater Grille, 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860.mmartin@mdausa.org, www.mda.org.` QUEER & SHORT Oooh, let’s check our Homoscopefor this month: It says here that we’ll have achance encounter with Celluloid Visions of BruceLaBruce and Leah Meyerhoff … oh my, and MichelleTea, Triple Cream, the Trannymals, and Murray Hill,too! In bed! Homoscope: an eve of radical queerdomon the big screen. 8pm. The Off Center,2211-A Hidalgo, 476-7833. $5.SPARKLING WINE DINNER Don’t forget to RSVP,and keep your pinkies out. 7pm. Green Pastures,811 W. Live Oak, 961-6151. $59, plus tax and tip.www.winebat.com.SUSTAINABLE FILM SERIES This week’s movie is AConvenient Truth: Curitiba, about a Brazilian city thatdecided to become more responsible by going sustainable.7pm. Habitat Suites, 500 E. Highland MallBlvd., 467-6000, 800/535-4663. Free. www.permie.us.TOWN LAKE ANIMAL CENTER FUNDRAISERA portion of the evening’s sales at Hang Town Grillwill go to Friends of Town Lake Animal Center. Therewill also be a silent auction, door prizes, and livemusic to accompany your charitable spirit. 5-9pm.Hang Town Grill, 701 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 347-1039.www.friendsoftlac.com.EARTH-WISE LANDSCAPE WORKSHOP(See Tuesday.)ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Women & Their WorkSPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Last Year at Marienbad @ Paramount, 7:15, 9:15pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Nellie McKay Stubb’sLair of the Minotaur Red 7Freedy Johnston Momo’sSonny Landreth Continental Clubnow&later` CAMPCAMP! Iz! Coming! (Back). Yip. FirstThursdays. Next CampCamp = Thu., Sept. 4, 8pm.Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse & Cafe, 1501 S. First,416-1601. Free. campcampqueers@gmail.com.OUTDOOR YOGA Forget the studio. Try hatha yogaon the docks of Lady Bird Lake. See www.outdooryoga.org for a schedule of instructors and the exact location.Weekdays, 7-8pm; weekends, 9-10am. Donationsappreciated.SUMMER READING PROGRAM You want to winprizes just for reading? Not that you need incentives,but for every three library books you read betweenJune 9 and Aug. 31, you get an entry form to win giftcertificates and prizes. A good book and fabulousprizes. Any more demands, Mr. Greedy-Reader? AllAustin public libraries, 974-7400.www.cityofaustin.org/library.d ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL The 50th season ofZilker Theatre Productions’ musicals on the hillsidefeatures Beauty and the Beast. Bring the kids, ablanket, and refreshments (or buy a beverage there).Through Aug. 9. Thu.-Sat., 8:30pm. Zilker Park HillsideTheater, 2206 William Barton Dr., 479-9491. Free.www.zilker.org.SAFEPLACE DONATION DRIVE Families utilizingemergency shelters are often forced to leave basicnecessities behind. SafePlace can always use diapers,shampoo, deodorant, and feminine hygieneproducts. Give what you can. Even better, why nothost a donation drive at your workplace or event?356-1567. pswift@safeplace.org, www.safeplace.org.` IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO BE TRANSFORMED Sothe opening has come and gone, but the beauty ofart is that it hangs out. Go enthrall yourself withnew work from Austin-based artists Michelle Mayerand Suzanne Koett in their new show at Big MediumBay 12 Gallery (within Bolm), Transformation. BolmStudios, 5305 Bolm.MENTAL ILLNESS MENTORS Training will be providedfor those in recovery from mental illness whowould like to help those battling the same ailment.888/543-3480. anotherlifefoundation@hotmail.com,www.anotherlifefoundation.org.AISD TRANSFER REQUEST You can obtain transferapplications at any high school or at the Office ofStudent Services. Requests for transfer are due byAug. 11 and processed on a first-come, first-servedbasis. Office of Student Services, 1111 W. Sixth.www.austin.isd.tenet.edu/academics/parentsinfo/transfer.d CHILDREN’S ART CLASSES Register for one ofthe many classes offered by the Austin Museum ofArt. Who better to guide your child to a life of creativityand something approximating subsistence? Checktheir website for a complete schedule, prices, andsupplies needed. Austin Museum of Art –Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th, 458-8191.www.amoa.org/artschool.d ART & IMAGINATION WORKSHOP Public librariesaround town will be hosting classes that will helpyour 8- to 13-year-old express creativity through color,form, and design. Classes are limited to 12 students.Call or check the Austin Library’s website for aschedule. 974-7302. Free. www.austinlibrary.com.HOST A CREEK CLEANUP Is the creek you lovefilled with beer cans and six-pack rings? All you haveto do is gather some friends to clean it up, andKeep Austin Beautiful and Watershed Protection andDevelopment Review will give you all the guidanceand materials you need. 391-0617. Free.www.keepaustinbeautiful.org/creekcleanup.BREASTFEEDING AWARENESS CAMPAIGN Austin’sHealth & Human Services Department and publiclibraries are coming together with the Women,Infants, and Children Program to host public breastfeedingclasses. Call for the schedule of a locationnear you. 972-6862. Free.www.dshs.state.tx.us/wichd/bf/bfpublic.shtm.NEIGHBORHOOD HABITAT CHALLENGE Get theneighborhood organized, and start making your yardmore hospitable to wildlife. If your neighborhoodends up with the largest number of certified wildlifehabitats … well, isn’t that enough? Through Oct. 31.327-8181 x29. www.keepaustinwild.com.d TERRA TOYS’ BAG ART PROGRAM inviteskids to decorate paper bags to be used asshopping bags and gift wrap for Terra Toyscustomers. Mon.-Sat., 9am-6pm; Sun., noon-6pm.Terra Toys, 2438 W. Anderson, 445-4489. Free.www.terratoys.com.` SOMEONE’S IN THE KITCHEN … ON THE GOLFCOURSE … AT THE PARTY with Dinah! Dinah Shore.The Dinah Lakeshore, people. Sharpen your spikes.This year, Austin’s most snazz lezzie party goesall weekend long, and just like the real Dinah, willfeature a Golf Classic. Also like last year, admissionincludes a Ransom Center membership. For moredetails, check the website. Fri.-Sun., Sept. 19-21.363-7629. $45-125. semceu@yahoo.com,www.dinahlakeshore.com.WELCOME HOME BASKETS NEEDED Help lowincomeadults get started at Skyline Terrace, a communityof affordable efficiencies. These individualswill need the basics: sheets, towels, utensils, toiletpaper, etc. Help make their houses more than justshelter. Foundation Communities, 2026 S. First #101,826-1372. www.foundcom.org.SPORE WARS STORY CONTEST Finally you canunleash that story you’ve been saving about a mutatedmushroom that fights rabbits and ants in a battlefor the back yard and beyond. That’s a summary forthe future release of the locally created video gameMushroom Men. Austin’s own sci-fi/humor zine,Space Squid, is offering publication and a free Wii forthe best story about the game’s characters. Checkout all the submission details atwww.spacesquid.com/free_wii.htm.BRAND U Enter to win a makeover complete withbefore and after photoshoots at any Goodwill locationaround town. Really lucky winners are used in their“Brand U” ad campaign. Aug. 2-17. 637-7100. Free.www.austingoodwill.org.` BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG BLOG Why wait ’tilThursday? Come visit us online at the Gay PlaceBlog and on our design blog, Chronique. Join thefun; leave a comment. Maybe win yourself a niceunicorn or T-shirt or something. Or go naked for allwe care. (You can do that while you read a blog.)454-5766. gayplace@austinchronicle.com,austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog,austinchronicle.com/chronique.ACCESSIBILITY INTERNET RALLY Web professionalsand nonprofits in need of a website face-liftshould sign up online for the 11th annual AIR-Austinconference, scheduled for Oct. 18. Making sitesaccessible to those with disabilities will be at thetop of the agenda, but knowledge sharing will be theorder of the day. www.knowbility.org/air-austin.` GETTIN’ & GATTIN’ Want to see the latestT-shirt line by GAT5? Want details about theirlaunch party coming in mid-August? Are you 21+?Well then, RSVP, and watch this space for moredetails. Sat., Aug. 16, 8pm. rsvp@gat5art.com,www.myspace.com/textandobject.SCHOOL SUPPLY DRIVE Throw some school suppliesin the Toyota Tundra, and help kids put theright foot forward in their education. Through Aug. 22.Champion Toyota, 4800 S. I-35, 585-1726.www.hopeandlove4kids.org.GOODWILL AMBASSADORS NEEDED FORSTUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAM The nonprofitNorthwest Services Peace Program considers itsexchange students to be goodwill ambassadors, andyou can be a goodwill ambassador, too, by providingroom, board, and friendship to one of these students.866/634-3977. www.nw-services.com.BACK-TO-SCHOOL DONATION DRIVE The MuslimAmerican Society wants to help low-income familiesget the school supplies they need, and as little as$30 can sponsor a back-to-school backpack. Go towww.masaustin.org to donate online, or call 659-1523for information on other ways to help.` IF YER GONNA SPEW, do it into this. It’sSPEW, Austin’s one and only queercore party. Allqueercore, hardcore, and classic punk all nightlong. Like that, huh? The freaks come out forsome queercore fun: all types! So be a part of theparade. Thu., Aug. 14, 9pm. Red 7, 611 E. Seventh,476-8100. $2, 21 and up; $5, underage.www.myspace.com/spewpartyaustin.62 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

Well, $1,500 ain’t bad for 21 seconds of work.That’s how long it took Eric Gerber to knock outMike Barreras at last Saturday’s King of Kombat 4cage-fighting event.Before the bout, Barrerasseemed by far the more fearsomefighter. Backstage at the CrockettCenter, Gerber had come over tochat – you know, just a couple ofpals about to beat the crap out ofeach other. Barreras said “hey” –there’s not a lot of tricked-up enmityin mixed-martial-arts fighting – butthat was it. The four-time Division IIwrestler from Albuquerque, N.M.,wasn’t about to get friendly with aguy whose ass he was looking tokick. “We’re both trying to be thealpha male,” he said, retreating intomenacing reticence.For his part, Gerber seemed somystically dreamy that you had toworry for his safety. While theother fighters on the cardwere psyching themselvesup by throwing violentpunches at the air, theLeander High School gradwas talking about findinghis center, about balancinghimself, about being both themarble and the sculptor (not thesort of thing you should be trying athome). “I don’t want to inflict painon anyone,” he explained, “but if Idon’t fight, I don’t feel whole. Iknow that sounds lame, but it reallyjust comes down to being the kindof man I want to be, and this is aresponsible way to achieve that.”In other words, whether you’redelivering or receiving one, a spinningback fist to the temple can bewonderfully therapeutic. Not thatthe Barreras-Gerber fight came tothat. Before I even found my seat,it was over. If Barreras didn’t knowsportsBY MARK FAGANBY THOMAS HACKETT playingthroughPlease writeMr. Hackett atplayingthrough@austinchronicle.com.Eric Gerberwhat hit him, Gerber was equallysurprised. “I was expecting a war,”he said. Instead, he didn’t break asweat, bringing a stunned Barrerasalmost instantly to his knees.Gerber wasn’t complaining, though.“Hitting someone like that, it’sstrangely satisfying. It just validateseverything you’re doing with yourlife. You feel like you’ve hit a homerun at life.”The interesting thing is, evenguys taking the hits and losingfights seem to share Gerber’s sentiments.Well, perhaps not Barreras.But Rocky Long was almost incoherentwith pride despite taking arelentless beating from JohnnyBedford two fights later.“You’re a fucking warrior,Rocky!” Bedford and hisboys were telling Longafter the decision. “You’rea tough motherfucker!”Long had to agree. “Noshame, no shame!” heexulted, his white trunks nowpink with blotches of blood – hisblood. “The whole time, I was like:‘Man! That son of a bitch hit meagain!’ But I hung in there. Hewasn’t going to knock me out.”I think Long and Gerber are onto something here. In a culturethat leaves men fewer and fewerways to affirm their manhoodbeyond driving ridiculously largetrucks and sporting increasinglybaroque hairdos, maybe we justneed to get our clocks cleanedevery now and again.You might even make a cool$1,500 in the bargain.THOMAS HACKETTlistingsTHE MAIN EVENTTEXAS GRIDIRON KICKOFF This yearlyluncheon is held in honor of Texas’ favoritesport, football. UT football announcerCraig Way hosts the event and will revealthe Preseason All-CenTex Team and sharehis thoughts on the upcoming high schoolfootball schedule. ESPN commentatorRon Franklin will moderate the keynotepresentation, featuring head coach MackBrown, offensive coordinator Greg Davis,and new defensive coordinator WillMuschamp. Fri., Aug. 1. Hyatt Regency,208 Barton Springs Rd. $50 ($450 tableof 10). www.austintexas.org/tgk.THE HOME TEAMSSUPER SERIES NATIONALS This tourney,hosted by Round Rock BaseballTournaments, will have four age divisions,a max of 65 players per age, and 12 playersper team. The championship gameswill be held at the Dell Diamond, and thekids will have a chance to participate inskills competitions, catch a Round RockExpress game, enjoy some fireworks, andmuch more. Through Aug. 2. Old Settler’sPark and the Dell Diamond, 3300 E. PalmValley Blvd. www.sportscapitaloftexas.com.w TEXAS ROLLERGIRLS 2008CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT The Hell Marysand Hotrod Honeys face off in the mainevent, while the Hustlers and Honky TonkHeartbreakers compete in the consolationbout. For more, see the Chronicle’sSports blog, austinchronicle.com/sports.Sun., Aug. 3, 6:30pm (doors). PlaylandSkate Center, 8822 McCann. $15 ($12,advance; free, kids 12 & under).www.txrollergirls.com.RECREATION & FITNESSw BASTROP RODEO Now in its 61styear, this parade, carnival, and rodeo startedas a celebration for GIs returning fromWorld War II. See the website for a fullschedule of events. Most of the festival’sevents are free, including the horseshoeand Texas Hold ’Em tournaments, thecarnival, and the barrel racing demo. Therodeo is $30 for all three nights. Thu.-Sat.,July 31-Aug. 2. Bastrop, 512/303-0558.www.bastrophomecomingrodeo.org.w BLAZER DAZE: A QUEST FOR THEBEST PLAYER Laser tag enthusiasts, it’syour time to shine. This tourney consistsof 44 contestants battling it out over 10games. Cash prizes for first ($500), second($200), and third place ($100).Proceeds benefit Big Brothers/Big Sistersof Central Texas, Girlstart, and theJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.Final event: Thu., July 31, 6:20 & 7pm.Blazer Tag Adventure Center, 1701 W. BenWhite, 462-0202. www.blazertag.com.FIRST SATURDAY AT HARVEY PENICKGOLF COURSE “Try before you buy” newand used golf equipment. There will alsobe putting and closest-to-the-pin contests,and free 30-minute golf lessons. Sat.,Aug. 2, 8am. Harvey Penick Golf Campus,5501 Ed Bluestein Blvd., 926-1100.NATIONAL KARAOKE LEAGUE has twodivisions in Austin. This week, it’s thefinals for the North Austin Division: Thu.,July 31, 7:30pm. Merkaba Lounge andGrill, 14106 N. I-35 Ste. A.www.nationalkaraokeleague.com.REFEREES NEEDED The Austin BasketballOfficials Association is looking forqualified men and women to serve asrefs (and role models) for area middleand high school games. Training startsSept. 15. www.basketballofficials.com.JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP Thisevent is open to kids ages 7-17, andthey’ll need to bring their own clubs andbag and wear soft spikes or smooth-soledshoes. Mon., Aug. 4, 7:30am. Forest CreekGolf Course, 99 Twin Ridge Pkwy., RoundRock. www.roundrockrecreation.com.SALLY AND MACK BROWN SERVE UPHOPE AT CARITAS UT football headcoach Mack Brown and his wife, Sally,will serve hot meals to the hungry thisTuesday, and then be honored by Caritasat the Harvey Penick Award Dinner onSept. 22 for all of their service to ourcommunity. Tue., Aug. 5, 11am-12:30pm.Caritas Community Kitchen, 611 Neches.www.caritasofaustin.org.SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL FINALSTry your skills at this Wii blockbuster, andsee if you’ll get one of the last wild-cardslots and play in the finals. Bring yourskills, or prepare to be stomped like aKoopa. Part of Teen Fest 2008. Sat., Aug.2, 1pm. Carver Library, 1161 Angelina,974-1010. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.SHELLEY HIAMRUNS, WALKS, & RIDESNIKE+ HUMAN RACE Austin has beenchosen as one of 25 cities internationally(and one of four in the U.S.) to host thisspecial race. This worldwide event takesplace Aug. 31 with Lance Armstrongcompeting here in the ATX and a free concertfrom Ben Harper following the 10Krace. They are hosting several trainingevents leading up to race day including:Nike Club Run TX: SIX: Thu., July 31 &Aug. 7, 7pm. SIX Lounge, 117 W. Fourth.Nike Club Run TX: Starbucks:Sat., Aug. 2, 8am. Starbucks, 24th &Nueces. Race day: Sun., Aug. 31. Moredetails to come. www.nikeplus.comFor more on the Chronicle’scrazyass take on sports, go toaustinchronicle.com/sports.MOONLIGHT MARGARITA RUN will benefitAustin’s Trail at Lady Bird Lake. Stickaround for the afterparty featuring food anddrinks from Maudie’s TexMex. Thu., Aug. 7,8pm. American Legion Hall, 2201 VeteransDr., 733-3989. mmr@townlaketrail.org,www.moonlightmargaritarun.com.CITY RUNNING TOURS For those lookingto learn more about Austin and get someexercise at the same time, this might dothe trick. Choose the type of run, the mileage,and when you’d like to do it, and they’llhandle the rest. Advance purchase required.www.cityrunningtours.com/austin/index.html.JACK’S GENERIC TRIATHLON is shortenough for novice triathletes to enjoy, yetchallenging enough to interest veterantriathletes. Following the (sold-out) eventwill be a free cookout with beer, icecream, and tons of free gear from theTexas Ski Ranch. Sun., Aug. 3, 8am. TexasSki Ranch, 6700 N. I-35, New Braunfels,512/472-5646. www.jacksgenerictri.com.BENEFIT WALK FOR ANTHONY Pflug ervilleHigh football player Anthony Sepadadied tragically in a motorcycle accident inApril. The walk benefits the scholarshipfund created in memory of Sepada, withall the money raised going to the collegefund of a deserving PHS athlete. Sat., Aug.2, 9am. Pflugerville Lake, 4600 PflugervillePkwy. at Weiss Lane, 512/565-9678. $10($25 for groups of three or more).www.runtex.com/web/2-2146.asp.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published everyThursday. Info is due the Monday of the week priorto the issue date. The deadline for the Aug. 15issue is Monday, Aug. 4. Include name of event,date, time, location, price, phone number(s), adescription, and any available photos or artwork.Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the attention of theappropriate writer (see roster below). Mail to theChronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, 78765, fax458-6910, or e-mail:Mark Fagan (Sports):gameplans@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listingseditor, at brenner@austinchronicle.com.BY NICK BARBARO soccer watchAnd so we bid farewell to the inaugural edition of the U-23 Austin Aztex– done in in the Premier Development League Southern Conference final bydefending national champion Laredo Heat, but more specifically by twountimely ejections. The Aztex beat Bradenton, 2-1, in Friday’s semifinal, buttwo yellow cards to key defender Beto Papandrea ruled him out of the nextnight’s conference final. They could surely have used him then, because byhalftime, the Aztex were up 1-0, on a Jaime Watson penalty kick, but wereagain down a man, due to A.J. Godbolt’s two yellow cards in a five-minutespan of an ill-tempered game. Laredo got two goals in the first six minutesafter halftime, and that was pretty much it: 3-1 final. Still, a great first season,on and off the field. When next we see them, the Aztex will be fielding afull pro team in the 2009 USL First Division, in addition to the U-23 squad:23 home games in all, instead of this season’s eight. I can hardly wait.Soccer at the Olympics kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 6. I don’t know justwhat NBC will be broadcasting, but here’s the schedule for the U.S.: TheU.S. Women play Norway (6:45am, Aug. 6), Japan (4am, Aug. 9), and NewZealand (6:45am, Aug. 12); the U.S. Men play Japan (4am, Aug. 7),Holland (6:45am, Aug. 10), and Nigeria (4am, Aug. 13).Meanwhile, talk in the pro game centers around the transfer market,with just a few weeks to go until the European seasons start. “Austin’steam” in the English Premier League, Aztex affiliate Stoke City, hasmade three fairly major signings: Reading striker Dave Kitson, Nigerianmidfielder Seyi Olofinjana, and Danish goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 63

artslistingsThere is no translation. She thinks it’s hilarious.She works as a maid. All righty, herewe go. Maybe it’s a play about the lives ofhighly educated immigrants working menialjobs or something.But that’s not it at all. Mathilde (SmarandaCiceu), the maid, has come to America afterthe death of her parents, who were the twofunniest people in Brazil. They made eachother laugh so hard that her mother actuallydied from a joke, and her father soonafter. Until their passing, Mathilde was thirdfunniest,and now the title has fallen to her– which is not that fun, as it turns out. Nowshe’s been hired by Lane (Lauren Lane), adoctor, to be a live-in maid, which might beOK except that cleaning makes Mathildesad. Lane does not understand this. DoesMathilde need medication so she can clean?Such are the broad, gentle brushstrokeswith which playwright Sarah Ruhl paints hercharacters and their lives. Is it hazy andundefined? Sure. Does it seem a little goofyand unrealistic? Yes. One wonders how Ruhldescribed this story to strangers as she waswriting it. “It’s about this funny maid, see.Then she gets sad.”Yet in keeping it simple, she has createdpoints of light out of her characters, beaconsin a murky world that help us connectto something solid. Lane means well in herendearingly clumsy attempts to communicatewith Mathilde, who, despite her calling as ajokester, plays the straight man more oftenthan not. Lane’s sister Virginia (ChronicleThe Clean HouseZach Theatre, Whisenhunt Arena Stage, through Aug. 31Running time: 2 hr, 20 minSometimes, when a play begins, you think that it’s going to beone thing, and then it’s not. As The Clean House opens, a youngBrazilian woman is telling a long joke in Portuguese.contributor Barbara Chisholm) arrives, desperatelyeager to clean Lane’s house. Shejust really likes things to be clean. Sure,Virginia uses cleaning as a method of scouringaway the vast disappointment with whichshe regards her life, but what you see is awoman who wants to make things tidy. Anypart of you that has ever wanted to straightenup the papers on someone else’s deskwill reach out to Virginia with open arms.In the course of their bizarre arrangementin which Mathilde is paid to sit around andwatch Virginia clean, the pair discover evidencethat Lane’s husband is having an affair.How could he? He’s just not that kind of man,Virginia insists. It’s true: Yes, he is having anaffair, and no, he is not that kind of man.To say more of the plot would be to revealmoments that should not be spoiled inadvance. Many of them are hilarious. It’s sogood, in fact, that you wish you were actuallyonstage with these women as they navigatebetrayal, sickness, and ultimately forgiveness.One of the joys of seeing plays with greatroles for women over the age of 22 is thatthe audience gets to appreciate the hugenessof the abilities developed by thosewomen over decades of work. Under DaveSteakley’s direction, Chisholm and Lane aremasters of the stage and a joy to watch.The Clean House is a story about compassionand rising above our own needsto serve others. Zach Theatre selected anexcellent script and did not waste the material.– Elizabeth Cobbe64 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCOURTESY OF WILL VAN OVERBEEKtheatreOPENINGARTSPARK FESTIVAL Here’s the fourth annualtheatre, music, and video game festival from HBMGFoundation, providing opportunities for creatives andtheir appreciative audiences throughout Austin. (See“Striking Sparks,” p.34, for more.) Here, specifically,are the theatrical performances glorifying this monthlongevent at the Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo:After Life’s Loose Lips Thu., July 31 & Aug. 14, 8pm.Poison Apple Initiative’s Ugly Ways: Leaving theNarrow Fri., Aug. 1 & 15, 8pm.Chimera’s Sublimation Sat., Aug. 2 & 16, 2pm.Stamp Lab’s Hush Sat., Aug. 2 & 16, 8pm.Élan Productions’ di[verge] Sun., Aug. 3 & 17, 2pm.www.hbmgfoundation.org.SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN The stage version of theclassic MGM movie, adapted by Betty Comdenand Adolph Green from their original screenplay, isperformed by the Jewish Community Association ofAustin’s Summer Youth Musical troupe. Thu., July 31,7pm; Sat., Aug. 2, 8pm; Sun., Aug. 3, 2 & 7pm; Mon.-Thu., Aug. 4-7, 7pm. Dell Jewish Community Center,7300 Hart, 735-8000. $12 ($10, JCAA members).www.jcaaonline.org.THE DIONYSIUM Buzz Moran and L.B. Deyo’s manyringcircus of intellectual diversions brings us, thismonth, a fierce debate (Resolved: The U.S. pennyshould be discontinued and removed from circulation)between those talented madcaps Owen Egertonand Les McGehee, a video-enhanced appreciation ofanimation by the acclaimed Lance “Fever” Meyer, avariety of songs performed by bard Graham Weber,and the usual thinking-while-drinking hijinks, accompaniedby the sizzling keyboards of Graham Reynolds.Wed., Aug. 6, 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse South,1120 S. Lamar, 476-1320. $8. www.originalalamo.com.THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR The Weird SistersWomen’s Theater Collective presents its fourth annualplay: Shakespeare’s raucous (arguably most raucous)comedy. This version’s set in the Texan ranchlandsof 1957 and performed by an entirely female cast.Thu.-Sat., Aug. 7-9, 8pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd.,478-5282. $5-20. www.vortexrep.org.CLOSINGI GOOGLE MYSELF Capital T Theatre brings back itsJason Schafer-scripted FronteraFest hit for a full run.Three men with the same last name? The Internet’svast powers of searching? A porn star? The daily’sMichael Barnes said this was “a taut, sexy play givena taut, sexy production.” Directed by John Carroll.Through Aug. 2. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre,511 W. 43rd, 479-PLAY. $15-25. www.capitalt.org.ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA The Velvet Rut Theatre,now calling itself Austin Drama Club but still underthe direction of Japhy Fernandes, presents thisShakespeare classic as only they can: in a sort ofvampiric, Anne Rice-a-Roni style, so it’s rumored.Through Aug. 2. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. 1612 E. Seventh.236-1092. Donations accepted. ceasarbnice@yahoo.com.GOLD IN THE BONES is Eric Coble’s adaptationof Washington Irving’s haunted pirate tales, stagedin three intertwined one-act narratives, directed byChester Eitze out Bastrop way. Through Aug. 2. Fri.-Sat.,7:30pm. Bastrop Opera House, 711 Spring St., Bastrop,512/321-6283. $10 ($8, seniors; $7, students; $5,ages 14 and younger). www.bastropoperahouse.com.ONLY AN ORPHAN GIRL What is it about the townsaround Austin that cause them to produce old-timeymelodramas as “lite, summer fare”? The question’srhetorical, but the show’s written by Henning Nelmsand directed by David Schneider out in Lockhart forall your popcorn-throwing, villain-booing pleasure.Through Aug. 2. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. Gaslight Baker Theatre,204 N. Main, Lockhart, 512/376-5653.www.gaslighttheater.com.SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Richard Brinsley Sheridan’sclassic comedy of manners is performed by theVortex Summer Youth Theatre troupe under thedirection of Betsy McCann and Gabriel Maldonado.Through Aug. 2. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Vortex,2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $10-30. www.vortexrep.org.ONGOINGSHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE The Shakespeare atWinedale program’s summer class performs Romeoand Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, and Antony andCleopatra this year. See their website for more informationand for a full performance schedule. Through Aug.10. Thu.-Fri., 7:30pm; Sat.-Sun., 2 & 7:30pm. WinedaleTheatre Barn, out near Round Top. 512/471-4726. $10($5, students). www.shakespeare-winedale.org.ROSE’S DILEMMA A little Neil Simon for you?Imagine a celebrated female writer who is offereda “far out” suggestion by her deceased formerlover. Yes: Deceased. WTF? This comedy’s directedby Whitney Marlett Mollahan out Wimberley way.Through Aug. 10. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm.Wimberely Playhouse, 450 Old Kyle Rd., Wimberley,512/847-1592. www.wimberleyplayers.org.CHEERIO, Y’ALL! OR IVORY KEYES GOESOVERSEAS is an old-fashioned summer melodrama,from the Way Off Broadway Community Players outin Leander. Written by Whitney R. Garrity; directed byKaren Miller. Through Aug. 16. Fri.-Sat., 8pm. Extra show:Sun., Aug. 3, 3pm. WOBCP Theatre, 10960 E. CrystalFalls Pkwy., Leander. 512/259-5878. www.wobcp.org.TAMING OF THE SHREW The prettiest Kate in allof Christendom, ostensibly, meets her match in theequally sharp-tongued Petruchio in this Shakespeareclassic, here directed by Jeff Hinkle (and featuringDavid Meissner and Dawn Erin as the love-at-firstspitecouple) for the relentlessly industrious CityTheatre Company. Through Aug. 17. Thu.-Sat., 8pm;Sun., 5:30pm. City Theatre, 3823 Airport Ste. D,524-2870. $15-25 ($12, students; pay what you wish,Thursdays). www.citytheatreaustin.org.SUMMER STOCK AUSTIN: JACK & THEBEANSTALK AND MORE Each summer, kids fromacross Texas gather to stage shows at St. Edward’sMary Moody Northen Theatre. This year’s slatefeatures Jack & the Beanstalk (in collaboration withTrouble Puppet Theatre), Bat Boy, and Oklahoma!Full schedule available on the Web. Jack & theBeanstalk: Through Aug. 9. $5. Oklahoma!: ThroughAug. 10. $15 ($12, kids, seniors). Bat Boy: Aug.1-10. $15 ($12, kids, seniors). Mary Moody NorthenTheatre at St. Edward’s University, 3001 S. Congress,448-8484. www.summerstockaustin.org/calendar.html.SEUSSICAL is, of course, the Dr. Seuss musical byLynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, here directed byWendy Bable for Zach Theatre, chock-full of wacky charactersand rhyme schemes that you may recall fromyour early reading years or numerous TV or cinemamanifestations. Through Aug. 10. Fri., 7pm; Sat., 2 &7pm; Sun., 2pm. Davis Auditorium, Texas School for theDeaf, 1102 S. Congress, 462-5353. www.tsd.state.tx.us.ALTAR BOYZ This high-energy musical stars five,erm, Apostles of Pop – Matthew, Mark, Luke, Juanand Abraham (he’s Jewish) – getting funky with fivepartharmony. There’s singing, dancing, and plentyof hair product, as wielded by a Catholic boy bandalmost as hot as Austin’s (definitely secular) CedarFever. Holy St. Timberlake, it’s a pop show! Directedby Dave Steakley. Held over through Aug. 10. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey,476-0541. $35-49. www.zachscott.com.THE CLEAN HOUSE Zach Theatre presents SarahRuhl’s quirky, Pulitzer-winning (2005) comedy aboutlove, loss, and the power of a good joke. StarringLauren Lane, with Barbara Chisholm, Tom Green,Smaranda Ciceu, and Alicia Kaplan. Directed by DaveSteakley. (See review, left.) Through Aug. 17. Wed.-Sat.,8pm; Sun., 2pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541.$28-37 ($15, Wednesdays). www.zachtheatre.org.BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Here’s the 50th iterationof this beloved and family-friendly event. This year’sproduction is the Disney version of the fairy tale,written by Linda Woolverton and Howard Ashmanand Tim Rice and Alan Menken. Yes, and now it’son the hillside, near sundown, with an enthusiasticlocal cast, and – oh – bring a picnic basket, bringSUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Infois due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. Thedeadline for the Aug. 15 issue is Monday, Aug. 4. Includename of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(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.

presented by helping austinaugust 9, 2008helpingaustin.orgHelping Austin invites you to join us for our fourth annual galawhich benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Texas.Please visit our website for more details and to purchase tickets.Special ADVANCE ScreeningSunday, August 10, 2pmTo sign up for a chance to win apass to this screening, go toaustinchronicle.com/contests byThursday, August 7th.No purchase necessary. Passes are limited and available on a first-come,first-served basis. Seating is limited. Passes do not guarantee admission.In Theaters August 15.austinchronicle.com/contestsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 65

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | LISTINGSSkate! A Night atthe RinkPlayland Skate CenterJuly 27Ever since I broke my arm whileskating at a birthday party (myown, sadly), the roller rink has notbeen for me a place of great joy.But Forklift Danceworks’ latest haschanged all that.Sitting cross-legged on the track at PlaylandSkate Center, listening to hits of the Eightiesreverberate through its cavernous interior,feeling the rush of air from skaters dashingpast at a distance of inches, and seeing theelation in those skaters as they glided andspun and raced about in fluid ovals, I rediscoveredthe euphoria of roller-skating – especiallywhen it’s done in big barns like Playland,where people of all ages slip into little bootswith wheels and go ’round and ’round togetheralong the same curved trail.Skate! A Night at the Rink was nothing ifnot a big wet kiss to the communal experienceof roller-skating. It started with thevenue itself, a place where generations ofAustinites have skimmed across the floorwith glee; Playland, like most rinks, ain’tmuch to look at, but it has all that historypulsing through it, which gives you a senseof being in a long line of locals who haveskated (and fallen) on that track. ForkliftArtistic Director Allison Orr made that traditionexplicit by playing recorded memoriesof skaters (not always easy to hear,but the sentiments were clear) andvintage organ music taped at a rinkmore than 50 years ago. Since morethan half the numbers in the hourlongprogram involved large groupsof skaters, they evoked the lookof the rink as it usually is: full offolks of all different ages and sizesand shapes and looks. As all but afew of those skaters were Playlandregulars, folks for whom the rink isa second home – make that a placeto be with others who derive thesame freedom and pleasure fromthis simple activity – you could seethat common delight in face afterface as they circled past you, justas you could see mouth after mouthsinging along with ABBA on “DancingQueen” and Michael Jackson on“Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough.”Which brought home another partof the rink’s charm: Those hits blaringover the loudspeakers are onesthat everybody knows, ones that,even if we think they’re cheesy –can you say, Journey’s “Don’t StopBelieving”? – we’ll join in on thechorus with everyone else on thetrack. Orr drew on every aspectof the roller-rink experience, eventhe insecurity we all felt as clumsybeginners (played for laughs by Orrherself in a cute bit with Playland’s“Mr. Rollerskate,” Michael Febonio),to remind us how this hall of amusementserves as a center for sharedexperience, for community.That said, Skate! was also a truedance performance. While only afew of the 30 participants weretrained dancers, the show did whatall good dance productions do:gave us a heightened awareness ofmovement and helped us see theartistry in it. Throughout the show,you could spy all the familiar skatemoves – the one-foot push-off, thescissoring legs, the swinging arms,the lean into sharp turns, the backwardglide – and they played up howunnatural much of the movement in skatingis (how much sense does it make to movebackward?) and yet how beautifully we haveadjusted to it. Some have adapted to movingon shoes with wheels the way others haveto moving on horses, and the movement ofan experienced skater is like that of a finerider: graceful and smooth and distinct fromthe movement of a human form on its own.You see these elegant circles and loops andspins, and it’s a marvel.And how marvelous for Orr to bring it toour attention, to refresh our senses with howremarkable skating is and how accessibleand how much sheer unadulterated fun. Wemay overdo it occasionally with calling showsa celebration of something, but when ashow plays out like a party and ends with aninvitation to the audience to strap on someskates and join in, what else can you callit? Skate! was a party on wheels and festiveenough to make at least one guy forget along-ago broken arm. – Robert Faires66 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mthe kiddies, bring some mosquito repellent andthe desire for an evening of staged enchantment.Through Aug. 9. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Zilker Park HillsideTheater, 2206 William Barton Dr. Donations accepted.www.zilker.org/showinfo.html.DINNER THEATREHOW TO MURDER A MILLIONAIRE The CapitalCity Mystery Players present this interactive murdermysterytakeoff on several past and present iterationsof the reality/game show genre, a night ofsleuthful and wacky comedy that lets you twirl yourvermicelli (or divide your veal Parmesan or what haveyou) while trying to figure out whodunit. Sat., Aug. 2,7pm. Spaghetti Warehouse, 117 W. Fourth, 404-9123.$29.95. www.capcitymystery.com.AUDITIONSTRAVIS COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT VIDEOActors needed: 10 men and five women of variousages; three children, ages 6 and younger. No compensation,but screen credits will be given. Two partswill require more than one day of shooting; the restwill be a half day or less. E-mail for appointment.Tue., Aug. 12, 2-7pm. ric@aimproductions.com.NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD Yes, it’s gonna be astaged performance of George Romero’s classic ofundead anthrophagia and the brave souls battlingfor their lives. The paradigm-tweakers at Weird CityTheatre are looking for a diverse cast; lurch ondown with your half-decayed self after e-mailing foran appointment. Mon., Aug. 4, 6pm. Dougherty ArtsCenter, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 745-2636.weirdcitytheatre@gmail.com.THEATRE CALL BOARD10 MINUTES MAX: CALL FOR ENTRIES DanceUmbrella is looking for acts for this annual two-nightperformance minifest of new works by local artists.Work should be dance, movement-inspired theatre, orperformance art; length not to exceed – well, why doyou think they call it “10 Minutes Max”? This year’sevent will be presented on Aug. 22 & 23 at the CarverMuseum and Cultural Center. Call or check online forapplications. 450-0456. www.danceumbrella.com.OPEN STAGE PERFORMANCES Show ’em whatyou’ve got; then watch ’em show you what they’vegot, y’know what we’re sayin’? Fifteen-minute slotsavailable. Thursdays, 7:30pm. Green Muse Cafe,519 W. Oltorf, 796-5077. Free. www.myspace.com/green_muse_open_stage.comedyIN THE CLUBSCAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research #100,467-2333. www.capcitycomedy.com.Cap City Open Mic This gig ranges from “Wholet these dipshits onstage?” to “Wow, this fuckeris awesome!” And, hey, it could be you up there,dear reader, slaying your friends and neighbors.Sundays, 8pm. Free with college ID.J.B. Smoove That’s right, it’s “Leon Black” fromCurb Your Enthusiasm, plying the stand-up circuitwith his Smoove style and well-dressed je ne saisquoi. Austin’s favorite legal eagle John Ramseyopens. July 31-Aug. 2. Thu., 8pm; Fri-Sat., 8 &10:30pm.Brian Posehn It’s always a good time when thenationally touring Posehn stops by Cap City tocrack us up after a rough week at work. Especiallywhen Mike MacRae opens for him, y’know? Aug.7-9. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553.www.esthersfollies.com.Esther’s Follies: World Gone Wild The mostpopular troupe in town returns with its riotousmusical send-ups of local and national politicsand cultural phenomena, making already hottopics burn with a bright comic intensity, withthe incredible and – ai! ai! ai! – spicy illusions ofmaster magician Ray Anderson. Thrills! Chills!Ripped-from-the-headlines events turned into comedygold! Reservations highly recommended. Thu.-Fri, 8pm; Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts availableThursdays & Fridays for seniors, students, military).Additional $5 for special reserved seats.| BRIANPOSEHN ISON HIS WAY,BRINGING HISGLORIOUSGOOFINESSTO CAP CITYCOMEDY CLUB.THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress,443-3688. www.hideouttheatre.com.Friday: It’s Threefer Madness time, in which threetroupes – this week: Junk, Venn Diaphragm, andUnfurled – battle for improv supremacy. 8pm. $10.Then you’ve got the Double Barrel show, with GetUp and Curtis Needs a Ride. 10pm. $10.Saturday: Girls Girls Girls present their new Boysof Summer series of improv musicals, featuring adifferent, er, boy each week. Melody! Harmony! Laffs!8pm. $10. Maestro is a fierce, multipartite battle forsupremacy among improvisers, scored by you, theaudience. Highly recommended. 10pm. $10.Sunday Flying Theater Machine’s Fairly SillyFairy Tales Austin’s only improv troupe for kidspresents a brand new show. You pick the fairy-taleand different ways to mix it up, and they act it out.Incredibly fun for ages 4-10, kinda fun for everyoneelse. Sunday, Aug. 3-16, 2pm. $5.VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116.www.thevelveetaroom.com.Open Mic Night These are your would-be comedicneighbors, three minutes at a time: Love them;fear them. This week’s host is – wow – a showunto himself: Joel Keith. Thursdays, 10pm.Mark Agee invites you to check out his MySpacepage, figuring the samples there will rope yourass in to see his live comedy show at the CheesePalace – where Carrie Moore and Joel Keith openfor him. Fri.-Sat., Aug. 1-2, 9:30 & 11:30pm.BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!KICK BUTT COMEDY There’s humor a-plenty to behad where the beverages and snacks are alwaysgood, here in Gohring-sensei’s martial-arts-inflectedjava joint. Monday Night Mash: Improv Mondays,8pm. Open Mic Comedy Wednesdays, 8pm. Kick ButtCoffee, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425.LAST GAS COMEDY Stand-up comedy every Saturday.Sat., Aug. 2, 9pm. Homer’s Bar & Grill, 1779 WellsBranch Pkwy. #114. Free. www.lastgascomedy.com.GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS: THE BOYS OF SUMMERAustin’s only all-girl improv troupe creating fullmusicals all extemporaneous from audience suggestions,Girls Girls Girls, ups the ante by incorporating– gasp! – a boy, a real live boy, in its madcap mafficking.Mining the rich ore of local celebrity studliness,the Girls introduce a different man-sized shotof testosterone into their heady rock & rollish breweach week for the next seven weeks. Recommended.Through Aug. 23. Saturdays, 8pm. The HideoutTheatre, 617 Congress, 443-3688. $10.ggg.austinimprov.com.THE AUSTIN COMEDY TRAINWRECK featuresthe best comics in Austin, so they say – right therein the Hole, on the Drag, deep in the heart ofcollegiate Texas. Tuesdays, 10pm. Hole in the Wall,2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747. $5.www.myspace.com/austincomedytrainwreck.

danceMIDDLE EASTERN DANCE TROUPECOMPETITION Z-Helene and friendspresent this fourth annual weekend of competitivedancing and workshops celebrating the diversedance forms of the Middle East. Sat., Aug. 2, 7:30pm.Scottish Rite, 207 W. 18th, 472-7247. $20.www.zhelene.com.TWO LEFT FEETMODERN 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.DANCE INTERNATIONAL Each night features avariety of ballroom and Latin dances; each monthsees the start of a new, progressive course. No partnernecessary. Sundays, 6-8pm. Dancers Workshop,183 & Balcones Woods. Weeknights, times vary. HillsFitness Center, 4615 Bee Caves Rd., 32-DANCE. Feesvary. www.dancein.org.FIRST FRIDAY CONTRA DANCING Live music byarea groups; dances called by friendly folk. Fri., Aug.1, 7:30pm (beginners’ lessons), 8-11pm (main dance).Carpenter’s Hall, 400 Josephine, 970-4919. $8 (discountfor AFTM members and first-timers).LUCILA DANCE PRODUCTIONS: CLASSESFORMING Classes are forming now in belly dancing(all levels), flamenco, salsa/merengue, hip-hop,creative movement for ages 5-10, and tai chi. LucilaDance Studio, 1700 S. Lamar, 416-8800.www.luciladance.com.EGYPTIAN BELLY-DANCE CLASSES BY DRAKONBeginners to advanced dancers up and down the I-35corridor have a chance to learn from one of Austin’sfavorite belly dancers. Intermediate to advanced:Mondays, 7-8:30pm. Platinum Gymnastics Academy,1410 Royston, Round Rock. Beginning to intermediate:Wednesdays, 6:30-8pm. Kidsport Gymnastics,2522-C Shell Rd., Georgetown. All levels: Saturdays,10-11:30am. Dance Unlimited, 1019 Main, Buda,512/295-2036. $13 per class. www.desertpassion.com.FLAMENCO DANCE CLASSES (INTENSIVE) Threeweeksummer class series for beginners of all levels.See the website for more details. Through Aug. 14.Tuesdays & Thursdays, 6 & 7pm. $40 entire session.studentorgs.utexas.edu/florycanto.FOLKLORE ARGENTINO Introductory level gato, chacarera,and more. Tuesdays, 7:45pm. EsquinaTango,209 Pedernales, 524-2772. $12 each class.www.esquinatangoaustin.com.BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH TWYLA GRACETwyla of Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble teachesongoing classes in belly dance. Call or write fordetails. Mondays & Wednesdays, 8:30-9:30pm,12687 Research at Oak Knoll, 971-0188.www.twylabellydance.com.| WILL TAYLOR &STRINGS ATTACHED HELPYOU MEET THE BEATLESON A SLIGHTLY MORECLASSICAL LEVEL THISWEEKEND.AUSTIN BALLROOM DANCERS ABD sponsorsballroom dancing with DJ-ed music weekly, yearround.Saturdays, 8-11pm; minilesson, 7:30pm. AustinUptown Dance, 8868 Research, 989-3939.www.austinballroomdancers.org.ADVANCED BALLET CLASS FOR AGES 13 ANDOLDER Ten-year Tapestry resident Stacie Stalmachbrings more than 15 years of teaching and performanceexperience to the class. Mondays, 6-7:30pm.Tapestry Dance Company, 2302 Western Trails,474-9864. $16 walk-in fee, discounts available for students,professionals. www.tapestry.org.SCOTTISH BALLROOM DANCING Learn the ballroomdances of Scotland: lively jigs and reels andelegant strathspeys; no partner needed but coupleswelcome. Thursdays, 7-8:30pm. Quicksilver DanceCenter, 8711 Burnet Rd. Ste. H-100, 327-2869. Firstclass free.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.BALLET FOLKLORICO WORKSHOP Open to anyoneand everyone, this workshop is led by RodolfoMendez, artistic director of the Ballet East DanceCompany, and provides an overview and history ofthe art form and some basic exercises. Saturday,Aug. 2, 10-11am. Southwest Key East AustinCommunity Center, 6002 Jain, 462-2181, 669-8999.Free. www.swkey.org.FLAMENCO CLASSES For beginners and intermediatedancers. Beginner: Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm.Intermediate: Thursdays, 7:30-8:30pm. Joyce WillettSchool of Dance, 5811 Berkman. $14 each class.YOGA FOR DANCERS Erica Santiago teaches ayoga class aimed at dancers and other artists, helpingfree mind, body, and spirit for the creative set.Tuesdays 6:30-8pm. Tapestry Dance Company,2302 Western Trails, 474-9864. www.tapestry.org.ESTUDIO FLAMENCO Flamenco dance classes,centrally located. Beginner: Saturdays, noon-1pm.Intermediate: Saturdays, 1-2:30pm. 2801 W. 45th,382-1366. Fees vary. www.estudioflamenco.com.SOLID CHROME DANCERS Learn the Texas two-stepand Western swing in a real honky-tonk. Singles andcouples welcome. Thursdays, 8pm. Broken Spoke,3201 S. Lamar, 417-7383. $8.www.myspace.com/solidchromedancers.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 DANCETraditional social dances to live music everyweek. You don’t need a partner, and every dancewill be taught before you stride out on your own.Wednesdays, 7:30pm. Hancock Recreation Center,811 E. 41st, 453-4225. $3 donation.www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.COURTESY OF TODD V. WOLFSONCALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | LISTINGS| THIS IS DOWNY GAURA, A PHOTOGRAPH BY ESTEBAN DIAZ, PART OF THIS YEAR’SHIGHLY ANITICPATED EROTICA SHOW AT GALLERY LOMBARDI.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 eachclass. www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS Learna variety of couples and line dances from aroundthe world before giving it a whirl. Beginners andexperienced dancers welcome. No partner required.Saturdays, 7:30pm (lessons); 8:15-11pm (opendance). Hancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st,481-9362. $5. www.aifd.cc.AUSTIN GAY/LESBIAN SALSA GROUP Welcomethis free group that invites gays/lesbians who wantto learn (or already know) how to salsa to gather anddance. Wednesdays. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. CongressSte. D-200, 707-9637. Free. www.rutamaya.net.SPEAKEASY: SALSA LESSONS Combining the classicsultry moves and one of Austin’s fave hangoutswith live Latin music. Wednesdays, 9pm. Speakeasy,412 Congress, 47-PARTY. Free. www.speakeasyaustin.com.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.AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE A couple hundredswingers hit the dancefloor once a week for DJ-spunsounds of past blasts. A beginners’ lesson starts theevening. Thursdays, 8pm-12mid. Texas Federation ofWomen’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel, 476-5845.$4 ($2, members). www.austinswingsyndicate.org.classicalmusicOPENINGSONGS OF STRINGS ATTACHED Rock masterpiecesfrom the White Album to Dark Side of the Moon,reinvigorated by electric strings, bass, drums, and atouch of jazz improv. Fri., Aug. 1, 8pm. St. Michael’sEpiscopal Church, 1500 Capital of TX Hwy. N.,327-1474. $15-35. www.stringsattached.org.AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CONCERTSIN THE PARK Now in a new location: Bring a picnicand some friends and enjoy this throwback to earlierdays. This week the big band is back. Through Aug.24. Sundays, 7:30pm. Hartman Concert Park, LongCenter’s City Terrace Lawn, 476-6064. Free.www.austinsymphony.org.CLOSINGAUSTIN CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER ACMC’sSummer Festival wraps up another year, with AdultAmateur Ensembles performing their chamberificbest. Thu., July 31, noon. Central PresbyterianChurch, 200 E. Eighth, 474-LONG. Free.www.austinchambermusic.org.NOTES & ENCORESCOMPOSER SOUGHT A composer or composers areneeded to collaborate on one or all of three musicals:one for which book, lyrics, and basic melodiesare almost set, one for which book and lyrics aredone but may need a little work, and one for whichthere is a book with poems in place of songs, forwhich a movielike score is wanted. Knowledge of variousstyles of music is very helpful. Contact Louisevia this e-mail address: caliche2006@yahoo.com.visual artsEVENTSBLANTON MUSEUM: MIND UNMOVING, BODYAWAKE is an expert lecture by Roger Keyes, coveringthe universal appeal of Japanese prints. Wed., Aug. 6,6pm. ACES 2.302, Avaya Auditorium, 471-7324. Free.www.blantonmuseum.org.BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: B SCENE The AustinPoetry Slam brings its spoken-word intensity. Also:live music, tours, art activities, appetizers, cashbar, and much more. Fri., Aug. 1, 6-11pm. MLK &Congress, 471-7324. $10 ($5, Blanton members).www.blantonmuseum.org.OPENINGWALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: ANGIE RENFRO Fromdeserted silos to quiet streets, ordinary places aremade captivating by the artist’s unique perspective inthese new paintings. Reception: Sat., Aug. 2, 6-8pm.Exhibition: Through Aug. 30. 1202 W. Sixth, 472-7428.www.wallyworkmangallery.com.DIVERSEARTS: FACING EAST “48 Hours in the Lifeof East Austin Summer 2008” features photographyand film captured during the recent July Fourthweekend, by Greg Broseus, Francis Cruzada, MarthaGrenon, Peter Staats, Jessy Price, Eric Chapelle,Steve Gaber. Reception: Sat., Aug. 2, 7-10pm. NewEast Gallery, 1601 E. Fifth #106, 477-9438.www.diversearts.orgGALLERY LOMBARDI: EROTICA Here’s the annual,highly anticipated exhibition of new artwork inspiredby sex, sex, and sex and juried by GL’s Rachel Kopera u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 67

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | LISTINGS and Ron Prince. “A celebration of the human formand condition communicated through drawings,Passion at PlayMcCullough Theatre, UT campusJuly 25American Repertory Ensemble Artistic Director David Justinintroduced ARE’s latest program from the McCullough Theatrestage with quirky elevator music playing in the background.For a moment this held the audience inconfusion, then the source was revealed:Musicians and dancers hidden in the orchestrapit, which was slowly rising to stage level.This was a charming and playful way to openPassion at Play, creating the type of anticipationthat comes from not knowing, and notneeding to know, what will come next.What followed were performances whichdelivered a number of sublime technicaland artistic moments. The program openedwith the wonderful ballet talents of MicheleGifford and Griff Braun in the solemn TheDance House, choreographed by DavidBintley to music by Dmitri Shostakovich. Theraw concrete frame of the back stage, twogrand pianos, and a single red dance barrewere a striking backdrop for the piece, amournful tale of where we go after we die.Rosalyn Nasky brought a feral beautyto the next dance, Fray. The sharp anglesand clear lines of her movement across thestage, onto a rolling box, and in and aroundKarla Hamelin’s solo cello created a magnificentcoupling of athleticism and artistry. Theaddition of a monitor running a software programthat interacted with the artists was anodd distraction from a unique performance.In Valses Poéticos, Tina LeBlanc and JoanBoada were outstanding, each a master ofboth classical ballet technique and the abilityto deliver it with flair and excitement. EnriqueGranados’ score was nothing short of virtuosic,a challenge that pianist Yu-Hsuan Liaohandled with astonishing accuracy.The program’s second half featured twoworks by Justin. The first, set to Debussy’sethereal Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un Faune,began with two of the three dancers hoveringabove the orchestra, lit in a beautifulglowing yellow behind a scrim. The work tookon a new, introspective life through Justin’schoreography, with angular, restrained movementand distinctive hooflike hand gestures.Backed by a solid orchestra, notably AmraCatovic’s dreamy flute work, the dancerswere strong and confident throughout.Finally came Speed Dial, Justin’s settingof Michael Torke’s driving “Telephone Book”– an odd choice for a ballet, as its mechanicalgears churn out bits of musical dialoguethat morph from one to the next throughrepetition. It’s a unique piece, but one thatdidn’t translate successfully into a cohesiveinterplay of dance and music. Justin’spairings were imaginative, and the dancersbrought much energy and determination tothe work, but they often seemed a bit rushedor behind. The piece could have used morerehearsal and fine-tuning before its debut.Special mention must be made of themultitasking Graeme Francis, who openedthe show on percussion, took the stage aspianist for the Shostakovich, and wielded abaton as conductor for Speed Dial (itself amaster’s thesis of meter and rhythm).The Austin classical scene has embracedARE like the popular new kid on the blocksince its 2005 debut. Much of the ensemble’saura is based on its presentation of awide variety of ballet and chamber music,established and new, in settings that drawan alluring question mark around the creativeprocess. This time, however, the coreof ARE’s trademark went missing. Though attimes exciting, the program lacked a spark ofartistic fusion or thoughtful exploration andinstead played as a string of unrelated recitals.This was exemplified with the presentationof Paul Hindemith’s Sonata for Trumpetand Piano, an austere and mechanical workthat was dropped between Justin’s two pieces.The performance was strong, but it cameacross as an arbitrary programming choice. Ihope that as ARE’s leaders continue to reachout to the best artists in Austin and beyondfor their artistic exploration, they will sharpentheir focus on the experience as a whole. Fornow, I wonder: What will they do next?– Michael Kellerman68 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mpaintings, photography, sculpture, video, and performances”and represented by 55 excellent artistsfrom Texas and beyond. Reception (with music by DJMoth and drinks by Red Bull): Sat., Aug. 2, 7-11pm.Exhibition: Through Aug. 30. 602 W. Seventh Ste. A,481-1088. www.gallerylombardi.com.WOMEN & THEIR WORK: TINY ACTS OFIMMEASURABLE BENEFIT New sculptures byKatie Pell, in which themes of identity, patriotism,fantasy, and mysticism are treated to the artist’stender irony and explored via life-sized interactivesculptures. Reception: Thu., Aug. 7, 6-8pm.Exhibition: Through Sept. 13. 1710 Lavaca,477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org.CLOSINGHARRY RANSOM CENTER: ON THE ROAD WITHTHE BEATS This exhibition traces the travels ofJack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs,and their friends across America and the globe.Manuscripts, books, photographs, and visual artsfrom the Ransom Center’s collections tell the storyof the Beat Generation and the literary and socialtrends they inspired. Through Aug. 3. 300 W. 21st,471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu.MONSTROSITIES The Museum of Natural & ArtificialEphemerata’s latest exhibition features dime-museumoddities like the Feejee Mermaid, GMO suicidecorn kernels, hair from a UV-reactive cat manufacturedin a Korean laboratory, and other queer objectsof our curious 21st century sciences. Exhibition:Saturdays, 1-4pm. Through Aug. 2. 1808 Singleton,320-0566. Donations accepted. www.mnae.org.WOMEN AND THEIR WORK: REALITY SHOW JillPangallo has organized a show of work by AnnaKrachey, Cecelia Phillips, Laura Turner, Jamie Wentz,and herself that depicts “what really happens whenfive artists get together every week to watch RealityTV.” Collaborations and solo works, perceptual disconnectsand cognitive dissonance; much visualgoodness to explore. Through Aug. 2. 1710 Lavaca,477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org.STENSRUD STUDIO: REAL ART BASH Paintingsby C. Stensrud, figurative work by Hunter Winfrey,sculptures by T. Fernandez. Through Aug. 1. 1601 Eva,448-9637. www.myspace.com/carolstensrud.ONGOINGGAY FAY KELLY ART: MO SCALLON New works byScollan, Randy Ehrlich, and Talbot. Call for appointmentand location. 917-0133.EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of JoshuaGarcia and others. 12400 Amherst #102, 825-8577.www.eyecontactart.com.SALON EXHIBITION AT UT’S NEW VISUAL ARTSCENTER features the work of 10 MFA studio art candidates,curated by two art history grads in the futurehome of the Visual Arts Center. Through Aug. 30. ArtBuilding, 23rd & San Jacinto, 322-2099.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.ART PALACE: SONGS OF PRAISE FOR THE HEARTBEYOND CURE Where do artists find their spiritualselves and a sense of authenticity amidst all the whitenoise of global, mass-market media? This show willprovide a fine array of examples. Through Aug. 23.2109 Cesar Chavez, 496-0687. www.artpalacegallery.com.ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY is featuring work byartists from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paintingsby Augustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, andPablo Taboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; andmetal sculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos,457-0171. www.pablotaboadastudio.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.BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: WORKSPACEArgentine artist Fabián Bercic provides a reinterpretationof the traditional Zen garden. Through Sept. 21.MLK & Congress, 471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org.BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART The Language ofPrints explores the medium as a uniquely rich andcollective system of expression, a language, withdistinctive principles, persistent tendencies, andshared processes. Through Aug. 17. MLK & Congress,471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org.BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmadeglass art and jewelry. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770.www.austinbluemoon.com.TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM: DALLAS, THETV SHOW A wealthy (and fictional) Texas oil family,the Ewings, captured the imagination of the worldthrough a prime-time saga. “Dallas: Power & Passionon Primetime TV” showcases the series’ legacy withinteractive stations, props, scripts, video clips, andmore. Through Sept. 14. 1800 Congress, 936-8746.www.thestoryoftexas.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: Sundays, 11am-2pm, or by appt.4422 Lareina, 299-7413. www.keepaustinweird.com.D BERMAN GALLERY: LINE/FORM Five of themost innovative artists in Texas are featured in thiselegant space Downtown. Through Aug. 9.1701 Guadalupe, 477-8877. www.dbermangallery.com.DAVIS GALLERY: THE DEEP END Photographs byWill van Overbeek and paintings by Melissa Grimes.Through Aug. 30. 837 W. 12th, 477-4929.www.davisgalleryaustin.com.DIBONA STUDIO Oil paintings and “sculptural tattoos”by Joyce DiBona. 404 W. Milton, 851-2646.DOUGHERTY ARTS CENTER: DOUBLE IDENTITYfeatures new works by brothers Andrew and MichaelLong. Through Aug. 25. 1110 Barton Springs Rd.,397-1468. www.cityofaustin.org/dougherty.FRANCOIS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 309-B Bowie,320-0072.RAY GOLDSTEIN GALLERY: SAND CASTLEPHOTOGRAPHY Ky Terrell, the director of securityfor the JCAA, presents photo-documentation of hisintricate sand castles. Through Aug. 19. 7300 Hart,735-8058. www.shalomaustin.org/visualarts.MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM: AZTEC AND MAYAREVIVAL This exhibition illustrates the resurgenceof pre-Columbian motifs and patterns in the art andculture of Mexico during the late 19th and early20th centuries. Through Sept. 16. 419 Congress,480-9373. www.mexic-artemuseum.org.INTERMEZZO: BENITO HUERTA This solo show comprises30 works, including recent, large-scale paintings,monoprints, watercolors, and drawings. ThroughAug. 31. Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 RiverSt., 788-3106. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/macc.MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART presents an eclecticselection of African and African-American artwork.6406 N. I-35 #2800, 323-6901. www.mitchie.com.DIVERSEARTS: RICARDO ACEVEDO A showcaseof local mixed-race families that celebrate diversity.Through Aug. 12. 1601 E. Fifth #106, 477-9438.www.diversearts.org.OKAY MOUNTAIN: FIFTH OF JULY New photographyby Anna Krachey and Barry Stone, accompaniedby that of Elizabeth Chiles, Jessica Mallios, AndyMattern, Ben Ruggiero, Adam Schreiber, and LauraTurner. Through Aug. 9. 1312 E. Cesar Chavez Ste. B.www.okaymountain.com.SOUTH AUSTIN MUSEUM OF POPULAR CULTURE:BILLY PERKINS The acclaimed artist’s work is thefocus of “Good Ideas Thru Bad Living,” a retrospectiveshow of the many music posters he’s created and theoriginal drawings for those posters. Through Aug. 30.1516-B S. Lamar, 440-8318. $5. www.samopc.org.SPACESZ TEJAS: MARIA LYLE New paintings from this localartist. Through Oct. 1. Z Tejas Grill, 1110 W. Sixth.www.marias-art.com.DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY Stained and leadedglass and mosaics. 701 Tillery Ste. A-11, 389-2266.www.decola-eusebi.com.GUTTERKITTY STUDIOS: THE AUSTIN FIGURATIVEPROJECT 102 Krebs. ohlerkingpaintings@yahoo.com.ARTWORKS GALLERY Tropical butterflies displayedin plexiboxes designed by G.W. Clark. 1214 W. Sixth,472-1550.CAFE JOSIE: TERRE INCANTATA New oil paintingsby Karen Saenz. Through Oct. 12. 1200-B W. Sixth,322-9226. www.karensaenz.com.

| GABRIELLE FAUST UNLEASHES A FIERCENESSOF VAMPIRES ON AUSTIN, PRESENTING HER BOOKETERNAL VIGILANCE AT BOOKPEOPLE THIS FRIDAY.DOMY BOOKS: JUSTIN GOLDWATER “Stupid Answersto Snappy Questions” is a showing of new drawings,of which the artist asserts, “I don’t have any snappyanswers, but I have a lot of stupid questions, and myartwork is a storage system for them.” Reception:Sat., Aug. 2, 7-9pm. Exhibition: Through Sept. 12.913 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-3669. www.domystore.com.FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE: DANI MITCHELLOils on canvas. Through July 31. 4600 Guadalupe,380-0097. www.flipnotics.com.HYDE PARK GRILL Clare Townes and Matchi presentbold, colorful paintings in a two-person show. ThroughAug. 3. 4206 Duval St., 458-3168. www.claretownes.com.LITTLE CITY: ENTANGLEMENT Art by J. Lowry Doyle.916 Congress, 476-2489. Free. www.jlowrydoyle.com.RIO RITA: BLACK GRAY JEWELL is a sharp exhibitionof photography (from Nathan Black, StephenGray, and David Jewell) that will galvanize your peepersand have you digging out your wallet to slapdown some cash for what are, for some of these finepieces, very affordable gifts. “Emptiness, fullness,chaos, and hijinks.” 1308 E. Sixth, 524-0384.www.riorita.net.ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival banners,and other tributes to U.S. popular culture, byTodd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 442-6366.www.roadhouserelics.com.RUTA MAYA: ALDO PRADO FERNANDEZ ThroughSept. 3. 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 363-2726.aldo_prado2003@yahoo.com.ABSTRACTS TO ACORNS Photography by DeanaNewcomb. Through Nov. 3. 101 W. Sixth, 477-7884.WESTS Artwork by Dan-Ramone Vivan Chavez,Raquel Reyes, and others. 408 Josephine.CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIESTHE AUSTIN POLYMER CLAY GUILD meets on thefirst Saturday of each month. Visitors welcome. Seewebsite for details. Sat., Aug. 2, 2-4:30pm. YarboroughBranch Library, 2200 Hancock. www.austinpolymerclay.com.SUMMER CLASSES IN POLYMER CLAY are taughtby Randee Ketzel. Call for details. 795-8086.LOOSE AND JUICY ART WORKSHOP Sat., Aug. 2.694-9207. $75. www.myspace.com/carolstensrud.HELIOS KILN GLASS STUDIO: CLASSES ANDDEMONSTRATIONS Learn while they burn, at thisprofessional studio. 10700 Anderson Mill Rd.,996-0960. www.heliosglass.com.literaREADINGS, SIGNINGS,AND PERFORMANCESTEXAS NAFAS features John Trudell and Bad DogPart Two, taped at La Zona Rosa. Texas Nafas airsevery Saturday on Channel 16.RAMON MONCIVAIS presents his book on racismin Austin in the Fifties (Beneath the Shadow ofthe Capitol) and his newest,Voices From the Classroom.Sat., Aug. 2, 2-4pm. Borders atthe Domain, 3309 EsperanzaCrossing, 339-1352.GABRIELLE FAUST unleashesher Eternal Vigilance, a tale ofa suicidal vampire thrust intoa near-future fascist dystopiain a blasted Austin, where theonly hope for the salvation ofthe planet rests in an allianceof vampires. Fri., Aug. 1, 7pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar,472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.THEY CALL ME WARRIOR: ATRIBUTE TO SHANNON LEIGHThe show honors and celebratesthe late beloved and extraordinarilytalented slam poet wholeft us much too early. Includedin this tribute are the AustinPoetry Slam Team, the Austin Neo Soul Poetry SlamTeam, the Killeen Poetry Slam Team, the AustinUnder 21 Poetry Slam Team, the Xenogia SpokenWord Collective, Cry Havoc Action Choreography,Blacklisted Individuals, Show Me Tiger!, and DJHerman Mason. Hosted by Henry and B Fran. Also:the premiere of the 2008 Austin Poetry Slam FinalsDVD, which was held this past April at the LongCenter. Highly recommended. Sat., Aug. 2, 8pm. RutaMaya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. $10,with all proceeds going to Shannon’s family. www.austinslam.com.MEET CHARLIE NEWTON The author presents hiscritically acclaimed crime novel, Calumet City. Thu.,July 31, 6pm. Faulk Central Branch Library, 800Guadalupe, 974-7400. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.WRITING/BOOK GROUPSSTILL LOOKING TO FORM A BEAT GENERATIONsort of scene in Austin. This is not a writing group;it is a group of writers. Feel free to show up, saynothing, listen, leave. Meet at Jo’s Coffee on SouthCongress. Give Darren a call. 317-5380.7% SOLUTION CLUB finds Raymond Chandler’s TheBig Sleep quite the fillip, Marlowe. Mon., Aug. 4, 7pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.PERSONAL UPGRADE CLUB counts the ways ofThe Money Book by Suze Orman. Sun., Aug. 3, 7pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.PRAH SOULSEARCHERS stretches with A NewEarth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by EckhartTolle. Through Dec. 17. Wednesdays, 6-8pm. CarverLibrary, 1161 Angelina, 974-1010.THE EVENING DOWNTOWN CLUB is Out StealingHorses by Per Peterson. Mon., Aug. 4, 7pm. FaulkCentral Branch Library, 800 Guadalupe, 974-7400.www.cityofaustin.org/library.AUSTIN WRITER’S BLOCK is a mutually supportivewriting group. Also: writing exercises. Tuesdays,4:30-6:30pm. La Madeleine, 3418 N. Lamar,653-7872. www.austinwritersblock.com.MILWOOD CLUB delights in Middlesex by JeffreyEugenides. Tue., Aug. 5, 7:30-8:30pm. Milwood BranchLibrary, 12500 Amherst.NORTH VILLAGE SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASYCLUB battles the Forever War by Joe Haldeman.Mon., Aug. 4, 7-8:30pm. North Village Library,2139 W. Anderson, 458-2239.OPEN MICSEXPRESSIONS: PEACE POETRY features NancyFierstein, Sarah Hutchcraft, Rob Cogswell, BarbaraKooyman, Richard Bowden, and Ric Williams. Potluckplus cans for Poets Pantry. All ages reading. Sat.,CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | LISTINGSAug. 2, 7pm. Austin Baha’i Center, 2215 E.M. Franklin,926-8880.GENUINE JOE Make some noise, or just sit andenjoy the enchanting air of North Austin. All actswelcome, but no cover songs. Thursdays, 7:30-10pm.Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson,220-1576. www.genuinejoe.com.HIDEOUT IN FULL SUMMER SWING with yourhost, Thom the World Poet, and uncensored guests.Next up is David Bates, host of the Ruta Maya openmic. Poets, artists, and musicians welcomed. Bringcanned food for the Poets Pantry. Fine snacks, coffee,and drinks available for purchase. Mondays,7-10pm. The Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress,476-0473. $2 (or canned food for 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-KICK. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.RUTA MAYA POETRY is one of the longest runningweekly open mics in Texas. No cover. Uncensored.Hosted by David 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 rotatingcrew 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.nps2007.com.UNCENSORED OPEN MIC is hosted by Ed of PoetryKaraoke. All ages welcome. Musicians, artists, dancers,all open living and free! Wednesdays, 8pm. StickyFingers Boutique, 2201 S. First, 693-9570.www.myspace.com/stickyfingersboutique.THE GAY PLACE ON THEQUEER-I-FYING OF PEOPLE MAG:“Who knew thatdentists’ officesand auto-mechanicwaiting roomswere such steaminghotbeds of gaygossip?”– Kate X Messeraustinchronicle.com/chronicFIRST WEDNESDAYS @ VINNY’S Hosted byKathleen Romana or a rotating cast of local stalwarts.Vinny’s Italian Cafe, 1003 Barton Springs Rd.,482-8484. Free.MISCELLANEOUSMORE POETRY! her copper wrists a greening rainhe cannot field. she tells him in White Horse the mentaste like grass prairies & trains & when she poursthe tea the table remembers its quickening in theseed & he sips slowly as blue mountains unstitch hisdistance. Namaste. Vaya con dios.ON THE ROAD WITH THE BEATS This exhibitiontraces the travels of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg,William S. Burroughs, and their friends acrossAmerica and the globe. Manuscripts, books, photographs,and visual art from the Ransom Center’s collectionstell the story of the Beat Generation and theliterary and social revolution they inspired. ThroughAug. 3. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944.www.hrc.utexas.edu.POEM OF THE ISSUERub the underbelly of the sky.It rolls like a ball of yarn.Commonly, in the way of dreams,the night unravels. I’ll jump offbefore the end and wake.The rain has stopped. I hearthe breathing of my heart.It’s the chuckling of the treesthat sounds like coins fallingin a penny arcade.– Mary A. Phillips, “The Way of Dreams”HUNGER INSURANCE.HUNGER INSURANCE.give moneygive moneydonate foodvolunteer donate foodgive money speak volunteer outdonate foodgive speak money outvolunteerdonate foodspeak outvolunteeraustinfoodbank.org8201 S. Congress speak Ave. outaustinfoodbank.orgAustin TX 787458201 512.282.2111 S. Congress Ave.Only AnOrphan Girl a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 69

filmlistingswho refuses to capitulate to unseen andmalevolent powers that are, for reasonsunknown, out to destroy him; love, desperation,and erotic obsession as motivating forces;crooked cops; back-alley gangsters; randomviolence; not-so-random torture; at leastone top-notch foot chase; and a soundtrackthat features ballads by both Otis Reddingand Jeff Buckley. The film’s hero is pediatricianAlexandre Beck (Cluzet), whose wifeand childhood sweetheart, Margot (Croze),vanishes one night after wandering into thewoods by the couple’s cherished lake andis presumed murdered. Flash forward eightyears, and Alex is still in mourning, balancingthe demands of his workaday life withthose of the past he constantly revisits inhis head, visits punctuated by drunken reveriesand flashes from his wife’s funeral.Then, on the eighth anniversary of Margot’sdisappearance, Alex receives an anonymousvideo e-mail message that suggestseverything he knows about that horriblenight may be wrong. From the moment thatvideo appears, Tell No One is a great ballof unrelenting energy barreling through thestreets of Paris, following the once-resignedbut now-energized Alex on his rabid quest tounravel the truth about his wife, a quest that,like so many of the best conspiracy-fueledfilms (particularly Howard Hawks’ brilliantThe Big Sleep), is more fascinating the moreconvoluted, and eventually impenetrable, itbecomes. By the time Alex starts stumblinginto answers in the film’s last act, chancesare you won’t even really care to know whatthey are, because the thrill of Tell No Oneisn’t in the knowing (as proven by the overlongexpository conversation that bringsthe film to a tidy, if uninspiring, conclusion);it’s in the not knowing. The thrill is in thewondering: wondering where those inner-citygangsters appeared from all of a sudden;wondering who that sinister woman in thesleeveless shirt is; wondering if Alex is reallyall he claims to be; wondering if his wife is– or was. The thrill is in watching a defeatedman pull himself out of his half-dead hazeof confusion, desperation, self-loathing, andmurky memory and into the rejuvenating lifeof action, no matter how confusing, desperate,loathsome, and murky that life, and thataction, may be.– Josh RosenblattArbor70 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mTell No OneD: Guillaume Canet; with François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze, André Dussollier, Kristin Scott Thomas,François Berléand, Nathalie Baye, Jean Rochefort. (NR, 125 min., subtitled)Tell No One, French director Canet’s excellent adaptationof Harlan Coben’s bestselling novel, has everything a greatpersonal-paranoia/persecution movie needs: a citizen-heroBRIDESHEADnewreviewsREVISITEDD: Julian Jarrold; with Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, HayleyAtwell, Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon, Greta Scacchi.(PG-13, 135 min.)I’m not sure that Evelyn Waugh, a RomanCatholic convert, would have endorsedthis accomplished adaptation of his 1945novel about the pre-World War II chasmicdivides of class and religion and one man’sefforts to scale one while rejecting theother. Goode plays the lowborn, aspiringpainter Charles Ryder, a role originatedby Jeremy Irons in the 1981 miniseries.New to Oxford, Charles is unformed andattention-starved, but very quickly hebecomes the pet of Lord Sebastian Flyte(Whishaw, Rimbaud from I’m Not There).One might be inclined to call the evertipplingSebastian a playboy, but he’s tooguileless for that, and too puppyishly besottedwith Charles. (As with the novel, theparameters of their friendship are neverexplicitly laid out, although the film doesintroduce a drunken kiss.) The film’s firstpassage, with its bucolic setting and collegialpasses by way of naked fountain dips,is fine enough, but Brideshead Revisitedbecomes a far more interesting picturewhen it puts the frolicking aside to explorethe insidious sway of Sebastian’s homesteadof Brideshead, which is as muchan idea as it is a house (and more like amausoleum than a place to call home).There, Charles meets Sebastian’s comelysister, Lady Julia Flyte (Atwell), and hissevere – and severely Catholic – mother,the Lady Marchmain (Thompson), and itis then that the film begins its inevitableuptick toward tragedy. Brideshead Revisitedspans several decades, and it’s worth notingthat everyone plausibly ages – whichsounds like an easy enough trick of etchedlines and a daubing of gray at temples butis more intriguingly telegraphed, via the twomale leads, in the hardening of one andthe softening of the other. As his charactercalcifies with age and heartbreak, Goodeloses his boyish mien and turns out to bea more compelling actor than his earlierscenes (or his earlier résumé) would suggest,and Whishaw, who goes from a lanky,loose-limbed adolescent to a broken andemaciated barely-there man, delivers anopen-faced, lacerating performance. Shegets less screen time, but Thompson’sLady Marchmain is chillingly effective, andby the time she delivers her tour-de-forcemonologue, at once banishing Charleswhile further snaring him in Brideshead’sairless clutch, one realizes how layeredthe script by BBC stalwart Andrew Daviesand Jeremy Brock really is. Yes, there arethe practically codified stringed swoons ofa period picture – and they’re pleasurableswoons, too. But the film, a distinctly seculartake on Waugh’s religiosity, is far moreinterested in the battle of blind faith vs.rigid unbelief and its devastating effects.Herein, everyone is complicated – by theirstation, their philosophy, their God – andeveryone is complicit. – Kimberley JonesArborELSA & FRED D: Marcos Carnevale; withManuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla, Blanca Portillo, JoséÁngel Egido, Omar Muñoz. (PG, 108 min., subtitled)Old folks in love, ain’t it grand? That prettymuch sums up Elsa & Fred, a septuagenarianlove story from Spain that will likely warm thecockles of your heart, even though it’s hardlythe stuff of great romance. Keeping withthe cinematic tradition in which oppositesattract, the introverted Fred (Alexandre) andthe extroverted Elsa (Zorrilla) meet when shedelivers a check for the damage caused by afender bender outside the Madrid apartmentbuilding in which they both live. He is politelyreserved, careful in his words and gestures;she is coyly manipulative, bending her wordsand gestures to fit her immediate needs. Indue time, they fall for each other, though Fredhas some initial difficulty with daring Elsa’swillingness to break the rules, all in the nameof living. (In some ways, she’s a scaled-downversion of Auntie Mame.) Zorrilla is delightfullyengaging as the gregarious woman for whomtruth is a relative term – jabbering incessantly,she’s concocted so many stories about herlife that even she has trouble keeping upwith what’s fiction and what’s not. Though hertemperament can be maddening, it’s easy tosee why the staid Fred finds Elsa attractive,though the film does a poor job in addressingthe various familial conflicts that arise as aresult of their odd coupling. But in the film’sthird act, in which the two lovers go to Rometo fulfill Elsa’s lifelong dream to re-create theTrevi Fountain scene in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita,Elsa & Fred goes flat on charm. The dreamfulfillment seems more silly than romantic,and it brings the movie to an abrupt end thatis wholly unsatisfying. It’s as if director andscreenwriter Carnevale ran out of ideas forthis elderly couple, other than the inevitable.How refreshing it would have been to watchthese two fade into the sunset. Now thatwould have been a love story. Arbor– Steve DavisKUSELAN D: P. Vasu; with Rajnikanth,Nayantara, Meena. (NR, 159 min., subtitled)Not reviewed at press time. In thisIndian remake of the Malayalam hit KadhaParayumbol, a film star gives an assistto an old acquaintance. The film is beingsimultaneously released in Tamil- and Telugulanguageversions. – Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown SouthTHE MIDNIGHT MEATTRAIN D: Ryuhei Kitamura; with Bradley Cooper,Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields, Leslie Bibb, Roger Bart.(R, 85 min.)Not reviewed at press time. A photographerin search of compelling subject matter latcheson to the work of a notorious serial killerwho slices and dices late-night commuterson the subway. The plot is based on a CliveBarker short story. – Marjorie BaumgartenMovies 8THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THEDRAGON EMPEROR D: Rob Cohen;with Brendan Fraser, Maria Bello, Jet Li, John Hannah,Michelle Yeoh, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong. (PG-13, 114 min.)It’s been seven years since husband-andwifeadventurers Rick and Evelyn O’Connell(Fraser, playing Indy, and Bello, playingRachel Weisz, poorly) last kicked off the

wrappings of undead Egyptian Imhotep,and by golly, they are one bone-boredcouple. While their now-grown offspring,Alex (Ford), is off in China desecrating thetomb of the Dragon Emperor (Li), they’retrapped in their oversized English countryestate, victims of their own success. Nomore mummies (they rekilled what felt likea thousand of the creaky things in 2001’sThe Mummy Returns) means no moregallivanting around the globe. Reducedto sharing “yet another lovely night in”and dining at a table of Arthurian proportions(if not circumference), they can beexcused for going all giddy when HerMajesty requests of them one final mission:Safeguard the passage of a sacred400-carat diamond to Shanghai. Easyas pie, you’d think, but as Evy’s brotherJonathan (series regular Hannah) notes,the O’Connells are “mummy magnets.”He’s right, too. Before you can say, “Hey,didn’t Universal Home Video just releasethe vastly superior 1932 original aspart of their excellent bells-whistles-andtannis-leavesUniversal Legacy Series?”the O’Connell family is up to its neck inambulatory terra-cotta warriors, a motherand-daughterpair of immortal Chinesetomb guardians (Yeoh, Leong), and Li’sreanimated Dragon emperor. It’s a confusedmess of a film, however, no moreso than when the emperor morphs intowhat amounts to an outright plagiarism ofToho’s triple-headed King Ghidorah (fromGodzilla vs. Monster Zero, et al.), completewith virtually identical sound effects. It’sabundantly clear that this is one franchisethat is dead in all but name. Tomb of theDragon Emperor is little more than a cluttered,noisy, and unsatisfying thrill ride tonowhere, so masturbatory in its quest foraction-comedy box office that it becomesan almost literal case of, dare I say,spanking the mummy. Forget this bloatedmisfire, and instead, hit the video storeand get off on Karloff in the privacy ofyour own tomb.– Marc SavlovAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, CMCedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, WestgatePINEAPPLE EXPRESS D: DavidGordon Green; with Seth Rogen, James Franco, DannyR. McBride, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, Amber Heard, JamesRemar. (R, 105 min.)Not reviewed at press time. The latestfrom the Judd Apatow production stable isthis stoner comedy (co-written by co-staropenings & ratingsBridesheadRevisited (PG-13)Elsa & Fred (PG)Kuselan (NR)The Midnight MeatTrain (R)The Mummy: Tombof the DragonEmperor (PG-13)Pineapple Express(R)Ripple Effect (R)The Sisterhoodof the TravelingPants 2 (PG-13)Swing Vote (PG-13)Tell No One (NR)Rogen) about a couple of potheads whogo on the lam from a vindictive drug lordand a crooked cop. Director Green (SnowAngels) appears to be taking a detox fromhis usual dramatic broodings. (OpensWednesday.) – Marjorie BaumgartenAlamo Drafthouse South, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria,CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie,Gateway, Tinseltown South, WestgateRIPPLE EFFECT D: Philippe Caland;with Caland, Forest Whitaker, Virginia Madsen, MinnieDriver, Kali Rocha, John Billingsley, Jerry Katell, OrlandoSeale. (R, 87 min.)Like a pilgrim seeking salvation, RippleEffect is awash in questions. Big questions,weighty questions, questions rich in spiritualpossibility and insight. Where do we findhappiness? How can we leave guilt behindand forgive ourselves? And, most important,What in God’s name did writer/directorCaland offer Whitaker in order to convincehim to act in this movie? Women? Cars?Women in cars? Enlightenment? Enlightenedwomen in cars? Eternal life? Whatever theanswer, the 2007 Best Actor Academy Awardwinner deserves everything he got and morefor sacrificing his own credibility to savethis piece of garbage from straight-to-videopurgatory. At once self-important and thinas tissue paper, Ripple Effect may be thefirst movie to combine the vacant sentimentalityof the modern self-help melodramawith the shoddy camerawork and low-gradesuspense of Cinemax soft-core porn (minus,unfortunately, anything even resembling sex).And if it’s not the first, surely we, as reasonablepeople, can agree that it should bethe last. Writer/director Caland plays AmerAtrash, a famous clothes designer livingin Los Angeles, who has apparently fooledthe world into believing used army jackets,parachute pants, and floppy reggae caps arethe height of fashion rather than the outfitbongo players wear on laundry day. Thoughon the surface he’s the picture of materialand familial success, Atrash’s life is actuallycoming apart. His design firm is on theverge of financial ruin, his wife (Madsen) andyoung daughter have grown disillusioned withhim, and he has the worst haircut in the historyof the world. But instead of being reasonableand recognizing that his problemsare the result of his being a bad husband,a worse businessman, and a total failureat choosing a barber and then going fromthere, Atrash decides that an accidental butviolent run-in with Philip (Whitaker) that tookplace 15 years earlier is wreaking karmichavoc on his life and that the only way to As perfect as a movie can beSlightly flawed, but excellentnonethelessHas its good points, and itsbad pointsMediocre, but with one ortwo bright spotsPoor, without any saving gracesLa bombavulcan videoforeign cult classic7115% off for students on thurs2-for-1 tues and wed112 w elizabeth st 609 w 29th st“...THE FUNNIEST FILM“......”I’VE SEEN THIS YEAR...”- Kyle Smith, NEW YORK POST -COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH RELATIVITY MEDIA AN APATOW COMPANY/MOSAIC MEDIA GROUP/GARY SANCHEZ PRODUCTION A FILM BY ADAM MCKAY “STEP BROTHERS”MUSICMUSICEXECUTIVERICHARD JENKINS MARY STEENBURGEN ADAM SCOTT KATHRYN HAHN SUPERVISION BY HAL WILLNER BY JON BRIONSTORYSCREENPLAYBY WILL FERRELL & ADAM MCKAY & JOHN C. REILLY BY WILL FERRELL & ADAM MCKAYPRODUCEDPRODUCERS WILL FERRELL ADAM MCKAY DAVID HOUSEHOLTERBY JIMMY MILLER JUDD APATOW DIRECTED BY ADAM MCKAYNOW PLAYINGCHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMESSORRY, NO PASSES ACCEPTED FOR THIS ENGAGEMENTa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 71

showtimes FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 7ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ 320 E. Sixth,476-1320.The Dark Knight: Fri, 4:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:00; Sat, 3:15,6:30, 9:55; Sun, 1:00, 3:15, 7:00, 8:45, 10:20;Mon-Tue, 5:15, 7:00, 8:45; Wed, 5:15, 8:45, 10:00;Thu (8/7), 7:30, 10:45Master Pancake: Jurassic Park: Sat, 7:00, 10:20175 Media and aGLIFF: Mommie Dearest Brunch:Sun, 12:00pmThe 90s Alternative Sing-Along: Thu (8/7), 9:20pmOkie Noodling II: Sun, 4:30pm; Mon, 5:00pm; Tue, 5:00,10:20; Wed, 5:00pmMusic Monday: Pete Seeger: The Power of Song:Mon, 10:00pmThe Princess Bride Quote-Along: Thu (8/7), 6:45pmTerror Thursday: Slithis: Thu (8/7), 12midSummercamp!: Sun, 6:30pmWeird Wednesday: Voodoo Black Exorcist: Wed, 12midALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK 13729Research, 219-8135.The Dark Knight: Fri, 3:30, 6:45, 7:10, 10:15, 10:35;Sat-Thu (8/7), 12:00, 3:00, 3:30, 6:45, 7:10, 10:15,10:35Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Wed, 12:05, 7:20,10:25; Thu (8/7), 12:05, 7:20Mamma Mia!: Fri, 11:40am, 6:50, 9:45pm;Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 3:10, 6:50, 9:45pm; Mon, 11:40am,3:10, 9:45pm; Tue, 11:40am, 3:10, 6:50, 9:45pm;Wed-Thu (8/7), 11:40am, 3:10, 9:45pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor: 12:30,3:25, 7:05, 10:00Kubrick Retrospective: Paths of Glory: Wed, 7:30pmTromatic Thursday: Pot Zombies: Thu (8/7), 10:00pm*Step Brothers: 11:55am, 3:15, 7:00, 9:50pmFeast: A Streetcar Named Desire New Orleans Feastand Abita Portfolio Tasting: Thu (8/7), 7:30pmWALL-E: Fri, 11:30am; Sat-Thu (8/7), 11:30am, 3:05pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri, 3:20, 7:30, 10:20;Sat-Wed, 12:20, 3:20, 7:30, 10:20; Thu (8/7), 12:20,3:20, 7:30ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar,476-1320.Softball Austin: ABBA Sing-Along: Mon, 6:00pmThe Dark Knight: 11:25am, 12:20, 3:15, 4:00, 7:05,7:45, 10:35, 11:25pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 1:40, 9:40Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri, 2:10, 5:00, 7:55;Sat-Tue, 11:15am, 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:40pm;Wed-Thu (8/7), 9:30pmMamma Mia!: Fri, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:25,10:25pm; Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40,10:25pm; Mon, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:45, 10:25pm;Tue-Thu (8/7), 11:10am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25pmThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45, 11:55pm;Wed-Thu (8/7), 11:00am, 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45pm*Pineapple Express: Wed-Thu (8/7), 11:10am, 1:50,4:35, 7:20, 10:05pmKids Camp: TMNT: Mon-Thu (8/7), 11:00amWALL-E: Fri-Sun, 11:05am, 4:05, 7:15pm; Mon, 4:05pm;Tue, 4:05, 7:15; Wed-Thu (8/7), 1:45, 4:10ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W.Anderson, 476-1320. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day” shows(first show of the day) are intended for parents and childrenaged infant to 6 years old.The Dark Knight: 11:45am, 3:15, 7:00, 10:30pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 12:30, 3:30, 7:05, 10:00;Wed-Thu (8/7), 11:30am, 10:20pm*Pineapple Express: Wed-Thu (8/7), 12:30, 3:30, 7:05,9:55The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12midStep Brothers: Fri-Sat, 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 9:55, 12mid;Sun-Thu (8/7), 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 9:55WALL-E: Fri-Tue, 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:20;Wed-Thu (8/7), 1:50, 4:35, 7:30ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS 9828 GreatHills Trail (at Jollyville), 231-9742. Discounts daily before6pm, all day Wednesdays.Family: Bratz: Tue-Thu (8/7), 10:00amBrideshead Revisited: 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40Elsa & Fred: 12:20, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10Encounters at the End of the World: 7:00, 9:30Family: Everyone’s Hero: Tue-Thu (8/7), 10:00amRetro Replay: The Hudsucker Proxy: Wed, 7:30pmAFF Family Series: Jump!: Sat, 2:00pmKit Kittredge: An American Girl: 12:10, 2:20, 4:45Mamma Mia!: Fri-Sat, 12:00, 12:40, 2:30, 3:10, 5:00,5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30; Sun-Thu (8/7), 12:00,12:40, 2:30, 3:10, 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00Sex and the City: Fri-Tue, 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45Tell No One: 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50The Wackness: Fri-Tue, 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05;Wed, 12:30, 2:50; Thu (8/7), 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50,10:05BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton CreekSquare mall (MoPac and Highway 360), 306-9190.Matinee discounts available before 6pm on weekdaysand before 4pm Friday through Sunday and holidays. Calltheatre for showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.The Dark Knight: Fri-Sun, 9:35am, 10:30, 12:45, 1:45,4:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:15, 10:45pm; Mon-Tue, 10:30am,12:45, 1:45, 4:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:15, 10:45pmThe Dark Knight (closed captioned): Fri-Tue, 11:30am,3:00, 6:15, 9:45pmHancock: Fri-Sat, 10:40am, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20,10:50pm; Sun, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:50;Mon, 10:40am, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:50pm;Tue, 10:40am, 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Mon, 5:40, 8:25, 11:10;Tue, 5:40, 8:25Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: Fri-Sat, 10:35am, 1:00,3:15pm; Sun, 1:00, 3:15; Mon-Tue, 10:35am, 1:00,3:15pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Sun, 9:50am, 12:20, 2:50, 5:20,7:50, 10:20pm; Mon-Tue, 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50,10:20*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Sun, 9:30am, 10:45, 12:15, 1:45, 3:00,4:30, 5:45, 7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:15pm;Mon-Tue, 10:45am, 12:15, 1:45, 3:00, 4:30, 5:45,7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:15pm*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (OpensWednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)Space Chimps: Fri-Sun, 9:30am, 11:25, 1:35, 3:55,6:05pm; Mon-Tue, 11:25am, 1:35, 3:55, 6:05pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 11:00, 12:30, 1:30,2:55, 4:05, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30, 11:15pm;Mon-Tue, 11:00am, 12:30, 1:30, 2:55, 4:05, 5:30,6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30, 11:15pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45,10:30pmMovieCamp: TMNT: Wed, 10:00amWALL-E: Fri-Sun, 9:35am, 11:55, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10,9:35pm; Mon, 11:55am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35pm;Tue, 11:55am, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Sun, 9:40am, 12:10,2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:35pm; Mon-Tue, 12:10, 2:45,5:25, 8:05, 10:35CINEMARK CEDAR PARK 1335 E. Whitestone,800/FANDANGO. Call theatre for showtimes forWednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.The Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 12:40, 2:20, 4:00,5:40, 7:20, 9:00, 9:45, 10:40pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 10:50am, 1:15, 3:40, 6:20, 8:40,11:00pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 10:50pmJourney to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Sat, 10:30am,12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30pm; Sun, 12:50, 3:30, 6:10,8:30; Mon-Tue, 10:30am, 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:40, 7:25,10:20pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 10:00am, 11:40, 1:00, 2:25, 3:50, 5:10, 6:30,7:50, 9:15, 10:45pm*Pineapple Express: Wed-Thu (8/7), 11:10am, 1:50,4:30, 7:10, 10:00pm*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2: Wed-Thu(8/7), 10:30am, 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10pmSpace Chimps: Fri-Tue, 10:10am, 12:30, 2:40, 5:00,7:10pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 11:50am, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30,10:00pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 10:20am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 10:40am, 1:10,3:45, 7:05, 9:40pmCINEMARK HILL COUNTRY GALLERIA 1412812 Hill Country Blvd., 800/FANDANGO. Call theatrefor showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.NCM Fathom: 2008 DCI World ChampionshipQuarterfinals: Thu (8/7), 5:00pmThe Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 11:10am, 12:20, 1:30, 2:40,3:50, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:30, 9:40, 10:30pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 10:45am, 3:55, 9:15pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 9:55pmJourney to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Tue, 10:55am,1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 11:05am, 1:55, 4:45, 7:25,10:15pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 10:50am, 12:15, 1:45, 3:10, 4:40, 6:10, 7:35,9:10, 10:25pm*Pineapple Express (Opens Wednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (OpensWednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)Space Chimps: Fri-Tue, 10:45am, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30,7:45pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 11:15am, 12:35, 2:00, 3:25,4:50, 6:05, 7:20, 9:00, 10:30pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50WALL-E: Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 1:50, 4:35, 7:15pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 11:25am, 1:15,2:25, 5:05, 6:20, 7:40, 10:20pmCINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK 2120 N.Mays (Round Rock), 512/388-2848. Discounts dailybefore 5pm.Baby Mama: 7:30, 10:05*The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: 10:30am,12:00, 1:45, 3:15, 5:10, 6:45, 8:20, 10:00pmClubhouse: Flushed Away: Tue, 10:00amThe Incredible Hulk: 10:20am, 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40pm*Iron Man: 10:00am, 11:10, 12:50, 2:00, 3:40, 4:50,6:30, 7:40, 9:20, 10:30pm*The Midnight Meat Train: 11:20am, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00,10:25pmNim’s Island: 10:45am, 1:30, 4:30pmSpeed Racer: 10:05am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15pm72 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mCINEMARK ROUND ROCK 4401 N. I-35,800/FANDANGO. Call theatre for showtimes forWednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.The Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 12:00, 1:00, 2:30,3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 10:45am, 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 10:10pmJourney to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Tue, 10:00am,12:45, 3:40, 6:30pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 10:20am, 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 10:15am, 11:15, 12:15, 1:15, 2:15, 3:15,4:15, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15pm*Pineapple Express (Opens Wednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (OpensWednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7);Space Chimps: Fri-Tue, 9:50am, 11:55, 2:05, 4:10,6:40pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:50, 7:50,9:05, 10:20pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 10:30am, 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 9:45am, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 11:40am, 2:20,5:00, 7:35, 9:00, 10:05pmCINEMARK SOUTHPARK MEADOWS 9900 S.I-35, 800/FANDANGO. Call theatre for showtimes forWednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.NCM Fathom: 2008 DCI World ChampionshipQuarterfinals: Thu (8/7), 5:00pmThe Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 9:45am, 10:30, 11:50, 1:25,2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 6:55, 9:20Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 9:30pmJourney to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Tue, 10:25am,1:05, 3:45, 6:45pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 10:40am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 10:00am, 10:50, 11:40, 12:45, 1:35, 2:25,3:30, 4:20, 5:10, 6:15, 7:05, 7:55, 9:00, 9:50, 10:40pm*Pineapple Express (Opens Wednesday): Wed; Thu(8/7)*The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (OpensWednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)Space Chimps: Fri-Tue, 10:15am, 1:15, 4:15pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 10:10am, 11:30, 12:45, 2:00,3:35, 4:45, 6:25, 7:35, 9:35, 10:45pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 10:20am, 1:20, 4:35, 7:40, 10:30pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 10:35am, 1:30, 4:25pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 10:05am,12:55, 3:40, 6:35, 7:50, 9:25, 10:35pmDOBIE THEATRE 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall,second floor), 472-FILM.The Dark Knight: Fri, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 1:00,4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Mon-Thu (8/7), 7:00, 10:00The Fall: Fri, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 1:10, 4:10,7:10, 9:40; Mon-Tue, 7:10, 9:40Kabluey: Fri, 4:30, 7:30, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 1:30, 4:30,7:30, 9:30; Mon-Thu (8/7), 7:30, 9:40Pineapple Express: Wed-Thu (8/7), 7:10, 9:30Ripple Effect: Fri, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 1:20, 4:20,7:20, 9:50; Mon-Thu (8/7), 7:20, 9:50GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North I-35 & Middle Fiskville,467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatreon Friday and Saturday after 7pm without an adult.The Dark Knight: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:40, 12:55, 3:50,4:05, 7:00, 7:15, 10:00, 10:10, 11:30pm;Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:00am, 12:40, 12:55, 3:50, 4:05,7:00, 7:15, 10:00, 10:10pmHancock: 10:00am, 2:30, 7:00pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: 12:00, 4:30, 9:00Journey to the Center of the Earth (3-D):Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:35, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15,11:45pm; Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:00am, 12:15, 2:35,4:45, 7:00, 9:15pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:55,7:20, 9:45, 12mid; Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:00am, 12:15,2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45pmThe Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 10:30, 12:10, 12:40, 2:30, 3:00,4:55, 5:25, 7:20, 7:45, 9:45, 10:00, 12mid;Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:00am, 10:30, 12:10, 12:40, 2:30,3:00, 4:55, 5:25, 7:20, 7:45, 9:45, 10:00pmStep Brothers: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45,7:10, 9:25, 11:45pm; Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:00am,12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:25pmSwing Vote: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35,12mid; Sun-Thu (8/7), 10:30am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00,9:35pmThe X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Sat, 10:00am,12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45, 12mid; Sun-Thu(8/7), 10:00am, 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45pmGATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake, betweenCapital of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in theGateway shopping center, 416-5700 x3808. Special3-D attraction cost is normal ticket price plus $2.50premium. Call theatre for showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.The Dark Knight: Fri-Mon, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20,3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50,10:15, 10:45pm; Tue, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20,3:10, 4:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:45pmThe Dark Knight (open captioned): Tue, 3:40, 10:15Get Smart: Fri-Tue, 3:30, 9:55Hancock: Fri-Tue, 12:10, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 11:25am, 4:45,10:10pmIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:Fri-Tue, 12:30, 7:05*Journey to the Center of the Earth (special 3-Dattraction): Fri-Tue, 11:15am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:15,9:30pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 12:15, 12:45, 2:10, 2:50, 4:00,5:00, 5:20, 6:50, 7:45, 8:15, 9:40, 10:20, 10:50pm*Pineapple Express: Wed, 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40Step Brothers: Fri, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20,8:10, 10:00, 10:40; Sat, 12:00, 12:40, 3:00, 4:50,5:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40; Sun, 12:40, 2:20,3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:40; Mon, 12:40,2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40;Tue, 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:10,10:00, 10:40Step Brothers (open captioned): Fri, 12:00pm;Sat, 2:20pm; Sun, 12:00, 10:00; Mon, 12:00, 7:20Swing Vote: Fri-Wed, 11:10am, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10,10:35pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 1:00, 3:55, 6:20, 9:05Wanted: Fri-Tue, 2:05, 7:25*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 12:05, 2:40,5:15, 7:50, 10:30IMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum (1800N. Congress), 936-IMAX.The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience: Fri-Sat, 12:00,3:45, 6:30, 9:15; Sun, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15;Mon-Thu (8/7), 12:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15Dolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of the Ocean:Fri-Sat, 11:00am; Mon-Thu (8/7), 11:00amExtreme: Fri-Sat, 2:45pm; Mon-Thu (8/7), 2:45pmTexas: The Big Picture: Fri-Sat, 10:00am;Mon-Thu (8/7), 10:00amLAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway183 and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before6pm; all day Wednesday. Call theatre for showtimes forWednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.Family: Are We There Yet?: Tue-Thu (8/7), 10:00amThe Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 12:50, 3:00, 4:20,6:30, 8:10, 10:00pmFamily: Doogal: Tue-Thu (8/7), 10:00amHancock: Fri-Tue, 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:20Mamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 12:30, 3:10, 7:00, 9:45*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 11:50am, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30pmSpace Chimps: Fri-Tue, 12:00, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:35Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 12:20, 2:50, 6:40, 9:40*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 12:40, 4:40,7:10, 9:50METROPOLITAN South I-35 at Stassney, 447-0101.Call theatre for showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday,Aug. 6-7.NCM Fathom: 2008 DCI World ChampionshipQuarterfinals: Thu (8/7), 5:00pmIron Man: Fri-Tue, 12:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25Journey to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Tue, 12:05, 2:40,5:05, 7:35, 10:05Kung Fu Panda: Fri-Tue, 11:45am, 2:05, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Sun, 11:10am, 12:20, 2:00, 4:00,4:55, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:35pm; Mon-Tue, 12:20,2:00, 4:00, 4:55, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:35*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 11:30, 12:30, 1:50, 2:20, 4:10,4:40, 5:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45pm;Mon-Tue, 11:30am, 12:30, 1:50, 2:20, 4:10, 4:40,5:10, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45pmSpace Chimps: Fri-Tue, 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 11:40am, 12:15, 2:10, 3:00,4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:00, 10:40pmWanted: Fri-Tue, 11:35am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 11:20am, 11:50,1:55, 2:25, 4:30, 5:00, 7:10, 7:45, 9:50, 10:30pmMILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932.Located within the Millennium Youth EntertainmentComplex. Adults, $6; children, $4.*Hancock: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 1:00, 3:15, 5:00, 8:00pm;Wed-Thu (8/7), 10:30am, 1:00, 3:15, 5:00pmPARAMOUNT THEATRE 713 Congress, 472-5470.The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie: Tue, 7:00pm;Wed, 9:10pmJourney to the Center of the Earth: Sat, 2:00pm;Sun, 3:30pmLast Year at Marienbad: Thu (8/7), 7:15, 9:15Planet of the Apes: Fri, 7:00pm; Sat, 4:45, 9:40Solaris: Sun-Mon, 7:00pmThat Obscure Object of Desire: Tue, 9:10pm; Wed, 7:00pmThe Time Machine: Fri, 9:30pm; Sat, 7:20pmFOR UPDATED SHOWTIMES, SEEaustinchronicle.com/film.TINSELTOWN NORTH North I-35 and FM 1825(Pflugerville), 512/989-8540. Special 3-D attraction costis normal ticket price plus $2.50 premium. Call theatrefor showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.NCM Fathom: 2008 DCI World ChampionshipQuarterfinals: Thu (8/7), 5:00pmThe Dark Knight: Fri-Tue, 10:15am, 10:45, 12:30, 1:00,1:25, 2:00, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 5:15, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00,8:30, 9:00, 10:15, 10:45pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 9:35am, 11:55, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:25pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 10:35am, 1:20,4:10, 7:05, 9:50pm*Journey to the Center of the Earth (special 3-Dattraction): Fri-Tue, 9:35am, 11:55, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05,9:25pmKung Fu Panda: Fri-Tue, 10:50am, 1:10, 3:30, 5:50pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Tue, 9:25am, 11:15, 11:55, 1:50,2:35, 4:25, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:40pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 9:45am, 10:25, 11:00, 11:40, 12:20, 1:00,1:35, 2:15, 2:55, 3:35, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 6:10, 6:45,7:25, 8:05, 8:45, 9:20, 10:00, 10:40pmSpace Chimps: Fri-Tue, 10:30am, 12:45, 2:55, 5:05pm*Step Brothers: Fri-Tue, 9:55am, 10:40, 12:15, 1:05,2:35, 3:20, 4:55, 5:40, 7:15, 8:10, 9:35, 10:30pm*Swing Vote: Fri-Tue, 10:45am, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 9:40am, 10:25, 12:05, 2:30, 4:55,7:20, 9:45pmWanted: Fri-Tue, 10:35pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 10:10am,12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 7:35, 8:15, 10:05, 10:50pmTINSELTOWN SOUTH South I-35 at Stassney,326-3800. $10 “special event” ticket prices apply toIndian films. Call theatre for showtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.*The Dark Knight: Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 10:45, 11:25,12:05, 12:50, 1:35, 2:15, 2:50, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00,5:35, 6:10, 6:55, 7:30, 8:30, 9:05, 9:40, 10:20,10:45pm; Sun-Tue, 10:05am, 10:45, 11:25, 12:05,12:50, 1:35, 2:15, 2:50, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 5:35, 6:10,6:55, 7:30, 8:30, 9:05, 9:40, 10:20pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 10:10am, 11:30, 12:30, 2:30, 3:10,5:10, 5:40, 6:45, 7:40, 8:15, 9:10, 10:15, 10:35pmHellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Tue, 10:05am, 11:00,12:00, 12:45, 2:00, 3:00, 3:50, 5:05, 6:05, 7:15,8:00, 9:00, 9:55pmThe Incredible Hulk: Fri-Tue, 10:10am, 1:10, 4:15, 7:05,10:10pmIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull:Fri-Tue, 10:15am, 1:20, 4:25pm*Kuselan: Fri-Sat, 1:00, 6:00, 9:30;Sun-Thu (8/7), 4:00, 8:00Meet Dave: Fri-Sun, 10:15am, 12:40, 3:20, 5:30pm;Mon, 10:15am, 12:40pm; Tue, 10:15am, 12:40, 3:00,5:25, 7:50, 10:15pmClubhouse: Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium:Tue-Wed, 10:00am*Pineapple Express (Opens Wednesday): Wed; Thu (8/7)Sex and the City: Fri-Tue, 7:10, 10:25*Swing Vote: 10:00am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 10:40am, 12:20, 1:30, 3:05, 4:10,7:20, 9:50pmWESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White,899-2717. Discounts daily before 6pm. Call theatre forshowtimes for Wednesday-Thursday, Aug. 6-7.Family: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Tue-Thu(8/7), 10:00amThe Dark Knight: Fri-Wed, 11:50am, 12:30, 3:10, 3:50,6:30, 7:10, 9:50, 10:30pmGet Smart: Fri-Tue, 9:25pmHancock: Fri-Tue, 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Fri-Mon, 11:40am, 2:25,5:05, 7:50, 10:30pm; Tue, 11:40am, 2:25, 5:05,7:50pmFamily: Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie: Tue-Thu(8/7), 10:00amJourney to the Center of the Earth: Fri-Tue, 11:55am,2:20, 4:35, 7:00pmMamma Mia!: Fri-Wed, 11:20am, 1:55, 4:40, 7:15,9:55pm*The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor:Fri-Tue, 11:30am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25pm*Pineapple Express: Wed, 11:45am, 2:25, 5:05, 7:50,10:30pmStep Brothers: Fri-Wed, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20Swing Vote: Fri-Wed, 11:15am, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30,10:15pmWALL-E: Fri-Tue, 11:35am, 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20pm*The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Fri-Tue, 11:45am, 2:10,4:50, 7:20, 10:00pm> An asterisk (*) before a title means thatno passes or special admission discountswill be accepted.> Changes may sometimes occur; viewersare encouraged to call theatres toconfirm showtimes.

FILM | L I S TINGSmove forward is to make amends. In otherwords, like so many modern-day spiritualists,he blames the universe … or his chi… or something and then punishes us, hisunwitting viewers, by making us sit througha 20-minute tear-filled discussion aboutthe importance of forgiveness, the powerof love, and the life-affirming interconnectivityof everything that ever was and everwill be. So thank God Whitaker is here tobring a bit of real pathos and ambiguity tohis role as the spiritual guide who’s gainedwisdom through adversity, because withouthis Oscar-winning chops, this exercise inpop mysticism would have been too painfulto bear.– Josh Rosenblatt DobieTHE SISTERHOOD OF THETRAVELING PANTS 2 D: SanaaHamri; with Amber Tamblyn, America Ferrera, BlakeLively, Alexis Bledel, Jesse Williams. (PG-13, 117 min.)Not reviewed at press time. Those britchessure do get around. In this follow-up, inthe film series based on Ann Brashares’bestselling novels, the gal pals are now incollege and discovering their own paths.(Opens Wednesday.) – Marjorie BaumgartenBarton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, SouthparkMeadowsSWING VOTE D: Joshua MichaelCostner’s new comedy is fueled byStern; with Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, PaulaPatton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane,Stanley Tucci, George Lopez, Judge Reinhold, MareWinningham. (PG-13, 120 min.)the absurdity of the balloting debacle ofthe 2004 presidential election, as wellas the proximity of the 2008 vote. Thatmay make Swing Vote timely, but thatdoesn’t make the film good. Swing Vote’spremise takes absurdity to a whole newdimension, while the film’s humor is cynicaland its plot development stagnant– until, of course, a third-act redemptioncomes along to salvage the ideals ofdemocracy (although the overall cynicismmakes even this tonal turnabout seemartificial). The story requires a serioussuspension of disbelief: No matter howridiculous things get with electronic votingmachinemishaps, hanging chads, andcourt interventions, Swing Vote’s scenarioposits an election process that ignoresthe constitutional safeguards that arealready in place in the eventuality of atie vote. Costner plays Bud Johnson, anaffable drunk who is kept afloat mostly bythe attentive ministrations of his youngbut precocious daughter Molly (Carroll).When Bud passes out drunk and dotingMolly attempts to cast his vote in hisplace, an electronic voting-machine glitchrecords only that Bud cast his ballot, butnot for whom he voted. A national deadheat prompts both candidates (Grammeras the Republican and Hopper as theDemocrat and Tucci and Lane, respectively,as each candidate’s chief campaignoperative) to travel to Bud’s double-widetrailer in Texico, N.M., to bring their campaignsto the only voter who now matters.73MAMMA MIA!(PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 10:00 12:15 2:30 4:55 7:20 9:45 11:59Sun. - Thu. 10:00 12:15 2:30 4:55 7:20 9:45THE DARK KNIGHT(PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 10:00 12:40 12:55 3:50 4:057:00 7:15 10:00 10:10 11:30Sun. - Thu. 10:00 12:40 12:55 3:50 4:05 7:00 7:15 10:00 10:10JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH 3D (PG)Fri. & Sat. 10:00 12:15 2:35 4:45 7:00 9:15 11:45Sun. - Thu. 10:00 12:15 2:35 4:45 7:00 9:15HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY (PG–13)Fri. - Thu. 12:00 4:30 9:00THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (PG–13) Fri. & Sat.10:00 12:10 2:30 4:55 7:20 9:45 11:59Sun. - Thu. 10:00 12:10 2:30 4:55 7:20 9:45STEP BROTHERS (R) Fri. & Sat. 10:00 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:10 9:25 11:45Sun. - Thu. 10:00 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:10 9:25HANCOCK (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 10:00 2:30 7:00THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR (PG–13)Fri. & Sat. 10:00 10:30 12:10 12:40 2:30 3:00 4:55 5:25 7:20 7:45 9:45 10:00 11:59Sun. - Thu. 10:00 10:30 12:10 12:40 2:30 3:00 4:55 5:25 7:20 7:45 9:45 10:00SWING VOTE (PG–13)Fri. & Sat. 10:30 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:35 11:59Sun. - Thu. 10:30 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:35a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 73

CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC |The Hudsucker ProxyThe Hudsucker Proxy (1994) D: Joel Coen; with Tim Robbins,Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney.(PG, 111 min.) Retro Replay. This Coen brothers film is a goofy odeto genres and eras gone by. Although it’s a little less “weird” thanmuch of their work, it still retains a mannered and quirky air withperformances that walk a line between realism and understated surreality.(*) @Arbor, Wed., 7:30pm.It’s a spectacle indeed, as the Republicanstarts touting ecological preservation and theDemocrat comes out in favor of bans againstabortion and immigration. Bud is given 10days to recast his vote while a media phalanxparks outside his trailer, the candidatespersonally court him, and TV news personalities(including cameos from, among others,Aaron Brown, Campbell Brown, TuckerCarlson, James Carville, Mary Hart, AriannaHuffington, Larry King, Bill Maher, and ChrisMatthews) weigh in on the unprecedentedsituation. Costner easily plays the ne’erdo-wellBud, but the character and the filmnever develop any forward momentum: All thecharacters continue to hit the same notesover and over. Plus, some side plots – mostnotably, Winningham’s single but immenselydisturbing scene – are irrelevant tangentsto the story. However, the most regrettableaspect of the story is screenwriters Sternand Jason Richman’s failure to acknowledgethe debt they owe to Garson Kanin’s 1939film, The Great Man Votes, one of JohnBarrymore’s last performances, in which heplays an alcoholic widower with two kids, whois personally courted by mayoral candidateswhen it turns out that he is the only registeredvoter in an important precinct. SwingVote may muster a few easy laughs, but thefilm is no contender. – Marjorie BaumgartenBarton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, SouthparkMeadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, WestgateTHE X-FILES: I WANT TOJump!Jump! (2007) D: Helen Hood Scheer. (NR,85 min.) Austin Film Festival Family Film Series.Competitive jump-roping is the subject of this character-drivendocumentary that follows teens from fiveteams around the U.S. as they prepare to competefor the world championship. @Arbor, Sat., 2pm; free.LISTI NGSBELIEVE D: Chris Carter; with DavidDuchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly,Alvin “Xzibit” Joiner, Callum Keith Rennie, Alex Diakun.(PG-13, 104 min.)There’s something horribly amiss with afilm that feels as though it had been adaptedfrom the anonymous-fan-fiction slush pileand then, midway through, makes you wishthat it were adapted from the anonymousfan-fictionslush pile subheaded “Furries.”But there you go: Mulder (Duchovny) andScully (Anderson) are nothing if not masterand mistress of the painfully engorgedtease. In the 10 years since the first X-Filesfilm and the six since the Fox TV seriesconcluded, reality has caught up with theconspiracy theorizing of series creator ChrisCarter and, in all but the most trivial ways,surpassed even his most speculative fictions.(Indeed, the best example to datearrived last week, when Apollo 14 astronautand probable Spaced fan Dr. Edgar “RightStuff” Mitchell revealed that aliens do exist,there is a huge government cover-up globally,and Whitley Streiber was right all along.True, the revelation arrived during a radiointerview with the UK heavy metal magKerrang!, but consider the source, not thesender, and certainly not Voivod.) Thingshave changed. Former FBI agent Fox Mulder,for instance, has grown a beard and goneunderground, while his former partner, DanaScully, has returned to her initial calling asa pediatric physician. It takes the abductionof another Bureau member and thebloody tears of a psychic, pederastic priest(Scottish comic Connelly) to bring themtogether, but their reunion is less than thrilling,mired for much of the film’s runningtime in a morass of overrequited anti-lust.They’ve become deadly dull, these twoonce-keen buckers of bureaucratic BS, andwatching them interact on screen is akin tohaving your pleasure centers removed byknobby little aliens whose only knowledge ofmankind comes from Jack Webb’s stoicallyunvarying television incarnations. Granted, alast-minute deus ex machina involving malfunctioninghydraulics on a snowplow and aravening, two-headed Canis Maximus injectssome snarly fun into the otherwise intolerablywindy proceedings, but it’s not enough tomerit belief in anything other than Carter’sconspiratorial irrelevance. – Marc SavlovAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Barton CreekSquare, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria,CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland,Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, TinseltownNorth, Westgate74 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mNo Man’s LandNo Man’s Land (2001) D: Danis Tanovic; with BrankoDjuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic, Simon Callow, KatrinCartlidge. (R, 98 min.) European Movie Night: Life UnderCommunist Rule. This bleak anti-war comedy won the Oscarfor Best Foreign Film of 2001. The movie will be introducedby Vera Labriola, who is from the Czech Republic and hasspent a majority of her life under Communist rule. (*) @Spicewood Springs Branch Library, Wed., 6pm; free.first runs*Full-length reviews available onlineat austinchronicle.com. Dates at end ofreviews indicate original publication date.THE DARK KNIGHT D: Christopher Nolan; withChristian Bale, Heath Ledger, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Aaron Eckhart,Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman. (PG-13, 152 min.)Sacrifices must be made, because that’s whatheroes do. Or so goes the nihilistic logic behind TheDark Knight, a grim little parable on the wages of sinand the high cost of redemption. It’s impossible toview Nolan’s extravagantly dour film through anythingbut the prism of Ledger’s death. His Joker is the sortof convoluted, densely layered characterization thatgets nominated for awards come Oscar time. It’s apity, then, that when taken as a whole, this two-and-ahalfhour film is such a stuffy downer. It’s jam-packedwith flawlessly designed set-pieces and skulduggery,sure, but it’s also shrouded in grim portent, overlaidwith a filigree of despair, and, for good measure,covered in a patina of dire consequence. In short, it’sa Batman for the new age of anxiety. There’s somethingintangible missing from this Dark Knight. For allits thrum and thunder, Nolan’s film feels chilly and illat ease. (07/18/2008)– Marc SavlovAlamo Ritz, Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek,Alamo Drafthouse South, Alamo Drafthouse Village,Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill CountryGalleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, Westgate, IMAX Theatre ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OFTHE WORLD D: Werner Herzog. (G, 99 min.)Herzog, contemporary cinema’s most consistentlylyrical examiner of the (in)human condition, returnsto the documentary form in yet another wonderfullyimprobable locale: Antarctica, the literal bottomof the world. In the past, the director has scaledthe heights of Machu Picchu (Aguirre: The Wrath ofGod), macheted a path through the Brazilian rainforest with a steamship and “best fiend” Kinski intow (Fitzcarraldo), and abandoned the Earth altogetherin favor of a space-y Brad Dourif (The WildBlue Yonder). Here, Herzog travels to a place wherecompasses are useless, the climate is negative70 degrees Fahrenheit and white all over, and acommunity of misanthropic misfits not unlike himselflounge around watching an endless series ofdoomsday movies on DVD. Herzog also seeks theblank, unknowable chaos of nature in the raw, and,toward that end, he explores both above and belowthe frozen Ross Sea, with visually stunning results.(07/18/2008) – Marc Savlov Arbor THE FALL D: Tarsem Singh; with Lee Pace, CatincaUntaru, Justine Waddell, Julian Bleach. (R, 117 min.)The Fall is a visually stunning but ultimatelymournful movie that is both richly layered with “onceupon a time” fairy-tale subtext and dense withthickets of moral and motivational ambiguity. Did Imention The Fall is also a period picture? And hasanimated sequences, waterborne pachyderms, anda drolly humorous imagining of a monkey-conversantCharles Darwin? This rapturous fever dream of afilm is a vibrant, vital, hopelessly romantic but intellectuallyobtuse game of blind man’s chess betweenthe director and himself (and perhaps, occasionally,the viewer). Tarsem (the music video director whosedebut feature was The Cell and who prefers to beknown by his first name alone) has discovered thesecretive, magical underpinnings of the narrativeform. Two parallel stories eventually flow into andthen collide with each other. Tarsem has found ahome for his endlessly unique visions, and (wouldn’tyou know?) it’s beyond artifice and stealing towardart. (Ends Tuesday.) (05/30/2008) – Marc SavlovDobieHANCOCK D: Peter Berg; with Will Smith, CharlizeTheron, Jason Bateman, Jae Head, Johnny Galecki. (PG-13, 92 min.)From its opening shot of recalcitrant superheroJohn Hancock (Smith) sleeping off a permanent hangoveron a Los Angeles bench to its raggedy, barelyexplicable backstory, Hancock is a godforsakenmess. With its tied-in-a-bow, patently dull outcomeand yawny midsection, it makes Smith’s 1990 sitcombreakthrough, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, lookpositively transgressive by comparison. Berg strainstoward some sort of message, but unless the messageis that with great power comes vast amountsof booze and self-loathing – a superheroic subtextalready delivered with far more pathos, thrills, andhumor by Iron Man earlier this summer – thenHancock misses its target by a mile and leaves youto wonder about its protagonist’s obsession witheagles; whether or not he’s a god, an angel, or analien; and why on earth anyone would want to wastea summer matinee afternoon with such vacuouscineplex junk. To quote Philly’s former Freshest, “Yohomes, smell ya later.” (07/04/2008) – Marc SavlovAlamo Drafthouse South, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Millennium, TinseltownNorth, Tinseltown South, Westgate HELLBOY II: THE GOLDENARMY D: Guillermo del Toro; with Ron Perlman, Selma Blair,Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor, Luke Goss. (PG-13, 110 min.)It’s not perfect – thank Satan! – but Hellboy II: TheGolden Army is by far the most splendidly imaginativeand creatively uncorked piece of fantastic cinemasince the director’s Pan’s Labyrinth netted an Oscartrifecta in 2007. Given the success of that film,del Toro’s budget is considerably larger this time,allowing him to indulge his genius for the freakish– Hellboy II is a visually breathtaking bestiary ofeverything that ever lurked under your childhood bed– while fleshing out the “big red one” and his pals atthe Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense.Co-scripted with wild abandon and plenty of heart bydel Toro and the comic book’s creator, Mike Mignola,this second Hellboy film outing finds the stogiechompin’,pussycat-lovin’, Tecate-swillin’ hell spawndefending an unsympathetic-as-ever mankind. There’smuch here for longtime fans and Hellboy newcomersto enjoy, although del Toro’s film occasionally suffersfrom there being almost too much to keep up with.(07/11/2008) – Marc SavlovAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, CM CedarPark, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, SouthparkMeadows, Highland, Gateway, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, Westgate INDIANA JONES AND THEKINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLD: Steven Spielberg; with Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Shia LaBeouf,Karen Allen, Ray Winstone, John Hurt, Jim Broadbent. (PG-13, 124 min.)This fourth installment is a fine, rollicking, lightningpacedreturn to form, overflowing with outlandishlyentertaining action set-pieces that fall only somewhatshort of eliciting the “holy cow!” monogram-matineepanache of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Booted from his tenuredposition as professor of archaeological studies atYale in a McCarthy-esque twist, Dr. Indiana Jones (Ford,in fine fettle) is soon back in the thick of it, teamingup with a Harley-riding Dean/Brando teen rebel namedMutt (LaBeouf) to track down the crystalline cranium ofthe title. The smart, if somewhat overcrowded, script byDavid Koepp makes allowances for both Ford and hischaracter’s advancing maturity while sacrificing none ofthe series’ innate innocence. Quite a feat, that, consideringthat before the plot even really begins, we’re treat-

ed to alien beings, a nuclear explosion in the Nevadabadlands, and squirrelly, HUAC-style federal agentswith pinkos on the brain. My only real complaints liewith Spielberg’s tendency to overburnish his film witha CGI wash. (05/23/2008)– Marc SavlovGateway, Tinseltown SouthJOURNEY TO THE CENTER OFTHE EARTH D: Eric Brevig; with Brendan Fraser,Anita Briem, Josh Hutcherson, Seth Meyers. (PG, 92 min.)Make sure to catch this latest iteration of theJules Verne novel on a screen projecting it in 3-Dformat (some prints are 3-D, others regular 2-D),because without all the fun visual effects of stuff“comin’ right at ya,” this journey’s center will nothold. Seemingly created to whet the audience appetitefor a new age of digital 3-D, the filmmakers havepaid little attention to character development orCALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC | L I S TINGSthe screenplay, trusting Verne’s far-fetched fantasiaabout the inner-Earth biosphere to carry the day. Andfor the most part, it does. When the action is in theforeground, the film’s visual thrills provide fun gaspsand the feeling of a genuinely collective moviegoingexperience. But the backgrounds generally looklike 2-D matte paintings, and when combined withthe hellzapoppin’ happenings in the foregrounds,the finished look appears dull and desaturated. Butthe quick 92-minute running time keeps the actionmoving chockablock forward to every new set-piece.(07/11/2008) – Marjorie Baumgarten CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM RoundRock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway,Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, WestgateKABLUEY D: Scott Prendergast; with Lisa Kudrow, ScottPrendergast, Teri Garr, Chistine Taylor, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, ChrisParnell, Conchata Ferrell, Angela Sarafyan. (PG-13, 86 min.)“Hauntingly beautiful! Ethereally lovely! ”“Stunning! ”-Entertainment Weekly-Manohla Dargis, The New York Times“Amazing! ”-Rolling StoneA Werner Herzog FilmEXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTNOW PLAYING“Entrancing! ”-New York Magazine75REGAL CINEMASARBOR STADIUM 8 @ GREAT HILLSAustin 800-FANDANGO (684)Consider Kabluey a litmus test to administer toyour friends and family. Those who fall in love withits oddball tale of disheveled thirtysomething Salman(Prendergast) – a schlemiel who loses his job andmoves in with his despondent sister-in-law, Leslie(Kudrow), whose husband, a National Guardsman, isstuck in Iraq – are what might be called “lovers of allthings quirky” … and probably aren’t to be trusted.Indifferent to character, they’ll revel in idiosyncrasies;rejecting emotion, they’ll pine for sweetness. They’llfind Salman’s woeful parading around an open field ina giant, baby-blue Internet-company-mascot costumeadorable and hilarious and touching, but they won’t beable to explain why an Internet company would pay aman to pass out fliers in an empty cornfield – becausethe explanation is beside the point. In fact, I wouldn’tbe surprised if this absurd image was Prendergast’swhole inspiration behind the quirky and unaffectingKabluey. (07/25/2008)– Josh RosenblattDobieYOU ARE NEVER TOOOLD TO BE YOUNG“SWEETLY EXUBERANT! ”- Bob Mondello, NPR” A MOVIE ABOUTLOVE AND A LOVELETTER TO MOVIES. ”-Jeannette Catsoulis,THE NEW YORK TIMES” IRRESISTIBLE... ANDUTTERLY CHARMING. ”-Sid Smith,CHICAGO TRIBUNESTARTS FRIDAY,AUGUST 1 ST !www.elsaandfred.com“A MASTERPIECE.THE MOVIE INTELLIGENT FILMGOERSHAVE WAITED FOR ALL YEAR.” Rex Reed,“TERRIFIC! ONE OF THESUMMER’S BEST MOVIES.Emma Thompson gives the most arrestingperformance of her career.” Karen Durbin,“Emma Thompson andMatthew Goode are outstanding.” Marshall Fine,REGAL ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLSJollyville Rd. N of Great Hills(800) FANDANGO 684#WINNER!Best PictureBoston InternationalFilm Festival“outstanding... fantastic...thought-provoking and powerful”- angelfire.com/pq/moviereviewsOPENS FRIDAYTicket information 512-472-FILMor online at www.landmarktheatres.comDOBIE THEATRE2025 Guadalupe Street,Dobie Mall, Austin, TX 78705PrivILEGE. AMBITION. DESIRE.AT BRIDESHEAD EVERYTHING COMES AT a PRICE.COPYRIGHT © 2008 BRIDESHEAD FILMS LTD / UK FILM COUNCIL / BBCbridesheadrevisited-themovie.comSOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE ONCHANDOS AT WWW.CHANDOS.NETEXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENTSTARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 1ARTWORK © 2008 MIRAMAX FILM CORP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.REGAL CINEMASARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLSJollyville Rd. N of Great Hills1-800-FANDANGO X684FOR A CHANCE TO WIN A TRIP TO ENGLAND,ENTER THEATBRIDESHEADREVISITED-THEM OVIE.COM. PROVIDED BY .a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 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 S TINGSPete Seeger:The Power of SongPete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007) D: Jim Brown. (NR,93 min.) Music Monday. More than an appreciation, this documentaryportrait of the great American folksinger and activist is an inspiration.(*) @Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, Mon., 10pm; $2.Last Year at MarienbadLast Year at Marienbad (1961) D: Alain Resnais; with DelphineSeyring, Giorgio Albertazzi. (NR, 93 min.) Summer Film Classics: AFascinating Puzzle. The timelessness of this arthouse colossus growseven more apparent with this re-released print. Certain as it ever wasto spark controversy among its defenders and deniers, the film – with ascreenplay by Alain Robbe-Grillet accompanying the studious visuals byResnais – continues its labyrinthine yet placid odyssey. @Paramount,Thu. (8/7), 7:15, 9:15pm.KIT KITTREDGE: AN AMERICANGIRL D: Patricia Rozema; with Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormond,Chris O’Donnell, Jane Krakowski, Wallace Shawn, Max Thieriot,Willow Smith, Zach Mills, Glenne Headly, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci.(G, 100 min.)This feature-length theatrical film showcases KitKittredge (Breslin), a onetime American Girl doll whohas now come to life as a washed-out blonde in cute,Depression-era hats and about whom one might lazilytoss around words like “spunk” and “pluck.” A 9-yearoldaspiring reporter, Kit spots a story – and her firstbyline – in the swelling of hobo shantytowns in hernative Cincinnati. But then the Depression hits rathernearer to her home when her parents must open theirhome to an eccentric mix of boarders. Kit Kittredgeisn’t terrible: There is a handful of supporting playerswho sparkle, and it seems rather churlish to complainabout entertainment aimed at little girls, who almostnever get big-budget movies made just for them. Butconsidering director Rozema previously made the revisionistMansfield Park, one rather hoped she mighthave been equally ingenious with the considerablyless worthy material here. Nope, Kit Kittredge is adutiful bore. (07/04/2008) – Kimberley Jones Arbor, Barton Creek SquareMAMMA MIA! D: Phyllida Lloyd; with Meryl Streep,Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Christine Baranski,Julie Walters, Amanda Seyfried, Dominic Cooper. (PG-13, 108 min.)First let me soothe the jangled nerves of any puristsin the house: Yes, Mamma Mia! stays faithful toits source material. By source material, I mean, ofcourse, the hit theatrical show that strung together abunch of ABBA chart toppers and shoehorned a pittanceof plot in between a giggling spectacle of songand dance. This is astonishingly silly stuff, but it’snot like anybody’s trying to pass this off as anythingother than silly – there’s a goddamn exclamationpoint in the title. Which isn’t to say that there isn’tmuch to quibble with here. There are indignitiesaplenty heaped atop the cast: Welcome to HamTown. But once you accept everything that exclamationpoint entails, there are fleeting pleasures tobe had. Seyfried is a lovely find; she has the mostaccomplished voice in the cast and imbues a zerocharacter with vulnerability and charm. The vets arefun to watch, too. (07/18/2008) – Kimberley JonesAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseSouth, Arbor, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North,Westgate SEX AND THE CITY D: Michael PatrickKing; with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis,Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth, Jennifer Hudson, Candice Bergen,David Eigenberg, Evan Handler, Jason Lewis, Mario Cantone, WillieGarson. (R, 142 min.)I’m not the first to make the comparison – thatthe women of Sex and the City make for a specialThat ObscureObject of DesireThat Obscure Object of Desire (1977) D: LuisBuñuel; with Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Ángela Molina.(R, 102 min.) Summer Film Classics: Sublime Surrealist.Buñuel weaves a hypnotic story about a man who is obsessedwith his much younger maid – who is played by two differentactresses, reflecting various sides of her personality. (Doublebill: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.) @Paramount, Tue.,9:10pm; Wed., 7pm.kind of superhero in American pop-culture iconography.Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha maybe larger than life, their pocketbooks and professionalhighlights a distant fantasy for most of the fanbase, but take away the tights, and they’re muddlingthrough just like the rest of us. Longtime creativeforce King (who wrote and directed) has crafted afeature that stands on its own (typically stilettoed)feet, while holding fast to the series’ singular mixof the giddily ribald and brutally confessional. Wepick up several years after the series’ finale, andthe women, individually, have undergone seismicchange. It goes without saying that any one woman’striumph or sorrow is felt collectively, and keenly. That,of course, has been Sex and the City’s abiding m.o.:that this is a love affair, primarily, between women.(05/30/2008) – Kimberley Jones Arbor, Tinseltown SouthSPACE CHIMPS D: Kirk De Micco; with the voicesof Andy Samberg, Cheryl Hines, Patrick Warburton, Jeff Daniels,Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth. (G, 81 min.)With an insipidly generic title like Space Chimps,you might expect some sort of The Three Stoogesmeets Planet of the Apes meets Bob Ray’s Ape Sh!tgambit – anything but the frequently laugh-out-loudsnarkiness of this uneven but far from awful takeon, um, chimps in space. Tolerable G-rated films ofthe non-Pixar variety which actually offer up someintelligent criticism of the status quo and more thantwo chuckles per act are generally as rare as lifeon Mars is presumed to be, but 20th Century Fox’sSpace Chimps is endearingly ridiculous and frequentlysmart. This story of a jaded, selfish, but ultimatelyheroic circus chimp (Samberg), who is plucked fromobscurity by NASA and sent into space alongsidea pair of real chimp astronauts, has its share ofdeep-core cinematic clichés but still manages to besurprisingly unsucky. Then again, who doesn’t love ananimated, anthropomorphized-chimpanzee-starring,sci-fi romantic comedy? (07/25/2008) – Marc SavlovBarton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown NorthSTEP BROTHERS D: Adam McKay; with WillFerrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins, AdamScott, Kathryn Hahn. (R, 100 min.)Will Ferrell’s newest is a lot like Will Ferrell’s oldest,which is to say it feels like an old-school (nopun intended) Saturday Night Live skit amped up ona heaping helping of sugar-infused Count Suckulabreakfast meth. It’s all over the place, and it willmake you laugh when you least expect it, but maybenot so much when you do. Ferrell and Reilly playBrennan and Dale, slacker layabouts with the hypercompetitivetemperaments of 12-year-olds, who reluctantlybecome stepbrothers when Brennan’s mom(Steenburgen) marries Dale’s dad (Jenkins). Hilarityensues, obstacles are overcome, and life lessons ofthe socially inept variety bubble up all over the placelike magic mushrooms after a rainstorm. But Ferrell76 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mand Reilly’s infantilism grows wearying for those ofus who’ve had our fill of dick jokes and child-men runamok. Step Brothers has comic fuel to burn, someof it unashamedly non sequitur and stupid-brilliant,but it still feels like a post-Talladega flameout.(07/25/2008) – Marc SavlovAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North,Westgate THE WACKNESS D: Jonathan Levine; withBen Kingsley, Josh Peck, Famke Janssen, Olivia Thirlby, Mary-KateOlsen, Jane Adams, Method Man, Aaron Yoo. (R, 95 min.)In the early Nineties, you couldn’t get a sweeterseasonal jam than DJ Jazzy Jeff and the FreshPrince’s “Summertime.” This coming-of-age comedy,set in New York circa the summer of ‘94, uses thesong to good effect, although its ode to fraternity,fly ladies, and family reunions couldn’t be furtherfrom the reality of Luke Shapiro (Peck). He’s a17-year-old rap-obsessed white boy, friendless andestranged from his parents, an outcast and dopedealer who trades weed for sessions with his middle-agedshrink, Dr. Squires (Kingsley). Writer/directorLevine’s modus operandi is in exalting the oddcouple of Squires and Luke, a Giuliani-era Falstaffand Hal who just want to act up in a city that’sclamping down. The Wackness never lives up to theFresh Prince’s high standards – this isn’t a “bit of abreak from the norm” – it’s standard, straight-outta-Sundance indie fare, but it’s also a crowd-pleasingportrait of boys-who-will-be-men-who-will-be-boys.(07/25/2008) – Kimberley Jones Arbor WALL-E D: Andrew Stanton; with Fred Willard;with the voices of Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, JohnRatzenberger, Kathy Najimy, Sigourney Weaver. (G, 97 min.)What would Stanley Kubrick – or for that matter,Arthur C. Clarke or even Isaac Asimov – have madeof Pixar’s WALL-E? It’s the story of the last functioningrobot, who leads a lonely existence cleaning upan ecologically devastated Earth, some 700 yearsafter the last human being abandoned the dyingplanet. When, without warning, a vessel lands inhis back yard and deposits EVE (Knight), a femalerobot who has been sent to discover if any life hasblossomed on the home world, WALL-E (Burtt) isimmediately smitten. While the film eventually takesboth the ’droids off-world, the story remains focusedon their blossoming romance. This is Pixar’s finestand most emotionally powerful film yet, by turns sad,hilarious, exciting, and, ultimately, hopeful. Thosepast science-fictioneers Kubrick, Clarke, and Asimovwould’ve loved it, I think, and I’d wager my first editionof The Martian Chronicles that Ray Bradbury, too,will recognize a kindred soul in WALL-E’s life-affirmingquest for love. (06/27/2008) – Marc Savlov Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse South, Alamo Drafthouse Village, BartonCreek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CMRound Rock, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline,Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, WestgateWANTED D: Timur Bekmambetov; with James McAvoy,Morgan Freeman, Angelina Jolie, Terence Stamp, ThomasKretschmann, Common, Kristen Hager. (R, 110 min.)If Maxim magazine ever decides to branch out intofilmmaking, Wanted is just the kind of ear-throttlingnonsense it’s bound to produce. Plot? Characters?Meaning? Who cares about those trifles when you’vegot Jolie easing herself languidly out of a bathtubafter an evening spent killing perfect strangers?Wanted’s hero, Wesley (McAvoy), who could’ve swornhe was just an ordinary nebbish, is apparently theson of the world’s greatest assassin and can makebullets bend in midflight. He’s snatched up by themysterious Fox (Jolie) and taken to a man namedSloan (Freeman), who informs our hero that it’shis destiny to join a group of assassins called theFraternity (perfect!), who are descended from medievalweavers. I know what you’re thinking: Why, exactly,would weavers become assassins? And why isWesley capable of throwing curveballs with bullets?And what the hell is Freeman doing in this movie?The answer to these questions is simple: There is noanswer. (06/27/2008)– Josh Rosenblatt Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown Northalso playing*Full-length reviews available online ataustinchronicle.com.BABY MAMA Movies 8THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA:PRINCE CASPIAN Movies 8GET SMART Gateway, WestgateTHE INCREDIBLE HULK Movies8, Tinseltown SouthIRON MAN Movies 8, MetropolitanKUNG FU PANDA Tinseltown NorthMEET DAVE Paths of GloryPaths of Glory (1957) D: Stanley Kubrick; with Kirk Douglas, RalphMeeker, Adolphe Menjou, George Macready. (NR, 86 min.) Stanley KubrickRetrospective. Douglas fights the military system in this grim depictionof French army politics during World War I. Kubrick’s film vividly depictsthe harsh realities of war and remains a great antiwar drama. (*) @AlamoDrafthouse Lake Creek, Wed., 7:30pm.Tinseltown SouthNIM’S ISLAND Movies 8SPEED RACER Movies 8Metropolitan,Check 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.THURSDAY 31Long Way Down: Director’s Cut(2008) D: David Alexanian and RussMalkin. (NR, 120 min.) NCM Fathom. This director’scut is a unique prelude to the 10-part TV series,which starts in August on Fox Reality Channel. Thefilm is a follow-up to 2004’s Long Way Round seriesin which Charley Boorman and Ewan McGregor traversenumerous countries on BMW bikes.@Tinseltown North, @Southpark Meadows,@Gateway, @Metropolitan, 7:30pm.Planet of the Apes (1968) D: Franklin J.Schaffner; with Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, RoddyMcDowall. (G, 112 min.) Summer Film Classics: Sci-Fi Week. This classic sci-fi ape picture leaves itsimitators and sequels in the dust. (Double bill: TheTime Machine.) (*) @Paramount, 9:15pm.Prison (1988) D: Renny Harlin; with ViggoMortensen, Chelsea Field, Lane Smith. (R, 102 min.)Terror Thursday. A wrongly executed prisoner comesback to haunt the warden in Harlin’s first U.S. feature.@Alamo Ritz, 12mid; free.Surf Nazis Must Die: Director’s Cut (1987)D: Peter George; with Gail Neely, Robert Harden,Barry Brenner, Dawn Wildsmith. (R, 83 min.) TromaticThursday. The postapocalyptic silliness of this movieis one of Troma’s more memorable offerings, if for noreason but the title alone. @Alamo Drafthouse LakeCreek, 10pm; free.The Time Machine (1960) D: George Pal;with Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux, SebastianCabot. (NR, 103 min.) Summer Film Classics: Sci-FiWeek. Pal’s film version of the H.G. Wells time-travelclassic is a solid effort that features Oscar-winningspecial effects. (Double bill: Planet of the Apes.) (*)@Paramount, 7pm.Uncounted: The New Math of AmericanElections (2007) D: David Earnhardt. (NR, 81min.) Austin Film Festival. This documentary examineshow easy it is to change election outcomes andundermine election integrity across the U.S. Notedcomputer programmers, statisticians, journalists,and experienced election officials provide the proof.@Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm; $4, AFFmembers free.KIDSAlvin and the Chipmunks (2007) D: Tim Hill;with Jason Lee, David Cross, Cameron Richardson,Jane Lynch; with the voices of Justin Long, MatthewGray Gubler, Jesse McCartney. (PG, 92 min.) FamilyFilm Festival. Free. (*) @Lakeline, 10am.Bratz (2007) D: Sean McNamara; with NathaliaRamos, Janel Parrish, Logan Browning, Skyler Shaye,Chelsea Staub, Jon Voight, Lainie Kazan. (PG, 110 min.)Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Westgate, 10am.Everyone’s Hero (2006) D: Christopher Reeve,Colin Brady and Dan St. Pierre; with the voices of RobReiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Jake T. Austin, William H.Macy, Mandy Patinkin, Brian Dennehy, Dana Reeve,Richard Kind. (G, 88 min.) Family Film Festival. Free.(*) @Westgate, 10am.Good Burger (1997) D: Brian Robbins; with KelMitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, SharJackson, Dan Schneider, Jan Schwieterman, GeorgeClinton. (PG, 103 min.) Summer Kids Camp. Free. (*)@Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am.Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (2002) D: PhilVischer and Mike Nawrocki; with the voices of LisaVischer, Kristin Blegen, Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer. (G, 83min.) Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Lakeline, 10am.Mr. Bean’s Holiday (2007) D: SteveBendelack; with Rowan Atkinson, Emma de Caunes,Max Baldry, Willem Dafoe, Karel Roden. (G, 88 min.)Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Arbor, 10am.Stuart Little 2 (2002) D: Rob Minkoff; withHugh Laurie, Geena Davis, Jonathan Lipnicki; with thevoices of Michael J. Fox, Nathan Lane. (PG, 78 min.)Free Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Arbor, 10am.FRIDAY 01Planet of the Apes (1968)@Paramount, 7pm. (See Thu., 7/31.)The Time Machine (1960) @Paramount,9:30pm. (See Thu., 7/31.)SPACESKicking It (2008) D: Susan Koch and JeffWerner. (NR, 98 min.) Bike-In Movie. This new filmdocuments the 2006 Homeless World Cup, aninternational soccer competition engaged in by theworld’s homeless. The event follows several playersas they simultaneously prepare for their matcheswhile confronting life on the streets. @Treasure CityThrift, 8pm.SATURDAY 02Journey to the Center of theEarth (1959) D: Henry Levin; withJames Mason, Arlene Dahl, Pat Boone, Diane Baker.(NR, 132 min.) Summer Film Classics: Sci-Fi Week.The 1959 version of the Jules Verne story sparkedthe imagination of another generation of filmgoerswith its wild excursion into the Earth’s core. Masonis pretty campy, while Boone is cast as the hunkylead. New print. @Paramount, 2pm.Jump! (2007) See p.74.Jurassic Park (1993) D: Steven Spielberg;with Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, RichardAttenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, B.D. Wong.Master Pancake. See the Pancake merrymakersmake light of the prehistoric beasties and theirhuman intruders in this Spielberg classic. (*)@Alamo Ritz, 7, 10:20pm.Planet of the Apes (1968) @Paramount, 4:45,9:40pm. (See Thu., 7/31.)The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick,Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fanshave been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp”thing live for more than 30 years straight. For moreinfo, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo DrafthouseVillage, 12mid.The Time Machine (1960) @Paramount,7:20pm. (See Thu., 7/31.)78 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mSUNDAY 03Journey to the Center of theEarth (1959) @Paramount, 3:30pm.(See Sat., 8/2.)Mommie Dearest Brunch (1981) D: FrankPerry; with Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid. (PG, 129min.) 175 Media and aGLIFF. The movie comes witha free mimosa and a Joan Crawford drag contesthosted by Bryon Gaul. @Alamo Ritz, noon.Okie Noodling II (2008) D: Bradley Beesley.(NR, 63 min.) Beesley’s documentary revisits thepeculiar sport of noodling, in which fisherman capturetheir prey bare-handed. Beesley will be in attendanceat the Sunday screening. See “Take Me tothe River,” July 4, for more on the film. @Alamo Ritz,4:30pm.Solaris (1972) D: Andrei Tarkovsky; with NatalyaBondarchuk, Donatas Banionis. (NR, 165 min.)Summer Film Classics: Sci-Fi Week. Russian filmmakerTarkovsky’s film was the original on which theSoderbergh/Clooney remake was based. It’s a visuallycaptivating and delirious tale of outer space andthe supernatural. @Paramount, 7pm.Summercamp! (2006) D: Bradley Beesley andSarah Price. (NR, 85 min.) Documentarians Beesleyand Price observe and interact with young campersin Wisconsin and come away with a thoughtful portraitof kids being kids. The film is accompanied bymusic from the Flaming Lips and others. Beesley willbe in attendance. @Alamo Ritz, 6:30pm.SPACES“Nobody’s Girl” and Other Short Videos(2008) D: Michael Nason and Brendan Harman;with Veronica Giavedoni, Spencer Driggers. (NR, 29min.) In this locally made film, a Mexican actress followsher boyfriend to Texas and disillusionment setsin. “Nobody’s Girl” will be preceded by a short videoprogram and followed by a party and music by thePillow Queens. @The Blue Theater, 9pm.MONDAY 04ABBA Sing-Along Softball Austin.@Alamo Drafthouse South, 6pm.Okie Noodling II (2008) @Alamo Ritz, 5pm.(See Sun., 8/3.)Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)See p.76.Solaris (1972) @Paramount, 7pm. (See Sun., 8/3.)SPACESNational Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)D: John Landis; with John Belushi, Tim Matheson, TomHulce, Stephen Furst, Mark Metcalf, Kevin Bacon, KarenAllen, Donald Sutherland. (R, 109 min.) Monday Moviesand Margaritas. Margarita specials, 5-9pm; moviebegins at sundown. (*) @Belmont, 8:30pm; free.offscreenClasses and Camps From Austin School of Film Intensive teen camps (out in Marfa!) this summer,as well as the usual excellent slate of adult classes (taught by Kat Candler, Spencer Parsons, Ira“Screenwriting Essentials” Israel, and other professional talents), are going on now at the Austin School ofFilm. See website for details. www.austinfilmschool.org/classes.Movie Prop & Memorabilia Sale One of the premier prop houses in Austin is selling items from featurefilms produced in Texas during the last 16 years. Furniture, artwork, office equipment, vintage bicycles,and more – as featured in movies like Spy Kids, Secondhand Lions, Grindhouse, There Will Be Blood, and others.Aug. 1-2. Fri., noon-5pm; Sat., 8am-2pm. Austin Studios Stage 2, 1901 E. 51st. dchaber99@yahoo.com.Reel Women: First Monday Mix No agenda, no schedule; just mingling, mixing, meeting, bragging,commiserating. Find someone you do (or don’t) want to collaborate with. Recruit for your next project. Mon.,Aug. 4, 6-8pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308. Free. www.reelwomen.org.The Screenplay Workshop All classes are taught by professional screenwriters and meet in CentralAustin. Ongoing classes include: Feature-Film Screenwriting Workshop, Mondays, 7-10pm, $255 for six weeks,$390 for 10 weeks; Screenwriting According to the Masters, Tuesdays, 7-9:30pm, $270; Revising FeatureScripts, Wednesdays, 7-10pm, $320. Also: Private Instruction & Story Consultation Packages, 7½ hours ofinstruction, $370. www.thescreenplayworkshop.org.Who Wants to Be a House Bunny? The public is invited to attend this giggly event featuring a varietyof activities with the sorority house from Columbia Pictures’ The House Bunny – that’s “bunny” as in Playboy –and a live concert by Kate Voegele. Sun., Aug. 3, noon-6pm. Dillard’s Women’s Court, Lakeline Mall.KIDSTMNT (2007) D: Kevin Munroe; with the voicesof Chris Evans, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mako, PatrickStewart, Laurence Fishburne, Ziyi Zhang, MitchellWhitfield, James Arnold Taylor, Mikey Kelley, NolanNorth, Kevin Smith. (PG, 90 min.) Summer KidsCamp. Free. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am.TUESDAY 05The Discreet Charm of theBourgeoisie (1972) D: Luis Buñuel;with Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Stephane Audran,Bulle Ogier, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Piccoli. (PG, 100min.) Summer Film Classics: Sublime Surrealist.This Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film is also oneof Buñuel’s most accessible works. A comic gem,Discreet Charm tells the story of a group of wealthyfriends who repeatedly gather together for a meal,only to have their dining plans interrupted by somesurreal event or another. (Double bill: That ObscureObject of Desire.) (*) @Paramount, 7pm.Okie Noodling II (2008) @Alamo Ritz, 5,10:20pm. (See Sun., 8/3.)That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)See p.76.KIDSAlvin and the Chipmunks (2007)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Are We There Yet? (2005) D: Brian Levant;with Ice Cube, Nia Long, Jay Mohr, Aleisha Allen, PhilipDaniel Bolden, M.C. Gainey, Henry Simmons, NichelleNichols; with the voices of Tracy Morgan. (PG, 92 min.)Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Lakeline, 10am.Bratz (2007) @Arbor, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Doogal (2006) D: Dave Borthwick, Jean Duvaland Frank Passingham; with the voices of Judi Dench,Jon Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, William H. Macy, JimmyFallon, Chevy Chase, Ian McKellan, Kevin Smith, KylieMinogue. (G, 85 min.) Family Film Festival. Free. (*)@Lakeline, 10am.Everyone’s Hero (2006) @Arbor, 10am.(See Thu., 7/31.)Flushed Away (2006) D: David Bowers andSam Fell; with the voices of Kate Winslet, HughJackman, Ian McKellen, Andy Serkis, Bill Nighy, ShaneRichie, Susan Duerden, Jean Reno. (PG, 86 min.)Summer Movie Clubhouse. $1 (*) @Movies 8, 10am.Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (2002) @Westgate, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)D: Zach Helm; with Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman,Jason Bateman, Zach Mills, Ted Ludzik, RebeccaNorthan, Matt Baram, Kiele Sanchez. (G, 109 min.)Summer Movie Clubhouse. $1 (*) @TinseltownSouth, 10am.TMNT (2007) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am.(See Mon., 8/4.)Zathura (2005) D: Jon Favreau; with JonahBobo, Josh Hutcherson, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart,Tim Robbins, Frank Oz, John Alexander, Derek Mears.(PG, 113 min.) Family Movie Night: Game Movies.Free. (*) @Hampton Library, 6pm.WEDNESDAY 06The Discreet Charm of theBourgeoisie (1972) @Paramount,9:10pm. (See Tue., 8/5.)The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) See p.74.Okie Noodling II (2008) @Alamo Ritz, 5pm.(See Sun., 8/3.)Paths of Glory (1957) See p.76.That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Seep.76.Voodoo Black Exorcist (1973) D: ManuelCaño; with Alfredo Mayo, Eva León, Julio Peña. (NR, 88min.) Weird Wednesday. A mummified priest comesto life aboard a cruise liner and decapitates peoplewhile pursuing his long-lost love. (*) @Alamo Ritz,12mid; free.

SPACESD.E.B.S. and Buffy Violent Femmes. Outdoordouble bill continues biweekly throughout the summerto help raise funds for this new online teen girlsmagazine. Refreshments for sale; bring blanket.@PaperDolls Headquarters (1610 Nickerson), 9pm;$5 suggested donation.No Man’s Land (2001) See p.74.KIDSAlvin and the Chipmunks (2007) @Westgate,10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Are We There Yet? (2005) @Lakeline, 10am.(See Tue., 8/5.)Bratz (2007) @Arbor, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Doogal (2006) @Lakeline, 10am. (See Tue., 8/5.)Everyone’s Hero (2006) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThu., 7/31.)Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (2002)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)@Tinseltown South, 10am. (See Tue., 8/5.)TMNT (2007) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am.(See Mon., 8/4.)TMNT (2007) Summer Movie Camp @BartonCreek Square, 10am. $1. (See Mon., 8/4.)THURSDAY 072008 DCI World ChampionshipQuarterfinals NCM Fathom. The simulcastwill feature the Top 15 World Class drum corpsperforming in their entirety and highlight clips of thefirst five corps that performed earlier in the day. TicketsCALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC |and more info available at www.fathomevents.com.@Tinseltown North, 5pm; @Hill Country Galleria, 5pm;@Southpark Meadows, 5pm; @Metropolitan, 5pm.Last Year at Marienbad (1961) See p.76.The 90s Alternative Sing-Along @AlamoRitz, 9:20pm.Pot Zombies (2005) D: Justin Powers; withStarla Anderson, Amy Brown, John Phelan, LloydKaufman. (NR, 90 min.) Tromatic Thursday. DOA,Electric Frankenstein, Gein & the Graverobbers, andDamage Case provide the punk-fueled soundtrackfor this gore-fest, which also features a cameo byTroma prexy Lloyd Kaufman. @Alamo Drafthouse LakeCreek, 10pm; free.The Princess Bride Quote-Along (1987)D: Rob Reiner; with Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin,Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant,Fred Savage, Robin Wright Penn. (PG, 98 min.)@Alamo Ritz, 6:45pm.Slithis (1978) D: Stephen Traxler; with AlanBlanchard, Judy Motulsky, J.C. Claire, Dennis Lee Falt.(R, 86 min.) Terror Thursday. Slithis, a sea monstercreated by nuclear radiation, terrorizes Venice, Calif.@Alamo Ritz, 12mid; free.A Streetcar Named Desire New OrleansFeast and Abita Portfolio Tasting (1951)D: Elia Kazan; with Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, KimHunter, Karl Malden. Would you like some jambalayawith that melodrama? See www.drafthouse.com formenu. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm; $45.SPACESSweet Home Alabama (2002) D: AndyTennant; with Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, PatrickDempsey, Candice Bergen, Mary Kay Place, Fred Ward,Jean Smart, Ethan Embry, Melanie Lynskey. (PG-13,102 min.) Movies in the Park. Outdoor screening. (*)@Republic Square Park, 8:30pm; free.THE BOB BULLOCK TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM ★ 1800 N. CONGRESS @ MLKLISTI NGSKIDSAlvin and the Chipmunks (2007)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)Are We There Yet? (2005) @Lakeline,10am. (See Tue., 8/5.)Bratz (2007) @Arbor, 10am. (See Thu.,7/31.)Doogal (2006) @Lakeline, 10am. (SeeTue., 8/5.)Everyone’s Hero (2006) @Arbor, 10am.(See Thu., 7/31.)Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie (2002)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thu., 7/31.)TMNT (2007) @Alamo Drafthouse South,11am. (See Mon., 8/4.)imaxDolphins and Whales 3D: Tribes of theOcean (2008) D: Jean-Jacques Mantello; narratedby Daryl Hannah. (NR, 42 min.) Presentedby Jean-Michel Cousteau, this documentarygoes from the coral reefs of the Bahamas to thewaters off the Kingdom of Tonga to visit with theworld’s dolphins, orcas, belugas, and manatees.Thu. (7/31)-Sat., 11am; Mon.-Thu. (8/7), 11am.Extreme (1999) D: Jon Long. (NR, 40min.) Here we see clips of champion athletesdoing such things as climbing the highest mountainsand surfing the biggest waves. (*) Thu.(7/31)-Sat., 2:45pm; Mon.-Thu. (8/7), 2:45pm.Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: ScottSwofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39min.) Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screenas Texas is shown to be a land capable of growingeverything from grapefruit to microchips.Thu. (7/31)-Sat., 10am; Mon.-Thu. (8/7), 10am.The Dark Knight: The IMAX Experience(2008) D: Christopher Nolan; with ChristianBale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhardt,Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, MorganFreeman. (PG-13, 152 min.) See the Chronicle’sreview, July 18. The IMAX Experience additionallycontains six sequences which have been filmedusing IMAX cameras. Thu. (7/31)-Sat., 12, 3:45,6:30, 9:15pm; Sun., 1, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15pm;Mon.-Thu. (8/7), 12, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15pm. 79Planet of the ApesH.G. WELLS’The Time MachineJourney to theCenter of the EarthSolarisThe DiscreetCharm of theBourgeoiseThat ObscureObject of DesireParamount Theatre|713 Congress| 472-5470> Full info at www.paramountsummerfilms.com“TELL EVERYONEABOUT ‘TELL NO ONE’... 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musicRECOMMENDED EVENTS FOR AUG 1 TO AUG 7EDITED BY AUDRA SCHROEDERBill Frisell“I hate it when the music stays stagnant,”insists guitarist Bill Frisell from his Seattle homein anticipation of his two-night stand in Austin.“I don’t just want it to stay thesame every night. I want it to beconstantly evolving.”Frisell, recently voted Guitaristof the Year in both the Down BeatCritics Poll and Jazz JournalistsAssociation Jazz Awards, keepsevolving by pairing with differentmusicians.“You get these people who haveabsorbed the music, and thenwhen you put different combinationsof musicians together, youget these chemical reactions,”he explains.That’s exactly what happens onhis new Nonesuch album, History,Mystery, a spacious, orchestral affairthat alchemizes strings, horns, and arhythm section. Executing said soundin Austin is a quartet with violinistEyvind Kang, bassist Steve Moore,and drummer Kenny Wollesen.in-storesContinental Club, Saturday 2 & Sunday 3“It’s kind of a new group,although I’ve played a lot with eachmusician in different settings,” hestates. “There are all these differentrelationships between us,and a whole bunch of music that’scommon to us, but we haven’tactually all played together at thesame time.”The in-demand guitarist hasconsistently returned to theContinental. “I just love playingthere! I remember the firsttime driving down from Dallas.I’d never been to Austin beforeand didn’t know anything aboutthe Continental Club. It was sucha cool place. Everybody was sohospitable, and the audience isalways great. I feel like I can justdo whatever I want in there.” Bothshows start at 8pm.– Jay TrachtenbergMonday: Weekend Nachos,Hassanchop!, Naw Dude,Friday: I Kill Cars, Trailer Space, 6pm Streetcleaner, Trailer Space, 6pmSaturday: The Takes, the No No No Tuesday: Earlimart, WaterlooHopes, Trailer Space, 5pm; Clint Records, 5pmNiosi, End of an Ear, 6pm; Less Wednesday: Thao With the Get DownThan Jake, Encore Records & Stay Down, End of an Ear, 3pmVideo, 6pmThursday: Barkus, Sly & the GoldenSunday: Doom Siren, Panther Zora, Egg; Pianos Become the Teeth;and more, Snake Eyes Vinyl (1101 the Caution Children; OrianaNavasota), 3pmRaeo; Trailer Space; 5pm80 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mlistingsTANGLED SNARKSUMMER PARTYMonarch Event Center, Friday 1Bridging dissonance and joy, ChrisSimpson’s conglomerate Zookeepermingles with Austin sixpiece/BelleCity Pop! labelmates Sad Accordions.Simpson (Gloria Record, Mineral)demolished the walls of songwriting onZookeeper’s 2007 debut LP, BecomingAll Things, and Sad Accordions’ Slintmeets-Wilcoslow burn translates intoA Bad Year for the Sharons. LocalsLoxsly, Bill Baird’s Sunset, Frank Smith,and Wine & Revolution join in on thesummer fun. – Darcie StevensBLUE MOUNTAIN EMMYLOU HARRISContinental Club, Saturday 2Stubb’s, Wednesday 6After going on hiatus in 2002, This year Emmylou Harris was inductedBlue Mountain is back, and it’s like into the Country Music Hall of Fame, anthey never left. One of the top bands overdue honor for one of the most distinctiveand pure voices in music. during the alt.country scare of theHer1990s, the Mississippi-based trio celebratesthe release of two new discs:the all-original Midnight in Mississippiand Omnibus, new recordings of olderhits. Road reports say their roaringcountry-rock revue remains relentlessand raw.– Jim CaligiuriFOREVER CHANGES,THE BELLFURIESLamberts, Saturday 2Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean aregone, but members of the Ugly Beatsand Nervous Exits keep Love alivewith Forever Changes, a full-bodiedtribute to one of L.A.’s best-everbands. The Bellfuries’ new salvo,Palmyra, embodies a touch of Love-likeambition in its multicolored pasticheof all things pop, while McLemoreAvenue brings the Memphis groovewith finger-poppin’ fervor. No bummerin the summer here. – Greg BeetsChatting up Blue Mountain, Girls(Rock Camp) on film, and more ataustinchronicle.com/earacheJAY REATARD SONNY LANDRETHRed 7, Sunday 3 Zilker Park, Wednesday 6/Jay Reatard: the reason MTV declared Continental Club, Thursday 7“lo-fi is all the rage.” The Memphis maverickand reigning king of garage-punkMississippi-born Cajun dwellerchurns out more singles than a strip club,Sonny Landreth always struckeach somehow more grating and melodicthan the last. In the Red Recordingsrecently compiled his Singles 06-07, andhe’s halfway through a six-part 7-inchseries for Matador. Nashville’s Cheap Timeand locals the Golden Boys and Manikinkick-start your heart. – Austin PowellFREEDY JOHNSTONSaxon Pub, Tuesday 5/Momo’s, Thursday 7It’s been too long since Freedy’s beento Austin, but this week he makes up forit with two shows of dynamic Americana.At the Saxon, the current New York Cityresident is solo acoustic, the best wayto hear his winsome vocals, while atMomo’s, he brings the band for a showthat’s sure to rock, twang, and breaksome hearts.– Jim Caligiuriexcellent new album, All I Intended to Be,delicately weaves meditations on memoryand mortality, retracing her past equally insound as in theme by reuniting with originalproducer Brian Ahern. Guitar masterand recently named No Depression “artistof the decade” Buddy Miller opens.– Doug Freemanme as Louisiana’s answer toA-Town’s Eric Johnson. On hislatest slide-guitar slice ’n’ dice,From the Reach, you’ll find theaural resemblance in instrumentalssuch as chunkster “TheMilky Way Home” and shredding,penulimate closer “Überesso.”Stealing thunder from Clapton’sCrossroads Guitar Festival inChicago last year, Landrethremains a six-string überesso allhis own. – Raoul HernandezBLACK COBRA/LAIR OF THEMINOTAURRed 7, Wednesday 6/Thursday 7Two nights, two metal bandswith requisite mythical-soundinganimal names. SF duo BlackCobra took thrash to task onlast year’s Feather and Stone(At a Loss), amping up the pummelfactor with just guitar anddrums. Fellow SFers SloughFeg open. Chicago’s Lair of theMinotaur hoof it up a notch onlatest War Metal Battle Master(Southern Lord), a grinding “conceptalbum” that’s screamingto be turned into a video game.Sourvein, Four Days to Burn, andCanyon of the Skull play first.– Audra SchroederBY AUDRA SCHROEDER soundcheckFILASTINESalvage Vanguard Theater, Friday 1Infernal noise via Barcelona.I KILL CARSScoot Inn, Friday 1New 10-inch At Ease With YourHaste lays waste.THE PACK A.D.Hole in the Wall, Saturday 2The blues-rock duo made you aFuneral Mixtape.OMAR TAMEZSalvage Vanguard Theater, Saturday 2The wonder shredder rolls solo andwith Alex Coke, Arjen Gorter, and TinaMarsh. 9pm.THE SECRET MACHINESStubb’s, Saturday 2Get in while you fit in.UNDERWATER SLEEP PROJECTCarousel Lounge, Monday 4Local quintet makes sweet,sleepy noise.INDIAN JEWELRYEmo’s Lounge, Wednesday 6H-Town pumps in the gunk, withlocals Expensive Shit, Cry BloodApache, and Benko.NELLIE MCKAYStubb’s, Thursday 7You just want to pick her up andhug her!live music venues roadshows + club listings p.86p.82| L - R: THE PACK A.D. 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live music venues82 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m219 WEST, 219 W. Fourth, 474-2194290 WEST BAR & GRILL, 12013 Hwy. 290 W., 288-0808311 CLUB, 311 E. Sixth, 477-1630ABUELO’S MEXICAN FOOD EMBASSY, 2901 S. Capital of TXHwy. Bldg 7, 306-0857ANTONE’S, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD BAR & GRILL, 3001 N. I-35,Round Rock, 512/388-7353ARTZ RIB HOUSE, 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET DOWNTOWN, Fourth and 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, 494-1335BABY ACAPULCO’S NO. 3, 5610 N. I-35, 302-1366BACKSTAGE STEAKHOUSE & GARDEN BAR, 21814 Hwy. 71 W.,Spicewood, 512/264-2223THE BACKYARD, 13101 Hwy. 71 W., 263-4146BASTROP SENIOR CENTER, 1008 Water St., Bastrop,512/321-7907BB ROVERS, 12636 Research Ste. B-101, 335-9504BEAUTY BAR, 617 E. Seventh, 391-1943BEERLAND, 711½ Red River, 479-ROCK (7625)THE BELMONT, 305 W. Sixth, 457-0300BENNIGAN’S, 301 Barton Springs Rd., 472-7902BOAT HOUSE GRILL, 6812 RR 620 N., 249-5200BOB BULLOCK TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM, 1800Congress, 936-8746BOTTICELLI’S, 1321 S. Congress, 916-1315’BOUT TIME, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189THE BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 480-8330BUFFALO BILLIARDS, 201 E. Sixth, 479-7665CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 475-6515CAFE MUNDI, 1704 E. Fifth, 236-8634THE CANARY ROOST, 11900 Metric, 836-6360CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790CEDAR STREET, 208 W. Fourth, 495-9669CENTRAL MARKET NORTH, 4001 N. Lamar, 206-1000CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH, 4477 S. Lamar, 899-4300CHAIN DRIVE, 504 Willow, 480-9017CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham, San Marcos,512/353-3777CHEZ ZEE, 5406 Balcones, 454-2666CLUB DE VILLE, 900 Red River, 457-0900THE COCKPIT, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 441-2444COOL RIVER CAFE, 4001 Parmer, 835-0010COPA BAR & GRILL, 217 Congress, 479-5002COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla, Granger, 512/859-0700CREEKSIDE LOUNGE, 606 E. Seventh, 480-5988CUBA LIBRE, 409 Colorado, 472-2822DOLCE VITA GELATO & ESPRESSO BAR, 4222 Duval St., 323-2686THE DOMAIN, 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, 795-4230DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 478-0336DOÑA EMILIA’S SOUTH AMERICAN BAR & GRILL, 101 SanJacinto, 478-2520THE DRISKILL HOTEL, 604 Brazos, 474-5911EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE, 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860EL SOL Y LA LUNA, 1224 S. Congress, 444-7770ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 473-2279ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 478-2979EMO’S, 603 Red River, 477-3667ENCORE RECORDS, VIDEO & APPAREL, 1745 W. Anderson,451-8111END OF AN EAR, 2209 S. First, 462-6008EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie, 282-2586FADÓ, 214 W. Fourth, 457-0172FLAMINGO CANTINA, 515 E. Sixth, 494-9336FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLE, 4600 Guadalupe, 380-0097FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd., 480-8646FREDDIE’S PLACE, 1703 S. First, 445-9197FRIENDS, 208 E. Sixth, 320-8193FURR’S FAMILY DINING, 4015 S. Lamar, 441-7825GARRISON PARK HARBOR, 730 W. Stassney #120, 462-2664GIDDY UPS, 12010 Manchaca, 280-4732GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON, 5434 Burnet Rd., 458-1813GREEN 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, 236-0188THE HIDEOUT THEATRE, 617 Congress, 443-3688HILL’S CAFE, 4700 S. Congress, 851-9300HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747HYATT REGENCY AUSTIN, 208 Barton Springs Rd., 477-1234IGUANA GRILL, 2900 RR 620 N., 266-8439JAVA LOUNGE AT AUSTIN JAVA, 1206 Parkway, 476-1829JO’S COFFEE, 1300 S. Congress, 444-3800JOVITA’S, 1619 S. First, 447-7825KICK BUTT COFFEE, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290 E., 459-8729LA ZONA ROSA, 612 W. Fourth, 472-2293LAKELINE MALL, 11200 Lakeline Mall Dr., Cedar Park,512/257-8500LAKEWAY RESORT & SPA, 101 Lakeway Dr., Lakeway, 512/261-6600LAMBERTS, 401 W. Second, 494-1500LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 327-9889LATITUDE 30, 512 San Jacinto, 472-3335LIGHT BAR, 408 Congress, 473-8544THE LOADING DOCK, 708 S. Austin St., Georgetown, 512/864-2100LONG 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,512/558-7399MANUELS, 310 Congress, 472-7555MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 444-0261MEAN-EYED CAT, 1621 W. Fifth, 472-6326MERKABA LOUNGE & GRILL, 14106 N. I-35MITCHIE’S GALLERY, 6406 N. I-35 #2800, 323-6901MOHAWK, 912 Red River, 482-8404MOMO’S, 618 W. Sixth, 479-8848MONARCH EVENT CENTER, 6406 N. I-35 #3100, 371-1711MOONRIVER, 2002 N. Pace Bend Rd., Spicewood, 512/264-2064MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUB, 715 W. Sixth, 478-7747MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN, 4215 Duval St., 451-3994MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS, 3825 Lake Austin Blvd.,477-2900MS. B’S AUTHENTIC CREOLE RESTAURANT, 8105 Mesa, 372-9529MUGSHOTS, 407 E. Seventh, 236-0008MULLIGAN’S, 900 RR 620 S., 263-3305NASTY’S, 606 Maiden, 453-4349NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT & BREWERY, 10010Capital of TX Hwy. N., 467-6969NUEVO LEÓN, 1501 E. Sixth, 479-0097NUNZIA’S AT THE Y, 7720 Hwy. 71 W., 394-0220NUTTY BROWN CAFE, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 301-4648THE OAKS, 10206 FM 973 N., Manor, 512/278-8788THE OASIS, 6550 Comanche Trail, 266-2442OILCAN HARRY’S, 211 W. Fourth, 320-8823ONE 2 ONE BAR, 121 E. Fifth, 473-0121ONE WORLD THEATRE, 7701 Bee Caves Rd., 330-9500THE OPERA HOUSE, 2209-K S. First, 440-1401THE 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, 444-2020THE PIER ON LAKE TRAVIS, 18200 Lakepoint Cove, Point Venture,512/267-1845PLUSH, 617 Red River, 478-0099POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood,512/264-0318RACK DADDY’S, 4410 E. Riverside, 389-1577RAIN ON 4TH, 217 W. Fourth, 494-1150REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Research, 335-5115RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 476-8100RED FEZ, 209-B W. Fifth, 478-5120RENAISSANCE HOTEL, 9721 Arboretum, 343-2626RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter, 512/392-3132RINGSIDE AT SULLIVAN’S, 300 Colorado, 495-6504ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder, Round Rock, 512/218-0813ROMEO’S GEORGETOWN, 701 Main, Georgetown, 512/868-1300ROMEO’S, 1500 Barton Springs Rd., 476-1090ROOM 710, 710 Red River, 476-0997RUTA MAYA, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637THE SALT LICK, 18300 FM 1826, Driftwood, 512/858-4959SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 282-0083SAN MARCOS RIVER PUB & GRILL, 701 Cheatham, San Marcos,512/353-3747SÁO PAULO’S, 2809 San Jacinto, 473-9988SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552SCHOLZ GARTEN, 1607 San Jacinto, 474-1958SCOOT INN & BIER GARTEN, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200SEGOVIA SPANISH RESTAURANT, 7010 Hwy. 71 W., 579-0726SHENANIGANS, 13233 Pond Springs Rd., 258-9717SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL, 9012 Research Ste. C-1,380-9443SHOOTERS BILLIARDS, 11416 RR 620 N., 401-2060SKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFE, 2905 Pearce Rd., 346-5915SNAKE EYES VINYL, 1101 Navasota, 220-7019SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 476-8017SPIDER HOUSE PATIO BAR & CAFE, 2908 Fruth, 480-9562STUBB’S, 801 Red River, 480-8341THE STUDIO, 5804 S. I-35, 467-7900TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 255-1300THINGS CELTIC, 1806 W. 35th, 472-2358THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 472-9304TRAILER SPACE RECORDS & EVENTS CENTER, 1401-ARosewood, 542-9001TRIPLE CROWN, 206 N. Edward Gary, San Marcos, 512/396-2236TRIUMPH CAFE, 3808 Spicewood Springs Rd., 343-1875TROPHY’S, 2008 S. Congress, 447-0969TROUBADOUR SALOON, 503 E. Sixth, 499-0350VICTORY GRILL, 1104 E. 11th, 902-5057THE WATER TANK, 7309 McNeil Dr., 331-9831WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 360, 6203 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 418-9700WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREET, 1106 W. 38th, 451-5245WATERLOO ICE HOUSE AT THE GROVE, 9600 S. I-35 Ste. D-100(Southpark Meadows), 292-7900WATERLOO RECORDS, 600-A N. Lamar, 474-2500Z’TEJAS, 1110 W. Sixth, 478-5355ZILKER PARK ROCK ISLAND, 2100 Barton Springs Rd., 974-6700

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CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC |L IST I NGSHosted by the USBGCONGRATULATIONS TO AUSTIN’STOP BARTENDERS!Bill Norris - Fino“Bee Sting”Winner of The Cocktail World CupAustin Regional Competition. Will representthe U.S. in the CWC Final Competition heldin Queenstown, New Zealand in September.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mPhil Vuong - Six Lounge“Twigs & Berries”Winner of The Austin Chronicle’sPeople’s Choice Award forAustin’s Top Cocktail.CLUB LISTINGS FROM FRIDAY SATURDAYCOPA BAR & GRILL SalsaLessons w/ Mitch, DJ Fabian(9:00)COTTON CLUB Southbound(8:30)DETOUR BAR & GRILL RogerLen SmithDONN’S DEPOT Donn & theStation MastersTHE DRISKILL HOTEL RigelThurston, Patricia G. 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Nunn (9:00)TRAILER SPACE RECORDS &EVENTS CENTER I Kill Cars(6:00)TRIPLE CROWN Rabb Rodriguezy los Killa Hawgs, Buck Jones& the HaggardsTROPHY’S The Dry Season,Rude Rachel, Safe Sex,Deserts of MarsTROUBADOUR SALOON EddyHighway & Mountains in theMoonSAT 2311 CLUB Jake & theMoneymakers, JoeValentine (8:30)ANTONE’S Mishka Shubaly,Doug Stanhope, Eric Tessmer,Zapata! (8:00)AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKETDOWNTOWN Hot TinTroubadours (10:00am)AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO.1735 Mardi Gras Party w/Ponty Bone (8:30)THE BACKYARD 311, SnoopDoggBB ROVERS Him & Her (9:00)BEERLAND JigglewattsBurlesque, Spoiled Royals,Flametrick SubsTHE BELMONT Jeff Strange(10:00)BOAT HOUSE GRILL OldHoldoutsBOTTICELLI’S Brent Adair(8:00)’BOUT TIME DJ Element (9:00)THE BROWN BAR DJ gmauTHE CANARY ROOST Karaokew/ NicoleCAROUSEL LOUNGEDestroy Nate Allen, HomerHenderson, Service Industry,Lost Soul Review (5:00)CENTRAL MARKET NORTH JoelGuzman & Sarah Fox (6:30)CHEATHAM STREETWAREHOUSE Susan GibsonCD Release (9:30)CONTINENTAL CLUB Bill FrisellQuartet, the Bluebonnets(8:00), Blue Mountain (10:00)COOL RIVER CAFE TabooCOPA BAR & GRILL SalsaLesson by Cesar & Rhonda,DJ Alvaro (9:00)COTTON CLUB Bubba Cox & thePlayboyz (9:00)DETOUR BAR & GRILL Still SicTHE DOMAIN Flugel Trio (2:00)DOÑA EMILIA’S SOUTHAMERICAN BAR & GRILLCienfuegos (8:00)DONN’S DEPOT Albert & GageTHE DRISKILL HOTEL BruceSmith, Patricia G. (7:00)EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLEMark Goodwin Trio (8:00)EL SOL Y LA LUNA Lety D’LaVega (7:30)ELEPHANT ROOM Jeff Lofton(9:30)EMO’S Lounge: Alexander’sDark Band, Catfish Hunters,the Hot Pentecostals; Inside:Naw Dude, Kill the Client,Pretty Little Flower, DespiseYouENCORE RECORDS, VIDEO &APPAREL Less Than Jake(6:00)END OF AN EAR Clint Niosi(6:00)EVANGELINE CAFE SunsetValley Boys (3:00)FLAMINGO CANTINA SummerReggae I w/ 77 Jefferson,Jah RootsFLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLESarah Temple (9:30)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACEBen Mallet (9:00)90 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mTHURSDAY, JULY 31CRAIG TOUNGATEFRIDAY, AUG 1LARRY LANGE’SLONELY KNIGHTSSATURDAY, AUG 23SUNSET VALLEY BOYS8106 BRODIE LANE8106 BRODIE LANE282-2586, AUG 4CHARLES THIBODEAUXTUESDAY, BRENNEN LEIGH KEVIN GALLAUGHER& GREG ANDERSON COWBOY JOHNSON

Join us for music underthe live oaksmondays maps of asiatuesdays marshall fordSWING bandwednesdays oliviergirAUD & Co.THURSDAYs ephraim owensSUNDAY BRUNCH, DJ SEE.N.SAY SPINSFROM 12-5. DAILY HAPPY HOURM-F 3-7PM, SAT-SUN 3-6PM.PHOTO BY M. DAPRA3201 SOUTH LAMAR 442-6189THU, JULY 31FRI, AUG 1SAT, AUG 2TUE, AUG 5WED, AUG 6JESSE DAYTON 9PMDANCE LESSONS 8-9PMBRUCE ROBISONALVIN CROW 9PMDANCE LESSONS 8-9PMPRIVATE PARTY IN DANCEHALLRESTAURANT OPENDALE WATSONTONY HARRISON 6-8PMFREE LIVE MUSIC @www.marsaustin.comview menu online472-3901amdbA U S T I N M U S I C D A T A B A S EFind out everything you ever wanted toknow about Austin music in one place.austinchronicle.com/amdbTHU 7/31 JEREMY STEDINGFRI 8/1 PONTY BONE &THE SQUEEZETONESSAT 8/2 JOEL HOFMANN BANDSUN 8/3 OPEN MIC WITH GLENN ALLENMON 8/4 FREE POOL & JUKEBOXTUE 8/5 KENT MUSICKWED 8/6 TBA (SEE WEBSITE)SINCE1933TAVERNGRILLOPENFRI-SUNBURGERS+MOREFRIDAY &SATURDAY6:30 - 9 PMSUNDAY6:30 - 9 PM@ CENTRAL PARK40th and North Lamarcall 512.206.1000 for detailsFRIDAY, AUGUST 1ALBERT & GAGEamericana@ WESTGATE4477 South Lamarcall 512.899.4300 for detailsTHURSDAY, JULY 31RUMBULLIONparis cafe musicWEDNESDAY& THURSDAY6:30 - 9 PMSUNDAY2:30 - 3 PMSATURDAY, AUGUST 2JOEL GUZMAN &SARAH FOXR&B, latinSUNDAY, AUGUST 3McLEMORE AVE1960’s soulWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6BISCUIT BROTHERStwo shows at 6 and 7 pmchildren’s entertainmentupcoming at central park:aug 8 - LOST PINESaug 9 - WC CLARKaug 10 - AKIN ADDERLEYaug 13 - 101x movie in the park:Ferris Bueller’s Day Offaug 14 - PAUL GREEN’S SCHOOL OF ROCKaug 15 - PAULA NELSONSUNDAY, AUGUST 3CRYING MONKEYSbrazilianWEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6FLYING BALALAIKABROTHERSrussian folk bluegrassTHURSDAY, AUGUST 7JIMI LEE BANDbluesupcoming at westgate:aug 10 - SWINGTIMEaug 13 - TROY CAMPBELLaug 14 - QUEBE SISTERS BANDaug 17 - CIENFUEGOSaug 20 - JEAN SYNODINOSaug 21 - MISS LAUREN MARIEaug 24 - STEEL PAN TRIOcafé open 7am-9pm sunday-thursday; 7am-10pm friday & saturday at both locations.FREE MUSIC, GREAT FOOD, COVERED PATIO & KIDS PLAYSCAPEa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 91

THURSDAY JULY 31 / $5 10 12:30RANDY WEEKS 8:30 7FRIDAY AUGUST 1 / $12KATSUKPEACEFIELDDENNIS LUDIKER & NOAH JEFFRIES 6M ONDAY AUGUST 4 / $5BUKKA ALLEN 9:45 9U P C O M I N G S H O W S11:159:45& THE HOODLUMS 9:30-12:3012:15THE STUDY BANDKALU JAMES7TUESDAY AUGUST 5 / $5randy weeks 8:30 10:1512:15 7WEDNESDAY AUGUST 6ERIC MATTHEN TEPE81112:30LATIN AT HEART8:15SATURDAY AUGUST 2 / $10SOUTH AUSTINJUG BAND10JEFF PLANKENHORN12:30SUNDAY AUGUST 3 / $5WARRE N HOODJITTERBUG VIPERS DAN DYER 87889:30CALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC |CLUB LISTINGS FROM SATURDAYFREDDIE’S PLACE Steve Power(6:00)GARRISON PARK HARBOR Dr.Zog (6:00)GIDDY UPS Glenn CollinsGINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORNSALOON Dane Sterling(9:00)GRUENE HALL White GhostShivers (1:00), Paula Nelson,Reckless Kelly (9:00)HANOVER’S Paul Green Schoolof Rock Music, Eden Burning,Dirty Penny, SupercrashHEADHUNTERS BurningDaylight, Boxspring Hogs,Charger Fits, Bass LineBums, DukeHILL’S CAFE Jeremiah HoustonHOLE IN THE WALL The PackA.D., Correction Brothers(10:00)JAVA LOUNGE AT AUSTIN JAVADreaming Aloud (9:00)JOVITA’S Robin Smith, Tje Austin,Kari K, Kalu James (6:30)LA PALAPA Karaoke w/ Big Jim(8:00)LA ZONA ROSA Big D & theKids Table, Less Than JakeLAMBERTS Forever Changes,the Bellfuries, McLemoreAvenue (10:30)LATITUDE 30 Evoleno (9:00)LUCKY LOUNGE Odis (9:00)LUCY’S ON THE SQUARELocals Only w/ Robbie & theRobots, Bernie Calcote, ThreeLeaf, Grant Ewing (8:00)MITCHIE’S GALLERY Keyo CDRelease (2:00)MOHAWK Muhfuhuh, the PartyMOMO’S Peacefield, SouthAustin Jug Band, JeffPlankenhorn (8:00)MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDENThomas “Doc” Grauzer(11:30am)NORTH BY NORTHWESTRESTAURANT & BREWERYToo Blue (6:30)THE OAKS Jere (8:00)OILCAN HARRY’S GLBTSummer Music Series w/ MJTorrance, Jay Byrd, JoannaLaBow, Katie Koonce & theHell Words (8:00)ONE 2 ONE BAR This LifeElectric (10:00)ONE WORLD THEATREHiroshima (7:00, 9:30)THE PIER ON LAKE TRAVISLinton MancillaPLUSH DJ Chicken George,Table Manners Crew (10:00)POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR &GRILL Evelyn Brown, AndreaMarie & MagnoliaRED 7 Russian CirclesRED FEZ DJ Kurv (10:00)RENAISSANCE HOTEL LobbyLounge: Rich Demarco (6:00)RINGSIDE AT SULLIVAN’SCaldwell Shine (8:00)ROMEO’S GEORGETOWN KirkHale (6:30)ROOM 710 Still Sic, Big Balls,DrifterRUTA MAYA Shannon LeighTribute w/ Austin Poetry Slam,Austin Neo Soul Poetry, KilleenPoetry Slam, Austin Under21 Poetry, Xenogia Collective,Blacklisted Individuals, ShowMe Tiger! (7:00)THE SALT LICK Woode WoodSALVAGE VANGUARD THEATEROmar Tamez, Alex Coke, ArjenGorter, Tina Marsh (9:00)SÃO PAULO’S Three JazzCollective (7:00)SAXON PUB Miss LavelleWhite, LZ Love, ClayMcClinton (8:00)SCOOT INN & BIER GARTENFollowed by Static, MonkeyTown, Charles Potts MagicWindmill Band, Shapes HaveFangs (9:00)SEGOVIA SPANISHRESTAURANT Jose & Pepede Sevilla (6:30), ChaseHolbrook Trio (9:30)SKI SHORES WATERFRONTCAFE The Adamsons (6:30)SPEAKEASY LC Rocks (9:30)SPIDER HOUSE PATIO BAR &CAFE Black Irish, McMercyFamily Gospel Band (8:00)STUBB’S Outside: Cancer Bats,Bleeding Through, Bullet forMy Valentine; Inside Later:The Secret MachinesTEXAS BAR & GRILL DawnMaracleTHREADGILL’S WORLD HQ TheGougers, Hayes Carll (9:00)TRAILER SPACE RECORDS &EVENTS CENTER The No NoNo Hopes, the Takes (5:00)TRIPLE CROWN Grimnasty,Heroes, the Word AssociationTRIUMPH CAFE Brian MacLeod(7:00)TROPHY’S Shane Parker, theDown Here Band, ChickenShiftSUN 3ANTONE’S Girl Guitar,Blues Mafia, VanWilks (9:00)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB IrishTunes Session (8:00)THE BACKYARD 311, SnoopDoggBB ROVERS Open Mic w/Boomer Norman, BusterGutbucket (7:00)’BOUT TIME Karaoke w/ AJKline (8:00)THE CANARY ROOST Karaokew/ BrianCAROUSEL LOUNGE MikhailBashakov (7:00)CENTRAL MARKET NORTHMcLemore Avenue (6:30)CENTRAL MARKET SOUTHCrying Monkeys (noon)CHEATHAM STREETWAREHOUSE Grant Mazak(4:00)Last Show Before The European Tour!8:30ShowtimeAll AgesWelcomeL IST I NGSCONTINENTAL CLUB Bill FrisellQuartet (8:00), Heybale!(10:30)COTTON CLUB Can’t HardlyPlayboyz (7:00)DOLCE VITA GELATO &ESPRESSO BAR PaulSonnenberg (8:00)EDDIE V’S EDGEWATERGRILLE Kris Kimura Quartet(7:00)ELEPHANT ROOM Rich Harney(9:30)ELYSIUM Regression: RetroEighties w/ DJ Pumpkin SpiceEMO’S Summer of Blood,Panthera Zora, D.I.H.Y.F.FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACEEar to Anon, Todd Deatherage(8:00)FREDDIE’S PLACE Mojo (5:00)FRIENDS Open Mic Blues Jam(8:00)GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORNSALOON Dale Watson (4:00)GREEN PASTURES JacquesVilmain (11:00am)GRUENE HALL Adam Hood,Owen Temple & Jason Eady(12:30), BettySoo (5:00)HEADHUNTERS MalloryValentine, the OriginalMexican Bob, Horse Opera,Atomic Honky TonkHOLE IN THE WALL Diasporic(6:00), Boxcar Serenade,Beth Lee, People vs. De LaRosa (10:00)HYATT REGENCY AUSTINMarker 10 Bar: No ShowPonies (4:00)IGUANA GRILL Fingerpistol(6:30)LAKELINE MALL Kate Voegele(noon)LAKEWAY RESORT & SPALive at the Lake w/ CarolynWonderland (6:00)LATITUDE 30 Luke Jackson(9:00)LONG CENTER FOR THEPERFORMING ARTS TerraceLawn: Austin SymphonyOrchestra’s Big Band (7:30)MANUELS David Webb, TonyCampise (11:30am)MARIA’S TACO XPRESSImperial Golden CrownHarmonizers (12:30)MERKABA LOUNGE & GRILLDJ Tetsuo (9:00)MOMO’S Milkdrive, the JitterbugVipers, Warren Hood & theHoodlums, the Study Band(6:00)NUEVO LEÓN MariachiRelampago (1:00)NUTTY BROWN CAFE Java Jazz(11:00am)THE OASIS The BrewTHE PIER ON LAKE TRAVISWoot TalleyRACK DADDY’S Karaoke w/Robert Wagner (10:00)RAIN ON 4TH Hedda Layne(6:00)RED 7 Manikin, the GoldenBoys, Cheap Time, JayReatardRED FEZ DJ Kurupt (10:00)RILEY’S TAVERN Open Mic w/Glenn AllenROMEO’S Rob GreenfieldROOM 710 A Corpse Vanishes,the Homicides, Gas MaskAttireRUTA MAYA Kids Show w/Stacy Gray (10:30am),Monster Big Band (7:00)SAN MARCOS RIVER PUB &GRILL Walt Wilkins (7:30)92 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 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 |L IST I NGS CLUB LISTINGS FROM SUNDAY SATURDAYSAXON PUB The Resentments,Bobby Whitlock & CoCoCarmel, Uncle Lucius (7:00)SCOOT INN & BIER GARTENSherman (8:00)SHENANIGANS Karaoke w/Billy DSKI SHORES WATERFRONTCAFE Stephen Doster & WillSexton (5:30)SNAKE EYES VINYL PantherZora, Doom Siren (3:00), IHate You Face (6:00)THINGS CELTIC Celtic SongSession (2:30)TRIPLE CROWN Open Mic w/Pat Pankratz, Holly Aiken,Nate HindsWATERLOO ICE HOUSE 360Sunday Brunch w/ BuzzGuerraZ’TEJAS Señor Gato (6:00)MON 4ANTONE’S Flyjack(9:00)ARTZ RIB HOUSESarah Elizabeth Campbell &the Banned (7:30)AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO.1735 Plutonium Farmers(8:00)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB EricHeard ShowcaseBEERLAND World-FamousKaraoke’BOUT TIME Karaoke w/ AJKline (9:00)CAROUSEL LOUNGEUnderwater Sleep ProjectCHEATHAM STREETWAREHOUSE CheathamStreet All-Stars (9:30)CHEZ ZEE Rich Demarco (6:30)CONTINENTAL CLUB UptownSwingsters (6:30), Dale Watson& His Lone Stars (10:00)DONN’S DEPOT Chris GageEDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLEKris Kimura Quartet (7:00)ELEPHANT ROOM Leah Zeger(6:00), Michael Mordecai’sJazz Jam (9:30)EVANGELINE CAFE CharlesThibodeaux (6:30)FLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLET. Jarrod Bonta (8:00)GARRISON PARK HARBOROpen Mic w/ Marvin Bottera(7:00)GRUENE HALL Grant Ewing(7:00)GÜERO’S TACO BAR TrioIndiano (6:30)HEADHUNTERS Last Priority,Roger’s Porn Collection, SpyRingHOLE IN THE WALL BeatlesHappy Hour Hoot (6:00),the Urgencies, Bad Rackets,Daylight Titans (9:00)LA PALAPA Baby DallasLUCY’S ON THE SQUARERobbie’s Open Mic (9:00)MOMO’S Luke Kalloch, BorderBlasters, Kalu James, SallyAllen, Bukka Allen (5:00)MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUBBastard Sons of Johnny Cash(9:00)MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERSJohn Wilson & Joley FlowersMUGSHOTS Open Mic w/Acoustic Odyssey (8:00)POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR &GRILL Ru Coleman & TexasBoogieRED FEZ DJ Jeff Jupiter (10:00)ROOM 710 Heart & Soul SoundSystem (8:00)RUTA MAYA NORML Benefit w/Jet Baker, P. Kat, Bliss BunnyChoir, Ganja Girls 4 Jet Baker(9:00)SAM’S TOWN POINT Breck’sStormy Open Blues Jam(8:30)SAXON PUB Sons of theRevolution, Bob Schneider,Jeff Plankenhorn, Aaron FranzSPEAKEASY Jonathan TerrellTHREADGILL’S WORLD HQMarvin Dykhuis, FloydDomino, Will Sexton, LeeDuffy (7:30)TRAILER SPACE RECORDS &EVENTS CENTER Streetcleaner,Naw Dude, Hassanchop!,Weekend Nachos (6:00)TRIPLE CROWN Gerry’s Kids(6:00)TROPHY’S FoamyTUE 5ANTONE’S AustinBlues Society(7:00), Blue Tuesdayw/ Derek O’Brien, MalfordMilligan (9:30)ARTZ RIB HOUSE Texas OldTime Fiddlers Jam (7:30)AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO.1735 Bad Decision (8:00)BASTROP SENIOR CENTER TheKitchen Pickers (6:30)BB ROVERS Jollyville Hayridew/ Billy Eli (8:00)BEERLAND Blood, Guts &ChickenwireTHE BELMONT Dale Watson &His Lone Stars (7:00)’BOUT TIME Karaoke w/ AJKline (9:00)CAFE MUNDI Jamie MacLaggan,Amy Zamarripa, Innocent asDoves (7:00)CAROUSEL LOUNGE MakeshiftGentlemen, the CoffeeSergeants, Baker Hotel,RiverLeft (6:00)CHEATHAM STREETWAREHOUSE Jordan Minor& the Bottom Dollar Band(9:00)CONTINENTAL CLUB ShelleyKing (6:30), Ephraim Owens,Dan Dyer (10:00)DONN’S DEPOT Donn & theStation MastersTHE DRISKILL HOTEL AnthonyFarrell, Cella Blue (7:00)EDDIE V’S EDGEWATERGRILLE Mark Goodwin Trio(7:00)ELEPHANT ROOM StanleySmith (6:00), Tony CampiseQuartet (9:30)ELYSIUM ‘90s Night w/ DJBoba Fett, DJ MinimusEVANGELINE CAFE BrennenLeigh, Kevin Gallaugher, GregAnderson (6:00)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACEErik Hokkanen’s Laboratory(8:00)GARRISON PARK HARBOR TheFyre Flys (9:00)GIDDY UPS Space HeatersGINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORNSALOON Jim Stringer (9:00)GÜERO’S TACO BAR TrioIndiano (6:30)HANOVER’S Kevin Havron &Steven Franks (8:30)HEADHUNTERS Rage Ranger,Gary Graves, PeaceableJones, Rage Ranger, GaryGraves, Peaceable JonesTHE HIDEOUT THEATRE BexarBexar, Balmorhea, This WillDestroy You (8:00)HILL’S CAFE Singer-SongwriterNight w/ Bill RiceHOLE IN THE WALL Clyde &Clem’s Whiskey Business,Roger Wallace (9:00)JAVA LOUNGE AT AUSTIN JAVATrio Zafra (8:00)JOVITA’S Girl Guitar, RogueRiver String Band (6:00)LA PALAPA Baby DallasLAMBERTS The Jitterbug Vipers(7:00)LATITUDE 30 Wynn Taylor (9:00)LUCKY LOUNGE DJ Rapid Ric,Boombox w/ Carlos Sosa(10:00)LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE Fite(9:00)MOHAWK Silent Sunset,Zookeeper, Earlimart (8:00)94 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mStarlight at The OASISFridayAugust 1 stHaywireSaturdayAugust 2 ndSundayAugust 3 rdAll bands play from 7-10 pm in our new covered Starlight overlooking beautiful Lake TravisSunset this weekend is at 8:24 pm, so come early to get a great seat and a Perfect Margarita!Come join us for dance lessons every Monday from 7-8pm! Cover is $5 at the door, or free with proof of entrée purchase.www.oasis-austin.com 6550 Comanche Trail 512-266-2442

FREE! WEDNESDAY HAPPY HOUR SHOWS@ THE HOLE IN THE WALL 6-8:30PMAUGUST 6americangraveyard 6PMpehr smith& friends 7:30PMAUGUST 13collin herring 6PMgrub dog & modestos 7:30PMAUGUST 20shawn nelson 6PMaustin collins 7:30PMSponsored By:AUGUST 27jane bond 6PMdirtyberd7:30PMandSlices and Ices Pizzasearch for bands, browse by genre,listen to mp3s, comment on yourfavorite artists, view upcoming showsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 95

No Bad DaysThursday, July 31JEFF STRAHANFriday, August 1SOUTH AUSTIN JUG BANDOPENER - THE DOWN HERE BANDSaturday, August 2ANDREA MARIEAND MAGNOLIAOPENER - EVELYN BROWNThursday, August 7BRITNI HOOVERFriday, August 8PATSY THOMPSONOPENER - BRIAN WINFIELDSaturday, August 7MAMA LOCKE’S 85 B-DAYELLIOT FIKESOPENER - RU COLEMAN& TEXAS BOOGIESaturday, August 23A POODIE’S FIRST!JOHNNY DEE ANDTHE ROCKET 88s!MondaysRU COLEMAN & TEXAS BOOGIETuesdaysTHE TROUBADILLOSWednesdaysOPEN MIC WITH FOND KISERThursdays$2.25 WELL DRINKS$2.25 DOMESTIC BEERSCALENDAR COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC |CLUB LISTINGS FROM SATURDAY TUESDAYMOMO’S David Ray Reed,Nathan Johnson, RandyWeeks, Tom Gilliam, Geisert8 (5:00)MS. B’S AUTHENTIC CREOLERESTAURANT Meg JohnsonTrio (6:30)ONE 2 ONE BAR Fallen All-StarzJam (10:00)THE OPERA HOUSE VCChildkraft, Douglas Ferguson,Wealthy Whore Entertainment(7:00)POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR &GRILL TroubadillosRED FEZ Twist Up w/ DJ Manny(10:00)RUTA MAYA Poetry Open Mic,Music Open Mic (6:00)SAM’S TOWN POINT Open Micw/ Nate Vancil (9:00)SAXON PUB Robbie & theRogues (5:00), FreedyJohnston, Bruce Hughes,Lucascookus (8:00), PaulaNelson, Monte Montgomery,Meagan Tubb (8:00)SHENANIGANS Karaoke w/Rae RaeSPEAKEASY Subrosa Union(9:30)STUBB’S Micah Dalton, JohnMcLaughlinTRIPLE CROWN Devil’s Hollow,Jo Beth HendersonTROPHY’S Singer-SongwriterShowcase w/ Mike PremeauWATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38THSTREET Will Dunlap (7:00)WATERLOO RECORDS Earlimart(5:00)WED 6219 WEST Breezy (7:00)311 CLUB AndyTemberg (8:30)ABUELO’S MEXICAN FOODEMBASSY Mark Turk w/JuanchoANTONE’S Sounds Under Radio,Blind Melon (9:00)APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOODBAR & GRILL Marty LinvilleARTZ RIB HOUSE Shelley King,Susan Gibson (7:30)AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO.1735 Lonesome Dave Fisher(9:00)AUSTIN’S PIZZA Natalie ZoeJazz Trio (8:00)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB HoseaHargroveBOAT HOUSE GRILL TheStepsidersCAROUSEL LOUNGE TandemDilettantes, Raised by Pandas(7:00)CEDAR STREET Trent & Dave,the Spazmatics (6:00)CENTRAL MARKET SOUTH FlyingBalalaika Brothers (6:30)CHAIN DRIVE TommyHall Schedule, A FaultyChromosome, Shand WaltonCHEATHAM STREETWAREHOUSE Kent Finlay’sSongwriters Circle (9:00)CHEZ ZEE Jacinta (7:00)THE COCKPIT Club Inclusive w/Julie Nolan (9:00)CONTINENTAL CLUB ShotgunParty (6:30), Jon Dee GrahamBenefit w/ South Austin JugBand, Dustin Welch (10:00)L IST I NGSCREEKSIDE LOUNGE Kill the DJ,Smash-Ups, Robot, DJ Alib,Ghettotech w/ DJ Orion (9:30)CUBA LIBRE Havana Nights w/the Cadaques (8:00)DONN’S DEPOT Albert & GageTHE DRISKILL HOTEL HilaryYork, Anthony Farrell (7:00)EDDIE V’S EDGEWATERGRILLE Kat Edmonson (8:00)ELEPHANT ROOM JazzPharoahs (6:00), EphraimOwens Quartet (9:30)ELYSIUM Mid Wave w/ DJPumpkin Spice, DJ EdministerEMO’S Lounge: Benko,Expensive Shit, Cry BloodApache, Indian Jewelry;Inside: Horse Feathers, Thao& the Get Down Stay DownEND OF AN EAR Thao With theGet Down Stay Down (6:00)EVANGELINE CAFE CowboyJohnson (6:00)FLAMINGO CANTINA KevinGoes to College, SubrosaUnion, Green Room RockersFLIPNOTICS AT THE TRIANGLEPaul Klemperer (8:00)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACEJennifer Jackson, Jenny & theWhalers (8:00)GARRISON PARK HARBORBlue Squeeze Box (8:00)GIDDY UPS Open Blues Jamw/ NickGINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORNSALOON Roger Wallace(9:00)HANOVER’S Drew Womack,Steven FranksHEADHUNTERS Mother’s Anger,Mutant Press, Reason to RebelHILL’S CAFE Highspeed Hayride,No JusticeHwy 71 West 264-0318SPICEWOOD, TX Free WiFiwww.poodies.comBest Dressed Burger in aCosmic Cowboy Honky Tonk– ‘AUSTIN CHRONICLE’RESTAURANT POLL 200696 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

Celebrating the 38th Anniversary of Armadillo World HeadquartersThurs 07/31Fri 08/01Sat 08/02Mon 08/04512.472.9304301 West Riverside Dr.World HeadquartersWill Taylor & Strings Attached - The Beatles9:00pmGary P. Nunn Bo Porter9:00pmHayes Carll The Gougers9:00pm$12 Advance/$15 Doorw w w . t h r e a d g i l l s . c o m$15 Advance/Door$10 Advance/DoorLee Duffy & Friends: Will Sexton, JoeManuel, Floyd Domino, Marvin Dykhuis8:00pmIndoors/FreeThurs 08/07 Bob Schneider’s Texas Bluegrass MassacreFri 08/08Sat 08/099:00pm$10 Advance/$15DoorAsylum Street Spankers9:00pmWhite Ghost Shivers10:00pmThurs 08/14 Guy Forsyth9:00pm$15 Advance/Door$10 Cover$10 CoverColinFri 08/15 Joe Ely & Joel Guzman Gilmore9:00pm$20 Advance/$25DoorSat 08/16 Terri Hendrix & special guest Jana PochopSun 08/179:00pm $15 Advance/DoorJimmy LaFave Betty Soo9:00pm $10 Advance/DoorThurs 08/21 Steam Heat ReunionSat 08/30Sun 08/31Sun 09/14 Leon RussellSoul Hat9:00pmEliza Gilkyson9:00pm8:00pm$10 Cover$15 Advance/Door$10 Advance/$15 DoorSun 10/04 New Riders of the Purple SageB ÚZIOS atROOM217 Congress Ave. | 479-5002Thurs 07/31Fri 08/01Sat 08/02Mon 08/04Tues 08/05Weds 08/06Thurs 08/07Fri 08/08Sat 08/09Tues 08/12AUG. 9th - 10pm512.451.54406416 N. Lamar Blvd.New, New Old No. 1Lisa HayesBustamoovalatorsJohn Michael RoseThe Super Greezy HourEvery Monday in August!Bo PorterSongwriters in the RoundDustin Welch, Nathan Singleton, Stefanie Fix,Will T. Massey, Jeremy NailsAWHQ Birthday Bashw/ Hank & Shaidri Alrich, Andrew HardinConrad ObergGreezy WheelsJessica Breane GriffithAll shows no cover!Every Sunday!Bluegrass Brunch 10-1, Music at 11August 3rd - The Border Blasterswww .th r eadgills.co mCheatham StreetWAREHOUSEAustin’s far-out music hall in San Marcoswww.cheathamstreet.comthfrAdam carroll, jasoneady, & owen templetexas renegadesusan gibson cd releasesasu grant mazak band 4-8pmmo cheatham street all-starstujordan minor &the bottom dollar bandwe kent finlay’s songwriters circleCOMINGSOON8/8 Rodney Hayden8/9 Foscoe Jones Band119 CHEATHAM ST., SAN MARCOS 512-353-3777a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 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 |L IST I NGSCAFE & AMPHITHEATRESTONEYLARUETICKETS @ NUTTYBROWN.COMNightFUNKYOLD SOULCOMING SOONBRUCE ROBISONGUY FORSYTHGRUPO FANTASMAAARON WATSONDizzy Gillespie and theBroken Souls MIDNIGHTBrandon McHose Band10:30PMPhillip Brown 9PMThe EggmenKaluaViteraLos Bad ApplesEdoTed Hall’s Guitar SchoolRecital 2PMTed Hall Blues Church/Jam8:30PM - 1AM TheRock City IceholesHappy Hour Open Mikenight on the patio 5pm til closeIf you are an acoustic act willing toplay for tips, come see us for a chanceto play! 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Rent$600.00 Dep $500.00 call eva380-9629 kisheva@msn.combackground/credit checkrequired.NORTHWEST Roommateneeded 3/2 house $400 Permonth,1/3 bills,large back& front yard. Digital cable &internet 512-834-8837SOUTH Need 3rd RM in 4BRhouse 8/1. Gay-friendly, 20-27M/F. $525 bills+tv+int paid.wakeupmaggie@gmail.comSOUTHEAST Roommatewanted to share 3/2 house. SEAusitn. $450 all bills paid. Lesbianpreferred. call 393-4930240REAL ESTATEFOR SALEALL http://AustinCool.com/sales Search 11,000 Austinsales listings. Free buyer rep.693-7231.ALL AUSTINArea Homes.FREE search data base atwww.quigleyteam.com. RealEstate by the Golden Rule!CEDAR PARK Search 8K +homes on-line! New homesup to $30K in free upgrades.Foreclosures=Great deals.Resale homes, use grants for$0 down!785-8157, agt.www.MrDreamHome.comCENTRAL Downtown loft experts,starting at $230K, tile,stainless 693-7231. All downtownlistings at:www.AustinCool.com/salesCENTRALOPEN HOUSESUNDAY 2-4HISTORIC HYDE PARK HOMEHEART OFTARRYTOWNUNDER $500,000!2/2 stone cottage with basement, living/bedroom, hardwoods,fireplace. Good sized master with walk in closet. Large walk-in pantry.Over-sized one car garage plus carport. 3213 Bonnie Rd.Open Sunday 2-4. $495,000.Contact Kris Sorenson-Hyatt,Eva Street Properties, Broker(512) 762-8235www.evastreetaustin.comHistoric renovation & addition in 2001. Charming, authentic3/3.5, 2 studies, huge master suite. Approx. 3117 sq. ft.A real Austin treasure. MLS# 8760675; $950,000Live on one of the avenues! 4106 Avenue B.OPEN HOUSEMOUNTAIN PROPERTIES613 W. 31 1/2 ST. Gorgeous throughout. Lots of updates/upgrades but retaining original vintage features, charm & character.2 bedrooms w/ full baths and 3rd flex room that could be bedroom/office/nursery. Both baths updated, with total re-do of master. Clawfoot tub, pedestal sink, built in storage. Dazzling custom remodeledkitchen, detached 2 car garage opens onto 31st. St. Priced at $425,000.Call Maxine Beasley, Broker, 339-4577.MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES11226 BARRINGTON WAY Acclaimed RR school district,walk to elem., Westwood High. Some extras are: 2nd living areaupstairs, covered 15x30 back deck surrounded by beautifully landscapedyard with row of palm trees, storage building, updated kitchen,stone fireplace in living room. So convenient. Priced at $232,500.Call Maxine Beasley, Broker, 339-4577.hip + lofty east side 1BR pads3 minutes to UT and downtownattached garagesat the coming soon (2008)MLK commuter rail stopjust a few flats remain -check out our model todayfrom the $140sMOUNTAIN PROPERTIES2106 BRACKENRIDGE ST. Great opportunity just blocksoff S. Congress. Charming 1960 vintage front house is spacious2/1 with separate kitchen/dining areas, large bathroom with stackwasher/dryer. Back unit is studio layout w/ separate kitchen/diningarea, hard tile, w/ connecting garage space. Very desirable rentalarea. Level 58 x 150 lot.Call Maxine Beasley, Broker, 339-4577.MOUNTAIN PROPERTIES8203 BRETTONWOODS WAY Convenient to everything:I-35, 183, shopping, and the elementary is in neighborhood. Sparkling3bdrm/2bath home with wood floors in all living areas, lots ofstorage - including storage building in yard, indoor utility and manyrecent replacement/upgrades. Ready to sell at $158,000.Call Maxine Beasley, Broker, 339-4577.1601 miriam ave, 78702www.austinchestnut.com• (512) 469.0842 •108 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Call 24/7Abby’s One True GiftAdoptions866-413-6293 (AAN CAN)545LEGAL NOTICESCITATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCAUSE NO. D-1-FM-08-003343 IN THE MATTER OFTHE MARRIAGE OF MARIAELIZABETH DELEONGARCIA, Plaintiff vs. RUFINOARELLANO VENCES, ET AL,A CHILD, DefendantTO: RUFINO ARELLANOVENCES1200 WOODFIELD AVENUE,APT #BAUSTIN, TEXAS 78758Defendant, in the abovestyled and numbered cause:YOU HAVE BEEN SUED.You may employ anattorney. If you or yourattorney do not file a writtenanswer with the clerk whoissued this citation by 10:00A.M. on the Monday nextfollowing the expiration oftwenty days after you wereserved this citation andpetition, a default judgmentmay be taken against you.Attached is a copy of theORIGINAL PETITION FORDIVORCE of the PETITIONERin the above styled andnumbered cause, which wasfiled on JUNE 27, 2008, inthe 201ST JUDICIALDISTRICT COURT of TravisCounty, Austin, Texas.ISSUED AND GIVEN UNDERMY HAND AND THE SEAL ofsaid Court at office, June 27,2008.AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MENDOZATravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe,P.O. Box 679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701BY /s/ COURTNEY MOREAU,DeputyREQUESTED BY:SANDY CARTWRIGHT2313 LAKE AUSTIN BLVD.AUSTIN, TX 78703BUSINESS PHONE:(512)322-5171FAX: (512)524-1257CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCause No. D-1-GV-07-000328AUSTIN CHRONICLE To:LUIS RODRIGUEZ-ARREOLAAND SANDRA SALINAS,Defendant(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 o’clockAM of Monday the 25th dayof AUGUST, 2008, and answerthe ORIGINAL NOTICEOF SEIZURE AND INTENDEDFORFEITURE PURSUANT TOTEX. CODE OF CRIM. PROC.CHAPTER 59 of Plaintiff(s),filed in the the 167TH JudicialDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on the 28thday of FEBRUARY, 2007, adefault judgment may be takenagainst you. Said suit beingnumber D-1-GV-07-000328, in which THE STATEOF TEXAS Plaintiff(s) and$2,854.00 US CURRENCYDefendant(s) and the natureof which suit is as follows:ON OR ABOUT THE 14THDAY OF FEBRUARY, 2007,THE AUSTIN POLICE DE-PARTMENT, LOCATED AT715 E. 8TH STREET, AUSTIN,TEXAS, SEIZED THE ABOVECONTRABAND, WHICH WASUSED OR INTENDED TO BEUSED IN THE COMMISSIONOF A FELONY PURSUANTTO ART. 59.01 OF TEX.CODE CRIM. PROC.ALL OF WHICH MORE FUL-LY APPEARS FROM PLAIN-TIFF’S ORIGINAL NOTICE OFSEIZURE AND INTENDEDFORFEITURE PURSUANT TOTEX. CODE OF CRIM. PROC.CHAPTER 59 ON FILE INTHIS OFFICE, AND WHICHREFERENCE IS HERE MADEFOR ALL INTENTS ANDPURPOSES.Issued and Given under myhand and the seal of saidCourt at Austin, this the 7THday of JULY, 2008.Amalia Rodriguez-MendozaDistrict ClerkTravis County, TexasBy /s/ CHRISTINA CARTER,DeputyRequested By:Robert SmithP.O. BOX 1748Austin, Texas 78767(512)854-9795CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXAS TO:VERNON BROWN, JR.,GEORGE ROBERT BROWNOTIS BROWN & LA RA-PHAEL BROWN Defendants,in the hereinafter styled andnumbered cause: You havebeen sued. You may employan attorney. If you or your attorneydo not file a writtenanswer with the clerk who issuedthis citation by 10:00a.m. on the Monday next followingthe expiration of 42days from the date of issuanceof this citation, samebeing MONDAY 08/18/08, adefault judgment may be takenagainst you.CAUSE NUMBER: 59,259-Astyled FRANKIE BROWN vsJUANITA THOMPSON, et alNATURE OF SUIT: PLAIN-TIFF’S ORIGINAL PETITIONFOR PARTITION OF REALPROPERTYFiled in PROBATE COURTNo. 1 on September 18, 2007Given under my hand andthe seal of Dana DeBeauvoir,County Clerk on July 2, 2008.County Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325,Austin, TexasBy Deputy: /s/ O. RuizPlaintiff’s Attorney:JOEL B BENNETT316 W 12th St., Ste 101Austin, Texas 78701(512)476-8595CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCause No. D-1-GV-07-000669AUSTIN CHRONICLE To:JOSE R. RODRIGUEZ,Defendant(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 o’clockAM of Monday the 8th day ofSEPTEMBER, 2008, and answerthe ORIGINAL NOTICEOF SEIZURE AND INTENDEDFORFEITURE PURSUANT TOTEX. CODE OF CRIM. PROC.CHAPTER 59 of Plaintiff(s),filed in the the 167TH JudicialDistrict Court of TravisCounty, Texas, on the 20thday of APRIL, 2007, a defaultjudgment may be takenagainst you. Said suit beingnumber D-1-GV-07-000669,in which THE STATE OF TEX-AS Plaintiff(s) and 1999 JEEPCHEROKEE VIN#1J4GW68N6XC714590Defendant(s) and the natureof which suit is as follows:ON OR ABOUT THE 6THDAY OF JANUARY, 2006,THE AUSTIN POLICE DE-PARTMENT, LOCATED AT715 E. 8TH STREET, AUSTIN,TEXAS, SEIZED THE ABOVECONTRABAND, WHICH WASUSED OR INTENDED TO BEUSED IN THE COMMISSIONOF A FELONY PURSUANTTO ART. 59.01 OF TEX.CODE CRIM. PROC.ALL OF WHICH MORE FUL-LY APPEARS FROM PLAIN-TIFF’S ORIGINAL NOTICE OFSEIZURE AND INTENDEDFORFEITURE PURSUANT TOTEX. CODE OF CRIM. PROC.CHAPTER 59 ON FILE INTHIS OFFICE, AND WHICHREFERENCE IS HERE MADEFOR ALL INTENTS ANDPURPOSES.Issued and Given under myhand and the seal of saidCourt at Austin, this the 22ndday of JULY, 2008.Amalia Rodriguez-MendozaDistrict ClerkTravis County, TexasBy /s/ CHRISTINA CARTER,DeputyRequested By:Robert SmithP.O. BOX 1748Austin, Texas 78767(512)854-9795IN THE GENERAL COURTOF JUSTICE DISTRICTCOURT DIVISIONFILE NO. 08 CVD 1852NOTICE OF SERVICE OFPROCESS BY PUBLICA-TION NORTH CAROLINAROBESON COUNTYTara Lynn Lane Plaintiff,vs. Chad Douglas CrockettWilson Defendant.TO: Chad Douglas CrockettWilson, DEFENDANT. Takenotice that a pleading seekingrelief against you hasbeen filed in the above action.The nature of the reliefbeing sought is as follows:AN ABSOLUTE DIVORCEYou are required to make defenseto such pleading nolater than September 3, 2008,which is 40 days after thefirst publication of this notice.Upon your failure to file apleading by the above date,the party seeking serviceagainst you will apply to theCourt for the relief sought.This the 25th day of July,2008.LOCKLEAR, JACOBS, HUNT& BROOKSBy: /s/ Arnold LocklearARNOLD LOCKLEARP.O. Box 999Pembroke, NC 28372(910)521-3413PUBLICATION DATES:JULY 25, 2008, AUGUST 1,2008, & AUGUST 8, 2008IN THE SUPERIOR COURTOF DOUGHERTY COUNTYSTATE OF GEORGIATerrance L Walton Plaintiff, v.Cotronia S Walton DefendantCivil Action File No.08CVD1862-2NOTICE OF SUMMONSTO: Cotronia Walton DefendantNamed Above:You are hereby notified thatthe above-styled action seekinga total divorce was filedagainst you in said court on7/9/2008 and that by reasonof an order for service ofsummons by publication enteredby the court on7/9/2008 you are herebycommanded and required tofile with the clerk of saidcourt and serve upon TerranceL Walton, plaintiff,whose address is P.O. Box4644 Albany, GA 31706, ananswer to the complaint withinsixty (60) days of the dateof the order for service bypublication. If you fail to doso, judgment by default willbe taken against you for therelief demanded in the complaint.Witness the Honorable StephenGoss, judge of saidcourt.This the 9th day of July,2008./s/ Linda M HardyClerk of CourtINVITATION FOR BIDSFollowing is a summary of informationfor this Project. Bidderis cautioned to refer toother sections of ProjectManual, Drawings and Addenda(Bid Documents) forfurther details.Taylor Morrison of Texas,Inc., hereafter called OWN-ER, is requesting sealed writtenBids for furnishing all labor,materials, equipment,supervision and performingall Work required for the followingproject:Water, Wastewater, Drainageand Roadway ExcavationImprovements associatedwith Senna Hills Section9 located in west TravisCounty near RM 2244 andSenna Hills Drive as specifiedin the Project Drawings.The Work consists of excavationfor utility constructionand the installation of waterlines, wastewater lines, stormsewers, and appurtenances.Bid Documents may be obtainedafter 1:00 p.m. Friday,July 25, 2008 during normalbusiness hours at the officeof Axiom Engineers Inc.,13276 Research Blvd, Suite208, Austin, Texas, 78750,(512) 506-9335, upon receiptof a non-refundable fee of$125.00 for each set of BidDocuments. Document feecheck shall be made payableto Axiom Engineers Inc.Sealed Bids will be receivedat the office of Axiom EngineersInc., 13276 ResearchBlvd, Suite 208, Austin, Texas,78750 and then publiclyopened and read aloud at10:00 a.m., Tuesday, August19, 2008. All bids are dueprior to 10:00 a.m., Tuesday,August 19, 2008, Austintime. All Bids not receivedprior to the time setforth above will be returnedto the bidder unopened. Thetime of record shall be the localtime as displayed atwww.timeanddate.com. TheOWNER’S representativeopening the Bids shall verifythe time for opening the Bids.All Bids shall be accompaniedby a cashier’s check,certified check made payableto Taylor Morrison ofTexas, Inc. or an acceptablebid bond with Power of Attorneyattached, in an amountof not less than five percent(5%) of the total amount Bid.Performance and paymentbonds when required shallbe executed on forms furnishedby OWNER. Eachbond shall be issued in anamount of one hundred per-AV0814 POUND SALENOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLESIMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OFPOLICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATIONCODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDINGAND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BYDELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TOTHE MOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OFALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIPAND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER THEPURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVEA CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLICAUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FORCASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVISCOUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWINGDESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVENOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS,THEREOF TO WIT;AUGUST 14, 2008 @ 10:00AM @ AUSTIN POLICEDEPT., 4308 TERRY-O LANE,AUSTIN, TX 78745081922301 1995 NISS 4DR X07BCS TX 1N4BU31D5SC240331085036472 1985 AA FB 69XWTD TX 62641085036954 1978 CADI 2DR WYE1035 NC 6D47S8E637914085036960 1997 STRN 4DR GWY964 TX 1G8ZK5272VZ143750085036962 1991 FORD 2DR 9341556 IL 3FAPP11J3MR167262085036963 1984 MERC 2DR 613YNG TX 1MEBP93F4EZ660715085036971 1991 ALFA 4DR 981MCT TX ZAREA43A2M6163532085036972 1998 MERC 4DR 931CRK TX 1MEFM10P9WW613949085036974 1988 CHEV 4DR Z68GLL TX 1G1JC5119JJ276066085036977 1991 NISS 4DR R33VGY TX JNKNG01C7MM114987085037652 1991 HOND 2DR FJS292 TX 1HGCB7265MA015533085037655 1986 HOND 4DR 144BXG TX JHMAK7436GS059191085037660 1996 FORD 2DR Z73KDL TX 1FALP4042TF110154085037663 1993 FORD 4DR V02PZW TX 2FAPP36X5PB188822085037664 1991 PONT 4DR 922BND TX 1G2HX54C6M1210476085037666 1996 BUIC 2DR X46CWW TX 2G4WB12K2T1430707085037667 1984 CHEV PK 94DDW2 TX 1GBHC34M8EV134357085037672 1980 CHEV PK 7YCS77 TX CCD24AA106760085037675 1990 MAZD 4DR L03TPX TX 1YVGD22B9L5210868085037940 1985 CHEV PK 8VWT40 TX 1GCDC14H8FS102982085037941 2000 HMDE UT 51WWFZ TX ***********085037942 2004 KIA 4DR Z24MLD TX KNADC125146352771085037944 1987 BMW SD R72BSD TX WBAAE5405H1692837085038190 1996 CHEV 2DR P53ZGZ TX 1G1JC1242TM013069085038191 1986 OLDS 4DR Y78FFK TX 1G3CX69BXG1336033cent (100%) of the ContractAmount by a solvent suretycompany authorized to dobusiness in the State of Texas,and shall meet any otherrequirements established bylaw or by OWNER pursuantto applicable law.Minimum insurance requirementsare specified in theSupplemental General ConditionsAll Bidders must be prequalified.Prequalification requirementsare specified inthe Instructions to Bidders.OWNER reserves the right toreject any or all Bids and towaive any informalities andirregularities in Bids received.A mandatory Pre-Bid Conferencewill be held at 11:00a.m., Thursday, August 7,2008 at the office of AxiomEngineers Inc., 13276 ResearchBlvd, Suite 208, Austin,Texas, 78750, (512) 506-9335.NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES Pursuant to theTexas Abandoned Motor VehicleAct, the followingvehicle(s) will be sold at apublic sale unless chargesare satisfied within ten (10)days.1. 2006 KIA SPORTAGE,AKT7556 GA,KNDJF7232671654682. 1999 HONDA ACCORD,STF052 MISS,1HGCD7233RA057296AUS-TEX TOWING &RECOVERY, LLC306 FARLEYAUSTIN, TX 78753NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES Pursuant to theTexas Abandoned Motor VehicleAct, the followingvehicle(s) will be sold at apublic sale unless chargesare satisfied within ten (10)days. Storage facility AusTexTowing, 1408 Three PointsRd. Pflugerville, TX 78660.Vehicle: Kenworth Tractor &Trailer, IN tags 590609, lastof VIN J654754, towed from620 & Deer Creek on7/15/08.NOTICE OF LIEN SALEIn accordance with the provisionsof Chapter 59 of theTexas Property Code, therebeing due and unpaid chargesfor which the undersignedis entitled to satisfy an own-COMMON LAWWHAT’S THE DEAL WITHMY SECURITY DEPOSIT?Luke 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.Summer is the time of the year when most Austinites changerental units and issues concerning return of security deposits arecommon disputes between landlords and tenants. This week’s columnaddresses common disputes over security deposits.I moved out of my old apartment more than two monthsago, but my old landlord still hasn’t returned my securitydeposit. How long can she hold on to the security deposit?Texas law requires a landlord to refund a securitydeposit to a tenant by the 30th day after the tenantmoves out. However, the landlord is not obligatedto return a tenant’s security deposit until the tenantgives the landlord a written statement of the tenant’sforwarding address. In these situations, it can behelpful to send a letter, preferably via certified mail,to the landlord verifying the tenant’s mailing addressand informing the landlord that Texas law requires thesecurity deposit to be returned within 30 days.My lease says my landlord cannot deduct “normal wearand tear” from my security deposit. What is “normal wearand tear”?Residential leases generally include a clause that allowsthe tenant to avoid responsibility for damages to the rentalproperty if the damage can be considered “normal orreasonable wear and tear.” Texas law defines “normal wearand tear” as deterioration that results from the intendeduse of a dwelling, including breaking or malfunction dueto age or deteriorated condition. Alternatively, “normalwear and tear” does not include deterioration to therental property that results from negligence, carelessness,accident, or abuse of the premises by the tenant.From a practical standpoint, this means that thetenant will not be responsible for things that wear outdue to normal and expected usage but will be liablefor a negligent or careless act that causes damage. Forexample, a tenant should not be responsible for payingto replace living room carpet that has become worn dueto normal traffic. But, the same tenant could be responsiblefor paying to replace the carpet if the tenant causedit unnecessary permanent damage (insert any numberof possibilities like spilling paint on the carpet, tearingthe carpet while moving furniture, etc.).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.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 113

TomWIFE NEED NOT WORRYABOUT GAS-TANK LOCATIONDear Tom and Ray:My wife wants to buy a Honda Fit, but now she isworried about the gas tank. It is located under the frontseat rather than under the trunk. Is this dangerous?– PrentissRAY: You’re not trying to knock her off, are you,Prentiss? If we tell you it’s dangerous, you’re notgoing to buy her the car then take out a large lifeinsurancepolicy on her, are you?TOM: It’s not dangerous, as far as we can tell,Prentiss. We don’t know definitively, because theFit has only been out for a few years, and it’s possiblethat a problem could come to light later. Butfrom what we can tell, it’s not an issue.RAY: Most cars have their gas tanks right behindthe back seat – conveniently enough, where themother-in-law usually rides. You’ll notice no one’sever written us to complain about that!TOM: Honda moved the gas tank in the Fitunder the driver’s seat to create more room in theback to fold the seats flat. And it is a very nice,functional design, from the point of view of usableinterior space.RAY: When we looked underneath a Fit, wenoticed that the tank doesn’t extend right to theoutside edge of the vehicle. It’s at least somewhatprotected behind a side structural member.TOM: Here’s what we do know. When the Fitwas crash-tested, it got top ratings for both frontalcrashes and driver’s-side impacts. That’s a good signright there. In addition, if the crash-testing agencies(the National Highway Traffic Safety Administrationor the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) hadseen anything that worried them during a crashtest (like, for example, a gas tank that explodes andburns any surviving crash-test dummies beyond allrecognition), they would have mentioned it in theoptional “safety concerns” section of the results.There are no such comments about the Fit.RAY: These days, gas tanks are made of plastic,and they’re pretty hard to puncture. They’re actuallyvery resilient, in our experience.TOM: If something entered the driver’s side ofthe car with enough force to wipe out the gas tank,it probably would wipe out the entire front seat,too, if you catch my drift. So either way, your wifewon’t have to worry about it.RAY: I’m sure my brother’s making you feel a lotbetter, huh, Prentiss?TOM: Actually, while we can’t say for certain, wehave no evidence that suggests it’s a problem. If itgives you any additional confidence, the placementof the gas tank doesn’t stop us from recommendingthe Fit, which we think is an excellent little car.* * *Tom and Ray share secrets on how you can savetens of thousands of dollars on your cars over thenext 20 years in their pamphlet “Should I Buy,Lease, or Steal My Next Car?” Send $4.75 (checkor money order) to Next Car, PO Box 536475,Orlando, FL 32853-6475.* * *Got a question about cars? Write to Clickand Clack in care of this newspaper, ore-mail them by visiting the Car Talk website,www.cartalk.com.Tune in to Car Talk each Saturday at 9am onTALKRay Magliozzi©2004 by Tom & Ray Magliozzi and Doug BermanDistributed by King Features SyndicateCONTINUED545LEGAL NOTICESer’s lien of the goods hereinafterdescribed and stored atthe Uncle Bob’s Self Storagelocations listed below; And,due notice having been given,to the owner of said propertyand all parties known toclaim an interest therein, andthe time specified in such noticefor payment of such havingexpired, the goods will besold at public auction at thefollowing addresses to thehighest bidder or otherwisedisposed of on the followingdates. No one under 16 allowed.Cash Only.Uncle Bob’s #2859717 US HWY 290 EAustin, TX 78724512-278-1220Tuesday, August 19, 2008@ 9:00 AM#561 Mackey Young: householdgoods, furniture#633 Robin Thomas: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,TV’s or stereo equip#823 Patricia Robert McDonald:household goods, furniture,boxes, appliances,TV’s or stereo, equip#2212 Pamela McLeod:household goods, furniture,TV’s or stereo equip., clothing#6637 Tori Rivers: householdgoods, furniture, boxes, TV’sor stereo equip., office equip.Uncle Bob’s #2318227 North LamarAustin, TX 78753(512) 833-0855Tuesday, August 19, 2008@ 10:00 AM#344 Chris Peterman: furniture,boxes, office equip., officemachines, accountrecords#713 Willie Muhammad:household goods, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,tv’s or stereo equip.,office equip., and machines#9952 John A. Passarell:household goods, furn., boxes,tools#1602 Dooley D. Calvin:household goods, furniture,boxes, tv’s or stereo equip.#1514 Amanda Hedrick: boxes,household goods#1201 Angelica Arroyo:household goods#1108 Brian Bailey: furniture,TVs, or stereo equip., householdgoods, boxes, tools, officemachines, appliances#962 LaQuinn Cox: householdgoods, furn., boxesUncle Bob’s #2762830 South A.W. GrimesBlvdRound Rock, TX 78664(512)310-0279Tuesday, August 19, 2008@ 11:00 AM#2114 Luis Leon: householdgoods, furniture, boxes, officeequip.#2409 James Weems: furniture,boxes, sporting goods,TV’s or stereo equip., officeequip.#2411 Edith Arce: householdgoods, furniture, boxes, appliances,TV’s or stereoequip., office equip.#3121 Alisa Richardson:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, tools,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip., office equip., officemachines, account records#3124 Greater Austin Moving:household goods#3126 Greater Austin Moving:household goods#3127 Alisa Richardson:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, tools,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip., office equip., officemachines, account records#3420 Justin Nugent: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,appliances#4404 Keisha Brooks: householdgoods, furniture, TV’s orstereo equp., accountrecords#5111 Robert Cleaver:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, tools,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip., office equip.#5401 Victor Truan: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip.,other#5428 Eddie Fooshang:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, tools,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip., office equip., officemachines, landscapingequip.#6223 Jason Scott: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,TV’s or stereo equip., officeequip.#6309 Linna Perry: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip.#7106 Geena Perez: householdgoods, furniture, boxes#7215 Ibrahim Adeigbe:household goods, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip.,office equip.#7303 Jennifer Charles:household goods, furniture,boxes, appliances, TV’s orstereo equip., office equip.,office machines, accountrecords#7415 Jesse Edwards:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, tools,appliances, office equip., officemachines, accountrecords#8122 Susan Hawthorne:household goods, furniture,boxes, TV’s or stereo equip.,art supplies#9104 Erin Wilson: boxes#9509 Josie Wesley HodnettIII: household goods, boxesUncle Bob’s #1975547 McNeil Dr.Austin, TX 78729(512)336-8390Tuesday, August 19, 2008@ 12 noon#214 Brian Spinks: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,office equip., scooter#303 Stormy Nicole Wyatt:household goods, furniture,boxes, sporting goods, appliances,TV’s or stereoequip.#401 Komica Brooks: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,TV’s or stereo equip., officemachines#701 Brian Spinks: householdgoods#907 Crystal Edmonson:household goods, furniture,TV’s or stereo equip.#1736 Sally Daniel: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,tools, appliancesUncle Bob’s #2876509 South 1st StreetAustin, TX 78745(512)326-9696Tuesday, August 19, 2008@ 1:30 PM#223 Alford D. Brian: householdgoods, furniture#2402 Rosemarie Estrada:boxes, tools, office equip, officemachines, accountrecords, sales samples#2418 Martha Sias: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,tools, appliances, TVs orstereo equip, office equip, officemachines#3148 Zach Morgan: instruments#3307 Steve Shirley: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,appliances#3338 Aaron Pace: furniture,boxesNOTICE OF NEW TRAFFICREGULATION Notice is herebygiven that Travis County,Texas, proposes the approvalof the following traffic regulation:NO U-TURN(PROHIBITION) AT THEMcKINNEY FALLS PARK-WAY AND HAYRIDE LANEINTERSECTION IN PRE-CINCT FOUR. Any residentof Travis County, Texas, aggrievedby this proposal actionmay make written requestfor a mandatory publichearing.Such request must be addressedto the Transportationand Natural Resources Department,Travis County, Texas,P.O. Box 1748, Austin,Texas, 78767, and must bereceived within seven (7)days of this notice.NOTICE OF NEW TRAFFICREGULATION Notice is herebygiven that Travis County,Texas, proposes the approvalof the following traffic regulation:SET SCHOOL ZONESPEED LIMITS ON BARTONCREEK BOULEVARD INPRECINCT THREE. Any residentof Travis County, Texas,aggrieved by this proposalaction may make writtenrequest for a mandatory publichearing.Such request must be addressedto the Transportationand Natural Resources Department,Travis County, Texas,P.O. Box 1748, Austin,Texas, 78767, and must bereceived within seven (7)days of this notice.NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEThe following property, currentlyhoused at Budget Storageand Parking, 12001 Manchaca,is to be offered forsale to satisfy a landlord’slien pursuant to Texas PropertyCode, Chapter 59.Mahnaz Anderson: officechair, luggage, mattress,clothing, vacuum, misc. furniture,misc. itemsTerri Burditt: weed eater,ladder, table, chairs, clothing,file cabinet, copy machine,misc. itemsCarlisle M. Lamariano: television,computer monitor &tower, mattress, toolboxes,clothing, misc. itemsBrian Glendening: babycrib, bouncer, misc. itemsKimberly Butler: chairs,computer monitor, misc.itemsJessica Haskins: vacuumcleaner, boxes, misc. itemsJuan Gutierrez: dresser,chairs, mattress, sofas,misc. itemsThe sale shall be held atBudget Storage & Parking,12001 Manchaca, Wednesday,August 13, 2008 @10:00 a.m. Property will besold to highest bidder forcash. Seller reserves theright to withdraw property atany time prior to sale. Successfulbidders shall be requiredto post a $50.00 refundabledeposit to ensureremoval of property. Questionsregarding this sale maybe directed to Mrs. Liz Crum,Property Manager at (512)282-7867.CITATION BY PUBLICATIONDOMESTICTHE STATE OF TEXASNO. 08-1146-FC4TO: BOBBIE BRANDONFRYMIRE - and to all whom itmay concern,RESPONDENT(S)GREETINGS: YOU HAVE BEENSUED. YOU MAY EMPLOY ANATTORNEY. IF YOU OR YOURATTORNEY DO NOT FILE AWRITTEN ANSWER WITH THECLERK WHO ISSUED THIS CI-TATION BY 10:00 A.M. ON THEMONDAY NEXT FOLLOWINGTHE EXPIRATION OF FORTYTWO DAYS AFTER YOU WERESERVED THIS CITATION ANDPETITION, A DEFAULT JUDG-MENT FOR THE RELIEFDEMANDED IN THE PETITIONMAY BE TAKEN AGAINST YOU.The ORIGINAL PETITION INSUIT AFFECTING THE PARENTCHILD RELATIONSHIP of MistyCaffey, Petitioner, was filed inthe said Court of WilliamsonCounty, Texas, on this the 9thday of May, 2008, against BobbieBrandon Frymire, Respondent,numbered 08-1146-FC4and entitled:IN THE INTEREST OF TYLERWILLIAM FRYMIREA CHILDThe suit requests THAT THECOURT GRANT RELIEF RE-QUESTED IN PETITION.The date and place of birth ofthe child(ren) who is/are thesubject of the suit:TYLER WILLIAM FRYMIRE/DOB: 06-17-2006The Court has the authority inthis suit to enter any judgementor decree in the child(ren)’sinterest which will be bindingupon you, including the terminationof the parent-child relationship,the determination ofpaternity and the appointmentof a conservator with authorityto consent to the child(ren)’sadoption.ISSUED AND GIVEN UNDERMY HAND AND THE SEAL ofsaid Court at office, on this the25th day of June, 2008.ADDRESS OF PETITIONER ORATTORNEY FOR PETITIONER:Harold L. Hardy, II202 W. Central Texas ExpresswayKilleen, TX 76541OAG# (if applicable)LISA DAVID, DISTRICT CLERKWilliamson County, TexasP.O. Box 24, 405 M.L.K. StreetGeorgetown, Texas 78627-0024/s/ By: Selina Williams, DeputyNOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEto satisfy landlord’s lien. Saleis at 10:00 a.m., ThursdayAugust 14, 2008 at Oak HillMini’s, 5100 RoadrunnerLane, Austin, TX, 78749.Property will be sold at publicauction to the highest bidderfor cash. Cleanup dep. maybe required. Seller reservesthe right to not accept a bidand to withdraw propertyfrom sale. Property includescontents of the following tenants:MARCUS TYREE-TV,shelving, bedrails, mattress,dresser, etc.; SHANNONHOPKINS-dresser, computer,tennis racquet, etc.; DELMAAGUIRRE-golf clubs, weedeaters,basketball goal,chairs, tool box, big tvs, safe,computers, shelves, bikes,washer, dryer, wheel barrow,exercise equip., etc.; STE-PHEN STEWART-foodservicetrays, chafing dishes; DU-VELZA RODRIGUEZ-tires,bookcases, tv, etc. ContactOak Hill Mini’s (512)892-5293. Dated July 25, 2008.NOTICE OF SALE OF REALESTATETHE STATE OF TEXASCOUNTY OF TRAVIS By virtueof a certain Writ of Executionissued by the Justiceof the Peace Court Precinct2, in Travis County, Texas,on the 28th day of May, 2008in a certain cause numbered041808, wherein Barnett &Kocian PC, A Texas ProfessionalCorporation, is Plaintiffand Richard Luongo is theDefendant, in favor of saidPlaintiff for the sum of Onethousand five hundred andfifty dollars and 01/100($1550.01) together with 5%interest, as well as all costsof suit, that being the amountof the judgment recovered bysaid Plaintiff, in the Justice ofthe Peace Court Precinct 2,in Travis County, Texas, onthe 14th day of April, 2005.I, on the 17th day of June,2008 have levied upon, andwill on the 5th day of August,2008 between the hours of10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (at11:00 a.m.), on said day, atthe courthouse steps of saidcounty, offer for sale at publicauction for cash to thehighest bidder, all the right,title and interest of Defendantin and to the following describedproperty, levied uponas the property of Defendant,to wit:1. Lot 9 block S EmeraldBend Sec 1, a subdivisionlocated in Travis County,Texas, which is located inthe Northeast portion ofTravis County, commonlyknown as 21607 FalconLane, Lago Vista, Texas78645.2. Lot 8 block S EmeraldBend Sec 1, a subdivisionlocated in Travis County,Texas, which is located inthe Northeast portion ofTravis County, commonlyknown as 21609 FalconLane, Lago Vista, Texas78645.Note: On the property soldthere are no warranties, expressedor implied, includingbut not limited to the impliedwarranties of merchantabilityand fitness for a particularpurpose. You have boughtthe property “as is”. Buyersare further advised that thepurchase of the property atthe Constable’s sale may notextinguish any liens or securityinterest on or in theproperty. You have simplypurchased whatever interestthe defendant had in theproperty. If you have anyquestions, you should consultthe counsel of yourchoice.The purchaser will be requiredto produce an unexpiredwritten statement fromthe Tax-assessor-collector ofthe County in which the saleis conducted that there areno delinquent ad valoremtaxes owed to the county,school district or municipality.The above sale to be madeby me to satisfy the abovedescribedjudgment for Onethousand five hundred andfifty dollars and 01/100($1550.01) together with 5%interest, in favor of said Plaintiff,together with the costs ofsaid suit, and the proceedsapplied to the satisfactionthereof.Bob Vann Constable10409 Burnet Rd. #150Austin, Texas 78758(512)854-9697By: Deputy Lynn Snowden#216NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF BETTY AL-FORD DEGAN, DECEASEDNotice is hereby given thatthe original letters testamentaryfor the estate of Betty AlfordDegan, deceased, wereissued on July 28, 2008, inCause No. 88967, which isbeing administered in ProbateCourt No. 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to Daniel CarlDegan, III, and Karen DeganHammond as independentco-executors. All personshaving claims against thisestate are required to presentthem within the time and inthe manner prescribed bylaw in care of the independentexecutors’ attorney at thefollowing address: D’Ana H.Mikeska, McGinnis, Lochridge& Kilgore, L.L.P., 600Congress Avenue, Suite2100, Austin, Texas 78701.NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF WILLIAMSANDERS CHAPIN, DE-CEASED Notice is herebygiven that the original letterstestamentary for the estate ofWilliam Sanders Chapin, deceased,were issued on July22, 2008, in Cause No.88904, which is being administeredin Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,to William S. Chapin, III,as independent executor. Allpersons having claimsagainst this estate are requiredto present them withinthe time and in the mannerprescribed by law in care ofthe independent executor’sattorney at the following address:D’Ana H. Mikeska,McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore,L.L.P., 600 CongressAvenue, Suite 2100, Austin,Texas 78701.NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF JAMESWALLACE DAVENPORT,DECEASED Notice is herebygiven that the original letterstestamentary for the estate ofJames Wallace Davenport,deceased, were issued onJuly 22, 2008, in Cause No.88872, which is being administeredin Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,to James Bryant Davenportas independent executor.All persons having claimsagainst this estate are requiredto present them withinthe time and in the mannerprescribed by law in care ofthe independent executor’sattorney at the following address:D’Ana H. Mikeska,McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore,L.L.P., 600 CongressAvenue, Suite 2100, Austin,Texas 78701.NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF SCOTTROBERT WILLIAMS Noticeis hereby given that originalLetters Testamentary for theEstate of Scott Robert Williams,Deceased, were issuedon July 24, 2008, inCause No. 88958, pending inthe Probate Court NumberOne of Travis County, Texas,to the estate’s independentexecutor without bond, JoanSewell Williams. All personshaving claims against the estatecurrently being administeredare required to presentthem within the time requiredby law. Claims should be addressedin care of the representative’sattorney, LawrenceA. Russell, 9951 AndersonMill Road, Suite 200,Austin, Texas 78750. Datedthis the 24th day of July,2008.NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of GeorgeHughes A/K/A GeorgeHughes, Jr., Deceased, wereissued on July 22, 2008, inCause No. 88867, pending inthe Probate Court No. 1, TravisCounty, Texas, to: LoisEllen Waits.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: Linda Haston FrazerAttorney at Law4408 Spicewood Springs Rd.Austin, Texas 78759DATED the 24th day of July,2008./s/ Linda Haston FrazerAttorney for Lois Ellen WaitsState Bar No.: 240260504408 Spicewood Springs Rd.Austin, Texas 78759Telephone: (512) 342-8843Facsimile: (512) 343-9194NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of ChesterEvins, Deceased, were issuedon June 24, 2008,under Docket No. 88806,pending in the Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,to Mary Evins.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theestate, addressed as follows:Representative, Estate ofChester Evins, Deceasedc/o Forest D. CookThe Law Offices of Forest D.Cook114 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E AUGUST 1, 2008 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

221 East Ninth, Suite 207Austin, Texas 78701All persons having claimsagainst this estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated July 22, 2008.Law Offices of Forest D.CookBy: /s/ Forest D. Cook, SBOT#04728000NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatall persons having claimsagainst the Estate of BeulahMae Craft, Deceased, CauseNo. 88787, In the ProbateCourt No.1; Travis County,Texas; which is currently beingadministered are requiredto present them to the undersignedwithin the time and inthe manner prescribed bylaw.The Bannerot Law Firm, P.C.c/o: Kenneth W. Pajak, Esq1114 Lost Creek Boulevard,Suite 420Austin, Texas 78746DATED the 15th day of July,2008.Kenneth W. Pajak, EsqAttorney for EstateState Bar No.: 240077971114 Lost Creek BoulevardSuite 420Austin, Texas 78746Telephone: (512) 327.8930Facsimile: (512) 327.2665NOTICE TO CREDITORS OnJuly 17, 2008, Eleanor AnnLogrip was appointed IndependentExecutor of the Estateof Gerald S. Shaw, Deceased,in Cause No. 88950,pending in the Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas.The address of IndependentExecutor is c/o An-drew C. Friedmann, Attorney& Counselor at Law, 4408Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, Texas 78759, and allpersons having claimsagainst this estate are requiredto present them tosuch address in the mannerand time required by law.NOTICE TO CREDITORS OnJuly 22, 2008, Pamala JaneWagner Zabriskie qualifiedas Independent Executorwithout bond of the Estate ofFrances R. Wagner, Deceased,in Cause No. 88,877pending in the Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas.The address of the Executoris c/o Donald F. Carnes,400 W. 15th, Suite 808, Austin,Texas, 78701, and allpersons having claimsagainst this estate are requiredto present them tosuch address in the mannerand time required by law.Pamela Jane Wagner Zabriskie,Independent Executor ofthe Estate of Frances R.WagnerNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of FlorenceIrma Alworth, Deceased,were issued on July 24,2008, in Docket No. 88,959,pending in the Probate CourtNo. 1 of Travis County, Texas,to: James Arthur Alworth.The address of the IndependentExecutor is in Austin,Travis County, Texas, themailing address is: c/o Scofield& Scofield, P.C., 1411West Avenue, Suite 200, Austin,Texas 78701-1537.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.DATED the 24th day of July,2008.Scofield & Scofield, P.C.Attorneys for the EstateBy: /s/ Joe L. FulwilerNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of CorinneCouch Morris, Deceased,were issued on July 1, 2008,in Cause No. 88849, pendingin the Probate Court No. 1 ofTravis County, Texas, to MattMitchell Morris of 4311 ManzanilloDrive, Austin, Texas78749.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 IndependentExecutor’s attorney,Derry W. Swanger, at GiordaniSchurig Beckett & TackettLLP, 100 Congress Avenue,22nd Floor, Austin, Texas,78701.DATED this the 21st day ofJuly, 2008.GIORDANI, SCHURIG,BECKETT & TACKETT L.L.P.By: /s/ Derry W. SwangerMITCHELL MORRIS, INDE-PENDENT EXECUTOR OFTHE ESTATE OF CORINNECOUCH MORRIS, DE-CEASEDNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of JamesThomas Zimmerman, were issuedon July 24, 2008, inDocket No. 88936, pendingin the Probate Court NumberOne of Travis County, Texas,to: CLAUDIA MARGARETZIMMERMANThe residence of the IndependentExecutor is in Pflugerville,Texas, and the postoffice address is as follows:c/o AKINS, NOWLIN & PRE-WITT, L.L.P.1516 E. Palm Valley Blvd,B-2P.O. Box 249Round Rock, Texas 78680-0249All persons having claimsagainst the Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.DATED the 25th day of July,2008.AKINS, NOWLIN & PREWITT,L.L.P.1516 E. Palm Valley Blvd,B-2P.O. 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Maybe you’re especially fond of the ones where the girls havefurry bunny ears and hooves instead of feet? With animé, anything’s possible. Samewith Photoshop. If you haven’t taken a nude picture of yourself and then pastedJohnny Wadd’s tally-whacker (enlarged 1000% so it’s roughly the girth of a duffelbag) over your shrunken tadpole, you’re not really utilizing technology to its fullestextent. If you do it right, people will be asking you, “What’s that giant mushroomin the foreground of your MySpace photo?” So what if you can’t deliver the goods inmeatspace. Real life is just a consecutive series of crushing disappointments anyway,isn’t it? Besides, imagine having to schlep around a duffel-bag-sized penis all thetime. The carnies would tease you mercilessly. You’re much better off packing yourspandex banana hammock with a baby-arm-shaped wad of biscuit dough. Sure, itmight start smelling a little yeasty down there after a while, but people expect thatfrom someone wearing a spandex banana hammock in the real world. Rocking aslingshot on the Internet, however, is considered kitschy, especially if you’ve graftedyour head onto Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1967 Mr. Universe photo. Of course, youshouldn’t miss out on all the fun just because your Y chromosome is on permanentsabbatical. Imagine how many Facebook friend requests you’d have if your profilephoto featured a Dolly Parton-sized cleavage crevasse? Having a plastic surgeonload that kind of baggage on your fragile desk chair spine would be insane, but theInternet is a zero gravity environment. Even if you decide not to go top-heavy, atthe very least you should drop in a Marilyn Monroe beauty mark. Passing up anopportunity like that is just being lazy. With just a little more effort, you could alsothrow a little digital collagen into those lips and pencil in some butterfly eyelashes.First impressions go a long way, and really, expecting people to live up to their imageon the Internet is sort of like expecting all radio DJs to look like Ryan Seacrest. Andreally, for all you know, Ryan has three nipples and a wicked case of toenail fungus.Reality isn’t always pretty, even when you dress it up and hit it with an airbrush.People are inevitably imperfect – even Jenna Jameson doing a muff-n-duff with acouple of well-greased Gold’s Gym night managers is still going to reveal a fewmoles and stray hairs. Art, on the other hand, is always perfect because it’s alwaysthe embodiment of the artist’s ideal. That doesn’t mean it isn’t butt-ugly a lot of thetime, it’s just that it’s as good as it could have possibly been at the time and underthe circumstances in which it was created. Porn may be exhibitionistic, but certainlyno more so than any other kind of art. The artist exposes his or her idealism tothe rest of the world, and the rest of the world gets to appreciate it or mercilesslyridicule it, as the case may be. It’s a sort of porn of idealism. So really, art and pornaren’t even distant cousins. It’s just that when art gets sexy, it’s called erotica, andthere’s usually not a money shot. That doesn’t mean it isn’t interesting and worth apeek. Maybe you should relax your grip on your joystick and head down to GalleryLombardi, where this Saturday night from 7pm to 11pm they’re opening Erotica2008, an exhibit of 50 erotic works from area artists. Along with erotica you canactually meet real people, who, although they’re imperfect, are much more interestingand erotically satisfying than porn could ever be.Get THE LUV DOC all up in your inbox every week! 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IT’S AN EXPERIMENT....All I want to do is see the world andmake stuff with my hands,they aremy tools of expression and oftenknow more than the rest of me.ruella, 28, , #127115CONFUSED CLUMSYCLANDESTINEonce there was a potato namedcharlie. the main thing about charlieis that he had a strong dislike forbelts and condiments. message meto hear more. situationalcomedy,26, , #127122EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.I’m pretty cool. Try me. surgngnl, 31,, #119687RELAXED. LIVELY. BRAINY.you are very smart, gentle-hearted,wildly passionate, funny, and lovewomen who are same. i want, respectand adore you, but never needyou to complete or save me. bklyn,43, , #127107EXCITED ABOUT LIFEeasy going and love to laugh atdumbass stuff. Barton Springs,healthy food, checkin out thecity on foot, goin for coffee, livemusic- these are things that I enjoy.Sweet_P, 25, , #127076INCOGNITO ROCK STARStriking,curvaceous,native Betty.Intelligent/independent, but believe in chivalry.Looking for a worthy adversarythat is well-versed in music, movies,metaphysics,and humor. Pet-friendlya must because I enjoy the dog park.RedBetty, 33, , , #127053WITTY AND SPARKLYI just graduated college, traveledaround Europe for a while andmoved to Austin all in the span oftwo months, would love to meetsomeone as ambitious as that.LucyMcgee, 25, , #127014WASSUP?I’m black and beautiful, love to cook,love to take long walks in the parkand I love spoil my man! I love to bespoiled too! I love me! Clinique61,47, , #127078CIRCUS DREAMSI roller skate. I want to fly on a trapeze.I am learning to ride a unicycle.vivacious people who would like toplay and collaborate creatively. cricketdreams,39, , #127023CRAZY, SEXY, COOL!38 year old BF looking for someonewho wants to enjoy all that is Austin.I”m open to many adventures,won’t you join me? lee0101, 38,, #127011The quickest way to my heart is to open up to meThe quickest way to my bed is for you to makethe first move And in the morning, I like my eggscooked . . . lets just go out for bloody mary’sMUSIC, LAKES, FRIENDS.Just moved to Texas. I enjoy theOasis, 6th street, and recreationoutdoors. I like being around funny,interesting, quirky people. Needfriends to hang out with. restlessintexas,50, , , #126898NO MATCHING JOGSUITI know a little about a lot, alwayswilling to learn more. Not too pickybut you have to hold your own inconversations and living expenses.novowels, 30, , #126900NOT YURAVERAGE HAIRI am delightful,delicious,demented,precocious, stupendous and shy.warmaria, 40, , #126737MANY MORE ADS ONLINE!SEXYi my look young but im really the perfectgirl ill make sure you want more.divastar021, 19, , #126616PASSIONATE, SILLY, RANDOMI’m warm, passionate and somewhatshy. Music and writing are my passions.I’m new to town. I love laughing,bargain shopping, movies, staying uplate, nature and reading beat literature.GingerlyJen, 23, , #126940SHOW ME AROUNDSweet, smart, single gal needssweet, smart single guy to show herthe sights. New to Austin from Atlanta...showme where the cool kidsgo! nikki74992, 27, , #126922ZANY INSANE AWESOMEI feel most alive when around peopleI like.I’m alot of fun as long as you letme be the only one to hold the leash.Rainbow_Lust, 22, , #126916FUNNY LOW MAINTENANCEI love my job, friends, family, andfinancial situation I just need someoneto call mine. TreeLady, 33, ,, #117890YOUR FRIENDS WOULDI’m beautiful. jjones706, 36,, #120292ZZZ. . .Hello. A good deed must be passedon. . . The way to love anything is torealize it may be lost forever at anymoment. Dreas, 41, , #127075GEEK OF GEEKSI will put it to you very simply... I lovecomputers, video games and prowrestling. dzaster, 22, , #127112ANOTHER WATER SIGNI walk outside and feel the Earth’srhythm. I then jump on my bike andhead for a Yerba Mate or Kombucha.From there on anything can happen.discfrog, 31, , #127097STAR TRAVELERi’m a freak...came from a life livedalmost exclusively in pursuit ofmagick...my psi function runs hot...still think were a “maybe” then dropme a line... namaste. animuspax, 44,, #127085FRIENDS-POSSIBLE BENEFITS!I am a tall, attractive, attached whitemale seeking discreet friendshipswith attractive ladies. I am not lookingspecifically for sex - if the chemistryis there - great! mrpink2006, 29,, #127068PIZZA AND BEER?Music junkie with an appreciation forfilm and the outdoors. I’m also intocycling, basically all things Austin! I’moptimistic about meeting someonewith similar interests but also differentones. Bodie, 27, , , #127061PASSIONATE, FUNNY, LOVINGHello Ladies, I’m 30yrs old whosecaring, fun loving, friendly and funny.I’m seeking a female with the sameinterests if possible. I can please youuntil you’re satisfied! ricosuave78,30, , #127051ADVENTUROUS RECOVERINGACADEMICI like exploring new places outdoorsand seeing bands downtown.Looking to meet creative, attractive,well-educated girl who values herindependence as much as I value myown. central20, 32, , #127027ENOYING LIFEI have been in Austin for a yearnow,and I am looking for someoneto hang out with. djch2009, 33,, #127020SARCASTIC-ER THAN HELLdon’t want to come across as moodybut after 20 mins of this silly processI have kind of lost my mojo. Aren’twe all responsible for our own happiness?hornswin, 40, , #127004BAT COUNTRYWriter/photographer new in town,frightfully in need of wickedly intelligentintrovert for witty repartee andfilm/lit cheekiness. 4-Two-Oh friendly.Must love dogs, dorks. HunterS. Thompson fans a HUGE plus.ThatReporterGuy, 25, , #127095HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i am just a regular man my likes aremusic, movies and just living life. i ama kind hearted person who is lookingfor someone to spend time with.edward240, 25, , , #127001HUZZAHI cook, clean, bring home the bacon,kiss an angel good morning love herlike the devil when I get back...having ahard time not being a smart-ass here.machtspafl, 40, , #126984LAID BACK MELLOWlooking for a girl that has good tastein music, enjoys being outside andlikes to have a good time whether itbe at home or on the go. acidman,23, , #126974TRIP TIME!Looking for interesting, smart gals.Share a book, go camping, learn aboutwine, eat good, be honest...sharelaughs, and watch movies...enjoy thegood life. TripFrog, 23, , #126957...THE DUDE ABIDES...Just an ordinary dude, looking todo ordinary dude things with a fantasticordinary chick that likes to doordinary chick things. ...well at leastordinary for Austin. fakebusysignal,29, , #126924DANCING FOOL...I like adventrous people that are willingto take off their shoes and feelthe ground under their bare feet. Aslong as they don’t stink. JC_Superstar,29, , #126906austinchronicle.com/loverslaneCREATE A PROFILE AND BROWSE MORE ADS ONLINE!SMALL-TIME EXPLORERShy, film-watcher, music-lover, catindulgerseeks laid-back fan-of-thesmall-stuffwho wants to walk about,catch movies, music, food, and bits ofnature. sillylily33, 31, , #126791PUNKY MUSICIAN TRIATHLETELooking for a nice, cute, fun girl tohang out with. Must love working outor own a bike and some running shoes.Also shopping, artsy stuff and shows!punkrockchic, 28, , #127055FUN FREAKIN’ FIRECRACKERBiWF, 33, passionate, activistminded,femme needing good politicalconversation and outdoor activity.Leads to more?...Great! Animal/420friendly, green eyes, big pouty lips,hippie at heart. Love concerts,booze, greenbelt, earth. starmama,33, , , #127013VIVACIOUS SLICK VICKi love reading horoscopes, girls girlsgirls, my dog & cat, spliffs, friends,tito & jack, funky clothing, conversations,laughing, the greenbelt, running,bret easton ellis...the list goeson. luvlyleo, 20, , #126810QUIRKY. QUEER. QUASAR.oddball hedonist looking for groovy girlto chill with. likes cooking, sci fi, outdoors,and anything pleasure-inducing.must be 420 and dog friendly, able tohold a conversation about everything.kris1123, 24, , #121513BELIEVE IN YOURSELFI try to enjoy life and all things aboutit. I’m very easily pleased by thesimpler things in life. Watching mydog and cats play by chasing eacharound. Towanda, 51, , #126707TINKERBELLI’m outgoing love to have a goodtime. At home play video games.Like going to a bar,club,dancing.Looking for someone to spend timewith andnhave a good time. NawtyTinkerbell,23, , #126732SEXYI,m beautiful n sexy ,I jusr lookinfor good times,pretty much intoanything,I lookin to meet womenwith similar interests. gatyta, 30,, #126728GUY IN BUDAseeking nice and outgoing men forfun in and out of the bedroom. menwho stay active or just quiet timeat home, lets get busy or just relax.rudyinbuda, 41, , #126941HONESTY SINCERITY SUB-STANCEI am an established professional. It istime for me to put an effort into findingsomeone special and give the thesame time I have given my career.Sincerity01, 41, , #126033BE MINE.I am looking for tall, dark (or light),and handsome for the limp-wrist set.beloved, 37, , #125648GAYBOY CODYIAm 23yrs old iam going to Cosmetologyschool i have wonderfulfriends i want a guy to win me overbe hot charmimg and be nice andwant me. macattac2003, 23, ,#125639QUALITY GUYEnjoy social functions, movies,theater, cooking, entertaining, more.Swim, workout, and walk my dog.Yes: Romance, charm, thoughtfulness,adventure. No: Drugs, heavydrinkers, smokers, insecurity, unsafesex, closet cases, immaturity. taurusbull86,44, , #125317ATTRACTIVE HUNGER FORCESexy sophisticated male likes to havea good time, party, relax and enjoylife. I’m hott in the kitchen and evenhotter in other places. hungerforce,25, , #125108YOUR SENSUAL SPARTANI’m a man with a passion for goodlooking women, high quality dining,and watching animals. I enjoy watchingthe 300, Rambo, and Conan.Could you be my Salma/Heidi Klum?inuyasha86, 21, , , #125037BES1971GBM 6’0 175lbs black/brown. ToldI have a nice smile. Like to cook/bake,sing,dance,travel, read,theater/movies,hiking/camping,swimming,bowling. Looking for W/H/M to startout as friends That may lead to LTR.Serious reply. NIIU, 37, , #124639It’s Sunday morning at 10 a.m. If I’m not stillsleeping, I’m debating whether or not I’m toohungover to go to churchrROLAKASPER’sFREE BROWSE these ads andmore online for FREE.ENTER your ownprofile for FREE.This iconindicates that a photo is posted online.This icon means there is a voice message you can listen to.With a membership, you can listen and respond to as many voicemessages as your heart desires. There are no 900 #s or per minuteRESPOND by e-mail fees. 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ENTER TO WIN! Place a FREE PROFILE on Lovers Lane with yourphoto before 5pm, Monday, August 25, and you could win a $150 PRIZEPACKAGE from FORBIDDEN FRUIT! a“ICEBERG STRAIGHT AHEAD”!I’m new to Austin having just movedback from Argentina. LTryinookin tomeet new buddies to and see wherethe road takes me. hit me up.:).heaviestD, 25, , #127132AHEM...these things are ridiculous....I don’tfit into a few paragraphs....whyshould you? kiggle, 21, , #127069HAVE LUNCH?looking for a friend not a “friend” tohave lunch with. New to Austin. Gayguys and interesting girls preffered!tinyspaniard, 21, , #127019SEXY PINSTRIPE PANTSMezes Hall UT. Smiled and complementedyour pinstriped pants. Yousmiled back and playfully said ‘thanks.’Let’s get a drink and maybe see howyou look under those trousers. When:Wednesday, July 23. Where: UTcampus - Mezes Hall - Second Floor.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903247SPIN CYCLEyour daughter with blonde hair wasfascinated by the dryers, i said thatsometimes i wash my stuffed animals.you have dark hair, about my height5’10, sexy. knufflebunny tsb When:Sunday, July 27. Where: spin cycle.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903245SLEEPLESS IN AUSTINHorns b-ball game.Met you and yourAsian friend at the door.You:wearinga beautiful smile that blended quitewell with your body and necklace w/green balls.Me:blonde w/a lazy eye.Dinner @ Lambert’s? When: Tuesday,November 28, 2006. Where:UT Basketball Game. You: Woman.Me: Man. #903244LATTITUDE SILVER GIRLmet friday at lattitude by back bar.you silver dress or top. me blue buttondown with white hat. think yourname was tiffany. you are beautifulmama! holla! When: Friday, July 25.Where: lattitude 30 on 6th. You:Woman. Me: Man. #903243NORTH CENTRAL MARKETSaw you at N-Central Market Sunday@ 2pm. I was in khaki shorts withwhite shirt, you were wearing khakishorts with a blue polo. Hope to seeyou again. When: Sunday, July 27.Where: Central Market North Lamar.You: Man. Me: Man. #903242CHANCE OR FATE?blonde, blue-eyed girl, cute laugh,shy at first, wore pink shirt, waswith friend . i dark button up shirt,brown hair. tell me i didnt give youthe giggles... When: Saturday,July 26. Where: gateway cinematheater 8 the dark knight. You:Woman. Me: Man. #903240SPARKS FLEWyou writer for the chronicle, me emosbouncer, we shared a spicy momentin each others arms then there waselectricity, I have something you leftbehind, again sometime??? When:Friday, July 25. Where: emos. You:Man. Me: Man. #903239DANCING LATINA QUEENcheck out my profile at lovers lanesite... chika_23, 28, , #126933ECCENTRIC GRINCulture boy bored with bars. Bikesand the iPod racket much more fun.Let Us Be Free. Felix_Cassidy, 25,, #126886ENTREPRENEUR THINKERREADERDreamer and risk-taker. Patentattorney. My off-work passion is developinga website for liberal relationshipsand sexuality edutainment foradolescents. Seeking liberal-mindedand creative friends who sharesimilar interests. julianpraxis, 40,, #126769CONSISTANTLYUNCONSISTANTWhen I grow up I want a giant treehouse like the Swiss Family Robinsons.Seamonet, 23, , #126119NEIGHBORLY LOVEThanks neighbor for offering to helpme unload my trunk. What else do“southern gentlemen” do? When:Friday, July 25. Where: Gablesat the Terrace. You: Man. Me:Woman. #903238CHEF AT ROY’SI dined alone on 7/24 and couldn’tstop smiling. You were tall, handsomeand a beautiful smile back. Thefood was fantastic, the view evenbetter. Lets dine together. When:Thursday, July 24. Where: Roy’s.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903237HEB (OLTORF&CONGRESS)~11pm you: in line behind me,wearing soccer gear, buying pet foodme: dark hair, black t-shirt, jeans,shopping with my friend hope to hearfrom you! When: Friday, July 25.Where: HEB @ congress & oltorf.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903236HANCOCK HEB 7/25You, beautiful brunette w/curls, whitesundress. Me, shaggy hair, mediumheight, brown t-shirt. We made eyecontact as you made your way tothe sushi case. Kyoto or Silhouettesometime? When: Friday, July 25.Where: Hancock HEB, Sushi Case.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903235CUTE RIGGER RATA tree landing was your best. I’ma paratrooper who never did but Iwouldn’t mind jumping with you.Can I show you what life is, after theDD214? When: Tuesday, July 22.Where: Daily Juice. You: Woman.Me: Man. #9032347.28 NXNW LUNCHwe made eye contact a number oftimes- you were apparently out tolunch with co-workers, so was I. Yousat in the corner. Please respond, I’vebeen struck. When: Sunday, July27. Where: NXNW. You: Woman.Me: Man. #903232ZELDA -N- PETEYLake Travis has rarely looked so fun.Want to get the furry “kids” togetherfor another splashing good time?When: Sunday, July 20. Where:Cypress Creek Park on Lake Travis.You: Woman. Me: Man. #903231NICE TOPKNOTyou: getting some badass bbq to go atFreebirds. got a cookie with your burritotoo. me: rockin the same hairstyle,but cocked to the side. When: Friday,July 25. Where: hancock center. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903233CREATIVE COQUETTEI’m the epitome of Pisces. If conflictis the characterization of humans, Imust be the poster-girl. I yearn forspontaneous adventures and captivatingconversation. ununderstood,20, , , #125168C- AFTER ALL this time and allwe’ve been through I still wonder ifwe could make something together.I wonder if you do too. I miss myfriend at the least. -CSTAYING AWAY DIDN’T work calli want to comeJH.. I LUV snuggling with you..Thanksfor keeping me in your bed every night-I will stay there every night and rubSPICEWOOD/MCNEIL HEBYou male, blue shirt, dark pants,clean cut Me long dark hair,greeneyes, black skirt, heels - you keptlooking at me & followed mewhistling and I was giggling. When:Thursday, July 24. Where: HEB atSpicewood/McNeil 7PMish. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903230HORSIES ON SATURDAYYou: Tall, leggy blonde wearingensemble more suited for Brown Barthan Scoot Inn. Were you walkingon the outside of me? I certainlynoticed you. When: Saturday, July19. Where: Scoot Inn. You: Woman.Me: Man. #903228COULD I HAVEanother chance to smile at you?You gave me a nice smile. You: tall& wearing a uniform. Me: Yellowt-shirt, long brown hair. I can’t stopdreaming about you. When: Thursday,July 17. Where: HEB @ Brodie& Wm. Cannon. You: Man. Me:Woman. #903227CONGRESS BRIDGE 7/16You were walking up the stairs as thebat crowd was clearing. I was walkingdown. We met eyes at the verylast second. You were stunning! ;)When: Wednesday, July 16. Where:Congress Street Bridge. You:Woman. Me: Woman. #903226JACQUELINE’S DRIVER’SLICENSE?Encounter @ DPS office on CongressTuesday, 7/22/08.Forgot yourtemporary permit.I put the license inyour hand 15thstreet.Would you havetime for lunch or coffee?Say yes.When: Tuesday, July 22. Where:15th @ Congress Avenue. You:Woman. Me: Man. #903225HEB OLTORF EXPRESSyou: tall fella with short brown hairand a nice face buying organic milkme: blonde pigtails with glasses anda black sundress. several folks andmy shyness between us. When:Tuesday, July 22. Where: HEBOltorf 9:30 pm. You: Man. Me:Woman. #903223GREEN SUV DOGSYou were driving a green SUV withtwo dogs near 6th and Lamar. I thinkit was Wednesday. You didn’t seeme but I definitely noticed you. Dogpark sometime? When: Wednesday,July 16. Where: Lamar Street. You:Man. Me: Woman. #903222your back forever if you let me.. I amyours- are you mine??!! Smiles! HCJEAN YOUR FUN ! A Ph.D. whoknows how to shake her goove thing,talk about well-rounded! I’m enjoyingAustin more and more! Anytime Anyplace. ChefB.CAVEY: REMEMBER YOUR frontporch after Mexico... the last sunset ofthe year at Mt. Bonnell... Duke... wakingup in each others arms? I’ll neverforget & I know you won’t either. Youare still my everything... until my lastbreath. Always yours. ZOIDBERGED TODD PLEASE all me!HAVENT THOUGHT OF this ina while....but i am wishing my soulout you know how the 4 months hascrushed me...i am forever sorry...missyou elizabeth!!!have a happy heart..BOUNDARIES ARE GOOD now...lets try.MOHAWK MOOCHYou “lost” your credit card and mademe buy your food and drinks. I didn’tmind because you fetched me a burrito.Let’s go to San Diego together...When: Thursday, July 17. Where:The Mohawk. You: Woman. Me:Man. #903221THE (HE)ARTSI couldn’t afford the apartment but Itoured it anyway. You: Giggly LeasingAgent. Me: Okie girl who also hatesthe Sooners. May I tour some otherplaces with you? When: Monday, July21. Where: The Arts Leasing Office.You: Man. Me: Woman. #903220I LOVE VIDEOYou used to work at I Love Video.You were so sweet to me and I foundyou adorable. I haven’t seen you ina while, I hope you’re well. When:Sunday, December 2, 2007. Where:I Love Video (guadalupe). You:Man. Me: Woman. #903219WAITER FOR ELDERLYYou wait on me, my parents, andmy grandmother every Sunday. Iwanted to give you my number, butI was with my family... No pressure!When: Sunday, July 13. Where:Gaines Ranch. You: Man. Me:Woman. #903218RETREATBARTONCREEKAPTS TATTOEDHOTTIEWHOTRIPPEDDOWNSTAIRWalked in with your friend to printresume-We talked briefly-I waswearing a red top,jeans-had mylaptop-I’ve never done this and feellike a dork-good thing I’ve been drinkingWhen: Friday, July 11. Where:Retreat at Barton Creek. You: Man.Me: Woman. #903217YOU BLUE KIASaw you at our HEB. Should’ve saidsomething clever in the parking lotwhen you looked my way but youhadn’t had your coffee yet. Can I buyyou breakfast? When: Monday, July21. Where: HEB on I-35. You: Man.Me: Man. #903214ALSO ONLINE: Shot in the Dark!FREE!FREE WILL ASTROLOGYby Rob Brezsny for August 1 - August 7LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): I would love to see you walking down the street dressed in a featheredheaddress and white boots and leopard-print cashmere pants, plus maybe some scarlet velvetgloves and a silk T-shirt that says, “You don’t scare me.” To present yourself in such a bold andforthright manner would be in perfect alignment with your astrological omens. If that particularform of expression doesn’t feel right to you, please find an equivalent that does.VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22): Could you get access to a crane with a wrecking ball? How abouta chain saw or sledgehammer? Metaphorically speaking, you may need some heavy equipment todo all the demolition work that’s necessary right now. Among the structures that could be due fordestruction: a mental block you’ve been preserving out of perverse nostalgia, a prison cell you lockyourself inside of on your off days, a half-built bridge you’re no longer interested in or capable ofcompleting, a pedestal on which your fallen idol used to stand, and a door you nailed shut in orderto seal yourself off from a person with whom you still have unfinished business.LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22): This is your best chance in a long time to meet people you’vealways wanted to meet. It’s also a favorable time to turn pretty good connections into excellentcollaborations and to adjust your role in your web of alliances so it’s closer to where you want it tobe. None of these fine developments in your social life will magically unfold on its own, however.You can’t just sit back passively and hope that cosmic forces will somehow make them happen.So formulate your intentions crisply, and act aggressively to manifest them.SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21): Don’t just shamble down to the pizzeria and gobble a slab ofgreasy cheese, tomato sauce, and dough. Instead, arrange for an interesting person who likesyou to home-deliver a pizza lovingly prepared by a gourmet chef. For that matter, Scorpio, don’ttolerate mediocrity or the lowest common denominator in any area of your life. The Season ofthe Peak Experience is here – a time when you have a sacred duty to give your best, communewith the highest, and ask for excellence.SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): I don’t recommend that you go on a spiritual retreat to theZen monastery near Mount Kumgang in North Korea. As exquisite as the place is, the repressivegovernment’s secret police are suspicious of tourists and would probably make your trip miserable.Likewise, don’t take a vacation on the gorgeous beaches of eastern Somalia. Pirates prowlthe coastal areas of that lawless land, and anyone can buy a hand grenade for $10 at the outdoormarkets in nearby Mogadishu. No, Sagittarius, while it is an excellent time to leave your familiarhaunts and expose yourself to exotic scenes, you should be acutely discerning about where you go.In my opinion, you need a sanctuary that simultaneously surprises you and deepens your senseof being at home in the world.CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): “You have to love life when you’re in really deep trouble,” said poetRobin Blaser. So what about if, on the other hand, you’re in only shallow trouble? Do you have a mandateto just sort of like life a little more? Or can you, with a little work, exploit the mild disturbance thatthe shallow trouble provides in order to dramatically pump up your adoration of life? I hope that youractions in the coming week, Capricorn, will be a big “yes” in response to that question. I’m happy to tellyou that you can wangle a big boost from a small inconvenience.AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Some bars are now charging fines to people who drunkenlypuke on their floors. I advise you to stay out of such places in the coming week. Better yet, don’t getso wasted that you hurl anywhere. It’s one of those rare periods when every little sin will be quicklypunished, when every excess will provoke an equal and opposite reaction. On the other hand, thisis also a time when even minor eruptions of virtue will be immediately rewarded, when every braveact and self-disciplined shift will bring you an opportunity.PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): Two friends of mine, a couple engaged to be wed, rode theirbicycles for days up the Northern California coast from San Francisco to Oregon. They saw manyother riders pedaling from north to south during their trip, but they rarely encountered anyoneheading in the same direction they were. Why? The wind was blowing against them the entire way.When they stopped to rest they would sometimes meet and talk with bicyclists whose destinationwas San Francisco. “Why are you riding against the wind?” the other travelers inevitably wantedto know. My friends enjoyed replying, “We’re building our characters so we’ll be strong enough tostay in love after we’re married.” They’re your role models for the coming weeks, Pisces. Do someagainst-the-wind work to prepare yourself for your next big assignment, which is to make yourintimate relationships more interesting and invigorating and enduring.ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19): Work can be hazardous for the actors who portray cartoon andfairy-tale characters at Disney theme parks. The U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administrationreports that one-third of them have suffered on-the-job injuries. A prime cause of the mayhem:kids who kick and punch, sometimes out of misplaced exuberance and other times out of Lord ofthe Flies-style malice. I wanted to preface my advice to you with that story, Aries. Your assignmentthis week is to summon the angelic 85% of your inner child to come out and play. As for the other15% – the part of your inner child that might be inclined to pummel Mickey Mouse or head-buttCinderella: Keep that rascal under wraps.TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Sometimes hope is an irrelevant waste of time, even a stupid selfindulgence.Let’s say, for instance, that I’m really hoping that a certain disagreeable person I’ve gotto communicate with won’t answer when I call on the phone. That way I can simply leave a messageon his voice mail and avoid an unpleasant exchange. But it doesn’t matter what I hope. The guy willeither answer or not, regardless of what I want. But there is another kind of hope that’s invigorating andtransformative. Let’s say I have a hope that we humans will reverse the environmental catastrophes we’reperpetrating. Let’s say that my hope motivates me to live more sustainably and to inspire others to livemore sustainably. Then my hope is a catalyst. Meditate on these things, Taurus. It’s a perfect time for youto get very clear about the two kinds of hope.GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): The Futurist magazine predicts that by 2025, there will be a billion millionairesin the world. I hope you will be one of them. If you do end up in that fortunate position, it maywell be because of the smart, aggressive actions you initiate in the next four months. Cosmic tendenciesare in place for you to ensure your prosperity well into the future; now all you have to do is understand andcapitalize on those tendencies. Here’s a good place to start: Spend some quality time taking inventory ofyour financial life and brainstorming about a 17-year plan to make you a millionaire.CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): The world record for attaching clothespins to one’s face is 153. Evenif you’re tempted to surpass that mark, I beg you not to. Inflicting pain on yourself in order to impresssomeone or prove a point is never a good idea, but it’s an especially misguided notion right now. Iwouldn’t object, however, if you did the opposite, which is to barrage yourself with pleasure in orderto impress someone or prove a point. In my astrological opinion, it’s a perfect time to intensify yourcommitment to making yourself feel good. This is true for many reasons, but here’s one of the mostimportant ones: It will have a magically tonic effect on your relationships with others.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 AUGUST 1, 2008 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 119

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