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31 Road Trip With
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14 CITY HALL HUSTLE And So the Money Goes
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34 BOOK REVIEWS Homer
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23 THE HIGHTOWER REPORT Hide the Sponsor;
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Metro weather the recession, balance its books … and run the buses and trains on time?
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Drowning in Triviality
Facing serious problems, national politics wander into the mud BY LOUIS BLACK Sometimes politics become so emotionally overwhelming that all reason is lost, and all the long-known landmarks by which to navigate are gone. Even in the midst of a too hot summer, politics without respite can drown like a wave sweeping under a swimmer. There are often times that I would just like to go blank – to stop breathing, stop hearing, stop thinking, and float. Part of this desperation should be caused by the seeming impossibility of progress toward dealing with the numbers of truly difficult problems facing this country. Most of them have no one simple, agreed-upon solution, but rather they could be addressed in any number of different ways. But that isn’t the predicament causing all the current consternation. The general public and our elected officials should be engaged in consideration of these real-world problems, as well as discussing the weaknesses and strengths of the different ways of dealing with them. This could, and usually does, lead to way too partisan debates over public and political issues. Instead, however, these public discussions have become focused almost entirely on inanities, trivial issues that are only rhetorically connected to real problems. The goals of these intentionally divisive tangents are not solutions – they’re instead concerned with who should be blamed for the problems. It is as if simply the act of indictment solves most problems. There are serious issues to be addressed, but more often than not they are quickly trivialized into slogans and sound bites. These clichÊs do not, and are not intended to, focus on the actual topics but instead are loaded with trigger words designed to reinforce and massage longstanding biases and prejudices. Thus the tone and tenor of the media and public discussions are immediately polarized and thereby neutered. Political debates are so much louder and more engaging when about almost nothing of importance. What would be left for fun if current public arguments were denuded of insults, name-calling, angry disgust, and self-righteous championing aimed at demonizing those with differing ideas? Not only the fun would disappear, but the ratings of TV and radio talkinghead pundits – regardless of political slant – would plummet. All too often these discussions are really about anger, deep down – fear-driven anger. Topics become irresolvable, because that anger is in fact the main idea. There is no interest in reasonable resolution, because how does that serve to further intensify the self-righteous alienation that fuels the anger?
In a constitutional republic, the government should regularly take actions that anger one segment of the population or another. Most of the time, many citizens should be mad at their government, even as every citizen should be fully enfranchised, with your rights ensured and protected. You should feel free to express opinions and have them heard, as well as to have a vote. A constitutional, democratic republic, however, is not intended to serve or satisfy only you. The Founding Fathers clearly designed it to legislate and conduct its business as the government of, by, and for all citizens. There is no wording whatsoever that even distantly suggests that the legislation should be representative of your opinions and personal morality. Then what are people so angry about? A main cause has to be taxation. People are feeling overtaxed, underrepresented, and underserved. Many feel additionally incensed because they are sure that the taxes they pay as hardworking Americans are being used to serve nonworking Americans, illegal immigrants, and an overall socialist agenda. What would happen if it was assumed that most Americans, regardless of their political beliefs, were well-intentioned and trying to do what is best for the country? I’m betting chaos – as this outraged alienation is a crucial ingredient in the recipe for framing all political arguments as black and white. Obviously, the good people (whichever side you’re on) share your beliefs in the white, while the bad people are championing the black. Without an enemy, what’s the excuse for the sense of not only being righteous but being persecuted for it that so justifies the cleansing benediction of heartfelt anger? Consider some of the overwhelming issues facing this country. As already mentioned, the primary public concern is the feeling of excessive taxation. Unfortunately, the solutions to almost every other problem require increased spending. The national system of roads and highways, and especially bridges, needs repair. According to some observers, we are coming out of the economic recession, but even those observers admit it is going very slowly, with millions still jobless. There are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The country has lost manufacturing jobs. As happens periodically, economic shifts have brought devastation to once prosperous areas and prosperity to areas unused to it. There is the current national debate over health care; the auto industry is in trouble. There are energy issues. The list goes on and on. The agenda of any elected official therefore should be obvious and long.
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So what has instead become the focus of the opposition party’s concerns? What is being talked about on the street? In small towns and large cities, what are the hot topics of political discussion? What complex problems are media pundits and leading politicians addressing? The really relevant and important ones, of course – regardless of what the Democrats say. Where is President Obama’s birth certificate?! What is his religion? Is he actually a secret agent of the dark forces? In the face of many crises and burning issues, how should the public respond? Certainly with fear and indignation that the president, our president, would want to talk to America’s schoolchildren. Anger that a congressman screaming, “You lie!â€? at the president as he addressed a joint session of Congress would be regarded as rude? What about the economy that Obama either personally crippled, or, if he’s not solely responsible, well then – why hasn’t he yet saved it as he promised? Then there is the new campaign of concern over the number of “czarsâ€? he’s appointed and the exact extent of their powers. Only fools would believe that “czarsâ€? is simply a nickname for those who in certain areas are senior advisers to the president. Even dumber are those who don’t know that by representing Russia, they have complete totalitarian authority. The trivial is always a better topic for debate than the substantial. Instead of a serious discussion on health care, let’s get down to the brass tacks of the issue – what about government death tribunals and free health care for all illegal immigrants? Why would one want the main focus of political discussion right now to be on the economy or health care, on the wars we are involved in or diplomacy, on addressing serious issues especially by innovative legislation? Those are nearly irrelevant in the face of what should be the focus of all truly patriotic Americans – whether or not the president and his staff are loyal to this country and proud to be Americans? It’s time to return to those good old times of the past, when Sen. Joe McCarthy engaged in an ongoing effort to label liberals and progressives as being radically anti-American. Happily, that would provide grounds for firing them from government jobs, and quite possibly could end up completely destroying their careers. By these reactionary lights, there are and should be deep concerns over whether the president’s friends, personal influences, and political appointments are representative of his personal radical ideology, and thus indicative of a conscious effort to destroy the country. Is this administration really socialist if not actually fascist? There is such an easy answer. All that is needed is to cite the hideous smoking gun that reveals the true intentions of Obama and his administration, the clear evidence of his goal of destroying this country and its traditional values: his aggressive advocacy for fair and universal health care for all Americans! Karl Marx, Lenin, Hitler, Attila the Hun, and Stalin would be so proud. â–
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HEALTH CARE IS UPSIDE DOWN Dear Editor, Health care in America has been turned upside down: The less you can pay, the more you are charged. More jobs are involved in denying health care than providing it. Premiums soar while coverage shrinks. And every year, less of our insurance premiums actually pay for health care and more pay for executive salaries and other administrative costs. “You lie� is not just about another fanatic congressman screaming at the president, but the claim that insurance reform is not in the direct self-interest of many of the frightened protesters, who are shouting “No!� the loudest. Unless denying the uninsured the right to buy into Medicare-type public insurance is a “deal breaker,� deep-pocketed insurance giants will win this deal. Rep. Lloyd Doggett
TOBACCO KILLS; POT DOESN’T Dear Editor, Re: “Reefer Madness: Seeds vs. Suds� [News, Sept. 11]: Your review was misinformed on one point: Smoking tobacco kills, but smoking pot,
according to Dr. Donald Tashkin, the nation’s top research scientist on this subject, “seems to have a preventive effect� on lung cancer. This is consistent with a host of new studies demonstrating that cannabinoids, the active ingredients in marijuana, inhibit tumor growth. Our government has known this since 1974 but has ignored the evidence. We shouldn’t. Paul Kuhn
ENERGY GETS IT; WATER DOESN’T Dear Editor, Re: Your article “Ending the Water War� [News, Sept. 11]: Austin Energy gets it. At a recent forum, an Austin Energy rep said that it’s more cost effective to reduce consumption than to expand supply. (She was talking about electricity.) Now, if only the Austin Water Utility got that. Tom Davis
KEEP THE RIND; TOSS THE ORANGE Dear Editor, Re: “Can This District Be Saved?� [News, Sept. 11]: Some planners desire to retain an architectural semblance in the Warehouse District to evoke the good old days. No one can duplicate
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these vibrant times now gone. Bureaucrats salve their consciences as the wrecking ball approaches the remaining modest warehouses. The effect of salvaging frontages is to keep the rind and toss the orange. The fantasy will attract developers and play to tourists. Austinites beyond Downtown will visit only if there’s a parking space. Judith Michaels
WARN ABOUT ADULT CONTENT Dear Editor, Re: “The Dragonfly Queen� [Arts, Aug. 28]: I was not familiar with the prior play, but after reading the Chronicle review and Vortex synopsis, I decided to take several seventh-grade theatre students to see this play. The information made this play seem like an off-beat Star Wars type of fantasy. I was shocked to find the content replete with partial nudity and lesbian sexual innuendo, and we soon left the theatre. I saw no warnings of this content anywhere and am extremely disappointed that the Chronicle and the Vortex made no mention of the adult/lesbian nature of this production. Charles Antonie
NEW WATER TREATMENT PLANT IS A BOONDOGGLE Dear Editor, Katherine Gregor’s article on the Austin Water Utility and Austin environmental advocacy groups doesn’t mention the enormous cost to ratepay-
ers of the utility’s proposed new water treatment plant – $1 billion [“Ending the Water War,� News, Sept. 11]. That’s about $1,250 per Austinite, even if we use less water in the future through conservation and efficiency. The Austin Water Utility won’t acknowledge that our current treatment capacity can accommodate 10 years of population growth at today’s water-use levels. With additional conservation efforts, we can maximize our existing water system for years longer and save ratepayers $14 million every year we delay the billion-dollar boondoggle. Instead of focusing on conservation – the cheapest source of water – the water utility wants to dig Austin ratepayers into a 30-year debt hole of ever-increasing water rates to pay off the proposed treatment plant. The debt will eat up bonding capacity, hindering funding to replace old pipes, purchase critical watershed protection lands, and become the most waterefficient city in Texas. If we commit to the billion-dollar boondoggle and succeed in using less water, the utility will collect less revenue from selling less water. How will we pay off our debt to Wall Street? By raising water rates even higher than planned. In the past, San Antonio used more water than Austin per capita. Today, San Antonio uses 23% less water per capita than Austin. If Austin catches up with San Antonio in water conservation, we could add more than 325,000 people to our water system without expanding water CONTINUE D ON P.8
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use one gallon. Conservation can save ratepayers billions of dollars in reduced water and sewage treatment and pumping costs. Let’s get serious about conserving water. It’s the cheapest source, it’s readily available, and it’s the right thing to do. We can save water, save money, embrace sustainability, and avoid boondoggles. Sincerely, Colin Clark Save Our Springs Alliance
PERCEPTIVE REALITY Dear Editor, One is amused that a “journalist” (more realistically, an essayist) is complaining about other “journalists” (who are really media “personalities” with no pretension of being anything other than emotional empaths) creating unreal perceptions [“Page Two,” Sept. 11]. All this in respect to supposedly free markets, supposedly regulated health care, and supposedly effective government. More “real” perceptions that deal with trillions of dollars, millions of human lives, and the global infrastructure of health care would be governed by some sense of scale measured by numbers. Such numbers expose any number of original sins: Americans viewing health care like they do a mall full of designer clothes and kitchen widgets; doctors who live where they want to enjoy the fruits of their role in society rather than situating themselves in the areas of greatest need; politicians that can’t balance a checkbook, whether their own or their
constituents’; and “insurance” companies that are forever “marking up” progressively expanding claims, and thus carving bigger and bigger slices out of the national salami. There are a number of implicit “guarantees” that are more perception than reality: One is that the U.S. government will pay all the debts it incurs, as is mandated by the Constitution. Another is that health care is a “right,” even if such rights are admittedly confined by the constraints of existing infrastructure and provider expertise. Such assurances will be more and more vigorously abused until there is no doubt that any meaningful limit has been exceeded. At such point the “victims” will be people that probably haven’t even been born yet. Meredith Poor
“BEST OF ...” = THINK FOR YOURSELF Dear Editor, In response to Marisha Hicks’ question about Karen Slafter [“Postmarks,” Sept. 11]: The great thing about the Readers Poll is that it’s a write-in ballot and we all have to think for ourselves in order to answer [“Best of Austin 2009”]. This means winners don’t rest on their laurels but are chosen because readers put thought into their choices. In fact, they have to – there’s no other way to choose the “Best of Austin” unless one thinks for themselves. This selection process helps explain why Karen Slafter won – because more people voted for her than didn’t. Simple as that. CO N T I N UE D O N P. 1 0
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A LOVELY TRIBUTE TO A GREAT SHOW Dear Editor, I just wanted to say thanks to Cindy Widner for a lovely tribute to King of the Hill [“The World Is Flat,” Screens, Sept. 11]. She hit the nail on the head about this great show and the genius of Mike Judge. Thank you, Cindy, and thank you, Mike! Cindy Contreras San Marcos
JEALOUS MUCH? Dear Editor, Re: “Questions About Best Tattoo Artist” [“Postmarks,” Sept. 11]: I thought that an establishment or individual won a “Best Of” slot based on votes and that no one was discredited by not being included in this one issue of the Chronicle. Publicly slandering a person in the editorial pages is nothing new … just tired. Don’t you have anything better to do? Grow up. Nobody’s saying anybody sucks. Sarah Duell
ERROR IN AD Dear Editor, The Save KUT Austin committee inadvertently included the name of Suzanna Choffel in our ad regarding KUT. We sincerely apologize for the error. Gary Etie Save KUT Austin Steering Committee
LABOR DAY IS TO CELEBRATE EVERY WORKER Dear Editor, We have recently celebrated another Labor Day holiday. I am concerned that most Americans do not understand the purpose of the day. Its purpose is not to simply give you a three-day weekend; it is not the same as the capitalist holidays (Valentine’s Day, Mother’s/ Father’s Day). Labor Day is to celebrate the sacrifices and hardships of the worker. That is right, I didn’t say “American” worker, but every worker. Labor Day is a national holiday to recognize the contributions to everyday life of the working man/woman. You take for granted that you get weekends off. You take for granted that you get overtime pay for more than 40 hours a week. You take for granted that you have safety regulations that provide a hazard-free workplace. These were not always in place. Unionized, collective workers – who understood solidarity – provided these things for you. The next time you hear capitalist business-oriented perspectives about the evils of collective bargaining, please consider the source. Consider the gains of those who gave their all to provide you with the things you take for granted. Steven McCloud
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› City Council adopted the city’s 2010 budget, set-
ting property taxes at the rollback rate while attempting to rein in other fee increases. But one council member has voiced his displeasure with the process. See “City Hall Hustle,” p.14, and “One Fiscal Year Down, Another on the Way,” p.22.
› A debate-style town hall over the need for Water
Treatment Plant No. 4 is scheduled for 6pm today, Thursday, Sept. 17, at the Palmer Events Center. Camps for and against the construction of the new plant will make their case, and a quorum of the City Council is expected to attend. See “Point, Counterpoint,” p.18.
› What’s in the water? Late last week, the Austin Water Utility issued a notice saying a naturally occurring algae bloom in Lake Travis may be responsible for “an unusual taste and odor” in customers’ water. The utility is treating the wet stuff with activated carbon.
› Lest we forget: Longtime activist Bert Cromack, a geophysicist who cared deeply about Austin and its environs – specifically the protection of Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer – died Sept. 14 at 70. Cromack served several terms as president of the Save Barton Creek Association. R.I.P., Bert.
› The city’s audit of the Austin Revitalization
Authority has been pushed back yet again – consideration of the audit by the City Council’s Audit & Finance Committee, scheduled for Tuesday, is now planned for Oct. 27.
› Austin Community College Trustee Veronica
Rivera announced earlier this summer that she is stepping down to take a position in Washington, D.C., with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Last week, the rest of the board of trustees voted to leave Rivera’s seat vacant until elections in May.
› The Democratic National Committee invaded
Austin Sept. 10-12, with several high-ranking Democratic candidates kick-starting their campaigns before the national party. On the other side of the aisle, the Hands Off Texas gathering at the Capitol to protest the DNC’s presence in Austin turned into a wash-out, with umbrellas nearly outnumbering banners. See “DNC Does the Texas Waltz,” p.18.
› Two months after he was indicted in Travis County on campaign finance violations, Rep. Kino Flores, D-Mission, now says he won’t seek reelection to the Texas House. Two Democratic hopefuls have emerged to replace him: Sergio Muñoz Jr., the son of the man from whom Flores took the seat in 1996; and Sonia Rodriguez, who lost to Flores in 2008.
› The long-running Republican campaign to dig up
dirt on ACORN paid dividends after allegations of illegal activity in its D.C. and Baltimore offices. Gov. Rick Perry’s re-election campaign immediately released a statement attacking “Sen. Kaycorn” (aka primary challenger Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison) for skipping a vote to strip its federal funding.
City Solid Waste Services employees turned their day-to-day work into a work of choreographed art last weekend, thanks to the artistic direction of Allison Orr of Forklift Danceworks. The Trash Project drew a huge crowd to the performance at Austin Studios.
A Few Choice Words for Capital Metro
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Wyatt firing just the latest in string of management fiascoes BY MICHAEL KING The ongoing mess at Capital Metro is enough to make any sane person curse. I don’t believe TxDOT and the highway lobby recruited double agents to run Cap Metro into the ground and thereby discredit forever even the possibility of serious mass transit in Central Texas – it only seems that way. It’s unlikely that laid-off screenwriters from The X-Files are responsible for the inexplicable delays that have made the agency’s agoraphobic commuter train a public laughingstock. And as Lee Nichols reports this week, Cap Metro’s woeful budget predicament may be largely a byproduct of the recession, although Fred Gilliam and his staff’s capacity to make a bad situation worse is matched only by their inability to explain themselves. All of this is bad enough and shows no sign of getting better any time soon. But the firing of Jay Wyatt takes the cake. As reported in “Let’s Fire the Union President!,” p.28, StarTran General Manager Terry Garcia Crews fired the ATU Local 1091 president Friday from his driver’s position, nominally for failing to comply with the Cap Metro subcontractor’s sexual harassment policies. She’s not likely to get away with it – the charges are subject to arbitration, and their substance appears to be laughable. The real reason for the firing seems to be to tar Wyatt with the vague
and highly inflammatory charge of “sexual harassment,” and then let people imagine what that might actually mean. If that blackens the reputation of an aggressive and successful union leader, well, it’s just a coincidence – this is simply a private employment matter concerning “proper conduct in the workplace.” As he has charged many times before, Wyatt calls the firing “all part of a process to try to bust the union.” Many folks still believe he’s just woofing. Yet Cap Metro has done its best to keep unionized workers off its precious rail project and has been persistently transferring bus routes (and unionized drivers) to lower-paying contractors, effectively putting in place a union-breaking, two-tier wage system that it had not been able to achieve via collective bargaining. And now this – firing the union president on unspecified claims by anonymous management employees, supposed adults who apparently just discovered they can’t bear to hear profane words uttered in their presence. Enough is enough. It certainly sounds like unionbusting to me.
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Nothing to Say or Do Almost as bad as the charges themselves have been the predictable official responses. Crews, of
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tous Texas director of enviro group Public Citizen, was bestowed with a Heinz Award, an accolade established by Teresa Heinz-Kerry to honor progressive causes. Smith was honored “for his work as one of the most effective renewable energy advocates in Texas” with a $100,000 prize.
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“It’s not my business.” – Capital Metro Board Chair Margaret Gomez, asked if she was seeking information on why the transit agency fired union leader and bus driver Jay Wyatt
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› DESTINED FOR A GREEN GRAVE If you’re really serious
about your composting, then consider doing it from beyond the grave: Compost yourself. Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home announced Monday that it had become “the first funeral facility in Texas to be approved by the Green Burial Council to perform eco-friendly end-of-life rituals.” Weed-Corley-Fish’s press release said that the funeral home provides various “shades of green,” depending on just how eco-friendly the family wants to be, ranging from “darkest” green (no embalming, buried in a shroud or all-natural fiber clothing in a biodegradable casket/urn in a green cemetery) to “lightest” (includes embalming and placement in a biodegradable casket/urn, but burial would be in a traditional cemetery, which usually requires an outer burial container). Now that’s truly dust to dust. – Lee Nichols
› VICTORY OVER VICTORIA GARDENS When East Austinites
warned representatives of a nursing home company that they objected to its plans for a mixed-use convalescent center in the struggling East 12th Street corridor, a company vice president said, “You’re not going to have to fight me tooth and nail.” (See “What Part of ‘No’ Don’t You Understand?,” Aug. 28.) He kept good on that claim: On Monday, Austin Revitalization Authority interim Director Greg Smith sent a letter to neighborhood representatives letting them know that “we have received notice from Victoria Gardens representatives that they will no longer pursu[e] the acquisition and development of that site on East 12th.” Well, that was easy. Still up in the air: What will actually be built along those blocks near I-35? The next meeting of the ARA board is Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4pm in the President’s Dining Room at Huston-Tillotson University, 900 Chicon. – L.N.
› ON YOUR MARKS … Primary fever has struck Williamson
County. After state Senate Finance Committee Chair Steve Ogden announced that he will not be running for his seat again in 2010 – without ruling out any other positions – Rep. Dan Gattis, R-Georgetown, launched his “Gattis for Senate” website. Meanwhile, Republicans are lining up to challenge House District 52 incumbent Diana Maldonado, D-Round Rock. Larry Gonzales, a former Texas State University System legislative liaison and former chief of staff to Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, announced his candidacy on Sept. 14; he will be facing off against political consultant James Bernsen, previously employed as a spokesman for former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm and former House Speaker Tom Craddick. Also eyeing the Round Rock GOP nomination are Ralph Piña (owner of cigar firm Fumée and onetime congressional staffer to Florida Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen), former Texas Supreme Court clerk Stephen Casey (who holds a master’s degree in divinity from televangelist Pat Robertson’s Regent University), and former Williamson County GOP Chair John Gordon. – Richard Whittaker
› THREE DROPS IN AUSTIN’S FILMMAKING BUCKET Three
Austinites are finalists in the Intelligent Use of Water Film Competition, an annual contest for films that bring awareness to water conservation issues. The short films, “Small Changes” by Jennifer and Christopher Gandin Le and “Poor Mark” by David Tuck, are among six films that will be shown at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 23. All films in the finals may be viewed at www.iuowfilm.com. – L.N.
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AND SO THE MONEY GOES Final city budget adoption not quite so final BY W E LL S D U N B A R We shouldn’t be surprised a decision as big as the city’s 2010 budget – which, despite its eyelid-drooping, numbercrunching wonktitude, is, in fact, the City Council’s biggest decision of the year – should bring out the heavy PR artillery. Exhibit A: the editorial, published the day of the budget’s adoption, Monday, Sept. 14, featuring a rote recital of one of the Statesman’s key editorial planks: that council, by not sufficiently slashing city employees’ pay, reneged on its promise of “shared sacrifice.” Couched in conservative condescension, for example, calling for tax “relief” – language more befitting a hemorrhoidal wipe than a budget barely keeping existing city services and salaries afloat – it closed with an attack-ad-style entreaty to e-mail the mayor yourself to register your disgust! “I really don’t agree with this morning’s editorial that this [sacrifice] is not spread evenly,” said Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez at the time of the adoption. “Everyone is equally sharing in the burden this year, and it’s unprecedented,” he continued, compelled to point out the obvious. “They are going to have to pay a little more in taxes, and a little more in fees, to maintain the same services … not bells and whistles.” In City Hall’s saner chambers, rather than disgust, there was recognition of what the budget actually is: one written for a city that, while doing better than most, still isn’t doing well enough; one that’s trying to maintain the services its citizens have consistently supported; one that struggles to reconcile Austin’s ever swelling size with state-capped taxes perpetually lagging behind real expenses. That’s not to say anyone was particularly pleased to pass the thing – the trending meme was definitely “sacrifice,” despite congratulation to the city’s beleaguered budget staff. However, there were more substantial critiques than the Statesman’s budget caterwauling – from the dais itself, i.e., Bill Spelman. After expressing gratitude to the city’s financial mandarins and noting items he’s “very happy” with – such as waiving the $5 million Austin Energy was about to collect in fees to cover energy transmission, a deferral he later defended by saying, “There’s so much in the fund balance … we didn’t need to soak the ratepayers” – Spelman explained what he was “less happy” about: “I’m less happy with the fact the property tax is where it was when we began. I’m less happy about the fact we missed some opportunities,” including a smarter allocation of public safety funds. As an example, Spelman cited city reluctance to exchange two fire trucks for EMS-style medical response units; though most fire calls are medically related and the proposal garnered nearly 80% approval in budget town halls, it went nowhere. “There were a lot of internal constituencies less sold
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CONVERSATIONS WITH BOB TAYLOR
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ST. JOHN/CORONADO HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN WORKSHOP
6:30-8:30pm. Virginia Brown Recreation Center, Rm. B, 7500 Blessing Ave. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/sj_ch.htm.
WATER TREATMENT PLANT NO. 4 DEBATE See “Point, Counterpoint,” p.18. 6pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd.
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on the idea,” he says. Internal constituencies: that’s LBJ School-speak for “insiders with more stroke than you.” “This is not quite the budget I wanted,” he continued. “I think it’s probably true for many of us on the dais, we never quite get the budget we want.” But, he went on, echoing the Stones, “You don’t always get what you want; you get what you need.” Looking to fiscal year 2011, Spelman said it was time to start considering “what is it exactly we’re looking for in advance .... The sooner we can do that, the clearer we can do that, the more likely we are to get the budget that we all want next year.” Spelman told the Hustle he’s not quite done and is planning to put his handprints on the “recently poured concrete” of the budget. Reiterating his plea to “move money from less valuable programs to more valuable programs,” he plans to bring items to the next council meeting (Sept. 24) that include funding the inspection of city projects to ensure disability compliance and beefing up construction safety and security (“we’re losing people on tall buildings”). Council Member Laura Morrison e-mails to say she’s also pursuing the above, plus “the development of a systematic approach to allocating our Health and Human Services Department social service funding.” Spelman is also looking to fund additional veterinary technicians at the Town Lake Animal Center. “I came in in the middle of the process,” Spelman says, referring to his May election while the budget process was well under way. “Direction had already been given.” That direction emerges in part from the city’s business planning process, an annual winter ritual where departments “review goals and performance standards,” says Budget Officer Ed Van Eenoo. “I would like to see some tweaks to it,” Eenoo adds. Missing out on these early decisions, plus the total $2.7 billion budget’s dwarfing of the general fund, must be why Spelman sees adopting the rollback property tax rate as a failure of creative budget solutions – if not a triumph of PR. Noting that rising property values allowed council to lower the actual rate from an earlier high while still pulling in slightly more revenue, he said, “It’s the same amount of money … but some people were considerably more happy” with the optics of a lower rate. To Spelman, though, “It still looks like we’re gonna take as much money as we possibly can out of your pocket, in the middle of a recession.” Even if you don’t entirely agree – or balk at even indirectly deferring to the Statesman’s knee-jerk city bashing – Spelman’s take is refreshingly frank in a business so fixated on smooth public relations. N
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S AT U R D AY 1 9 ETHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTIN Hear from Sean
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M O N D AY 2 1 CAP METRO 2010 BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING See “Riding to the End of the Line,” p.24.
5pm. Capital Metro headquarters, 2910 E. Fifth, 389-7400. Free. www.capmetro.org.
CENTRAL WEST AUSTIN LAND USE PLANNING WORKSHOP 6:30pm. The Sanctuary,
2600 Exposition, 974-2865. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/central_west_austin.htm.
NXNW DEMOCRATS MEET-UP 6:15pm.
Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill, 9012 Research Ste. C-1, 380-9443. Free. www.sherlockspub.com.
T U E S D AY 2 2 BEYOND WALLS & CAGES A talk from activist and scholar Jenna Loyd on the interplay between U.S. immigration and penal policies. 6pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925. Free. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: AISD 2013 STRATEGIC PLAN 6pm. William B.
Travis High School, 1211 E. Oltorf, 414-9961. RSVP required. www.austinisd.org/inside/initiatives/strategic_plan. HAAM BENEFIT DAY Eat at a participating restaurant to benefit the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. For venues, see www.myhaam.org.
W E D N E S D AY 2 3 HERITAGE HILLS/WINDSOR HILLS LAND USE MEETING 6:30pm. Dobie Middle School,
1200 E. Rundberg. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/ heritage_hills.htm.
TOWN HALL: FUTURE OF AUSTIN ENERGY Discuss the greenest and most
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not my business,â&#x20AC;? Gomez twice insistcourse, calls this a â&#x20AC;&#x153;confidential personnel matterâ&#x20AC;? and wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discuss the actual charges, ed, saying by not commenting she is â&#x20AC;&#x153;prohaving provided to Wyatt only a generalized tecting Jayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;He needs to deal with summary of his supposed offenses and no his employer,â&#x20AC;? Gomez concluded, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and they opportunity to question his accusers. Gilliam, need to investigate the charges â&#x20AC;Ś and I hope who recruited Crews to run StarTran (know- that they do everything lawfully.â&#x20AC;? So according to Gomez, Crews should ing she had a reputation as a union-buster) and who backstage-managed the last round review her own actions and decide whether of union negotiations, claims that it would be she acted correctly in firing Wyatt. That â&#x20AC;&#x153;improperâ&#x20AC;? for him to be involved in a sub- should work out quite fairly. contractorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s employee policy and is only â&#x20AC;&#x153;disappointed that it came to this.â&#x20AC;? In other Sheer Cussedness Sexual harassment is indeed a very serious words, the state-mandated fiction that union employees donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for Cap Metro is being matter â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and that is precisely why it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t used to mean Crews and StarTran are subject be claimed indiscriminately whenever someto no oversight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have no involvement at body feels offended at work. If, as Wyatt claims, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually at issue here is coarse language all,â&#x20AC;? says Gilliam. At the Cap Metro board level, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little bet- or jokes to which nobody objected at the time ter, although admittedly, under the law the â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to insist adult women must be protected from board must indeed tread lightly on direct profanity is nothing more than sexism as official personnel matters. City Council and board company policy. Judging from the (spring) timing and the management member Mike Martinez apologized for not being able to Fred Gilliam and his sources of the complaints, it seems more likely that say much: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I understand Jay staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capacity to Gilliam and Crews were has strong feelings. But whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paramount at this make a bad situation angry about the unionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legpoint is the issue, of whether worse is matched only islative lobbying against and were trying sexual harassment took by their inability to them a counterattack. place, is completely and explain themselves. Mayor Lee Leffingwell thoroughly investigated and campaigned in part against addressed.â&#x20AC;? He said he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked to Wyatt but will continue to follow Cap Metro management and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like what the matter and presumes Wyatt will appeal heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heard. While acknowledging that he and more information will become available. doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know â&#x20AC;&#x153;all the details,â&#x20AC;? he continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Asked about the quality of the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s man- certainly wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to accuse anybody of agement team, Martinez answered drily: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing something like that [the firing] in retribunot going to make any comment on that. We tion, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to have that appearance at this point to me.â&#x20AC;? Moreover, he noted what should can always stand for improvement.â&#x20AC;? Worst of all was Travis County Commis- be obvious even to Cap Metro management sioner and board Chair Margaret Gomez, and its board â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the utter lack of due process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It who said not only that the board has no seems to me that there ought be some kind of personnel authority, it has nothing to do hearing before they took that step,â&#x20AC;? Leffingwell with StarTran at all, and all for the protec- said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know any of the details, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll tion of employees, â&#x20AC;&#x153;so that they can union- just say itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very concerning.â&#x20AC;? Instead, it looks like it will be up to the ize without any interference from the Capital Metro agency or board.â&#x20AC;? Not only did National Labor Relations Board to give Wyatt Gomez argue that the â&#x20AC;&#x153;horrible, horrible â&#x20AC;&#x201C; along with a brace of related unfair labor setupâ&#x20AC;? relieves her of any responsibility for practice charges â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a fair hearing. As Fred what happens to employees, it prevents her Gilliam might say, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disappointing that it from even attempting to discover whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had to come to this. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a downright goddamn shame. N been done to Wyatt.
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ment principles, as it’s within walking distance of future rail transit down Riverside; it includes cash to upgrade bus stops, traffic signals, crosswalks, bike lanes, and car-share parking spaces. There’s free commercial space for a nonprofit or day care and public safety, reduced rent for locally owned small businesses, and even a $25,000 contribution to restore the decrepit historic Norwood House nearby. The list goes on. In exchange for all that, Grayco is seeking a sole exception: increased height allowance to 90 feet on some of the six tracts vs. the 40 or 60 feet allowable, and perhaps 120 feet on one tract outside the waterfront overlay (still negotiable). Due to the PUD zoning and height requests, Save Town Lake is protesting the project and urging, “Write or call the Austin City Council and tell them to reject Grayco’s application.” But this development, unlike the controversial CWS Capital Partners project that Save Town Lake fought earlier, isn’t seeking to build closer to the shoreline than allowed. In this subdistrict, buildings must be set back 50 feet from the south side of Lakeshore Boulevard; Grayco complies, in one tract increasing the setback to 100 feet. Between Lakeshore and the water, the whole area is already public parkland with a trail. Would the average person even consider this across-the-street site “waterfront”? Some neighborhood advocates have protested the heights over 60 feet on principle. But the entire surrounding area is being redeveloped as mixed-use: On one side of the proposed PUD, a new AMLI project is going
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Can it be? Austin’s urban design and planning processes actually seem to be working, at least for the South Shore planned unit development. The large mixed-use project proposed by developer Grayco Partners goes to City Council Sept. 24; Grayco is seeking PUD zoning for a 20-acre site between South Lakeshore Boulevard and East Riverside Drive, along a stretch of Lady Bird Lake. As the first test of council’s reasserted power to consider a PUD that trumps Waterfront Overlay Ordinance provisions, the project has been closely watched. While not perfect, it’s darn good, thanks to all who have worked hard on raising Austin’s PUD, waterfront, and urban design standards. Other city rules and efforts shaping this PUD include commercial design standards, the East Riverside/Oltorf Combined Neighborhood Plan, and the East Riverside Corridor Master Plan. All emerged from extensive stakeholder processes, countless citizen volunteer hours, and project-specific suggestions from neighbors, planning professionals on city staff, city boards, elected officials, environmentalists, and activists. As a result, the proposed South Shore PUD is a veritable goodie basket of features, contributions, and amenities corresponding to every hot-button issue in Austin. It’s got strong water-quality protections. It follows or exceeds every set of design standards the city has established. It’s got homes (some affordable, some handicapped-accessible) integrated with a shopping/dining district. There’s native-landscaped open space, plazas with public art, nice broad sidewalks and streetscapes, and trails around a landscaped pond and over to the lake. It follows transit-oriented develop-
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up; on the other, the large Lakeshore PUD is already approved. Both have similar density and heights up to 120 feet. Grayco also agreed to remove from the project the land it owns immediately adjacent to Riverside, allowing for future transit-oriented development in keeping with a master plan, if and when rail in the corridor comes to pass. “The new PUD ordinance was really a blessing,” said John Donisi for developer representatives Drenner & Golden Stuart Wolff. “We were able to just move down the list and find things we could plug in, to add all the different desired benefits.” (This raises the question of why the Real Estate Council of Austin reflexively fought the new system.) Citizens who saw their concerns incorporated into the PUD ordinance didn’t have to weigh in again on this project, he noted. For example, advocates for people with disablities got a requirement for accessible housing into PUD standards. “Frankly, we’d never have even thought to bring that up to our client,” said Donisi. But Grayco now is proposing to provide 25% more handicappedaccessible units than PUD rules require. Overall, “we presented what we thought was the best possible project up front, with no holds barred,” said Donisi, rather than waiting for fights. “That works better for the decision makers too.” Moreover, the proposal’s community benefits have steadily improved since January (see “PUD Ordinance in Action,” Jan. 30). Originally, Grayco was complying with just 11 of 12 applicable Tier 1 PUD provisions; now it’s complying with all of Tier 1 and 12 of 13 applicable provisions in Tier 2. Added is affordable housing: 10% of units available for those living at 80% of median family income, $1.5 million in funding for affordable senior housing off-site, or some combination of the two. City Council is likely to address whether affordability needs to be deeper, as East Riverside is a lower-income area and 600 to 700 older units would be removed – along with the people who live in them. Resident Dawnna Hyndman, whose apartment would be razed, filled out a comment form, plain-
tively asking the city for help in relocating: “I have no means of transportation, and I’m on disability, also I have no way to move myself or my things, or the finances to do so. Thank you for listening.” (It’s worth noting that Planning Commissioner Cathy Echols, who worked on the PUD ordinance, said she and others do not believe Grayco’s proposal meets its affordable housing requirements. By her calculations, the in-lieu fee should be at least $5 million, not $1.5 million.) Whatever the final outcome, city staff should be commended for attentively birddogging this project, as well; they persuaded Grayco to include more good-design provisions, such as step-backs for building heights. The urban design site plan has become nicely detailed, creating greater confidence in how the project will look and feel. “We’re at 50 PUD notes and counting,” said Donisi. “I’ve never worked on a project that had this many details in the notes, all enforceable by the city.” What’s missing that would give the project a sparkling “wow” factor, worthy of resounding community support? First, design by a top-tier architecture firm, renowned for national excellence in creating beautiful, contextsensitive projects on this scale. (Grayco’s architect thus far is Wallace Garcia Wilson Architects; the Houston firm’s similar projects look adequate but aesthetically bland.) Second, a great public park. Grayco already has pledged about $800,000 for nearby parks (via parkland dedication fees), plus $200,000 more toward the city’s proposed boardwalk project or a pedestrian bridge study. But what the project really needs is a bold public/private vision for a new waterfront park that serves the entire neighborhood. If Grayco engaged the two developers on both sides, together they could transform the dull waterfront stretch of parkland along Lakeshore into a stellar neighborhood amenity. Thousands of new residents are going to spill into that park once all three major projects are completed. Could Grayco lead the team to make it happen? “We’d be open to that,” said Donisi. “We all have an interest in it being wonderful and supporting the density we’re bringing.” N
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How long has it been since the Democratovation at Friday’s general meeting when he ic National Committee met in Texas? announced that, under Austin’s nonpartisan Longer than most of its members could election code, he was a “strictly nonpartisan, recall. So having the national party’s principal lifelong, dyed-in-the-wool, yellow dog Demoorganizing and fundraising body hold its fall crat.” He has seen the Democratic infrastrucmeeting in Austin last week sent a clear ture weaken in Texas across his career, but message to state Dems, and a warning to with increased urbanization and a more orgaRepublicans, that Texas may become a batnized campaign presence, he said, “I think tleground state. that bodes well for a political shift.” With about 300 national delegates (plus a Kaine predicted an uphill battle: Since strong showing of Texas officeholders and 1900, on average the sitting president loses hopefuls) at the Renaissance Hotel, party 28 congressional seats in the first midterm, chair and outgoing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine so much depends on the continuing success laid out important seats in the run-up to the of the 50-state strategy. There are already 10 2010 midterm elections, which kick off this of the party’s Organizing for America campaign November with two hotly contested gubernastaffers in Texas, and while Kaine called it torial races in New Jersey and Virginia. On “premature” to talk about assisting individual the national landcandidates, he said scape, the Lone Star his team was preparState is considered ing reports on “state a big ticket, with the legislatures that are Texas House balwithin a few votes of anced 76-74 going switching.” Using his into next year’s legparty’s recent rise to islative races. power in his home There’s also the state as an example, anticipated special Kaine told the Texas election to replace delegation, “If any U.S. Sen. Kay state in the country Bailey Hutchison, can do it, you can.” Houston Mayor and U.S. Senate candidate Bill which has both polit- White chats with fellow Dems, including former Washington will also ical and symbolic play a role: If health state party chair Molly Beth Malcolm, right. importance for care reform passes, Democrats. Senate Democratic Caucus he added, “That’s going to create a great tailChair Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, wind for Democrats because we’ll have tackreminded attendees: “That seat belonged to led one of the most persistent problems our Lyndon Johnson. That seat belonged to economy is facing.” Lloyd Bentsen.” Much of the three-day event was spent in The event emboldened the crowd, with the dry bureaucratic rigmarole of caucuses, but Mayor Lee Leffingwell getting a standing it was also an opportunity for primary candi-
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DNC Does the Texas Waltz
Mayor Lee Leffingwell welcomes the crowd at last week's Democratic National Committee meeting in Austin. dates to schmooze with drinks in their hands. On that score, arguably the biggest event was Thursday night’s Netroots ’N Boots bash at Club de Ville, as challengers polished their stump speeches before the progressive blogging community. There were onstage appearances from rancher-turned-gubernatorial primary contender Hank Gilbert and deli owner cum lieutenant governor hopeful Marc Katz, while the two big senate primary rivals played a game of early adopter one-upmanship: Houston Mayor Bill White reminded everyone that, under his chairmanship, the Texas Democratic Party sent its first e-mails, while former state Comptroller John Sharp burnished his techfriendly credentials as the man who brought
websites to state government. Meanwhile, the other big name looking for a ballot slot, contender for governor Tom Schieffer, took a more low-key approach. Buoyed by the recent endorsement by the House Democratic caucus leadership, he continued his charm offensive by simply working the floor. For all the enthusiasm generated by the meet-up, Leffingwell was cautious about a Democratic takeover in Texas, observing, “I don’t think it will happen next year or the year after.” When the city council finally has a statehouse that doesn’t oppose its policies on principle, he added, “It will make the job of whoever’s leading Austin at that time a lot easier.” – Richard Whittaker
Point, Counterpoint The debate over Water Treatment Plant No. 4 Should Austin build a new water treatment plant to ensure the city’s future water needs, or save money and water by hunkering down with stronger water conservation measures? Opponents of the project will hash out their differences with Water Treatment Plant No. 4 supporters in an old-fashioned public debate tonight (Thursday, Sept. 17), 6-9pm, at the Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd. Speaking for the opposition: Colin Clark, Save Our Springs Alliance; Luke Metzger, Environment Texas; David Foster, Clean Water Action; and Chris Lehman, Austin Sierra Club. Speaking for the project: Austin Water Utility Director Greg Meszaros; AWU Assistant Directors Daryl Slusher (environmental affairs and conversation) and David Anders (business and finance); and Teresa Lutes, division manager of water resources and planning. The moderator is Jim Walker, the University of Texas’ director of sustainability. Here are some of the key talking points to expect: Austin Water Utility: WTP4 is needed to meet estimated future peak-demand levels. Enviros: AWU has historically overestimated demand, attributing population growth to single-family homes rather than condos, for example, and to water-siphoning chip-manufacturing jobs that are now being outsourced. Using flawed assumptions about both conservation and water use, AWU also underestimates how long water use can remain flat, even as population increases (as in drought-conscious San Antonio).
AWU: WTP4 is needed to replace the 42 million gallons per day lost when Austin decommissioned the Green Water Treatment Plant last year and to create redundancy in the system so that older plants can be repaired. Enviros: Cities with comparable populations have an average of 1.7 water treatment plants, and Austin already has two. If further redundancy is needed, a more efficient solution would be to install rainwater harvesting equipment on customers’ homes – to do so on every single-family home in Austin would still cost only a fraction of WTP4’s price tag while dramatically cutting water use. AWU: WTP4 does not compromise water conservation efforts. Enviros: Going into debt for WTP4 will further jeopardize resources for conservation efforts on which the utility is already underachieving: AWU aims too low on conservation goals, historically underspends its own conservation budget, and makes unwise decisions on the conservation funds it does spend, and then uses the results to justify further low expectations. AWU: WTP4 is good for the economy, providing $400 million in design, consulting, and construction contracts. Enviros: Conservation would be equally beneficial for job creation, as it would require the repair of faulty irrigation systems, computerization of sprinkler systems, and installation of low-flow toilets and rainwater harvesting systems. AWU: In this down economy, acting now on WTP4 will save money on construction contracts and interest rates.
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Enviros: AWU customers would benefit more from funds spent on conservation efforts – which would incur further savings through the resulting reduction in wastewater treatment – than from paying higher rates to build a plant they don’t need. Furthermore, AWU’s credibility on WTP4 is especially questionable in light of an August report by the city auditor’s office stating AWU’s “engineering costs exceed industry benchmarks,” in part because the utility provides “insufficient information concerning the complexity and size of each project.” AWU: Because WTP4 will be more energy-efficient than current plants, operating it will allow AWU to cut overall CO2 emissions. Enviros: These savings don’t account for the emissions incurred in building the plant, and they’re based on flawed assumptions (e.g., that the lake will be at full levels and that AWU customers’ water use will continue to increase rather than decrease or flatten out). AWU: WTP4 will draw water from Lake Travis – a reservoir on the Colorado River – rather than directly from the river itself, which means less direct impact on wildlife and ecosystems downstream. Enviros: Because Lake Travis is part of the river, the difference between the two is minimal. And AWU’s environmental impact study is still under way, so it’s uncertain how the plant will affect its surroundings, including the environmentally sensitive Bull Creek. As for its economic impact, many Lake Travis business owners fear the plant will suck the lake dry. – Nora Ankrum and Amy Smith
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Sanders Shooting Fallout Franklin and Quintana testify The legal maneuvers have begun in the aftermath of the fatal May 11 police shooting of Nathaniel Sanders II. Michael Franklin – who was driving the Mercedes-Benz station wagon just minutes before Austin Police Officer Leonardo Quintana shot and killed Sanders, who had been asleep in the car’s backseat – said in court last week that he noticed Quintana’s patrol car behind him as he drove toward the Walnut Creek apartments on Springdale Road on May 11, but said, “I wasn’t worried about him.” Franklin said Quintana hadn’t switched on his spotlight or siren, and moreover, Franklin said, he wasn’t doing anything wrong – he was simply being a friend to Sanders and the car’s owner, Sir Smith, who was passed out in the front seat, by driving them home. Franklin had found Smith and Sanders asleep in the car at the after-hours club Ozone; he’d tried and failed to wake Smith. The pair were clearly too “messed up” to drive themselves home, Franklin said. But by the time he parked the car near his brother’s apartment and stepped out, Quintana had turned his car around and had fixed his car’s spotlight onto Franklin. “That’s how I knew he wanted to talk with me,” Franklin said. Franklin said Quintana got out of the car with his gun and flashlight in hand, and pointed the flashlight at Franklin. Quintana frisked Franklin and told him he was going to put him in the back of the patrol car until he could roust Sanders and Smith. Minutes later, Smith had been shot in the chest and Sanders was dead. But did Officer Quintana have a legal right to stop and detain Franklin that morning after Franklin had parked the car? Was there “reasonable suspicion” that the car’s occupants had engaged in criminal activity? Those are the questions that at press time are still before Travis County Court at Law
No. 5 Judge Nancy Hohengarten, who has been asked by Franklin’s attorney Jason McMinn to rule that Quintana did not have a reason to detain and arrest Franklin. Franklin was on parole at the time, and several weeks after the shooting was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana – police say they found his fingerprint on the inside of a baggie recovered inside the Mercedes. Ostensibly, the question before Hohengarten is limited strictly to whether police had reason to approach Franklin, but the answer to that question has a broader implication: If police had no cause to approach Franklin, was there any reason for Quintana or any other officer to be inside the Mercedes, or to attempt to wake Sanders? And if the answer is no, was Sanders’ death the result of an illegal search? Travis County prosecutors argue that Quintana had more than enough information to justify detaining Franklin – in fact, the state had “massive amounts of reasonable suspicion,” Assistant County Attorney Julie Trumm said in court. Police had been on the lookout for a white van that had reportedly been used in a string of robberies (during which at least one victim had been shot), and they had information that at least one witness had seen suspects get out of the van and enter a gold-colored station wagon. Just days before the Sanders shooting, police had received several 911 calls reporting random shots fired in the parking lot of the Walnut Creek complex; callers also reported the incident being connected to a station wagon. So on May 11, according to prosecutors, when Quintana spotted the Mercedes wagon, he had ample reason to want to see who was in the car. In fact, the state argues, Quintana didn’t actually initiate a “stop” of
Nay to Ney Landscape Plans COURTESY OF JOHN MOORE
Hyde Park residents are keeping a watchful eye over one of its elderly neighbors – the Elisabet Ney Museum, which the Austin Parks and Recreation Department temporarily closed earlier this week for restoration of the former studio/home of artist Ney. While neighbors support restoring the studio, many oppose landscape design plans that call for removing historic trees and vegetation and replacing them with prairie grass and small cedars. The replanting is intended to return the landscape to its original state when Ney lived at the studio, but resident John Moore says there is evidence to suggest that the mature trees to the gate’s left in this photo were there when Ney lived there between 1892 and 1907. “We were getting ignored until [PARD Director] Sara Hensley got word of it, and it is because of her we even got anyone to listen to us about this project,” Moore said. PARD is now working with the Texas Historical Commission to save the trees. Another sticking point is a long-range plan to demolish the historic centennial wall (in foreground), although it appears to be safe for now, due to lack of funding. Those wishing to comment on the plans may contact THC Deputy Executive Director Mark – Amy Smith Wolfe, mark.wolfe@thc.state.tx.us.
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A bystander took this photo of the scene of the May 11 police shooting at the Walnut Creek apartments. A blanket covers the body of Nathaniel Sanders II. the wagon at all, he simply approached Franklin after he’d parked and gotten out of the vehicle. “The state contends that this was an encounter, not a stop,” Trumm said. Franklin “was not stopped for any traffic violation; he was out of the car when [Quintana] first approached him. This was a consensual encounter.” Quintana searched Franklin, found nothing, and put him in the back of his APD patrol car until he could roust Sanders and Smith. McMinn argues that there was no direct connection between his client and the robbery reports, the white van, or the reports of gunfire linked to a station wagon. He argued that Quintana’s decision to stop Franklin in the parking lot of the complex was most certainly a “stop” and not merely an encounter. “Quintana … drew his gun almost immediately. That’s not an encounter; that’s a stop,”
McMinn said. “What happened here was more about profiling.” Testifying the day before Franklin, Quintana told the court that he never turned on his incar video camera because he was too busy watching Franklin, who he said he thought might have had a gun. “My fear is that he was possibly reaching for a weapon or something,” he said. “I had to get myself out of the … car. That took precedence over hitting my lights and camera.” But McMinn argued that the initial stop was bad: There was no reason to stop Franklin or to detain him, and thus everything that flowed from that stop – importantly, the subsequent pot possession charge – must be considered “fruit from the poisonous tree” and suppressed. If Hohengarten denies McMinn’s request to suppress the evidence, Franklin’s trial will start Sept. 21. – Jordan Smith
Separation of Church and Taser After nearly three years of legal wrangling, it appears the city of Austin will have to go to court to defend the actions of Austin Police Department employees involved in the 2006 termination of rookie Officer Ramon Perez. In January 2005, Perez was still on probation (and thus not covered by civil service law) when he refused an order to Taser a man who looked like a heart-attack candidate – a factor officers are to consider when deciding whether to use the electroshock weapon. Perez was shortly thereafter transferred to a night shift; two months later, he was ordered to see APD psychologist Carol Logan. Perez was told the meeting was geared toward helping improve communication with his supervisors – as it turned out, he was being evaluated in a fit-for-duty review, a review he ultimately failed, according to Logan, because of his religious beliefs as a nondenominational fundamentalist Christian. Perez’s moral and religious beliefs, said Logan, were so strong as to be an “impairment.” Perez was ultimately given a choice: be termi-
nated and lose his peace officer license or resign and keep the ability to work elsewhere. Perez chose the latter option and sued, saying that his firing was motivated by religious discrimination. Hoping to have the whole affair dismissed, the city sought summary judgment in the case and prevailed on several points – having itself dismissed as a named plaintiff, for example, and on the notion that Perez was fired for refusing to violate the constitutional right of the man he failed to shock. But the city lost on the key question of whether Perez was discriminated against based on his religious beliefs. The city then appealed the decision to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – and lost. The court wrote that there remains a “genuine issue of fact”: whether Perez’s termination was motivated by religious bias. The case now heads back to district court where, presumably, a trial date will be set – unless, of course, the city decides to cut its losses and settle. – Jordan Smith
Forensics Under Fire There has been much nail-biting in courthouse crowds across the country since the February release of the National Academy of Sciences report on the state of forensic science. The report, to put it mildly, was not flattering. Forensic labs are underfunded, and many of the areas in which forensic scientists toil â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including handwriting, ballistics, and fingerprint analysis, just to name a few â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are unsupported by rigorous empirical scientific testing, the report concluded. Of existing â&#x20AC;&#x153;forensic methods, only nuclear DNA analysis has been rigorously shown to have the capacity to consistently, and with a high degree of certainty, demonstrate a connection between an evidentiary sample and a specific individual or source,â&#x20AC;? reads the report. That conclusion has, frankly, freaked out a lot of folks â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including many prosecutors who are often the â&#x20AC;&#x153;end consumersâ&#x20AC;? of forensic science, as Matthew Redle, Wyoming state director of the National District Attorneys Association, recently put it. In an effort to figure out what should be done, now that the forensic cat has been let out of the bag, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, convened a hearing Sept. 9 to discuss with experts how to proceed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much important work is done through forensics,â&#x20AC;? but that is certainly not always so, Leahy noted, singling out Texasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for an arson-murder based on junk fire science as a disturbing recent example. Redle, who is also an elected prosecutor in Wyoming, was measured in his response: Certainly, forensic labs need better funding and should be accredited, lab scientists should be certified, and forensics work should should be guided by a â&#x20AC;&#x153;peer reviewed research agendaâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all recommendations made in the NAS report. But Redle does not believe forensics labs should be divorced from law enforcement agencies, wherein some 80% of labs are housed. Labs should be â&#x20AC;&#x153;independentâ&#x20AC;? of any undue influence, but to separate them would be far too costly without really producing any bene-
fit, he said. Also making an appearance at the committee was Houston Police Chief Harold Hurtt, who knows a thing or two about police department-housed crime labs. He said that $5.3 million in investigation costs later, the Houston Police Department crime lab is on the mend. Part of the problem that led to the HPD lab meltdown was the â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited scientific knowledge of prosecutors, defense attorneys, and judges,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In instances where there was scientific fraud or sloppy work, they did not have the knowledge to identify it.â&#x20AC;? Where Redle was measured, fellow prosecutor Barry Matson, deputy director of the Alabama District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association, was practically unhinged in his comments to the committee, implying that there was some sort of agenda behind the NAS recommendations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not a single prosecutor was a member of the NAS Committee on Forensic Sciences, he noted. That was a major slight, he said, since it is the prosecutor alone who is â&#x20AC;&#x153;charged with the responsibility of seeking justice.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, he said, prosecutors do more to free the innocent and protect individual liberty than â&#x20AC;&#x153;any defense project or academician will accomplish in a career.â&#x20AC;? Others had more concrete suggestions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; including law professor Paul Giannelli, who also holds a masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree in forensic science and who has made the topic his research specialty. Giannelli said that forensics are â&#x20AC;&#x153;often superiorâ&#x20AC;? to other kinds of proof â&#x20AC;&#x201C; like eyewitness identification, which has been implicated in a vast majority of wrongful convictions. Still, forensics also create problems, he said, because of the lack of empirical research in most forensic fields. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The need for a new approach â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one rooted in science â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as outlined in the [NAS report], is critical,â&#x20AC;? Giannelli said. The report recommendations, â&#x20AC;&#x153;if adopted, would benefit law enforcement and prosecutors in the long run. It would allow forensic science to develop a strong scientific basis and limit evidentiary challenges regarding the reliability of forensic evidence.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Jordan Smith
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It’s time for another edition of the wide, wide, wide, wild world of sports! Today, we’re looking at a whole new ball game called “hide the sponsor.” As you know, big-time sporting events are plastered with the names and glaring logos of corporate sponsors eager to link their brands with popular games, teams, and stars. With the recent Wall Street scandals and bailouts, however, some corporations have become a bit skittish about being seen in public and are actually hiding their light under a bushel. Take professional golf tournaments, which are usually gaudy displays of corporate tagging, with logos on everything from tote bags to Tiger Woods. At this summer’s U.S. Open, the corporate presence was conspicuous in its absence. Oh, it was there – you just couldn’t see it. The Open is a prestigious, upscale event that attracts such A-list sponsors as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. They host fabulous hospitality tents, with lavish food spreads and open bars, inviting their primo clients to hobnob with bankers, munch on foie gras, and sip martinis from glasses etched with the bank logo. At this year’s Open, however, the names of sponsoring banks were missing, and logos were taboo. Bank of America had laid out $400,000 to be a sponsor, Goldman Sachs paid $100,000, and Morgan Stanley ponied up $250,000. Yet, no table in the hospitality tent bore a bank’s brand – even the pampered guests couldn’t tell which outfit was hosting them! Event planners have coined a new term for this phenomenon: “stealth spending.” As a Bank of America spokesman explained, “Symbolism matters. We are right-sizing our hospitality for the current environment and tone and mood of the country.” Only Wall Street would spend so much to play sponsorship peek-a-boo.
Ah, progress! I’m not exactly a model citizen for the technologically advanced, Internetconnected world we now inhabit. For example, I don’t even have a doorbell at my house. Yet, while I’m something of a Luddite, I do have a website – www.jim hightower.com – and I simply couldn’t do what I do without it. In the bigger picture, I’m impressed – excited even – by the little-“D” democratic possibilities that the Internet can add to our political system. Take something as basic as voter registration. America proudly asserts that everyone has a civic duty to vote, yet most jurisdictions make registration a cumbersome and costly process. Instead, why not offer sign-ups online? Millions of Americans pay bills online, bank online, book flights online, and so forth – so let’s use the technology to ease the democratic process as well. The good folks in Oregon are doing just that. Led by young voters working through such first-rate grassroots groups as the Oregon Bus Project, the Legislature and governor recently OK’d an electronic registration system that will be in place for next year’s elections. It’s a simple and inexpensive way to get more people involved in our democratic process – especially young people who practically live online. Anyone with a valid driver’s license already has his or her essential information and signature on file at the local department of motor vehicles. Using the Internet, people can now direct that agency to transfer their signatures to election officials and – bingo! – they are registered to vote. Both Arizona and Washington state have already implemented this process with great success, enhancing democratic participation by their citizens. Why not your state? For information, connect with the Oregon Bus Project: www.busproject.org.
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Are You Being Served?
Can Cap Metro weather the recession, balance its books … and run the buses and trains on time? BY LEE NICHOLS
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“Charging you more while giving you less” – how’s that for a snappy slogan? We suspect it will stick with the catchier “Dump the Pump,” but over the next fiscal year, cutting service while raising fares is exactly what Capital Metro proposes to do. That won’t be a fun sell to the transit agency’s constituents – over the past couple of years, a seemingly unbroken stream of bad news has tested the patience of riders, area politicians, and taxpayers. For many, that patience ran out long ago. Capital Metro’s executives, however, say the belt-tightening is necessary and that their options are limited. Some of Cap Metro’s board members say it’s long overdue. The agency’s critics say it will be balancing the budget on the backs of its work force and the riders who can least afford it. Whichever side you choose, you still have time to give your two cents – but do it now, because by next year, it might cost you three cents. On Sept. 21, Cap Metro’s board will weigh that input in a public hearing and presumably send back the budget for tinkering; on Sept. 28, the board will adopt the final version. Somewhere in there, Cap Metro has to figure out how to balance the needs of transit-dependent citizens and suburban commuters while teetering on the edge of financial disaster.
Scrambling for Savings Like most public agencies (and private businesses) in a recession, Capital Metro’s management is in the unenviable position of having to swim upstream. On the one hand, the agency’s revenues have declined sharply over the past year and are expected to dip even further over the next. On the other, Cap Metro not only needs to keep the buses (and eventu-
ally, the trains) running with less money but must also rebuild its savings account. Now, much has been written – both here and in the local daily – about how the agency got under water, and one can certainly make the argument that it jumped in. (See “How Bad Is Bad Enough?,” right.) Yet the revenue side is largely beyond Cap Metro’s control. While the agency draws revenue from a number of sources, almost three-quarters of income derives from sales taxes. As you may have noticed, the whole damn world, Austin included, is in a major economic recession. When the economy crashes – taking with it consumer spending and thus sales taxes – the effect on public agencies is direct and brutal. In fiscal year 2008, total tax receipts directed to Cap Metro were almost $158 million. Entering FY 2009, Cap Metro planners anticipated they would drop to $147 million – instead they plummeted even more, down to an estimated $140 million. This year planners expect another 5% drop to $134 million; if it holds, that will constitute 72% of the anticipated $185 million in operating revenue. In the previous two years, the tax supplied 75% and 74%, respectively. As for the savings, Cap Metro has taken a lot of heat because it spent a substantial part of a $200 million surplus on capital projects – even management has admitted that the spending should have been better controlled. About the time that drawdown on the reserves was done, the economic crisis hit, unfortunately coinciding with a spike in oil prices. Today, the agency’s cash reserves stand at a perilous $3.8 million – only about enough to cover a week’s worth of operations. Although the budget could be more easily balanced without diverting some money into the bank, that’s just not an option, say Cap
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Metro execs. “If sales tax goes down 9% instead of 5%, that basically eats up 60% of whatever we say we’re going to save up,” says Chief Financial Officer Randy Hume. “Right now, year to date it’s gone down about 9%, so if everything doesn’t do like we project it, we’ve got to be able to accommodate that. We try to do that in a number of ways, but having a reserve there is most prudent.” The goal this fiscal year is to build up reserves to more than $10 million, with an ultimate goal of $27 million (52 days of operations).
So if building the reserves is “critical,” as Hume described it to Cap Metro’s board, then something else has to give. The major areas of flexibility: fares, service, and salaries. A rise in fares has been pretty much inevitable. “Our bus fares are ridiculously low compared to anybody else,” Hume says. He has a point: Fare for a single, one-way trip was stuck at 50 cents since Cap Metro’s inception in 1985, until last year, when it was finally raised to 75 cents. Last year, the board approved another jump to $1, scheduled to take effect in August 2010. Similar rises would occur in prices for multiple-trip passes. When initial budget projections earlier this summer showed the agency in danger of a cash shortfall, Hume and company asked that the fare increases be accelerated to January 2010. After some public backlash, Cap Metro board member and Austin Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez requested that the agency explore using federal stimulus money to cover the gap, and staff found that $2.6 million of American Recov ery and Reinvestment Act money previously reserved for the rail startup could be switched over to operations and rescinded the request for the earlier fare bump. Nonetheless, last year’s raise and this year’s will bring fare revenues up 15% to $9 million, or 4.9% of total revenues. Martinez was pleased with the shift in stimulus money, but others were not. The Downtown Austin Alliance, a strong supporter of the much-troubled and endlessly delayed Leander-to-Downtown rail line (the MetroRail Red Line), worries that not spending the money on construction of additional rail sidings and station enhancements will further set back the launch.
How Bad Is Bad Enough? We need to back up a bit and make a slight correction to the record. Back in the spring, I detailed Capital Metro’s threepronged problem: its failure to get commuter rail up and running, its dwindling financial reserves, and its disastrous public image (see “What’s Wrong With Cap Metro … and What’s Right,” April 24). A section of that story dealt with what I believe was some unfair coverage by the Statesman, although it carried a perhaps misleading subhead: “Going Bankrupt? Not Really.” In fact, as I noted in the text, Cap Metro does indeed have severe financial problems, and in retrospect I wish I’d caught that subhead in the editing process and changed it. My beef with the daily was its depiction of that very real crisis as being purely the consequence of incompetence (and too much capital spending), without sufficient emphasis on things beyond Cap Metro’s control: namely, a worldwide financial meltdown and an enormous spike in fuel
costs. Those are not insignificant factors. While Cap Metro’s revenue comes from a number of sources, it is overwhelmingly dependent on sales taxes from its member communities. In 2008 they accounted for 75% of revenues, and by the end of fiscal year 2009 (which ends this month), it’s expected they will have supplied 74%. Which brings us to FY 2010, which begins Oct. 1. Current Cap Metro predictions are that sales tax revenues will plunge even further, down to $134 million – now only 72% of revenues. And while fuel costs aren’t even close to the biggest expense the agency has (that would be salaries and benefits), it did cost the agency $15.8 million in FY 2008, a spike from $9.9 million in FY 2007. It dropped back down to $10.5 million in 2009. Current Cap Metro guesstimates are that fuel will jump back up to $13.8 million in FY 2010, but who really knows how the oil market will behave? – L.N.
“The diversion of funds is misguided from both an economic and a transportation perspective,” the DAA said in a position paper. “The intent of the federal stimulus money … is to create jobs and stimulate the economy. Capital improvement projects like the Red Line enhancements best serve that interest. … The new proposal – to use a one-time funding source to temporarily cover ongoing expenses – represents bad fiscal policy.” Similar sentiments were expressed by board member and Leander Mayor John Cowman at the Aug. 31 board meeting. “It makes me feel like I’m a Wall Street banker giving myself a bonus,” Cowman complained. “What happens next year at this time? … We’re going to have to do something with our fares. This is a one-time fix.” Martinez actually agrees that fares must come up – “our fare box recovery rate is very low” – but calls the expanded sidings “bells and whistles … something we need to do, but not a dire emergency.” Push-back is also coming from the opposite direction – an organization calling itself the Bus Riders Union of Austin argues that fares should be eliminated altogether, while board member Mike Manor has proposed that certain transitdependent passengers receiving government services and earning below a certain income level receive free passes, good for up to a year and renewable. The no-fare idea isn’t completely radical – Cap Metro tried it for 14 months in 1989 and 1990, and while ridership went up, it brought other problems, including homeless passengers overstaying their welcome. As for Manor’s idea, Martinez says he’s “interested” and plans to meet with Manor, but “another component to that question is: If we truly want a multimodal mass transit system, how are we going to pay for it moving forward if we don’t start seeking fares from some of the folks that we now give heavily discounted and/or free services to? … If we’re going to be a social service provider, then let’s say that, and let’s let the public know and let them know how much it’s going to cost.” A subtext to this entire debate is a real or perceived conflict between suburban and urban commuters. Members of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091 (which represents Cap Metro vehicle drivers and mechanics) have long criticized MetroRail as being little more than a shiny display toy for Cap Metro management – and a diversion of money from the fixed route bus service and MetroAccess (service to customers with disabilities). Those services are used by an overwhelming majority of Cap Metro customers, compared to a relatively small number who will use the Red Line. In the Cap Metro parking lot, some union members show their disdain by openly sporting “Kill Rail” bumper stickers on their cars. CO N T I N U E D O N P. 2 7
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Cap Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Operating Budget FY 2010 Third-party fares 3.6% Third-party fares 3.6%
(UT (UT shuttles, event shuttles, etc.) shuttles, event shuttles, etc.) Other income Other income 0.96% 0.96%
Grants Grants 11.6% 11.6%
Fares Fares 4.9% 4.9%
MetroAccess MetroAccess 16.8% 16.8%
Freight Freight 6.4% 6.4%
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Capital Spending by Category
Freight operations Freight operations 8.9% 8.9%
Information technology
$6,990,500 $5,364,000 $1,626,500
Freight
$3,375,000
Salestax tax Sales 72.3% 72.3%
Revenue Sales tax Grant revenue Rail freight Passenger fares Third-party fares MetroRail Investment income Other Total revenue
2009 Forecast $140,394,858 $18,387,344 $14,097,109 $7,804,853 $7,311,965 $1,017,831 $1,439,589 $190,453,549
FY 2010 Capital Spending Recommendations
Rideshare Rideshare0.7% 0.7%
MetroRail MetroRail service service 0.27% 0.27%
2010 Budget $134,106,477 $21,490,521 $11,777,351 $9,005,393 $6,763,680 $495,575 $280,000 $1,496,000 $185,414,997
Source: Capital Metro (totals imprecise due to rounding)
Busoperations operations Bus 69% 69%
2009 Forecast $89,813,904 $22,146,670 $10,537,896 $13,378,042 $11,232,769 $6,563,990 $7,954,770 $1,881,991 $5,119,261 $168,629,294
2010 Budget $84,450,377 $23,361,365 $13,752,926 $12,513,672 $11,282,040 $6,615,938 $5,307,496 $1,925,909 $5,494,211 $164,703,936
PROJECTED OPERATING SURPLUS $21,824,256
$20,711,061
Expenses Salaries & benefits Purchased transportation Fuel Services Freight rail MetroRail Materials & supplies Utilities Other Total expenses
Grant Revenue
Net Spending - $3,375,000
MetroRail Phase II
$2,375,725 $2,375,725
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Paratransit vehicle
$2,160,770 $1,879,870
$280,900
Rails With Trails
$1,900,000 $1,900,000
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Bus stop amenities
$1,500,000 $1,200,000
$300,000
MetroRapid
$1,400,000 $1,120,000
$280,000
Facilities, design/ construction
$1,027,500
$360,000
$667,500
Building maintenance
$418,000
$254,800
$163,200
Stop signage
$306,667
$245,333
$61,333
Equipment
$182,000
$145,600
$36,400
$15,000
$12,000
$3,000
Security Bus
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Rideshare vehicles
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Transit-oriented development
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-
-
Commuter
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-
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Total
$21,651,162 $14,857,328 $6,793,833
Source: Capital Metro Capital spending includes purchases of equipment with a useful life greater than a year as well as projects â&#x20AC;&#x201C; such as construction â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that span more than one fiscal year. Grant money would pay for almost 69% of the $21.65 million in capital projects proposed for this year. Noticeably absent from this list: new buses. Because much of Cap Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fleet is nearing the end of its useful life, this expense likely canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be put off again in FY 2011.
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The 2009 forecast projects what the agency will have taken in and spent in FY 2009, which concludes at the end of this month. The 2010 budget reflects staff predictions for FY 2010. Clearly, the agency is mainly dependent on sales tax revenue, and salaries and benefits take the biggest bite for expenses. If the projected $20.7 million budget surplus (shown in the last line) actually materializes, it will be spent on capital projects, payments to area mobility projects, and building up a cash reserve (see â&#x20AC;&#x153;How Cap Metro Hopes to Reach $10 Million,â&#x20AC;? below). *Grant revenue listed for 2009 and 2010 reflects a Cap Metro â&#x20AC;&#x153;recognized inconsistency.â&#x20AC;? The 2009 number combines grants for operations and capital expenditures, the 2010 number only operating grants. Although the agency expects total revenues to rise to $200 million this year, it will have no discretion over $14.9 million in capital grants â&#x20AC;&#x201C; it must be spent on those projects or returned. (See â&#x20AC;&#x153;FY 2010 Capital Spending Recommendationsâ&#x20AC;? totals, right.) The $185 million in operating revenue can be spent as the agency sees fit.
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How Cap Metro Hopes to Reach $10 Million FY 2010 Budget Cash Summary Beginning cash balance, Oct. 1, 2009 Operating budget surplus Cash balance before disbursements Projected net capital spending Build Central Texas/regional mobility/quarter-cent* Railcar lease principal Projected ending cash balance, Sept. 30, 2010 Source: Capital Metro
$3,800,000 $20,711,061 $24,511,061 -$6,793,833 -$3,700,000 -$3,100,000 $10,917,228
*Build Central Texas and regional mobility refer to local transportation projects; â&#x20AC;&#x153;quarter-centâ&#x20AC;? refers to a portion of Cap Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1-cent sales tax that it sends back to local governments, a political move from 2000 to stave off calls to reduce the tax.
The agency currently has a critically low $3.8 million in cash reserves and aims to get above $10 million this fiscal year. If projections of a $20.7 million budget surplus come true, a combined $13.6 million will go to capital spending, diversions to area governmental partners, and railcar leases. Agency planners hope the remains will result in a $10.9 million bank account.
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Further Information: To download and read the proposed FY 2010 Capitol Metro budget, go to www.capmetro.org. A public hearing on the budget will be held Monday, Sept. 21, 5pm, at 2910 E. Fifth. Bus routes 17, 300, and 4 stop nearby.
For his part, Hume rejects the notion that the needs of transit-dependent, “nonchoice” urban riders are being subordinated to those of a smaller number of Leander suburbanites who likely also have cars. “Seventy percent of the budget is bus operations, and 17 percent is MetroAccess,” Hume notes. “Rail is less than 5 percent.” (ATU 1091 President Jay Wyatt alleges, however, that some rail expenses are hidden in other parts of the budget.) Cowman points to the 2004 referendum that authorized the rail system. “The union has a beef with the voters, not Capital Metro,” Cowman says. “The union leaders are misguided and misdirected.”
Cuts or Castrations? “Cap Metro literally depends on ‘rainfall,’” Martinez said, referring to the sales tax. “When the economy is bad, you have to cut services. There really are very few ways of tightening your belt in an organization like Cap Metro.” One cut has already been approved – the ’Dillos, those green-and-brown faux trolley cars used as Downtown circulators, will be “suspended” after Oct. 2, and their return seems unlikely. Hume says his staff hasn’t completely settled on what other routes to trim or eliminate, but the budget predicts a 2.22% drop in fixed-route service hours (the regu-
lar bus routes that make up about twothirds of Cap Metro’s service). In service miles, that’s a drop of 11.8% in fixed routes and 6.74% overall. Hume says they’ll be targeting less-used routes. “We were averaging two riders per hour on the ’Dillo, and everywhere the ’Dillo goes and stops, we have a fixed-route service,” Martinez says, repeating management’s rationale for killing the circulator. “So I felt like if we had to cut service somewhere, that was the most appropriate place to do it.” Some observers aren’t as accepting of the staff explanation, however, and charge that management set up the ’Dillo (and other routes) to fail. For example, in a recent ATU 1091 press release, Wyatt charges that “Capital Metro … makes bus routes unproductive through mismanagement and waste, as in the handling of the ’Dillos, and now wants to cut unproductive service.” “We understand that some trips are unproductive, or low ridership, but that is not the fault of the riders, it is the fault of the planners,” echoes Glenn Gaven, both a bus driver and member of the riders union. “In the ’Dillo example, the transit authority purposefully castrated the service and then declared it unproductive.” There’s certainly a case to be made for that position. Until 2008, there were five ’Dillo routes covering Downtown and more, reaching north into CONT I NU E D ON P. 28
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the University of Texas campus, south down Congress and Barton Springs Road, west to MoPac, and east to Pleasant Valley. All free. Cap Metro then chopped the routes down to two, running north-south on Congress and east-west along Fifth and Sixth. By this point, ridership was at eight passengers per hour; then Cap Metro imposed 50-cent fares, and that number dropped to two. The decision also seems strange considering that the ’Dillo will be vanishing right when (eventually?) MetroRail starts delivering commuters to the Convention Center, at the southeastern end of Downtown. The need for a Downtown circulator to get those passengers to jobs elsewhere – say, at the northern end of Downtown, such as the Capitol and UT – would seem obvious. Cap Metro planners don’t appear overly concerned, saying they will coordinate fixed-route buses to hit the Downtown rail station when the trains arrive. Of course, if you really want to get “lean,” you have to cut the meat. In the case of Capital Metro, that’s the payroll – in its income statement for 2009, the “salaries & benefits” category made up more than half of the agency’s total expenses. It’s also where Cap Metro’s budget is less than transparent and where the agency tries to pat itself on the back where it least deserves it. First, this requires some explanation: Technically, none of those drivers you see operating Cap Metro vehicles is officially a Cap Metro employee. They are actually employed by one of three labor subcontractors: StarTran, Veolia,
The union issued a stateMoreover, said Pittman, ment calling the company’s “They have typed off a explanation “a pretext” for summary. … Jay can’t retribution against the union, even figure out, ‘Was I and spokesman Bill Kweder even in the room, was I said: “StarTran is not even in the building, where waiting for an arbitrator’s was I when this allegedruling on its allegations and ly happened?’ … They’re its order, like our collective giving him nothing with bargaining agreement which to defend himrequires it to do. … The real self, and they’re reason that StarTran wants required to, under the to fire Jay is that he is a suclabor agreement, and Fred Gilliam cessful advocate for under the National StarTran’s employees.” Labor Relations Act.” Asked for his reaction to Pittman also considers the timing of the complaints Jay Wyatt the dispute, Cap Metro suspicious – coinciding with a National Labor Relations President Fred Gilliam said Board acceptance in April of unfair labor practice chargthat he was not involved in Crews’ decision but that he supes against the company (scheduled to be tried in October). ported her action in dismissing Wyatt. “I’m disappointed that it “From the documents they have provided, in making this allegacame to this,” he said, but he believes Crews had no choice tion,” Pittman said, “those documents were made and prepared but to dismiss Wyatt for refusing to comply with the subconat exactly the same time that we were successfully pursuing tractor’s company policy. “This has nothing to do with the labor these charges.” Last week, the union filed additional unfair labor agreement,” said Gilliam. “This is about proper employee conpractice charges in connection with the new dispute, claiming duct in the workplace … only with Jay’s personal conduct.” (among other things) retaliation against Wyatt and unilateral Wyatt said that he has received “100 percent support” imposition of discipline in violation of the existing collective barfrom union members and charged that Crews has taken simigaining agreement. lar actions against union officials in her previous managerial Asked about the charge of retaliation, Crews responded: stints in Lexington, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn. In sum, Wyatt “There’s no correlation whatsoever. It’s all about how an employsaid, “Fred hired her because she is a union-buster.” ee is to conduct him- or herself in the workplace. And this disci– Michael King pline would have been applied to any employee.” JOHN ANDERSON
As if Capital Metro didn’t have enough public relations problems, on Friday, Sept. 11, agency management fired Jay Wyatt, the president of the drivers and mechanics’ union (Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091), on unspecified charges of “sexual harassment.” More precisely, Wyatt was dismissed (effective Sept. 14) by Cap Metro subcontractor StarTran after failing to meet a management-imposed deadline that he sign off on the company’s Equal Employment Opportunity Statement and Anti-Harassment Policy Statement and attend a training session on “proper conduct in the workplace,” according to StarTran General Manager Terry Garcia Crews. In her letter to Wyatt informing him of the termination, Crews wrote, “This action will end all your benefits and healthcare coverage.” Although Wyatt’s current duties are as a full-time union officer (elected for his first of eight terms in 1986), he has been officially employed by Cap Metro as a bus driver since Jan. 13, 1978. Crews told the Chronicle that the specific sexual harassment charges are a confidential personnel matter she cannot discuss, and Wyatt’s attorney Glenda Pittman said that he has been provided only with a general summary of the charges, which is now “evidence in a private arbitration” – without precise details or the identity of his accusers. Pittman did describe the charges as “old and stale” and stemming from conversations with management employees in meetings mostly dating from 2008. “What it really boils down to,” said Wyatt, “is that I curse. … These females said they were offended by cursing.” Other than that, he said, the complaints stem from “joking around” at various meetings. The unidentified women, said Wyatt, are not his co-workers nor union employees but management employees of StarTran who earlier this year apparently filed complaints.
or First Transit. This arrangement works around conflicts between state and federal law – basically, state law forbids Cap Metro (a quasi-state agency) from collective bargaining with labor unions, while federal law requires collective bargaining if the agency is to get federal funding. Thus, the employees are supposedly bargaining with entities other than Cap Metro. (Yes, it is ridiculous, and a peer review recently recommended “streamlining” this arrangement – although that would presumably require a political sea change at the Capitol.) While drivers and mechanics for all three subcontractors are represented by ATU 1091, most of the jobs – and the bestpaying ones – are within StarTran, the one that Cap Metro directly created. Hume has tried to make it appear that management is taking one for the team, while leaving the union workers untouched – nonbargaining administrative employees are getting no pay raises this year, and 37 vacant positions (of 303) are going unfilled. Meanwhile, StarTran employees are getting 1.5% raises in January and July, as their contract stipulates. (Also worth noting: The budget slashes travel expenses – perhaps an indirect response to grumbling that Cap Metro CEO Fred Gilliam spends too much time on the road.) The overall result: An impressive 2.6% reduction in “salaries & benefits,” trans-
lating to $5.3 million in savings without sticking it to the lowest-rung workers. But here’s the rub: Among the unionized workers, “salaries & benefits” only covers the StarTran employees. Go a few lines down, and you’ll notice a rise of $1.2 million in the category “purchased transportation.” That covers, among other things, the services of Veolia and First Transit – and over the past few years, Cap Metro has been shifting some of its routes to those subcontractors, which don’t pay as well as StarTran. Wyatt has unapologetically slammed this practice as “union-busting” – indirectly undermining wage scales established by contract. Hume is at least frank about what is going on. When asked if this was nothing more than cutting wages, he gave a blunt “yes.” He justifies this by adding: “But we’ve tried to plan that so that we’re not eliminating somebody that’s currently working. We’ve tried to do it through attrition. We’ve actually tried to avoid layoffs.” Hume points to a recent situation where about a dozen employees would have been laid off when some fixed-route service got cut, but the agency found jobs for them in the lower-paying MetroAccess (transit service for the disabled). “They didn’t lose their jobs,” Hume says. “They’re just doing something different.”
When asked if this was nothing more than cutting wages, Hume gave a blunt “yes.”
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Needless to say, Wyatt doesn’t see it that way. “That’s a slick way to cut employee wages,” he says. “They’re cutting these fixedroute operators’ wages by bringing them into [MetroAccess] and claiming that they’re helping them. These are slick people. “Look at how much money they’re going to save,” Wyatt says, describing the employee shifts as hurting individual workers while doing little to save the agency money. “These people are taking a 30-something or 50-something percent wage decrease by moving over there. Twelve people. What kind of [savings] is that? Who are they bullshitting?”
Discount Combination Plate Of course, at press time all of this budgetary detail is only “proposed.” On Monday, the board will wrap up the public input period, and on Sept. 28, it takes a vote on the final product. But in fact, how much wiggle room will the board have to dispute staff recommendations and make changes? Whether you view the agency’s current predicament as self-imposed, caused by outside forces, or a combination of the two, the bottom line is that Cap Metro has its back against the wall. Demand more spending, and the attempt to build a cash reserve might vanish. Demand more cuts, and somebody’s ox gets gored – quite possibly somebody who desperately relies on public transit. One possibility might be to further cut capital spending, the thing that helped deplete
the reserves in the first place. But board members surely will be reluctant to carve into next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $21.7 million in desired capital spending, since two-thirds of it can be covered with grant money â&#x20AC;&#x201C; money that might go away if the projects are canceled. And staff is already chopping out a seemingly crucial bit of capital spending â&#x20AC;&#x201C; new buses. A good portion of the bus fleet is nearing the end of its anticipated 12-year life span. Hume says Cap Metroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of vehicle maintenance assures him another year can be squeezed out of the current buses â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but this expense likely canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be avoided in FY 2011. And if the economy continues its downhill slide and sales tax revenues fall even further, then what? Cap Metro has taken out a $10 million line of credit as a buffer against such a situation, which it fortunately hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet had to tap. But the drop in sales tax revenue from 2008 to this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget is already more than that. Cowman, for one, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound eager to challenge the staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s calculations this year but shares Humeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s belief that Cap Metro needs more diverse sources of revenue, especially more fare money. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We do have a balanced budget, fortunately or unfortunately,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am satisfied with the side order of grits. I wish we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to dip into the $2.6 million stimulus monies, but looking at the situation, that is what my fellow board members, I feel very strongly thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what they want to do. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I will go along with. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to take a hard look next year, because it could be twice as hard if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have sales tax revenues jumping up or items that help the revenue side of the equation. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to do something â&#x20AC;&#x201C; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like if you put it off today â&#x20AC;Ś whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that commercial? You can change the oil today or do an engine overhaul tomorrow.â&#x20AC;? N
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‘BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA’ Road trip! (with a collage-crazy modern artist at the wheel) “This is the most difficult piece I’ve ever directed. It’s 70 minutes long and has about 43 scenes.” That’s Mary Moody Northen Theatre Artistic Director David Long, who is currently helming a production of the theatrical beast bobrauschenbergamerica at St. Edward’s University. But Long reassures that, given his background in physical theatre and his affection for nonrealism, “It’s right up my alley.” Charles Mee wrote bobrauschenbergamerica for Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. Michelle Polgar, managing director of MMNT, saw the original production at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2001. She recalls the memorable experience, with the author sitting in front of her. “I laughed until I wept. It was swift and daring and so much fun.” Polgar thought the piece would be a good fit for Long. “David is drawn to big, bold, theatrical statements, and bobrauschenbergamerica is as big, bold, and theatrical as you can possibly get.” So what is this bold piece of theatre all about? It is a tribute to Robert Rauschenberg, a great American artist who died only last year. But rather than providing a biographical portrait, the work celebrates Rauschenberg’s process – a collision of ideas and images brought together into one fantastic whole. SITI Company’s website describes the show as “a wild road trip through the American landscape – written as Robert Rauschenberg might have conceived it had he been a playwright instead of a painter.” Long describes the show as someone might describe a piece of Rauschenberg’s art. “It’s a mosaic of elements. Everything starts
‘THE JUNGLE’ The result of this development process has been a series of puppets created first from a dowel rod and a cardboard frame and then packed so tightly with paper that the paper can then be sawed or cut away to reveal the puppet’s final form. Finally, the puppet receives clothes and basic features for the face. “Puppetry takes something very small and detailed and makes it very broad in context,” Hopkins says. “In puppetry, you can do an incredibly expressive show with nothing but a rag and a stick. That’s partly our approach. Simple things are often better.” Yet simple does not necessarily mean shallow. The Sinclair novel focuses on the plight of immigrant laborers in Chicago’s meatpacking industry a hundred years ago and the dangerous conditions they faced. With its descriptions of the occasional human worker falling into the grinders, the novel also generated enough public disgust to fuel the beginnings of today’s food safety rules. It’s arguably a stretch to compare today’s conditions for workers and animals to those of a century past, but as renewed debates over immigrant labor and food safety hit headlines
bobrauschenbergamerica runs Sept. 17-27, Thursday-Saturday, 7:30pm, and Sunday, 2pm, at Mary Moody Northen Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 3001 S. Congress. For more information, call 448-8484 or visit www.stedwards.edu/hum/thtr/mmnt.html.
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Trouble Puppet renders butchery in simple terms How do you make an evening’s entertainment out of a novel that spans decades of history, encompasses generations of a family, and includes all the gory details of meat processing? By keeping it as simple as possible. At least that’s the strategy that Connor Hopkins and Trouble Puppet Theater Company are pursuing. Their adaptation of the Upton Sinclair novel The Jungle, opening Sept. 17, is populated with puppets made from simple paper. The show features little dialogue, and Hopkins says he has tried to restrict the story to its most basic elements. “When you think about turning The Jungle into a movie or a play, a show, you’d think it was impossible,” Hopkins says. “It takes place over decades and decades. It’s like the chronicle of a people. It doesn’t necessarily have a plot. But the thing about puppetry is its ability to distill things down to their essential form.” The company received a seed grant from the Jim Henson Foundation to support development of the puppets for The Jungle. In 2007, Hopkins traveled to the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Puppetry Conference for a workshop, where he created the prototype puppet, a butcher, that led to his design for the upcoming production. The show also received a workshop presentation at the Puppetry Conference earlier this summer.
to pull together. We examine one thing at a distance, but when we get closer, we see something else.” Much of the brilliance of Rauschenberg’s work was in its sense of humor and its ability to honor the world as the world is. One of his masterpieces, Monogram (1959), was made out of a police barricade, parts of a shoe, tennis balls, a tire, and a taxidermied goat. The artist once said: “I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly. Because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.” Mee captured this jovial perspective in his play. Using the word “hysterical,” Long describes a world populated by iconic characters – a truck driver, a bathing beauty, a derelict – who “are in direct contrast with what our perception of them is on face value.” Though the play follows no linear story, it is accessible. “When people come see this, everybody is going to get something out of it,” Long explains. “On a surface level, there are lots of comic bits; there’s lots of spectacle. On a more cerebral level, there are some really interesting issues.” The play bounces from the absurd to the poignant, sometimes achieving both simultaneously. But to make a long story short, or rather to take 70 minutes of nonstop theatrical action and explain it in a few words, Long summarizes, “This play is about art, America, and chickens.” – Hannah Kenah
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today, the story evokes an eerie feeling of recognition. “Primary for me is the immigrant labor issue,” Hopkins says, “and a system that doesn’t allow [immigrants] to be there, yet requires them to be there for it to work.” The puppets represent a class of workers easily tossed aside. All characters in the play are puppets except the factory boss; slaughterhouse animals are made from the same materials as the workers. The materials are cheap and disposable, and the puppets are not built to last indefinitely. The strings holding them together remain in view. Hopkins says the rough look is exactly what he has aimed for: “I like to leave the materials somewhat visible. I like for people to see what they’re made of.” – Elizabeth Cobbe
In its eight seasons, Austin Cabaret Theatre has bunked down in more spots than a UT undergrad: Scottish Rite Theatre, Mary Moody Northen Theatre, Chez Zee, the Driskill Hotel, and the Mansion on Judges’ Hill, where it’s had a stable residence for the past four years. But as it begins its ninth season, ACT is on the move again. Now, the company that brought us Carol and Eartha and Stritchy will be hosting stellar musical performers in the Long Center for the Performing Arts. Some shows will take place in the Rollins Studio Theatre, but it will also be the first local arts company to make regular use of the Kodosky Donor Lounge, that splendid glassed-in room curving along the eastern side of the center’s mezzanine level. According to Stuart Moulton, ACT founder and producing artistic director, the opportunity to move to the Long Center “was one of those kismet things where it all fell into my lap. The Kodosky is so Rainbow and Stars,” he says, recalling the late, lamented cabaret atop 30 Rock: a room awash in glamour where “the city is the backdrop.” Inaugurating ACT’s new home will be Lennie Watts in Manilow ’73-’83, a show focusing on the songwriter’s astounding hit parade over those 10 years. “I actually picked it to open,” says Moulton. “I thought, if we’re moving into a brand new space, I want it to be a celebration, and this show is a party, equal parts homage, equal parts tongue in cheek. You know every damn song, and you leave not only laughing but realizing what a contribution the man has made to the American songbook. Manilow himself saw it and said, ‘Finally, somebody gets what I’ve been trying to do all these years.’” – Robert Faires
The Jungle runs Sept. 17-Oct. 4, ThursdaySunday, 8pm, at Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. For more information, e-mail info@ troublepuppet.com or visit www.troublepuppet.com.
Lennie Watts in Manilow ’73-’83 will be performed Thursday and Friday, Sept. 24 & 25, 8:30pm, in the Kodosky Donor Lounge at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside. For more information, call 453-2287 or visit www.austincabaret.org.
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AMODA’s Operandi Just what, exactly, is the Austin Museum of Digital Art up to these days? BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER These are the days of miracles and wonders, when some punk with a $1,000 piece of plastic and silicon can command powers previously available only to large media studios with budgets like the gross domestic product of a small country. These are times when last century’s video games are deconstructed and reconfigured to create psychedelic visions never intended by the original producers, when sound waves are regularly bent, shifted, and layered independent of analog instruments – not as bold experiments, necessarily, but as a matter of pop music rigmarole. This is now: when Third World cultural memes virus swiftly through the Internetted strata of moneyed nations and metastasize among the meatspace populace. When video manipulation blurs the division of real and unreal and collapses recorded history to an anachronistic clusterfuck. When much of what William “Neuromancer” Gibson used to write as science fiction begins to seem like yesterday’s news. These are digital days, and they’re thick with artists – artists who push the technological boundaries of expression further with every bend of a circuit, every twitch of a knob, every densely packed recontextualization of what’s come before. The improvised video projections of Dan Winckler; the sonic extrapolations of Kevin Blechdom’s big, weird heart; the crowdresponsive graphic environments of software engineer Zack Booth Simpson; the gamesoundtrack mixology of Ariel Quintans, aka DJ Fuckin’ A: This is not some graying curator’s business as usual. This is not the sort of art, of creative industry, that’s regularly encompassed by a city’s more old-school contingent of galleries and exhibitions. You want to bust these
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ghosts out of the machine, so to speak? Who you gonna call? Screen capture from Golan Levin’s “Eyecode”, as displayed at NYC’s Bitforms Gallery AMODA. high-quality digital art and music instead of just that sort of exhibition throughout our history, Break it down: A-M-O-D-A. throwing a party for the sake of fundraising. and we haven’t had one for the last several Austin, Museum, of, Digital, Art. AMODA defines digital art as “art that uses And they kind of challenged me. You know: ‘If years. It’s something we’re really interested in digital technology in any of three ways: as the you’re so smart, why don’t you go and do that?’ doing more of as soon as possible, because it’s So that was how I came on board.” core to what the group intended when it startproduct, as the process, or as the subject.” And immediately established the Digital ed – to show art in a gallery or museum type of “As the product” is like when someone setting. But it’s a challenge to do that, because expresses himself/herself by building a web- Showcase Series. “Well, I tried to resist for a while, but they AMODA doesn’t have a physical space.” site, say, or something robotic. “As the proThese are digital days, but they’re also cess” would be like someone writing a play slowly roped me in, and that led to the start of based on a Facebook chat log or composing an it. By now we’ve had around 45 or 46 Digital depression days. So it’s a money problem? “We’ve had different exhibition series direcentire symphony from downloaded ringtones. Showcases in clubs and bars; they’re our most “As the subject” could be an old masters-style frequent events. It’s a fun social gathering, but tors come and go over the years, too,” says painting in oils, fully analog … but, instead we feature musicians from Austin and out of Simmons, “so we’re still working to find of Vermeer’s milkmaid or Frans Hals’ cavalier, town and visual artists from around the world. someone to fill in that role.” So it’s a people problem? A certain lack it’s the image of a brand-new hard drive; it’s a We find artists online, people who are doing out-there and quirky kind of stuff, and contact in the old HR department? The digital, hamportrait of Aimee Weber. What defines an organization is, of course, them and have their work sent to us over the strung by the analog: Is this a problem of what that organization does and the peo- Internet or through the mail. And we use it to focus? Could AMODA, so good at defining the ple who are involved in doing it. AMODA assemble a show that’s as visually and musi- parameters of what it wishes to encompass, be less capable of defining itself? Executive Director Todd Simmons – who has cally interesting as we can make it.” Simmons: “We recently finished a strategic AMODA won’t be satisfied with only an endless string planning process, with the board of directors and a few of us who’ve been around for a while of digital showcases in clubs, no matter how enjoyable meeting over many months to try and figure out what our direction should be.” This, after the party atmosphere may be. The staff at AMODA almost 10 years of successful digital showcases. want to redefine themselves toward the original Is this typical of bricks-and-mortar art concerns, too, or does new media itself, as a few Luddite vision: a museum of digital art. fearmongers suggest, instill a sort of debilitating worked as a sound designer and audio engi- Among the artists, both visual and musical, attention deficit disorder in those who partake? “We’ve always wanted to have a space, a paid neer at Austin video-game companies Human whose works have been experienced at these Code, Ion Storm, and Retro Studios – is one showcases: the above mentioned Winckler, staff,” says Simmons, “and those are the two Blechdom, Simpson, and Quintans, as well as main goals, but it takes a lot of organizing effort of those people, if not from the beginning. “I wasn’t around when AMODA first started,” Feedtank, Ben Aqua, Hana Hillerova, Xiu Xiu, to pull that off. We have a list of artists we’ve says Simmons. “It was started in ’97 by Harold Paper Rad, Golan Levin, William Hundley …. worked with in the past whose work we’ve loved Chaput and Rob Turknett and a few others. For Oh, the list goes on and on. All the myriad and a list of artists whose work we love but we the first years, they were getting the nonprofit marvels, serving to creatively spice the alcohol- haven’t had a chance to show yet – because paperwork set up, figuring out how to get things fueled, beat-driven nightlife. But does that their work is too elaborate to show in a club off the ground. They had a series of small parties mean AMODA is just some enhanced club setting. You can get into some really high tech equipment and needing to calibrate it fully over that they were using as fundraisers to establish- scene with delusions of neo-Warhol? “Well, at this point we haven’t had as the course of a few days with some of the more ing a physical space for AMODA, and I was at one of those parties back in, like, 2000, 2001. many opportunities for actual gallery-based complex installations. And you just can’t do that And, after the party, I told them that they could events,” allows Simmons. “That’s another side with a, like, five-hour setup time in some club.” have done it better by making it more about of AMODA, but we’ve only had three or four of And there are always distractions. “We’d love to
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local philanthropic community,” says Simmons. “And, of course, our volunteers. We’re always happy to get new people.” We feel that pain. Seriously, it’s a basic concern of all arts organizations, and it’s either dealt with successfully or eventually it’s game over. But we must ask again, like a spam-bot plying the same line of pimpage over and over: Isn’t the physical world rather anathema to what Simmons and his posse are all about? The Austin arts group that’s avowedly at the forefront of digital aesthetics requires a meatspace showplace? AMODA isn’t planning to migrate fully online, into the highly buzzed-about cloud? The executive director shakes his head. “There are some works of digital art that you can’t show only online,” he says. “The online component would be a good supplement to it, but there’s a lot of digital work that you need to experience in person to get the full effect. In, you know, real life.” And how was Simmons challenged earlier, did he say? Replay sound bite … now: “You know: ‘If you’re so smart, why don’t you go and do that?’” END TRANSMISSION. N
get more involved with the multitouch technology – like Microsoft’s Surface, which is like a giant iPhone screen, essentially. We’d love to get our hands on something like that and feature it at an event, but that sort of device is difficult to get hold of so far. And there’s a lot more we’d like to do, like have more interactive pieces where people can affect what’s happening on a screen through their actions, whether by moving in front of a camera or dialing in with their cell phone – a lot of different stuff.” So they won’t be satisfied with only an endless string of digital showcases in clubs, no matter how enjoyable the party atmosphere may be. The staff at AMODA want to redefine their project toward the original vision: a museum of digital art, after all. There’s the problem, while the showcases continue and AMODA presents film screenings (such as Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball and the Game Developers Conference’s Into the Night at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz) and partners with Austin’s New Music Co-op to produce its series of experimental audio performances. There’s the problem. And the proposed solution? “We’re trying to expand our board of directors and make more contacts in the
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HOMER & LANGLEY: A NOVEL
by E.L. Doctorow Random House, 224 pp., $26 Doctorow likes to burrow into the headspace of major historical figures – the Rosenbergs in The Book of Daniel, Frank Sinatra in City of God – but for his 11th novel, he’s rummaged through the curiosity shop of Americana and come up with two of its dustiest, most befuddling objets, the real-life Fifth Avenue shut-ins the Collyer brothers. Langley is the elder brother: an atheist, an inventor, a conspiracy theorist, and a lungscarred World War I veteran who reads aloud poetry to his blind younger brother, Homer. The mellifluous opening line of a W.H. Auden poem – “Doom is dark and deeper than any seadingle …” – becomes something of a running joke between the Collyer brothers, and there’s irony there, in the name of the poem, “The Wanderer,” as the two men have been fixed in place for 50 years, holed up in their dead parents’ Central Park-adjacent brownstone while a half-century of American cultural history flies by them and occasionally bangs on the door, begging to be let in. Homer, who narrates, is subject, and sometimes slave, to Langley’s projects and para-
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BLOOD’S A ROVER: A NOVEL
by James Ellroy Knopf, 656 pp., $28.95 Is James Ellroy a gas at cocktail parties or what? We know the self-described “demon dog of American crime fiction” is a protohopheaded wildman, frothing over and mind’s eye vein-lining the give-andtake carnality of the intimate author-and-audience setting at his book tour readings. Those readings – and there have been many of them over the years, along with a clutch of bios, nonfiction works, and forays into, onto, and behind the silver screen – have been compared, favorably, to the raw, violent, visceral, and utterly poetic conflagration of the Hindenburg’s final doomed docking. That fits, because Ellroy’s oh-thehumanity neo-noir crimespeak bubbles up not from the heart (as did Dashiell Hammett’s) nor from the head (à la Ross Macdonald) but from the gut, usually chaperoned by various and sundry slugs of crimped, poisonous lead. Blood’s a Rover is the grand finale of Ellroy’s “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy (which began with 1995’s American Tabloid and continued with 2001’s The Cold Six Thousand ), and it’s far and above his most
personal – at times almost cloyingly intimate – novel to date (excluding, of course, My Dark Places, his relentlessly downbeat nonfiction account of the search for his mother’s murderer). Set against the turbulent backdrop of the crackling doomfest that was America’s summer of ’68 are Ellroy’s schizoid alter egos, chief among them a panty-sniffing, private-peeper (shades of Ellroy’s own deliciously perverse youth-gone-wild here), once-upon-a-cop Wayne Tedrow, now in league with the Vegas mob for control over the Dominican Republic, and J. Edgar Hoover’s right hand of Dog, Dwight Holly. All are played, sashayed, and occasionally laid by the Red Goddess Joan, a lefty Mata Hari with a singular itch for plural publicans. No other American author short of Don DeLillo can recontextualize relatively recent American anti-history like Ellroy does here; it’s a tragimanic finger dance, what he does with his keyboard and the evolving shadow-history he’s constructed around the intersection of crime, politics, and the American zeitgeist, dazzlingly executed and paying off in the bloody American dream. – Marc Savlov
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Chanel brooch to my collar, I was thrilled with the look – and the amount of time it took me to pull it all together. But then I was too tired from the preparation and considered just staying home. But that was out of the question. I’d recently run into glamorous Becky Beaver, who was chairing the event, and she nailed me down about coming, so it was a must-do, even if it was raining pretty seriously. Arriving at the Austonian, I boarded the construction elevator with a number of other feathery and bespangled guests; we were sprinkled with rain as the elevator took us high into the sky. I began to feel less and less like a swan or firebird and more and more like a condor flying up to its nest high in the Andes. Deplaning at the 33rd level, we were greeted by what appeared to be a very large tutu, but upon closer inspection, it was made entirely of calla lilies. Gazing around the room, there were black and white calla lily “sculptures” everywhere – notably suspended from custommade chandeliers with the flowers hung upside down. With the 360-degree view of the world and the rain and lights twinkling below us, it was simply breathtaking. These were not like any flowers we’ve seen at most events; the sculptures were flights of fantasy created by the Mandarin Flower Co. (www.mandarin flower.com), a local family-run operation that has been around for about six years. Two gorgeous twentysomething girls, sisters Sofia
and Victoria Avila started the company after growing up watching their equally gorgeous mother, Rosa Maria Avila, a floral and event designer. It was a real pleasure to sit with the family at dinner (along with my old friends Eric and Maria Groten and Frank and Nina Seely) and to see the sheer delight on the designers’ faces as people practically lined up to compliment them. The Mandarin Flower Co. – remember that name. Becky Beaver wore a fabulous Marchesa gown in black and gold and ruled the night like a queen. With so many old friends there, it felt like old home week and portends a pretty dazzling social season (including Tribeza’s Style Week and the Long Center’s bigger-than-big event coming up). But even if there was only one event I attended this season, it would have to be this party. Cheers. WORD HAS IT … that Tribeza magazine, recently purchased by Dale Dewey and his beyoncé, Karen Landa, is pulling out all the stops for its upcoming fashion week. Sounds like its opening event, Tuesday, Sept. 22, is going to be an enormous fashion show (featuring 110 different looks) and that all the models and the production designer are from L.A. and beyond. Sounds essentially like the formula established by the founders of the magazine but with some huge changes that promise to give Austin a kind of fashion show that we rarely see around here. With vendors in tents around the Long Center and a whole lot more, the week sounds pretty fab.
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At Ballet Fête*ish, Eric and Maria Groten (seated) are flanked by Mandarin Flower Co.’s designers, Victoria Avila (l) and Sofia Avila (r), with mama Rosa Maria in back. Mandarin’s flowers are to-die-for. Or to-get-married-for. Or to send a loved one (or maybe yourself). Write to our Style Avatar with your related events, news, and hautey bits: style@austinchronicle.com or PO Box 49066, Austin, 78765 or 458-6910 (fax).
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4404-L W. William Cannon, 358-7474 www.cypressgrill.net Lunch and dinner: Monday-Friday, 11am10pm; Saturday-Sunday, 11:30am-10pm Breakfast: Saturday-Sunday, 8:30-11:30am First-time visitors have to be a bit surprised when they walk into Cypress Grill. It’s sitting in a strip mall surrounded by fitness clubs and dwarfed by the Costco shopping center across the street. Yet inside, the place couldn’t be any funkier or more comfortable if it were in a little shack on the outskirts of Calcasieu Parish. You’ll immediately notice the scents of bell peppers, onions, celery, and fresh seafood. But after you’ve settled into your seat, you’ll also notice the happy crowds and cheerful service. The place is small enough to feel intimate, yet all the tables have sufficient room to allow a sense of privacy. The menu makes a few specific promises that might lead you to feel as if you’ve walked into a health food joint. All the seafood is freshly caught, and there are no growth hormones or antibiotics in the chickens, no hydrogenated oils, and no trans fats. Everything, start to finish, is made from scratch. Even the iced tea tastes as though someone put some effort into it, and the restaurant has a full-service bar with a good selection of high-end beers and exotic cocktails. Our first visit was a total success. We were both hungry for a muffaletta ($6.49 for a quarter sandwich, $9.99 for a half, and $17.99 for a whole), and it was top-notch. The cold cuts and cheese were excellent, but the rich explosion of flavor from the homemade olive spread was what really caught our attention. The gumbo ($4.39/cup, $7.59/ bowl) was luxuriously rich, loaded with sau-
sage, chicken, and vegetables, all in a soup the color of dark chocolate. On our next visit, we decided to try the appetizer sampler plate ($10.79), a meal in itself with a huge, lightly crispy and perfectly fried Cajun crab cake; two oddly inauthentic crawfish eggrolls; and three boudin balls. The last item was loose rice sausage rolled up with seasoned bread crumbs, all deep-fried and served with a spicy rémoulade sauce. If someone pronounced deep-fried rice and sausage to be the new health food, I’d order them by the dozen. The boudin balls were the best thing we tried at the Cypress Grill. For the main course, our intention was to try the fried-oyster po’boy. The menu brags that the French bread comes straight from Gambino’s Bakery in New Orleans, and the po’boys indeed looked superb, but we got waylaid by the Cajun Classics part
of the menu. The red beans and rice ($9.79) was exactly as described: creamy red beans, a scoop of white rice, and a huge hunk of sausage. This is one of those dishes where all the ingredients have to be perfect, and they were – especially the beans, which were creamy without turning to mush. Cypress Grill’s crawfish étouffée ($12.99) is a classic version, made with a roux that is beyond blond but not quite dark, with a nice number of sweet, nicely cooked tails. The best of the entrées was the catch of the day (which we understand has been discontinued since our visit), a lightly blackened tilapia filet with the house Zydeco Cream Sauce, loaded with garlic aromas and crab flavors. Authentic, tasty, and fairly priced, Cypress Grill is highly recommended for folks who love Louisiana cooking. – Wes Marshall
Event Menu Sept. 17-23 › It’s not too late to get tickets for Flavors of the
› Check out pairings of Kiolbassa & Kab along
› The fourth annual Austin Chocolate Festival is this
› Enjoy the second in a series of fashion
Town, a multirestaurant tasting event at the Hyatt Regency (208 Barton Springs Rd.) benefiting the Busby Foundation, which raises money for and awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Tickets are $100 per person at www.flavorsofthetown.org or at the door. Thursday, Sept. 17, 6-9pm. weekend at the Monarch Event Center (6406 N. I-35 #3100); some proceeds benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The opening party ($35) offers chocolate samples, wine, cocktails, appetizers, live music, and a Best Truffle competition; the Saturday events ($20 for adults and $10 for kids for each of four time slots) feature samples from a variety of area chocolate artisans, competitions in several chocolate categories, and delectable chocolates for sale. Friday, Sept. 18, 7-10pm; Saturday, Sept. 19, 10am-6pm.
recently reviewed AMERICAN CAFE: CAFE LAGUNA This cafe’s menu of salads and sandwiches is provided by Eddie Bernal’s 34th Street Catering operation. 3809 W. 35th, 458-8191 x211. www.amoa.org.
the Fredericksburg Wine Road 290. Nine wineries between Johnson City and Fredericks-burg will each feature 300 complementary samples of sausage dishes from area restaurants and caterers paired with Hill Country cabernet sauvignons. More info at www.texashillsvineyard.com. Saturday, Sept. 19, 10am until samples are gone.
brunches at Sagra (1610 San Antonio, 5355988, www.sagrarestaurant.net) – a fresh fall menu complemented by hot fashion trends and original artworks from Fab’rik boutique and gallery (12801 Hill Country Blvd., 2631644, www.fabrikaustin.com). Brunch, a Fab’rik goodie bag, and a raffle drawing for valuable prizes can all be had for $24. Saturday, Sept. 19, noon-2pm.
› AAARRRGGGHH! Put on your best pirate or
sexy wench garb, and sail into Opal Divine’s Freehouse (700 W. Sixth, 477-3308, www.opaldivines.com) for the Talk Like a Pirate Day festivities: food and drink specials, live music from the Jolly Garogers, and cash prizes for the best costumes. Saturday, Sept. 19, 4pm-12mid.
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› 34th Street Cafe (1005 W. 34th, 323-2000,
www.34thstreetcafe.com) brings back its popular Lounge 34 with snacks and appetizers, special wine cocktails, DJ’d music, and a fun photo booth. The prix fixe menu is $24 in advance; limited admission. Reserve at cameron@34thstreetcafe.org. Saturday, Sept. 19, 10pm-12mid.
› Chef/nutritherapist Alain Braux presents a
cooking class based on recipes from his new book, How to Lower Your Cholesterol With French Gourmet Food: A Practical Guide, at the Whole Foods Culinary Center (Fifth & Bowie, 542-2209). $45 per person, reservations necessary. The book is available at Whole Foods, Peoples Rx, and www.amazon.com. Wednesday, Sept. 23, 6:30-9pm.
› Hoover’s Cooking (2002 Manor Rd., 479-
0889) has entered into a catering contract with the historic Victory Grill (1104 E. 11th) and will serve a limited menu of its down-home specialties for lunch (11am-2pm) and dinner (4-10pm) four days a week at the legendary East Austin venue and a late-night (9pm-12mid) short order menu on nights when events are scheduled there. Wednesdays-Saturdays. – V.B.W.
Inspired by such visionaries as Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, Joel Salatin, and Michael Pollan, our country is experiencing a small but important paradigm shift away from the chemical-dependent, big agribusiness, factory-farm model to one where small, sustainable family farms are once again feeding fresh, local food to their neighbors. Austin’s own version of this paradigm shift was in evidence on the second floor mezzanine at BookPeople last Friday night. A capacity crowd had gathered to sample dishes made from local produce, meats, and cheeses and to meet Pamela Walker, author of Growing Good Things to Eat in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, $23). Walker began with a reference to Wendell Berry’s classic essay, saying that “anyone who eats is involved in agriculture,” and the grazing crowd heartily concurred. The author went on to describe her own development into an avid organic gardener and explained how she chose the Texas farmers and ranchers who are profiled in her new book. Before she sat down to sign books, Walker opened the floor to questions for the area farmers in attendance – Larry Butler and Carol Ann Sayle of Boggy Creek Farm, Katie Kraemer of Tecolote Farm, Amelia Sweethardt of Pure Luck Farm & Goat Dairy, cattle ranchers Betsy and Katherine Ross of Schulenburg, and Mike and Debbie Sams of Full Quiver Dairy Farm near Dallas. They spoke frankly and eloquently about the many challenges facing Texas’ small farmers today. They told stories of wells gone dry during the drought and the need for commercial or agricultural water rates for urban farmers. Another major concern was their feeling that supposed food safety regulations developed by and for big agribusiness (such as the National Animal Identification System, among others) are being used to put small operators out of business. What struck me most about this discussion was how similar it was to conversations I’ve had in researching a story. I spent quite a bit of time this summer researching state egg-grading regulations, which were developed for giant factory farms but have been adopted into the Austin city code, and how these regulations are used to remove ungraded eggs from Austin restaurants and grocery stores. The upshot of my research and last week’s book celebration is the realization that even though there’s enthusiastic support for our local farm-to-table movement, the success of these small, sustainable local farms is by no means a given. To elaborate on Berry’s quote, if we want to continue eating local, we need to pay close attention to agricultural issues. The family farms and ranches that feed us need our political as well as our financial support. Voice your concerns to members of Austin’s new Sustainable Food Policy Board (marla@ edibleaustin.com) and make sure that our City Council members, county commissioners, state legislators, and officials of both local and state health and agriculture departments understand that their support for small-scale, sustainable agriculture is of vital nutritional, economic, and environmental importance.
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If you’ve been curious about why Austinites are moving into high-rise condos, a visit to Garrido’s offers a pleasant way to sample the urban-lifestyle ambience. At once laid-back Austin and Downtown chic, the new Mexican restaurant is one of three small eateries on the ground floor of 360, the 44-story condo tower at Third and Nueces. It occupies a choice spot, across a cul-de-sac plaza from Austin Music Hall; best of all, the patio overlooks a long, verdant stretch of Shoal Creek. In the evenings, the street and sidewalk cafes out front are alive with strolling live-music patrons and well-dressed folks out for a night on the town. That’s not to say Garrido’s patrons don’t come for the food. Chef/owner David Garrido earned a national reputation as executive chef at Jeffrey’s for many years, turning out inventive, white-tablecloth fare. He left in 2005, joining the Chuy’s restaurant group to learn the business of running an affordable, eat-there-anytime restaurant worthy of his Jeffrey’s stature. Garrido’s, which opened in May, fulfills that promise. One small-plates menu is offered all day, from early lunch (or weekend brunch) until the late, after-show crowd shuts the place down. It’s somewhat limited; the same flavors reappear throughout the menu, but this no doubt is instrumental in holding the prices down. After trying a lunch, two dinners, and several happy hours, we learned that the best Garrido’s meals are assembled from several courses, as with tapas. Portion sizes are small, which makes it easy to eat light, but if you don’t, the cost can add up quickly. Budget-conscious diners can enjoy a delicious, satisfying meal by sticking with a taco plate, priced at just $7.50 to $10.75. For such a high-end dining experience Downtown, that’s an exceptional value. The chips ($1.50) are served in a tall iron basket, with a warm, cooked salsa that spoke too loudly of tomato paste for our preference – it was more like an enchilada sauce. Among the antojitos (starters), we also tried two quesadillas ($6.95 each); both proved delicious and toothsome on homemade corn tortillas. The vegetarian option was stuffed with mushrooms and decoratively dribbled with three sauces, which lent roasted-garlic and ancho-chile flavors. The roasted pork quesadilla was almost sinfully rich with asadero cheese and avocado, but was balanced by a piquant pineapple-habanero salsa. The lamb pops – small chops presented as finger food – were quite tasty, served with the same sauce as the mushroom quesadilla (although the bed of plain baby spinach begs rethinking). All three bocaditos were outstanding. They’re tiny, but order them anyway. Described as tostadas, each dish in fact
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consists of four single chips, artfully presented on a long white platter – small tastes to be savored. The shrimp ($6.50) is piled with a slaw, chipotle-horseradish aioli, and mango salsa. The pork melds the flavors of goat cheese, pepitas, and a chipotle agridulce. Longtime Jeffrey’s patrons will recognize a reprise of David Garrido’s signature appetizer there: oyster tostadas ($8) on yucca root chips, with a honeyhabanero aioli. We also enjoyed two soups of the day, both of them delicious standouts. The small 4-inch tacos on fresh corn tortillas can be ordered individually ($2.75 to $4.25) or as part of a two-taco plate, which comes with pureed black beans and green rice, both mildly seasoned. Choices include the crispy oysters, a mahi mahi BLT, pork carnitas with pickled onions, grilled chicken, a coffee-marinated ribeye with a zingy horseradish sauce, skirt steak with a radish/lime/habanero topping, and mushroomcheese again. (Vegetarians may be nonplussed to find that combo their one option throughout the menu.) Each taco was made distinctive by unusual sauces and a sophisticated combination of flavors, textures, and colors. That held true for the taco al dia specials as well: a lobster taco ($10.50 for one) and a tasty halibut.
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When we made the mistake of thinking an order of tostadas would fill us up on our first visit, we gladly compensated with dessert. The mango flan is a silky treat, but the tres leches cake proved disappointingly grainy. Every meal here could happily end with the Final Feliz ($2.50): two chocolate truffles in a pool of chocolate sauce with two tiny, addictive cookies. Garrido’s calm, sleek interior has an open design and high ceilings; it’s nicely intimate, with perhaps 120 seats. While the front bar area is noisy when packed with pretty people (as it’s been each of the nights we’ve visited), the dining area is conducive to good conversation. The soft leather chairs were comfortable throughout a multicourse meal. A beaded copper curtain partially screens the kitchen, which is fronted by a tall chef’s table. The fellow running around in the baseball cap is Garrido himself; we’d prefer to see him in a chef’s jacket and (more importantly) it would help if servers were in identifiable uniforms. Now that the weather is cooler, the patio (with about as many tables as the interior dining area, some covered) is the place to be. Garrido’s has capitalized wonderfully on its Shoal Creek setting to create a relaxed, Shady Grove feel. The happyhour sunsets go perfectly with a house mojito or one of the many other cocktails and well-priced wines offered. Who says urban living has to be stressful? – Katherine Gregor
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BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: ARTURO’S BAKERY & CAFE Nestled between El Mercado and Galeria Sin Fronteras, you’ll find Mexican fare, sandwiches, burgers, smoothies, and knockwurst! 314 W. 17th, 469-0380. $
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BARBECUE: STUBB’S One of Austin’s premier rhythm-and-grub joints. Damn good barbecue. The Gospel Brunch on Sundays has become so popular that reservations are a must for both seatings. 801 Red River, 480-8341. www.stubbsaustin.com. $$
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DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: JIMMY JOHN’S GOURMET SANDWICHES “Established in 1983 to add to students’ GPA and general dating ability.” The subs and clubs here might just do that. 601 W. MLK, 478-3111. www.jimmyjohns.com. $
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ITALIAN: SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE This kidtested, mother-approved Italian restaurant is a surefire hit with the munchkins. However, their generous portions are anything but child’s play. 117 W. Fourth, 476-4059. www.meatballs.com. $$
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JAPANESE: MAIKO provides Japanese and fusion cuisine in a modern and swanky yet relaxed setting. Find standard sushi offerings, featuring edomae (Tokyo-style sushi) and some signature rolls. 311 W. Sixth, 236-9888. www.maikoaustin.com. $$$
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JAPANESE: SILHOUETTE Sushi, rice rolls, dumplings, spring rolls, wraps, coffees, teas, and live music: It’s the perfect spot for that late-night pick-me-up. 718 Congress, 478-8899. www.silhouette718.com. $$
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MEDITERRANEAN: LOUIE’S 106 is a crisp, elegant, multitiered setting for Austin’s original tapas. The beautifully lit bar is the perfect place to make your pitch. 106 E. Sixth, 476-1997. www.louies106.net. $$$ STEAK HOUSE: FLEMING’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE & WINE BAR The main attraction is perfectly prepared beef presented in a comfortable, clubby setting and enhanced by an extensive wine list and accomplished service. 320 E. Second, 457-1500. www.flemingssteakhouse.com. $$$$ TEX-MEX: COPA BAR & GRILL This popular Latin dance club features drinks, eats, and live salsa and merengue on Fridays, as well as a Saturday DJ. 217 Congress, 479-5002. www.copabarandgrill.com. $ THAI: THAI TARA This fashionable West Sixth Street outpost continues to be the destination for Downtown Thai food and atmosphere. 601 W. Sixth, 236-0856. www.thaitaracuisine.com. $$
EAST AMERICAN CAFE: CISCO’S BAKERY In the breakfast business for more than 50 years, Cisco’s still serves good migas, huevos rancheros, and hot biscuits with healthy doses of Austin political history. 1511 E. Sixth, 478-2420. $
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NORTH BARBECUE: BONE DADDY’S HOUSE OF SMOKE Your waitress may resemble a runaway who’s lost her clothing, but don’t call the cops – just order the ribs. 11617 Research, 346-3025. www.bonedaddys.com. $$
BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: BOSSA NOVA The menu is inspired by Brazilian cuisine and features vegetable-packed “natural style” sandwiches, as well as a full lunch menu. Don’t pass up the fresh baked goods. 2121 E. Sixth #101, 478-8700. www.bossanovaaustin.com. $
CHINESE: SICHUAN GARDEN The flavors are well-balanced and rich without losing the piquancy of the Sichuan region. The lamb with hot cumin, ma po do fu, and boiled beef with spicy sauce are all excellent. 110 N. I-35 #240, Round Rock, 512/255-6952. www.sichuangardentx.com. $$
BARBECUE: LEWIS’ BAR-B-Q Step up to the window of this unassuming concrete shack for a juicy chopped-beef sandwich or a link of smoky sausage, and then have a seat at the picnic tables. 1814 Harvey, 473-2225. $
JAPANESE: BELUGA JAPANESE RESTAURANT This place offers a wide variety of fresh, affordable sushi and tempura. Try the Ahi Tower. 661 Louis Henna Blvd. #300, Round Rock, 512/255-6454. www.belugasushi.net. $$$
BURGER JOINT: DAN’S HAMBURGERS One of several burger outlets operated by Austin’s hamburger king, Dan Junk, whose trademark has always been good, fresh food and friendly service. 844 Airport, 385-2262. $
PIZZA: MANGIA CHICAGO STUFFED PIZZA Delectable and deceptively filling stuffed pizza at a reasonable cost. Now going cross-cultural with breakfast tacos. 12001 Burnet Rd., 832-5550. www.mangiapizza.com. $$
DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: GALLOWAY SANDWICH SHOP For Southerners, this is the familiar food that your granny used to cook. Meat with two sides, done right, and it changes every day. Try the roast beef and sweet-potato pie. 1914 E. 12th, 482-0757. $
SEAFOOD: OPAL DIVINE’S MARINA This menu features some seasonal seafood items in addition to favorite Opal’s staples. 12709 N. MoPac, 733-5353. www.opaldivines.com. $$
SEAFOOD, SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: MR. CATFISH Friendly and funky, with a blend of Creole and Southern soul foods that aim to please. Especially recommended are the catfish, collards, fried okra, red beans and rice, and the addictive boudin balls. 1075 Springdale, 927-6666. $ SOUTH AMERICAN: EL ZUNZAL RESTAURANT A cozy, comfortable place serving Mexican and Salvadoran specialties. We recommend the arroz con albondigas, the mariscadas, and the pupusas. 642 Calles, 474-7749. www.enaustin.com/zunzal.html. $$ TEX-MEX: ANGIE’S MEXICAN RESTAURANT This homey restaurant serves up Tex-Mex breakfasts and huge $6.25 lunch specials. The incredible homemade corn tortillas are one of Angie’s many claims to fame. 1307 E. Seventh, 476-5413. $$ TEX-MEX: VIVO Try their affordable San Antoniostyle Tex-Mex fare and margaritas on the decks. 2015 Manor Rd., 482-0300. www.vivo-austin.com. $$
LAKE AMERICAN CAFE, BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: CAFE LAGO COFFEEHOUSE You’ll be rewarded with fresh, delicious breakfast food, plus a healthy and inviting selection of soups, salads, and sandwiches. 1200 Lakeway Dr. #1, Lakeway, 261-8141. www.thecafelago.com. $ AMERICAN CAFE: TRUE GRITS TEXAS GRILL The food is of the real-deal, made-from-scratch, Texas-cafe variety. Beef anchors the menu, assisted by chicken-fried everything. Dozens of homemade pies and sturdy coffee, too. 18645 FM 1431, Lago Vista, 267-4749. $$ BARBECUE: SMOKY J’S BAR-B-Q A definitive Texas barbecue joint with a smoking pit out back, window service, and picnic tables. Meat is available by the sandwich, the plate, or the pound, and it’s still BYOB. 7008 RR 620 N., 331-4888. $
STEAK HOUSE: COOL RIVER CAFE Elegant steak house and grill with a ski-lodge atmosphere and a full bar. Menu items have a Southwestern flair, with surf, turf, and venison. 4001 Parmer, 835-0010. www.coolrivercafe.com. $$$ TEX-MEX: BABY ACAPULCO NO. 4 Try this place for great enchiladas and popular flavored margaritas that should come with warning stickers: “Muy bueno!” 13609 N. I-35, 670-9111. www.babyacapulco.com. $$ TEX-MEX: VAZQUEZ RESTAURANT Regulars would rise at dawn for the breakfast here, but they swear by the enchiladas as well. 915 E. Braker, 837-2753. $ VIETNAMESE: SUNFLOWER RESTAURANT Austin’s go-to restaurant for traditional Vietnamese flavor. You’ll find dishes here that you can’t get from the competition. The shaking beef makes us quiver! 8557 Research #146, 339-7860. $$
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CHINESE: CHINA PALACE The Palace was huge back in the Seventies and Eighties, with long lines and great Chinese cuisine. It’s back with a vengeance and loaded with authentic taste. Insist on the Chinese menu, and be adventurous. 6605 Airport, 451-7104. $ DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: NEWORLDELI This concept cafe stresses customer comfort, and that starts with offering lunch for less than $5. 4101 Guadalupe, 451-7170. www.newworlddeli.com. $ CON T I N U E D ON P.4 4
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INTERIOR MEXICAN, TEX-MEX: SAGO MODERN MEXICAN RESTAURANT Find a unique approach to both Tex-Mex and Interior Mexican cuisine with options such as achiote - grilled shrimp with avocado and pumpkin seeds, as well as a fantastic brunch. 4600 W. Guadalupe Ste. B-5, 452-0300. www.sagomodernmexican.com. $$ JAPANESE, KOREAN: KOREA GARDEN The interior may be newer and brighter, but the sushi and Korean dishes are as good as ever. Try the banchan tidbits and the noodle dishes or the sushi train in the next room. You can also grill at your table. 6519 N. Lamar, 302-3149. $$ PAN-ASIAN: MAMA FUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ASIAN HOUSE Drop by this locally owned chain to eat in or take out; the ingredients are fresh, and the service is great. 4615 N. Lamar, 637-6773. www.mamafusaustin.com. $$ TEX-MEX: FREEBIRDS WORLD BURRITO Fresh ingredients; a fun, casual atmosphere; and the patented Bad Ass BBQ Sauce make this place a must-try. Plan early for the lunch hour, when lines are out the door. 1000 E. 41st, 451-5514. www.freebirds.com. $ VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: MOTHERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFE & GARDEN A welcoming vegetarian refuge since 1979, the meatless menu is a mix of Southern and Tex-Mex and includes a selection of soups, salads, and heartier fare. 4215 Duval St., 451-3994. www.motherscafeaustin.com. $$
SOUTH BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: LA MEXICANA BAKERY Well-known for its wide selection of inexpensive pan dulces, empanadas, and galletas. If your sweet tooth needs a root canal, try something from the taqueria. 1924 S. First, 443-6369. www.la-mexicana-bakery.com. $ BARBECUE: ARTZ RIB HOUSE is the Austin headquarters where lovers of great barbecue and bluegrass converge. Its thick countrystyle pork ribs are legendary, and this place has live music most nights. 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283. www.artzribhouse.com. $$ BARBECUE: AUSTINâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BARBECUE What a feast. Ethereal pancakes, fluffy omelets, homemade hash browns, and ancho-chile-spiked barbecue sauce compete with really wonderful hamburgers. Try the chorizo burger. Seriously. 6002 Burleson, 382-2105. $ BURGER JOINT: WATERLOO ICE HOUSE AT THE GROVE On weekends, breakfast is served until 2pm, but you can get the same great burgers and Hill Country specialties anytime. 9600 S. I-35 Ste. D-100 (Southpark Meadows), 292-7900. www.waterlooicehouse.com. $$ CHINESE: CHINA EMPEROR Definitely try the General Tsoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chicken, a standout with a sinus-clearing spice rating. The hot and sour soup also leaves a pleasant, peppery afterburn. 111 W. William Cannon #312, 443-2922. $$ INTERIOR MEXICAN: EL BORREGO DE ORO Real Mexican food, real corn tortillas, and real
Mexican Coca-Colas at a reasonable price. Try the birria lamb and the perfect picadillo. 3900 S. Congress, 866/609-1572. www.elborregodeoro.com. $
noodle soups, dry noodle bowls, and stir-fried noodles. 2602 Guadalupe, 494-1011. $ VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: VEGGIE HEAVEN The menu is laden with Asian dishes but also offers meat- and dairy-free pastas, sandwiches, and desserts. 1914-A Guadalupe, 457-1013. www.veggieheavenaustin.com. $
SEAFOOD: JOEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CRAB SHACK Broiled, grilled, or blackened seafood platters; cold shrimp by the bucket; and lots of giggling birthday parties are what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find here on most nights. 600 E. Riverside, 441-1010. www.joescrabshack.com. $$
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AMERICAN CAFE: 34TH STREET CAFE A neighborhood place that tries to keep everyone happy. Among the standards are some delicious jewels, if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to seek them out 1005 W. 34th, 371-3400. www.34thstreetcafe.com. $$ AMERICAN CAFE: BLUE STAR CAFETERIA Find an upscale comfort-food menu that is both affordable and inviting. Try the homemade cobbler. 4800 Burnet Rd., 454-7827. www.bluestarcafeteria.com. $
TEX-MEX: FLACOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFE Y CANTINA Mexican food just like your abuela used to make: hearty servings, all made from scratch, and breakfast anytime you want it. 3632 S. Congress, 444-2767. $
BARBECUE: RUDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COUNTRY STORE & BARB-Q Good-quality smoked meats are available by the pound, along with all the white bread, pickles, onions, and peppers you need. 2451 Capital of TX Hwy. S., 329-5554. www.rudysbbq.com. $
UT AFRICAN: ASTERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT In addition to the vegetarian selections, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find fragrant chicken, lamb, and tender beef. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget to take home the special Ethiopian sauces and a bundle of injera. 2804 N. I-35, 469-5966. www.astersethiopian.com. $$
BURGER JOINT: EZâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Although the hamburgers are very good, this place also serves up a plethora of chicken dishes, from battered and fried tenders to oven-roasted rosemary chicken plates. 3918 N. Lamar, 302-1800. www.ezsrestaurants.com. $
AMERICAN CAFE: RED RIVER CAFE Tucked away on Medical Arts (not Red River, as the name suggests), this popular spot offers tasty omelets, burgers, and weekend brunch specials. 2912 Medical Arts, 472-0385. $$
CHINESE: SUZIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CHINA GRILL Count on Suzi for good Chinese food and sushi, reasonable prices, friendly service, and proven skills from years of keeping Austin diners happy. 2745 Bee Caves Rd., 347-7077. www.suzischinagrill.com/beecave.html. $$
BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: TEXAS FRENCH BREAD Still the perfect place to duck in for a scone, pastry, and cup of coffee. Check out the sandwich menu for light lunch fare. 3213 Red River, 478-8794. www.texasfrenchbread.com. $
FRENCH: LA MADELEINE Diners slide their trays down the cafeteria-style line to order quiches, salads, soups, and sandwiches on dense homemade bread and croissants. 701 Capital of TX Hwy. S. Ste. G, 306-1998. www.lamadeleine.com. $$
BRAZILIAN: SĂ&#x201A;O PAULOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S offers Tex-Mex dishes as well as Brazilian cuisine, such as its version of the national dish, feijoada. Sâo Pauloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s constantly changing daily specials shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be missed. 2809 San Jacinto, 473-9988. www.saopaulos.net. $$
INDIAN: BOMBAY GRILL Be sated by one of the biryanis or the aloo paratha, whole-wheat bread stuffed with potatoes and peas. 3249 Bee Caves Rd., 329-0234. www.bombaygrilltexas.com. $$
CHINESE: THE MAGIC WOK Cheap lunch and affordable dinners that include soup and an egg roll. 2716½ Guadalupe, 474-7770. www.magicwok.150m.com. $
JAPANESE: YUME Latino-Caribbean and Japanese cuisines are joined here: Sushi anchors the menu, while bento boxes containing both hot dishes and sushi are the mainstay of the lunch menu. Look for island fusion at night. 815 W. 47th #102, 407-9001. www.yumeexotic.com. $$$
TEX-MEX: CHANGOS TAQUERIA Making fresh tortillas right before your eyes, Changos offers great mahi tacos, al pastor, and pork in chipotle. Get a fresh-fruit liquado on the side. 3023 Guadalupe, 480-8226. www.changos.com. $$
KOREAN: MISUNG 888 Delicious homestyle traditional Korean in a cozy spot thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open late. Big portions of authentic flavors, unique panchan items, and some dishes you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find anywhere else in town. 911 W. Anderson #114, 302-5433. $$
TEX-MEX: TRUDYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TEXAS STAR offers a wide range of Tex-Mex with a slightly contemporary twist, and fans are crazy about the chipotle salsa and chips. The half-pound burgers are tasty and massive, and the menu also offers chicken-fried steaks. 409 W. 30th, 477-2935. www.trudys.com. $$
VIETNAMESE: SEA DRAGON Especially heavy on the spicy and the seafood specialties, this place has a four-page menu loaded with choices. The portions are big, and the service is fast and efficient. 8776-B Research, 451-5051. $
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Dumped and disowned, ‘Cabin Fever 2’ gets a one-off screening to benefit Austin School of Film BY MARC SAVLOV The good news is that Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever, much maligned director Ti West’s sequel to Eli Roth’s gruesomely endearing spam-in-a-cabin freak-out of 2002, is finally going to be playing at a theatre near you. The bad news is, the previous sentence is only true if you happen to be at the Alamo Ritz, Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7pm. Then – and, presumably, only then – CF2 will have its theatrical world premiere in a benefit screening for the Austin School of Film, courtesy of Fantastic Fest. After that, Lionsgate is Oh, the horror: Disowned by director Ti West and dumped to straight-to-video dumping West’s semisequel straight into video stores. by Lionsgate, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever will screen once theatrically at the What gives? CF2, which wrapped production all the way Alamo Ritz, with cast and crew in attendance. back in April 2007, has officially been disowned by its director, who spoke at the recent UK-based FrightFest. On hand for a Austinite Kelley, who last spoke to West at South by Southwest screening of his homage to late-Seventies horror shows, The House 2008, says: “Honestly, I saw the film the other day, and all the stuff of the Devil (which will also play at Fantastic Fest 2009), West that I really liked about the script was still in the movie. From my claimed Lionsgate re-edited his cut of the film and essentially renpoint of view, it’s like, why [would West] throw this fit and abandon dered the metaphorical cabin less febrile, possibly with St. Joseph’s the whole project?” orange-flavored chewable aspirins. Of the rift with Lionsgate, online So what should fans of Cabin Fever expect from West’s sequel? genre site BrutalAsHell.com quoted West as saying “[the original edit “To me the first film had a real surreality and an awesome sense of of the film] was like a John Waters or Todd Solondz film and featured humor,” says Kelley, “and what Ti did was amp that up into an almost heart wipes and star wipes and that the current version is much less slapstick level. Plus, there’s even more of the Eighties, teen-camp refesoteric and idiosyncratic.” erences than the first one had. To me, this has a more Better Off Interestingly, West is suddenly press shy vis-à-vis the upcoming ASF Dead/Rock ’n’ Roll High School kind of campiness to it that really benefit, but such is not the case for actors Rider Strong (returning works. And it isn’t just another, ‘Oh, there’s another Eighties slasher from Roth’s original), Marc Senter, Noah Segan, and Rusty Kelley film reference,’ either: It all works together. If you liked the strange(Dear Pillow) and producer Lauren Moews – all of whom are slated to ness and weirdness of the first one, you’ll love this one.” attend the Alamo premiere. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever screens Wednesday, Sept. 23, 7pm, at the Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz. For more info, visit www.austinschooloffilm.org.
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Did I forget to mention that the Game Developers Conference is in town? As far as industry expos go, it’s sort of a big deal. The festival runs Sept. 15-18, and you likely missed the bulk of it, but unless you’re interested in panels like No SQL – How MMO Game Developers Benefit From the Versant Persistence Engine, then you didn’t miss much. But just because the GDC can be technical doesn’t mean there isn’t next-level, supercool game chatter going on.
One of this year’s new minisummits within the conference is the Independent Games Summit. This is where the cool kids of gaming, like Brandon Boyer of hip gaming blog Offworld and Adam Saltsman of Canabalt and Gravity Hook fame, will be loitering. And by loitering I mean highfiving one another and discussing indie games like And Yet It Moves (pictured left), Bit.Trip, World of Goo, and Splosion Man, which can be downloaded to select platforms. Other GDC-related games are free online and just waiting to be played, such as Canabalt, Fantastic Contraption, Paper Moon, and Bunni. Check out the Chronicle’s Screens blog, Picture in Picture, at austinchronicle.com/pip for links to all of these games. Log on and feel like you’re at the convention without all the mind-numbing schmoozing. The other new arm of the GDC is the iPhone Games Summit, which is arguably
just in time, as the little gadget that could is finally being recognized as a serious contender in the handheld gaming market. Only Luddites use their iPhones to actually call people. While not as sexy as the indie kids’, the workshops and presentations at this summit will likely be just as full. The other summits covering game audio and game writing have all the usual unknown names behind very recognizable games like Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3.
Game on Austin Since I’ve got you here, might as well pimp Game on Austin, a tag-team event from Screenburn at South by Southwest and your favorite indie weekly, The Austin Chronicle. Mark your calendars for Oct. 15, because local game developers will descend on the Mohawk to show off their new and future releases. Expect bigscreen Rock Band, old-school gaming stations, art and music from the Austin Museum of Digital Art, and a who’s who of local video gaming, all for free. Just don’t come expecting booth babes. Want to talk about Kurt Cobain singing Vampire Weekend on Guitar Hero 5? E-mail gaming@austinchronicle.com with tips, codes, and general vitriol.
by Werner Herzog Ecco, 306 pp., $24.99 The filming of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic, Fitzcarraldo, in the Amazonian depths of Peru seemed mythically doomed from its inception, something chronicled that same year in the documentary Burden of Dreams. The titular character, fueled by the volcanic ego of Klaus Kinski, wants to build an opera house in the wilds of Iquitos but first must get a 300-ton steamboat over a mountain. The German director’s personal journal from the marathon two-year shoot offers another angle, and it’s no surprise his entries are exquisitely detailed. Most of his films toe the same fine line – obsession and insanity – so naturally, he carried Fitzcarraldo’s burden. It’s not explicit if, years later when he decided to translate and publish this, Herzog took a revisionist’s scalpel to his time in Peru. In the preface, he states it wasn’t a day-to-day diary of filming but rather “inner landscapes, born of the delirium of the jungle.” Throughout Conquest, Herzog is repeatedly disgusted by the jungle’s perversity and silent, seething “malice,” yet strangely amused by its dirty jokes. Those highs and lows coil as one. For his dry reflections (“When you shoot an elephant, it stays on its feet for 10 days before it falls over”) and pangs of jungle hatred, there are equally beautiful scenes, as when Herzog thinks he feels an earthquake: “For a moment the countryside quivered and shook, and my hammock began to sway gently.” Herzog and Kinski’s tumultuous friendship is touched on, but not as deeply as in the great 1999 documentary My Best Fiend. Herzog mostly ignores the actor’s projectile insolence on set, though he does move him to a hotel when perturbed natives offer to kill him. Elsewhere, a man chops off his own foot after a snakebite; a Peruvian general snaps and declares war on Ecuador; Herzog slaps an albino turkey; birds “scream” rather than sing, and insects look prehistoric; planes crash and limbs are split open. He sounds amazingly calm within these fevered inner landscapes – perhaps writing was therapy – but knows preserving history is important to myth. The crew, victorious, finally gets the boat over the mountain, and Herzog gets in one last joke. “All that is to be reported is this: I took part.” – Audra Schroeder
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Good for Gold BY B E LI N DA ACO S TA The Emmy Awards will be presented this weekend. I won’t bother making predictions except to assume that whomever I choose as the rightful winner is sure to lose. Here are some of the major nominees. As always, I start with the writers. Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series: Only two series are nominated in this category – Flight of the Conchords (HBO) and 30 Rock (NBC). Of the five nomination slots, 30 Rock has four. On odds alone, it looks like the Tina Fey comedy will walk away with a trophy, though I’d love to see the underappreciated, admittedly offbeat Conchords get some love. At the same time, I’m wondering where a nomination for The Office (NBC) is, as well as for the kooky workplace comedy Better Off Ted (ABC). Ted never got any traction with viewers and was allowed to burn off its episodes this summer. Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series: Again, only two nominations – one for Lost (ABC), the remaining four nominations for Mad Men (AMC). Mad Men is simply the finest thing on TV at the moment. Enough said.
Now, for the actors. These nominations are typically perplexing because the Emmy crowd seems to love rewarding the same individuals over and over again while overlooking other exemplary performances. This is evident in the following category. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (CBS); Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords; Tony Shalhoub, Monk (USA); Steve Carell, The Office; Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock; Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men (CBS). It’s high time to reward Carell for his nuanced performance as Michael Scott on The Office. It’s amazing that he can make such an annoying character so lovable. Carell makes it look easy. Give him a trophy, already. Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad (AMC); Michael C. Hall, Dexter (Showtime); Hugh Laurie, House (Fox); Gabriel Byrne, In Treatment (HBO); Jon Hamm, Mad Men; Simon Baker, The Mentalist (CBS). This is actually a well-rounded list of nominees. But of course, I’m going with Hamm from Mad Men. My second choice would be Simon
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believable. And while Tara is a comedy, it’s the first series I’ve seen that presents mental illness without veering too far into pathos or high comedy. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama: Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters (ABC); Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer (TNT); Glenn Close, Damages (FX); Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC); Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men; Holly Hunter, Saving Mad Men has been nominated in numerous categories, Grace (TNT). including Outstanding Lead Actor for Jon Hamm. Parting for a moment from my usual braying for Baker, who is deliciously droll in a mediocre procedural. He deserves a reward for making Mad Men, I would like to see Holly Hunter take the trophy. Her work flies under the The Mentalist seem better than it really is. Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy radar because her vehicle (like Baker’s The Series: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Mentalist) is weak. Aside from Close over on Adventures of Old Christine (CBS); Christina FX, Hunter is giving one of the most exciting Applegate, Samantha Who? (ABC); Sarah performances on TV. The 61st annual Emmy Awards will be Silverman, The Sarah Silverman Program (Comedy Central); Tina Fey, 30 Rock; Toni handed out Sunday, Sept. 20, at 7pm on Collette, United States of Tara (Showtime); CBS. I’ll be Twittering during the Emmys, so fire up the laptop if you want to tap along to Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds (Showtime). Again, many good choices here, but my the telecast. As always, stay tuned. pick is Collette. Her dazzling performance Follow TV Eye on Twitter: @ChronicleTVEye. as a woman with multiple personality disorder is down-to-earth, touching, and entirely E-mail Belinda Acosta at tveye@austinchronicle.com.
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Some Kind of Monster Will Johnson is the Swiss Army knife of indie rock. During rare downtime between his bands Centro-matic and South San Gabriel, the prolific local songwriter is taking a backseat to the Monsters of Folk – Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, M. Ward, and Jim James of My Morning Jacket – on a national and European tour, following the release of the quartet’s eponymous debut Tuesday. “I play [drums] as much as I’m allowed on recordings, but it’s been a little while since I’ve played live,” says Johnson, who last gigged behind the kit with Jandek in July 2007. His return coincides with the November release of Jason Molina & Will Johnson (Secretly Canadian), his debut collaboration with the Magnolia Electric Co. frontman, which Johnson describes as “a pretty subdued listen.” Here’s the real bombshell, though. Alongside Jim James and Anders Parker, Johnson is also taking part in Jay Farrar’s version of Mermaid Avenue, recording original music based on unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics at the behest of his daughter, Nora Guthrie. While no details have been confirmed as far as a release date or label, the album, which was recorded in New York in March, is currently in the mixing stage. “Jay sent me a priority mail package full of the lyrics, and I opened it at 4:30 in the afternoon,” Johnson recalls. “Within 17 minutes, I had already documented this one called ‘Chorine My Sheba Queen’ to the recording machine. That speaks far more about the song than anything I did. The lyrics struck me in a way that the music sounded automatic. It made such sense to my soul and my spirit. It’s got an empty and regretful tone but in a very beautiful way. I just latched onto it.”
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First Aid As the vitriolic health care debate continues in Congress and across the nation, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians beats its drum a little louder. The nonprofit remixes the traditional model, circumventing insurance companies to connect local musicians directly to medical (Seton Family of Hospitals), dental (St. David’s Community Health Foundation Dental Program), and mental health services (SIMS Foundation). HAAM has assisted more than 1,600 artists to date and is currently operating at capacity with 1,000 members, roughly one-eighth Foundation, while local businesses, ranging from preof this city’s working musicians. “It’s a blessed senting sponsor Whole Foods Market and new underthing,” stresses longtime scene photographer and writer ThunderCloud Subs to Twin Liquors and sideman Todd Wolfson, who enrolled just three days Waterloo Records, will donate 5% of their Sept. 22 before his bicycle accident in July that left 16 pins and sales and/or make two plates in his a cash donation to arm. “Without it HAAM SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS the local nonprofit. I’d have been Nearly 40% of the paying these bills 7am: Ian McLagan at Whole Foods Cafe (525 N. Lamar) organization’s operoff the rest of my 11am: Aimee Bobruk at Pita Pit (619 Congress) ating budget life and couldn’t Noon: John Gaar & the Hopeful Souls at ProntoWash comes from this have afforded to Eco Auto Spa (the Domain, Parking Deck A, Level 7) day alone, thus all go through the 12:50pm: No Show Ponies at City Hall (301 W. Second) the more reason to physical therapy.” 5pm: Bob Schneider at Waterloo Records (600-A N. Lamar) dine out at such The fourth 5:30pm: DJ Chicken George at Birds Barbershop (2110 S. Lamar) participants as annual HAAM 6pm: Colin Gilmore at Phil’s Icehouse (5620 Burnet Rd.) Romeo’s, Amy’s Benefit Day on 6:45pm: The Band of Heathens at Whole Foods Cafe Ice Creams, Tuesday is a town 8pm: Charanga Cakewalk at Momo’s (618 W. Sixth) Shady Grove hall rally with a 10pm: Uncle Lucius at Saxon Pub (1320 S. Lamar) Restaurant, and soundtrack proJo’s Coffee. vided by more Above are a few highlights from the day. For the comthan 90 Austin acts across the city. HAAMbassadors plete list of participating businesses and the music will be stationed at each show collecting donations that schedule, visit www.myhaam.org. will be matched (up to $25,000) by the Topfer Family
Across a Wire At a time when the old guard stands poised to picket outside KUT and Clear Channel continues to flip formats like Eastside property (105.9FM is back to the Beat), Woxy introduces a fresh alternative to Austin’s dead air. After moving its operations from Cincinnati, the longstanding FM-turned-Web radio station, presently marking its 27th year, began broadcasting live from the ME-TV studios on South Congress last week. For those yet to tune in online, Woxy is the preeminent transmitter of modern indie rock (with the noted exception of OTR’s Daily Dose on 101X), programmed almost entirely by the station’s three principals – general manager Bryan Jay Miller, program director Mike Taylor, and music director Matt Shiv. “It’s different from something like Pandora in that we might take our listeners a bit out of their comfort zones,” relates Shiv, who’s been on board since 1998. Remodeling ME-TV’s studio for its acclaimed Lounge Acts sessions, which will be documented in HD begin-
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Rain men: Matt Shiv (l) and Mike Taylor ning in October, the station recently released an iPhone application for mobile streaming and added four new specialty shows, most notably the Pampelmoose New Music Hour, hosted by Gang of Four’s Dave Allen. “We’re here to embrace the Austin scene,” stresses John Mascarenhas of Future Sounds, the multimedia PR company that acquired Woxy last year and hosts a weekly segment under the same name. “There are so many bands we’re ready to get behind and broadcast to a national audience.”
Random Play After negotiations with a potential investor fell through, Room 710 went into default on its lease earlier this month. “I am permanently out of the nightclub business and really haven’t been Downtown since moving my stuff out of 710 Red River,” says former owner Asher Garber, who hopes to eventually move to Israel. According to Garber, the lease on the property has been acquired by Elysium owner John Wickham, who didn’t return calls. As for Room 710’s staff, most seem to have rebounded over to the new club Mixx (612 E. Sixth).
Local indie Chicken Ranch Records (see “Chicken Ranch: From Ruston, With Love,” Oct. 19, 2007) is digitally reissuing the catalog of Austin’s Knife in the Water – 1998’s Plays One Sound and Others, 2000’s Red River, and 2003’s Cut the Cord. Vinyl versions are in the incubator for next year.
Attention night owls: Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears make their national television debut Monday night on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, shaking their collective tail feathers to “Sugarfoot.”
“We’re here to work,” Jet’s Nic Cester quipped this time last year while slumming outside of Beauty Bar. “That’s why we’re drinking.” The Aussie lads spent more than three months tracking their latest, Shaka Rock, with producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith at the Bubble. Troupe Gammage of local teen-pop outfit Speak, which is now in the same studio for its forthcoming debut, I Believe in Everything, contributed keyboards to three songs on the album, the follow-up to 2006’s Shine On.
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Into the Wild Balmorhea’s frontier wonderment
Across the great divide: (l-r) Mike Bell, Aisha Burns, Nicole Kern, Michael Muller, Travis Chapman, and Rob Lowe
BY AUSTIN POWELL anything but those bigpicture moments where you’re affected by something larger. I think our music lends itself to that way of celebrating the grandeur in the mundane.” Balmorhea’s appeal lies in its emotional malleability, the way the music seems to shift in mood and meaning depending on the circumstances in which it’s heard. It feels as if there’s something left open or unfinished, waiting to be completed by the listener. You get back as much as you put in. That sentiment holds true beginning Balmorhea’s appeal lies in its emotional malleability, the way with the band’s eponthe music seems to shift in mood and meaning depending on the ymous 2007 debut. Recorded at home as a circumstances in which it’s heard. duo, the autumnal collection’s rough-sketch instrumentals pair toward the February release of its fourth LP in ing mosaic of sound; the effect resembles that field recordings with found sounds, most as many years, Constellations. The album is an of a shattered mirror. The Fun Years’ percusnotably “In the Rowans,” which couples exercise in restraint that scales back filmic sion-heavy treatment of “Coahuila” borders on Lowe’s eloquent harmonic arpeggios on piano flourishes in favor of a more subdued, melan- post-rock, while Sweden’s Library Tapes push only the kick drum to the forefront, heightenwith the racing of an old typewriter. Evidenced cholic atmosphere. “We don’t just want to just get bigger and ing the impact of his choppy repetitions. From by a reworking of “Baleen Morning,” last year’s graceful Rivers Arms found Balmorhea louder while doing the same thing,” Lowe the electro-acoustic filtration of Poland’s expanding its horizons with ambitious cham- reasons. “We work a lot with texture and Jacaszek (“Night in the Draw”) to Xela’s closing ber-rock orchestration, thanks to a steady structure, trying to expand our palette. I think static swell (“November 1, 1832”), all the colstream of live performances and the addition it’s important to be able to a step backwards laborators carve their own paths. “It’s very flattering,” says Muller. “I have a of upright bassist Travis Chapman, violinist in order to do something new. I’m already Aisha Burns, and cellist Nicole Kern. The lat- thinking about different directions I’d like to lot of respect for all the artists we asked. We ter two played alongside Lowe in Alex Dupree’s go and different sounds I’d like to explore let them choose the song they wanted to work after the record that isn’t even out yet.” on, then sent them all of the stem files to work Trapdoor Band. Thrusting Balmorhea into uncharted terri- with. There were no rules. It’s interesting to Though the band’s lineup and instrumentation continue to change and evolve – Lymbyc tory, All Is Wild, All Is Silent Remixes, a limited- see our music through their eyes. It gave us a Systym’s Mike Bell and Bruce Blay of Denton’s edition double LP newly available through bit of perspective.” What’s surprising is the fluidity with which Sleep Whale alternately fill in on percussion Western Vinyl, creates an alternate history for duties – the music still builds off of the inex- the band’s fictional narrative. It’s a rite of pas- the entire remix project ebbs and flows togethtricable interplay between the group’s co- sage, placing the music in the hands and er. Yet like the intermittent traffic breaking up the natural resonance of the Colorado River, founders. A former member of the Men’s context of the group’s contemporaries. Eluvium drags opener “Settler” 20,000 it’s a stark contrast to the subtle grace and Chorus at the University of Texas, Lowe is a classically trained pianist whose spacious, leagues under the sea, slowing the song to a patient perfectionism of Balmorhea. Carrying acoustic guitars to the shore, dynamic phrasing recalls that of Arvo Pärt. 17-minute ambient wash of looped strings, The 24-year-old Midland native translates that canyon-echo vocals, and flickering acoustic Muller and Lowe illustrate that point with an same stylistic approach to guitar and banjo as guitar. Dark-folk chanteuse Tiny Vipers, who instrumental revision of “Coahuila.” With well, occasionally in the same song. Five years contributed vocals to two songs on All Is Wild, eyes closed and backs turned to the water, the his senior, Muller, who serves as the band’s converts “Harm and Boon” to a tonal drone, two sway back and forth in place to the melomanager, has a minimalist’s resolve and a shadowing the approach favored by Seattle- dy. Their guitars intertwine with relative ease based composer Rafael Anton Irisarri. – Lowe out front and Muller wading around knack for finding complementary melodies. Exemplifying his Austin-based label’s invest- him – mirroring the current that pushes and “We balance each other out,” Muller nods. More importantly, they match each other’s ed interest in ambient architecture, Western pulls against itself in serene harmony as the prolific pacing. Having recently completed the Vinyl owner Brian Sampson takes a turn at song gently fades away. In this moment, all is soundtrack to short film “Guest Room,” avail- “Elegy,” scrambling, reversing, and stretching wild, all is silent. All is well. able on iTunes, Balmorhea is already looking fragments of the source material into a glistenJOHN ANDERSON
Beneath the bridge that divides Columbus, Texas, the Colorado River treads so slowly that the current appears to be moving in both directions. A slightly trodden path winds through the thicket, leading to an embankment where evergreen trees shade the waterway below. Butterflies flutter overhead, and a tattered barbed wire fence marks the point of no return. It was here that William B. DeWees, a colonist and blacksmith from Kentucky and one of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred, wrote Letters From an Early Settler of Texas to a Friend. Published in 1852, his correspondence not only provides a firsthand account of the Texas Revolution’s infamous Runaway Scrape; it also offers a rare glimpse of life on the frontier, DeWees torn between his fascination with the idyllic nature of his surroundings and the innate danger it imposed: “I have never witnessed a sight of the kind, which, in my opinion, was more beautiful than this. The color of it is far deeper and richer than any I have ever before seen. … Yet we are in a country with which we are entirely unacquainted; no road, no compass, and at the point of starvation.” This excerpt is scrawled on the inside cover of Balmorhea’s third LP, All Is Wild, All Is Silent (see “SXSW Records,” March 20), setting the scene for the local sextet’s take on colonial independence. Cinematic in breadth and temperament, the album charts an instrumental pilgrimage across the endless hills and valleys of Central Texas. “This is exactly what I pictured in my head,” offers multi-instrumentalist Rob Lowe as he surveys the lay of the land, “[DeWees] alone on a ledge, looking out over the horizon.” “Only now most of that wilderness has been pacified,” adds guitarist Michael Muller, who founded the group – pronounced bal-moreray – with Lowe three years ago. All Is Wild is Balmorhea’s bold declaration of sovereignty, a landmark exploration of historical fiction. There’s splendor in the grass and blood in the water – romantic wonderment and mournful resignation – all told through intricate passages of piano, acoustic guitar, and strings, then embellished with percussive flourishes and wordless vocals. “Most of his language was fairly basic, just detailing the different things he encountered,” Lowe summarizes over lunch at Beckey’s Cafe in downtown Columbus, mere blocks from DeWees’ historical marker. “Then there were times when he would launch into this more poetic style that was on a completely different plane. There was this elevated liveliness to his writing where you could tell he was genuinely enamored with his surroundings. Those were the passages that really stuck with me. “With All Is Wild, we were looking for that same sort of adventure. It’s not trying to describe
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handles all the mail-order business and most of the imprint’s publicity needs. “Sometimes Western Vinyl begins to ‘Smile’ I don’t know why I do it.” There are two sides to Brian Sampson. He’s Following the blueprint of Simple the owner/operator of Western Vinyl Records, Machines’ Introductory Mechanics Guide to and he’s also Bexar Bexar, an ambient artist Putting Out Records, Cassettes and CDs, on the label, creating shimmering sound col- Sampson started up Western Vinyl in 1998 lages of acoustic guitar and digital manipula- with Ryan Murphy to release such lo-fi indie tion. In the dining room of his South Austin rock projects as Win Foster and Havergal, home, both halves leverage for position. respectively. Seven-inch singles from Knife in Scattered across the left side of the room is the Water, Windsor for the Derby, and Songs: an assortment of electronic equipment accu- Ohia followed in short order, along with an mulated from thrift stores and flea markets. On early trifecta from Brooklyn’s Dirty Projectors. the opposite wall sits Western Vinyl’s invento- Then there’s the label’s Portrait Series, ry, boxes upon boxes of carefully organized wherein artists such as Will Oldham and records and CDs. Everything is accounted for Goldmund wrote original music to accomon a clipboard nailed to the wall, except for pany images of their choosing. Murphy evencatalog number WEST 013, an EP from Isaac tually withdrew to attend the Massachusetts Brock’s side project Ugly Casanova that was Institute of Technology. never released, due to contractual conflicts. If there’s one constant in the catalog of “I don’t think of myself as a musician,” Western Vinyl, it’s the purity of expression and Sampson reasoned to how deeply the music the Chronicle two years resonates with every lisago (see “Welcome to ten. That stream of conEstablished: 1998 the Machine,” Oct. 19, tinuity can be heard in Number of releases: 60 2007). “I’m exploring the fractured, glitch-pop Average print run: 500-2,000 textures and tones of Japanese pianist Average promos mailed: 600 instead of melodies, Shuta Hasunuma, Average cost of releasing an album: trying to find moments Callers’ haunted folk$3,000-5,000 that work while avoidblues, and the icy, miniNumber of active acts: 12 ing anything overly senmal Krautrock of Glass The one that got away: Grizzly Bear timental. The hardest Ghost. Sitting in the part of what I do is findmiddle of his dining ing time to record. I have to be in a com- room, Sampson cycles through some of the pletely different mindset, and it’s hard some- demos that now arrive daily. times to wind down and switch gears.” “I’d like to think that it’s sincerity that I’m Since then, the balancing act has only got- drawn to,” Sampson offers. ten more difficult. There’s one demo in particular that’s The label’s national profile has grown expo- caught his ear, a Midwestern act that connentially thanks to heralded releases such as jures the spirit of the Beach Boys’ Smile sesHere We Go Magic, the self-titled LP from Luke sions. Even though no contracts have been Temple’s recent Afro-pop project, which has signed, he’s already put the gears in motion sold more than 7,000 copies to date, more than for a spring 2010 release, along with new half digitally. Numbers in the high four digits albums from Balmorhea, Luke Temple, and are notable for micro indies, so it’s hard to with any luck, Bexar Bexar. believe Sampson got audited by the IRS after “I know someone else would probably put consistently writing off substantial losses. out some of these,” he smiles, “but I’m so “There have been plenty of times when I lucky to be a part of all these great records.” felt like quitting,” sighs Sampson, 37, who CONTINUED ON P. 54
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Sacred and Profane J. Tillman’s white winter hymnal Josh Tillman is the newest member of Fleet Foxes, the drummer whose conversational banter and sublime harmony lent a euphoric glow to the Seattle outfit’s breakthrough performance at the 2008 Austin City Limits Music Festival. He’s the last person who would tell you so. “I haven’t been involved in the writing process,” he reflects via e-mail. “My role has mostly been to play the songs live. This year was the first time I’ve ever really played for a big, captive audience; it’s pretty bizarre. Probably makes me a little crazy.” If Tillman appears hesitant to embrace his role in the spotlight, that’s because for the last five years he’s released some of the most elegiac roots music around, almost completely under anyone’s radar. A native of Washington, D.C., the 27-year-old songsmith writes with the chilling Southern Gothic streak of Flannery O’Connor, creating stark portraits of people always one step shy of redemption. His fifth solo LP, Vacilando Territory Blues, issued earlier this year on Western Vinyl, ventures into heady terrain, staggered with drycreek-bed ambience and full-band arrangements, namely the Crazy Horse gold rush of cornerstones “New Imperial Grand Blues” and “Steel on Steel.” It’s considerably darker and more experimental than his work with Fleet Foxes, like Dennis Wilson’s solo Bambu sessions compared to Pet Sounds.
“It’s personal and not personal at the same time,” offers Tillman, who’s currently on tour with his brother’s like-minded band, Pearly Gate Music, and prepping a new 7-inch single. “A lot of it’s about death, trying to cultivate original ideas about an afterlife. There’s biblical imagery but it’s all sort of decontextualized.” Year in the Kingdom, Tillman’s latest fulllength, released on Tuesday, marks his strongest and most concise work to date. The album is a quiet contemplation of the sacred and profane, delivered with the same pin-drop clarity he displayed at Mohawk during South by Southwest in March. The title track and “Earthly Bodies” conjure the twilight romanticism and warmth of My Morning Jacket’s early Southern gospel, only stripped of the reverb. “I actually see it as the exact opposite of existential,” Tillman opines. “Most of the songs on this record, as I see it, are about things I’ve never experienced: old age, death, being born again. Most of the songs aren’t sung from my perspective. It’s a projection. It may be existential in that some of it is about the nature of existence, but it isn’t necessarily empirically informed. I don’t like existential spirituality, the differentiating between spirit, feeling, and intellect, or whatever. “I hope some of it is uncomfortable.”
“Most of the songs on this record, as I see it, are about things I’ve never experienced: old age, death, being born again.”
Drawing Focus Ola Podrida stirs in the ‘Belly of the Lion’ “Cinematic scope” gets too many close-ups in critic-speak, but 35mm perspective comes naturally to Ola Podrida leader David Wingo. The Dallas native and longtime Austinite first garnered national praise after scoring the acclaimed indie films of director and close friend David Gordon Green, most notably All the Real Girls and George Washington (see “Vision and Focus,” Screens, Nov. 12, 2004). The latter soundtrack was released in 2002 on local label Emperor Jones. Wingo does his best work in scenes, crafting imagistic snapshots over a Hill Country backdrop, combining Iron & Wine’s dusty lore with the breathy melancholy of Nick Drake. What’s not said is often as important as what is, an uncertain anxiety lurking in shadowy details. This deceptively complex balance of atmosphere and tension made Ola Podrida’s eponymous debut one of the sleeper hits of 2007. “With soundtracks, the director already has an idea for the emotion for a certain scene or the mood, and I have to approach it with the end result in mind,” relates Wingo, who recently moved back to Austin after a stint in 54 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m
Brooklyn. “Now that’s just etched into my process.” That much is evident on Ola Podrida’s sophomore effort and Western Vinyl debut, Belly of the Lion, due Nov. 10. The album was written and recorded late last year in his Brooklyn apartment between session work for Gentlemen Broncos, the new comedy from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess that premieres at the Paramount Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 24, as part of Fantastic Fest. Belly of the Lion, on which Wingo plays every instrument except a few drum tracks, should push Ola Podrida into the thick of indie rock’s folk awakening. It puts a rural twist on modern dream pop, at times recalling Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here spun at half-speed and steeped in the nocturnal 1990s haze of Trance Syndicate’s slow-core movement. In fact, American Analog Set’s Andrew Kenny was a touring member of Ola Podrida when the then-quintet swooned Central Presbyterian Church at South by Southwest 2008. “It’s a guitar record for sure,” Wingo enthuses. “I’ve been having some fun plugging in effects pedals again.” N
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Shadow on the Ground (Rounder) Bound by genre but separated by style, George Strait and James Hand play and sing music that’s still better off danced to than analyzed. George Strait is the hit machine, once the pride of San Marcos’ Cheatham Street Warehouse and Austin’s Broken Spoke, a Texan who’s paid his dues with a clean, straightforward brand of modern country that defines the genre. Twang didn’t have to be as good as it is, with its punchy Jim Lauderdale songs (“Twang,” “I Gotta Get to You”) and Delbert McClinton’s “Same Kind of Crazy” hand-carving the edges like Strait was still playing local honkytonks instead of singing hokum like “Where Have I Been All My Life” for the arena masses. James Hand crafts country with an early Johnny Cash flair (“Ain’t a Goin’,” “Men Like Me Can Fly”) in the hiccup of no less than Hank Williams, but his swingyour-partner version of Nat King Cole’s “Mona Lisa,” silly ditties such as “The Parakeet,” and hardscrabble heartbreakers like “The Pain of Loving You” are strictly for the dance-hall crowd. There’s no question of either veteran’s Lone Star authenticity – suede and rawhide are both leather – but guess which one’s disc comes with an insert advertising ringtones for every track? (Twang) (((N (Shadow) ((( – Margaret Moser
St. James’ Episcopal Church, Sept. 11 “Bring the heat,” Tina Marsh used to tell the press. On Friday, Sept. 11, rain brought relief. Inside St. James’ Episcopal Church, where Marsh’s memorial concert had relocated from Laguna Gloria Amphitheatre, candles flickered atop a makeshift altar celebrating the local jazz singer, who died of breast cancer in June. Baring her 4-year-old behind in one photograph, Marsh held sway in the Eastside house of worship as the musical juggernaut she founded and cared for so fiercely paid her – and itself – final tribute in a program titled Echoes of the Heart. For the better part of three hours, then, the Creative Opportunity Orchestra pulsed heart exclusively. John Mills, a composing member of CO2 for nearly all of the River City collective’s three decades, conducted the big, big band, guiding when he wasn’t playing and leading some 17 pieces, including a trio of local singers standing in for the fallen bandleader. In the chorale of Suzi Stern, Susanna Sharpe, and Hope Morgan, Tina Marsh sang all night long, hauntingly, arialike, spirit unbound, Tina to a T. Original Orchestra engine Rock Savage flew in for the farewell just as tuba tamer Jay Rozen returned from New York, and Bob Rodriguez was at the piano metering out spine-tingling rocket science. “Benediction,” one of Marsh’s very first CO2 stimulants, began with the evening’s
THE BAND OF HEATHENS
One Foot in the Ether (BOH) Following fast on last year’s eponymous studio debut, the Band of Heathens’ sophomore effort asserts the local quintet as coherently evolved, the distinct songwriting styles of Gordy Quist, Colin Brooks, and Ed Jurdi melding into a singular sound. “L.A. County Blues” rolls open with an “illegal smile,” a low-down ballad echoed in “What’s This World.” Electric guitars add calculated force, especially in the warped rodeo blues of “Golden Calf,” the group’s most expansive reach yet, while a Little Feet affinity slinks behind the organ of “Shine a Light,” “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” and the scratched-out grit of “Somebody Tell the Truth.” One Foot in the Ether proves the Band of Heathens more comfortable in its harmonies, subtle (“Hey Rider,” “Let Your Heart Not Be Troubled”) but usually complementarily rough, as with the cathartically soulful slant served Gillian Welch’s “Look at Miss Ohio.” Looseness prevails, but the Band of Heathens pushes its sound forward together. ((( – Doug Freeman
JACK INGRAM
Big Dreams & High Hopes (Big Machine) Jack Ingram had a lot of help recording Big Dreams & High Hopes, his third for Nashville’s Big Machine. Patty Griffin, Radney Foster, Dierks Bentley, 56 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m
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substitute chorus and its wordless intonation before crying out in the saxophone of first chair Alex Coke and cresting with Dennis Dotson’s silver trumpet. Open-air jazz inside a chapel might be considered miraculous in some quarters. Equally so, Zeke Zimmerman, second son of Marsh and CO2 alum Randy Zimmerman, proved the concert’s breakout soloist, tapdancing out in front of the group in marathon sessions of bipedal expressionism. Standing ovations were his due. Same was true of Coke’s “Rain,” which closed the first 75-minute portion of the show, bassist Buddy Mohmed strumming Middle Eastern flamenco on an acoustic
guitar, while Brian Allen’s trombone solo talked in muffler straight out of a Peanuts TV special. Rodriguez’s Gershwin at the piano and Steve Vague’s charged soprano sax statement gained atmospheric ionization on Steve Schwelling’s big beat. The second set, eaten whole by three 20-minute epics – Marsh’s passionate “Courage of the Butterfly,” Rozen’s “14CO2,” and Rodriguez’s “Shrouded Heart” – left the full assemblage drained, yet set up Rock Savage’s brassy closer “Clocks.” Sole encore “Kai Aliso,” a final number by Tina Marsh, ceded all floor space to Zeke Zimmerman. The future is his. – Raoul Hernandez
Todd Snider, and Little Big Town populate the credits. Four producers besides Ingram are listed. And still he’s come up with another generic disc of heartland rock that some call country. There’s craftsmanship in the songwriting, “Seeing Stars” with Griffin on vocals sure to tug at some hearts, and the two songs produced by Foster, “Heartache” and “Man in Your Life,” possess his inimitable stamp of big hooks and even bigger Texas guitars. The rerecording of the almost offensive “Barbie Doll” is a mystery. As a whole, Ingram continues to possess a voice and vision that’s indistinguishable from others working the same dusty field. (( – Jim Caligiuri
Lost” is the capper. When Barber drawls, “Let’s get lost in song about nothing, sung by no one,” he finds solace in catharsis. ((( – Audra Schroeder
LEE BARBER
Thief and Rescue Co-produced with Brian Beattie of Glass Eye, Thief and Rescue takes an alternate route through singer-songwriterville. There are no sappy strums or stompy songs about booze and bar fights. Barber’s just a great storyteller, his voice one of vibrato and loss, and on his solo country-folk debut, that longing dominates. Opener “The Mosquito” repurposes a poem by Peter Everwine as Barber states, over buzzing horns and strings, “This is not another metaphor.” The former New Orleans resident has that mind on his city on “Broken Cup,” a barstool tale of storm and wreck. On “The Monkey and the Ass,” he sounds like Leonard Cohen – solemn but wise. Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, Amy Annelle, plus Beattie pulling double duty on bass add a little Texas nuance, and closer “Let’s Get
DELBERT MCCLINTON & DICK50
Acquired Taste (New West) Delbert McClinton is Texas’ roadhouse Renaissance man with the King Midas voice, turning golden anything he sings. The three-time Grammy winner has been riding high on his third wind since 2001’s Nothing Personal reminded everyone what a badass he is (as did 2005’s Cost of Living). For this, his umpteenth studio album, he’s back in style, and what a neat trick it is that this party album doesn’t tread new territory yet conjures up juke-joint weepers (“Never Saw It Comin’,” “Starting a Rumor”), bluesy jumpers (“People Just Love to Talk,” “Mama’s Little Baby,” “Willie”), jazzy interludes (“Until Then”), and funky roots-rockers (“Do It”) with such unparalleled Taste. Part of that is McClinton’s voice, genuine cowhide vocals branded with Texas through and through. That voice is a little ragged, not as whiskey smooth as in younger years, yet poured over McClinton’s double-shot band Dick50, it packs a wallop. Produced by Don Was, the disc also features Austin’s late Stephen Bruton on the tear-in-my-beer sentiment “Can’t Nobody Say I Didn’t Try.” Acquired Taste is 100 proof that you need not be the youngest or hippest thing on the block to be totally happening. ((( – Margaret Moser
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In May, Washington, D.C., resident Brian Peterkin-Vertanesian petitioned Guinness World Records to recognize “Wally,” his 6³/8-inch eyebrow hair, as the world’s longest, beating the current record by almost an inch.
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Breakthroughs in Eye Hair: The pharmaceutical company Allergan has introduced eyelash-thickener Latisse, a $120 per month prescription “medication” to help a woman overcome feelings of inadequacy if she suffers from scrawny lashes. Alternatively, eyelash transplants are now available in the U.S. and Britain, originally developed to restore lashes for burn victims, but, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, now marketed to women dissatisfied with their own (at about $6,000).
1) In Torrington, Conn., in June, a teenage girl, hearing a woman she lived with screaming in another room, summoned four of her friends, who quickly arrived and beat up the 25-year-old man who was with the woman. It turns out that the couple was having consensual sex (and good sex, at that). The girl and three of the boys were charged with assault. 2) Keith Griffin, 48, was arrested in Martin County, Fla., in August for possessing child pornography on his computer. He tried to talk detectives out of the arrest by claiming that his cat often walks on the keyboard and must have stepped on some combination of keys that resulted in the downloading of about 1,000 images.
OOPS! Agile Athletes: 1) Chicago Cubs’ pitcher Ryan Dempster missed a month with a broken toe suffered in July, when he tripped on a railing while leaving the dugout to celebrate a victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. 2) Kansas City Royals’ Jose Guillen missed over a month after tearing a ligament in his knee while leaning over to put on a shin guard before his turn to bat in a July game. 3) Appalachian State quarterback Armanti Edwards, a three-time All-American, was to miss the first month of the season after injuring his foot in August while mowing his lawn. In August, Democrat Michael Heagerty failed by one name to meet the ballot requirements to run for re-election to the city council in Syracuse, N.Y. He was credited with 334 of the 335 necessary signatures, but realized too late that he had forgotten to list his own name. (He said he would run for re-election, anyway, as an independent.)
THE CONTINUING CRISIS Juvenile disruptions by Girls Gone Wild video producer Joe Francis in two recent federal lawsuit depositions have apparently backfired on him. Under questioning by plaintiffs’ lawyers, Francis had persistently and solemnly claimed not to understand common words and, during one session, repeatedly passed gas. At another deposition, he appeared indignant when asked if he had paid two teenage girls to fondle him (“disgusting allegations [against] a man of my integrity”). One judge summarily ruled against him on a $3 million Las Vegas gambling debt, and the other judge was considering a similar course in a class-action lawsuit by some of Francis’ allegedly underage “models.”
With no help from Verizon Wireless, law enforcement agencies managed to hunt down a disturbed 62-year-old man sought in an 11-hour manhunt following a domestic violence call in Carrollton, Ohio, in May. Deputies had wanted to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him, but the company had shut off his service over an unpaid $20 bill and refused to turn it on, even for a few minutes, unless deputies paid the $20. The sheriff was reluctantly about to pay when deputies found the man. Union Rules: 1) One subway line in Boston is still forced to employ two drivers per train when the other Boston lines, and most all subway systems worldwide, use only one. A June Boston Globe analysis estimated that the second driver, doing virtually nothing useful, costs the government $30 million annually. 2) At any given time, the New York City school system is forced to keep about 1,600 teachers on full salary and benefits (costing about $100 million per year) even though they cannot be required to work. Six hundred are in a multiyear arbitration process for terminable misconduct or incompetence, and 1,000 are long-term layoffs from shuttered schools but whom principals continually pass over for transfer.
A ‘NEWS OF THE WEIRD’ CLASSIC (MARCH 1996) Postal worker Douglas C. Yee, 50, was indicted in February 1996 in San Mateo, Calif., for pulling off bulk-mail scams totaling $800,000. Found in Yee’s garbage were notes he had written to God expressing gratitude for his continued help in evading police detection. Read one, “Lord, I am having a difficult time myself seeing you as a God who hides crime, yet your Word says that it’s your privilege (or glory) to do just that.”
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PEOPLE WITH WORSE SEX LIVES THAN YOU Danny Brawner, 46, was indicted in Albuquerque, N.M., in August for aggravated indecent exposure. A police officer and his 10-year-old son had seen Brawner with his pants down around his ankles, performing simulated sexual intercourse against the trunk of his car. The officer also said Brawner was shouting and swinging his arms, as if enjoying the real thing.
RECURRING THEMES For at least the third time in eight years, geography-challenged vacationers bought airline tickets for an Australian holiday but failed to notice (until they landed in “Sydney”) that their tickets took them to Sydney, Nova Scotia. Dutchman Joannes Rutten and his grandson appeared shocked when they deplaned in Canada, even though they had boarded an earlier connecting flight in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In December 2008, an Argentine woman made a similar mistake, and in August 2002, a young British couple, after realizing their error, decided to spend their holiday in Nova Scotia, after all. Visit Chuck Shepherd daily at www.newsoftheweird. blogspot.com (or www.newsoftheweird.com). Send your Weird News to: Chuck Shepherd, PO Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679 or weirdnewstips@yahoo.com. ©2009 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE
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AFF VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION The Austin Film Festival needs volunteers for everything from party security to transportation. Love of film a plus. 6pm. Space 12, 3121 E. 12th, 478-4795. volunteer@austinfilmfestival.com, www.austinfilmfestival.com.
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Thursday? Come visit K8 and Andy, and friends online at the Gay Place Blog: Say hello, perhaps win a prize, and luv a unicorn. 454-5766. gayplace@austinchronicle.com, austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog. CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF NEWS IN TEXAS Newshounds from across the state gather to discuss the future of the fourth estate. Panelists include Carlton Carl, Christy Hoppe, Harvey Kronberg, and Evan Smith. 3:30pm. UT campus, Gebauer Bldg., Rm. 3.312. Free. CONVERSATIONS WITH BOB TAYLOR John Markoff from The New York Times sits down with Bob Taylor, who is often called the father of the Internet. 5pm. LBJ Auditorium, 2315 Red River, 232-4054. Free. kerribattles@austin.utexas.edu, www.utexas.edu/ogs/lectures/taylor. DRISKILL’S FOUR-HOUR SALE Get a great discount on the rest of the 2009 dates for that last-minute wedding you’re planning. 4-8pm. The Driskill Hotel, 604 Brazos, 391-7143. bengel@destinationhotels.com, www.driskillhotel.com. EAT. DRINK. EMERGE. PARTY. All proceeds from this classy evening of food and performances by the likes of Bob Schneider go to the local Boys & Girls Club. 7:30pm. Cedar Street, 208 W. Fourth, 444-7199. $40 ($30, advance). julie.mayne@bgcca.net, www.emergingleadersonline.com. HEART GALLERY GALA Enjoy the photographic portraits of foster children while knowing that your money is going to ensure the right family for each one will be found. 6:30pm. Spazio, 1214 W. Sixth, 301-2825. $25. www.heartgallerytexas.com.
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all priced at $500 or less, Women & Their Work figures there will be red dots everywhere tonight, because everything will be sold – but be sure to save some money for the silent auction to benefit W&TW’s outreach programming. 6pm. Women & Their Work, 1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. $75. www.womenandtheirwork.org. SPECIAL EDUCATION WORKSHOP is for parents of children in special education programs. Know your rights by attending the workshop, followed by a one-on-one meeting with a legal eagle. 5:30pm. Advocacy Inc., 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd. Ste. 171-E, 454-4816. Free. www.advocacyinc.org. ST. JOHN/CORONADO HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING Get involved in these public planning sessions. The fate of your neighborhood depends on it. 6:30pm. Virginia L. Brown Recreation Center, 7500 Blessing, 974-7865. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/sj_ch.htm.
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916 Springdale, 927-1118. $8-12, sliding scale. www.kingsnthings.org.
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d DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS LIVE Puppets and actors come together to tell the story of La Catrina and Teresa’s quest to gather gifts and memorabilia to place on the family altar. 10:15am. Terrazas Library, 1105 E. Cesar Chavez, 974-9820. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
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AUSTIN ECONOMIC CLUB PRESENTS Gary Kelly, CEO of the consistently profitable Southwest Airlines. Buy tickets on the AEC website. 8am. Omni Hotel Downtown, 700 San Jacinto, 476-3700. $35. www.austineconomicclub.com. BIZARRE BAZAAR With Geppetto Dreams calling it quits after two years, it’s time to sell off the puppets from previous productions, along with various craft items, show posters, a barbecue, evil teddy bears, and all the puppet fixin’s you could want. Fri.-Sun., Sept., 18-20, 8am8pm. 1715 E. Seventh, 358-4632. www.geppettodreams.com. CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL Pick a two-hour slot for chocolate samples, chocolate demos, and a vote in the chocolate competition. Friday’s opening-night festivities also include live music, appetizers, and other special considerations. Don’t worry about the calories; you’re eating for a good cause: Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Fri., Sept. 18, 7-10pm; Sat., Sept. 19, 10am12mid. Monarch Event Center, 6406 N. I-35 #3100, 637-0479. Friday, $38; Saturday, $20 ($11, kids). www.austinchocolatefestival.com.
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VALUE OF AN ARCHIVE The opening reception for this exhibit celebrates the importance of archives not as musty books on shelves but as a way to get info from the source to your brain. 6:30pm. Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe, 974-7480. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library/ahc.
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` DRAG KINGS: THE MUSICAL 3 Gimme a face
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ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT FUN FLY Hill Country AeroModelers show off their crafts and offer free hand-tossed gliders to attendees so they can join in on the fun, if at a slightly lower altitude. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 18-19. Mary Moore Searight Metro Park, 907 Slaughter, 296-1871. Free. gparks1@austin.rr.com, www.hcamonline.org.
` GAME NIGHT AT Q Some Fridays, they stay in
and play games; some nights they play volleyball at Pease. Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you don’t. Fridays, 6pm. Q Center, 3408 West Ave., 420-8557. mp_austin@sbcglobal.net, www.qboyz.org.
d NATURE NIGHT Tired of spending a mint on your child’s edutainment? Then has the Wildflower Center got a series of outdoor exploration, habitat hikes, and crafts for you. This week, explore the relationship between plants and people. 6pm. Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, 4801 La Crosse, 232-0100. $1 (free for members). www.wildflower.org. RIVALRY NIGHT Did you hear? There’s a football game tomorrow. Amp up for the big game with motocross, car demos, scantily clad women, martial arts showcases, and Korn. So much excitement you might miss the game. 4pm-12mid. Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker, 854-4900. $30. www.rivalrynights.com.
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weirdest commute creation (sign-up is at 10am) and show everyone how you get from point A to point B with it. You must be able to complete a lap around the parking lot to be eligible for prizes, including a three-day Austin City Limits pass and a PlayStation 3. 11am. GSD&M Idea City parking lot at W. Sixth & Wood, 743-4245. Free. randy@austingreenart.org, www.austingreenart.org.
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Living Colour Emo’s Pat Green Stubb’s KVRX Back to School Party Mohawk Dave Alvin & the Guilty Women Antone’s
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d BIG READ STORYTIME Part of Austin
Public Library’s Hispanic Heritage Month, kids over the age of 4 can enjoy a reading of My Life With the Wave by Catherine Cowan, based on a story by Octavio Paz. 2pm. Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe, 974-7379. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
d BISCUIT BROTHERS LIVE Everyone’s favorite singing and farming brothers bring all their friends for a hand-clapping jamboree. Sat., Sept. 19 & 26, 10am; Sun., Sept. 20 & 27, 2pm. Austin Scottish Rite Theatre, 207 W. 18th, 472-5436. $12 ($10, children). www.srct.org. BYDEE ART FESTIVAL How many reasons do you need to go out to Cedar Park? Twelve? OK: artists’ booths, live music, food, a limbo contest, video games, artist fair, jugglers, stilt walkers, train rides, balloon twisting, a K-9 unit demonstration, and art projects. 2-7pm. Heritage Oak Park, 875 Quest Pkwy., Cedar Park, 401-5500. Free. www.cedarparkfun.com. CHILEAN INDEPENDENCE DAY will be celebrated with empanadas, wine and pisco sours, games, folk dancing, a DJ, and a cash bar. Adults dressed in Chilean attire and kids get in free. 6pm-12mid. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $5. scarbarez@ gmail.com, www.chilenosenaustin.blogspot.com.
d DIANA LOPEZ parties with the young reader set in her delightful Confetti Girl, which portrays HispanicAmericans in a day-to-day setting, rather than focusing on the common stereotypes of migrant worker or inner city kid. 1pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. ` DID THEY SAY BEAUTIES OR BOOTAYS? Topaz, Vanessa Gordan, Brandi Lynn, and special guests host the once-a-month array of ’Bout Time Beauties. ’Bout Time, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339. www.bouttimeaustin.com. DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION GALA shows off the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas’ calendar photography. The calendar features local children with national notables (e.g., Adam Yauch and Jimmie Vaughan). 5-9pm. Rough Hollow Yacht Club, 105 Yacht Club Cv., Lakeway, 512/323-0808. Free. www.dsact.com. ETHICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTIN Sean Faircloth advocates for secular policies in Washington, D.C. and brings his message and love of the Constitution to Austin. 6:30pm. 5555 N. Lamar Ste. L-137, 835-9008. Free. www.esoa.org.
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Black and White Years | The Steps | Vallejo SPEAK | The Alice Rose | Phoenix Hart | Wino Vino| The Austin City Showgirls
THAT Damned Band – School of Rock – Amplified Heat – 22 Top Flying Club – Hawaiian Kona Isle Dancers
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Sahara Smith – Rattletree Marimba - Charles Thibodeaux - Aimee Bobruk Kristina Boswell – Joe Dowdle - La Gurerilla - Foot Patrol - No Mas Bodas – Leti De La Vega – Joel Laviolette – Buscando El Monte – Kouto Beat and the Batikum – The Lennings – The Spirit of Flamenco – Latin at Heart – Agave Love - Belaharr Drum and Fire Dancing Show - Leti De La Vega - Literature - The CEOs - Archibald Adams - Low Red Center - Survive - Weird Weed - Flying Balaika Brothers - Sarah Temple - Ortega Superstar Choir - The Raspas - Root Dimension Reggae - Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble - Los Bad Apples... and much much more!
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The Cele Store in northeastern Travis County continues a barbecue tradition that goes back to dirt roads and farmers’ tans, even though the head cook is only 29 years old. The lean brisket, spicy sausage, and
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succulent ribs are a carnivore’s feast as old as Texas. A few years after Texas became a state in 1846, the land east of Austin was settled by immigrant farmers. Communities like Pflugerville, New Sweden, Dessau, and Manor were formed around churches and general stores. In 1891, the first owner of the Richland Saloon named his community after his daughter Lucille. By the time Marvin and Marilyn Weiss bought the general store, saloon, and gas station in 1951, the farm economy was in full swing. The Weisses sold everything from hardware to canned goods and candy. The locals came to discuss and cuss the weather and crop prices over coffee in the morning and cold beer in the afternoons. In 1992, Marvin Weiss said, “[The barbecue business] started because the farmers wanted hot sausage on Friday afternoons to go with their beer.” Pretty soon he added smoked brisket and ribs. As word spread, lunches at the store became very popular. When Marvin passed away in 2007, the gas pumps were gone and the cans on the shelves were for decoration. The legend of Cele Store barbecue was going to be just a memory until Marvin’s grandson decided to pick up the spatula. Brandon Fuchs grew up on the farm across the road from his grandfather’s store. Softspoken and a man of few words like his grandfather, Fuchs also learned how to cook from his grandparents. “It just seemed natural for us to open it back up after Grandpa died,” Brandon says. His mother helps out as a waitress, and his grandmother comes by to entertain visitors with stories. Popular with bicyclists, motorcyclists, and law enforcement officers cruising the country roads, the only clue for passersby is a rusted sign on the faded clapboard wall that says “Cele Community Center General Merchandise.” Step through the door, and you step back in time. Above the bar hangs an autographed picture of Clint Eastwood that was left behind after he filmed scenes at the store – one of the building’s many film credits. Cele Store is at the corner of Cele and Cameron roads, about seven miles due east of Pflugerville and less than that from U.S. 130 and Kelly Road. The tattered screen door opens on Thursdays from 6 to 10pm for cold drinks only; on Friday from 6 to 10pm the bar is open and the kitchen serves Elgin sausage wraps; on Saturday the smoker is full from 10:30am to 1:30pm. Dinner is served on Saturdays by reservation only. No, they don’t bring out the white tablecloths. “We just need to know how much meat to cook,” Fuchs says. Give him a call at 512/251-3562 or visit www.celestore.com.
950th 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.
outoftown HUMMER/BIRD CELEBRATION offers tours to some of the best birding spots on the Texas coast plus seminars, vendors, and a special plant sale. Thu.-Sun., Sept. 17-20. Rockport, 800/242-0071. www.rockporthummingbird.com. HOT AIR BALLOON FESTIVAL features one of the largest congregations of balloonists in the state, plus live music, balloon rides, demonstrations, and lots of activities for the kids. Fri.-Sun., Sept. 18-20. Oak Point Park, Plano, 972/867-7566. www.planoballoonfest.org. JAZZ’SALIVE features national recording artists, as well as regional and local favorites, and children’s activities both days from noon to 6pm. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 19-20. Travis Park, San Antonio, 210/212-8423. Free. www.jazzsa.org.
MIDDLEFAIRE RENAISSANCE FESTIVAL brings a 17th century English village to life with an assortment of rogues and maidens providing entertainment, food, and costume contests. Sat. & Sun., Sept. 19-Oct.4. Hillsboro, 254/548-6238. $12 ($5, child). www.middlefest.com. TEXAS HEROES DAY remembers the pioneers who fought and died for the Republic of Texas with craft demonstrations, re-enactors, dulcimer music, guided tours, and games. Sat., Sept. 19, 10am-noon. Monument Hill & Kreische Brewery State Park, La Grange, 979/968-5658. www.tpwd.state.tx.us. BANDERA COUNTY MUSIC HISTORY HALL OF FAME INDUCTION this year honors Kinky Friedman & the Hilltoppers, with the Brian Black Band giving a special performance. Sun., Sept. 20, 5-7pm. Kronkosky Library, 515 Main St., Bandera. Free. www.banderalibrary.org. AUTUMNAL EQUINOX means equal amounts of day and night and the first day of fall. Tue., Sept. 22. Northern Hemisphere. Free. www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy_calendar_current.html.
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NORTH LOOP IBIZ DISTRICT As if you needed an excuse to visit any of the indie shops on North Loop: Local stores will be doing their best with special sales, events, and in-store performances to get you to spend your money, with a portion of the proceeds going to KOOP and the Bill Hicks Wildlife Foundation. Noon-7pm. North Loop between Chesterfield and Avenue G, 441-2123. www.ibuyaustin.com.
d PETER & THE WOLF Ballet Austin presents a kid-friendly, interactive version of the Russian fairy tale. Help Peter and his friends overcome the dangers in their very own backyard. Recommended for ages 2-8. Sat. & Sun., 2 & 4pm. AustinVentures StudioTheater, 501 W. Third, 476-2163. $14. www.balletaustin.org. POND SEMINAR Get that small pond you’ve always wanted in your yard by following tips from the Travis County Master Gardeners. Construction, maintenance, and troubleshooting will all be covered. 10am. American Botanical Council, 6200 Manor Rd., 854-9600. Free. www.tcmastergardeners.org. SOUTH LAMAR BLOCK PARTY Local South Austin businesses get together to talk shop and enjoy live music. A portion of Austin Brevita’s proceeds that day go to Mobile Loaves & Fishes. 1-3pm. Austin Brevita, 1219 S. Lamar, 440-7500. www.austinbrevita.com.
w TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY It’s really not hard:
squint one eye, say “Shiver me timbers,” insert the sentence you need to communicate, and end it with “Aaarrggh!” But if merely talking like a pirate for a day isn’t enough, don your parrot and peg leg and head to Opal Divine’s (4pm-12mid) for a complete pirate experience, including a costume contest and live music from Austin’s own pirate royalty, the Jolly Garogers. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308. Free. www.talklikeapirateday.com. WALK FOR PEACE Join the Student Peace Alliance in calling for peace as a priority in national, state, and local politics with various speakers. 5pm. Texas Capitol, 1100 Congress, 305-8400. www.studentpeacealliance.org. WE MAKE STUFF: CRAFTY FASHION Live music, crafts, fashion, and skateboarding collide at this event that has something for almost everyone. Make a T-shirt, watch a runway show or live band, vote for your favorite skateboard design, or see who’s showing off on the halfpipe. Snacks and demos keep you energized and engaged. 7pm-12mid. The Scoot Inn, 1308 E. Fourth, 963-1790. $6. www.wemakestuff.us.
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` ASL AT OUT YOUTH Your friendly
neighborhood drop-in LGBT youth center now features sign language interpreters on Sundays. Hey, kids! Keep those hands where we can see ’em. Sundays, 4:30-8:30pm. Out Youth House, 909 E. 49th, 419-1233. www.outyouth.org.
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AUSTIN MUSEUM DAY has 28 museums all over town throwing open their doors to the public and offering free activities to accompany your equally free tour of your chosen museum’s wares. Activities include robotics past and present at the Goodwill Computer Museum, collages at MexicArte Museum, and a “Cyberchase” at the Austin Children’s Museum. Go online for a complete list of participating museums and special events. www.austinmuseums.org.
d FLYING THEATER MACHINE Parents and their 4- to 10-year-olds work together to see where this adventure will lead. Don’t forget to bring your suggestions to keep the improv coming. Sundays, 2pm. The Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 971-3311. $5. www.flyingtheatermachine.com. d STACI GRAY CONCERT Bring the kids and do the crocodile dance. 1pm. Wells Branch Community Library, 15001 Wells Port Dr., 989-3188. Free. www.wblibrary.org. STRESS RELIEF WORKSHOP Learn to use your inner resources to maximize wellness. 3pm. Libra Fitness, 2007 Pompton, 203-6038. Free. TIBETAN BUDDHIST TEACHING Longtime student of dharma, Bonnie Baptist, shares her knowledge of calm minds and big hearts. Sundays, noon-2pm. Land of Compassion & Wisdom, 2601 Penny Ln., 921-6901. Free (donations appreciated). www.austinfpmt.com. VENUS VELVET VARIETY HOUR Kitty Kitty Bang Bang’s own Venus Velvet brings her burlesque swing and adds a few of her vaudeville friends to spice things up even more. 5pm. El Sol y La Luna, 600 E. Sixth, 241-9799. $12. www.myspace.com/venusvelvetkkbb.
d BISCUIT BROTHERS LIVE (See Saturday.) BIZARRE BAZAAR (See Friday.)
YOGA FOR PEACE This worldwide event will attempt to offer their message to the UN International Peace Convention through trance dance. Join the collective consciousness and be a part of the peace wave. 7pm. Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar, 916-4499. $15-30 sliding scale. www.samadhiyogatrancedance.com.
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(See Film Listings.) Battle for Terra @ Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11am
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d BIG READ STORYTIME See Saturday for more info. 4:30pm. St. John Branch Library, 7500 Blessing, 974-7379. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
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` BT LIVE Weekly live music at every-
ELECTRIC AIRCRAFT FUN FLY (See Friday.)
body’s fave up-north gay bar. It’s … ’bout time. Mondays, 9pm. ’Bout Time, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339. mail@bouttimeaustin.com, www.bouttimeaustin.com.
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MUSIC (See Music Listings.) Bloodshot Records’ 15th Anniversary Yard Dog North Loop Block Party North Loop Plaza Church of the Friendly Ghost’s Summer Tent Revival The Compound Joe Ely Band Texas Union Ballroom
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public hearing discusses the 2010 budget for our public transport. If you want to annoy them, just ask about light rail. 5pm. Capital Metro headquarters, 2910 E. Fifth, 389-7400. Free. www.capmetro.org.
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CENTRAL WEST AUSTIN LAND USE PLANNING WORKSHOP If your property is bounded by MoPac, Lake Austin Boulevard, and West 35th then tonight’s your chance to provide feedback about future devel-
CALENDAR (COMMUNITY opment in your neighborhood. 6:30pm. The Sanctuary, 2600 Exposition, 974-2865. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/central_west_austin.htm. HOME FUNERALS & GREEN BURIALS Learn about dignified alternatives to the usual funeral mill. 7pm. Yarborough Branch Library, 2200 Hancock, 454-7208. Free. www.crossingscircle.org. NXNW DEMOCRATS MEET-UP features Judge Jan Patterson, justice of the 3rd Court of Appeals, on the microphone. 6:15pm. Sherlock’s Baker St. Pub & Grill, 9012 Research Ste. C-1, 380-9443. Free.
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AISD STRATEGIC PLAN REVIEW The local school district is looking for community input on their strategic plan that will extend to 2013. Discuss strategies, goals, and outcomes in small groups and help shape education in Central Texas. 6pm. William B. Travis High School, 1211 E. Oltorf, 414-9961. jcrumley@austinisd.org, www.austinisd.org/inside/initiatives/strategic_plan. AUSTIN IONS MEETING features David Lauterstein of the Lauterstein-Conway School of Massage Therapy talking about his 50 years in the healing arts. 7pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover, 258-9878. Free. www.ionsaustin.org. BEYOND WALLS & CAGES Jenna Loyd makes a stop on her road trip studying immigrant detention and deportation and discusses the interplay between U.S. migration and penal policies. 6pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925. Free. www.monkeywrenchbooks.org. DIVINE FEMININE DISCUSSION Tap into ancient wisdom and shamanic traditions with HeatherAsh Amara. 7pm. BookWoman, 5501 N. Lamar Ste. 105-A, 233-8480. Free. www.coreflame.com.
d DÍA DE LOS MUERTOS LIVE See Friday for more info. 3:30pm. Old Quarry Branch Library, 7051 Village Center Dr., 974-9820. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library. ` FREE HIV/STD TESTING Keep it clean, fellas! Tuesdays, 1-3pm & 8-11pm. Midtowne Spa, 5815 Airport, 302-9696. www.midtowne.com.
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Austin Musicians keeps local artists alive and kicking, and now is your chance to help. Venues, restaurants, and all kinds of businesses will donate a portion of the day’s profits in an effort to keep this city’s lifeblood healthy. Go to www. myhaam.org for a complete schedule of benefit shows and a list of participating businesses.
` HEY HOMO! BOUND “If there’s one thing I can’t stand about sleeping with women, it’s all the fucking mind-reading.” Yes, babies: Bound. And our dear dumpster-diving dumpling Christeen shall hosteth with the mosteth. Or the moisteth. 7pm. Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth, 476-1320. www.originalalamo.com. ` STEAK NIGHT & CHOCOLATES 4 CHARITY
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hosts. United States Art Authority, 2906 Fruth.
info. 4:30pm. Ruiz Library, 1600 Grove, 974-7379. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
d COMMUNITY NIGHT AT CHILDREN’S MUSEUM means cheap entry for all the exhibitions and activities you expect from this fun and educational kiddie mecca. Wednesdays, 5-8pm. Austin Children’s Museum, 201 Colorado, 472-2499. $1 suggested donation. www.austinkids.org. CONCEPTION OF SUBSTANCE This art event unites disparate disciplines to “bring in a closeness to the Artist and Audience in a surreal abstract manner.” 7pm-2am. Paradise Cafe, 401 E. Sixth, 476-5667. ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES FOR WOMEN Join Friendship International and women from all over the world for education in the ways of vocabulary, conjugation, and so on. 9:45am. First Life Center of First Baptist Church, 306 Round Rock Ave., Round Rock, 512/246-1958. Free (childcare available for a small fee). auldofus@austin.rr.com, www.fbcrr.org. FUTURE OF AUSTIN ENERGY TOWN HALL Talk with the people that power our city and discuss how to keep our lights on through 2020. 6pm. City Hall, 301 W. Second. Free. www.austinsmartenergy.com. HERITAGE HILLS/WINDSOR HILLS LAND USE MEETING Have a say in how the land in your neighborhood is used at this meeting of city staff and residents in the Heritage Hills/Windsor Hills neighborhood. 6:30pm. Dobie Middle School, 1200 E. Rundberg. www.cityofaustin.org/zoning/heritage_hills.htm.
CASINO NIGHT GALA for Helping the Aging, Needy and Disabled gets in the spirit with a Roaring Twenties theme, silent auction, and music from the Studebakers. 7-11pm. Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St., 477-3796. $55. www.handaustin.org. CELEBRATION OF CHOICE BENEFIT NARAL Pro-Choice Texas brings Carolyn Wonderland and Terri Hendrix to the stage and cool items to the silent-auction block.
CROSSROADS CONFERENCE FOR NONPROFITS Get together with fellow nonprofits and trade notes about surviving the economic downturn (upturn?). Ask questions and get answers from pros like Jan Masaoka of Blue Avocado. 8am-5pm. Austin Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez, 477-5955. $150 ($125, members). www.greenlights.org.
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entertain pants off and create community, one gluedSPIRIT GUM TAKE ME AWAY From its first incarnaon moustache at a time. tion as the A-Town Boyz back in 2001, through This weekend is its third annual celalmost a decade’s worth of gender-bent Send gay bits to ebration of show tunes: Drag Kings: The folderol spotlighting performers such as gayplace@ Musical 3, featuring (no surprise here) the Lancebian, Trevor N Deavor, Woody B. austinchronicle.com. a Michael Jackson tribute, some Gypsy, Goode, Dresden Punani, Kit T. Pink, Cherry Visit some Avenue Q, some (this also being no Poppins, Avery Austin, Otto O’Rotic, Jimmie austinchronicle.com/ surprise as most of the Kings N Things D., Beau Toxic, Eaton Johnson, Junior, and gayplaceblog. crew looks like the cast of) Newsies, and Tad Bitter (just to name a few across the more. Unlike previous years, there are not ages), Kings N Things is still going strong. advance tickets. All three shows this weekWhether it’s raising dough for local nonprofits or end are first come, first serve. Last one in is a hosting its monthly drageoke drag performance open skinky merkin. (See Friday-Sunday.) mic, the troupe of fan-dandy follicle fops continues to
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Obsolete Machines, and Ichi Ni San Shi (that means 1-2-3-4). 10pm. Chain Drive, 504 Willow, 480-9017.
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NOT JUST ANOTHER CANCER EVENT Capital of Texas Team Survivor helps women regain a normal life during and after cancer treatment, and local music acts Joel Guzman & Sarah Fox, Dysfunkshun Junkshun, and Beautiful Mistakes help them raise funds. Enjoy the show, hors d’oeuvres, and raffle items galore. 7-11pm. Stubb’s, 801 Red River, 426-1408. $30 ($25, advance). www.teamsurvivoraustin.org. OAK SPRINGS CHESS CLUB Beginner and advanced chess players alike, ages 8 and older, are invited to give their brains a workout. Boards and pieces will be supplied, just bring your desire to check. Wednesdays, 5pm. Oak Springs Library, 3101 Oak Springs Dr., 974-9920. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
Etta, Dinah, Billie, et al. = throwback, not blowback, with DJ Organic. Wednesdays. Rainbow Cattle Co., 305 W. Fifth, 472-5288.
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COUNCIL ON AT-RISK YOUTH ANNIVERSARY Celebrate CARY’s 10th year as Father Greg Doyle, an expert on gangs and founder of Homeboy Industries, talks about his experiences with at-risk youth. Music and a silent auction precede the talk. Tickets are available online or by phone. 6pm. Hilton Hotel Downtown, 500 E. Fourth, 451-4592. $100. www.councilonatriskyouth.org.
d KIDS IN MOTION Kids ages 8 to 12 are invited to drop in for some fun and interactive exercise. Expect trampolines and other fun props to help keep the energy up. Wednesdays, 4:15pm. Butler Dance Education Center, 501 W. Third, 476-9051. First class free. www.balletaustin.org.
YOUR GUIDE TO COPYRIGHT LAW Sign up for this city-sponsored program and know your rights. 1pm. City Hall, 301 W. Second. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/nextlevel.
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Come out and celebrate the right to choose. 6pm. Threadgill’s World HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 462-1661. $45. sara@prochoicetexas.org, www.prochoicetexas.org.
BIRD TALK Members of the Travis Audubon Society discuss gardening with our flying friends in mind. 7pm. Pleasant Hill Branch Library, 211 E. William Cannon, 974-3940. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
RED & WHITE BASH Hipster rock outfits White Denim and Harlem put on their rock pants to benefit the local arm of the Red Cross. 9pm. Antone’s, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424. $10.
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BICYCLE TRAVEL: SOUTH FROM ALASKA Hostelling International volunteer John Berry discusses his travels around Alaska and back to Austin on two human-powered wheels. 7pm. REI, 601 N. Lamar, 444-2294. Free. www.hiaustin.org.
Enjoy an affordable, delectable filet (or chicken breast) with all the fixin’s. Save room for chocolate, courtesy of the United Court. Tuesdays, 6pm. Charlie’s Austin, 1301 Lavaca, 474-6481. www.charliesaustin.com.
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Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever @ Alamo Ritz, 7pm
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Terence Blanchard Quintet Hogg Auditorium White Denim Antone’s Sian Alice Group Mohawk
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LISTINGS SUMMER UTILITY BILL ASSISTANCE Unrelenting summer temperatures making your electric bills unmanageable? The city of Austin is offering sixmonth payment plans for those who apply before Oct. 1. Call or go online for more info and application forms. Check out the other ways the city can help you pay your bills if you’ve lost your job, are receiving Medicaid, or find yourself in other tough economic situations. 494-9400. www.austinenergy.com.
FAITH & POLITICS WITH E.J. DIONNE The Texas Freedom Network presents Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne discussing his book Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right. Registration is recommended. 6:30pm. First Baptist Church of Austin, 901 Trinity, 322-0545. Free. www.tfn.org.
` GIRL IN A COMA Where my dykes and big ol’
queeahs at? Oh, right. At this show! Emo’s, 603 Red River, 505-8541. www.girlinacoma.com.
TALK TIME features conversation practice for English-language learners hoping to fine-tune their skills in a nonthreatening atmosphere. Call or go online for a schedule of times and locations. 974-7529. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
GOING GREEN SUPPORT GROUP Learn simple ways to green your life surrounded by like-minded people who can help you along the way. Second and fourth Thursdays, 7pm. Trinity United Methodist Church, 600 E. 50th, 451-0580. $15. HAPPY HOUR FOR THE AUSTIN ACADEMY Help disadvantaged adults get the education and skills they need to find a job or pursue higher education. All you have to do is drink and eat on a Thursday evening. 5:30-7:30pm. Zax Pints & Plates, 312 Barton Springs Rd., 326-8655. www.austinacademy.org.
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AFTERPARTY While those 18 and up may enjoy the live readings from this queer-affirming and “Best of Austin”-award-winning Web marvel, only those 21 and up may imbibe the special spicy IFD drink concoction. Come hear true stories about real gay life. 6:30pm. Oilcan Harry’s, 211 W. Fourth, 663-6355. Free. jessietilton@gmail.com, www.imfromdriftwood.com.
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attempt to catch up on the backlog of book requests from inmates. Donate some books, or volunteer and get food, drinks, music, and good karma in return. Thu.-Sun., Sept. 24-27. Space 12, 3121 E. 12th, 647-4803. www.insidebooksproject.org. SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS TALK Video and discussions put the coup in Honduras in the context of U.S. foreign policy. Follow the money. 7pm. MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925. Free (donations accepted). soaw_austin@yahoo.com, www.soaw.org.
SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.) Largo @ Alamo Lake Creek, 7:30pm
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Happy Mondays, the Psychedelic Furs Stubb’s Kylesa Red 7 Frightened Rabbit, the Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks Mohawk
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time to line up your lineup: Grab a team or go it solo, secure some donors, indulge in some new tennies, and get ready to hit the streets for Austin’s stellar AIDS service org. Sun., Oct. 18, 2pm. Austin City Hall, 406-6115. Free; registration required. aidswalk@asaustin.org, www.aidswalkaustin.org. CITY OF AUSTIN WEB OUTREACH In an attempt to demystify the process of local government, the city has launched several Internet-based initiatives. Want to follow the city on Twitter? Jump on that tech bandwagon at www.cityofaustin.org/news/notes. CIVIC ANIMAL Is the Chronicle website not enough for you? CivicAnimal.com compiles local orgs, civic events, and other helpful tidbits of info.
` THE LESBIAN COFFEE HOUSE No bar, no cof-
| AUSTIN MUSEUM DAY (SEE SUNDAY) Free lunch, a T-shirt, and a day of good company – hardly feels like volunteering. www.dsact.com/dsactvolunteer.html. ESTATE & MEDICAID PLANNING WORKSHOPS Got questions about living trusts, wills, protecting assets, reducing estate taxes, powers of attorney, or Medicaid eligibility? Then one of the Greening Law Firm’s free seminars is probably right for you. Go online for a schedule with locations and times. 476-0888. www.greeninglawfirm.com. HEALTHY WOMEN, HEALTHY FAMILIES Help gather info and stories about the state of women’s health in Texas. Go online, and take the survey or share a story about a health care challenge you’ve faced. The group hopes to take these stories and figures to the Legislature to raise awareness of Texas women’s health issues. 462-1661. www.healthywomenhealthyfamilies.org. HUMAN POTENTIAL CENTER This South Austin nonprofit has oodles of classes and workshops – from yoga and Reiki to art classes and dream interpretation – just waiting to maximize your potential. Check out the website for more info. Human Potential Center, 2007 Bert, 441-8988. www.humanpotentialcenter.org.
` LAMBDA OF TX STATE: GET ON THE LIST If you would like to get on the mailing list of fellow LGBT Bobcats and allies (home of the awesome Bobcat Ball), e-mail them today. They are transitioning their e-mail addresses. (Should we call it ze or hir?) Texas State University campus, San Marcos. lambda_txstate@yahoo. com, www.studentorgs.txstate.edu/lambda/index22.htm. LAND GRANTS OF THE TEXAS REVOLUTION The latest exhibit, “A Hero’s Reward,” displays artifacts and historical documents that illuminate how soldiers of different races and backgrounds were compensated for their participation in Texas’ struggle for independence. Capitol Visitors Center, 112 E. 11th, 305-8400. Free. www.texascapitolvisitorscenter.com. LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH As if all the free books, CDs, DVDs, and databases aren’t reason enough to get a library card, September is officially the month to do it. No special offers, just bring your ID and proof of address to your local library and get a library card. www.cityofaustin.org/library.
ages 35 to 78.4, or older, which meets monthly for fun, frivolity, and frolic. The third weekend of every month. Free. crowsfeetclub@gmail.com.
MEAL PREP VOLUNTEERING AT SAFEPLACE Call and sign up for a Tuesday volunteer slot preparing and delivering meals for Life Skills clients. Teach a class of roughly 25 adults and children and help formerly homeless individuals prepare for independent living. 356-1575. smolinari@safeplace.org, www.safeplace.org.
DOWN SYNDROME WALK VOLUNTEERS Go online and volunteer for a one- or two-hour shift at the Down Syndrome Buddy Walk on Oct. 25 in Georgetown.
NATURAL HEALTH CENTER has workshops in locations all over town, most of which are free of charge. Learn to balance hormones and alleviate allergies
` CROWSFEET CLUB A social group for lesbians
feehouse, so where are lesbians supposed to meet chicks? Austin Lesbian Coffee House is a group of LBTs that meet monthly to mix and mingle. Sign up to get the secret deets. www.meetup.com/AustinLesbianCoffeeHouse.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION: The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline for the Oct. 2 issue is Monday, Sept. 21. Include name of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a description, and any available photos or artwork. 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, TX 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:
Kate X Messer or Ash Bell (Gay Place): gayplace@austinchronicle.com. Mark Fagan (Sports): gameplans@austinchronicle.com. James Renovitch (everything else): calendar@austinchronicle.com. Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listings editor, 454-5766 or brenner@austinchronicle.com.
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and migraines the natural way. Call for upcoming courses. 892-3366. www.naturalhealthaustin.com. NEIGHBORHOOD HABITAT CHALLENGE Get the neighborhood organized, and start making your yard more hospitable to wildlife. If your neighborhood ends up with the largest number of certified wildlife habitats … well, isn’t that enough? Through Nov. 15. 327-8181 x29. www.keepaustinwild.com. NOMINATIONS FOR MEXICAN AMERICAN TRAILBLAZERS The Austin History Center and the Austin Public Library are looking for nominations of Mexican-Americans who opened doors and broke down walls for future generations. Categories include individuals in the fields of education, politics, sports, communication, and others. Nomination forms are due before Sept. 30 and must be mailed or faxed. Gloria Espitia, 810 Guadalupe, Austin, 78701, 974-7498, 974-7483 (fax). gloria.espitia@ci.austin.tx.us, www.cityofaustin.org/library/ ahc/downloads/nomination_form.pdf.
d ORGANIC GARDENS AVAILABLE Get the kids thinking sustainable and organic while they’re young. There are part-time openings for kids between the ages of 2 and 5 to learn about gardening and helping the earth. 4300 Mount Vernon Dr., 707-8635. www.rondasgarden.net. OTHER WORLDS EXHIBITION The Ransom Center’s new current exhibition traces the evolution and role of astronomy in the modern world. See rare books and papers from some of history’s astronomical heavy-hitters. The exhibit runs through Jan. 3, 2010. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu. PRESERVE THE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT If you’re more impressed by the historic buildings in the heart of Downtown than the fancy new condos, this is the petition for you. Put your e-signature on the line, and keep Austin old. www.savethewarehousedistrict.com. RED CROSS FALL CLASSES in everything from CPR to water safety to the popular Babysitter Bootcamp. Go online for a complete schedule or to register. 929-1294. www.centex.redcross.org/classes/index.php.
d SAVE POSTER CONTEST Students Against
Violence Everywhere and the Travis County Sheriff’s Office are having a poster design and coloring contest that encourages peaceful resolutions to conflict. Elementary schoolers color “Mr. Cool,” while middle and high school students design a poster based on the SAVE pledge to avoid violence. Entries are due Oct. 10. 854-7786. www.tcsheriff.org/outreach/save.html.
d SMILE ON MY FACE PHOTO EXHIBIT Student photographers who took part in Carver’s 12-week art-education program show off what they’ve learned. George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina, 974-4926. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/carver. STATE HOSPITAL CALL FOR DONATIONS Many of the 4,400 people the Austin State Hospital serves each year show up with little other than the clothes on their backs. Bring your gently used clothing (including swimsuits) and shoes to their community relations building (see the website for a map). Austin State Hospital Community Relations, 4110 Guadalupe, Bldg. 631, 419-2330. cynthia.smith@dshs.state.tx.us, www.ashvolunteers.org.
& later BUILDING BRIDGES ART CELEBRATION The Arc of the Capital Area, which provides services to adults and children with developmental disabilities, hosts this benefit party that includes dinner, silent auctions, and the work of local artists up for sale. Buy your tickets now. Thu., Oct. 15, 5:30pm. Hilton Hotel Downtown, 500 E. Fourth, 476-7044. $125. www.arcofthecapitalarea.org.
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blogger/advice columnist/Club Papi-host Cisco along with the glittering array of divas Erica Andrews, Sofonda St. John, Derrick Barry, Jade (from RuPaul’s Drag Race), and Lana Blake for a seven-day Carnival Conquest cruise to Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. Sun., Oct. 25 - Nov. 1. Galveston Cruise Ship Terminal, 2502 Harborside Dr., Galveston, 409/766-6129 or 765-9321. $579-889/person, includes $100 on-board voucher. www.divascruise.com, www.pridecruise.net, www.yocisco.com.
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present Fire & Ink 3, a cotillion/writers fest for LGBT folks of African descent featuring a who’s who of presenters, including Nikki Finney, Pam Spaulding, Sharon Bridgforth, Staceyann Chin, Baraka de Soleil, and so many more. Register now. Thu.-Sun., Oct. 8-11. Hilton Hotel Downtown, 500 E. Fourth, 485-5999. $125. www.2009.fireandink.org.
` JUDY SHEPARD AND ERASE THE HATE Our darling United Court is hosting this fundraiser, featuring diva upon diva upon divalicious diva for the Matthew Shepard Foundation. Mo’ info next week! Sun., Sep. 27. Kiss & Fly, 404 Colorado, 476-7799. www.unitedcourtofaustin.org, www.mattshepard.us.
` MISS MAJOR WAS THERE! One chance to
hear and another to hang out with this witness to Stonewall. Lecture: Thu., Sep. 24, 6pm; Meet & Greet: Fri., Sep. 25, 9am. Texas Union, UT campus, 24th & Guadalupe, 232-1831. Free. gsc@uts.cc.utexas.edu.
` OCTO TEA DANCE XIV Yeah, the one under
the big Long Center ring that everyone was talking about last year. Roland Belmares and Seth Cooper spin. Keep an eye on “GP” for more info. Sun., Oct. 11, 3-9pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 457-5100. $60 ($45, advance). octoteadance@gmail.com, www.octopusclub.org. RACE FOR THE CURE Sign up now or get a team together and start raising funds for breast cancer research. Sat., Nov. 1. The Domain, 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, 473-0900. www.komenaustin.org. RUE MCCLANAHAN TOASTS SISTERHOOD & SURVIVORSHIP The Breast Cancer Resource Centers of Texas presents a Champagne brunch, silent auction, and live music from the Tosca String Quartet. Did we mention that breast-cancer survivor Rue McClanahan will be there? Sun., Sept. 27, 10:30am. Renaissance Hotel, 9721 Arboretum, 544-0902. $85. www.bcrc.org. TRAVIS COUNTY SHERIFF’S VICTIM SERVICES UNIT is seeking volunteers interested in providing support to victims at crime scenes. Training begins Oct. 9. Call for details and restrictions. 854-9709.
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to the Mohawk with its Evolution of the Revolution 2009, featuring “Biohazard” Jaykus Plisken vs. ACW heavyweight champ “One Man” Mike Dell, Claudio Castagnoli vs. “Mr. Showtime” Scot Summers, the Rolling Stoned (Brent Masters & Problems) vs. Gary Jay & Davey Vega vs. the Smurf Nation (Berry Breeze & Chingo Smurf) for a shot at the ACW tag-team belts, and much more. Sun., Sept. 20, 5:15-9:30pm. Mohawk, 912 Red River, 825-9616. $15 front row, $10 general admission. www.anarchychampionshipwrestling.com. OUTLAW SINGLES SHOOTOUT DISC GOLF TOURNEY Hosted by the Double R Disc Golf Club, disc golf fans will converge on Old Settlers Park this weekend for four furious rounds on two separate courses with differing skill levels. All players who enter will be qualified for the Southern Nationals. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 19-20. Old Settlers Park, 3300 E. Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock.
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THE HOME TEAMS AUSTIN TOROS HOST CAPITAL CITY DANCE TEAM AUDITIONS Austin Toros dancers will perform at all of the Toros’ home games and will participate in community activities throughout the year. Dancers must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma to be eligible. See website for more. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 19-20, 9am (10am Sunday). Lifetime Fitness, 13725 RM 620 N. $35. www.austintoros.com. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Women’s Volleyball Vs. Iowa State: Fri., Sept. 18, 6:30pm. Gregory Gym, 2101 Speedway. $4-10 ($3 for groups of 10 or more). Women’s Soccer For more, see “Soccer Watch,” right. Vs. Washington State: Fri., Sept. 18, 7:30pm. Vs. New Mexico: Sun., Sept. 20, 1pm. Mike A. Myers, 707 Clyde Littlefield Dr. $4-7 ($2 for groups of 10 or more). Football For more on UT football, see the Chronicle Sports blog, at austinchronicle.com/thescore. Vs. Texas Tech: Sat., Sept. 19, 7pm. Darrell K. Royal-Memorial Stadium, 2100 San Jacinto. www.texassports.com. HUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY Volleyball Vs. Bacone College: Fri., Sept. 18, 6:30pm. Men’s Soccer Vs. University of St. Thomas: Sat., Sept. 19, 7pm. ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY Volleyball Vs. TexasPermian Basin: Thu., Sept. 17, 7pm. Vs. Dallas Baptist: Sat., Sept. 19, 2pm. Men’s Soccer Vs. Eastern New Mexico: Fri., Sept. 18, 5pm. Vs. Truman State: Sun., Sept. 20, 11am. Women’s Soccer Vs. Lee: Fri., Sept. 18, 2pm. Vs. Texas A&M-Commerce: Sun., Sept. 20, 1pm. www.stedwards.edu/athletics. CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY Women’s Soccer Vs. Louisiana College: Thu., Sept. 17, 2pm. Vs. Mississippi College: Sat., Sept. 19, 2pm. Town & Country Optimist Fields (off Briarwick Drive, which is off Highway 620), 313-4503. Free. Men’s Soccer Vs. Louisiana College: Thu., Sept. 17, 6pm. Vs. Mississippi College: Sat., Sept. 19, 4pm. Town & Country Optimist Fields. Free. Volleyball Vs. Hardin-Simmons University: Fri., Sept. 18, 5pm. Vs. McMurry University: Sat., Sept. 19, noon. Vs. Texas Lutheran University: Tue., Sept. 22, 6pm. Vs. Howard Payne University: Thu., Sept. 24, 6pm. Concordia Fieldhouse, 11400 Concordia University Dr., 313-4503. $5 for adults (12 & under free). athletics.concordia.edu.
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TEXAS STATE Women’s Soccer Vs. Grambling State: Fri., Sept. 18, 7pm. Vs. UTEP: Sun., Sept. 20, 1pm. Vs. Houston Baptist: Tue., Sept. 22, 7pm. Bobcat Soccer Complex, San Marcos. Women’s Volleyball Vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi: Thu., Sept. 24, 6:30pm. Strahan Coliseum, San Marcos. www.txstatebobcats.com.
RECREATION & FITNESS FREE ROWING FOR NONPROFITS All staff and volunteers for nonprofits are invited for free lessons from experienced rowing instructors at the Austin Rowing Club, the only local nonprofit rowing club. E-mail in advance for appointment. Wednesdays and Fridays, 9am. Austin Rowing Club, 1 Trinity. Free. rowfree@austinrowing.org, www.austinrowing.org. TEXAS OUTDOORS WOMAN NETWORK is open to all ladies who are interested in outdoor fun. Joy Emshoff will speak on her 13 days spent traveling through Mexico with three friends, staying in hostels, traveling by local buses with each of them living out of a single backpack. Tue., Sept. 22, 6:30pm. Terrazas Library, 1105 E. Cesar Chavez. www.townaustin.org. NORTHWEST RECREATION CENTER FALL SOCCER Registration is open till Sept. 25; the league starts Oct. 10 with Saturday games through Nov. 14. Northwest Recreation Center, 2913 Northland Dr., 458-4107. $45. manuel.villalobos@ci.austin.tx.us, www.cityofaustin.org/parks/northwest.htm. FREE KIDS SAFETY CLASS Kids in kindergarten through second grade can attend the 10am session; kids in third through eighth grades attend the 11am session. Register online at www.sundragon.org/ free-childrens-self-defense or call 416-9735. Sat., Sept. 19, 10am-noon. Sun Dragon Martial Arts, 4534 West Gate Blvd. #101, 416-9735. Free. www.sundragon.org. BACK-TO-SCHOOL GRAND OPENING Features kung fu classes for all ages and a bully prevention seminar, as well as food, drinks, games, and prizes. Sat., Sept. 19, 10am-2pm. Austin Kung-Fu Academy, 7739 Northcross Dr. Ste. G, 323-0805. Free. www.austinkungfuacademy.com. FREE KIDS SELF-DEFENSE CLASS Kids 4 years and older are welcome to come out and learn how to deal with bullies and become leaders. Kids will learn self-defense techniques and ways to avoid having to use those skills. Sat., Sept. 19. Austin Fitness Martial Arts, 4327 S. First Ste. 104-D, 707-8977. Free. www.austinfitnessmartialarts.com.
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WOUNDED WARRIORS RUN & RELAY This 17.2-mile individual and relay run benefits the Intrepid National Armed Forces Rehabilitation Center, which “provides military service members who have experienced debilitating injuries with a rehabilitation facility, returning them to pre-injury level of activity.” Volunteers needed. Sat., Sept. 19, 8am. VFW Post 8573 Canyon Lake, New Braunfels/Canyon Lake, 830/237-4380 or 830/214-4620. WATER 2 THRIVE 5K & KIDS K is the first run to be held at the Hill Country Galleria shopping center. Attendees will enjoy the run as well as live music, prizes, food, and more. Sat., Sept. 19, 9am. Hill Country Galleria, 2700 Hill Country Blvd., Bee Cave, 524-2953. www.watertothrive.org/getinvolved-events_current.html. GOT GUTS 5K & GLUTEN-FREE FOOD FAIR Participants will enjoy a scenic run along the outskirts of Walter E. Long Park. There will also be a walk, a kids 1K run, and a gluten-free food fair. Proceeds benefit the local and national Gluten Intolerance Group. Sun., Sept. 20, 8-11am. Walter E. Long Park, 6614 Blue Bluff Rd. $30 advance registration. www.gotguts5k.com. VERN’S NO FRILLS 5K – RACE NO. 6 No frills and no cost for students (only a buck for adults). The race is on a timed certified course with water during and after the race. The race happens the third Saturday of each month with the proceeds going to Williamson County Parks & Recreation. Sat., Sept. 19, 7:30am. Berry Springs Park & Preserve, Georgetown, 1801 CR 152, 512/724-3774. Free (students K-12), $1 (adults). SPEAK UP FOR KIDS CASA 5K Your support will help to raise money and awareness for CASA of Travis County, which looks out for abused and neglected children. Attendees will enjoy a photo booth, bounce house, arts & crafts, and healthy runner activities. Registration fee includes a T-shirt, a goodie bag, and a free photo at the photo booth. Sun., Sept. 20, 7am, registration; 8am, 5K; 8:45am, kids 1K. The Domain, 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, 459-2272. $25 for 5K; $10 for 1K. www.casatravis.org. RIDE LIKE A GIRL Hosted by the Austin Ridge Riders, these weekly bike rides allow ladies the opportunity to meet other women to ride with and learn new trails and skills. Divided by ability, each ride is one to 2½ hours long, and each rider must wear a helmet, bring water, and have a suitable bike. Directions to the trails on the website. Mon., Sept. 21, 6pm. Barton Creek 360 access. www.austinridgeriders.com.
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION MEMORY WALK Held in nearly 600 locations, this 1.5-mile walk, in its 18th year here in Austin, will raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care. Participants register in teams of five or more to gather donations for this worthy cause. Register now and get the fundraising rolling. Sat., Oct. 10, 8-11am. Alzheimer’s Association Office, 3429 Executive Center Dr., 241-0420. Free, participants who raise $75 receive a T-shirt. www.alz-austin.org. NAMIWALKS FOR THE MIND OF AMERICA is a dogfriendly 5K (or shorter) walk up to and around the Capitol and back down Congress to Auditorium Shores. Live music by Lonnie and Texas Connection. It’s free (walkers must register), but please donate muchneeded cash to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Sat., Oct. 10, 9am. Auditorium Shores parking lot at Riverside & S. First, 420-9810. www.namiaustin.org. BUDDY WALK FOR DOWN SYNDROME Go online and sign up for the Down Syndrome Buddy Walk on Oct. 25 in Georgetown. Join a team or start your own to honor that special buddy in your life. The entire day celebrates the achievements of kids with Down Syndrome, and all the money goes to the Down Syndrome Association of Central Texas. Reunion Ranch, Georgetown, 512/323-0808. www.dsact.com. KOMEN AUSTIN RACE FOR THE CURE Register now for this race to be held Sun., Nov. 1, to “increase breast cancer awareness, celebrates survivorship, and raises critical funds for breast cancer screening, treatment, and research.” The Domain, 11410 Century Oaks Terrace, 473-0900. $30. www.komenaustin.org.
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I will never get used to how fast the college soccer season races by. The UT Longhorns beat Louisville and Kentucky last week (2-1 and 2-0 respectively), to even their record at 3-3, and suddenly, the season’s almost half over. This week the Horns host the last two games before the conference schedule starts: Washington State at 7:30pm on Friday, Sept. 18, and undefeated New Mexico at 1pm on Sunday, Sept. 20. Friday is faculty/staff night ($2 with UT ID); for Sunday there’s a $3 Web coupon (see this column online, austinchronicle.com) or free admission with a UT football ticket stub from the previous day’s Texas Tech game. The St. Edward’s women allowed a goal for the first time all season last Friday – and it led to their first loss, 1-0 to undefeated West Texas A&M. The 15th-ranked Hilltoppers finish their nonconference schedule this weekend as well, hosting Lee at 2pm on Friday, Sept 18, and Texas A&M-Commerce at 1pm on Sunday, Sept. 20. The St. Ed’s men host Eastern New Mexico at 5pm on Friday, and Truman State at 11am on Sunday. The Austin Aztex finished strong – with a 2-1 win in Oregon over the regular-season champion Portland Timbers, before bowing to Vancouver by the same score in the finale. Don’t forget, the Aztex host Rayados of Monterrey on Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Round Rock ISD’s Palace on Parmer. Tickets are on sale at www.austinaztex.com. Right after that, the Aztex head to England, where they’ll play exhibition matches against two Premier League clubs, Stoke City and Burnley. The European Champions League group stage opened this week; all four English clubs (Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United) won their opening games, each by a one-goal margin. Next best were Spanish and German clubs, which each got two wins. CONCACAF Champions League is also ongoing; the Houston Dynamo is in Mexico, at Pachuca, as we go to press.
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Having never committed adultery myself, I can only theorize on the subtle art of deception required to mask an affair. There are details you need to know and details you definitely need not to. Times. Locations. What someone wore. What someone did to someone else’s unmentionables. Whether the affair actually happened or was entirely made up. It’s enough to make your head spin, but it’s those details that the characters of Harold Pinter’s The Collection struggle with, bandy about, and continually deceive themselves and the audience over. Ah, Pinter! Pinter plays live in the beyond. The horrible, amazing truth lives just beyond the next scene, hopefully, expectantly. Characters talk beyond what other characters know. Motives and meanings, directions and decisions live just out of the audience’s perception. There’s this constant feeling that you’re missing something, that you’ll figure it out soon, only … only it’s Pinter. And yet for all the looming questions and ominous portents, Pinter’s works are incredibly subtle and wickedly comic. It’s an intricate balance, but Ken Webster and the Hyde Park Theatre do a wonderful job walking that line with their performance of The Collection. Bill (Joey Hood), a young dress designer, lives with the older Harry Kane. Their relationship lives somewhere between father and son and boy toy and cantankerous sugar daddy. An anonymous man starts pursuing the neat Bill, and upon their first confrontation we learn that the man, James, wants to meet the man that cuckolded him. Howdy, Bill. The narrative that follows that revelation plays out like a never-ending status game. For a while, James commands the stage, brimming with the power of victimhood. Bill
then trumps him by laying out details of the affair that James never knew. Harry pulls the knowledge right from under them. Anon everything switches, back and forth, status and power and pace. I’m not sure any playwright so vividly captures the power of silence. If I’m going on about the play and not the production, it’s because HPT’s staging so truly catches the spirit of Pinter. I was reminded of a quote attributed to Shakespeare at Winedale founder James Ayres: “You’re not funny; Shakespeare’s funny.” In other words, trust the text. Webster’s production trusts The Collection to be funny, dramatic, and engaging. The action is very relaxed, effortless even in its precision. There could be a lot of sound and fury in this did-they/didn’t-they affair, but everyone’s remarkably civil about the whole thing, which gnaws at the audience’s expectations. We want fights, tears, professions of love. What we get is subtlety, silence, maybes. It’s all tension and no release, and it’s maddening, delightfully maddening. Hood and Webster work so well together: Hood’s Bill is prim, proper, and easily bothered, while Webster’s James is cool, collected, unnerving. The acting throughout never seems more or less than it needs to be. And Paul Davis must be commended for another efficient, effective set. There are so many veiled emotions inside a Pinter play; the relationships ever-changing, the character with the least power ending up with the most. Instead of getting lost, the Hyde Park Theatre cast makes it look easy in this engaging, comedic production. – Avimaan Syam
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THREE DAYS OF RAIN Richard Greenberg’s Pulitzernominated play centers on Walker, his sister Nan, and their childhood friend Pip, who meet in an unoccupied loft in lower Manhattan in 1995 to divide the legacy of their late fathers, who were partners in a renowned architecture firm. Directed by Ryan Crowder for Penfold Theatre Company. Sept. 17-Oct. 3. Thu., 7:30pm; Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm. The Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 443-3688. $15-20. www.penfoldtheatre.com. THE JUNGLE Upton Sinclair’s classic novel – the one that, how you say, ripped the veil from the hideous face of Chicago’s meatpacking industry – is adapted by Connor Hopkins for his award-winning Trouble Puppet Theatre. There are tabletop puppets, human-sized puppets, shadow puppets, and more, all to explore the exploitation of workers and the gore of slaughtered animals. Yeah: This ain’t one o’ your kiddie puppet shows, here. With animation by Leah Sharpe and original music by Justin Sherburn. Thu.-Sun., Sept. 17-Oct. 4, 8pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886. $15. www.troublepuppet.com. DIRECT OBJECT Da! Theatre Collective brings back its popular show in which people interact with everyday objects as you’ve never seen them before. This latest incarnation, with Heather Huggins directing a bright contingent of Da! performers, also features an original score by Travis Cooper and Melissa Jurrens. Wed.-Sat., Sept. 17-26, 8pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886. $10-25 (pay what you wish, Sept. 23). www.datheatrecollective.org. BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA Playwright Charles Mee provides a wild theatrical road trip through the American landscape as artist Robert Rauschenberg might have conceived it. Directed by David M. Long. Sept. 17-27. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. Mary Moody Northen Theatre at St. Edward’s University, 3001 S. Congress, 448-8484. $18 ($15, in advance; $12, students, seniors, St. Ed’s community). www.stedwards.edu/hum/thtr/mmnt.html. AFTER THE FALL Japhy Fernandes’ Austin Drama Club presents this autobiographical play by Arthur Miller. Directed by Michael Floyd. E-mail for location. Thu.-Sat., Sept. 17-Oct. 3, 8pm. japhyfernandes@live.com. MORTIFIED AUSTIN It’s not fiction, it’s real: the things you charted in your secret diaries and unsent love letters and notebooks and heartrending lyrics when you were still – ack! – an adolescent. Read onstage by the perpetrators themselves: your friends and neighbors, now old enough to know better and sharp enough to present those emotion-wracked outpourings with much hilarity attendant. Fri., Sept. 18, 8pm. United States Art Authority, 2906 Fruth. $15 ($12, in advance). www.getmortified.com. ON GOLDEN POND Geezers making goo-goo eyes? C’mon, you know romance isn’t just for the unwrinkled and dewy-complected among us. Ernest Thompson’s heartwarming and funny story of love over many years is directed by Chris Jimmerson for the Paradox Players. Sept. 18-Oct. 4. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. First Unitarian Universalist Complex, 4700 Grover, 744-1495. $15-20 ($10, seniors). www.paradoxplayers.org. MURDERED TO DEATH This Agatha Christie spoof, written by Peter Gordon and directed by Lynn Beaver out in Round Rock, introduces the inept Inspector Pratt, who battles against the odds to solve the murder of the house’s owner. Sept. 18-Oct. 10. Thu.Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Sam Bass Community Theatre, 600 N. Lee, Round Rock. $15 ($13 seniors, students, teachers, military). www.sambasstheatre.org. JOAN OF ARC, THE NIGHT BEFORE … Daniela Paluselli’s one-act monologue portrays St. Joan the night before she is burned at the stake. Sept. 18-Oct. 11. Fri., 8pm; Sat.-Sun., 2 & 8pm. Boyd Vance Theatre at Carver, 1165 Angelina, 258-1617. $18 ($15, students, military). www.joanofarcthenightbefore.com. DRAG KINGS: THE MUSICAL: 3 Austin’s fiercest drag king troupe, Kings N Things, brings you a night of tune-filled, gender-bending performance, hosted by Suburbia Sprawl and Stanley Roy Williamson. Sept. 18-20. Fri.-Sat., 9pm; Sun., 6pm. The Blue Theater, 916 Springdale, 927-1118. $8-12. www.kingsnthings.org. THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE This comedic musical – book by Rachael Sheinkin, music and lyrics by William Finn – knocked ’em out on Broadway and is about, yes, just what the title suggests. It’s directed here by Dave Steakley, and each night features a wealth of surprises amid the storyline as the cast challenges audience members and Austin celebrities to a bona fide spell-off. Sept. 19-Oct. 25. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541. $20-45. www.zachtheatre.org.
STAGED BY THE BELL is an episode of the old TV show Saved by the Bell, performed live by the sharp talents of the Institution Theatre. No, seriously. In fact, this show returns by popular demand and offers performances of a few different episodes, all directed by the unstoppable impresario and comedy wizard Tom Booker. See the website for details. Sept. 20-Nov 22. Sundays, 8pm. United States Art Authority, 2906 Fruth, 895-9580. $10. www.theinstitutiontheatre.com. THE GILBERT & SULLIVAN SOCIETY’S FALL MUSICALE opens the G&S season of comic operas with this “Soaring Soul Soirée,” a night of selections from such classics as The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, HMS Pinafore, and others. Also, the world premiere of Lisa Alexander’s short choral work “Come to Me.” Sun., Sept. 20, 7pm. Harris Bell Hall, Westminster Manor, 4100 Jackson, 472-4772. Free. www.gilbertsullivan.org. AUSTIN CABARET THEATRE: MANILOW: ’73-’83 ACT brings Lennie Watts’ Barry Manilow-channeling show to the Long Center’s Kodosky Lounge for two nights of those Seventies-era radio hits you can never forget. Thu.-Fri., Sept. 24-25, 8:30pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 457-5100. $27. www.austincabaret.blogspot.com.
CLOSING I’VE NEVER BEEN SO HAPPY Did you catch the first iteration of this work-in-progress by the Rude Mechs? It’s a musical multimedia spectacle of epic Westernalia, written by Kirk Lynn and scored by Peter Stopschinski, with cowboy culture a-go-go, wherein a mother ties her infant son to a mountain lion “so’s to toughen him up,” and it’s dachshund vs. dachshund in a fate-defying death race across the prairie. Here’s the latest version: a little bit familiar, a little bit changed, as fiercely enjoyable as peyote buttons at the rodeo, and no poodles to bite you on the eye. Through Sept. 20. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo, 476-7833. $12-20. www.rudemechs.com. THE HEAD, HANDS, AND TOE MAMBO SHOW Tongue and Groove Theatre presents an assortment of mime vignettes set to mambo music. The key words here? Tongue and Groove Theatre: These guys will entertain your entire family. Bring the kiddies! Through Sept. 20. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 474-8497. $10. www.tongueandgroovetheatre.org.
ONGOING FROST/NIXON Austin Playhouse presents Peter Morgan’s sharp drama about Tricky Dick Nixon’s interview with British TV host David Frost, recently seen on the big screen, here staged with an excellent cast under the direction of Don Toner. Through Oct. 11. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. Austin Playhouse, 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, 476-0084. $26-30. www.austinplayhouse.com. RABBIT HOLE Part of City Theatre’s recent Summer Acts festival, David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer winner – replete with loss, heartbreak, and forgiveness – returns for a full run of its own. Thu., Sept. 17, 8pm; Thu.-Sat., Sept. 24-26, 8pm; Sun., Sept. 27, 2pm; Thu., Oct. 1, 8pm; Sun., Oct. 4, 2pm. City Theatre, 3823 Airport Ste. D, 524-2870. $15-20. www.citytheatreaustin.org. THE COLLECTION “Three men and one woman fall into shifting, overlapping triangles of desire and menace.” You’ve seen Hollywood work that scenario in endless shitty permutations. Imagine it done brilliantly: This is a play by Harold Pinter, directed by Hyde Park Theatre’s Ken Webster, with a fine cast. Funny, erotic, burning like battery acid in a fresh wound: Recommended. See review, left. Through Oct. 10. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, 479-7529. $18 ($16, seniors, students, ACoT; pay what you wish, Thursdays). www.hydeparktheatre.com.
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Measure for Measure
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Rollins Studio Theatre, through Sept. 27
Running time: 2 hr, 15 min
MEASURE FOR MEASURE Austin Shakespeare brings the Bard’s dark comedy into the world of 1920s flappers, gangsters, politicians, and speakeasy sparkle under the direction of Ann Ciccolella. Through Sept. 27; Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Rollins Studio Theatre at the Long Center, 701 W. Riverside, 472-5664. $12-34. www.thelongcenter.org. THE DRAGONFLY QUEEN Here’s the world premiere of the newest fantasy opera from Ethos and the amazing Vortex crew of theatre artists, directed by Bonnie Cullum and brought to life with full sonic force. It’s a sequel to the acclaimed Dragonfly Princess, brimming with strange insectile drama, faery warriors, and gossamer gambits of glory. Also, nudity and other adult-oriented, ah, situations, please take note. Through Sept. 27. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $10-30. www.vortexrep.org.
DINNER THEATRE ANTIQUES ROADKILL The Capital City Mystery Players stages its interactive comedy/mystery shenanigans as a parody of the famous reality show. Who killed whom among the Chippendales and the Wedgwoods? Can you figure it out while dining on plates of pasta and pesto, paisan? Through Sept. 26. Saturdays, 7pm. Spaghetti Warehouse, 117 W. Fourth, 404-9123. $33.50. www.meatballs.com.
South of Warren Harding’s Teapot Dome-plagued White House and east of Dayton, Tennessee’s infamous Monkey Trial, ringed by sultry swampland, sits Savannah, Ga., another outpost of the Bible Belt grappling with the libertine impulses of the Jazz Age. Even as fundamentalist Christian churches preach redemption of the spirit on every corner, speakeasies and bordellos cater to the desires of the flesh, emboldened by the Roaring Twenties’ pursuits of earthly gratification and willful disregard for laws such as Prohibition. That makes this Southern port a fitting stand-in for the Vienna described by Shakespeare in Measure for Measure, a city where the laws against licentious behavior have gone so long without enforcement that they are flouted openly – a state of affairs so troubling to the duke that rules there that he steps away from his office and hands authority to a pious deputy who he hopes will put some teeth back into the law. In Austin Shakespeare’s production, Matt Radford plays that duke, and with his spectacles, soft Georgia drawl, and air of integrity, he might be a cousin of Atticus Finch. It’s that integrity that’s most critical to the character in performance, for the duke’s actions are often questionable: having his deputy clean up the mess he made in governing poorly, masquerading as a priest to observe secretly his plan in action, defying legal orders, and misleading authorities and even friends to pursue a scheme of entrapment. But if he’s played as a man of honor, as Radford does skillfully here, the audience will cheer on his most suspect schemes. The miscreant he hopes to snare is the very deputy he entrusted with running the city in his absence – Angelo, a figure known for his moral rectitude – until, that is, he meets a young woman whose brother he has condemned to death for getting his fiancée pregnant. Something about Isabella awakens an uncharacteristic lust in Angelo, a lust so powerful that he makes her a most indecent proposal: to spare her brother’s life if she will sleep with him. Shelby Davenport, looking like a young Calvin Coolidge and projecting the courtly restraint of Ashley Wilkes, makes Angelo seem untouched and untouchable by passion. It’s an icy reserve he plays
almost too well, for while he describes his carnal attraction with force, he doesn’t display it very vividly, even when Morgan DoverPearl’s Isabella – who shows the beauty and resolve, if not the cunning, of Scarlett O’Hara – impulsively grabs Angelo’s hand. When she does that to the duke, Radford reacts as if receiving an electric shock. It’s only when Davenport’s Angelo grabs DoverPearl’s Isabella that an erotic charge fills the room, a tension between flesh and spirit that calls to mind other godly Southern men whose earthly desires led to their falls: Billy James Hargis, Jimmy Swaggart, Earl Paulk. In contrast, the comic figures seem “not from around here”; their characterizations feel imported, an outsider’s notion of Southern behavior broadened and flattened into caricature. The exception that proves the rule is Robert Matney’s Pompey. In his mustard shirt and rumpled seersucker suit, this leering, liplicking lech is pure chicken-fried goat. When he defends one of his confederates in debauchery to Harvey Guion’s gruffly proper Escalus, also in seersucker, and turns a long-winded yarn into a country lawyer’s address to a jury, he comes off as a fun-house mirror version of an aristocratic Southern legal eagle, a dissolute knockoff Matlock. He is of that place and time. And it’s the connection to the setting that really informs these characters and makes this production from director Ann Ciccolella more than an above-average revival. Our intimacy with the South, with its history and attitudes, its codes and contradictions, brings us deeper into the drama and also brings it out into our world. We’re reminded that just north of Savannah is a state where the current governor recently strayed beyond his marriage bed and sought to conceal his actions, and a representative to Congress accused the president of lying, an allegation that was itself lacking in truthfulness. We have yet to emerge from the moral swamps of Measure for Measure. Indeed, Austin Shakespeare’s new staging could hardly be more timely. – Robert Faires
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AUDITIONS THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize winner will be produced by Different Stages, under the direction of Norman Blumensaadt in November and December. Right now the company’s looking for men (ages 25-60) and women (ages 20-55). Call for appointment. Mon.-Tue., Sept. 21-22, 7-9pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. 444-3303. www.main.org/diffstages.
THEATRE CALL BOARD YES, IT’S FRONTERAFEST TIME ALREADY! The gearing-up-for-the-festival-in-January time, that is. Check the website for applications and details. Also note: FronteraFest is seeking staff and production team members for this year’s event, including marketing director, box office, house managers, board operators, stage managers, and assistant stage managers. All staff and crew will receive a small stipend. Send your résumé and letter of interest to Hyde Park Theatre, Attn: FronteraFest, 511 W. 43rd, Austin, TX 78751. www.hydeparktheatre.org.
comedy IN THE CLUBS CAP CITY COMEDY 8120 Research #100, 467-2333. Daily, 7pm-1am. www.capcitycomedy.com. Willie Barcena The man’s been cracking wise all hither and yon in the small-screen realm and working his funny business in clubs across the country. Come see him here this weekend. Sept. 17-19. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm. Cap City Open Mic Hey, it could be you up there slaying your friends and neighbors as they’ve slain you. Sundays, 8pm. Free with college ID. Bengt Washburn The valiant road warrior and former champion of the San Francisco Comedy Competition returns to Cap City with more and better, expertly opened for by Austin’s own Dan French. Sept. 22-26. Tue-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm. www.getbengt.com. COLDTOWNE THEATER 4803-B Airport, 524-2807. www.coldtownetheater.com. This week: The country-roving improv artists of Parallelogramophonograph bring their inspired antics to the local stage, abetted by the Total Panic. Thu., 8pm. UpTowne Sketch Comedy presents a show about the future, directed by Leah Moss. Thu., 10pm. Mainstage It’s a ColdTowne revue of sketch and improv all rolled up into wonderful. Fri., 8pm. Punchline The weekly collection of stand-up goodness continues. Fri., 10pm. Boy Toy This new improv troupe is ... we can’t even begin to describe it. Also, no joke: free admission and free beer. Sat., 7pm. Stool Pigeon features Karen LeShelle jump-starting the improv with a thrice-told tale. Sat., 8pm. Cage Match Two improv teams go all lucha libre on each other for your grins and giggles. Sat., 9pm. Stone Cold Improv The house troupe gets funky, now with Look Cookie and Northshore Local. Sat., 10pm.
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ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553. www.esthersfollies.com. Esther’s Follies The most popular troupe in town lampoons the political antics of the day with musical comedy and sketches, now featuring the skewering of Prez Obama and his health care woes, new Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, Bristol and Sarah Palin touting abstinence, and the fighting Texas Governor duo: Rick Perry and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Also, whoa, a new illusion – the Killer Canine Cannon – from master magician Ray Anderson. Thrills! Chills! Rippedfrom-the-headlines events turned into comedy gold! Reservations highly recommended. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts available Thursdays & Fridays for seniors, students, military). Additional $5 for special reserved seats. THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress, 443-3688. www.hideouttheatre.com. Thursday: This latest run of Threefer Madness features Total Panic, the Inmates of the Institution Theatre, and Improv for Evil – whose members perform their heavily costumed antics as the Barons. 8pm. $3. Friday Asaf Ronen’s popular superheroic format called Ka-Baam!! returns with all manner of new costumed do-gooders battling fiendish villains for your Kirby Krackled hilarity while comic-book artists capture the action. 8pm. $10. Next comes the longrunning Double Barrel show, showcasing a different pair of improv troupes each week. 10pm. $10. Saturday: Asaf Ronen’s popular superheroic format called Ka-Baam!! returns with all manner of new costumed do-gooders battling fiendish villains for your Kirby Krackled hilarity while comic-book artists capture the action. 8pm. $10. Maestro is a fierce, multipartite battle for supremacy among improvisers, scored by you, the audience. Highly recommended, because it brings out the wackiest. 10pm. $10. VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116. www.thevelveetaroom.com. Open Mic Night They’re coming out of the alcoholsodden woodwork to try and make you laugh, with your host, J. Oscar Polanco. Thursdays, 10pm. Mike MacRae One of the regulars on TBS’ Frank TV, this St. Louis native has been working his impressionist skills in your nephew’s animé shows and cracking wise on stages across the country. Catch him this weekend with openers Ramin Nazer and J. Oscar Polanco. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 18-19, 9:30 & 11:30pm. $5.
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE! THE AUSTIN COMEDY TRAINWRECK Stand-up comedy – right there in the Hole, on the Drag, in the heart of collegiate Texas. Tuesdays, 10pm. Hole in the Wall, 2538 Guadalupe. $5. www.myspace.com/austincomedytrainwreck. COMEDYSPORTZ Competitive improv? Yes, and maestro Les McGehee and his talented friends bring it in full force each weekend to this newest little coffeehouse south of the river. Fridays and Saturdays, 7:30pm. Cafe Caffeine, 909 W. Mary. www.comedy7.com.
C A L E N D A R ( COMMUNITY KICK BUTT COMEDY Open Mic Comedy Bring it or have it brought to you, clever citizen. Wednesdays, 8pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425. ADDICTED TO COMEDY TOUR This night of comedy highlights the trials and tribulations (and sometimes hilarity) of being in recovery â&#x20AC;&#x201C; from, like, chemical dependency. On booze, meth, heroin, that sort of thing. Probably not Tab or Skittles, yâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;know? Jesse Joyce headlines. Fri., Sept. 18, 8pm. UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Utopia Auditorium, 1925 San Jacinto. 899-8300. $20. www.rightstep.com. LAST GAS COMEDY Excellent stand-up comedy at this storied joint. Once a week: Line â&#x20AC;&#x2122;em up. Sat., Sept. 19, 9pm. Homerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill, 1779 Wells Branch Pkwy. #114. Free. www.lastgascomedy.com. KA-BAAM!! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make us use our villainous superpowers to force you to look at the regular Hideoutbased comedy listings for this event. Only a witless dolt (or, perhaps, a hapless lackey) laboring in the industrial bile mines of Latveria could fail to comprehend the magnificence of the improv format known to (puny) mortals by the name Ka-Baam!!, amirite? Fri.-Sat., 8pm, Sept. 11-Oct. 24. The Hideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 443-3688. $10. www.hideouttheatre.com. SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Gnap! Theater Projects presents a double whammy of uncanny improv, featuring two handpicked improv troupes for your entertainment. This week, the awesomeness of the Love Notes follows the inspired lunacy of the Knuckleball Now. Recommended. Sat., Sept. 19, 10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886. $10. www.salvagevanguard.org.
dance PUERTO RICAN FOLKLORIC DANCE: DANCE AUDITIONS Dance apprentices â&#x20AC;&#x201C; especially entry-level adults with outstanding talent and vibrant stage presence â&#x20AC;&#x201C; are invited to audition for this exciting troupe. Knowledge of a Latin-folkloric dance style and acting skills a plus. Also: PRFDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Youth Performing Company seeks new young dancers and musicians. Through Sept. 30. 251-8122. www.prfdance.org/auditions.htm. ART OUTSIDE 2009: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Dancers are invited to join visual artists, performers, musicians, comics, filmmakers, craft makers, fashion designers, and a whole pastureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of creative spirits of all types for this annual event, coming to Apache Pass Oct. 9-11. The performance site offers music areas, a cantilevered stage, artist tents, camping grounds for full-weekend participants, and vendors of food and drink. Artists are invited to submit their work via the website for consideration. www.artoutside.org. BALLET AUSTIN II: PETER AND THE WOLF Choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills to the music of Prokofiev, this family-friendly performance promises to entertain and educate little ones between the ages of 2 and 8 through humor, narration, and the classic sounds of that famous piece of music. Sat.-Sun., Sept. 19-20, 2 & 4pm. AustinVentures StudioTheater, Butler Dance Education Center, 501 W. Third. 476-2163. $14. www.balletaustin.org.
1,001 NIGHTS MELISSA AMIRAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAROUSEL CARAVAN Jeanette hosts this monthly shimmy, featuring a host of hot belly dancers in one of Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coolest bars. CDs, DVDs, and costumes for sale. Every third Saturday, 8pm. Carousel Lounge, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790. Free. www.carousellounge.net.
TWO LEFT FEET STAY CLASSY, DANCER You know we have a plethora of dance classes listed online for your kinetic edification, yes? Belly dance, contra dance, modern dance, ballroom dance, dances popular and forbidden: See our website! www.austinchronicle.com. HAWAIIAN DANCE CLASSES The Hula Hulau Kaepa Polynesian Dance Academy is now enrolling students for beginning hula and Tahitian dance classes. Call for details. Hawaiian Tiki Imports, 3500 S. Congress. 440-7171. www.tropicalevents.com. CONTACT IMPROVISATION DANCE JAMS Participants move in and out of contact with one or more people through a common center of gravity. All are welcome. Tuesdays, 8-10pm; Sundays, 4:30-6pm. Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar. $5.
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LUCILA DANCE PRODUCTIONS: CLASSES FORMING Belly dancing (all levels), flamenco, salsa/merengue, and more. Lucila Dance Studio, 1700 S. Lamar #388, 416-8800. www.luciladance.com. BOLLYWOOD DANCE CLASSES Learn Indian dance styles. Bhangra, classical, and more. See website for details. 432-5716. Prices vary. www.bollywoodshake.com. AUSTIN UPTOWN DANCE: COUNTRY WESTERN & SWING DANCE PARTY This smoke-free dance party gets you kickinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; up your heels (or sliding them across the bamboo dance floor) as Kristy spins C&W faves. Come early for the lesson! Sundays, 6-9pm (walk-in 2-step classes, 5-6pm). Austin Uptown Dance, 8868 Research #706. $5 ($15, walk-in special with classes). www.austinuptowndance.com. GALAXY DANCE CLASSES Kid classes, adult classes. Hip-hop, ballet, ballroom, breakdancing, Pilates, and more. 1700 S. Lamar, 442-5299. $5 (first class). www.galaxydances.com.
classical music OPENING CASSATT STRING QUARTET Featuring the Texas premiere of Dan Welcherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Quartet No. 3, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cassatt.â&#x20AC;? Also, Ravelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s String Quartet in F Major and a postperformance talkback with the group. Thu., Sept. 17, 8pm. McCullough Theatre, UT campus, 23rd & East Campus Drive, 477-6060. $30 ($10, students; discounts available for UT faculty and staff, seniors, military). www.utpac.org. AUSTIN SYMPHONY: LEON FLEISHER AND KATHERINE JACOBSON FLEISHER Pianist spouses Leon and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher perform music by Ravel (Piano Concerto in D Major for the Left Hand) and Mozart (Concerto in F Major for two pianos). Maestro Peter Bay and company open the evening with Mozartâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parisâ&#x20AC;? Symphony. Ravelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rapsodie espagnole fills the bill. Fri.-Sat., Sept. 18-19, 8pm. Long Center for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside, 476-6064, 888/4-MAESTRO. $19-$48 (Student rush tickets available 20 minutes prior to performance for $5 cash with current student ID). www.austinsymphony.org. AUSTIN CIVIC ORCHESTRA POPS CONCERT Music from the movies, including selections from The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, and, of course, The Sound of Music. Sat., Sept. 19, 7:30pm. Bethany Lutheran Church, 3701 W. Slaughter. 301-7370. $10 ($8, students, $3, under 12). www.austincivicorchestra.org. SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL The Sarofim School of Fine Arts presents faculty members in a chamber concert of music for bassoon, flute, oboe, harp, and piano. Sun. Sept. 20, 3pm. Fine Arts Center, Southwestern University, Georgetown. 512/863-1504. Free. www.ssfa.southwestern.edu. BOLLYWOOD LEGEND MANNA DEY Legendary Bollywood singer Dey performs with his band. Sun., Sept. 20, 5:30pm. West Lake High School, 4100 Westbank. 918-1351. $30-60. www.sulekha.com/austin. TERENCE BLANCHARD QUINTET The Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern jazz. Wed., Sept. 23, 8pm. Hogg Auditorium, UT campus, West 24th & Whitis, 471-1444. $36 ($10, students). www.utpac.org/event/terence.
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visual arts EVENTS CO-LAB: [NO SUBJECT] Behold: a new sculptural mixed-media installation from Chad Hopper. Sat., Sept. 19, 7-11pm. 613 Allen, 300-8217. seangaulager.com/Co-Lab/Co-Lab.html. BIRDHOUSE GALLERY: TELLING FAMILY SECRETS Photographer Jen Hellow poses three questions about what it means to create an ideal family. Reception (with music by Confidence Men): Sun., Sept. 20, 6-9pm. 1304 E. Cesar Chavez, 789-9242. www.birdhousegallery.com. BLANTON THIRD THURSDAY Enjoy the Latin jazz rhythms of SeĂąor Gato in the Rapoport Atrium, yoga in the galleries, the Blanton Book Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discussion of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, and an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Art Briefâ&#x20AC;? exploring history, culture, and art from the many nations that make up North and South America. Thu., Sept. 17, 6-9pm. MLK & Congress, 471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org. WOMEN & THEIR WORK: RED HOT RED DOT SALE This annual fundraiser is a mother lode of gorgeous art and silently auctioned goods and services, with a thick mingling of artists right there in the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elegant space. Thu., Sept. 17, 6pm. 1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org.
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OPENING D BERMAN GALLERY: BOUND The installation artist Beili Liu presents her newest work. Included: Bound 2, which consists of thousands of red threads suspended in swooping arcs between two oak pillars. Reception: Thu., Sept. 17, 6-8pm. Exhibition: Through Oct. 24. 1701 Guadalupe, 477-8877. www.dbermangallery.com.
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UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN: DAMIAN PRIOUR’S WATER SPARKS Priour is best known for his elegant sculptures using fossilized limestone, glass, and rusted metal – the beach treasures he grew up with on the Texas Gulf Coast. His work is on fine display in this third in the Umlauf’s series of annual exhibits of work by contemporary sculptors who studied at the University of Texas. Sept. 17-Jan. 3. 605 Robert E. Lee, 445-5582. www.umlaufsculpture.org. AUSTIN ART SPACE: DUAL VIEWS New photographic works by Bill Oakey and oils and pastels by Debbi Smith Rourke. Reception: Fri., Sept. 18, 6-9pm. Exhibition: Through Sept. 26. 7739 Northcross Ste. Q, 771-2868. www.austinartspace.com. ART SHOW AND LAUNCH OF INTERDEPENDENCE PROJECT Art related to meditation. Sept. 24-28. Thu.Fri., 5-9pm; Sat.-Sun., 11am-3pm. Pedernales Lofts, 2410 E. Sixth #2017. www.theidproject.org.
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Packed like sardines on bleachers and overflowing onto towels placed on the wet pavement, a be-drizzled audience looked out over the tarmac at Austin Studios as the piano in Graham Reynolds’ score began trilling. The many little boys in the audience fell silent: The trucks were coming! Sixteen of them – side-loaders, rear-loaders, recycling trucks, yard trimmings collectors, street sweepers, bucket trucks, a dead-animal collection truck, and a crane with a big claw at the end – emerged from a well-hidden spot stage right with headlights beaming and safety lights flashing, circling the tarmac to cheers and applause. The Trash Project, the latest brainchild of Forklift Danceworks choreographer/director Allison Orr, showcased the equipment and organization of Austin’s Solid Waste Services, as well as its skilled, hardworking crew of 400. Trash collection isn’t generally a career to which lots of people aspire, but why not? Based on interview clips included in the performance and the program biographies of the performers, employees of SWS take pride in their work, seem enlightened about its importance, and enjoy schedules that leave a bit of time for things such as being a blues musician, coaching Little League, and raising five kids. And, anyway, trash is no longer just trash – it’s compost; it’s recyclable; it’s reducible; it’s cleanable. The old idea of an invisible force that gets rid of our trash every week before it starts to stink is obsolete. Now, trash is everybody’s problem. The performance included little actual trash, but that didn’t diminish the thrill. With the exception of some unexpected showcasing of talents among the employees, including a harmonica solo by Orange Jefferson and a rap by Ivory Jackson Jr., the most interesting and well-rehearsed sections of the project were performed with machinery. A duet of rear-loaders and their crews performed a number in which they raced around
to upturn 90-gallon garbage carts. The movements of the rear-loaders were the least dramatic of all the truck tricks, but through the repetition of the simple lock-up-down routine, I began to see small differences in the way the workers did things: One kicked a cart back into place; another pushed. One flipped a cart’s lid closed as it descended; another waited until the cart was grounded. Anyone who has done a repetitive physical job can probably relate to the feeling of getting in the groove of routine, and Orr, perfectly legitimately, sees this as dance, or at least as having the beginnings of dance. The side-loading trucks were the stars of a clever, beat-happy quartet in which the automated arms and claws grabbed garbage carts and swung them up high in syncopation. The combination of music and novelty, plus the good humor of the operators, resulted in an alchemy such that you could almost sense the trucks’ cool intelligence. But machine-as-extension-of-human was most apparent in a solo for a crane and its operator, Don Anderson. To Reynolds’ sweeping, poignant strings (and Stephen Pruitt’s quiet lighting), Anderson – I swear I’m not making this up – turned this hunk of metal and wires into something with qualities you might imagine shared by a prehistoric bird. As the joint straightened with its giant claw suspended from the end, the broad arc of musclelike tension was profound, and the slight waver of the claw belied something raw yet affected and avian. The claw stretched fully open, soaring like legs in a grand jeté, and closed, edges just barely touching to make a circle. Then the entire thing spun, fast and swooping, before the arm slowly folded back against itself to gently rest the claw on the truck’s bed. Now that’s something you don’t see every day. – Jonelle Seitz
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STUDIO2GALLERY: MONSTERS OF THE MOVIES Featured artist Robert Cook anchors this group show with his tributes to the icons of classic horror films. Through Sept. 19, 1700 S. Lamar #318, 326-9102. www.studio2gallery.com. PUMP PROJECT: ANXIETY Cantanker magazine presents new work by an all-star collection of artists, juried by AMOA’s Andrea Mellard. Through Sept. 19. 702 Shady Lane. www.pumpproject.org. SPUN: ART ON RECORDS This group show turns vinyl into visual goodness. Through Sept. 18. The Fifth Gallery, 305-B E. Fifth. SCANLAN GALLERY: TURBULENCE This is an exhibition of new dynamic paintings by Naomi Schlinke and Sydney Yeager. Through Sept. 17. Helm Fine Arts Center in St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, 6500 St. Stephen’s.
ONGOING GAY FAY KELLY: DAPHNE HOLLAND Holland pushes the medium of encaustic away from the typical flat panel to high-relief, constructed works. Through Oct. 23. 1811 W. Eighth, 478-7676. www.gayfaykellyart.com. DIBONA STUDIO Oil paintings and “sculptural tattoos” by Joyce DiBona. 404 W. Milton, 851-2646. FAB GALLERY: URBAN/STREET New works for these concrete and crumbling times by Bethany Johnson(!), Russell Burns, Tim Creswick, Krutie Thakkar, Bonnie Gammill, Mala Kumar, Kallista Stephenson, and others. DFA Building, 23rd & Trinity. www.thefabgallery.com. AUSTIN GALLERIES: 20TH CENTURY MASTERS Original lithographs, etchings, intaglios, and screen prints by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and more. 1219 W. Sixth. L. NOWLIN GALLERY: POSTCARDS FROM INVISIBLE CITIES A modern-day version of Marco Polo’s travel stories, Roberto “Bear” Guerra’s photographs – from Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Haiti, Turkey, and beyond – are part of an ongoing body of work. Through Oct. 31. 1202 W. Sixth. www.lnowlingallery.com. CORONADO STUDIOS The Serie Project, a nonprofit Latino arts organization hosted by Coronado Studios, produces, promotes, and exhibits serigraph prints created by diverse artists. 6601 Felix, 385-3591. www.serieproject.org. NEW EAST ARTS GALLERY: FACING EAST The documentary photography by Kaleema H. Al-Nur, Ann Armstrong, Martha Grenon, Adolfo Isassi, and Neesha Thakkar captures life in Central East Austin. 1601 E. Fifth #106. CHAN CHAN: PHOTOS AND PAINTINGS OF CUBA The photography of Piercarlo Abate and the paintings of Luis Abreux show a side of Cuba that’s seldom seen. 81 San Marcos St. www.piercarloabate.com. STUDIO C GALLERY: PONIES & PENGUINS New works by Holly Bronko and Alexandra Valenti. 2309 Thornton. AUSTIN ART GARAGE: NEW SPACE OPENING Celebrate the gallery’s new venue with an exhibition of works by illustrative artist Catherine Hart. Through Sept. 30. 2200 S. Lamar Ste. J, 351-5934. www.austinartgarage.com. LA PENA: MOMENTOS DE LA VIDA Photography from 12 different artists, as part of the Fotoseptiembre USA International Photography Festival. Through Oct. 2. 227 Congress. 477-6007. www.lapena-austin.org. EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of Joshua Garcia and others. 12400 Amherst #102, 825-8577. www.eyecontactart.com.
BAY 6 GALLERY: BECOMING: ELIZABETH DECKER The artist chronicles the changes and transformations of a seven-year emotional cleanse. Through Sept. 27. 5305 Bolm #6. 386-8700. www.bay6studios.com. AMOA: CHUCK CLOSE: A COUPLE WAYS OF DOING SOMETHING The celebrated painter is represented by his recent daguerreotypes of leading contemporary artists and works tangential to those images – including photogravures, digital pigment prints, and largescale tapestries. Displayed with a series of praise poems by Bowery Poetry Club’s Bob Holman. Through Nov. 8. 823 Congress, 495-9224. www.amoa.org. ART PALACE: STERLING ALLEN AND JESSICA HALONEN We highly recommend this two-person showcase, featuring Allen’s “Use Your Illusion” and Halonen’s “Rx Garden” series of artworks. Through Oct. 10. 2109 Cesar Chavez, 496-0687. www.artpalacegallery.com. ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY Artists from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paintings by Augustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, and Pablo Taboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; and metal sculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos St., 457-0171. www.pablotaboadastudio.com. AUSTIN ART GARAGE Original art by emerging Austin artists. 2200 S. Lamar Ste. J, 351-5934. www.austinartgarage.com. AUSTIN ART GLASS This glassblowing studio and gallery offers functional and decorative glass art, classes, and more. 1608 S. Congress, 916-4527. www.austinartglass.com. FRANCISCO MATTO: THE MODERN AND THE MYTHIC This Blanton show provides a rediscovery of Matto’s work and highlights the tremendous influence that his five decades of landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, abstractions, and sculptural totems had on subsequent Latin American artists. Through Sept. 27. MLK & Congress, 471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org. BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmade glass art and jewelry. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770. www.austinbluemoon.com. BIG MEDIUM: HERE WE ARE: CHRISTA PALAZZOLO AND BRIAN HALLORAN This excellent pairing of exhibitions – the gorgeous photorealism of Palazzolo’s “Wasted” series, Halloran’s faintly more cartoonish works of alienation and hopeful attempts at connection – is recommended for your aesthetic and social stimulation. Because: Wow. Again: Wow. Through Sept. 26. 5305 Bolm, 385-1670. www.bigmedium.org. THE CATHEDRAL OF JUNK is approximately 60 tons of junk wired together over 15 years to form intricate towers and rooms in the backyard of a South Austin home. Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, noon-9pm, or by appointment. 4422 Lareina, 299-7413. www.keepaustinweird.com. DOMY BOOKS: TROPHY ROOM: JADE WALKER The artist takes over Domy’s project space with scraps of personal accolades and images of the body and sports injuries in this experimental work created in tandem with a larger installation, “Spectator Sport,” to be displayed at AMOA in November. Through Oct. 17. 913 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-3669. www.domystore.com. DOMY BOOKS: YOUR HEART IS NOT A MUSEUM Domy’s main gallery features Leah Duvan’s obsessively rendered drawings of diamonds and soap opera characters, Levi Dugat’s self-portrait series that offers “a candid glimpse at reconciliation between himself and himself.” Through Oct. 22. 913 E. Cesar Chavez, 476-3669. www.domystore.com. BUTRIDGE GALLERY: AVAA’S 32ND ANNIVERSARY SHOW The Austin Visual Arts Association brings together works by well-known artists and up-andcomers from across the state for a celebratory show of many mediums. Through Sept. 28. 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 974-4000. www.cityofaustin.org/dougherty/gallery.htm. CREATIVE RESEARCH LABORATORY: UT FACULTY EXHIBITION Recent work by faculty artists in UT’s Department of Art & Art History. Through Oct. 3. 2830 E. MLK, 477-9328. LADY BIRD JOHNSON WILDFLOWER CENTER: ORIGAMI Forty new works by paper-fold artist Joan Son. Through Oct. 4. 4801 La Crosse, 232-0100. $7 (free, members. www.wildflower.org. MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM: YOUNG LATINO ARTISTS AND THE SERIE PROJECT XVI Two separate but complementary exhibitions showcase the works of established and emerging Latino artists. Through Sept. 27. 419 Congress, 480-9373. www.mexic-artemuseum.org.
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MACC: FLUTTER: CONNIE ARISMENDI The artist has created three large-scale installations that depict the emotional fluctuation between hope and anguish. Reception: Fri., Sept. 18, 6-8pm. Exhibit: Sept. 12-Nov. 28. 600 River St., 478-6222. www.maccaustin.org. MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART presents an eclectic selection of African and African-American artwork. 7801 N. Lamar Ste. D-106, 323-6901. www.mitchie.com. MUSEUM OF NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL EPHEMERATA A curator-led tour of this museum’s quirky and delightful “Impermanent Collection” is one of the hidden wonders of Austin. Tours: Saturdays, 1-4pm. 1808 Singleton, 320-0566. www.mnae.org.
SPACES Z TEJAS: MARIA LYLE Original pastels. Through Nov. 1. 1110 W. Sixth. www.marias-art.com. EASTSIDE BOOKS Currently showing works by Patrick King, Ramon Lozano, and John Metcalf. 2415 E. Fifth. 472-2665. www.eastsidebooksaustin.com. DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY Stained and leaded glass and mosaics. 701 Tillery Ste. A-11, 389-2266. www.decola-eusebi.com. CORONA CAFE: URBANA NATURA New photographic works by Ricardo Acevedo that don’t feature human nudes, gasp, but depict how the wild world stakes its tenacious claim in the grittiest cityscapes. Through Sept. 26. 1215 Corona, 524-0014. www.coronacafeaustin.com. THUNDERBIRD COFFEE: CHASE MACLASKEY Pop surrealism in acrylics on wood. Through Sept. 30. 1401 W. Koenig. 420-8660. www.chasemaclaskey.com. AUSTIN ART GARAGE: DAN GRISSOM New works at J. Black’s Feel Good Lounge. 710 W. Sixth. www.austinartgarage.com. CAFFE MEDICI: LANCE ROSENFIELD New photography. 1101 West Lynn, 569-0432. www.rosenfieldphotography.com. RIO RITA: ABI DANIEL Newish works in a variety of media. 1308 E. Sixth, 524-0384. www.hoarsefly.blogspot.com. ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival banners, and other tributes to U.S. popular culture by Todd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 442-6366. www.roadhouserelics.com. WESTS Artwork by Dan-Ramone Vivan Chavez, Raquel Reyes, and others. 408 Josephine. WET: JESMINDA COLE Paintings, bones, plaster, and lead. Oh, oh my. 1109 S. Congress, 444-7375.
CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES ATELIER 3-D: A SCULPTORS’ STUDIO is a centrally located sculpture studio (featuring the work of Steve Dubov, Heather Tolleson, and Terry Wilemon) that offers ongoing classes and workshops for all skill levels; the venue’s also open to artists looking for workspace and tools. Call or see the website for details. 701 Tillery, 385-1115. www.atelier3-d.com. CHERRYWOOD ART FAIR: OPPORTUNITIES FOR DECEMBER SHOW Submit your work for this popular neighborhood event’s juried show. See website for details. Application deadline: Sept. 25. www.cherrywoodartfair.org. HELIOS KILN GLASS STUDIO: CLASSES AND DEMONSTRATIONS Learn while they burn at this professional studio. 10700 Anderson Mill Rd., 996-0960. www.heliosglass.com.
litera READINGS, SIGNINGS, AND PERFORMANCES DIANNA AMORDE offers some Aha! Moments: When Intellect and Intuition Collide for your personal inspiration. Wed., Sept. 23, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. REVOLUTIONS: PERSONAL AND POLITICAL Actors Amparo Garcia-Crow and Rupert Reyes give dramatic readings of selected short stories from Sun, Stone, and Shadows: Twenty Great Mexican Short Stories, with editor Jorge F. Hernandez also speaking. Good stuff. Wed., Sept. 23, 7pm. Mexican American Cultural Center, 600 River St., 223-3342. www.cityofaustin.org.
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‘WATER SPARKS’: THE ELEGANT WORKS OF DAMIAN PRIOUR, SOON TO AMPLIFY THE BEAUTY THAT IS THE UMLAUF SCULPTURE GARDEN & MUSEUM.
RAMON “RAY” MONCIVAIS presents Beneath the Shadow of the Capitol and Voices From the Classroom. Sun., Sept. 20, 1-4pm. Borders South, 4477 S. Lamar #600, 891-8974. CELEBRATE O. HENRY’S BIRTHDAY! Mr. Porter would’ve turned 147 on Sept. 11, 2009. Guests will be treated to refreshments, a kids coloring contest, door prizes, and Ev Lunning reading “The Ransom of Red Chief” at 2pm. Sun., Sept. 20, 12-5pm. O. Henry Museum, 409 E. Fifth, 472-1903. www.cityofaustin.org. MIKE COX discusses the rich Lone Star history of black gold and signs copies of his new book, Historic Photos of Texas Oil. Sat., Sept. 19, 2-5pm. Neiman Marcus, 3400 Palm Way. 719-1200. Free. www.turnerpublishing.com. BETTY COLLEY AND JANE MONDAY round up The Master Showmen of the King Ranch, a biography of Librado Maldonado, one of the true cattlemen of Texas. Sat., Sept. 19, 2pm. Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158, 418-8985. JACK WOODVILLE LONDON opens his French Letters: Virginia’s War, selected as the best historical fiction of the year by the Military Writers Society of America. Sat., Sept. 19, 2-4pm. Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158, 418-8985. Free. www.virepress.com. AMERICAN SHORT FICTION FALL READING The fierce local literary magazine celebrates its latest issue with music from Misc. Diskette, followed by readings from the issue by Nina McConigley and Josh Weil. Actor Gabriel Luna, fresh from his title role in Cambiare Productions’ Orestes, also reads. Buzz Moran and L.B. Deyo of Dionysium emcee. Bring food or drink to share. Some seating is available; reserve a space for camp chairs or blankets. Fri., Sept. 18, 7pm. 2811 Vernon. 538-1305. Free. www.americanshortfiction.org. DAVID LIDA makes his First Stop in the New World, telling of the move from his native NYC to the thriving, miraculous urban center of Mexico City. Fri., Sept. 18, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. ALVIN TOWNLEY The author’s Spirit of Adventure recounts his visits around the world with young Eagle Scouts. Thu., Sept. 17, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. WORDJAZZ ENSEMBLE with Harold McMillan, Doug Marcis, Chris Vestre, Rob Halverson, Ricardo Acevedo, and Thom Moon 10. Bring the heat! Thu., Sept. 17, 7pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. www.rutamaya.net. HARRY RANSOM CENTER: FROM OUT THAT SHADOW Much ado about darkness – or, rather, the human fount from which much of the literary sort once sprang. The HRC has teamed up with the University of Virginia to present this Edgar Allan Poe show – an expansive and remarkable collection of manuscripts, letters, first editions, illustrations, and other storied ephemera concerning one of the country’s most famous writers. Recommended. Through Jan. 3. Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu. TEXAS NAFAS presents “Poetry, Politics, and Morality” with Austin Mel Kenny, Ken Fontenot, and Chuck Taylor. Every week a number of times on Channel 10 and 16. Visit website for exact times. www.channelaustin.org.
WRITING/BOOK GROUPS STORY CIRCLE NETWORK This nonprofit organization for women offers monthly reading and writing circles and more in North, Central, and South Austin. 454-9833. www.storycircle.org. DO-GOODER CLUB stakes a claim on This Land Is Their Land by Barbara Ehrenreich. Led by Kester and Thomas. Sun., Sept. 20, 11am. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. LUDICROUS SPEED CLUB want brains in Pride & Prejudice & Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth GrahameSmith. Led by Joel and Tommy. Mon., Sept. 21, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. A WORLD LIT: THE FLAME OF LITERATURE gets all waspish with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Mon., Sept. 21, 7pm. Oak Hill Branch Library, 5125 Convict Hill, 892-6680.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS WRITERS’ LEAGUE OF TEXAS offers many opportunities (workshops, classes, seminars) for advancing your skills and writing career. See the website for details. 611 S. Congress #130, 499-8914. Free. www.writersleague.org. WRITE THE CRAZY, BEAUTIFUL STORIES OF YOUR LIFE Award-winning Austin poet Abe Louise Young will lead fall workshops in poetry, nonfiction, art-andwriting, and dissertation groups to supercharge your creative powers. Call or see the website for details. 653-6539. www.beyondwordsworkshop.com. POETRY WORKSHOP Join poets Barbara Youngblood Carr and Herman Nelson for this monthly event. Bring 10 copies to share for friendly critique. Thu., Sept. 17, 7:30pm. Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158, 418-8985. CURATOR’S TOUR “From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe.” The Ransom Center’s Richard Oram leads a free gallery tour. Experience the enduring influence of Poe in this exhibition about the great American poet, critic, and inventor of the detective story. Thu., Sept. 17, 7pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu. YOUR PEN TO WORK Making Money as a Copywriter is presented by professional copywriter Shennandoah Diaz. Register online. Sat., Sept. 19, 2-5pm. Writers’ League of Texas, 1501 W. Fifth Ste. E-2, 499-8914. $159 ($99, WLT members). www.writersleague.org. BUILDING A BOOK Meet Your Publisher and Editor and Market Reps and Publicist And .... Featured panelists are publicist Colleen Devine Ellis, market rep Gillian Redfearn, and author/publisher/social media expert Deltina Hay of Dalton Books. Thu., Sept. 17, 7:30pm. Writers’ League of Texas, 1501 W. Fifth Ste. E-2, 499-8914. Free.
OPEN MICS TANTRA POETRY SAN MARCOS Sundays, 8pm. Tantra Coffeehouse, 217 W. Hopkins, San Marcos. GENUINE JOE Thursdays, 7:30-10pm. Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson, 220-1576. www.genuinejoe.com.
THE HIDEOUT is hosted by Thom Moon 10 and features Element 615’s release of his CD Words Here!. 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 caffeine available. Tuesdays, 7:30-9pm. Hot Mama’s Espresso Bar, 2401 E. Sixth, 476-MAMA (6262). www.myspace.com/hotmamasespresso. THE AUSTIN POETRY SLAM Mike Henry and a rotating group of slam ninjas captain the crew that has all the best of stand-up, pomo theatre, rock & roll, and phone sex rolled into one cosmic-heat blast. Wednesdays, 8pm. The Independent at 501 Studios, 501 N. I-35, 485-3001. $5 (21 and older). www.austinslam.com. SPOKEN AND HEARD is co-hosted by Stacey Shea and Element 615. Sundays, 7-9pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 454-5425. www.kickbuttcoffee.com. RUTA MAYA POETRY is one of the longest-running weekly open mics in Texas. Hosted by David Bates. Tuesdays, 6-9pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. www.rmpoetryaustin.com. BORDERS-ON-THE-WORD is always hosted by Barbara Youngblood Carr. Bring poems about your worst (or best) school experiences and teachers. Wed., Sept. 23, 7pm. Triumph Cafe, 3808 Spicewood Springs, 343-1875. www.triumphcafe.com.
MISCELLANEOUS TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Sign up now to help with the festival that will be held at the state Capitol during the last weekend in October. See website for details. 477-4055. www.texasbookfestival.org. MORE POETRY! black stones on white pushing pulled a surface of ghosts she unclaims claiming a hand lit by slow rain. what wears away in seeing what is not but is in its soft withdrawal its hard absence? or how she begins to unravel stars the five days sun nor moon can count & makes them holier with unclean flesh. what bleeds a fire to body takes clouds to mark mountains rimmed with a heaven sewn inside its perfect cut? Namaste. Vaya con dios.
POEM OF THE ISSUE With past and present co-creating futures makes stocks look like fear makes shares look like communism makes exchange a Rule of the Soul Uncontrolled (like the weather) despite Seeded Clouds You move! Harmonies appear O Coyote Fool Mooner! O Master Magician! – Thom Moon 10, from “In Your Footsteps Heraclitus”
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ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL D: Sacha Gervasi. (NR, 90 min.)
Not reviewed at press time. Rust never sleeps, and metal never dies. This documentary, which played at SXSW ’09, recounts the journey that began with two 14-year-old best friends making a pact to rock together forever. – Marjorie Baumgarten Alamo Ritz
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CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS D: Phil Lord, Chris
Miller; with the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Neil Patrick Harris, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Lauren Graham. (PG, 90 min.)
The Horse Boy D: Michel Orion Scott. (NR, 93 min.)
My yoga teacher likes to say, as she eyeballs my unlimber limbs, straining to contort in comical ways, that “it’s the journey, not the destination,” and those wise words might also serve as the message of this moving documentary film about one family’s experience with autism. The Horse Boy – which won the Audience Award at SXSW ’09, under the more sonorous title Over the Hills and Far Away – documents the day-to-day struggles of an Elgin family to cope with their five-year-old son Rowan’s autism. Director Scott skillfully interweaves frankly shattering scenes of Rowan in endless tantrum, unable to articulate what ails him, with talking-head interviews that attempt to explain what’s going on with Rowan – in as much as medical science, still largely baffled by autism, is capable of doing. Experts such as the University of Cambridge’s Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin to comedian Sacha) and Temple Grandin, the animal science pioneer and a high-functioning autistic (as well as the subject of an upcoming HBO biopic starring Claire Danes, which was filmed locally) provide backgrounding that is crucial to understanding what comes next, which is the daring plan of father Rupert Isaacson, a travel writer and alternative medicine enthusiast, to seek healing all the way on the other side of the planet for Rowan, for whom a trip to the grocery store can be a nightmare. Encouraged by Rowan’s affinity for horses, Isaacson travels with his family to Mongolia, where horses are revered and shamanism is state religion; there, they plan to journey into Inner Mongolia to meet with eight shamans, then ride on horseback up a 12,000-foot ascent to the Russian border,
where a mystical reindeer herd congregates. (Rowan’s mom, Kristin Neff, a professor at the University of Texas, is admirably game, considering she hates riding horses.) The Horse Boy is a staggering document of the lengths parents will go to for the sake of their child, and it can be an unnerving sight – Dad flogged by shamans, while Mom is asked to douche by the side of a stream (“You’ll Photoshop this out?” she asks the cameraman hurriedly as she gets down to it). The journey is hard on all of them: Almost as soon as Rowan shows progress in one direction, he makes a hard reverse in another. But in those fleeting moments when the viewer wonders if perhaps the parents are pushing too hard, they verbalize the same concerns themselves, in frequent, soul-bearing testimonies to the camera. (Still, one senses that “failure” – an especially nebulous term here, as is success – was not an option in Isaacson’s mind; according to a New York Times article, he optioned a pitch for his book of the same name, which was published this past April, before the family set out for Mongolia, something the film neglects to mention.) Isaacson narrates, and also produced and largely financed the project, so there’s zero objective remove to the film, but director Scott works that to the film’s advantage for a deeply intimate and endlessly inspiring look at a condition the general public knows only at a remove. – Kimberley Jones ★★★★■Arbor
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The wildest fantasy of every hamburgerhappy kid is realized in this zippy, lippy animated adaptation of the popular children’s book. When a misunderstood inventor named Flint Lockwood (voiced by Hader) cooks up a contraption that converts water into food, causing all matter of epicurean delights to fall from the sky, he transforms overnight from town pariah to boy hero. Flint’s invention first attracts the interest of a plucky meteorological anchor named Sam Sparks (Faris) and then incites a tourist boom to his down-on-the-luck fishing town of Swallow Falls. The town sign, missing the crucial “F,” reads Swallow alls, which is a dead-on description of any dead-end factory town whose one industry has dried up. The camera just glances past the sign; Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs is too teeming a visual feast to linger long on any one sight – not with a spaghetti tornado and a Jello funhouse to attend to – but it’s characteristic of the kind of smart, lightly snarky humor on display throughout. The sights are ingenious, impressively rendered in 3-D, and the sounds – including cheeky voice work by Mr. T, Neil Patrick Harris, and Benjamin Bratt – are a blast. All told, this is spirited play, with unlabored lessons about good citizenship and the power of pluck that slide down as easily as the ice cream snowdrifts that blanket Swallow Falls. – Kimberley Jones ★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
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COLD SOULS D: Sophie Barthes; with Paul
Giamatti, Dina Korzun, David Strathairn, Emily Watson, Katheryn Winnick, Lauren Ambrose. (PG-13, 101 min.) An actor named Paul Giamatti (played by the actor Paul Giamatti) smells different, and his skin feels somehow scaly to his wife, Claire (Watson). She wants to know what’s wrong with him, why the man in bed next to her looks and sounds like her husband, but doesn’t seem to have his spirit, his essential Paul-ness. Hang-dog, he replies, “I rented the soul of a Russian poet.” Not a bad choice, actually, considering it was the spiritually taxing part of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that pushed Paul to the decision to first extract his soul, then swap it for another model in cold storage. There’s some sneaky humor to be had
there, in Strathairn’s faintly dim Dr. Flintstein – who not only invented the Kool-Aid, but drank it himself, with relish – and in the glib promise of pharmacology as lifestyle fix-it (comparisons to Charlie Kaufman’s magical memory-erasing machine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are inevitable, and not entirely off-base). But there’s a whole other subplot – a whole other film, really – running concurrently, involving a Russian soul-trafficking racket and a femme fatale mule named Nina (Korzun). The two threads trade space somewhat awkwardly, Buñuelist oddballism bumping up against the realist grime and gaudiness of the post-Soviet black market trade, until the film’s sparkier second half finally marries the two. Even with the light lifts from other sources (Barthes has also cited Federico Fellini and Eugène Ionesco as inspirations), the multinational writer/director’s debut feature is an original, and Giamatti is masterful, swaddled in a heavy beard and an existential slump. His character eventually goes all the way to St. Petersburg to track down his soul, which has been filched by a vapid Russian soap star, and one senses the actor is game to go even farther. Barthes’ film, however, never quite fulfills the nerviness of its own premise. She’s created a marvelous construct, but only brushed the surface of its ramifications: It’s a window display, when what we really want is to see what goes on behind closed doors. – Kimberley Jones ★★★ Arbor
THE CREEK D: Erik Soulliard; with Soulliard,
Kathryn Merry, Melissa Rhoads, Tim Jesiolowski, Brian Jesiolowski. (R, 85 min.)
Not reviewed at press time. This superlow-budget horror film follows a group of estranged friends reunited when the ghost of their murdered buddy begins to haunt them all. – Kimberley Jones Movies 8
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D: Anurag Singh; with Rani Mukherjee, Shahid Kapur. (NR, 148 min., subtitled) Not reviewed at press time. Bollywood bombast meets Just One of the Guys in this new comedy about a woman who poses as a man in order to play cricket. – Kimberley Jones Tinseltown South
THE INFORMANT!
D: Steven Soderbergh; with Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas F. Wilson, Ann Dowd. (R, 108 min.) Although they share the same first syllable and both are movies about real-life corporate whistle-blowers, Soderbergh’s The Informant! could not be more different than Michael Mann’s The Insider, a dramatic thriller about a scientist/executive who exposes the lies of tobacco companies. The Informant!’s Mark Whitacre (Damon) is also a scientist and highlevel executive, but Soderbergh’s thriller about Whitacre’s exposure of price-fixing in international agribusiness is shaped as a comedy or one-man caper. Although The Informant!’s screenplay (by Scott Z. Burns) is based on the identically titled autobiography of the real-life whistle-blower Kurt Eichenwald, the movie’s addition of an explanation point to its title is revealing. That bit of punctuation tells us everything about the film’s tone, attitude, and perspective. Then, in case we still haven’t grasped
JENNIFER’S BODY D: Karyn
Kusama; with Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, Cynthia Stevenson. (R, 102 min.)
Kusama, the director of 2000’s spunky Girlfight, and Diablo Cody, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 2007 sensation Juno, combine forces in Jennifer’s Body in an attempt to infuse some girl power into their mash-up of cheeky horror films and teenangst movies. The result is more mash than smash as Jennifer’s Body squanders its initial good will by failing to deliver the goods on either score. The scares are unconvincing and the overall teen scene too rote to sway us into believing that this Body is new and improved. The addition of The Transformers’ vampy Fox as this film’s demonically possessed Jennifer is a stroke of … um… casting catnip, and the actress here demonstrates that she can deliver lines of dialogue as well as run sexily from robotic machinery. As Jen’s mousy best friend, Needy, Seyfried (Mamma Mia!) creates a strong performance in a role that is confusingly written. Obviously crushing on her BFF (the prettiest girl in school, who, in the real world, wouldn’t be caught dead with Needy), she also has a boyfriend. The lesbian love interest is here used only for titillating effect, just as it is in malefocused narratives. Sure, Jennifer’s Body brims over with Cody’s hip and snappy dialogue, but clever references to Hello Titty and wetties instead of hard-ons are unable to carry the movie on their own. Without real scares, only intermittent laughs, and a trite flashback structure that narrates the movie via Needy’s perpetual voiceover, Jennifer’s Body is hardly robust. – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
LOVE HAPPENS
D: Brandon Camp; with Jennifer Aniston, Aaron Eckhart, Dan Fogler, Martin Sheen, John Carroll Lynch, Judy Greer, Frances Conroy. (PG-13, 107 min.) Not reviewed at press time. We’re not entirely sure why the filmmakers chose a title that calls to mind a certain fourletter word, more commonly associated with “... happens,” but maybe we’ll know
the answer after this romantic drama opens in theatres on Friday, since the distributors chose not to screen the film for critics. What we do know is this: Eckhart plays a widower who becomes a self-help guru; Aniston is a seminar attendee. What happens next is anyone’s guess. – Kimberley Jones Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
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the point, The Informant!’s opening credits sport the familiar language that warns us that the movie isn’t faithful to actual people and events – and caps its disclaimer with the words, “So there.” Soderbergh’s Whitacre is the mother of unreliable narrators. His ever-changing story and seeming motive for exposing the dirty secrets of his employer, Archer Daniels Midland, is the thread that holds the movie together. Ultimately, the film cares nothing about the evils of corporate price-fixing nor the exposure of bad guys; it functions not as a whodunit but, rather, a whydunit. Whitacre’s story constantly changes, and the deeper the FBI is drawn in and the more his wiretapping functions increase, the more inscrutable and unhinged Whitacre appears to be. As audience members, we are also privy to the interior ramblings of his mind, conveyed in a constant stream of voiceovers that, nevertheless, tell us nothing of Whitacre’s grievances and motivations but a great deal about his sundry trains of thought. Mostly, these voiceovers are idle but commonplace musings, though the audience will find more humor in these random expressions than will their narrator. Whitacre almost calls to mind a representation of Sinclair Lewis’ famous booboisie: middle-class Americans suffering from a self-deluding sense of self-importance. Sadly, that means that the film’s humor generally comes at the expense of its protagonist. This perception is furthered by the inclusion of comic actors such as Patton Oswalt, Dick Smothers, and Rick Overton in small roles as various officers of the court. Also a discordantly zingy and retro soundtrack is used for scene transitions, as if Henry Mancini and the Pink Panther were conspiring somewhere in the background. Damon is rock solid as the pudgy, toupé-wearing informant, as is Lynskey as his loving wife. The film also represents a return to more audience-friendly fare after Soderbergh’s recent forays into more theoretical filmmaking with Che and The Girlfriend Experience. Maybe Soderbergh felt as though he already did a straight-ahead version of this story with Erin Brockovich and therefore decided to revamp the tune in the key of Richard Lester. – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
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THE SECRETS OF JONATHAN SPERRY D: Rich Christiano; with Gavin MacLeod,
Jansen Panettiere, Frankie Ryan Manriquez, Robert Guillaume. (PG, 96 min.) Not reviewed at press time. The Love Boat’s MacLeod captains a very different kind of ship in this Christian-themed period film about a 75-year-old man who mentors a trio of preteen boys. – Kimberley Jones Gateway
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Cost Sorority Row: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:30pm; Hey Homo!: Bound: Tue, 7:00pm for 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a $3.50 premium. 3:20, 6:35, 9:20pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:45, 3:20, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:55, 4:25, 7:10, 9:30 Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever: Wed, 7:00pm All About Steve: 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Fri, 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40; Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri-Sun, 11:10am, 1:45, Weird Wednesday: Eugenie: Wed, 12mid *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun, 10:55am, 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40pm; 5:00, 7:35, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:45, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Extract: Fri, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; Sat, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): 11:50am, 2:25, Whiteout: Fri-Sun, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40; Sun, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20; Mon, 4:20, 5:20, 7:50; Tue, 5:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40pm *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri, 12:25, 2:50, Mon-Thu (9/24), 3:35, 5:55, 8:20 7:50, 10:20; Wed-Thu (9/24), 4:20, 5:20, 7:50 5:15, 7:40, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 10:05am, 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, Extract: 11:35am, 2:10, 4:35, 7:25, 9:50pm Gogol Bordello Non-Stop: Mon, 7:00pm 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 The Final Destination: 12:50, 3:00, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 CINEMARK CEDAR PARK 1335 E. 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Joe: The Rise of Cobra: 7:35, 10:35 Terror Tuesday: Vampire Hookers: Tue, 10:00pm *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 12:45, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:40 Gamer: 12:35, 5:30, 10:20 Halloween II: 11:55am, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40pm *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, *The Informant!: Fri, 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:15; Sat-Sun, 10:15am, The Hangover: Fri-Tue, 11:45am, 2:20, 5:05, 7:35, 10:35pm; ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK 9:30; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30pm; 12:55, 3:40, 6:25, 9:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:55, 3:40, Wed, 11:45am, 2:20, 10:35pm; Thu (9/24), 11:45am, 2:20, 13729 Research, 219-5408. Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 6:25, 9:15 5:05, 10:35pm Austin Delorean Club: Back to the Future: Fri, 10:00pm; Extract: Fri, 2:30pm; Sat-Sun, 11:50am; Tue-Thu (9/24), 2:30pm Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 1:35, 5:00, 9:10; Sat-Sun, 10:10am, The Informant!: 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Sat, 3:30pm 1:35, 5:00, 9:10pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:35, 5:00, 9:10 *The Final Destination: 9:20pm Jennifer’s Body: 11:40am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25pm Cult Thursday: Boss: Thu (9/24), 10:00pm *The Informant!: Fri, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 11:45am, *Jennifer’s Body: Fri, 1:00, 3:35, 6:50, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 10:25am, Love Happens: 11:30am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10pm Movies & Music: Destiny (Der Müde Tod): Sun, 7:30pm 1:00, 3:35, 6:50, 9:30pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:00, 3:35, 6:50, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 9: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:55 District 9: Fri, 11:40am, 3:20, 7:40, 10:40pm; Sat, 11:40am, 9:30 10:25 Shorts: 12:05, 2:20, 4:45 3:20, 10:40pm; Sun-Wed, 11:40am, 3:20, 7:40, 10:40pm; *Love Happens: Fri, 1:10, 3:55, 7:05, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 1:10, Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 12:00, Thu (9/24), 11:40am, 3:20, 10:40pm 3:55, 7:05, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:10, 3:55, 7:05, 9:45 3:20, 6:40, 10:00; Mon-Thu (9/24), 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 MILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932. Extract: 11:50am, 2:45, 6:45, 9:40pm *Jennifer’s Body: Fri, 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 11:40am, *9: Fri, 1:05, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:05, 3:30, The Informant!: 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00 5:35, 7:45, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:05, 3:30, 5:35, 7:45, 10:05 Located within the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex. 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 11:30am, 2:50, 6:30, 10:20pm; 10:20 Shorts: Fri, 12:40, 3:00, 5:20; Sat-Sun, 10:20am, 12:40, 3:00, Adults, $6; children, $4. Sat, 11:30am, 2:50, 6:30pm; Sun-Wed, 11:30am, 2:50, 6:30, *Love Happens: Fri, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:10, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 1:00, 5:20pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:40, 3:00, 5:20 10:20pm; Thu (9/24), 11:30am, 2:50, 6:30pm 3:30, 5:30, 8:15pm; Wed-Thu (9/24), 10:30am, 1:00, 3:30pm 4:45, 7:20, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:10 *Sorority Row: Fri, 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 10:35am, 12:50, *Jennifer’s Body: 12:30, 3:25, 7:30, 10:30 4:00, 7:00, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 *9: Fri, 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 11:05am, 1:10, 3:15, AFF: Largo: Thu (9/24), 7:30pm 5:30, 7:35, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:10, 3:15, 5:30, 7:35, 9:45 *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri, 12:30, 1:30, 3:10, TINSELTOWN NORTH North I-35 and FM 1825 9: Fri, 12:40, 3:35, 7:20, 9:50; Sat, 12:40, 3:35, 7:20; 4:10, 5:50, 6:55, 8:30, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 10:50am, 12:30, 1:30, (Pflugerville), 512/989-8540. Cost for 3-D shows is regular Shorts: Fri, 1:45, 4:00, 6:50; Sat, 11:25am, 1:45, 4:00, 6:50pm; Sun-Wed, 12:40, 3:35, 7:20, 9:50; Thu (9/24), 12:40, 3:35, 9:50 3:10, 4:10, 5:50, 6:55, 8:30, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:30, ticket price plus a $2.50 premium. Sun, 11:35am, 1:45, 4:00, 6:50pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:45, Feast: Sideways: Wed, 7:30pm 1:30, 3:10, 4:10, 5:50, 6:55, 8:30, 9:50 4:00, 6:50 The Age of Stupid: Mon, 6:30pm *Whiteout: Fri, 12:15, 3:15, 7:10; Sat, 12:15, 10:10; Sun, 12:15, *Sorority Row: Fri, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 12:10, 2:40, *Whiteout: Fri, 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25; Sat, 10:45am, 1:20, *All About Steve: 11:25am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00pm 3:15, 10:10; Mon-Wed, 12:15, 3:15, 7:10, 10:10; 3:45pm; Sun, 10:45am, 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25pm; Mon, 1:20, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30; Mon, 2:40, 10:30; Tue, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 11:00am, 12:35, 1:25, Thu (9/24), 12:15, 3:15, 7:10 9:25; Tue, 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25; Wed-Thu (9/24), 1:20, 3:45 10:30; Wed, 2:40, 10:30; Thu (9/24), 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 3:00, 3:50, 5:25, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30pm The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event in HD: Wed, 7:00pm *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri, 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): 11:45am, 2:10, ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:15pm; 4:35, 7:00, 9:30pm Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:15 707-8262. DOBIE THEATRE 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall, second District 9: 11:55am, 2:45, 5:35, 8:30pm *Whiteout: Fri, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55; Sat-Sun, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55;floor), 472-FILM. District 9: Fri-Sun, 11:05am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25pm; Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers: Mon-Thu (9/24), 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25; Tue, 11:05am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, In the Loop: Fri, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, Thu (9/24), 7:30pm The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event in HD: Wed, 7:00pm 10:25pm; Wed, 4:40, 10:25 9:45; Mon-Thu (9/24), 7:15, 9:45 The Final Destination: 7:20, 9:45 Fantastic Fest: Thu (9/24) The Informant!: Fri, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, G-Force: 12:30, 2:50, 5:15 (500) Days of Summer: Fri-Sun, 2:00, 7:15; Mon, 7:15pm; CINEMARK HILL COUNTRY GALLERIA 14 9:30; Mon-Thu (9/24), 7:00, 9:30 Gamer: Fri-Sun, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40pm; Tue, 2:00, 4:35; Wed, 4:00, 10:10 12812 Hill Country Blvd., 800/FANDANGO. Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 5:15, 8:30; Sat-Sun, 2:00, 5:15, 8:30; Mon, 11:20am, 1:40, 4:10pm; Tue, 11:20am, 1:40, 4:10, 7:10, In the Loop: Fri-Sun, 11:10am, 4:25, 9:50pm; Mon, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 8:30pm All About Steve: 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:30 9:40pm; Wed-Thu (9/24), 11:20am, 1:40, 4:10pm Tue, 11:10am, 10:15pm; Wed, 7:10pm It Might Get Loud: Fri, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 2:30, 5:00, *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fri, 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55; Sat, 1:05, The Informant!: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20pm; 7:30, 10:00; Mon-Thu (9/24), 7:30, 10:00 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 4:05; Sun-Thu (9/24), 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Mon, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20; Tue, 11:00am, 1:35, 4:15, 7:35, 7:55, 10:25 Halloween II: 7:35, 10:15 10:20pm; Wed, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20; Thu (9/24), 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 District 9: 9:35pm GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North I-35 & Middle Fiskville, *The Informant!: 11:15am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30pm Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 11:20am, 3:10, 7:00, 10:30pm; Extract: 7:35, 10:05 467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatre on Inglourious Basterds: 11:40am, 3:05, 6:30, 9:50pm Sat, 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30; Sun, 11:20am, 3:10, 7:00, *The Informant!: 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 *Jennifer’s Body: 11:30am, 12:50, 2:10, 3:30, 4:50, 6:15, 7:30, Friday and Saturday after 7pm without an adult. 10:30pm; Mon, 3:10, 7:00, 10:30; Tue, 11:20am, 3:10, 7:00, 9:00, 10:10pm *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri-Sat, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 10:30pm; Wed, 3:10, 7:00, 10:30; Thu (9/24), 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Inglourious Basterds: 12:50, 4:30, 8:10 *Jennifer’s Body: 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 *Love Happens: 11:05am, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00pm 7:00, 9:00, 11:30; Sun-Thu (9/24), 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Julie & Julia: Fri, 12:20, 3:40, 7:05; Sat, 12:45, 3:40, 7:05, *9: 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 6:55, 9:15 District 9: 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 10:00; Sun, 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00; Mon, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00; Julie & Julia: 12:20, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 *Love Happens: 12:55, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 Shorts: 12:15, 2:40, 5:05 Tue, 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00; Wed, 3:40, 7:05, 10:00 *The Final Destination (3-D): Fri-Sat, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, *9: 12:35, 3:00, 5:05, 7:25, 9:40 *Sorority Row: 11:15am, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55pm 9:30, 12mid; Sun-Thu (9/24), 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 AFS: Kiss Me, Stupid: Tue, 7:00pm Ponyo: 11:55am, 2:30, 5:00pm *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: 11:10am, 12:00, 1:00, The Informant!: Fri-Sat, 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45, 12mid; The September Issue: Fri-Sun, 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, Shorts: 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 1:50, 2:50, 3:45, 4:40, 5:40, 6:40, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:20pm Sun-Thu (9/24), 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 10:05pm; Mon, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Tue, 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, *Whiteout: 11:00am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45pm 10:05pm; Wed, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05; Thu (9/24), 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 *Sorority Row: 11:55am, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35pm Jennifer’s Body: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30, 11:45; *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event in HD: Wed, 7:00pm Sun-Thu (9/24), 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 9: Fri-Sat, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:15, 11:30; ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W. Anderson, *Whiteout: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Thu (9/24), 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:15 TINSELTOWN SOUTH South I-35 at Stassney, 326-3800. 459-7090. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day” shows (first show of Row: Fri-Sat, 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35, 11:30; $10 “special event” ticket prices apply to Indian films. the day) are intended for parents and children aged infant CINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK 2120 N. Mays Sorority Sun-Thu (9/24), 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 (Round Rock), 512/388-2848. Discounts daily before 5pm. *Dil Bole Hadippa: Fri, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sat, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, to 6 years old. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri-Sat, 12:00, 2:00, 10:00; Sun-Thu (9/24), 4:30, 8:30 Aliens in the Attic: Fri, 2:30, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 12:00, Fantastic Fest and RealD: *Battle for Terra (3-D): 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00, 12mid; Sun-Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:30, 5:00, 7:10, 9:30 District 9: Fri, 3:15, 4:40, 6:15, 7:30, 10:15; Sat, 12:20, 1:50, Sat-Sun, 11:00am (9/24), 12:00, 2:00, 2:30, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 4:40, 7:30, 9:00, 10:15; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:15, 4:40, 6:15, The Creek: Fri, 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40; Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 1:45, *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri, 11:20am, 1:45, Whiteout: Fri-Sat, 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20, 12mid; 7:30, 9:00, 10:15 4:10, 7:00, 9:40pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:45, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 4:20, 7:05, 9:55pm; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:25, 3:55, 6:30, Sun-Thu (9/24), 12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 (500) Days of Summer: Fri, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50; Sat, 12:00, 2:30, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri, 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00; 9:00pm; Mon, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30; Tue, 11:20am, 1:45, 4:20, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50; Sun-Thu (9/24), 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun, 11:45am, 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00pm; 7:05, 9:30pm; Wed-Thu (9/24), 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 GATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake, between Capital Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 The Hurt Locker: Fri, 4:10, 7:05, 9:55; Sat, 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, TV @ the Alamo: Guiding Light Series Finale: Fri, 10:00pm 9:55; Sun-Thu (9/24), 4:10, 7:05, 9:55 Orphan: Fri, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:20, 5:10, of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in the Gateway shopping Inglourious Basterds: Fri-Sun, 11:30am, 3:00, 6:45, 10:15pm; 8:00pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:20, 5:10, 8:00 center, 416-5700 x3808. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 3:30, 5:15, 7:00, 8:45, 10:20; Mon, 3:00, 6:45, 10:15; Tue, 11:30am, 3:00, 6:45, 10:15pm; Sat, 12:05, 1:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7:00, 8:45, 10:20; The Proposal: Fri, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:10, Wed-Thu (9/24), 3:00, 6:45, 10:15 price plus a $3.50 premium. Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:30, 5:15, 7:00, 8:45, 10:20 4:45, 7:20, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 TV @ the Alamo: Mad Men: Mon, 10:15pm All About Steve: Fri, 2:15, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10; Sat, 11:55am, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10pm; Sun, 2:15, 4:40, 7:40; Mon, 2:15, 4:40, 10:10; *Paper Heart: Fri, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; Sat, 12:30, 3:00, *9: Fri, 12:00, 2:25, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45, 11:55; Sat-Sun, 12:00, 2:25, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri, 4:20, 8:15; 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun, 12:30, 4:20, 8:15; Mon-Thu (9/24), 4:20, 8:15 Tue, 11:55am, 4:40, 7:40pm; Wed, 2:15, 4:40, 10:10; 4:45, 7:20, 9:45, 11:30; Mon, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45; Tue, 12:00, Ponyo: Fri, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45; Sat, 12:10, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, Up: Fri, 1:30, 2:45, 4:00, 5:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:20, 10:10; Sat-Sun, Thu (9/24), 11:55am, 4:40, 7:40pm 2:25, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45; Wed-Thu (9/24), 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 10:45; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 11:00am, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45, 4:00, 5:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:20, 10:10pm; All About Steve (open captioned and descriptive audio): Parents Afternoon Out: Sat, 2:30pm Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:30, 2:45, 4:00, 5:20, 6:45, 7:45, 9:20, 10:10 The Proposal: Fri, 5:25, 8:10, 10:30; Sat, 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, Fri, 11:55am; Sat, 2:15pm; Sun, 11:55am, 10:10pm; Ponyo: Fri, 4:10pm; Sat-Sun, 1:30, 4:10; Mon, 4:10pm; Tue, 1:30, 8:10, 10:30; Sun-Thu (9/24), 5:25, 8:10, 10:30 Mon, 11:55am, 7:40pm; Tue, 2:15, 10:10; Wed, 11:55am, 4:10; Wed-Thu (9/24), 4:10pm *Sankham: Fri, 9:30pm; Sat, 3:00, 6:00 CINEMARK ROUND ROCK 4401 N. I-35, 7:40pm; Thu (9/24), 2:15, 10:10 The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12mid *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 12:00, 2:10, 4:25, 6:45, 9:10 *Sorority Row: Fri, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30; Sat, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 800/FANDANGO. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket price Taking Woodstock: Fri, 7:00pm; Sat-Sun, 7:00, 10:00; 10:30; Sun-Thu (9/24), 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, Mon, 7:00pm; Tue-Thu (9/24), 7:00, 10:00 plus a $2.50 premium. The Time Traveler’s Wife: Fri, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30; Sat, 2:20, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 All About Steve: Fri, 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:40, 7:50, 10:30; Sun-Thu (9/24), 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 District 9: 12:30, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 4:20, 7:10, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS 9828 Great Hills Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10; Trail (at Jollyville), 231-9742. Discounts daily before 6pm, all *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Fri, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30; Extract: 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 Sat, 12:00, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Gamer: 9:45pm Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30pm; day Wednesdays. *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri, 3:45, 5:05, 6:30, The Informant!: 12:20, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 7:50, 9:15, 10:35; Sat, 1:00, 2:20, 3:45, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, Cold Souls: 11:50am, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15pm *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, Inglourious Basterds: 12:25, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 10:35; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:45, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:15, 10:35 (500) Days of Summer: 11:45am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45pm 9:40; Sat-Sun, 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm; Jennifer’s Body: 11:45am, 2:05, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30pm The Ugly Truth: Fri, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25; Sat, 12:45, 3:20, The Hangover: 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Julie & Julia: 3:25, 6:55, 9:35 5:45, 8:15, 10:25; Sun-Thu (9/24), 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:25 The Horse Boy: 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 District 9: Fri, 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 10:20am, 1:00, Love Happens: 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 *Whiteout: Fri, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45; Sat, 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45; The Hurt Locker: 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 4:00, 6:50, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 9: Fri-Wed, 11:50am, 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50pm; Sun-Thu (9/24), 4:25, 7:10, 9:45 It Might Get Loud: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Gamer: 9:30pm Thu (9/24), 11:50am, 1:50, 4:20pm The September Issue: 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Fri, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40; Ponyo: 11:55am WESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White, 899-2717. The Time Traveler’s Wife: 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Sun, 9:45am, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40pm; The Secrets of Jonathan Sperry: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Discounts daily before 6pm. Cost for 3-D shows is regular Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:40, 3:40, 6:40 Shorts: 12:50, 3:00, 5:30 BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton Creek *The Informant!: Fri, 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; Sat-Sun, 10:50am, ticket price plus a $3.50 premium. Sorority Row: 11:40am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05pm 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:50, 4:40, All About Steve: 12:30, 2:55, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Square mall, MoPac & Highway 360, 888/AMC-4FUN. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: 12:05, 12:35, 2:40, 7:40, 10:20 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): 11:45am, 2:10, 3:15, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 10:25 Matinee discounts available before 6pm on weekdays and Inglourious Basterds: Fri, 2:50, 6:30, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, Whiteout: 7:35, 10:00 4:35, 7:00, 9:20pm before 4pm Friday through Sunday and holidays. 2:50, 6:30, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 Extract: 12:40, 2:50, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 All About Steve: Fri-Sun, 10:20am, 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, *Jennifer’s Body: Fri, 2:20, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 11:50am, 2:20, The Informant!: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 IMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum, 1800 N. 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 5:10, 7:55, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:20, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Inglourious Basterds: 12:05, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:15, *Love Happens: Fri, 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 10:10am, 1:10,Congress, 936-IMAX. Jennifer’s Body: 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Fri, 12:00, 6:00, 9:00; 4:10, 7:00, 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Julie & Julia: 12:20, 7:10 8:00, 10:15 Sat, 11:00am, 6:00, 9:00pm *9: Fri, 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 10:40am, Love Happens: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (3-D): Fri-Sun, 10:00am, 12:15, NASCAR 3D: Fri, 3:00, 5:00; Sat, 2:00, 4:00 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 12:50, 9: 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:25 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Texas: The Big Picture: Fri-Sat, 10:00am 3:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:25 Sorority Row: 12:25, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 District 9: 10:30pm Under the Sea 3D: Fri, 11:00am, 4:00pm; Sat, 3:00, 5:00 *Sorority Row: Fri, 2:10, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40; Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 2:10, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: 11:50am, 2:25, 5:05, Extract: Fri-Sun, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45; Mon-Thu (9/24), 3:45, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 2:10, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 7:45, 10:20pm 6:05, 8:25 LAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway 183 *Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: Fri, 12:45, 2:00, Whiteout: 3:15, 9:55 (500) Days of Summer: Fri-Sun, 11:15am, 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 3:30, 4:45, 6:20, 7:45, 9:10, 10:35; Sat, 9:50am, 11:20, and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before 6pm and all 8:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:30, 3:40, 5:55, 8:15 12:45, 2:00, 3:30, 4:45, 6:20, 7:45, 9:10, 10:35pm; Sun-Thu day Wednesday. > An asterisk (*) before a title means that The Informant!: Fri-Sun, 11:05am, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45pm; (9/24), 12:45, 2:00, 3:30, 4:45, 6:20, 7:45, 9:10, 10:35 All About Steve: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 no passes or special admission discounts *Whiteout: Fri, 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 1:20, *Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: 12:10, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:30 Inglourious Basterds: Fri-Sun, 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:20; 4:30, 7:30, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (9/24), 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 The Informant!: 12:15, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 will be accepted. 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SORORITY ROW D: Stewart Hendler;
with Briana Evigan, Rumer Willis, Audrina Patridge, Carrie Fisher. (R, 101 min.)
Ostensibly a remake of 1983’s The House on Sorority Row, but updated for the date-rape age, Sorority Row’s got the gory chops – pun intended – but brings absolutely nothing new to the autopsy table that wasn’t previously covered in, say, the vastly more entertaining, freaky little 2006 remake of Bob Clark’s classic “sorority girls in peril” slashathon Black Christmas. When the scantily clad and perpetually, gratingly buxom sisters of Theta Pi decide to get back at one of their own’s straying boyfriend, Garrett (Matt O’Leary), they devise a none-too-clever plan to fake the weaselly creep out by pretending that his girlfriend has accidentally overdosed on the Rohypnol (aka roofies, the date-rape drug) he’s given her. So far, so bitchy, but the gag predictably goes genre-style wrong when Garrett’s horrified coup de gross to the faux dead Theta ends in her actual demise. Cut to graduation day and Sorority Row morphs into yet another snooze-inducing twist on the already completely frayed strands of I Know What You Did Last Summer. A graduation gown-clad killer begins sending the sorority sisters text messages and photos of the scene of their crime – there’s got to be another way to relay blackmail material cinematically, please – while potential final girls Willis (daughter of Bruce) and Evigan wax solipsistic as only sorority girls can. Hendler’s relatively assured but virtually scare-free direction and some aboveaverage camerawork and composition from Quarantine’s Ken Seng are the only aspects of any real note here, and that’s hardly enough to merit a look-see with Fantastic Fest just a week away. – Marc Savlov ★ Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
TYLER PERRY’S I CAN DO BAD ALL BY MYSELF D: Tyler
Perry; with Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Brian White, Hope Olaide Wilson, Adam Rodriguez, Mary J. Blige, Kwesi Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight. (PG-13, 113 min.) One could, rather uncharitably, point out that Perry, a veritable one-man movie factory, has previously done bad, all by his bad self, in some of his previous critically reviled productions. But this latest offering continues a trend toward increasingly mature moviemaking from the actor/writer/ director. Yes, we still get Perry vamping as Madea, that hulking, house-coated nag, but only in brief, giggling jags that break up a melodrama about familial duties and self-actualization. Actually, Perry’s drag bits are pretty damn funny, as when Madea recounts a Bible story about Peter, one of the “12 disciplines,” that nonsensically weaves in other parables and finally wends its way to “Noah’s arch” – you know, the one in St. Louis. On the befuddled receiving end of Madea’s tale is Jennifer (Wilson, nuanced and quite moving), a sullen 16-year-old who is more or less raising her two younger brothers. When their grandmother goes missing, Jennifer and her
C A L E N D A R ( COMMUNITY brothers are dumped on the doorstep of Aunt April, (Henson), a hard-drinking torch singer not at all interested in her new gig as de facto guardian. On the very same day, a hunky handyman immigrant named Sandino (CSI: Miami’s Rodriguez) comes on as April’s basement boarder, and suddenly, very reluctantly, April must kick open the doors to both her home and her deeply hardened heart. But not at first: If Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) weren’t such a likable screen presence, her character would be difficult to tolerate, so screechy and unsympathetic is she. Redemption, of course, is inevitable – and Perry frankly takes too much time getting there – but I Can Do Bad benefits from a number of musical performances from a smoldering Henson and co-stars Blige, Knight, and Marvin Winans, who also wrote the film’s emotional high mark, the gospelized “Just Don’t Wanna Know/Over It Now.” – Kimberley Jones ★★★■Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Millennium, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
WHITEOUT D: Dominic Sena; with Kate
Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Tom Skerritt, Columbus Short. (R, 96 min.)
Beckinsale first came to attention as the ingenue Hero in 1993’s Much Ado About Nothing, Kenneth Branagh’s athletic adaptation that was bleached with sun and sweat and all kinds of hormonal hanky-panky. The British actress looked luminous with a tan and light blush; pity, then, that she’s passed the past half-dozen years under a dark cloud, gravitating toward gloomy action pics, in roles that feel plucked from Angelina Jolie’s reject pile. At least the blue-hued Underworld films were trashy fun – would that a leather-clad vampire or snarly lycan stumbled onto the set of this boilerplate serial killer thriller. The setting is Antarctica – which, as a title card helpfully points out (should your grasp of elementary geography fail you), is “the coldest, most isolated land mass” on the planet. There, Beckinsale plays a U.S. marshal stationed on a research base in selfimposed exile after a drug bust in Miami went awry (the details of which are pieced out in uninvolving flashbacks). She’s days away from retirement, set to leave on the last transport off-base before six months of winter descend, but a mutilated body found out on the ice throws a wrench in her plans. While the landscape is intriguing, Sena (Gone in Sixty Seconds) shoots the snowswept action incoherently. As for the action indoors: An opening, ogling shot of Beckinsale disrobing for a steamy shower supplies the trashy, but the fun is nowhere to be found in this overly dour duller. – Kimberley Jones ★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
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ALIENS IN THE ATTIC
D: John Schultz; with Carter Jenkins, Ashley Tisdale, Robert Hoffman, Austin Butler, Ashley Boettcher, Kevin Nealon, Andy Richter, Doris Roberts, Gillian Vigman, Tim Meadows; with the voices of J.K. Simmons, Kari Wahlgren, Thomas Haden Church, Josh Peck. (PG, 86 min.) It’s a sorry state of affairs when even films that aren’t remakes of old television series or sci-fi/horror semiclassics still arrive in theatres looking and feeling like remakes. That’s certainly the déjà vibe behind this annoying glob of tweens vs. aliens piffle. The ramshackle plot lands the Pearsons, an extended Nickelodeonnuclear family, in a battle for the fate of the Earth when an alien vanguard of four pint-sized BEMs – bug-eyed monsters – lands in the attic of their Maine vacation home. Unsurprisingly, the adult characters are utterly oblivious to the chaos above them, while the wily teens, tweens, and pretweens rapidly adapt and utilize their skills to combat the alien menace. The real problem with this Aliens encounter is that it’s patently a Nick at Night midweek movie that inadvertently got green-lighted for a big-screen opening, ultimately making something like the 1957 B-movie Invasion of the Saucer Men a vastly more entertaining shot of aliens vs. teens hokum. (08/07/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★■Movies 8
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ALL ABOUT STEVE D: Phil Traill; with Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, D.J. Qualls, Keith David, Katy Mixon, Howard Hesseman. (PG-13, 98 min.)
R. Ellis; with Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykelti Williamson, Krista Allen, Andrew Fiscella, Justin Welborn. (R, 82 min.)
Whatever the faults of All About Steve – and they are legion – this indisputably awful comedy bears a curious badge of honor: It commits completely to a character that herself is a prime candidate for commitment to the cuckoo bin. A crossword-puzzle constructor still living with her parents, Mary (Bullock) has an encyclopedic brain and extreme difficulty in negotiating social situations – both potential signposts of a legitimate medical condition, but certainly not one All About Steve wants to explore; instead, the filmmakers insist on putting Mary at a cuddly threat level – say, kooky – and keeping her there, with her hamster named Carol and her shiny red boots. But when she meets Steve (Cooper), a news cameraman, and decides in the blink of an eye that he’s the one for her, Mary devotes her every resource to stalking Steve. Kooky? Hardly. Cringing? Most assuredly. (09/11/2009) – Kimberley Jones ★ Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
The Final Destination franchise – this is the fourth installment – has a terrific premise but not much else. That premise – sundry teens and bystanders manage to escape a deadly catastrophe only to find themselves stalked by the unseen hand of death, which picks off the shoulda/coulda/woulda-been-dead, one by one, in occasionally creative and always ghastly fashion. That Death itself is the killing entity – rather than an anthropomorphized death-surrogate, à la Halloween II – is in its own way a stroke of genius. It allows the filmmakers free rein to devise some of the most convoluted and elliptical set-pieces this side of Rube Goldberg. Director Ellis, who previously helmed the best of the lot so far (Final Destination 2), returns to the cinematic blood trough but can’t seem to get the pale rider to drink. Following the rules scrupulously but relying far too much on CGI work, The Final Destination is proudly stupid gore-for-gore’s-sake hokum. (09/04/2009) – Marc Savlov ★■CM Cedar Park, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
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DISTRICT 9 D: Neill Blomkamp; with Sharlto
Copley, Jason Cope, David James, Vanessa Haywood, Eugene Khumbayiwa. (R, 113 min.)
District 9 is a wrenching, riveting, occasionally violent, often heartbreaking, and, above all, socially conscious science-fiction film featuring seamlessly integrated CGI effects alongside flat-out perfect performances from its flesh-and-blood actors, and, best of all, it’s a love story. Produced by Peter Jackson and directed by Blomkamp, much of District 9 is shot in a documentary, “you are here” style, and where you are is Johannesburg, a metropolis over which hovers a dead alien spacecraft of immense proportions. Its crew and occupants – thousands of them – have been packed into the sprawling refugee camp of the title. I’m hesitant to say more about the specifics of District 9 because so many of this film’s wonders are best experienced firsthand. Suffice it to say that Blomkamp and his entire cast and crew have created an instant genre classic that transcends the term “science fiction” and engages not only the mind but the heart as well. It’s magnificent. (08/14/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South
THE FINAL DESTINATION D: David
GAMER D: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor; with
Gerard Butler, Kyra Sedgwick, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Terry Crews, Zoe Bell. (R, 95 min.)
This dystopian take on an American near-future where first-person-shooter video games and social gaming experiments have evolved into their own corresponding realities is considerably less of a thrillgasm than playing Frogger blindfolded. That has everything to do with Neveldine and Taylor’s script, which strenuously attempts to imbue its harebrained and ridiculously ordnance-happy theatrics with a misplaced sense of pseudo-subversive social commentary. Video-gamers in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, unimaginatively dubbed Slayers, control, through virtual reality gaming techniques, real, live human beings as they wage vicious battle against one another, so that celebrated killer Kable (Butler) is controlled by player Simon (Logan Lerman), and both of them – and, by extension, everyone else, technically – are controlled by billionaire virtual-reality TV überproducer Ken Castle (Dexter’s Hall). Gamer simultaneously takes itself both too seriously and not quite seriously enough and topples into the middle ground between smartass social critique and body-count bloodbath. (09/11/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★■CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
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EXTRACT D: Mike Judge; with Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons, Clifton Collins Jr., David Koechner, Dustin Milligan, Beth Grant, Gene Simmons. (R, 91 min.)
Judge is back with another workplace comedy and though this new film lacks the fiercely satirical bite of Office Space and Idiocracy, Extract is hardly toothless. The comedy this time is on a broader scale, spread out among more characters and targeted more toward human follies than cultural institutions. Bateman plays Joel, Judge’s everyman, who is the owner of a factory that produces food flavorings of his own invention. Joel is beset by problems common to any small-business owner: lackluster employees, a lawsuit, a pending sale of the business (which will be compromised by the lawsuit), and trouble in the bedroom with his wife Suzie (Wiig, who is terribly underused). Subplots quickly abound and, though Judge’s jokes remain sardonic, he’s not quite up to the task of keeping all his characters in play. As with Judge’s other movies, stupidity reigns in Extract – a vivid indictment of the way in which we all stumble along. (09/04/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★ Alamo Ritz, Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, Gateway, Metropolitan, Westgate
Destiny Destiny (Der müde Tod) (1921) D: Fritz Lang;
with Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Janssen. (NR, 105 min.) Movies & Music. The Invincible Czars will perform a live original score composed specifically for this silent Lang movie. Known in German as Der müde Tod, the film tells a fanciful story about a young bride who argues with Death, portrayed here as a corporeal figure who has grown weary of his task, to bring her dead husband back to life. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm.
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Tommy (1975) D: Ken Russell; with Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton. (PG, 111 min.) Accidental Arts Ensemble. Local supergroup the Accidental Arts Ensemble – featuring members of the Polyphonic Spree, Low Line Caller, and the Palm School Choir, among others – will perform live alongside the Who’s much-loved rock opera about a pinball wizard. (*) @Alamo Ritz, Sunday, 6:45pm.
G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA
D: Stephen Sommers; with Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Dennis Quaid, Christopher Eccleston, Rachel Nichols, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ray Park, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Arnold Vosloo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Byunghun Lee, Jonathan Pryce. (PG-13, 118 min.)
The G.I. Joes have come a long way from their start as all-American Hasbro action figures. They are now multinational (as is so much of the box office for this type of loud, relatively plotless, CGI-actiondominated picture) and coed. They also have high tech armored suits which allow the wearers to run faster and jump higher and be generally invulnerable. That’s good, because the elite squad has to do battle with nanomites, the secret weapon dispatched by an evil scientist/entrepreneur (Eccleston) that can destroy everything in its path. G.I. Joe was not screened for critics, but that’s not because of its mindless action and nonsensical plot. It’s because G.I. Joe is the kind of movie that bludgeons the viewer into submission with its loud and constant barrage of sound and fury. Much like the motto of the military unit it portrays – “When all else fails, we don’t” – G.I. Joe is expert at annihilating all resistance. (08/14/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten ★ CM Round Rock, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
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THE HURT LOCKER D: Kathryn Bigelow; with Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly, Christopher Sayegh. (R, 131 min.) The hybridization of arthouse and action doesn’t happen all that often, but it should, if mashing the two genres makes for film as riveting and rattling as The Hurt Locker. Bigelow’s film tells the story of an elite bomb-dismantling squad winding down a tour of duty in Iraq. “Story” is perhaps misleading, as The Hurt Locker, very little interested in character backstory or conventional plot, charts a series of missions, some more successful than others, with only the occasional interlude of drunken roughhousing. There’s no moralizing here, no monologuing about why we fight: The Hurt Locker mostly restricts its focus to dramatizing the dirty work of bomb-dismantling in a war zone, and that it does brilliantly. The tension is enough to make you slightly sick, and the overall mood of the thing is deeply dispiriting, but then, nobody ever said that war isn’t hell. (07/10/2009) – Kimberley Jones ★★★★ Arbor, Tinseltown South
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IN THE LOOP D: Armando Iannucci; with Tom
Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Gina McKee, James Gandolfini, Chris Addison, Anna Chlumsky, Mimi Kennedy, David Rasche. (NR, 106 min.)
In the real world, statecraft, by its very definition, involves the manipulation of others via a) dialogue and discourse or b) the rattling of MIRVable sabers. Both are exhilarating to experience in this deliciously bleak, black political satire from British director Iannucci. Set within the corridors of power (Washington, D.C.) and the hallways of powerlessness (London) during the lead-up to an unspecified Middle East conflict, the inciting event in this particular loop is an offhand nonremark by the UK’s minister for development, Simon Foster (Hollander), on how unforeseeable wars can be. When his comment is parlayed into major news, Foster finds himself in the midst of a catastrophic shitstorm. Iannucci keeps his large cast bobbing and weaving and bouncing off one another with masterful skill, but the real stars, and the best reason to see In the Loop, are the screenwriters, who give the film a furiously funny, filth-laden buzz. (08/14/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, Dobie
HALLOWEEN II D: Rob Zombie; with Scout Taylor-Compton, Tyler Mane, Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Sheri Moon Zombie, Danielle Harris, Brea Grant, Margot Kidder, Howard Hesseman, “Weird Al” Yankovic. (R, 101 min.) Each generation gets the Michael Myers it deserves. Zombie’s grim but overdone 2007 series reboot – and this direct sequel, which picks up immediately after the events of the first do-over – recontextualized Myers as the end result of white-trash parenting, the kind of kid-thing that might have easily been voted Most Likely to Re-enact Columbine in his high school yearbook. Zombie’s Halloween II seems unnecessary; it has the rushed, nihilistic feel of a contractual obligation, and, while gorehounds will rejoice that the MPAA has apparently rescinded all previous bylaws regarding ultraviolence in American horror films (not a bad thing by itself), Zombie’s depressingly thorough re-examination/exsanguination of the Myers mythos is tailor-made for a generation weaned on first-person shooters, instantly accessible YouTube footage of war carnage, and steroidenhanced wrestling. Zombie proved beyond a shadow of a doubt his ability to craft a truly great horror show with 2005’s spectacularly warped and visionary The Devil’s Rejects, but Halloween II just feels rote. (09/04/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★■Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
Battle for Terra Battle for Terra (2007) D: Aristomenis Tsirbas; with the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Luke Wilson, Dennis Quaid, David Cross, Brian Cox, Amanda Peet, Chris Evans, Rosanna Arquette, James Garner, Danny Glover, Ron Perlman, Danny Trejo, Mark Hamill. (PG, 85 min.) Fantastic Fest and RealD. This is an animated, 3-D tale of a peace-loving race of creatures known as Terrians, who are invaded by alien humans. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Village, Saturday-Sunday, 11am; free.
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who lives with his mother (Blanchett) while his seafaring father (Damon) is off-land. Though it is a kids’ film at heart, accompanying adults will likely find themselves just as enthralled as their little ones. Ponyo is another conceptually and thrilingly original masterstroke from an animator who long ago left Walt Disney in the dust. (08/21/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square, Hill Country Galleria, Gateway, Tinseltown South
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
D: Quentin Tarantino; with Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Mélanie Laurent, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, Omar Doom, Jacky Ido, B.J. Novak. (R, 153 min.)
As with puppies and nudity, you can never go wrong by sprinkling a whole mess of dead Nazis in your film, a truism that Tarantino takes to heart in this glorious mash-up of the war and vengeance genres. Divided into chapters à la Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds weaves together multiple storylines which coalesce into a literally explosive finale that daringly rewrites history. Pitt is scabrous and full of earthy wit as Lt. Aldo Raine. His men, christened the “Basterds” by the Axis, are an all-Jewish squadron of bloodthirsty Nazi hunters who end up going head to head with the cunning and opportunistic Übermensch, Col. Hans Landa (Austrian actor Waltz), aka the “Jew Hunter,” who may well be the best character that Tarantino has ever written. For all its stylistic flourishes and interlocking storylines, Inglourious Basterds is, at its bullet-riddled core, a bloody good war movie, twisting and twisted and full of wordy shrapnel but no less kickass for it. (08/21/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie, Gateway, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate
IT MIGHT GET LOUD D: Davis
Guggenheim. (PG, 97 min.)
It’s a testament to how far White Striper Jack White has come in the rock & roll world since the release of the first White Stripes album 10 years back that he’s now the most interesting figure in this musical triptych, which also includes geezers Jimmy Page and U2’s the Edge. Ostensibly, this is a meeting-of-the-minds/generations for the hard-rock set that was captured in HD by Oscar-winner Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth). The film’s very title is a tease, however: It never gets all that loud, and you might doze off after 30 minutes of watching this unwieldy power trio recount their formative years and visit old haunts before heading on to a soundstage for their minimum rock & roll “summit.” Guggenheim is clearly a fan of all three fretboard geniuses on display here – who isn’t? – but there’s no discernible point to the whole yawny shebang. (09/11/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★ Arbor, Dobie
JULIE & JULIA D: Nora Ephron; with Meryl Streep,
Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Helen Carey, Jane Lynch, Mary Lynn Rajskub. (PG-13, 123 min.)
Firstly, the introductions: Julia is Julia Child, that most beloved of chefs; Julie is Julie Powell, a disgruntled government worker who spent a year cooking her way through Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. As Julie does this, Ephron jogs the film back to the Fifties, exploring the origins of these recipes (and doing her best directorial work). Despite some surface similarities between Child and Powell, the two women couldn’t be more opposite in temperament. Forget glass half-full or half-empty: The glass is nearly brimming over for Julia (Streep, irresistible), so sunny and spirited and utterly can-do is she. Meanwhile, Julie (Adams, flat and wan) is scraping bottom: Just shy of 30, she’s sunk by depression, disappointment, and resentment. Adams, usually so good at corralling her handle-with-care looks and little-girl voice, is a mousy, grouchy irritant here. I’d trade her entire half of the film just to hear again Streep sing-song “Dommage!” in Child’s froggy voice. Shame, indeed. (08/07/2009) – Kimberley Jones ★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, Hill Country Galleria, Gateway, Westgate
9 D: Shane Acker; with the voices of Elijah Wood,
Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover. (PG-13, 79 min.)
9 is a beautifully animated (in CGI) but narratively compromised fable about – sort of – societal cooperation and the virtues of steampunk stitchery over cyberpunk soldering. Or maybe not. It’s hard to tell what the moral message is, other than “it’s good to work together to achieve your goals” or “don’t press random buttons unless you know what they might
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) D: Spike Lee. (NR, 255 min.)
Austin Public Library, UT PAC, DiverseArts: Film Screenings Featuring Scores Composed by Terence Blanchard. Portions of the four-hour documentary featuring Blanchard and other New Orleans musicians will be shown. Harold McMillan, of DiverseArts, will moderate a panel discussion with former New Orleans musicians, artists, and residents. (Rain contingency: screens one hour earlier, at 6:30pm, at the Carver Library.) @Kenny Dorham’s Backyard, Monday, 7:30pm.
do.” What 9 inarguably is is a feature-length retelling of director Acker’s 2005 Academy Award-nominated short film of the same name. As in the the original, the principal characters – numbered 1 through 9 – are stitched-together mechanical rag dolls in varying degrees of soiled disuse, existing in a postapocalyptic wasteland. Acker’s original was a darkly whimsical blend of CGI wizardry and silent film tropes; in this expanded version, new characters are introduced and expanded upon, but such additions only serve to expose the seams in what was previously a seamlessly magical tale. (09/11/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate
PAPER HEART D: Nicholas Jasenovec; with Charlyne Yi, Michael Cera, Jake M. Johnson. (PG-13, 88 min.)
Paper Heart has riven critics right down its achybreaky middle, and it’s easy to see why. As a lightweight, documentaryish examination of the mysteries of the human heart, it’s fascinating and sweet without becoming overtly cloying. In case you haven’t heard yet, Paper Heart is a faux documentary that blurs the line between staged, improvised, and “real” events as Yi, a self-confessed nonbeliever in the Church of the Sacred Heartthrob, meanders her way around the country interviewing couples about their thoughts on true love. But things get a bit bumpy – and semiscripted – when Cera (“playing” Michael Cera) arrives and promptly falls for Yi, creating romance within the antiromance of the greater reality of the film. It’s a neat, sweet experiment in meta-documentary filmmaking, but like Yi’s own heart, it sabotages itself in the process. Like comedy, love is best enjoyed when it’s not viewed through the lens of a metaphoric microscope. (08/21/2009) – Marc Savlov ★★★■Tinseltown South
THE PROPOSAL D: Anne Fletcher; with Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Craig T. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O’Hare, Malin Akerman, Oscar Nuñez, Aasif Mandvi. (PG-13, 107 min.)
Only very rarely do romantic comedies reinvent the wheel, which is why whole decades passed between Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At best, when we queue up for the latest studio romantic comedy, we can hope for a curveball or two (hence the comic-relief bit player, sassy grandparent, and embarrassingly public avowal of love, all featured in The Proposal). When you strip all that away, what you’re left with is two deeply charismatic lead performers. Bullock plays the Canadian-born Margaret Tate, an all-work-and-no-play literary editor who, when threatened with deportation, bullies her long-suffering assistant Andrew (Reynolds) into a marriage of convenience. Fletcher demonstrates with The Proposal that she can put together a funny, able romantic comedy that is a cut above, but no more. Still, those leads are awfully likable, and if The Proposal doesn’t reinvent the wheel, merrily we roll along nonetheless. (06/19/2009) – Kimberley Jones ★★★■Movies 8, Tinseltown South
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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE D: R.J. Cutler.
(PG-13, 90 min.)
Like a time capsule from another era of journalism, The September Issue chronicles a distant past that flourished not but two years ago. Cutler’s documentary observes the months of planning and preparation that went into the making of the September 2007 issue of American Vogue, that fashion bible’s biggest issue ever, weighing in at more than 4 pounds. In retrospect, it’s a glimpse of the magazine industry on the precipice of the economic downturn. This perspective, however, is one of the unanticipated byproducts of The September Issue: The movie’s real hook is its access to Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, the famously exacting taskmistress and taste arbiter. In the end, The September Issue really has only as much depth and relevance as fashion itself, but when we travel through the looking glass, it’s not usually the simple image on the other side for which we are searching. (09/11/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★ Alamo Drafthouse South, Arbor, Barton Creek Square
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Jon Cryer, William H. Macy, Leslie Mann, James Spader, Kat Dennings, Jolie Vanier, Trevor Gagnon, Devon Gearhart, Leo Howard, Rebel Rodriguez. (PG, 89 min.)
This time around it’s another family film for Rodriguez, whose filmmaking career at this point has two modes: kid pics and grisly adult fare. All are comedic action romps highlighted by their homegrown flavor of technological wizardry and Rodriguez’s near-total creative control. (In Shorts, Rodriguez is listed as the film’s writer, director, co-producer, cinematographer, co-editor, and contributing music composer.) The story follows tweener Toe (Bennett), who finds a multicolored stone that can grant every wish – a wishing rock that creates havoc as it passes from hand to hand. The story structure is kiddie postmodern, as the film cuts forward and backward in chapters as events rewind or fast-forward as though controlled by a digital switch (hence the title Shorts). The action never pauses long enough to become tiresome, though most of the film’s rude humor is directed squarely at young viewers’ sensibilities. Parents will, no doubt, be renting this electronic babysitter for a long time to come. (08/21/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★ CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North
TAKING WOODSTOCK D: Ang Lee; with Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Groff, Eugene Levy, Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Mamie Gummer, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Paul Dano, Kelli Garner. (R, 105 min.)
Lee’s film is wise to steer clear of the music and staged happenings of the festival. In Taking Woodstock, wafts of music are only heard emanating from a distant stage; the subject matter is the behind-the-scenes story of some of what ensued in order to make the event happen. The film is based on Elliot Tiber’s 2007 memoir, Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life, and was adapted for the screen by Lee’s longtime collaborator James Schamus. The film’s focus on one man’s story instead of the event itself is a solid narrative choice; the execution, however, is uneven and disappointing. As Elliot, Martin is a serviceable presence, but the professional comedian lacks the emotional range to carry the movie on his shoulders. Elliot’s gay coming-out story is mostly shunted into the film’s latter half, and when it does emerge it is woefully conventional and diluted by other goings-on. (08/28/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Village
THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE
D: Robert Schwentke; with Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Arliss Howard, Ron Livingston, Brooklynn Proulx, Stephen Tobolowsky, Hailey McCann, Tatum McCann. (PG-13, 107 min.)
PONYO D: Hayao Miyazaki; with the voices of Cate Blanchett, Noah Cyrus, Matt Damon, Tina Fey, Frankie Jonas, Cloris Leachman, Liam Neeson, Lily Tomlin, Betty White. (G, 101 min.)
Ponyo is another trippy slice of Oscar-winning director Miyazaki’s feverishly driven imagination, and while it may not be as surreal as Spirited Away nor as much an instant kidhood classic as the incomparable My Neighbor Totoro, it’s still far and away the most original, epic, and refreshingly peculiar animated film of the summer (probably the fall and the winter, too). Miyazaki films are preposterously difficult to summarize in print, and Ponyo is no exception. Suffice it to say the story splashes around the goldfish princess Ponyo (Cyrus), the tiny daughter of Fujimoto (Neeson), and her new best friend, Sosuke (Jonas), a 5-year-old human boy
SHORTS D: Robert Rodriguez; with Jimmy Bennett,
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event in HD Seventy years on and our troubles still melt
like lemon drops when Judy Garland starts crooning. The film, presented in high-definition for the first time, will be preceded by an introduction by Turner Classic Movies’ Robert Osborne and a short makingof documentary. @Tinseltown North, CM Cedar Park, Southpark Meadows, Wednesday, 7pm.
Along with the usual business about adult themes, mild language, and light nudity, the makers of The Time Traveler’s Wife might have affixed another warning to this adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger’s hugely popular 2003 novel: “Caution: Contents may induce brain bleed.” That is, if you think too hard on the logic and mechanics of its time-travel conceit. Henry (Bana) is a man out of time, helpless to a genetic disorder that hurtles him naked and unwilling to different destination spots in his own lifetime. The film’s hashed timeline means there’s no hard beginning or end to the love affair between the time traveler and his wife, Clare (McAdams), just one endless middle. There’s no epicness here, and no real tragedy, either. Instead, what The Time Traveler’s Wife amounts to – slowly, even stealthily – is a thin, tender album, photos all a-jumble, detailing the day-to-day heroics of surviving, and even enjoying, domestic partnership. (08/21/2009) – Kimberley Jones ★★★■Arbor, Tinseltown South
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Miller; with the voices of Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Bobb’e J. Thompson, Benjamin Bratt, Neil Patrick Harris. (PG) Autism Society of Greater Austin. At these screenings, families affected by autism have a special opportunity to enjoy films in a safe and accepting environment on a monthly basis. The auditorium will have its lights brought up and the sound turned down. Additionally, audience members are welcome to get up and move about during the screening and to bring along special-diet snacks. For more details, see www.austinautismsociety.org. @Barton Creek Square, 10am.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin fans have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” thing live for more than 30 years straight. For more info, see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 12mid.
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SPACES Galaxy Quest (1999) D: Dean Parisot; with Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, Tony Shalhoub, Enrico Colantoni, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Daryl Mitchell, Missi Pyle, Robin Sachs, Dian Bachar. (PG, 104 min.) Free. (*) @South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery, 8:30pm.
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Handmade Nation (2009) D: Faythe Levine. (NR, 90 min.) This film documents the rise of DIY and the new wave of art, craft, and design. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10pm. Monster Rock Sing-Along @Alamo Ritz,
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Old School Quote-Along (2003) D: Todd
Phillips; with Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson. (R, 91 min.) @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10pm.
Revenge of the Shogun Women (1977)
D: Mei Chung Chang; with Shirley Han, Shisuen Leong, Pai Ying. (R, 98 min.) Kung Fu Theatre. This is one of the few 3-D kung fu movies. @Alamo Drafthouse South, 10pm; free admission, 3-D glasses $1.
Simon, King of the Witches (1971) D: Bruce Kessler; with Ultra Violet, Angus Duncan, Normann Burton, Andrew Prine. (R, 91 min.) Cult Thursday. Prine stars in this film as a warlock who lives in the sewers but comes above ground to mess with people and work a little magic. Ultra Violet plays a rival witch. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm; free. Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball (2006)
D: Greg Maletic. (NR, 58 min.) This film documents the attempt to save the coin-operated arcade game of pinball in the late Eighties with the new game, Pinball 2000. @Alamo Ritz, 10:20pm.
The Vans Warped Tour: 15th Anniversary Celebration (2009) NCM Fathom. This one-night
event features performances and behind-the-scenes footage from the likes of the All-American Rejects, Bad Religion, Blink-182, Katy Perry, Ozomatli, and more, recorded in Los Angeles on Sept. 6. @Hill Country Galleria, Southpark Meadows, CM Cedar Park, Tinseltown North, Metropolitan, 7pm.
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SPACES Earth Girls Are Easy (1988) D: Julien Temple; with Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Julie Brown, Michael McKean, Charles Rocket. (PG, 100 min.) Free. @South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery, 8:30pm.
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D: Robert Zemeckis; with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover. (PG, 111 min.) Austin Delorean Club. One of the most beloved movies of the Eighties, Back to the Future entertainingly deals with the eternal child’s question: If my parents had never met, where does that leave me? Also, real Deloreans will be on display at the theatre. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm.
Guiding Light Series Finale TV @ the Alamo.
@Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10pm.
Sankham (2009) D: Siva; with Gopichand, Chandramohan, Trisha. This Telugu actioner is set partially in Australia. @Tinseltown South, 9:30pm. Total Recall (1990) D: Paul Verhoeven; with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, Michael Ironside. (R, 109 min.) Master Pancake Theater. This futuristic science-fiction movie is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and, in addition to Schwarzenegger, it features award-winning special effects. Partake as the Pancake crew “dick” with this science-fiction relic. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7, 10pm.
SPACES Spaceballs (1987) D: Mel Brooks; with Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman. (PG, 96 min.) Free. @South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery, 8:30pm.
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Back to the Future (1985) @Alamo
Drafthouse Lake Creek, 3:30pm. (See Friday.)
Battle for Terra (2007) See p.74.
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Parents Afternoon Out The Village Alamo Drafthouse teams up with its shopping-center neighbor Body Business every third Saturday of the month to provide child care for kids under the age of 7, while parents catch lunch and a movie at the theatre. Advance tickets required. See www.originalalamo.com to purchase. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 2:30pm.
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Battle for Terra (2007) See p.74. Destiny (Der Müde Tod) (1921) See p.74. Tommy (1975) See p.74.
SPACES The Last Starfighter (1984) D: Nick Castle; with Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason, Lance Guest, Dan O’Herlihy. (PG, 101 min.) Free. @South Austin Trailer Park & Eatery, 8:30pm.
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The Age of Stupid (2009) D: Franny Armstrong; with Pete Postlethwaite. This global premiere of a “crowd-funded” part-narrative, part-documentary film about climate change will be capped by the live broadcast of a performance by Radiohead. @CM Cedar Park, Tinseltown North, Southpark Meadows, 6:30pm. Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (2008)
D: Margarita Jimeno. From 2001 to 2006, the band Gogol Bordello grew from underground legend to worldwide popularity. This documentary records those years. @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.
Mad Men TV @ the Alamo. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 10:15pm. Rancho No Tengo (2009) D: Joe “King” Carrasco; with Carrasco, Kari Sites, Danny Crooks, C.K. McFarland. (NR, 96 min.) Music Monday. Carrasco plays a dreadlocked speed dealer experiencing a host of problems with the law and his girlfriend in this scruffy, no-budget film. Carrasco will be in attendance for the screening. @Alamo Ritz, 9:30pm.
SPACES When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) See p.76. Zeitgeist (2007) D: Peter Joseph. (NR, 118
min.) Mundi Movie Madness. Outdoors; free. @Cafe Mundi, 8pm.
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Bound (1996) D: Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski; with Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan, Richard Sarafian. (R, 107 min.) Hey Homo!. The impressive co-directing debut of the Wachowski Brothers has visual style to burn – not to mention a hot story about two women who fall in love and plot to pilfer a couple million from mobsters. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Kiss Me, Stupid (1964) D: Billy Wilder; with Kim Novak, Dean Martin, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Ray Walston. (NR, 126 min.) Austin Film Society: Censors, Drop Your Scissors! – Billy Wilder’s Later Comedies. The smutty humor of this Wilder farce got it in trouble with critics, the Catholic Legion of Decency, and other self-appointed American censors at the time of its Christmas release in 1964. The story involves a womanizing crooner named Dino (Martin) whose car “breaks down” in Climax, Nev., and a couple of would-be songwriters who employ the town’s freelance prostitute to help their cause. It was one of Wilder’s biggest flops. See “Something
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as one of Texas’ largest public theatres – with a Sony Qualia HD projector, a 28-foot screen, 180 (removable) seats, a vintage popcorn machine, and affordable rates. Need a venue for premieres, wrap parties, or concerts/plays/performances featuring projection? This could be the place. Also still available as a soundstage/ green screen. 485-3000. www.501studios.com.
Austin FilmWorks: Feature Lab is now accepting registrations for this fall’s class sequence in which filmmaker Steve Mims requires students to produce two short films and play a key role on a class-produced feature-length film. See website for details. www.austinfilmworks.com. Austin School of Film Classes An excellent slate of classes is available for your cinematic advancement at the Austin School of Film, with professional instruction in Final Cut Pro, DV and HD cameras, animation and lighting techniques, and more. See website for details. www.austinfilmschool.org/classes. Dismember the Alamo: Zombie Short Film Competition! Round up your friends, hose ’em down in crimson corn syrup, and shoot your undead masterpiece. Cash prizes and Alamo swag will be awarded to the top three entries. All entries must be 10 minutes or shorter and feature at least one zombie. See website for details and application. Postmark deadline: Oct. 13. www.dismemberthealamo.com. Floating the Future of Film Don’t let indie cinema drown in a flood of Hollywood sewage; put some money where true new movies come from. Supporting the Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund and the Screen Door Film Series at Salvage Vanguard are two ways in which you can support goodness against a world of dreck. See the websites, click, and save the day! www.austinfilm.org, www.screendoorfilm.com. Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a state-of-the-art screening room, which is available to the public on a rental basis. Community and indie rates are available for the room, which sports an 18-footby-7-foot screen, 28 fixed theatre seats, and a surround-sound system and supports Super-35, 35mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD formats. Handicap accessible, restrooms – the works. It also has a “break room” suitable for presentations, meetings, and general cinematic tomfoolery. 322-0145. www.austinstudios.org. The Screenplay Workshop: Autumn Registration Screenwriting Fundamentals Everything you need to know to write a screenplay. Oct. 6-Nov. 3. Tuesdays, 7-9:30pm. $225 ($210, through Sept. 25). Screenwriting Master Class Oct. 6-Dec. 8. Tuesdays, 7-9:30pm. $395 ($370, through Sept. 25). Introductory Script Consultation A 1½-hour private consultation on your screenplay or screenplay ideas. $70. Private Instruction and Story Consultation Package Five sessions, 90 minutes per session. $370. All programs taught by professional screenwriters in Central Austin classrooms. www.thescreenplayworkshop.org.
C A L E N D A R ( COMMUNITY Wilder,â&#x20AC;? Aug. 28, for more on the series. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pm; $5, AFS members free.
Vampire Hookers (1978) D: Cirio H. Santiago; with John Carradine. (R, 82 min.) Terror Tuesday. Carradine plays the king of the vampire pimps. @Alamo Ritz, 10pm.
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Alamo Public Access New Movement. Part open-screen night, featuring random clips the audience will bring in for a chance to win prizes, and part curated comedy from Chris Trew (of the New Movement comedy training center and Studio8.net). Also featured will be clips from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Funny or Die!, and some of Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best comedy groups. E-mail Chris Trew (ceo@studio8.net) with a link to your video if interested. @Alamo Ritz, 9:35pm. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (2009) (R) Fantastic Fest. Cast and crew will be in attendance at the North American premiere of the sequel to Eli Rothâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original, which helped launched the torture porn movement. See â&#x20AC;&#x153;Temperatures Rising,â&#x20AC;? p.47, for more. @Alamo Ritz, 7pm. Eugenie (1970) D: Jess Franco; with Marie Liljedahl, Maria Rohm, Paul Muller, Jack Taylor, Christopher Lee. (R, 87 min.) Weird Wednesday. This screening is a warm-up for Fantastic Fest, during which Franco will appear in person to accept the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first Lifetime Achievement Award. In Eugenie, the prolific filmmaker tackles the Marquis de Sade. @Alamo Ritz, 12mid. Sideways Feast (2004) D: Alexander Payne;
with Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh. (R, 123 min.) A four-course dinner is paired with wines from Fiddlehead Winery in Lompoc, Calif. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm; $60.
The Wizard of Oz 70th Anniversary Event in HD See p.76.
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Boss (1975) D: Jack Arnold; with Fred Williamson, Dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Urville Martin, William Smith, R.G. Armstrong. (PG, 87 min.) Cult Thursday. Originally released under the title Boss Nigger, the film tells the story of two black bounty hunters who take over the job of town sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x201C; much to the white folksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chagrin. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm; free. Eureka Seven: Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers (2009) D: Tomoki Kyoda. This
is the premiere of the English-dubbed feature film adapted from the popular animĂŠ series Eureka Seven, about a world at war with machines and an intergalactic love affair. @Tinseltown North & Southpark Meadows, 7:30pm.
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Largo (2008) D: Mark Flanagan and Andrew van Baal. (NR, 112 min.) Austin Film Festival. An intimate club nestled away on a busy Hollywood street, Largo has garnered a reputation among performers and fans alike as a place where whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on stage truly matters. Includes appearances by John C. Reilly, Fiona Apple, Zach Galifanakis, Jon Brion, Flight of the Conchords, Fred Armison, Sarah Silverman, Louis CK, Amiee Mann, Patton Oswalt, Andrew Bird, and more. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 7:30pm. Office Space Quote-Along (1999) D: Mike Judge; with Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root. (R, 89 min.) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.
imax Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) D: David Yates; with Daniel Radcliffe,
Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis, Tom Felton. (PG, 153 min.) (*) Thu. (9/17)-Fri., noon, 6, 9pm; Sat., 11am, 6, 9pm.
NASCAR 3D (2004) D: Simon Wincer; narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. (PG, 49 min.) The bulky IMAX cameras undertake the challenges of speed and movement and create some fantastic racing sequences and crowd shots. Thu. (9/17)-Fri., 3, 5pm; Sat., 2, 4pm. Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D: Scott
Swofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39 min.) Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screen as the state is shown to be a land capable of growing everything from grapefruit to microchips. Thu. (9/17)-Sat., 10am.
Under the Sea 3D (2009) D: Howard Hall.
(NR, 40 min.) The impact of global warming is examined in the waters of Southern Australia, New Guinea, and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region. Thu. (9/17)-Fri., 11am, 4pm; Sat, 3, 5pm.
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LIVING COLOUR
Emo’s, Friday 18
“Cult of Personality,” given, but when Corey Glover gnashed “Elvis Is Dead” on 1990 follow-up Time’s Up, guitarist Vernon Reid’s Black Rock Coalition surely grinned. Decades on, Michael Jackson is the new Elvis while Muzz Skillings and Will Calhoun ground black rock’s Coltrane quartet. New LP The Chair in the Doorway recalls Living Colour’s heyday, needling Soundgarden (“Behind the Sun”) and even Megadeth (“Out of My Mind”). – Raoul Hernandez
DAVE ALVIN & THE GUILTY WOMEN
Terence Blanchard Quintet Hogg Auditorium, Wednesday 23 Downstairs at the Elephant Room, South by Southwest 1996, Terence Blanchard stood next to the piano as if he were chilling in his own living room and heated his gold trumpet red. For two hours, he schooled every level of jazz fan with the genre’s very first commandment: When New Orleans blows brass, you bolt upright like Gabriel himself sounded reveille. Several Grammys and many Spike Lee film scores later, Blanchard stands in the top echelon of musicians putting lips to a mouthpiece and letting hot air knife through the immediate surroundings. His uniformly excellent Columbia/Sony output – Simply Stated (’92), Romantic Defiance (’95), and Wandering Moon (2000) – dominoes into last year’s Blue Note accolade, A Tale of God’s Will (A Requiem for Katrina), no doubt infusing the performance here. Choices, Blanchard’s latest, imports his current fivepiece: tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, pianist Fabian Almazan, bassist Derrick Hodge, and drummer Kendrick Scott. Sound the horn. 8pm. – Raoul Hernandez
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Friday: Living Colour, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Diagonal Lions, Girls on Jetskis, Cry Blood Apache, Trailer Space, 7pm Sunday: The Strange Attractors, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Securicor, Terror Alert, My Fist Your Face, Birth A.D., Snake Eyes Vinyl, 7pm Tuesday: Bob Schneider, Waterloo Records, 5pm
Antone’s, Friday 18
Founder of both the Blasters and the Knitters, acclaimed producer/songwriter Dave Alvin is an all-American roots Renaissance man. This year alone the L.A.-based guitarist paid tribute to Doug Sahm (Keep Your Soul) and Chris Gaffney (Man of Somebody’s Dreams), the latter of which he curated impeccably. Now backed by the exquisite Guilty Women, featuring Austin’s Cindy Cashdollar, Lisa Pankratz, and Sarah Brown, Alvin treads more reflective waters. New York songstress Shannon McNally opens. – Austin Powell
CHURCH OF THE FRIENDLY GHOST’S SUMMER TENT REVIVAL
The Compound, Saturday 19
In the spirit of old-timey Southern church revivals, Church of the Friendly Ghost wrangles the collection plate for Austin’s creative congregation. The evening promises water-balloon baptisms, a cakewalk, food, and drinks, while Hello Lovers, Xathax, Book of Shadows, the McMercy Family Band, Nanobangbang, Ralph White, the New Music Co-op, and more speak in tongues. 5pm. – Audra Schroeder
JOE ELY BAND
Texas Union Ballroom, Saturday 19
Jimmy Pettit holding down bass for the Flatlanders at the Texas Union Ballroom in June naturally brought flashbacks of Joe Ely: Live at Liberty Lunch. Pettit in lockstep with drummer Davis McLarty, David Grissom’s full-on Ted Nugent, and “Brown Sugar” Stones saxman Bobby Keys were thunder to Ely’s lightning. The Flatlanders tore the roof off UT’s tavern. These boys will blow out the walls. – Raoul Hernandez
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BLOODSHOT RECORDS’ 15TH ANNIVERSARY
Yard Dog Gallery, Saturday 19
Bloodshot Records, the little Chicago indie label that could, throws itself a well-deserved quinceañera. Naturally, it features a plethora of favorite acts, including the Waco Brothers and Rico Bell, Rosie Flores, Dex Romweber Duo, Scott H. Biram, Deadstring Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, and Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands, all from the house that fostered Neko Case, Ryan Adams, the Old 97’s, and all sorts of insurgent country. Free, at the coolest art gallery in town. Give yourself 15 pats on the back, Bloodshot. – Margaret Moser
MOTÖRHEAD
Stubb’s, Sunday 20
The last time we locked horns with Lemmy Kilmister, we lost hearing in both our eyes and couldn’t see a word for a week. We’re talking Gods of Rock here, not mere monsters, and truth be told, these primal hell-raisers were always closer in spirit to the Pistols, the Clash, and your Maximum RockNRoll reptilian hindbrain than any other UK metal godhead before or since. Texas’ gnarliest psychobilly freak-out the Rev. Horton Heat paves the way while Nashville Pussy opens, wide. – Marc Savlov
SIAN ALICE GROUP
Mohawk, Wednesday 23
This London trio’s on Social Registry, home to Brooklyn’s misfit art-rock crowd, but wears a slightly more stoic face. Latest album Troubled, Shaken Etc. sounds like a looser vision of Portishead, padded with singer Sian Ahern’s velvet vox and its instrumentation veering from slow-cooked folk to dancey loops. Locals the Boxing Lesson and My Education open the curtains and let some light in. – Audra Schroeder
HAPPY MONDAYS, THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS
Stubb’s, Thursday 24
The last time Madchester 24-hour party peeps/liver transplant recipients Happy Mondays played Austin, they opened for Big Audio Dynamite at the Opera House. Sadly, that was also around the same time their baggy brand of aural hedonism actually resonated with the kids, but 1990’s Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches is still a stone classic. The Furs, well, they’d still be gods if the only thing they ever released was “Pretty in Pink.” Fellow Brits Amusement Parks on Fire open. – Marc Savlov
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KVRX BACK TO SCHOOL PARTY Mohawk, Friday 18 Best Fwends, the Eastern Sea, the Low Lows, No Mas Bodas, and more hit the books.
PAT GREEN Stubb’s, Friday 18 Texas on his mind.
NORTH LOOP BLOCK PARTY 100 block of North Loop, Saturday 19 The Ape-Shits, Coma in Algiers, and many more rock around the block.
THE INVINCIBLE CZARS Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Sunday 20 The Czars soundtrack Fritz Lang’s silent film, Destiny. 7:30pm.
OVERNIGHT LOWS Beerland, Tuesday 22 Mississippi’s punk threesome warms up for Goner Fest. Mig & Min Ven and De Høje Haele rep Denmark’s garage.
WHITE DENIM Antone’s, Wednesday 23 The boys jam econo for Red Cross, with fellow trio Harlem in tow.
KYLESA Red 7, Thursday 24 Savannah, Ga.’s forever-touring metal family unloads latest Static Tensions. Tombs, Bison B.C., and Curse the Heavens rattle eardrums first.
FRIGHTENED RABBIT, THE TWILIGHT SAD, WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS Mohawk, Thursday 24 A triple shot of epic Scot rock.
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BEAUTY BAR Grommit, Gaslamp Killer, N-Type, Pinch (10:00) BEERLAND A Giant Dog, the Gospel Truth, Cause for Applause THE BELMONT DJ Blick (10:30) BOTTICELLIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Jamie Thomas (7:30) BROKEN SPOKE T. Jarrod Bonta (6:00); Dance Lessons, Jesse Dayton (9:00) CACTUS CAFE DruhĂĄ TrĂĄva (8:30) CAFE MUNDI Chase Gassaway, Lamar Stockton, Gina Chavez (6:30)
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TUE 22 Overnight Lows, Mig & Min Ven, De Høje Haele, Beerland Toy Hearts, Cactus Cafe Knuckle Yummy, Continental Club
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Chris Jamison, Jovitaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hunx & His Punx, Nobunny, Mohawk Waylon Payne, Saxon Pub Richard Bowden, Threadgillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s World HQ Kevin Welch, Whole Foods Plaza
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Boys & Girls Clubs of Austin Benefit w/ Eagle Pritchard Murray Band, the Derailers, Bob Schneider, Cedar Street
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KVRX Benefit w/ Best Fwends, the Eastern Sea, the Low Lows, No Mas Bodas, Mohawk
SAT 19
COFG Tent Revival w/ Ralph White, Nanobangbang, McMercy Family Band, Book of Shadows, Silent Land Time Machine, Xathax, Hello Lovers, the Compound
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Winterization Benefit w/ the Alice Rose, the Monstas, Roadhouse Rags
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT & BREWERY Will Sexton ONE 2 ONE BAR GB Mojo, Mike Milligan & the Altar Boyz (8:00) THE PARISH Slowtrain, Wannabes, Moonlight Towers THE PARLOR Sad Accordions, Love Hate Affair, Obsolete Machines (8:00) POODIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Rip Lorick, Price Porter & the Blues Party RED EYED FLY Undertone, Say When, Say Hello to the Angels, Mankind & Me, the Savages RED SHED TAVERN DJ Tomu Asada RILEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN Joel Hofmann Band ROADHOUSE RAGS Stop the Truck (10:00)
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TH 9/17 - Raashan Ahmad (Crown City Rockers), Phranchyze, MSG Crew, Storm Shadow, Cooley Fly - 10pm F 9/18 - EARLY SHOW: Paul Green School of Rock presents: Judas Priest vs. Iron Maiden - 6pm; LATE SHOW: FREE!! Watching the Moon, Vinhomudeh, Rabbit Fist, Tornadho, Suncopters - 10p FREE in the wreck room: Mitzy Jones & Her Taste Bully SA 9/19 - EARLY SHOW: Paul Green School of Rock presents: Judas Priest v Iron Maiden - 6pm LATE SHOW: Opposite Day, Muchos Backflips, Contact High 5, Baby Got Bacteria // FREE in the wreck room : DJ Wes Coleman aka DJ 420 Blues Hammer SU 9/20 - Motorhead After Party w/ Midnight, Iron Age, Rat King, Mammoth Grinder - 10pm // FREE in the wreck room : DJ Doug TU 9/22 - Ravage, Blackholicious, The NaySays, Vougan - 10pm // FREE in the wreck room: Video Game Tuesdays! Old NES!! W 9/23 - Edison Chair, El Guapos, Fabi Reyna
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TH 9/17 , Clem Snide 8pm (out) // Lemurs, Givers - 11pm (in) F 9/18 - KVRX Back to School Event w/ Best Fwends, The Low Lows, The Eastern Sea, No Mas Bodas, Fat Tony & more - 9pm SA 9/19 - The Black and White Years, The Mercers (CD Release), MoTel Aviv - 9pm S 9/20 - Peter and the Wolf, Listen Listen (CD Release), {{{Sunset}}} - 10pm M 9/21 , The Race 8pm (out) // The Motts, Earl Greyhound - 11pm (in) TU 9/22 - Happy Hour: HAAM Benefit Day Nobunny, Hunx and his Punks, Harlem 10pm W 9/23 - Sian Alice, The Boxing Lesson, My Education - 10pm TH 9/24 , Twilight Sad, We Were Promised Jetpacks - 9pm (out) // Corto Maltese, Division Day- 12am
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SAXON PUB The Regulars (6:00), Leeann Atherton CD Release, Earl Poole Ball & the Cosmic Americans (9:00) THE SCOOT INN $24,000, Clay Nightingale, the Happen-Ins (9:00) SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL The Max SHINER’S SALOON CJ Vinson SHOOTERS BILLIARDS Prentiss Varnon (9:00) SHOOTERS BILLIARDS Suede (9:00) SKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFE Christine Albert (6:00) SPEAKEASY LC Rocks STARDUST CLUB Lost John Casner STEINER RANCH STEAKHOUSE Rod Williams STUBB’S Pat Green THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Mingo Fishtrap (9:00) TRAILER SPACE RECORDS & EVENTS CENTER Cry Blood Apache, Girls on Jetskis, Diagonal Lions (7:00) TRAVIS COUNTY EXPO CENTER Rivalry Nights w/ Korn (8:00) TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies (7:30) TRIPLE CROWN Zydeco Blanco, Scott H. Biram TRIUMPH CAFE Rick Steinburg & the Stonecastle Family Band (7:00) TROPHY’S Oak Is Keeping, Shotgun Hustler, Black Magic Kit WATERLOO RECORDS Living Colour (5:00)
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CENTRAL MARKET NORTH White Ghost Shivers (6:30) CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE Houston Marchman CHERRYWOOD COFFEEHOUSE Sahara Smith, Michael Alexander (8:00) THE COMPOUND COFG Tent Revival w/ Ralph White, Nanobangbang, McMercy Family Band, Book of Shadows, Silent Land Time Machine, Xathax, Hello Lovers (5:00) CONANS PIZZA The Swingsters (6:00) CONTINENTAL CLUB Gallery: Mike Flanigin’s B-3 Groove (10:00); In the Club: Redd Volkaert (3:00), Amy Cook, Alejandro Escovedo (10:00) COTTON CLUB Kenny Orts COWBOY HARLEY DAVIDSON Jeff & the Jumptones (noon) DONN’S DEPOT Albert & Gage THE DRISKILL HOTEL Lobby Bar: Patricia G. (7:00) EDDIE V’S PRIME SEAFOOD Mark Goodwin Trio ELEPHANT ROOM Ephraim Owens Quintet (9:30) EMO’S Outside: Comedy w/ Janeane Garofalo (9:00); Inside: All the Day Holiday, PlayRadioPlay!, Born to Lose, Pickled Punks, the Beltones (6:30) ESQUINA TANGO Brazilian Forro w/ Seu Jacinto (9:30) EVANGELINE CAFE Ted Roddy & the Backwoods Hipsters (10:00) FLAMINGO CANTINA Mau Mau Chaplains, Liquid Cheese (9:00) FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE Mr. Leebot (10:00am); Southpaw Jones, Erik Hokkanen, Wino Vino (8:00) FREDDIE’S PLACE Dimestore Poets (6:00), Gene Machine (6:00) GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Alvin Crow (9:00) GÜERO’S TACO BAR Spencer Thomas (6:30) HANOVER’S 42 Stones & Grove Nation HILL’S CAFE Jon Burklund HOLE IN THE WALL Framing Strangers, Time Out, Corrina Corrina, the Perilous Tide (8:00) JOVITA’S Girl Guitar, Strangelove, Douglas Jay Boyd, Chris Hawkes (5:30) LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Leon Fleisher & Katherine Jacobson Fleisher w/ the Austin Symphony Orchestra (8:00) LUCKY LOUNGE Twilight Broadcast, DJ Protege (9:00) MAGGIE MAE’S Rick Harvey & the Texcellorators (6:00) MARIA’S TACO XPRESS Megan Blue & the Sugar Daddies (6:30) MEAN-EYED CAT Austin Homegrown (8:00)
MIZU SUSHI BAR AND LOUNGE Branch Lounge: Daetron Vargas (10:00) MOHAWK The Mercers EP Release, Black & White Years (9:00) MOMO’S Eleisha Eagle, Ouachita, Deadman, Low Expectations (7:00) MOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN Thomas “Doc” Grauzer (11:30am) MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS Judith Miller (8:30) NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT & BREWERY Stephen Doster & Bill Carter NORTH LOOP PLAZA Block Party w/ Coma in Algiers, the Ape-Shits (noon) NUTTY BROWN CAFE Blue Broussard, Ryan Beaver, Granger Smith, Funky Old Soul ONE 2 ONE BAR The Trio, Alan Haynes (8:00) THE PARISH Live Oak Decline, Hendrick, Scott McCurry POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Blues Mafia, J.T. Coldfire RED EYED FLY Let the Dead, Grand Archer, Legion of Air, BombingStassney, Unspeakable Things RED FEZ DJ Kurv, DJ Jayson Lee (10:00) RED SHED TAVERN Dr. Dubbist RILEY’S TAVERN Lost Immigrants ROADHOUSE RAGS Winterization Benefit w/ the Alice Rose, the Monstas (8:00) RUTA MAYA Plump, Congratulations (9:30) SAXON PUB Earle Brown, Paula Nelson, Much Love (8:00) SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL The Max SHINER’S SALOON Niel Nasset SKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFE Jenny Reynolds (6:00) SNAKE EYES VINYL Sore Losers, Slumlord, Front Line Martyrs (9:00) SPEAKEASY Radiostar STARDUST CLUB Diamond Simon & the Roughcuts STUBB’S Disco Biscuits TEXAS UNION BALLROOM Michael Fracasso, Joe Ely Band Reunion (9:00) THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Will Taylor & Strings Attached (9:00) TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL Lucky Strikes (7:30) TRIPLE CROWN 1836, Enemy of Mankind, Raditude TROPHY’S Riverside & the Squares, Spurlock, Paul Banks & the Carousels YARD DOG Bloodshot Anniversary w/ Waco Brothers, Rico Bell, Rosie Flores, Dexter Romweber Duo, Scott H. Biram, Deadstring Brothers, Ha Ha Tonka, Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands
1320 S. Lamar 448-2552 www.thesaxonpub.com
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KEY BAR Jeff & the Jumptones (4:00) LAMBERTS Black, Red & Black (7:00) MANUEL’S Tony Campise, David Webb (11:30am) MAX’S WINE DIVE Chadd Thomas & the Crazy Kings (6:00) MEAN-EYED CAT Darren Hoff & the Hard Times (8:00) MIZU SUSHI BAR AND LOUNGE Branch Lounge: Marshall Ford Swing Band (11:00am) MOMO’S Belmez, Matt Powell, James Hyland & the Joint Chiefs, Tres Womack, Level Hill (7:00) MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS Larissa (7:30) NUEVO LEÓN Mariachi Relampago (1:00) NUTTY BROWN CAFE Java Jazz (11:00am) RED EYED FLY Flicker, Grovedale, 365 Colours, No Champions RED FEZ DJ Kurupt (10:00) RILEY’S TAVERN Open Mic w/ Glenn Allen ROADHOUSE RAGS Victoria & Zeta Five, Scary Mary, West Coast Pinups, Clyde & Clem’s Whiskey Business (5:00) RUTA MAYA Sarah Dinan (10:30am); Nelson Saga & Arma del Alma (10:30) SAXON PUB Jessie Torrisi (3:00), Mickey Clark, Bobby Whitlock & CoCo Carmel (6:00) SHINER’S SALOON Jeff Whitehead SKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFE The Flyin’ A’s (5:00) SNAKE EYES VINYL Birth A.D., My Fist in Your Face, Terror Alert, Securicor (7:00) STUBB’S Nashville Pussy, Reverend Horton Heat, Motörhead THE THIRSTY NICKEL Achachay (9:00) TRIPLE CROWN Open Mic w/ Pat Pankratz, Holly Aiken, Nate Hinds WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 360 Sunday Brunch w/ Buzz Guerra
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ELEPHANT ROOM Stanley Smith w/ Jon Doyle (6:00), Stan Killian (9:30) ELYSIUM Nineties Night w/ DJ Boba Fett, DJ Minimus EVANGELINE CAFE Brennen Leigh (6:00); Kevin Gallaugher, Greg Anderson (8:00) FLAMINGO CANTINA Mau Mau Chaplains, Stop the Truck (9:00) FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE Sick’s Science Project (6:00), Erik Hokkanen’s Laboratory (9:00) THE GHOST ROOM Caprice (8:00) GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Jim Stringer (9:00) GÜERO’S TACO BAR Trio Indiano (6:30) HILL’S CAFE Singer-Songwriter Night w/ Bill Rice HOLE IN THE WALL Paul Minor, the Bread (6:00) HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL Spencer Thomas, Jimi Lee (7:30) JOVITA’S Chris Jamison, Wil Cope (6:30) LA PALAPA Baby Dallas LUCKY LOUNGE DJ Rapid Ric, Boombox w/ Carlos Sosa (10:00) MEAN-EYED CAT Stillwater Pioneers (8:00) MIZU SUSHI BAR AND LOUNGE Branch Lounge: Hilary York (6:00) MOHAWK Nobunny, Hunx & His Punx MOMO’S Charanga Cakewalk, Toshie Suzuki, the Reddies ONE 2 ONE BAR Big Circle, TX (8:00), Karl Morgan (10:30) PATSY’S COWGIRL CAFE Sand Sheff (7:30) PHIL’S ICEHOUSE HAAM Benefit Day w/ Suzanna Choffel (5:00) POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Troubadillos RED EYED FLY Anthony De Los Santos RED FEZ Benmused Showcase, Twist Up w/ DJ Manny (9:00) RED SHED TAVERN Country Willie & the Cosmic Debris, the Doolins (8:00) RILEY’S TAVERN Bruce Smith ROMEO’S HAAM Benefit Day w/ Troy Campbell (noon), Alyse Black (6:00) RUTA MAYA Poetry Open Mic, Music Open Mic (6:00) SAM’S TOWN POINT Open Mic w/ Erin & Michael (9:00) SAXON PUB Waylon Payne (5:00), HAAM Benefit Day w/ Mystic Knights of the Sea, Uncle Lucius (8:00) SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL Five Ways From Sunday SHINER’S SALOON Caged SIX LOUNGE James Hyland (10:30) SPEAKEASY Salsa Lessons, the Brew (9:00)
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HILLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S CAFE Roger Creager HOGG AUDITORIUM Terence Blanchard Quintet (8:00) HOLE IN THE WALL Guitars, Chelsea Manor, Copperpocket (10:00) JOVITAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S MJ Torrance, Quachita (6:00) KEY BAR Jukebox Heroes (7:00) LA PALAPA Baby Dallas LAS PALOMAS Javier Chaparro, Rick McRae, Terry Hale, Art Kidd (6:30) LUCKY LOUNGE Tee Double, DJ Crash (10:00) MANGIA CHICAGO STUFFED PIZZA EggJam w/ Members of the Eggmen (6:00) MEAN-EYED CAT Opie Hendrix (8:00) MIZU SUSHI BAR AND LOUNGE Branch Lounge: Karen Abrahams (6:00) MOHAWK My Education, the Boxing Lesson, Sian Alice Group (10:00) MOMOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Gum B, Kacy Crowley, Suzanna Choffel, Drew Smith, Jessie Torrisi, Deadman NORTH BY NORTHWEST RESTAURANT & BREWERY Sounds of AM NUTTY BROWN CAFE Bruce Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nutty Idol ONE 2 ONE BAR The Twalls, Jonathan Terrell (10:30) THE PARISH Pharo, G. King, Home Bass PARMER LANE TAVERN Pete Benz (9:00) PATSYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COWGIRL CAFE Texcentric Radio Hour (7:30) POODIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Open Mic w/ Mark Allen Atwood REALEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PIZZA & CAFE â&#x20AC;&#x153;Franklyâ&#x20AC;? Singing w/ Ken Kruse (6:30) RED EYED FLY Primal Rape, Mouse About, Posey Chapel RED FEZ Get Right Kids (10:00) RED SHED TAVERN Dr. Dubbist, Dr. Dubbist (8:00) RILEYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S TAVERN Robbie Doyen RUTA MAYA La Mona Loca (7:30) SAXON PUB The Nortons (6:00), Jason Eady, Walt Wilkins & the Mystiqueros, Bobby Duncan (8:00) THE SCOOT INN Austin Poetry Slam (8:00) SHERLOCKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL Blue Finger Disco SHINERâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S SALOON Midnight River Choir SPEAKEASY LC Rocks (9:30) STEINER RANCH STEAKHOUSE Acoustic Cafe TEXAS BAR & GRILL Country Jam w/ L.C. Parker (9:00) TEXICAN CAFE BRODIE OAKS Paul Eddy (8:00) TROPHYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S Early: J.T. Wright & Solstice; Later: Ultra Wolf, the Grapes, the Ramifications
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neighborhood classes/ general workshops BRIDGE LESSONS Have fun and meet new people while playing the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest card game. Beginning Bridge Lessons Starting Thursday Evenings Sept 24, 7-9pm, 8wk Course includes textbook Call now to register 300-2743 OR email: bridge.lessons@live.com Bridge Center of Austin 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd. HULA CLASSES Now enrolling, Beginning Hula and Tahitian Dance Classes at Hawaiian Tiki Imports, 3500 S. Congress Ave. Beginners Mon & Wed 7:30pm, Advanced on Fri 7:30pm, Children on Saturdays. Hula Hulau Kaepa Polynesian Dance Academy. Call today (512) 440-7171 tropicalevents.com SPANISH Someday, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Learn SPANISH!!?? No luck with traditional classes and workbooks? Hate Studying? Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much time? Think learning canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fun? Use your whole brain by tapping into the extraordinary mental capacities we all have, but seldom use, with the most advanced and enjoyable teaching and learning method available today. 2639944 * All Levels * Class Schedules, Fees and more at http:// www.RapidSpanish.com SPANISH
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events BELLY DANCE SHOW October 3rd - Windermere Event Center - Pflugerville - Dance Workshops and Vending Free to Public All day Belly Dance Show and Dinner 7-11pm $15/25.00 www.desertpassion. com or mlilah@desertpassion. com NOE MAZA CELEBRATION Saturday, Sept 26, 2009. All who knew Noe Maza are invited to celebrate his life. Noe passed away on Sept. 6, 2009. He was a psychotherapist in the Austin community. Celebration will be at Casa de Suenos, 4710 Carter Lane, Austin, from 3 - 6 PM. Bring a picnic, a chair or a blanket. TREASURE HUNT Dead Men Tell No Tales!! FREE Austin-based treaure hunts for real cash up to $10,000! www. treasurehuntcove.com
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legal notices ABANDONED VEHICLES Public notice is hereby given that Triton Towing, Inc., VSF license #0640822VSF to the owners of the following vehicle that charges are due and a storage lien applies. If left unclaimed 30 days after the date of this notice they will be declared abandoned and constitutes a waiver of all liens, title, and interest, and consent for disposal at public sale. Vehicle can be claimed at 1520 Sam Bass Rd, Round Rock, TX 78664, 512-252-2727. Year: Make: Plate: State: VIN: Amount: 1940 Chevy truck, No VIN, No Plates, $236.60; towed from Lime Creek & St Williams, Round Rock
Application is being made with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Mixed Beverage and Mixed Beverage Late Hours Permit by Bhairavnath, LLC d/b/a Gorilaz Billiards & Nightclub to be located at 10701 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, Travis County, Texas. Managers of said entity are Tejaskumar Patel and Pratik Patel. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS CAUSE NO: D-1-GN-09001390 To: BILLY SCOTT GUNN Defendant(s), in the
hereinafter styled and numbered cause: YOU (AND EACH OF YOU) HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof, that is to say at or before 10 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. of Monday the OCTOBER 12, 2009, and answer the PLAINTIFFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIRST AMENDED PETITION AND REQUEST FOR DISCLOSURE of Plaintiff(s), filed in the 261ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT of Travis County, Texas, on MAY 18, 2009, a default judgment may be taken against you. Said suit being number D-1GN-09-001390, in which TINA GENTRY HARPER Plaintiff(s), and CHRISTOPHER SCOTT COWAN AND LYNETTE FAYE COWAN INDIVIDUALLY AND D/B/A C & L TOWING AND BILLY SCOTT GUNN Defendant(s), and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Suit seeks negligence / gross negligence damages for an accident on May 7, 2007 between a GMC tow truck and an Infinity car. ALL OF WHICH MORE FULâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Y APPEARS IN THE PLAINTIFFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S FIRST AMENDED PETITION AND REQUEST FOR DISCLOSURE ON FILE IN THIS OFFICE, AND WHICH REFERENCE IS HERE MADE FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said court at Austin, Texas, August 28, 2009. AMALIA RODRIGUEZMENDOZA Travis County District Clerk Travis County Courthouse 1000 Guadalupe, P.O. Box 679003 (78767) Austin, Texas 78701 By /s/ CHRISTINA CARTER, Deputy REQUESTED BY: ROBERT WADE LEE AND ERNEST C. GARCIA THE LEE LAW FIRM 11824 JOLLYVILLE ROAD SUITE 302 AUSTIN, TX 78759 BUSINESS PHONE: (512) 478-8080 FAX: (512) 478-8081 EMAIL: rwlee@rwleelaw.com CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF NINA BLOWER Deceased, No. C-1PB-09-000743 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas. DIANA VICKI GILBERT AKA VICKI GILBERT FKA DIANA VICKI BLOWER & DIANA VICKI MANNION alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on June 19, 2009, an Application to Determine Heirship and Application for Letters of Independent Administration in the said estate and request(s) that said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said NINA BLOWER, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate. Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas. All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so. If this citation is not served within 90 says after days of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, on June 19,
2009. Dana DeBeauvoir County Clerk, Travis County, Texas P.O. BOX 149325 AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325 By Deputy: /s/ D. MENDEZ CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS CAUSE NO: D-1-FM-09003779 To: CARLOS CERVANTES MONTOYA and to all who it may concern, Respondent(s); GREETINGS: YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 A.M. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment may be taken against you. YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear and answer before the Honorable District Court, 261ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, Travis County, Texas, at the Courthouse of said County in Austin, Texas, at or before 10 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock A.M. of the Monday next after expiration of twenty days from the date of service of this citation, then and there to answer the ORIGINAL PETITION FOR DIVORCE TRAVIS COUNTY STANDING ORDER filed in said Court, and entitled â&#x20AC;&#x153;IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF SUSIE A. CERVANTES and CARLOS CERVANTES MONTOYA, and In the Interest of ANDREW ELIJAH CERVANTES LIMA AND BRIAN CARLOS CERVANTES LIMA, CHILDREN. The nature of said suit is a request to DISSOLVE the marriage of the parties, appoint managing and possessory conservators, and divide the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right. The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest which will be binding on you, including the termination of the parentchild relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conservator with authority to consent to the CHILDRENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adoption. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said court at Austin, Texas, September 02, 2009. AMALIA RODRIGUEZMENDOZA Travis County District Clerk Travis County Courthouse 1000 Guadalupe, P.O. Box 679003 (78767) Austin, Texas 78701 By /s/ SHEILA COLLINS, Deputy REQUESTED BY: CHASE CINCINNATUS HAMILTON 111 CONGRESS AVENUE SUITE 1400 AUSTIN, TX 78701 BUSINESS PHONE: (512) 479-9722 D-1-GV-05-003476 CONSTABLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 98th District Court of Travis County, on the 20th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered D-1-GV-05003476, wherein City of Austin, Del Valle Independent School District, Travis County, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 11 and Travis County Hospital District are plaintiffs, and Ruthie B. Washington, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Ruthie B. Washington are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,154.18 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 98th District Court
of Travis County, Texas, on January 30, 2007. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 5, Block 5, Davidson City Addition, Plat No. 3/176 as described in Volume 9845, Page 602 of the deed records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,154.18 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY â&#x20AC;?AS ISâ&#x20AC;?. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. D-1-GV-07-000734 CONSTABLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 98th District Court of Travis County, on the 18th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered D-1-GV-07000734, wherein Austin Community College, Austin Independent School District, Austin Independent School District-County Education District, City of Austin, Travis County and Travis County Healthcare District are plaintiffs, and Myrtis D. Madison Allen a/k/a Myrdis D. Madison Allen, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Myrtis D. Madison Allen a/k/a Myrdis D. Madison Allen, Kermit S. Allen, City of Austin (In Rem Only) are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the following sums: Tract One: Billing Number 105800 = $3,526.84, Tract Two: Billing Number 105801 = $6,027.94 and Tract Three: Billing Number 108117 = $5,624.62 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on December 7, 2007. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock P.M.,
have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: TRACT 1: BILLING NO. 105800 Lot 21, Block 7, A.K. Black Subdivision No. 1, Plat No. 4/184 as described in Volume 2129, Page 449 and Volume 4797, Page 1628 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. TRACT 2: BILLING NO. 105801 Lot 22, Block 7, A.K. Black Subdivision No. 1, Plat No. 4/184 as described in Volume 2129, Page 449 and Volume 4797, Page 1628 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. TRACT 3: BILLING NO. 108117 Lot 4, Block 15, St. Johns College Addition, Plat No. 4/71 as described inVolume 2129, Page 450 and Volume 4797, Page 1628 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for the following sums: Tract One: Billing Number 105800 = $3,526.84, Tract Two: Billing Number 105801 = $6,027.94 and Tract Three: Billing Number 108117 = $5,624.62 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY â&#x20AC;&#x153;AS ISâ&#x20AC;?. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. D-1-GV-08-001377 CONSTABLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 250th District Court of Travis County, on the 21st day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered D-1GV-08-001377, wherein Austin Community College, Austin Independent School District, Travis County, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 4 and Travis County Healthcare District are plaintiffs, and Martha
AUCTION
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Agnes Kocian, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Martha Agnes Kocian are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $18,683.53 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on March 11, 2009. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit:
Lot 4, Block O, North Acres, Section 1, Plat No. 7/117 as described in Volume 2059, Page 176 and Probate Cause No. 53101 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $18,683.53 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY.
COMMON LAW Luke Ellis
The material in this column is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it a substitute for, legal advice. For advice on your specific facts and circumstances, consult a licensed attorney.
CAN THE LANDLORD CHANGE THE TENANT’S DOOR LOCK? I own a rental house, and my tenant is more than two months late on the rent. Can I change the door locks on the property because the tenant has not paid rent? Yes. The Texas Property Code (section 92.0081) allows a landlord to change the door locks of a tenant who is delinquent in rent. It is important to understand, however, that Texas law sets out very specific requirements that must be followed by a landlord when locking out a tenant. For example, if the landlord changes the door locks on a tenant delinquent in paying rent, the landlord must place a written notice on the tenant’s door. The notice must state the amount of rent and other charges for which the tenant is delinquent. The notice must also provide an on-site location available 24 hours a day where the tenant may go to obtain the new key or a telephone number that is answered 24 hours a day that the tenant may call to have a key delivered within two hours of calling the number. That’s right, landlords – even if you lock out your tenant for not paying rent, Texas law requires that you give the tenant the new key upon request. The new key must be provided without regard to whether the tenant pays the delinquent rent. Why bother changing the locks at all, you ask? Many landlords will change the locks when the tenant is nonresponsive to requests to pay the rent because by changing the locks, the tenant has to make contact with the landlord in order to gain entry into the rented premises. In short, changing the locks forces the tenant to communicate with the landlord before reentering the property. Be sure to read Texas Property Code Chapter 92 (section 92.0081), as numerous other provisions exist which must be complied with in order for a landlord to lock out a tenant. Please submit column suggestions, questions, and comments to thecommonlaw@austinchronicle.com. Submission of potential topics does not create an attorney-client relationship, and any information submitted is subject to being included in future columns.
YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. D-1-GV-08-001562 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 200th District Court of Travis County, on the 20th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered D-1GV-08-001562, wherein Austin Community College, Del Valle Independent School District, Travis County, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 11 and Travis County Healthcare District are plaintiffs, and Hattie Overton, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns & successors of the Estate of Hattie Overton, Florence Jean Black, Volma Overton, Jr., Sharlet Hoium a/k/a Sharlet Overton Hoium and Dedra Overton are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the following sums: Tract One: Billing Number 155352 = $11,313.17 and Tract Two: Billing Number 155357 = $2,532.66 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 200th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on April 20, 2009. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Tract One: Billing #155352 8.95 acres out of the Jacob Betts Sur. (aka a portion of Lot 19, Eggleston, Goldbeck and Seeling Subdivision, Plat No. 1/110) as desc. in Cause No. 166,125 and Doc. No. 2004073924 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. Tract Two: Billing #155357 0.830 of an acre out of the Jacob Betts Sur. (aka a portion of Lot 19, Eggleston, Goldbeck and Seeling Subdivision, Plat No. 1/110) as desc. in Cause No. 166, 125 and Doc. No. 2004073923 of the deed records of Travis County Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for the following sums: Tract One: Billing Number 155352 = $11,313.17 and Tract Two: Billing Number 155357 = $2,532.66 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. D-1-GV-08-001728 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE
REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 126th District Court of Travis County, on the 18th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered D-1GV-08-001728, wherein Austin Community College, Austin Independent School District, City of Austin, Travis County and Travis County Healthcare District are plaintiffs, and Bertha Gresham Beaver, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Bertha Gresham Beaver and Austin Independent School District, City of Austin, Travis County and Austin Community College (In Rem Only) are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $24,488.35 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on April 23, 2009. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 2, Block 5, Fiskville School Addition, Plat No. 4/169 as desc. in Vol. 737, Pg. 113 and Probate Cause No. 35,872 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $24,488.35 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-202988 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 53rd District Court of Travis County, on the 26th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV-202988, wherein Travis County, Lake Travis Independent School District, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 6 and Travis County Hospital District are plaintiffs, and Ricky Allen, Robin Allen, City of Austin (In Rem Only), Apache Shores Property Owners Association, Inc. (In Rem Only), and The Frost National Bank of San Antonio (In Rem Only) are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $1,922.89 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 53rd District Court of Travis County, Texas, on August 4, 2006. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M.,
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have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 29, Block H, Apache Shores, Section 5, Plat No. 55/41 as described in Volume 12524, Page 102 of the deed records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $1,922.89 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-300861 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 200th District Court of Travis County, on the 21st day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV300861, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 are plaintiffs, and Luis F. Gomez, Jr. and City of Austin (In Rem Only) are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,313.36 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 200th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on August 18, 2004. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 26083, Highland Lake Estates, Sec. 26 Amended, Plat No. 68/23 as desc. in Vol. 11260, Pg. 1112 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,313.36 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-302947 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 201st District Court of Travis County, on the 21st day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV302947, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 and Travis County Hospital District are plaintiffs, and Patricia L. Seals a/k/a Patricia Seals Harris are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,610.27 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 201st District Court of Travis County, Texas, on September 1, 2006. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 31094, Highland Lake Estates, Section 31, Plat No. 66/90, Travis County, Texas, and being more particularly described in Volume 11054, Page 805 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,610.27 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-303076 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 98th District Court of Travis County, on the 20th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV-303076, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 are plaintiffs, and Richard M. Landriault and Catherine A. Landriault are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $6,375.00 Dollars,
together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on October 1, 2004. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 12182, Bar-K Ranches Plat 12, Plat No. 61/84, Travis County, Texas, and being more particularly described in Volume 8042, Page 449 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $6,375.00 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-303107 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 250th District Court of Travis County, on the 26th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV303107, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 are plaintiffs, and Malcolm N. May, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Malcolm N. May are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,384.47 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on July 8, 2004. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 26222, Highland Lake Estates, Section 26 Amended, Plat No. 68/23 as desc. in Vol. 11084, Pg. 329 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,384.47 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009.
BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-303234 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of the 98th District Court of Travis County, on the 18th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV-303234, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County and Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 are plaintiffs, and Lela Anne Molt (In Rem Only), if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns and successors of the Estate of Lela Anne Molt, Henry L. Dell, Sr., and Clifford F. Molt (In Rem Only) are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,608.05 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on November 5, 2004. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: LOT 34153, HIGHLAND LAKE ESTATES, SECTION 34, PLAT NO. 79/139 AS DESC. IN VOL. 12472, PG. 2021 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,608.05 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. GV-402590 CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OF SALE REAL PROPERTY DELINQUENT TAXES BY VIRTUE of a certain Order Of Sale issued by the clerk of
the 250th District Court of Travis County, on the 20th day of August, 2009 in a certain cause numbered GV402590, wherein City of Lago Vista, Lago Vista Independent School District, Travis County, Travis County Emergency Services District No. 1 and Travis County Hospital District are plaintiffs, and Moyra Jean Pate a/k/a Moyra J. Harbison, if alive and if deceased, the unknown owners, heirs, assigns & successors of the Estate of Moyra Jean Pate a/k/a Moyra J. Harbison are defendant(s), in favor of said plaintiffs, for the sum of $2,352.38 Dollars, together with all costs of suit, that being the amount of judgment recovered by the said plaintiffs, in the 250th District Court of Travis County, Texas, on May 18, 2005. I, on the 27th day of August, 2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M., have levied upon, and will, on the 6th day of October, 2009 at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at 1000 Guadalupe Street in the City of Austin, within legal hours, proceed to sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the rights, title and interest of defendants in and to the following described property, levied upon as the property of defendants, to-wit: Lot 33176, Highland Lake Estates, Section 33, Plat No. 78/265, Travis County, Texas, being more particularly described in Volume 7121, Page 24 of the Deed Records of Travis County, Texas. THE ABOVE SALE to be made by me to satisfy the above described judgment for $2,352.38 Dollars in favor of plaintiffs, together with the costs of said suit, and the proceeds applied to the satisfaction thereof. Witness my hand this 27th day of August, 2009. BRUCE ELFANT, CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5 TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS BY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTY ON THE PROPERTY SOLD, THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOU BUY THE PROPERTY “AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FURTHER ADVISED THAT PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY AT THIS EXECUTION SALE MAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANY LIENS OR SECURITY INTERESTS ON THE PROPERTY. YOU ARE SIMPLY PURCHASING WHATEVER INTEREST THE DEBTOR HAS IN THE PROPERTY. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOU NEED TO CONSULT COUNSEL OF YOUR CHOICE. IN THE LAKE SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION, ROOM THREE 400 BROADWAY GARY, INDIANA (219) 881-6065 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF LAKE IN RE: THE MARRIAGE OF: MARGARET COOK Wife and JACOB WAYNE COOK Husband SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF INDIANA TO THE RESPONDENT: Jacob Wayne Cook Your spouse has filed an action for dissolution of marriage in the Court stated above. A copy of the Petition (and in some cases other documents) together with a separate Notice for the Court which is printed on yellow paper are attached to or otherwise served with this Summons and contain important details regarding the nature of these proceedings. THIS IS YOUR OFFICIAL NOTICE that FINAL hearing has been scheduled for October 22, 2009 AT 1:30PM, before this Court, in Room Three which is located on the third floor, at the address listed above in the upper right hand corner of this summons. If
you wish to hire an attorney to represent you in this matter, it is advisable to do so before that date. If you do not appear for that hearing, a provisional order could be entered by default which could remain in effect until this action is concluded. If you do not file a written appearance with the Clerk and serve copy on you spouse’s attorney, you may not receive notice of any further proceeding in this action. If you do not make such an appearance, a final decree could be entered by default which grants the relief sought in your spouse’s Petition; however, certain grounds for dismissal must be asserted in a timely fashion or are waived; and if you have a claim for relief against your spouse you may be required to assert such claims in a written pleading which must be filed with the Clerk’s and served on your spouse’s attorney. The following manner of service is hereby designated: PUBLICATION DATE: 8/20/09 Randy A. Godshalk #1517664 7127 Indianapolis Blvd. Hammond, IN 46324 (219) 844-1300 CLERK, By:/s/ Thomas R. Philpot Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES PURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED WITHIN 30 DAYS. GARAGE KEEPER: SOUTHSIDE WRECKER, 8200 S CONGRESS, AUSTIN, TX. 78745. 1997 TOYOTA 4T1BG22K5VU018875 1998 SAAB YS3DF78N3W7007509 2003 SEA DOO TRAILER 5KTBS17153F107838 1991 CHEVY VAN 1GBEG25KXM7132112 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Uncle Bob’s Self Storage locations listed below; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the below stated locations(s) to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on the following dates. No one under 16 allowed. Cash Only. Uncle Bob’s #285 9717 U.S. HWY 290 E Austin, TX 78724 (512) 278-1220 Tuesday, 9-29-2009 @ 9:00AM 224 LaQuette Newsome: furn, boxes 553 Chris Rodriguez: tools, appliances, off mach/equip, landscaping equip 6639 Tranell Nichols: hsld goods, furn, boxes, acctng records, clothing Uncle Bob’s #231 8227 North Lamar Austin, TX 78753 (512) 833-0855 Tuesday, 9-29-2009 @ 10:00AM 512 Alexander Briones: hsld goods, furn, boxes 537 Sal Mendivil: hsld goods, furn, boxes 700 Regina Cureton: hsld goods, furn 704 Romon Smith: hsld goods, boxes, tools, accounting records 729 Tom Henderson: hsld goods, TV/stereo equip 908 Rosario Carrero: hsld goods
914 Andrea Buckley: hsld goods, furn, boxes, TV/stereo equip, off equip 938 Sametra McDaniel: hsld goods 941 John W. Cox: hsld goods, furniture, tools 1303 Modular Logistics: furniture 1304 Modular Logistics: furniture 1305 Modular Logistics: furn, boxes, tools, off equip, accounting records Uncle Bob’s #276 2830 South A.W. Grimes Blvd Round Rock, TX 78664 (512) 310-0279 Tuesday, 9-29-2009 @ 11:00AM 109 Courtney Adams: furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 113 Jessica McClintock: household goods, boxes, tools, ATV 413 Emily Tidmore: household goods, furniture, boxes 2212 Deanna Cottrell: household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, TV’s or stereo equip 2225 Sherry Davis: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 2230 Terrance Carter: household goods, boxes, sporting goods 2236 Warren Todd Mabry: furniture 2409 Geoffery Walt: furniture, construction equip, boxes 2428 Sean Williams: office furniture, office machines/ equip., tools 4106 Juan Aviles: household goods, furniture, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip 4132 Deron Spivey: household goods, tools 4401 Aaron Cahak: furniture, boxes 5103 Debra Vallejo: household goods, boxes, appliances 5118 Shaine Cagle: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip, office furniture 5211 Mekeisha Martin: household goods, furniture boxes, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip 5403 Mark Dupree: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 6414 Carolyn Jeffery: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 6420 Cathy Blair: household goods, furniture, boxes, tools, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip, office machines/equip, landscaping equip, account records 7115 Richard Phillips: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 7122 Jayme McDaniel: household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, tools, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip, office equip 7202 Erin Rollins: household goods, furniture, boxes, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip 7415 Jesse Edwards: household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, tools, appliances, office equip, office machines, account records 7417 Venita Williams: household goods, furniture, TV’s or stereo equip 8410 Michelle Brown: household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip 9424 Jeremy Smith: furniture, boxes, sporting goods, tools 9510 Allen Leatherwood: furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equip Uncle Bob’s #197 5547 McNeil Dr. Austin, TX 78729 (512) 336-8390 Tuesday, 9-29-2009 @ 12 noon 821 Nathan Sheppard: hsld goods, boxes 1101 Ricardo Rivera: hsld goods, boxes, TV/stereo equip 1103 Rosalinda Reyes: hsld goods, furn, boxes, sporting goods, TV/stereo equip 1109 Tammy Owens: hsld goods, furn, boxes, TV/stereo equip
1318 Nicole MurchisonSouthard: hsld goods, furn, boxes, sporting goods, appliances, TV/stereo equip, acct records 1738 Tenisha Bruce: hsld goods, furn, boxes, TV/stereo equip Uncle Bob’s #287 6509 South First Street Austin, TX 78745 (512) 326-9696 Tuesday, 9-29-2009 @ 1:30PM 238 Pamela Brown: household goods, boxes, other 267 Sean Casey: household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, tools, appliances, TV’s or stereo equip, office equip, office machines, construction equip, landscaping equip, account records, sales samples 387 Shonda Jackson: household goods 1129 Lang Paul: household goods, furniture, boxes, tools, appliances 2337 Yolanda Rivera: household goods, furniture 3318 Carlos Coello: furniture, TV’s or stereo equip 3517 Luis Colunga: household goods, furniture, tools, appliances NOTICE OF NEW TRAFFIC REGULATIONS Notice is hereby given that Travis County, Texas, proposes the approval of the following traffic regulation: SET MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS ON BULIAN LANE IN PRECINCT THREE, ROSS ROAD IN PRECINCT FOUR, MAXIMUM PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMIT REVISION ON HORSEBACK HOLLOW IN PRECINCT THREE, AND AN ALL WAY STOP WARRANT ON CUERNAVACA DRIVE & MECCA ROAD IN PRECINCT THREE. Any resident of Travis County, Texas, aggrieved by this proposal action may make written request for a mandatory public hearing. Such request must be addressed to the Transportation and Natural Resources Department, Travis County, Texas, P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas, 78767, and must be received within seven (7) days of this notice. NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION A Public Auction will be held to satisfy landlord’s lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code. Sales will be held on October 17, 2009. A sale will be held at 12:00pm at A-A-A Storage 8956 Research Blvd. N. Austin, Phone 512-3389900. A Sale will be held at 1:00pm at A-A-A Storage 10707 IH 35 North Austin, Phone 512-977-9777. All units will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. Clean up and removal deposit will be required. Seller reserves the right to reject any bid. Sales include items from the following tenants’ storage spaces. #3721 Christopher Garza-furniture, TV, misc. #3705 Stephanie Shrunk-treadmill, HHG #2271 Jason Peters-HHG #7030 Carolyn Stephens-HHG #7102 Stephen DicostanzoHHG #2322 Brenda SwanHHG #8008 Shiela MachadoHHG NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE South Lamar Storage and Wine Cellar, pursuant to Ch. 59 of the Texas Property Code, hereby gives notice of a Public Sale on October 6, 2009 at South Lamar Storage and Wine Cellar located at 2201 Kinney Road, Austin, TX. Delinquent rental spaces will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at 11:00 am on the premises. The public is invited to attend. A total of 4 rental spaces containing misc. items, toys, clothing, furniture, household items, appliances and boxes of unknown contents will be sold to satisfy Landlord Liens. All items will be sold “as is” to the highest bidder. Only payment in the form of CASH AND CREDIT CARDS, NO CHECKS will be accepted. All items are subject to prior redemption. South Lamar Storage and Wine Cellar re-
serves the right to reject any bids. Tenants included in this sale are Unit 3095 Andrea Dunn, Unit 2068 Maria John, Unit B044 Brent Lopez. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, BEN WHITE MINI STORAGE located at 405 E. BEN WHITE BLVD, AUSTIN, TX 78704, POND SPRINGS MINI STORAGE located at 13444 POND SPRINGS ROAD, AUSTIN, TX 78729 and MOPAC SELF STORAGE located at 12900 N. MOPAC, AUSTIN, TX 78727 will hold a public auction of property to satisfy a landlord’s lien. Auction to begin at 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 2009 at BEN WHITE to be followed by an auction at 11:30 A.M., September 29th, 2009 at POND SPRINGS MINI STORAGE and concluded by an auction at 12:30 P.M. at MOPAC SELF STORAGE. Property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash. Property in each space may be sold item by item, in batches, or by the space. Property being sold includes contents in spaces of the following: BEN WHITE: Jesus Romero, House Unit, Donald Debord, Jose Jimenez, John Bender, Vickie Beam-Burk-King, Jennifer Pumphrey, Clarissa Lopez, Alicia Martinez, Lydia Ann Pina POND SPRINGS: Michelle Clark, Thomas White, Shirley Steely Townes, Christine Arguello, Jose Cuevas, Valorie Scrivens, Bryan Pope, Jessica Cohen, Mendoza Construction, Douglas Reitmeyer MOPAC: Michael Gill, Roland Chavera, Ayesha Jones Sale items to include: TV, chairs, boxes, couch, tools, beds, dressers, tables & chairs, clothes, pictures, stereo, kids rocking chair, exercise home gym, wicker furniture, work bench, china cabinet, china, baby toys, mini fridge, compressor, cunu, drill press, saws, roofing supplies, ladder, drafting table, washer/dryer, vacuum, sm black box, luggage, crates, star wars figure, file cabinet, weight bench, Pez collection, framed pictures, folding chairs, lamps, fishing poles, mountain bike. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE U-STORE-IT hereby gives notice of Public Sale under the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code. This sale will be held on October 6, 2009 beginning at 10:00 A.M. at the U-STORE-IT located at 10025 Manchaca Road Austin, Texas. This sale will continue to each designated address location listed below after the completion of the beginning sale. This sale is being held to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien. Everything sold is purchased “as is” “where is” for cash. USTORE-IT reserves the right to set a minimum bid, refuse any bid, or to cancel any Public Sale that is advertised. Announcements made the day of the sale take precedence over any printed materials related to the sale. U-Store-It #753 10025 Manchaca Rd Austin, TX. 78748 512-292-1760 Mitchell J. Bettinger - Books, Cabinet, Desk, Dresser, Fencing, Swing Set, Hose. Adam Rangel - Baby Crib, Bed, Bicycles, Boxes, Chair, Dresser, Fishing Poles, Ladders, stereo, TV Shannan Hickey - Box Spring, Boxes, Chest of Drawers, Desk, Lamps, Tables, Toys, Sewing Machine U-Store-It #751 610 E. Stassney Lane Austin, TX 78745 512-441-8300 Gisele Trevino - Bags, Boxes, Toys, TV, Video Game Controller, Purses. Sergio Guerrero - Books, Chair, Desk, Dressers, Mirrors, Pictures, Wardrobe, Gun Rack, Large Appliance. Amanda Zapata - Bags, Boxes, Fan, Microwave, Rugs, Shelf, Sofa, Speakers, Stereo, Stool, Table, Vacuum Cleaner, CD Player, Totes, Chair.
Beverly Ramsey - Headboard, Boxes, Chairs, Dressers, Mirror, Sofa, Speakers, Stereo, Tables, TV, Vacuum Cleaner, Love Seat. U-Store-It #748 12006 RR 620 N Austin, TX. 78745 512-336-5333 Cathy Henry - Boxes, Totes Ted Hunt - Mattress, Boxes, Chairs, Chest of Drawers, Lamps, Picture, Refrigerator, Suitcase, Trunk, Car Seat, Bed Frame, Loveseat, Totes. Gloria Dearen - Computer Monitor, Backpack, Stereo, Totes, Bookshelves, Weights. Rafiah A. Redman - Boxes, Clothing, Microwave, Suitcases, TV, Vacuum Cleaner, Totes, Playhouse, Printer, Camera Equipment. Nigel Graves - Baby Stroller, Mirrors, Suitcase, Tool Box, Baseball Card Collection, Totes, Car Seat, Christmas Tree Stand. AUCTIONEER: KENNETH HIERHOLZER 6568 NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Delinquent Tenants PS Orangeco, Inc. hereby gives notice that the property generally described below is being sold to satisfy a Landlord’s Lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms: All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 8th of October 2009 on or about the time indicated at each self-storage facility identified: NO CHILDREN PLEASE. Thursday October 8, 2009 9:00 a.m. Public Storage @ 1033 E 41st Street, Austin, TX 78751 1049 BATINA HILL, BOXES, FURNITURE, TOTES 1085 RON FOSTER, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING 3082 YOLANDA GARCIA, TOOL BOX, BOXES, BAGS 3171 JOSEPH FREEMAN, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 4085 KATHY URDY, BOXES, FURNITURE 4176 GRANT HENLEY, BOXES, TV 5159 KEVIN PAPE, LADDERS, BOXES, FURNITURE 5165 SYLVESTER STEWART, BOXES, ELECTRONICS 9:30am Public Storage @ 10001 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX 78753 1016 JESUS MANZANO PEREZ, FURNITURE, BEDDING, ELECTRONICS 2058 STANCY SPENCER, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 2060 JASON M INGRAHM, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 3031 JENNIFER M RIVERA, TILE, TRUCK CAMPERSHELL 3037 VERONICA LEE, FURNITURE, BOXES, ELECTRONICS 3051 DELBERT TOINS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 4004 PAM HAUSMANN, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 5010 ALEJANDRO CHARRE, BOXES, ELECTRONICS, FURNITURE 5043 AMBER M GONZALES, BOXES, FURNITURE, TOTES 5047 KEYLA MERCED, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 5055 JORGE DIAZ DE LEON, BOXES, ELECTRONICS, TOOLS 6020 IRENE CASTANEDA, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 7009 GEORGE TAYLOR, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 7027 LASHEMA TAYLOR, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 8048 JOSHUA WILLIAMS, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 10:00am Public Storage @ 10100 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX 78753
B085 CHRISTINA CHAPMAN, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES C076 MARK BLOOMQUIST, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS D074 KEVIN BEAN, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES D087 PAULA QUEVEDO, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES D106 ANDREW PARRA, FURNITURE D142 NATHAN O’NEAL, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING 10:30am Public Storage @ 937 Reinli, Austin, TX., 78751 131 MITISSA ALLEN, BOXES, BAGS 333 JOHN VIS, BOXES, TOTES 414 JOHN WYATT, FURNITURE, BEDDING, ELECTRONICS 537 RAMONA MOJICA, FURNITURE, BEDDING, ELECTRONICS 753 LINDA GRAY, BOXES, BAGS, FURNITURE 782 SHIRLEY KEYS, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 904 SHARON RANDLE, FURNITURE, BOXES, ELECTRONICS 11:00am Public Storage @ 8101 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753
127 NINA ROBINSON, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS 131 SAM STONE, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 219 ESTHER ASPERAS, BOXES, BAGS, FURNITURE 605 COVENANT PAINTING LLC, BOXES, ELECTRONICS, TOOLS 607 JOE SANCHEZ, BOXES, BAGS, FURNITURE 631 MARK CHRISTIAN, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 1023 KRYSTAL HOUSE, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 1075 RUTHIE ROBINSON, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 1416 MCARTHUR SMALL, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 1435 ARTHUR AGUILAR, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 1505 CRAIG GATEWOOD, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 2012 ULENE PORTER, BOXES, BAGS, TOES 3157 IRENE GARCIA CANTU, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 3206 LUZ CHAVEZ, TOTES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS N1216 SHARON JONES, TOTES, FURNITURE, BEDDING N1285 MAILING WILLAMSDAVIS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES
AV1001 POUND SALE
NOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY. THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT;
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JUNKYARD IS THE WAY TO GO FOR REPLACEMENT SEATS Dear Tom and Ray: I have an old 1995 Toyota Celica with 180,000 miles on it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in great shape, but the driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat has become worn and broken â&#x20AC;&#x201C; so broken that an upholstery shop cannot repair it. Buying new, aftermarket seats is expensive and probably requires drilling new mounting holes and other work that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not mechanically inclined or equipped to perform. So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m thinking I should try to find an old, used seat to replace mine. My question is: How do I go about finding a used seat? Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m assuming I must go to an auto salvage yard. Is it possible to search online to find a local yard with the part Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m looking for or find a nonlocal salvage yard that will mail me the part? I have no idea how salvage yards work. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Earl RAY: We happened to cover this very issue in depth in an article we wrote on our website. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Car Talkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Complete Guide to American Junkyards (Oops, Auto Recycling Facilities).â&#x20AC;? You can read the whole thing at www.cartalk.com. TOM: But hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the part you need to know, Earl. Just call a local junkyard. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find you the seat you need. RAY: Right. Most junkyards have an online parts locator system to find parts for their customers. So if they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the seat youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put it on the wire, and some other yard with a pristine â&#x20AC;&#x2122;95 Celica driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat with only 40,000 butt miles on it will ship it to them. TOM: Or, you may get a â&#x20AC;&#x2122;94 or â&#x20AC;&#x2122;96 seat. The junkyard has access to a database that can tell which seats from other model years will fit your â&#x20AC;&#x2122;95 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; without drilling new holes or remodeling the console. RAY: And this is absolutely the right way to go, Earl. There are some parts we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend buying at a junkyard, either because of safety issues or because of the high ratio of labor-to-parts cost. But a seat is an absolute junkyard winner â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as long as it passes the sniff test. *** If you buy a used car, will you just be inheriting the previous ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s problem? Tom and Ray dispel this and other myths about used cars in their pamphlet â&#x20AC;&#x153;How to Buy a Great Used Car: Secrets Only Your Mechanic Knows.â&#x20AC;? Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Used Car, PO Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. *** Get more Click and Clack in their new book, Ask Click and Clack: Answers from Car Talk. Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk website at www.cartalk.com. Tune in to Car Talk each Saturday at 9am on
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N1298 JOY MAXWELL, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS N1314 MARTIN GREER, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS, BICYCLE N1367 MIA HARVEY, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE N1397 SHAUNA RICHIE, FURNITURE N1402 MATTHEW FAGAN, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS N3389 BRANNEN TEMPLE, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES S1104 MARK ABEL, FURNITURE 12:00pm Public Storage @ 8525 N Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753 A011 GARY BOWENS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES B005 BRENDA WILLIAMS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES B030 KENNETH GRIGAR, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES E001 DENISE ALLEN MINK, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS E002 MCKENNA WRIGHT, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS GO11 JERRY BURGENER, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES H045 ISAAC AVALOS, MERCEDES J002 CHANCE REESE, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS J003 CHRISTIAN B MAGNONGUI, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS 12:30pm Public Storage @ 8128 N Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753 A003 JEREL LOZANO, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE C066 JAVIER GONZALES, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES D067 SAMUEL FERNANDEZ, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES E042 ADOLPHUS R KIMBROUGH, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES E048 PAULA LOWE, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS F021 JUDITH SANDERS, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE F055 BERNICE C TARALLO, BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRONICS 1:00pm Public Storage @ 9205 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78758 A321 ROBERT YOUNG, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT B028 JERRY NELSON, BOXES, FURNITURE, DRYER C027 AARON COLE, BOXES, ELECTONICS, TOTES D041 HOLLY REED, FURNITURE D061 JAMES ORTEGO, FURNITURE, BEDDING, WASHER E037 SHAMIKA PETERS, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE E088 HAGEN JAMES, BOXES, FURNITURE, TOOLS E131 NICHOLAS DEFREITAS, FUNRITURE E146 JOE BUSTOS, BOXES, GARDEN TOOLS, BIKES E169 DAVID DOSS, TOTES, BIKES, GRILL F029 DAYDON HARVEY, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 1:30pm Public Storage @ 12318 N Mopac Expressway, Austin, TX 78758 A087 DAVID CALLOWAY, BOXES A031 ANTHONY BRIDGES, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING B109 GLADYS TUREK, BOXES,TOTES, ELECTRONICS B131 KEVIN BURROW, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT B179 CYNTHIA SMITH, BOXES, TOTES, TOYS B264 VICKY BAYLOR, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS C278 ANGELA HUNTSBERRY, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS D517 ANGELA POCORABA, ALL ITEMS UNIT D514 GRACE CASTRO, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT
D516 ANGELA POCORABA, ALL ITEMS ON UNIT D529 ANDREA REITER, BOXES, FURNITURE D615 CORA HAYWOOD, BOXES, TOTES 2:00pm Public Storage @ 10931 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78759 2218 CONNY WILLIAMS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 2232 OSCAR PENN, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 2267 JOHN HENDERSON, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES G015 JOHN HENDERSON, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING 2:30pm Public Storage @ 12915 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78750 3015 CHRISTOPHER JONES, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 3104 ELENE TOLBERT-BYNUM, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 3118 WESLEY MOSS, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 3:00pm Public Storage @ 13675 N US HWY 183 Austin, TX 78750 0106 JERI BAYLOR, BOXES, BAGS, FURNITURE 0123 DEWAYNE BROCK, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 0301 MELVYN JONES, BOXES, ELECTRONICS, TOOLS 1223 RON ROBERTSON, CABINET, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 3:30pm Public Storage @ 1517 Round Rock Ave., Round Rock, TX 78681 1117 MARVIN HARRIS, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 1168 JARED A DIAZ, BOXES, BAGS, TOOLS 3105 VICTOR TRUAN, FURNITURE 4130 CONSWAYLA SMITH, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 4138 JOSHUA SMITH, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 6101 RACHEL MOSLEY, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 6112 GARY MICHAEL TAFF, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Shurlock Storage, hereby gives notice that the property generally described below is being sold to satisfy a landlordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lien pursuant to chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and the following terms; All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, with payment to be made at the time of sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item from the sale. Shurlock Storage 805 E Pflugerville Parkway Pflugerville, TX 78660 (512) 252-1400 Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:00am 304 Michele D Beechamwasher, dryer, TV, boxes 367 David W Brown-speaker, cabinets, tools 264 Antonio Hernandezelectrical supplies and equipment, tools, shelving 227 Mike R Hoelzer-household items, boxes 316 Cynthia M Mays-couches, vacuum, household items 239 Belton Osborne-landscape tools, wheelbarrows 345 John M Reynolds-TV, beds, furniture, household items 307 Chris CMS Shawver-furniture, boxes, household items 350 Larry J Sutton-refrigerator, dryer, household items 377 Joseph Tillery-dryer, boxes, household items 387 Gabriel Torres-shelves, boxes, household items NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PS Orangeco, Inc. hereby gives notice that the property generally described below is being sold to satisfy a Landlordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lien pursuant to Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms:
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All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 7th of October 2009 on or about the time indicated at each self-storage facility identified: NO CHILDREN PLEASE. Wednesday, October 7th 2009. 9:00 a.m. Public Storage @9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin, TX 78748 0052 ROBERT FRAZER, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 0086 MARK SMITH, BOXES, FURNITURE, COMPUTER 0208 SALLY ERDOS, BOXES, TRUNK, FURNITURE 0249 HENRY SEILEY, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 0313 LAURA QUINTANA, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 0404 ELAINE DAVIS, EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 0424 HAROLD PERRY, BOXES 0447 ADRIAN ALARCON, LADDER, LAWNMOWER, WASHER 0603 AUSTIN MICHAEL JONES, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 0614 JOSEPH NEAL, BOXES, BAGS, SHELVING 9:30a.m. Public Storage @ 7200 S 1st Street., Austin, TX 78745 A005 DORA PERALEZ RECIO, FURNITURE, BEDDING, ELECTRONICS B025 MARGRET SMITH, FURNITURE, BOXES, BIKE F179 YOLANDA CAMPOS PEREZ, SCOOTER, FISH TANK, BOXES F199 MICHELLE GOMEZ, BOXES, FURNITURE, POTTERY G213 VERONICA LUNA, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS J259 JANITH WOLJEVECH, BOXES, FURNITURE, TV K310 DEBRA WATTS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT L351 RAYMOND GREEN, BAGS, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS N415 STARRLYN VANHOOSE, TREADMILL, BOXES, FURNITURE N435 COURTNEY WHIDDON, TOTES, FURNITURE O447 JESSE SEDILLO, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES T603 DARRYL WITTLE, LADDERS, FURNITURE U618 ALEX SUNIGA, TOOL BOXES, BOXES, FURNITURE V727 JESUS CAZARES, FURNITURE W848 TAMBRA PATTERSON, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 10:00 a.m. Public Storage @ 7112 S Congress, Austin, TX 78745 B16 MILLE KEITHLEY, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS D7 HASSAN MAHMOOD, FURNITURE, BOXES, BEDDING D22 MICHAEL CRUZ, TOTES, FURNITURE G26 MICHAEL MACHAMER, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT J38 RAYMOND RENDON, BABY ITEMS, YARD TOOLDS, BOXES L13 MARIA MARTINEZ, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING L26 ANGELA OQUINN, BOXES, TOTES, ELECTRONICS L55 LINDA CHANDLER, BOXES, STOVE, TABLE L79 CROSS COUNTRY VAN LINES, FURNITURE, TOOL BOXES, EXERCISE EQUIPMENT M55 PAUL MASTERS, SHELVING, HAND DOLLY, FURNITURE M60 JOHNNY ANGEL RODRIGUEZ, WASHER, DRYER, FREEZER M71 BEN GOMEZ, CHEVY VAN M75 JOHNNY ANGEL RODRIGUEZ, BOXES, TOTES M76 VIRGINIA BYRD, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE
10:30 a.m. Public Storage @ 4202 Santiago, Austin, TX 78745 102 YVETTE MADRID, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 115 BENITO GOMEZ, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING 134 MICHAELA VILLENUEVE, TOOL BOX, TOTES, TRUNK 424 STEPHANIE CANADA, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 454 TEXAS INCOME PROPERTIES, BOXES, TOTES 561 HILDA RODRIGUEZ, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 11:00 a.m. Public Storage @ 2301 E Ben White, Austin, TX 78741 2036 DOMETRA GILBERT, BOXES, FURNITURE, BEDDING 2040 ELIZABETH GOMEZ, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 2083 TERRY TRISTAN, BOXES, TOTES, ELECTRONICS 2107 ERNEST LEMONT, BIKES, CHILDS BATTERY POWERED CAR 2128 MIKE ELKINS, BOXES, TOTES, BEDDING 2134 DARRYL WITTLE, BOXES, FURNITURE 2154 SHAWN VASQUEZ, BAGS, TOTES, ELECTRONICS 3185 MICHELLE TEMPLIN, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 11:15 a.m. Public Storage @ 5016 E Ben White, Austin, TX 78741 B016 VICEROSE MARTINEZ, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE B048 NATIONAL BANK CARD SYSTEMS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT B053 MELCHOR DELBOSQUE C004 RANDY LINCOLN, BOXES, FURNITURE C021 MARY STEVENS, BOXES, ELECTRONICS C122 THOMAS LOERA, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE C159 ANGELICA MANZANO, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT C163 NILDA ESQUIVEL, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE C180 RENITA MAJOR, BAGS C298 ANJILA DAVIS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT D009 GERALD GERHARDT, TOYOTA SCION D017 MARIA MCMILLIN, BOXES, BAGS, TOTES 11:30 a.m. Public Storage @ 2121 S IH 35, Austin, TX 78741 1008 SHAWN LLOYD, TOOL BOX, COMPRESSOR, BOXES 2113 ANGEL CALDERON, BOXES, TOTES, CLOTHING 2120 KALI GRIGGIN, BOXES, FURNITURE, COMPUTER 3009 MIKE FLANNERY, HAND DOLLY, FURNITURE, BOXES 4011 TARA WOOD, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 4012 FRED GALVAN, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 4027 FELIX FLORES, TREADMILL, BOXES, FURNITURE 4041 MICAELA PEREZ, BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE 4107 SILVIA PINEDA, TOTES, FURNITURE 4118 MAGDALANE LIMON, BOXES, BAGS, CHAIR 4155 JOSHUA DANIEL, BOXES, FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS 12:00 p.m. Public Storage @ 1213 W 6th Street, Austin, TX 78703 2132 KERI VOSS, BOXES, FURNITURE, COMPUTER 2145 PATRICIA HILL, BAGS, SUITCASE 3050 CORNERSTONE PROMOTIONS, BAGS, TOTES, PICTURES 5021 PATRICIA DANIEL, DESK, BOXES, TABLE 5087 MICHAEL NEELY, BOXES 12:15 p.m. Public Storage @ 5220 US HWY 290W, Austin, TX 78735 3100 AUSTIN JONES, TV & STAND 4114 JOSETT HARROS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 4288 ASHLEY LUCE, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 12:30 p.m. Public Storage @ 3911 Ranch Road FM 620 S Bee Cave, TX 78738
1100 JENETTE WILLIAMS, BOXES, FURNITURE 2102 JENETTE WILLIAMS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 2210 JAMES POLIVKA, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY STATE OF TEXAS COUNTY OF TEXAS CAUSE: C1CV07007207 By virtue of an Writ of Execution issued by the clerk of the County Court 2 Court of TRAVIS County, Texas, August 24, 2009, in cause numbered C1CV07007207, styled CACH, LLC versus MACEDONIO M ALVARADO, on a judgment rendered against MACEDONIO M ALVARADO; I did on August 25, 2009, at 9:30 a.m., levy upon the property of MACEDONIO M ALVARADO the following described real property: Lot 25, Block A, Dessau Estates, Section 1, also known as 12802 Long Meadow Dr. Pflugerville, Texas 78660 of the map or plat records of Travis County, Texas. On October 06, 2009, being the first Tuesday of the month, between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M., beginning at 10:00 a.m., at the Travis County Courthouse, 1000 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, I will sell for cash to the highest bidder, all the right, title and interest of MACEDONIO M ALVARADO in and to the real property described above. Dated at Austin, Travis County, Texas, September 03, 2009 Bruce Elfant, Constable Precinct 5 Travis County, Texas /s/ ALAN REDD by SENIOR DEPUTY ALAN REDD, Deputy Notice to Bidders: You are buying whatever interest, if any, the Debtor has in the property. Purchase of the Debtorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interest in the property may not extinguish any liens or security interests held by other persons. There are no warranties, express or implied, regarding the property being sold, including but not limited to warranties of title, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. Notice to Judgment Debtor: If there is any property, real or personal, you want to point out for levy in lieu of the above described property, you must contact this office immediately. Bidders shall present an unexpired written statement issued to the person in the manner prescribed by Section 34.015, Tax Code, showing that the Travis County Assessor-Collector has determined that there are no delinquent ad valorem taxes owed by the person. In addition, an individual may not bid on or purchase property in the name of any other individual. NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF JEREL S. COBB, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration with Will Annexed for the Estate of Jerel S. Cobb were issued to Jerel David Cobb, on September 10, 2009, in Cause No. C-1PB-09-89893, now pending in Probate Court No. One, Travis County, Texas, Sitting in Matters Probate. The residence of Jerel David Cobb is 1007 Fall Creek Drive, Austin, Travis County, Texas 78753. All persons having claims against this Estate, which is currently being administered, are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED September 10, 2009. WALKER ARENSON, Attorney for Jerel David Cobb 512.327.4422 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF FRANCES WITTER LEIFESTE, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate
of Frances Witter Leifeste, Deceased, were issued on September 1, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-001042 pending in the Travis County Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas to Terry Gilbert Leifeste and Ronald Edward Leifeste as Independent Co-Executors, residing in Austin, Texas and Woodway, Texas, respectively. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. The Post Office address for such claims is: Estate of Frances Witter Leifeste c/o Terry Leifeste 4518 Ramsey Avenue Austin, Texas 78756 Dated September 11, 2009 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF ROBERT W. ORAM Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Robert W. Oram, Deceased, were issued on September 10, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-001066, pending in the Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas, to the estateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s independent executor without bond, Virginia W. Oram. All persons having claims against the estate currently being administered are required to present them within the time required by law. Claims should be addressed in care of the representativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney, Lawrence A. Russell, 9951 Anderson Mill Road, Suite 200, Austin, Texas 78750. Dated this the 10th day of September, 2009. NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF CONNELL RAY DENNIS, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that in Cause No. C-1-PB-09000936, styled Estate of Connell Ray Dennis, Deceased, pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, original letters testamentary were issued on August 18, 2009, to Carolyn Jean Dennis Willingham. Claims may be presented and addressed to the personal representative of the estate in care of her attorneys at the following address: c/o GRAVES, DOUGHERTY, HEARON & MOODY a Professional Corporation Attn: Julie Frey P.O. Box 98 401 Congress, Suite 2200 Austin, Texas 78767-0098 All persons having claims against this estate are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED the 9th day of September, 2009. GRAVES, DOUGHERTY, HEARON & MOODY, A Professional Corporation P.O. Box 98 401 Congress, Suite 2200 Austin, Texas 78767-0098 512.480.5776 Telephone 512.480.5876 Fax By: /s/ Julie Frey State Bar ID No.: 00792283 ATTORNEYS FOR INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Letters of Guardianship of Herschel David Peel, An Incapacitated Person, were issued on September 4, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09000969, pending in Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to Mary Michelle Young of Bristow, Virginia. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time prescribed by law. All claims should be addressed in care of Craig Hopper, Hopper & Associates, P.C., 400 W. 15th St., Suite 408, Austin, Texas, 78701. Respectfully submitted, HOPPER & ASSOCIATES,
P.C. By: /s/ Craig Hopper State Bar No. 00794947 400 W. 15th Street, Suite 408 Austin, Texas 78701 (512) 615-6195 Telephone (512) 615-6194 Fax NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Administration for the Estate of Kristina Robin Greenlees, Deceased, were issued on September 3, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-08-089581, pending in the Probate Court No. One, Travis County, Texas, to: Robert J. Finley. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: John A. Crane Attorney at Law 700 Lavaca, Suite 1010 Austin, Texas 78701 DATED the 14th day of September, 2009. John A. Crane State Bar No.: 05006490 700 Lavaca, Suite 1010 Austin, Texas 78701 Telephone: (512) 469-9444 Facsimile: (512) 469-9060 Attorney for Robert J. Finley NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration for the Estate of Tom G. Davis a/k/a Thomas G. Davis, Deceased, were issued to Robert Mark Davis, as Independent Administrator of said Estate, on September 1, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-000701, pending in Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to Robert Mark Davis, Independent Administrator of said
Estate, in care of his attorney Carolyn Collins Ostrom, within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Carolyn Collins Ostrom Collins Ostrom Attorneys and Counselors 816 West 10th Street Austin, TX 78701 DATED the 18th day of September, 2009. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Judith Clare Horning Coleman, Deceased, were issued to Jason Gilbert Coleman, as Independent Executor of said Estate, on September 1, 2009, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-001020, pending in Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to Jason Gilbert Coleman, Independent Executor of said Estate, in care of his attorney Carolyn Collins Ostrom, within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Carolyn Collins Ostrom Collins Ostrom Attorneys and Counselors 816 West 10th Street Austin, TX 78701 DATED the 18th day of September, 2009. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of CHARLES WILLIAM WINDRUM AKA BILL WINDRUM, Deceased, were issued on September 10, 2009, in Cause No. C-1PB-09-000921, pending in the Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas, to: Julie W. Costas and Jill L. Thalmann. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law.
c/o: Brad Wiewel Attorney at Law 1601 Rio Grande St., Ste. 550 Austin, TX 78701 DATED the 18th day of September, 2009. /s/ Candice H. Bocock, Attorney NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Vivian Muncy Southward, Deceased, were issued on September 10, 2009, in Docket No. C-1-PB-09-001029, pending in the Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas, to: Jeanette Muncy Hawkins. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Claims shall be addressed to:”Representative, Estate of Vivian Muncy Southward c/o John W. Brodnax John W. Brodnax, P.C. 1202 Lakeway Drive, Suite 1 Lakeway, Texas 78734” (512) 261-0101 DATED the 10th day of September, 2009. /s/ John W. Brodnax ATTORNEY FOR INDEPENDENT EXECUTOR NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Bradley Howell Herrin, Deceased, were issued on 8/20/09, in Cause No. C-1-PB-09-000876 pending in the Probate Court No. 1, TRAVIS County, Texas, to: MARY K. HERRIN. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them to the undersigned within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. c/o: MARY K. HERRIN 6901 Breezy Pass
Austin, Texas 78749 DATED the 15th day of September, 2009. /s/ Brian T. Willie, Attorney for MARY K. HERRIN State Bar No.: 24059330 3755 Capital of Texas Hwy Suite 295 Austin, TX 78704 Telephone: (512) 478-0834 Facsimile: (512) 416-7070 OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO PROPOSERS TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be accepted by Travis County for the following items: 1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)/Financial System Software and Services, P090255-LC Opens: September 30, 2009 @ 2:00 p.m. Proposals should be submitted to: Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, Ned Granger Building, 314 West 11th, Room 400, P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767. Proposal Documents can be obtained from or viewed at the Travis County Purchasing Office at no charge or by downloading a copy from our website: www.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp. Proposers should use unit pricing or lump sum pricing, if appropriate. Payment may be made by check. The successful proponent shall be required to furnish a Payment Bond and a Performance Bond in the amount of One Hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded, if applicable. OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO BIDDERS TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be accepted by Travis County for the following items: 1. Panasonic P2 Cards, B100005-LC Opens: October 5, 2009 @
2:00 p.m. Bids should be submitted to: Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, Ned Granger Building, 314 West 11th, Room 400, P.O. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767. Specifications can be obtained from or viewed at the Travis County Purchasing Office at no charge or by downloading a copy from our website: www.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp. Bidders should use unit pricing or lump sum pricing, if appropriate. Payments may be made by check. The successful bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance Bond in the amount of One Hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded, if applicable. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE STATE OF MICHIGAN PROBATE COURT OAKLAND COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT-FAMILY DIVISION FILE NO. 2009-324,841-TV In the matter of THE BENJAMIN DANIELS TRUST dated May 17, 2005 as amended TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:* Michael Alan Kahl whose address(es) are unknown and whose interest in the matter may be barred or affected by the following: TAKE NOTICE:* An Order Directing Proceeds into Oakland County Missing Legatee’s Fund was entered by The Honorable Linda S. Hallmark on September 2, 2009. NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED: 1. Limited Supervision of the above trust has been granted for the purposes of hearing this matter. 2. Upon the pleadings and testimony taken, it appears that the Trustee of the Benjamin Daniels Trust dated May 17, 2005 has sought, but been unable to communicate with, a specific devisee, Mi-
chael Kahl (also know more fully as Michael Alan Kahl), of the above trust, who, it is alleged, refuses to communicate with the Trustee or with other family members of Benjamin Daniels. 2. That the Trustee of the Benjamin Daniels Trust dated May 17, 2005 shall mail a copy of this Order to Michael Kahl, at his last known address, by both regular mail and by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested, and a copy of this Order, by regular mail, to the other Specific Bequest beneficiaries of the above Trust. 3. That the Trustee of the Benjamin Daniels Trust dated May 17, 2005 shall forthwith have published a copy of this Order in a legal newspaper in Austin, Texas, the last known address of Michael Kahl. 4. That unless Michael Kahl shall contact the Trustee, or Trustee’s attorney, by writing or other means allowing for verification of his identity, within 45 days of the date of this Order, then Trustee may distribute his portion of the specific devised contained in the Benjamin Daniels Trust dated May 17, 2005 to the Oakland County Missing Legatees Fund, along with a copy of this Order, to be held under his name, and Trustee may then complete the administration of this Trust. 5. This Trust is released from continuing supervision upon the entry of this Order. Kemp Klein Law Firm Attorney name Thomas V. Trainer Bar no. P30520 201 W. Big Beaver, Suite 600 Troy, MI 48084 (248) 528-1111 Petitioner name Sandra Salinger 1227 Lisa Lane Los Altos, CA 94024 (650) 968-4206 STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT
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waukee, WI 53202-5009, (414) 224-8404, (414) 2243485. Gray & Associates, L.L.P. is attempting to collect a debt on our client’s behalf and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. If you have previously received a discharge in a chapter 7 bankruptcy case, this communication should not be construed as an attempt to hold you personally liable for the debt. STOR SELF STORAGE, 7728 Bee Cave Road, Austin, TX 78746 & 2508 W. Pecan Street., Pflugerville, Texas 78660 In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at Stor Self Storage locations listed below; And due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having disposed of on the following dates. No one under 16 allowed. Cash only! Stor Self Storage, 7728 Bee Cave Road, Austin, TX 78746 512-306-0776 October 6th @ 12pm #1: Dianne Connealy Unit # 00419 Size: 10’x20’ Tag # 0989335 Contents: Mattress set, 3antique dressers, ottoman, dining chairs, toys, misc. boxes Stor Self Storage, 2508 W. Pecan St., Pflugerville, Texas 78860 512-990-1000October 6th @ 12:30pm #1: Ryan Walquist Unit # 00511 Size: 7.5’x10’ Tag # 0912413 Contents: Computer, Washer, Dryer, Table Saw, Padded Chairs, Commercial Floor Sweeper, TV
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KILL ME ROMANTICALLY I can stage dive onto peoples faces all day longI like to do outdoor things and listen to live music as much as possible. sweetcel, 23, , #131157 YACAN’T ROLLER-SKATE INABUFFALOHERD I’ve lived a crazy life butit makes me who I am today. I smile a lot. You’ll either love my laugh or hate it. I’ma fast-talker but don’t have man-hands. sulcata, 35, , #131129
UNIQUE LADY Laid back independant lady looking to meet some new & interesting folks. Enjoy music, outdoor adventures, nature, dancing, learning new things, gardening and most importantly enjoying life. Pisces70, 39, , #130493 ADVENTUROUS APRIL I love traveling, going out, watching movies, music, exercising, and trying new things. I am looking for a serious romance. If you want to know more, just ask. April3, 27, , #131091
HAMLOVE i love ham, if you love ham too, call me or come by whispering pines trailer park. i am always there eating ham in my front yard. dd2009, 30, , #130995
KILLER SNEAKERS I’m 22 and live in south Austin, I’m 5’10 with cool tattoos! I love film, art, and animals. Im looking for someone who likes to have a good time. dakotaray, 22, , #131248
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LAID BACK MAN Looking for an interesting woman to experience Austin life with. I love music, hanging out and of coarse a party every now and then. ATX2782, 27, , #131243
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SAY SOMETHING, ANYTHING. I’m a fun loving kinda guy, I avoid all things pretentious. I like to have real conversations with real people. talk2me55, 24, , #131290 THETHINGSYOUOWNENDUP OWNINGYOU Been here for about 3 yrs but still have not seen all of austin,so I want to meet people who want to hit up some different areas of austin. LLCoolA, 29, , #124027
KEEP IT SIMPLE Looking for friendship first. Trying to share the things I like to do (kayaking, dining, drinking, rock climbing, live music, movies) and have someone share what they love. OneDoesntLoveBreathing, 23, , #131219 GAMER, SEXY, DORK I just moved to Austin, I’m looking for some friends, and hopefully more. I want to explore Austin, can anyone help show a stranger around??? I’ll make you dinner, lol. cre8tv, 29, , #131212 SARCASTIC WITH CHEESE Intelligent, sarcastic, witty, with a bit of cheese over the top. Looking to take a chance with some one new. Lostboy, 35, , #131135 MADHATTEROFACT I am a college student working my way into grad school. I enjoy exploring on my time off, urban or in nature. Need a partner in crime. RodneyJTexas, 25, , #131199
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SEEKING SOMEONE SPECIAL I’ve been single now for 24yrs.I enjoy good company, conversation, a funny Pixel movie, and spending time with my granddaughter.Fall and Spring are my favorite times of the year. Towanda, 52, , #126707
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BUILD ON FRIENSHIP Work way 2 much, don’t have much free time, am looking to meet a friend that I can share what free time I do have with. Holla. Iroc, 56, , , #130766
BABY BLUE EYE I am a man of honor and honesty,I value this in everyone I meet Iam kind at heart,I feel like Iam a kid traped in a mans body! Virgo4u, 28, , #131121 BOY SEEKS LOVE Looking for one really great woman. Someone that loves the attention of a great guy. Tired of the games. Just want to creat a life long passion with one person. OceanRacer, 50, , #120166 SON’THEMIST Love Life! Blessed to Awaken each morning. Great Food What the Hay. I’m as Unique as YOU! Wish to meet a Special Lady to share time with & have Fun. NevrGiveUP, 47, , #131083
FRIENDLY FLIRT Although my name says curious, I’ve been with girls but it’s been awhile. I can’t help it, but I love to have my cake and eat it too! CuriousLiz, 21, , , #130681
I’M 19! the best friend you will evr had not to brite,but supper sweet i’m supper QUIET! love to listen, im very shy gAngsta rockstAr cute. sheezeniz, 81, , #130587 WHAT’S COOKIN’? I blend well,love creating,deep witty conversation, good friends,good food,outdoor most anything. Love Fem women, ocean breeze, hike, travel, adventure, clear honest communication, good humor, romance, learning. Devine303, 40, , #130350 HUMOROUS, QUIRKY, SHY I believe in the energy that surrounds us, and the positive energy that I put forth will bring positive results. Looking for friends and should the attraction be right, LTR. MaestroDelGato, 51, , #127339
LOST AND LONELY i go out to red7,fuel and any other club or bar with cheep drinks comeout and play with me. must love to eat meat. doggod45, 26, , #131102 THICK CHICK DIVA Thick Chic, funny, nicest person you’ll ever meet. Longing for fmf relationship, intimacy. A girly girl likes to shop, have fun. Down to earth,and care free...no rules! InfamousPeaches, 30, , #131276 OUT-SPOKEN, OPEN-MINDED, FREE-SPIRITED! I believe that being young is about making mistakes & taking adventured! If you’re young & adventurous, too, maybe we could go exploring together! Clam87, 22, , #131228 1-N-A-MILLION HOPELESS ROMANTIC! Love to love. I am gentle but don’t mind getting dirty. Looking for some1 I can spend time w/n have a lil fun. Some1 who is going to love me. DulceDucati13, 32, , #130790
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ASL INTERPRETER pretty sure you didn’t give me a fake number.finger spelled it at the Dizzy Rooster on Friday night. Tall guy red hair, who you signed wasn’t an a-hole. When: Friday, September 11. Where: Dizzy Rooster. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904362 WAHHOOING A KEG me-putting gas right after midnight. you- hot blonde trying to get beer this late held the door as you ran lets get some drinks Wah Hoo When: Friday, September 11. Where: 711 at north lamar & paton gin. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904360 HOTTIE AT AMY’S You: Sweet guy that got my Guiness chocolate ice cream to cure me from a long night out. Me: Girl that never goes out much- maybe you can change that? When: Saturday, September 12. Where: Amy’s Ice Cream on Burnet Rd.. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904358 BARTON SPRINGS FENCE-LINE Striking in your brown and white floral print long shorts along the fence, watching us in the dog side of Barton Springs. Want to meet me and my dogs? When: Tuesday, September 8. Where: Barton Springs. You: #904357 Woman. Me: Man.
SEXY COFFEE MAN DeCoty Coffee. Saw you again in H-town! Are you following me? Your crazy hair makes me crazy! I want some spices! When: Wednesday, August 26. Where: Houston. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904332 STUBBS, CULT SHOW You had your hand on my waist and asked me if you were going to get killed. I can’t stop thinking about you. I want to explain my situation. When: Saturday, September 5. Where: Stubbs. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904354
PARLOUR NORTH LOOP You served me my beer, and smiled at me as I drank it and danced the mashed potato. Do you love me now that I can dance? When: Saturday, August 1. Where: The Parlour North Loop. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904364 QUACK’S TABLE SHARING We shared a table and talked about how I had to keep rereading paragraphs in my book. Couldn’t concentrate with you around! Let me buy your next cup of coffee? When: Sunday, September 13. Where: Quack’s (43rd and Duval). You: Woman. Me: Man. #904361
JO’S COFFEE SHOP You:Long beautiful dark hair with a red jersey at Jo’s Coffee on SoCo last Saturday afternoon. Me:In all black with a Compton hat on, maybe coffee at Jo’s next Saturday! When: Saturday, September 5. Where: Jo’s Coffee Shop. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904348 GUSHED @ PLUSH WM dancing with girls @ Plush, catching your eye. You: Gorgeous WM against the bar. Asked your name, thought I knew you. Get my own? I want to get you! When: Saturday, September 5. Where: Plush. You: Man. Me: Man. #904351
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CHEESECLOTH/LAUNDRY We were both doing laundry tonight when a guy came in looking for his cheesecloth. I wish I’d asked you what a cheesecloth is. Will you clue me in? When: Tuesday, September 1. Where: laudromat. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904342 SPINCYCLE GIRL! Girl w/ Blue JEEP, u where @ spincycle on Guad. supercute cut-off jeans w/ white shirt & sweet pumas? u wanna hav a cup-o-joe? When: Wednesday, September 2. Where: Guadalupe. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904344 PAINTER GIRL We met at Ego’s, had coffee at Jo’s, and a drink at the SanJose Hotel. You’re not a big phone person, but where do I write a real letter to? When: Saturday, August 22. Where: Ego’s. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904339 OFFICEMAX ON 5TH A gloomy Thursday became much brighter....I saw you for a moment, I’d like to ask you for a few more. you: red hair, gray shirt me: orange shirt, scruffy face When: Thursday, September 10. Where: OfficeMax on 5th. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904353
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The soft-minded man always fears change,” said one of my favorite transformers, Martin Luther King Jr. “For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.” The corollary to King’s pronouncement is that changes are less likely to be painful if you’re not afraid of them. According to my astrological analysis, Libra, none of that stuff will be an issue for you in the coming weeks. As you slip into a phase of riotous growth, I expect you will have abundant access to previously dormant reserves of courage and tough-mindedness.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies show that many people believe their attendance at a sports event impacts the outcome of the game. They are obviously suffering from a ridiculous delusion, right? They’re enthralled by the kind of magical thinking that our primitive ancestors engaged in, right? Normally I’d say yes, but not right now, not for you Scorpios. For a limited time only, your presence at events where people congregate may exert an uncanny influence far beyond the power of logic to explain. Your opinions will carry more weight than usual, and your power to shape group dynamics will be at a peak. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): If I’m reading the astrological omens correctly, you’re now en-
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The makers of Clef du Vin say that by using their simple technology, you can “accelerate the aromatic development of the wine’s flavor and soften its structure.” So dramatic is the supposed effect that “one second of the device in the wine is equal to one year’s age.” I believe that you now have the metaphorical equivalent of this marvel, Virgo. This temporary talent won’t work on wine, but it could perform wonders with other processes that would benefit from having their evolution expedited.
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SAUCEFEST RED DRESS Standing side by side me green sauce line, you red sauce line. Glanced each other more than once... Love to meet with you,A drink?. You are beautiful, love your smile. When: Sunday, August 30. Where: Sauce Festival. You: #904340 Woman. Me: Man.
AMADEUS PARAMOUNT 9/3 YOU: Brunette, blue shirt, jeans, and cap. ME: Brown hair, side-burns, red shirt sitting next between you and my friends. I would love another chance at hello! When: Thursday, September 3. Where: Paramount. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904347 NORWEGIAN RECYCLER We were unloading our vehicles quickly to beat the heat. You - tall, healthy, blond. Norwegian flag on your SUV. Would love meet you in a cooler, less putrid setting. When: Tuesday, September 1. Where: Ecology Action. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904345 FRENCH VANILLA HEB you behind me at checkout caregiver talked about sick people nice smile talk somemore? ice cream on special cones looked yummee like you When: Thursday, August 27. Where: heb slaughter. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904330 GAS STATION 2222/620 We were at the Shell station off of 620 and 2222 Sat the 29th. You were in a ford truck, I was the single mom on the old green Jeep. When: Saturday, August 29. Where: Gas Station. You: Man. Me: Woman. #904337 WAREHOUSEWHITEROSE Beautiful beautiful woman; saw you returning balls inside. You came outside and gave me a sweet white rose. I was too stunned to speak. I’m there often, treat you sometime? When: Friday, August 28. Where: Warehouse Saloon. You: Woman. Me: Man. #904335 FED EX COUNTER Saw you at the Fed Ex counter on 4th st. Took my breath away!! Drove away in a green Rav 4. Can’t stop thinking about you! Coffee?? When: Tuesday, August 25. Where: kinko’s on 4th. You: Woman. Me: Woman. #904328
sconced in a smooth groove and not even close to being stuck in a cluttered rut. You’re making the right moves for the best reasons and never trying to get ahead at the expense of others. During a grace period like this, I think you’d be wise to convene what I call a problem team. A problem team is a posse of smart allies whose task it is to dream up every possible glitch that could threaten to undermine your efforts in the coming weeks. They lead you through dry runs that test your reflexes and prime your resourcefulness, thereby making those glitches unlikely to occur.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): While I’m pretty much a genius when it comes to the meaning of Kurt Cobain’s lyrics, the art of cooking perfect scrambled eggs, and the secrets of being a good listener, I’m an absolute idiot about how a car engine works, how to make money on eBay, and how to craft a foreign policy that would deal effectively with Pakistan. What about you, Capricorn? What are you dumb about? This is an excellent time to cure your ignorance about any subject that will be important for you to be smarter about in the future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The following projects would be excellent ways for you to spend your time in the coming weeks. 1) Attend a fantasy camp where you learn rodeo tricks. (They might come in handy during committee meetings and collaborative efforts in the next six months.) 2) Teach a worthy candidate the intricacies of licking your nuzzle spots. (It no longer makes sense to expect people to read your mind). 3) Scratch an itch that has been subliminally bugging you. (Unless of course you find some value in being subliminally bugged.) 4) Solicit lively information from a devil’s advocate, a sexy mother, and a world traveler. (You need exposure to people whose perspectives will pry open a couple of the closed areas of your mind). PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your quest has come to a fork, Pisces. Down one path lies a tumultuous obsession – a compulsive, tormented hunt like Captain Ahab’s pursuit of Moby Dick. In the other direction, a graceful chase beckons, more in the manner of Sir Galahad’s pure-hearted search for the Holy Grail. Choose one fork and your quarry will be beastly, impossible, and frustrating. If you choose the other fork, your quarry will be magical, earthy, and transformative.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): To the thug who stole my Chevy Malibu from its parking place while I was recording an album in San Francisco back in 1991: I forgive you. To the lovely and talented Artemisia, who couldn’t bring herself to fall in love with me as we partied at the Burning Man festival back in 2001: I forgive you. To the agent who helped my writing career so much but also cheated me out of thousands of dollars: I forgive you. To any Aries readers who hate it when I refer to my personal life in their horoscopes and would much rather I confine myself to talking about them: I forgive you and recommend that you engage in a more thorough and profound version of the cleansing I just illustrated.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The old saying “You can’t have your cake and eat it too” suggests that maybe it’s not a good idea to go out on dates with a variety of lovers while you’re engaged to be married. Nostradamus scholar John Hogue has taken the spirit of this idea and created a variation that I think applies to you right now, Taurus. “You can’t have your past and your future, too,” he says. In other words, you cannot fully embrace the exciting and daunting possibilities that loom ahead of you if you also insist on immersing yourself in the pleasures of the past. You can have either the old ways or the new ways, but not both.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According to my astrological analysis, you currently have a certain resemblance to a vacuum cleaner or a hungry baby or a mini black hole. Every time I’ve turned my meditations to the Gemini tribe, I’ve been hearing a psychic version of a giant sucking sound. What does it all mean? I sense that you’re especially voracious right now, almost insatiable – as if you’re inclined to engorge and absorb any old thing that you happen to find in front of you. Are my speculations true? If so, I hope and pray that all the things you’re finding in front of you are healthy for you. But just in case some of them are not: Would you consider exercising some discrimination about what you allow to enter into the sacred temple of your body and mind?
CANCER (June 21-July 22): These days, your gods can kick the butts of everyone else’s gods. Likewise, your lawyers and agents and sidekicks can most likely outwit, outdo, and out-wrestle everyone else’s. But it’s crucial to note that if you try to work alone, you will not be able to kick other people’s butts, let alone the butts of their gods, lawyers, agents, and sidekicks. The skills of your allies will be indispensable. The way I see it, your test in the coming days will be to overcome any tendency you might have to indulge in pathological levels of self-sufficiency as you cultivate a greater capacity to ask for and receive help.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “We’re all mutants,” read the headline of a report on the latest genetic research. It turns out that like everyone else, you have between 100 and 200 mutations in your DNA – absolutely new characteristics that were not passed down to you by your parents. To gather the evidence for this revelation, scientists had to sort through huge amounts of data; there are thousands of genes but only a few mutations. A Chinese scientist who was a member of the research team said that “finding this tiny number of mutations was more difficult than finding an ant’s egg in an emperor’s rice store.” I predict that you will soon have a comparable experience, Leo: From an overwhelming array of choices, you’ll be able to locate the rare catalysts you need. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877/873-4888 or 900/950-7700.
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