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BALLOT ON P.46VOLUME 28★ NUMBER 44JULY 3, 2009ALL THAT REMAINSRoxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago.Her family has only memories, and investigators have few clues.They can only hope that one day we’ll know what happened to her.i want to believeBY JORDAN SMITH★ P.22THE ARTS Classic Comeback FOOD New Lakeside Eats SCREENS The Lewd Mechanicals MUSIC Keying Up Styler and ScarboroughSEE austinchronicle.com FOR BREAKING NEWS, DAILY LISTINGS, HASHING THE SESSION, FORT WORTH’S NEW STONEWALL, RECKLESS KELLY DOES THE DELL, WELL-CLAD BEARS, AND MORE FOURTH-ISH FOMENT

contents4 PAGE TWO Hypocrisy and HealthCare7 POSTMARKS Readers respond toMarc Savlov’s ‘Crime and the CitySolution,’ and morenews12 AISD Staff Shake-Up; $4 MillionLater: Austin Loses Lab to Waco;Special Session Could End inFireworks; and MoreEXPECT THE UNEXPECTEDSummertime and the living is ...frenziedBY AMY SMITH18 DEVELOPING STORIES LearningFrom Denver21 THE HIGHTOWER REPORTRepublicans on Health Care; andWall Street’s Gas-Pump Robbery22 ALL THAT REMAINS RoxannePaltauf vanished three years ago,leaving behind few cluesBY JORDAN SMITHcalendar54 COMMUNITYWeeder pea pilaf thew night id stayed sinardor toof harm armor perfect union …56 DAY TRIPS Pendery’s World of Chiles andSpices offers ‘gourmet spices for thediscerning chef’61 SPORTSPLAYING THROUGH Spectator sportscan crush our most ardent hopes anddreams, and that’s a good thingSOCCER WATCH Is it time to care aboutsoccer? Stephen Colbert thinks so.62 ARTSTheatre: Department of AngelsClassical: A Love Supreme – The Musicof John ColtraneVisual Arts: ‘The Lining of Forgetting:Internal and External Memory in Art’THIS WEEK @vote!26 LETTERS AT 3AMSomething Absurd inBetweenBY MICHAEL VENTURAthe arts29 Improvising for 40Hours; Building YourOwn Puppets; andFinding Your Muse atOld Cape Cod30 CLASSICS COMEBACK Arethe great dramas ofyore reclaiming theirplace on Austin’s stages?BY ROBERT FAIRES32 AFTER A FASHION YourStyle Avatar cleverly distillsthis weekend’s newsoverkill, so you don’thave toBY STEPHEN MACMILLANMOSERNewsdesk gets down with the Lege’s SPECIAL SESSION > The return of JOHNNY HERNANDEZ at Earache! >Whither Marilyn? Picture in Picture makes a pilgrimage to MISFIT FLATS, NEV. > Gay Place is disturbed bythe FORT WORTH NEWS > Chronique gets in your PanTz2 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m‘Best of Austin’ Ballot, p.46food35 Cafe Blue; Terredora diPaolo; Event Menu: July 4-8;and Food-o-File36 LAKE EATS REVISITED Wetake a trip down RanchRoad 620 for new bites onthe sceneBY VIRGINIA B. WOOD38 RESTAURANT ROULETTE A spinaround our Restaurant Guidescreens43 Austin Studios Forum; KLRUUpdate; and Film News44 TOUGH CROWD The setup: 21depressives, neurotics, andsocial misfits walk into a book.Meet comedy’s all-stars.BY KIMBERLEY JONES45 TV EYE Hanging ToughBY BELINDA ACOSTA68 FILMPublic Enemies, Whatever Works,Management70 SHOWTIMES76 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Were the World Mine,Objectified, Jaws, Cool Hand Luke, TheCat From Outer Space, Horror Remix:Shopping, The Uninvited78 MUSICRECOMMENDED July Fourth fireworks withExplosions in the Sky, Jerry Jeff Walker,Kat Edmonson, and Henry Rollins, plusAbe Vigoda, Indian Jewelry, Pentagram,Deer Tick, Bill Callahan, PinetopPerkins’ 96th birthday, the Dillards, etc.80 VENUES82 CLUB LISTINGS + ROADSHOWSaustinchronicle.comaustinchronicle.com/chronicVOL. 28, NO. 44 JULY 3, 2009backCOVER PHOTO BY JANA BIRCHUMmusic47 OFF THE RECORD Explosionsin the Sky commemoratesthe Fourth of July, Harlemsigns with Matador, and payingtribute to Sky SunlightSaxon and the King of Pop48 MARSHALL STYLER/LAURASCARBOROUGH One’s a former1980s rocker, the othera dance troupe tamer, butboth local keyboardists composesounds for a new ageBY MARGARET MOSER52 PHASES & STAGES Wilco, SonVolt, the Low Anthem, JeffreyLewis, and more53 NEWS OF THE WEIRD The junkin New York’s harbors, therobot love in Afghanistan,and more100 COMIX How to Be Happy, Troubletown,Eyebeam, and moreMR. SMARTY PANTS Small placeswith big names, solving the mysteryof white meat, and more101 CLASSIFIEDS109 THE COMMON LAW Austin WaterRestrictions110 CAR TALK It’s Hard to Be an EarlyAdopter of New Technology113 EASY STREET,PERSONALSTHE LUV DOC A rambling recommendationto shore up your socialcalendar115 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Consider thewisdom of Lao Tse, CancerianSENIOR EDITORSMANAGING EDITOR Cindy Widner FILM Marjorie BaumgartenARTS Robert FairesMUSIC Raoul HernandezNEWS Michael KingNEWS MANAGING EDITOR Amy SmithFOOD Virginia B. WoodSCREENS, BOOKS Kimberley JonesSPECIAL ISSUES, GUIDES, INTERNS Kate MesserASSOCIATE EDITORSNEWS Nora AnkrumCALENDARARTS LISTINGS Wayne Alan BrennerMUSIC Audra SchroederThe Austin Chronicle offers nonpaying internships.Contact Kate Messer at the intern hotline, 454-5765 x303.The Austin Chronicle (ISSN: 1074-0740) is published byThe Austin Chronicle Corporation weekly 52 times per year at4000 N. I-35, Austin, TX 78751. 512/454-5766©2007 Austin Chronicle Corp. 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PostmarksLETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed withfull name and include daytime phone number, fulladdress, or e-mail address. Letters should be nolonger than 300 words. We reserve the right to editall submissions. Letters may not be edited, addedto, or changed by sender once we receive them.General e-mail address: mail@austinchronicle.comPostmarks forum:austinchronicle.com/forums/postmarksMailing address: The Austin Chronicle,PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN!Dear Editor,What part of “violent crime … is down 14%”in the Downtown area does Marc Savlov notunderstand [“Crime and the City Solution,”Music, June 26]? This reads to me like aponcey twit that doesn’t like the color of thepeople who have started hanging out in hisneighborhood and is trying to whip up publichysteria. Why the editors choose to indulgehim is beyond me; they should send him backto writing the worst movie reviews in Austin.R. Michael LitchfieldCONTINUED ON P.8F RUMSaustinchronicle.com/forumsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 7

P0STMARKSCONTINUED FROM P.7SENSATIONALIST RHETORIC AND SCARE TACTICSDear Editor,While Marc Savlov’s article on crime Downtown is a worthysubject and something that everyone should be aware of, whatis with the sensationalist rhetoric and scare tactics throughoutthe article [“Crime and the City Solution” Music, June 26]? MarcSavlov and business owners characterize Sixth and Red River likeit’s a death trap waiting to steal your wallet and eat your children,when that just isn’t the case. Buried deep within the accounts oframpant drug dealing and violence is the statistic that crime isdown 14%, so why the tagline “Murder, shootings, and crack dealerson every corner”? Of course there’s crime Downtown, but isthis kind of language really necessary?Nick HenniesSENSATIONALISTIC COVER!Dear Editor,Regarding your cover story “Crime and the City Solution” [Music,June 26]: Could your cover be more sensationalistic? Blood splatteron a chalk-mark outline of a guitar? Because of violence in anarea with dozens of bars, the host of hundreds of thousands ofvisitors and locals yearly? Do you know the violent crime rates inNew Orleans’ French Quarter? Memphis’ Beale Street? Those aretourist destinations with a lot more trouble than we have.Savlov’s “interview” with Police Chief Art Acevedo was a candycoveredsoft pitch that smelled of Glade Lilac Spring. I thoughtI had my face shoved into Grandma’s armpit while reading it.Downtown violent crime is down 14% this year, Acevedo says, and“Our Downtown is one of the safest downtowns in the country.”So much for your blood-splattered chalk outline and reactionarytexts of “frequently bloody” and “potentially deadly.” Driving I-35is deadlier than having a beer on Sixth at midnight. Where’s yourscary cover art for that?Still, the “reporting” gets better. Savlov lets Acevedo whine thathe needs 50 more police officers who will dress like cops andscatter the dealers and thugs before they walk or ride around thecorner. Yeah … that’s working so well now.I work less than a block away from McCreight’s business andoften see a dozen cops all hanging out on that corner wherecrack and crime is dispensed. When the cops leave, the thugscome back. Why doesn’t Acevedo simply put some of the copshe already has in street clothes so they aren’t so neon-brightobvious to the criminals? Then they’ll get some bad guys.Walking more cops around in cop uniforms is like turning on thelight in a room filled with roaches.Austin doesn’t need more cops. The cops we have need to beutilized properly.Trent RekerFINDS MOSER’S COMMENTS RACISTDear Editor,“[T]he … conversation circles around to how a young Koreanwoman [BettySoo] born of immigrant parents makes all-Americanmusic” [“A Girl Named Soo,” Music, June 19]. Maybe it’s becauseshe was born in America and grew up in a Houston suburb? Jeez,Margaret, could you try to be a little more racist?Yours,Alan McKendreeDOES ANYONE LIKE THIS PLAN?Dear Editor,Re: “Muny Isn’t Part of UT’s Grand Plans” [News, June 26]:Is there anyone other than the Board of Regents or Cooper,Robertson & Partners that likes this plan? Maybe I’m a bitbiased being a cranky graduate student in integrative biology,but I don’t think this plan makes sense for anyone. For onething, I recall them talking about the giant traffic problem onLake Austin being an issue. How the hell is a large developmentgoing to help this? In general, why is it that teaching andresearch resources always seem to get the short end of thestick? I might be misinformed, but I thought that the point of auniversity was for learning, not making a profit. Or do we needto sell off the Brackenridge Tract to pay for more law firms tocome in, take recommendations, completely ignore said recommendations,and do whatever the hell the regents wanted to doin the first place? I wish I could hire ass-kissers from N.Y. for allmy harebrained ideas.Ginnie MorrisonMORE TABLOID THAN ALTERNATIVEDear Editor,I read Marc Savlov’s June 26 article “Crime and the City Solution”[Music] with much disappointment. The author failed to ask anyof the challenging questions that might interrogate the dominantassumptions about crime, race, class, drug addiction, and criminalityand maybe bring us a step closer to some real solutions. Instead, hesimply reiterated and reinforced all the overstated and underscrutinizedassumptions and stereotypes our society has about crime andin a particularly sensational and fearmongering way. Was the authorseeking syndication at Fox News or the New York Post?After briefly acknowledging that, despite some high-profileincidents recently, Downtown crime has declined significantly, thearticle continues on its pseudo-apocalyptic narrative of violenceand lost city revenue before falling off on a tangent about urbanplanning. If the Chronicle hopes to remain an “alternative” weekly,instead of just a tabloid, it might consider asking some moredifficult questions, such as: What causes crime? (Please don’tsay broken glass or dirty alleys.) What prevents crime, insteadof just covering it up or pushing it to a part of town that mattersless to the city’s power brokers? What causes drug addictionand homelessness? What cures them? Do prisons fix theseproblems? Why are people blaming evacuees from New Orleans?Why did people have to evacuate New Orleans in the first place?Why can’t they go back to New Orleans? 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CONTINUED FROM P.8AmongP0STMARKSADDRESS DRIVE-BY SHOOTINGDear Editor,“We’re now a big city, and we have to startaddressing [the drug problem] like a big city,” saysPolice Chief Art Acevedo in Savlov’s article “Crimeand the City Solution” [Music, June 26]. Howabout starting by addressing the drive-by shootingthat happened on Red River and Fourth Streeton Friday, June 19, around midnight? No one washit (not even the car the shooter was aiming at);however, there were about 20 people total dividedamong the street corners mulling about, and theshooter was in a dark green Caddy with cursivewriting all over the back windshield (so artistic thatwe couldn’t read it and were only feet away). Theworst part about the entire incident is that later onour friends who were with us saw the cars involvedhanging out under I-35 at Seventh (across fromthe police station), told the cops just east of thatintersection, and were reprimanded by said copsfor flagging them down on “the wrong side of theircom-system.” Huh? Since then I have yet to be ableto track down a single mention of the incident savefor a Yelp entry. I have always felt safe in Austinand don’t like where it looks like it’s going.Jennifer Smith‘LIVE MUSIC’ NEED NOT BE TOO LOUDDear EditorAs is too often the case, the most vocal of theadvocates for a position have alienated me anddriven me to the other side. In this case the causeis live music. There needs to be some balancein this issue. The South First Street area wasresidential long before Freddie’s Place was there.Barton Springs Road and the adjacent neighborhoodwas a residential area before Shady Grovestarted offering live music. And, believe it or not,Sixth Street had residents before most of thecurrent clubs even existed. A prominent architectand a member of the City Council were among theearlier contemporary residents. To remain viable,a community must work for all its citizens.The 360 complex and the Music Hall areexcellent examples of how music can cooperateand coexist with other uses. The musicvenue predated the residential development, sothe developer took the initiative to arrive at acooperative, and I’m sure not inexpensive, solution.It is a commendable example. Live musicadvocates must work to offer solutions as tohow to coexist with other uses instead of takingan antagonistic either/or stance. Just repeatingthat Austin is the live music capital does notfurther the discussion.Austin is many things to many people, andmusic is just one of its attractive components.Austin can still be the live music capital withoutbeing the loud music capital.John MooreDON’T CUT FUNDING FOR SPAY/NEUTER PROGRAMDear Editor,The city will be shooting itself in the foot if itcuts or eliminates funding to Emancipet’s freespay/neuter program, which provides 4,000free pet sterilizations of Austin dogs and cats.Programs like this have been proven to reducethe population of homeless animals living incity shelters.This program costs the city of Austin $195,000per year. The program is a proactive approach tocontrolling the pet population that saves the citymore money than it costs. The cost of a singlesurgery is $33. The cost to shelter a singleanimal is $140. A single, unfixed female dogcould give birth to five to 30 puppies a year.Litters of unwanted dogs, especially from lowincomeareas where the residents depend onEmancipet’s services, very likely end up at TownLake Animal Center, where they have to euthanizenearly 11,000 animals a year.The two proposals on the table don’t doenough to ensure the future stabilization of thecity’s animal population. One proposal, whichrelies on private donations, is unreliable, and theother cuts the number of annual sterilizationsavailable to Austin’s pets in half.I urge the city to keep its partnership withEmancipet the same as it considers ways toremedy the budget shortfall. I understand thatour city officials face terribly difficult decisionsright now, but I sincerely hope they look at thelong-term costs before making a final decision.Jessica HendrickAPD HAS AN EXCESSIVE BUDGETDear Editor,I must agree with our friend John Nordstrom inhis assessment of the Austin Police Departmentas of late [“Postmarks,” June 26]. It seems thatdespite our cash-strapped city budget, it hashad no problems acquiring brand-spanking-newpatrol cars, which have begun to outnumber theold Crown Victoria models on Austin streets. Nofewer than four were present for my recent speedingcitation, and I can assure you they are very,very nice. Furthermore, APD parades its excessivebudget every weekend on Sixth Street, with afull cadre of horse-mounted cops that disrespectfullyspread feces all over our fine city, withoutany appreciable increase in public safety.other recent APD purchases is asmall fleet of armored, military-style vehicles forcombating imaginary supervillains. Is all of thisreally necessary?The city has bent over backward (or is it forward?)for the department and gotten very littlereturn on its investment. It’s time to cut budgets.I’d start with the stable fees, advertisingcampaigns, and new vehicle purchases. Maybeeven shift some resources away form marijuanaenforcement to drugs that actually cause someharm? And I’d get a move on to save that moneybefore the citizenry decides en masse to go afteryour bloated, ridiculous salaries.Cordially,Mike “Dub” WainwrightAUDREYRETRODESKSale price$499DiscontinuedHurry InLimited QuantityChair & Monitor not includedURBAN LIVING7727 Burnet | 451-2144 | urbanlivingaustin.comhours: monday - saturday 10-6pm | sunday 1-5pm10 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mS U P P O R T A U S T I N | S H O P L O C A L | K E E P T A X D O L L A R S H E R E

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news20 On the Lege 21 The Hightower Report 22 Roxanne PaltaufHeadlines› Results from three town halls gauging citizen reactionto proposed budget cuts are now available.New or increased fees for the Trail of Lights,South by Southwest security services, parkingfines, and development permitting were all widelyaccepted, along with a controversial proposal toclose older pools. Soundly rejected: eliminatingsupervised summer playground programs, withonly 21% acceptance. The data’s online atwww.cityofaustin.org/budget; see “Summary of VotingResults at Town Hall Budget Cut Meetings,” p.15.› Austin Police officers will vote on whether theyshould forgo their 2010 pay raises and insteadlock in a 3% raise in 2012. The plan is slated togo to Austin Police Association members laterthis month; the city’s EMS union will be votingon a deferral of raises as well. The proposals,which also need final council approval, wouldsave the city roughly $5 million next year – aboutthe same cost of a police cadet academy thepolice union wants to salvage.› The City Council continues its summer hiatus,not to return to the dais until July 23, whenCity Manager Marc Ott presents his proposed2010 budget.› On Monday, electricity use in Austin hit its thirdall-time peak-use record in a week – and it wasonly June. Austin Energy recommendsreducing your kilowatt consumptionbetween 3pm and 7pm to avoid anyfurther energy overdosing – it lookslike a long, hot summer ahead.› The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling Monday findingthat white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., wereunfairly passed over for promotion may havelocal reverberations; fire union PresidentStephen Truesdell says firefighters not tappedfor assistant chief in recent appointments maycomplain to the Equal Employment OpportunityCommission, according to In Fact Daily.› The Texas Legislature is back for the specialsession, but while the Sunset extension bill toextend the lives of five agencies – including theTexas Department of Transportation – is movingfast, lawmakers are worried about new funds forroad construction and extending exemptions tothe toll road moratorium; see “Special SessionCould End in Fireworks,” p.20.› Sen. John Cornyn held a lunch Wednesday withthe Mexican American Legislative Caucus andwas quizzed by Council Member Mike Martinezon whether he would oppose the Supreme Courtnomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor (Cornynsaid he was undecided).› A raid on a gay bar in Fort Worth last weekend –on the anniversary, no less, of the Stonewall riotsthat kicked off the gay rights movement 40 yearsago – has attracted national attention and callsfor a full investigation; see “Gay Place,” p.55.› As in life, so in death: MichaelJackson died at the age of 50,both eclipsing the celebritydeaths of Farrah Fawcett andinfomercial-pitchman Billy Maysand unleashing a final torrent oftabloid speculation that plaguedthe entertainer his entire life.‘point austin’WILL BE BACK IN TWO WEEKS.‘city hall hustle’WILL RETURN NEXT WEEK.JANA BIRCHUMMichael Scott, center, with wife Jeannine, takes in his newfound freedom after he and co-defendant Robert Springsteenwere released from jail June 24. The two are awaiting a retrial in the 1991 murder of four girls at a North Austin yogurt shop.Defense attorneys Tony Diaz (l) and Carlos Garcia talk to reporters.Expect the UnexpectedSummertime and the living is … frenziedBY AMY SMITHNews Editor Michael King and his weekly “PointAustin” column are on a well-deserved vacation thisweek and next. Before cutting himself loose, Michaelspent some time trying to square his holiday schedulewith a half-dozen other schedules. He consultedwith far-flung family members and considered thestaff vacation calendar, the list of upcoming stories,and the City Council’s summer break to try to gaugea reasonably calm period of time to slip out of townwithout ambivalence. It’s hard to tear Michael awayfrom work. He took one story with him to edit, apoignant, must-read piece about Roxanne Paltauf, ayoung woman on the brink of adulthood, who vanishedin 2006. “All That Remains,” by Jordan Smith,appears in this issue on p.22.Of course, it’s difficult to plan a summer getawayat a time when news stories are hemorrhaging allover town. Austin is coming into its own as a big city.We’re well past the days when summers passed inlong, syrupy drawls of sweet insignificance. And iflast week’s news cycle is any indication, it’s going tobe a sizzling, spluttering season of revelations hereand … just about everywhere else, it seems. Torecap, there were a couple of things that hit us unexpectedlyon press day here at Chronicle headquarters:On Wednesday, June 24, the day Michaelboarded a plane headed out of Texas, the two menconvicted in a gruesome 1991 murder case werereleased from custody after prosecutors concededthey wouldn’t be ready to retry the case by July 6,particularly in light of DNA evidence that bolstersthe defense. Fortunately for us, District Judge MikeLynch handed down his decision early enough in theday for Jordan to put a new top on her story, whichby then was already in production (see “Yogurt ShopMurder Defendants Set Free,” June 26). Usuallyjudges wait until after we go to press to make theirrulings (that’s our view, anyway), so the fact that wewere able to cash in on this piece of late-breakingnews was pretty special. Photographer Jana Birchumstationed herself outside the county jail complexDowntown to capture Michael Scott and RobertSpringsteen as they walked out of jail and into theblinding shock of triple-digit daylight and a din ofTV cameras (see photo, above).Even with the last-minute turn of events that day,officemate Nora Ankrum (watch for her feature storynext week!) and I were still betting we’d be gettingout of the office at a “reasonable” hour, for aWednesday. No sooner had we said that than WellsDunbar spotted something curious in the layout ofCONTINUED ON P.14JOHN ANDERSONQUOTEof theWEEK“In my 27 years in thisbusiness, and in allthe places I’ve been,I’ve never seen ashard a demographicline [as I-35].”– City Manager Marc Ott,speaking on the issue ofrace. See “Ott Tackles Austin’sRacial Divide,” p.19.12 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Naked City› TYC JUSTICE Two years after their arrests, and with mounting public pressureto get them to court, there has been movement in the abuse casesagainst former Texas Youth Commission employees AssistantSuperintendent Ray Brookins and principal John Hernandez. A change ofvenue was announced on June 25, after the Texas Civil Rights Projectreleased a letter to the press requesting that Attorney General Greg Abbottpush the case harder (see “TCRP Blasts Abbott Over Delay in TYCProsecutions,” June 26). “It looks like it’s been moved to Odessa,” said TCRPPrisoners’ Rights Program Director Scott Medlock. The case had previouslylanguished with state District Court Judge Bob Parks in Ward Co. but hasbeen transferred to Ector Co.’s Judge Jay Gibson. After the long wait, Medlocksaid, “I would hope this means that the case will be brought to trial and we’llget some convictions.”– Richard Whittaker› A FIGHTING CHANCE FOR DEMS? Are national Democrats finally ready totake Texas seriously for more than just fundraising? According to a June 5National Journal article, Democratic Congressional Campaign CommitteeExecutive Director Jon Vogel describes the Congressional District 10 seat ofAustin Republican Michael McCaul as one of the party’s most promising targetsin the 2010 election. The DCCC is excited because Jack McDonald, thechairman and CEO of Perficient, an Austin-based IT consulting firm, hasalready raised more than $300,000 for a challenge to McCaul. The currentDistrict 10 was one of the creations of Tom DeLay’s infamous re-redistrictingfiasco of 2003, in an attempt to neutralize Austin liberals. Its boundaries runfrom West Lake Hills to the suburbs of Houston. In 2004, McCaul was electedagainst only token Democratic opposition, and in 2006 he beat a minimallyfunded political novice. In 2008, attorney Larry Joe Doherty took the bestcrack yet with a professionally run but moderately funded campaign; still, hegarnered only 43% of the vote vs. McCaul’s 54%.– Lee Nichols› LAMAR SMITH’S CHALLENGER In other congressional electionnews: At press time, West Lake Hills Democratic activist andsmall-business owner Lainey Melnick (right) was scheduled toannounce a challenge to Republican Lamar Smith in District21, which runs from West Austin to San Antonio and west pastKerrville. She’ll have an uphill fight: Smith has held office since1987 and, since 1992, has done no worse than 60% of thevote and has averaged 75%. Austin Mayor Lee Leffingwell wasquoted as being a supporter of Melnick’s on the press release declaring hercandidacy, but according to Burnt Orange Report, his name has since beenremoved from the “public list of supporters” section of her website. – L.N.› SPARKY PARK HITS HIGH MARK A work of art lovingly known as the GrottoWall at Sparky Park, by artist Berthold Haas, has been recognized as oneof the nation’s Top 40 public art projects of 2008. Americans for the Arts’Public Art Network selectedthe work from a pool of hundredsof public artworkssubmitted for review. SparkyPark, a pocket park inspiredby the North UniversityNeighborhood Association,is the former site of an electricsubstation. The neighborhoodgroup and Austin’sArt in Public Places commissionedHaas to transform anold cinder-block wall intowhat is now the grotto wall.– Amy Smithres publicaFRIDAY03PEOPLE UNITED featuresMichael Lux discussing his bookThe Progressive Revolution: Howthe Best in America Came to Be.1pm. KOOP Radio 91.7FM.SATURDAY04BARTON HILLSINDEPENDENCE DAY PAR ADE Join PoliceChief Art Acevedo for a Fourth of July march withstudents from Barton Hills Elementary, followedby a patriotic ceremony hosted by musician SaraHickman. Bring nonperishable food items forthe Capital Area Food Bank. 9am. Barton HillsElementary School, 2108 Barton Hills Dr.DRINK PINK – SEE RED, WHITE, & BLUELive music and art-bra models – wha? It’s all for agood cause, with proceeds going to breast cancerresearch. 6pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W.Sixth, 477-3308. Free. www.bcrc.org.JANA BIRCHUMNEWSSYMPHONY & FIREWORKS ON LADY BIRDLAKE with music from the Austin Symphony Orchestraand a Howitzer cannon. 8:30pm. Auditor iumShores, South First at Lady Bird Lake, 442-2263.TAKE BACK AMERICA TEA PARTY Republicans and barbecue. 2-6pm. Texas Capitol, 1100Congress. Free. www.austinreteaparty.com.YELLOW BIKE’S FOURTH PROJECT Livemusic and yellow bikes. 1pm. Wooldridge SquarePark, 900 Guadalupe. www.austinyellowbike.org.MORE FOURTH OF JULY EVENTS on p.60.SUNDAY05GIVE BLOOD FOR SUNDAES Every Sundayin July, you get an Amy’s Ice Creams sundae forsaving lives – i.e., donating blood. Blood Center ofCentral Texas, 4300 N. Lamar, 206-1266.www.inyourhands.org.INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT needs all the helpit can get with sending books to Texas prisoners.Stop by Thursdays & Sundays, 8-11pm. Space 12,3121 E. 12th, 647-4803. www.insidebooksproject.org.UNEXPECTED CONTINUED FROM P.12his big takeout of the city budget (see the complete package,starting with “The Chips Are Down,” June 26). Hemade a good argument for removing the item in question,so out it went – but its elimination required rejiggeringthe layout. Creative Director Jason Stout hadalready left for the evening, headed out with his familyon vacation, so we handed the pages off to graphicdesigner Chris Linnen for a quick fix. Chris, by the way,is filling in for Jason this week and designed most of thisissue’s editorial pages.The Fun Just Never StopsAll this is leading up to the fact that no matter howhard you try to plan for the unexpected, the unexpectedcan still catch you flat-footed sometimes. For example, Ididn’t expect to be filling this column space duringMichael’s absence, but here I am. Plus, did anyone reallyexpect it to rain nearly two inches this week?Back to the news. There’s lots of it this week. Stateside,the Legislature is back in town for a special session thatstarted Wednesday. It’s supposed to be a quick-and-dirtysession slated to end before the July 4 holiday, but we’llsee what happens come Friday (see Richard Whittaker’s“Special Session Could End in Fireworks,” p.20).Moving on, school’s out, but new Austin ISDSuperintendent Meria Carstarphen is in; she started her firstday in office Wednesday, July 1, with a media meet-andgreetat Pickle Elementary School. The AISD board of trusteeshas already adopted her plan to restructure the chain ofcommand (see Richard’s “AISD Staff Shake-Up,” p.16).The economy is in the pits, but construction cranesare still very much a part of the Downtown skyline.There’s no shortage of city-planning issues coming to thefore, and Katherine Gregor is bird-dogging the process asit develops (see her “Developing Stories,” p.18).Meanwhile, a new City Council took office in June,then recessed until July 23. Just look at some of thedelicate balancing acts council members will face whenthey come back: City Man ag er MarcOtt will present the proposed 2010 budget to councilJuly 23. Council members are scheduled to deliberatethe package Aug. 5, 19, and 26, and the new budgettakes effect Oct. 1. An interesting component of thefinancial plan centers around the possibility of AustinPolice officers and EMS workers giving up pay increasesFOR MORE DETAILS AND EVENTS, SEE C O MMUNITY LIS TINGS , P.54.MONDAY06ENVIRO TEEPEE CAMPOUT The PolymorphicPlastic Parade comes through Austin today withteepees made of salvaged and renewable resources– it’s social commentary and installation art.Mon.-Tue., July 6-7. Republic Square Park, 422Guadalupe, 974-6700. Free. www.plasticparade.org.T UES DAY07EAST AUSTIN SPEAKER SERIES: LIVE &UNCENSORED! Today’s installment of thisSouthwest Key-sponsored series focuses on theHistory of Activism in East Austin and ItsEmerging Political Influence. Southwest Key’s EastAustin Community Center, 6002 Jain, 462-2181.Free. www.swkey.org.SIERRA CLUB PICNIC Bring a dish, and joinin on this annual potluck tradition. (No alcoholallowed; reusable dishes provided.) 6:30-10pm.Zilker Park Rock Garden picnic area.www.texas.sierraclub.org/austin.in 2010 as part of separate agreements the city brokeredwith both groups. The two labor associations are expectedto vote on the deferrals by the end of July. (In arelated salary story, Lee Nichols is covering a simmeringcontroversy at Capital Metro; see “Transit Union ResistsGiving Up Pay Raise,” p.16.) At its last meeting, June18, the council came within a hair’s breadth of approvingthe creation of a two-person division to streamlineand strengthen the ties between the city, neighborhoods,and the music community. But the vote was postponedafter the police union privately questioned the wisdomof financing a new department when officers were consideringgiving up raises. Council punted the matter toAug. 6. The council is slated toreturn to this long-running conundrum some time inAugust. The difference this time is that the council issomewhat greener under new Mayor Lee Leffing well,with new Council Members Bill Spelman and Chris Rileyrounding out the enviro contingent. Environmentalistslargely oppose construction of a new plant, favoringinstead stricter water conservation measures. Whilewe’re on the topic, the city hit a high-water mark June25, with the Austin Water Utility reporting it pumpednearly 218 million gallons of water that day – a high forthe year (though well below historic records). Just waituntil August. By then, no telling how many records thecity will have set. At last count, Austin Energy was on itsthird all-time record in six days. This hot potato – a proposedmixed-use development in the Barton Springs/EdwardsAquifer Conservation District – returns to City CouncilAug. 20. The developer is seeking a zoning change to aplanned unit development, a dramatic shift from its currentzoning for single-family residential and office use.solvedbugaboos: the search for a new Solid WasteServices director to bring the department into the enviromindedpresent, the perpetually in-draft Downtown andcomprehensive plans, rancor in the ranks of the FireDepartment, controversial guidelines for designatingwhat is and isn’t a “heritage tree,” and the upcoming (oris it?) launch of MetroRail.Clearly, this summer will be a sweaty test of endurancefor anyone who’s playing along. Be cool.WEDNES DAY08LIVEABLE CITY PRESENTS COMP PLAN101 See how you can be a part of the process asthe city embarks on a new Comprehensive Planthat will shape Austin’s future. 6-8pm, Scholz Garten(inside), 1607 San Jacinto. www.liveablecity.org.OIL AWARENESS MEET-UP Worried aboutpeak oil? This is the group for you. 7pm. HydePark Presbyterian Church, 3913 Ave. B.www.oilawareness.meetup.com/3.POSTMODERNISM GETSPUNKED The Food forThought lecture series presentsthis talk from physicistAlan Sokal (right). 7pm.Old Quarry Branch Library,7051 Village Center Dr.,345-4435. Free.www.centerforinquiry.net/austin.14 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

SUMMARY OF VOTING RESULTS ATTOWN HALL BUDGET CUT MEETINGSParticipants at four town hall meetings were given an opportunity to size up the city budget.According to these tally results of the first three meetings, citizens prefer closing underusedor fill-and-draw pools, charging an admission fee for the Trail of Lights, charging Southby Southwest for police costs, and increasing the early fines for parking tickets. For fullresults, see www.cityofaustin.org/budget.$ Value in Votes % %Deptartment thousands Proposal Yes No Yes SplitCourts $270 Increase early parking fines 56 3 95% -Dev. Review $370 Increase certain development fees 54 5 92% -Police $120 Chargeback for SXSW 107 11 91% 17%Fire $120 Eliminate LBJ Academy contribution 53 6 90% -Parks $90 Close underused pools and fill-and-draw wading pools 52 7 88% -Parks $250 Charge admission fee for Trail of Lights 52 7 88% -Fire $270 Redeploy five admin. support jobs to first responder operations 51 8 86% -Pub. Works $3,500 Increase transportation user fee by 52 cents 48 11 81% -Courts $100 Change current Spanish-language interpreter services 45 14 76% -Library $170 Eliminate four vacant youth services positions 74 26 74% 19%Fire $1,240 Convert two engines to medical response units 73 27 73% 36%N’hood $150 Community Preservation/Revitalization Program 85 33 72% 25%Fire $1,730 Eliminate special pay incentives 42 17 71% -N’hood $250 SMART Housing Program 68 32 68% 31%Human Serv. $200 Close second day-labor site 39 20 66% -Dev. Review $400 Eliminate six building inspectors 78 40 66% 41%Human Serv. $300 Transfer summer youth employment program 38 21 64% -Admin. $250 Reduce maintenance in city facilities 36 23 61% -Library $180 Reduce custodial service and facility maintenance 34 25 58% -Library $130 Reduce Central Library hours 44 33 57% -Library $350 Reduce morning branch hours systemwide 33 26 56% -Parks $70 Reduce pool hours 33 26 56% -EMS $250 Reduce contribution to ACC/EMS partnership 28 31 47% -Police $700 Eliminate temps for nonemergency calls 52 66 44% 34%Fire $460 Eliminate four lieutenants in investigations 46 72 39% 54%Library $160 Reduce books budget 44 74 37% 34%Library $350 Reduce evening branch hours systemwide 21 38 36% -Human Serv. $200 Use donations to fund pet sterilization/microchipping programs 21 38 36% -N’hood $170 Public services contributions 39 79 33% -Police $1,200 Reduce overtime 33 85 28% 45%Police $5,200 Cancel 2010 cadet training class 26 92 22% 29%Parks $100 Eliminate supervised summer playground programs at 11 sites 16 61 21% -% Split = proposals where participants could opt for a partial reduction.Source: City of Austin Communications and Public Information Office.O NGOINGACCESS AWARDS NOMINATIONS On this19th anniversary of the Americans With DisabilitiesAct, the Mayor’s Committee for PeopleWith Disabil i ties requests nominations of businessesthat strive to be accessible to everyone.Deadline: July 9.www.cityofaustin.org/ada/access_nomform.htm.AUSTIN HUMANE SOCIETYdesperately needs foster homes fordogs and cats that are too young orsick to survive in a shelter. Want tohelp? Call 685-0120.www.austinhumanesociety.org.HEALTHY WOMEN, HEALTHY FAMILIESHelp gather info and stories about the state ofwomen’s health in Texas. Go online and takethe survey, or share a story about a health-carechallenge you’ve faced. The group hopes to takethese stories and figures to the Legislature toraise awareness of women’s health issues. 462-1661. www.healthywomenhealthyfamilies.org.COURTESY OF AHSDONATION REQUEST FOR ARCH Especiallyduring the sweltering summer, the soap desk atthe Austin Resource Center for the Homelessis in need of all manner of toiletries (deodorant,etc.), hand-held fans, lip balm, sunscreen, waterbottles. Check online or call for specific items.ARCH, 500 E. Seventh, 305-4174. www.frontsteps.org.NAME THOSE TREES That grove of trees justsouth of City Hall (where South First splits) needsa name. Perhaps you have a suggestion? Submitit at www.cityofaustin.org/parks/namingform.htm,return a completed form to the Parks & RecreationDepartment’s main office (200 S. Lamar), or fax itto 974-6756. Deadline: Aug. 26.SUMMER WATER DONATIONS Mobile Loaves& Fishes needs bottled-water donations to keepeveryone hydrated. Make monetary donations atwww.mlfnow.org/water; cases of water can be deliveredto the St. John Neumann commissary,903 Capital of TX Hwy. S.TREE OF THE YEAR Nominate your favoritenative tree for Austin’s Tree of the Year award atwww.cityofaustin.org/treeoftheyear. Deadline: July 8.SALE GOING ON$ 2.75 PINTS*Vintage Clothing & Accessories Since 1982M-F 11-7 • Sat 11-8 • Sun 12-51805 South 1 st St. (minutes from downtown)445-6906flashbackaustin.comEVERYMONDAY*Most everything on the tap wall.Bring in your laptop. We’re WI-FI connected!Flying SaucerDraught Emporiumbeerknurd.com.children’s clothing2438 W. Anderson 445-4489Monday - Saturday 10-8 Sunday 12-6The Triangle 815 W. 47th St. 454 -7468a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 15.

NEWSAISD Staff Shake-UpNew Austin Independent School District SuperintendentMeria Carstarphen only took the district’sreins on July 1, but she has already started to makeher mark, with the approval of a new district organizationalplan that changes the structure of the administration’supper levels. The plan, Assistant SuperintendentMichael Houser said, “is pretty reflectiveof the way she wants to work.”The district’s board of trustees approved the newstructure at its final meeting of the academic year onJune 22. (Carstar phen was absent, finishing her tenureas superintendent of Saint Paul Public Schools inMin ne sota.) This first round of restructuring (the districtwill be looking at more in upcoming months) directlytackled the senior cabinet. Under retired SuperintendentPat For gi one, there have been three “superofficers”:The chief academic officer handled education, the chieffinancial officer oversaw finance and operations, andone of the three assistant superintendents dealt withhuman resources. In reality, Houser said: “We’ve had alot of people involved in cabinet. Up to 20 or 22 peoplein there for meetings on a Monday morning.”The new Carstarphen plan expands the number ofsenior posts but cuts the number of people stuck inthose organizational meetings. The resulting organizationalchart owes much in both structure and titles tothe one at her old job in St. Paul. Eight senior staff –including her chief of staff and the general counsel –plus her special assistant will report directly to her. Theold structure reflected Forgione’s management style,but, Houser said, “I think that [Carstarphen] feels morecomfortable with a team of eight.”The three biggest offices see the biggest changes,as each gets its responsibilities split in two andrestructured. Board of trust ees President MarkWilliams said this will make officers closer to theirdepartments and more directly accountable to Carstarphen.The change is not driven just by her arrival but bytiming – the district has reached a critical mass thatrequires a broader senior cabinet. “Yes, there’s newleadership,” said Wil liams, “but it’s also the scale ofthe district, the demographics, the accountability systemwe face.”On the facilities-management side, a number ofresponsibilities will be transferred from the chief financialofficer to the new chief operations officer – a majorchange. Former CFO Larry Throm viewed unifying thetwo tasks as pivotal for oversight. Yet with finance handlingan $800 million budget, Houser said, Carstarphen“wanted full focus there,” and with the chief operationsofficer, she wanted “a more definitive line for facilitiesand technology.”Education provision gets a similar shake-up.Previously, the chief academic officer dealt with bothcurriculum and school management. Now, the CAOmaintains strategic control of districtwide issues suchas curriculum, while the new chief schools officer willwork directly with individual campuses. EducationAustin President Louis Malfaro argues that this marksa critical shift in the district’s educational thinking. “Foryears,” he said, “the district has been dominated by thecurriculum people, who think, ‘If we just come up withenough scripts and enough practice tests, then we’ll beOK.’” Having a cabinet member highlighting individualcampuses and programs, he said, will break that “onesize-fits-all”philosophy. But what has Mal faro mostenthused is the splitting of the human resources developmentand information systems role between two newoffices. The chief performance officer will work onaccountability and performance metrics, while the chiefhuman capital officer will concentrate on humanresources and educator quality issues. “Hallelujah,” hesaid. “We finally are acknowledging that teacher qualityis the main driver to student success.”These new positions will be filled over the summer,with salaries in the $155,000 to $185,000 range, andthere will be an additional associate superintendent ofcentral elementary schools ($135,000 to $145,000)and an executive director for educator quality($105,000 to $115,000). When filled, they will allowthe phasing out of 10 positions, trigger re-evaluation oftwo more, and cause others to be realigned. However,the board drew the line at getting rid of the assistantsuperintendent of diversity and intercultural relations.Board members argued that it was supposed to be asenior cabinet-level position, reporting directly to thesuperintendent and implementing the findings of thecity of Austin’s Hispanic and African AmericanQuality of Life initiatives. Instead, under the old structure,it was located two levels below the superintendentin educational support services; the draft plan eliminatedthe position and folded its role into professionaldevelopment. Neither proposal satisfied the board,which wanted the position to be given a higher profilerather than eliminated. “The fact that it’s embeddedsomewhere rather than highlighted somewhere … concernsme,” said District 2 trustee Sam Guzman.The next stage of restructuring will involve appraisingthe rest of the district’s 485 administrators tocontinue the structural streamlining. Williams concluded:“If the superintendent is the change agent, thenthe district can only move as fast as the superintendent.Her philosophy is that we as a district have tomove faster.”– Richard WhittakerInternal Audit Board of Trustees General CounselSTAFFING CHANGES: A GLIMPSENEW POSITIONSEducationHuman ResourcesOperationsHiring now: chief schools officer, chief performanceofficer, associate superintendent of elementary schools(central), executive director for educator qualityHiring late summer: chief operations officer, chiefhuman capital officerCURRENT POSITIONSEliminated: assistant superintendents (3), executiveprincipals (5), director of student support, director ofstrategic compensationRevised: executive principals for LeadershipDevelopment Center (2)Further discussion: assistant superintendent ofdiversity and intercultural relationsInternal AuditOffice of RedesignAccountabilityOffice of RedesignSuperintendentThe rebuilt AISD senior cabinet Dr. approved Pascal D. Forgione by the board of trustees increasesthe number of officers reporting directly to the superintendentPlanning &but mayCommunitystreamline Accountability the overall reporting Chief of and Staff decision-making Relationsprocesses.ChiefAcademicOfficerGeneral CounselChiefSchoolsOfficerEducationFinance &ChiefOperationsOfficerBoard of TrusteesSuperintendentDr. Meria CarstarphenChiefFinancialOfficerBoard of TrusteesSuperintendentDr. Pascal D. ForgioneChief of StaffFinance &OperationsInternal AuditChief of StaffChiefPerformanceOfficerGeneral CounselPlanning &CommunityRelationsHuman ResourcesChiefHuman CapitalOfficerTransit Union Resists Giving Up Pay RaiseTo the surprise of no one, Capital Metro’s main labor subcontractorand the transit workers union are fighting again.In letters dated June 17 and 23 to Joneth “Jay” Wyatt,president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091,StarTran Inc. General Manager Terry Garcia Crews suggestedthat its workers should forgo their contractually scheduledraise this year to help Cap Metro with its current budgetcrunch. Crews suggested that such a measure would encourageCap Metro to stop shifting routes away from the union, tocheaper contractors Veolia Transportation and First Transit.Crews noted that the Cap Metro board authorized theagency to freeze administrative and executive staff wages ifnecessary and possibly ask those employees to take one ortwo days off each quarter without pay. “These steps demonstratehow serious the budget situation is, and how thedeclining tax revenues are impacting CMTA and StarTran aswell,” wrote Crews. “We are all sacrificing to help during theseconstrained budget times.”That went over like a lead balloon. “It’s my belief thatunder the National Labor Relations Act, it’s not legal for anEmployer to threaten to contract out work if the leadership ofthe Union don’t agree with them,” Wyatt wrote in reply. “Wekeep hearing from Capital Metro/StarTran that it’s all about12% in tax they’re not going to receive this year, but theyknew that was going to be a problem way before they spent Chiefand mis-managed tax payers dollars on the train and other Academicunknown projects. They force the Union on Strike in 2005 Officerand 2008 and clearly stated each time they had plenty ofmoney, but they needed more give backs from us (The UnionMembers) to pay for rail.”Back in April, Cap Metro asked the union to provide a list ofitems it would like Board to see of Trustees included in Internal a possible Auditaudit by theState Aud itor. The union responded with 14 items, including alist of everything that caused a spend-down of the agency’s$185 General million Counsel in reserves Superintendent during this Chief decade, of Staff all documentsDr. Meria Carstarphenthat were shredded by the agency over the past 12 years, anddetails of Cap Metro CEO Fred Gilliam’s retirement package.In the recent communications with Crews, the union furtherrequested Chief that Chief StarTran provide Chief the info. Chief Crews replied Chief last weekthat Schools most Operations of the info they Financial wanted was Performance available online Human in CapitalMetro’s Officer Comprehensive Officer Officer Annual Financial Officer Report, and the Officer restwas not info that StarTran is authorized to provide. – Lee Nichols16 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

Political Sage Creekmore Fath DiesCreekmore Fath, a longtime Democratic warrior who servedunder President Franklin D. Roosevelt, died June 25 at his home inWest Austin. A memorial service takes place at 11am, Thursday,July 9, at Weed-Corley-Fish Funeral Home, 3125 N. Lamar.Fath, 93, was of the liberal wing of Austin’s old guard – the wingthat in the Fifties and Sixties supported the likes of candidatesRalph Yarborough and Sissy Far ent hold over opponents whohailed from the “establishment” wing of the Democratic Party. “Hewas just a superb brother-in-law,” said Austin activist Shudde Fath,who was married to Creekmore’s older brother, the late Conrad Fath.The two brothers, Shudde said, “were very compatible and very supportiveof each other.”A lawyer, Creekmore Fath seemed to lead a storybook political life.After obtaining his law degree from the University of Texas in 1939,he opened a law practice with Bob Eckhardt, who went on to servein the U.S. Congress, and Mace Thur man, who ultimately becameone of Austin’s most notable district court judges. Just one year afterhanging out his shingle, Fath was summoned to Washington to serveas counsel to a House Select Committee investigating the “InterstateMigration of Destitute Citi zens,” meaning the millions of migrant farmfamilies who had left Oklahoma and other Plains states to try to findwork in California. Fath is credited with keeping the spotlight on thecommittee by convincing Chair John Tolan to invite Eleanor Rooseveltto testify before the committee, given her interests in socioeconomicissues of the day. Tolan thought he was joking, Shudde Fath said ofher brother-in-law’s novel idea; no first lady had ever testified before acongressional committee. Fath served in a number of other capacitiesin Washington, and while there he, as Shudde put it, “met and courtedand fell in love” with Adele Hay Byrne, a granddaughter of JohnHay, who served as President Lincoln’s personal secretary and lateras U.S. secretary of state from 1898 to 1905.The couple married in April 1947, and four months laterCreekmore returned to Austin with his new bride. He restarted hislaw practice in the Littlefield Building and immediately dove into theNEWSheady splendor of Texas politics. Creekmore and Adele, who died in2007, kept an active social calendar. Collectors both, they built animpressive inventory of art and books. The philanthropic pair ownedthe most extensive private collection of lithographs by American artistThomas Hart Benton, which was exhibited at several museumsand galleries. “They had a house full of treasures,” said Shudde Fathof her in-laws, who were regular donors to philanthropic endeavorsand political campaigns.In addition to Shudde, Creekmore is survived by his stepdaughter,Moyra Byrne, of Washington, D.C. Memorial contributions may bemade to the Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation,502 W. 13th, Austin 78701. – Amy SmithCreekmore FathCOURTESY OF SHUDDE FATHHUGEBUY YOUR CARPAY YOU MORE!LYCEUM POLL: TEXANS FULL OF SURPRISESRick Perry outpolls Kay Bailey Hutchi son, Texans supportvoter ID, Republicans support gay unions, Democrats lack a …wait, whoa, back up, what?!Yes, buried among all sorts of opinion data on the economy andpolitical candidates in the latest edition of the Texas LyceumPoll’s executive summary, that gay unions thing certainly jumpedout and made our jaws drop. And if the poll’s numbers (taken frominterviews with 860 Texas adults) are accurate, not only are 57% ofTexans OK with some form of gay union, but a slim majority (51%)who identify with the party that has bashed on homosexuals themost say they favor either civil unions or same-sex marriage.Sure, the GOP still has stronger anti-gay trends than independentsor Democrats – 43% oppose any sort of legal gay union, andthose willing to allow them are two and a half times more likely togo for civil unions than outright marriage. Still … a majority?Really? Could this possibly signal an end to this controversy as awedge issue?That was only one question among many prompted by the poll.As for the current state of the 2010 political horse races, the onlything that really can be gleaned is: It’s early yet. While 33% ofrespondents intending to vote in the Republican primary favorincumbent Gov. Perry vs. 21% who lean toward presumed challengerSen. Hutchison, the more important number is the 45% whoremain undecided.The Democratic primary is even more wide open: While entertainerKinky Friedman leads gubernatorial options, his supportstands at a paltry 10%, trailed by former Bush administrationambassador Tom Schief fer at 6% and state Sen. Leticia Van dePutte of San Antonio at 3%. (Van de Putte said last week thatshe’s not interested in the race and tried to convince Austin stateSen. Kirk Watson to run; Watson was noncommittal.) A whopping81% were undecided.Among all Texans, 57% said they approve of Perry’s job performance,while 65% approve of Hutchison.If Hutchison resigns to challenge Perry, that would necessitate aspecial election to replace her; 71% didn’t register a preferenceamong the six Republicans and two Demo crats currently sayingthey might be interested in moving to Washington; of those whohave, Democratic Houston Mayor Bill White leads at a mere 9%,ahead of Attorney General Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst,Railroad Commissioner Elizabeth Ames Jones, former TexasSecretary of State Roger Williams, state Sen. Florence Shapiro,former Comptroller John Sharp (the other Dem), and RailroadCommissioner Michael Williams.One issue that could loom large in 2010: While Dem legislatorsfought tooth-and-nail to derail bills this session that would haverequired citizens to present a photo ID to vote, Lyceum’s datashows solid support across the board for it, even among Democratsand minorities, groups that would supposedly be hurt bysuch a requirement. Expect Republicans to hammer on this in thegeneral election.Also worth noting: 68% of Texans approve of President Obama’sjob performance; 46% identified as independents vs. 25% asRepublicans and 28% as Democrats; 46% said they were conservative,while 35% claimed to be moderate and 19% liberal.Almost half (49%) said they usually vote; 24% said they haven’tvoted in an election “over the last two or three years.” – Lee NicholsFULL-SERVICEAUTO REPAIRFOR ALL MAKES& MODELS!CERTIFIED TECHNICIANSSAME DAY SERVICEWARRANTY WORKCOMPUTER DIAGNOSTICSBRAKESALIGNMENTTRANSMISSIONCOMPLIMENTARY TIRE ROTATIONwith any scheduled maintenance!a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 17

NEWSLEARNING FROM DENVERMore insights from the Congress for the New UrbanismBY KATHERINE GREGORDenver was the host city for CNU 17, thisyear’s Congress for the New Urbanism nationalconference (see “Compact, Climate-Friendly,Competitive,” June 26). And it’s a good city totake lessons from, as it’s further ahead ontackling the same urban-planning issues westruggle with in Austin. Touring the city andthe region, the assembled New Urbanistsheard how Denver voters have enthusiasticallyfunded and built the projects that Austin endlesslydiscusses. We saw a big, vibrant,walkable downtown; intact olderneighborhoods with great architecturalcharacter; a central-city lightrail system with six lines; and awhole region intelligently shiftingto more sustainable lifestyles.What has Denver gotten right?Adept planning, linked to newcode, linked to new transit.BLUEPRINT DENVER: NIMBY LOVEAfter completing its Comprehensive Plan2000, Denver citizens felt the need toaddress pressing growth issues in moredetail. So the city set to work on BlueprintDenver, the city’s first integrated land-use andtransportation plan, adopted in 2002. It aimsto enhance the city’s quality of life by “usingland in a way that is healthy for its economy,supports alternative modes of transportation,and maintains the integrity of neighborhoods.”Denver’s Comprehensive Plan 2000 hadpredicted a 20-year gain of 132,000 residentsin the city proper, with the metro area receivinganother 760,000. The plan process highlightedthe need “to be more rigorous in locatingpeople where they have more choices than theautomobile to get around,” noted an article coauthoredby Jennifer Moulton and Bill Hornby.The result of “a great number of impassionedneighborhood discussions,” Blueprint Denverrecommended a fully integrated approach totransportation and land-use improvements. “Itoffers the heretical thought that some of thenew population growth be directed toward specificallyidentified areas of change, where economicand mobility needs could be satisfiedand welcomed,” said Moulton and Hornby.“It also suggests we restrain unbridledgrowth from areas of stability, primarilyresidential neighborhoods.”Here’s the takeaway organizing principle:Blueprint Denver identified and classifiedeach part of the city as either an “area ofstability” or an “area of change.” This reassuredthe neighborhood NIMBYs: Those livingin an area of stability saw that BlueprintDenver sought to protect the character anddesired traits of their established centralneighborhoods. (Even those hoods, however,are expected to accommodate some newdevelopment and redevelopment.) At thesame time, citizens downtown and in distressedor undeveloped areas saw the cityactively planning how to fix their problems –while striving not to displace them. Areas ofDEVELOPINGstorieschange were recommended for the NewUrbanist treatment: well-planned, walkableand bikeable, mixed-use, street-networked,transit-oriented dense new development.Interestingly, Blueprint Denver was led byconsultant Calthorpe Associates. CNUleading light Peter Calthorpe has consultedlocally on Envision Central Texas and CapitalMetro’s “All Systems Go!” long-rangetransit 2030 plan, among other projects. ButCapital Metro’s plan was commissionedby the transit agency, whichunlike a city has no land-useauthority; it had no actual powerto shift development patterns.To make up for lost time, theAustin City Council and managementnow need to ensure thatcomprehensive planning consultantWRT delivers (within the city’snew comprehensive plan) a detailed,fully integrated land-use and transportationplan, like Blueprint Denver. That plan willneed a corresponding land-use code, to giveit teeth and the force of law. (It also is boundto need a real rail transit system, funded andbuilt ASAP.) Problem: WRT’s scope of servicesincludes a diagnosis of the current landdevelopmentcode’s ills but not an actualrewrite or creation of a new code.‘THE NEW CODE’ – BETTER THANBAND-AIDSOnce Blueprint Denver was in place, thecity embarked on a wholesale revision of itsland-use code, to match the law to the vision.Like the plan, the code wisely pairs twin goalsof protection and growth. To engage the public,the city created the appealing, informativewebsite www.newcodedenver.org, which admitsthe old was a mess: “The current DenverZoning Code is a messy patchwork of 52years of revisions and Band-Aids.” (Austin’scode is held together with sticking plaster,too.) It champions the benefits of a rewrite:“[T]he New Code will ensure that our city’sgrowth fits our collective visions, desires andneeds” as it “incorporates ways to make ourcity more sustainable and affordable, ensuringthe value of its land as predicted growthoccurs.” Finally, “The New Code will be easierto read, and the logic behind its regulationsand procedures more transparent.”At a recent meeting of CNU’s Central TexasChapter, Austinites were already calling for asimilar reform of our zoning code, as part ofthe comprehensive plan. New Urbanists favorabandoning a use-based code (what we havenow) for a form-based code – better understoodby most folks as a context-based code.(The Downtown Austin Alliance is currentlyorganizing a sympsium to help Austinitesunderstand form-based code and why somany cities are switching to it.) Denver’smantra: “It’s all about context.” In a nutshell,the new code says that buildings (and theirforms, e.g., shape and height) must beNew Urbanism Comes to East RiversideAt a public meeting last Thursday, June 25, a rigorousNew Urbanist vision was unveiled for the East RiversideCorridor. Comparable to some of the best plans and projectsseen at CNU 17 in Denver, the draft master plan hingeson the premise that rail transit will run down RiversideDrive, between I-35 and Ben White, and on out to the airport.Leveraging the transformational powers of transit-orienteddevelopment, the corridor plan shows East Riversidelosing its car focus (e.g., a blur of parking lots and stripshopping centers) in favor of a people focus (attractiveplaces to walk, recreate, eat, shop, and live). Handsome three-storyarchitecture surrounds transit stops; East Riverside itself features bike lanes, frequentbus service, street trees, shade features, improved pedestrian crossings, landscaped sidewalks,new parks, and creek-front green space and trails.Consultant A. Nelessen Associates Inc. used a visual preferences study – in which Austinitespicked photos of good-looking places they liked – to document a strong citizen desire for a NewUrbanist redo. Now, how to ensure that the promising plan doesn’t remain a pie-in-the-sky vision? Theconsultant recommends rezoning the area; city planning staff hope to complete that in about a year. (Asan immediate fix, City Council will vote soon on rezoning the eastern stretch of East Riverside, makingthe entire frontage a core transit corridor – which kicks in commercial design standards.) As in Denver’snew zoning, the new zoning code would designate six land-use districts, each with context-based andform-based rules. Neighborhood streets wouldn’t be allowed any more height, but transit-oriented developmentwould allow commercial districts to rise five to six stories, with optional density bonuses.Council also will need to provide a funding mechanism, such as tax-increment financing, for thecrucial streetscape improvements, pocket parks, and other public investments. And, oh, don’t forgetthat city of Austin rail line! Mayor Lee Leffingwell campaigned on the promise of a transportation bondelection next year; he hopes it will fund Austin’s long-discussed rail-transit system. If the Riversidesegment wins voter approval (even as a future phase), transit-oriented development promises to leavethe station years before the actual train.– K.G.To review the draft master plan (which goes to council in September) and to comment online,visit www.eastriversidecorridor.com.This is how East Riverside Drivelooks today.designed to fit gracefully into the surroundingneighborhood or district.Denver’s new zoning will require buildings tofit within one of six different “contexts”derived from “the existing and desirable characteristicsof Den ver’s diverse neighborhoods.”The choices: suburban, urban edge, urban,general urban, urban center, and downtown.(They also threw in “special contexts.”) WhileBlueprint Denver provided the vision and initialstrategy, a community-based Zoning Code TaskForce has been working on the effort since2005. After years in the oven, a draft of thenew code finally is out for public review beforegoing to City Council for adoption (see therezoning map at www.newcodedenver.org).RAIL TRANSIT: MAKING FASTRACKSBlueprint Denver also led to a successfulNovember 2004 rail referendum, supportedby the business community, in which votersstrongly approved FasTracks – a $4.7 billionSeaholmMLKProposedurban railRIVERSIDEABIAThis is how it could look under theEast Riverside Corridor Plan.transit system to be built out over 12 years,funded with a 0.4-cent sales-tax increase.The system will add 122 miles of new urbanand regional rail service and new bus routesin the metro area.Since that vote, projected project costshave swelled to $7.9 billion, while the transitagency’s sales-tax revenues sunk with therecession (like Capital Metro’s), leading to a$2 billion shortfall. Yet rather than cut elementsor extend construction timelines, aJanuary survey showed that most Denver voterspreferred to double the tax increase toget the system done on schedule – becausethey believed in it so much. What was mostfascinating to see in Denver – and in historictowns such as Golden and Arvada on theplanned new lines – were the handsome newpublic spaces and transit-oriented projectsthat are already open and bustling, eventhough the new rail stations won’t open foryears. If you build it (or just vote to fund it),New Urbanists will come.COURTESY OF CITY OF AUSTINand El18 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

NEWSManor Expressway:Oh, the VehicleMiles You’ll Travel!The Manor Expressway, now projectedto cost more than $623 million, received a$31.6 million loan from the StateInfrastructure Bank last week. The loan tothe Central Texas Regional MobilityAuthority is a stop-gap measure; the6.1-mile toll road will be funded primarilythrough the sale of toll revenue bonds, butthey have yet to be sold. The loan will allowconstruction to start on an initial 1.4-milesegment between U.S. 183 and SpringdaleRoad. The project also includes nontolledfrontage roads and a bicycle and pedestriantrail. To ease traffic congestion, the firstsegment plus a new 183 flyover interchange(to start later this year) are scheduledto open by 2013; the two projectsalone cost $245 million. Ultimately theManor Expressway toll road will intersectwith the SH 130 toll road, linking the eversprawlingmetro area toCentral Austin.Meanwhile, the proposedGreen Line commuterrail transit for thesame Elgin-Manor-Austincorridor isn’t moving forward– a political casualty,at least for now, ofCapital Met ro’s failureto open the Red Linefrom Downtown Austinto Leander. Adding theGreen Line was citedlast year by the TransitWorking Group (now inactive)of the Capital AreaMetropolitan PlanningOrganization as an effectivelong-term strategy toreduce the region’s vehiclemiles traveled (VMT) –and thereby reduce Central Texans’ cost ofliving, air pollution, and greenhouse-gasemissions. The Central Texas RegionalMobility Authority, which also operates the183A toll road in Williamson County, saysthat by moving cars more quickly, the ManorExpressway also will cut vehicle emissionsand fuel consumption.Travis County Commissioner SarahEckhardt disagrees. Via e-mail, she said:“Making mostly single-occupant car commutesfrom farther away more convenient =higher per-capita VMT. Although it could havebeen mitigated, the current plan for the290E toll road will act like MiracleGro on percapitaVMT – no dedicated bus lane, no HOV[high-occupancy vehicle] incentive, no contributionto Manor/Elgin rail which exists withinthe same corridor, no plan for park-and-ride,no near-term plan for congestion pricing.While CAMPO paid lip service to such mitigatingpolicies with regard to toll roads (theunanimously adopted “toll road covenants”),CAMPO flaked at the first opportunity in failingto require VMT-reducing elements on the290E toll project.” – Katherine GregorOtt Tackles Austin’s Racial DivideAt a June 26 PeopleTalk luncheon, CityMan ager Marc Ott addressed a range oftopics – the city budget, affordable housing,small businesses and job creation, Austin’sgrowth and the comprehensive plan – andcompanionably tag-teamed with City CouncilMember Randi Shade in fielding questionsfrom the audience. But in closing, Ott issueda strong challenge to Austinites to publiclyaddress the racial divide in Austin. “In my 27years in this business, and in all the placesI’ve been, I’ve never seen as hard a demographicline,” he said, referring to the racialbarrier embodied by I-35. “Why is East Austinsequestered?” As Austin’s first African-American city manager, he said when he hasraised the issue, “people’s expressionschanged. They found polite ways to changethe subject.”The biannual PeopleTalk SpeakerSeries is presented by PeopleFund, a nonprofitdedicated to improving economicDistrict Court Judge Darlene Byrne (r) greets Lamont Fisherand his daughter, Tiana, at a June 24 open house for two newTravis County offices – one representing children and the otherrepresenting parents. The new departments, which representfamilies involved in Child Protective Services court cases,draw initial funding from a three-year grant from the CourtImprovement Program of the Texas Supreme Court. Leslie Hillheads the child representation office, while Stephanie SmithLedesma leads the office representing parents.opportunity, particularly on the Eastside.“Are we what we say we are, given ourheightened level of sophisticated sensibilities?”Ott asked, gently provoking the progressiveseating pizza at the AlamoDrafthouse South Lamar. “We don’t want totalk about it.”The city manager then asserted withsome heat: “Well, I intend to talk about it!And I intend to do something about it.”After describing “you need not apply” racialdiscrimination that he personally encounteredearly in his career, he said that now,as Austin’s city manager, he believes he’sfinally in the right place, at the right time,to speak out. “I’m not going to be silentabout it. And to the extent that I can redirectresources to do something about it, Iwill.” Gesturing toward Shade, he added,“The only way I’m going to stop is if theseven of them stop me!” He receivedenthusiastic applause.– K.G.JOHN ANDERSONis the Chronicle’s two-month-long digital battle of local Austin bands competing for notoriety, exposure,and a chance to play the 19th annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival in August.Thebattle...ISON!READYBATTLECONGRATULATIONS,SARAH SHARPWinner of theChronicle’s SOUNDWARS June BattleSarah will take on the winner ofthe July battle beginning Monday,July 27.Find out more about Sarah Sharpat www.myspace.com/sarahsharp.austinchronicle.com/soundwarsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 19

NEWSSpecial Session Could End in FireworksIf Gov. Rick Perry gets his way, the legislativespecial session that starts on July 1will be over before the July 4 holiday.If he can pull it off, it will be the shortestspecial session of his tenure as governor – allseven specials he has called since takingoffice in 2000 have run for almost the full 30days allowed by the Texas Constitution. Butthis time Perry’s staff has engineered a highlyrestricted call, dealing with three pieces of outstandingbusiness from the regular session.The greatest acrimony is not over why Perrycalled the special session, but when andhow. The regular session finished on June 1,and Perry announced on June 9 that lawmakerswould need to come back – but he didn’tprovide a date. The prevalent rumor was workwould start right after Independence Dayweekend, but when he issued the call onJune 25, he only gave legislators six days’notice that they needed to return to theCapitol. Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin, saidthere were rumors that Perry was working on“a very short time frame [with] the Fourth ofJuly holiday as an incentive to get this shortorder of business done.” However, she said,“It certainly would have been nice to get a littlemore warning.”The big issue now is transportation. Firstis Senate Bill 1, releasing the $5 billion inTexas Department of Transportation generalobligation bonds that legislators failed toauthorize in the regular session. Lawmakersalso failed to pass the TxDOT Sunset bill, aswell as the Department of Insurance, RacingCommission, Office of Public InsuranceCounsel, and State Affordable HousingCorporation Sunset bills: so SB 2 saves theagencies from closure.The need for those measures was clearand well established, but Perry hasextra business in mind. Whileignoring pressure from conservativesto bring back the divisivematter of voter ID and bipartisancalls for reforming theChildren’s Health InsuranceProgram, Perry added theestablishment of the TexasTransportation RevolvingFund to SB 1. That could berisky for a short session since theoriginal language, filed in the regularsession as SB 1350, never made it to theHouse floor and lawmakers may want a fulldebate. Finally, there’s SB 3, another issuearising from the failure of the TxDOT Sunsetbill. In 2007, the legislature passed a moratoriumon comprehensive development agreementsfor new toll roads but granted exemp-tions for a handful that were already in negotiations:SB 3 continues those exemptionsfor four years.While there’s little disagreement that theseare all major issues, the legislation proposed,especially the Sunset bill, is raisingquestions. To keep the agencies open, Perryproposes bringing back the terms of HouseBill 1959 – the Sunset Safety Net bill. Simplyextending the life of those five agencies andadding them to the 2011 Sunsetschedule – when the massiveHealth and Human Ser vicesCommission is up for review –would make that cycle impossiblyhuge. So the proposalreschedules what agencieswould be reviewed in 2011and 2013, to rebalance theworkload. Sunset AdvisoryCommission Chair Carl Isett,R-Lubbock, called this “the shortestpath to ground: to reauthorizethose agencies, come back in two years andpass the reforms that were contemplated inthe full Sunset bill.”But HB 1959 was a stop-gap measureintroduced at the last minute purely becausethe main Sunset bills didn’t pass. In terms ofgovernmental oversight, it’s like losing a tire,putting a doughnut on your car, getting to themechanic, and, instead of buying a new tire,getting a replacement doughnut. That’s frustratingfor Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, who,as vice chair of the Senate Com mit tee onTransportation & Homeland Security, said hespent the regular session “up to my elbows”in the TxDOT Sunset process. Perry’s planrestarts the process, and an exasperatedWatson said, “We just did it.”Isett counters that, even without a full bill,Texas Transportation Commission ChairDeirdre Delisi can still use the Sunsetreview to reform TxDOT: “We’ve clearly shownthe direction we want them to follow, and, tothe extent that they implement those recommendations,it’s that much less legislationwe have to pass next time.” When all fiveagencies come back in 2011, he said,“We’ve already done the full-blown review, sowe’ll just have to look at what’s changed.”Yet even with both Republicans andDemocrats publicly saying they don’t plan tosabotage the session, there’s no guaranteethat all this legislation can be handled inthree days. Perry may be planning for anearly sine die, but, Watson warned, “If youcome back, who knows how it extends?”– Richard Whittaker$4 Million Later Austin loses lab to WacoWhen the Department of VeteransAffairs’ brain imaging lab leaves Austin forWaco, there won’t be much to move. An MRImachine used for research belongs to theUniversity of Texas. The lab’s director wasfired in January, and the plan he developedto study and treat returning veterans withtraumatic brain injury has been scrapped.Most of the money is gone, too. Of the $6.3million in taxpayer money allocated in 2004 tothe Central Texas Veterans Health CareSystem to fund the lab, a little more than $2million is left, says VA spokeswoman DianaStruski. What remains, she says, will be usedto clear out the Brain Imaging and RecoveryLab’s offices at the J.J. Pickle ResearchCenter and terminate the lease with UT.After spending more than $4 million, theAustin lab is closing without one veteran havingbeen studied or treated. Last month, theVA announced that the BIRL was moving toWaco, where researchers using a $3.5 millionmobile brain scanner at the VA’s Centerof Excellence for Research on ReturningWar Veterans will conduct brain research.The ousted director of the BIRL, neurologistRobert Van Boven, says that much ofthe wasted money was gone before hearrived. “By the time they hired me, they hadalready pissed away one-third of their money– $2.1 million,” he says. A July 2008 reportby the VA Office of Investigator Generalbacks up his accounting.When Van Boven took the BIRL’s helm inJuly 2007, he wrote a formal protocol to exclu-sively study traumatic brain injury in veteransreturning from battle. He reallocated theremaining $4 million in BIRL funds for a fouryearTBI study, and the budget was approvedby his bosses at the Central Texas VA.But before the research began, Van Bovenbutted heads with his superiors. The dayafter the BIRL’s official grand opening in January 2008, Van Boven was suspended fromhis leadership role and reassigned to clinicalwork. He was fired in January of this year.The federal Office of Special Counsel iscurrently conducting an investigation intopossible whistle-blower reprisals; it is illegalfor a federal agency to fire an employee fordisclosing misconduct.Beginning in the fall of 2007, Van Bovenbegan reporting misuses of BIRL funds to hisbosses at the Central Texas VA, based inTemple. Van Boven alleged that an ongoingstudy of diabetes-related eye dysfunction –begun before he was hired – was outside theBIRL’s mission. Moreover, he reported that anendocrinologist and a contractor conductingthe research were not qualified researchersand had little or no data to show for contractwork billed to the VA and hundreds of hoursof brain scanner time, for which UT chargedthe lab $486 per hour.Van Boven’s superiors at the Central TexasVA – including Edward Sherwood, then chief ofstaff, and Paul Hicks, associate chief of stafffor research – refused to act on his disclosures,so Van Boven went over their heads to officialsin Washington, D.C., adding accusations of mismanagement.His disclosuresresulted in two VA Office ofInvestigator General reports –released in July andDecember 2008 – that partiallysubstantiated claimsthat the research was faultybut did not verify his allegationsof mismanagement.Late last year, a VA committeewas set up to considerclosing the lab. “Thepanel has met, and therecould be a possible recommendationto close theRobert Van BovenBIRL,” Struski said inDecember. However, after anoutcry from veterans’ groupsand a letter from four Central Texas congressmen,the VA announced last month that theBIRL would be moving. “We looked at theduplication of efforts between the BIRL andthe Center of Excel lence’s missions, geographicaccess to active members, and not havingduplication at two sites,” Struski says. Shewas also quoted in a June 22 Washington Postarticle as saying that problems uncovered atthe lab were “part of the decision” to move.Mild TBI and post-traumatic stress disorderare a dual affliction seen in manyreturning war veterans and an area whereexperts agree that more study is needed.The center, which broke ground in April, andits mobile brain scanner will be better able toThose with medium and severe TBI, shesays, tend to be hospitalized and are beingserved at other facilities, such as the newNational Intrepid Center of Excellence forTraumatic Brain Injury, which opened last yearin Bethesda, Md.Van Boven, meanwhile, has taken a positionwith the U.S. Army as clinical director ofthe TBI program at the Irwin Army Com munityHospital in Fort Riley, Kan. Neverthe less,he continues to fight the BIRL closure. “Whatreally pisses me off is that nobody has beenheld accountable for the waste, fraud, andmismanagement at the Central Texas VA,” hesays. “They want to deny the problem, coverup the problem, bury the problem, and at thesame time use it as an excuse to shut downserve outpatients with mild TBI, Struski says. the BIRL.”– Laurel CheskyJANA BIRCHUM20 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

the hightower reportBY JIM HIGHTOWERREPUBLICANS ON HEALTH CAREWe’ve heard a good deal about theDemocratic Party’s plans to reform America’scorporatized, no-care health-care system –but it’s time we considered what Republicancongressional leaders are offering.It’s really pretty simple – nothing. When itcomes to altering the power of the insurancegiants to control our health-careoptions, the Republican position can beexpressed in one word: HellNo! The party’sintransigence stems not only from its servilityto corporate funders but also from itsblind faith in the mythical workings of theholy free market. The Washington Times, aCapital-area mouthpiece for the GOP,summed up Republican opposition to BarackObama’s idea for a publicly run insuranceoption in this sentence: “The governmentcannot possibly do for Americans what themarketplace can.”Let’s see – that would be the marketplacethat presently excludes 47 millionAmericans from any coverage, under-coversabout twice that many, has doubled ourinsurance premiums in the past eight years,costs us more for health care per capitathan any other country, limits our choice ofdoctors, creates profits for insurers byaggressively denying doctor-prescribed treatmentsto sick people, delivers a quality ofcare that ranks 37th in the world (just anotch above Slovenia), and intentionallyblocks consumers from access to cheapermedicines.Wow, I think Republicans are right – governmentcouldn’t possibly do all of that forthe American people!Three out of four Americans say that thiscurrent system, controlled by insurance-companyprofiteers, must be completely overhauled.Yet all we’re getting from the oppositionparty is head-in-the-sand subservienceto the status quo.Aren’t there any grassroots Republicanswho can move their backward party forward?WALL STREET’S GAS-PUMP ROBBERYLike a Fourth of July bottle rocket, ourgasoline prices are shooting upward.However, tongue-clucking market analyststell us there’s nothing we can do about it,for it’s simply the law of supply and demandin action – so suck it up, and pay up.Supply and demand? The supply of crudeoil has risen to its highest level in nearlytwo decades, even while the demand forgasoline has fallen to a 10-year low. Supplyup, demand down. That’s a classic marketformula for cheaper prices at the pump –yet they’ve risen by some 60 cents a gallonin the past two months alone.We’re being had by some brand-name dealers.Not Exxon, Chevron, et al. – but suchnames as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley,and other Wall Street dealers who placeunregulated, speculative bets on the futureprice of oil. Sound vaguely familiar? Yes, thisis the same so-called “dark market” of derivativesand swaps that led to the subprimemortgage crash, which then brought downWall Street and crushed our economy. And,yes, these are the same banksters you and Iare bailing out with trillions of our tax dollars.Yet, here they go again. By pooling moneyfrom hedge funds and other large investors,speculators such as Goldman and MorganStanley have been buying trillions of dollars’worth of “oil futures” – which essentiallyare bets that oil prices will rise to acertain price by a certain date. This massiveinflux of what amounts to gamblingmoney totally distorts the real value ofpetroleum. As a CNBC energy analystreports, “It’s this money flow – rather thanthe fundamental supply-demand data –that’s driving oil prices higher.”Every dollar that these Wall Streeters beton oil prices is a dollar they are not investingin our real economy. They stole from us on ourmortgages, and now they’re doing it on gasolineprices. When will Obama and Congressfinally crack down on these thieves?For more information on Jim Hightower’s work – and to subscribe to his award-winning monthly newsletter,The Hightower Lowdown – visit www.jimhightower.com. You can hear his radio commentaries onKOOP Radio, 91.7FM, weekdays at 10:58am and 12:58pm.4 th OFJulyOFF(*second item of equal or lesser value)SALE30% OFFALL REGULAR PRICED MERCHANDISEJULY 3, 4 & 5We will be closed July 1&2 toprepare for this huge saleA portion of our warehouse will be open.Floor samples from our wholesale showroomsaround the country have just arrived!THE FIRST 25 CUSTOMERS ON JULY 4THHAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DRAW FOR A$1000 SHOPPING SPREE AND MORE PRIZESNEW ARRIVALSDSHS#7882 and Abortion Pill Abortion CareHere, it’s all about you.512-443-2888austinwomenshealth.comSAHARARUGS (9’x12’)$995CASPER END TABLEIN CLEAR, CHERRY, OR SLATE$5502090 WOODWARD STREET, AUSTIN, TX 78744 • 512.225.0333WWW.FOURHANDSHOME.COMa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 21

NEWSElizabeth Harris withtwo of her children,Rosalynn and RudyAll That RemainsRoxanne Paltauf vanished three years ago, leaving herfamily with only memories and investigators with few cluesBY JORDAN SMITHThe dreams are all strikingly similar.In the shadows of the hallway outside thebedroom door, the air feels thick and gloomy;it’s hard to see what lies ahead or behind, orany details of the surroundings. At the far endof the hall, the front door suddenly opens, andthere is Roxanne, wearing her yellow shirt, herhair brushed smooth and falling over hershoulders. She walks into the house – brightand light and so very real. Your eyes widen, andyou walk toward her. You can smell the powderyscent of her Love’s Baby Soft perfume. Youare full of questions: “Where have you been?What happened to you?” She smiles nonchalantlyand quickly brushes aside your inquiries.“I’m fine,” she says, “don’t worry about me.The real question is,” she says, “how are you?”And then you wake up.If you are Elizabeth Harris, or one of herfour children, this is the kind of dream thatconsumes your sleep. When you wake, youknow at least one thing is real: RoxannePaltauf – your first born, your big sister – isgone. She’s been gone for nearly three yearsnow, vanished in the dusk of a July eveningoutside the Budget Inn near Rundberg Laneand I-35. There are leads to finding her – somevery good ones, in fact – but as yet there areno answers. There is little hope that she willbe found alive. Indeed, for Roxanne’s siblingsand her mother, the reality that haunts wakinglife is that Roxanne is likely dead. Murdered.And what now remains are only questions:What happened, where is she, and will herfamily ever be able to bring her home?‘Have You Seen Roxanne?’The last time Elizabeth Harris saw herdaughter was just before July 4, 2006, whenRoxanne dropped by her mother’s Cherrywoodneighborhood home to pick up a few personalitems. She had been staying for the previousfew days with her boyfriend, then-30-year-oldLouis Walls, at different motels off the interstatenear Rundberg Lane. She and Walls, withwhom Roxanne had been romanticallyinvolved for nearly two years, had made ahabit of spending time together at one of themotels along that stretch of southbound I-35.Mostly it was out of necessity: Roxanne’smother did not like Walls, and for whateverreason, Walls’ mother, with whom he liveswith his two young children, didn’t particularlycare for Roxanne. If the two wanted tospend any time together, they had to findsomewhere away from home to do so.Truthfully, Harris didn’t like the idea that herdaughter would spend any time with this man– and at 18, Roxanne was still just a girl, Harrissays – let alone in a motel near Rundberg Lane,an area known as a crime hot spot. But whatcould she do? Roxanne was legally an adult,and she was going to do what she wanted.Walls is “a hustler. He’s a player. I think he’s aburden to society, to tell you the truth. …Before Roxanne went missing, I told her that,”Harris recalled recently. “I said, ‘This guy is nogood.’ [But] the more you pull her away, thecloser she gets to him. It was just one of thosethings. She was a young girl – she is young.”JANA BIRCHUMIndeed, Walls isn’t exactly a saint. Accordingto court records, he’s been in and out oftrouble since 1995 – for robbery, selling fakecrack, and more recently, for threatening hiscurrent girlfriend (who, like Roxanne, is alsosignificantly younger) and for violating a protectiveorder she has against him. Harris saidWalls boasted of being a member of theBloods street gang, but she thinks his involvementis likely marginal, that he only fancieshimself a player. Nonetheless, Walls’ behaviortoward her daughter made her nervous, andshe made it clear to Roxanne that she didn’twant him around the house. (Walls did notrespond to phone messages requesting aninterview for this story.)Despite how Harris felt about Walls, Roxanneand her mother were close. “She [toldme], ‘We talk two or three times a day,’” saidTim Young, a private investigator who hasworked pro bono onRoxanne’s case. “Motherssay that all the time, so Ididn’t necessarily believeit” – not at first. “But[Roxanne’s] phonerecords showed that wastrue.” Everyone connectedto Roxanne’s disappearance– friends, family,and Austin Policeinvestigators – agreesRoxanne and her motherhad a special relationship.In fact, their closebond made Roxanne’sdisappearance – andWalls’ account of whathappened – all the moredisturbing. “Wild horsescouldn’t have kept thatgirl away from this house,”says Harris’ longtime boyfriendPatrick Doyle.According to phonerecords, Harris last spokewith Roxanne on theafternoon of July 7, 2006.“The day she came upmissing … I asked her tocome home,” Harrisrecalls. The familyplanned a shopping trip to San Marcos thenext day, and Harris wanted Roxanne to jointhem. Harris wasn’t “jealous of her time withLouis,” but Roxanne had been with him fornearly a week, and her mother thought thatwas enough. “She said: ‘I’ll be home mom. I’llbe there; we’ll go shopping.’” Rox anne nevershowed up, “so we went ahead and went withouther.” By the time the family got home,Roxanne still had not returned to the house –Harris was puzzled by her absence but not yetworried. That changed several hours laterwhen Harris received a call from Walls. “Hegoes: ‘Have you seen Roxanne? Have youheard from Roxanne?’ I said: ‘Well, what doyou mean? She was with you.’”Walls said he hadn’t seen Roxanne sinceroughly 8:30pm the previous evening, whenCOURTESY OF PALTAUF FAMILYRoxannePaltaufFor Roxanne’ssiblings andher mother,the reality thathaunts wakinglife is thatRoxanne is likelydead. Murdered.the couple got into an argument “about thepast,” Harris said Walls told her, and Roxannestormed out of their motel room. Walls toldHarris that he went out after her but that shetold him to leave her alone and continuedwalking, along the service road toward Rundberg,making a left onto Middle Lane. Wallstold Harris that he went back to their room to“cool off” and that 20 minutes later he wentback out to look for Roxanne. He couldn’t findher. She had simply disappeared, he toldHarris. “Four hours after I talked to my daughtershe came up missing,” Harris says.Harris called police to report the disappearanceand, at her urging, so did Walls – althoughhe’d already checked out of the Budget Inn andreturned to his sister’s apartment at the WalnutCreek complex. But because he’d cleared out,taking Roxanne’s belongings with him, neitherHarris nor the police were able to search herbelongings, as they werewhen she left the room, forclues to her whereabouts.More disturbing wasWalls’ behavior in thehours and days afterRoxanne disappeared:According to Harris, hewas not at all interested inhelping her search forRoxanne. He kept her cellphone for nearly a weekafter she went missing andused it to make some 300phone calls, beginningwith a breakneck pace ofdialing all over town: tothe main number for aseries of motels strungalong the Rundberg/I-35corridor, to local singles“chat” lines, to a stripclub, to various friendsand ex-girlfriends – onecall after another, literally,for hours and hours onend – before finally returningit to Harris. He alsokept her purse and otherpersonal effects – includingclothing that has neverbeen returned. Indeed,when Harris finally got Walls to meet her toreturn Roxanne’s property, she said he providedher with a bag of clothing belonging tosome other female – clothes that were way toolarge for Roxanne, whom some friends lovinglyreferred to as “the pencil,” and that were notat all her style. Although Walls maintained –and continues to maintain to police – his initialaccount of the circumstances surroundingRoxanne’s disappearance, his behavior wasquickly making Harris very wary. Even theinitial conversation she had with Walls thenight after Roxanne supposedly took off startedto take on a different tone as she replayed itin her mind. “It was the way he asked aboutRoxanne, he didn’t ask, ‘Can I speak to Roxanne?’He said, ‘Have you seen Roxanne?’” sheCONTINUED ON P.2422 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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NEWS MISSING CONTINUED FROM P.22 The Boyfriendrecalled recently. Walls was perfectly aware ofhis girlfriend’s close relationship to her mother,and it would seem logical, Harris thinks,that he would assume she’d left him and gonehome. “To me, he was saying he already knowsthat something happened to her.”An Insane SituationHarris’ suspicions were not without basis.The two-year relationship between Roxanneand Walls had been volatile. “I never approvedof Louis from the beginning,” says RachelGonzales, who had been friends with Roxannesince the two met as students at Kealing JuniorHigh. The relationship didn’t exactly start on apositive note: According to friends and family,Walls lied about his age to Roxanne, telling the16-year-old that he was just 19, when in truth,in the summer of 2004 when they met, he wasalready 28. It wasn’t until well over a year intotheir on-again-off-again affair that she finallylearned he was actually closer to 30. Thedeception felt purposeful and manipulative,say Roxanne’s friends and family. The relationshipwas also abusive – starting “at the beginning,”says Gonzales. “He would cheat on herevery once in a while and push her around.”Gonzales said she tried to tell Roxanne thatshe should end it, but Roxanne defendedWalls. “It got to a point that we were beingseparated, that she was telling me less and less[about] things that were going on.”According to another friend, ElizabethEllis, Roxanne was simply too trusting andtoo generous. Roxanne stayed with Walls inpart, she believes, to help take care of his twoyoung children to whom she had grownattached. She would buy them presents atthe dollar store – dinosaur toys for his son,for example, and pretty accessories for hisdaughter’s hair. She’d go to the apartmentWalls shared with his mother and babysit forthe kids by herself when Walls wanted to goout, sometimes overnight. “She had a bigheart and was a nurturer,” Ellis says. Ellissays that she and Harris tried to convinceRoxanne that she was being used. “She reallydidn’t know how to pick ’em,” Ellis recalledrecently. “Roxanne was always trying to [getWalls to] get himself a job, to be a man. Andthat’s something that her mom and I wouldalways tell her: ‘You can’t tell a man to be aman; he needs to just be one.’” But Roxannewould always stick up for him – and, perhaps,lie for him.Roxanne Paltauf was lastseen at the Budget Innnear Rundberg Lane.That’s what seems to have happened in2005, when Harris found Roxanne sittingalone at a bus stop, her face bruised and puffy.Her nose was not just broken but internallydetached, requiring serious surgery. Roxannetold Harris that the injury had been an accident:She and Walls had been down on SixthStreet when a group of guys began to catcallher, saying she should leave Walls and go offwith them. Before she knew it, Walls was fightingthe whole group – Roxanne tried to breakup the fight and instead got popped in theface. Walls had gone off to have a doctor atBrackenridge Hospital look at his hand.That was the story Roxanne initially toldGonzales too, and Gonzales didn’t believe aword of it. “She stuck to it, but I knew itwasn’t the truth. He was pushing her, slappingher,” she says. “I honestly believe he did thatto her.” Ellis says that Roxanne ultimatelyadmitted to her that Walls was responsible forthe damage to her face but shrugged it off. “Itwas just an insane situation,” Ellis says.Time to GoIn the months leading up to Roxanne’s disappearance,it seemed to her friends and familythat she was finally pulling away from Walls.Although she’d dropped out of McCal lum HighSchool as a junior, she had found her way to theGoodwill job training and GED program andwas thriving there, said her case worker, SandraMcDowell, and her teacher Jane Comer. “Shewanted to grow, to become more, to get a goodeducation and … a good job,” says McDowell.“She had friends who did not have those credentialsand wants in life, [but] that was herambition.” Roxanne was “very artistic,” Comersays, and she was excited to land an unpaidmentorship spot with Charlotte’s Fiesta Flowerson Lamar Boulevard, near the cluster of hospitalsand medical facilities off 38th Street.“Everyone loved working with her,” says flowershopowner Charlotte Wainscott. “She was justsuch a sweet and nice person.” She did so wellin her mentorship that after it ended Wainscotthired her on. “She learned and caught onquickly. She was one of those people that reallyloved flowers.” Indeed, says McDowell, Roxannethought that one day she might be able to haveher own flower shop.Roxanne was also making progress in herschool work, says Comer, and by early 2006had passed all but one of the tests needed toreceive her GED – only math was standing inher way. But like many young adultsJANA BIRCHUMwho fail to secure a GED on the firsttry, Roxanne began to drift from theprogram; she didn’t come around asoften and put off further study. Butshe kept working and eventuallytook a second job, working for theCensus Bureau.Not long after that Walls began toreappear, says Ellis. According tophone records, in the month beforeRoxanne disappeared, Walls was callingher constantly. Roxanne wouldtell Walls what neighborhood shewas working in that day doingLouis WallsCensus business, and then “she’d run intohim at a park on that side of town,” Ellisrecalls. “He’d just randomly show up placeswhere she would say she was going to be. Hewas way weird.” Less than two weeks beforeshe disappeared, however, it seemed to Comerthat Roxanne had made up her mind: Shewanted to get back to school and get on withher life. “I think the job made her think, ‘Ineed to get my GED and do something else,’so that’s when she decided … that ‘I’m goingto go back and do this.’”Yet Roxanne had also apparently reconciledwith Walls – at least enough to go with him atthe end of June to spend a week together, endingup at the Budget Inn just south of Rundberg.Harris, Ellis, and Gonzales now insistthey believe Roxanne was truly and finallydone with the relationship. Ellis called her thelast weekend in June and caught Rox anne crying.Was there trouble with Walls, she asked?“And she was like, ‘I can’t talk about it now.’”Ellis told Roxanne to get dressed, and shewould pick her up; Roxanne agreed.Ready to go, Ellis called back, but Roxannenever answered. Gonzales says she had asimilarly cryptic conversation on July 4, 2006.“She told me that they were arguing,” sherecalls. “She was trying to leave him alone, buthe wasn’t letting her. I said, ‘Just leave; don’ttalk to him anymore.’ But you can only tell aperson so much.”Harris and Patrick Doyle now wonder ifRoxanne had decided to break things off withWalls for good – and if, perhaps, that’s whatkicked off the argument they had on the eveningof July 7, 2006. “I think that argumenthe said they had, I think it finally clicked forher …,” says Harris.“That it was time to go,” finishes Doyle.“Time to go,” agrees Harris. “I’ve got nothingelse to go on.”Walls has never wavered from his versionof events – that he and Roxanne argued andshe walked out, alone, and disappeared completelywithin 20 minutes. But in the yearssince, police investigators have developed amore complete picture of Louis Walls, andit’s not impressive. “Louis, among his peers,is an idiot,” says 15-year APD veteranDetective James Scott, one of two investigatorsassigned to the department’s missingpersons detail. “I mean … you can look athis criminal record and tell he’s not thesmartest criminal out there.” Indeed. InMarch 2005, for example, he was popped foragreeing to sell three rocks of crack for $50 toan undercover APD officer. The cop had spottedhim walking along Rundberg, and gavehim a ride to the Ramada Limited just off thehighway. Walls fetched the rocks and waspromptly arrested. After testing, it turned outthat the crack was fake. (Walls was handed a120-day jail sentence.)Walls has also exposed a far darker side,and particularly a history of trouble withyoung women – trouble that started beforehe met Roxanne, says Harris, who madecontact with an ex-girlfriend Walls callednumerous times in the hours after Roxannedisappeared. The girl told Harris that shehad taken out a protective order to keepWalls away. More cryptically, Harris says theyoung woman told her that when Wallscalled her he told her that he was “in trouble”but did not elaborate. (The ex-girlfriend,who lives out of state, did not return a callfrom the Chronicle.)Since Roxanne disappeared, Walls hasapparently not changed his ways. In March2008, he was charged with making a terroristicthreat against his current girlfriend,Cassan dra Tolbert. According to courtrecords, she told police she’d met Walls tomake arrangements for him to see the sonhe’d conceived with her but that he wantedinstead to talk about her getting “back withhim.” When she said no, Tolbert recalled, hewhispered in her ear, “I don’t want to kill youlike I did that girl Roxanne,” and, “I reallydid kill her; I know how to do somethingwith bodies.” (He pleaded no contest to thecharge, was found guilty, and sentenced to140 days in jail.)More disturbing, says Harris, is that Tolberttold her that Walls had tried to pimp her out.Could it be, Harris wonders, that Walls triedthe same thing with Roxanne? That is a possibility,says Scott. “I don’t think she wasstraight-out tricking for him,” he says, but hecould have been trying to groom her for thatrole. Ultimately, Scott says, he thinks Roxannedid not see the writing on the wall: “She wasnaive; she was in over her head and didn’tknow it. Of course, in missing persons thereare a lot of young ladies who feel like they’repart of the ‘in’ clique – they’re with a gangleader, or whoever, and they don’t realize whothey’re with.”CONTINUED ON P.2724 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

Missing in AustinIf there’s one piece of advice that Detectives James Scott andDavid Gann, the APD’s two-man missing persons unit, could offerparents, it’s this: Get to know your kids. Really. Like, who they hangout with. The bulk of the nearly 4,000 cases the team works eachyear involve juveniles – more than 75% last year – and the vastmajority of those involve runaway kids. And that’s why knowing yourchild is extremely important. “I’d say, in 80% of our runaways, theparents can’t name, by name, a friend of their child,” says Scott, a15-year department veteran.“Not one,” echoes Gann, who’s been with the department 27years. “I had one the other day. I asked [the parents] for a photo,this was their response: ‘Well, where do you expect me to get that?’”Personal information is king when working a missing person’scase because it helps investigators determine, as quickly as possible,whether a person is in danger or whether they’ve simply walkedoff the grid. Most people that go missing simply do leave of theirown accord – they run away, drop out, and start a new life. Still, asmaller number, roughly 3% of all cases, Scott estimates, involvetrue abductions – where a person is physically taken against his orher will. Most difficult for investigators, perhaps, is determiningwhether a person has left voluntarily. “In other words, you see somebodyforcing someone into a car, and they’re obviously going unwillingly,that’s an abduction,” says Scott. “When somebody goes to thestore and they just don’t come back, that’s not an abduction. That’san unexplained disappearance, but that’s where we start looking atconsistency of behavior.” And that’s also what makes working missingpersons cases so different. “That’s one of the ways it’s differentthan other cases: You’re actually starting with nothing and trying totrack it backwards, as opposed to, I’ve got the crime scene and nowI have to figure out where the bad guy went,” says Gann.Despite the difficulties working missing persons cases, however,police boast a fairly high clearance rate: In 2008, according toAPD, investigators cleared and closed 96.1% of their caseload. Butstill, each year, there are the cases that can’t be cleared, thatremain unsolved, and, like that of Roxanne Paltauf, that hauntinvestigators who are determined to find answers. Below are ahandful of those cases.– J.S.Kellie Hall: age 29*, 5’6”, 175 poundsLast seen: 4/25/09, at a restaurant in SoutheastAustin. She was wearing a black shirt and black pants.Her hair is brown with red tips.Case No. 09-1160647Adan Velasco: age 18*, 5’9”, 140 poundsLast seen: 5/2/07, in East Austin. He has a tattoo onhis abdomen of a shield with the initials AV and thenumber 88. May be traveling with a white Maltese dog.Case No. 07-1260046Irene Garcia: age 30*, 4’11”, 101 poundsLast seen: 12/22/07, wearing red T-shirt and bluejeans. She has no upper front teeth.Case No. 08-0031333David Dilloway: age 24*, 6’1”, 185 poundsLast seen: 4/28/01. He has a scar across his rightcheek and a cross on his left arm.Case No. 01-4663041Jason Hill: age 19*, 5’11”, 170 poundsLast seen: 10/24/94, at the old Robert MuellerMunicipal Airport. He has a tattoo of Medusa on hisright shoulder.Case No. 94-4733081*Age when reported missing.Detectives David Gann (l) and James ScottAPD MISSING PERSONS UNIT CASELOAD2007 2008 2009*Total Cases 3,942 3,929 1,681Adults 902 977 354Children 3,040 2,952 1,327Runaways 2,529 2,606 1,224Missing Children 101 144 55Missing Adults 653 693 252Request to Locate 165 230 113Clearance Rate 90.2% 96.1% 94.7%*January through MayDefine ‘Missing’By definition in the Texas Code of Criminal Procedures, all missingpersons are defined as either a “missing child” or a “missingperson.” APD uses the “title codes” to better define and prioritizethe category of the investigation along with enhancing statisticaldata collection.Missing adult: A person, 18 or older, whose disappearance ispossibly not voluntary.Missing children: Children, under 18, whose whereabouts areunknown and there is a reasonable belief the child’s absence iseither involuntary or the child may be endangered.Runaways: Children, under 18, who have voluntarily left the careand control of a legal custodian without consent and without intentto return.Request to locate: A person, 18 or older, whose reason for disappearanceis unknown but there is no reasonable belief that theindividual disappeared under suspicious circumstances or is a victimof foul play.Clearance rate: Number of cases closed after the missing personwas located or safely returned.APD’s missing persons unit is responsible for other title codes notincluded in the above total. 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Something Absurdin BetweenBY MICHAEL VENTURAIt was such a simple song. It said such a simplething: “I want to hold your hand.” An impulsebasic as lust, or maybe more basic: contact; theacknowledgement of one for another, two together,the beginning of everything – clasped hands.“And when I touch you, I feel happy inside.”Just like that. Everybody had felt it. Everybodyknew it was true.And the song was everywhere. Even onthat ferry to Riker’s Island prison.Unembarrassed, childishly happy,the song tinkled from a plasticAM radio the size of a lunchbox, as though four wee Beatlestrilled in a tin can. Not muchis bleaker than a prison or aferry to a prison, and yet, eventhere, the song reminded youthat there’s such a thing as joy.You boarded the ferry beforedawn with cops and guards and whoknows who in that winter of 1964. It wasrarely as warm as 30 degrees. Wind blewthrough the river’s corridor, encasing you inunspeakable coldness. I was 18, working inthe prison mail room, in the special darknessthat was Riker’s, an atmosphere thick withviolence and bewilderment. The song insistedthat life was wonderful anyway.When you work in a prison, its despairsticks to your clothes and your spirit. A weekendisn’t enough to air you out – except thisparticular weekend in February. The Beatleslanded on Friday, to play Ed Sullivan’s liveTV show Sunday. That weekend, New YorkCity – a tough, gray, combative place in thosedays – was not itself. On subways and in diners,people smiled and spoke to one another.About the Beatles. “I Want to Hold YourHand” played constantly, and we, momentarily,were different – but in a way that felt,to me, oddly familiar.Not three months before, John Kennedygot himself shot dead. That day, and for daysafter, in diners, subways, and on street corners,folks spoke to one another suddenly, intimately,sharing the weight of the moment. This Beatlesweekend was like that, but instead of mournful,it was giddy.It seemed to me, at the time, a largethought: Beatlemania would not have beenpossible without the Kennedy assassination.The response to the assassination created,as never before, a template of media-instigated,media-connected mass feeling – akind of receptacle into which we poured ourinsecurities, grief, fears, failed hopes. Oncecreated, that template didn’t go away butawaited another blast of similarly intenseinput, and the next was the opposite of thefirst: Beatlemania was a receptacle into whichwe poured everything joyful, forgetful, hopelettersat 3amful, and, because the template was thesame, the public response was the same:Strangers everywhere spontaneously sharedthe buoyancy of the moment.I felt, in that thought, that I’d gleanedsomething about how the world feels itself tobe “the world” – the illusion, that is, of “theworld” as a purposeful entity. But a strikingaspect of such an insight is that, while funto ponder, it’s completely useless. As an18-year-old would-be poet, I jotteddown my thought and turnedup the radio for the next hit.Musically, the decade wastaking off. Beatles songs ranup and down the charts alongsidethe Drifters’ “Under theBoardwalk,” the Beach Boys’“I Get Around,” the RighteousBrothers’ “You’ve Lost That LovingFeeling,” the Kinks’ “All Day and Allof the Night,” the Zombies’ “She’s NotThere,” Martha & the Vandellas’ “Dancingin the Street,” the Temptations’ “My Girl,”the Animals’ “House of the Rising Sun,”Them’s “Gloria,” Sam Cooke’s “A ChangeIs Gonna Come,” and Bob Dylan’s “TheTimes They Are A-Changin’” – as though themusic knew something was up, somethingwas coming, something exciting and maybescary, a break with the past that many wouldcelebrate, many would regret, and a fewwould do both. I don’t think it’s only in retrospectthat underneath it all one felt a greatand trembling poignancy. What is poignancybut the feeling of “hello” and “goodbye” atthe same time?When A Hard Day’s Night came outthat summer, I saw it with a half-dozenor so friends, gals and guys, at a theatrein Mahopac, N.Y. A Hard Day’s Night wasverbal and visual slapstick in gorgeousblack and white, the songs all hope andlight, and the faces of the Beatles so familiarby then that it had the feel of a homemovie – somehow (this was their magic),they were us. Irreverent but sweet. Slylyhip but no threat. To absorb for the firsttime, with no preconceptions, A HardDay’s Night’s happiness, its sense of possibility,its message that nothing couldstop or repress such joy and that nothingwould go wrong ever, the music as irrepressibleas it was inclusive – it was toomuch for us!We left that theatre so hungry for life thatwe did the only reasonable thing: In the hotnight air, we ran, danced, and shouted allover Mahopac’s graveyard, as though onlythe dead would understand our urgency tolive. But there it was again: All this joy hadsomething to do with death.JASON STOUTI know someone who saw that movie 30times. Don’t know how many times I sawit – six, maybe 10. And, I promise you, noneof us registered the moment when Ringo said,wistfully, “Being middle-aged and old takes upmost of your time, doesn’t it?” (Yeah. It does.)Dancing, yelping, and leaping over tombstones,I stood suddenly still – here wasBeatlemania, death, and something absurdin between. Me! So I screamed, loud as Icould, leapt atop a gravestone, balanced,whooped, and danced off, while the cloudedmoon and the future hovered like shroudedangels. I remember someone said, “TheBeatles are heralds.”Sept. 20, 1964. I’d left Riker’s Island forTimes Square – at the time, there was nofunkier neighborhood on the continent. Iworked as a counterman at a diner on EighthAvenue. Prostitutes displayed their wares inthe window booths; cops came by for payoffs;an ex-Marine closet queen worked the counterwith me – it was an education. When I’d getoff work I felt, at last, that I had the right towalk the streets as a full sharer in life, earningmy way, with no backup and no need of any.That was me after a 12-hour shift, mypockets full of money as I walked to SeventhAvenue – a person of responsibility. My familydepended on me. While friends wonderedwhat to do with their lives, I had a task, whichwas more freeing than you might suppose.Serious life had begun.Only to become unserious in the extremewhen I turned the corner and was swept intoa mass of screaming virginal girls who filledTimes Square, spilling into the streets, draggingwith them all the usual denizens – cops,whores, hustlers, hoods, grunt workers likeme. The girls had no idea where they wereor what was around them as they teemedtoward the Paramount’s marquee, which wasbright with “BEATLES TONIGHT!”There was no resisting this mob, turningthe corner east on 43rd, packed with girls,no traffic possible, all of them jumping upand down, screaming, pointing to two litwindows about four stories up. In each windowwere two shadow figures, silhouettedblack against their room’s light, easily recognizableby their hairdos. They waved to thehappy masses.I was as happy as anyone. I liked thembest that way, as shadows, brightly backlitabove that giddily maddened, funky,dangerous neighborhood. These were theBeatles of those first childlike songs,before they and the decade darkened, andthey, too, became swept away by whatthey’d heralded.I elbowed myself out of that crowd andwalked crosstown to Grand Central Station.A big moon hung above the Empire StateBuilding. And I thought of that moment in thegraveyard, when I was even happier, and something– I can’t exactly say what – had seemedincredibly clear.It was some kind of way to be 18. A wildmoment of clarity, useless in itself, but to besavored in memory.■26 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

MISSING CONTINUED FROM P.24NEWSCOURTESY OF RUDY PALTAUFThe MissingWorking missingpersons is a dauntingtask. APD’s twomanmissing personsinvestigation teamworks roughly 4,000cases each year – including runaways (thebulk of the cases), disappearances, andabductions. In the first five months of2009, the unit already had 1,681 cases inits queue. And working these cases is a distinctlydifferent proposition than working,say, a robbery or homicide. There, says Scott’spartner, Detective David Gann, you’ve got adistinct crime scene, and the questionbecomes: Where did the perp go from there?In missing persons, the first order of businessis to determine whether a crime even happened(see “Missing in Austin,” p.25).In the case of Roxanne Paltauf, there wasn’tnecessarily anything at first to suggest she’ddone anything else than just walk off. “Thecase came [to us] as, they got into an argument,and she walked off – with just thatinformation,” Gann says. “Well, you canimagine, working missing cases in a city witha population the size we have, that’s a prettycommon occurrence. Boyfriends and girlfriendsget into arguments, and one of themwalks off. They don’t come home that night,[and the] very next morning their significantother reports them missing.” Often the questionof how to proceed in such cases turns ona consistency of behavior – for example, hasthe person walked off before? According toWalls, Roxanne had done just that.At first, police had no reason to suspectthat Walls – the one who initially reported thedisappearance – wasn’t being honest. “It’sreally hard in this profession to pick andchoose which cases have nuances that makeyou say, ‘There’s something to this; we needto immediately grasp what happened,’” saysScott. “And in that sense, I guess everythingthat could go wrong [with Roxanne’s case]did go wrong.” Not that police didn’t, asScott puts it, “use due diligence.” Roxanne’sname was immediately put into a be-on-thelookoutalert for all patrol officers, and vitalinformation was fed into the state and nationalcrime computers. But it wasn’t until laterthat police had enough information to suggestthat there might be far more involved inRoxanne’s disappearance than just an unremarkablelovers’ spat.For example, there was the purse: Roxanne’spink purse that she supposedly left, with hercell phone, her wallet, and her jewelry, insidethe hotel room. Roxanne never went anywherewithout her purse. Never. On that pointfriends and family completely agree. Ellis saysshe would actually get into arguments withRoxanne about her always needing to carry herpurse everywhere they went. Gonzales agrees:“Anywhere she goes, she’s got that purse onher shoulder.” When Harris told Gonzales ithad been left behind, “I knew immediatelythat something was wrong.” The fact that herjewelry was also leftbehind, inside her wallet,let Ellis know somethingwas not right.Roxanne never wentwithout her rings:“No. … Even when wewent swimming, that girl woreaccessories.” If Roxanne was going to stormout of the room – even to cool off – shewould have taken her purse and certainlywould have taken her cell phone. Harris isadamant about that – and she would havecalled home, say those who knew Roxannewell. “That made me very nervous, the factthat her mother never heard from her,” saysComer, Roxanne’s teacher. “I couldn’t see herbeing strung out, or whatever, so bad that shewasn’t going to call her mother.”Everyone insists that Roxanne talked to hermother two, three times, or more, each day. Onthe evening of July 7, 2006, those calls ceased.“The one thing that struck me, the day shedisappeared, the calls stopped,” said privateinvestigator Tim Young. To him, that clearlymeans that whatever happened, Roxanne didnot simply disappear of her own volition. “Atthat point in the investigation, it seemed clearthat she was not with us anymore. There wasabsolutely no trace of Roxanne.”There was, however, one additional cluethat appeared just six days after she wentmissing. A security guard named Bryan Parkernoticed Roxanne’s Texas identification cardtucked into the wallet of another man whowas accused of assaulting a woman at theMotel 6 just up the street from the BudgetInn. According to the police report of that July13, 2006, incident, a man named GeoffreyMoore, now 33, picked up a Perfect 10 Men’sClub dancer and her husband, outside theChevron station at Rundberg and I-35. Mooreasked, “How much for her?” She replied thatshe was not a prostitute but would do a privatedance for him at the motel. The threewent to the motel, and Moore and the womanentered the room. He locked the door, however,before the husband could get inside.The woman alleged that Moore attackedher and tried to rape her. The husband heardhis girlfriend shouting, got Parker and a passkey,and the two men tried to get into theroom. When they finally got the door open,the husband attacked Moore, who fled, leavingbehind his wallet and his hearing aid.When Parker picked up the wallet, he foundRoxanne’s ID. Moore later came back to thescene, to retrieve his things, and was arrestedby police. He was never charged – in part, itseems, because the chain of events that led tohis alleged attack of the woman aren’t entirelyclear. Moore, for example, told police that hetried to get intimate with the woman but sherefused. He then went into the bathroom andcame back out to find her rifling through hispockets, trying to steal from him. Could ithave been that the woman and man luredMoore and then tried to roll him? Or was it anunprovoked sexual assault? Ultimately, theTravis Co. District Attorney’s Office declinedto pursue sexual assault charges againstMoore, and the case was closed. (Moorecould not be reached for comment.)But the incident did provide Harris andpolice with yet another lead. How had Mooregotten Roxanne’s license? To date, that is notentirely clear – even though detectives havespoken with Moore about Roxanne’s disappearance.But police say they’re certain thatneither Walls nor Moore have told everythingthey know about Roxanne. Walls’ attitude isespecially frustrating. “People don’t realizethat although I feel that he could be moreforthcoming,” says Scott, “I don’t have anylegal rights to force him to do anything. Anduntil I get the kind of forensic evidence thatwould allow me to go to a grand jury, to forcehim to answer questions, I can’t. I mean, it’snot like in the movies, where you can just goto somebody and say, ‘Well, we’re taking youdowntown.’ Because if they don’t want to …all we can say is, ‘Well, that’s a real bummer.’We can’t just throw you in a car.”More importantly, says Scott, Walls “justdoesn’t care that he’s a suspect. [H]e’s nostranger to bad-acting, so it’s not a huge burdenfor him.”Ultimately, though, Scott says he will findthe truth, from Moore or Walls (or whoeverelse), to solve the mystery of Roxanne’s disappearance.“Basically, I’ve got two violentoffenders. Both of them are lying to me,” saysScott. “[T]hey’re both hiding criminal activity.But I think one of them is hiding a murder.”Waiting for AnswersThe questions continue to haunt Harris.Where is Roxanne? What happened to her?As the years have passed, the questions havebecome more detailed and more disturbing:Did Walls try to roll Moore? Could he haveused Roxanne as bait to do just that? DidMoore, who had been popped before for carryinga butcher knife in his car while trollingfor hookers along Middle Lane, happen uponRoxanne and try to solicit her? Or maybe, didhe recognize her as Walls’ girlfriend, from aprevious encounter?The questions, the possibilities, feel endless.Harris and Doyle have staked out motelsnear Rundberg, they’ve walked the streetshanding out fliers asking people to “PleaseHelp” Harris find her daughter, they’ve postedalerts and questions on the Web, gotten Roxanne’sstory featured on America’s MostWanted, and in turn they’ve been approachedby psychics. So far they’ve made little progress.Harris still holds great hope that theright person, with the right tip, will finallyhave the courage to tell the truth. “My biggestthing is, is Roxanne out there? Is she alone? Isshe scared? Is she crying out for help and Ijust can’t hear my daughter?” she asks. “Ineed my closure. 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THEarts30 Classics Comeback 32 After a Fashion 62 Arts ListingsC-Scape Dune ShackMorning, Provincelands,Mass., by Suzanne Lewis‘DUNE SHACK SUMMER’ Finding her muse on old Cape CodSummer gets many Texans thinking of the beach, butfor at least one Texan, the beach in mind is more thana thousand miles from her home state. Last year,Suzanne Lewis was one of the few individuals selectedfor an annual residence program that allows artists tospend three weeks living and making works in one ofthe 17 historic dune shacks scattered across threemiles of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The shackswere built in the Twenties, Thirties, and Forties, oftenwith lumber that had washed ashore, and the livingconditions in them now are as bare-bones as whenthey were cobbled together: no electricity, no runningwater, the closest paved road 30 minutes by foot oversoft sand. Still, for Lewis, the dune shack was “heaven,”a getaway in which she was splendidly productiveas both a photographer and a painter of abstracts.The work she generated there has resulted in the exhibition“Dune Shack Summer,” opening July 2 in WallyWorkman Gallery’s upstairs space, and a book by thesame title, available at the gallery and at BookPeople.The Chronicle asked Lewis what made this beach andher time there so special.– Robert FairesAustin Chronicle: What draws someone born andreared in Austin to old Cape Cod?Suzanne Lewis: I am a fifth-generation Texan. However, I must’ve beenmisplaced, because I adore and hope to live on Cape Cod someday. It’sthe ocean, the New Englanders, and the weather. Need I say more in this100-plus degree heat? Bring on the bitter cold, snow, fog, and gray days.AC: On the one hand, you’re capturing the landscape in realistic photographicimages, and on the other, drawing on it as inspiration for largely nonrepresentationalpaintings, which would strike some folks as moving in oppositedirections simultaneously. What appeals to you about taking such differentapproaches at the same time?SL: I like it that way. I work very spontaneously and intuitively.The camera allows for this, as does the nonrep painting. Iget bored easily and am constantly having to entertain mycreative muse. I would shoot like a madwoman early in themorning and paint by music from NPR in the afternoon on mybattery-operated weather radio. I produced about 30 paintingsand more photo images than I’ve ever shot in one place.The most inspiring thing about the shack was knowingthe history of those who had gone before me. Over theyears, notable artists and writers have called these shackshome for weeks, months, even years. Willem de Kooning,Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Mary Oliver, e.e. cummings,Eugene O’Neill, Jack Kerouac, Annie Dillard, Norman Mailer– all spent time out there creating in the dune shacks. Thelight, the colors in this environment were magnificent. Theweather was so inspiring – storms rumbled, the shackshook. Every morning after I photographed, I’d walk the100 or so yards to the ocean with my coffee, journal, andbinoculars to watch the finback whales.The solitude was very regenerative for me. Even when Iwas not working, I was gathering the quiet to use when I gotback to my studio. I discovered it’s not only about creating; it’sabout preparing to create. I realized I could survive without somuch stuff. I was captured emotionally as if put under a spell.Being tuned in to things like the wind’s direction is reallyabout staying alive in the moment. It’s easy for me to be unconscious ofhow much water I use at home. But at the shack, I maybe used a gallon aday. I was so much more cognizant of it. I was mindful of every sound. Andjust being more aware of the impact of my actions is an important balancefor me to have. When we forget that, we’re disconnected from ourselvesand disconnected from one another. It was a sacred experience.Night in theDunes, bySuzanne Lewis“Suzanne Lewis: Dune Shack Summer” runs July 2-Aug. 5 in the upstairs gallery ofWally Workman Gallery, 1202 W. Sixth. For more information, call 472-7428 or visitwww.wallyworkmangallery.com.HIDEOUT IMPROV MARATHON Going out like meteors: blazingCOURTESY OF PETER ROGERSGoing to an improv show at the crack of dawn on aSunday is a tad surreal. Nowhere near as surreal, I’msure, as performing improv then – especially whenyou’ve already been doing that for 38 hours straight –but still. First surprise: that once you’re in the performancespace, the Hideout Theatre at 7am feels a lotlike the Hideout Theatre at 11pm. With the worldscreened out, the look of the stage and audienceanticipation are the same as in an evening show.Second and bigger surprise: that eight improviserswho had been at it nonstop since before sunsetFriday could be so sharp, focused, and riotously funny. Anyone at the finaleof the Hideout’s inaugural 40-Hour Improv Marathon to see a spectacularflameout by one or more of the sleep-deprived performers got a, well, rudeawakening. What flames there were came from these improv pros being onfire: listening to one another as keenly as surveillance ops, consistentlymaking clever choices that moved scenes in fresh directions, and keepingtrack of what had been created in earlier scenes, then calling back elementsfor comic effect. In hour 39, with guests McNichol and May, an offhandline about a spring break trip to Omaha sparked awhole series of scenes about the Nebraska metropolis:from a Grapes of Wrath-style family migration to Omaha,imagined as a biblical paradise with honey flowing frombuilding tops, to a Brooklyn mob couple in the witnessrelocation program grousing about the city’s cordiality. Inthat 50-minute succession of scenes, the players wereas smooth, supportive of one another, ingenious, andhilarious as any improvisers I’ve seen in town. And thatwas just as true in the final hour. Even when the eightwho had gone the distance – Kareem Badr, Kaci Beeler,Matt Pollock, Curtis Luciani, Jeremy Lamb, Andy Crouch, Troy Miller, andCaitlin Sweet – could see the finish line and punchiness occasionally overtookthem, they remained in top form, playing off whatever happened –hearing a baby’s cry in the audience during a scene in a space station, theymade it a “space nursery” – and building a cohesive story of variousthreads that they pulled together in dazzling fashion. Like the meteors theyreferenced in this last spontaneous tale, the eight improvisers of this firstmarathon went out in a glorious blaze of light.– R.F.GEPPETTODREAMSFAMILY PUPPETWORKSHOPSBuild a Bert (or Ernie)For my daughter, it was Lamb Chop, BigBird, and Kermit. For me, it was Cecil theSeasick Sea Serpent, Kukla and Ollie,and Farfel. For my parents, it was CharlieMcCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. And forsome ancestor way back when, I’m sureit was Punch and Judy. For generations,puppets have been captivating kids, andthe spell they cast is as powerful in theInternet age as ever. (Just ask any weeBiscuit Brothers fan about TinyScarecrow.) So when Geppetto DreamsPuppet Company offers a series ofSunday-morning workshops where childrencan learn to make their very ownpuppets, well, you gotta figure that theyoung ones will jump on that faster thanyou can say “Snuffleupagus.”The twice-monthly workshops (first andthird Sundays, 11am-12:30pm) will cover arange of puppet styles for various ages:paper puppets (4 and older), trash toys (5and older), glove puppets (6 and older),sock puppets (8 and older), trash puppets(8 and older), and deco-puppets (12 andolder). Costs vary, with suggested donationprices ranging from as little as $4 to $18.But for families who live in the 78702 ZIPcode, the workshops are free of charge,and special workshops are also availablefree to nonprofits serving children. (It’s away for Ricki Vincent and the GeppettoDreams puppeteers to give back to theircommunity.) Space is limited, however, soreservations are suggested. GeppettoDreams is located at 1715 E. Seventh. Formore information, call 358-4632 or visitwww.geppettodreams.com.– R.F.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 29

THE ARTSTHEATREClassics ComebackAre the great dramas of yore reclaiming their place onAustin’s stages?BY ROBERT FAIRESEuripides, is that you?You’ve been away so long, I almost didn’trecognize you. And who’s that behind you?Mikhail Bulgakov? Never thought to see himaround these parts again. And J.B. Priestley,how long has it been? And is that EugeneO’Neill, too? And Sartre? And Molière? AndSheridan, Coward, and Chekhov?Seems like every time you turn around thissummer, you bump into another Grand OldGeezer of Western Drama somewhere on theAustin theatre scene. As the mercury is risingto record heights, so too is the number oflocal productions of plays that, for lack of abetter term, could be called classics – roughlydouble the number that were mounted fromMay through August of 2008. In fact, for thefirst time in at least a generation, the numberof classics onstage looks to be outpacing thenumber of new plays being produced locally.That’s a fairly stunning turnaround for thiscommunity, rather like having oatmeal suddenlydisplace migas as Austin’s breakfast fareof choice. To the extent that Austin is knownfor theatre, it’s known for new plays. The cityhas been fertile ground for original dramas, Isuspect, since Col. Zilker started making ice,if not before – with the occasional local playeven garnering some recognition beyondour city limits (e.g., the counterculturemusical/happeningStomp, akaNow the Revolution,which caught theeye of Joe Pappand playedNew YorkLEAH SHARPEand Europe in the Seventies). But once threehomegrown plays, in fairly quick succession,found notable success inside and outside Austin,a real surge in new play production began. Thetrifecta of Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein GertrudeStein, by Marty Martin; Greater Tuna, by JoeSears, Jaston Williams, and Ed Howard; and Inthe West, by the company members of Big StateProductions, proved that there was an audiencefor Austin-generated plays, both locally andnationally, and anyone who wasn’t already anaspiring screenwriter sat down to the keyboardand began tap-tap-tapping out a script for thestage. Which companies then responded to byproducing them, sometimes in new play developmentprograms, sometimes through festivalssuch as FronteraFest, where playwrights couldmount their work. And the UT Departmentof Theatre & Dance began beefing up its playwritingprogram and production of studentgeneratedmaterial. Up sprouted more andmore new companies that focused on mountingoriginal material: the Rude Mechanicals,Loaded Gun Theory, Rubber Repertory, andYellow Tape Construction Company, to name afew. And more and more works coming out ofthose companies made their way to appreciativeaudiences around the country: the RudeMechs’ Lipstick Traces and Get Your War On,Dan Dietz’s tempOdyssey, Steven Tomlinson’sAmerican Fiesta, John Walch’s The DinosaurWithin, et al. By the late Nineties, the area hadenough playwrights that an organization, AustinScript Works, was founded to support theiractivities. Over the past 25 years, new playshave gone from representing about one-fifthof the theatrical work produced in the Austin/Georgetown/San Marcos area to just about onethird– a fact that has been noted with wonderin theatrical circles across the land. This cityloves its new plays.The classics, not so much. Back in theday, the golden oldies of the stage stood onequal footing with Austin’s theatrical newborns,representing about 20% of the area’s annualdramatic output. But once the new-play enginebegan revving up, it was The Tortoise and theHare in revival, with the classics in the roleof the poky reptile left in the dust. As thepercentage of new plays produced hasalmost doubledsince 1984, thepercentage ofTHE OTHER SUMMER CLASSICSNo Exit, by Sartre, runs through July 3 at DomyBooks, 913 E. Cesar Chavez. www.domystore.com.Black Snow, by Bulgakov, adapted by Keith Reddin,runs through July 12 at Salvage Vanguard Theater,2803 Manor Rd. www.tuttotheatre.org.An Inspector Calls, by Priestley, runs July 3-25 atthe Vortex, 2803 Manor Rd. www.main.org/diffstages.Henry V, by Shakespeare, runs July 2-25 at theOff Center, 2211-A Hidalgo. www.rudemechs.com.All’s Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare,runs July 9-19 at City Theatre, 3823 Airport.www.citytheatreaustin.org/savedindex.html.The Odyssey – A Rock Musical, by Homer,adapted by Freddy Carnes, runs July 9-18at City Theatre, 3823 Airport.www.citytheatreaustin.org/savedindex.html.classics has slipped to just one-sixth. Out of the200 or so shows that may be produced in thisarea in the course of a year, only about threedozen are typically classics – and that’s using amighty liberal definition of the term: basically,any stage play or musical 60 years old or olderand any newer play based on a literary workwritten prior to 1950. So, even with a standardthat allows Weird City Theatre’s Treasure Island,City Theatre’s Alice in Wonderland, TroublePuppet Theatre Company’s Frankenstein, ZachTheatre’s The Grapes of Wrath, and SalvageVanguard Theater’s Iphigenia Crash Land Fallson the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart intothe tent, the Austin theatre scene mounted just37 “classics” between May 1 of last year andApril 30 of this one. And it should be noted that15 of those were works of Shakespeare, whotends to skew this kind of analysis. Clearly, ifanybody belongs in the classics camp, the SweetSwan of Avon does, but he’s also a special casein that his works are perpetually in productionand widely, too. Strip away the Shakes, andcount only those works written for the stagebefore 1900, and the grand total of last season’sstage classics plummets to 10.Well, so what, you may be saying. If newplays are thriving and finding an audience,what’s the difference whether someone dustsoff A Doll’s House or The Misanthrope or EveryMan in His Humour for the umpteenth time?Those plays had their day.Which is true, but with the best of thoseworks of the past – the ones that truly earnthe honorific “classic” – their day is also ourday. They have within them some quality,some reflection of humankind’s most enduringtraits, some truth, that transcends the era inwhich they were created and makes them ascontemporary as that freshly minted drama justopening at your neighborhood playhouse. Andprecisely because these works are of anotherera, because they have – to use a phrase that nodoubt made you roll your eyes in junior Englishclass – withstood the test of time, they offer usthe perspective of distance, the long view of ourrace. Through them, we’re better able to seewhat doesn’t change in the human character, forgood and ill, and that can hold great meaningThe Rivals, by Sheridan, runs July 16-26at the Dougherty Arts Center Theatre,1110 Barton Springs Rd. www.weirdcitytheatre.com.Tartuffe, by Molière, runs July 23-Aug. 16 at CityTheatre, 3823 Airport. www.citytheatreaustin.org.Richard III, by Shakespeare, runs July 23-Aug. 15at the Austin Drama Club. ceasarbnice@yahoo.com.Orestes, by Euripides, adapted by Will HollisSnider, runs July 30-Aug. 15 at the Off Center,2211-A Hidalgo. www.cambiareproductions.com.The Tempest, by Shakespeare, runs Aug. 7-11at the Dougherty Arts Center Theatre,1110 Barton Springs Rd. www.pollytheatre.org.As You Like It, by Shakespeare, runs Aug. 8-30at Scottish Rite Theatre, 207 W. 18th.www.scottishritechildrenstheatre.org.for us as we struggle with the issues of our eraand strive to learn who we are and how we wantto live. To my mind, having classic plays be wellrepresented on our local stages helps make for awell-rounded theatrical diet, is good for our culturalliteracy, and helps the theatre artists whoproduce them exercise artistic muscles that justdon’t get a workout in contemporary plays, butmostly I believe they’re just valuable for whatthey tell us about ourselves.And that would appear to be also true forat least some of the artists taking part in thissummer’s spike in classic theatre productions.Charles P. Stites, who’s directing Tartuffefor the City Theatre Company, first read theplay during the scandals of evangelists JimmySwaggart and Jim Bakker and was struck, hesays, “by how much those charlatans had incommon with Molière’s famous huckster andhow similar Orgon’s family was to the BaptistsI grew up with. I think that Molière’s story ofblind faith and family has even more to say tous now than it did in 1664.” Bastion Carboni,whose Poison Apple Initiative production of NoExit ends its three-week run at Domy Booksthis weekend, finds Sartre’s drama enduring for“its philosophical relevance; it brings to lightissues that, regardless of age/gender/race/religion,are dealt with by people throughout thelifespan.” Will Hollis Snider, who’s written anew adaptation of the Greek tragedy Orestes forCambiare Productions, says: “The classics havesurvived and prospered because their themeshave resonated universally. With Orestes, I havea chance to take a familiar story and adapt itto make those huge themes – loyalty to family,guilt versus absolution, and the role of faith inour lives – much more personal.”The plays that tell us who we were and whowe are, that bring to light issues that affect usno matter what time we live in – they’re allaround us right now. But who knows for howlong? Another dozen classic plays will openbetween this weekend and Labor Day. Perhapsif enough of us turn out to see them, if weprove that there’s a new audience for theseenduring works, this comeback of the classicswill keep running, and the tortoise will againcatch up to the hare.30 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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food36CAFE BLUE8714 Lime Creek Rd., Leander,512/996-8188Monday-Thursday, 4-10pm;Friday-Saturday, 11am-11pm;Sunday, 11am-10pm; Sundaybrunch, 11am-2pm; happy hourMonday-Friday, 4-6pmwww.cafebluetx.comLake dwellers, especially thosein boats, usually get short shriftwhen it comes to fine dining. OnLake Travis, Cafe Blue is justabout the only place trying to providea viable fine dining option. Forthose who remember the originalversion of this lakeside eatery, onevery important thing has changed– 90% of the restaurant area isnow under a roof – still not air-conditioned,but between the fans andthe breeze, it can be quite comfortableat brunch/lunch times.We tried both a Sunday brunchand a Saturday lunch, faring muchbetter with brunch. Eggs BenedictArnold ($15) featured a good-sized, well-madecrab cake, topped with a poached egg and adecadently rich shrimp and crawfish creamsauce. The steak and eggs ($21) were justthat – a decent-sized rib eye and a couple ofeggs, all cooked precisely to order. The VolenteVolcano ($9) was a very good version of thepopular molten chocolate cake, which createdsome magic with the side scoop of Amy’sMexican vanilla ice cream. With the beautifulview, a nice breeze, and an ice-cold Blue Moon($4.75), lake life was feeling pretty appealing.Our second visit was not so satisfying.There were no gross errors, but nothing wasexactly right either. We started with bluecrab spinach dip ($11), an intensely richconcoction with plenty of crab flavor but nochunks of crab in sight. The calamari ($10)had a dense sesame crust that was perfectlycrisp, but the underlying squid was rubbery.The crab mac ’n’ cheese ($18) claimed tohave a “light cream sauce,” but by the end ofthe meal, it was thick enough to stand aspoon in. The special was fish and chips($12.95), which featured portions of fish soregularly sized as to suggest a factory formation.Chips that should have been crispy werelimp. The worst surprise of all was the WhiteLightning Margarita ($8), chosen becauseit was described as lime juice, simple syrup,tequila, and Cointreau. If there was really anytequila in it, I certainly couldn’t taste it.Recommended for Sunday brunch. Hopefullythe rest will be sorted out soon. – Wes Marshallrecently reviewedBRAZILIAN: RIO’S BRAZILIAN AT THE VINTAGE LOUNGE The Vintagetransforms during the day into a full-service restaurant servingRio’s popular Brazilian pastries, salads, and soups, all accompaniedby its spicy malagueta sauces. 504-B Trinity, 636-8534.www.howdoyourio.com.Lake Eats Revisited 38 Restaurant RouletteTERREDORA DI PAOLOTerredora di Paolo’s jolly and very talentedwinemaker, Lucio Mastroberardino,likes to explain to American wine loversthat, despite outward appearances, pizzawasn’t invented in Pizza Hut. It comesfrom the Italian region of Campania. Hedraws that comparison to make anotherpoint, that wine as we know it today originatedin Campania (the area whichincludes Naples and Pompeii)under the Romans more than 21centuries ago. Notwithstandingthe possibility of alternativeviewpoints from Greek orEgyptian food historians, thepoint is that people havebeen making wine from boththe Fiano and Aglianicograpes grown outside Pompeiifor more than 2,000 years. All thatexperience has helped them master themaking of wine from those grapes.wineof theweekEvent Menu July 4-8Fiano is a white grape with lovelystone-fruit fragrances and acidity thatworks nicely with chilled or raw shellfish.Its greatest strength is in a subtle area:The grape’s flavors and aromas tend tolast long enough to give extra appeal tofood. The Aglianico is a bold red grape,powerful enough to please someone wholoves Sonoma Zinfandels. Its main aromasare of dark berries and black pepper,which make it an ideal match withgrilled meats. Serve it just slightlycooler than you would normallydo with a red wine.The red TerredoraAglianico Irpinia will runabout $17 and is available atWhole Foods on Lamar and atselect Twin Liquors andSpec’s. The white TerredoraFiano di Avellino should costroughly $26 when it hits stores soon.In the meantime, you can try it at Vespaioand at 360 Uno Trattoria. – W.M.› Celebrate the Fourth of July at Becker Vineyards (830/644-2681, www.beckervineyards.com) bycompeting in its Independence Day Chili Cook-off to benefit Greater Fredericksburg Habitat forHumanity. 2008 Terlingua International Chili Championship winner Susan Dean will be cookingher chili at the event. For official Chili Appreciation Society International rules, schedule details,and entry fees, contact Alan Dean (512/809-4140; 112 Leaning Oaks Dr., Johnson City, TX78636). Brian Mullin will provide the music, and chili-tasting fee is $5 per person. Judgingbegins at 2pm. Saturday, July 4, 10am-6pm.› The A22 Wine Bar at Central Market Westgate (4477 S. Lamar, 899-4300) presents twowine dinners, featuring six small courses paired with the wines of McPherson Cellars in theTexas Panhandle. Each dinner will be $30 per person, and reservations are necessary. Tuesday,July 7, and Thursday, July 9, 6:30pm.› Sagra (1610 San Antonio, 535-5988, www.sagrarestaurant.net) invites you to indulge in the bountyof summer tomatoes at a five-course Tomato Dinner. Each course will be paired with fine wine,and the cost is $50 per person. Reservations are necessary. Wednesday, July 8, 7pm. – V.B.W.JOHN ANDERSONfood-o-fileBY VIRGINIA B. WOODIn the off-with-our-heads department, we offersincere apologies to the folks at Natural Grocersby Vitamin Cottage (3901 Guadalupe, 323-5100,www.naturalgrocers.com). They do indeed offer a fineselection of both fresh and frozen meats, poultry,and seafood, as well as a deli aisle with preparedfoods from local companies. We regret the error.And to the angry caller who described the story as“a lie, probably phoned in by some pot-smokingteenager”: The piece was actually written by aresponsible adult who made an embarrassing mistakeshe truly regrets. We consider ourselveslucky the people at Natural Grocers were graciousenough to accept our apology and a correction…Both readers and new business owners are goodsources for information about the local food business,and we always appreciate tips. Several peoplecontacted us in distress over the recent closures ofGypsy Italian Bistro (1025 Barton Springs Rd.),Taste Select Wines (202 W. Cesar Chavez), andLatin Cafe Austin (formerly Doña Emilia’s at 101San Jacinto). On brighter notes, Delish Bakery(209 W. Third, 473-4118, www.delish-cupcakes.com)is now open to service the Downtown area withcupcakes, desserts, coffee, and other sweettreats, and we’re also very appreciative for the tipthat sent us to a new little family-owned spot inthe campus area. After more than 20 years inNew Orleans, the Haddad family moved to Austinthis year to open their first restaurant, FlyingFalafel & Po-boys (2001 Guadalupe Ste. A-1,494-1400, www.flyingfalafelaustin.com). The menufeatures a combination of Middle Eastern andNew Orleans-style specialties, and so far everythingwe’ve had has been first-rate. Mom NuhaHaddad whips up different dishes from her nativeJordan as menu specials every day – be sure todrop in on Thursdays for Mensseff, a dish of fluffyrice and toasted pine nuts in a tangy yogurt saucetopped with tender chicken ($9.99) or succulentlamb ($11.99) – truly marvelous! The other newMiddle Eastern spot we’re hearing about isTarbouch Lebanese Grill and Hookah (534 E.Oltorf, 326-2001, www.tarbouchfood.com), whereLebanese chef Paul Nader is preparing classicdishes from his homeland. We haven’t made it inthere yet, but we can’t imagine a location with betterinherited vibes than the former home ofTexicalli Grille… Fans of the delicious handheldvegetarian pies from Boomerang’s GourmetVeggie & Meat Pies (3110 Guadalupe,380-0032, www.boomerangspies.com) will be pleasedto know they are now available at both localWhole Foods Markets. Popcorn fanciers can nowpurchase their favorite snack from the CornucopiaPopcorn trailer in the 1600 block of SouthCongress Thursdays through Sundays from noonto 9pm… While you’re watching the on-cameraramblings and elimination challenge snafus in theFood Network’s culinary reality competitionseries The Next Food Network Star this summer,do you find yourself thinking “I bet I could do abetter job than that”? If so, here is your chance.Casting producers from the Food Network will holdan open casting call in Austin this month lookingfor chefs, line cooks, home cooks, caterers, orfood enthusiasts who are “passionate about cookingand knowledgeable about food” as potentialcontestants for the 2010 season of the program.Show up at the Hyatt Regency Downtown(208 Barton Springs Rd.), Friday, July 17, 10am-4pm, and show ’em what you can do!a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 35

FOODLake Eats RevisitedWe take a trip down Ranch Road 620 for new bites on the sceneBY VIRGINIA B. WOODDriving the length of Ranch Road 620 recently, I was amazed by the development explosion sinceour last big feature on lake-area eateries five summers ago (see “Water Tables,” July 2, 2004). Manyof our old favorites remain, some with new enhancements, such as more cascading decks below thevenerable Oasis, the beautifully landscaped full-service party pavilion behind the Hill Country PastaHouse, and a busy Hey Cupcake! trailer in the parking lot between the Boat House Grill and SmokyJ’s Bar-B-Q. Lake-area demographics now support more chain restaurants, a few national retailers,and more than one Pan-Asian sushi bar. Four new places really captured our interest on this mostrecent visit, and we consider all of them worth a return trip.Rodolfo and JessicaBuonocore, ownersof Ate.CafeJAVA DIVE CAFE1607 RR 620 N., 266-5885www.javadivecafe.comOwner Ronnie Lieberman started with a smallcoffee shop four years ago, slowly adding pastriesand savory foods to his menu. Customerresponse was so positive that the original JavaDive outgrew its little place and now resides ina spacious corner of the attractive Oak GrovePlaza. In addition to excellent coffee roastedon-site, Lieberman’s eclectic menu also featuresbreakfast, soups, salads, wraps, panini, pastries,and smoothies made with organic and gluten-freeingredients whenever possible. Health-consciouslake-dwellers are certainly taking notice.HONEY BEE HAM & DELI1700 RR 620 N., 266-7426www.honeybeehamlakeway.comHoney Bee franchise founders Gayle and NeilLaminack retired to the lake area a few years agoand opened an expanded version of one of theirstores in the neighborhood. The deli/store offersgourmet spiral-cut ham; roasted, smoked, andfried turkeys; barbecue with traditional sides;deli meats and sandwiches; daily, hot blue-platespecials; and party trays. The friendly spot providesboth eat-in and takeout service and will addbeer and wine to the menu later this summer.We’re also told that it does huge holiday businessin hams and turkeys.ATE.CAFE2127 Lohmans Crossing, 263-4933www.atefoods.comI was a big fan of Jessica and Rodolfo Buonocore’sthe Daily, a sandwich-delivery business, afew years back, so discovering their cheery cafein the lake area was a genuine treat. The new eateryis a recent outgrowth of their popular weeklydinner-delivery service. The cafe now offersbreakfast and weekday lunches, and long-rangeplans include the addition of Spanish tapas inthe evenings, complemented by beer and wine.The food we sampled here – sandwiches, salads,sweets, and fresh lemonade – was by far the bestwe had on this lake visit, and we look forward toreturning.MIZU PRIME STEAK AND SUSHI2422 RR 620 S., 263-2801Former Finn & Porter chef Chris Bauer expectsthis new venture to debut in late July. Theexpanded Mizu will feature a New Americanmenu enhanced with some Asian-inspired dishes,five prime steaks, sushi, an à la carte weekendbrunch, and a full bar with late-night food andhours. Bauer’s ambitious plans also call for anorganic herb and vegetable garden complete withsugar cane and exotic fruit trees. Check out prospectivemenu items and the progress of the newrestaurant at www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-TX/Mizu-Prime-Steak-and-Sushi/75853587777.PHOTOS BY JOHN ANDERSONSTEINER RANCH STEAKHOUSE5424 Steiner Ranch Blvd., 381-0800www.steinersteakhouse.comBar opens daily at 4pmSunday-Thursday: dinner, 5-10pmFriday & Saturday: dinner, 5-11pmAs a descendant of Texas-borncowboys who actually rode theChisholm Trail, I’ve always appreciatedan authentic representationof the American Western aesthetic,and it just doesn’t come any moreauthentic than the Steiner RanchSteakhouse. After ranching for wellover half a century on the WesternTravis County property, the Steinerssold the ranch for developmenta few years back, saving a primehilltop location for the very impressiveedifice now bearing the family name. The14,000-square-foot, multistory restaurantis all stone, glass, and dark woods –it wears the Steiner family’s century ofranching and rodeo history with classystyle. My cousins who competed againstthe Steiners on the rodeo circuit back inthe day recall that they always had thebest trailers, trucks, and livestock, plusthe best-looking hand-tooled boots, belts,and saddles. (Those were probably courtesyof another Steiner family business, thelegendary Capitol Saddlery.) Many familyitems are now decorative accents in therestaurant: Tasteful leather furniture in the“tack room” waiting area, artfully framedphotos of family and Western movieand rodeo stars, elaboratelyengraved belt buckles andother trophies, and beautifullyaccented boots, belts,and saddles all evoke theatmosphere of a successfulranch estate.Each of the restaurant’sthree floors features indoor andoutdoor eating areas, party rooms,and full bars. All of the patios and most ofthe rooms offer a panoramic view of LakeTravis, especially the third-floor observationdeck. Proprietor Bobby Steiner is agracious host, and his well-trained staffmakes guests feel right at home. Thepositive response from families in the surroundingarea is obvious. The first-floorpatio is always full of folks enjoying drinksand live music, and weekend reservationsare a good idea if you don’t want to waitfor a table. Steiner Ranch Steakhouse hasthe potential to be an outstanding restaurantwith many important key elementsalready in place. Unfortunately, I didn’tencounter anything on the table that wasas impressive as the place itself.Family and friends joined me at SteinerRanch for dinner recently. Of our appetizerchoices, a platter of Elk Toronadas($13 for six) suggested by our serveroffered delicious slivers of tender elkmeat on toasts with a snappy sauce, butthe seafood cake ($13) of shrimp, crab,RESTAURANTreviewand lobster had the unappealing textureof shredded paper. The Steiner Greens($5 for a side salad) were simply dressed,cool, and crisp. However, an assertivesauce on the tomato and Gorgonzolasalad ($8.50) could not resuscitate thethick slabs of tasteless, underripe tomatoes.Entrée choices delivered hits andmisses as well. Our server encouragedthose of us who had ordered steaks tocheck their doneness while she was stillat the table, a smart and courteous acton her part. Although my 7-ounce filetmignon with Oscar sauce ($35) wascooked medium rare as ordered, the beefhad a strawlike, pre-tenderized texture,and the pasty sauce included the sameshredded-paper (frozen?) crabmeat thatmarred the appetizer. The housemashed potatoes and pencilthinasparagus paired withthe steaks were fine. Friendswho ordered the New YorkStrip ($34) and the Texanrib eye ($39) fared muchbetter, pronouncing theirsteaks satisfying. My cousin’scedar plank salmon ($21), onthe other hand, was too salty tofinish. For my money, the best piece ofmeat on the table that evening was mysister’s double-bone pork chop ($19), athick slab of perfectly cooked pork shellackedwith a marvelous Port wine demiglace,nestled against a tasty rice pilaf.The meat and sides were delicious andmade two hearty meals.As the sun set on our evening, weordered three desserts to share aroundthe table and hoped for better results.The bread pudding ($7) was rubbery andgelatinous, and the crème brûlée ($7) wasdense and grainy. Only the softball-sizedscoops of commercial raspberry sorbet($4) provided a refreshing note to theend of a heavy meal. Don’t get me wrong:We did enjoy the company of family andfriends in a beautiful setting with a convivialatmosphere and very good service. ButI think that when a group of six spendsmore than $400 on dinner, the majority ofthe food should at least be as impressiveas the saddles.–V.B.W.36 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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HOW MANYSHRIMPCAN YOU EAT?TUESDAY at Cypress Grill isSHRIMP NIGHT.GET 14 SHRIMPFOR JUST $6.99!Boiled Shrimp Fried ShrimpGrilled Shrimp Blackened ShrimpShrimp Night starts every Tuesday at5:30pm and goes until we close at 10pm.CYPRESSPad ThaiAuthentic, fresh Thai cuisineGRILLgive money I donate food I volunteer I advocateLOUISIANA CAFE & BARwww.cypressgrill.net4404 West Wm. Cannon358-7474One block west of Mopac, next to Gold’s Gym$6 9911am-10pmrestaurant rouletteESTIMATED MEAL COST PER PERSONDOWNTOWNAMERICAN CAFE: THE OLD PECAN ST. CAFEFor more than 25 years, Pecan Street hasbeen serving crepes and salads, Fat ChocolateCake, and wonderful coffee to a loyal clientele.310 E. Sixth, 478-2491.www.oldpecanstcafe.com. $$$BARBECUE: BOWIE STREET BBQ AT WHOLEFOODS MARKET All-natural Texas-stylebarbecue in a lunch-counter setting, featuringhouse-made beef andouille, chicken,pulled pork, baby back ribs, and beef brisket.Available both by the plate and by the pound.525 N. Lamar, 476-1206.www.wholefoodsmarket.com. $DELIVERY, PIZZA: COZZOLI’S PIZZA specializesin the East Coast style of soft and gooeythin-crust pizza that tastes best when you’restanding on a street corner. 704 Congress,480-8440. www.cozzolis.com. $$FINE DINING, ITALIAN: CARMELO’S RISTORANTEoffers an upscale Italian and Continental menuin a beautifully restored Downtown railroadhotel. Live accordion music five nights a week.504 E. Fifth, 477-7497.www.carmelosrestaurant.com. $$$$FINE DINING: DRISKILL GRILL A grand andsophisticated experience you can share withthe most exacting Manhattanite. Housed inthe ornate Driskill Hotel, the grill is home tocuisine that is hardly economical but certainly8201 S. a value. Congress 604 Brazos, Ave 391-7162.www.driskillgrill.com. $$$$INTERIOR MEXICAN: CANTINA LAREDOEverything here is prepared by hand. Find dailyfish specials, as well as grilled chicken andsteaks complemented by signature saucessuch as chipotle-wine with portobello mushrooms.201 W. Third, 542-9670.www.cantinalaredo.com. $$$PACIFIC RIM: SABA BLUE WATER CAFE Busy,loud, and aimed more at the bar crowd thanthe food crowd. If you happen to be thirstyand want a snack while you’re waiting for dinner,Saba fits the bill nicely. 208 W. Fourth,478-7222. www.sabacafe.com. $$PUB GRUB: THE TAVERN Austin’s most traditionpackedvenue for sports viewing and a popularwatering (and eating) hole for many decades.The building has been upgraded and so hasthe menu and the food. More than 52 TVs.922 W. 12th, 320-8377.www.austintavern.com. $$SEAFOOD: MCCORMICK & SCHMICK’S ThisPortland, Ore.-based chain offers daily changingmenus drawn from a fresh list of seafoodflown in from around the globe. Great applepie. 401 Congress, 236-9600.www.mccormickandschmicks.com. $$$$SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: TEXAS CHILI PARLORAn Austin legend serving good burgers, sandwiches,Tex-Mex, and, of course, chili in manyvarieties to satisfy all tastes, even vegetarian.Laid-back atmosphere with a very eclecticpatronage. 1409 Lavaca, 472-2828.www.cactushill.com/TCP/home.htm. $give money I donate food I volunteer I advocatenourishing hungry peoplenourishing hungry peoplenourishing hungry peoplegive money I donate food I volunteer I advocategive money I donate food I volunteer I advocate8201 S. Congress AveAustin, TX 78745512-282-21118201 S. Congress austinfoodbank.org AveAustin, TX 787458201 S. Congress Ave 512-282-2111Austin, TX 78745 austinfoodbank.org512-282-2111$

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YOUR HOMEBOUNDNEIGHBORS NEED YOU!The number of homebound disabled andelderly individuals in the Austin community isincreasing, and your neighbors need your help!Meals on Wheels and More is seekingvolunteers to fill several open routes in NorthAustin and East Austin neighborhoods.Put your compassion in action today.It just takes one hour per week!476-MEALwww.mealsonwheelsandmore.orgDon’t Miss Our Sunday Night512- 472-1813Open daily at 5:30 Downtown at 1205 N. Lamar Blvd.www.austinlandandcattlecompany.com40 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m SECONDHELPING Come in to Austin Land & Cattle every Sunday night andenjoy a different, delicious prix fixe three-course dinner forjust $35. And for each meal we serve, we’ll donate $5.00to a deserving Austin charity. ALC Sunday Night SecondHelping. A wonderful way to have a stake in Austin.STEAKSFOODRESTAURANT ROULETTE CONTINUED FROM P.38N ORTH CE NTRALAMERICAN CAFE: HYDE PARK BAR & GRILLGotta have those batter-dipped fries, we know.But this spot at the fork in the road doesother things very well, too, such as fish, chicken,and beef. 4206 Duval St., 458-3168.www.hydeparkbarandgrill.com. $$BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: QUACK’S 43RD STREETBAKERY Carrying on the tradition of slackereraAustin, Quack’s is a great place to luxuriateover coffee and a muffin. 411 E. 43rd,453-3399. www.quackquacks.com. $BURGER JOINT: BURGER TEX Build your ownburger at this longtime no-frills restaurant.Try the chicken-fried steak. 5420 Airport,453-8772. www.burgertex.com. $CHINESE, VIETNAMESE: KIM PHUNG CHINESE &VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT Most folks go forthe bowls of pho or for the bun, but you shouldgive the dinners a try. The hot and sour souprocks, and the lunch specials are delicious, big,and cheap. 7601 N. Lamar Ste. I, 451-2464. $CHINESE: CHINA PALACE The Palace was hugeback in the Seventies and Eighties, with longlines and great Chinese cuisine. It’s back witha vengeance and loaded with authentic taste.Insist on the Chinese menu, and be adventurous.6605 Airport, 451-7104. $FINE DINING: VINO VINO Comfy decor, greatwines, surprisingly good food, and reasonableprices keep everybody coming back.4119 Guadalupe, 465-9282.www.vinovinotx.com. $$PAN-ASIAN: MAMA FU’S ASIAN HOUSE Drop bythis locally owned chain to eat in or take out;the ingredients are fresh, and the service isgreat. 4615 N. Lamar, 637-6773.www.mamafusaustin.com. $$PIZZA: THE PARLOR HYDE PARK The jukeboxmay be different, but expect the same fresh,innovative pizzas at this new outpost of thepopular punk parlor on North Loop.4301 Guadalupe, 323-0440.www.myspace.com/theparlor. $TEX-MEX: JULIO’S CAFE The vegetarian taco withperfectly grilled zucchini and summer squashis a favorite, along with the enchiladas, chalupas,and fajitas. 4230 Duval St., 452-1040.www.juliosaustin.com. $THAI: THAI VILLAGE Enjoy a classy but stillaffordable meal and very artful food presentation.6406 N. I-35 #1550, 452-3888.www.thaivillageaustin.com. $$S OUTHBAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: DOMINICAN JOE Thisplace offers a variety of pastries and bakedgoods, as well as light lunch fare.515 S. Congress #108, 448-3919.www.dominicanjoe.com. $BARBECUE: CHIEF’S BBQ & GRILL If Mom’s barbecuesauce doesn’t bring you back, Joe Bob’sBeans will. You’ll also feast on ribs, brisket,sausage, turkey, ham, and barbecue bologna.7811 S. First #104, 444-BEEF.www.chiefsbbq.com. $$$5 OFFA LARGE PIZZAOR DINNER ENTREENOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFERSMUST PRESENT COUPONLIMIT ONE PER TABLEEXPIRES 7/18/09MONDAY NIGHTMADNESSBUY A LARGE PIZZAAND GET A MEDIUM PIZZAOF SAME OR LESSER VALUEFOR FREETEN FOR TENTUESDAYS10 GREAT WINESFOR $10 A BOTTLEBRAZILIAN: ESTÂNCIA CHURRASCARIA This locallyowned Brazilian steak house boasts a relaxed,fine-dining atmosphere and the only Brazilianwine list in town. 4894 Hwy. 290 W., 892-1225.www.estanciachurrascaria.com. $$BURGER JOINT: FRAN’S HAMBURGERS Realdealburgers hot off the well-seasoned grilland exceptional fries, all served up in whitewaxed paper, plus real milkshakes and malts.1822 S. Congress, 444-5738. $CHAIN: BJ’S RESTAURANT & BREWHOUSE Beersnobs will be impressed with the selection ofales from this California-based chain. Don’tskip the food though: Try the creamy spinachand artichoke dip, the Santa Fe spring rolls,and the avocado egg rolls. 5207 Brodie #300,892-3800. www.bjsbrewhouse.com. $$CHINESE, INDONESIAN: JAVA GARDENS Thelunch buffet is almost entirely Chinese, whilethe evening menu is mostly Indonesian with afew Chinese items remaining for the regulars.The Sunday buffet menu changes weekly.1717 Pleasant Valley #280, 385-8858.www.javagardens.net. $INTERIOR MEXICAN: CASA GARCIA’S offers awide selection of traditional Tex-Mex favoritesas well as an enticing array of InteriorMexican dishes. The cabrito is worth a returnvisit. 1901 W. William Cannon, 441-9504.www.casagarcias.net. $$JUICE BAR, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: DAILY JUICEThis friendly and popular juice bar nearBarton Springs offers fresh juices, smoothies,froths, and nondairy ice cream. You’ll feelbetter on the way out than you did going in.1625 Barton Springs Rd., 480-9501.www.dailyjuice.org. $TEX-MEX: LITTLE MEXICO RESTAURANT Oneof our favorite things to do is enjoy a chilerelleno or a plate of carne guisada and listento the mariachi bands that play here weekly.2304 S. First, 462-2188. $$UTAMERICAN CAFE: KERBEY LANE CAFE Famouslyfabulous for breakfast, lunch, and dinnerand a favorite of the late-night set, thisplace wears its groovy legacy on its sleevewith Frisbee-sized pancakes, pastas, blackbeans, and great coffee. 2606 Guadalupe,477-5717. www.kerbeylanecafe.com. $$AMERICAN CAFE: SPIDER HOUSE PATIO BAR &CAFE This cozy, old North Campus bungalowserves coffee drinks, juice, and beer, as well asa small, eclectic, vegetarian-friendly menu in acomfortably shabby atmosphere. 2908 Fruth,480-9562. www.spiderhousecafe.com. $BURGER JOINT: TERRABURGER Their No. 1 ruleis that everything in the store has to be allnatural,and their core ingredients are all U.S.Department of Agriculture-certified organic.Chicken, turkey, and veggie burgers areoptions, as well as sliders. 2522 Guadalupe,436-8075. www.terraburgeraustin.com. $CHINESE: SUN HING Kung pao, General Tso,and other Chinese standbys served upfresh and inexpensive. 2801 Guadalupe,478-6504. $$Downtown12th & Red River477-7006DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: PLAYERS Hey playa,these fry boys will outfit you with the tastiestof grub on the go. Burgers do go with thatshake. 300 W. MLK, 478-9299.www.austinplayers.com. $$FINE DINING: MANSION AT JUDGES’ HILL Aterrific date spot with a small, romantic diningroom and an abbreviated but well-chosenwine list. The cooking is creative but simple,relying on quality, fresh ingredients.1900 Rio Grande, 495-1800.www.mansionatjudgeshill.com. $$$$MIDDLE EASTERN, PIZZA: ITALIAN LONGHORNPIZZERIA You can enjoy Middle Eastern faresuch as falafel, gyros, dolmas, and taboulehat this popular pizzeria. 415 W. 24th,457-4992. $PIZZA: MELLOW MUSHROOM Don’t go here justfor the gourmet pizzas. In addition to hoagies,pepperoni rolls, and salads, Mellow Mushroomoffers 35-36 beers on tap on any given day.2426 Guadalupe, 472-MELO.www.mellowmushroom.com. $TEX-MEX: TRUDY’S TEXAS STAR offers a widerange of Tex-Mex with a slightly contemporarytwist, and fans are crazy about the chipotlesalsa and chips. The half-pound burgers aretasty and massive, and the menu also offerschicken-fried steaks. 409 W. 30th, 477-2935.www.trudys.com. $$WESTAMERICAN CAFE: CAFE LAGUNA The cafe menuof salads and sandwiches is provided byEddie Bernal’s 34th Street Catering operation.3809 W. 35th, 458-8191. www.amoa.org. $$DELI/SANDWICH SHOP, TAKEOUT: LITTLE DELI isnestled in one end of the Crestview shoppingcenter. Orders are placed at the counter, andthe service is relaxed and friendly.7101-A Woodrow, 467-7402.www.littledeli.net. $INTERIOR MEXICAN, TEX-MEX: CASA CHAPALAAll of your favorites, prepared fresh every day.Stick to the enchiladas and tacos.3010-D W. Anderson, 459-4242.www.casachapala.com. $$ITALIAN: CARRABBA’S ITALIAN GRILL Order fromthe pasta bar, sample one of the wood-firedpizzas, or choose a grilled specialty. 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screens44SPLIT DECISIONThe film community gathers to discuss the future of Austin StudiosBY RICHARD WHITTAK ERSo the Austin Film Society is staying at AustinStudios through 2042. Next step: Explaining their longtermplans. With the green screen of stage three attheir backs, roughly 100 attendees at the June 25public forum at Austin Studios were walked throughthe newly signed contract with the city, which extendsAFS’ current lease at the site after 2012 for 30 moreyears, and the resulting facilities plan. As was expected,controversy erupted over the proposed five-yearsubletting of stage four to Nashville-based SoundcheckAustin. The proposed $975,000 renovation ($500,000coming from Soundcheck, $475,000 via AFS from alow-interest loan to be paid off by Soundcheck’s rent)would convert that space into six soundproofedrehearsal studios and eight vendor offices.Board member Travis White explained, “One of thefactors is trying to keep AFS viable.” The stage hasbeen empty for the last year, and AFS has had to dipinto its fund reserves for the last two years to covershortfalls. If Soundcheck did move in, not only wouldthe stage produce more revenue annually than everbefore, but it would provide on-site sound facilities and potentiallyattract more music videos and behind-the-scenes-style productions.AFS staff countered fears that the deal means losingmill space for set construction, as the new contract with the cityrelaxes the restrictions on erecting new structures. As for anylost stage square footage, that would be restored in 2012 whenthe studio takes over the neighboring National Guard armory.Attendees were split about the stage four proposal, and tempersoccasionally flared. Some in the film community voiced concernsthat it moved the studio and AFS away from their core mission.From the music community, representatives of Austin-basedrehearsal facility Music Lab questioned the impact of Soundcheckon their business. Others took potshots at AFS and its decisionmakingprocess, with Jay Podolnick (CEO of abortive mixed film‘And Here’s the Kicker’ 45 TV Eye 68 Film Listingsand music production facility/housing development Villa Muse)calling it “like the Vatican, where you make up your own rules.”AFS Board President Chris Adams said he understood thestrength of the concerns. “I think that the economy has hurt alot of people,” he said. With the revised Texas Moving ImageIndustry Incentive Program, some fear reduced studio space willmean turning away major productions, but the studio has yet tosee any increase in inquiries, and the terms of the new bill areintended to promote small-scale productions and video gamedesign, not just features.The big message from AFS to the attendees was that the subleaseis not a done deal. Due to the scale of the improvements,it has to go back to council, and AFS still welcomes other proposals.“If anyone wants to rent stage four,” said Director ofOperations Catherine Parrington, “call me.”CONTRACTING AND EXPANDING AT KLRUThe lights go out on KLRU2 as a new channel takes the stageBY BELINDA ACO STAThe sour economy forced local PBS affiliateKLRU to make some hard changes lastMay. Reduced overnight hours, staff layoffs,production suspended on certain locallyproduced programs, and some well-publicizedbehind-the-scenes union blues madethe future of Austin’s public television lookwobbly. While the dust has been settling inthe aftermath of layoffs and budget cuts,it’s not all business as usual at KLRU. Evenbefore the new reality of a troubled economy,a few innovations have been in theworks, and several more are on the horizon.The most visible change for many viewersis the elimination of KLRU2 (for TimeWarner Cable subscribers) and KLRU-G(for Grande Cable subscribers). AlthoughGrande subscribers saw KLRU-G disappearearlier in the week, the void was onlytemporary. Starting July 1, KLRU-G andKLRU2 have been replaced with KLRU-Q.JOHN ANDERSONThanks to the digital conversion, KLRU-Q,the public television station’s third multicastchannel, is available to noncable subscribers.KLRU-Q joins the “main” KLRUchannel and another pre-existing channelknown as KLRU Create (which emphasizescooking and craft shows) in part of anongoing effort “to experiment with programmingstrategies that more fully use the station’sexisting digital bandwidth,” saysKLRU General Manager Bill Stotesbery.While still in formation, the new KLRU-Q isdescribed as “an eclectic mix of PBS programsand other shows not seen onKLRU,” according to online press materials.Stotesbery continues: “We decided tobring up our third multicast channel, availableto everyone, to feature some programsnot seen on the other multicastchannels of special interest to Austin-areaaudiences.” Best of all, “the cost is nearlyRebecca Campbell, director at AustinFilm Society, leads the Austin Studiosforum on June 25.zero,” Stotesbery says of the change, addingthat KLRU-Q will be programmed inblocks, with hopes of attracting new viewers,underwriters, and sponsors. Music, ablock called Tea Time (British comedies),drama, and reality are only a few bannersthat describe the aggregated programmingblocks that viewers can expect to view onthe Q.The children’s programming that manyparents have come to rely on will still becarried on the flagship KLRU channel.And while it’s too early to announce,Stotesbery said the station is activelylooking inside the KLRU vault to see whatoldies and goodies stand the test of timeto be brought back to the airwaves.As far as returning to a 24/7 format,Stotesbery hopes that will happen at theend of summer. “Maybe earlier. We’re notquite there technically,” he says.See our Screens blog, Picture in Picture, at austinchronicle.com/blog/pip for the new channel information for digital TV, Grande, and Time Warner customers.film newsBY JOE O ’CONNELLHORROR STORIES SCARE UP FUNFOR DAYTON, KENTAustin singer-songwriter Jesse Dayton may havestumbled onto a film career and a new musical identity.He and his band are Captain Clegg & the NightCreatures in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II (the sequelto his 2007 Halloween reimagining), which is due intheatres Aug. 28. Dayton says he met Zombie throughTexas actor Lew Temple, who played Adam Banjo inZombie’s 2005 film, The Devil’s Rejects. Dayton wasasked to write and record songs for that film’s soundtrack,which has developed quite a following amonghorror fans. Zombie ran into Dayton six months agoand asked him to write songs for his latest film. “Iimmediately started getting e-mails from Rob aboutsong ideas,” Dayton says, “then two weeks later hetells me he’s making another Halloween with HarveyWeinstein, and that’s the film we’re doing.” Soon hefound himself filming in a Civil War graveyard inGeorgia. “I always wanted to play a psychobilly vampirein a huge horror movie!” he says of the role. Ifyou saw a camera crew at the Continental Club recently,that was likely the video shoot for a Dayton songfrom the soundtrack, also due out Aug. 28 and to befollowed by a Captain Clegg tour… Horror fans maywant to stop by the release party at 7pm on July 15 atBookPeople for my pal Gary Kent’s memoir, Shadowsand Light: Journeys With Outlaws in RevolutionaryHollywood. Kent, a legendary stuntman/actor/writer/director who has worked with everyone from RichardRush (Hells Angels on Wheels) to Monte Hellman(Ride in the Whirlwind) to Al Adamson (Satan’sSadists), expects the crowd to include Bud Cardos(Kingdom of the Spiders), Chuck Bail (The Stunt Man),Don Jones (Schoolgirls in Chains), and Bob Ivy (whoplayed the mummy in Bubba Ho-Tep).AUSTIN FACES CROWD TXMPA BOARDAustin is well-represented on the latest TexasMotion Picture Alliance board, which was electedSaturday in San Marcos. At-large candidates CraigBerlin, Jeanette Scott, and Rick Olmos join centralregion rep Paul Alvarado-Dykstra on the board, andcentral region alternate Shelly Schriber was electedboard treasurer. Don Stokes of Dallas, who led thelobbying group’s efforts to expand the state’s filmincentives program, was re-elected president. The biggestnews may well be the election of Oge Young ofSony Online Entertainment as the film lobbying group’sfirst video game, animation, and visual effects rep.Why does all of this matter? Scott’s online letter toTXMPA members says it all: “I have spent the lastseveral months in Oklahoma, on a feature film set inTexas. We are filming here for one reason. Legislativeincentives. The Oklahoma state legislature has justsigned into law a bill granting a rebate of 38% to filmproductions, and believe me, the studios are lining upand salivating. Never mind that there is no crew base,no infrastructure, no soundstage, no office facilities.We are based in an abandoned department store. Thetoilets work intermittently. Next to my desk, the waterflows down the pipe each time someone flushes thetoilet. But the people are lovely, the locations aregood, and the community is eager & ready to build upthe crew base and infrastructure to make this a trulycompetitive destination.”a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 43

SCREENSTough CrowdThe setup: 21 depressives, neurotics, and social misfitswalk into a book. Meet comedy’s all-stars.BY KIMBERLEY JONESThe title of Mike Sacks’ new book on comedy, And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations With 21Top Humor Writers on Their Craft, sounds straightforward enough, but it really only hints at whathappened when Sacks started talking with comedy greats from past and present, including BuckHenry, Harold Ramis, Mad magazine’s Al Jaffee, and The Simpsons’ George Meyer. Another 19interviews didn’t make the final cut; “some of them,” says Sacks, a humorist and Vanity Fair staffwriter, “were really quite awful.”These aren’t quick chats, but rather the fruits of two years’ research and around about 10hours of interview time per subject. In his book, Sacks digs into the inner workings of the comicmind (a sometimes deeply troubled one) and into the inner sanctum of the writers’ room, fromCaesar’s Hour to Saturday Night Live. He plucks practical advice on what not to do when tryingto get a job (in case you were wondering, “it’s not smart to send in a résumé on a Mylar balloon”).And every so often, Sacks fawns, if just a little bit. (Like you’d keep your cool talkingto a guy who once wrote for the Marx Brothers.) Put together, And Here’s the Kicker, which hitsshelves on July 8, is a fascinating mix of cultural reportage, how-to, and hagiography.Austin Chronicle: So howmuch are the humorists includedin your book an indicator ofyour own comedic sensibility?Are these “the ones” for you?Mike Sacks: I had carteblanche. I could pick whoeverI wanted. Truthfully, alot of them said no – SteveMartin said no; Albert Brookssaid no; Tina Fey said no. Alot of women said no. Butthese are people that I justlove. … It just mattered tome if I liked their work andif they were willing to talk tome for 10 hours.AC: Did your opinion of someof the writers change in the process?MS: Um, yeah. I would say that in somecases my respect grew, and in other cases,it didn’t. … But some of these people areso consistent – Bob Odenkirk, MarshallBrickman, Mitch Hurwitz, David Sedaris –that I couldn’t help but be awed by thesepeople. Like, Larry Gelbart’s been producingsince he was 16 years old, and he’s nowin his 70s. And the people he’s written forare Bob Hope upwards, Tootsie he wrote,M*A*S*H [the TV series].Irv Brecher – he was 94 years old when Ispoke to him. And that guy was absolutelyamazing. He remembered his phone numberfrom 70 years ago. And he was still, youknow, funny and remembered stories. Just tobe able to talk to people like that was worthit. … It was just a bridge to another time …to ask him what it was like to write for theMarx Brothers or [to be contemporaries with]Dorothy Parker or S.J. Perelman. It was justastonishing. And unfortunately that time hasgone. With him dying, there’s not too manyleft who have dealt with those classic humorwriters. But it was so great to be able to talkabout them as real people and not just aspeople one reads about.44 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mAC: You mentioned MarshallBrickman, who used to beWoody Allen’s co-writer. Inyour book, Brickman talksabout the original cut of AnnieHall – I don’t suppose youasked him if that original cutexists somewhere in a bunker?MS: I did.AC: You did?MS: Yeah, I wanted to publishthe full script in theback of the book. He said hewas fine with it, and then hesaid, “But you just have toask Woody.” And I thought,“That’s not going to work.”So I asked Woody Allen’s sister,who represents him, and she said no way.I just wanted to look at it, and he said he’d bewilling to have me over just to look at it, butthen, I don’t know. I guess he changed hismind. I think it’s the type of thing where theyfeel that it turned out so well as is that maybethe original script wasn’t as good as peoplemight have imagined it to be.AC: There’s also the moment in that interviewwhere Brickman is talking about Annie Hall,and he says: “Who knows why that film works? Ihave no idea.” When I read that, I couldn’t decideif I should feel happy or completely dejected thateven Marshall Brickman didn’t know what he wasdoing when he did it, or how he did it.MS: Right, well, I think his point is that evenwhen you have a tremendous amount of talentinvolved, there’s so much room for error thatyou never know how it’s going to end up. Andthat one had a tremendous amount of problems:It was re-edited, rewritten, they had togo back for more shoots, and I think they werekind of surprised that it turned out to be thisexplosion. It just hit at the right time in theright way. You know, he’s worked with WoodyAllen before on movies that haven’t been assuccessful. I guess it’s always a mystery as tohow something will turn out. …JUSTIN BISHOPI think a lot of it is kind of luck. ToddHanson [The Onion’s head writer] – here’ssomeone who was working washing dishesand was just doing this for fun, no expectationsthat it would lead anywhere. He wasn’tstudying humor in college – I don’t think hegraduated college. He was very talented, andhe was lucky. He hooked onto a good thingat the right time, at the right place. I thinka lot of these people will admit that they’retalented, but they also admit that they knowa lot of talented people that they came upwith who are still waiting tables or workingtemp jobs or whatever. There’s definitely luckinvolved with that.AC: It was a little disheartening to hear someonelike Larry Gelbart, who’s had so muchsuccess, still sound so frustrated at the end ofhis career.MS: It was. I felt bad for the guy, because,as you said, he doesn’t have much time tospare, and he’s working on these projectsthat never get off the ground, and youthink, “Hey, if this guy is having problems,then anyone can have problems.” But at thesame time, it’s sort of reassuring to hearthat everyone is struggling at every level.… There aren’t writers who reach a pointwhere they just sit back and relax and everythingthey write will either be published orproduced. Even David Sedaris writes piecesthat aren’t published.AC: What about the dream dead-person interview?The one that you wished you could haveincluded?MS: Well, I’m a big fan of Jean Shepherd.Have you ever heard of him?AC: I recognize the name.MS: He used to write for Playboy …AC: Wait, he didn’t write A Christmas Story,did he?MS: He did. In fact, he was the narrator.AC: Really? He had a great voice.Mike Sacks spent two yearsinterviewing comedy greats from pastand present, including Buck Henry,Bob Odenkirk, and David Sedaris.MS: He was a radio personality. He’s a greatwriter. [He wrote] very, very funny storiesabout his childhood that are done in a verysolid manner; they’re not done in the nostalgic-typeway. And he died not too long ago –four or five years ago.Also I think S.J. Perelman, maybe.But, you know, the reason I wanted todo this book, too, is because there are nobooks out there with interviews or an oralhistory from current humor writers. A lotfrom Your Show of Shows and things likethat. So I didn’t really wish to interviewthose who are past – it was more importantto me to interview those who were going tobe classic humor writers in the future, whomight not have had a chance to be in a bookyet and talk about their craft and the waythey came up.AC: Two “future classics” you spoke with areStephen Merchant [co-creator of the BBC’s TheOffice] and Paul Feig [Freaks and Geeks]. Ibring those two up because Feig talks aboutcomedy that’s rooted in the pain center, andMerchant talks about comedy that hits thepleasure center. In terms of your own likes anddislikes, which do you gravitate to more – thepainful comedy or the pleasurable?MS: Well, I find painful pleasurable. That’swhat I was trying to ask both of them: Can’tthere be a pleasurable pain center? And PaulFeig said yeah, there can be, but no one’sgoing to watch it – or not necessarily no one,but not to the degree that it would be a hugehit. There’s always a small degree of peoplewho are going to like that, but mostly peoplewant to feel it in the pleasure center of thebrain rather than the other center.The humor that I like is usually connectedto characters. It’s authentic to their character,and if that character happens to be a loser anda sad sack, well, then that’s just part of it.

HangingToughBY BELINDA ACOSTAI hate the title of the new HBO seriesHung. The title is crass and, as such, is misleading.However, if the pilot, which airedlast Sunday, is any indication, Hung will bemuch more than a show about a man whois well-endowed. Considering it’s executiveproduced by Dmitry Lipkin (the creatorof FX’s woefully underappreciated and nowcanceled The Riches) and Alexander Payne(director of the Oscar-winning Sideways), thisshould come as no surprise. But honestly,can they outdo the pilot? The episode (whichI’ve watched three times now) came togetherso effortlessly, lacked the base humor thetitle implies, and was so charming with itsdouble entendres and visual puns (especiallyin the opening credits), I’m almostafraid they’ve spent all they have onthe first, delightfully wry episode(which was written by Lipkin anddirected by Payne).The series stars ThomasJane (The Punisher, 61*) as RayDrecker, a former golden boywho has fallen on very hard times.A former high school jock, he hadhis chance at the big leagues permanentlyderailed by an injury. When we meethim, he’s head coach of a losing basketballteam and his house is falling apart. His wife(played by Anne Heche) has left him fora more financially successful man. Ray issatisfied when his teenage twins want to livewith him after his wife leaves, but even thatgoes awry when the childhood home he andthe kids move in to goes up in flames. Deadbroke and living in a tent in his backyard, heis reduced to asking his ex-wife for money;in perhaps the most heart-wrenching scenein the first episode, Ray cannot afford to givehis kid money for a concert he wants to goto. Something has to change. Ray knows he’snot very smart; he knows his golden days areover; he knows that his life is crumbling allaround him (mimicking images of a desolateDetroit, where the series is set). But he alsoknows that if something is going to change,he’s going to have to do it. That’s whenhe decides to take a self-help class on howto become a millionaire and is inspired touse his, um, assets. This starts his quest tobecome a male escort – and what a quest onehopes it will be.What I predict will be the true brillianceof Hung will not be based on the titillationfactor but on Ray’s journey to learn what thecustomer wants. In the past, everything cameso easy to him. Now he realizes that life takessome effort. But Ray isn’t afraid of a little hardwork. In the beginning, he thinks if he placesan ad in the paper (promising to “give youevery inch of his love”), buys himself a box ofcondoms, and swallows his pride, the womenwill come running. Oh, did I mention theadded bonus of photographing his manparts for the online ad? That alonegot me laughing, but I guffawedwhen Ray showed up at histveyeThomas Jane stars as adown-on-his-luck dad whodecides to make the most ofhis assets as a male escortin HBO’s new series Hung.first “date” and knocked on thedoor purring, “Hello, sugar,” tothe presumed woman on theother side of the hotel door. Theonly thing missing was the pungentaroma of cheap cologne youknow he must have doused himself in.Poor Ray is shocked (shocked!) and dismayedwhen the customer not only refuses his servicesbut doesn’t even open the door. This issuch an amazing scene, both for its humor(the unseen customer rebuffs him with a noteslipped under the door) and for the very reallesson Ray has to learn. Showing up is notenough no matter how well-endowed he is, hediscovers. As the series progresses, I suspecthe’s going to have to learn to use untapped,less obvious resources.Jane Adams (Frasier) is superb as Tanya,a one-night stand who reunites with Ray inhis self-help class and becomes his manager.Their relationship is fraught with landmines. Each of them is stubborn and blindin his or her own way, but they each havesomething to learn from the other – and weget 10 episodes to find out what.Hung airs Sundays at 9pm on HBO.As always, stay tuned.E-mail Belinda Acosta at tveye@austinchronicle.com. Follow “TV Eye” on Twitter @ChronicleTVEye.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 45

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OFF THE REC RDmusic48MUSIC NEWS by Austin PowellSky SaxonThe eccentric, charismatic founder of garage-psych pioneersthe Seeds, Sky Sunlight Saxon, passed away onThursday, June 25, at St. David’s South Austin Hospitalof heart and kidney failure, due to an undiagnosed internalinfection. He was thought to be 71, though no officialbirth record could be obtained. Inspired by the recent resurrectionof fellow psychedelic survivor Roky Ericksonafter headlining the Black Angels’ Psych Fest 2 in March, Saxon –born Richard Elvern Marsh – announced his permanent residency inAustin merely two weeks before his death. He was scheduled to takepart in the California ’66 Revue Tour this summer with members ofLove and the Electric Prunes, and, as recently as Saturday, June 20,performed a short set backed by locals Shapes Have Fangs, asWorld Spirits, at Antone’s. “I don’t believe in death,” Saxon told OTRthe previous Thursday as part of an afternoonlong conversation – ashort, strange trip to say the least. “In a higher understanding, none ofus die; we leave our body. We’re going from one room to anotherroom.” A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday at the Scoot Inn,6pm. In lieu of flowers, his wife, Sabrina, asks that donations bemade through www.skysaxon.com to assist in the burial traditions ofYa Ho Wha/Father Yod & the Source Family.HarlemSaxon,March 2009JOHN ANDERSONJOHN ANDERSONStyler/Scarborough 52 Phases & Stages 78 Music ListingsIt Came From the BasementExplosions in the Sky played its first show asBreaker Morant on July 4, 1999, for an audience ofone – Erik Wofford, who engineered the instrumentalists’Local Live session on KVRX. “Nobody had everheard them; no one wanted to do it,” laughs Wofford,who later produced the band’s CD-R debut, How Strange,Innocence. “I could see this glimmer of hope.” Thequartet changed its name after the taping, and“Remember Me as a Time of Day” wound up on Volume4 of KVRX’s longstanding Local Live series. A decadelater, Explosions brings out the fireworks at a sold-outBack in the day: Explosions in theSky’s first promo photo, circa 1999Down by the RiverIn preparation for last month’s feature on RyanBingham (“The Cowboy Song,” June 5), OTR floateddown to Whitewater on the Horseshoe, a naturalamphitheater set on 460 acres on the banksof the Guadalupe River just outside Canyon Lake,where Bingham and his Dead Horses stomped amud hole for the better part of 75 minutes. Alongwith operating a successful tubing and campingbusiness, Whitewater has stacked an impressivelineup for its second full season, including DwightYoakam (July 9), Reckless Kelly (July 11),Delbert McClinton (Aug. 1), and a two-night stand from GhostlandObservatory (July 17-18), not to mention a free weekly live music serieswith local favorites the Band of Heathens (tonight, July 2) and GuyForsyth (July 23). While the 4,000-capacity venue could use some delayspeakers in the back and overcharges for parking ($10), the scenic atmospheremore than offsets the inconvenience. “We sell the experience,”enthuses co-owner Will Korioth, who plans to expand in October with theaddition of 50 more cabins, a restaurant operated by Wahoo’s Fish Tacos,and proper bathroom facilities. “The theory is that when they park their caron Friday, they’re done. It’s a true destination.”Here Comes the SunIt certainly pays to have Matador Records co-headGerard Cosloy prowling Red River regularly. Localgarage-pop trio Harlem recently signed to the indie titan,which is digitally re-releasing the band’s gloriously shambled2008 debut, Free Drugs. “I thought the songs werefantastic,” relates Cosloy. “I really like the interplaybetween [Michael] Coomers and Curtis [O’Mara], theback-and-forth banter and shit. They each have pretty distinctstyles, and every time I saw them I thought they justgot better and better.” Harlem kicks off a brief WestCoast tour tonight (Thursday, July 2) at Club de Ville,leading up to a recording session at the Distillery in LosAngeles. “We’re going to try and swim in the ocean everymorning and then record at night,” cracks Coomers. “Thewhole point of going out to L.A. is to get a sun-bleachedalbum out of it, so it’s not necessarily Texas roachescrawling over the tape – not that that wouldn’t make anawesome record.”Stubb’s on Saturday with the Octopus Project and theWooden Birds, though not literally – that display atSouth by Southwest 09 was paid for by the city.Percussive catalyst Christopher Hrasky says EITS isdusting off a few never-before-played songs for the occasionand, after a brief run with the Flaming Lips, plansto hit the studio: “At this point we’re still going with thisidea of putting these pieces together to form one longsuite of music where there’s individual songs, but worksbest when taken as a whole.”RyanBinghamJOHN ANDERSONRandom PlayThe SIMS Foundation, a localnonprofit that offers low-cost mentalhealth services to Austin musicians,received a $4,000 donation thisweek from Ashley Welch, the sisterof the late songsmith Elliott Smith,via the sale of his used ’99 PassatGLX. “He’d be happy to know thatthe sale of his car will help othermusicians in need,” Welch postedas part of the Craigslist ad.Jon Bessent, the beloved vintagespecialist and owner ofTonecraft Amp Repair, died onJune 23 from a heart attack. Hewas 56. “He was a true craftsman,”recalls Paul Minor. “I can’t beginto quantify the value of all the freeadvice and quick repairs that got myailing gear back up and running.”Off the WallTex-Mex purveyor Joe King Carrasco holds the rare distinctionof having the late Michael Jackson as a backupsinger. In 1981, the King of Pop was mixing The JacksonsLive! at Studio 55 in Los Angeles as Carrasco & the Crownswere cutting their major label debut for MCA, 1982’s SynapseGap. “I loaned him a Walkman, because he had never heardOff the Wall on one before; he spent like three days listeningto it,” recalls Carrasco, who currently resides in PuertoVallarta, Mexico, and recently released the soundtrack for hisself-proclaimed and directed “trailer-trash epic” Rancho NoTengo. In return, the iconic thriller recorded harmonies for thereggae-tinged single “Don’t Let a Woman (Make a Fool Out ofYou).” Jackson was paid union scale for the session – $100.“When he did the session, his dad came in and kind offreaked out because he caught him in a different studio withus,” Carrasco laughs in fond remembrance. “He had reallyincredible mic techniques for certain words and phrasings.He was really a perfectionist. It was neat to brush up againstthat level of greatness.”a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 47

MUSICLaura Scarborough and Marshall Styler are as similar as blackand white keys on a piano. Both locals are quick to point out thatthey employ synthesizers, and the resemblance ends there.Styler and Scarborough represent opposing ends of the rock generation for whom the piano isground zero. Styler, 52, is old-school, embracing 25-year-old synthesizers he buys on eBay, whileScarborough, 35, believes smaller is better. She loves her laptop. Styler traded an MTV career inthe 1980s to concentrate on his vision, while Scarborough’s plate is overflowing with projects.She qualifies as a human balancing act.What these two bring to the Austin table is more than just a passion for music. It’s a lifelongcreation of new sounds and songs in major and minor keys.– Margaret MoserI Write the Folk SongsMarshall Styler’s wordless grooveHoopingLaura Scarborough plays around on Suzanna ChoffelLaura Scarborough is busily packing up,moving across the hall in her Kansas Cityhotel, where she’s staying as composerfor the Quixotic dance company. Nothingwrong with the original accommodation,only the new digs have a king-size bedinstead of two queens, thus leaving her moreroom for hooping.That’s hula-hooping to you and me, alark that’s become like Zen to the 35-yearoldlocal who describes herself as a pianist,composer, singer, performer, producer, and“eklectronik” musician. Although June findsher out of state with the dance troupe, she’sback in July to perform with Suzanna Choffelat Central Market. Right now, Scarborough –born in San Antonio and a University of Texasgraduate with a degree in classical piano –sounds completely pleased with her life.“Electronic stuff, that style with the laptopand heavy synthesizer, I’m doing moreof that with Quixotic up here in KansasCity,” she explains, her voice bell-clear onthe telephone. “I’m responsible for all thelaptop programming for the show.“I hate to make the comparison, but it’s alittle like Cirque du Soleil, except we’ve gotmore of an edge. We’ve got that circus-artelement mixed with ballet, a modern dancestyle with a girl in pointy shoes. It’s reallybeautiful. I play vibraphone, glockenspiel,synthesizer; run all the electronics; and dovocals, too. I’m so excited to be doing somethingon this larger scale.”Scarborough joined the troupe some threeyears ago when its founder discovered hermusic on MySpace. Within a short time, shewent from her Laura Scarborough Projectto writing music for dancers, a change thatappealed to her on a variety of levels. Shealso found herself taking a job as a sidemusician in a band. While playing torchsongs, covers, and “Disney classics” in alocal jazz trio called the Mingtones, her fellowband members Eldridge Goins and BradHouser talked up their other gig with risingstar Suzanna Choffel. Naturally, one thingled to another.CONTINUED ON P.50Much to Marshall Styler’s surprise, his pastis alive and well on YouTube. Best known todayfor his keyboard-driven instrumental albums,Styler wore one of the rock & roll crowns of the1980s in recording for the royal Motown labeland reigning on MTV in his band Duke Jupiter.Duke Jupiter, fromupstate New York, foundedin the late 1970s, hitin 1982 with “I’ll Drinkto You,” which charted atNo. 58. Two years later, inthat brief window when avideo could hold its ownagainst the chart hits, theband’s “Little Lady” beatZZ Top to the tube forthe babe-with-big-hair-in-a-tough-car video.“Little Lady” went to No. 68 on the singlescharts, though the album, White Knuckle Ride,didn’t break the Top 100.Duke Jupiter’s rising star paired them onthe road with not only ZZ Top but decadeheavyweights such as David Bowie, Bob Seger,B.B. King, Toto, Foreigner, REO Speedwagon,and Robert Palmer. An Austin show becamean epiphany.“That was fun for a while, but I had to getout,” says Styler.In 1991 came therelease of CamdenRoad, and the formerrock star became, forlack of a better term,a New Age icon.48 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mHis voice suggests time and distance fromhis rock-band years. Styler’s muscular, soulfulvocals propelled Duke Jupiter as much asits relentlessly catchy songs. AllMusic.comassessed Styler’s playing and singing thusly:“[The] best bet is just settle in and mellowout to the polarizationof shimmering keys setagainst Allman-roastedroughshod vocals.”“I lived on a bus forever,”he explains. “I had aninkling I wanted out whenwe were on tour openingfor Stevie Ray Vaughan &Double Trouble. We wereplaying Palmer Auditorium,and it was a cold rainy night. There was a partyat Chuy’s after the gig. I remember walkingaround – there wasn’t much on Barton Springsthen, a couple of restaurants – and I said tomyself, ‘I’m going to move here.’”First, Duke Jupiter had to break up, whichit did in 1985 after The Line of Your Fire fellshorter of its mark than White Knuckle Ride.Not knowing a soul in Austin, Styler left hishome, loaded his belongings in a truck, andin 1986 headed south to Texas.CONTINUED ON P.50COURTESY OF MARSHALL STYLERTODD V. WOLFSON“The pianois a verymelancholyinstrumentfor me. Iwanted toget awayfrom that,to writelightermusic, andthat’s howI got intoelectronicmusic.”

EARACHE! TALKS TO CHRIS ROSE,AKA CAR STEREO (WARS),ABOUT HIS MOVE TO THE BIG APPLE:“It’s probably notthe smartestdecision to move tothe toughest city in thecountry during the worsteconomy of our lifetimeswithout a job ...but I feel like I’ve beenputting it offfor over a year, so I justneed to go.”– CHRIS ROSE/CAR STEREO (WARS), OFF THE RECORDJAMIE FOXX LIVE &IN CONCERT ON THEINTUITION TOURSATURDAY, JULY 11 AT 8PMFRANK ERWIN CENTERThe multi-talented Jamie Foxx is gearing up for his upcomingIntuition Tour that will bring him to the Frank Erwin Center on July 11.Tickets available at all Texas Box Office outlets, charge by phone at 512/477-6060 or 800/982-2386,or order online at TexasBoxOffice.com.To WIN JAMIE FOXX tickets, log on to austinchronicle.com/contests.TICKETGIVEAWAY austinchronicle.com/chronica u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 49

MUSIC STYLER CONTINUED FROM P.48The Band Played On: credits for Duke Jupiter’s 1982 LP, You Make It Look Easy. Styler at far right.SCARBOROUGH CONTINUED FROM P.48Texas TrilogyYou have to see Marshall Styler in his1980s glory to get the full picture of what hewalked away from and to appreciate what hebecame. Click to the video of “Little Lady”(www.dukejupiter.com/whiteknuckle.html).Styler appears on the left at the 30-secondmark, dressed as a gas-station attendant,lip-syncing with the other band members.At the 1:45 mark, he’s dressed as a cop likethe rest of the band, but the big payoff isabout the 2:10 mark, when he comes intoframe behind the keyboards and microphone.In the video for “I’ll Drink to You”(www.dukejupiter.com/duke-1.html), Stylersports Robert Plant hair, and there’s no mistakingwho was Duke Jupiter’s golden god.Once in Austin, however, Styler’s lifetook on a new dimension. He married,had children, and along the way, his musicsnaked through changes and shed its rockskin. Birthed were tunes of a more cerebralnature, ones without words. In 1991 camethe release of Camden Road, and the formerrock star became, for lack of a better term, aNew Age icon.New Age music is an easy target, secondonly to disco for the negative reactions itelicits. Dismissed as the tuneless drivel heardin reception areas and doctors’ offices, NewAge is a much more complex term for anendless variety of ambient music, often of aspiritual or meditative nature. Not surprisingly,Styler found the label restricting, sincehis compositions weren’t of the plant mistvariety often associated with New Age, norwere they noodling soundscapes.Instead, Styler creates melodies and buildsinstrumentals around them, an atmosphericgroove he perfected during years of writingrock songs. Not being beholden to words hasleft Styler free to layer aural color with hiskeyboards, much like the impressionist artistswhose elegant work he compares his music to.Impressionism isn’t the first thing youthink of when seeing Styler’s Silent NightCDs of Christmas classics at the checkoutcounters in stores like the Famous ChristmasStore or spotting his name on Time Warner’sambient music TV channel, Soundscapes.Nor might you recognize his music at the spaor in a therapist’s office, yet his Texas trilogy(Jericho, Mockingbird Station, Bluefields), thenTwilight Concertos, and A Face in the Cloudsare wordless successes.“I played around Austin in hotels andrestaurants for years,” he says. “Around thetime the trilogy was finished, I didn’t have todo it anymore, so I stopped playing for a longtime. We’d sold 100,000 or so copies of thetrilogy, so I was able to stop and just composeand record for about five years. Last year, afterFace in the Clouds, I decided it was time I wentout and played, started performing again.“I spent a year rehearsing the 60, 70pieces I’d written, and by the time I got itready to go, nobody wanted to hear it. Theywere like: ‘What the hell is this? You don’tplay any jazz?!’“I set up a gig at Finn & Porter at theHilton, and about a half-hour into the gig,the general manager says: ‘You don’t play anyjazz? I’m sorry, we can’t use you.’ So they gaveme my contract, but they gave me the boot.“That was my reintroduction to the Austinmusic scene.”You have tosee Styler inhis 1980s gloryto get the fullpicture of whathe walked awayfrom and toappreciate whathe became.South Austin Train 4amStyler cares about the dynamic of live performancebut feels it’s been diminished overthe decades. He’s a self-proclaimed personanon grata and believes “something got reallycorporate” in the way talent is booked inAustin. Fortunately, his recordings have a fanbase beyond a live audience, and selling hisCDs has become a mom-and-pop businessfor he and his wife, Kate. Piano is key.“Everything gets put together and writtenon piano, basic arrangements and melodies.My studio looks like Night at the Museum –all Eighties and Nineties analog synthesizers.Everybody’s trying to get me to use a computer,use Pro Tools. ‘What are you using this oldcrap for?’ my son says. But it’s the way I work.It’s slow and meticulous and goes to tape.“I don’t even really know how to use acomputer as far as music goes.“The pianos I use I have to dig up oneBay. They’re old Rolands, before they wentdigital. I buy ’em for $300, $400. I’ve got ahalf-dozen, and they weigh a ton, but it’s aparticular piano sound, and I’ve got thesenice warm analog synthesizers. The computerizedstuff is so cold.”“Warm” and “synthesizer” aren’t wordsmost people like using together, yet in Styler’smusic, his melodies are blanketed in warmth.Like A Face in the Clouds, his newest CD,Seven Falls, draws inspiration from his Texashome. The dreamy “Flight of the Great Blue(South Padre Island)” is one such composition.Less obvious is a piece whose evocativetitle was trimmed at Kate’s suggestion.“‘Welcome Back to Dreamland’ was originally‘(South Austin Train 4am) WelcomeBack to Dreamland.’ I love that sound atnight. I’ve written descriptions of each songfor the website to give folks some historybehind each piece.“It doesn’t occur to me to put lyrics in. Theclosest I come are my titles, which I spend alot of time on, to get the mood of the piece. Idid lyrics for so long. They were so time-consuming.I got to the point where I just didn’thave much to say. My dream was to put simplemelodies together and touch people that way.“I just say I write folk songs withoutwords.”“I’d done my Laura Scarborough solothing in Austin,” she recounts. “Whenyou’re responsible for writing all the music,being the bandleader, doing all your promotion,doing all your publicity, you getreally worn out. I wasn’t enjoying it, and Iwanted to be part of something else.”Scarborough joined Choffel’s band onthe condition that she play only vibraphoneand accordion. Occasionally, she hoops.“I wanted to play other instruments[besides keyboards] in her band,” acknowledgesScarborough. “Suzanna’s the firstperson I’ve been a side person for, andshe’s really fun. She’s got a killer band,but ultimately it comes back to her. She’sgot that voice and that songwriting talent.She’s very confident – and goes for it.”Of course, Scarborough ended up playingkeyboards for Suzanna Choffel in additionto vibes and accordion, deliberatelychoosing the synthesizer over the traditional88 keys.“The piano is a very melancholy instrumentfor me. I wanted to get away fromthat, to write lighter music, and that’show I got into electronic music. [When] Iwrote from a computer and started buildingbeats and different synthesizer sounds,it helped push me in a different directionand away from the heaviness that thepiano felt to me.“When you say ‘88 keys,’ that’s typicallyreferring to the piano, a full keyboardinstrument, and I rarely play on 88 keys.Using a computer is such a differentapproach to writing than sitting at a pianoor with a guitar in creating a chord progressionor melody. Give me a groove or a coolbeat; I write from more rhythmic places.Even with vocal stuff, it’s about rhythm.“I’m not into being a ripping-fast,chops-oriented keyboard player. That’snot my bag. Do a four-hour jazz gig playingcovers for $100? I’d rather play in atheatre in a big production every threemonths or so and be able to share the joyof hooping.”Of course, Scarboroughended up playingkeyboards for SuzannaChoffel in addition tovibes and accordion,deliberately choosingthe synthesizer overthe traditional 88 keys.50 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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WILCOWilco (the album) (Nonesuch)The Beatles’ White Album and Metallica’s black blockbusterincluded – and countless eponymous albumsand songs in between – self-titled discs telegraph botha certain absence of inspiration (a name for the work)and either obstinacy or hubris in its creators eschewingthe need for a brand regardless of the effort’s quality.All three characteristics mark Wilco’s seventh studio LP,Wilco (the album), the latter two par for the course, andartistic stimulus still something of a slippery slope in thecontinuing wake of the Chicagoans’ recorded peak, 2002’sYankee Hotel Foxtrot. Successive 2004 haunt A Ghost IsBorn remains somewhat analogous to Radiohead’s Kid A,more extension than reinvention but still face lift enoughthat its spin-off, Sky Blue Sky (2007), gets relegated toAmnesiac status. Sky Blue Sky, with its landlocked paucityof material, didn’t want to be another guitar-lined Ghost,but given “Impossible Germany” probably should havebeen. Wilco (the album) resets the sextet back to pre-Foxtrot pop while furthering Americana avant-gardist JeffTweedy’s Radiohead-like melodic sophistication. What itlacks in identity, perhaps a statement of purpose lockeddown by a title, the tightly produced, musically pointedWilco compensates for in near-total coalescence. Its hope,vulnerability, and fears converse as one Tweedy. For all itseye-rolling use of the group’s name as lyrical hook, opener“Wilco (the song)” provides its stated “sonic shoulder tocry on” as the album’s obvious anthem, Nels Cline’s roadburnguitar flare cutting the song’s analog chug. Ephemeralfollow-up “Deeper Down” cobbles together bits and piecesof stained-glass 1960s precociousness on the order ofthe Zombies even as subtle stunner “One Wing” takesflight next as a far stronger outgrowth of its predecessor’ssuitelike approach to melody. That Wilco’s prerequisitestretch into atonality, the neurotic fidget of “BullBlack Nova,” whose percussive keys recall Ghost highlight“Spiders (Kidsmoke),” seals the first third of the albumwith uncertainty is one of its few flaws. Fortunately, sweetlysimple midpoint “You and I” brings the whole endeavorinto hard focus, particularly as the Summerteeth Beatlesesqueof “You Never Know” and its “Glass Onion” start-upcombined with George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” guitarswoop buttresses it. Soft acoustic jiggle and gauzy slideon “Solitaire” caps both with an intimate acknowledgementthat “I was wrong to believe in me only.” Clusteredlyrical loop “I’ll Fight” then commits to one of the album’ssharpest hooks. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers-ish “SonnyFeeling” and final “A Day in the Life” piano press of closer“Everlasting Everything” – 88 keys here are Ghost’s sixstrings – bring Wilco’s best CD since Foxtrot to a typicallybittersweet Tweedy conclusion: Wilco, group, song, and (thealbum) – for better or worse – may be all we have.– Raoul Hernandez PERFECT GREAT GOOD MEDIOCRE COASTERSON VOLTAmerican Central Dust (Rounder)Jay Farrar has long shared NeilYoung’s rustic vision of America, butnever with the somber precision ofAmerican Central Dust. Son Volt’sthird album since Farrar reassembledthe band in 2005 with Austin bassistAndrew Duplantis in tow, Dust kicksup a darkness that previously only surfaced on his solo work.Young’s explicitly channeled on two piano dirges, “Cocaineand Ashes,” which empathizes with Keith Richards’ supposedsnorting of his father’s remains, and “Sultana,” whichdescribes the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. TheSt. Louis quintet demonstrates its considerable country-rockflair in the sweet riffs of “Jukebox of Steel” and gently loping“Dust of Daylight,” while Farrar’s political side emerges on“When the Wheels Don’t Move,” a dusky ramble about risinggas prices that would make James McMurtry proud. Seldomuplifting, American Central Dust still reaffirms Son Volt’s pinnacleatop today’s American roots rockers.– Jim CaligiuriTHE LOW ANTHEMOh My God, Charlie Darwin (Nonesuch)Just when it seems that indieAmericana has devoured mostof the indigenous territory at itsdisposal, the Low Anthem risesfrom the underbrush. Reissued byNonesuch, the Rhode Island trio’s2008 sophomore disc evolves withsequencing that emphasizes thealbum’s ability to trek equally compellingthrough stark haunted valleysand raucously stomped hillsides. Secular hymn “CharlieDarwin” opens with frontman Ben Knox Miller trilling a gentleFleet Foxes falsetto but slowly drifts darker through “ToOhio” and the Leonard Cohen-esque “Ticket Taker.” Whilequiet contemplation on “(Don’t) Tremble” and “To the GhostsWho Write History Books” allows Miller’s songwriting toemerge most effectively, the furious infusion of “The HorizonIs a Beltway” and ragged “Home I’ll Never Be” growl TomWaits by way of the Pogues. The Low Anthem finds the balanceof apocalypse and subtlety sought by the Avett or FeliceBrothers but never wrangled so effectively.– Doug FreemanJEFFREY LEWIS & THE JUNKYARD’Em Are I (Rough Trade)If last year’s 12 Crass Songs wasthe only recording this Brooklynbasedanti-folk-up ever put out, itwould’ve been enough. An acoustic,eclectic, and altogether electrifyinginterpretation of the UK anarchists’greatest nonhits, Crass provedJeffrey Lewis in on the joke evenwhen there wasn’t any. Now ’EmAre I, arriving in the wake of connubial catastrophe, comeschock-full o’ rat-clever rhymes and tinny triple entendres thatcould’ve been titled Systematic Death (of the Heart). Absurdlycatchy opener “Slogans” has irony-free aphorisms (“Everyoneyou meet is you, divided by what they’ve been through”),but what propels both the song and LP is the insistence ofLewis’ hypernasal twang and melodic dissonance. “BrokenBroken Broken Heart” reserves a spot on every breakup mixtape,while “Mini-Theme: Moocher From the Future” bobblesspacey keys and hayseed guitar as the lyrics wax downrightquantum (“The past is just the future that arrived too soon”).Sucks to be you, Lewis, but we’re just that into you.– Marc Savlovphases & stagesHANNE HUKKELBERGBlood From a Stone (Nettwerk)Where 2004 debut Little Thingswas prismatic and experimental, thisthird time around finds Norwegianminimalist Hanne Hukkelberg tuningup her machine with muted colors.The slow-building songs boastimpressive payoffs (“Crack,” “Seventeen”), and when theyhave a pulse, they’re propellant and poised (“Bandy Riddles,”the 1980s whiff of the title track). In between, however, laysa dense, half-baked haze that makes Blood From a Stonefrustrating. Hukkelberg’s voice is the centerpiece amid blurryshifts of guitar and ominous organ, leaving it up to her toremedy the midtempo stasis, but it’s almost like she’s teasinglisteners, withholding that big note in favor of sleepingaids like “No Mascara Tears” and “Salt of the Earth.” Icyseven-minute closer “Bygd Til By,” sung by Hukkelberg inher native tongue, spews the clean frost that marks herScandinavian birthright. Here, the singer finally gets somecolor in her cheeks.– Audra SchroederVIEUX FARKA TOURÉFondo (Six Degrees)Dedication to Ali Farka Touré, Mali-to-Mississippi guitarwhisperer, again stamps written coda to a musicalséance by his six-string spawn, Boureima “Vieux” FarkaTouré. Where the late-twentysomething’s (Vieux = oldman) eponymous debut played tribute to the fallen alltimeblues elder through a traditionally minded spell oforiginals and oeuvre nods to his father, Fondo’s whollyoriginal hybrid of desert blues and tropical syncopationwafts sonic smoke rings around a steel backbone. TheMalian way, a thick cluster of electric jangle overlaid bycascading bee-sting leads, remains one of the most hypnoticbyways of global axe worship. “Fafa” opens with ashamanic drone, but “Sarama” agitates a tsunami beaton a simple bass pulse crowned by Touré’s pin cushionpicking. “Walé” tick tacks a chant led by Ali Farka voxchanneler Afel Bocoum, while “Slow Jam” floats abovean album devoted to them, and “Mali” plows guitar, butone-drop “Diaraby Magni,” acoustic tidal pool “Paradise,”and the steady drip of “Fafa (Reprise)” at the finish, notto mention Touré making mincemeat out of “Chérie Lé,”seal in Fondo with teapot fermentation. “Farka” was afamily nickname for the stubborn “donkey” of the clan,and although Vieux Farka Touré demonstrates modernelasticity, his standard of tradition kicks equally hard.– Raoul Hernandez52 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

BY CHUCK SHEPHERDUsing GPS and state-of-the-art sonar, Columbia University researchersrecently made the first comprehensive map of the wonders submergedin New York City’s harbors. Supplementing those findings with historicaldata, New York magazine reported the inventory’s highlights in May: a 350-foot steamship (downed in 1920), a freight train (derailed in 1865), 1,600bars of silver (unrecovered since 1903), a fleet of Good Humor ice creamtrucks (which form a reef for aquatic life), and so many junked cars nearthe Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges that divers use them as underwaternavigation points. Of most concern lately, though, are the wildlife: 4-foot-longworms that eat wooden docks and tiny gribbles that eat concrete pilings.THE CONTINUING CRISISMore Post-Traumatic Stress: Peter Singer,the author of a new book on battlefieldrobotics, told LiveScience.com in May hehad seen soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistangrow so attached to their bomb-disposalrobots that, in one case, the soldier risked160 feet of enemy machine-gun fire toretrieve his little buddy, and in another, asoldier brought his robot in for repairs withtears in his eyes over the “injury” to hisbeloved “Scooby-Doo.” Several units, hesaid, had given their robots promotions,Purple Hearts, and even a military funeral.LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS1) Brandon Hiser, 22, was arrested inKansas City, Mo., in May for trying to breakin to a bank using only a screwdriver, whichwould be a daunting task any time, but thebank Hiser was trying to enter was theFederal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. 2)Ezedrick Jones, 18, was arrested inMemphis, Tenn., for the attempted robberyof the very same KFC from which he hadrecently been fired. Though masked, Joneswas quickly recognized by his former managervia the mask’s oversized eye holes,and throughout the robbery the managerkept addressing Ezedrick by name.PEOPLE DIFFERENT FROM USIn the Kings Creek area north of Lenoir,N.C., according to sheriff’s deputies, twofeuding families created a ruckus in Mayafter a dog killed a neighbor’s cat. Whenthe cat’s owner found out, he shot the dogdead. When the dog’s owner found out, heshot the cat’s owner and the man’s youngdaughter. Deputies were called, and whenthey arrived, the dog’s owner shot both ofthem, but one got off a return shot, fatallywounding the dog’s owner (and completingthe chain!).GOVERNMENT IN ACTIONMore California Money “Management”:The Los Angeles Unified School District paysalmost $10 million a year to about 160teachers and staff who are forbidden to doany work – those subject to discipline butwhose cumbersome “due process” andappeals take years to carry out. One teacher,Matthew Kim, fired by the school board in2002 for allegedly sexually harassing studentsand colleagues, still receives his$68,000 a year including benefits and (byunion contract interpretation) cannot becalled on to perform clerical or other non-“professional” duties during the appeals,according to a May Los Angeles Times report.ROY TOMPKINSBecause of what an April Boston Globereport called “a decades-old interpretationof the state’s militia laws,” state governmentemployees who are also members ofthe Massachusetts National Guard and whogo on active duty are paid much moremoney if deployed at home than in Iraq orAfghanistan. State law requires thoseGuardsmen on domestic duty to be paidboth for their state job and their militaryduty while Guardsmen in the war zones collectonly the higher of the two salaries.Britain’s Local Governments Are Afraid ofEverything: 1) The Bedfordshire and LutonFire and Rescue Service issued rules recentlyrequiring the use of long poles to testhigh-up fire alarms because letting the firefightersuse stepladders might lead to injuries.2) The South Kesteven District Councildecided in May to no longer hoist the oversizedFlag of St. George outside BourneTown Hall on St. George’s Day because ofthe “risk” involved in using an 8-foot ladderon a plinth above a spoked gate.Small-Town Government “People Skills”:E-mails from Smithfield, Pa., TownshipSupervisor Christine Griffin, published inMay in the Pocono Record, confirmed thelongtime complaints of critics about herlack of diplomacy. In one official e-mail,Griffin wrote: “Don’t you dare waste mytime with your [expletive], you lying cheatingson of a [expletive], sneaky back door[expletive] nut [expletive] sucker.” In another:“[N]o cement boots for me! Nice trythough, a real drama rama! Reminder: I amthe quintessential professional! [D]ecorumand common sense are my bylaws!”THE EVOLUTION OF DEMOCRACY1) Kim Schroeder, running for vice presidentof the Milwaukee, Wis., Teachers’ EducationAssociation in May, promised a five-point program,with the first four being vows to makethe union more aggressive toward the schoolboard. His fifth point, he said, was “to makesure that there is … beer and wine availablefor our monthly Leaders’ Meetings.” (He lost.)2) Josko Risa finished second in the electionfor mayor of Prozolac, Croatia (population4,500), and was in a run-off on May 31because of (or despite) his campaign pledgeof (roughly translated) “All for me, nothing foryou” (or, “It is definitely going to be better forme but will be the same for you”). (Run-offresults from Croatia were not widely reported.)UNDIGNIFIED DEATHSTheir Last Words: 1) “A million dollars is alot of money to pay for a whore” were thelast words of multimillionaire French bankerEdouard Stern, according to his girlfriend,Cecile Brossard, who took offense (and wasconvicted of killing him in June in Geneva,Switzerland). 2) “Shoot me, shoot me,” you“ain’t got the [expletive]” were the lastwords (according to a police report) of ScottRiley, 25, who was arguing with the gunwieldingJoseph Jimenez, 24, about theirgame of beer pong in Bridgeport, Pa., in May.Visit Chuck Shepherd daily atwww.newsoftheweird.blogspot.com(or www.newsoftheweird.com).Send your Weird News to: Chuck Shepherd, PO Box18737, Tampa, FL 33679 or weirdnewstips@yahoo.com.©2009 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE Convenient local office Convenient Money-saving local local discounts office Money-saving Low down payments discounts Low Low Monthly down paymentsplans Monthly 24-hour payment service and plansclaims 24-hour service and and claims732-2211 ext. 39041 Research Blvd. Suite 240Austin(Hwy 183 at Burnet Rd., above Black-Eyed Pea)Home, renters, and boat coverages are written through non-affiliated insurancecompanies and are secured through Insurance Counselors Inc, the GEICO Property Agency.Some Home,Home,discounts, renters,renters,coverages, andandboatboatcoveragescoveragespayment plans, arearewrittenwrittenand features throughthroughare non-affiliatednon-affiliatednot available insuranceinsuranceall states orcompaniescompaniesin all GEICO andandcompanies. arearesecuredsecured© throughthrough2007 GEICO. 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THURSDAY 02` BEAUTY BAR BOP! Gobi, theTriggermen, the scrumptious Show MeTiger! perform. If you ask them nicely, they mightshow you more. 10pm. Beauty Bar, 617 E. Seventh,391-1943. holly@representaustin.com.` CELEBRATE LGBT COMPOSERS The first ofwhat they propose to be an annual concert celebratinggay and lesbian composers – Pauline Oliveros!Aaron Copeland! Andrew Rudin! and more, courtesythe Austin Chamber Music Center. And it’s free.Classy and cheap? We thought we had the marketon that one. 7:30pm. St. James’ Episcopal Church,1941 Webberville Rd. Free.FIRST THURSDAY Music, food, and shopping. Fromthe river, south on South Congress. Free.` MODEL CALL UNDER WHERE? Ooops, wemean underwear model call. Do you have the inchesto clear the benches? 10:30pm. Oilcan Harry’s,211 W. Fourth, 320-8823. www.oilcanharrys.com.POWER NETWORKING BREAKFAST Need help articulatingyour value? Problem solved. 7:30am. NuevoLeon, 1501 E. Sixth, 476-7502. $25 ($20, members).www.gahcc.org.d SCOTTISH SOCIAL DANCING FOR KIDS Kidsin the 6 to 15 age range hit the dance floor for jigs,strathspeys, and other traditional Scottish socialdances. Mondays, 11am-noon, Ballroom in the Sky,19 North Peak Rd.; Thursdays, 7-8pm, QuicksilverDance Center, 8711 Burnet Rd. Ste. H-100. 695-1758.$15/class, $25/month for unlimited dancing.yovimpa@hotmail.com.SUMMER OF SOLUTIONS POTLUCK Bring a dishor a beverage to share, and learn about this summerprogram that builds sustainable gardens andweatherizes houses on the Eastside. 6-9pm. PublicCitizen parking lot, 1303 San Antonio. Free (donationsappreciated). sos.atx@gmail.com.w SUPER HERO SHOW benefits the Austin ChildGuidance Center by bringing fine items for auctionand some of Austin’s finest musicians (e.g., AlejandroEscovedo, James McMurtry) together for full fundraisingpower. 8pm. La Zona Rosa, 612 W. Fourth,236-0969. $35. www.austinchildguidance.org.ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Dougherty Arts Center, Wally Workman GallerySPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Tender Mercies @ Paramount, 7pmTo Kill a Mockingbird @ Paramount, 9pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Super Hero Show La Zona RosaJesse Woods Stubb’sFRIDAY 03` AUSTIN TENNIS CLUB meetsFridays, 7-9pm. Call for info on theirexclusive Sunday meet-ups! South Austin TennisCenter, 1000 Cumberland, 442-1466.austintennisclub@yahoo.com, www.austintennisclub.com.w B SCENE: ABSTRACT VISIONS CelebrateBlanton’s South American infused exhibition,“Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic,”with food, drink, live music, and art activities.6-10:30pm. The Blanton Museum of Art, MLK &Congress, 471-7324. $10 ($5, members).www.blantonmuseum.org.this week’scommunitycalendarTHURSDAY, JULY 2 TO THURSDAY, JULY 9listingsBY JAMES RENOVITCH` FEMME MAFIA ATX A new website, a new radlogo, and a new July meet-up for current and interestedMafia members. Kiss the boss’ ring, and tellher GP sent you. 8-10pm. Scholz Garten, 1607 SanJacinto, 751-5650. www.femmeatx.com.PATRIOTIC BIBLE STUDY Peruse the good book ina nondenominational environment. Fridays, 7:45pm.Brave New Books, 1904 Guadalupe Ste. B (downstairs),480-2503. Free. kvnkcrs@yahoo.com.PEOPLE UNITED features Michael Lux on his TheProgressive Revolution: How the Best in AmericaCame to Be. 1pm. KOOP Radio 91.7FM. www.koop.org.SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Independence Day @ Alamo Ritz, 7, 10pmTender Mercies @ Paramount, 9:50pmTo Kill a Mockingbird @ Paramount, 7:15pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Bone Awl Red 7Miss Lavelle White Saxon PubThe Dillards Cactus CafeIndian Jewelry MohawkSATURDAY 04DRIPPING SPRINGS FARMERS MARKETYou’re local; shouldn’t your food be too?First and third Saturdays, 9am-1pm. The Triangle,corner of Highway 290 & RR 12, Dripping Springs,512/858-4725. Free. www.dsfarmersmarket.yolasite.com.w FOURTH OF JULY LISTINGS No, it’s not that we’reunpatriotic, it’s that we’re so damn patriotic we felt theneed to give Fourth of July listings their own specialbox filled with glory and majesty. Check it out on p.60.KOMBUCHA-MAKING WORKSHOP What better wayto spice up your Fourth than with a big batch of organickombucha. Call to RSVP, and start brewing today.10:30am. Directions given with reservation, 423-1050.$35 for class and starter kit. www.docjody.com.` PRIDE SAN ANTONIO BLOCK PARTY &PARADE Alamo City blows it out for this grand finaleof all Texas Prides with a festival, shows, food, bevvies,and a parade! Hooray for the red, white, andrainbow! 3-11pm. North Main Street, San Antonio.www.qsanantonio.com.d THE FROG PRINCE is a new musical productionabout a bratty girl who, with the help of a cleverfrog, learns that being a princess is more than justwearing a tiara. Through Aug. 2: Saturdays, 10am;Sundays, 2pm. Austin Scottish Rite Theatre,207 W. 18th, 472-5436. $10 ($7, children).www.srct.org.ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Kerbey Lane CafeSPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Independence Day @ Alamo Ritz, 7, 10pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Explosions in the Sky Stubb’sFourth of July All over townSUNDAY 05` AGLIFF BRUNCH & FILM RebeccaHavemeyer hosts this screening of Werethe World Mine, a film loaded with rugby jocks,Shakespeare, Catholic guilt, and faerie-clad boysthat looked to have stepped straight off the Pierreet Gilles bus. Yum-ness. 1pm. AlamoDrafthouse at the Ritz, 320 E. Sixth,302-9889. $10. www.agliff.org,www.originalalamo.com.BEER & BLOG Bloggers unite andnetwork. And drink. 6pm. Opal Divine’sFreehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308.www.austin.beerandblog.com.BOOK & PAPER ARTS FAIR The AustinBook Workers bring their love of handboundbookbinding, paper decorating, calligraphy,and wood block and screen printingto the public with demos. The kids canbring a book to be repaired at the bookhospital. 1-5pm. Austin Museum of Art –Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th, 350-8505. Free.d FLYING THEATER MACHINE Parents and their4- to 10-year-olds work together to tell Fairly SillyFairy Tales. Don’t forget to bring your suggestions tokeep the improv coming. Sundays, 2pm. The HideoutTheatre, 617 Congress, 971-3311. $5.www.flyingtheatermachine.com.w GIVE BLOOD ON SUNDAES So, you’re donatingblood. What do you want, a sundae from Amy’s IceCreams? Every Sunday in July, that’s exactly whatwill happen. Blood and Tissue Center of Central Texas,4300 N. Lamar, 206-1266. www.inyourhands.org.w RECOMMENDEDd YOUNG ONES` GAY PLACESINSIDE BOOKS is back (now air-conditioned andmosquito-free), so there’s no excuse not to helpsend free books to Texas prisons. Thursdays &Sundays, 8-11pm. Space 12, 3121 E. 12th, 647-4803.www.insidebooksproject.org.d KIDS CONCERT with Mr. Johnny & Sharon.10:30am. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200,707-9637. Free (with cafe purchase).www.rutamaya.net.MAKE OUT SESSION Bring your own supplies, andmeet with other artsy and craftsy people who arewilling to share their ideas and skills. 2pm. UnitedStates Art Authority, 512 W. 29th, 480-9562. Free.www.artseenalliance.com.MINDFUL MEDITATION Nourish the body and mindin the Buddhist tradition. Sundays, 6pm.1122 S. Lamar. Free. www.plumblossomsangha.org.` PRIME TIMERS LIKE FINE WINE Mature gaymen meet monthly. Helllllllooooooo, daddy. 2pm.Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe, 499-7480.Free. www.austinptww.org.` T-DANCE WITH HEDDA LAYNE Sunday meansa patio of barbecued goodies, beefcakedcompatriots, and the ambient divageniusof one Ms. Hedda Layne. It’s Rain’sSunday T-Dance, and it only happensonce a month. Rain on 4th, 217 W. Fourth,494-1150. www.rainon4th.com,www.heddalayne.com.` YOGI, MEET BOO BOO So muchmore than a “pic-a-nic basket”: Enjoya free lunch buffet and $1 drafts atRCC’s weekly Chub Chaser Bear CubExperience. Free food for baby bears!1-9pm. Rainbow Cattle Co., 305 W. Fifth,472-5288.www.rainbowcattleco.com.d THE FROG PRINCE (See Saturday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Exodus @ Paramount, 2, 7pmIndependence Day @ Alamo Ritz, 7pmTony Manero @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 10pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)M.O.T.O., Midnight Creeps, Ty Segall,Moonhearts BeerlandBill Callahan The ParishLady Friends No. 3 Salvage Vanguard Theater| (L-R) FOURTH OF JULY LISTINGS (SEE P.60) | JESUS CHAVEZ BOXING CLINIC (SPORTS, P.61) | ‘DRAWN (NOT QUARTERED)’ (ARTS, P.62) | ‘PUBLIC ENEMIES’ (FILM, P.68) | BILL CALLAHAN (MUSIC, P.78)54 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSMONDAY 06d BABY BLOOMERS Bring the kiddiestof kids (ages 3 and younger) fora playdate including storytime, a sing-along, theLittle Explorer’s Lab, and more childish and educationalantics. Mondays, 9am-noon. Austin Children’sMuseum, 201 Colorado, 472-2499. $4-8.www.austinkids.org.EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS No dues or fees, justsupport for people with unmanageable emotionalproblems. Mondays, 7:30pm. Shoal Creek Hospital,3501 Mills, 458-9525. Free.www.emotionsanonymous.org.w ENVIRO TEEPEE CAMPOUT The PolymorphicPlastic Parade comes through Austin and constructstheir teepees made of salvaged and renewableresources. It’s social commentary and installationart. Mon.-Tue., July 6-7. Republic Square Park, 422Guadalupe, 974-6700. Free.` LAST DAY TO APPLY FOR CAMPUS CAMPTrade kayaking, crafting, and kissing a cutie underthe covers in your bunk for developing strongerundergraduate GLBT and ally student leaders: Enrollfor Campus Pride Summer Leadership Camp 2009.Today is the deadline, so get your butt in gear. Webet there will still be some cutie-kissing. TowsonUniversity, Towson, MD. www.campuspride.org/camp.asp.` MANTIE MONDAYS Get your undies in a wadfor the Wet Underwear Contest. Kelly Kline hosts,and the Manwatch Dancers set the standard for thecompetition. Mondays. Charlie’s Austin, 1301 Lavaca,474-6481.d SCOTTISH SOCIAL DANCING FOR KIDS(See Thursday, 7/2.)ART OPENINGS (See Visual Arts.)Progress CoffeeSPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)200 Motels @ Alamo Ritz, 10pmTony Manero @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Pentagram Emo’sTUESDAY 07ALLERGY RELIEF PRESENTATION 7pm.Peoples Rx, 3801 S. Lamar, 328-3888.www.risinglotus.net.BACKPACKING 101 Let the pros at REI showyou how to pack, prepare, and plan for your nexttrailblazing expedition. 7pm. REI, 601 N. Lamar,482-3357. Free. www.rei.com.EAST AUSTIN SPEAKER SERIES Get a bettersense of the past, present, and future of theEastside from the area’s grassroots leaders.Topics include activism, housing, jobs, and education.First and third Tuesdays, 6pm. East AustinCommunity Center, 6002 Jain, 462-2181. Free.www.swkey.org.` FREE HIV/STD TESTING Keep it clean, fellas!Tuesdays, 1-3pm & 8-11pm. Midtowne Spa,5815 Airport, 302-9696. www.midtowne.com.LEADERSHIP AUSTIN EMERGE KICK-OFFPARTY Yuppies unite for schmoozing. 5:30pm. SixLounge, 117 W. Fourth, 472-6662. Free.www.leadershipaustin.org.Saturday 9am-1pmTornado of TomatoesBY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER gayplaceTHIS IS NOT HOW WE INTENDED TO REMEMBERSTONEWALL As of press time, the story of thisweekend’s perversely timed raid of a Fort Worthgay bar is still unfolding. According to the DallasVoice, seven people were arrested on the eve ofthe Stonewall anniversary in a police raid thatsome eyewitnesses are calling “brutal.” One of themen taken in the Fort Worth police/TABC raid wassent to intensive care with head trauma seriousenough that it may require surgery. Dallas VoiceSenior Editor Tammye Nash has beendiligently posting extensive updateson the newspaper’s blog Instant Tea(www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea). ByTuesday, the story of the raid on theRainbow Lounge had reached theCNN website and had been featuredon The Rachel Maddow Show onSend gay bits togayplace@austinchronicle.com.Visitaustinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.MSNBC. While the timing of the raid is disturbingenough, the violent nature of the incident sparkedoutrage and protest in Fort Worth. Two Fort WorthCity Council members, Joel Burns, District 9, andKathleen Hicks, District 8 (the district in whichthe Rainbow Lounge is located), have called foran investigation. Human Rights Campaign (thelargest LGBT advocacy group in the U.S.) andTexas state lobbyists Equality Texas are likewisecalling for a full investigation. Furthermore, ET haslaunched a page to encourage supporters toget active and send letters to Fort Worth’smayor and council. We have provided adirect link on our Gay Place Blog to theET Take Action page, featuring sampleletters and easy ways for you to makeyour voice heard. (See www.equalitytexas.organd austinchronicle.com/gayplaceblog.) a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 55

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CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LIS TINGSLONESTAR MENSA MEETING Everyone’s invited,and everyone can feel like a smarty pants. Thismonth Linda Edelstein talks about changes in taxcode you should know. 7pm. Old Quarry BranchLibrary, 7051 Village Center Dr., 491-9881. Free.www.lsm.us.mensa.org.POOLSIDE LIVE The music of Atash accompaniesthe sound of your chattering teeth while you wade inthe chilly waters of Barton Springs. 8:15pm. BartonSprings, 2101 Barton Springs Rd., 477-2320. $3 (freeafter 9pm). www.sosalliance.org.w SIERRA CLUB PICNIC Join in on this tradition,chat with the Sierra Club folks, and bring a dish forthe potluck. No alcohol allowed. Reusable disheswill be provided. 6:30-10pm. Zilker Park Rock Gardenpicnic area. www.texas.sierraclub.org/austin.` STEAK, CHOCOLATES, & TAKE IT ALL OFFSteak night every Tuesday now features filet mignon.Save room for Chocolates for Charity, courtesy ofthe United Court. (Kiss Mona and Rona for us!) Staylate for Jame Perry’s original amateur strip-off andDJ Ritchie. Tuesdays, 6pm & 12mid. Charlie’s Austin,1301 Lavaca, 474-6481. www.charliesaustin.com.d SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL TOURNAMENTIf video games are what it takes to get kids to thelibrary, then so be it. Enter a qualifying round today.Pick up a book while you’re there. Seewww.cityofaustin.org/library for a schedule of events.2pm. North Village Library, 2505 Steck Ave.,974-7400. Free.d TORTUGA DEL MAR PUPPET SHOW Part ofAustin Public Library’s One Green World SummerReading Program, this show tells the story of twobaby sea turtles on an epic adventure across theocean. 2pm. University Hills Library, 4721 Loyola,974-9820. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.w ENVIRO TEEPEE CAMPOUT (See Monday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Cool Hand Luke @ Paramount, 7pmHarper @ Paramount, 9:30pmIn Love We Trust @ Alamo Drafthouse South, 7pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Abe Vigoda Emo’sSilver Pines, Palit BeerlandVitamins, Full Stride Room 710Pinetop Perkins’ 96th Birthday Antone’sWEDNESDAY 08w ADULT OPEN COMPUTER CLINICfeatures one-on-one help with everythingfrom typing and mousing to using Microsoft Word,e-mail, and the Internet. No registration required.Wednesdays, 5:30pm; Thursdays, 9:30am. Austin Free-Net Computer Lab, DeWitty Center, 2209 Rosewood,236-8225. Free. www.austinfree.net.d ASO: CHILDREN’S DAY ART PARK Learnabout the symphony and its various instruments(and performers), take part in arts & crafts, listen tostorytellers, and enjoy mimes, magicians, and more.Why not play a tune yourself at the instrument pettingzoo? Each week features a performance by oneof Austin’s favorite kid-friendly acts. Through July 29.Wednesdays, 9:30-11:30am. Symphony Square,1101 Red River, 476-6064. 50 cents per child (free,adults accompanying a child). www.austinsymphony.org.d COMMUNITY NIGHT AT CHILDREN’S MUSEUMmeans cheap entry for all the exhibitions and activitiesyou expect from this fun and educational kiddiemecca. Wednesdays, 5-8pm. Austin Children’sMuseum, 201 Colorado, 472-2499. $1 suggesteddonation. www.austinkids.org.` DOYLE AND DEBBIE SNEAK Austin OnStagepresents a preview of The Doyle and Debbie Showfeaturing Bruce Arnston and Jenny Littleton before itruns at the Long. 10pm. Rain on 4th, 217 W. Fourth,494-1150. www.austinonstage.com.FOOD FOR THOUGHT LECTURE This month, AlanSokal talks about how he punked the world of postmodernacademia. 7pm. Old Quarry Branch Library,7051 Village Center Dr., 345-4435. Free.www.centerforinquiry.net/austin.` GAY & LESBIAN LEATHER SOCIAL meets thesecond Wednesday of every month. Grrrrr. Creak.Rainbow Cattle Co., 305 W. Fifth, 472-5288.www.austingayleathersocial.org.OIL AWARENESS GROUP MEETING Come learnhow permaculture can change your life and the directionthis country is going by moving to renewableenergy and local- and self-reliance. 7pm. Hyde ParkPresbyterian Church, 3913 Ave. B.www.oilawareness.meetup.com/3.` W4W Is it a coincidence that CP’s ladies’ nightfalls on hump day? Dollar burgers, dollar drafts. Go!Go! Wednesdays, 9pm. The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto,457-8010. www.cockpitaustin.com.Thinking twice about taking care of the kids all summer?Our Summer Camp Guide is still being updated for peoplewho overestimate their ability to deal with their children.We understand. Go to austinchronicle.com/sc for respite.SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)Cool Hand Luke @ Paramount, 9:25pmHarper @ Paramount, 7pmPsych-Out @ Alamo Ritz, 12midMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Golden Animals, All in the Golden AfternoonBeauty BarTHURSDAY 09d A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAMKidsActing’s advanced play class presentsits family-friendly adaptation of Shakespeare’s classiccomedy. Thu.-Fri., July 9-10, 7:30pm; Sat., July 11, 3 &7:30pm; Sun., July 12, 2 & 6pm. Center Stage, 2826Real, 836-5437. $12-14. www.kidsactingstudio.com.GENEALOGY AFTER HOURS This month’s meetingof the Williamson County Genealogical Societyfeatures a talk on rooting through foreign recordswhen you don’t speak the language. 7:30pm. RoundRock Public Library, 216 E. Main St., Round Rock,512/218-7000. Free. www.rootsweb.ancestry.com.` KATHY GRIFFIN LIVE IN A-TOWN In Austin, thissnarky D-lister is strictly A all the way. 8pm. LongCenter for the Performing Arts, 701 W. Riverside,482-0800. www.thelongcenter.org.d SUPER SMASH BROS. BRAWL TOURNAMENTSee Tuesday for more info. 2pm. Little Walnut CreekLibrary, 835 W. Rundberg, 974-7400. Free.TAI CHI Why not slow things down for a spell?Thursdays, 6pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste.D-200, 707-9637. Free with cafe purchase.www.rutamaya.net.` THE MAJESTIC Butch intimacy? House music?Now there’s an Eighties nostalgia we can get behind.Come see this majestic take on late 20th centuryqueer culture with a beat. 8pm. Victory Grill, 1104 E.11th, 902-5057. $20, includes afterparty.www.zorashorse.com.d TORTUGA DEL MAR PUPPET SHOW SeeTuesday for more info. 2pm. Carver Library, 1161Angelina, 974-9820. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.INSIDE BOOKS (See Sunday.)SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings.)The Hustler @ Paramount, 9:25pmMUSIC (See Music Listings.)Deer Tick Emo’sThe Story Of The ParishRadio Moscow Red 7now . . .ACCESS AWARDS NOMINATIONS Onthis 19th anniversary of the Americans WithDisabilities Act, the Committee for People WithDisabilities requests nominations of businessesthat strive to be accessible to everyone. Nominationforms and a list of criteria can be found atwww.cityofaustin.org/ada/access_nomform.htm.Nominations must be received by July 9.AFS FOREIGN EXCHANGE Open your home to aforeign exchange student, or work as a liaison toboth students and host families.Either way, you’re making that culturalbridge a bit more pleasant totraverse. 800/876-2377.ANIMAL FOSTER CAREVOLUNTEERS NEEDED The AustinHumane Society needs your help takingcare of animals on a short-term(or long-term) basis. They supply theinstruction and support, and yousupply the love and time so AHScan help more animals in need.685-0120. www.austinhumanesociety.org.` ATTENTION LESBIAN WRITERSDo you like, want, or need money?Then apply to the Lesbian WritersFund of the Astraea LesbianFoundation for Justice, offering a$10,000 prize and two $1,500 runners-up prizes;at least one grant will go to a lesbian writer who isbased west of the Mississippi River. So get to typin’.Deadline: July 15. 212/529-8021 x44. grants@astraeafoundation.org,www.astraeafoundation.org.AUSTIN MUSIC MEMORIAL NOMINATIONS Whowill be honored with an engraved disc on the LongCenter terrace? You decide. Go online for nominationrequirements. Suggestions must be submitted beforeAug. 31 since the induction ceremony will be Marchof next year. www.cityofaustin.org/music/memorial.htm.CAUTION, FLYING BISCUITS In weird-press-releasenews, don’t eat any biscuits that may fall from thesky. Most likely they are baits laced with the rabiesvaccine. No foolin’. However, rabies is on the riseand more dangerous than swine flu, so don’t assumean animal is rabies-free; get checked out.| BOOK & PAPER ARTS FAIR (SEE SUNDAY)DONATION REQUEST FOR ARCH Especially duringthe sweltering summer, the soap desk at the ARCHis in need of all manner of toiletries (deodorant,etc.), hand-held fans, lip balm, sunscreen, and waterbottles. Check the website, or call for specific items.ARCH, 500 E. Seventh, 305-4174. www.frontsteps.org.ECKANKAR CENTER WORKSHOPS The EckankarCenter of Austin hosts seminars and discussions ofall things spiritual. Connect with the divine, interpretyour dreams, conquer fear, master change, and moreat one of its myriad free gatherings. Call or go onlinefor a complete schedule. Austin Eckankar Center,223 W. Anderson Ste. 206-B, 453-0331.www.eckankar-texas.org.ESTATE & MEDICAID PLANNING WORKSHOPSGot questions about living trusts, wills, protectingassets, reducing estate taxes, powers of attorney,or Medicaid eligibility? Then one of the GreeningLaw 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 gatherinfo and stories about the state of women’s healthin Texas. Go online, and take the survey, or share astory about a health-care challenge you’ve faced. Thegroup hopes to take these stories and figures to theLegislature to raise awareness of Texas women’s healthissues. 462-1661. www.healthywomenhealthyfamilies.org.HUMAN POTENTIAL CENTER This South Austin nonprofithas myriad classes and workshops – from yogaand Reiki to art classes and dream interpretation –just waiting to maximize your potential. Check out thewebsite for more info. Human Potential Center,2007 Bert, 441-8988. www.humanpotentialcenter.org.d KIDS SUMMER MOVIES Summer means funin the sun, but, in Texas, sometimes it means coolingdown in a dark room. For those times, theatresall over town screen kid-friendly flicks on the cheap(sometimes free). Check out our Special Screeningslistings, p.xx, for dates, times, and locations.LIFEWORKS LITERACY PROGRAM VOLUNTEEERSNEEDED Volunteers are needed to tutor adult basiceducation and English as a second language classes.No prior experience or knowledge of a secondlanguage needed. 2222 Rosewood, 478-7323.kirsten.hollis@lifeworksweb.org, www.lifeworksweb.org.d MAKERKIDS All summer long the AustinChildren’s Museum gets kids into the DIY spirit with20 activities in fiber arts, printmaking, sculpture, cardboardcreations, and more. Austin Children’s Museum,201 Colorado, 472-2499. $4.50-6.50. www.austinkids.org.MEALS ON WHEELS AND MORE VOLUNTEERS aredesperately needed as summer approaches and volunteersgo on vacation, not to mention an increaseddemand for the nonprofit’s services. Go online fordetails, or call to volunteer. 476-6325 x131.www.mealsonwheelsandmore.org/volunteer.d MODERN TIMES – 19TH CENTURY LIFE FORKIDS The Neill-Cochran House Museum brings threeclasses that bring history to life while learning aboutlife, art, and play of eras past. Preregistration isrequired. Neill-Cochran House Museum, 2310 SanGabriel, 478-2335. $30-50. www.neill-cochranmuseum.org.NAME THOSE TREES What a shame. That grove oftrees just south of City Hall where South First splitsneeds a name. Perhaps you have a suggestion. TheShire? Already used. Jog-in-Place Triangle of Delay?Too wordy. Submit your name online atwww.cityofaustin.org/parks/namingform.htm, returna completed form to the Parks & RecreationDepartment’s main office (200 S. Lamar), or fax it to974-6756. Get your tree-grove names in before Aug.26. 974-6716.RED CROSS SUMMER CLASSES in everythingfrom CPR to water safety to the popular BabysitterBootcamp. 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CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) LISTINGS BARTON HILLS INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADEJoin Police Chief Art Acevedo and students fromBarton Hills Elementary as they march a shortdistance down Barton Hills Drive. Once back atthe school, Sara Hickman hosts a short patrioticceremony. Bring nonperishable food items for theCapital Area Food Bank. Sat., July 4, 9am.BASTROP PATRIOTIC FESTIVAL Food, kids games,live music, and fireworks: everything you needto show America that you love her. Fri., July 3,6-9:30pm. Fisherman’s Park, Farm Street at WillowStreet, Bastrop, 303-0558. www.visitbastrop.org.CEDAR PARK’S FOURTH FESTIVAL has everythingyou’d expect: live music, dancing, watermelon, sackraces, bouncy castles, fireworks, etc. If things gettoo hot, take a dip in Milburn Pool (1-8pm). Sat., July4, 4-10:30pm. Milburn Park, 1901 Sun Chase, CedarPark, 401-5500. Free. www.cedarparkfun.com.DRINK PINK – SEE RED, WHITE, & BLUE Whynot ensure your hangover is for a good cause? TheBreast Cancer Research Center of Central Texaspresents live music and the art-bra models signingand selling their calendars. Plus, Opal Divine’sdonates a portion of the funds earned from the saleof Prickly Pear Margaritas. Sat., July 4, 6pm. OpalDivine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308. Free.www.bcrc.org.EAST-WEST GAME DAY It’s the Eastsiders vs. theWestsiders in this family-friendly gathering at thehistoric Palm Park featuring old-timey games likesack races, watermelon dives, washer tourneys, andmuch more. Let’s break down that I-35 barrier. Sat.,July 4, 4-8pm. Palm Park, 601 E. Third.pio@grandecom.net.ELGIN’S FOURTH The Push, Pull, Pedal Peoples’Parade begins at City Hall and ends in downtownElgin. Then, at Veterans’ Memorial Park, there willbe a short patriotic program accompanied by drinks,treats, and hot dogs (or as we call them, Americacylinders). Sat., July 4, 10am-1pm. 512/281-5724.Free. www.elgintx.com.FOURTH AT MCKINNEY FALLS Why travel whenthere are July 4th happenings happening at Austin’snearest state park? Bring a picnic, and appreciateall the park has to offer. Live music (5:30pm) and ascreening of Over the Hedge (6:30pm) end your staycation.Sat., July 4. McKinney Falls Amphitheater,5808 McKinney Falls Pkwy., 243-1643. $5 parkentrance fee. www.mckinneyfalls.org.FOURTH AT THE COMPOUND Six bands, sevenhours, and an outdoor venue equal kickass Fourthof Julying and a wicked sunburn. Sat., July 4, 6pm-1am. The Compound, 1300 E. Fourth, 507-1228. $7($5 if you ride your bike or wear a costume).www.myspace.com/compoundaustin.FREDERICKSBURG PARADE Watch the parademarch down Main Street at 10am, followed by apatriotic program. Get out of the heat for a whilebefore joining the crowds at Lady Bird JohnsonPark (126 W. Main St., 7pm) for a concert followedby the ubiquitous fireworks. Sat., July 4. DowntownMarktplatz, 100 W. Main St., Fredericksburg.FRONTIER DAYS CELEBRATION Round Rock celebratesthe Fourth with a full day of celebrations,starting with a parade at 10am traveling down MainStreet, followed by a daylong festival with vendors,food, a regatta, the annual Sam Bass Shootoutreenactment, and a pepper-eating contest. Afterthat, it’s time to ramp things up with skydivers at8pm, the music of the Austin Symphonic Band, and,finally, fireworks. Round Rock Amphitheater,301 W. Bagdad, 512/341-3361. Free.www.roundrockfrontierdays.com.LAGO VISTA’S FOUTH OF JULY CONCERT VanWilks headlines a day of live music culminating withfireworks at dusk. Sat., July 4, 11:30am-10pm. Bar KPark, off RR 1431 & Bar K Ranch Road, Lago Vista,512/267-4998. Free. www.lagovistajuly4.org.LAKEWAY JULY FOURTH CELEBRATION An earlyparade (8:30am) livens up Lakeway Drive before itcrashes into the pageant at the Lakeway ActivityCenter (10:30am). From there, live music, flyovers,and stories start at 5:30pm at the park. All thisending with fireworks augmented by a laser lightshow. Sat., July 4. Lakeway City Park,502 Hurst Creek Rd. www.laketravis.com.RED, WHITE, & BUDA Bring a picnic, buy somethingthere, decorate your vehicle for the kidsparade, enjoy patriotism-rousing music, and oohand aah at the fireworks. Sat., July 4, 5pm. BudaCity Park, Downtown Buda, 295-9999.www.budachamber.com.ROUND ROCK EXPRESS FREEDOM FEST JerryJeff Walker and Kellie Pickler headline this sweatfestmasquerading as a music festival. Fireworksadd visuals to the music come nightfall. Yourticket money appropriately goes to the Children ofFallen Soldiers Organization. Sat., July 4, 6-11pm.Dell Diamond, 3400 E. Palm Valley, Round Rock,512/255-2255. $20. www.roundrockexpress.com.SAN MARCOS SUMMERFEST Twelve hours ofactivities for the kids, live music, fireworks, and heatstroke.Sat., July 4, 11am-11pm. Plaza Park,401 E. Hopkins St., 393-5900.SPICEWOOD’S FOURTH OF JULY PARADE Line upon County Road 404, and watch the moving celebrationof independence. Sat., July 4, 9am.www.spicewoodlions.org.SYMPHONY & FIREWORKS ON LADY BIRD LAKENot only will Peter Bay of the Austin SymphonyOrchestra be swinging his baton like a patriot backdroppedby the best fireworks in Central Texas, buthe has a Howitzer cannon at his strictly musicaldisposal. Get there early, bring a blanket, and bracefor the audio/visual onslaught. Sat., July 4, 8:30pm.Auditorium Shores, South First at Lady Bird Lake,442-2263.TAKE BACK AMERICA TEA PARTY You know,democrats aren’t the only ones who can congregateand bloviate at the Capitol. Why not celebrate independencewith some talk of smaller governmentand less federal spending? All that ire works up ahunger, so there’s barbecue to be had afterward.Sat., July 4, 2-6pm. Texas Capitol, 1100 Congress,476-5905. Free. www.austinreteaparty.com.VEGGIE DOG EATING CONTEST Entry gets you onefree nonmeat dog, ice cream, live music, and a frontrow seat to the veggie spectacle. Sat., July 4, 1pm.Tiniest Bar in Texas, 817 W. Fifth, 902-6177. $5.www.veggiedogcontest.com.VOLENTE BEACH Since you’re keeping cool atthe water park, why not stick around for live musicand fireworks? Sat., July 4, 8pm. Volente BeachWaterpark, 16107 Wharf Cove (FM 2769), Volente,512/258-5109. $5 after 8pm, normal admission topark before 8pm.WIMBERLEY INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE &JUBILEE The parade starts at Lion’s Field at 10amand continues to the Old Baptist Church. After that,it’s time to party for our right to fight at the BlueHole Park (333 Blue Hole Ln.). Fri., July 3, 10am.847-2201. www.wimberley.org.YELLOW BIKE’S FOURTH PROJECT The InvincibleCzars perform Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture beforeRebecca Havemeyer big-ups America with thehelp of Little Stolen Moments. And no Yellow BikeProject event would be complete without releasingyellow bikes into the wild of Austin streets. Sat., July4, 1pm. Wooldridge Square Park, 900 Guadalupe,477-1566. www.austinyellowbike.org.YMCA FAMILY FUN FESTIVAL Food, drinks, games,arts, crafts, contests, and the all-important pool toensure that your kids don’t start dropping like flies.Sat., July 4, 11am-2pm. YMCA East CommunitiesBranch, 5315 Ed Bluestein, 933-9622. Free.www.austinymca.org.NEIGHBORHOOD HABITAT CHALLENGE Get theneighborhood organized, and start making your yardmore hospitable to wildlife. If your neighborhoodends up with the largest number of certified wildlifehabitats … well, isn’t that enough? Through Nov. 15.327-8181 x29. www.keepaustinwild.com.SHARE! FOREIGN EXCHANGE Act globally right fromyour home by opening your door to a high schoolexchange student placed by the nice folks at Share!Browse the applications to find the kid who’s a goodfit with your family. What have you got to lose … butyour myopia? 800/941-3738. ycoffman@sharesouthwest.org, www.sharesouthwest.org.SMALL-BUSINESS START-UP CLASSES FoundationCommunities offers business classes for the selfemployedor small-business owner. Get the tools youSUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is due theMonday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline for theJuly 17 issue is Monday, July 6. Include name of event, date, time,location, price, phone number(s), a description, and any availablephotos or artwork. Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer (seeroster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, 78765;fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:60 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mneed to avoid common business mistakes. Timesand locations vary, so call or e-mail for specifics.211. Free. selfemployed@foundcom.org.d SUMMER SCHOOL MEALS Kids ages 1-18enrolled in summer classes in Austin schools areeligible for free food service. Call for more info.414-0251.SUMMER WATER DONATIONS Texas summer temperaturesare uncomfortable for anyone but especiallyfor those who don’t have reasonably cool homesfor respite. Mobile Loaves & Fishes is looking forbottled-water donations to keep everyone hydrated.Monetary donations can be made via www.mlfnow.org/water, or cases of water can be delivered to the St.John Neumann commissary (903 Capital of TX Hwy.).Kate X Messer or Ash Bell (Gay Place):gayplace@austinchronicle.com.Mark Fagan (Sports):gameplans@austinchronicle.com.James Renovitch (everything else):calendar@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listingseditor, 454-5766 or brenner@austinchronicle.com.& laterGLOBAL YOUTH PEACE SUMMIT Seventyinternational, refugee, immigrant and localyouth ages 11-18 gather to learn what it meansto be a peaceful leader in a global community. Goonline to sign up ($775, scholarships available),donate money to sponsor a student, or find a volunteeropportunity that suits you. Aug. 8-16. Wimberley,476-8884. www.amalafoundation.org/gyps.html.` GOT BV? No darlin’, not bacterial vaginosis. It’sthe Butch Voices fundraiser featuring butchie typesstripping, auctioning dates, and many genderrificperformances to benefit the first-ever Butch VoicesConference 2009 in Oakland. Sat., July 11, 9pm.Rusty Spurs, 405 E. Seventh, 482-9002.LADIES ROCK CAMP Ladies Rock Camp is muchlike the Girls Rock Camp it benefits: instrumentinstruction, parties, workshops, and a rock-star finaleat a local club. Brush up on your rock kicks, andhelp the younger set brush up on their confidenceand self-image. Register online. Fri.-Sun., July 17-19.Griffin School, 710 E. 41st, 236-0969. $350.www.girlsrockcampaustin.org.` OL’ SKOOL FOODIES HOUSE PAR-TAY &BARBECUE Bring a dish. Now, you can interpretthat anyway you like: A plate of meat (or fake meat)for the grillin’? A lovely crudité? A hot mama? All ina private, centrally located backyard, loaded to thegills with local gals on the prowl. Let us break breadtogether on our knees. Yes, please. Sat., July 11,7pm. E-mail for details, directions, and to get on theFoodies list. Free. beatsagogo@aol.com.` TAINTED LOVE 2: RETURN OF THE TAINT Anight of drag-fabulousness featuring renditions ofCyndi Lauper, Boy George, Pet Shop Boys, and manymore, plus auctions and raffles all to benefit TexasConference of Clubs Landsite and the Wright HouseWellness Center. Sat., July 11, 9pm. Chain Drive, 504Willow, 480-9017. www.geocities.com/lonestarleathermen/lsl,www.ctbol.org/index2.html.` WANDA SYKES Fresh from the president’snipples, she’s hot, she’s out, and she’s comin’ togetcha. Saturday, July 11, 7pm. Austin Music Hall, 208Nueces, 263-4146. www.austinmusichall.com.d YOUTH LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT RETREATKids and young adults from eighth grade to seniorsin college are invited to register for this AmericanRed Cross of Central Texas sponsored retreat.Admission covers food, board, course materials,and speakers from successful local businesses andnonprofits. Go to www.centex.redcross.org/volunteer/youth.php to download a registration packet. Sat.-Sun.July 25-26. Texas State University, Performing Arts andConference Center, San Marcos, 512/929-1221. $40.

I sometimes think the thing I most like aboutspectator sports is their capacity to crush our mostardent hopes and dreams. We live in an age ofcontrivance, of spectacle, of whatthe historian Daniel Boorstincalled the “pseudo-event,” of whatthe French social theorist JeanBaudrillard described as “thesubtle, maleficent, elusive twistingof meaning” – of our denying reality.The Bush administration made ahigh art of this, but it wasn’t alone.We’ve had an economy predicatedon illusions of wealth, and untilrecently it seemed that as longwe all bought in to those illusions,reality couldn’t bite us in the ass.Now, to be a sports fan is tobe an incurable romantic, foreverholding out hope that the ChicagoCubs will finally win the WorldSeries, that Cleveland (the mostvexed city in sports) will at longlast get its groove back and wina championship, that after 31years some gallant Thoroughbredwill finally win a Triple Crown. Yet,paradoxically, sports fans arealso realists. We dreamimprobable dreams, butwe understand that realitybats last.A few recent examplescome to mind. A coupleSundays ago at the U.S.Open Championship, the sportswriterssat at their keyboards withbated breath, itching to write oneof two storybook narratives. In thefirst, we had the always likablePhil Mickelson, whose wife, Amy,had recently been diagnosed withbreast cancer. In the second, wehad the tortured David Duval,once the best golfer in the world,now ranked 882nd, tied for thelead on the penultimate hole. ThesportsBY MARK FAGANplayingthroughBY THOMAS HACKETTPlease writeMr. Hackett atplayingthrough@austinchronicle.com.heartwarming, overcoming-adversitystories were practically writingthemselves. But then Mickelsonbogeyed the 15th and 17th holes,Duval lipped out a par putt on 17,and the two tied for second to,um, Lucas Glover. For all I know,Glover is a pimped-out mack daddyoff the course, complex and charismatic,but on it, he looks like anAmway salesman, without a compellingbone in his body.But you know what? Good forGlover – for not accommodatingour sentimental longings. Good forDwight Howard and the OrlandoMagic for ruining the marketers’dreams of a LeBron James andKobe Bryant matchup in the NBAchampionship. Good for jockeyKent Desormeaux for dashingfellow Cajun Calvin Borel’s questto win the Triple Crown. And asmuch as I don’t like it, good evenfor Brazil for coming backfrom a 2-0 halftime deficitto put the upstart UnitedStates squad in its place,3-2, in the final of theConfederations Cup.Don’t get me wrong.I’m as sentimental asthe next guy. I was pullingfor Mickelson and Duval, LeBronand Borel, U.S. soccer’s ClintDempsey and Landon Donovan,just as I was pulling for AugieGarrido and the Texas Longhornsbaseball team in the College WorldSeries. It’s just that when oursports dreams do come true, it’snice to know that, unlike so manyother things in life, the victorieshaven’t been contrived.listingsTHE MAIN EVENTTEXAS PREMIER FOOTBALL CAMP ANDGOLF TOURNEY will benefit the Boys& Girls Clubs of the Austin Area. Kidsages 7-18 will learn all the fundamentalfootball skills and drills that the pros usefrom some of the NFL’s finest (MichaelHuff, Nathan Vasher, Roy Williams, CedricGriffin, and many more). The celebritygolf tourney will benefit the Cole PittmanMemorial Fund. Camp: Thu.-Fri., July 9-10,9am-3pm. St. Michael’s Catholic Academy,3000 Barton Creek Blvd. Golf tourney:Sat., July 11, 1:30pm. Falconhead GolfClub, 15201 Falconhead Blvd.www.texaspremiercamp.com.w REVENGE OF THE BUNS: VEGGIEHOT DOG EATING CONTEST In additionto being a ton of fun, this event hostedby iLoveMikeLitt also promotes “independencefrom meat and its harmful environmentalimpacts.” Entry fee includes a freeveggie dog for noncompetitors as well asfree NadaMoo! ice cream, live music fromHollywood Gossip, and special guests. Allages are welcome. Competition at 2pm.Sat., July 4, 1-4pm. Tiniest Bar in Texas,817 W. Fifth. $5. www.veggiedogcontest.com.THE HOME TEAMSTEXAS ROLLERGIRLS The Hustlers willbattle the Hotrod Honeys, and the HonkyTonk Heartbreakers look to lasso the HellMarys with prebout music provided bySan Fran’s the Pleasure Kills and halftimejams courtesy of ex-Groovie Ghoulie KepiGhoulie. Sun., July 5, 6:30pm (doors).Playland Skate Center, 8822 McCann Dr.$15 ($12, advance). www.txrollergirls.com.ROUND ROCK EXPRESS Head out tothe Dell, and catch the rising stars ofthe Astros organization. Vs. Nashville:Thu.-Fri., July 2-3, 7:05pm. Dell Diamond,3400 E. Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock,512/255-2255. $6-13.www.roundrockexpress.com.w AUSTIN AZTEX U-23 The Aztexyoungsters are playing their second seasonin the Premier Development League.This game is being held at Texas State’sBobcat Stadium. See “Soccer Watch,”right, for more. Vs. Laredo: Fri., July 3,7:30pm. Bobcat Stadium at Texas State,San Marcos. $8 adults, $5 kids, kids under5 free. www.austinaztex.com.ALTERNATIVE SOFTBALL LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME The finest (drunken) athletesfrom all of Austin’s most awesome establishments(BookPeople, Waterloo Records,Emo’s Lounge, KOOP Radio, SXSW, C3Presents, Wheatsville, the Chronicle, etc.)will be lacing them up in the ASL’s secondannual all-star game. Afterparty at Red 7.Sun., July 5, 7:30pm. Krieg Field,517 S. Pleasant Valley. Free.www.myspace.com/alternativesoftballleague.RECREATION & FITNESSw JESUS CHAVEZ BOXING CLINICBoys and girls ages 12-17 will learnsome life skills, how to stay fit, propernutrition, and, most fun of all, the sweetscience of boxing. Free boxing exhibitionFriday, July 10, at 6pm. Tue.-Fri., July 7-10,9am-4pm. Palmer Events Center,900 Barton Springs Rd.AUSTIN MASTERS SWIMMING CITYCHAMPIONSHIPS features many differentevents split by age and gender. Sun.,July 5, 9am. The Jewish Community Assoc i-ation of Austin pool, 7300 Hart, 327-2260.www.americanswimmingassociation.com.SUPER SERIES WORLD SERIESBASEBALL TOURNEY Round Rock playshost to this hard-ball tourney featuringteams from across Texas. Kids ages 11to 16 will participate. Sat.-Sat., July 4-11and Fri.-Wed., July 17-22. Old Settlers Park,3300 E. Palm Valley Blvd., Round Rock.www.sportscapitaloftexas.com.w EAST-WEST GAME DAY It’s theEastsiders vs. the Westsiders in this family-friendlygathering at the historic PalmPark, featuring old-timey games such assack races, watermelon dives, washertourneys, and much more. Let’s breakdown that I-35 barrier. Sat., July 4, 4-8pm.Palm Park, 601 E. Third. pio@grandecom.net.FIRST SATURDAY AT HARVEY PENICKGOLF COURSE “Try before you buy” lotsof new and used golf equipment. Therewill also be putting and closest-to-the-pincontests and free 30-minute golf lessons.Sat., July 4, 8am. Penick Golf Campus,5501 Ed Bluestein Blvd., 926-1100.RUNS, WALKS, & RIDESFIRECRACKER 5K EVENING RUNEnjoy a flat and fast 5K run. Thu., July 2,7:30pm. River Ridge Business Park onemile north of San Marcos, 512/393-8280.$15 ($20 day of race).LAGO VISTA FIRECRACKER 5K Get outof the city for this fun run along the northshore of Lake Travis. Fourth of July festivitiesfollow. Sat., July 4, 8am; wheelchairsat 7:45am; mile fun run at 7:30am. Heath erPark, Lago Vista. www.lagovistajuly4.org.austinchronicle.com/sportsNELSON SCHOLARSHIP 5K RUN Celebratethe Fourth with this chip-timed loopthrough the Berry Creek and Logan Ranchneighborhoods in George town. Proceedsbenefit the Nelson Tennis Foundation,which provides scholarships for GeorgetownHigh students. Sat., July 4, 7:30am.Berry Creek Racquet Club, 449 ChampionsDr., Georgetown, 512/818-0551.www.nelsontennisfoundation.net.SUNSTROKE SUMMER STAMPEDERACE NO. 8 A series of 12 chip-timed5K races on two alternating courses(Brushy Creek and Town Lake Trail) eachWednesday night this summer. Wed.,July 8, 7pm. Town Lake Trail (I-35 at theRiverside parking lot), 444-2800 x8900.www.summerstampede.com.FREEDOM 5000 Runners in this thirdannual5K will enjoy a beautiful routethrough West Austin. Proceeds benefitthe Runtex Foundation and the VolunteerServices for the Austin State School.Parking available inside the facilitygrounds. Sat., July 4, 8am. 2203 W. 35th,472-3254.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published everyThursday. Info is due the Monday of the week priorto the issue date. The deadline for the July 17issue is Monday, July 6. Include name of event,date, time, location, price, phone number(s), adescription, and any available photos or artwork.Include SASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the appropriate writer(see below). Mail to the Chronicle, POB 49066,Austin, 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:Mark Fagan (Sports):gameplans@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listingseditor, at brenner@austinchronicle.com.BY NICK BARBARO soccer watchAs we go to press Wednesday evening, the Austin Aztex are hostingthe Houston Dynamo in the U.S. Open Cup round of 16; that result willbe online by the time you read this. The night before, United SoccerLeague teams won four games out of six in their first day of Open Cupcompetition against Major League Soccer clubs. In the biggest surprises,the defending champion Columbus Crew lost at home to theRochester Rhinos, and New England lost at home to Harrisburg City of theUSL-2. In fact, the only MLS wins were by Kansas City over Minnesota inpenalty kicks and D.C. United over the amateur Ocean City Barons. Alsoadvancing: Wilmington (USL-2) over Chicago and Charleston (USL-1) overChivas USA. The Cup quarterfinals are next Tuesday, July 7; the Aztex-Dynamo winner plays at Charleston.The Aztex U-23s had a rough road trip last weekend – a 1-1 drawagainst the Laredo Heat on Friday, followed by a 5-1 loss to Rio GrandeValley on Sunday, leave the Azteclets tied with El Paso for first place in thePDL Mid South Division, with four games left to play. They host third-placeLaredo this Friday, July 3, 7:30pm, at Bobcat Soccer Complex in San Marcos– a huge game, since only the Top 2 teams make the playoffs.Wow! What a gutsy (and unexpected) turnaround by the U.S. men in theConfederations Cup last week in South Africa. After clawing their wayinto the knockout round with a six-goal turnaround on the last day ofgroup play, the Yanks ended Spain’s world-record winning streak in thesemis, then went up 2-0 in the final against the best Brazilian squad inyears before wilting in the second half and losing 3-2… So, is it time tocare about soccer? Stephen Colbert thinks so; see why on our Sportsblog at austinchronicle.com/sports.Got a sporting event you’d like to see listed inThe Austin Chronicle? Submit your sporty happeningonline at austinchronicle.com/commform.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 61

artslistingsDepartmentof AngelsBlue TheaterJune 26Some people believe in a heaven where the only experienceis pure bliss. Others think such bliss is impossible without thecontrast of mediocrity and pain. In Department of Angels, by thephysical comedy duo Schave & Reilly, however,the clouds housed a bureaucracy inwhich an isolated office was staffed by apair of winged creatures in white jumpsuits.Like their earthly counterparts, they clockedin for the day, succumbed to security searches,and hung their ID cards around theirnecks. Then they read memos and chuckedthem in a temperamental shredder, arguedover who would do what, annoyed eachother, and waited for the red phone to ring.In the Department, though, clocking ininvolved more than an ID-card swipe; itrequired the punching in of many numbersand a handprint scan, followed by the tossingaway of the whole machinery, and eachemployee got not just a pat-down but apass of primatelike nit-picking and a kindof tickle treatment. The tall and straitlacedangel (Ben Schave) repeatedly tricked thescrappy and overeager one (Caitlin Reilly)in whoopee-cushion hijinks, and the simpletask of writing on a clipboard presented aseries of ridiculous challenges. Reilly’s angelhad a penchant for licking things – her scarf,the rubber stamp, the shredder’s electricalplug – that irritated her celestial officemate.When the whistle signaled a coffee break,the entire time-clock ritual had to be repeatedbefore the angels unwrapped their cigars(yup, cigars), and another whistle ended thebreak before they could find a light.Back at the Department, the red phonestarted ringing, bringing in orders to dumpbuckets of peace, happiness, and love overthe folks below. But the bucket o’ love neverreached its terrestrial intended: With TallAngel’s back turned, Scrappy Angel upendedthe bucket on herself. (In the program, thecharacters are simply called “Schave” and“Reilly.”) With Scrappy Angel chasing after62 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mhim with pursed lips and googly eyes, TallAngel seemed at a loss for another solutionand dipped into the bucket, too, butbefore they could unzip their jumpsuits, thered phone rang again: Fired. After a solemnremoval of their wings and white, they put ontheir oversized overcoats and descended.When a shiny Red Delicious appeared inScrappy’s coat pocket, it was apparent thatthey’d never seen one before. Inevitably, shetasted it, and the reason she’d been lickingitems became clear. Together, they devouredthe apple she’d been starving for. Go figure:In heaven, she was a crazy bat with pica. Onearth, she’s just hungry.Schave & Reilly, who are husband andwife and who met in clown college, are justabout as charming onstage as can be. Theyare well-paired artists of physical comedy aswell as of concept – we’re not talking RonaldMcDonald here. Though their work is cleanenough for kids, it’s timeless and layered.Their continued independent work in this artform, one that has a long, reverent historybut which is often on the fringes today, isremarkable in itself. However, the pacing ofthe hourlong show – perhaps partly due tophysical necessity and partly because of allthe waiting, sitting, and repeating requiredby the subject matter – resulted in somedrag. The staging at the Blue Theater putthe audience close to the performers, andsome of the cartoonish quality of their physicalexertion was lost. But the DIY nature ofthe show, with its cardboard clouds and timeclock made from a shoebox, was sweet, andthe dingy, rickety surroundings at the Bluemade the little drama seem all the moreabsurd. Some people say any experience weget on earth is all there is. So I say, send’em in.– Jonelle SeitztheatreOPENINGHENRY V This is a project that your Chronicle’s ArtsEditor Robert Faires has been considering, conjuring,and honing for almost two decades: a one-manadaptation of Shakespeare’s drama about England’slegendary warrior king. Faires performs the 75-minutemonologue using just a few household props toevoke Henry’s journey across the kingly courts andbloody battlefields of history, from harshest war tosweetest love. The Illinois Shakespeare Festival’sCatherine Weidner directs this co-production fromRed Then and Rude Mechs. July 2-25. Thu.-Sat., 8pm;Sun., 5pm. The Off Center, 2211-A Hidalgo, 476-7833.$15 (discounts available for students, seniors).www.rudemechs.com.NO SHAME THEATRE RETURNS! On the first Fridayof each month, Gnap! Theater Projects presentsAustin’s pre-eminent open-mic performance forum.Script-in-hand or memorized, funny, dance-based, bad,weird, or just what-the-hell – all styles of performanceare welcome. Fri., July 3, 10pm. Salvage VanguardTheater, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886. $3.www.gnaptheater.org.ZILKER SUMMER MUSICAL: THE MUSIC MAN Didyou know that the Simpsons homage to this popularshow – you recall that episode about the monorail,yes? – was written by Conan O’Brien? Well, now youdo. And now you really want to grab a pic-a-nic andwatch Meredith Willson’s classic performed live onthe great green hillside by an enthusiastic troupeof locals as the sun sets slowly behind you and it’s“Goodnight, My Someone” right here in River City.July 3-Aug. 15. Thu.-Sun., 8:30pm. Zilker Park HillsideTheater, 2206 William Barton Dr. Donations accepted.www.zilker.org/showinfo.html.AN INSPECTOR CALLS Which of the British richieskilled the young woman, do you think? J.B. Priestley’sEdwardian crime thriller features Garry Peters as theinspector and is directed by Norman Blumensaadt forDifferent Stages. July 3-25. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 7pm.The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $15-30.www.vortexrep.org.THE ODYSSEY: A ROCK MUSICAL Freddy Carnes,who has often brought his popular Pigman superheroto the kiddies, now goes all adult-audience with thisadaptation of the Greek classic. No, we don’t meanit’s teh pr0n, dear citizen; we mean it’s intended torock you in a thoroughly Homeric manner, as part ofthis venue’s Summer Acts festival. Thu., July 9, 9pm;Sat., July 11, noon & 8pm; Sun., July 12, 4pm; Mon.,July 13, 9pm; Sat., July 18, 6pm. City Theatre, 3823Airport Ste. D, 891-8387. $15.www.citytheatreaustin.org.ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL It’s another fineShakespeare comedy in which amor vincit omnia,as the Japanese say, as presented by the PolishThespian Workshop for City Theatre’s Summer Actsfestival. Thu., July 9, 7pm; Sat., July 11, 6pm; Sun.,July 12, 8pm; Thu., July 16, 9pm; Sat., July 18, noon;Sun., July 19, 4pm. City Theatre, 3823 Airport Ste. D,740-9839. www.citytheatreaustin.org.CLOSINGNUNSENSE! Sure, and you know it’s the musicalfeaturing those singing and dancing sisters of mercyfrom out of Hoboken who have to figure out how tobury the bodies of 52 nuns accidentally killed bytheir cook? Done up all City Theatre-style here foryour divine pleasure. Thu., July 2, 8pm; Sun., July 5,2:30 & 5:30pm. City Theatre, 3823 Airport Ste. D,524-2870. $20 ($18, seniors; $12, students; $15,Thursdays). www.citytheatreaustin.org.TOUCH The Vestige Group presents the Austinpremiere of Toni Press-Coffman’s drama about anastronomer struggling to regain meaning in his lifeafter his wife is murdered. Directed by Susie Gidseg.Through July 3. Thu.-Sat., 9pm. Hot Mama’s CoffeeShop, 2401 E. Sixth. $15-25 (pay what you wish,Thursdays). www.vestigegroup.org.NO EXIT Jean-Paul Sartre’s endgame drama getsa modernizing by Bastion Carboni in this presentationfrom Poison Apple Initiative and Domy Books.Through July 3. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm. Domy Books, 913 E.Cesar Chavez, 476-3669. $10. www.domystore.com.THE ODD COUPLE Neil Simon’s popular comedy ofmismatched roommates gets a revival at the Palaceto the north. Through July 5. Thu.-Sat., 7:30pm; Sun.,2pm. Palace Theater, 810 S. Austin Rd., Georgetown,512/869-7469. $8-22. www.georgetownpalace.com.| EXPERIENCE THE DOMAIN, THAT UPSCALESHOPPING CONGLOMERATION, IN A MANNERUNLIKE ANY OTHER – VIA HEADPHONES.ONGOINGRECREATING THE DOMAIN is a set of artist-createdrecorded walking tours of the Domain, that ever-sotonyshopping center/residence/office-park thing inNorth Austin. Visitors can download the walking toursand attend the exhibition on their own time, makingthis experience a permanent exhibition. This project,incorporating the creations of five audio artists, iscurated by Alex Keller in conjunction with the alwaysintriguing Church of the Friendly Ghost. Downloadsavailable at www.recreatingthedomain.org.BLACK SNOW This is Keith Reddin’s two-act adaptationof Mikhail Bulgakov’s comic novel satirizing theworld of publishing and the mayhem that ensueswhen, heh, adapting a literary work for the stage.Nine actors portray 54 different characters in thisTutto Theatre show directed by Dustin Wills. ThroughJuly 12. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater,2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886. $12-15 (pay what youcan, Thursdays). www.tuttotheatre.org.LOVE, JANIS This staged spectacle of live musicexplores the Texas-born performer not only throughher legendary songs, but also via letters she wrote toher family. The phenomenal Andra Mitrovich returnsin her original starring role, so you know the raftersare liable to burst into flames from the pure paisleypower of it all. Through Aug. 30 Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Sun.,2:30pm. Zach Theatre, 1510 Toomey, 476-0541.$20-45. www.zachscott.com.DINNER THEATREMURDER ON THE MOVIE SET Gary Payne andhis madcap Capital City Mystery Players present ahumor-laced, interactive murder mystery in which you,the audience, play extras on a Hollywood movie set.With full-course Italian fare to dine on. Saturdays,7pm. Through July 25. Spaghetti Warehouse, 117 W.Fourth, 404-9123. $33.50. www.meatballs.com.AUDITIONSTROUBLE PUPPET THEATRE: UPTON SINCLAIR’STHE JUNGLE These progressive puppet masters areseeking five men and five women. Puppetry, dance/movement experience, and ability to play a musicalinstrument are pluses. Be prepared to tell a storywithout words. E-mail for appointment. Sat., July 11.info@troublepuppet.com.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Infois due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. Thedeadline for the July 17 issue is Monday, July 6. Includename of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s),a description, and any available photos or artwork. IncludeSASE for return of materials.Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer(see roster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066,Austin, 78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail:Wayne Alan Brenner, theatre, comedy.brenner@austinchronicle.com.Robi Polgar, performance art, dance, classical.dance-classical@austinchronicle.com.Ric Williams, litera. litera@austinchronicle.com.Benné Rockett, visual arts. art@austinchronicle.com.Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, Listings editor.brenner@austinchronicle.com.

Tune In. Turn On. Download.AUSTINCHRONICLE.COM/THENEXTEPISODENEW AND LOCAL MUSIC, VIDEOS, AND INTERVIEWSGREATOLD-FASHIONEDFAMILYFUNFOR ALL AGES WST Bluegrass BandPeterson BrothersCeltaire String BandStatic CorrectionElectric MountainRotten Apple Gang HayridesGunfightersCalamity JaneReenactorHistorical ArtisanDemonstrationsCrowbar & Skillet-Throwing ContestsGamesPioneer FarmsWhere Texas history comes alive Dance & FitnessClasses for all levelsWe offer Belly Dancing, Hip Hop, Ballet,Pilates, Swing, Salsa Aerobics,Bollywood, Zumba,Break Dancingand much more!FIRSTCLASSONLY $51700 S. Lamar, Suite #338, Austin, TX 78704www.GalaxyDanceStudios.orgGalaxy is a non-profit dance studio!Art is sultry.B sceneFriday, July 3, 6 -10:30 PMHENRYJoin us for a South American celebration and the opening ofFrancisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic. Dance the night away withManeja Beto (9PM), the Peligrosa All-Stars and the Learning Secrets,plus enjoy free appetizers, cash bar, art activities, and more! Join on-siteand get free admission to B scene plus fantastic perks!$5 member / $10 non-membersMusic curated by Transmission Entertainment.Media sponsor: Go HispanoMLK at Congress | (512) 471 - 7324Austin, TX www.blantonmuseum.orgROBERT FAIRES July 2-25Thursday-Saturdays 8pmSunday 5pma u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 63

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G SBates Recital HallJune 27A Love Supreme –The Music of John ColtraneIt’s impossible to avoid hyperbole in any reference to A LoveSupreme, John Coltrane’s 1965 recording that brought to theworld jazz’s spiritual, barrier-shattering genius at the artisticcrossroads of bebop and free jazz. Therecording has endured as a crucible of inspirationfor countless artists since, a factclearly evident as the audience swarmedBates Recital Hall to hear the Turtle IslandQuartet, recently rewarded with a Grammyfor its tribute to Coltrane’s definitive opus.This performance took place smack in themiddle of the 13th Austin Chamber MusicFestival. In her introduction, Artistic DirectorMichelle Schumann told the crowd how shehad strived to “turn up the heat considerablyfor this [year’s] festival, focusing onartists who have torn down traditional barriersand shattered the ceilings of expectation.”The 104-degree swelter notwithstanding(can any current article on Austinavoid reference to 2009’s early scorcher?),Schumann couldn’t have been more deadonin her choice of an artist to heat thingsup than Turtle Island Quartet.The ensemble has created its own nichein the music world, utilizing the traditionalquartet lineup to explore forms outside thenorm. Over 24 years, Turtle Island has prosperedwildly outside the box, exploring bluegrass,swing, bebop, R&B, rock, hip-hop, andother genres while racking up more than adozen recordings. Founding members DavidBalakrishnan (violin) and Mark Summer(cello) are also accomplished composersand arrangers who, with newer membersMads Tolling (violin) and Jeremy Kittel (violistand U.S. National Scottish Fiddle champion),have created a repertoire that is unique forchamber music, one that has its heart in thejazz quartet tradition.One of the key components of TurtleIsland’s performance style is improvisation.Though this may seem novel for a chambermusic ensemble, the artists reminded theaudience that before the late baroque era,when the string quartet form solidified, stringmusicians spent much time improvising. This64 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mwas the quartet’s way of implying, “Remember,what you are seeing isn’t new.” New, perhapsnot; but thrilling and fresh? Certainly.The first half of the performance gave theensemble a chance to cover some eclecticground. This included a swinging, soloistic“Wapango,” by Paquito D’Rivera; a driving,modal “Model Trane,” a piece written by thequartet that celebrated the members’ experimental,interactive talents; and an atmospherictake on Chick Corea’s “No Mystery.”For the second half, Coltrane took centerstage. For “Moment’s Notice,” the musicianscreated a loose, assured summery moodthat quickly shifted for “Naima,” Coltrane’slush, dense ballad written for his first wife.Then came “A Love Supreme,” split into fourmovements. The first stripped the work toits essentials, during which the memberspassed solos around in a thrilling and unifiedwhole. Though the individual players havetheir own styles and mastery, in the piece’sunified moments the ensemble played asone voice, nailing the complexities of rhythm,texture, and tone that reminded the audiencethat their spirited, playful demeanor isbacked up by talent, practice, and trainingof the highest levels. Each member had amoment in which to stand out, but specialmention should go to Kittel, whose inspiredsolo bridged the inner movements.It was clear from start to finish just how passionateeach member was for the music theywere making – from the constant eye contactamong the musicians to the way that the memberscelebrated one another after each piece.This is a tremendous gift to an audience. Byinviting us into their process with such ease,they make the experience a degree more personal,and we are challenged to listen harder.If this is what Michelle Schumann meant whenshe introduced her vision of “music for thepeople,” Turtle Island made supreme good onher promise.– Michael KellermancomedyIN THE CLUBSCAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research #100,467-2333. Daily, 7pm-1am. www.capcitycomedy.com.Nick Thune The sartorially splendid Funny Or Diestar makes a meatspace appearance this week,with Austin’s own John Ramsey opening. July 2-4.Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.Prescott Tolk The scruffy Jersey boy who createdthe webshow “Hung” for Warner Bros. 2.0 brings hispost-college-but-still-a-slacker self to the ATX for aweek of laughs, and Chip Chantry opens the show.July 7-11. Tue.-Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm.Cap City Open Mic Hey, it could be you up thereslaying your friends and neighbors as they’ve slainyou. Sundays, 8pm. Free with college ID.COLDTOWNE THEATER 4803-B Airport, 524-2807. www.coldtownetheater.com.This week: The redoubtable and vivaciousParallelogramophonograph brings its best tobear on unscripted shenanigans, now with TotalPanic. Thu., 8pm. Harold Night lets three differentimprov troupes attempt this classic DelClose format. Thu., 10pm. Proctor The ColdTowneimprov school faculty unleash themselves. Fri.,8pm. Dick Rambuck returns in full testosteroneswing, with Nice Astronaut. Fri., 9pm. PunchlineThe weekly collection of stand-up goodness continues.Fri., 10pm. Stool Pigeon features UT LawSchool’s Philip Durst jump-starting the improvwith a thrice-told tale. Sat., 8pm. Cage Match Twoimprov teams put the fireman’s carry, the atomicknee-drop, and the ape sex suplex on each otherfor your grins and giggles. Sat., 9pm. Stone ColdImprov The house troupe gets funky, now withMidnight Society and Unfurled Sat., 10pm.ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553.www.esthersfollies.com.Esther’s Follies The most popular troupe in townsays, “Yes, we can ... entertain the hell out ofyou!” with its new spring show of musical comedyand sketches, now with the Unleaded Supremessinging “The Big Three Bailout,” Espie Randolphas Barack Obama with some special words forour beleaguered nation, and the EF regulars slicingand dicing the likes of Rush Limbaugh, BernieMadoff, and Octomom. Also, whoa, a new illusion(called “Wink and a Smile”) from master magicianRay Anderson. Thrills! Chills! Ripped-fromthe-headlinesevents turned into comedy gold!Reservations highly recommended. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts available Thursdays& Fridays for seniors, students, military). Additional$5 for special reserved seats.THE HIDEOUT THEATRE 617 Congress,443-3688. www.hideouttheatre.com.Thursday: What makes this latest run of ThreeferMadness awesome? Mamet. David Mamet. No,the terse yet articulate fucker’s not going to bethere … but Asaf Ronen and his cronies are performingConfidence Men: Improv in the highly imitableMamet manner! 8pm. OMG, it’s only $3!Friday Double Barrel has two teams of improviserscompeting for your laughter and applause.8pm. Next comes the eminently topical This WeekTonight show, working its wild improv off the news(of the weird, of the wonderful, of the just plainnewsworthy) of the past seven days. Holy currentevents, anchorman! 10pm. $10.Saturday: Improvised Shakespeare might besome of the best, and likely will be the mostentertaining, prithee-brandishing comedy you’veever seen. It is extempore, from their mother wit!8pm. $10. Maestro is a fierce, multipartite battlefor supremacy among improvisers, scored by you,the audience. Highly recommended. 10pm. $10.VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116.www.thevelveetaroom.com.Open Mic Night These are your would-be comedicneighbors, three minutes at a time: Love them;fear them. This week’s host: Shane Hebert.Thursdays, 10pm.Carey Moore The lady brings the laffs, to besure, just as she did when winning the CorpusChristi open-mic contest and appearing in seasonfive of American Idol. Bob Khasravi and ShaneHebert open. Fri., July 3, 9:30 & 11:30pm. $5.BUT WAIT – THERE’S MORE!THE AUSTIN COMEDY TRAINWRECK Stand-upcomedy – right there in the Hole, on the Drag, in theheart of collegiate Texas. Tuesdays, 10pm. Hole in theWall, 2538 Guadalupe. $5.www.myspace.com/austincomedytrainwreck.COMEDYSPORTZ Competitive improv? Well, of course– and maestro Les McGehee and his talented friendsbring it in full force every Saturday night to this newestlittle coffeehouse in the 78704. Saturdays, 7pm.Cafe Caffeine, 909 W. Mary. www.comedy7.com.KICK BUTT COMEDY Open Mic ComedyWednesdays, 8pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport#725, 454-5425.SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL Gnap! Theater Projectspresents a double whammy of uncanny improv,featuring two handpicked improv troupes certainto make your Saturday sizzle. This week: the twoheaded,one-bearded, pretty-as-a-picture Gargantua ofimprov known as Chris & Tami, and the musical maffickingof those talented Girls Girls Girls. Sat., July4, 10pm. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd.,474-7886. $10. www.salvagevanguard.org.danceDANCE UMBRELLA: 10 MINUTES MAXCALL FOR ENTRIES The annual three-nightminifestival of performance takes place August 20-22at the George Washington Carver Museum’s BoydVance Theater. Applications are first-come, first-served.Work should be dance, movement-inspired theatre, orperformance art. Pieces must not exceed 10 minutes.Applications are available online or by calling DanceUmbrella. Registration deadline: July 26. 450-0456.www.danceumbrella.com.ACC DANCE: DANCE INFORMANCE Faculty choreographerspresent students in an informal showing withguest choreographers from the department and thecommunity. Thu., July 2, 7 pm. 1212 Rio Grande, Rm.130. 294-7712. Free.TWO LEFT FEETLUCILA DANCE PRODUCTIONS: CLASSESFORMING Belly dancing (all levels), flamenco, salsa/merengue, hip-hop, creative movement for ages 5-10,and tai chi. Lucila Dance Studio, 1700 S. Lamar,416-8800. www.luciladance.com.MODERN DANCE CLASSES Ellen Bartel of SpankDance Company leads a series of classes in moderndance (all levels). Times and prices vary. See thewebsite for details. Tapestry Dance Company studios,2302 Western Trails. www.tapestry.org.AUSTIN UPTOWN DANCE: BALLROOM SUMMERDANCE CAMP FOR KIDS Taught by professionals,kids learn the traditional competitive Latin and ballroomdances, plus social dances such as two step,swing, and salsa! Three sessions: Please see thewebsite for details. Through July 9, Monday-Thursday,noon-3pm. 8868 Research Blvd. #706. 459-5678.$225 per session. www.austinuptowndance.com.ESTUDIO FLAMENCO Flamenco dance classes,centrally located. Saturdays, noon-1pm (beginner) &1-2:30pm (intermediate). 2801 W. 45th, 382-1366.Fees vary. www.estudioflamenco.com.FREE SALSA LESSONS AT APL Various branches ofthe Austin Public Library host weekly salsa lessons.Raul Ramirez teaches the steps and spends a littletime filling you in on the history and background ofthe music and dance. Lessons take place throughoutthe week at the Carver, Cepeda, Pleasant Hill, andUniversity Hills branches. See the website for times.974-7400. Free. www.cityofaustin.org/library.DANCE INTERNATIONAL Each night features a varietyof ballroom and Latin dances; each month seesthe start of a new course. No partner necessary.Sundays, 6-8pm. Dancers Workshop, 183 & BalconesWoods. Weeknights, times vary. Hills Fitness Center,4615 Bee Caves Rd., 32-DANCE. Fees vary.www.dancein.org.DANCE ASSOCIATES AND AUSTIN PARD: DANCECLASSES Kids (ages 24 months and older) can participatein dance, gymnastics, and movement classesall over town, courtesy of Dance Associates and thecity’s Parks & Recreation Department. See websitefor details. 323-6838. www.danceassociatesaustin.com.

BELLY DANCE WITH FINGER CYMBALS StaceyLizette teaches all levels of dancers, using differentcymbal rhythms with a focus on fluidity of hand andarm movements. (Finger cymbals are available forpurchase or loan.) Mondays, 7:30-8:30pm. TapestryDance Company, 2302 Western Trails.www.staceylizette.net.FLAMENCO CLASSES Beginner: Thursdays, 8-9pm.Intermediate: Mondays, 8:15-9:15pm. Synergy DanceStudio, 3425 Bee Caves Rd. $14 per class. 923-3270.www.myspace.com/chloebrevelle.FIRST FRIDAY CONTRA DANCING Easy and fun,contra dancing will put you in the swing of things.Live music by the Eclectic Celtic Orchestra; dancescalled by Dorcas Hand (Houston). Fri., Jul. 3, 7:30pmbeginners lessons; 8-11pm main dance. Carpenter’sHall, 400 Josephine. 970-4919. $8 (discount for AFTMmembers and first-timers).CHADDICK DANCE THEATER: CONTEMPORARYDANCE CLASSES Cheryl Chaddick conducts classesin contemporary dance at several locations aroundtown. These classes integrate the styles and techniquesof Jose Limon and Martha Graham with theheavy influence of ballet and jazz. See website fordetails. 371-7146. www.chaddickdancetheater.com.ZUMBA DANCE The Latin-inspired international musicand dance steps are designed for everyone. Tuesdays,5:45am; Thursdays, 7pm. Brushy Creek CommunityCenter. E-mail for details. zumbaaustin@yahoo.com.AUSTIN BALLROOM DANCERS ABD sponsors ballroomdancing with DJ’d music weekly, year-round.Saturdays, 7:30-11pm. Austin Uptown Dance,8868 Research, 989-3939. www.austinballroomdancers.org.THE DANCE ZONE: ADULT DANCE & FITNESSCLASSES The Dance Zone, 2323 San Antonio.236-9328. www.inthedancezone.com.EGYPTIAN BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH DRAKONBeginners to advanced dancers are invited to learnfrom one of Austin’s favorite belly dancers. Variouslocations, 295-2036, 750-7037. $15 per class or sixfor $75. www.desertpassion.com.SCOTTISH BALLROOM DANCING Lively jigs andreels and elegant strathspeys. No partner needed,but couples welcome. Tuesdays, 7-8:30pm. QuicksilverDance Center, 8711 Burnet Rd. Ste. H-100, 327-2869.First class free.BELLY-DANCE CLASSES WITH TWYLA GRACETwyla of Twyla & the Twilight Star Ensemble teachesongoing classes in belly dance. Call or write fordetails. Mon. & Wed., 8:30-9:30pm, 12687 Researchat Oak Knoll, 971-0188. www.twylabellydance.com.ISADORA DUNCAN DANCE CAMP Original classworkand repertory including the Tanagra figures, Bachgavottes, and Schubert waltzes as passed downthrough generations of Isadora Duncan dancers.Sundara Yoga Therapy, 12636 Research Ste. C-206,249-9201. $175 per week. www.sundarayogatherapy.com.CONTACT IMPROVISATION DANCE JAMSParticipants move in and out of contact with one ormore people through a common center of gravity. Allare welcome. Tuesdays, 8-10pm; Sundays, 4:30-6pm.Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar. $5.DANCE CLASSES FOR BIGGER BODIES A plussizedprofessional dancer leads classes based onhaving fun, moving your body, and exploring jazz,ballet, ballroom, hip-hop, and other types of dancing.Open to anyone who is size-positive regardless ofsize! Saturdays. Beginners, 2pm; intermediate, 3pm;performance team, 4:30-6:30pm. E-mail for location.www.danceswithfat.org.ARGENTINE TANGO CLASSES Laura Pellegrino offersongoing classes for beginners, experts, and you inbetweenersin her country’s sexy dance of record.Khabele Studio, 701 W. Seventh. Full-time universitystudents receive 50% discount. www.tangointexas.com.ESQUINATANGO Lots going on at Esquina Tango. Thisweek: Brazilian Street Dance Workshop RebekahFowler teaches a four-week workshop that focuses onthe popular Brazilian street dance styles of “sambareggae” and “baile funk.” All levels welcome, no priorexperience required. Sundays in July, 12:45–1:45pm.$12 per class or $40 for all four classes. Swing &Blues Dance Classes Two classes for two dancestyles: get a feel for swing, and learn the art of leading,following, and improvising to slow blues music.Sundays in July: 6pm, swing; 7:15pm, blues. $45 ($80for both classes; $80 per couple per class). Plus theusual slew of dance classes from lands Latin andbeyond. See the website for details. EsquinaTango,209 Pedernales, 524-2772. www.esquinatangoaustin.com.SCANDINAVIAN DANCING Turning and improvisedcouple dancing for beginning to advanced dancers. Nopartners needed; wear slick-soled shoes. Thursdays,7:30-9:45pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church,4700 Grover, 454-0598. $3. www.austinscandi.org.AUSTIN BARN DANCERS: CONTRA DANCETraditional social dances to live music everyweek. You don’t need a partner, and every dancewill be taught before you stride out on your own.Wednesdays, 7:30pm. Hancock Recreation Center,811 E. 41st, 453-4225. $3 donation.www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.NIA CLASSES The Nia technique is an energizingworkout inspired by dance, martial arts, and healingarts. First class is free. Mon. & Fri., 9:30-10:30am;Mon. & Thu., 6-7pm; Sat., 10:30am. HancockRecreation Center, 811 E. 41st, 922-1581. $10 perclass. www.cityofaustin.org/parks/hancock.htm.AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS Learn avariety of couples and line dances from around theworld. All levels of experience welcome. No partnerrequired. Saturdays, 7:30pm (lessons); 8:15-11pm(open dance). Hancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st,481-9362. $5. www.aifd.cc.KICK BUTT BLUES DANCE Ass-kickin’ blues for youto shake your booty to! Food and beverages available.Fridays (except third Friday each month), 9pm-1am. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725, 736-2662.$5. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE A couple hundredswingers hit the dance floor once a week for DJ-spunsounds of past blasts. A beginners’ lesson starts theevening. Thursdays, 8pm-12mid. Texas Federation ofWomen’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel, 476-5845.$5 ($2, members). www.austinswingsyndicate.org.FOUR ON THE FLOOR: CLASSES Ongoing classesfor various levels of expertise in swing and Lindy Hopculminate in a weekly dance. New classes usuallystart the first Tuesday of the new month. Tuesdays,7pm (classes), 9:30pm (open dance). Texas Federationof Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel,453-3889. Prices vary. www.fouronthefloor.com.classicalmusicOPENINGSUMMER CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVALThe Austin Chamber Music Center’s 13th annual festivalbrings world-class chamber music groups to centralTexas and features the traditional to the cuttingedge. This week: Jupiter String Quartet Pianist andACMC director Michelle Schumann joins the Jupes forworks by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Schumann. Fri.,July 3, 7:30pm. Bates Recital Hall. $25. MendelssohnPiano Trio The trio performs the completeMendelssohn trios to honor that composer’s 200thbirthday. Sun., July 5, 3pm. Bates Recital Hall. $25.Behind the Scenes with the Artists Each week takea late lunch and meet the artists who perform at thisyear’s festival. Please visit the ACMC festival websitefor details on these and other free events. BSAs startat 1pm. Brentwood Christian School, 11908 N. Lamar.Free. www.austinchambermusic.org.AUSTIN SYMPHONIC BAND: BASTROP PATRIOTICFESTIVAL The band makes its annual appearance onthe banks of the Colorado in this brassy prelude toIndependence Day. Fri., July 3, 8pm Fisherman’s Park,Farm Street at Willow Street, Bastrop, 345-7420. Free.www.asband.org.AUSTIN SYMPHONIC BAND: JULY 4THCELEBRATION! Independence Day itself and ASBhoists its flag in Round Rock at the annual FrontierDays Celebration, replete with pomp, circumstance,watermelons, sky divers, and other seasonal excitement.Sat., July 4, 8pm. Old Settlers Park,3300 E. Palm Valley, Round Rock, 512/345-7420.Free. www.asband.org.AUSTIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CHILDREN’SDAY ART PARK Learn about the symphony and itsvarious instruments (and performers), take part inarts & crafts, listen to storytellers, and enjoy mimes,magicians, and more. Each week is capped with aperformance by one of Austin’s favorite kid-friendlyacts. After the performance, follow the Pied Piperdown the Lemonade Trail to the Magic Oak Tree,where the fun continues under the Big Top. Thisweek: Joe McDermott. Through July 29. Wednesdays,9:30-11:30am. Symphony Square, 1101 Red River,476-6064. 50 cents per child (free, adults accompanyinga child). www.austinsymphony.org.CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G Svisual artsEVENTSWEST END GALLERY NIGHT: FIRST THURSDAYNine galleries within walking distance (and withample parking) are bedecked with new works andawaiting your visit on this particular day each month.Venues include Art on 5th, F8 Gallery, Haven Gallery,Lotus Gallery, Russell Collection, Stephen L. ClarkGallery, Sterling Images, Wally Workman Gallery.See website for gallery map. Thu., July 2, 6-8pm.478-4440. www.artaustin.org/westend.htm.BLANTON MUSEUM: THE B SCENE Here’s a SouthAmerican opening celebration of the exhibition“Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic,” witha performance by Maneja Beto and live music fromthe Peligrosa All-Stars. Sat., July 3, 6-10:30pm. MLK& Congress Ave., 471-7324. $10 ($5, members).www.blantonmuseum.org.CO-LAB: BIRTHDAY AND INDEPENDENCE DAYPARTY It’s an outdoor, art-filled, totally grillacious celebrationon the Eastside. Bring you some super-soakers,Frisbees, family, friends, something edible tothrow on the grill, you know how it goes: Like anotherhot day of summer, but peopled and fun. Sat., July 4,5-11pm. 613 Allen. Free. www.colabspace.org.OPENINGBUTRIDGE GALLERY: BIG CHIEF, YOU DAPRETTIEST! Gene Vandiver’s photography and DonnaPardue’s videos document the elusive Mardi GrasIndians of New Orleans, who make dazzling suits offeathers and beads. Reception: Thu., July 2, 6-8pm.Exhibition: Through July 30. 1110 Barton Springs Rd.,974-4000. www.cityofaustin.org/dougherty/gallery.htm.WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: DUNE SHACKSUMMER The upstairs gallery is graced with photographsand abstract paintings by Suzanne Lewisthat evoke the weathered structures (once serving astemporary residences for the likes of e.e. cummings,Annie Dillard, Jackson Pollock, and others) alongthe three miles of Cape Cod National Seashore.Reception: Thu., July 2, 6-8pm. Exhibition: ThroughAug. 5. 1202 W. Sixth, 472-7428.www.wallyworkmangallery.com.ORIGAMI EXHIBIT Thu., July 9. 4801 La Crosse,232-0100. $7 (members free). www.wildflower.org.CLOSINGNEW EAST GALLERY: AFRICA CREATE USDiverseArts presents new original work by Amir M.Lyles. Through July 9. 1601 E. Fifth #106.www.diversearts.org.WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY: JILL CARVER Theformerly British artist has been busy since movingto Austin in 2002, and this show of big new oils ofTexas (and beyond) landscapes and fauna will convinceyou that “busy” equals “good.” Through July 3.1202 W. Sixth, 472-7428. www.wallyworkmangallery.com.ONGOINGDIBONA STUDIO Oil paintings and “sculptural tattoos”by Joyce DiBona. 404 W. Milton, 851-2646.COMFORT FOOD: CONTEMPORARY FOLK ARTfeatures work by Robbin Robertson Polter andTerrell Powell. Through July 18. Amplify Gallery, 2608Brockton. 795-8454.STUDIO2GALLERY: CREATURE FEATURE Paintingsand drawings and photos of animals, animals, animals,from a wealth of local talents: Jill Alo, SandyBelk, Aralyn Hughes, Jonathan Garza, Leah Grace,Max Shuster, and more. Through July 17.1700 S. Lamar #318, 326-9102.www.studio2gallery.com.LOWBROW EMPORIUM: NECK OF THE WOODS It’sa group art show; it’s a beer-fueled public party; it’sa celebration of lowbrow creations by local artists.2708 S. Lamar. www.lowbrowemporium.com.Beat the Heat Summer Speciala u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 65

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G S‘The Lining of Forgetting:Internal and ExternalMemoryin Art’The way I remember it, I’m 3 years old, standing in the denof our house in Longview, watching my brother Ken, who’s threeyears my elder, go out the back door to catch the school bus.And I’m thinking: “Why does he get to go toschool? He’s only one year older than me.”A silly memory, but I’ve long thought of itas my earliest one, and I hold onto it, eventhough it isn’t something I can confirm ashaving actually happened. No one else inmy family remembers the event – and whyshould they? I’m not even sure why I rememberit – so there’s no way for me to confirm:Was I really 3? Was I in Dr. Dentons, as Irecall it sometimes, or pajamas, as I pictureit at others? Was my brother Ray, who wouldhave been 9, leaving for school with Ken ornot? The sensation of the moment is vivid,but the details blur and shift. In trying to pindown this memory, I might as well be tryingto hold a stream of water.My personal experience of memory asfluid may be why the works that drew me themost deeply into “The Lining of Forgetting:Internal and External Memory in Art” werethe ones that play off memory’s elusive, everfluctuatingnature. David Rokeby’s Machinefor Taking Time (Boul. Saint-Laurent) presentsside-by-side screens that run footage capturedby a pair of surveillance cameras indowntown Montreal over a year’s time. OnlyRokeby has edited the video so that, as thecameras languidly pan past rooftops andtrees, the images subtly shift across time,through different times of day and seasonsof the year. Shadows melt then reappear;leafy trees magically shed their foliage andgrow it back, and not in the caffeinated jitterof time-lapse photography but in a smooth,instantaneous shifting like the double imageof a lenticular cover. It’s as if you’re lookingat a place and have become lost in recallingits appearance at other times, the memoriesflowing in a steady, ceaseless, dreamlikestream. Was it early morning or twilight,late autumn or midsummer? “It all blurstogether,” we’ll say when struggling to recall amoment from the past, and here it truly does.The images by Dinh Q. Lê from his FromVietnam to Hollywood series do something66 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mAustin Museum ofArt – Downtownthrough Aug. 8similar, though what’s being blurred in themisn’t just personal recollections but fact andfiction. He’s taken large-scale photographs ofboth the Vietnam War and cinematic representationsof it and literally has woven themtogether, employing the techniques for weavinggrass mats in his homeland of Vietnam.The results pixelate and fragment history,rendered here in black and white, and fuse itwith film’s lush romantic drama, saturated infiery oranges and reds. You can get some ofthe impact from reproductions such as theone running with this review, but it pales incomparison to what you feel standing beforethe real thing, 3 feet tall and 6 feet long,where the intricacy of the work and painstakingcraftsmanship are inescapable. Beingconscious of every strip and the constantoverlapping on this outsized scale makesthe work at once epic and deeply personal,a sense of an individual’s past being swallowedin a mass culture fantasy of history.Not surprisingly, being a drama geek, I wasmightily amused by Emma Kay’s ShakespeareFrom Memory, in which she attempted to pensynopses of the Bard’s plays without resortingto any reference works or prompts. The results,typed out formally on 26 separate sheetsof bone-white paper, range from pagelong,detailed accounts (Romeo and Juliet) to vague,single-sentence summations (Coriolanus),with a few plays that she apparently couldn’tremember anything about; below the titles, thepages are blank. Of course, Kay’s memory tripsher up in quite a few places, leading her tomash up characters and put lines in the wrongplays, which can be fun for those in the know.But whether or not you’re a Bardophile, it’sone more example that this thought-provokingexhibition from the Weatherspoon Art Museumprovides of memory’s shape-shifting nature, itsability to morph and change what we think weknow into something else. “Remember me!”the ghost of Hamlet’s father urged his son.Based on this show, Dad, that’s easier saidthan done.– Robert FairesAUSTIN GALLERIES: 20TH CENTURY MASTERSOriginal lithographs, etchings, intaglios, and screenprints by Marc Chagall, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso,and more. 1219 W. Sixth.CORONADO STUDIOS The Serie Project, a nonprofitLatino arts organization hosted by Coronado Studios,produces, promotes, and exhibits serigraph printscreated by diverse artists. 6601 Felix, 385-3591.www.serieproject.org.PUMP PROJECT: LUCHA LIBRE MEXICANA 65original masks, memorabilia, film, photography, andart are presented by curators Gerardo Arellano andDaniel Vargas, turning the gallery into a colorful spectacleof Mexican wrestling history. Through July 18.702 Shady Ln. www.pumpproject.org.FAB GALLERY: URBAN/STREET New works forthese concrete and crumbling times by BethanyJohnson(!), Russell Burns, Tim Creswick, KrutieThakkar, Bonnie Gammill, Mala Kumar, KallistaStephenson, and others. DFA Building, 23rd & Trinity.www.thefabgallery.com.STUDIO C GALLERY: PONIES & PENGUINS Newworks by Holly Bronko and Alexandra Valenti.2309 Thornton.DOMY BOOKS: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS New paintingsby Esther Pearl Watson, mixing the fantasticwith the everyday, brighten the walls of this excellentshop. Through July 23. 913 E. Cesar Chavez.www.domystore.com/austin/index.html.VSA ARTS: 12 X 12 EXHIBITION More than 50paintings – oils, acrylics, and mixed media – by 26 artistsaffiliated with Imagine Art, dedicated to promotingthe creative power in people with disabilities. ThroughAug. 1. Access Gallery, 3701 Guadalupe #103.www.vsatx.org.HARRY RANSOM CENTER “Fritz Henle: In Search ofBeauty” encompasses a broad range of Henle’s photography,including images of 1930s New York, Mexico,and Paris; innovative nudes; and portraits of famouspersonalities. Through Aug. 2. “The Persian Sensation:The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in the West” Morethan 200 items – among them Persian manuscripts,miniature editions, and illustrated parodies – from theRansom Center’s extensive collections illustrate theRubáiyát’s storied history. Through Aug. 2.AUSTIN ART IN PUBLIC PLACES: TEXAS BIENNIALThis is the first time that AIPP has commissionedtemporary public art! Ryah Christensen’s Door/NotDoor is near the Eastside Hike and Bike Trail, justsouth of Nash Hernandez Road. Bill Davenport’sGiant Mushroom Forest is on the west end ofAuditorium Shores, near the Lady Bird Lake Hikeand Bike Trail. Sasha Dela’s Variegated Continuumis at the Mexican American Cultural Center. BusterGraybill’s Bait Box is adjacent to the boat launchon the Eastside Hike and Bike Trail. Ken Little’sHomeland Security is in the clearing between DougSahm Hill in Butler Park and the Palmer EventsCenter. Colin McIntyre’s Emergence is on a landscapedmound immediately east of the Dougherty ArtCenter’s parking lot. Through Dec. 31.EAST END GALLERY: RICK CALZADILLA AND JEFFLITTLE 1101 Navasota, 217-8043.EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of JoshuaGarcia and others. 12400 Amherst #102, 825-8577.www.eyecontactart.com.TEXAS FOLKLIFE GALLERY: RANCH GATES OF THESOUTHWEST Photographs by UT design professorDaniel Olsen and designer Henk Van Assen. ThroughSep. 4. 1317 S. Congress, 441-9255.www.texasfolklife.org.PRO-JEX GALLERY: THE NATIVE AMERICANSStunning photography by Edward S. Curtis.Through July 31. 1710 S. Lamar, 472-7707.SPACE 12: FROM HERE TO THERE INFREDERICKSBURG The Austin Photography Grouppresents this excellent new show of images.Through July 30. 3121 E. 12th. www.ramatiru.com.ART PALACE: ICE COLD AND I AM NOT SODIFFERENT Not one but two new exhibitions from thisEastside powerhouse of visuals: Cruz Ortiz brings apanoply of Mexicultural stunners and curator RachelCook presents a wonderground of artists’ photographicdocs and manipulations. Through Aug. 5.2109 Cesar Chavez, 496-0687. www.artpalacegallery.com.ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY Artists fromArgentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paintings byAugustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, and PabloTaboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; and metalsculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos,457-0171. www.pablotaboadastudio.com.ARTHOUSE: NEW AMERICAN TALENT 24 featuresseveral Austin-based artists among the nationaldiversity and will give you a glimpse into what’shappening in the more noncommercial world ofimages and objects, as selected by the University ofChicago’s Hamza Walker. Through Aug. 23.700 Congress, 453-5312. www.arthousetexas.org.AUSTIN ART GARAGE Original art by local artists.2200 S. Lamar Ste. J, 351-5934.www.austinartgarage.com.AUSTIN ART GLASS This glassblowing studio andgallery offers functional and decorative glass art, aswell as glassblowing classes and free demonstrations.1608 S. Congress, 916-4527.www.austinartglass.com.AMOA: THE LINING OF FORGETTING: INTERNALAND EXTERNAL MEMORY IN ART The AustinMuseum of Art’s newest show, curated by XandraEden, explores the ways we remember, forget,rewrite, and even fabricate memory. Sculpture, photography,works on paper, installation, video, andcomputer-generated works by 14 international artists– including Louise Bourgeois, Dinh Q. Lê, and RachelWhiteread – make use of family photo albums, RoadRunner cartoons, the works of Shakespeare, andBarack Obama’s presidential primary campaign inevoking their subjects. Through Aug. 9.823 Congress, 495-9224. www.amoa.org.FRANCISCO MATTO: THE MODERN AND THEMYTHIC This Blanton show provides a rediscoveryof Matto’s work and highlights the tremendous influencethat his five decades of landscapes, cityscapes,portraits, abstractions, and sculptural totems had onsubsequent Latin American artists. Through Sept. 27.MLK & Congress, 471-7324. www.blantonmuseum.org.BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmadeglass art and jewelry. 108 W. 43rd, 380-0770.www.austinbluemoon.com.THE CATHEDRAL OF JUNK is approximately 60 tonsof junk wired together over 15 years to form intricatetowers and rooms in the back yard of a South Austinhome. Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, noon-9pm, orby appointment. 4422 Lareina, 299-7413.www.keepaustinweird.com.D BERMAN GALLERY: DRAWN (NOT QUARTERED)This group show features excellent work by GlennDowning, Katie Maratta, Shawn Smith, Jared Theis,W. Tucker, and Randy Twaddle. Through July 18. 1701Guadalupe, 477-8877. www.dbermangallery.com.CREATIVE RESEARCH LAB: NOW ANDTOMORROW is an exhibition of art by pre-kindergartento 12th-grade children from the Austin area.Through July 18. 2830 E. MLK, 471-5672.uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab.FRANCOIS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 309-B Bowie,320-0072. www.francoisphotography.com.KATHY WOMACK GALLERY 411 Brazos #100.www.kwomack.com.MEXIC-ARTE: A LEGACY OF CHANGE This expansiveshow features the museum’s permanentcollection and is organized around five themes:Death & Rebirth, Mestizaje & Connections, Conflict& Struggle, Identity & Consciousness, History &Memory. 419 Congress, 480-9373.www.mexic-artemuseum.org.MACC: DOS VISTAS UN CAMINO AL RUMBO DELA HUMANIDAD This is the first comprehensiveexhibition of the artwork of Malaquias and MaceoMontoya, the father and son who, for the past fiveyears, have focused on issues of globalizationand immigration. Through Aug. 29. 600 River St.,478-6222. www.maccaustin.org.MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART presents an eclecticselection of African and African-American artwork.7801 N. Lamar, Ste. D-106, 323-6901.www.mitchie.com.STEPHEN CLARK GALLERY: KATE BREAKEY Thefine-art photographer of all creatures dead andsmall presents her newest exhibition of beautiful,heartbreaking works. Through July 15. 1101 W. Sixth,477-0828.WOMEN & THEIR WORK: THE MEDICINE SHOWThe installation and performance artist Lizzy Wetzeldraws from alchemy, mysticism, acid rock, supernaturalphenomena, and indigenous cosmology toexplore the idea of sacred space and the boundariesbetween one world and the next. Through July 16.1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org.

CALENDAR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I STI N G SSPACESEASTSIDE BOOKS Currently showing works byPatrick King, Ramon Lozano, and John Metcalf.2415 E. Fifth. 472-2665. www.eastsidebooksaustin.com.DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY Stained and leadedglass and mosaics. 701 Tillery Ste. A-11, 389-2266.www.decola-eusebi.com.BRICK OVEN Paintings by Sheri Mays, Jeff Baker,and Kijaso. Through Aug. 3. Brick Oven, 1608 W. 35th.453-4330. www.brickovenon35th.com.BENNU COFFEE Lucas Purvis decks the caffeinatedwalls with the comic-book creation “Alter Egos”;Cande Aguilar’s works contrast and complementthe reality of where you are and where you want tobe. Through June 31. Bennu Coffee, 2001 E. MLK,478-4700. www.bennucoffee.com.CAFFE MEDICI: LANCE ROSENFIELD New photography.1101 West Lynn, 569-0432.www.rosenfieldphotography.com.KERBEY LANE: IMAGES OF ITALIA Norman Bean’spencilwork adorns the familiar walls. July 4-31.3704 Kerbey, 451-1436. www.kerbeylanecafe.com.PROGRESS COFFEE: WORD ON THE STREETVija G. Mendelson’s original photo collages of localcolor and dynamics. July 6-Aug.10. 500 San Marcos,493-0963. www.wordonthestreetphotography.com.RIO RITA: JOE GALLAHAN This emerging photographerrepresents the Eastside in image after strikingimage. 1308 E. Sixth, 524-0384.www.jwgphotography.com.ROADHOUSE RELICS Vintage neon, carnival banners,and other tributes to U.S. popular culture byTodd Sanders. 1720 S. First, 442-6366.www.roadhouserelics.com.WESTS Artwork by Dan-Ramone Vivan Chavez,Raquel Reyes, and others. 408 Josephine.CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIESATELIER 3-D: A SCULPTORS’ STUDIO is a centrallylocated sculpture studio (featuring the work of SteveDubov, Heather Tolleson, and Terry Wilemon) thatoffers ongoing classes and workshops for all skill levels;the venue’s also open to artists looking for workspaceand tools. Call or see the website for details.701 Tillery, 385-1115. www.atelier3-d.com.CO-LAB: CALL FOR PROPOSALS Co-Lab, you shouldknow, deals with and presents some of the mostintriguing and exciting artists around. Also realize:The collective maintains an open and ongoing callfor proposals regarding installation-, performance-,video-, public-, and community-based projects. E-mailfor details. colabspace@gmail.com.HELIOS KILN GLASS STUDIO: CLASSES ANDDEMONSTRATIONS Learn while they burn at thisprofessional studio. 10700 Anderson Mill Rd.,996-0960. www.heliosglass.com.literaREADINGS, SIGNINGS,AND PERFORMANCESJOE LANSDALE takes Hap and Leonard on ahome-cranked, rock-salted Vanilla Ride. East Texasshouldn’t be this much fun. Highly recommended.Wed., July 8, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar,472-5050. www.bookpeople.com.THE UTTER READING SERIES brings the freshestprose and poetry from the creme of Austin’ssuperdelicious writing farm league. Tue., July 7, 7pm.BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.THE AUSTIN BOOK WORKERS paper up with the21st annual Book and Paper Arts Fair. This is lots offun! Make your own paper, see how books are handmade,and look at what bugs can do to your favoritebooks if you don’t treat ’em right! And bring onebook to be repaired in the book hospital. Sun., July 5,1-5pm. Laguna Gloria, 3809 W. 35th, 458-8191. Free.THE DOLLAR STORE SUMMER MEGA TOUR TheFeatherproof Books gang from up Chicago way hitsAustin like a ton of Irish confetti, abetted in theirreadings and literary antics by local lights RyanMarkel and Owen Egerton. We daresay: Fuck, yeah!Sun., July 5, 8pm. The Scoot Inn, 1308 E. Fourth,478-6200. $1. www.dollarstoreshow.com.| RANDY TWADDLE’S FURY AND SOUND ADDS A TEXTUALASPECT TO THE DIVERSITY OF D BERMAN GALLERY’S‘DRAWN (NOT QUARTERED)’ SHOW.GAYLON GREER asks The Price of Sanctuary, whichis to be expected of a spy thriller, yes? Thu., July 2,7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.AUSTIN YOUTH SLAM TEAM whips out anotherfundraiser to get these phenomenally talented kidsoff to Chicago. This Slam Bowl features competitionbetween the Austin Youth Poetry Slam Team, NeoSoul Slam Team, Austin Poetry Slam, and KilleenPoetry Slam. Watch this younger generation teachtheir elders a lesson or two! Thu., July 2, 8pm. ClubIllusion, 2700 W. Pecan, Pflugerville, 512/670-7411.$10. www.clubillusionatx.com.WRITING/BOOK GROUPSSTORY CIRCLE NETWORK Nonprofit organizationfor women, offering monthly reading and writingcircles and more, in North, Central, and South Austin.454-9833. www.storycircle.org.7% SOLUTION CLUB Already Dead by CharlieHuston. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050.www.bookpeople.com.STEEPED IN BOOKS: INFORMAL TALK AND TEADo you have a book brewing in your head? Are youstraining to let others know how much you loved (orhated) it? This is the group for you. Tuesdays, 2pm.Through Aug. 25. Hampton Library, 5125 Convict HillRd., 892-6680. www.cityofaustin.org/library.SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPSHOW TO MAKE YOUR WRITING SPARKLE is aBreathing Life Into Words workshop with Irma Flores-Manges and Philip Yates. No prerequisite in writingrequired. Mon., July 6, 7-8:30pm. Hampton Library,5125 Convict Hill Rd., 892-6680. Free.THE ADULT POETRY CIRCLE Participants areencouraged to share and workshop creative work.Beginning and advanced poets are welcome. Tue.,July 7, 7-8:30pm. Spicewood Springs Branch Library,8637 Spicewood Springs Rd., 974-3800.www.cityofaustin.org/library.OPEN MICSTANTRA POETRY IN SAN MARCOS Sundays, 8pm.Tantra Coffeehouse, 217 W. Hopkins, San Marcos.LOVE YOUR COUNTRY AT EXPRESSIONS withpoets Dillon McKinsey, Element 615, Nancy Fierstien,Glenn Hardin. Bring a dish for the pot luck and cansfor the Poets’ Pantry. All ages reading. Round robinafter featured readers. Sat., July 4, 7pm. Austin Bahá’íCenter, 2215 E.M. Franklin, 926-8880.| AUGUSTA WOOD’S NEW WORK IS PART OF THE ‘I AM NOT SO DIFFERENT’EXHIBITION AT ART PALACE.| SUZANNE LEWIS’ DUNE SHACK SUMMER SERIES BRINGS THE COLORS OF CAPE COD TOTHE SECOND FLOOR OF WALLY WORKMAN GALLERY.GENUINE JOE Thursdays, 7:30-10pm. Genuine JoeCoffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson, 220-1576.www.genuinejoe.com.THE HIDEOUT Hosted by Thom Moon 10. Next upis the fabulous Austin Youth Slam Team featuringShamicka Hicks, Shey, Margaret, and Cora. Yes!See them! Give them money! Mondays, 7-10pm. TheHideout Theatre, 617 Congress, 476-0473. $2 (orcanned food for Poets Pantry). www.hideouttheatre.com.HOT MAMA’S OPEN MIC Food, beer, wine, and caffeineavailable. Tuesdays, 7:30-9pm. Hot Mama’sEspresso Bar, 2401 E. Sixth, 476-MAMA (6262).www.myspace.com/hotmamasespresso.SPOKEN AND HEARD is co-hosted by StaceyShea and Element 615. Uncensored round robin.Sundays, 7-9pm. Kick Butt Coffee, 5775 Airport #725,454-5425. www.kickbuttcoffee.com.RUTA MAYA POETRY is one of the longest-runningweekly open mics in Texas. Hosted by David Bates.Tuesdays, 6-9pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste.D-200, 707-9637. www.rmpoetryaustin.com.THE AUSTIN POETRY SLAM Mike Henry and a rotatinggroup of slam ninjas captain the crew that has allthe best of stand-up, pomo theatre, rock & roll, andphone sex rolled into one cosmic-heat blast of an evening.Wednesdays, 8pm. The Scoot Inn, 1308 E. Fourth,478-6200. $5 (21 and older). www.austinslam.com.WORDJAZZ with jazz and improvised poetry. ThroughAug. 25. Victory Grill, 1104 E. 11th, 902-5057.www.historicvictorygrill.org.MISCELLANEOUSMORE POETRY! press the earth green bells squareup a garden grown inside her blood & bones turningyears to seeds or if these bending reeds lean longenough to weave the cradle of a song she breathes adelta like the honey fingers of a cloud running alonghigh ridges where rivers slip thru the lips of her mysteryor as the moon commands his sorrow for a fire.Namaste. Vaya con dios.POEM OF THE ISSUEhonestlywe did have our heady ideasbut we never usedthe sandy lane invisible rocketto get us therethough once or twicewe did find ourselveson sandy lane– Yalmot from “More Tales of Sandy Lane”a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 67

filmlistingsnewreviewsICE AGE: DAWN OF THEDINOSAURS D: Carlos Saldanha; with the voicesof Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Simon Pegg,Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck. (PG, 93 min.)Not reviewed at press time. So a mammoth,a sloth, and a saber-toothed tiger walkinto a Mesozoic Age … – Kimberley JonesAlamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park,Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock, SouthparkMeadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, WestgateD: Michael Mann; with Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, ChanningPublic Enemies Tatum, Giovanni Ribisi, Emilie de Ravin, Stephen Dorff, Billy Crudup. (R, 143 min.)When photos circulated last week on the web of Johnny Depp in full dress and make-up as theMad Hatter in Tim Burton’s forthcoming Alice in Wonderland, one could hardly suppress a yawn.68 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mAny other major Hollywood star in white pancake,green-tinted contacts, and Bozo theClown-like red mange, there might have beena stir, but we expect this sort of thing fromDepp. He seems almost perversely drawn tooutsized, heavily lacquered characters: thedemon barber, the pirate swish, that sadeyedtopiary stylist. Sure, Depp knows howto act on a human scale – he’s never beenmore thoughtful or convincing than in LasseHallström’s What’s Eating Gilbert Grape – butit doesn’t always feel like comfortable groundfor him. Where he is rock-solid here is incapturing the innate charisma and confidenceof John Dillinger, one of the title’s publicenemies – the famed bank robbers, commonhoods, and Robin Hoods of the ProhibitionEra who enjoyed rat-a-tat nicknames andthe fascination, even hero worship, of aDepression-rocked nation. When “Pretty Boy”Floyd is gunned down in the film’s opening,he renounces the shorthand and reclaims hisbirth name as he burbles up blood; lyricallyshot and performed, the scene foreshadowsa thematic tension between the public andprivate persona, as well as a dozen moredeaths to come, many at the same hand (or isit trigger finger?) as Floyd’s – J. Edgar Hoover’srising star and yes-man, Melvin Purvis, playedby Bale with the same ramrod cheerlessnessthat’s dogged his Aughties work (somebodyhire this guy to do a romantic comedy-ascleanse,please). Purvis tightens his focus,as does the film, to his public enemy No. 1,John Dillinger. Fans of Mann’s masterful Heatmight have hoped for another cat-and-mousegame, but the story (by Mann, Ann Biderman,and Ronan Bennett, adapted from BryanBurrough’s nonfiction book) is too blocky forsustained dramatic tension, and Bale, as withother seemingly essential supporting players,drops in and out of the action erratically. Thetitle’s pluralization aside, this is Dillinger’sshow, and Depp’s, and the actor does somecheeky, exhilarating work when he is all cockinessand resolve, as with the first on-cameraheist, brilliantly scored to bluesman OtisTaylor’s kicky “Ten Million Slaves” (though itshould be said that the film’s sound mix awkwardlyforegrounds music and artillery, givingshort shrift to dialogue) and later in a bravurasequence that charts a captured Dillinger’snighttime transfer to an Indiana jail, then toa holding pen, which he shanghais for animpromptu press conference, and ends in ajailbreak that is simply and thrillingly rendered.Mann doesn’t consistently plot the action socleanly; a DV convert, the director sometimessacrifices spatial awareness for a you-are-herenearness and lurch. (One scene using handheldcamerawork has the up-and-down hum ofa moving passenger car.) The DV format alsoallows Mann to digitally tweak Public Enemies’color composition to stunning effect – moodygrays, blinding bursts of an old-time cameraflash, a diseased-looking, late-afternoon yellowat a Miami horse track. Mann doesn’t manipulatecolor just to stylistically wank off: Thebeautiful but sickly off-shade of sunlightwaning has everything to do with the emotionalkey of the scene, in which Dillingertries to assure his girlfriend that, well, he’sgoing to live forever. It’s a crucial moment inthe film’s trajectory, but Depp doesn’t sellit; the emotional depth and heft it requirescome off tinny and inauthentic. Which is ashame, because Depp has a marvelous foilin Marion Cotillard, a French actress whowon an Oscar for her high-wire portrayal ofEdith Piaf in La Vie en Rose. As Dillinger’sgirlfriend Billie Frechette – a former reskid,now coat-check girl – Cotillard doesn’tlook part Native American or sound like aThirties Chicago moll, but damned if sheisn’t a sight and sound to behold. Whateverher technical limitations, she rises abovethem to breathe a flesh and blood andbattered-woman verisimilitude into thepart. You can’t tear your eyes off her, anymore than you can Mann’s flawed but stillengrossing picture. – Kimberley Jones★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AlamoDrafthouse South, Barton Creek Square, CMCedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline,Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, WestgateKAMBAKKHT ISHQ D: Sabir Khan;Not reviewed at press time. ThisHollywood-set battle of the sexes starsBollywood stars Kumar and Kapoor as awith Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Kiron Kher, AftabShivdasani. (NR, 154 min., subtitled)stuntman and a supermodel who clash,then find their chemistry. SylvesterStallone, Denise Richards, and BrandonRouth cameo.Tinseltown South– Kimberley JonesMANAGEMENT D: Stephen Belber; withJennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Margo Martindale, FredWard, Woody Harrelson, James Hiroyuki Liao, Mark BooneJunior. (R, 94 min.)In Management, Belber’s debut as a filmdirector (with a screenplay he also wrote),the playwright creates some interestingcharacters only to let them wallow inertlywithin an uninteresting and predictable plot.Belber’s stage credits include Match, TheLaramie Project, and Tape (he adapted hisown script for Richard Linklater’s 2001 filmof the same name). Aniston is cast as Sue,a more upscale variation on her emotionallystunted Good Girl character. Sue is a travelingsaleswoman, whose product is the bland,corporate art that’s hung in identical hotelrooms across the country. On a stopoverin Kingman, Ariz., lonely motel clerk Mike(Zahn) takes notice of her and seizes theopportunity to dust off an old bottle of wine,knock on her door, and present it to Sue –“courtesy of management.” It’s totally awkwardand inappropriate, but before you knowit, a permitted touch leads to a roll in thehay (though this traveling saleswoman takesMike, the motel owners’ son, in the laundryroom instead of the barn), and Mike is cashingin his savings on a one-way ticket toMaryland to be with the girl of his dreams.After this trip, from which she sends himpacking, Mike again stalks her to Aberdeen,Wash., where she has reunited with herformer boyfriend (Harrelson), a retired punkrocker-turned-yogurt mogul. Sue wants tomake an impact on the world, and she cannow head up her boyfriend’s nonprofit yogurtsubsidiary. Harrelson lends some neededcomic spark to Management, as does Liao,but it’s too little too late. There is not muchthat is believable in the unfolding of thisromantic comedy. We constantly wonder whySue never calls 911 (or, at the very least,creates more boundaries) between herselfand her stalker. We furthermore wonder whatshe can possibly see in this underachieving

schnook. We seriously doubt that this paircan achieve a happily ever after romcommatch, and we watch as these genial performersare put through all-too-predictablepaces. Management should have definitelybeen called on to make some adjustments.– Marjorie Baumgarten★★ ArborWHATEVER WORKS D: WoodyAllen; with Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, PatriciaClarkson, Ed Begley Jr., Henry Cavill, Michael McKean,Conleth Hill. (PG-13, 92 min.)After five years of making films abroad,Allen returns to his old stomping groundsof Manhattan for his latest comedy,Whatever Works. The lead character, BorisYellnikoff, is a familiar Allen curmudgeon,but instead of casting himself as he sooften does, Allen this time casts Seinfeldand Curb Your Enthusiasm’s David as hisonscreen narrator substitute (who, intypical Allen film mode, frequently speaksdirectly to the audience). Crankier butnot as neurotic as most of Allen’s maleleads, Yellnikoff is a misanthropic misfitof the highest order. A genius and formerscientist, Yellnikoff now lives by himself ina crummy apartment in Chinatown (havingdivested himself of a wife to whomhe felt too well-matched and a fine apartmentin Beekman Place). Yellnikoff earnsa living teaching chess to youngsters andspends his leisure time hanging out withhis friends in restaurants, argumentativelypontificating on all that comes within hispurview. Into his life tumbles naive waifMelodie St. Ann Celestine (Wood), aSouthern beauty-pageant princess who’sbecome a New York City runaway. She begshim for food, and his inner marshmallowinvites her up to his apartment for a meal,which turns into a place to sleep – and,before you know it, marriage. The movie’sconceit is that this guileless Mississippiinnocent, who laps up every one ofYellnikoff’s misanthropic assertions as apearl of wisdom, is his perfect romanticfoil. (Only for one brief moment, when theuse of Viagra is casually mentioned, mustwe contemplate the idea of sex betweenthese otherwise platonic two, whose agedifference is greater than four decades.It’s also best not to dwell too intently onAllen’s stereotypical portrait of Southernersas Bible-thumping know-nothings; his narrativelicense is egregious, but then again,the story’s told from a misanthrope’sperspective.) In time, Melodie’s mother(scene-stealing Clarkson) arrives in NewYork, followed later by her father (BegleyJr.), and both characters undergo their ownwild transformations under the spell ofthe Big Apple. Their tangential story arcseventually upstage those of Yellnikoff andMelodie, to the detriment of the movieas a whole. Allen’s greatest problem asa writer-director is the speed with whichhe cranks out movies, allowing himselfinsufficient time to hone a script’s raggededges or work scenes through with hisactors. Nevertheless, Wood finds her ownequilibrium in the character of Melodie,mixing sincere naivete with bouncy selfassurednessto create a leading lady who’severy bit the equal of the other actresses(Diane Keaton, Dianne Wiest, PenélopeCruz) who’ve gone on to win Oscars fortheir work in Allen’s films. Populated withscores of witty one-liners and excellent performancesby David and Wood, WhateverWorks feels more like a Woody Allen moviethan have many of his recent films. Still, fora movie that goes out of its way to mockthe pious self-delusions of Frank Capra’sclassic It’s a Wonderful Life, Whatever Worksoffers us an ending that practically insultsour intelligence. Consider our enthusiasmcurbed.– Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Arbor, Dobiefirst runs*Full-length reviews available online ataustinchronicle.com. Dates at end of reviewsindicate original publication date.ANGELS & DEMONS D: Ron Howard;The Da Vinci Code’s symbologist, RobertLangdon (Hanks), returns in Angels & Demons,with Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, StellanSkarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, ArminMueller-Stahl, Thure Lindhardt, David Pasquesi. (PG-13,138 min.)another Roman Catholic Church conspiracy piecefrom bestseller Dan Brown, as do many of thesame calling cards of the first: oogly boogly menin vestments, foreign-speaking lady sidekicks, andelaborate puzzles teased in dead languages. Thebulk of Angels & Demons takes place in chasemode. A couple of sequences stand out as suspensefuland smartly rendered, but something’ssurely amiss, especially in a production of thisscale, with this kind of talent at the helm, whenthese are exceptional instances and not the norm.Screenwriters David Koepp and Akiva Goldsmandon’t require, or even particularly encourage, theaudience to use its own gray cells in unravelingthe plot (which mostly consists of Hanks pointingat an ancient text or crumbling cathedral andmuttering something explanatory), so the onlythrill here comes from the adrenaline kick of thechase. Alas, it’s an empty, Pavlovian kick at best.(05/15/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★ Arbor, Metropolitanopenings& ratingsPublic Enemies (R)Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (PG)Kambakkht Ishq (NR)Management (R)Whatever Works (PG-13) As perfect as a moviecan be Slightly flawed, butexcellent nonetheless Has its good points,and its bad points Mediocre, but with oneor two bright spots Poor, without anysaving gracesLa bombaCOLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS AN OCEAN PICTURES/APATOW COMPANY PRODUCTIONA FILM BY HAROLD RAMIS “YEAR ONE”MUSICEXECUTIVEOLIVER PLATT DAVID CROSSAND HANK AZARIAPRODUCER RODNEY ROTHMAN STORYBY THEODORE SHAPIROBY HAROLD RAMISBY HAROLD RAMIS & GENE STUPNITSKY & LEE EISENBERG PRODUCED BY HAROLD RAMIS JUDD APATOW CLAYTON TOWNSENDDIRECTEDBY HAROLD RAMISSCREENPLAYNOW PLAYINGCHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR THEATERS AND SHOWTIMESa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 69

showtimes FRIDAY, JULY 3 – THURSDAY, JULY 9ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AT THE RITZ 320 E. Sixth,476-1320.The Hangover: Fri, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00; Sat, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15,6:00, 8:45; Sun, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15;Mon, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45, 11:45; Tue, 5:15, 8:00, 9:00, 11:45;Wed, 5:15, 8:00, 9:15, 10:45; Thu (7/9), 5:15, 8:00, 10:45In Da Club Sing-Along: Thu (7/9), 9:30pmMaster Pancake: Independence Day: Fri, 7:00, 9:45;Sat, 6:45, 9:45; Sun, 6:30pmMichael Jackson Sing-Along: Fri-Sat, 11:55pmAIGA: Objectified: Mon-Wed, 7:00pmTerror Tuesday: Prince of Darkness: Tue, 10:45pmWeird Wednesday: Psych-Out: Wed, 12midSpaceballs: The Quote-Along: Thu (7/9), 7:00pmTeam America: World Police Sing-Along: Sat, 11:30pmMusic Monday: 200 Motels: Mon, 9:15pmaGLIFF: Were the World Mine: Sun, 1:00pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK13729 Research, 219-5408.Cult Thursday: Assignment: Outer Space: Thu (7/9), 10:00pmThe Hangover: 12:10, 3:10, 7:30, 10:30Horror Remix: Shopping: Wed, 10:00pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: 10:45am, 1:20, 4:00, 6:45,9:45pmThe Proposal: Fri-Wed, 11:45am, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10pm;Thu (7/9), 11:45am, 3:20, 7:10pmMovies and Music: Psycho: Sun, 8:00pm*Public Enemies: 11:30am, 3:00, 7:20, 11pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 11:20am, 2:50pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Wed, 11:00am,12:00, 2:45, 3:35, 7:00, 7:45, 10:45, 11:30pm; Thu (7/9),11:00am, 12:00, 2:45, 3:35, 7:00, 7:45, 10:45pmYear One: Fri-Sat, 6:50, 10:00; Mon-Tue, 6:50, 10:00;Wed-Thu (7/9), 6:50pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar,707-8262.Away We Go: Fri-Sun, 11:35am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10pm;Mon, 2:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10; Tue-Wed, 11:35am, 2:15,4:45, 7:40, 10:10pm; Thu (7/9), 2:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:10Kids Camp: The Cat From Outer Space: Mon-Thu (7/9), 11:00amFood, Inc.: 11:00am, 1:30, 4:00, 9:55pmAFS: In Love We Trust: Tue, 7:00pmPublic Enemies: 12:00, 3:30, 7:25, 10:35Tony Manero: Sun, 10:00pm; Mon, 7:00pmTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen: 11:15am, 3:00, 6:30,7:00, 9:50, 10:30pmUp: Fri-Sat, 11:05am, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15pm; Sun-Mon,11:05am, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45pm; Tue, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15;Wed-Thu (7/9), 11:05am, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15pmYear One: Fri-Mon, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15pm;Tue, 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30pm; Wed, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15;Thu (7/9), 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W.Anderson, 459-7090. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day” shows(first show of the day) are intended for parents and childrenaged infant to 6 years old.Kids Camp: Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!: Mon-Thu (7/9),11:00am*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Wed, 11:20am, 1:55,4:30, 7:15, 9:45pm; Thu (7/9), 11:20am, 1:55, 4:30, 7:15pm*The Proposal: Fri-Wed, 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55; Thu (7/9),1:15, 7:00The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12mid*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Wed, 11:30am,3:00, 6:30, 10:00pm; Thu (7/9), 11:30am, 3:00, 6:30pm*Up (3-D): Fri-Wed, 11:05am, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30pm;Thu (7/9), 1:45, 4:45, 7:45ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS 9828 GreatHills Trail (at Jollyville), 231-9742. Discounts daily before6pm, all day Wednesdays.Angels & Demons: 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:30Away We Go: 12:00, 12:30, 2:40, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:30,9:25, 10:05The Brothers Bloom: Fri-Mon, 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35; Tue, 12:50,3:30, 9:35; Wed-Thu (7/9), 12:50, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35Cheri: 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10Food, Inc.: 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 9:55Management: 12:05, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40Family: Nim’s Island: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amFamily: The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTalesMovie: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amWhatever Works: 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton CreekSquare mall, MoPac & Highway 360, 888/AMC-4FUN.Matinee discounts available before 6pm on weekdays andbefore 4pm Friday through Sunday and holidays.Away We Go: Fri-Sat, 10:20am, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00,10:30pm; Sun, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30; Mon-Thu(7/9), 10:20am, 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30pmThe Hangover: 10:50am, 1:15, 3:40, 6:05, 7:15, 8:30,9:45, 11:00pmIce Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Sun, 9:45am, 10:45,12:05, 1:05, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:20, 9:50,10:40pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 10:45am, 12:05, 1:05, 2:30,3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:20, 9:50, 10:40pmMy Sister’s Keeper: Fri-Sat, 9:35am, 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45,10:20pm; Sun, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; Mon-Thu (7/9),11:55am, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20pmNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: 11:45am,2:15, 4:45pmThe Proposal: 11:15am, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45pmPublic Enemies: Fri-Sat, 9:30am, 10:45, 12:35, 2:00, 3:45, 5:15,7:00, 8:30, 10:15, 11:45pm; Sun, 9:30am, 10:45, 12:35, 2:00,3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 10:45am,12:35, 2:00, 3:45, 5:15, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 10:40pmMovieCamp: The Tale of Despereaux: Wed, 10:00amTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 9:30am, 10:35,12:45, 1:50, 4:00, 5:05, 7:15, 8:20, 10:30, 11:35pm;Sun, 9:30am, 10:35, 12:45, 1:50, 4:00, 5:05, 7:15, 8:20,10:30pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 10:35am, 12:45, 1:50, 4:00,5:05, 7:15, 8:20, 10:30pmTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen (closed captioned):11:40am, 2:55, 6:10, 9:25pmUp: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm;Sun, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45; Mon-Wed, 10:00am,12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30pm; Thu (7/9), 10:00am,12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00pmYear One: Fri-Sat, 10:35am, 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15pm;Sun, 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15; Mon-Tue, 10:35am, 1:00, 3:25,5:50, 8:15pm; Wed, 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15; Thu (7/9),10:35am, 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15pmCINEMARK CEDAR PARK 1335 E. Whitestone,800/FANDANGO.The Hangover: Fri-Sat, 10:40am, 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30pm;Sun, 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30; Mon-Thu (7/9), 10:40am,1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: 10:20am, 11:10, 12:50,1:40, 3:20, 4:10, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): 9:30am, 12:00, 2:30,5:00, 7:30, 9:50pm*My Sister’s Keeper: 10:00am, 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10pmNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: 6:40, 9:15The Proposal: 11:20am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40pm*Public Enemies: Fri-Sat, 9:20am, 11:00, 12:40, 2:20, 4:00,5:30, 7:20, 8:50, 10:30pm; Sun, 11:00am, 12:40, 2:20,4:00, 5:30, 7:20, 8:50, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 9:20am,11:00, 12:40, 2:20, 4:00, 5:30, 7:20, 8:50, 10:30pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: 9:40am, 10:50, 11:50,1:10, 2:10, 3:30, 4:40, 5:40, 7:00, 8:10, 9:20, 10:20pmUp: Fri-Sat, 9:45am, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10pm;Sun, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thu (7/9),9:45am, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10pmCINEMARK HILL COUNTRY GALLERIA 1412812 Hill Country Blvd., 800/FANDANGO.NCM Fathom: Forever Plaid Anniversary Tribute:Thu (7/9), 7:00pmThe Hangover: 11:40am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: 12:25, 1:20, 3:05, 4:00,5:45, 6:40, 8:20, 9:15, 10:40*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50,7:30, 10:10pm*My Sister’s Keeper: 11:25am, 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:40pm*The Proposal: 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:25pm*Public Enemies: 12:00, 1:40, 3:25, 5:05, 6:50, 8:30, 10:15The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 1:55, 7:20*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: 11:15am, 12:10,1:05, 2:00, 2:55, 3:40, 4:35, 5:30, 6:25, 7:15, 8:05, 9:05,9:55, 10:35pmUp: Fri-Wed, 11:55am, 2:30, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20pm;Thu (7/9), 11:55am, 2:30, 10:20pmYear One: 11:20am, 4:45, 10:00pmCINEMARK MOVIES 8 ROUND ROCK 2120 N.Mays (Round Rock), 512/388-2848. Discounts dailybefore 5pm.Ghosts of Girlfriends Past: 11:20am, 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30pmHannah Montana: The Movie: 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:30,10:00pmLand of the Lost: Fri, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10;Fri-Sat, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 12:00,2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10; Sun-Mon, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00,7:45, 10:10; Mon-Tue, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10;Tue-Wed, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10; Wed-Thu(7/9), 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10; Thu (7/9), 12:00,2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10Clubhouse: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Tue, 10:00amMonsters vs. Aliens: 11:10am, 12:15, 1:30, 2:45, 4:00, 5:15,6:30, 8:00, 9:15, 10:15pmObsessed: 12:45, 3:00, 7:10, 9:50Race to Witch Mountain: 11:00am, 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20pm17 Again: 11:45am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45pmCINEMARK ROUND ROCK 4401 N. I-35,800/FANDANGO. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket priceplus a $2.50 premium.The Hangover: 11:00am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: 10:40am, 11:30, 1:10,1:50, 3:40, 4:30, 6:15, 7:10, 8:50, 9:40pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): 9:50am, 12:20, 2:50,5:20, 8:00, 10:30pm*My Sister’s Keeper: 10:10am, 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20pmThe Proposal: 11:40am, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50pm*Public Enemies: 10:50am, 12:25, 2:00, 3:30, 5:10, 7:00,8:35, 10:10pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 10:30am, 4:00, 9:00pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 10:20am,11:10, 12:00, 12:50, 1:40, 2:30, 3:20, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00,6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 9:20, 10:00, 10:50pm; Sun-Thu (7/9),10:20am, 11:10, 12:00, 12:50, 1:40, 2:30, 3:20, 4:10,5:00, 6:00, 6:40, 7:30, 8:20, 9:20, 10:00pmUp: 10:00am, 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30pmYear One: 1:30, 6:30CINEMARK SOUTHPARK MEADOWS 9900 S.I-35, 800/FANDANGO. Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticketprice plus a $2.50 premium. Call theatre for showtimesfor Wednesday, July 8, through Thursday, July 9.NCM Fathom: Forever Plaid Anniversary Tribute:Thu (7/9), 7:00pmThe Hangover: Fri-Tue, 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40, 10:50*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Tue, 10:00am, 11:30,12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:15, 8:15, 9:15pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Tue, 10:45am,1:15, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15pm*My Sister’s Keeper: Fri-Tue, 10:15am, 1:00, 3:45, 6:30,9:45pmThe Proposal: Fri-Tue, 10:55am, 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15pm*Public Enemies: Fri-Tue, 10:10am, 11:20, 1:20, 2:35, 4:35,5:45, 7:45, 9:25pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: Fri-Tue, 1:40, 7:10*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Tue, 9:45am,10:35, 11:25, 12:20, 1:05, 1:55, 2:45, 3:40, 4:25, 5:15,6:10, 7:00, 7:50, 8:40, 9:30, 10:20pmUp: Fri-Tue, 10:30am, 1:30, 4:30pmYear One: Fri-Tue, 11:00am, 4:20, 9:35pmDOBIE THEATRE 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall,second floor), 472-FILM.The Brothers Bloom: Fri-Sun, 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30;Mon-Thu (7/9), 7:00, 9:30The Hangover: Fri-Sun, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50;Mon-Thu (7/9), 7:30, 9:50Summer Hours: Fri-Sun, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40;Mon-Thu (7/9), 7:15, 9:40Whatever Works: Fri-Sun, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00;Mon-Thu (7/9), 7:45, 10:00GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North I-35 & Middle Fiskville,467-7305. No one under 18 will be allowed in the theatreon Friday and Saturday after 7pm without an adult.The Hangover: Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10,9:25, 11:50pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 10:05am, 12:15, 2:30,4:45, 7:10, 9:25pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 10:30,12:10, 12:40, 2:20, 2:50, 4:30, 5:00, 6:50, 7:10, 9:00, 9:20,11:45, 11:55pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 10:00am, 10:30, 12:10,12:40, 2:20, 2:50, 4:30, 5:00, 6:50, 7:10, 9:00, 9:20pm70 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mMy Sister’s Keeper: 10:00am, 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45pmThe Proposal: Fri-Sat, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25, 11:35, 11:45;Sun-Thu (7/9), 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25, 11:35Public Enemies: Fri-Sat, 10:10am, 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55,11:35pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 10:10am, 1:10, 4:05, 7:00,9:55pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 11:00,12:30, 2:10, 2:45, 3:45, 5:20, 7:00, 7:15, 8:35, 10:15,10:25, 11:50pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 10:30am, 11:00, 12:30,2:10, 2:45, 3:45, 5:20, 7:00, 7:15, 8:35, 10:15, 10:25pmUp: Fri-Sat, 11:30am, 2:05, 4:30, 7:25, 9:50, 11:50pm;Sun-Thu (7/9), 11:30am, 2:05, 4:30, 7:25, 9:50pmGATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake, betweenCapital of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in the Gatewayshopping center, 416-5700 x3808. Cost for 3-D shows isregular ticket price plus a $2.50 premium.The Hangover: 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 10:05*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 11:00,12:30, 1:25, 2:55, 3:50, 5:20, 6:15, 7:45, 8:40, 10:10pm;Sun, 11:00am, 12:30, 1:25, 2:55, 3:50, 5:20, 6:15, 7:45,8:40, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 11:00am, 12:00, 12:30,1:25, 2:25, 2:55, 3:50, 4:50, 5:20, 6:15, 7:15, 7:45, 8:40,9:40, 10:10pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Sat, 9:40am,12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40pm; Sun, 12:00, 2:25, 4:50,7:15, 9:40My Sister’s Keeper: 11:10am, 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10pmThe Proposal: Fri, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45; Sat, 11:30am,4:30, 7:05, 9:45pm; Sun, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05; Mon-Thu (7/9),11:30am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45pmThe Proposal (open captioned): Fri, 11:30am; Sat, 2:00pm;Sun, 11:30am, 9:45pm*Public Enemies: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 11:20, 1:00, 2:40, 4:00,7:10, 7:40, 10:15, 10:45pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 11:20am,1:00, 2:40, 4:00, 7:10, 7:40, 10:15, 10:45pmStar Trek: 11:15am, 2:05, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 12:40, 5:30, 10:40*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 9:30am, 10:30,11:50, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40,5:10, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50pm;Sun, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10,4:40, 5:10, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20,10:50pm; Mon, 11:50am, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 3:40,4:10, 4:40, 5:10, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20,10:50pm; Tue, 11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 4:10,4:40, 5:10, 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:50pm;Wed, 11:50am, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 4:40,5:10, 6:30, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:20, 10:50pm; Thu (7/9),11:50am, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 1:50, 3:10, 4:10, 4:40, 5:10,6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:50, 10:50pmTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen (open captioned):Mon, 12:20, 7:00; Tue, 3:40, 10:20; Wed, 12:20, 7:00; Thu(7/9), 3:40, 10:20Up: 11:05am, 1:30, 4:05, 6:35, 9:00pmYear One: 3:00, 8:10IMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum, 1800 N.Congress, 936-IMAX.Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 12:00, 3:00,6:00, 9:00, 12mid; Sun-Thu (7/9), 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00Under the Sea 3D: Fri-Sat, 11:00am; Mon-Thu (7/9), 11:00amLAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway 183and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before 6pm; allday Wednesday.Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amThe Hangover: 11:50am, 2:35, 5:05, 7:45, 10:00pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40Family: Inkheart: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amMy Sister’s Keeper: 11:40am, 2:10, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05pmNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: 11:35am,4:25, 9:55pmThe Proposal: 11:45am, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30pm*Public Enemies: 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 12:20,12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50; Sun-Thu(7/9), 12:20, 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20Up: 11:30am, 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30pmYear One: 2:00, 7:20METROPOLITAN South I-35 at Stassney, 447-0101.Cost for 3-D shows is regular ticket price plus a $2.50premium.Angels & Demons: 11:50am, 3:05, 6:40, 10:20pmDrag Me to Hell: Fri-Wed, 7:45, 10:20; Thu (7/9), 10:20pmNCM Fathom: Forever Plaid Anniversary Tribute:Thu (7/9), 7:00pmThe Hangover: 11:20am, 12:10, 2:05, 2:35, 4:40, 5:10, 7:20,7:55, 10:00, 10:30pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Sun, 10:05am, 11:00,11:30, 12:30, 1:25, 1:55, 2:55, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:15,6:45, 7:45, 8:40, 9:10, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 11:00am,11:30, 12:30, 1:25, 1:55, 2:55, 3:50, 4:20, 5:20, 6:15,6:45, 7:45, 8:40, 9:10, 10:10pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Sat, 9:40am,12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 12:00,2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40Imagine That: Fri-Wed, 11:15am, 2:15, 5:05pm;Thu (7/9), 11:15am, 2:15pm*Public Enemies: Fri-Sat, 9:30am, 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 4:05,6:30, 7:30, 9:55, 10:45pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 11:45am,12:45, 3:15, 4:05, 6:30, 7:30, 9:55, 10:45pmStar Trek: Fri-Sun, 10:15am, 1:35, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40pm;Mon-Thu (7/9), 12:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40Up: 11:10am, 11:40, 1:40, 2:10, 4:30, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50,9:30, 10:25pmYear One: 11:50am, 2:30, 5:05, 8:05, 10:35pmMILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932.Located within the Millennium Youth EntertainmentComplex. Adults, $6; children, $4.Up: Fri-Sat, 10:30am, 12:30, 3:30, 5:30, 8:30pm;Wed-Thu (7/9), 10:30am, 12:30, 3:30, 5:30pmFOR UPDATED SHOWTIMES, SEEaustinchronicle.com/film.PARAMOUNT THEATRE 713 Congress, 472-5470.The Color of Money: Thu (7/9), 7:00pmCool Hand Luke: Tue, 7:00pm; Wed, 9:25pmExodus: Sun, 2:00, 7:00Harper: Tue, 9:30pm; Wed, 7:00pmThe Hustler: Thu (7/9), 9:25pmTender Mercies: Fri, 9:50pmTo Kill a Mockingbird: Fri, 7:15pmTINSELTOWN NORTH North I-35 and FM 1825(Pflugerville), 512/989-8540. Cost for 3-D shows is regularticket price plus a $2.50 premium.NCM Fathom: Forever Plaid Anniversary Tribute:Thu (7/9), 7:00pmThe Hangover: 11:15am, 1:50, 2:30, 4:25, 6:50, 8:00, 9:35pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Wed, 9:40am, 10:20,11:00, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:40, 3:20, 4:00, 5:10, 5:50,6:30, 7:40, 8:20, 9:00, 10:10pm; Thu (7/9), 9:40am,10:20, 11:00, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:40, 3:20, 5:10, 5:50,7:40, 8:20, 10:10, 10:45pm*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): 11:30am, 2:00, 4:30,7:00, 9:30pm*My Sister’s Keeper: 11:15am, 1:55, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15pmNight at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: 10:45pmThe Proposal: 10:45am, 11:40, 1:30, 4:15, 5:10, 6:55, 9:45,10:40pm*Public Enemies: 9:40am, 10:40, 11:50, 12:50, 2:00, 3:10,4:10, 5:20, 6:30, 7:30, 8:40, 9:50, 10:45pmStar Trek: 1:30, 6:55The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 10:45am, 4:20, 9:55pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 9:40am, 10:15,10:50, 11:25, 12:00, 12:35, 1:10, 1:45, 2:20, 2:55, 3:30,4:05, 4:40, 5:15, 5:50, 6:25, 7:00, 7:35, 8:10, 8:45, 9:20,9:55, 10:30, 11:05pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 9:40am, 10:15, 10:50,11:25, 12:00, 12:35, 1:10, 1:45, 2:20, 2:55, 3:30, 4:05, 4:40,5:15, 5:50, 6:25, 7:00, 7:35, 8:10, 8:45, 9:20, 9:55, 10:30pmUp: 11:00am, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40pmYear One: Fri-Wed, 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05pm;Thu (7/9), 11:45am, 2:20, 10:05pmTINSELTOWN SOUTH South I-35 at Stassney,326-3800. $10 “special event” ticket prices apply toIndian films.*Kambakkht Ishq: Fri-Sat, 11:30am, 3:00, 6:30, 9:45pm;Sun, 11:30am, 2:45, 6:00, 9:15pm; Mon-Thu (7/9), 1:30,4:30, 8:30Land of the Lost: 11:30am, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30pmClubhouse: Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium:Tue-Wed, 10:00am*My Sister’s Keeper: 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10pm*New York: Sun, 2:45, 6:00, 9:30; Mon-Thu (7/9), 1:30, 4:30,8:30Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: 10:50am,12:15, 1:35, 3:05, 4:30, 6:05, 7:20, 8:50, 10:10pm*Prayanam: Fri, 3:00, 6:00, 9:30*The Proposal: 10:40am, 12:00, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:25,6:40, 8:00, 9:20, 10:40pmThe Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 10:30am, 11:50, 1:10, 2:30,3:50, 5:10, 6:30, 7:50, 9:10, 10:30pmTerminator Salvation: 10:10am, 11:40, 1:10, 2:40, 4:10,5:30, 7:10, 8:30, 10:10pm*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: 10:05am, 10:45,11:25, 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:10, 2:50, 3:35, 4:15, 4:55,5:35, 6:15, 7:00, 7:40, 8:20, 9:00, 9:40, 10:25pmWESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White,899-2717. Discounts daily before 6pm. Cost for 3-Dshows is regular ticket price plus a $2.50 premium.The Hangover: Fri-Sat, 10:10am, 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00,10:30pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Fri-Sat, 10:05am, 12:30,2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 12:30, 2:55,5:20, 7:45, 10:10*Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (3-D): Fri-Sat, 9:35am,12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 12:00,2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40Family: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amFamily: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: Tue-Thu (7/9), 10:00amMy Sister’s Keeper: 11:50am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55pmThe Proposal: Fri-Sat, 9:40am, 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45,10:20pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20*Public Enemies: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00,10:00pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00Star Trek: Fri-Sat, 9:55am, 3:30, 10:05pm; Sun-Thu (7/9),3:30, 10:05The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3: 12:45, 7:10*Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Fri-Sat, 9:45am,11:40, 12:20, 1:20, 3:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 8:00,9:45, 10:25pm; Sun-Thu (7/9), 11:40am, 12:20, 1:20,3:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25pmUp: 11:30am, 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30pm> An asterisk (*) beforea title means that nopasses or specialadmission discountswill be accepted.> Changes may sometimesoccur; viewersare encouraged to calltheatres to confirmshowtimes.AWAY WE GO D: Sam Mendes; with Johnpsyche (American Beauty, Road to Perdition,Krasinski, Maya Rudolph, Carmen Ejogo, Jeff Daniels,Catherine O’Hara, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Allison Janney, ChrisMessina, Melanie Lynskey, Paul Schneider, Jim Gaffigan, JoshHamilton. (R, 98 min.)Mendes’ strange journey through the AmericanJarhead, Revolutionary Road) takes the British-bornfilmmaker down another blind alley in his latestfilm, Away We Go. It is essentially a road-trip movie,highlighting the travels of expectant parents Burt(Krasinski) and Verona (Rudolph) as they search fora place to settle down and raise their child. Theirrelationship’s naturalism clashes with the anxietiesof the nutty, deluded, and broken characters theyvisit along the way, and inevitably, Burt and Veronawind up seeming superior and special, which putsan unpleasant spin on Away We Go. See it for theperformances – they are delights from the leadsto the characters in the episodic vignettes. Butthe film’s vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leaveyou up a tree. Only people with no real problemscan devote so much time to finding the perfectplace to feather their nest and raise their chicks.(06/19/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, Arbor, Barton CreekSquarewTHE BROTHERS BLOOM D: RianJohnson; with Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo,Rinko Kikuchi, Robbie Coltrane, Maximilian Schell. (PG-13,113 min.)Johnson’s films (Brick) require an imaginativeleap, a willingness to overlook the wirework, so tospeak, and just believe. The Brothers Bloom – acon-man caper with the spiritual prints of PaperMoon, Butch Cassidy, and Boris and Natasha –isn’t as strenuously cerebral as Brick, nor doesit, in the end, altogether hang together. The film’sdominant themes are fraternal love and loathing,the con as a means of storytelling, and the powerthat comes with controlling the con, with controllingthe story. If you’ve ever known that peculiarpain of certainty that you were born in the wrongera, then the mood he’s conveyed here – viacostume and art design, a jazzy retro score, andcapital-letter sentiments like loyalty, fraternity, andan old-fashioned swoon – is a balm. Johnson hasmade an imperfect film, but I perfectly adore hissensibility. (05/29/2009)★★★ Arbor, Dobiew– Kimberley JonesCHERI D: Stephen Frears; with Michelle Pfeiffer,Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend, Felicity Jones, FrancesTomelty, Anita Pallenberg, Harriet Walter, Iben Hjejle.(R, 100 min.)They don’t make women, sexy but regal, likeMichelle Pfeiffer (The Age of Innocence, Frears’Dangerous Liaisons) much anymore, and Cheriis quite a monument to her. Here, as MadameLéa de Lonval, a courtesan aging out of anindustry and an epoch, Pfeiffer is enmeshedin another dangerous liaison, this one with thechild of a once fellow, now former, courtesannamed Madame Peloux (Bates). Peloux’s son,Chéri (Friend), is spoiled, unformed, and 30-plusyears Léa’s junior. Léa takes him on initially asa twilight-years lark, but it isn’t until their forcedseparation that the true depths of Chéri and Léa’sfeelings for each other emerge – complex feelingscolored by real-world concerns of practicality,propriety, and the tragic mismatch of their birthdates.This is sensual, cerebral, and surprisinglyweighty stuff; only in its last moments does Cherifaintly bobble, with an overpacked final confrontation,no room for reflection, and a rushed coda.(06/26/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★★★■ArborCheck Film Listings online for full-length reviews,up-to-date showtimes, archives, and more!austinchronicle.com/film

FILM | L I S TINGS JENNIFER ANISTON STEVE ZAHNwDRAG ME TO HELL D: Sam Raimi;with Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver,Dileep Rao, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza, ChelcieRoss, Reggie Lee. (PG-13, 99 min.)Fanboys have waited patiently for Raimito return to the “splatstick” horror genrehe more or less invented with the Evil Deadtrilogy. Drag Me to Hell never quite hits thepsychotronic heights of Evil Dead II – Raimi’sworking with a PG-13 rating this time – but,in the interim, the director’s ability to createnerve-racking suspense and jarring shocks hasbeen honed to a razor’s edge. This film moveswith the herky-jerky gait of a spook-house trolleycar, rocketing along for whole sequencesand then punctuating them with shock cutsand tinnitus-inducing Foley cues that’ll haveaudiences wishing they had borrowed a pairof grandma’s Depends. Raimi co-wrote thescript with his brother Ivan in the downtimebetween Spider-Man films, and the story isas basic a terror tale as they come. Raimi’spairing of Three Stooges-style physical comedywith moments of pure gross-out schtick createsone of the most satisfying horror films indecades. (05/29/2009)★★★★ Metropolitanw– Marc SavlovFOOD, INC. D: Robert Kenner. (PG, 94 min.)Food, Inc. largely forgoes bombast, but youdon’t need graphic depictions of a kill floorto get the drift here, which is, more or less,that the American food industry is pretty muchfucked. One imagines that this eye-opening,stomach-queasing doc could have been artlesslydone and still been effective – the informationwithin is that vital – but Kenner hasproduced an engaging, cohesive narrative thatinforms but never scolds. It even heartbreaks,with explorations of one poverty- and diabetesravagedfamily’s struggle to eat healthfully andanother mother’s congressional battle, sparkedby her son’s death from tainted meat. Food,Inc. maintains a nothing-but-the-facts (you supplythe indignation) stance until the end, in anunnecessary call-to-arms that nudges the filminto agitprop territory. Frankly, the filmmakersaren’t giving the audience enough credit: Weget it. We are what we eat. And what we’vebeen eating has been engineered, assemblylined,and/or brutalized. How’s that for anappetite suppressant? (06/26/2009)– Kimberley Jones★★★★■Alamo Drafthouse South, ArborA GEM. STARTS FRIDAY, JULY 3 RD !REGAL ARBOR CINEMA@ GREAT HILLSJollyville Rd. N of Great Hills (800) FANDANGO 684#“A ROMANTICCOMEDY FOR OUR TIME. “Karen Durbin, ELLE“H!JENNIFER ANISTONGIVES THE BESTPERFORMANCE OF HER CAREER. “ Dan Jewel, LIFE & STYLEATOUCHING COMEDYMANAGEMENTFILM.COM To watch the trailer for Management on your mobile phone, text “mgmt” to 47201. All text messages and data streaming are subject to standard rates as determined by your contract with your mobile operator. We do not charge additional fees for this service. Trailer is powered by mobilepreviews @ http://mpviews.comTHE CHRONICLE’S BLOGTASTIC MASHUPaustinchronicle.com/chronicALAM_160416.PDFALAMO DRAFT-HOUSE CINEMA1/4VALAML_155764.PDFALAMO LAKE-CREEK1/6VGHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDSPAST D: Mark Waters; with MatthewGhosts indeed: This romantic comedy byMcConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas,Breckin Meyer, Lacey Chabert, Robert Forster, AnneArcher, Emma Stone. (PG-13, 100 min.)name alone attempts to make funny – notto mention culturally relevant – the kind ofswinging-dick misogyny that went out of fashionyears ago. Celebrity photographer Connor Mead(McConaughey) is a quantity-over-quality kindof guy. Love, he argues, is nothing more than“magical comfort food for the weak and uneducated,”a sentiment he lifted from his mentor,Uncle Wayne (Douglas), who is the Marley surrogatein this A Christmas Carol reimagining.Wayne ushers Connor through an evening ofreflection and reckoning, with the aim of nudgingConnor back into the arms of his first love,Jenny (Garner, with negligible screen time).Wayne is a quaint relic – not nearly as amusingas the filmmakers seem to think he is – butharmless enough. Not so with McConaughey’swolfish Connor. (Also, make-up and wardrobehave done him no favors, with his Easy-Baketan, attack of the Crest Whitestrips, and tooliteralinterpretation of Connor’s oiliness.)(05/01/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★■Movies 8HORTON FOOTE TRIBUTE –– JULY 2-3To Kill aMockingbird (1962)Adaptation of Harper Lee’s novelTHU AT 9; FRI AT 7:15TenderMercies (1983)Screenplay by Horton FooteTHU AT 7; FRI AT 9:50EPIC OF ISRAEL –– JULY 5Exodus (1960)Directed by Otto PremingerSUN AT 2 & 7NEWMAN—BOTH SIDES OF THE LAW –– JULY 7-8Cool Hand Luke (1967)TUE: Pre-show hard-boiled eggeating contest. Prizes awarded!TUE AT 7; WED AT 9:25Harper (1966)Paul Newman as private eye “Harper”TUE AT 9:30; WED AT 7ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS 3D(PG)Fri. & Sat.10:00 10:30 12:10 12:40 2:20 2:50 4:30 5:00 6:50 7:10 9:00 9:20 11:45 11:55Sun. - Thu. 10:00 10:30 12:10 12:40 2:20 2:50 4:30 5:00 6:50 7:10 9:00 9:20PUBLIC ENEMIES (R) Fri. & Sat. 10:10 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:55 11:35Sun. - Thu. 10:10 1:10 4:05 7:00 9:55 TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN(PG–13) Fri. & Sat. 10:3011:00 12:30 2:10 2:45 3:45 5:20 7:00 7:15 8:35 10:15 10:25 11:50Sun. - Thu. 10:30 11:00 12:30 2:10 2:45 3:45 5:20 7:00 7:15 8:35 10:15 10:25MY SISTER'S KEEPER (PG–13) Fri. - Thu. 10:00 12:15 2:35 4:55 7:20 9:45THE PROPOSAL (PG–13)Fri. & Sat. 11:35 2:00 4:25 7:00 9:25 11:45Sun. - Thu. 11:35 2:00 4:25 7:00 9:25UP (PG) Fri. & Sat. 11:30 2:05 4:30 7:25 9:50 11:50Sun. - Thu. 11:30 2:05 4:30 7:25 9:50THE HANGOVER(R) Fri. & Sat. 10:05 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:10 9:25 11:50Sun. - Thu. 10:05 12:15 2:30 4:45 7:10 9:25a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 71

C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I S TINGSHarperHarper (1966) D: Jack Smight; with PaulNewman, Lauren Bacall, Shelley Winters, RobertWagner, Janet Leigh. (NR, 121 min.) Summer FilmClassics: Newman – Both Sides of the Law. Newmanplays a hard-boiled private investigator who is basedon novelist Ross Macdonald’s character Lew Archer.He’s hired to find the missing husband of a characterplayed by Bacall. Delicious supporting work roundsout this mystery. (Double bill: Cool Hand Luke.)@Paramount, Tuesday, 9:30pm; Wednesday, 7pm.wTHE HANGOVER D: Todd Phillips; withBradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, JustinBartha, Heather Graham, Ken Jeong, Mike Tyson, Mike Epps,Sasha Barrese, Rachael Harris, Jeffrey Tambor. (R, 99 min.)The Hangover instantly has the feel of one forthe ages. It is deliciously darker than Phillips’ previouscomedies, Old School and Road Trip, but itisn’t as thick with malice as those credits suggest.“Bromance” is too dopey of a word for what goes onhere; The Hangover honors the significance of malefriendship without insisting on its primacy. The occasionhere is the Vegas-set bachelor party for Doug(Bartha), organized by his three groomsmen: Phil(Cooper), straitlaced Stu (Helms), and Doug’s nonsequitur-spoutingfuture brother-in-law, Alan (the sublimeGalifianakis, so outré he’s toeing performanceart here). They wake the next morning, surroundedby the spoils of the party (a scorched hotel suite,a missing tooth, a tiger in the bathroom), but withzero recollection of how it all happened. An edgierfilm could have been carved out of that premise, butyou’d be hard-pressed to find one as consistently,relentlessly funny. (06/05/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★★★■Alamo Ritz, Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek,Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Hill CountryGalleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows, Dobie,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, TinseltownNorth, WestgateHANNAH MONTANA: THE72 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mMOVIE D: Peter Chelsom; with Miley Cyrus, Billy RayCyrus, Emily Osment, Jason Earles, Lucas Till, Melora Hardin,Vanessa Williams, Margo Martindale. (G, 92 min.)I won’t pretend to understand the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana phenomenon; it surely boils down tosome combination of commercial savvy: Cyrus’ sweet,uncomplicated charisma and a tween market hungeringfor a happy compromise between relateability andwish fulfillment. In any case, for this, the first nonconcertfeature outing for the Montana juggernaut, therewas never any doubt that the audience would come.More surprising is the fact that some attention (if notan exhaustive amount) has been put into the thing:Hannah Montana: The Movie is not the nakedly consumeristvehicle cynics like me have come to expect.In fact, it’s a broad-stroked, agreeable-enough larkabout Miley putting Hannah aside to reconnect withher Tennessee roots – and make eyes at that farmfreshhorse wrangler from her childhood. Cornponecaricatures abound, but so do worthy messages aboutresponsibility – to family, community, even MotherEarth. (04/17/2009)– Kimberley Jones★★★■Movies 8IMAGINE THAT D: Karey Kirkpatrick; withEddie Murphy, Yara Shahidi, Thomas Haden Church,Vanessa Williams, Nicole Ari Parker, Ronny Cox, MartinSheen. (PG, 107 min.)Imagine That, at times charming and frequentlysweet, is a family film with engaging performances,a straightforward moral for parents everywhere, andenough giggles to keep both parents and their youngcharges amused – all without a single fart joke.Murphy is Evan Danielson, a workaholic financial analystthat has become an archetype of the separateddad to his 7-year-old daughter, Olivia, who has conjureda band of imaginary friends to offset her lack of a caringfather figure. As it happens, her invisible pals havea knack for finance, and soon dad and daughter arebonding over magic kingdoms and stock portfolios. Allin all, Imagine That is an amiable detour from its star’susual penchant for toilet humor and bad taste. Kidswill empathize, parents will breathe a sigh of relief, andfilm critics will be much relieved at not having to thumbthrough their thesauri seeking another synonym for“gaseous.” (06/12/2009)★★★ Metropolitan– Marc SavlovLAND OF THE LOST D: Brad Silberling;with Will Ferrell, Anna Friel, Danny McBride, JormaTaccone, John Boylan. (PG-13, 93 min.)Sid and Marty Krofft’s Land of the Lost, whichran for three seasons beginning in 1974, chronicledthe adventures of the Marshall family, who becametrapped in an alternate universe where stop-motiondinosaurs battled it out with a race of lizard-mendubbed the Sleestak, and a furry little primate namedChaka pulled double duty as comic relief and narrativelinchpin. The show was wildly imaginative, gamelyacted, decidedly low-tech, and above all cool. So whatto make of this bloated, noisy, and decidedly uncoolremake by avowed Land of the Lost fan Silberling? Iblame both pop-culture creep (what was once strangeand vaguely subversive is now old hat) and Ferrell,who stars here as the dullish, food-obsessed, MattLauer-hating inventor Dr. Rick Marshall. Ferrell hasbeen spinning his comedic wheels for what seemslike ages now, and his once-entertaining schtick isnow, officially, entering into the land of the lost career.(06/05/2009) – Marc Savlov★ Movies 8, Tinseltown SouthMONSTERS VS. ALIENS D: RobLetterman, Conrad Vernon; with the voices of ReeseWitherspoon, Hugh Laurie, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, PaulRudd, Rainn Wilson, Kiefer Sutherland. (PG, 94 min.)In the animated Monsters vs. Aliens, Susan (voicedby Witherspoon) is struck by an errant meteor onthe morning of her wedding and morphs into a fivestories-tallbridezilla. The government quickly whisksher away to a containment center, where Susan –now called Ginormica – makes reluctant friends witha whole host of monsters, which is where the filmfinally has some fun. The film filters the fantasticalplot doodlings of those campy sci-fi classics of yorethrough the modern formula for animated pictures.It’s a shame the balance didn’t tip more in thedirection of the former, because there is somethingrather dopily sweet in its story of a misfit band ofmonsters unleashed from quarantine to defend Earthfrom an alien invader. The misfits, as ever, must takea back seat to the morality, and the result trafficsin rote truisms that are admirable but perfunctory.(03/27/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★ Movies 8MY SISTER’S KEEPER D: NickCassavetes; with Cameron Diaz, Jason Patric, AbigailBreslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Evan Ellingson, Alec Baldwin, JoanCusack, Thomas Dekker. (PG-13, 109 min.)Anyone who watched his 2004 melodrama TheNotebook knows Cassavetes is not a man to leave aspot of sap untapped, and in My Sister’s Keeper, hepulls out a very big drill indeed. After years of enduringpainful and invasive procedures to prolong thelife of her cancer-stricken sister (Vassilieva), AnnaFitzgerald (Breslin) is suing her parents (Diaz andPatric) for her medical emancipation. The film worksbest as a portrait of a family at war, with cancer andeach other; there’s very little meat on the bone ofthe legal subplot, and it seems to only intermittentlyhold the attention of Cassavetes and his co-writerJeremy Leven. My Sister’s Keeper is unfocused,pat, and predictable, in plot and dialogue, but theactors are so likable that when two characters pusha box of Kleenex back and forth, one can’t helpbut sniffle in tandem. Unsubtleties be damned, ourdefenses fall. Meanwhile, Cassavetes’ reign asthe go-to waterworks man remains uncontested.(06/26/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★★■Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, WestgateNEW YORK D: Kabir Khan; with John Abraham,Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan. (NR, 152min., subtitled)Not reviewed at press time. Filmed in America, thisBollywood movie tells the story of three friends whoselives are thrown into disarray after the 9/11 attacks.(06/26/2009) – Marjorie BaumgartenTinseltown SouthNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM:BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAND: Shawn Levy; with Ben Stiller, Amy Adams, Owen Wilson,Hank Azaria, Robin Williams, Christopher Guest, SteveCoogan, Ricky Gervais, Bill Hader, Alain Chabat, JonBernthal. (PG, 105 min.)Director Levy and returning screenwriters RobertBen Garant and Thomas Lennon have moved thissequel’s location from New York’s American Museumof Natural History to the D.C. Smithsonian, but virtuallyevery other aspect of this follow-up was touchedon (manhandled, actually) in the original film. Stilleris again cast as Larry Daley, a night watchmanover ambulatory museum pieces. Azaria’s sinisterEgyptian overlord, Kahmunrah, schemes to rule theworld. Allying himself with Ivan the Terrible (Guest),Napoleon Bonaparte (Chabat), and a black-and-whiteAl Capone (Bernthal), Kahmunrah finds Daley andpals, chief among them a sassy Amelia Earhart(Adams), considerably more of a challenge to conquerthan pyramid-building. The film has what feelslike hundreds of hours of mindless noise and comicCGI chaos but only a handful of moments worth ofreal laughter. Much of that comes from Azaria, whoproves yet again that he’s a master of fully immersivecomic genius. (05/29/2009)★ Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, Lakeline,Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South– Marc SavlovOBSESSED D: Steve Shill; with Idris Elba,Beyoncé Knowles, Ali Larter, Bruce McGill, JerryO’Connell, Christine Lahti. (PG-13, 95 min.)You can never underestimate the Americanmoviegoers’ appetite for a juicy catfight. Obsessedunspools like one long tease for the girl-on-girlwrestling we know will eventually come. Until thatclimactic point (and even during it), Obsessed is aroutine mash-up of Fatal Attraction, Disclosure, andThe Hand That Rocks the Cradle in which happily marriedasset manager Derek (Elba) is sexually harassedby beautiful office temp Lisa (Larter). Of course, thedumb lug never tells his wife, Sharon (Knowles), orthe company’s human resources department aboutLisa’s inappropriate attentions, so by the time he discoversjust how bat shit crazy she really is, Lisa hasalready invaded his away-from-office life. Beyoncé’sObjectifiedObjectified (2009) D: Gary Hustwit. (NR, 75 min.)AIGA Design Series. This film, which premiered inAustin during this year’s South by Southwest FilmFestival, is by the director who made Helvetica, aprevious festival hit about the typographic font. Thefocus of his new documentary is on the complexrelationship human beings have with manufacturedobjects. @Alamo Ritz, Monday-Wednesday, 7pm.Sasha Fierce alter ego unveils itself in the film’sfinal battle. Fierce/Sharon manages this feat in highheels, to boot, while Lisa is barefoot in a T-shirtand underpants. Obsessed delivers in its limitedway, even though we know exactly what to expect.(05/01/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★★ Movies 8THE PROPOSAL D: Anne Fletcher; withbetween Annie Hall, When Harry Met Sally, andSandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, CraigT. Nelson, Betty White, Denis O’Hare, Malin Akerman, OscarNuñez, Aasif Mandvi. (PG-13, 107 min.)Only very rarely do romantic comedies reinventthe wheel, which is why whole decades passedEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. At best,when we queue up for the latest studio romanticcomedy, we can hope for a curve ball or two (hencethe comic-relief bit player, sassy grandparent, andembarrassingly public avowal of love, all featuredin The Proposal). When you strip all that away, whatyou’re left with is two deeply charismatic lead performers.Bullock plays the Canadian-born MargaretTate, an all-work and no-play literary editor who, whenthreatened with deportation, bullies her long-sufferingassistant Andrew (Reynolds) into a marriage of convenience.Fletcher demonstrates with The Proposalthat she can put together a funny, able romanticcomedy that is a cut above, but no more. Still, thoseleads are awfully likable, and if The Proposal doesn’treinvent the wheel, merrily we roll along nonetheless.(06/19/2009) – Kimberley Jones★★★■Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, WestgateRACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN D:Andy Fickman; with Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino,AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig, Ciarán Hinds, GarryMarshall. (PG, 99 min.)This third Witch Mountain outing is essentially thesame stop ’n’ go chase film as its predecessors, butall things considered, it’s not half-bad. Dwayne “Don’tCall Me the Rock” Johnson, who appears to be followingIce Cube’s lead in his lateral career move fromnarcissistic, violent cartoon character to goofy, familyfriendlycartoon character, is spot-on as Jack Bruno,a self-doubting former racer and current Vegas cabbiewho, with an assist from discredited but still, like,totally hot astrophysicist Dr. Alex Friedman (Gugino)saves the planet and the tweenage ETs (Robb andLudwig, dialogue-coached, it would seem, by StephenHawking). Edited with zero tolerance for boredom andfeaturing a typical Disney self-empowerment morality,this race is entertaining and patently inoffensivematinee fare for kids 12 and younger and their adultoverlords. (03/20/2009)– Marc Savlov★★★■Movies 8

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C ALE N D AR ( COMMUNITY SPORTS ARTS FILM MUSIC) L I S TINGSWere the World MineWere the World Mine (2008) D: TomGustafson; with Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, JudyMcLane, Zelda Williams. (NR, 95 min.) aGLIFF: Best ofthe Fest. Rebecca Havemeyer hosts this new serieshighlighting former aGLIFF films. In Were the WorldMine, a wish-fulfillment fantasy, a high school studentfinds a love potion with which he turns his narrowmindedtown gay. @Alamo Ritz, Sunday, 1pm.17 AGAIN D: Burr Steers; with Zac Efron,Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann, Thomas Lennon, MichelleTrachtenberg, Sterling Knight, Melora Hardin, HunterParrish, Brian Doyle-Murray. (PG-13, 105 min.)Efron, in his first nonsinging and dancing featurefilm (if we don’t count the yet-to-be-releasedMe and Orson Welles by Richard Linklater), proveshe has an agreeable and kinetic screen presence,although he’s not completely convincingas a 37-year-old encased in a 17-year-old’s body.Not that any of this matters much: The moviemanages to glide along engagingly and swiftlyenough to not make this failing terribly conspicuous.Director Steers (Igby Goes Down) keeps themovie’s foregone progression moving apace and,fortunately, doesn’t dwell on the magical vortexthat sucks present-day Mike (Perry) into his formerhigh school-senior self (played by Efron). While theensemble, as a whole, is able, a problem arisesfrom the casting of Perry as the near-middle-ageincarnation of Mike. It’s not so much a matter ofmannerisms but, rather, the disbelief that the twoshare a face that’s only separated by 20 years.Superficial, maybe, but that’s in keeping with themovie’s general tone. (04/17/2009)– Marjorie Baumgarten★★★■Movies 8wSTAR TREK D: J.J. Abrams; with Chris Pine,Zachary Quinto, Eric Bana, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban,Simon Pegg, John Cho, Bruce Greenwood, Winona Ryder,Leonard Nimoy, Anton Yelchin, Ben Cross. (PG-13, 126 min.)Star Trek is an immensely satisfying originstory that introduces the characters we know –before we knew them. For all its epically chaoticspace battles and Bana’s scheming, time-trippingRomulan, Nero, Star Trek is most audacious insuch scenes as when the not-yet-Captain Kirk(Pine, getting the Tiberius just right but wiselyforsaking the Shatner) beds a green-skinned Orionsex bomb while simultaneously making a play forSaldana’s Uhura. In quick succession, the iconiccharacters enter in ways delightfully unexpectedyet cleverly apropos. It’s not necessary to be alongtime fan of the Star Trek universe to appreciatethe sheer emotional punch and swagger of thisrough and randy Enterprise crew. They’re unlikelycompanions – antagonists, even – not yet boldlygoing wherever it is they’re going but discoveringthat trial by fire and photon torpedoes is the best,if not the easiest, way to forge both friendshipsand franchises. (05/08/2009)★★★★ Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North,Westgatew– Marc SavlovSUMMER HOURS D: Olivier Assayas; withJuliette Binoche, Jérémie Renier, Charles Berling, EdithScob, Isabelle Sadoyan. (NR, 103 min., subtitled)With Summer Hours, French writer-directorAssayas, who is best-known internationally forsuch transgressive genre-benders as Irma Vep andDemonlover, has shifted gears to make a work ofuncommonly lyrical humanism. The whole moviebasks in the dappled light of life experienced inthe present and memories rebelling against theerasures of time. Much of this family drama takesplace at the country home of matriarch Hélène(Scob), where she lived as a widow and raised herthree children. After her passing, the siblings mustdispose of their mother’s things, and the moviebecomes a lovely example of the ways in which weall work through our passages from the past intothe present. Assayas’ camera glides dexterouslyamong the family members, uniting them even asthe objects they share begin to scatter. SummerHours is a lovely rumination on the meaning ofthings, but one that remains rooted in its humansubjects rather than the inanimate objects that aremore easily graspable. (06/12/2009)– Marjorie Baumgarten★★★★ DobieLoud, abrasive, and featuring performancesseemingly calibrated to be heard over the cacopho-THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1 2 3D: Tony Scott; with Denzel Washington, John Travolta,Luis Guzmán, John Turturro, James Gandolfini, MichaelRispoli, Victor Gojcaj, John Benjamin Hickey. (R, 106 min.)nous roar of Travolta’s mad, bad overacting, thisremake of Joseph Sargent’s 1974 crime movie isunnecessary and ill-advised. The original, in whicha group of ex-cons stage an elaborate cash-basedcaper in the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan,is economical in its direction, thrilling in its use ofthe casual urban violence, and almost indescribablyentertaining. Scott’s update is none of thesethings. It is edited with a disastrously distractingeye toward irritating and overwhelming stylisticflourishes (the film seems to have been choppedand cut by someone on an Adderall binge), andScott fails to locate the pulse of a city once moreon the brink of economic ruin. There’s precious littlethat’s memorable or even exciting about this new,annoying Pelham, which goes off the rails early onand never recovers. Take a cab next time, and whileyou’re at it, go rent the original. You won’t be disappointed.(06/12/2009)★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Barton CreekSquare, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Tinseltown North,Tinseltown South, Westgate– Marc SavlovTERMINATOR SALVATION D: McG;with Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Moon Bloodgood,Helena Bonham Carter, Anton Yelchin, Bryce Dallas Howard,Common, Jadagrace, Jane Alexander. (PG-13, 116 min.)The wiry, wily John Connor (Bale), who is on a missionto locate and protect the life of his future father(Yelchin), is a model of post-nuclear industriousness,commanding a truly ragtag global resistance (viashortwave radio) against the self-aware machinesof Skynet and their killer cyborgs, the Terminators.(At this point in the apocalyptic, time-traveling, manvs. machine mythos of the franchise, the year is2018, and the parent is roughly half his son’s age.)There’s one great action sequence, but apart fromthis, Terminator Salvation is terrifically dull, full ofear-searing sound design and much yakkity-yakkingabout the fate of humanity but entirely lacking anysort of soul or sense of fun. The film is just like itsmachines, which, by the end of McG’s McBlockbusterdeserve to win their war against humanity, if only tocurtail, once and for all, uninspired and inhumanlymechanistic filmmaking such as this. (05/22/2009)– Marc Savlov★★■Tinseltown SouthTRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OFTHE FALLEN D: Michael Bay; with Shia LaBeouf,Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro,Rainn Wilson, Ramon Rodriguez; with the voices of HugoWeaving, Peter Cullen, Tom Kenny. (PG-13, 149 min.)Bay’s follow-up to his international smash hit YEAR ONE D: Harold Ramis; with Jack Black,of 2007 ups the ante on big and dumb. His newTransformers movie, whose extraterrestrials arebased on the Hasbro toys which can morph fromcars and other metal objects into awesome fightingmachines, aims for impact over sense, clobberingviewers with its sensory overload and bludgeoningus into weary submission. The film is a clanging,full-metal racket from start to finish, with only therare narrative pause devoted to exclusively humaninteractions. But, honestly, that’s not what we andgazillions of non-English-speaking viewers aroundthe globe want from this franchise. It’s the action.On that score, this film is a poster child for the ideathat more does not always equal more. With a typicallygrandiose running time, Revenge of the Fallenoverstays its welcome by at least a half-hour, andtwo new Autobots – the illiterate, ghetto-speakingSkids and Mudflap (voiced by Kenny) – are the mostretrograde blockbuster embarrassment since Jar JarBinks. (06/26/2009) – Marjorie Baumgarten★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseSouth, Alamo Drafthouse Village, Barton Creek Square,CM Cedar Park, Hill Country Galleria, CM Round Rock,Southpark Meadows, Highland, Gateway, IMAX Theatre,Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, WestgatewUP D: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson; with the voices of EdAsner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson,Delroy Lindo, Jerome Ranft, Elie Docter. (PG, 96 min.)Pixar tops itself with its new animated offeringUp, a movie so visually and emotionally skillful thatit makes Monsters, Inc. look positively antic, ToyStory seem like mere child’s play, and WALL-E appearas sentimental fluff. Up’s promotional campaign,which suggests little more than a fantastical movieabout a house that flies on balloon power, doesn’thelp spread the sense of the film’s rich emotionalcurrents and taut action sequences. The movie’spreamble is such a penetrating thing of beauty that itcould exist on its own as a lovely short film. AlthoughUp’s action sequences are well constructed andsuspenseful, there is really nothing that makes thefilm necessary to see in 3-D. However, in terms of itsnarrative structure and lessons learned, I suspect wewill be comparing Up with classics like The Wizard ofOz for years to come. (05/29/2009)– Marjorie Baumgarten★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse South, Alamo DrafthouseVillage, Barton Creek Square, CM Cedar Park, HillCountry Galleria, CM Round Rock, Southpark Meadows,Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Millennium,Tinseltown North, WestgateJawsJaws (1975) D: Steven Spielberg; with RoyScheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss. (PG, 124 min.)Central Market and 101X FM: Summer MovieSeries. It’s the movie that ushered in the concept ofthe “summer blockbuster.” Spielberg’s interpretationof Peter Benchley’s ultimate beach story is a nearperfectblend of popcorn thriller and well-crafted narrative.Outdoor movie begins at dusk. (*) @CentralMarket North, Wednesday, 8:30pm.Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, Christopher Mintz-Plasse,David Cross, Olivia Wilde, Hank Azaria, Juno Temple, VinnieJones. (PG-13, 97 min.)Slayer was right: God hates us all. How else toexplain this blasphemously asinine and crudely scatologicalbuddy pic so obsessed with bodily dischargethat it makes Pasolini’s Salò look like an episode ofFull House? Year One reimagines the Book of Genesisas a warped Hope and Crosby comic travelogue – TheRoad to Sodom – minus the class, and with Black andCera playing pre-Darwinian variations of their respectiveobnoxious oaf and wide-eyed naif roles. Zed (Black)and Oh (Cera), predictably inept hunter-gatherers, arebanished from their tribe and trudge through prehistoryfrom one biblical high point to another. Readliterally, the Old Testament is awash in bestiality, rape,pedophilia, murder, and overall seaminess. But YearOne somehow manages to leech all the inherentlysubversive fun out of the whole thing. The only peoplewho should be peeved enough to raise hell about YearOne are the viewers who had to pay to sit through it.(06/26/2009) – Marc Savlov★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo DrafthouseSouth, Barton Creek Square, Hill Country Galleria, CMRound Rock, Southpark Meadows, Gateway, Lakeline,Metropolitan, Tinseltown NorthTrue StoriesTrue Stories (1986) D: David Byrne; withJohn Goodman, Swoosie Kurtz, Spalding Gray, AnnieMcEnroe, Jo Harvey Allen, Pops Staples; narrated byByrne. (PG, 90 min.) Austin Film Festival: Made inTexas. Talking Head Byrne made his directing debutwith this idiosyncratic look at a fictional Texas town.@Texas Spirit Theater at the Bob Bullock Texas StateHistory Museum, Wednesday, 7:30pm74 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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special screeningsBY MARJORIE BAUMGARTENThe symbol (*) indicates full-length reviews available online: austinchronicle.com/film.THURSDAY 02Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark(1973) D: John Newland; with Kim Darby,Jim Hutton, William Demarest. (NR, 73 min.) CultThursday. A young couple moves in to a house that’spossessed. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm;free.Ladies of the ’80s Sing-Along @Alamo Ritz,12mid.Team America: World Police Sing-Along(2004) D: Trey Parker; with the voices of Parker,Matt Stone, Kristen Miller, Daran Norris. (R, 98 min.)@Alamo Ritz, 9:15pm.Tender Mercies (1983) D: Bruce Beresford;with Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Allan Hubbard, BettyBuckley, Ellen Barkin, Wilford Brimley. (PG, 89 min.)Summer Film Classics: Horton Foote Tribute.Duvall’s amazing performance in this film as awashed-up country singer earned him an Oscar.Duvall wrote his own tunes as well. Foote’s touchingstory also earned the screenwriter an Oscar. (Doublebill: To Kill a Mockingbird.) (*) @Paramount, 7pm.To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) D: RobertMulligan; with Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, BrockPeters, Robert Duvall, Philip Alford. (NR, 129 min.)Summer Film Classics: Horton Foote Tribute. Thisatmospheric Southern Gothic was adapted for thescreen by Foote from Harper Lee’s prize-winning novelabout a widowed lawyer with two young children whotakes on the locally scandalous job of defending ablack man falsely accused of raping a white woman.Peck won an Oscar for his work, and Duvall made hisscreen debut as the mythic Boo Radley. (Double bill:Tender Mercies.) @Paramount, 9pm.SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) D: WillDotter. (NR, 58 min.) This locally made feature filmdocuments Taylor’s annual Rattlesnake SackingChampionship. @Texas Spirit Theater at the BobBullock Texas State History Museum, noon, 5pm.KIDSCharlotte’s Web (2006) Family Film Festival.Free. (*) @Arbor, 10am.Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)Summer Kids Camp. Free. (*) @Alamo DrafthouseSouth, 11am.The Goonies (1985) Summer Kids Camp.Free. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11am.Igor (2008) Family Film Festival. Free. (*)@Arbor, 10am.Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Lakeline, 10am.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)Family Film Festival. Free. (*) @Lakeline, 10am.Nim’s Island (2008) Family Film Festival.Free. (*) @Westgate, 10am.The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: AVeggieTales Movie (2008) Family Film Festival.Free. (*) @Westgate, 10am.SUBMISSION INFORMATION:The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is duethe Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadlinefor the July 17 issue is Monday, July 6. Include name ofevent, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a description,and any available photos or artwork.Send submissions to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin,78765; fax, 458-6910; or e-mail.Contact Marjorie Baumgarten (Special Screenings):specialscreenings@austinchronicle.com;Wayne Alan Brenner (Offscreen): calendar@austinchronicle.com.FRIDAY 0376 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mIndependence Day (1996) D: RolandEmmerich; with Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum,Mary Mcdonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, RandyQuaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn. (PG-13,145 min.) Master Pancake Theater. The Pancakejokesters plan to blow this timely thriller to kingdomcome. (*) @Alamo Ritz, 7, 9:45pm.Prayanam (2009) D: Chandrasekhar Yeleti;with Manoj Kumar Manchu, Harika, Brahmanandam.(NR, 130 min.) When two strangers meet cute ata Malaysian airport, the lovestruck boy has only atwo-hour layover to win the girl over in this Tollywoodmusical. (*) @Tinseltown South, 3, 6, 9:30pm.Tender Mercies (1983) @Paramount, 9:50pm.(See Thursday, 7/2.)To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) @Paramount,7:15pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)KIDSJonas Brothers: The Concert Experience(2009) Free. @Froots (Cedar Park), 7:45pm.Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)@Hyatt Regency Austin, 6:30pm; free. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)SATURDAY 04Independence Day (1996)@Alamo Ritz, 6:45, 9:45pm. (See Friday.)The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: JimSharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, SusanSarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) For more info, seewww.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 12mid.Team America: World Police Sing-Along(2004) @Alamo Ritz, 11:30pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)SUNDAY 05Exodus (1960) D: Otto Preminger; withPaul Newman, Eva Marie Sainte, Ralph Richardson,Sal Mineo. (NR, 213 min.) Summer Film Classics:Epic of Israel. This epic drama, which won an Oscarfor its memorable soundtrack, tells the story of thefounding of the state of Israel. @Paramount, 2, 7pm.Independence Day (1996) @Alamo Ritz,6:30pm. (See Friday.)Psycho (1960) D: Alfred Hitchcock; withAnthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam, JohnGavin, Vera Miles. (NR, 109 min.) Movies and Music.PKWproductions will perform premovie and intermissionmusic from the film, as well as music by Tchaikovskyand Schumann and vocal music by soprano EmilyBreedlove. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 8pm; $15.Tony Manero (2008) D: Pablo Larraín; withAlfredo Castro, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales, AmparoNoguera. (NR, 97 min.) Set against the background ofPinochet’s Chile, this film follows a serial killer whois obsessed with impersonating the dancing movesof John Travolta’s character in Saturday Night Fever,while some of his dancing partners are involved insecret activities against the dictatorship. @AlamoDrafthouse South, 10pm.Were the World Mine (2008) See p.74.SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, 3pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)MONDAY 06Objectified (2009) See p.72.Tony Manero (2008) @Alamo DrafthouseSouth, 7pm. (See Sunday.)200 Motels (1971) D: Tony Palmer and FrankZappa; with the Mothers of Invention, Ringo Starr,Keith Moon, Theodore Bikel. (R, 98 min.) MusicMonday. A dementedly wild and colorful relic, Zappa’sfilm lets its freak flag fly. It’s also the first big filmto be recorded first on videotape before being transferredto film. @Alamo Ritz, 9:15pm.SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Repo Man (1984) D: Alex Cox; with Harry DeanStanton, Emilio Estevez. (R, 92 min.) Monday Movies.Outside; free. (*) @Cafe Mundi, 8pm.KIDSThe Cat From Outer Space (1978) SummerKids Camp. Free. @Alamo Drafthouse South, 11am.Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)@Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)TUESDAY 07Cool Hand Luke (1967) D: StuartRosenberg; with Paul Newman, GeorgeKennedy, Strother Martin. (NR, 126 min.) Summer FilmClassics: Newman – Both Sides of the Law. No failureto communicate here. Cool Hand Luke is one of thesharpest prison dramas ever, although it’s graced withsome very humorous portions as well. It can also beseen as a quintessentially Sixties parable about nonconformity.(Double bill: Harper.) @Paramount, 7pm.Harper (1966) See p.72.In Love We Trust (2007) D: Wang Xiaoshuai;with Liu Weiwei, Yu Nan, Zhang Jiayi, Cheng Taishen,Zhang Chuqian. (NR, 115 min.) Austin Film Society:Love on the Largest Continent – 10 Asian Films.5This Chinese narrative addresses the complicatedmodern problem of a mother who wants to conceiveanother child with her ex-husband so that the offspringmight have a better chance of being a marrow-donormatch for her older daughter with leukemia. @AlamoDrafthouse South, 7pm; $6, AFS members free.Objectified (2009) See p.72.Prince of Darkness (1987) D: John Carpenter;with Donald Pleasence, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong,Lisa Blount. (R, 102 min.) Terror Tuesday. In this littleseenCarpenter film, students uncover a swirling greenliquid that contains the essence of Satan. Obviously,no good can come of that. @Alamo Ritz, 10:45pm.SPACESJust a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)KIDSThe Cat From Outer Space (1978) @AlamoDrafthouse South, 11am. (See Monday.)Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)@Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11am; Lakeline, 10am.(See Thursday, 7/2.)Inkheart (2009) Family Film Festival. Free. (*)@Lakeline, 10am.Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)@Westgate, Movies 8, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)Summer Movie Clubhouse. $1. (*) @TinseltownSouth, 10am.Nim’s Island (2008) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: AVeggieTales Movie (2008) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)WEDNESDAY 08Cool Hand Luke (1967) @Paramount,9:25pm. (See Tuesday.)Harper (1966) See p.72.Horror Remix: Shopping Clips from moviesthat combine horror and satires of consumerismwill be presented in two hours: Content is from TheInitiation, Hide and Go Shriek, and Chopping Mall.@Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm; free.Objectified (2009) See p.72.Psych-Out (1968) D: Richard Rush; with SusanStrasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern,Adam Roarke, Max Julien, Garry Marshall. (NR, 101min.) Weird Wednesday. San Francisco’s Summer ofLove comes alive in Rush’s story of a deaf teenagerunaway (Strasberg) and the band of hippies she fallsin with, led by none other than Stoney (Nicholson).The drug freak-out sequences should have receivedan award of their own. @Alamo Ritz, 12mid.offscreen501 Studios: Soundstage + HD Theatre 501 Studios’ soundstage in Downtown Austin now doublesas 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/performancesfeaturing projection? This could be the place. Also still available as a soundstage/green screen. 485-3000. www.501studios.com.Austin Film Festival: Call for Entries Sure, you want to have your work considered in one of themost prestigious of festivals. You have a screenplay or a completed movie; you have something you’ve craftedto within an inch of its virtual life. Don’t hide that light under a bushel, hoss: Submit today. See the AFF websitefor details. Film deadlines: late, July 3; very late, July 15. www.austinfilmfestival.com.Austin Film Society Summer Youth Camps You know those kids want to learn how to make movies;AFS youth filmmaking camps teach hands-on narrative and experimental techniques using digital video.The camps run Monday through Friday (9am-5pm) in July and August and are appropriate for ages 12-15. Seewebsite for details, and register soon. $250 ($225, AFS members). www.austinfilm.org.Austin School of Film Classes An excellent slate of classes is available for your cinematic advancementat the Austin School of Film, with professional instruction in Final Cut Pro, DV and HD cameras, animationand lighting techniques, and more. See website for details. www.austinfilmschool.org/classes.Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a state-of-the-art screening room, which is available tothe public on a rental basis. Community and indie rates are available for the room, which sports an 18-footby-7-footscreen, 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 forpresentations, meetings, and general cinematic tomfoolery. 322-0145. www.austinstudios.org.

SPACESJaws (1975) See p.74.Just a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Kinfolk (1981) D: Nikita Mikhalkov; with NonnaMordyukova, Svetlana Kryuchkova. (NR, 98 min.)UT Center for Russian, East European, and EurasianStudies: Films of Nikita Mikhlakov. Free. @GeographyBldg., Rm. 102 (UT campus on 24th), 7pm.True Stories (1986) See p.74.KIDSThe Cat From Outer Space (1978) @AlamoDrafthouse South, 11am. (See Monday.)Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)@Alamo Drafthouse Village, 11am; Lakeline, 10am.(See Thursday, 7/2.)Inkheart (2009) @Lakeline, 10am. (SeeTuesday.)Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (2007)@Tinseltown South, 10am. (See Tuesday.)Nim’s Island (2008) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: AVeggieTales Movie (2008) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)The Tale of Despereaux (2008) SummerMovieCamp. $1. (*) @Barton Creek Square, 10am.The Uninvited (2009) Austin Public Library:Cinemagic. Free. (*) @Cepeda Public Library, 6pm.THURSDAY 09Assignment: Outer Space (1960)D: Antonio Margheriti; with Rik Van Nutter,Gabriella Farinon, David Montresor, Archie Savage.(NR, 73 min.) Cult Thursday. Italian science-fictionfilm. @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 10pm; free.The Color of Money (1986) D: MartinScorsese; with Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, MaryElizabeth Mastrantonio, Helen Shaver, John Turturro. (R,119 min.) Summer Film Classics: Oscar at Last. “FastEddy” Felson (the character played by Newman in TheHustler) is coaxed out of retirement by a talented newpool hustler (Cruise) who wants Eddy to teach him theropes. The newcomer is a reflection of Eddy’s old self.Newman finally won his only acting Oscar for this role.(Double bill: The Hustler.) @Paramount, 7pm.Forever Plaid Anniversary Tribute(NR, 120 min.) NCM Fathom. One of off-Broadway’smost popular musicals will appear on the screen forone night. The show begins with a live, red-carpetintroduction by the original cast and celebrity guests,followed by a pretaped 20th anniversary performanceof the musical, starring members of the original cast.The event will conclude with a live music performanceby the Plaids. @Southpark Meadows, Metropolitan,Tinseltown North, Hill Country Galleria, 7pm.The Hustler (1961) D: Robert Rossen; withPaul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, GeorgeC. Scott. (NR, 135 min.) Summer Film Classics:Oscar at Last. Newman plays a young pool hustlerwho challenges the legendary Minnesota Fats (brilliantlyplayed by Gleason). Dingy atmosphere andgreat performances make this a standout. EugeneShuftan’s cinematography won an Oscar. (Doublebill: The Color of Money.) (*) @Paramount, 9:25pm.In Da Club Sing-Along @Alamo Ritz,9:30pm.Spaceballs: The Quote-Along (1987) D:Mel Brooks; with Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, BillPullman. (PG, 96 min.) @Alamo Ritz, 7pm.SPACESConnections Nueva Onda Movie Night. Thisshort-film program features Xtranormal.com project“The Bickersons,” Keith Wilson’s “When the Light’sRed,” Marshall Rimmer’s “Color by Number,” AllisonCook’s “Junior,” and Benjamin Slamka and TomaszWerner’s “Vitual Arcus.” Post-show Q&A with filmmakers.Door prizes and more. @Nueva Onda, 8pm.Just a Little Bit Crazy (2004) @Texas SpiritTheater at the Bob Bullock Texas State HistoryMuseum, noon, 5pm. (See Thursday, 7/2.)KIDSThe Cat From Outer Space (1978) @AlamoDrafthouse South, 11am; Alamo Drafthouse Village,11am; Lakeline, 10am. (See Monday.)Inkheart (2009) @Lakeline, 10am. (SeeTuesday.)Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)@Westgate, 10am. (See Thursday, 7/2.)Nim’s Island (2008) @Arbor, 10am. (SeeThursday, 7/2.)The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: AVeggieTales Movie (2008) @Arbor, 10am.(See Thursday, 7/2.)imaxTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen(2009) D: Michael Bay; with Shia LaBeouf, MeganFox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, John Turturro, RainnWilson; with the voices of Hugo Weaving, Peter Cullen,Tom Kenny. (PG-13, 149 min.) Opens Wednesday. (*)Thu. (7/2), 1, 4, 7, 10pm; Fri.-Sat., noon, 3, 6, 9pm,12mid; Sun.-Thu. (7/9), 1, 4, 7, 10pm.Under the Sea 3D (2009) D: Howard Hall.(NR, 40 min.) The impact of global warming isexamined in the waters of Southern Australia, NewGuinea, and elsewhere in the Indo-Pacific region.Thu. (7/2)-Sat., 11am; Mon.-Thu. (7/9), 11am.THE HURTLOCKEROPENS JULY 10 IN AUSTINLog on to austinchronicle.com/contests for your chance to win run-ofengagementpasses to see THE HURT LOCKER, plus an autographed filmposter from the star of the film, Jeremy Renner!Rated R for war violence and languageWINPASSES& MORE!DECLARE YOUR INDEPENDENCE FROM BAD FOOD.‘‘EVERYONE SHOULD SEE ‘FOOD, INC.’This absorbing film looks terrific and does a superb job of makingits case that our current food ways are drastically out of whack.”-Ann Hornaday, WASHINGTON POSTYou’ll never lookat dinner thesame way again.ENDS THURSDAY,JULY 2Special ADVANCE ScreeningTuesday, July 7, 7:30pmALAMO DRAFTHOUSEALAMO DOWNTOWNAustin 512-476-1320STARTS FRIDAY,JULY 3ALAMO DRAFTHOUSESOUTH LAMARAustin 512-476-1320CALL THEATRE FOR SHOWTIMES • NO PASSESA ROBERT KENNER FILMNOWPLAYINGTo sign up for a chance to win apass to this screening, go toaustinchronicle.com/contestsby Sunday, July 5.NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Passes are limited and available on a first-come,first-served basis. Seating is limited. Passes do not guarantee admission.In Theaters July 10REGAL CINEMASARBOR STADIUM 8 @ GREAT HILLSAustin 800-FANDANGO (684)To WIN The Hurt Locker passes & signed poster, log on to austinchronicle.com/contests.austinchronicle.coma u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 77

musicRECOMMENDED EVENTS FOR JULY 3 TO JULY 9EDITED BY AUDRA SCHROEDERlistingsSILVER PINES, PALIT| INDIAN Kat EdmonsonJEWELRYBeerland, Tuesday 7Mohawk, Friday 3 Craving some sweet ear candy?Indian Jewelry’s slow-jam strobe The local trifecta of Silver Pines,explosion celebrates our nation’s Palit, and Silent Land Time Machineindependence with its own fireworks. sets the Tuesday night table withThe H-Town denizens headline thisFourth of JulyJust look on the outskirts of Austin to see proofof the Lone Star State’s year-round obsession withexplosives. If you’re not into the possibility ofbecoming Freddy Four Fingers thisweekend, our fair city has plenty ofmusical distractions. At WooldridgeSquare Park, Invincible Czarsbrass knuckle Tchaikovsky’s “1812Overture,” in collaboration withthe Yellow Bike Project, which isreleasing a fleet of bikes to use forfree. Little Stolen Moments andRebecca Havemeyer add sometang to the afternoon, starting at1pm. Up north at the Dell Diamondin Round Rock, Jerry Jeff Walker,Kellie Pickler, Uncle Lucius,Ariel Abshire, and more popopen Freedom Fest. At Emo’s, ain-storesSaturday 4Warped Tour-sponsored eveningbrings Henry Rollins, Gallows,Born to Lose, and more in fromthe hardcore sun. Mohawk turnsback the clock for Jon Snodgrass,Joey Cape of Lagwagon, CoryBranan, and other solo acts. Forchill vibes, shuffle to FlamingoCantina’s Red, Green & GoldReggae Bash with the Mau MauChaplains or to Lamberts for localsongstresses Kat Edmonson andSuzanna Choffel. And if you’reindeed looking to lose a digit,Hug, the Horsies, and more dirtyup Club 1808. – Audra SchroederSee Community Listings, p.54, for more Fourth of July listings.Friday: Ghost Knife, Pigs, Serious Tracers, Trailer Space, 6pmSaturday: PLF, Deep Shit, Branch Davidian, Snake Eyes Vinyl, 7pmSunday: Zombie Religion, Mayans, We Are Empire, Blanca,Snake Eyes Vinyl, 7pmMonday: New Roman Times, Waterloo Records, 5pmTuesday: Sarah Jarosz, Waterloo Records, 5pmThursday: Deer Tick, Waterloo Records, 5pm; Spanish Gamble, BGH,the New Flesh, Snake Eyes Vinyl, 7pm78 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o mfree bill, in honor of, ya know, freedom,with an inside/outside cast of characters,including Shapes Have Fangs,Caddywhompus, Cartright, Motel Aviv,and the Dead Space. Did we mentionPINETOP PERKINS’it’s free?– Audra Schroeder96TH BIRTHDAYTHEAntone’s, Tuesday 7DILLARDSIf it’s July, it must be Pinetop’sCactus Cafe, Friday 3birthday. Austin’s chairman of the keyboardcelebrates with guests such asThe Dillards and bluegrass musicgo together like “horse” and “buggy.”Brothers Rodney and Doug were amongthe first to electrify the heritage genrein the 1960s, relocating it to the LosAngeles scene where its presence influencedWest Coast country-rock. Everthe innovators, the Dillards continue torefine bluegrass for modern times whileholding fast to its Appalachian roots.8pm.– Margaret MoserTHE STORY OFBILLThe Parish, Thursday 9CALLAHANNo need waiting on the next ShinsThe Parish, Sunday 5LP, what with the Story Of’s newSir Callahan’s latest for Drag City, Until the Autumn. Since relocatingSometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, to Austin from Athens, Ga., the popfinds the stoic songsmith the closesthe’s been to finding his inner Nilsson.While he works that out, the Texaslandscape keeps finding its way intohis country meditations and markinga new age of Callahan the naturalist.Local trio Follow That Bird! keeps ajagged edge. – Audra SchroederPENTAGRAM RADIO MOSCOWEmo’s, Monday 6Red 7, Thursday 9In the age of early Sabbath,Brought to you by Russia’s internationalradio broadcasting serviceSouth Philly vocalist Bobby Lieblingpledged allegiance to a five-point – by way of Iowa, admittedly – Radiomusical dirge herein represented by Moscow does for Blue Cheer what thelocal Roller sludge, Peoria pile driversMinsk, Washington State metalfirewall Wolves in the Throne Room,Midwest extremities Nachtmystium,and NOLA muckrakers Outlaw Order,whose better half, Eyehategod, killedrecently at Red 7. A legacy shapedlike a Pentagram. – Raoul HernandezFun Fun Fun starts early at austinchronicle.com/earache.lacy reverb, VU vibes, and simmeringpsych, respectively. Boston trio PrinceRama of Ayodyha enchants with nextlevelcosmic rage. – Audra SchroederMarcia Ball standing in line to toast acentury of blues. And if it’s Pinetop’sbirthday, a whole month of Antone’sfavorite music is on the way, includingthe Scabs, Arc Angels, Iron City SoulShakers, birthday boy Roky Erickson,Jimmie Vaughan, Psychedelic Sundays,and more. – Margaret Moserquintet has kept a low profile, including2007 local debut The World’sAffair. New effort Autumn molts allthat in favor of keyboards, sharplywistful minor chords, and harmoniesfrom “Berkeley” to “Dodge City.” TheSoldier Thread and Bright Light SocialHour open. – Raoul HernandezBlack Keys do for 21st century blues:stomps it. Sophomore disc BrainCycles pulses with Parker Griggs’ bestHendrix, while bassist Zach Anderson’smonolithic fuzz mashes beats withdrummer Cory Berry. Live is where thetouring trio melts brains, bicycles, youname it.– Raoul HernandezsoundcheckBY AUDRA SCHROEDERBONE AWLRed 7, Friday 3The mysterious doomduo sharpens its teeth.Ashdautas, Volahn, andlocal thrashers Total Abuseopen wide.MISS LAVELLE WHITESaxon Pub, Friday 3A soulful birthday celebrationfor Austin’s queen.EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKYStubb’s, Saturday 4Sold out.LADY FRIENDS NO. 3Salvage Vanguard Theater,Sunday 5Round three features thenoise stylings of SharonCrutcher, Michelle Waterman,L.A. Cameron, and One-Woman Bandit. 9:30pm.M.O.T.O.,MIDNIGHT CREEPS,TY SEGALL,THE MOONHEARTSBeerland, Sunday 5Black eyes for everyone.ABE VIGODAEmo’s, Tuesday 7More jangle from L.A.’sjungle. Talbot Tagora andLoser Life open.VITAMINS, FULL STRIDERoom 710, Tuesday 7Power duos unite!GOLDEN ANIMALS,ALL IN THE GOLDENAFTERNOONBeauty Bar, Wednesday 8All golden sounds from’67 or ’91.DEER TICKEmo’s, Thursday 9Latest Born on Flag Daykeeps the train a-rollin’ allnight long.live music venues p.80roadshows+ club listings p.82| (L-R) INDIAN JEWELRY (FRI., 7/3) | BILL CALLAHAN (SUN., 7/5) | DEER TICK (THU., 7/9)

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live music venues311 CLUB, 311 E. Sixth, 477-1630THE AMSTERDAM, 121 W. Eighth, 236-1606ANTONE’S, 213 W. Fifth, 320-8424APPLE BAR, 120 W. Fifth, 322-9291ARTZ RIB HOUSE, 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283AUDITORIUM SHORES, South First at Lady Bird Lake,442-2263AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET DOWNTOWN, Fourth &Guadalupe, 236-0074AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735, 2103 E.M. Franklin,926-0043BACKSTAGE STEAKHOUSE & GARDEN BAR,21814 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood, 512/264-2223BARTON HILLS ELEMENTARY, 2108 Barton Hills Dr., 414-2013BARTON SPRINGS, 2101 Barton Springs Rd., 476-9044BASTROP SENIOR CENTER, 1008 Water St., Bastrop,512/321-7907B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB, 204 E. Sixth, 494-1335BEAUTY BAR, 617 E. Seventh, 391-1943BEERLAND, 711 Red River, 479-ROCK (7625)THE BELMONT, 305 W. Sixth, 457-0300’BOUT TIME, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189THE BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 480-8330CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 475-6515CAFE CAFFEINE, 909 W. Mary, 447-9473CAFE MUNDI, 1704 E. Fifth, 236-8634CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790CHAIN DRIVE, 504 Willow, 480-9017CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham,San Marcos, 512/353-3777CHERRYWOOD COFFEEHOUSE, 1400 E. 38½, 538-1991CHEZ ZEE, 5406 Balcones, 454-2666CISSI’S MARKET, 1400 S. Congress, 225-0521CLUB 1808, 1808 E. 12th, 524-2519CLUB DE VILLE, 900 Red River, 457-0900THE COCKPIT, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010THE COMPOUND, 1300 E. Fourth, 507-1228CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 441-2444COOL RIVER CAFE, 4001 Parmer, 835-0010COPA BAR & GRILL, 217 Congress, 479-5002COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla, Granger, 512/859-0700CREEKSIDE LOUNGE, 606 E. Seventh, 480-5988CUBA LIBRE, 409 Colorado, 472-2822DELL DIAMOND, 3400 E. Palm Valley, Round Rock,512/255-2255DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 478-0336THE DRISKILL HOTEL, 604 Brazos, 474-5911DRY CREEK SALOON, 4812 Mount Bonnell Rd., 453-9244EDDIE V’S PRIME SEAFOOD, 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860EL SOL Y LA LUNA, 600 E. Sixth, 444-7770ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 473-2279ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 478-2979EMO’S, 603 Red River, 477-3667END OF AN EAR, 2209 S. First, 462-6008EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie, 282-2586FADÓ, 214 W. Fourth, 457-0172THE FIFTH GALLERY, 305 E. Fifth, 669-6558FLAMINGO CANTINA, 515 E. Sixth, 494-9336FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd.,480-8646FREDDIE’S PLACE, 1703 S. First, 445-9197FRIENDS, 208 E. Sixth, 320-8193FURR’S FAMILY DINING, 4015 S. Lamar, 441-7825GIDDY UPS, 12010 Manchaca Rd., 280-4732GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON, 5434 Burnet Rd.,458-1813GOLD CROWN BILLIARDS, 205 W. San Antonio St.,San Marcos, 512/757-7970GREEN PASTURES RESTAURANT, 811 W. Live Oak, 444-4747GRUENE HALL, 1281 Gruene Rd., New Braunfels,830/606-1281, 830/629-5077GÜERO’S TACO BAR, 1412 S. Congress, 447-7688HANOVER’S, 108 E. Main, Pflugerville, 512/670-9617HEADHUNTERS, 720 Red River, 236-0188THE HIDEOUT COFFEEHOUSE, 617 Congress, 476-0473HILL’S CAFE, 4700 S. Congress, 851-9300HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747HOUSE WINE, 408 Josephine, 322-5210HYDE PARK BAR & GRILL, 4521 West Gate Blvd., 899-2700IGUANA GRILL, 2900 RR 620 N., 266-8439JACK & ADAM’S BICYCLES, 1210 Barton Springs Rd.,472-5646JO’S HOT COFFEE, 242 W. Second, 469-9003JOVITA’S, 1619 S. First, 447-7825JUNIOR’S GRILL & ICEHOUSE, 119 E. Masin, Round Rock,512/310-7777KEY BAR, 617 W. Sixth, 236-9389LA FUENTES RESTAURANT & TEXAS BEER GARDEN,6507 Circle S Rd., 442-9925LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290 E., 459-8729LA ZONA ROSA, 612 W. Fourth, 263-4146LAMBERTS, 401 W. Second, 494-1500LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 327-9889LATITUDE 30, 512 San Jacinto, 472-3335LONG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,701 W. Riverside, 482-0800LOVEJOYS, 604 Neches, 477-1268LUCKY LOUNGE, 209-A W. Fifth, 479-7700LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE, 141 E. Hopkins, San Marcos,512/558-7399THE MADISON, 307 W. Fifth, 507-0327MAGGIE MAE’S, 323 E. Sixth, 478-8541MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 444-0261METROPOLIS, 2200 S. 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Fourth, 494-1150RANCH 616, 616 Nueces, 479-7616REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Hwy. 183 N., 335-5115RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 476-8100RED FEZ, 209-B W. Fifth, 478-5120REDLINE HOOKAH LOUNGE, 2101 S. First, 739-6372RENAISSANCE HOTEL, 9721 Arboretum, 343-2626RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter, 512/392-3132ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder, Round Rock, 512/218-0813ROADHOUSE RAGS, 1600 Fortview, 762-8797ROOM 710, 710 Red River, 476-0997RUTA MAYA, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637SALVAGE VANGUARD THEATER, 2803 Manor Rd., 474-7886SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 282-0083SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552SCHOLZ GARTEN, 1607 San Jacinto, 751-5650THE SCOOT INN, 1308 E. Fourth, 478-6200SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILL, 9012 ResearchSte. C-1, 380-9443SHINER’S SALOON, 422 Congress Ste. D, 448-4600SIX LOUNGE, 117 W. Fourth, 472-6662SKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFE, 2905 Pearce, 346-5915SNAKE EYES VINYL, 1101 Navasota, 600-6950SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 476-8017ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH, 3417 E. MLK, 928-8100STARDUST CLUB, 11940 Manchaca Rd., 280-8590STUBB’S, 801 Red River, 480-8341SYMPHONY SQUARE, 1101 Red River, 476-6064T.C.’S LOUNGE, 1413 Webberville Rd., 926-2200TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 255-1300THINGS CELTIC, 1806 W. 35th, 472-2358THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 472-9304TOM’S TABOOLEY, 2928 Guadalupe #102, 479-7337TRAILER SPACE RECORDS & EVENTS CENTER,1401-A Rosewood, 524-1445TRIPLE CROWN, 206 N. Edward Gary, San Marcos,512/396-2236TROPHY’S, 2008 S. Congress, 447-0969UNCLE BILLY’S BREW & QUE, 1530 Barton Springs Rd.,476-0100UNCORKED, 900 E. Seventh, 524-2809VICTORY GRILL, 1104 E. 11th, 902-5057VINO VINO, 4119 Guadalupe, 465-9282WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 360, 6203 Capital of TX Hwy. N.,418-9700WATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREET, 1106 W. 38th,451-5245WATERLOO ICE HOUSE AT THE GROVE, 9600 S. I-35Ste. D-100 (Southpark Meadows), 292-7900WATERLOO ICE HOUSE DOWNTOWN, 600 N. 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RILEY’S IRISH PUB Alan HaynesBEAUTY BAR The Triggermen, Show MeTiger!, GobiBEERLAND Tom RhodesTHE BELMONT Jeff Lofton Quartet(7:00), DJ Glick (10:00)BROKEN SPOKE Dance Lessons, JesseDayton (8:00)julyTHU 2Roger Clyne & thePeacemakers, Shurman,Antone’sWho by Fire, Austin MooseLodge No. 1735Tom Rhodes, BeerlandRon Wilkins Quartet,Elephant RoomBison, Power Animal, MohawkRuby Dee & theSnakehandlers, the Scoot InnFRI 3Munich, Beauty BarF-Bombers, Bent Gents, TomRhodes, BeerlandThe Dillards, Cactus CafeButcher Slim, CreeksideLoungeModwheelmood, ElysiumVice Squad, Emo’sAshes of Babylon, FlamingoCantinaVictoria & Zeta Five, GoldCrown BilliardsBlack Skies, HeadhuntersHoly Liars, Hole in the WallEpitome, La Zona RosaIndian Jewelry, Daughtersof the Sun, Dead Space,MohawkChris Jamison, Patsy’s CowgirlCafeBone Awl, Ashdautas,Volahn, Red 7Flaming Hellcats, Room 710Rat King, the Scoot InnPigs, Trailer Space Records &Events CenterTHU 02Austin Child Guidance Center Benefitw/ Right or Happy, Ian McLagan & the BumpBand, James McMurtry, Alejandro Escovedo,La Zona RosaFRI 03Cutler Benefit w/ Cramps Tribute, FlamingHellcats, the Jungle Rockers, Flametrick Subs,Room 710See austinchronicle.com for complete listings.THE BROWN BAR Kenny LunaCAFE CAFFEINE Russell Scanlon (7:00)CAROUSEL LOUNGE Rescue Signals(9:00)CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE ForestWayne AllenCHERRYWOOD COFFEEHOUSE ChiefSuper Delay (10:00)CLUB DE VILLE DJ Orion, Woven Bones,HarlemCONTINENTAL CLUB Gallery: OliverGiraud (10:00); In the Club:Shotgun Party (6:30), LowerCompanions, Corrina Corrina, theService Industry, Moonlight Towers(10:00)COOL RIVER CAFE Tub (9:00)COPA BAR & GRILL Salsa Lessons w/Tony, the Brew (8:00)CREEKSIDE LOUNGE Corrine Rose,West Coast Pinups, Clyde & Clem’sWhiskey BusinessDONN’S DEPOT Murphy’s InlawsSAT 4Buckfast Superbee, Apple BarShotgun Rebels, BeerlandMidnight Creeps, the CompoundJerry Jeff Walker, KelliePickler, Dell DiamondHenry Rollins, Gallows, Emo’sRook, Freddie’s PlaceKepi Ghoulie, Pleasure Kills,HeadhuntersVermont Joy Parade, Hole inthe WallJoker, Junior’s Grill & IcehouseCory Branan, Jon Snodgrass& Joey Cape, MohawkThe Cassingles, the WrongOnes, the Scoot InnP.L.F., Deep Shit, BranchDavidian, Snake Eyes VinylSUN 5M.O.T.O., Midnight Creeps,Ty Segall, BeerlandGifts From Enola, Irepress,Emo’sAbbi Sims, Freddie’s PlaceSouth Texas Destroyers,Gruene HallThe Pleasure Kills, KepiGhoulie, Playland Skate CenterZombie Religion, We AreEmpire, Snake Eyes VinylMON 6Prince Rama, Club 1808Pentagram, Outlaw Order,Nachtmystium, Wolves in theThrone Room, Minsk, Emo’sDead Albatross, Espinaca,HeadhuntersSpeakeasy, Hole in the WallChris Jamison, Jovita’sLovely Houses, MohawkClay McClinton, Momo’sLISTINGS ARE FREE AND PRINTED ON ASPACE AVAILABLE BASIS. Acts are listedchronologically. Schedules are subject tochange, so call clubs to confirm lineups.Start times are provided where knownand are PM unless otherwise noted.SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Musiclistings deadline is Monday morning,9am, for that week’s issue, publishedon Thursday. Please indicate roadshowsand residencies. Send venue name,address, phone, acts, and start times to:Club Listings, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX78765; fax, 458-6910; phone, 454-5766x159; e-mail, clubs@austinchronicle.com.Austin bands: We want to hear fromyou. If you haven’t registered anduploaded your MP3s to the MusiciansRegister, go to austinchronicle.com/register. Anywhere your band ismentioned, your music will be featured.road showsTUE 7Mount Vicious, Austin MooseLodge No. 1735Prince Rama, BeerlandLoser Life, Insomnio, Club1808Toni Price, Continental ClubAbe Vigoda, Talbot Tagora,Loser Life, Emo’sColin Herring, MohawkWaylon Payne, Saxon PubGreg Laswell, Elizabeth &the Catapult, Stubb’sWED 8Sarah Peacock, Antone’sGolden Animals, Beauty BarHowlies, BeerlandKevin Welch, Continental ClubUnder the Gun, MetropolisJess Klein, Momo’sJoe Firstman, Brian Wright,Stubb’sTHU 9David Wingo, Cactus CafeZenith Fuzzbomb, CreeksideLoungeDeer Tick, Dawes, Emo’sForest Sun, FlipnoticsCoffeespaceChris Jamison, Momo’sFellow Citizens, the ParishFor Want Of, Trifle Tower,the ParlorBuster Jiggs, Poodie’s HilltopBar & GrillRadio Moscow, Red 7Spanish Gamble, the NewFlesh, Snake Eyes VinylSarah Peacock, Triple CrownDeer Tick, Waterloo Recordsfor your benefitSAT 04Capitol Area Food Bank Benefit, SchoolParade Aftershow w/ Sara Hickman, BartonHills ElementaryYellow Bike Project Benefit w/ Little StolenMoments, Rebecca Havemeyer, InvincibleCzars, Wooldridge Square ParkTUE 07Save Our Springs Benefit, PoolSide Live w/Atash, Barton Springs

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PUB & GRILLVideo VampSKI SHORES WATERFRONT CAFEVan WilksSPEAKEASY Suede (9:30)STARDUST CLUB Thumbs UpSTUBB’S J.Be, San Saba County, Mice& RiflesTRAILER SPACE RECORDS & EVENTSCENTER Serious Tracers, Pigs,Ghost Knife (6:00)TRIPLE CROWN Johnny Vibrato, MyEducation, Falcon Buddies, FocusGroupWATERLOO ICE HOUSE 38TH STREETPoor Yorick (7:00)WATERLOO ICE HOUSE AT THE GROVEWynn Taylor (10:00)WATERLOO ICE HOUSE DOWNTOWNDaniel David (7:00)WATERLOO ICE HOUSE GALLERIASouthern Drive (9:00)WATERLOO ICE HOUSE SLAUGHTERLANE Blacktop Bend (7:00)THE DRISKILL HOTEL Lobby Bar: BillCarter & Stephen Doster (6:00)EDDIE V’S PRIME SEAFOOD EmilyGimble (7:30)ELEPHANT ROOM Sarah Temple, RonWilkins Quartet (6:00)EMO’S Serious Tracers, the No No NoHopes, Monkeytown, Black PandaEVANGELINE CAFE Liz Morphis (7:00)FLAMINGO CANTINA Trim Benefit w/Graham Wilkinson, the Trim (9:00)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE LincolnDurham (6:00); Elisa Ferrari, DannySchmidt, Nathan Hamilton, BenMallott (8:00)FREDDIE’S PLACE Stingrays (6:00)FURR’S FAMILY DINING CarltonLombard (noon, 6:00)GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOONAlvin Crow (9:00)GRUENE HALL Bo Porter (1:00), EzraCharles (7:00)GÜERO’S TACO BAR Bobby Fuentes(6:30)HEADHUNTERS Half-Baked, TaylorBrown, Creeping Tom, Ire &Sentiment, Fly Me to the MoonHOLE IN THE WALL The Jungle Rockers,Chelsea Manor, Context Clues(10:00)HOUSE WINE Kelly Mickwee (6:00)JO’S HOT COFFEE Marshall Ford SwingBand (7:00)JOVITA’S The Cornell Hurd Band (8:00)LA ZONA ROSA Austin Child GuidanceCenter Benefit w/ Right or Happy,Ian McLagan & the Bump Band,James McMurtry, AlejandroEscovedoLOVEJOYS Charlie Hurtin’ & theHecklersLUCKY LOUNGE Grant Ewing (10:00)THE MADISON Mista Swift, GrahamWilkinsonMARIA’S TACO XPRESS Phil Brown, JimiProject (6:00)MOHAWK Outside: Power Animal, SleepWhale, This Will Destroy You; InsideLater: Bison, HMS Foolhardy (9:00)MOMO’S Amanda Pearcy, Kevin Smith,Deadman, Matt McCloskey, MargoValianteMOTHER’S CAFE & GARDEN Thomas“Doc” Grauzer (6:00)MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERSKim Simpson (7:30)NUTTY BROWN CAFE CarportCassanovasONE 2 ONE BAR Wayne’s Donkey,80H Project (8:00)THE PARISH King Fisher, Bruce JamesSoultetTHE PARLOR Dickey Brothers (9:00)PATSY’S COWGIRL CAFE AmericanaShowcase (7:30)THE PIER ON LAKE TRAVIS Open MicRANCH 616 Lucas Hudgins (8:00)RED FEZ DJ Rapid Ric, Mike Maven &the Good Life (8:30)REDLINE HOOKAH LOUNGE Athuai RushRENAISSANCE HOTEL Rich Demarco(6:00)RILEY’S TAVERN Midnight River ChoirRUTA MAYA WORM, the Human Circuit,Sheer Khan & the Space Case,Zissou (8:00)SAXON PUB Tim Curry Trio (6:00);Flatcar Rattlers, George Devore,Jason Eady (8:00)THE SCOOT INN Doug Kent & theHomewreckers, Ruby Dee & theSnakehandlers, Dave Insley’sCareless Smokers, Grub Dog & theModestos (8:00)SHERLOCK’S BAKER ST. PUB & GRILLThe Fuss, Video VampSHINER’S SALOON Jeremy Steding(9:00)SPEAKEASY Jukebox Heroes (9:30)ST. JAMES BAPTIST CHURCH LGBTComposers w/ Austin ChamberEnsemble (7:30)STUBB’S Dana Falconberry, JesseWoodsTHREADGILL’S WORLD HQ TexasBluegrass MassacreTRIPLE CROWN Ricky Stein, SnippyLovin’, Devil’s HollowTROPHY’S Jeremy MillerWATERLOO ICE HOUSE GALLERIAThe Jems (9:00)Z’TEJAS Dream Lovers (6:00)FRI 03THE AMSTERDAM MarshallFord Swing Band,Kittinger (8:00)ANTONE’S T Bird & the Breaks,the Scabs (9:00)ARTZ RIB HOUSE George Enslé (7:30)AUSTIN MOOSE LODGE NO. 1735 Uzi &Ari, Warbler Pi (7:00)BACKSTAGE STEAKHOUSE & GARDENBAR Michael Samuels (7:00)B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Eric TessmerBEAUTY BAR Prince Klassen, Munich,the Always Already, Crash GalleryBEERLAND Tom Rhodes, ScrabbleRobot, Bent Gents, F-Bombers,the ChumpsTHE BELMONT DJ Glick (10:00)’BOUT TIME DJ ElementTHE BROWN BAR Kenny LunaCACTUS CAFE The Dillards (8:00)CAROUSEL LOUNGE Mad Cowboys(7:00)CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE JoeyGreen (9:30)CHERRYWOOD COFFEEHOUSE Uzi & Ari,Warbler PiCLUB 1808 Ultra Wolf (10:00)CLUB DE VILLE New Roman Times CDRelease, Til We’re Blue or DestroyCD Release (9:00)CONTINENTAL CLUB Gallery: MikeFlanigin (10:00); In the Club: TheBlues Specialists (6:30); DaveInsley’s Careless Smokers, Li’lCap’n Travis (10:00)COOL RIVER CAFE The SophisticatesCOTTON CLUB People’s ChoiceCREEKSIDE LOUNGE Bloody Stiletto,Butcher Slim, Unsurpassed Profit,Van SanchezDONN’S DEPOT Donn & the StationMastersDRY CREEK SALOON Damon Bramblett(8:00)EDDIE V’S PRIME SEAFOOD MarkGoodwin Trio (7:00)EL SOL Y LA LUNA Mariachi Tamazula(8:00)ELEPHANT ROOM Nathan Hook, HarryBrun & the Latin Playerz (6:00)ELYSIUM SubNatural, ModwheelmoodEMO’S The Extravaganza, BlankGeneration, Exile, Lower ClassBrats, Vice SquadEND OF AN EAR Cosmicjaguar CDReleaseEVANGELINE CAFE Larry Lange & theLonely Knights (10:00)THE FIFTH GALLERY John GomiFLAMINGO CANTINA Proper VillainSoundsystem, Ashes of Babylon,the Bandulus (9:00)FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE TheBeelines, Maggie Simpson, LibbyKirkpatrick (6:00)FREDDIE’S PLACE Strong Medicine(6:00)Sand Sheff(taking requests)Mark Jungers(w/ John Greenberg)Texas Swing KingsRosie FloresLive Music!Cold Drinks!Hot Food!Good Times!5001 E. 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Wood floors, W/D,Zen Garden 2BDR $850SOUTH $1100 South Austin.Treat Yourself to Resort StyleLivingAgent Travis EvansPlease Call 512-589-2353SOUTH AustinCool.com 693-7231 Greenbelt trail at door,W/D incl, walk to shops/cafes-cool 78704 $640SOCO LOFT STYLE LIVINGOnly 60 units in this exclusive comm. 2/21144sf $1456 cable and web incl. $99 in!So/Co CONDOS ALL BILLS PAID2/2s or Studios, $895-$1450So/La 2/1 BargainNeat and Clean with 859sf for $685, pool greatlaundry room, walk to StarbucksZILKER HIDDEN GEMEfficiency 399sf only $545 HURRY!!THREE BEDROOM $999Black appliances and washer/dryer incl.resort community, great amenities 1399sfEASY CENTRAL ACCESS1/1 $700 with garage just in time for school,tennis, vball, bball, raquetball!SHOPPING AND DININGIt’s all in the neighborhood! 1/Study 1015sf$912 on a 6 month leaseWood floors &1/2 off fees78704 TOWNHOMEBig Dog friendly, connections, 2/1.5 $859HousesApartmentsCondosLoftsDuplexesTownhomesseventh heavenon sixth.$99TOTALMOVE-IN!1616 W. 6th St.Town Lake and greenbelt trails rightoutside your doorstep.Mopac★W 6thTOWN LAKEN Lamar1/1’S FROM $6952/1’S FROM $995(512)499-8013AMENITIESINCLUDE:5 1 2 - 5 8 9 - 2 3 5 3CALL TRAVIS&Stay Local!!SOUTH AUSTINapartment searchEfficiencies from $400-$5251 Bedrooms 1 Bath $499-$7402 Bedroom 2 Bath $650-$9603 Bedroom 2 Bath $895-$1500FREE APT. LOCATORSSAME DAY RAYRonJon theApt MonKeeping Austin weirderCall, Look & Lease Todayone day at a timeEFF: $430 - Nice and cozy1 BR: $479 or 1 BRwith study: $629 - private pond1 BR: $475 - Free cable, gate access, HUGE!!!2 BR: $650 - W/D conn., great locations2 BR LOFT: $900 - W/D conns., incredible, TREES GALORE3 BR: $895 Gigantic, skateparkCURRENT SPECIALS: $99, $185, $200 total move-in prices!CLARKSVILLE AREA 1BD $750, 2BD $1095, free cable, gas$299 1ST MONTH Efficiency $495, 2BD $595, 5 min to dtwnUT SHUTTLE TOURS 1 BD $489, 2 BD $6792 EXITS TO DOWNTOWN 1BD $525, 2BD $670, W/D conn.,1 MONTH FREE 1BD, $495, 676sf, 2 BD townhome, $675 w/dBACKYARD 1 BD $770, 2/2 $960, w/d1ST TIME RENTERS, Bad credit, broken lease, big dogs = OK!AUGUST, SEPTEMBER MOVE-INS(THRU MAY 2010 AVAILABLE)GROOMS STREETTOWNHOMES3401 Grooms Street/Speedway5 Blocks From Campus!3 BED TOWNHOMES$16502 story wood floors, microwave, dishwasher,W/D, granite counters, ceramic tile, water& garbage paidPROPERTIES, INC.WAUGH 512-451-0988WE SPECIALIZE IN IMMEDIATE MOVE-INS, CHEAP RENT & DIFFICULT SITUATIONSWE ARE FAST, FRIENDLY, AND BEST OF ALL FREE104 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

SOUTH $499 1/1 SE AustinEverything You Need andMore!Agent Travis EvansPlease Call 512-589-2353SOUTH Crazy SpecialSpacious 2/2. $843-1250SQFT Resort StylePool/Fitness Center. NOWWORKING WITH CREDITISSUES. Tap Realty TravisEvans 512-589-2353.SOUTHEAST SIDE DR/BLUNN CREEKNATURE PRESERVELarge 1/1 $630Large 2/2 $699Pet & Bicycle-friendly. $99Total Move-In.! Nothing moreto pay until August!Call Team Real Estatefor show!(512)416-8333austindowntownliving.comSOUTH $960 2/2South AustinImagine Luxury Living @ yourFinger Tips.Agent Travis EvansPlease Call 512-589-2353SOUTH CENTRALDOWNTOWNCONGRESS RESTAURANT/SHOPPING DISTRICTNO NEED FOR A CARGreenbelt Access.STUDIO $6951/1 $7952/2 $945Call Team Real Estatefor show!(512)416-8333austindowntownliving.comSOUTHAustinCool.com(512)693-7231WOODED PARKSETTINGLarge decks, trees, big dogsSOUTHSOUTH AustinCool.com 693-7231 Total urban living experience.Stained concrete floors, artdeco, W/D, 2/2 $789. 1/1, $599.SOUTH CENTRAL Liveminutes from Austin’sGreenbelt and downtown. Enjoyshopping, dining and beautifulscenic views. This communityfeatures water/sand volleyball,tennis court, state-of-the-artfitness center, coffee bar andresort-style pool. New appliances,flooring and interiors.1/1 starts at $725 and 2/2 startsat $1099. Call Chris Bee, REAL-TOR with Avignon Realty.SOUTH CENTRALTravis Heights! 2 BedroomTownhome ALL BILLS PAIDincluding cable, you payelectric only for $1100.00!78704, Gated Community,Reserved Parking, StainlessSteel Appliances, W/D Provided,Faux Wood Floors on1st level, tons of closet andmore!Call Kelly 512-619-0255 orkelly@greenlightlocating.com.SOUTH CENTRAL$599/1br. Creekside. *78704*Washer/Dryer is INCLUDED!Awesome location in SouthCentral, walk to coffee,breakfast, lunch & dinner.Bring your dog & take themon daily walks to thegreenbelt! It’s practically yournew back yard! Call Donnaat 512-970-5554 ordonna@greenlightlocating.comSOUTH CENTRALAustin Apartment HOTLINE.All Leasing information ALLthe time! Call Kelly Coffee512-619-0255 for ALL yourleasing needs. You take yourcoffee break I do all thework. If it’s out there I canfind it! No Carpet, NoProblem! 1/1 in the $600’s,2/2 for $800!SOUTH CENTRAL SOCO2/2 For $799!!! Over 1000sfin south central Austin, 10minutes from downtown,surrounded by restaurantsand a movie theatre!! Vacantand ready to go now! So donot hesitate because you willmiss out on this amazingdeal that does not comearound often!Call Jason 512.695.3424SOUTHWEST apartmentsaustin-tx.com693-7290Min.to downtown, customkitchens, granite/wood, 2/1$899.WEST Far West-Located onthe UT Shuttle Route, thiscommunity features manyamenities including: tennisand volleyball court, swimmingpool, fitness center,picnic area and clubhouse.Walk-in closets, wood floorsand fireplace. Don’t miss outon downtown living. 1/1 startsat $539 and 2/2 starts at$750. Call Chris Bee, REAL-TOR with Avignon Realty,512-293-7737.duplex/housesCENTRAL Hyde Park. Custom5/4/2. W/D, A/C, Yard.1yr. lease. $3300/Dep.512-304-8339CENTRALVintage and unusualhouses, duplexes, apartments.See photos, floorplans,and details atbarkleyhouses.com 472-2123CENTRAL Hyde Park - Spacious2/1 for Late August, allappliances, CA/CH, largepatio area, small fencedarea, covered parking, W/Dconn., great closet space,quiet neighbors. Mediumpets negotiable. $895. 703-BE. 45th (between Red River &Duval). Matthews Properties454-0099, Rollo 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRALCALL NOW FORSPECIALS!AUGUST & SEPT MOVE-INS(LEASES THRU MAY 2010AVAILABLE)3BDRM TOWNHOME $18003401 Grooms St(34th/Speedway area, 5blocks north of UT campus!)(2-story, microwave,dishwasher, W/D, woodfloors, granite counters,ceramic tile, water/garbagepaid!)15 Owner ManagedLocationsWaugh Properties, Inc.(512) 451-0988CENTRALCALL NOW FORSPECIALS!JULY, AUGUST, SEPTMOVE-INS (LEASES THRUMAY 2010 AVAILABLE)2/2 $975 1,000sqft.1717 W 35th(Water/garbage paid, woodfloors, ceramic tile, stainlesssteel, microwave, DW)15 Owner ManagedLocationsWaugh Properties, Inc.(512) 451-0988CENTRAL Hyde Park-Houseon a HUGE LOT, availablemid August - 2/1, diningroom, large fenced yard, WDconnections. Free standinggarage for storage only Centralheat but not central air.4721 Red River $1400. Matthews,Rollo 731-6799.matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRAL Tarrytown - Availablefor NOW. - gigantic 1/1’sin 4-plex, Plain Jane exterior,hardwoods, large commonyard area for gardens or justrelaxing under the trees, windowseverywhere, largekitchen, NO W/D connections,window a/c’s. Catswelcome! - NO DOGS! $795w/ $100 off first month movein special. 2304 Enfield. MatthewsProperties, Rollo 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRAL Hyde Park spacious3-2 duplex in small,quiet community. 2 living areas,1 car garage, large coveredpatio, CA/CH. Gas(heating, cooking, hot water)and water paid! No indoorsmoking. Laundry on-site(NO individual W/Dconnections). Cats welcome!NO DOGS! Available lateJune $1,475. 4307-A Caswell.Matthews Properties,Rollo 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRALJULY, AUGUST,SEPT MOVE-INS(THRU MAY 2010)EFFS $595Guadalupe & 43rd4310 and 4400 Avenue B(Gas/Water paid, DW, disposal,CACH, gas cooking)15 Owner ManagedLocationsWaugh Properties, Inc.(512) 451-0988FREE HOME SEARCHALL OVER AUSTIN!CENTRAL Tarrytown - PRELEASING FOR AUGUST-Spacious2-1 1/2, with bonusroom, 2 fenced yards, patio,fireplace, electric cooking, W/D connections. NO commonwalls. Most pets accepted!Only ONE Off Street ParkingSpace. $1,350, 2806-B Warren.Matthews Properties,Rollo 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comCENTRAL Immaculate 3-2house for August- two livingareas, plus additional bonusoffice, CA/CH, covered patiowith French Doors, garage,fireplace, built-in bookcases,large fenced yard, gardenarea, DW, disposal. Cats andmost dogs welcome! No indoorsmoking. $995. 7006Priscilla. Matthews Properties,Rollo 731-6799,matthewsproperties@yahoo.comEAST 3-1 5403 Tipton, clean,great neighbourhood/yard,HVAC, tile, avail.7/1, $1040/moPets neg. garage, Call Angelika(own.) 627-2288HYDE PARK Charming 2BR/2bath Bungalow on treelined Ave C. Smokefree, nearbus & UT,hardwood,porch. AvailAug 1. Contact: 847-735-0615/navybayers@aol.com. $1800NORTH Avail8/1 2BD2Bathwith garage,nice ~2000 sq ft,sunroom, W&D,near HighlandMall, 7 mo lease 589.7163NORTHWEST 1265 sq ft,2/2.5/1; rent/dep: $1015.00; AppFee: $35. 512-689-2309; pics @ericka.actris.mlxchange.comClassifiedsSOUTH Great 2/1 floorplanin a 4-plex just 2 blocks fromSt.Eds Only $650 *Also therea 1/1 for $525. Trash pd. 2 Pkg.Both Avail Now. Call CampusCondos 474-4800SOUTH List of available duplexes& homes. Quick &courteous Realtor. Call Rick@ 447-7368 w/Properties PlusvacationGetaway week 2 bedrm Villasleeps 6 on Lake Travis $540.wkLimited Aug/Sept wks 941321 1790 owner 2 wks $1000.fran.bill3@verizon.net for pixsoffice/commercialNORTH CENTRALNeed Office Space? We’ve gotspaces starting at $1/sf or $200/mo. Free wi-fi.All bills paid. Contact Stacy at494-0000 stacy@buttross.comwww.7901Cameron.comwww.buttross.com*roommatesBASTROP CO. Successful Austinbased businessman, gone alot, seeks room-mate/caretakerfor beautiful home,animals, inthe pines, lakes, wildlife, severalhundred acres 45 minutes$$$ EXTRA money $$$from downtown Austin. Room,food, car, gas, some dollarsprovided in exchange for parttime administrative duties, parttime personal life assistance.Have housekeeper. No cleaning/cooking. Excellent, aboveaverage computer skills a must.No smoking, no drugs, must beft employed, physicaly fit, eatreal estatefor saleThe Chronicle adsright, valid drivers license, passbackground check, references.longhorn1948@hotmail.comwere FREE. Now Mimi 800-535-6896. I haveLAKEWAY Quiet house w/room for rent on 5 acres. Petsok. $250 dep, $250 rent, 1/3CEDAR PARKenough for date nightUtil. 512-266-2699at the bowling alley!METRO ALL AREAS - RENT-MATES.COM. Browse hundredsof online listings withphotos and maps. Findyour roommate with a click ofthe mouse! Visit: http://www.Rentmates.com. (AANCAN)METRO SOBER LIVINGFurnished, Central, South &North. Wifi-Cable-Phone.ABP. $125/wk. 512-921-8182admin@thecleanhouse.orgNORTHGay, male roommate wantedto share 3 bd house in N.Austin. Washer/dryer. Availnow! $500+utils 733-1058NORTH-CENTRAL Free WiFi;$500 ABP, Cool prof roomies;Safe friendly Subd; 4bdrmhome w/prvt room; Tobin 512-775-4728ALL Private Investor wantsto buy income property. Willlook at all, any condition. CallAustinCool.com/salesSEARCH 11,000AUSTIN SALESLISTINGS!FREE BUYER REP.(512) 693-7231REAL ESTATE You can placeyour Home for Sale ad in TheAustin Chronicle’s Home Gallerysection for only $45/week.Call 512-454-5765 to place yourad today!MORE than a listaustinchronicle.com/classifieds$$$ EXTRA money $$$The Chronicle ads wereFREE. Now I have enough fordate night at the bowling alley!Nice Southside Location!!Additional 2 weeks free onselect units!! Enjoy living onthe South side of town. Onemonth free prorated or upfront on all one bedrooms.Prorated prices are: 1 bdrmsstarting at $565, and 2 bdrmsstarting at $719. No chargefor faux wood floors in selectunits. Pool & Hot tub! Washer/Dryersavailable. Courtesyofficer. Fire places in selectunits. Call 828-4470 and letus do the work!!SOUTHEAST Minutes toDowntonwn, 1/1 $535, 2/2$685. Water paid, gated, freerent! Call Rick 447-RENT,Properties Plus.SOUTHWESTAustinCool.com(512)693-7231UPSCALE 2BDRM,W/D $895Sunset Valley area3BDR $1145PRICES AS LOW AS$499 for a1 BED/1 BATH$699 for a2 BED/ 2 BATH& shared livingstarting at $399!SALES:New & ResaleHomesLEASING:Apartments,Condos,Duplexes, HousesCHRIS BEE512-293-7737SERVING THE AUSTIN METRO SINCE 2000WWW.CHRISBEE.USWWW.APARTMENTSFIRST.COM WWW.AVIGNONREALTY.COM*MORE than a listClassifiedsaustinchronicle.com/classifiedsa u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 105

Unique, very private 1800 sq. ft. home on 1 acre in the HillCountry. Access to Lake Travis. Pool, wired for hot tub.Near Lakeline Mall & Cedar Park shopping. Horses OK.Beautiful Hill Country views. For lease or sale.SoLa City Homes - 2520 BluebonnetStarting at $349,900 - MODELOPEN DAILY!- Incredible 3 storytownhomes homes with breathtakingviews, bamboo flooring, naturalstone surfaces, and stainlesssteel appliances! Wine refrigeratorincluded! Definitely a must see!MLS# 8106565 - For more infoplease call Fred Meyers at512.517.2300 or 512.323.9006For thousands of Austin Arealistings please visitwww.AustinCityLiving.comMonte Vista Condominiums6000 Shepherd MountainStarting at $99,900! MODEL OPENDAILY! Resort style pool! Breath-takingviews! Right by the Lake! TONSof Luxury and GREEN FEATURESto choose from! EnergyStar Appliances,Granite Counters, BambooFlooring, and so much more!MLS#7473477 - For more infoplease call Paul or Jeff at512.343.6900 or 512.323.9006.For thousands of Austin Arealistings please visitwww.AustinCityLiving.comMLS#3160266For more information, please call Stone orAlfredo at 512.447.7626 or 512.323.9006For thousands of Austin area listings pleasevisit www.AustinCityLiving.comMLS#4945035For more information please call CraigSeverson at 512.947.7491 or 512.323.9006For thousands of Austin area listings pleasevisit www.AustinCityLiving.comWILLOW BRANCHLOFTS 1807 POQUITOSTARTING AT $125,000!MODEL OPEN DAILY!Less than a mile to UTcampus! Just minutes fromdowntown, Town Lake, andso much more! Concretefloors, granite countertops,stainless steel appliances,and so much more!!!THE ENCLAVEAT WESTGATE3015 SEA JAYStarting at $229,000! MODEL OPENDAILY!- Amazing south location justoff Westgate and William Cannon!Very cool, very GREEN, very Austin!Polished concrete and bamboo floors,quartz countertops, and lots ofoptional upgrades!!!The Biggest Names in Modern Architecture alongsideThe Smallest Energy Costs... & Affordable Pricingwww.NineSixtyNine.com / 512.927.2626continuedreal estatefor saleCENTRAL 2520 Bluebonnet.Starting at $349,900. Modelopen daily 12-4pm. Incredible3 story townhomes withbreathtaking views, bambooflooring, natural stone surfaces,and stainless steelappliances! Wine refrigatorincluded! Definitely a mustsee! MLS# 8106565. Formore information please callFred Meyers at 512.517.2300or 512.323.9006. For thousandsof Austin area listingsvisitwww.austincityliving.com.CENTRALDOWNTOWN LOFTEXPERTSStarting at $190K!Wood, stainless appliances& more!(512)693-7231All downtown listings at:AustinCool.com/salesCENTRAL 1017 E. Riverside,Unit A: $415,000 Unit B:$445,000. 3/2.5 in each.EnergyStar rated! Breathtakingcity views from rooftopsun deck! Designer fixtures,hardwood flooring, stainlesssteel appliances! Across thestreet from Town Lake! MLS#8652309/7617991. For moreinformation please call FredMeyers at 512.517.2300 or512.323.9006. For thousandsof Austin area listings visitwww.austincityliving.com.CENTRAL 1210 Windsor Rd.#107. Incredible location!Walking distance to Clarksvilledistrict and WholeFoods, established community,stainless appliances,granite counters, wood/slatefloors, upgraded lighting, utilitiesincluded in HOA!$215,000. Call Fred Meyers517-2300.www.austincityliving.comCENTRAL EASTAUSTIN’S MOSTAFFORDABLEDOWNTOWNLOFTSBike to downtown,Town Lake, UT Campus$0 DOWN (ask us how)*6 Spacious floor plans*Private Balconies (VIEWS!)*Concrete/Wood Floors*Gated, Covered Parking*FHA Approved= LOW Down Payments!2931 E 12th St, 78702Priced from $129,900EastEndFlatsAustin.com512-788-9266EASTUP TO $40,000 BUYERSBONUS! $10,000 DESIGNCENTER ALLOWANCE!INCENTIVE!NINE SIXTY NINEModel Open Daily Mon-Sat10am-7pm, Sun 1pm-7pm5237 Sendero Hills Pkwy,Austin TX 78724www.ninesixtynine.comKeller Williams(512) 927-2626SOUTHMODERN SoCoCONDOS FOR$99,9003 Blocks fromSt. Ed’s & SoCo$3500 DOWN PAYMENT!FREE FOR UP TO 90 DAYS!Contact us for details.2526 Durwood St, 78704Next to beautiful Gillis ParkFABULOUS AMENITIES:*Bamboo Floors*Granite Counters*Stainless Appliances*On-site Laundry*Pool *Hot Tub *Zen GardenAustinElementStudios.comSOUTHINTIMATE MODERNSOUTH AUSTINCONDOS2BR/2Bath CondosPriced from $142,900Super Low Down Pmt.FHA Financing Approved!*5 mi. from downtown*Energy Efficient Condos*Full stainless appliance pkg.*Granite Counters & MORE*$20,000 off select units!*Ready for move-in!*AMAZING VIEWSwww.deatonhillaustin.comTEXAS LAND 0- Down!20-acre Ranches, Near ElPaso. Beautiful MountainViews. Road Access. Surveyed.$15,900. $159/mo.Money Back Guarantee.Owner Financing. 1-800-843-7537www.sunsetranches.com(AAN CAN)real estateservicesAREA HOMES FREE searchdata base atwww.quigleyteam.com. RealEstate by the Golden Rule!CENTRAL Free LocalProperty Locating Servicehttp://www.austinreallist.com512-669-8269MAKE YOUR ADSTAND OUT!highlight your adon austinchronicle.comtwo ways:Both AD OF THE DAY andFEATURED ads appear inspecial sections on AustinChronicle website.tofieds and click “place anad”METRO HOUSES FOR RENT.Browse thousands of rentallistings with photos andmaps. Advertise your rentalhome for FREE! Visit: http://www.RealRentals.com (AANCAN)buy/sell/tradeantiques/collectiblesARMOIRE SET BeautifulAntique Lawrencia Armoire/Wardrobe with Mirror andMatching Chest of Drawers.Beautiful antique armoire andmatching chest of drawers wasmanufactured in the 1920’sby the Lawrencia ReliableFurniture Co. who specializedin art deco furniture in the 20’sand 30’s. Both pieces are madefrom mahogany; the armoireincludes decorative walnutburl accents. The matchinghardware/drawer pulls onboth pieces provide beautifulaccents. The armoire measuresapproximately 47.5” W x 75” Hx 17” D and has four hangingrods and a set of hooks in themain compartment and a singledeep lower drawer for extrastorage. The chest of drawersmeasures approximately 39” Wx 27” H x 18.5” D and has twoside-by-side upper drawers andone lower drawer for storage.Set (armoire and chest of drawers)retailed for $850, asking$750. Located near VolenteBeach Water Park northwestof Austin. Call 512-996-0561 ifinterested.TELEPHONE STAND AntiqueTelephone Stand. Purchasedfrom Old World Antiques inBozeman, MT in 1997 but don’thave any specifics about itsage. Functions well as a telephonestand or nightstand withstorage inside for telephonebooks, books, magazines, etc.Measures approximately 14”W x 25” H x 13” D. Retailed for$65, asking $45. Located nearVolente Beach Water Parknorthwest of Austin. Call 512-996-0561 if interested.appliancesWHIRLPOOL BATH Both ofthese items are brand new,still in the box. Purchasedtoo soon in our remodel.White 5’x32” w/built in apron!Lifetime warranty. Eight flowadjustable jets including: Twoadjustable Hi-Flo Comfort Jets,Six adjustable Comfort JetsLifetime Overflow Drain formaximum water depth This isa left Hand drain. MFG Model#: 2425L-RHO.020 $699 retailLifetime Drain white AcrylicWith Fiberglass ReinforcementUnglazed Rim, Front OverflowSupplied With Template andMounting Kit MFG Model #:1599205.020 $94 retail All productinfo available online! Thiswas purchased at Home Depot.Get it here and save yourselfthe tax. $850 retail, Asking $450This is for pickup only please!Email chr_ad@yahoo.com orleave message for Victor at 673-3919 with questions or to take alook! Have a great day!!clothingAPPARELClothing, stickers, patches,pins, jewelry, corsets.462-9217computersNEW COMPUTER GET ANEW COMPUTER BrandName laptops & desktopsBad or NO Credit - NoProblem Smallest weeklypayments available. It’syours NOW - Call 800-803-8819 (AAN CAN)electronicsIPHONE 3G Black, 16GBiPhone 3G, great condition,$250 OBO. 512-810-2100.furnitureBED SOFA Selling the followingitems: Sofa Mart “Riley”sofa: khaki color, 8ft long, greatshape, just won’t fit in my newspace! 2 years old, paid $700,asking $250 obo. Pottery Barnfull bed: matte chocolate metalheadboard/footboard andframe. No mattress/boxspringor linens. 2 years old, paid $800,asking $300 obo. Singer built-insewing machine: circa 1930,heavy iron, built into fold-outtable. Still works, just needs atune-up! Asking $150. Can seepictures on craigslist on myJune 24 posting under furnitureby owner. Call 317-9485 for detailsand ask for Kelly. Leave amessage if no answer. 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legalnoticesCITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXAS TOJOSEPH EDGAR “BUSTER”ROQUE AND TO ALL PER-SONS INTERESTED IN THEGUARDIANSHIP OF KATHYRAN BONNIE NOEL SCOTTaka KATHYRAN BONNIENOEL ROBB SCOTT, a minor,No. C-1-PB-09-000211 inProbate Court Number One ofTravis County, Texas.EDRENA JONES aka ED-RENA SCOTT JONES and allThe alleged heir(s) at law inthe above numbered and entitledestate, filed on June18, 2009, an Amended Applicationfor the Appointmentof Permanent Guardian of theEstate in the said guardianshipand request(s) that saidCourt appoint guardian forthe guardianship of KATHYRAN BONNIE NOEL SCOTTaka KATHYRAN BONNIENOEL ROBB SCOTT, a minor,and their respectiveshares and interests in suchestate.Said application will be heardand acted on by said Courtat 10:00 o’clock a.m. on thefirst Monday next after theexpiration of ten days fromdate of publication of this citation,at the County Courthousein Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in saidestate are hereby cited to appearbefore said HonorableCourt at said above mentionedtime and place by filinga written answer contestingsuch application shouldthey desire to do so.LMT MT016095Rev. Brian Parker, LMTMelody, LMT# 043975LMT 8896www.relaxingrituals.netIf this citation is not servedwithin 90 days after date ofits issuance, it shall be returnedunserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HANDAND THE SEAL OF SAIDCOURT at office in TravisCounty, Texas, on June 26,2009.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. BOX 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ O. RUIZCITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONS INTER-ESTED IN THE ESTATE OFSTEPHEN MICHAEL MILNEDeceased, No. C-1-PB-09-000775 in Probate CourtNumber One of TravisCounty, Texas.LISA A MILNE The allegedheir(s) at law in the abovenumbered and entitled estate,filed on June 25, 2009,an Application to DetermineHeirship & Appointment of IndependentAdministrator, andIssuance of Letters of IndependentAdministration in thesaid estate and request(s)that the said Court determinewho are the heirs and onlyheirs of the said STEPHENMICHAEL MILNE, Deceased,and their respective sharesand interests in such estate.Said application will be heardand acted on by said Courtat 10:00 o’clock a.m. on thefirst Monday next after theexpiration of ten days fromdate of publication of this citation,at the County Courthouseof Travis County, Texas.LMT 5028Life Coach/Spiritualist MinisterGuidance & SpiritualDirection for Individualsand GroupsEnergy Healing & BodyworkClasses & Workshops512-626-0222www.SynthesisGuide.comTender TouchSouth Austin Massageby Jeannie512-444-2256sweetishmassage.comMASSAGETHERAPYCENTRAL LOCATION OFF MOPACINCALL & DOWNTOWN OUTCALLS940-4087ANDPERSONALTRAINERMassage by Kimberly!Warm oil, warm hands, & warm heart!(512) 417-4141All persons interested in saidestate are hereby cited to appearbefore said HonorableCourt at said above mentionedtime and place by filinga written answer contestingsuch application shouldthey desire to do so.If this citation is not servedwithin 90 days after date ofits issuance, it shall be returnedunserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HANDAND THE SEAL OF SAIDCOURT at office in TravisCounty, Texas, on June 25,2009.Dana DeBeauvoirCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325,AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ MONICA LIM-ONCITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASTO ALL PERSONSINTERESTED IN THE ESTATEOF MICHAEL TEVIS COBB,Deceased, No. C-1-PB-09-000763 in Probate CourtNumber One of TravisCounty, Texas.JEREL DAVID COBB Thealleged heir(s) at law in theabove numbered and entitledestate, filed on June 23,2009, an Application toDetermine Heirship in thesaid estate and request(s)that said Court determinewho are the heirs and onlyheirs of the said MICHAELTEVIS COBB, Deceased, andtheir respective shares andinterests in such estate.Said application will be heardand acted on by said Courtat 10:00 o’clock a.m. on thefirst Monday next after theexpiration of ten days fromdate of publication of thiscitation, at the CountyCourthouse in Travis County,Texas.All persons interested in saidestate are hereby cited toappear before saidHonorable Court at saidabove mentioned time andplace by filing a writtenanswer contesting suchapplication should theydesire to do so.If this citation is not servedwithin 90 days after date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HANDAND THE SEAL OF SAIDCOURT at office in TravisCounty, Texas, on June 23,2009.DANA DEBEAUVOIRCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy: /s/ MONICALIMONCITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXASCause No. D-1-FM-09-003352 To: MARCOS ALVA-RADO OLMEDO and to allwho it may concern,Respondent(s); GREETINGS:YOU HAVE BEEN SUED. Youmay employ an attorney. Ifyou or your attorney do notfile a written answer with theclerk who issued this citationby 10:00 A.M. on the Mondaynext following the expirationof twenty days after you wereserved this citation and petition,a default judgment maybe taken against you.YOU ARE HEREBY COM-MANDED to appear and answerbefore the HonorableDistrict Court, 98TH JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT COURT, TravisCounty, Texas, at theCourthouse of said County inAustin, Texas, at or before 10o’clock A.M. of the Mondaynext after expiration of twentydays from the date of serviceof this citation, then andthere to answer the ORIGI-NAL PETITION FOR DI-VORCE AND TRAVISCOUNTY STANDING ORDERfiled in said court on JUNE23, 2009, and said suit beingnumber D-1-FM-09-003352on the docket of said Court,and entitled “IN THE MATTEROF THE MARRIAGE OF MA-RIA G OLMEDO MARTINEZand MARCOS ALVARADOOLMEDO, and In the Interestof ODALIZ ALVARADO ANDGAVINO ALVARADO, CHIL-DREN”.The nature of said suit is arequest to DISSOLVE themarriage of the parties, appointmanaging and possessoryconservators, and dividethe estate of the parties inthe manner that the courtdeems just and right.The Court has authority inthis suit to enter any judgmentor decree in theCHILD’S interest which willbe binding on you, includingthe termination of the parentchildrelationship, the determinationof paternity and theappointment of a conservatorwith authority to consent tothe CHILD’S adoption.Issued and given under myhand and the seal of saidcourt at Austin, Texas, June23, 2009.AMALIA RODRIGUEZ-MENDOZATravis County District ClerkTravis County Courthouse1000 Guadalupe, P.O. Box679003 (78767)Austin, Texas 78701By /s/ NIKI MITCHELL, DeputyREQUESTED BY:MARIA GUADALUPE OLME-DO6103 ADA CT-AAUSTIN, TEXAS 78744CITATION BY PUBLICATIONTHE STATE OF TEXAS TOALL PERSONS INTERESTEDIN THE ESTATE OF BETTYLOU PETERSEN, Deceased,No. C-1-PB-09-000752 in ProbateCourt Number One ofTravis County, Texas.DON R COTTON The allegedheir(s) at law in the abovenumbered and entitled estate,filed on June 22, 2009,an Application to DetermineHeirship & Appointment ofAdministrator in the said estateand request(s) that thesaid Court determine who arethe heirs and only heirs ofthe said BETTY LOU PETER-SEN, Deceased, and their respectiveshares and interestsin such estate.Said application will be heardand acted on by said Courtat 10:00 o’clock a.m. on thefirst Monday next after theexpiration of ten days fromdate of publication of this citation,at the County Courthousein Travis County, Texas.All persons interested in saidestate are hereby cited to appearbefore said HonorableCourt at said above mentionedtime and place by filinga written answer contestingsuch application shouldthey desire to do so.If this citation is not servedwithin 90 days after date ofits issuance, it shall be returnedunserved.GIVEN UNDER MY HANDAND THE SEAL OF SAIDCOURT at office in TravisCounty, Texas, on June 22,2009.DANA DEBEAUVOIRCounty Clerk,Travis County, TexasP.O. Box 149325AUSTIN, TEXAS 78714-9325By Deputy:/s/ MONICA LIM-ONCONTRACTOR’S NOTICEOF CONSTRUCTIONIFB B090276-LPNotice is hereby given thatsealed bids for the ImperialValley Drive Drainage Improvements(IFB No.B090276-LP), a drainage improvementproject, will be receivedby Cyd Grimes, TravisCounty Purchasing Agent, atthe Travis County PurchasingOffice, 314 West 11th Street,4th Floor, Suite 400, Austin,TX 78701 until 2:00 P. M.CST, JULY 15, 2009, thenpublicly opened and readaloud. Note: The Time-DateStamp Clock located at thefront counter of the TravisCounty Purchasing Office,will serve as the OFFICIALCLOCK for the purpose ofverifying the date and time ofreceipt of bids.Copies of plans and specificationsmay be obtainedfrom the TRAVIS COUNTYPURCHASING OFFICE. A refundabledeposit of $100.00in the form of a cashier’scheck, money order, or companycheck payable to“Travis County” will be requiredfor each set of biddocuments that is issued.The deposit will be refundedif the drawings and specificationsare returned in goodcondition within 21 calendardays of the bid opening.Copies of plans and specificationsmay be viewed freeof charge in the TravisCounty Purchasing Office oryou can download the projectmanual and plans online atwww.co.travis.tx.us/purchasing/solicitation.asp.In addition,plans and specificationswill be made available forviewing free of charge at variousAustin-area Plan Roomsindicated in list below.A bid security in the amountof five percent (5%) of the totalbid amount will be required.Payments will bemade for completed work inprogressive payments withthe County retaining five percent(5%) of each paymentuntil final acceptance of theproject. Payments will bemade by check. A PaymentBond is required in theamount of one-hundred percent(100%) of the contractamount, if the contractamount exceeds $25,000. APerformance Bond is requiredin the amount of onehundredpercent (100%) ofthe contract amount, if thecontract amount exceeds$100,000. Bidder should useunit pricing, except as providedfor in the Specifications.Historically UnderutilizedBusinesses including Contractors,Subcontractors, andSuppliers are encouraged toparticipate in this projectconsistent with the goals ofthe Commissioners Court.Contractors will be requiredto comply with all applicableEqual Employment Opportunitylaws and regulations, allFederal, State, and local regulationsfor construction safetyand health standards.The successful bidder mustcommence work upon issuanceby County of a writtenNotice to Proceed. TheCounty reserves the right toreject any and all bids and towaive any informality in thebids received. Bids may notbe withdrawn for ninety (90)calendar days after the dateon which they are opened.D-1-GV-06-001884CONSTABLE’S NOTICE OFSALEREAL PROPERTY DELIN-QUENT TAXESBY VIRTUE of a certain OrderOf Sale issued by the clerk ofthe 353RD District Court ofTravis County, on the 27thday of May, 2009 in a certaincause numbered D-1-GV-06-001884, wherein the following:Travis County, Eanes IndependentSchool District, TravisCounty Healthcare Districtand Travis County EmergencyServices District No. 9 (asto billing number 8340) areplaintiffs, and Casa MonteCompany; Jane Eva Bullard;The Capital National Bank inAustin nka Norwest BankTexas, Austin, N.A. nka NorwestBank, Texas, SouthCentral, nka Wells FargoBank, N.A. nka Wells FargoBank, N.A.; John W. Ray, Jr.;Thomas Pat Ray; Taylor M.Ray, Jr.; James M. Ray, BenjaminRay; Virginia Ray Daywood;Ernest Oertli, Jr.; AlvinOertli ; Edwin Oertli; LouiseOertli Toungate; KatherineOertli Haydon; Walter DouglasCaldwell; Emma LeeCaldwell Knox; Alda RayHAmilton; Edna Ray Perkins;Alyce Ray Mason; ElizabethS. Ray; Edna Elizabeth Fry;William Harris Ray; BobbyWayne Ray; Jo Ann Ferguson;Barbara Ray Baugh; EdgarHornsby; Addie(Theodoria Adams) McCullough;C. C. McCullough;Norma Ashabranner; ChristianElizabeth Thrasher; andJohn G. Adams aredefendant(s), in favor of saidplaintiffs, for the followingsums:Billing Number 8340 =$14,658.94 Dollars, togetherwith all costs of suit, that beingthe amount of judgmentrecovered by the said plaintiffs,in the 353RD DistrictCourt of Travis County, Texas,on January 30, 2009.I, on the 28th day of May,2009, at 2:00 o’clock P.M.,have levied upon, and will,on the 7th day of July, 2009at 10:00 o’ clock, A.M., at1000 Guadalupe in the Cityof Austin, within legal hours,proceed to sell for cash tothe highest bidder, all therights, title and interest of defendantsin and to the followingdescribed property, leviedupon as the property ofdefendants, to-wit:Tract 1:Parcel No.: 01-1037-0120-0000Legal Description: A tract ofland out of the Joseph FessenderSur. 73, shown as a.698 acre tract and being aportion of that second tractas described in Volume1676, Page 327 of the deedrecords of Travis County,Texas.Billing No: 8340Location: Canyon Rim DriveTHE ABOVE SALE to bemade by me to satisfy theabove described judgmentfor the following sums: BillingNumber 8340 =$14,658.94 Dollars in favor ofplaintiffs, together with thecosts of said suit, and theproceeds applied to the satisfactionthereof.Witness my hand this 28thday of May, 2009.BRUCE ELFANT,CONSTABLE PRECINCT 5TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASBY /s/ G.L. Blaylock DEPUTYON THE PROPERTY SOLD,THERE ARE NO WARRAN-TIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIM-ITED TO, THE IMPLIED WAR-RANTIES OF MERCHANT-ABILITY AND FITNESS FORA PARTICULAR PURPOSE.YOU BUY THE PROPERTY“AS IS”. BIDDERS ARE FUR-THER ADVISED THAT PUR-CHASE OF THE PROPERTYAT THIS EXECUTION SALEMAY NOT EXTINGUISH ANYLIENS OR SECURITY INTER-ESTS ON THE PROPERTY.YOU ARE SIMPLY PUR-CHASING WHATEVERINTEREST THE DEBTOR HASIN THE PROPERTY. IF YOUHAVE ANY QUESTIONS, YOUNEED TO CONSULT COUN-SEL OF YOUR CHOICE.IN THE GENERAL COURTOF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVI-SIONFILE NO: 09 CVD 3506NOTICE OF SERVICE BYPUBLICATIONSTATE OF NORTH CARO-LINACOUNTY OF CUMBERLANDKELVIN JEROME JORDAN,Plaintiff, vs. VALERIE LYNNJORDAN, DefendantTO: VALERIE LYNN JOR-DAN TAKE NOTICE that apleading seeking reliefagainst you has been filed inthe above-captioned action.The nature of the relief beingsought is as follows: AbsoluteDivorce.You are required to make defenseto such pleadings nolater than the 19th day of August,2009, and upon yourfailure to do so, the partyseeking service against youwill apply to the Court for therelief sought.This the 30th day of June,2009.SHERRY MILLERAttorney for PlaintiffMILLER, CLOUSE &ILLIKAINEN108 Hay StreetFayetteville, NC 28302NO. C-1-PB-09-000519IN THE ESTATE OFELIZABETH BENDERULRICH, DECEASEDIN THE PROBATE COURTNO. 1TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thaton June 23, 2009, NANCYELIZABETH ULRICH, n/k/aNANCY ELIZABETH BIRD-SONG and JOHN KENNETHULRICH, a/k/a JOHN KEN-NETH ULRICH, SR. qualifiedfor Letters Testamentaryupon the Estate of ELIZA-BETH BENDER ULRICH, Deceased.Such Letters weregranted to the IndependentCo-Executors by the HonorableProbate Court No. 1 ofTravis County, Texas, inCause No. C-1-PB-09-000519, pending upon theProbate Docket of said Court.All persons having claimsagainst said Estate are herebyinstructed to present thesame within the time prescribedby law to the personalrepresentatives in careof the personal representatives’attorneys at the addressshown below:NANCY ELIZABETHBIRDSONGJOHN KENNETH ULRICH,SR.c/o Nance & Simpson, L.L.P.2603 Augusta, Suite 1000Houston, Texas 77057NO. C-1-PB-09-000618 INTHE ESTATE OF JANETANNE MEISEL, DECEASEDIN THE PROBATE COURTNO. ONETRAVIS COUNTY, TEXASNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of JANETANNE MEISEL, Deceased,were issued on June 25,2009 in Docket No. C-1-PB-09-000618, pending in theProbate Court No. One ofTravis County, Texas, toROBERT C. MEISEL, IndependentExecutor.The residence for the IndependentExecutor is in TravisCounty, Texas. The mailingaddress is:c/o A. Lynn TiemannThompson & Tiemann LLPAttorney at Law5203 Pony ChaseAustin, Texas 78727All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.DATED the 25th day of June,2009.Respectfully submitted,THOMPSON & TIEMANN LLPP.O. Box 201988Austin, Texas 78720-1988(512) 335-6800 Telephone(512) 335-2088 Facsimile/s/ A. Lynn TiemannAttorney and CounselorState Bar No. 20021500Attorney for the EstateNO. C-1-PB-09-000676 INTHE ESTATE OF AGNESSCHOEN, DECEASEDIN THE PROBATE COURTCOMMON LAWLuke EllisThe material in this column is for informationalpurposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it a substitutefor, legal advice. For advice on your specific facts andcircumstances, consult a licensed attorney.AUSTIN WATER RESTRICTIONSWhat are the summer water restrictions inAustin? My vegetable garden is getting burnt to acrisp, so I’d like to water every day if possible. Can Ireally get in trouble if I violate the water schedule?In order to help conserve our treated drinkingwater, the city of Austin has adopted a wateruse management ordinance (Chapter 6-4 of citycode). For residential properties, which includesingle-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, andfourplexes, watering days are determined byyour street address. Odd-numbered addressesmay water on Wednesday and/or Saturday. Evennumberedaddresses may water on Thursday and/or Sunday. In either case you are allowed to waterbefore 10am and after 7pm on your designatedwatering days.The watering restrictions on residential propertiesare in place from May 1 to September 30.There are no time-of-day restrictions for hose-endsprinklers during the rest of the year. Check outthe city of Austin’s website for more information(www.cityofaustin.org/watercon/summer.htm).There are exceptions to Austin’s waterrestrictions. For example, you can water with ahand-held hose or bucket any time of day andany day of the week. In very limited circumstances,a property owner can seek a variancefrom either the watering-day and/or time-ofdayrestrictions.Violations of the city watering schedule areclass C misdemeanors, with each instance punishableby a fine of up to $500. The ordinance isenforced. However, the city states that its primarygoal is to work with customers to obtain compliance,not to issue fines. The city wants first toeducate people about the proper way to watertheir landscapes and assist them in complyingwith the ordinance. According to the city, violatorsare often not even aware of the problem andcan make corrections immediately.Please submit column suggestions, questions, and commentsto thecommonlaw@austinchronicle.com. Submissionof potential topics does not create an attorney-clientrelationship, and any information submitted is subject to beingincluded in future columns.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 109

IT’S HARD TO BE ANEARLY ADOPTER OFNEW TECHNOLOGYDear Tom and Ray:I’m tired of waiting for the American autoindustry to come up with an affordable all-electriccar, so I’m looking seriously into buying a ChinesemadeFlybo. I know it has a top speed of 43 mphand lacks a lot of basic safety and comfort extras(no air bags, no heat …), but the same is true ofthe ’87 Dodge Raider I’m driving now. I want anelectric car not only because of the price of fuel butalso because of environmental issues. My questionis, how easy (or difficult) will it be to service thiscar? I will need to have this auto shipped fromMichigan to Wyoming. And I don’t know of anyFlybo dealerships in the U.S. What could go wrongwith this car, and how can it be fixed? – KateRAY: Kate, you are about to join the wackofringe. You know, those guys who live in yurts,feeding themselves off their own homemadeacorn granola and squirrel yogurt? Ask themabout their Flybos.TOM: We admire your environmental ambitions,Kate. And we agree with you that electricpropulsion is probably where cars are eventuallyheading. But it’s very difficult to be an earlyadopter. Especially when you’re adopting somethingthat has no serious support network. So,unless you’re married to a very handy electricalengineer who happens to live in a yurt, you’realmost certainly sentencing yourself to years oftrouble in finding parts and people willing towork on this thing.RAY: Here’s what we’d recommend instead.Adopt the best available, widely supported currentsolution. Hybrids like the Toyota Prius, HondaInsight, and Civic Hybrid are getting 40-50 milesper gallon. And they’re doing it with all of the latestand greatest safety equipment.TOM: If that’s not good enough, there are anumber of people who offer plug-in conversionkits for those cars, which will turn your Priusinto a car that can be plugged in at night andoperate only on electric power much of the time.That’s pretty close to what you’re looking fornow, isn’t it?RAY: And now that America has figured outthat things finally need to change, it’ll be onlya few more years before carmakers are offeringreal, functional, highly energy-efficient plug-inhybrids and electric vehicles. With warranties,air bags, dealer networks, and heat! So take it astep at a time, Kate.* * *Do you really need that truck if you only makeone trip to the lumberyard per year? Find out whatkind of car not to get in Tom and Ray’s pamphlet“Should I Buy, Lease, or Steal My Next Car?”. Send$4.75 (check or money order) to Next Car, PO Box536475, Orlando, Fla., 32853-6475.* * *Got a question about cars? Write to Click andClack in care of this newspaper, or e-mail them byvisiting the Car Talk website, www.cartalk.com.Tune in to Car Talk each Saturday at 9am on©2009 by Tom & Ray Magliozzi and Doug BermanDistributed by King Features SyndicatecontinuedlegalnoticesNO. ONE OF TRAVISCOUNTY, TEXASNOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF AGNESSCHOEN Notice is herebygiven that original LettersTestamentary for the Estateof AGNES SCHOEN were issuedon June 25, 2009, inCause Number C-1-PB-09-000676, pending in the ProbateCourt of Travis County,Texas, to SUSANN SCHOENBILLEITER, n/k/a SUSANNSCHOEN CUNNINGHAM, IndependentExecutor.The residence of the IndependentExecutor is 2016Kenwood Avenue, Austin,Travis County, Texas 78704,post office address for mailingof claims is:SUSANN SCHOEN BILLEIT-ER, n/k/a SUSANN SCHOENCUNNINGHAMc/o J. Patrick QuinnP.O. Box 1228Taylor, Texas 76574All persons having claimsagainst this estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.DATED this 25th day of June,2009./s/ SUSANN SCHOEN BIL-LEITER, n/k/a SUSANNSCHOEN CUNNINGHAMIndependent ExecutorNOTICE Schroeder ConstructionCompany, Ltd. issoliciting bids from MBE/WBEsubcontractors for the followingCity of Austin Project:Goodnight Ranch Phase II48-Inch Water Transmission,CIP No. 6937.024, biddingJuly 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM.Call Susan 512 219-6001 orfax your quote to 512 219-7977.NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES PURSUANT OFTEXAS ABANDONED MO-TOR VEHICLE ACT, THEFOLLOWING WILL BE SOLDAT PUBLIC SALE UNLESSCHARGES ARE SATISFIEDWITHIN 30 DAYS.GARAGE KEEPER: SOUTH-SIDE WRECKER, 8200 SCONGRESS , AUSTIN, TX.78745.HOMEMADE VENDER TRAIL-ER NO LP NO VIN1992 CADILLAC1G6CD53B6N42526731986 DODGE PK1B7KD24W5GS009914AV0716 POUND SALENOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IM-POUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICEIN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ.,TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULATINGTHE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY.THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THEMOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENSAND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLEDTO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLEAND RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTIONTO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITYOF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOL-LOWING DESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICHHAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS,THEREOF TO WIT;JULY 16, 2009 @ 9:30 AM @AUSTIN POLICE DEPT.,4308 TERRY-O LANE,AUSTIN, TX 78745095030767 1998 PONT 4DR 191NGH TX 1G2NE52T7WM513540095032215 1980 CADI 4DR 958VBJ TX 6D696A9113821095032494 1997 BUIC 4DR HWT966 TX 1G4CW52K9V4661402095032499 1998 HOND 4DR 011JHD TX 1HGEJ6671WL046875095033682 1987 OLDS 4DR F574 MS 1G3GM11Y5HR311721095033696 1983 DODG VN 282PPY TX 2B4HB11T9DK392408095033704 1982 CHEV PK 76YHV3 TX 1GCHC33W4CS138130095033815 2000 STRN 4DR 742SRL TX 1G8JU52F8YY646711095034157 1999 MAZD 4DR G57HMK TX JM1BJ222X0182102095034161 2004 CHEV PK 41GNC1 TX 1GCEC14XX4Z140293095034376 1993 HOND 4DR 687LDI AR 1HGEG8548PL003170095034378 1994 TOYT 4DR L49MVS TX JT2SK12E7R0256529095034394 1996 STRN 4DR Y07DCP TX 1G8ZK5274TZ329593095034396 1990 FORD 4DR 623KCC MS 2FACP74F7LX105369095034401 1997 INFI 4DR GNG634 TX JNKAY21DCVM501750095034618 199 FORD 4DR V53SFS TX 1FALP5246RG141185095034621 1996 SUBA SW Y83XVR TX 4S3BK4355T7932417095035123 1992 GMC PK 8ZZGH TX 1GTDC14Z1NZ544128095035125 1995 ISUZ LL W68DNK TX 4S2CK58E2S4356504095035545 1988 TOYT 4DR 096LGC TX JT2SV22E3J3252848095035546 1997 MAZD 4DR VHR90J TX 1YVGE22C0V5614506095035557 2003 FORD LL X882120 IL 1FMZU73KX3ZA98676NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES Pursuant to TexasAbandoned Motor VehicleAct, the following vehicleswill be auctioned off unlesscharges are satisfied within10 days.2001 DODGE1B3EJ46X31N5980551993 FORD1FMCA11U5PZC253861990 TOYOTA1NXAE94A1LZ0710971991 HONDAJHMED3548MS025602AUCTION July 10, 2009 @6:00 A.M.ADVANCED TOWING &RECOVERY1810 BENCH MARK DRAUSTIN, TX 78728(512) 402-0024NOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES PURSUANT OFTEXAS ABANDONED MO-TOR ACT, THE FOLLOWINGVEHICLE WILL BE AUC-TIONED OFF BY THE TRAVISCOUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICEUNLESS CHARGES ARESATISFIED.GARAGEKEEPER:IMAGE AUTO STORAGE407 FM 685PFLUGERVILLE, TX 78660512-251-9400VEHICLE: 1998 JAGUARVANDEN PLAS, GOLD INCOLORLEFT FOR STORAGE AT: IM-AGE AUTO STORAGEVIN: SAJKX6245WC825306PLATE: NONENOTICE OF ABANDONEDVEHICLES 1994 LINCOLN4DR VIN #1LNCM9744MY738207 IM-POUND DATE 12/01/08 BYAUTHORITY OF APDCHARGES AS OF 05/12/09 $3678.95 / 1994 HONDA CIV-IC 4DR VIN #1HGEJ1221RL076793 IM-POUND DATE 05/01/09 BYAUTRHORITY OF APDCHARGES AS OF 05/12/09 $479.80 / 1997 PONTIAC GPRIX 2DR VIN #1G2WP12K7VF334366 IM-POUND DATE 09/17/08 BYAUTHORITY OF APD STOR-AGE CHARGES AS OF 05/12/09 $ 5302.70 DAILY STOR-AGE ON UNITS $20.00 PERDAY + TAX UNITS ARE LO-CATED @ 915-B E. ST ELMORD AUISTIN TX 78745 VSF#0577589NOTICE OF LIEN SALEIn accordance with the provisionsof Chapter 59 of theTexas Property Code, therebeing due and unpaid chargesfor which the undersignedis entitled to satisfy an owner’slien of the goods hereinafterdescribed and stored atthe Uncle Bob’s Self Storagelocations listed below; And,due notice having been given,to the owner of said propertyand all parties known toclaim an interest therein, andthe time specified in such noticefor payment of such havingexpired, the goods will besold at public auction at thebelow stated locations(s) tothe highest bidder or otherwisedisposed of on the followingdates. No one under16 allowed. Cash Only.Uncle Bob’s #2859717 U.S. HWY 290 EAustin, TX 78724(512) 278-1220Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @9:00 AM558 Patricia Zuniga: hsldgoods, furn, boxes, TV/stereoequip605 Sabrina Fryman: furn,boxes, windowsUncle Bob’s #2318227 North LamarAustin, TX 78753(512) 833-0855Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @10:00 AM701 Derrick Lee: sportinggoods, tools, appliances, TV/stereo equip, movies749 Sterling Jones: furn, TV/stereo equip907 Candalaria Jimenez:hsld goods, furn1004 Cooper Greg: hsldgoods, boxes, tools, TV/stereoequip1018 Paul Hawkins: hsldgoods, furn, boxes, TV/stereoequip, accounting records1033 James Hardin: hsldgoods, furn, boxes, TV/stereoequip1501 Butler Torry: hsldgoods, boxes, sportinggoods1623 Marta A. Cancino: vehicle,hsld goods, boxes,acct records, sporting goodsUncle Bob’s #2762830 South A.W. GrimesBlvdRound Rock, TX 78664(512) 310-0279Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @11:00 AM114 Marcus Cardinali: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, TV’s orstereo equip, office machines212 Barbara A. Gray: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, TV’s orstereo equip, accountrecords413 Emily Tidmore: householdgoods, furniture, boxes2208 Kathy Clifton: householdgoods, furniture, boxes2317 Jacinda Davis: furniture,boxes3127 Alisa Richardson:household goods, furniture3135 Jaison John: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip,office equip, office machines,landscaping equip3325 Joe Moreland: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip,office equip, office machines,landscaping equip, accountrecords4311 Joyce Thompson:household goods6209 Patrick Daly, Sr.: householdgoods, boxes, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereoequip6309 Linna M. Shuler: householdgoods, furniture, boxes,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip8126 Martin Candelaria: furniture,boxes8213 Lauren Remaley: furniture,boxes (maybe)8309 Irma Renae Sanders:hsld goods, furniture, boxes,appliances, TV’s or stereoequip, office machines/equip,landscaping equip9101 Frieda Sauls: furniture,boxes9423 Patricia Rogers: boxes9616 Ansley Judie: hsldgoods, boxes, sportinggoods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip, accountrecordsUncle Bob’s #1975547 McNeil Dr.Austin, TX 78729(512) 336-8390Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @12 noon311 Lucaya Riley: hsldgoods, boxes409 Michael Stapp: hsldgoods, furn, boxes, sportinggoods, tools, TV/stereoequip, office equip, constructionequip829 John Pecore: furn, boxes,tools, appliances, TV/stereoequip, office equip, officemachines1101 Ricardo Rivera: hsldgoods, boxes, TV/stereoequip1701 Nancy Perez: hsldgoods, furn, boxes, TV/stereoequipUncle Bob’s #2876509 South First StreetAustin, TX 78745(512) 326-9696Tuesday, July 21, 2009 @1:30 PM108 Edward R. Lopez: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip, bicycles117 Jackson Ellsworth: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods316 Manuel Antonio Allen:hsld goods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip,account records339 Tiffany Sharp: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes1146 Patricia Perez: hsldgoods2243 Janika Wright: furniture2345 Beatrice Holmes: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes, appliances,TV’s or stereoequip, office machines/equip3113 Pamela Beck: hsldgoods, boxes, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip3136 Lisa Sosa: hsld goods,furniture, boxes, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip3143 Amy Pate: hsld goods,furniture, boxes, tools, appliances,TV’s or stereo equip3427 Phillip Pardo: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes3422 Jason Guntert: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, TV’s orstereo equip, accountrecords3359 Shane Widner: hsldgoods, furniture, boxes,sporting goods, tools, TV’s orstereo equip, office equip, officemachines, accountrecordsNOTICE OF NEW TRAFFICREGULATION Notice is herebygiven that Travis County,Texas, proposes the approvalof the following traffic regulation:SET MAXIMUM PRI-MA FACIE SPEED LIMITSON HORSEBACK HOLLOWIN PRECINCT THREE.Any resident of TravisCounty, Texas, aggrieved bythis proposal action maymake written request for amandatory public hearing.Such request must be addressedto the Transportationand Natural Resources Department,Travis County, Texas,P.O. Box 1748, Austin,Texas, 78767, and must bereceived within seven (7)days of this notice.NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUC-TION A Public Auction will beheld to satisfy landlord’s lienpursuant to Chapter 59 of theTexas Property Code. Saleswill be held on July 18,2009. A sale will be held at9:00am, at A-A-A Storage,227 Park 35 Cove N. Buda,phone 512-312-2227. A salewill be held at 11:00am atA-A-A Storage, 4405 Highway71 East, Del Valle,phone 512-247-9708. A salewill be held at 1:00pm at A-A-A Storage, 8956 ResearchBlvd. N., Austin, phone 512-338-9900. A sale will beheld at 3:00pm at A-A-AStorage, 10707 IH 35 NorthAustin, phone 512-977-9775.All units will be sold to thehighest bidder for cash.Clean up and removal depositwill be required. Sellerreserves the right to rejectany bid. Sales include itemsfrom the following tenants’storage spaces. #2123 BrendaTenorio: HHG #426 MaryMinchew: misc. #317 FelipeGarza: misc. #2115 Lori Williams:HHG #3307 EdwardNorman: misc. #105 BrandonMarshall: misc. boxes, chairs#113 Mandy Simpson: desk,boxes #273 Brenda Fresch:clothes #2271 Don Franklin:moving equipment, furniture#6820 Krystal Castaneda:misc. #6854 Carlos Salicrop:tools. #7030 Carolyn Stephens:HHG #8029 LazzaroCarro: HHG #8002 John JoeValenzuela: misc. #8008Sheila Machado: misc. #9107Cory Canada: furniture, toys#7039 Stephanie Longoria:furniture #562, #3722 HermaniaChavez: HHG, toys#3703 Angelica Gamboa:couch, boxes, misc.NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEAR-ING Notice is hereby giventhat the Board of Adjustment,City of Sunset Valley, Texas,will hold a Public Hearing onWednesday, July 15, 2009 at7:00 p.m. at the City Hall locatedat 3205 Jones Road,Sunset Valley, Texas to considerthe following ZoningVariance Requests:1. An application submittedby Lance Vaughn, 1022 SunflowerTrail requesting approvalof a variance to allowconstruction of a pergola toencroach into the rear buildingsetback.3. An application submittedby Bruce Smith, 44 PillowRoad requesting approval ofa variance from the front andrear building setback for constructionof rainwater harvestingfacilities.All interested persons are invitedto attend and participatein said hearing. Anyperson may submit testimonyin person at such hearing orsubmit written commentsfiled with the City Secretarybetween 8:00 a.m. and 5:00p.m., Monday through Fridayprior to the hearing. All writtencomments must be receivedby 5:00 p.m., onTuesday, July 14, 2009. Theapplication for the zoningvariance request may be examinedat the office of theCity Secretary of Sunset Valley,Texas during regular officehours.NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEPS Orangeco, Inc. herebygives notice that the propertygenerally described below isbeing sold to satisfy a Landlord’sLien pursuant to Chapter59 of the Texas PropertyCode, at the time and placeindicated below, and on thefollowing terms: All propertygenerally described belowwill be sold at public sale tothe highest bidder for cash,or credit cards, NOCHECKS, with payment to bemade at the time of the sale.Seller reserves the right to refuseany bid and to withdrawany item or items from thesale. The property will besold on the 15th of July 2009on or about the time indicatedat each self-storage facilityidentified: NO CHILDRENPLEASE.Wednesday, July 15th 2009.9:00 a.m. Public Storage@9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin,TX 787480029 DONNA CAMPBELL,BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE0265 KIMBERLY D WHITE,SCOOTERS, FURNITURE,REFRIGERATOR0353 MICHAEL LUMBLEY,TRUNKS, FURNITURE, COM-PUTER9:30a.m. Public Storage @7200 S 1st Street., Austin,TX 78745C065 DAVID LANGLEY,TOOL BOX, TABLE SAW,WASHERF199 MICHELLE GOMEZ,POTTERY, FURNITURE, BOX-ESI244 SANDRA MADRID,WASHER, CHAIR, TABLEI249 DEANN FLORES, BOX-ES, FURNITURE, COMPUTERI251 ISMAEL GOMEZ, FUR-NITURE, BOXES, TOTESM371 PAUL MILLS, BOXES,TOTES, FURNITUREM393 CRYSTAL MOLIS, FUR-NITUREN412 SEAN MATHIS, FURNI-TUREO469 DENISE CANALES,ALL ITEMS IN UNITQ508 DANIEL SANTOS, BOX-ES, BAGS560 HELEN BABBITT, ALLITEMS IN UNITS570 JULIE ARSUAGA, ALLITEMS IN UNITT594 ELVIA GARZA, ALLITEMS IN UNITV711 VIVIAN HILL, TV, BOX-ES, TOTES10:00 a.m. Public Storage @7112 S Congress, Austin,TX 78745B6 LAUREN VALDEZ, FUR-NITURE, TOTES, TOYSC39 ABRAHAM GATERS,BEDDING, ELECTRONICS,CAMPER TOPC40 KERRY KIRK, WASHER,DRYER, FURNITURED7 HASSAN MAHMOOD,SOFA, LOVE SEAT, BOXESF4 ROBERT RENTERIA, BOX-ES, COMPUTER, LAMPF30 CARLOS RIVAS, BOXES,MONITOR, FURNITUREJ58 JACKIE AUGUSTIN,BOXES, FURNITURE, BED-DINGK4 LARRY MARSHALL, BOX-ES, COMPUTER, TOTESL24 ANGIE BARRIENTOS,BOXES, TOTES, BOOKSL54 DINO DE YOUNG, FUR-NITURE, BOXES, BAGSL55 LINDA CHANDLER, TA-BLE, STOVE, BOXESL79 CROSS COUNTRY VANLINES, FURNITURE, BOXES,WASHERM3 ROSA MARIA ALVAREZ,BIKES, BOXES, TOYS10:30 a.m. Public Storage @4202 Santiago, Austin, TX78745316 SIMEON RODRIGEZ,ALL ITEMS IN UNIT110 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

429 CYNTHIA BELL, BOXES,FURNITURE, CLOTHING561 HILDA RODRIQUEZ,BOXES, FURNITURE, TOYS634 TOSHA MIZE, FURNI-TURE, ELECTRONICS,TOTES696 MIKE DUBOSE, TABLE,SOFA, CHAIR712 DON RHOADES, BOXES,FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS11:00 a.m. Public Storage @2301 E Ben White, Austin,TX 787411099 GORDON PEARSALL,BOXES, FURNITURE, ELEC-TRONICS1109 TRACEY WARG, WASH-ER, DRYER, FURNITURE2102 KENNETH PIPKINS,ALL ITEMS IN UNIT2117 WAYNE RUARK, ALLITEMS IN UNIT2129 LAURA ROSS, BOXES,TOTES3097 NATHANIAL SMITH,BOXES, FURNITURE, GUI-TARS11:15 a.m. Public Storage @5016 E Ben White, Austin,TX 78741C021 MARY STEVENS, BOX-ES, ELECTRONICSC110 GARRETT TIDMORE,GRILL, BOXES, FURNITUREC159 ANGELICA MANZANO,FURNITURE, BAGS, ELEC-TRONICSC180 RENITA MAJOR, BOX-ES, BAGS, FURNITUREC230 LAURA ROSS, HANDDOLLY, FURNITURE, BOXESC298 ANJILIA DAVIS, FUR-NITURE, TOTES, TOYSC311 SANDRA COTTON,BOOKCASE, TOTES, CHAIR11:30 a.m. Public Storage @2121 S IH 35, Austin, TX787413073 LINDA ESCOBAR, BOX-ES, TOTES, FURNITURE4019 CATHRYN WOZEN-CRAFT, BOXES, TOTES,FURNITURE4027 FELIX FLORES, TV,TREADMILL, FURNITURE4080 TAILIA BOCANEGRA,TV, DRYER, LADDER12:00 p.m. Public Storage@ 1213 W 6th Street, Austin,TX 787032135 ANALEA DE LAFUENTE, BOXES, TOTES,FURNITURE4139 RAYMOND JUSTIN DA-VIS, BOXES, CLOTHING,SUITCASENOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEDelinquent TenantsPS Orangeco, Inc. herebygives notice that the propertygenerally described below isbeing sold to satisfy a Landlord’sLien pursuant to Chapter59 of the Texas PropertyCode, at the time and placeindicated below, and on thefollowing terms: All propertygenerally described belowwill be sold at public sale tothe highest bidder for cash,or credit cards, NOCHECKS, with payment to bemade at the time of the sale.Seller reserves the right to refuseany bid and to withdrawany item or items from thesale. The property will besold on the 16th & 17th ofJuly 2009 on or about thetime indicated at each selfstoragefacility identified: NOCHILDREN PLEASE.Thursday July 16, 20099:00 a.m. Public Storage @1033 E 41st Street, Austin,TX 787511061 JOHN P LADAY, FUR-NITURE2035 BERRI MCBRIDE,CHAIR, BED, BOXES2067 ROSE SILVA, BOXES,TOTES, COMPUTER3075 VIRGINIA HERNANDEZ,BOXES, FURNITURE,CLOTHING3157 WILLIE HUNTER, BOX-ES, BED, TOTES3171 JOSEPH FREEMAN,MONITOR, KEYBOARD,CLOTHING4092 TASHA FOWLER, FUR-NITURE, BEDDING, CLOTH-ING4120 LEE WARE, BOXES,FURNITURE, BEDDING5045 JASON MOORE, BOX-ES, BOOKCASE, TOTES9:30am Public Storage @10001 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX787533037 SHENIA THOMPSON,FURNITURE, ELECTRONICS,TOYS7013 JENNIFER JONES,FURNITURE, BOXES, ELEC-TRONICS10:00am Public Storage @10100 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX78753B018 SAM GARCIA, BOXES,BEDDING, FURNITUREB091 IAN C. BIDOT, BOXES,BICYCLE, SUITCASEB122 ARTHUR LEE JOHN-SON, BAGS, BOXES, TOTESC072 DEVERA TAYLOR,BOXES, FURNITURE, BAGSC080 DRIELLE MCCLINTON,BOXES, FURNITURE, TOTESD087 ALICIA RODRIGUEZ,BOXES, TOYS, FURNITURED102 BRANDON SUTTON,BOXES, TOTES, BAGS10:30am Public Storage @937 Reinli, Austin, TX.,78751372 BARBARA JULES, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTES453 REGINALD HILL, BOX-ES, BAGS, FURNITURE741 LESTIE E. ADAMS, BOX-ES, TOTES, ELECTRONICS766 GERALDINE AVERY,BAGS, TOTES, FURNITURE767 EUGENIA PLEASANT,BOXES, BAGS920 ENRIQUE MOJICA, BOX-ES, FURNITURE, TOYS11:00am Public Storage @8101 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753181 MICHAEL HOLDEN,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES182 WILLIAM ROSS, BOXES,BAGS, ELECTRONICS517 IRIS GEORGE, BOXES,BAGS, ELECTRONICS538 WILLIE DAVIS, BOXES,BAGS, TOTES550 NICHOLAS HUNTER,BOXES, ELECTRONICS,TOTES589 CINDY GARCIA, BOXES,BAGS, FURNITURE631 MARK CHRISTIAN, BOX-ES, FURNITURE, TOOLS647 ANNETTE G. LUNA,BOXES, BAGS, FURNITURE1060 LAQUANDA EARLS,BOXES, TOTES, FURNITURE1416 MCARTHUR SMALL,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES2012 ULENE PORTER, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOYSN1285 MAILING WILLIAMS-DAVIS, BOXES, BAGS,TOTESN1339 JEFFREY SMITH,BOXES, BAGS, TOTESN1367 MIA HARVEY, BED-DING, TOTES, FURNITUREN2417 CHRISTINA CARPEN-TER, BOXES, TOTES, FUR-NITUREN3359 PERRY LEWIS, BOX-ES, BAGS, FURNITUREN3389 BRANNEN TEMPLE,BOXES, BAGS, TOTESN3447 ELIZABETH JENSEN,BOXES, BAGS, TOTESS1106 CALEB WILLIAMS,TOTES, FURNITURE, ELEC-TRONICS12:00pm Public Storage @8525 N Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753A014 LIBBY FAY BUNTON,BAGS, BOXES, TOTESA056 PHILLIP WALLS, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTESA058 MELVIN DUNGEY,BOXES, TOTES, FURNITUREB011 ADRIAN JENKINS,BOXES, ELECTRONICS,TOYSB028 IRENE GARCIA, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTESE008 PRECITA PIMENTEL,BAGS, BOXES, ELECTRON-ICS12:30pm Public Storage @8128 N Lamar Blvd., Austin,TX 78753B008 KIM JOHNSON, BOX-ES, TOTES, FURNITUREB040 JOSE CONTRERAS,BOXES, TOOLS, TOTESC066 JAVIER GONZALES,1983 JEEPE013 DORINA RODRIGUEZ,BOXES, BAGS, TOTESE108 DAVID VASQUEZ, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTESE131 ZENDA RIVER, BOXES,BAGS, TOTESF001 CRISTY MARTINEZ,BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRON-ICSFriday July 17, 20099:30am Public Storage @1517 Round Rock Ave.,Round Rock, TX 786811116 ANGELITA CANTU,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES4105 NAOMI MCFARLIN, HY-DRAULIC CAR LIFT4124 SAMUEL HILL, BOXES,BAGS, FURNITURE4138 JOSHUA SMITH, BOX-ES, FURNITURE, ELEC-TRONICS6114 DEBBIE ROY, BOXES,FURNITURE, TOTES7142 CHRISTINA QUINTA-NALLA, FURNITURE, BED-DING, ELECTRONICS8121 ALICIA KOMOROWSKI,ALL ITEMS IN UNIT8122 VIRGINIA ROSALEZ,ALL ITEMS IN UNIT10:00am Public Storage @13675 N US HWY 183 Austin,TX 787500123 DEWAYNE BROCK,BOXES, BAGS, TOYS0234 MARTHA SEGURA,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES0411 GARY STEPHENS,BOXES, TOOLS, TOTES10:30am Public Storage @12915 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 78750D005 HOLLY GARRISON,BOXES, BAGS, CLOTHING11:00am Public Storage @10931 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 787592060 TDI, 20 LAPTOPS, 50DELL DESKTOPS, 20 HARDDRIVES, 20 MODEMS2218 CONNY WILLIAMS,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES2226 RON ISAACS, BOXES,BAGS, TOTESA02F ALTON WINSTON,BOXES, BAGS, ELECTRON-ICSA05H BRENDA L MURRAY,BOXES, FURNITURE, EXER-CISE BIKEA017 TDI, BOXESB013 TDI, BOXESD049 MICHAEL PECK, BOX-ES, TOTES, TOOLS11:30am Public Storage @12318 N Mopac Expressway,Austin, TX 78758A092 CRAIG ENGLISH, BOX-ES, BAGS, FURNITUREB141 JANIE SCHAFER, BOX-ES, TOTES, FURNITUREC429 INDIA PLAZA OPERA-TIONS LLC, BOXES, BAGS,TOTESD500 AMY MC MURROUGH,BOXES, BAGS TOTESD514 GRACE CASTRO, BOX-ES, BAGS, TOTESD634 JUAN MARTINEZ,BOXES, BAGS, TOTES12:00pm Public Storage @9205 Research Blvd., Austin,TX 78758A321 ROBERT YOUNG, BOX-ES, BAGS, BEDDINGB025 HUGH JONES, BOXES,BEDDING, FURNITURED041 HOLLY REED, BOXES,FURNITURE, TOTESD069 KEVIN REMINGTON,BEDDING, BOXES, TOTESD127 HUGO ADAME, BED-DING, WASHER, DRYERE069 SHALONDA HOUSTON,BOXES, FURNITURE, TOYSE111 METROPOLITAN A.M.E.CHURCH, BOXES, ELEC-TRONICS, TOTESNOTICE OF PUBLIC SALEABI Storage, pursuant to Ch.59 of the Texas PropertyCode, hereby gives notice ofa public sale. On July 11,2009, ABI Storage located at7320 E. Ben White Blvd. Austin,TX 78741 will conduct asale. Delinquent rental spaceswill be auctioned off to thehighest bidder at 10 a.m. onthe premises. The public isinvited to attend. Total of 6rental spaces containingmisc. items, clothing, toys,furniture, household items,electronics, appliances,tools, will be sold to satisfyLandlord Liens. All items willbe sold “as is” to the highestbidder. 10% BP, CASH ANDCREDIT CARDS, NOCHECKS. All items are subjectto prior redemption. Tenantsincluded in this sale are:A17 Cynthia Arzola, B65Samuel Besa, C05 PenelopeKnight, D01 Caronarda Benbow,D78 Alvita Lunt, D93Joe Cordova - AuctioneerMelissa Rackel #10846NOTICE OF SERVICE OFPROCESS BY PUBLICA-TIONSTATE OF NORTH CARO-LINACOUNTY OF DAVIDSONIN THE GENERAL COURTOF JUSTICEDISTRICT COURT DIVI-SIONFILE NO. 09 CVD 384CV Products, Inc. v. PortPros, LLC and Harold Hallum,Jr.NOTICE OF SERVICE OFPROCESS BY PUBLICA-TIONTo: Harold Hallum, the abovenamed Defendant, HaroldHallum:Take notice that a pleadingseeking relief against youhas been filed in the aboveentitled action. The nature ofthe relief being sought is asfollows: The Plaintiff is seek-ing a judgment against youin the amount of $14,950.64with interest plus attorney’sfees and costs. You are requiredto make defense tosuch pleading not later thanJuly 29, 2009, said date being40 days from the firstpublication of this notice.Upon your failure to do sothe party seeking serviceagainst you will apply to thecourt for the relief sought.Dated: June 19, 2009Bradley S. HuntAttorney for PlaintiffBRINKLEY WALSER, PLLCPost Office Box 1657Lexington, North Carolina27293(336) 249-2101N.C. 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112continuedlegalnoticesJOHNSON, a/k/a ALLENMUNRO JOHNSON, DeceasedNOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS AGAINSTTHE ESTATE OF BRUCE E.PONTON, JR., DECEASEDNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Bruce E.Ponton, Jr., Deceased, wereissued on June 23, 2009, inCause No. C-1-PB-09-000661in the Probate Court No. One,Travis County, Texas, toMichael C. Ponton.The post office address formailing of claims is:Michael C. Ponton, Executorc/o Rash, Chapman, Schreiber& Porter, L.L.P.2112 Rio GrandeAustin, TX 78705512/477-7543 (PHONE)512/474-0954 (FAX)All persons having claimsagainst this Estate, which iscurrently being administered,are required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated this June 23, 2009.By: /s/ Mark B. SchreiberAttorney for the EstateNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Lillyn L.Brooks, Deceased, were issuedon June 9, 2009 andthe Independent Executorqualified on June 19, 2009, inCause No. C-1-PB-09-000604, pending in the ProbateCourt Number 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to ScarlettSpivey.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theestate, addressed as follows:Scarlett Spivey, representative,Estate of Lillyn L.Brooks, Deceasedc/o Law Offices of BrookeHardie816 W. 10th StreetAustin, Texas 78701DATED the 3rd day of July,2009.NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of KennethIdomir, Deceased, were issuedon June 30, 2009, inDocket No. C-1-PB-09-000656, pending in the ProbateCourt No. 1 of TravisCounty, Texas, to: DeloresC. Idomir.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Claims shall be addressedto:”Representative, Estate ofKenneth Idomirc/o John W. BrodnaxJohn W. Brodnax, P.C.1202 Lakeway Drive, Suite 1Lakeway, Texas 78734”(512) 261-0101DATED the 30th day of June,2009./s/ John W. BrodnaxATTORNEY FOR INDEPEND-ENT EXECUTORNOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Floyd EdwardFontenot, Deceased,were issued on May 5, 2009,in Cause No. C-1-PB-08-089837, pending in the ProbateCourt, Travis County,Texas, to: Mitcheal Fontenot.All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themto the undersigned within thetime and in the manner prescribedby law.c/o: Mitcheal Fontenot1200 Gulf WayRound Rock, Texas 78664DATED the 11th day of June,2009./s/ Jo Ann TorrezAttorney for Mitcheal FontenotState Bar No.: 24015007905-A East 7th StreetAustin, Texas 78702Telephone: (512) 480-5995Facsimile: (512) 480-5981NOTICE TO CREDITORSNotice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentaryfor the Estate of Sandra K.Farris, Deceased, were issuedon March 3, 2009,under Docket No. C-1-PB-08-089155, pending in ProbateCourt No. 1 of Travis County,Texas, to: Linda Rice.Claims may be presented incare of the attorney for theEstate addressed as follows:Representative, Estate ofSandra K. Farris, Deceasedc/o Terry DavisTerry Davis & Associates201 S. Bell Blvd., #101Cedar Park, Texas 78613All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which iscurrently being administeredare required to present themwithin the time and in themanner prescribed by law.Dated this 25th day of June,2009./s/ Terry DavisAttorney at Law201 S. Bell Blvd., Ste. 101Cedar Park, Texas 78613(512) 918-3958(512) 259-2407 FaxORDINANCE NO. 090113 ANORDINANCE AMENDINGSUBSECTION 14.102 (b) OFTHE CITY’S LAND DEVEL-OPMENT CODE EXEMPTINGCITY OWNED DIRECTIONALSIGNAGE, ESTABLISHINGAN EFFECTIVE DATE, ANDPROVIDING FOR SEVER-ANCE.PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALEOF BUSINESS ASSETSAND CHANGE OF CORPO-RATE NAME Notice is herebygiven that on June 1,2009 Gulf Parcel Service,Inc., a Texas corporation(Seller), sold substantially allof its properties and assets,including the business nameof its business located at2105 Silber, Suite 102, Houston,Texas 77055, to DaisyDelivery, LLC, a Texas limitedliability company (Buyer).Seller is responsible for alldebts and accounts up toand including May 31, 2009;Buyer is responsible for alldebts and accounts due andcoming due on and afterJune 1, 2009.Notice is further given effectiveas of the date of suchsale, Seller’s name waschanged from Gulf ParcelService, Inc. to Gulf PS Corp.From and after June 1, 2009the trade name “Gulf ParcelService” is the sole and exclusiveuse and property ofBuyer, Daisy Delivery, LLC.From and after June 1, 2009,Seller, now known as Gulf PSCorp., has no further right to,use of, interest in or responsibilityfor any act or businessdone or conductedunder the name “Gulf ParcelService.”Gulf PS CORP./s/ Ronald D. 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You might even want to just wet your clothes downbefore you go outside … oh, wait a minute … you won’t have to – at 100-plus degrees your clothes should be soaked shortly after you step outside.July through September in Austin is just one long wet T-shirt contest anyway,so if you’re a little bashful about showing off your b(m)oobs, you might trysporting something synthetic – some sort of petroleum-based fiber that claimsto “wick away the moisture.” Question is: Away to where? All that sweat isn’texactly itching to hop into the atmosphere. It seems much happier forminga rivulet down your ass crack. Infact, if anything “wicks away theThe Luv DocAustin Symphony July 4thConcert & FireworksSat., July 4, 8:30pmAuditorium ShoresSouth First at Lady Bird Lakewww.austinsymphony.orgmoisture,” it’s gravity. Syntheticfabrics treat moisture like an uglybaby. They just keep passing italong hoping they’re not the onethat ends up holding it. 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This Saturday pretty much everyhamlet and bedroom community of Austin is throwing some sort of fireworksdisplay, so you should only have to stumble out onto your front lawn to enjoythe show. Here in Austin, your best bet is to bus it down to Auditorium Shores,where conductor Peter Bay and the Austin Symphony will be blowing it upright along with the fireworks with their stirring rendition of Tchaikovsky’s1812 Overture accompanied by 75-millimeter howitzer cannons from theTexas National Guard Salute Battery. Sounds awesome, right? OK, but there’sone catch: If you bring your beer bong, you need to keep it on the downlow,because alcohol and glass containers aren’t allowed in the park.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 113

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Natisfaction,23, , #128909SARCASM GALOREI’m new to the Austin area, and lookingto meet some cool new peopleto show me around this lovely place.Ilove traveling, cooking, dancing,electronic music, & watching movies.erinlagrif, 26, , #128758austinchronicle.com/loverslanemembership is simple:LOVERS LANE7-day pass ........................ $10.0030-day pass ...................... $20.0090-day pass ...................... $40.00Each pass gives you all-access, unlimitedsearching, browsing, e-mailing,calling, and responding.114 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JULY 3, 2009 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m

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Me:Woman. #904181CAMERA OBSCURA BEAUTYYou wore blue dress, brown purse,took pictures and had a blue moon.We were near back right bar. I had onblack shirt. Would love to meet you.When: Tuesday, June 16. Where:Camera Obscura show at Antones.You: Woman. Me: Man. #904170BARTON SPRINGSRAINSTORM.you are a gorgeous redhead, youwere wearing a yellow swimsuit,were at barton springs with a boya few weeks ago, it started raining.what’s your name? When: Saturday,May 23. Where: Barton Springs.You: Woman. Me: Man. #904169FREE WILL ASTROLOGYby Rob Brezsny for July 3-9CANCER (June 21-July 22): The ancient Chinese sage Lao Tse said: “People of the highestcaliber, upon hearing about Taoism, follow it and practice it immediately. People of average caliber,hearing about Taoism, reflect for a while and then experiment. People of the lowest caliber, hearingabout Taoism, let out a big laugh.” Now substitute the words “your splashy new ideas” for “Taoism”in Lao Tse’s quote, and you’ll have your horoscope for this week, Cancerian. For added punch,remember what he said in another context: “No idea can be considered valuable until a thousandpeople have laughed at it.”LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nietzsche’s dictum might be useful for you to keep in mind right now,Leo: “If it doesn’t kill you, it will make you stronger.” Since I’m very sure that the turbulent watersthrough which you’re navigating will not kill you, I’m looking forward to all the ways this journeywill upgrade your confidence and enhance your power. But there’s more to be gained beyond whatNietzsche formulated. It’s also true that if it doesn’t kill you (which it won’t), it will make you wilderand kinder and smarter and more beautiful.VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to my projections, you will not, in the coming weeks, meeta dark, secretive stranger who’ll play you like a violin. Nor will you be lured to the warehouse districtafter midnight to pick up the “missing stuff.” And I highly doubt that you will be invited to join a cultthat’s conspiring to seize political power following the events of December 21, 2012. No, Virgo.Your fate is far more mundane than that. In fact, it’s more likely that you will soon meet a bright,forthright stranger who will play you like an accordion. You will be drawn to a convenient location atmidday to pick up the “missing stuff.” And you will be invited to become part of a group that has thepotential to play a significant role in your quest for meaning in the coming years.LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For years, I’ve remembered most of my dreams every night, so I’m goodat spotting trends. And one of the themes that has arisen recently involves you, Libras. Last week, Idreamed that three of my Libra friends were pole vaulting at the Olympics. Four nights ago, I dreamedthat my two favorite Libran astrologers were rappelling down a skyscraper. Last night, I dreamed thatfour Libran celebrities – Mahatma Gandhi, Gwen Stefani, Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Borat), and KateWinslet – climbed a gold ladder to a cafe on a cloud where they drank magic coffee that made wingssprout on their backs. So what’s going on? Is my subconscious telling me that it’s prime time for youto raise your expectations and upgrade your goals? Do my dreams mean you should rise above theconventional wisdom and rededicate yourself to your loftiest ambitions? What do you think?SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Spiritual epiphany alert! Uncanny revelations imminent! Hope youdon’t mind being awoken in the middle of your regularly scheduled life by a special delivery fromthe great beyond. Yes, my cute little bundle of rumbling feelings and psychic sensitivities: It doesn’tmatter if you’re a true believer or an unrepentant infidel; you will soon be invited to have one of yourlogical certainties torn out by the roots and replaced with a throbbing vision of cosmic whoopee.Brace yourself for the most pungent fun you’ve had since your last mud wrestle with the angel.SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): While appearing on the TV show I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out ofHere, ex-pro basketball player John Salley gave some advice I’d like to pass along. “When you see crazycoming your way,” he philosophized, “you should cross the street.” I do think crazy will be headed in yourdirection sometime soon, Sagittarius, and the best response you can make is to avoid it altogether, preferablyin a way that it doesn’t notice you. That’s right: Don’t shout at crazy, don’t bolt away ostentatiously,and certainly don’t run up and give crazy a big hug. There are far better ways for you to gather in your fairshare of intriguing mystery; I’d hate to see you get bogged down in a useless, inferior version of it.CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Everyone wants an extra piece of you these days, and they don’tnecessarily care about how it will affect you. So beware of emotional manipulation, subliminalseduction, and the temptation to believe in impossible promises. To make matters more extreme,I suspect you may be secretly pleased that everyone wants an extra piece of you – and might betempted to conspire in your own dismantling. Let me propose a compromise. How about lettingthree trustworthy people – no more – take an extra piece of you? And be very certain that they haveenough self-control to know when to stop taking.AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re almost never one brick short of a load. Know what I’msaying? Your elevator almost always goes all the way to the top floor. Rarely, if ever, do I have towarn you against playing with a deck of 51 cards. So I hope you don’t be offended when I say thatit’s time to find that missing brick and service your elevator and buy a new deck. In other words,you’re due for your 40,000 mile check-up.PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Magic (ma’ jik), n. 1) A mysterious event or process that seeminglyrefutes the known laws of science. 2) A willed transformation of one’s own state of mind.3) A surprising triumph that exceeds all expectations. 4) Something that works, though no oneunderstands why. 5) The impossible becoming possible. 6) “Any sufficiently advanced technology isindistinguishable from magic.” (Arthur C. Clarke.) 7. A quality predominant in the lives of Pisceansduring the period July 1 through July 20, 2009.ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time to diversify your energy sources, Aries. It’s as if you’ve growntoo dependent on oil – metaphorically speaking – and have neglected to develop relationshipswith wind turbines, solar panels, natural gas, and other means of generating power. What if in thefuture – metaphorically speaking – oil becomes scarcer or wildly expensive? And what if, over thelong haul, its byproducts degrade your environment? I suggest you start now to expand the varietyof fuels you tap into. It’s a perfect moment to adjust your plans for your long-term energy needs.TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your mirror may lie to you this week. A friend might neglect to sharea crucial detail. Even pets and heroes and normally reliable suppliers might not be completelythere for you. Fortunately, I expect that secondary sources will come through. Other people’s mirrorsmay reveal a clue you haven’t been able to find in your own. An acquaintance could stepforward and do a convincing impersonation of a friend. And a previously overlooked or unknownconnection might become your own personal wellspring. Moral of the story: If you’re willing to beflexible and forswear all impulses to blame, you won’t be deprived of what you need.GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Having discovered I can read the minds of animals, I’ve started a newsideline as a ghostwriter. Here’s an excerpt from an interview I did with Prestige, a potbellied pig bornunder the sign of Gemini. Brezsny: What do you like best about being a potbellied pig? Prestige: I’mgreedy but cute. I get to eat like a pig yet not be victimized by the negative judgments people usuallyproject onto pigs. Brezsny: Is there anything you’re worried about? Prestige: I need to make mycaretaker understand that for the next few weeks we Geminis will need more than the usual amountsof food, love, presents, praise, attention, everything. Brezsny: Anything you’d like to say to my Geminireaders? Prestige: Don’t let anybody make you feel guilty for wanting what you want.Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’sEXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 877/873-4888 or 900/950-7700.a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JULY 3, 2009 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 115

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