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V O L U M E 2 9 ★ N U M B E R 2 2 J A N U A R Y 2 9 , 2 0 1 0 News Comprehending the Comprehensive Plan The Arts A Glass of Bubbly With Austin Lyric Opera Food East Side Show Room, Beets Living Foods Cafe Music The Sound and Vision of Lee Barber Beyond the Valley of Pauls the ut o e m s k a e d it fr n a h, a y o- o b y m s s i hi t Austin LGBT Icon Paul Soileau and His NSFW Moving Pictures BY KATE X MESSER ★ P.40 SEE austinchronicle.com FOR BREAKING NEWS, DAILY LISTINGS, FOX GETS ‘MACHETE,’ SXSW FILM GETS STRIPES, NEWSDESK TORTURES INTERROGATES PRIMARY NUMBERS, AND MORE ’ROUND THE BEND contents PUBLISHER VOL. 29, NO. 22 (cid:40) JANUARY 29, 2010 Nick Barbaro EDITOR Louis Black SENIOR EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Cindy Widner FILM Marjorie Baumgarten ARTS Robert Faires MUSIC Raoul Hernandez NEWS Michael King NEWS MANAGING EDITOR Amy Smith FOOD Virginia B. 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General e-mail address: [email protected] PROBLEMS WITH CAPITAL METRO Instead, registered voters can still vote for their Postmarks forum: austinchronicle.com/forums/postmarks favorite candidate in the November election and Mailing address: The Austin Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765 Dear Editor, sign a petition to allow alternative candidates the Re: “Can’t Get There From Here” [News, Jan. opportunity to be on the ballot so that all of us 22]: I have lived in Austin for the past 10 years, and will have a wider choice of qualified individuals GÓMEZ HAS POOR RECORD FIND POSITIVE VISION I can say that Capital Metro really doesn’t offer the that could be voted into offices and represent service it promotes or advertises. I used services citizens’ interests instead of only the present Dear Mr. Black, Dear Editor, from the Texas Commission for the Blind, and they corporate duopoly that regularly purchases and/ On January 15 the Chronicle ran a story about Louis Black has had some of his best editori- had me enrolled in stupid training programs that try or creates legislation so that they think they own the Commissioners Court race in Precinct 4 als lately. There are some things I would like to help those with eye impairments get jobs. For the ballot box! [“Precinct 4: It’s Good to Be the Incumbent,” to add to his most recent about “throwing the all the talk the city of Austin has done, it has failed Save your vote for a party that will work to News]. The story said it’s good being an incum- bums out” and why it doesn’t work [“Page Two,” to serve the disabled community here in Austin. make certain your vote is counted fairly, verifiably, bent. I’m not so sure. Incumbents have estab- Jan. 22]. Getting an education and trying to find a job makes transparently. lished track records, and Margaret Gómez’s track More and more today, the political landscape no sense if you can’t get to that job. Cap Metro bus Peace, record leads to a loss of confidence. is one dominated by anti-movements instead of stops haven’t been updated for decades and have Bill Stout I worked for Commissioner Gómez for more movements. We have many people who are very the same routes. I have been offered many jobs Green Party of Texas than a decade and have lived in East Austin for clear about what they are against and very few with higher salaries over the years but had to take Legislative liaison 22 years. I observed how she lost touch with her people who know what they are for. I have actu- lower-paying jobs or no job at all because there was constituents firsthand. We need better advocacy, ally asked people: “What are you for?” They do no ride to that job. Cap Metro has really failed in its GONE OVER TO DARK SIDE someone who will show up for work and speak not know how to answer the question. mission to provide quality service. Try complaining to the needs of Precinct 4. The name Joe Vela As Louis correctly pointed out, the Ross Perot to them and all you get is a shove to the side and Dear Editor, (my name) appears on the supporters lists of movement died a quick death because it had no a complaint that will get you nowhere in life. Cap Re: “Page Two” [Jan. 15]: Mr. Black has gone both candidates for Precinct 4 Travis County ideology, no philosophy, no ideas. It was a move- Metro needs to be sued and shut down, and a real- over to the dark side – I believe he is now a Commissioner. To clarify any confusion, I support ment of people who simply wanted to vote for istic transportation system should take its place, neocon. In the past he championed issues like Raul Alvarez for this office. somebody else. These people were actually the because it’s doing nobody a bit of good. the safety and health of the workplace and the Raul is much more interested in doing the most docile products of the system. Daniel Meiske rights of its workers. How does that apply to job than just having the job. He has a proven Another result of this is that people search for every business but entertainment? What is the track record as a public servant, not just villains instead of solutions. This gives rise to the VOTING OUTSIDE THE BOX current policy of the Chronicle’s offices regarding another politician. many conspiracy theories, whether they be about smoking, and when was it implemented and why? A concerned citizen of Travis County, Precinct 4, the assassination of men like Kennedy and King Dear Editors, Whenever something is legislated, unfortunately, Joe Vela or about the destruction of the Alfred P. Murrah In last week’s Austin Chronicle, you listed the there are losers as well as winners; some rights Federal Building and the World Trade Center. candidates from the Democrats, Republicans, and are affirmed and the others denied; that is our KELLER SHOULD BE CHARGED And, while most of the conspiracy theories I’ve Libertarians for the November 2010 statewide system. Dig this: People with asthma or other heard over the years have some validity, there is election [“The Primary Candidates,” News, Jan. respiratory illnesses for whom it would have Dear Editor, also a lot of truth in Hanlon’s razor. It basically 22]. However, Texans should know that the slate been an impossibility to catch a live show almost Re: “Public Humiliation Is Punishment Enough” says, “Never attribute to malice that which can of Green Party candidates can be found at www. anywhere other than the Cactus Cafe can enjoy [Newsdesk, Jan. 20]: No. Public humiliation is not be easily explained by stupidity.” txgreens.org. Interested voters will see that Austin’s going out as much as anyone else. Or I guess enough. Sharon Keller’s decision cost a human One of the reasons why the Rev. Dr. Martin own Roger Baker is running for Travis County Clerk maybe they don’t matter either. life. She should not be given immunity from pros- Luther King Jr.’s movement was successful was with a focus on bringing changes to the office to Tim Pipe ecution. Keller should be criminally charged and that King was not interested in punishing the many institute fair, transparent, and verifiable elections for [Louis Black responds: I’m not sure where her case decided by a jury. I sparked a federal villains. He treated his opponents as misinformed, Travis County voters – no more black box voting! neocons would stand on a smoking ban, but start- investigation that ended with the conviction of my not evil. He was, above all, a man of peace. In order to sign the petition for “alternative” politi- ing out a letter with an insult is a good strategy. own attorney and judge. What was discovered is Perhaps during this period of ideological cal parties like the Greens, Libertarians, Constitution When the final law regarding the smoking ban was state oversight commissions do not police their bankruptcy, Americans will find a positive vision Party, Socialists, and others, voters should not vote passed, there were only 200 businesses that still judges, they protect them. to support. Until they do, it won’t matter who is in the primary elections for the status quo party(s) allowed smoking, out of the many thousands of Nancy Swan in office. that have placed many unconstitutional barriers Austin businesses.] Mobile, Ala. Chris Baker against electoral competition. CONTINUED ON P.6 4 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JANUARY 29, 2010 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m SPRING SPECIALS 5 50% OFF $ WITH YOUR HELP - CARE IS PROVIDED FOR 40 SEVERELY CHALLENGED CHILDREN FROM VIRTUALLY EVERY AUSTIN NEIGHBORHOOD. (FOR OVER 40 YEARS). 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Questions remain unanswered. The Residents study death, not as a horrific end, but as the ultimate question that we all ask while wondering if any of it is even real.” I can’t wait. Feb. 2, Stubb’s. Deanna Szuter CREATE PUBLICLY FUNDED CAMPAIGNS Dear Editor, Today the Supreme Court removed restrictions on the political spending of corporations and unions. If you agree that special interests tend to hijack public policy for narrow, selfish, and short-term gains, then this should alarm you. “The Fortune 100 companies alone had combined revenues of $13 trillion and profits of $605 billion during the last election cycle” LEGALIZE IT BEGGING BLACK TO RECONSIDER done with music, visual art, and the use of mod- [Forbes.com, Jan. 21]. ern technologies manipulated over the last 38 Please consider taking a few minutes to call Dear Editor, Dear Editor, years. They are one of music’s most prolific and your representative and urge him or her to sup- Re: “Talking Travis: Elliott Naishtat” [Newsdesk, I am writing to beg you to reconsider your versatile bands in the industry without being port the Fair Elections Now Act to create publicly May 15, 2009]: Thank you for your continued cov- influential opinion on the smoking ban [“Page tied into the industry. Since 1972, the band funded campaigns. erage of the medical use of marijuana (cannabis). Two,” Jan. 15]. I have been working, off and on, has released more than 65 albums, dozens of Thanks, My hope is that there are more representatives in nightclubs for 20 years, and the difference limited-edition CD projects, numerous music Paul Silver than Rep. Elliott Naishtat who find the issue between a smoking club and nonsmoking club videos and short films, three CD-ROM projects, of cannabis important enough to provide legal is literally night and day. To try and repeal this and 10 DVDs and have undertaken seven major CONSERVATIVE JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS provisions for Texans with painful disabilities and would be like taking away the 40-hour work week world tours. Their albums are often complex diseases to grow and use cannabis medically or removing safety standards from the mining conceptual pieces composed around a theme, Dear Editor, without worry of criminal charges. The American industry. A true step backward. theory, or plot and are noted for surrealistic Not long ago conservatives in Congress were Medical Association and the federal government It’s very simple: When other people drink, I lyrics and a disregard for standard Western grilling Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor on have recently changed direction regarding their don’t get drunk, but when other people smoke pop-music composition. Soundtrack work for her impartiality, impugning her ability to avoid previous stances on this topic, and Texas policy cigarettes, I am smoking, too. I quit 15 years the Discovery Channel and an installation at ideological bias in her rulings. Now a con- should follow. The value of a drug to a patient ago; it was very hard, but I stuck with it and I the Museum of Modern Art are only a few of servative Supreme Court majority is blatantly should be between a doctor and patient, not finally prevailed. Why should I still be at risk of their credits. Their live shows are works of per- pursuing an activist agenda at the expense of between lawmakers. The current Texas drug getting lung cancer just because of the way I formance art with symbolic stage props, mys- decades of legal precedence. The recent ruling policy, especially surrounding the uses of the can- make my living? terious costumes, and dramatic theatrics. To on campaign financing by corporations amounts nabis plant, is outdated, unwarranted, and overly As far as the clubs not doing well, it’s a this day the band remains shrouded in mystery, to conservatives’ very own pornography, which penalizes Texans who choose to use cannabis recession, that’s what happens. People aren’t best illustrated by their iconic eyeball-and-top- is also protected on the grounds of a First for any purpose. The plant has clear, scientifically going out ’cause they’re broke! Not because hat look. The reasons why the Residents have Amendment right to free speech. Just as pornog- proven benefits to health and society. Clearly, they have to go outside to smoke. To attach the not been to Texas in more than 20 years are raphy represents a hideous stain on our national abusing the plant is not its only use, yet Texas two is complete nonsense. As I said, I beg you not clear. I personally have traveled more than character, so unfettered political influence by drug policy only focuses on the abuse of the plant to reconsider. 1,000 miles each time they have toured over corporations will result in the complete prostitu- in the formation of its laws regarding the plant. If Thank you, the last 17 years, and I am excited to have the tion of a political system already dominated by all laws were made this way, we would not have Gary Lindsey chance to see them here. Keeping true to form, special interests and powerful lobbies. Under access to many paints, solvents, or gasoline for [Louis Black responds: Relax, Gary. The edito- this tour is also a bit mysterious, being called this ruling, “freedom for all” becomes just a that matter. Alcohol was once outlawed using this rial said nothing about a repeal, and I can safely the Talking Light tour. I have no idea what is free-for-all in which only the biggest, baddest, very outdated methodology. We must repeal pro- assure you that calling my influence even “very going to happen. There is no press release for it and wealthiest have the chance to make their hibition laws because we currently cannot grow limited” would still be an exaggeration.] yet. This is the information from www.residents. voices heard. Most sickening are conservative cannabis for food, oil, or fiber products. We can- com: “The story of the Talking Light piece is commentators who disingenuously try to claim not use it for clothing, cosmetics, medicinally, or MYSTERIOUS RESIDENTS RETURN basically that of an older man who questions, that this ruling gives more power to the little guy. even research its other beneficial properties and not only decisions he made as a teenager, but In their grotesque, egregious, yet innate hypoc- uses (like clean fuel). It’s time everyone come out Dear Editor, also if the events he remembers from that time risy, conservatives insist that in the unregulated and get educated about this useful plant. It’s not The Residents can easily be described as a happened at all. ‘A dead infant clutching a ring market, individuals have the right and the ability just about abuses anymore. performance art band from San Francisco, but with an inscription the teenager cannot read’ David Wagner what is not easy to describe is what they have is the stuff of dreams. 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It only goes to show, once again, that the Republican is an animal most YONDER COMES ONE, MAYBE at home in the jungle – the bloodier, more cruel, more vicious it is, the better he likes it, Dear Editor, for at heart he is at best, in addition to being In some large cities in the world (Lisbon a natural-born hypocrite, nothing but a bully. and Hong Kong come to mind), a bus comes Katherine Edmiston by every 15 minutes or so and bus stops are Granite Shoals readily available. So many government entities forget that the main purpose of government is INSANE STOPLIGHT TIMING to provide for the people collectively what they cannot provide for themselves individually. In Dear Editor, Austin, smoother streets and coherent bus To whomever at the Texas Department of service come to mind. 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Prizes courtesy of The Austin Chronicle and Music Lab austinchronicle.com/soundwars a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JANUARY 29, 2010 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 9 14 Council Preview 16 On the Campaign Trail 19 The Hightower Report news 20 Imagining Austin Headlines › City Council decides on the Hanger Orthopedic Group incentives deal today (Thursday, Jan. 28), hears a presentation on Austin Energy’s generation plans, and more. See “City Hall Hustle,” p.12, and “The AE Generation Plan’s Latest Monkey Wrench,” p.15. And good news for council junkies: Venerable community radio KAZI 88.7FM will begin airing council meetings from start to finish, beginning at 10am today. › While local boosters may be ecstatic over the prospect of a prosthetics company coming to Austin (see above), the city of Cedar Park is poised to make a bigger splash today with the announcement that Schlitterbahn Waterparks is poised to plunk millions into an “experiential entertainment resort” in the little city to the north. › Austin hit the No. 1 spot on Portfolio.com’s list of best places in the U.S. to open a small business and scored a No. 9 ranking on the list of Advocate magazine’s 15 gayest cities. No matter how cosmopolitan Austin becomes, the magazine noted, “gay and lesbian residents will always take their barbeque, two-stepping, and live music culture seriously.” Seriously. › The state’s unemployment numbers have inched upward again. According to the Texas ON S Workforce Commission, the seasonally adjust- R E ed unemployment rate rose from 8% in ND November to 8.3% in December as the state lost N A 23,900 nonagricultural jobs. OH J › Lawmakers are discussing possible security Hundreds of gun-rights activists rallied Monday at the Austin Police Department in response to recent law enforcement actions that led to increases at the Capitol in the wake of the the shutdown of a gun show scheduled Jan. 16-17. Local gadfly and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is shown with bullhorn in foreground. Jan. 21 shooting on the Capitol’s south steps. Fausto Cardenas was arrested for allegedly fir- ing a small-caliber handgun. There were no inju- ries. He has been charged with deadly conduct, Revenge of the Cyborgs QUOTE a third-degree felony. › STAARS over Texas: Education Commissioner Robert Scott Speech may be free, but justice costs real money of the has announced that the unpopular Texas Assessment WEEK of Knowledge and Skills tests BY MICHAEL KING will be replaced by the State Reading through the Supreme Court opinions this That’s not only not remotely accurate, it’s ludi- of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness starting week in the Citizens United v. Federal Election crous. Yet Kennedy’s opinion is filled with similar in the 2011-12 academic year. Commission case – which struck down virtually all humbuggery, because he’s desperate to find grandi- The high school class of 2015 restrictions on corporate (and union) financing of ose reasons for making what should be a technical will be the first students to be faced with the election campaigns – I found myself reaching for dispute about whether video-on-demand constitutes new graduating requirements. outlandish metaphors to describe how other- illegal broadcasting under FEC regulations into the › All aboard? Finally? For reals? Capital Metro worldly the entire exercise seemed. Justice biggest case since Marbury v. Madison. sent a Jan. 21 letter to the Federal Railroad Anthony Kennedy’s strenuous majority Kennedy’s self-flattering effusions are Administration with word that the transit agency intends to open the MetroRail Red Line to opinion is filled with defenses of bot- point followed by Chief Justice John Roberts Leander for paying passengers in mid- to late tomless campaign spending for multi- (joined by Samuel Alito), primarily to › MWaitrhc hth. eS esee c“oMnde tRroeRpauibl lWicaatnc hg,u” bpe.r1n5a.torial candi- nabastioolnuatel c“ofrrpeeo rsaptieoencsh ”a s– e xap nreostsiioonn st hoef austin ipnesrissot nt haast cwohmapt leloteolkys otvoe ratunryn rinatgi osneat-l dates’ debate scheduled for Friday (Jan. 29), court had no patience for when the tled campaign finance law (feeble as it Gov. Rick Perry is already grabbing headlines speaker was a high school kid carrying a is) is instead a grand return to original with his announcement he will not seek any newspaper endorsements. Meanwhile, Sen. Kay rude poster – and denunciations of the constitutional principle. Antonin Scalia “While American demo - Bailey Hutchison has added former President supposed “bans” on corporate free speech (joined by Alito and Clarence Thomas) George H.W. Bush to her list of supporters. represented by decades of relatively toothless cam- weighs in to claim that the founders did not dis- cracy is imperfect, few › A gentle reminder if you want to vote in the paign finance laws. “The law before us [a restriction dain or fear corporations quite so much as the dis- outside the majority of March 2 primary: Voter registration closes on express corporate electioneering shortly before senters demonstrate. Wackiest of all, Thomas dis- this Court would have Monday, Feb. 1. Early voting starts Tuesday, an election],” thunders Kennedy, “is an outright sents only from upholding laws requiring disclo- thought its flaws included Feb. 16, and runs through Friday, Feb. 26. ban, backed by criminal sanctions.” sure of campaign donors – because, he says, some › a dearth of corporate Monday, Feb. 1 is also the deadline for paying I’m sure you’re all familiar with the long line of Cali for nia Proposition 8 opponents reportedly property taxes in Travis County. Payment corporate miscreants marched off to the penitentiary harassed or threatened named supporters of the money in politics.” options abound: in person at any county tax for violating campaign finance laws. Why, under the proposition. Now there’s a central social problem – Justice John Paul office, after hours in drop-boxes at 5501 Airport, online at www.traviscountytax.org, or by mail (must existing law, Kennedy reels with horror, government of our time: mobs of gay people menacing poor Steve ns, dissenting from be postmarked Feb. 1 or earlier). Call 854-9473 officials “could have banned the film [Mr. Smith defenseless heterosexuals. the Supreme Court’s ruling for more info. Goes to Washington].” on campaign finance laws CONTINUED ON P.13 10 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E JANUARY 29, 2010 a u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m