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The final four greatest children’s sports movies
Austin transplant tries Texas country in the A-List
FRIDAY
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‘Right where I belong’The Flatlanders and the Greencards play a show at the Paramount Theatre. Tickets start at $33.50 and the show begins at 8 p.m.
‘Way before Nirvana’Bowling for Soup, The Dollyrots and Holy Moly play The Parish at 9 p.m. Tickets cost $15.
— Georgina TolandProfessional Hula-hooper
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WEEKEND
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‘Vittoria, Vittoria, Vittoria’The KVRX Summer Concert Series presents Built By Snow, Focus Group, Marmalakes and Federal! State! Local! at the U.S. Art Authority. Doors open at 9 p.m. with a $5 cover.
SATURDAY
Lots of laughs“Last Comic Standing” season two winner John Heffron does stand-up at the Capital Comedy Club. Tickets cost $15 and doors open at 8 p.m.
SUNDAY‘Ditto’The Paramount Theatre shows the 1990 hit “Ghost” at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $9. Come by an hour before the show to paint your own pottery.
“The beautiful thing about the hoopers is that for a long time, nobody knew
about it except the people that were into it, so it was a small community.
... Over the past five years, it’s
gone from you may know one or two people who
hoop to suddenly 20 or 30 in your immediate circle
that hoop.”
‘I walk the line’Jeremy Steding and The Band of Bastards, Austin Volunteer Orchestra, Shandon Sahm and more play The Johnny Cash Bash at Threadgill’s World Headquarters starting at 6 p.m. Tickets cost $15 on the day of the show.
Erika Rich | Daily Texan Staff
City manager Marc Ott speaks to Mayor Lee Leffingwell during the City Council meeting Thursday before a public hearing on a settlement with the family of Nathaniel Sanders.
Council votes down settlementCity to fight civil rights suit in court Race divide
triggers resolution controversy
Hundreds gather to support Arizona ruling
Soraya Giaccardi and her son Jaron, 3, participate in the ¡Alto ICE! vigil at the state Capitol on Thursday night. The event was held in reaction to SB 1070, the controversial Arizona illegal immigration law.
Erika RichDaily Texan Staff
By Collin EatonDaily Texan Staff
After the third KUT “Cactus Conversation” meeting Thurs-day, a Student Friends of the Cactus Cafe co-founder and vocal critic of the original Jan. 29 announcement to repur-pose the Cactus Cafe said he is becoming optimistic about KUT’s new shared manage-ment of the Cactus Cafe.
“It sounds like [the KUT staff] have a big vision. It sounds like they’re listening to us, and I think they get it,” said Matt Portillo, Stu-dent Friends of the Cactus Cafe co-founder. “The Divi-sion of Student Affairs peo-ple didn’t get it. God love them, but they didn’t get it. I think KUT does understand, and my healthy skepticism is turning into optimism.”
About 12 people other than KUT staff attended the afternoon meeting, includ-ing Texas musician Darden Smith, freelance writer Spike Gillespie and humorist Mary Gordon Smith, and discussed the “music heritage and op-portunities” of the Cactus Cafe. Two representatives from The Ampersand Agen-cy, an advertising company,
were also in attendance. Like all KUT Cactus Con-
versations, media outlets were not allowed to attend — an effort by KUT to ensure participants felt comfortable and open to discussion.
Also in attendence were John Kunz, the owner of Wa-terloo Records & Video in Austin; Sam Scorpino, a rep-resentative in the Gradu-ate Student Assembly; and KUT programming manager Hawk Mendenhall. Accord-ing to the meeting agenda, the participants spoke about specific artists and the types of music that contributed to the history of the cafe.
Portillo said participants in the meeting compared the cafe to clubs in New York that have solid, weeklong book-ing, and said that there may be an expansion from a one-man booking position to a booking team at some point.
“It was scary at the begin-ning,” Portillo said. “It was like someone was telling you there’s a pot of gold at the end of the sidewalk, but it’s a mile-long sidewalk and you’re blindfolded. Through the blindfold, I can almost see something shiny.”
By Destinee HodgeDaily Texan Staff
Hundreds gathered on the south gates of the Texas Capitol on Thursday in support of Arizo-na U.S. District Judge Susan Bol-ton’s decision to withhold cer-tain sections from Arizona’s im-migration bill and to raise aware-ness of greater issues of racism in immigration laws.
With candles lit and flashlights dimmed to a glow by paper bags, people of all ethnicities hummed along to the music of local band Son Armado and questioned passers-by, “Do I look illegal?”
In her temporary injunction, Bolton delayed provisions of the law, including a section requir-ing officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforc-ing other laws. She also barred enforcement of parts requiring immigrants to carry their papers and banning illegal immigrants from soliciting employment in
public places — a move aimed at day laborers who congregate in parking lots across Arizona. The judge also blocked officers from making warrantless arrests of suspected illegal immigrants. Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift Bolton’s order blocking most of the state’s immi-gration law.
UT graduate student Rocío Vil-lalobos, the main organizer of the event, said she and her friends thought that in light of the con-
By Michelle TruongDaily Texan Staff
After hours of heated delibera-tion, City Council members reject-ed a $750,000 settlement with the Sanders family Thursday for the shooting of Nathaniel Sanders by former Austin Police Department officer Leonardo Quintana in 2009.
The motion failed on a 4-3 vote, with Mayor Lee Leffingwell, Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez and coun-cil members Chris Riley and Randi Shade voting against the proposal.
Leffingwell said although he opposes the settlement, he agrees with the rest of the council that the proposed settlement does not indi-cate the city acknowledges the un-justified shooting of Sanders.
“After much thought, I think the best [chance] that we have is to let this process go forward and let the
facts and the jury make the deci-sion,” Leffingwell said. “The hon-est and most open way to see this through is to reject the settlement.
Sanders was fatally shot by Quintana in May 2009, and his family filed a federal lawsuit against the officer and the city weeks after Nathaniel died, claim-ing excessive force and equal-pro-tection violations. The rejected set-tlement means the Sanders’ suit will now go to court.
Before the council rejected any settlement, Riley surprised those in attendance by introducing an alter-nate settlement totaling $500,000, which he said would allow the city to apologize for Sanders’ death without admitting wrongdoing.
The alternative motion was met with disdain from several citizens before being denied by a vote of
5-2. Riley’s motion was support-ed by Shade, who said it was im-portant in improving relations be-tween the city and East Austin’s African-American community.
The Austin Police Accountabil-ity Coalition, an activist group composed of concerned citizens, remained neutral regarding the settlement but continues to push for police department reform.
“We support the Sanders fami-ly as they seek justice, but whether [the council] settles with the fami-ly or not, they haven’t settled with the community,” APAC member Tane Ward said. “We need a real system of police accountability, and there is not a working system of police accountability. And that is the reason that there isn’t trust.”
The council’s decision was pref-aced by reactions from citizens
in a packed c h a m b e r . The Austin Police Asso-ciation, led by Wayne Vincent, ex-pressed its opposition to the settle-ment, while Nelson Linder, president of the Austin chapter of the National As-sociation for the Advancement of Colored People, pressed the coun-cil to settle with Sanders’ family.
“If we don’t treat people like hu-man beings — regardless of their backgrounds, resumes and certifi-cates — we’ll have problems on a perennial basis,” Linder said.
Chris RileyCity councilman
Nelson LinderPresident of theAustin NAACP
Members also reject alternate proposal with lower payout, no culpability
By Nolan Hicks Daily Texan Staff
Racial tensions, which have been driving the City Council’s debate over whether to settle with Nathaniel Sanders’ fam-
ily, explod-e d w h e n Councilman Chris Riley p r o p o s e d an alterna-tive settle-m e n t t h a t would have substantial-ly reduced t h e p r e v i -ously nego-
tiated payout. The motion, which indicat-
ed the council’s reluctance to adhere to the terms of the ten-tatively agreed-to settlement, caused several African-Ameri-can community leaders to leave the meeting room.
“Black folks know, in this city, we don’t have a thing called ‘justice,’” said Nelson Linder, president of the Austin chapter of the National Associ-ation for the Advancement of Colored People. “This is white racism at its very best.”
He called Mayor Lee Leffin-gwell and Mayor Pro Tem Mike Martinez “cowards” for not supporting the settlement, and criticized council members Ri-ley and Randi Shade for back-ing a compromise resolution that would reduce the amount of money paid by the city to the Sanders family.
“They’re snakes and we’re go-ing to beat them,” Linder said. “Remember Randi Shade. Re-member bicycle man Chris Ri-ley; he thinks bicycles are more
Repurposing critic lauds KUT’s efforts
Judge delays enforcementof part of immigration lawwith temporary injunction
MEETING continues on page 2 RACISM continues on page2
RALLY continues on page 2
Leader of Austin NAACP demands justice; officials accused of ‘white racism’
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The City Council postponed Thursday a decision on adding the Brackenridge Tract to the Central West Austin Combined Neigh-borhood Plan until Aug. 19.
If the City Council approves incorporat-ing the Brackenridge Tract into the neigh-borhood plan, the city would have listened to how the neighbors of the tract felt about the land, said Mary Arnold, a leading mem-ber of the “Save Muny” effort who has been working on the issue for decades.
“In a sense, I feel like this is a freedom of speech issue. We as neighbors of [the Brack-enridge Tract] have a right to express what we want on that land in our neighborhood plan,” Arnold said.
Members of the Save Muny effort said they may push the city to consider options to try to trade for or purchase non-University-purposed land such as the golf course.
The council hired two law firms for legal advice regarding the Lions Municipal Golf Course and the Brackenridge Tract, a move that mirrored a recent legal hire by the UT System.
UT System spokesman Matt Flores said the system recently hired Richard Suttle, a real estate lawyer, as outside counsel in the planning efforts for the tract.
— Collin Eaton
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The City Council postponed a decision regarding adding the Brackenridge Tract to the Central West Austin Combined Neighborhood Plan.
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UT alumna Darcy Gault searches for an empty spot in the refrigerator at Sentelli’s Bakery, located at 814 W. 12th St. Gault graduated with a degree in ancient history in 2007 and has been working as a pastry chef ever since.
meeting: NAACP to work with city to aid relations
rally: Activists highlight global implications of Arizona’s bill targeting illegal immigrants
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In Wednesday’s Firing Line, “UT Law is inclusive,” The Daily Texan printed, “Each year, 15 to 20 percent of the entering law class has an undergraduate degree from UT-Austin.” The correct number, as originally cited by the Firing Line author, is 20 to 25 percent. The Texan regrets the error.
troversy surrounding the bill, it would be a good opportuni-ty for those opposed to the bill to show solidarity.
Villalobos said those who support the bill and view un-documented immigrants as a nuisance need to become aware of the larger issues that cause mass immigration from surrounding countries.
“I think a large part that people ignore or they’re not aware of is that there are pol-icies in place that destroy the economies of the countries where immigrants are coming [from, such as] Central Amer-ica, Latin America — all over the world — because of exist-ing policies that the U.S. par-ticipates in,” Villalobos said. “Their home economies are de-teriorating, and unfortunate-
ly, they’re left with nothing in their home country. They have no hope to find any kind of meaningful employment.”
The event also enabled in-dividuals to voice their opin-ions on the impact the law could have on immigrant and Latino communities and say why they support immigra-tion reform.
“I don’t mind the illegals that just took my job the other day,” local construction work-er Pablo Ortiz said over one of the megaphones provided at the event. “It’s the contractors that are the real criminals.”
Although many at the event were affiliated with particu-lar activist groups, some peo-ple saw the need to support the issue because it hit close to home.
“I didn’t know what it felt like to be passionate about
something like this,” Texas A&M University student Ma-ria Garcia said. “But like now, this is a big deal.”
Esther Reyes of the Austin Immigrant Rights Coalition said laws such as 287(g) and particularly the Secure Com-munities Act terrorize immi-grant and Latino communi-ties. The Secure Communities Act, according to the U.S. im-migration website, is aimed at deporting “criminal aliens” from the U.S., but Reyes con-tends that it allows law en-forcement officers to misuse their authority.
After various people took the megaphone, Villalobos and her cohorts rallied the crowd to march down Congress Ave-nue with signs held high, hop-ing to be seen and heard.
Additional reporting by The Asso-ciated Press.
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Although they called for oppo-site decisions, Vincent and Linder confirmed they will be joining forces to foster a better relation-ship between officers and minor-ities in Austin. Vincent said he does not think the council’s deci-sion will make the collaboration more difficult.
“I think the timing is right in initiating something a little bit different,” Vincent said. “We rec-ognize there’s distrust and mis-understanding on both sides, and we will work to bring it down. This is not in theory; we’re going to make it happen.”
important than black people. Remember what he did to-night.”
Still, he said the decision wouldn’t discourage newly an-nounced efforts by the Austin chapter of the NAACP and the Austin Police Association, the police union.
Earlier Thursday after-noon, both Linder and APA President Wayne Vincent jointly addressed the coun-cil about their new initiative to help bridge the divide be-tween police officers and the African-American commu-nity in Austin.
“There is no secret to the fact that there is some dis-trust out there, and there’s misunderstanding on both sides,” Vincent said. “Hav-ing these frank discussions, some of these discussions aren’t going to be comfort-able, but they need to hap-pen ... to quell the mistrust and misunderstandings.”
He sa id the meet ings would take place in neigh-borhood schools , parks , churches and other key com-munity meeting points.
“It’s harder to distrust people you get to know,” Vincent said. “We want to work toward a better under-standing [between commu-nities] so we can reduce the number of police confronta-tions out on the streets, and thus reduce the incidents we’re talking about today.”
Still, the Justice Depart-ment’s Civil Rights Division launched an investigation into APD practices in 2007 as a result of an NAACP complaint.
In December 2009, APD Chief Art Acevedo said many of the recommendations made by the Justice Depart-ment to bring APD into com-pliance with civil rights laws had been put into effect.
“It doesn’t matter wheth-er we settle or go to trial,” Councilwoman Sheryl Cole said before the debate start-ed. “Neither one of those things result in any more transparency or community reconciliation.”
Ora Houston, a retiree who has lived in East Austin all her life, told the council that when she was raising her son, she taught him to say “yes sir” or “yes ma’am,” to never mouth off and to just get a badge number.
“When he came to vis-it two weeks ago, I went through the same checklist I went through when he was a little boy,” she said. “My son reminded me that he was a federal police officer. I said to him, ‘Son, in this city, they won’t know that un-til they take that badge off your dead body.’”
Cole descr ibed a t ime when the hostility in East Austin neighborhoods to-ward APD was such that po-lice officers couldn’t drive down East 11th or 12th streets without rocks being thrown at their cars.
“We’ve come a long way,” Cole said. “What stood out in my mind about [the Sand-ers shooting] was that the youth were throwing rocks at the police cars at the very beginning. I t ’ s not only about this case, it’s about where we’re going.”
Cole said the creation of the office of the police mon-itor, which investigates po-lice misconduct as part of APD’s internal affairs divi-sion, and the civilian review board were two examples of progress in increasing trans-parency between the city and the police department.
“What I think needs to be the focal point right now is not only transparency, but getting at the underlying, complex social issues that led to this type of occur-rence,” Cole said.
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Friday, July 30, 2010OPINIONTHE DAILY TEXAN
By Joshua LeeDaily Texan Guest Columnist
A citizen’s right to disobey
GALLERY
THE FIRING LINE
Ashley Meleen’s breathless excitement in Wednesday’s article, “Red McCombs chief racetrack investor,” leaves this curious reader skeptical. How much of the purported $300 million this project might bring to the city will be off-set by environmental noise and pollution as well as taxes spent to attract this business? Has the community of Del Valle participated in this decision? In this city that aspires to be human-paced and creative, does “all [of Austin] want to go faster,” as McCombs asserts?
Where are the Austin voices who know all that glitters is not gold?
— Susan A. KerrUT International Office
All that glitters...
Number crunchers this past week portrayed the state of Tex-as as pretty grim for children.
A study released by the Thom-as B. Fordham Institute gave Texas’ math standard a C. The Associated Press reported that Texas is one of the least highly educated states in the country, with only 27 percent of residents holding bachelor’s degrees, and a study conducted by the An-nie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Data Center ranked Texas as 34th in a state-by-state study of children’s well-being — put-ting Texas in the bottom third.
According to the 62-page Kids Count report, Texas has the third-highest teen birth rate in the country and a child poverty rate disconcertingly higher than the rest of the U.S. Other discon-certing facts: Texas is tied with Arkansas for the worst rate of child food insecurity; the state has 29 percent more children on food stamps this July than it did in October 2008; one in five Tex-an children does not have health insurance — 50 percent higher than the national average — and Texas is in the bottom quarter of states for reading proficiency.
As if being hungry, uninsured and undereducated weren’t
enough, more than one in four Texas kids do not get the plea-sure of hearing a book read to them at least three nights per week, which according to the 2007 National Survey of Chil-dren’s Health, is the highest rate in the nation.
On Tuesday, Kids Count Di-rector Frances Deviney present-ed these and other statistics from the study at the George Wash-ington Carver Museum and Cul-tural Center in Austin. Deviney’s PowerPoint presentation is avail-able online and expertly puts the numbers in the study together in a way that brings home the se-verity of the situation. Undeni-ably, Texas, one of the biggest states in population and size, has an abysmal track record for caring for children that extends further than the realities of a na-tional recession.
However, Deviney’s presenta-tion is short on solutions. How should the state fix some of these glaring inadequacies for its chil-dren? Her suggestions: “Utilize all federal funds, use the rainy day fund and find new sources of revenue” — as if all that were easy. Speaking on the telephone, Deviney didn’t have much more to add on the subject of problem solving. “The upcoming legisla-tive session is going to involve a lot of budget cuts,” Devin-
ey said. “We need to make this a data message right now.” It’s unclear why offering produc-tive solutions, especially ones measured with the reality of a shrinking budget, is something Deviney believes would be dis-tracting to the sobering message the studies’ numbers provide, but the ones she presents in her presentation offer little promise.
In January, Texas rejected the opportunity to compete for $700 million in federal educa-tion money. Gov. Rick Perry dis-missed the grant program be-cause he felt it invited too much federal control over the state’s jurisdiction over education. The rainy day fund, excess revenue set aside for use in times of bud-get shortfall, is practically inac-cessible since it requires a three-fifths vote in the state Legisla-ture to be used. And regarding “find[ing] new sources of rev-enues,” well, we’re all waiting with bated breath.
Deviney’s method of identify-ing problems but not solutions isn’t unusual. Measurers rarely moonlight as problem solvers. Even so, her alarmed identifica-tion of serious problems is dilut-ed by her flippant suggestions for answers.
Jacob is a history sophomore.
Matt York | Associated Press
Julio Fierro Jr., 19, of Tucson, protests Thursday in Phoenix to rally against Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070.
Matt York | Associated Press
Police form a cordon to block the street Thursday in Phoenix while protesters rally against Arizona’s new immigration law, SB 1070. Opponents of Arizona’s immi-gration crackdown went ahead with protests Thursday despite a judge’s ruling that delayed enforcement of most the law.
Texas is a grim place for childrenBy Susannah Jacob
Daily Texan Columnist
LEGALESEOpinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees. All Texan editorials are written by The Daily Texan’s Editorial Board.
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NEW BILL WHITE POLITICAL ADS
“Looking for someone who looks like Perry and can combine that with a Steve Carrell-like clueless-ness. This is a low-budget political ad series for Bill White.”
— A posting on shortfilmstexas.com advertising a search for a Perry look-alike, as reported by The Dallas Morning News on Thursday. The ads will be shot in Austin.
“Liberal Bill White’s entirely nega-tive campaign sinks lower every day.”
— Perry campaign spokesman Mark Miner in response to the solicitation for Perry look-alikes.
“Bill and the rest of the team are very excited about the opportunity to work with Texas filmmakers.”
— White campaign spokeswoman Katy Bacon on the endeavor.
UT DEFENDS ITS COPYRIGHTS
“We don’t have deep enough pock-ets to mess with the University of Texas.”
—Bill Miller, district director of operations for Gardner Edgerton High School, in regard to the school’s recent run-in with the UT athletic depart-ment, according to The Kansas City Star. The school had planned to paint a longhorn logo that looked a little too similar to Bevo on its basketball court.
PROTESTING TARGET
“My youngest son is gay, and I love him more than anything I could ever buy at Target.”
— Randi Reitan, gay-rights activist, in a Huffington Post column criticizing Target’s financial support of a controversial anti-gay candidate run-ning for governor in Minnesota.
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Quotes to note
“I don’t know what the big hype is with this new law.”
This past Wednesday, referring to contro-versial Arizona Senate Bill 1070, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio continued his in-terview saying, “It is a crime to be here ille-gally and everyone should enforce [the law] in the interior of the United States.” He also said that he’s “not going to put up with any civil disobedience” from protesters.
It’s probably been a couple years since the good sheriff took a high school American history class, so maybe a refresher would be helpful. As U.S. District Judge Susan Bolt realized Wednesday in striking down the most egregious parts of the new Arizo-na law, only the federal government has the right to regulate immigration in the “interi-or of the United States,” as the sheriff so el-oquently put it.
If the legislation had passed unchallenged, one of the provisions of SB 1070 would have required police officers to check the immigra-tion status of anyone they suspected could be an illegal immigrant. Many have very ef-fectively argued that this could and proba-bly would lead to racial profiling. Unconsti-tutional? Probably. Unethical? Hell yes.
Granted, it certainly is a crime to be in this country illegally, but at the same time, how are the police supposed to responsibly en-force one law while breaking another — in this case, Article 1, Section 8 of the Consti-tution? Simply put, they can’t. Law enforce-ment must follow the law to the letter; it’s in their job description. Citizens, on the oth-er hand, do have the option to break unjust
laws in a very important gray area known as civil disobedience.
And while Arpaio doesn’t seem to ap-preciate the values of civil disobedience (it’s certainly better than the uncivil alternative), I hope that SB 1070 protesters will in the coming weeks.
As most of us know, civil disobedience is the purposeful breaking of certain laws in protest of their supposedly inherent in-justices. However, civil disobedience only works when the protesters understand that they must accept any punishment for the crimes they do commit — not necessarily in deference to the law being broken, but out of respect for the institution of law itself.
During the civil rights era, Martin Luther King Jr. understood and practiced this, and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” one of the best examples of King’s rhetorical ge-nius, was the result of and rationale for dis-obeying the law as he did. King’s acts of civil disobedience led to some of the most sweeping civil rights reforms that the U.S. has ever seen and was instrumental in bat-tling the many evil policies of segregation in this country.
When a law such as SB 1070 seems to en-courage racial profiling by law enforcement, citizens do have a right to disobey. The “big hype” is that without the institution of civil disobedience, the alternative would be wan-ton lawbreaking without any respect for the law — a path that could very possibly lead to violence and anarchy. Which would you rather “put up with,” Mr. Sheriff?
Lee is a rhetoric and writing senior.
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By Neha AzizDaily Texan Staff
Based on the novel “The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud” by Ben Sherwood, “Charlie St. Cloud” is a heartfelt but not overly cliche tale about overcoming loss.
“Charlie St. Cloud” is also the cinematic reunion of Zac Efron and director Burr Steers, who worked together on “17 Again.”
Efron hangs up his dancing shoes to play a more serious and emotional role as Charlie, who has everything going for him un-til his younger brother Sam (Char-lie Tahan) is killed in a car acci-dent. He becomes the town lon-er and forgoes attending Stanford University for a job at the ceme-tery where Sam is buried.
Before Sam dies, Charlie promises him that they will play baseball every day un-til he leaves for college. Even after Sam’s death, Charlie keeps his promise, retreating from the outside world at sun-set with a person who is no longer living. Unexpectedly, Charlie is reacquainted with high school classmate Tess (Amanda Crew) at the grave-yard where he works.
A whirlwind romance ensues as Tess reawakens Charlie’s love of sailing, among other passions, and
reminds him of the life he has been hiding from. The more time Char-lie spends with Tess, however, the less he spends with Sam‘s ghost.
Ultimately, Charlie is forced to choose between holding onto the memory of his deceased brother or going after the girl of his dreams.
“Charlie St. Cloud” has all the sentimentality of a Nicholas Sparks novel-turned-movie with-out becoming sappy. By balanc-ing serious and emotional scenes with comic relief, Steers creates a film that doesn’t weigh down the audience, but still inspires emotional investment. Charlie’s quirky friend Alistair (Augustus Prew) is the source of most of the film’s laughs, delivering a drunk-en karaoke performance in one memorable scene.
Thematic balance and visual-ly pleasing setting aside, “Char-lie St. Cloud” is a sort of debut space for Efron’s desire to prove that he is more than a pretty face, a move that should open up more serious roles for the former Disney star’s future.
The film is a beautifully shot coming-of-age story with breathtaking scenery, camera work and a script that allows the audience to see and feel Charlie’s array of emotions.
Grade: B
‘Hooping’ combines art, exercise
THE A-LIST
By Mary Lingwall
movie review charlie st. cloud
With a camera in hand and a sincerity that transcends the cliche of being another kid in Austin who always carries a camera, Travis Kent is a recent Austin transplant from New York who, in only a year and a half, has made Austin his stomping ground. An alum-nus of the School of Visual Arts in New York, Kent has a talent for capturing the ephemeral in seemingly common or random moments. His first solo show in Austin, “I Hope You’re Well,” was on exhibit earlier this year at SOFA, an apartment gallery in Hyde Park, and drew atten-tion from ArtForum.com.
But photography is only o n e o f K e n t ’ s m a n y sk i l l s . B lack Gum, the tentative name o f K e n t ’ s b a n d , played its debut show last week. H e a l s o s p e n d s plenty of t ime at his two jobs, includ-ing one at the progres-sive East Austin bookstore and art space, Domy Books.
Kent’s musical tastes are about as varied as his inter-ests. When he first came to Austin he was listening to a lot of stoner metal, but as the two-year anniversary of his move approaches, Kent is be-coming increasingly interested in country.
“Or, at least what I think is country music,” Kent said. “I’m finally starting to take my time with Townes [Van Zandt], too. I’m coming around to see why he is regarded so highly.”
Even as Kent experiments with new flavors of Texas mu-sic, he stays true to the music that he’s always enjoyed, such as that of Arthur Russell.
“I will always be able to lis-ten to Arthur Russell,” Kent said. “Specifically, his record World of Echo, where he’s dy-ing of HIV and he’s mak-ing this album of amazingly beautiful music. And it feels like it’s this thing that he just has to do and finish before he dies, but at the same time, he was somebody who was nev-er happy with anything being ‘finished.’ That is why he was constantly rewriting his stuff. ... But right now it’s summer, so I’m kind of just listening to a bunch of fun, summer music — or what I think is fun sum-
mer music — with my friend Rachel Badger, who plays drums in the band.”
Opening with instrumen-tal music originally in-
tended for children, closing with a new t r a c k f r o m S a n F r a n c i s c o i n d i e kids Grass Win-dow and stacked
in the middle with a Bob Dylan cover,
a Velvet Underground tribute and The Beach Boys’
“Feel Flows,” Kent’s playlist is the soundtrack to a perfect, carefree summer day.
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By Addie AndersonDaily Texan Staff
Hula-hooping may seem like a childhood pastime to you, but it’s considered art, exercise and a freeing form of expres-sion for an emerging group of Austinites. In fact, “hoop-ing” is pa of the larger circus culture growing in Austin and around the world.
Each Wednesday night be-tween 7 p.m. and 2 a.m. at the Tiniest Bar in Texas, beginners, more advanced hoopers and poi spinners gather to practice, socialize and learn tricks with a group called The Gyronauts.
Founding members Sean Stogner and Tash Kouri de-scribe themselves as “a space-age glam-rock hoop troupe.”
The troupe of Gyronauts Hu-la-hoop with large, customized hoops, and spin poi — a per-formance art in which a ball or balls are suspended from a length of flexible material and are swung in circular patterns. The duo’s interest in circus per-formance arts began four years ago when they were in college. After a brief stint in Thailand, where Stogner says there is re-ally no community for hoopers
and poi spinners, the two de-cided to move to Austin.
“We were in Thailand and getting so lonely because we didn’t have any circus around us,” Kouri said. “And we saw a YouTube video of hoopers in Austin, and we were like, we have to come.”
The two teach hooping and poi tricks weekly at the Ti-niest Bar in Texas and oth-er venues in Austin. When it gets dark outside, The Gyro-nauts “light up” by lighting their hoops and poi tools with fire while performing.
C.U.@Circus is a much larger circus event that takes place each Sunday afternoon in the park behind Barton Springs Pool.
“Hoop and poi — these are known as optic manipu-lation,” professional hooper Georgina Toland said. “Some of it comes from the old rave scene, but some of it comes from the circus scene. There’s this intersection between cir-cus arts and flow arts. C.U.@Circus kind of unites all of these circus enthusiasts.”
C.U.@Circus participants have the opportunity to show off what they know while learn-
ing from other people who per-form circus art, such as hoop-ing, poi, acrobatics, stilt-walk-ing or unicycle-riding. There is also an electro-circus, which is a circus with disc jockeys, that takes place every month or two in Zilker Park.
Toland has never “lit up” — she got into hooping more for ex-ercise than the performing arts. She was a ballroom dancer for a while, but wanted to do some-thing that didn’t involve a part-ner. In late 2007 she learned about hooping and has stuck with it ever since. Now Toland is a cer-tified hoop instructor and teaches private lessons as well as lessons at Shipe Park in Hyde Park.
“The beautiful thing about the hoopers is that for a long time, nobody knew about it except the people that were into it, so it was a small community. So, every-body knew each other,” Toland said. “Over the past five years, it’s gone from you may know one or two people who hoop to sudden-ly 20 or 30 in your immediate cir-cle that hoop.”
And the hoop community isn’t only growing in Austin — the performance art is becoming a trend in alternative exercise.
Actress Marisa Tomei will release a set of hooping exer-cise DVDs in August, although many already exist from brands such as HoopGirl and Hoopnot-ica. They each claim that the hooping exercises will strength-en and tone the core, give you energy and burn calories.
“It’s becoming a big business now,” Toland said.
But The Gyronauts have ac-tually found it difficult to make money off hooping because the saturated entertainment culture in Austin is focused on the idea of free recreation.
“Realistically, even if you can get a really good gig, to con-stantly be getting good-enough gigs — enough to pay your rent and to not have to worry — is really difficult,” Stogner said.
But the hoop community isn’t really about money. For The Gy-ronauts and others in this grow-ing sphere of hoop aficiona-dos, hoop is for improving both mind and body, an avenue for artistic expression and a way to just get out and let loose.
“I believe that hooping keeps you young,” Toland said. “And I wish I had gotten into it when I was much younger.”
Savannah Oliver, vis-
iting Hot Mama’s
Cafe’s “Hula-Hoop
Church” for the first time, prac-
tices her skills with
performers of all levels.
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Daily Texan Staff
Photographer, musician seeks sounds of summer
Patrick Lu | Daily Texan Staff
Songs on photographer and musi-cian Travis Kent’s playlist include The Beach Boys’ “Feel Flows” and Grass Widow’s “Shadows.”
Former Disney star shows off acting skill
The playlist
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Carl Orff,“Gassenhauer”
Grass Widow,“Shadows”
The Vaselines,“Dying for It”
Spaceman 3,“Sound of Confusion”
The Gun Club,“The Breaking Hands”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,“Waiting for the Man”
Bobby Bare,“Don’t Think Twice”
The Beach Boys,“Feel Flows”
Psychic TV,“Just Drifting”
Porter Wagoner,“The Rubber Room”
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The Daily Texan
6Friday, July 30, 2010
The case for “The Sandlot”Winner of the Baseball Region
Do we really have to ask what the best kids’ sports movie is?
Without a doubt, it is the “The Sandlot.” This movie takes us through a summer of 12-year-old boys just playing baseball — not worrying about winning or losing, just playing, as Scotty Smalls realizes the eight boys playing on the lot of sand aren’t even keeping score.
It defines boyhood. It is realistic and features characters every boy can relate to, from the los-er, nonathletic kid stuck standing in the outfield to the superstar athletes everyone looks up to. Off the baseball field, “The Sandlot” also shows
us the kid who has a crush on the lifeguard and goes to great lengths to make a move. It teaches us to stay away from chewing tobacco. And, it teaches us that if you hit the ball over the fence, you can just knock on the door of old Mr. Myrtle instead of trying to conquer “the beast.”
There is no underdog story here, like the majority of the movies in this brack-et. There are no typical Eurotrash bad guys such as Team Iceland or the East Ger-mans in Cool Runnings. And unlike “Remember the Titans,” these characters are actually young kids doing what kids love to do.
When it comes to kids’ sports movies, “The Sandlot” is king.— Dan Hurwitz
The case for “Remember the Titans”Winner of the Football/Basketball Region
You’d be a fool to think that anyone could beat the mighty Titans of T.C. Williams High School.
With all due respect to Charlie Conway and his Mighty Ducks, Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez and his motley crew of ballplayers and every-one’s favorite bobsledding Jamaicans, the Titans just can’t be beaten.
Gerry was paralyzed and eventually died, but before he kicked the bucket, he still managed to find a way to keep kicking butt in the Paralym-pic Games.
And any team that can forge the bond that Sunshine, Julius, Petey, Rev, coach Boone and
coach Yoast formed after standing on the battlefield at Gettysburg is a force to be reckoned with.
Sure, Benny Rodriguez can lead his sandlot gang against a real Little League team with uniforms, but do you really think that semi-organized group can beat the fine-tuned machine that is T.C. Williams?
Yeah, the Jamaicans can outrun the Titans on an end-around, but they don’t have the size to block that Titans front line. I mean, come on! They would get crushed.
I know the Ducks have some hardcore kids, too. They can even throw their weight around a little bit, but I’d take Sheryl Yoast against Julie “Cat” Gaffney any day.
— Chris Tavarez
The case for “D2: The Mighty Ducks”Winner of the Hockey/Soccer Region
Quack, quack, quack! D2 represents the pinnacle of inspirational children’s mov-ies. Gordon Bombay is down on his luck — again — but this time gets offered the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to coach Team USA in the Junior Goodwill Games. Forget pee-wee hockey, this is the big leagues, or at least the bigger leagues, as America faces off against Trinidad and Tobago, Italy and das-tardly Iceland in this full-contact interna-tional gauntlet.
Fall in love all over again with the Bash Brothers, the “knucklepuck” and the flying
V. This tale of redemption warms even the coldest of hearts with its moving message of camaraderie between a team and its coach. There’s also a spot-on representation of a Texan with player Dwayne Robertson, who skates onto the ice at one point to lasso an opposing skater.
Yes, the boys of “The Sandlot” ruled the preppy Little League “l-7” wienies. And yes, the Titans won a state championship. And it was really cute when Team Jamaica barely managed to finish the race. But the Ducks become world champions.
In the rare case of a sequel that surpasses the original, “D2: The Mighty Ducks” stands out as a children’s movie you can watch again and again, no matter how old you are.
— Will Anderson
The case for “Cool Runnings”Winner of the Wildcard Region
Face it, the other three finalists are as original as Joan Rivers’ body parts.
How many times do I have to watch Scotty Smalls and his gang try to retrieve that baseball? Oh, and Benny “The Jet,” you’d run a lot faster in the end if you weren’t wearing that extra-large, un-buttoned wool jersey and jeans. And isn’t anyone else tired of hearing people quote, “You’re killing me, Smalls,” when someone screws up? We get it, you’re hilarious.
Or, how about Denzel Washington in “Remem-ber the Titans”? Sure, he’s dramatic and inspiring, but the team wins in the end. So predictable.
And “Mighty Ducks”? More like “Mighty Sucks.” First, it’s the sequel, and sec-ond, can they not wear red, white and blue to beat Iceland? Unpatriotic. Plus, every-one knows Americans only pretend to like hockey.
It’s time to break the mold and let “Cool Runnings” coast to victory. It’s suspense-ful, funny, has a catchy song and we get the pleasure of seeing John Candy.
Is Benny faster than a bobsled barreling down the track? Does Denzel kiss a lucky egg before playing or get in bar fights with East Germans to defend his honor? And those kids are from Minnesota. They are supposed to be good on the ice.
These guys from Jamaica have never seen snow and, unlike the majority of sports films, they crash in the end and still manage to carry their sled across the finish line.
It is the unique story of redemption and courage with the support and love of one’s country behind them.
— Austin Ries
SIDELINE
MLBAmerican League
Baltimore 6Kansas City 5 F/11
Oakland 4Texas 7
NY Yankees 11Cleveland 4
Seattle 5Chi White Sox 9
Detroit 2Tampa Bay 4
National League
LA Dodgers 2San Diego 3
Arizona 2Philadelphia 3 F/11
St. Louis 0NY Mets 4
Pittsburgh 3Colorado 9 Atlanta 3Washington 5
Florida 5San Francisco 0
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The fight for Texas’ backup linebacker
MOvIE POLL: ThE FInaL FOuR
Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series previewing the prominent posi-tion battles that will take place dur-
ing Texas’ training camp.
By Jon ParrettDaily Texan Staff
Last season, Texas fielded one of its best defenses in recent his-tory, holding opponents to 16.7 points per game, the 12th-best total in the country. Texas was also ranked third in total defense with 179.6 yards per game and first in rushing defense with 72.4 yards per game.
While Texas lost a lot of tal-ent and leadership along the de-fensive line and in the secondary, the linebacker corps has remained virtually intact since last fall.
Even with the departure to the NFL of Roddrick Muckelroy, who led the team in tackles the past two seasons, the Longhorns look very strong in the linebacker po-sition going into training camp. Emmanuel Acho, Jared Norton and Keenan Robinson all return and are expected to be the start-ers come the Sept. 4 game against Rice at Reliant Stadium.
But just because the returning trio is likely to start once opening day arrives, it won’t be on the field for every play. Competing to be the first man off the side-line are a few players to look out for who should make a name for themselves on the defensive side of the ball.
And with Norton coming off a major shoulder injury that kept him out of most of the 2009 sea-son, he remains a question mark that could leave anyone with a strong camp able to steal the starting spot.
Dustin EarnEst #42
Senior 2009 stats
6’3”
232 lbs
26 tackles (17 solo), one sack played in
13 games and made one start
Of the players competing for time at lineback-er, Dustin Earnest has by far the most experience at the position. Earnest has played in a total of 38
games in his career, seeing time at both linebacker and special teams. He recorded 26 tackles, 17 solo,
and one sack in 2009, including a tackle against Alabama in the national championship game.
tariq allEn #13
RS Freshman 2010 spring game stats
6’2”
240 lbs
Eight tackles (four solo)
Tariq Allen is coming off a redshirt year in which he spent valuable time with the scout team, and hopes are high for the Irving native. Allen impressed coaches in this year’s Or-
ange and White spring game — recording eight tackles, four solo — and has shown that he has a knack for being in the right place at the right time. As a senior in high school, Allen tallied a career-high 25 tackles (seven solo), two sacks
and five TFL against North Mesquite.
ryan robErson #30
Sophomore 2009 stats
5’10”
235 lbs
Six tackles, one TFL, one fumble
recovery, played in all 14 games
Another one of the young linebackers UT has on its depth chart is Ryan Roberson, who could see valu-
able time on the field this fall. After making the switch from running back last spring, Roberson saw
time both at linebacker and on special teams.
Strong linebacker unit looking at other players for first spot off bench
Texas Rangers second baseman on disabled list for second time
For the second time this season the Texas Rangers are going to have to play without All-Star second base-man Ian Kinsler.
He was placed on the 15-day dis-abled list Thursday with a strained left groin.
The move came a day after Kin-sler sat out a 3-1 loss to the Oakland A’s. He started the season on the dis-abled list and missed the first 22 games with a high ankle sprain sus-tained in spring training.
Kinsler is hitting .298 with six home runs and 38 RBIs in 76 games. He reached base in 25 straight games before going 0 for 5 against the A’s on Tuesday night. He will be eligible to come off the disabled list Aug. 12.
The Rangers replaced him on the roster with first baseman Mitch Mo-reland from Triple-A Oklahoma City and in the lineup with Joaquin Arias, who was making his 14th start at second base. Texas, which started the day with a 7 1/2 - game lead over Oakland in the AL West, got anoth-er possible replacement Thursday by acquiring Jorge Cantu from Florida.
The trade was made to add a right-handed hitting first baseman. Cantu came up as a second baseman and could be an option.
“He does have some track record there, so it’s a possibility,” general manager Jon Daniels said. “But this had nothing to do with Ian.”
Cantu said he’s more comfortable at first base, but he’s willing to do whatever the team wants.
Rangers manager Ron Washing-ton said Kinsler experienced the groin problem for the last three days. The team decided to shut Kinsler down following an MRI on Wednes-day, hoping the injury will heal in the next two weeks.
Compiled from Associated Press reports
Roy Oswalt traded to Phillies two days before deadline
Roy Oswalt granted his own wish: He’s now part of a pennant race. Miguel Tejada and Jorge Cantu joined the mix, too.
The trade wheel of fortune kept spinning Thursday with veterans-for-prospects deals that typically dot the stretch run. More swaps were expected before Saturday’s 4 p.m. deadline as pitchers Ted Lilly and Jake Westbook could go.
The Philadelphia Phillies made the boldest move, getting Oswalt and about $11 million from the Houston Astros for pitcher J.A. Happ and two speedy minor leaguers.
“I’m excited,” Phillies ace Roy Halladay said. “It says a lot that this team is dedicated to winning.”
Oswalt agreed to waive his no-trade clause and approved the deal to the two-time defending NL cham-pions. The three-time All-Star is set to start Friday night at Washington.
Still throwing hard at 32, Oswalt was 6-12 despite a 3.24 ERA for the foundering Astros. He asked for a trade earlier in the season and the St. Louis Cardinals were among the teams that were interested.
The Phillies took a seven-game winning streak into Thursday night’s game against Arizona. They began the day 3 1/2 games behind Atlanta in the NL East.
“We’re still in first place right now, but we’ve got a long way to go,” Braves pitcher Derek Lowe said. “They’re definitely a better team with him, no doubt about it.”
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Redshirt freshman linebacker Tariq Allen lines up during the Orange and White spring game.
Eric Ou Daily Texan file photo
Senior Dustin Earnest is the most experienced linebacker vying for playing time for the 2010 season.
derek StoutDaily Texan file photo
Sophomore Ryan Roberson goes after the ball against Baylor last season. Roberson switched from run-ning back.
Peter FranklinDaily Texan file photo