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Josh Crapo

On Jollyville Road just a few blocks west of Duval, you’ll find a tiny trailer tucked in the corner of the Texaco station’s parking lot. It’s Papa’s Pot – local chef and Hurricane Katrina evacuee Josh Crapo’s food stand. Serving simple items like veggie wraps, breakfast tacos, and sandwiches, Papa’s Pot uses a lot of fresh, organic ingredients and is a convenient place to stop on the way to work or on your lunch break if you’re in the mood for something healthy and delicious.

That Other Paper How long has Papa’s Pot been open?

Josh Crapo I’ve been here for two months. Before I started this, I was working at The Steeping Room at the Domain. And I also worked at Mangia. I’ve worked in kitchens for 20 years or so.

Lamberts

Lamberts operates out of the historic J.P. Schneider and Bros building. Its old school architecture and charm is welcomed amid the climbing skeletons of condos and office buildings. This is upscale barbecue of the variety that even draws carpetbaggers to the ’cue side, with the atmosphere to match. Dress nice. Reservations are welcome and recommended during prime dining hours. Live music plays many nights of the week, and they have a happy hour every day from 5pm to 7pm in the upstairs bar. They have several quality Austin brews on tap.

Every day in the upstairs bar, Lamberts offers $1 off all beers and $2 off all appetizers.

Lamberts
401 W 2nd St • 494-1500

I just love saying that scientists are creating “human-animal hybrid clones” because that single phrase pulls together about 15 nightmares from science fiction and religion all at the same time. Although if you think about it, one fear really should cancel out the other one. I mean, if you’re worried about human cloning, then the fact that these are clones created by sticking human DNA inside cow eggs should be comforting. I mean, it’s not really a human anymore at that point, right?

But the real reason I’m gloating over this piece of completely ordinary biological weirdness is that last week the British Parliament began the process of legalizing human-animal hybrid embryo cloning. While not explicitly illegal in the United States, the process has been so criticized (including by former president Bill Clinton) that most researchers have stayed away from it. Now, however, this law could make it easy for Brits to advance their medicine far faster than people in the supposedly high-tech and super-advanced United States.

In the ever-evolving war against airline passengers, the Transportation Security Administration continues to develop new weapons of mass dysfunction.

photo / arvindgrover Austin-Bergstrom Airport 

Travelers have long been harassed with X-ray machines, metal-detecting wands, and inscrutable verbal vetting like “Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren’t looking?”

Then in 2006 the TSA began quietly testing two new anti-personnel weapons.

One is sort of an automated lie detector, a booth that interrogates suspects with damning questions (“Did someone put something in your luggage when you weren’t looking?”) while software analyzes feedback from biometric sensors busily monitoring blood pressure, pulse rate, and nervous tics.