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Summer Fun
Join us as we head for the beach – the one here in Austin and the one on the Gulf!
BY KATE X MESSER
news
Final Disposition
The beleaguered Texas Funeral Service Commission once again finds itself mired in controversy
BY ROBERT BRYCE
The Envision Thing: Clearing the First Hurdle
Envision Central Texas begins the long, slow journey toward implementation
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
LCRA Express Spawns Hamilton Pool Traffic Jam
Despite plenty of reasons to go slow, the agency – and its developer friends – are in a big hurry
BY AMY SMITH
Central Austin Plan: Love Is All Around!
Shocking scenes of consensus unfold right before the City Council's eyes
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Vote, With Your Feet
This week's elections set the stage for years of citizen butt-kicking to come
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Passing the Buck
With the special session nearly gone, the goal continues to recede
BY MICHAEL KING
Senate Wheels Still Spinning
The upper house dawdles (thank God) as the special session clock ticks
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Corporate advertising pisses me off; and, the rich get richer
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Hops, Barley, and ... Rainwater?
The Bitter End's Environmental Pale Ale is ready just in time for the Teas Craft Brewers Festival
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Austin's all over the TV, and Austin chefs are all over the place
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Brewpubs
music
Under the Covers
All of a sudden, it's cool again to play other people's songs – not to mention fun!
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Phases and Stages
Rhythm of Black Lines
Human Hand, Animal Band
The Stingers ATX
All in a Day
Los Lonely Boys
Live shot
screens
The 'Trash' Man
John Waters on tour, in Austin
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Little Documentary That Could
How Morgan Spurlock's 'Super Size Me' took a giant bite out of the fast-food industry
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Three Days at Tribeca, Three Years Later
Is the film festival still all good in the hood?
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Nude models, big awards, big movies, dead rock stars. Just another week in Austin film.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Friends is dead. Long live Friends. Now, can we move on?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Breakin' All the Rules
Despite the title of this sugar-coated fluffbomb of an urban romantic comedy, precious few rules are broken, cinematically speaking, during its quick, painless 90 minutes.
James' Journey to Jerusalem
A movie about a Christian pilgrim and chance, temptation, and illusions’ protection.
Mickey
Mega-author John Grisham wrote and financed the making of this Little League baseball film starring Harry Connick Jr.
Super Size Me
In his cheeky but incendiary documentary about our fast food nation, Morgan Spurlock chronicles the deterioration of his body after a 30-day "McDiet."
Troy
This big-budget adaptation of The Iliad tries mightily, but the end result is the sound and fury of Homer undone.
Young Adam
A finely observed moral drama from Scottish filmmaker David Mackenzie, one of the rare directors who is equally adept at composition and working with his actors.
arts & culture
Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004
The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
It's All About Surprise
Brendon Walsh, now officially the Funniest Person in Austin, talks comedy
Arts Bullets
Bring cans of food to the ballet for a prize in return, holdovers for 'Stadium Devildare' and 'Noises Off,' and it's time for the O. Henry Pun-Off and the Capital City Men's Chorus midnight cabaret
Green Day, Thanks to NEA
Austin artists and agencies will receive a total of $891,200 in the latest round of federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
Arts Reviews
Six Mexicans Named Gonzalez
In Six Mexicans Named Gonzalez, writer-performer Adrian Villegas is not afraid to confront American racism and spit in its ghoulish eye – and he's pretty damned funny as he does it
'A Piece of Work: AquaPoint'
AquaPoint is not overly arresting, but if you're leisurely walking the grounds of the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Damian Priour's limestone arrow dripping water is hard to walk by without pausing
Ghost From a Perfect Place
Blending eerie reminiscence and the trappings of outright hostility, Vortex Repertory Company production of Ghost From a Perfect Place feels as if it ought to be more provocative than it is
columns
Page Two
Fighting a traditional war in Iraq dooms us to failure; knowledge and understanding are the real weapons of the future
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen hails a 'couple' of designers and gets down with the Johnson clan
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The world’s smallest catholic church is right here in Warrenton, Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ailing Americans, amateur axe-wielders, and active agua areas
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Is high-fructose corn syrup worse for us than other sweeteners?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
New Warnings About Erection Drugs!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
The United States military is moving inevitably toward reinstating the draft
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Luv Doc Recommends: The 27th Annual O.Henry Pun-Off World Championships
, Saturday, May 15, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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