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Spotting the Rare Cheap Rental
The history and habits of a not-quite-extinct-yet Austin species
BY MICHAEL ERARD
Will There Finally Be a Mala Sangre Trial?
The city loses another bid to have the APD corruption case dismissed
BY JORDAN SMITH
Remembering Ruthe Winegarten
Author and activist changed Texas history – literally
BY EMILY PYLE
Woes for Lowe's
The big-bad big box gets stuffed – twice – in court
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Posse Convenes
In Houston, Texas Democrats unite behind one cause: dumping Bush
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: The Metro Message
It’s not a ‘campaign,’ exactly, but what is the transit authority’s tune?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
National political conventions: bought and paid for; and vets need Bush to put the money where his mouth is
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Assimilated Appetite
Does Thai Tara aim to please the American palate at the expense of traditional tastes?
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Kudos to area chefs, a hot new sweet shop to cool Austinites down, and new ownership at Ararat
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Ice cream, part I
music
Everything Must Go
Tower's last hours
BY MATT DENTLER
TCB
The Austin Music Co-op wants to give local musicians a break, but since they serve food, you can't smoke there
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Wilco
A Ghost Is Born
Vic Chesnutt
Little, West of Rome, Drunk, Is the Actor Happy?
Pan sonic
Kesto (234:48:4)
Sonic Youth
Sonic Nurse, Corporate Ghost DVD
Marah
20,000 Streets Under the Sky
Gretchen Wilson, Avril Lavigne
Here for the Party, Under My Skin
screens
The Kids Stay in the Pictures
When the Cinemaker Co-op and the Center for Young Cinema combined to make the Motion Media Arts Center, at least one thing stayed the same: the importance of kids
BY MARC SAVLOV
Getting to Know You
East Austin Stories celebrates three years of documenting Eastside lives with a free night of movies and music
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
Why The OC rocks and why its many imitators should walk
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
South Austin hip video store Pedazo Chunk celebrates its third anniversary with a new store, and it's time to get soused again with the Drunk Film Festival version 3.0
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
SCTV Network 90: Volume 1
The Leopard
Criterion releases a three-disc restoration project of Visconti's regal The Leopard
Scenes From a Marriage
After Bergman's marriage-is-hell miniseries premiered in the Seventies, appointments for family counseling in Sweden increased, and the divorce rate swelled in Denmark
Film Reviews
Baadasssss!
Melvin Van Peebles' son Mario pays tribute to his groundbreaking film Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, and also settles a few old Oedipal scores along the way.
Fahrenheit 9/11
Michael Moore's agitprop is a political scorcher.
Napoleon Dynamite
Indie film about teenage dork celebrates the youthful underdog.
The Notebook
The love sap flows freely in this movie romance told in retrospect.
Two Brothers
Two tiger cubs separated during infancy are cast to the winds of fate in French-occupied Indochina.
White Chicks
Wayans brothers' comedy depends on latex and whitewash.
arts & culture
The Book on Lance Letscher
What lies behind the buzz of Austin's hot collage artist
BY MADELINE IRVINE
New Leader for the Long
Dallas area arts administrator Cliff Redd named executive director of the Long Center for the Performing Arts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Target Audience, Loaded Images
Denton artist Max Kazemzadeh addresses his Persian heritage and images of violence in the media in a tight little show titled 'Curious Comforts' at Studio 107
BY RACHEL KOPER
Arts Bullets
The ballet's box office heads downtown, and cabaret artists sing for life
Arts Reviews
Where Nothing Falls II
Where Nothing Falls II is a breathtaking, heart-rending parade of bodies in motion through the vast expanses of a warehouse
Austin Museum of Digital Art Performance Series 2
In Austin Museum of Digital Art's Performance Series 2, three artists sank the mind's inner core into a calm and melting psychosis
The Fever
In producing Wallace Shawn's The Fever, Physical Plant Theater issues a call to think, from your car radio, and it's worth heeding
columns
Page Two
Understanding the Iraq invasion the Socratic way
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Burying Reagan and 'Mommy Dearest.' Kind of like chocolate and peanut butter.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Horseshit, oarfish, toothpaste, cheese spread, and mouse traps
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Without doubt, the best way to live a long, healthy life is by keeping yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually fit
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Can businesses use metered parking as valet parking?
BY GEOFF KIRSHBAUM
Day Trips
The Cross Timbers Hiking Trail meanders along the south bank of Lake Texoma as if it were following a serpent's path
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Proposal to change medical pot laws
BY KAREN HEIKKALA
Letters at 3AM
It takes fierceness to grow old well
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Luv Doc Recommends: Movies in the Park
Waterloo Park, Friday, June 25, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Giants fall in Europe; and the U.S. advances with a whimper
