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Uncovered
An AISD teacher fights against cancer … and the insurance company that refuses to treat it
BY RITA RADOSTITZ
Homeland Security Comes Home
For the next round of protests, the DPS has new toys
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Know at the SBOE
The State Board of Education considers health textbooks, and abstains
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Los Alamos Chain Reaction
UT's bid to take over Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory bombs with peace activists
BY FELIX GILLETTE
Senators Live Beyond Their Means
A study of 'campaign expenditures' finds that our part-time state senators live very well
BY AMY SMITH
Road Foes: Down, But Not Out?
Fallout continues from last week's toll-plan vote
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Toll Roadkill
The dead armadillos are on the sides of the highway, not in the middle
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Get in Line
In the new Texas arithmetic, nothing for nothing leaves nothing
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
John Cornyn thinks he's smarter than the founding fathers; and Republicans slash funding for parks
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Sea Change
At 7, the customer has much more control, but at what cost?
BY RACHEL FEIT
Blue Fin Sushi & Robata Bar
Have Round Rock sushi lovers found a replacement for the defunct Tanoshii?
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Dishing out the food news one dollop at a time
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Slices of life, part III
BY ERIN MOSOW
music
Manifesto Destiny
Literate pop, the Elephant 6 in your Parish
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Phases and Stages
Live shot
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
Getting heavy with Recover, poppy with Voxtrot, and rejoicing that the AMN flap is finally over. More or less.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Alejandro Escovedo
Por Vida: A Tribute to the Songs of Alejandro Escovedo
W.C. Clark
Deep in the Heart
Ruthie Foster
Stages
screens
Dark Side of the Potterverse
Brad Neely's 'Wizard People, Dear Readers' and the volatility of artistic alchemy
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Still Scary, Still Subversive
Alamo's Roadshow of the Living Dead brings George Romero to Austin
BY MARC SAVLOV
A Few Quick Questions: Jim Jarmusch
'Coffee and Cigarettes' opens in Austin on Friday, July 23.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Fast, Twisted, and Deeply Paranoid
A year of notes on 'The Manchurian Candidate' remake's script
BY LOUIS BLACK
Short Cuts
Can it be? Festival time already?
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The Emmy Award nominations announced last week show that it's business as usual in TV land
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Bourne Supremacy
Matt Damon is a superb action hero but he spends too much time alone in this sequel.
Catwoman
The fur flies as Halle Berry tempts us in leather.
Coffee and Cigarettes
Jim Jarmusch's new brew is lukewarm.
The Door in the Floor
Jeff Bridges shines in this new adapatation of a John Irving work.
Godzilla
This is the original and uncut version of the 1954 Japanese monster picture.
Seducing Doctor Lewis
A tiny French Canadian fishing village tries to woo a doctor to take up permanent residence.
arts & culture
SHAKESPEARE AT WINEDALE
Born in the Barn
How Shakespeare at Winedale spawned some of Austin's – and the country's – best theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
What We Carried (Away From Winedale)
Lessons learned about theatre and life by program alumni
BY TERRY GALLOWAY
Meanwhile, Back at the Barn
The performance schedule for the Shakespeare at Winedale 2004 class
BY ROBERT FAIRES
My Weetzah Days
A case study of one post-Winedale company, the Weetzah Players
BY CLAYTON STROMBERGER
Being a Winedaler Without the Class
Two theatre professionals explain how Shakespeare at Winedale changed their lives, even though they were never part of the program
BY LESLIE BONNELL
Shakespeare at Winedale Outreach
The next generation finds its 'muse of fire' through an innovative new program at Winedale
BY CLAYTON STROMBERGER
More Words From Winedale
Additional life lessons and meditations from students in the Shakespeare at Winedale program
BY CLAYTON STROMBERGER
The Paramount's Extreme Makeover
Local designers give the 90-year-old Paramount Theatre a nip and tuck in her backstage area
BY ROBERT FAIRES
New South Austin Mural in Progress
The dragons of South Congress are giving way to a hacienda still life with a horse
Arts Reviews
'"Manny Farber: About Face"'
"Manny Farber: About Face" reveals the critic / artist to be quintessentially American, defining himself and his art through objects – materialism as artistic expression
'"Jan Heaton: New Watercolors"'
When a true artistic talent is at home with watercolor, the results are stirring, and so it is with Jan Heaton
columns
Page Two
We continue our gradual redesign, this week moving Michael Ventura's bebop discord up front, where we need it
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen explores the similar trajectories of the lives of Martha Stewart, Mother Teresa, and Nelson Mandela??!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
OK in Ukraine, Negative decibels in Hawaii, Walt Whitman in Manhattan, and people in Yemen
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Are there enough nutrients in gelatin desserts like Jell-O to do kids any good?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
How does HIPAA affect nonprofit organizations?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The Texas International Apple Festival in Medina will have plenty of free samples of homegrown apples
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection seminar is July 29
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
Changes in Earth's atmosphere – solar flares, the shape of the planet, disruptions in the ozone layer and magnetic fields – are bigger than any of our more quotidian concerns
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: George W. Bush Singers
Antone's, Friday, July 23, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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