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news
Making Ends Meet
The new AISD budget hurts, but less than in past years
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
City, County Budgets Hold the (Bottom) Line
At both City Hall and the courthouse, it's all quiet on the fiscal front
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Newborn District Takes Its First Steps
Hospital board gets a crash course in the realities of Austin health care
BY AMY SMITH
Movie Night in the Land of the Free
A meeting of the minds at the Crawford showing of 'Fahrenheit 9 / 11'
BY LEE NICHOLS
Gimmicks Rule the KEYE-TV Newsroom
Austin's ratings doormat rolls out broadcast-news 'innovations'
BY KEVIN BRASS
War Drums
The war is over, but all these people keep dying anyway …
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Access of Evil
It's a conspiracy! Defending Austin from the music network.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Slash the State
In Texas, the social contract is now written in disappearing ink
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Punishing thought crimes: Bush cracks down on dissent, and the GOP rejects your right to read
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Feeding the Film
Sixteen-hour days, hundreds of hungry crew members, remote locations, tight facilities, and tough competition: Two local caterers go to the movies
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Roger Mollett relearns cuisine; plus, cupcakes make a comeback
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes
BY ERIN MOSOW
music
Saving Face
Ian McLagan pulled up a few pints of 'black madness' and out popped 'Five Guys Walk Into a Bar' …
BY JIM CALIGIURI
TCB
John Walker's blues, an ACTV uprising, and AC / DC gets keelhauled
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Kevin Fowler
Loose, Loud, and Crazy
The Cornell Hurd Band
Cen-Tex Serenade
Floyd Tillman
The Influence
Oliver Rajamani
Sabas
Foscoe Jones
A Song Like This
Johnny Winter
I'm a Bluesman
Zeale32, Strange Fruit Project, DJ Avatar & DJ Hannibal, Malcolm Kipe, Robbie Hardkiss
Zeale32, Eternally Yours, Earful of Wax, Breakspiracy Theories Vol.1, Everything is Changing Pt.2
Damesviolet
Room 107
Sparta
Porcelain
Fires Were Shot
Solace
Steve Arceri
Eyes Like Poisoned Birds
Pleasant Grove
The Art of Leaving
various artists
Fort Worth Teen Scene Vol. 1, Fort Worth Teen Scene Vol. 2, Fort Worth Teen Scene Vol. 3
Jon Dee Graham
The Great Battle
screens
In Space
There's more to AtomFilms than 'This Land,' the satirical short so broadly bipartisan that it's been touted by unlikely bedfellows Fox News and Salon.com
BY MARRIT INGMAN
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Austin ups its indie status by an icon; Moore misses out on his own party, kind of; and Jesus is a film fanatic
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Stage & Spectacle: Three Films by Jean Renoir
The Criterion connection, Renoir-style
Film Reviews
Collateral
Michael Mann returns to his stock-and-trade: the glossy, kinetic crime thriller, this time starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.
A Home at the End of the World
Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Clive Owen stars as the sad, taciturn anchor of this modern film noir by Croupier's Mike Hodges.
Little Black Book
This is what happens when the "don't ask, don't tell" policy fails young lovers.
Maria Full of Grace
A desperate young woman from Colombia, who hopes to better her life, becomes a drug mule for the syndicate, transporting heroin to the States.
Twilight Samurai
A near masterpiece, this atypical samurai movie is more an epic of the heart than the battlefield.
The Village
Shyamalan coasts into this village that is wracked by the wages of fear, manipulation, and forestry.
arts & culture
Stitching Up a Storm
Textile art is alive and well in the Camp Fig exhibition "Pins & Needles"
BY RACHEL KOPER
The Site Is the Studio
Artist Andy Coolquitt builds a show from scratch in the Fresh Up Club
BY RACHEL KOPER
Culture Flash!
Stephen Mills in Montreal, Conspirare in the studio, the Blanton's first Impressionist painting, and party for the Texas Biennial
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'New American Talent – The 19th Exhibition'
"New American Talent – The 19th Exhibition" merits repeated visits, for the abundance of energy and originality of vision among its many featured artists
'Mountains Beyond Mountains'
Alan Pogue's photographs of Haiti in the exhibition "Mountains Beyond Mountains" are closer to truth than assumptions
columns
Page Two
The reason that we can even discuss such a thing as the Austin film industry is not limited to names you most often hear associated with it
BY NICK BARBARO
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Has your style avatar Stephen found religion … or just joined a cult?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deep sea diving, absinthe, and Lucy Liu
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Most people have no trouble drinking water with either chlorine or chloramine at the levels used in municipal water supplies
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Is there a legal duty to help others?
BY LUKE ELLIS
About AIDS
News is more solid than conference suggests
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
Most of the American soldiers who have died in Iraq came from little places that the 21st century has left behind
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
The Silver K Cafe brings fine dining with a Texas accent to the highway between Austin and Fredericksburg
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: The Rude Mechanicals' Pink Eye Ball
The Off Center, Saturday, August 7, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Onward to Greece; and Mexico passes the Chivas
