The Legislature's $20 million in proposed incentives to lure more film projects to Texas is emphasizing jobs and aiming to boost rural areas as well as larger cities like Austin; plus, Wes Anderson's next movie

BY JOE O'CONNELL

TV Eye

Anyone needing evidence on why the network sitcom is failing should turn on their sets next week

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

Written on the Wind

A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind' explores the director's typical fascination with interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail- hat production oozing with Technicolor angst

Film Reviews

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

Even though Born Into Brothels – winner of the 2004 Oscar for Best Documentary – is a devastating portrait of impoverished Calcutta children who are born into the sex trades, the film is also an inspiring document about human possibilities.

Gunner Palace

Uday Hussein's former pleasure palace is now home to an American artillery regiment, whose members we get to know from their poolside antics to their far more sobering responsibilities of patrolling Baghdad.

Hostage

Bruce Willis is called back to active crime-fighting duty in this new thriller.

Steamboy

Japanese anime director Katsuhiro Ôtomo, best known for Akira, here delivers a dazzlingly straightforward rush that thrusts its protagonist into astonishing action set-piece after set-piece.

Travellers & Magicians

Travellers & Magicians feels a bit like Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales as retold by Siddhartha, as this Himalayan beauty gently delivers a very accurate anti-materialistic Buddhist morality lesson.

arts & culture

Killer Choreography

Ellen Bartel's blood-spattered new dance 'Killsport' mocks our love of the old ultraviolence

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Dream Come True

Back home in Texas, Lisa Scheps finally gets her place to play!

BY BARRY PINEO

Za vashe zdorov'ye, Shostakovich!

Fifteen local arts organizations work together to celebrate Shostakovich's 100th birthday

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Culture Flash!

The 2005 Texas Medal of Arts Awards have been announced, and the Elisabet Ney Museum snags a Historic Homes grant

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Varekai

Cirque du Soleil's 'Varekai' begins with Icarus tumbling from heaven but then leaps skyward again with acts that convey the thrill of flight

At Home With Dick

'At Home With Dick' is approximately an hour and a half of songs and memories from the funny, very talented songwriter Dick Price

Art Outside

columns

Page Two

Talented songwriter and performer Mandy Mercier lends her voice to our ongoing conversation about artistic recognition and creative success

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

Letter at 3AM

Donating money to causes is fine and necessary, but it doesn't get you off the hook; active human energy is what generates change. Bite off a chunk of trouble for yourself. There is no hope or solution without you.

BY MICHAEL VENTURA

After a Fashion

Okay, SXSW has officially begun and your Style Avatar is deep in it. Watch where you step.

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

After a Fashion

Austin's friendly neighborhood (not to mention cuddly) Style Avatar, Stephen Moser makes the scene as the scenesters take over Austin! Be sure to catch AAF in each of our SXSW dailies!

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

After a Fashion

It's SXSW all over, especially all over that other acronymically correct paradise, Austin's SoCo, our hallowed South Congress Avenue, south of the river. See what our Style Avatar has been up to and what he recommends.

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

After a Fashion

Our Style Avatar and yours, SMM is the man about town this week. See where he's been seen and with whom!

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

WEEKLY ISSUE

About AIDS

Tops may get HIV easier than thought

BY SANDY BARTLETT

To Your Health

What are the pros and cons of using macadamia oil?

BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

The Common Law

Do I have to take the Breathalyzer?

BY LUKE ELLIS AND TRAVIS SMITH

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Hydrogen-fueled Hummers and coffee beans in animal droppings

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Day Trips

Waltzing through the dance halls of Texas

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Oops!

Our latest batch.

Luv Doc Recommends: Hunter Darby Presents SXSW Showcase

Emo's, Sunday, March 20, 2005

BY THE LUV DOC

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily

sports

Soccer Watch

SXSW brings soccer to the big screen with 'Hooligans'

BY NICK BARBARO

TODAY'S EVENTS

Caged!

AFS Cinema

Healthy Snack Workshop
at Central Library

The Aristocrats [control room] at Empire Control Room & Garage

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

March 18, 2005

Volume 24, Number 29

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY MICHAEL KING

BY MICHAEL KING

BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY

BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH

BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY

BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY AMY SMITH

BY MICHAEL KING

BY KIMBERLY REEVES

BY RITA RADOSTITZ

BY AMY SMITH

BY MICHAEL KING

BY AMY SMITH

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

BY GREG BEETS

SXSW Picks & Sleepers

SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY

BY DARCIE STEVENS

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY GREG BEETS

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

Ballroom Dancing

BY DARCIE STEVENS

BY DAVID LYNCH

BY ROBERT GABRIEL

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY STAN RIDGWAY

BY ANDY LANGER

BY ANDY LANGER

BY ANDY LANGER

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY ROBERT GABRIEL

BY GREG BEETS

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

BY DAVID LYNCH

BY GREG BEETS

BY ROBERT GABRIEL

BY DARCIE STEVENS

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY MIKE DOUGHTY

BY ANDY LANGER

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY MARGARET MOSER

BY GREG BEETS

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

BY GREG BEETS

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

BY DAVID LYNCH

BY ROBERT GABRIEL

BY DARCIE STEVENS

BY JAY TRACHTENBERG

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY ROBYN HITCHCOCK

BY ANDY LANGER