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news
The Council We Deserve?
In the races for City Council, it's a search for competence amidst the chaff
BY MICHAEL KING
The Politics of Annexation
Critics say ACC election unfair, but Austinites foot out-of-district bills
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Will the Lege Shut Down Public Broadband?
Lawmakers mull shrinking municipalities' broadband influence
BY JEFF TONN
AMD and the Edwards Aquifer
SOS says mitigation offers aren't enough
BY AMY SMITH
Dorothy T. Goes Home
Fiery, feisty queen of Austin civil rights activists is recognized, remembered
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Never Enough Time for Ethics
House GOP leadership seems determined to pretend bipartisan reform bill quietly disappearsName(s) of subject
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Ribbonless
On or off the dais, looking for a little wisdom along Austin's color line
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Big Cendant is watching you; and honcho H. Lee Scott Jr.'s tantrum wins recognition
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine
The simple but elegant art of picnic pairing
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Good Cuisine and an Interesting Scene
The 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Wrapping up the 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Cajun Coeur
A few detours on your roadtrip to Jazz Fest and Festival International de Louisiane
BY MARGARET MOSER AND CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TCB
A bumper crop of indie-rockers move to town, right before Audioslave burns it down
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
The Crack Pipes
Beauty School
Cue
Bring Back My Love
Ashlee Simpson
Live shot
George W. Bush Singers, George Mann & Julius Margolin & Friends, Steve Brooks, Basin Street
Songs in the Key of W, Hail to the Thief II:Songs to Send Bush Packing!, Bushwhacked, Bush Says: Rock & Roll America's No. 1 Defense Against Terrorism
Black Lipstick
Sincerely, Black Lipstick
The Mars Volta
Frances the Mute
Super Heavy Goat Ass
60,000 Years
Spencer Perskin
Magic Feather
Global Soul, the Calvin Owens Show, Tim Curry
This is It, Keeping the Big Band Blues Alive, Intimate Words
Pinetop Perkins
Ladies Man
Omar Lopez
Forever Red
Nati Cano's Mariachi los Camperos, Los Camperos de Valles
¡Llegaron Los Camperos!, El Ave de Mi Soñar:Mexican Sones Huastecos
Los Lonely Boys
Live at the Fillmore
screens
Godzilla vs. the Green Screen
Austin special effects artists can kill you with a squib or with a CGI bullet hit, gore it up with pig entrails or digitally composited blood, and create just about anything you can imagine with their bare hands or software. Does the industry need both?
BY MARC SAVLOV
All or Nothing
Local short-filmmaking / sketch group says hello and goodbye with Alamo show
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The Eighth Cine las Americas
Through Sunday, April 24
TV Eye
Production companies are mad at work shooting sitcoms and dramas for consideration on the fall TV slate
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Porco Rosso
Am I really saying it's better than Casablanca? You read right, and I say bring it.
Film Reviews
Dallas 362
The actor Scott Caan makes a strong debut as a writer-director in this atmospheric character study in which he also co-stars with Shawn Hatosy, Jeff Goldblum, and Kelly Lynch.
The Interpreter
Although The Interpreter is intelligent, intriguing, and topical, it's hampered by its own good intentions, too many plot convolutions, and character ambiguities that try to pass for suspense.
Kung Fu Hustle
Stephen Chow's chop-socky offering is a manic, hyperentertaining blend of classic kung-fu tropes, special effects, and outrageous comedy.
A Lot Like Love
This Ashton Kutcher/Amanda Peet romance film is a lot like mediocrity.
One Missed Call
Takashi Miike's latest is a disappointing, second-rate Japanese horror film.
arts & culture
One Holiday, Two Gifts, 100 Years
Dan Welcher's pair of Yuletide operas shows what a difference a century makes
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Battleship Paul F. Tompkins
The Cap City Comedy Club capos unleash the smart bomb that is comic's comic Paul F. Tompkins
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
The Brave and the Bowled-Over
How to survive the creativity marathon that is 24 Hour Comics Day
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Theatre of the First Water
Zach makes a big splash on the national theatre scene as the first resident theatre to get to produce Tony winner 'Urinetown'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Hello, Baby Sinus
Jodi and Owen Egerton (he of the Sinus Show) got a tax-day bonus: a baby girl!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Good Night, Sweet Prince
A memorial service for Boyd Vance will be held Saturday, April 23, at St. James Episcopal Church
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Pageant
With Patrick MacDonald's dark comedy 'Pageant,' Hyde Park Theatre takes us deep into the woods to consider the nature of beauty with a quartet of low-key comic Canucks
Dress Suits to Hire
Winding up the Rude Mechanicals' Throws Like a Girl series, Holly Hughes' 'lesbian noir' 'Dress Suits to Hire' chills and excites in calculated disturbances
Reefer Madness
The Bedlam Faction tackle the cult hit 'Reefer Madness' with a postured, exaggerated approach that's totally intentional and often quite funny
columns
Page Two
The debate over the smoking ban is about rights, and saying it isn't is just silly
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen is just dripping in the finery of spring, y'all. The benefit season is afoot, and your Style Avatar has more than his big toe in it.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
AIDS denialism rises again
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
The pros and cons of caffeine
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
BY LUKE ELLIS AND TRAVIS SMITH
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Scissors, elephants, truck noises, lawnmowers, frogs, and 1/100th of a second
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Livestock brands tell many stories of an industry and of families in the language of the plains
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Fighting Brothers McCarthy
Hole in the Wall, Friday, April 22, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Liverpool languishes in England
