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GAY PRIDE
Rare Bird
From her office vantage point, beside the rosy glow of the majestic Capitol dome, 78-year-old feminist, political powerhouse, and gay rights lobbyist Bettie Naylor keeps a watchful eye over the doings at the legislature
BY KATE X MESSER
Ten Worst Enemies of Gay Texas
From the statehouse to the bathhouse, gay Texans better watch their backs
BY KATE GETTY, KATE X MESSER, STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER AND AMY SMITH
gAyTX FUN GUIDE
Austin's gay bars and then some...
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Gay Place Listings
GAY PRIDE
Refreshingly Cho
Kate Getty talks to the Notorious One
BY KATE GETTY
Maxwell Smart
Brian Carr talks to domestic diva and Style channel hostess, Brini Maxwell
BY BRIAN CARR
Top of the Heap
Stephen MacMillan Moser talks to Austin songstress Hedda Layne
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Tiffany & Stephen Go Shopping!
Come along as Your Style Avatar Stephen Moser guides his niece through the wild and wooly world of Austin fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
The Island of Dr. Ersek
Austin's media-friendly Robert Ersek is the king of pop cosmetic surgery
BY KEVIN BRASS
Lege Wrap-Up
A look back at the 79th
AMD Not Budging Under Pressure to Reconsider Move
Enviro groups, public officials still pitching an eastern option
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Campaign Update: Frontrunner Dues and Blues
Kim and Clarke race for the line
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Forgotten but Not Quite Gone
The 79th Legislature ends not with a bang, but lots of whimpers
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Doing the Right Thing
The city takes a small step toward racial reconciliation
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
'Texas – Third World and Proud of It!' and a job-busting and environment-exploiting agreement
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
It's a Flaky, Gooey, Crusty, Sugary, Savory Morning
Wake up to the delicious diversity of our town's breakfast pastry
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
More food on TV, openings across Austin, and wine flowing in the streets
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
School's Out Forever
Talkin' about the next generation
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Stumbling through Memorial Day weekend with Small Stars, Gorch Fock, Shane Bartell, and a cast of dozens
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Nine Inch Nails
Live shot
Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
Red Dog Tracks
Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright
the Hold Steady
Separation Sunday
Gorillaz
Demon Days
Bebo Valdés & Diego el Cigala, Arturo Sandoval, Milt Gabler, Billie Holiday
Blanco y Negro, Bebo & Cigala en Vivo, Live at the Blue Note, Billy Crystal Presents the Milt Gabler Story, The Ultimate Collection
screens
Cattle Is Forever
The Austin Film Society presents 'Return to Giant'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Neighborly Concern
As the Texas film industry tries to keep up with New Mexico's and Louisiana's, the Lege approves an incentive program tall on talk but short on funding sources
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
There's been some mild hoopla over the current crop of female detectives on TV crime dramas
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
F for Fake
A one-of-a-kind essay centered on art forgery and hoaxes that is built from spare parts, questionable coverage, obvious overdubbing, and outright bluff, 'F for Fake' is a masterwork most often hailed for its hijacking of documentary form to tease cinema's capacity for making truth out of bullshit
Film Reviews
Brothers
This psychological drama from Denmark is interesting and well-performed, but it's no Cain and Abel.
Cinderella Man
Ron Howard and Russell Crowe have once again combined their efforts to create a big Hollywood biopic that exudes the strong whiff of Oscar bait.
Don't Move
Italian story of a surgeon who falls in love with a country girl (Penélope Cruz), flirts with the self-pitying mindset of the slumming elite, and becomes something of an apology for bourgeois classism.
Layer Cake
A contemporary gangster film that both looks and feels like a Britnoir classic filtered through the Jam’s bang-on sense of style, Layer Cake takes a realistic approach to Britain’s criminal underclass.
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
For a movie about magic pants, this film shows a surprising level of sophistication – in its performances, its production values, and its emotional maturity.
arts & culture
On Culture's Front Lines
The 2005 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
He Explores, She Explores
The different and yet similar work of wife-and-husband artists Ryah Christensen and Sun McColgin
BY RACHEL KOPER
Message in a Can
What's been scrawled on bathroom walls inspired the songs and stories of 'StallGraffiti ATX'
BY BARRY PINEO
More Happy Feet
Dance legend Fayard Nicholas returns to Austin for the fifth annual Soul to Sole Festival
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The funniest person in town now, Austinite responsible for critical mass, 'Intergalactic' to go national, and the Map covers downtown
Arts Reviews
Citizen Quién?
The Latino Comedy Project's 'Citizen Quién?' hits the audience like a 300-pound masked Mexican wrestler rebounding almost horizontal off the ring ropes of parody
'Elevated Prairie'
Like the police forensics center they stand before, the flora and fauna of Art in Public Places' Elevated Prairie deal with the inevitable: the life / death / life cycle
columns
Page Two
Prelude to a column on cinematographer Haskell Wexler – by way of defending the ideological, political, and philosophical passions of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi against the intellectual bankruptcy of most current film criticism
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar has been hitting the gay male porn sites again. (Again.) And this time he comes back with a real mouthful. OK, that joke was too easy ... he's comes back with a critical treatise. There.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Special precautions need to be taken when prescription meds are combined with other meds, with some herbs, or even with some foods
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Day Trips
The 'Baseball As America' exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is a baseball lover's dream come true
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
How is "black vinegar" different from regular vinegar?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Copyright – notice of copyright and copyright time limits
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Kim Cattrall vs. a monkey
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Fourth Annual AGLCC Pride Parade
, Saturday, June 4, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
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