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Run-Offs to Go
A handful of races still hang in the balance – including these hot ones
BY LEE NICHOLS AND AMY SMITH
Is BCP Still for the Birds?
Ongoing disagreement over the appropriate balance between public access and endangered species protection on Western Travis County's Balcones Canyonlands Preserve comes to a head
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Out Youth Temporarily Out of Business
Financial problems and staff turmoil leave queer kids alienated
BY EMILY PYLE
Officers Cleared in Hernandez Beating Trial
APD still investigating whether policy violations occurred
BY JORDAN SMITH
AMD's Favorite Charity
Our Top 10 list of organizations and causes we believe AMD might like to consider sponsoring
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Ballot Battle
Judge rules city must rewrite ballot language covering open-government and clean water charter amendment
propositions
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Endorsements
Naked City
Point Austin: Cops Go Free
APD acquittal suggests citizens still judge cops by a lower standard
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council looks to survey the campaign damage and adjust the funds
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
For the Love of Nature; and Our Comically Inept Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Roots
Previewing the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Second that!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Have a Little Faith
James Hand might just get out of this country music business alive
BY JIM CALIGIURI
TCB
If we can now get arrested for even acting drunk, we may need Emo's, Daniel Johnston and Dale Watson more than ever
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Willie Nelson
You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
Dale Watson
Whiskey or God
Lucky Tomblin Band
In a Honky-tonk Mood
the Texas Sapphires
Valley So Steep
The Black Angels
Passover
Glass Eye
Every Woman's Fantasy
Nervous Exits
Get Out
Public Offenders & da 2-3 Mic Breakaz, Young Nick, DJ LL, DJ Rapid Ric, Dat Boy Mikee, East 35
All Black, WDRT Radio, H.O.T (Heart of Texas), Chalie Boy:The Versatyle Child, Gimme a Break, C Me Outside
ZZ Top
Tres Hombres, Fandango!
screens
On the Line, Two Shots
The Texas Documentary Tour revisits Steve James' 'Hoop Dreams'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
With a View
Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams relive the making of 'Room'
BY SPENCER PARSONS
The Poppin' and Lockin' Ain't Stoppin'
Boogaloo Shrimp on life two decades after 'Breakin'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screen Door: Shorts
Latest edition of minifestival takes place Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8.
Film News
On the set of 'Grind House,' sort of; plus, updates on 'There Will Be Blood,' 'Dallas,' and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Injustice, devastation, and bowling
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Shorts 2005
A rare opportunity to see what's considered the best in the field of short docs; plus all four nominees have a socio-political bent.
Adam & Steve
It’s an honest, refreshing comedy about love – gay, straight, or both – and is a date movie for all occasions and persuasions.
Battle in Heaven
Hot new Mexican director Carlos Reygadas is back with his second feature which pushes his unflinching imagery into provocative realms.
Brick
Brick transfers Dashiell Hammett’s hard-boiled universe to the modern high school campus with nary a clue that more than a half-century has passed since the Continental Op’s heyday.
CSA: The Confederate States of America
Scathingly satirical, often horrific mockumentary examines what America might look like if the South had won the Civil War.
Game 6
Novelist Don DeLillo's first foray as a screenwriter uses the legendary sixth game of the 1986 World Series as the central metaphor in this film starring Michael Keaton and Robert Downey Jr.
Lucky Number Slevin
This fun but ultimately disappointing mistaken-identity thriller has style galore, which may actually be the crux of its problem.
Room
Room wears the skin of a psychological thriller, but plays out as something far darker, weirder, and more distancing. The film was invited to Cannes and earned Independent Spirit Award nominations for its Austin artists, Kyle Henry and Cyndi Williams.
Slither
Writer-director James Gunn knows what makes horror fans howl, and is one heck of a writer to boot.
Take the Lead
It’s hard to fault such a warm, bouncy, and, yes, occasionally funky genre stalwart such as this for being exactly what you’d expect.
arts & culture
The 'West' Shall Rise Again
A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
With 1,000-plus bodies packing the Paramount on March 30, clearly Austin wanted to hear what superstar artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude had to say
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Women
Frank Benge, who's directing 19 women in a new staging of Clare Boothe-Luce's ever-popular 'The Women,' describes his relationships with the play and all those females
BY BARRY PINEO
Culture Flash!
Council candidates talk the arts, the people's choice from City Hall's art exhibit, musical theatre training from Broadway pros, and local playwrights get read on both coasts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Durang/Durang
In the St. Edward's University production of Christopher Durang's redundantly titled 'Durang/Durang,' canonized American plays transform into comedic farce
Director's Choice/Evolution
In Director's Choice/Evolution, the side-by-side presentation of old and new dances by Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills and Gina Patterson revealed two creators maturing and deepening in their art
'Outer Limits'
The new series of paintings in 'Outer Limits' by Eric Gibbons offers psychological portraits of the artist and of characters from Star Wars
columns
Page Two: When Does 'Open' Mean 'Closed'?
The open-government charter amendment is a special-interest wolf in populist sheep's clothing
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Balls to the walls, baby. This week in Fashion is balls to the walls.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Are the claims that Proxenol will make you look and feel younger too good to be true?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Tax return – can I get an extension?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The Holy City of the Wichitas has hosted the 'Prince of Peace Passion Play' every Easter season since 1926
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
James K. Polk: The Catheterizer
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Urban Music Festival
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, April 8, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Ching kicks Dynamos off to good start in MLS season, U.S. men prepare for WC game vs. Jamaica, and more
