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Clouded Prospects
Lege special session opens with glowing rhetoric, uncertain goals
BY AMY SMITH
Run-off Roundup
Democrats and Republicans finalize their November slates
Naked City
Point Austin: Low Expectations
Not much reason to believe that the Lege will do right by Texas students
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
Mueller neighbors aren't against a new water tower, they just want a better-looking one.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Stealing Local Democratic Authority; and Grounding Our High-Flying Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Simple, Straightforward, and Satisfying
A legendary restaurateur's latest venture is another
success
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
At the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Dandelion Cafe
Nice and wholesome never tasted so good
Mangoes and Curry Leaves
Jeffrey Alford and Jeffrey Alford
music
Crackin' Up
The Arm muscles up to 'Call You Out'
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
TCB scales the Wall of Sound festival at Fort Worth's Ridglea Theater
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Elvis Costello, Austin Symphony Orchestra
Elvis Costello & the Austin Symphony Orchestra
Drive-by Truckers
A Blessing and a Curse
Calexico
Garden Ruin
Fiery Furnaces
Bitter Tea
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Show Your Bones
Ghostface Killah
Fishscale
T.I.
King
Anouar Brahem, Charles Lloyd
Le Voyage de Sahar, Sangam
Andrew Hill, Randy Weston, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Mary Lou Williams Collective, Larry Willis
Time Lines, Zep Tepi, Solo, Zodiac Suite:Revisited, The Big Push
Betty LaVette, Candi Staton, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Cassandra Wilson
Child of the Seventies, His Hands, Refined Sugar, Thunderbird
screens
Tales That Must Be Told
Previewing the ninth Cine Las Americas
'State vs. Reed' Gaining Steam: Pair's First Doc Becoming the Story
Local pair's first doc becoming the story
BY FRANK RIVERA
Questions, Prepares to Launch
Paramount screening, April 18
BY JOE O'CONNELL
In Space
The meme machine
BY MARRIT INGMAN
TV Eye
Stealing ideas
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That!
A Beastie Boys concert as filmed by 50 giddy fans.
The Benchwarmers
Another comedy from ex-SNLers, along with Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder and baseball's Reggie Jackson.
Don't Come Knocking
With its wonderful veteran cast, its heart on its sleeve, and a love for the landscape that suffuses its technique, Sam Shepard and Wim Wenders' movie is a peculiar but rewarding escape.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
Based on the allegedly autobiographical short stories of alleged teen author J.T. Leroy, Asia Argento's film describes a Gothic maelstrom of psychic and physical abuse.
La Mujer de Mi Hermano
Soap melodramatics masquerade as high art in this south-of-the-border drama about a love triangle and marital infidelity.
Music From the Inside Out
Documentary filmmaker Daniel Anker spent five years with the Philadelphia Orchestra as they toured, rehearsed, and waxed poetic about the purpose of music in their lives.
Phat Girlz
Comedian Mo’Nique’s first starring film vehicle, Phat Girlz, suffers from a bad case of undernourishment.
Summer Storm
German film is a trite tale of youthful angst and closeted sexual confusion about what really happens at those wild and crazy rowing camps that keep all of Bavaria abuzz.
The Wild
Despite its title, Disney's new animated film, The Wild, is about as pedestrian as you can get.
arts & culture
Still Burnin' Down the House
Salvage Vanguard Theater and the Rude Mechs party on
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Floating Chair
'The Floating Chair,' an exhibit at Design Within Reach,
shows how the area's finest industrial designers bring so
much to the table
BY RACHEL KOPER
Arts and the Economy
A new study shows that Austin's cultural sector contributes over $2.2 billion to the local economy and is responsible for close to 44,000 permanent jobs
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Zachary Scott Theatre Center
The National Endowment for the Arts is giving the Zachary Scott Theatre Center $40,000 toward a production of 'Porgy and Bess' to be staged in 2007
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Blanton Museum of Art
The Blanton Museum of Art's new education and visitors pavilion has just acquired a name, thanks to a $4.5 million gift from Houston businessman Edgar A. Smith
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Static
The Salvage Vanguard Theater world premiere of Ryan Pavelchik's 'Static' seats 12 viewers in a hotel room with a man desperately seeking to find himself
The Odd Couple
Director Don Toner serves his Austin Playhouse revival of
The Odd Couple well by turning its wonderful characters
over to wonderful character actors
columns
Page Two: The Politics of Distraction
In the face of failure at home and abroad, the right turns
on immigrants
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM: Effete!
It's never too late to see yourself as you are
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar goes back to his youth and gets all
horny (and toady)
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
We have mo bananas today
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Burning tongue syndrome (glossopyrosis) discussed
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Day Trips
Kayakers of all experience levels will enjoy a pleasant
float down the Luling Zedler Mill Paddling Trail
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
Car rentals – Do I need the extra auto insurance?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: 13th Annual Austin Reggae Festival
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, April 15, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The U.S. Men tie Jamaica, will announce their WC roster
on May 2, and more
