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Fare Fight
The pending sale of Roy's Taxi company raises a host of Austin memories
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Yogurt Shop Reversal
The CCA overturns Springsteen murder conviction
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Lame, the Halt, and the Parking Thieves
Crusading against handicapped-parking violators
BY MICHAEL MAY
Libertarian Ganders Goosed by Aleshire – 216 Times
After filing multiple campaign-finance complaints against others, Libertarians get slapped with their own
BY AMY SMITH
Ethanol Usage, Production Heat Up in Texas
Production of renewable fuel source still pollutes but offers longterm potential for clean energy
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Budget Time
Running all the numbers, we have to pay for what we need
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Bond package continues taking shape, and the McMansion ordinance's day of truth arrives
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Ruby Red Cocktail; and An Appeal to Evangelical Voters
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
It's Noon. Do You Know What Your Children Are Eating?
Fernando Saralegui is in 'Papi's Kitchen' trying to help kids with healthy habits
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
The Omnivore's Dilemma
The decisions we make regarding what foods we buy, where we buy them, and how we eat them have implications that touch on environmental, political, economic, moral, health, and agricultural issues
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Watching, Breathing, and Eating the World Cup 2006
Saturday June 10 - Sunday, June 11
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
The nature of nonprofits; plus, the scoop on this week's culinary calendar
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Be Real
Sound Team's major label debut has Capitol
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
TCB shields his eyes from the still-vampiric Bauhaus, says so long to Jay Clark and Clifford Antone (again), and counts down the decade's definitive songs ... so far
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
HORSE + DONKEY
Sound Team Reviewed
Sound Team
Movie Monster
Antone's Home of the Blues
Antone's Home of the Blues
San Saba County, the Weary Boys, the Mother Truckers, 10 City Run, the Derailers, Justin Trevino, Brennen Leigh
It's Not the Fall That Hurts, Jumpin' Jolie, Broke, Not Broken, Somethin' Else, Soldiers of Love, Before You Say Amen, Devil on My Trail
the Moonhangers, Walter Daniels with Chili Cold Blood
Home Grown, Traschcan Parade
Steve Arceri
The Entire City
Darling New Neighbors
Every Day Is Saturday Night
Buttercup
Hot Love
Household Names
Picture in My Head
Radney Foster
This World We Live In
Slaid Cleaves
Unsung
Lisa Loeb
The Very Best of Lisa Loeb
T Bone Burnett
The True False Identity, Twenty Twenty:The Essential T Bone Burnett
Roy Hargrove Quintet, the RH Factor
Nothing Serious, Distractions
Horse + Donkey, Baby Robots
Live Shot
screens
A Curiosity, Tough to Crack
The AFS Texas Documentary Tour: Don Bernier's 'In a Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Going 'Beyond' With John LaZar and Erica Gavin
Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow, June 10
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Touchdown! Cue the band and fireworks or whatever; plus, all 'Quiet' on the Burnt Orange front, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Seasons' greetings
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Three Films by Louis Malle
As much codas to childhood as preludes to manhood, each of these films have a different cross to bear
Film Reviews
Cars
Muscling for rank in the crowded box-office speedway, this Pixar contender takes an early lead but loses momentum in the middle third.
Keeping Up With the Steins
This story about one-upmanship while staging a bar mitzvah in L.A., should, by all rights, be very funny, but, sadly, it is not.
The Omen
Julia Stiles is miscast, although Mia Farrow delights in this unnecessary remake of a perfectly good child-as-Antichrist movie.
One Perfect Day
This earnest, soulful, and jarringly melodramatic rave-culture love story is from Melbourne, Australia.
A Prairie Home Companion
It's been a very long time since any Robert Altman film has been as enjoyable as A Prairie Home Companion.
The Proposition
The Western is alive and well in the Australian outback, as this gritty film with a screenplay and score by musician Nick Cave demonstrates.
arts & culture
I'd Like to Thank ...
The 2005-2006 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Requiem
When site-specific dance maker Sally Jacques was told that she could use the concrete shell of the Intel building for her latest production, she leapt at the opportunity
BY BARRY PINEO
A Place To Land
With 'A Place To Land,' dancer Leticia Rodriguez realizes a longtime dream of producing an event that encompasses the idea and meaning of home inside an actual residence
BY BARRY PINEO
In Memoriam
Austin juggling sensation Warren "Red" Ryder Schwartz, who opened for Esther's Follies for almost 20 years, was stabbed to death on Sunday, May 28
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Lonely, and You're No One's Nothing Special
Hyde Park Theatre lets Ann Marie Healy's short plays 'Lonely' and 'You're No One's Nothing Special' stand alone and creates a fully satisfying evening of theatre
'Pillar and Stretch'
David Leonard and Christopher St. Leger both make very precise paintings of the essential aspects of our urban environ, and they bring them together in a great show at Davis Gallery
columns
Page Two: Constitutional Conventions
A document birthed in controversy is understood by few and respected by fewer
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The history of Mary Magdalene is more mysterious than any pulp yarn
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen remembers when his life was simply an orgy of sex and drugs and rock & roll... No, silly, not last week...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is mangosteen really a more powerful antioxidant than blueberries?
The Common Law
Protesting High Property Taxes
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
McKinney recycles an aging courthouse making a performing arts center
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Prison populations and a Polish pope
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Pride Festival
Waterloo Park, Saturday, June 10, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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