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April 4, 2003
Volume 22, Number 31
news
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CHARTER SCHOOLS
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Who Can Vouch for the Charters?
The state's freewheeling experiment with charter schools gets a poor grade.BY MICHAEL MAY
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Chartered Well ... and Badly
The experience of charter schools is mixed, at best
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City Hall: Yes, Austin, Barton Springs Is Still Safe
One more time: City, state, and federal experts refute rash Statesman claims about Barton Springs pollutionBY LAURI APPLE
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(Circle) C You in Court!
BY AMY SMITH
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Mental Health Care Meltdown: Is There Room for Hope?
Austin police and mental health advocates make recommendations for patching Travis County's tattered safety net.BY JORDAN SMITH
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Key Court Rulings Expected in T.A.B. Case
The Texas Association of Business's legal future rests in the hand of two Travis Co. judges.BY AMY SMITH
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A Wider War On GOP Bucks
BY AMY SMITH
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Naked City
HeadlinesBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Capitol Chronicle
Tort Deform gives business the gold mine, the rest of us the shaft.BY MICHAEL KING
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Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Proudly "successful" businessman Brad Meltzer aims to cut to the chase in the mayor's race.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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The Hightower Report
George whacks education aid for military families; and his war is just plain crazy.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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True to Its Own Terroir
Can Saveur magazine save the soul of the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival?BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food-o-File
Just because it's the biggest and busiest week on the Texas culinary calendar doesn't mean that there isn't plenty o' news to report on, in this week's "Food-o-File."BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Thai Part II
There's more Thai where that came from, in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
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Life Worth Livin'
Looking for a way out with Jay, Jeff, and the gangBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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TCB
Austin soldiers on beyond SXSW with hot rods, SPAM, and pukingBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Phases and Stages
screens
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The Boys in the Barracks
Texas Documentary Tour present Arthur Dong's award-winning 1994 documentary about gays in the military, 'Coming Out Under Fire.'BY ANNE S. LEWIS
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Cat and Mouse, Confined to a Kiosk
Director Joel Schumacher discusses his new thriller, Phone Booth.BY MARC SAVLOV
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Spirited Anime
Director Shinichiro Watanabe translates his much-loved television series Cowboy Bebop to the big screen.BY MARC SAVLOV
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20 Questions
Hours of addictive aggravationBY MARRIT INGMAN
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Short Cuts
Tim League and Harry Knowles team up to screen good movies for good causes.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
How to resolve conflict? Japanese import Iron Chef has the right idea.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Renaissance (and Baroque) Man
As a curator for UT's Blanton Museum of Art, Jonathan Bober played a pivotal role in securing the Suida-Manning and Steinberg art collections, thereby giving some of the world's great art a home in Austin.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Fusion Culture
The 21-century fusion palette of Shen Wei Dance Arts spans countries and centuries, from traditional Chinese opera and Tibetan Buddhist chants to modern Japanese Butoh and 16th-century English music.BY KATHERINE CATMULL
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David Mark Cohen New Works Festival
The sophomore model of the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival at the UT Department of Theatre and Dance is a full10 days of original dances, dramas, solo performances, site-specific productions, and musicals, supplemented by panel discussions, master classes, and open classes having to do with the work presented -- 45 events in all.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
Naughty Austin makes a new home for itself on the Eastside, and Katie Pearl and Lisa D'Amour return to the Grove on Lamar.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
The war in Iraq has diverted our attention from other important matters, including a truly destructive proposed federal budget, mirrored by Texas' very own fiscal abyss.BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Letters at 3AM
Thoughts on the war's explosions of bombs, dreams, and preconceptions.BY MICHAEL VENTURA
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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To Your Health
I would like to try SAMe for depression. What is good and what is bad about it, and is it safe?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
The Luv Doc: The Sugar Tit
Are you living in the Burger King's Castle?
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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News/Print
Don't forget to take your bilberry extract.BY SHAWN BADGLEY
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