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April 25, 2003
Volume 22, Number 34
news
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How Can Wynn Lose?
The mayoral odds are with Wynn, but could a run-off be a race?BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Borders Backs Out
A setback for Sixth + Lamar, a victory for keeping Austin weirdBY LAURI APPLE
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Barton Springs Reopens, With Great Pleasure
The Statesman-spawned toxics crisis is finally over, but threats to Austin water quality remain.BY LAURI APPLE
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls
BY MICHAEL KING
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Naked City
HeadlinesBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Capitol Chronicle
This year's House budget debate reads suspiciously like Catch-22.BY MICHAEL KING
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Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
For mayoral candidates, the rubber has yet to meet the road (or rail).BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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On the Lege
Sen. Bill Ratliff's committee shows what good government looks like as it takes up controversial HB 4.BY MICHAEL KING
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The Hightower Report
French's Mustard ain't French -- or American; and a traveler wonders what country he's in.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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Making the Grade
Rachel Feit and Wes Marshall are on campus at the Bleu River Grille and Ventana, the Texas Culinary Academy's training restaurants.BY RACHEL FEIT
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Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood shares her considerable files on food with you lucky folks.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Catfish
music
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This Is Electroclash
Eighties retro-synth bands like the Faint, Fischerspooner, and Austin's This Microwave World prove that the best way to move forward is to look back first.BY MICHAEL CHAMY
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The Pleasure Principle
Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pallBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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TCB
Austin wonders if Billy Bob Thornton will hop onstage with Tori Amos.BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Phases and Stages
screens
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American Movie
What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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All Over the Map
The "thoughtful production, informed consumption" of the Taos Talking Picture FestivalBY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
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Short Cuts
Dobie goes digital, understanding Sikhism, and Tom Copeland celebrates two decades at the Texas Film Commission.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
Films in Complicated Women -- TCM's new festival of precode pictures -- feature many legendary actresses in film history: Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and others.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Speaking of Dance
The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.BY SARAH HEPOLA
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Crank Up the Machine!
When Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay leads the UT New Music Ensemble in a performance of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique, he'll not only be giving the 1920s work its Austin premiere, he'll be reviving the notorious masterpiece of one of the true bad boys of music.BY JERRY YOUNG
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Piece of Work
The materials that make up Shellife are commonplace, likely to be found in any thriving household: eggshells, a white ceramic bowl, tulle, a small wood table, fabric. Yet the way artist Regina Vater has placed them together elevates them from everyday to shrinelike, allowing the installation to strike a spiritual chord.BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
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Articulations
Two arts institutions end their runs: the iron belly muses theatre company and the South Congress visual arts venue Gallery 1313.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Songs of democracy in distressBY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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To Your Health
Is coral calcium really better than other calcium sources?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
Volunteer! Texas Swing is June 6BY SANDY BARTLETT
The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch
How to cure your attention deficit
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Rise and Shine
The quiet and uncalculated approach of John McManusBY SHAWN BADGLEY
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WILL@epicqwest.com
SWT creative writing director Tom Grimes' new novel: an excerptBY SHAWN BADGLEY
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Also This Week...
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Take Me, Instead
An interview with SWT's Arturo Mancha, whose novel in progress was a recent break-in casualtyBY MICHAEL ERARD
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Book Reviews
FOLLOWUS
THEMOST
Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU
Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people
Playback: Demolition at 1701 Red River Another Red River venue going away? There goes the neighborhood.
Bonds: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts' Even with Propositions 1 and 3 passing, AISD's election campaign appeared doomed from the start
The Changing Face of Mueller A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
Review: The Great Gatsby A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
CHRONCAST
Eastside Memorial High School Poem Dedication
Students from the East Austin campus send a message to the Austin ISD board of trustees
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What's the Big Deal? I'm baffled by this obsession with Mueller. I drove through it out of curiosity and it's a suburban nightmare that ...
No Mystery in School Bond Failures How out of touch has the Chronicle become with the voting populace of this city? From the article “Bonds: Death ...
Program Is Vital Resource I am responding to your article on ACCESS News, the program by and for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The ...
Finding Rail Route Complicated Michael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...
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