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March 19, 2004
Volume 23, Number 29
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Welcome to Tomstown
In the burgeoning Tomstown scandal, you can't tell the players or the plot without a programBY MICHAEL KING
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American Ho
An old friend from work turns up in a very different occupationBY LUCIUS LOMAX
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Will Supremes' Ruling Scuttle Yogurt-Shop Cases?
The high court's unanimous Sixth Amendment ruling gives hope to attorneys for Robert Springsteen and Michael ScottBY JORDAN SMITH
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AISD Board to Consider $420 Million Bond Package
The Citizens' Bond Advisory Committee settles on a figure that offers relief while still being acceptable to votersBY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
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Midnight Art Heist at Z'Tejas
Z'Tejas art theft has the artist, restaurant, and police baffledBY JORDAN SMITH
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Meet-and-Confer Draws Fire
Council takes a deep breath, gets reassurances from staff about police contractBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Naked City
Headlines and happenings from around the worldBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Austin @ Large: While Elephants Sleep
The breakdown of the Travis Co. primary vote suggests interesting possibilities come NovemberBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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The Hightower Report
Costco breaks the corporate greed mold; and mad cow disease may already be hereBY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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San Francisco in South Austin
Finding dim sum and Cantonese seafood, early birds and all-nighters, at Marco PoloBY MICK VANN
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The Insatiable Taste for Tunes
In Austin, the self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, seeing great music doesn't always have to mean fighting the crowds at a smoky nightclubBY RACHEL FEIT
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Second Helpings: Comfort Food
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Second Helpings: Mexican Breakfast
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Second Helpings: Barbecue in Town
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Second Helpings: Barbecue Out of Town
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Second Helpings: Bakeries
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Second Helpings: Downtown Coffee Shops
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Food-o-File
Serving up more news than you can shake a badge at …BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Irish Pubs
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WEEKLY ISSUE
music
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Wop-bop-a-loo-bop
Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a littleBY JERRY RENSHAW
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SXSW Picks & Sleepers
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2003-04 Austin Music Awards
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 17BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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The Insider: John Pantle
Brief conversations with very important peopleBY ANDY LANGER
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Spotlight: DJ Jester the Filipino Fist
Breakdancing with Willie, Biz, and Weird Al.BY MARC SAVLOV
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Spotlight: Mission of Burma
Once I had my heroes…BY KATE X MESSER
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Spotlight: Mindy Smith
Don't pigeonhole Mindy Smith … just ask DollyBY ANDY LANGER
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Spotlight: Gary U.S. Bonds
Gary U.S. Bonds, still partying after all these years.BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Spotlight: HeKill Three
Austin's Hekill Three, a cock-rock band stuck in a heavy-metal band's bodyBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Spotlight: The Cooper Temple Clause
No more games with customsBY ANDY LANGER
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The Insider: Joe Perry
Brief conversations with very important peopleBY ANDY LANGER
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Spotlight: The Ends
The Ends just wanna destroyBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Spotlight: Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter picks up the pieces and the pace.BY JERRY RENSHAW
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Spotlight: Broken Social Scene
Strike the "next" from Next Big ThingBY MICHAEL CHAMY
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Spotlight: Secret Machines
The secret railroad from Dallas to NYCBY ANDY LANGER
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Spotlight: British Sea Power
Two if by land, one if by British Sea Power.BY MELANIE HAUPT
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Spotlight: American Music Club
The American Music Club is openBY JIM CALIGIURI
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Big Star Myths
Dispelling Big Star mythsBY KENT H. BENJAMIN
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Flatstock 4
SXSW's poster exhibition has grown exponentially in only its second yearBY MARC SAVLOV
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Spotlight: Iron & Wine
Beard grooming tips from Iron & Wine's Sam BeamBY DAVID LYNCH
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Spotlight: Dramarama
I'll give Dramarama anything to reuniteBY MICHAEL CHAMY
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Spotlight: Dizzee Rascal
Dirty South makes Brit rap star Dizzee Rascal dizzyBY ROBERT GABRIEL
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Spotlight: Scott H. Biram
Scott Biram stays one step ahead of the devilBY JIM CALIGIURI
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Spotlight: Flatstock 4
Two poster artists at Flatstock 4 equal dozens of SXSW 04 showcasersBY MARC SAVLOV
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Spotlight: Zykos
Zykos, the early yearsBY MELANIE HAUPT
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TCB
SXSW NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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TCB
SXSW NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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TCB
SXSW NewsBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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TCB
Will Wynn has it in for AMN, as does the Austin Hotel & Lodging AssociationBY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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SXSW Records
- SXSW Interview: Walter Yetnikoff
- Health Care for Musicians: The AFTRA Deal
- Mastering Engineers Talk Shop
- The End of the Record Store?
- in-store (and booth)-o-rama
- Jolie Holland
- Scout Niblett
- The Veils
- David Cross
- Toots & the Maytals, Joss Stone
- The Baptist Generals
- Old Crow Medicine Show
- Andrew Bird
- Broken Social Scene
- Amsterdam Calling
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Hall Ball
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SXSW Film 04 Awards
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Big Fat Independent Movies
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Something More Than Just Cerebral
This is a different Kaufman, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marks a different kind of picture for the writerBY KIMBERLEY JONES
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SXSW Interactive 04 Web Awards
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'Hell' on Earth
It was the longest line we've ever seen at the Paramount Theatre, snaking in both directions down Congress, then east on Seventh and Eighth streets all the way to San Jacinto and beyondBY MARC SAVLOV
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Daydream Believer
George Hickenlooper and 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'BY SHAWN BADGLEY
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Past Is Prologue
Rodney Evans and 'Brother to Brother'BY ROBERT FAIRES
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I'm Not Really Lovin' It
Morgan Spurlock and 'Super Size Me'BY PETER DEBRUGE
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'Antone's: Home of the Blues'
The world premiere: Friday, March 12, Paramount TheatreBY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
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Freedom's Just Another Word
Allison Berg and 'Witches in Exile'BY MARRIT INGMAN
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Reality Really, Really Bites
Kris Lefcoe and 'Public Domain'BY MARRIT INGMAN
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SXSW Film Reviews
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SXSW Interactive 04
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Short Cuts
How is this year's South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference shaping up compared to previous years?BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
Is the old genre new again with Deadwood, a gritty, decidedly unromantic look at how the West was won?BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
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WEEKLY ISSUE
the arts
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Our Country Mapped in Music
The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through musicBY ROBERT FAIRES
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Mothersbaugh's Antique Freaks
Mark Mothersbaugh's "Beautiful Mutations" aren't vintage shots of circus freaks but antique photos altered to make their subjects look disturbing yet eerily beautifulBY KATE X MESSER
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Happy Bachday!
What do you give a famous composer for his 419th birthday? The Budjanova Quartet is giving J.S. Bach a concert of his music performed by some of Austin's most gifted musicians.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
The LBJ Library swaps paintings with the National Gallery of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art gets $1 million for a new gallery, and Patsy Cline teaches you how to apply make-upBY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
Kiss Me, Kate; and Hamlet
columns
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Page Two
The nose knows when SXSW is comingBY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Letters at 3AM
The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is invading our privatesBY MICHAEL VENTURA
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Day Trips
Fickle Pickles, the best in the worldBY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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After a Fashion
Is Stephen your style avatar or Eddie Izzard? Who was that man behind the shades at the Texas Film Hall of Fame?BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar goes out of his way to not mention his sister's fashion faux pas from last year's Austin Music Awards Show but somehow manages to … and how is that new Nicole Kidman movie at the film festival, anyway?BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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After a Fashion
Austin style avatar Stephen puts his most certainly Queer Eye on a local band, gives them an up-do for the festival, and gets away with it… Plus, where's he going tomorrow and upon whom did he spy at the Mark Mothersbaugh art show?BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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After a Fashion
Hangin' with your Style Avatar, the B-52's, Pam Des Barres, Miss Kitty, and mo' – oh, and some ho's … San Ho's that is …BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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The Common Law
My friend said that she just got a traffic ticket for not slowing down when a police car with flashing lights was stopped on the side of the road. Can you really get a ticket for that?BY LUKE ELLIS
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To Your Health
Can any nutrients help fend off an imminent headache?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
All stressed up and nowhere to go?BY SANDY BARTLETT
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The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones
Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch
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