Volume 23, Number 30
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news
Local custom car club, the Kontinentals, bring the third annual Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up auto show to town
The APD version of the Ozomatli bust at Exodus is ...
hard to believe
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Austin ISD bond proposal includes plans for new construction and security measures that are raising some public questions
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
The 2003 report shows disparities but also problems
with the data itself
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The new police contract is neither the cause nor cure of the APD crisis
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Lege considers school finance, and recommends ways to cut wages and fire teachers
BY MICHAEL KING
A company that wants to get under your skin; and the Social Security hoax
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
By innovating old favorites in an old building, Moonshine is setting new standards
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Think things are slowing down after SXSW? Not when it comes to the food business in Austin.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The 2003-04 Austin Music Awards scrapbook redux
Saturday SXSW "Live Shots" and more
One final SXSW missive
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Big Fat Independent Movies
Sending off SXSW Film 04
COHI's Sera Bonds on how your watching movies at the
Alamo can empower women in conflict areas
BY SAMANTHA PAXTON
Screenwriter John Truby's first Austin seminar
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
March 27-April 3
An interview with Francis Preve, laptop composer and producer
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Will McDonald's be part of our post-SXSW, prehibernation meal?
BY MARC SAVLOV
"This is one of those rare cases where the initial conception was ambitious to begin with," Executive Producer Steve James says of The New Americans, a three-part documentary premiering March 29 on PBS' Independent Lens.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
It's hard to keep a good zombie down
Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.
The Coen brothers remake a British comedy classic starring Tom Hanks in a flamboyantly love-him-or-hate-him performance.
Omar Sharif makes a welcome return to the screen in this gentle French film about a Jewish adolescent and an elderly Muslim shopkeeper.
Every known hip-hop gangster cliché comes to the fore in this film starring DMX and David Arquette.
A documentary about how things change and don't change.
A guilty pleasure for thirtysomething stoners with ironic dispositions and large nacho platters.
arts & culture
With 'The Flying Dutchman,' Richard Wagner made opera bigger than big
BY JERRY YOUNG
Ballet East goes "Tribal" this weekend, using movement to explore issues of belonging, the ties that bind, and how tribes can lower us to barbarism or lift us to redemption
No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Helping ensure the future of classical music are four young Central Texas musicians who won the 2004 Pearl Amster Concerto Competition and two UT School of Music doctoral candidates chosen to learn conducting from Maestro Kurt Masur
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy
Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer is such a maestro in the darkroom that the prints he creates have the mysterious, almost shrouded look of Old-West silver tintypes
On the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the Austin Symphony offered a pleasing variety of views of the American landscape through music by 20th-century composers
columns
On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Our latest batch of gaffs and blunders
Catch Stephen out schmoozing for a good cause or two. It's that time of year, folks. The social and fashion seasons are upon us.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The world's largest collection of spurs is almost too big
to comprehend.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
A Hindu Heinrich Himmler, a hard of hearing Hoover, and heavenly hemispheres
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Here are some other quirky new traffic laws you might find interesting
BY LUKE ELLIS
Can any nutrients help fend off an imminent headache?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Better sex with non-nukes?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters to the editor, published daily