Volume 23, Number 31
ON THE COVER:
news
Love her or fear her, Austin's land-use queen rules the city her own way
BY AMY SMITH
A team of UT-based attorneys takes the Tennard case to
the U.S. Supreme Court
BY RITA RADOSTITZ
Real estate broker's confrontation destroys her faith in Austin and the police
BY JORDAN SMITH
Constable candidates expect a close contest in the April 13 run-off
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND JORDAN SMITH
Students and faculty at Reagan High School hold a memorial in honor of slain classmate Ortralla Mosley
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Little things mean a lot, but design standards aren't simply superficial
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
In the Tomstown counterattack, the GOP spin doctors are pointing the finger in every direction
BY MICHAEL KING
Next on the regime-change list: Venezuela; and, Mendocino County rejects Frankenfoods
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The 'Saveur' Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Barcelona
BY MICK VANN
Food news you can use
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Cross your fingers, Monte Warden and Bruce Robison may be headed for No. 1 with George Strait
BY MARGARET MOSER
With Tower Records closing in June, North Loop's new Sound on Sound hopes to fill some of the void
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Live shot
The Point!
Shadows Collide With People
Fly or Die
Cee-lo Green Is the Soul Machine
Give
screens
On Tuesday, GameRiot, the world's biggest video game festival, brought its sexy arcade to La Zona Rosa on its Spring tour, complete with a smoke machine, buxom blondes, and a cheeky British emcee
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
The Austin Student Digital Film Festival
BY MARRIT INGMAN
FoundMagazine.com
BY MARGARET CHAPMAN
First Ozomatli, now Jason Patric. Or Jim Bowie.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Do the right thing! Or not.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Cult comic book hero makes the transition to screen with much, but not all, of his charm intact.
It’s fitting that this is Disney’s last traditionally animated feature; the whole affair has a warm, nostalgic feel.
The science of efficiency is undone by the unpredictability of human emotion in this Swedish comedy.
A traveling troupe of actors in medieval England stumble upon a mysterious murder and end up single-handedly inventing the morality play.
This double-layered documentary examines the creation of a Hong Kong action film and the impossible feats performed by the Asian stuntman.
Contemporary remake of the 1973 grassroots classic retains and updates the basic plot while losing much of the original’s heart and soul.
arts & culture
Students and colleagues sing in tribute to the late Martha Deatherage
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Thirty years after the 1960s, Pop Art superstar Peter Max is still making art and still pushing the brand, coming to Austin on a national tour of his paintings and prints
BY ROBERT FAIRES
UT delays Bass Concert Hall renovations for local art
schools
BY ROBERT FAIRES
UT delays the closing of Bass Concert Hall for a year, Conspirare wants to sing an ode by a young Austin poet, and Zach decides whether it wants to go out with Sally Bowles or Roxie Hart
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Lyric Opera's first production of The Flying Dutchman was a solid and compelling staging of the opera that marked a turning point in Wagner's career and in German opera
Director Ken Webster has made a career out of discovering quirky, funny scripts by young playwrights that entertain as they offer insight into our culture, and that describes Rebecca Gilman's Blue Surge perfectly
In Ballet East Dance Theatre's Tribal, the company's original dances made you aware of the people around you and your connections to them
columns
Spurned by cool former friends and driven to distraction by Ralph Nader and the 9/11 hearings, Louis Black busts all Erma Bombeck in the SXSW aftermath
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Our report of the death of Urbanscape appears to have been exaggerated
It's time to put our money and our mouths where they're needed in order to defeat George Bush in 2004
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Hangin' with the 'gators in Brazos Bend State Park
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Stephen gets all gushy when he poshes it up in Houston sort of like The Simple Life, but backward.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
I have a new car, and it keeps breaking down all the time. I've heard about the Texas Lemon Law, but how do I know if the law can help me?
BY LUKE ELLIS
The possible link between antibiotics and breast cancer
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
What's the latest scoop in HIV/AIDS research? To find out what went on at February's 11th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Diseases, come have dinner with Dr. Bob Wallace, as he gives a Retrovirus Conference update on Thursday evening, April 8.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Texas Union Theatre, Saturday, April 3, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Austin Posse arrives; friendly days in Europe
BY NICK BARBARO