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SUMMER FUN
Summer Camps
Instead of renting twenty videos per week and melting your kids' brains this summer, try some of these more active activities
BY DIANA WELCH
2004 Austin Parks & Recreation Pool Schedule
news
North Central Blues
APD's new North Central Area Command force is bringing community policing to blighted north central neighborhoods
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bee Cave Brouhaha
Civic unrest erupts in the southwest Travis County village
BY AMY SMITH
No Clear Winner as Bradley Trial Wraps Up
Will developer's bankruptcy case end with a split decision?
BY AMY SMITH
Defending the Innocent in Texas
The Texas Center for Actual Innocence is open for business at the UT Law School
BY RITA RADOSTITZ
Blix In Austin:
The UN weapons inspector blasts Bush at the LBJ School
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Coming Up Lemons
The House Bill on public school finance goes to the floor, and it's all about tax cuts and slot machines
BY MICHAEL KING
On the Lege
The Lege special session gets down to business, and it's woefully business as usual
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Social Security: It ain't broke, so don't fix it; and, productivity has gone up – so why hasn't your paycheck?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Pao, Wow!
The Mandarin House's stellar reputation has followed it out to Lakeway – why haven't you?
BY MICK VANN
WINES OF CHILE AND ARGENTINA
Food-o-File
Mario Batali has discovered Austin's Matt Lee, but not in a good way; Hoover's has a new breakfast; and the Alamo Drafthouse finds food on the tracks
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Hot Smoke & Sasafrass
'Hot Smoke & Sasafrass' (and its backstory) returns via the reissue of A Gathering of Promises
BY GREG BEETS
TCB
Thirty Three Degrees announces it will be shutting its doors. Out the door, too, is Associate Music Editor Michael Chamy.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Reissues
Nas
Illmatic 10th Anniversary Platinum Edition
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Grooving Kingston 12
various artists
Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues 1945-1970
Rita Coolidge
Delta Lady: The Rita Coolidge Anthology
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours, Tusk
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Caricature: The Box
The Hollies
The Long Road Home 1963-2003
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Volume 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 – Concert at Philharmonic Hall
Peter Paul & Mary
Carry it On
Depeche Mode
The Singles Box Vols. 1-6
various artists
Hallucinations: Psychedelic Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults, Come to the Seventies: Soft Pop Nuggets From the WEA Vaults
Jerry Garcia
All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions
Bad Religion
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, Generator
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Best of the Early Years, Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan, Shake That Thang
Dave Brubeck
For All Time
Black Sabbath
Black Box: the Complete Original Black Sabbath (1970-1978)
Judas Priest
Metalogy
screens
Ten Little Indies
UT and AFS team up for a Doc Tour deviation: 10 films under 10 minutes long made for less than $10.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Momentum Requires Movement
The Nudge Micro Digital Film Fest
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Money Changes Everything
Greg Pak's 'Robot Stories' is ap-pealing to just about everyone, seven years after his appeal to the Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund launched his career.
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Space
BitTorrent
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Short Cuts
Press 1 for English
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
A spoonful of censorship …
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bon Voyage
An engaging chamber comedy cum lavish period piece set in France at the beginning of WWII.
Envy
Director Barry Levinson tackles the human vice of envy in this comedy starring Ben Stiller and Jack Black.
Love Object
A shy office drone orders a life-sized plastic doll off the Internet, to predictably disastrous results.
Main Hoon Na
Hindi movie full of plot and song.
New York Minute
A winking, disingenuous farce from the Olsen twins.
Nói Albinói (Nói the Albino)
This bewitching Icelandic film mines frozen veins of resentment and quirky, black-ice humor.
Robot Stories
A short film collection billed as "science fiction from the heart," with an emphasis on the heart part.
Van Helsing
Hugh Jackman's mysterious monster hunter is pittefd against nearly the entire pantheon of Universal’s classic monsters, including Dracula and and the Wolf-Man.
arts & culture
Among Us
The gypsy feet of playwright Ruth Margraff keep wandering back to Austin, and we're fortunate that they do
BY CYNDI WILLIAMS
In Memoriam: Danielle Martin
The music community mourns the loss of professor of piano Danielle Martin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A Piece of Work
'Portraits'
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Arts Bullets
Texas high schoolers act; Deborah Hay lectures; Bill Wittliff and Julie Speed read; and you learn about Duchamp
Arts Reviews
Stadium Devildare
The Rude Mechanicals' Stadium Devildare, from a script by Ruth Margraff, offers a muscle-bound riff on reality game shows and superpatriotism, but its torrents of text eventually leave the brain numb
L'Orontea
The Texas Early Music Project's concert rendering of this Baroque gem L'Orontea left no doubt as to the opera's musical pleasures
Screwed Into the Book of Love
The Bedlam Faction's production of Wayne Alan Brenner's Screwed Into the Book of Love is an ambling journey through a maze of situations built upon the effects and circumstances of love
columns
Page Two
The overwhelming need for a Travis County hospital district should be obvious
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
So many purse designers, so little talent… errrrrr, time, time! We mean time!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
A beautiful area of Texas, Wharton County has hundreds of stories to tell
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Isn't it worth taking 30 seconds to say you've learned something new today?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Which is the 'better quality' protein: whey or rice?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
A relative passed away recently and the duty has fallen to me to wind up her affairs. She left a will. Where do I start? Can I do this without a lawyer?
BY JOE MARRS
About AIDS
Free Lunch 'n' Learn on May 12: HIV Basics
BY SANDY BARTLETT AND TIM BYRNE
Luv Doc Recommends: Cinco de Mayo Music Festival
Fiesta Gardens, Thursday, May 6, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The Austin Lightning kick off their season and more
