Volume 24, Number 41
ON THE COVER:
news
Photographer Will Van Overbeek goes back to school for prom and finds a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.
Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition and big money
BY BILL CRAWFORD
The bottom of the barrel isn't low enough for local TV news
BY KEVIN BRASS
A bill that critics charged would have increased the pace of Texas executions dies and takes a judicial pay raise bill down with it
BY JORDAN SMITH
County reluctant to rename courthouse
BY CHERYL SMITH
Residents wary of waste processing site
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Garza Independence High School students get involved with plans to rework local high schools
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
A farewell to faithful servants, and a preliminary look at the city's priorities
BY MICHAEL KING
The Travis Co. Lege delegation closed shop with a few achievements
BY AMY SMITH
Norquist disowns stinky pal; and forget about a living wage
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Cake decorators both professional and passionately amateur prep for local competition
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beau Theriot has got the Oasis back on track; plus, grillin', tea, 'The Future of Food,' and Roy's recipes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Ana Egge and Adam Carroll reflect over their songwriting adolescence
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Choosing Darkness, a Chairman, and the much-appreciated new air-conditioning at Emo's
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Out of Exile
Born to Boogie
Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Another Day on Earth
X&Y
Get Behind Me Satan
screens
The adventures of Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dooley (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, respectively), in conversation
BY MARC SAVLOV
'Freaks and Geeks' fans and their bittersweet assembly at the Alamo
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Rodriguez and Q.T. go back to the grind; plus, 'Screen Door Jesus,' back to Sundance, and all kinds of opportunities to get involved
BY JOE O'CONNELL
This ain't your grandma's antiques show
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Ernst Lubitsch's first effort in Technicolor shimmers like Champagne in crystal: all bubbles, trifles, and blithe sophistication
Film Reviews
Robert Rodriguez adds a dimension with this kids fantasy movie, but only in the most literal sense – 3-D.
A gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.
Instead of reworking the original TV show’s subject matter regarding class and marriage, this is plodding mimicry featuring a predominantly African-American cast.
A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
Sprawling documentary about the globalization of the wine industry is ambitious but frequently directionless – for true connoisseurs only.
More than his Philadelphia school of rock, it's blustery instructor Paul Green who becomes the true subject of this documentary.
arts & culture
The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin hosts not one, but two national conferences on the arts the same weekend in June
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Rather than make you puzzle out for yourself what environmental art is, Austin Green Art is hosting a summerlong, citywide exhibition that shows you what it is
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Benefits help a playwright pay off medical bills and a dance company keep dancing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The continuum of tap from 1930s elegance to today's stomping rhythm pulsed in the concert concluding Tapestry Dance Company's 2005 Soul to Sole Festival
Irrational and impotent posturing distinguishes the figures in the drawings that George Lopez is exhibiting in the Eastside Art Palace's "Figure It Out."
Rupert Holmes' adaptation of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' has more to do with Victorian music hall entertainment than Dickensian literature and is all the more engaging for it
columns
The artistic genius of 79-year-old cinematographer Haskell Wexler is only the beginning of his story; the passion and eloquence of his lifelong political commitment stand equal to his cinematic achievements
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Are you languishing in one of 'The Stages of Self-Acceptance for Gay Men'? Let Uncle Stephen guide you through.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
For HIV-positive people, a few simple precautions can make trips safer and more fun
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Is an annual DEXA test enough to assure that I won't ever develop osteoporosis?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Copyright registering a copyright & 'poor man's copyright'
BY LUKE ELLIS
Next year the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge encompasses a rare island of native grassland and its natural occupants
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Our latest batch
The Off Center, Friday, June 10, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO