Upstairs at Caroline
Volume 21, Number 31
news
Citizen Mary
A Profile of Mary Arnold, Advocate for Austin
BY AMY SMITH
A New AISD Blueprint
BY MICHAEL KING
Mapping the Changes
A preview of proposed new single-member districts
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Primary Stretch Run
Senate candidates look toward the April 9 run-off; gubernatorial contenders look to November.
BY MICHAEL KING
Sammy's House Looks for a Home
BY JORDAN SMITH
Conran Deported?
Robert Conran's prison ordeal is finally over, but now he must struggle against deportation.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Endorsements: April 9 Primary Run-off
Endorsements in the April 9 run-off election.
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Teenage Mutant Ninja Politics
The Hypocritical Limits of Campaign Finance Reform
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Searching for Candidates
The Petition Lawsuits Threaten to Obscure the Election
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
The new campaign finance reform law still has big loopholes; Bush's Army Secretary is a stealth Enronite; and toys make some kids very unhappy.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Hill Country Food and Wine Guide
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
The Southern Foodways Alliance is coming to Austin this summer or a Texas Barbecue Road Trip. Virginia B. Wood reveals how to get involved.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood indulges in a little burger-mania this week.
music
King of the Swing Fiddle
Honoring country music's second most famous fiddle player, Johnny Gimble
BY JIM CALIGIURI
This Is You
Waterloo Records marks 20 years as Austin's premiere record retail outlet.
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Dancing About Architecture
Checking up on SIMS and their $216K, checking in on Lyle Lovett's broken leg, and Tyler Harwood checks out of the Zulu as Kono and the Peenbeets.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Trio Mediaeval
Words of the Angel
Jimmy Scott
But Beautiful
The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Behind the Music, Welcome to the Infant Freebase, Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of the Western Civilization
screens
John Nash, Take Two
Mark Samels' documentary A Brilliant Madness provides a wealth of information for anyone who was intrigued by A Beautiful Mind's subject and found that movie opening doorways to additional questions and avenues of investigation.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
A Peep Show for the Ladies
Pink Nite at the Alamo Drafthouse
BY LAURA DONNELLY
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Blacks and Latinos inch toward equity on television, but there are still miles of progress to be made.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Billy Wilder, In Memoriam
Last week saw the passing of Billy Wilder: a caustic wit, a clear-eyed romantic, a biting social observer, a legend of Hollywood's Golden Age.
Film Reviews
National Lampoon’s Van Wilder
Y Tu Mamá También
Boys, filled with testoterone and joints, will be boys.
arts & culture
Anatomy of a Print
Artist Lance Letscher and Slugfest print studio team up to produce a labor of something like love.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Outside the Box
Opening Closed Doors, an organization founded by artist Benné Rockett to give artists opportunities to address social conditions through their artwork, presents photographs, sculpture, assemblage, and paintings created by young adult offenders in the state Criminal Justice Division's Project Spotlight program in the exhibition "Self-Contained."
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan returns to Austin to inaugurate a new lecture series named in his honor, homegrown musical Jouét touches down in the pages of Show Music magazine, and Gerard Lebeda lands a European tour of Evita.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Blur
As produced by Hyde Park Theatre, playwright Melanie Marnich's Blur draws the audience along in a briskly-paced, dynamic ride.
Matthew Hinsley
Accompanying his tenor voice on his classical guitar, accomplished musician Matthew Hinsley plucked and sang his way through an intriguing mix of music from Renaissance England to modern America to highly entertaining effect.
Fuddy Meers
Different Stages' production of Fuddy Meers never quite manages the chaotic verve of a Warner Bros. cartoon to which it seems to aspire, but there are laughs to be had from David Lindsay-Abaire's consistently inventive and surprise-filled script and from these actors' handling of it.
columns
Page Two
Term-limit proponents aren't defending your vote; they are looking to deny it.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I notice bleeding gums when I brush my teeth. My dentist is concerned and wants me to come more often for cleaning. Am I really risking the loss of my teeth if I don't, and what else will help me preserve my teeth?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Phew! We're glad that's over. SXSW is gone and things are beginning to get back to normal. Your Style Avatar has some parting thoughts about Courtney Love and looks (fashion) forward to some upcoming events.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
San Antonio and Los Angeles are the two best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters at 3AM
A proposal for grading high school literature students gauges their “engagement” with the material.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily