Volume 23, Number 26
ON THE COVER:
news
The 69th Legislature, 1985, marked a turning point in the future of Texas politics
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Our endorsements for the March 9 Republican and Democratic primaries
A crowded field angles to succeed Margo Frasier as sheriff
BY JORDAN SMITH
The state steps in at the Texas Academy of Excellence
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Neighbors torn over union of chain store and Southside icon
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The real question remains: How do we replace this two-horse scam?
BY MICHAEL KING
I want a new central library, and I want it now
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Pentagon scraps Internet voting; and Bush's mining allies make molehills out of mountains
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Zax Pints & Plates mixes boutique beers and a bistro menu – with predictably mixed results
BY RACHEL FEIT
It's all about the barbecue
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Continuing with the development along South Congress, D&L's Texas Music Cafe is one of South Austin's newest dining spots
music
John Schooley's Hard Feelings stay hard with Rebels Against the Future
BY JERRY RENSHAW
You don't need money with a face like that, now do you honey?
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Greeting From Russia
Lauren St. John
Tripped Into Divine
Heinous Acts of Love
The Story of Love
Sheridan
Hard Times Hit
Live From the Saxon Pub Austin TX
This Town
Upstanding and Indigent
Marvelous Things, Three Points EP, I Run, It Will Consume You, Flashes and Cables
Lizards Times Twenty: Live at Antone's
Unknown Spin, The Last Hit, Ethereal Planes Indian, Where There's a Willy There's The Whale, Transitions
screens
A guided tour of 'Greendale'
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Todd Smiley is the gaffer in Austin
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Sarah Jacobson
BY MARC SAVLOV
Newly announced SXSW Film 2004 events include …
A little bit of Austin rolls into Auckland
BY MARC SAVLOV
Endings are tricky things
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Broken Lizard (the comedy group that gave us Super Troopers) spoofs summer-camp slasher flicks and lowbrow beach farces.
The big red animated dog runs away and joins the circus.
Teenager suffers the horrors of moving from New York to New Jersey.
The story is similar to the popular original – but its Borscht Belt setting has been relocated to pre-revolutionary Cuba in 1958.
Robert S. McNamara, the confounding former secretary of defense during the Vietnam era, may be visionary filmmaker Errol Morris' best interview "get" ever.
Musician Neil Young imagines a whole town and its people in a Super-8 movie that serves as a companion piece to his CD and touring show.
So the difference between this and a snuff film is … ?
arts & culture
A collection of Austin style makers and shakers
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
After a health crisis, Tapestry's Acia Gray slows things down
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The trials of St. Anthony get a modern hearing in UT
Opera Theatre's American premiere of Luis Jaime
Cortez's 1998 one-act opera, La Tentaciñn de San
Antonio
BY JERRY YOUNG
The Blanton chooses designers for its village green, last chance for input on city arts funding changes, and Mr. Sinus' Owen Egerton gets hit by a train
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In Different Stages' production of John Patrick's relatively old but charming play The Hasty Heart, quality performances help make the almost clichéd nature of the plot work
In Austin Playhouse's production of Private Lives, an excellent ensemble mines Noël Coward's witty wordplay and his characters' spectacular self-absorption with comedic aplomb
The U.S. of Cyndi Williams' American Arcana is a country unraveling, and Refraction Arts' production portrays this with a sense of urgency and tension
columns
Perry rumors fly and the police controversy rages
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Where Stephen went and who he went with. It's all in bold. It's all inside.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Two new guides lead the way to some hidden Central Texas jewels
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Falling foreigners, familiar felines, and forgotten figures
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Growing weaker with age? Sarcopenia could be the culprit.
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Mechanics' liens and repair shop repossession?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Living better through exercise!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
, Saturday, February 28, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The battle for Europe; and American success
in the Premiership