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Volume 23, Number 29
news
Welcome to Tomstown
In the burgeoning Tomstown scandal, you can't tell the players or the plot without a program
BY MICHAEL KING
American Ho
An old friend from work turns up in a very different occupation
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Will Supremes' Ruling Scuttle Yogurt-Shop Cases?
The high court's unanimous Sixth Amendment ruling gives hope to attorneys for Robert Springsteen and Michael Scott
BY JORDAN SMITH
AISD Board to Consider $420 Million Bond Package
The Citizens' Bond Advisory Committee settles on a figure that offers relief while still being acceptable to voters
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Midnight Art Heist at Z'Tejas
Z'Tejas art theft has the artist, restaurant, and police baffled
BY JORDAN SMITH
Meet-and-Confer Draws Fire
Council takes a deep breath, gets reassurances from staff about police contract
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from around the world
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: While Elephants Sleep
The breakdown of the Travis Co. primary vote suggests interesting possibilities come November
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Costco breaks the corporate greed mold; and mad cow disease may already be here
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
San Francisco in South Austin
Finding dim sum and Cantonese seafood, early birds and all-nighters, at Marco Polo
BY MICK VANN
The Insatiable Taste for Tunes
In Austin, the self-proclaimed Live Music Capital of the World, seeing great music doesn't always have to mean fighting the crowds at a smoky nightclub
BY RACHEL FEIT
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Second Helpings: Comfort Food
Second Helpings: Mexican Breakfast
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
Second Helpings: Barbecue in Town
Second Helpings: Barbecue Out of Town
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Second Helpings: Bakeries
Second Helpings: Downtown Coffee Shops
WEEKLY ISSUE
Food-o-File
Serving up more news than you can shake a badge at …
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Irish Pubs
music
Wop-bop-a-loo-bop
Little Richard, the pompadour himself, raps a little
BY JERRY RENSHAW
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing the SXSW music festival
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
2003-04 Austin Music Awards
Austin Music Hall, Wednesday, March 17
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
The Insider: John Pantle
Brief conversations with very important people
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: DJ Jester the Filipino Fist
Breakdancing with Willie, Biz, and Weird Al.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Spotlight: Mission of Burma
Once I had my heroes…
BY KATE X MESSER
Spotlight: Mindy Smith
Don't pigeonhole Mindy Smith … just ask Dolly
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: Gary U.S. Bonds
Gary U.S. Bonds, still partying after all these years.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: HeKill Three
Austin's Hekill Three, a cock-rock band stuck in a heavy-metal band's body
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: The Cooper Temple Clause
No more games with customs
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
The Insider: Joe Perry
Brief conversations with very important people
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: The Ends
The Ends just wanna destroy
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Spotlight: Jessi Colter
Jessi Colter picks up the pieces and the pace.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Spotlight: Broken Social Scene
Strike the "next" from Next Big Thing
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Spotlight: Secret Machines
The secret railroad from Dallas to NYC
BY ANDY LANGER
Spotlight: British Sea Power
Two if by land, one if by British Sea Power.
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Spotlight: American Music Club
The American Music Club is open
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Big Star Myths
Dispelling Big Star myths
BY KENT H. BENJAMIN
Flatstock 4
SXSW's poster exhibition has grown exponentially in only its second year
BY MARC SAVLOV
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Spotlight: Iron & Wine
Beard grooming tips from Iron & Wine's Sam Beam
BY DAVID LYNCH
Spotlight: Dramarama
I'll give Dramarama anything to reunite
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Spotlight: Dizzee Rascal
Dirty South makes Brit rap star Dizzee Rascal dizzy
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Spotlight: Scott H. Biram
Scott Biram stays one step ahead of the devil
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Spotlight: Flatstock 4
Two poster artists at Flatstock 4 equal dozens of SXSW 04 showcasers
BY MARC SAVLOV
Spotlight: Zykos
Zykos, the early years
BY MELANIE HAUPT
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
TCB
SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
TCB
SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
TCB
SXSW News
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
WEEKLY ISSUE
TCB
Will Wynn has it in for AMN, as does the Austin Hotel & Lodging Association
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW Records
SXSW Interview: Walter Yetnikoff
Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels
Health Care for Musicians: The AFTRA Deal
Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels
Mastering Engineers Talk Shop
Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels
The End of the Record Store?
Ballroom Dancing: Music Panels
Petty Booka, the Winks, Robyn Hitchcock
in-store (and booth)-o-rama
Jolie Holland
Scout Niblett
The Veils
David Cross
Toots & the Maytals, Joss Stone
The Baptist Generals
Old Crow Medicine Show
Andrew Bird
Broken Social Scene
Venus Flytrap, Alamo Race Track, Heideroosjes
Amsterdam Calling
screens
Hall Ball
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards, March 12, Austin Studios. Photos by Todd V. Wolfson.
SXSW Film 04 Awards
The best of the Fest
Big Fat Independent Movies
SXSW Film 04 reviews
Something More Than Just Cerebral
This is a different Kaufman, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marks a different kind of picture for the writer
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Interactive 04 Web Awards
SXSW Interactive 04 announced its Webbie Award winners on Sunday, March 15
Hell on Earth
Packed house at the Paramount for a first look at Hellboy
BY MARC SAVLOV
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
Daydream Believer
George Hickenlooper and 'Mayor of the Sunset Strip'
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Past Is Prologue
Rodney Evans and 'Brother to Brother'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
I'm Not Really Lovin' It
Morgan Spurlock and 'Super Size Me'
BY PETER DEBRUGE
'Antone's: Home of the Blues'
The world premiere: Friday, March 12, Paramount Theatre
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
Freedom's Just Another Word
Allison Berg and 'Witches in Exile'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Reality Really, Really Bites
Kris Lefcoe and 'Public Domain'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Film Reviews
Read 'em and see 'em – or not
SXSW DAILY: FRIDAY
SXSW DAILY: SATURDAY
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
SXSW Interactive 04
Exclusive Web-only 'Austin Chronicle' coverage of the wonks, the weekend, and the wilder side of cyberspace
WEEKLY ISSUE
Short Cuts
How is this year's South by Southwest Film Festival and Conference shaping up compared to previous years?
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Is the old genre new again with Deadwood, a gritty, decidedly unromantic look at how the West was won?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
La Chamade (Heartbeat)
Catherine Deneuve. Assez dit, n'est-ce pas?
Film Reviews
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Love is never having to say "I erased you."
Taking Lives
Angelina Jolie and Ethan Hawke star in this disappointing thriller.
arts & culture
Our Country Mapped in Music
The Austin Symphony's concert with Grantham's Southern Harmony, Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite, and Gershwin's Second Rhapsody gives audiences a chance to hear how some composers describe an American sense of place through music
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Mothersbaugh's Antique Freaks
Mark Mothersbaugh's "Beautiful Mutations" aren't vintage shots of circus freaks but antique photos altered to make their subjects look disturbing yet eerily beautiful
BY KATE X MESSER
Happy Bachday!
What do you give a famous composer for his 419th birthday? The Budjanova Quartet is giving J.S. Bach a concert of his music performed by some of Austin's most gifted musicians.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The LBJ Library swaps paintings with the National Gallery of Art, the Blanton Museum of Art gets $1 million for a new gallery, and Patsy Cline teaches you how to apply make-up
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Kiss Me, Kate
Cole Porter's 'Kiss Me Kate' is revived by the Austin Playhouse in such an atmosphere of fun (and ever-so-slightly wicked humor) that the production is rather endearing
Hamlet
Through the vision and skill of choreographer Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin told the story of 'Hamlet' with an urgency and imagination made the prince's pain palpable
columns
Page Two
The nose knows when SXSW is coming
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The Bush-Ashcroft Justice Department is invading our privates
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
Fickle Pickles, the best in the world
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Is Stephen your style avatar or Eddie Izzard? Who was that man behind the shades at the Texas Film Hall of Fame?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
SXSW DAILY: THURSDAY
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar goes out of his way to not mention his sister's fashion faux pas from last year's Austin Music Awards Show but somehow manages to … and how is that new Nicole Kidman movie at the film festival, anyway?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
WEEKLY ISSUE
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Austin style avatar Stephen puts his most certainly Queer Eye on a local band, gives them an up-do for the festival, and gets away with it… Plus, where's he going tomorrow and upon whom did he spy at the Mark Mothersbaugh art show?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
After a Fashion
Hangin' with your Style Avatar, the B-52's, Pam Des Barres, Miss Kitty, and mo' – oh, and some ho's … San Ho's that is …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Common Law
My friend said that she just got a traffic ticket for not slowing down when a police car with flashing lights was stopped on the side of the road. Can you really get a ticket for that?
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
Can any nutrients help fend off an imminent headache?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
All stressed up and nowhere to go?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Free Concert
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Friday, March 19, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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