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Kontinental Krew
Local custom car club, the Kontinentals, bring the third annual Lonestar Rod & Kustom Round Up auto show to town
Not Quite 'Ya Se Fue!'
The APD version of the Ozomatli bust at Exodus is ...
hard to believe
BY JORDAN SMITH
AISD Bonds: More Sprawl and Surveillance?
The Austin ISD bond proposal includes plans for new construction and security measures that are raising some public questions
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
APD Racial Profiling: New Numbers, Old Questions
The 2003 report shows disparities but also problems
with the data itself
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Meet and Obscure
The new police contract is neither the cause nor cure of the APD crisis
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
What School Finance Crisis?
The Lege considers school finance, and recommends ways to cut wages and fire teachers
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
A company that wants to get under your skin; and the Social Security hoax
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Taste, Memory
By innovating old favorites in an old building, Moonshine is setting new standards
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Think things are slowing down after SXSW? Not when it comes to the food business in Austin.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Thai, Part I
music
AMA Hoochie Koo
The 2003-04 Austin Music Awards scrapbook redux
Rocks Off
Saturday SXSW "Live Shots" and more
TCB
One final SXSW missive
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Big Fat Independent Movies
Sending off SXSW Film 04
Audience Participation
COHI's Sera Bonds on how your watching movies at the
Alamo can empower women in conflict areas
BY SAMANTHA PAXTON
The 22 Steps
Screenwriter John Truby's first Austin seminar
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Second Annual Austin Jewish Film Festival
March 27-April 3
Roll Over, Beethoven
An interview with Francis Preve, laptop composer and producer
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Short Cuts
Will McDonald's be part of our post-SXSW, prehibernation meal?
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
"This is one of those rare cases where the initial conception was ambitious to begin with," Executive Producer Steve James says of The New Americans, a three-part documentary premiering March 29 on PBS' Independent Lens.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Dawn of the Dead
It's hard to keep a good zombie down
Jersey Girl
Ben Affleck plays a widower dad in this family dramedy from an uncustomarily sweet Kevin Smith.
The Ladykillers
The Coen brothers remake a British comedy classic starring Tom Hanks in a flamboyantly love-him-or-hate-him performance.
Monsieur Ibrahim
Omar Sharif makes a welcome return to the screen in this gentle French film about a Jewish adolescent and an elderly Muslim shopkeeper.
Never Die Alone
Every known hip-hop gangster cliché comes to the fore in this film starring DMX and David Arquette.
The Same River Twice
A documentary about how things change and don't change.
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
A guilty pleasure for thirtysomething stoners with ironic dispositions and large nacho platters.
arts & culture
When Wagner Became WAGNER
With 'The Flying Dutchman,' Richard Wagner made opera bigger than big
BY JERRY YOUNG
Ballet East: 'Tribal'
Ballet East goes "Tribal" this weekend, using movement to explore issues of belonging, the ties that bind, and how tribes can lower us to barbarism or lift us to redemption
Decade on the Vanguard
No. 10 looks like the best Salvage Vanguard birthday ever!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Helping ensure the future of classical music are four young Central Texas musicians who won the 2004 Pearl Amster Concerto Competition and two UT School of Music doctoral candidates chosen to learn conducting from Maestro Kurt Masur
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Mercy Seat
With Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, the dirigo group takes us back to 9 / 11 and shows a couple laying bare their relationship against that day's monstrous tragedy
'New Works: Jack Spencer'
Nashville-based photographer Jack Spencer is such a maestro in the darkroom that the prints he creates have the mysterious, almost shrouded look of Old-West silver tintypes
Austin Symphony With Norman Krieger
On the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq, the Austin Symphony offered a pleasing variety of views of the American landscape through music by 20th-century composers
columns
Page Two
On love, culture, renewal, timelessness, and SXSW
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our readers talk back.
Oops!
Our latest batch of gaffs and blunders
After a Fashion
Catch Stephen out schmoozing for a good cause or two. It's that time of year, folks. The social and fashion seasons are upon us.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The world's largest collection of spurs is almost too big
to comprehend.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A Hindu Heinrich Himmler, a hard of hearing Hoover, and heavenly hemispheres
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Here are some other quirky new traffic laws you might find interesting
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
Can any nutrients help fend off an imminent headache?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Better sex with non-nukes?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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