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Bradley's Lazarus Lotto Goes to Court
Gary Bradley's bankruptcy trial features the spectacular rise of the Lazarus Trust
BY AMY SMITH
Futrell to Council: Deficit Shrinks ... a Bit
The city budget report looks a wee bit rosier, but with plenty of thorns
BY AMY SMITH
It's a Car, It's a Canvas ... It's an Art Car!
Art cars roll through downtown
BY JORDAN SMITH
Vibrating Hardware Wars
Competing makers of tongue vibrators get down and
dirty in the courtroom
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Show With No Home
The current antsiness among broadcasters nails a local favorite
BY MICHAEL KING
ACC Chooses Robert Aguero
The ACC board of trustees selects Robert Aguero as the college's new president
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Breaking stories from Austin and beyond
BY MICHAEL KING AND LEE NICHOLS
What's So Special?
Gov. Perry calls a special session, and pits property taxes against schoolchildren
BY MICHAEL KING
On the Lege
The first days of the special session feature a rhetorical slugfest between the governor and the comptroller
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Tyco stays the course, and the USDA rolls over for Big Beef
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Elegance Out of Town
Monica's 701 is fine dining, indeed
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
The Austin Diner
We know they can do breakfast. But what about lunch?
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Wrapping up the Saveur Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival means good news and bad
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Catfish, Part I
music
Working-Class Hero
Is Michael Fracasso's Austin's best kept musical secret?
BY DAVE MARSH
TCB
Austin City Limits, cannonized!
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Li'l Cap'n Travis
… In All Their Spelendor
Fivehead
Guests of the Nation
Kino Eye
Internal Architecture
Significant Digits
Bird
Bob Schneider
I'm Good Now
Gurf Morlix
Cut 'n Shoot
This Microwave World, A Formatik on Tact's, Yuppie Pricks, Ignorance Park, Platforms, Pretty Please
Love Your Zine, Let's Go to Bed, Snakes and Sliders, Hostile Takeover, Ignorance Park, Platforms, Demonstration
Bonny Holmes
Boxful of Trouble
Eve Monsees
Eve Monsees & the Exiles
Friends of Dean Martinez
Random Harvest
Patty Griffin
Impossible Dream
Ojo del Sol
Sunrise to Sunset
A Five and Dime Ship, Iron Kite, Concentric, Explosions in the Sky, Calla
A Five and Dime Ship, The Light in the Fog, Concentric, The Long Spring, Calla
Jazz Pharaohs, Suzi Stern & Terry Bowness, David Chenu
Old Man Time, Lament, One
screens
Melodramatic Entrance
On set with 'Shades of Life,' the multicultural soap-opera access show giving minority actors a shot at exposure
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Good News and Bad News
John Pierson's 'Spike Mike Reloaded'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Lasses, Sasses, and Cineastes
LadyFest Texas movie night
BY DIANA WELCH
In Space
Google bombs
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Short Cuts
South Austin's best-kept video-store secret might not be
such a secret for much longer
BY MARC SAVLOV
Watching Outside the Box
How many industries do you know of that can capitalize on dated inventory while ringing up sales for "failed" merchandise?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Academy Award-Nominated Short Films 2003
A package of some of the most recent animated and live-action Oscar nominees.
Connie and Carla
Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.
Gloomy Sunday
As the turmoil of WWII engulfs Hungary, a Budapest eatery becomes home to a love triangle.
Man on Fire
Denzel Washington heads up a pulsating kidnapping thriller.
The Seagull's Laughter
Set in 1950s Iceland, this film is equal parts noirish mystery and coming-of-age tale.
13 Going on 30
Magic wishing dust allows Jennifer Garner to completely skip over her teens and twenties.
Two Men Went to War
A WWII comedy of errors begins when two British military dentists swap their drills for grenades.
arts & culture
As Theatre for Children Matures
In 40 years of nurturing young people's love for the stage, Coleman Jennings has helped a profession develop, too
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Oh, What a Lovely War Protest!
The Accidental Activist tells how the Lysistrata Project became a global anti-war phenomenon, from the perspective of Kathryn Blume, who co-founded and lived it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
City Council adopts new guidelines for the Cultural Arts Funding Program, Michelle Schumann shoots off for a Canadian piano competition, and some 'palpable hits' to get your sweet William for Shakespeare's birthday
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues is a blues primer covering every variation on the form, and in the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production its lessons are driven home with verve and fervor and musical excitement
Austin Symphony With Ilya Gringolts
Austin Symphony's return to Mahler's Fifth Symphony under the baton of Peter Bay revealed a mature and confident orchestra pulling itself up another notch
The House
The House, director J. Ed Araiza's third collaboration with the student artists at St. Edward's University, is unapologetically about them, which makes for the show's strengths and its weaknesses
columns
Page Two
A few modest school-finance proposals
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen goes west, sees some big rocks, and only adds to the splendor of the Marfa lights…
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cab Calloway careers, cosmetic cutouts, and our country's clothing
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
A relative passed away recently, and the duty has fallen
to me to wind up her affairs. We don't know if she left a
will. What can I do?
BY JOE MARRS
To Your Health
Should L-glutamine powder be taken with meals or between them?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
HIV and STD testing: free and easy
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Day Trips
Bask in the bluebonnets' beauty on your way to some delicious barbecue
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Oops!
Our latest batch of gaffes and blunders
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Iran left out (again!), Germany mad over beer,
and Cameroon embarassed by naughty uniform scandal. Who said soccer was boring?
