Volume 23, Number 39
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news
In-progress or proposed developments for near-western Hill Country rise overnight like so many toxic mushrooms
BY AMY SMITH
Great-grandmother Marie died of a broken heart in Billings, Mont.
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Hopeful signs but continuing challenges for electronic recycling effort
BY LEE NICHOLS
Austin prepares to enable a new city on a huge chunk of Williamson County
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Anonymous cops accuse the union head of falling down on the job
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
If Texas can't kill the insane, where will the madness end?
BY MICHAEL KING
The vote in the AISD board elections suggests too many Austinites are just not paying attention
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Spider-Man gets kicked out of baseball; Bush and Rummy deny responsibility for torture
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
SUMMER READING
Yummer Reading
Cookbooks, memoirs, anthologies, and more
V.B.W. keeps an eye on the comings, goings, and goings-on
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Purple fingerprints on our past and present
BY MELANIE HAUPT
SUMMER READING
Sheet Music
The Spring rock & roll books round-up, from the cancerous and blind to the philosophical and fascist
Texas history, Handsome Joel, and 'Choice Cuts' from Tee Double.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Has Austin or anywhere else ever seen anything like Cinemania weekend?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Second Assistant Camera Courtney Harrell
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
SUMMER READING
'Fabulous!: A Loving, Luscious, Lighthearted Look at Film From the Gay Perspective' and more
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money, mo' money
BY MARC SAVLOV
The media all but ignore the death of a Chicana titan. What's sadder is that it's unsurprising.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
With Abel Ferrara's first real budget came name talent and new blood
Film Reviews
A new Ice Age cometh
Ugg boots, ugh movie. Cuddle-bunny story stars Kate Hudson.
Lili Taylor and Guy Pearce star in this adaptation of an Anne Tyler story that was filmed in Austin several summers ago.
Everything is lewd and crude at this mile-high club.
Isabelle Huppert stars in this French road movie about a selfish streetwalker, her unwanted teenage daughter, and the escaped convict who befriends them both.
arts & culture
What's ahead for the Austin Symphony Orchestra & Ballet Austin in 2004-2005
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Three Austin artists Sean Perry, Warren Cullar, and Jay McMahan have had their artwork recognized on a national level
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Playwrights Dan Dietz and Colin Denby Swanson are among the 18 semi-finalists for the 2004-5 P73 Playwriting Fellowship , and Dietz’s Tilt Angel has been selected for full production at New Jersey Repertory Theater next season
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Relive your prom with Coda Theater Project; see Jaxon's artwork in a museum (of sorts); the Blanton receives $100,000 for its first show in its new building; and travel is in the cards for two AMOA leaders
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
To get into The Underpants, as it were, director Don Toner has deployed a reliable ensemble of able actors, who deliver a friendly poke in the ribs about matters a little farther south
Friendship was the theme of the Budjanova Chamber Orchestra's A Night in Vienna, which was dedicated to the memory of Danielle Martin, the late UT professor whose life touched many of those at the concert
columns
Hey, it's his shower
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Stephen cruises South First and 'Shouts' it out!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Amos, Andy, admitted atheism, and Amnesty's accounting
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Pratt's Book Store has a great selection you might not expect from a small-town bookstore
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
There are so many lawyers, how do I know which one to
hire?
BY LUKE ELLIS
What nutrients can be taken to minimize radiation damage to healthy tissue?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Bushites open door slightly to global generics
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Justice sidestepped: Lane McCotter, the Bush administration's overseer for rebuilding Iraq's prison system, previously resigned from his job as Utah's top corrections officer because he was under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department for reports of abuse
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Waterloo Records, Friday, May 28, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Farewell to the Champions League; long live Euro 2004
BY NICK BARBARO