Volume 23, Number 40
ON THE COVER:
news
In the endless Central Texas transportation wars, the lions and the lambs look for ways to make peace
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
A preview of the ACC Board of Trustees Place 6 run-off election
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
A whistleblower lawsuit and a gubernatorial appointment raise questions about the state of ethics at the Texas Ethics Commission
BY JORDAN SMITH
Following hospital cuts, a task force forms to defend breast-feeding support services
BY AMY SMITH
The Chronicle endorses Veronica Rivera
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Mayor Will Wynn visits European capitals will anybody in Austin notice he's missing?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics
and then there's the TAKS test
BY MICHAEL KING
George W. Bush goes easy on the rich
and Donald Trump needs it!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The cafes Paradise and Pecan Street: still plating after all these years
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Farmers, parties, and more Zen
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A Little Italy, part II
music
Exploring the grounds and sounds at the International Festival-Institute at Round Top
BY GRAHAM REYNOLDS
AMN loses its plumbing while Cinemania sinks altogether
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
A Grand Don't Come for Free
You Are the Quarry
Retriever
The Pretty Toney Album, Tical 0: The Prequel, No Said Date
Live shot
Alms for Iraq, Ba Ba Ti Ki Di Do, Exquisite Fucking Boredom, Don't Climb on and Take the Holy Water, The Taste of TG, Mutant Throbbing Gristle, Junk Magic
screens
Jonathan Demme on 'The Agronomist'
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
UT filmmakers and mo(o)re
BY RUSSELL COBB
Cinemania implodes at the last minute; plus: South by Southwest moving to Dallas?!
BY MARC SAVLOV
If they launch it, viewers will come
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Jonathan Demme's riveting documentary about slain Haitian populist and radio personality Jean Dominique.
The boy wizard rides again and this outing proves zippier and spookier than the previous two.
Strange, marvelous, and unique, Guy Maddin's new film starring Isabella Rossellini is his best work to date.
arts & culture
The eight members of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2004 led the way to culture
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Flimflam experts (and old pals) Harry Anderson and Turk Pipkin reunite in Austin at One World Theatre
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Austin artist Patrick Joseph's story NOW will be published in the 24-Hour Comics Day anthology
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Physical Plant Theater's first Garden Party raised more than $8,000, Ann Hume Wilson has been appointed associate director of the Blanton Museum of Art, Blue Lapis Light is exhibiting and auctioning off bras and breastplates for angels, and the city unveils a new mural at the Pan Am / A.B. Cantu Recreation Center
Arts Reviews
Different Stages' production of The Misses Overbeck generates an affectionate quality that personalizes the particular objects surrounding all of us
Onstage Theatre Company's production of Crimes of the Heart focuses on the relationships among Beth Henley's small-town Southerners and describes them simply, truly, and beautifully
The latest program from the Violet Crown Radio Players is an appealing return to yesteryear via the nostalgic delights of radio drama
columns
We celebrate the opening of Jonathan Demme's complex and moving The Agronomist and cherish the sensibilities of horror-film art director Robert Burns, who passed away this week
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
What did the drag queen teach Stephen, and when and where will he get Wilde?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Horn-dogs, the runs, death, pants, and accordions forever
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
St. Mary's Grotto in Windthorst isn't your normal piece of modern sculpture
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
I may be allergic to sulfites is this common, and what should I do now?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Small disputes, should I hire a lawyer?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Research Needs HIV+ People -- Get Paid!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
11th & Congress, Friday, June 4, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
World Cup qualifying has
begun, and Texas is hosting
BY NICK BARBARO