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Volume 24, Number 27
news
Looking Like Texas
District 51's Eddie Rodriguez represents the future of
the state's people and policies
BY AMY SMITH
TRMPAC Finally Lands in Court
Longtime Republican testifies ... for the Democrats
BY AMY SMITH AND JORDAN SMITH
Smoking Ordinance Headed for the Ballot
Onward Austin gets its anti-smoking signatures
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
School Finance Bill Heads for the Floor
Republicans pass HB 2 out of committee over
educator objections
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Costello Puts Up a (Toll) Roadblock
Austin Toll Party sues CTRMA
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Taking the TAKS Is Hard … Understanding the Results Is Harder
Austin ISD scores better -- we think
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
Point Austin: Dreaming Downtown
The conversation resumes on how to remake the
second street district
BY MICHAEL KING
Place Your Bets
The gambling action heats up at the Capitol
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
A Big Corp. becomes Big Brother; and, the SEC decides corporate reform is a 'stale' issue
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Return of the Fajita King
After 35 years, Sonny Falcon is still getting his strip-
steak story straight
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-file
Whole Foods and Alamo expand, UT opens its doors
wide, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
P2C05
The magnificent seven: spotlighting a local septet
showcasing SXSW 05
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
TCB
Stranger than Fiction: Spoon previews new album, the
smoking ban returns, the Gourds let a few fly
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW Records
13th Floor Elevators
I Have Always Been Here Before:The Roky Erickson Anthology
Stan Ridgway
Holiday in Dirt
Rachel Loy
Love the Mess
screens
SXSW INTERACTIVE 2005
Get Visionary With Me Here
We are no longer pioneers of the digital age. We're
miners.
BY BRUCE STERLING
The Tip-Off
Where is Malcolm Gladwell's mind? What about now?
BY NORA ANKRUM
Not Shutting Up Anywhere
This Al Franken is your Al Franken
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Superbadass Web Sites for Everyone!
With the help of Knowbility's AIR-Interactive for the
Arts and a team of professional designers, I am going
to help reinvent the Internet
BY SPIKE GILLESPIE
SXSW INTERACTIVE 2005
Nellie Blog
Why modern-day muckraker Ana Marie Cox couldn't
care less about her critics – or even, at times,
her audience
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Things to Do for Free
Broke? Badgeless? Fear not.
Self-Funded and Self-Made
Tom Fulp on 'Alien Hominid'
BY MARCEL MEYER
It Doesn't End With the Internet
Amalia Anderson on old-fashioned organizing
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Everybody's Court Artist
Sam Brown on 'Exploding Dog'
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
This Town Is Big Enough for the Four of Us
There's a new place to get drunk, full, and filmically
informed, but it's still the Alamo Drafthouse
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
No good deed goes unpunished, just ask Mopac
Media's Kevin Triplett; plus, Explore UT and awards
all over the place
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Lots of midseason premieres in March. So, without
much fuss, here's what's coming up ...
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Bad Guy
Early film from South Korea's enfant terrible Kim Ki-duk is a coarse and distubing drama about obsessive love.
Be Cool
The follow-up to Elmore Leanard's Get Shorty is rife with star talent but short on inspiration.
Bear Cub
Spanish drama avoids the politics of gay adoption while focusing instead on realistic characters and situations.
Bewafaa
Bollywood romance glosses over the cultural ramifications of marriage and adultery, but is heavy on the music and melodramatics.
Cursed
The latest from the Scream team hardly merits a weak yelp.
The Jacket
This mix of amnesia, time travel, and Adrien Brody adds up to a fairly forgettable experience.
Man of the House
Filmed in Austin with Tommy Lee Jones, Man of the House is nothing to write home about.
The Pacifier
Vin Diesel plays a Navy SEAL who draws diaper duty.
Sky Blue
This gorgeously dystopian South Korean film rivals and, at times, surpasses the best of Japanese animé.
arts & culture
Do It Yourself Biennial
How to showcase all the great art in Texas on a shoestring budget
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Man Who Would Be Swing
A new play gives Ray Benson the chance finally to chat with the King, Bob Wills
BY BARRY PINEO
A First for Austin Art
New City Hall filled with locals' visual artistry
BY RACHEL KOPER
On the Funding Front
The symphony, Long Center, and Blanton Museum of Art have all seen lots of green sprouting in their yards lately
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Images of coexistence on Auditorium Shores, artists wanted to leave gifts in the urban landscape, LCP on TV, and '25 to watch' at the Austin Fine Arts Fest
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Midsummer Night's Dream
In director Lucien Douglas' staging of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," folly comes to the fore and makes for pretty pleasant company
Single Wet Female
In the spoof Single Wet Female,' Marga Gomez and Carmelita Tropicana mounted a delectable feast of perversions, inversions, and subversions for the ravenously underrepresented
The Boulez Project
In concept, the Boulez Project was somewhat provocative, but in performance, it was carelessly assembled
columns
Page Two
South by Southwest 2005 is upon us. Please don't tell
us to relax.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Our Ecstatic Days' is that rarest of creatures: a great
novel. The first great American novel of the 21st
century. Steve Erickson has discovered the secret of
creating a novel that is not a book but an organism.
Proust did it. Joyce almost did it. Faulkner sometimes
did it. Marquez did it. Yes, that's the company Steve's
keeping in Our Ecstatic Days.'
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Big feet, freedom hairdressers, and the Oscars
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Meds side effects got you down?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Does dairy consumption at a meal interfere with iron
absorption?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Explore UT
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Charles Kincaid's Grocery Market in Fort Worth
consistently gets listed as one of the best burger joints
in the U.S.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
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