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Where There's Smoke …
Across the country, perspectives on the smoking bans offer a very mixed bag
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
The Prevailing Wage Guessing Game
Trustees worry that doing the right thing might cause bond dollars to come up short
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Is Texas Gas Burning Austinites' Money?
Energy gadfly says utility may be overcharging customers
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Endorsements
Our picks in the May 7 elections
Bills Gone Wild!
The good, the bad, and the ugly at the 79th Legislature's halfway mark
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Point Austin: Smoke This!
Austin voters have a chance to confirm that everybody has a right to breathe free
BY MICHAEL KING
Women and Children Last
When it comes to sharing the wealth, Texas has its priorities top-down
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Senator takes pity on poor little CEOS; and Propaganda Rules!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
¢heap Eat$
Hearty, affordable fare that won't cost more than the pocket change left over after your visit with the tax man
Food-o-File
More puff, pastrywise; plus, Tommy Li, Bollywood, and William Dunmire
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Smoke Signals
Red River's live music venue owners fear Austin's newly proposed smoking ordinance – with good reason
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
Sorting through the spring flood of new records and old festivals, plus a deeper look inside George W.'s iPod
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Doug Sahm & the Sir Douglas Quintet
The Complete Mercury Recordings
Maggie Walters
Maggie Walters
Dao Strom
Send Me Home
MDC
Magnus Dominus Corpus
Candye Kane, Vanessa Peters & Ice Cream on Mondays, Maren Morris, Kathy Smock
White Trash Girl, Thin Thread, Walk On, Sweet Nothing
Wammo, Shorty Long
Lowriders on the Storm, Taters
Andrew Duplantis
Only Funny the First Time
Friends of Lizzy
Perfect Little Pieces
screens
Singing, Dancing, Kissing, Killing, and Marrying; Blood, Patriotism, Religion, and Tradition
The Austin Film Society's Bollywood and More: Recent Hindi Cinema
BY LOUIS BLACK
Man on Fire
Mike Henry and the 'Slam Planet' recovery benefit
BY MARC SAVLOV
Chile's 'Machuca' Opens Eighth Cine Las Americas
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Film News
Summer shoots, Senate bills, and a few film festivals you should know about; plus, Bob Ivy plays with dolls
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
'If it didn't happen on television, then it didn't happen'
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Amityville Horror
A dream home on Long Island is not all it's cracked up to be: The family inside sees dead people.
The Animation Show 2005
This second incarnation of the Mike Judge- and Don Hertzfeldt-produced animation anthology is, if anything, even better than the first.
Chrystal
Billy Bob Thornton plays an Arkansas husband who attempts to redeem himself after critically injuring his wife and killing their son in a car accident four years earlier.
Dear Frankie
An ad hoc dad turns out to be far better than the real thing in this sentimental Scottish yarn.
The Fearless Freaks
Documentary about the band the Flaming Lips – the crazy/bizarre Oklahoma outfit that, despite itself, rose to national prominence.
arts & culture
The Stage Uncaged
How a performative open mic From Iowa became a theatrical springboard in Austin
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
In Memoriam: Boyd Vance
Boyd Vance, founder and director of Pro Arts Collective, acclaimed musical theatre performer, and leader in nurturing and promoting African-American arts for a quarter of a century, has died
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam: Mitch Hedberg
Stand-up comedy lost one of its most beloved and gifted talents with the March 30 passing of Mitch Hedberg
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Austin Arts Hall of Fame Class of 2005
The Austin Critics Table has named six inductees for the 2005 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Hi, Bob
Onetime Dr. Hartley Bob Newhart, still balding, still grinning, took a sold-out Paramount back to 1972 for just under an hour last Thursday
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Arts Reviews
Nickel and Dimed
The State Theater Company's 'Nickel and Dimed' makes Barbara Ehrenreich's book about the desperate plight of the working poor flesh and blood, immediate and urgent
'The Wheeler Brothers: Fresh' / 'The Wheeler Brothers: Now Even Fresher''
In two Austin exhibits, Lubbock's Wheeler brothers offer another tour of burger joints, dry landscapes, girls, advertising signs, and references to famous paintings – mostly of girls – in the Americana narrative of Wheelerville
columns
Page Two
'Sin City' may offer almost no suggestion of a moral substructure. But it insists there is morality, no matter how fragmented.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
About AIDS
How's your heart on HAART?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
The Oklahoma City Memorial and Ground Zero stir feelings of the dead calling on us to live
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Where, when, and with whom was Your Style Avatar seen and whom did he see? Hmmmmm? And what about the Pope? Or Prince Charles? Hmmmm?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Treatments and causes of asthma attacks
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Extension of time to file tax return
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The Stoneleigh Hotel in Dallas has all the charm you would expect from an old hotel
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Taxes on hats, boots, beehives, basements, chimneys, birth, souls, and beards
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin International Poetry Festival Humor Showcase
Ruta Maya, Saturday, April 16, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Attack of the killer soccer fans
