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The Memories of the Long-Distance Runner
After surviving a holocaust, Gilbert Tuhabonye runs through life to tell his tale
BY RITA RADOSTITZ
MAY 7, 2005 ELECTION COVERAGE
Doughnuts No More!
Election statistics, maps, and analysis
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Smoking Ban
Supporters breathe easy, opponents smolder
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Place 3
Margot Clarke will face Jennifer Kim in a June 11 run-off
Place 4
Betty Dunkerley waxed her most critical opponent by a margin as wide as the South Austin sky
Place 1
Leffingwell celebrates bittersweet victory
BY AMY SMITH
Election Notes
Austin Community College annexation and Round Rock ISD school board elections
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
The Odd Case of Pinetree v. Corndog
An Austinite defends his product as parody
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
MAY 7, 2005 ELECTION COVERAGE
Point Austin: Saturday Smoke Signals
Place 3 surprises, while the rest of the vote follows the program
BY MICHAEL KING
Who's Taking Who?
The inside game of the 'property rights' legislation reveals the usual suspects
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Making America dependent on domestic oil instead of focusing on conservation and renewable fuels is an ass-backward energy policy; and the ridiculous notion that we should treat corporations like living beings
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Lavender Love
Blanco celebrates its essence with a brand-new festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
More lavender pleasures; plus, auctions, lectures, demos, and benefits
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Le Soleil
The vast majority of the customers are Vietnamese, which is something we love to see
El Borrego de Oro No. 2
El Borrego de Oro No. 1 is in Red Rock, halfway between Lockhart and Bastrop, but from the tastes at unit dos, we would have expected it to be somewhere deep in Mexico
music
Cured HAAM
Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is now served
BY MATT DENTLER
TCB
The smoking ban passes, and Austin falls down the rabbit hole – only to find Ms. 'White Rabbit' herself already there
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
MANIKIN
Texas Platters
Spoon
Gimme Fiction
My Education, the Bright & Hollow Sky
My Education, Bright & Hollow Sky
Sally Crew & the Sudden Moves
Shortly After Take-Off
Single Frame
Body / End / Basement
The Deathray Davies
The Kick and the Snare
Small Stars
8 Stereo 8
Mike Jones
Who is Mike Jones?
Paul Newman
This Is How It Is Lost
King Tears
Rope Chair Needle
Ed Miller's, Sarah Dinan, the Blaggards, Jolly Garogers
Generations of Change, From the Ashes, Standards, Lost at C Flat Sharp
Robert Earl Keen
What I Really Mean
South Filthy, Manikin, Yuppie Pricks, Single Frame, I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
Crackin' Up, M.4, Stock Market, The Vinyl Disaster Mixes, "According to Plan" b/w "Thoughts on the Floor"
Lucinda Williams
Live at the Fillmore
Rick Broussard's Two Hoots & a Holler, Rick Broussard's Two Hoots & a Holler
Rick Broussard's Two Hoots and a Holler, Songs Our Vinyl Taught Us
screens
NY (Heart) TFF
A report from the fourth annual Tribeca Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film News
Linklater maps out our 'Fast Food Nation'; plus, Andrew Shapter, Dante James, and a Mitchum among us
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
I'm not an expert on American Idol, but I play one on TV
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Best of Flicker Austin: Volume 2
You have to wonder about some of these people
Film Reviews
Kicking & Screaming
Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, and Mike Ditka all appear together in a film that sings the praises of kids soccer and caffeine addiction.
Look at Me
An acute observation of the ways in which we fail to communicate marks this French film, which won the screenwriting award at last year's Cannes Film Festival.
Memories of Murder
This Korean cop film is based on the country's first real serial-killer case in 1986, a case that flummoxed the police along with everyone else.
Mindhunters
In this stale thriller, young FBI profilers have a hard time figuring out who is picking them off, one by one.
Monster-in-Law
This banal and lukewarm slice of romantic comedy is as soft and ephemeral as any colorized Ted Turner outing.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
Well-considered, beautifully made, and often gripping in its narrative, this film examines a man's complex relationship with a flock of wild parrots.
arts & culture
Dancing Through Uncharted Territory
Choreographic explorers Sharir & Bustamante and their 20-year expedition of discovery
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Violet Crown Treasures
Pollyanna Theatre Company's new play brings together two of Austin's most exceptional artists and women
BY DAN DIETZ
Mothers & Fathers
Bill Cosby rang up Mother's Day at Bass Concert Hall with a real cell phone call to an audience member's offspring among two PAC-shaking hours of familial riffing via the vantage point of parent- and grandparenthood
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Planet Plan It
You can help plan the arts' future in downtown Austin's extreme makeover at a Community Charrette on May 14
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Art in Public Places sets a fingerprint at the forensics lab, and Austin theatre is all over the map – of the U.S.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Wonder Bread Years
Pat Hazell's 'The Wonder Bread Years,' his solo comic riff on growing up as a kid in the Sixties, touches the late-generation baby boomer in all of us
'Photographs by Stephanie Routh'
The photographs that Stephanie Routh is exhibiting at Manuel's discreetly document daily activities in Mexico – except for one
columns
Page Two
Once again, Austin has demonstrated its deep indifference to front-line troops who nourish the music scene it purports to be so proud of
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
As the semester begins, I present my high school seniors with the words of our great American authors and hope they provide a road map or the bread crumbs that can lead them through the journey of their lives
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen does drag in cartwheels or cartwheels in drag... you'll have to read to figure it out
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Major decision: Choosing the right doc!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
What is the rationale for the blood type diet for weight loss?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Dead hair and Nixon's psychic
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Quanah Parker walked the stony road from nomadic Plains Indian to successful cattle rancher
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Bikes Across Borders Light Up Your Bike Night Ride and Vigil
Zilker Park, Friday, May 13, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
European season draws to a close
