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Shake Yo Rump-ah!
Photographer Will Van Overbeek goes back to school for prom and finds a whole lotta shakin' goin' on.
Little Athletes, Big Dreams
Austin's youth sports boom is young athletes, big competition – and big money
BY BILL CRAWFORD
You Are There!
The bottom of the barrel isn't low enough for local TV news
BY KEVIN BRASS
Keel's Firestorm
A bill that critics charged would have increased the pace of Texas executions dies and takes a judicial pay raise bill down with it
BY JORDAN SMITH
Change Ain't Easy
County reluctant to rename courthouse
BY CHERYL SMITH
Dumping on Del Valle
Residents wary of waste processing site
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
High School by Redesign
Garza Independence High School students get involved with plans to rework local high schools
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Point Austin: Playing the Numbers
A farewell to faithful servants, and a preliminary look at the city's priorities
BY MICHAEL KING
Small Victories
The Travis Co. Lege delegation closed shop with a few achievements
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Norquist disowns stinky pal; and forget about a living wage
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Icing the Batter Electric
Cake decorators both professional and passionately amateur prep for local competition
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Beau Theriot has got the Oasis back on track; plus, grillin', tea, 'The Future of Food,' and Roy's recipes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Almost Grown
Ana Egge and Adam Carroll reflect over their songwriting adolescence
BY JIM CALIGIURI
TCB
Choosing Darkness, a Chairman, and the much-appreciated new air-conditioning at Emo's
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Audioslave
Out of Exile
Marc Bolan & T. Rex
Born to Boogie
Kansas City Jazz
Frank Driggs and Chuck Haddix
Quasimoto
The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
screens
Tween Titans
The adventures of Taylor Lautner and Taylor Dooley (Sharkboy and Lavagirl, respectively), in conversation
BY MARC SAVLOV
Stay Sweet, BFF, KIT
'Freaks and Geeks' fans and their bittersweet assembly at the Alamo
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Film News
Rodriguez and Q.T. go back to the grind; plus, 'Screen Door Jesus,' back to Sundance, and all kinds of opportunities to get involved
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
This ain't your grandma's antiques show
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Heaven Can Wait
Ernst Lubitsch's first effort in Technicolor shimmers like Champagne in crystal: all bubbles, trifles, and blithe sophistication
Film Reviews
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D
Robert Rodriguez adds a dimension with this kids fantasy movie, but only in the most literal sense – 3-D.
High Tension
A gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.
The Honeymooners
Instead of reworking the original TV show’s subject matter regarding class and marriage, this is plodding mimicry featuring a predominantly African-American cast.
It's All Gone Pete Tong
A superstar DJ goes deaf in Ibeza in this mockumentary that observes his process of coping.
Lords of Dogtown
This narrative re-creation of the skateboarding doc Dogtown and Z-Boys is a blast, as accurate as it ought to be with more than enough mythology and gut thrills thrown in for good measure.
Mondovino
Sprawling documentary about the globalization of the wine industry is ambitious but frequently directionless – for true connoisseurs only.
Rock School
More than his Philadelphia school of rock, it's blustery instructor Paul Green who becomes the true subject of this documentary.
arts & culture
May I Have the Envelope, Please?
The 2004-2005 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Conference Confluence
Austin hosts not one, but two national conferences on the arts the same weekend in June
BY ROBERT FAIRES
It Is Easy Being Green
Rather than make you puzzle out for yourself what environmental art is, Austin Green Art is hosting a summerlong, citywide exhibition that shows you what it is
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Benefits help a playwright pay off medical bills and a dance company keep dancing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
2005 Soul to Sole Festival Concert
The continuum of tap from 1930s elegance to today's stomping rhythm pulsed in the concert concluding Tapestry Dance Company's 2005 Soul to Sole Festival
''Figure It Out 2005': George Lopez'
Irrational and impotent posturing distinguishes the figures in the drawings that George Lopez is exhibiting in the Eastside Art Palace's "Figure It Out."
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Rupert Holmes' adaptation of 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' has more to do with Victorian music hall entertainment than Dickensian literature – and is all the more engaging for it
columns
Page Two
The artistic genius of 79-year-old cinematographer Haskell Wexler is only the beginning of his story; the passion and eloquence of his lifelong political commitment stand equal to his cinematic achievements
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
We take cars for granted, yet people have been living like this only a short time, and, when this era exhausts itself, people may never live like this again. What will they think of us, I wonder.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Are you languishing in one of 'The Stages of Self-Acceptance for Gay Men'? Let Uncle Stephen guide you through.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
For HIV-positive people, a few simple precautions can make trips safer and more fun
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Is an annual DEXA test enough to assure that I won't ever develop osteoporosis?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Copyright – registering a copyright & 'poor man's copyright'
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Next year the United States will spend as much on defense as the rest of the world combined
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge encompasses a rare island of native grassland and its natural occupants
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: The Intergalactic Nemesis: Twin Infinity
The Off Center, Friday, June 10, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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