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The Dropout Problem
Not students, but teachers – AISD struggles to retain qualified educators
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
All Aboard for the Death Penalty Express
Republicans aim to kill federal appeals law
BY JORDAN SMITH
City Takes on Walgreens in National Birth-Control Battle
McCracken leads charge against 'moral objections' prescription refusals
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Weed Watch
Sensenbrenner aide gives bad, bullying legal advice ... and then vanishes
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Lege or Circus?
A lack of democracy turns education 'reform' into an unfunny joke
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Bushites squelch negative Central American labor conditions report; and sustainable food program teaches students more than they'll ever learn in a sterile classroom
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Bringing It All Back Home
Super Suppers, Dream Dinners, and the new family meal
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Food-o-File
Big changes for two local favorites; plus, Bistro le Marseillais, feeling and eating the heat, and more.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The 14th Floor
Austin's (and Corpus Christi's) other psych-era survivors
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
The Applicators apply themselves, inside the Bubble Empire, and more
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
MANIKIN
Texas Platters
Eliza Gilkyson
Paradise Hotel
The Sapphires
Live shot
Attack Formation
Somebody as Anybody
Comet
Feathers From the Wing EP
screens
By Example
The TFPF panelist screenings
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Festival Express
Summer's almost gone, which – with apologies to South by Southwest and Cine Las Americas – means Austin's film-festival season is about to get going
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Reigning Cat and Dog
John Kricfalusi, in town this weekend, on 'Ren & Stimpy's staying power.
BY KEN LIECK
Big 'EW' for the Alamo
Where does the theatre rank in 'EW's best of the best?
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
TV Eye
There's nothing like contemporary television to remind us how miserable we are
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Cop au Vin and Inspecteur Lavardin
In making its big move, the French New Wave was never about polarizing class, but that hasn't stopped some critics and contemporaries from all but labeling Claude Chabrol's work as bourgeois, processed, and better suited to the small screen
Film Reviews
Broken Flowers
Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray meditate on middle age and the world of possibilities.
Four Brothers
A scrappy Seventies throwback about vigilante justice in the corrupt urban jungle.
The Great Raid
The single dullest war film of the past decade from the once promising director John Dahl.
Last Days
Gus Van Sant concocts an abstruse film "loosely inspired" by the end of Kurt Cobain’s life.
Saraband
Ingmar Bergman’s final film continues his exploration into mankind’s willful inability to accept the inevitable, whatever that may be.
The Skeleton Key
A top-notch cast is mostly wasted in this atmospheric but prosaic hoodoo spooker.
arts & culture
Return to Clod-Cuckold-Land
Director David Yeakle revisits 'The Three Cuckolds,' the commedia classic that got his Tongue in Groove
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Fears of a Clown
Austin's newest theatre company serves up the musical tale of a very famous French clown suffering an existential crisis
BY BARRY PINEO
BA2BA
Ballet Austin to Big Apple
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The Heroes of Comedy boldly go to the 'Star Trek' Las Vegas Convention 2005, and Arthouse says, "We are family"
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
La Putain Avec Les Fleurs
A review of Roho Productions' "junk melodrama."
'The Retro Show'
Review of F8 Gallery's Retro Show
'Tina Medina's Pochismas'
Review of Tina Medina's 'Pochismas' at Women & Their Work
columns
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After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar weighs in on Daisy Duke, life's rich (Republican???) pageant(s), and the passing of a style great. Read on!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Doug's House: your help enables their help
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
If the mineral gallium is good for lame horses, as I have heard, is it also good for humans with joint problems?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Pro se divorce in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS AND LISA MCMORRIS
Day Trips
Reimers Ranch in southwestern Travis County is about to go the way of the Armadillo (World Headquarters)
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The first annual Auto Glass Industry Technician Olympics will be held Oct. 17-18, 2005, at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: The Monster Big Band
Ruta Maya, Sunday, August 14, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
The fall soccer season is already under way
