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FEMA's Flood Tide
One stroke forward, two strokes back – hurricane victims tread rising bureaucratic waters
BY CHERYL SMITH
Bentzin's Tangled Web of Backers
An elite crew of critters helped bankroll Bentzin's unsuccessful, half-million dollar District 48 campaign
BY AMY SMITH
APD's Michael Clark Video
Footage documents events that led to Michael Clark's death
BY JORDAN SMITH
Endorsements
Democratic and Republican Primaries, March 7
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: See You in Court
This week the Supremes consider the curious habits of
Texas politicians
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point: Council's Best Friends
Austin is a dog's - not to mention city manager's - town.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Where's the President; and exxpose Exxon
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Who Is Mandy?
The author hopes that history – so cruel to African-American women in the kitchen – can help breathe real life into a 19th-century portrait
BY TONI TIPTON-MARTIN
Food-o-File
James Holmes and Cristina Koester start one project before finishing another, and Manor Road's many changes.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Lone Star
Another man in black: Kris Kristofferson
BY ANDY LANGER
SXSW International Bands
From Yugoslavia to Plutonia, here come SXSW's International bands armada.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Phases & Stages
Live shot
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
TCB
Finally, some SXSW wristband info – act fast! – and a rare Doug Sahm film appearance hits DVD. Elsewhere, Charles Attal and 'Misprint' magazine add to their local legends.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Dozer, Burst, In Flames, Chimaira, Tone, Explosions in the Sky, Testament, Lamb of God's, Mastodon, Mastodon
Through the Eyes of Heathens, Origo, Come Clarity, Chimaira, The Rescue, Solidarity, Live in London, Killadelphia, Call of the Mastodon, The Workhorse Chronicles
Cat Power
The Greatest
various
I Am the Ressurrection: A Tribute to John Fahey
screens
It's All About Respect
The Texas Puppetry Festival
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
In with old, in with the new
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Kind Hearts and Coronets
If comedy is a dish best served black, Kind Hearts and Coronets is beluga caviar marinated in its own ink.
Film Reviews
After Innocence
This documentary raises staggering questions about virtually every aspect of the criminal-justice system as it follows what happens to several convicts who have been exonerated by DNA evidence submitted by the Innocence Project.
Date Movie
What's left to spoof? Why, romance movies, of course.
Les Saignantes
This Cameroonian-French science fiction satire with Godardian influences is as fascinating as it is obscure.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.
arts & culture
A Dream Pursued
The Young Eight is showing the world of classical music what it means to be young, gifted, and black
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Murals
Two new murals that made their debuts in February reveal the pride of the Southside
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Aisle 7
UT MFA playwright Kendall Lynch has a plan for stocking the set of her new play set in a grocery store: Get the audience involved
BY ROBERT FAIRES
On the Funding Front
New funding helps the Blanton get wired and kids at Zach and KHDC get inspired
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Shostakovich 100
The year-long celebration Shostakovich 100 continues, and here's where to get your fix of the Russian composer's music through the rest of this winter
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Human Interest Story
In 'A Human Interest Story,' the dirigo group shows us a world lighted only by the dim glow of television, which makes us aware how much is lost in the dark
Antigone
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's 'Antigone' opens in riveting fashion, but its clever 1960s concept ultimately doesn't plumb the depths of this Greek tragedy
'Pulse: Oscar Riquelme'
Oscar Riquelme's paintings in the exhibition 'Pulse' are attractive, accessible, well composed, and layered in subtle politics
columns
Page Two: Shock Therapy
Shock Therapy: Texans need to hear the truth about taxes
and toll roads
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen returns to high school and the runway; Kate goes to Lo-Fi
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Information on and how to treat Guillain-Barre syndrome
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Revoking a will under Texas law
BY CARL BARRY
Day Trips
Kactus Korral Inc., is one of the largest wholesalers of
indoor succulents and cactus in the country
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The MGM Grand is indeed grand, and cancer-sniffing dogs
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Asylum Street Spankers DVD Release Party
Ruta Maya, Friday, February 24, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Houston's new MLS club visits Round Rock to face Real Salt Lake, and more
