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features
Gay Place
The Gay Place gets all extended re-mix for SXSW, with interviews, chats, pics, blog entries, and more.
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
news
Who Killed Porter Middle School?
The evidence points to George W. Bush. But he wasn't alone.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
March 6 Primary Report
Eckhardt dethrones Sonleitner, fundamentalists duke it out with public education, and more
Return of the White Woman Dem
After 4-year drought, Donna Howard's swearing in signals Legislative return of rare species in Texas politics
BY AMY SMITH
McMansion or Not?
The Austin Chronicle's Am I McMansion or Not? Contest: Win a Cosmetic Shade Tree
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
Point Austin: Supremes v. Texas
The future of U.S. politics may become, "Vote for Show, Map for Dough"
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
City Council takes up arms and definitions over the charter amendments
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Rise of the Imperial Presidency; and What Color is Your Steak?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Good to Go
Taco Bell is for suckers. This town's taquerias are for SXSWers.
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
A new little lady in the Big Apple, a new gelato shop, and a new chef in town: all in a week's food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
I Am the Resurrection
Ignore Jim Morrison - do not cancel your subscription to the resurrection, because Roky Erickson is Lazarus unbound.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
The Blurbing of SXSW 06
TCB
Parsing the posters at SXSW's Flatstock show. Also gay cowboys, sex tapes, and Oscar-winning pimps: TCB classes it up.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW Records
Belle & Sebastian
The Life Pursuit
the M's
Future Women
Irving
Death in the Garden Blood on the Flowers (Eenie Meenie)
Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3
... Tick ... Tick ... Tick
James Talley
Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, but We Sure Got a Lot of Love
Beth Orton
Comfort of Strangers
Low Skies
All the Love I Could Find
Voxtrot
Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives EP
Mogwai
Mr. Beast
Gogogo Airheart
Rats! Sing! Sing!
Wesley Coleman
Cash Flow
the Czars
Goodbye
Gris Gris
For the Season
screens
SXSW FILM
SXSW Film 06
March 10-18
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The Home School
Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Ana Sisnett
Celebrated author, visual artist, and community activist / volunteer diagnosed with ovarian cancer
BY KATE X MESSER
SXSW FILM
Pablo Veliz
'La Tragedia de Macario'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Mike Henry and Kyle Fuller
'Slam Planet: War of the Words'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Frank Bustoz and Ryan Polomski
'State vs. Reed'
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Intelligent Briefing
In 'Nobelity,' nine Nobel laureates offer straight talk on the planet's future
BY ROBERT FAIRES
New Territory
Documentarian James Marsh's first narrative effort, 'The King,' is a dark one
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Kar Gawk
Ron Mann's adventurous RIP for hotrod artist and icon Ed Roth
BY MARC SAVLOV
Sound Checking for a Pulse, and Finding It
The rock docs in this year's 24 Beats Per Second program rattle and hum with soul and revolt.
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Buzz Kill
Director Kelly Reichardt's keeping quiet on the darling of Sundance and Rotterdam
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
What Hath Eagle Wrought?
After the smoke cleared, 'The Whole Shootin' Match' helped give rise to the contemporary indie
BY LOUIS BLACK
See What They Do to You
How Jonathan Demme and Neil Young made a film about a concert attended by spirits
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The Perfect Ride
John Hyams' ode to rodeo stays on for a surprising 5,760 seconds
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The Notorious Irving Klaw
My grandfather's photography studio made him rich and Bettie Page famous. It also made him into a target for Fifties censors. So, what has director Mary Harron made of him?
BY RICK KLAW
I'll Sleep When I Figure Out Why I Can't
Analyzing Alan Berliner's most personal documentary yet
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Searcher
Wim Wenders on his sense of the right direction
BY DIANA WELCH
Hello Mother, Hello Father
'51 Birch Street'
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Are You There, God?
'Eve and the Fire Horse'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
TransAmericans Behind Bars
'Cruel and Unusual'
BY KATE X MESSER
Animal Magnetism
'Lifelike'
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Open Up – It's the Filmmakers!
Kirby Dick raids the MPAA
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Recognizables
One night, one of a kind
BY STEVE UHLER
Panelism
SXSW Film 2006
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Embrace Your Wipe-Assness
Trolling SXSW Interactive 2006
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Gettin' Wiffy With It
The blogged, branded, and dooced at SXSW Interactive 2006
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Film News
The Sundance Channel and NetFlix make 'Room' for Kyle Henry
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
The deconstructed Negro
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Failure to Launch
This date movie is dude-friendly by design, but all its attention to hairdos and cute outfits does not make up for its lack of romantic spark.
Gay Sex in the 70s
Little more than a series of interviews with those who survived those times, interspersed with titillating soft-core clips from the archives, this documentary offers a sympathetic perspective of the post-Stonewall sexual liberation years in New York City.
The Hills Have Eyes
This remake ratchets up the gore while subtly rewiring some of the characters, but it never manages the nagging subtexts Craven so handily injected into the original horror film.
The Libertine
Johnny Depp runs away with the show in this murkily filmed picture, cackling all the while and defiling beauty in all its forms as the exceedingly decadent Earl of Rochester.
Private
This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.
The Shaggy Dog
There are precious few surprises here, but this breezy remake starring Tim Allen is a painless affair.
Ultraviolet
In an opening voiceover, a superhuman killing machine warns, “I was born into a world you may not understand.” Boy hidee, she ain’t kidding, and fully 88 minutes later, that world is still pocked with incomprehensibility.
Why We Fight
Jarecki’s canny and somewhat overwhelming documentary paints a grim historical picture of war profiteering run amok.
arts & culture
Improvising Every Second
The secret history of Austin Circle of Theaters director Latifah Taormina, from Second City to the Committee and beyond
BY LOWELL BARTHOLOMEE
'Where Are They Now?'
Cyndi Williams is living a playwright's dream with her play 'Where Are They Now?,' which is being staged for the third time in 15 months
BY BARRY PINEO
'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel'
In 'Greyhounds and Other Virtual Ways to Travel,' choreographer Ellen Bartel creates three dances exploring the idea of how we travel without moving
BY BARRY PINEO
Culture Flash!
American Fiesta makes the finals of a national new play award, the Rude Mechs get their Gun from Creative Capital, and Katalin Hausel lands the Umlauf Prize
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Gary Grinkle's Battles With Wrinkles And Other Troubles In Mudgeville
Watching Second Youth Family Theatre's visually delicious theatrical confection 'Gary Grinkle's Battles With Wrinkles and Other Troubles in Mudgeville' is like seeing a children's book come to life
'Terrain: New Paintings by Shawn Camp'
Artist Shawn Camp's latest works are topographical and aerial in theme, emphasizing swirls of grasslands and rivulets, clouds and stars
columns
Page Two: Aww, Canada ...
At last, a magical confluence of ice hockey, Neil Young, and SXSW 2006
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
It's hard out here for a Style Avatar, especially after all those DHOHs at the Oscars!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is there a good and cheap way to judge the nutritional content of fruit?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Does McMansion Ordinance affect home remodels?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Take the Texas music heritage tour and learn more about Texas' homegrown talent, such as Bob Wills, Buddy Holly, and more
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Def Leppard keeps good company, Toxoplasma runs rampant, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Film Screening of Darkon
Austin Convention Center, Saturday, March 11, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Fútbol fun from near and far-flung places