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features
Summer Camp Guide
BY NORA ANKRUM AND WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
news
Are the Waters Rising at Bouldin Creek?
New FEMA floodplain maps raise neighborhood questions about proposed developments
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Finley Murder Mystery Unravels
After more than a month of searching for the aspiring singer / songwriter, sheriff's investigators charge victim's aunt and uncle with her murder
BY JORDAN SMITH
Scotty Needs Our Help!
Check it out! Austin High alum dispatches spazzy SOS (Save Our Scotty?) for GWB's former press sec!
BY KEVIN BRASS
Ghost Taxpayers
Despite what you may have heard from anti-immigration types about foreign freeloaders taking our jobs and our services without chipping into the national kitty, an increasing number of undocumented immigrants pay taxes.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Endorsements
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
On The Lege
Big Tobacco, poor smokers gain temporary reprieve, and other tax politics news
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: Hot Topics
The hot air season is upon us – and everybody's an energy source
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Green Water's move to Guerrero Park will officially die today.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
An Explosive New Politics; and Sports Brandalism
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Garden of Delights
Korea Garden's tempting menu is best tested one dish at a time, and most pass with flying colors
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-file
Awards, accolades, and openings give Austin something to celebrate
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Cleopatra Mediterranean Restaurant
Te drab-looking building off of I-35 that formerly housed an insurance company has been transformed by friendly Jordanian owners into a casual Middle Eastern eatery
Maria and Málaga
A world-renowned wine master and her chef show what Spain is made of.
music
Tell It Like It Is
Cyril Neville holds nothing back
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
TCB
Rap's rise at the Back Room, Mother Truckers take over South Congress, Austin film crew documents the tenuous fate of New Orleans and Jazzfest, and a year's worth of sexy local ladies
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
New Orleans Social Club
Sing Me Back Home
Black Joe Lewis, Sue Foley, Lightning Red, Gary Primich, various artists
Black Joe Lewis, New Used Car, A Long Way Home, Ridin' the Darkhorse, Texas Harmoica Rumble
Ian McLagan & the Bump Band
Spiritual Boy
Daniel Francis Doyle
Who Are Your Customers?
screens
Rebel Radio
Four guys, six 'Star Wars' films, and endless possibilities
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Open Festival Season
Taking aim at Banff and Blowin' Up a Spot
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Print
'Screenwriters' Masterclass'
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
A Look Back
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Zu Warriors
Tsui Hark's wide-screen riot of color, movement, and sound
Film Reviews
Akeelah and the Bee
This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if sometimes unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.
Film Geek
Unfortunately, this low-budget portrait of a socially inept film-store geek is annoyingly two-dimensional, and the film's paper-thin plot and flat jokes don't help either.
Hard Candy
Metaphorically speaking, Little Red Riding Hood eats Humbert Humbert in this story of an online predator and his jailbait, gamine prey.
Lonesome Jim
Steve Buscemi directs this story about a lovable loser who moves back in with his off-kilter family in Indiana.
The Sentinel
This serviceable action thriller disintegrates into an implausible mess that's barely salvaged by the presence of old pros like Michael Douglas and Kim Basinger
Silent Hill
Eerie but ultimately unengaging film adaptation of Konami's smash series of video games has a pitch-perfect score and unnervingly nightmarish imagery.
Stick It
Bring It On's scribe Jessica Bendinger writes and directs this teen movie set in the world of competitive gymnastics, and features leotard-clad girls who learn to stick together to fight injustice.
United 93
United 93 is a sober, humanistic portrait of America’s literal “first responders,” who in an instant were forced to wrap their heads around a new, unfathomable reality.
arts & culture
Finishing Touches
On the eve of its long-awaited grand opening, UT's Blanton Museum gets its art in the right place
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Repressed Burial Fantasy
Eastside gallery Okay Mountain opens strong with "Repressed Burial Fantasy," featuring new works by Jason Villegas that gently remind us we are all meat for a bigger creature at some point
BY RACHEL KOPER
Luminocity
With a program of large-scale video installations called Luminocity, some UT students are turning buildings, walkways, walls, and alleys into movie screens
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Conspirare
For Austin's sterling choral ensemble Conspirare, the first few months of 2006 has seen concerts here and far away and the release of a new and most comforting CD
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Decameron Day 7: REVENGE!
The Rude Mechs' 'Decameron Day 7:REVENGE!' is a meditation on vengeance refracted through the lens of ghost stories, how-to guides, 'Star Wars,' and soap operas
The Exonerated
In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center staging of 'The Exonerated,' tales of people wrongfully imprisoned on death row draw us deeply into a world of injustice
'Hank Waddell: Tree Bones'
The brightly painted dead or decaying limbs in Hank Waddell's exhibit 'Tree Bones 'draws viewers' attention to the effect people have on the health of the environment
'Testsite 06.1 ~ The Burden of Decision: Two Exercises in Collaboration'
'Testsite 06.1 ~ The Burden of Decision' is an investigation of artistic collaboration with a strong current of Freudian repression and struggle running below the surface
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Letters at 3AM
Three fronts of transformative change in U.S. society: the allowance of Christian proselytizing in the U.S. Air Force Academy, Halliburton's receipt of government contracts to build detention centers for Homeland Security, and the rise of the Latino electorate
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen trips the bright lights (big titties) fantastic!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Why are those sticky labels on fruits and veggies, and are they harmful if swallowed?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Common Questions About Deferred Adjudication
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The nine li'l cabins of the Blanco Settlement offer rocking chairs, Frisbee golf, and a Jacuzzi among other amenities for your vacationing pleasure
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Res Inexplicata Volans, chocolate milk
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Eeyore’s 43rd Annual Birthday Party
Pease Park, Saturday, April 29, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Arsenal and Barcelona take Europe; and West Ham faces Mersey boys