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How Green Is the Music?
Festivals, bands, and musicians seek environmental harmony
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Sen. Dan Patrick: State Theologian
Blowhard legislator from Houston insists he's just misunderstood
BY AMY SMITH
School Board Election Preview
Race to fill District 2 spot on AISD board of trustees promises to be highly contested, with four candidates vying for empty seat left by board's longest-serving member, Rudy Montoya
BY JUSTIN WARD
What's Next for Bankrupt SOS?
Staff says life will go on, but tactics may change
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Rafting the Great Waller
Outdoorsman envisions converting sluggish creek into hardcore white-water rafting rapids
BY WELLS DUNBAR
A Stroll Along Waller Creek
Photo feature
Naked City
On the Lege
Tired arguments and middle-aged men set anti-woman agenda
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: How Are We Managing?
Targeting city manager may be hunting the wrong game
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Just one word: canvas
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Circuit City's 'Wage Management' Scam; and Tell FDA What You Think!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
New & Noteworthy
Connie Rodriguez expands her catering business for eat-in or takeout
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-o-File
New restaurants and foodstuffs: It's enough to drive a man to a larger belt
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
April 19-26
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Liquid Assets
Broker's Gin
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews
Lamberts
Upscale barbecue in an Austin landmark
Uncle Boudreaux's
There's a pot of gumbo waiting for you
music
The Great Pyramid
Bill Callahan can see clearly now
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
The B-Side
Old Settler's Fest digs in as Okkervil River's Will Sheff digs out, and Marijuana Law for Musicians tokes on
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Bill Callahan Reviewed
Bill Callahan
Woke on a Whaleheart
Peter Stopschinski
Chamber Music
Attack Formation
We Are Alive in Tune
Lush Logic, Ohn, Loren Dent
Funky Down Tronic, Revolutionary Revolution, Empires and Milk
Shearwater
Palo Santo [Expanded Edition]
The Biscuit Brothers
Old MacDonald's EIEI Radio
the Ugly Beats
Take a Stand
Tee Double
The Return of the Artform
David Newbould
Big Red Sun
Nathan Singleton & His Sideshow Tragedy
Borrowed Guitars, Unwound Hearts, and Broken Strings
Gurf Morlix
Diamonds to Dust
Steve Bedunah
Plug It in and Play
Robert Gomez
Brand New Towns
Gulf of Mexico
Rooms You've Never Seen Before
Red Leaves
Disposable Parts
Damesviolet
Upside Down
LeBlanc
This Is Me
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
Four Songs:530 Seconds of Pleasure
Rivercity Seven
Eve
the Small Stars
Tijuana Dreams
Stealth Utd
Rational Anthem
Stickpony
Head First Through the Sound
screens
Travelogue
Cine las Americas goes around the world in seven days
The Bonds of Filth
The boys behind Hot Fuzz dish the dirt
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Who's in Charge?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Overlord
Overlord
Film Reviews
Avenue Montaigne
A young Frenchwoman moves to Paris from with nothing but the knapsack on her back and the innocent gleam in her eye.
Everything's Gone Green
In this amusing film based on a screenplay by Douglas Coupland, a 29-year-old contemplates life’s purpose and the meaning of “winning.”
First Snow
A moody thriller that tries to thumb its nose at fatalism, First Snow features another great performance from Guy Pearce.
Fracture
This legal thriller pits two brilliant actors against each other in a sustained battle of wills that has enough sizzle to keep us rapt even when the storyline sags.
Hot Fuzz
Simultaneously smart and silly, Hot Fuzz demonstrates that it's not necessary to be a buffoon in order to lampoon.
In the Land of Women
Adam Brody stars in this movie, which also features Kristen Stewart and Meg Ryan, as a young man creeping toward adulthood.
Mafioso
This genius Italian comedy from 1962 has been plucked from obscurity and given a sparkling new cleanup job.
Pathfinder
A Viking movie with this many graphic decapitations shouldn't be such a bore.
Perfect Stranger
The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.
Redline
Redline dives headfirst into onanistic autoeroticism, but this exotic-car movie feels ill-lubed and mechanical all the way.
Slow Burn
Slow Burn – starring Ray Liotta, LL Cool J, and Mekhi Phifer – becomes one of those movies that’s so bad, it’s almost entertaining. Almost.
The Tripper
David Arquette directs this horror film in which a Ronald Reagan-obsessed serial killer targets a bunch of hippies.
arts & culture
The Music Is Pretty Much Incessant
P. Kellach Waddle, the River City's 'educated hillbilly,' composes himself a life
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Fuse Box: Now with more electricity
The newly expanded Fuse Box Festival continues to shower sparks across Austin, with the second week packing in even more new dance, theatre, screenings, bands, and art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Arts Hall of Fame: Class of 2007
The Austin Critics Table has named the sixth group of individuals to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'floodlines': Hyde Park again awash in wonders
This Sunday, when Jaclyn Pryor's floodlines is presented again, the Hyde Park neighborhood will be abloom with mystery and have wonders wending their way down its streets
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Harry Ransom Center: They f**king scored the f**king Mamet papers
UT's Ransom Center – which has long held to the motto, 'Always be closing' – has acquired the archives of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ah, Wilderness!
Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, is given a lavish treatment at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre, resulting in a dream production full of bright, endearing charm
Kafka's Dick
Somewhere between Alan Bennett's strictly surface script and Lisa Scheps' direction, the Coda Project's production of Kafka's Dick falls flat
'The Geometry of Hope'
'The Geometry of Hope' at the Blanton Museum of Art provides a survey of abstract art in Latin America over the 20th century, segmented into chapters by cities and decades
columns
Page Two: All in the Family
Debunking the hippie Mafia theory, and starting to say goodbye to Rollo Banks
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our latest batch
After a Fashion
Celebrity sightings and Cheaters revisited
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is an excellent place for birders and nature lovers to soak in the beauty of the great outdoors
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
Choice of Small-Business Entity
BY MEGHAN GRIFFITHS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Lenin'd last words, the derivation of skiddoo, and Wikipedia gets more cred than the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Reggae Fest
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, April 21, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Manchester United and Chelsea on track for a series of showdowns, and more
