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Listening to the Bones
Bones tell a story at world's largest body farm
BY R.U. STEINBERG
'Chronicle' Endorsements
Primary Run-Off, April 8
Dem Convention: Turning Texas blue
Travis County Dems have the spirit, yes they do!
BY LEE NICHOLS AND RICHARD WHITTAKER
Obama Takes Convention and Texas
For now, anyway ...
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A Bloodcurdling Day in the Neighborhood: Candidates woo ANC
Candidates to ANC: Howdy, neighbor!
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Panetti Sane Enough to Die
U.S. District Court rules (again) on the mentally ill Texas inmate
BY JORDAN SMITH
Terrorism Hardens Austin
Austin learns what to do when terrorists – and acronyms – attack
BY MATT MARTINEZ
Rolling Rebellion at Capital Metro
Budget cuts threaten transit services for the disabled
BY JUSTIN WARD
Naked City
Reefer Madness
Medi-pot patient acquitted after 11-minute deliberation
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Following Ronnie
The next D.A. must meet a high standard
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Spring fever: Council members' minds adrift
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
FEMA Still at It; and A Library for Bush Groupies
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food-o-File
The James Beard Foundation and International Association of Culinary Professionals honor local cookbook authors
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week: Albariño
The climate in the province of Pontevedra produces delicious Spanish wine
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews
Cuisine de Cocktail at the Peacock
Join the Peacock the first Tuesday of each month for five-course dinner with cocktail pairings
music
Don't Look Back
Why the crush at the Hole in the Wall on Wednesdays?
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Kick It Off
Keith Richards never bought a Ricky Nelson album, only James Burton's LPs
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record
Threadgill's reopens its original location in historic fashion, Spoon gets remixed, and Neil Young's Greendale takes the stage
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
the Raconteurs
Consolers of the Lonely
Tony Trischka
Territory
the Breeders
Mountain Battles
Lionel Loueke
Karibu
Willie Nelson
One Hell of a Ride
Graveyard, Witch, Torche
Graveyard, Paralyzed, Meanderthal
screens
The Secret Lives of Girls
AFS Documentary Tour presents the six-part Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
His Dark Materials
David Gordon Green shines a light on love and loss in Snow Angels
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Road Warrior
Self-distributing Hell on Wheels
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The discussion of race in this country needs to continue, but who's going to do the talking?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Summer Palace
This Chinese film dramatizing the Tiananmen Square massacre earned the director a five-year ban from making movies
Film Reviews
Chicago 10
The trial that resulted from the demonstrations outside the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago were a media spectacle that is well-captured here.
The Grand
There's some truly hilarious material (though not nearly enough) in this partially improvised movie about characters competing in a Las Vegas championship poker tournament.
Leatherheads
George Clooney's latest (behind and in front of the camera) is awfully agreeable, but it lurches forward in fits and starts.
Nim's Island
This girls adventure story that stars Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, and Gerard Butler bears the reminder that we should all be the heroes of our own life stories.
One Two Three
A comedy of mistaken identities provides the plot of this new Bollywood comedy.
Planet B-Boy
The global revival of breakdancing is the subject of this documentary, which shows off the mad skillz of competitors around the world.
Shine a Light
The Rolling Stones gather no moss in this Martin Scorsese-directed concert film that's playing on both IMAX and conventional screens.
Snow Angels
Filmmaker David Gordon Green guides his cast, headed by Sam Rockwell and Kate Beckinsale, through a fumbling world of nursed grudges and blown opportunities.
Superhero Movie
Superhero Movie is a tonally confused spoof, which, for once, doesn't go far enough comedically.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
This Brazilian film is set against the twinned, opposing backdrops of the explosive 1970 World Cup and the human toll of the country's brutal military dictatorship.
arts & culture
Myth Steps
Trenton Doyle Hancock's mythic creatures rise from the canvas, with help from Stephen Mills and Graham Reynolds
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Crestview Wall of Welcome: Art bringing neighbors together
Neighbors cheered the dedication of the Wall of Welcome, a community mosaic five years in the making
BY KENDLE WADE
Charles Umlauf: One last sale for the city's sculptor
More than 100 works from the estate of an artist who embodied Austin are being offered for sale by his family
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Long Center: Opening was, in a word, grand
In artistry and style, the gala opening for the Long Center was an evening worthy of a facility 16 years in the making
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Matt & Ben
Naughty Austin's comedy doesn't provide deep insights into Damon or Affleck, but it's funny, with some darn fine acting
Spank Dance Company: Butoh
The dancers in this performance evoke nothing so much as machinelike armatures slowly, intermittently, gorgeously going haywire
Ewan Gibbs: Pictures of Pitchers
The eight drawings of baseball pitchers, all in the same balletic contortion, are all about the pleasure of looking
columns
Page Two: The Business of America
Solutions to the made-up immigration 'problem' would be an expansive and burdensome assault on both companies and individuals
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar is still squinting from all that glare from all those rocks at the Long Center opening
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Robb Kendrick is a successful photographer, lavender farmer, and avid day-tripper
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
It was a tale of two talented center midfielders at the Austin Aztex U-23 tryouts
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Plato was an amateur wrestler, NASCAR inspirers were amateur bootleggers, and the characters in Twin Peaks were amateur coffee addicts: 216 cups (to go with their 42 slices of pie)
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Tax Return – Can I Get an Extension?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: 15th Annual Louisiana Swamp Thing and Crawfish Festival
Bullock Texas State History Museum, Saturday, April 5, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Dynamo drop season opener, Man U steamrolling competition, and more