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news
The Showdown at Lick Creek
As once clear water runs dark, a community defends its natural heart
BY AMY SMITH
Charter School Earns an F
The Texas Academy of Excellence fails accounting (and ethics)
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Cut-Through City!
North Loop neighbors cry for help with a traffic nightmare
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Talented Tenth
Complaints arise over the Top 10% law – because it's working too well
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Free Money!
The city is broke, so why are we giving candy to corporate strangers?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Farmer David fights Monsanto Goliath; and it's not torture if Bush says it's not
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Water Tables
The 2004 lakeside dining guide
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Ice cream, part II
Food-o-File
Chili, chocolate, and peaches have V.B.W. in a summer swoon
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Steady as She Goes
Li'l Cap'n Travis humbles its way into Austin's musical heart
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
Pat Green's politics, Raul Alvarez's field of dreams, and Gibby Haynes' "Redneck Sex"
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
the Ponys
Laced With Romance
DKT / MC5
DKT/MC5
Paul Simon
The Studio Recordings 1972-2000
Dylan's Visions of Sin
Christopher Ricks
Brian Wilson
Getting' in Over My Head
DJ Shadow
In Tune and On Time: Live!
Rush
Rush's 30th Anniversary Tour
screens
Chick with Sticks
Austinite Vicki Howell hosts DIY's 'Knitty Gritty'
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Termite King
AMOA hosts Manny Farber at the Movies
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Party at Pedazo, Access granted awards, and 'Dear Pillow' living the dream: Read all about it all!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Trio tells the story of the N-word, and then Chuck D takes over
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
The Mother
From the director of Notting Hill comes this story about a middle-aged woman who reignites her sex life with a much younger man.
Spider-Man 2
Even superheroes have to do their own laundry in Sam Raimi's truly spectacular vision that combines human pathos and breathtaking action.
arts & culture
Talking Art at the Top
The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene
BY SAM MARTIN
Eastward (S)ho(w)!
The soon-to-be-built play! Theatre adds a seventh performing arts venue east of the interstate
BY ROBERT FAIRES
UT Joins Pioneering New Plays Initiative
The UT Department of Theatre & Dance will gain even more access to new drama through a new program from the Playwrights' Center
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Bits
Calling all artists for new Art in Public Places projects! Heather Barfield does England with Metamorphosex.
Arts Reviews
Time In
Taking inspiration from sports, Stillpoint Dance's Time In showed how to cope with the stress of jam-packed schedules
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
St. Edward's University has bravely undertaken Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and the show is, strangely, a good time
Midsummer Night's Renaissance
Conspirare's midsummer concert of choral works from the Renaissance provided yet another example of enchanting song by this local treasure
columns
Page Two
When Rush Limbaugh reinvented the blindly loyal conformist as a daring, oppressed, truth-seeking revolutionary, he also re-created the mainstream in his image
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Queer Eye for the Austin Guy
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Souls saved, bulletproof vests and suspension bridges made from goat's milk, and gluttonous lighting
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
The benefits of MicroLactin in treating osteoarthritis
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Personal liability for nonprofit directors
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center offers visitors a chance to see 1,000 exotic, threatened, and endangered animals in a free-range setting
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Congress should fully fund meds program
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Salute to Linklater
Paramount Theatre, Friday, July 2, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Four no more, Euro braces for the big show
