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Here Today, There Tomorrow
Austin ISD Schools grapple with high student turnover
– and all its consequences
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Racial Profiling Data Illuminating, yet Inconclusive
The nation's most comprehensive study to date
shows a pattern suggesting profiling, but reporting
methods need more uniformity
BY JORDAN SMITH
More to Education Than Test Preparation
Austin Interfaith asks AISD to de-emphasize
standardized testing
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Police Officers Burned by Comments
Cops punished after cheering the fire that burned
nightclub
BY JORDAN SMITH
Austin to Vote Smoke-Free?
Anti-smoking ordinance lands on May 7 ballot
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
No More Juvie Executions
The Supreme Court's ban on executing kids has
repercussions all the way back to Austin
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Point Austin: High Tuition
As the centex toll plan moves forward, Austin
becomes a reluctant stepchild
BY MICHAEL KING
So What – Now?
The TRMPAC trial concludes, as the fight continues
over the 2002 Lege races
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Bush wants to deplete your Social Security;
ChoicePoint may have helped deplete your bank
account
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Chuck It
We're so hungry we could eat just about everything served up at and around the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo
What to Read on How to Become a Cookie
Food-o-File
Mangia in the movies, Living Foods & Juice at Whole Foods, and Italy in Austin
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Not Fade Away
The 2004 / 05 Austin Music Awards. In a word, roots.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Blurbing the first night of
SXSW music
Songs of Pain Was Not in Vain
The day a skinny young kid named Daniel Johnston
came shuffling to the back door of the 'Chronicle'
BY LOUIS BLACK
TCB
Bracing for SXSW, hailing the Dicks, avoiding the cow
pies
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW Records
A-Frames
Black Forest
Shooter Jennings, Holly Williams, Rodney Crowell, Tony Joe White
Put the O Back in Country, The Ones We Never Knew, the Outsider, The Heroines
Hubert Sumlin
About Them Shoes
Scott Biram
The Dirty Old One Man Band
screens
SXSW FILM
The Movies That Matter
An interview with Killer Films producer Christine
Vachon
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Land of Plenty Time
The fifth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
BY MARGARET MOSER
I Live My Broken Dreams
This year's rock docs examine the 'outsider myth' and
more among the likes of Daniel Johnston, Townes
Van Zandt, and Wild Man Fischer
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
The Enron Autopsy
Alex Gibney on The Smartest Guys in the Room'
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
We Interrupt This Program
Don't go trying to see any films until you read this
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
This Is a Love Story
Back and forth with Tood Solondz on his new film,
'Palindromes'
BY CINDY WIDNER
The Redeemers
Ellen Spiro on 'Troop 1500,' the story of Girl Scouts
and the inmate mothers who love them
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Andrew Does the Book of Luke
The Wilson boys are back in town with their 'Wendell
Baker Story,' which took one an eternity to write and
the other a month to shoot
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Uneasy Lovin'
The Puffy Chair'
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Pray Tell
'The Education of Shelby Knox'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Anxiety of Influence
Teenagers Georgia and Wyatt Pierson on their
family's filmic mission to Fiji
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Horror, Period
'Dead Birds'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Miami Heat
'Code 33'
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Sleaze, Camp, and Social Justice
AFS presents On the Border: Films of Rogelio Agras&
#225;nchez Sr.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Film News
Look no further than this alt-weekly's SXSW coverage for proof that Austin is the film capital of Texas, but don't forget some of the stuff going on 'Between the
Scenes'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Caution should rule when making comparisons to
milestone series. Yet, the folks at ABC thought it
clever to compare their new John Stamos series,
Jake in Progress,' to one of my favorites in its
promotion of the show
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Batman the Animated Series: Volume 2 and Superman the Animated Series: Volume 1
The 1990s were a golden era for intelligent, uniquely
designed superhero animation series
Film Reviews
Imaginary Heroes
Only this troubled suburbanite family knows if they are imaginary heroes or ordinary people.
Robots
There are no great animation advance in Robots, but neither is it a return to The Ice Age.
A Tale of Two Sisters
Dread and mystery are the hallmarks of this South Korean psychological thriller.
arts & culture
Working Beauty
In spinning a fairy tale of gifts, outsiders, and thorns,
Bonnie Cullum's own story gets told
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Stand-up's Best Medicine Show
The Comedians of Comedy provide stand-up's best medicine show
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Arthouse Texas Prize Finalists
Arthouse has named four finalists for its first-ever
Arthouse Texas Prize, worth $30,000
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Death by 'Chunklet'
Athens, Ga.-based 'Chunklet' magazine is the bible of
cutting-edge stand-up comedy and underground rock
coverage
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Culture Flash!
ALO has blood on the tracks in 2006, and Salvage
Vanguard lands a new office
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Jinn
In Kirk Lynn's playful and wistful 'The Jinn,' three
couples with magic lamps find out if what they wish for
is really what they want
Ugly Maria
Despite some inexperienced acting and lax direction,
'Ugly Maria' deserves notice for its audacious
exploration of the social stigma of rape
'"Pocket full of posy (all fall down)"'
Susan Whyne's 'Pocket full of posy (all fall down)' at
D Berman Gallery is a dreamlike reflection of her
emotions surrounding 9 / 11
columns
Page Two
Advice for artists, inspired during the whirlwind of SXSW 2005
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen gears up for the celebrity onslaught by skewering more ... celebrities!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Enough with the NYC 'superbug'!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Does dairy consumption at a meal interfere with iron absorption?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Who gets the engagement ring if the wedding is called off?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Les Diables Bleus, moonquakes, and a Tunnel of Fudge Cake
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Knot in the Loop Saloon could be described as a neighborhood bar, but the neighborhood is one of the prettiest in the Hill Country
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: The Fearless Freaks World Premiere
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Sunday, March 13, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
The monkey on Chelsea's back
