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Volume 22, Number 7
news
Running to the Middle
Part II of the Chronicle's preview of the Nov. 5 general election
Weird, Spooky, and Rich
David Dewhurst runs against everybody but money.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
"It's Extremely Easy to Frighten People"
Insightful foreign policy critic Noam Chomsky explains the upcoming war, previewing his Austin appearances.
BY MICHAEL KING
ALLGO's HIV Funding Fight
New state funding systems leave Austin's largest Latino HIV-prevention program in danger of shutdown.
BY AMY SMITH
Unclear Air: Taggers vs. SUVs
BY WALTER HOWERTON JR
SBOE: A Green Challenge?
Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.
BY LAURI APPLE
County Jail: Not So Bad
BY LAURI APPLE
King Inquiry: What Next?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Weed Watch
An overview of the latest developments on drug policy across the nation
BY JORDAN SMITH
Sour Notes For Robert Rodriguez
Robert Rodriguez runs into conflict with the Austin musicians' union over scoring his new release.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002
The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The new Congressional districts alter the political makeup of Central Texas.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Everybody suddenly wants to take credit for commuter rail.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Awash in Money; Fighting FrankenFish
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Cheese Stands Alone
Cheese, in all of its artisanal, aromatic glory, takes its rightful place at Austin's tables.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood's on her way to the Southern Foodways Alliance symposium in Oxford, Miss., but she still finds time to take you out to dinner and a movie in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sandwich Boards
They say that lunchtime is the right time.
music
Cumbia Sobre El Rio
Monterrey's Celso Piña and his 21st Century cumbia
BY MELISSA SATTLEY
Omaggio a Tropicalista
Putting Brazil's musical poet laureate in his place.
BY MIKE QUINN
Dancing About Architecture
Another festival weekend, this time jazz; plus Mars Music not going under, and Bill Hicks -- still dead, more CDs.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Delbert McClinton
Room to Breathe
James Luther Dickinson
Free Beer Tomorrow
Doug Martsch
Now You Know
Peter Gabriel
Up
Terrastock 5
Live Shot
Jurassic 5, Angie Martinez, Eve
Power in Numbers, Animal House, Eve-Olution, Brown Sugar Soundtrack, Topdog/Underdog
Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
screens
The Whole Schmear
The First Annual Austin Jewish Film Festival
BY MAYA CHURI
A Little Eclectic
Texas Documentary Tour brings Immy Humes to town.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Wish You Were Here
Snapshots from the 2002 Austin Film Festival.
It's a Wrap
Film reviews from the 2002 Austin Film Festival, and lessons learned from the biz's top talents.
Short Cuts
SXSW entry deadlines, more classes, congratulations, and a whiff of debauchery
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta has been having trouble watching television lately. It's what isn't on television that's keeping her up at nights --the conspicuous absences, the loud silences.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Burmese Harp
History, they say, is written by the victors, so it can be enlightening to revisit it through the eyes of the vanquished --as is the case in this affecting post-war drama.
Film Reviews
Amy's Orgasm
Knockaround Guys
The Last Kiss
The Italian film which was adapted for the American remake starring Zach Braff.
Punch-Drunk Love
Sandler plays a socially inept, outwardly calm warehouse worker who harbors a maelstrom of rage.
The Ring
An urban myth about a videotape that causes the death of anyone who watches it is given a good workout in this American remake of the Japanese horror sensation.
Scarlet Diva
Secretary
Ted Bundy
arts & culture
Fierce, Fierce Beauty
The title for Keith Carter's exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, "A Poet of the Ordinary" describes the photographer to a tee, a man who takes subjects from the everyday world and takes pictures of them that tell their story with the distilled purity of expression that characterizes great poetry.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Being Edmundo
In her new cabaret performance piece Edmundo, writer and actor Jennifer Haley dallies with a man who needs to have it all.
BY BARRY PINEO
Piece of Work
A row of shining tines, wrought like the iron spire fences hemming in 18th-century churches, but burnished to blinding brilliance in ultra-modern stainless steel, stand at attention on the wall of D Berman Gallery, and the clash of the familiar and the novel is disarming.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
Ballet Austin buys itself a new home downtown, and Shakespeare at Winedale founder James Ayres receives UT's prestigious Civitatis Award.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Incubus Archives
With The Incubus Archives, playwright David Hancock, director Vicky Boone, the show's designers, and a group of actors as fierce and committed as they come have crafted a theatre-sized dreamscape, in which subjects seem to bubble up from the darkness of the subconscious and bizarre images erupt into view to ponder the nature of evil.
Copenhagen
If director Don Toner's staging of Copenhagen, a drama about 20th-century physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg, is good but unexceptional, the trouble may lie in Michael Frayn's script, which is full of intriguing ideas but less than satisfying as a story.
Charlie Victor Romeo
In Charlie Victor Romeo, New York City theatre company Collective: Unconscious acts out in-flight catastrophes mined from actual Cockpit Voice Recorder transcripts, and it's effective beyond all hype, beyond any amount of technical chicanery enjoined to provide fright in more fabricated productions.
columns
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
My bowel habits have been poor all my life, and seem to worsen as I get older. I am well aware of the importance of good elimination. How can I do better?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
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