Parish
Volume 21, Number 9
news
Wasn't It FABulous?
Economic and environmental consequences of high tech plant closings are potentially grim.
BY AMY SMITH
Endorsements
The Austin Chronicle endorses Gus Garcia for mayor of Austin and offers other endorsements on the Nov. 6 state constitutional amendments election and county bond propositions.
Brackenridge Plan Aborted
The latest solution to the Brackenridge reproductive services crisis collapses.
BY LAURI APPLE
Standing on Opposite Sides of the Road Bonds
BY AMY SMITH
FWS Approves Stratus-pheric Development
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
News Short
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Environmental groups notify Alcoa Corp. of intent to sue over environmental violations.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Candidate Gus Garcia takes on the school district
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Nike does the right thing -- when it's forced to; Monsanto monkeys with Mexico's corn supply; the San Antonio Spurs and SBC stick it to taxpayers.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Not Just Plain Vanilla
You may have noticed the neon deco sign on the roof of the Adams Extract Company's distinctively low-slung Moderne building, set back from I-35 just south of Slaughter Lane and rather dramatically surrounded by prairie grassland. What you might not know, Food writer MM Pack explains, is that, unlike Betty Crocker, there really is a Mr. Adams and he still makes the extracts from top-secret family formulas.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood on this week's events and news in Austin's culinary life
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sushi -- Part Two
Wes Marshall completes his survey of Austin's sushi restaurants.
music
Safety Net
Chillin' with a trio of Austin's hippest emergency-services personnel
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
L.A. vs. Austin -- Tinseltown wins.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Tori Amos
Strange Little Girls
The Prima Donnas
Drugs, Sex & Discotheques
Spiritualized
Let It Come Down
screens
Six (Not So) Easy Pieces
Eight local filmmakers team up to shoot DV shorts in and about Austin.
BY CHALE NAFUS
Comrades-in-Cameras
A new AFS series highlights the little-seen films of the Soviet New Wave.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Short Cuts
Cinemaker Co-op says bring on the healing, and classes galore.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Pregnant on prime time: Single parenthood gets more blasé (and more bizarre) on TV.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way: Poems
Ethan Cohen
Film Reviews
Domestic Disturbance
Grateful Dawg
Life as a House
The Man Who Wasn't There
The story is rife with the Coens' ripe ambivalence, a black seriocomic opera of fouled-up American dreams, and a meditation on ambivalence that is itself often as ambiguous as the emotional meanderings of its protagonist, a small-town barber. The film's black-and-white image processing is stunning.
Monsters, Inc.
Re-released in 3-D.
The One
Thirteen Ghosts
Wet Hot American Summer
Spoof of old summer-camp sexcapades is performed by a sprawling cast of comedic hams, largely culled from comedy troupe the State.
arts & culture
Hope Wears a Cherry Red Suit
Santa scholar Carl Anderson talks about the role of Kris Kringle in a time of grief and fear.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Memorializing The Public Domain Theatre Company, 1993-2001
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Misery
In bringing Stephen King's Misery to the stage, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production paint the story's characters in the most awkward fashion possible and mixes horror and comedy to a degree that's confusing.
Arcadia
Having sat through a Tom Stoppard play, there comes the feeling that a return visit is required to better appreciate all his linguistic, historical, scientific, sexual, comedic, and theatrical flourishes. The Austin Playhouse production of Arcadia, featuring one of the best ensembles to be seen on an Austin stage, may, indeed, warrant repeat visits to fully enjoy its efforts.
Romeo and Juliet
For its new production of Romeo and Juliet, Stephen Mills and a gifted company delivered the eloquence with which Shakespeare described the couple's profound passion -- without ever using the Bard's words.
columns
Page Two
Gus Garcia is not simply the best choice for mayor on this slate but the best choice for mayor, regardless; Austin needs roads, but the road propositions that go before the electorate Tuesday are bad politics; the war in Afghanistan is a terrible misstep that played into the terrorists' hands and will have devastating consequences for our community; the Chronicle co-sponsored "Eat Drink Watch Movies" series starts Thursday.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our own little Gaza Strip, and the Halloween (Gas) Mask is taken to task.
Letters at 3AM
Sometime in the wee hours of September 12, George W. Bush realized that he is the President of United States and rose from his previous ineffectuality to meet the occasion.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
Shadows on the wall of your mind's fleeting cave
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar revels in his New York state of mind, having just visited our noble Big Apple. Come along for the ride.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Amon Carter Museum has a new, modern look, but it's still the same old great place to get culture.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I started taking a mushroom extract a few months ago on the recommendation of a friend, and I do feel better. What is in there that could make a difference?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
Coach's pre-season glance at the NBA: the Spurs are overrated and on their way down; Michael Jordan is overrated and already down; but the real season doesn't stat for another half-year anyway, so does anyone really care?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
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