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April 6, 2001
Volume 20, Number 32
news
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Redistricting 2001
The new census numbers are out, and here's what to look for in the Lege's plans for redistricting.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Union's Due
Labor lawyer David Van Os stands accused by former employees of blocking their attempts to organizeBY KEVIN FULLERTON
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Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.BY ERICA C. BARNETT
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The Hightower Lowdown
The Bush budget and children's welfare, Pete Domenici and nuclear power & Jonah Goldberg on the joys of sweatshopsBY JIM HIGHTOWER
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Capitol Chronicle
The grandfathered pollution exemption celebrates its 30th birthday, and the Lege takes another look at cleaning up the airBY MICHAEL KING
food
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Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
Spotlighting This Year's Visiting CelebritiesBY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood tracks down the latest restaurant news in this week's Food-o-File.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Vietnamese, Round Three
The final installment of Chronicle writer Mick Vann's series of reviews of Vietnamese restaurants in this week's Second Helpings. -
Food Reviews
music
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Guys Like Me
Was America Really Made for Dick Price?BY CLAY SMITH
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Angel in the Dark
The last release from pop noir princess Laura Nyro.BY MARGARET MOSER
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Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...BY KEN LIECK
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Live Shots
screens
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Chick Flick
Who amongst ye could have conjured Mainer Janet Bonney's true chicken story? Mark Lewis' documentary The Natural History of Chickens, playing on Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, features real-life stories of fowl play so strange they must be true.BY ANNE S. LEWIS
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Short Cuts
A report from the Vanity Fair Oscars party and other film-related news and upcoming events.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
The most recent episode of The Sopranos illustrates the caste system among the women of the show -- but does watching a woman get beaten to death educate or entertain?BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Search Through the Skies
The new musical Jouét represents a journey not only for the title character, a pop star in search of a home, but one for Austin composer Allen Robertson and for the city's Zachary Scott Theatre Center, which is producing its first original musical.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
The "first lady of Austin theatre" -- actress and educator Nan Cameron Elkins, whose credits included more than 300 Austin theatre productions and teaching speech and stage skills to thousands of Central Texas students -- has taken her final bow.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Robert Rodriguez, Chris Ware, Ben Sargent -- what do these men have in common? They all worked as cartoonists for The Daily Texan.BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Public Notice
Public Notice asks not what it can do for its community but what you can. This week features the third of a three-part list of Austin area Volunteer Opportunities.BY KATE X MESSER
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After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar goes to Hollywood (well, via his TV set!) and reports, Oscar style!BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Mr. Smarty Pants
More nuggets from information's mother lode.BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Day Trips
Houston's bibliophiliac dream: The Detering Book Gallery.BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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To Your Health
I feel very blessed to come from a family that lives long and generally healthy lives. I am 40 and still feel good, but my doctor recommended I take an aspirin tablet every day to prevent heart problems. What are the pros and cons?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
Drug-resitant HIVBY SANDY BARTLETT
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Coach's Corner
Opening day for major league baseball. A fresh start for last year's losers. Enjoy it while you can -- by June, the big-market teams will be back in control.BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones
Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Prison Buff
Peeking Behind the Curtain of IncarcerationBY AMANDA EYRE WARD
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In Person
At the LBJ Library Auditorium, the second of Fuentes' stops on his sweep through Austin last week, he pined: "I wish I could be ubiquitous today so that I could be here and in the Mexican Congress to see the events that occurred today."BY DAVID GARZA
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Postscripts
Upcoming events in Austin's literary life.BY CLAY SMITH
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Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. -
Book Reviews
FOLLOWUS
THEMOST
Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU
Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people
Playback: Demolition at 1701 Red River Another Red River venue going away? There goes the neighborhood.
Bonds: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts' Even with Propositions 1 and 3 passing, AISD's election campaign appeared doomed from the start
The Changing Face of Mueller A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
Review: The Great Gatsby A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
CHRONCAST
Eastside Memorial High School Poem Dedication
Students from the East Austin campus send a message to the Austin ISD board of trustees
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Problems Facing Mueller Neighborhood leaders and members past and present of the city of Austin's Robert Mueller Advisory Commission (RMAC) deserve credit for ...
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More Women on the Cover, Please How about putting a woman on the cover once in a while? The last eight issues have all featured men ...
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