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Volume 21, Number 29
news
'If Not Edison -- What?'
Austin Interfaith's Alliance programs represent one alternative to failing AISD schools.
BY EMILY PYLE
Candidate Wrap-up
Primary Numbers Crunched Here
A breakdown of the voting in the March 12 primary election
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Party Loyalties
In the Pct. 2 County Commissioner race, Jeff Heckler learned that a Democratic primary is different from a City Council race.
BY AMY SMITH
More Sidewalks for Cyclists?
BY LAURI APPLE
Trading Places at City Hall
Musical chairs at City Hall
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
News from around Austin
BY LAURI APPLE
Don't Lose Your Day Job
Texas unemployment insurance paints a dismal picture.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: W.W.P.D.?
The curious semantics of "progressive" politics
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Republicans and Democrats march off to the money wars; Dick Cheney does business with Iraq; and baseball speeds up -- to its own detriment.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Fish Tales
Eaves Bros. Quality Seafood, At the Sign of the Neon Lobster
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Three local businesses are promoting products with brand-new flavors this month, and Austin's latest culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Southern Rock Opera
SXSW 02 Music Fest Wrap-up
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW 02 is over -- finally
BY KEN LIECK
screens
Curtain Call
SXSW Film saves the (next to) last dance for Robbie Robertson, with the Friday night Paramount screening of The Last Waltz; also, more SXSW film reviews.
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The New Sobriety
SXSW Interactive Conference photos and panel reviews
BY BELINDA ACOSTA, MICHAEL CONNOR AND DAVID GARZA
The Long Goodbye: SXSW Film
Snapshots from the fest
Short Cuts
Buy local! Go see Guillermo del Toro's Blade 2! While you're at it, check out his other film in theatres, The Devil's Backbone!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Push versus pull, a standardized infrastructure, the death knell of prime time … do you even want to interact with your TV?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Loves of a Blonde
Hanu Brejchovou is a marvel as a romantically frustrated factory worker in this Milos Forman film that heralded in the Czech New Wave.
Film Reviews
Blade II
No Man's Land
This bleak antiwar comedy won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film of 2001.
Revolution OS
arts & culture
Our Bodies, Our Selves
An unusual convergence of dramas dealing with women and disabilities prompts a conversation among four actors about what playwrights are trying to say through characters who are disabled, and how actors approach playing a disability.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The passing of celebrated actress Irene Worth touches Central Texas, Austin Cabaret Theatre lights its birthday cake with Charo, and Hedwig bumps bee at Zach.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One)
The Tongue and Groove Theatre gang have some serious fun with the disconnect between dreaming and waking life in their world premiere production of Seven Wonders of the World (Plus One), a 1940s-era suite of songs linked by spoken text, follows a dreamer across time and space to various landmarks of both the ancient world and the modern U.S.
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle is an ensemble piece full of verve and a punster's quick wit, with moments that are deeply thoughtful alternating with plenty of songs to present a pastiche history of our land, from the ride of Paul Revere through Charles Lindbergh's famous flight.
columns
Page Two
The agony and the ecstasy of SXSW 2002
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Phew! We're glad that's over. SXSW is gone and things are beginning to get back to normal. Your Style Avatar has some parting thoughts about Courtney Love and looks (fashion) forward to some upcoming events.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I'm working hard to limit sugar for my family and for me. There are several new artificial sweeteners, and I don't want to be surprised with unexpected health concerns as I was with aspartame. Is there any good news on the horizon?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
You might not guess it, but Coach is a rabid UT basketball fan. He's also one of the world's foremost pessimists.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters at 3AM
In setting up a "shadow" government, the Bush administration has flouted its obligation to obey and enforce the Constitution. September 11 may be the best thing to happen to Bush totalitarians.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
