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April 12, 2002
Volume 21, Number 32
news
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Governing Post-Boom Austin
Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Run-off Election Night
Primary Run-off ReportBY MICHAEL KING
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Asking Questions Later
BY JORDAN SMITH
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Notes of an Old Leftist
Lone Star liberal Dave Richards releases his memoir at the Scholz Garten to much fanfare.BY CLAY SMITH
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Spreading Mono
BY LEE NICHOLS
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Great Streets, Not So Great Parks
Battle at the park over Riverside DriveBY LAURI APPLE
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Military Out of Mabry?
A West Austin resident says moving the Texas National Guard out of Camp Mabry would be better for both the neighborhood and military.BY LEE NICHOLS
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Naked City
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Capitol Chronicle
Everyone in Texas wants better schools, but no one wants to pay the tab.BY MICHAEL KING
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Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
If Mueller is a model, then why wasn't it followed with the Villas?BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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The Hightower Lowdown
Dubya will save us from pollution -- with gas masks; polluters get "greenwashing" awards; the Cardinals pitch St. Louis a screwball.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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Minding Your Manners
Though it doesn't make it into the paper, we do get a fair amount of correspondence via phone, e-mail, or snail mail in which readers air their complaints about experiences in local restaurants. We don't print it because it's Chronicle policy not to take a position on business complaints about incidents we didn't witness and can't substantiate, but it does make for very interesting reading. It was certainly food for thought in the development of this special Chronicle pop quiz.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Taking Stock
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reports from the 17th Annual Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food-o-File
What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Burger-Mania, Part Two
Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood feeds our burger-mania in this week's Second Helpings.
music
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Mind Wide Open
D: Fuse, one of the world's biggest emerging DJs, hails from A-town.BY MARC SAVLOV
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Dancing About Architecture
The rain couldn't stop the flood of Austin's outdoor music shows last weekend.BY KEN LIECK
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MY EDUCATION
screens
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Been Around the World
Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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The Weakness of the Flesh
Actor Bill Paxton gets behind the camera for his directorial debut, the Texas gothic terror tale, Frailty.BY MARC SAVLOV
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Something to Talk About
Silent but deadly are the grandes dames of pre-talkie Hollywood: Garbo, Bow, Gish, Pickford, Brooks. The Austin Film Society presents a new series honoring their early work.BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
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An Unsentimental Education
A/V Geek Skip Elsheimer is a curator of a certain brand of pop-culture ephemera: the forgotten "educational" film.BY JERRY RENSHAW
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A Blue Ribbon Benefit
"Grand Champion" PremiereBY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
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Short Cuts
It's a moviehouse melee as a rumored three more suitors enter into the Great Hills 8 bidding war.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
Disappointingly, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new sitcom didn't prove self-fulfilling -- no one is watching Watching Ellie. "TV Eye" explains why you should.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Film Reviews
the arts
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The Secret History of Tuna
Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Rite of Spring: The Austin Fine Arts Festival
Local sculptor Damian Priour talks about being Featured Artist for one of the city's rites of spring: the Austin Fine Arts Festival.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
Austin Lyric Opera hires a new managing director, Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children is named best new play by America's theatre critics, and half-price tickets are back at BookPeople.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Like all morality-based movements designed to eat away at our most basic freedoms, term limits and campaign finance reform are inherently anti-democratic.BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
Our readers talk back. -
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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To Your Health
Is earwax supposed to be dry or sticky? Mine seems to be too dry and is hard to remove. Is there a remedy other than having a doctor remove it?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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After a Fashion
Some upcoming events to keep you off the street and a little story about your Style Avatar and why he should probably stay off the streets …BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Coach's Corner
San Antonio and Dallas are two of the best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch
How to cure your attention deficit
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Edward O. Wilson: The Elegant Agitator
BY RIC WILLIAMS
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Book Review
BY ROGER GATHMAN
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Recommended
BY CLAY SMITH
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New in Print
Coffeetable book Great Women of Film touches upon the difficulties women face in Hollywood, but it's actually an invaluable primer for anyone who wants to work in film.BY CLAY SMITH
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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Film Review Misses Mark Please make a note not to print any more movie reviews of big action movies by Kimberley Jones. She gets ...
What's the Big Deal? I'm baffled by this obsession with Mueller. I drove through it out of curiosity and it's a suburban nightmare that ...
No Mystery in School Bond Failures How out of touch has the Chronicle become with the voting populace of this city? From the article “Bonds: Death ...
Program Is Vital Resource I am responding to your article on ACCESS News, the program by and for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The ...
Finding Rail Route Complicated Michael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...
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