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May 17, 2002
Volume 21, Number 37
news
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Talking Trash
A huge garbage dump in northeast Travis County causes a stink with its neighbors.BY LAURI APPLE
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Endorsements
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No More Cookies for Court
BY AMY SMITH
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Not for the Birds
Barn swallows like the Airport Hilton, but the Airport Hilton does not like barn swallows.BY MICHAEL KING
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City Begins Budget Cut-and-Paste
We're $68 million in the hole. What's council going to do about it?BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Back to the Chalkboard?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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"Whoring Is Boring" ...
BY MICHAEL KING
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Circular Logic
Stratus forgets to tell Circle C residents about their zoning requests.BY AMY SMITH
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Report on Child Fatalities
BY JAY TRACHTENBERG
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Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
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Austin @ Large: Where Was Everybody?
Austin's population is going up, but its voting population is in decline.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Death Star and Fat Boy
The "invisible hand" of utility deregulation looks an awful lot like Ken Lay's.BY MICHAEL KING
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The Hightower Lowdown
Bush's policy toward democracy is loaded with irony; Corporate Big Brother is watching you shop; Our government legal robs us -- of our rights.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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Even More Fish in the Sea
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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: Indian Restaurants, Part Two
music
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1,000 Musical Kisses
Patty Griffin comes of age.BY DAVE MARSH
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The $975,000 Question
The Hole in the Wall needs to dig itself out of one.BY DAN OKO
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Phases and Stages
screens
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Hiiiiiiiii-Yah!
Austin foley artist Buzz Moran strips the sound out of a forgotten kung fu flick and redubs it live at the Drafthouse. The result? Something to chop about it.BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
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Get Your Game Face On
'Tis the season to glue yourself to the PlayStation controller and get in some batting practice.BY MICHAEL CHAMY
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SXSW Trailer Fest
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New In Print
Timed neatly with the premiere of George Lucas' latest Star Wars installment, Will Brooker's new pop-cult study of Star Wars fandom sheds some light on the dark side.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Short Cuts
Music video maven Lance Myers stays up all night to animate the Riddlin' Kids' latest spin, plus pennies from heaven (or: the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund).BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
What, you think watching TV for a living is easy? Boy, does "TV Eye" have a thing or two to tell you.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Emily Sings
New Texas Music Works is kicking off the ninth annual New Texas Festival with the Emily Dickinson Song Symposium. A conference dedicated to art songs featuring texts by the master American poet.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
The Long Center for the Performing Arts is delayed until 2005, and MS / Nerve Dance Company and Jason Phelps hold a very personal benefit.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Dave Marsh is a writer of passionate convictions whose work is designed for engagement. Which is why we're excited that he wrote our cover story on as great a talent as Patty Griffin.BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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After a Fashion
Hmmmmmm, didn't our Style Avatar's psychic "see" what awaited him at the Brown Bar? Why was he not forewarned? Also, AAF checks in on George Michael's potty habits.BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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To Your Health
All my life I have really loved milk, but my wife is concerned that it is making me gain weight. At age 30 I am otherwise healthy but about 20% over my ideal weight. Would two glasses of milk per day be too much?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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Soccer Watch
Ale, ale, ale, ale! The World Cup starts in two weeks! Plus a look at the basketball and hockey playoffs so far.BY NICK BARBARO
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The Prayer Robbers
A fantasist's view of the rise of monotheism.BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch
How to cure your attention deficit
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Devil in the Details
Why Is 'Talented Amateur Historian' Leon Day Obsessed With the Death of Ambrose Bierce?BY JAMES MCWILLIAMS
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Never Too Much Coffee Man
What happens when you drink a li'l too much java? Ask Too Much Coffeeman.BY MARC SAVLOV
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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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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