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June 14, 2002
Volume 21, Number 41
news
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You Call This a Plan?
Seaholm District Master Plan Morphs Into the Lumbermen's Tract Subsidy ProgramBY AMY SMITH
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Must Stan Take the Stand?
Questions about the APD's disciplinary sanctions mean the chief might have to take the stand.BY JORDAN SMITH
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Save Our Speck Alliance
Larry Speck is the main architect of the Hill Country Galleria. He's also a member of the Save Our Springs Alliance board, which opposes the Galleria. This is what you call, "walking the tightrope."BY AMY SMITH
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Feds Uphold Holy Weed
BY JORDAN SMITH
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Greening It Up
The Texas Green Party holds its convention in San Marcos.BY MICHAEL KING
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GHASPing for Breath in Houston
BY MICHAEL KING
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Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
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God Votes Right
The Texas Republicans Gather in Dallas to PrayBY MICHAEL KING
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Austin @ Large: Out Into the DAMP
The Downtown Mobility Plan has critics from both the right and left, and that could be its undoing.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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The Hightower Report
The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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Barbecue Summer Camp!
What is it about Texas and barbecue? Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood knows, and she knows we know, but the Southern Foodways Alliance is about to find out on their Taste of Texas Field Trip. Plus, "The Barbecue Song"!?BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood has news from Central Market Cooking Schools and restaurants reinventing themselves in this week's "Food-o-File."BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings
Erin Mosow again investigates Austin's Italian offerings in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
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Townes Without Pity
The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacyBY ANDY LANGER
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Dancing About Architecture
Dee Dee's dead, everything else is crumbling.BY KEN LIECK
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Townes Van Zandt Reviewed
screens
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Melville in Cubicle Hell
Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?BY SIDNEY MOODY
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Are You Experienced?
In its continuing endeavor to be coolest enterprise in Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse served up BBQ, Baby Ruths, beer, and Corey "Mouth" Feldman at last weekend's Ultimate Goonies Experience.BY KIMBERLEY JONES
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Flicker's Got Super-8 for a Super Dad
How to buy Dad a beer for his special day but still avoid the Hooters' cliché.BY MARC SAVLOV
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Short Cuts
Sidney Brammer | Alleywood Auteurs | Ninth Annual CineSol Latino Film Festival | Betty Kaplan | Esmerelda Santiago | Almost a Woman | Jesüs Nebot | No Turning Back | Eighth Annual San Antonio Underground Film Festival | Yvette Pita | "Pan y Libertad" | Director's Guild of America EastGo to the beach or go to the movies? You don't have to decide -- South Padre's CineSol Latino Film Festival has both.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
The TNT action-adventure show Witchblade strikes out with its Groundhog Day-like season premiere, while HBO hits another one out of the park with cop drama The Wire.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
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Images: Austin Arts Hall of Fame
Twelve local art enthusiasts are the first to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
The Austin theatre festival MoMFest goes away, the Austin Arts Commission welcomes Sue Graze to its membership, and a couple of Austin theatre types show up on TV.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Our cover story delves into the complex legacy of Townes Van Zandt, an artist who cared more about music than business, who literally lived his whole life for the sake of the song.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
See where Austin ranks in a national list of most creative cities and then wonder why Dallas also made the list once you find out that the cheesy reality TV show Cheaters is based there …BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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To Your Health
I am 68 years old, and I can't decide how best to delay the aging process. I exercise some, eat sensibly, and take a multivitamin. What else works?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
HIV-negative? Help With Vaccine Research, Get Paid!BY SANDY BARTLETT
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Letters at 3AM
Learning about "manhood" from the moviesBY MICHAEL VENTURA
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Coach's Corner
Attending his son's graduation at UC-Santa Cruz, Coach is struck by a sudden infatuation with alternative sports: college baseball, horse racing, hockey, even World Cup soccer.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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Destiny's Child
Tom Doyal reviews Sam Houston, Austin author James Haley's new biography on the Texas legend, and finds that the biographer's "hard work is almost invisible to the reader; he makes this complex life accessible, even understandable, in light of the times in which Houston lived."BY TOM DOYAL
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Write On
The 2002-03 Dobie Paisano Fellows are Oscar Casares and Todd Hearon.BY SHAWN BADGLEY
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Book Review
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
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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Audio
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THELATEST
Finding Rail Route Complicated Michael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...
Problems Facing Mueller Neighborhood leaders and members past and present of the city of Austin's Robert Mueller Advisory Commission (RMAC) deserve credit for ...
People Are the Real Mueller Story Through various media, we are subjected to stories of Mueller: the construction project. While that can be appreciated, Mueller's true ...
Keeping Austin Weird Things that keep Austin weird: 1) belief that one needs a train to get from UT to the state Capitol; ...
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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