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August 9, 2002
Volume 21, Number 49
news
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Did SOS Matter?
The battle for Barton Springs has been a struggle over the soul of the city.BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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Alleviating the Jail Squeeze
County Attorney Ken Oden has proposed a possible solution to the chronic overcrowding that has long plagued Travis Co. jails.BY JORDAN SMITH
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It's a Done Deal
The City Council approved the Stratus settlement 6-1. Now what?BY LAURI APPLE
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Railroaded at Third and Lamar
BY AMY SMITH
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Land of the Free?
The governor of Tocopilla, Chile, visited Austin last week as part of a nationwide survey of the American legal system.BY MICHAEL MAY
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Move Over, Phil
Council Member Daryl Slusher has a new TV show.BY JORDAN SMITH
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Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
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Austin @ Large: Into the Gap
The city manager's new budget squeezes city services that are already tightBY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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The Hightower Report
Bush keeps emphasizing the "shadow" in "shadow government" and Segway tries to push you off the sidewalk.BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
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From the Bistro to the Beard
Austinite Shawn Cirkiel makes a pilgrimage to the home of American gastronomy, the James Beard House in New York.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood has so much news in this week's "Food-o-File" that reading it too fast might give you indigestion. In a good way.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings
Erin Mosow links the national pizza chains in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
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100% Texan
Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.BY MARGARET MOSER
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Dancing About Architecture
Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumptionBY KEN LIECK
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Phases and Stages
screens
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Gadgets and Gizmos
From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost DreamsBY MARC SAVLOV
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Preserving Pictures
"There are many days where it's, like, buy and save a super, super rare 1920s Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton image, or buy some extra groceries … and saving their movie images always wins out."BY MARRIT INGMAN
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'Spy Kids 2' Premiere
This one's for the kiddies ...BY KIMBERLEY JONES
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In Play
Neverwinter Nights is more than a game, actually: It's a gaming system to be built on.BY LINDSEY SIMON
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Short Cuts
Money giveaway!BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
Fall in the air, fall on the airBY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Deep in the Mozart of Texas
This summer, the Austrian American Mozart Academy, an international program that provides aspiring professional singers with training and performance experience in Mozartian opera, relocates to, of all places, Austin, Texas.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
The Texas Commission for the Arts gets a new executive director, the Blanton Museum of Art gets a new curator for its collection of Latin American art, and Toronto's Harbourfront Festival gets an Austin dance company.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
bee luther-hatchee, and HAIR
columns
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Page Two
A decade after SOS, we need to develop a realistic vision and useful political tools to address future development in the Barton Springs watershed.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
Our Style Avatar get Grease-y and posh all in the same week!BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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To Your Health
I am nearing menopause and really worried about osteoporosis now that we know hormone replacements carry an increased risk of cancer and heart disease. What are the alternatives?BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
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About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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Letters at 3AM
All the tumult, all the culture, all the relentless historical brouhaha, has not changed the irreducible loneliness that haunts us.BY MICHAEL VENTURA
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Coach's Corner
Coach's old Vail nemesis Cedrick Trout has jumped on the Redskins / Steve Spurrier bandwagon, but Coach figures he's at least a year or two early. And in college -- surprise, surprise -- UT's really as good as their hypeBY 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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Book Reviews
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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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