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Volume 22, Number 8
news
Weak at the Knee?
Chief Stan Knee's tenure at the APD has had many external successes, and several internal failures.
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Roads to Commissioners Court ...
The Chronicle handicaps at the county races.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Chronicle Endorsements, Nov. 2002
The Chronicle endorses for the 2002 November general election
The Whole Foods Cure for Herpes
Whole Foods Market lays off a group of low-wage employees.
BY LAURI APPLE
Supremes vs. 'Texecutions'
BY JORDAN SMITH
Battle for the 403rd
The race for the 403rd District Criminal Court heats up.
BY LAURI APPLE
Chomsky on Power and Hope
BY MICHAEL KING
City Pipeline Proposal: Too Weak?
Austin's draft pipeline ordinance isn't strong enough for activists.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Breaking news from Austin and elsewhere
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
State Sen. Jeff Wentworth and Rep. Rick Green are accused of improper lobbying for "legal speed" maker Metabolife.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Bush preserves democracy by coddling tyrants; Phil Gramm cashes in at the bank.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Hybridity Principle
A diverse, ambitious crop of restaurateurs is feeding Austin's cosmopolitan cravings.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Eat, Drink, Watch Movies at the Alamo Drafthouse North, or just eat and drink in Fredericksburg, in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Farmstands and Farmers' Markets
"Second Helpings" gets fresh with local farmstands and farmers' markets.
music
Those Magic Moments
Composer, classicist Stephen Barber's encoding and imprinting
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
American Idol comes to town, the Funk Bros leave -- a little poorer for the musical wear and tear.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Miles Davis
The Complete Miles Davis in Montreux 1973-1991
Golden Hornet Project
CD-R
Charlie Christian
The Genius of Electric Guitar
Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Alex Coke's Spiritual Unity Quartet
Austin Jazz & Arts Festival
A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson
Diana Krall, Patricia Barber, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Karrin Allyson, Tierney Sutton, Brad Mehldau, Chris Potter, Ben Allison, Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd
Live in Paris, Verse, This is New, In Blue, Something Cool, Largo, Traveling Mercies, Peace Pipe, Modernistic, Lift Every Voice
Faith in Time: The Life of Jimmy Scott
David Ritz
Jimmy Scott
Falling In Love is Wonderful
screens
Mr. Demme's Holiday
Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme takes a trip to the city of lights and of love, of Tati and Truffaut, in his latest, The Truth About Charlie.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Confessions of a Trash-Lovin' Mama
Old viewing habits die hard for a new mom.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
A Monster Bash
Austin Studios will host a free outdoor screening this Saturday evening of Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, which, despite its singular title, also manages to cram in both Dracula and the Wolfman.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Austinites make good as Nicholls finalists, Cinemaker presents local animation superstar Eric Patrick on optical printing, and Concordia gets its screen scream on Friday.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Sometimes real life is much scarier than scary movies.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
I Married a Witch
Sexy and enduringly bewitching, 1942's I Married a Witch is a four-star Hollywood incantation.
Film Reviews
Real Women Have Curves
Satin Rouge
A dutiful Tunisian widow and mother of a teenage girl is awakened to self-actualization through the allure of belly-dancing.
The Truth About Charlie
arts & culture
B-Boy City Freestylin'
Roméo Navarro's freewheeling philosophy of dance has inspired a vibrant freestyle dance community in Austin for the past decade, and now his B-Boy City events, gathering 350-400 dancers from all over the South and Southwest and points beyond, are realizing a dream of freestylin' dancers on an even grander scale.
BY DEBORAH HAY AND CHALE NAFUS
The 411 on 411
Hidden inside that nondescript complex at 411 Brazos is a wealth of compelling work by provocative artists just waiting to be discovered.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
A Piece of Work
In her landscape narrative featuring two rows of large glass bottles, each filled with soil samples collected on a trip from Texas to California and labeled with a description of the soil's composition, artist Kate Catterall suggests her present-time impressions of each landscape, and hints at its history, both geologic and human.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
The passing of Texas regionalist pioneer painter Everett Spruce
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Symphony with Caitlin Tully
Giselle
As staged by Ballet Austin, the 1841 ballet Giselle showed its age in the first act, with cartoonish characters cluttering the stage and a distinct lack of fireworks in the dancing, but after the death of the title character, the production came alive with a breathtaking performance from Gina Patterson.
Pearl Cleage Tonight
Pro Arts Collective's presentation of two Pearl Cleage one-act plays delivered this playwright's poetic, often witty dialogue with style and some convincing performances; the only thing missing from this quality production was the audience.
columns
Page Two
Instead of ideas, this year's election campaigns are serving up character assassination from all sides.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
This week is all about Austin's best regular fashion show: Club DeVille!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I've been considering adding coenzyme Q-10 to my supplement program, but I couldn't really decide if CoQ is an essential nutrient or not. How does CoQ help, if it does?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
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