dadaLab
Volume 22, Number 11
features
Not Your Daddy's Facial Hair
Kate Messer brings us up to date on the drag king scene in Austin.
BY KATE X MESSER
news
Between Round Rock and a Hard Place
Northridge Acres can't find water, water anywhere.
BY WALTER HOWERTON JR
A Place for Democrats
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Preparing for Springsteen's Appeals
Two attorneys build separate cases for overturning yogurt-shop defendant Robert Springsteen's death sentence.
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Business of Educations at T.A.B.
The Texas Association of Business carried out an "educational" campaign for this election.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Speak, Mr. Craddick
The new choice for state House Speaker circles his political wagons.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
It's my 737, I'll land if I want to; and a Day of Action against Wal-Mart.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Northwest Neighborhood Treasures, Near and Far
Virginia B. Wood and Erin Mosow report with five new reviews of family-friendly ethnic cafes and East Coast-style pizza parlors.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
This sandwich is your sandwich, in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Take It or Leave It
Are the Strokes great? The Chronicle's Christopher Gray says no, but talks to them anyway.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Tracks of My Tears
A new documentary, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, signs a light on the men behind the Motown sound, the Funk Brothers.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
American Idol picks Austinite Dana Clark to hopefully win the hearts of America in the next round of finals.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Beck, The Flaming Lips
Beck & The Flaming Lips
Case, Neko
Blacklisted
Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers
The Last DJ
Liars
They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern RockLynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
Gene Odom with Frank Dorman
Sigur Rós, Origami Arktica, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Exhaust, Radian, Town and Country, Mercury Program, Mice Parade, Thuja, Smith, Steven R., Proud, Pip and Carter, Tom
( ), Vardøgr, Yanqui U.X.O., Enregist
screens
All Attitude
"I'm a very nice girl -- who happens to be completely amoral," says cult queen Mary Woronov. She'll present two films -- Death Race 2000 and Rock 'n' Roll High School --at the Rolling Roadshow's Rock 'n Roll Drive-In this Saturday.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
'Idol' Chatter
Local celebrity judge Belinda Acosta graded Austin's American Idol hopefuls.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Artful 'Dodger'
First-time writer / director Dylan Kidd talks about his award-winning indie debut, Roger Dodger.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
A new Vietnam Film Series, a Cine Las Americas call for entries, aGLIFF's "Secret Cinema," and a fond farewell to AFS film programmer Salvatore Botti.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
More adventures in Idoldom.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Ride in the Whirlwind
Hellman's cult uses Western frontier justice to reflect the political climate of the mid-Sixties.
Film Reviews
The Grey Zone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The second year at the Hogwarts is better than the first, but still a bit sophomoric.
Roger Dodger
arts & culture
Articulations
The threat to Austin Musical Theatre and the passing of Austin storyteller and artist Helen Handley
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Presidents
In The Presidents, Rich Little mimics every president from JFK to the present occupant of the Oval Office, and in his visit to the Paramount Theatre the impressionist nailed them all with his utter ease of delivery and master craftsmanship.
Billy Budd
With its exploration of men's actions in the midst of war, Herman Melville's Billy Budd could not be more timely and relevant, but while Mainline Theater Project's production is perfectly cast, poor artistic choices cause the show as a whole to fall flat.
columns
Page Two
Denuded of ideological trimmings and vicious rhetoric, much of the agenda that motivates talk radio hosts is common to most of us.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I've decided I'm ready to give up coffee and thinking of switching to tea. What are my other options for a replacement?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Letters at 3AM
America has engaged in a long-term strategy, through three presidential administrations, to take over the Iraqi people whom we've made helpless from a ruthless form of bio-warfare.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
