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March 21, 2003

Volume 22, Number 29

news

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music

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the arts

  • Turning the Lens on Us

    Austin is hosting the 40th national conference of the Society for Photographic Education, which aims to consider how the United States has been represented by photographers in the past and where photographers need to focus their attention in the future.

    BY ERINA DUGANNE

  • Authentic Sound

    When pianist Paul Badura-Skoda plays classical music of centuries past, he strips away the centuries of romantic interpretation and provides us with the beauty and lively spirit of the music as it was originally heard.

    BY JERRY YOUNG

  • Piece of Work

    In his large charcoal drawing Rock n' Roll, Drugs and Sex, artist Randy Twaddle reverses a familiar phrase and places it on a curling banner floating through a dark and grimy background, making it an example of verbal recycling in an otherwise wasted landscape.

    BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER

  • Articulations

    The stars come out at the Paramount when the Texas Medal of the Arts Awards are given, and the Bastrop Opera House shoots for a national title in the American Association of Community Theatres competition.

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • Arts Reviews

    The Scarlet Letter, Celebrity Crush '03, and Hush: An Interview With America

columns

  • Page Two

    Let us hope the war in Iraq is quick, the death toll is low, and that all dire predictions prove unfounded; let's also hope that we haven't destroyed our own country ideologically in order to save it.

    BY LOUIS BLACK

  • Postmarks

    Our readers talk back.

  • Beyond Limits Otherwise Prescribed

    George W. Bush refuses to put our money where his mouth is in matters of domestic defense, even though all the experts testify that America is as vulnerable to major terrorist attacks today as it was on 9 / 11.

    BY MICHAEL VENTURA

  • Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

    BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

  • After a Fashion

    BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

  • Day Trips

    BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

  • To Your Health

    BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

  • About AIDS

    BY SANDY BARTLETT

    • 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

  • 'Sleep Toward Heaven'

    We're not reviewing Amanda Eyre Ward's debut novel, Sleep Toward Heaven, and we're not interviewing her as an author, either, because she has contributed to The Austin Chronicle for more than three years. It would be a conflict of interest. We are, however, excerpting an early chapter of the book, and we are proud and happy to do so.

  • The Latest in Paper

    'Portis' characters are painfully human; they are often complicated, sometimes plain wretched, and always worth the price of admission," writes Anne Harris of the great man's True Grit. "And his frugal comic dexterity can be so subtle as to just whisper beneath catastrophe."

    BY ANNE HARRIS