Volume 23, Number 3
ON THE COVER:
news
The Crossings' earth- and economy-friendly integration into the Hill Country really is something to feel good about.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Citizens continue to battle the Beast of Bentonville on several Southside fronts
BY AMY SMITH
The APD assistant chief is (finally) placed on restricted duty as questions swirl about his honesty under oath.
BY JORDAN SMITH
The State Board of Education reviews biology textbooks, and the battle over evolution rejoins.
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Why is Mala Sangre less poisonous than Barton Springs?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Texas 11 Minus One return, and the gallery goes wild.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Lege week in court, in correspondence, and in West Texas
BY MICHAEL KING
Questionable capitalist claims; and the EPA's deal with hog farmers stinks.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
With a new sushi bar, Suzi’s bolsters Its already brilliant menu
BY MICK VANN
Want to get the scoop on everything going on in the Austin foodie community? Look here.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
One dinner to check things out turned into several lunches and dinners because the menu's new direction and newcomer Katherine Clapner's flourishes are my kind of food.
music
ACL FEST 2003
Blurbs to ACL Music Fest by.
ACL Fest Interviews
Chatting with some ACL Fest headliners.
ACL Fest Record Reviews
Dead people and live music.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.
BY LOUIS BLACK
The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'
BY LOUIS BLACK
'Secondhand Lions' is only the latest production in which Bobbi Colorado-trained beasts play a part.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Don Howard's new documentary turns Texas football, cheerleading, and weddings into an anthropological model -- with a little help from Jung.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Les Modéles de Pickpocket
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Go see Cinematexas!
Cinematexas Games Without Borders
There's so much going on in Austin film this fall that it almost feels like a real city.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Las Vegas and Lee Kyung Hae?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
If it hadn't been such a hack job (and a transparent, two-star rewrite of one of Edwards' numerous commercial peaks), Skin Deep might've done for John Ritter what its blueprint, 10, did for Dudley Moore: transform the TV vet into a viable leading man at the box office.
Film Reviews
The mad scientist is back in a sequel that was not screened before press time.
A sophisticated relationship drama about young Asian-Americans.
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyoncé join the church choir.
Andy Goldsworthy's art of the ephemeral in nature is granted permanence in this feature documentary.
In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.
Kate Beckinsale bares her fangs as a vampire assassin in in a shaggy werewolf story.
arts & culture
An interview with New York playwright and director Richard Maxwell, who has developed a following for his work featuring painstakingly realistic language rendered onstage by actors who move, speak, and sing seemingly without expression.
BY STEVE MOORE
Bach's Mass in B Minor is the center around which Conspirare orbits, and next week the choir will be performing the work for the third time since it was founded in 1991. "It feels like a return to our foundation and our roots," says director Craig Hella Johnson.
BY JERRY YOUNG
Actor, writer, director, singer, and Texas State University teacher and mentor Larry Hovis has passed away.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
How Late It Was, How Late, adapted from James Kelman's novel, finds the Rude Mechanicals depicting a sightless, Scottish ex-con's odyssey through the humiliating and confusing bureaucracy of Britain's welfare state with intensity, hilarity, and the company's outstandingly creative theatrical vision.
On one level, Annie Weisman's Be Aggressive skewers SoCal culture, from Spanish stucco to smoothie shops, but at its heart this tale of a cheerleader whose mother has just died shows us with humor and affection how to deal with the unexpected holes in our lives.
columns
Attending the Toronto Film Festival provides some perspective on global perceptions of the United States -- as well as a truly great film experience; the City Council's budget performance is embarrassing, as is Rick Perry's state of vacuous denial.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Europe, Russia, and China can help install a new administration in the White House in 2008 by refusing to bail out Bush on his Iraq misadventure now.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Is grass-fed beef healthier or better than grain-fed?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Educational Fun-Fest Set for Sept. 27
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Elks Lodge, Friday, September 19, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO