Alienated Majesty Books
Volume 24, Number 49
features
Intelligent Design
A cinematic simian salute to Koko on SoCo
Shop the Monkey
SoCo boutiques and more
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Bargains in the Mist
Where to find the missing link
news
A Better Place
For nearly 30 years, Primarily Primates has offered a refuge for misplaced animals
BY CINDY WIDNER
Rumblings of a Mad Mom Movement
Texas Parent PAC wants to purge Lege of lawmakers who won't go to bat for public ed, regardless of party
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Council Notes
City Council heads into the budget season, looking to restore previously cut services
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Linebarger, Oden Still Pushing for County Tax Business
But county officials say collections are very efficient
BY AMY SMITH
Labor Woes at Cap Metro
Capital Metro service hangs in the balance at 11-hour union negotiations
BY WELLS DUNBAR
'Statesman' Drops a Turd
Decision to censor 'Doonesbury' strip annoys the crap out of daily's readers
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Perry Settles for a 'Half-Loaf'
And he's 'stunned' that you would question his special sessions
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
The Wal-Mart way in Latin America is a bad way, factory monitor learns; and economic theorists not thinking in real-world terms
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All in the Presentation
John Bullington's and James Holmes' culinary performance art: now showing at an Alamo Drafthouse (or elsewhere) near you
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-file
Primates in Progress; plus, Texas chefs in the media and Texas barbecue across the Atlantic
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Monkeying Around
Songwriters love monkeys, be they figurative or literal
BY MELANIE HAUPT
TCB
Plunging into Austin music's past with the Armadillo, and its future with MySpace. Craig Ross included free of charge.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Pelt, Banana
The man in the monkey suit and my quest for meaning
BY TAYLOR HOLLAND
Chimp-Suit Maker
Norman Tempia of Animated FX Inc., along with his partner Dave Nelson, made a nearly believable chimp suit for the 1995 movie 'Ed.' So, we called to see what's up his tree.
BY TAYLOR HOLLAND
Down the Hill, Up the Hill, Into the Cave
Where the bad man in the ape suit and diving helmet touched me
BY LOUIS BLACK
Body of Work
Joe Dallesandro on 'Je T'aime Moi non Plus'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Steve Bilich's 7th on San Antonio Acting Workshops
Bilich's goal includes not just working actors but anyone who 'wants to break down to their core and grow from their core': businesspeople, clergy, you name it, Bilich is interested in busting your inner-child's chops
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Kadeem Hardison is in for 'The Cassidy Kids'; plus, 'Poodle Dog Lounge,' 'Rescue Me,' 'Mexican Sunrise,' and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Is it time for an all chimp and monkey network?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Beautiful Country
A grueling journey is undertaken by a Vietnamese teen to find his absent mother in Ho Chi Minh City, and then his father, a former G.I., in Texas.
The Chumscrubber
Teens, suburbia, five sets of dysfunctional parents, and the suicide that looms over it all.
Crónicas
John Leguizamo plays a TV reporter in Ecuador in a film that examines the ethics of tabloid journalism.
The Dukes of Hazzard
A remake that's about as deep as Jessica Simpson's cleavage.
Sarkar
Bollywood gangster film honors The Godfather.
arts & culture
The Monkey Time
How communing with the apes inspired the artists of the Texas Monkey Project
BY CINDY WIDNER
My, My, Maestro
One reporter's firsthand account of exploring competitive improv at the Hideout
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Rising Stock
With Summerstock Austin, a gang of young performers serious about theatre get a chance to develop their craft in the old-school environment of a stock company
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash
Tom Hester's funny film scores a close second in Montreal, Kathy Dunn Hamrick scores good press in New York, and AMOA keeps Liebovitz late 'til 8
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two: Tapping Into the Monkeygeist
Chimps ahoy on the newsstand
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
We are a community, we and the creatures. There are only a few tenths of a percent of difference between the chimpanzees' DNA and ours, yours, mine.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
Roll on that rubber
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Should I ditch my Teflon cookware?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
eBay & PayPal – caveat emptor (part IV)
BY MEGAN LONERGAN
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Drug makers, belly dancing, and Harrison Ford
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi tells the story of an era as well as the evolution of the sport along the Texas coast
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Devil's Day at the Cove
Lake Travis, Saturday, August 6, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Major League Soccer teams try European exhibitionism
