Volume 17, Number 25
news
It's Time to Retire the B-1 Bomber
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Emotions v. Experience in 261st Dist. Court Race
BY AMY SMITH
Travis Co. Democrats:
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Prisoners Fear Violence in Texas Prisons
BY JANET HEIMLICH
Cherrywood Neighbors' Journey of Change
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Not Your Same Old Slusher
BY KAYTE VANSCOY
food
Organic Food Production Threatened by the USDA
BY STEVE SPRINKEL
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Getting Press: The Haves
BY ANDY LANGER
Getting Press: The Have Nots
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Also Playing
Conspiracy Theory #404
BY KEN LIECK
screens
Doug Block's Film, Home Page, and How It Grew
BY JON LEBKOWSKY
Pennies From Heaven
BY MARGARET MOSER
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
Stunning visuals highlight this story in which a city's inhabitants are the victims of some cosmic experiment being conducted by a race of aliens.
Possibly due to the story's origin as a Ruth Rendell novel, this is the most coherent, viewer-friendly narratives Almodóvar's ever filmed. It also focuses on male relationships and features a young Javier Bardem.
This Belgian film is a warm, startling, funny, and realistic study of what happens when a 7-year-old boy is convinced, beyond all reason and outward evidence to the contrary, that he is really a girl.
arts & culture
How Much Do You Really Know About These Freaks?
BY ADRIENNE MARTINI
60 Candles,Hundreds of Dancers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY LOUIS BLACK
Comestibles Festivals
BY KATE X MESSER
We Get What We Want
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters to the editor, published daily