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Volume 20, Number 28
news
The Future's So Bright ...
Johnston High School has problems with grades, attendance, dropouts, a magnet program resented by the host school, and a high turnover rate among principals. Will new principal Sal Cavazos stay and can he make a difference?
BY JORDAN SMITH
No Commitment Necessary
As the economy takes a dive, many high tech workers find themselves stuck on the temping treadmill
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Welcome to Austin. You're Screwed.
Can you get there from here? In downtown Austin, the answer is no.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT AND LOUIS DUBOSE
Naked City
The House considers a Top 10% law to address inequities at magnet high schools, and UT is embroiled in a free speech debate after a scuffle between faculty and university police.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Bush's 'Real, Live Americans'; Nike's 'Freedom to Choose'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Tinkering With the Machinery of Death
The Texas Legislature moves slowly to consider alternatives to the death penalty
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Naturaltown
The Chronicle's Cuisines writers show you how to eat meatless for weeks without duplication.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
The results of the Seventh Annual Central Market Gumbo Contest, and lots of restaurant news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Austin Barbecue
Austin's barbecue joints in this week's Second Helpings.
music
Austin Confessions
Chris Gray gets laid.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Immaculate Film
Musicalia at the SXSW Film Festival
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Wednesday Picks & Sleepers
Dancing About Architecture
One week 'til SXSW and already the music is hitting the fan.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Genitallica
¿Picas o Platicas?
HairyApesBMX
Out Demons
Japancakes
The Sleepy Strange
Adult Rodeo
Long-Range, Rapid-Fire
Those Peabodies
Those Peabodies
The Holmes Brothers
Speaking in Tongues
Kamran Hooshmand & Javier Palacios
Ojalá
screens
Serious Rock & Roll Anthropology
An interview with SXSW honoree Penelope Spheeris
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Luckiest Girl in the World
An interview with Sissy Spacek, inducted into the first annual Texas Film Hall of Fame on March 9.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Brothers at Arms
UT film professor Mitko Panov returned to his homeland, the former Yugoslavia, to interview the men he knew in the Yugoslav Federal Army. "They were no better or worse or more bloodthirsty than any of us -- that's my point. Whatever happened there can very easily happen anywhere." The film, Comrades, plays at SXSW Film as part of the Texas Documentary Tour.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
SXSW Film Picks
Staff picks for SXSW Film
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Getting Their Due
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Debuts
BY MARGARET MOSER
Short Cuts
The SXSW Film Festival begins, Scott Dinger is honored, and other noteworthy items of local film news.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Does KLBJ's new TV ad using bare-backed women as billboards upset TV Eye's Belinda Acosta? Not as much as those warm and fuzzy pharmaceutical ads that prey on hypochondria and insult women.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Get Over It
In the Mood for Love
Because the two lovers at the heart of this lush period piece never verbalize or consummate their feelings, “mood” is the right word to characterize this stunningly evocative Chinese love story.
Pollock
arts & culture
Putting Himself 'Out Here'
Theatre Arts and English teacher Rick Garcia has put himself "out here," on Austin's fringes, n the off-the-map, lost-worldness of Johnston High School, to reach out to some of the poorest kids in one of Austin's most neglected neighborhoods and make a difference through that rare and vital cocktail: art and education.
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
Big career moves for a couple of Austin playwrights and big parties thrown by a couple of Austin arts organizations.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
King Lear
In the Public Domain Theatre Company's production of King Lear, director Robi Polgar and company bring Shakespeare's play into the present with high tech and high fashion, and the smooth execution of the concept create a novel version of this familiar tragedy with a striking proximity to our lives.
Cloud Nine
After rumbling greatness in the first act, the UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine ends thin and foggy.
columns
Page Two
SXSW: The glorious onslaught begins with film.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Hyde Park Baptist foofaraw and assorted cultural allegations.
Public Notice
This week's "Public Notice" goes techy and says, 'Let's tear down the digital divide and give all these laid-off geeks something to do!'
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar's career in fashion design dons funeral black.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Painted Churches of Fayette County.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
The farandolae of trivia's mitochondrion.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
Don't Touch the Monkey.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Are soy foods really good for us or not?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
Juwan Howard's negative image is almost entirely a media invention; moreover, he could be the key piece in the Dallas Mavericks' growth into a championship team.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
