Upstairs at Caroline
Volume 20, Number 43
features
Crying in the Chapel
The Texas Hill Country features an unexpected wonder: The Most Holy Theotokos of New Sarov sheds tears of myrrh at Christ of the Hills Monastery in Blanco
BY DEVIN GREANEY
news
The Death and Life of Free Radio
Austin microradio lived fast and died young -- can the movement live to broadcast another day?
BY EMILY PYLE
Neighborhood Bankers or International Big Shots?
Laredo National Bank opens a branch in Austin, trailing a big fine and a clouded political and financial history.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Austin Stories
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The Hightower Lowdown
ZapMe!'s snooping on kids, downsizing hurts the boss too, and Fleet Bank's fleeting sympathies
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
Bush brings smog to Europe, and Rich Oppel blows smoke.
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Kitchen Education
For most of the past 200 years, there was one path to becoming a chef, Chronicle Cuisines writer Mick Vann observes. Young European men apprenticed themselves as teenagers and learned the culinary arts from the ground up. But with the advent of cooking schools, the role of chef has been legitimized into a respected profession, and a chef today can make a very handsome salary. Chefs can now attain the status of a rock star.
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Things used to slow down here in the summer, but it looks like June could be the busiest month of the year for Austin-area chefs.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Gourmet Takeout
Gourmet takeout in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
Red River Valley
Red River, home to Austin's real live music venues
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Charity Begins at Home
The gospel music and charitable concern of the Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Dancing About Architecture
The Return of the Butthole Surfers and the christening of Beerland
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Coldplay The Backyard, June 11
Tortoise, Mouse on Mars Stubb's, June 12
Mastica Empanada Parlour, June 13
screens
Light It Up
Director Lizzie Borden revisits her incendiary 1983 feminist classic, Born in Flames, showing as part of the Austin Film Society's series "Dance, Girl, Dance: Women Directors of the 70s and 80s."
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Their Gay Movies
The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival presents the First Annual My Gay Movie Challenge, a call for amateur movies with a queer sensibility.
BY CLAY SMITH
Short Cuts
Two don't-miss documentaries, works in progress at AIFV, and the Alamo makes it impossible for you to forget it.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
"TV Eye" delivers the skinny on the (mostly unimpressive) summer season debuts.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Intern
Intern isn't a particularly deep movie, but, to paraphrase Karl Lagerfeld, fashion is not the same thing as feeding the hungry and curing the ill.
The Cycle Savages
American Psycho
Mary Harron's film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' novel, American Psycho, frequently hits the mark, thanks to leading man Christian Bale.
Film Reviews
The Anniversary Party
Calle 54
Superstars of Latin jazz are captured as they perform in the studio.
Dr. Dolittle 2
arts & culture
The Art of Parenting With Art
Trying to find ways to make art while sustaining a family is no easy road.
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
News of the death of longtime Austin actress Judi Sklar Becker and the birth of a new era at Hyde Park Theatre, with Ken Webster as Producing Artistic Director, Subterranean Theatre Company as producing company in residence, and Austin Script Works as a producing partner for FronteraFest.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste
It might be hard to imagine that a story about a man who breaks wind for fame and fortune could be called "sweet," but Tongue and Groove Theatre's original musical Le Petomane: Anatomy of a Fartiste, about the extraordinary French vaudevillian Joseph Pujol, combines good humor, fun song, bawdy dance, and just enough ribaldry to make for an engaging theatrical show.
The Metamorphosis
Capturing the creepy power and tone of Franz Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, in which a man awakes one morning to find himself turned into a giant beetle, in a stage production may be as difficult as capturing the rare Megolaponera foetens. Still, the Refraction Arts / Public Domain co-production of The Metamorphosis is a valiant attempt, and possible required viewing for any Kafka aficionado.@META_Category_arts: Review
columns
Page Two
The FCC legalizes microradio, then regulates it out of existence. The forced demise of public access radio.
BY NICK BARBARO
Postmarks
Bush League lambasting, locally-grown concerns, and a side of jazz.
Public Notice
Check out ways to help the Houston flood victims, get a free HIV test, and find out what's up this week in Pride.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon asks whether we’re really living … and if not, why not?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
North Texas' Lake Texoma is about more than just fishing for stripers.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar gets a personal tune-up at Lakeline Plaza's Ulta salon.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Bits of dark matter to keep your infoverse humming right along.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Now that I am pregnant, my mother-in-law is very concerned about the vitamin A in a multivitamin I have used for years. Am I endangering my baby?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
National HIV Testing Day
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
It's wedding day for Coach's old fraternity pal, Dunn, in the swamps of Louisiana.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily