Volume 21, Number 6
news
Raped Twice?
Virginia Glore asked the APD for a rape test -- instead they're prosecuting her for DWI.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Unloading Frate
BY AMY SMITH
Nuclear Stalemate
Negotiations between the South Texas (Nuclear) Project and its union workers threaten to meltdown.
BY LAURI APPLE
It Grows on You
BY EMILY PYLE
Thinner Reads, Fewer Reporters
As the economy gets tight, newspapers around the state feel the pain.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Political commentary on the prospects of single-member districts
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
Apparently, the candidates for statewide office have better things to do than answer tough questions from the Texas NAACP.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Greedheads capitalize on terror; MBNA offers to "decrease" Jim's debt; and high-end garage sales.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Still Hungry
Reassessing the state of Austin's food security
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Cook Globally, Grow Locally
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Eat, Drink, Watch Movies
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Food editor Virginia B. Wood on the first pressing of olive oil in Texas
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Farm Stands & Farmer's Markets
Food editor Virginia B. Wood surveys Austin's farmer's markets.
music
The Real Greezy
Greezy Wheels, back from the dead (the Seventies).
BY CLEVE HATTERSLEY
Groover's Paradise
Those were the days …
BY MARGARET MOSER
India Ink
Making posters for Soap Creek
BY KERRY AWN
Dancing About Architecture
The Austin music scene benefits the Red Cross.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
The Strokes
Is This It
Travis
The Invisible Band
Quasi
The Sword of God
Blondie
Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat to the Beat, Auto American, The Hunter
Ryan Adams
Gold
Robbie Fulks
13 Hillbilly Giants, Couples in Trouble
Sam Phillips
Fan Dance
FM: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
Richard Neer
screens
For Your Consideration ...
Austin Film Festival Preview
Holding Pattern
In the wake of the terrorist attacks, the Austin Film Festival pulls local filmmaker Tom LeGros' feature from the lineup.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
For 2001, a Kubrick Odyssey
In this biographical film documentary, legendary film director Stanley Kubrick is exposed by his brother-in-law and frequent collaborator Jan Harlan for the artist and family man he was.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Big Thrill
Heart of Film Distinguished Screenwriting Award recipient Lawrence Kasdan talks shop.
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
CinemaTexas Award Winners
Virtual Web Sites
Enjoying illicit pleasures like crack rock via the Internet
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Short Cuts
On the road with Rock Opera, how to get your tix for Waking Life, and Robert Benton talks about writing.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Entertainment television struggles to address the events of 9 / 11.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bandits
Christmas in the Clouds Benefit Screening
Montgomery's debut feature is a romantic comedy set in a Native American ski resort.
arts & culture
Blanton: The Sequel: The Sequel
The preliminary design for UT's new Blanton Museum of Art facility has been unveiled, and as expected, the white-shoe Boston firm of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood has come up with a building that hews to the dicta of UT's Campus Master Plan, even when it doesn't make much sense.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Articulations
Ailing actor Douglas Taylor is on the mend, actors Babs George and Lowell Bartholomee get the recognition they deserve (from the Payne Awards), and choreographer Deborah Hay wants you to spend the weekend with her.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Star Play
Part vaudeville comedy, part poem, part search for philosophical meaning, part fairy tale, Michael Arthur's The Star Play produced at MOMFest by the New York-based 2texans theatre company, makes a wish for love and finds it in the most unlikely places.
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
In Pro Arts Collective's admirable production of Having Our Say, the intimacy of the performing space and warmth of the show's two actresses make the experiences of the centenarian Delany sisters -- and the history they have lived -- come alive in a remarkably personal way.
Little Shop of Horrors: A Good Time Out of Joint
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's Little Shop of Horrors is a terrific staging of an endearingly weird musical.
columns
Page Two
The war on Afghanistan isn't just wrong, it's stupid, and it's not going to work, either.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
A right, a left, another right: our letters column takes it on the chin.
Postmarks Web Extra
Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks
Coach's Corner
Coach reflects on the UT-Oklahoma game.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
J. David Bamberger has taken a slice of the Hill Country and restored it to pristine beauty.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
The phlogiston what sets your brain a'burnin'.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Oooh, the fall fashion doin's are doin', what with the Austin appearance of national fashionista Leon Hall, Club DeVille's Fall Fashion Extravaganza, and The Austin Chronicle's own upcoming Drag Ball. Whooo!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
AIDS Walk Austin 2001
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
I have been having a lot of stomach problems, with alternating diarrhea and constipation, but all the tests my doctor did fail to show any problems. He said I probably have "irritable bowel syndrome." What helps that?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Feedback
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