Volume 21, Number 11
news
The Intel Building and its discontents
BY MICHAEL ERARD
A proposal to move AISD's Liberal Arts Academy to LBJ High School almost certainly means resegregation for Johnston High School, its former home.
BY MICHAEL MAY
The newly formed Save South Congress Association aims to put the brakes on light rail's return.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Dawson Neighborhood plan was the first out of the gate, but now could be in danger of failing.
BY AMY SMITH
The latest salvos in the Georgetown Smackdown
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Villas on Guadalupe goes back to the drawing board.
BY LAURI APPLE
BY LAURI APPLE
Would David Dewhurst really know a terrorist if he saw one?
BY MICHAEL KING
Can the new Green Council earn a mandate?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Hypocritical corporate "patriotism"; Congress declares war on civil liberties; Congressmen spend for our country.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Chronicle Food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry on why 1,000 head of Japenese Wagyu cattle are thriving in Central Texas.
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
Virginia B. Wood recounts the Chronicle's Eat Drink Watch Movies event for those who couldn't attend and divulges the latest culinary news in Austin.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Mick Vann samples some of Austin's Japanese restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?
BY MARC SAVLOV
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Waking Life original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Fractured Fairy Tales
Onward Quirky Soliders
Are You With Me?, Haunted Gardenias
Presents for the Present
Never Stood a Chance
The Drunkard's Progress
Twilight
screens
Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
"Novocaine" Writer/Director David Atkins drills deep into noir
BY MARC SAVLOV
Teen filmmakers Rusty Kelley and Duncan Knappen land second HBO Family gig with "French Restaurant."
BY MARC SAVLOV
Red carpet reportage, and other filmic items
BY MARC SAVLOV
Fox premieres an extraordinary new series that redefines prime-time network fare.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Set in the summer of 1963, this coming-of-age film about four Southern girls is nothing less than enchanting.
Film Reviews
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
Quintessential Lynch.
From the sets to the story to the whole tone of the film, this first Potter film is an almost literal adaptation of J.K. Rowling's beloved children's book.
Tape is a confined microcosm: three characters, one room, and a whole lot of head-trippery. Old high school friends reunite years later in a dingy Michigan motel room for a night of tricky revelations.
arts & culture
The times being what they are, you don't exactly expect to see new galleries sprouting across Austin's cultural landscape, but two just did: Oswald Gallery, showing fine art photography, and Jean-Marc Fray, displaying paintings by French artist Robert Bourasseau.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Texas Fine Arts Association's student exhibition "Pop Patriotism" is unexpectedly fascinating and moving, and a long-delayed tribute to operatic legend Jess Walters takes place.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Lanford Wilson's Burn This is a fierce, realistic drama about art and relationships, and Alchemy Works delivers a very human production, deeply felt and nearly flawless in its presentation.
Ann Hampton Callaway proved a wise choice to inaugurate the new Austin Cabaret Theatre. Her clear enthusiasm for the Great American Songbook and impassioned, intoxicating performances of selections from it made cabaret intimate, immediate, a real event.
Second Youth Family Theatre's production of The Hobbit offers much that is magical, but awkward staging and inexperienced actors keep the show from achieving true enchantment.
columns
Austin music clubs are usually one of the first casualties in an economic downturn.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
At the Wiseman House in Hico, Kevin Wenzel serves up some of the finest chocolates in Texas.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Guess who your Style Avatar flitted around town with this week? Check out this first installment about international salon god José Eber's visit to Austin.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
I'm "paying my dues" taking vitamins, exercising, and sticking to a low-fat and low-cholesterol diet, but my serum cholesterol still hovers around 240, and my HDL cholesterol won't go over about 40. My triglycerides and LDL cholesterol are OK. What more could I do to improve those other two numbers?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Magic's 10th anniversary is an inspiring survival story
BY SANDY BARTLETT
The gauntlet is thrown: Major League Baseball is discussing "contraction." It's the Players vs. the Owners, and guess who's going to lose? The Fans, of course.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters to the editor, published daily