Palmer Events Center
Volume 21, Number 15
features
Holiday Wish Lists 2001
news
St. Michael's Passion
Whose truth prevails at Austin's Catholic high school?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Creedmoor Need More
The city of Austin and the BSEACD are skeptical of Creedmoor-Maha's request to triple its pumping limits.
BY AMY SMITH
Seton's Secrets
Seton HMO comes under fire for failing to report data that could be helpful to consumers.
BY LAURI APPLE
Letters of Intent
Possible rape victim Virginia Glore has found a champion in Charlotte Johnson.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Compassionate Profiling
The Austin Police Department is helping John Ashcroft's dragnet; critics say they may be violating state and city law in doing so.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: No Free Lunch
If you want good candidates, you're going to have to pay for them.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
John Ashcroft goes on an imperious jihad; King George throws away our Constitution; and corporate greedheads profit from censorship.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Other Restaurant Row
The Food staff uncovers a burgeoning restaurant row on the South Shore.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes
American cafes in this week's "Second Helpings"
Food-o-file
Restaurant closings, openings, and happenings in this week's "Food-o-File"
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Sweet Caroline
New face on the old-timey music scene: Caroline Herring
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Behind the Scenes
They're not exactly famous, but onetime Austinites Buddy and Julie Miller make some of the most authentic country music around.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW confirms a keynote speaker.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
The Langley Schools Music Project
Innocence & Despair
Liliput
Liliput
X
Los Angeles, Wild Gift, Under the Big Black Sun
Omar & the Howlers
Hard Times in the Land of Plenty, Wall of Pride
Spencer Davis Group
I'm A Man, Gimme Some Lovin'
Judas Priest
Sin After Sin, Unleashed in the East, Stained Class, Hell Bent for Leather
Jackson 5
Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 / ABC, Third Album / Maybe Tomorrow, Goin' Back to Indiana / Lookin' Through the Windows, Skywriter / Get It Together, Dancing Machine / Moving Violation
Bob Marley & the Wailers, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell, Rick James, James Brown
Exodus, Let's Get It On, Complete Duets, Street Songs, Live at the Apollo Volume II
screens
Brave New Web
In the wake of Sept. 11 and the hard-line USA Act, the Internet has become a very unfriendly place for hackers.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Crowe's Feat
Actor Russell Crowe shows his new film, A Beautiful Mind, to friend and Governor Rick Perry.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Television Takes the Stage
Information artists How + Why promise that their show No Dead Air will "appeal to your demographic."
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Butt-Numb-a-Thon Roster
Short Cuts
What Russell Crowe's been smoking.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Lord of the Rings: The Boardgame
Beautifully designed and illustrated, Lord of the Rings: The Boardgame proves challenging without being too difficult to enjoy.
BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
It's not high art, but Black Christmas is a spare, efficient fright flick.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Heyd in Plain Sight
Austin painter Heyd Fontenot exposes more than himself in his new exhibition.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Being Mother Ginger
This year, Ballet Austin invited Kevin Connor to be one of its celebrity Mother Gingers in this year's production of The Nutcracker, and the KGSR morning anchor learned firsthand what it's like to be dolled up for a quickie in the Land of the Sugar Plum Fairy.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Terry Galloway keeps the Olympic flame alive.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Lypsinka: The Boxed Set
Reeling frenetically from song to show-biz anecdote to soap dialogue and back, like Judy Garland on a speed jag, with its star channeling everyone from Bette Davis and Phyllis Diller to Ethel Merman and Joan Crawford, Lypsinka! The Boxed Set is a hoot, a joyride through a neighborhood of tacky mansions haunted by grande dames of outsized egos and overwrought emotions.
The Gifts of the Magi
The State Theater Company's production of the musical The Gifts of the Magi, based on stories by O. Henry, features some appealing design work and polished performances, but they can't overcome the show's generic music and trite dialogue.
columns
Page Two
Last week's Pearl Harbor / Gift Guide cover draws fire.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The Bush White House is mounting the most sustained and successful attack on the Constitution in America's history and not enough of us are willing to say it publicly.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar has a mystery date with a "gladiator" … or does he?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I have heard about a "thrifty gene" that makes it easy to gain weight. Is it real? How would a person know if they carried this thrifty gene, and what could be done to keep from gaining weight if they do?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Swazi King Pays Fine Under Own Sex Ban
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Believe the hype. Longhorn freshman point guard T.J. Ford is something special -- maybe the best player in UT basketball history.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily