Jan. 4, 2002

Volume 21, Number 18

news

News Top 10s

The Hightower Lowdown

A business magazine gushes over the accounting practices of … Enron?; Bush gambles with your retirement money; and CEOs create "opportunity" by firing employees.

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

Best Bites

The Food writers gobble through 2001

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

Things Have Changed

A brief, very general overview of the year in albums 2001

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

The Year in Film

It was a very good year … just not a great one.

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

Screens Reviews

Top 10 Gene Hackman Films

A Salute to America's Anti-Hero, Gene Hackman

Film Reviews

La Ciénaga

Martel's debut film is a family portrait of people falling down the class ladder.

The year 2001 saw a host of local cultural types taking journeys beyond their homes, traveling to other communities to share their art and finding new venues locally in which to produce their work and expand their creative sensibilities.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Articulations

The first weeks of 2002 show that Austin artists are still busy taking their art to other parts of the country, and Physical Plant Theater needs your leaves.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

columns

Page Two

It's been a year of great, inspiring films from American filmmakers -- and from Austin filmmakers in particular.

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

Mr. Smarty Pants

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Day Trips

Captain Day Trips lists his Top 10 traveling tales of the year.

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

After a Fashion

Were you guilty of indulging in any of these particular fashion no-nos this year? Check out these horrid style Top Tens.

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

To Your Health

I am due to have angioplasty in two weeks. I know this procedure is necessary now, but I want to prevent further deterioration of my heart condition. What is helpful?