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Volume 21, Number 22
news
Feb. 2 Election Endorsements
Confounded Constable
County Judge Sam Biscoe Wins a Bureaucratic & Political Battle With Constable Bruce Elfant.
BY AMY SMITH
This Week in Council
After a break, the Council has a full plate.
Ralph's Road Show
From the beginning, Nader's visit to Austin was sold-out activist central.
BY AMY SMITH
Policing Democracy
APA wants the courts to say whose law is the law of the land.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Buda Flows Downhill
Everett Conner comes back as Buda's public work's director, despite previous run-ins with the law.
BY AMY SMITH
Excessive Use of Task Force
Texas Civil Rights Project files a lawsuit on behalf of a Spicewood woman falsely accused of growing marijuana.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Where's the Smell?
Georgetown engineer Charles Steger says he's trying to set the record straight about the city's controversial wastewater treatment plant.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Yogurt Shop Case Cross-Examined
Appeals court decision may undermine yogurt shop prosecutions.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bars, or Behind Bars?
APD busts the owners of seven Sixth Street bars for falsifying info on their liquor licenses.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Baby It's Warm Outside
Critics say TNRCC sees pollution problems but won't do anything about it.
BY LEE NICHOLS
The Designated Acting (Almost) City Manager
Word is that the City Council will be appointing an "acting city manager designate" while Garza finishes his term.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Profiling the Police
A recent ACLU report says nearly half of police departments in Texas have "successfully" implemented anti-racial profiling policies.
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle: Blame It on the Kids
Gov. Perry has no trouble funding his enormous transportation plan, but can't find insurance money for poor kids.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin At Large: Backseat Driver
Karen Rae resigns from Cap Metro
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Using cows to explain Enron; dumping nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain; and crying in your champagne at Austin's 360 Summit.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Pure Beef
Some years ago, Barbara Chisholm writes, hipsters clearly informed us that Thai, Indian, Italian even -- anything but a steak house -- was cool. Not a slave to fashion, Austin Land and Cattle Company proudly flew its steak house flag. It was beefy when beefy wasn't cool.
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals the best bet for your Valentine's Day plans, among other tantalizing tidbits.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Hometown Buffets
Hometown buffets in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
Rich From the Journey
The crazy quilt career of Kimmie Rhodes.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW needs venues, and the TABC keeps shutting 'em down. Public Enemy would be proud.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Cinemaphonic 2: Soul Punch, Popshopping 2: More Music From German Commercials 1962-1977
Cinemaphonic 2: Soul Punch, Popshopping 2: More Music From German Commercials 1962-1977
The Memphis Blues Again
Ernest C. Withers and Daniel J. Wolf
Ludacris, Ride or Die Vol. III, 8Ball, Cypress Hill, Mobb Deep, Nas, Busta Rhymes, Mystikal, Method Man & Redman, Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan, Lil Keke, Lil Bow Wow
Word of Mouf, In “R” We Trust, Almost Famous, Stoned Raiders, Infamy, Stillmatic, Genesis, Tarantula, How High, Bulletproof Wallets, Iron Flag, Platinum in the Ghetto, Doggie Bag
screens
Clash of the Titans
William Shatner and Harry Hamlin come to Austin to talk up their indie collaboration, Shoot or Be Shot.
BY KEN LIECK
Stand and Deliver
Salute his shorts: Legendary porn star Ron Jeremy comes to town.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Transmedia This!
Bill Lundberg is rightly revered among Austin's media arts dwellers for his biting hybrids of conceptual and filmic art forms; when he brings his program to the Hideout Theatre on Saturday, you'll have a chance to see what all the fuss is about.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Texas Hall of Fame Inductees Announced
The Texas Film Hall of Fame Gala March 8 will be star-studded, most assuredly.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Local animator Lance Myers goes for the "Guts" and gets into S&M.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
PBS isn't afraid to take chances with its programming.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
101 Reykjavík
Icelander Kormakur shows a lot of visual flourish and confidence as a first-time director (he also co-stars), but the story's real heart lies in its dark comedy.
The Other Side of Heaven
Slackers
arts & culture
Close to the Edge
The Chronicle Arts team hits the 2002 FronteraFest Long Fringe to find how close to the edge this year's artists take us.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
If It's Thursday, This Must Be Texas
On the morning of January 24, NY Loves America: The Broadway Tour delivered a Big Apple thank you in the form of a dozen beautifully belted show tunes to a small but appreciative audience in the Texas State Capitol Rotunda.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Carl Hiaasen's Latest
Carl Hiaasen fans have come to expect novels full of wit and wisdom, bile and brilliance. His latest, Basket Case (Knopf, $25.95), doesn't break any new ground, but it is almost exactly that type of book, reviewer Rick Klaw writes.
BY RICK KLAW
Articulations
Salvage Vanguard Theater loses Dan Dietz as co-Artistic Director, the National Endowments for the Arts loses its new director, and the Rude Mechanicals sell out their Mid-America tour of Lipstick Traces.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
It’s five weeks until SXSW season, which kicks off with SXSW Film presenting Peter Bogdanovich and his new film. If that weren’t enough, the Texas Film Hall of Fame will feature Sissy Spacek inducting Terrence Malick, along with presenters and inductees Marcia Gay Harden, Cyd Charisse, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Dan Rather, Bill Broyles, Bill Wittliff, Jack Valenti, Cheech Marin, and Dennis Hopper.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
More trivia than you c an shake a stick at
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The exhibit of flags in Houston reminds us of what it took to come this far.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Harken back to the days of yore … on the dancefloor, as "After a Fashion" trips the disco ball fantastic in this boogie down Memory Lane.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Every once in a while, without overdoing, my back "goes out." It isn't bad enough to see the doctor, and I'm nervous about trying a chiropractor. What else is possible?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
HIV-positive people: Help choose what services are provided
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
The agony and the ecstasy of the Bears
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
