Paramount Theatre
Volume 21, Number 23
news
A Shifting Landscape
Texas Parks & Wildlife at an organizational crossroads
BY DAN OKO
Neighborly Planning
The city, businesses, and residents all seem pleased with the results of the East Martin Luther King Neighborhood Planning Workshop.
BY LAURI APPLE
Making Hay at the ARA
The city's Neighborhood Housing and Community Development Office moves on up to the Eastside.
BY LAURI APPLE
Human Rights Complaint Filed Against State Senate
Three former Senate staffers have filed suit for discriminatory firing.
BY MICHAEL KING
An Abstinence of Judgment
The Bush administration's new appointee to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV / AIDS is motivated more by ideology than science, critics warn.
BY LAURI APPLE
Brack Plans Face New Roadblock
The city's plans to create a hospital-within-a-hospital at Brack hit yet another snag.
BY LAURI APPLE
Who Owns the Ancestors?
Excavations near Victoria promise a scientific gold mine, but possible objections from Native American leaders leave the project's fate uncertain.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Glore Case: Shut and Open
An update on the Virginia Glore Case
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The charter vs. the election code in court
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
NMD is a bad idea, says Nobel Prize winner Steven Weinberg.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Linda Lay is a poor little rich girl; the WTO bites its own creators; Enron got what it paid for.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Miguel and the Miracles
Why Austin's most revered restaurant, Fonda San Miguel, is still in business against all odds.
BY CLAY SMITH
Food-o-File
All the restaurant news that fits
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Interior Mexican
Interior Mexican restaurants
music
Waitin' 'Round to Live
The making and subsequent success of Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
BY ANDY LANGER
I Come From the Water
Sideman / producer Gurf Morlix delivers album number two.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
The Austin Music Awards lineup is announced, as are new ratings points for KUT.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Slayer
Slayer@La Zona Rosa
Meat Purveyors, American People
American People, Meat Purveyors@Hole In The Wall
Texas Eastside Kings
Texas Eastside Kings@Victory Grill
Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau
Wynton Marsalis & the Lincoln Jazz Center Orchestra@Paramount Theatre / Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau@One World Theatre
the Breeders
The Breeders@Emo's
screens
Film on the Fringe
The Blue Theater's new experimental film and video series Blue Screen looks to redefine the parameters of 'independent' cinema.
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Next Party
SXSW Film gets political.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Afternoon Snack
A local arts program provides fun for kids after school.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Shooting Gallery
BY MARC SAVLOV
Love and a VCR
Don't have any one to cuddle up to on Valentine's Day? Hunker down with the most romantic moments in movies instead.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Michael Bay gets into "Leather" …
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
"Down There" gets its proper due on HBO.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
How Playfest's Bernadette Nason Got Hooked on Theatre
As Playfest begins its 10th season this week, the Chronicle turned to actor-storyteller Bernadette Nason, one of the longtime regular contributors to the festival, to see what part theatre played in her childhood and how it influenced her current work.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Pat Jasper gets a Valentine's tribute for her years at Texas Folklife Resources, and playwrights John Walch and Paullette MacDougal enjoy a couple of out of town openings.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Andrew Rannells is wonderfully ablaze in the role of the German-born rocker whose sex-change operation was botched, and everything about this hilarious musical spectacle has been fine-tuned to maximum pleasure.
Madame X
In Madame X, playwright Ann Ciccolella dramatizes the events surrounding the creation of Sargent's famous portrait of Virginie Gautrau, using them as a springboard for an absorbing inquiry into the meaning and relationships of art, beauty, and society.
FronteraFest Long Fringe
Dance!
columns
Page Two
The events of the week form themselves into a kind of poetry.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
To be an artist is to live a life of service to one's gift.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
After a relaxing walk on the beach, grab a cuppa joe and a pastry at Beeman's Coffee Bar.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I am trying to convince my husband to reduce his salt intake. He doesn't have high blood pressure, but it does run in his family. What reasons can I give him?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Missionary Talks About AIDS in Africa Feb. 20
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Pills in the hand are worth a mouthful of Bush and some Texas Film Hall of Fame teasers are the tip of this week's dish iceberg.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Mark Cuban has transformed the once-pathetic Dallas Mavericks into an elite NBA squad -- but they're not quite there yet.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily