Volume 21, Number 24
news
A preview of the Charter Revisions Proposals
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
People who live by the Longhorn Pipeline fight to keep the gas turned off.
BY AMY SMITH
BY CLAY SMITH
BY JORDAN SMITH
A report on the African-American Legislative Summit
BY LAURI APPLE
The city alleges that Time Warner Cable is offering illegal discounts to snuff out competition.
BY LEE NICHOLS
BY LAURI APPLE
Coming to terms: The limited wisdom of term limits
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
John Sharp would balance the budget by cutting Medicaid.
BY MICHAEL KING
Brazil's indigenous people battle corporate biopirates; the Bush appointee calendar is 12 months of ugly; and the Century Club lets in the riff-raff.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Don't sweat it trying to create the perfect mating of beer and food, Chronicle Food writer Wes Marshall writes in a review of North by Northwest Restaurant & Brewery. Pick a drink you like, pick a dish you like, and just enjoy them.
BY WES MARSHALL
How Virginia B. Wood joined the Local Yokel Coalition and a chance to meet Bill Jamison and Cheryl Alter Jamison, the authors of A Real American Breakfast: The Best Meal of the Day, Any Time of Day.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Tex-Mex restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
The Bottle Rockets cut one helluva tribute to Doug Sahm.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Aussie songstress Kasey Chambers becomes Austin's darling.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Neil Diamond comes to town, the Metro stays open, Cotton Mather searches for a deal, Hamstein sells its publishing, Wynton Marsalis visits the Elephant Room, and much, much more.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
The Preflyte Sessions
Nude on the Moon
Ghost Plants, Long Wires in Dark Museums (Vol. 1)
Catscratch, Hipshot, Wild Things, Miss Spent Youth, Spitfire@La Zona Rosa
Rosemary Clooney with Joan Barthel, Darden Asbury Pyron and Gerald Early
screens
Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Legendary exploitation producer Dave Friedman comes to town to present Mau Mau Sex Sex, the documentary of his career with Dan Sonney.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The Arbor gets the axe from Simon Property Group.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Memo to America: The Olympics aren't about one, but all.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Sydney Yeager's new paintings at D Berman Gallery represent a departure in the artist's work, a potential turning point from the figurative images that made Yeager's work recognizable for nearly a decade to what has always been the real strength of her paintings: the abstraction beneath.
BY MADELINE IRVINE
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Austin Arts Commission defuses a community controversy by restarting the process of selecting public art for the soon-to-be-expanded George Washington Carver Museum and Library.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Onstage Theatre Company's production of The Gin Game manages to do justice to D.L. Coburn's 1978 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, taking two people who sit around playing cards and holding our attention for the better part of two hours.
In Una Panthera: Music from the Trecento and Early Renaissance Italy, a concert of love songs from 14th-century Europe presented as part of the 2002 Mid-Winter Festival of Music, exquisite pain and longing were brought to exquisite life in the enrapturing voices and instruments of Texas Early Music Project singers and musicians.
columns
Single-member districts would wrest control of the City Council from the residents of heavy-voting, progressive / environmental Central Austin, but would not be a quick fix for any of the civic problems currently laid, somewhat inaccurately, at the feet of the current council.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
I stopped eating nuts a few years ago when I found out about aflatoxins, but now I am hearing more about nuts being good for us. Should I reconsider?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach pretty much stays out of political discussions these days -- but did you catch our president at the Olympics the other night? What a doofus!
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters to the editor, published daily