Volume 21, Number 24
news
Chartering a Course
A preview of the Charter Revisions Proposals
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Living by the Line
People who live by the Longhorn Pipeline fight to keep the gas turned off.
BY AMY SMITH
Stupid White Guilt
BY CLAY SMITH
Desperately Seeking Quality Control
BY JORDAN SMITH
Building Black Momentum
A report on the African-American Legislative Summit
BY LAURI APPLE
David (and Jesus) vs. Goliath
The city alleges that Time Warner Cable is offering illegal discounts to snuff out competition.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Coming to terms: The limited wisdom of term limits
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
John Sharp would balance the budget by cutting Medicaid.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
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
Mix and Match
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
Food-o-File
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
Second Helpings: Tex-Mex
Tex-Mex restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
Be Real
The Bottle Rockets cut one helluva tribute to Doug Sahm.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Breaking Down the Barricades
Aussie songstress Kasey Chambers becomes Austin's darling.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Dancing About Architecture
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 Byrds
The Preflyte Sessions
The B-52's
Nude on the Moon
Thuja, Alastair Galbraith & Matt De Gennaro
Ghost Plants, Long Wires in Dark Museums (Vol. 1)
Catscratch, Hipshot, Wild Things, Miss Spent Youth, Spitfire
Catscratch, Hipshot, Wild Things, Miss Spent Youth, Spitfire@La Zona Rosa
Girl Singer: An Autobiography
Liberace: An American Boy
The Sammy Davis, Jr. Reader
Rosemary Clooney with Joan Barthel, Darden Asbury Pyron and Gerald Early
screens
Fandemonium!
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
The Naked Truth
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
American Cinematheque's Universal Appeal
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
New on DVD
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Short Cuts
The Arbor gets the axe from Simon Property Group.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Memo to America: The Olympics aren't about one, but all.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
What Lies Beneath
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
The Basics, With Bogart
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
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
The Gin Game
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.
Una Panthera: Music from the Trecento and Early Renaissance Italy
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
Page Two
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
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
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.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
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
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
