The Blanton Museum of Art
Volume 21, Number 32
news
Governing Post-Boom Austin
Now that the lawsuits are over, we hope the council campaigns will turn to issues.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Run-off Election Night
Primary Run-off Report
BY MICHAEL KING
Asking Questions Later
BY JORDAN SMITH
Notes of an Old Leftist
Lone Star liberal Dave Richards releases his memoir at the Scholz Garten to much fanfare.
BY CLAY SMITH
Spreading Mono
BY LEE NICHOLS
Great Streets, Not So Great Parks
Battle at the park over Riverside Drive
BY LAURI APPLE
Military Out of Mabry?
A West Austin resident says moving the Texas National Guard out of Camp Mabry would be better for both the neighborhood and military.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Capitol Chronicle
Everyone in Texas wants better schools, but no one wants to pay the tab.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
If Mueller is a model, then why wasn't it followed with the Villas?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Dubya will save us from pollution -- with gas masks; polluters get "greenwashing" awards; the Cardinals pitch St. Louis a screwball.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Minding Your Manners
Though it doesn't make it into the paper, we do get a fair amount of correspondence via phone, e-mail, or snail mail in which readers air their complaints about experiences in local restaurants. We don't print it because it's Chronicle policy not to take a position on business complaints about incidents we didn't witness and can't substantiate, but it does make for very interesting reading. It was certainly food for thought in the development of this special Chronicle pop quiz.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Taking Stock
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reports from the 17th Annual Texas Hill Country Food & Wine Festival.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Burger-Mania, Part Two
Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood feeds our burger-mania in this week's Second Helpings.
music
Mind Wide Open
D: Fuse, one of the world's biggest emerging DJs, hails from A-town.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dancing About Architecture
The rain couldn't stop the flood of Austin's outdoor music shows last weekend.
BY KEN LIECK
MY EDUCATION
Phases and Stages
... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Source Tags & Codes
Areola 51
Areola 51
Independence: An Austin Sampler
Independence Day
Auna
Secretly To ...
Mike Hall & the Woodpeckers
Lucky Too
Mike Rosenthal
Movin' In
Coco Candissi
Bricks Have Eyes
the Peenbeets
The Peenbeets Get Cancelled
Meat Purveyors
All Relationships Are Doomed to Fail
Tommy Shane Steiner
Then Came the Night
Texas Redemptors
Milagros
Sara Hickman
Faithful Heart
Michelle Shocked
Deep Natural with Dub Natural
Cinders, My Education
Live in the Chapel, 5 Popes
screens
Been Around the World
Cine las Americas enters its fifth year as the premier festival of Latino filmmaking … only they're not calling it "Latino" anymore.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Weakness of the Flesh
Actor Bill Paxton gets behind the camera for his directorial debut, the Texas gothic terror tale, Frailty.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Something to Talk About
Silent but deadly are the grandes dames of pre-talkie Hollywood: Garbo, Bow, Gish, Pickford, Brooks. The Austin Film Society presents a new series honoring their early work.
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
An Unsentimental Education
A/V Geek Skip Elsheimer is a curator of a certain brand of pop-culture ephemera: the forgotten "educational" film.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
A Blue Ribbon Benefit
"Grand Champion" Premiere
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
It's a moviehouse melee as a rumored three more suitors enter into the Great Hills 8 bidding war.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Disappointingly, Julia Louis-Dreyfus' new sitcom didn't prove self-fulfilling -- no one is watching Watching Ellie. "TV Eye" explains why you should.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
The Secret History of Tuna
Tuna isn't the only Texas town with which actor-writers Jaston Williams and Joe Sears can be closely identified. Austin has played a significant role in the development of their town, and in return Sears and Williams have changed the face of the capital city.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Rite of Spring: The Austin Fine Arts Festival
Local sculptor Damian Priour talks about being Featured Artist for one of the city's rites of spring: the Austin Fine Arts Festival.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Austin Lyric Opera hires a new managing director, Horton Foote's The Carpetbagger's Children is named best new play by America's theatre critics, and half-price tickets are back at BookPeople.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
True West
Boys will be boys -- especially if they're brothers and they're written by Sam Shepard. And this offering of True West from 4th &1 does a damned fine job of showing us what that means.
'David Douglas Duncan'
David Douglas Duncan inaugurated the David Douglas Duncan Endowed Lecture Series in Photojournalism by talking about his dog Yo-Yo, a small terrier, and providing the audience with an intimate and entertaining slide show from one of the world's master photographers.
Blade to the Heat
The Nushank Theater Collective produces a cast of powerful performers for its production of Oliver Mayer's glove love drama Blade to the Heat.
As You Like It
Director Johanna McKeon opens her UT Department of Theatre & Dance staging of As You Like It in a court of stylish bleakness, but when she moves it to the Forest of Arden, spring permeates the production and a buzzing, exuberant spirit takes over.
columns
Page Two
Like all morality-based movements designed to eat away at our most basic freedoms, term limits and campaign finance reform are inherently anti-democratic.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Is earwax supposed to be dry or sticky? Mine seems to be too dry and is hard to remove. Is there a remedy other than having a doctor remove it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Some upcoming events to keep you off the street and a little story about your Style Avatar and why he should probably stay off the streets …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
San Antonio and Dallas are two of the best teams in pro basketball. Their meeting this weekend was just a preview of a playoff showdown.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
