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Volume 21, Number 35
news
Beverly Besieged
Mike Clark-Madison previews the Place 4 City Council race.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Hell Hath No Fury
Former friends become bitter foes in the Place 1 race.
BY AMY SMITH
A Civil Action
Preview of Place 3 City Council Race
BY MICHAEL KING
Drawing Lines on Prop. 1
The city debates campaign finance reform.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Chronicle Endorsements
Chronicle Endorsements, May 4 election
No Bilingual Blueprint?
Forgione's new blueprint attracts critics who worry it will mean the end of the dual language program.
BY MICHAEL MAY
Noise Ordinance for Pipelines Needed?
BY AMY SMITH
War: Made in Texas?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
The Lege attempt at air pollution control gets shot down in court.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The Chieftains of the Green Tribe need to remember that City Council represents all Austinites.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Kmart gives its CEO the blue light and workers the pink slip; corporate taxes disappear into the Bermuda Triangle; Vignette rewards failure.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Taste of Mexico
International culinary diplomacy, Austin-style.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Austin's latest culinary news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood continues the catfish onslaught in this week's "Second Helpings."
Food Reviews
Texas on the Plate
Terry Thompson-Anderson
music
Keeping the Peace
Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.
BY ANDY LANGER
Rock & Roll Ghost
Paul Westerberg looks forward, talks backward.
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Dancing About Architecture
Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Nathan Hamilton, Damnations, Roger Wallace, Dale Watson, Carla Bozulich, the Nels Cline Singers
Waylon Jennings Hoot Night / Carla Bozulich & Friends perform Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger
Cee-lo, Nappy Roots, Old Dirty Bastard, Various Artists, N.E.R.D., Blackalicious
Cee-lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones, Rewind!, In Search of…, Blazing Arrow
Bob Mould, LoudBomb
Modulate, Long Playing Grooves
screens
The Woodman Cometh
In promotion of his new film 'Hollywood Ending,' reluctant traveler Woody Allen appeared briefly in Austin to talk bats, barbecue, and why he'll never go back to stand-up.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Fast Cars, Strip Bars, and Elvis, Even
What's new, Pussycat? Onetime Russ Meyer leading lady Tura Satana comes to town for the first annual Alamo Drive-In.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Better Git Hit in Your Soul
Former Austinite George Ratliff returns to town with his new documentary, Hell House, which explores the Trinity Church's way of converting teens to Christ -- by scaring the pants off them.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Sights and Sounds of Art in Sync
Ron Mann's jazz avant-garde exploration Imagine the Sound provides the perfect counterpoint to Austin Eye+Ear (which will screen Mann's film this Sunday in an E+E benefit): Both are bent on the blurring of artistic lines.
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
New in Print
Dallas author Sam Staggs writes with zeal and authority in his exposé of Billy Wilder's classic camp 'Sunset Boulevard.'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Short Cuts
The Austin film community appears ready to rumble as the Austin Film Office (under the aegis of the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau) files suit against the Austin Film Commission, whose name and mission statement the AFO thinks is too close for comfort.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Technology is making great strides in the development of interactive TV. Now when are TV execs going to start paying attention?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Friday the 13th Part 3
1982's Friday the 13th Part 3 holds a special place in the hearts of fans: It's schlocky and stupid, yet somehow scary, it's goofy, yet often gory, and it explains the origin of Jason's signature facewear.
Film Reviews
Deuces Wild
Happenstance
The horoscope of a young woman (Amélie's Tautou) predicts that love is just around the corner.
Hollywood Ending
Jason X
Although the serial killer Jason has been cryogenically frozen at the start of this 10th outing, the hockey-masked one ends up defrosting on a spaceship in the year 2455.
Son of the Bride
In this Argentinean film, a single dad and businessman struggles to keep his personal life afloat while undergoing a midlife crisis.
arts & culture
Extending a Dance's Life: Deborah Hay
Deborah Hay forges her own answer to the issue of how one keeps choreography alive beyond one's own physical and mortal limitations with Nine Nights of Music in May, in which her solo "Music" is performed and adapted by four diverse artists.
BY DAWN DAVIS LORING
Articulations
Seven Austin arts organizations receive outreach grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, playwright C. Denby Swanson receives a McKnight Advancement Grant, and Peter Pan receives his own Amy's Ice Cream flavor.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Endorsements are a pain, but we think they are also a service to our readers.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The gargoyles guarding the great cathedrals are a part of religion, a part of humanity, even a part of God. You come to be redeemed, but it's possible you'll be devoured.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
My thighs look like orange peel! I've seen this on older women, but I am only 28. My friends call it cellulite, so what is cellulite and more important, how do I make it go away?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
After a Fashion
There's no lack of fashion at Groopie; hair online; Marcy gets well soon, and another José Eber sighting. All inside!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
BY ERIC CRABTREE
Coach's Corner
Odds and ends: David Stern … Drew Bledsoe … KevinGarnett … Rick Reilly … and more.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
