Volume 21, Number 35
news
Mike Clark-Madison previews the Place 4 City Council race.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Former friends become bitter foes in the Place 1 race.
BY AMY SMITH
Preview of Place 3 City Council Race
BY MICHAEL KING
The city debates campaign finance reform.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Chronicle Endorsements, May 4 election
Forgione's new blueprint attracts critics who worry it will mean the end of the dual language program.
BY MICHAEL MAY
BY AMY SMITH
BY LEE NICHOLS
BY LAURI APPLE
The Lege attempt at air pollution control gets shot down in court.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Chieftains of the Green Tribe need to remember that City Council represents all Austinites.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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
International culinary diplomacy, Austin-style.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Austin's latest culinary news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood continues the catfish onslaught in this week's "Second Helpings."
Food Reviews
music
Andy Langer examines round one of trying to establish a new city noise ordinance for Austin.
BY ANDY LANGER
Paul Westerberg looks forward, talks backward.
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Noise ordinance debate blows over -- for now -- while Internet radio crisis threatens, and SIMS crisis subsides.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Waylon Jennings Hoot Night / Carla Bozulich & Friends perform Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger
Cee-lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections, Watermelon, Chicken & Gritz, The Trials and Tribulations of Russell Jones, Rewind!, In Search of
, Blazing Arrow
Modulate, Long Playing Grooves
C'mon, C'mon
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
screens
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
What's new, Pussycat? Onetime Russ Meyer leading lady Tura Satana comes to town for the first annual Alamo Drive-In.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
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
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
Dallas author Sam Staggs writes with zeal and authority in his exposé of Billy Wilder's classic camp 'Sunset Boulevard.'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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
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
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
The horoscope of a young woman (Amélie's Tautou) predicts that love is just around the corner.
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.
In this Argentinean film, a single dad and businessman struggles to keep his personal life afloat while undergoing a midlife crisis.
arts & culture
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
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
Endorsements are a pain, but we think they are also a service to our readers.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
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
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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.
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
BY ERIC CRABTREE
Odds and ends: David Stern
Drew Bledsoe
KevinGarnett
Rick Reilly
and more.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters to the editor, published daily