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Volume 21, Number 41
news
You Call This a Plan?
Seaholm District Master Plan Morphs Into the Lumbermen's Tract Subsidy Program
BY AMY SMITH
Must Stan Take the Stand?
Questions about the APD's disciplinary sanctions mean the chief might have to take the stand.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Save Our Speck Alliance
Larry Speck is the main architect of the Hill Country Galleria. He's also a member of the Save Our Springs Alliance board, which opposes the Galleria. This is what you call, "walking the tightrope."
BY AMY SMITH
Feds Uphold Holy Weed
BY JORDAN SMITH
Greening It Up
The Texas Green Party holds its convention in San Marcos.
BY MICHAEL KING
GHASPing for Breath in Houston
BY MICHAEL KING
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
God Votes Right
The Texas Republicans Gather in Dallas to Pray
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Out Into the DAMP
The Downtown Mobility Plan has critics from both the right and left, and that could be its undoing.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Barbecue Summer Camp!
What is it about Texas and barbecue? Chronicle Food Editor Virginia B. Wood knows, and she knows we know, but the Southern Foodways Alliance is about to find out on their Taste of Texas Field Trip. Plus, "The Barbecue Song"!?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood has news from Central Market Cooking Schools and restaurants reinventing themselves in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Erin Mosow again investigates Austin's Italian offerings in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Townes Without Pity
The battle for Townes Van Zandt's legacy
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
Dee Dee's dead, everything else is crumbling.
BY KEN LIECK
Townes Van Zandt Reviewed
Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt, Townes Van Zandt
A Gentle Evening With Townes Van Zandt, Live at the Old Quarter, Texas Rain, The Best of Townes Van Zandt
Snoop Dogg
Live Shot
DJ Shadow
Private Press
The Clash
Westway to the World
Doves
The Last Broadcast
The Hives
Veni Vidi Vicious
The Hellacopters
High Visibility
The Cato Salsa Experience
A Good for a Good Time
screens
Melville in Cubicle Hell
Tyro film director Jonathan Parker brings "Bartleby the Scrivener" back to the future. And who better to ride shotgun than freaky, geeky Crispin Glover?
BY SIDNEY MOODY
Are You Experienced?
In its continuing endeavor to be coolest enterprise in Austin, the Alamo Drafthouse served up BBQ, Baby Ruths, beer, and Corey "Mouth" Feldman at last weekend's Ultimate Goonies Experience.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Flicker's Got Super-8 for a Super Dad
How to buy Dad a beer for his special day but still avoid the Hooters' cliché.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Sidney Brammer | Alleywood Auteurs | Ninth Annual CineSol Latino Film Festival | Betty Kaplan | Esmerelda Santiago | Almost a Woman | Jesüs Nebot | No Turning Back | Eighth Annual San Antonio Underground Film Festival | Yvette Pita | "Pan y Libertad" | Director's Guild of America EastGo to the beach or go to the movies? You don't have to decide -- South Padre's CineSol Latino Film Festival has both.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The TNT action-adventure show Witchblade strikes out with its Groundhog Day-like season premiere, while HBO hits another one out of the park with cop drama The Wire.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
More Than Just the Facts, Ma'am
The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibition on Davy Crockett features a short stage show with the hero of the Alamo appearing live and in person. The two Austin actors who alternate in the show describe how they bring that King of the Wild Frontier to life day in and day out.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Images: Austin Arts Hall of Fame
Twelve local art enthusiasts are the first to be inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The Austin theatre festival MoMFest goes away, the Austin Arts Commission welcomes Sue Graze to its membership, and a couple of Austin theatre types show up on TV.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Manhattan Transfer with the Austin Symphony
The four accomplished vocalists who comprise the Manhattan Transfer turned an evening with the Austin Symphony at the Austin Convention Center into a night when "there was magic abroad in the air."
The Sopranos
New Texas Music Works closed the 2002 New Texas Festival with some tremendously talented ladies -- sopranos from the Conspirare Choir -- singing a variety of material, but for all its warmth, the concert lacked the sustained intensity and interest that is the hallmark of the choir's best work.
Evocations: The Music of Hugo Distler, Opus 12
With its presentation of sacred choral works by early 20th-century German composer Hugo Distler, the Conspirare Choir put its versatility on best display and provided a sequence of absolutely divine sounds.
columns
Page Two
Our cover story delves into the complex legacy of Townes Van Zandt, an artist who cared more about music than business, who literally lived his whole life for the sake of the song.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
See where Austin ranks in a national list of most creative cities and then wonder why Dallas also made the list once you find out that the cheesy reality TV show Cheaters is based there …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I am 68 years old, and I can't decide how best to delay the aging process. I exercise some, eat sensibly, and take a multivitamin. What else works?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
HIV-negative? Help With Vaccine Research, Get Paid!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
Learning about "manhood" from the movies
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Coach's Corner
Attending his son's graduation at UC-Santa Cruz, Coach is struck by a sudden infatuation with alternative sports: college baseball, horse racing, hockey, even World Cup soccer.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
