Draylen Mason Studio
Volume 22, Number 6
news
Can Lazarus Rise Again?
Gary Bradley faces bankruptcy, and Austin wonders if he'll survive and thrive one more time.
BY AMY SMITH
Room at the Top?
Part I of the Chronicle's preview of the Nov. 5 general election
BY MICHAEL KING
Shoal Creek Showdown
Neighbors and cyclists compromise on Shoal Creek Blvd. project -- but city staff has other ideas.
BY DAVE MANN
Oppel's Memory Hole
Statesman editor Rich Oppel blasts Sen. Gonzalo Barrientos, but may not have checked his facts.
BY MICHAEL KING
Clergy: Bush Shalt Not Kill
BY LEE NICHOLS
KAOS at KOOP
Austin's "community-owned" radio station is once again fractured into factions.
BY LAURI APPLE
Trouble Tackling Tulia
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
Breaking news from Austin, Texas, and the World
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
Hopwood lawyer Steven Wayne Smith aspires to the Texas Supreme Court.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
City Hall's M.O. and the sins of Vision Village
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Terror strikes Georgetown … not quite; and Bush warms up to polluters.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Shared Vision
MM Pack reports on the combination of generosity and hard work that built the Institute of Hospitality & Culinary Arts at Travis High School.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
"Talk about your big party weekends," writes Virginia B. Wood in this week's "Food-o-File." "If you don't find some great food and wine to enjoy with this lineup available, you're just not trying hard enough!"
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Bagels to Beignets to Doughnuts
Starch: "Second Helpings" thinks it just makes sense.
music
Psychedelic Warlords
The kings of Texas psyche rock, ST 37
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
The Ballad of El Molino
Unearthing one of the great "lost" albums of Texas rock & roll history
BY BILL BENTLEY
Dancing About Architecture
Everything from 20+ years ago is coming back, starting with Elvis Costello.
BY KEN LIECK
Carrasco Reviewed
Joe "King" Carrasco
Joe "King" Carrasco and El Molina
Slobberbone
Slippage
Lowery 66
Holiday with Genie
Alex Coke
New Texas Swing
Rajamani
Pakiam
Govinda
Echoes of Eden
1001 Nights Orchestra
Music From the Middle East & Beyond
Mingo Saldivar
A Taste of Texas
Steve Earle
Jerusalem
Guy Clark
The Dark
Johnny Dowd
The Pawnbroker's Wife
Rhett Miller
The Instigator
The Coffee Sergeants
Consolation Has No Phone…
Craig Marshall
Popular Crimes
Asylum Street Spankers
My Favorite Record
Broken Teeth, Streetwalkin Cheetahs
Guilty Pleasures, In Rock We Trust
The Cruel & Unusual
Killtime
Sniffy
No Secrets in Sweatpants
Hug
Lickable
Recover
Ceci N'est Pas Recover
Shearwater
Everybody Makes Mistakes
Susanna Van Tassel
My Little Star
screens
Eight Days a Week
Austin Film Festival 2002
Pauline & Paulettes
A last conversation with Kael, the last decade with her successor, and a few words from online armchair critics
Short Cuts
More festival fever.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Assuming for a moment that I rely on popular culture for all my information, what I want to know is, where do we learn to grow old?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Spring Forward
Though this bittersweet story languished foolishly on the shelf after a Sundance premiere, and limited theatrical release two years ago, it is finally available on video.
Film Reviews
Brown Sugar
Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie
Animated Old Testament.
Pokémon 4ever
The Rules of Attraction
Roger Avary does Bret Easton Ellis.
Spirited Away
Spirited Away, about a young girl who is trapped between the real and the ghost-worlds, melds bits of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz with Eastern-angled spookiness and an outré sensibility that borders on the indescribable.
The Transporter
Tuck Everlasting
White Oleander
arts & culture
A Better Tomorrow
For years, the city of Austin's arts funding process has been mired in perpetual gloom, but with the city reviewing its Cultural Contracts Program, artists and arts companies talking with each other about collaborations and a shared vision of what the arts mean to Austin, there are glimmers of light on the city's arts funding horizon.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
A weekly rundown of the latest news in Austin's visual and performing arts scene
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Proof
In David Auburn's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Proof, mathematicians are shown to be unsure about many things -- the work they do, the methods they use, their lives, even their sanity -- and the State Theater Company's production beautifully captures the uncertainty of this world.
Carmina Burana/Hymn to the Earth
For its first concert of the 2002-03 season, Conspirare offered a striking premiere of Hymn to the Earth, by local composer Donald Grantham, then conductor Craig Hella Johnson led a gregarious and eager mob in a sing-along version of Carl Orff's popular Carmina Burana.
columns
Page Two
The impending misadventure in Iraq is almost too heartbreaking to write about.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I am very concerned about my 12-year-old son. He mopes around the house, doesn't seem to have hobbies or friends, and the friends he does have are rather unsavory characters. I was like that when I was a teenager, but I don't want him to suffer like I did, even to the point of having suicidal thoughts. How can I help him?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
