Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 22, Number 12
news
The Custody Battle at Brackenridge
Seton's plan to build its own pediatrics facility throws a monkey wrench into the proposed hospital district.
BY AMY SMITH
The Battle of Washington's Bulge
The textbook wars make a casualty of Washington Crossing the Delaware.
BY MICHAEL KING
The MACC: Back on Track, or Under Attack?
The city approves a new board for the Mexican-American Cultural Center -- and the center's previous shepherds cry foul.
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin Makes Federal Case Over New Courthouse
Austin leaders try to influence the feds' new U.S. courthouse project.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Danziger and Ochoa: Why Did Freedom Take So Long?
BY JORDAN SMITH
King Probe Halted
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
Capitol Chronicle
Ideology, not need, shapes the energies of the incoming Legislature.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The sluggish transportation beat picks up speed and energy after the election.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
HealthSouth's ethics need rehabilitation.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Instant Thanksgiving!
Advice for the Culinarily Challenged
BY MICK VANN AND VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood's view from the "rousing success" of the recent Eat, Drink, Watch Movies series.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Meat Markets
The meat market is strong, according to this carnivorous "Second Helpings."
music
The Smell of Success
Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dancing About Architecture
Things get so bad in the Live Music Capital of the World that they're citing the 'King of Sixth Street,' Gerry Van King, for busking on the street
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
screens
'Heaven' Sent
Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Producers
The fourth annual National Association of Latino Independent Producers conference met in San Antonio Nov. 7-10 to talk shop and fête its most promising players.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
In Print
UT professor Charles Ramírez Berg has crafted an academic dissection of film stereotypes. Moreover, it's an enormously readable and instructive volume.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Open Screen Night
A cheap way to influence masses
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
Regal co-CEO Kurt Hall was quoted as saying, "I hope the line between entertainment and advertising will begin to blur." He says that like it's a good thing.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
After much off-season media attention, the Emmy Award-winning The Osbournes returns to MTV for its second season on Tuesday.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Fassbinder's grimy Berliner sensibility coats the bare bones of Sirk's original tale in a slick sheen of weary cynicism and pits true love against societal mores in a battle to the bitter end.
Film Reviews
El Crimen del Padre Amaro
Controversial Mexican film about a priest who struggles with sins of the flesh.
Die Another Day
The Emperor's Club
arts & culture
Seeing Through Animation Darkly
On paper, artists Trenton Doyle Hancock, Arturo Herrera, Jeremy Blake, and Ellen Gallagher may share little in common, but in the Blanton Museum of Art's "Cartoon Noir" curator Annette Carlozzi has skillfully grouped works by them to reveal a shared interest in cartoon's darker underside as a means to explore moral complexities in contemporary life.
BY ERINA DUGANNE
'Bash' in Your Head
Although best known for films such as In the Company of Men and Your Friends and Neighbors, LaBute began as a playwright, and Austin is about to get its first look at one of his plays, the disturbing Bash, courtesy of the dirigo group.
BY BARRY PINEO
Articulations
Austin Musical Theatre survives, the Center for American Music is born at UT, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
c/o the grove
In c / o the grove, director J. Ed Araiza has moved Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard to modern Central Texas, where pecans take the part of cherry trees and pop culture references abound, not always to the play's benefit, but the strong storytelling and focused performances of the young cast make this another success in big, collaborative, ensemble theatre for the St. Edward's University theatre department.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Director David Charles Goyette uses an army of actors to stage Brecht's epic of war, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and his constant movement of them, along with the impressive design work, gives the impression of a huge and hungry populace, but much of the story is lost in the broad acting of much of the UT student cast.
Paul Taylor Dance Company
The Paul Taylor Dance Company's Nov. 16 appearance at Bass Concert Hall allowed Austinites to see how this 72-year-old master molds intricate, enthralling shapes into the space of the stage and to marvel at the remarkable team of dancers that he employs to coax his vision to life.
columns
Page Two
Seton Healthcare Network's undermining of a proposed hospital district -- combined with the city's consistent lack of long-term planning -- may have tragic, real-world consequences.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
This week, Stephen goes to a drag ball and gets some Texture in his life.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I have decided that it is prudent to start taking a multivitamin, but it seems like there are hundreds of choices. How do I narrow down the selections?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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