Captain Quackenbush's
Volume 22, Number 15
news
Business, As Usual
The Capitol circus returns, but the permanent government is always in session.
BY MICHAEL KING AND JORDAN SMITH
Texas' 'Lethal Indifference' Blasted in New Death-Row Report
A new Texas Defenders Service study charges the state Court of Criminal Appeals ignores death-row inmates' rights and its own legal mandate.
BY JORDAN SMITH
City vs. Seton: Coming to a Hospital Near You
Negotiations between City Hall and the Seton Healthcare Network, beginning this week, could determine the future of public health care in Austin.
BY AMY SMITH
Summit for the Aquifer
BY AMY SMITH
Downtown Deadly for Bikes?
BY LAURI APPLE
Defending the Arts at AISD
BY MICHAEL MAY
Trash of the Titans Offends Neighbors, City Board
Neighbors rack up more complaints about Northeast landfills -- and the city Environmental Board joins the fray.
BY LAURI APPLE
Paying the CPPP Way
BY MICHAEL KING
Live Nun Witnessing
BY MICHAEL KING
Railing at the Rail Yard:
Capital Metro runs into (surprise!) angry neighbors as it contemplates redeveloping its Eastside rail yard.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Do You Feel Safe? A Chronicle Questionnaire
Test your patriotism with our attempt at Total Information Awareness.
Naked City
News Briefs from Austin and elsewhere
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Running Scared
Time waits for no one -- especially not the Downtown Austin Alliance or the Austin Music Network -- at the City Hall sausage factory.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bob Dole scolds us from his taxpayer-funded penthouse; and, "This police rescue is brought to you by: Hooters!"
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Culinary Library
The Food staff suggests some worthwhile gift choices from Santa's book bag.
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood brings the wine and tamale news, just in time for the holidays!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: The Other America
"Second Helpings" gets South American this week.
music
Nowhere but Texas
A long, lost cosmic country artifact resurfaces.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
Noise Ordinance meeting is postponed, as is the ultimate fate of the Austin Music Network. Happily, the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar is back.
BY KEN LIECK
Local Reissues
Freda & the Firedogs, Lubbock Lights, The Contenders
Freda & the Firedogs, Supernatural Family Band, The Contenders
Rolling Stones
The ABKCO Reissue Series
Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe, Slow Century DVD
The Fall
A Part of America Therein 1981, Totale's Turns, Perverted by Language
They Might Be Giants
Dial a Song: Twenty Years of They Might Be Giants
Coltrane, John
A Love Supreme Deluxe Edition
N.W.A., Eazy-E
Straight Outta Compton, Niggaz4life, Niggaz4life: The Only Home Video, N.W.A. Legacy: The Video Collection, Eazy-Duz-It
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Cannonball Adderley, Les McCann, Eddie Harris
The Man Who Cried Fire, Radio Nights, Les is More, A Tale of Two Cities
Sahm, Doug
The Return of Doug Saldaña / 1+1+1=4
Making Singles Drinking Doubles
Making Singles Drinking Doubles
Dylan, Bob
The Bootleg Series Vol. 5: Live 1975
screens
Look Ma, No Wrapping
New DVD sets of film classics and beloved TV shows: already boxed, they just need a box on top.
Reindeer Games
Giving the gift of joystick jollies
And May All Your Christmases Include Extravagant Song & Dance Numbers
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Fangs for the Memories
Shopping & sucking with erstwhile vampire Udo Kier
BY MARC SAVLOV
Calling All Lonely-Hearts
IMAX movies and swingin' singles meet up, make out, at i-mixers.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
England welcomes Harry Knowles -- and his Underoos -- with open arms.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The face of change looks like … Janeane Garofalo?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
If the point is to see if Miss Swank can act in a dress, the jury's still out. Otherwise, this historical drama is just shy of fabulous.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
The Image-Maker
Former Chronicle "Cover Master" and legendary tattoo artist Michael Malone's aka Rollo Banks' career has always on been in ink; now it's on paper.
BY MARGARET MOSER
The Way We Were
On the eve of his move to New York City, playwright and Austin Script Works Artistic Director John Walch reflects on the development of Austin's theatre scene during his time here.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
If you're still looking for the perfect gift for that arts lover on your shopping list, you have until Dec. 18 to get a 2002 Porsche 911 Twin Turbo Carrera for a mere $100, courtesy of Arts Center Stage's raffle to raise funds for the Long Center.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Dave Steakley's version of Smokey Joe's Cafe at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center sets ablaze dozens of familiar hits from the musical catalog of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller by shifting the setting to a Playboy Club circa 1962 and rekindling the flames of desire that burn in the team's songs.
Aidan's Bed
While each of the seven bedroom dialogues in Aidan's Bed, Blake Yelavich's tight comic subversion of melodrama, relates to a deadly sin, the play as produced by Naughty Austin, is harmless at worst and titillation at its best.
A Christmas Carol
The Austin Playhouse-McCallum Fine Arts Academy co-production of Dickens' seasonal fable A Christmas Carol may be wafer-thin in substance, but the abundant goodwill of the entire company, from youngest to least-young, gives the show the warm, sweetness of a traditional holiday brew.
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
This week in Fashion: What kind of advice would Amy Fisher give Lizzie Grubman? And who has the hottest Underoos?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I keep hearing about omega-3 fatty acids. What are they, where do they come from, and what good are they?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
You don't think that this whole thing with Iraq could have anything to do with the fact that Iraq sits on 10% of the world's oil reserves? Naw. It's gotta be them weapons of mass destruction.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
