Jan. 3, 2003

Volume 22, Number 18

news

News Top 10s

The Hightower Report

An anonymous Congressman gives generously to Eli Lilly by sticking it to autistic children; and something stinks at the Pentagon -- literally.

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

Tasting 2002

The Austin Chronicle Food staff looks back at the year in food, 2002.

music

Dancing About Architecture

The last installment of "Dancing About Architecture."

BY KEN LIECK

screens

Top 10s of 2002

The Austin Chronicle film reviewers offer their end-of-the-year lists and combine their individual lists to reach a group Top 10.

Film Reviews

Chicago

This film adaptation doesn't so much recall the glory days of movie musicals as give it a new, era-specific reason to wake up and shake its tail feather.

For every creative triumph in the Austin arts community in 2002 -- and they were plentiful -- there seemed to be a corresponding defeat, usually tied to the economic downturn and its problems for the arts community.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Articulations

Ridiculous Theatre Company's Everett Quinton comes to Austin to do a "twisted" version of Oliver! for Zach, Ballet Austin gets in touch with New York, and honors for painter Michael Ray Charles and Austin Babtist Women.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

columns

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

Letters at 3AM

In 2002, cinema has been the healthiest of our arts. The movies' range and variety relieve what has otherwise been a bleak time for our culture and our Constitution.