Volume 22, Number 23
news
Changing Places
The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood
BY MICHAEL MAY
On the Lege: Bombshells and Budget Officers
The Legislature begins to get down to business.
BY MICHAEL KING
STAR Flight Strife Leads to Stand-Down
The fallout from an employee lawsuit briefly shuts down Travis County's air ambulance service and vexes the Commissioners Court.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Getting Down, Standing Up
BY LAURI APPLE
Will Seton Touch Down at Mueller?
The old airport may become home to a new Children's Hospital.
BY AMY SMITH
Pierce Freed After Three Years: "Godspeed"
The DA drops charges against Maurice Pierce for the yogurt shop murders.
BY JORDAN SMITH
T.A.B. Takes Legal Offensive
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Our fiscal crisis is exactly the reason we need a City Council resolution on Iraq
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
A farewell to Maury Maverick Jr.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Nancy delivers Victory for cell-phone companies; Rick Perry admits he's not up to the job.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Comforts of Home Cooking
Two Austin schools are teaching the old-fashioned way.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood has nothing but good news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sushi
Sushi: The possibilities are quiet literally endless.
music
This Good Thing
Austin's sharp-dressed ska men, the Stingers
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TCB
SXSW looms on the horizon, and "TCB" is already neck-deep in it.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Flametrick Subs
Something in Japanese
Slum City
Hot Beef Rejection
This Microwave World
The Same Things Kill Your Kids EP
The Midgetmen
Pool Party Emergency
Mickey & the Motorcars
Which Way From Here
Lost John Casner
Don't Make Me Laugh While I'm Drinkin'
Bill Neely
Austin's Original Singer-Songwriter
Richard Buckner
Richard Buckner
Ruben Ramos
On the Prowl
Malford Milligan
Sweet Cherry Soul
Monte Montgomery
Live at the Caravan of Dreams
Oh, Beast!
Oh, Beast!
J Church
Palestine
Butthole Surfers
Butthole Surfers + Live PCPPEP
screens
(Re)learning Japanese
One was a hardworking Renaissance man, a student of literature. The other was a hard-living military veteran, a cameraman-in-training who stumbled into acting after his grizzled mug and gruff mien won a talent search. Together, Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune created some of the Japanese cinema's most enduring treasures.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Come What May
Be it buckets of blood or PBS adaptations, Austin native and newly crowned angel of death Angela Bettis is up for it.
BY MARC SAVLOV
¡Ay, Almodóvar!
You can't begin to explain the bewildering, gorgeous operatics of Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar's universe, where chance meets destiny and words take a way backseat to the communicative powers of hot, howling sex.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
Welcome to the Alamo Drafthouse Version 3.0.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
What NBC's new Kingpin means for the representation and presentation of Latinos on television
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Culture Cash
Austin's artists and arts groups are working hard to survive the economic downturn, and now more than ever it's essential for the city that they do.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Choosing Peace
On the second anniversary of being named Ballet Austin's permanent artistic director, Stephen Mills reflects on his first two years and the company's current program, Director's Choice.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, and Austin Musical Theatre finds new life as Broadway Texas.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Personals
While the material in Personals, a revue built around the ads placed by men and women desperately seeking soul mates, suffers somewhat from age, Naughty Austin's production makes a fine match with a cast that is exceedingly appealing and extremely adept at musical comedy.
Portrait of Conspirare
Local chorus Conspirare, headed to New York City for the American Choral Directors Association convention, previewed the trip with a local concert of what amounted to two programs: a collection spanning Renaissance to modern works and a mostly modern collection of songs ranging from the flowing to the formal, the basic to the brash.
The Post-Neanderthal Diet
The Post-Neanderthal Diet is a slight but enjoyable satire of quick-fix culture by Hans Frank (of Lonely Highway), in which guru Nubby Farnsworth Jr., a chain-smoking huckster who seems to have taken a swim in an oil leak, promises to improve your life with bizarre insights and a gag-inducing fruit-and-raw-meat smoothie.
columns
Page Two
Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
A Danse Macabre
Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Whose hair made Stephen say, "DHOH!" at the GG's this year, and who was TLWIH? And that's just the national scene. … Locally, which partygoers were also BOAers and who counts as Stephen's NBF??? U must read 2 C!!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
What is inulin good for, and where can I buy it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY CAROLYN PARKER, PH.D. DIRECTOR
Feedback
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