Volume 22, Number 23
news
The new Pickle Elementary School is a crucible of the changing St. Johns neighborhood
BY MICHAEL MAY
The Legislature begins to get down to business.
BY MICHAEL KING
The fallout from an employee lawsuit briefly shuts down Travis County's air ambulance service and vexes the Commissioners Court.
BY JORDAN SMITH
BY LAURI APPLE
The old airport may become home to a new Children's Hospital.
BY AMY SMITH
The DA drops charges against Maurice Pierce for the yogurt shop murders.
BY JORDAN SMITH
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Our fiscal crisis is exactly the reason we need a City Council resolution on Iraq
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
A farewell to Maury Maverick Jr.
BY MICHAEL KING
Nancy delivers Victory for cell-phone companies; Rick Perry admits he's not up to the job.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Two Austin schools are teaching the old-fashioned way.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Virginia B. Wood has nothing but good news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Sushi: The possibilities are quiet literally endless.
music
Austin's sharp-dressed ska men, the Stingers
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
SXSW looms on the horizon, and "TCB" is already neck-deep in it.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Something in Japanese
Hot Beef Rejection
The Same Things Kill Your Kids EP
Pool Party Emergency
Which Way From Here
Don't Make Me Laugh While I'm Drinkin'
Austin's Original Singer-Songwriter
Richard Buckner
On the Prowl
Sweet Cherry Soul
Live at the Caravan of Dreams
Oh, Beast!
Palestine
Butthole Surfers + Live PCPPEP
screens
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
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
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
Welcome to the Alamo Drafthouse Version 3.0.
BY MARC SAVLOV
What NBC's new Kingpin means for the representation and presentation of Latinos on television
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
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
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
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
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.
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 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
Expect the next decade to be dominated by a weak economy and precarious international politics -- the consequences of Bush's successes.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Our national preparations for war follow a choreography that has predetermined steps.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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
What is inulin good for, and where can I buy it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
BY CAROLYN PARKER, PH.D. DIRECTOR
Letters to the editor, published daily