The Ballroom
Volume 22, Number 25
news
Only Natural
The Texas Memorial Museum decides to focus on its natural history roots.
War Drums
BY MICHAEL KING
He Who Has Ears to Hear
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
BY LEE NICHOLS
United for Peace
An estimated 10,000 anti-war protesters converge on the Capitol.
BY LAURI APPLE
No High End for Galleria
BY AMY SMITH
Baptists Win a Round in Hyde Park
A judge sides with Hyde Park Baptist Church -- perhaps preparing the way for construction of its controversial parking garage.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Playing the Numbers
BY MICHAEL KING
Former City Forester Charges Harassment, Sex Bias at PARD
Susan Murray alleges her career as Austin's urban forester fell apart after she complained about her boss' conduct.
BY LAURI APPLE
GOP Grinches Attack Capitol
BY MICHAEL KING
Is the CCA 'Competent'?
BY MICHAEL KING AND JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
We're No. 1!
Texas prepares to mark its 300th contemporary execution.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Vice, Vice Baby!
Why stop at casino gambling on Waller Creek? Bring on the sex, drugs, and smokestacks.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush's tax cut creates jobs -- in China; and malls kill main street -- and replace it with a cheap knock-off.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin in the Big Apple
If Texas food can make it here, it can make it anywhere. MM Pack explains.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood fills you up with chef news and Brazilian celebrations in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sushi, Part V
Sushi: The possibilities are quiet literally endless.
music
Life by the Drop
The return of Doyle Bramhall
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Austin (and its Music Network) will endure, Scandinavia and Interpol invade, and local alt-rock is sweeter than ever on Ear Candy.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Eric Johnson
Souvenir
Friends of Dean Martinez
On the Shore
Christine Albert
TexaFrance-Encore!
Eric Hisaw
Never Could Walk the Line
Pretty the Quick Black Eyes
Pretty the Quick Black Eyes
Oblong Boys
Pizzazarama Universe
Ministry
Animositisomina
screens
What's in a Face?
A lot, Mike Woolf discovered while making his short doc 'Growin' a Beard' -- and especially If the face Has got whiskers on the chin and Jowls
BY JAMES MCWILLIAMS
What Lies Beneath
John Cusack talks about putting a human face on Hitler in Max.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
The John Lennon Artificial Intelligence Project
John Lennon is reborn as a cyberbot.
BY SIDNEY MOODY
New to DVD
This DVD compiles all of the cartoons featuring the Man Without Fear, in conjunction with last week's release of the live-action Ben Affleck Daredevil feature.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
The Need for Sleaze
Bill Landis will be at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Feb. 23 to introduce two films and talk about his new book, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Short Cuts
Bob Ray gets stonied.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
It ain't reality TV, but it may be closer to approaching real life: Nia Vardalos' My Big Fat Greek Life.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Swimmer (1968)
Like the movie, Burt Lancaster's title character -- an aging suburbanite who one day decides, on an afternoon lark, to "swim home" pool-to-pool through the back yards of his friends -- starts out lightly charming us, only to plunge into darker waters.
Film Reviews
Morvern Callar
Old School
A trio of depressed thirtysomethings decide to start their own fraternity.
Snakes
arts & culture
Kentucky by Way of Austin
A decade after The Kentucky Cycle's premiere, the hometown of playwright Robert Schenkkan has the opportunity to experience the work's power in with a homegrown production at the Mary Moody Northen Theatre.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Dreamland Via Cuba
Artists Virginia Fleck and Sandra Ceballos found dreams to be a recurring theme in both their work when Gallery 106 sent Austin-based Fleck to Ceballos' home in Cuba, and now they've collaborated on an exhibition titled "Dreaming My Dreams."
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
Comedy venues the Velveeta Room and Capital City Comedy Club get new leases on life, solo theatre artist Rob Nash gets roasted, and Dreamgirl Jennifer Holliday comes to Austin.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Twisted Olivia
You might not expect a New York drag queen to transport you into the pages of a 19th-century English novel, but that's precisely what happens in Twisted Olivia: A Meditation on Oliver Twist, a new solo show by Everett Quinton which keeps audiences alternately laughing and spellbound in a parade of wonders.
My Funny Valentine
My Funny Valentine, Tapestry Dance Company's love-struck evening of dance, provided both seduction that appeared effortless and that was the picture of hard work, and it all thrilled.
Earthly Delights
La Follia's musical guide to love during the Baroque period included some masterful playing by the group's instrumentalists, but it was
the haunting voice of soprano Jenifer Thyssen that really reached out to the audience with love's beautiful soundtrack from 300 years ago.
columns
Page Two
In blaming the anti-war movement for all possible future scenarios connected to terrorism or the war in Iraq, the hysterical right has poised itself to lead a devastating assault on the Constitution and its protections.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Yeee-haw! It's "Westward Ho" as Stephen checks out the new exhibit at the Bob Bullock Museum. And what does our style avatar do to stay so baby soft and daisy fresh? Well, until now, only he and his stylist knew for sure…
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Spring pollens are in, and mold just won't let up. How can I stop my sneezing fits without resorting to antihistamines?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Toward an Accounting
In its unjustified rush to war, the Bush administration wants Americans to apply ample amounts of duct tape over their eyes, ears, and mouths.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
