Downtown Georgetown
Volume 22, Number 26
news
Creative Capital?
In the City of Ideas, the people with ideas are dancing with day jobs.
BY MICHAEL ERARD
ACC Budget Axe Swings: Will It Miss Students?
The governor's 7% budget cut means drastic -- and ill-timed -- choices for Austin Community College.
BY WALTER HOWERTON JR
Reed Appeals 'Conviction of an Innocent Man'
A federal appeal attacks the state's 'airtight" case against death-row inmate Rodney Reed.
BY JORDAN SMITH
A Revolt Brews Among the Circle C Masses
New residents at Circle C Ranch question the control Gary Bradley's allies still have over the homeowners' association.
BY AMY SMITH
Max For austinmayor.com?
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
On the Lege
This week at the circus, er, Lege.
BY MICHAEL KING
Capitol Chronicle
The legislative fight over vouchers and school finance has a long history and deep roots.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The city may go where it feared to tread last year -- tax hikes, layoffs, and cutting public safety budgets.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush goes on a spending binge; lawmakers demand Bush ask for war permission.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Around the World ...
In 28 ethnic markets: where to shop when you want to live locally and eat globally
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
March comes in like a SXSW and Virginia B. Wood gets down to business, in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Simply Seafood
Climb aboard for the catch of the day, in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Picks 2 Click
SXSW 2003
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT
TCB
50 Cent brings his bullet proof vest to the Delco Center
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Fastball
Live From Jupiter Records
Supergrass
Life on Other Planets
Simian
We Are Your Friends
Baptist Generals
No Silver / No Gold
screens
Plays Well With Others
How Creative Commons is redefining copyright law and what it means for artistic collaboration across the Internet.
BY MICHAEL MAY
A Corner in Cyberspace Turned Blog Party
Jon Lebkowsky asks, why blog?
BY JON LEBKOWSKY
Power up the PDA
Recommended at SXSW Interactive 2003.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
New on DVD
New on DVD: Stargate: Ultimate Edition
BY JASON HENDERSON
UT Transmedia Showcase
Bill Lundberg, one of the pioneering artists in film and video installations, will join UT colleagues Bogdan Perzynski and Michael Smith at Cinescapes' UT Transmedia Showcase.
BY MICHAEL MAY
New In Print
Short Cuts
Locals Paul Beck and Jason Archer animate Molotov's new video.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Breaking more ground: Six Feet Under returns for a third season.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
A Moment of Innocence
While Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf is no stranger to long, long shots gazing down long, long roads for a long, long time, he also knows how to tell a story.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Double D'Amour
In one week, Austin is blessed with two theatrical projects by gifted playwright Lisa D'Amour: her 16 Spells to Charm the Beast, a curious romance between a big-city enchantress and the fairy-tale beast who adores her; and Nita and Zita, a cabaret in which the ghosts of two sisters relate the story of their lives as a vaudeville team and as eccentric "gypsy ladies" in New Orleans in dance numbers, songs, and malapropisms.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become the Little Peace Project That Could, the Long Center says "no thanks, after all" to the $25 million in Waller Creek tunnel bond money, and Austin Shakespeare Festival launches a new reading series.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
16 Spells to Charm the Beast
Playwright Lisa D'Amour's 16 Spells to Charm the Beast is an urban fable of loneliness and love set in a whimsical world where furry brutes pine for sophisticated housewives; at its best Salvage Vanguard Theater's production casts its own spell, capturing us in a thrall of poetic visions reflecting natural desire and supernatural devotion.
The Kentucky Cycle
The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's decision to stage Robert Schenkkan's monumental The Kentucky Cycle is laudable, and the St. Edward's University student actors and their Equity counterparts put their all into every moment of effort, but the production's nuggets of brilliance are lost in technical inadequacies, inconsistent acting, and awkward staging.
columns
Page Two
When they label war protesters' speech as traitorous, right-wing war supporters reveal themselves as truly anti-American.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
What do Osama Bin Laden, Aretha Franklin, and Blue Genie Art Industries have in common? Absolutely nothing, but go ahead and read about them anyway.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
My mother has been taking 400 IU of vitamin D for several years. She has severe osteoporosis that was still getting worse until she increased her vitamin D supplement to 800 IU per day. What is the safe limit for a vitamin D supplement?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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