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Volume 22, Number 27
news
'We've Got Climate Change'
Lee Nichols interviews UT biologist Camille Parmesan about the evidence and consequences of global warming.
BY LEE NICHOLS
AISD Budget Cuts Roll Toward Trustees
The AISD budget task force closes its deliberations as the Board of Trustees gets ready to act.
BY MICHAEL KING
State Budget Wars Spawn Tiff Over TIF
The Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund -- and the have-nots it supports -- fights to avoid an early death by budget ax.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
From Liberty Lunch to Homeland Security: Austin's Walk With CSC
Computer Sciences Corp. is now one of America's largest defense contractors. Is this a problem for City Hall?
BY LAURI APPLE
Condemned Banks Looks to Supreme Court
Delma Banks death row appeal reads like a laundry list of everything wrong with Texas capital punishment.
BY JORDAN SMITH
APD Deposes The King
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
"Please, Sir, I Want Some More"
The legislative budget process is leaving buckets of blood on the floor.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Max on a Mission
Will Austin's turbulent climate produce a perfect storm for Max Nofziger's mayoral campaign?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush acts like layoffs don't exist, and uses Iraq to distract the media from corporate corruption.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
As You Like It
Welcome! The following is our comprehensive Austin guide to the American classic commonly known as the hamburger.
Food-o-File
Austin gets two new eateries and a possible fosterer for many more, in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Vegetarian
Are you a vegetarian or curious about dishes without meat in them? This "Second Helpings" is for you, then.
music
SXSW MUSIC 2003
Long May You Run
Previewing the 2002-2003 Austin Music Awards.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
SXSW Picks and Sleepers
Picks & Sleepers
TCB
Are you ready for the fallout?
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Cat Power
You Are Free
Grant-Lee Phillips
Ladies' Love Oracle
Patricia Vonne
Patricia Vonne
The Agenda!
Start the Panic
screens
Getting Their Due
The 2003 Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
BY MARGARET MOSER
SXSW FILM 2003
A Decade Under the Influence
10 Years of SXSW Film
The Merry Hempsters Hit the Road
In 2001, actor and activist Woody Harrelson rang friend and filmmaker Ron Mann up and invited him to tag along on an environmental whistle-stop trip in a hemp-fueled bus -- "The Organic Living Tour." Two years later, Mann's digital video-shot doc Go Further is all but in the can.
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Camera Is Mightier Than the ...
Documentarians Kim Bartley and Donnacha O'Briain were right in the belly of the beast when the Venezuelan coup began -- specifically, in the Presidential Palace, right as the opposition stormed it.
BY MICHAEL KING
Back in the Saddle Again
Long considered a lost film, Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand gets its long deserved due at SXSW.
BY STEVE UHLER
Twice as Nice
Nancy Savoca comes with two films tucked under her arms -- Dirt and Rebel Without a Pause.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Pick of the Litter
What to see, when to see it, at SXSW Film 2003.
'Art Should Be Convulsive'
The Austin Film Society and SXSW celebrate the films of Mexican cinema giant Arturo Ripstein.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
'Willard' Premiere
Star Crispin Hellion Glover, director Glen Morgan, and producer James Wong all gathered at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown on Sunday to celebrate their new film, Willard, about a vermin-happy outsider who fights back against an unfeeling world via an army of killer rats.
BY MARC SAVLOV
New to DVD
You can turn your back on a drug, but never turn your back on Criterion Collection DVD #175, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an "eerie trumpet call over a lost battlefield."
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Short Cuts
Tim and Karrie League take their genius Drafthouse idea and open two more franchises.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Good Neighbors
Fred Rogers had a lot to teach us about being a good neighbor.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Pawnbroker
Over the past 40 years, Sidney Lumet has directed classics such as Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Verdict, works that overshadow the rest of his 41-film career. The Pawnbroker is overlooked now, despite exploring some of the themes that would define Lumet's later, more recognized films.
Film Reviews
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Colombani's debut features a finely nuanced and altogether striking performance by Tautou, whose wide eyes adroitly reflect an inner world that ricochets from hopelessly in love to simply hopeless.
SXSW Film Festival 2003
Tears of the Sun
arts & culture
Women's Work Is Never Done
Started in 1978 as a grassroots feminist arts collaborative, Women & Their Work has evolved into an Austin institution, which has survived collapsing economies and shifts in location and mission to become one of the city's premier visual arts spaces.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
A Piece of Work
In Wash, influential media artist Bill Lundberg projects video loops of hands being washed onto the bowls of three white sinks, calling to mind our culture's fears, now deeper than ever, of dangerous filth that might do us harm.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
Austin helps the Lysistrata Project become a global phenomenon, and Governor Rick Perry and Austin Mayor Gus Garcia speak out in favor of the Long Center.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Barrio Daze
Barrio Daze, a series of damn funny and poignant sketches created, woven together, and performed by Adrian Villegas is both absurdly funny and dead-on insightful, not only dissecting stereotypical views other groups hold of Hispanics, but challenging those Hispanics have applied to themselves.
Heartbreak House
Should you attend the UT Department of Theatre and Dance production of Heartbreak House, you'll have to work to keep up with the student cast, which blasts through the wordy script, but your labors will be rewarded by some fine design work and acting, and G.B. Shaw's timely critique of the leisure classes awakening to a world at war.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore
The Bedlam Faction is as smart a bunch of actors as you'll find, and they take the Jacobean tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore and make its extra-dense language crystal clear and its characters comprehensible, and the story relatively easy to follow, but the production suffers from a flatness born of a lack of specificity.
columns
Page Two
In such intense and crazed times, film and music of soothe and feed the soul; SXSW 2003 provides plenty to feast on.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen makes the party rounds this week and finds out which celeb made an appearance at Flipnotics.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
How do I know if I need a B-vitamin supplement? What does it mean to "balance" the B-vitamins?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
A Hundred Years of Shadows
One hundred years after "The Great Train Robbery," motion pictures have transformed consciousness into a Kingdom of Shadows.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
