Moody Center
Volume 22, Number 35
news
Fostering Family Values
The Legislature engages in its biennial exercises in gay-bashing -- families be damned.
BY AMY SMITH
Down to the Wire
Election Wrap-up
On the Lege
The capitalist caucus targets "socialist" public schools.
BY MICHAEL MAY
Gambling? What Gambling?
Allergic to taxes, the Lege tries to balance the budget with the rolls of the dice.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Smart Growth Is Dead, Long Live Smart Growth
As Sixth + Lamar teeters, the Domain aims to pick up Austin's new-school incentive package.
BY LAURI APPLE
Endorsements
The Chronicle endorsements
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Small Victory, Bitter Defeats
A small win for the good guys, followed by a huge loss.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Time Stands Still
The mayoral race seems a cross between 1954 and 1999 -- anything but 2003.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
The comprehensive energy bill is comprehensive theft; and put on your burqua -- the Taliban is back.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Into Town
Will Austin shoppers support a Downtown farmers' market?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood simmers down quite a stew of news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Catfish II
We've got catfish … lots and lots of catfish.
music
Big in Japan
Austinites forge a career half a world away.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Big in Yemen
Bob and Tucker Livingston conquer the Middle East through songs not arms.
BY ANDY LANGER
TCB
Austin mayoral candidates give new meaning to "Rock the Vote"
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Hackberry Ramblers, Bonerama, Tish Hinojosa, Ivan Neville, Allen Toussaint, Fats Domino, Smokey Robinson, Leroy Jones, Wendell Brunious, Lil’ Band O’ Gold, Garage a Trois, Syl & James Johnson, Bob Dylan, Henry Butler, Donald Harrison, Cassandra Wilson, Jo “Cool” Davis, Be
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Yanni
Live Shot
Mark Gardener
Mark Gardener of Ride
screens
Rethinking the Three R's
Reagan High's digital-media lab opens doors for young students into filmmaking.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Putting a Name to a Face
Dallas' USA Film Festival definitively answers the question, "Who is that guy?" with its tribute to Texan character actor Stephen Tobolowsky.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Wordsmith Smackdown
A new documentary about the funny, punny world of Austin's annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
TV Eye
The "Portraits of Islam" film fest and, of course, Buffy.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Richard Linklater looks to television, and a promotion for SXSW film man Matt Dentler. Dobie manager Keith Garcia departs for greener pastures.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Castle in the Sky / Kiki's Delivery Service
Miyazaki conjures a pubescent fable out of whole cloth that both kids and adults will enjoy immensely. Castle in the Sky, from 1986, isn’t Miyazaki’s finest, but that’s like saying Jackson Pollack’s Panel With Four Designs isn’t as good as his Lavender Mist.
Film Reviews
Russian Ark
This tour de force of modern cinema is a technical feat filmed in one, uninterrupted, Steadicam take that leads us through a vivified tour of Russian history that wends through the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Spider
arts & culture
Dream of a New Circus
In the two decades it has taken for Cirque du Soleil to reach Austin for the first time, this Montreal-based troupe has not only reinvented circus as performance art but grown into one of the most unexpected and unlikely of entertainment empires.
BY MICHAEL POINT
Son of the Graphics Giveaway
Just as the success of the first X-Men film has spawned a sequel, so has Free Comic Book Day, and on May 3, 2003, this promotional event for graphic literature -- or funny books, if you will -- will give away more millions of comics about everything from guys in tights trying to save the world to schlubs in offices trying to hold onto their jobs.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Ears & Feet'
Utilizing technology to combine dance and computerized music has come a long way since the Eighties, as can be seen in the 2003 edition of EARS & Feet, the annual UT College of Fine Arts program that pairs student composers with student choreographers to collaborate on a piece.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Articulations
The grand old troupe of the Austin improv comedy scene is closing its home of six years, and the Texas Commission on the Arts announces the appointments for state poet laureate, state musician, state two-dimensional artist, and state three-dimensional artist for 2003 and 2004.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Alegría
Cirque du Soleil's Alegría brings to athletic, spellbinding performances a genius of creativity unlike anything you've seen at the circus, turning a night under the big top into a magical exploration of a world of intrigue and mystery, grace and daring. And joy.
The Master and Margarita
Gaslight Theater is only the second U.S. company to stage Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, as adapted by Richard Helweg and Michael Franco, and while their faithful tribute beguiles in places like the original, it runs a little too long and treats the source a little too reverentially.
'"Natural Selections: Julie Speed and Bale Creek Allen"'
Seeing "Natural Selections," Arthouse's new two-artist show featuring collages by Julie Speed and sculpture by Bale Creek Allen, reveals these two to be excellent examples of Austin cultural affluence, creating work that is rich in artistry and inventiveness, with a touch of weirdness thrown into the mix. .
columns
Page Two
Local Elections: Welcome to Ironyville
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Can you tell me the benefits of taking potassium? Is there enough in my multivitamin/mineral? What foods are rich in potassium?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Letters at 3AM
We call them "retirees," although in other cultures and eras they would be elders, but if they had anything real to do they wouldn't be coming here to Jean, Nevada.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily