Draylen Mason Studio
Volume 22, Number 43
news
Here Comes the Neighborhood
Capital Metro, City Hall, and Eastside neighbors come together to share their hopes -- and fears -- for the Saltillo corridor.
BY LAURI APPLE
Enviro Activist Jones Takes On Austin Energy 'Tree Butchers'
Tim Jones' complaints about the utility's brutal tree trimming spawn a new city task force
BY AMY SMITH
Fuzzy Budget Math at AISD
The latest proposed Austin ISD budget has new millions in found money
BY MICHAEL KING
County Goes Slow on Lowe's
BY AMY SMITH
Where the (Early Action) Rubber Meets the (Clean Air) Road
Local leaders take the first steps toward real-world solutions to our air-quality problems.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Redistricting Hard Ball
BY MICHAEL KING
Did APD Review Panel Fumble Sexual Misconduct Complaint?
The Police Monitor's panel seemingly misses the point of the Lucy Neyens case.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Fun With Carole, Rick, and Greg
The budget standoff provides a snapshot of the new Texas politics.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: The Real 'Victim No. 1'
Another summer, another shooting, and a moment of truth for police oversight
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Leave No Hummer Owner Behind; Tax Cheats Get Corporate Welfare
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Cocktail's Hour
Wes Marshall explains how to enjoy the resurgence of one of humanity's great inventions.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood updates us on Alex Kahn and the latest happy hour deal at the Roaring Fork.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Cocktail Spots
For the best cocktail spots, start here.
music
Burning Brights
Billy and Bryn Bright, yes they do.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
TCB
Everybody's hurtin' unless they're on Friendster
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Drive-By Truckers
Decoration Day
The Allman Brothers Band
Hittin' the Note
Jayhawks
Rainy Day Music, Blue Earth
The New Pornographers
Electric Version
screens
They See Dead People, Too
The story of a young blind woman who undergoes a corneal transplant and begins to see visions of the dead, The Eye may sound familiar to fans of The Sixth Sense, but the Pangs' film is a far more creepy affair than M. Night Shyamalan's crowd-pleaser.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Go on and take it: Renée Zellweger to star in and produce Piece of My Heart, the long-awaited Janis Joplin biopic.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dead Girl Talking
Showtime approaches the subject of death with Dead Like Me, a new series that moves the focus from those left behind to those dearly departed.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
T2: Extreme DVD
When so many commentaries these days are gossipy snoozefests, James Cameron's has just the right amount of chutzpah and showmanship to be well worth listening to.
Film Reviews
Together
28 Days Later
A zombie picture, with lots of topical updating.
Whale Rider
This quietly powerful tale of youthful female empowerment in New Zealand is based on a cornerstone Maori myth.
arts & culture
If It's Summer, It Must Be Shakespeare
Summer is the time for Shakespeare, so naturally here are a couple of the Bard's plays being staged in the Austin area -- Julius Caesar from the Austin Shakespeare Festival and Two Gentlemen of Verona from Different Stages -- and directors Paul Norton and Norman Blumensaadt to explain how they came to produce them this season.
BY BARRY PINEO
Life After the Classical Section
For two decades, he was the man Austin turned to when it wanted the best classical music on vinyl or disc, but the closing of Wherehouse Records has left Russell McCulloh with nowhere to sell Bach, Brahms, or Beethoven.
BY JERRY YOUNG
Articulations
The UT School of Music hires the Miró Quartet for its new resident string quartet, Charles Leslie succeeds Neil Barclay at the UT PAC, and Don Toner brings back those dead presidents one more time.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Tricks
Blake Yelavich has transformed another Eastside warehouse into what promises to be a gem of a small theatre for years to come, but his sexual thriller Tricks, with which he opens the new Arts on Real, is much like the as yet unfinished theatre: incomplete.
Eggheads
Eggheads pays fond tribute to the cinematic screwball comedies of the 1930s, and though the specific style of those comedies was old decades before the actors in Tongue and Groove Theatre's production were born, they breezed through it, cracking wise and slinging slang, as nimbly as Busby Berkeley chorines tapping down 42nd Street.
Sitting Room Only
From its annual competition, Austin Script Works has picked eight new 10-minute plays for presentation in the annual Out of Ink Festival, and this year's crop is outstanding throughout, serving up some fairly serious situations and complex characters treated with sensitivity and not a little humor.
columns
Page Two
Despite the Supreme Court's recent decision, affirmative action is alive and well -- for the dominating elite.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
After this week of making the scene, we're ready to change the name of this column to "Hob-nobbing the Fashion" or "After the Schmooze …"
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Is coenzyme A similar to coenzyme Q? What good is coenzyme A, and how do we get it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Letters at 3AM
Stanley Crawford's new book, The River in Winter: New and Selected Essays, reminds us that we must all do our part.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
