Dougherty Arts Center
Volume 22, Number 45
news
Braying for Plutonium
The U.S. Dept. of Energy visits Amarillo in search of friendly site for manufacturing nuclear warheads.
BY WILLIAM M. ADLER
Battle of the Big Box
Enviros and Southwest neighbors find a common cause: fighting Wal-Mart and its plans for a Supercenter on the aquifer
BY LAURI APPLE
Mapping 'Political Apartheid'
The new map gives DeLay more R's, but perhaps fewer than he wanted.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Owens Shooting
Competing scenarios fly through the community, and APD's staffing and procedures come under scrutiny
BY JORDAN SMITH
Keystone Kops Hunt Killer D's
The Dept. of Homeland Security barely breaks a sweat investigating its own role in the May manhunt
BY MICHAEL KING
Is Walgreens Too Big and Unfunky for South Austin?
Neighbors challenge the drugstore chain's plans for a store at Lamar and Bluebonnet Lane.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
Beneath the partisan rancor over re-redistricting boils a fight over minority rights.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
A slow summer news week means we get to take some well-deserved potshots.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Bush loves war, but he doesn't want to equip the troops -- nor be one of them.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Japan Without the Pretense
Mimosa delivers more than it promises.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood has plenty o' news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream, Part II
You scream, I scream, "Second Helpings" screams for ice cream!
music
Hothouse Wildflowers
Through the looking glass with Eisley
BY MELANIE HAUPT
TCB
Willie's July 4th picnic showers Spicewood with more than just fireworks.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Elizabeth McQueen & the Firebrands
The Fresh Up Club
The Ends
Sorry ... XOXOXO
Canoe
I Give You Canoe!
The Mars Volta
De-Loused in the Comatorium
Those Peabodys
Unite Tonight
Hamilton, Nathan
Live at John T. Floore Country Store
Carolyn Wonderland
Bloodless Revolution
The American Analog Set, Ben Gibbard & Andrew Kenny
Promise of Love, HOME: Volume V
screens
"I Made a Movie, and They Didn't Want It!"
Shut out by distribution companies, indie filmmakers go DIY when it comes to getting their movie out there.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
A Long, Strange Trip
The Dobie Plays host to Matthew Barney's five-part feast of the bizarre, the Cremaster cycle.
BY MARC SAVLOV
'Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over' World premiere
Hey, hey, it's a big-time world premiere right in our backyard.
Seeking Levity
A writer best known for goofball comedies, Ed Solomon tapped his darker side for his directorial debut.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
TV Eye
TNN decides what men want.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Harry Knowles takes over British airwaves … and magazine ads … and the sides of busses … and pretty much anywhere else that those clever lads in the SkyTV marketing department can manage to fit him.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
The Cremaster Cycle: Part 3
Despite its numeric designation, Part 3 is the concluding installment of Barney's art cycle. It fuses mysticism and modernism and was filmed in New York's Chrysler Building and Guggenheim Museum, among other places. Barney plays the apprentice who endures torture and travails while ascending each building.
The Hard Word
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Levity
arts & culture
High Plains Chamber
The Harrington String Quartet, which makes its third appearance with the Austin Chamber Music Center's annual summer festival in July, is based in Amarillo, and though that may not seem like a likely spot for a chamber music ensemble, the members of the Harrington Quartet feel quite at home on the range.
BY JERRY YOUNG
Articulations
The Rude Mechs take Lipstick Traces to Europe, Austin Civic Wind Ensemble finds a new conductor, Mexic-Arte makes art for the bus station, and the city is looking for artists to mark up South Congress.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Julius Caesar
The Austin Shakespeare Festival's timely production of Julius Caesar, deftly directed by Paul Norton, features an effective, almost all-female ensemble whose depiction of the play's bold, rule-breaking politicians and opportunity-grabbing power brokers who send their enemies into disarray summons up parallels to the state of American politics.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Different Stages' modern-dress production of Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona isn't so hip as to be Two Dudes From Verona Beach, but its spirit of contemporary youth does show us how little young love has changed since Elizabethan times.
columns
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BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Two words have been missing in all the hubbub about the Supreme Court's Lawrence v. Texas decision striking down laws against homosexual sodomy: Thank you.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
What happens when the camera eye turns on the Style Avatar (a lot of primping and fussing and primadonna-ing, you think?), and whom did he honor with his presence on the Fourth? …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Are nutrients in a pill absorbed as well as nutrients in food?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Ray Benson In-Store
Waterloo Records, Friday, July 11, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
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