Riverbend Centre
Volume 22, Number 47
news
Fighting a Rising Tide
The 78th Lege chipped away at abortion rights
BY LAURI APPLE
Not Quite 'Dead, Dead, Dead' Yet
The Senate plays Chicken over congressional redistricting.
BY MICHAEL KING
Welcome to Will's World
So many items, so little time
Austin Minister Targeted by Anti-Gay Campaign
BY AMY SMITH
Killer D Update: The FAA and Exterminatin' DeLay
The FAA issues a shame-faced report about its hunt for the Killer D's.
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The Lege moves to foreclose court access to victims of asbestos exposure.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Thoughts on land use, social justice, and making Austin look, feel, and work better.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
George talks the macho talk, soldiers walk the deadly walk; and Congress says "Health care for me, but not for thee."
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Fusion Confusion
The menu at Zin is a masterpiece, but what about the meals?
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood brings good news, good food, and good gossip in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Slices of Life, Part 1
It's not delivery, it's "Second Helpings"!
music
La Musica y el Director
Robert Rodriguez adds "composer" to his long list of film credits.
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
MY EDUCATION
Phases and Stages
Barbara Lynn, Hubert Sumlin, Angela Strehli, Lou Ann Barton, Southern Feeling, W.C. Clark, James Cotton, Sue Foley, Doyle Bramhall II, Los Lonely Boys, Kim Wilson, Jimmie Vaughan, Derek O'Brien, Clifford Antone, Susan Antone
Antone's 28th Anniversary
Rajamani
Live Shot
screens
Comin' at Ya!
3-D is back on the big screen -- again.
BY KEN LIECK
Hopelessly Devoted to 'Grease'
"I was born to Hand Jive, baby, and that's not even a euphemism," says Sarah Hepola, explaining the continuing appeal of camp classic, Grease. Project Transitions and the Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will host a sing-along performance of Grease this weekend at the Paramount.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Suck on This
In anticipation of Jason Henderson's new comic, Sword of Dracula, the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown will host a "blood-sucking triple feature" this Friday.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Local screenwriter Todd Morris gets in good with Miramax / Dimension, and our apologies to the Ragamuffin Film Festival … not that they needed us, anyway.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Who was left off the list for this year's Emmy nominees.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Animatrix
With The Animatrix, the Wachowski Bros. decided to mine their man-dominated machine world for an endless array of storytelling possibilities, enlisting seven renowned anime directors to create a nine-part series that is just as sexy, gritty, beautiful, and philosophical as the original Matrix.
Film Reviews
Manito
Respiro
It's the story of a wife and mother living on a Sicilian island, who is prone to increasingly bizarre behavior, and the family who must cope with her.
Seabiscuit
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
arts & culture
Articulations
Theatre critics have a place to sharpen their craft and learn about their profession, and Robert Faires reports on his stint as a teacher there.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
The Rodriguez and Avellán film team rocks; the guv and Lege do not; waiting on Will Wynn & Company; and in Let Us Now Praise Famous Chroniclers.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
We have replaced our concept of the heroic with the superheroic, and the sense of the possible with the impossible.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Human Growth Hormone comes outta where? Brenda Vaccaro did what? This week's AAF takes you where you never wanted to go…
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Would a silicon supplement add luster to my hair and improve my nails?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Grease Sing-Along
Paramount Theatre, Saturday, July 26, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
