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The ARA Faces the Music
For the Austin Revitalization Authority, Eastside renewal proves to be a long, slow dance
BY AMY SMITH
Hard Luck in Heritage Heights
Renters in Eastside housing project feel misled, misused by the city.
BY JESSICA CHAPMAN
The Budget Battles, Round 3
Will Wynn proposes permanently shuttering libraries, parks, and other facilities to devote scarce resources to the ones that are left.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
'The Perfect Storm': AISD Board Adds by Subtracting
The Austin ISD board of trustees passes its 2003-04 budget.
BY MICHAEL KING
Wal-Mart Smiley Face Eats a South-Side Trailer Park
The newest bad big-box project prepares to displace poor people on Slaughter Lane.
BY AMY SMITH
Endorsements
State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The fight over re-redistricting is a battle for the civil rights of minority Texans.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
For the firefighters, City Hall's rep for putting its people first goes up in smoke
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
On the Lege
The second special session ends with a whimper, but the re-redistricting battle rages elsewhere
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
The Bush administration tries to roll back union gains; and Wal-Mart wants to dominate the banking world.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Burning Sensations
The 13th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival Contest winners
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
13th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood hits the barbecue backroads with the Travel Channel's Epicurious.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes, Part I
music
Draw the Line
Blue October rebuilds.
BY MATT DENTLER
Phases and Stages
Live Shot
BY MELANIE HAUPT
TCB
There's like some shows and stuff, and some new places to see bands, and, like, people are getting shot, too.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
God Drives a Galaxy
Pale Blue Dot
Beyoncé
Dangerously in Love
Kacy Crowley
Moodswing
Caroline Herring
Wellspring
Rodney Crowell
Fate's Right Hand
Howard Kalish
What the Hey
Eastside Suicides
The Eastside Suicides
Pink Swords
One Night High
Dixie Witch
One Bird, Two Stones
The Sweethearts
L.U.V.
Two Guy Trio
Your Rock-n-Roll Birthday
Gnappy
... Is This a Machine?
Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, David Allan Coe, Charlie Daniels, Larry Jon Wilson
Heartworn Highways
screens
Not Another Teen Movie
UT grad Catherine Hardwicke and Thirteen
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Wuxia Clan
AFS's 'Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film' flys high with eight overlooked classics.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Strong words from Edward James Olmos, and what's on this week.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Marc Savlov courses through the Central Texas festival circuit.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
The Cuckoo
This 1944-set story humanizes the wastefulness of war.
Dirty Pretty Things
Stephen Frears’ low-key thriller casts its eye toward the furtive lives of London’s illegal immigrants.
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary
Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin films the Royal Winnepeg Ballet’s rendition of the Dracula story.
Jeepers Creepers 2
This horror sequel is more snooze than nightmare.
Marci X
A hip-hop artist and a Jewish American Princess discover that bling-bling makes the world go ’round.
My Boss's Daughter
Ashton Kutcher suffers the price of fame with the release of this previously shelved clunker.
Thirteen
Catherine Hardwicke directs her laser-beam gaze into the horrifically malleable soul of young girls caught in bad situations.
arts & culture
A Mutual Respect
Russell Lee's documentary photographs of the Great Depression helped fashion our collective visual memory of that era, but his greatest achievement may have been the trust he engendered in his subjects.
BY REBECCA S. COHEN
Acting Out and Causing Trouble
The works in "Difficult Daughters," the final installation in the Blanton Museum of Art's "Projections" series of contemporary films, show women acting out and causing trouble, but they also demonstrate how women of different generations approach feminism.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
A Piece of Work
There's nothing conventionally beautiful about Virginia Fleck's Indented Round Sod, a large, dun-colored disc of dried earth cemented together with mortar, and yet it exudes a strong, serene presence in its shape and balance of the natural and the manmade.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
Months of speculation come to an end as Austin Lyric Opera appoints conductor Richard Buckley to the position of artistic director.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Proposition 12 indicates the problems with Texas constitutional amendment process as well as the current administration's and legislative majority's cynical agenda.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Daytrips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Recently I took 300 milligrams of alpha lipoic acid after breakfast and I felt weak much of the day. Is this too much or does this mean I shouldn't take it at all?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Can I Have My Security Deposit Returned If I Never Moved In?
BY LUKE ELLIS
About AIDS
Austin's Dwayne Haught Helps States Score AIDS Drug Price Cuts for Poor
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Bettie Naylor's got 'em … but what are they? Also learn about a culture of men who chase the AIDS epidemic in a most personal fashion. Oh! And guess who turns 4???
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Luv Doc Recommends: Pet-a-Palooza
Travis County Expo Center, Saturday, August 30, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
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