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'Something Went Wrong'
Six months after he was killed by an Austin cop, Jessie Owens' family still wants some basic answers
BY JORDAN SMITH
Under the Holiday Bush
Even the politically conscious can participate in the rampant consumerism of the season.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Under the Holiday Bush
A holiday gift guide for the political junkie.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Here Come the Judges
The federal court takes up the Texas congressional re-redistricting case.
BY MICHAEL KING
Last Call for Lowe's? Council Ready to Split
It's still 4-3 and holding as the controversial big-box deal goes up for final approval
BY AMY SMITH
Supremes to Banks' Prosecutors: 'Tell the Truth'
The death row case of Delma Banks reaches the Supreme Court.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: The Results Are In ...
The Envision Central Texas planning survey confirms a popular vision that the power brokers just don't want to see.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
GIFT GUIDE
Someone's in the Kitchen With Santa
Recommended cookbooks for holiday gift giving
BY MICK VANN
A Baker's Half-Dozen
The best books of the season on breads, pastries, and desserts
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
An Austin restaurant legend is gone but hardly forgotten.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: The Other America
music
MUSIC GIFT
Box Sets
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Music DVDs
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
Metallurgy
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Jazz Sides
BY HARVEY PEKAR
TCB
[French accent] Listen very carefully… I shall say this only once…
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Gear Up and Get Away
The escapist magic of the holidays' hottest games
BY MARCEL MEYER
From BarFly to 'King of the Ants'
An interview with George Wendt
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Print
As Chaplin historian David Robinson is happy to report in the introduction to Charlie Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema, "the raison d'etre of this book is not so much the text as the photographs."
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The Toronto International Film Festival
A first-timer's diary
BY LOUIS BLACK
Short Cuts
Harry Knowles' Butt-Numb-A-Thon outdoes itself. Like, totally. Read on to regret not having attended.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta is not amused by the two rich chicks on Fox's farm.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Dragonslayer
Dragons have a PR problem, and this movie doesn't help.
Film Reviews
Die Mommie Die!
Charles Busch's campy send-up of Fifties melodrama falls flat.
In My Skin
Disturbing French drama about a woman who cuts her own skin as a prelude to gnawing on her flesh.
King of the Ants
Nifty new thriller from Stuart Gordon, the director of Re-Animator.
Something's Gotta Give
Sure, the co-stars delight, but the script has more flab than its middle-aged lovers.
Stuck on You
The Farrelly brothers deliver the ultimate buddy movie.
Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
Martin Sheen narrates this documentary on the plight of Tibet under the occupation of the People's Liberation Army.
arts & culture
The Whole Universe Rocks
The Harry Ransom Center's exhibition "Make It New" explores how modernism changed everything.
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Playing Around With the Evil Empire
The Rude Mechanicals go Russian with a play -- well, a performance piece -- umm -- a performance collage -- well, '300 Plays About Vladimir Putin.'
BY BARRY PINEO
Good News!
Pro Arts Collective Pro Arts Collective celebrates the season with a gospel sound in the Austin premiere of Langston Hughes' Black Nativity.
BY BARRY PINEO
Articulations
Austin Shakespeare perseveres, Ballet Austin gets a grant for a Shrew, Zach hunts for a fundraiser, Mexic-Arte's Museum Store hits USA Today's Top 10, and the Funniest Person in Austin goes global.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Flaming Idiots
As long as the Flaming Idiots are juggling and making fun onstage at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center, you won't care about anything but the pure pleasure they let you experience.
'Cream, Frost, Mint'
In the arresting mélange that is Women & Their Work's annual "Juror's Choice" exhibit, Cream, Frost, Mint stands out as a calm, bright presence.
Paths
The many paths we walk can shape the people we become in life. Ballet East united old and new troupe dancers and choreographers to present multiple works in Paths.
columns
Page Two
Readers seeking "objectivity" won't find it here; the Chronicle is dedicated to advocacy and opinion, and always has been.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Memories of the first stirring of Self and Soul.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Oh, Stephen! Always a bridesmaid, never a bride! Fret not, honey, your day will come!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Einstein, beer, and those prickly French
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Choose your own Christmas tree at one of the many tree farms here in Texas.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
What is the easiest way for me to have my credit card company take care of a problem?
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
My father has just been diagnosed with COPD. Do you have any suggestions on nutritional help for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Medicare bill an AIDS nightmare
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Holiday Hullabaloo
Moxie and the Compound, Saturday, December 13, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
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