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News 8 at 5
Can Austin's little news station that could survive the grim reapers at Time Warner?
BY KEVIN BRASS
Capital Metro Stays Its Course
All Systems Go!, but no extensions added, to a November commuter-rail vote
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Toll Roads May Take a (Minor) Detour
Krusee contemplates changing strategy, but not retreat
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Saving South Congress - for Whom?
This weekend's street fest raises questions about the future of the Southside's main drag
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Weed Watch
Find your friendly local narc on a new Web database
BY JORDAN SMITH
Endorsements
'The Austin Chronicle' endorsements for the Sept. 11 Austin ISD bond election
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Lesson Planners
All I need to know about cities, I learned in kindergarten
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Operation Was Successful ...
The jury's still out on "tort reform" – but the courthouse door is closed
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
The culture of lying goes cellular; and Wal-Mart tries to buy a new image
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Trial by Fire
The 14th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival results and winners
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
14th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Judgment Days
Pigging out at the Taylor International BBQ Cookoff
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Don't leave the table till you clean your plate of local food news; while you're at it, Eat, Drink, Watch Movies
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Definitely Famous
Heart's Nancy Wilson, younger, wiser
BY MARGARET MOSER
Monster Mash
Metallica's Kirk Hammett, plus filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, marvel at Some Kind of Monster
BY MATT DENTLER
TCB
Party on Red River or in Kansas, with Attack Formation if need be, but you must submit to the all-consuming power of BOB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Steve Earle
The Revolution Starts Now
DB and His Men of Action, 1100 Springs, Jesse Dayton, WT Special, Junior Brown, Dear Johnny…, Willie Nelson
Contagious Heartache, Bandwagon, Country Soul Brother, From Stone, Down Home Chrome, Dear Johnny…, The Troublemaker
the Arm
The Arm
Gibby Haynes & His Problem
Gibby Haynes & His Problem
Ministry
Houses of the Molé
Balistica
The Jungle Science e.p.
Devin the Dude
To tha X-treme
Ashlee Simpson
Autobiography
Windsor for the Derby
We Fight Til Death
Amberjack Rice
Get So Little
Beaver Nelson
Motion
screens
Me Talk Dirty One Day
Bryan Poyser and Jacob Vaughan come clean on their 'Dear Pillow'
BY JOHN PIERSON
The Final Act
The Texas Documentary Tour hosts Robert Stone's 'Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Austin Film Society
Gay and Lesbian Images in Global Cinema series
Short Cuts
Invest in the fests!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
For those who like their comedy spiked, raw, and still kicking, Trio unleashes a wickedly delicious treat
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
A Hollywood vessel of doom hunts for the Big Squeeze.
Dear Pillow
Provocative Austin-made feature pushes sexual buttons meant to arouse and provoke, but never satisfy.
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
The Fox News Channel's "fair and balanced " reporting is put to the test in this partisan documentary.
SuperBabies: Baby Geniuses 2
Let’s just call SuperBabies what it is: child abuse.
Vanity Fair
Disappointing screen adaptation lacks the novel's satiric edge.
We Don't Live Here Anymore
What people fight about when they fight about love.
Wicker Park
Paul McGuigan pulls out all the stops on his Wurlitzter Organ of Incessant Camera Trickery to muddy the waters of rationality in this bizarre remake of a fine French thriller.
arts & culture
Change in the Weather
A different kind of summer for the city arts funding process
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A Ham for This Season
Hans Frank's political drama is timely fare for election time
BY BARRY PINEO
Always in the Best Spot
Harry Benson caught history in the making, at the center of it all
BY ROBERT FAIRES
City of Brotherly Rudes
The Rude Mechs hit Philly with 'How Late It Was, How Late,' while company member Lana Lesley goes touring with SITI Company
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Rob Nash's latest gets a holdover, and those truly were picketing clowns
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Bell, Book, and Candle
The comic skill of the actors in OnStage Theatre Company's revival of Bell, Book, and Candle makes magic
"Open Doors"
A group of nine artists has created "Open Doors," an energetic, fun installation show with a piece of art in each room of a bubble-wrapped house
Leave It to Biber
In the concert Leave It to Biber, violinist Boel Gidholm, cellist Christopher Haritatos, and keyboardist Keith Womer exulted in the expressive freedom that this music offers the interpreter
columns
Page Two
In the beginning, we kept the Chronicle going mostly out of sheer perversity and stubbornness; 23 years later, it looks like there was more to it than that
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Cricket fights, cousins, and birds
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
The Federal Trade Commission has gotten a court order to halt sales of the Discrete home HIV test in the US
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
What are the pros and cons of taking fish oil supplements?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Letters at 3AM
'The 9 / 11 Commission Report' only shows us how much we still do not know about what happened on that day
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Common Law
Security deposit issues
BY LUKE ELLIS
After a Fashion
George-ness, Weird-ness, and what happens when Stephen does not get invited to a party
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Abilene State Park is an oasis in the parched, red-dirt prairie
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: The South Austin Celebration
South Congress Avenue, Saturday, September 4, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
U.S. women go out in a blaze of glory; and a Saint takes on the Word
