St. Elias Orthodox Church
Volume 24, Number 19
news
Top 10 Local Stories
Central Texas in 2005
Top 10 State Stories
Our state leaders bumble through the year
Top 10 Media Stories
The year in print and broadcasting
Top 10 Election Moments: From Their Lips to God's Ear
From their lips to God's ear
Top 10 Law Enforcement/Public Safety Stories
Year in review for cops and firefighters
Top 10 Drug-War Stories
Struggling against the hysteria
Top 10 Reasons to Give It Up and Turn Republican
Stop fighting it
Top 10 Reasons I'm Leaving the 'Chronicle'
Mike Clark-Madison has left the building
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
The Hightower Report
The Pentagon bills an injured soldier, and Home Depot
gets a tax break
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Dependables and The Discoveries
The year in food, 2004
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Apeman Hop
An extended music haiku for 2004
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Critics Poll
The 'Chronicle's music staff rates the best local and
roadshows, new acts, and more
Texas Top 10s
The Chronicle music staff picks its Texas Top 10
BY GREG BEETS
National Top 10s
'The Chronicle' Music staff's Top 10 national albums
BY GREG BEETS
TCB
Closing out a turbulent year
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Few 'Sideways' Glances
The critical consensus at 'The Austin Chronicle'
deems 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' the
best movie of the year
Anybody's Home?
The Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Lambert's 'The
Last Days of the San José'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
With A Little Help From His Friends
Children's author Trevor Romain tries out DVD
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Film News
Despite a forlorn fall, Austin racked up its second best
film year ever in 2004, and, cross your fingers, 2005 is
starting off strong
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Just before I threw out her TV (or at least thought
about it), I looked back at television in 2004
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
DiG!
DiG! transcends the typical "rock movie" format and aspires to something greater: an examination of why we create and what we receive from art.
Red Lights
Leave it to the French to fashion an anguished psychological thriller that, in its last moments, also turns out to be a tender love story.
White Noise
That droning sound you hear is White Noise.
arts & culture
Never Say Die!
Austin's arts scene plays 'the comeback kid' in 2004
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Gratitude and goodbye to Will Eisner, whose comic 'The Spirit' is the epitome of great American art
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
This month celebrates the 400th anniversary of
Cervantes' 'Don Quixote,' the first great novel of
Western literature and the most prophetic, in which
deconstruction, postmodernism, and literary theory
wind up bumping into one another and falling down
hard
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
Don't toss extra meds!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Stephen gives you 10 good reasons to love our
culture. Oh wait, those aren't good reasons.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
A look back at 2004
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deadly dental plaque, world's wealthiest pals, and
burnt matches on an ironing board
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Top 10 Stories of 2004
