Women & Their Work
news
From Schools to ... Nuts
The 79th Lege hasn't been here before – it only
seems like it
Peace and Progress Come to Shoal Creek
Feud between cyclists and residents comes to an end
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
New Rules or New Roles for Charter Schools?
TEA proposes a crackdown on failing charters, but can it be enforced?
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Pfurious in Pflugerville
Pfillies or pfamily pfun for the NE Travis suburb?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Hits, Errors, and Home Runs at ACTV
Missing funds at Austin Community Television spur an investigation and accusations
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
News and happenings around Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
Day One: Long on Smiles and Short on Dollars
Head for the hills ... the Lege is back in town!
BY AMY SMITH
Austin @ Large: Over and Out
Thoughts on the first day of the rest of Austin's life
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
No escape from cell phones, even in the skies; and,
don't give up your biometrics!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin on the Hoof
Rounding up the Austin steak house scene
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-file
Sampling 'Mexican Food in Austin: The Guide;' plus, Foo Swasdee's Tsunami Relief Open House at Satay
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Outsiders
Four local bands map their own chart through choppy
industry waters
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
Emo's Free Week leaves 'TCB' broken, battered,
bloodshot, but happy
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Mavis Staples
Have a Little Faith
Willie Hightower
Sweet Soul Music
Marianne Faithfull
Before the Poison
Le Tigre
This Island
T.I.
Urban Legend
Willie Hightower, Bettye Swann, Candi Staton
Gwendolyn D. Pough
screens
Overnight Sensation
Sword of Dracula' creator Jason Henderson is taking
over the (fantasy) world
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
A New Year's Eve bout with cedar fever made me feel
like 2005 is just an extension of 2004, and it looks like
the same on the small screen
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Dead Like Me: The Complete First Season
'Life sucks, and then you die. And then it still sucks.'
Film Reviews
Bukowski: Born Into This
Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."
Coach Carter
Come to this movie for the prominent hip-hop soundtrack and glossy sports action; leave with a message about teamwork, decency, and self-respect scorched into your brain.
Hotel Rwanda
Don Cheadle, in the finest performance of his career, headlines this true-life story about the "Oskar Schindler of Kigali, Rwanda" during the massacres of 1994.
House of Flying Daggers
The swooning visuals, the expert choreography, the teasing love story, and the puzzle-piece plot all combine to provide this martial arts movie with the spirit of a star-cross'd swashbuckler.
In Good Company
In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the human male: American Pie and About a Boy.
Racing Stripes
Just as the titular zebra, Stripes, is not really a horse of a different color, this kids picture is not a movie of a different stripe.
The Woodsman
Writer-director Nicole Kassell’s debut film is a lean drama anchored by subject matter which, although difficult, remains distantly disquieting yet never challenging.
arts & culture
'Match' Maker
Deborah Hay's latest dance leads to a new start
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam: Bill Fagan
BY ROBERT FAIRES
New City Endorsement of Long Center on Tap
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Deveare Smith Visits – and Inhabits – Austin
The Zachary Scott Theatre Center is hosting a special
performance by Anna Deveare Smith in which she'll
present theatrical portraits of select Austinites
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Theatre Thievery: The Sequel
Over the Christmas holiday weekend, two more
Eastside theatres, the Vortex and Arts on Real, were
burglarized
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
FronteraFest 2005
Sonny's Last Shot
Though it has the episodic feel of a screenplay,
'Sonny's Last Shot' is, all in all, a satisfying evening of
getting your jollies at the expense of the Texas
Legislature
Elektra
In Austin Lyric Opera's production of 'Elektra,'
conductor Richard Buckley succeeds in conveying
the complexity, richness, cruelty, and humanity of this
work
'Paintings by Christopher Fitzgerald'
Diaz Gallery was formed as a labor of love by Adam
Diaz, a friendly soul who seeks to represent those
artists who are passionate and involved with their
work
columns
Page Two
The perception that the liberal elite mocks the rest of the country and holds its values up to ridicule is probably critical to the whole positioning of moral values as a national issue. And it is only perception.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen reminisces about his early love for drag and brings it all up to date with some S&M: 'Standing & Modeling,' of course
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
HIV isn't the only STD out there
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
As 'nanotechnology' enters into the field of medicine, what is now called 'blood spot testing' may emerge as the future of blood testing
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Consumer scams to avoid
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Snickers, 'Sneakers,' Singapore, and 'Notes
on Nationwide Dialing'
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Heritage Forge in the Homestead Heritage Traditional Crafts Village north of Waco preserves the ancient art of blacksmithing
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Storie Productions presents Square One by Steve Tesich
Austin Playhouse, Friday, January 14, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
A merry Christmas for Chelsea, and the power of a union
