news
How to Get Your Kids Through College
Once students enter the 'pipeline,' can educational
plumbers stop the leaks?
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Hunting Moby-Spam
Austin spam-fighter goes forth to battle the kings of e-trash
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Council Candidates Take Their Places
Many scramble to replace Slusher and Goodman;
only Gale takes on Dunkerley
BY MICHAEL KING
Zero-Energy Homes and Hope Break Ground in Montopolis
The city shoots for energy efficiency and affordability
in low-income neighborhood
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Still Looking for the Truth at APD
Chief Knee may be guilty of the same offense for
which he fired an officer
BY JORDAN SMITH
What If ... Media Terrorists Landed on Sixth Street?
We assume it would go something like this ...
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
Craddick Commits Committees
Some Central Texas Reps feel a sting for opposing the GOP leadership
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: A Blueprint for Mental Health
The Mayor's Task Force issues its report, but the real
work is yet to come
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
'Consumer Reports' explores capitalistic idiocy; and
libraries go begging while boondoggles get funding
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All Good Thoughts, All Good Food
The symbolism and celebration of Tet, the Vietnamese
new year
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-file
Parallel opens on Burnet Road; plus, celebrate the
Super Bowl, Carnaval, and Mardi Gras Austin-style
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
When I'm 64
Veteran musicians retire to Austin
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Darin Murphy heads for Broadway, Daniel Johnston
heads for the silver screen, DJ Pandora heads home
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Delirium Tremolos
Old 97s
Live
the Weary Boys
Holy Ghost Power
Rob Halverson
Second Whirled
the Stepbrothers
Baby It's Over
Jesus Christ Superfly
I Don't Wanna Be Crazy
the Golden Dawn
The Legend of the Dawn
Rusted Shut
Rehab
Glorium
Fantasmas
Hydroponic Sound System, Nick Nack, Strange Fruit Project, Headkrack & the Are, Word Association, Adlib, Beneb & Nt Wt, Ross Hogg, B-Cause, E-40, Keak da Sneak, Federation Frontline, Turf Talk, Messy Marv, San Quinn
Southern Borders Soul Music, Soul Proprietor, Air Raid Volume 2, Slump & Grind
Texas Music Project
Don't Mess With La Musica de Tejas, Don't Mess With the Music of Texas, Volume Two
Shearwater
Thieves
D:Fuse
Begin
screens
A Full Dance Card
Back in Austin after eight days in the land of
mountains and Mormons at the 2005 Sundance Film
Festival, it's hard to distill the experience into any one
verity. The combination of dozens of movies and the
oxygen-poor altitude create memories that seem more
impressionistic than precise.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
I'm Crazy for You
Blow-Up' at the Drafthouse
BY MARC SAVLOV
SXSW Update
Two more big announcements from SXSW Film 05;
plus, stay tuned for the full lineup and be ready to buy
up some passes
Film News
Finally, something louder than a whisper for
incentives, but it'll take a roar; plus, Bill Plympton,
Texas on TV, and Dinesh Potluri
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Like most filmmakers, New York-based Shola Lynch
is attracted to a good story. Enter Shirley Chisholm,
the first African-American woman to successfully run
for congress in 1968 and, in 1972, to enter presidential
campaign,
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Friday Night Lights
'Friday Night Lights' is the story of Odessa's Permian
High School football dynasty in the 1980s. It's a good
story, but did Hollywood pull off a film rendition of
Odessa high school football?
Film Reviews
Alone in the Dark
There's a certain majesty to German director Boll's style of filmmaking: a freedom from art, talent, skill of any formal kind, and the sheer pigheadedness to keep going at any cost.
Bad Education
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
The Wedding Date
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
arts & culture
Bittersweet Spotlight
Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)
BY CLAY SWARTZ
Songs of a New Race, Sung Again
A celebration of African-American chamber music
from the Austin Chamber Music Center and Huston-
Tillotson College
BY BARRY PINEO
Art Burn
An early-morning blaze at Guadalupe Arts Center
displaces 75 artists
BY ROBERT FAIRES
ASF + $$$ = RSC N TX?
The Austin Shakespeare Festival may be the first
company in America to stage the Royal Shakespeare
Company's hit comedy 'The Dog in the Manger,' but
first it must raise $15,000
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Blown Sideways Through Life
Tour de force describes what actress Barbara
Chisholm's performance in 'Blown Sideways Through
Life,' Claudia Shear's autobiographical journey through
the workplace
Short Fringe: Wednesday Jan. 26
The Short Fringe lineup on Jan. 26 covered juice
enthusiasts, life in a small Texas county, an action TV
parody with a ticking clock, and a fading friendship as
a wrestling match
Detour
Ariel Dance Theatre's new work Detour' blends dance
and drama, humor and gravity, to tell of brushes with
death that bring people back to life
'"Premeditated: Meditations on Capital Punishment"'
Malaquias Montoya's Premeditated: Meditations on
Capital Punishment' was notable for the art and its
challenge to consider deeply a topic it would be much
more comfortable to forget
columns
Page Two
It's time to celebrate the coming of South by
Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for
our roads
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back
About AIDS
"Meet HIV" at ASA on Feb. 10
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Signs, signs, everywhere signs! Sigh! Is the (now)
controversial Gomi Kitty really a sign?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Letters at 3AM
Carnaval literally means 'Goodbye, meat,' but in spirit
it's more like 'Farewell to desires of the flesh.' Let's
celebrate our desires before we bid them farewell.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
Artists have tried to replicate the method of creating
cement sculptures that look like wood, but few have
mastered the technique like Dionicio Rodríguez
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
One of the molecules in your lungs came from
Caesar's last breath
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Mediation - what is it?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Carnaval Brasilero
Palmer Events Center, Saturday, February 5, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Mascots become erudite, Man United
trounces Arsenal
