Volume 24, Number 23
ON THE COVER:
news
Once students enter the 'pipeline,' can educational
plumbers stop the leaks?
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Austin spam-fighter goes forth to battle the kings of e-trash
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Many scramble to replace Slusher and Goodman;
only Gale takes on Dunkerley
BY MICHAEL KING
The city shoots for energy efficiency and affordability
in low-income neighborhood
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Chief Knee may be guilty of the same offense for
which he fired an officer
BY JORDAN SMITH
We assume it would go something like this ...
BY KEVIN BRASS
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
Some Central Texas Reps feel a sting for opposing the GOP leadership
BY AMY SMITH
The Mayor's Task Force issues its report, but the real
work is yet to come
BY MICHAEL KING
'Consumer Reports' explores capitalistic idiocy; and
libraries go begging while boondoggles get funding
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The symbolism and celebration of Tet, the Vietnamese
new year
BY MICK VANN
Parallel opens on Burnet Road; plus, celebrate the
Super Bowl, Carnaval, and Mardi Gras Austin-style
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Veteran musicians retire to Austin
BY MARGARET MOSER
Darin Murphy heads for Broadway, Daniel Johnston
heads for the silver screen, DJ Pandora heads home
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Delirium Tremolos
Live
Holy Ghost Power
Second Whirled
Baby It's Over
I Don't Wanna Be Crazy
The Legend of the Dawn
Rehab
Fantasmas
Southern Borders Soul Music, Soul Proprietor, Air Raid Volume 2, Slump & Grind
Don't Mess With La Musica de Tejas, Don't Mess With the Music of Texas, Volume Two
Thieves
Begin
screens
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
Blow-Up' at the Drafthouse
BY MARC SAVLOV
Two more big announcements from SXSW Film 05;
plus, stay tuned for the full lineup and be ready to buy
up some passes
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
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' 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
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.
Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.
Inexplicable Fantasy Romances for the Harried Modern Gal 101 is a more fitting title for this shameless mediocrity.
arts & culture
Round Rock's Ellen Marlow is on Broadway (at the age of 10)
BY CLAY SWARTZ
A celebration of African-American chamber music
from the Austin Chamber Music Center and Huston-
Tillotson College
BY BARRY PINEO
An early-morning blaze at Guadalupe Arts Center
displaces 75 artists
BY ROBERT FAIRES
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
Tour de force describes what actress Barbara
Chisholm's performance in 'Blown Sideways Through
Life,' Claudia Shear's autobiographical journey through
the workplace
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
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
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
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
Our readers talk back
"Meet HIV" at ASA on Feb. 10
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Signs, signs, everywhere signs! Sigh! Is the (now)
controversial Gomi Kitty really a sign?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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
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
One of the molecules in your lungs came from
Caesar's last breath
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Mediation - what is it?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Palmer Events Center, Saturday, February 5, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Mascots become erudite, Man United
trounces Arsenal
BY NICK BARBARO