While Callas Forever seems sincere in its attempt to pay tribute to the world’s most famous opera singer, it unwittingly disserves her in its bizarre wish-fantasy about resurrecting her voice onscreen.

Guess Who

Bernie Mac gets punk'd by Ashton Kutcher.

Ice Princess

This refreshingly femme-centric tale advocates on behalf of physics, feminism, and athleticism.

Millions

A sweet, emotionally complex film about faith, charity, and growing up is not what most people would have expected from Trainspotting's Danny Boyle, but this new movie is unmistakably his.

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

No medals will be awarded for this Sandra Bullock follow-up, although the actress proves herself an ever-game comic actress.

The Ring Two

Narrative listlessness and a lack of scares makes this mother-and-son reunion a shabby affair.

Schultze Gets the Blues

The life of a retired German miner and accordion player is spurred toward change by the sound of zydeco music.

Short Cut to Nirvana: Kumbh Mela

A fascinating, confounding documentary portrait of the "longest running religious festival in history" – the Kumbh Mela in Prayag, India, a 70 million-strong, once-every-12-years event.

arts & culture

Facing the Media

Who is Young-Min Kang? That's what he wants to know.

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

Let's Get Lost

Arts on Real replaces its scheduled production of 'Adult Entertainment' with the Lost Film Fest

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Presto Christo!

Christo and Jeanne-Claude are coming to Austin for the Austin Museum of Art, which has just gotten a splashy new look

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Theatre Thievery, Part 4

The Santa Cruz Center for Culture is the fourth Eastside theatre to be hit by thieves in the last five months

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Culture Flash!

A second life for 'Death of a Cat,' a new arts commissioner from the tourism bureau, and a West Coast trip for Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Sleeping Beauty

The Vortex Repertory Company's 'Sleeping Beauty' shows the company in a playful mood, delivering a musical adaptation that is fanciful, lighthearted, and disarmingly sweet

'Between You and Me'

The Arthouse exhibition 'Between You and Me' uses video to explore intimate space in the artistic context

'Open Doors Downtown'

The second exhibition for the Open Doors art group takes advantage of the cavernous AMLI space to present six new large installation works

columns

Page Two

Finding peace in the wonderful chaos of SXSW

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

After a Fashion

Stephen in overalls?? Can you see it? Billy Jack can ...

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

About AIDS

Waterloo offering new HIV support group

BY GAIL GOODMAN

To Your Health

What usually happens with chronic hepatitis C infection, and can anything be done nutritionally to improve the outcome?

BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

The Common Law

Identity theft – protect yourself

BY LUKE ELLIS AND LARA WAGNER

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Lindsey Wagner, Atlantic tsunamis, Mount St. Helens, and Condoleezza Rice

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Day Trips

Dan Blocker of O'Donnell, Texas, was Hoss Cartwright on the television show 'Bonanza' and lives on through reruns and in a museum and small park in his hometown in the Panhandle

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Luv Doc Recommends: 'American Beer' Screening

Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Sunday, March 27, 2005

BY THE LUV DOC

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily

sports

Soccer Watch

Is Sir Alex 'sackable'?

BY NICK BARBARO

TODAY'S EVENTS

Young Greg Abbott: A FuQusical

Trinity Street Theatre

Gary Gulman: Misfit
at Paramount Theatre

Lakota Nation vs. United States at AFS Cinema

MUSIC | MOVIES | ARTS | COMMUNITY

March 25, 2005