BookPeople
Volume 24, Number 39
news
In Memoriam
The Austin State Hospital Cemetery is the long final home for thousands
BY CHERYL SMITH
Passing the Baton
City looks to future in wake of Texas Relays Controversy
BY JORDAN SMITH
Reining in the Mother of All Big Boxes
Local activists seek community-wide benefits analyses of
big-box proposals
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
UT & Lockheed Woo Los Alamos
Peace activists urge UT to take a moral stand against weapons of mass destruction by refusing to bid on Los Alamos, while supporters see an opportunity for UT to increase its recognition and prestige, and protect national security
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Point Austin: The Lege v. Austin
The Austin-bashing bills are not just about water – also property, power, and democracy
BY MICHAEL KING
The Voucher Death Dance
The House voucher vampires get a lesson in slaying the beast
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
A Japanese, Chinese, and Canadian affair; and 'The Hammer' gets prayerful
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Yummer Reading
From 'Robbing the Bees' to 'The Eater's Guide to Chinese Characters', 'Food & Wine' to 'Einstein,' the best of this summer's food books
Women, Memories, and Food
Three famed dames look back and ahead.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
News of the new and of the old; plus, a recipe you'll want to hold on to
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Music Books
Whores and more for you musical summer reading
TCB
Openings, closings, deals, and meals – all on 'Deadwood' Austin
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Reissues
the Cure
Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography
R.E.M.
Green, Out of Time, Automatic for the People, Monster, New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up, Reveal, In Time:The Best of R.E.M., Around the Sun
Dinosaur Jr.
Bug, Dinosaur, You're Living All Over Me
the Manic Street Preachers
The Holy Bible: 10th Anniversary Edition
Yo La Tengo
Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985-2003
Stereolab
Oscillons from the Anti-Sun
Herb Alpert & Tiajuana Brass
The Lonely Bull, South of the Border, Whipped Cream & Other Delights, !!Going Places!!, What Now My Love, S.R.O., Lost Treasures
Count Basie
The Complete Count Basie Clef / Verve Fifties Studio Recordings
Art Pepper
Art Pepper
Aretha Franklin & King Curtis
Aretha Franklin & King Curtis Live at the Fillmore West:Don't Fight the Feeling
Charlie Poole
You Aint' Talkin' to Me
the Eagles
Eagles Box
The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 1: 59-61, The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 2: 1962
The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 1: 59-61, The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 2: 1962
screens
DVDs
South of France by Southwest
In keeping a journal during my five days in Cannes, where my first feature, 'Room,' premiered internationally, it occurred to me that it's the creative energy in Austin that has carried me this far.
BY KYLE HENRY
In Print
While it's bad form to judge a book by its cover – stunningly iconic in this case – this glancing Buster Keaton biography betrays its shortcomings by its page count
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Film News
The pair behind 'Dear Pillow' is at it again; plus, IFP issues, Cannes kudos, and Digital Light Processing lightsabers
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Next Wednesday, Punk'd creators Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg deliver a delicious slice of reality TV, high on guffaws, low on enduring value
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Tout Va Bien
Jane Fonda is a fixture in the American imagination – and as it turns out, the French imagination, too
Film Reviews
Eating Out
Crude comedy of sexual errors falls flat.
The Longest Yard
Sandler and Rock keep the ball in play for this old prison football gem, although they fail to score any new points.
Madagascar
Gently amusing stuff, sure, but nothing terribly inspiring in this animated tale of zoo animals heading back to the wild.
3-Iron
A young man steals into people's apartments and adopts their identities in this largely wordless Korean drama.
Turtles Can Fly
New Iraqi drama by Iranian Kurd Bahman Ghobadi is lyrical and heart-wrenching as it focuses on the children of conflict.
arts & culture
Applause! Applause!
Austin Critics Table nominations, 2004-2005
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Azul Gets Solid
The Blue Genie Art guys have taken it upon themselves to bring outdoor artwork back to Azul with a show that's 'Solid' in aesthetic and material forms as well as in name
BY RACHEL KOPER
Houston's Miller Outdoor Theatre and Paul Beutel: They're Playing His Song
After 35 years in Austin, former Paramount Theatre Director Paul Beutel is headed home to Houston to be the Miller Outdoor Theatre's first artistic director
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Strange Visitor From Another Planet
Hip-hop poet Zell Miller III is special, one of those people who radiate energy like the brightest of stars breaking through clouds on the darkest of nights
BY BARRY PINEO
Culture Flash!
'The Death of a Cat' gets another new lease on life, First Night Austin needs a lot of artists this New Year's Eve, and an Austin art car Hoovers up the competition in Houston
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Three Days of Rain
Despite its problems, Mainline Theater Project's 'Three Days of Rain' succeeds in showing us two sets of young people puzzling out who they are and want to be
'Migration Uno'
What is extraordinary about artist Ana Fuentes is that in her works she aims to attain emotional states and alter external circumstances that are not part of her physical environment
columns
Page Two
On the faults of Democrats, the failure of Republican rule, and the fundamental need for Social Security
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Happiness costs. I know better now than to indulge this happiness, but still I drive on and I can't or won't stop. It isn't right that I and my Chevy, and you and your car, eat up the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Peek into the future of death! At least that's what your Style Avatar calls it. While you're at it, peek into the future of a cool event or two, coming to a club near you.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Got medications you don't need? Don't throw them away! They could make the difference between life and death for HIV-infected people in poor countries.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Qualified and unqualified health claims
The Common Law
Copyright – movie scripts
BY LUKE ELLIS AND CODY KOENINGER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Gyroscopic forces of spinning wheels don't keep a bicycle upright
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Two Grannies' Downhome Cookin' in Glen Rose hands out hugs like most restaurants hand out mints
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
A Champions League teaser, and the triumphs of the
brothers Guadarrama
