news
Divorce, Alamo Style
From a small north-side apartment – via toney Rob Roy, a Hays County ranch, and several sojourns in jail – Janet Kennedy keeps fighting a battle featuring all the latest in family bitterness
BY AMY SMITH
Our Groovy Capitalistic Council
Keep Austin Corporate, dude; and, a firefight breaks out between Martinez and McCracken
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Invasion of the McMansions
Tarrytown neighbors outraged over demolition of house they considered historic
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Darkness and Confusion
Rocha grand jury file raises as many questions as it answers
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond.
BY LEE NICHOLS AND CHERYL SMITH
Point Austin: A Lege Too Far
Sine Die or school bells, perhaps they toll for thee
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Do we really mean the stuff we're sticking on our cars?; and smut goes corporate
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL
To the Nth Degree
The 15th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival
BY ROBB WALSH
Searing Memories
On the occasion of the 15th annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival, some chile-pepper reflections
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The Peppers Cookbook
Not only does Austin host the popular 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival, but our city is also home to Jean Andrews, one of the foremost authorities on the world of capsicums
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
The heat is on; plus, the new Starlite shines in the Warehouse District
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Pepper Peddlin': A Few Festival Vendors
A few festival vendors
music
True Today
Randy 'Biscuit' Turner's final interview
BY MARC SAVLOV
Old King: Neil Young and Jonathan Demme in Nashville
Neil Young's new 'Prairie Wind' howls for the decades
BY LOUIS BLACK
TCB
Austin remembers Randy 'Biscuit' Turner, whose sudden death shocks and saddens the city
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash
The Legend, Keep On the Sunny Side
X, the Knitters, John Doe
Live in Los Angeles, The Modern Sounds of the Knitters, Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
various artists
The Dick Cavett Show:Rock Icons
screens
All in the Delivery
Penn Jillette on 'The Aristocrats'
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Film Treatment for the Really, Truly (No Kidding This Time) 'Last Picture Show'
The Rolling Roadshow takes over Archer City to screen Bogdanovich's classic among the people who inspired it
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Grant Recipients
$77,000 to 27 projects
'SXSW Presents'
Back for year two on KLRU
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta got touched by a TV
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Aristocrats
The gleefully profane The Aristocrats provides a survey of some of the best comic minds in the business.
The Brothers Grimm
Terry Gilliam's skewed fantasy is pure jabberwocky.
Saint Ralph
This strange youth dramedy from Canada has a brisk, sunny aplomb.
Supercross: The Movie
Two brothers overcome emotional and physical obstacles to achieve success in the competitive world of supercross racing.
arts & culture
22 to Think About
Austin Museum of Art shows new local art that engages the mind
BY RACHEL KOPER
Trouping Ahead
The Latino Comedy Project keeps creating laughter and its own opportunities
BY PATTI HADAD
'The Will Rogers Follies': Back in the Saddle Again
For the creative team on the new national tour of 'The Will Rogers Follies,' working on the show is like slipping into a broken-in pair of old boots
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'10 Minutes Max': Just Enough Time to Get Moving
The clock is ticking for local movement artists, as Dance Umbrella brings back its ever-popular program of new short movement pieces, '10 Minutes Max'
BY BARRY PINEO
Culture Flash!
City arts funding revisions get a thumbs-up from council, theatre artists sing for cancer charities, and local playwrights meet and greet
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Grind
'The Grind,' a new workplace satire by local playwright Timothy Thomas, reveals what happens when a company Everyguy gets caught in interoffice intrigues
The Three Cuckolds
At the Blue Theatre, you can see an outstanding example of commedia dell-arte in Tongue and Groove Theatre's awesomely entertaining production of 'The Three Cuckolds'
columns
Page Two
The column takes a break from its break to bask in the glow of Neil Young's recent Nashville concerts – and promise a couple of online reviews of it soon
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar takes out the trash ... junk mail trash, that is, and lets you in on the big secret of how you can, too!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Some techniques may help the poz person work around the atmosphere of secrecy and pain that uninformed or narrow-minded people create
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
What is the best drinking water to consume while pregnant?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Admissibility of lie detectors
BY LUKE ELLIS AND ANGELA SPEIGHT
Day Trips
An interesting encounter with a gifted storyteller in Birmingham
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The original sexbot film and the meat of white people
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival
Waterloo Park, Sunday, August 28, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
The Lady Longhorns kick off the season
