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Top 10s
2005’s biggest City Council moments; ten ways to convince AMD not to move to Lantana; top 10 drug war stories; and more
Nixon
Nixon 1995, R, 190 min. Directed by Oliver Stone, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins, E.G. Marshall, David Paymer, David Hyde Pierce, Paul Sorvino, Mary Steenburgen, J.T. Walsh, James Woods. If Robert McNamara’s recently published apologia for the war in Vietnam struck you as…
Top 10 Theme/Group Art Exhibitions of 2005
‘Chronicle’ visual arts writer Rachel Koper names her favorite group art exhibitions of 2005
Lawless Disorder
Top 10 crime and justice stories
Pomegranates Et Al.
The year in dining, 2005
Top 10 Artists by Body of Work in 2005
‘Chronicle’ visual arts writer Rachel Koper names her favorite artists by the body of work they showed in 2005
Top 10 Ways to Convince AMD Not to Move to Lantana That SOS Hasn’t Tried Yet
1) Gift boxes of exploding cigars. 2) A Move AMD reality show, in which three activists live with three AMD executives in a downtown loft and find greater understanding and harmony via tequila shots at the Dizzy Rooster. 3) Summoning the armies of the undead to do their righteous bidding over the aquifer. 4) Staging…
On the Map
Austin’s art scene kept catching the eye of the nation in 2005
Page Two
Have a ‘Chronicle’ epiphany
Adios 2005
Top 10 Quotes of the Year
Paradise, Loss
The year in reading, 2005
Letters at 3AM
The president and his people have broken the laws governing warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and furthermore, lied about it, repeatedly and knowingly
Strayhorn Leaves GOP Primary and Goes Indie
Comptroller decides to keep fighting Perry into November
Crack Music
2005’s music haiku
After a Fashion
Stephen lays out the good, the bad, and the fugly of 2005
APD Officers Charged with Beating, Tasering Handcuffed Man
One resigned last month
Critics Poll 2005
Best Local Show Greg Beets: Randy “Biscuit” Turner Memorial, Emo’s Jim Caligiuri: Cindy Cashdollar and friends, Cactus Cafe (June) Robert Gabriel: Element7D, Antone’s Christopher Gray: The Riverboat Gamblers, Emo’s (May) Melanie Haupt: Okkervil River, Emo’s (September) Raoul Hernandez: Roky Erickson, ACL Music Fest Andy Langer: Neighbors in Need, Frank Erwin Center David Lynch: Paris 49,…
To Your Health
How to best treat a child with Noonan’s Syndrome
Special Election for Texas House of Representatives, District 48
Candidates Kathy Rider (Democrat) Donna Howard (Democrat) Ben Easton (Libertarian) Ben Bentzin (Republican) Early voting runs through Friday, Jan. 13. Election day is Tuesday, Jan. 17. Voters in District 48 may vote at any location listed below during early voting but must vote in their individual precincts on election day. (See www.traviscountytax.org/showVoterSearch.do to find your…
National Top 10s
Greg Beets 1) LCD Soundsystem (DFA/Capitol) 2) The New Pornographers, Twin Cinema (Matador) 3) The High Dials, War of the Wakening Phantoms (Rainbow Quartz) 4) The Go Team!, Thunder, Lightning, Strike (Memphis Industries/Columbia) 5) Apes, Baba’s Mountain (Birdman) 6) The Knitters, The Modern Sounds of … (Zoë/Rounder) 7) Susan Cowsill, Just Believe It (Blue Corn)…
The Common Law
Checking your credit history
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Texas Top 10s
Greg Beets 1) Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before: The Roky Erickson Anthology (Shout! Factory) 2) Spoon, Gimme Fiction (Merge) 3) The Deathray Davies, The Kick and the Snare (Glurp) 4) The Crack Pipes, Beauty School (Emperor Jones) 5) Kathy McCarty, Another Day in the Sun (Rexy Rex) 6) Pong, Bubble City (Realistic)…
Day Trips
The good and the bad news from the year 2005
The Hightower Report
Come clean, Tom; and gutting the ban on methyl bromide
TCB
More lists than there were albums released in 2005… almost.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
An example of esoteric knowledge is ____ (oops…it’s a secret). William Shatner has starred in one of only two movies (Incubus, 1965) to be made in Esperanto. In German, there are two ways to say “per capita” (per head). The formal version is “pro kopf,” which means “per head.” But the colloquial expression is “die…
Film News
The top stories of 2005
Riding the Range
The year in film, 2005
Soccer Watch
Top 10 Stories of 2005: While the odd-numbered years are lacking in terms of international drama (World Cups, Olympics, continental championships), 2005 had its moments, including one of the best European Champions League finals ever and some interesting developments in the lead-up to this summer’s World Cup finals in Germany. 1) Liverpool wins the Champions…
TV Eye
The best and worst of 2005: Jennifer Love Hewitt is a joke, but not nearly as funny as the ones on ‘Arrested Development,’ ‘My Name Is Earl,’ and ‘The Daily Show’
Top 10 Theatrical Treasures & Pleasures of 2005
‘Chronicle’ Arts Editor Robert Faires lists his favorite theatrical productions of 2005
BloodRayne
This video-game-to-movie adaptation of BloodRayne poses no threat to German filmmaker Uwe Boll’s reputation as the modern-day Ed Wood.
Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events of 2005 That Engaged and Endure
‘Chronicle’ Arts Editor Robert Faires lists his favorite performances of dance and classical music from 2005
Blue Lines to White Sheets
Top 10 local stories
Casanova
Hallström’s latest is fine but unambitious, content with what it is – an arthouse trifle with tricorner hats, corsets, and powdered wigs.
Top 10 Most Memorable Theatrical Offerings That I Chanced to See in 2005 (A Hierarchical List)
‘Chronicle’ theatre writer Barry Pineo names his 10 favorite stage productions of 200
Tom DeLay to Todd Baxter
Top 10 state stories
Pulse
The ghost is literally in the machine in this prototypical Japanese horror film that works primarily with dread and inexplicable phenomena rather than blood and guts.
Top 10 Spontaneous Catharses and Other Performance Effects of 2005
‘Chronicle’ theatre writer Heather Barfield Cole names her 10 favorite performing arts experiences of 2005
White House Press Whores?
Top 10 media stories
Nine Lives
Composed of nine occasionally interlocking vignettes that star a dozen or so terrific actresses, Nine Lives presents intimate portraits of women grapplng with life.
Top 10 Arts Web Sites
‘Chronicle’ visual arts writer Benné Rockett names her favorite Web sites of 2005
Top 10 City Council Moments
1) Jennifer Gale and Pat Johnson: Meet the good-cop/bad-cop of citizens communications. Anybody can sign up to address council, but could anyone but Gale so cheerily charge half of them with being illegally elected, then burst into a heartwarming holiday sing-along? We still get misty-eyed remembering her autumnal declaration, “It’s Halloween – and even the…
Breakfast on Pluto
In this latest from Neil Jordan, Cillian Murphy plays the swinging transvestite Patrick “Kitten” Braden, who wanders through and into the pop-and-politics culture of Seventies England.
Top 10 Art Installations of 2005
‘Chronicle’ visual arts writer Rachel Koper names her favorite art installations of 2005
The Chronic Goes On
Top 10 drug war stories
Luv Doc Recommends: Saturday Free Show at Emo’s
Enough with the goddamned football already. You may still be jacked up about the Longhorns’ crushing defeat of the mighty Trojans of USC, still basking in the heady glow of victory, still gleefully humming the glorious strains of “Texas Fight!” but it’s over. Time to move on. Time to wash off the huge, burnt-orange “T”…
