Cover Story
Lioness in Winter
Eliza Gilkyson finds her roar
Leila
Leila 1996, NR, 102 min. Directed by Dariush Mehrjui, Starring Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Jamileh Sheikhi. Made by a UCLA grad who returned home to film The Cow in 1969, Leila returns the filmmaker to global cinemas. The film is a sad but beautiful observation of a deeply committed marriage torn asunder by the wife’s…
The Kids Are United
The Kids Are United NR, 60 min. Originally titled Kids Like You and Me, this documentary on the 1978 Reading Rock Festival is so rare that even fans of the bands depicted scarcely know of its existence. Featuring performances and interviews by the Jam, Sham 69, Penetration, early Ultravox and the Pirates, the film even…
TCB
Young Heart Attack and the Austin City Council’s ‘Mouthful of Love’
About AIDS
When a problem is ignored, it doesn’t just go away; it may even get worse. Public awareness is one of our great challenges with HIV, and big-guns research has reconfirmed a phenomenon we have observed anecdotally for some years. Media coverage of HIV/AIDS has fallen drastically, and the few stories that do appear today focus…
Naked City
Headlines Quote of the Week: “Everybody has the right to run for public office. Everybody tries to get votes from each other. That’s the end of my answer.” – Ralph Nader, defending his presidential campaign to Austin reporters. Early voting on a variety of races and issues started yesterday and continues through Tuesday, May 11.…
TV Eye
The mean month of May
Breathe, Fall, Suspend
Kathy Dunn Hamrick explains what modern dance is and why she keeps making it
Food-o-File
For the first time in 50 years, Austin is without a Holiday House restaurant. Plus: Event-o-Rama.
Naked City
Changes to AISD’s employment guidelines have minority coaches scrambling
DVD Watch
Le Corbeau The Criterion Collection, $29.95 If Henri-Georges Clouzot had made as many films as Alfred Hitchcock, he would surely be known today as the French Hitchcock, his name as iconic to cinematic history as fellow countrymen Renoir and Truffaut. Since word association best matches “Hitchcock” with Alfred rather than Robyn, sadly, Clouzot is more…
Articulations
The Harry Ransom Center has acquired all the professional and personal materials of profoundly influential acting teacher Stella Adler
Naked City
Same old story: developers vs. environmentalists
Firefighters Want to Bargain
Austin Firefighters bring collective bargaining to the May 15 ballot
Exhibitionism
Artist Jim Hodges invites light into his exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art and through his unusual concepts and craft, he builds a show as illuminating as it is incandescent
Yvonne Johnson: Pride From Pain
In her autobiography, Stolen Life, Canadian Cree Yvonne Johnson spares little in the telling of her life of abuse, incest, rape, physical deformity, poverty, and crime. Yet Johnson, who won’t be eligible for parole until 2014, doesn’t point fingers, make excuses, or otherwise deny guilt for the murder that got her a life sentence. Instead,…
Naked City
A national conference comes to Austin to examine wrongful convictions
Hospital District Vote Brings Heavy Momentum
Hospital district proponents refuse to count their chickens just yet
Exhibitionism
The Old Majestic is an operatic valentine to vaudeville from composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez delivered with a disarming sweetness by UT Opera Theatre
Lyrics: Ballad of Yvonne Johnson
“Ballad of Yvonne Johnson”by Eliza Gilkyson, with additional lyrics by Yvonne Johnson © 2003 Gilkysongs, BMI www.elizagilkyson.com “My name is Yvonne Johnson, my native blood is Cree. I’m here to tell the story of the life stolen from me. “My grandfather’s grandfather was the great war chief Big Bear and Flora my grandmother worked with…
Naked City
What was the real source of the Barton Springs pollution?
The May 15 Ballot
Depending on where they live, voters will see some combination of what is below on their ballot:ACC TRUSTEE ELECTIONPlace 4 Jeffrey Richard Thomas Krueger Place 5 Rafael Quintanilla Place 6 Guadalupe Q. Sosa Marc Levin Veronica Rivera Rodney AhartAISD GENERAL ELECTIONTrustee District 2 Rudy Montoya Jr. Trustee District 3 Johna Edwards Trustee District 5 Mark…
Exhibitionism
The trick in staging Romeo and Juliet has ever been keeping the suspense in the second half that the first half never really needs, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival almost manages it
Phases and Stages
David BowieThe Backyard, April 27 “This ain’t rock & roll … this is genocide!” Murder is right. On the eve of its 30th anniversary reissue, Diamond Dogs’ opening exhortation translated into two hours and 20 minutes of hard, uncompromising rock & roll from David Bowie under the half moon at the Backyard. Call it the…
Naked City
Austin’s police learn to give hugs
The Long View
John Graves’ ‘Myself and Strangers’ finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future
Phases and Stages
Cyndi LauperLa Zona Rosa, April 26 The problem with being a nostalgia act is that no matter how hard you try to keep your material fresh, people expect to see the same act they loved in 1985. Such was the case this fine Monday night when squeaky Eighties icon Cyndi Lauper made a rare Austin…
Naked City
More on Gary Bradley’s bankruptcy trial
Arzak Rhapsody
Arzak Rhapsody is a gorgeous and easily digested slice of Gallic animé by Heavy Metal magazine creator Moebius. American premiere.
News/Print
Book Woman fights back. Again.
Phases and Stages
Cee-LoGregory Gymnasium, April 24 “Horns!” yelled Cee-Lo from the stage at UT’s Gregory Gymnasium Saturday evening by way of introducing “My Kind of People.” Rather than a calculated attempt at being friendly to the mascot that sponsored his visit, it was a beacon of the programmed trumpets that begin the soul throwback. Not that it…
Naked City
Assorted news from the drug war front
Laws of Attraction
The first law of attraction is sexual chemistry – something this movie is completely lacking.
Page Two
Paying taxes adequate to meet social needs is a necessary hedge against a frightening future
Phases and Stages
SquarepusherAntone’s, April 21 Four TetThe Parish, April 24 With a pair of England’s most astute electronic beat programmers descending upon town within days of each other, Austin treated itself with large doses of digital manipulation. Wednesday night at Antone’s, Squarepusher alternated swirling laptop rinses with showers of bass dementia. Approximating a jazz so distorted that…
Naked City
An update on George Bush’s War against American Liberties
Mean Girls
Clique comedy about teen groupthink lacks real bite.
Letters at 3AM
War is how civilizations make love, so we should be careful of the partners we choose
Lazarus, Come Forth
The Gary Bradley bankruptcy trial pits a creditor theory of financial manipulation against a Bradley defense of innocent bookkeeping errors
On the Lege
Legislators offer school finance proposals, but find no consensus.
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Biopic of the only person to have ever won golf’s grand slam.
After a Fashion
Stephen sits on a panel and judges others … twice, and Club DeVille’s spring you-know-what
Two Schools of Thought
The upcoming ACC and AISD elections share a ballot but address different challenges
Go and Sin No More
The real sin is failure to fund public education
Broken Wings
Israeli family drama reveals that turmoil begins at home, not at the country’s borders.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Dalai Lama was a swinger.
ACC Candidates
Profiles of the contestants
The Hightower Report
Time to play Medicare Gotcha; and, if the Pentagon fears global warming, why doesn’t George W.?
Godsend
Godsend is an unresurrectable muddle about human cloning.
The Common Law
A relative passed away recently and the duty has fallen to me to wind up her affairs. She left a will. Where do I start? Can I do this without a lawyer?
AISD Candidates
Profiles of the contestants
Show & Tell
The Austin Music Network’s Student Film Showcase is Austin’s newest outlet for emerging auteurs
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Profile of L.A. radio deejay Rodney Bingenheimer, perpetual handmaiden to rock & roll royalty.
Arts String
The Eastside is home to more than 70 artists and studios, and they’re opening their doors to you on May 1
Day Trips
With the addition of Monica’s 701 Georgetown’s culinary reputation keeps improving
Who Fired Tony Fabelo?
Last year’s veto of the Criminal Justice Policy Council reflects a private agenda at the governor’s office
Behind the Music
George Hickenlooper and ‘Mayor of the Sunset Strip’
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
Darkly humorous Scottish/Danish production affirms life in the face of death.
The Puffy Taco Invasion
Two San Antonio-influenced Mexican restaurants are the newest residents of Manor Road’s Restaurant Row
To Your Health
Are the tannins in my tea bad for me?
Nader: Think Global, Act Texan
Ralph Nader dips into Texas politics while pursuing ballot access
Let’s Go, While We’re Young …
Drafthouse does Ultimate ‘Caddyshack’
Second Helpings: Catfish, Part II
Dot’s Place 13805 Orchid, 255-7288 Monday-Friday, 11am-2pm; Friday, 6-8:30pm We’ve always been big fans of the divinely crispy whole fried catfish on the bountiful lunchtime menu at this far North Austin down-home cafeteria, but we’re sometimes distracted by other items. That’s not a problem on Friday nights, however. On Fridays, Dot’s opens for an all-you-can-eat…
Soccer Watch
So much soccer, so little time.
Endorsements
The May 15 ballot is an unusual one in that it will include several area-specific election issues that will not all affect citywide or countywide matters. The Chronicle recommends the following votes on contested issues and candidates and in any case urges all our readers to vote on May 15 or during the early-voting period.…
Short Cuts
UT filmmakers get Guggenheims, spots at Cannes, and more. Plus: SXSW is never over.
Luv Doc Recommends: The Violet Crown Festival
Some freak meteorological glitch has extended our annual two-week allotment of spring into nearly two months. People everywhere are scrambling to find a workable fashion statement that splits the difference between jacket weather and full-on summer scorch, a transition that usually happens sometime in late March. Here you are nearly a month later trying to…
