Cover Story
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
Can record stores survive the digital age?
Hello, Dolly!
Hello, Dolly! 1969, G, 146 min. Directed by Gene Kelly, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Barbra Streisand, Walter Matthau, Michael Crawford, Tommy Tune, Louis Armstrong. This film adaptation of the beloved Broadway musical tells the story of New York-based matchmaker Dolly Levi, who falls in love with a “half a millionaire” named Horace…
Patton
Patton 1970, PG, 169 min. Directed by Franklin Schaffner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring George C. Scott, Karl Malden. George C. Scott cuts a memorable figure as the dominating yet eccentric General Patton in this film that received seven Oscars, including one for young screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.
How to Pick Up Girls: A Guide for the Dating Impaired
How to Pick Up Girls: A Guide for the Dating Impaired 2004, NR. Directed by Alpha, Starring Kathryn MacGregor, Piper Mackenzie, Mysteria Black, Rhiannon Arivon, Terri Hudson. Four single lesbians are looking for love in this film from local film company Passion Fruit Video. Two gals are shy and just coming out, while the other…
Eyes Without a Face
This French horror classic is a tale of a deranged surgeon and his obsession with restoring the mutilated face of his beloved daughter, who lost her own visage to a car accident while he was behind the wheel. His solution? Steal the faces of others, cut ’n’ paste, et, voilá.
The Common Law
I bounced a check, and now the store is threatening to press criminal charges against me if I don’t pay the amount I owe within 48 hours. Can they really do that?
The Dream vs. the Nightmare
The MLK Day march becomes a referendum on Tom DeLay and Ronnie Earle
In Play
Xbox brings the talk, but can it walk the walk with its latest sports-game line?
Second Helpings
“Second Helpings” is compiled from new and previous reviews, guides, and poll results. This week’s entries were updated by Erin Mosow. For more on Austin eateries, check here. Arturo’s Bakery & Cafe 314 W. 17th, 469-0380Mon-Fri, 6:30am-3:30pm; Sat, 7:30am-1:30pm This cozy little treasure tucked into a side street is a real find in the artsy…
Day Trips
Capt. Day Trips gets his pie on
Heat Still on Temple-Inland and Council
Enviros continue their scrutiny of aquifer development deal
In Space
You weren’t invited to the company picnic again, and the cruel, cautionary yellow of that “visitor” badge has worn a sizable hole in your hope, not to mention your résumé. Where to go? What to do? FairJobs.org, for starters.
TCB
SIMS and Alejandro Escovedo on the mend, plus more hip-hop and SXSW for your shoulder-to-shoulder
Letters at 3AM
Attorney General John Ashcroft is stuffing our Bill of Rights into the shredder
Hope and Questions Greet Bush Immigration Plan
Austin immigrants share mixed feelings about the proposed federal guest-worker program
Short Cuts
We’re No. 1. But we knew that.
The Earth Moves
For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go ’round
Soccer Watch
The Mexican League kicked off its spring season last weekend. Unlike most leagues, Mexico splits its season into two separate parts, each followed by its own set of playoffs: the Apertura in the fall, and the Clausura in the spring. I’m going to make an effort to figure out the Mexican League this year –…
Glasgow: An Agreement to Quash
The Glasgow-Owens police shooting case is thrown out of court, while many questions remain unanswered
TV Eye
Thirty years later, Jeff Krulik and John Heyn still find the best spots
Survey Says: Arts Rule!
According to a new study, three out of four Austinites agree that the arts are where it’s at
Juan Meza’s World
The Juan in a Million restaurateur’s Eastside embrace has turned him into an Austin icon
Naked City
Breaking news from Austin, the region, and beyond
Articulations
Playwright Dan Dietz gets his second play staged at the Humana Festival in Louisville, Johnson / Long Dance Company heads to Hamburg, and Zach shuffles its season
Liquid Assets
The price is right even if the political climate is not
Naked City
A drug warrior seeks to censor opposing viewpoints
Disney’s Teacher’s Pet
Animated film about a dog who wants to be a boy – unusual fare from Disney that will please kids and alterna-adults.
Exhibitionism
Despite its focus on the bleak lives of English coal miners in the 1930s, The Road to Wigan Pier, with its live music, film, and skits, is a ridiculous amount of fun
Food-o-File
Events, closings, and condolences: Virginia B. Wood reports
Naked City
The hospital within a hospital lurches toward realization
Tokyo Godfathers
A homeless drag queen adopts an orphan in what is, but for some violence and harsh language, old-fashioned, big-hearted entertainment in high animé style.
Exhibitionism
Pro Arts Collective makes Suzan-Lori Parks’ Topdog / Underdog — a play dense with racial, societal, and economic queries — into a fast-paced and engaging hour and a half
Naked City
The Supreme Court demands that Texas keep its promise to deliver Medicaid services
The Butterfly Effect
Ashton Kutcher lays to waste a promising script involving time travel and unforeseeable consequences.
Exhibitionism
You should go to the Austin Shakespeare Festival’s The Winter’s Tale only if you’d like to see a truly magical story of hope from despair, joy from grief, and life from death
Tangled Up in Bob
Jason Enright tells the story of how Jupiter became Bob Dylan’s favorite record store: “Now Ryan is known as one of the biggest Bob aficionados around. When Dylan played at the Erwin Center in September of 1999, we placed an ad in the Chronicle — a collage of unpublished photos of Bob through the years…
Naked City
State senate districts 1 and 31 are in play before the special session
Win a Date With Tad Hamilton!
A hotshot movie star learns about small-town virtue in a forgettable romantic comedy.
Girls, Uninterrupted
An interview with Rachel Simmons
Belly Up
Sound Exchange Stashus Mule Duval Discs ABCD’s Wherehouse Music CD Warehouse (two locations) Technophilia Disc-Go-Round Donkey Records
Naked City
The FCC holds hearings in San Antonio, and activists and scholars plan a democratic reception
News/Print
Firstly, crystal meth kills. Secondly, Cyndi Hughes is leaving the Texas Book Festival. Thirdly, Geronimo says we can drink!
Phases & Stages
Disco HospitalBeerland, Jan. 18 Begun last June as an outlet for Austin’s mushrooming ranks of post-punk and No Wave devotees — i.e., people too cool to walk like an Egyptian at Elysium’s more Top 40-friendly Eighties-fest next door — Beerland’s Disco Hospital finally came into its own on Sunday. In stark contrast to weeks past,…
Naked City
The Health Department slaps women seeking an abortion with a good dose of guilt
Page Two
What would have happened if we had not invaded Afghanistan and Iraq?
Phases & Stages
Fivehead, Stickpony, the Pretty PleaseCarousel Lounge, Jan. 16 Downtown is an uphill battle on a rainy night when three of the town’s better musical options are tucked away at a cozy bar off Cameron Road near I-35. It’s no secret to local cognoscenti that the Carousel Lounge has played host to some of the best…
Who Pays?
While the economy burns, the Bush administration promotes Mars, moonshine, and marriage
After a Fashion
This week, your Style Avatar dresses to the nines and eats well
Phases & Stages
Gnappy, Clarksville Jazz SessionTambaleo, Jan. 15 Filling the Tambaleo happy hour with spacious jaunts into improvisational bliss, renowned local jazz leader and bassist Harold McMillan led a quintet through a set of standards (such as “Mr. P.C.”) stretched out across a template of relaxed blues structure. With Martin Banks on trumpet, John Tull on alto…
Austin @ Large: A Healthy Heart
Central Austin neighborhoods should embrace UT, not fight it.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The Cooper caper, conscious corpses, and the calibur of Caladfwlch
Phases & Stages
Red Stick RamblersEgo’s, Jan. 17 Apparently the word is out on Baton Rouge’s Red Stick Ramblers. After playing Friday night at the Continental, their Saturday gig at South Congress dive Ego’s was beyond packed, and the too-small dance floor was rockin’ with the Ramblers’ rousing gumbo of traditional Cajun, hot jazz, gypsy music, Western swing,…
Austin @ Large: The University Neighborhood Overlay
The proposed University Neighborhood Overlay divides West Campus into four subdistricts, each with slightly different development rules: � Outer West Campus: Allowable heights in this area, designed as a buffer zone, would range from 45 to 90 feet. Certain uses — such as parking garages — would not be allowed in this subdistrict. � Inner…
To Your Health
I desperately need more energy. I know my adrenal glands are not up to par, and I have heard about using adrenal gland concentrate for this. Is it safe to try?
Saving Darma
A UT linguist travels to northern India in a quest to preserve the local language of the Darma Valley
The Hightower Report
A rich guy shows no respect for the dead; a Bush appointee-turned-lobbyist shows no respect for ethics
About AIDS
Octopus Club has broken its own record, raising $69,669 in 2003 for the Paul Kirby Emergency Assistance Fund at AIDS Services of Austin! As always, every penny goes directly to an HIV-positive person in Austin needing financial help with rent, utilities, medications, food, and other essentials. Since 1989, Octopus Club has raised a whopping $722,613!…
Here’s Your Congress!
The U.S. Supreme Court refusal to stay the new Republican-drafted congressional map formally inaugurates the electoral season
Upping the Animé
Satoshi Kon’s ‘Tokyo Godfathers’ is social commentary transposed onto a toonscape: an interview
Luv Doc Recommends: FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of Show
If you have been here long enough, you probably already know it, but if you haven’t, here’s Austin’s dirty little secret: There are a lot of bad musicians in this town. No, really – a lot. For every Eric Johnson, Redd Volkaert, and Rich Brotherton, there are literally hundreds, possibly thousands of blundering hacks who,…
