Cover Story
If You’re White, It’s All Right
The colors of justice in Williamson County
Last Life in the Universe
Last Life in the Universe 2003, R, 112 min. Directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Starring Taddanobu Asano, Sinitta Boonyasak, Takashi Miike. Multi-award-winning film from Thai director Ratanaruang (Mon-Rak Transistor) also features the always outstanding cinematography of Christopher Doyle and an acting performance by the notorious Japanese director Takeshi Miike as a yakuza crime boss. The film…
Lady Terminator
Lady Terminator 1988, R, 82 min. Directed by H. Tjut Djalil, Starring Barbara Anne Constable, Christopher J. Hart. This so-bad-it’s-good Indonesian movie attempts to borrow Hollywood action cliches.
Streets of Fire
This is a kickass Walter Hill action movie in which a rock & roll frontwoman (young Diane Lane) is kidnapped by bikers (led by Willem Dafoe) and then rescued by her shirtless ex (Michael Paré).
To Your Health
Forteo, the new medication for osteoporosis
Tomstown Hits the Fan
Felony indictments handed down in GOP campaign cash scandal
‘SXSW Presents’
‘Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics’
Hot Fun in the Summertime
Rachael YamagataZilker Park, Sept. 19 Sheryl Crow may have sang “Are you strong enough to be my man” on Friday night of the ACL Festival, but Rachael Yamagata offered a proper reprise Sunday afternoon. During her early day set, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter dedicated her hour to bad men and worse choices. With nearly every song,…
The Common Law
Security obligations of the landlord
A Beginning for ‘The End’
Grand opening for new projects on East 11th Street
Short Cuts
This week: Burnt Orange, Blood Shots, and ‘Slacker’; plus, Travis the Dancin’ Fool
TCB
ACL 04: They’re only feet, and “TCB” didn’t need them anyway
Soccer Watch
UT women bravely go forth; and (amazingly) more great football on American TV
Look Out! She’s Got a Gun!
Angelina Eberly returns to the scene of the crime
TV Eye
For ‘Veronica Mars’ and ‘Kevin Hill,’ the journey’s the thing
Provoking, Exposing, Expanding
The ninth Cinematexas International Short Film Festival
Oops!
In the Sept. 10 and Sept. 17 “News of the Weird” columns, the answers in the Almost All True sections were mistakenly omitted. The following are true: b), c), and d) (Sept. 10); and 2), 3), and 4) (Sept. 17). The Chronicle regrets the errors.
Stick Stuck on His Study
The state rep still wants a ‘needs assessment’ from the hospital district
TRMPAC Indictments Come Down, ‘More Work’ Remains
Ronnie Earle and the Travis Co. grand jury announce the initial results of the TRMPAC investigation
Shiny, Happy Creatures
With their vibrant colors and organic shapes, Faith Gay’s artworks seem delightfully, hypnotically alive
A Night Out
Aquarelle
Lavernia: A Happy Ending
After 16 years in jail, an innocent Cuban refugee gets his green card
Counting the Felonies
A list of the persons and corporations indicted in the TRMPAC investigation, and the charges against them
Heavy Weather
An unseasonably mild year of city arts funding ends in a tempest
Din Ho Chinese BBQ
Despite some hiccups, Din Ho still doesn’t disappoint
Bush Dodges Another Bullet
Dan Rather takes one for the president
Arts Reviews
The Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of ‘Omnium Gatherum’ starts as captivating, then rounds a hairpin turn to become compelling
In Memoriam: Ralph White
Ralph White, Texas painter, UT Professor Emeritus, and Austin Arts Hall of Fame inductee, has died at age 83
Liquid Assets
Today’s Chardonnays
Party for the Right to Read
The ACLU wants Banned Books Week to be a wake-up call
Arts Reviews
For being in such an offbeat space, ‘Construction Site’ is one heck of a show. Large, ambitious sculptures and site-specific installations make it worthwhile to seek out this temporary venue, located on the ground floor of AMLI Downtown.
Reviews Relocated
After seven years, the ‘Chronicle’ is returning arts reviews to the Arts listings and saying farewell to the ‘Exhibitionism’ page
Food-o-File
If you weren’t at Eat, Drink, Watch Movies on Sunday night, you missed quite a party. Time to thank the people who made it possible.
No Go for Jane Roe Yet
But a 5th Circuit judge “implores” the Supremes to revisit the case
Culture Flash!
New gifts to the Long Center, a new Little Elf for ‘Santaland,’ a new name for the AMOA Guild, a retirement at the symphony, and a return to Venice for Allison Orr
UT Idles on Los Alamos
Nuke-lab bid cools down, but not entirely
The Corporation
An immensely informative and provactive documentary about the growth of corporate entities within the legal sphere, marketplace, and human imagination.
Readings
A naturalist on the varied, extreme track of the ‘wandering foreigner’
Color by Numbers
For fair prosecution, the numbers just don’t add up
¿Adelante con Bush o Kerry?
Election talk at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber’s Austin conference
A Day Without a Mexican
What if Californians awoke one day to discover that all the Mexicans in the state had mysteriously vanished overnight?
Readings
Rachel Seiffert’s sparse, airy prose belies a profound concern with individual identity and historical memory
Turning Taylor Around
The Williamson Co. authorities bring law-and-order urban renewal to the Taylor black community
TCEQ: Get the Lead Out
Local landfill operator Bob Gregory wins a round in the TV-tubes case
Shaun of the Dead
This “romantic comedy … with zombies” has a note-perfect mix of humor, horror, love, and death.
Page Two
Here in filmtown, ‘Slacker’ is on DVD (finally) and ‘Louisiana Boys’ is on ‘SXSW Presents.’ Meanwhile, despite the lack of a Hussein connection, the Iraq war is a triumph for the 9 / 11 terrorists and their co-conspirators.
The Royal Succession
In Williamson County, there’s always an incumbent prosecutor
New ‘Student’ Bodies
Well, if it isn’t Brian Ferguson! What a surprise!
The Forgotten
Julianne Moore is out of her mind with grief – or is she just out of her mind?
After a Fashion
Stephen weighs in on the whole Cipel / McGreevey thing (you know, the gay governor scandal), and lucky for us, we have never made untoward advances toward Our Style Avatar, especially now that we know how he feels
Lining Up for Schlotzsky’s
Potential buyers queue up as bankruptcy court gives green light
The Challenge of Judge Dietz
School finance decision puts responsibility where it’s always been – on all of us
The Five Obstructions
This sublime documentary, which recounts a bizarre battle of creative wits between Danish film director Jørgen Leth and the notorious Lars von Trier, also features a segment animated by Waking Life‘s technical wizard Bob Sabiston.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Ben Franklin & Gandhi battle it out with Franciscans
The Rev. Rigby Welcomes Same-Sex Showdown
The St. Andrew’s pastor says a Presbyterian trial is ‘what needs to happen’
The Hightower Report
No Child Left Behind leaves the funding behind; and Richard Perle bungles on the battlefield and in the boardroom
A Dirty Shame
John Waters, America’s king of trash, is back with this tale of sex addiction, fetishes, and mad, bad, lascivious squirrel sexin’.
About AIDS
Bobby was nearing his end. When it was time, he wanted to go quietly and simply. After death, he wanted cremation, no funeral, and to have his ashes spread in the woods. His longtime partner Fred understood all that. However, they had never put in place the documents to be sure that is actually what…
Nuke Waste: Get It While It’s Hot!
Crony capitalism drops a dirty bomb on Texas
The Human Factor
Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost on romantic zomedy ‘Shaun of the Dead’
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War
The most costly and the most popular film in South Korean history is also one of the most gripping and epic war films ever made.
Day Trips
Marshall, in the northeast corner of the state, has one of the most colorful histories of any Texas city
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Craft Service
Michael Almereyda on ‘This So-Called Disaster’
Bright Young Things
Actor and author Stephen Fry turns director for this colorful group snapshot of monied revelers in 1930s London.
Luv Doc Recommends: Cinematexas 9
The revolution will be digitized. Why? Because digitization is the revolution. Every second that ticks by, millions of pixels pop into existence, flash and burn their cubist code into an alternate, slightly choppier reality, smooth on the surface but hard and angular underneath. Cameras are everywhere: convenience stores, shopping malls, stoplights, cars, phones, pens ……
