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280 law professors, including some 13 at UT Law, sign a petition protesting the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the recounting of votes in Florida.

That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.

The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American Century is over.

Democrats are settling on Tony Sanchez as their next gubernatorial candidate before anyone has an idea who he is.

Politics Editor Louis DuBose examines the ramifications of the Presidential and Light Rail votes.

Chronicle Election Coverage

Early warning signs suggested that recently resigned health commissioner Reyn Archer was a few bricks shy of a full load.

In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.

Daryl Slusher debates Max Nofziger on light rail; Garnet Coleman fights with Hugo Berlanga at the St. Louis presidential debate; Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins support a soft money campaign for Ralph Nader; the Statesman buries a Bush funeral scandal story.

A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.

Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare

Tim Miller Fights to Stay in the U.S. With the Man He Loves

A tape disappears from George W. Bush's campaign office and lands on an Al Gore supporter's desk. No one knows who did it, but fingers are pointing at two Bush advisors.

Greens set up Austin headquarters, Kay Bailey Hutchison supports Bush campaign | Harry Middleton retires as director of LBJ library.

He may be running for president, but some state employees still call him George Jr.

The Mary Moody Northen Theatre revival of Barefoot in the Park, Neil Simon's early comedy about newlyweds in a nosebleed-high love nest, can't disguise the shortcomings of Simon's script, but with the vitality that Director Melba Martinez and an expressive, animated cast bring to the production it's always pleasant just being in the characters' company.

"The moment I walked into Lucky Dog on Spicewood Springs Road," Cuisines writer MM Pack writes, "I knew I wasn't in Austin hot-dog land. For one thing, people working there were wearing Bulls' caps, and they hadn't learned to pronounce those flat As in Longview."

Consumer Advocate Mounts Green Party Presidential Campaign

Two Fox reporters, fired by a Tampa station for their report on the continued use of the controversial recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, are coming to Austin to tell their tale.

Robi Polgar examines the Vortex production of Rob Nash's Senioritis

First, the good news ...

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

Differing takes on Town Lake going Greek; too many zeros for Babich; and the Chronicle film reviewers take another hit.

The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.