Central Library
Volume 20, Number 41
features
An Austin Original
Celebrating the Life of Otto Hofmann,1918-2001
BY ROBYN TURNER
news
University High
Community colleges are pushing "college credit" courses for high school students -- but the education is in doubt.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The Hightower Lowdown
CEO hogs, the Bush / Cheney energy hypocrisy & science for sale
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
No Mercy: Perry to Decide If Texas Will Continue to Execute Mentally Retarded
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Diverse Portfolio
The boom in Austin may be busting, but the 183 / MoPac tech force will always be hungry around noon, Pableaux Johnson writes in his review of Sushi Sake.
BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
Food-o-File
There's nothing new about fundraising events in Austin, but a friend-raiser is a new concept in River City. That's what the board members, staff, and community volunteers associated with the Sustainable Food Center / Austin Community Gardens (SFC / ACG) chose to call the event they threw this past Sunday afternoon.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes
The Chronicle's roundup of diners and cafes in this week's "Second Helpings."
Food Reviews
music
Mi Son
Rick Treviño returns to his roots.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Country Shuffle
Justin Trevino, the voice of angels
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Dancing About Architecture
Alt.rock and Woodshock out, Michael Corcoran back in.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Lucinda Williams
Essence
Ani DiFranco
Revelling / Reckoning
Incredible Leroy Moses
Electric Pocket Radio
Radiohead
Amnesiac
Sigur Rós
Agaetis Byrjun
Mogwai
Rock Action
Tool
Lateralus
Red House Painters
Old Ramon
Whiskeytown
Pneumonia
Clem Snide
The Ghost of Fashion
Olu Dara
Neighborhoods
Ike Turner
Here and Now
screens
Boo-ya!
New computer and video game reviews for the summertime gaming shut-in season
Short Cuts
Sony Pics faux crix, 10-year Slacker reunion.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The cure to the summer rerun doldrums? HBO's Sex and the City and Six Feet Under.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Three on a Match
Three childhood friends experience tragedy as adults when one of them runs away with the gangster boyfriend of another.
School Daze
Spike Lee imbues School Daze with as much race and identity politics as is possible without losing his focus in a film that should be rightfully viewed as a musical.
From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Yet another bloodbath featuring guns, vampires, and naked women.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Homecoming Queen
Many actors leave Austin seeking a career on the stage and are never heard from by the folks in their old hometown. But Austin native Starla Benford has come home as the star of a national tour. She talks about starting out at Harvard, making her mark as a professional, and nine months on the road with The Vagina Monologues.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
An invitation to the city's loosest arts awards ceremony from the Austin Critics Table, a happy birthday to the Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Museum, and playwright Ruth Margraff is a hit in Big D.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
.com
You know the way Dilbert can sometimes get the whole office / cyber scene down perfectly? That's what Tapestry Dance Company does in their new show .com, and just as cleverly -- but with dance. And with some real depth and beauty worked in there, too. It was like the best of Dilbert, but with Dilbert as drawn by one of the Wyeths.
Palestrina and Pärt
The penultimate night of the 2001 New Texas Festival saw a reduced Conspirare Choir of 12 singers under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson compare and contrast selections by 16th-century composer Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina and 20th-century composer Arvo Pärt in an evening that displayed just how exquisite Johnson's choir is.
columns
Page Two
Editor Louis Black comments on our brief reunion with cover subject (and onetime Chronicle illustrator) Keith Graves, reconsiders Joan Micklin Silver's Chilly Scenes of Winter, and says "get well" to KVET talk-show mainstay Sammy Allred and "farewell" to former staffer Sarah Hepola.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
The environment, the alleged marijuana, the traffic, Ventura's highway, and more.
Public Notice
Austin's wheely hot this week and next with these fine skating fundraisers!
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Monet's Water Lilies transport us to a time before the definition of eyesight and humanity.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Our resident fashionista delivers a play-by-play account of the newest (fictional) reality game, Shopping Survivor; he also recommends the straight-to-video feature Intern, a bitchy, insidery take on the high-fashion industry, and Swap & Bop, an open-air flea market / music event at Waterloo Brewing Company this Saturday.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
San Antonio's Texas Folklife Festival
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
When I picked up a prescription a few days ago, my pharmacist advised me not to use grapefruit juice while I was taking the medication. Why would that make any difference?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Inaccurate Statistics via the News Media.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Mr. Smarty Pants
Canny confections for your forebrain's sweet-tooth
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
