AFS Cinema
Volume 20, Number 49
news
Mercury, Cadmium, Arsenic, Grease ...
The Fish & Wildlife Service faults the EPA for failing to protect the Barton Springs Watershed.
BY AMY SMITH
Lean and ... Leaner
A preview of the city's proposed (and shrinking) budget
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Clean Campaigns heat wave, Alcoa's new problems, No Pipeline solutions at AAS, Personnel puzzles at AISD, City resignations, Mueller redevelopment candidates, Hyde Park meets again & Ed Herman's letter to the Times
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
The Army cares about residents near its waste incinerator, the post office is watching you, and Americans are overworked.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
GOP redistricting plan targets progressive Democrats
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Serve Chilled
The Summer Reading Menu
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
On select Saturday nights for the past 16 months, an adventurous group of Austin diners has gathered in a chef's test kitchen to taste a cookbook in progress.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Chinese
In the first of a two-part special, "Second Helpings" guru Greg Beets informs readers about Austin's Chinese restaurants and the cutthroat world of Chinese lunch specials.
music
Blow Up Your Video
MTV forces American youth to sell their souls, but has Joan Jett in a bikini!
BY GREG BEETS
Where Are They Now?
The future of Music Televison
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
The Live Music Capital threatens another stake in the heart of live local music.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Kirsty MacColl
Tropical Brainstorm
Moreno Veloso + 2, Caetano Veloso
Musical Typewriter, Noites do Norte
The Beta Band
Hot Shots II
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
The Shins
Oh, Inverted World
Built to Spill
Ancient Melodies of the Future
Q-Burns Abstract Message, Basement Jaxx
Invisible Airline, Rooty
Low & the Dirty Three
In the Fishtank
Scott Miller & The Commonwealth
Thus Always to Tyrants
Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Back to Bogalusa
Echo & The Bunnymen
Crystal Days 1979-1999
Herbert Henck, Thomas Larcher, András Schiff, Heinz Holliger, Camerata Bern, Thomas Zehetmair, Zehetmair String Quartett, The Rosamunde Quartett
Piano Music, Das Buch Der Klänge (The Book of Sounds, Klavierstücke, A Recollection, Schneewittchen (Snow White), Verklärte Nacht, Zehetmair String Quartett, The Seven Words
screens
Will Pay Cash for Film
Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund underwrites independent film and video
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Devil Online
Is online gaming phenomenon Diablo II: Lords of Destruction (Expansion Set) selling kids violence?
BY MARCEL MEYER
Short Cuts
Austin mourns the death of filmmaker David Boone.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The legend of James Dean, and TNT's take on it
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Cecil B. Demented
Part action movie, part absurdist comedy, part protest piece, this film (based on Patty Hearst's abduction) has everything that makes a John Waters movie great.
Serial Mom
Serial Mom allows John Waters to explore his darkest interests, but his version of a suburban mother gone haywire is striking on a few levels.
Cry-Baby
Cry-Baby is definitely one of the better Fifties flashbacks, thanks to Waters' flair for visuals and a vivid memory of the Eisenhower era.
Film Reviews
Our Song
The Princess Diaries
It's the movie that turned Anne Hathaway into a star, and the ordinary girl she plays into a princess.
arts & culture
Shivering the Timbers
The Dirigo Group's 'Gypsy Chain' Speaks for the Trees
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Articulations
More bouquets for Lipstick Traces in The New York Times, and Austin theatre critics continue to take over the world
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Looking forward and backward on the eve of the Chronicle's 20th anniversary; a farewell to influential local filmmaker and friend David Boone, who died unexpectedly last week
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Urban planning and noise in the Hood
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
The total absence of popular backlash to the paganism of The Mists of Avalon shows that the American fundamentalist influeunce has begun to ebb.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
Fighting for medical use of marijuana
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar turns Japanese.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Detours on the roadmap to data Nirvana
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
By the books: two new tomes to whet your traveler's appetite for adventure
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Is there any meat that is safe from contamination by the "Mad Cow" disease agent, or is there any way to protect against it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
