Central Library
Volume 21, Number 2
news
Is Knowledge Power?
A profile of precarious global intelligence firm Stratfor
BY MICHAEL ERARD
Something Stinks
There is a continuing odor over Georgetown's wastewater treatment plant.
BY MICHAEL KING AND JORDAN SMITH
Eyewitness to Terror
EZ Does It?
The city hopes HUD Empowerment Zones will bring in money for East Austin.
BY AMY SMITH
Surgery or Slaughter?
Austin Energy calls it "progressive forestry"; some of their customers call it "tree mutilation."
BY LEE NICHOLS
Tattoo Coup
A Leander PTA president is forced to resign because of -- aaaiiiggghheee -- piercings!
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Three longtime state employees are dismissed -- with prejudice -- in a witch hunt over sexual harassment allegations.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
American CEOs are overpaid; missile defense shield money could be better spent; and art snobs need to not have a cow.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Austin @ Large
SOS & Smart Growth, and the candidates
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
Solid as a Rock
Casual reliability at Stone House Grill
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood explains why the loss of Waterloo Brewing Company has hit her hard -- and she's not even a beer drinker.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Bagels, beignets, and doughnuts in this week's "Second Helpings"
Food Reviews
Pastaman Vibrations
What Chronicle Cuisines writer MM Pack found unobtrusively nestled in a South Austin strip center was the cutest little pasta manufactory imaginable. Here's her interview with Bottega della Pasta owner Rino Lanzillotti.
music
Juke Joint Madonna
Toni Price comes clean.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
Terrorist attacks rock America while Frank Kozik drops his own bomb.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Joy Division
Heart & Soul
Bob Dylan
Love and Theft
Varnaline
Songs in a Northern Key
Acetone
York Blvd.
The White Stripes
White Blood Cells
Curt Kirkwood
Live Shot
U2
Niall Stokes
Open Sky: Sonny Rollins and His World of Improvisation
Eric Nisenson
screens
The Long and the Short of It
The expansive Cinematexas short film festival
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Bedtime Stories
Eric Rohmer's "Moral Tales" and "Proverbs and Fables"
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
TFPF Grant Recipients Announced
Short Cuts
Call for SXSW entries
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta picks Emmy winners.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Man of La Mancha
You may think you know Don Quixote, but did you know that Man of La Mancha made him a hero to the counterculture?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
In the wake of the horrible tragedy at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, some words of comfort and encouragement from Tuna producer Charles Duggan.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Big Love
Charles Mee's Big Love swirls almost madly from brainy discourse to visceral activity to contemplative imagery and back again, like a manic dance or, well, life, and the Rude Mechanicals, who are always up for a good dance, take Mee's play and tear up the floor with it.
The Deluge
In his new musical, playwright-composer Kirk Smith uses the story of Noah and his wife to look at the seeping, leaking, dripping, pouring inevitability of loss and renewed hope, and the Vortex Repertory Company production makes for a dreamy and wet world, sometimes punctuated with lightning and thunder, but mostly pleasantly adrift in an ocean of sweet, melancholic rain.
columns
Page Two
Acting decently and continuing to live as we've always lived are the best acts of revenge in response to recent terrorism; our redesign debuts but will take some time to refine.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
The Clark-Madison brouhaha continues amidst tributes to Mambo John and more.
Day Trips
Helping protect the San Marcos River
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
It's a new day! "After a Fashion" moves to the front of the Chronicle and to the front of the velvet ropes, as your Style Avatar takes you on a li'l club tour of Austin style.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Lipodystrophy and Neuropathy: a Seminar.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
I seem to be getting more and more depressed and lethargic. I notice that it now takes three cups of coffee in the morning to get me going and three to four more cups during the day to stay alert enough to manage a day's work. I am only 31, and I don't see why I should feel this way. I already take a good multivitamin/mineral. Is there more I should do?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
Odds and Ends: NFL referees have an over-inflated view of their own importance; the U.S. Open proved that in tennis, as elsewhere, youth will be served; and if people think Coach ignores UT football, well, there are good reasons for that.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
