Central Library
Volume 21, Number 11
news
A Colossal Wreck
The Intel Building and its discontents
BY MICHAEL ERARD
AISD De-Magnetized?
A proposal to move AISD's Liberal Arts Academy to LBJ High School almost certainly means resegregation for Johnston High School, its former home.
BY MICHAEL MAY
David to Goliath-Light: Drop Dead!
The newly formed Save South Congress Association aims to put the brakes on light rail's return.
BY MICHAEL KING
Dawson in Danger?
The Dawson Neighborhood plan was the first out of the gate, but now could be in danger of failing.
BY AMY SMITH
Georgetown Recalls -- and Recollects
The latest salvos in the Georgetown Smackdown
BY JORDAN SMITH
Drag Development Villa-fied
The Villas on Guadalupe goes back to the drawing board.
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Would David Dewhurst really know a terrorist if he saw one?
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Can the new Green Council earn a mandate?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Hypocritical corporate "patriotism"; Congress declares war on civil liberties; Congressmen spend for our country.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Prime Considerations
Chronicle Food writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry on why 1,000 head of Japenese Wagyu cattle are thriving in Central Texas.
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood recounts the Chronicle's Eat Drink Watch Movies event for those who couldn't attend and divulges the latest culinary news in Austin.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Japanese
Mick Vann samples some of Austin's Japanese restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
The Agony of the Ecstasy
Will the federal and local crackdown on ecstasy put raves out of business?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dancing About Architecture
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Tosca Tango Orchestra
Waking Life original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Girl Robots
Fractured Fairy Tales
Chomsky
Onward Quirky Soliders
Color, Darin Murphy
Are You With Me?, Haunted Gardenias
Ringer
Presents for the Present
Masonic
Never Stood a Chance
Bluegrass Drive-By
The Drunkard's Progress
Caroline Herring
Twilight
screens
E Is for Everything
Actor / director / novelist Ethan Hawke is Richard Linklater's No. 1 fan.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Open Wide
"Novocaine" Writer/Director David Atkins drills deep into noir
BY MARC SAVLOV
Playing With the Big Boys
Teen filmmakers Rusty Kelley and Duncan Knappen land second HBO Family gig with "French Restaurant."
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Red carpet reportage, and other filmic items
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Fox premieres an extraordinary new series that redefines prime-time network fare.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Shag: The Movie
Set in the summer of 1963, this coming-of-age film about four Southern girls is nothing less than enchanting.
Film Reviews
Amélie
Why not get happy? Why not celebrate love, and little twists of fate, and a sepia-in-Technicolor portrait of Paris? Amélie's heart is in the right place – squarely on its sleeve. And what better place for it?
Blue Velvet
Quintessential Lynch.
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
From the sets to the story to the whole tone of the film, this first Potter film is an almost literal adaptation of J.K. Rowling's beloved children's book.
Novocaine
Punks
Tape
Tape is a confined microcosm: three characters, one room, and a whole lot of head-trippery. Old high school friends reunite years later in a dingy Michigan motel room for a night of tricky revelations.
Va Savoir
arts & culture
Galleries in Bloom
The times being what they are, you don't exactly expect to see new galleries sprouting across Austin's cultural landscape, but two just did: Oswald Gallery, showing fine art photography, and Jean-Marc Fray, displaying paintings by French artist Robert Bourasseau.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The Texas Fine Arts Association's student exhibition "Pop Patriotism" is unexpectedly fascinating and moving, and a long-delayed tribute to operatic legend Jess Walters takes place.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Burn This
Lanford Wilson's Burn This is a fierce, realistic drama about art and relationships, and Alchemy Works delivers a very human production, deeply felt and nearly flawless in its presentation.
Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway proved a wise choice to inaugurate the new Austin Cabaret Theatre. Her clear enthusiasm for the Great American Songbook and impassioned, intoxicating performances of selections from it made cabaret intimate, immediate, a real event.
The Hobbit
Second Youth Family Theatre's production of The Hobbit offers much that is magical, but awkward staging and inexperienced actors keep the show from achieving true enchantment.
columns
Page Two
Austin music clubs are usually one of the first casualties in an economic downturn.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Re: Resisting Evildoers
Defense against one's enemies presents a conflict for individuals who identify themselves as members of a Christian society instructed to turn the other cheek.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
At the Wiseman House in Hico, Kevin Wenzel serves up some of the finest chocolates in Texas.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Guess who your Style Avatar flitted around town with this week? Check out this first installment about international salon god José Eber's visit to Austin.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I'm "paying my dues" taking vitamins, exercising, and sticking to a low-fat and low-cholesterol diet, but my serum cholesterol still hovers around 240, and my HDL cholesterol won't go over about 40. My triglycerides and LDL cholesterol are OK. What more could I do to improve those other two numbers?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Magic's 10th anniversary is an inspiring survival story
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
The gauntlet is thrown: Major League Baseball is discussing "contraction." It's the Players vs. the Owners, and guess who's going to lose? The Fans, of course.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
