Central Library
Volume 21, Number 17
news
Filings
The Three Amigos
BY LAURI APPLE
Bush's Xmas Stocking: Burning Coal?
New state and federal regulations threaten the Clean Air Act
BY LEE NICHOLS
CPS: Protecting Children or Destroying Families?
Parents organize group in an effort to reform Child Protective Services
BY JORDAN SMITH
More of Moore
BY AMY SMITH
A Very Fuzzy Profile
Police officer Tim Enlow's "racial profiling" case may not be open and shut.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
The Hightower Lowdown
Resurrecting Cointelpro; The Cold Side of 'Workfare'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Tastes of Taste
Two books that dissect the palate -- one metaphorically, the other scientifically. And Chronicle wine writer Wes Marshall gives the lowdown on the spots in Austin for finding good deals on Champagne.
Food-o-File
How to give a gift and help the Austin community this holiday season.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Greg Beets provides a fast-food tour of Austin in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Smells Like Preteen Spirit
Kid rockers Three Hourz Sleep confront their first major crisis when their drummer moves away.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
That was the year that was in the Live Music Capital …
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Green Day
International Superhits
Dinosaur Jr.
Music Ear Bleeding Country: The Best of Dinosaur Jr.
Smashing Pumpkins
Rotten Apples -- Greatest Hits
Pigface
The Best of Pigface
Einstürzende Neubauten
Music Strategies Against Architecture III: 1991-2001
Cure
Greatest Hits
Morrissey
The Best of
Madonna
Greatest Hits Volume 2
Enigma
LoveSensualityDevotion
Pink Floyd
Echoes: The Best of
Ocean Colour Scene
The Best of Ocean Color Scene
Sinatra, Frank, Martin, Dean, Davis Jr., Sammy
Eee-O 11: The Best of the Rat Pack
Lyle Lovett
Anthology Volume One: Cowboy Man
Clint Black
Greatest Hits II
Lightning Hopkins
The Best of Lightning Hopkins
Fred McDowell
The Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell
Randy Newman
The Best of Randy Newman
Ol' Dirty Bastard
The Dirty Story: The Best of ODB
Ice Cube
Greatest Hits
screens
Behind the Screens
A new play by Neal LaBute falls flat on paper; new and reissued books about gay and lesbian Hollywood, Andy Milligan, Alan Smithee and the auteur theory, and Maya Deren reviewed.
Native Talent
Local filmmaker and UT RTF student Bennie Klain has been invited to screen his new short film, "Yada Yada," at the Sundance Film Festival. It's the second film he's ever made -- it's also his second film to show at Sundance.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Royal Jest
Does Wes Anderson's new film, The Royal Tenenbaums, seem familiar? Why not ask David Foster Wallace?
BY SIDNEY MOODY
Short cuts
We are potential Davids all, at this time and in this place more than ever before.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Tube Temptations
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Hobbit
This 1978 animated Rankin & Bass production of Tolkien's The Hobbit works successfully on both a children's and a universal level.
Film Reviews
Ali
Mann's film, which has some terrific moments, hits the highlights only. Will Smith, layered in subtle facial prosthetics in order to resemble Ali, does no disservice to the memory of the Greatest, but the best thing here is Jon Voight, who loses himself thoroughly in the role of sportscaster Howard Cosell.
A Beautiful Mind
How High
arts & culture
Graffiti on the Superhighway
The digital age has ushered a new era in visual art, with the Internet offering artists a new medium for the creation of art, an infinite space to display their work, and a marketing tool. But with this expansion of creative opportunities come sticky questions of ownership and the communal experience of art.
BY ROB CURRAN
A Class Act
Called by no less than The New York Times "the suavest of all male cabaret performers," Steve Ross is the personification of refined, romantic, elegant, and effervescent cabaret, and that makes him an ideal guest artist for the debut season of Austin Cabaret Theatre.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The National Endowment for the Arts puts federal grants in the stockings of nine Austin arts organizations, and Ben Bentzin takes leave of Arts Center Stage.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert
With Ariel Dance Theatre in Concert, the collaboration between the ever-energetic, always searching, always stretching herself Andrea Ariel and composers Graham Reynolds and Peter Stopschinski and operatic soprano Cheryl Parrish generated the heat and light of a pure flame that was bright and intense and exhilarating to see.
The USO Christmas Show
For its debut show, the Silverstar Theater Group staged Rebecca Schwarz's The USO Christmas Show, a new musical set during a 1940s radio broadcast. But inconsistencies in style had the Forties ambience fading in and out like a distant radio signal.
Rob Nash Does Romeo and Juliet
In Rob Nash's new show, he performs characters performing bits of Romeo and Juliet, and all the different parts come together like a theatrical jigsaw puzzle joining itself on the stage before us, forming a fine drama within a sharp comedy of eros and social dynamics.
columns
Page Two
The curse and the blessing of living in interesting times
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3am
We are swiftly losing our civil liberties as a result of the USA-PATRIOT Act, although this administration has shown it is not impervious to citizen complaints.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
At Fred's Lounge in Mamou, Louisiana, the good times roll pretty early.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
What would you give if you could give any celebrity in the world anything? Happy Holidays from "After a Fashion!"
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I've heard that beans are good food, but I have a problem with excessive gas after I eat them. Are they worth it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Happy New Year...and thanks for your support all year
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
What with the computer crash and the gas grill fiasco, you're lucky you're even getting a column from The Coach this week. Random thoughts are a bonus.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
