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Volume 21, Number 20
news
Raped by the Players
A lawsuit against an Austin dot-com firm reveals a world of fast times.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Only Women Pay
San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District gets slapped with a Title IX suit.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Rocky Road for Cypress
A controversial Dripping Springs development proposal is facing new challenges in the new year.
BY AMY SMITH
Simpler Justice
The Justice for All anti-abortion display will return to UT-Austin this semester but on a smaller scale.
BY MICHAEL KING
Sparks to City: Pipe Down
City Council ponders its next move after a judge warns the city about pressing Longhorn Pipeline into local compliance.
BY AMY SMITH
TNRCC, EPA Follow Suit
The EPA and TNRCC jump on environmentalists' bandwagon by accusing Alcoa of violating the Clean Air Act.
BY LEE NICHOLS
CSC-U-L8R
CSC changes its plans, and the city has to pay $4 million … for its own land
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
A Way Out of the Desert?
Sanchez and Morales hustle for the AFL-CIO.
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: You Kids Play Nice!
The idea of combining Austin and Travis County's governments seems like a good one, but never seems to gain any momentum.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Tom Daschle goes whoring for gold; SBC changes the rules; Rudy Giuliani tries to steal home -- playing against the taxpayers.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eastside Oases
Two Austin Cafes that seem more like hideaways
Food-o-File
South Austin taco news and other culinary updates in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Asian Buffets
Asian buffets in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
Elevation
Taking stock of music DVDs
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Jon Dee Graham
Hooray for the Moon
Willie Nelson
The Great Divide
The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes
Willie Nelson
screens
Cleared for Blast-Off
Locally owned and operated music site Blastro.com defies the Web bust with booming business and booming beats.
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Beauty of the Beast
Austin's IMAX theatre opts not to screen the newly remastered Disney film.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
"Sick'-Figure Drawings: Spike & Mike's 2002 Fest
Spike & Mike are back with an even dirtier and more deviant show than ever before.
BY MARC SAVLOV
New on DVD: "The Stunt Man"
The 1980 forgotten gem The Stunt Man gets a new DVD box set release.
BY JASON HENDERSON
Short Cuts
Blue Mondays and a Gay Sunday
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Buffy on DVD
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Magnificent Ambersons
There are hints of a meaty complexity to Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons beyond its doomed-love motif, but the 88-minutes-long film, while striking, is too brief to really explore all that it hints at.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Sexy Beast
With a bold new take on Andre Previn's operatic adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, Austin Lyric Opera has a remarkable opportunity to lead the operatic pack and show the world the stuff it's made of.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Hey, Yo! Young Lovers
Rome & Jewels is choreographer Rennie Harris' new hip-hop version of the Romeo and Juliet story, set in the streets of Philly where the Caps and the Monster Qs fight for control.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
UT-Austin Professor of Cello Phyllis Young is honored with a lifetime achievement award, and visionary director Anne Bogart comes to town to teach a master class.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'Contents/Discontents -- Abby Levine'
Accounts of the death of irony since last September 11th have been greatly exaggerated, and in her showing of work at Gallery 1313, artist Abby Levine provides three-dimensional proof that it is still a powerful way to communicate and process ideas about life, death, and pop culture in America.
The Seagull
In the Austin Playhouse production of The Seagull, actors Christa Kimlicko Jones and David Stahl create a splendid tension between their characters and between art and life, but most of the rest of the production rolls by languidly, as just another visit with a crew of Chekhov's discontented Russians.
columns
Page Two
BY NICK BARBARO
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Fort Griffin once served as a lonely military outpost on the Texas frontier.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Who called LouAnn? Who dined with Gwyneth? "Walk this way" and find out!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I want to do everything right for my baby, due in March 2002, so I plan to breast-feed. How long should I give my baby breast milk only? What advantages do breast-fed babies
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
AIDS cases rising as complacency reigns
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Mack Brown or Rick Barnes jump to the pros? Not likely, when just the hint of a threat will get them a fat renegotiated contract.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
