AFS Cinema
Volume 21, Number 26
news
Breaking the Chain
Troubling questions persist in the Rodney Reed / Stacey Stites murder case.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Endorsements: March 12 Primary
Welcome to the Primaries
A roundup of primary races important to the Austin area
Fresh Plus -- Minus Dave
Hyde Parkers mourn Dave Rackel's departure from the Fresh Plus grocery store.
BY LAURI APPLE
Here Come the Neighborhoods
BY LAURI APPLE
Advice Unvarnished -- and Unsolicited
Letters between governmental groups show that Bush's "unvarnished advice" was not coming from anyone interested in clean air.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Clash of the Titans
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Battle Over Downtown Block Continues
A downtown landowner continues his fight to keep the city from condemning his property.
BY AMY SMITH
Will Residents Bee Invited?
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Questions for Tony and Dan
Gubernatorial debate promises much heat, less light
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: The Dunkerley Solution
Betty Dunkerley's "pragmatic" challenge to Beverly Griffith's obstinancy
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
The Pentagon lies to us … and unashamedly admits it; Global Crossing investors and employees get Enronized; New York City whores its parks to the highest bidder.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
'Pizza ... Any Way You Slice It!' at the Austin Children's Museum
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Out All Night
Chronicle Food writer MM Pack gives the lowdown on where to eat in Austin if you're out all night.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood has had correspondence from several of the most tasteful men in Austin's food scene in the past week and it's all good news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Smoothies
A panoply of smoothie connections in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Picks to Click
Six Austin acts showcasing at SXSW 02
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Kevin Salem
Ecstatic
Larry
Among Friends
Drive-by Truckers
Southern Rock Opera
Rodney Hayden
The Real Thing
screens
Disarming Dubya
First-time director Alexandra Pelosi discusses Journeys With George, her surprising and fascinating documentary on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, viewed from the back of the press plane.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Information Wants to Be Worthless
Money was never the most interesting thing about the Internet. Which is a good thing, since now it's gone.
BY BRUCE STERLING
Cubicle Consciousness
A symbiotic relationship between socially conscious high tech professionals and community causes is becoming increasingly common, and a few Austin social entrepreneurs are leading the charge.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Too Tough to Die
As the commercial Web narrows and consolidates, independent Web sites become ever more numerous, varied, and participatory.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Behind the Web Site That Works
The crude charms of Heavy.com.
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Inherit the Net
Lawyer and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig talks copyright law and the Internet.
BY ROGER GATHMAN
High Tech Hijinks
SXSW Interactive features two contests to determine the geekiest of them all: The Iron Webmaster Showdown and the Sexiest Geek Alive.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Really Rad Rachel
Media darling Rachel Muir and her nonprofit Girlstart earn the Dewey Winburne Community Service Award.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Pieces of Time
The legendary Peter Bogdanovich discusses his latest film, The Cat's Meow, about a hush-hush Hearst scandal of long ago.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The Dukes of URL
Web sites have their eyes on the prize -- SXSW Interactive's Earl Awards.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy
This year's Barbara Jordan National Forum on Public Policy tackled the digital divide.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Telling It Like It is
UT and SXSW host an all-day documentary summit.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Film 2002 News
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
More Harry to love: Ain't It Cool News guru Harry Knowles hits the shelves and the airwaves.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Are you a Survivor? That's what 300-some Central Texans wanted to know when they auditioned for the CBS reality show.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
It Should Happen to You
Judy Holliday's expertly hilarious It Should Happen to You was created when the idea that someone could be famous for doing absolutely nothing at all was still novel and strange.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
You Made Me Love You
What is this thing called crush? Specifically, what makes us swoon over people we've never met? The creative minds at the Blue Theater have gathered over two dozen actors, musicians, artists, writers, and puppeteers to create art, wall-writing, and short performance pieces to address that very question in Celebrity Crush.
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Law and Other Performing Arts
The hottest arts venue in Austin this week may well be the UT Law School, where internationally renowned cultural figures, local arts luminaries, and prominent legal experts are converging there for a symposium on law and the performing arts.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
After seven months as the Austin Museum of Art's interim executive director, Dana Friis-Hansen has been named the permanent successor to Elizabeth Ferrer as AMOA's executive director.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Fugitive Pieces
The Salvage Vanguard Theater production of Caridad Svich's Fugitive Pieces is a nowhere road reminiscent of the Tom Waits milieu, with vagabonds hopping trains to anywhere other than where they are now. But while it's not for everyone, it's worth the journey.
Once on This Island
Lynn Ahrens' and Steven Flaherty's musical Once on This Island has a fairy tale feel, but director-choreographer Kevin Archambault can't always get the large-student cast of this St. Edward's University production to bring its colorful, swirling world to magical life.
Conception of Fate
The Austin Symphony's performance of the program Conception of Fate, with its works by Mozart, Brahms, and Beethoven, melded craft and style into a profound, spirited, joyful night of art.
columns
Page Two
Even a lot of memorializing would not have been enough to pay tribute to Waylon Jennings, who had a profound and spiritual impact on Austin and its music; the Austin Music Awards will feature a salute to Ray Benson; our preview coverage of SXSW Interactive and Film gets under way with a tech-centric meditation by Bruce Sterling and an interview with Journeys With George director Alexandra Pelosi.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar asks, "What's black & white and splooged all over …???" And keep your eyes peeled locally, kids, in the next few weeks, Austin becomes celebrity central.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Travel is no fun any longer because of motion sickness. With vacation approaching I would like to head off this problem for my whole family. Where do I start?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Coach's new dog, Jasper, is a joy. So was the Canadian gold medal in men's hockey.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
