AFS Cinema
Volume 21, Number 27
news
The Banker vs. the Prosecutor
As the primary campaign winds to an abrupt close, what do we know about Sanchez and Morales?
BY MICHAEL KING
Dan Morales v. Harry Potter
Louis Dubose examines Dan Morales' "Rule 202" filing against a former colleague in the Texas tobacco litigation.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Sun Also Sets
Activist / artist / teacher / political candidate Susan Lee Solar is remembered by friends.
BY AMY SMITH
Developers for Sonleitner, Parents for Heckler
BY AMY SMITH
Battle on Town Lake
BY MICHAEL KING
Winter Heat Wave at ACC
The heat is on Austin Community College President Richard Fonté.
BY CATHY VAUGHAN
Free(PAC) Radicals
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
'Adventure in Stupidity'
A threatening phone call to the Chronicle
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Social Studies
The Austin Men's Project turns three -- and says goodbye to one of its original coordinators.
BY CLAY SMITH
Murder Most ... Peculiar
A rogue's gallery in the Gregory Steen murder case
BY JORDAN SMITH
Endorsement Wars
Flying accusations about deception and intimidation make for two very controversial primary races.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Dog Park Redux
BY LAURI APPLE
Welcome to the Primaries
A roundup of the Travis County primary races
BY AMY SMITH
Endorsements
March 12 primary
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: Mixed Signals
Why is the City Council trying to undercut single-member districts?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Dubya lets polluters make messes, but we pay for the clean-up; the computer industry isn't as clean as it would like us to think; and the National Academy of Scientists calls for closer scrutiny of biotech.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Casual Fine Dining Guide
Eating out, Austin-style
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
For all of Austin's March visitors -- SXSW participants, rodeo fans, basketball parents, relative newcomers, or just plain curious foodies -- Food Editor Virginia B. Wood gives the lowdown on local dining.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood surveys Austin's downtown Thai establishments.
music
Twenty Years Ago Today
The 2001/2002 Austin Music Awards
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Dancing About Architecture
Steamboat returns, SXSW looms closer.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Neil Finn
7 Worlds Collide: Live at the St. James
Cory Morrow
Outside the Lines
Champ Hood
Bon Haven
Del Castillo
Brothers of the Castle
Eels
Souljacker
The Brew
Latin Brew
The Cancer Conspiracy
The Audio Medium
Cruiserweight
This Will Undoubtedly Come Out Wrong
screens
Scary Stories for the Thinking Man
Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Encore!
The second annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards honors Texas' finest contributors to cinema.
BY MARGARET MOSER
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
Troma Ward
Troma Films co-founder Lloyd Kaufman: indie maverick, gross-out artist.
BY MERLE BERTRAND
Lone Star
Independent film visionary John Sayles revisits his past in a SXSW retrospective.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Through a Lens Lovingly
A SXSW retrospective honors the work of legendary documentarian Albert Maysles.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Sparkle and Shine
Lisa Ades' new documentary, Miss America, follows the storied history of a national institution.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Alternate Fests
BY MARC SAVLOV
Celebrity Call Sheet
BY MARC SAVLOV
Free the Mouse!
Constitutional lawyer Lawrence Lessig spoke at SXSW Interactive Saturday about the need to keep big corporations from indefinitely extending copyrights so that we can create a "creative commons."
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
And the Dewey Winburne Award Goes to ...
Knowbility.org's Sharron Rush was rewarded at SXSW Interactive Saturday for her contribution toward making the Web accessible for people with disabilities.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Geeks of Iron
Ten Web geeks and one hour. Could they do the impossible?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Wave It in the Air Like You Just Don't Care
Derek Powazek's Fray Café storytelling event, held this year at the Hideout, is the most human and most entertaining couple of hours in the whole SXSW Interactive Festival.
BY DAVID GARZA
Punks Get Paid
Heavy.com founders Simon Assaad and David Carson tell their success story in a SXSW Interactive Conference keynote conversation.
BY DAVID GARZA
SXSW 2002 Web Awards
This year's Earl Award winners
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
20x2
Monday night's participants in SXSW Interactive's 20x2 event offered hilarious, provocative, and simply odd ideas about what is and is not real.
BY DAVID GARZA
Learning to Play Nice
SXSW Interactive panelists discuss the future of the tech industry. A lot.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Bruce & Cory Show
Sterling and Doctorow debate scarcity, or the lack of it.
BY ROGER GATHMAN
Pick of the Litter
Highlighting what the South by Southwest Film Festival has to offer.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Spin City: How the media manipulates truth into something very different.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Dame Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her work here as a flinty, flamboyant Scottish schoolmarm who inspires a dangerous hero worship in her young students.
Film Reviews
Beijing Bicycle
A newcomer to Beijing has his bicycle (and livelihood) stolen by a teen desperate to impress his pals in this Chinese variation on The Bicycle Thieves.
Life and Debt
Set in Jamaica, this is an eye-opening documentary and primer on why the IMF and the World Bank are not to be trusted by emerging third-world countries.
SXSW Film Festival 2002
arts & culture
A Land Shaded in Melancholy Hues
The Austin Museum of Art exhibition "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South, 1862-1999" connects the blues aurally and visually, and reveals how the South, like the blues, is full of contradictions: dark and woeful yet beauteous and jubilant.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Despite the economic downturn, Arts Center Stage is moving forward in its campaign to build the Long Center for the Performing Arts, and two of Austin's gay playwrights have cause to be happy.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
City Water Tunnel #3
If the Department of Environmental Protection hired someone to explain New York's City Water Tunnel #3, the largest non-defense public works project in the Western Hemisphere, that someone couldn't do a better job than performer Marty Pottenger, who delivers the truth of the project, as plain and raw as the earth that's being tunneled, as bright and ragged as the people tunneling.
Celebrity Crush
We've all got 'em, crushes on celebrities. At least, that's the premise of Refraction Arts' Celebrity Crush, and a bunch of talented artists reveal theirs in some quite entertaining ways.
Laughing Wild
Like a (Canadian) figure skating pair, actors Kirk Burg and Katie Brock provide the most entertainment in town, but in Christopher Durang's Laughing Wild, they don't get to work with the most fulfilling piece of art.
columns
Page Two
A cornucopia of delights await you at the South by Southwest Film and Music Festivals and Austin Music Awards this year.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I consider myself quite healthy at age 42. I have been a strict vegetarian (vegan) for more than 10 years, I exercise and meditate regularly, and have never smoked tobacco. I have two healthy children and I am still having regular, uncomplicated menstrual periods. Is there any reason for me to consider taking food supplements?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Coach's Corner
Poor Nolan Richardson. Why's everybody always pickin' on he?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura observes the great John Cassavetes at work on the set of his next-to-last movie Love Streams.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
