AFS Cinema
Volume 21, Number 30
news
Accepting the Challenge
Meet the candidates for AISD Board of Trustees.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Running Off at the Primary
Kirk vs. Morales, Lulu vs. Eddie: Get your pencils ready.
BY MICHAEL KING
Dove Springs Whitewash?
Georgetown mayor defends the sewage plant.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Hightower's Hoedown
Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder Down-Home Democracy Tour kicks off in Austin.
BY LAURI APPLE
Max vs. Metro
Max is back, and he has an alternative to light rail.
BY MICHAEL KING
Rock Creek Rolls Forward
Cypress' Rock Creek project moves along after Fish & Wildlife approves its permit.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Despite promise of good times, too many Texans go hungry.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Disney shows its commitment to journalism with the Koppel-Letterman flap; the Bushites are Bozos.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Latest Catch
Food writer Mick Vann on the hits -- and the misses -- of Roy's
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Permanent changes at Star Canyon and an update on the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Thai
Little Thailand | Classic Thai | Thai Village | Bangkok Cuisine | Thai Spice Restaurant | Thai Spice Buffet & Restaurant | Thai Garden
Food Reviews
La Cabana Mexican Grill
Chronicle Food writer Wes Marshall explains why, even in an area as rich with wonderful Mexican restaurants as Central Texas, La Cabana Grill merits a trip.
music
Showers of Sound
The Bubble, the only place to record for Austin's indie elite
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW is still over, and now so is the new Emo's and the Metro. True Believers are back, though.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim@Austin Music Hall
Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera
Johanna Fielder
Joey Ramone
Don't Worry About Me
Billy Bragg
England / Half English
screens
Wiseman at Last
Doc Tour Screens Two Vérité Classics
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Mythos and the Masterpieces
'The Oxford American' Southern Movie Issue
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Primetime Blues
Scholar Donald Bogle adds another exceptional book to his works about African-Americans in film and television.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Get in the Game
Xbox's Project Gotham Racing and Halo screech and soar, respectively, into gameplayers' hearts; NBA Live 2002 and NBA2K2 for Playstation2 amp up the defense.
Short Cuts
Local animator Lance Myers heads to L.A. to complete animation on the latest music video by the Riddlin' Kids, plus AIVF and Cine las Americas.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Ten pins, go-go dancers, a wise-cracking organist … Comedy Central's Let's Bowl lets contestants settle disputes the old-fashioned way.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Southerner
The Southerner, Jean Renoir's last great film, and the only one to earn him an Academy Award nomination.
Film Reviews
Panic Room
The Rookie
The film recounts the baseball career of Texan Jim Morris, who, in 1999, became the oldest rookie major-league pitcher to take the field in 40 years.
Under the Sun
arts & culture
Articulations
The folks in Tuna offer support to Austin Musical Theatre students, Austin's Santa finds his Mrs. Claus, and the city seeks Art in Public Places panelists.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Glass Menagerie
If any 20th-century American play deserves to be called "classic," it is Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie but the State Theater Company's puzzling production seems to ignore what is most obvious in the play, only rarely connecting with the story.
Blues in the Night
Austin Playhouse's production of the musical Blues in the Night pinpoints feelings of love and loss among three women all hurt in love, with singers Jacqui Cross, Janis Stinson, and Melanie Wilkinson blending their three strong voices into a mighty harmony and reclaiming blues music for their sex.
columns
Page Two
Life inside and outside the bubble
BY NICK BARBARO
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I am trying to avoid diabetes, which runs in my family, by choosing foods for their low glycemic index. Some of the foods I want to eat because they ought to have a low glycemic index are not on anyone's list. Is there some way to calculate the glycemic index myself?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
You'd think we'd be all star-f***ed out after SXSW, but here it is, Oscar-time and we are just beside ourselves with the bold type and the dropped names!
What? No silly. We said "fawned."
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Let's have a little historical perspective here. Rick Barnes is doing a fine job as the UT basketball coach, but he didn't single-handedly create the UT basketball program. That was Abe Lemmons, in 1976.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
