Cheer Up Charlies
Volume 21, Number 33
news
How Much Mold?
AISD's notion of mold remediation might be too little money, too few schools.
BY JORDAN SMITH
A Separate Peace
BY JORDAN SMITH
Litigious Linda
Even after being dropped, Linda Curtis' lawsuits could impact city politics.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Ethical Sunset
The Texas Ethics Commission faces Sunset Review; meanwhile, a commission watchdog faces a sunset of its own.
BY MICHAEL KING
Some Justice in Tulia
An "anomaly" in Tulia bust?
BY LAURI APPLE
Downtown Mobility? Take Your Turns
Transportation Department proposes new downtown mobility plan
BY JORDAN SMITH
May 4 Election at a Glance
Chronicle Endorsements
The Chronicle's endorsements for city council and charter amendment proposals
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Looking for Leadership
It takes a community to support the schools.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Analyzing the Analyst
A look at the proposed utility consumer analyst
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Alan Greenspan's laissez faire fantasy; a Congressman teaches the wrong lesson; and readers re-name Enron.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Beveridge Man
How a little Austin distillery caught the attention of worldwide vodka drinkers.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Why is Central Market Cooking School director Cathy Cochran-Lewis leaving the school?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood serves up bite-sized reviews of Austin's continental restaurants.
music
40 Questions About Songwriting
Divided by Two Singers Who Should Know
Dancing About Architecture
The outdoor shows continue …
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Live Shot
Blasters
Testament: The Complete Slash Recordings
Elvis Costello
When I Was Cruel
Suba
Tributo
Boards of Canada, Hood, L'Atra, Fog, Pan American, Fridge, Do Make Say Think, Fly Pan Am, Ativin, ST37, H.N.A.S., Mimir
Geogaddi, Cold House, In the Afternoon, Fog, The River Made No Sound, Happiness, & Yet & Yet, Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vecu, Interiors, Nunavut, Im Schatten der Möhre, Mimir
screens
Keeping the Faith
The Texas Documentary Tour presents festival hit Trembling Before G-d, in which Orthodox Jews try to reconcile religion with their homosexuality.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Alien Nation
Experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin is down on corporatization and up with aliens, presenting a compilation of his work at the Blue Theater's Blue Screen series.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Shake Whatcha Mama Gave Ya
'Viva Las Vegas' at Republic Square Park
Short Cuts
Here's a chance for you to give a little love to your friends at the Austin Film Society.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
If wishes were kangaroos, the Captain would be back on the tube ... And other "TV Eye" wishes for a brighter, better TV tomorrow.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Duck Soup
A sublime, Surrealist comedy from the Marx Brothers, in which Groucho plays the new dictator-for-life of tiny Freedonia who declares war on a whim on neighboring Sylvania.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Articulations
Sad songs for local choral companies -- Austin ProChorus ends its song and Chorus Austin lets go its executive director -- but a sweet tune for Arts Center Stage: a million-dollar donation from Southwestern Bell.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Medea Stories
With The Medea Stories, the St. Edward's University Theatre Department with guest artists from the SITI Company reinvents Euripides' tragedy as a modern courtroom drama and connects us to Medea's tale with immediacy and a great urgency.
The Rainbow Machine
Rick Ehrstin's play The Rainbow Machine is ultimately a tale of a man and a woman who simply cannot communicate, but this idea is drowned in a deluge of words and much tangential, quasi-absurdist schtick.
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off
Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Liz Lochhead's award-winning dramatization of the bonnie queen's reign, is an ambitious first production for Renaissance Austin Theatre Company, but producer Lorella Loftus prevails by enticing some of Austin's finest actors from the Shakespearean courts to the realm of the experimental.
columns
Page Two
The misleadingly named Austin Fair Elections Act proposes an unneeded "cure" for a healthy body politic.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
What is different about the "super water" now appearing in health food stores? Is it really healthier than regular bottled water?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Tiger Woods is a column-killer; what more is there to say about The Glory of Tiger?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters at 3AM
Why has the Bush administration ignored warnings about the catastrophes that would befall our nation as a result of a terrorist attack on any of our 103 nuclear plants?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
