Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 21, Number 34
news
Common Ground on the Colorado
The new Eastside Colorado River Park begins to take shape.
BY DAN OKO
A Primer on Prop. 1
Mike Clark-Madison summarizes the Austin Fair Elections Act.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
A Race for the Aquifer
BY AMY SMITH
The Gridlock at TxDOT and 51st Street
Traffic jam on 51st Street defies highway solution.
BY MICHAEL KING
Stop! Hey! What's That Sound?
Proposed noise ordinance threatens downtown clubs.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Knee-Jerk Reporting
BY JORDAN SMITH
McCracken's Mud
BY LEE NICHOLS
Warring Over Wimberley's Future
Developers, editors, and environmentalists battle over the future of Wimberley.
BY AMY SMITH
May 4 Election
It's time to pick ACC Board members again.
BY CATHY VAUGHAN
Election at a Glance
Chronicle Endorsements
Chronicle Endorsements, May 4 election
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large: Money Changes Everything
In budget crunch, how will Austin decide which 'pet projects' get spayed?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Bush likes democracy, except when he doesn't; business is a poor model for government; The Book Thing gives reading material to the needy.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Home Grown
Why Chef Louis Lambert's Palate Is a Product of his Texas Roots
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Food-o-File
Great food and creative fundraising go hand in hand here in Austin for the next few weeks.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals Austin's catfish hot spots in the first of a two-week series.
music
Pop Beloved
Revisting the Reivers
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Dancing About Architecture
The city's noise ordinance proposes to drown out live music in Austin.
BY KEN LIECK
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT
KNIFE IN THE WATER
Phases and Stages
W.C. Clark
From Austin With Soul
Soul Survivors: The Official Autobiography of Destiny's Child
Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams, with James Patrick Herman
Shelley King, Joanna Ramirez, Rebecca Cole, Jennifer Koury, Catherine Berry, Cowgirl Sue, Briggitte London, Mary Welch, Mwhaha
Midnight Pumpkin, Satisfy Me, Drink the Rain, Colors of My Vision, Geography, Giddyup Whoa, Untravelled Road, Visions of You, Catscratch
Tee Double
Dub-Plates
The Gloria Record
Start Here
The Octopus Project
Identification Parade
Wammo
Faster Than the Speed of Suck
Steve Earle
Sidetracks
Stanley Smith
In the Land of Dreams
Knife in the Water
Crosspross Bells EP
Hidden Speaker
The May Collection EP
Ben Kweller
Sha Sha
Meat Puppets
Live
The Sons of Hercules
Right Now
The Hard Feelings
You Won't Like It ('Cause it's Rock & Roll)
Reverend Horton Heat
Lucky 7
screens
Online, Unplugged
Wireless Internet is cost-effective, accessible, of the people rather than gouging the people. So what are you waiting for? It's time to cut the cord.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Right stuff, 'Wrong Numbers': 26-year-old Alex Holdridge's feature debut is not only the little movie that could, but did, and in the process could become very big, indeed.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Reel Women Host Movie Hoot
Local femme-centric film collective Reel Women presents Movie Hoot: local bands covering film's classic sounds
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
Hold the Mayo
The Lucky Bum Film Tour rolls into town with tasty treats for local cineastes with the munchies for movies that bypass the run-of-the-mill.
BY MERLE BERTRAND
Short Cuts
Support local film and bunk out at Club DeVille for their two benefits this week. Plus, Austin film den mother Anne del Castillo heads for greener pastures.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Technology is making great strides in the development of interactive TV. Now when are TV execs going to start paying attention?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Another State of Mind
Back in 1984, when it was neither profitable, nor especially safe, to be a Mohawk-wearing punk rocker, the tour doc Another State of Mind showed a softer side of hardcore -- the positive, politically conscious one.
Film Reviews
Pauline & Paulette
This Belgian drama tells a deceptively simple story about the complex relationships of four elderly sisters, one of whom is mentally handicapped.
What Time is it There?
arts & culture
Moving Backward to Go Forward
The opening of its fourth season finds the Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company moving backward in order to go forward.
BY DAWN DAVIS LORING
Articulations
The renovation of Laguna Gloria is a go, Charo is not, and Flaming Idiot Rob Williams whips up one of his bologna specials for Katie Couric.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Portraying the kids from the Peanuts comic strips is trickier than you might think, but two of the performers in the Silver Star Theater Group production of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown radiate the bold outline and broad humor -- the cartoon essence -- of the source material.
Seven Deadly Sins
The seven short plays that make up iron belly muses' production Seven Deadly Sins aren't always pleasurable to watch, but several capture that desperation behind sins' commission and ask interesting questions about transgression itself.
A Streetcar Named Desire
Doghouse Theatre's production of A Streetcar Named Desire creates an interesting environment in the back yard of a University neighborhood, but the story gets lost in the show's directorial freedoms and delivery.
columns
Page Two
The city of Austin claims to support live music and film, but its actions speak louder than its slogans.Chronicle AISD Endorsements, 2002Endorsements in Austin Community College Board Election. The Chronicle Endorsements for the Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
I was born six weeks premature, and as a result I have some visual problems. I'm now 28 years old and I need to make a decision soon about starting a family. I've been concerned that there might be problems if I had a premature baby. Can these problems be avoided now?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
Is hair there and everywhere? Do the Eighties give you the Shiverz? And who's got Anthony's Nak? Read inside to see!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Kings?Blazers?Mavericks? Forget it -- the only team with a chance to unthrone the Lakers is the San Antonio Spurs. And that second-round series will likely be decided by a couple of injuries.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
