Austin foley artist Buzz Moran strips the sound out of a forgotten kung fu flick and redubs it live at the Drafthouse. The result? Something to chop about it.

BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF

Get Your Game Face On

'Tis the season to glue yourself to the PlayStation controller and get in some batting practice.

BY MICHAEL CHAMY

SXSW Trailer Fest

SXSW and the Austin Cinemaker Co-op call for entries to their SXSW Trailer Fest competition.

New In Print

Timed neatly with the premiere of George Lucas' latest Star Wars installment, Will Brooker's new pop-cult study of Star Wars fandom sheds some light on the dark side.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Short Cuts

Music video maven Lance Myers stays up all night to animate the Riddlin' Kids' latest spin, plus pennies from heaven (or: the Texas Filmmakers Production Fund).

BY MARC SAVLOV

TV Eye

What, you think watching TV for a living is easy? Boy, does "TV Eye" have a thing or two to tell you.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

Piñero

This film is a sympathetic biopic about the troubled life of Nuyorican writer Miguel Piñero (author of Short Eyes).

Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones

Emily Sings

New Texas Music Works is kicking off the ninth annual New Texas Festival with the Emily Dickinson Song Symposium. A conference dedicated to art songs featuring texts by the master American poet.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Articulations

The Long Center for the Performing Arts is delayed until 2005, and MS / Nerve Dance Company and Jason Phelps hold a very personal benefit.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

The thrill that comes from the bright, full, flashy, splashy sound of a brass band is the feeling you get from Austin Musical Theatre's production of Sweet Charity and to coin a phrase, how sweet it is.

Rigoletto

With Rigoletto , Austin Lyric Opera once again executes in bold strokes a classic opera in the vaulting openness of the City Coliseum, with director Joseph McClain again showing a flair for the theatrical and finding a degree of intimacy in that vast space.

El Paraiso

The Rude Mechs took a road trip to see the Marfa lights, and their journey has been translated by playwright Kirk Lynn, director Shawn Sides, and a gifted ensemble into a raucous, sweet, funny, fanciful meditation on the tension between desire and intellect, and heaven as embodied in the land called Texas.

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Page Two

Dave Marsh is a writer of passionate convictions whose work is designed for engagement. Which is why we're excited that he wrote our cover story on as great a talent as Patty Griffin.

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

Mr. Smarty Pants

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Day Trips

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

After a Fashion

Hmmmmmm, didn't our Style Avatar's psychic "see" what awaited him at the Brown Bar? Why was he not forewarned? Also, AAF checks in on George Michael's potty habits.

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

To Your Health

All my life I have really loved milk, but my wife is concerned that it is making me gain weight. At age 30 I am otherwise healthy but about 20% over my ideal weight. Would two glasses of milk per day be too much?