Central Library
Volume 21, Number 44
features
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
news
Beaten by Wackenhut
A former Travis County inmate alleges that Wackenhut Corporation bears responsibility for his prison beating.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Stratus Sparks Citizen Uprising
Hundreds of citizens turn out to denounce the proposed Stratus deal.
BY AMY SMITH
Preserving Planet Texas
Outdoor-loving Texans can thank the federal government for requiring the state to firm up its state parks planning over the next decade.
BY DAN OKO
APD Case Moves Forward
A judge rules in favor of an attorney who claims that APD engages in selective prosecution of officers. Attorney Steve Edwards now must collect evidence -- and his number one goal is to get Chief Stan Knee to testify.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Unconsuming
The Whirl-Mart concept comes to Austin
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Sending Out an SOS: Can the Fractured Austin Polis Find a Common Future?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The Supreme Court, by supporting vouchers, removes another brick from the church-state wall.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Bush wants to spend your taxes on missile defense, but won't tell you if it works; and, WWJD -- What Would Jim Do?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Snowball's Chance
Casey's New Orleans Snowballs, the little family business that could at 51st and Airport, packs a year's worth of fun and flavor into six months, writes the Chronicle's Rae Nadler-Olenick.
BY RAE NADLER-OLENICK
Eat, Drink, Watch "La Strada"
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Cookbook Reviews
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood says goodbye to Chronicle writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry and hello to Claudia Alarcon and Erin Mosow, while still serving up the latest news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Snow Business
Erin Mosow knows where to go for the snow in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
American Boy
Chris Isaak's drummer Kenney Dale Johnson: From Soap Creek to Showtime
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
The Hole in the Wall closes.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Radar Brothers
And the Surrounding Mountains
Soul Picnic: The Passion and Music of Laura Nyro
Michele Kort
Laura Nyro
Eli & the Thirteenth Confession, New York Tendaberry, Gonna Take a Miracle, The Loom's Desire
screens
Happy Trails to You
Writer-director Jill Sprecher journeys toward enlightenment in "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing"
BY PIET LEVY
How to Get the Government to Pay Attention, the Rotoscope Way
Animated anarchy from locals Paul Beck and Jason Archer
BY MARC SAVLOV
Landmark Loves You
National arthouse chain Landmark Theatres is giving away free stuff. Score!
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
I Am the World Trade Organization ... Or Am I?
The WTO gets spiritualized in a carbon-copy hoax site.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Short Cuts
Writer / director Tim McCanlies enthuses about his upcoming film, Secondhand Lions; plus, The Alamo gets a new scribe.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
3:10 to Yuma
Based on an Elmore Leonard story, this 1957 Western is a compelling mix of conflicting principles between two men, a farmer and a murderer, who hold each other captive while waiting for the 3:10 train to Yuma.
Film Reviews
Men in Black II
Mutant Aliens
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
Several vignettes follow different characters as their lives interconnect in a search for happiness.
arts & culture
Invasion of the Kiddie-Lit Plays
Characters from children's literature storm Austin-area stages in July.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The former bakery turned arts center on Tillery gets another tenant, Austin Musical Theatre gets an executive director, and Zachary Scott Theatre Center alums get plum acting gigs on opposite coasts.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Making Porn
Ronnie Larsen's play Making Porn dramatizes the making of Cops, a gay porn movie, from casting calls to the spin-off calendar, and in Naughty Austin's production, director Blake Yelavich realizes the comic potential of the script and the world of porn. But a tragic subplot undermines the show's success as a satire on the adult movie industry.
The Unexpected Guest
For Different Stages' staging of The Unexpected Guest, director Johanna Whitmore has tried to bring Agatha Christie's 1930s English village mystery into a contemporary setting, but with the text still rooted in the phraseology and linguistic mannerisms of the past, the result is a stilted and, ultimately, wooden production.
columns
Page Two
We change printers, resize the paper, and go to press a day early, all in the same week. At some point this must have seemed like a good plan.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar's Botox experiments -- and their eyebrow-raising results!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I have decided to start taking a multivitamin/mineral of some sort, but I don't want to waste money taking more than I need. How would I know if I am getting enough, but not too much, of a nutrient?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Coach ventures forth to a pre-dawn World Cup-watching party.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
