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Volume 21, Number 46
news
Imminent Harm
The city plays a high-stakes, high-risk game with Stratus Properties, while the citizens look on
BY AMY SMITH
Not Quite No-Kill -- Yet
As the Town Lake Animal Center nears the target date to complete its No-Kill Millennium plan, launched in 1997, most observers agree the situation has improved. Chances of meeting its goals, though, remain slim.
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Another Drug War Casualty
Testimony continues this week in the capital murder trial of 23-year-old Edwin Delamora, accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Travis County Sheriff's Deputy Keith Ruiz in February 2001.
BY JORDAN SMITH
When Malls Attack
We sure are getting a lot of malls.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Old Homes = New Yuppies?
The City Council places a 90-day moratorium on new historic zoning cases in the Eastside and creates a task force to examine the relationship between historic zoning and gentrification.
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Taking the Fifth?
The battle lines form over the Bush nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
Austin Stories
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The council surrenders to Stratus and abandons its "Green" credentials
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
George W.'s corporate scolding reeks of hypocrisy; the Pentagon buys into Hollywood.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
¡Más Comida!
Austin's newest restaurants are making 'mi casa es su casa' a way of life, one menu at a time
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Will Travel for Food
Central Market's Jane King visits the gentrified Grassmarket area of Edinburgh and the used-cookbook store of Clarissa Dickson Wright, formerly of Two Fat Ladies.
BY JANE KING
Food-o-File
Happenings at Matt's El Rancho, Boggy Creek, Basil's, and more.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Slices of Life
Erin Mosow throws a pizza party in this week's "Second Helpings."
Food Reviews
Foods of the Maya
Nancy Gerlach and Jeffrey Gerlach
music
O Brother
How a bluegrass soundtrack turned out to be the biggest music business success story since Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Welcome to the Underground
David Baerwald goes from Boomtown to bust-town, Austin.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
How I Spent My Last 20 Years
Gretchen Phillips pays her last respects to the Hole in the Wall
BY GRETCHEN PHILLIPS
Dancing About Architecture
Emo's turns 10.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Max Roach
Money Jungle
Terje Rypdal, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bobo Stenson, Bill Frisell, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek
:rarum Selected Recordings
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
Live at the Wetlands
Brute
Co-balt
P. Diddy, Eminem, Nelly, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, MeShell Ndegeocello
We Invented the Remix, The Eminem Show, Nellyville, Masquerade, Unplugged, Cookie
screens
Game Boy
Local development company Game Titan grows up, but stays young at heart
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Kind to Be Cruel
It's all Lovely & Amazing to actress Catherine Keener.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Internet Drops Trou
You wouldn't believe how an ass or two spruces up that corporate gray.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Short Cuts
Ron Howard back to The Alamo?
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Strategic Air Command
In his seventh starring turn with noted alpha-male auteur Anthony Mann, Jimmy Stewart is aging third baseman "Dutch" Holland -- 152 RBI last season and a brand-new $70,000 contract, to boot -- whose country wants him back in the USAF.
Film Reviews
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course
Eight Legged Freaks
Giant spiders invade a small town in this fun B-movie throwback.
Family Fundamentals
Halloween: Resurrection
arts & culture
Moby's Play
Playwright Kirk Smith talks about trying to squeeze a great white whale into a tiny theatre with his adaptation of Moby Dick for Vortex Repertory Company's Summer Youth Theatre.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The stage musical version of The Lion King finally lands in Texas, and even four years into its Broadway run, the show still truly creates a world of wonders.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Late Nite Catechism
The popular interactive theatre piece Late Nite Catechism thrives on the interaction between the audience, cast as students in a course of religious instruction, and the actor who plays the nun teaching it. In the touring production, Amanda Hebert is amazing in the role, playing Sister with perfect presence and timing.
True West
The dirigo group production of Sam Shepard's True West sees Corey Gagne and Judson L. Jones swapping the roles of petty criminal Lee and screenwriter Austin every other night. While both are exceptional actors, offering plenty of sharp character work, both versions bring that pervading sense of threat that gives the show the violent inevitability of Greek tragedy.
columns
Page Two
Saving what we can of Barton Springs -- most recently threatened by a proposed development deal between the city and Stratus Properties -- requires pragmatism and compromise.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
If you ask Stephen out on a date and he tells you that he has to do his Hair, don't be offended, he's just obsessing about the new production at Zach Scott.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I get confused about the various kinds of vitamin E on the vitamin labels. Why can't labels just say "tocopherol"?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Why you want to read about golf, Coach's great metaphor for life
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
