AFS Cinema
Volume 21, Number 48
features
Every Day Is Dress-Up Day
Back to Cool
The Griffin School kids take us back to high school in style
BY KATE X MESSER
news
The Short Unhappy Life of Sophia King
The APD shooting death of Sophia King was a tragedy waiting to happen.
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Beware of Bingo Narcs!
On July 18, an investigator from the Texas Lottery Commission's Charitable Bingo section informed Continental Cub owner Steve Wertheimer that the club's bingo night was illegal --way illegal. Why?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Curtains Closing on Stratus Deal?
The Stratus Properties development deal heads for a third and final City Council vote, just as environmental and neighborhood opponents step up demands for a referendum.
BY AMY SMITH
Officer's Conviction Overturned
BY JORDAN SMITH
Will He, Would He, Woodlawn?
Austin investor Jeff Sandefer plans to buy Woodlawn, the sprawling 22-room Pease Mansion in West Austin's Enfield neighborhood.
BY DAVE MANN
Naked City
This Week's Headlines
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Texans leap to the defense of Governor and President Bush
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
It's easy to make nuclear waste safe -- just pass a law saying it's so; and, dishonesty permeates the corporate culture -- even CEOs' golf games.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Surf and Turf, Travis-Style
Lakeside Dining 2002: By boat or by car, bring your appetite.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Arson at the Salt Lick and the Salt Lick in The New York Times: What are the odds for both to happen in week? Virginia B. Wood fills you in, while telling all about the Texas Culinary Academy, in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Slices of Life
Erin Mosow establishes the facts about local pizza establishments in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Here We Go Again
The Riddlin' Kids -- DIY with a bullet.
BY ANDY LANGER
Reconnection Notice
Sonic Youthman Lee Ranaldo speaks.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
Dancing About Architecture
Can you believe it, another club gone. And another gone, and another gone…
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
the Vines
Live Shot
various
Like, Omigod! The '80's Pop Culture Box (totally)
David Bowie
Ziggy Stardust
screens
Here Comes the Sun
On a breather from The Sopranos, actress Edie Falco soaks it up in John Sayles' Sunshine State.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
All I Really Need to Know I Learned Watching Movies
A good student is a prepared student. Here's our back to school curricula.
Short Cuts
It's still summer in the city, but news about fall film-related events means a break in the heat isn't too far away.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
How a former nurse in polyester pantsuits can spice up your sex life.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Sex and Lucía
Medem's film is a bleached-out beauty, hitting our most commanding human emotions – lust to love to grief to rage and back again – while only occasionally striking a wrong chord. – Kimberley Jones
Signs
Sunshine State
arts & culture
Spells-bound
Seattle's 33 Fainting Spells, which enchanted local audiences with the dance drama The Uninvited in 1997, makes its long-awaited return to Austin.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The Texas Commission for the Arts gives Austinites a chance to see the state's best artists for free, and praise from the out-of-town press for local playwrights Cyndi Williams and Joe Sears and Jaston Williams
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Boom Town
The Company's production of Boom Town, a stage thriller by film actor Jeff Daniels concerning economic development and marital infidelity, may hit the audience over the head with themes familiar from Hollywood potboilers, but unlike most movies of that kind it leaves its audience with a memorable bang.
The Flame Keeper
With a single setting, one act, and two actors, Amos Kamil's play The Flame Keeper is decidedly simple in form, but it is far from simplistic, grappling with issues of identity and responsibility that are enormously complex.
Blah, Blah, Blah
In the 14 sketches that make up Blah, Blah, Blah, playwright Lowell Bartholomee skewers Hollywood with situations and dialogue that are clever and perceptive, but the actors seem to be working to put it across, straining even, when it really doesn't need the hard sell.
columns
Page Two
The Newspaper That Came to Breakfast: The Statesman's coverage of the Stratus deal is very hard to swallow.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
… Wherein we listen to a new DJ, see Stephen's new 'do and wok, don't run, for some late night Chinese. Join us?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I have recently begun to suffer what my doctor diagnoses as carpal tunnel syndrome, apparently connected with long hours at my computer keyboard. I am now wearing a "splint" and have changed my keyboard, but would like to do more. What nutrients might help?
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
