AFS Cinema
Volume 22, Number 1
news
Who's Texas?
The story of Texas history says a lot -- about the storytellers
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Enviros for Energy
In a recent analysis titled "What Renewable Energy Means to Texas," environmental groups announced they're whole-hog on board with the emerging renewable energy industry, especially wind power.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Tulia, Too Late
Civil rights advocates and opponents of the "war on drugs" were relieved by the announcement last week that state Attorney General and U.S. Senate candidate John Cornyn will initiate a probe into the notorious drug bust in the Panhandle town of Tulia. But is it too late?
BY LAURI APPLE
History vs. "Progress"
I-35 expansion opponents from Eastside neighborhoods plan to apply for national historic area designation and promise to fight TxDOT along the way to salvage historic structures in their neighborhood.
BY DAVE MANN
A Forced Confession?
Jurors spent much of week three of the yogurt shop murder trial of Michael Scott watching nearly 20 hours of an exhaustive videotaped confession he gave Austin police in September 1999.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bottom of the Budget Barrel
City Hall scraped to the bone; now it cuts into it.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Headlines
BY LAURI APPLE
Capitol Chronicle
Cheney's call to war is as illegitimate as ever.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Is "neighborhood planning" the tool for the job Austin needs done?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Accenture proclaims its Bermudan heritage; Paul O'Neill calls the kettle black.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Location, Location, Location
The Y Bar & Grill's is a great place and has quite the popularity, but what about the food?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood says step right up to the "Food-o-File Event-o-Rama"!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Too Tough To Die
The last surviving real Ramone takes us back to the best years of our lives.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Sugar on the Asphalt
How Jimmy Eat World bleeds teen angst tunefully, responsibly
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
Labor Days ends, people bummed.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Sparta, The Fall on Deaf Ears
Wiretap Scars, The Fall on Deaf Ears
Queens of the Stone Age
Songs for the Deaf
Sleater-Kinney
One-Beat
screens
(Backroom) Journeys With George (and James)
Revisiting The War Room -- the electrifying '92 campaign documentary starring the Lone Ranger and Tonto (Stephanopoulos and Carville) -- with executive producer R.J. Cutler.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
World Without End
The Austin Film Society will be screening all-new 35mm prints in an eight-film retrospective of the work of Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko.
BY MICHAEL CONNOR
Cinemakids 2002
Watch movies, make movies: It's all in a weekend's work at this year's Cinemakids program, an offshoot of the Cinematexas International Short Film Festival.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Dangerzone
Austin's programming elite tangle Friday night at Mojo's in a Linux Top Gun contest.
BY LINDSEY SIMON
Short Cuts
The skies still may not be all that friendly, but at least hanging out at in the airport terminal's gotten better.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Fall is falling … or rather, fall TV is falling into our laps. The question is, will it be as welcome as a purring li'l kitty cat digging in for a nap, or as rank as last week's bong water seeping in to your new chinos?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
American Pop
Ralph Bakshi, the animator behind Fritz the Cat, didn't invent rotoscoping, but he made it poetically epic with 1981's American Pop.
Film Reviews
Read My Lips
In this startling thriller, a mousy but frustrated office worker and an unrepentant thief pull off a heist that depends in equal measures on quick thinking and creative choreography.
Swimming
arts & culture
Birthday Cage
Pianist Michelle Schumann celebrates the 90th anniversary of the birth of musical innovator John Cage.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The Austin Museum of Art's downtown home gets a shot in the arm, and local television devotes more attention to Austin's arts scene.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Editor in Chief Louis Black reflects on the Chronicle's 21st anniversary.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letter at 3AM
While remembering September 11, we owe it to ourselves to remember what its horrors have been shamelessly manipulated to obscure.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Vylette gets the Sex and the City nod from USA Today and we turn four! Happy Birthday to us!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I have now made it five years since breast cancer was diagnosed. I consider myself very fortunate and want to do everything I can to stay well and avoid future chemo. Where do I start?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Involvement Helps HIV-Positive People Cope
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
