AFS Cinema
Volume 22, Number 10
news
Dream on, Dream Team
Democrats Fail to Convince Texas
Will AISD Magnetize Eastside Sixth-Graders?
Kealing Junior High may add a sixth grade -- at the expense of its three Eastside elementary feeder schools.
BY MICHAEL MAY
Get Your Brain on with Cartoonist David Rees
A profile of cartoonist David Rees, coming to Austin to promote his book Get Your War On
BY LAURI APPLE
Bodies Pile Up at KOOP
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
In Central Texas, the "progressive" agenda can trump the GOP "majority."
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
After Nov. 5, a preview of Texas government to come
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Organics: good enough for the pilgrims, good enough for us; and, trailer trash go upscale.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Living in the Moment
MM Pack profiles legendary foodie Ann Clark.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood discusses the untimely death of her friend and Austin "pioneer" Patrick Knight in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: All Japanese
Austin is the new Japan! In this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Texas Top 40
Ranking the best Tex-Centric Billboard Top 40 hits of the last 50 years.
Dancing About Architecture
Daniel Lanois confirms as SXSW keynote, Springsteen cancels, and another club -- the Six of Clubs -- closes. Biz as usual, in other words.
BY KEN LIECK
screens
First You Laugh, Then You Join Greenpeace
The vinyl industry's environmental and health dangers hit home when documentarian Judith Helfand's family installs vinyl siding. Helfand caught it all on tape in her toxic comedy, Blue Vinyl.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
A Hollywood Twist
Ilan Mitchell-Smith, the "other dude" from Weird Science, reflects on his Teen Beat past and on co-star Anthony Michael Hall.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
The Artful 'Dodger'
First-time writer / director Dylan Kidd talks about his award-winning indie debut, 'Roger Dodger.'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Dead Man Talking: A panel of local film academics & critics discuss the Tim Robbins' film in anticipation of the opera adaptation.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
While viewers are asleep at the remote, the FCC is pondering some dangerous deregulation.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bloody Sunday
8 Mile
Eminen's semi-autobiographical story of a young, white rapper on the rise in Detroit has a soft-focus Hollywood tint.
Femme Fatale
A triumph of style over logic, this is still one of the best films from this period of De Palma's career.
arts & culture
Run by Families, Run for Families
It's a Friday evening at the Santa Cruz Center for Culture, and as the Aztlan Dance Company rehearses its production of Reflexiones '02, the company shows how after 30 years it's still not only an exhilarating dance company, but very much a family affair.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Tender Terror?
Gallery Lombardi's new juried show "Hallowed Ground" finds dark beauty and fearsome light in its artists' views of religion.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Trouble at AMT
A Piece of Work
Ralph White's painting Segment of an Unknown Journey is suggestive of both microscopic and telescopic views, bearing at once a resemblance to a dye-drenched photo of a living cell after mitosis and a polychrome picture of distant, light-smeared celestial bodies taken by the Hubble telescope.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Motherbone
Salvage Vanguard Theater adapts the classic Russian folk tale of Vasilissa the Beautiful into a new urban opera, Motherbone, that may have some rough edges, but is an amazing showcase for the musical passion of Graham Reynolds as well as the company's pluck and determination.
Reefer Madness
'Yousuf Karsh: A Retrospective'
The Oswald Gallery's retrospective exhibit of Yousuf Karsh's black and white portraiture is a small sample of Karsh's career, perhaps, considering the span of years in which he worked, but it's a representative one, and perfectly displayed in the snug front gallery.
columns
Page Two
In the wake of the Republican Dream Team's electoral sweep, expect the governmental services you depend on to be diminished.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Oh! It's such a chore to pull one's self together for a night out on the town … but some nights are really worth it. Plus, we are hosting another Drag Ball. Details inside.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
My nails were never great, but the last two years I have really suffered from nails that are too soft to hold up to daily wear and tear. I also notice some ridges developing. What can I do to improve them?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Wright House Wellness Center: Holistic Therapies for HIV, HCV, and Cancer
BY JOE BARNES
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
