Emo's employees quit over punk rock protest, the Noise Ordinance is back, as will be the Austin City Limits Music Festival, but not Russell Crowe. SIMS news and more.

BY KEN LIECK

Phases and Stages

Sahm, Shandon

Good Thoughts Are Better Than Laxatives

Costello, Elvis

Almost You: The Songs of Elvis Costello

Hicks, Bill

Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1, Love Laughter and Truth

A Different Kind of Player

As far as nightclub concepts go, LAN parties aren't exactly thought of as pickup hotspots. Well, think again.

BY KATE X MESSER

In Which We Remove Foot From Mouth, Mind From Gutter

A Freudian slip from the one-track mind of Sarah Hepola.

Short Cuts

No tape, no screen: The Dobie's new digital projector and the Alamo's windblown mishap last week.

BY MARC SAVLOV

TV for Fans of TV

After much off-season media attention, the Emmy Award-winning The Osbournes returns to MTV for its second season on Tuesday.

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

Pillow Talk (1959)

Doris Day, the Sixties' most popular professional virgin, croons over the opening credits that "there must be a pillow-talkin' boy for me." Boy, was there ever, and his name was Rock Hudson.

Film Reviews

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Katakuris is something of a departure for Miike, seeing as how it's chock-full of robust romance and – we kid you not – musical numbers. While this is ultimately a crazy meditation on family values and the like, it's still mind-bogglingly goofy filmmaking, at once deeply moving and deeply annoying.

Solaris

Treasure Planet

arts & culture

An Angel for AMT

The recent fiscal crisis for Austin Musical Theatre threatened to keep the company from mounting any future productions, but producer Charles Duggan has come to AMT's rescue, offering to produce a week-long retrospective of musical numbers from the company's first 15 productions.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

A Piece of Work

In the Arthouse exhibition "Glow," Craig Kauffman's Untitled Donut #14 balloons out from the wall like a benign, lopsided pink inner tube, its sensuous shape and gleaming, flesh-toned color beckoning the viewer with the rounded friendliness of Baby's bath toy.

BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER

Articulations

Austin Script Works has a changing of the bard, Austin officially becomes a capital of culture, and the Texas Fine Arts Association is renamed Arthouse.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

'"Tesoros de la Catedral de Saltillo -- Treasures of the Cathedral of Saltillo"'

Mexic-Arte Museum's exhibition of "Tesoros de la Cathedral de Saltillo -- Treasures of the Cathedral of Saltillo" displays repositories not only of spiritual meaning and practice, but of the intertwining history of the Catholic Church and the indigenous peoples of Mexico.

Medea

Playwright Liz Lochhead brings Euripides' tale of Medea and her hideous yet compelling vengeance into the present day, but delivers a surprisingly staid and familiar rendition of the tragedy, and while the this Vortex Repertory Company production offers some striking dramatic tableaux, it suffers from pacing problems, a lack of dramatic tension, and little effective storytelling.

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