AFS Cinema
Volume 22, Number 40
news
Call and Answer
It's been a hard spring of politics in Texas; now it's time to relax with a book.
BY MICHAEL KING
Adiós! Don't Let the Door ...
A Quick Roundup of the Best and the Worst of the 78th Lege
Place 5 Run-Off: It's All Over But the Votin'
Margot Clarke and Brewster McCracken head for the finish line Saturday.
BY AMY SMITH
On the Lege, One Last Time
BY MICHAEL KING
Will Fernandez Bust Throw Eastside Détente Into Turmoil?
El Concilio leader's drug-and-assault arrest comes just as Mexican-American political cooperation is on the rise.
BY LAURI APPLE
T.A.B. Staff Held in Contempt
BY AMY SMITH
Is Texas High Court Contaminated by Toxic Campaign Cash?
Weekley family activism leaves a plaintiff worried about her chances for justice at the Supreme Court.
BY JORDAN SMITH
KOOP Trial Short-Circuits
BY LAURI APPLE
Judge Triana vs. Superduplex
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The Lege battle over ethics covers a multitude of sins -- and hidden agendas.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Some kind of weapon is being held to the heads of the hurry-up council
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush appointee fights hard … for corporations; and Big Digital Brother Is Watching You
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All You Can Read
The Chronicle Food staff samples a buffet of books for the culinarily curious.
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood reheats the food news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: A Little Italy, Part II
"Second Helpings" takes you on a return tour of Italy in Austin!
music
Sheet Music
Summer Reading
BY HARVEY PEKAR
TCB
Clifford comes home, Steamboat packs up, and Spoon seeks a pianist transplant
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
A Bee Worth Buzzing About
Texas Documentary Tour presents the Oscar-nominated Spellbound.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Summer Reading
British Invasion
Local Cooper Mini enthusiasts rallied at the Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek this weekend in conjunction with the opening of The Italian Job.
BY MARC SAVLOV
America's Sweetheart
Georgetown's Palace Theatre celebrates a weekend of Mary Pickford films.
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The Kentucky collective Appalshop presents a more truthful depiction of the rural life in Headwaters: Real Stories From Rural America.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Blue Car
The Good Old Naughty Days
The Man Without a Past
A man, beaten into amnesia, builds a new life in this Oscar-nominated Finnish film.
arts & culture
Applause! Applause!
The full list of winners for the 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art, as presented during its annual ceremony at the Capitol City Comedy Club.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Minister of Grace
At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
O Rooster, Where Art Thou?
As Second Youth Family Theatre revives its original musical version of The Bremen Town Musicians, set in 1930s America with a country, bluegrass, and gospel soundtrack, writer / lyricist / composer Allen Robertson reflects on the show's creation 12 years ago.
BY BARRY PINEO
Articulations
This year's Austin Critics Table Awards ceremony turned into something of an endurance test, setting a new record for length at three and a half hours.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Side Man
In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Side Man, director Dave Steakley conducts the play's overlapping conversations and monologue "solos" like a good bandleader, but that fine work can't compensate for the distance from the action created by playwright Warren Leight in depicting the gap between jazzmen and their families.
Monteverdi: Vocal Glory, Vocal Splendor
A program of songs sacred, secular, and straddling those two realms, all by Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi, provided Conspirare with another opportunity to provide that which it does so well: powerful, ethereal song that seems to come directly from the distant, historical source yet has all the immediacy of new work.
Quake
Every visit to Hyde Park Theatre brings a discovery of something new, and in the case of Quake, it's playwright Melanie Marnich, whose surrealistic tale of a woman in search of a perfect love, a big love, a love that makes the earth move, is witty and perceptive.
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Keg party at the lake! We get starstruck at the 10th anniversary party for Dazed and Confused, Richard Linklater's classic ode to bud and tube socks.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Is the Atkins diet a good option for weight loss?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
