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Closing the Books
A UT editor says he lost his job at the Center for Mexican American Studies for complaining about administrative malfeasance.
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Owl, the Chicken, and the Beast of Bentonville
Environmental and community groups have come together to defend South Austin against plans for three new Wal-Mart Supercenters.
BY AMY SMITH
Don't Worry, Be Happy:
City Hall's left wing carries the day as the budget season draws to a close
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Hightower Takes on the Bushites in His Underwear
Jim Hightower's latest assault on the plutocracy hits the bestseller list.
BY MICHAEL KING
Endorsements
State Constitutional Election, Sept. 13, 2003
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from around Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
The City Council takes a hard look at the budget crisis -- and blinks.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
Sen. John Whitmire flees exile in Albuquerque and says he'll return to the Senate with or without his Democratic colleagues.
BY MICHAEL KING
On the Lege
Perry calls a third special re-redistricting session, and the Dems explore their options.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
The Assault on the True America; Delay's Judicial Witch-Hunt
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Michoacana Connection
Paletas on the streets of Austin, paletas on the streets of Mexico!
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood brings all-you-can-eat news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Mexican Bakeries
Food Reviews
Jegimajo!
There aren't any pushcarts at Jegimajo!, but you can sure get a taste of the Philippines there.
music
Waking the Dead
Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Centro-matic's Will Johnson find common ground.
BY MELANIE HAUPT
TCB
Goths, Goths, Goths
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Okkervil River Reviewed
Okkervil River
Down the River of Golden Dreams
Scott H. Biram
Lo-Fi Mojo
Cave Catt Sammy
Whiskey and the Devil
Dead End Angels
November
Rick Trevino
In My Dreams
Echo Base Soundsystem
Echo Base Soundsystem
Terry Bowness
Stick Figures
Chris Duarte, Monte Montgomery
Romp, New & Approved
George DeVore
Four Under Par
Willie Nelson, Ray Price
Run That by Me One More Time
Marti Brom
Wise to You!
Gretchen Phillips
Welcome to My World
The Golden Apples, The Soft Set
The Golden Apples, Only Lovers Left Alive
The Materialistics
Tomorrow Is Fat and Old
Stars As Eyes, various, ova looven, Anne Heller, Creeperweed
Loud New Shit, Winter 2002-03, 58:34, Wild Yams, AuditoryFlickerFusionThreshold
South Filthy, Hard Feelings, The Marked Men, Bad Apples
The Soul of a Man, Soul Party!, The Marked Men, Revenge of the Bad Apples
screens
Long Stories Short
The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
The Producer
Austinite Robert Rodriguez has, of course, been a maverick from the get-go, but it's wife and producer Elizabeth Avellán who often seems the cogent heart and soul behind her husband's outrageously entertaining productions.
BY MARC SAVLOV
'Pocho' Patchwork
AFS's Texas Doc Tour brings the formidable Héctor Galán and his 'Visiones' to One World Theatre.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Toronto Diary
Dispatches from the 2003 Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
aGLIFF Announces Winners
The Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival has announced its winners.
Graphic Representation
Can Female Gaming Pros Reconcile State of the Art Technology with a
BY COURTNEY FITZGERALD
Latin Grammy for Local Vid Artists
Paul Beck and Jason Archer, video artists and Waking Life animators, are the proud owners of a pair of matching Latin Grammys for their video for Mexican hip-hop rockers Molotov.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Game on!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Work and family, work and family, work and family. That perpetual sitcom theme keeps it up this fall, and Belinda Acosta accepts it with an asterisk.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Mr. Majestyk
"You make sounds like you're a mean little asskicker. Only I ain't convinced. You keep talkin', I'm gonna take your head off."
Film Reviews
American Splendor
At the center of its uniquely beating heart, American Splendor is a heartfelt valentine to Everymen (and Women) everywhere
Cabin Fever
A festival breakout shocker that twists genre conventions into a jarring battery of scares.
Derrida
If you don't already worship Derrida, this film won't change your mind.
The Magdalene Sisters
A grim and unmistakable masterpiece of bleak, black sorrow.
Matchstick Men
Neurotic con artist reunites with abandoned daughter in a surprisingly sweet bait-and-switch.
No Good Deed
Samuel L. Jackson as an auto-theft detective, perhaps in over his head. Not reviewed at press time.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
The third film in Robert Rodriguez’s south-of-the-border action trilogy is a whole lot of movie.
The Order
Mysterious doings in a Catholic sect, on the whole more silly than scary.
arts & culture
Sisters Under the Scrim
Six of the finest theatrical artists in Austin discuss their work behind the curtain designing lighting schemes, mixing sound, and creating and constructing sets and costumes and how their careers have been affected by the fact that they're women.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Shout!
Annie Weisman's satiric drama Be Aggressive, receiving its area premiere from the State Theater Company, gives a shout out to cheerleading as an outlet for teenagers to make themselves heard.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam: Brother Jeremias Mysliwiec CSC
Articulations
A bright design firm on the Austin theatre and film scene, Star Costume & Clothiers, falls to earth, and folk artist Brother Jeremias Mysliwiec passes away.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Perdita
Perdita, playwright Monika Bustamante's chilling exploration of what can happen when loss barrels its way through everyday lives, is one of the most tightly crafted and beautifully written works of the year, and its production at Hyde Park Theatre is of sterling quality.
Cabaret
Theater at the J's production of Cabaret makes good use of the large hall at the Dell Jewish Community Center, creatively weaving the cabaret's musical shenanigans into the more serious larger story, in which the central characters fend off the accelerating horror of Nazi Germany by choosing not to see it.
Austin Symphony and Emanuel Ax
For the Austin Symphony's season opener, conductor Peter Bay and company made a pleasure cruise of Smetana's "The Moldau" and turned Sibelius' Second Symphony into a ride through the perfect storm, while guest Emanuel Ax led a refined reading of da Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain.
columns
Page Two
It's been two years since 9 / 11, and we're under attack.
BY NICK BARBARO
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
It was a "Mighty Real" period in at least one young man's life: Oh, those heady disco nights! Oh, the power! The Passion! The psychedelics! Oh, it's all within reach through the grace of MP3s! Oh, I should have saved them!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
A new exhibit at the New Braunfels Museum of Art & Music in Gruene documents the love and skill that musical-instrument makers around America put into their creations.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
I want to break the lease on my apartment, so I can move in with a friend and save money. My landlord says I still have to pay the remaining five months rent. Is there any way to break the lease and avoid paying rent?
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
After my third baby I didn't lose the weight I gained during pregnancy, and I have even gained some more. What is going on?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Secondhand Lions Regional Premiere
Paramount Theatre, Sunday, September 14, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
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