Volume 23, Number 18
features
BY WELLS DUNBAR
news
News Top Tens
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Federal workers should not be paid below-poverty wages, and electronic voting machines should provide paper ballots.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The year in food, 2003
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
TOP TEN
Recapping 2003
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Chronicle critics size up 2003
Chronicle critics list their Top 10 Texas albums for 2003
BY GREG BEETS
Chronicle critics list their Top 10 National albums
BY GREG BEETS
Fifteen music lists from 2003, plus a sample Austin Music Poll ballot. Fill yours out now!
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
2003 in Film
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Austin film -- top 10 with a bullet
BY MARC SAVLOV
The best of TV in 2003 -- with some weirdness and disappointment in there somewhere
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Every girl's a sucker for a disheveled goofball who's crying on the inside.
Film Reviews
Middle-aged British women bare all for charity.
Affleck and Uma race to descramble the past in this futuristic thriller based on a Philip K. Dick short story and directed by John Woo.
arts & culture
The most prosperous period in Austin's cultural
history came to a painful close in 2003.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Former fixture on the Austin comedy scene Charlie Shannon has passed away.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
History is speed-racing through this decade; we're queasy and anxious to get to the finish line.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Who was tops in 2003? Who will last into 2004?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The year in review, "Day Trips" style
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
'For the love of God, beam me up Scotty!'
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Some common issues that can arise with your bank
BY LUKE ELLIS
Can boys become anorexic?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Research finally shows a 'best initial treatment'
BY SANDY BARTLETT
, Wednesday, December 31, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily