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The Future Is Now
Local fiscal policy enters its Cold War era
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Pain and Suffering for Hospital District
City, county spar about money and power over new health care system
BY AMY SMITH
Firefighters Union Gets Burned
Members' insurance coverage in limbo after funds go missing
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Robin Hood Goes to Court
The Lege punts, and the judge catches the school-finance football
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Money Changes Nothing
The $33 million question: Will the city and county ever get along?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
All is not lost: Grassroots activists win court battles; and the Pentagon revolving door is profitable for Bush buddies
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Right Man for the Job
Steve Lawrence has succeeded at just about everything in life – especially importing and distributing European wines in Texas
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Classes, dancing, Bull at the Beard, and more among this week's scoops of news you can use
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes, Part II
music
High Baptismal Flow
In search of rock & roll's psychedelic pioneers, Austin's 13th Floor Elevators
BY MARGARET MOSER
Where the Pyramid Meets the High
Long lost 13th Floor Elevators founder and visionary Tommy Hall – found!
BY JOE TRYBYSZEWSKI
TCB
Texas' songwriter emeritus Billy Joe Shaver, Lenny Kravitz's protégé, and the end of a bingo era. Also, Elvis.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
the Finn Brothers
Something Happened, Sheboygan, Things That Go Pop, Bright & Hollow Sky, Fivehead
Life on Mars: A Tribute to David Bowie
screens
Screening Process
The Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund panelists
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Character Development
UT's Video Game Design Boot Camp
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Short Cuts
Kat Candler can't be stopped, Robert Burns will live forever, Pedazo Chunk chips in free beer and films, and Steve Mims loves L.A.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
I want Craig McCracken to be my friend
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Upcoming Walt Disney Treasures: On the Front Lines
Of all the secrets in Uncle Walt's vault, one would expect
Donald Duck decked out in SS regalia to rank with 'Song
of the South' and the pseudo-sex subliminals of 'The
Little Mermaid'
Film Reviews
Last Flight Out
Righteously mediocre stuff from the "film ministry of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association"
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
All sugar, no spice in this modern-day fairy tale
Riding Giants
A creative wipe-out from the director of Dogtown and Z-Boys
arts & culture
Mother Courage
Melba Martinez's legacy at Mary Moody Northen Theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Not Your Father's Musical (Or Your Kid's, For That Matter)
Three local shows show breaking into song ain't what it used to be
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam: Nelson Patrick
Remembering Nelson G. Patrick, a man who devoted 70 years of his life to the education of Texas' young musicians
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Payne Award nominations on the horizon, a big banner dresses up the Long Center, a record haul at the Pink Eye Ball, Patsy Cline aids AIDS Services, and Hyde Park Theatre's garage bonanza
Arts Reviews
House Arrest
Both Anna Deavere Smith's script for 'House Arrest' and Zachary Scott Theatre Center's production of it fall short as meaningful political theatre
columns
Page Two
Our mission to engage readers, excite debate, and
reimagine the 'Chronicle' is ongoing; our new
online forum is the latest step
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Wanna know a 'Chronicle' secret? It runs in the family:
Margaret Moser spends a lot of energy fantasizing being
able to recast all the roles in 'Grease.' In this issue,
Brother Stephen has some epiphanies over the
possibilities of a modern remake of 'Valley of the Dolls'!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Kerrville-Schreiner Park is no longer a state park, but it is better than ever
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Newt Gingrich, Southern Baptists, and food poisoning
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
Is there something that can be bought locally to treat
Candida?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Fingers of Fame
Rollie Fingers on the DH, Pete Rose, Eric Gagne, and More
