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No Mercy
The case of James Allridge raises familiar questions about the Texas justice system
BY JORDAN SMITH
Fire Contract Talks in Limbo
Despite voter approval in May, still no collective bargaining
BY JORDAN SMITH
New Rival for 'Daily Texan'
'The Austin Student' aims to the right of the UT campus paper
BY KEVIN BRASS
'All Systems Go!' ... Very, Very Slowly
Cap Metro proposes a rail plan that is much less than meets the eye
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Postcards From the Terrorists!
Be alert! People are taking pictures!
BY MICHAEL KING
Endorsements
'The Austin Chronicle' endorsements for the Sept. 11 Austin ISD bond election
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Back to School
From Dallas to the Border, Texas shortchanges its children and its future
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Recall of the Mild
Want to dump Will Wynn? Be careful what you wish for.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
The conventions offer TV-worthy news, if the networks would just look for it; and, teach English to foreigners! … so they can take your job
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Rules of the Game
How Hudson's on the Bend captures the spirit of cooking fearlessly
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
If it's late August, it must be heaven for Austin chile heads; plus, paying visits to husband-and-wife teams living their restaurant dreams
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
High Baptismal Flow: Part 2
The 13th Floor Elevators' ground floors – where are they now?
BY MARGARET MOSER
13TH FLOOR ELEVATORS
She Lives
Clementine Hall was the 13th Floor Elevators' hip, maternal Wendy, providing food and security for the band's tribe of Lost Boys
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Another Saturday night at the bookstore, and some really awful TV
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Fiery Furnaces
Blueberry Boat
Scissor Sisters
Scissor Sisters
Brian Eno
Another Green World, Before and After Science, Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), Here Come the Warm Jets
The Cure
Live shot
Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics
Jim DeRogatis & Carmél Carrillo
screens
Five for Fall
The season's most anticipated games
BY MARCEL MEYER
Before Its Time
A fresh 35mm print of 'Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains' plays the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
BY KATE X MESSER
Starting Something
Storie Productions
BY MARC SAVLOV
aGLIFF's Opening Night
Thursday, Aug. 26
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Bob Ray's 'Hillbilly Doomsday' has been found!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Alien Vs. Predator
An asinine grudge match between two of the most memorable Eighties-era screen bugaboos
Garden State
A mash note to love that speaks to Generation Y as powerfully as The Graduate did to the Boomers.
Grand Theft Parsons
This film version of the legend of Gram Parsons’ missing body lacks soul.
Intimate Strangers
In this surprisingly romantic tale of confused identity and psychoanalysis, the doctor isn’t in, but the tax attorney is.
Open Water
Is it wrong to root for the sharks?
Without a Paddle
This yuck-fest gets its jokes from men's fear of homosexuality and impotence.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
Would that you could activate a "Dark Clown" card on this bewildering anime import.
Zatôichi
Beneath its layers of epic detail, this Zatôichi is cinematic cotton candy.
arts & culture
Backward 'Spin'
Catherine Berry explains how to reverse engineer your very own musical
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Topping Out the Blanton
That tree on the roof? Means the new museum is A-OK.
BY BARRY PINEO
Hunger Isn't Funny, But ...
The comics of Stand Up Is Dead mount their first anti-hunger banquet to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Payne Pleasures 2004
Latest ACoT theatre-award nominations favor two Austin musicals
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
A Flaming Idiot gets legit, the Cultural Arts Division gets kicked upstairs, Zilker Theater productions goes west, young actor, and Hyde Park Theatre turns Italian
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Velveteen Rabbit: The Musical
All the elements come together to produce something truly magical in KidsActing's revival of 'The Velveteen Rabbit: The Musical'
Not Clown
You're not likely to enter a world as uniquely weird and vibrant as that of Physical Plant Theater's 'Not Clown' any time soon
12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Musical
Rob Nash's '12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Musical' gives his troubled Smith clan something to sing about: a 4-year-old boy
columns
Page Two
A First Amendment primer for Alex Jones' faithful and others in need
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Panties, heels, shoplifting, dog collars, and suffragettes
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
If Athens, Texas, hosted the Olympic Games instead of its Grecian namesake, we would see an entirely different lineup of sports
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Deadly decompression, tired tuna, wolfberry the "red diamond," and Stroganov in Siberia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
How much selenium is enough and how much is too
much in helping to prevent cancer?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Can a landlord hold a tenant's personal property?
BY LUKE ELLIS
About AIDS
What's new? Find out on Aug. 25
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
The White House resorted to scare tactics, terror alerts, and slander following the Democratic Convention in order to avert the public's attention from newly released statistics documenting the country's economic downturn
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Luv Doc Recommends: Lone Star Country Dance Sport Invitational
Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol, Friday, August 20, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Olympic soccer, featuring a chastened Chastain; and an open call for local stars
