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Volume 21, Number 45
news
Perry's Imperial Corridor
TxDOT details plans for the Trans Texas Corridor
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Winnowing the Charters
The Lege considers the troubled state of Texas charter schools
BY MICHAEL MAY
Making Radio All Right
BY LEE NICHOLS
An UnStratusfactory Process
Stratus plan heads back to the City Council for round two
BY AMY SMITH
TxDOT Scuttles SH 45 South -- For Now
For the time being, SH 45 South is off the table.
BY LAURI APPLE
Naked City
This week's roundup of local news and politics
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Saving Austin Now -- and Tomorrow
A skeptical analysis of the pending Stratus deal
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Gods of War
America is distracted by the Pledge "crisis" while our government readies for war.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
The state department says good journalism is treason; and San Antonians fight a golf course over the aquifer.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Just Touching Base ...
Our Food writers stay up to date with Austin's ever-shifting culinary landscape while still finding time to revisit their favorites.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Run Away With the Circus
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood has quite simply gotta lotta news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Ice Creameries, Part II
Hurry, before it melts! Again! Erin Mosow chills out at local ice creameries in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Totally Tommy Lee
Tommy Lee and his Jerry Springer problem.
BY MARGARET MOSER
BK Baby
The once-future Kurt Cobain, Ben Kweller, grows up to be Elliott Smith.
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
One week after the Hole in the Wall closes, the Black Cat burns down.
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
screens
Fright or Flight
Screenwriter Evan Hunter will be in attendance at the Paramount screening of The Birds, his 1963 collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Deconstructing Film
The Hideout hosts a retrospective of experimental filmmaker Aaron Valdéz's work.
BY CHALE NAFUS
Crikey!
TV's Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin wrestles a new beast: the Hollywood movie.
BY DAVID GARZA
High Art and Holy Spirit Team Up at the Ragamuffin Film Festival
The Hope Arts Festival and local film collective Project Seven host an Evangelical Christian film festival at the Alamo Drafthouse Downtown this weekend.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Ron Howard helms The Alamo no mo'.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Really bad TV deserves really bad haiku.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
King Creole
The seedy tragimusical King Creole counts as a turning point for both its legendary star, Elvis Presley, and its director, Michael Curtiz, the man who made a little film nearly two decades prior called Casablanca.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Age of Aquarius
With a new production of the "American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" Hair, director Dave Steakley caps 10 years of making the Zachary Scott Theatre Center rock -- and so much more.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
A Northern California theatre director is combing through the massive Tennessee Williams archive in UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for another as-of-yet unstaged drama by the great playwright that he can bring into the spotlight á la Spring Storm.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Cyberella
A 6-year-old critic pronounces kidsActing's latest production of Cyberella to be "the best show ever," but even her jaded reviewer has to admit that its update on "Cinderella" boasts a playful script, top-notch production values, and a young cast and the cast that really delivers song after song.
Edward, the Owl & the Calico Cat
Austin playwright Emily Cicchini tells the true story behind Edward Lear's magical "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" in Edward, the Owl & the Calico Cat, and the Pollyanna Theatre Company production delivers it smartly, if at a somewhat breathless pace.
Tracers
Director and sound designer Stephen Balgooyen and his youthful cast bring us the horrors of war live and in living drab green in Tracers, but shouted lines and an overwhelming sound design render much of their work on this difficult material unintelligible.
columns
Page Two
We mourn the loss of the Hole in the Wall, where many post-publication nights were lost and at least one marriage was born.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Stephen gets a nasty letter and tells stories from the "Mommie Dearest" benefit. Bit-chee, bit-chee, bitcheeeeeeeeee…
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Anna wants to become a top-flight tennis star? Kan o' kourn. Just become a Williams sister.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Letters at 3AM
Four meditations on three undefinable words: I love you.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
