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BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY 32 LETTERS@3AM Broke-Down in Bossier City ARTS 35 History on the Page at the Ransom Center; What’s When With Mi Casa Es Su Teatro; The Times, It Is a Praisin’ Austin Art; and Taps for Dance Legend Fayard Nicholas THEATRE 36 PLAYING ‘HOUSE’ (AND ‘GARDEN’) For Austin Playhouse, running paired comedies side by side is double the pleasure, double the fun BY ROBERT FAIRES AO AFTER A FASHION Stephen returns to his designing roots; plus, the most charming Web sites of late, and the year’s fanciest garage sale 42 BOOKS CBLDF and Austin Books join forces; and Elizabeth Crook’s The Night Journal reviewed FOOD 45 CROWN JEWEL Bombay Bistro is the newest Indian venture in town. Is it already the best? BY MICK VANN F00D-0-FILE Pamela Boyar gets some props 46 REVIEWED Buenos Aires Cafe, Mi Colombia 49 RESTAURANT ROULETTE Recently reviewed, plus a spin around our Restaurant Guide SCREENS 53 Texas Frightmare Weekend Brings the Best of the Horrifying and Bizarre; SXSW Is So Close You Can Taste It, and It’s Tasty; Marching On: Independent African-American Films From 1935- 1950; and DVD Watch: The Rockford Files FILM 54 PARK CITY PROMENADE In the Sun BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN ... and at the Slam BY SPENCER PARSONS 56 TV EYE I Feel Aaron McGruder’s Pain MUSIC 59 TCB Handsome Joel remembered, inside Anthropos Arts, the drive to bring Roy Orbison to a postage stamp near you, and Chuck Berry deep in the heart of Texas 60 THE SWORD The Excaliber of Austin metal BY AUDRA SCHROEDER 62 TEXAS PLATTERS Ghostland Observatory, Brothers and Sisters, Militant Babies, plus Explosions in the Sky, Austin’s Neil Young contin- gent, and Scarface - all live 64 NEWS OF THE WEIRD The Pentagon teach- es families to laugh at war CALENDAR 66 COMMUNITY The spirit of Carnaval animates the partying throngs in Austin this weekend, and the Texas Culinary Academy dishes up a Chocolate Competition and Exhibition 68 DAY TRIPS Take a drive to Dallas and enjoy some world-renowned art at the Nasher Sculpture Garden 69 SOCCER WATCH Houston 1836 is the name of Houston’s MLS team, Arsenal is upset by the Bolton Wanderers, and more (§ 0 - “Soccer Watch Online”: semiregular updates austinchronicle.com/webextra 70 ARTS Theatre: FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Three; Get Your War On; Two Into War COVER PHOTOGRAPHY BY JOHN ANDERSON 76 FILM Something New, Mrs. Henderson Presents, The White Countess , Before the Fall, A Good Woman, The World’s Fastest Indian, This Land Is Your Land, Big Momma’s House 2 78 SHOWTIMES 84 SPECIAL SCREENINGS Last Man Standing, Midnight Shadow, New York Doll, Richard Pryor: Live in Concert, The Battle of Algiers, Screen Door: Best Shorts of 2005 86 MUSIC RECOMMENDED Laciepalooza, Matthew Shipp, David Grisman, Liam 0 Maonlai, Anthony B, Devin the Dude, Brujeria, Carnaval Brasileiro, Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Of Montreal, and more 90 VENUES 94 CLUB LISTINGS AND ROADSHOWS BACK 112 COMICS Coffee Man, Troubletown, Bitter Yeti, and more MR. SMARTY PANTS Mrs. Roosevelt, you’re trying to seduce me. ... aren’t you? (w© Ask Mr. Smarty Pants - sooner or later , he’ll answer austinchronicle.com/webextra 113 CLASSIFIEDS 125 TO YOUR HEALTH Eggs: good for you or great for you? 129 THE COMMON LAW ‘Queer Eye’ for the summoned guy 130 CAR TALK New clutch of new mechanic? 132 FREE WILL ASTROLOGY Aquarians go on a naming spree, and Pisceans fake it for the week 134 PERSONALS 135 THE LUV DOC A rambling recommendation to shore up your social calendar THE AUSTIN PUBLISHER EDITOR Nick Barbara Louis Black SENIOR EDITORS MANAGING EDITOR Cindy Widner FILM Marjorie Baumgarten ARTS Robert Faires MUSIC Raoul Flernandez NEWS Michael King FOOD Virginia B. Wood SPECIAL ISSUES, GUIDES, INTERNS Kate Messer ASSOCIATE EDITORS NEWS Lee Nichols, Cheryl Smith SCREENS, BOOKS Shawn Badgley MUSIC Audra Schroeder CALENDAR ARTS LISTINGS Wayne Alan Brenner COMMUNITY LISTINGS Nora Ankrum ASST. 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Invariably, you do something stupid driving and encounter road-rage-lite, where some driver screams at you, or you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, or someone just loses it on you. For decades, this is how I’ve usually encountered name-calling - until recently. Name-calling has everything to do with intention, and only coincidentally with lan- guage. Minorities often use the derogatory words that negatively stereotype them in daily friendly talk within their community. Someone can call another “slow” and, depending on the tone of voice, it can mean almost anything. Regardless of the words, in this case I’m refer- ring to people I’ve spoken to (or who have left me phone messages or written me) who are often trying to cram as much contempt and/or hate into their words as possible. This next paragraph offers a self-serving justification and perhaps indicates a serious state of denial. But I know some will accuse me of doing just what I’m complaining about, so let me deal with it up front. Discussing political thought has become more and more difficult. “Liberal” is almost a curse word, and was thought of as such among the left years before it came to have that status anywhere else. “Conservative” is a title often claimed but very rarely earned. Trying to clarify what group is advancing what position, I use words like “religious right,” “far right,” and so on in dif- ferent combinations. Toward this end, I do use the terms “conservative” and “liberal.” I really am trying to represent a group that I have no feeling for collectively, but whose central ideas are somewhat subscribed to in general. I am way too wordy and add on the qualifiers in an attempt to be more specific, though often the effect is just the opposite. But I do iden- tify political groups; by rearranging a very few words, I participate in this pejorative process. I try to stay away from “reactionary” and “fascist” - words that are more loaded - but also use them on occasion. But I hope I rarely am so extreme as, to quote from one of last week’s poems, “Mortally reprehensible - Neoleftist Utopians, moral-Relativist Marxists, suicidal pacifist, chic anarchists/ Mired in the fever swamp of pathological naivete” - where the point is to dispute one’s argument by generously lumping one in among everyone with whom the writer disagrees. Interestingly, all this additional name-call- ing has been politically related, as the reli- gious moral community - obsessed with patriotism and values - finds labeling those they disagree with not only trivializing and dismissive but frequently linguistically plea- surable. Just read the ways in which they pile labels, name-calling, and loaded phrases on top of each. During the brief period we had The Austin Chronicle Hour on the radio, I suggested that even those who disagreed with Dixie Chick Natalie Maines’ one sentence on Bush should be concerned at the conscious and concerted effort to shut her up. The common take was “Sure, I believe in freedom of speech, but you have to be aware that there can be con- sequences.” In this case, what I was object- ing to was the widespread effort to shut the group up and stop them from saying things with which other Americans don’t agree. As the flames were relentlessly fanned, this reaction was far in excess of anything reason- able. Those fanning were not only aware that this explosive reaction might well discourage other people from speaking their minds, but were hoping it would do so. One caller to the show argued that, as a lefty, I must have supported boycotts. Economic boycotts are a political tool of which I’ve always been suspicious, especially when used by the left. There are boycotts that are designed to shut down speech (and any shouting down of any speaker by any- one, regardless of ideology, is reprehensible). Other boycotts are designed to attack policies of companies and governments. I really support neither, but am more sym- pathetic to the latter. When I was young, my parents had friends whose lives were affected by the Fifties’ capri- cious, anti-Communist blacklisting (includ- ing my mother’s cousin Eli Friedland and his wife, Doris, both well-known in certain Austin circles). The first time I was urged to boycott by leftists, it was an action against Welch’s mints - a candy bar manufactured by James Welch, brother of Robert Welch, who founded both the candy company and later the John Birch Society. By 1956, Robert had sold all his interests in the company, but lefties were concerned that some of the candy money was being channeled to him and the society. I asked how a boycott based on ideas one disagreed with was different from blacklisting one with whom you disagreed. It’s a question I’ve kept asking. The caller called me a liar and hung up. He knew my beliefs better than I did. Next week: Part II: Names I’ve Been Called and Why ■ POSTMARKS Article Wrong About FQHCs Dear Editor, Your cover story, “The New Texas Family Planning” by Jordan Smith [News], in the Jan. 27 Austin Chronicle, was factually incorrect and mis- leading in regards to your references to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQFICs) and the role they play in providing comprehensive health care services to women. Community health centers (CFICs), also known as FQHCs, do not want to be caught up in any political fight between Planned Parenthood and state policymakers. CHCs are the little guy in the health care safety net who provide comprehensive health care services to the most vulnerable in our state. Your article states that “FQHCs have only been in existence since 1989” and implies that CHCs have never provided family-planning services before 2006. In fact, the CHC program has been around since the 1960s as one of the original War on Poverty programs. Last year, health centers in Texas provided primary care services, including family-planning services, to more than 560,000 patients who were predomi- nately uninsured, working poor. Approximately 67% of our patients are women of child-bearing age and children, 60% are uninsured, and more than 86% live in poverty. Since the inception of the CHC program, we have always provided family-planning services in addition to other primary health care ser- vices, mental health services, and dental care to predominately uninsured and low-income families. In fact, some health centers in Texas were originally family planning programs that became FQHCs in order to meet the needs of their patients. To imply that the provision of a wide range of health care services, in addition to family planning, is a bad thing and to insinu- ate that only “family planning specialists” at Planned Parenthood clinics are qualified to offer these services is insulting to the medical pro- fessionals who work in health centers and out of touch with reality and the needs of women in the state. Even simple facts regarding FQHCs were misstated. For example, the article states that there are only “40 health centers” in the state and that this small group of providers is taking all the family-planning funding. In reality, there continued on p.8 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR must be signed with full name and include daytime phone number, full address, or e-mail address. Letters should be no longer than 300 words. We reserve the right to edit all submissions. Letters may not be edited, added to, or changed by sender once we receive them. 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It will be no surprise that the Chronicle is endorsing Donna Howard in the run-off, as we did in the original vote, but let’s take a moment to rehearse the reasons. As we’ve said, Howard has been a school board member and a critical-care nurse, and has made education and health care the dominant issues of her campaign, which has been immediately visible and effective. She understands the predicament of the current school-finance system, its specific, often contradictory effects in her district and in Central Texas as a whole, and she will be an immediate asset to the regional delegation as well as to the Democratic minor- ity in the House. More surprisingly, Howard’s dominance in the initial vote confirms her effec- tiveness as a campaigner, and also suggests that local Democrats are energized by her candidacy as well as by the possibility of making a visible difference at the Lege. By contrast, Bentzin has become a less effective and less accessible cam- paigner in his second run for office, the inevi- table consequence of his blatant submission to state Republican priorities. Howard should have won the initial vote out- right, but thanks to quirky Dems - you know who you are - failed to gamer the 73 additional votes for a majority. Now’s your chance to make amends - get out there, vote for Donna Howard, and make a visible difference at the Capitol. POSTMARKS :: FROM P.6 ELECTION DAY Tuesday, February 14 For election day locations, go to www.co.travis.tx.us/county_clerk/election or call 238-VOTE. EARLY VOTING Monday-Friday, Feb. 6-10; 7am-7pm except as noted CENTRAL: Travis Co. Tax Office, 5501 Airport NORTH: Randalls, 10900-D Research @ Braker WEST: Randalls, 3300 Bee Caves Rd. 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Health centers did not “take” this funding from Planned Parenthood. In fact, they continue to receive a larger proportion of these funds than CHCs even with the Deuell rider in place. It is also important to point out that in distributing these family-planning funds, DSHS engaged contractors in a competitive process and made these awards based on the quality of the proposal and allocated funding based on a need criteria determined by the state, as is required in the Deuell rider. This rider does not guarantee that health centers will automatically get funded. Although health centers did fare better in this process than in past years, nothing was handed to them. They competed like everyone else. Finally, it should also be stressed that state and federal funding for women’s health services, including family-planning services, is inadequate to meet the needs of women in the state. It is important to note that the overall funding for fam- ily-planning services was cut by 31.2% for these services. Therefore, many of the cuts experi- enced by family-planning providers, including both Planned Parenthood clinics and FQHCs, had noth- ing to do with the appropriations rider, but rather an overall reduction in funding for state family planning services. The interests of the community and the patients FQHCs serve are at the forefront of our activities. 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Rather ; he builds an argu- ment for inaccuracy based on what he asserts that I “implied’’ in the story - even inventing quotations that do not appear there - rather than on the substantive facts and a plain reading of the article. For example , Camacho is technically correct , in stating that some form of the FQHCs have been around since the Sixties. However ; the contemporary clinics are the product of the most recent reconfiguration , which began in 1989. The precise current numbers of clinics vs. “sites" only reinforce the larger argument about the state’s cutbacks in health care. I adamantly agree with Camacho that overall federal and state fund- ing for health care , and certainly for women’s health care , should be increased. But to write that the Chronicle somehow missed an opportunity to make that point makes me wonder whether Camacho actually read the story with which he so bombastically takes issue.] Austin's Largest Bead Store 2041 S. Lamar (Lamar & Oiiorf) 512.693.eeAD Cover Is a Desecration Dear Editor, You did a huge disservice to pro-choice Christians everywhere with the photo featured on the front page [“The New Texas Family Planning,” News, Jan. 27]. Shame on you for “throwing the baby out with the bath water” and grouping all Christians in the same right-wing boat. A little more restraint might be in order next time! Seriously offensive! Also, what is the difference between the desecration of the Koran by U.S. troops in Iraq and your depiction of the Bible on your cover story? Tara Fink Cover Downright Offensive Dear Editor, I, my husband, my 3-year-old daughter, and my 6-year-old son just returned from Culver’s where our children enjoy burgers and ice cream. I was dis- gusted as I walked in the restaurant door to imme- diately see the image of a woman with her bare legs spread open on an examining table, feet in stirrups, and a Family Edition Holy Bible in front of her genital area [“The New Texas Family Planning,” News, Jan. 27]. I immediately turned it over in hopes that my children had not seen it. I then told the manager with that kind of welcome, I wouldn’t want to continue eating there and I wouldn’t be surprised if other families wouldn’t either. I will tell you, until tonight I consulted your paper for restau- rants, movies, and ideas for outings. Flowever, I just lost every ounce of interest or respect for your paper. I don’t care what your politics or beliefs are, your cover photo was downright offensive and disrespectful to women, to families, to Christians, to anyone with small children, to medical profes- sionals, and more. Should businesses continue distributing your paper or advertise in it given its total disregard for their mainstream customers? Michelle Earle Pathetic Excuse for Journalism Dear Editor, Your cover photo of a spread-eagled woman with a Holy Bible shoved into her crotch is the most vile, disgusting, and pathetic excuse for journalism I have seen in a long time [“The New Texas Family Planning,” News, Jan. 27]. It is one thing to express a political opinion in favor of abortion and against government sex education policies. It is quite another to promote the desecration of sacred objects as you did. Why is it only Christians that may be dispar- aged and attacked with impunity? You would never desecrate a Koran or Torah in such a way, and this speaks volumes about your bigotry. You have reached new lows in cheap politi- cal stunts and you now, more than ever, do not deserve the title of journalists. Scott Spinola Wondering if Advertisers Were Offended Dear Editor, Re: This week’s cover picture [“The New Texas Family Planning,” News, Jan. 27]: OK, I get it. I see the symbolism. I’m sure you knew it would be controversial. Maybe even distasteful? I won- der if it were the Koran, would Islamic people be offended? To see their holy spiritual book in such a “compromising” position might be considered desecration. I wonder if any advertisers or poten- tial advertisers feel that way. Just wondering. Jeff Farris Cover Indicative of 'Chronicle' Take on Women Dear Editor, I wanted to thank you for your story “The New Texas Family Planning” [News, Jan. 27]. People on both sides of the abortion debate seem unable or unwilling to accept that there is more to women’s health than having an abortion. From the very poor to the very wealthy, none of us are safe from ideologue doctors, legislators, and of course the Christian fringe. I’m insured, partnered, and have access to “good health care.” All that privilege did not pro- tect me from a local obstetrician who neglected to inform me of potential health hazards or treat me after I miscarried. His advice, “You’re fine. To avoid further problems, you need to practice abstinence and get married.” Several weeks later, after a visit to my regular physician, I had to undergo an emergency D&C. The local obstetrician didn’t “offer” that par- ticular service, even if my life depended on it. Because of mandatory state regulations, I had to endure a waiting period and was forced to listen to a tape about alternatives to abortion. Finally, my regular doctor had to convince my insurance company that I was not having “elec- tive surgery.” There are so many things that I hate about this episode in my life. The local obstetrician I trusted with my first attempt to have a child couldn’t find room in his big, Christian heart for me after he figured out that I’d miscarried and I wasn’t married. He didn’t bother to tell me I might need further medical attention. I hate that I had to wait to receive a procedure necessary to preserve my health, as if I had a choice whether or not to continue a pregnancy that had sadly already ended. I hate that the insurance com- pany needed to be convinced that my life was worth the years of premiums paid to them. I tell you all of this because I want you to understand just why I hate the picture you put on the cover this week. If you want to capture just what’s so fucking wrong about women’s health continued on p.12 Romance on the Rails Treat your sweetheart to a ride on a vintage train. The Austin Steam Train’s Sweetheart Special departs from Cedar Park for a two-hour Hill Country cruise at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. 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Kate Thornberry’s review of Nu Age Cafe [“Revelatory Vegan,” Food, Jan. 27] praised the restaurant’s house-made ketchup as having a taste “so delicious it would convert the snooti- est Frenchman into admitting that ketchup is a respectable sauce.” Why, for goodness sakes, in a city that prides itself on being open-minded and politically correct, would a writer slam a whole country’s citizens with such a derogatory, unsubstantiated, and unnecessary stereotype? I doubt the Chronicle would run a story that referred to the “laziest” person of some race, or the most “fanatic” person of a particular reli- gion, or the most “emotional” woman. Why pick on the French? I honestly don’t believe Kate meant to be offensive. It’s just that all of us have learned to be careful in our speech regarding such groups as women, Hispanics, and African-Americans (all of whom are prevalent in Austin), but when a group is not so much in our faces, we tend to lose our sensitivity regarding their existence and feelings. Maybe I am the one who is a little sensitive because I’m married to a Frenchman (who is not remotely snooty). But I still think all of us can benefit from thinking twice before stereotyping any race, religion, gender, or nation, so let’s please do so. Judy Osborn Sarcastic Reaction Dear Editor, Thank goodness for Belinda Acosta! In her Jan. 20 “TV Eye” column [Screens] I discovered that if not for her eternal vigilance, thousands of dull-witted Austinites like me would never have known what a jaded, sexist, and racist waste of time roller derby was. I could have sworn it’s a great entertainment and sporting event. I feel so used. I can’t believe that after three years of regular attendance I haven’t caught on. It’s a relief to know that Ms. Acosta, by never saying she actually went to any roller derby bouts, was “not drawn in” by the same mistakes I’ve made. I guess it’s true that age brings wisdom. I’m silly. I thought that if women created and ran their own organization responsible for a nationwide revival of roller derby as well as uti- lizing an old-school banked track which requires much more athleticism and skill, they had really accomplished something. What a dope. I want to respect my elders, but Ms. Acosta’s petty personal attacks on virtually every aspect of the TXRD operation really conjure up some negative stereotypes of women bashing women. And isn’t the classic definition of “Austin cool” putting down something other people enjoy? Who knows, as I get older maybe I’ll end up agreeing with Ms. Acosta that it’s really easier just to stay home and watch TV. 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If council approves of the choice during today's (Thursday's) meeting, Adame, who has served in the Corpus Christi Fire Deptartment for more than 30 years, and has held the top spot there for the last 18 years, will take over as AFD's leader on Feb. 6. FIRE PCP" I Quote ^ of the WEEK “I never once doubted that if people stayed at the table and continued to negotiate in good faith there would be an outcome that met the needs of this community. ... If I did only one thing in this process, it was to make sure that we left no stone unturned in the final hours of these negotiations.” HEADLINES Early voting in the House District 48 run- off special election runs this Monday through Friday, Feb. 10, as Democrat Donna Howard and Republican Ben Bentzin vie to fill the vacancy left by Todd Baxter. For more info on the candidates and early voting, see p.8, or www.benbentzin.com and www.votedonna.com. And strangely enough, U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay will mark the first day of early voting with an appearance in Austin to drum up cash for his re-election effort. After a late-night intervention by Mayor Wynn, a scheduled Monday strike was averted at Capital Metro, with a contract settlement between Cap Metro contractor StarTran and Local 1091 of the Amalga- mated Transit Union. See p.18, and “Point Austin,” right. The parents of Daniel Rocha, who was shot and killed last June during a traffic/ drug stop by APD Officer Julie Schroeder, have filed a federal lawsuit against the city, charging excessive force and racial discrimi- nation. Schroeder was dismissed by the APD for her actions, and her partner, Sgt. Don Doyle, was disciplined, but neither offi- cer was indicted by a Travis Co. grand jury that reviewed the incident. UT-Austin President Larry Faulkner stepped down Tuesday after eight years running the 50,000-student university; he will move on to become president of a charitable founda- tion, the Houston Endowment. - Mayor Will Wynn, following his successful intervention in the contract negotiations between Capital Metro, StarTran, and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1091. President Bush delivered his State of the Union message to Congress Tuesday night, congratulated his new Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, described the War on Terrorism as proceeding according to plan, and declared the future so bright he has to wear shades. NAKED CITY Late last week, Travis Co. DA Ronnie Earle announced that Nebraska-based Bonding and Technical Services of Texas pled guilty, under a plea bargain, to five counts of making illegal corpo- rate contributions to City Council and other candidates in 2001- 2003. The company, hired by the city of Austin to give bonding help to small, minority, and women-owned businesses, illegally reim- bursed employees for contributions totaling more than $10,000 to 11 area candidates in all, including several members still sitting on the Austin City Council. Earle’s press release says the candidates (including Kirk Watson, Gus Garcia, and Will Wynn) were unaware of the source of the contributions and their illegality. District Judge Jon Wisser levied the maximum penalty against the group: $20,000 for each of the five counts. - Wells Dunbar Following the resounding defeat of Proposition 2 in Austin (and its resounding success everywhere else statewide), City Council Member Brewster McCracken is floating the idea of domestic partner bene- fits for city employees. The charter amendment, which is hoped to appear on the May ballot, would follow Travis County’s lead; it current- ly offers the option of adding a member of an employee’s household to its health care plan. In 1993, council approved domestic benefits for city employees, but following a conservative campaign against the measure, the decision was later overturned at the polls. - W.D. Those endless blue skies over Austin have done a lot more damage than wilting your pansies: The Barton Springs segment of the Edwards Aquifer is officially in an “alarm stage” drought. With a dozen-inch rainfall deficit in 2005, the springs were flowing at half their normal level as of January. Many entities with permits to draw water from the aquifer must now implement their drought contingen- cy plans, which cut usage 20%. Many individual well owners are exempt from such mandatory plans, but the Barton Springs/ Edwards Aquifer Conservation District encourages voluntary conservation measures. For more info, visit www.bseacd.org. - Rachel Proctor May A jury in federal district court has ruled that the city of Austin is not liable for the 2002 police-shooting death of Sophia King. King’s aunt, Velma Pickens, sued the city on behalf of King’s two children, arguing that the city had discriminated against King, who was schizophrenic, by failing to provide her with mental health services that could have saved her life. APD Officer John Coffey fatally shot King as she threatened to kill a city housing authority employee with a knife. The incident faced exhaustive review - by the APD, FBI, and continued on p. 17 Are Unions? Give a hand to those Cap Metro workers who fought for you and me BY MICHAEL KING Bus drivers, bus riders, or just bus sympa- thizers, we can all breathe a sigh of relief at the llth-hour settlement of the pending strike by Cap Metro employees. However long it would have lasted, it would have been a major black eye to the transit authority and a worse finan- cial blow to the workers, who were already taking hits imposed by management as of Jan. 1. From the narrowest perspective, the union settled for perhaps less than they could have won outright with a strike, but a strike costs them more and risks them more than anyone else, so they need to make that decision for themselves. Unfortunately for all concerned, the decision may come around again all too soon - the new contract expires in about 18 months, with negotiations expected to begin early next year, so unless the combative atmo- sphere (or strategy) diminishes in the mean- time, we can expect those talks to proceed in suspicion if not hostility. We’ll see. The available backstory on the prolonged negotiations and settlement is also intriguing. For months, Cap Metro management and its board insisted that the matter was entirely in the hands of its contractor, StarTran. (Some of this cosmetic dumb-show may be necessary, for legal reasons, because of the frankly oppres- sive anti-union laws in Texas, whose majority legislators would be right at home in one-party, company union Beijing.) There were intermit- tent charades at board meetings to the effect that all the members could do was wring their hands and make sympathetic noises. In recent weeks, the prospect of upcoming elections seemed to stiffen the spines of a few candi- dates, and suddenly the board buzz became “This has gone far enough” and “something needs to be done.” Most enigmatic of all was phantom board Chair Lee Walker - aha “the Ghost Who Walks” - who regally avoided questions on the subject for weeks, then suddenly materialized at one decisive end of Mayor Wynn’s shuttle diplomacy late Sunday night. Despite the offi- cial position of everyone concerned, through- out the negotiations reporters were told, invari- ably off the record, “There will be a settlement when Walker wants a settlement.” Some of this cynicism is no doubt due to cargo-cult defer- ence to Walker’s cyber-millions, but it is obvi- ously true enough that Wynn knew whose cell phone to jangle. Kudos to the mayor for that political insight, and since both sides are giving him full credit for mediating a deal, who are we to say any- thing but, good on you? continued on p. 16 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 15 news :: POINT AUSTIN :: FROM P.15 Who Will Build Your Rail? The deal itself seems very mixed, although the conventional wisdom is that to the extent both parties are unhappy, a contract is probably a decent compro- mise. Much of the management lament concerns rising health care costs - hardly a surprise to any sentient American citi- zen - and the company did get some concessions on both co-pays and eventu- ally premiums, but not the dramatic changes it initially wanted. Current work- ers got moderate (3% in each year) raises, but they came partly at the expense of future employees, who will have their initial earnings cut from 75% of the top wage (about $40,000 straight time) to 60% ($24,000 a year), not an insignifi- cant blow to a young worker trying to support a family. That one stung, acknowledged union President Jay Wyatt, but it was accepted subject to the management concession that those new workers would still even- tually reach the top rate, albeit in five years instead of four. That may seem arcane or picayune to outsiders, but it maintains a crucial union principle, of broader solidarity - the current members were willing to risk their jobs over not simply their own financial security, but on behalf of workers who are not even on the job yet. It should go abundantly with- out saying that these are not wealthy people, and in their work they serve pri- marily workers much like themselves - on whom it should not be lost that in holding their ground against the union- busting, “two-tier” wage system manage- ment sought, the union stood up for every working person in town. Good on them, too. Contrast that with Cap Metro’s now institutional position that in order to build its ambitious commuter rail system, which (however a practical necessity) is essentially another state subsidy to sub- urban developers, suburban commuters, and suburban Republican politicians, it is willing to cut financial corners on its inner-city and mostly minority employ- ees. We don’t know how that argument will come down to the voters over the next couple of years, but is it any wonder that the working people on the short end of that public project stick are now declaring proudly, “Kill Rail!” They Call It Democracy But beyond all these economic argu- ments, there should be one thing per- fectly clear. If it weren’t for the union - and the indispensable right to strike - Cap Metro/StarTran would have been able to impose a contract at its managerial whim, to subject its employees to what- ever terms of work and wages it deems agreeable, and to fire anybody who might have the temerity to object. The other day, the Statesman led its “strike-loom- ing” story with the predicament of a would-be scab, supposedly caught in the middle between labor and management. Will that woeful man, who turned his back on his fellow workers, now turn down the raises they won with their com- mon courage? Or will he finally see the light, and decide which side he’s on? It’s a question likely to be asked again of all of us in another year or so. The answer rests not, primarily, on specific economic issues, but on the much more fundamental question whether working people have a right to an effective say over the decisions that most directly affect their lives. Democracy is not about peri- odic elections, when we’re minimally allowed to ratify the political arrange- ments mostly employed to reinforce the economic arrangements that rule us. Democracy is about taking power over our own institutions, which we have built with our own hands and hearts. The cou- rageous members of ATU Local 1091 have proved once again that unions are central to that ongoing struggle. ■ The union members were willing to risk their jobs over not simply their own financial security, but on behalf of workers who are not even on the job yet. BESIDE THE POINT: SEWAGE FLOWS DOWNHILL As advertised, last week’s City Council meeting took place at the usual venue, 301 W. Second, and not in an alternate reality where Danny Thomas is already mayor. But even if it had unfurled on that astral plane, the situation would still run a distant second to the controversy that came to the fore that morning. With the Mayor Pro Tern actually presiding over the dais in Mayor Will Wynn’s absence - the latter was plugging plug-in hybrid vehicles at the U.S Conference of Mayors in D.C. - approval of the standard laundry list of initiatives called the con- sent agenda was delayed by a speaker on Item 23, to approve $4.2 million for the Downtown Wastewater Tunnel project. Former Austin Clean Water Program director Bill Moriarty, whose lawsuit against the city has him in the mid- dle of a spreading sewage stain, used his six min- utes to rehearse highlights of his lawsuit against City Manager Toby Futrell, Deputy City Manager Joe Canales, and Council Member Brewster McCracken - alleging that Futrell and Canales, pressured by a self-dealing network of contractors and abetted by McCracken, forced him from his job. On the subject at hand, Moriarty blamed roughly the same cabal for the wastewater proj- ect’s delay, enabling potentially deadly water con- tamination at Town Lake. Moriarty took credit for reviving the tunnel plan, calling it one of the reasons for his ousting by the city, via contractor Earth Tech. “Because this proj- ect is now only starting,” he said, “it guarantees that the city will suffer several more years of raw sewage being dumped within a few hundred feet of the intake of the Green Water Treatment Plant.” Intermittent overloads of the current system dump sewage in Town Lake; should any of that pollution enter the Green water uptake, Moriarty warned, it would create the possibility of a Cryptosporidium outbreak - a microscopic parasite that sickened many people in a 1998 spill at Brushy Creek, and more alarmingly, was responsible for more than 100 deaths in a 1993 outbreak in Milwaukee. “City council has been either misled or not proper- ly informed as to the seriousness of the situation in Town Lake and the quality of the drinking water,” Moriarty insisted. “Because of the city manager’s lack of attention,” he said, “the city is exposing water consumers to a potentially deadly disease.” That Downtown’s drainage infrastructure is over- loaded is no secret: The city is under orders from the EPA to overhaul its sewers by 2009. But a doubting Thomas called on several speakers to refute Moriarty, in a rivetingly wonky discussion of the city’s anti-crypto measures. Canales (sitting in briefly for Futrell) rejected Moriarty’s charge that a good-ol’ contractors network delayed the tunnel. “If there were any delays,” he said, “they were attributed primarily to investigating concerns and allegations that were brought to our attention” - obliquely referencing the third of three city investi- gations into Moriarty (which ended, finally, in his dismissal). Open Question of the Week: Who clogged the pipeline? Mayoral aide Matt Curtis advises bringing (discreet) snacks to today’s Thursday meeting, because it’ll be a good one. Or at least a long one. Despite a short list of council items (high- lighted by the so-called McMansion ordinance; see Naked City, facing page), and otherwise slight roster, three substantive briefings are scheduled for 2pm, including the belated, ballyhooed presen- tation of the Bond Election Advisory Commit- tee’s recommendations. The BEAC has not been shy about pushing for a May election, but the mayor’s office - still looking to squeeze Flighway 130 infrastructure in some- where - is increasingly floating the likelihood of a delay until November. The bond presentation is sandwiched between the first annual report from the Mayor’s Mental Health Task Force Monitor ing Committee (Godspeed) and a briefing on the city’s new Regional Water Quality Protection Plan (ditto). The action is sure to continue at 6pm, when several “Seaholm District Items” come up for approval. “Gables District Items” would be more precise, as the ordinances relate to Downtown’s latest controversial condo development, the Gables Park Plaza, to be nestled between Lamar and the Pfluger pedestrian bridge on Cesar Chavez. Not incidentally, the Gables come up for rezoning at 4pm, while the 6pm items concern pro- posed road realignment and public improvements and financial agreements with the latest would-be purveyors of luxury suites. The current form of the Gables deal will be opposed by a coalition of envi- ronmental and neighborhood groups, who call it a discount giveaway of public funds to private inter- ests that will neglect affordable housing while fur- ther fouling the Town Lake waterfront. Watch out for an overflow. - Wells Dunbar Come experience our no haggle “pure price” purchase process. Vehicle starts well equipped. You accessorize [or not]. Simple, straightforward menu pricing. CHARLES MAUND SCION Largest Scion showroom in Central Texas 8400 Research 458-2222 www.charlesmaundscion.com 16 | THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 | austinchronicle.com AUSTIN STORIES :: FROM P.15 a city-hired independent investigator - and Coffey was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing. At issue in this trial was whether another officer, Eric Kilcollins, should have called in APD mental health officers to assess King’s mental state the night before her death after he arrived at her apartment in response to a noise complaint. King had a history of run-ins with the police and had been committed to the Austin State Hospital less than a year before. When Kilcollins asked King to turn down the music in her apartment, she comment- ed that “they” were “out to get me” and threatened to kill someone, reports the American-Statesman. Kilcollins left but soon returned in response to a second noise complaint: King made “strange comments,” the daily reports, but Kilcollins again left without calling for a mental health officer who could evaluate King’s mental state. Kilcollins told the jury he was given no informa- tion about King’s history before he arrived at her apartment, and he consid- ered her comments nothing more than the kind of “idle threats” he’s heard while on patrol. Perkins’ lawyer, Scott Ozmun, said the family will consider appealing the case to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. - Jordan Smith BFI Waste Systems, which operates the Sunset Farms landfill in Northeast Travis Co. near U.S. 290 and Giles Lane, has joined its next door neighbor, the Waste Management of Texas Inc. Austin community landfill, in applying to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for a permit to make sig- nificant vertical expansions. WM’s application is administratively complete and awaits TCEQ review, and BFI’s will likely be on the books as well by the time the agency completes the major rewrite of its municipal solid waste rules now taking place. So both sites will be exempt from any rule changes. And some of the new rules apply to landfill expansions, mandating that expanded areas sit atop protective liners that meet current code or that operators demonstrate safeguards showing that pollution won’t take place. Both sites sit atop unlined trash cells and have been grandfathered to oper- ate under current law. BFI representatives maintain that they’re running out of space, which may be true. However, fed up neighbors and environmental opposition argue that there’s no shortage of landfill space in the region, and that the sites’ track record of repeated odor complaints, flooding, and wind- blown trash should preclude them from expansion permits. - Daniel Mottola At last Thursday’s City Council meeting it was McCracken vs. McMansions. A resolution initiating changes to city code to ensure that development is consistent with existing neighborhoods, sponsored by McCracken, passed unanimously. Council is set to vote on similar interim rules at tonight’s meet- ing to quell a perceived influx of building permits before the so-called McMansion ordinance is finalized in March. Materials accompanying the pro- posed measure state that “due to an increase in property values and the desire to live in Austin’s central city area, many property owners are demol- ishing or moving smaller older homes and replacing them with larger homes known as McMansions.” The new ordinance would seek to regulate such constructions by employing any number of the following methods: changing the maximum allowed building height for single-family uses, creating a new floor-to-area ratio (meaning the ratio of building square footage to lot size), applying compatibility standards to new homes or remodeled homes with significant additions, revising building setbacks for homes exceeding a cer- tain size, limiting home size based on the average size of nearby homes, or providing an angled stepback from the front property line of the lot so a new or remodeled home would not tower over the adjacent street. - D.M. Austin Police are asking for public assistance in their hunt to find out who is responsible for a rash of random tire slashings around Central Austin. Since October, police have received 29 reports of slashed or punctured tires in the area between Guadalupe and 1-35, from UT to 45th. A single suspect, 51-year-old Tommy Joe Kelley, was arrested in November after police got a call from someone who said they saw him slashing tires near the 600 block of Franklin. Kelley was charged with criminal mischief, a Class B misdemean- or (punishable by up to 180 days in jail and/or a $2,000 fine), but since then, police say, the slashings - on both older and newer cars parked on the street, in residential driveways, and in parking lots - have continued. -J.S. About 100 teachers and parents attended a forum at Porter Middle School to discuss AISD’s plans to “repurpose” the underenrolled South Austin school. Under the plan, neighborhood middle school students would attend Covington and Bedichek starting in 2007, at which point the Porter facility would be used to launch two new “concept” high schools. The two concepts currently on the table are for a young women’s school and a “global” institute providing advanced language study; but Superintendent Pat Forgione said other small concept schools could be considered. Unlike a similar forum at Becker Elementary, the response was decidedly mixed: While a few parents had all the fiery rhetoric of a public school parent scorned, others were cautiously optimistic. For the ump- teenth time since the proposal was suddenly announced in mid-January, AISD also heard loud and clear that the district could have done a much better job of soliciting parent input before presenting a concrete proposal. - R.P.M. Twenty-one-year-old Lacresha Murray - who was twice tried for the 1996 murder of 2V2-year-old Jayla Belton - was arrested late last week on charges that she assaulted a female roommate. In 1996, 11-year-old Murray became the youngest person ever tried for capital murder; she was twice convicted before Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals in 1999 tossed the conviction, ruling that Austin police circumvented the state’s family law code, coercing Murray into confessing. Murray allegedly pulled her roommate’s hair and kicked her in the knee after the roommate told Murray that she was moving out. The assault charge is a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and/or a $4,000 fine. - J.S. BEYOND CITY LIMITS Recent news reports linking Ben Bentzin’s 2002 state Senate campaign to indicted political consultant John Colyandro has prompted a complaint to the Travis Co. district attorney. In the complaint filed last Thursday, Kenneth Flippin, a grad student at the LBJ School of Public Policy, asks DA Ronnie Earle to investigate possible campaign finance violations, and to investigate whether Colyandro committed perjury by not disclosing in a deposition that he was a paid consultant to the Bentzin campaign while also heading up U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay’s Texans for a Republican Majority and helping the Texas Association of Business strategize on campaign mail- ers for various legislative candidates, including Bentzin. Flippin also ques- tions whether this constitutes illegal coordination between political cam- paigns, and notes that Bentzin did not report his campaign expenditures to Colyandro, although the statute of limitations may have already expired on that point, which would preclude a criminal investigation. Earlier this month, Bentzin told the Statesman that Colyandro had suggested paying him through the printer hired to produce his campaign materials. Colyandro, DeLay, and Jim Ellis face money-laundering charges in connection with their efforts during the 2002 election cycle. The DA’s office is not expected to address the complaint until after the Feb. 14 run-off election between Bentzin and Donna Howard. - Amy Smith Texas hit an unfortunate benchmark last week: The death of 28-year-old Air Force Staff Sgt. Brian McElroy, a native of San Antonio, was the state’s 200th military fatality of the war in Iraq. He died on a convoy mission Sunday, Jan. 22, when his armored Humvee hit a roadside bomb north of Baghdad. Not since Vietnam had the Air Force conducted convoy security, but in 2004 it launched the Basic Combat Convoy program, or BC3, to help out the overburdened Army and Marine Corps. McElroy completed BC3 train- ing this summer just outside of his home town, at Lackland Air Force Base, and he arrived in Iraq last November. - Nora Ankrum Annie’s List - a statewide Democratic fundraising committee that sup- ports women candidates - has taken on new leadership this month as it seeks to redirect more of its resources to pro-choice hopefuls while rein- ing in what appear to have been some lavish spending habits in the last year. Director Sherry Boyles has left the 3-year-old organization to pursue new opportunities in Dallas; her successor is Kelly White, who led Austin SafePlace for 11 years before mounting a bid for state representative in 2004, and has been serving as campaign treasurer for House District 48 candidate Donna Howard. Boyles co-founded Annie’s List with former state Rep. Ann Kitchen in 2003; Kitchen and some other original members left the group the following year. Political newsletter Texas Weekly calculates that the PAC spent 81% of the $325,000 it raised in 2005, even though it was an off-election year. Of that amount, Boyles was paid $81,400 in con- sulting and management fees and bonuses. Travel costs totalled $23,476, while restaurant and catering tabs tallied $29,384. According to sources close to the organization, White was brought in to return the PAC to its original mission of helping Texas women win elections by running effective campaigns, much like Emily’s List, the national committee that served as a model for it. Annie’s List has also opened a new office at 703 W. Ninth. - A.S. Protesting Gov. Perry’s recent executive order calling for the fast-track permitting of seven new Texas coal power plants, Public Citizen; SEED Coalition; the Sierra Club; Blue Skies Alliance; Austin Physicians for Social Responsibility; TPOWER; Texas Black Bass Unlimited; and Our Land, Our Lives are calling on Perry to “protect people, not polluters,” by restoring the permit timeliness and requiring the cleanest technology available. Already, the groups argue, particulate pollution from coal plants causes 1,160 premature deaths per year in Texas. Texas has the nation’s worst mercury emissions from coal facilities, and, in turn, 12 bodies of water, including major fishing lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, are so contaminated that it isn’t safe to eat some species of fish. One new proposed site, TXU’s Robertson Co. lignite-burning plant, would be the worst in the nation for mercury, even from the very start, the groups claim. On Tuesday at 10:30am, the groups kick off their Toxic Texas Power Plant Tour with a press conference at the Governor’s Mansion, then take to five Texas cities their message that “more coal means more asthma and emergency room visits, more acid rain, global warming and toxic laden fish.” For more info, see www.stopthecoalplant.org. - D.M. Imagine a huge hotel and conference center overlooking Barton Springs Pool. At Aquarena Springs, a former amusement park now owned by Texas State University - home to San Marcos Springs, which gushes 150 million-300 mil- lion gallons of water daily - such a fate was averted last week when an adja- cent 251-acre tract known as Spring Lake, including sensitive undeveloped lands in the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone, was secured as a nature pre- serve and park. The city of San Marcos, Hays County, Texas State University, and the Nature Conservancy banded together to buy the land from San Marcos developer T.P Gilmore for $4.8 million. 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Cap Metro spokeswoman Andrea Lofye said the parties reached an agreement about 2am Monday morning. “We owe Mayor Wynn a great debt of gratitude,” said Lofye, “for his involve- ment with both parties.” Following an impasse at about 7pm, and an invitation from union president Jay Wyatt, “Wynn worked to bring both parties back to negotiations,” Lofye said. According to both union and management spokespeople, changes to employees’ health care benefits were the biggest obstacle to a settlement. StarTran had proposed a $5 co- pay increase followed by another $5 bump the following year, unacceptable to the union - in the end, the two sides agreed on a $5 increase this year, no increase in the second year. Also, employee contributions to dependent health care premiums will rise 1% (to 11%) on the final day of the contract, thereby incorpo- rated into the following contract. Lofye also said a new retiree health program provides retiring employees $5,000 per year in health reimbursements. The two-year contract - retroactive to July 2005 - includes consecutive 3% annual raises. New drivers will now start at 60% of the top hourly wage, and take five years to reach top pay Qust over $19/hour); the former contract began at 75%, with a four-year progression. Although that initial cut represented a signifi- cant union concession, StarTran’s original pro- posal called for a two-tier system that would have prevented new hires from ever reaching the top wage rate of current employees. StarTran also agreed to reinstate an automat- ic union fee deduction (dues checkoff) from members’ paychecks, which was interrupted in October. Management had initially insisted it would not resume dues collection unless employees rejoined the union. “It’s the best thing for the commuters that there’s no interruption [of service],” Lofye said. Later, Wyatt agreed, telling reporters at a Monday afternoon press conference held at the local’s headquarters, “When you strike, it hurts the community, your employees, and your employer.” Wyatt blamed Capital Metro and StarTran for the protracted negotiations, and credited Mayor Wynn for ending the impasse. “The mayor talked to both parties,” Wyatt said. “He pretty much served as a mediator.” Wyatt noted wryly that “taxpayers Scenes like this - from a rally last September - were averted early Monday when Mayor Will Wynn helped broker a deal between the transit workers' union and StarTran, Capital Metro's largest contractor. paid almost half a million dollars [Wyatt’s esti- mate of fees to StarTran’s Houston attorney Jeff Londa] to not negotiate a contract,” when the disagreement was ultimately settled by Wynn, shuttling between union representa- tives and management, including Cap Metro board chair Lee Walker. “We’ve been in a long struggle, since April 19 [when negotiations began],” said Wyatt, adding that he was satisfied with the results of the settlement and would recommend passage by the membership. Of all the conces- sions 1091 made, he said, the lower wage scale for new employees troubled him the most. Asked if he anticipated greater difficulty organizing new members, Wyatt did predict “a little trouble in the beginning” but believes new employees will come to understand the union’s position. Later, Mayor Wynn told the Chronicle, “Although I’ve known from the beginning of my involve- ment in these negotiations that they would be difficult and that there would be a lot of brink- manship involved, I never once doubted that if people stayed at the table and continued to negotiate in good faith there would be an out- come that met the needs of this community. ... If I did only one thing in this process, it was to make sure that we left no stone unturned in the final hours of these negotiations.” Although Wyatt said he considers the settle- ment a victory for the union, there were signif- icant concessions on both sides. StarTran and Cap Metro won several cost-saving mea- sures, and the union won raises and fought off the threat of a two-tier system, which it considered an attempt to destroy employee solidarity. The abbreviated nature of the con- tract, down from three to two years (until July 2007), however, means that the parties could resume negotiations on a new contract as early as next February. It may take at least that long for hard feelings to subside. “Kill Rail” signs - which sparked a dispute when they appeared as bumper stick- ers on employee cars - remain posted on the walls of the union hall, trumpeting the union’s argument that current employees are being squeezed to pay for Cap Metro’s planned sub- urban commuter rail projects. Wyatt says it remains the union’s position to oppose rail and that he believes the transit authority’s resources would be better employed by improving the exist- ing system. 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Community Call for Denial of the Gables Development From Parks, Neighborhood, Environmental, and Housing Advocates The proposed Gables Development next to Seaholm is important to the Austin community because of its highly visible location along Town Lake Park. Town Lake is our community's ‘'central park/ providing significant natural, cultural, and recreational opportunities downtown. The undersigned individuals have differing desires and interests with respect to downtown development but all oppose the proposed Gables Development package, in its current form, for the following reasons. Objections to the Gables Development Package: 1 . Provides Public Parkland and Other Public Assets for Private Devel opment Without Adequate Public Compensation or Community Ben- efits 2. Requires Taxpayers to Pay Almost $ 1 ,5 Million for a Road for a Private Development Without Pioven Public "Need 3. Publicly Subsidizes Luxury Condominiums With No Provision For Affordable Housing Before acting on the Gables, the City should: 1 . Provide a Full Accounting of the Public Costs and Benefits of the Proposed Development 2. Include the Community in Negotiations and other Decision- Making that Impacts the Town Lake Master Plan 3. Require a Higher Standard of Community Benefits in City Develop- ment Agreement Negotiations 4. Fails to Respect Existing Community Plans Protecting the Town Lake Corridor And Derives From A Closed Process That Excluded The Com- munity Thu City Council Is scheduled to vote today (Thursday) on the Gables Development on Town Lake between Lamar and Seaholm which will use public parkland, millions in taxpayer money, and subsidize 400 luxury high-rise homes without any affordable housing. The public pays, but the developer benefits. Community Loaders Opposing the Current Gables Development Package Ken Altes Mary Arnold Karin Ascot Lorraine Atherton Rnner Raker Sarah Baker John Barkley Stew Beers Dale Bulla Bill Bunch Susan Caldwell PanelteChimenti Margot Clarice Robert Corbin Harold Daniel Ann Del Llano Michael DiLeo Cathy Echols Shudde Fath David foster Horado Gasquef Susan Gasquet Mark Gentle Carol Gibbs Jeff Jack Marguerite Jones Tim Jones William Jones Dick Kal lerrnan Bryan King Mark Kirkpatrick Mishell Kneeland Felicia KoogaWe Chris I ehman Kevin Lewis Bo McCarver Jean Mather Kirk Mitchell Laura Morrison Susan Pascoe Karen Pa UP Lori C-Renteria Bohby Rigney Ruby noa Brad Rockwell Mark Rogers Nancy Scan Ian Jean Stevens Pam Thom psnn Bnuld in Greet N:e r ghhorh nod Ass n Don na Tlema n n Old West Aus-ti n Neigblwrhood Ass'n Peter To rgrimson Steering Committee Roy Wal ey Save Our Sp ri ng s Al liange Cory Wa Itn n South River City Citizens Stefan Wrey Zi Iker Neighborh ood Association HTTP :// w w w jAu sti n Action .o rg/Pu b I ic pay s/ austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 19 news flow] was zero)?” Moriarty also argues that the city simply isn’t taking sufficient precau- tions to prevent a potentially serious outbreak of cryptosporidiosis, caused by an intestinal parasite found in sewage. “Wouldn’t any pru- dent individual have the drinking water tested for Cryptosporidium,” he asks, “before they made the statement that the drinking water was not contaminated? This [Green] water plant needs to be permanently closed before they kill someone.” Moriarty has been handing out a DVD on the subject, consisting primarily of a Court TV documentary recounting the 1993 Milwaukee outbreak of cryptosporidiosis that killed more than 100 people before the cause was found. It turned out that sewage dumped into Lake Michigan was being sucked up by Milwaukee’s drinking water intake - and because crypto- ACWP: High water everywhere It never rains but it pours. The old saw was true in Austin again last week, not only for brief but torrential Saturday rains - at about an inch in some neighbor- hoods, the first significant rainfall in weeks - but for the surging debate over the Downtown sewage system, which spilled over into City Council chambers Thursday as the council approved funding for the wastewater improve- ment program known as the Downtown Wastewater Tunnel project. Both systems were briefly at flood stage last week, as the Saturday rains backed up the Shoal Creek lift station near Cesar Chavez and Lamar, overflowing a nearby manhole with a combination of rainwater and sewage and sending thousands of gallons pouring into Town Lake. On the political levees, only two days before, ousted Austin Clean Water Program director Bill Moriarty had told the council that because of previous delay, “the city will suffer several more years of raw sew- age being dumped within a few hundred feet of the intake of the Green Water Treatment Plant, exposing hundreds of thousands of people to dreaded diseases conveyed through the drinking water supply.” Responded Deputy City Manager Joe Canales, “All of those con- cerns have been shared with the [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality] and the [Environmental Protection Agency], and they have assured us ... that the City of Austin Water Utility is doing every- thing it needs to be doing to be in compli- ance, if not exceeding the [water quality] stan- dards.” (See Beside the Point, p.16.) Like a hole in the roof, during drought peri- ods Austin’s massive sewage problem might not seem to require fixing. But Saturday’s sud- den storm, although not particularly remark- able by Central Texas famine-or-flood stan- dards, brought a quick reminder of the ongo- ing threat. According to water utility spokes- woman Laurie Lentz, the midday overflow dumped about 60,000 gallons of sewage-pol- luted rainwater, of which 10,000 gal- lons were safely pumped and dis- posed. The rest poured into Town Lake, at a point perhaps a half-mile from the Green water uptake. Should any of that toxic effluent arrive down- stream at the plant, it could theoreti- cally threaten the city’s drinking water. According to Lentz, an alarm sound- ed at the Shoal Creek lift station at 12:30pm Saturday, indicating a back- up, and AWU personnel immediately checked manholes downstream - where, Lentz says, one staffer saw the overflow first erupt at 12:45. The treat- ment plant, already on standby because of the alarm, said Lentz, was shut down by 1pm - in ample time to prevent any effluent from reaching the plant. “In the judgment of the opera- tors,” said Lentz, “there was plenty of time between the initial overflow and the plant shutdown, to prevent any danger to the city’s water.” Lentz added that workers have since determined that the contamination began in an abandoned and damaged wastewater pipe in Shoal Creek, now plugged, and that the pipe is scheduled for removal. Moriarty isn’t so sure. In the weeks since his dismissal, he’s been blasting city officials, not only for what he believes was unfair treat- ment, but for supposedly dragging their feet on the tunnel project until he forced their hand. In the specific instance, he doubts the city’s version of the overflow, suggesting that it’s more likely that it began long before plant operators could be aware of it and respond. But even if the city’s version is accurate, he continued (in answer to e-mailed questions), “If they are reporting a 60,000-gallon release with that moderate a rainfall, imagine what the correct estimates would have been for an eight-inch rainfall like we had in November 2001 (city said at that time that [the over- sporidium is resistant to standard treatment methods, polluted water sickened people all over the city, killing primarily those with with compromised immune systems due to age or pre-existing illness. In a series of memoranda responding to Moriarty’s charges and submitted to City Council, AWU officials have responded that treatment regulations were radically tightened by the EPA after 1993, that the city has mechanisms in place that specifically protect the Green plant - i.e. , the alarm system and shutdown proce- dure - and, in the words of AWU Director Chris Lippe, “Our water supplies are always safe, considered superior, and meet or surpass all federal and state drinking water standards.” But the argument is far from over, especial- ly if Moriarty’s lawsuit proceeds to trial. Mark Boyden, a member of the ACWP Citizen Advis- ory Group, says that whatever the personal issues, the city needs to pay close attention to Moriarty’s concerns. “He’s certainly raised some serious issues and questions - some of which might be turned back to him.” In par- ticular, Boyden wants to know why Moriarty waited until after he lost his job to raise these issues publicly. “Fair question,” says Moriarty. In fact, he says, he only learned from city staff on Nov. 3 that the current downtown wastewater tunnel (known as the North Austin Interceptor) had reached capacity (despite previous assuranc- es it would be sufficient until 2010). He said he immediately told Joe Canales that further sewer permits would have to be suspended, that the Downtown tunnel project should be kick-started, that the EPA should be immedi- ately informed, and that the Green plant should likely be closed. “I was handed a letter four business days later, from Earth Tech,” wrote Moriarty, “which said the city had ‘demanded that your involvement in the program end.’ (This almost sounds as though they fired me.)” The city, of course, continues to insist that Moriarty was not employed by the city, and therefore it could not have fired him. It’s not yet clear when that part of the argument will reach flood stage. - Michael King TRASH TALK The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is close to finalizing the largest overhaul of its trash rules in more than a decade and the agency’s foremost watchdog, the nonprofit Texas Campaign for the Environment, has been eyeing the process closely. TCE’s new report “Texas Trash Rules Matter: Why Stronger Rules Are Needed for Super-Sized Landfills to Stop the Trashing of Texas” argues that Texas’ trash standards Are the weakest in the nation and includes recommendations for strengthening TCEQ’s municipal solid waste rules - Chapter 330 of the Texas Administrative Code. Among the recommendations are calls to enlarge the 50-foot buffer zone around landfills or waste sites; requests for better ground water moni- toring standards, considering EPA data showing 75% of landfills were leaking contaminants; efforts to prohibit household electronic waste such as cell phones and TVs, known to contain toxic heavy metals, from munici- pal landfills; adding time limits to waste permits, allow- ing for more scrutiny and public accountability; and closing loopholes permitting vertical expansions at older sites, grandfathered by the state to be exempt from rules requiring protective liners beneath trash. The TCEQ’s proposed new rules take a number of the requests into account. The buffer size has been increased to 125 feet, although TCE still believes this is too small given how large some landfills have become. The agency has made significant groundwater monitoring changes, requiring testing wells no less than 600 feet apart at waste sites and barring facility opera- tors from filtering water samples prior to testing. Not included in the new rules are provisions for household e-waste prohibition. Municipal Solid Waste Permits Manager Richard Carmichael pointed to existing com- mercial and industrial rules, saying household e-waste is more of a recycling issue. With respect to more accountable, time-limited permits, based on public com- ment, the TCEQ executive director will now review per- mits and registrations on a continuing five-year basis. TCE wants added public participation in the process. Perhaps most significantly, the new rules don’t close the so-called grandfathered loophole for expansions, which TCE claims both undermines EPA efforts to clean up older unlined landfills, and unfairly penalizes opera- tors of newer landfills using safe technology. TCEQ commissioners were set to finalize the rules at their Feb. 1 meeting, but postponed the decision until the March 1 meeting, allowing for public comment and an extra public meeting, tentatively scheduled for Feb. 10. To find out more or to send comments, see www.tceq.state.tx.us/permitting/waste_permits/advgroups/ msw_ch330_advgp.html; to read TCE’s report see www.texasenvironment.org. - Daniel Mottola While President Bush commented on the state of the union last night, a few hundred protesters organized as "World Can't Wait" met in front of City Hall to make their own commentary. 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CITY/HWY TAKE A TEST DRIVE TODAY. austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 21 news McTear Headed to Adult Prison Nineteen-year-old Marcus McTear will be transferred to adult prison this week, to serve out the remainder of the 40- year sentence he got for stabbing to death his ex-girlfriend, 15-year-old Ortralla Mosley, in a Reagan High School hall- way in March 2003. After a day filled with the testimony of psychologists and counselors from the Texas Youth Commis- sion’s Giddings State School, each of whom told the court that McTear was not doing well in the school’s Capital Offend- ers Program, on Jan. 26 District Judge Jeanne Meurer ruled that McTear had lost any chance for an early parole. “Perhaps you thought [that] at the Texas Youth Commission you were a big fish in a little pond,” Meurer told McTear. “That will no lon- ger be the case.” On March 28, 2003, one day after Mosley ended their six- month relationship, a distraught McTear came to school armed with two knives and attacked Mosley, stabbing her six times in the head and chest, killing her. McTear pleaded “true” - the juvenile court equivalent of guilty - to killing Mosley in June 2003, less than a week after Meurer declined the state’s bid to certify McTear to stand trial as an adult. Instead, Meurer handed McTear a 40-year determinate sentence, meaning that, had he done well in TYC, he would have had a chance at parole before being transferred to a Texas Department of Criminal Justice adult prison. But McTear lost that chance last week when Meurer granted the state’s request for an early transfer to the adult system. Although McTear did well in both the educational and behavioral portions of the Capital Offender Program - a counseling-intensive program for juve- niles found guilty of violent offenses - he did not do well in the correctional portion of the program, during which offenders are expected to take responsibility for their crimes and are challenged to identify and modify behaviors and thought pro- cesses contributing to their crimes. McTear was put on pro- gram probation in March 2005, and in April was kicked out of the COR Ann Kelly, the former director of treatment programs at Giddings State School told the court. Kelly said that McTear was “defensive” during counseling ses- sions, violated program rules by engaging in relationships with girls in the program - by finding ways to pass letters back and forth - and didn’t appear to have “any notice- able level of internal anxiety” about killing Mosley. Even after McTear was told that he was being placed on probation, and knew he was in jeopardy of being expelled from the program, he continued to violate the rules by keeping up his pen-pal relationships with female students. In fact, she said, the let- ters’ content “suggested [that he was] continuing to struggle with appropriate relationships,” and that he has a “tendency to want to maintain power and dominance over ... females.” Although McTear’s attorney, John Evans, tried to convince the court that McTear deserves one last chance in the COP program, TYC associate psychologist Michael Hilgers testi- fied that he doesn’t think McTear has the “ability” to complete the rehabilitative program. “[Don’t] you think this hearing could serve as a wake-up call for Marcus [to take the program more seriously]?” Evans asked Hilgers. “I think it comes down to a question of ability,” Hilgers responded. “I think he’d cer- tainly say he wants to do better ... [but] I’m not sure that he can. I think being put on probation in the [COP] should’ve been a wake-up call; getting a 40-year determinate sentence should’ve been a wake-up call. ... So, I don’t know how well he responds to wake-up calls.” Marcus McTear (left) with his attorney in court last week; the teenage killer of Reagan classmate and ex-girlfriend Ortralla Mosley was transferred from juvenile prison to incarceration with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Meurer’s decision to transfer McTear to adult prison was a relief to Carolyn Mosley, Ortralla’s mother. Back in 2003, Mosley sup- ported Meurer’s decision to send McTear to the TYC, and now, she said, she supports Meurer’s deci- sion to transfer McTear to prison. “It’s a relief,” she said. “I felt sick” before and after last week’s hearing, and now feels “a little bit of closure.” While Ortralla’s death still haunts her, Carolyn Mosley says she is working to ensure that Ortralla’s spirit will live on. In November, she filed papers with the secretary of state, officially incorporating the Ortralla Lu Wone Mosley Foundation, an organization that will provide a safe haven for adolescents dealing with dating violence. The foundation will offer housing, counseling, resources, and ser- vices - including day care, transportation, and job placement - for adolescent girls and boys who need help. Austin State Rep. Dawnna Dukes has agreed to serve on the foundation’s board of directors, and both First Lady Anita Perry and television talk show host Montel Williams have promised support, Mosley said. The foundation will be headquartered in Austin, she says, but eventually she hopes to open other locations - a string of “safe havens” - across the state. “If you need counseling, you can come; if you need a place to stay, you can come,” she said. “This is a place where you can come to mama. This is not just a business to me. This is my daughter. 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Meanwhile, last month federal authorities took a trip to the twin towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah - which, for nearly 100 years, have been the de facto headquarters for the church - to deliver sub- poenas to various church members whom they believe may have information regarding Jeffs’ whereabouts. According to Utah’s KSL-TV, the subpoenas are apparently based on informa- tion found last year after authorities arrested Jeffs’ brother, Seth Jeffs, in Colorado. Jeffs was pulled over on suspicion of drunk driving, but was then charged with solicitation of pros- titution after his nephew, Nathaniel Steed Allred, told the cops that Jeffs had paid him $5,000 for “sexual services.” Once the Colorado authorities realized who Jeffs was, they got a warrant to search the car the pair were riding in and found, among other things, some $140,000 in cash, a cache of letters addressed to Warren Jeffs, and a glass jar affixed with Jeffs’ picture and labeled “Pennies for the Prophet.” Seth said he was just a “messenger” traveling to the FLDS’ gated compound in the West Texas town of Eldorado to deliver the booty to an FLDS bishop there. (See “Meet the New Neighbors,” July 29.) Authorities apparently weren’t buying Jeffs’ explanation, however, and in November a federal grand jury in Denver indicted him for harboring a fugitive, for allegedly helping big bro Warren evade capture. 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So, obviously lacking momentum, Radnofsky still valiantly tried to seize it by demanding that incumbent Kay Bailey Hutchison “end the war on children” and laying out her pro- posals for how the feds can aid public education. “Most peo- ple know that Texas leads the country in dropouts,” she said. “But leading the country in dropouts is significant when mea- sured by the fact that we are 46th in teachers who actually have secondary degrees in the area in which they teach. And that we are towards the bottom of the barrel in SAT scores among our students, around 48th.” To change these numbers, Radnofsky had two major proposals: First, promote programs to keep kids in school, specifically the Upward Bound and Peer Mediation programs, both of which Radnofsky - a lawyer specializing in mediation - teach- es pro bono in public as well as private schools. Upward Bound is a federal program to provide fundamental skills to high school students from low-income families, families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s degree, and military veterans preparing to enter college. Peer Mediation educates school kids in listening, neutrality, and conflict management. “It has a wonderful success rate at reducing violence in the schools,” Radnofsky said. “We have a terrible problem of bully- ing and violence in the schools.” Second, restore grants and loans “so that our college-age students are able to stay in school. One of the biggest problems this state faces is an uneducated citizenry. That’s why our state demographer has for the first time predicted that our next generation will be earning less and will be less prosperous than the generation before it. What that means for our futures is mass ill-educated folks, no tax base, and economic ruin.” Hutchison, she charged, “has consistently voted against proper funding for school repairs, voted against the Head Start program, which is so essential for school-age children, and voted for the cuts in student loans and grants that are so necessary.” She also said that Hutchison supported the No Child Left Behind act but then three times “cynically voted against the full funding that would help the program succeed.” Hutchison campaign spokesman Bryan Eppstein replied, “Those are false statements. It may be just political rubric, but the truth of the matter is ... Kay Bailey Hutchison is a tremendous advocate of funding public education. More money is being spent today on education today than both before President Bush was elected in 2000 and before she was elected to the Senate in 1993. So she has been a strong advocate of public education. She’s been a strong advocate of the Head Start program.” Radnofsky also touched on other issues including the Iraq war. She seemed to have shifted to a slightly stronger position since we last heard her in October, saying, “We need to listen to our military advisers. They’re being squashed right now. And, we need to set [a] timetable and we need to withdraw.” Also present at the press conference was Congressional District 31 candidate Mary Beth Harrell, who hopes to knock off incumbent John Carter. The military veteran’s wife, attorney, and mother of a current Iraq war soldier, said, “I want a Congress that is worthy of the service and the sacri- fice of our soldiers ... and we don’t have that Congress cur- rently. Their votes are for sale, and they sell cheap.” She attacked Carter for being closely allied with Tom DeLay and for both taking money from DeLay’s Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee and contribut- ing money to DeLay’s defense fund. 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Center Suru biui i i.q \lutDrdl3 Advanced Micro Devices and CEO Hector Ruiz's 1 0 Point Plan for Austin; 1 . Abandon East Austin 2. Disregard 25 years of local plans directing major employers to the Desired Development Zone 3. Build on the majorTexas aquifer most vulnerable to urban pollution 4. Spark a building boom in the fragile Barton Springs Edward Aquifer watershed 5. Pretend like they won't spark a building boom of sprawl development in the Hill Country 6. Increase driving over the Barton Springs watershed and pollute Barton Springs and the Edwards Aquifer 7. Give Hector Ruiz a shorter commute 8. Buy community silence with corporate sponsorships 9. Falsely claim compliance with the Save Our Springs Ordinance 10, Pretend their move is "a done deal* Most Companies Got It Right, Why Won't AMD? We stand together opposed to this misguided backwards plan for Austin and Barton Springs. We, along with over 16,000 citizens, ask Hector Ruiz to reconsider his relocation plan for AMD's 2,000 employees in Austin and the 1 ,000 employ- ees they expect to hire. We call on the Austin City Council to publicly insist that AMD reconsider and find a site in the Desired Development Zone. Sincerely, Mary Arnold Lorraine Atherton Steve Beers Bill Bunch Harold Daniel — — Marguerite Jones Chris Lehman Luke Metzger Laura Morrison Robin Rather — Donna Tiemann — Community Activist — Zilker Neighborhood Association — Save Barton Creek Association — Save Our Springs Alliance — Save Barton Creek Association - Save Barton Creek Association — Austin Sierra Club — Environment Texas — Austin Neighborhoods Council — Liveable City — Austin Sierra Club www.MoveAMD.com austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 25 news Texas Left Holding Short HUD Hurricane Aid Stick WEED WATCH INDUSTRIAL HEMP IN CALIFORNIA; MEDI-POT IN NEW MEXICO State leaders have been madder than hell at the federal government ever since the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that Texas will only get $74.5 million out of an $11.5 billion pot of hurricane aid for Gulf Coast states. The $74.5 million, all in the form of Community Development Block Grants, is a sliv- er of what the state requested from Congress. “They gave us little more than the change from their couch cushions,” groused Gov. Rick Perry in a press release. HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson announced Wednesday that of the five states that got a piece of the hurricane aid pie - Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas - Alabama got the least, just under $74.4 million, and Texas came in next to last. HUD gave funding priority to areas with the greatest housing recovery need, said spokeswoman Cathy MacFarlane, meaning the states that suffered the most damage to existing housing got the most money. As a result, Louisiana received the largest hunk of funds, $6.2 billion. She also said HUD gave priority to areas it determined to have the greatest unmet housing needs - in other words, regions with housing problems that were unlikely to draw funding from some other source. For example, lots of homes in New Orleans have been passed down for generations, and many of them were uninsured when Katrina hit because their mortgages, which require flood insurance, were paid off, she said. Back in December, Texas asked Congress for about $1.8 billion in the final version of the hurri- cane-inspired supplemental appropriations bill. (However, $1 billion of the request was for Economic Development Administrative Grants for 22 Hurricane Rita-impacted counties. Although the Economic Development Administration, a HUD partner located in the Department of Commerce, is one place from which the government can derive these funds, EDAG money can flow from other sources as well, said Perry spokeswoman Rachel Novier.) According to a HUD press release, the depart- ment calculated the extent of each state’s housing recovery need and unmet housing need using HUD Hurricane Relief Breakdown Texas: $74,523,000 Florida $82,904,000 Alabama: $74,388,000 Total: $11,500,000,000 Source: Deportment of Housing and Urban Development Ouch! Texas only received a sliver, $74.5 million, of $11.5 billion Congress appropriated to HUD for aid to Gulf Coast states. Federal Emergency Management Agency data, as well as information from the Small Business Administration Disaster Loan Program and U.S. Geological Service flood and storm surge num- bers. MacFarlane noted that the $11.5 billion in CDBG funds is coming out of an $85 billion pot, so Texas still has hope for more money from Washington. “This is just a small step toward recov- ery,” she said. And she tried to disperse any notions Texans might have of a heartless bureaucracy thriv- ing within the distant walls of HUD in D.C. “It’s like a parent deciding how to divvy up the food among starving children,” said MacFarlane of having to allo- cate the disaster aid. - Cheryl Smith The California State Assembly last week passed a bill that would legalize industrial hemp farming in the state. The measure (Assembly Bill 1147), authored by San Francisco Democrat Mark Leno, would allow the state’s farm- ers to grow and sell hemp seeds, oil, and fiber for use in consumer products - everything from food and personal care products to car products and textiles - and to sell or trade seeds with other farmers within the state. The annual retail market for hemp products is estimated at nearly $300 million, but because the government - read, the Drug Enforcement Administration - has, for all practical purposes, banned hemp farming (farmers may try to hide mari- juana plants within their crop, narcos warn), all products produced and sold in the U.S. are made with hemp plants grown in other countries, including Canada and China. “It is time to put California farmers first and not leave them out of the economic benefits of this environmentally sound crop,” Leno said. If the measure gets a nod from the state Senate and from Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (who has reportedly not taken a position on the issue), California would become the 15th state to legalize hemp cultivation. (Still, the DEA has continued to enforce a ban on hemp farming, claiming that because the Controlled Substances Act doesn’t differentiate between hemp and its psychoactive brother marijuana, hemp farming is illegal.) “Hemp is a poten- tial bonanza for California,” Leno said. “The opportunity to create thousands of new jobs, new industries, and new markets while protecting our environment should not be missed.” Also last week, New Mexico legislators passed out of committee a bill that would legalize medi-pot for seriously ill patients. The bill would require patients to register with the state and would limit the amount of marijuana that patients may possess and/or grow. Republican Gov. Bill Richardson has given a nod of approval to the measure, in part by giving legislators the ability to consider the bill during the current 30-day special session. Richardson has said that any medi-pot program would need strict regulation, but that “for those who are suf- fering ... I support it.” Nonetheless, David W. Murray, special assistant to drug czar John Walters, head of the White House Office of the National Drug Control Policy, trav- eled to Santa Fe last week to testify against the measure before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 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From the beginning of Bush’s wretched war in Iraq three years ago, our brave troops have been screaming to get adequate armor both for their bodies and their vehicles. Yet, aston- ishingly, Bush and the other dunderheads at the top have either ignored, stalled, or fumbled these life-and-death requests. Now we are learn- ing what their callousness and ineptness cost. A secret Pentagon report has recently come to light revealing that up to 80% of the marines killed in Iraq from upper body wounds would not have died if they had had the prop- er body armor. Yet, the marine brass did not even begin buying this armor until last September - and more than 90% of the units ordered still have not been delivered to Iraq. Equally disgusting, many soldiers have died because their lightly armored Humvees are easily penetrated by roadside bombs. An armored truck called the Cougar could have saved their lives; again, though, the Pentagon only started ordering this truck last May, and delivery to Iraq is three months behind sched- ule! This delay comes because the Cougar contract went to a small, politically connected outfit in South Carolina that had never mass- produced vehicles and botched the job. A dozen prototypes did get to Iraq, but had to be recalled because of failing transmissions, etc. Meanwhile, our blase leaders dismiss criti- cism, saying they’re doing all they can as fast as can be expected. What we have here is a failure at the very top. If George, Dick, and Rummy really gave a damn about soldiers, such top corporations as General Motors immediately would’ve been brought into a crash program to meet the needs of our vulnerable troops. Instead of continuing to make $50,000 Hummers for war-evading yuppies, GM should have been enlisted to make Cougars. But that would have required leadership from a real president. WALL STREET DIVVIES UP THE BONUS BOOTY Oh, hallelujah, the bonuses are in! Manna from heaven is showering down upon you! You are a Wall Street broker, aren’t you? These few financial elites are the lucky devils who have recently been blessed with $21.5 bil- lion in bonuses dispensed by Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and the other giants that twist our economy to their advantage. Even while the wages of working stiffs did not even keep up with inflation in 2005, these high-flying specu- lators enjoyed nearly a 50% increase in reve- nues, producing record profits. So they are now splitting the loot. The hon- cho of Goldman Sachs, for example, pulled in $38 million, the CEO of Lehman Brothers took $14.9 million, and the top dog at Morgan Stan- ley had to settle for $11.5 million (but, after all, he only worked for six months last year). In fairness, I should note that their good fortunes are trickling down to those below - though certainly not to those as low down as you and me. But the sellers of multimillion- dollar estates, rare art, luxury imported cars, and private jets are in high cotton as the Wall Streeters rush to spend their bonanza. For example, Gotham Dream Cars in Man- hattan will sell you a Lamborghini Gallardo for only $195,000. If you’re a younger bonus baby on Wall Street who can’t quite afford to buy this exotic vehicle - hey, Dream Cars will let you rent it for $1,350 a day. “It’s the per- fect way for people to celebrate without going overboard,” says the president of Dream Cars. How egalitarian is that? Also, super-luxury Manhattan apartments, starting at $10 million, are said to be a par- ticularly hot market this year. As a broker for such properties put it: “We love Wall Street bonuses.” Remember, Bush & Company say that these financial hucksters who are now divvy- ing up the booty they took from investors in 2005 are the very people who should take over our Social Security program. 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If so, she passes colorful murals - birds and giraffes, astronauts and football, the requi- site Tyrannosaurus rex - all painted and care- fully signed by Bobcats past. Becker’s 70 years of elementary school history may come to an end this year. For while the school is full of history, it’s not full of students. With less than 250 children on a campus built for 550, it’s the second most underenrolled ele- mentary in AISD. Invoking the gods of Fiscal Prudence and Efficiency, Superintendent Pat Forgione has proposed transforming Becker into an early childhood center, a cutting-edge model of special education inclusion designed to get 3- and 4-year-olds with disabilities on grade level by kindergarten. Becker’s kindergarteners through fifth-graders would move to nearby Travis Heights and Dawson elementaries, which are themselves three-fourths full. Those changes are only part of a larger plan to “repurpose” four facilities: Oak Springs Elementary and the Fucy Read school, now used as a professional development acade- my, would also become pre-K centers; Porter Middle would house two small “concept” high schools. Because Becker has had the first public debate and would be the first to go - possibly closing this fall - it has become the center of the controversy. (Its location in the politically power- ful 78704 ZIP code doesn’t hurt either.) AISD says the repurposing plan is a way to make more out of less in a brutal state school- finance environment. Under Texas’ redistribu- tive system disdainfully known as Robin Hood, AISD’s revenue is flat, even as teachers need raises, utility costs increase, and a growing population of low-income and immigrant stu- dents require extra services like tutoring. “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t want to bring new things into the district that best practices say are good for all children,” Forgione told the Becker community at a public forum. Becker’s neighbors, however, see abandon- ment, disrespect, and penny-pinching tunnel Even as students keep spilling out of the cul-de- sacs and into crowded exurban schools, enroll- ment all over the center city is flat or declining. vision. “Becker is not just a school, it’s a fami- ly,” parent and alumna Marie Dominguez told AISD representatives at the same forum. “You need to bring more kids into this school, and let’s build it up again into a blue-ribbon, num- ber-one school like we had it.” It’s not a bad idea, bringing in more kids - if, that is, you can find them. Even as students keep spilling out of the cul-de-sacs and into crowded exurban schools, enrollment all over the center city is flat or declining. AISD has long been inti- mating that this imbalance can’t continue unchecked forever. The question is whether repur- posing is the only - or best - way to correct it. Smaller Is Better? When school lets out at Becker Elementary, West Milton Street fills with parents who col- lect youngsters, exchange greetings, and (this week) complain about the repurposing plan. Standing at the curb, Demetria Batts, a mid- 30s African-American woman in a sparkly blouse and a bouncy strawberry ponytail, chat- ted with Bea Diaz, who sat behind the wheel of her stately blue Dodge waiting for her grand- daughter. Both were outraged. “I don’t think they’re being considerate of our feelings,” said Batts. “I think they already had their plans set and just brought it to us at the last minute.” Diaz, a Becker alumna herself, said the plan is particularly painful for her. “This is the third generation and now they’re going to close it,” she said. “It’s not right.” The parents’ concerns are more than mere sentiment. Nearby, Veronica Arteaga herded her three Bobcats to her truck. She’s a resident of Meadowbrook public housing projects, and says many of her earless neighbors are worried. Some Meadowbrook residents have asked in the past for a bus to Becker so their children don’t have to walk the half-mile to school. But those parents know they can always walk to Becker in case of an emergency, which would be more difficult if their students were bused to Dawson (1.2 miles) or Travis Heights (1.7 miles). The extra distance also discourages parental involvement. Arteaga, for example, eats break- fast at the school with her boys each day when she drops them off, which she says makes her feel more connected to their education. “If they move him way out to Travis Heights, I’m not going to be able to do that,” she said. “I’m not going to drive him over there. Gas is really expensive these days.” These were the sorts of comments elicited in a packed forum the week before, when some 250 parents jammed into the brown-bricked Becker gym. The line of speakers stretched down the entire length of the gym, questioning the need for a pre-K center when Becker already has a fine early childhood program, and praising Becker’s location, small size, and familylike environment. Unfortunately, the latter is also the problem. As of January, Becker had only 226 K-5 stu- dents in a school built for 550, or 30-odd stu- dents in each grade. Those small classes are great for students, but bad for budgets. The fourth grade, for example, has 23 students: one more than the legal limit of 22 elementary students per teacher in force for most of AISD’s 44,000 elementary students. As a result, Becker has two fourth-grade teachers, serving 10 and 13 students each. Principal David Kauffman refers to this as one of the “joys” of the school, and recognizes that the Becker students, about half of whom come from the Meadowbrook, deserve small classes as much as anyone. Still, his joy is not untroubled. “Are we somehow benefiting at the expense of other kids who are equally deserving?” he asks, looking genuinely perplexed. “I want to fight for this community. I want to fight for what they need. But we also need to understand it’s happening in the con- text of a district that’s trying to meet the needs of all kids.” At a packed forum of Becker parents, teachers, and neighbors, only a single comment supported the proposed repurposing plan defended by AISD Superintendent Pat Forgione. By rolling Becker students into other schools, AISD can move its principal, librarian, and many teachers to the new elementary school slated to open in far southeast Austin this fall. (Forgione speaks of moving the Becker team en masse southeast, but has not yet taken a head count of how many really want to move that far.) Porter’s and Oak Springs’ staff would also be moved to new northeast schools the follow- ing year. All told, the shuffling could save some $1.75 million. Because the proposed pre-K center will still need teachers, utilities, custodians, and so on, the “savings” aren’t quite as dramatic as they seem in Forgione’s enthusiastic oratories. (Forgione did not have exact numbers - or even estimates - of what the new pre-K programs would cost when he unveiled the proposal.) Still, they’re there. When AISD predicts its $548 million budget can only grow by $20 mil- lion through 2008-09 - enough for maybe a 5% raise for teachers who went raiseless last year, but that’s about it - it’s hard to justify leaving any potential savings on the table. Starting a Movement This should be troubling algebra in much of Austin. A dozen elementaries are below 70% capacity (the district’s cutoff for “underenroll- ment”) and about 20 more are below 90%. The most pronounced pocket is in central East Austin, but it also strikes older suburbs, like the Sunset Valley area. 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Although students of all races take advan- tage of the open-transfer policy, the overall pattern undermines diversity - the vast major- ity of Austin’s white and middle-class students are congregated in majority-white schools with few poor students, leaving all-minority schools behind. Becker exemplifies the trend: In a cen- sus tract that’s 60% white and increasingly tony, Becker is 95% black and brown, and 90% poor. About 20% of the students in the Becker attendance zone attend other AISD schools. (It bears noting that 32 Becker students are also transfers from other neighborhoods.) As long as white and middle-class parents remain reluctant to send their kids to majority-minor- ity and majority-poor schools, the Anglificationa and gentrification of previously poor and minority neighborhoods is likely to drain neigh- borhood schools. A few schools, however, have maintained both significant diversity and middle-class buy- in - Maplewood and Travis Heights are two - and have become the stuff of legend for idealis- tic parents who value diversity and want to create “another Travis Heights” down the street. The irony of the Becker proposal is that it comes at a time when the beginnings of just such a movement is afoot. Inside Becker, Kauffman had been working with neighbor- hood parents to develop enticing new arts and environmental programs; in the neighborhood, new mother Shay Roalson was scheming with a neighbor about ways to get their neighbors to invest, via their children, in Becker. “We ended by saying, ‘We need to form a coalition! We need to start a movement! We need a snappy name!”’ Roalson said. Hunting down the 40 wayward Bobcats in Bouldin Creek would no doubt enrich the school and the neighborhood. What it wouldn’t do is fill Becker’s halls. The answer, in a nut- shell, is more babies, but it remains to be seen whether the neighborhood can deliver them. Babies by the Numbers Drive east on William Cannon, and eventually you get to a place where the subdivisions give way to pastures; where cattle still plod, and where a red-tailed hawk might float overhead. Just before the city stops is a subdivision called McKinney Heights, where homes of up to 2,000 square feet remain available “from the 120s!” Just up the road is Palm Elementary. This, and places like this, is where the children are. At 152% of capacity and just under 1,000 students, Palm is the most overcrowded school in AISD. Built in 1986, its slanted blue roof bakes beside trees not yet full enough to do much good. Behind the school is a shaded play- scape in Crayola colors, and arranged in a half- moon around it are the portables: 26 classrooms, accommodating more than 300 students. One in four students districtwide studies in a portable, so AISD officials are typically quick to point out that plenty of quality learning goes on in the ubiquitous beige blocks. The crowd- ing, however, does have an impact: There’s less room to display student projects, children work at tables literally overflowing with their books and papers, and many activities that OVERENROLLED AND UNDERENROLLED: AISD's Elementary Schools Demographic shifts have left a large percentage of center-city schools underenrolled, while schools on the edge of town overflow with students. AISD considers a school to be underenrolled when enrollment falls below 70% of its permanent capacity. As of Sept. 23, a dozen schools fit that definition. Meanwhile, two dozen schools are over capacity; 13 of them are over 120% full. require movement must be done in the “pods,” Palm’s euphemistic term for the hallways. Lunch shifts begin around 10 and end after 1. All do their best, but the situation is far from ideal and certainly not equitable. “We’re grad- ed the way smaller schools are graded and that’s not quite fair,” said Palm teacher Nancy Tabatabai. “We’re stretched really thin.” The situation will improve when the new southeast elementary school - the proposed destination for Becker’s staff - opens this fall, but even then Palm will remain a big, full school with the kind of crowding found every- where land is cheap and houses are enormous. It’s a trend that started when everybody and his condo-flippin’ granny went apeshit for real estate, and it plagues cities nationwide, espe- cially those cultural meccas that attract child- free kids of all ages. Forget white flight: Now, the trend is family flight, leaving central cities increasingly to sin- gles, child-free couples, and empty-nesters. According to the latest census data, the average household size in 78704 is 2.04, while in southeast Austin the average household size is a more Cleaver-like 3.35. (And those numbers are from 2000, before the market went totally to Venus.) The issue is not only cost, but space as well - the charm of tiny, historic cottages wears off as the kids get waist-high, such that many children born in Austin move elsewhere by kindergarten: The 6,850 kindergarteners enrolled in AISD in 2004, for example, were what remained of more than 10,000 babies bom in town five years before. Thus, the same single-family homes that kept central Austin schools full a generation ago are now coming up short. Blame the sin- gles and the child-free. Blame small modem families, and their taste for big houses. The Most Underenrolled Most Overenrolled Elementary Schools Elementary Schools Allan 47% Palm 152% Becker *48% Norman 152% Blackshear 54% Kiker 148% Oak Springs 57% Hart 142% Brentwood 57% Langford 139% Sunset Valley 63% Linder 137% Campbell 64% Cook 136% Govalle 65% Walnut Creek 135% Ortega 67% Bryker Woods 132% Boone 68% Houston 125% Joslin 69% Rodriguez 125% Dawson 70% Wooten 121% Barrington 120% * Becker's enrollment has dropped to 41% since September. causes are many, but the end result is half- empty schools. Could Bouldin - and other neighborhoods - reverse the trend? Maybe. Thanks to infill, a city density survey shows Bouldin Creek add- ing some 150 housing units in the last five years. Just up the street from Becker, for exam- ple, a tall, angular glass-and-concrete dwelling stands out among the neighborhood’s tradi- tional cottages like a transporter for beaming Scandinavian spacemen to Marfa. It’s from homes like these that Bouldin Creek promises to breathe new life into Becker; many residents say a baby boom is already under way. Six years out from the last census, city demographer Ryan Robinson won’t say they’re wrong. “It would go against the overall trend,” he said. “But there may be something to it. I just don’t know.” Still, AISD demographer Dennis Harner doesn’t see much to suggest they’re right: The 626 births in 78704 in 2003 are fewer than the 678 in 1990. (In 78702, central East Austin, the decline is even steeper: 578 to 423, or 26%.) Maybe a baby boom did begin abruptly in 2004, or maybe one is just around the cor- ner. But when schools are shrinking through- out the city and AISD has outlying students to serve today, the question is how long the dis- trict can (or should) wait to see who’s right. Weighed in the Balance At the most recent Board of Tmstees meeting on Jan. 23, the general sentiment was that AISD can wait a little longer. While the trustees were enthusiastic about the idea of pre-K cen- ters, they questioned whether “Becker” and “immediately” were the right answers to “where” and “when” the first should be launched. Instead, some suggested the district postpone the Becker decision for a more thor- ough engagement with the community, and focus instead on the plan to move the pre-K programs from the overcrowded Cook, McBee, Walnut Creek, and Wooldridge elementaries 30 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com into Lucy Read, which isn’t currently used as a school. This plan would allow AISD to pilot the pre-K center without closing anyone’s school, and to relieve overcrowding to boot. The trustees may have had concerns with the rapid pace proposed for the plan. They may have been irate over the way it was announced without first engaging with leaders from affected campuses and neighborhoods. However, they also seemed resigned to the fact that chronic underenrollment can’t be avoided forever. Easy solutions remain elusive: Many suggestions from the Becker community, such as expanding Becker’s boundaries or busing in students from nearby overcrowded schools, merely shift the disruption and upheaval community members fear onto someone else’s kids. Still, an extra year would give the Becker community a chance to count its children and recruit would-be Bobcats. In fact, the fuss could be good for the community’s efforts, as parents considering sleeping outside AISD headquarters on Feb. 3 to be first in line for a transfer may see, in the passionate support for Becker, strengths that don’t show up in test scores. (On the other hand, a perception that the school is doomed may only hasten their flight.) Parent Gordon Leff, who enrolled his kids in the Austin Jewish Academy in part because of Becker’s negative reputation among his neighbors and in part because he thought “a little dose of Judaism would be good for them,” said the fight for Becker has given him a lot to think about. “What I saw [at the public forum] were parents who are absolutely as committed to their children’s education as the parents I deal with who pay a large sum of money to send their kids to school,” Leff said. “I was very impressed with the parents I saw last night. I would like to be associated with that group of parents.” Becker parents aren’t the only ones who should be thinking about these issues. Throughout the city, parents accustomed to thinking of “competi- tion” as the way you get Junior into that trendy elementary now have another definition to add to their thesaurus: schools competing to attract enough students to stay open. In the end, the district’s debate over school closings - either the currently proposed schools or others, either now or down the road - has implications that extend far beyond the neighbor- hoods that stand to lose schools. Because school locations influence urban growth, many have called on AISD to help Austin achieve Envision AISD can help attract families to the urban core, but it can't do it alone. Some of the same groups citing Envision Central Texas as one of the moral imperatives for AISD's keeping schools open are often at the forefront of opposing density. Central Texas goals of denser cities by keeping central schools open. However, as Becker alum- nus and City Council Member Lee Leffingwell points out, the effort requires balance. “Recognizing that AISD has very severe financial constraints, I do believe AISD has a responsibility to help achieve overall community goals such as [ECT] ,” he said. “I hope we can find a way - that’s mutually satisfactory to neighborhood and the overall community goals - that doesn’t impair AISD’s ability to deliver a good education.” Part of that balance is recognizing that AISD can help attract families to the urban core, but it can’t do it alone. For one thing, those fami- lies need places to live. Assuming we’re not about to force all the singles and the child-free to move to Circle C, that means more houses. So, it’s ironic that some of the same groups citing Envision Central Texas as one of the moral imperatives for AISD’s keeping schools open are often at the forefront of opposing density. South Austin neighborhood groups, for example, have fought condo projects in the area, even those on existing commercial corri- dors. (Granted, condos aren’t exactly prime baby habitat, but it seems at least worth the gamble that they’ll reduce competition for more stroller-friendly stock.) If Austin is to achieve ECT, then, keeping neighborhood schools open is only part of the equation. The two processes feed each other, as greater density fuels the schools, and beloved schools like Becker give parents a reason to stay. ■ BALLET AUSTIN'S NEW AMERICAN TALENT FEBRUARY 16-19 PARAMOUNT THEATRE Three emerging choreographers have heen hand- selected to showcase their work at Ballet Austin s New American Talent/Dance. The competition will showcase original works from each of the choreographers. A panel of internation- ally-renowned judges from the world of dance and the audience will he voting on their favorite. 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The motel clerk defined the word “blowsy” - a little drunk or a little high, a cigarette hang- ing from her lips, heavy, and showing a lot of breast. Her smile had died a long time ago, but she mechanically displayed its corpse. She said her motel was almost full, though I hadn’t seen any cars in the lot, just kids on skateboards. These Katrina victims either didn’t own cars or their cars hadn’t made it out. I asked for a smoker and was given a small white ashtray to take to the room. Some room. One dim bulb on a wall fixture. White cinder-block walls. A TV with a few fuzzy channels. The thinnest possible towels, and on the bed a blanket almost as thin. Bum stains on what was left of the rug. Two plas- tic glasses, one small bar of soap. The toilet didn’t flush until I thought to fill the tank from the ice-bucket. A family had lived here?! The TV had an FM radio tuned to NPR. On the bet that NPR listeners are people of some sensibility, I tried to imagine such people (or any people) living in this room for nearly five months. One resident said they’d just left, and I thought of Butch Hancock’s line, “Where do you go when you’re already gone?” My Chevy had barely made it to the garage. The transmission couldn’t get out of first gear and was screaming an awful whine and emit- ting a horrible smell. When Rodney and Virgil put it up on the rack and took off the tranny pan, out poured a black, stinky liquid full of . . . stuff. But the thing about a ’69 Malibu Chevelle is: Mechanics love it. They’ve owned cars just like mine, and they rhapsodize about their engines, races, and close calls. “Man,” Rodney said, “Ya c’n fix a car like this sometimes with bale wire an’ a screwdriver.” I told him I knew he was right, because a passerby in a pickup had once helped me fix my cracked fan casing with exactly that, some bale wire. I showed Rodney and Virgil where and how. Maybe that was when they decided to like me. Rodney wore overalls, a sporty red beard, and the satisfied expression of a man for whom the world makes way - not the whole world, but his world. It’s his shop now, and when a driver needs a transmission there’s no argu- ing the price. Rodney naturally likes that. His father Virgil started the joint around when I was 5 - which would be 1950. Virgil was somewhere in the vicinity of 80, a tall man for his generation. One eye looked off to the side seeing nothing, while his better eye saw just enough. He told me that back before I- 20 paralleled U.S. 80, Bossier City was known as “Little Las Vegas,” and this stretch was known as “the Strip.” Anything and everything 4KCAERIAN WWW.CAERIAN.COM ♦ Hardware Certifications ♦ Deployment Solutions ♦ MacOSX Support Technical Training Solutions ♦ MacOSX Server Support For Business and Individuals ♦ Directory Services ♦ Security Best Practices SI 2-542-9970 ♦ Cocoa Development ♦ WebObjects Development happened here then, when half this building was a garage and the other half was a honky- tonk. “This here’s where the stage was,” Virgil pointed out. Virgil fronted “a hillbilly band,” played all night, fixed cars all day. He called the life of a musician “a sacrifice,” because you needed so many uppers and downers to keep the schedule going, and eventually that ruined you - though he seemed not to regret it. When Virgil was a small boy in the Thirties he and his family were the only whites picking in the fields. When they got the work they were told “never say ‘nigger’” and they’d be all right. The farm boss was a black woman named Amy. Her word was law. She was their family’s “doctor” too, and delivered his four brothers. She’d lecture the “young ’uns,” Virgil remembered, saying, “See deym horses, see deym mules, see deym hogs - dey’s equal but dey’s different, an’ dey don’ mix wey-11. White an’ black is equal but different too, an’ dey don’t mix wey-11. Best da white boys don’ mix wid da black girls, an’ best da black boys don’ mix wid da white girls.” In Virgil’s view, Amy was approving segregation; in mine, Amy was trying to save her people a lot of grief. Seventy years later she was still fresh in Virgil’s mind, no-nonsense, a midwife, a boss, a protector of her own and holding her own, back when a black woman in Bossier City had no rights and no recourse. All this time later, via Virgil’s memory, it was a privilege to meet Amy. I reproduce Virgil’s dialect because you so rarely hear a deep accent any more, and the music of his speech is part of the man. To make a point about why his time was better than mine, he spoke of working for a woodchopper. 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We had a culture .” Virgil understood that a culture is built upon assumptions shared so deeply that they require no discussion. And Virgil was right, we don’t have that any more. I don’t miss the culture he had; I doubt Amy would miss it either. But we’ve not replaced his culture with a function- ing culture of our own, and that’s what much of our conflict is all about. We’re a fragmented people living out our fragments without much chance for one fragment to talk to, and listen to, the other personally. Unless my transmis- sion conks out in a place like Bossier City, a guy like me hasn’t much chance to hear out a guy like Virgil. Virgil was for capital punishment “’cause the Bible says ‘an eye for an eye.’” In the Bible Jesus also instructs, “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. But if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also” (Matthew 5:38-39). That was a point hard to make on that stretch of U.S. 80 in Bossier City under the flight path of Barksdale Air Force Base. Every 10 minutes or so our conversation was drowned out by the screeching engines of a B-52 rising into the sky. On 9/11 George W Bush touched down at Barksdale just long enough to tape a message which was aired after he took off again. Bush assured us we would be safe, though human beings have never been safe. My transmission had conked out at an intersection of the past and the present, Katrina and 9/11, war and peace, Amy and Virgil, Virgil and me - the intersection, too, of people trying to hold on to a capital-S Something against the onslaught of the aggressive capital-N Nothing that we’re afraid our future might be. I thought of Dylan’s line: “Now it’s that day of confession and we cannot mock a soul, for when there’s too much of nothing no one has control. ” ■ DEBT RELIEF Bankruptcy • Liens • Collections 512-477-2777 cr aigsmithatty @y ahoo . com c? 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Writing is both power and the force to wield it, deriving from the Germanic root “writ,” which meant a cutting, an etching, a grinding of human words into stone. Writing is creation, is shade without form, ges- ture without motion, the moment between the thought and the action, made corporeal. You can see the history of the ancient and mod- ern worlds as glimpsed through this most central of human expressions if you visit the “Technologies of Writing” exhibit that opened this week at UT’s Harry Ransom Center. “How does one actually write?” asks Dr. Kurt Heinzelman, the exhibit’s curator. “What is the material process? What are the things you use historically, as well as in the present? That’s the material and physical center of this exhibition. “Whatever the purpose of writing originally was, the very presence of writing creates another necessi- ty. Once you start getting a written record, you devel- op another kind of material history. And not just his- torical documents, although we have those. The exhibit has a decree from Charles V of Spain that gives possession of the Western Hemisphere to Cortez. It’s a great document - with this piece of writing, I give you possession of this country.” The material contents of the exhibit are drawn not just from the HRC, but from other UT sources as well. Some of the items have never been shown pub- licly, including a set of Mayan glyphs with a carved image that has been stored, uncata- loged, in the base- ment of the Texas Memorial Museum for 50 years, as well as three pieces that use Aztec glyphs, generously loaned to the Ransom Center by the Benson Latin American Collection. One of the star items is a tiny note- book that sits in the palm of your hand. It was smuggled into Irish prisons by IRA sympathizers in 1917 and passed to the prisoners, who wrote their names and the names of their prisons. One of the names inscribed therein is Eamon de Valera, a president of Ireland and a leader in the struggle for Irish independence. “The relationship between changes in writing tech- nology and sweeping historical change is clear,” says Heinzelman. “Gutenberg’s Bible was printed in Latin, but within a decade the first German-language Bible was printed. Within 15 more years, there were nine differ- ent vernacular Bibles in print. Before Gutenberg, there were 30,000 books in Europe. Thirty years afterward, there were 10 million. That’s an explosion. And that sort of event is repeated throughout history. We’re see- ing it right now, a major overhaul in writing technologies.” You can see it, too, etched in stone and clay, sketched on parchment and paper, if you go to get a glimpse of where we’ve been, where we are, and how we got here. - Barry Pineo “Technologies of Writing” is on display through Aug. 5 at the Harry Ransom Center ; UT campus. For more information , call 471-8944 or visit www.hrc.utexas.edu. Greek papyrus fragment, second century BCE, concerning taxes in connection with beer and soda AUSTIN ART IN NYC: The 'Times' times three It isn’t every day that the tastemakers in the Big Apple - especially those in The New York Times - pay tribute to artists from our town, though you might not have known it by last week’s editions. Four out of seven issues included favorable coverage of work by Austin artists. Kirk Lynn’s latest play, Major Bang , or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb, which riffs on Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove to contemplate contemporary paranoia over weapons of mass destruction, netted a nice feature in the Times (“Same Strange Love for a Different Bomb,” Jan. 22), then won a ringing endorsement from chief theatre critic Ben Brantley a few days later: “Laughing ... can be an excellent means of defusing anxiety. Which is the point being demonstrated with remark- able good cheer and insight by Major Bang , ... a dis- arming exercise in political cabaret. ... This Foundry Theater production - conceived by Steve Cuiffo, Kirk Lynn, and Melanie Joseph - is surely the happiest show to have been inspired by the horrors of 9/11." On Friday, painter Julie Speed had her exhibition “Bible Stories” at the Gerald Peters Gallery reviewed by Grace Glueck. “Lovable this imagery isn’t,” the writer noted, “but it grows on you, largely because Ms. Speed’s grasp of it is firm and her technical mastery impressive.” Following a Sunday profile of choreographer Deborah Hay (“A Mad Scientist of Dance Plays in the Lab,” Jan. 22), John Rockwell assessed her latest dance, 0,0, in Saturday’s edition. “It made for a fasci- nating hour,” he wrote. “There is a continual tension here, a flow from stasis to liquid intertwining to com- edy, and from pervasive silence to the eerie choral sound of the dancers’ vocalizations. What it has to do with circles and cells, I know not. But it has a beauty born of this special tension between sponta- neity and intention.” - R.F. MI CASA ES SU TEATRO: Play around the house The unexpected is always to be expected when it comes to the envelope- pushing performances of FronteraFest, but never more so than with Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, the part of this annual theatrical jamboree in which short works are performed in assorted spaces around the city. At least with the Short Fringe, you know whatever wild experiment you’ll be seeing will take place in good ol’ familiar Hyde Park Theatre. Or if it’s the Long Fringe, in the Blue. But on this daylong free-for-all, that show might be in an empty storefront, on somebody’s lawn, or in their home - I mean, they mean it when they say My House Is Your Theatre. This year’s batch, coming up Saturday, Feb. 4, features nine pieces ranging from music to movement to martial arts to monologues in theatres, living rooms, and bathrooms around Austin. For more information, visit www.hydeparktheatre.org. 11am: “Dress Like a Docent” Jaclyn Pryor and Julia M. Smith investigate the idea of the docent, i.e. , one who serves as a well informed guide. Protectors of art or art itself? And how does one dress like a docent? 701 Tillery (20 min.) 11:30am: “Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves ...” A dem- onstration with Foundation Stage Combat and Capoeira Da Rua. 701 Tillery (30 min.) 12:15pm: “RE:construction” Los Angeles political performance artist D’Lo, a Tamil Sri Lankan American, and Austin interdisciplinary artist Florinda Bryant, a Southern gurl who lives on the Eastside, present mono- logues, poetry, short stories, a dope beat with two homegurls and a house with no walls. 5508 Samuel Houston (45 min.) 1:30pm: “'Reader’s Digest’ Musical Theater” Two guitars, one girl, and a box full of Reader's Digests by Party Trick Players. 919 Keith (20 min.) 2pm: “Artifacts of the World Trade Center” When the towers collapsed, the streets of New York were littered with paper. Joe Felice shares the sur- prising and disturbing items that land- ed in his neighborhood, and relates his experience. 919 Keith (20 min.) - Robert Fa ires 3pm: “Oh Hell No!” Elite Austin High School students discuss the tragedy of race and power in the context of Othello. ’Cause they know enough about Marx and Dave Chappelle to really bumble around. Winship Drama Bldg. 1.148 (20 min.) 3:30pm: “The History Lesson” History repeats itself in this move- ment piece about two rival profes- sors by Dallas-based Audacity Productions. Winship Drama Bldg. 1.148 (45 min.) 5pm: “what to expect” A girl and the space between - walls, outfits, trips to the pharmacy, Law & Order reruns, doctor visits, her ears. Written and performed by Sonnet Blanton. 1011 Avondale (15 min.) 5:20pm: “3 Feminine Instincts to Master - and 2 to Ditch” A single 36-year-old in New York confronts her many demons: Communism, feminism, sodomy, and pedicures. And how they all end up in Cosmo magazine. Written and performed by Jessica Hedrick. 1011 Avondale (15 min.) 6-7:30pm: Mi Casa After Party!!! Hosted by Sonnet Blanton. 1011 Avondale IN MEMORIAM: Fayard Nicholas Fayard Nicholas, elder half of the phenomenal Nicholas Brothers tap- dancing team, died Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the age of 91. He had visited Austin twice in the last three years for the Soul to Sole tap festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company and earned his title as “Festival Legend,” not only by sharing his incomparable knowledge of the form and history of rhythm tap but by taking the stage himself. His graceful turns in 2003 and 2005 revealed the master showman still shin- ing within this aged performer. A stroke in November led to a steady decline in Nicholas’ health, and his friends from Tapestry kept a close eye on his condi- tion. Tapestry Artistic Director Acia Gray was told by Nicholas’ wife, dancer Katherine Hopkins-Nicholas, that the legendary hoofer was holding a little bear that the Tapestry folks had sent him for his 91st birthday “when ‘places’ was called for his show upstairs.” The company is working to get the first Soul to Sole conservatory in which he participated and his two performances in Austin, the last of which may have been his last performance ever, in documentary form on DVD. Gray plans to Fayard Nicholas at the 2005 Sole to Soul Festival attend memorial services for him in California. R.F. austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 35 the arts Playing 'House' (and 'Garden') At Austin Playhouse, running Alan Ayckbourn's paired comedies side by side is double the pleasure, double the fun BY ROBERT FAIRES You can imagine what a lark it must be for the audience, this whole paired-comedies- performed-simultaneously-in-adjacent-theatres thing, watching actors dash off stage in one play, then dash on in another; recognizing plot complications from that play as they spill over into this one; seeing the stakes for some of the characters not just doubled but squared; piec- ing together the full story of what happens to all these people from the separate stories. But what about the artists? Because they truly are putting on two plays at once, that’s twice the lines to learn, twice the cues to remember, twice the props to keep track of. It’s double the rehearsal time, not to mention double the energy to sustain. It’s not just finding the right rhythm for a show but matching rhythms between two shows, coordinating the timing so their respective curtains fall at precisely the same moment. You’d think it would be double the headaches, double the flop sweat. You’d think. But according to Don Toner, who’s currently producing Alan Ayckbourn’s twin comedies House and Garden side by side in his Austin Playhouse theatres and who directed the House half, “I have never had more fun working on a production. It’s been nothing but a glorious ride from start to finish.” If that’s not what you expected, well, it’s not what he expected, either. Truth to tell, the vet- eran artistic director hadn’t expected to stage the plays at all. Since British playwright Alan Ayckbourn penned House and Garden in 1999, theatre artists on both sides of the Atlantic have been tantalized by the challenge of producing the two comedies, which are set on the same day in the house and garden of an English country estate and written to be performed by one cast at the same time in adjacent theatres. Don Toner wasn’t one of them, though, despite the fact that he presides over one of the few theatres in Austin to have stages side by side. It wasn’t the formidable challenges of mount- ing the double bill that Toner wasn’t wild about, it was the author. He had been turned off of Ayckbourn’s work by a production of the author’s Way Upstream at the Alley Theatre in 1982. Toner might never have considered producing any of Ayckbourn’s almost six dozen plays - more dramas than Neil Simon and Bill Shakespeare combined, the director jokes - but when surveys of the Austin Playhouse audience indicated that Ayckbourn was a writer they were interested in, Toner thought he ought to give the plays a look. At the suggestion of costume designer Buffy Manners, he read House and Garden and, to his surprise, loved them. “The stuff in both these plays is brilliant,” Toner says. “Forgetting what he had to do mechanically to make it all mesh, the characters, the way they’re drawn, the relationships, the history - it’s just layer upon layer upon layer.” That sold him. “Fine, we’ll give you Ayckbourn,” Toner says, puckishly. “But we’ll give you two Ayckbourns.” Toner did consider directing both shows himself - “for a very brief period of time,” he notes - but time and economics persuaded him that ultimately it would be impractical. Guiding two shows to opening by himself would necessitate six weeks of rehearsals, and with a cast of 14 and union salaries to pay, that was too long. With another director on board, the two shows could be rehearsed the same way they would be performed, simultaneously, over the standard three-week period. Toner admits to some initial misgivings about splitting the directorial duties, given that two people would be steering the creation of the same characters. “I’ve worked with these actors, some of them, for 18 years,” he says. “My worry going in was that I would start hearing, ‘Don, that’s a good idea, but when we were over in Garden ...,’ and I’d get something conflicting.” Fortunately, Toner was able to turn to a collab- orator with whom he had a relationship of long standing, both inside and outside the theatre. Tara Toner has appeared in numerous produc- tions at Austin Playhouse, and before that with the State Theater Company and its predecessor, Five Oak Theatre, and in each of those venues has worked closely with Don Toner on artistic and administrative matters. Just last summer she directed a revival of Ellsworth Schave’s A Texas Romance on the Austin Playhouse second stage. Yes, she happens to be Don Toner’s daughter, but more to the point for him, she’s a creative partner that he could trust on this singular project. After Austin Playhouse audiences indicated their interest in the comedies of Alan Ayckbourn, Toner read his paired plays House and Garden and said, "Fine, we'll give you Ayckbourn. But we'll give you two Ayckbourns." “It wasn’t necessary to formulate a new way of working,” says Toner pere. “We’d been doing this for years. Play selection. Casting - Tara would come and watch and give me notes on my pro- ductions. We communicate very well. We’re on the same wavelength. I’ve seldom had anyone as smart as Tara to help me with sorting out for myself what I thought the work ought to be and how it ought to go. So it’s just a continuation of what we’ve been doing for a number of years now. It seemed a very natural thing for us to do.” Even more natural when it turned out that of the two scripts she liked Garden bet- ter, and he liked House. So the two Toners took their respective favorites and waded into Ayckbourn’s domestic double play. To get a feel for the cross-play quality of the production, the two held the first read-through with chairs for one play on one side of the stage and chairs for the other on the opposite. When actors were called upon to move from the house or the garden or vice versa, they walked from one group to the other. As rehearsals progressed, the casts separated into their respective spaces but continued to move back and forth between the stages depending on what was being rehearsed. As Don Toner explains it, ‘Actors would come to the theatre, and they’d all go to work. They’d either go to work on this stage and move to that stage or that stage and move to this stage. Every now and then, I would say (to stage manager Barry Miller), ‘Barry, could you go see if you can borrow so-and-so so we can do this scene?’ This is a different experience, sharing actors with another production. Not that we don’t do that in Austin all the time - ‘Can I leave by nine? I have another rehearsal. ’ - but generally, we were able to schedule rehearsals so that everybody got there and was busy most of the evening.” As for his concerns about the actors getting mixed signals from dueling directors: Didn’t happen. “Not once,” says Don. “The actors would just build on whatever I gave them and whatever Tara gave them. They put it all togeth- er very easily. No complaints. I can’t remember anybody saying, ‘I’m getting one signal from Don and something else from Tara, and I’m confused.’ I thought our acting company was up to it, and that was an understatement.” continued on p.38 36 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com i flftaaoift, W jdpdMliit yilltii bubLilt Udd jLipdi itit yil i.i- &. ■ahvij/i _r. jKvihi ml. j v.uyjL'.iurr 75% off sale 7 now iervw Lea with ioy rrilk Valentine Sped 9l s on Febn-ary 1 4th New stationary, toys, tototo items, t-shirts, snacks & so much more.,. r » > www.m omn k-a-g ifts.com Mg n-5at 1 Cl am - y pm ^un 1 1 pm -6 pm «2lihM/w.oi5:rt-i^-7S-?="05 .ii^r -ir^ cafe Mo&ot 99$-5$oo In vestgate center ■www.eafemonet.org Emmy® Award Winning Tony© Award Nominated "Something wonderful to believenW Cathy Rigby is a Gold Medal Winning Peter Pan!”. , oe i sieaei. abc tv ' FEBRUARY 7-12 • UT PAC’S BASS CONCERT HAL 1 v Tickets available at BroadwayAcrossAmerica.com 477-6060 and Central Market location^ TIME WARNER Austin Amcrican-Stattsman statesman.com "Fialkowska performs with a clarity that sets her apart from the ordinary superstars." —The Toronto Star MOZART CHOPIN MOZART SEASON SPONSOR CONCERT SPONSORS JPMorganChase © Bank of America SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS Time Warner Cable/News 8 Austin Austin American-Statesman, KVET-FM 98.1 Friday, February 3, 2006 Saturday, February 4, 2006 8 pm, Bass Concert Hall ( Cl i/lOll)^/lCl piano The Abduction from the Seraglio Overture, K.384 Piano Concerto No.1 in e minor, Op.11 Symphony No.41 in C Major, K.551 “Jupiter” THE AUSTIN SYMPHOi PETER BAY, Conductor 4 7 6.6 0 6 4 austinsymphony o r g Tickets start at $19 4MAESTRO ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER \ DITH JAMISON ARTISTI C DIRECTOR Vasaz’uini Cfiaya associate artistic director CLIFTON BROWN PHOTO BY ANDREW ECCLES ON SALE NOW! 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The Zachary Scott Theatre Center and the Dougherty Arts Center qualify, but they cling to the southern shores of Town Lake, almost as if they’d jump the water into downtown if they had the chance. A little deeper in, there’s the Mary Moody Northen Theatre on the campus of St. Edward’s University, but that’s about it - and about all there has been for many a season. South Austin just hasn’t been fertile soil for local theatres the way downtown and the Eastside have. All of which is to say that Don Toner was tak- ing a chance when he moved his Austin Playhouse into the newly developed Penn Field business park at 3601 S. Congress. It was off the beaten track, all the more so given the way it was tucked into a back corner of the development. It was not the kind of place that potential audience mem- bers were just going to stumble upon. But taking a page out of the Field of Dreams book, Toner picked up his hammer - when he isn’t directing, he’s usually building something - creat- ed a 170-seat theatre with a thrust stage, and trusted that his audience would come. And they did, just as they’d come before the company had its own theatre and was producing at Concordia College and at McCallum High School. “I had every right to be doubtful that we could do this,” Toner says, “and I underestimated on the one hand the depth of feeling that a lot of people have for me and the work I’ve done in this town and on the other hand the strength of the team of artists who are still associated with me. I won’t ever underesti- mate that again. I keep being reminded of that on a daily basis, in terms of people stepping up and doing wonderful work, people choosing to work at Austin Playhouse when they have other oppor- tunities, and people helping fund what we do.” Now in his fourth season with Austin Playhouse at Penn Field, Toner is wishing he had designed the space with a little more seating. “We’re full too often,” he says. “You want to budget for a half a house and be able to survive on that. We’re up to three-quarters to four-fifths on average.” Which is not to suggest that he’s discontented. “I couldn’t be happier with the outcome. I’ve never worked as hard as I have in the last five years. I’ve never seen so much accomplished in such a short time.” Then, true to form, the artistic di recto r-cum-carpenter adds, “And did I mention I’m building a house?” - R.F. The company did separate the openings of the two shows by a week, just to give them- selves more time to sort out technical issues. “Opening weekend of House was tech for Garden ,” says Lara. “The actors had already been in run-throughs of Garden , so we had kind of a head start in that. You have to be in run-throughs at the same time as far as seeing how things are timing out and all of that. ” Timing was more than essential, it was criti- cal. Both plays don’t just run loosely alongside one another, they must keep pace, so characters can literally exit a scene in one play and enter the other play without a dropped beat. And they are intended to end at exactly the same moment. That’s tricky, especially since Garden seems to the production team to be a less fully developed script, with activities such as a fancy dress contest for small children intended to pad the script out a bit and buy the Garden company time in the running of the show. With the limitations of the Austin Playhouse second stage, some of those bits were cut, and it showed when the shows started running side by side. “The first run-through we did, Garden was a full 20 minutes shorter than House,” Lara Toner recalls. “I said, ‘I don’t know what y’all are doing over there.’” Which prompts her father’s deadpan reply, “Apparently, people were acting.” Beat. “We stopped that right away.” In the week or so before opening, the two productions were able to get more in sync, timewise, but they still had to compensate for Garden’s shortcomings, so to speak. So Don, who gives a curtain speech for each of the shows, starts with House, then gives the speech for Garden, which allows the play to start a minute or so later. But unlike with most shows, the House and Garden company isn’t able to coast on the rhythm of the show they worked out prior to opening. As Lara Toner puts it, “One of the more interesting things I’ve found backstage is that usually you get a show up and run- ning, and you’re able to sort of relax into the rhythm of it. There’s just no relaxing into the rhythm of this show. I’ve never been so aware as a performer or director of how long scenes are, of where we are in scenes. We’ll check in on House, and say ‘We need to stretch a little in Garden ,’ and that word gets passed around, and (the actors) stretch a little in Garden.” “Or pick it up,” says Don, which provokes a round of laughter. More seriously (but not much), he adds, “The stage managers are constantly checking in with each other about how many pages they have left.” And that provokes a round of praise for Barry Miller, who has stage managed many an Austin Playhouse production and is characterized by Don Toner as “unflappable.” Much of what Miller and the actors have to adjust for every evening is the character of the audiences, which is different at every perfor- mance and sometimes wildly different between the two shows on the same night. Case in point: A Saturday night performance in which the Garden audience was clearly enjoying itself, but the crowd next door was having a riotous time. An actor could wink and bring the House house down. And every big laugh drew out the running time for House a few seconds, time that its com- panion production wasn’t losing. At one point, the Toners estimate, a three- to four-minute gap in timing had grown between the two shows, and as Don Toner notes, Garden can’t hold for House’s laughs. So, Lara remembers, actress Babs George “went on in this little scene (in House), and she drove it so much, I think she took two minutes out. And didn’t lose any laughs. And everybody else (in the cast) picked up the pace. It was beautiful to listen to backstage.” As it turned out, both shows hit the finish line at the same time, just as they’re supposed to. But, curiously enough, it’s what happens after that moment that has proven the biggest chal- lenge for the two directors. “The most difficult thing about this whole production, bar none, was the curtain call,” says Lara. “We had more conversations about the curtain call and how that was going to work (than anything else), and for a little while I just about threw up my hands.” “In the back of the script, they suggest the way they’ve done it in other productions is just split the cast: half take a call in one theatre, half in the other,” says Don. “But we’ve got it now so that Garden comes down 30 seconds to a minute before House, so you have time for a good curtain call, then everybody’s off and in line for the next curtain call. And we have the people who are first in line for the House curtain call leave the stage first and the others follow.” The director figures there’s a chance that some night that final bow won’t time out quite as planned, but he has some perspective about it. “If we can keep it all together ’til the curtain call and it falls apart, we’ll be fine. We can live with that. ” ■ House and Garden run through Feb. 19, Thursday- Saturday, 8pm, Sunday, 5pm, at Austin Playhouse at Penn Field, 3601 S. Congress. For more information, call 476-0084 or visit www.austinplayhouse.com. In the spirit of Rumi Gene Kelley and Robin Williams Whole Life Books Presents: Errol Strider Poet Dancer Comic Actor Demonstration and Talk on the Transformational power of Art and Humor, “That’s Innertainment” 7:30pm Sun Feb. 12 FREE!!! More info at striderinnertainment.com Whole Life Books 1006 S. Lamar 11-10 Mon-Sat, 12-7 Sundays Call Austin’s Largest Spiritual and Metaphysical Bookstore at 443-6794 W/iere Extra ordinary '.Beads Thu i Creative Tiaple j?tK 3 Soutfi .Cl 'fiii r «■ ju 38 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com 4 FLAX T. KENNEDY 1011 W. Lynn • 478-0545 House Cleaning li 5TETE www.AustinTheatre.org - or - (866) 4GET-TIX i ihl-hgiAi something special for everyone you love Jglue £lephant near central market north 37 1 .3259 This exhibition is co-presented by Bank of America and Maxwell, Locke £r Ritter L.L.P. Support also provided by Jane and Michael Scott, Saleem and Carmen Tawil, and The Friends of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. ▼ The Austin Museum of Art 2006 Exhibition Sponsors are Berman Family Foundation, Green Family Foundation, Chris Mattsson and John McHale, Bettye and Bill Nowlin, Susman, Tisdale and Gayle Architecture and Interior Design, Rosemary Haggar Vaughan Family Foundation, Vinson & Elkins LLP and Texas Commission on the Arts. ▼ 2006 Education Outreach is generously supported by 3M, James Armstrong, Bank of America, Katelena Hernandez Cowles and James Cowles, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Texas Commission on the Arts, donors to the Education Fund, Laura W. Bush Endowment for Education and Outreach and an anonymous donor. ▼ The Austin Museum of Art is funded in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division, The Austin Fine Arts Alliance, Museum Trustees, Members, and Patrons. ▼ The Austin Museum of Art 2006 Promotional Sponsors are News 8 Austin and Time Warner Cable, The Austin Chronicle, and KUT Radio 90.5. WE'RE AUSTIN'S MUSEUM OF ART AUSTIN MUSEUM ofART ▼ THE WURTH MUSEUM COLLECTION William Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT Feb 15 - Mar 5, Wed-Sat, 8 pm \ Sun , 2pm Directed by Paul Mullins This major exhibition highlights the careers of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband and wife artist team who have created some of the most compelling public art of the past forty-four years. Together they challenge perceptions of art with their grand, temporary environmental projects. Often using fabric, the artists have transformed various settings throughout the world, revealing the urban and rural architecture of their chosen sites. The Cates, their most recent work of art, consisted of billowing saffron fabric panels suspended from 7,503 gates running for twenty-three miles throughout New York's Central Park. Drawing from the collection of the Wurth Museum in Kiinzelsau, Germany, this exhibition is comprised of seventy-five works, including preparatory drawings, collages, and photographs of their many projects, as well as early wrapped objects and a scale model of the Wrapped Reichstag. STARTING FEBRUARY 1, AMOA MEMBERS wM I have exclusive access to advance tickets to the Christo and Jeanne-Claude lecture at the Paramount on March 30. Join today at www.amoa.org or call 512.495.9224 X245. EXPERIENCE FAMILYLAB 2006 The FamilyLab gives visitors, especially children, the tools to interpret art and make connections to the world around them. Play with shifting the shapes of your own shadow or watch as others' shadows transform. Explore links between the mysteriously transformed objects. Learn together how you can transform everyday scenes in a collaborative wall drawing. FamilyLab 2006 is free with Museum admission and for AMOA Members. AUSTIN MUSEUM OF ART- DOWNTOWN 823 Congress Avenue • 512.495.9224 GALLERIES AND MUSEUM STORE Tuesday-Saturday 10-6 • Thursday 10-8 • Sunday Noon - 5 WWW.AMOA.ORG Olivia loves Cesario who is really Viola who is in love with lord Orsino who loves Olivia who sends Cesario to woo Olivia on his behalf. Wow, love is complicated. The State Theatre Company presents Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, a comedy about seduction, deception, gender and true love. Surrounded Islands, Biscayne Bay, Greater Miami, Florida 1980-83, Photograph 1983 Photo Credit: Wolfgang Volz, 39 3/4 x 28 inches © Christo and Jeanne- Claude 1983 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 39 the arts :: AFTER A FASHION BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER SAY WHAT? It came straight from the Bible that he (Jesus) had a glass of wine. Actually, I don’t know if it says he actually drank it, but whatever.” - Kelly Clarkson defending her drinking in the January/ February issue of Blender magazine NOT TO BE MISSED The interdisciplinary art collective Gat5, committed to promoting the Austin art community through the fusion of visual art, design, film, music, and theatre, is producing the Gat5 Showcase, a group art exhibit featuring a variety of 2-D and 3-D works exhibited in small spaces throughout the venue, several video installations and film projections. Gulp, that’s a mouthful, n’est-ce pas ? Well, it may sound dry, but it will be anything but dry. Benefiting Gat5 and AIDS Services of Austin, the show will be held Thu., Feb. 23 at Antone’s, with a VIP Cocktail Hour from 7-8pm with Mike Vernon and 3 Balls of Fire playing. 54 Seconds and Johnny Goudie will also per- form, followed by Alpha Rev (www.alpharev.com), featuring Casey McPherson, former lead sing- er for Endochine. Tickets ($10 general, $25 VIP) are available at www.frontgatetickets.com, www.gat5art.com, and www.myspace.com/gat5. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention that I’ll be debuting my first clothing collection in many years at the event, replete with glamorous celebrity models. But you’ll just have to wait until next week to find out exactly what I have up my sharply pressed and beautifully cut sleeve. WHITHER SONIC? It s gone For years it was there ... and then overnight it was gone. The Sonic drive-in near my home, which I often considered my weekend getaway, is now just an empty parking lot. It was the first place I drove to when I got my own car. I con- sidered having my wedding reception there - if I were to get married, of course. But now it’s just a distant memory ... and I’ll have to drive to the Sonic on South Lamar to use up all the free hamburger cards I’ve collected. UP A TREE Loyal readers have noticed that there was no annual update about my Christmas tree. It’s because I didn’t have one this year. I know: It’s shocking, given the depth of my devotion to Christmas decor, but I just couldn’t summon up the courage to drag out all the accoutrements. Perhaps it’s because the tree I put up in October 2004 was so lavish that I didn’t take it down until October of 2005 ... which is when I usually would have put up a new tree. But by October, I had embarked upon my new mis- sion of making luxury Christmas stockings. With a cutting table where my tree should have gone, and sewing machines where I usu- ally display the Waterford crystal ornaments my Sister Margaret gives me every year, I just didn’t have the room to put up a tree. Not to mention that with Christmas stockings flying off my sewing machine and my apart- ment dripping with beads and rhinestones and velvet and fur, putting up a Christmas SITINGS For a complete overview of building cows out of concrete, check out the charming Web site of the wonderful Cheryl Latimer (www.latimerdesign.com), noted for her cows for Amy’s Ice Creams. And enter a world unto itself at www.box-mag.com, brainchild of Editor Christopher Trout, aka Bunny Le Roi. Trout’s Skinny Boy Burlesque shows have reportedly set the Peacock Lounge on its ear twice now. Christopher Trout, aka Editor Bunny LeRoi of the webzine Box-Mag.com and Skinny Boy Burlesque, is making quite a name for himself... but you can choose one for yourself. tree would have been redundant. I did man- age to throw some lights in my windows and deck, and put a dazzling wreath on my door (with peacocks and crystals and white lights) to fool my neighbors, though. Maybe this year I’ll get on track and put the tree up and take it down within a reasonable amount of time. Imagine that. LE SALE This weekend, Sat., Feb. 4 (12- 6pm), and Sun., Feb. 5 (llam-5pm), is the bigger-and-better-than-ever Le Garage Sale at the Austin Music Hall (208 Nueces). Admission is $10 Saturday and $5 Sunday, cash only. Participants include By George, Fetish, Shiki, Garden Room, Scarbrough’s, Adelante, Tootsies, Service Menswear, Estilo, Wildflower, Fabby Darling, Crofts Originals, Zanzibar, Big Red Sun, Moxie & the Compound, Daisy Hill, Monsoon Imports, and Pure West. Beware - there are no dressing rooms! START YOUR ENGINES The Designer Clearance House’s semiannual warehouse shoe and accessory sale is on Sat., Feb 4, 10am-5pm, and Sun., Feb. 5, 10am-3pm at the Centre, 7801 N. Lamar Ste. A130, at 183. Stuart Weitzman, Cordani, Anne Klein, Michael Kors, Marc Jacobs, and plenty more. 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The excerpt in question showed Pablo Picasso meeting fa uvi st/cubist Georges Braque, which is fine and dandy. What was neither fine nor dandy was the fact that Picasso is depicted in the nude; that got Lee saddled with a “distributing material harmful to minors” charge, among several equally serious others. Currently, the trial is winding its way toward conclusion, with several counts being dismissed. But hey, like they say, it ain’t over until Yogi Bear sings. Enter the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a not-for-profit legal assistance outfit founded by Denis Kitchen (of renowned underground imprint Kitchen Sink Press) that’s helping to defray the legal expenditures of the Lee defendants and, now and in the past, many other comic authors, artists, and shop owners who otherwise might find them- selves run roughshod over by the ever more con- servative and cash-flush powers that be. “Jiminy! This is serious!” We hear you cry. “Flow can I help?” Glad you asked. Venerable comic book nexus Austin Books is sponsoring a fundraiser and membership drive for the CBLDF and “to support the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comics community” on Friday, Feb. 3, 8-llpm, with special guest Terry Moore, author/artist of the multi-award-winning Strangers in Paradise, on hand to sign copies of his work and make like the four-color superstar he is. Ten bucks gets you in the door and a chance to win door prizes, schmooze with Moore, and take advantage of 50% off back-stock comics and 25% off graphic novels and trade paperbacks. Plus, you get to bask in the glow of knowing you did the right thing in an age of increasing wrongness. - Marc Savlov For more on the CBLDF, go to WWW.cbldf.com, For more on Austin Books, go to WWW.austinbooks.com, ALSO THIS WEEK ... Actually, also on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 7pm, albeit at BookPeople: The always formidable Utter Reading Series showcases novelist Scott Blackwood and poet Randall Watson. Go forth and absorb. Speaking of Blackwood, he writes in to say that UT’s Undergraduate Writing Center is working with the Carver Museum & Cultural Center (1165 Angelina) to offer free writing con- sultations, which themselves launch on Tuesday, Feb. 7, albeit at 5pm. The consultations - which can cover everything from resumes to poetry, let- ters of complaint to letters of recommendation - will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5-8pm. For more information, call 974-4926. THE NIGHT JOURNAL by Elizabeth Crook Viking, 454 pp., $24.95 Though the structure of Elizabeth Crook’s The Night Journal could be labeled with lit-crit buzzwords like mise en abyme and metafic- tion, the best descriptor available for it is the slightly awkward “story-within-a- story.” The novel has two connected plotlines, the first a frame story of sorts in which the main character reads the second story in a book. The writ- ing of a fictional book within an actual book is a risky maneuver with numerous challenges. One must make sure to main- tain two distinct voices while making them relevant to each other. In some cases, the frame story can appear to exist solely as a vehicle for the inner story; in others, the inner story can seem a page-filling, unnec- essary diversion. Though it’s important that the stories relate in some way, too many similarities can make both storylines seem contrived. Crook manages to avoid these pitfalls with a simple conceit: The titular journals are those of the protagonist Meg’s great- grandmother, Flannah. The relationship between the characters allows for some resemblance between them, and the jour- nals are read in the place they were writ- ten, which deepens the connection. Meg is a believable, modern-day Austinite: a water-treatment specialist who gets acupuncture and dates an emotionally unavailable archi- tect. She’s spent most of her life in the shadow of her great- grandmother, whose journals Meg’s grandmother, Bassie, has annotated and published to great acclaim. Motivated by her resentment of Bassie, who raised her and “pretty well made a mess of [her] life,” Meg has managed for 37 years to avoid reading the journals with which she once shared a room. That is until she grudgingly accom- panies Bassie on a trip back to Flannah’s former homestead to disinter the bones of the family dogs before a visitors center is constructed. Meg has never been to New Mexico, her great-grandmother’s territory, and something in the air inspires her to crack open the books for the first time. Flere, the book could’ve easily turned into a sappy, feel-good novel about the impor- tance of family. There’s a little bit of that, but running through the journals is a dark undercurrent. This sense of mystery is strengthened when the skeletons they find on their trip - literal and figurative - are not canine. 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BY MICK VANN Bombay Bistro has ascended to the top of Austin’s competitive Indo-Pakistani restaurant scene like a new raj, new royalty For a strip-center location, it’s surprisingly elegant in an understated way When you stroll through the door, the teasing, mingled aroma of complex spice is the first thing you notice. Our visits were with a couple of close friends who have lived for years in various parts of Indonesia, a region with a huge Indian population boasting some of the world’s better Indian cuisine. We knew that if Bombay Bistro could impress them, it would have to be the real deal. While getting situated with the large menu, we took a peek at the lunch buffet: clamshell warmers with fresh-looking ingredients in a large array of choices. This is not your standard Indian buffet: It’s a cut above. From the list of 15 starters on the menu, one jumped out immediately: Machi Amritsari ($6.95): fried fingers of tilapia in a delightful chickpea-cumin crust, with a Punjab chili-garlic sauce. The batter is a perfect balance of flavors, the fish moist under- neath, the sauce packed with spicy zing. A crowd favorite. We chose several breads from the 1 1 choices, and found them to be excellent: all delightfully charred from the tandoor, with flaky layers and a lightness rarely found. Paneer Kulcha ($2.95) is stuffed with paneer cheese and herbs; Keema Naan ($2.95) is stuffed with ground lamb, ginger, and cilantro. The standard house Naan ($1.50) is the best in town. The menu of 30-plus entrees is the real treat: You’ll see choices here that you can’t find anywhere else in Austin, as well as the standards (offered with your choice of meats). We picked four that sounded tempting. Lucknowi Seekh Kabob ($12.95) is a finely spiced ground lamb mixture formed around a large skewer and grilled in the tandoor. It’s served on a hot plate with charred onions, and the meat is intensely flavorful and juicy. Bharwaan Aloo ($10.95), a northwestern dish, is “barrels” of potato, stuffed with onion, nuts, tomato, and cheese, grilled in the tandoor, and topped with a creamy nut sauce, and the overall combination is sublime. Fish Malabar ($13.95) is a Kerala specialty, and the favorite of the group: tilapia cooked in coconut milk, with fragrant curry leaves, mustard seeds, tamarind, and fennel powder. It comes with Fish Malabar is a Kerala specialty, and the favorite of the group: tilapia cooked in coconut milk, with fragrant curry leaves, mustard seeds, tamarind, and fennel powder. Bombay Bistro 10710 Research Blvd. #126, 342-2290 Lunch: Monday-Friday, llam-2pm; Saturday-Sunday, ll:30am-3pm Dinner: Sunday-Thursday, 5:30-10pm; Friday-Saturday, 5:30-10:30pm www.bombay-bistro.com a sweet blend of curried sugar snap peas and car- rots. The dish is an aromat- ic orgasm, and the flavor is just as satisfying. We had to try the Mutton Curry ($14.95), a classic dish redolent of tomato, onion, and ginger. The menu says it’s cooked with goat meat, and not mutton - a bit confusing. Though it’s a little bony for the price, the taste is a knockout. This dish comes with a potato side in a creamy sauce, again the perfect match. One of the entrees came with Saug Paneer as a side dish, and here it is refreshing and lively, an intricate mix of spinach and paneer cheese. Of the 14 vegetable dishes offered, we selected two. Baigan Bartha ($8.95), a Punjab treat of smoky eggplant, fresh peas, onion, tomato, and ginger in a cream sauce, floored the group with its addictive flavor profile. Navratan Korma ($8.95), created centuries ago for the Mogul emperor Akbar, is the classic nine- vegetable mix, flavored with cardamom, cashews, turmeric, and chile in a sensuous cream sauce. Even the condiments are superb. The Aloo Pineapple Raita ($2.95) is made with potatoes and pineapple with yogurt, forti- fied with mustard seeds and chile. The house Raita ($1.95) is fairly standard, but the roasted cumin and mint come through nicely. The Achar ($1.50) is especially vibrant. The meal starts with papadum, served with a chile sauce and a sweet tamarind sauce. Even these normally pedestrian lentil chips are delicious at Bombay Bistro. There is a very complete wine and beer list, with several Indian beers offered. Service is efficient and nonob trusive. The owners seduced their chef to come over from the Maurya Sheraton in Delhi. Whatever they are paying him, they are defi- nitely getting their money’s worth. He has set a new standard for the Austin competition, and set it high. Needless to say, our Indonesia-dwelling friends were suit- ably impressed, and offered a favorable judgment. Bombay Bistro is a restaurant that is sure to please anyone with any interest in the widely varied cuisines of the Indian subconti- nent. Welcome to Austin! ■ F00D-0-FILE BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD FOOD PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Kudos to Sunset Valley Farmers Market found- er/manager Pamela Boyar for the well-deserved honor she received from 400 of her peers recently. Boyar was named Farmers’ Market Manager of the Year by the North American Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association during their annual convention held in Austin earlier this month. Busloads of conventioneers visited Sunset Valley, Boggy Creek Farm, and the Downtown Farmers’ Market during their stay... Chef James Holmes has left the Alamo Drafthouse Village and begun serious development of his as-yet- unnamed South Austin bistro to be designed by Michael Hsu. We’ll keep you posted on the sched- uled fall opening on that project. Meanwhile, the Drafthouse folks have promoted from within and moved South Lamar sous chef Trish Eichelberger into the top spot at the Village... Being named to the Saveur magazine Top 100 for 2005 has been a real boost for Kakawa Whole Bean Chocolates. Owner Tom Pedersen reports he’s been invited to do interviews on food radio programs around the country this month and has seen hits increase on his Web site... And speaking of Flsu, we hear his other current restaurant design project is for Sandra Bullock’s new eatery. EVENT MENU :: FEB. 4-9 Rob and Amy Cartwright, owners of Austin’s new- est microbrewery, Independence Brewing Co. (3913 Todd Ln. #607; www.independencebrewing.com), invite you to a monthly tour day and beer tasting. The event will also offer chocolate tastings, Mangia’s heart- shaped pizzas, and unique gift ides for Valentine’s Day. Admission is free. Check the Web site for direc- tions; 1pm, Saturday, Feb. 4. Austin’s first Chocolate Show & Competition (sponsored by Paris Gourmet) at the Texas Culinary Academy (11400 Burnet Rd., 837-2665) will showcase entries created by TCA students, as well as the works of local retailers and artisan choco- latiers: Grapevine Market, Expressions Chocolates, SXUL Chocolates, Quintessential Chocolates, Fat Turkey Chocolates, Wiseman Chocolates, Kakawa Whole Bean Chocolates, Miles of Chocolate, plus chocolate fountains from the Chocolate Cup. The event is open to the public noon-3pm, Saturday, Feb. 4. Onion Creek Kitchen at Juniper Hills Farm (830/833-0910; www.juniperhillsfarm.com) has added a Farmer’s Series to their regular cooking-school sched- ule. Longtime area farmer Harley Clark will share lessons learned in 30 years of organic farming in the Flill Country, and a light lunch based on produce from the late winter garden will be served. Cost is $45. Call or check the Web site for directions; 2pm, Sunday, Feb. 5. Vivo Mexican Restaurant (2015 Manor Rd., 482- 0300) announces new hours that include Sunday eve- nings from 5 to 10pm and Mondays from 11am to 10pm. They’ve designated the first Sunday of every month as Gay and Lesbian Night, with regular live entertain- ment and a portion of the proceeds benefiting AIDS Services of Austin, Project Transitions, and the Interfaith Care Alliance; 5-10pm, Sunday, Feb. 5. Gina’s Kitchen (917 W. 12th, 236-0705, www. ginaskitchen.com) offers two very different dinner class- es for you and your valentine. Try the Thai Cooking class by Jam Sanichat or the Aphrodisiac Foods for Your Sweetie class by Dana Drutz and Bill Chambers. Call or check the Web site for prices and reserva- tions; 7pm, Thursday, Feb. 9; 7pm, Tuesday, Feb. 14. austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 45 food BUENOS AIRES CAFE 2414 S. First, 441-9000 Monday-Thursday, 8:30am-9:30pm; Friday-Saturday, 8:30am-10pm www.buenosairescafe.com Ever since cinephiles and foodies fell in love with the Paradise cafe in the film Big Night, the discovery of the exquisite and scrupulously authentic unknown restaurant has become a culinary quest. Who wouldn’t want to stum- ble upon an establishment where the cuisine is painstak- ingly created with an artist’s skill? Of course, you’d want the joint to be more successful than the Pilaggi brothers’ place, and in our version of this fantasy, the cafe’s cuisine is rewarded with lines of appreciative patrons who eschew the mediocre fare at plebeian restaurants. Buenos Aires Cafe, a newly opened venture on South First, comes as close to this “Eureka!” experience as any we can imagine. Housed in a modest building next door to a pawn shop, Buenos Aires has only seven tables indoors and a handful on the outside patio. At breakfast and lunch, meals are ordered at the counter and delivered to your table, while at dinner there is full- service dining. At all meals, the food is superlative. Breakfast might begin with a pastry or two; lunch and/or dinner will more likely conclude with one. The sequence isn’t important: Just get some! The array of glistening treats look as tempting as any French bake shop’s. The gorgeous visuals are only part of the plea- sure, though. The puff pastry base shatters in the mouth as layers upon layers of pastry yield to your teeth. There are Argentinean-style croissants (smaller than typical French ones and just as good, $1.39), filled pastries (dulce de leche is the favored filling, $1.39), and Danish-looking treats like “facturas” and the curiously named “vigilantes” ($1.59 and $1.39), plus assorted cakes and tarts. They’re divine and make for a most sumptuous breakfast spread. Dinner was a revelation, too. The options are limited to six entrees and a handful of starters. We sampled a couple of the empanadas options ($2.19): the carne picante (spicy beef) and the verdura (spinach). Both were encased with a flaky, golden crust that enveloped savory fillings perfectly seasoned. The empanadas are not overly large, and it would be easy to knock back a half a dozen or so, but then you’d be too full for the entrees. And that would be tragic. Our group sampled the Pastel de Papas (shepherd’s pie, $9.99), the crepes ($9.99), and the Polio al Homo (roast chicken, $12.99). Served in a large ramekin and covered with a frosting of mashed potatoes, the “pie” was as hearty as any served up in countless English pubs, but infinitely tastier and better seasoned. The crepes are filled with a puree of portobello mushrooms and eggplant and topped with bechamel and cheese which makes for a silky, rich, and delicious dish. The roast chicken, however, is where the gauntlet was thrown down. Served improbably as a nearly bone- less breast, my first impression was one of disappoint- ment. A solitary breast does not a roast chicken make! One bite, however, revealed this was no frozen slab tossed into an oven to dry out. The juicy, succulent meat is imbued with the flavor of herbs and sits in a pool of green flecked jus. Our attentive waiter revealed part of the process: a whole bird is brined overnight and then roasted. Most of the bird is used in empanadas, soups, etc., while the breast is boned and served as this entree. Divine. It should be noted that a beer and wine license is in the offing, so until further notice, BYOB. A lunch visit was rewarded with two of the tastiest soups ($4.19) we’ve experienced in some time: a cream of spinach that was as green and fresh as spring itself, and cream of corn, so unseasonably corny it was like gnawing on a cob. Sandwiches are served on homemade bread and salads are tossed with house dressings. And none disappointed. Buenos Aires claims to authentically capture the cui- sine and atmosphere of Argentina. Having never been there, we’re no more qualified to confirm this assertion than the gangs that thronged the inferior meatball house over the exquisite Paradise in Big Night. But, like the guests at the dinner that gave name to the film, we know excellent food when we taste it - and a jewel of a restaurant when we find it. - Barbara Chisholm MI COLOMBIA 1614 E. Seventh, 391-0884 Tuesday-Thursday, llam-9pm; Friday-Saturday, llam-lOpm; Sunday, llam-6pm www.micolombiafood.com Situated in a charming old stone house one block east of the state cemetery, Mi Colombia was opened by Doha Emilia and two partners. Once they get their alcohol permit, there will be a nice selection of South American beer and wine. We started our meal with a Picada Colombiana ($8.50), a large basket of a mix of chicharron, yucca fries, meat cubes, plantains, potatoes, and chorizo, which will be perfect when there is cold beer to go with it. Mi Colombia’s version of chicharron is unique: fried diced squares of pork skin, some meaty, some not, but all are rich and tasty (and Atkins friend- ly!). The potatoes are first-simmered tiny little new potatoes, crisped up in the fryer. The yucca fries are crispy on the outside, and fluffy and moist inside. The chorizo is lean and enticing. Their empanadas ($1.99, meat or chicken) are like the lightest gordi- tas you have ever tasted, with a masa-influenced pastry surrounding a rich and flavorful filling of meat and potato. These are superb and addic- tive. The arepas ($1.50, cheese; $3, meat; or $2.75, chicharron) are a little listless: The dough is relatively bland and a little dense - they could use some refinement to match the high quality of the empanadas, and would be much better with a dipping sauce. The Ajiaco Sopa ($5.50) is a large bowl of hearty potato and garlic broth, with tender chicken with corn cob-ettes, accompanied by lime, a side plate of rice, and an avocado half. It’s a meal in itself, and quite good. We sampled the Chuleta Valluna ($9.50), which is a large pounded-out pork tenderloin section. It’s fried Milanesa-style, topped with a confit of garlic and tomato, and accompanied by tostones (twice-sauteed plan- tains). The tender pork has a seductively rich flavor and a light, golden- brown crust. The Sobrebarriga a la Criolla ($9.50) is shredded flank steak mixed with a savory creole sauce. This meat melts in your mouth, and the maduros (fried sweet plantain) we chose as a side are perfect. Churrasco ($14) is what we thought might be a hanger steak, well-sea- soned and marinated, and then grilled, served with a garlicky, tart chimi- churri sauce. The red and black bean sides, like typical Caribbean beans, are sparsely spiced. Pop some of those chicharron morsels in them and you’d really have something. Entrees come with a selection from a com- plete list of sides. For dessert, we were tempted by the Brevas con Arequipe ($3.50), a plate of allspice-flavored sweetened figs combined with a nice salty, aged, Latin white cheese. It is a simple yet refined combination, and delicious. Lest you think the menu too meat-centric, we saw an appealing order of fried whole fish that looked exceptional on an adjoining table, and a stuffed chicken breast and arroz con polio at another. The plates were clean and polished at our table, and at the adjoining tables as well. Lest you fret, Colombian cuisine is by nature not spicy. Service is very friendly and efficient, and waitstaff are more than will- ing to explain the menu or make suggestions. Liquados, Latin smoothies made from tropical fruit juices and either water or milk, seemed to be very popular with much of the crowd. There is a less-expensive lunch-spe- cials menu offered during the day, and many lunch diners opt for that route. Mi Colombia has a few minor wrinkles to iron out, but when they do, plan on a wait to get in the door. What we ate was delicious, rustic Colombian fare, authentically prepared. - Mick Vann So fresh you'll feel naughty. Our vegetables are cut fresh daily, our cheese is freshly grated each day, and we prepare our sauce fresh every morning. Do you notice a pattern here? For the freshest pizza around, call Austin's Pizza at 795-8888. 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Sixth, 474-6722 $$ FINE DINING, SOUTHWESTERN: ROARING FORK The rustic decor - all stone, metal, leather, and antlers - along with hearty Western entrees and robust side dishes are a carnivore’s dream. 701 Congress, 583-0000 $$$ FINE DINING, ITALIAN: ROCCO’S GRILL The downtown location for this Lakeway favorite is a midrange, sophisticated, yet robust spot sport- ing outlandish murals that are as hearty as the food. 612 W. Sixth, 480-5920 $$$ DELIVERY, PIZZA: ROPPOLO’S PIZZERIA Roppolo’s offers a variety of pies at their downtown location. Whether you’re a vegetarian or a carnivore, they know how to pile on the toppings. 316 E. Sixth, 476-1490 $ TEX-MEX: SERRANO’S Muchas margaritas and full-service Tex-Mex overlooking the Symphony Square amphitheatre. 1111 Red River, 322-9080 $$ JAPANESE: SILHOUETTE Sushi, rice rolls, dump- lings, spring rolls, wraps, coffees, teas, and live music. It’s the perfect spot for that late-night pick-me-up. 718 Congress, 478-8899 $$ ITALIAN: SPAGHETTI WAREHOUSE This kid-tested, mother-approved Italian restaurant is a surefire hit with the munchkins.The generous portions are anything but child's play. 117 W. Fourth, 476-4059 $$ STEAKHOUSE: SULLIVAN’S STEAKHOUSE The perfect meal here is the 24-oz. Cowboy Ribeye along with their justifiably famous Wedge of Iceberg, slathered with a decadent blue cheese dressing. 300 Colorado, 495-6504 $$$$ TEX-MEX: TACO SHACK FROST PLAZA Good, sub- stantial, and cheap Tex-Mex at several locations. 402 Brazos, 473-0101 $ THAI: THAI TARA This fashionable West Sixth Street outpost continues to be the destination for downtown Thai food and atmosphere. 601 W. Sixth, 236-0856 $$ EAST AMERICAN CAFE: EASTSIDE CAFE The only res- taurant in town with its own enormous garden. That means they serve the freshest salads and vegetables in every season. 2113 Manor Rd., 476-5858 $$$ INTERIOR MEXICAN: LOS COMALES GRACIELA Expert purveyors of real Norteno-style grilled meats and side dishes. Reliable interior dishes such as puerco en chile Colorado and polio en mole poblano round out the menu. 2136 E. Seventh, 480-9358 $$ SEAFOOD, SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: MR. CATFISH Everything is made from scratch here. Catfish and seafood dinners with side dishes come in different sizes depending on your appetite. 1075 Springdale, 927-6666 $ TEX-MEX: NUEVO LEON Cavernous, friendly restaurant offering cheap combination plates. Decorated almost exclusively in pink and green, adorned with Texas-shaped mirrors and many Christmas lights. Serious date potential. 1501 E. Sixth, 479-0097 $$ TEX-MEX: PORFIRIO’S TACOS Taco shop serving breakfast and lunch. Carne guisada is their speciality. 1512-B Holly, 476-5030 $ BARBECUE: SAM’S BARBECUE Late-night hours make this spot popular with jazz musicians, but the great barbecue keeps folks of every occupation coming back any time of the day or night. 2000 E. 12th, 478-0378 $ JAPANESE: SUSHI JAPON The sushi is fresh and professionally prepared, and the draft Ichiban is perfect with it. Don’t leave without tasting the black cod and the yellowtail. 6801 N. 1-35, 323-6663 $$$ TEX-MEX: TAQUERIA LOS ALTOS Great location, conjunto on the jukebox, and some of the best enchiladas rojos around. 3301 N. 1-35, 236-1219 $ SEAFOOD: TERRY’S SEAFOOD COMPANY Terry knows how to batter up and fry right. Ample dinner boxes of shrimp, fish, and chicken. 1805 Airport, 477-3233 $ TEX-MEX: VIVO Try their affordable San Antonio- style Tex-Mex fare and margaritas on the decks. 2015 Manor Rd., 482-0300 $$ LAKE AMERICAN CAFE, BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE: CAFE LAGO You’ll be rewarded with fresh, delicious breakfast food, plus a healthy and inviting selection of soups, salads, and sandwiches. 1200 Lakeway Dr., 261-8141 $ ITALIAN: CIOLA’S ITALIAN -AMERICAN RESTAURANT The sister restaurant of the Virginia-based original has been pleasing lake dwellers and Hill Country residents with its traditional Italian-American recipes. 1310 Hwy. 620 S., 263-9936 $$$ TEX-MEX: FLORES MEXICAN RESTAURANT Still offering delicious grilled items, affordable lunch specials, friendly service, and good margaritas. 1310 RR 620 S., 263-9546 $$ CHINESE: PAO’S MANDARIN HOUSE Open 24 hours a day Monday through Friday, this Mandarin restaurant offers daily lunch and dinner specials. 2300 Lohman’s Spur #130, 263-8869 $$ NORTH ITALIAN: ANDIAMO RISTORANTE The personal warmth and hospitality of old-style restaurateur Giovanni Cocciante make this a special place to dine. Northern Italian specialties, good soups, and homemade pastas, and a wine list coming in March. 2521 Rutland, 719-3377 $$$ THAI: BANGKOK CUISINE They boast a clientele loyal to the array of stellar vegetarian dishes, and their pad thai (with or without meat) is said to be memorable. 9041 Research, 832-9722 $$ BARBECUE: MANN’S SMOKEHOUSE BAR-B-QUE Traditional smokehouse values take the cafete- ria-style line past a wall-height menu, a rabbit- quick assembly line, and out through a waiting cashier - all in record time. 8624 Research Blvd., 459-5077 $$ recently reviewed CAJUN/CREOLE: NUBIAN QUEEN LOLA’S CAJUN KITCHEN A propriet- ess as friendly as her food is good is serving up huge portions of good burgers and Cajun chow from a limited menu. The dining room is communal and friendly, and Lola is a blessing. 1815 Rosewood, 542-9269 $ VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: NU AGE CAFE When you’re looking for innovative, full-spectrum vegan cuisine in an elegant setting you’ve found it here. Also of note is an extensive nonalco- holic beverage list. 2425 Exposition, 469-9390 $$ BAKERY/COFFEEHOUSE, DELI/ SANDWICH SHOP: CHANTILLY BAKERY CAFE Try Sandra Ojong’s pastries for breakfast (or anytime), and come back for the wonderful sandwich selection at lunchtime. 4032 S. Lamar #200, 916-0404 $ CHINESE, INDIAN: MASALA WOK Ethnic fusion that offers traditional Indian fare as well as Indo-Chinese dishes: a blend of wok cooking and Indian spices with plenty of vegetarian options. 1100 Center Ridge, 251-9696 $ SEAFOOD: PACIFIC STAR RESTAURANT & OYSTER BAR An even mix of fried vs. broiled and a large palette of choices and combos. The perfect spot for seafood with a slightly Cajun lilt. 13507 Hwy. 183 N., 219-5373 $$ PIZZA: SACCONE’S PIZZA & SUBS Saccone’s motto is “Pizza With a Jersey Attitude.” Pasta, calzones, stromboli, and subs round out the menu. 13812 Research, 257-1200 $$ VIETNAMESE: SUNFLOWER RESTAURANT Austin’s go-to restaurant for traditional Vietnamese flavor; you’ll find dishes here that you can’t get at the competition. The shaking beef makes us quiver! 8557 Research #146, 339-7860 $$ INDIAN, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: SWAD INDIAN VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT The Thalli Platter is probably the best taste sampler for newbies, but you can’t go wrong with the different dosas they offer. 9515 N. Lamar #156, 997-7923 $$ STEAKHOUSE: TEXAS LAND & CATTLE COMPANY Casual, respectable food served up in super- friendly style. You’ll leave with a full stomach and green still in your wallet. 14010 Hwy. 183 N., 258-3733 $$ BARBECUE: TEXAS RIB KINGS If you are crazy enough not to eat the excellent beef or pork ribs, take a chance on the chicken, turkey, or ham. 9012 Research, 451-7427 $ MEDITERRANEAN: TINO’S GREEK CAFE Northwest Austin’s gift to the Greek culinary gods. Great prices and portions served from a cafeterialike line, with oodles of choices for carnivores and vegetarians alike. 13450 Research #237, 336-5999 $$ TEX-MEX: TRES AMIGOS Find all conceivable combos of menu items composing the dinners, plus specials such as chile rellenos, chimi- changas, Fish Veracruz, and Steak Tampiqueno. 7535 Hwy. 290 E., 926-4441 $$ STEAKHOUSE: WILDFIRE Cozy steak house and grill with a pleasant atmosphere. The menu features oak-grilled steaks, chicken, seafood, and wild game with an interesting Southwestern twist. 812 S. 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By lunchtime, you can choose from a staggering array of sandwiches, soups, salads, and side dishes. 616 W. 34th, 420-8400 $ CHINESE, JAPANESE: PEI WEI This newcomer to the Hancock Shopping Center features a sleek diner atmosphere and affordable favorites. Choose your own combinations for noodle and rice bowls. 1000 E. 41st (Hancock Center), 382-3860 $ INDIAN: TAJ PALACE Austin’s longest-established local Indian restaurant, where the royal court cuisine of North India is served in an attrac- tive setting. 6700 Middle Fiskville Rd., 452-9959 $$ TEX-MEX: TAMALE HOUSE Authentic, no-frills car- ryout Mexican walk-up, and one of the area’s best deals 5003 Airport, 453-9842 $ THAI: THAI VILLAGE Enjoy a classy but still afford- able meal and very artful food presentation. 6406 N. 1-35, 452-3888 $$ ITALIAN: TONY’S ITALIAN VINEYARD Count on plenty of garlic, tomato, and cream here. From pasta to eggplant parmesan, just about any- thing smothered in marinara sauce at Tony’s is good. 2828 Rio Grande, 476-5600 $$ SOUTH VIETNAMESE: 888 VIETNAMESE RESTAURANT You'll find traditional dishes seldom seen else- where and Asian fusion creations with Thai and Chinese influence. Delicious and inexpensive. BYOB. 2400 E. Oltorf Ste. 1A, 448-4722 $ INTERIOR MEXICAN, TEX-MEX: ABUELO’S MEXICAN FOOD EMBASSY Lubbock-based chain with both traditional Tex-Mex and adven- turous Interior Mexican offerings. 2901 Capital of TX Hwy. S., 306-0857 $$ INTERIOR MEXICAN: AL PASTOR Mexican cuisine at low prices and the relaxed setting make this a great place for a quick, no-hassle meal. 1911-A E. Riverside, 442-8402 $ PIZZA: ALJON’S PIZZA In addition to excellent pizza, this unassuming neighborhood gem serves lasagna, ravioli, manicotti, subs, cal- zones, and country-style barbecue. 1945 E. Oltorf, 851-8686 $$ BARBECUE: ARTZ RIB HOUSE The Austin head- quarters where lovers of great barbecue and bluegrass converge. Their thick country-style pork ribs are legendary, and they have live music most nights. 2330 S. Lamar, 442-8283 $$ PIZZA: AUSTIN PIZZA GARDEN A wide variety of pizzas on thin, white crust along with lasagna, calzones, sandwiches, and even muffalettas. 6266 Hwy. 290 W., 891-9980 $$ TEX-MEX: AZUL TEQUILA Offers both Tex-Mex dishes and Interior specialties like Albondigas en Chipotle and Enchiladas de Pipian. Go with a crowd, listen to the music, and have some fun. 4211 S. Lamar, 416-9667 $$ TEX-MEX: BABY ACAPULCO’S Try this place for great enchiladas and multiple flavored mar- garitas that should come with warning stickers: “Muy bueno!” 1628 Barton Springs Rd., 474-8774 $$ PACIFIC RIM: BISTRO 88 Offerings include some of the more popular Pacific Moon dishes, plus an array of continental meat, poultry, seafood, and vegetarian items blended with ingredients from around the Pacific Rim. 2712 Bee Caves Rd., 328-8888 $$$ SOUTHERN/DOWN-HOME: BROKEN SPOKE When you need your Lone Star cold, your chicken- fried steak hot, and the ghost of Ernest Tubb on your shoulder, the Spoke is it. 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189 $$ STEAKHOUSE: CAPITAL CITY STEAKHOUSE An underappreciated gem serving well-prepared, reasonably priced steaks and generous, tasty sides in a casual atmosphere. 300 S. Congress, 480-8797 $$ VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: CASA DE LUZ Follow the walkway through herbs and flowers to the invit- ing, airy dining room for food that is organic, in season, vegan, and all-natural. 1701 Toomey, 476-2535 $$ UI BURGER JOINT: BURGER TEX Build your own burger at this longtime, no-frills restaurant. 2912 Guadalupe, 477-8433 $ DELI/SANDWICH SHOP, DESSERTS: CAFE MATISSE We hear the food is as colorful as the decor and splashed with all the bright prima- ries used by its namesake. 2025 Guadalupe #152, 236-0207 $ BURGER JOINT: DIRTY MARTIN’S KUM-BAK PLACE Open since 1926, hamburgers, chicken- fried steaks, and pork chops are still done on the griddle. 2808 Guadalupe, 477-3173 $$ DELIVERY, PIZZA: GUMBY’S PIZZA What would college life be without pizza in the wee hours? Stick to the established toppings like pep- peroni, onions, and mushrooms, and you’ll do fine. 2222 Rio Grande, 472-3278 $$ MIDDLE EASTERN: GYRO KING They carve your spiced meat from one of those rotating triangles. A take on the sandwich beyond the ordinary. 2021 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall, sec- ond floor), 479-6222 $ CHINESE: JADE CHINESE CUISINE Primarily a Chinese restaurant, but they do have a sushi bar with a limited selection. Best choice: the Eel Hand Roll. 3704 N. 1-35, 459-6001 $$ AMERICAN CAFE: KERBEY LANE CAFE Famously fabulous for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and a favorite of the late-night set. It wears its groovy legacy on its sleeve, with Frisbee-sized pan- cakes, pastas, black beans, and great coffee. 2606 Guadalupe, 477-5717$$ MIDDLE EASTERN: KISMET CAFE Serving Mediterranean/American cuisine, Philly subs, gyros, and salads. 411 W. 24th, 236-1811 $$ CHINESE: THE MAGIC WOK Cheap lunch and affordable dinners that include soup and an egg roll. 2716V2 Guadalupe, 474-7770 $ PIZZA: MILTO’S Longtime UT-area institution serving both Italian and Greek specialties. Wonderful. 2909 Guadalupe, 476-1021 $$ DELI/SANDWICH SHOP: MOMOKO Sushi, Japanese treats, and trendy bubble tea can be found at this popular spot. 705A W. 24th, 469-0232 $ ITALIAN: PICCOLO ITALIAN CAFE Don’t just try them for the variety of house-made pastas and wood-fired pizzas. Try the hot and cold appetiz- ers and the chicken, seafood, and veal entrees. 2828 Rio Grande, 476-5600 $$ PUB GRUB: POSSE EAST Beer and burgers for the pre-, post-, and during-the-game crowds. In-house ATM for those who fit into all three categories. 2900 Duval St., 477-2111 $ WEST INDIAN, VEGETARIAN/VEGAN: COSMIC CAFE Fresh, healthy, and authentic ethnic vegetarian fare, with an emphasis on Indian. Find hum- mus, pizza, sandwiches, and smoothies in a laid-back atmosphere. 1110 West Lynn, 482-0950 $ THAI: SATAY A Thai-owned operation blending culinary influences from Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, and the Philippines, it also offers a successful line of Thai condiments and sauces. 3202 W. Anderson #205, 467-6731 $$ AMERICAN CAFE: SATELLITE CAFE You’ll find a delicious and ambitious menu including grilled dishes, salads, and wraps served up in an unassuming strip mall location that belies its sophistication. 7101 Hwy. 71 W. Ste. El, 301-1883 $$ FINE DINING, ITALIAN: SIENA RISTORANTE TOSCANA Loyal customers from the Loop 360 set enjoy hearty roast meats, homemade pastas, a liberal use of truffle oil, and the glow of a crackling fire. 6203 Capital of TX Hwy. N., Bldg. B, 349-7667 $$$$ CHINESE: SNOW PEA A couple of the standouts are the spider rolls and the spicy tuna rolls; the hamachi yellowtail has always been unfailingly fresh and succulent. 3706 Jefferson, 454-3228 $$ INDIAN: STAR OF INDIA The house specialty is the Maharaja Dinner, a spread fit for royalty. Lesser mortals will be sated by one of the biry- anis, or a tangy vindaloo. 2900 W. Anderson, 452-8199 $$ JAPANESE: SUSHI SAKE They take their sake seriously, serving premium brands cold (as their makers intended). Second, they have a long sushi bar with some of the most beautiful fish in Austin. 9503 Research #500, 527-0888 $$$ CHINESE: SUZI’S CHINA GRILL & SUSHI BAR Normally priced Chinese food that manages to surpass the mundane, sometimes by a good bit. Vegetarians: Try the eggplant in garlic sauce, but make sure you specify “without pork.” 7858 Shoal Creek Blvd., 302-4600 $$$ M Korean BBQ at Your Table Busiest, Freshest Sushi Bar Soup & Noodles Family Owned for 23 Years 2700 WEST 0 ANOERS0N LN #501 IN THE VILLAGE SHOPPING CENTER ^ INTERNATIONAL CUISINE • CASUAL ATMOSPHERE mom 2 jii w Specializing in exquisite taste and superior service. Axonal foods Compelling Mediterranean villa exerts the hottest trends while embracing Austin’s local charm. Mon - Sat 11am - 2am • Sun 10am - 2am Sat & Sun Brunch 10am - 3pm Happy Hour 4pm - 7pm Daily 2525 W. 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Brought to you by NCALMNHTYt fMwr Jwr-HKV w t&wm t 6701 Burnet Rd. • 385-DOGS REVOLUTION STUDIOS COLUMBIA E PICTURES X No purchase necessary. Passes are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Must be 18. Seating is limited. Passes do not guarantee admission. austlnclironicle.com s@su / | IWMlIMwtii > (* I b riv.HJ :■ 1 52 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com screens 54 REPORTS FROM PARK CITY 56 TV EYE SXSW Film 06 UPDATE The official, full-fledged list of films will be released early next week, but we’ve got a credible source on the inside that was able to supply some titles (aside from the ones we’ve already mentioned, like A Prairie Home Companion, Tales of the Rat Fink, and The Notorious Bettie Page ) a bit ahead of time. We can break them down thematically, and we will: AUSTIN FILMS Gretchen (W/D: Steve Collins) The Cassidy Kids (D: Jacob Vaughan; W: Bryan Poyser) MUSIC DOCS Awesome: I Fuckin' Shot That! (D: Adam Yauch) East of Havana (about Cuban hip-hop; pro- duced by, of course, Charlize Theron; D: Jauretsi Saizabitoria, Emilia Menocal) Crazy Again (about Dale Watson; D: Zalmund King) COMEDY DOCS 95 Miles to Go (our source, not a Ray Romano fan, was still fascinated by this look “inside the neuroses” of the come- dian and actor; D: Tom Caltabiano) a/k/a Tommy Chong (D: Josh Gilbert) Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie (D: Jeffrey Ross) CURRENT AFFAIRS DOCS Nobelity (D: Turk Pipkin) Oil Crash (D: Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack) Maxed Out {“Super Size Me with credit cards”; D: James Scurlock) Shadow Company (D: Nick Bicanic) Fired! (D: Chris Bradley and Kyle Labrache) Al Fran ken in God Spoke (D: Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus) OTHER American Dreamz (D: Paul Weitz) Brothers of the Head (D: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe) Kinky Boots (D: Julian Jarrold) Even Money (D: Mark Rydell) Thank You for Smoking (D: Jason Reitman) V for Vendetta (D: James McTeigue) SXSW 06 begins on March 10. Film passes go on sale in mid-February. For more information on the Film Festival + Conference, as well as Interactive, see www.sxsw.com and check back here for updates. Meanwhile, the Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards, taking place on March 10 (includ- ed here though not formally affiliated with SXSW), will induct Kris Kristofferson and Matthew McConaughey. IT'S ALIVE!: Texas (Finally) Gets a Horror-Film Convention to Call Its Own For years, Texas horror-movie fans have been left out in the cold and the dark by the national touring circuit of such genre conventions as Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors and East Coast mainstay the Chiller Theatre Expo. That’s changing this weekend with the first official Texas horror con in almost two decades, the Texas Frightmare Weekend, which subsumes the unsuspect- ing Grapevine Convention Center for 48 hours of screenings, panels, music, and, oh, God, yes - the dealer’s room to end all dealer’s rooms. “I’ve been a big fan of the horror indus- try and horror films for all my life, and, so, this is something that I’ve kicked around for a few years now before deciding to take the plunge and just do it,” says TFW Director Loyd Cryer. “We started off by contacting [special make-up effects icon] Tom Savini,” Cryer adds, “which then led us to Bill [Leather- face] Johnson of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2 and then turned into a full- fledged 20th anniversary Chain Saw 2 reunion with the addition of Bill [Chop Top] Moseley, Caroline [Stretch] Williams, and John [Joe Bob Briggs] Bloom. At first though, it was very much a let’s-throw-it-against-the- wall-and-see-what-sticks kind of process.” Speaking of sticking, as gore is wont to do before sliding slowly down the wall and puddling on the kitchen floor, other con- firmed attendees include the legendary Sid Haig (The Devil's Rejects, Spider Baby); groundbreaking Floridian goremeister Herschell Gordon Lewis (Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs); Ari “Jason Voorhees” Lehman and “mom” Betsy Palmer; Austin’s own original Texas Chain Saw hitcher from hell Ed Neal; Troma Films’ Lloyd Kaufman; and scream queens Debbie Rochon, Brinke Stevens, and Anjanette Clewis. “This is really what a lot of people have been waiting for in this area,” says Lehman, noting that “there’s a huge amount of horror fans and film in Texas and that’s been some- thing that’s been largely ignored over the years, the massive fan base we’ve got here.” That said, music and mayhem have always gone together - just ask Rob Zombie or Glenn Danzig - and this weekend’s events underscore the point with performances by spooksters the Horrifies, Freak 13, and the reunion of seminal Dallas speed metallers Rigor Mortis. And did we mention Austin access/ Fangoria TV ringmaster Professor Griffin will also be in attendance with his Midnight Shadow Show entourage? Indeed: “We’re going on the merits of our local show and not Fangoria TV,” says Griffin, aka Austin actor Joseph Fotinos, “but we’ll definitely be screening preview stuff and doing plenty of giveaways.” Bottom line? It’s like Ministry said: Every day is Halloween. Especially if you live in Texas. Scared? Just keep repeating: It’s only a weekend ... It’s only a weekend ... It’s only a weekend ... - Marc Savlov For more information , ticket prices , and directions , go to www.texasfrightmareweekend.com. MARCHING ON: Independent African-American Films From 1935-1950 Starting Thursday, Feb. 2, the University of Texas and Austin Parks and Recreation will celebrate Black History Month with a film series taking place on campus and at the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center. The series will include “features, shorts, newsreels, and an exhibition of film posters, photographs, lobby cards, press books, heralds, and promotional materials” culled from curator James E. Wheeler’s collection. You’ll find the film schedule below, and much more information atwww.utexas.edu/events/marchingon/index.html. Murder in Harlem Thursday, Feb. 2, 7pm, Bass Lecture Hall Midnight Shadow Tuesday, Feb. 7, 10am, 1pm, and 4pm, Carver Souls of Sin Feb. 15, 7pm, Texas Union Theatre Blood of Jesus Feb. 19, 1pm and 4pm, Carver Where’s My Man To-Nite (Marching On!) Feb. 25, noon and 3pm, Carver Student Night Feb. 22, 7pm, Texas Union Theatre DVD WATCH THE ROCKFORD FILES: SEASON ONE Universal, $39.98 Every decade is a good decade for cops. Which means, by extension, that every decade is a bad decade for private investiga- tors. Police detectives got a big-screen make- over in the early Seventies via The French Connection and Serpico, while boob-tubers were downgraded from Jack Lord in Hawaii Five-0 to Peter Falk and his raincoat in Columbo before Telly Savalas (d)evolved the archetype a couple of years later with Kojak. In 1974, hot off the theatrical success of Support Your Local Sheriff and its equally smartass sequel, Support Your Local Gunfighter, James Garner and TV producer Roy Huggins updated their small-screen pre- cursor to the Support films, Maverick (1957- 62). What co-creator Stephen J. Cannell came up with in his pilot for The Rockford Files, however, was actually a throw- back both to Garner’s cinematic past and one of L.A.’s favorite sons: Philip Marlowe. Raymond Chandler’s Little Sister had become MG M’s Marlowe in 1969, fitting its star - Garner - like a .38 in a coffee can. Chandler’s coffee can became Cannell’s cookie jar, both in the kitch- ens of their private-dick protagonists, antihero everymen of the mid-20th century. Like Marlowe, Garner’s Malibu-slumming ex-con, Jim Rockford, could no more hold his tongue in the face of adversity than thugs could hold off giving him a good thumping for exactly that. Rockford can’t get to his mailbox without picking up a tail and then being told to lay off - or else. In the sole bonus - Universal’s spared every expense, not to mention the pilot - Garner reveals that car chases stood in for gunplay (“I picked that Pontiac Firebird because it could handle”), and that Rockford’s big-eyed co-conspirators (Lindsey Wagner, Joan Van Arc, Shelly Fabares) couldn’t show cleavage. Instead, 23 one-hour episodes on three DVDs tantalize with grade-A Chandlerese like “Oh come on, Lieutenant, I didn’t come down with yesterday’s rain.” Humor hasn’t yet overtaken the drama, as would happen later with Magnum PI . and Remington Steele, but in Garner’s irrepressible, eventually Emmy-win- ning shamus, The Rockford Files (1974-80) remains as timeless as a blackjack to the back of your skull. “I guess that’s the penalty for living in a world where all the price tags end in 99 cents and they sell mortuary plots on billboards next to the freeway ...” - Raoul Hernandez ALSO OUT NOW Miami Vice Season Two (MCA): As Michael Mann readies his stadium-seating summer spinoff, 1984 ’s Crockett and Tubbs take down another pastel cartel. UPCOMING Moonlighting: Season 3 (Lions Gate): David and Maddie (Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd), the 1985 version of Nick and Nora Charles. austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 53 screens Hustle and Snow At Sundance, the proving ground just got a lot more slippery BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN You expect the hordes of filmmakers and movie executives, actors, critics, and publicists. But sometimes you just have to marvel at an event that can attract both scenesters like Paris Hilton and politicians like A1 Gore - albeit not at the same events, but at least breathing in the same heady 7,000-foot-high atmosphere of Park City, Utah, the resort town that becomes home every January to the annual Sundance Film Festival. Hilton was there, presumably, to party and collect the much-heralded swag that is avail- able by the armful to celebrities at impromptu boutiques set up by companies wanting to commingle their brand with everything hip, new, and experimental. Gore, on the other hand, was there with his wife Tipper in support of the movie An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim, a documentary about global warming that provides a cinematic showcase for Gore’s traveling presentation about the long-term effects of global climate change and his personal search for meaning in the after- math of the 2000 presidential campaign. Quite possibly, the most ubiquitous piece of festival swag was a photo of oneself posed with the former vice-president, who was amiable and always ready to pause and smile for any digital camera pointed in his direction. For most plebeians attending the festival, the only true swag we take away is the experience of watching the movies. Sundance provides a glimpse of the indie film horizon, a preview of things to come. Some of the distribution com- panies use the festival as a springboard for the eventual rollout of their already acquired films. However, most of the films screen without dis- tribution already in place and arrive stag at the dance, hoping to find a distribution partner will- ing to take them for a spin on the national dance floor. At best, the viewer sees at least one thing that knocks her (often double-layered) socks off, something that looms as the quest’s holy grail. Despite seeing several very good movies, I don’t think I ever found the grail at this year’s Sundance. However, in all fairness, it must be said that there were many films that I was curi- ous about and did not get to see due to inevi- table timing and scheduling issues. In fact, two of my personal festival highlights have to do with music opportunities rather than movies. The first event on my schedule after arrival was an ASCAP music showcase by my new current addiction Rufus Wainwright, whose music is featured on the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack. Wainwright was in town to help promote the film Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, which I had already seen in Toronto last fall. The film by Lian Lunson presents a portrait of the songwriter and poet that is interwoven with a tribute performance of Cohen’s music by such luminaries as Wainwright, U2, Nick Cave, the McGarrigle Sisters, and Beth Orton. Wainwright’s transcendent showcase was pre- This Film Is Not Yet Rated Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture ceded by one from another singular artist, Imogen Heap, the one-woman band whose music is featured on the soundtrack of a previ- ous Sundance debutante: Garden State. My other music moment has to do with get- ting up close and personal with Neil Young, who was in Park City to promote his Jonathan Demme-directed concert film, Neil Young: Heart of Gold. I’ll spare you the report here since you’ll be reading plenty about Young in these pages during upcoming weeks, as he’s scheduled to deliver the keynote address at SXSW Music in March and hopefully screen the film - which is a beautiful coalescence of the simplicity of Demme’s and Young’s individual styles. Most of the other music docs at the fest failed to impress, although Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture by Byron Hurt stood out for its chal- lenging approach to the arch masculinity that is endemic to hip-hop. The Beastie Boys seemed to be everywhere promoting their concert docu- mentary Awesome: I Fuckin’ Shot That! by Adam Yauch’s pretentious nom de cinema Nathanial Homblower, in which 50 concertgoers were given cameras and instructed to film everything they saw during the whole show. Maybe you need to be a fan to appreciate the movie, but the only thing it reminded me of was the adage about how Little Miss Sunshine a great work might be produced if a thousand monkeys were given a thousand typewriters: Let’s just say the film is no Shakespearean epic. American Hardcore by Paul Rachman squan- ders the energy of the movement with a series of talking heads, while ’Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris by Two Family House director Raymond De Felitta intrigued with its informa- tion about an unknown artist’s self-sabotaged career but failed to deliver on any artistic level. Another film, The Proposition, is not a music doc, despite boasting a script by musician Nick Cave. It’s an Australian Western, rife with physical and emotional violence, directed by former Cave collaborator John Hillcoat, featuring terrific per- formances by Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone. As the festival opened with celebratory remarks about the 25th anniversary of the Sundance Institute, the parent organization that sponsors the festival among numerous other initiatives, this year’s lineup was hailed by founder Robert Redford and Director Geoff Gilmore as a “return to roots,” meaning that the programmers viewed their selections as having more in common with Sundance’s earlier reputation as a proving ground for edgy, experimental work than with the influx of low-budget commercial wannabes that have stood out in recent years. The festival’s initial film sales tell a different story. Buyers are still looking for commercial product. The first film to sell was the hotly contested Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from a comedy script that has been kicking around for a while. However, it took the combined star wattage of Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Alan Arkin, and new A-lister Steve Carell (in post -40-Year- Old Virgin mode) and the directors’ winning execution to move this comedy into the “Sold” column. This sale matched the $ 10-million-plus record highs of two previous films - Shine and The Spitfire Grill - which both proved disastrous at the box office for distributors. Little Miss Sunshine will hopefully not share the same fate, although I personally suspect that the thin alti- tude of Park City and competitive bent of some distributors might have driven this pleasant but undistinguished film’s asking price beyond what the realistic market will bear. Documentarian Kirby Dick made a splash with This Film Is Not Yet Rated, in which he hires a couple of private investigators to spy on Hollywood’s supersecret ratings board: the MPAA (the Motion Picture Association of America). He traces some of the organization’s history as the brainchild of former MPAA head Jack Valenti and amusingly presents his frustrated attempts to get inside the agency. The project is a real rabble-rouser, and Dick’s effort must be applauded, even though I wish the film outlined more of Hollywood’s sorry history of self-censorship. Another documen- tary stalwart and veteran cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, was at Sundance with his eight-years-in-progress film Who Needs Sleep? Agitating in his own way, Wexler presents a passionate argument for the end of 16- and 20-hour workdays in Hollywood, which many argue have already proved fatal to members of their tribe. (Sleep, incidentally, was the subject of two other festival movies, Michel Gondry’s quickly purchased The Science of Sleep and Alan Berliner’s typically personal documen- tary Wide Awake, about his lifelong struggle with insomnia.) In a unprecedented result, the audience bestowed awards on the same two films as the dramatic and documentary juries. What this means, if anything, is up for conjecture, and may not become apparent until sometime in the future. What is immediately evident is that both titles are multicultural stories. The dra- matic winner, Quinceahera, directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer, who are better known for their humorous gay films, and produced by Far From Heaven’s Todd Haynes, is a portrait of L.A.’s rapidly gentrifying Echo Park neighborhood and its largely Mexican- American population. Among the film’s central characters are a pregnant 14-year- old girl and a gay cholo who have been banished from their families. The documentary winner, God Grew Tired of Us by Christopher Dillon Quinn, records the story of a group of Sudanese “lost boys,” who emigrated to the United States. Neither of these films had sold by the time of this writing. For all the talk of getting back to roots, the business of Sundance still keeps the slippery slopes at arm’s length. ■ 54 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 | austinchronicle.com More Than a Festival, Less Than a Movement IIVIAX THEATRE The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum 1800 N. Congress Ave. at MLK At Slamdance, tenderness, anger, and a very steep slope BY SPENCER PARSONS i “What should I write?” It’s a couple hours after the Slamdance premiere of Letters From the Other Side , Austinite Heather Courtney’s documentary about Mexican families left behind by fathers’ and brothers’ emigration to the U.S. for work, and the director struggles with what to post on the blog she agreed to keep for IndieWire during the festival. So, she reads aloud from what she’s been typing into her laptop. “I wish the women in my film could have been there to get the recognition they deserve, and experience others watching their stories unfold on screen. But it is nearly impossible to get a tourist visa to the U.S. if you’re a Mexican without a lot of money. In the middle of checking into it for the future, but for now I’ll be sure to tell them everyone seemed to really like them.” “What else should I say?” Of course, what she’s written is just right, and everybody tells her. It’s a statement that comes from the same chamber of the heart as the film itself, but it’s also quiet and humble in the midst of a scrap- py upstart festival that must itself struggle to be heard above the din from and attracted by the bigger show down the hill from headquarters at Park City’s Treasure Mountain Inn. At Slamdance, the crew behind the fea- ture comedy The Guatemalan Handshake drives around in the film’s wedge-shaped little two- seater car, while the subjects of the documen- tary BIKE loop through the streets on their custom double-decker circus rides, and The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang title alone offers a punchline, synopsis, and cult all rolled into one. Plus, there’s a dude wandering around dressed as God. A filmmaker can feel conspicu- ous by a gimmick’s absence here, and what with the added attention-deficit challenge of guys in bacteria costumes shilling cold treatments, the Toxic Avenger and friends out Tromadancing, and the HBO Documentaries publicity squad covering everybody’s posters with ads for mov- ies that aren’t playing in a Park City festival, it’s easy to worry that you’ll draw audiences entirely composed of friends, family, and crew members who might just as likely get distracted sighting celebrities and miss the screening. Luckily, those fears prove unfounded, as the festival has come to provide a welcoming home for documentaries in moods angry and tender that could only be cheapened by atten- tion-grabbing stunts, however necessary they might seem. Abduction, for instance, fascinat- ingly details the bizarre kidnapping of Japanese citizens by North Korea’s Kim Jong II, while The Empire in Africa delivers a necessary shock to the system with its accounting of atrocities in Sierra Leone, and Do You Remember Me? follows the heartbreaking story of a family afflicted with AIDS in Thailand. Founder Dan Mirvish likes to characterize Slamdance as “more than a festival and less than a movement,” noting proudly that not Letters From the Other Side much has really changed during its 12-year run. “The stories are still the same; people are still making movies the same way. ... You might lose half your friends making the film, and then make a bunch of new ones when you come here. And, from there, it’s like a year-round net- work of filmmakers helping each other out.” Rather than reciting a litany of big sales at the festival, which still remain the exception and not the rule (last year’s Mad Hot Ballroom notwithstanding), Mirvish can regale you with horrific tales of filmmaking and personal disas- ters befalling past Slamdancers, up to and including the one about a fall from a ladder that landed him in the wheelchair he’s getting around in this year. But they all resolve into stories of filmmakers helping one another out, as evidenced by Mirvish ’s arrival at the annual Slamdance Sled- Off, a not-quite-legal occupa- tion of a ski slope requiring an intensely steep climb not remotely accessible by wheelchair. Representing Austin at the event is director Paul Gordon of the well-received competition feature comedy Motorcycle, taking a break from excavating his posters from beneath the HBO onslaught. A guy from the Call of Cthulhu crew lends a sled to Team Motorcycle, which I join. We win points for spectacle, as Gordon and cinematographer David Hartstein spin and flip down the slope and this reporter gets caught and yanked down the hill by another team’s drag- racing-style parachute. Actors Chris and Melissa Pratt and their daughter Zoe look on as filmmak- ers slide one after another down the hill and into a human shield of other filmmakers and festival staff who keep them from flying off the edge and down a slope so steep it’s nearly a cliff. When Letters From the Other Side runs as the festival closer, it’s a screening notably attended by an appreciative crowd of documentarians, and if not by Courtney’s subjects, as she’d wished, at least by her crew from Mexico. At the Q&A, Karla Priego Martinez, who provided a song for the film, tells of her trouble at cus- toms when an officer thought she said she’d be attending “Islam-dance,” and then simply offers a live performance. 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But the larger matter Ozuna’s comment addressed was the fact that a “roller-skating show” was loaded with meaning. When someone like myself tried to scrutinize it, reading it from an alternate per- spective, I was scolded, told off, reprimanded, and reamed. I also had a couple of my ideas smartly challenged (beyond charges of you’re just jealous/stupid/uppity). Mostly, I gained affirmation of my point of view. Thanks to all who bothered to write. Now, I don’t presume to be remotely as bril- liant as satirist Aaron McGruder, but it was encouraging to see the aftermath of his recent sacred-cow- tipping. The controversial “The Return of the King” episode of McGruder’s animated The Boondocks aired for the first time Jan. f5 on Adult Swim (Cartoon Network’s late-night skein of programming for adults). This is the episode where African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King awakes from a coma and roundly critiques contem- porary African-American culture. This drew outrage from the Rev. A1 Sharpton, who was particularly angered that the animated King drops the N-word in his tirade. Sharpton has demanded an apology from the Cartoon Network and that the network pull “episodes that desecrate black historic figures.” Desecrate? To desecrate is to damage some- thing sacred. King was an important religious and social leader, but I wonder what he would make of being called “sacred.” That, and it wasn’t King or his work being rebuked, but an imagined critique from King through McGruder’s laser-sharp perspective. I wonder if Sharpton or any other of the episode’s crit- ics saw the series prior to the King episode or realized that the use of the N-word is an ongo- ing debate surrounding The Boondocks. If so, perhaps when the animated King reportedly inspires a “second civil rights movement,” they would have taken note. A second civil rights movement? Hello? That’s not provocative. It’s downright revolutionary. The Cartoon Network began rerunning The Boondocks last Sunday, with no indication, at this date, to omit the “Return” episode. In the meantime, the Cartoon Network has ordered a second season (20 episodes) of The Boondocks for a late-2006 premiere. Want to go to hell in a handbasket? Another new Cartoon Network series, scathing in its spot-on satire, promises to be the next thing to banish those who dare to laugh to the depths. The new series is Moral Orel, and it’s divine. Eleven-year- old Orel is the focus of this 15-minute stop-motion cartoon, created by Dino Stamatopoulos ( Late Night With Conan O’Brien, Mr. Show). Cheery, moon-faced Orel loves church and earnestly follows the path of righteousness. However, Orel’s literal transla- tions of the Bible lead to wildly absurd and, depending on how closely you stand near the brink of hell, hilarious results. The Boondocks and Moral Orel air Sunday nights at 10pm and 11pm on the Cartoon Network. 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E'or further information visit www.creop.org 58 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com music 60 THE SWORD 62 TEXAS PLATTERS SWEET LITTLE 79 Still a-reelin’ and a-rockin’ at 79 years young, a spry Chuck Berry (left) enchanted a seldom-seated Paramount Theater crowd last Saturday night, handling his guitar, in one observer’s words, “like Keith Richards never existed.” Clad in screaming red sequins and signature skipper cap, Berry led son Chuck Jr., daughter Ingrid Berry Clay, and Houstonians David Beebe and Pete Gordon through his hit-stacked catalog - “Roll Over Beethoven,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” “Johnny B. Goode” - and two attempts at Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock & Roll.” In lieu of an encore, Berry Jr. brought Pinetop Perkins onstage for ... well, nobody seemed to know why exactly, but it’s always good to see him out and about. According to 0 Clifford Antone, the elder Berry 3 and Perkins planned to renew 1 their acquaintance after the show. TCB music news BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY MATTERS OF FACT KUT has long been recognized by both lis- teners and public-radio peers for its attention to local music, and since last summer the station’s news department has done its share with Texas Music Matters, a weekly series hosted by former Marketplace moderator David Brown. Though the days Matters airs vary, it can be heard during Morning Edition Eklektikos, and the evening shifts of deejays Paul Ray and Larry Monroe. Expanded versions of Brown’s reports are also available online in podcast form, at www.kut.org/site/PageServer7pa gename=texas_music_matters. “[Podcasts] allow me to play big chunks of music,” says Brown, a 25-year veteran of public-radio news. “You can’t play an entire song in a six-minute story where you’re also providing context and histo- ry and background.” When the subject war- MUSICAL YOUTH Austin groove ensemble Blaze is in full swing, Ephraim Owens’ and Phillipe Vieux’s nimble horn solos spiraling above the fluid foundation of drummer Brannen Temple, bassist Yoggi, and DJ NickNack The setting, however, is a long way from the Elephant Room: it’s an assembly at East Austin’s Kealing Middle School and the local quintet shares the stage with sets from the drama Rebirth Brass Band educates Dobie Middle School, March 2005. department’s production of The Wizard of Oz. Kealing’s ID badge-wearing students are enjoying this midday clinic courtesy of local nonprofit Anthropos Arts, which stages 15-20 such perfor- mances per year and arranges private music lessons for low-income kids. “I was coming up in the scene, playing with bands at halfway houses, and I thought, The kids need to see this too,”' says Atash and Mandible bassist Dylan Jones, who founded Anthropos in 1998. While Temple explains the importance of rhythm to jazz, Jones says the kids are often more interested than they let on. “Some will sit there and not react,” he says, “but they’ll ask me for weeks afterward, ‘When are those guys coming back?”' Right now Jones, also the band director at KIPP Austin College Prep charter school, hopes to drum up more private donations to go along with contribu- tions from the city of Austin, Texas Commission on the Arts, and Applied Materials. “A $300 donation takes a stu- dent through the whole year,” he notes. At the end of that year, Anthropos students show off their newfound skills with an ACL Festival performance and year-end concert at Stubb’s. “To watch them go from playing one note to ripping a solo over John Coltrane next to Ephraim is amazing,” says Jones. Contact Anthropos at 512/468-4369 or . TA N GLEWOOD NUM BERS GigWatch: Fresh off a residency at Hollywood’s infamous Viper Room and rota- tion on hipster-approved Indie 103, airy mod- ern rockers Oliver Future visit from sunny SoCal tonight (Thursday) at Stubb’s, with cop- ies of their new Bear Chronicles EP and Things That Go Pop in tow. Saturday, long- running roots-punk wits Basin Street begin a six-month hiatus after their Room 710 show so their bassist can rest his carpal tunnel- afflicted fingers; it’s your last chance to hear pearls like “Mullet” and “Down at the White House” until it’s really, really hot outside. The Total Foxes open. Finally, Sunday, Austin’s favorite Capitol signees return from a West Coast miniresidency for a special Beerland show. A very, urn, sound idea. rants, Brown has lengthened his show even further, as with last December’s hourlong documentary on Townes Van Zandt, which combined interviews with Van Zandt’s son J.T. and wife Janine with interviews and perfor- mances originally recorded on Monroe’s pro- gram. “I don’t think I’ve ever been as satis- fied with something I’ve done in radio as I was with that Townes piece,” Brown says. With upcoming episodes featuring What Made Milwaukee Famous and a look at SXSW, Brown says his main challenge is meeting the high standards of Austin’s music- savvy fans: “People really know their stuff here, and that raises the bar for me.” SXSW’s latest get should bring a smile to faces not generally accustomed to doing so: Morrissey, the original Pope of Mope, will sit for an interview with Rolling Stone's David Fricke March 16 at the Convention Center, and preview some pompadoured tunes from new album Ringleader of the Tormentors (shouldn’t that be Tormented ?) at the Austin Music Hall later that night. SXSW is seeking cashiers to sell single-ticket admissions at music and film venues and merchandise at the Convention Center; e-mail . BiUTH Wf SOiTIif^I MUSIC FILM I INTERACTIVE Handsome Family Hard to believe it’s been three whole years since the perpetually smiling face of Red River, "Handsome” Joel Svatek, died from injuries sustained in a collision with a drunk driver. But the calendar doesn’t lie, and many feel Svatek’s stomping grounds haven’t been the same since. “I haven’t seen anybody replace him in the sense of the per- sonality that he was,” says Joe Sebastian, Svatek’s former room- mate and vice-presi- dent of the Handsome Joel Foundation, the nonprofit founded by friends and family to raise awareness about drunk driving. “There’s been a few people in the scene who may have the same level of renown, or be some- body everybody knows,” continues Sebastian, “but not in the same positive way.” Luckily, enough people have made it a point to remember Handsome Joel - consider the abun- dance of “I V HJ” tattoos - that neither he nor his legacy are in danger of being forgotten. The Foundation’s Safe Ride Program, which provides cab vouchers to those unable to drive home, has been operational for a year, and now counts 15 downtown bars among its ranks. “We pro- vided over 100 rides home in the past year,” notes Svatek’s mother, Katherine Ward, who hopes more bars come aboard after SXSW. The foundation’s latest project is raising its profile through events like Friday’s benefit at Elysium with Dixie Witch, Suplecs, the Bulemics, Brewtality Inc., and a 9pm set by Holy Happy Hour Charlie. “It’s a big comfort to me that after three years, people still care so much,” Ward says. SAFE HARBOR Bars participating in the Safe Ride Program as of Jan. 31: Beerland Casino el Camino Club de Ville Elysium Emo’s Flamingo Cantina Headhunters Hole in the Wall Jackalope Longbranch Inn Lovejoy’s Red Eyed Fly Ritz Room 710 Side Bar austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 59 NATHAN JENSEN music Winter's Wolves The Sword's land of ice and snow BYAUDRASCHROEDER Metal is about imagery, the warrior, the vir- gin, the beast, the secret handshake that binds the mystical to the big riff. This dark vision of the past, this obsession with mythology and the epic battle that’s hellbent for leather and personified by thundering drums, marks the oeuvre like a numeric birthmark hidden under the hairline. Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Metallica; it’s an image that still frightens par- ents and guardians while altering the minds of teenagers immersed in dog-eared issues of Heavy Metal magazine and Led Zeppelin IV Yet the decibels, the marching guitars, and throat-shredding bellows remain paramount, having long ago spawned some kind of mon- ster. They birthed bands like Austin’s Sword, whose debut full-length, Age of Winters, was conceived in a sweaty Heavy Metal haze. “It was a big influence on me as a teenager,” admits singer/guitarist JD Cronise. “I still read an issue every now and then, but like so many things, it just ain’t what it used to be.” Neither is metal. We all know what happened to many of those bands as they veered toward the heady hair-metal days; one day the pyro- technics guy just didn’t show up. Such is the nature of evolution. This time last year, Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie, and drummer Trivett Wingo were rocking shorter ’dos here in River City. Now, the locks are lon- ger, facial hair more abundant. It’s only natural: the Sword’s slab of sound embraces that, hear- kening back to metal’s fat grooves and Thin Lizzys, the fantastical and the mammoth. In such company, nothing beats a killer ’stache. Acts as spectrally diverse as Mastodon and Coheed and Cambria have taken up that imag- ery, transforming it into a literary endeavor. Age of Winters descends on Valentine’s Day and the buzz has already infected the blood of innocents. The album’s guttural guitars and Cronise’s overlord vocals carry the story of gory battles and horned goddesses over a seismic rhythm section. The titular imagery is also there, of course; the Sword’s handle bows to metal’s warfare-obsessed history. On the quartet’s Web site is an essay on swordsman- ship; press photos picture the band wielding the weapon. The riffage is also there, just as sharp. The blade goes deep. Their sound isn’t deafening, however, and when labels came call- ing, the band didn’t jump on the first offer. “We were talking to Kemado before South by Southwest,” says Wingo of Winters’ NYC label sponsor. “There was also Tee Pee, Arclight, Relapse.” They stuck with Kemado, whose roster includes psych-Swedes Dungen and the classic- rock kitsch of Diamond Nights. They did so because it was “a sweet deal,” reveals Richie. “They don’t sign a lot of bands, and they put a lot into the bands they choose to invest in.” “There’s really no band on the label we’re competing with, being a metal act,” adds Shutt. Already, the Sword has been blurbed in Billboard as a “Band to Watch,” reviewed by David Fricke in Rolling Stone, and featured on MTVcom. Someone’s even selling their press kit on eBay for $30. Not bad for an act forged just two years ago. Cronise and Wingo knew each other from Virginia, playing together in a band called Ultimate Dragons. Shutt and Richie, meanwhile, were veterans of Texas bands united by a love of Zeppelin. Over the Perhaps Yeats was the first metalhead: "And while we Ye in our laughing, weeping fit, hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit." course of their initial live forays, the foursome fine-tuned the songs that eventually made up Winters, revising them ever so slightly over periods of time. After a spring tour with Trail of Dead and the Octopus Project, they got to work in earnest, and by summer were circulat- ing a three-song demo as their rough draft. In October of last year, the band began recording the album at Folkvang, Richie’s home studio. “Doing it at my house, we were able to tweak it a million times,” he says. “We were a little worried that [the label] might not accept it, being that I didn’t go to school for that. I don’t have thousand-dollar equipment.” Cronise produced the album, Richie engi- neered it, and Wingo is currently the Sword’s manager. They recently finished filming a video for “Winter’s Wolves” in Staten Island. While the band won’t divulge the fantastical plot in store, they confirm that the sun-up- to-sundown shoot was cold, “grueling, and brutal.” The day of principal photography, the forecasted snow froze everything over. “It was exacdy what we wanted,” Shutt laughs. Richie takes it a step further: “Odin was on our side.” You don’t have to be Norway’s chief divinity to hear Winters as a highly literate endeavor. While Robert Plant preached of Valhalla bound to Greek and Celtic folk and Sabbath moaned of the apocalypse and “atomic rage,” the Sword’s vision falls somewhere in between, even quoting William Butler Yeats in the liner notes. Razor-sharp prose like “Twilight writ- ten in the runes of crones” and the barked alliteration of “Harken to the howl of the huntsman’s hounds” fill the purist’s notion of the metal tradition. The Sword’s just reshaping the mold. “Some are metaphorical, some are alle- gorical, and some are just fantasy,” Cronise explains of his lyrics. “I’m very interested in mythology and folklore; Age of Winters draws from Norse/Germanic mythology and folklore and Arthurian legends, although there are other sources as well. There are similar refer- ences and imagery found in various songs. It’s not a concept album, but it’s definitely meant to have a cohesive feel.” Cronise’s interest in mythology and litera- ture stems from comic books and anime, but he credits the hammer of the gods for open- ing his ears. “The earliest influence is Led Zeppelin,” he says. “I was into the various moods they create. I like music to provide a little more than just auditory stimulation. We still want it to be visceral, but not in an overly macho, testosterone-fueled way. ” Visceral is one way to describe the Sword’s live shows, which have become a lesson in the primitive. Over the last year, packed shows at Emo’s and Room 710 have made the battle scars of Cronise’s lyrics seem real. It’s an assault slow and calculated, sweat mixed with black, charred riffs creating a narcotic spell, amps piled high like weapons. Divide and conquer, then an ascent unto the right hand of some faceless god holding a giant bong of truth. Perhaps Yeats was the first metalhead: “And while we’re in our laughing, weeping fit, hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.” We are all slaves to the almighty riff. ■ The Sword celebrate the Age of Winters Saturday, Feb. 11, at Emo’s. THE SWORD Age of Winters (Kemado) Beware the apothecary facade of Age of Winters’ Sword-bearing maiden, comely ren- dered on the cover of this first Book of Lor by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead commander Conrad Keely. Inside, she births mankind’s curse, war, appearing as “The Horned Goddess,” who “sits astride mountains tall and wide, serpent of earth writhes between glacial thighs.” She’s Euro-pagan mythology translated by four Austin metal mercenaries, who trace the forging of “Barael’s Blade” to the flame-engulfed battle plains of “Preya” and the lupine cries of “Winter Wolves.” Forget the ancient runes: This epic account of warriors and wizards, valor and doom, Leviathan and “Ebethron” can be read in the buckets of blood eating into Winters’ musi- cal snow drifts. Blizzards of guitar engulf this Iron Age throwback, JD Cronise’s prophetic intonation embedded in the molten hearth running through this impenetrable fortress. Rarely does the jack- hammer gallop of a Sabbath-like “Iron Swan” escape, but then the unceasing torrent of guitars and heroic verse from “Lament for the Aurochs” and closer “Ebethron” batten down the Sword’s bloody history like an armory. Instrumental fusillade “March of the Lor” falls just short of a massacre. In this one 43-minute Age of Winters lie countless centuries of metallurgy. Ask not for whom the bells tolls. It tolls for She. ★★★ -Raoul Hernandez 60 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com Great Shows. Mo Cover. 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If Daft Punk dominates over the New York Dolls this time around, guitarist/ vocalist Aaron Behrens leaves no doubt where his loyalties lie on shriekers such as “Ghetto Magnet” and “All You Rock & Rollers.” Turner, meanwhile, plays his keyboard bank like a veteran char- acter actor, leading to the taunting “Piano Man,” spookhouse disco of “Vibrate,” and sly pizzicato strings of the title track. After a frenetic first half, Paparazzi pauses for breath on the R&B-ish “Stranger Lover,” and almost loses its way among the spaghetti-Western whistling and Soviet stringscapes of “I’ll Be Suzy.” It recovers for finale “Midnight Voyage,” which, despite its chilled-out ambience, bears an uncanny vocal resemblance to En Vogue’s “Free Your Mind.” This makes perfect sense, actually: Wherever Ghostland Observatory goes, the asses always follow. ★★★ - Christopher Gray BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Calla Lily) Brothers and Sisters’ local debut isn’t perfect: the harmonies aren’t always in key, the vocals sound raw at times, and guitars go in and out of tune. That’s what makes it a true repeat listen. Those imperfections grow on you, like opener “New Life,” which trots along under keys, tambourine, and Will Courtney’s dusty West Coast drawl. “One Night” sounds like a Carly Simon/James Taylor jam with more twang and less sexual tension: “Come on baby, gimme one night. I know it’s crazy but it just feels so right.” The pedal steeliness of “Los Angeles” turns anthemic as the whole family gets on the wagon and screams “L.A.!” over a burning guitar solo. The plaintive “Without You” expands like the spawn of the Mamas and the Papas, riding a gentle wave of guitar pit- ter-patter into a wall of vocals featuring sisters Marie Butcher and Lily Courtney, whose harmonies are especially striking. “Lost and Found” screams Beach Boys, with its Wilson-esque chorus, and “Old Age” cranks like Rust Never Sleeps era-Neil. There’s no kitsch here, only charm. ★★★ - Audra Schroeder MILITANT BABIES Militant Babies, onetime Fivehead/ Golden Apples offshoot turned full-time Austin trio, inherited the impish legacy of Prescott Curlywolf, El Flaco, and the Adults, bands whose wits were every bit as sharp as their riffs, and whose songs made liberal use of both. Further indebt- ed in sound and spirit to Pavement’s Crooked Rain , Crooked Rain and GBV’s Bee Thousand, the Babies’ 15-song debut siphons those two 1994 grad-rock touch- stones’ smirking energy and nearly squanders it at the outset. “Follower” and “Stray” begin the album out of sync, with no memory that the first letter of GBV stands for “guided.” Luckily, “Rain Delay” and “Buffalo” steer back on course by negotiating familiar rural routes. Riffs return for the fluid “Friend in Ken,” vintage gold soundz that can’t resist moshing to climactic steam- spewers “Minute or Two” and “So Alone.” Woozy and uncertain, “3am” offers brief bloodshot respite, but “Bye” enlists a Lou Reed stand-in to boot the Babies into one final drunken studio singalong, the only way an album this unruly, delirious, and yet oddly endearing could possibly end. The inclusion of three base- ball-themed songs, including a salute to “Mad Hungarian” Al Hrabosky, extends Militant Babies’ rookie promise. ★★★ - Christopher Gray LIVE SHOTS EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY Emo's, Jan. 27 According to Explosions in the Sky guitarist Munaf Rayani, the first time they played Emo’s, it was for seven people in the front room. Last Friday, the local quartet made good on sell- ing out the Sixth Street mainstay venue in a week. As a helicopter swooped overhead, its searchlight spying on the packed outdoor throng, the group launched into their opener, a chunky, sonically crushing cosmic wheeler. The next song was more sympathetic, Explosions showing off their mastery of the mushroom-cloud Q formula, which begets the next song, § “Let’s Start Off Quiet and Then Build £ to a Crushing Crescendo.” Adding ^ to their highly-skilled dance of sonic tides and lulls was a cadre of drunken young men scream- ing “Fuck yeah!” and high-fiving like the band just gave them tickets to the Super Bowl. Not that they noticed; the band was too busy melting the rapt crowd’s faces with minor keys and a trembling low end. As they careened into the ending squall of rhythm, Rayani, guitarist Mark Smith, and bassist Michael James headbanged in unison, as though infected with some voodoo curse, while drummer Chris Hrasky created Explosions on his drum kit. The audience waited for the encore, but when Rayani returned to the stage, he announced an appropriate end for their sad, cathartic music: “That’s all we’ve got.” - Audra Schroeder A TRIBUTE TO NEIL YOUNG Stubb's, Jan. 28 With almost 40 years of the Neil Young songbook to choose from, the possibilities for this local event seemed endless. That many of the 12 Austin acts assembled claim some sort of influence from Shakey’s music made it a minor disappointment. There were moments of expected rage and temporary insanity, but overall, there was too much parroting, which led to a wearying sameness and not enough inspiration. When starters Tammany Hall Machine concluded “Sedan Delivery” with feedback a- squealing, things seemed right, yet when the Fighting Brothers McCarthy melded “Old Man” with “Heart of Gold” next, the proceedings ground to halt that even a rightly ragged “Cinnamon Girl” couldn’t save. Oddster quartet Mandible stood apart with their use of electronics, turning “Sugar Mountain” into a Dada lullaby and “The Needle and the Damage Done” into an ironic piece of disco fluff. The best channeling of Crazy Horse came from Gleeson’s ferocious version of “Cortez the Killer,” while a sur- prisingly countrified “Cowgirl in the Sand,” courtesy of Grand Champeen, landed a close second. Other highlights included the Missing Tapes punky take on “Mr. Soul” and Superego’s ramble on “Powderfinger.” As tributes go, it was another night of great compositions played fitfully, which come to think of it, matches Young’s career: great spirit mingled with moments of seeming indifference. - Jim Caligiuri SCARFACE Antone's, Jan. 29 Making the trip from Houston on a Harley Davidson, Scarface arrived at Antone’s Sunday night prepared to rock. Recording a live DVD with his 10-piece Formaldehyde Funk Band, the former Geto Boy commanded the stage like George Clinton steering the mothership into a black hole. Strumming a mean guitar is only one new trick up Face’s sleeve; the legend- ary rapper also played drums and keyboard with an impressive amount of precision. Matching original tracks to a T, classics such as “Never Seen a Man Cry” and “Fuck Faces” fleshed out like psychedelic jams. As “Let Me Roll” rested gingerly atop a makeshift P-Funk launchpad, saucy backup singers and all, the sophisti-funk of synth-laden numbers such as “Smile” showcased the versatility of a band that tightened up as the evening progressed well beyond 2am. When the raucous unit finally traversed the Isaac Hayes swing of “My Mind’s Playing Tricks on Me,” Scarface followed up his own verse by delivering Bushwick Bill’s with quirky accent and crouched perspective intact. 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Less prominently noted in the article, and consequently in news reports, was that drivers impaired by alcohol were six times more likely than an unimpaired driver to have a fatal collision, thus suggesting that the generally illegal drug, cannabis, is only one-third as dangerous for drivers as the legal drug, alcohol. LEAD STORY Even with the nation at war and casual- ties mounting, some Pentagon officials evi- dently believe that one way to reduce military families’ stress is to teach them to laugh. Its “laughter instructor,” retired Army Col. James Scott, holds therapeutic sessions around the country with National Guard families that feature walking like a penguin and blurting “ha ha hee hee and ho ho,” according to a January USA Today story. Said Scott, “The guiding principle is to laugh for no reason (which is) one of the reasons it works so well for military families.” COMPELLING EXPLANATIONS • After her 11 -year-old son was suspended for twice bringing a loaded handgun to school, Linnea C. Holdren, 43, said the matter was pretty much beyond her control. “I can’t lock up his guns,” she told police. “They belong to him, and he has a right to use them whenever he wants to use them.” (The boy was expelled in January, and Holdren, who is a teacher at her son’s Shickshinny, Pa., elementary school, has been charged with felony endangerment.) • Denmark’s government ruled in 2001 that institutionalized citizens have the right to have sex and that caregivers must even take them to visit prostitutes. (Prostitution is legal in Denmark.) According to a January dispatch from Aarhus, Denmark, in London’s Observer, Mr. Torben Vegener Hansen, 59, who has cere- bral palsy and lives at home on government assistance, is challenging the government also to pay for prostitutes to make house calls, claiming that he is unable to have sex manual- ly because of his illness and must be accorded this “human right” by a service similar to the government’s meals-on-wheels program. • Scotland Yard agreed in January to pay the equivalent of about $52,000 to London police Sgt. Leslie Turner to settle Turner’s claim that the reason he failed in a 2004 assignment was that he had been “overpro- moted” to the job because he is black. Turner said he had been given a job as a guard for Prince Charles, and then for Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, without adequate training and, as a result, made mistakes that caused him to be reassigned. SCIENCE ON THE CUTTING EDGE • Two physicians, in a December note in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, wrote glowingly of the ability of the Super Soaker Max-D 5000 squirt weapon to quickly and safely loosen severely impacted ear wax (knowledge learned from an emergency use when no standard ear-syringing equipment was available). In fact, they wrote, since the Super Soaker holds much more water than the standard equipment, using it would actually shorten patients’ office visits. (However, the Super Soaker was obviously not anticipated for medical use; its awkward design assured that patient and doctor would be drenched by excess spray.) • The Island of Dr. Moreau Comes to Life: 1) Recently opened archives in Moscow show that in the 1920s, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered his top animal-breeding scientist to create interspecies “super warriors.” Stalin’s half-men, half-apes would be “invincible,” “insensitive to pain,” and “indifferent about the quality of food they eat.” 2) The Associated Press reported in October that Japan’s Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp., in the course of video-game research, is devel- oping a joystick-controlled headset that disori- ents humans and makes them move in certain ways (a benign “virtual dance experience,” according to one researcher, with potential uses such as keeping the elderly from falling). • Researchers for Linland’s Helsinki University of Technology’s Air Guitar Project recently demonstrated software that allows a player’s finger movements along the imaginary instrument to be set to music from a library of guitar sounds. According to a November New Scientist report, the virtual guitar hero wears special gloves, allowing his gestures to be tracked by camera. Researcher Aki Kanerva expects players even to develop a distinct air guitar style. NO LONGER WEIRD Adding to the list of stories that were for- merly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from cir- culation: 75) People who are so enticed by the money they can make selling scrap-metal cop- per that they break into electrical substations to steal wire, at night, and touch the wrong thing, as the man did in Bellmead, Texas, two days before Christmas. (He “never even knew what hit him,” said a utility employee.) 76) And animals in mating season (especially deer) that crash into homes and storefronts in their crazed search for sex, as did deer that appeared in January in an Evansville, Ind., video store and an Arkansas City, Kan., elementary school. LEAST COMPETENT CRIMINALS Not Cut Out for a Life of Crime: 1) Three men who police say stole a car in San Jose, Calif., in October and drove it to Chico, Calif. , were arrested in Chico when police caught them trying to break into that same car because they had locked the keys inside (or thought they had, since Chico Officer Jose Lara said he found the keys in one of the men’s pockets, after all). 2) Adam Ruiz, 29, was arrested in Buffalo, N.Y., in January after he showed up at work as a trainee at the same Burger King he had allegedly robbed the week before (strengthening the conclusion that crime certainly does not pay if it pays less well than burger-flipping). RECURRING THEMES More Courtroom Defendants Employing Ridiculous Legal Theories: Gregory Ignatius Armstrong, 42, was indicted for bankruptcy fraud in Greenbelt, Md., in December for claiming in all seriousness that he is a sov- ereign nation with unlimited contract pow- ers and is thus owed $500,000 in copyright royalties by anyone who uses his name (in one case, by his Postal Service supervisor who wrote him concerning absences from work). And Oliver Clifton Hudson and Gregory Banks refused to attend their federal drug-con- spiracy trial in Baltimore in November because they deny that the government has jurisdic- tion over their “flesh and blood.” Hudson, for example, said the indictment against him was void because it listed his name in all capital letters, when the correct designation is “Oliver Clifton: Hudson.” Send your Weird News to: Chuck Shepherd, PO Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679 or ©2004 UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE BLUER watch the Game in our /w NEW upstairs lOBBy ^ ane play some taG! 5 512 - 462-0202 wwwSlazertaG.com SUPERBOWL SUNPAY u OFFER VALID ON FEBRUARY 5, 2006 only! Not valid with any other offers. All Groups and Parties MUST have a reservation! Call 462-0202 to reserve! 10% off parties & groups booked for SUPERBOWL SUNDAY LARGEST LASER TAG ARENA IN TEXAS— LOCALLY OWNEP £ OPERATE? HILL COUNTRY OUTDOORS | let's A 3 Hill Country Outdoors (HCO) is an events- oriented club. 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H JL'MLr selected shorts A CELEBRATION OF THE SHORT STORY Friday, February 24, 2006 7:30 pm Isaiah Sheffer Kathleen Chalfant Malachy McCourt THEME: WILD ANIMALS & WEIRD DUCKS The Wood Duck by James Thurber read by Malachy McCourt The Red Fox Fur Coot by Teolinda Gersdo read by Kathleen Chalfant Edward the Conqueror by Roald Dahl read by Isaiah Sheffer Paramount Theatre 713 Congress Avenue Major Funding By: Pint* llnrre iiirnkhl rgt WH&LE POODS AMERICAN | y Proceeds benefit kut 905 For tickets or information visit KUT.org. Tickets also available at the Paramount Theatre box office. No discounts. All tickets are $25, $27, & $30 • Available thru all Get lix outlets • Visit Getlix.net or call (866) 443-9949 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 65 calendar OMMUNITY p.66 + a RTS p.70 t ILM p.76 m this week COMMUNITY LISTINGS (PLUS HIGHLIGHTS FROM ARTS, FILM, AND MUSIC) BY NORA ANKRUM Thursday OQ BACK PAIN SEMINAR Find out what you get when you put your achy back in a room with a neurosurgeon, a chiropractor, and a physical therapist. Preregistration required. 6:30-8pm. Seton Medical Center , 1201 W. 38th , 324-4456. Free. COMMUNITY BOOSTER SEAT SAFETY WORKSHOP Safe Kids Austin has carpooling and booster-seat tips for parents of kids 4 to 8 years old. Each participant receives a free booster-seat voucher. 6-7:30pm. Children’s Hospital of Austin, 601 E. 15th , 324-8009. Free. COMMUNITY DINNER Sup with the folks of the Rhizome Collective. Donations of pots, pans, food containers, spices, and the like are welcome. Volunteer prep , 4-6pm; community dinner , 6-7 pm. Rhizome Collective , 300 Allen , 385-3695. Free. FIRST THURSDAY Music, food, and shopping. (See Club Listings) From the river , south on South Congress. Free. HOT SCIENCE - COOL TALKS: TO INFINITY AND BEYOND UT math ematics professor Michael Starbird will be lecturing on the mysteries of infinity - plus, fun games and refreshments! (Live webcast, 7pm.) 5:45-8:30pm. Welch Bldg., Rm. 2.224, 24th & Speedway. www.esi.utexas.edu/outreach/lectures.html. LIBERTY DOLLAR OF AUSTIN MEETING 6pm. Opal Divine’s Freehouse, 700 W. Sixth, 477-3308. Free. THE STOREHOUSE Hungry? Broke? Come and eat. 10am-2pm. The Storehouse, 111-A Ramble Ln. #120. Free, . SUBMISSION INFORMATION: The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline for the Feb. 17 issue is Monday, Feb. 6. Include name of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a descrip- tion, and any available photos or artwork. Include SASE for return of materials. Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer (see roster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin 78765, fax 458-6910, or e-mail: Kate X Messer or Kate Getty (The Gay Place): . Mark Fagan (Sports): . Nora Ankrum (everything else): . Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, listings editor, 454-5766 or . th eycung ones n:rKi^rhh-.i : urtr ri .i-ST"r ; y SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Diana's Hair Ego @ UT School of Social Work, 6pm Murder in Harlem @ Bass Lecture Hall, 7pm MUSIC (See Music Listings) Attack Formation vs. Nervous Exits Beerland George Winston One World Theatre Ozomatli Paramount Theatre Brownout! vs. Afrofreque Flamingo Cantina Friday OQ BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION will be honoring black fra- ternal, social, and civic institutions and black council members past and present with ProArts Collective’s selections from the poetry and spirituals of God’s Trombones. 10-ll:30am. George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center ; 1165 Angelina, www.austintexas.org. LACIEPALOOZA Even if you don’t know musician Lacie Taylor, who’s undergoing expensive treatments for chronic back pain, you probably know that to reserve your own table at the Hole is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in and of itself. E-mail for your reservation. (See Club Listings) 9pm. Hole in the Wall, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747. $100 (table). or , www.holeinthewallaustin.com. MASSAGE OPEN HOUSE by Beneficial Bodyworks and Better Health Reflexology. Refreshments available. 5:30-8:30pm. 401 E. 53rd St. #204, 775-8410. www.beneficialbodyworks.net. COMEDY (See Arts Listings) Robin Weinburgh Velveeta Room POLITICAL PARTIES AND VOTERS IN MEXICO’S 2006 ELECTIONS In anticipation of Mexico’s elections this summer - the first to feature three main candidates said to be compet- ing equally, and the first to allow votes from expatriates - UT’s Mexican Center brings you researchers and scholars, as well as representatives from the three major parties, to discuss this momentous event. (Morning presentations are in English, while the afternoon’s are in Spanish.) 9am-5pm. Texas Union, Santa Rita Suite, UT Campus; Texas Union, 24th & Guadalupe. , www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/llilas/ conferences/mexico_2006/index/. SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Before Sunrise @ Paramount, 7pm Before Sunset @ Paramount, 9:15pm Best Shorts of 2005 @ Arts on Real, 8pm L’esquive @ Texas Union, 7:30pm MUSIC (See Music Listings) George Winston One World Theatre Saturday OO AUSTIN FARMERS’ MARKET 9am-lpm. Republic Square Park, Fourth & Guadalupe, 236-0074. Free, www.austinfarmersmarket.org. BOOK BONANZA Free books! Piles and piles! 10am. Faulk Central Library, 800 Guadalupe; Friends Monster Book Store, 1800 S. Fifth, 974-7400. www.cityofaustin.org/library/news/nr20030625.htm. CANINE MASSAGE WORKSHOP Not only will this make your own pet very lucky, but you’ll be helping homeless doggies find new homes. Proceeds benefit Texas Hearing and Service Dogs, which trains home- less canines to be of service to people with disabilities and pairs them with their new owners free of charge. lOam-lpm or 2-5pm. The La uterste in-Conway Massage School and Clinic, 374-9908, 374-9222 xl3. $50 per session, www.servicedogs.org. CARNAVAL BRASILEIRO A portion of the proceeds from this explosive dancing, drumming, stomping, 5,500-attendee event will benefit the Neighborhood Longhorns Program, which tutors at-risk third- through eighth-graders. (See Club Listings) 8pm. Palmer Events Center, 900 Barton Springs Rd., 404-4020. $35 ($32, advance). www.carnavalaustin.com. CARNAVAL STREET FESTIVAL A day of costumed revelry: dancers, capoeira and jujitsu presentations, live Brazilian music, and - just to make it worth your while - costume contests. 4-10pm. Sao Paulo’s, 2809 San Jacinto, 473-9988. Free. CPR/FIRST AID CLASS Good to know. 2-3pm. Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar , 750-0586. $25. CUPID.COM SPEED DATING Calling all single, professional women (45-55) and men (47-59): It’s about time you experienced 12 six-minute dates in one night. Register online. 4pm. Razzoo’s, 11617 Research, 241-0444. $32. www.cupid.com/predating. FIRST SATURDAY Private readings by church mediums. 10am-2pm. The First Spiritualist Church of Austin, 4200 Avenue D., 458-3987. Donations accepted. HANCOCK RECREATION CENTER offers child care for children ages 3-5. All instruc- tors are CPR/ First Aid certified. Available Mon.-Fri. Hancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st, 453-7765. SHOTS FOR TOTS Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services offer free immunizations at two locations. Far South Clinic: Mondays, 10am-l:30pm & 3-6:45pm; Tuesdays & Thursdays, 8-ll:30am & l-4:45pm; Wednesdays & Fridays (walk-in clinic), 8-ll:30am; first Saturday of the month (walk-in clinic), 9am-lpm. Far South Clinic, 405 W. Stassney. St. John Clinic: Mondays & Thursdays, 8-ll:30am & l-4:45pm; Tuesdays, 10am-l:30pm & 3-6:45pm; Wednesdays & Fridays (walk-in clinic), 8-ll:30am; third Saturday of the month, 9am-lpm. St. John Clinic, 7500 Blessing. 972-5520. Free. GUITAR CLASSES FOR GIRLS taught by a degreed female instructor. Ages 6 and older. 809-7799. Group classes stat- ing at $10 (private classes available). . GROUNDWATER ESSAY CONTEST FOR $1,500 SCHOLARSHIP PRIZE Hey, high school seniors. Write an essay about groundwater issues (you know, like pol- lution prevention, water conservation, or hydrogeology) and yours might be one of the two winning essays selected by an independent evaluation panel. (If you’ve completed the GED in the past six months, you can give it a go, too.) See the Web site for more information. Essays and applications must be received by March 1. 282-8441. www.bseacd.org/scholarship_program.htm. MARIPOSAS SPANISH SCHOOL Spanish classes for children ages 3-10. Through May 31. Mondays-Thursdays. Movin’ Easy, 404 W. 30th, 653-7369. , www.mariposasspanish.com, TEACHER OF THE YEAR Nominate your favorite teacher for this statewide award, sponsored by the Teachers’ Insurance Plan, and he or she could win $1,000 while your school could win a $500 grant. Deadline: March 1. www.teachers.com/totv. AUSTIN GIRLS’ CHOIR AUDITIONS Calling all angels ages 8-18! Well, angel- voices, at least. It’s time to audition for the Girls’ Choir. Scholarships are available; call to make an appointment. Through Feb. 12. 453-0884. www.austin.girlschoir.com. DADS AND DAUGHTERS PLAYGROUP offers a chance for young girls (ages 2-3) to hang out with their Pops and do sporty things on the weekend. But, since these are nice people, they’d like to stress that it doesn’t have to be a daughter/dad combo. They don’t want to make anyone feel unwanted, after all. Call or e-mail for more info. Various locations, 990-2624. . GERMAN CLASSES FOR CHILDREN: AGES 5-13 The German Saturday School offers this 12-week course for kids (with discounts for siblings), taught by grad students from UT’s Department of Germanic Studies. Through March 25. Saturdays, 9:30-ll:30am. German-Texan Heritage Society, 507 E. 10th, 482-0927 or 866/482-4847. $150. , www.germantexans.org. FINANCIAL AID SATURDAY WORKSHOPS offer assistance with filling out your FAFSA. Preregistration required: Give student’s name and school, parents’ names, phone number, e-mail, preferred date and session time, and Spanish/English preference; plus, specify whether you want an online or paper application. Three sessions per Saturday: 9am, 10:45, 12:30pm. Three more week- ends: Feb. 4, Reagan High School, 7104 Berkman Dr.; Feb. 11, Atkins High School, 10701 S. First; Feb. 18, Lanier High School, 1201 Payton Gin. Through Feb. 18. 414-0364. Free, . JACK AND THE BEAN STALK A new take on the old classic, this one involv- ing an ogre on a diet. (Sat., Feb. 18 is Family Nite, with preshow pizza and a chance to meet the actors.) Through Feb. 19. Saturdays, 10am; Sundays, 2 & 5pm. Scottish Rite Theatre , 207 W. 18th , 4 72-5436. www.scottishritetheatre.org. DECORATE WOODEN HEARTS for your favorite person at Terra Toys; supplies provided. Sun., Feb. 5, 12-2pm. Terra Toys, 2438 W. Anderson, 445-4489. Free. AMERICAN YOUTH WORKS ENROLLMENT MEETINGS AYW offers a free fast-paced curriculum for motivated 16- to 20-year-old students. Mondays, 5:30-6:30pm. American Youth Works, 1900 E. Ben White , 472-8220. Free. AUDITIONS FOR AUSTIN’S CREATIVE TELEVISION WORKSHOP are open to high schoolers interested in taking inten- sive, Monday-night acting workshops, which will include the completion of a televised segment. Please e-mail if you plan to audition. Mon., Feb. 6, 6-8pm (sign in between 5 & 5:45pm). One World Theatre, 7701 Bee Caves Rd., 330-9500. $50 one-time fee (scholarships available). , www.oneworldtheatre.org/directions.html. NATIONAL TEEN DATING VIOLENCE AWARENESS AND PREVENTION WEEK Backed by members of Congress, real-life teenagers have created a toolkit for help- ing adults and schools address dating violence. Honor the one in three American teens who’ve been affected by this vio- lence: Call and order a kit. 267-SAFE. 66 | THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 | austinchronicle.com calendar ►COMMUNITY ►ARTS ►FILM ►MUSIC FUTURE CONNECTIONS WORKSHOP Cap Metro wants your feedback on the next phase of the All Systems Go! transit plan. They hope to connect commuter-rail and rapid-bus service throughout the region; you’ll be participating in tabletop map exercises to plan and prioritize these connections. 8:30am-12:30pm. Austin Convention Center , 500 E. Cesar Chavez , 474-1200. www.capmetro.org. HORNY TOAD ARTFEST Is that space over your fireplace screaming out for a horned lizard paint- ing? Well, get it here, because the proceeds benefit the Horned Lizard Conservation Society and the Wild Basin Preserve. 9am-5pm. Wild Basin Preserve , 805 Capital ofTX Hwy. N., 327-7622. $5, under 18 free, www.hornedlizards.org. INDEPENDENCE BREWING COMPANY hosts a free monthly brewery tour and beer tasting at their South Austin brewery. This time around, they’ve got chocolate tasting and heart-shaped Mangia’s piz- zas for some reason, lpm. Independence Brewery 3913 Todd Ln. www.independencebrewing.com. INDEPENDENT TEXANS MEETING The organiza tion that seeks to mobilize independent voters. 3:30pm. Austin Toll Party and Independent Texans Headquarters , 4533 Avenue A #208. www.indytexans.org. LE GARAGE SALE Many fancy boutiques, one modest roof. (See After a Fashion, p.40) Noon-6pm. Austin Music Hall , 208 Nueces , 263-4146. $10/Sat., $5/Sun.; cash-only, www.legaragesale.net. PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATION COURSES: URBAN PLANTS AND GARDENS Though this is an ongoing series, you can attend per class or for the whole shebang. For more infor- mation and class details, see the Web site. Private residence , 926-7876. , www.austinprogressivecalendar.com/permaculture. htm#PCJan06. SOUTH MANCHACA ART MARKET 9am-2pm. 11800 Manchaca Rd. www.soaustin.com. SUNSET VALLEY FARMERS MARKET 9:30am- lpm. Toney Burger Center ; 3200 Jones , 280-1976. TARTS WORKSHOP Round or square, fruit or chocolate - you’ll learn it all. 10:30am. $55. www.juniperhillsfarm.com/2006classes.htm. TEXAS CULINARY ACADEMY CHOCOLATE SHOW & COMPETITION showcases the talents of TCA student competitors and allows you to taste the fine, hand-made delicacies of chocolate artisans and TCA instructors, who’ll be giving demonstra- tions and hosting a savory chocolate buffet. Noon-3pm. Texas Culinary Academy 11400 Burnet Rd. #2100, 339-2665. Free. TREEFOLKS CENTRAL TEXAS PLANTING Help the urban forest proliferate: Plant one of the 2,006 trees scheduled to go into the ground today. 9am- noon. Waterloo Park, Onion Creek Preserve, Hornsby Bend, and more, 443-5323. www.treefolks.org. WALK OF THE ANCESTORS Connect spiritually with ancestors up to nine generations removed. 7-10 pm. NiaSpace, 3212 S. Congress, 586-2736. $35 ($30, advance), www.gerrystarnes.com/workshops. WEST SIXTH STREET ARTISTS’ MARKET 10am- 6pm. 709 W. Sixth, 698-8099. www.6thstreetmarket.com. WOMEN’S ROUNDTABLE: NEGOTIATING PAY Learn how to get the salary and freelance fees you deserve. Plus: role-playing! (Bring a sack lunch.) llam-2pm. LCRA Hancock Building, 3700 Lake Austin Blvd. Free, www.lcra.org/about/goc.html. YELLER DAWG DEMOCRATS BRUNCH & DISCUSSION 11am. Tres Amigos, 1801 Capital of TX Hwy. S., 327-1776. . SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Best Shorts of 2005 @ Arts on Real, 8pm MUSIC (See Music Listings) Carnaval Palmer Events Center Sunday OO BENEFIT FOR JAZZ PIANIST DOUG HALL A jam session to help Hall pay for expensive medical treatments. (See Club Listings) 9:30pm-l:30am. Elephant Room, 315 Congress, 473-2279. Donations accepted. CHURCH OF BRUNCH promises no references to deities - only to sages past and present - and welcomes atheists and agnostics into an environ- ment where they can enjoy the benefits of ritual and communion with their fellow man minus the pressures to conform. Most importantly, there’s food. Private residence, 477-1566 or 371-9588. , , www.churchofbrunch.blogspot.com. HAPPY LIVING WITH JUSTICE offers a free yoga practice, followed by a meeting to increase aware- ness on environmental, peace, and justice issues. Locations vary. 4-6pm. 292-8093. Free. . LIBERTARIAN DISCUSSION GROUP hosted by Terry Liberty Parker. 6:30pm. Hickory Street Bar & Grille, 800 Congress, 477-8968. Free. www.groups.yahoo.com/group/libertarian. MEDITATION & DISCUSSION GROUP: DEVELOPING THE GOOD HEART This ongo ing series is based upon the teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition of Lama Tsong Khapa. Discussions and meditations will be facilitated by Bonnie Baptist, a lay-student of Lama Zopa Rinpoche, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and oth- the GAY place BY KATE X MESSER AND KATE GETTY CORETTA SCOTT KING We have lost another cham- pion. “I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice, but I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.” - speaking four days before the 30th anni- versary of her husband’s assassination, as reported by Reuters, March 31, 1998. Rest in peace, Coretta Scott King, www.hatecrime.org/subpages/coretta.html. CHEAP DATE: THE SECOND COMING Who needs a Valentine when you can do it up royal with a little bit of rock & roll? That’s what we thought. It’s ba-ack. Join the masses bumping enthusiastically to the angelic spins of DJ Tanner, Uncle Jesse, and DJ Jen. Hey, if it ain’t Cheap Date, it’s just a Thursday. Thu., Feb. 9, 10pm. The Peacock, 515 Pedernales, 276-8979. Free. ALLGO’S 21ST BAILE Go to BookWoman or the ALLGO offices, proper, to get your advanced tix to ALLGO’s annual Valentine’s dance! Fri., Feb. 10, 9pm. Omni Austin Hotel Southpark, 4140 Governor’s Row, 472-2001. $25, advance; $30 door. , www.allgo.org. URINETOWN GOES WILDE Sounds like a golden- shower extravaganza, with a queer-lit twist. But alas ... no. It’s the queer way to do theatre. With a little mingle with damn fine finger foods, a dash of some damn fine gays to cruise, and then a damn fine show: Urinetown, the hilarious potty-humored musi- cal wetting the appetites of Zach audiences as of late. Thu. Feb. 2, 6:45pm. 476-0541 xl. www.zachscott.com . CAMP CAMP’S TEMPORARY DIGS You got it? Flaunt it. Tonight! But be sure to flaunt it in the right place: Austin’s every-first-Thursday “open mic” Monthly Queer Performance Night moves loca- tions for this month only. February’s Camp Camp happens at the Lucky Dragon on Airport, between Manor and MLK. Stay late for the Dirty Dance Party. All ages. Thu., Feb. 2, 8pm sign-up; 9pm show; midnight dance party. Lucky Dragon, 2039 Airport Blvd. Free, . FIRST FRIDAY DINNER CLUB This group of professional gay men and women meets on the first Friday of each month. Hence the name. Fri., Feb. 3. , f i rstf ri days-su bscri be@ya hoogrou ps .com . PT’S COMING TO DINNER Enjoy a privately hosted gourmet dinner affair with a theme, perhaps “Venetian Splendors,” or “A Night in Havana.” Then meet with the 350 other anticipated dinner guests for champagne and dessert at Nest. It’s time for the ninth annual Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. All proceeds (100%) go directly to Project Transitions, helping people living with HIV/AIDS. Oh, what a feeling. Sat., Feb. 4, 7pm. Nest, 1009 W. Sixth, 454-8646. $100. www.projecttransitions.org. TACT Transgender Advocates of Central Texas is an advocacy group dedicated to furthering the cause of Gender Diverse people in Central Texas through education in both private and public forums. TACT meets the first Tuesday of the month. 448-6354. For more gay stuff, see Calendar online: austinchronicle.com. Send gay bits to . ers. Sundays, 2-4pm. Heart Song, 2700 W. Anderson Ln. #320. Donations accepted, www.austinfpmt.com. PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORUM Kris Donley, executive director of the Dispute Resolution Center, will address “Mediation: Tools for Peaceful Resolution of Conflict.” ll:30am-12:30pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover, 452-6168. Free, www.austinuu.org. HORNY TOAD ARTFEST 9am-4pm. Wild Basin Preserve, 805 Capital ofTX Hwy. N., 327-7622. $5, under 18 free, www.hornedlizards.org. (See Saturday) LE GARAGE SALE llam-5pm. Austin Music Hall, 208 Nueces, 263-4146. $10/Sat., $5/Sun.; cash- only. www.legaragesale.net. (See Saturday) OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS MEETING Call for location. 327-2802. Free, www.oa.org. PERSONAL RENEWAL GROUP FOR MOMS 7-9:30pm. $195, six-month program. , www.careerstrategists.net. RECREATIONAL MUSIC & WELLNESS CLASSES 10:30am. Brook Mays Music Company, 2100 S. 1-35 Ste. B4, Round Rock, 512/388-3999. Free, first semester, . THE AUSTIN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION Pre sent your ideas, issues, and concerns during citi- zens’ communications. 5:30pm. One Texas Center , 505 Barton Springs Rd., 974-3251. WEST SIXTH STREET ARTISTS’ MARKET 10am-6pm. 709 W. Sixth, 698-8099. www.6thstreetmarket.com . SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Before Sunrise @ Paramount, 7pm Before Sunset @ Paramount, 9:15pm Monday OO AUSTIN AGAINST WAR MEETING 7pm. 2107 San Antonio, 323-9778. , www.austinagainstwar.org. CAPITOL CITY HIGHLANDERS PIPE BAND offer free lessons at their practices each week. 5:30- 6:30pm. First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa, 346-3123 or 567-1282. Free. CENTRAL TEXANS SUPPORTING DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN HAITI Help raise awareness of the current repression in Haiti, and return demo- cratic rule to this country torn by violence. 6pm. Clay Pit, 1601 Guadalupe, 322-5131. . DEADLINE TO SUBMIT APPLICATION FOR A BALLOT BY MAIL is today, for the Feb. 14 District 48 run-off. www.co.travis.tx.us/county_clerk/election/ dates.asp. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS MEETING Twelve steps to emotional health. 7:30-8:30pm. Shoal Creek Hospital, cafeteria annex, 3501 Mills Ave. www.emotionsanonymous.org. FREE LEGAL ADVICE These night clinics from Volunteer Legal Services & Texas RioGrande Legal Aid are open to everyone, offer child care, and are right on the bus line. 6-7pm. Martin Middle School, 1601 Haskell. Free. IMPENDING LOSS - A SUPPORT GROUP FOR THE CAREGIVER Through March 13. 6:30-8pm. AGE Building, 3710 Cedar , 451-4611. Free (preregistration required for all six sessions), www.ageofaustin.org/cgrc. LIFE AFTER DIAGNOSIS: SUPPORT GROUP FOR COPING WITH LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS Through March, 13. 6:30-8pm. AGE Building, 3710 Cedar , 451-4611. Free (preregistration required for all six sessions), www.ageofaustin.org/cgrc. VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE is today, for the March 7 state primary elections. Applications are available online, but you still have to print them out and send them in. Consider yourself warned. www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.shtml. WEEKLY CHESS TOURNAMENT This five round Swiss system tournament has been ruling the food court for 10 years now. 7pm. Dobie Center, 2021 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall, Plaza), 505-1000. $1 to play. YEAR OF BODHISATTVA RENAISSANCE AWAKENING: A PROGRAM OF EDUCATION FOR LIBERATING ENLIGHTENMENT Awakeners reshape their lives by tapping hidden powers of their bodies and minds. So, uh, what do you do? 7-8:30pm. Shambhala Meditation Center, 1702 S. Fifth, 771-3184. $10. . SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) New York Doll @ Alamo Downtown, 9:45pm Richard Pryor: Live in Concert @ Alamo Downtown, 7pm "Best outdoor events." - The Austin Chronicle Readers Poll www.hillcountryoutdoors.com Spiritual FREE FOUR-WEEK WORKSHOP SERIES! 453-0331 Learn to see and use the wisdom in your dreams. Discover: • different types of dreams • how to interpret dreams • how dreams are a doorway to heaven Tuesday Evenings 7-8:30pm February 7, 14, 21, & 28 Dreamin Austin ECKANKAR Center Executive Office Terrace Complex, Suite B-206 Hwy 183 Access Road at Northcrest, Between Lamar and IH-35 (Behind the Red Lobster) www. eckankar-tcxas . org austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 67 calendar ►COMMUNITY ►ARTS ►FILM ►MUSIC Tuesday OO ART OF SPIRITUAL DREAMING WORKSHOP Recall, interpret, and harness the wisdom to be found in your dreams. You may attend the whole four-week course or individual sessions. Through Feb. 28. Austin Eckankar Center , 223 W. Anderson Ste. 6-206, 453-0331. Free, www.eckankar-texas.org. AUSTIN/CAPITAL CITY BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN’S MONTHLY NETWORKING LUNCHEON ll:30am-lpm. Tien Hong , 8301 Burnet Rd., 459-6922. Free (lunch not included), . COMPUTER CLASSES FOR SENIORS: INTERNET AND E-MAIL For all you beginners out there, learn how to get online and stay there. Registration required. Through Feb. 28. AGE Building , 3710 Cedar ; 451-4611. $35. www.seniornetaustin.org. COMPUTER CLUB OF AUSTIN starts off with a PC problem-solving Q&A before moving on to the topics at hand: What can ISPs do for you, and how can wireless Internet access change the world? 6:30pm. Thompson Conference Center , Red River & Dean Keeton , 471-2933. Free, www.ccaustin.org. GENAUSTIN INFORMATIONAL SESSION Find out how volunteering with the Girls Empowerment Network can help foster healthy self-esteem among young women. 6-7pm. Fulmore Community Center ; 201 E. Mary St., 414-0473. www.genaustin.org. GUIDED-IMAGERY MEDITATION 7-8pm. Wellness by Design , 4701 Westgate Ste. C-301. Donations accepted, www.wellnessbydesign.us. HOUSE THE HOMELESS MEETING 3-4pm. 500 E. Seventh, www.universallivingwage.org. IGNITE YOUR INVENTIVENESS 7-9pm. Human Potential Center ; 2007 Bert , 441-8988. $95, sup- plies included. LATINITAS MAGAZINE AND OUTREACH needs help with programming and with publishing its fabu- lous magazine for young Latina women. You don’t even have to be bilingual, so there’s no excuse for not dropping by this informational meeting. 6pm. Ventana del Soul, 1834 E. Oltorf , 322-9947. www.latinitasmagazine.org. MASSAGE: A FIVE-SESSION INTRODUCTION Should you decide to enroll in the professional training after taking this community class, $100 of your tuition will be applied to your first semester. 7-9:30pm. The Lauterstein-Conway Massage School and Clinic, 374-9908, 374-9222 xl3. $130 (includes $50 space-saving deposit). MLK JR. SERVICE William Winter, the former governor of Mississippi, will be speaking, and the Fluston-Tillotson University Gospel Choir will per- form. 11am. Shelton Chapel, 100 E. 27th (Austin Seminary Campus), 472-6736. www.austinseminary.edu/news/releases/859. SIERRA CLUB MEETING 6:15-7pm. LCRA Board Room, 3700 Lake Austin Blvd. www.texas.sierraclub.org/austin. STONEWALL DEMOCRATS MONTHLY MEETING 7:30pm. Magnolia Cafe South, 1920 S. Congress, 383-1754. Free, www.stonewallaustin.org. TRICHOTILLOMANIA SUPPORT GROUP MEETING for chronic hair-pullers. 7pm. Austin Java Co. Free. . UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF PH BALANCE IN YOUR BODY RSVP required. 6:30- 8:30pm. Regenesis Integrative Health Centers, 1700 S. Lamar #322, 326-3737. Free, www.regenesisihc.com. VALENTINE’S CHAMPAGNE DINNER A romantic five course menu prepared by Executive Chef Christopher Lyttle. Proceeds go to the Wine & Food Foundation of Texas. 7pm. Castle Hill Cafe, 1101 W. Fifth, 327-7555. $85 ($75, WFF members), www.winefoodfoundation.org. BIKES ACROSS BORDERS COMMUNITY BIKE SHOP 6-10pm. Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen, 385-3695. Free, . CLAIRVOYANT TRAINING 7:30-9:30pm. Call for exact location, 560-5193. , www.intuitivestudiesaustin.com. ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES 6-9pm. 3840 Far West Blvd., 345-8941. , www.geocities.com/atasteofitalyinaustin/ atasteofitalyinaustin. THEATRE (See Arts Listings) The Dionysium Alamo Drafthouse South SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Midnight Shadow @ Carver Museum Theater (1165 Angelina), 10am, 1, 4pm Moolaade @ Texas Union, 7:30pm New York Doll @ Alamo Downtown, 9:45pm The Battle of Algiers @ Alamo Downtown, 7pm Wednesday OO AUSTIN SINGING INSTITUTE VOCAL LIBERATION CLASS RSVP 7-10pm. Music Lab, 1306 W. Oltorf, 554-8771. $50. , www.austinsinginginstitute.net. AUSTIN WOMEN IN BLACK encourage all those opposed to war to join them in their weekly vigil. Noon-lpm. Texas State Capital Building. www.austinwomeninblack.org. BLOOD DRIVE Register online; use the sponsor code “Wolf Ranch.” 9:30am-7pm. Wolf Ranch Town Center ; Highway 29 & 1-35. www.lonestardonor.com. CENTRAL TEXAS MOUNTAINEERS MEETING 7pm. Whole Earth Provisions, 2410 San Antonio, 478-1577. www.ctmrocks.com. DIAMOND WAY BUDDHISM MEDITATION MEETING 7pm. Texas Union, UT Campus, 24th & Guadalupe, www.diamondway.org/austin. FREELANCE AUSTIN MEETING Are you a creative type baffled by the crunchy paper wads in your pock- ets known as receipts and the thick booklets that arrive in your mailbox every January known as tax forms? CPA Amy Cook is here to help. 12:30-l:45pm. The Workshop, 1211 W. Sixth #400, 231-0939. Free, members and new guests, . HOMEBUYING SEMINAR AND WINE TASTING Reservations required. 6:30pm. Carmelo’s Italian Restaurant, 504 E. Fifth, 653-1966. . KEEP AUSTIN BEAUTIFUL AWARDS LUNCHEON llam-lpm. Hyatt Regency Austin, 208 Barton Springs Rd., 391-0621. $70, $35 (nonprofit/commu- nity-group members), $500 (table). www.keepaustinbeautiful.org. METROPOLITAN BREAKFAST CLUB: DIVERSITY PANEL will discuss the changing landscape of Austin business. Please RSVP 7-8:30am. UT Club, Darrell Royal Memorial Stadium, sixth floor, 2108 E. Robert Dedman, 479-9460. $15, members and new guests, , www.mbcaustin.org. SECULAR ORGANIZATIONS FOR SOBRIETY/ SAVE OURSELVES MEETING 7:30pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church, 3315 El Salido Pkwy ., Cedar Park, 219-9008. . TRADITIONAL MAYAN CALENDAR STUDY with Carlos Cedillo. 6pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. Free with cafe purchase. ww.cosmicjaguar.com, www.rutamaya.net. COMEDY (See Arts Listings) Queertown! Esther’s Pool SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Last Man Standing @ Stubb’s, 7pm New York Doll @ Alamo Downtown, 9:45pm Thursday OO PRESERVATION OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES COLLABORATING WITH NEW URBAN IDEALS This seminar, sponsored by Preservation Texas and the Building Industry Council of America, focuses on how urban devel- opment affects historic downtown areas. Lunch provided. Register by Feb. 6. 8:30am-lpm. Texas Association of Counties Building, 1210 San Antonio St., 472-0102. $85. www.preservationtexas.org. TRANSFORMATIONAL BREATHING WORKSHOP 7-9pm. Unity Church of the Hills, 9905 Anderson Mill, 335-4449. $30. WHY WRITE WHEN YOU CAN SPEAK, SING, AND REMEMBER? Professor Tom Palaima examines the role of writing in Greek history. 7pm. Harry Ransom Center, 300 W. 21st, 471-8944. Free. www.hrc.utexas.edu. WILLIAMSON COUNTY DEMOCRATS EXECUTIVE MEETING starts off with dinner for any voter wanting to make a $10 donation. 7:15pm (dinner at 6:15pm). day trips BY GERALD E. MCLEOD The Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas inspires, educates, and just plain teases us with a wide range of artistic expression. The garden and museum are a roller-coaster ride of shapes, colors, and feelings. Soaring 100 feet above the garden lawn, Jonathan Borofsky’s Walking to the Sky sums up the boldness of the world’s most important private collection of modern art. The artwork’s stainless-steel pole at a 75-degree angle seems to be a perfect sidewalk in the clouds for seven life-sized figures. The piece is a tribute to a work of art’s ability to tell a story. You can only imagine what that story should be. Other, more subtle pieces, are no less inspiring. Opened in 2003, the indoor-outdoor art center is built around Raymond Nasher’s extensive collection of artwork that includes work by Picasso, Gauguin, Rodin, Matisse, as well as contemporary artists like Calder and Borofsky. You could say that this collection of fine art that spans the globe began in 1950 when Nasher moved his new bride to Dallas to pur- sue a career in real estate development. Patsy Nasher, who passed away in 1988, didn’t have to push her husband too hard to also invest in art. When Nasher’s NorthPark Center at North Central Expressway and Northwest Flighway opened in 1965, critics said that mall shoppers wouldn’t appreciate the modern art scattered among the 120 stores. The public’s interest surprised even Nasher. In the 1990s, the Nasher collection was offered a public home in London, New York, and Washington. The Boston native decided that his home of more than 40 years should receive the more than 300 pieces of art. Rather than accept city of Dallas funds and guidance, Nasher built the 2.4-acre site from his own deep pockets. The result is a needed infusion into what Dallas calls its “arts dis- trict.” Lost on the northwestern edge of downtown, the district is largely made up of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Across the street from the Nasher Center is the Crow Collection of Asian Art. At the base of the Trammell Crow skyscraper, the collection offers a tour of works of art from Japan, China, India, and Southeast Asia. Dating from 3500BC to the early 20th century, the artwork in the exhibit includes precious jade ornaments from China, delicate Japanese scrolls, and rarely seen Indian religious carvings. The office building also incorporates a sculpture garden and reflecting pools around the entrance with many interesting pieces that compliment the Nasher collection. When you visit the Nasher museum, take a few minutes to notice the building, which is a work of art by itself. The glass roof filters natural light into the galleries. From the inside, the thousands of holes in the ceiling sunscreen allow the sky to peek through at cer- tain angles. The design- § er, Renzo Piano, used g similar innovative light- ^ ing techniques when he “ built the Menil ^ Colection in Flouston £j and the Pompidou ° Center in Paris. The Dallas sculpture museum is made up of three galleries - a room for items from the Nasher collection that compliment the travel- ing exhibits that occupy the main gallery and a smaller gallery down- stairs for special exhibits. The building also houses a small cafe, classrooms, offices, and a state-of-the-art conservation lab. Through April 9, the Nasher Sculpture Center will be showcasing “The Women of Giacometti.” Many of the 48 pieces by Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) have never been shown together before. The artwork ranges in style from the naturalistic to surrealistic and cubist. The Nasher Sculpture Center is at 2001 Flora St. between Olive and Harwood streets, a couple of blocks off of the Woodall Rogers Freeway (Spur 366). The museum and garden are open Tuesday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm and until 9pm on Thursday. General admission is $10, but well worth the experience. For more informa- tion, call 214/242-5100 or go to www.nashersculpturecenter.org. The Crow Collection of Asian Art, 2010 Flora St., is open Tuesday through Sunday, 10am to 5pm and until 9pm on Thursday. Admission is free with guided tours on Thursdays and Saturdays. For more infor- mation, call 214/979-6430 or go to www.crowcollection.org. 764th in a series. Day Trips, Vol. 2, a book of Day Trips 101-200, is available for $8.95, plus $3.05 for shipping, handling, and tax. Mail to: Day Trips, PO Box 33284, South Austin, TX 78704. out of town BY GERALD E. MCLEOD WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION combines the gal- lantry of Colonial America, the serenity of Native American culture, the colors of a Mexican fiesta, and the essence of Mardi Gras for an almost monthlong celebration that includes parades, carnivals, a jala- peho-eating contest, concerts, and more. Through Sun., Feb. 19. Laredo, 956/722-0589. www.wbcalaredo.org. REGIONAL CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS pres ents work by local and regional art- ists whose creations tell many differ- ent stories and views. Through Feb. 28. Regional Arts Center, Texarkana, 903/792-8681. www.trahc.org. TEXAS ART comes to the Hill Country’s newest art venue with a reception and exhibit by a trio of female artists - Margie Crisp, Natasha Downs, and Angilee Wilkerson - showing their paintings, pottery, and photographs. Exhibit lasts through mid-March. Kirchman Gallery, 213 N. Nugent, Johnson City, 830/868-9290. Through March 15. www.kirchmangallery.com . CALL FOR ENTRIES for the Live Oak Art Center 2006 Juried Art Exhibition is open to artists of any medium liv- ing within 120 miles of Columbus. Entry deadline is Feb. 28. Live Oak Art Center, 1014 Milam, Columbus. www.columbustexas.org. MOZART FESTIVAL includes a recital by Marjorie Owens, a lecture by Dr. Laurel Zeiss, and an evening piano duo with Krassimira Jordon and Wolfgang Watzinger. Fri., Feb. 3, 7pm; Sat., Feb. 4, noon and 7pm. Silver Spur Theater, 108 Royal St., Salado. www.musicinsalado.com. WIMBERLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL enters its 14th year with a lineup that includes Paul Glasse, Kellye Gray, Paul English, and Bobby Doyle, as well as the Wimberley High School Jazz Band. Advance tickets recom- mended. Fri.-Sun., Feb. 3-5 & 10-12. Cypress Creek Cafe, Wimberley , 512/847-2515. www.cypresscreekcafe.com . BOUNTIFUL BOWL POTTERY FAIR features more than 30 potters from Texas and neighboring states as part of the Downtown Art Walk that opens 17 galleries in the historic shop- ping district. Sat., Feb. 4, 10am-4pm. Rockport-Fulton High School Commons Area, Rockport, 361/729-5352. www.rockport-fulton.org. RETRATOS: 2,000 YEARS OF LATIN AMERICAN PORTRAITS is the first comprehensive exhibition of Latin American portraits, with approximately 115 paintings and sculptures drawn from the holdings of leading muse- ums and private collections across Latin America, Europe, and the United States. Feb. 4-April 30. San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones Ave., San Antonio. 210/978-8100. www.samuseum.org. ASIAN FESTIVAL celebrates the year of the dog and promotes under- standing and appreciation of the food, art, music, craft, and culture of Asian countries, especially those whose citizens have adopted Texas as their home. Sat., Feb. 4. Institute of Texan Cultures, HemisFair Park, San Antonio, 210/458-2300. www.texancultures.utsa.edu. ANTIQUE SHOW brings more than 60 specially selected dealers togeth- er for a show and sale. Sat., Feb. 4, 9am-5pm; Sun. Feb. 5, 10am-4pm. Civic Center, 380 S. Seguin, New Braunfels, 281/373-9977. 68 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com calendar ►COMMUNITY ►ARTS ►FILM ►MUSIC Precinct 2 Courtroom , Williamson County Annex, 350 Discovery Blvd ., Cedar Park, 512/671-8683. www.williamsoncountydemocrats.org/calendar.html#WCDPEC. BIKES ACROSS BORDERS COMMUNITY BIKE SHOP 6-10pm. Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen, 385-3695. Free, . BOARD GAME NIGHT AT VENTANA DEL SOUL 6pm. Ventana del Soul, 1834 E. Oltorf, 707-7447. Free. COMMUNITY DINNER Volunteer prep, 4-6pm; com- munity dinner, 6-7pm. Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen, 385-3695. Free. (See Thursday 02/2) EMANCIPET FREE DAYS 8am, check-in begins (first come, first served), www.emancipet.org. (See Thursday 02/2) INSIDE BOOKS PROJECT VOLUNTEER NIGHT 6-10pm. Rhizome Collective, 300 Allen, 385-3695. ITALIAN LANGUAGE CLASSES 6-9pm. 3840 Far West Blvd., 345-8941. , www.geocities.com/atasteofitalyinaustin/ atasteofitalyinaustin. THE STOREHOUSE 10am-2pm. The Storehouse, 111- A Ramble Ln. #120. Free. . (See Thursday 02/2) SPECIAL SCREENINGS (See Film Listings) Outdoorsmen @ Alamo South, 9:45pm Ongoing Cvents EARLY VOTING FOR DISTRICT 48 RUN-OFF For more information, as well as early-voting locations, see p.8. Feb. 6 through Feb. 10. www.co.travis.tx.us/county_clerk/election/dates.asp. PAYING FOR COLLEGE BUS TOUR is stopping in Austin to help Latino families navigate the college-tuition maze. Learn the ins and outs of grants, loans, and federal aid, and don’t miss your chance to win a scholarship - there’s one avail- able per workshop. Thu., Feb. 2, 6-8:30pm, Johnston High School, 1012 Arthur Stiles; Fri., Feb. 3, 10am-12:30pm, Travis High School, 1211 E. Oltorf; Sat., Feb. 4, 10am-12:30pm, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church , 1206 E. Ninth. 877/840-8224. Free, www.thesalliemaefund.org. TEJAS BLUEBONNET REGIONAL CONVENTION OF NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS features workshops, guest speakers, and 12-step meetings for recovering addicts. The Central Texas Area of Narcotics Anonymous offers more than 50 meetings in the region every week, charges no dues or fees, and runs a 24-hour helpline: 480-0004, 866/79-CTANA, or (for Spanish speakers) 480- 0007. Register online. Feb. 3-5. DoubleTree Hotel, 6505 N. 1-35, 454-3737. $25 ($20, preregistration), www.ctana.org, www.ctana.org/TBRCNA7.pdf. AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY BUILDERS EXHIBIT honors notable African-Americans, including Anderson High School’s award-winning band from the 1930s through 1950s and its director, Benjamin Lee Joyce. Through Feb. 28. Scarbrough Building, 101 W. Sixth, 477-7884. SOIL TESTS Texas A&M is offering reduced-rate tests to find out your soil’s nutrient content for the spring planting season: Pick up your kits (don’t forget to drop off your samples by Feb. 14) at the following participating nurseries: Barton Springs Nursery, Callahan’s, Garden-Ville, Great Outdoors, Howard Nursery, Natural Gardener, Pots & Plants, Red Barn Garden Center, and Round Rock Gardens. $6. AMAME BESAME ADORN A ME (LOVE ME, KISS ME, ADORN ME) FUNDRAISER Proceeds from the finely crafted jewelry sold at Mexic-Arte through- out February go to support the museum’s arts and educational programs. Through Feb. 28. Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress, 480-9373. www.mexic-artemuseum.org. CALL FOR BOOKS Literacy Austin needs good-condition, gently used books to sell at their upcoming BookFest 2006, their biggest fundraiser of the year. (Please, no textbooks, Readers Digest condensed books, or magazines.) Mon.- Thu., 9am-9pm. Literacy Austin Center ; 2222 Rosewood Ave. www.literacyaustin.org. CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION seeks volunteers interested in helping families affected by child abuse or violent crime. Apply now: Spring orientation and training start Feb. 13. Center for Child Protection, 1110 E. 32nd, 472-1164 x231. , www.centerforchildprotection.org. FRESHWATER FISHING HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS sought for anglers, fish ery professionals, and organizations, alive or dead, who’ve made a lasting contri- bution to freshwater fishing in Texas. Deadline: Feb. 25. 903/670-2228. www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/visitorcenters/tffc/visit/virtualtour/halloffame/nominate.phtml. UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY is accepting applications for community- impact volunteers and especially needs people with accounting skills. Application deadline: Feb. 17. 255-6799. , www.unitedway-wc.org. KATRINA DISASTER HOUSING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM DEADLINE EXTENDED to March 11. Katrina evacuees in need of relocation assistance can still apply but must first register with FEMA (800/621-FEMA or 800/462-7585). 866/373-9509. www.hud.gov. Sports BY MARK FAGAN THE MAIN EVENT HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS Come out and help the Globetrotters celebrate their 80th anniversary and enjoy all their usual antics and athleticism. Thu., Feb. 9, 7pm. The Frank Erwin Center, 471-7744. $14-100. www.uterwincenter.com. THE HOME TEAMS AUSTIN ICE BATS The Ice Bats continue their ’06 dominance (9-1-1) and look to stay in the playoff picture before their grueling March road trip. Vs. Fort Worth: Fri., Feb. 3, 7:30pm. Vs. Memphis: Wed., Feb. 8, 7:30pm. Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Ln., 977-PUCK. $10-35. www.icebats.com. AUSTIN TOROS As of press time the Toros are a mere 2 1 /z games out of first and one game behind visiting Albuquerque. Vs. Albuquerque: Thu., Feb. 2, and Sat., Feb. 4, 7:30pm. Austin Convention Center, 236-8333. $8-27. www.nba.com/dleague/austin. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Men’s Basketball Vs. Texas A&M: Sat. Feb. 4, lpm. Frank Erwin Center. Women’s Basketball Vs. Texas A&M: Wed. Feb. 8, 8pm. Frank Erwin Center. Baseball Vs. UT-Pan America: Wed. Feb. 8, 2:30pm. Disch-Falk Field. Women’s Swimming Vs. Rice: Wed., Feb. 8, 5:30pm. Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. www.texassports.com . ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY Women’s Basketball Vs. Lincoln University: Wed., Feb. 8, 6pm. Men’s Basketball Vs. Lincoln University: Wed., Feb. 8, 8pm. www.stedwards.edu/athletic/athletic.htm. RECREATION & FITNESS THUNDER HILL RACEWAY There are races every Saturday night at this paved oval racetrack in South Austin. Saturdays, 7pm. 24801 1-35, Kyle, 512/262-1352. www.thuderhillraceway.com. WEEKLY CHESS TOURNAMENT All are welcome at this weekly tournament. Cash prizes, yo. Mondays, 7pm, Dobie Mall, second floor food court. $1 entry fee. WINGS ’N MORE BOWL The Big 1530 ESPN Radio hosts this extreme wing-eating competition featuring the top 12 wing-eaters from two previous qualifying rounds. Competitors have 15 minutes and 30 sec- onds to slam as many wings as they can, and then a lifetime to recover. Thu., Feb. 2, 7pm. Wings ’N More, 1200 W. Howard Ln., 989-6673. www.espnaustin.com. AUSTIN ROCK GYM LADIES NIGHT Get free rock climbing instruction and meet other ladies new to the sport at this weekly event. See the Web site for directions. Mondays, 7:30pm. Both locations. Free. www.austinrockgym.com. HILL COUNTRY OUTDOORS MEET-N-GREET Enjoy happy hour with Austin’s most active outdoor, sport, and social club. Thu., Feb. 9, 6pm. Aussie’s Volleybar & Grill, 306 Barton Springs Rd., 383-1191. Free. www.hillcountryoutdoors.com. AUSTIN SIERRA CLUB All general meetings are open to members and nonmembers alike. Tue., Feb. 7, 7pm. LCRA Hancock Building (in the board room), 3700 Lake Austin Blvd. www.texas.sierraclub.org/austin. NIA JAM Experience the essence of martial arts, dance arts, and healing arts in this Nia class designed for everyone. Sat., Feb. 4, 10:30am. Hancock Recreation Center, 811 41st , 797-6823. Free. RUNS, WALKS, & RIDES AUSTIN CYCLING ASSOCIATION has plenty of activities to offer this bike-loving city. Check their Web site for details, www.austincycling.org/rides.html. WILD BASIN WILDERNESS has a plethora of avail- able walks, hikes, and more, www.wildbasin.org. REI LECTURES & CLINICS Ride Like a Girl The Austin Ridge Riders and Race Like a Girl mountain bike team are hosting a summer program of 15 weekly women’s mountain bike rides, plus five weekend rides at local mountain bike trails/parks. This is an opportunity to ride with other women, learn new trails, new skills, build riders’ abilities, and much more. Mondays, 6pm. For more info and directions see www.austinridgeriders.com. The U.S. under-20 women won the CONCACAF regional tournament this week to qualify for this summer’s World Championships. Longhorn defenders Stephanie Logterman and Kasey Moore played key roles, with Moore setting up two goals in the 3-0 semifinal win over host Mexico. The U.S. men trounced Norway 5-0 on Sunday, behind a hat trick from Taylor Twellman, now a lock for the World Cup roster. It’s game on in Europe, as various national and international tournaments start gearing up after the winter break. Defending champ Arsenal became the first big-name casualty in the fourth round of England’s FA Cup, stung by lightly regarded Bolton Wanderers. And Roma upset Juventus Torino in the Italian Cup. Soccer WATCH Houston 1836. That’s the name that - believe it or not - won a contest to name the new MLS team there... In other MLS news, the league announced Tuesday that the MLS Cup final will be held in Frisco, Texas, for the second straight year - Nov. 12 is the date. - Nick Barbaro 3405 N. IH-35 • 512-469-0991 JOIN THE FREE THONG CLUB 15% OFF FOR ENTERTAINERS jewelry - novelties - club wear - hosiery - swim wear - shoes - lingerie austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 69 arts listings THEATRE | COMEDY | DANCE | CLASSICAL | VISUAL ARTS | LITERA FRONTERAFEST 2006 It’s that time of year again, when spunky & funky Hyde Park Theatre becomes vessel to a concerted salmagundi of theatrical arts, of comedy improv, of slam poetry, of song and dance and multimedia performance in 25-minute increments. That’s during what’s left of the Short Fringe section, of course, as by now the Long Fringe and Bring Your Own Venue sections have been relegated to either the fame-hall or, yes, the dustbin of history. Which means that the fiercest Short Fringe week draweth pretty fucking nigh: night after night of Best of the Fest, coming up soon. (And don’t forget Mi Casa Es Su Teatro, curated this year by the redoubtable Julia M. Smith, where the minishows are staged in the homes and studios of your friends and neighbors all over Austin. See our Arts section, p.35, for schedule.) Thus: Short Fringe: Tue.-Sat., 8pm. Hyde Park Theatre, 511 W. 43rd, 479-PLAY. www.hydeparktheatre.com. Thu., Feb. 2: “Aucun Espoir Pour I’Homme” is a “junk romance” by Rocky Hopson. Isabella Russell-ldes presents “In a God Box.” “More Mommy Confessions” is Rhonda Kulhanek’s series of original mono- logues. Big Poppa E is back onstage to present Michael P. Whalen, Matthew John Conley, David Hendler, and Danny Strack in “Haiku Death Match II: 3-D!” Natalie George explains how “Jesus Stole My Classic Rock Station.” Fri., Feb. 3: “The Rat of Glen Rose” is captured by Justin Finney. Steve Barney animates an entire “Puppet Government.” “Little Dog on the Prairie” is presented by Rain Nox. We don’t know what Katherine Catmull’s gonna perform yet, but we’ll bet it’s worth watching. Allan Baker’s “Five Minutes. Sat., Feb. 4: Best of the Week. Tue., Feb. 7: Best of the Fest: Bill A. Wed., Feb. 8: Best of the Fest: Bill B. Thu., Feb. 9: Wild Card Night. Fri., Feb. 10: Best of the Fest: Bill A. Sat., Feb. 11: Best of the Fest: Bill B. (“Bill A, Bill B,” you wonder? And “WTF is a Wild Card Night?” Dear reader, check the Hyde Park Theatre Web site for the most recent updates to this quickly changing schedule of performative gems.) SUBMISSION INFORMATION: The Austin Chronicle is published every Thursday. Info is due the Monday of the week prior to the issue date. The deadline for the Feb. 17 issue is Monday, Feb. 6. Include name of event, date, time, location, price, phone number(s), a description, and any available photos or artwork. Include SASE for return of materials. Send submissions to the attention of the appropriate writer (see roster below). Mail to the Chronicle, PO Box 49066, Austin 78765, fax 458-6910, or e-mail: Wayne Alan Brenner, theatre, comedy. . Robi Polgar, performance art, dance, classical. . Ric Williams, litera. . Benne Rockett, visual arts, . Questions? Contact Wayne Alan Brenner, listings editor. . 70 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 moved according to the poetry’s imposed rhythm. Handwritten words covered their bodies from forehead to feet. They became dancing chaos of language and form. RAD’s “Sidewalks Speak Truths” was a visually compelling exploration of theatrical genres and conventions. Cardboard boxes posed as a row of desks and computers in a corporate office in “Our Employees Are Our Top Priority.” Workers pro- ceeded with their daily routine of typing and staring at the screen. As they performed idiosyncratic work habits, the manager abruptly called an emergency meeting. In between cold, impersonal office banter, each worker stood alone in the spotlight to reveal a personal struggle that had to remain hidden at the job. Family illness, health, and funerals had no place in the work environment. Written by Jodi Leckbee, this piece exposed the plague of apathy afflicting corporate workforces. Hoover’s Blanket brought sketch comedy to close the night with their “Fresh Strawberries.” A man in Scrooge-like pajamas listened to the radio with a crate of strawberries. Upstage, a player used a microphone as the radio amplifier. He announced that scientists had discovered that strawberries might produce hallucinatory effects, at which the man proceeded to fall over himself in tripped-out shock. Fast-paced and goofy scenes followed into bizarre and impossible situations ripe for laughter. It was a good close to an eclectic night of original, homegrown theatre. - Heather Barfield Cole FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Three Hyde Park Theatre, Jan. 27 With FronteraFest 2006 in full swing, Friday evening’s Short Fringe program offered an assortment of theatrical ingenu- ity, frivolity, and tenderness. Round About Players kicked off the set with their “choose your own adventure” romantic comedy peppered with naughty behavior. A swooning young couple had to reassess their rela- tionship once his mother and her father also fell in love. The two, horrified that they might become step- siblings, break up. The woman remains smitten and vows to steal her man back from a lascivious lady all too eager to seduce him with her mouth in a movie theatre. Downstage, a narrator held an oversized illustrated book. She stopped the action at opportuni- ties with potential to shift the plot and turned to the audience, asking them to vote between two given choices. Eventually, the same ending that began the show remained, but it was the journey to the classic closing scene of a couple kissing that made more meaning out of the shallowness witnessed initially. Stephen Pruitt shyly admitted in his “Catastrophe Theory” that he was a lighting designer who wanted to speak about the purpose for making art. He shared stories in an off-the-cuff manner about tour- ist traps in Ecuador and a life-affirming camping trip he survived in the Big Bend wilderness of West Texas. Pruitt’s sincerity was a rare and refreshing reminder of how theatre acts as a testimonial space for sharing with strangers insights on the making and sustaining of artistic destiny. RAD dancers performed spoken-word poetry mixed with dance that hinged between feverish rants and calculated smoothness in voice and body. One man prolifically spoke words like a postmodern Allen Ginsberg beatnik while four women wearing shredded white clothes Theatre OPENING DANCING AT LUGHNASA This award-winning Brian Friel drama, directed here by Karen Jambon for the Sam Bass Community Players, concerns a family struggling with their lives and their faith in 1930s Ireland. Feb. 3-25. Fri. -Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2pm. Sam Bass Theatre, 600 N. Lee, Round Rock, 244-0440. $15 ($13, students, seniors). www.sambasstheatre.com . JACK AND THE BEANSTALK Scottish Rite Children’s Theatre kicks off a new season with this classic tale as written by Gwendolyn Kelso. Feb. 4-19. Sat., 10am; Sun., 2 & 5pm. Scottish Rite Theatre, 207 W. 18th, 472-5436. $10 ($5, children ages 11 and younger), www.scottishritetheatre.org. Q THE DIONYSIUM We’ve been wondering if maybe this monthly event should be listed in our Community section instead. While it’s entertaining as hell and often features performative elements, the Dionysium is really more of a turbo-powered, live-music-accompanied, intellectual salon. While we ponder, check out this month’s program, featuring a debate (“Resolved: Some theories are too danger- ous to be investigated by responsible scientists”), Amanda King presenting Valentin-ish selections from Ovid’s “Art of Love,” the keyboard stylings of Maestro Graham Reynolds, copious Deyo-Moran badinage, and the usual drink-fueled revelry. Tue., Feb. 7, 7:30pm. Alamo Drafthouse South, 1120 S. Lamar ; 476-1320. $5. www.dionysium.com. PETER PAN Legendary gymnast Cathy Rigby stars as the title character in this spectacular musical show that’ll have performers flying all up in the big Bass space to reinvigorate J.M. Barrie’s classic story of childhood eternally postponed. Fly, Cathy, fly! Feb. 7-12. Tue.-Fri., 8pm; Sat., 2 & 8pm; Sun., 2 & 7:30pm. Bass Concert Hall, UT Campus, 23rd & East Campus Drive, 477-6060. $18-59. www.broadwayacrossamerica.com . ROSITA S JALAPENO KITCHEN Will Rosita sell out her beloved restaurant to “Mr. Developer Man” or will she fight to stay in the barrio she loves? Director Rupert Reyes and the Teatro Vivo troupe answer that very question, among others, in this bilingual comedy written by Rodrigo Duarte Clark. Feb. 9-26. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 3pm. Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 474-8497. $15 ($12, students, seniors, ACoT; pay what you wish, Thursdays), www.teatrovivo.org. HELLO MUDDAH, HELLO FADDUH Theatre at the J presents this musical comedy, directed by K.C. Gussler, inspired by the oeuvre of comic singer/ songwriter Allan Sherman. Plenty of schmaltz, tum- meling, and more Catskill-ish wordplay than you can shake a matzoh ball at. Feb. 9-26. Thu., 7pm; Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2 & 7pm. Dell Jewish Community Center, 7300 Hart, 735-8058. $20 ($15, students, seniors, JCAA members), www.jcaaonline.org. CLOSING THE GIN GAME A little south of Austin, D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize-winning, two-character play - about the ongoing relationship of two residents in a retirement home - gets a renewal at the Wimberley Players’ Greenhouse Theatre, under the direction of Betty Pollard. See their Web site for directions. Through Feb. 5. Fri.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. 512/847-0575. $13. www.wimberleyplayers.org. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE is that Tennessee Williams play you may have heard of, as if it had been produced somewhere, maybe once or twice, before. Here, the Way Off Broadway Community Players stage it under the direction of their Gary Hamilton, sure to make it a real Stanley steamer. Through Feb. 4. Fri.- Sat., 8pm. Extra show: Thu., Feb. 2, 8pm. 10960 E. Crystal Falls Pkwy., Leander. www.wobcp.org. Q GET YOUR WAR ON! The Rude Mechanicals did this last year, you say? Staged this live rendition of the David Rees comic strips that was so painfully funny that people in the audience were, like, almost wetting themselves and actually doubled over with laughter? Yes, well, that popular show was a mere workshop production; and now here’s the real thing, fully staged by the Rudes under the direction of Shawn Sides, according to the adaptation of Kirk “Very Smart” Lynn. Recommended. Through Feb. 4. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. The Off Center ; 2211-A Hidalgo, 476-7833. $10-18 pay what you can, Thursdays), www.rudemechs.com. ONGOING TWO INTO WAR: THE GIFTS OF WAR AND THE RETREATING WORLD Two one-acts from Different Stages create this double feature of a show. Fraser Grace’s The Gifts of War highlights a “tipsy Neapolitan woman musing on the recent war in Troy, the cleverness of the Greeks, and the stupid- ity of the Trojans in falling for the wooden horse.” The Retreating World is Naomi Wallace’s tale of an Iraqi pigeon-fancier, drafted into Saddam Hussein’s army, who has to sell his birds for others to eat and his books for food and medicine. Both plays are directed by ACoT’s Executive Director Latifah Taormina; Gifts features Hildreth England, World features Ben Wolfe. Through Feb. 11. Thu.-Sat ., 8pm. Play! Theatre, 1204 Cedar ; 474-8497. $5-20. | austinchronicle.com Valentines Matantf Love hilarious romantic comedy ti-a yC&. M, /iLt, j t-, The PERFECT Date , • | Feb. 14 @ £p.m. -JjCarvei Cultural Center- > 1 1 65 \ n,|JL'li r\!i Stfcctp A ii^ti n ? T e:> ;a^ 1 .iv# TnSjprttft 303-55T6 Sweet, Sexy. 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I don’t care if you fucking retroactively fire someone from the Roosevelt admin- istration -just let me know that if I can get fired for - ahem - steal- ing coffee filters from the office m kitchenette, some motherfuckers in = the government can get fired when | 3,000 Americans get murdered in £ one morning!” £ The tone is blistering, an eruption of deeply rooted anger, indignation, and frustration so white-hot that it could send all the liquid in that cooler into a rolling boil in a heartbeat. It’s a spew- ing forth of tough, trying feelings that have taken hold of our collective gut, churning down there, for the past four years, as our nation has grappled with a horrific attack on our soil and with an administration that’s responded to that tragedy by launching its own jihad, sanctioned by the Almighty and justifying just about any act from detaining prisoners indefinitely to spying on this country’s citizens to torture to, well, mocking the French, a war staggering in its arro- gance and inept execution. In the stage version of Get Your War On, as in the comic strip it’s based on, these pent-up feelings are let fly in all their black rage and with a black humor that brings laughter up from the gut with them. The Rude Mechs’ adaptation of David Rees’ Internet sensation doesn’t really have the flat, bland look of its clip-art-illustrated source (well, except in some overhead projections), but it has everything else that made the satiric strip an online phenomenon: the archness, the outrage, the dialogue profane enough to make David Mamet blush, the scorched-earth approach to political commentary. Drawing from the whole of Rees’ four-year output (as culled by playwright Kirk Lynn), the show rewinds the calendar to October 2001, then fast-forwards through 53 months in 65 minutes, revisiting most of the moments of political import since 9/11 - the botched decisions, the inflated jingoistic claims, the infringements of liberty in the name of security - as commented on by the staff of an unnamed office jabbering on the phone and at their com- puters, while grabbing a doughnut or gabbing around the water cooler. In crisp, simple, and occasionally goofy stag- ing by Shawn Sides, they cover the grimmest hits of Dubya and the gang: the bombing of Afghanistan, the PATRIOT Act, “freedom” fries, Kissinger and the 9/11 Commission, the invasion of Iraq, the Mars initiative, and more, and as embodied here by five actors unafraid to express extreme opinions in the bluntest of terms, they’re fiercely funny in their foulness, serving sarcasm with a twist like a blade in the back. For someone whose opposition to the war may have been muted by equivocation or a misplaced desire for civility in public discourse, hearing these uncensored and unre- pentant declarations of what we’ve felt all along but held in can be a striking release, a liberation of one’s political soul in a cleansing explosion of laughter. For someone who supports the president and his administration’s actions, these comments are unlikely to inspire anything more than a burning desire to leave the theatre. And it’s true that the show’s recap of the long record of Bush bungles doesn’t do anything about them or any other problems we face. But that’s not satire’s job. Satire is there to call our attention to something that deserves it, to prick our dulled minds into wakefulness. And after four years and five months of numb- ing, wearying crimes and misdemeanors, many of them lost in the sheer volume of deaths and disasters and lies, even those of us who have been paying attention and been appalled by what we’ve seen can use a wake-up call. Get Your War On gives us a fresh reminder of the outrages of the past four years and a fresh injection of the outrage we may have lost. -Robert Fa ires HOUSE AND GARDEN Alan Ayckbourn didn’t just write a pair of clever, intricate British comedies here; no, he also linked them, such that the two separate plays are performed simultaneously by one cast in two adjacent venues: As characters exit a scene in House, they often walk right into a scene in Garden, and vice versa. With the incred- ible timing et cetera this calls for, who’d dare to stage such a spectacle? Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Don Toner and Austin Playhouse. Catch House first, then return to see the other part of the story in Garden. House and Garden: Through Feb. 19. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 5pm. Austin Playhouse, 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, 476-0084. $20-25 (two-show discounts available), www.austinplayhouse.com. TEN LITTLE INDIANS Agatha Christie’s “most ingenious mystery” returns to the stage, courtesy of Onstage Theatre Company under the direction of Douglas Taylor. Lana Dieterich and Michael Stuart are among the talented actors featured, which bodes only well for this suspense-filled exercise in sleuthing. Through Feb. 12. Sat.-Sun., lpm. Austin Playhouse, 3601 S. Congress, Bldg. C, 445-9866. www.onstagetheatreco.org. DARK GODDESS Not another one just like the other one, but a brand new gathering of goddesses from diverse mythologies from around the world. And this show, filled (as always) with appropriately evocative music and dance, celebrates them as their incarna- tions appear on stage in aspects and rituals sure to incite responses of one kind or another. The pan- theon: Hekate, the Furies, Ma’at, Changing Woman, Maeve, Hel, Freya, Arianrhod, Y’Moya, Erzulie, and Santisima Muerte. Conceived and directed by Bonnie Cullum for Vortex Repertory Company. Through Feb. 25. Thu.-Sun., 8pm. The Vortex, 2307 Manor Rd., 478-5282. $10-30. www.vortexrep.org. SHEAR MADNESS The longest-running comedy in Zachary Scott Theatre’s history is back, under the direction of Alice Wilson and Dave Steakley. Paul Portner’s script provides murder among the curl- ers in this funny whodunit where you play armchair detective, uncover the secrets, and help an outra- geous cast of characters solve the crime amidst a trendy Austin hair salon. Now with Robert Newell! Held over through Feb. 12. Thu.-Sat., 8pm; Sun., 2:30pm. Zachary Scott Theatre, 1510 Toomey ; 476-0541 xl. $28-38. www.zachscott.com. URINETOWN! It’s only the funniest, most irreverent musical to be staged in decades, right, the one that split the Big Apple to its core with laughter? Based in a future where the privilege to pee is regulated and charged for by a single, malevolent corporation, this bit of off-kilter brilliance by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis turns the Zach Scott stage into a dizzying dystopia of music, song, and the fight against mic- turational repression. Directed by Dave Steakley, with musical direction by Allen “Tiny Pirate” Robertson and choreography by Robin Lewis. Through March 12. Thu.-Sat., 8pm. Sun., 2:30pm. Zachary Scott Theatre, 1510 Toomey ; 476-0541 xl. $33-40 (student dis- counts available), www.zachscott.com. AUDITIONS MANZI: THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG CESAR CHAVEZ Teatro Humanidad seeks three male and three female actors (open age range) with singing ability, and a guitarist for this Jose Cruz Gonzalez musical children’s play about the youth of the civil rights legend, to be directed by David Yeakle, to tour regionally during the spring. Prepare a song for audition. Cold readings, too. E-mail or call for appt. 389-0892. . YELLOW TAPE HEATHERS? The Yellow Tape Construction Company is casting for a new 80s musical inspired by the movie Heathers. Actors, sing- ers, dancers, all of y’all come & get your Pat Benatar on. Or your (we imagine) Steve Perry, for that matter. Audition with eight bars of your fave 80s song (a cappella). Actors/singers: Wed., Feb. 8, 7-9:30pm; Sat., Feb. 11, 10am-2pm. Dancers: Mon., Feb. 13, 7-9:30pm. Dougherty Arts Center ; 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 466-5221. . THE OLDEST PROFESSION The Paradox Players, under the direction of Paullette MacDougal and John B. Gordon, are looking for adventurous actresses in their 50s or older, to perform in this comic musical drama (written by Paula Vogel) about a group of five elderly prostitutes. The show will be staged in June. Prepare a sexy a cappella song for audition. E-mail Barbara Weeks for appt. Sat.-Sun., Feb.4-5. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover ; 452-6168. . BAD DATES Dave Steakley will direct you in this Theresa Rebeck comedy about a middle-aged single mother re-entering the dating scene and the various bizarre misadventures she endures on her way toward, she hopes, Mr. Right. You need to be fortysomething, attractive, and have excellent comic timing. Yes, they’ll pay you. Important: e-mail for appt. Tue., Feb. 7. Zachary Scott Theatre , 1510 Toomey ; 476-0541 xl. . THEATRE CALL BOARD ZACH SCOTT: PROJECT INTERACT (AND GENERAL) INTERNS NEEDED Interns will assist Company Manager with all aspects of rehearsal and show preparation; assist in the planning and organization of the first weeks of touring; assist Project InterAct director with faxing, e-mailing, and mailing of materials to promote touring show. The job is 10-12 hours per week for 12 weeks. ZACH will now offer Internships in all departments all year long, available for current college students as well as recent graduates and for people with theatrical experience who are looking for new opportunities to build their skills. Internships avail- able in: production department, arts administra- tion & management, Project InterAct, theatre for young audiences, teaching assistants development department, scenic department, and more. Submit a letter of intent (with “intern” in the subject line) along with a full resume to: . BEINGLIVED PERFORMANCE COMPANY, a move ment-based theatre company that’s committed to creating social change through performance as a healing art, seeks new members. Must have per- formance experience, an active physical practice, be an adventurous collaborator, and be available for rehearsals around noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays. E-mail Liz Ganz at their Web site for appt. www.bodyvida.com/beinglived.htm. Comedy IN THE CLUBS CAP CITY COMEDY CLUB 8120 Research Blvd. #100, 467-2333. www.capcitycomedy.com. Todd Glass Glass has been all over your TV - and we don’t mean in the form of a cathode- ray tube, hyuk! Now this oft-televised funny-guy will take the Cap City spotlight to new intensity, after talented locals Bobby Myamoto and Doug Mel lard open. Feb. 8-11. Wed. -Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10:30pm. $5.50-13. Open Mic Comedy Sit back and relax with a cold one while you watch seasoned pros and up-and- comers knocking themselves out humorwise for your benefit (and to benefit the Austin Children’s Shelter). Sundays, 8pm. $2 (free, college students). The Chinaman Yes, it’s the hilarious Mark Britten, voice actor extraordinaire and all ’round funny guy-of-distinctly-Asian-heritage, returning triumphantly to Cap City. This time his openers are Jesse Pangelinan and Lisa Delarious. Feb. 2-4. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat ., 8 & 10:30pm. $5.50-13. ESTHER’S POOL 525 E. Sixth, 320-0553. www.esthersfollies.com. Esther’s Follies wreaks some havoc on sea- sonal tribulations with their usual fast-paced brilliance, featuring a preview of the upcoming Governor’s race, the South Austin Chamber of Commerce, Shannon Sedwick channelling Patsy Cline, an almost X-rated Dr. Suess, and so hilariously on, with much comedy-riddled song and dance and that spectacular magician Ray Anderson. Reservations highly recommended. Thu., 8pm; Fri.-Sat., 8 & 10pm. $20 (discounts available Thursdays & Fridays for seniors, students, military.) Additional $5 for special reserved seats. Queertown! The Dallas-based sketch comedy troupe celebrates their first anniversary of performances by returning to Esther’s for a night of hilarious homo hijinks sure to put a sparkle in your eye, whether that eye is Queer or Straight. Wed., Feb. 8, 8pm. $15. THE HIDEOUT THEATER 617 Congress, 443-3688. www.heroescomedy.com. AUSTIN IMPROV: EVERYTHING FROM NOTHING The Hideout’s the epicenter of all the best improv in Austin, and it’s shifting into over- drive for 2006, presenting more shows, more styles, more wicked tasty off-the-cuff japery than you can find anywhere in Texas (or, for that matter, the Greater Southwest and Southeast Regions). Keep your eyes peeled to this section of the listings for what’s, as they say, happening at Improv HQ. For instance: THURSDAY: Wild Card Showcase Audiences are treated to 90 minutes of one troupe’s performance of their signature work, whether improv, sketch or stand-up. This week: The rockin’ hijinks of LYRIX will be burninating the peasants. 8pm. FRIDAY: IMPROV THREEFER Resident and guest improv troupes each perform a 22-min- ute set, providing audiences a fresh variety of improv teams and approaches each week. This week: Parallelogramophonograph, 1A.M., and Foolish Mortals. 8pm. AUSTIN STYLE Unlike in the Threefer, audiences are treated to two teams performing one specific style or form. This week: Tight and Dallas’ French Club Dropouts. 10pm. THE CAGEMATCH Two teams battle for improv supremacy by putting up their best work for the audience in 22 minutes. At the conclusion of the show, the audience decides the winner, who will return the follow- ing Friday night to defend their title. Lordy, it’s almos’ like wrasslin’! 11:30pm. SATURDAY: MAINSTAGE SHOW The Heroes of Comedy, who brought us “Start Trekkin’,” “Giants of Improv,” and the wildly succesful “Lyrix,” present original forms and classic shows 72 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com calendar ► community ► ARTS ► film ► music Quiet? Keeps pretty much to himself? ^ Not Robin Weinburgh, at least not this weekend at the Velveeta Room. in one to two month runs. 8pm. MAESTRO is the most audience-participatory show in the improv lineup. Performers play games and scenes scored by the audience, periodically eliminating low-scoring players until one per- former emerges victorious and is crowned the Maestro. 10pm. LATE NIGHT HULLABALOO & IMPROV LAB The audience takes the stage with experienced improvisers, trying out a series of games and gambits, lead by the wily veterans themselves. The Hullabaloo is scheduled the second, third, fourth, and fifth Saturday of each month, starting roughly 10 minutes after Maestro closes. (And it’s free to anyone who has just seen the Maestro.) The first Saturday? An experimental showcase. 11:30pm. VELVEETA ROOM 521 E. Sixth, 469-9116. Robin Weinburgh will be leaving Texas soon, the treacherous quisling, in order to ply his trade in the Big Apple. Come on down to the Cheese Palace to catch this quirky jester before he’s gone, because, hey, you get to see David Hunstberger and Lucas Molandes, too. Fri.-Sat., Feb. 3-4, 9:30 & 11:30pm. $5. Open Mic Night, God Help Us All Think you have what it takes to knock ’em dead, comedy- wise, in three minutes? Some of your fellow citizens think so, and they (and you?) will be up there on the Cheese Palace boards, giving it their best shot. Thursdays, 10pm. $5. Dance 1,001 NIGHTS DESERT PASSION MIDDLE EASTERN DANCE THEATER Musical “triple threat” Oliver Rajamani (drums, voice, and strings) performs live, accom- panying a bevy of dancers in this exotic, ecstatic evening of eastern entertainment. Middle Eastern refreshments available. Fri., Feb. 3, 8pm. Casa de Luz, 1701 Toomey, 750-7037. $10 (free for kids), www.desertpassion.com. TWO LEFT FEET DANCE INTERNATIONAL: WORKSHOPS WITH KATRINA SMIRNOFF World Professional Latin Finalist and two-time U.S. Professional Latin Champion Karina Smirnoff will be in town to give workshops in Samba and Jive, as well as private lessons. Sat.-Sun., Feb. 4-5. Phone for informa- tion. 32-DANCE. DANCE INTERNATIONAL Open to current, for- mer, and new students (Dl, UT, and other), these Ballroom and Latin sessions are a great way to practice with your feet. Parties: Sundays, 6-8pm. Practices: Tuesdays 8-9pm. 8611 Green Valley Dr., 232-2623. www.dancein.org. FIRST FRIDAY CONTRA DANCING Easy and fun, contra dancing’ll put you in the swing of things. This time out it’s a special dance with guests Rich Goss calling and the Hands4 band from Portland performing the music that’ll get you movin’. Fri., Feb. 3, 7:30pm, beginners lessons; 8-llpm, main dance. Carpenter’s Flail, 400 Josephine. 970-4919. $8 (discount for AFTM members). AUSTIN BALLROOM DANCERS Latin, swing, and other dance music in a nonsmoking, alcohol-free venue. No partner required, all ages welcome. Saturdays, 8pm. Austin Recreation Center, 1301 Shoal Creek. $6 ($4, members, students). ABD classes Five-week sessions, beginners to advanced dancers. Tuesday & Thursday nights. Flancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st. Prices vary, www.austinballroomdancers.org. AUSTIN SCANDINAVIAN DANCING Traditional Swedish and Norwegian dances. Beginners wel- come, no partners needed. New classes start every month. Thursdays, 7:30-9:30pm. First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover, 454-0598 or 453-9633. $3. AUSTIN BARN DANCERS: CONTRA DANCE You don’t need a partner, and every dance will be taught before you stride out on your own. With live music. Wednesdays, 7:30pm. Flancock Recreation Center ; 811 E. 41st, 453-4225. $3. www.ci.austin. tx.us/parks/hancock.htm. AUSTIN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCERS Enjoy a fun evening of teaching, walk-throughs, and coach- ing of a variety of couples, mixers, and line dances from around the world. Beginners and experi- enced dancers welcome. No partner required. Saturdays, 7:30pm (lessons) followed by an open dance. Flancock Recreation Center, 811 E. 41st, 481-9362. $5. www.yastreb.com/tifd/aifd.html. AUSTIN SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCERS Come alone or with a partner; beginners always wel- come (kilts optional). Thursdays, 7-9pm. Quick- silver Dance Studio, 8711 Burnet. First session free, www.austinscd.org. SQUARE DANCE LESSONS FOR BEGINNERS Thursdays, 7:30-9:30pm. South Austin Senior Activity Center, 3911 Manchaca, 264-2642. $45 ($22.50, youth). AUSTIN SWING SYNDICATE A couple hundred swingers hit the dance floor once a week for DJ-spun sounds of past blasts. A beginners’ lesson starts the evening. Thursdays, 8pm-12mid. Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs Ballroom, 2312 San Gabriel, 476- 5845. $4 ($2, members), www.austinswingsyndicate.org. NOTES & ENCORES KATHY DUNN HAMRICK DANCE COMPANY: AUDITIONS Modern dance artists are sought by this outstanding local group. A PDF of audi- tion details is available on the company’s Web site. 891-7703. www.kdhdance.com. CALYX DANCE COMPANY: AUDITIONS New Austin-based dance company seeks strong, expres- sive male and female dancers with a background in modern/contemporary forms. Interest in collab- orative choreographic process is also a plus. Must be available for performances August 25 and 26, and for rehearsals Mondays from 8-10pm. Dancers will be compensated for performance. Call for more information. Mon., Feb. 13, 8-10pm. Austin Yoga School, 1122-C S. Lamar. 916-9547. Classical Music NOTES & ENCORES THE ROME FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA: VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Want to take a “working” holiday to Rome this summer? Your stay in Rome for two to three weeks working for the festival will have you within eyeshot of some of Italy’s finest historical sites, as well as within earshot of some fine music, too. Volunteers are needed for all performing arts areas, including choral singers, backstage helpers, set designers, artists, to name a few. Do as the Romans do (when volunteering, anyway) and get in touch with this lot. Apparently you can write off your out-of-pocket expenses, thus doing as mem- bers of that Roman offshoot - the Senate (and half of Congress) - does. 800/811-3841 during morn- ing hours, www.geocities.com/romefestival. OPENING AUSTIN SYMPHONY: JANINA FIALKOWSKA It’s the next in this year’s long line of 250th birthday celebrations in honor of the Beatles-of-his-era: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Maestro Peter Bay and the really big band welcome pianist Janina Fialkowska for a program that includes the 18th century pop idol’s Overture to the Abduction From the Seraglio, K. 384 and Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”. Fialkowska honors her fab fave by playing a little Chopin - one of Mozart’s personal favorites, had he lived to hear him, any- way: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 11. Fri.- Sat., Feb. 3-4, 8pm (preconcert talk, 7:10pm). Bass Concert Hall , UT Campus, 23rd & East Campus Drive, 476-6064, 888/4-MAESTRO. $19-42 (Student rush tickets available 20 minutes prior to perfor- mance for $5 cash), www.austinsymphony.org. ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY: A CAPPELLA FEST Performances by the St. Edward’s University Chorale & Madrigal Singers, Austin Saengerrunde Damenchor, Intrigue, Austin Chord Rangers, Bethany Lutheran Church Chancel Choir & VLQ, The 620 Four, and more! Two unique concerts. Sat., Feb. 4, 2 & 7:30pm. Mabee Ballroom, St. Edward’s University , 3001 S. Congress, 428-1297, 914- 8628. $8 ($5, seniors, students), www.stedwards.edu. ST. CECILIA MUSIC SERIES: BALCONES COMMUNITY ORCHESTRA Dr. Robert Radmer conducts the Balcones Community Orchestra and guest oboist Ian Davidson in works by Haydn, Marcello, and the world premiere of “Return of the Phoenix” by Austin composer Hugh Chandler. Sun., Feb. 5, 4pm. First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa, 345-8866 x43. Donations accepted. www.fpcaustin.org/news/music.html. Visual Arts CLOSING CARRIAGE HOUSE GALLERY presents Jean Caffeine: South by Southeast Asia, prints inspired by a year overseas. Through Feb. 4. 509 W. Eighth, 658-0567. www.hardpressedpublicitry.com. ONGOING EYE CONTACT ART showcases the work of Joshua Garcia and sometimes (in rotation) others. 12400 Amherst #102. 825-8577. www.eyecontactart.com. ARTAMICI FINE ART GALLERY is featuring work by artists from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Peru; paintings by Augustina Rodriguez, Oscar Riquelme, and Pablo Taboada; drawings by Gilberto Ramirez; and metal sculpture by Augusto Brocca. 78 San Marcos, 457-0171. ARTHOUSE: THE GOSPEL OF LEAD This exhibi tion, curated by Regine Basha, presents Dario Robleto and Jeremy Blake’s investigations into the psychology and imagery of firearms as shaped by American society and vice versa (and even oblique- ly, as in the Winchester Mystery House referenced in the site’s interior reconstruction). Bang. Bang, bang: fall over dead. Through March 12. 700 Congress, 453-5312. www.arthousetexas.org. AUSTIN ART GLASS This glassblowing studio and gallery offers functional and decorative glass art, as well as glassblowing classes and free demon- strations. 1608 S. Congress, 916-4527. www.austinartglass.com. AMOA The Austin Museum of Art presents the Wurth Museum collection of the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Installations, objects, documenta- tion, so many things wrapped and unwrapped, all wrapped up in an exhaustive and fascinating exhi- bition. Through April 30. 823 Congress, 495-9224. www.amoa.org. BLUE MOON GLASSWORKS Unique handmade glass art and jewelry made by the staff and friends of the studio. 5241 N. Lamar ; 380-0770. www.austinbluemoon.com. LET’S GET SMALL GALLERY located in the Blue Skies Frame Company presents “Faces,” Harold Liebowitz’s photographs from Egypt, Turkey, and Mexico. Through Feb. 25. 4408 Medical Pkwy., 302-4779. BLUE SKIES FRAME COMPANY “Landscapes of Death Valley” showcases the photography of Gordon MacGregor in the Let’s Get Small Gallery. 4408 Medical Pkwy., 302-4779. CORONADO STUDIOS The Serie Project, a non- profit Latino arts organization hosted by Coronado Studios, produces, promotes, and exhibits seri- graph prints created by diverse artists. 6601 Felix Ave., 385-3591. www.serieproject.org. Q CREATIVE RESEARCH LABORATORY features work by students, faculty, and staff at UT Austin. In the current exhibition, “GRID,” the gallery floor and walls have been divided into squares, and each artist’s work fits within an individual cell. Through Feb. 10. 2832 E. MLK, 322-2099. CULTURAS DE ARTE is a new gallery featuring Mexican folk art (statues, paintings, home decor, masks, and more) as well as unique works by pro- prietor Julian Orozco. 3311 N. 1-35 Ste. C, 473-2302. www.artcultures.com. D BERMAN GALLERY presents new phantasma- goria by Malcolm Bucknall. Sometimes comedic, always elegant, these ink drawings and oil paint- ings of zoomorphic creatures are inspired by Elizabethan portraiture, Westerns, and classic camp. Through March 4. 1701 Guadalupe, 477-8877. www.dbermangallery.com. DIAZ GALLERY presents fresh work by Ebbessen Davis, Rick Van Dyke, Aaron Speyer, Nicole Filz, Stephanie Freedman, Blake Yantis, and Christopher Fitzgerald. Through Jan. 31. 3507 S. First, 444-0013. DIBONA STUDIO Here’s a studio/gallery devoted exclusively to the work of Joyce DiBona, including her newest oil paintings and a recently completed sculptural tattoo series. 404 W. Milton, 851-2646. F8 FINE ART GALLERY presents “New Year: New Faces,” featuring works by Richard Griffin, David Harouni, Ethan Diehl, and Kyla Shakelford, all fea- turing fresh takes on the human figure. Through Feb. 11. 1137 W. Sixth, 480-0242. www.f8fineart.com. FIRE ISLAND HOT GLASS STUDIO Specializes in functional and decorative works in glass for home and garden. Glassblowing demos: Saturdays, 9am- noon. 3401 E. Fourth, 389-1100. www.fireislandglass.com . austinchronicle.com | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 73 calendar ► community ► ARTS ► film ► music Two Into War play! Theatre, through Feb. 11 Running Time: 1 hr, 30 min Bear with me while I work something out. The word “com- plicit” means “associated with or participating in a question- able act or crime.” Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that 5% of the American population dropped dead due to the fact that they didn’t have enough food, water, or medicine to keep themselves alive because the other countries of the world decided that they couldn’t have those things. But why, you might ask, would the other countries of the world do such a thing? Let’s say that, without obvious provocation, America attacked and occupied another country and is now being punished for doing so. Would any of us patri- otic, self-righteous, generally overfed, lazy Americans stand for such a thing? What fan- tasy, right? But then, we wouldn’t have to, would we? We are, after all, a superpower. That’s what happened in Iraq after Operation Desert Storm and the United Nations sanctions. Five percent of the popula- tion dead. Most of them children. 5,000 children a month. But who’s counting? Naomi Wallace’s “The Retreating World,” one of the two pieces in this Different Stages American premiere now show- ing at play! Theatre, centers on this very subject. Ali, a young man conscripted into Saddam’s army, whose best friend was quite literally blown to pieces beside him, tells us about post-war Iraq and the effects of the sanctions through the touchstone of a book on birds. As played by Ben Wolfe, Ali is an open, charming man, a pigeon-lover whose gentle and caring instincts have been partially supplanted by his intense anger and humiliation over the state of his beloved “land of dates.” Seeing the connection between this piece and Fraser Grace’s “Gifts of War,” the other half of the evening, might not be immediately obvious, as Grace’s play focuses on a woman partying with the Greeks after the torches have been lit to signal Greece’s victory over the Trojans. Hildreth England, in blond wig, turquoise pantsuit, and heavy make-up, plays the woman as a party girl, not Greek, but an ally, drunk and loose and seeming to have a high old time allowing the Athenian women to seduce her. Both Ali and the woman are victims, but one is powerless, while the other hides a terrible secret. Director Latifah Taormina stages the plays with sensitive simplicity, and while I wished there were more still and quiet moments, like the intense ending of “Gifts” and Ali’s mourn- ful songs in “World,” Taormina appears to have, quite rightly, placed great trust in her two actors, who carry the evening. So why should anyone reading this want to see a couple of war plays? Well, how many of those reading understand what depleted uranium weapons are? How many understand why the “war on terrorism” is unconstitutional? How many know the number of civilians that have been killed since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom? If you don’t know the answers to these questions, or others like them, how can you say that you aren’t in some way complicit in these crimes against humanity? And most importantly, what are you going to do about it? - Barry P/'neo FRANCOIS PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY presents the photographic work of Kim Francois. 309-B Bowie , 320-0072. GALLERY 3: LEAF UT MFA student Katalin Hausel presents her newest large-scale installation, built out of natural and recycled marterials that incorpo- rate politically charged textual references. Through Feb. 18. 2246 Guadalupe , 476-7211. www.gallery3atthecoop.com. GALLERY SOCO carries original art in various media, currently featuring works by Sylvia Angeli, Cheryl Tamborello, Jeff Scott, Lisa Fittipaldi, and others. 1714-A S. Congress , 442-5144. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITING AND THE IMAGE WROUGHT: HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROACHES IN THE DIGITAL AGE Technologies of Writing” explores the history, style, and technolo- gies of writing from its earliest form to the pres- ent. “The Image Wrought” examines the seeming paradox of contemporary photographers embracing archaic photographic practices in today’s digital age. Through Aug. 6. 300 W. 21st , 471-8944. www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/HRC/HRHRC. INAUGURAL FIRST NIGHT ART The Open Book Project, commissioned by First Night Austin, fea- tures three larger-than-life open books covered by imagery and text by Marrilee Ratcliffe, project coor- dinator for the Austin Public Library. Through March 31. 800 Guadalupe , 499-7300. KATHY WOMACK GALLERY features works by native Texan Kathy Womack. 411 Brazos #100. www.kwomack.com. LORA REYNOLDS GALLERY announces their first solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Francesca Gabbiani. “Wonderland” will show- case Gabbianis’ large-scale, extraordinarily intricate cut-paper collages. Through Feb. 25. 300 WestAve. #1318, 215-4965. www.lorareynolds.com. MEXIC ARTE MUSEUM: RED features 26 abstract sculptures and paintings by Alberto Castro Lefiero, along with a retrospective of lithographs by Jose Clemente Orozco. Through March 19. 419 Congress, 480-9373. MITCHIE’S FINE BLACK ART has an eclectic selection of African and African-American artwork and craft items on display. 6406 N. 1-35 #2800, 323-6901. www.mitchie.com. NORTH HILLS GALLERY will host “Discovery” by 10 Off the Edge, a new group of contemporary watercolor artists. Exhibition: Through Feb. 28. Reception: Sun., Feb. 12, 12:15-l:30pm. 7050 Village Center Dr., 345-1743. OSWALD GALLERY presents Texas Women Photographers Showcase, a grouping of Texas pho- tographers: Judith Birdsong, Melissa Ciano, Betsy Haas, Glynda Hatfield, Sybil Miller, Debra Rueb, Amanda Stahl, and Shelley Wood. Through Feb. 28. 714 Congress #200, 494-9440. PHOTOGECKO STUDIOS presents an array of film/digital artist John Campbell’s black-and-white photographs. Monthly First Thursday events debut new images along with live music. 1413 S. First, 797-9375. www.photogecko.com. PRO-JEX GALLERY Now in its new post-fire loca- tion, this friendly and locally owned business offers original fine art photography and picture fram- ing. 1710 S. Lamar Ste. C, 472-7707. RT GALLERY will be exhibiting the photog- raphy of Rama Tiru and oil paintings by Jan Middleton Roset. Imagination and energetic frenzy ensue. 3701 Guadalupe, 258-6486. THE SPACE Griffin School art teacher Aaron Reynolds presents his assemblages of found objects, materials, and textures at the funky art space on Airport. Through Feb. 28. 4803 Airport Blvd., 740-7352. URBAN ROOTS GALLERY presents “Confession” by E. Moises Diaz, exploring everyday emotions through abstracted acrylics on paper. 1202-A IV. Sixth. WOMEN & THEIR WORK presents “Aqueous,” a series of silverpoint drawings and watercolor paint- ings by Liz Ward. Through Feb. 11. 1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org. SPACES DECOLA & EUSEBI GALLERY is a working studio and gallery of stained & leaded glass and mosaics artwork. 701 Tillery ; Ste. A-ll , 389-2266. www.decola-eusebi.com. ARTWORKS GALLERY features tropical butterflies artfully displayed in plexiboxes designed by GW Clark. 1214 W. Sixth, 472-1550. O CAFE JOSIE displays the innovative photogra- phy of Bruce Hop. 1200-B W. Sixth, 322-9226. THE CATHEDRAL OF JUNK is approximately 60 tons of junk wired together over 15 years to form intricate towers and rooms in the back yard of an, we guess you might say, average South Austin home. Hours: Sundays, llam-2pm, or by appt. 4422 Lareina, 299-7413. www.keepaustinweird.com. CHEZ ZEE AMERICAN BISTRO presents works by photographer Richard Smith, who explores atypical styles of framing his works. Through Feb. 28. 5406 Balcones, 454-2666. www.chez-zee.com. Malcolm Bucknall's Acolyte of the Condor Cult is part of his current show at D Berman Gallery. CROFTS ORIGINAL presents new jewelry in gold and silver by local artist Michelle Podell of Zahava Kala. 1714 S. Congress, 445-6308. ROADHOUSE RELICS is a vintage-neon gallery and studio where artist Todd Sanders creates neon signs, eye-popping carnival banners, and other trib- utes to U.S. popular culture. 1720 S. First, 442-6366. www.roadhouserelics.com. RUTA MAYA presents “Burning,” paintings by David de Lara and sculptures by Joseph Santandrea. Through Feb. 12. 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. www.rutamaya.net. STARBUCKS Ruth Meaders is exhibiting scenes of Texas skies and local interest. Through Feb. 28. 600 Congress, 499-0250. CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM is seeking enthusiastic art- ists to plan and teach interactive projects with the youth of Austin for future, afterschool art programs. Must be bilingual and have a college degree, preferably in art. Send resumes to the attention of: Lacey Richter ; Education Outreach Coordinator, Mexic-Arte Museum, 419 Congress, Austin 78701. THE PUMP PROJECT Shady Tree Studios is now accepting submissions for participation in shows being planned for the first half of 2006. Submissions should include examples of work (12- 20 images) in digital (CD) or slide format, Artists resume including name, address, phone number, e-mail, description and titles/medium/dimen- sions of the work, artist’s statement, etc. Include stamped addressed envelope for return of work, and mail submissions to: Pump Project Art submis- sion, Shady Tree Studios, 702 Shady Lane #A, Austin 78702. Deadline: Feb. 15. EXTRAVAGREENZA Austin Green Art and the Umlauf Sculpture Garden seek original works exploring issues and ideas about what it means to be “green” in today’s world. Pieces can range from solo to ensemble pieces, not to exceed 20 minutes in length. Chosen selections, performed in April, will be compensated. Call or see their Web site for more. Deadline: Feb. 9. 743-4245. www.austingreenart.org. ARTSPARK FESTIVAL CALL FOR APPLICANTS Artspark will provide 12 weeks of time, space, and support to develop and showcase new plays, video games, and industrial design with a budget of $500 and a chance to win $6,000. Applications can be found at the Web site. 1033 La Posada Dr. #310, 744-1662. www.artspark.org. LANCE ARMSTRONG BIKEWAY The budget for this Art in Public Places project is $60,000. Deadline: Feb. 3. 505 Barton Springs Rd. #850, 974-9312. www.ci.austin.tx.us/aipp. DIVERSEARTS is gearing up for its 17th annual Austin Jazz and Arts Festival. They’re seeking volunteers to assist with preproduction and vari- ous responsibilities during the event. All inquires should be addressed to Harold McMillan via e-mail, and specify “Volunteer” in the subject line. 1705 Guadalupe #234, 477-9438. . IRON GATE STUDIOS DARKROOM offers their black-and-white darkroom with 24-hour access for $75 a month. Check their Web site for details. 2205 E. Fifth, 495-9994. www.irongatestudios.org. SCULPTING IN STONE WORKSHOP with Ukrainian master sculptor Vasily Fedorouk and local art- ist Kelley Borsheim. Registration deadline: Feb. 15. 303-3929. www.borsheimarts.com/workshop.htm. TEXAS MORATORIUM NETWORK announces a Death Penalty Art Competition and Exhibition to encourage and enhance civic engagement about the death penalty. Exhibition to be held at Gallery Lombardi in May. Prospectus available online. Deadline: March 20. www.deathpenaltyartshow.org. WOMEN & THEIR WORK is soliciting propos- als for individual and curated group exhibitions for its Gallery Artist Series to begin in January 2007. Check their Web site for details and appli- cations. Deadline: Postmarked by March 10. 1710 Lavaca, 477-1064. www.womenandtheirwork.org/callfor.htm. 74 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com Litera READINGS, SIGNINGS, AND PERFORMANCES JEN TRYNIN This Oberlin alumna and former next-big-thing, rockwise, presents her memoir Everything i’m Cracked Up to Be: A Rock & Roll Fairy Tale. Wed., Feb. 8, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar , 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. LYN FRASER signs her new book, Prayers From the Darkness: The Difficult Psalms. Wed., Feb. 8, 4-7 pm. St. David’s Episcopal Church, 304 E. Seventh , 472-1196. www.stdave.org. ELIZABETH CROOK presents her newly released The Night Journal. Tue., Feb. 7, 7pm. Barnes & Noble Arboretum, 10000 Research #158, 418-8985. THE UTTER READING SERIES presents poet Randall Watson and author (and former Dobie- Paisano Fellow) Scott Blackwood. UTTER is a monthly reading series that features published central Texas authors testing out new material on you, a willing and (we reckon) appreciative audience. Tue., Feb. 7, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. TEXAS NAFAS presents Joy Harjo at the Ojai Poetry Festival 2005. Harjo blends her poetry with “tribal-jazz-reggae” lyrics, plays saxophone, and is accompanied by her friend Caroline Dunne. Texas Nafas airs every Saturday, 11am & 10pm, on Channel 16. . RALPH HAUSSER is the featured reader for Poetry in the Arts. For the past three years Flausser has assisted Deborah Akers in producing the AIPF Young Poets Anthology. Open mic follows. Sat., Feb. 4, 2pm. Austin History Center, 810 Guadalupe , 453-7920. Free. BRIAN LEPARD, an international human rights law specialist and University of Nebraska law professor, presents his Hope for a Global Ethic. Sat., Feb. 4, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar ; 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com . PAM HOUSTON, Director of Creative Writing at U.C. Davis, presents her novel Sight Hound. Fri., Feb. 3, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar , 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. ALYCE GUYNN AND JESSE ‘GUITAR’ TAYLOR present their book Deal Me In in a special music/ poetry performance with Mandy Mercier, Marvin Dykhuis, and Taylor (who illustrated the book) providing music and Guynn reading some of the book’s 52 love poems. Highly recommended. Fri., Feb. 3, 7pm. BookWoman, 918 W. 12th, 472-2785. TECHNOLOGIES OF WRITING and The Image Wrought: Historical Photographic Approaches in the Digital Age” are exhibitions that include stone inscriptions from Troy, Greek papyri, Mayan hiero- glyphs, and examples of early and contemporary photographs. Through Aug. 6. Tue.-Fri ., 10am-5pm; Sat.-Sun., noon-5pm. Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe. 471-8944. www.hrc.utexas.edu. POET AUGUST KLEINZAHLER, visiting professor at the Michener Center, reads from his works, including his latest collection of essays entitled Cutty , One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained. FI is The Strange Hours Travelers Keep was awarded the Griffin International Poetry Prize in 2004. Auditorium (ACES 2.302 on the UT campus), 471-8444. CURTIS SITTENFELD presents her debut novel Prep, a coming-of-age tale. Thu., Feb. 2, 7pm. BookPeople, 603 N. Lamar, 472-5050. www.bookpeople.com. WRITING/BOOK GROUPS AUSTIN WRITERS WORKSHOP This group of screenwriters is open to new members to read, dis- cuss, and critique one another’s work. The group meets twice monthly. Mon., Feb. 6, 6:30pm. Barnes & Noble, 701 Capital of TX Hwy. S., 328-3652. AUSTIN WRITER’S BLOCK is a supportive group of writers open to anyone struggling to get that stubborn writing project going, as well as to those who want a fresh critique on their completed work. No membership fee. Tuesdays, 4:30pm. Note the new location. La Madeleine, 3418 N. Lamar, 653- 7872. groups.yahoo.com/group/austinwritersblock. SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS A YEAR OF WRITING WORKSHOP #7 features TSU creative writing instructor Susan Flanson on “Very Personal Essays.” No reservations are necessary; just bring paper, pen, and a creative mind. Mon., Feb. 6, 7pm. Barnes & Noble, 701 Capital ofTX Hwy. S., 328-3652. Free. I AM POWERFUL This speaker series presents women whose lives have been influenced by CARE, a worldwide organization dedicated to eradicating the root causes of poverty. Featured speaker: Nadia Flashimi. Sun., Feb. 5, 2pm. Borders Arboretum, 10225 Research, 795-9553. FREE COMMUNITY WRITING CONSULTATIONS UT’s Undergraduate Writing Center has teamed up with the Carver Museum & Cultural Center to offer free writing advice. Consultants from the UWC will be available to provide assistance to any member of the Austin community on any kind of writing, including professional writing (resumes, job application letters), personal writing (poetry, fiction, memoir), and public writing (communication with politicians, landlords, employers). Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5-8pm. George Washington Carver Museum & Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina, 974-4926. Free. OPEN MICS EXPRESSIONS features a February Feast of Love with music by Miniature Mundi and the poetry of Alyce Guynn, Ingrid Karklins, Ken Hanson, Dillon McKinsey, Chip Ross, and others. Round robin follows the feature. Sat., Feb. 4, 7pm. Austin Bahai Center ; 2215 E.M. Franklin , 926-8880. Plate of food for the Pot luck at interval and cans of food for the Poets’ Pantry, www.austinbahai.org. AUSTIN JAVA COMPANY features open mic poetry and spoken word with your hosts, Rhiannon and Christopher Robin. Thursdays, 6-10pm. Austin Java Cafe & Bar , 1206 Parkway , 476-1829. www.austinjava.com. CAFFEINATED POETRY (with added live music) is a new open mic venue open to musicians and poets. Hosted by Thom the World Poet. Every Wednesday, except the first Wednesday when they all go to Vinny's, 7-9pm. Cafe Caffeine, 909 W. Mary , 447-9473. THE AUSTIN POETRY SLAM Mike Henry captains the crew that has all the best of stand-up, per- formance art, theatre, rock & roll, and phone sex rolled into one electrifying evening. $100 in prizes every week; open mic precedes the main event. Wednesdays, 8pm. Ego’s, 510 S. Congress, 474-7091. www.austinslam.com. GENUINE POETRY is hosted by Eric Wheeler and Kathleen Romana. Mondays, 7-9pm. Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson, 220-1576. www.genuinejoe.com. HIDEOUT MIC is always an Open Universe event with your newest host, Bevin Shaw. Mondays, 7- 10pm. The Hideout Coffeehouse, 617 Congress, 476-0473. $2 or canned food for Poets’ Pantry. www.thehideout.org. RUTA MAYA is hosted by Aaron Sanders and Mark Maslow. Bring canned food for the Poets’ Pantry. Tuesdays, 6-8pm. Round robin: 6-7pm. Sign-up list: 7-8pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. www.freespeechart.com. CITY-WIDE UNDER-21 POETRY SLAM IV This year’s qualifiers include: Jonathon Michael Sterling, C-Sharp and Brent (from Stony Point H.S.), Jay Casiano (Reagan H.S.), Elisa Chavez (St. Stephen’s), Kelsey Ervin (Midway), Shannon Leigh, Gator, Georgia, and Lyricist. These poets, along with the three who qualify on Feb. 4, will return to compete for only four spots on a team that will rep- resent Austin (and get a free trip to New York City) for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival and Slam. Sponsored by Texas Youth Word Collective. Highly recommended. Sat., Feb. 4, 6:30pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 632-5033, 422-6653. $5 (free, students, ages 11 and younger), www.txywc.org. THE POETRY KARAOKE ORCHESTRA backs your poetry on the porch, with hosts Ivanho and Chris the Future. Bring canned foods for the Poets’ Pantry. Tuesdays, 8-10pm. Ruta Maya, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637. www.rutamaya.net. ROUND ROBIN SUNDAY features a new PA and a desire for more poets! (And musicians.) Rhett Ponder hosts this new weekly venue. Refreshments available. Sundays, 6-9pm. Ventana del Soul, 1834 E. Oltorf, 707-7447. www.ventanadelsoul.org. MISCELLANEOUS MORE POETRY! & the craziness of it all: the anger bitter gall catch in the throat; the hot hunger of rage, how it torments our days until we lie on our back staring up at a fan spinning & the tubes & the sound of piss in the pure temper of the stainless steel & nothing matters so much as the calendar ► community ► ARTS ► film ► music warmth of a breath saying anything from a place that wants to comfort - anything not meant to hurt or harm or hate- anything tender like water like the soft flesh of hands - anything about what was when we were not where we are today. Namaste. Vaya con dios. POEM OF THE ISSUE In this galley where we’re too far at sea for the microwave to work You and I dream of leather EZ chairs w/ seats that rumble in response to explosions on the big screen TV Hot buttered popcorn and pens that write on greasy paper We’ll capture tales blowing hard to fill sails Of those romantic or naive enough to believe - W. Joe Hoppe A Clarksville CEHIM fill} ill 3KT9- (JBDIITJI AHA(5I1| Wlf-SEfl www.clarhsvillepoHery.com MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jean-Michel Basquiat Melting Point of Ice, 1984, acrylic, oil paint stick, and silkscreen on canvas. The Broad Art Foundation. © 1992 The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Used by permission. All rights reserved. On view through £ February 12 r 2006 A shining star that burned out too soon, Jean-Michel Basquiat created a distinct style influenced by history, language, symbols and music and is considered one of the last major painters of the 20th century. Generous support has been provided by The Fernwood Art Foundation. The Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities has granted an indemnity for this exhibition. In Houston, Basquiat receives generous funding from Jeff Fort and Marion Barthelme, Karen and Eric Pulaski and Locke Liddell & Sapp LLP. Basquiat is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. 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J— — L For further information visit www.mfah.org 1001 Bissonnet Houston, Texas 77005 713.639.7300 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 75 NEW REVIEWS I SHOWTIMES I FIRST RUNS I SPECIAL SCREENINGS Mint listings Before the Fall AFS@Dobie D: Dennis Gansel; with Max Riemelt, Tom Schilling , Michael Schenk ; Justus Von Dohnanyi, Devid Striesow, Joachim Bibmeier. (NR, 110 min., subtitled) Every movie about the Holocaust should be this good, but few are. Heartbreaking and brutal, its tale of two boys training together at a Napola - an elite school training young Aryan men for service in Hitler’s Third Reich - is as intimate and truthful to its characters as it is powerfully topical and politically brave. The movie is a statement from a nation that is deeply remorseful for its complicity in an attempt to build a genocidal empire but is still struggling to under- stand how it became complicit. (This statement may well be heeded by the film’s American audiences, as well.) Yet as it explores such broad notions as the unraveling of compassion and the corruptive nature of nationalism, it is at the same time a love story about two young people who just happen to be positioned at a major crossroads in global affairs, and it is suc- cessful on both levels. Before the Fall is a little unassuming; it’s not a slick European import (considering its festival raves, it should be traveling under the Miramax banner) and it partially takes the shape of a standard boarding-school romp. Students enter the Napola with rose-colored glasses - they are all educated equally, at least in theo- ry, regardless of their origins - and the movie sheds its slight sepia sheen as reality sets in for Friedrich (Riemelt), the school’s newest recruit. Amidst the youthful hijinks and flouting of authority (the boys trade bratwurst and porn; they are equivalent commodities in wartime among teenage guys), there are glimpses of the systematic dehuman- ization of enemy and comrade alike. One unlucky cadet is humiliated for bedwetting (“No pity!” snaps an officer when the other students sympathize), while aspiring boxer Friedrich discovers that the Napola tournament is fought and won according to who’s left standing. But not even fascism can destroy love, and the movie makes an elegant, astonishing tonal shift into its last act to prove this point. The film is a nice slow burn; it becomes more provocative gradually and never loses sight of the important fact that these soldiers are children. Like 2004’s Downfall it carefully considers the emergence of Nazism from Germany’s own specific culture (students at the Napola perform classical Teutonic drama in one period of the day, then learn to hurl grenades in another) but does not demonize its characters. Their motives and actions are worthy of investigation, and they are brought to life fully by Gansel’s restrained but focused direction and a stellar performance by Riemelt. - Marrit Ingman ★★★★ Dobie New Reviews BIG MOMMA'S HOUSE 2 D: John Whitesell; with Martin Lawrence , Nia Long , Emily Procter , ; Zachary Levi , Mark Moses , Kat Dennings , Chloe Grace Moretz, Marisol Nichols , Josh Flitter. (PG-13, 98 min.) It’s a shame to once again witness Martin Lawrence squander his consider- able comic talents under a fat suit and fake breasts in this shoddy sequel. Big Momma’s not a bad character, but this movie is without merit. Don Rhymer’s script is ridiculous and beyond reason, stretching plausibility further than the Spandex covering Big Momma’s ample cellulite. Any background about Lawrence playing an FBI man on a case is tan- gential to getting him into that dress and going undercover. There’s some plot about stopping a virulent computer worm, but it’s uncovered as simply as sitting in front of the bad guy’s computer and pressing the Copy command. In the meantime, Big Momma struts her stuff as the housekeeper in the Fuller household, giving Lawrence the opportunity for lots of physical humor while minding the kids, doing the chores, and twirling her bounti- ful butt on a swivel stool. In a more sen- timental streak, Big Momma helps each family member with a personal problem (although the mute infant who inexplica- bly and unbelievably jumps belly-whop- per-style from high places may be beyond help), while neglecting his 8V2 months pregnant wife (Long) at home. In its favor, the movie has no fart or poop jokes as might be expected (unless you count Big Momma’s abbreviated nick- name of BM), but instead features jokes about breasts and thong under- wear. There’s also a traumatized chihua- hua named Pancho that you’d swear was on loan from Taco Bell, whose prob- lems are solved with fifths of tequila. The only sequence that rises above mildly amusing, however, is an inspired goof on the movie 10, which showcases the unwanted sight of Big Momma in a yellow bathing suit and cornrowed hair. Nevertheless, this film’s production qualities are beyond atrocious. Aside from the story’s basic incoherence, I haven’t seen rear projections that have looked this phony since the early decades of Hollywood. Big Momma’s Flouse 2 ends with the words “Keep a lookout. You never know when Big Momma might be back.” ... As if there were anything we could do to stop her. - Marjorie Baumgarten i AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate A GOOD WOMAN D: Mike Barker; with Helen Hunt ; Scarlett Johansson , Stephen Campbell Moore , Mark Umbers , Milena Vukotic ; Tom Wilkinson. (PG, 93 min.) British TV veteran Barker and his screen- writer (novice Howard Himmelstein) set Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere’s Fan) among Jazz Age expatriates cold-chillin’ on the Italian coast, and the result is not quite as dishy as one might hope, 1930s fashions and Mediterranean countryside notwith- standing. The hats are quite lovely, and Vukotic is a hoot as a decadent contessa with seven or eight yapping lapdogs, but as a tale of Beautiful People struggling to over- come social convention (either by searching for true love or by cynically rejecting it, for each policy has its pitfalls) and live authen- tically, it doesn’t really sparkle. Hunt is an offbeat choice for Mrs. Erlynne, the aging New York man-stealer with revealing fash- ions and a deep, dark secret, but that’s not quite the only problem here. Mrs. Erlynne follows innocent socialite Meg Windermere (Johansson) and her new husband (Umbers) to Amalfi and ingratiates herself into Lord Windemere’s checkbook, ostensibly as his mistress. She raises eyebrows all over town but catches the eye of twice-divorced Tuppy (Wilkinson), who’s richer than God and just as generous. Meanwhile, a notori- ous cad (Moore) tries to stain Meg’s virtue. Watching these people seduce each other should be fun, but the movie is regret- tably bland. Barker seems to be banking on Johansson’s turn as an ingenue in Girl With a Pearl Earring (which also starred Wilkinson), but here she seems too earthy to be shocked by improper advances in a glove shop. There’s not enough work put into the performance or its direction, yet she’s asked to anchor the whole film. Her lovers, Moore and Umbers, are both TV studmuffins from the UK, and they resem- ble each other physically, which might have sounded good on paper, but onscreen they seem too generic: handsome, rich playboys with situational ethics from Central Casting. The supporting cast senses a vacuum and runs away with the movie (particularly Roger Hammond and John Standing as grouchy, gossipy old coots who observe all the goings-on and disapprove most firmly while looking down Mrs. Erlynne’s scandal- ous backless evening gown). Wilkinson is worth noting as the movie’s moral compass - a kindly, honest New Man who meets his match in Mrs. Erlynne and forgives her tres- passes. He’s got an air of sincerity but also evinces the kind of loopy, what-the-hell spirit every eccentric millionaire should possess. Hunt is no more out of her depth than are the other principals, so it would be cruel to pinpoint her, but the question remains: Is TV’s beloved Jamie Buchman a world-weary seductress? With its jellyfish direction, A Good Woman throws its actors overboard to see if they can swim. - Marrit Ingman ★★ Arbor MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS D: Stephen Frears; with Judi Dench , Bob Hoskins , Will Young , Kelly Reilly ; Thelma Barlow, Christopher Guest. (R, 103 min.) It’s hard to know what to make of Stephen Frears’ career these days. He goes from movies as piercing as Dirty Pretty Things and as raucous as Fiigh Fidelity to this staid British music-hall drama that seems calculated to earn Judi Dench lots of award notices. Mission accomplished on the latter score, and I don’t begrudge the Dame a thing. She’s very good and likable as the feisty dowager Mrs. Henderson, who buys a rundown London theatre to operate after the death of her husband leaves her bored and looking for an activity to fill up her time. Not the sort to cotton to a hobby like embroidery or ladies’ charity commit- tees, Mrs. Henderson (based on a real per- son) wants something more involving to do with her life. It’s hard, however, to recognize the Frears of the gritty My Beautiful Laundrette and The Grifters amid all the aristocratic bearings of Mrs. Henderson Presents. The film’s story is quite slight and the characters, although potentially interest- ing, are underdeveloped. Opening during the years between the wars and ending dur- ing the blitz, Mrs. Henderson Presents is full of that stiff-upper-lip Blighty spirit. In short order, Mrs. Henderson hires the autocratic Vivian Van Damm (Hoskins) to be the the- atre’s creative director, who in turn hires a gaggle of chorus girls to brighten their stage. When their first burst of success is copied by all the other London theatres, Mrs. Henderson wants to showcase nude girls as their theatre’s new hook. The reluc- 76 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com tant Lord Chamberlain (Guest), who’s in charge of licensing shows, gives her the go- ahead on the promise that the girls remain static as in a living tableau. Many, many breasts are on display in this movie, which would probably be rated PG-13 but for the mammaries (and perhaps a brief empathet- ic display of some male frontal nudity - including Hoskins’ nethers). Yet there’s nothing arousing or quaintly entertaining about these displays, even though the musi- cal stage numbers do have a bit of bounce. We learn little about any of the numerous characters, and the mechanics of the stormy working relationship between Henderson and Van Damm are teased rath- er than exposed. Some of the flavor of war- time Britain comes through, but it’s too little too late. We learn also that there’s sub- stance beneath Mrs. Henderson’s flighty exterior - but didn’t we know this at the outset? Perhaps some of the problem lies in the film’s awkward mixture of drama, comedy, and music-hall numbers, but we should be able to trust Frears to overcome ordinary narrative difficulties such as these. Dench deserves better, and unfor- tunately it will probably be a long time before she gets another starring role in a movie custom-made for an actress her age. - Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★ Arbor SOMETHING NEW D: Sanaa Hamri; with Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Golden Brooks, Mike Epps , Donald Faison, Taraji P. Henson, Felicia Walker, Alfre Woodard, Blair Underwood. (PG-13, 100 min.) Something New at first feels an awful lot like something old, or at least familiar, with its easy-bake romantic-comedy trappings. Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage- obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit. Kenya McQueen (the terrifically appealing Lathan) is a power walker and a powered accountant about to make partner, with a powerful predilection for beige-ing everything in her newly bought single-gal pad. But her back yard’s a mess: overgrown, sorely neglected, and as subtle a metaphor for her romantic atrophy as a hoe to the head. And who better to wield that hoe then Kenya’s hot new landscape architect? (Romantic comedy, of course, isn’t just about meet- cutes, but personal improvement and the weeding out of undesirable character traits via the intervention of a good man.) And yet, this is where Something New throws a calendar ► FILM Openings Before the Fall (NR) A Good Woman (PG) Mrs. Henderson Presents (R) Something New (PG-13) This Landis Your Land (NR) When a Stranger Calls (PG-13) The White Countess (PG-13) The World's Fastest Indian (PG-13) Ratings ★★★★★ As perfect as a movie can be ★★★★ Slightly flawed, but excellent nonetheless ★★★ Has its good points, and its bad points ★★ Mediocre, but with one or two bright spots ★ Poor, without any saving graces % La bomba curveball: Kenya, who has a very strict list of essentials for her IBM (that’s Ideal Black Man), finally meets him in the form of her strapping gardener. She just wasn’t expect- ing him to be so ... white. Brian (Baker) is practically dipped in bleach, then set in bronze, from his golden-boy locks to the golden retriever sitting shotgun in his mon- ster truck. Brian’s a sensitive sort, fond of hiking and aw-shucks-isms like “I’m just a landscaper - I take hard earth and make things bloom.” At first, his character’s the butt of (some pretty funny) white-boy jokes; he then upgrades to a much-ogled piece of man-meat (also pretty funny). But give him time: He gets better, more game, and the same can be said for Something New. Once the film stops spinning its wheels in rom- com cliches, it gains traction and even a few moments of transcendence, especially in a scene in which the pair weaves in and out of a grocery store and most plainly speaks - then shouts - about their relationship dynamic as it sinks under the weight of their racial expectations and frustrations. But if first-time director Sanaa Hamri and writer Kriss Turner tweak genre conventions, they never toy with genre expectations - we’re here to be wooed, after all - and Something New , in its endearingly daft third act, manages the neat feat of feeling sweetly inevitable rather than boilerplate predict- able. The film has its missteps and some dangling threads (what the hell was Cheers’ sad-sack postman John Ratzenberg doing ducking in the last frame?), but sometimes you have to go with the gut - or, in my case, a dumb grin - and, for better or for worse, give in to a good-feeling film. - Kimberley Jones ★★★ AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Tinseltown North L A n D ITI ARK'S rDCEIC 21st & Guadalupe • (512) 472-FILM FREE PARKING IN THE DOBIE GARAGE $6.00 Mon-Thur with college l.D. www. 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Seating begins one half-hour before showtime. Admission is 18 and up. AFS events are all ages. AFS: The Battle of Algiers: Tue, 7:00pm UT Film Loop: The Man With Two Heads: Sun, 3:00pm New York Doll: Mon-Wed, 9:45pm Soul Cinema: Richard Pryor: Live in Concert: Mon, 7:00pm Spike & Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2006: Fri-Sat, 7:30, 9:45, 12mid; Sun, 7:30, 9:45; Thu (2/9), 7:30pm, 12mid Weird Wednesday: Summertime Killer: Wed, 12mid ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK 13729 Research, 219-8135. Annapolis: 1:15, 4:00, 7:35, 10:25 Brokeback Mountain: 12:15,3:25, 7:10, 10:20 *The Matador: 1:30, 4:05, 7:30, 10:00 Memoirs of a Geisha: Fri-Sat, 11:55am, 3:20, 7:05, 10:30pm; Sun, 11:55am; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:55am, 3:20, 7:05, 10:30pm Munich: Fri-Sat, 11:30am, 3:05, 7:00, 10:35pm; Sun, 11:30am; Mon, 11:30am, 3:05pm; Tue-Thu (2/9), 11:30am, 3:05, 7:00, 10:35pm Pee-wee’s Big Adventure: Fri-Sat, 12mid Walk the Line: 12:05, 3:30, 7:15, 10:15 When a Stranger Calls: 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 10:05 ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE SOUTH 1120 S. Lamar, 476-1320. Brokeback Mountain: 12:25,3:30, 7:05, 10:10 Good Night , and Good Luck: 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:20 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 12:45pm The Matador: 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 *Match Point: 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:50 Munich: 11:30am, 3:00, 6:45, 10:20pm Outdoorsmen: Blood, Sweat & Beers: Thu (2/9), 9:45pm Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic: Fri-Sat, 12mid This Land Is Your Land: 9:45pm Walk the Line: 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE VILLAGE 2700 W. Anderson, 476-1320. Tuesday matinee “Baby Day” shows (first show of the day) are intended for parents and children aged infant to 6 years old. AFS events are all ages. Capote: Fri-Sun, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Mon, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Tue, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55; Wed-Thu (2/9), 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Glory Road: Fri, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 1:05, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45; Mon, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45; Tue, 1:05, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45; Wed-Thu (2/9), 3:50, 7:10, 9:45 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Fri-Sun, 12:00pm; Tue, 12:00pm The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Sat, 12mid Underworld: Evolution: Fri-Sun, 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; Mon, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; Tue, 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; Wed-Thu (2/9), 4:00, 7:05, 9:50 Videoke: Fri, 12mid Walk the Line: Fri-Sat, 3:35, 7:00, 10:05; Sun, 7:00, 10:05; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:35, 7:00, 10:05 ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS 9828 Great Hills Trail (at Jollyville), 231-9742. Discounts daily before 6pm; all day Wednesdays. Brokeback Mountain: 12:30,4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Capote: 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10 A Good Woman: 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:55 Match Point: 12:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Mrs. Henderson Presents: 11:50am, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15pm Transamerica: 11:30am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00pm The White Countess: 11:55am, 3:10, 6:45, 9:45pm The World’s Fastest Indian: 11:40am, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30pm BARTON CREEK CINEMA (CINEMARK) Highway 360 and Walsh Tarlton, 306-1688. Discounts daily before 6pm. Call theatre to confirm showtimes for Munich and Casanova. * Annapolis: Fri, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15; Sat-Sun, 11:40am, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Brokeback Mountain: Fri, 3:35, 6:45, 9:50; Sat-Sun, 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 9:50; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Casanova: Fri, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05; Sat-Sun, 11:30am, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Hoodwinked: Fri, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15; Sat-Sun, 11:25am, 2:05,4:40, 7:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:05, 4:40, 7:15 King Kong: Fri, 3:25, 7:50; Sat-Sun, 11:35am, 3:25, 7:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:25, 7:50 Memoirs of a Geisha: Fri, 2:45, 6:30, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 11:20am, 2:45, 6:30, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:45, 6:30, 9:45 Munich: Fri, 2:30, 6:05, 9:35; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 2:30, 6:05, 9:35pm; Mon-Wed, 2:30, 6:05, 9:35; Thu (2/9), 2:30pm *The New World: Fri, 3:15, 7:00, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 12:00, 3:15, 7:00, 10:00; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:15, 7:00, 10:00 Pride & Prejudice: Fri, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 12:20, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:45, 7:10, 10:10 The Ringer: 9:30pm Walk the Line: Fri, 2:55, 6:15, 9:25; Sat-Sun, 11:45am, 2:55, 6:15, 9:25pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:55, 6:15, 9:25 BARTON CREEK SQUARE (AMC) Barton Creek Square mall(MoPac and Highway 360), 306-9190. Matinee discounts before 6pm. *Big Momma’s House 2: Fri-Sun, 1:00, 1:55, 3:10, 4:15, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:25, 10:20; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:55, 3:10, 4:15, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15 Capote: Fri-Sun, 4:10, 9:50; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:35, 7:00, 9:30 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fri, 1:35, 4:35, 7:45; Sat, 1:35, 4:25; Sun-Thu (2/9), 1:35, 4:35, 7:45 End of the Spear: Fri-Sat, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10; Sun, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:10, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Glory Road: 1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45 *Good Night, and Good Luck: Fri-Sat, 1:20, 3:45, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30; Sun, 1:20, 3:45, 5:55, 8:15; Mon-Thu (2/9), 3:05, 5:45, 8:15 *The Matador: Fri-Sat, 1:25, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25; Sun-Thu (2/9), 2:20, 5:00, 7:25,9:40 *Match Point: Fri-Sat, 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; Sun, 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 * Nanny McPhee: Fri-Sun, 1:10, 2:25, 3:25, 4:45, 5:40, 7:15, 8:30, 9:35; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:25, 3:25, 4:45, 5:40, 7:20, 8:30, 9:35 Something New: Fri-Sun, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:15, 4:30, 7:05,9:25 Syriana: Fri-Sun, 1:05, 7:00; Mon-Thu (2/9), 4:00pm * Underworld: Evolution: 2:30, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 *When a Stranger Calls: Fri-Sat, 1:45, 4:00, 6:05, 8:05, 10:15; Sun-Thu (2/9), 1:30,3:30,5:30, 7:35,9:45 CARVER MUSEUM THEATER 1165 Angelina, . Midnight Shadow: Tue, 10:00am, 1:00,4pm FOR UPDATED SHOWTIMES, SEE austinchronicle.com/film. DOBIE THEATRE LANDMARK 2025 Guadalupe (Dobie Mall, second floor), 472-FILM. AFS@Dobie: Before the Fall: Fri, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Mon-Wed, 7:10, 10:00; Thu (2/9), 10:00pm Capote: Fri-Sun, 4:20, 9:40; Mon-Thu (2/9), 9:40pm AFS@Dobie: Darwin’s Nightmare: Fri-Sun, 4:30, 9:50; Mon-Thu (2/9), 9:50pm Good Night, and Good Luck: Fri, 7:20pm; Sat-Sun, 1:20, 7:20; Mon-Thu (2/9), 7:20pm The Squid and the Whale: Fri, 7:30pm; Sat-Sun, 1:30, 7:30; Mon-Thu (2/9), 7:30pm The World’s Fastest Indian: Fri, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30; Sat-Sun, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30; Mon-Thu (2/9), 7:00, 9:30 GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 North 1-35 & Middle Fiskville, 467-7305. *Annapolis (in DLP digital): Fri-Sat, 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:50, 11:55; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:50 *Big Momma’s House 2: Fri-Sat, 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50, 12:05am; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fri-Sat, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sun-Thu (2/9), 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 *Glory Road (in DLP digital): Fri-Sat, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00, 12:30am; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Hostel: Fri-Sat, 2:35, 9:45, 11:55; Sun-Thu (2/9), 2:35, 9:45 King Kong: Fri-Sat, 12:20,4:00, 7:40, 11:05; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:20,4:00, 7:40 * Nanny McPhee: Fri-Sat, 12:15,2:25,4:45, 7:05, 9:25, 11:30; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:15,2:25,4:45, 7:05,9:25 *Something New: Fri-Sat, 12:35, 2:55, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45, 11:55; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:35, 2:55, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Syriana: 12:05, 4:40, 7:15 Underworld: Evolution: Fri-Sat, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15, 12:30am; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 *When a Stranger Calls: Fri-Sat, 1:35, 3:40, 5:40, 7:45, 9:50, 12mid; Sun-Thu (2/9), 1:35,3:40,5:40, 7:45,9:50 GATEWAY THEATRE 9700 Stonelake Blvd., between Capital of Texas Highway and Highway 183 in the Gateway shopping center, 416-5700 x3808. Annapolis: 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:40 Big Momma’s House 2: Fri-Mon, 11:45am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 10:10pm; Tue, 11:45am, 4:40, 7:15pm; Wed, 2:05, 4:40, 10:10; Thu (2/9), 11:45am, 4:40, 7:15pm Big Momma’s House 2 (open captioned): Tue, 2:05, 10:10; Wed, 11:45am, 7:15pm;Thu (2/9), 2:05, 10:10 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fri, 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; Sat, 12:35, 3:45, 9:55; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 End of the Spear: 12:00,2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Glory Road: 12:20, 3:05, 6:45, 9:40 Hoodwinked: 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Last Holiday: 11:40am, 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:45pm The Matador: 11:50am, 2:10, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20pm Memoirs of a Geisha: 12:25, 6:35 Munich: 11:30am, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00pm Nanny McPhee: 11:35am, 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35pm The New World: Fri, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15; Sat, 12:45, 7:10, 10:15; Sun-Mon, 3:50, 7:10; Tue-Thu (2/9), 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 The New World (open captioned): Fri, 12:45pm; Sat, 3:50pm; Sun, 12:45, 10:15; Mon, 12:45,7:10 Something New: 11:55am, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10:25pm Syriana: 3:40, 10:05 Underworld: Evolution: Fri-Tue, 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35; Wed, 12:05, 2:40, 10:35; Thu (2/9), 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Walk the Line: 12:20, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 When a Stranger Calls: 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7:30, 10:30 IMAX THEATRE Texas State History Museum (1800 N. Congress), 936-IMAX. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D: Fri-Sat, 12:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:00; Sun, 4:00, 7:00; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:00, 4:00, 7:00 Roving Mars: Fri-Sat, 11:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm; Sun, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1 1:00am, 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00pm Texas: The Big Picture: Fri-Sat, 10:00am, 2:00pm; Sun, 2:00pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 10:00am, 2:00pm LAKELINE STARPORT Lakeline Mall at Highway 183 and RR 620, 335-4793. Discounts daily before 6pm; all day Wednesday. Big Momma’s House 2: 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: 12:40, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 End of the Spear: Fri, 12:55, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; Sat, 12:55, 7:20, 10:05; Sun-Thu (2/9), 12:55, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fun With Dick and Jane: 11:55am, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:50pm Glory Road: 1:00,4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Hoodwinked: 12:20, 2:50, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Last Holiday: 12:50, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Nanny McPhee: 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Underworld: Evolution: 12:00, 2:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 METROPOLITAN South 1-35 atStassney, 447-0101. Annapolis: 11:45am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20pm Brokeback Mountain: 12:40,4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Capote: 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 End of the Spear: 12:35,4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Grandma’s Boy: 12:45, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 11:40am, 3:10, 6:40, 10:05pm King Kong: 12:30, 4:45, 9:30 The Matador: 12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 8:15, 10:45 Memoirs of a Geisha: 11:55am, 3:15, 6:30, 9:50pm Munich: 2:15, 6:20, 10:00 The New World: 12:25, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 The Ringer: 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Walk the Line: 12:20, 3:30, 7:10, 10:25 Wolf Creek: Fri-Sat, 1:00,4:20, 7:15; Sun-Thu (2/9), 1:00,4:20, 7:15, 10:00 MILLENNIUM THEATRE 1156 Hargrave, 472-6932. Located within the Millennium Youth Entertainment Complex. Cheaper by the Dozen 2: Fri, 10:30am, 1:00, 4:15pm; Sat, 10:30am, 1:00, 3:00pm; Wed-Thu (2/9), 10:30am, 1:00pm In the Mix: Fri-Sat, 6:00, 8:30; Wed-Thu (2/9), 3:15, 5:15 PARAMOUNT THEATRE 713 Congress, 472-5470. Before Sunrise: Fri, 7:00pm; Sun, 1:00pm Before Sunset: Fri, 9:15pm; Sun, 3:15pm ► An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes or special admission discounts will be accepted. ROUND ROCK 8 2120 N. Mays (Round Rock), 388-2848. Discounts daily before 5pm. *Annapolis: Fri, 1:20, 4:10, 7:50, 10:20; Sat, 10:45am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:50, 10:20pm; Sun, 10:45am, 1:20, 4:10, 7:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:20, 4:10, 7:50 *Big Momma’s House 2: Fri, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Sat, 11:20am, 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30pm; Sun, 11:20am, 1:45, 4:20, 7pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:45, 4:20, 7:00 Glory Road: Fri, 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50; Sat, 10:30am, 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50pm; Sun, 10:30am, 1:10, 4:00, 7:10pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:10, 4:00, 7:10 Hoodwinked: Fri, 2:30, 4:50; Sat-Sun, 9:50am, 12:00, 2:30, 4:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:30, 4:50 Last Holiday: Fri, 1:30,4:40, 7:30, 10:10; Sat, 10:15am, 1:30,4:40, 7:30, 10:10pm; Sun, 10:15am, 1:30, 4:40, 7:30pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:30, 4:40, 7:30 * Nanny McPhee: Fri, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Sat, 9:55am, 12:20,2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05pm; Sun, 9:55am, 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:45, 5:10, 7:40 Underworld: Evolution: Fri, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30; Sat, 11:10am, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30pm; Sun, 11:10am, 2:15, 5:00, 8:00pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:15, 5:00, 8:00 Walk the Line: Fri-Sat, 7:00, 10:00; Sun-Thu (2/9), 7:00pm *When a Stranger Calls: Fri, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40; Sat, 11:00am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40pm; Sun, 11:00am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:00, 4:30, 7:20 TINSELTOWN NORTH North 1-35 and FM 1825 (Pflugerville), 989-8540. Annapolis: Fri, 1:45,4:25, 7:05, 9:45; Sat-Sun, 11:05am, 1:45,4:25, 7:05, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Big Momma’s House 2: Fri, 11:50am, 1:55, 2:25, 4:35, 5:05, 7:15, 7:45, 9:50, 10:25pm; Sat-Sun, 9:05am, 11:15, 11:50, 1:55, 2:25, 4:35, 5:05, 7:15, 7:45, 9:50, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:50am, 1:55, 2:25, 4:35, 5:05, 7:15, 7:45, 9:50, 10:25pm Brokeback Mountain: Fri, 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00; Sat-Sun, 9:30am, 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 10pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Capote: 9:50pm The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fri, 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15; Sat, 9:00am, 12:20, 3:40, 10:15pm; Sun, 9:00am, 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 End of the Spear: Fri, 1:20, 4:10, 6:55; Sat-Sun, 10:30am, 1:20,4:10,6:55pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:20,4:10,6:55 Fun With Dick and Jane: 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:55 Glory Road: Fri, 1:45,4:45, 7:45, 10:30; Sat-Sun, 10:45am, 1:45,4:45, 7:45, 10:30pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:45,4:45, 7:45, 10:30 Good Night, and Good Luck: Fri, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; Sat- Sun, 9:30am, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 11:55am Hoodwinked: Fri, 11:50am, 2:15, 4:50pm; Sat-Sun, 9:15am, 11:50, 2:15, 4:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:50am, 2:15, 4:50pm King Kong: Fri, 1:10, 5:10, 9:15; Sat-Sun, 9:10am, 1:10, 5:10, 9:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:10,5:10,9:15 Last Holiday: Fri, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25; Sat-Sun, 11:00am, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 The Matador: Fri, 2:00,4:30, 7:10, 10:10; Sat-Sun, 11:10am, 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Memoirs of a Geisha: 11:40am Nanny McPhee: Fri, 11:40am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20pm; Sat-Sun, 9:00am, 11:40, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:40am, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20pm The New World: 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 Something New: Fri, 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20pm; Sat-Sun, 9:05am, 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:40am, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20pm Underworld: Evolution: Fri, 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7:00, 9:20, 9:45; Sat- Sun, 10:30am, 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7:00, 9:20, 9:45pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:20, 3:40, 4:10, 6:30, 7:00, 9:20, 9:45 Walk the Line: 7:05, 10:05 When a Stranger Calls: Fri, 11:45am, 12:15, 2:10, 2:40, 4:35, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:25, 9:55pm; Sat-Sun, 9:20am, 9:50, 11:45, 12:15, 2:10, 2:40, 4:35, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:25, 9:55pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 11:45am, 12:15, 2:10, 2:40, 4:35, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30,9:25,9:55pm TINSELTOWN SOUTH South 1-35 atStassney, 326-3800. * Big Momma’s House 2: Fri-Sun, 10:30am, 11:25, 1:00,2:00,3:30,4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 Cheaper by the Dozen 2: Fri-Sun, 10:45am, 1:05,3:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:05,3:50 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: Fri, 10:50am, 12:45, 1:55, 4:15, 5:00, 8:10pm; Sat, 10:50am, 12:45, 1:55, 4:15pm; Sun, 10:50am, 12:45, 1:55, 4:15, 5:00, 8:10pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:45, 1:55, 4:15,5:00,8:10 Fun With Dick and Jane: 9:30pm Glory Road: Fri-Sun, 10:25am, 11:20, 1:15,2:10,4:00,4:55, 7:05, 7:45, 9:50pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:15, 2:10, 4:00, 4:55, 7:05, 7:45, 9:50 Good Night, and Good Luck: Fri-Sun, 11:15am, 1:40,4:10, 7:45, 10:15pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:40, 4:10, 7:45, 10:15 Hoodwinked: Fri-Sun, 11:05am, 1:30,4:20, 7:20pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:30,4:20, 7:20 Hostel: 12:50, 3:25, 7:10,9:35 Last Holiday: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:35,4:30, 7:30, 10:10pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:35,4:30, 7:30,10:10 *Nanny McPhee: Fri-Sun, 11:00am, 1:25,4:25, 7:15,9:55pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:25,4:25, 7:15,9:55 Syriana: 8:05pm Tristan & Isolde: 6:55, 9:50 Underworld: Evolution: Fri-Sun, 10:35am, 11:10, 1:10, 1:50, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:25, 10:05pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 1:10, 1:50, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:25, 9:25, 10:05 *When a Stranger Calls: Fri-Sun, 10:25am, 11:30, 12:55, 1:45,3:20,4:35, 7:00, 7:55, 9:45, 10:20pm; Mon-Thu (2/9), 12:55, 1:45, 3:20, 4:35, 7:00, 7:55,9:45,10:20 WESTGATE 11 South Lamar and Ben White, 899-2717. Discounts daily before 6pm. Annapolis: 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:10 Big Momma’s House 2: 12:15,2:40,5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Brokeback Mountain: 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 9:55 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: 12:20, 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 Glory Road: Fri-Mon, 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15pm;Tue, 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55, 10:15pm; Wed-Thu (2/9), 11:35am, 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15pm Hoodwinked: 11:50am, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:30pm Munich: 11:30am, 2:55, 6:20, 9:50pm Nanny McPhee: 11:45am, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35pm The New World: 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Underworld: Evolution: 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 When a Stranger Calls: 12:10, 2:20, 5:20, 7:30, 10:00 ► Changes may sometimes occur; viewers are encouraged to call theatres to confirm showtimes. THIS LANDIS YOUR LAND D: Lori Cheatle, Daisy Wright. (NR, 87 min.) It feels like a low blow to point out that this muckraking populist grab bag of a film isn’t so much a documentary as it is a harried piece of agitprop, but low or not that’s the case. Not that there’s anything wrong with that (agitprop is, first and foremost, meant to agitate), but ever since Michael Moore elevated the form to a whole new level of accessibil- ity with Roger & Me and its successors - and since Hubert Sauper even more recently restored a sparkling patina of genuine art with a capital ‘A’ to the form via Darwin's Nightmare - grassroots documentaries like This Land is Your Land pale in comparison. Sure, the many personal revelations of corporate mal- feasance that have been woven together to make up the tapestry of outrage that is Cheatle and Wright’s film are bound to inspire annoyance in the little guy, but it’s unlikely This Land is Your Land is going to ignite a firestorm of popular revolt in Middle America (far more likely to achieve that is the upcoming dystopian fantasy V for Vendetta, which may well galvanize America’s disaffected comic- nerd contingent in ways no one can yet foresee) despite its too-lengthy litany of Mother Jones- ian woes. On the one hand is straight-shootin’ purebred populist Texan Jim Hightower lamenting the rise of corporate culture while adding that “thousands of little prairie fires are being lit” via grassroots organizing such as this film. On the other are people like Father Tryphon, the abbot of a Washington-based Russian Orthodox monastery who found himself being sued for trademark infringe- ment by no less an example of capitalism run amok than Starbucks, when his hand- ful of monks dared to christen their spe- cial holiday beans the “Christmas Blend,” a term already employed by the clearly overcaffeinated superchain. The good news is the monks won out in the end, but really, how much hubris does it take to put a trademark symbol on Christmas? (Either way, it’s a gas to hear the bearded Tryphon proclaim, “My first duty as abbot is to start the coffee pot.”) This Land is Your Land is meant to be inspirational - like a good cup of home-brewed cof- fee - but there’s so much information crammed into its brief running time that you begin to suffer from corporate bad- guy overload by film’s end. This is simply too much of a good thing too haphazardly strung together. It could almost certainly use some, you’ll pardon the pun, conser- vative trimming. - Marc Savlov ★★ Alamo Drafthouse South WHEN A STRANGER CALLS D: Simon West; with Camilla Belle , Tommy Flanagan , Tessa Thompson , Brian Geraghty, Clark Gregg. (PG-13, 83 min.) Not reviewed at press time. We haven’t had one of these urban-myth babysitter thrillers in a while - certainly not since the rise of the cellphone era. We’ll wait to hear those dreaded words: “Those phone calls are coming from within the house. Get out now.” - Marjorie Baumgarten Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate 78 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com calendar ► FILM THE WHITE COUNTESS D: James Ivory; with Ralph Fiennes , Natasha Richardson , Vanessa Redgrave , Lynn Redgrave , Madeleine Potter, ; Hiroyuki Sanada, Allan Corduner. (PG-13, 138 min.) The final collaboration between director Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant, who died earlier this year, is a gorgeous slice of Merchant/lvoryisms (thanks in large part to the lushly vertiginous cinematography of director of photography Christopher Doyle) that nevertheless fails to ascend to the gid- dily suave heights of the team’s greatest works, Remains of the Day and Howards End. That said, it’s no less a welcome respite from the fawning boorishness of, say, Big Momma's House 2 for being just this shade shy of perfection. You certainly can’t blame Fiennes, who, as the blinded, fallen-from-grace American diplomat Todd Jackson (“the last hope for the League of Nations,” he’s dubbed), reaches deep into his repertory bag of accents and pulls out a doozy of an example of pre-World War II Yank-speak. It’s Shanghai, 1936, in the heady, debauched days before the Japanese invasion would spoil everything for everyone, and Jackson, who lost both his little girl and his joie de vivre in a recent train bombing, casts his damaged lot with the city’s under- class of equally bloodied but unbowed expat hookers, scoundrels, and emotional refu- gees. Establishing a nightclub-cum-bordello and naming it after the deposed Russian countess played by Richardson, Jackson and his newfound love rekindle something approaching humanity in each other, even as the pending Japanese invasion threat- ens to obliterate everything else. The White Countess moves with the stately speed of most Merchant/ Ivory productions, which is to say too damn slow, but the film is snatched from the jaws of tedium by Doyle’s resplendently lush camerawork and Fiennes and Richardson’s spot-on performances, which echo the heartsick downward spirals of war-torn romances the cinematic world over. The script, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day), also, perhaps not inadvertently, echoes the great-gran daddy of wartime love, Casablanca, but - ahem - lacks that film’s epic subtleties. No matter. By sheer willpower (and some of the best art direc- tion of this year or any other), this is a fit- ting, poetic epitaph to the life and career of Ismail Merchant. - Marc Savlov ★★V Arbor THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN D: Roger Donaldson ; with Anthony Hopkins , Lana Antonova ; Juliana Bellinger, Chris Bruno r Martha Carter, Jessica Cauffiel, Wesley Dowdell, Christopher Lawford. (PG-13, 127 min.) All one needs to know about Burt Munro, the real-life New Zealand codger and Indian motorcycle enthusiast who in 1967 set a land speed record that still stands today, comes midway through this unabashedly sentimental wall of schmaltz. Chastised by his neighbor for letting his yard grow beyond all reason, Munro finally trims it back a tad by drenching it with gasoline and setting fire to it. “What are they doing here?” he wonders, as the local fire depart- ment arrives with all bells clanging. Oh, those vine-ripened Kiwis! It’s a wonder then that The World's Fastest Indian, which plays off our innate desire to see this wiz- ened iconoclast best the young turks at their own game, works as well as it does. Remarkably, if you’re not misty-eyed and ready to go build your own rocket-cycle out of popsickle sticks by the time closing credits roll around, you’re probably the kind of filmgoer who rooted for scurvy old Mr. Potter over the Bailey Building and Loan. And this despite the fact that you realize every second of the way you’re being blown like a dime-store piccolo. It doesn’t chafe as much when the actor doing the blow- ing is Anthony Flopkins, who here loses himself so deeply to the role of lovable Burt Munro that all thoughts of Hannibal Lecter are banished from frame one. Munro is prone to peeing on his lemon tree in order not to waste his “natural fertilizer” and spouting Methuselean aphorisms that would have made The Remains of the Day's butler’s poor head explode. Simply put, this is one of the finest and most transforma- tive pieces of acting I’ve seen in a coot’s age, and one that outweighs the story’s many side trips into what, in the realm of lesser actors, would surely have descended into a treacly mire. Pleading out from his New Zealand work shed (where he also sleeps) to race at Utah’s famed Bonneville Salt Flats, amiable Burt encounters a steady stream of oddball characters, all of whom bend over backward to assist the ailing golden-ager in the realization of his dream. There’s the black transves- tite night clerk (Chris Williams) he meets up with in “ Hollyweird ” ; not one, but two randy widowers (Annie Whittle, Diane Ladd) whom he beds along the way; a genuine American Indian (Saginaw Grant) who offers him “powdered dog balls” as a cure for his prostate problems; and a helpful Los Angelean used-car salesman (!) played to the hilt by Paul Rodriguez. Various obstacles to Burt’s eventual triumph are scattered throughout the film - rattlesnake attacks and J. Peter Robinson’s outland- ishly manipulative score not least among them - but nothing short of Armageddon is able to dampen heroic Burt’s infectious good cheer. His unstoppable can-do pluck is so archetypically American in spirit that it’s a wonder he’s a Kiwi and not some dust-bowl refugee on the downside of greatness, but then again American self- mythologizing surely isn’t what it used to be. National pride aside, this fluffy outsider meringue is downright impossible not to swallow. - Marc Savlov ★★★ Arbor, Dobie THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR AND ANTHONY HOPKINS GIVES ONE OF HIS GREATEST PERFORMANCES!’ - Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC ‘ONE OF THE YEAR S MOST LOVABLE MOVIES. Hopkins creates one of the year’s most endearing oddball heroes!’ - Roger Ebert, EBERT & ROEPER A WONDERFUL SLEEPER FEEL-GOOD MOVIE that will have you standing up and cheering the most unlikely of sports heroes!’ Pete Hammond, MAXIM NTHO All my life I’ve wanted to do something big” THE WOMB'S FASTEST A film by ROGER DONALDSON BASED ON ONE HELL OF A TRUE STORY OLC/RIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT TANLAY AG THE NEW ZEALAND FILM PRODUCTION FUND and the NEW ZEALAND FILM COMMISSION I association with 3 DOGS & A PONY present a ROGER DONALDSON/GARY HANNAM production of a ROGER DONALDSON film ANTHONY HOPKINS "THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN" DIANE LADD PAUL RODRIGUEZ AARON MURPHY casting by DIANNE CRITTENDEN DIANA ROWAN production design J DENNIS WASHINGTON ROB GILLIES edited by JOHN GILBERT music J PETER ROBINSON director of photography DAVID GRIBBLE LINE producers DONALD SHAIN MURRAY FRANCIS co-produced by JOHN J KELLY executive producers MASAHARUINABA CHARLES HANNAH MEGUMI FUKASAWA SATORUISEKI BARRIE M OSBORNE , 0 1 77 nK ,„, nttrn producers ROGER DONALDSON GARY HANNAM written and directed by ROGER DONALDSON PG-13 PARENTS STRONGLY CAUTIONED - Some Material May Be Inappropriate for Children Under 13 BRIEF LANGUAGE, DRUG USE AND A SEXUAL REFERENCE Km mi-in H ."r 1 bT V»-t ■ www.worldsfastestindian.com I UjD.1 GET UP TO SPEED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 rd ! 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Dates at end of reviews indicate original publication date. ANNAPOLIS D: Justin Lin; with James Franco , Tyrese Gibson , Jordana Brewster, Witmer CaLderon, Donnie Wahlberg, Vicettous Reon Shannon. (PG-13, 103 min.) Annapolis is a flimsy, all-too-predictable yawner that makes life at the legendary Naval Academy seem like a snore. It’s not enough to include the requisite overlong training montage - Lin and scripter David Pollard also feel the need to toss in a rogues gallery of boot-camp stereotypes, includ- ing the Loudmouth (Calderon), the Crusty Old Salt (Wahlberg), and the Fat Guy Who’s Doomed From the Start (Shannon). Much of this could be forgiven were it not for the singular fact that, as the film’s centerpoint, Franco’s plebe has little resembling a serious backstory or even a sense of motivation beyond the obvious. Why is he here to begin with? “To serve my country,” he tells his drill sergeant. But the line, like the film, has the hollow ring of bullshit that sinks the film like a torpedo to the engine room. Best never to have left dry dock with this one. (01/27/2006) - Marc Savlov ★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, CM Barton Creek, Highland, Gateway, Metropolitan, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Westgate O BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN D: Ang Lee; with Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Linda Cardellini, Randy Quaid. (R, 134 min.) Enough with the “gay cowboy” label, a phrase that has a way of diminishing this amazing movie’s focus and reach. Brokeback Mountain is a love story that’s defined by its staggering heartbreak. The film is no more - or less - a gay cowboy movie than Casablanca is a hetero-emigre romance or King Kong is a love story between human and simian. The lovemaking in Brokeback is modestly filmed by modern standards, a choice made by director Ang Lee who, apart from his last film, The Hulk, has never misjudged public taste. The passage of 20 years in a frustrating state of limbo is what makes Brokeback the romantic tragedy it is: The love itself isn’t sad, only its seeming impossibility. Although it’s possible to point to some weak spots in Brokeback, there is no movie this year that has moved my heart more. (12/16/2005) - Marjorie Baumgarten ★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, Arbor, CM Barton Creek, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE D: Andrew Adamson; with Georgie Henley, Skandar Keynes, William Moseley, Anna Popplewell, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent; with the voices of Liam Neeson. (PG, 135 min.) This is fusillade No. 1 in Disney’s presumed seven-film adaptation of C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s tales, in which the four Pevensie children are sent by their mother to the English countryside where they encounter a magical wardrobe that functions as the portal to the miraculous land of Narnia, ruled by the White Witch (Swinton), an evil character intent on enslaving the more sun-dappled areas, held by the wise and noble lion Aslan (voiced by Neeson). There’s much to dine on visually, but the fact of the matter - whether you fell in love with the seven Narnia books as a child or not - is that $150 million no longer seem to add up to very convincing special effects, and in a world populated by a hodgepodge of mythic beasties, that’s a huge problem. The film’s rapid, almost video-game sense of narrative means there’s no sense of calm before the gathering storm because the film is all storm. (12/09/2005) - Marc Savlov ★★ AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate © DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE D: Hubert Sauper. (NR, 107 min.) Darwin’s Nightmare explores the myriad intersti- tial connections, the causes and the effects, and the end result of globalism on the Tanzinian people it was presumed to help. The prognosis is beyond ghastly, moving via Sauper’s exhausting interviews with the local populace, workers, factory manage- ment, prostitutes, the Western industrialists, and, most tellingly, the pilots of the massive Russian- made cargo planes that fly out tonnage after ton- nage of Nile perch fillets every single day. Which prompts the question: What do they fly in? Darwin’s Nightmare examines, in minute detail, and with the steady albeit jaundiced gaze of a fly-on-the-cemetery wall, the relationship between a homogenous local population reliant on the whims of a large and mor- ally questionable government-sanctioned enterprise. Sauper’s film is far more than just a cinematic expose of the West’s African skullduggery; it’s also a masterful work of art, rife with visual metaphors and images of such shockingly banal despair that they short-circuit our notion of reality. AFS@Dobie (01/20/2006) - Marc Savlov ★★★★ Dobie END OFTHE SPEAR D: Jim Hanon; with Louie Leonardo, Chad Allen, Jack Guzman, Christina Souza, Chase Ellison, Sara Kathryn Bakker, Cara Stoner. (PG-13, 111 min., subtitled) Your reaction to this sincere (if not terribly sophisticated) narrative film about the brutal mur- ders of five male missionaries by Waodani tribes- men in the Ecuadorian jungle in 1956 will likely depend on your feelings about the evangelical mis- sion of some elements of organized Christianity. Some will find its simple message of turning the other cheek an inspirational one to be embraced in a world prone to violence, while others will dismiss it as a thinly veiled Sunday school lesson in which the white man’s values are once again shown to be superior to those of the godless heathen. Objectively speaking, End of the Spear is not without its many faults, the most trouble- some of which is its tendency to veer from the subtle and head full tilt toward the mawkish. Even for the least cynical, it is easy to poke fun at the film simply based on its production values, though some of the aerial photography is spectacular. (01/27/2006) - Steve Davis ★★ AMC Barton Creek Square, Gateway, Lakeline, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North FUN WITH DICK AND JANE D: Dean Parisot; with Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins, JeffGarlin, Richard Burgi, Angie Harmon. (PG-13, 90 min.) When the first version of this movie appeared in 1977 it meshed perfectly with its times - a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive. This remake arrives starring two of today’s most prominent comedy top-lin- ers, but the movie is missing any insidious edge. The story, about an upper-middle-class married couple who hit an unexpected downturn when the husband loses his job due to the corporate mal- feasance of others, seems perfectly suited to our current era of corporate scandal. Although hewing pretty closely to the original, the remake shares little of the realism and down-to-earth humor that made the original work so well. In both cases, the couples turn to bank robbery to solve their finan- Last Man Standing Last Man Standing (2004) D: Paul Stekler. (NR, 85 min.) People for the American Way. This documentary is a lively, behind-the-scenes look at a pair of 2002 Texas elections - one for state representative in House District 45, and the other a polarizing race for governor that pits President Bush’s ascendant state Republican Party against a multicultural Democratic ticket. The characters include Karl Rove, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, Paul Begala, Henry Cisneros, and especially two, young ambitious candidates for state representative, who literally fight it out until late on election night, leaving one last man standing. Stubb’s will serve food before and during the screening, which will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker and UT professor Paul Stekler and Rep. Patrick Rose, whose 2002 race is profiled in the film. For more info, call 476-7329 or e-mail . @Stubb’s, Wednesday, 7pm. Murder in Harlem Murder in Harlem (1935) D: Oscar Micheaux; with Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Andrew Bishop, Alec Lovejoy , Laura Bowman. Marching On: Independent African American Films From 1935-1950. A remake of Micheaux’s 1921 silent film, The Gunsaulus Mystery, to be shown along with William D. Alexander’s 1946 short, “Vanities,” this is the first in a Black History Month series celebrating films written, produced, directed, and distributed by African-American filmmakers in the first, segregated half of the American 20th century. The curated series is sponsored by the University of Texas Office of Community and School Relations and the city Parks & Recreation Department; hosted by the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau; and will include features, shorts, newsreels, and an exhi- bition of film posters, photographs, and other materials from the James E. Wheeler Collection. @Bass Lecture Hall, Thursday (02/02), 7pm; free. cial crises, but in the new version the crimes are so overblown and badly staged that it’s impossible to believe anyone actually gets away with them. Carrey delivers farce when what is needed is sat- ire. (12/23/2005) - Marjorie Baumgarten ★★ Lakeline, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South GLORY ROAD D: James Gartner; with Josh Lucas, Derek Luke, Emily Deschanel, Jon Voight, Austin Nichols, Mehcad Brooks, Alphonso McAuley, Damaine Radcliff, Al Shearer, Sam Jones III, Schin A.S. Kerr, Kip Weeks, Red West, Tatyana Ali. (PG, 106 min.) The frequently rousing Glory Road presents a fic- tionalized account of what many count as the most significant NCAA basketball game ever played, between Don Haskins’ underdog Texas Western (now UTEP) and Adolph Rupp’s perennial power- house Kentucky in the 1966 championship title game. The significance - beyond being a corker of a game - came down to Haskins’ then-revolution- ary call to start five black players on the paint. After a zippy opening montage of historical footage that sets up the racial tensions of the time (and kicks off the film’s terrific, era-specific soundtrack), the more formulaic aspects of Glory Road kick in. The players, portrayed by a host of charismatic, mostly unknown actors, are largely reduced to quirks; a one-note Lucas stalks through every scene, belly-first and bellowing all the way; and the script hangs on ready-made metaphors. Glory Road really isn’t a bad show - it’s just an obvious one. (01/13/2006) - Kimberley Jones Alamo Drafthouse Village, AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate HOODWINKED D: Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, Tony Leech; with the voices of Anne Hathaway, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson, David Ogden Stiers, Xzibit, Chazz Palminteri , Andy Dick, Ken Marino, Benjy Gaither. (PG, 80 min.) This animated update of the Little Red Riding Hood tale is a “fractured fairy tale” that’s designed to appeal to children and adults alike. It tells the story from several perspectives, Rashomon style. When a goody bandit is loose in the woods, a police investigation gets under way to discover precisely what occurred when Red (voiced by Hathaway) came to visit her grandma (Close) but found the Wolf (Warburton) in Granny’s bed as the old woman tumbled out of the closet and the Woodsman (Belushi) came suddenly crashing through the window. Each character relates their version of events, and it turns out that, upon full disclosure, each has something to hide. The film’s voice talent is good, as are the characterizations. However, the film’s computer animation leaves much to be desired. Thankfully brief song interludes break up the action. Hoodwinked has lots of sass but little imagina- tion. (01/13/2006) - Marjorie Baumgarten ★★ CM Barton Creek, Gateway, Lakeline, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate HOSTEL D: Eli Roth; with Jay Hernandez, Derek Richardson, Eythor Gudjonsson, Barbara Nedeljakova, Jana Kaderabkova, Jan Vlasak, Jennifer Lim. (R, 95 min.) Hostel has the dubious honor of being the most anticipated horror film of the year - so far - and that’s rarely a good thing for a filmmaker, film, or audience. It’s actually two films in one. There’s the quasi -Eurotrip first half, with its ugly Americans rampaging through the EU’s flesh markets and drug bazaars, and then there’s the relentlessly bad vibes of what happens to our boorish antiheroes when they finally get their hands on “the good stuff.” And to top it off, I get the sneaking suspicion that Roth’s film, for all its grim sadism and dodgily sensual Eastern European porn-lite, is a comedy, albeit a blacker-than- black one, aimed squarely at the hearts and loins (if not minds) of Modern America - if we build it, you will cum. Hostel certainly delivers in the gore department, and Roth peppers the proceedings with various witty in-jokes. Still, there’s a feeling of not quite hitting the mark. (01/13/2006) - Marc Savlov Highland, Tinseltown South © KING KONG D: Peter Jackson; with Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Andy Serkis, Thomas Kretschmann , Jamie Bell, Colin Hanks, Evan Parke. (PG-13, 187 min.) Jackson’s remake of Merian C. Cooper’s 1933 cin- ematic godhead is more than the sum of its gargan- tuan parts; it’s also a sweet-natured romantic fable, albeit one that packs in carnivorous cockroaches, rampaging brontosaurs, and the ever-Freudian Empire State Building. It’s also a corker of an action/mon- ster movie: part RKO serial; part square-jawed, manly romp; and part classic journey into the unknown that recalls and references, surprisingly and splendidly, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Jackson’s film is littered with canny references to Cooper’s original, but never fails to be its own unique hybrid. Much of that uniqueness, which makes the whole familiar story fresh again, comes from advances in special- effects technology. This half-human, half-CGI creation will make you reach for your hankie. The interplay between Watts’ melancholy blond and the great ape is almost too real to be believed. It’s enough to make you weep not only for the displaced and doomed Kong but for the nearly lost art of cinematic panache. (12/16/2005) - Marc Savlov ★★★★ CM Barton Creek, Highland, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North LAST HOLIDAY D: Wayne Wang; with Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Gerard Depardieu. (PG-13, 112 min.) I can tell you in two words why to see this movie, which is otherwise an unspecial Cinderella farce about a plain, shy New Orleans retail clerk’s whirlwind European holiday after she’s diagnosed with some improbable terminal ailment, and those two words are: Queen Latifah. Loosely based on J.B. Priestley’s 1950 screenplay for Last Holiday starring Alec Guinness, the film is shameless - shameless, I tell you - with its fantasy shopping sequences and sports slapstick and New Jerk Dell New York Doll (2005) D: Greg Whiteley. (PG-13, 75 min.) Arthur “Killer” Kane, the bass player for the legendary New York Dolls, transformed from punk alcoholic to born-again Mormon. He reunites with his old band after 30 years, as the film reveals a man searching for redemption. Includes lots of interviews with rockers and Mormons. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Monday-Wed nesday, 9:45pm. 80 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com calendar ► FILM grand-hotel hijinks. Director Wang gorges the viewer on wish-fulfillment, while LL Cool J orbits the story as the good man who adores Latifah from afar. Latifah is far better than the movie is. If we are to live in a world of movies in which women are comically diagnosed with brain diseases and discover their moxie through base jumping in the Czech Republic, let us at least have Queen Latifah’s brass to add a bass note to the treacle. (01/13/2006) - Marrit Ingman ★★ Gateway, Lakeline, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South © THE MATADOR D: Richard Shepard ; with Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, Hope Davis , Philip Baker Hall. (R, 96 min.) Lives in descent always make for fascinating viewing, and this oddball comic pairing of the age- less Kinnear (as a traveling salesman) and aging former James Bond Brosnan (as a contract killer) is an inspired travelogue through the land of the shaky, the hesitant, and the almost-but-perhaps- not-entirely doomed. Much of the pleasure The Matador has to offer comes from watching Brosnan disassemble his longtime alter-ego. His character couldn’t be less like Bond, but distant, familial echoes are there all the same, in the drinking and ever-randy insousiance. What’s even more satisfy- ing is writer/director Shepard’s finely calibrated script, which aims somewhere between comedy and pathos, and scores an emotional bullseye from what feels like a million yards out. In the end, it becomes a curious, postmodern sort of buddy com- edy, but The Matador is anything but predictable, and therein lies its sublime and fascinating charm. (01/27/2006) - Marc Savlov ★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, AMC Barton Creek Square, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North MATCH POINT D: Woody Allen; with Jonathan Rhys-Meyers , Scarlett Johansson , Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode , Brian Cox, Penelope Wilton. (R, 124 min.) With Match Point, Woody Allen has made a perfectly nice little film - one that, despite lacking originality, is fresh in the sense that it was filmed in England, far from his beloved Manhattan, and does not feature the multihyphenate in an acting role. However, to hail Match Point as Woody Allen’s best work in years, as fans and reviewers are lining up to do, is to only become aware of how feeble that work has been. Pleasantly prosaic, Match Point is a diverting story of crime, love, and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment and omniscience. The movie is an ode to luck and to the acceptance of our role as the hapless pawns of a random universe. The stor- yline bears reminders of Allen’s magnificent Crimes and Misdemeanors and more directly, Theodore Dreiser’s classic novel An American Tragedy, which was made into the movie A Place in the Sun. (01/20/2006) - Marjorie Baumgarten Alamo Drafthouse South, Arbor, AMC Barton Creek Square MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA D: Rob Marshall; with Ziyi Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Gong Li, Ken Watanabe, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. (PG-13, 145 min.) Well, we’re not in Chicago anymore, but that hasn’t stopped Oscar-nominated director Marshall from fashioning another epic spectacle out of two squabbling women in (a sort-of) show business. 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During an annual weekend escape in Washington state, a select group of men vie for the “Outdoorsman” champion- ship title by guzzling lots of beer and competing in games that test their strength, endurance, and speed. “10 Men. 15 Events. 32 Cases of Beer,” reads the tagline. The film was a hit at the most recent Austin Film Festival. @Alamo Drafthouse South, Thursday (02/09), 9:45pm. as its most powerful geisha, Sayuri (Zhang). The script unpacks a lot of practical information about the geisha lifestyle in a relatively gainly fashion (although the voiceover narration proves largely unnecessary and, on occasion, fairly damaging). Sayuri’s circumstance and surroundings are his- torically fascinating things; her character, not so much. Zhang may just be too much of a firecracker to really sell the milquetoast Sayuri. Far more fun is Asian superstar Gong Li as Sayuri’s main competition. The film’s other chief pleasure - the spectacular set and costume design - exits with the pesky arrival of World War II into the plot. (12/23/2005) - Kimberley Jones Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, CM Barton Creek, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North O MUNICH D: Steven Spielberg; with Eric Bono , Doniel Craig , Ciaran Hinds , Mothieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush , Valerio Bruni Tedeschi, Yvon Attal, Hanns Zischler, AyeletZurer, Moritz Bleibtreu, Gila ALmagor, Michael Lonsdale. (R, 164 min.) Spielberg’s take on the events following the murders of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich by the PLO faction Black September is riveting stuff. With its deeply ambigu- ous moral compass swinging from one extreme to the next, it’s also a horrifically topical meditation on the ultimate futility of vengeance, even when that vengeance seems entirely justified by previ- ous events. Bana (The Hulk) plays Mossad agent Avner, who takes on this seemingly impossible mission with unlimited funding but not much else. He’s one of Spielberg’s most complex characters to date. There are obvious parallels to current events, of course, and Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner (Angels in America) take tremendous pains to humanize both sides of the issue. Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along as though it were tethered to the devil’s own sled. Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller. (12/30/2005) - Marc Savlov ★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, Alamo Drafthouse South, CM Barton Creek, Gateway, Metropolitan, Westgate NANNY MCPHEE D: Kirk Jones; with Emma Thompson , Colin Firth , Kelly Macdonald , Celia Imrie , Angela Lansbury , Derek Jacobi , Patrick Barlow. (PG, 98 min.) Based on Christianna Brand’s “Nurse Matilda” books and featuring an A-list cast of British charac- ter actors, Nanny McPhee is something of a rarity: a movie for children that is about children and their world. And while the kids - seven of them - are pretty much wisenheimers, they are not cooler-than- thou, and the adults in their lives aren’t blithering idiots, but flawed people who make mistakes until they reach a point of reckoning. However, to reach the movie’s very old-fashioned message - that families must cooperate, listen to one another, and respect one another, children and adults alike - the viewer runs a gauntlet of Edwardian slapstick, and I am sad to say that there are pigs dressed as women and a mule “cutely” animated with CGI. Parents might appreciate a lighter hand with the barnyard whimsy and food fights, but overall the movie doesn’t condescend about heavy matters (grief, healing, and blended families) and is pleas- antly diverting. (01/27/2006) - Marrit Ingman ★tH AMC Barton Creek Square, Highland, Gateway, Lakeline, Round Rock, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South, Westgate THE NEW WORLD D: Terrence M a lick; with Colin Farrell , Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer, ; Christian Bale , August Schellenberg, Wes Studi, David Thewlis, Raoul Trujillo , Irene Bedard. (PG-13, 135 min.) Malick wishes to show the elements involved in the birth of America through the imagined interac- tions between the first Jamestown colonists who arrived in Virginia in the early 17th century and the “naturals,” as the settlers in this film call the natives. The film’s early sequences represents Malick at his most poetic and transcendentally intuitive. In these days of the movie industry’s techno overdrive, it’s good to have a Whitman- esque filmmaker whom we can rely on to venerate the blades of grass. However, instead of building on these sentiments in order to weave a tale about the collision between the “civilizing” and “BEFORE THE FALL RANKS HIGH AMONG THE YEAR’S FILMS!” -Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES □PALISADES Trailer: ComingOfAgeMovies.com german •••films -X 5? rn ■- EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT D © B I E STARTS FRIDAY, FERRUARY 3 21st & Guadalupe -(512) 472-FILM Fri: (4:10) 7:10, 10:00; Sat-Sun: (1:10, 4:10) 7:10, 10:00; Mon-Wed: 7:10, 10:00; Thur: 10:00 ‘‘ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR!’, L -Brandon Judell, NEW YORK THEATER WIRE f BEST ACTOR | Karlovy Vary %Film Festival, AUDIENCE AWARD i* Hamptons Int’l M Film Festival L’esquive L’esquive (2003) D: Abdel Kechiche; with Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier , Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou. (NR, 123 min.) Francophone Film Festival. Winner of numerous Cesar awards (French Oscars), the movie portrays life and young romance in Paris’ ethnically diverse suburban projects. @Texas Union, Friday, 7:30pm; free. “natural” forces, Malick’s film goes all goofy and turns into an insipid love story between Capt. John Smith (Farrell) and the Indian princess Pocahontas (Kilcher). Although the feelings are implied, nothing carnal is actually seen. With only the largely unspo- ken love story to steer this middle section, The New World washes ashore like the same old jive. (01/20/2006) - Marjorie Baumgarten iriri CM Barton Creek, Gateway, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North, Westgate THE RINGER D: Barry W. Blaustein; with Johnny Knoxville , Brian Cox ; Katherine Heigl , Camille Chen , Geoffrey Aren d, Bill Chott, Luis Avalos , Leonard Flowers , Edward Barbanell , Jed Rees , Leonard Earl Howze. (PG-13, 94 min.) It seems to me that a comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intel- lectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny “ Jackass ” Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit. Oh wait. That’s Shallow Hal, you say, and the Farrelly brothers already produced that movie a few years ago (with brother Bobby also directing)? And now they’re back producing The Ringer, which happened to be filmed in the Austin/San Marcos area? This film takes a gauche premise - an aver- age joe enters the Special Olympics as a ringer, confident he will win big money - and adds some comeuppance, romantic intrigue, and inspirational lessons. The result is an uneven comedy, whose occasionally hilarious lines of dialogue don’t fully compensate for its long interludes of predictability. (12/23/2005) - Marjorie Baumgarten CM Barton Creek, Metropolitan SPIKE & MIKE'S SICK & TWISTED FESTIVAL OF ANIMATION 2006 D: Various. (90 min.) No one’s ever going to confuse Spike & Mike’s annual festival of gross-out cartoons with cutting edge animation - unless it’s the cutting edge on the broken bottle shard or the rusty switch- blade that seems to cut to the heart of so many of the long-running anthology program’s more, urn, razored offerings. No, S&M cuts right to the heart of the puerile, scatological 3-year-old in all of us, and then yanks that puppy right out and begins gnawing away, more often than not with a big, goofy grin that says, “Look ma, no fear!” Of course, being a scattershot affair in its best years, it often seems to also be crowing, “No brains!” or “No moral compass!” Much of this year’s col- lection tends to rely too much on the animated equivalent of daily-strip-from-Hell The Family Circus : little setup followed by even less payoff. But there are a few standouts, like the nine-minute-long, live-action-meets-animation howler “Save Virgil.” (01/27/2006) - Marc Savlov iri Alamo Drafthouse Downtown TRANSAM ERICA D: Duncan Tucker; with Felicity Huffman , Kevin Zegers , Fionnula Flanagan , Elizabeth Pena , Graham Greene , Burt Young , Carrie Preston. (R, 103 min.) Huffman’s commanding performance in the gender-bending lead role is the primary reason to see Transamerica. It’s the kind of performance we love to love in that we can tangibly see the actorly process at work. She plays Bree, a pre- operative transsexual who’s on the verge of surgically severing all vestiges of her heretofore life as Stanley when she receives her first notice of the existence of a 17-year-old son she sired during a college sexual fling as a man. The film then becomes an odd-couple road trip, which is marred by several melodramatic and/or point- less potholes along the way. Writer-director Duncan Tucker does little to develop his narrative setup beyond the basic and obvious, and his film begins to feel more like an exercise than a fully realized story. We’re to believe that the pro- cess of learning to become a father will indeed make Bree a better woman, but unless there’s a sequel we’ll never learn the truth of that concept. (01/27/2006) - Marjorie Baumgarten Arbor TRISTAN & ISOLDE D: Kevin Reynolds; with James Franco , Sophia Myles , Rufus Sewell, David O'Hara , Henry Cavill, J.B. Blanc , Jamie King. (PG-13, 125 min.) The plot elements have mutated over time, as the myth morphed from 12th-century French poetry to Arthurian offshoot and later, fodder for Wagner, but the story of the star-cross’d Irish princess and the Cornwellian knight who got bit- ten bad by the love bug has always been top of the charts in terms of tragic pairings. Alas and alack: This new version is a dopey, mopey, all-around bore. The opening minutes drag out the backstory before fast-forwarding nine years. Screenwriter Dean Georgaris manages to gunk up the works with dialogue that is dull-witted at best and outright howling at its worst. Director Reynolds recalls none of the spryness of his 1991 blockbuster, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves; cinematographer Artur Reinhart dinges everything his camera glances upon; and the titular lovers come off like horndog adolescents. Myles is all right, although her performance owes a major debt to her marvelous hair weave, but Franco is a disaster. (01/13/2006) - Kimberley Jones ★ Tinseltown South UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION D: Len Wiseman; with Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman, Shane Brolly , Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen. (R, 106 min.) The ongoing hostilities between the vampires and the werewolves in Underworld: Evolution are pockmarked by the discordant likes of Puscifer and Slipknot, outfits whose cascading rains of sheet metal can do little but distract from the gothy kick of watching Britbabe Kate Beckinsale RALPH NATASHA VANESSA LYNN HIROYUKI FIENNES RICHARDSON REDGRAVE REDGRAVE SANADA “TWO THUMBS UP!”® -EBERT & ROEPER y THE WHITE COUNTESS PG-13 ® ® Ft* SONY PICTURES CLASSICS ' ©2005 SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. REGAL CINEMAS ARBOR CINEMA @ GREAT HILLS Jollyville Rd. N of Great Hills 1 -800-FAN DANGO X684 VIEW THE TRAILER AT WWW.WHITECOUNTESSMOVIE.COM EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT STARTS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 82 | THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 | austinchronicle.com calendar ►FILM pirouette the length of the screen whilst clad in skin-tight vinyl couture. Perhaps the soundtrack is meant as a humorous counterpoint to the grimly sacrosanct storyline, but I doubt it; the Underworld movies are nothing if not Very Serious Indeed. Too serious, I think. Beckinsale, who again plays the death-dealing vampire warrior Selene, is a natural and sinuously athletic per- former of action, and it’s a pleasure to watch her Also Playing * Full-length reviews available online at austinchronicle.com. CAPOTE Alamo Drafthouse Village, Arbor, AMC Barton Creek Square, Dobie, Metropolitan, Tinseltown North CASANOVA ★★★ CM Barton Creek CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN 2 ★V Millennium, Tinseltown South GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK ★★★★ Alamo Drafthouse South, AMC Barton Creek Square, Dobie, Tinseltown North, Tinseltown South lay waste to the bad guys, be they CGI or flesh and blood. But Underworld: Evolution suffers from a severe case of overplotting and is nowhere near as gloomily engaging as the cast’s original outing. 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STARTS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 ALAMO GALAXY THEATRES ALAMO DRAFT LAKE CREEK GALAXY HIGHLAND 10 CINEMARK CINEMARK TINSELTOWN PFLUGERVILLE TINSELTOWN USA REGAL CINEMAS WESTGATE 13729 Research Blvd. 219-8135 OAMC BARTON CREEK MALL 14 1-35 & Middle Fiskville Rd. 1-35 North i 512-467-7305 989-8540 REGAL CINEMAS GATEWAY 1-35 North & Stassney Ln. In Westgate Mall 326-3800 800-FANDANGO #369 2901 Capital of Texas Hwy. Capital of Texas Sorry, No Passes Accepted For This Engagement. For Additional Information, o Call Theaters Or Check Directories. “A JARRING SUCCESS THAT STANDS IN CONTRAST TO JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE FILM WORLD.” -Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS -Ebert & Roeper “TWO THUMBS WAY UP.* This film is a masterpiece.” -Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE “THIS IS A FASCINATING DRAMA FOR RIGHT NOW. Soderbergh’s most radical and invigorating experiment yet. ‘Bubble’ marks a grand beginning to his 6 planned HDNet films.” -Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY “GRADE A! A DEVIOUS AND FASCINATING FEATURE. ‘Bubble’ seems to have emerged from an America that the movies usually leave out. The acting is powerful enough to shame many of the performances in Hollywood movies. Every last one of them is terrific.” -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES “ABSORBING AND UNNERVING. It represents an admirable attempt to shake off standard Hollywood cliches about provincial American life. Steven Soderbergh proves himself once again to be among the most restless and inventive American filmmakers working today.” -Peter leavers, ROLLING STONE POTENT, PROVOCATIVE AND POWERFULLY RESONANT. Soderbergh’s guiding intelligence is apparent in every minute of the film. 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The UT School of Social Work hosts this screening of Ellen Spiro’s documentary Diana’s Hair Ego, about two women, DiAna DiAna and Dr. Bambi Sumpter, who spear- headed AIDS awareness in Columbia, S.C., with DiAna’s beauty salon serving as central command. The reception begins at 6pm, the film unspools at 7pm, and post-screening, there will be a discussion with Spiro and local African-American beauticians and barbers. @UT School of Social Work, 6pm; RSVP to Dr. Dorie Gilbert at . Komrades (2003) D: Steve Kokker. (NR, 64 min.) Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies and the Gender and Sexuality Center. Interviews with naval and military cadets in Russia explore such topics as male-bonding, hazing, patrio- tism, brotherhood, and alcohol abuse. The film will be introduced by the director of CREES, Dr. Thomas J. Garza, who will also lead a post-screening discus- sion. @GRG 102 (UT campus on 24th Street), 7pm. Murder in Harlem (1935) See p.80. IMAX Theatre For ticket prices and showtimes call 936-IMAX or 936-TSHM or see www.thestoryoftexas.com. Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3-D (2005) D: Mark Cowen; nar- rated by Tom Hanks. (NR, 40 min.) What could be better than the illusion of walking on the moon? Tom Hanks co-produced and narrates this exploration of the lunar surface drawn from NASA footage and CGI images. Many famous actors read personal reminiscences of the 12 men who have walked on the moon. Roving Mars (2006) D: George Butler; narrated by George Butler. (G, 40 min.) Finally, an IMAX space film whose sole objective isn’t to overwhelm us with its vastness. This film uses animation to re-create the experience of the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, on the faraway planet. The film is ably directed by Butler, whose terrific previous documenta- ries include Pumping Iron and The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. Also effective is the score by Philip Glass. Texas: The Big Picture (2003) D. Scott Swofford; narrated by Colby Donaldson. (NR, 39 min.) Panoramic shots of Texas grace the screen as Texas is shown to be a land capable of grow- ing everything from grapefruit to microchips. FRIDAY OQ Before Sunrise (1995) D: Richard Linklater; with Julie Delpy , Ethan Hawke. (R, 101 min.) Richard Linklater takes one of the oldest romantic formulas in the book - strangers on a train - and creates a soul- ful melding of hearts, minds, and camera. (Double bill: Before Sunset) (*) @Paramount, 7pm; $7 adults ($6 before 6pm), $5 children/students/seniors. Before Sunset (2004) D: Richard Linklater; with Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy. (R, 80 min.) Linklater again summons up an affair to remember. (Double bill: Before Sunrise) (*) @Paramount, 9:15pm; $7 adults ($6 before 6pm), $5 children/students/ seniors. Pee- wee’s Big Adventure (1985) D; Tim Burton; with Paul Reubens, Elizabeth Daily , Mark Holton, Diane Salinger, Tony Bill, Cassandra Peterson, James Brolin, Morgan Fairchild, Jan Hooks, Phil Hartman. (PG, 90 min.) A shambling adventure, this movie is more a strung-together series of skits than a sustained narrative, but the perversely comic charms of the director and star shine among the guffaws. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 12mid. Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005) D: Liam Lynch; with Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk, Laura Silverman. (NR, 12 min.) Spotty comedy delivers on its promise of Total Silverman, but that turns out to be not such a good thing after all. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 12mid. Videoke Act out scenes from various mov- ies and win prizes. See www.originalalamo.com for details. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 12mid. SPACES Best Shorts of 2005 D; Various. Screen Door Film. DVDs, T-shirts, and prizes will be given out in addition to this screening of “The Raftman’s Razor” by Keith Bearden, “The Spin Cycle” by Chris Ohlson, “The Intervention” by the Duplass Brothers, “Life Against Memory” by Jim Webb and Evan Torchin, “Learn Self Defense” by Chris Harding, “Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner” by Jamie Travis, “Ocularist” by Vance Malone, “Smile and the World Smiles With You” by Ben Steinbauer, “Fake Stacy” by John Chuldenko, “Texas Gold” by Carolyn Scott, “Found Art: Gary Crom” by Curtis Craven, and “Oh My God” by John Bryant. For descriptions and trailer, see www.screendoorfilm.com/bestof05.htm. @Arts on Real, 8pm; $4. L’esquive (2003) See p.82. The Upside of Anger (2005) D. Mike Binder; with Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt. (R, 118 min.) I Luv Video. The two fantastic performances by Joan Allen and Kevin Costner anchor this con- temporary drama about romance between two flawed adults. (*) @Austin Java Cafe & Bar (1608 Barton Springs Rd.), 8pm; free. The Upside of Anger (2005) (©Austin Java Cafe & Bar (1206 Parkway), 8pm; free. (See above) SATURDAY GO Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) @Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 12mid. (See Fri. , 02/03) Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005) @Alamo Drafthouse South, 12mid. (See Fri., 02/03) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman; with Richard O’Brien, Barry Bostwick, Susan Sarandon, Tim Curry. (R, 95 min.) Austin Rocky Horror fans have been dressing up and doing the “Time Warp” thing live for 28 years straight. For more info see www.austinrocky.org. @Alamo Drafthouse Village, 12mid. SPACES Best Shorts of 2005 @Arts on Real, 8pm; $4. (See Fri., 02/03) Offscreen Blowin’ Up A Spot Film Festival: A Woman’s Perspective It’s the fifth annual iteration of this filmic celebration, coming to the Carver Museum in late April, and they want your films for consideration. Female filmmakers, actors, workshop presenters, and poets, check their Web site for the proper forms, then send your original cinematic treasures to: PO Box 42188, Austin, TX 78704. There is no entry fee. Deadline: March 1. www.blowinupaspot.com. Independent African-American Films from 1935-1950 are graphically documented in this exhibition of relevant posters, photography, lobby cards, and other promotional collateral from the James E. Wheeler collection. Feb. 2-March 4: UT’s Center for American History , 2313 Red River , 495-4515. Feb. 4-25: Carver Museum and Cultural Center, 1165 Angelina, 974-4926. Reel Women International Film Festival RW’s second international festival will be held March 23-26, in Los Angeles, Calif., and they’re accepting submissions now. Categories include: features, documentaries, shorts, animation, and student films, all of which must be directed by women or written and produced by women. Check their Web site for more information, www.rwiff.com. Screen It Like You Mean It Austin Studios has a new, state-of-the-art screening room, and, lucky you, they’re opening it up on a rental basis to the public, which means you can finally toss out that old Sony Watchman you’ve been thrusting in potential distributors’ mugs for the past three years. Community and indie rates are available for the room, which sports an 18-foot-by-7-foot screen, 28 fixed theatre seats, a surround sound system, and supports Super 35, 35mm, 16mm, VHS, and DVD formats. Handicap accessible, restrooms - the works. They also have a “break room” suitable for presentations, meetings, and general cinematic tomfoolery. 322-0145. www.austinstudios.org. Student Digital Film Festival is a noncom- petitive, nonprofit film festival open to students and teachers in Texas, grades K-12. ASDFF is free to enter and free to attend. Check their Web site for details. Deadline: April 7. www.austinschools.org/filmfest/index.html. Texas Indie Music Video Festival The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Downtown is hosting the inaugural Texas Indie Music Video Festival (Wed., March 1, 9:45pm) and accepting submissions for any Texas-based indie music videos made from 2003 until now. Submissions should be sent on DVD with full contact info and the name of the video director to: Kier-La Janisse, Programming Dept., Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, 1120 S. Lamar, Austin, 78704. No entry fee. See their Web site for details. Deadline: Feb. 15. www.originalalamo.com. The Austin Movie Show: Film Tournament 2.0 will keep the popular show keeping on, yea verily, even though the Austin Music Network is no more. Not only will the Austin Movie Show be shown 6-8pm on Sunday nights, but their Film Tournament 2.0 will start up the same night, following the show from 9-llpm. For details about submitting a short film to be consid- ered, check their Web site, www.austinmovieshow.com. 84 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com SUNDAY GO Before Sunrise (1995) @Paramount, 1pm; $7 adults ($6 before 6pm), $5 children/students/ seniors. (See Fri., 02/03) Before Sunset (2004) @Paramount, 3:15pm; $7 adults ($6 before 6pm), $5 children/students/ seniors. (See Fri., 02/03) The Man With Two Heads (1972) D: Andy Milligan; with Denis DeMarne, Gay Feld, Julia Stratton, Jaqueline Lawrence. (PG, 80 min.) UT Film Loop. Cult auteur Andy Milligan was a Staten Island Ed Wood, whose films usually delved into sexploitation and horror. The Man With Two Brains is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde takeoff that includes S&M orgies, dismemberment, and other evil things. (*) @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 3pm. MONDAY GO New York Doll (2005) See p.80. Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979) D: Jeff Margolis. (NR, 78 min.) Soul Cinema. This is Pryor at his best - live and on fire. The comedian riffs on his recent heart attack, snorting cocaine, and a staged bout he had with Mohammed AN. @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7pm; $1. SPACES Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) D. Doug Liman; with Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Adam Brody , Kerry Washington. (PG-13, 120 min.) Pitt and Jolie are reduced to set dressing in their own action vehicle. (*) @Cafe Mundi, 8pm; free. Twin Peaks and Carnivale An episode of Twin Peaks screens at 7pm, followed by an episode of Carnivale at 8pm. Popcorn provided. @Beerland, 7pm; free, 21 and over. TUESDAY GO New York Doll (2005) @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 9:45pm. (See Mon., 02/06) The Battle of Algiers (1965) D. Gillo Pontecorvo; with Brahim Haggiag, Jean Martin, Saadi Yacef , Sarnia Kerbash. (NR, 123 min.) Austin Film Society: Official Evil - Political Thrillers in Cinema. One of the first films to successfully employ a pseudo-documentary approach, The Battle of Algiers presents the Algerian conflicts with their French colonial rulers during the years 1954-62. The film is technically a drama, with invented characters and situations, but the film looks like a newsreel and has the urgency of desperate people. @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 7pm; AFS members free, $4 general admission (online reservations at www.austinfilm.org). SPACES “ Invisible Revolution” and “A Lifetime of Struggle” (2001) D: Beverly Peterson. (NR, 56 min.) Anti-Racist Action Film Night. “Invisible Revolution,” which has screened at Sundance and the Human Rights Watch Festival, is a documentary about the white power movement and the direct- action youth organiztion - Anti-Racist Action - which opposes it. “A Lifetime of Struggle” is an oral inter- view with David Gilbert, a member of SDS and the Weather Underground, who is serving 75 years in prison for participating in an armed-car robbery by the Black Liberation Army. @MonkeyWrench Books, 7pm; $5. Documentaries and Short Films Screenings on the back patio every Tuesday. @Austin Java Cafe & Bar (1206 Parkway), 8pm; free. “Midnight Shadow” (1939) D: George Randol; with Frances Redd, Buck Woods, Richard Bates. (NR, 54 min.) Marching On: Independent African American Films From 1935-1950. In this film two detectives pit their resources against a large, vindictive oil concern in Shreveport, La. The screening is part of a Black History Month series celebrating films written, produced, directed, and distributed by African-American filmmakers in the first, segregated half of the American 20th century. The curated series is sponsored by the University of Texas Office of Community and School Relations and the City Parks & Recreation Department and hosted by the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, and will include features, shorts, newsreels, and an exhibition of film post- ers, photographs, and other materials from the James E. Wheeler Collection. @Carver Museum Theater (1165 Angelina), 10am, 1, 4pm; free. calendar ►FILM Moolaade (2004) D: Ousmane Sembene; with Fatoumata Coulibaly, Maimouna Helene Diana , Salimata Traore, Dominique Zeida. ( NR , 124 min.) Francophone Film Festival. Powerful fiction film about the repercussions in an African village when one woman protects four young girls from the customary genital circumcision. @Texas Union, 7:30pm; free. WEDNESDAY GO New York Doll (2005) @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 9:45pm. (See Mon., 02/06) Summertime Killer (1972) D. Antonio Isasi-lsasmendi; with Christopher Mitch urn, Karl Malden , Olivia Hussey. (PG, 110 min.) Weird Wednesday. Italian crime movie about a young man seeking revenge for his father’s death stars Robert Mitchum’s son, Chris. @Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, 12mid; free. SPACES Last Man Standing (2004) See p.80. The Monster (1994) D: Roberto Benigni; with Roberto Benigni , Michael Blanc , Nicoletta Braschi, Dominique Lavanant, Jean Claude Brialy. ( NR , 108 min.) II Circolo Italiano. Begnini is mistaken for a sex criminal and murderer by the Italian cops. Hilarity ensues. (*) @MEZ BO 306 100 (basement of Mezes on the UT campus), 8pm; free. THURSDAY GO Outdoorsmen: Blood , Sweat & Beers (2005) See p.82. Check film listings online for full-length reviews, up-to-date showtimes, archives, and more! austinchronicle.com/film THE YEAR’S BEST PICTURE! 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On their self-titled debut (see “Texas Platters”), the handsome sevenpiece tears a page from the alt.country twang of Gram Parsons and the Band, all while radiat- ing sunshine pop and L.A. hooks. The feel- good local album of the new year. Locals Lomita farm out big guitar sounds, Quien es Boom! picks choice jangle, and the Black’s David Longoria cooks up hot licks. - Audra Schroeder Matthew Shipp, €CFA BALLET AUSTIN, SATURDAY 4 No stranger to Austin, NYC avant-garde pianist Matthew Shipp has passed through River City in several different instrumental configurations over the years, yet he’s never disappointed the locals in his relentless pursuit of creative expression. In the wake of his new Thirsty Ear project, One, Shipp returns to perform solo acoustic. If the album is any indication, we can expect music that’s at once disarmingly poetic and emotion- ally riveting. Austin’s ECFA, led by saxophonist Carl Smith and fresh from their new release, Die Mitte, opens. - Jay Trachtenberg Laciepalooza hole in the wall, Friday 3 Laciepalooza is a luminary-studded local show benefiting Lacie Taylor of doo-wop duo Fine Fifteen, who is undergoing treatment for chronic back problems. A wide array of performers are going to bat for Taylor, including ace singer-songwriter Bruce Robison, veteran piano great Earl Poole Ball, Orange Mother mastermind Ethan Azarian, Superego man-about-town Paul Minor, scruff-pop raconteur Jerm Pollet, beer light barnstormers Li’l Cap’n Travis, colorful punks the Total Foxes, and humorous indie eccentrics the Darling New Neighbors. It’s a full evening of entertainment for a mighty fine cause. - Greg Beets Brujeria, Cephalic Carnage, Steers EMO'S, SUNDAY 5 The identities of the members of Brujeria remain a mystery (their faces are often covered by bandanas, they don’t do inter- views), and their deal- ings in native Mexico remain sketchy (Drug dealers? Gang members? Murderous, blood-lusting Satanists?), but one thing you’ll be sure of after listening to their 2003 release Brujerizmo is that they know hardcore, making this rare live appearance even more intriguing. Denver’s Cephalic Carnage kill it with songs from their latest Anomalies and local metal pur- veyors Steers crank out the crack. - Audra Schroeder Brujeria Scundchecli BY AUDRA SCHROEDER SPOON, SONS OF HERCULES La Zona Rosa , Friday 3 Sold out. DEVIN THE DUDE The Back Room , Friday 3 You wanna smoke weed but the reefer’s all gone? You know H-town’s holdin’. DOYLE BRAMHALL Continental Club , Friday 3 Texas blues takes a walk down Fitchburg Street. HANDSOME JOEL BENEFIT Elysium , Friday 3 Rock out for a good cause with Suplecs, the Bulemics, and Dixie Witch. BELAIRE 7-INCH RELEASE, LOXSLY Parish , Saturday 4 Chop through meaty beats and challenge someone to a dance-off. AUSTIN FRIENDS OF TRA- DITIONAL MUSIC MID- WINTER FESTIVAL Dougherty Arts Center, Saturday 4 Featuring Cooper’s Uncle, Ralph White, Onion Creek Crawdaddies, and more. I CARNAVAL BRASILEIRO Palmer Events Center ; Saturday 4 The biggest Brazilian festi- val in Texas lights up. IN FLAMES, TRIVIUM, DEVILDRIVER, ZAO The Back Room, Monday 6 Swedish metal finds Clarity amongst the chaos. BASTARD SONS OF JOHNNY CASH Maggie Mae’s, Wednesday 8 San Diego’s country-punk sons walk the line. BLUERUNNERS, LOST BAYOU RAMBLERS Continental Club, Thursday 9 Lafayette’s Cajun peddlers are sweet as Honey Slides. OF MONTREAL, GRAND BUFFET Emo’s, Thursday 9 Athens’ psych-litera collective peel off tracks from their latest LF? The Sunlandic Twins. live music VENUES ► p .90 CLUB LISTINGS + roadshows ► P .94 Pearls and Brass, High Tension Wires EMO'S, SATURDAY 4 Liam 6 Maonlaf cactus cafe, Tuesday 7 You may not recognize the name, but if you’ve heard Ireland’s Hothouse Flowers you’ve heard the Emerald voice of Liam 6 Maonlaf. Hothouse Flowers remain viable, but their charismatic frontman will be in town for a Folk Alliance gig, recording in a 150-year-old Bastrop house, partaking in a KUT Eklektikos per- formance, and holding down a solo show at the Cactus Cafe. Need another endorsement? Bono’s a big fan of 6 Maonlaf’s gilded voice. Soulful, funky folk of the first order. - David Lynch Anthony B. FLAMINGO CANTINA, It’s only fit- ting that the trio known as Pearls and Brass hails from Nazareth, Pa., because they’ve built a temple of sonic reckoning on their latest, The Indian Tower. Blue Cheer hair riffs climb the walls and get higher than heaven on dusty tracks like “The Face of God,” and guitar/drums wander “Beneath the Earth.” Get saved with the opening punk uppercut of the Buzzcocksure High Tension Wires, the sticky licks of Pudding, and the appropriately named Ape Shits. - Audra Schroeder WEDNESDAY 8 David Grisman Quartet PARAMOUNT THEATRE, SATURDAY 4 Yonder Mountain String Band LA ZONA ROSA, SATURDAY 4 Bluegrass fans face a tough choice this Saturday night. Will it be master mandolin player David Grisman and his innovative quartet mixing bluegrass, folk, and jazz for a night of “Dawg music”? Fans of the hot, hot Greencards, who open the show with their own brand of acoustic pop, might tip that way. Or will they head across town, where Colorado’s Yonder Mountain String Band celebrate the release of a new, live Mountain Tracks: Vol. 4, with some potent jams and traditional sounds? 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Lamar, 445-4455 B-SIDE STUDIO, 1605 Nickerson, 698-8227 B.B. ROVERS, 12636 Research, 335-9504 B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB, 204 E. Sixth, 494-1335 BABY ACAPULCO’S 290, 5610 N. I-H 35, 302-1366 BACK ROOM, 2015 E. Riverside, 441-4677 BALLET AUSTIN STUDIO, 3002 Guadalupe, 476-9051 BARCELONA, 209 E. Sixth, 236-0900 BASS CONCERT HALL, UT Campus, 23rd & East Campus Drive, 471-1444 BASTROP SENIOR CENTER, 1008 Water, Bastrop, 512/321-7907 BEERLAND, 711V2 Red River, 479-ROCK BLIND PIG PUB, 317 E. Sixth, 472-0809 BOAT HOUSE GRILL, 6812 RR 620 N., 249-5200 BOOKWOMAN, 918 W. 12th, 472-2785 BOOMERZ, 6148 Hwy. 290 W., 892-3373 ’BOUT TIME, 9601 N. 1-35, 832-5339 BRENTWOOD TAVERN, 6701 Burnet Rd., 420-8118 BROKEN SPOKE, 3201 S. Lamar, 442-6189 BROWN BAR, 201 W. Eighth, 480-8330 BUDDY’S PLACE, 8619 Burnet Rd., 459-4677 BUSTER’S BBQ, 3927 RR 620 S., Bee Cave, 512/263-3999 CACTUS CAFE, Texas Union, UT campus, 475-6515 CAFE MUNDI, 1704 E. Fifth #100, 236-8634 CANARY HUT PUB, 11005 Burnet Rd., 837-7117 THE CANARY ROOST, 11900 Metric, 836-6360 CAROUSEL LOUNGE, 1110 E. 52nd, 452-6790 CARRIAGE HOUSE GALLERY, 509 W. Eighth, 658-0567 CARVER MUSEUM THEATER, 1165 Angelina CEDAR STREET, 208 W. Fourth, 495-9669 CENTRAL MARKET CAFE, 4001 N. Lamar, 206-1000 CHAIN DRIVE, 504 Willow, 480-9017 CHARLIE’S, 1301 Lavaca, 474-6481 CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE, 119 Cheatham, San Marcos, 512/353-3777 CHEZ ZEE AMERICAN BISTRO, 5406 Balcones, 454-2666 CIPOLLINA, 1213 West Lynn, 477-5211 CIRCLE COUNTRY CLUB, 9926 Circle, 301-4661 CLUB ONE 15, 115 San Jacinto, 472-4115 CLYDE’S BAR AND GRILL, 1634 Hwy. 71 W., Cedar Creek, 512/321-3838 COFFEE CREATOR, 9402 Parkfield Dr., 719-4544 CONTINENTAL CLUB, 1315 S. Congress, 441-2444 COTTON CLUB, 212 E. Davilla, Granger, 512/859-0700 CUBA LIBRE, 409 Colorado, 472-2822 CYPRESS FALLS TAVERN, 1 Woodcreek Circle, Wimberley, 512/847-5950 DAN MCKLUSKY’S, 301 E. Sixth, 473-8924 DARWIN’S PUB, 223 E. Sixth, 474-7399 THE DETOUR, 1113 RR 620 N., Lakeway, 512/266-2279 THE DIRTY DOG, 505 E. Sixth, 236-9800 DONN’S DEPOT, 1600 W. Fifth, 478-0336 DOUGHERTY ARTS CENTER, 1110 Barton Springs Rd., 397-1468 THE DRISKILL, 604 Brazos, 474-5911 EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE, 301 E. Fifth, 472-1860 EGO’S, 510 S. Congress, 474-7091 EL MERCADO’S MUSIC LOUNGE, 1302 S. First, 447-7445 EL SOL Y LA LUNA, 1224 S. Congress, 444-7770 ELEMENT, 301 W. Fifth, 480-9888 ELEPHANT ROOM, 315 Congress, 473-2279 ELYSIUM, 705 Red River, 478-2979 EMO’S, 603 Red River, 477-EM0S END OF AN EAR, 2209 S. First, 462-6008 EVANGELINE CAFE, 8106 Brodie #110, 282-2586 FADO, 214 W. Fourth, 457-0172 FIREHOUSE LOUNGE, 605 Brazos, 478-3473 FLAMINGO CANTINA, 515 E. Sixth, 494-9336 FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE, 1601 Barton Springs Rd., 480-8646 THE FOUNDATION, 307 W. Fifth, 472-4256 FOX & HOUND, 401 Guadalupe, 494-1200 FRANK ERWIN CENTER NORTH PLAZA, MLK at Red River, 471-7744 FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE, 10903 Pecan Park, 506- 8700 FRIENDS, 208 E. Sixth, 320-8193 GALAXY CAFE, 9911 Brodie Ln. #750, 233-6000 GENUINE JOE COFFEEHOUSE, 2001 W. Anderson, 220- 1576 GIDDY UPS, 12010 Manchaca, 280-4732 GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON, 5434 Burnet Rd., 458-1813 GINO’S ITALIAN GRILL, 730-A W. Stassney, 326-4466 GRAFFITI’S BAR & GRILL, 2401 W. Howard, 255-8003 GREEN PASTURES, 811 W. Live Oak, 444-4747 GUERO’S TACO BAR, 1412 S. Congress, 447-7688 HABANA CALLE 6, 709 E. Sixth, 443-4252 HANOVER’S, 108 E. Main, Pflugerville, 512/670-9617 HEADHUNTERS, 720 Red River, 236-0188 THE HIDEOUT COFFEEHOUSE, 617 Congress, 476-0473 HILL’S CAFE, 4700 S. Congress, 851-9300 HILLTOP TAVERN, 5996 Hwy. 21, Maxwell, 512/357-6731 HOLE IN THE WALL ROUND ROCK, 119 Main, Round Rock, 310-7777 HOLE IN THE WALL, 2538 Guadalupe, 477-4747 IT’S A GRIND COFFEEHOUSE, 4005 W. Parmer, Ste. A, 521/296-1141 IT’S ITALIAN, 14735 Bratton, 252-1444 JACK’S BACKYARD, 6901 N. 1-35, 451-5008 JC’S STEAKHOUSE, 5804 N. 1-35, 407-9393 JO’S HOT COFFEE, 1300 S. Congress, 444-3800 JOVITA’S, 1619 S. First, 447-7825 LA CABANA GRILL, 21103 Hwy. 71 W., 264-0916 LA PALAPA, 6640 Hwy. 290, 459-8729 LA ZONA ROSA, 612 W. Fourth, 472-2293 LAGO MUSIC HALL, 5905 Lohmans Ford, Lago Vista, 512/267-9310 LAS PALOMAS, 3201 Bee Caves Rd. #122, 327-9889 LONGBRANCH INN, 1133 E. 11th, 472-5477 LUCKY LOUNGE, 209-A W. Fifth, 479-7700 LUCY’S BOATYARD, 3825 Lake Austin Boulevard, 651-0505 LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE, 141 E. Hopkins, San Marcos, 512/558-7399 MAGGIE MAE’S, 323 E. Sixth, 478-8541 MANUEL’S, 310 Congress, 472-7555 MARIA’S TACO XPRESS, 2529 S. Lamar, 444-0261 MOMOS, 618 W. Sixth, 479-8848 MONKEYWRENCH BOOKS, 110 E. North Loop, 407-6925 MOONRIVER, 2002 N. Pace Bend Rd., Spicewood, 512/264-2064 MOTHER EGAN’S IRISH PUB, 715 W. Sixth, 478-7747 MOTHER’S CAFE, 4215 Duval St., 451-3994 MOZART’S COFFEE ROASTERS, 3825 Lake Austin Blvd., 477-2900 MR. NATURAL, 2414-A S. Lamar, 916-9223 MULLIGAN’S, 900 RR 620 S., 263-3305 MUNCHIES, 1003% Cuernavaca, 263-0111 NASTY’S, 606 Maiden, 453-4349 NAT’S PUB, Lakeway Plaza, Lakeway, 512/263-2855 NIASPACE, 3212 S. Congress, 443-3013 NORTH BY NORTHWEST, 10010 Capital of TX Hwy., 467-6969 NUEVO LEON, 1501 E. Sixth, 479-0097 NUNO’S ON SIXTH, 422 E. Sixth, 833-5133 NUTTY BROWN CAFE, 12225 Hwy. 290 W., 301-4648 THE OFFICE LOUNGE, 1207 Leander Rd., Georgetown, 512/869-1137 OILCAN HARRY’S, 211 W. Fourth, 320-8823 OLD COUPLAND DANCE HALL, 116 Hoxie, Copeland, 512/856-2226 ONE WORLD THEATRE, 7701 Bee Caves Rd., 330-9500 OSLO, 301 W. Sixth, 480-9433 PAGGI HOUSE, 200 Lee Barton Dr., 499-8835 THE PALLADIUM, 13800 Dragline, 989-7450 PALMER EVENTS CENTER, 900 Barton Springs Rd., 404-4020 PARAMOUNT THEATRE, 713 Congress, 472-5470 PARDNERS, 1110 Palm Valley, Round Rock, 512/244-1204 THE PARISH, 214 E. Sixth, 478-6372 THE PARLOR, 100-B E. North Loop, 454-8965 PLUSH, 617 Red River, 478-0099 POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL, 22308 Hwy. 71 W., Spicewood, 512/264-0318 POODLE DOG LOUNGE, 6507 Burnet Rd., 465-9468 PROGRESS COFFEE, 500 San Marcos (on Fifth, two blocks east of 1-35), 493-0963 THE PUB, 1826 Mays, Round Rock, 246-8007 RACK DADDY’S, 4410 E. Riverside, 389-1577 RADISSON, 111 E. Cesar Chavez, 478-9611 RAGGEDY ANNE’S, 2113 Wells Branch Pkwy., 251-9647 RAIN, 217-B W. Fourth, 494-1150 REALE’S PIZZA & CAFE, 13450 Research, 335-5115 RED 7, 611 E. Seventh, 476-8100 RED EYED FLY, 715 Red River, 474-1084 RED FEZ, 209-B W. Fifth, 478-5120 RED’S SCOOT INN, 1308 E. Fourth, 320-0004 REDRUM, 401 Sabine, 275-6575 REED’S JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB, 9901 Capital of TX Hwy. N., 342-7977 RENAISSANCE HOTEL, 9721 Arboretum, 343-2626 RHINOS & JOCKS ROUND ROCK, 2120 N. Mays #100, Round Rock, 512/246-9444 RHINOS & JOCKS, 13450 Research, 335-5625 RILEY’S TAVERN, 8894 FM 1102, Hunter, 512/392-3132 ROADHOUSE, 1103 Wonder, 218-0813 ROCKIN’ TOMATO, 3003 S. Lamar, 447-3351 ROMEO’S, 1500 Barton Springs Rd., 476-1090 ROOM 710, 710 Red River, 476-0997 ROPER’S NIGHTCLUB, 2113 Wells Branch Pkwy., # 5000, 990-4991 ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN CAFE, 11800 Lamar, 835-2414 RUTA MAYA, 3601 S. Congress Ste. D-200, 707-9637 SABA BLUE WATER CAFE, 208-D W. Fourth, 478-7222 SAKE ON SIXTH, 621 E. Sixth, 478-8788 SAM’S TOWN POINT, 2115 Allred, 282-0083 SARADORA’S COFFEEHOUSE AND EMPORIUM, 101 E. Main, Round Rock, 512/310-1200 SATELLITE CAFE, 7101 Hwy. 71 W. Ste. El, 301-1883 SAXON PUB, 1320 S. Lamar, 448-2552 SHENANIGANS, 13233 Pond Springs Rd., 258-9717 SHOAL CREEK SALOON, 909 N. Lamar, 474-0805 SHOOTERS BILLIARDS, 11416 RR 620 N„ 521/401-2060 SHOOTING STARS COFFEE, 6539 N. Lamar, 377-3334 SKY LOUNGE, 416 Congress, 477-3151 SOUTH FORTY, 629 W. Ben White Blvd., 444-9329 SPEAKEASY, 412 Congress, 476-8017 STARDUST CLUB, 11940 Manchaca, 280-8590 STUBB’S BAR-B-Q, 801 Red River, 480-8341 T.C.’S LOUNGE, 1413 Webberville Rd., 926-2200 TAMBALEO, 302 Bowie, 472-3213 TAVERN ON THE GRUENE, 830 Gruene Rd., Gruene, 866/828-3761 TEXAS BAR & GRILL, 14611 Burnet Rd., 255-1300 THINGS CELTIC, 1806 W. 35th, 472-2358 THREADGILL’S OLD NO. 1, 6416 N. Lamar, 451-5440 THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ, 301 W. Riverside, 472-9304 TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL, 2201 College, 443-4200 TRIPLE CROWN, 206 N. Edward Gary, San Marcos, 512/396-2236 TROPHY’S, 2008 S. Congress, 447-0969 THE VELVET SPADE, 912 Red River, 482-8404 VENTANA DEL SOUL, 1834 E. 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CONGRESS ♦ OPEN: TUES.-FRI. 4PM ■ SAT. 3PM » SUN. 9PM » 441 -2444 L LISTEN & PREVIEW ABOVE ACTS @ IVI343.COM austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 93 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 MEMPHIS TRAIN 9:30PM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4 CALICO KINGS 9:30PM MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 JAMES GOSSETT UNDER THE STARS 9:30PM TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 POSTER & FRIENDS 9:30PM NO COVER WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8 LATIN WEDNESDAY THE BREW 9:30PM FREE SALSA LESSON @ 9PM 412-D CONGRESS AVE. * 476-8017 (entrance in the alley) • speakeasyaustin.com GIRARD DIVERSIFIED INTEREST I 1C.WTITCII7 club lutings Thu 00 311 CLUB 3 Piece Special, Joe Valentine & Lynn (8:30) ALICE’S RESTAURANT Flying $ Bunkhouse Band ALLEY 416 Retro Rewind ANTONE’S Ian Moore, Tyrone Vaughan ARTZ RIB HOUSE Chris Gage & Michael Austin AUNT TILLY’S ISLAND CAFE & BAR Open Mic w/ Rusty Wier (9:30) AUSTIN JAVA CAFE & BAR Poetry Karaoke Open Mic (8:00) B-SIDE STUDIO Last Call for Austin Musicians Benefit w/ mrandmrs- mays, Ringo Deathstarr, Three Uncle Sams, Travis Beall (7:00) B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Eric Tpccmpi' BACK ROOM Hit by a Car, Hammerwhore, Rigor Mortis BARCELONA DJ Tats BEERLAND Oh Beast!, Nervous Exits vs. Attack Formation BLIND PIG PUB Joe Vega (10:00) BOAT HOUSE GRILL Open Mic w/ Sidney BOOMERZ Karaoke BRENTWOOD TAVERN Twangzilla BROKEN SPOKE Chaparral w/ Jeff Hughes BROWN BAR mr.ripley CACTUS CAFE Adrian Legg CANARY HUT PUB Karaoke THE CANARY ROOST Karaoke CAROUSEL LOUNGE Patrick Godbey Band (9:30) CARVER MUSEUM THEATER Legends of Black Music Festival w/ James Kuykendall & the East Side Kings, feat.”Blues Boy” Hubbard (7:00) CEDAR STREET Gaila Trickey (6:00), Sauce (9:30) CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE Reckless Kelly CLUB ONE 15 Rock en Espanol w/ Haydn Vitera (9:00) CONTINENTAL CLUB Kenneth Brian (6:30), the Gourds CD Release, Mother Truckers ( 10 : 00 ) COTTON CLUB Double Barrel (8:30) DARWIN’S PUB J.T. Coldfire THE DETOUR Open Mic w/ David John, Big Steve, Easy Dave (8:30) THE DIRTY DOG Clay Jeffreys DONN’S DEPOT Murphy’s Inlaws EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Mark Goodwin Trio (7:30) EGO’S The Texas Sapphires (9:00) ELEPHANT ROOM Acoustic Mayhem Big Band (9:30) ELYSIUM Stun Gun, DAX, Jolly Garogers EMO’S Daylight Titans, Tah Dahs, the Living Blue, Handsome Charlies FADO Patrick Flemming Power Duo ( 10 : 00 ) FLAMINGO CANTINA Brownout!, Afrofreque (8:30) THE FOUNDATION Coy West FOX & HOUND Danny Britt (6:00) FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE Jazzopoly (7:00) GRAFFITI’S BAR & GRILL Kris Farrow (7:30), Noltey (9:00) GUERO’S TACO BAR Monsters of the Midway w/ Ruben Ramos (6:30) HANOVER’S Karaoke HEADHUNTERS Meatwood, King Cobra, Black Joe Lewis & the Cool Breeze HILL’S CAFE Josh Grider Acts are chronologically listed. Schedules are subject to change , so please call clubs to confirm lineup. Times are given where known and are PM unless otherwise noted. LISTINGS ARE FREE AND ARE PRINTED ON A SPACE- AVAILABLE BASIS. HELLO, CLUBS AND BANDS: Club listings deadline is Monday, 9am, for that week’s issue, published on Thursday. Send venue name, address, phone number, acts, and times to: Club Listings, PO Box 49066, Austin, TX 78765; fax 458-6910; phone 454-5766 xl59; or e-mail . HOLE IN THE WALL Alice Spencer & Her Monkey Butlers, Tenlon’s Fort (8:00) JC’S STEAKHOUSE Adam Donmoyer JO VITA’S Cornell Hurd Band (8:00) LA PALAPA Larry Lange’s Lonely Knights (8:00) LA ZONA ROSA I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, Spoon LUCKY LOUNGE Ian McLagan & the Bump Band (6:00), Anagen ( 10 : 00 ) LUCY’S ON THE SQUARE Mary Minds, Vallejo MOMOS Sex Pistols Experience MOTHER’S CAFE Doc Grauzer ( 6 : 00 ) NAT’S PUB Open Mic w/ Big Jim rcadahcwa FEBRUARY THU 2 Ian Moore, Antone’s Rigor Mortis, Hammerwhore, Back Room Adrian Legg, Cactus Cafe The Living Blue, Emo’s Sex Pistols Experience, Momos George Winston, One World Theatre Ozomatli, Paramount Theatre Oliver Future, Stubb’s Bar-B-Q FRI 3 Devin the Dude, 3rd Degree, Dok Holiday, Back Room Janina Fialkowska, Bass Concert Hall Dave Alvin, Cactus Cafe Doyle Bramhall, Continental Club Suplecs, Elysium 2MEX, Life Rexall, Ollie Ox, Xololanxinco, Qbist, Puppets, Emo’s Hotel, Hotel, End of an Ear Hot 8 Brass Band, Flamingo Cantina Sons of Hercules, La Zona Rosa George Winston, One World Theatre Jonny Danger, Redrum The Spiders, Triple Crown SAT 4 Matthew Shipp, Ballet Austin Studio Janina Fialkowska, Bass Concert Hall High School Caesar, Beerland Two Tons of Steel, Continental Club Deryl Dodd, Cotton Club Pearls and Brass, Emo’s Yonder Mountain String Band, Jake Shimabukuro, La Zona Rosa Grupo Saveiro, Palmer Events Center David Grisman Quartet, the Greencards, Paramount Theatre SUN 5 Eric Azinger & Paul English, Elephant Room Brujeria, Napalm Death, Cephalic Carnage, Emo’s MON 6 Kudzu Karnival, Antone’s Devildriver, Inflames, Zao, Trivium, Back Room Jenifer Jackson, Flipnotics Coffeespace See austinchronicle.com for complete listings. TUE 7 Liam O’Maonlai, Cactus Cafe Lura, Flamingo Cantina WED 8 Tommy Emmanuel, Cactus Cafe Anthony B, Chrisinti, Soul Majestic, Flamingo Cantina Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Maggie Mae’s Leon Russell, Adam Hood, Poodie’s Hilltop Bar & Grill THU 9 Tommy Emmanuel, Cactus Cafe The Bluerunners, Lost Bayou Ramblers, Continental Club Of Montreal, DJ Jester the Filipino Fist, Grand Buffet, Armor for Sleep, Boys Night Out, Chiodos, Emo’s John Jorgenson Gypsy Jazz Band, Flamingo Cantina Bleu Edmondson, La Zona Rosa Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion, Lucy’s Boatyard Zoe Mulford, Rachel Cross, Mary Sue Twohy, Ruthie Logsdon, Threadgill’s Old No. 1 for your benefit THU 2 Last Call for Austin Musicians Benefit w/ mrandmrsmays, Ringo Deathstarr, Three Uncle Sams, Travis Beall, B-Side Studio FRI 3 Lacie-palooza w/ Ethan Azarian, Earl Poole Ball, Jerm Pollet & the Total Foxes, Li’l Cap’n Travis, Darling New Neighbors, Bruce Robison, Hole in the Wall Handsome Joel Foundation Benefit w/ Charlie’s Holy Half Hour, Suplecs, Bulemics, Dixie Witch, Elysium MON 5 Doug Hall Medical Expense Fund w/ Eric Azinger & Paul English, Suzie Stern Quintet, Alex Coke, Rich Harney, Tina Marsh, Mitch Watkins, Ephraim Owens, Brannen Temple, Elephant Room THU 9 Jack Control Medical Expenses w/ Signal Lost, Camp X-Ray, Army Of Jesus, Iron Age, Modern Needs, Emo’s 94 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com THE UNIVERSITY F TEXAS AT AUSTIN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Downbeat 2005 Critics FIRST PLACE AWARDS Jazz Album of the Year (Concert in the Garden) Composer of the Year Arranger of the Year GRAMMY® WINNER DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET Friday MAR 2 GREAT NIGHTS OF JAZZ IN HOGG UT PACatHOGG AUDITORIUM ON SALE NOW HOGG AUDITORIUM SATURDAY FEBRUARY 11, 2006, 8:00 PM W ? 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Lamar cafe open 7am-9 pm Sunday-Thursday 7am-10pm Friday and Saturday free music • great food covered patio • kids playscape club liAtings 4 < from Thursday NUNO’S ON SIXTH Kim & Her Blues Boys, Pride and Joy (8:00) THE OFFICE LOUNGE Rocky ONE WORLD THEATRE George Winston (7:00) OSLO The Bumps (9:00), Jeff Strange (11:00) PARAMOUNT THEATRE Ozomatli ( 8 : 00 ) THE PARLOR Charlemange & Distant Seconds (9:00) PLUSH Get Broke! w/ Merrick Brown POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Bracken Hale Band PROGRESS COFFEE Chris Vestre Trio (6:00) THE PUB Karaoke RED FEZ Nuthin’ New All-Stars (9:00) RED’S SCOOT INN The Nortons (8:30) REED’S JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB Marc Devine, Donna Hightower, Denia Ridley, Marc Devine Trio ( 6 : 00 ) RENAISSANCE HOTEL Rich Demarco (6:00) RHINOS & JOCKS Roger Smith RILEY’S TAVERN Karaoke ROADHOUSE Open Jam w/ Mojo ( 8 : 00 ) ROMEO’S Jacinta (6:30) ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN CAFE Dave Jorgenson RUTA MAYA Austin Daze w/ Jelly Jar, South Austin Jug Band (8:00) SAXON PUB Geezinslaws, Cyril Neville’s Tribe 13, Carolyn Wonderland (6:00) SHENANIGANS Billy D SHOAL CREEK SALOON Reid Wilson & His So-Called Friends (9:00) SKY LOUNGE Retro Thursdays w/ DJ Def M STUBB’S BAR-B-Q Things That Go Pop!, Oliver Future TAMBALEO DJ Holland (10:00) TEXAS BAR & GRILL Open Mic w/ Henry Craft THREADGILL’S WORLD HQ Stephen Doster & Will Sexton TREE HOUSE ITALIAN GRILL Annoying Instrumental Orchestra (7:30) TRIPLE CROWN Johnny Gringo, Humble, Liquid Cheese THE VELVET SPADE Topaz (10:00) WATERLOO ICE HOUSE Larry Hooper WATERLOO ICE HOUSE SOUTH The Hudsons (6:00) WHISKY BAR Zookeeper, DJ Ian Orth, Ben Craven Z’TEJAS Thomas Hughes & Mike Malone (6:00) Ed OO 219 WEST DJ Trace 311 CLUB Shawn Pittman (7:00), Dewayne Davis, Joe Valentine & Lynn (8:30) ALICE’S RESTAURANT Brennen Leigh, Creature of Unusual Size, This Time Next Year ANGEL’S ICEHOUSE Fabulous Chevelles (8:00) ANTONE’S Vehicular, the Scabs ARTURO’S UNDERGROUND CAFE gfire (7:00) ARTZ RIB HOUSE George Ensle AUNT TILLY’S ISLAND CAFE & BAR Fat Dog (9:00) AUSTIN JAVA CAFE & BAR Acoustic Happy Hour (6:00) B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Eric Tessmer BABY ACAPULCO’S 290 Mary Welch y Los Curanderos BACK ROOM Bavu Blakes, Dok Holiday, 3rd Degree, DJ Crash, Smackola, Devin the Dude BASS CONCERT HALL Austin Symphony Orchestra Birthday Performance w/ Janina Fialkowska (8:00) BEERLAND David Longoria, Lomita, Brothers and Sisters CD Release, Quien es Boom! BLIND PIG PUB Joe Vega (10:00) BOAT HOUSE GRILL Moonhangers BOOKWOMAN Poetry & Music w/ Alyce Guynn, Mandy Mercier (7:00) BOOMERZ Southern Fried w/ Bobby G. ’BOUT TIME DJ Kim Hicks BRENTWOOD TAVERN Lonesome Heroes BROKEN SPOKE Cornell Hurd Band BROWN BAR DJ Gray, Late Night w/ mr.ripley (9:00) BUDDY’S PLACE Son Geezinslaw & Glen Collins BUSTER’S BBQ Paul Cox (6:30) CACTUS CAFE Dave Alvin CANARY HUT PUB Karaoke THE CANARY ROOST Karaoke CAROUSEL LOUNGE Mad Cowboys (6:30), Ugly Beats, Larry Lange’s Lonely Knights (9:00) CEDAR STREET Shawn Phillips (6:00), Blind Date (9:30) CENTRAL MARKET CAFE John Arthur Martinez (6:30) CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE Walt Wilkins CIPOLLINA Cienfuegos (8:00) CLUB ONE 15 Blend Fridays w/ DJ Inverse, DJ Casanova CONTINENTAL CLUB The Blues Specialists (6:30), Seth Walker, Doyle Bramhall (10:00) COTTON CLUB Johnny Dee & the Rocket 88 ’s (8:30) DAN MCKLUSKY’S Bobby Doyle (7:00) DONN’S DEPOT Donn & the Station Masters THE DRISKILL Kirk Hale, Suzi Stern, George Oldziey (6:00) EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Mark Goodwin Trio (8:00) ELEMENT DJ 2DQ (10:00) ELEPHANT ROOM Chris Maresh Trio, the Brew (6:00) ELYSIUM Handsome Joel Foundation Benefit w/ Charlie’s Holy Half Hour, Dixie Witch, Bulemics, Suplecs EMO’S Inside: The Action Is, Pink Swords, Yuppie Pricks, Rockland Eagles; Outside: Puppets, Meridian Prime, Qbist, Xololanxinco, Ollie Ox, Life Rexall, 2Mex END OF AN EAR Hotel, Hotel (6;00) FADO Mysterious Ways (10:00) FLAMINGO CANTINA Hot 8 Brass Band (9:00) FREDA’S SEAFOOD GRILLE Jazzopoly (7:00) GENUINE JOE COFFEEHOUSE Open Mic (7:30) GIDDY UPS Li ’I Steph GUERO’S TACO BAR Leroi Brothers (6:30) HANOVER’S Eric Hanke CD Release, Anagen, Ultrasonic RIO GRANDE AND 6TH 512.476.3474 WWW.WAHOOS.COM OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Spansnred by: ivl’jvj FilnndFn n rl n is .cnn oavn t:. wrlh -coupon available ad hit and fearless Krav Maga. 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You are invited to hear the first-, second-, and third- place winners read their short stories. Honorable mentions will also be announced. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served austinchronicle.com Soft Opening this Week with $2 you call it from 9 10pm i $2 domestics & $2 wells Red 7 611 east 7lh at. Ausliri.TX 7S701 www. red7 a ustin. com Austin’s Newest Live Music Venue and Nightclub Haughty Wednesdays™ every week wilh the Jessie Bnede, Johnny Invisible, the Naughty Girls and spenial guests * monthly Vertical Smiles Events Dress Naughty=No Cover / 53 for 21 + / $7 fo r 13 * Study Breaks Thursdays featuring some of he best college bends and dis from LJT and TSU. Go online at www. study hreaAcs.com to register your band No cover for 21 + h 4 11 pm / Cover for 171 + b 4 llpnn Thtirs 2/Z; 'IQR S GueStS with UJ Abe Fri 2710: Dieselboy and Hive Sat 2711: Nicky Jam Live Wed 271 5: Guitar Jazz G aal Alan Ho Idswo rth with Chad Wacksrmsn & Jimmy Johnson - EARLY SHOW □ours at 7 > $1 5 tickets, online at rru iL^alelick ats.com Sal 2 / 18 : Ne\ffi?l Eleven Showcase Fri 2/24: MTV DJ Scribble "This is Scrbbles House" Sat 2/25: The Civilians / The Shim Shams Fri 3/3: Reason 2 Rebel. 145. Park hurst & Zenith Zona Griavanca Sat 3/4: Michael Anthony (bedfbtfc rec./su^er club) F of calendar of events veil us online el www.mynpflce.com/red7au£,1ln Open f uc Sat 9pm 2am / 10+ welcome w.'ID / Outdoor Smoking Area / 102 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com Syyij] Ayy H jj's Uysi Uyjim Uylslny, lunzh & djjjjjy/ 7 ilujs y yjyyiil 3003 S. LAMAR, AUSTIN, TEXAS Come watch on the biggest Hi-Def Screen in South Austin! Sras Feb. 24 thru Fat Tuesday the 28th Beads, Food,'** Mnsie, Brinks, andbil'i oil'... 1 1 JACINTO 472-4t 1 & | w w w_ ill i_ lj u: I 1 r.CClM WWW.THEALLIGATORGRILL.COM RATn r of thf Rapminm FEBRUARY 13 - SHERLOCK'S QUALIFYING ROUND FEBRUARY 14 - SHERLOCK’S FINALS! Q0MPETIT0N BEGINS AT £:30PM WATCH THE BEST FLAIR BARTENDERS BATTLE IT OUT FOR A CHANCE TO GO TO THE LEGENDS OF BARTENDING wcjRfll) FINALS IN LAS VEGAS! THE BOTTLES WILL BE FLYING HIGH! JOIN US FOR ALL THE FUN AND EXCITEMENT. $HPtL«tF5 pub £ GBill 9012 RESEARCH BLVD-. S12-3BQ-9443 LOCATED AT HWY 1B3 A. BURNET ftD. IH THE FURNITURE ROW SHOPPING CENTER lt r ^ EJi:m-::nti ry My Dtiar Watsnn. Drink Rj^pnrDiiblyf' alJitfldekipuPj«-eiDrti Sherlock^ iPi : I L iT Mll^lli A f.pill austinchranicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 103 SPORTS BAR & GRILL SUPER BOWL PARTY $1 HOT DOGS & $2 LONG NECKS Valentine’s Day: 2 for I on all entrees THURSDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT 8pm FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY, & MONDAY TEXAS HOLD ’EM TOURNAMENT TWO GRAND PRIZES EVERY NIGHT CASINO TRIP TO COUSHATTA , CASINO RESORT IN LOUISIANA WEDNESDAY KARAOKE Hosted by Big Jim ■ 8pm 1113 RR 620 5. in Lakeway 266-2279 Also Visit DETOUR neighborhood bar 290 & William Cannon in Oak Hill 8440 BURNET RD. 453-6796 m/m/W. CIA IISTIW.COM DOUBLE TROUBLE, TUESDAY hi HE UfllKHffl CYRIL NEVILLE iurrszcffE 1 ViPA* . J I ' bLL II •jlJF IF -n F 1 , il | ■ ' ' m M AHID 1E5.ILT - RLL FGE3 iELEDNE - FDH U E Ft W D CALL 5 12.1 ZD.DIH calendar ► community ► arts ► film ► MUSIC club listings < < from Tuesday B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB Open Mic (7:30) BASTROP SENIOR CENTER The Kitchen Pickers (6:30) BROKEN SPOKE Hardcore Country w/ Alvin Crow, James M. White BROWN BAR DJ Gray (9:00) CACTUS CAFE Liam O’Maonlai CANARY HUT PUB Karaoke THE CANARY ROOST Karaoke CEDAR STREET Super Fantastic Duo w/ Seela Green (6:00), Trent Durham Band (9:30) CHARLIE’S Margaret Wright CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE Kent’s Finlay’s Birthday w/ Special Guests CONTINENTAL CLUB Doak Short (5:30), Toni Price (6:30), Barfield ( 11 : 00 ) CYPRESS FALLS TAVERN Open Mic w/ Bonnie & Blythe (9:00) DONN’S DEPOT Donn & the Station Masters EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Bobby Doyle (7:00) EL MERCADO’S MUSIC LOUNGE “Writers Who Rock” Songwriters Night w/ Christine Young, Melissa Mullins (7:00) ELEPHANT ROOM Stanley Smith (4:00), Big Band (9:30) ELYSIUM Sappho’s Isle w/ DJ Amerykah & DJ Doja EVANGELINE CAFE Brennen Leigh, Gene Taylor (6:00) FADO Tea Merchants (8:00) FIREHOUSE LOUNGE Deep Sessions w/ DJ Toddy B FLAMINGO CANTINA Lura (9:30) FLIPNOTICS COFFEESPACE Erik Hokkanen’s Laboratory (8:00) FRIENDS Erin Jaimes & Her Bad Habits, Alan Haynes (7:30) GINNY’S LITTLE LONGHORN SALOON Billy Dee (9:00) GINO’S ITALIAN GRILL Stop the Truck GRAFFITI’S BAR & GRILL Open Stage w/ Felix the Kid HABANA CALLE 6 Trey Lanshe ( 8 : 00 ) HANOVER’S Pete Benz & Friends (7:30) HEADHUNTERS Karaoke Underground THE HIDEOUT COFFEEHOUSE Singer-Songwriter Night w/ Josh ( 8 : 00 ) HILL’S CAFE Leo Stokes HOLE IN THE WALL Kacy Crowley, Darin Murphy (9:00) IT’S ITALIAN “Frankly Singing” w/ Ken Kruse (6:30) JOVITA’S Ethan Azarian, Grassy Knoll Boys (6:00) LA PALAPA Avenue C LUCKY LOUNGE Boombox w/ Carlos Sosa, John Pointer (11:00) THE OFFICE LOUNGE Karaoke w/ Billy D OSLO Lucy’s Wild w/ DJ Shane PARDNERS Open Mic w/ the Michael Petty Band (7:30) PLUSH Mentalnote POODIE’S HILLTOP BAR & GRILL Troubadillos THE PUB Karaoke w/ Justin RED EYED FLY The Hat Madder RED FEZ Twist Up w/ DJ Manny (10:15) RED’S SCOOT INN Li ’I Steph & the Chromatics REED’S JAZZ & SUPPER CLUB Denia Ridley w/ Marc Devine (6:30) RHINOS & JOCKS ROUND ROCK Karaoke w/ Mr. K. ROADHOUSE Karaoke w/ Dragon ROMEO’S Jacinta (6:30) ROPER’S NIGHTCLUB Open Mic ROSS’ OLD AUSTIN CAFE Tony Maserati & Skinny don RUTA MAYA Poetry, Music Open Mic (6:00) SAM’S TOWN POINT Open Mic w/ Dewey Lyon & 70 Thru Selma (9:00) SARADORA’S COFFEEHOUSE AND EMPORIUM Jim Ivy’s Jinxstreet Band (7:00) SHENANIGANS Karaoke w/ Rae Rae SPEAKEASY KKQ (9:30) TAMBALEO The Kurl (10:00) TAVERN ON THE GRUENE Songwriters Open Mic w/ Jerry Martin & Sam Sanchez (8:00) TEXAS BAR & GRILL Karaoke w/ Raquel TRIPLE CROWN The Christophers, Spilt Milk, the Whoremoans TROPHY’S 19th Street Red & Queen B., Singer-Songwriter Showcase w/ Jason Weems, Bill Davis THE WATER TANK Karaoke w/ RJ WATERLOO ICE HOUSE Matt Schneiderman (5:30) WHISKY BAR D-madness, DJ Aquaman Wed OO 219 WEST The SG Project (7:00) 311 CLUB Devren (8:30) AGAVE Eric Tessmer (9:00) ANTONE’S Bob Schneider’s Bluegrass Massacre APPLEBEE’S NEIGHBORHOOD BAR & GRILL Marty Linville ARTZ RIB HOUSE Shelley King, Carolyn Wonderland AUSTIN MUSIC CO-OP Laydeez Open Mic AUSTIN’S PIZZA Natalie Zoe Jazz Trio (8:00) B.D. RILEY’S IRISH PUB The Rustones BLIND PIG PUB Joe Vega (10:00) BRENTWOOD TAVERN Boonetown BROKEN SPOKE Nancy Fly BROWN BAR DJ Manny CACTUS CAFE Michael Fracasso (5:30), Tommy Emmanuel (8:00) CAFE MUNDI Matt the Electrician, Southpaw Jones (8:00) CANARY HUT PUB Karaoke THE CANARY ROOST Karaoke CEDAR STREET Trent & Dave (6:00), 80’s Party w/ the Spazmatics (9:30) CHAIN DRIVE Toast, Call the Circle CHEATHAM STREET WAREHOUSE Kent Finlay’s Songwriters Circle CHEZ ZEE AMERICAN BISTRO Jacinta (7:00) CIRCLE COUNTRY CLUB Karaoke ( 8 : 00 ) CLUB ONE 15 Groove Attack w/ DJ Skorcha D. (9:30) COFFEE CREATOR Je Renee, Cherilyn, John Wilson (8:30) CONTINENTAL CLUB Gary Clark Jr. (6:30), Tucker Livingston, Mike Rosenthal, Will Sexton (9:30) CUBA LIBRE Havana Nights w/ the Cadaques (8:00) CYPRESS FALLS TAVERN Jam Night w/ Dennis Lee THE DIRTY DOG Eric Hargett DONN’S DEPOT Frank & the Station Masters THE DRISKILL Kirk Hale LATE • CALL TINA AT EXT 203 FOR PRIVATE PARTY INFO Monday Come watch the game with us! SI NATTY LIGHT, PBR & HIGH LIFE toesday $2 TECATE WEDNESDAY $2 LONESTAR TALL BOYS 1/2 PRICE SHUFFLEBOARD Join our fun filled shuffleboard tourney at 7pm! THURSDAY S2 WELLS & SELECTED DRAFTS fri &sat S2 OFF VODKA/RED BULL FROM 8 11PM 12 WELLS IN ORBIT ALL NIGHT Sunday 12.50 BLOODY MARYS 1-5PM $2.50 WELLS AND DRAFTS ALL DAY Also Visit Our spinning the hottest hip hop every THUR.-SAT. with $2 WELLS all the time NO COVER EVER T79-POOL 104 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com lB fl «R9S*! 2015 E. 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Kaiiulivet fclii, Sja K)KKV DMWS :: PIMPS & HfF PARTY Jonny rfl;sr, Doouirl, The firint Gai^CUluis Stitt, fjfljWi THF IVORY CLASS Al RM BT.l L\ ? Tit r-ary C.isi. Ply By Fire. Bitter ToneueE. Lams JuJyJJiiE Side Up SiaZ$.? l >xu adult ™ Ciipfciii: Bul^m i The BjsDeri. IVrfeiForK-KlPE Tnfi.'T, SfJi \TWBAND TIGHT - *i:h Air ly an i mcie Hmt Inna Tv.ii R:rt>. ,Vj.iA Nells, (.lirs (jt Its A Gtftsrlfc Banj;. QuirlenhiieVlL. Puih Fuder iW'ilfan Sab t i ii fop, fffi Twlivti lom CLASS BRATS TOR KJCKOEF ' Li-uGav, IkJS, GlirpIcltCfoild. Kr.rn U.ins SUNDAY Adam Raven & DJ Gobot 10:00 MONDAY Open Mic 8:00-10:00 Brad Brobinsky, Calvin 10:00 Russell & Friends TUESDAY The Kurl 10:00 WEDNESDAY Hip Hop Karaoke w/ 9:00 DJ Mel & David Miranda THURSDAY HipHop & Rock w/ - 10:00 DJ’s Starsign & John Angle FRIDAY The Flying Club 7:00 DJ Mel & David Miranda 10:00 SATURDAY DJ’s Kurupt & Inverse 10:00 302 BOWIE [ 472-3213 ] TAMBALEO.COM calendar ► community ► arts ► film ► MUSIC club listings < < from Wednesday EDDIE V’S EDGEWATER GRILLE Bobby Doyle (7:00) EGO’S Austin Poetry Slam (7:30) ELEPHANT ROOM Jazz Pharoahs ( 6 : 00 ) ELYSIUM Mid Wave w/ DJ Pumpkin Spice EMO’S Ghost of the Russian Empire, Watching the Moon, Poor Posture EVANGELINE CAFE Cowboy Johnson (6:00) FLAMINGO CANTINA Soul Majestic, Chrisinti, Anthony B (8:00) FRIENDS John McVey (10:30) GINO’S ITALIAN GRILL Open Mic w/ Rusty Wier GRAFFITI’S BAR & GRILL Karaoke w/ Ian of Echosystemz (8:00) HEADHUNTERS Shiner Threat, Bricks ATX, Hit by a Car THE HIDEOUT COFFEEHOUSE Woode Wood (noon), Amanda Lepre, Rob Montoya, Richard Barron (5:00) HILL’S CAFE Steve Ten penny HILLTOP TAVERN Open Mic HOLE IN THE WALL Roger Wallace, Ridgetop Syncopators, W.T. 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CARD DEALERS Opportunity to work at the Gentleman’s club without taking your clothes off. DEALING CARDS & FREE TRAINING. Call 512-762-3831 CHILD CARE Experience as a nanny, excellent references available. 512 363 7024 CUSTOMER SERVICE Start Work Now. $2300/ Month to start. Call 512.258.3021. DRIVERS $1,000 Student Sign-On Bonus Company-Paid CDL Training NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED Earn up to $37,000 Your First Year P A. M. TRANSPORT Driver Training Hotline 1-877-825-8645 DRIVER Driver needed, hours vary. Must be flexible and have own vehicle. Call for details. (512) 779-5563. FITNESS TRAINER Perfect career change. Change lives through exercise. We'll prepare you. Assured best pay. Email resume to mondello91 FLORIST DRIVER Floral Delivery Drivers needed for Valentine's week. Must have own vehicle Van or SUV preferred but not required. Cal 1:51 2-444-81 13 to schedule appointment HOME BUSINESS PAID IN ADVANCE!! $1000+/WK Mailing Brochures from home. Earn $4./Brochure. 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Apply now at www.gapbuster.com/xec (AAN CAN) MYSTERY SHOPPERS Get paid to shop, earn up to $150 per day! No experience required. Call 1-800-743-8508. (AAN CAN) NAN NY full board, car, cable/phone/internet PLUS $$. Professional couple, mild- mannered 8 month old and 2 boys (ages 5 & 9). General child care & help with household up- keep. Ideal opportunity to be part of a vibrant, happy household if you have time to devote in exchange for a place in our home. 431-3555 NANNY needed for 1 m/o and 4 y/o 7hrs/day in NE Austin. Please call Susan 272-4205. ORGANIC FARM Work Mar- Aug. Great shape, hard work- ing, transp. nec. $7. 5/hr. + veggies. Send resumes to 276-7008 PART TIME People shouldn’t be paid to have so much fun, but you could! Apply today to be a role model working with elementary age children in the afternoons. Starting pay $8.75-$9.35/hr. EOE. Sites at 61 elementary schools. Apply at Extend-A-Care for Kids, 55 North IH 35, www.eackids.org, or call 472-9929 x408. PEDICAB Ride your bike for cash! Wed-Sat 8pm-3am. $50 -$250. M/F, 19 + , w/TxDL. REALTORS You’re only as good as your last sale, .Tired of starting over after each sale. Want a serious recur- ring income. Call 877-819-6309 REALTORS You’re only as good as your last sale. Tired of starting over after each sale? Want a serious recur- ring income? Call 866-325-4497 REALTORS Austin Distinc- tion Realty. Austin Distinction Realty is now seeking top producing licensed real es- tate agents. Must qualify for the team. Two teams forming now . Must have at least one designation, impeccably pro- fessional and understand the wants and needs of a high end target market, must be a good listener, very strong in your presentation, under- stand real estate investment strategy, and you probably own your own real estate in- vestments. We offer leads, company designed listing presentation (with training), advertising and marketing, and a great split. We are looking for agents that desire a team atmosphere of coop- eration with other company agents, willing to train, share knowledge, and/or build your own team. Call 1 -800-874- 1917 Ext. 5899. SALESPEOPLE Commis- sioned Sales People. National firm expanding in Austin area. Car program. Call 888-765-3972. SERVICE REPRESENTA- TIVCE 47 I mm ediate openings $2300+ If Qualified. Call 512-267-4203 TEACHERS/COACH ES Looking for additional In- come? Marketing firm needs independent contractors with training experience. Call 888- 561-0254 TELEPHONE SURVEYORS No Sales-Paid Weekly -Flex Scheduling- Call from our phone center in N. Central Austin. Evening & weekend hours. Must read well & have good phone skills. $7 to $9/hr. Call TDM Research after 10 am. 323-6697 AIDE The mystic in the wheelchair needs weekend morning, 10 to 12, assistance with personal care, light house cleaning and exercise. High pay, easy job, and enlightening. Downtown location. Call Richard, afternoons at 478-641 7. NURSING OPPORTUNITIES TEMPS INC now hiring RN, LVN's, CNA’s.=Top dollar plus, Daily pay and awesome benefits. All shifts available in a variety of settings. Call 210.798.2605 for appt. fax 210.798.2610 or email . ALL ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE LAKE CREEK is currently hiring for the following positions: Dishwasher, Kitchen Staff, Runner and Server. Please apply in person at 13729 Research Blvd. or call 219-5408 for more information. EOE. ALL Panda Express now hiring for all positions. Good Faith, PT/FT. For new store location. 512-257-1676 47 IMMEDIATE OPENINGS! NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS? START NOW AND BRING IN 2006 IN HIGH GEAR! $2,300+ IF QUALIFIED NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY FULL COMPANY TRAINING ... ENTRY LEVEL & MANAGEMENT POSITIONS CALL 512 - 267-4203 Apply online at www.otrdrivers.com n Like to Work with the Opposite Sex? Like to Have Fun? Like Loud Music? Like to Have Free Vacations? NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY CONTACT PERSONNEL M-F: 2PM-11PM • SAT: 8:30AM-6PM 401-2100 1 WORK WITH THE BEST RECEIVE PAID BENEFITS MAKE A DIFFERENCE Austin’s leading Comprehensive Child Development/ Early Education Program is accepting applications for the following postitions: •TEACHER Degree in EC, CD or CDA. Reliable Transportation. Some Experience Preferred •TEACHER AIDE High School Diploma or GED. Reliable Transportation. Some Experience Preferred •BILINGUAL VISITING TEACHER High School Diploma or GED. Reliable Transportation. Some Social Service Experience Preferred. •FOOD SERVICE WORKER High School Diploma or GED. Reliable Transportation. Some Food Service Experience Preferred. •DISABILITIES RESOURCE ASSISTANT High School Diploma or GED. Some Experience Working with Special Education, Driver’s License, Insurance Reliable Transportation. All applicants must be at least 18 years of age. Apply in person at Child Inc., 81 8 E. 53rd St., Austin, TX 78751 EOE austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 113 CONTINUED 135 ALL ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SOME RESTAURANT COMPANIONSHIP? Me: Single friendly restau- rant, local hang-out for sports junkies and beer enthusiasts, filled with cool managers and entertaining employees. You: Looking for good conversation, like meeting new people, enjoy making lots of money, need a place where your personality is embraced. Pluckers is hiring Servers, Cashiers, Bartenders, Cooks & Delivery Drivers No ‘FLAIR’ required NOW HIRING J_. ■ ■ Hi- Jimmy John’s Sandwiches is looking for CREW and DRIV- ERS. A fun and exciting workplace! Apply in person at 601 W. MLK, 515 Con- gress or 3203 Red River. ALL FOOD SERVERS Please apply: Monday - Friday 10-11am, 2-5pm. at 2002 Manor Rd. 2222 Rio Grande or 9070 Research Blvd Apply in person Can’t make it to Austin for our date? Then meet my good friend “New Round Rock Location”. Apply at current store or call 236-9110 x106 for more info ALSO INTERVIEWING FOR ALL POSITIONS AT THE NEW HOOVER’S COOKING LOCATION AT: 13376 Research Blvd #400 (Anderson Mill & 183) Call 335-0300 LARGE EXPANDING CORPORATION IN AUSTIN AREA FULL AND OVERTIME AVAILABLE Customer Service Entry Level & Management Available $2, 300/MONTH TO START IF QUALIFIED t CALL _ _ ALL POSITIONS Current Employment opportunities: • Cook - PM • Waitstaff • Host Staff • Beverage Servers • Busperson/ Steward • Order Taker • Concierge • Reservation Agent • Asst. Front Office Mgr. • Front Desk Agent • Acct. Cashier • Acct. Billing Coordinator • Human Resources Asst. • Audio Visual Asst. Mgr. • PBX Operators • Housekeepers AM/PM • Night Cleaners • Golf Course Admin Asst. • Golf Shop Clerk • Golf Range Attds. • Nail Technician • Massage Therapist • Greenskeeper • Golf Course Spray Tech Apply in person Monday- Friday 8:30-5PM, 8212 Barton Club Drive, Austin, Texas 78735. Email resumes to or fax your information to 512-329-4014. Website: http://www.bartoncreek.com Barton Creek offers a complete benefits package & competitive wages. EOE ALL Tired of the same res- taurant? Try Japanese. Potential for big money. Hiring chef trainees, superstar servers and more. Kobe Japanese Steakhouse. 13492 Research Blvd., Ste. 380. NW corner of 183 and Anderson Mill Rd. ALL Now Hiring: • PM Server • PM Host $10 + • PM Busser $10+ Upscale, fast paced. Voted Austin’s Favorite Restaurant by Austin Chronicle Reader’s Poll. Please Apply Mon.-Fri between 2pm-5pm. 8127 Mesa Dr./ 346-7900 BANQUET MANAGER Pre- stigious downtown private club seeks experienced banquet manager. FT with benefits. Apply in person only, 2-4pm, M-F, at the Austin Club, 110 E. 9th St. BARRISTA/COUNTER SERVER Cheerful, exp. only, PA must be flexible and be available for weekends. High volume. Apply at Quack’s Bakery @411 E. 43rd BARTENDER $300/day. No experience necessary. 1-800- 965-6520 x207 BARTENDER Need. Airport Grill & Club. 2039 Airport. 499-8744. CASHIER Friendly, smiling face needed for PT position in locally owned restaurant at 620/2222, Near Lake Travis. AM and PM shifts. 249-5200 COOK Exp., creative cook sought to build our salad, soup, sandwich & breakfast menus. FT, Days. Apply @ Quack’s 411 E. 43rd. St. 453-3399. COOK/WAITSTAFF COUNTY LINE ON THE HILL, 6500 Bee Caves Rd. Daytime lunch WAIT and COOK posi- tions open. Wage + tips. Call Dee Dee at 327-1742. DANCERS & WAITRESSES The Landing Strip MAKE BIG $$$ FT/PT, flex, sched., no exp. nec., 745 Bastrop Hwy, one mile from the airport. 385-2878. DELIVERY BIG TIPS!! LUNCH, DINNER & WEEKEND SHIFTS Make the mo$t of your time Deliver food from Austin’s best restaurants Earn up to $15 per hour - Paid Daily Call 346-9990 or Email: DRIVERS & CASHIERS Now hiring at McAlister’s Deli. Great for student or second income. Must be available daytime & have good driving record. Apply in person M-F, 2-5. 2765 Bee Caves Rd. Call 347-8646. ENTERTAINERS MAKE LOTS OF MONEY! and have lots of fun as an Entertainer or Waitress at Joy of Austin Men’s Club. No experience necessary. Will train. Apply in person, Exit 250 IH35. 218-8012. WEBSITE Check out more great ads online! austinchronicle.com/classifieds GENERAL MANAGER AND ASSIST GENERAL MANAGER Zen Japanese Food Fast - 6 yr old fast causal concept, recognized as a 5 time Chronicle winner, developing San Antonio and Austin market. Looking to fill GM and assist GM positions 2 yrs exp. necessary. Searching for persons with excellent communication, leadership and operational skills. Email resume to or fax 512-692-2598 ■ d h I H F C- I ■> I HOSTESSS Immediate Openings! Flexible schedule. Las Palomas Restaurant/Bar, Westwood Shopping Center, 3201 Bee Caves #122. Apply in Person Tues.-Sat. LINE COOKS & KITCHEN MANAGER Zen Now Hiring LINE COOKS & KITCHEN MANAGERS. Must have 2 years line exp. minimum. Apply at 3423 Guadalupe - ask for Aaron. ■ ■ mh r c- m ■ LINE COOKS Opal Divine’s is hiring for both locations. Full-time and part-time, brunch expe- rience a plus. Apply in person M-F. Downtown: 700 W. 6th or South: 3601 S. Con-gress Ave. LINE STAFF, CASHIERS, PREP WELCOME TO MOE’SII! Moe’s Southwest Grill, voted “Hot Concept of the Year” in 2004 by “Nation’s Restaurant News” and “Number 6 of Top 10 New Franchises in 2005” by Entrepreneur.com, is preparing to take over Texas and needs your help. We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic personalities for a new restaurant opening February 6th on “The Drag” in Austin. If you love great food, great music, love to work with people, have a loud voice and aren’t afraid to use it then Moe wants you. We offer competitive pay, we’re fun to work with, and we recognize and reward performance. It’s the job you’ve always wanted. 2270 Guadalupe St Austin, TX 78705 Phone: 512-478-6637 TABC CERTIFICATION www.sixthstreetcertificatio n.com Call for Class Schedule 576-7223 GOVERNMENT JOBS $12- 48/Hr. Full Benefits/Paid Training. Work available in areas like Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Wildlife, More! 1-800-320- 9353 x2001 . (AAN CAN) RESEARCH You’ve given blood for money. Donated plasma for money. We won’t even mention all the other things you’ve done for a little extra cash. Make it easy on yourself and check out The Austin Chronicle's Clinical Studies Page. ACTIVISM Fight the Bush Agenda! Make a difference in 2006 Win senate & house elections Protect the environment Defend your civil liberties DNC, Sierra Club, HRC, Planned Parenthood & others. Up to $1 6/hr w/ guaranteed base, flexible PT & FT schedules, Call Chris 916-4001 www.telefund.com ACTIVISM • 512-326-5655 Can’t take 3 more years of Lies, War, & Destruction?? We cultivate activists to take back Democracy! • $375-$460/wk + benes • M-F 2-10 PM • College/Exp. Pref’d. texasenviroment.org ADMINISTRATIVE Full time Administrative Associate. The Austin Office of the American Friends Service Committee- Central Region seeks a full- time Administrative Asso- ciate. Applicant must have 3 years experience in office administration: strong com- puter, and Spanish skills re- quired. This job is ideal for someone pursuing a career in non-profit administration. Completed Applications due by Feb 10. For application contact Gwen Sullivan: email: . Gerson Lclirman Group is a global leader in independent primary research. We provide services to the most research-intensive investment and business leaders from around the world. Our service connects our clients for customized, confidential consulting projects with members of the Gerson Lehrman Group Councils, our proprietary network of more than 130,000 front-line experts in various industries. We are currently seeking candidates to join our Austin office. These professionals will establish relationships with industry experts to expand our Council. We are looking for individuals who have experience or a professional interest in one of the following industry sectors: • Healthcare • Technology, Media & Telecom • Industrials • Transportation & Logistics • Consumer Goods and Services • Financial and Business Services • Real Estate • Accounting & Financial Analysis MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: A degree from a top school with a GPA of 3.3 or better. 1-3 years post undergraduate experience; market research, corporate recruiting, or above industry relevant background. Demonstrated excellence in oral and written communication skills Demonstrated fluency in networking with professionals. We offer a competitive salary and benefits plan including medical, dental, and 401 K. Gerson Lehrman Group is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit our website at www.glgroup.com. To apply, please email your cover letter and resume to . Company-Paid CDL Training $1,000 Student Sign-On Bonus No Experience Needed Earn up to $37, 000/1 st yr Driver Training Hotline 1 - 877 - 825-8645 Apply Online at: I www.otrdrivers.com /T\ Barton Creek Resort & Spa Current Employment Opportunities: •Cook - PM •Waitstaff •Host Staff •Beverage Servers •Busperson / Steward •Order Taker •Concierge •Reservation Agent •Front Desk Agent •Asst. Front Office Mgr. •Acct. Cashier •Acct. Billing Coordinator •Human Resources Asst. • PBX Operators •Housekeepers AM/PM •Night Cleaners •Golf Course Admin Asst. •Golf Shop Clerk •Golf Range Attds. •Nail Technician •Massage Therapist •Greenskeeper •Golf Course Spray Tech Apply in person Monday - Friday 8:30am-5pm, 8212 Barton Club Drive Austin, Texas 78735. Resumes can be emailed to or fax your information to 51 2-329-401 4. Website: http://www.bartoncreek.com Barton Creek offers a complete benefits package & competitive wages. 114 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com Is migraine pain making you suffer? If you have a history of getting migraines and have had 1 — 6 migraines per month for at least the last two months, you may qualify to participate in a clinical research study of an investigational medication used in the treat- ment of migraines. Participants in this study must be 20 to 65 years of age and in otherwise good health. Eligible participants in the study will receive study medication , study related tests , and exams; all at no cost Compensation up to $100 will be provided to eligible patients for their time and participation. Please Contact benchmark 1 - 800 - 369-2875 ****..*«!•« For More Information www.benchmarkresearch.net Healthcare Discoveries needs Type 2 Diabetic males or females ages 35 to 70 for a clinical research study. You must have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Participants complete: • A screening visit • A 23 night stay in our research facility Compensation up to $6,325.00. For information call our recruitment hotline at 1-877-848-7425 or on the web at www.healthcare-discoveries.com WISDOM TEETH? Are you having wisdom teeth pain? SCIREX in Austin is looking for men, and women of non-childbearing potential, to participate in a research study evaluating an investigational medication for post-operative pain, following wisdom teeth removal. Qualified study participants may have their wisdom teeth removed, at no charge, by an experienced oral surgeon, receive study medication and financial compensation. . Potential participants must be healthy men or women of non- childbearing potential, 18-40 years old . Have 2 wisdom teeth requiring extraction . May receive up to $1,175 financial compensation For more information call 320-1630 SCI^=* current research opportunities Give us a call and we’ll tell you about a research study to evaluate an investigational medication. By participating, you’ll receive a medical exam at no cost to you, plus you could help advance research in medi- cine. Financial compensation is available to qualified participants. ■ Nonsmokers ages 18 to 55 Healthy body weight relative to height ■ Visit dates: -Mon, Feb 20 (pm) - Wed, Feb 22 (am) -Mon, Mar 6 (pm) - Wed, Mar 8 (am) ■ Outpatient Visits: Multiple morning and evening visits Study-related lab tests and physi- cals at no cost to you ■ Qualifying participants will be compensated up to $2777. ■ Nonsmokers ages 18 to 50 Healthy body weight relative to height ■ Visit dates: -Mon, Feb 27 (pm) - Wed, Mar 1 (pm) -Wed, Mar 22 (pm) - Fri, Mar 24 (pm) ■ Outpatient Visits: 8 morning visits Study-related lab tests and physi- cals at no cost to you ■ Qualifying participants will be compensated up to $2250. See if you qualify today by calling CEDRA at 345-0032 21 years of research excellence auStinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 115 CONTINUED _L5Q COORDINATOR AIDS Ser- vices of Austin seeking a Full Time Mpowerment Small Groups Coordinator to asst, in conducting evidence based HIV prevention inter- vention (Mpowerment). Re- sponsible for recruiting & fa- cilitating group discussions among young gay, bisexual and questioning men. High School diploma required. Exp. with HIV and working with diverse populations a must. Min. 2 years exp. facil- itating group discussions. Looking for self-motivated person with proven experi- ence in successful commu- nity organizing and planning. Bilingual (Spanish) a plus. EOE/ADA. Cover Itr & resume to: Attn: HR, ASA, PO Box 4874, Austin, 78765 or fax 512-452-3299 or email . Close date 1/23/06, No phone calls please. DONATE CARS $1000 Gift. $1000 Shopping Spree. Free Next Day Pick up. IRS De- duction. Lydia’s House for Abused Women. Call 1-888- 484-5437. COMMUNICATIONS Campaign Communications Staff The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest and most progressive unions in the U.S., seeks experienced communications staff to develop and implement message, literature and media strategies for campaigns designed to improve the quality of jobs and the lives of working people in Texas. Requires excellent writing skills, media experience, BA or equivalent. Previous experience with union or other progressive political or advocacy organizations preferred. Competitive salary and benefits. EOE. Send resume and work samples to: Human Resources Department, SEIU, 1313 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005. Fax: 202-898-3407. E-mail: (in Word or text format). Reference job code AP-C/H. ENGINEER StarCore.LLC has one opening for the fol- lowing position in Austin, TX.ASIC DSP Hardware Ap- plication Engineer: Research, design, develop and test computer hardware applica- tions for incorporation into wireless, networking and tele- communications applications with a primary focus on pre- sales and post-sales support. Develop simulation and syn- thesis scripts for Verilog- based synthesis, simulation and timing analysis including physical optimization. Design and develop hardware and supprt peripherals including verification, synthesis and debugging. Serve as project manager for corporate cus- tomers. 10% to 50% interna- tional and/or domestic travel required. Minimum Education: Master’s deree in Electrical Engineer- ing. Minimum Experience: 2 years of hardware engineer- ing synthesis, simulation ex- perieince, PrimeTime and Formality experience. Please submit resumes via e- mail or mail to: Or StarCore, LLC 8303 Mopac Expwy. Suite A400 Austin, Texas 78759 No telephone calls or any other calls from outside ven- dors. EOE GROUP LEADER RNA Technologies-Plan a series of experiments and tests to demonstrate the feasibility of scientific ideas or to develop specific RNA products. Fax resume to: 512/447-6837, or mail to: Corporate Recruiter, Ambion, Inc., 2130 Woodward St., Austin, Tx 78744. EOE MULTIMEDIA TECH Small multimedia co. needs talented & creative indiv. for website maint., video editing, & data mgmt. Fax Resume to 866-894- 1767 NIGHT DESK -Full Time. Duties include: answering phone, assisting residents and monitoring fire alarm. Excellent communication skills a must. Submit resume and references to The Castilian. Email: Ra- chael. or Fax: 512-476-8003. EOE. REPORTER WANTED Are you serious about news? At least 3 years experience at weekly or daily paper re- quired. Advancement Op- portunities. Contact Emily, re- sumes with samples. No phone calls. Confidentiality Assured. Urban Tulsa Weekly 710 S Kenosha, Tulsa, OK 74120. WEBSITE COORDINATOR EMERALDS webteam seeks a smart and focused individ- ual adept at HTML, Photo- Shop, writing for the web, experienced in blogging, e- commerce and e-marketing. Contact Mark Alman, L60 RESEARCH STUDY ALL CURRENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Give us a call and we’ll tell you about a research study to evaluate an investigational medication. By participating, you’ll receive a medical exam at no cost to you, plus you could help advance research in medicine. Financial compensation is available to qualified participants. • Nonsmokers ages 18 to 55 • Healthy body weight relative to height • Visit dates: -Mon, Feb 20 (pm) - Wed, Feb 22 (am) -Mon, Mar 6 (pm) - Wed, Mar 8 (am) Outpatient Visits: Multiple morning and evening visits • Study-related lab tests and physicals at no cost to you • Qualifying participants will be compensated up to $2777. See if you qualify today by calling CEDRA at (512)345-0032 TYPE 2 DIABETICS Healthcare Discoveries needs Type 2 diabetic males or females ages 35-70 for a clinical research study. You must have been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Participants complete: •A Screening Visit •A 23 night stay in our research facility. Compensation up to $6,325 for information call our recruitment hotline at 1-877-848-7425 or visit ALL CURRENT RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Give us a call and we’ll tell you about a research study to evaluate an investigational medication. By participating, you’ll receive a medical exam at no cost to you, plus you could help advance re- search in medicine. Financial compensation is available to qualified participants. • Nonsmokers ages 18 to 50 • Healthy body weight rela- tive to height • Visit dates: -Mon, Feb 27 (pm) - Wed, Mar 1 (pm) -Wed, Mar 22 (pm) - Fri, Mar 24 (pm) • Outpatient Visits: 8 morning visits • Study-related lab tests and physicals at no cost to you • Qualifying participants will be compensated up to $2250. See if you qualify today by calling CEDRA at (512)345-0032 MIGRAINES IS MIGRAINE PAIN MAKING YOU SUFFER? If you have a history of get- ting migraines and have had 1-6 migraines per month for at least the last two months, you may qualify to participate in a clinical research study of an investigational medication used in the treatment of mi- graines. Participants in this study must be 20 to 65 years of age and in otherwise good health. Eligible participants in the study will receive study med- ication, study related tests, and exams; all at no cost. Compensation up to $100 will be provided to eligible patients for their time and participation. For more information, please call 1-800-369-2875 http:// www.benchmarkresearch.net BENCH MARK r. c ; r a a z ti Healthcare-Discoveries.com WISDOM TEETH WISDOM TEETH? Are you having wisdom teeth pain? SCIREX in Austin is looking for men, and women of non-childbearing potential, to participate in a research study evaluating an investi- gational medication for post- operative pain, following wis- dom teeth removal. Qualified study participants may have their wisdom teeth removed, at no charge, by an experienced oral surgeon, re- ceive study medication and financial compensation. • Potential participants must be healthy men or women of nonchildbearing potential, 18-40 years old • Have 2 wisdom teeth re- quiring extraction • May receive up to $1,175 financial compensation For more information call: 320-1630 SCI 343 YEAST INFECTION ATTENTION LADIES Are you currently experiencing the itching, burning, irritation and/or swelling commonly associat- ed with a vaginal infection? Do you also have vaginal discharge with a fishy odor? If so, you may qualify to par- ticipate in a clinical research study of an investigational medication for yeast infection and bacterial vaginosis. Benchmark Research is seeking female volunteers who are age 18 or older, and who are currently suffering from bacterial vaginosis and a yeast infection. 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Vaulted Ceiling. • 1-1 $435 W/D Connection, Screened in patio- NORTHWEST • $99 Total Move-In 2-2 $619 Month, 1-1 $559 month Call Ray Day at Flat Finders (512) 496-3725 NORTH $615 LNLOr$299 Total Jan move in Pool, gym, covered parking. John 659-5339 NORTH Express Yourself! Sweet 2-2 only $656! RR Schools. W/D connections, http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTH 2/1 750 sqftunitw/ large deck & FP all appli- ances incl. W/D. Close to schools & $600/mo 470-1421 NORTH $645,2/2, 821sqft tennis, basketball, VB, 659-5339 10% rebate on 12 mo. lease NORTH 1/1 550sqft $470 Near IH-35. 24hr LNL gets ' mo. Free on a 12mo. lease 659-5339 Call 785-DRIS or 800-267-9828 www.RentDris.com NORTH $645 2/2.5 town- home 1204sqft, W/D conns, IH-35 access, 10% rebate. 659-5339 NORTH CENTRAL $875, 3/2 1286 sqft. Gas & cable paid ' off Jan move for LNL. John 659-5339 NORTH $99 total move-in! Stained concrete floors! Remodeled! 3-2 only $700, 2 bedroom $566, gas cooking, heating and hot water free! Apt Experts 339-441 1 NORTH Credit Solution! 2 Large pets OK! Jr. 1/1 $375, 1/1 $415, 2bed $580. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 692-4525 NORTH $199 Total move-in! W/D in unit. Jr.1/1 $395,2/2 $595. Near Dell, http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTH $1300, Far West, 3/2 1350sqft, W/D conns, 24hr gym, club house, theatre. 659-5339 10% rebate on 12 mo, lease NORTH Short-term RELO! 1 month Free & $50dep. 1 -1 $435, 2/2 $640. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTH $447-1/1 545sqft $1 99 1 st mo. After deposit and app. Near Metric-Mopac. 659-5339 NORTHEAST Central. Eviction OK! EZ access 290/ 35, Great rates, 1/3. Call Heather 472-91 00 www.texasapt.com NORTHWEST 2BD, 2BTH only $599. W/D & Microwave incl.. Only $99 dep 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com NORTHWEST 1 BDRM $489, 2 BDRM $589, 3 BDRM $900. Pool, WD conn. Call Chris Bee, agent 512-293- 7737 or visit www.apartmentsfirst.com NORTH Huge 1-1 loft, 1063 s.f. Only $619, W/D Conns. $100 Off 1st mth 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com NORTH Close to Dell! Very spacious 1 bedroom $535, large 2-2 $710 both with washer/dryer inc. Apartment Experts 512-339-4411 NORTH 183/290 Split level T/Home, 1 & 2 Bd lofts North & South 3 months FREE, $79 total M/I. Call Matt (512) 363-3680 NORTHWEST Huge 2-2, 1059 sq ft. $755. WD conns. Free Cable, lncl.2HBO channels! ATX call 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com NORTHWEST $575 Lake Austin Condo! W/D and cov- ered parking incl. Fab views! http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTHWEST Arboretum, daily rent specials, 1 bd $529, 2bd $666. avignonrealty.com, 236-0002. $200 OFF FIRST MONTH’S RENT! Enjoy apartment living in a residential neighborhood. Close to eateries, grocery stores, sports/health centers. Walk/bike/bus to campus. Some to All Bills Paid EFFs $415-$485 Short-term Leases Available Campus, Hyde Park, Central 9 LOCATIONS. OWNER MANAGED. ( 512 ) 451-0988 NORTHWEST SPORTS & LUXURY. LAP POOL & IN- DOOR COURTS. 2/2 1070sqft $930 John-659-5339 ATX NORTHWEST 3 BDRM. Se- cluded/wooded. Great room- mate floorplan. No Dep. No App. WTR LOO 480-3100. NORTHWEST 3-2, town- house, $849, 1230 sq ft. EASY QUALIFY! Citywide 835-RENT (835-7368) www.citywideapartmentlocat ors.com NORTHWEST Major Employer $50 off/month plus $300 off 1st month! No app. fee. 1/1 $515, 2/2 $640. http://www.apartmentlocating.c om 692-4525 NORTHWEST $75 TOTAL move in, FIRST month FREE, $540- $585 a month, with WASHER & DRYER! Michael(agent) 512-293- 5483 Apartments007.com NORTHWEST $0 DEPOSIT!$100 off 1st mo. NW affordable luxury. http://www.apartmentlocating.c om 231-9888 NORTHWEST Arboretum, $0 deposit, 1 bd $510, 2bd $695, Chris 236-1116, avignonrealty.com. NORTHWEST UT SHUTTLE! $0 DEPOSIT! Cheap Utilities. $460+. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTHWEST 2-2, Luxury, Huge 1124 sq.ft, for $840! W/D included! ATX RELO call Richard 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com NORTHWEST Cozy NW 4- plex! Near Arboretum. Great Room mate floor. 2-2 $595 http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTHWEST Pool/spa, play- ground, picnic areas, 1 bd $599, 2bd $699. avignonrealty.com, 236-0002. NORTHWEST Jollyville Road. Columbia Oaks Condos. 2/2’s starting at $800.00. Spacious bedrooms, high ceilings, fireplace, W/D connections, balcony. 6 month leases available. Call Lakequest Enterprises at 481-8600. SOUTH 5th street loft $1395, city views, wood floors, free parking & pet friendly. Call Melissa 21 0-31 3-2368 or 472-91 00 www.texasapt.com SOUTH NORTHWEST Give your Big Dog a great new home! 1/1 $499, 2bed $600. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 692-4525 NORTHWEST $75 total move-in! 1-1, $535+, W/D UNITS INC! Citywide 835-RENT (835-7368) www.citywideapartmentlocat ors.com NORTHWEST BREED ALERT! Any kind! $509. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTHWEST Steal of a Deal! 1/1 $399, Huge 2/2 $599. Clean and quiet, http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 692-4525 NORTHWEST 1-1, $480, w/d conn. 1st mo rent only $140. $75 deposit. 3% MAJOR EMP DISC. 2-2, $660. City- wide 835-RENT (835-7368) www.citywideapartmentlocat ors.com NORTHWEST Oversized TH’sand Flats from $440.2/2 1380 sq.ft. $725, 3/3 1618 sq.ft. $829. HTTP:// www.apartmentlocating.com 231-9888 NORTHWEST Northwest area 4-plex. Lg. Fenced yard and garage! 2/1.5 $625. http:// www.apartmentlocating.com 692-4525 Sexy 6th Lofts concrete floors. Call 785-DRIS or 800-267-9828 www.RentDris.com A /T-'V /-Apart limit Locators SOUTH 1 -1 , 653 sf $544, 2-2 985 sf $652, UT shuttle, pool, big dogs OK, 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTH CENTRAL $99 Total Move-In - 78704. Most Bills Paid. 600 sqft, $500/month. 587-5090 SOUTH Duplexes, T/H’s, Condos 2/2’s As Low as $595 atxrelo.com 444-0505 SOUTH CENTRAL WASHER DRYER Included! GREENBELT ACCESS!! $525. 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South •4824 Norman Trail in Sendera Place. Large treed backyard. Wood and tile flooring. Bowie HS. One Story. 3BD + office. 2 Bath. $1550 mth. Includes lawn care. •1705 Matthews Ln. Duplex. 3BD, 3.5 baths, 2 car garage. Built in 2000, white stone duplex. Wood laminate floor. Fenced yard. $1100 mth. www.EanesProperties.com 263-7333 or 293-0276 SOUTH Free Apt., House & Duplex Locating! Buying a house? I can do that also. Jason 512-947-5089 ATX Re I o SOUTH CENTRAL Wood- lands II Condos, 1 bedroom loft, hardwood floors, washer/ dryer, spiral staircase, pool view! $629, MRG 443-2526. SOUTH CENTRAL Chamonix 2/2 with cityview, perfect roommate floorplan, corner fireplace, cathedral ceiling, custom paint, garden tub/ separate shower & double vanity in master, water/trash paid, $895. Call MRG (512) 443-2526. SOUTH 2/2 TOWN HOME! Pool, hot tub, w/d conn. 930sqft $695 ATX RELO Richard 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTH CENTRAL 3/2 1240sqft. $763, $100 dep Short drive to St. Ed’s, & DT, 659-5339 SOUTH-Sherwood Apart- ments @710 Oltorf Rd. HUGE 1/1 and 2/1 starting at $495 and $595. Pool, atten- tive management, courtyards, tranquil living creekside! Ann 441-3174 Beck and Compa- ny R.E.S., Inc. SOUTH SoCo. Flats- $445, Lofts- $555, 2/1 s- $625, low dep. pets ok, 694-3899 http:// www.urbanaustinliving.com SOUTH $59 Total Move in South 1 bed $500 2bd $600! Call 785-DRIS or 800-267-9828 www.RentDris.com SOUTH $59 Total Move-in! 1 BDRM... $499, vaulted ceil- ings and private porch. 2BDRM/2BATH... $630, per- fect roommate plan, http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om Call Team Leasing, (512) 416-8333. SOUTH CENTRAL Chambord 2/2 garden homestyle 1 -story condo, perfect roommate floorplan. Cathedral ceiling with marble fireplace and plant ledge, bay window in master, new carpet, water/ trash paid, $850. Call MRG (512) 443-2526. SOUTH Have electric issues? THIS MAY BE YOUR ANSWER. 2 bedroom for $625/ EXTENDED CABLE, GAS, H20 FREE. Call Christine @707-8072 SOUTH Free high speed internet! Close-in community, completely remodeled. STU- DIO... $425, 1BDRM FLAT... $485, http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om Call Team Leasing (512) 416-8333. SOUTH CENTRAL BIG DOG friendly apartments right be- hind Zilker Park and Barton Creek Hike and Bike Trails. HUGE private deck. 1 bed- room $639. 2 bedroom $739, http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om Call Team Leasing (512) 416-8333. SOUTH Why pay rent? When you may be able to own a home instead? You can own a home - 3 bedroom, 2 baths, and 2 car garage worth $150,000 and pay about the same as a 2 bed- room apartment! Get more for your money act now while interest rates are still low! Call Eddie Reynolds today: 512-921-9100 SOUTH TIRED OF RENTING? BUILD EQUITY NOW! 100% FINANCED FOR FIRST TIME BUYERS! BUILDER WILL PAY 1/2 RENT FOR 6 MO! 659-5339 or SOUTH 1 bdrms starting @ $460, 2 bdrms starting @ $599. $200 off 1st month. 587-5090 SOUTH CENTRAL, historic Travis Heights, close to downtown/UT shuttle, 3/2 pool view, vaulted ceilings, fireplace, two walk-in closets! Water & trash paid, $895. Call MRG (512) 443-2526. SOUTH 1-1 $480,2-2 $615, UT Shuttle, water paid, Free Wireless Internet 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTH water/gas/cable paid, Eff $480, 1 bd $525, 2-1 $645, 2-2 $680, avignonreal- ty.com, 236-0002. SOUTH Most Bills Paid. Gat- ed Community. $200 off 1st mth. Eff, 1, 2 BDs. $465-645. 587-5090 SOUTH Duplex Parmer area 1 month free 2bd $750 pets OK. Call 785-DRIS www.RentDris.com SOUTH FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET! Close to Downtown. SOUTH Huge patios, great views, some bills paid, eff. from $398, 1 BR from $463, 2BR from $595, 567-4276, LESA http:// www.gimmeshelterlocators.c om SOUTH 2-1 ’s, $650, 2-2s $725, $199 covers dep, app, & admin fee. 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTH $99 Total Move-in! STUDIO FLAT... $425 1 BDRM... $485 HISTORIC TRAVIS HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD Most Bills Paid! LARGE 1BDR $525 (700sqft) HUGE 2/2... $660 4BDRM/2BATH... $895 TEAM LEASING (512) 416-8333 http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om SOUTH SOUTH Sassy Studio $350mth! I’ll pay app. fee! Courtney @ 968-5400 SOUTH See narrated video tours and thousands of pictures & floor plans to hundreds of proper- ties at: http:// www.Austi napartmentstore. com • Anywhere in Austin area. • Any price range. • Best specials. • Fast friendly service. • We can email pictures & floor plans to the hottest specials in town. Give us a call at 828-4470. TOWN LAKE HIKE & BIKE TRAIL Completely remodeled with ceramic tile upgrades, modern appliances and free cable! Huge 1 BDRM... $495! Large 2BDRM/2BA... $595! TEAM LEASING (512) 416-8333 http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om SOUTH http://austincool.com 693-7231 Irg 2-2, $699 small & secluded, w/d, 78704, balcony SOUTH 2/2, 91 Osqft, $629, easy Access to IH-35 & DT. W/D conns 2x balconies. 659-5339 SOUTHEAST 1-1 sunroom, 800 sf, $640, WD conns, LNL $100 off 1st mth. 657-2314, yorkapartmentlocators.com LAKESIDE LIVING minutes to downtown and university, great access to hike and bike trails, move-in special. See narrated video tours and thousands of pic- tures/floorplans for this prop- erty @ http:// www.Austi napartmentstore. c om or call 828-4470 for current availability. SOUTH http://austincool.com 693-7231 Big dog friendly wooded prop, campbells hole your dog will love you $475. SOUTH Move-in specials, 1 bd $469, 2bd $589, pools, basketball crt, water pd, avignonrealty.com, 236-0002. 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Greg @ 587-5090 ATX SOUTHEAST SE UT BUS, FREE CABLE. 1/1 $445, gated access, pool 659-5339 SOUTHEAST IH35 DOWN TOWN ACCESS. 1/1, 600sqft $449, $399 total. 13mo lease ATX RELO 657-2314 yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTHWEST ZILKER PARK NEIGHBORHOOD 50ft from hike-and-bike trail! HUGE STUDIO... $475 1 BDRM FLAT $659* (*17ft. ceilings!) 2BDRM.... $740 Huge private decks, big dog friendly, mountain bike and swim! TEAM LEASING (512) 416-8333 http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om SOUTHWEST Greenbelt views, w/d incld, balconies, 1-1 $675, 2-2 $865. avignon- realty.com, 236-0002. SOUTHWEST 1 bdrm $495, 2 bdrm $660, 3 bdrm $894, pool, Mopac access Call Chris Bee, agent 512-293- 7737 or visit www.apartmentsfirst.com SOUTHWEST $500 OFF! FREE IPOD & ODER 2/2, 1 1 09sqft FROM $994- 512- 659-5339 John ATX Relo SOUTHWEST On Zilker Greenbelt. Unique 3-story town house w/private garage entry, $980. http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om Call Team Leasing, (512) 416-8333. SOUTH R U looking? Free service! Locate an apt, town- home, condo, duplex or house. Greg 587-5090 ATX SOUTH 1-1 771 sf. $572, Pool, Water Pd, Gated, Easy access to Hwy, 657-2314 yorkapartmenlocators.com 1 bed, 700 sqft. @ $530; $99 app L&L; Free Movers! Great Location, 2x1 reduced to $575 this month only; Duplexes also available. month free and $400 off 1st full month; 1x1 @ $500 and 2x2 @ $600 SOUTH 1 Mth Free. Minutes to DT. Convenient to every- thing. 1/1 $529,2/2 $599 587-5090 Courtney Burleson 968-5400 $99 TOTAL SOCO 1 BD BAD CREDIT/ MOVE-IN $499 OK2BD 3bd $700 $0 dep $650 no rent 2bd $600 $79 move-in til February lbd$480 2 min Cheap move- EZ terms cab ride DT in, central MELISSA RODRIGUEZ 210/313-2368 OR 472-9100 -WWW.TEXASAPT.COM SOUTHWEST 2/2- 1025 sqft. $725/month. W/D conns., $300 off 1st month. ATX 587- 5090 SOUTHWEST #1 Southwest Austin living in Hill Country! 1/1... $575, 2BDRM/2BA... $700. Best Deal in Southwest! http:// www.austindowntownliving.c om Call Team Leasing (512) 416-8333. SOUTHWEST Move-in spe- cials, near park/downtown, pet ok, 1 bd $653, 2bd $799, avignonrealty.com, 236-0002. SOUTHWEST 693-7231 http://austincool.com Townhome attached garage, no one above/below, min. to dwtn. SOUTHWEST 1-1, $640, 2-2, $768, lap pool, sand V’ball, easy access hwy. 657-2314, yorkapartmentlocators.com SOUTHWEST New Luxury Apts. Hill Country Views. 1/1 $775, 2/2’s starting @ $929. 587-5090 SOUTHWEST Near down- town/park/mall, eff $470, 1 bd $540, 2bd $640. Chris 236- 11 16, avignonrealty.com. SOUTHWEST GREENBELT ACCESS. W/D in every Unit! Efficiencies $435 1/1 only $560 2 Bds starting $675 Ice maker, pool, fitness 442-9333/888-583-9893 • or ApartmentHeadquar- ters.com. SOUTHWEST Small commu- nity, convenient to every- thing. 1/1 $529,2/2 $700. 587-5090 SOUTHWEST 3/2 $760. $0 dep. $0 app. Only 4yrs old. Major employee discount. 659-5339 SOUTHWEST http://austincool.com 693-7231 small crtyd prop, hot tub cable $499 SOUTHWEST Luxury 2bdrm $680.00 best deal in southwest! April 825-6036 SOUTHWEST $0 deposit, fit- ness ctr, shops, w/d con, eff $610,1 bd $640, 2bd $835, 3bd $1085.236-0002. WEST 2 bd/1.5 ba. Close to Mopac/360. W/D. Erin @ 431 - 3129. 220 DUPLEX/HOUSES CENTRAL 1211 E. 52nd St. 2/1, hrdwds. $750/mo. Most util pd. Avail now. Lease/ deposit. Call 472-1077 CENTRAL Beautiful comfy 1/ 1 duplex with yard, cathedral ceilings, skylight/jacuzzi bath, W/D incl., hrdwds, $700 + bills. (512) 698-6339 CENTRAL Move in now, 3/1 hardwood floor in office(or third bedroom), fireplace, fenced yard, pets OK, 5 min to UT Downtown, Hospitals and new Mueller Development. First month 1/2 off rent. Great neighborhood! Call Robert at 784-1428 or to have pic’s sent to you. CENTRAL Dwntn 1/1 dplx. Hdwd firs. Great storage/windows 371-3886 mid- Feb. 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Cable paid. 1/1 $450, 2 bdrm. townhome $750 LoneStar Leasing 326-5757 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 119 CONTINUED DUPLEX/HOUSES CENTRAL near DT/Lake, Re- modeled 2BD/1BTH, all ap- pliances, W/D, hardwoods, covered parking. $995. 2001 Griswold SPM 478-5588 CENTRAL Properties for Lease • 3412 Duval 2-1 $1600 Available NOW • 415 W. 32nd. 2-1 $995 Available NOW! METRO REALTY 479-1300 www.utmetro.com CENTRAL $300 off 1 St month! Best deal in wonder- ful neighborhood! Spacious 2/1 in 6-plex (1,000+ sf), 1 covered parking, new stove & refrigerator, laundry onsite, no indoor smoking. Very quiet neighbors! Small pets welcome. $850. 1504 Wind- sor Rd. (at Enfield Rd.) Mat- thews Properties 454-0099, Rollo 731-6799, rol CENTRAL WelcomeHomeLeasing.com Laura Croteau, Realtor 554-2920 cell EFFICIENCY APARTMENTS-CH EAP! ! ! ! WITH POOL!!! • 709 WEST 26th STREET- WEST CAMPUS - efficiency units. Hot water, water, trash, and Basic cable paid. We are managing this small, 2 story complex of 20 units, some with wood floors, built like a horseshoe around a pool, in the heart of UT's west campus. Full kitchen with tons of cabinets, gas stove, fridge. Cute old school tile bathroom, shower only, no tub. Walk to campus. ON site laundry on both 1 st and 2nd floor . POOL. ! Nice bunch of neighbors at this friendly complex with feeling of community ! 4 blocks from Guadalupe, cats ok, sorry no dogs. 2 downstairs units available Feb 1 , 2006. $495 rent, $450 deposit. CENTRAL 3 bdrm,1 bath, large bonus rm.sun rm; marble, wood&carpet firs, CACH, $1475,1 1 16 Mission Ridge, 563-5714 CENTRAL 1200 A Crestwood 2/2 duplex, CACH, fenced shady yard, recent carpet/ paint, close to UT/DWNTWN $850/mo. 497-5592 CENTRAL Properties for Lease • 708 Graham #207, 2-2 $650 • 1510 North Loop 2-2 Condo $950 Avail Now METRO REALTY 479-1300 www.utmetro.tom CENTRAL $300 off 1st month! Large 2/ 2 1/2 duplex + huge upstairs bonus room (can be 2nd living or 3rd bedroom - has full bath), con- crete floors downstairs, new carpet up, fenced yard, patio, CA/CH, all appliances, W/D connections. No indoor smoking. Cats and most dogs welcome! $895 + wa- ter. 861 0-B Bowling Green (near Burnet/183). Matthews Properties 454-0099, Rollo 731-6799, CENTRAL $300 off 1st month! Spacious & immaculate retro- 60’s Hyde Park 3-2 duplex in small community, 2 living areas, 1 car garage, large covered patio, CA/CH, quiet neighbors. Gas (heating, cooking, hot water) and water paid! No indoor smoking. Laundry on-site (NO W/D connections). Cats welcome - NO dogs! $1,300. 4307-A Caswell. Matthews Properties 454-0099, Nancy 914- 1233, CENTRAL Why pay rent? When you may be able to own a home instead? You can own a home - 3 bed- room, 2 baths, and 2 car gar- age worth $150,000 and pay about the same as a 2 bed- room apartment! Get more for your money act now while interest rates are still low! Call Eddie Reynolds today: 512-921-9100 CENTRAL 3Bed/2Ba over 1500 sf, close to U.T.this is home if you want the best, Call Tracy 512-775-7765 CENTRAL hyde park duplex, 1/1, laminate wood floors, $695, 512/345-3747 CENTRAL Rent a house or duplex! Davis Co. (512) 282-7393 www.davisleasing.com CENTRAL 2104 Columbia Cove 3-2 with hard floors on culdesac. Minutes from UT & downtown. Garage for cars or studio, fenced backyard, and low rent for what you get. Central AC/heat. $1100 a month. Call Lisa Munoz. Owner/Agent at 293-5551 . CENTRAL 1/1 Avail. March 1. UT and Hancock, private, off street parking, two story w/lofted BR, W/D, DW. Perfect for quiet student $650. 784-0645 CENTRAL UT area 3/1.5/carport, 2 liv, CF, FR CACH, 1419 Fairwood call 784-0787 PROPERTIES OF THE WEEK! CENTRAL • Big and cheap apartment, with free cable! Efficiency $415, 1 bedroom $475, 2 bedroom $515. • Close to Central Market, small community with gas cooking. 1 bedroom $529, 2 BDRM $699 * 78704 District, Studio $490, 2 bedroom $700, W/D in all units! • Heavily wooded hilltop 1 bedroom, huge 16 ft. private porch, oversized garden tub, $485, utilities paid! * Walk to SoCo restaurant, shopping district, and Town Lake. Studio flat $525, 1 bedroom $700. 2 bedroom $799. Huge 3 bedroom $910. * 4th and Colorado, warehouse district flat, $910 SOUTH CENTRAL • Warehouse-style apartments, concrete floor, 1 bedroom $519, 2 bedroom $689, 4 bedroom $999. Artist and musician friendly. Zilker Park on Hike & Bike Trail. Studio $475, 1 bedroom, $659. 2 bedroom, $740 (large deck). 50ft. from entrance to trail. On Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail, 1 bedroom $495, 2 bedroom $595. Ceramic tile and free cable! Studio flat, Barton Springs/Lamar area, rare find ... $480! Historic Travis Heights, 1 bedroom $550, 2 bedroom $650, $99 Total Move In. CALL FOR SHOW! **' TEAM LEASING 41 6-8333 www.austindowntownliving.com Cr l CENTRAL 1706 A Elmurst, 2/ 1 duplex, $725 new counter- tops, new carpet, near dwntwn and UT, 2 car car- port, laundry room, 474-1470 Beck & Co. CENTRAL 78704: 2/1 house Bouldin $950, 3/1 dplx. East. 3/2 house hrdwds. new remodel, new appl/CACH, pets ok. $1395. 627-6374 CENTRAL $995 4 bdr/1 br. 1 ,200 sq ft. New Carpet and Vinyl. Quiet Neighborhood. Randy 627-8281. CENTRAL 5505 Link, Quaint 1950 2/1 house, attached garage, great style, hrwds, laundry room, near N Austin l35/Lamar/290, $1050 474- 1470 Beck & Co. CENTRAL Tarrytown. 2/1, carport, W/D hook-ups, close to UT/Seton. Avail now. $1 450/mo. Raquel 925.4582. CENTRAL San Pedro town- home/condo 2704 San Pedro spacious and private 2-2.5 two story hardwoods covered reserved parking with caring neighbors. Call PMT, broker, 476-2673 CENTRAL 2/1 Duplex w/FR yard. Near Capitol Plaza. Easy access to 1-35 & bus routes. 1501 Braes Ridge. 700/mo 470-1421 CENTRAL 471 2 Depew #1 03 eff. $450; Other summer pre- leases availabl. 658-9493 www.cbimanagement.com CENTRAL Why rent? Mixed use project in North Loop Neighborhood. Four ground level commercial units (900- 1 300sf) & four second story residential units (1 100-1800 sf). Must see! www.satsuma53.com For more info, call 791-1584 Roland, agent. EAST Beautiful East Side House CACH - All Appliances w/Wash and Dry HUGE Garage AND Double Carport 4/2 $1350 Aaron 441-5781 HAYS CO. $599. 3bdrm. WiFi. 2 blks from TSU. 512-396-5726 www. txstatehousi ng.com MANOR home for rent $1400 brand new 4/2 13712 Field Spar Dr.760-992-8000 NORTH 2/1 newly remodeled duplex, hardwoods and Tile. French doors to small yard. $650 mo/$500 dep, 10707 A topperwein. Easy access to mopac and 135 (719) 660-4837. NORTH 3/2 with 2 car gar- age, 9223 Singing Quail, end unit, 1,500sqft., cathedral ceilings, master down, $895. Call MRG (512) 443-2526. NORTH AVERY RANCH Executive style 3-2 w/formal living and dining. Gourmet kitchen. Immaculate condi- tion. Avail, now. $1750.00 Call The Taylor Company 481-8600 ext. 206. NORTH 8516 Shenandoah, 3/ 2, 1 story house, 2 car gar- age, covered patio, new car- pet & paint, $1050, 474-1470 Beck & Co. NORTH Change your life... change your address! In- credible makeover, 2-3 bed- rooms w/tile floors, new car- pet & paint, crown moulding, 1-car garage, fenced yard. All new appliances, sinks, light fixtures. Metric/Braker area, $775-$850. Available now or Prelease. Call today. PPM Pioneer Property Mgmt. (512) 293-2887. NORTHEAST 3/2 MH. W/D, $700, vacant. 7530 Com- pass. PMT broker 476-2673 NORTHWEST 3/2’s one story homes with yard, covered patio, garages & CHARM! Milwood: $1125. BR Creek: $950 Realty World 663-0538 Photos: quigleyteam.com NORTHWEST 2/1. 5/1 duplex, W/D conn, fireplace, small deck, quiet corner lot, fenced yard. RRISD schools. 841 OA Fathom Circle. $795. Available now. 258- 5927. METRIC/BRAKER AREA CHANGE YOUR LIFE. CHANGE YOUR ADDRESS. Incredible makeover. 2-3 bedrooms with tile floors, new carpet & paint, crown moulding, all new appliances, sinks, light fixtures! Includes 1 -car garage and fenced yard! $775-$850 Available Now or Pre- Lease Call Today 293-2887 PIONEER PROPERTY MANAGEMENT RonJon Die Apt Mon FREE APT LOCATING Keeping Austin weirder one day at a time Eff -$415 free cable, bus line 1 br - $445 free cable, busline 2br - $51 5 free cable, bus line 2br - townhome, $595 free cable 3br - $460 first month’s rent Lofts - 1 br: $515, 2br: $650 with small backyard & w/d connections Specializing in difficult situations, immediate move-ins, luxury, downtown, and cheap rent. You name it, I will find it with no problem mon!! Available weekends too ... so call now mon. 512/293-7443 . I AM FAST, FRIENDLY AND BEST OF ALL FREE! NORTHWEST 3-2 home off 2222/Mopac. 2 car garage. Fireplace. All appliances. Avail, now. $1600.00 Call The Taylor Company 481-8600 ext. 206. ROUND ROCK 1307 Round Rock West Cove, 3-2-2 + study. Huge treed lot. 2 weeks free. $1 200/$500 dep. KW Realty Sandra 415-7669 ROUND ROCK 1594 Parkfield cir 3/2. 5/2, 1376 Sq Ft, Near Dell, tile living room, fenced bk yard, $1 000/mo 512-947-9061 ROUND ROCK 2523 Tandi Trail. 4 bdr/2 bath/2 car gar- age, newly painted with fire- place, fenced yard. Large open kitchen. Utility room with W/D hookup. Owner will supply fridge & stove if need- ed. $11 50/mo. 512-441-1593 ROUND ROCK 3/2 dplx, fenced yard, 1 car garage, fireplace, ceiling fans, & much more. $700/mo. $500 dep. Scowden Properties, Realtor. Call 255-6181 SOUTH Adorable 2/1 recent- ly renovated w/ Bouldin Charm, hardwoods, traver- tine, new kitchen. Walk to Soco. Avail, now! $1 295/mo. 403 W. Mary. 689-6862. SOUTH CUL-DE-SAC DUPLEX- 4706B SAGEBRUSH CIRCLE: 3/2, carport, fireplace, covered patio, Ig. backyard, laundry room w/WD, storage shed, pets ok. Convenient location. Avail, early Feb., $950.00. (512)282-1174 SOUTH Available March 1. 1508 Rockdale Circle. 2 bed, 2 bath Duplex. Vaulted ceil- ings, indoor laundry con-nects., carport, fenced yard, dogs ok. $700. Call new management. 476-661 6 or 497-8282 SOUTH Great central locale near St. Eds, SoCo, & Downtown. Unique 2-plex (no common walls!) Big, bright 2/1, almost 1,000sqft. Enjoy fireplace, gorgeous tile, vaulted ceilings, CACH, ceiling fans, private patio, plus shuttle/Metro at door! $785mo. Water paid, Parker Lane. Owner, (512) 441-0941. SOUTH 905 E. Oltorf, 3bed/ 2.5 bath/2 living, $975, security $600, fresh paint/ new carpet, Givens Proper- ties 444-4454. SOUTH Travis Country on Red Stone-$1295, security $1000, 4 bed/1 livin/2 gar- age, fenced, quiet cul-de- sac, new carpet/paint, Givens Properties 444-4454 SOUTH 9500 Bear Paw unit B, Near Airport, 2/1 duplex with 1 car garage, vaulted ceilings, FP in living room, small back yard, $750 474- 1470 Beck & Co. SOUTH Duplex. Incredible 2- 1, fenced, carport, W/D conn, CACH, 2003 Holland B. $950/mo, avail, now. PMT broker 476-2673 SOUTH duplex, 3404 Dal- ton, 2/2, stained concrete floors, WD, large yard, FR approx. 900 sf, $795/mo, $400 dep, $35 app fee. Call Terry, Realtor, 512-789-8064 SOUTHEAST NEW HOME-- $1 ,250 4 bed, 2.5 bath on Davis Oaks Trail in new Dittmar Crossing subdivision between W.Dittmar and W. Slaughter Ln. shopping, schools, airport and easy downtown, cat OK, call Ken 805-451-3126 SOUTHEAST WOW home w/many upgrades incl. frid,4 Blks to UT bus, 589-7163 SOUTHWEST Secluded Country Home. 3 bd/2br. All animals ok. Master Loft.Tile Floors. Porch with Swing. Ph 293-0094. SOUTHWEST 4-Plex, walk- ing to everything. 2/1 W/D conns, $525 +2nd mth FREE. 587-5090 WELLS BRANCH For Lease in Wells Branch - $1 ,495 per month for this beautiful 3/2.5/ 2 two story home! 2,687 sq. ft. Backs to hike and bike trail. Close to schools and shopping! Contact Kathy or Winona at 448-5866. t ' >h “*■ I Vm mni ■ rlnal 78704 lofts/ townhomes. $565+ Travis Heights $99 TMI Wooded Retreat 1 br $500, 2br $680, 3br $1200 5th Street/Whole Foods! Industrial lofts $900 Garage Townlake Living Hike & Bike $565 360 Views! Hard- woods, yards, big dogs, any breed! Pitts & Rotts OK Canoes, Ducks, Views Faux granite countertps. eff, Is, 2, 3s $579+ 800 * 791 *0019 512 * 241*1111 Helping you find the perfect home . NW - Columbia Oaks 2/2s starting at $800 NW - Luxury condo at 183/360. 2/1 with granite countertops, stainless appliances. 1 car garage. Gated entry. Avail, now. $1000 NW - 3/2 home off 2222/Mopac/ 2 car garage. Fireplace. All appliances. Avail. Now $1600. AVERY RANCH - Executive style 3/2 w/ formal living and dining. Gourmet kitchen. Immaculate condition. Aval. now. $1750 CLARKSVILLE - 1/1.5 with fireplace. Available now. $975 Call about these and other great locations (512) 481-8600 120 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com ROUND ROCK Quite Office/Room available in Round Round for $395 a month. CENTRAL You have a room for rent? Advertise for free on www.easyroommate.com 225 >30 COMMERCIAL SOUTH Office available now. Private. Approx. 110 sq.ft. Manchaca/S. Lamar 912-1300 235 ROOMMATES MARTINDALE Guest house on the S.M. river- 2b/2/b- Feb. special- 95.00 nightly, 500.00 weekly, 1.175.00 month, www.marilisa. com/vacationrental.htm 921 1399 CENTRAL Very affordable Therapist’s Room (Any part- time therapy) ABR Central w/ parking, 470-6525. SOUTH Rental Affordable room for acupuncturist or other health practitioners. Must see! 740- 0639. WEST REPO! 100 acres approximately 200 miles west of San Antonino near Langtry. Good brush coverage for deer, turkey, quail, and dove. Small down and Low monthly payments. Long-term financing available by owner. 210-654-2476. CENTRAL 7801 North Lamar, D-77. 2 rooms avl in office w/ civil engineer. Use of copier, fax, phone system, furniture. $550/mo ABR 497-5592 EAST Office space ~370 sq ft. EXCELLENT space for artists.Call Mariah at 264.7005. REAL ESTATE Bought a couch, been given a dog... you're now ready to move from your little apartment into your own home. Need help? Find everything from Homes to mortgage brokers to first time home buying seminars in The Austin Chronicle’s Real Estate section. We’ll even help you lease your old place! BRIARCLIFF Waterfront Lake Travis. 2/1, furnished. Mature only. No pets, NS.$600ABP ($400 Dep). CEDAR PARK 3 rooms for rent. 2000 sf. house with hot- tub. Close to ACC with community park and pool in Buttercup Creek Subdv. $1 00/wk. Call David @656- 9317. Where else can you be less than 7 miles from Downtown Austin, in a gated community, surrounded by luxurious greenery, with one of the lowest tax rates, with homes as low as Si 32,050? Visit Colonial Place today! Call 928-2227 for directions. Capital RjljIkj Humes 1 34 W. Oak Dr., one acre, 1 ,799 square feet home in a safe, quiet, convenient neighborhood just 22 minutes from Austin. Well main- tained 4/2 full bath home with large rooms, fenced yard, covered porches, two car garage, two exterior buildings (one with electric). MLS# 5465491 $1 64,900 Carolyn Woolfork, Realtorwww.austinreal.com (512) 680-6681 SPACES 2525 * 5 5 9804 Parkfield Drive - OPEN HOUSE - Sunday, noon-3pm 2450 sq. ft., 5 bed, 3 baths, $154,900. Awesome floor plan! 1 SK'ij' | > TOM HESS 567-8522 rj ™' LIVE LESS ORDINARY. Hip 78704 LOFTS STARTINCj AT $1 84,900 WWW.SpACES252 5.COM URBANSpACE REALTORS® WILL STEAKLEY, Vp RESIDENTIAL WILLdlURBAN5pACEREALTOR5.COM • 799-3777 805 Bassington Ct. | Lovely limestone 4/2.5/3, 2702 s.f. home on oversized | cul-de-sac lot in Pflugerville. For- mal living/dining, tiled island kitchen open to family/game room upstairs. $197,500 Call Fred Meyers 517.2300 or visit www.fredmeyersaustinhomes.com | study. Golf course view in Teravista. $235,000 Call Fred Meyers 517.2300 or visit www.fredmeyersaustinhomes.com Call Cindy Spears at Lanier Realty: 825-4663. Go to: www.cindyspears.com HOMES FOR SALE iXK ads online at austinchronicle.com/class This mini farm sits on 39+ acres and is just minutes from Austin & the airport. Landscaped yard surrounds the house and garden area with 2 ponds and crops of pecan trees. Nice views & breezes with patios, greenhouse and workshop. 3BD/2BTHS, vaulted F L ceijjngs .and it’s the In-law platy. $31 7,000 . ^ CENTRAL 2 Ig bedrooms w/ baths available, 1 min from campus, $400,500. Call Frank @ 512-698-2773. CENTRAL room for rent in 2/1 great location 475 plus deposit no pets 293 4251 CENTRAL Wood walled, wood floored 3BR 1BA, on 21st Street. Large rooms, convenient to UT/ downtown Call Alex at 923-5322 CENTRAL Need a ROOM- MATE Fast? Austin’s #1 ROOMMATE SERVICE has 1000’s of listings. ROOMMATEEXPRESS.COM. 800-487-8050 GEORGETOWN be clean, sober(no drugs,alcohol,drama)employed 4brm $300 ABP call 627-9772 or f renchpl NORTH You are looking For a room? 1000s of rooms & roommates. From $200/Mo www.easyroommate.com CENTRAL $525 ABP Share cute 3/2 house near Highland Mall w/ considerate 30 yr fern -looking for similar.Great backyard, Internet. 569-0695 EAST New house in nice, new neighborhood/9.6 miles east of U.T. campus. Nicely furnished and new with washer, dryer, cable, internet-i- soundproof jam room! Feel free to call and ask questions, best after nine p.m. Aaron 947-0117, $350 + 1/3 bills. METRO ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: www.Roommates.com. (AAN CAN) NORTH Room & Private bath for rent in 3bdrm condo, swimming pool! No pets, Female roomies or gay men only. All bills paid! NORTH Room & Private bath for rent, pool, all bills paid! great deal! NORTH -E Parmer near Dell;need gay-friendly M/F to share 2/2 lux. apt; covered parking + garage; W/D conn. Pref.pm shft wkr.$425 + 1/2 utils.Renew 03/06. 415-7599. CENTRAL You are looking For a room? 1000s of rooms & roommates. From $200/Mo www.easyroommate.com EAST Share 2 br/1 ba. Apt AC, NS, $300 (incl H2o) Dep $175. George 474-0678 NORTH Parmer & Mopac Area. Sublease 1 bd/1 br. W/ Washer/Dryer. $375 a mth + half bills. Call 350-8625. NORTH Room & Private bath for rent. Pool! No pets, Female roomies or gay men only. Gated community. All bills paid! Great deal! HOME GREAT LOCATION, NEW FINISHES INSIDE AND OUT, TWO POOLS, GATED PARKING, SELLING FAST! SALES OFFICE AND FURNISHED MODEL OPEN DAILY L-v H m ■ m * SQ0U08Q0 1 1 *: i fwjur in Hulk loop rkrgrpjiE c+: iinnMH ml; |H>] l^OGlij) Fi-ij- h i a r c - : 1 1 in -v\U N lI ijifr (llClVlECl't-;l| Farit h rail: 31U9I/Bfl SATS'JMAl wAv.inHurraji tenn 1805 Haskell St., Area 5, ML#6780231- Amazing opportunity in central east Austin. 3BR/1B, approx. 1,300 sq. ft., fenced yard, metal roof, and 50x140 lot size. This home is minutes away from Downtown, Town Lake, the Hike and Bike Trail and 1-35. $169,000. Call Cristina Valdes for more , Tx . - > TJh tIc . information. 512-789-0309. ittllill H UUAM3 www.cristinavaldes.com Walk to Auditorium Shores and enjoy Downtown | views from your balcony at the View Point Condos located at 700 S. First. Completely remodeled 2/2 for $215,000. GEORGE W. HUGHES I RE/AAAX DOWNTOWN AUSTIN • 512-940-4894 1011 HIDDEN VIEW Almost new 1- story Streetman 3/2.5 w/ 2307 s.f., tile & Berber, 12’ ceilings, huge| island kitchen, SAGE CREEK LOOP - Coolest new community on the edge of Travis Heights, last 3 of 18 homes avail... Prices 399,900 to 445,000; For more information contact: Nancy Taute w / Carol Dochen Realtors, Inc. 51 2-497-5940, , WWW, BILLTAUTEHOMES.COM Open weekends 2-5; Directions: S on Con- gress, E on LiveOak, N on Sage Creek Loop JV: I Taute For Sale. Unique one bedroom loft, one block from UT shuttle. Walk to shopping. Only $117,000! Lake Travis Artists Estate 61 02 Hudson Bend Rd Austin, TX 78734 DISTriCT 5 1 | afi aLTernaTive for Design Driven Buyers hydb parK Living STarr aT 379,900 WWW.0I5TriCT5 1 .COITI 3,312 total square feet. Owner currently uses this unique home as a residence with a huge separate artists stu- dio. Would also make a great office or MIL plan. Across the street from the lake! Walk to marinas! Wood floors, granite counters, & stained concrete. $259,900. Visit LiveOnLakeTravis.com or call Daniel Pope at 779-POPE. WILL STEAKLEY, Vp RESIDENTIAL WILLd) URBAN SpACE REALTORS.COM 799-3777 austinchronicle.com FEBRUARY 3, 2006 | THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 121 NORTHWEST Austin by Lake Travis, gay friendly resort like home, furnished room, cable tv, road runner, private phone line, and lots more. No bills, No lease. $125/wk or$500/mo. Call Ron 266-1057 ROUND ROCK College Student, quite neighbors, w/vehicle. Cats/dog. I support education. Respect for others in a clean house. SOUTH Farm house by Lake Austin. room with bay windows hardwood floors, prewired for cable/computer. Lotsa storage. $400 689-8029 SOUTH 2 1-1/2 apt, Woodward/Parker Ln. Split elec/water/intrnt. Lease up on 6/30. Shtl/CapMetro. M/F Patrick 656-5472, 11a-3p. SOUTH You are looking For a room? 1000s of rooms & roommates. From $200/Mo www.easyroommate.com SOUTHEAST Master Bdrm, with prvt bath, walkin closet. SE. 10 min from Downtown. $325+ half utilities. 247-6046. SOUTHWEST Near ACC. 2800 sq. ft. house. 50’s decor. Huge room, kitchen, and pool. $400/mo. Call 301-8881. FREE ADS Got a car you need to sell? Looking for a roommate? Want to unload that old refrigerator? Got a great idea for a band, but missing some musicians? All you need to do is go online to www.austinchronicle.com/ classifieds and post your ad for FREE. Make it stand out with pictures! Highlight it by making it a featured ad! You can even run it in print! Ads run online for 30 days, and are posted immediately. After all, immediate gratification takes too long! 240 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BASTROP Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http://www.MrDreamHome.com CEDAR CREEK 1 34 W. Oak Dr., one acre, 1,799 square feet home in a safe, quiet, convenient neighborhood just 22 minutes from Austin. Well maintained 4/2 full bath home with large rooms, fenced yard, covered porches, two car garage, two exterior buildings (one with electric). MLS# 5465491 $164,900 Carolyn Woolfork, Realtor http://www.austinreal.com (512) 680-6681. CEDAR PARK Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http://www.MrDreamHome.com CENTRAL BEST BUY Hotlist Reveals 10 Best Buys in your specific price range. Free detailed information at http:// www.CityOfAustinHomes.co m Coldwell Banker United, Realtors. 512-507-9113 CENTRAL Investor/Handy- man special in popular Area 4, 1 Block from U.T. Shuttle, 2 Blocks from new 'Triangle' and Area 51 ’ HUGE Lot, Orig- inal hardwoods. Value is in the lot. $162,740. 303 Frank- lin Blvd. (ML# 2053831) Agent-David Lotspeich RE/ MAX Capital City. 636-8801 www.austinhouseishome.com CENTRAL Close to UT. Full remodeled 4/2 w/bamboo wood floors, travertine, french doors, silestone, Ig lot! MLS #7003094 Call agent, 423-4343. CENTRAL Sage Creek Loop - Coolest new community on the edge of Travis Heights, last 3 of 18 homes available. Prices 399,900 to 445,000; Inviting front porches, Open family/dining/ kitchen, oak floors&custom cabinets, granite galore, main floor mstr suites, great entertaining spaces. For more information contact: Nancy Taute w/ Carol Dochen Realtors,! nc. 512-497-5940, , http://www.billtautehomes.co m, Open weekends 2-5; Dir: S. on Congress, E on LiveOak, N on Sage Creek Loop CENTRAL WHY RENT WHEN YOU CAN BUY A CONDO? Spaces 2525. Live Less Ordinary. Hip 78704 Lofts starting at $184,900 www.spaces2525.com Urbanspace Realtors Will Steakley, VP Residential (512) 799 3777 CENTRAL 2500 Steck Ave. -The Palm Condominiums $99,900. Great location, new finishes inside and out, two pools, gated parking, Selling FAST! Sales Office and Furnished Model Open Daily. Call 380-9889 www.ThePalmAustin.com CENTRAL ALLANDALE CHARMER Allandale Beauty! Stunning remodel! 4/2/2 with 2 living or 2 dining! 2,362 sq. ft. Gorgeous hard tile and carpet, stainless and granite, new HVAC, roof, appliances, windows, lights, etc.! $369,500. Contact Kathy and Winona Re/Max Heart of TX (512) 448-5866 CENTRAL Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http://www.MrDreamHome.com CENTRAL Mixed use project in North Loop Neighborhood. Four ground level commer- cial units (900-1 300sf) &four second story residential units (1100-1800 sf). Must see! www.satsuma53.com For more info, call 791-1584 Roland, agent. EAST 3/3 with vintage charm/modern amenities. Minutes to UT 3408 Robinson 587-1968. EAST 1805 Haskell St. Area 5, ML#6780231- Amazing opportunity in central east Austin. 3BR/1B, approx. 1,300 sqft. fenced yard, metal roof, & 50x140 lot size. Minutes away from Dwtn, Town Lake, Hike & Bike Trail & 1-35. $169,000. Call Cristina 512-789-0309. Keller Williams Realty www.cristinavaldes.com JONES TOWN $125,000 3 or 4/1.5 br/2cp. 1,800 sq.ft. 2 blocks to lake. 2 lots. Randy 627-8281. LAKE AUSTIN Lake Austin fixer upper. 2 bed 1 bath home near Lake Austin. Less than 5 minutes to private wa- terfront park with boat ramp, day docks, and pool. Desir- able Eanes ISD. Only $122,000. Visit LiveOnLa- keAustin.com or call Daniel Pope at 779-POPE. 1900 Casa Grande. LAKE TRAVIS Artists Estate 3,312 total square feet. Own- er currently uses this unique home as a residence with a huge separate artists studio. Would also make a great of- fice or MIL plan. Wood floors, granite counter-tops, stained concrete. Across the street from the lake! Walk to marinas! $259,900. Visit www.LiveOnLakeTravis.com or call Daniel Pope at 779- POPE. 6102 Hudson Bend Rd, Austin, TX 78734 WEBSITE Looking for something more? Check out austinchronicle.com/classifieds for even more great ads online. LEANDER Zoned C-2 for res- idence or business, 2 down- town lots w/ 3 street access, orig. Victorian house bit 1904, remodeled retaining turn of century charm. 1 06 W. South St. $385,000. Agent-David Lotspeich RE/ MAX Capital City Real Estate Consultant, 636-8801 www.austinhouseishome.com LEE CTY 50 wooded acres 150K45min NEof Austin Pin/PostOaks Cedar trees plus creek 813-831-7496 LLANO 4 Acres. 4 Bd, 2 Ba, Brick W/ Huge Sunroom. New Kitchen, New Heat/Air. Pvt Well, Views. Comm Bldg. $239,900. Ph 434-531-8294 METRO Why pay rent? When you may be able to own a home instead? You can own a home - 3 bedroom, 2 baths, and 2 car garage worth $150,000 and pay about the same as a 2 bed- room apartment! Get more for your money act now while interest rates are still low! Call Eddie Reynolds today: 512-921-9100 METRO Mixed use project in North Loop Neighborhood. Four ground level commer- cial units (900-1 300sf) &four second story residential units (1100-1800 sf). Must see! www.satsuma53.com For more info, call 791-1584 Roland, agent. METRO 3BR/2 BA FORECLOSURE! Only $18,000 Must Sell Immed! For Listings 1-800-924-4512 ext.C-1372 (AAN CAN) METRO FORECLOSED HOMES. Low Payments! *lmmed.Move Ins. All Areas! 779-7009 bkr. atxrelo.com METRO Need a Realtor? Call Carolyn. Big or small... I sell them all! http://www.austinreal. com (512) 680-6681. METRO Guaranteed 2 hr. response. 9am-7pm M-S on Austin MLS area property. 828-6383 Sun Properties We respond to your calls! METRO BANK FORECLOSURES! Homes from $10,000! 1-3 bedroom available! HUD, Repos, REO, etc. These homes must sell! For Listings Call 1-800-425- 1620 ext. HI 05. (AAN CAN) METRO GOV’T HOMES! $0 DOWN! BANK REPO’S & FORECLOSURES! NO CRED- IT OK! $0/LOW DOWN! Call for listings 1-800-498-8532 (AAN CAN) METRO I Buy Fixer-Uppers! The Uglier, The Better. Quick Offers & Closings. NORTH Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http:// www.MrDreamHome.com NORTH I help people BUY & SELL Austin! Call Fred Mey- ers 517.2300 or visit fredmeyersaustinhomes.com NORTH *FREE - local homes DB - updated daily at www.quigleyteam.com Realty World - Real Estate by the Golden Rule. NORTH Be A Homeowner! Cute, cozy and unique one bedroom loft. Just off of Far West Blvd. and Hart Lane in Northwest Hills. This desir- able condo is in a quiet, friendly community. New paint and carpet are on the way. 100% financing is avail- able through The David McMillan Team at State Bank Mortgage (498-3600). Get a Loan and Get a Cruise! This condo is listed at $1 1 7,000. 6833 Old Quarry Lane. 1- 800-874-1917 Ext. 5889. Why pay rent? When you may be able to own a home instead? You can own a home like this 3 bedroom, 2 baths, and 2 car garage worth $150,000 and pay about the same as a 2 bedroom apartment! Call Eddie Reynolds today: 921-9100 If you are tired of renting and would rather buy a home, I’d like to help! Simply call me today to get pre-approved for a home loan. I can help with bad credit, good credit, 1st time home buyer, trading up in homes, and investments. Make your first call the right one. Eddie Reynolds Mortgage Acceptance m c . #55791 3305 Northland Ste. 1 01 SW' Q 0 1 Q1 flfl Austin, Texas 78731 v I I "51 I UU reynoldsmortgagesolutions.com Central Austin Specialists ... BUYING OR SELLING? Need information? We’d be glad to help ... call today! Also, coming soon, remodels in Central Austin Allandale subdivision. HEART OF 1 TEXAS www.kathyandwinonarealestate.com 448-5866 www.MrDreamHome.com Search 10 , 000 + homes online $0 DOWN w/Grants & dwn paymnt assistance FORECLOSURES Great Deals: Govt. & Bank Owned NEW HOMES Up to $30,000 in free upgrades & price reductions. RESALE HOMES Mike Minns Conditions apply/TX MBL 29910/8001 Brodile Ln./Titan Mortgage/Atlas Bealty Joe Bryson, Realtor 451-0711 3701 Guadalupe #105 REAL ESTATE ALLIANCE Selected Austin Chronicle’s Best of Austin ‘97 “Best Former Record Store Owner turned Realtor” NORTH 1011 Hidden View - Al most new 1 -stry Streetman 3/2.5 w/ 2307 s.f., tile & ber- ber, 12’ clngs, huge islnd ktchn, study. Gif crse view in Teravista. $235,000. Call Fred Meyers 517.2300 or visit fredmeyersaustinhomes.com NORTH 805 Bassington Ct. - Lovely limestone 4/2.5/3, 2702 s.f. home on oversized cul-de-sac lot in Pflugerville. Formal living/dining, tiled is- land kitchen open to family/ game room upstairs. $197,500. Call Fred Meyers 517.2300 or visit fredmeyersaustinhomes.com SOUTH Very spacious 1060SF 2/2 just 4 miles from downtown. Totally redone kitchen & master bath. Really in nice shape. Patio faces peaceful, quiet woods. Large living. Very retro modern. Gated and on UT shuttle. $1 04,700 Call Condo Joe 203-4100. SOUTH Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http:// www.MrDreamHome.com NORTH CENTRAL Steck Ave Condo. Tastefully remodeled. Starting at $108900. Sharon 512-786-7328, ATX Agt NORTHEAST 12319 Uttimer Ln. 4-2. 5-2, 3200 sq. ft. Awe- some upgrades. Close to ma- jor employers, UT. $199,000. Keller Williams Realty San- dra-415-7669 NORTHWEST Where else can you be less than 7 miles from Downtown Austin, in a gated community, surrounded by luxurious greenery, with one of the lowest tax rates, with homes as low as $132,050? Visit Colonial Place today! Exit Springdale Road off Hwy 290 or call 928-2227. Eco'im JkWlJ L PFLUGERVILLE Fabulous home for first time buyer! 3/2/ 2 mother-in-law floor plan on semi cul-de-sac lot. Huge kitchen, large yard, 3 sides brick! $134,900! Call Kathy and Winona, Re/Max Heart of TX (512) 448-5866. ROCKDALE 50 acre beauti- ful fenced ranch with ponds, wells, barns, electricity. Ex- quisite pasture and woods. Agriculture exempt... annual tax only $180! Serious in- quiries only, $225,000. Call (512) 374-0734. SOUTH Investor deal! 2-1 condo just 4 miles from downtown. Leased thru July at $725. Only $62,700!!! This deal cash flows just sitting there! Perfect for UT student moving in for Fall occupancy too. Call Condo Joe 203- 4100 SOUTH Huge 954SF2stry 1- 1 just 4 miles from down- town. Office area off master. $1 ,000’s in upgrades. Cast iron freestanding FR ceiling mount TV w/surround sound, all new appliances, stained concrete floors, just cool. $81,700 Call Condo Joe 203- 4100 SOUTH This mini farm sits on 39 acres and is just minutes from Austin & the airport. Landscaped yard surrounds the house and garden area with 2 ponds and crops of pecan trees. Nice views & breezes with patios, green- house and workshop. 3BD/ 2BTHS, vaulted ceilings and it’s the In-law plan. $317,000 Call Cindy Spears at Lanier Realty: 825-4663. Go to: www.ci ndyspears.com SOUTH CENTRAL Spaces 2525. Live Less Ordinary. Hip 78704 Lofts starting at $184,900 www.spaces2525.com Urbanspace Realtors Will Steakley, VP Residential (512) 799 3777 ROUND ROCK 3/2/2 for $94,750. Fantastic Starter Home! Don’t Miss this One! Call ATX Realty 444-0505 SOUTH $0dn/$0cl New Homes Up to $13K Rebate All Areas 512-656-8864 Agent. SOUTH www.sharonmae.com or 512-656-0450 (agent)Free forecloure list. SOUTH FSBO, 4-3-2, 2-story, Game room, hardwoods down, $218,000 507-4380. SOUTH CENTRAL Cute up- dated 2/1.5 Condo. Many up- grades, hard tile, new carpet, appliances, $96,900. Call Agent 844-3677. SOUTH I help people BUY & SELL Austin! Call Fred Mey- ers 517.2300 or visit www.fredmeyersaustinhome s.com SOUTH 3/2 open floor plan, split bedroom arrangement, huge backyard deck, storage room; 1,185 sq.ft. $105,900. Call Betty Saenz REALTOR 512-785-5050 BettySellsAustin@TopProduc er. The Hughes Group SOUTHWEST Clean*1998*sp acious*walk to pool*Bowie sc hool dist*$1 90k*4225250agt TRAVIS COUNTY Lease/ Purchase! 1st Time Buyer’s Assistance! Down Payment Assistance! 0 DOWN - 0 CLOSING! Let’s Talk! Get Informed! TOM HESS 567- 8522 WEST Search 8K+ homes on-line! New homes, up to $30K in free upgrades. Forecolosures=Great deals. Resale homes, use grants for $0 down! 785-9157, agt. http:// www.MrDreamHome.com David Lotspeich REALTOR® (512) 636-8801 www.austinhouseishome.com Capital City REMAX 13018 Research Blvd. For current sales data in your neighborhood, call me today! 122 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com AIR TANK circa 1940 air compressor tank and base. Excellent for nostalgic display. $100 obo this week. SEWING MACHINE White Rotary, w/ access. & hide-away cabinet. Needs work. Only $25. Call 977-0007 to discuss BOUTIQUE APPAREL Retail Value $140,000. Asking $27,000 OBO. WWW.ANGELASLITTLELUXU- RIES.COM NAVY UNIFORMS 1970’s 15 articles $50 Shirts, Seafarer Dungaree Pants, Jumper tops, Jackets, Waist 29”-30”, Jacket/Shirt 36 & 38. 837-4726 WEDDING DRESS Beautiful white & beaded dress, Absoloutly beautiful from David's Bridal. Paid $750.00 will take $300.00.512-577-7494 STAR WARS Misc items. Must sell in bulk. Call for details. 512- 905-6896 VINTAGE ETCHING Original Etching "Winter in Lincoln Park” by James Swann. Signed by the artist. $100.00 OBO(51 2)448-4789 KITCHENAIDE mixerWHITE KSM5PSW5qtbowl, splash- guard, 3 attachmnt super clean $1 50 obo del iver for extra $20 CALL 217-0976 MICROWAVE Kenmore Elite microwave oven - 2.0 cu ft - $85. Dimensions are: 23 7/16 x 14 1/2 x 18 1/8. If you have any questions, call 512-251-3955. VACUUM CLEANER Kirby Heritage: Vacuum cleaner, Rug shampooer, Floor Polisher & Inflator. All attachments. $40 837-4726. WINE CHILLER New Jenn-Air 50 bottle wine chiller - under the counter or stand alone. Retails for $1 ,649; asking for $1 ,000. 512.220.0273. BABY NECESSITIES excellent cond. $indiv or all $260: Carseat- Carrier, Bassinet, Swing, Exersaucer, Gym, Monitor, Walker, MORE! MOONWALK JUMPER “Kingdom Castle” 10x12 moonwalk. Used 5 to 6 times. Never rent one again. $400 512- 280-8245 COMPUTER MONITOR ViewSonic PF790 Professional Series 19” CRT Monitor, 1600x1200 Resolution, $100, John 912-7558 IBM THINKPAD Old IBM Thinkpad w/ floppy drive, speakers and carry case, plays cd’s$50 deliver for extra $10 217-0976 PRINTER HP Officejet D125xi All-In-One Printer, Scanner, Copier. $125.00 rhenden@ netscape.net 512 912-8893 SVGA MONITORS 15 inch, some with speakers attached. Very good condition. $10-15 each, cash only. Call 977-0007 to buy. CAMERA GEAR Minolta CLE, Hasselblad CM body, Quantum Turbo Battery, 4X5 Backs, Large Camera Support w/Locking Wheels. Call 474.4157. CANON COPIER Canon PC425. Never used. Still in box. $300. 512.947.9924 GPS UNIT Cobra GPS 100 Global Positioning System Receiver. Excellent condition. All literature included. 947.9924 $80.00 SONY WEGA For Sale: Sony Wega Trinitron 36” Flat Screen Television. $400 call Emily @ (512) 773-1580 OAK CRIB Very large Oak Crib in near mint condition. Doubles as a toddler bed. 5 drawers, asking $200 (less than 1/2 new price) 689-3693 PLAYLAND WANTED I’m looking to buy a “gently used” infant to toddler playland. Email () or call 512/947-6102. APPAREL GOTH • PUNK • T-SHIRTS Clothing, stickers, patches, pins, jewelry, onesies. • 1905 S. 1st. • • www.secret-oktober.com • 462-9217 BEDROOM SET Lovely Gris white 8 piece bedrm set orig.$1800;$500 obo can sell separately.3 piece bedroom set $200 obo, couch $100/obo. Tables, bookshelves, child’s desk call 567-9545. BEDROOM SET KN/QN 9 PC Solid Cherrywood Sleigh Bed, Dresser, Mirror Chest, Armoire, 2 Nightstands, List $3000, Sac $1500,491-0273 BEDROOM SET $850 New 7PC Set. Solid Wood Sleigh Bed - Dresser, mirror/chest/nightstand 491-0840 BEDROOM SET Queen Cherry SLEIGH BED & Pillowtop Mattress - Both New, Still Boxed -Warranty 833-0414 DINING ROOM SET Brand New Dining Room Set, Table, 6 chairs, china Cabinet. Let- ting Go for $1000, 491-5239 GLASS TABLE $75, lawnmower, weedeater $100, table saw $50 tools etc. Tony 350 5497 LEATHER CHAIR Leather and kilm chair. Leather has a worn/weathered look. Very comfortable. $700. 512.220.0273. LEATHER RECLINER 2 leather recliner chairs, very good condition-$500 each, neg. See pics: http://home.austin.rr.com/gdoun son/ LIMESTONE TABLES with glass tops, asking $100 for each item. Cell 512-775-5771. See pics: http://home.austin.rr.com/gdoun son/ LIVING ROOM SET Brand New Italian Leather. Sofa $500, Love $400, Chair $300. Taupe, Brown or Black or Burgundy. 491-0273 MATTRESS SET KING PIL- LOWTOR New in Plastic. Warranty. Can Deliver. *Factory Warranty* $275. 833-8311 MATTRESS SET FULL PIL- LOWTOR *New Warranted by Manufacture. List $250, Sac- rifice $125. 833-8311 MATTRESS SET Queen pil- lowtop. New in Plastic. War- ranty. Can Deliver. List $300, Sac. $150. 833-8311. MICROWAVE, IRON Sanyo microwave-$10 Or both microwave and Steam and Dry Iron $15. Both working just fine. 512-533-9119 POOL TABLE BRAND NEW 1” slate-solid wood-leather pockets Cues, Balls, Table Cover, Brushes, Lifetime Warranty-Install Included. List $2800, Now $1400. 491-0273 ANTIQUE LIQUIDATION GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Handmade Turkish, Persian, Afghani, tribal and decorative rugs. Incredible deals. Iron medieval light fixtures. Great for restaurants, bars, or your dungeon. Architectural pieces, doors, gates columns, windows, chairs, rustic furniture and accessories. Iron beds, tables, marble, travertine, pavers, tile, mosaics. (512) 419-0009 ANCIENT GALLERY 6401 Burnet Time’s Running Out! BOOK SALE BOOKS SALE 1000s. Jan 26 thurs friday Sat/Sun 9am DUSk12 miels east of Austin on HIGHWAY 71 MOVING SALE Central - moving sale 4207 Shoalwood Ave - furniture and all kinds of household items - many antiques. Sat & Sun (Feb 4th & 5th) 8-2 GENERAL 40 MANLIFT 40 ft genie manlift for sale or rent. 150 pr day or 750 pr week call gary @ 806-6641150 ALL WWW. EBuyaustin .com Central Texas’ NEW Online Auction Service. User-friendly! No listing Fee!! Visit us today: http://www.EBuyaustin.com REGISTER NOW!!!! ALTIMATE MEDICAL EasyStand 5000 w/ mobility & back options. $2,000. http:// www.altimatemedical.com/ products/5000.html 977-0007. BUYER Moving? Get Paid For Items You DontWant. I buy collectables, furnishings and more. 512-484-0816 CD’S/DVD’S We buy CD’s and DVD's. Paying cash for LP’s too! Cheapo Discs 10th & Lamar. 477-4499. ELECTRIC HEATERS Thermostat, two heat settings, fan-forced air. Safety switch. Have three; $1 5 ea, two-i- for $1 0 ea. 977-0007. EYEGLASSES 19DOLLAREYEGLASSES.CO M. High-quality, complete perscription eyeglasses with high-index, hard-coated lens- es, +case, for $19. Rimless, stainless steel, memory tita- nium, children’s frames, bifo- cals, progressives, sunglass tints, etc. http://zenniopti- cal.com. (AAN CAN) KEROSENE HEATER Kero-Sun Omni-85 omni-directional 13,100 Btu heater, w/ extra wick ($20 value). Good condition. $75. 977- 0007. REBATES www.EzRebateMall.com - Shop Online? Use our Rebate Portal. Experience CashBack Shopping. 2% to 40% Re- bates @ 600+ of your favorite merchants. It’s free. It’s re- warding. It’s for you. Sign up Today! It’s fast and free. 1)Go to www.EzRebateMall.com web- site 2) CI ick on Blue/White Join Box. 3) Enter referred by: stewart 4) Hit Join Button! - Go shop & receive posted rebates of 2% to 40% www. Ez Re bate Mall.com GARAGE SALE clothes, shoes, toys, futon, kitchen ware, etc. Sat 2/4 8am-3pm. 405 Love Dr. Buda TX 7861 0. GIANT SALE Giant Yard/Business/Garage Sale!We're clearing out our storage everything must go!Shelving, Computer Equip, Desks, Office Furn, Household items, antiques, tanning bed, new Ethan Allen sofa, safe, rugs, retail counter, 50s furn, retro radios, LCD TV/Monitor much more! Feb 4-5 1805 S 1st St, 8am till 5pm No early birds please! STEEL BUILDINGS 2005 In ventory Clearance All must go immediately! Any reason- able offer accepted. Call today! 1-800-668-5111 ext. 148 Serious Inquiries Only. STORAGE BUILDING 10 X 20 ft. Metal sides & roof, wood frame & floor. Commercially made. Old but very sturdy. $995. 977-0007. THOMPSON YUCCAS Tree yuccas, extremely drought tolerant, perfect for Austin alkaline soils, 4 to 6 feet tall. 512.913.6315 Mger is a lovable guy who will make a great addition to any family looking for a fun-loving dog well past the trials of pup- pyhood. Don’t pass by this handsome boy! ■nS jfc.. Amii Ip 124 W. Anderson Ln. 512-837-7985 ADOPTION SAVE ONE DOG -SAVE THE WORLD! Wanted: Super Homes for our Super Dogs! For Adoptions call Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch 830-589-7544 or check out our dogs at : www.utopiarescue.com ADOPTIONS/RESCUE HUMANE SOCIETY SPCA of Austin (see Pet of the Wk ad!) Come visit our facility at 124 W. Anderson Lane, 1 block west of 1-35 on Hwy 183! We have many loveable dogs and cats that need a good home! Call today: 512-837-7985 http://www.austinspca.com ARABIAN HORSES www.texasarabianhorses.com Broke, gentle and loving. Cass Ole and Bask decent. CAT 3 yr. old neutered orange medium-hair tabby. Would love to be a mostly outdoor cat. Independent and nice. CATS 2 Female cats 6 yrs de- clawed and fixed black with white. 9 month old calico. Good home needed. DACHSHUNDS for sale call 254-338-0447 or online at www.centexdachshunds.com puppies and adults available DALMATION PUPPIES Born 11/28/05. Full blooded. No papers. Only $150,830-868-2837 past Dripping Springs. DOGS Very-very-very cute Red- Nose PitBulls- Color WHITE. I'm only asking $50 each. Get them, before i run out. 512-472- 2309 Jaime FISH (2) 6Mo. old Tiger Oscars (1) Black, (1) Albino. 55Gal.tank. Complete set-up. $180.00 O.B.O. #(512) 923-8813-Will deliverer $200.00 FREE CAT Free declawed DLH gray cat to good home. Very sweet and loving. Gets along well with dogs. 512-589-9491 KITTEN black/white long hair kitten needs new home. Was found abandoned in a box. Please give her a new home. 220-1372 LIZARD Adult Bearded Dragon, 5Yr. old male. With cage, lights, rocks. Complete set-up. $120.00 O.B.O. #(512) 923-8813 PUPPIES Dachshund's.APRI mini’s. Shots/wormed. Red S/H. Health guarantee. Ready on 2/13. Now taking deposits.$200- 250.254-666-5165. PUPPIES Dachshund mini's.APRI reg. Shots, wormed, health guarantee. Ready on 2/1 2. Now taking deposits. $200- 250. Call (254)666-5165. PUPPY Adorable red female min pin 12wks. only $80 call 383- 1909 ELECTRIC BIKE Giant LA Lite, electric/hybrid bike, best of the genre, rechargeable battery good for 20+ miles, 1 yr. old, new $1150, sell $600. Call Wade 689-9540 HOME GYM Pacific Newport, excellent condition, 160# cast iron weights, 20+ excercises for whole body, footprint 7x3. Only $580 w/extra ankle weights and slant board. Buy before 1/31 and get a free TV and stand! KELTY BACKPACK Kelty Tioga external frame backpack. 5000-5500 cubic inch capacity. $180 new. Asking $100. 699-0122 NORDIC RIDER Nordic Track Duall Motion Nordic Rider $75.00 OBO NORDIC TRACK “Pro” model ski exerciser. Good condition. Adjustable incline for harder workouts. Cost $500, will sell for $85. 977-0007. ROAD BICYCLE IF Steel Crown Jewel 60 cm c/c Mix of Ultegra/DA parts XT rear der Immaculate condition $900 firm TREADMILL Sacrifice! Professional quality Trotter 525. Retailed new for over $4000. $350 OBO!! Very heavy, good condition. TICKETS ENTERTAINMENT ALL L ^47 4“ 4 -1 6 0 *.... Longhorn Basketball...* * Extream Fighting...* * Sheryl Crow * *.... Annie Lion King..* * Rolling Stones * *..Nickleback...BB King...* *.... David Grisman * *..Big Head Todd * *.. David Gray.. .Spurs * *.Hall & Oates. .Sigur Ros..* *....Lee Ann Womack...* *.. Cirque’s Delirium..* * Juanes... Cold play...* * Bonnie Raitt...* *..Fall Out Boy...Evita...* *... Sesame Street Live...* *.San Antonio Rodeo.* *... Bobby Caldwell * WWW.BESTTIX.COM 474-4468 TICKETS We “B” Tickets * Best Seats * Best Prices * * Bon Jovi * Aerosmith * Coldplay * Peter Pan * NAS- CAR * BB King * Seasame Street Live * Bonnie Raitt Pick-Up/Mai I order. 448-2303 CAMPING GEAR Top dollar paid for name brand camping gear and outdoors sporting equipment. 512-484-0816 BOWFLEX, SHOPSMITH Mark V and Accessories, Treadclimber Wanted!!! 8324763870 Doty is a ve cute pooui with a ( 3 very i gentle nature. She gets along great with adults and children, and when she meets people her face shines with happiness. Doty likes to be cuddled and petted, and some- times she'll even flop on her back and ask you to tickle her belly. 260-SPCAcau FOR HOURS 909 S. BAGDAD RD., LEANDER, TX CENTRALTEXASSPCA.COM CM CLE austinchronicle.com I HOUSE CLEANING METICU- LOUS, FAST VERY AFFORDABLE AND FRIENDLY REFERENCES AVAILABLE, DISCOUNTS GIVEN FOR WEEKLY OR BI-WEEKLY CUSTOMERS.51 2-968-5536 HOUSEKEEPER Cleaning houses, I’m housekeeper at Brackenridge Hospital, I’ve refences call me Carmen Silva. 512-278 0214 INSURANCE The New Orleans Agent. Life Insurance. Health Insurance. Annuities. Cafeteria Plans. David McGough, 15 year experience. Blue Cross Blue Shield of TX, AFLAC, The Prudential. (512) 732-2622, PHONE SERVICE Local tele- phone service $7.95! Sign up today online at http://Univer- salNumber.com WEDDINGS Elegant Express Mobile Chapel. Wedding Cer- emonies 7 days/week. Home, Beach, Park, Restaurant. Af- fordable, simple & romantic. Several packages to choose from. Call 512-300-1242 www.elegantexpress.com ADWARE/VIRUS REMOVAL Viruses? Adware? 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Beginning in the 1970s, the American Heart Association began recommending that people restrict their cholesterol intake to less than 300 milligrams per day. Egg consumption, with more than 200 milligrams of cholesterol in one egg, was hit hard by this advice. After 30 years of scorn, eggs are now getting their revenge. It turns out that not only are eggs virtu- ally free from blame with regard to heart disease risk but eggs protect your eyes from macular degeneration, a dreaded irreversible deteriora- tion of the retina and a leading cause of blind- ness in people over age 65. Egg yolk is rich in lutein and zeaxanthin, two nutrients that protect the retina from damage by the kind of light that can produce macular degeneration. As for the concern that eggs raise the risk of heart disease, a recent study that involved more than 100,000 nurses and other health care professionals during a period of 14 years found no difference in the heart disease risk for people who consumed less than one egg a week and those who consumed more than one egg a day. It turns out that for about 70% of the population, dietary cholesterol has hardly any effect on serum cholesterol. For the 30% that are affected by dietary cholesterol, it raises both LDL and HDL (the “bad” and “good”) forms of cholesterol, so the all-important ratio between the two remains stable. The nutrient content of eggs is excellent, making it the standard by which other single foods are measured. From only 75 calories, 3% of what most Americans consume daily, a single egg can provide 4-8% of the RDA for a number of vitamins, and egg protein is second only to breast milk in biological value. In the labora- tory of Dr. Roger J. 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(TR46621) (non-sexual massage) Mike @ 415-1620 SWEDISH MASSAGE- Call Courtney for appointment at 806-679-4644. 11am-12am, 7days, San Marcos, Austin & Surrounding Areas. MT#012619. 455 GENERAL Back to the PRESSURE POINT PSYCHIC grind? Schedule yourself for a massage. Try http:// www.sacredwisdommassage.com PRESSURE POINT SUPPLIES MORNING STAR SWEDISH RMT#31534 MAQQAGFQ ARF 1 IKF A ROY ASTROLOGY CD CREATION Fast, Cheap, Quality. Email for samples cybertoddl GENERAL The Body Mechanic Massage Therapy- CALL FOR APPTS 512.391.15(9 Downtown - 819 W. 11th Town Lake - 512 Riverside Uptown - 6101 Balcones North - 8840 Burnet Rd. South - 300 S. Lamar Round Rock - 2000 1-35 at 636-3661 RMT#040870 GENERAL Experienced mas- sage therapist seeking ma- ture clients. Anne, MT#39649 (512) 653-3438. MASSAGE & FACIALS www.elmforestmassage.net GENERAL NOW OPEN. Re- lax - Relieve - Enjoy. Swedish Massage, Deep & Soft Tis- sue, Full Body Massage, hot stone treatment. Bee Cave Rd, quiet office. RMT#39907. Call 698-1615 or 905-7668 Specialising in Chinese Pressure Point Massage and Deep Pore Facial. Southwest Austin Pao-Chuan (Bonnie Yu), RMT #23296, 656-2054 RELAXATION Cant sleep? I got the solution. Late Night Massage. Everyday 6pm - 2am. Hotel, House calls, and In calls. Relaxing massage and aromatherapy to make you drift away. Call Hector @ 512-589-5091... and Sweet Dreams. RMT# 029188 READER NOTICE $40 for 50 min Intro Special, or $65 for 90 minutes BodyMechanicMassage.com, (MT039068) GENERAL Experience Therapeutic Massage in the comfort of your home. Even- ings-Weekends. Barbara RMT#9796 Cell: 296-0530. GENERAL Treat yourself to a relaxing hot oil, full-body Swedish massage in a candle- lit, private room/shower, 24/7, in/out calls. Clint 775-9164- RMT# 34842 GENERAL Well-trained and attentive. Sensitive, careful, thoughtful and convenient. Call 470-6525 (RMT013588). GENERAL A Great Massage for Men by Bob. North location (RMT#013795) Call 9am-10pm, 7 days/week. (512) 296-4111. GENERAL RMT#31 534 ***M A S S A G E**** ...THE 3RD BEST THING KATHLEEN.. 445-0280 GENERAL Total Relaxation Full Body Massage, South Austin location. Ask about senior discount. Call Joel (TR#46779) 8am-8pm (512) 964-0851. GENERAL HANDS DOWN BEST MASSAGE in town! For total relaxation, Call Kim, by appt only. 833-6690. RMT 023154 GENERAL FULL BODY MASSAGE by James. Incalls/Outcalls 24/7. Call 554- 2248. (RMT017905) GENERAL All stressed up and no place to go? Tony’s Wonderful Massage RMT#3233, 346-6210. GENERAL Get Pampered with a Swedish, Deep Tissue, Sports, Chair, or Hot Stone Massage by Rebecca. North 183 & Anderson Mill. Call 512-699-9165 MT#031330 GENERAL SOOTHING MAS- SAGE. Experienced, profes- sional. N. Austi n/Jol lyvi lie Rd. M-Sat. 10am-7pm. Cash only. By appointment only.372- 9530. RMT 042276. The State of Texas Department of Health requires registration numbers for individuals who practice massage. These registration numbers are included in all ads within the therapy section. They are as follows: TR = Temporary Registration is a temporary licensed number which is good for six months as a registered massage therapist in Texas. RMT = Registered Massage Therapist or MT = Massage Therapist, which is the permanent registration number once all state tests have been passed. ME = Massage Establishment, which is a place of business that offers licensed massage therapy and has a licensed massage therapist on site of the business establishment. Ml = Massage Instructor, an individual who is a registered massage therapist an approved by the State of Texas to offer instruction to 1 or more students of massage therapy. Any concerns should be directed to the Texas Department of Health in Austin at 512-834-6616 RELAXATION The Right touch, total relaxation mas- sage by Jade Liu. Soothing, sensitive. Full hands. 804-0794 - - RMT#36404 RELAXATION Strong hands for the stressed out body. 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CONGRESS LOCATION RELAXING RITUALS MASSAGE THERAPY RELAXATION •DEEP TISSUE SHOWER FACILITY AVAILABLE S 60/HR, $85/90 MINS 940-4087 Melody, RMT# 043975, Fitness trainer www.relaxingrituals.net Absolute Indulgence •Deep Tiftue •Sivedfch fllana^e •Sport* Alana^e new nW Location, back in town • Snni iopin • 7 Days *7 3 1 ' Al 9 Q *7 RMT029206 Swedish Relaxation Therapy **573-8401** Incall/Hotel Outcall Reflexology-Sports jjr a ■! Deep Tissue ’ u ' ' ij 10am - 9pm Daily ULonJi Mike Whisenhunt Professional Massage Therapist Sports, Deep Tissue Relaxing Swedish 512/415-1620 (TR 46621) THERAPEUTIC MASSSAGE $40 FOR 50 MINUTES $70 FOR 90 MINUTES 8:00 AM - 8:00 PM 391.0760 B0DYMECHANICMASSAGE.COM 1 CASH I CHECK I CREDIT 391.1569 OPEN 7 DAYS PEI^WEEK, 10 am ~ 8 pm $70 for 90 minutes TRADING COMPANY Austin’s Largest Inventory of Massage & Aromatherapy Supplies QUALITY MASSAGE THERAPY (ME#0889) (512) 476-1727 OF CHOCOLATES, YA NEVER KNOW.... 445-0280 SWEDISH Massage Gustavo Marquez. By Appt: Flexible Schedule. Call 512-577-7555. MT032836 SWEDISH A Gentle Touch Massage. Experience a med- itative massage to decrease stress & increase your well being. $50/75 min. 10:30am- 6:30 pm.. Call Julie today!. 512-585-4752. RMT#042748. SWEDISH 372-9190 SOOTHING FULL BODY SWEDISH.. .COME AND GET YOURS TODAY! PRIVATE, RELAXING ARBORETUM STUDIO. SHOWER AVAILABLE. 7 DAYS EARLY TIL LATE! RMT#012619. SWEDISH NEW! PRIVATE, full body Swedish massage. 10am-9pm. Must call 573- 8401. RMT#012619. SWEDISH Full-body mas- sage by 1 or 2 male thera- pists. 927-9704 or 422-0514. mt#023969 & mt#024072 SWEDISH: CEDAR PARK Massage. Soothing, Swedish. It’s easy to unwind in our rejuvenating & relaxing atmosphere! 10a-8p7 days. 250-9655 MT042810 SWEDISH Gift yourself to a luxurious massage from a re- cent Fine Arts UT graduate. Thanks for all your encour- agement and support! Kasey Smith, MT#1 7406. 457-8496. THERAPEUTIC Feel better now... Therapeutic Massage by Use Ratchut, RMT#355386. 5 years of pro- fessional experience. Sports, Swedish, Shiatsu, deep tissue. Central Location. SWEDISH “Forget the rest... try the best.” I ncal l/Outcal I. Massage by Joy. (MT1151) Call 280-2995. 264-4500. http://mycare2.com/unacycle SWEDISH Professional Bodywork: sport-swedish- deep. Convenient dwtn. location. In call/out call/hotel. Keith Goertz, RMT#036544. Call 512-431-9008 THERAPEUTIC Massage. Reiki, Swedish, light touch & deep tissue. 11AM-8PM. (512) 966-0622 RMT#028586 WEBSITE Get the Austin Chronicle every day! Check out austinchronicle.com, fresh every Friday, and available 24 hours a day! 9 am- IO pm 7 DAYS Light to Peep Pressure £e dar Park Location 250*9655 A Journey Beyond en sat ions Ly Mary Ell. A Tke Ultimate Experience W -|— i In Relaxation f • hXQUISITh • Full Body Massage • Herbal Baths Warm Oil • Hot Tub Massage MC/VISA • RMT#9644 • 927-8366 NEW! 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ALL TEXAS REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPISTS SHALL: • Provide quality care to those who seek professional massage therapy and maintain high standards of professional competence. • Recognize the scope of massage therapy and refer to other health care professionals when appropriate for the client’s/patient’s health and well-being. •Administer all treatments in a professional manner with respect for the client/patient confidentiality, boundaries, safety and privacy. • Maintain honest an accurate records, a clean and professional work environment and high standards of personal hygiene. • Respect the client’s/patient’s right to continue, modify or discontinue massage therapy at any time, and respect the integrity of each person by avoiding any sexual conduct or activities involving their client’s/patient’s. • Respect all ethical health care practitioners and work together amicably to promote health and natural healing. • Invest in their communities by fostering an understanding and acceptance of massage therapy as a valuable health service, abide by all laws governing the practice of massage, and work for the repeal of revision laws detrimen- tal to the legitimate practice of massage. FILING A COMPLAINT Individuals wishing to file a complaint against a Massage Therapist, Massage Therapy School, Massage Therapy Instructor or a Massage Therapy Establishment may call: (800) 942-5540 austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I 127 CLASSES WORKSHOPS ADOPTION PREGNANT? Thinking ADOPTION? Talk with caring people specializing in matching birthmothers with loving families nationwide. EXPENSES PAID. Toll free 24/7 One True Gift Adoptions 1-866- 921-0565. (AAN CAN) BALANCING HORMONES Feb. 13, 2006,7-8 PM 5609 B Adams Ave. Call 512*374*9800 to pre-register. FREE www.austinquanyin.com BALLOONING SEMINAR Learn how to be safe hot air balloon crew in this 8 hour seminar. Sample topics include launch and landing, medical emergencies, fire extinguisher use, and power line strike. February 18 $50 pilots, $25 nonpilots includes breakfast and lunch. Registration deadline Feb. 10. More info & registration: http ://www. m a i n . o rg/CT BA ; Phone line 512.479.9421 Email DANCE Adult Beginner Hip- Hop Dance Instruction, Begins February 6th Monday nights, 8- 9pm, $50/month. Tinka’s Dance Studio, 2013 Wells Branch Pkwy, 251-9161. ITALIAN Language & Cooking Classes, TOURS in ITALY with ELSA GRAMOLA (512) 345-8941 www. geocities.co m/atasteof - italyinaustin/atasteofitalyinaustin SPANISH Learn to speak Spanish. This ongoing course relies heavily on visual material, word association and games. http://www.creativelanguage- center.com 453-8680. SPANISH Someday, I’ll Learn SPANISH!!?? No luck with traditional classes and workbooks? Hate Studying? Don't have much time? Think learning can’t be fun? Use your whole brain by tapping into the extraordinary mental capacities we all have, but seldom use, with the most advanced and enjoyable teaching and learning method available today. 263- 9944 * All Levels * Class Schedules, Fees and more at http://www.RapidSpanish.com FUNDRAISER In order to raise money this year for the Heart Walk, my team is putting together a heart healthy cookbook. We are needing heart healthy recipes, recipes from local celebrities and chefs and most of all, someone to underwrite the printing/ publishing of the book. We will give a full page ad to printer in exchange as well as the fact that this is tax deductable and for a wonderful cause. For information, contact Carol Calvery (512) 762-1517 LIVEJN CHILD CARE SAVE $350 if you apply now. Nation’s largest & most ex- perienced live-in child care organization has screened au pairs aged 18-26 available. Save $350 if you apply now. Choose an au pair from one of 55 countries to live in your home & help care for your children. Au pairs stay for one year with an option to extend for a 2nd year, have a legal visa, medical & liability insurance, training & child care experience. This is a U.S. government designed cultural exchange program. Excellent local support in your community. Call now for Spring/Summer placements & $350 application discount available until Feb. 28. Call Au Pair in America at 800- 928-7247 ext. 5161 or amartinez @aifs.com Apply on-line at www.au pai ri namerica.com PUBLIC AUCTION Antique Shop/Wood Working Shop Entire Contents of Both Busi- nesses Plus Personal Estate Items. Sat. Feb. 11 at 10 AM. 16317 Burnet Road, Austin, TX (see our website for directions) ACE AUCTION COMPANY aceauctioncompany.com 10% BR Allen Wares TXL 15135. 512-219-0209 STUDIO SPACE NEED STU- DIO/HOUSE New photographer seeking studio, house, flat, loft, office, etc for photo shoots. Will pay by hour or half day. 713-851 - 9039 8745 Larkdale Ave San Diego, CA 92123 TELEPHONE NO.: (858)414-8941 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO JUVENILE COURT, 2851 MEADOW LARK DR., SAN DIEGO, CA 92123-2792 IN THE MATTER OF to declare Damien Sidious Lovell minor free from parental custody and control of his father, John Milton Lovell, Jr. CITATION FOR FREEDOM FROM PARENTAL CUSTODY AND CONTROL (Family Code 7880, 7881,7882) CASE NUMBER A52282 To (name): John Milton Lovell, Jr GREETING: YOU ARE advised that you are required to appear in the Superior Court of the State of California, for the County of San Diego, at the Courtroom of Department 1 located at the courthouse indicated above on March 24, 2006, at 9:00 A.M., to show cause, if you have any, why (names) Damien S. Lovell minor(s) should not be declared free from parental custody and control (for the purpose of placement for adoption) as requested in the petition. The presence of the minor children is required by statute. You are advised that if the parent(s) are present at the time and place above stated the judge will read the petition and, if requested, may explain the effect of the granting of the petition and, if interested, the judge shall explain any term or allegation contained therein and the nature of the proceeding, its procedures and possible consequences and may continue the matter for not more than 30 days for the appointment of counsel or to give counsel time to prepare. The court may appoint counsel to represent the minor whether or not the minor is able to afford counsel. If any parent appears and is unable to afford counsel, the court shall appoint counsel to represent each parent who appears unless such representation is knowingly and intelligently waived. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your pleading, if any, may be filed on time. CLERKOFTHE SUPERIOR COURT Date: January 26, 2006 by Anna Garza, Deputy CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF STEVEN BARNHART, Deceased, No. 84217 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas. JANET L OWENS alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on the 24th day of JANUARY, 2006, an Application to Determine Heirship and for Letters of Independent Administration in the said estate and request(s) that the said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said STEVEN BARNHART Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate. Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas. All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, this the 24th day of January, 2006. DANADEBEAUVOIR County Clerk Travis County, Texas PO. Box 1748 Austin, Texas 78767 By Deputy: Alan Serrano CITATION BY PUBLICATION DIVORCE AND DOMESTIC CLERKOFTHE COURTBONNIE J. WOLBRUECK 405 M.L.K. ST., PO. BOX 24 GEORGETOWN, TX 78626 PETITION ER(S) ATTORNEY TAN ISA JEFFERS 1203 BAYLOR ST. AUSTIN, TX 78703 THE STATE OF TEXAS I austinchronicle.com TO: ALMA GONZALES - and to all whom it may concern, Respondent(s) Gonzales, Alma “You have been sued. You may employ an attorney. If you or your attorney do not file a written answer with the clerk who issued this citation by 10:00 a.m. on the Monday next following the expiration of twenty days after you were served this citation and petition, a default judgment for the relief demanded in the petition may be taken against you.” The PETITION TO MODIFY PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP of JOSEPH GONZALES, Petitioner(s), was filed in the said Court of Williamson County, Texas, on the 5th day of JANUARY, 2006, against Gonzales, Alma Respondent(s), numbered 02-1491-FC2 and entitled IN THE INTEREST OF STEPHANIE R GONZALES AND BRIANNA H GONZALES, CHIL- DREN The suit requests THAT THE COURT GRANT RELIEF REQUESTED IN PETITION The date and place of birth of the child (children) who is (are) the subject of the suit: STEPHANIE R. GONZALES, 5- 23-1988 BRIANNA H. GONZALES, 2-21- 1987 The Court has authority in this suit to enter any judgment or decree in the child's (children’s) interest which will be binding upon you, including the termination of the parent-child relationship, the determination of paternity and the appointment of a conservator with authority to consent to the child’s (children’s) adoption. Issued and given under my hand and the Seal of said Court at Georgetown, Texas, this the 17th day of January A.D. 2006. Attest: BONNIE J. WOLBRUECK DISTRICT CLERK WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS By: /s/ Selina Williams Deputy CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN THE ESTATE OF MATTHEW MORGAN, Deceased, No. 84184 in Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas. STEVE MORGAN alleged heir(s) at law in the above numbered and entitled estate, filed on the 18th day of JANUARY, 2006, an Application to Declare Heirship and for Letters of Independent Administration in the said estate and request(s) that the said Court determine who are the heirs and only heirs of the said MATTHEW MORGAN, Deceased, and their respective shares and interests in such estate. Said application will be heard and acted on by said Court at 10:00 o’clock a.m. on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from date of publication of this citation, at the County Courthouse in Travis County, Texas. All persons interested in said estate are hereby cited to appear before said Honorable Court at said above mentioned time and place by filing a written answer contesting such application should they desire to do so. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND THE SEAL OF SAID COURT at office in Travis County, Texas, this the 24th day of January, 2006. DANADEBEAUVOIR County Clerk Travis County, Texas PO. Box 1748 Austin, Texas 78767 By Deputy: Marie Clark CONTRACTOR’S NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the construction of Type C-Hot Mix Asphaltic Concrete Overlay of Selected Roads in Precincts One, Two, Three & Four of Travis County and the City of Lakeway, in Travis County, will be received by the Travis County Purchasing Agent, at the Travis County Administration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 400, until 2:00 p.m. February 15, 2006, then publicly opened and read in the Travis County Administration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor Conference Room, Suite 400, Austin, Texas. The “Date-Time” stamp clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office, will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the time of receipt of bids. All bids shall be addressed to Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, and shall be marked “Sealed Bid” -2006 TYPE “C” HMAC OVERLAY PROGRAM, IFB NO. B060105- LP. If the bid is to be mailed, the mailing address is as follows: Travis County Purchasing Agent, 314 West 11th Street, Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78701 . An original bid and two copies of the bid shall be submitted. Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid bond or a certified or cashier’s check, payable to “Travis County,” in an amount not less than five (5%) percent of the total bid. The Court reserves the right to reject any or all bids . As required by Texas Gov- ernment Code Section 2253.001, et seq., a Payment Bond is required in the amount of the contract if the contract exceeds $25,000.00, and a Performance Bond is required in the amount of the contract if the contract ex- ceeds $100,000.00, for contracts for construction, alteration or repair of any public building or the prosecution or completion of any public work. Attention is directed to the SPECIAL PROVISIONS to in- sure compliance with the re- quirements of Texas Govern- ment Code Sections 2258.001, et seq. (Prevailing Wage Rates) and Texas Government Code Sections 605.001 , et seq. (Hours of Labor). Plans, specifications and de- tailed bid forms are available at the office of the Travis County Purchasing Office, Travis County Administration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Room 400. Bidders may obtain a complete set of the bidding documents after posting a $25.00 deposit in the form of a cashier’s check, money order or company check payable to “Travis County”. This deposit will be refundable to Bidders who return all bidding documents in USABLE CONDITION within twenty-one (21) days after Bid Opening. All bids must comply with specifications regarding pricing. Bidders should provide unit prices totaling to a total contract price. Final payment of the above construction will be paid for by check upon completion and acceptance of the work by the Transportation and Natural Resources Executive Manager. CYD GRIMES TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING AGENT CONTRACTOR’S NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the construction of Type F- HMAC Resurfacing of Selected Existing Pavement Sections in Precincts One, Two, Three & Four of Travis County and the City of Lakeway, in Travis County, will be received by the Travis County Purchasing Agent, at the Travis County Adminis- tration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 400, until 2:00 p.m. February 15, 2006, then publicly opened and read in the Travis County Administration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor Conference Room, Suite 400, Austin, Texas. The “Date-Time” stamp clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office, will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of bids. All bids shall be addressed to Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, and shall be marked “Sealed Bid” -2006 TYPE “F” HMAC OVERLAY PROGRAM, IFB NO. B060106- LP. If the bid is to be mailed, the mailing address is as follows: Travis County Purchasing Agent, 314 West 11th Street, Suite 400, Austin, Texas 78701 . An original bid and two copies of the bid shall be submitted. Each bid shall be accompanied by a bid bond or a certified or cashier’s check, payable to “Travis County,” in an amount not less than five (5%) percent of the total bid. The Court reserves the right to reject any or all bids . As required by Texas Gov- ernment Code Section 2253.001, et seq., a Payment Bond is required in the amount of the contract if the contract exceeds $25,000.00, and a Performance Bond is required in the amount of the contract if the contract ex- ceeds $100,000.00, for contracts for construction, alteration or repair of any public building or the prosecution or completion of any public work. Attention is directed to the SPECIAL PROVISIONS to in- sure compliance with the re- quirements of Texas Govern- ment Code Sections 2258.001, et seq. (Prevailing Wage Rates) and Texas Government Code Sections 605.001 , et seq. (Hours of Labor). Plans, specifications and de- tailed bid forms are available at the office of the Travis County Purchasing Office, Travis County Administration Building, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Room 400. Bidders may obtain a complete set of the bidding documents after posting a $25.00 deposit in the form of a cashier’s check, money order or company check payable to “Travis County”. This deposit will be refundable to Bidders who return all bidding documents in USABLE CONDITION within twenty-one (21) days after Bid Opening. All bids must comply with specifications regarding pricing. Bidders should provide unit prices totaling to a total contract price. Final payment of the above construction will be paid for by check upon completion and acceptance of the work by the Transportation and Natural Resources Executive Manager. CYD GRIMES TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING AGENT LEGAL NOTICES THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE accepts LEGAL NOTICES at the low rate of $21 per column inch. Notarized affidavits of publication and audited circulation statements are provided upon request. Call Jessica @ 512-454-5765 ext. 168 for more info. NO. 84,055 IN THE ESTATE OF BRYSON L. WHITLOCK, DECEASED IN PROBATE COURT NO. 1 OF TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary upon the Estate of Bryson L. Whitlock, Deceased, were is- sued to Sylvia Plard Whitlock, whose residence and mailing address is 40 IH-35 N. PCI. Towers of Town Lake, Austin, Texas 78701 , on January 25, 2006, by the Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas, in Cause No. 84,055, which is still pending, and that the Executor now holds such Letters Testamentary. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the claims to Sylvia Plard Whitlock, c/o Michele A. Mobley, DuBois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, L.L.R, 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 1300, Austin, Texas 78701 , within the time prescribed by law. /s/ Michele A. Mobley DuBois, Bryant, Campbell & Schwartz, L.L.R 700 Lavaca Street, Suite 1300 Austin, Texas 78701 Dated: January 26, 2006 NOTICE OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS IFB NUMBER: B060091-RV Notice is hereby given that sealed bids to Provide Security Upgrades at the Travis County Courthouse, Medical Examiner’s Office and Ned Granger Building located in Austin, Texas, will be received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, at the Travis County Purchasing Office, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78701 until 1:00P.M., CST, FEB- RUARY 15, 2006, then publicly opened and read aloud. Note: The Time-Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office, will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of bids. Copies of plans and specifi- cations may be obtained from the TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING OFFICE. A re- fundable deposit of $25.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County” will be required for each set of bid documents that is issued. The deposit will be refunded if the drawings and specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid opening. Copies of plans and specifications may be viewed free of charge in the Travis County Purchasing Office. In addition, plans and specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-area Plan Rooms indicated in Exhibit 1 . A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Payments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one- hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Performance Bond is required in the amount of one-hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidder should use lump sum pricing. Historically Underutilized Businesses including Con- tractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers are encouraged to participate in this project consistent with the goals of the Commissioners Court. Contractors will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations, all Federal, State, and local regulations for construction safety and health standards. The successful bidder must commence work upon issuance by County of a written Notice to Proceed. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive an informality in the bids received. Bids may not be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which they are opened. NOTICE OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS IFB NUMBER: B060102-MB Notice is hereby given that sealed bids for the Gardner Betts Detention Shell Build Out, a project consisting of all necessary labor, tools, materials and equipment necessary for the interior finish out and remodeling of 2 buildings at the Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center, located at 2515 S. Con- gress Avenue, Austin, Texas, will be received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, at the Travis County Purchasing Office, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78701 until 2:00 P.M., CST, FEBRUARY 15, 2006, then publicly opened and read aloud. Note: The Time- Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office, will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of bids. Copies of plans and specifi- cations may be obtained from the TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING OFFICE. A re- fundable deposit of $50.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County” will be required for each set of bid documents that is issued. The deposit will be refunded if the drawings and specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid opening. Copies of plans and specifications may be viewed free of charge in the Travis County Purchasing Office. In addition, plans and specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-area Plan Rooms indicated in Exhibit 1 . A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Payments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one- hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Performance Bond is required in the amount of one-hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidder should use lump sum pricing. Historically Underutilized Businesses including Con- tractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers are encouraged to participate in this project consistent with the goals of the Commissioners Court. Contractors will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations, all Federal, State, and local regulations for construction safety and health standards. The successful bidder must commence work upon issuance by County of a written Notice to Proceed. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive an informality in the bids received. Bids may not be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which they are opened. NOTICE OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS IFB NUMBER: B060110-LP Notice is hereby given that sealed bids to Provide and install raised flooring in the Computer Room, Gault 53Q 535 •ADOPT • Laura 1-800-933-1975. ADOPTION •ADOPT* FOUND DOG Black Lab found on w. parmer lane call 512-809- 2095 A Loving, Financially Secure, Happy Family longs to LOVE, hug & provide everything for your baby. Expenses Paid. FOUND DOG Little fluffy white dog in North Austin (Peyton Gin/Parkfield area). Misses owner! Call 775-8373 if she is yours. LOST BLACK CAT Cat was taken. Black neutered male, he needs his medicine. My wife is pregnant and this is affecting herpregn her pregnancy. He is 10 lbs, has white whiskers ( ;kers on one side, fangs. Reward, 512-845-5609 LOST CAT Beige/White cat missing 1/29 north, $200 reward. http://www.adopt-a- kitty.org/MISSINGCAT.html Affectionate, secure, athletic couple will give your Precious child a wonderful loving home & advantages. Expenses Paid. Hannah & Maurice 1-800-563-7964 LOST CAT Lost Black cat on 1- 19-06. Adult, neutered male 10 lbs, has fangs. Please call 512- 845-5609. 545 Active, full of life, financially independent family. Stayhome Mom, travel, outdoor fun, homecooking waits your baby. Bridget 1-800-648-1807. Living Expenses Paid. ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (Name, state bar number, and address): John T. Fenner 128 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 Building, 5001 West 11th Street located in Austin, Texas, will be received by Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, at the Travis County Purchasing Office, 314 West 11th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78701 until 2:00 P.M., CST, FEBRUARY 22, 2006, then publicly opened and read aloud. Note: The Time- Date Stamp Clock located at the front counter of the Travis County Purchasing Office, will serve as the OFFICIAL CLOCK for the purpose of verifying the date and time of receipt of bids. Copies of plans and specifi- cations may be obtained from the TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING OFFICE. A re- fundable deposit of $25.00 in the form of a cashier’s check, money order, or company check payable to “Travis County” will be required for each set of bid documents that is issued. The deposit will be refunded if the drawings and specifications are returned in good condition within 21 calendar days of the bid opening. Copies of plans and specifications may be viewed free of charge in the Travis County Purchasing Office. In addition, plans and specifications will be made available for viewing free of charge at various Austin-area Plan Rooms indicated in Exhibit 1 . AN OPTIONAL PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 8, 2006, AT 10 A.M., CST, AT THE TRAVIS COUNTY PURCHASING OFFICE, 314 WEST 11TH STREET, SUITE 400, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701. A bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid amount will be required. Payments will be made for completed work in progressive payments with the County retaining five percent (5%) of each payment until final acceptance of the project. Payments will be made by check. A Payment Bond is required in the amount of one- hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $25,000. A Performance Bond is required in the amount of one-hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount, if the contract amount exceeds $100,000. Bidder should use lump sum pricing. Historically Underutilized Businesses including Con- tractors, Subcontractors, and Suppliers are encouraged to participate in this project consistent with the goals of the Commissioners Court. Contractors will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations, all Federal, State, and local regulations for construction safety and health standards. The successful bidder must commence work upon issuance by County of a written Notice to Proceed. The County reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive an informality in the bids received. Bids may not be withdrawn for ninety (90) calendar days after the date on which they are opened. NOTICE OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO BIDDERS TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be accepted by Travis County for the following items: 1 . Native Harvest Seeding and Planting Services, IFB 6060101- DR Opens: February 13, 2006 @ 10:00 a.m. 2. Medical Gases, IFB B060109- RG Opens: February 21 , 2006 @ 2:00 p.m. 3. Dishwashing and Laundry Chemicals, IFB B060108-NB Opens: February 21 , 2006 @ 2:00 p.m. AN OPTIONAL PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON FEBRUARY 8, 2006 @ 10:00 A.M. Bids should be submitted to: Cyd Grimes, Travis County Purchasing Agent, Ned Granger Building, 314 West 11th, Room 400 PO. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767. Specifications can be ob- tained from or viewed at the Travis County Purchasing Office at no charge or by downloading a copy from our website: www.co.travis.tx. us/pur- chasing/solicitation. asp. Bidders should use unit pricing or lump sum pricing, if appropriate. Payments may be made by check. The successful bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance Bond in the amount of One Hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount awarded, if applicable. NOTICE - OFFICIAL PUBLIC NOTICE TO BIDDERS, TRA- VIS COUNTY, TEXAS Notice is hereby given that Austin Canyon Corp is soliciting sealed bid proposals for drainage, water & wastewater improvements for the Longhorn Canyon project in Steiner Ranch @ 2601 N Quinlan Park Rd, Travis Cty, TX in strict accordance w/ plans & specs prepared by C Faulkner Engineering, available at Austin Canyon Corp, 5806 Mesa Dr. #260, Austin, TX 78731, PH/512- 327-3135, or C Faulkner Eng, 400 Bowie St., #250, Austin, TX 78703, PH/512-495-9470. Sealed bid proposals are due @ Austin Canyon Corp by no later than 2:00 p.m., Thurs, February 16, 2006. All contractors must submit a Contractor’s Qualification Statement by no later than February 9, 2006. NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES Pursuant to the Texas abandoned vehicle motor act, the following vehicles will be auctioned off by the Travis County Sheriff's Office unless charges are satisfied within 10 days. 1. unknown owner, 1998 Isuzu, LP# J68SXP; VIN# 4S2CK58W8W431 6393 2. unknown ower, trailer/other, no plates, TX, no VIN 3. unknown owner, 1955 Chevy P/U, LP# QP9957 (MO), VIN# M255S027455 4. unknown owner, brown trailer, no LP# 5. unknown owner, 2005 Mer- cury, LP# X77XEP(FL), VIN# 4M2DV1 1 W25DJ54274 6. unknown owner, Nissan Tsubama, LP# XYV9267 (VER MEX), VIN# 5TAYY1 0-002960 7. unknown owner, 1993 Ply- mouth Acclaim, LP# 11JY585 (AL), VIN# 3P3XA46K0PT601 1 57 8. unknown owner, 1986 Subaru, LP# 20A102 (MT), VIN# 1 FI AC43B1 GC2321 53 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES PURSUANT OF TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED WITHIN 10 DAYS. GARAGE KEEPER: SOUTHSIDE WRECKER, 4308 TERRY O LANE, AUSTIN, TX. 1994 NISSAN 1 N4EB31 PORC710823 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES PURSUANT TO TEXAS ABANDONED MOTOR VEHICLE ACT, THE FOLLOWING VEHICLE(S) WILL BE AUCTIONED OFF BY THE TRAVIS COUNTY SHERIFF DEPT. UNLESS CHARGES ARE SATISFIED WITHIN 10 DAYS. 1) unknown year, unknown make 30 ft. travel trailer, unknown state, no license, unknown VIN, date received: 12/9/2005 2) Cat 246, VIN 5SZ01377, date received: 12/14/2005 AUS-TEX Towing & Recovery, LLC 201 E. Braker Lane AUSTIN, TX 78753 NOTICE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES Pursuant to the Texas abandoned vehicle motor act, the following vehicles will be auctioned off by the Travis County Sheriff's Office unless charges are satisfied within 10 days. 1. owner: Michael Hatchett & Doreen Taylor, 2004 Honda, LP# 973P4H; VIN# JH2PC213X4M502451 2. owner: Miguel Medellin, 1995 Mazda, LP# G67JZP; VIN# JM1 FD3317P0202316 3. owner: Donnie G Abad, 1 999 Oldsmobile, LP# L98GTZ; VIN# 1 G3WH52K3XF31 8734 4. owner: unknown boat; blue & white 5. owner: Javier Mejia 1988 Honda LP# R35TYG; VIN# J H M BA41 28JC0631 50 AUCTION: February 9, 2006 @ 6:00 A.M. About Town Towing 2905 W. Howard Lane Austin, TX 78728 (512) 835-5444 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE In accordance with the pro- visions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, there being due and unpaid charges for which the undersigned is entitled to satisfy an owner’s lien of the goods hereinafter described and stored at the Uncle Bob's Self Storage locations listed below; And, due notice having been given, to the owner of said property and all parties known to claim an interest therein, and the time specified in such notice for payment of such having expired, the goods will be sold at public auction at the following addresses to the highest bidder or otherwise disposed of on the following dates. No one under 16 allowed. Cash Only. Uncle Bob’s #285 9717 US HWY290 E Austin, TX 78724 512-278-1220 February 21, 2006 @ 9am #209 Eumekia Sparks - household goods, furniture, boxes #210 Daniel Ortega - dryer, shelves, dresser, empty tool box, hot water heater, old rocking chair, bed linens, pots and pans #234 Don Hamilton - clothes and Bibles #302 Juan Alvarado Diaz - furniture, toys, tools, speakers, boxes #511 Norma Ann Munoz - washer and dryer Uncle Bob’s #231 8227 North Lamar Austin, TX 78753 (512) 833-0855 Tuesday, February 21, 2006 @ 10:00 A.M. #738 Terri Smith - household goods, boxes #928 Laurel West - household goods, furniture #1 1 00 Donald Selzer - house- hold goods, boxes, tools #1302 James Grant - household goods, furniture, tools #1602 Clinton Moore - house- hold goods, furniture, boxes Uncle Bob’s #276 1251 County Road 170 Round Rock, TX 78664 (512) 310-0279 Tuesday, February 21, 2006 @ 11:00 A.M. #4107 Dean K Lundquist - household goods, furniture, boxes, tools #4123 Comazell Bickham - household goods, furniture, boxes, tools, sporting goods, appliances, TV/stereo equip- ment #5105 Wanda Holliday - boxes, appliances #6406 Shelly Spicer - household goods, furniture, boxes, TV/stereo equipment, land- scaping equipment #6416 Robyn Collins - house- hold goods, boxes, tools, ap- pliances, TV/stereo equipment #7219 Comazell Bickham - household goods, furniture, boxes, tools, sporting goods, appliances #8428 Aniseto Cantu - furniture, boxes, TV/stereo equipment #9506 Jamie Herzog - house- hold goods, furniture, boxes, TV/stereo equipment #9575 Chris Blacklock - household goods, furniture, boxes, tools Uncle Bob’s Self #197 5547 McNeil Drive Austin, TX 78729 (512) 336-8390 Tuesday, February 21, 2006 @ 12 noon #1318 Nicole Murchison- Southard - household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, appliances, TV’s or stereo equipment, account records #1506 Gregory Roberts - household goods, furniture, boxes, sporting goods, ap- pliances, TV's or stereo equipment #1718 Cheryl Ruiz - household goods, furniture, boxes, TV’s or stereo equipment, landscaping equipment #1747 Raphaela Salazar - household goods, furniture, boxes, tools, appliances, TV’s or stereo equipment #1766 Crystal Guerrero - household goods, furniture, boxes #1819 Mirna Muniz - furniture, boxes #1877 Peter Messerschmidt - retail store inventory Uncle Bob’s #287 6509 South 1st Street Austin, TX 78745 (512) 326-9696 Tuesday, February 21, 2006 @ 1 PM #105 Lisa McKieman - misc. furniture, household #213 Jeanie McMahan - misc. household, misc. boxes #248 Cammeth Carlson - truck bedliner, step-ladder, misc. tools, misc. auto parts, BBQ grill NOTICE OF NEW TRAFFIC REGULATION Notice is hereby given that Travis County, Texas, proposes the approval of the following traffic regulation: Maximum Prima Facie Speed Limits on various streets in Siesta Shores Subdivisions in Precinct Three. Any resident of Travis County, Texas, aggrieved by this proposed action may make written request for a mandatory public hearing. Such request must be addressed to the Transportation and Natural Resources Department, Travis County, Texas, RO. Box 1748, Austin, Texas 78767, and must be received within seven (7) days of this notice. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PS Texas Holdings, LTD., hereby gives notice that the property generally described below is being sold to satisfy a landlord’s lien pursuant to chapter 59 of the Texas property code, at the time and place indicated below, and on the following terms: All property generally described below will be sold at public sale to the highest bidder for cash, or credit cards, NO CHECKS, with payment to be made at the time of the sale. Seller reserves the right to refuse any bid and to withdraw any item or items from the sale. The property will be sold on the 21st & 22nd of FEBRUARY, 2006 at each self- storage facility at which it is described below: NO CHILDREN PLEASE. 9:30 a.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 7200 S. First St., Austin, TX 78745 0441 GRADY STONE TV, TABLE, BOXES M388 ANDREA LAWHON SOFA, ENT CTR, LAMP Q514 TOM WILKENS SOFA, TV, TABLE W782 SHARON BERRY BOXES, RUG, TABLE C071 DAN I ELLA GONZALES SPEAKERS, COFFE TABLE, CLOTHING Q518 AMIE SAN MIGUEL BIKE, DRESSER, VACCUM K288 RUDY CASTRO CHAIRS, COMPUTER, ICE CHEST W856 TRAVIS THEOBALD CHAIR, CABINETS, CLOTHING T597 MIKE GONZALES SOFA, LOVESEAT, FRIDGE K313 RODNEY MARRERO FISHING EQUIP, BOXES, FAN H225 SANDRA BELL ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 1251 HENRY GARCIA ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 10:00 a.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 7112 S. Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78745 G30 PAULA GARCIA WASHER, DRYER, COFFEE TABLE C4 GREGORY PHILLIPS BOXES & TOTES M6 DAWN WATTS COMPUTER, LAMR WEIGHT BENCH FI PRISCILLA CASTILLO BABY CRIB, BOXES, MIRRORS H41 JODI BRYANT TV, MI- CROWAVE, BOXES B17 BEN MCCURRY ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 10:30 a.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 4202 Santiago. , Austin, TX 78745 304 JACK COCKLIN INTERIORS CARPET BLINDS, TOLIETS 438 JONATHAN MCLENNAN TV, PATIO FURN., FICUS TREES 619 EDDIE LINGER TOTES, WEEDEATER, CARPET CLEANER 637 MARVELYN HUSKINS LOVESEAT, TV, END TABLE 602 DEBRA HOLLAND DESK, CHAIR, BOXES 11:30 a.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 5016 E. Ben White, Austin, TX 78741 Cl 99 JANICE WASHINGTON ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 12:00 p.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 1213 W. 6th St., Austin, TX 78703 3030 LANE ROTH CASH REGISTER, COUNTER, BOXES 3020 CELLAR MANAGEMENT GROUR LLC DOLLY, BOOKS, BOXES 3012 LILIA DAVIS DESK, BED FRAME, BOXES 12:30 p.m. 21 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 1033 E. 41ST ST., Austin, TX 78751 4158 MARTHA TOWN E LOVESEAT, BOXES, DRESSER 4144 DESTINY MCAFEE ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 5045 MIA GARCIA CHEST OF DRAWERS, CLOTHING, LAMP 4154 TORIE DANIELS-MOTLEY BAGS, BOXES, TOTES 4192 TAMM IE SCOTT BIKE, PLAYPEN, BOXES 5026 EDDIE MARSHALL CHAIRS, BOXES, CABINETS 2056 KATHERYN TRAYLOR SOFA, LOVESEAT CHAIR 9:30 a.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 10100 Nth IH-35, Austin, TX 78753 A009 KYLE MEYER, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT B058 CORNELL DIXON, GUI- TAR, CLOTHING, BOXES B082 DAVID CARSON, CHAIR, SPEAKERS, BAGS C079 NICOLE ALANIZ, COM- PUTER, MAILBOX, STUFF ANIMALS D107 JENNIFER LEE, LAMR TV, FISH POLE 10:30 a.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 937 Reinli, Austin, TX., 78751 120 TAMMYE NOEL, MOWER, FILE CABINET, WEIGHTS 122 DEBRA HOUSTON, BOXES 199 HOLLY SPARKS-AN- DERSON, CHAIR, MIRROR, SOFA 406 DAVID CAMPOS, STEREO, TV, BOXES 545 LUCIA PUENTES, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 723 JAMES ANDERSON, BOXES, BAGS, PICTURES 738 JUDY SORRELLS, SOFA, CLOTHES RUG 780 MARY BAKER, TOTES, BOXES, TV 922 TAMMYE NOEL, CURIO CABINET, CHAIRS, YARD TOOLS 924 TAMMYE NOEL, CLOTHES, BOXES, BAGS 12:00 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 8101 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753 110 SAMMIE HAMPTON, SUITCASE, CLOTHES, BOXES 132 DANNY FUNG, TOTE, GUITAR CASE, BAGS 520 RITA JORDAN, DRESSER, DRYER, TRUNK 553 ISAAC WILLIAMS, TV, DRUM, SOFA 1 1 33 LISA SPOTTS, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 1224 CRAIG GATEWOOD, TIRES, TABLE, CLOTHES 1336 EUGENE REESE, SOFA, LOVE SEAT, CHAIR 1341 RONNIE MOORE, SOFA, TOTES, END TABLE 1442 CRAIG GATEWOOD, CHAIR, SOFA, DESK 1443 CRAIG GATEWOOD, DEER HEAD, DESK, BAGS 1505 CRAIG GATEWOOD. SAW, TABLE, BOXES 1603 LOUIS BEAVER, DESK, TV, BAGS 2078 QUINCY KNIGHTEN, SOFA, LOVESEAT, SPEAKERS 3014 FELIPE RODRIGUEZ, STEREO, TOTES, BOXES 1:30 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 8525 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753 C064 HOLLY WOLFE, MONITOR, CLOTHES E027 CHARLENE ECHOLS, BAGS, BOXES, CLOTHES H036 ROBERT ROBINSOM, WASHER, DRYER 2:00 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 8128 Nth Lamar Blvd., Austin, TX 78753 D021 PATSY BANDA, TOTES, BOXES, 2:30 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 9205 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78758 A099 MARK SMITH, DESK, DRESSER, LAMP A102 NEAL BROWN, LIGHTING SYSTEM, BIKE, TOTES C071 ALICIA JOHNSON, TV, SOFA, LOVE SEAT Cl 26 THOMAS THOOS, III, TV, DRUMS, BIKE Dll 2 TORI HARPER, LOVE SEAT, DRYER, TABLE E001 ALISON FOSKETT, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT El 16 KRISTINE GERBOVITZ, HEADBOARD, BOXES 3:30 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 12318 N. Mopac Expwy., Austin, TX 78758 A006 KENNETH M. SPARKS, CHAIRS, HOME GYM, LAMPS A042 JOSEPH ABULEZAM, TV, CHAIR, WIN DOW A/C C420 VALERIE TATE, ALL ITEMS IN UNIT 4:00 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 10931 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78759 A05B TED W. FREDRICKSEN, TOOLS, FISH POLE, WEEDEATER A06G YOUNGHEE KIM, RUG, BOXES, SUITCASE D049 CHARLES KING, BIKE, FLOOR JACK, BAR STOOL 2172 TRISHIA WIGGINS, END TABLE, MIRRORS, COFFEE TABLE 2304 RICK FRANCISCO, MATTRESS, BOX SPRINGS, CHAIR 4:30 p.m. 22 FEBRUARY, 2006 Public Storage @ 12915 Research Blvd., Austin, TX 78750 D032 CAROLL PHILLIPS, NEON SIGN, FLOOR JACK, LAMP 4056 JESSICA WITT LOVE SEAT, CHAIR, CD STAND NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE of property to satisfy landlord’s lien. Sale is 10:00 a.m., February 22, 2006 at 12132 Waters Park Rd Austin, TX, with an auction at Round Rock Mini Storage and Annex to follow. Property will be sold to highest bidder for cash. Cleanup and removal deposit may be required. Seller reserves right to withdraw property from sale. Property includes contents of spaces of the following ten- ants: CLAUDIA VELA, power concrete finisher, misc. tools, and misc. boxes. Contact on site manager at 255-5363 at Round Rock Mini Storage. NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS Shurgard Storage Centers wishing to avail themselves to the provisions of Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code, hereby gives notice of public sale under said Act to Wit; this sale will be held on February 21, 2006 beginning at 10:00 am at the Shurgard Storage Center located at 9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin, Texas. This sale will continue to each designated address listed below after the completion of each location sale. The property in the storage units at each location in the tenants’ name is being sold to satisfy a Landlord’s lien. The property contents of all storage units sold at this sale are purchased “AS IS”, “WHERE IS” for CASH to the highest bidder. Shurgard Storage Centers reserves the right to refuse any bid or to cancel any public sale ad- vertised. Announcements made the day of the sale take precedence over any printed materials. All spaces contain household furniture unless otherwise noted. SHURGARD STOAGE CEN- TERS, 9814 Westgate Blvd, Austin, TX 78748 (512)282- 9990; George Cox, Shannon Underwood, Herlinda Guerra, Matthew Hughes, Robert Guerra III. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 2121 IH 35 South, Austin, TX 78741 (512)693- 9733; Gloria Hughes, Lori Anderson, Bea Tran, Arthur Redmon. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 5220 US 290 West, Austin, TX 78735 (512)892- 3037; Diane Benjamin. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 6726 Bee Caves Road, Austin, TX 78746 (512)327-9113; David Lauer, Robert Smith, Paula Washburn. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 13675 N. Hwy. 183, Austin, TX 78750 (512)249- 0085; John Barrett. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 10001 N IH 35, Austin TX, 78753 (512)837- 6516; Marco Negron, Reginald Hampton, Celia Uzzell, Samuel Meredith. SHURGARD STORAGE CENTERS, 1517 Round Rock Ave, Round Rock, TX 78681 (512)255-7050; Sidney Mann. NOTICE OF SERVICE OF PROCESS BY PUBLICATION STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF MECKLENBURG IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE DISTRICT COURT DIVISION 05-CvD-21340 EDWARD B. WADE, Plaintiff ANGELA D. WADE, Defendant TO: ANGELA D. WADE, De- fendant TAKE NOTICE that a pleading seeking relief against you has been filed in the above-entitled action. The nature of the relief being sought is Absolute Divorce. You are required to make defense to such pleading not later than March 24, 2006, and upon your failure to do so, the party seeking service against you will apply to the Court for the relief sought. This 3rd day of February, 2006. Richard B. Johnson Attorney for Plaintiff 301 South McDowell Street Charlotte, North Carolina 28204 NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF ANDREA E. FRANKE, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Dependent Administration for the Estate of ANDREA E. FRANKE, De- ceasedwere issued on January 31, 2006, in Cause No. 83,591, pending in the Probate Court of Travis County, Texas, to: SCOTT D. HECTOR as Dependent Administrator. The residence of the Dependent Administrator is Austin, Texas. The post office address for claims is: Estate of , ANDREA E. FRANKE Law Office of Diane Hebner 507 West 7th Street Austin, Texas 78701 All persons having claims , against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED the 31st day of January, 2006. Law Office of Diane Hebner 507 West 7th Street Austin, TX 78701 (512)477-4158 Telephone (512)477-2126 Fax By: /s/ Diane Hebner State Bar No.: 09367300 Attorney for Dependent Ad- ministrator NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF CLAUDE VAUGHN, DECEASED Notice is hereby given that the original letters testamentary for the estate of Claude Vaughn, deceased, were issued on January 25, 2006, in Cause No. 84135 which is being administered in Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas to Thomas Claude Vaughn as inde- pendent executor. All persons having claims against this estate are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law in care of the independent executor’s attorney at the following address: D'Ana H. Mikeska, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.R, 919 Congress Avenue, Suite 1300, Austin, Texas 78701. NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING A CLAIM AGAINST THE ESTATE OF IRA LON MORGAN Deceased, Cause No. 83,940; In Probate Court No. 1 of Travis County, Texas. On December 14, 2005 Mary M. Morgan of Austin, Texas qualified as Independent Executor without bond and administration of the estate of Ira Lon Morgan has commenced. All persons having claims against the estate of Ira Lon Morgan are required to present those claims to Bradley Seals, counsel for the executor, at the address shown below be- fore the estate is closed and within the time precribed by law. Bradley Seals, Barron & Newburger, 1212 Guadalupe, Suite 104, Austin, Texas 78701. NOTICE TO ALL PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST THE ESTATE OF THOMAS james McFarland ii, de- ceased Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Thomas James McFarland II, deceased, were issued on January 25, 2006, in Cause No. 84124 pending in the Travis County Probate Court No. 1, Travis County, Texas to Cynthia Kay McFarland as Independent Executor. The residence of the Independent Executor is in Travis County, Texas. The post office address for claims is: Estate of Thomas James McFarland II Gilman & Associates, PC. 1411 West Avenue, Suite 100 Austin, TX 78701 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Dated: January 27, 2006 Gilman & Associates, PC. 1411 West Avenue, Suite 100 Austin, TX 78701 Attorneys for the Executor NOTICE TO CRAIG JOHN SCHMIDT You have been identified as the biological fa- ther or possible biological father of William John Dizonno, a Caucasian male child who Bradley Clark intends to adopt in approximately February, 2006. William John Dizonno was conceived on or about April 5, 2000 in Omaha, Nebraska and was born on January 5, 2001 . You have the right to 1) deny paternity; 2) waive any parental rights you may have; 3) relinquish and consent to adoption; or 4) file a notice of intent to claim paternity and obtain custody within five business days of the birth of the child or within five business days of this notice, whichever is later, pursuant to Nebraska law, Section 43-104.02. In order to deny paternity, waive your parental rights, relinquish and consent to adoption or receive additional information to determine whether you are the father of William John Dizonno, you must contact the below des- ignated attorney. If you wish to seek custody of the child, you must seek legal counsel from your own attorney immediately. Julie A. Frank, Frank & Gryva PC., L.L.O., 201 Historic Library Plaza, 1823 Harney Street, Omaha, NE 68102, Telephone (402) 346-0874. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Don Lee Abernathy, Deceased, were issued on November 8, 2005, in Docket No. 83,777, pending in the Probate Court Number One, of Travis County, Texas, to Carolyn Gay Abernathy. The residence of the Inde- pendent Executor is in Travis County, Texas, but mail is sent to the post office address of:c/o Guy F. Gebbia, Attorney 1505 West Koenig Lane Austin, Texas 78756 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. Dated the 20th day of January, 2006. /s/ Guy F. Gebbia Attorney for the Applicant NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters Testamentary for the Estate of Wilma Frances Arney Davis, Deceased, were issued on January 24, 2006, in Cause No. 84083, pending in the Probate Court Number One, Travis County, Texas, to Ben R Davis. Claims may be presented in care of the attorneys for the by Luke Ellis The material in this column is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute, nor is it a substitute for, legal advice. For advice on your specific facts and circumstances, consult a licensed attorney. COURTROOM CONDUCT AND ETIQUETTE - CAN MY CLOTHES GET ME IN TROUBLE? We have been summoned to appear in court next month because our two daughters have missed lots of school. The letter included a dress code for court and rules list. The letter states that if we fail to comply it can result in additional penalties. Is there a law that says we have to dress up for court? As a general rule, courtroom etiquette and rules of conduct, including things like dress code, are promul- gated by each individual county in what are referred to as local rules. The question above does not say what county the person asking the question resides in. The question does, however, mention a letter from the court, which suggests that the county where that person resides enforces a specific dress code. Someone headed to court should always abide by that court’s dress code. In theory, someone who violates a court dress code could be subject to penalties, including con- tempt of court as the most extreme measure. Although, punishment for failure to dress properly to court is both unlikely and uncommon. In Travis County, the local rules contain a section titled General Rules of Courtroom Conduct (“Rules of Conduct”), which can be found at www.co.travis.tx.us/ district_courts/pdffiles/local_rules.pdf. As last week’s column discussed, the Rules of Conduct mostly set out a list of activities (chewing gum, tobacco, etc.) that are prohibited in the courtroom. While Travis County’s rules of conduct do require that officers of the court (i.e., attorneys) dress appropri- ately for court sessions, there is no express requirement for dress for witnesses or people summoned to court. Nevertheless, as a practical matter, it is always in a per- son’s best interests to dress in a manner that shows the judge and jury the same amount of respect that they wish to be shown. If you don’t take the matter seriously enough to dress respectably for court, chances are that neither will others. Dressing properly shows that you understand that appearing in court is important. In the end, use your best judgment and you’ll be fine. Please submit column suggestions, questions, and com- ments to . Submission of potential topics does not create an attorney-client relationship, and any information submitted is subject to being included in future columns. austinchronicle.com I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | 129 by Tom and Ray Magliozzi A SIMPLE TEST FOR YOUR CLUTCH Dear Tom and Ray: I have a 1988 Honda Civic with a five- speed manual transmission. The mileage on the car is 75,000 - all short trips in New York City. A mechanic told me that I need to replace the clutch. I have my doubts, so how can I tell if I do need a new clutch ? - William RAY: Well, if you’ve driven 75,000 miles in New York City, that’s a good sign, William. TOM: Clutch wear isn’t based as much on miles as on how many times the clutch has been used. Specifically, how many times it’s been used to start the car from a dead stop. That - more than anything else - is what wears out the clutch. RAY: So when you drive in Manhattan, you could easily start from a dead stop 10 times over the course of a single mile. Or 100 times, if you’re in crosstown traffic during rush hour. Whereas if you drive on a highway, you may shift up through the gears once, and not shift again for 100 miles. TOM: So even though you’ve got “only” 75,000 miles on the car, you’re definitely a candidate for a clutch job, William. RAY: But here’s the test. Find something that absolutely won’t move - like, for instance, the Chrysler Building. TOM: Pull your car right up to it, so its front bumper is touching it. Then put the car in fifth gear, give it lots of gas and slowly let out the clutch. RAY: If the clutch is good, the engine will stall, no matter how much gas you’re giving it. Since a working clutch connects the engine to the wheels, if the wheels can’t turn, the engine will have to stop, too. And we know the wheels can’t turn, because we know you can’t push the Chrysler Building with an ’88 Civic, right? TOM: If the engine keeps running, then we know the clutch must be bad. Because if the car is in gear and the engine is turn- ing but the wheels are not, the clutch has to be slipping. RAY: By the way, just so you know, William, a clutch for this car in Manhattan is about $1,000. Plus another $200 for the ticket for parking on the sidewalk in front of the Chrysler Building. * * * Bumps and potholes do more than merely annoy drivers. Find out what, and how you can ease the pain, by ordering Tom and Ray’s pam- phlet “Ten Ways You May Be Ruining Your Car Without Even Knowing It!” Send $4.75 (check or money order) to Ruin, PO Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. * * * Got a question about cars? Write to Click and Clack in care of this newspaper, or e-mail them by visiting the Car Talk Web site at www.cartalk.com, f I Tune in to Car Talk each Saturday at 9am on »kut ,D - 5 i nUbl N liMi | 1 ©2004 by Tom & Ray Magliozzi and Doug Berman I Distributed by King Features Syndicate Estate addressed as follows: Gibson, Hotchkiss, Roach & Davenport, 4214 Medical Parkway, Suite 202, Austin, Texas 78756. All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED this 26th day of January, 2006. NOTICE TO CREDITORS On January 25, 2006, Mary Ann E. Patterson was issued letters testamentary for the Estate of Robert A. Patterson, Deceased, in Cause No. 84057 pending in the Probate Court Number One of Travis County, Texas. The address of the independent executor is c/o Craig Hopper, 400 W. 15th, Suite 808, Austin, Texas 78701, and all persons having claims against this estate are required to present them to such address in the manner and time required by law. Mary Ann E. Patterson, Inde- pendent Executor of the Estate of Robert A. Patterson, Deceased By: Craig Hopper, Attorney for the Independent Executor NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Independent Administration with Will Annexed for the Estate of Loraine Lucille Livingston, Deceased, were issued on January 24, 2006, in Cause No. 84080, pending in the Probate Court Number One, Travis County, Texas, to Linda Lou Callan. Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the Estate addressed as follows: Representative, Estate of Loraine Lucille Livingston, Deceased c/o Walter C. Guebert Walter C. Guebert, PC. 5900 Balcones Drive, Suite 190 Austin, Texas 78731 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED this 27th day of January, 2006. WALTER C. GUEBERT, PC. By: /s/ Walter C. Guebert NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that original Letters of Dependent Administration for the Estate of Faustino Sanchez Segura, Deceased, were issued on January 27, 2006, in Cause No. 83971, pending in the Probate Court Number One, Travis County, Texas, to Carolina Segura. Claims may be presented in care of the attorney for the Estate addressed as follows: Representative, Estate of Faustino Sanchez Segura, Deceased c/o Walter C. Guebert Walter C. Guebert, PC. 5900 Balcones Drive, Suite 190 Austin, Texas 78731 All persons having claims against this Estate which is currently being administered are required to present them within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. DATED this 27th day of January, 2006. WALTER C. GUEBERT, PC. By: /s/ Walter C. Guebert PUBLIC NOTICE A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2006 AT 9:00 A.M. AT THE TRAVIS COUNTY COMMISS- IONERS COURTROOM, 314 W. 1 1TH ST., AUSTIN, TEXAS TO RECEIVE COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC REGARDING A PETITION FOR THE CREATION OF AN EMERGENCY SERVICES DISTRICT #13 IN THE PART OF NORTHEAST TRAVIS COUNTY THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY SERVED BY ANOTHER DISTRICT. THE DISTRICT IS TO BE CREATED AND IS TO BE OP- ERATED UNDER ARTICLE 111, SECTION 48-E, OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION, AS PROPOSED BYS.J.R. NO. 27, ACTS OF THE 70TH LEG- ISLATURE, REGULAR SES- SION, 1987, AND ADOPTED BY THE VOTERS AT AN ELECTION HELD NOVEMBER 3, 1987.ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE HEARING ON THE CREATION OF THE DISTRICT AND PRESENT GROUNDS FOR OR AGAINST THE CREATION OF THE DISTRICT FOR ADDITIONAL INFOR- MATION YOU MAY CONTACT: DANADEBEAUVOIR TRAVIS COUNTY CLERK 5501 AIRPORT BLVD. AUSTIN, TEXAS 78751 854-4996 OR JUDGE SAMUEL T. BISCOE TRAVIS COUNTY JUDGE 314 W. 11TH ST. AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 854-9555 PUBLISHED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary for the Estate of MARY VIRGINIA BURDETTE RYAN were issued on January 10, 2006 in Docket Number 84017, pending in the Probate No. One, Travis County, Texas to RUTH MARTIN, Independent Executor. The address of record for RUTH MARTIN is 20002 Kennemer Drive, Pflugerville, Texas 78660. All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims to the foregoing address within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. S/ RUTH MARTIN, Independent Executor of the Estate of MARY VIRGINIA BURDETTE RYAN PUBLISHED NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given that Letters Testamentary for the Estate of AV0216 POUND SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF MOTOR VEHICLES IMPOUNDED BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 683.011 ET SEQ., TEXAS TRANSPORTATION CODE, REGULATING THE IMPOUNDING AND SALE OF ABANDONED VEHICLES BY DELEGATE OR PERSONALLY THE PURCHASER SHALL TAKE TITLE TO THE MOTOR VEHICLE FREE AND CLEAR OF ALL LIENS AND CLAIMS OF OWNERSHIP AND IS ENTITLED TO REGISTER THE PURCHASED MOTOR VEHICLE AND RECIEVE A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE. 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I WILL PROCEED TO SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN REDEEMED BY THE OWNERS, THEREOF TO WIT; FEBRUARY 16, 2006 @ 1:00 PM @ ROCHAS TOWING 5700 BURLESON RD, AUSTIN, TX 78744 (512) 280-2642 1. 068000001 2005 MINI MOTOR BIKE ** ** 20058151292 2. 068000002 1985 FORD ** ****** ** 1FABP22X2FK1 29722 3. 068000003 1993 MERC VN N89VNX TX 4M2DV1 1 W9PDJ1 5933 4. 068000004 1989 CHEV 2DR ZPG10F TX 1G1FP21SXKL1 65503 5. 068000005 1993 FORD 2DR D98GLJ TX KNJPT05H8P61 1 1 050 6. 068000006 1999 FORD 4DR D34WWG TX 1 FAFP66LXXK1 61 888 7. 068000007 1993 PLYM VN F32ZJL TX 2P4GH45R0PR349306 8. 068000008 1995 STRN 4DR X19DRP TX 1G8ZG528XSZ292381 9. 068000009 1997 OLDS 4DR S64BKX TX 1 G3NB52M7V631 1 099 10. 068000010 1983 CHEV PK YN5226 TX 1 GCDC1 4C6DJ142792 11. 068000011 1991 FORD PK 3XNR53 TX 1 FTCR1 0A1 MUC51 240 12. 068000012 1985 FORD PK 3HHY12 TX 1 FTDF1 5Y2FPA1 6933 13. 068000013 1986 MERC 4DR S28ZNG TX 2MEBP95FXGX614036 14. 068000014 1998 MERC 4DR D08TWZ TX 1 MEFM6534WK644763 15. 068000015 2000 PONT 4DR 910CRM TX 1G2NE52T0YM876569 16. 068000016 1998 CHEV 4DR 0KH949 LA 1G1JC5249W7284360 17. 068000017 1991 CHRY 4DR YCB61W TX 1C3XY56R8MD1 45929 18. 068000018 1993 BUIC 4DR M12TPG TX 2G4WB54L7P1 481 1 99 19. 068000019 1993 FORD 2DR 904CRL TX 1 FAPP6246PH1 51 066 20. 068000020 1983 CADI 4DR YYR90R TX 1G6AB6987D91 94430 21. 068000021 1986 MERC 4DR P56NBT TX 2MEBP95F4GX638591 22. 068000022 1989 CHEV PK 38BLP2 TX 2GCEC14K3K1 157267 23. 068000023 1994 HOND CP X17RZH TX 1 HGEJ1 1 39RL01 31 96 24. 068000024 1994 NISS 4DR 7SJNR TX JN1 EB31 F7RU601 354 25. 068000025 1994 STRN 2DR 423FMD TX 1 G8ZG1 579RZ267056 26. 068000026 1993 STRN 4DR Z35XNC TX 1G8ZJ5573PZ232955 27. 068000027 1990 HOND SD B64VLX TX 2HGED6350LH557562 28. 068000028 1991 FORD 2DR N34GKR TX 1ZVPT20C0M51 04571 29. 068000029 1992 CADI 4DR F68HPY TX 1G6CD53B3N4209893 30. 068000030 1988 CADI 4DR C03YXT TX 1 G6DW51 Y2JR758844 31. 068000031 1985 TOYT 4DR Z01KDR TX JT2MX73E8F0049896 32. 068000032 1991 CHEV LL 049NPR NM 1GNCT1 8Z0M8208469 SYLVIA LACY VAUGHN AKA SYLVIA L VAUGHN were issued on January 25, 2006 in Docket Number 84121, pending in the Probate No. One, Travis County, Texas to Gwyneth Vaughn Walters, Independent Executor. The address of record for GWYNETH VAUGHN WALTERS is 1411 West Avenue, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78701 . All persons having claims against this Estate are required to present their claims to the foregoing address within the time and in the manner prescribed by law. S/ GWYNETH VAUGHN WAL- TERS, Independent Executor of the Estate of SYLVIA LACY VAUGHN AKA SYLVIA L. VAUGHN STATE OF WISCONSIN CIRCUIT COURT EAU CLAIRE COUNTY SUPERIOR SAVING BANK, Plaintiff vs EMPIRE FUNDING CORPORATION, et al Defendants CASE NO: 05-CV-802 CODE NO: 30404 AMENDED SUMMONS THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, TO EACH PERSON NAMED ABOVE AS A DEFENDANT: You are hereby notified that the plaintiff names above has filed a lawsuit or other legal action against you. Within Twenty (20) Days after January 23, 2006, you must respond with a written demand for a copy of the complaint. The demand must be sent or delivered to the Court, whose address is 721 Oxford Avenue, Eau Claire, Wisconsin 54703 and to plaintiff's attorney whose address is 1 1 09 Tower Avenue, Superior, Wisconsin 54880. You may have an attorney help or represent you. If you do not demand a copy of the complaint within Twenty (20) Days, the Court may grant judgment against you for an award of money or other legal action requested in the complaint, and you may lose your right to object to anything that is or may be incorrect in the complaint. A judgement may be enforced as provided by law. A judgement awarding money may become a lien against any real estate you now own or may own in the future, and may also be enforced by garnishment or seizure or property. Dated this 17th day of January, 2006 MAKI, LEDIN, BICK & OL- SON, S.C. Attorneys for Plaintiff BY: /s/Stephen J Olson, a member of the firm. 1109 Tower Avenue Superior, Wl 54880 (715) 394-4471 Wisconsin License No: 1034771 Stephen (hoi Riad DBA Tomodatfii Japanese Restaurant Is Making Application with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for a Wine and Beer Retailer’s Permit and a Food and Beverage Cer- tificate On the Address of 4101 W. Parmer Lane, Suite E, Austin, Travis County, Texas. TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY EXAMPLE A NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR QUALITY STANDARD PERMIT REGISTRATION PROPOSED AIR QUALITY REGISTRATION NO. 77825 APPLICATION Lone Star Ready- Mix, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for Air Quality Standard Permit, Registration No. 77825, which would authorize construction of a Concrete Batch Plant located at 279 Old Bastrop Road, Del Valle, Travis County, Texas. The proposed facility will emit the following air contaminants: particulate matter including (but not limited to) aggregate, cement, and road dust. This application was submitted to TCEQ on January 1 7, 2006. The application is available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, the TCEQ Austin regional office, and the City of Austin Public Library, Cepeda Branch, 651 North Pleasant Valley Road, Austin, Travis County, Texas. The facility, s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Austin regional office of the TCEQ. The TCEQ executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. PUBLIC COMMENT/PUBLIC MEETING You may submit public comments, a request for a public meeting, or request a contested case hearing to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application. The deadline to submit public comments is 15 days after newspaper notice is published. The purpose of a public meeting is to provide the opportunity to submit comments or ask questions about the application. A public meeting about the application will be held if the executive director determines that there is a significant degree of public interest in the application or if requested by a local legislator. A public meeting is not a contested case hearing. If only comments are received on the application, the response to comments, along with notice of the executive directors action on the application, will be mailed to everyone who submitted comments or is on the mailing list for this application. If a hearing request is timely filed, the executive director will complete the technical review, issue a preliminary decision on the application, and a Notice of the Application and Preliminary Decision will be published and mailed to those who are on the mailing list of this application. That notice will contain the final deadline for submitting public comments. After the final deadline for public comment following any required Notice of Application and Preliminary Decision, the executive director will consider the comments and prepare a response to all relevant and material, or significant public comments. If any comments are received, the response to comments, along with the executive directors decision on the application, will then be mailed to everyone who submitted public comments or who is on a mailing list for this application. OPPORTUNITY FORA CONTESTED CASE HEARING You may request a contested case hearing. A contested case hearing is a legal proceeding similar to a civil trial in state district court. Unless a written request for a contested case hearing is filed within 1 5 days from this notice, the executive director may approve the application. If no hearing request is received within this 15-day period, no further opportunity for hearing will be provided. A contested case hearing will only be granted based on disputed issues of fact that are relevant and material to the Commission, s decision on the application. Further, the Commission will only grant a hearing on those issues raised during the public comment period and not withdrawn. A person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility is entitled to request a hearing. To request a hearing, a person must actually reside in a permanent residence within 440 yards of the proposed plant. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number, and fax number, if any; (2) applicant’s name and Registration Number; (3) the statement “we request a contested case hearing;”(4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; and (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility. If the request is made by a group or association, the one or more members who have standing to request a hearing, and the interests which the group or association seek to protect, must also be identified. Requests for a contested case hearing must be submitted within 15 days following this notice to the Office of the Chief Clerk, at the address below. If a hearing request is timely filed, additional notice will be provided. Following the close of all applicable comment and request periods, the executive director will forward the application and any requests for contested case hearing to the TCEQ Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commissioner’s meeting. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact related to relevant and material air quality concerns raised during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic 130 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission, s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding. MAILING LIST In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list to receive future public notices for this specific application mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk by sending a written request to the TCEQ Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. INFORMATION Written public comments or requests for a public meeting or contested case hearing should be submitted to the Office of the Chief Clerk, MC- 105, TCEQ, RO. Box 13087, Austin, Texas 78711-3087 For more information about this permit application or the permitting process, please call the Office of Public Assistance, Toll Free, at 1-800-687-4040. Si desea informacion en Espanol, puede llamaral 1-800-687-4040. General information regarding the TCEQ can be found at www.tceq.state.tx.us. Further information may also be obtained from Lone Star Ready- Mix, RO. Box 143148, Austin, Texas 78714-3148 or by calling Ms. Monique Wells, Hill Country Environmental, Inc. at (512) 327- 2725. Issuance Date: January 25, 2006. TRAVIS COUNTY ONLINE AUCTION: SURPLUS PROPERTY BEGINNING: FEBRUARY 13, 2006 ENDING: MARCH 6, 2006 RENE BATES AUCTIONEER (FOR TRAVIS COUNTY) WWW.RENEBATES.COM ‘MODULAR FURNITURE: WORK SURFACES 254 (APPROX) VARIOUS SHAPES, COLORS, SIZES; CLOTH PANELS 24 (APPROX) PALLETS VARIOUS BRANDS SIZES AND COLORS; MISC HARDWARE 23 (APPROX) PALLETS MISC HARDWARE BASE UNITS, HUTCHS, LIGHTS VIEWING OF ITEMS WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2006 BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM TILL 12:00 PM @ 7811 BURLESON MANOR ROAD, MANOR, TEXAS 78653. ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS, BUYERS WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY AS SOON AS DEAL IS CONCLUDED. BUY- ERS MUST REMOVE PROP- ERTY BY MARCH 17TH, 4:00 PM. ALL BIDDERS ARE RE- QUIRED TO REGISTER PRIOR TO AUCTION, ALL PURCHASES MUST BE SET- TLED AT END OF SALE, BUYER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE REMOVAL OF PROPERTY FROM AUCTION SIGHT TRAVIS COUNTY EM- PLOYEES AND FAMILY ARE PERMITTED TO BID. FOR FURTHER INFORMA- TION YOU MAY CONTACT DAN ROLLIE AT (512) 854- 6459 OR RON DUBE AT (512) 854-6458. TRAVIS COUNTY ONLINE AUCTION: SURPLUS PROPERTY BEGINNING: FEBRUARY 13, 2006 ENDING: MARCH 6, 2006 RENE BATES AUCTIONEER (FOR TRAVIS COUNTY) WWW.RENEBATES.COM ‘APPROXIMATELY SIXTEEN I BEAMS, 30'L X 6' H VIEWING OF ITEMS WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2006 BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM TILL 12:00 PM @ 7331 DECKER LANE, AUS- TIN, TEXAS 78724. ALL ITEMS SOLD AS IS, WHERE IS, BUYERS WILL BE RE- SPONSIBLE FOR PROPERTY AS SOON AS DEAL IS CON- CLUDED. BUYERS MUST RE- MOVE PROPERTY BY MARCH 17TH, 4:00 PM. ALL BIDDERS ARE REQUIRED TO REGISTER PRIOR TO AUCTION, ALL PURCHASES MUST BE SETTLED AT END OF SALE, BUYER IS RE- SPONSIBLE FOR THE RE- MOVAL OF PROPERTY FROM AUCTION SIGHT TRAVIS COUNTY EMPLOY- EES AND FAMILY ARE PER- MITTED TO BID. 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We also sell cars that have been totally refurbished, and each comes with a full warranty and a free 21 day test drive. “I was driving in the middle of nowhere, some dirt road at dusk outside of Austin. I drive around a thicket of trees and almost plow into a cow. The Goddess Lakshmi was watching out for me because she steered my Hindu ass into a ditch instead of potentially killing the reincarnation of one of my grandparents. To add to my good karma, I read the Auto Depot ad the next day and took my very dented Nissan down there. The Auto Depot fixed my car quick and best of all they did it right. It’s like it's never happened outside of the occasional nightmare of being reincarnated as an earthworm.” - Vijay Harishankar, South Austin Special Cars of the Week: 1994 Honda Accord EX, AT, loaded. $4950 1998 RAV-4, 60,000 miles, loaded. $6950 1989 Firebird, automatic, T-tops, V-8, cosmetically challenged, runs good. $950 1996 Nissan Sentra, 4 Dr., automatic, 1 30K, full warranty, clean. $3950 1997 Nissan Quest. Clean, nice, 120K, loaded. $4500. Warranty. 1991 Mazda Miata, Convertible, British racing green, tan leather, 5 sp., nice, clean presentable car, $3950. Warranty Coming soon... 2000 Nissan Pick-up, regular cab, automatic, 93K, nice, clean, warranty $5650 Just south of Braker Lane, off Lamar at 909 Prairie Trail. 836-9767 or 402-1454** (“NIGHTS AND WEEKENDS 'TIL 9PM) SPECIALIZING IN JAPANESE CARS www.AUTODEPOTAUSTIN.com by Rob Brezsny fan Feb. 5 to Feb. 12 AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): Several of my friends have given names to their cars, and I know many other people who have bestowed appellations on their homes, their vacuum cleaners, their favorite trees, and their genitals. In Norse mythology, the god Thor affectionately called his magic golden hammer by the name Mjollnir. It so happens that this would be a ripe time for you to experiment with this approach, Aquarius. I think you'll find that as you name your home and car as well as every plant, toaster, traffic light, crow, and cloud, the whole world will become more alive and friendly and helpful. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20): "We are what we pretend to be," wrote author Kurt Vonnegut, "so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." This is excellent advice to keep at the forefront of your awareness during the coming weeks, Pisces. Here's how I interpret his statement: There's not necessarily anything wrong with playing a role if that role is in align- ment with your highest values. In fact, to make believe that you are the person you want to be is an excellent strategy for actually becoming the person you want to be. ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL19): My friend Rose comes from a large extended family that does not include a single millionaire. There's no chance she will inherit a windfall from a dead relative. On the other hand, many religious devotees, humanitarians, and do-gooders have graced both sides of her family line. She regards her own idealistic aspirations as being a result of the legacy they left her; she thinks of herself as having received an inheritance composed of spiritual wealth. What about you, Aries? What are the special gifts of your heritage? What talents and capacities have you been blessed with by your ancestors? It's time to intensify your efforts to make use of them. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20): Do you have a forbidden fantasy? Is there some adventure you wish you could let yourself have, but you lack the money or spunk to attempt it? Have you been nursing an impossible dream that is no closer to fulfillment now than it was when you first conjured it up years ago? If so, Taurus, the time has come to resolve your relationship with it. Either renounce it and forget it forever, or else take a bold, practical step toward making it come true. p.s. You have more courage than you realize. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20): Fashion designer Rick Owens toiled in relative obscurity for years while perfecting his "glunge" look, which mixes glamour with grunge. Now he has his own acclaimed clothing line in Paris. Recently an interviewer asked him, "What is the most important lesson you've learned?" His reply: "We're all freaks." I'd like you to take that idea to heart, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you'll benefit from fully acknowledging how odd, idiosyncratic, irregular, and mysterious you really are - and learning to love that fact. This week's second assignment is also spurred by Owens. "What's your definition of beauty?" he was asked. "With fitness, grooming, and an open heart," he said, "absolutely anyone can be wildly attractive." Work on that, too. Revel in your wildly attractive freakiness. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22): After torrential rains caused flooding in the small town where I live, the Thai restaurant was one of the few downtown businesses that was spared cata- strophic damage. The maitre d' explained to me why as I ordered my to-go dinner tonight. "We've always hated our tile floor. It makes the place feel sterile, and it's slippery. People lose their footing if there's even a little wet spot. But when the three feet of floodwater poured in, our tile floor held up. All the stores around us had wooden floors that were destroyed." This is your metaphor of the week, Cancerian. Something in your life that you have regarded as a problem will become a saving grace. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22): You may not realize how significant a role that architecture plays in shaping your moods, ideas, and decisions. I'm here to remind you that it does. The quality of the indoor space you regularly inhabit deeply influences what goes on inside your mind and body. It's not just the structure of the buildings I'm talking about, of course, but also the decor, the furniture, the carpets, and the colors. In 2006, it will be important for you to become more aware of this fact and to be aggressive about putting yourself into environ- ments that bring out the best in you. As a gift to yourself, spend some time inside the most uplifting building you know. VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 221; I derided to work on your horoscope while out in nature today. Armed with my notebook of astrology data, I found a fallen tree to use as a chair on the muddy bank of Ross Creek. As I gazed into the rain-swollen torrent and thought about you, a little voice in my head said I should give you the following message: To invoke the awareness that will help you formulate this week's most important questions, spend quality time watch- ing water flow through the earth, watching clouds stream through the sky, and watching thoughts glide across your mind's eye. LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22); "Though the human body is born complete in one moment, the birth of the human heart is an ongoing process," writes John O'Donohue in his book Anam Cara. In other words, your capacity for love is forever on the brink of expanding. Your potential to be transformed by compassionate intimacy is inexhaustible. Your emotional intelligence is always ready to awaken more thoroughly, to ripen more brilliantly. Of course you can resist the ongoing pressure to give birth to more heart wisdom. Shrinking back from the relentless upheaval, you can reject the demanding bliss you're offered and retreat into safe numbness. Which way will you choose, Libra? This week will be a turning point. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 211; This isn't always the case, Scorpio, but right now you have a certain resemblance to that type of wild iris know as blue-eyed grass. Its stem isn't hardy enough to hold up more than one flower blossom at a time; before a new bloom sprouts, therefore, the old one has to wither. Similarly, you can't and shouldn't try to work on more than a single labor of love, at least for the next week. Devote all your concentration and care to it, ignoring the other possibilities. And don't worry: This narrowing of your focus is a good thing. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21): The American Dialect Society has chosen the best new words of 2005. Winning in the "most creative" category was "whale tail," which refers to the top of a thong showing above the waistband of pants or a skirt. But the fresh coinage that's most meaningful to you right now, Sagittarius, is "truthiness." It's the quality people embody when they assert concepts that they wish to be true instead of sticking to the facts. In his TV show on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert articulated a perfect example: "Who's Britannica to tell me the Panama Canal was finished in 1914? If I want to say it happened in 1941, that's my right. I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart." It's always important for you to avoid truthiness yourself and protest it when it spills from others. But it's especially crucial now. Arm yourself with factiness. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19): Good news, Capricorn. Right now your financial prospects look almost as bright as those of the oil industry, whose earnings grew 42% in the last three months of 2005. There is a caveat, however. If, like the companies that sell gasoline, you attempt to capitalize on bad news and profit at the expense of the collective well-being, your money situation will suffer. To gather all of the good economic fortune that's available, you've got to redouble your efforts to maintain high levels of integrity. 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Call Sergio at 512-784-2297 BASS AND GUITAR Looking for bass player and lead guitarist for rock band. www.theartificialhearts.com BASS PLAYER NEEDED for beatles tribute band. male or female, must be serious and show up for practice.more info 243-1916. 132 I THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE I FEBRUARY 3, 2006 I austinchronicle.com BASS PLAYER NEEDED. Must be experienced, responsible, talented. Play with established female name act with original songs. Day job is fine. Must have the ability to play weekends and practice on weeknights. Upcoming gigs. Call 497-3500 and leave call back number. BASS PLAYER SEEKS older, mature, responsible, no drunks or druggies guitar players and drummer for rock, southern rock, blues project. Have my own rehearsal space, PA, small light show and booking agent. Call 921-8939 or 731-0029 for more info. BASS PLAYER. ONLY requirement is that it be original, previous work at www.myspace.com/kolactic Cal 1409-527-1 135. CREATIVE/GOOD EAR/TIMING/LEARN QUICK/MIX styles. Pro attitude/gear. alter/indie/pop/rock/blues CREATIVE/LEARN FAST/MIX STYLES. ORIGINALS only/proattitud/gear/vocals. alter/i ndi/pop/rock/bl ues. DEADSLUT IS STILL looking for a Metal drummer. Check out music at www.deadslut.com DRUMMER AND BASSIST wanted, Well trained and professional, piano based pop/rock. , email for myspace page DRUMMER NEEDED FOR original gigging female fronted project. Wei I seasoned drummers only, www.trinity- blue.com Trinity 457-0575. DRUMMER/BASSIST needed to complete power trio for 25 yr. old hard-rock singer/guitar player. 419-217- 0709 GUITARIST AVAILABLE FOR paid gigs and sessions. Pro gear. http://www.myspace.com/mul- let_kingdom GUITARIST NEEDED FOR power pop project. Age around 30. Samples at www.robstarmusic.com GUITARIST SEEKS GUITAR & voice to play/write acoustic rock/folk songs. Have some songs & space. 31, need mature, stable, hard-workers-moderate exp. ok. 796-7137 . GUITARIST WANTED BY Female fronted Newwave/Indie/Pop Band. Industry Shows and MidWest Tour in March. Looking for creative lead guitarist, must be Pro and have experience. myspace.com/shopliftersofthe- worldmusic. or (512)296-3528 HEAVY METALCORE BAND Iso Drummer(odd times), bass player, Tight rhythm guitar, growling/screamer! serious only, talent only! 786-9427 INDUSTRIAL/ROCK BAND DAX seeks guitarist for gigs and more. MySpace.com/dax. E-mail or call: 413-1874. JAZZ GUITARIST SEEKS 2nd guitar and horn(?) for jazz/blues Standards & Originals. Geoff 295-3811 JAZZ PIANIST SEEKS fellow pro level players for trading fours and ideas. Pianists welcome. Two new concert grands. 484-5002 JOURNEY/NEW AGE BACKGROUND music needed ASAP for Hypnotherapy recordings. Bettina 512-267- 4121. KEYBOARD PLAYER NEEDE for beatles tribute, male or female. Must show up for practice! call 243-1916 LEAD GUITARIST WWW.DAGKING .com needs guitar, keyboard and female vocal. Dag at 382-7296 LEAD PLAYER NEEDED for Texas Music Artist, be pro and have good gear, 563-8759 LEAD VOCALIST NEEDED for beatles tribute band, male or female. Must be serious and show up for practice, call 243- 1916. LOOKING FOR 2 acoustic guitar/singer/songwriters to form trio to perform live. Originals and some covers in the Latin genre. Please call 413- 3520. Leave message. MELODIC/PROG METAL BAND seeks drummer. Songs at www.myspace.com/etherealar- chitect E-mail: MUSICIAN LOOKING FOR other musicians to do great cover songs at open mics leading to originals. Info at http://ross.music-arts.net. NEED DRUM ANY exp.for start- up band Led Zep to Metallica. Bluesy/Rocky/Metal Will provide trans. Call Rick 512-255-4908 NEW FUNK BAND FORMING - WE NEED MUSICIANS. All Spots avail, to audition call/write 512- 557-8778 PLAYER WANTED, GOOD gear, good attitude, working country/top40 band. Vocals are a plus. 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Me: Man. #900256 austinchronicle.com /easy street VOICE RESPONSE: 520 . 547.4259 liiv doc-A Laciepalooza Friday, February 3, 9pm • Hole in the Wall www.simsfoundation.org Part of your penance for living in an artistically rich and diverse community like Austin is living with the people who make the art. At times they’re charming and engaging and fun to be around, and at others they’re just the sadsack deadbeats who can’t pay the rent. Your edge might be dulled by the slow, withering hell of pawning your soul in eight-hour increments to the man, but at least you manage to keep teeth in your head, a shirt on your back, and ramen in your cupboard. The same cannot be said for musicians, who always seem to be trailing the stench of impending bankruptcy. Sure, there are some for whom poverty is merely an affectation, trust-funded pos- ers whose brows are unfurrowed by the worry of falling through society’s safety net, but by and large those gaunt, scruffy rockers in the blood bank line aren’t in it for the spiritual sustenance or the cheap buzz. Music, like crime, rarefy pays, and eventually the bright lights of the stage give way to the bright lights of an examination table. Sadly, most doctors don’t work for wads of wrinkled ones pulled out of a tip jar. So, every once in a while - like this Saturday’s Laciepalooza show at the Hole in the Wall, you have to pony up and pay your Austin cover charge for the hand-to-mouthers that make this city what it is. Laciepalooza is a benefit for local musician Lacie Taylor, who is undergoing treatments for severe chronic back pain. Along with singing backup for Bruce Robison on occasion, Lacie is a math tutor, artist, and a member of the acoustic doo-wop duo Fine Fifteen. $10 gets you a bill that includes Bruce, Earl Poole Ball, Ethan Azarian, Jerm Pollet, Lil’ Cap’n Travis, and the Darling New Neighbors. ENTER TO WIN 1 • Place a Lovers Lane profile with your photo before 5pm Friday, February 3, and you could win a $150 salon treatment from JR Salon. The package includes a stress relieving scalp treatment, shampoo, cut, style, and hand massage as well as a brow wax and make up touch-up! austinchronicle.com/loverslane Respond to these ads and more online at austinchronicle.com/easystreet - find the ads you want to reply to, and e-mail directly through our site. This icon 0 means there is a voice message you can listen to. With a mem- bership, you can listen and respond to as many voice messages as your heart desires. There are no 900 #s or per minute fees. 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