Bright Lights, Little City [12-06-02]
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
It's maybe silly to fix a personality on a place, but something happens when you hook a left onto Austin Ave. and drive into Georgetown's historic district. Everything slows down, just a little bit, and then there's that marquee, neon and spangly, lighting up downtown. Welcome to the Palace.

• Movies at the Palace [12-06-02]
  

Tech Toys [12-06-02]
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Gift guide for the tech-minded.

• XBox Live [12-06-02]
  BY MARCEL MEYER
  

Flesh & Blood [12-06-02]
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Drafthouse thinks you could do with a little more Udo. That's why they're bringing in German legend Udo Kier for the weekend.

Another Blow to Damsels-in-Distress: 'Jen Saves Ben' [12-06-02]
BY MARC SAVLOV

Page-Turners [12-06-02]

Short Cuts [12-06-02]
BY MARC SAVLOV
It's official: Ethan and Dennis are in.

Film Reviews
New reviews from The Austin Chronicle Movie Guide

• Analyze That
• Drumline
• The Hot Chick
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
• Maid in Manhattan
• Star Trek: Nemesis

Video Reviews [12-06-02]

• Shock Corridor (1963)

TV Eye [12-06-02]
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The story CNN broke, and the story that broke CNN into the big leagues of television journalism.

A Different Kind of Player [11-29-02]
BY KATE X MESSER
As far as nightclub concepts go, LAN parties aren't exactly thought of as pickup hotspots. Well, think again.

Memo [11-29-02]

In Which We Remove Foot From Mouth, Mind From Gutter [11-29-02]
A Freudian slip from the one-track mind of Sarah Hepola.

'Heaven' Sent [11-22-02]
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Writer / director Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties in Far From Heaven.

The Producers [11-22-02]
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The fourth annual National Association of Latino Independent Producers conference met in San Antonio Nov. 7-10 to talk shop and fête its most promising players.

In Print [11-22-02]
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
UT professor Charles Ramírez Berg has crafted an academic dissection of film stereotypes. Moreover, it's an enormously readable and instructive volume.

Open Screen Night [11-22-02]
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
A cheap way to influence masses