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Volume 19, Number 1
features
What the Right Hand Is Doing
Magician turned sitcom star Harry Anderson returns to Austin at Palmer Auditorium this weekend, and his former partner and cohort, Austin author Turk Pipkin, looks back as he looks forward to reuniting with his old pal.
BY TURK PIPKIN
news
Coal Hard Cash
Alcoa has applied for a mining application in Elgin, near Austin.
Burying the Past
Judge rules that George W. Bush doesn't have to testify in whistleblower lawsuit.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Breaking ground on the Austin Convention Center expansion project.
BY AMY SMITH
Media Clips
"Media Clips" weighs in on Web site parody of George Bush, Statesman reporter Ben Wear moved off of the city hall beat, and Travis County District Judge Jeanne Meurer declines to issue ruling in KOOP case.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Council Watch
Water Gate: Is LCRA Offering City a Whale of a Deal?
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
This Year's Hot Shots
Ninth Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest Results
9th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Food-o-File
In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Food editor Virginia B. Wood tracks local chefs going abroad and gives returning University of Texas students an update on recent restaurant closings and openings.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Curra's Grill
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
(Evita's) Botanitas
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Iguana Grill
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Ruby's BBQ
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Tres Amigos
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
Trudy's / Trudy's Texas Star
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
The Yellow Rose
Previous Hot Sauce Festival Winners
music
Make Your Mama Proud
Profile of local rapper MC Overlord.
BY ANDY LANGER
High Impact
Austin hip-hop promoters Hip-Hop Mecca
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
The clubs just keep closing (or being raided by comptrollers), but at least we still have television.
BY KEN LIECK
Roger Wallace at Babe's, August 23
Roger Wallace
Roger Wallace at Babe's, August 23
Mandy Barnett
Mandy Barnett at Central Market 38th, August 25
Solid Gold 40
Solid Gold 40 at Hole in the Wall, August 27
Rúben Blades
Rúben Blades at La Zona Rosa, August 29
Gavin Summit in Boulder, Colorado, August 18-21
Live music reviews.
screens
Austin Filmmaking, Ten Years After
Film director Richard Linklater interviews Bob Ray, the director of the new Austin-made movie Rock Opera, about the Austin Film scene over the past 10 years.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Walking the Straight Edge
Texas Documentary Tour brings Jem Cohen's documentary on Fugazi, Instrument, to the Alamo Drafthouse.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Super-8's Super Fans
The Cinemaker Co-op preserves the art of the littlest of motion picture formats -- Super-8 -- and trains tomorrow's filmmakers along the way.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Hear the networks scraping the bottom of the barrel ...
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
News from the Austin film world.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Screens Reviews
American Hot Wax
This neglected 1978 American rock & roll film is a historical invocation of
legendary deejay Alan Freed's life and cultural impact.
Broadway Jungle
Imagine a movie made by someone who had never been told
Imagine a movie made by someone who'd never even seen a movie before. The outcome might be the 1955 film Broadway Jungle
Film Reviews
Rock Opera
Locally filmed micro-budget feature tells a picaresque story about a punk guitarist who is trying to sell enough pot to finance a low-rent tour for his band. His journey instead takes him on a tour through the college-town underground.
Twin Falls Idaho
arts & culture
Bending the Rules
Getting arts funding from the City of Austin is a long, complicated game, and Austin Chronicle writers Robi Polgar, John Walch, and Mary Jane Garza have been following some of the players around the game board this year. In the final part of their four-part series, they critique the city arts funding process.
BY MARY JANE GARZA, ROBI POLGAR AND JOHN WALCH
Articulations
The end of the Ann Ciccolella Era at the Austin Circle of Theatres.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'Confronting Intimate Violence: A Dress Speaks: Heeding the Voice'
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin.
The Taming of the Shrew: Indeed a Revel
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
columns
Page Two
And I bet Carole Keeton Rylander can't stuff two twinkies into her mouth.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
The beefs this week: Chronicle reporter Robert Bryce on CNN, genetically engineered foods, Steamboat, John Aielli, Paul Minor, and more.
Letters at 3AM
The stakes were suddenly higher. There was more possibility in the night and in their lives than they'd yet considered. The work of art itself gave them the energy to fulfill its expectations...
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Public Notice
You name it, we stood left of it.
BY KATE X MESSER
Coach's Corner
Gratuitous media guides and preseason games.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Mr. Smarty Pants
This week: handy facts and tips on ice cream cones, the Red Dwarf, the Piggly Wiggly.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Divine, boy ponytails, more on proportion and capri pants.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
AIDS isn't just an urban disease.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
