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February 18, 2000
Volume 19, Number 25
features
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The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story
Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith exploresBY JORDAN SMITH
news
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House Hunting
Underdog Stella Roland challenges incumbent Dawnna Dukes to represent East Austin in the Texas House of Representatives.BY ERICA C. BARNETT
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Mighty Real
Photo Essay: Austin's Underground Drag SceneBY JANA BIRCHUM
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Two Roads to Justice
Republican Shane Phelps takes another stab at Democrat Ronnie Earle's job for district attorney.BY ROBERT BRYCE
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Naked City
Danny Thomas gets the Austin Police Association PAC endorsement; city signs contract with CSC; Bill Gates appears via satellite at the Austin Convention Center; election workers needed for the March 14 primaryBY AMY SMITH
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Council Watch
Details of the Bradley Settlement are finally made public and opened up to debate; Bill Spelman announces that he will not run for re-election to Place 5.BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
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Media Clips
Microradio wins FCC approval, but advocates of the low-wattage stations say the rules for winning a license will prohibit most stations and silence the microradio community's radical voice.BY LEE NICHOLS
food
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Beyond the Norm
The Impressive Euro-Asian Fare at Bistro 88BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
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Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood reveals who came to dinner on February 5, what they ate, and where their money went, and updates readers on changes in Austin's culinary world.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: American Cafes
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The Coffeehouse Chronicles
Mojo's Daily GrindBY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
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Food Reviews
music
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Wide Open Heart
Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
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Sugarland Express
Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockersBY JERRY RENSHAW
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Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...BY KEN LIECK
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Record Reviews
- D'Angelo Voodoo (Virgin)
- Sekou Sundiata Longstoryshort (Righteous Babe)
- Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino WordBeat)
- Dr. John Duke Elegant (Blue Note)
- McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster (Telarc)
- Caravana Cubana Late Night Sessions (Rhino)
- Enigma The Screen Behind the Mirror (Virgin)
- Clinton Disco & the Halfway to Discontent (Luaka Bop)
- Lambchop Nixon (Merge)
- Michael Penn MP4 (Epic/Fifty Seven)
- Aimee Mann Songs From Magnolia (Reprise)
- Sara Hickman Spiritual Appliances (Shanachie)
- Le Tigre (Mr. Lady)
- Don Walser The Texas Plainsmen With Yodeling Donnie Walser (Walser Archive Recordings)
screens
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Miracle Man
When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.BY MARC SAVLOV
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TV Eye
Hoping to cash in on the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire craze, networks are developing game shows with increasingly ridiculous premises.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Making History Personal
History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.BY ROBI POLGAR
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Articulations
Changes in artistic direction for two local companies.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Welcome to SXSW season.BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Public Notice
This week, your pals at Public Notice hit the drag shows, the lanes, the halls, and the alleys, all while making room for next week's chocolate binge : all for a good cause, o'course.BY KATE X MESSER
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Letters at 3AM
Death is not a separation, but a living presence.BY MICHAEL VENTURA
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After a Fashion
Local roboticist Brooks Coleman walks the line between art and fashion with his line of sheet metal lingere.BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Mr. Smarty Pants
Lung disease, french fries, and sticks of fire.BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Coach's Corner
It's Valentine's Day, and Mavericks fans are in love with Dennis Rodman. But it'll pass.BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
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Day Trips
Take your chum to the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park.BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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About AIDS
AIDS is not just a big city disease.BY SANDY BARTLETT
The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch
How to cure your attention deficit
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Book Reviews
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Postscripts
Some opening salvos from Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose's new book Shrub: The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush.BY CLAY SMITH
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Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests. -
Book Reviews
FOLLOWUS
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Praise the Lloyd Lloyd Maines and the Dixie Chicks hold court for KLRU
Thinking About Stephen Bruton There’s just no getting over some people
Playback: Demolition at 1701 Red River Another Red River venue going away? There goes the neighborhood.
Bonds: 'Death By a Thousand Cuts' Even with Propositions 1 and 3 passing, AISD's election campaign appeared doomed from the start
The Changing Face of Mueller A burst of development marks the latest phase of the central city neighborhood
Review: The Great Gatsby A great American novel does not always a great movie make, but Baz Lurhmann, a director of delirious excess, certainly seems an apt fit for the Roaring Twenties.
CHRONCAST
Eastside Memorial High School Poem Dedication
Students from the East Austin campus send a message to the Austin ISD board of trustees
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