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Volume 19, Number 34
features
Passion Forward
The Chronicle's style avatar, Stephen M. Moser, explores the fashion program at the University of Texas.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
Winds of Change
As electric industry restructuring opens utilities up to competition, some, including Austin's municipally-owned utility, are looking to renewable energy sources to win customers and meet the requirements of a 1999 law.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Margin of Error
Some Texas high schools may be violating the "top 10%" law, which guarantees admission to UT and other Texas colleges and universities, by exaggerating the number of students in the top 10% of their graduating classes.
BY JONATHAN DAVID CARROLL
Slimed!
Is Barton Springs Pool Losing Its Soul to Algae?
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Endorsements
Naked City
Brigid Shea resigns from the Save Our Springs pac over the board's refusal to endorse Kirk Watson for mayor; Millennium March on Washington is April 30.
BY AMY SMITH
Crossing That Bridge
Council approves a separate bike and pedestrian bridge over Town Lake near the existing Lamar Street Bridge, and hears neighborhood concerns about moving central booking to the new criminal justice center downtown.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Media Clips
The Internet offers new opportunities for newspapers to expand their coverage, but so far, Texas dailies have yet to heed the call.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
True to Their (New) Roots
The Loiacono family, who own Bellagio Italian Bistro, apparently believe in two cornerstones of traditional cuisine -- fresh ingredients and sizable portions. They pride themselves in making upward of 30 different pastas on the premises : from bright spinach fettucine to rippled radiatore and ribbon-edged tagliatelle.
BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
Two Texas Menus With a Gallic Twist
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
A Flurry of Fowl
BY BETH VLASICH PAV
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood explains why Austin is home away from home for several French chefs and updates readers on local restaurant changes.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Free Happy-Hour Buffets
Poor? Hungry? Have we got the restaurants for you!
Food Reviews
Crescent City Beignets
Friendly service, great food, and reasonable prices make Crescent City Beignets a quick fix for Cajun cravings.
music
Harvey Pekar and Gary Dumm
Two new strips from Cleveland's crank critic
Dancing About Architecture
Doug Sahm returns from beyond, MP3s shake up Austin music, Hip Hop meets R&B, and the Watermelon Saga continues...
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
The Ranchero Brothers, Stubb's, April 12
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Frank Erwin Center, April 17
screens
Between Worlds
In its third year, Cine las Americas has hit its stride. This year's festival of new Latin American cinema boasts added venues, more parties, panels, and visiting filmmakers, whose work depicts the Latin American experience in and out of the U.S.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Looking for something to watch this Easter? Try a little history lesson with George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire. Also, Antiques Roadshow comes to Austin; Great Writers, Great Cities premieres on PBS; no one takes the flap for Who Wants to Marry a Multi-millionaire.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Cotton Mary
Deterrence
Gun Shy
Love and Basketball
A young woman learns to navigate the hoops on and off the court.
arts & culture
Life Again in Oz
On the 20th anniversary of the premiere of her play Ozma of Oz, Suzan Zeder revisits Frank Baum's enchanted land to turn the show into a musical and finds a part of herself there.
BY C. DENBY SWANSON
Still Hazy After All These Years
The Seventies may be long gone, but counterculture comedian Tommy Chong is still here and still doing what he loves: smoking dope, playing music, and making people laugh.
Articulations
The sale of an art collection at UT and the return of a grand hotel.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Passion According to St. Matthew: Searching for Light in This Darkest Story
Bach's St. Matthew Passion is a behemoth of a choral piece, but Craig Hella Johnson and his New Texas Music Works Conspirare Symphonic Choir achieved a near-flawless evening of graceful, sometimes powerful song.
Curb Appeal: Where the Heart Is
In Steven Tomlinson's Curb Appeal, Austin's best monologist builds on a basic foundation : the inherent similarities of dating and house-hunting : and constructs room by well-appointed room a more stately mansion of the soul.
Dracula: Sizzling Movement
In Dracula, Houston Ballet and artistic director Ben Stevenson take the familiar story of vampire and victim into the world of ballet and create a masterpiece of theatrics, dancing, and choreography.
columns
Page Two
Limousines?!? At Springsteen?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers hash over the war on drugs in response to an AISD principal's being
busted for marijuana possession.
Public Notice
Public Notice is noticing that spring is in full swing with so many kid-friendly opportunities to make community spirit grow.
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Texhoma's pointless Dalmations; dancing about economics; and more fun facts.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Remembering Halston on the 10th anniversary of his death.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Explore the Texas Underground -- literally -- with the help of Blair Pittman's new travel guide, Texas Caves.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
The San Antonio Spurs, left for dead around mid-season, are still very much alive, and a good underdog bet for the upcoming NBA playoffs.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Some new delivery techniques are easing testosterone replacement therapy.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
