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June 2, 2000
Volume 19, Number 40
features
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This Blows
Jay Hardwig carefully recounts falling out of love with whistling.BY JAY HARDWIG
news
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The Life and Times of Gus Garcia
City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public serviceBY DARYL SLUSHER
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Down to Two
Runoff candidates offer views on city's future.BY KEVIN FULLERTON
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High and Dry
LCRA Approves Controversial Pipeline to Dripping SpringsBY ROB D'AMICO
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Endorsements: Saturday June 3 Runoff Election
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Naked City
A defense attorney claims a police detective held a gun near his client's head to coerce a confession from him in the yogurt shop murder case; a tree in Town Lake Park will be spared the axe; Austin Energy hits record-breaking energy use.BY AMY SMITH
food
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Eating Between the Lines
Summer Reading, Culinarily SpeakingBY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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The King of Hops Returns
Earlier this month, Michael Jackson, a well-rounded Englishman who travels the globe sampling local brews and entertaining faithful beer geeks with educational tastings and deadpan jokes about pop-star pedophilia, made his annual trek to Austin for a beer-tasting dinner at the Bitter End.BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
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Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood explains how Austin became the second city in America to pass a resolution on genetically engineered food and updates readers on other local culinary news.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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Second Helpings: Ice Cream Parlors
Chronicle writer Greg Beets on Austin's ice cream parlors.
music
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Lush Life
The divine Miss Nancy Wilson brings her lush life to Austin.BY HARVEY PEKAR
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What It Is
Edie Brickell returns to tell the world what she is.BY ANDY LANGER
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Dancing About Architecture
Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.BY KEN LIECK
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Beat Box
- Ween White Pepper (Elektra)
- Built to Spill Live (Warner Bros.)
- Neil Young Silver & Gold (Reprise)
- New Coat of Paint: Songs of Tom Waits (Manifesto)
- Pedro the Lion Winners Never Quit (Jade Tree)
- Dolly Varden The Dumbest Magnets (Evil Teen)
- Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts Beneath the Country Underdog (Bloodshot)
- Virgínia Rodrigues Nós (Hannibal)
- Susana Baca Eco de Sombras (Luaka Bop)
- The Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
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Steve Lacy 3 N.Y. Capers & Quirks (hatOLOGY)
Steve Lacy Trio The Rent (Cavity Search)
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd Monk's Dream (Verve) -
Third World Cop (Palm Pictures)
Monty Alexander Monty Meets Sly and Robbie (Telarc Jazz)
Horace Andy Living In the Flood (Melankolic/Astralwerks) -
Suba São Paulo Confessions (Six Degrees)
Caipiríssima: Batucada ElectRonica (Caipirinha Music) - William Orbit Pieces in a Modern Style (Maverick)
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Fatboy Slim The Fatboy Slim / Norman Cook Collection (Universal/Hip-O)
Fatboy Slim On the Floor at the Boutique: Mixed by Fatboy Slim (Astralwerks) - Alex Gopher You, My Baby, & I (V2)
- Great Lakes (Kindercore)
screens
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Technically Speaking
The Digital World Turns the PageBY SARAH HEPOLA
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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
Is there anything worse than that long stretch before the start of the fall season? Thank God for cable.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Truth and Reconciliation
The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.BY BEN WILLCOTT
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Austin Theatre Critics Table 1999-2000 Winners
The Austin Theatre Critics Table presented its eighth annual awards for achievement in the Austin arts in a lively ceremony at the Continental ClubBY ROBERT FAIRES
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Articulations
Goodbyes and good news at the 2000 Austin Theatre Critics Table Awards.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Public Notice
Public Notice says, "Keep cool this summer and volunteer for a local public service organization.BY KATE X MESSER
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After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Coach's Corner
Coach can't hit a wedge shot, or make a putt, but he's trying.BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
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Day Trips
The defunct Comal Power Plant in New Braunfels finds new life as a hotel.BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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About AIDS
HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS? Who Says?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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Summer Reading
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Postscripts
The kind of ghosts the first writer-in-residence at the Katherine Anne Porter House hopes to encounter and details on how to sign up for the Austin Public Library's Summer Reading Program.BY CLAY SMITH
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Local Bestsellers
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Book Reviews
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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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