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June 16, 2000
Volume 19, Number 42
news
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A Matter of Trust
Travis County Probation Program Gets SMART: Photos by Kenny BraunBY GREGORY GLOVER
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Big River
How healthy is Austin's Colorado River?BY DAN OKO
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Room at the Inn
Case Marianella homeless shelter provides a badly needed haven for homeless Spanish-speaking immigrants.BY ANNA HANKS
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Naked City
University of Texas employees will be staging a sickout to protest low pay and benefits; citizen planners in the East Cesar Chavez Neighborhood Planning Team are honored for their work; the Dawson Neighborhood Association tries to reach a compromise to keep Southwestern Bell from tearing down homes in their neighborhood; The Save Our Springs Alliance honors Brigid Shea as a "Barton Springs Hero"; Statesman political reporter Dylan Rivera leaves for Portland, Oregon.BY ERICA C. BARNETT
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Council Watch
Council reluctantly approves retail in the new city hall, with the stipulation that there be no gaudy storefronts on Second Street.BY KEVIN FULLERTON
food
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Toying With Tradition
Lots has changed of late at the Empanada Parlour, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes, but the restaurant's festive little pockets stuffed with spirited meat, vegetable, and fruit blends are as delicious as ever, and continue to enjoy a dedicated local following.BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
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Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood updates readers on Austin's expanding Italian restaurants.BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
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The Coffeehouse Chronicles
Cafe MundiBY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
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Second Helpings: Wedding Venues
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Food Reviews
music
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The Kings of Monterrey
Hanging out in Monterrey with a passel of up-and-coming Mexican rockersBY MELISSA SATTLEY
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By the Hand of the Father
Previewing Alejandro Escovedo's new autobiographical play, By the Hand of the Father.BY MICHAEL BERTIN
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Dancing About Architecture
The Gourds weren't Phishing for trouble when they covered "Gin and Juice"; the Meat Puppets have (probably) found a new home.BY KEN LIECK
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Record Reviews
- Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue Vol. II (Elektra) 'Til We Outnumber 'Em: The Songs of Woody Guthrie (Righteous Babe)
- Johnny Cash Love, God, Murder (Columbia/Legacy)
- Down to the Promised Land: Five Years of Bloodshot Records
- The Johnny Staats Project Wires & Wood (Giant)
- Knife in the Water Red River (Overcoat)
- Belle & Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant (Matador)
- Bedhead Loved Macha Macha Loved Bedhead (Jetset)
- Dirty ThreeWhatever You Love, You Are (Touch & Go)
- Bobo StensonSerenity (ECM)
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Matthew Shipp Quartet Pastoral Composure (Thirsty Ear)
Matthew Shipp Duo with Mat Maneri Gravitational Systems (hatOLOGY)
Other Dimensions in Music Special Quintet w/Matthew Shipp Time Is of the Essence Is Beyond Time (AUM Fidel - Terence Blanchard Wandering Moon (Sony Classical)
- Ronnie Earl Healing Time (Telarc Blues)
- Sue Foley Love Comin' Down (Shanachie)
- Deborah Coleman Soft Place To Fall (Blind Pig)
- Ute Lemper Punishing Kiss (Decca)
- Queens of the Stone Age Rated R (Interscope)
- Nashville Pussy High as Hell (TVT)
screens
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Projecting an Image
In a city filled with artists and filmmakers, Luke Savisky is an original -- an innovative projectionist whose unique art has graced the surfaces of buildings, rock stars, video screens, and more for over 15 years.BY BRYAN POYSER
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Writing Rebel
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause:"I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."BY CHALE NAFUS
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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
With PBS' Point of View (POV) documentary series, columnist Belinda Acosta has found a place where her ideals about the medium collide with reality.BY BELINDA ACOSTA
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Screens Reviews
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Film Reviews
the arts
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Six Degrees of Ron Berry
With another acting job in a new play, his own new theatre about to open, his own stage company that champions theatre as something fun as well as substantive, and a lot of friends to help him make "good stuff" onstage, is Ron Berry the Happiest Man in Austin?BY ROBI POLGAR
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Articulations
More cultural philanthropy and a disturbing Statesman report on same.BY ROBERT FAIRES
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Arts Reviews
columns
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Page Two
Reflecting on AlternativesBY LOUIS BLACK
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Postmarks
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Public Notice
This week, to celebrate Father's Day, "Public Notice" makes room for daddies and implores dykes to check their boobies.BY KATE X MESSER
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After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
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Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Coach's Corner
Ray Lewis may not have committed murder, but he's hardly the wronged innocent that the media are now making him out to be.BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
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About AIDS
Celebrate Father's Day and Benefit Kids with AIDS
The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch
How to cure your attention deficit
Postmarks
Letters to the editor, published daily
books
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Him Write Funny
"If somebody hates me," David Sedaris confesses in an interview with Sarah Hepola, "I just go to pieces. I mean, it doesn't really seem fair that I've made my career making fun of people, and if someone makes fun of me, I fall apart. But that's the way it is."BY SARAH HEPOLA
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Postscripts
Remembering Austin poet and musician Glen Alyn.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
THEMOST
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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THELATEST
Film Review Misses Mark Please make a note not to print any more movie reviews of big action movies by Kimberley Jones. She gets ...
What's the Big Deal? I'm baffled by this obsession with Mueller. I drove through it out of curiosity and it's a suburban nightmare that ...
No Mystery in School Bond Failures How out of touch has the Chronicle become with the voting populace of this city? From the article “Bonds: Death ...
Program Is Vital Resource I am responding to your article on ACCESS News, the program by and for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. The ...
Finding Rail Route Complicated Michael King, in “The Reading Railroad”, while making valuable points, seems to state that finding an initial route for urban ...
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