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June 30, 2000

Volume 19, Number 44

features

  • Snot Flap Manifesto

    Snot-nosed Chronicle commentator Wayne Alan Brenner comments on the nature of mucous and somehow relates all this to one the great deities of the Roman Age. Okay!

    BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

news

  • Prepare for Departure

    Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval

    BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

  • The Lay of the Land: Mueller Reuse and Redevelopment Master Plan

  • Mr. Mom

    More men are taking time off from work to enjoy fatherhood

    BY JONATHAN DAVID CARROLL

  • Naked City

    City Council will decide whether to pay money for hotel venture; Pflugerville is considering building an airport; Jerry Weissberg resigns as CEO from ibooks.com; City Council to decide whether civilians or police should handle junk car enforcement.

    BY AMY SMITH

  • Naked City

    In a marathon Planning Commission meeting, three neighborhood plans get approved while one, the controversial East Cesar Chavez plan, gets postponed after a lengthy and heated discussion.

    BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

  • Naked City

    TDHCA board chair Michael E. Jones says he's found a way to keep indicted board member Florita Bell Griffin from participating in official business; the fate of millions of dollars in federal tax-credit housing subsidies depends on whether Griffin agrees to recuse herself.

    BY KEVIN FULLERTON

  • Naked City

    The Texas Funeral Services Commisison apparently has dismissed a fine against the funeral home that botched the embalming of slain TV anchorman Tres Hood.

    BY ROBERT BRYCE

  • Naked City

    In the ongoing trial in Waco, the Branch Davidians’ attorney is arguing that the FBI was too quick to resort to massive weaponry during its siege on the Davidians’ compound, endangering the lives of women and children inside.

    BY ROBERT BRYCE

  • Council Watch

    The council approves on first reading an East Austin apartment complex 500 feet away from a plant where toxic chemicals are stored, but some council members are promising to scuttle the project if it comes back for final approval.

    BY KEVIN FULLERTON

  • Media Clips

    Ken Martin sells In Fact Daily to reporter Jo Clifton to focus on his monthly magazine, The Good Life.

    BY LEE NICHOLS

food

  • Collective Sole

    City Grill hasn't lost its stride, Barbara Chisholm writes. In its early days, it was one of a few spots in Austin that offered good dining in a sophisticated atmosphere. These days, the competition in that arena is considerably more intense, and yet it remains popular and perfectly in style. It's not an easy trick.

    BY BARBARA CHISHOLM

  • Food-o-File

    Virginia B.Wood doles out some needed advice about how to capture the best Hill Country peaches and updates readers on the local culinary news.

    BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

  • Second Helpings: Chinese Restaurants

    Chronicle writer Greg Beets surveys Austin's Chinese restaurants.

  • Food Reviews

    Cipollina; and A Spoonful of Ginger: Irresistible, Health-Giving Recipes From Asian Kitchens

music

screens

the arts

columns

  • Page Two

    BY LOUIS BLACK

  • Postmarks

    Our readers talk back.

  • Public Notice

    "Public Notice" notes a few great ways to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good cause.

    BY KATE X MESSER

  • Mr. Smarty Pants

    BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

  • After a Fashion

    BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

  • Coach's Corner

    The mid-summer drought in traditional sports is on (the Olympics don't count). Also, Monday Night Football will try not to suck so bad; Mike Tyson's a bore, and Sampras and Agassi may be getting too old.

    BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON

  • Day Trips

    BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

  • About AIDS

    The AIDS Denialists; What Does Cause AIDS?

    BY SANDY BARTLETT

    • The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones

    Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch

    Postmarks

    Letters to the editor, published daily

books

  • An Immense World of Delight

    It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

    BY ROGER GATHMAN

  • Postscripts

    The rest of the world may be pondering new publishing technologies like e-books and on-demand printing, but Books editor Clay Smith is still stuck on paperbacks. LSU Press' Voices of the South series is one reason why.

    BY CLAY SMITH

  • Local Bestsellers

    Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.

  • Book Reviews

    Dead Man's Bay / Leavin' Trunk Blues