KLRU
Volume 19, Number 51
features
Child's Play
Writer Kevin Wood discovers that there's a lot to learn while teaching kids.
BY KEVIN WOOD
news
That Figures
City Manager Jesus Garza introduces a budget that focuses on roads, utilities, and cops, and skates around a needed tax increase.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Trial and Error
Questions raised about whether cards were stacked against Davidians in their civil suit against the federal government.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Cox Enterprises won't confirm or deny rumors that it's considering acquiring several area community newspapers owned by Westward Communications; New Times buys FW Weekly; Margaret Thatcher will speak to the Texas Public Policy Foundation next year.
BY AMY SMITH
food
Decidedly Mex-Mex
Jalisco seems to be one of those places that certainly has the right idea, but suffers from poor management, or perhaps just a general carelessness on the part of its staff. Its recipes are fine : the stewed meats, sauces, salsas, rice, and beans are all first-rate. But it's clear that the kitchen skimps on the quality of their meat and fish.
BY RACHEL FEIT
The Traditional Drinks of Mexico
Given this year's incredibly hot Austin summer, you might enjoy trying some of the fabulously refreshing traditional cold drinks of Mexico. Chronicle Cuisines writer Wes Marshall shows you how to concoct them.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
The details on the upcoming Fourth Annual Texas Fiery Foods Show and the 10th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Tex-Mex Restaurants
Chronicle writer Greg Beets on Austin's Mexican restuarants.
music
Total Entertainment Package
Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings
BY ANDY LANGER
Someday Still Wants More
Austin singer-songwriter Tish Hinojosa is back with a shorter, spunkier 'do after a four-year absence.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Dancing About Architecture
Ritalin Kids sign a record deal; Steve Wertheimer gets wet all over.
BY KEN LIECK
THE DIXIE CHICKS
screens
Win, Lose, or Draw
What 16 Color offers is an incredibly user-friendly template for people interested in making short (15 seconds), Web-based animations. His press release says it best: "Alan Watts dreams of ways to help people procrastinate."
BY MARC SAVLOV
Gray Matter
Milkshake Media's Katherine Jones was trained in medical illustration -- but with her work on Fight Club and The Cell, she got a lesson in Hollywood.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Television's best girl-power trio isn't on primetime -- it's the Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Live and Let Live
Too Much Bitching Can Be Hazardous to Theatre's Health
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Artistic director resignations, more traveling Austin artists, and the missing BS.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Second Austin Latino Comedy Fiesta: A Long Way
Mad Dog Blues: So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star?
ONE Theatre Company brings some unique touches to Sam Shepard's Mad Dog Blues, but ultimately, the show is the portrait of a playwright living out his rock star phase -- self-indulgent and rather embarrassing.
UP: Left in the Dark
UP, the first piece from Spank, Ellen Bartel's new dance company, contains moments of lovely counterpoint and top-notch technique, but its repetitiveness and murky intention leave one with too many questions that don't get answered.
columns
Page Two
Anarchists being politic?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Last week's Summer Smut Issue gets a whuppin' from some prudent readers.
Public Notice
After watching two national political conventions in a row, you are probably ready to get real and back to real life, where people help each other and work for the greater good -- without corporate backing! Public Notice offers many options for this mid-August week.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Preparing for War With Europe
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
This season, it's all about fashion.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Prairie dogs have housing crunches, too.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Remembering Bob Roberts, the dean of Texas barbecue.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
Coach, to his own great surprise, has become a huge Harry Potter fan. Quiddich being in the off-season, however, let's take a brief look at baseball…
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Those ever-progressive Canadians recently awarded funding to test the "invisible" condom.
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
