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September 29, 2000

Volume 20, Number 5

features

  • Chronicles

    The Ninth Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest

    BY CLAY SMITH

  • Demolition

    Before she knew there was really something wrong with her brother, Elaine would tell him that their mother had tried to abort him when she was only a month gone.

    BY SUSAN SHIELDS

  • Sometimes You Get What You Want

    Ira Cohen was a bongo player, drummer type person who picked up gigs whenever he could, which wasn't often.

    BY ALANA CASH

  • Point and Shoot

    Without looking Matt knows the deer is dead.

    BY BONNIE WEST

  • Sterling's Creed

    In 1971, it was unusual to hear a six year old use the "F" word. Especially in the context in which Sterling had used it.

    BY STEVEN M. SALZMAN

  • Bobby Lee Carter and the Hand of God

    When Miss Lena came home from visiting her sister in Jackson and found out Bobby Lee Carter had hanged a man from her sycamore tree, she left the breakfast dishes unwashed in the sink for the first time in her life.

    BY SUSAN SCHORN

news

  • Doubting Thomas

    Newly elected Council Member Danny Thomas is in a position to end the fighting over the Place 6 council seat.

    BY LOUIS DUBOSE

  • Who Will Survive?

    Seven council members. One coveted position. And, in the end, only one survivor.

    BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

  • The Tribal Council

  • Watson's Way

    In Austin city politics, it's Mayor Kirk Watson's way or no way at all.

    BY ROBERT BRYCE

  • Jackie, Oh!

    "It's been a long time since a woman was mayor," Jackie Goodman mused the other day.

    BY AMY SMITH

  • The Green Queen

    Beverly Griffith's populist ideas, once held by a majority of the council, are finding few friends as Mayor Watson turns the council's agenda toward transportation.

    BY KEVIN FULLERTON

  • Man in the Middle

    "Personally," says Council Member Daryl Slusher, "I think Austin is growing way too fast."

    BY EMILY PYLE

  • Wynning Formula?

    Freshman council member Will Wynn allies himself with Watson's majority faction.

    BY KEVIN FULLERTON

  • Compromising Raul

    Raul Alvarez was elected by environmental community but is not yet voting with it.

    BY EMILY PYLE

  • Naked City

    Bush and NARAL, GetHeard.org voters Web site, Kay Bailey Hutchison on abortion, Carole Keeton Rylander speaks to Austin Rotary and attacks AISD, Mike Levy for Mayor, Austin Police endorse Ronnie Earle

    BY LOUIS DUBOSE

  • Naked City

    John Cornyn says he believes in privacy, but a subpoena of Texans for Public Justice seeking donor records suggests otherwise.

    BY ROBERT BRYCE

  • Naked City

    A tape disappears from George W. Bush's campaign office and lands on an Al Gore supporter's desk. No one knows who did it, but fingers are pointing at two Bush advisors.

    BY ROBERT BRYCE

  • Naked City

    Millionaire heir Hatsy Heep Shaffer says developer Gary Bradley has been improperly claiming he has her consent to use water on her land for his development in southern Travis County.

    BY ROB D'AMICO

  • Naked City

    PIPE Coalition, an anti-Longhorn Pipeline group, has sued its Web designer for allegedly changing the site's content.

    BY DAN OKO

  • Naked City

    Organized through Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish congregations, the Industrial Areas Foundation's Saturday gathering was not unlike a secular church service.

    BY EMILY PYLE

  • Naked City

    Hays Councy landowner T. J. Higgenbotham reveals his plans for 50 million gallons of water he wants to pump from a well on his land.

    BY ROB D'AMICO

  • The Hightower Lowdown

    Motorola's Chinese Chips; Bush League Public Ed; Devil in the Details

    BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

music

screens

the arts

columns

  • Page Two

    Editor Louis Black takes the light rail argument into Austin's farther future.

    BY LOUIS BLACK

  • Postmarks

    Readers weigh in on the recent Best Of Austin issue, and the Save Our Volente committe rebuts an article.

  • Public Notice

    October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, among other things, and "Public Notice" wants you to feel the love.

    BY KATE X MESSER

  • Letters at 3AM

    Michael ventura mediatates on the permeability of reality.

    BY MICHAEL VENTURA

  • After a Fashion

    Glossing the heights and depths of fashion, as reflected by last Saturday's big show at the Austin Music Hall.

    BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

  • Mr. Smarty Pants

    Trivia with a bite -- and these are its teeth.

    BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

  • Day Trips

    Recycled Books, Denton's premiere used bookstore, features a world-class collection of fine editions, vinyl records and CDs in a historic downtown building.

    BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

  • About AIDS

    The HIV Wellness Center's offering a Healing Breath course -- and here's what it does.

  • Coach's Corner

    Patrick Ewing deserves better. And so does the Coach, who's been forced to watch (gasp!) the Olympics.

    BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON

    • The Luv Doc: Grabbing Crotch

    How to cure your attention deficit

    Postmarks

    Letters to the editor, published daily

books