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Volume 20, Number 6
features
Field of Dreams
Confessions of a Sensitive Jock
BY LORNE OPLER
news
Rerun at the D.A. Corral
Republican Shane Phelps challenges Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle for a second time, and seems to be trailing.
BY AMY SMITH
Totally PC
When it comes to city planning, nothing's constant but change.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
S.O.S vows to fight Stratus deal on Edwards Aquifer land, TARAL supports pro-choice candidates and raises money.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Over the Counter Fraud; Shell Games
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Operatic Success
La Traviata, a new Italian Trattoria in downton Austin, is a smashing new eatery which hopefully has many years of innovation and success ahead.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Four Austin restaurants are among the best in Texas, according to Gourmet magazine. Virginia B. Wood reveals which ones and updates readers on Austin's culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Coffeehouses
Where to get coffee that is "really more like Al Green than coffee" and other mysteries of Austin coffeehouses.
Food Reviews
music
Radio, Radio
Satellite radio, the burgeoning technology that may ultimately shake up the broadcast world the most, is right around the corner.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Trio 2000
Q&A with one of jazz's premier guitarists.
BY JAY TRACHTENBERG
Leaving Town
On the verge of their hard-earned future, Dexter Freebish contemplates a life of Saturdays.
BY KEN LIECK
Dancing About Architecture
Austin's live music scene turns up missing.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Chuck Prophet, Cactus Cafe, September 26
Travis, Stubb's, September 27
BT, Hooverphonic, La Zona Rosa, September 28
screens
Altman Speaks!
The ultimate indie director shoots straight about breaking into the business, staying there, and loving it.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Touched by a Charlie's Angel
John August, screenwriter of Go and the upcoming Charlie's Angels, on breaking into the biz and turning pop culture into mainstream cinema.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Strength of Character
Like John Irving, Peter Hedges can create characters with such depth and originality it’s as if you have spent a lifetime in search of their company.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
A Night at the Opera
Jon Else's Sing Faster, showing this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, shows us opera Like we've never seen it before from the stagehands' perspective.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
For working-class people who didn't get a college education handed to them, CBS' That's Life rings true. Also, reports on the loss of UPN in Austin, the upcoming Larry David series, and Buffy & Angel season premieres.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Poetry in Emotion
Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
The Blanton Museum of Art gets an architect (for the second time), and the Paramount and State theatres move a step closer to partnership.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Chorus Line
The performers in Austin Musical Theatre’s revival of A Chorus Line dance and sing and act, well, like they have been doing this on Broadway stages all their careers. But poor tech and dated writing make this once-groundbreaking musical appear to be languishing in its former glory.
Waiting for Godot
In its new staging of Samuel Beckett's signature play Waiting for Godot, the Gate Theatre Company of Dublin has succeeded in creating a definitive production of a major theatrical work.
Krapp's Last Tape
There was so much to enjoy in the Gate Theatre of Dublin's production of Samuel Beckett's play Krapp's Last Tape, most particularly David Kelly's poignant, honest, simple, straightforward, performance as Krapp, but understanding the tape itself was so difficult that it almost destroyed the experience.
columns
Page Two
It's time to start thinking of the upcoming election's other candidates and issues.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
We're sorry you feel that way.
Public Notice
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, among other things, and "Public Notice" wants you to feel the love.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
A recent gala IDoL-ized Austin fashionistas.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Alert Jerry Falwell! More Teletubbies debauchery!
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
A heroic swimmer falls from grace and becomes addicted to dope. A story ripped from the Olympic headlines? Why no, it's the strange tale of Priscilla the Pig, whose memory is enshrined in a Houston home.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Then along comes the right wing in South Carolina and bingo!, one step backward.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Ratings, schmatings! Why the big obsession about how many people are watching which sporting events on TV?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Out of Left Field
Tim Walker looks at this abysmal year in Texas baseball.
