Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Volume 20, Number 10
features
Tit for a Tat
Five Snapshots in the Struggle Against Breast Cancer
BY MARGARET MOSER
news
Endorsements
Not Clucking Around
East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Down Came the Rainey
With downtown redevelopment encroaching and property values the highest they've ever been, Rainey Street residents are getting ready to cash in their chips and leave.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Deal of a Lifetime
TDHCA Board member Florita Bell Griffin is standing trial in a Houston federal courtroom on allegations that she, along with two co-defendants, conspired to profit from deals she helped approve.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Election 2000
Chronicle Election Preview
Light Rail Debate
Former City Council Member Max Nofziger vs. Current City Council Member Daryl Slusher
Naked City
Anti light rail faction makes final push. Austin politicians travel to Round Rock to promote a charter school.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Shutting Out The Majority; 'Quality' Junk
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Art of Eating Well
Aquarelle brings to the Austin dining scene a studied elegance and a decidedly Old World taste for unrestrained luxury, Chronicle Cuisines writer Rachel Feit writes. But it is still a young restaurant.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Encyclopedia of Fire
Is Dave DeWitt the world's expert hothead?
BY SANDY SZWARC
Food-o-File
What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Más Tacos
Greg Beets profiles some of Austin's taquerias.
music
Rock en Tijuana
The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.
BY MELISSA SATTLEY
Favorite Sonero
Buena Vista Social Club Cowboy Eliades Ochoa
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Time to Bounce
Rapping with Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth, the funkiest Connecticut Yankees in King Arthur's Court
BY JOHN G. LA BRIOLA
Dancing About Architecture
The Austin Music Network changes administrations once again.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Lambchop, CMJ Music Conference, Irving Plaza, New York, October 21
The Sea and Cake, The Mercury, October 21 & 22
Word of Mouth Tour, Stubb's, October 25
Tina Turner, Frank Erwin Center, October 27
Fastball, Stubb's, October 28
Nina Simone, Bass Concert Hall, October 30
screens
Texas Treasures
Moody Anderson and His Western Warehouse
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Turk Pipkin goes to The Sopranos and other upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta runs down programs to take our minds off the upcoming election, along with programs to make us confront it.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Arts Board Love Stories
That special thing that happens between artists and boards of directors can be a lot like a love relationship: Intimate. Fulfilling. Long-term. Working as one body. However, it can be and often is complicated.
BY C. DENBY SWANSON
Articulations
The project that director Vicky Boone and playwright David Hancock took to the Sundance Theatre Laboratory in 1999 -- or at least a form of it -- shows up onstage this week.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Snow Queen
In Second Youth's 10th anniversary production of The Snow Queen, the ending can be sensed from the beginning, but it's the journey that counts, and this journey is full of wonderful surprises and theatrical magic.
Ballet Austin's Hamlet
Long after everyone who was in Bass Concert Hall the night of October 29 has shuffled off this mortal coil, Stephen Mills' ballet of Hamlet will live. Ballet Austin's world premiere production looked and sounded sublime.
Full Mental Jacket
While writer-performer Wayne Alan Brenner has a quirky style and indisputable stage presence, his new show Full Mental Jacket is so self-referential that, like an overanalyzed relationship, it talks itself to some semblance of death.
columns
Page Two
Light rail: "It's the future, stupid."
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers' last gasps on light rail.
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Rants and raves about the state of the Austin fashion scene.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
The Oklahoma Sooners have inspired Coach's first "all-college-football" column ever. Boomer Sooner! Boo Virginia Tech! Hail to Lou Holtz!
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Mr. Smarty Pants
Farewell, moon.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Varner-Hoogg Plantation State Historical Park, near Houston, has gone from a settler's cabin to a great sugar plantation to an oil wildcatter's weekend home.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Expect no leadership on AIDS from either major-party presidential candidate.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
