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Volume 20, Number 15
features
Saving All Our Changes
Cyber-castoffs are curated at Austin's Goodwill Computer.
BY MICHAEL KING
news
Looking for Tony
Democrats are settling on Tony Sanchez as their next gubernatorial candidate before anyone has an idea who he is.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
City council continues to keep public out of Stratus negotiations. Paul Robbins urges individuals and publications to count Floridal votes, A Georgia company sold a flawed list of ineligible voters to Florida.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Capitol Chronicle
Political commentary on the career of Henry B. Gonzalez
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Monsanto Cares; Welcome to the 'New Economy'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Specialties of the House
Recent Publications From Our Contributors
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
What two local moguls were "generally acting like delighted boys with a
brand new toy" at a new Krispy Kreme Donut shop last Saturday?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Interior Mexican (Beyond Tex-Mex)
MM Pack takes readers beyond Tex-Mex with her listings of local interior
Mexican restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Young, Loud, and Cheap
The Skunks were a band. A loud one.
BY KEN LIECK
Here Comes the Nice
Small Face Ronnie Lane's tenure in Austin is preserved on Live in Austin.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
Christmastime comes to Austin.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Big Youth
Natty Universal Dread 1973-1979
Sun Ra
Greatest Hits: Easy Listening for Intergalactic Travel, The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums: Cymbals and Crystal Spears, Pathways to Unknown Worlds + Friendly Love, When Angels Speak of Love, Lanquidity
Thelonious Monk
The Complete Prestige Recordings
Boozoo Chavis, Champion Jack Dupree, Johnny Adams, Roomful of Blues
Johnnie Billygoat, A Portrait of Champion Jack Dupree, There Is Always One More Time, The Blues'll Make You Happy, Too
Nick Drake
Five Leaves Left, Pink Moon, Bryter Layter
Joy Division, New Order
The Complete BBC Recordings, BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
ELO
Flashback
Beach Boys
Sunflower / Surf's Up, Carl & the Passions: "So Tough" / Holland, The Beach Boys in Concert, 15 Big Ones / Love You, M.I.U. Album / L.A. (Light Album), Keepin' the Summer Alive / The Beach Boys
Paul Revere & the Raiders
Mojo Workout
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Anthology: Through the Years
America
Highway: 30 Years of America
Cat Stevens
Buddha and the Chocolate Box, Teaser and the Firecat, Catch the Bull at Four, Tea for the Tillerman, Greatest Hits, Mother Bone Jakon, Foreigner
Joe "King" Carrasco
Tales From the Crypt
Blur
Best of
The Gits
Seafish Louisville
Peter Frampton
Wind of Change, Frampton's Camel, Something's Happening, Frampton, I'm in You
screens
Austin Studios Takes Flight
The past year has been witness to an amazingly cooperative tag-team project between the Austin Film Society, the Austin City Council, and the Mueller Neighborhood Coalition that -- as of now -- has resulted in a superstar studio setup that could well change the very fabric of filmmaking in Austin.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
A reminder of SXSW Interactive and Film submission notices and deadlines, including Web site competition
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
What's the real meaning of Christmas? Well, it's doubtful you'll find it in the typical cheery holiday TV programming. But two upcoming documentaries -- The Forgotten Americans and First Person Plural -- remind us of the importance of home and family and offer a thought-provoking alternative to more traditional holiday fare.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Sid and Nancy
Although it was described as "pure fantasy" by the Sex Pistols' Johnny Rotten, Sid and Nancy gives the impression that it's not that far off the mark.
Snow Day
From winter fun to first love, Snow Day is a modest but entertaining effort.
Gladiator
Gladiator: the most overhyped epic of the year.
A Scandal in Paris
A Scandal in Paris is Douglas Sirk before Douglas Sirk became good.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Dancing the Christmas Spirit
An eight-year-old fan of The Nutcracker has her dream come true when
she gets to talk to a choreographer and ballerina -- Ballet Austin's
Stephen Mills and Gina Patterson -- about the ballet that helps Christmas
feel like Christmas.
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Articulations
Memorial notices for actor and talk radio pioneer Harv Morgan and UT art
historian Marian B. Davis.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Virtual Devotion
Scott Kanoff launches his tenure as the State Theater Company's new
producing artistic director with Eric Coble's Virtual Devotion, and while
the performances and design work are laudatory, they're brought to bear
on a lackluster script that looks poor in comparison to the least that, say,
MAD TV has to offer.
The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?
Robert Dubac's The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron? has its moments, but
its stereotypes and reliance on material recycled from the
men-are-from-Mars-women-are-from-Venus catalog make it more
soapbox than entertainment.
Using the F Word: A Commentary On Feminism
In the nine choreographed dance-theatre pieces that make up Using the
F-Word, REALMdanceproject fashions a collaborative yet tenaciously
personal portrait of feminism.
columns
Page Two
Wondering why Tony Sanchez is on this issue's cover?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Politics & music & the politics of music.
Public Notice
Take a break from the holiday Hades and serve a good cause. Our
chock-full list of this week's is brimming over with opportunities waiting
for you.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
The collapse of the American political process in Election Year 2000 is
both an event in itself and a world-class metaphor: The American
Century is over.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Local openings and changes, plus a few words to the wise
re the use and abuse of culottes and, ugh, mullets.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
A few more pins for the happy hour bowling alley of your mind.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Where's the pixie dust falling? In a mid-season NFL wrapup, Coach looks
at the season's surprises thus far.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
The Texana Cigar and Coffee Company in Chappell Hill manufactures the
state's newest custom-made cigars, roasts coffee, and showcases the
owner's one-of-a-kind collection of antiques.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
DEA Approves CA marijuana study.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
