KLRU
Volume 20, Number 22
features
Austin Timeline
From Prehistory to the Present
By Any Other Name
The history of Austin's cherished landmarks reveals the extent to which chance plays a part in who among their namesakes we remember and which fade with time.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Fantastic and Utterly Disreputable History of the Bevy of Sin Known as Guy Town
Before downtown Austin had the Warehouse District, it had the Whorehouse District: a notorious neighborhood of brothels and fandango houses called Guy Town.
BY IAN QUIGLEY
Mapping Calle Ancha
The Avenue That Existed Before That Big Parking Lot in the Sky, I-35, Was Built
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Life at the Cha-Cha Palace
Stephen MacMillan Moser takes a trip down the yellow brick-laid, disco ball-lit memory lane in the world of Austin's Seventies Disco scene.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Killer Reputation
Murders from Austin's not quite forgotten past
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Bygone Buildings
Right in the booming heart of Austin, folks can still find evidence of times past. Devin Greaney explores some of Austin's abandoned haunts.
BY DEVIN GREANEY
news
Naked City
A farewell to Federal Judge Lucius Bunton III
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Signs of Other Times
A photographic guide to some of the markers that still point to parts of Austin that have disappeared.
The Hightower Lowdown
High Tech Brought Low; All Expenses Paid
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
The Texas state budgeting process is called conservative, but might be better described as "penny wise, pound foolish."
BY MICHAEL KING
food
The Flight of the Night Bird
Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Gardens of Eden
Entertainment has always been a keystone of Austin's identity, Cuisines writer Rachel Feit observes. And among Austin's numerous diversions were German beer gardens.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Why Virginia B. Wood's first culinary epiphany got her in big trouble.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Staying Power
Austin Restaurants Open for 35 Years or More
music
The Dead Club Crawl
Club hopping through Austin's musical past.
BY KEN LIECK
Dancing About Architecture
Bush's balls drop.
BY KEN LIECK
Dead Shots
Introduction, Chronicle offices, present day
Albert King
Albert King, Club Foot, April 16, 1982
Ramblin' Jack Elliot
Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Snaveley's, July 1982
Huey Lewis & The News
Huey Lewis & The News, Private Lives, Cardi's, April 5, 1983
Mitch Ryder
Mitch Ryder, Steamboat, March 16, 1985
Zeitgeist, Texas Instruments, Guardez Lou, Hickoids
The Last Days Of The Beach, the Beach, September 26 & 27, 1986
Mind Splinters, Thanatopsis Throne, Pocket FishRmen, DJ Horowitz, ST 37, Queen Penis, Ed Hall, EKU
Dongfest, Dong Huong, December 12, 1987
Jesus Christ Superhoot, Cannibal Club, July 25, 1989
G.G. Allin
G.G. Allin (Arrest Report), Cavity Club, February 18, 1992
Punk Prom & Little Debbie Taunt-Ball, Chances, April 16, 1994
Sleater-Kinney
Sleater-Kinney, Electric Lounge, May 25, 1997
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth, Liberty Lunch, July 7 & 8, 1999
screens
Part of Our Day
When discussing the Golden Age of Television, we usually speak in terms of the national networks, but there's another chapter to the tale. Belinda Acosta looks at some of the pioneers of Austin television.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Slacker, the Map
It's been over a decade since Slacker premiered at the Dobie Theater. Since then, the lifestyle it celebrated is largely gone, along with the locations it helped make famous. In this "Slacker map," we look at what's disappeared and what's endured.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Two more movie houses are closing -- the Lake Creek Festival Theater and Village Cinema Art --both part of Regal Cinemas' countrywide house cleaning.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Future-Kill, Roadie
Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Livin' Lavaca Loca
In the early Eighties, back when Jay Leno was still funny, he and a number of now-big name comics told jokes at a little place on Lavaca called the Comedy Workshop. Being there changed the life of one person, who recalls what it was like.
BY ANGELA DAVIS
Articulations
The Texas Cultural Trust Council announces a new set of honors for native and residents of the Lone Star State, the Texas Medal of the Arts Awards, and the recipients of the first awards.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Art: But I Know What I Like
Yasmina Reza's Art has come to Austin, and the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production is equal to the playwright's work. It's a pearl and it's the inside-out of a pearl -- a thing of beauty and the irritant that creates it.
Roosters: In The Midst of Poverty, Beauty
The Different Stages production of Milcha Sanchez-Scott's Roosters offers a script and actors that are quite enjoyable. However, the mix of inventive and repetitious staging, striking and visually inappropriate costumes, open and cluttered space, it feels almost like two entirely different shows.
columns
Page Two
Welcome to the Austin That Was.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Postmarks
Global Warming, Public Schools, and Jazz a la Zorn.
Public Notice
This week's Public Notice gets cranky on the bike tip and pedals a worldview geared to a slower pace. Hynuk!
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar expounds on the First Family Jewels.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
More interest for your memory banks.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The slow-cooking tradition of Joel's Bar-B-Q outside Flatonia.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
HIV and Sexual Behavior
Coach's Corner
A guide for the younger generation: Sick of hearing about Woodstock? Recreate all of its dubious glories at this year's Super Bowl party.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
