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February 15, 2002

Volume 21, Number 24

news

food

  • Mix and Match

    Don't sweat it trying to create the perfect mating of beer and food, Chronicle Food writer Wes Marshall writes in a review of North by Northwest Restaurant & Brewery. Pick a drink you like, pick a dish you like, and just enjoy them.

    BY WES MARSHALL

  • Food-o-File

    How Virginia B. Wood joined the Local Yokel Coalition and a chance to meet Bill Jamison and Cheryl Alter Jamison, the authors of A Real American Breakfast: The Best Meal of the Day, Any Time of Day.

    BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

  • Second Helpings: Tex-Mex

    Tex-Mex restaurants in this week's "Second Helpings"

music

screens

  • Fandemonium!

    Television fans who organize to keep their favorite shows on the air, or even don the occasional Star Fleet Commanding Officer's uniform, are often depicted as lonely losers with too much time on their hands. According to TV columnist Belinda Acosta, the truth is quite the opposite.

    BY BELINDA ACOSTA

  • The Naked Truth

    Legendary exploitation producer Dave Friedman comes to town to present Mau Mau Sex Sex, the documentary of his career with Dan Sonney.

    BY JERRY RENSHAW

  • American Cinematheque's Universal Appeal

    BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF

  • New on DVD

    BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

  • Short Cuts

    The Arbor gets the axe from Simon Property Group.

    BY MARC SAVLOV

  • TV Eye

    Memo to America: The Olympics aren't about one, but all.

    BY BELINDA ACOSTA

  • Film Reviews

    Crossroads, Hart's War, Metropolis, Return to Never Land, Rollerball, and Super Troopers

the arts

  • What Lies Beneath

    Sydney Yeager's new paintings at D Berman Gallery represent a departure in the artist's work, a potential turning point from the figurative images that made Yeager's work recognizable for nearly a decade to what has always been the real strength of her paintings: the abstraction beneath.

    BY MADELINE IRVINE

  • The Basics, With Bogart

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • Articulations

    The Austin Arts Commission defuses a community controversy by restarting the process of selecting public art for the soon-to-be-expanded George Washington Carver Museum and Library.

    BY ROBERT FAIRES

  • Arts Reviews

    The Gin Game, and Una Panthera: Music from the Trecento and Early Renaissance Italy

columns

  • Page Two

    Single-member districts would wrest control of the City Council from the residents of heavy-voting, progressive / environmental Central Austin, but would not be a quick fix for any of the civic problems currently laid, somewhat inaccurately, at the feet of the current council.

    BY LOUIS BLACK

  • Postmarks

    Our readers talk back.

  • Day Trips

    BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

  • Mr. Smarty Pants

    BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

  • To Your Health

    I stopped eating nuts a few years ago when I found out about aflatoxins, but now I am hearing more about nuts being good for us. Should I reconsider?

    BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.

  • About AIDS

    BY SANDY BARTLETT

  • After a Fashion

    BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

  • Coach's Corner

    Coach pretty much stays out of political discussions these days -- but did you catch our president at the Olympics the other night? What a doofus!

    BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON

    • The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones

    Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch

    Postmarks

    Letters to the editor, published daily

books