Bates Recital Hall
Volume 21, Number 49
news
Did SOS Matter?
The battle for Barton Springs has been a struggle over the soul of the city.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Alleviating the Jail Squeeze
County Attorney Ken Oden has proposed a possible solution to the chronic overcrowding that has long plagued Travis Co. jails.
BY JORDAN SMITH
It's a Done Deal
The City Council approved the Stratus settlement 6-1. Now what?
BY LAURI APPLE
Railroaded at Third and Lamar
BY AMY SMITH
Land of the Free?
The governor of Tocopilla, Chile, visited Austin last week as part of a nationwide survey of the American legal system.
BY MICHAEL MAY
Move Over, Phil
Council Member Daryl Slusher has a new TV show.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Into the Gap
The city manager's new budget squeezes city services that are already tight
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bush keeps emphasizing the "shadow" in "shadow government" and Segway tries to push you off the sidewalk.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
From the Bistro to the Beard
Austinite Shawn Cirkiel makes a pilgrimage to the home of American gastronomy, the James Beard House in New York.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood has so much news in this week's "Food-o-File" that reading it too fast might give you indigestion. In a good way.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Erin Mosow links the national pizza chains in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
100% Texan
Kevin Fowler is among the brightest of the Young Texas rising stars.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Dancing About Architecture
Fastball gains velocity, Herring swims upstream, and Spoon's new single is ripe for consumption
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Halley
Forget the Leaves
Saratone
Number One Record
Kevin McKinney
McVein in Green
Paul Minor & the Superego Allstars
Low Overhead
Doe Montoya
Pleasure Thing
Brown Whörnet
The Secret
Colin Gilmore
4 of No Kind
Tom Waits Hoot
Tom Waits Hoot
Bing Bang Boys, Brian Marshall
I'm Feelin' Good, Texas Kapela
Dale Watson
Live in London… England!
Bavu Blakes
Create and Hustle
screens
Gadgets and Gizmos
From digital derring-do to super sculpey miniatures, imagination turns into mind-blowing matter in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams
BY MARC SAVLOV
Preserving Pictures
"There are many days where it's, like, buy and save a super, super rare 1920s Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton image, or buy some extra groceries … and saving their movie images always wins out."
BY MARRIT INGMAN
'Spy Kids 2' Premiere
This one's for the kiddies ...
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
In Play
Neverwinter Nights is more than a game, actually: It's a gaming system to be built on.
BY LINDSEY SIMON
Short Cuts
Money giveaway!
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Fall in the air, fall on the air
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Deep in the Mozart of Texas
This summer, the Austrian American Mozart Academy, an international program that provides aspiring professional singers with training and performance experience in Mozartian opera, relocates to, of all places, Austin, Texas.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The Texas Commission for the Arts gets a new executive director, the Blanton Museum of Art gets a new curator for its collection of Latin American art, and Toronto's Harbourfront Festival gets an Austin dance company.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
bee luther-hatchee
It's rare for a piece of theatre staged in Austin to touch an issue close to the city's heart, and that immediacy by itself recommends bee luther-hatchee. But what makes the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production more worthy of attention is the skill with which it serves up the thorny issues authenticity of voice and artistic representation by people of different cultures.
HAIR
Director Dave Steakley has assembled knockout performers for the Zachary Scott Theatre Center revival of HAIR, and he synthesizes their individual energies into an electrifying whole, but his valiant efforts to make the show's scope inclusive of our modern world fall short.
columns
Page Two
A decade after SOS, we need to develop a realistic vision and useful political tools to address future development in the Barton Springs watershed.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar get Grease-y and posh all in the same week!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I am nearing menopause and really worried about osteoporosis now that we know hormone replacements carry an increased risk of cancer and heart disease. What are the alternatives?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
All the tumult, all the culture, all the relentless historical brouhaha, has not changed the irreducible loneliness that haunts us.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Coach's Corner
Coach's old Vail nemesis Cedrick Trout has jumped on the Redskins / Steve Spurrier bandwagon, but Coach figures he's at least a year or two early. And in college -- surprise, surprise -- UT's really as good as their hype
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
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