Volume 15, Number 50
news
Austin's Hole-y War
BY CHRIS WALTERS
Not an Athenian Democracy
BY ALEX DE MARBAN
Local TV and the Internet: Not Exactly The News
BY CHRIS WALTERS
food
Unstable Eats at Cafe Armageddon
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Asleep at the Wheel Gets...
Brown-eyed, Handsome Man, W.C. Clark
Cultural Olympiads, The Derailers
Bombs, Back Pains & Tish Hinojosa
And now, in the Olympic Yodeling Event...
Chicago Music Hall
BY KEN LIECK
screens
Local Drought Doesn't Apply to Filmmaking
BY KARL PALLMEYER
Showgirls
Film Reviews
A hard-working woman with a slacker spouse accepts a no-strings-attached job from an older man, which grows into a deep friendship.
This nifty little movie is full of all the lurid teases, off-the-cuff production values, and trenchant topicality that make exploitation movies the fascinating cultural time capsules they are.
arts & culture
The Stunning Images of Photographer Eve Arnold
Two Directors on Making Shakespeare
Contemporary
BY ADRIENNE MARTINI
RAT Droppings
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY LOUIS BLACK
BY KATE X MESSER
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Letters to the editor, published daily