Oct. 10, 1997

Volume 17, Number 6

features

Validation?

illustration by Jeannette Moreno The Violence of the Cutie-Pie Mentality

BY SPIKE GILLESPIE

Mabee We're Amazed

news

Targeting the Fat Cats

On Your Ballot: ALLC's Campaign Reform

BY KEVIN FULLERTON

On November 4, the ballot will read:

Cupboards Are Bare

BY ROBERT BRYCE

Round Two

BY AMY SMITH

Reverse Race-ism

Will a Single-member System Accomplish Its Goal?

BY NATE BLAKESLEE

The Outsiders

Outsourcing Bond Work Is Expensive; Is It Necessary?

BY ROSEANA AUTEN

Austin vs. the `Burbs

illustration by Doug Potter Suburbanites Seethe Over Annexation Plans

BY KAYTE VANSCOY

Give Us News, STAT!

Clooney's Cute, But Not After 10pm

BY LEE NICHOLS

food

Eastward Ho!

Touring the Mediterranean With the St. Elias Food Fest

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Food-O-File

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

Parental Guidance Suggested

The Adults

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

The Adults

Bonus Tracks

Also Playing

Roadkill

Road Shows

October

Vertical Integration

One-Stop Music Manufacturers

BY MICHAEL BERTIN

Dancing About Architecture

BY KEN LIECK

Texas Platters

screens

The Pen-Ultimate Fest

Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference & Festival

BY RUSSELL SMITH

Festival Reviews

Shoeless Harry Anderson photograph by Minh FESTIVAL HAPPENINGS

A Regular Joe

The Revelations of Filmmaker Joe Christ

BY MARC SAVLOV

Scanlines

The American Patchwork Series

The Greening of VH1

BY MARGARET MOSER

Shortcuts

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

Film Reviews

arts & culture

Pool Partiers

Taking Stock of the Esther's Follies Families

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Where Are They Now?

Esther's Gene Pool

Articulations

Avenue Activity

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

columns

about AIDS

Coach's Corner

BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON

Day Trips

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Page Two

BY LOUIS BLACK

Public Notice

Thrifty Is As Thrifty Does

BY KATE X MESSER

Postmarks

One Is Enough

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Letters at 3am

BY MICHAEL VENTURA

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