Dec. 26, 1997

Volume 17, Number 17

news

Paying Doctor

Federal Insurance Program Could Aid Texas' Youth

BY KEVIN FULLERTON

Waste Wars

City Tries to Seal Best Deal for Trash and Recycling

BY ROBERT BRYCE

Residential Curbside Collection

The Players

Rental Health Worries

Pecan Springs Gives Apartments Thumbs Down

BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON

Austin Knows Best

City's Newest Children Rebel With More Lawsuits

BY KAYTE VANSCOY

food

Be Like Julia

Inspiring Tales of Ms. Child and Other Women in Kitchens

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Food-O-File

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

The Hugh Beaumont Experience

Mark and Sarah Pratz

BY MICHAEL BERTIN

Lifelong Loves

James White's Formula for Success

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Picture Perfect

Life Aboard the Steamboat

BY ANDY LANGER

The Littlest Lunachick

Big Emo, Mommy Emo, and Little Emo

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

Recommended

Also Playing

Road Shows

Crossing Paths

The Black Cat Clan

BY KEN LIECK

Children of the Night

Clubowners and Their Kids

Dancing About Architecture

Taking a P in the Snow

BY KEN LIECK

Record Reviews

screens

Scanlines

Robot Monster

Cinema du Fromage

Directors Dumber Than Ed Wood, Jr.!

BY JERRY RENSHAW

Websites from Hell

It's 4am -- Do You Know Where Your Monitor Is?

BY MARC SAVLOV

And a Happy New Year!

BY MARGARET MOSER

ShortCuts

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

Film Reviews

An American Werewolf in Paris

As Good as It Gets

Nicholson and Hunt both won Oscars for their respective roles as a rude and obsessive-compulsive writer and the waitress who grows to love him.

The Beaumarchais Scoundrel

Deconstructing Harry

Good Will Hunting

Jackie Brown

Based on Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, this is a fairly straight-ahead, Seventies-styled caper film.

Mr. Magoo

The Postman

arts & culture

Austin Art All Over

Local Artists' Solo Exhibitions Cover Texas -- and Beyond

BY REBECCA S. COHEN

Articulations

Muffitt Promoted

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

columns

Happy Holidays... and Thanks for Your Many Gifts All Year

about AIDS

Coach's Corner

BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON

Day Trips

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

Page Two

BY LOUIS BLACK

Public Notice

BY KATE X MESSER

Postmarks

Mister Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

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