Volume 19, Number 5
features
Brenner recalls the time Carl Orff took his breath away. Really.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
news
The Gotham Has Neighbors Up in Arms
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Sand Beach Reserve on the north shore of Town Lake is the subject of a land-use and legal dispute.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
River Woods residents forced out of affordable apartments which are being demolished for a new luxury complex
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife rethinks its pact with the Lower Colorado River Authority; prospective candidates are lining up to run for two open on district court, and Brigid Shea leaves the SOS Alliance.
BY AMY SMITH
In his final "Corner to Corner" column, Mike Clark-Madison declares victory and gets out, noting that neighborhood issues are now taken seriously in mainstream city politics.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Daily Texan student newspaper celebrates 100 years in publication as two former editors publish a book on the Texan's history.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Chronicle Food editor Virginia B. Wood ventures into uncharted territory at Saba Blue Water Cafe on Fourth Street, and likes what she finds.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Food editor Virginia B. Wood congratulates Grape Vine Market's selection as Food and Wine's Retailer of the Year and mentions several upcoming food events and changes in the local restaurant scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Chronicle Food writer Rachel Feit finds a few of her favorite things at Marimont Cafeteria.
Chronicle Food writer Barbara Chisholm reviews local Tex-mex establishment La Reyna.
music
DERAILERS
A profile of Austin’s pre-eminent honky-tonkers, the Derailers
BY JIM CALIGIURI
A profile of rising Austin honky-tonker Roger Wallace.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
The Chronicle music staff's picks for the 2000 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees; Austin bands point NXNW; and is this airport hip-hop rave really happening? Yes. For sure. Definitely. Maybe.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Jellycream
Very Still Life
Broken Teeth
The Reclusives
Sexy, Sexy Confidence
Freerange Bastards
The Cruel & Unusual
Empty V
Oh Yes My Friend
Sittin Fat Down South
Swampadelic
In Session
Signpost of Destiny
A Family Album
Going Away EP
Repository of Fun! ... Six Austin Bands
Viva el Flamenco
Short Stories
Here's to Country Music
At Large
Passing Through, General Store
South of Town
The Brittle Stars
screens
This local Web site is dragging Austin clubs online and into the spotlight.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screenwriters Conference and Festival Schedule
With subjects that range from Malcolm X to choreographer Alvin Ailey, Orlando Bagwell's documentaries depict the African-American -- as well as American -- experience.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Alamo Drafthouse's Cannibal Film Festival: It's People!
BY MARC SAVLOV
Will a brown-out really change the way Latinos are portrayed on television? Also, only a few quibbles about the surprisingly promising premiere of Angel, starring Buffy's David Boreanaz.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
This modern classic is a war movie with a conscience, an action movie with a funny bone, a caper movie with a shifting agenda.
arts & culture
Getting her own sitcom nearly killed Margaret Cho, and she talks about the experience in her new show I'm the One That I Want.
BY J. C. SHAKESPEARE
A spin on the Austin art gallery carousel.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In this week's section of Austin Chronicle arts reviews, Robert Faires reviews Austin Musical Theatre's The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Rude Mechanicals' Lipstick Traces, Sarah Hepola reviews the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's Shakespeare's R & J and Marshall Ryan Maresca's Slow Night at McLaughlin's, and Robi Polgar reviews Austin Shakespeare Festival's Othello and Physical Plant Theater's Fatigue.
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin
columns
Memoir of a former Daily Texan.
BY LOUIS BLACK
The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.
Volunteer opportunites part two: from the Green Corn Project to the YWCA.
BY KATE X MESSER
A week of truth.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The last socialist sequoia?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Wherefore art thou, Pinky?; and where to go for wigs.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Meet the Muellers, one of the most enduring barbecue dynasties in Texas.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
AID for AIDS redistributes leftover meds that would otherwise go to waste.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters to the editor, published daily