Volume 19, Number 27
news
public access debate surrounds preservation issue
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Primary races start heating up in nearby counties, across Texas, and around the nation.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
csc breaks ground; protest of groundbreaking headed off; intel may build facility at museum park downtown, thomas henderson is seeking pardon
BY AMY SMITH
sos board votes no on the proposed bradley settlement
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
The Chronicle food staff has scoured Austin in search of the city's best down-home eateries; they're served up within.
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY, BARBARA CHISHOLM, PABLEAUX JOHNSON, MICK VANN AND VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood describes the amusing history behind discovering the new Roy Henry's Famous Waffles & Chicken and updates readers on changes in Austin's restaurant scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Chronicle writer Greg Beets samples Austin's pub grub.
music
SXSW 2000
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Jeff Cole Leaves Doolittle Records, Marc Katz Leaves Top of the Marc, Hank Sinatra Returns and so does Ray Benson (again!). Plus all the news that pitches a fit.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
SXSW Records
Blood and Mood, ...And His Oft Mended Raiment
The Process
It Ain't a Party Until Someone Gets a Haircut
Vermilion
Now Hear This
The Singing Hatchet
Whatcha Doin'
Busse Woods
King of the Road
Life Before Insanity
Traveler's Companion
Things to Come
Just Like Home
Los Grandes ...xitos en Español
Funky Nation
Thunder Chicken
screens
Scenes from a digital revolution
BY SARAH HEPOLA
When Zack Exley built his parody site of George W. Bush, he expected a simple call : he got a whole lot more.
BY RON DEUTSCH
With arguably the best content on the Web, Salon is poised to move into your living room and onto your radio dial :president and CEOMichael O'Donnell explains how.
BY DAVID GARZA
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Now that the February sweeps are over, take a look what the networks are dragging in for March.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Jia Zhang-ke’s latest is a love story with time’s passage in mind
A retiree enters a high-stakes bull-riding competition
Live-action remake of the Disney cartoon about the bond between a girl and an alien
What a bummer
arts & culture
Political and philosophical issues aren't just topics for writers and dramatists. Several Austin choreographers are using themas subjects for dances. Toni Bravo, Jeffery Bullock, Lisa Fehrman, and Andrew Long explain how they see ideas through movement.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A meeting on the Long Center; a profitable gala for Austin Musical Theatre; a new season for Salvage Vanguard Theater.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Let the SXSW onslaught begin ...
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
BY KATE X MESSER
How broadband technologies will affect modern life.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Part one of a voyage into the Austin salon scene.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Rise, people, and crush the linguistic tyranny of the European Union.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Part II of the Coach's trilogy on girls' high school basketball, wherein Salado comes a cropper against the Lady Eagles of Goldthwaite High.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
The Lindheimer Home in New Braunfels stands as a monument to the "Father of
Texas Botany."
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
A common symptom can be a sign of an uncommon -- and possibly fatal -- drug
reaction.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters to the editor, published daily