Parish
Volume 19, Number 28
features
The Least of These
UT professor Horace Newcomb reflects on the segregation South on the release of his friend and colleague Paul Stekler's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire.
BY HORACE NEWCOMB
news
Miles to Go
A transportation bond package combining roads and light rail is planned for November.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Oh, To Be a Constable
10 candidates compete for four open constable seats
BY AMY SMITH
There's Something About Mary
Mary arnold gets down to brass tacks on bradley deal
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Proposed Bradley Agreement
Naked City
capital metro fires don dcheatham and longhorn railway co.; patrick beach and gregory kallenberg leave the statesman, city faces lead-based paint problem.
BY AMY SMITH
Down to the Wire
SOS, Bradley, and the city try to work out their differences and come to an agreement they all can live with on the Bradley Settlement.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
South by South First
Like any self-respecting Texas town, Austin boasts good Mexican eating all over the city. But for sheer volume of respectable, even wonderful, eateries, South First Street is the place to go.
Food-o-File
In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood goes on a mini-rant and updates readers on local restaurant news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Austin Barbecue
Where to find fine barbecue in Austin.
music
In Between Days
At the Crossroads of the 1999-2000 Austin Music Awards.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
More Flava Than Juicy Fruit
Wednesday Night SXSW Picks & Sleepers
Dancing About Architecture
The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Ian Moore
And All the Colors ...
Two Ton Boa
Two Ton Boa
Papas Fritas
Buildings & Grounds
Sister Sonny
Lovesongs
Macha
See It Another Way
The Gunga Din
Glitterati
Reverend Horton Heat
Spend a Night in the Box
Buzzkill
House of Bad Touch
Drunk Horse
Drunk Horse
The Delta 72
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Mo Jamal
Lost Persian Cat
Ron Flynt and the Bluehearts
Big Blue Heart
Hank Williams III
Risin' Outlaw
Josh Rouse
Home
The New Duncan Imperials
Sticky
screens
Cars and Speed and Flight
Just prior to his appearance at SXSW Film for a retrospective of his work, Monte Hellman talks about a career in film.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Remembering Writer Charles Willeford
BY JESSE SUBLETT
The Examined Life
Prior to a retrospective of his documentaries at SXSWFilm, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on a career spent as a fly on the wall.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN AND MARC SAVLOV
How You Became a Criminal
An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.
BY NICK BARBARO
Double Take
Austin Scribe Lawrence Wright Tackles Noriega -- Twice
BY CARY L. ROBERTS
Soldier of Fortune
Comic Steven Wright offers observations on his return to short film, "One Soldier," the pressure of following up an Academy Award, and this bad trick called life.
BY J. C. SHAKESPEARE
Spotlights
SXSW Film Festival: Five in Focus
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Is it a coincidence that at the turn of the century, magic and the supernatural has made another appearance on TV?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
PostFest
With cultural festivals popping up around Austin like orange traffic cones, a few festival organizers offer their insights into running a festival.
Articulations
A big vote of confidence for new Ballet Austin artistic director Stephen Mills; a way you can "Bowl With the Bards".
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Speaking in Tongues: Un Bon Buffet!
Sample the Austin theatre scene in tasty 10-minute bites via the new Austin Script Works' compilation Speaking in Tongues.
Century Plant: Trancer's Paradise + Metafiction = Bliss
Think trancer's paradise + Donovan -- the hippie-dippy stuff + a clever metafictive show in which a live performer conducts an orchestra on film, and you'll have a sense of Andrew Baron's Century Plant.
In The House of the Moles: Live, Love, Get the Fuck Up!
Writer Terry Galloway and theatre company Rude Mechanicals are "an amazing match" in the slapstick-and-death piece In the House of the Moles.
columns
Page Two
No soul is more appropriate for the SXSW film festival than the late actor Warren Oates.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.
Public Notice
This week, your sassy yet totally sincere public service column goes wiggy over the new Patti Smith CDand tells you that her free show at SXSW will benefit a good cause. Other good causes, as usual, are pimped within as well..
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
The seamy underbelly of the Austin salon scene, part II.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
It's Tom vs. Jerry vs. Butch vs. horses vs. Hitler in this week's fact smackdown.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Part 3 of the Coach's trilogy on girls' high school basketball.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
The Fredericksburg Herb Farm is everything great about the Hill Country town condensed down to 14 acres.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
A type of protein may help reverse AIDS-related wasting syndromes.
BY RON CUMMINGS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
