Downtown Austin
Volume 19, Number 29
features
The Pink Pick
Kate Messer remembers when she first met Velvet Underground guitarist Sterling Morrison and they bonded over the Gibson SG like a couple of guitar geeks.
BY KATE X MESSER
news
The Loyal Lieutenants
Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Run Out on a Rail
Capital Metro fires its freight rail carrier, Longhorn Railway, and its litigious owner, Don Cheatham, and finds a temporary replacement.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY AMY SMITH
Going, Going, Gone?
Gary Bradley agrees to sell 1,000 acres of land to the city
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
Favorite Finds
The Chronicle food staff's retinue of restaurants that visitors to Austin shouldn't miss.
Sipping Between the Lines
Chronicle wine writer Wes Marshall reviews the wine lists at two Austin hotels, the Driskill and the Four Seasons.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood on the delights of Dolce Vita and her updates on Austin's restaurant scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: BBQ Joints Within an Hour of Austin
Cusines editor Virigina B. Wood and Chronicle writer Greg Beets serve up barbecue joints within an hour of Austin in this week's Second Helpings.
music
SXSW Showcase Picks: Saturday
SXSW Showcase Picks: Friday
SXSW Showcase Picks: Thursday
SXSW News: Saturday
BY KEN LIECK
SXSW News: Friday
BY KEN LIECK
SXSW News: Thursday
BY KEN LIECK
SXSW Profiles
Thursday Night
Austin Music Awards: 19 Years Old
BY MARGARET MOSER
Velvet Underdog
Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews
BY MARGARET MOSER
It's Kicking In
The Sahm Family Archives
BY MARGARET MOSER
SXSW Music Festival
Picks & Sleepers
Dancing About Architecture
A recap of favorite SXSW venues that no longer exist, a few festival hot tips, some non-festival tips, a celebrity-sightings checklist.
BY KEN LIECK
SXSW Live Shots
Austin Music Awards, Austin Music Hall
Wednesday Night
Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers
Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, Lucy's Retired Surfer's Bar
Astrid, the High Fidelity, Sneakster, Departure Lounge
British Boys: Episode One, Twist / Maggie Mae's
A Great Day In Austin, Town Lake
Wednesday Night
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Hole in the Wall
I Am the World Trade Center
I Am the World Trade Center, Emo's Jr.
Adam Carroll
Adam Carroll, Gallery Lombardi Lounge
The Dylan Group
The Dylan Group, Emo's
Tom Freund, Whiskeytown, the Brooders, Gurf Morlix, Hazeldine, Salas-Humara and the Silos, Jon Dee Graham, Jo Carol Pierce
Swollen Circus
Hank Williams III, Ray Price
Hank Williams III, Ray Price, Waterloo Park
Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn, Stubb's, Day Party
Ballistix, Unfadeable Young Guns, Ukalipthis, NOOK
Ballistix, Unfadeable Young Guns, Ukalipthis, NOOK, Velvet/Velvet Patio
Eric Mingus
Eric Mingus, Elephant Room
Hail Britannia: Episode Two
Thursday Night
Estrus / Lookout! Showcases, Emo's
Estrus / Lookout! Showcases
SXSW Live Shots
Thursday Day
BY GREG BEETS
SXSW Live Shots
Austin Music Awards, Austin Music Hall
Wednesday Night
Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers
Lil' Brian and the Zydeco Travelers, Lucy's Retired Surfer's Bar
Astrid, the High Fidelity, Sneakster, Departure Lounge
British Boys: Episode One, Twist / Maggie Mae's
A Great Day In Austin, Town Lake
Wednesday Night
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, Hole in the Wall
I Am the World Trade Center
I Am the World Trade Center, Emo's Jr.
Adam Carroll
Adam Carroll, Gallery Lombardi Lounge
The Dylan Group
The Dylan Group, Emo's
Tom Freund, Whiskeytown, the Brooders, Gurf Morlix, Hazeldine, Salas-Humara and the Silos, Jon Dee Graham, Jo Carol Pierce
Swollen Circus
Hank Williams III, Ray Price
Hank Williams III, Ray Price, Waterloo Park
Roger McGuinn
Roger McGuinn, Stubb's, Day Party
Ballistix, Unfadeable Young Guns, Ukalipthis, NOOK
Ballistix, Unfadeable Young Guns, Ukalipthis, NOOK, Velvet/Velvet Patio
Eric Mingus
Eric Mingus, Elephant Room
Hail Britannia: Episode Two
Thursday Night
Estrus / Lookout! Showcases, Emo's
Estrus / Lookout! Showcases
Thursday Night Music Awards
Thursday Night
The Patti Smith Group
The Patti Smith Group, Waterloo Park
Artists Only Panel, Austin Convention Center
Friday Day
Making Noise on the Net Panel, Austin Convention Center
Friday Day
Shelby Lynne
Shelby Lynne, Club DeVille
Yo-Yo's, Black Halos
Yo-Yo's, Black Halos, Emo's Main Room
Gomez
Gomez, La Zona Rosa
Beulah, Red Delicious
Beulah / Red Delicious, Day Party / Gallery Lombardi Lounge
Number Girl
Number Girl, Mercury
Patti Smith
Gung Ho
Mekons
Journey to the End of the Night
Asylum Street Spankers
Spanker Madness
Bob Schneider
Lonelyland
The Black Halos
The Black Halos
Black Kali Ma
You Ride the Pony (I'll Be the Bunny)
Alabama Thunder Pussy
Constellation
Therapy?
Suicide Pact -- You First
Ann Beretta
To All Our Fallen Heroes
Daniel Johnston
Live in Berlin, Danny & the Nightmares
Giant Sand
Chore of Enchantment
Friends of Dean Martinez
A Place in the Sun
John Paul Jones
Zooma
Astrid
Strange Weather Lately
Gomez
Liquid Skin
Shelby Lynne
I Am Shelby Lynne
Neko Case
Furnace Room Lullaby
Mary Lou Lord/Sean Na Na
Mary Lou Lord/Sean Na Na
Tom House
'Til You've Seen Mine
Marah
Kids in Philly
The Love Supreme
The Love Supreme
Lakuna
Castle of Crime
Palaxy Tracks
The Long Wind Down
Bowery Electric
Lushlife
Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks
Sex Mob
Solid Sender
Super XX Man
Volume IV
The Causey Way
With Loving and Open Arms
Love as Laughter
Destination 2000
Poster Children
DDD
Pachinko
Splendor in the Ass II: Electric Boogaloo
The Frogs
Bananimals
Tee-Double, Jungle Brothers, South Park Mexican, Botany Boyz, Big Daddy Kane
Lost Scriptures, V.I.P., The Third Wish, Forever Botany, Veteranz Day
screens
Straight Shooter
Conversation With Janeane Garofalo and Steve Kessler
BY BARRY JOHNSON
Die Hockzeitskuh (The Wedding Cow)
Spotlight:
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Poetry and Light
The SXSW Film Awards Ceremony
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Fistful of Freaks
Albert and Allen Hughes' American Pimp
BY MARC SAVLOV
Reflections
SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference
Film Fest Winners
Winners of the SXSW Film Festival Awards.
Amongst Fiends
Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski's Colorful Relationship
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Everything That Rises Must Converge
SXSW 2000 Interactive Festival
Click on This
Winners of the SXSW Interactive 2000 Web Awards
Songs of Youth
Longtime buddies Tommy Rosen and John Comerford drew on their own experiences following rock bands from city to city to write Around the Fire, a free-spirited paean to life on the road directed by John Jacobsen.
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
At the SXSW Interactive 2000 Festival, columnist Belinda Acosta takes a peek at the television of the future; also, director Kevin Smith fumes over the television version of his indie hit Clerks, and the Emmys announce a change in voting procedure.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Viva la Revolution!
Installation art may be notoriously hard to define, but its role in art history isn't. It helped change the way we look at art, and the Blanton Museum of Art's survey of three decades of installation art, "Blurring the Boundaries," provides a window on the revolution.
BY BEN WILLCOTT
Articulations
Touring plans for the Rude Mechanicals; two two shows for theatregoers to see before they close.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
STOMP: Discarded Scrap Waiting to Be Heard
STOMP turned the Paramount Theatre stage into a tidy salvage yard, where every piece of junk became a percussive instrument waiting to be heard.
The Apocalytes and the Tetragons: Psychic Blasts and Undulating Bodies
With the multimedia B-movie spoofs The Apocalytes and The Tetragons, composer-performers Chad Salvata and Sergio R. Samayoa serve up some well-scored soft-core sci-fi cyber-porn, heavy on the energy fielding (and the hyphens.
Aida: Outmatched by the Set
Austin Lyric Opera's Aida looks like a million bucks, but its stunning visuals are undercut by some less-than-grand human qualities.
columns
Page Two
We are not sleeping.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Quote of the week: "You, my hyphenated friend, are an ambassador of evil."
Public Notice
"Public Notice" is the sassy yet totally sincere public service column.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
In memory of a Shaman
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Reports from a rare week of fashion activity in Austin.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
The dirty South and the restless East.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The New American fare at The Range in Salado alone is worth the 45-minute drive from Austin.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
Be true to your school!
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Two drugs being developed from trees could help not only in the treatment of AIDS/HIV, but other diseases as well.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
