AFS Cinema
Volume 19, Number 40
features
This Blows
Jay Hardwig carefully recounts falling out of love with whistling.
BY JAY HARDWIG
news
The Life and Times of Gus Garcia
City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service
BY DARYL SLUSHER
Down to Two
Runoff candidates offer views on city's future.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
High and Dry
LCRA Approves Controversial Pipeline to Dripping Springs
BY ROB D'AMICO
Endorsements: Saturday June 3 Runoff Election
Naked City
A defense attorney claims a police detective held a gun near his client's head to coerce a confession from him in the yogurt shop
murder case; a tree in Town Lake Park will be spared the axe; Austin Energy hits record-breaking energy use.
BY AMY SMITH
food
Eating Between the Lines
Summer Reading, Culinarily Speaking
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The King of Hops Returns
Earlier this month, Michael Jackson, a well-rounded Englishman who travels the globe sampling local brews and entertaining faithful beer geeks with educational tastings and deadpan jokes about pop-star pedophilia, made his annual trek to Austin for a beer-tasting dinner at the Bitter End.
BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood explains how Austin became the second city in America to pass a resolution on genetically engineered food and updates readers on other local culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Ice Cream Parlors
Chronicle writer Greg Beets on Austin's ice cream parlors.
music
Lush Life
The divine Miss Nancy Wilson brings her lush life to Austin.
BY HARVEY PEKAR
What It Is
Edie Brickell returns to tell the world what she is.
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
Clifford Antone receives a sentence; Heinz Geissler takes over the Antone's Records label; Ed Hamell is hospitalized after a car accident.
BY KEN LIECK
Beat Box
Eminem, 504 Boyz, Drama, Wood, En Vogue, Big Pun, Common, 95 South
The Marshall Mathers LP, Goodfellas, Causin' Drama, Against the Grain, Masterpiece Theatre, Yeeeah Baby, Like Water for Chocolate, Tightwork 3000
Ween
White Pepper
Built to Spill
Live
Neil Young
Silver & Gold
Lee Rocker, Lydia Lunch, Dexter Romweber, Knoxville Girls, Preacher Boy, Sally Norvell, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Floyd Dixon, Andre Williams
New Coat of Paint: Songs of Tom Waits
Pedro the Lion
Winners Never Quit
Dolly Varden
The Dumbest Magnets
Kelly Hogan & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Beneath the Country Underdog
Virgínia Rodrigues
Nós
Susana Baca
Eco de Sombras
Omara Portuondo
The Buena Vista Social Club Presents Omara Portuondo
Steve Lacy 3, Steve Lacy Trio, Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd
N.Y. Capers & Quirks, The Rent, Monk's Dream
Third World Cop, Monty Alexander, Horace Andy
Monty Meets Sly and Robbie, Living In the Flood
Suba, Caipiríssima: Batucada ElectRonica
São Paulo Confessions
William Orbit
Pieces in a Modern Style
Fatboy Slim
The Fatboy Slim / Norman Cook Collection, On the Floor at the Boutique: Mixed by Fatboy Slim
Alex Gopher
You, My Baby, & I
Great Lakes
Great Lakes
screens
Technically Speaking
The Digital World Turns the Page
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Is there anything worse than that long stretch before the start of the fall season? Thank God for cable.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Truth and Reconciliation
The assertion of the individual is at the heart of the Austin Museum of Art's new show, "Liberated Voices: Contemporary Art From South Africa," which makes it fresh and full of surprises; it resonates with the hungry energy of a country emerging from oppression and brims with experimentation and unique, original perspectives.
BY BEN WILLCOTT
Austin Theatre Critics Table 1999-2000 Winners
The Austin Theatre Critics Table presented its eighth annual awards for achievement in the Austin arts in a lively ceremony at the Continental Club
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Goodbyes and good news at the 2000 Austin Theatre Critics Table Awards.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In the Wee Hours: Mister Sandman ...
Salvage Vanguard Theater has dared to revive the radio adventure serial in its action-packed original The Intergalactic Nemesis and, hard as it may be to believe in this age of Austin Powers spoofery, the company plays it relatively straight and gets impressive results.
The Intergalactic Nemesis: 'Not the mind-whammy again!'
In the Wee Hours, Heloise Gold's new dance-theatre collaboration with Mike Arnold and Tim Mateer, explores the nooks and crannies of our dreaming / waking double life in visually stunning, playful, and engaging vignettes.
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
Public Notice says, "Keep cool this summer and volunteer for a local public service organization.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Coach can't hit a wedge shot, or make a putt, but he's trying.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
The defunct Comal Power Plant in New Braunfels finds new life as a hotel.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS? Who Says?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily