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Volume 19, Number 41
news
No Man's Land
Substandard Conditions Are a Way of Life for Northridge Acres
BY CHERYL SMITH
Picking Up the Pieces
Karr Conviction Closes Another Chapter in O'Hair
Case
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Statesman ignores Bill Bunch as part of its
SOS history; Mary Arnold, Whole Foods and Lee
Walker honored for their SOS dedication; the Austin
Police Association's mailers for Rafael Quintanilla
never got mailed; Mayor Kirk Watson will lay out his
transportation vision.
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Citizens voice their approval of the recommendations
of the Police Oversight Focus Group; proposed City
Hall balloons and its price tag grows; Rainey Street
Historic District nears its day of reckoning.
BY JONATHAN DAVID CARROLL
At the Top of His Game
Longtime Texas Monthly editor Gregory Curtis calls it
quits; deputy editor Evan Smith will succeed him.
Louis Dubose, editor of the Texas Observer for 13
years, announces he will retire.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Zoot Suits
In a time when upscale restaurants most often crop up
in high-traffic areas or clamoring urban districts, Zoot,
a nine-year-old stalwart of the Austin scene, thrives on
a sense of quiet seclusion and implied formality.
BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood remembers Robert Paprota, who
owned Chez Nous before his untimely recent death
and updates readers on changes in the local
restaurant scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Snow Cones
Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on Austin's
snow cone shops.
Food Reviews
music
Countdown to Ecstasy
A New Drug for a New Millennium
BY MARC SAVLOV
Dancing About Architecture
House of Blues breaks ground at Southpark Meadows where the old stage will be replaced, but not before Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Herbie Hancock, One World Theatre, May 27
The Cure, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX, May 24
screens
Shoot for the Moon
Actor Danny Trejo has made a film career out of
playing criminals. Before that, he made a career out of
being one. In town to shoot Robert Rodriguez's Spy
Kids, Trejo visited Travis High School to talk to
students about the lessons he learned the hard way.
BY BARRY JOHNSON
Shoot for the Stars
Downtown Filming Winds to a Close
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the
Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The Real World: New Orleans and Survivor, CBS'
brutal bid to rein reality television, are sure to fascinate
pop culture fans throughout the summer. Belinda
Acosta explains why she resents it: and why she can't
stop watching.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
A Question of Equity
Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
A tragic accident for a local dancer; the loss of a great state drama teacher.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: On the Plains of Myth and Mystery
The Doghouse Theatre's production of Michael
Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid may
take place in a back yard in West Campus, but the
ensemble, a three-piece combo, and Ondaatje's
poetry transport you to dark wooden houses on the
plains where myth and mystery bring Billy the Kid to
life.
Sexual Perversity in Chicago: Skimming the Mucky Surface
With its revival of David Mamet's raunchy, cynical
Sexual Perversity in Chicago, the new Flood Theatre
Project tries to plunge audiences into skanky
Seventies reality, but the fresh-faced troupe only
succeeds in skimming its mucky surface.
Carmina Burana: Hi, Latin!
The New Texas Music Works rendition of Carl Orff's
masterwork Carmina Burana was the usual
exhilarating sonic roller-coaster of songs about love
and lust and way too much drinking in the Middle Ages,
but the exuberance of conductor Craig Hella Johnson
also made it feel like a good new friend was
introducing us to one of his favorite old friends.
columns
Page Two
Is the alternative press dead?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
A tawdry Kelsonian cababble.
Letters at 3AM
Advice to a high-school graduating class: Face your
fear and take risks.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
All that Stephen Allows.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Leaks, landfills, and the XXX signature of Monica
Lewinsky.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Rails have been turned to trails at Lake Mineral Wells
State Park.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
What do the denialists want?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
