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Volume 19, Number 44
features
Snot Flap Manifesto
Snot-nosed Chronicle commentator Wayne Alan Brenner comments on the nature of mucous and somehow relates all this to one the great deities of the Roman Age. Okay!
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
news
Prepare for Departure
Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Mr. Mom
More men are taking time off from work to enjoy fatherhood
BY JONATHAN DAVID CARROLL
Naked City
City Council will decide whether to pay money for hotel venture; Pflugerville is considering building an airport; Jerry Weissberg resigns as CEO from ibooks.com; City Council to decide whether civilians or police should handle junk car enforcement.
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
The council approves on first reading an East Austin apartment complex 500 feet away from a plant where toxic chemicals are stored, but some council members are promising to scuttle the project if it comes back for final approval.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Media Clips
Ken Martin sells In Fact Daily to reporter Jo Clifton to focus on his monthly magazine, The Good Life.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Collective Sole
City Grill hasn't lost its stride, Barbara Chisholm writes. In its early days, it was one of a few spots in Austin that offered good dining in a sophisticated atmosphere. These days, the competition in that arena is considerably more intense, and yet it remains popular and perfectly in style. It's not an easy trick.
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Food-o-File
Virginia B.Wood doles out some needed advice about how to capture the best Hill Country peaches and updates readers on the local culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Chinese Restaurants
Chronicle writer Greg Beets surveys Austin's Chinese restaurants.
Food Reviews
music
I Am the Jellyfish That Walks Upon the Land
The Mother of all pop bands
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
GRAND CHAMPEEN
Before They Get Stupid
Grand Champeen eschew Minneapolis for Austin even though they just want to rawk!
BY CHRISTOPHER HESS
Dancing About Architecture
Carrie Clark quits Sixteen Deluxe; Sire Records is in a muddle.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Sixteen Deluxe
Vision Take Me Make Me Never Forsake Me
Deep Sombreros
¿Quien Es el Pinche Hombre?
Dynamite Hack
Superfast
Li'l Cap'n Travis
Li'l Cap'n Travis
Jean Caffeine
Idée Fixe
Tish Hinojosa
Sign of Truth
Hermanos Treviño
Conjunto con Padres
Malford Milligan, Stephen Bruton, Billy Joe Shaver, The Bells of Joy, Ruben Ramos, Johnny Nicholas, Don Walser, Guy Forsyth, Gospel Stars, Lisa Tingle, Kyle Family, Larry Gatlin
The Gospel According to Austin, TX
Michael O'Connor
Green and Blue
Dickie Lee Erwin
There's a Movie Goin' On
Phil Pritchett
Heritage Way
Joe Ely
Live at Antone's
The Shakin' Apostles
Too Hot for Snakes
Hank Thompson
Seven Decades
Steve James
Boom Chang
Herb Steiner
Texas Dance Time!
Ray Price
Prisoner of Love
Bad Livers
The Ridgetop Sessions
Brobdingnagian Bards
Gullible's Travels
Slobberbone
Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today
Nathan Hamilton
Tuscola
Subset
Overpass
Stickpony
Smiling Into Nowhere
Kapsize
The Gift
The Privateers
The Privateers
Erik the Butcher
Happy Land
Explosions in the Sky
How Strange, Innocence
Foot Foot
Post Normal
Mazinga Phaser
dissatisfied customers of hallucination
Lucid Dementia
Song for Newborn
screens
Making Waves
Austin Screenwriter Bill Wittliff Discusses The Perfect Storm
BY SARAH HEPOLA
The Life of the Party
Marc Savlov talks with San Francisco-based director Greg Harrison about his new film, Groove and the burgeoning rave movement it depicts.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
A tribute to Nancy Marchand, matriarch of The Sopranos, who died of lung cancer on June 18.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Getting the Joke
Comedy isn't the funny business it was in the Eighties, what with fewer clubs and audiences burned out by comedy on cable and hack comics. Seven Austin comics discuss the current state of stand-up in a round-table discussion.
Articulations
A new performance space in South Austin: the Bad Dog Comedy Theater
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Blue Pearl: A Heart-rending, Joyous Affirmation of Life
In the profoundly beautiful world of Blue Pearl, the third installment of her scaffold trilogy, choreographer Sally Jacques gave us an extended collaborative offering of movement, sound, and light and more, a heart-rending and joyous affirmation of life.
Merton of the Movies: Gone Soft
In 1922, George Kaufman and Marc Connelly's Merton of the Movies was a pointed satire of Hollywood, but 80 years have softened the play's sharpness, so the Different Stages revival is little more than nice.
Company: Idiosyncratic Dinner Guests
Sitting through the UT Opera Theatre production of Stephen Sondheim's Company is not unlike having a dinner party for people who are pleasant enough if you can get past their idiosyncrasies, such as a tendency to make noises at the end of their questions: "What would we do without you-ooh?"
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
"Public Notice" notes a few great ways to celebrate the Fourth of July holiday weekend by helping a good cause.
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
The mid-summer drought in traditional sports is on (the Olympics don't count). Also, Monday Night Football will try not to suck so bad; Mike Tyson's a bore, and Sampras and Agassi may be getting too old.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
The AIDS Denialists; What Does Cause AIDS?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
