Council will appoint nine members to the Mueller Municipal Airport Implementation Advisory Commission; city may implement new septic tank rules; Suzanne Gamboa has left the Statesman; Brigid Shea starts a new consulting firm; UT professor Emerson Tiller has been nominated for the board of ICANN; Triangle project action postponed for a week

BY AMY SMITH

food

Going Home Again

"East Side Cafe is obviously doing something right," Chronicle Cuisines writer Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes. "You don't draw waiting crowds continually for over a decade without conscious effort. The cafe's menu certainly isn't Austin's splashiest, but for many, the cafe simply feels right. There's no place like home."

BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY

Food-o-File

Updates on the upcoming winery Harvest Festivities.

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Second Helpings: Nuovo Italiano

Food Reviews

The Bakehouse Restaurant and Bar

Seasoning Savvy: How to Cook With Herbs, Spices, and Other Flavorings

music

Throwing Down Love

The seven-year rise of Knolly Williams, the Master P of Christian hip-hop

BY ANDY LANGER

Heaven's Metal

Austin Christian metal magazine is a must-read to those moshing for Jesus

BY ANDY LANGER

Fear Not

Salvador rocks for the Lord, and plans to sell a lot of records.

BY DAVID GARZA

Dancing About Architecture

Jump on It skips a beat but keeps on keepin' on; Solid Gold 40 gives up the ghost.

BY KEN LIECK

Live Shots

Patti Smith, Backyard, July 21

The Muffs, Emo's, July 23

Ali Farka Touré, Afel Bocoum, Warfield Theater, San Francisco, July 26

Brian Wilson, Backyard, July 27

Deftones, Austin Music Hall, July 28

screens

Dear Everyone ...

Online Diarists Show Us a Little More

BY KIM MELLEN

More Local Online Diaries

BY KIM MELLEN

Short Cuts

Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.

BY MARC SAVLOV

TV Eye

For your consideration : the comedy series and performers nominated for the 2000 Emmy Awards

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

Magnolia

Film Reviews

Hollow Man

Love's Labour's Lost

Space Cowboys

The Woman Chaser

arts & culture

Bad Dog's Good Deeds

Contrary to its name, the new Bad Dog Comedy Theater isn't a mean spoiler on Austin's comedy scene. It's about bringing things together, like improv / sketch comedy and stand-up, two veins of comedy that are almost always separate.

Home for Heroes (and Others)

Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill. But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard labor, they have created one of Austin's most user-friendly theatre spaces.

BY PHIL WEST

Articulations

An architect to design the next stage for the Zachary Scott Theatre Center.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Upright Citizens Brigade: Group Alchemy

The Bad Dog Comedy Theater promised to bring the best in sketch comedy to Austin, and with its combination of clever intellectual comedy and slapstick nonsense, the Upright Citizens Brigade delivered on that promise in spades.

Invisible Moments: Sleepy, Dreamy, Pleasing Invisible Moments

With its sleepy, dreamy atmosphere, repetitious images, and low-key, self-referential presentation, Jason Phelps and Stephen Pruitt's installation-cum-performance piece Invisible Moments is one of those works that audiences are going to either love or hate.

Ragtime: America in Motion

The musical version of Ragtime is a story of America and of people in motion, and in the powerfully realized national touring production, their journeys move us, haunt us.

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