Buddy's Place
Volume 20, Number 1
news
What's In Store
The city's self-storage business is changing as corporate giants push mom and pop operations aside.
BY ROB D'AMICO
Staff Infection
Sick of Low Wages, UT Staff Vow Three-Day 'Burnt Orange Flu'
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Read My Chips
George Bush claims he supported Children's Health Insurance in the 1999 legislative session. He did, but only at the lowest level.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Naked City
Austin Energy's attempt to shut close its books to the public will be considered by city council September.
food
Hot Shots
Nearly 300 stalwart salsa chefs braved the heat and the potential ridicule of the preliminary judges to compete in the 10th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival. Here's the list of those who came out on top.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
10th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
The people and critics have chosen the best of the fest
Liquid Assets
Chronicle Wine writer Wes Marshall scours the city for fine wines both under $10 and over $10.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood has finally found the perfect Helen Corbitt cookbook.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Bagels to Beignets to Donuts
Chronicle Cuisines writer MMPack provides the perfect dining guide for Austin's sweet tooths.
Food Reviews
music
For the Good Times
The Life and Times of Texas country crooner, Ray Price.
BY DAVID CANTWELL
Murder on Music Row
Nashville, we have a problem.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
101X fires program director Alan Smith; Man's Ruin ain't coming back after all.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Tamasha Africana: Central Market Cafe, August 27
Sir Finks: Carousel Lounge, August 18
Junior Brown, Heybale: Continental Club, August 20
Super the Phat, Virginia Robot Manufacturing Co., TV People: Room 710, August 22
James Hyland, The Danged: Hole in the Wall, August 24
screens
A Fan's Notes
In Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe tells the story of his first assignment for Rolling Stone in 1973 and a day when the youth of America believed rock & roll could change the world.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
The Big Picture
Fall Movie Preview
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Screens Feature
winners of the the texas filmmakers production fund
Screens Feature
ALSO PLAYING
BY SARAH HEPOLA
QT Quattro Schedule
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Television goes back to school; Fox Family picks up Freaks and Geeks; promising TV movie Witchblade could become a series.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
The Art of War
Bring It On
Catfights, navel-baring, a Top 40 soundtrack, sugarcoated sentiments: Cheerleaders grab center stage.
The Crew
arts & culture
Everything Is Possible ... Again
Seemingly unadaptable, Greil Marcus' 1989 opus Lipstick Traces proved to be the foundation for the Rude Mechanicals' strongest theatre work to date. As they revive their hit adaptation, the Rude Mechs reflect on its creation, its success, working as a collective, and being told by Marcus, "You staged the book I wanted to write."
BY ADA CALHOUN
Articulations
Another hefty infusion of cash for the Long Center, and no money necessary to see the new Austin Museum of Art exhibition
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ann Pizer: Folly: The Natural Order
In the 16 color photographs that comprise the exhibition "Ann Pizer: Folly," the photographer captures some sense of the magic in formal gardens, of our foolishness in trying to tame nature, and of the way we sway between the two.
8 Tracks (No Disco): Get the Handcuffs
In the Earth and Sky Acting Co.'s 8 Tracks (No Disco), john daniels, jr. has conjured the Seventies rock world of hot chicks, backseat lovin', and sentimental ballads via a spate of endless musical numbers and ill-conceived poems and skits.
columns
Page Two
There'll be no hoolpa over our 19th anniversary.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.
Public Notice
Public Notice asks you to notice what time of year it is. Yes, baby, it's Telethon Time.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Al Gore is the only presidential candidate who's hot and bothered about global warming.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Fashion correspondent Tom Palmer reports from Iceland's Futurice fashion week.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
I'd like a scoop of Cherry Garcia and ... can I get a sample of that Dioxin Ripple?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
Sleep and shop 19th-century style at the Comfort Common Bed and Breakfast in Comfort, TX.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Could two diseases be better than one?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Express Success
Sometimes a Round Rock Express game resembles a combination county fair and amusement park : with the baseball game as background more than a sporting event.
BY MIKE BUTTS
49th-Inning Stretch
Both the players and the announcer have the same dreams of going to the major leagues. The difference between the players and announcer Mike Capps is that none of the young men on the roster of the Round Rock Express earned an Emmy nomination, covered the Persian Gulf War for CNN, or did a 10-hour marathon broadcast of the end of the 51-day Branch Davidian siege in Waco.