Volume 20, Number 2
features
ClickBeetleMania
Bug-nut Wayne Alan Brenner goes coo-coo for click beetles!
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
news
Ozone of His Own
Texas environmentalists wonder when George W. Bush will face up to the consequences of killing the Tejas emissions-reduction program.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Karl Rove's Quick Count
As the presidential race tightens, the Bush campaign doesn't seem to be worried.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Southern Exposure
The 'Renaissance' of Far South Austin Pushes Upscale Development South of Stassney
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Lowdown
Naked City
It could be that the 20 reporters who showed up at the Governor's Mansion on the Sunday before Labor Day saw the only presidential debates that will occur this year; Hyde Park Baptist Church seems intent on moving "Forward Forever"; The light-rail train ride to the polls continues to build steam.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
food
A Texan Does Toscana
While it's obvious that hours of work making stocks, sauces, marinades, and custards go into the production of every meal at Siena, the end result is an array of hearty and robust peasant dishes elegant in their simplicity and true to their heritage.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Anthony Bourdain is a hot literary dish, Rosa Salas, whose salsa was a huge hit at the recent Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival, is already serving her concoction at a local restaurant, and the details on learning how the ancients ate.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Smoothies
Cuisines writer Lorne Opler scouts out Austin's best smoothies.
Food Reviews
music
I Am Hiphop
One of the hiphop elders delivers a sermon.
BY ANDY LANGER
Local Flow
Austin hip-hop in the house -- really
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Dancing About Architecture
Is the Return of Wayne Douglas on the way? Bob Schneider gets a solo record deal.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Barbara Lynn
Hot Night Tonight
Cliff's Picks (Antone's)
Cliff's Picks
Darden Smith
Extra Extra Darden Smith Sings Twelve Songs by Heart
Ten Speed
The Beanhouse
Kevin Fowler
Beer, Bait, and Ammo
Flaco Jimenez
Sleepytown
The Horton Brothers
Heave Ho!
Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks
Live -- Noise and Smoke
Sexy Finger Champs
Trash Hits the Rock
The Futants
The Futants
Richard W. Cooper
Bright Ideas for a Better Tomorrow
Jeff Hellmer Trio
Peak Moments
Monroe Mustang
De Avonden 091099
Omar & the Howlers
The Screamin' Cat
Philo
Philo
Steamroller
Full Throttle
Ignorance Park
Bad Luck -- Or the Plan?
The Bulemics
Talk Dirty to Me
Hobble
Blackmassking
King's X
Please Come Home ... Mr. Bulbous
screens
Criminal Conversation
How Christopher McQuarrie, the writer of The Usual Suspects and the director of the upcoming The Way of the Gun, learned to say no.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Rush Hour
Todd Phillips' Frat House, screening at the Alamo this Wednesday as part of the Texas Documentary Tour, asks the question: Will you ever dick a brother?
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Memories of the Jerry Lewis telethon. Also, upcoming KLRU programming for September, Hispanic Heritage Month
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Nurse Betty
The Tao of Steve
Easygoing romantic comedy about an unlikely ladies' man.
The Way of the Gun
Whipped
arts & culture
Life's Enriched Pageant
Good design, like good air, helps you breathe a little easier, and here are a few Austinites who are helping us all breathe easier through their work as graphic designers.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Articulations
Director Don Toner makes his exit from the State Theater Company, and Austin creeps back into the pages of American Theatre magazine.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Lipstick Traces: Rock On!
With Lipstick Traces, the Rude Mechanicals have adeptly created a theatrical adaptation of Greil Marcus' legendary book that is loud, defiant, intelligent, funny, absurd, literate, physical, and fun, a rock concert for your head.
The Beauty Queen of Leenane: The Price of War
In the State Theater Company production of Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane, director Don Toner and a strong acting ensemble strikingly evoke a world of brutal feuds and long memories, where an unending series of bitter skirmishes between mother and daughter ends in tragedy.
Elytra: New Synthesis
With Elytra, the artists of the Vortex Repertory Company and Ethos achieve a new level in integrating cyber-opera style and story.
columns
Page Two
Rather than legislating by principal and vision, the influences on Bush are special interests, short-term voter response, and accident.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!
Public Notice
Public Notice asks not what it can do for its community but what you can. This week features a list of Austin area Volunteer opportunities.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Slightly shopworn but still vital and acerbic fashion authority available for hire ...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Lessons in underused geometric shapes.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Coach picks the AFC's winners and losers for the upcoming football season. And, as promising as the Longhorn football team looks, don't get carried away just yet.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
The summer drought is making historical Indian sites throughout Texas more accesible to archaeologists ... and to looters.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Genetically modified Salmonella bacteria look promising as an HIV vaccine.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
