St. Andrew's Episcopal School
Volume 20, Number 5
features
Chronicles
The Ninth Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest
BY CLAY SMITH
news
Doubting Thomas
Newly elected Council Member Danny Thomas is in a position to end the fighting over the Place 6 council seat.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Who Will Survive?
Seven council members. One coveted position. And, in the end, only one survivor.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Bush and NARAL, GetHeard.org voters Web site, Kay Bailey Hutchison on abortion, Carole Keeton Rylander speaks to Austin Rotary and attacks AISD, Mike Levy for Mayor, Austin Police endorse Ronnie Earle
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Motorola's Chinese Chips; Bush League Public Ed; Devil in the Details
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Noshing Kosher
Lorne Oppler gives the lowdown on eating kosher in Austin.
BY LORNE OPLER
Food-o-File
The details about how to benefit the Austin Museum of Art while eating, the news on four new restaurants, and what to expect during Texas Wine Month.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: More Local Barbecue Joints
More local barbecue joints in this week's Second Helpings.
Food Reviews
New York Deli
New York Deli in Round Rock has attitude. Chronicle Cuisines writer MM Pack explains why she likes it that way.
Saveur at Rough Creek Lodge
What happened when Saveur magazine editors came to Rough Creek Lodge, near Glen Rose, Texas.
music
Texas Music Group
TMG label rises from the ashes of Watermelon and Antone's.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
That Old Time Religion
16 HP's David Eugene Edwards sounds off about his band's holy-roller music
BY MARGARET MOSER
Paying the Cost To Be the Boss
Q&A with the "King of the Blues"
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
Don Walser and Willie Nelson come up winners; Sixth Street still not quite dead.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Meat Puppets
Golden Lies
Dexter Freebish
A Life of Saturdays
Fastball
The Harsh Light of Day
Beaver Nelson
Little Brother
Don Walser
I'll Hold You in My Heart
Willie Nelson
Milk Cow Blues
Ervin Charles
Greyhound Blues
Guy Forsyth
Steak
Texas Prison Recordings
Texas Prison Recordings, 1933-34
Blaze Foley
Blaze Foley Inside: BFI Three
Bill & Bonnie Hearne
Watching Life Through a Windshield
Charlie Robison, Jack Ingram, Bruce Robison
Unleashed Live
Ryan Adams, Caitlin Cary
Heartbreaker, Waltzie
Lisa Tingle
Paradise
George DeVore
Wonderland
Household Names
The Trouble With Being Nice
The Search for Saturnalia
Four Letters
Brown Whörnet
12.15.99
The Chumps
R.I.P. Good Times
Drums & Tuba
Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 1: Box Fetish, Water Damage Re-issues, Vol. 2: The Flying Ballerina
Sub Oslo
Dubs in the Key of Life
The Swells
Yesterday's Songs
Brent Bruning
Aquatica: Electronic Sounds from the Silicon Hills
Chask
Unay
Bavu & Nick Nack, Tee Double, Arctectonics, Big Moe, Destiny's Child
Soundscape, TX Resident, Arctectonics, City of Syrup, The Writing's on the Wall
screens
You Should Start a Web Site ...
Though they claim to only answer to their man-on-the-streets tastes, both these Web sites demonstrate how diverse the dialogue on
arts becomes when just the right voices cut in.
BY DAVID GARZA
Of Moose and Movies
Nine days and nights at the Toronto International Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
If you're looking for reviews of The Nutty Professor, John Pierson's Split Screen isn't your show. If you like insightful, sometimes peculiar excursions into the independent film world, Split Screen will please you more than a stolen afternoon at a weekday matinee. Also, Olympic fever spreads -- but not without a few complaints.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Girlfight
Psycho Beach Party
This campy send-up of surf and slasher movies uses Gidget movies as its comic template.
arts & culture
MoM's Kids
MoMFest 2000 is sending a bracing blast of theatrical energy into Austin this autumn, with more than 50 companies and solo performers offering a performance buffet of short stage works, solo shows, poetry readings, dance, and comedy sketches. Here is an introduction to a few of the participating artists.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The passing of Austin's "favorite piano teacher."
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The American Demons
The murder in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 1871 novel The Possessed and the 1999 murders at Columbine High School, though far apart in time and seemingly so in circumstance, become almost impossible to differentiate in The American Demons, a collaborative production of Salvage Vanguard Theater and Deborah Hay Dance Company.
Julius Caesar
Though it shows evidence of higher aspirations, the Austin Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar, directed by Ev Lunning Jr. is a one-dimensional melodrama, lacking the rhetorical firepower and guiding vision that gives this drama its political punch.
Preaching to the Perverted
As its title suggests, Preaching to the Perverted is unlikely to deliver much that's new to its expected audience. Still, Holly Hughes' new solo piece serves as both intelligent entertainment and rousing battle cry for those who see all too clearly the many faults in the logic of the mainstream.
columns
Page Two
Editor Louis Black takes the light rail argument into Austin's farther future.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers weigh in on the recent Best Of Austin issue, and the Save Our Volente committe rebuts an article.
Public Notice
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, among other things, and "Public Notice" wants you to feel the love.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Michael ventura mediatates on the permeability of reality.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Glossing the heights and depths of fashion, as reflected by last Saturday's big show at the Austin Music Hall.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Trivia with a bite -- and these are its teeth.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Recycled Books, Denton's premiere used bookstore, features a world-class collection of fine editions, vinyl records and CDs in a historic downtown building.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
The HIV Wellness Center's offering a Healing Breath course -- and here's what it does.
Coach's Corner
Patrick Ewing deserves better. And so does the Coach, who's been forced to watch (gasp!) the Olympics.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
