Double Trouble
Volume 20, Number 11
features
The JFKonspiracy
Kathy McCarty wants to know "Why?" Why is wanting to know more
about the Kennedy Assassination such social suicide?
BY KATHY MCCARTY
Giving Thanks
Features Editor Kate Messer offers thanks for Dallas' peaceful
Thanks-Giving Square
BY KATE X MESSER
news
Election 2000
Chronicle Election Coverage
Terms of Enqueerment
What happened when gay Austinites decided to come out of gay bars
and into straight ones
BY CLAY SMITH
Naked City
Nov. 7: Election Day. It was a dark and stormy night…
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Less Muckraking, More Fluffmaking; Battling Biopiracy
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Good Taste
You spontaneously slow down and breathe easier when you enter
Basil's, Barbara Chisholm writes. This is not a hipster hot spot that is
peopled with folks checking the door to see if someone more interesting
than their current partner has entered. People come here to concentrate
on each other without distraction.
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Will Travel For Food
Roving Chronicle Cuisines writers send dispatches from a variety of
locales.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
The latest culinary news in Austin
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helping: Steak Out
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood surveys Austin's steakhouses.
music
Sad Stories and Steel Guitars
Tearjoint Troubador Ted Roddy's Country Soul
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
After the Last Hurrah
Austin singer-songwriter-rocker Beaver Nelson returns with his second
album.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Redd Light Special
One right fine Tele-pickin' dude
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
Election 2000 gets rained out.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
U2
All That You Can't Leave Behind
P.J. Harvey
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Doug Sahm
The Return of Wayne Douglas
Merle Haggard
I Wish I Could Fly
The V-Roys
Are You Through Yet?
Dwight Yoakam
Tomorrow's Sounds Today
Matthew Ryan
East Autumn Grin
Kid Ramos
West Coast House Party
St. Germain, Erik Trufazz
Tourist, The Mask
Underworld
Everything, Everything
Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Ekova
Heaven's Dust, Soft Breeze & Tsunami Breaks
Rubén González
Chanchullo
Jean Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Buffalo Daughter, Cibo Matto, Beck, Sonic Youth, AIR, John McEntire, Will Oldham, Pavement, Bis
At Home With the Groovebox
Eleventh Dream Day
Stalled Parade
Richard Buckner
The Hill
Arab Strap
Elephant Shoe, Mad for Sadness
FSK
International
Gluecifer
Tender Is the Savage
screens
Dark Days
Six years ago, Marc Singer wasn't homeless, and he wasn't a filmmaker.
With Dark Days, he became both.
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Short Cuts
Austin Film Festival 2000's Sundance Channel / Time Warner Cable
Audience Award winners and upcoming events and workshops of
interest to the Austin film community
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Why are this year's season premieres so darn dull? Also, a goodbye to
Steve Allen and news on a class action suit alleging age discrimination
filed by 28 TV writers.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Bamboozled
Dark Days
The Fantasticks
Deep in your heart, you should "follow." Released just a few years ago, this film version of the Off Broadway workhorse captures the feeling of the innocent and bygone era of movie musicals. But it differs from the original work's romantic minimalism as it opens up the play cinematically.
Little Nicky
Men of Honor
Requiem for a Dream
Portrait of a young junkie – and those he loves.
Smiling Fish and Goat On Fire
Venus Beauty Institute
arts & culture
Image of a First Lady
Based on her physical appearance alone, Jean Stapleton is a natural to
portray Eleanor. But it turns out that the accomplished actress'
resemblance to the first lady doesn't end there. It extends to her idealism,
her feminism, and even her awakening to activism.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Private History of a Campaign that Failed
Stand-up comic Eddie Gossling is not your president today, and he has a
lot of people to blame for it. Here is his first-hand account of his
weeklong campaign for the White House.
BY EDDIE GOSSLING
Articulations
Director Don Toner announces a new theatre company for himself, David
Stevens announces his departure from Chorus Austin, and UT's
Department of Art & Art History announces a rare meeting of critical
minds.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death
A vague performance at the center of the Public Domain Theatre
Company's production of Edward Bond's Bingo diminishes the impact of
Bond's play, but does not eclipse it. It feels relevant right here, right now.
Fish
Here's Cyndi Williams' new play, Fish: an evocation of people and
situations like the psychic furniture of a darker David Lynch film.
The Baltimore Waltz
The UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of Paula Vogel's The
Baltimore Waltz is as technically solid as they come, but some of the
performances are all over the map when they should be rooted in a
terrifying reality.
columns
Page Two
Politics Editor Louis DuBose examines the ramifications of the Presidential
and Light Rail votes.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
Postmarks
Post-election political rumblings , and Music Editor Raoul Hernandez takes
it on the chin from Nina Simone fans.
Public Notice
Eye of the Tiger, baby! Are you up to it? Up to this week's public service
challenges? Kate and the Pee En crew takes you there.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
One week before the election, Michael Ventura examines the candidates’ campaigns and finds that Nader played to our fear of consequences, Gore to our fear of intelligence, and Bush to our fear of complexity.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar takes on Reader X's challenge to not say "Wet," and weighs in on cargo pants.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
To hell with the critics! Remember the Titans is a great sports movie -- the best since Rocky.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory's an ornithologist's paradise.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
The use of tampons as collection devices for HIV testing.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily