Volume 20, Number 12
news
Photos by Ada Calhoun
John C. Danforth's Indictment of Whistleblower Bill Johnston May Lead to a Nasty Courtroom Showdown
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Republicans raise money for Florida recount, Democrats do well in Travis County, and neighbors of the Quarries in Northwest Austin realize that Hyde Park Baptist Church has gotten the best of them.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
It's just turkeys.
The Firestone Tire / Ford conspiracy; genetically engineered corn and StarLink; WTO's complaints about citizens
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Photos by John Anderson
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Local culinary news from Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Photos by John Carrico
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Last call for SXSW entries.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
screens
Photos by Bruce Dye
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Austin Studios and the new offices of the Austin Film Society were
unveiled this week on the site of the old Robert Mueller Airport.
BY MARC SAVLOV
As a television viewer, I'm amused by the 2000 presidential election. As a citizen, I'm appalled.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Fun for kids and grownups.
Iranian masterpiece of Kurdish life.
arts & culture
In a photographic essay, Bret Brookshire captures on film some of the singular relationship that exists between classical musicians and their instruments.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.
BY LINDSEY SCHWARTZ
Adios to longtime arts service organization Artists' Legal and Accounting Assistance of Austin, and real-life election shenanigans give Zach's Evita a boost.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Using a legion of artists from the early Sixties, the Austin Museum of Art exhibition "The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65" offers an illuminating peep into a time when a measly 10-inch black-and-white TV set was the American family's window to the world.
The gentle spirit of playwright Jean Giradoux is reflected perfectly in Gordon Peacock's amiable and astute direction of this UT Department of Theatre & Dance production of Giradoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot.
columns
Sifting through the election fallout.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone,
approximately.
The winter holiday season is comin' in like a lion, train, and gangbusters,
and don't you think for a minute that your pals at "Public Notice" aren't
ready for the onslaught!
BY KATE X MESSER
Waco's Puremco, Inc., is the nation's last domino factory.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Awful clawful disharama.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Knickknacks for your mental display case.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Volunteer call for the Food Bank.
Letters to the editor, published daily