Paramount Theatre
Volume 20, Number 19
features
Affronts to Gracious Living
Your Style Avatar ticks through the 10 worst fashion and style trends of the Year 2000.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
news
The Year That Wasn't
Naked City
Zaffirini and the Senate vote for lieutenant governor, handicapping the recession, and the debate videotape mystery
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Major league baseball ticket gouging in New York, grassroots rebellion in Carmel, Ca., the oil industry's assault on the Project on Government Oversight, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce attacks new OSHA protections for workers.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Best Bites
The Cuisines staff recalls their favorite eats of 2000.
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood on the year that was in Austin's culinary life.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Gasoline Dreams
Rounding up 2000 LPs.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Identity Crisis
Looking back at the highlights of Austin's music scene in 2000.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Critics Poll 2000
National Top 10s
BY GREG BEETS
Top 10 Texas Platters
BY GREG BEETS
screens
The Year in Film
The Best and Worst of the Movies of 2000
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Critics Poll 2000
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Cutting-edge indie films and filmmaking aids can be sought out on the following Web sites.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The year on television -- things we thought we'd never see, things we'd like to see more of, and reasons to keep watching.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Real Estate and Perfect Mates
The year 2000 in the Austin arts, with Top 10 lists by Chronicle Arts critics and their picks for stories and personalities of the year.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
For the new year, resolve to support the new in the local arts scene. Here are several new projects that would welcome support.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
Gather 'round the Yule log and the figgy pudding, get out a paper and pen, and jot down some of these items form our Annual Holiday Wish List 2000. Local organizations need you!
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
They may not truthfully reflect the way we live, but sometimes the big and small screen present honest explorations of the way we dream. The year 2000 gave us some exceptionally fine works in this regard.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Okay, Mr. Style Avatar is really losing it. This week, he's contemplating not only making slipcovers for his Yellow Pages, but the life of the family in the lawyer's ad on the cover. Lord.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Tunnel Vision
BY TAYLOR HOLLAND
About AIDS
UT-HSC Teen Chlamydia Picture Not Encouraging
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily