Captain Quackenbush's
Volume 20, Number 23
features
Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail
One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.
BY MICHAEL BOLDUC
news
Wall of Separation
Neighbors of Hyde Park Baptist Church Take a Final Stand Against Its Proposed Parking Garage
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Lobbying for Little People
A Profile of Austin's Center for Public Policy Priorities
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Conservative Federal Judge Edith Jones speaks to Federalist students at the UT School of Law. Will Jones be Bush's first Supreme Court pick?
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Hardcore Corporate Action; Hardwired Fashion
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
The New Governor opens his campaign for re-election.
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Echoes of Excellence
Louie's signature Mediterranean fare claims a strong spot in the city's collective gustatory memory, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry writes. Indeed for many Austinites, Louie's 106 provided initiation into the world of Spanish tapas and introduced the vibrant, if now omnipresent, "Mediterranean" cooking style.
Food-o-File
Chef news and upcoming culinary events in town.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Dining Fine
Food Reviews
The Hali'imaile General Store Cookbook: Home Cooking From Maui
Beverly Gannon and Bonnie Friedman
music
Born on Highway 61
Famed superharpist James Cotton settles into Austin.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Jazz's Generational Divide
The IAJE vision of jazz's future.
BY JAY TRACHTENBERG
Dancing About Architecture
The Austin Music Awards lineup starts to trickle out.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Stretford
Short Circuit
Barkers, Adult Rodeo, Okkervil River, Subset, Tamasha Africana, Orange Mothers, Li'l Cap'n Travis, Mandarin, Japancakes, Golden Arm Trio, Dylan Group
KVRX Local Live Vol. 5: Aural Fixation
The Real Heroes
The Real Heroes
Schatzi
Death of the Alphabet EP
7 Stones
7 Stones
The Stingers
The Stingers
Jeff Hughes and Chaparral
Head for Cover
Rod Moag
Ah-Haa! Goes Grass: A Bluegrass Tribute to Bob Wills
The James Hyland Band
Place I Call Home
Dirk Hamilton
SEXspringEverything
Aaron Calhoun
Smoke & Ash
Jeff Klein
You'll Never Get to Heaven If You Break My Heart
Speedy Sparks
Ok, Let's Play
Will Taylor and Strings Attached
Will Taylor and Strings Attached
Tosca
La Cuidad del Tango
Ghetto Rainbow, R.U.G.G.E.D., Up South
Straight Outta Castro: Greatest Hits 1998-2000, Restoration, Product
screens
Thou Shalt Not ...
Each one of Krzysztof Kieslowski's 10-part Decalogue is constructed carefully enough to be seen on its own. But together, they are a jigsaw puzzle of color, texture, emotion, and meaning. We take a look at this extraordinary series, which the Austin Film Society will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse on Saturdays through March 3.
BY MARRIT INGMAN
Alive and Kicking
Just when a heavy cynicism about the future of independent film has overtaken the industry and most of its observers, the Sundance Film Festival came along during the early weeks of 2001 and, almost unexpectedly, brightened the downcast mood shared by its most dour participants.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Back from Sundance and the town of Austin is springing back to life.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
For those of you yawning through The Mole and gagging through Temptation Island, Survivor is back, here to remind us what we liked (and loathed) about "reality TV" in the first place.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Woodstock ... 3 Days of Peace & Music
Michael Wadleigh's original cut of the three-day peace and music festival, released in 1970, is perhaps the best rock concert documentary ever made. This director's cut DVD is even better.
Wolfen
Director Michael Wadleigh's only narrative effort is a terrific post-George Romero modernist horror film about ancient spirits, deadly animals, and the nightmare landscape of the modern urban city.
A Perfect World
Kevin Costner is superb in this sometimes charming coming-of-age / crime caper film directed by Clint Eastwood, but A Perfect World is not a perfect film.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Dispatches From the Edge
A roundup of the FronteraFest 2001 Long Fringe.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
A new economic report shows the arts in Texas to be fundamental part of the economy, and Austin theatres enjoy a booming beginning to 2001.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'"Anacronistas"'
With blown glass in colors as bright as stained glass in the sunshine and materials from the city dump, Einar and Jamex de la Torre create havoc. Their uncompromising, irreverent mixed-media pieces could adorn an Internet cafe, a 15th-century Spanish altar, or an Aztec household and still be shocking fun.
columns
Page Two
Lost Austin behind us, Smart Growth ahead?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Development peccadillos and Lost Austin kudos.
Public Notice
This week's "Public Notice" is all about that animal urge. Woof!
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
One of the family passed on this week. The Style Avatar's sister remembers the Houston Chronicle's Maxine Mesinger.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
A little meat for your cerebral sandwich.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Houston's Museum of Printing History reconstructs Gutenberg and more.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Letters at 3AM
If you want to understand the legacy of Bill Clinton forget the Elvis analogies and remember Orson Welles, who created film characters marked by their own self-corruption.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
How Papilloma accelerates HIV.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Well, the bad guys won the Super Bowl -- led by genuine bad guy Ray Lewis -- but Jennifer Capriati made her own good news down in Australia.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
