AFS Cinema
Volume 20, Number 26
news
Double Jeopardy
The state of Texas jailed Cuban exile Carlos Lavernia for 16 years for a crime he did not commit. Now the INS might send him back to Cuba.
BY AMY SMITH
New Forensics, New Laws
BY AMY SMITH
Who You Gonna Call?
Small Texas towns look to Austin and Washington to jump-start economic development
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
A lobbyist "volunteers" for Bush, the WTO plays peek-a-boo in Qatar, and China represses independent unions
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Turn Out the Lights ...
The Lege Has Barely Begun, and the Official Accountants Say We're Broke
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Got to Have Kaya Now ...
Restaurants, like people, have distinct personalities, MM Pack writes. The persona that Kaya Blue presents is that of a hip young traveler, back in town after multinational adventures -- exuberant and uninhibited, full of ideas and enthusiasm, well-grounded in the basics, but forever changed by the trip.
BY MM PACK
Will Travel for Food
Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium, Oxford, Miss., October 2000
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
How to celebrate Mardi Gras in Austin, as well as Austin's culinary news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Everyday Italian
Food Reviews
music
Bleeding Kansas
One-string gas-tank basses and the people who play them.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Ace in the Hole
Who is Clay Blaker and why are all these famous people recording his songs?
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW wristbands go on sale with the news that Dr. Demento will be attending this year's festival. Also, the passing of the Victory Grill's Johnny Holmes, and the expansion of Emo's.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Death Cab for Cutie Emo's, February 13
Death Cab for Cutie
Palaxy Tracks Red Eyed Fly, February 15Palaxy Tracks
Palaxy Tracks
George Clinton/Guru Austin Music Hall/The Mercury, February 16
Second Annual Yoko Ono Birthday Tribute Hoot Gaby & Mo's, February 17
screens
Fighting Words
David Gordon Green Slams Indie Filmmakers and Snubs Cannes. Who Is This Kid, Anyway?
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
How to purchase a SXSW Film 2001 screening pass, and other news and events of interest to local filmmakers.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Why is it that female protagonists on network TV always need a man?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Gone With the Wind: The Making of the Legend
Everything you ever wanted to know about GWTW -- in one work
Hackers
Films made about computers and their impact on our society fall into two categories: hit or miss. Hackers is the latter.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
What a Piece of Work Is Woman!
After four centuries of being berated, belittled, betrayed, bullied, battered, and butchered by the men in Shakespeare's plays, the women have had enough. They're ready to speak out, to give Will a piece of their minds. And in playwright Susan Kelso's Roses and Thistles, they do just that.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Commissioner Has Left the Building
Johnny Torrez was one of the first Austin comics to work on a professional level, and every local comic who ever made a living in the business credits the self-proclaimed "Commissioner of Comedy" as an early influence and inspiration. On Valentine's Day, the Commissioner died. Here's how he is remembered.
BY J. C. SHAKESPEARE
Articulations
The past few weeks have seen the passing of Johnny Torrez, Dana Ravel, and Clarence Brisco, three individuals all distinguished by their support of and advocacy of artists besides themselves.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Heralding the techno-cultural explosion known as SXSW.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Good cops and bad cops, radio waverings and global warming warnings.
Public Notice
This week's Public Notice takes a trip down memory lane and barfs all over its prom date, as we explore Eighties revisionism.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Guest reporter (and Blackmail owner) Gail Chovan brings news of the bountiful Mens Fashion Week in Paris.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Virtual wheatgrass shots for your gray matter smoothie.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Bacterial assault on Hill Country wineries.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Pushing Testing.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Like Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day, the UTmen's basketball team is doomed to repeat its failures anew each year, and it seems to come as a total shock each time.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily