Long Center for the Performing Arts
Volume 20, Number 33
features
South Austin Secede!
Our second installment in a series about South Austin explores the roots of "Bubba" and the rivalry between North Austin and south of the river.
BY ROB D'AMICO
news
Flippin' the Birds
Closing parts of Balcones Canyon Preserve angers mountain bikers and doesn't do enough to save wildlife.
BY DAN OKO
Naked City
Hyde Park lawsuit sutra, Glen Maxey's retirement dilemma, parking lot battle in Judges' Hill neighborhood, Sixth Street recycling, and the anti-growth blues
The Hightower Lowdown
Bush's regulatory rollback, the Codex Alimentarius & McCain-Feingold
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
The State Policy Committee Politically Purges the State Employees' Charitable Campaign
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Hill Country Food & Wine Guide
by Virginia B. Wood & the Cuisines staff
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood on the good news coming out of the Austin restaurant scene this week
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Burger-Mania, Round Two
More burger joints in this week's Second Helpings.
music
Humor, Introspection, Ecstasy
UT Composer Dan Welcher is one step away from greatness.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
God Willing
Two disparate cultures come together in Austin's Ojalá.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Old 97's
Satellite Rides
Redd Volkaert
No Stranger to a Tele
Gnappy
Gnappy
Blue Noise Band
Brad Green From Queens
Get It On Production
Get It On Productions
Ünloco
Healing
The Action Is
Blackbelt
Shearwater
The Dissolving Room
Shawn Colvin
Whole New You
Mike Nicolai
Woody Allen Stunt Footage
The Groobees
Buy One, Get Eleven Free
Cory Morrow & Pat Green
Songs We Wish We'd Written
Roger Wallace
That Kind of Lonely
screens
Cinema of the Americas
A Festival of Latino Films Showcases New Visions of an Old and Resurging Culture
BY DAVID GARZA
Short Cuts
You may remember reading about local Web-based animator Alan Watts in this space from time to time, but you're about to be hearing a lot more about him.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Belinda Acosta was all set to hate The Oblongs, the new animated series on the WB about mutants living near a toxic waste dump. But then something unexpected happened: It was funny.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Cruel Intentions
Made-for-TV acting quality that can't begin to grasp the nuances of the story -- but the kids seem to like it.
His Girl Friday
One of the finest examples of screwball comedy and an excellent adaptation of a story that has been told many times
Se7en
David Fincher's stunning directorial debut about a psychopath who uses the seven deadly sins as a model for his grotesque murders
Film Reviews
Amores Perros
Three stories about beast and man.
Bridget Jones's Diary
romantic fantasy as it is social satire.
The Caveman's Valentine
Joe Dirt
Josie and the Pussycats
It's far more subversive than the Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoon on which it's based.
Me You Them
arts & culture
Theatre -- ALL CAPS, All the Time
There's nothing lower-case or lethargic about theatre director, actor, and producer Sharon Sparlin. She's bold, animated, even electric, and channeling all that high-voltage energy into creating equally energetic theatre all the time.
BY C. DENBY SWANSON
Articulations
Real drama bled into the staged kind when actress Latifah Taormina cut herself during a performance of Adam Sobsey's Hang Town Fry, and Salvage Vanguard releases The Cry Pitch Carrolls on CD.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Devil's Disciple
Director Norman Blumensaadt's rendering of The Devil's Disciple for Different Stages may be uneven in the quality of the performances, but the actors deliver Shaw's text clearly, and there's more than a little something to be said for that.
Raised by Lesbians
In the Subterranean Theatre Company production of Raised by Lesbians, writer Leah Ryan and director Ken Webster transport the audience to the heart of The Who's "Teenage Wasteland," dealing with adolescence, lesbians, and men and women's notions of each other without laughing at teens or distorting them with nostalgia.
columns
Page Two
The paper for Central Texas reminded us again this week that it is still very much run out of Atlanta, Georgia.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
The union's due, the boys in blue, The Sopranos' view, and Miracle Mike takes it on the, um, chin.
Public Notice
This week, our sassy public service column "Public Notice" goes to the dogs.
BY KATE X MESSER
The Gospel According to Hollywood
Easter is a time for resurrectiing Hollywood's biblical epics.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
Dig the groovy threads in this factoid suit, daddio!
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Follow a local dress as it makes it way off the bolt, into an Austin boutique, and across the country to Hollywood for the Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Morton's!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Cider Mill and Country Store is the apple of Medina's eye.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
My cat, Freya (named after a Norwegian goddess), has become very irritable. My vet thinks she needs more taurine. I get irritable every once in a while too (especially around my period). Do I need taurine?
About AIDS
Newfangled prophylactics
Coach's Corner
Land of the underdog? Not hardly. Nowadays everyone roots for the frontrunner -- just look at Duke and Tiger Woods.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
