ColdTowne Theater
Volume 20, Number 36
features
2001 Kids' Summer Fun Guide
news
Who Owns Sixth Street
Is Austin's Sixth Street Entertainment District undergoing an identity crisis? -- and who are the designated shrinks?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Austin Stories
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Capitol Chronicle
House Bill 3125 attempts to hold corporations accountable for their actions -- the corporate lobby won't stand for it.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
Campaign finance scam, Chinese prison labor, & bookstore conglomerates
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Unrequited Love
Considering the high prices and small portions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood admits that to pursue her tryst with Emilia's would make her a fool for love.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Chefs in transit in this week's Food-o-File.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Italian
A smattering of Italian in this week's "Second Helpings."
Food Reviews
music
They Got the Beat
Living the pop life in Austin
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Explosive Dynamic Super Smash Hits!
Remembering ultimate cheese label K-tel
BY GREG BEETS
Dancing About Architecture
Keeping up with Lucinda, Britney, Thurston, Kim, and a bunch of sick people
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
screens
An Indomitable Culture
Director Maureen Gosling talks about the Zapotec women of Juchitán and 'Blossoms of Fire,' the documentary she made about them.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Austin Studios enter Phase 2 development, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center shows off its movie wares, and the Alamo Drafthouse seeks campers willing to squeal like pigs.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
So what's snapped Belinda Acosta's bra strap this week? It's the announcement that the Wonderful World of Disney will remake Brian's Song.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
TO DIE FOR
A disturbing comedy that is both hysterical and wicked.
BATMAN RETURNS
One of the best comic adaptations ever produced as well as one of Tim Burton's most understated fantasy efforts.
CAPTAIN AMERICA
Another failed effort to capture Marvel magic.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
A Cuppa Hot Joe
On a comedy club stage, News Radio star Joe Rogan exudes a mad joy for life in all its insanity, depravity, and delicious dirt; if Henry Miller had done stand-up, it would have come out like Joe Rogan's act.
BY J. C. SHAKESPEARE
A Boone to Austin Theatre
In 10 years of leading Frontera productions, Vicky Boone has touched many lives and changed the community.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Austin artists and arts companies continue to hit the road at a breathless pace.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Oleanna
Watching actors Travis Dean and Amy Hopper engage in bitter confrontations during the Disciples of Melpomene production of David Mamet's Oleanna brings home again the terrible difficulty we humans have in understanding each other and making ourselves understood.
Volpone
Welcome the Bedlam Faction, the latest theatre company to be founded by veterans of UT Austin's Shakespeare at Winedale program, and its inaugural effort, Ben Jonson's Volpone, a tale of greed, conniving, status, and, ultimately, morality that Bedlam stages with a seeming insanity that befits its name but which is really quite smart, energetic, creative, and hilarious.
The Automated Body Project
In The Automated Body Project, Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks' latest attempt at synthesizing dance and technology, the company took a step back from larger venues and as a result, the humanness and beauty within the movement became more evident.
columns
Page Two
The economy begins to affect local businesses, as the ongoing debate over Sixth Street continues.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Words on the Jesus video, the Instrumental article, the Dance Festival, and other local points of contention.
Public Notice
Hey, what's going on this week in Austin, public service-wise? Just read this!
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
College kids aren't all about just khakis and baseball caps … the UT Fashion Spectacular has caught the eye of the fashion nation and is spicing up the Austin style scene with its innovations.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Some wild data to enliven your Stone Age bonecage.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Jersey Barnyard is a third-generation working dairy farm featuring "Belle, the singing cow."
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
What's up with this "knowing exposure?"
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Knee pain now hampers my ability to run. I have exercised vigorously in the past and I believe a lack of exercise would affect my health and life span. Can food supplements help?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
In his "View From the Couch," the Coach takes on a variety of pressing subjects, from the demise of the Detroit Red Wings and Pat Riley, to the sad state of women's golf.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
