Volume 20, Number 53
news
What's Wrong with Public Housing?
The remarkable turnaround of the city's Housing Authority
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Wish You Were Here!
Austin's public art provides fodder for naughty doddering
BY ADA CALHOUN
Would You, Could You Be My Neighbor?
The new incarnation of neighborhood planning and the latest handicapping of the mayoral candidates
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Shooting the Messenger
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
News shorts
BY LAURI APPLE
The Hightower Lowdown
Labor organizing is still necessary, George W. Bush scams us with his "tax cut," and Denver football fans revolt against corporate stadiums.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
A Candle for Arnold
The Statesman's Coverage of the Lacresha Murray case
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Hot Shots
Just as if we'd ordered it that way, another year of fabulous hot sauce festivities drew to a close, the sunbleached crowds left Waterloo Park, and then the skies opened up.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
ChileChaser
Crowd pleasin' & commercial bottlin' with a hot-sauce guru
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
11th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
Food-o-File
Two high-profile Austin food-related businesses sold in August, and now both will experience growth and expansion as a result of investor cash infusions, Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood writes.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sandwich Boards
Austin's sandwich shops in this week's "Second Helpings"
music
Reasonably Offensive
Two civil suits against live music venues downtown call into question Austin's sound ordinance.
BY ANDY LANGER
Say Baby
Davíd Garza's still DIY.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
The local music community holds its breath as it waits for the music-industry target-study set to go before the City Council's budget meetings.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Butthole Surfers
Weird Revolution
The Damned
Grave Disorder
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Global A Go-Go
Darker Than Blue
Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973-1980
Head Jazz
Head Jazz
Jimmy Eat World
Bleed American
The Owls, Ghosts and Vodka
The Owls, Precious Blood
Thalia Zedek
Been Here and Gone
Townes Van Zandt
Anthology 1968-1979, Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
Dead Kennedys
Plastic Surgery Disasters, In God We Trust, Inc., Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, Frankenchrist, Mutiny on the Bay, Bedtime for Democracy
screens
Call It a Draw
Last year's eye-catching Earthlink commercials imitated local animator Bob Sabiston's -- and his software's -- style. A little too much, in his opinion.
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Female Gaze
Reel Women highlight digital filmmaking with festival
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
Bob Ray overdrive
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Deep End of Laughter
Cartoons ain't just for kids anymore, again.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Yards
The Yards works well as an homage to Mean Streets-era Seventies crime movies, but the film's maddening problems with pace and dialogue make it a less enjoyable viewing experience than it could be.
Road to Nashville
Road to Nashville is a wonderful snapshot of what Nashville was like in the years before all the Shania Twains and Tim McGraws of the world took things over.
Film Reviews
An American Rhapsody
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Adapted for film from the off-Broadway musical hit, this movie is a rousing screen spectacle about a surgically botched transsexual from East Germany (played charismatically by John Cameron Mitchell, the show's creator and film director).
Jeepers Creepers
arts & culture
At Long Last Love
Love will get you when you least expect it. So it goes in Charles Mee's Big Love, a vigorous update of the ancient Greek drama The Suppliants, and so it went when the Rude Mechanicals theatre company saw the play. They fell unexpectedly and unabashedly head over heels for it and are staging it now in what they describe as "a huge love affair."
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Four months after using a new guideline to declare Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks ineligible for city arts funding, threatening the company's survival and sparking community concern, the Austin Arts Commission reversed course and cleared the way for the company to receive money from the city.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
The Chron's about to turn 20! Louis Black illuminates the recent changes in our Politics staff.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Blacks & whites & various Blues
Public Notice
This is the last Public Notice ever.
BY KATE X MESSER
Open Letter to Vanessa Leggett
We're all in trouble, along with Vanessa Leggett, if the governement begins defining who is and who is not a true journalist.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
The information superhighway's last chance exit for trivia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar charts a plethora of moving and shaking in the local scene.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Central Texas Bonsai Exhibit at Wimberley's Jade Gardens
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
I have a 10-year-old son by a previous marriage, but after trying for six years, it looks like my husband may not be able to father a child. We simply cannot afford the cost of the entire batch of medical tests and treatment that insurance will not cover. What could nutritional supplements do to help?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
"AIDS Monster" denied parole in New York
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
On a drive through the Hill Country and up to West Texas, Coach falls in love with the land all over again.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
