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Volume 21, Number 19
news
Something Short of Miraculous
Months in the making, the city's plan to maintain reproductive services at Brack still raises questions.
BY LAURI APPLE
Pumping Edwards Dry?
Creedmoor-Maha's request to pump more water gets nixed by the Barton Springs / Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
BY AMY SMITH
Road TRIPping
Austin has the fifth-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the nation, according to a highway lobbyist organization.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Aluminum Can'ts
Three environmental groups take aluminum giant Alcoa to court.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Jesus Garza goes out on top, but not necessarily to universal acclaim.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Bill Clinton won't go away; a Harvard economist says you're poor because you deserve to be; Charles Schwab needs taxpayer help … to hunt ducks.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Changing of the Guard
"It's good food, well prepared, reasonably priced, straight up, no frills. I like it," Food Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals about young chef Shawn Cirkiel's cuisine at Jean-Luc's Bistro.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Food Editor Virginia B. Wood's toaster activity and other recent Austin culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: 24-Hour Joints
Twenty-four hour joints in this week's "Second Helpings"
Food Reviews
music
Effendi
Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner
BY DAVID LYNCH
Dancing About Architecture
More club shakeups, this time Ruta Maya and possibly Stubb's
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Jazz Sides
Through The Years, When Evening Comes, Unknown Soldiers, Artscape Meanwhile, Tomorrow, Odd Man Out,
Doug Hall Quartet, JiHi
Label:CreOp, Twink, Sea Breeze, Sea Breeze, Viewpoint, Heart Music
Narcocorrido: A Journey into the Music of Drugs, Guns, and Guerrillas
Elijah Wald
screens
L.A. Story
The Texas Documentary Tour presents Joseph Tovares' doc about the infamous Zoot Suit Riots in racially divided 1940s Los Angeles.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Love Is a Battlefield
The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Coming Out From the Cold
aGLIFF screens two short docs focusing on the coming-out process.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Wake up, and smell the heaping accolades on Richard Linklater.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Another day, another blah awards show
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Hollywood Boulevard
"If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle!"
Film Reviews
Gosford Park
The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.
Intimacy
arts & culture
25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose
Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Music to Chortle By
Whenever Steve Saugey and Lyova Rosanoff are at the keyboards, musical shenanigans are the natural order, especially when these two pianist-parodists are spoofing classical music through one of their Forbidden Classics programs.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Ballet Austin's presentation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC enjoyed sell-out crowds, enthusiastic responses, and a glowing review in the Washington Post.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Judging resigning City Manager Jesus Garza's performance in a difficult job will take some time; XLent's recent cover controversy brings back memories and reminds us how cool talk radio is; screwball comedies were the funniest movies ever, and the Austin Film Society is showing eight of them in the next two months.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
Trivia, trivia, and more trivia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Captain Day Trips plans your travel itinerary for the coming year.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar tells us about how Winona Ryder's troubles just won't go away.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
For years my periods have been getting worse, but I'm afraid if I go to the doctor he would find endometriosis, and I don't want to use hormones. Are there any alternatives?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
New gene test shows if HIV drugs will work
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Coach on the couch: A long, dreary series of bowl games is a lousy way to start the new year, isn't it?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
