Volume 21, Number 19
news
Months in the making, the city's plan to maintain reproductive services at Brack still raises questions.
BY LAURI APPLE
Creedmoor-Maha's request to pump more water gets nixed by the Barton Springs / Edwards Aquifer Conservation District.
BY AMY SMITH
Austin has the fifth-highest rate of traffic fatalities in the nation, according to a highway lobbyist organization.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Three environmental groups take aluminum giant Alcoa to court.
BY LEE NICHOLS
BY LAURI APPLE
Jesus Garza goes out on top, but not necessarily to universal acclaim.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
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
"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 Editor Virginia B. Wood's toaster activity and other recent Austin culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Twenty-four hour joints in this week's "Second Helpings"
Food Reviews
music
Talking jazz with piano great McCoy Tyner
BY DAVID LYNCH
More club shakeups, this time Ruta Maya and possibly Stubb's
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Earthpig @ Continental Club
Goddess in the Doorway
Driving Rain
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
Elijah Wald
screens
The Texas Documentary Tour presents Joseph Tovares' doc about the infamous Zoot Suit Riots in racially divided 1940s Los Angeles.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Austin Film Society presents a new free series on screwball comedy.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
aGLIFF screens two short docs focusing on the coming-out process.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Wake up, and smell the heaping accolades on Richard Linklater.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Another day, another blah awards show
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
"If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle!"
Film Reviews
The servants know all in this Altman mystery set in a British countryside estate in the Thirties.
arts & culture
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
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
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
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
Our readers talk back.
Michael Ventura weighs in with his Top 5 list of 2001's best film and television moments.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Trivia, trivia, and more trivia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Captain Day Trips plans your travel itinerary for the coming year.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Your Style Avatar tells us about how Winona Ryder's troubles just won't go away.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
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.
New gene test shows if HIV drugs will work
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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
Letters to the editor, published daily