Volume 22, Number 3
news
Born to be Reviled
Interstate 35's worst stretch is also its most politically organized -- and that's a problem for TxDOT.
BY DAVE MANN
I-35 EXPANSION
Pols Listen to Voters -- What a Concept
Texas politicians court the Industrial Areas Foundation at its Austin conference.
BY MICHAEL MAY
It's Still Leaking Sewage
BY JORDAN SMITH
Easing Into E-Voting
BY LEE NICHOLS
Brotherly Love
BY LAURI APPLE
In the Shadow of the Shepherd
A church's expansion plans threaten a neighborhood. Sound familiar?
BY JORDAN SMITH
APD's Low Profile
APD Officer Tim Enlow's firing goes to arbitration
BY JORDAN SMITH
War Drums
BY MICHAEL KING
Give It a Rest
Homeless people still get tickets for public sleeping, even though city law no longer bans it.
BY AMY SMITH
'Simone' Premieres -- at the Credit Union
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Naked City
Short news items from Austin, the region, and the world
BY LAURI APPLE
Austin @ Large: No Picnic for PARD
Parks & Recreation downsizes, shedding functions that perhaps it never should have had.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Barely Adequate
The State Board of Education and legislative finance committees consider the public schools
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Lowdown
San Diegans pay for sorry sports teams; and a small town stuffs Ronald McDonald back into the clown car.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Thank You Very Much, Mr. Robata
Claudia Alarcon tells you about dining with all of the senses at a unique Austin Japanese restaurant.
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood comes bearing nothing but glad tidings and good food news in this week's "Food-o-File."
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: A Little More Italy
"Second Helpings" shows you a little of Austin's Italian.
Food Reviews
Forty Acres of Fresh, Ethnic Eats
Mick Vann teaches you a lesson on UT's campus-area restaurant resurgence.
music
A2K Meets 'ACL'
The rise of Charlie Jones, local promoter extraordinaire, ACL Fest main man.
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
Danny Crooks, down with the ship once again
BY KEN LIECK
Phases and Stages
Los Lobos
Good Morning Aztlan
Ruthie Foster
Runaway Soul
Tift Merritt
Bramble Rose
Allison Moorer
Miss Fortune
Blind Boys of Alabama
Higher Ground
Joe Bonamassa
So, It's Like That
Eyes Adrift
Eyes Adrift
Sound Tribe Sector 9
Season 01
Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
The Bridge
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Cross Canadian Ragweed
screens
Good Show
It was a good year -- not a great one -- for the Toronto International Film Festival.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
It's a Screenplay!
Austin screenwriting contest Movie Midwifing helps scripts with their first baby steps.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Cinescape
Cinescape offers a weekly home to microcinema.
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
Short Cuts
"Short Cuts" as personal party planner.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Keeping one eye on television and the other on pop culture.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Angel Heart (1987)
If one were to graph Mickey Rourke's career, one would find the peak way back in the mid-Eighties, back when Rourke was an A-list actor who actually starred in films rather than randomly popped up, as he does these days, as a weathered cameo player swallowing his bit parts whole. Somewhere on the summit of that peak sits Angel Heart.
Film Reviews
The Banger Sisters
The Four Feathers
Igby Goes Down
Black comedy about youthful unraveling while on lam from boarding school.
Notorious C.H.O.
Secret Ballot
Iranian film is sharply observed and resoundingly funny, and tackles such heady topics as feminism, democracy, the voting process, communication, external and internal impediments to personal growth, and more.
arts & culture
Smooth Ride
When Lana Dieterich is acting, nothing seems calculated or forced, no step is false. Her performances are smooth as glass, as silk, as a ride on the bike that she pedals regularly around her Hyde Park neighborhood.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Heart Attack & Fine
Actor Douglas Taylor is alive (again) and well in Austin, Texas
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Articulations
Actor, writer, choreographer, and Troupe Texas company member Sarah Ing has passed away at the age of 29.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Twelfth Night
The latest production of Twelfth Night from the Austin Shakespeare Festival is full of such strange staging, acting, set, costumes, and sound that viewers end up with less a romantic comedy and more a mass of whirling, flailing confusion.
The Mark Twain Show
Second Youth Family Theatre's season opener is a perky and enjoyable sampler of the works of Samuel Clemens, better known to readers of literature and fence painters the world over as Mark Twain.
columns
Page Two
Anyway you cut it, I-35 is a major problem with no easy solution.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
For the past 20 years or so I have conscientiously restricted egg yolks to less than three per week as advised by my physician. Do I need to continue to be cautious, since recent news indicates that eggs are not as bad as once thought?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
The White House is intent on totalitarian measures and war; it employs incoherence because it cannot speak plainly of its machinations.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
