Oskar Blues Brewery Austin
Volume 22, Number 24
news
Everybody Loves a Wynn-er
Will Wynn is his own flavor of ice cream -- pure vanilla, but mixed with nuts
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
T.A.B. to Earle: Drop Dead, Democrat!
The Texas Association of Business sues the DA and claims "partisan politics" are behind the T.A.B. ethics case.
BY AMY SMITH
On the Lege
The GOP prepares to vote down Robin Hood without bothering to craft a replacement school-funding system.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin City Council Iraq Resolution
P.I.'S Case Casts (Another) Cloud Over Yogurt Shop Probe
Private investigator Louis Akin alleges that police and prosecutors busted him on false charges to block defense efforts in the yogurt-shop case.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
The people advising state government "belt-tightening" never seem to have very tight belts.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
Can a super-sized Long Center fit in Austin's Happy Meal box of civic dreams?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Lowdown
Death and taxes -- the poor get both, corporations get neither.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Elegance Never Forgets
Jazz is certainly sensuous music, and a couple of finely fashioned drinks followed by a good meal could work wonders for lovers: Reed's Jazz and Supper Club has it all and offers a terrific spot for romance this Valentine's Day.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sushi, Part IV
Sushi: The possibilities are quiet literally endless.
music
Rent Party Blues
Are post-boom rents killing the Austin music scene?
BY ANDY LANGER
TCB
Cops storm the Mercury, the Red Eyed Fly spars with the city, Kissinger get shit-faced in Detroit, and local musicians get all lovey-dovey.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
Guy Clark, Nancy Griffith, Marty Stuart, Peter Rowan, Jimmy LaFave, Slaid Cleaves, Eliza Gilkyson, Arlo Guthrie, Wilders, Jim Lauderdale, Ray Wylie Hubbard
15th Annual North American Folk Alliance Conference & Woody Guthrie 90th Birthday Celebration
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dirty Three
Nocturama, She Has No Strings Apollo
Catherine Irwin
Cut Yourself a Switch
Joseph Arthur
Redemption's Son
GZA / Genius
Legend of the Liquid Sword
Low, Jessica Bailiff, Fontanelle, Christmas Decorations, Out Hud, loscil, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Stars of the Lid, ST 37, Bahrain, Jherri Sigghnfeld's Atropheed Sac, Three Day Stubble, Book of Shadows, Coz the Shroom
Trust, Jessica Bailiff, Style Drift, Model 91, S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D., Submers, Playthroughs, Avec Laudenum, Whats for Drugs?, Beasts of the Night Gather Together
screens
Short, but Not Necessarily Sweet
It's a bit of a stretch to call the short films of Jay Rosenblatt documentaries. Let's call them experimental docs -- or shorts -- and leave it at that. Just prepare to be amazed by the reel of eight short films the genre-bending San Francisco filmmaker is bringing to the Alamo next week.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Double Bogey
An ingenious prank -- steal a bad script, make it better, and shoot it all on shaky cam -- turns sour for "The Sean Connery Golf Project" filmmakers, Rhys Southan and Sara Rimensnyder.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Eat Your Heart Out
Not in the mood for love this Valentine's Day? We think we have the answer.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Austin's on the list.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The good, the bad, and the God on TV.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Arizona Dream (1993)
Johnny Depp plays Axel Blackmar, a guy who talks to fish, dreams of the Arctic, and sure as hell isn't going to take over the Cadillac dealership his Uncle Leo (Jerry Lewis!) owns.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
A Shared Love of Dance
My Funny Valentine is Tapestry Dance Company's second show following the addition of five new dancers, and their stories are as varied as the dance styles the multiform company employs.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Secrets of "Secret Furniture'
The examples of domestic utility at Gallery Lombardi's exhibit "Secret Furniture" -- chairs, tables, dressers, lamps, shelving units -- are such compelling combinations of professional manufacture and artistic vision that they'll be talked about for months to come.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
A Fine Romance
This Valentine's Day, Austin is blessed with opportunities to explore romance on stage, and here are some samples.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Long Center supporters do a funding turnaround by asking the city for $25 million in bond money, another bunch of Lone Stars are being honored by the Texas Cultural Trust Council with Texas Medal of the Arts Awards, and John Walch wins an award from the American Theatre Critics Association.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Limonade Tous les Jours
Some of the production elements in the Zachary Scott Theatre Center's staging of Limonade Tous les Jours may be sour, but with Charles Mee's adorably written script, adorably acted here, the show takes lemons and makes champagne: an effervescent, intoxicating evening.
I Stuck My Head in the Garden
With I Stuck My Head in the Garden, Johnson / Long Dance Company moved into new territory in its exploration of things sexual and sensual, and the result was good-natured fun, a romp in the garden, with nothing remotely threatening or dangerous.
Austin Symphony: The French Connection II
The Austin Symphony's Jan. 31 concert was to have been all French, but matters of health changed that and gave audiences the chance to hear a tender tribute to composer Kent Kennan and an exhilarating Beethoven concerto from André Watts.
columns
Page Two
SXSW looms, Seton's dubious deal, the war moves closer, the city silences the music, and the new GOP loves deficits.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Did that gal on the local news crew DHOH? With so many great stylists in Austin: why, why, why??? And guess who was seen at Starlite again?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
I want to try a supplement of DHEA. Is it worth paying extra for 7-keto DHEA, since I've heard it has less chance of side effects?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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