Exhibitionism
THREE CHEESY WOMEN: ACTING UP AT THE CABARET March 8, Later at Live Oak cabaret All singers act to some degree. It comes with the territory. Most songs are written from the standpoint of a character, and to communicate the fullness of the song to an audience, the singer must assume the character’s identity and…
7 and 7 Is
Finally. Finally, someone’s heeded Ms. Manners’ music biz etiquette. Make the artwork pretty, boys and girls. Make the nice consumer want to pick up the outpourings from your soul. Singles, especially, should be visually striking, ’cause at $3-4 dollars for two or three songs, it’s one of your main selling points. Austin’s Monroe Mustang, recent…
Conference Notes
SXSW Film Conference Panelists Quentin Tarantino and Rick Linklaterphotograph by Shelly Rutledge NUTS & BOLTS: How to save money on your film production? “Don’t waste it” was the consensus of the Nuts & Bolts panel, which included producers Elizabeth Avell�n, Rana Joy Glickman, Cynthia Hargrave, and Joe Dishner; vendors Drew Mayer-Oakes (New Independents Film Labs),…
Best Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Asylum Street Spankers, The Gourds, Shawn Colvin, Threadgill’s Troubadors, Jimmy LaFave, Michele Solberg, Tish Hinojosa, Toni Price, Sara Hickman
Best Drums/Percussion
RUNNERS-UP: Frosty, Papa Mali; Terry Kirkendall, Derailers; Chris Searles, Abra Moore; J.J. Johnson, Billy White; Jim Eno, Spoon; Lisa Pankrantz; Brannen Temple; Michael Villegas, Ian Moore Band; Davis McLarty, Joe Ely, Booze Weasels; George Rains; Jason White, Breedlove; Paul Pearcy, Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Terri Lord, Sincola; Dave Mider, Javelin Boot
Best Music Store
RUNNERS-UP: MusicMakers, Ray Hennig’s Heart of Texas, South Austin Music, Tommy’s Drum Shop, Workhorse, Musical Exchange, One World Music, Guitar Resurrection, Tie: Drum Connection/Rock & Roll Rentals
Looking for a Fight
On April 19, 1836, 46 days after the fall of the Alamo, the depleted Texan army stopped its eastward retreat and prepared a defensive position on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. Two days later, after minor skirmishes between the two sides, General Sam Houston led the 750 men of the Texan army in an attack…
Bonus Tracks
BILL HICKS Dangerous (Rykodisc) Relentless (Rykodisc) Arizona Bay (Rykodisc) Rant in E-Minor (Rykodisc) Who can tell one Bill Cosby album from another? This one might be funnier than that one, while this other one over here may have “Buck, Buck” as opposed to “Fat Albert.” Whatever the case, they all follow the standard rule: Funny…
Screen Trash
Garbage Director Peter Byck As a film writer, it’s all too easy to float the comment that there’s a lot of crap out there these days, but that doesn’t render it any less a truism. Sure, Macaulay Culkin’s career is as dead and bloated as a beached manatee and Pauly Shore’s finally found a worthy…
Best Hard Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Billy White Trio, El Flaco, Sunflower, Vallejo, Buick MacKane, Storyville, Dangerous Toys, Butthole Surfers, Ian Moore Band
Best Electric Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Ian Moore; Billy White; David Grissom, Storyville; Chris Duarte; John Lockhart, Lisa Tingle; Jimmie Vaughan; Derek O’Brien; Mitch Watkins; Paul Skelton; Jesse Taylor; Jud Newcomb; Junior Brown; Guitar Jake Andrews; David Holt, Storyville
Best Music Writer
RUNNERS-UP: Chris Reimenschneider, Don McLeese, Margaret Moser, John T. Davis, Raoul Hernandez, Tie: Ken Lieck/Christopher Gray, Michael Point
Postscripts
South by Southwest’s music conference kicks off this week, and of course, there are authors making appearances. Today (Thursday, Mar. 13) at 1:45 at the Austin Convention Center, author Fred Goodman (The Mansion on the Hill) will appear with the Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray and Epic Records’ Andy Schwartz on the panel “Who Cares? (Politics…
Out of Pawn
“Well, y’know, we are the best band in town,” boasts Alejandro Escovedo of Buick MacKane, the abrasive “garage” band he’s fronted since 1989. “Who’s better?” he asks slyly while negotiating a tricky left turn after taking his youngest child Paris to see the family pediatrician. “The Hormones?!!” Awright, that tears it! Now, you’re getting personal!…
Scanlines
D: George Stevens; with Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill Wills, Mercedes McCambridge, Dennis Hopper, Sal Mineo. VHS Home Video Waterloo Video, 1016 W. Sixth Giant If you happen to catch Jim Brennan’s documentary, Return to Giant, at the SXSW Film Festival this week, then revisiting this grandfather of Texas…
Best Hip Hop
RUNNERS-UP: Retarted Elf, CKC & Li’l Black, Tie: Papa Mali & the Instigators/Nonymous, D’Zyne, Big Game Hunters, Gingbreadmen, Tie: Ugly Americans/DJ Snotty
Best Female Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Toni Price; Shawn Colvin; Kelly Willis; Patrice Pike, Sister 7; Kris McKay; Julianna Sheffield, 8 1/2 Souvenirs; Christina Marrs, Asylum Street Spankers/Jubilettes; Rebecca Cannon, Sincola; Miss Lavelle White; Abra Moore; Tish Hinojosa; Michelle Solberg; Lou Ann Barton; Kacy Crowley; Natalie Zoe; Julie Burrell; Amy Atchley & Pam Miller, Hush; Carrie Clark, Sixteen Deluxe; Amy…
Best New Club
RUNNERS-UP: Iron Cactus, Bob Popular, Ritz Upstairs, Blondie’s, B-Side, Victory Grill, Split Rail, Threadgill’s World Headquarters, Area 52
Search & Destroy
In the subUrban wasteland of my youth, in a tiny, bland town in Anywhere, U.S.A., there was nothing except my malfeasance, which, as the Seventies drew to a close, took the form of shoplifting. Music is, of course, the soundtrack to most forms of rebellion, so I directed my own personal crime wave thus, ransacking…
Dancing About Architecture
“Austin: City of Ideas.” As I walked out the back door of my house last Saturday, the huge, new billboard towering over Dirty’s on the Drag, depicting the city’s skyline peppered with “thought” light bulbs, was the first, er, sign that things were starting to happen. The sort of things that happen in bulk during…
Shortcuts
by Jen Scoville Panels at last weekend’s SXSW Film Conference were well-attended, especially Outside the System, Inside the System — without a doubt the most star-studded film panel of the bunch. Celeb indie directors Quentin Tarantino, Richard Linklater, Robert Rodriguez, Kevin Smith, George Huang, and Mike Judge had conference attendees spilling out into the convention…
Best Jazz
RUNNERS-UP: The Brew, Elias Haslanger, Lucky Strikes, Tony Campise, Jazz Pharaohs, Kyle Turner, Julie Burrell, Mitch Watkins Trio, Tie: Paul Glasse/Golden Arm Trio
Best Horns
RUNNERS-UP: Tomas Ramirez; Grooveline Horns; Tie: Jon Blondell/Tony Campise; Stan Smith, Asylum Street Spankers; Kyle Turner; Bill Jeffery; Kaz Kazanoff; Casino Royale Horns
Best Radio DJ
RUNNERS-UP: Jody Denberg, KGSR-FM; Dale Dudley, KLBJ-FM; Tie: Rachel Marisay, 101X/Chris Mosser, KLBJ-FM; Tie: Larry Monroe, KUT-FM/L.A. Lloyd, 101X; The Whipping Boy, 101X; Bryan Beck, KGSR-FM; John Aielli, KUT-FM; Peg Zarse, KLBJ-FM; Kevin Connor, KGSR-FM; Sara Trexler, 101X; Paul Ray, KUT-FM; Gary Dickerson, KVRX/Odekirk & Truong, KOOP
Reading Aloud
No it’s not 1994, when Lollapalooza and MTV jumped all over spoken word, but there’s newfound hope for spoken word artists to be heard. The recent emergence of the Mouth Almighty label, a poetry record label affiliated with Mercury, and the continued presence of small presses who support spoken word, like San Francisco-based Manic D…
Sxsw
Picks & Sleepers Okay, take a deep breath. Hold it. Exhale. Again. There. Feel better? Look, just calm down. So what if there are over 700 bands playing this year’s South by Southwest conference? You are only one person, with two legs, three days, and four nights. You couldn’t possibly see every act you want…
Stop Hitting Her
illustration by A.J. Garces For a couple of teen summers I worked at Galveston’s Nautilus Motel on 25th and Seawall Boulevard, in the snack bar/gift shop next to the pool. I made fountain drinks and grilled cheese sandwiches for the tourists, and free cheeseburgers for the surfers, if they were cute and funny. I served…
Best Lounge/Swing
RUNNERS-UP: Recliners, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Lucky Strikes, The Scabs, Naughty Ones, Blue Celestial Turks, Tie: Bobby Doyle/Jay Clark, King Cheese
Best Keyboards
RUNNERS-UP: Floyd Domino; Bukka Allen, Ian Moore Band; Marcia Ball; Ezra Reynolds, Breedlove; Dave Boyle, Ugly Americans; Michael Ramos, Sexton Sexter; Pete Gordon; Heather Bennett; Jay Clark
Best Radio Program
RUNNERS-UP: Eklektikos, John Aielli, KUT-FM; Orville Glockmeyer’s Banana, Paul Odekirk & Tony Truong, KOOP-FM; Flashback Lunch, Rachel Marisay/Sara Trexler, KROX-FM; Howard Stern, KJFK-FM; House of Phat Beats, Les Jacobs & Kari Orr, KRVX-FM; Lone Star State of Mind, Kevin Connor, KGSR-FM; Next Big Thing, Andy Langer, KROX; Local Licks, Loris Lowe, KLBJ-FM; Stump the Studs,…
Art
Tell Me Who You Really Are ALTERNATE CURRENT ART SPACE, 2209 S. First, 443-9674. “The Sacred and Profane,” a multi-media event featuring works by over 50 local artists, will be on view through April 10. Opening: Fri, March 14, 8pm-midnight. Visual art, video, music, performance, and more will be highlighted during the opening. AUSTIN GALLERIES,…
Hearth & Soul
by Suzy Banks Building Fiascos? Last week I detailed a couple of nightmare scenarios of homeowner vs. contractor. I assigned myself the dirty deed this week of explaining how you can avoid similar fiascos with builders. The guidelines suggested by experts are certainly worth noting: 1. Get referrals from professional organizations like Austin Association of…
Music Recommended
edited by Christopher Gray SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST All Up in Ya, Thursday 14-Sunday 16 Paranoid music critic fantasy No. 666: The writer sits and looks at the South by Southwest grid in his Chronicle. It’s just too much. His eyes start to itch. He’s staring at the hundreds of band names there, inscrutable as the…
Citizen Ruth
Citizen Ruth 1996, R, 96 min. Directed by Alexander Payne, Starring Laura Dern, Swoosie Kurtz, Mary Kay Place, Kurtwood Smith, Burt Reynolds. Abortion rights is more a context than an “issue” for this take-no-prisoners satire on the clash between pro-choice and pro-life forces. At the center of the chaos is Ruth Stoops (Dern), a no-account…
Best Metal/Industrial
RUNNERS-UP: Pushmonkey, Dangerous Toys, Plowman, Terminal 46, The Adults, Soak, Tungsten Coil, Human, Lizbomb
Best Male Vocals
RUNNERS-UP: Dale Watson; Ian Moore; Don Walser; Guy Forsyth; Dan Dyer, Breedlove; Dino Lee, Mr. Fabulous; Bob Schneider, Ugly Americans; Doyle Bramhall II; Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Jimmy LaFave; Ted Roddy; Charlie Sexton; Olivier Giraud, 8 1/2 Souvenirs; Lyle Lovett; Britt Daniel, Spoon; Tony Villaneuva, Derailers; MC Overlord; Joe Ely; Alejandro Escovedo
Best Radio Station
RUNNERS-UP: KGSR-FM, 107.1; KROX-FM, 101.5; KVRX-FM, 91.7; KOOP-FM, 91.7; KUT-FM, 90.5; KASE-FM, 100.7; KNNC-FM, 107.7; KVET-AM, 1300; KAZI-FM, 88.7
Comedy
Bob Newhart BOB NEWHART brings his button-down mind and, uh, uh,… that would be understated comic style to Austin for a special performance, this one to benefit the organization Any Baby Can, which provides care for families with critically ill children. For the past 25 years, Newhart’s fans have enjoyed his trademark persona – offering…
Benefits
Mezzosoprano Rose Taylor will perform to benefit the International Professional Music Fraternity, at Dougherty Arts Center, 7pm. Cost is $6-$10. 249-7025. Irishfest to benefit Youth Options, at The Backyard, 2pm. Cost is $6. 263-4146. THU 20 Wine Tasting & Silent Auction to benefit Children’s Summer Camp of the Mary Lee Foundation, at Four Seasons Hotel,…
Record Reviews
The following are albums by artists playing the 1997 South by Southwest music conference. Each review is tagged with the day, venue, and time the artist is playing, but all information is subject to change, so please check your SXSW schedule. TONY BENNETT On Holiday (Columbia) I was reared hearing the frequent declaration that if…
Band of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Butthole Surfers, Asylum Street Spankers, Ian Moore Band, Spoon, Tie: Breedlove/Pushmonkey, Ugly Americans, Tie: Cornell Hurd Band/Vallejo, Sister 7, Derailers, Javelin Boot, Lisa Tingle Band
Best Mexican Traditional/Folk
RUNNERS-UP: Flaco Jimenez, Correo Aereo, Mariachi Estrellita, Son Yuma, Lourdes Perez, Ruben Ramos, Texas Tornados, Los Pinkys, Centzontle
Best Miscellaneous Instrument
RUNNERS-UP: Danny Barnes; banjo, Bad Livers; Mambo John Treanor; washboard; Junior Brown; guit-steel; Paul Glasse; mandolin; Glover Gill; accordion, 8 1/2 Souvenirs; Gary Primich; harmonica; Scott Walls; steel guitar, Don Walser; Ponty Bone; accordion; Kevin Russell; mandolin, Gourds
Best Record Producer
RUNNERS-UP: Stephen Bruton, Alejandro Escovedo, With These Hands; Carl Thiel, Lisa Tingle, In the Water; Lloyd Maines, Terry Allen, Human Remains; David McNair, Prescott Curlywolf; Paul Leary, Butthole Surfers, Electric Larryland; Mike Stewart, The Gourds, Dem’s Good Beeble; Tim Kerr, Lord High Fixers; Steve Wertheimer; Craig Ross, Dead Spy Report
Classical
A SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT CONCERT, featuring mezzo-soprano Rose Taylor and pianist Timothy Lovelace, will be held at the Dougherty Arts Center, 1110 Barton Springs Rd. Sponsored by Mu Phi Epsilon, a non-profit international professional music fraternity. Tickets $6-$8 advance, $8-10 at the door. Sun, March 16, 7pm. 249-7025. THE GRINNELL SINGERS will perform in the St.…
Coach’s Corner
A man with curly blond hair, an impish smile, and twinkling eyes, is doing yet another interview explaining, for what seems like the 100th time, why his basketball team, which finished the regular season badly and was bounced, ignominiously, from the Big 12 tournament, should be invited to the NCAAs. A few weeks ago, even…
The Big Crapshoot
For the last 11 years, people have asked the same question on or around March 16: “Who got signed?” While the question naively implies that music industry movers and shakers just hand out recording contracts like business cards at South by Southwest, it’s not an entirely invalid inquiry. Artists do get signed as a result…
Best New Band
RUNNERS-UP: Papa Mali & the Instigators, Lisa Tingle Project, The Damnations, The Recliners, Shat Records, Sunshine, Ted Roddy’s Tearjoint Troubadours, Ta Mere, Bongo Hate
Best None of the Above
RUNNERS-UP: Mr. Pink & the Fuzzy Wigglies, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Flametrick Subs, Austin Lounge Lizards, Earthpig & Fire, Jubilettes, The Gourds, Bad Livers, Drums & Tuba
Best Singer-Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Chris Wall, Kris McKay, Will Sexton, Billy White, Bruce Robison, Ian Moore, Natalie Zoe, Pam Peltz, Jimmy LaFave, Darden Smith, Shawn Colvin, Butch Hancock, Lyle Lovett, Charlie Sexton
Best Record Store
RUNNERS-UP: Tower, Sound Exchange, Tie: MusicMania/33 Degrees, ABCDs, Antone’s, Blockbuster, Duval Discs, Tie: Encore/Local Flavor
Dance
Austin Ballroom Dancers play swing, Latin, rock, and ballroom classics weekly. Smoke- and alcohol-free. Next: Mar 15. Sat, 8-11pm, Parks Dept. Activities Center, 29th & N. Lamar. $6 ($5 students/$4 members). 335-7479. Austin International Folk Dancers meets weekly to learn dances from all over the world. First time free, $2 after. Sat, 7:30-11pm, at the…
Day Trips
Cameron Park Zoo in Waco is a big place. You really do feel like you’re in a jungle or at least on safari. Opened in 1993, the zoo has lots of room to grow, but already offers an exciting afternoon of animal watching. The 50-acre zoo was designed to take advantage of the natural ponds…
Bad to the Bone?
illustration by Doug Potter Psychoanalysts take note: There’s a worsening trend in Eric Mitchell’s behavior. In 1995, profanity peppered his public statements; he even said `Screw You!’ to fellow councilmember Max Nofziger. In 1996, he challenged In Fact writer Ken Martin to fisticuffs, after Martin asked for properly detailed campaign account reports. And at last…
Musician of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Eric Johnson, Alejandro Escovedo, Junior Brown, Shawn Colvin, Tie: Guy Forsyth/Billy White, Malford Milligan, Kris McKay, Tie: Doyle Bramhall II/Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Best Pop
RUNNERS-UP: Wannabes, Sunshine, Fastball, Dah-veed, Bongo Hate, Lisa Tingle, Silver Scooter, 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Tie: Quatropaw/Cotton Mather
Best Songwriter
RUNNERS-UP: Shawn Colvin, Alejandro Escovedo, Townes Van Zandt, Chris Wall, Will Sexton, Bruce Robison, Ian Moore, Billy White, Butch Hancock, Craig Ross, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Britt Daniel, Lisa Tingle, Bill Carter & Ruth Ellsworth
Best Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: Better audience support for local bands, Earlier shows/no smoking shows, More good country, More jazz, More clubs, More outdoor shows, More all-ages events, Smaller venues/Acoustic venues
Instruction/Support Groups
Adoption Knowledge Affiliates offers ongoing support groups. 442-8AKA. American Cancer Society offers a Bone Marrow/Stem Cell Transplant Group, a Gynecological Cancer Group, a Life After Loss Group, and Dialogue, a group for persons with cancer and their friends and family. 928-1144. A Bisexual Women’s Support Group is now forming. Free. 479-0950. Debtors Anonymous, free, 12-step…
Page Two
There are two parties that are beginning to run together in my head, the post-screening party for Full Tilt Boogie on Friday night, and the after-Traveller party on Saturday night (both at the Speakeasy) as part of SXSW Film Conference and Festival. The second night, with Lou Ann Barton playing and the sublime Derek O’Brien…
Dangerous Liaisons
Bruce Becker On the afternoon of July 14, 1996, Bruce Becker wanted two things. He wanted the company of a man and he wanted some fresh white corn that reminded him of summers growing up in Pennsylvania. He knew where he could find both. He met up with Daniel Carl Greeley, a good-looking young man…
Album of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Dale Watson, Blessed or Damned; 8 1/2 Souvenirs, Happy Feet; Lyle Lovett, Road to Ensenada/i>; Breedlove, Reach Out; Spoon, Telefono; Lisa Tingle, In the Water; Willie Nelson, Spirit; KVRX Various Artists, <Cooking by Strobelight; Gourds, Dem’s Good Beeble; Eric Johnson, Venus Isle; Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Braver Newer World; Alejandro Escovedo, With These Hands; Asylum…
Best Rock
RUNNERS-UP: Ian Moore Band, Pushmonkey, Breedlove, Sunflower, Vallejo, Billy White Trio, Buick MacKane, El Flaco, Lisa Tingle Project
Best Strings
RUNNERS-UP: Erik Hokkanen, fiddle; Howard Kalish, fiddle; Alvin Crow, fiddle; Amy Tiven, violin; Gene Elders, violin; Richard Bowden, violin; Danny Levin, cello; Will Taylor, viola; David Perales, violin; John Hagen, cello; Mandy Mercier, fiddle; Paul Glasse, mandolin; Susan Voetz, violin; Pop Bayless, banjo
Best Video
RUNNERS-UP: Vulcan Death Grip, Ugly Americans, Kerry Brown; Bootleg, Ian Moore; Barf Baby, Fuckemos, Matthew Richardson; One Hit Wonder, Sincola; One More Thing, Lucky Strikes; Spittin’ Fire, Sons of Hercules; She’s Just Killing Me, ZZ Top; Runaround, Starfish; Not Turning Off, Spoon
Kids
PIONEER FARM’S SUMMER DAY CAMP caters to children from the ages of 4 to 15, who spend either all or part of five days at the Farm, experiencing work and play as it might have been during the 1880’s. Dressed in period clothing, the children care for the animals, prepare meals, and work on appropriate…
Public Notice
The out-of-towners are taking over. So why not here, too? This week’s column is dedicated to our throng of guests (and all that luscious green they bring to our Austin spring). It’s the Arts Hello, new-to-towners! Welcome to Austin, Texas, and welcome to The Austin Chronicle’s “Public Notice,” as far as we know, the only…
Thanks, But No Thanks
From left: Gary Bledsoe and Jim Hightower in 1990 with Place 5 councilmember Robert Barnstone; Eric Mitchell, Place 6 councilmember since 1994; Jimmy Snell, former Place 6 councilmemberphotographs by Alan Pogue Since 1975, two of the six seats on the council — Place 5 and Place 6 — have been occupied by, respectively, a Hispanic…
Best EP
RUNNERS-UP: Pushmonkey; Loose Diamonds, Fresco Fiasco; Wannabes, I Am God
Best Roots Rock
RUNNERS-UP: The Gourds, Loose Diamonds, Tie: High Noon/Joe Ely/Two Hoots & a Holler, Tie: Derailers/George Devore/Monte Warden/Junior Brown
Best Club DJ/Dance Club
RUNNERS-UP: Area 52, Club Chi-Wa-Wa, Oilcan Harry’s, Broken Spoke, Roxy, Bob Popular, Eden 2000, Nasty’s, Abratto’s
Worst Thing to Happen
RUNNERS-UP: City regulations/police harassment of musicians; Sixth Street: Too violent, drunken, noisy, and overcrowded; SXSW; Clubs Closing: White Rabbit, Split Rail; Music industry woes and how they affect Austin; Ed Hall broke up; Z-Rock changed format; Michael Corcoran; Shows start too late
Litera
PAUSING TO EXPLORE THE SACRED WILDERNESS is an overnight retreat at Selah, the Bamberger Ranch, that will explore the various ways that nature can be a connection to the spiritual. The works of poets and writers who used their art to express the connection between nature and the sacred will be examined. Activities include group…
Mister Smarty Pants Knows
The testes of a male blue whale, the largest mammal in the world, weigh 70 kilos or 154 pounds — combined. Some huevos! According to National Public Radio, the average cost increase per tooth from the tooth fairy since 1995 was 9%. Currently, the average tooth left for the fairy nets $1.40. George Adamski published…
Single-Member Districts: Where Now?
Any discussion of the gentlemen’s agreement invariably includes a discussion of single-member districts. Austin has the dubious distinction of being one of the few cities in the country (and the largest in the South) that elects all of its councilmembers with the at-large system. Only four other cities more populous than Austin — Detroit, San…
Best Single
RUNNERS-UP: Fountain of Tears, Natalie Zoe; Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin; Good Day for the Blues, Storyville; That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas), Lyle Lovett
Best Soul/Funk
RUNNERS-UP: Sister 7, Papa Mali & the Instigators, Gingbreadmen, Killer Bees, Storyville, Atlantic Soul Revue, Tie: Breedlove/D’Zyne/King Soul/MC Overlord
Best Concert By a Touring Artist
RUNNERS-UP: Soundgarden, Austin Music Hall; Beck, Austin Music Hall; Maceo Parker, Antone’s; Tie: Sting, Southpark Meadows/Kiss, Erwin Center; Tie: Medeski, Martin & Wood, White Rabbit/Lyle Lovett, Paramount; Tie: G3, Backyard/Southern Culture on the Skids, Liberty Lunch/Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, Erwin Center
Miscellaneous
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED for the first Riverside Sanctuary Work Day. The sanctuary is a small natural climbing and bouldering area behind the hospital in Georgetown, TX. The main goal of the work day is to improve the area for climbing, but climbing will be held afterwards. Sat, March 15, 10am-1pm. 863-5514. THE ANNUAL SPRING SHOW…
Ventura-Ventura on-on Clones-Clones
illustration by A.J. Garces History is a flirt and a rapist. It teases with seductive possibilities for the future, provokes our fantasies, then suddenly overpowers us — impregnating the entire race with something new, unwanted, and frightening. We give birth in a state of violation. To make sense of it is, for some, an exercise…
The Hate Crimes Debate
Denise Guerrero and Cruz Salda�a hold a memorial plaque of their brother, Ernest Salda�a, who was beaten to death in 1994.photograph by Jana Birchum In 1994, on his mother’s birthday, Ernest Salda�a was beaten, stomped, and kicked to death by a trio of hooligans who stole the money from his disability check that he had…
Song of the Year
RUNNERS-UP: Pepper, Butthole Surfers; That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas), Lyle Lovett; SRV, Eric Johnson; Pavillion, Eric Johnson; Cowboy Lloyd Cross, Dale Watson; Vulcan Death Grip, Ugly Americans; White Thread, Breedlove; <Boogie Man, Vallejo; Loner, Pushmonkey; Braver Newer World, Jimmie Dale Gilmore; Walking Backward, Lisa Tingle; Get Out of This House, Shawn Colvin; You Turn…
Best Tejano/Conjunto
RUNNERS-UP: Flaco Jimenez, Texas Tornadoes, Tish Hinojosa, Little Joe y la Familia, Ruben Ramos, La Tropa F, Emilio, Johnny Degollado, Mingo Salvidar
Best Concert Poster
RUNNERS-UP: Billy Perkins: Robert Earl Keen, Austin Music Hall; Strobelight Release: KVRX Cooking; Craig Oelrich: Festival de la Luna; Maceo Parker, Antone’s; Terri Lord, any Sincola poster; Bob Schneider: any Scabs poster; Carnaval 1996; Townes Van Zandt, Cactus; Tie: Billy Perkins: Walter Hyatt Tribute/KGSR Xmas
Performance
THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE is the latest themed exhibition at the Alternate Current ArtSpace, and it kicks off with a big multimedia event including visual art, video, music, and performance with more than 50 artists taking part. ONE NIGHT ONLY! Mar 14, Fri, 8pm, at Alternate Current ArtSpace, 2209 S. First. 443-9674. ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS…
The Ruta Java
Ruta Maya Coffeehousephotograph by Jana Birchum In 1986, as I prepared for a four-month stay in Austria’s capital, I pored through guidebooks proclaiming Vienna’s heartbeat could be found inside its multitude of coffeehouses. Although the closest thing to a coffeehouse I’d experienced back then in Sherman, Texas was a dreary doughnut shop or the far-from-worldly…
Naked City
At a time when beating up on Capital Metro is popular sport, Rep. Glen Maxey has risen to defend the P.R.-hobbled mass transit agency. Maxey fired off an angry letter last week to mayoral candidates Max Nofziger, Ronney Reynolds, and Kirk Watson to stop using the local transit’s troubles for their own political gain. Seems…
Best Alternative/Punk
RUNNERS-UP: Sincola, Butthole Surfers, Sunflower, Pushmonkey, El Flaco, Park, Fastball, Motards, Sixteen Deluxe, Fuckemos, Ugly Americans, Tallboy, Lord High Fixers, Flametrick Subs
Best World Music
RUNNERS-UP: Papa Mali & the Instigators, Ta Mere, Son Yuma, Sambaxe, Root 1, Susanna Sharpe & Samba Police, Two O’Clock Courage, Raggamassive, Austin Klezmorim
Best Cover Art
RUNNERS-UP: Butthole Surfers, Electric Larryland; Shawn Colvin, A Few Small Repairs, Asylum Street Spankers, Spanks for the Memories; Eric Johnson, Venus Isle; Storyville, Piece of My Soul; Sons of Hercules, Hits for the Misses; Various Artists, Do Me Baby! Austin Does Prince; Lisa Tingle, In the Water; Pork, Slop
Articulations
It’s hardly news anymore when a survey of the nation’s grad schools ranks UT Austin’s Law, Engineering, or Business Schools among the best in the land. That’s been the case for years. But for some of us, it’s news to see UT’s graduate arts programs rate that well in such a survey. And they did…
What’s Up With the Cup?
Who would have thought the relative convenience of a cup of coffee to go could have turned into such a political struggle? Environmentalists, or the “earth-friendly” as a Starbucks employee called her company’s position, would prefer you to drink from paper cups because paper is recyclable and saves landfill space. Yet Styrofoam cups, the kind…
Reflections
Included here are the first round of reviews of some films currently showing in the SXSW Film Festival. The symbols (RP) and (WP) indicate regional and world premieres. Additional reviews will run next week. BEN JOHNSON: THIRD COWBOY ON THE RIGHT Dir/Prod: Tom Thurman; Exec Prod: Latelle LaFollette, Chris Iovenko, Arthur Rouse; Scr: Tom Thurman,…
Best Country
RUNNERS-UP: Don Walser’s Pure Texas Band, Dale Watson, Derailers, Kelly Willis, Willie Nelson, Wayne Hancock, Chris Wall, Lyle Lovett, Libbi Bosworth
Best Acoustic Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Olivier Giraud, 8 1/2 Souvenirs; David Garza; Rich Brotherton; Guy Forsyth; Britt Daniel; Alejandro Escovedo; Dave Sebree; Willie Nelson; Caspar Rawls; Steve James; Eric Johnson; Amberjack Rice; Billy White; Champ Hood; Shawn Colvin; Will Sexton; Mitch Watkins; Monte Montgomery; Pam Flores
Best Live Music Venue
RUNNERS-UP: Continental Club, Austin Music Hall, Electric Lounge, Stubb’s, Backyard, Cactus Cafe, Hole in the Wall, Broken Spoke, La Zona Rosa, Blue Flamingo, Antone’s, Black Cat, Back Room, Elephant Room, Ritz, Waterloo Ice House, Blondie’s, Victory Grill
From Super Freak to Super Mom
photograph by Jason Stout I have believed since earliest childhood that people who play team sports are from a different branch of the human species than I, one I regarded with a combination of jealousy and incomprehension that hardened later in life to disdain. And yet I, a prime specimen of Homo Spaziens, a geek,…
Food-O-File
by Virginia B. Wood Consideration of local events celebrating St. Patrick’s Day always seems to get lost in the SXSW juggernaut here at the Chronicle, but with a considerable number of restaurants and bars in town proclaiming an Irish heritage, there is quite a bit of stuff going on. At the Draught Horse Pub (4112…
Best of the Fest
THE SXSW FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ARE: Shooting Lily NARRATIVE FEATURE: Shooting Lily (Director: Arthur Borman) HONORABLE MENTIONS: Purgatory County (Director: George Ratliff), Chocolate Babies (Director: Stephen Winter) DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Letter From Waco (Director: Don Howard) HONORABLE MENTION: Battle For The Minds (Director: Steve Lipscomb) NARRATIVE SHORT: (tie) Le Lion et L’Agneau (The Lion and the…
Best Cover Band
RUNNERS-UP: Atlantic Soul Revue, Mr. Fabulous & Casino Royale, Diamond Smugglers, Booze Weasels, King Cheese, Tie: Taboo/The Grooves, SSIK, Tie: Jumpstart/Skyline
Best Bass Guitar
RUNNERS-UP: Kevin Smith, High Noon; Chris White, Ian Moore Band; Mark Rubin, Bad Livers; Pat Fogarty, Pushmonkey; Omar Vallejo, Vallejo; Gil T; Sarah Brown; Jon Blondell; Glen Fukunaga; Courtney Audain; Darrell Phillips, Sister 7; Josh Dawkins, Breedlove; Roscoe Beck; Edwin Livingston, Elias Haslanger
Best Local Music TV Show
RUNNERS-UP: CapZeyez, ACAC Ch 10; Check This Action, AMN Ch 15; Any Austin Music Network Show, Ch 15; XTV, ACAC Ch 10; Virtual Noise, ACAC Ch 10; <Electric Screegin', ACAC Ch 10; Raw Time, ACAC Ch 10; New Vids on the Block, AMN Ch 15; Tex mix, AMN Ch 15
