Sid and Nancy
The doomed junkie love story of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious and American groupie Nancy Spungen sears the screen.
Written on the Wind
This wild love story among the pillars of a rich Texas oil family features a drunken, paranoid playboy (Stack, in maybe his very best performance), the woman who loves him (Bacall), the man who loves her (Hudson), and the half-sister (Malone) who loves him. This oil-family story is way, way east of Eden.
Super-Eight 2000
Super-Eight 2000 NR. Directed by , Narrated by , Voices by , Starring . The World Tour is a throwdown of short films with tour coordinator Melinda Stone in attendance. Super-8 films spanning diverse styles and subjects include Mark Fox’s mysterious and alluring “Untitled Animation,” Matt Hulse’s frenetic wonder tour of the wild “Take Me…
Song of the Thin Man
Song of the Thin Man NR, 102 min. Directed by Edward Buzzell, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring WIlliam Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell, Gloria Grahame, Jayne Meadows. The sixth and final entry in the Nick and Nora Charles series has the married pair sleuthing through New York jazz clubs. The 11-year-old…
The Thin Man Goes Home
The Thin Man Goes Home 1945, NR, 102 min. Directed by Richard Thorpe, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucille Watson, Gloria De Haven, Ann Revere. Nick Charles brings his family home to visit his parents, but even in these bucolic surroundings he can’t stay away from trouble.
Public Notice
Public Notice says, “Keep cool this summer and volunteer for a local public service organization.”
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood explains what Por Tabla is all about and gives the lowdown on the latest culinary news in Austin.
Holiday in Town
Austin Motel 1220 S. Congress, 78704 441-1157 Dottye Dean never thought she’d come back to her native Texas to live, but her parents’ dream and livelihood, the old Austin Motel tourist court, had slipped into a nightmare of disrepair and delinquence. A successful opera singer on the West Coast, Dean couldn’t stand to see her…
Naked City
Neighborhoods get together for a workshop to discuss how to deal with Smart Growth, redevelopment, and neighborhood empowerment.
What’s the Buzz?
Second Time Around Classic Films Enjoy a Re-Release Dulled by the rash of testosterone turbo-charged event movies? Leery of hearing a generation raised by bubblegum pop spout out Shakespeare? A host of vintage rereleases take the anxiety out of going to the movies: You already know they’re gonna be good. On July 7, Dobie Theatre…
Second Helpings: National Pizza Chains
Chronicle writer Greg Beets writes about national pizza chains in Austin.
Letters at 3AM
The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.
It’s About Time
The inadvertent theme for this year’s Austin Chronicle Summer Fun issue is “refurbish and reuse” as we explore Austin’s B&B and boutique scene.
Holiday in Town
Other Austin B&Bs Adams House 4300 Ave. G, 78751, 453-7696Austin Bed & Breakfast 4610 Oakmont, 78731-5928, 451-4121 www.austinbnb.com stay@austinbnb.comAustin’s Wildflower Inn 1200 W. 22 1/2, 78705-5304, 477-9639 www.austinswildflowerinn.com kjackson@io.comBrook House 609 W. 33rd, 78705, 459-0534, 800/871-8908 www.governorsinnaustin.com brookhouse@earthlink.netCarriage House Inn 1110-1114 W. 22 1/2, 78705, 472-2333 www.carriagehouseinn.org/ dcarriagehouse@aol.comCarrington’s Bluff 1900 David St., 78705, 479-0638, 800/871-8908…
Naked City
Austin American-Statesman chooses Jeff Salamon, formerly deputy features editor, to head up its life and arts section and take the helm at its weekly section, XLEnt.
Summer Vacations
So it hasn’t even been a week since school ended, and already family bonding sounds like a cruel joke. Could this possibly be your child — with the piercing squeals, the mood swings, the bull-in-a-china-shop way about your house? Well, one thing is for sure: You and your kid need a break. The following five…
Plain Funny
Don’t let Martha Kelly’s librarian-like appearance fool you. Beneath the nondescript facade is a cold, dark streak of cynical comedic genius that inspires awe and laughter when it strikes.
After a Fashion
Wimberley has small-town style in spades.
Bahn, Bahn, Bahn …
Apparently, most Austinites don’t know that New Braunfels’ Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.
Holiday in Town
Out-of-Town Bed & Breakfasts Tourism is booming in Central Texas, which means that every quaint cottage, old railroad hotel, and former stagecoach stop is likely to see a 21st-century rebirth as a charming bed & breakfast or boutique hotel. For expanded reviews of many of these destinations, check out our Hill Country Guide (auschron.com/guides/hillcountry). For…
Naked City
The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce’s Capital Metro Light Rail Task Force will meet from 9am-noon Friday at the Hyatt Regency, 208 Barton Springs Road. Cap Met Executive Director Karen Rae will speak. A fundraiser for Place 2 City Council candidate Raul Alvarez will be from 5:30-7pm Wednesday, May 31, at Threadgill’s, 301 Riverside Drive.…
Life Is to Whistle
Life Is to Whistle NR, 106 min. Directed by Fernando Perez, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rolando Brito, Joan Manuel Reyes, Isabel Santos, Bebe Perez, Claudia Rojas, Coralia Veloz, Luis Alberto Garcia. Not reviewed at press time. Three grown orphans in Havana contemplate their lives and provide an allegorical backdrop for modern Cuba.
Cool Jerks
It takes a cool character to weather the hot lights of a comedy club stage, so who better to share tips for beating the summer heat than stand-up comics from Austin, the hot-spot in Texas?
Mr. Smarty Pants
Mr. Smarty Pants gets the lead out.
Austin Parks & Recreation Pool Schedule
While the world waits for school to let out and all the neighborhood pools to open, our beloved Barton Springs Pool is, of course, open year-round, always ready to give youngsters the icy shock of their young lives. Stacy, Northwest, and Deep Eddy pools are also open for a pre-season plunge. Meanwhile, clip and save…
A Room With a View
Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club — in Houston.
Council Watch
Intel secures $15 million in incentives to locate its facility downtown, saying only $2.5 million of that consists of actual “incentives”; the council votes to annex the property owned by the Regents School, whose sports facilities have annoyed neighbors in the nearby Travis Country subdivision.
Shanghai Noon
Shanghai Noon 2000, PG-13, 110 min. Directed by Tom Dey, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Walt Groggins, Adrien Dorval, Jason Connery, Eric Chen, Xander Berkeley, Curtis Armstrong, Rafael Báez, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan. After more than 70 films, Jackie Chan has finally met his match, and wouldn’t you know, it’s Owen…
Esther’s Follies: Forever Young
Even after 23 years, Austin’s favorite musical comedy group, Esther’s Follies, is still lively, still spirited, and the perpetual briskness and animation, the audaciousness and cheeky style, rub off on you, so that every visit is rejuvenating.
Coach’s Corner
The media has dismissed both Latrell Sprewell and Allen Iverson as bad citizens, but that says more about the media than it does about the two young stars.
2000 Municipal Pool Schedule
Daily Fees Municipal Pools: Adult $2; junior $1 (12-17); child $0.50 (11 & under) Barton Springs: Adult $2.50 ($2.75 weekends); junior $1 (12-17); child $0.50 (11 & under) 40 Visit Swim Ticket Adult $66; senior, junior (12-17) $30; child $15 (11 & under) Unlimited Summer Pass (Memorial Day through Labor Day) Adult $120; senior, junior…
Attacked by Lesbians
Just three good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm
Media Clips
Southwestern Bell and Time Warner push Jump.Net and other small Internet service providers out of the Austin market with anti-competitive pricing schemes.
Passion of Mind
Passion of Mind 2000, PG-13, 105 min. Directed by Alain Berliner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Joss Ackland, Sinead Cusack, Peter Riegert, William Fichtner, Stellan Skarsgärd, Demi Moore. Demi Moore was probably smart to take a break from some of her recent dramatic failures (Striptease, The Juror, The Scarlet Letter) and lie low…
Articulations
Where to find this year’s Critics Table Awards party and what former Austin actress Sharron Bower is up to in NYC.
Day Trips
Mineral Wells, Texas: “Where America Drinks Its Way to Health.”
2000 Neighborhood Pool Schedule
Free admission. Times listed are for recreational swimming; for dedicated lap swimming hours, see http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/parks/pools_schedule.htm
Dancing About Architecture
Another live music venue closes. So much for the Live Music Capital of the World.
What’s the Buzz?
The lowdown on summer movies — from A to X-Men
East Is East
East Is East 1999, R, 96 min. Directed by Damien O’Donnell, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Chris Bisson, Emil Marwa, Archie Punjabi, Jordan Routledge, Linda Bassett, Om Puri. This dizzying comedy of cultural collision was a big indigenous hit in the UK, nominated for six BAFTA awards (the national equivalent of the Oscars),…
Exhibitionism
Carter W. Lewis’ play Women Who Steal is a hilarious, tightly constructed joy ride, complete with squealing tires, tequila-chugging, and Meat Loaf : yes: Meat Loaf! : blaring from the car radio, and the State Theater Company production is what good theatre is all about.
About AIDS
With its president jumping on the denial bandwagon, South Africa is sliding into AIDS chaos.
Holiday In Town
The Chronicle visits some local B&Bs and boutique hotels.
Live Shots
Pocket FishRmen: The Final BlowjobRed Eyed Fly, May 13 You know it’s going to be a night of riotous rock & roll abandon when the club garbs its stage monitors in prophylactic sheaths of plastic. And who could blame them? Sending off a local punk rock warhorse like the Pocket FishRmen after 14 years of…
What’s the Buzz?
All the Rave In Search of Ecstasy, Glowsticks, and the Perfect Party “The weekend has landed!” declares Brit import Human Traffic’s tagline, and though both it and Greg Harrison’s San Francisco-shot Groove are sure fire, 24-hour party people crowd-pleasers in the vein of Trainspotting, this pair of drug-saturated, up-all-night ensemble films has less to do…
East-West
East-West 1999, PG-13, 121 min. Directed by Régis Wargnier, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Catherine Deneuve, Serguei Bodrov Jr., Oleg Menchikov, Sandrine Bonnaire. Eight years after his internationally lauded Indochine, French director Wargnier returns with this historical/romantic epic East-West. Interesting although uneven, the film highlights a little-explored facet of modern Russian history. In…
Exhibitionism
If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it’s VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.
Will Travel for Food
Whether it’s a weekend getaway to the Alamo City, a fishing excursion to Rockport down on the coast, or a peachy drive through the Hill Country, restaurant-wise, Chronicle food writers have mapped the state to provide ideas for roadside dining this summer.
Holiday In Town
Hotel San Jose 1316 S. Congress, 78704 444-7322 Ah, the sound of one guest sighing. Suppose Edward Hopper, that frequent chronicler of what elegance natural light and structured space can achieve, was reincarnated as a Buddhist monk. And suppose that this monk was commissioned to paint his idea of the perfect monastery. Now imagine a…
Live Shots
Little RichardGruene Hall, May 6 Visualize $300 — 15 crisp $20 bills fresh from the ATM tucked neatly into your wallet. Now envision spending them on your share of the rent, a car payment, a new TV or DVD player. Or maybe you could break it down this way: two tickets to Little Richard, two…
What’s the Buzz?
Action-Packed Blockbusters Gone in 90 Minutes? Back in the days when François Truffaut sat around complimenting the artistry of his favorite Hollywood directors, the beast known as the summer movie blockbuster had not yet fully reared its head to challenge his pet auteur theory. But nowadays, filmmaking by committee determines the look of most gargantu-budget…
Mission: Impossible Two
Mission: Impossible Two 2000, PG-13, 127 min. Directed by John Woo, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, John Polson, Anthony Hopkins, Ving Rhames, Tom Cruise. Your opinion on this John Woo-helmed sequel is going to depend on whichever camp you found yourself in following the 1996 original, which legendarily divided…
Confessions of a Cowboy
Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn’t like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris — he was there and he knows.
Will Travel for Food
Introduction As we’ve just seen in the Restaurant Poll, there’s a seemingly endless number of new dining choices in the Austin area alone. You could go out someplace new every week this summer and still not sample them all. However, the chances are you’ll spend some time on the road during the summer months. The…
Holiday in Town
Lake Travis Bed & Breakfast 4446 Eck, 78734 266-3386, 888/764-LTBB www.laketravisbb.com When Judy and Vic Dwyer decided to relocate to Austin in 1991, their hearts were set on owning a small piece of property along Lake Travis where they could relax and enjoy the Austin sunsets. But when they saw the view from the remarkable…
Live Shots
Blink-182, Bad Religion, Fenix TXFrank Erwin Center, May 16 What’s my age again? In calendar years, it’s exactly between Blink guitarist Tom DeLonge (23) and bassist Mark Hoppus (27), and none of us are in a big hurry to grow up. “Do you guys ever touch your weiner a lot?” Hoppus asked by way of…
What’s the Buzz?
Romance The Real Mission Impossible Love is in the air this summer, albeit with a refreshing streak of cynicism and disaster. On July 14, say goodbye to the touchy-feely sentimentality of director Nora Ephron’s 1992 summer smash Sleepless in Seattle and hello to … Untitled Nora Ephron Project (so much for title familiarity). John Travolta,…
Kadosh
Kadosh 1999, NR, 110 min. Directed by Amos Gitaï, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Lea Koenig, Sami Hori, Yussef Abu Warda, Uri Ran Klausner, Meital Barda, Yoram Hattab, Yaël Abecassis. Our notions of romantic love owe so much to the movies. Over the past century, they have provided us with countless role models…
Postscripts
How Mitch Cullin’s novel in verse began as a college assignment and ended up being optioned by a Hollywood producer.
Will Travel for Food
DeWese’s Tip Top Cafe In San Antonio 2814 Fredericksburg Rd. 210/732-0191 Tue-Thu, 11am-8pm; Fri-Sat, 11am-9pm; Sun, 11am-7pm When most Austinites head south to San Antonio, there’s usually something other than food on their minds. Sometimes the lure of Lone Star history leads them to the Alamo complex and the nearby Mission Trail. Other times the…
Holiday in Town
The Governor’s Inn 611 W. 22nd, 78705 477-0711, 800/871-8908 www.governorsinnaustin.com When you think West Campus, you may think of unwashed hipsters and ponytailed sorority girls sharing the same loud, littered apartment complex. You may think three-legged couches, spilling their foam guts onto the lawn. You may think cases of Milwaukee’s Best and skull-shaped bongs. For…
Live Shots
Suzanne VegaOne World Theatre, May 20 “You should feel free to speak up,” said Suzanne Vega by way of enticing the rapt, full house to call out requests. “In New York, they just shout it out.” And so they did, the plush, intimate venue on Bee Caves Road taking on the feel of a Kerrville…
What’s the Buzz?
In the Deep End Established Directors Make a Summer Splash Historically, summer tends to be the dumping ground for all movies fast and loud. But more established directors are choosing the hot months to release their goods. Due to open on June 9, Peter Greenaway’s 81/2 Women is an ode both to Fellini’s cinematic masterpiece…
Book Reviews
Men My Mother Dated and Other Mostly True Tales by Brett Leveridge Villard, 187 pp., $19.95 Zine author and National Public Radio commentator Brett Leveridge’s collection of essays resembles those little boxes of candy that are called “samplers” — small, sweet, and pleasantly familiar. These writings, many of which have appeared in Leveridge’s zine BRETTnews,…
Will Travel for Food
Rough Creek Lodge Executive Retreat and Resort Near Glen Rose, Texas www.roughcreek.com 800/864-4705; fax, 254/918-2570 I was born 30 miles, as the crow flies, from Rough Creek Lodge, an impressive, soul-soothing restaurant/hotel/executive conference center complex outside of Glen Rose, Texas, but the culinary rebirth I experienced there a couple of weekends ago came entirely unexpectedly.…
Holiday in Town
The Woodburn House 4401 Ave. D, 78751 458-4335, 888/690-9763 www.woodburnhouse.com Plenty of old homes can claim to be a part of history, but few can say they were the site of a real-life battleground. This plantation-style turn-of-the-century home on Avenue D was an early-Eighties focal point in the heated (and still ongoing) fight between Hyde…
Live Shots
Don Henley Frank Erwin Center, May 22 With his first new release in 11 years being released the day after this performance, Don Henley rode into Austin with something to prove. Inside Job is the title of his latest, and while the show certainly wasn’t akin to robbery, it felt like a dress rehearsal. Some…
What’s the Buzz?
Make ’em Laugh Woody Allen, Ivan Reitman, and Todd Phillips Discuss Their Latest Comedies Like everyone else, the folks at DreamWorks Pictures may not know the answer to the million-dollar question — What makes people laugh? — but they’ve certainly found a new way to pose the question. Last Friday, May 19, the distribution company…
Off the Bookshelf
The Springboard in the Pond An Intimate History of the Swimming Pool by Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen MIT Press, 330 pp., $35 (paper) “The pool is very much a challenge when it comes to interpretation,” van Leeuwen writes in the introduction to this exhaustively probing and often funny history of “this unpretentious hole in the…
Will Travel for Food
Silo In San Antonio 1133 Austin Highway 210/824-8686 Mon-Thu, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-10pm; Fri-Sat, 11:30am-2pm, 5:30-11pm Chef Mark Bliss consistently offers some of the best and most creative food in Texas from his small and inviting restaurant. Located on the old Austin Highway just outside of Alamo Heights, Silo’s building has been a gas station, a farmer’s…
Holiday in Town
Summit House 1204 Summit, 78741 445-5304, 751-4462 www.summit.home.texas.net Back home in my native Ireland, the bed & breakfast experience is nothing short of a national institution — in cozy old cottages or elegant Georgian townhouses the cead mile failte (Gaelic for 100,000 welcomes) is as generous as the full Irish breakfast in the morning. So…
Center of Gravity
City’s influx of new money and new businesses shifts council’s political sails
What’s the Buzz?
Films for Children Gotta Catch ’em All! What a perfect summer to be young and in line (for the movies, that is). Hatching things off to a dazzling start with Dinosaur, Disney spared no expense building their digital Jurassic playground, the first animated entry in a season full of creative, kid-friendly fare. Still to come…
Off the Bookshelf
Splash Across Texas! The Definitive Guide to Swimming in Central Texas by Chandra Moira Beal La Luna Publishing, 392 pp., $16.95 (paper) Splash Across Texas! touts itself as the definitive guide to swimming in Central Texas, and from a practical standpoint, it could very well be just that. Chandra Moira Beal’s opus on getting wet…
Will Travel for Food
The Big Fisherman Seafood Restaurant In Rockport 510 Hwy. 188 361/729-1997 Daily, 11am-10pm (but often closes early) Alice Faye’s Rocky Hill Bar and Grill In Fulton 106 N. Fulton Beach Rd. 361/729-5755 Mon-Thu, 11am-9pm; Fri-Sat, 11am-10pm; Sun, 11am-3pm Bar open daily, 11am-2am Whenever I get a few days off of my insanely busy grind, I…
Holiday in Town
Park Lane Guest House 221 Park Lane, 78704 447-7460, 800/492-8827 www.eden.com/~cheryl/BB.html The Park Lane Guest House didn’t start out as the cozy Travis Heights cottage it is today. When it was first purchased by its owners, Shakti and Dev Kirn Khalsa, the house looked more like a run-down South Austin shack, with few windows, little…
No G-Strings Attached
U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires nude dancers to wear pasties and g-strings, but Austin won’t be making any changes.
What’s the Buzz?
Substance Over Style Science Fiction Offerings Science fiction as a literary genre traditionally takes a back seat to everything save romance novels at your local Barnes & Noble, and its ranking among film aficionados normally fares no better. It’s no wonder: For every hit like The Matrix, fans must suffer through any number of ill-conceived…
Off the Bookshelf
Swimming Sweet Arrow by Maureen Gibbon Little, Brown, & Co., 224 pp., $21.95 Swimming Sweet Arrow is yet another example of the girl-as-victim genre. Vangie Rayburn spends most of her last year of school doing drugs and having sex with her boyfriend Del. Her big dream is to graduate, move in with Del, and have…
Will Travel for Food
La Normandie In Castroville 1302 Fiorella Street 800/261-1731, 830/538-3070 Tue-Sat, 11am-2pm, 5-9pm; Sun brunch, 11:30am-3pm Founded by Alsatians in the 1840s, historic Castroville retains the distinctive look of an immigrant European community. Something in the pitch of the roofs, the universal stuccoing, in the notable absence of front porches, or in the curious arrangement of…
Holiday in Town
The Lazy Oak Bed & Breakfast 211 West Live Oak, 78704 447-8873, 877/947-8893 www.lazyoakbandb.com/ During a particularly bleak period of my Austin tenure — strapped financially, stuck in a slumlord pit, and going nowhere fast — I passed the time by daydreaming of a better life while learning the streets of South Austin on bike,…
June 3 Runoff Endorsements
The three-day Memorial Day weekend will temporarily halt early-voting activities in the runoff elections for Austin City Council and the Austin Community College Board of Trustees. But you can still cast your ballot early through Friday and again on Tuesday, the last day. For more information on early voting locations and times, call the city…
What’s the Buzz?
Godzilla 2000 The mean, green, nuclear-fire-breathing-machine In the 46 years since the big, green galoot sashayed out of Tokyo Bay and laid waste to Raymond Burr’s career, Godzilla has starred in 22 films (not counting Hollywood’s CGI misfire) and clawed his way into the hearts and minds of filmgoers everywhere. Part of the problem with…
Local Bestsellers
Local bestsellers are based on recent sales at Austin bookstores selected to reflect varied reading interests.
Will Travel for Food
Massimo Restaurant In San Antonio 4263 NW Loop 410 Suite 109 (Babcock & Loop 410) 210/342-8556 Mon-Fri, 11:30am-2:30pm, 5:30-10:30pm; Sat, 5:30-10:30pm What lover of all food Italian hasn’t lingered over the movie Big Night and longed for such an eatery in the neighborhood? From the obsessive, uncompromising chef to the unpretentious charm of the room,…
Holiday in Town
The Inn at Pearl Street 809 W. MLK@Pearl, 78701 477-2233, 800/494-2261 www.innpearl.com The Inn at Pearl Street betrays little of its semisecret history as Slacker set, slacker co-op, or scene of legendarily debauched early-Eighties dance parties. Although it’s been all those things, the formerly decrepit, possibly haunted, manse on the hill is now an eclectically…
Naked City
Travis County GOP Chair Alan Sager is considering organizing a petition drive to recall Kirk Waston and City Council; Jerry Rusthoven is Jackie Gooman’s new aide; Linda Dailey is Danny Thomas’ aide; Will Wynn has hired Frank Kopic as his executive secretary; Kristen Vassallo leaves Bill Spelman’s office to become Kirk Watson’s chief of staff;…
What’s the Buzz?
Stand-Up for Your Rights Comedians on the Silver Screen The professional life of a stand-up comedian can be nasty, brutish, and short — with the spoils of breakout success always out of reach, like a carrot on a stick. Many high-profile exceptions, however, have followed a reliable recipe: Start with stand-up, graduate to an eponymous…
Page Two
Remembering actor-filmmaker Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Cannonball, Eating Raoul)
Will Travel for Food
More Roving While the restaurants reviewed in this issue will provide you with some great new dining ideas, we also have some tried-and-true regional favorites that we want to make sure you remember. Don’t leave home without checking our newly revised Web site for the handy guide to the Texas Hill Country (auschron.com/guides/hillcountry) and the…
Holiday in Town
McCallum House 613 W. 32nd, 78705 451-6744 www.bbonline.com/tx/mccallum/index.html First, a regretful caveat: The McCallum House, which has for years been frequented by academics, researchers, and parents visiting UT students, will no longer be open for short-term stays. Instead, its owners, Nancy and Roger Danley, have decided to rent out their extensive accommodations — which include…
Naked City
Big players in Austin’s high-tech community form a new group, Get AroundAustin, to promote light rail in advance of the Nov. 7 referendum.
What’s the Buzz?
Fighting for Their Life Cause This Is Thriller Night Halloween hits Hollywood a few months early this summer with a trio of supernatural thrillers that promise plenty of high-tech (and human!) eye candy. In Robert Zemeckis’ heavily guarded What Lies Beneath (Jul 21), Michelle Pfeiffer is possessed by the ghost of a former student –…
