Jewish Book Fair
The 13th Annual Jewish Book Fair will feature a variety of authors speaking on different topics from Nov. 4-Nov. 14. The fair is sponsored by the Jewish Community Center. * Mon, Nov 4: Rabbi Harold Kushner will discuss his new book, How Good Do We Have to Be?: A New Understanding of Guilt and Forgiveness,…
Dah-Veed Savings Time
Dah-Veed (that’s David Garza, for you new to town) confirms that he’s put his Jo-Hn Hancock on a major label record deal. He’d been debating for quite some time whether to go with Capitol or Atlantic, and in the end, the big “A” won him over. Dah is currently in Philadelphia working on his first…
Totally Paul-ly
Here it is, a collection of some of Paul’s “greatest” quotes, taken from seven of his monthly political newsletters written between 1990 and 1994. Because of the incredibly politically incorrect content, Morris asked Paul to release all past copies of the Ron Paul Survival Report to the media, going back to the newsletter’s origin in…
Postscripts
by Lee Nichols & Margaret Moser * THU, OCT 31: Book People will host two book signings on Halloween. Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan will read from and sign copies of her poetry collection, Sit Marie Rose, at 5pm. At 7pm, Jan Waldron will discuss and sign copies of her Giving Away Simone, her account of…
Sin Like You Mean It
I had a dream the other night: There were fuzzy bunnies leaping over a thumbnail crescent moon in a beautiful, azure sky. The bunnies were being chased willy-nilly through fields of pink daffodils, where little blue smurfs bantered about little blue smurf-things and a golden unicorn grazed in a dappled, sunlit field. In the background,…
A Passion for Fashion
Vivienne Westwood: Fashion, Perversity and the Sixties Laid Bare by Fred Vermorel Overlook Press, $23.95 The humble beginning and meteoric rise of Britain’s high fashion bad girl Vivienne Westwood is the stuff of legend. Westwood was lover and muse of self-styled entrepreneur Malcolm McLaren, bore his child, dressed his pet project the Sex Pistols, and…
No Tours, No Interviews
by Tim Stegall “Change for the better, change for the worse, changes with the summer and fall.” — Sugar, “Changes,” 1992 Actually, I think I’m gonna end up back up here.” It’s Bob Mould on the phone. The “up here” he’s referring to is New York City, from where he’s phoning as he takes a…
Werewolves! Do They Get AIDS?
It was a dark and stormy night! The fog was thick, so thick you feel it clinging to your skin. You are looking for that last remaining bar, somewhere in the heart of the city that is still open in the wee hours of Halloween night, a night filled with costumes, parties, treats, and now……
Also Playing:
Friday: Vallejo, Kacy Crowley, Steamboat Saturday: Mazinga Phazer, Kitty, Voodoo Lounge Sunday: Junior Brown, Continental Monday: Blue Monday, Antone’s Tuesday: Wesley Willis, Zeke, Buzzcrusher, Emo’s Wednesday: Tomas Ramirez Trio, Flipnotics Thursday: The Brew, Top of the Marc
The Seeds of Admiration
Good heroes are hard to come by and even harder to hold onto. I’ve been snookered often enough by those I once admired — Woody Allen, Lena Guerrero, Paul Theroux (how could he have written that crappy magician book?) — that I’m hesitant to throw my favor behind anyone anymore. But I held firm on…
Record Reviews
AMY RIGBY Diary of a Mod Housewife (Koch) MARTI JONES My Long-Haired Life (Sugar Hill) Two survivors of the mid-Eighties jangle boom (Bongos, dBs, Let’s Active, Yo La Tengo, Shams, etc….) raise a defiant glass to passing youth. Ex-Sham Amy Rigby plants a patent-leather bootprint right in the ass of aging with Mod Housewife. From…
Benefits
Taco Plate Benefit Luncheon to benefit Metz Recreation Center Programs, at Metz Recreation Center, 2407 Canterbury, 11am-2pm. Cost is $3.50. 478-8716. Costume Ball to benefit Center for Attitudinal Healing, at Austin Music Hall, 7-11pm. Cost is $50 per person. 327-1961. SAT 2 Walk for the Cure to benefit Austin Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, at Waterloo Park,…
Roadkill
Soul Coughing Liberty Lunch Saturday, November 2 “Somebody ought to do a compilation reel of Donna’s Weird, Jerky Movements at the Ends Of Scenes. Really peculiar stuff — sudden head twitches and thumbs-ups and Pee Wee Herman noises and whatnot. I suppose the accumulated sexual tension accounts for that, if not her general Tori-Spelling-Ness.” –…
Coach’s Corner
by Andy “Coach” Cotton Dinner last night was a family favorite — Frito Pie — not a dish you’ll find in the Good Health cookbook; hamburger, a can of tomato soup, Wolf Brand Chili, Cheez Whiz, a package of Fritos. As a concession to the times, “lite” sour cream topped it. Because the sodium content…
AISD Notebook
An overnight fire at Casis Elementary in West Austin on October 21 damaged two classrooms before burning itself out. If the blaze, caused by an overhead projector, hadn’t managed itself, God only knows how long it would have been before someone noticed the joint was on fire, for Casis is one of about 25 AISD…
Day Trips
At White Egret Farm, agriculture is a hands-on experience. Lee Dexter, the farm’s owner, feels it is important that everyone, and especially children, see where their food supply comes from. At the goat dairy seven miles east of Austin on FM969 (Webberville Road) the farm animals are all hand-fed and enjoy the attention of visitors.…
Voter Backlash Rehashed
Prepare yourself, here we go again. First, the council ignored citizens who had supported the S.O.S. ordinance. They did it again when they tried to sneak a $10 million baseball stadium proposal into existence. Both times they suffered backlash from the voters. Now, the stage is set for another of those legendary showdowns that have…
Page Two
The first thing this Wednesday morning I read the Statesman, as I do most mornings. There was an article on the city bringing a lawsuit against Circle C that quoted developer Gary Bradley as calling this action “arrogant” on the city’s part (for more on this, see “Naked City,” p.16). I would love to say…
Naked City
Check out Fortune magazine’s Nov. 11 expose on Gtech’s sleight-of-hand methods in winning huge state lottery contracts. Gtech holds the lucrative Texas lottery deal, secured with the lobbying efforts of former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes. Writer Peter Elkind, who spent four months investigating the New Jersey firm, says Gtech is tops where “baldly sleazy conduct”…
Public Notice
While their advance hype is a tad too precious for us (Downtown… setting the precedent for fun!), the Downtown Austin Alliance (DAA) (n�e Downtown Management Organization) has the right idea when it comes to getting the general public out in the grid — entertain them, they will come. Promoters of the Tuesday Noontime Concerts at…
Paul-itically Incorrect
illustration by Doug Potter Amid the flurry of audience members draining out of the city hall chambers in El Campo, Texas on October 17, the months-long hate campaign between Congressional opponents Ron Paul and Charles “Lefty” Morris is about to get even dirtier. A mediator has signaled the end of the candidates’ first — and…
Dia de los Muertos
compiled by Julie Weaver LA PE�A and ALLGO/INFORME SIDA celebrate Dia de los Muertos, 1996. Fri, Oct 25 features an art exhibition and reception, “Cada vida, una historia (Each life has a story),” 6-9pm at Las Manitas Avenue Cafe, 211 Congress. The restaurant will be transformed into a multi-media, interactive performance feast by artist Ren�…
The De-Railers
Is it time to derail the Texas Railroad Commission? Three of the four candidates running for a seat on the three-person regulatory board think so. While they don’t meet eye-to-eye on exactly how the ax should fall, they all agree the Railroad Commission has been polluted by oil and gas interests, which spend millions each…
Mister Smarty Pants Knows
According to Hallmark, 26 million Halloween cards will be exchanged this year. The U.S. standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. The odd yet precise distance derives from the original specification for an Imperial Roman army war chariot. Autopsy comes from a Greek word meaning “to see for one’s self.”…
Election Updates
In terms of backing from friends in high places, incumbent Ronnie Earle’s campaign got a boost last week with a much-touted endorsement from fellow Democrat, Texas Attorney General Dan Morales. But to hear the folks at Republican challenger Shane Phelps’ campaign headquarters tell it, Morales was practically forced into his endorsement of Earle, even though…
food-o-file
by Virginia B. Wood This has certainly been a character-building year for Central Texas farmers: hard winter freezes, late spring freezes, months of suffocating drought, blistering heat, drenching late summer rains that washed away newly planted fall crops, and a first frost in late October rather than the customary early December. Nevertheless, farmers markets around…
Geek Love
It’s typical comic book fare — slacker and misfit UT computer hacker/law student and former Daily Texan editor plays a victorious David to Time magazine and Nightline’s two-headed Goliath. And other tales of geek glory. All told by the hero of the Internet, Cyber Rights Attorney Mike Godwin. Deliberating through the biggest year of his…
Articulations
The Artists Coalition of Austin, which has operated the ArtSpace at 403 Baylor for several years and provided studio space for dozens of visual artists, is unable to renew the lease for most of that space. This week, all but a few of the 30 or more artists there, will have to leave. Goodwill Industries,…
Picnic in a Cemetery
Brightly-colored flowers and ribbons strewn throughout the little cemetery near the Art Carved ring plant caught my eye as I drove by to deliver a catering order. My curiosity made me impatient to drop the pastries and get back to the road for a closer look. On that crisp November first afternoon, several Hispanic families…
scanlines
D: Gregory La Cava; with Walter Huston, Karen Morley, Franchot Tone, C. Henry Gordon. VHS Home Video Vulcan Video, 609 W. 29th Not getting your recommended daily allowance of drama from the presidential race? Want a B-12 injection of White House intrigue from a political roman � clef by an anonymous author? No, the film…
Local Palette
Various Artists Alternate Current ArtSpace through December 1 You can count on Alternate Current for a party at their openings… usually one worth the sweat you break from being in their funky little building. Its “Tarot” show was no exception. It started with a paranormal event. What other gallery would feature two tarot readers and…
Maria de la Luz
This beautiful little campo santo (located at 7200 Circle South Rd.) is nestled in a rural Austin neighborhood known as Pleasant Hill, south of Wm. Cannon behind the Art Carved ring plant. It contains about 200 graves, the earliest dating to 1904 even though the date on the arch above the gate says 1912. Inquiries…
Shortcuts
by Jen Scoville Substance lies in surprising places. For instance, would you figure that Andrew Shue, the heartthrob actor who plays boy- next-door-with-a-vengeance Billy Campbell on Melrose Place taught high school math to students in Zimbabwe the year before he hit Hollywood? He also co-founded Do Something, a pretty respectable national non-profit organization that actively…
These Are the Days
It’s the end of an era. The phrase is uttered so casually and frequently these days that I find it almost without meaning. Yet, when I heard it at the memorial service for Michel Jaroschy, founder of Capitol City Playhouse and its managing director for 14 years, in reference to his passing, I thought it…
La Historia
After the conquest of Mexico, the Catholic observance of All Saints Day on November 1, honoring the souls of Catholic saints and dead children, and All Souls Day on November 2, honoring souls of departed adults, became a common practice known as dias de los muertos, the Days of the Dead. However, Mexican celebrations of…
Ripe for Hype in ’76
One score and 15 minutes ago, Our Good Friends in Marketing whipped up a nation in the grips of an unprecedented consumer frenzy called Bicentennial Mania. Though there were plenty of moments not “made for TV,” the Bicentennial lingers in memory mostly for its commemorative tumblers, its lunch boxes and its Organizers (by Mead). Whereas…
