Living Legacy
by Rebecca Levy August 22, 1995 Dear Rebecca, The last time we saw one another was at an exhibition at Flatbed Press earlier this year and just before I was leaving for San Diego. At that time you suggested you would like to have an interview with me as soon as I returned to Austin….…
Music Recommended
Texas Union Ballroom, Sunday 8 In case you hadn’t heard, KUT is thinking of replacing its regular midnight-5am weeknight programming with BBC news feeds, which are about as exciting as watching ear hair grow. So pony up your $13 to see Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Shawn Colvin, Robert Earl Keen, The Austin Lounge Lizards, and Ed…
While We Were Sleeping
by Patrick Taggart Quick – what are the best films of the year so far? A reasonable list might include Smoke, Clockers, Babe, The Usual Suspects, The Brothers McMullen, Crumb, Living in Oblivion, Apollo 13. Unashamed romantics might want to include While You Were Sleeping. Omit the last two and look at the list again.…
Food-o-File
MILLER’S SIGNING Bookstop Central Park Saturday, October 7, 12-2pm Here’s your chance to discuss the anthropological importance of corn smut (huitlacoche) in Southwestern cuisine with an expert. Coyote Cafe owner chef Mark Miller will take time out from hosting investors and out-of-town VIPs at his downtown Austin location this weekend to share several varieties of…
Down the Dark Highway
by Marcel Meyer Road trip novels carry a certain potency, stories to make you clench the book jacket like the handlebars of a grunting hog and force you to ponder whether or not it’s possible to kick-start your Laz-E-Boy with the foot rest lever. When Jack Kerouac published his travel tome On the Road in…
SRV Estate Inventory
NO. 90-3569-P2 ESTATE OF [[section]] IN THE PROBATE COURT STEPHEN RAY VAUGHAN, [[section]] DECEASED [[section]] NUMBER TWO [[section]] [[section]] DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS [[section]] INVENTORY, APPRAISEMENT & LIST OF CLAIMS Date of Death: August 27, 1990 The following is a full, true and complete Inventory and Appraisement of all personal and real property situated in the…
Post Scripts
* THU, OCT 5: Poet/playwright/author Ntozake Shange will read from her works in Jessen Auditorium at UT. Shange wrote the Obie-winning Broadway hit for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf and Liliane. Free to the public and highly recommended. * FRI, OCT 6: In celebration of ArmadilloCon, Adventures in Crime and…
Day Trips
Robert Oberhellmann invites you on a wine-tasting journey at the Bell Mountain/Oberhellmann Vineyards, part of a tour that explores the ancient process of viticulture. This little winery north of Fredericksburg is steeped in the German wine-making traditions, but built on the pioneering spirit of the Texas Hill Country. Oberhellmann was one of the pioneers of…
“Nobody’s Women” See the Light
by Charles Ram�rez Berg The obvious question raised by this month-long, eye-opening retrospective of films by Mexican women directors (every Thursday night throughout October at the Dobie Theatre) is: Why don’t we know more about these talented women filmmakers? But that only begs the larger question: Why don’t we know more about Mexican filmmaking -…
The Artistic Afterlife
by Bill Crawford I run around the Town Lake hike and bike trail four or five times a week. Every time I do, I swerve off the trail, stick out my left hand, and touch the right hand of Stevie Ray Vaughan. Touching Stevie’s statue gives me a boost, a touch of hope. Stevie would…
Eat, Drink, Man, Woman
Rainbow Seafood Restaurant 4544 S. Lamar, Suite 700, 892-2742 Lunch: Monday-Friday 11am-3pm Dinner: Monday-Frxiday 5-10pm Saturday & Sunday: 11am-10pm, Dim Sum 11am-2:30pm by Virginia B. Wood Early in the summer, Chronicle bookeeper cindy soo piped up in a “Best of Austin” editorial meeting and told us about her new favorite Chinese place, Rainbow Seafood Restaurant.…
Miss Universe
Duh! (Rise) Miss Universe used the delay between the August 1994 recording of Duh! and its release last month to make the 11 songs the very best they can sound live. That doesn’t make the songs sound any less fresh on Duh!, it just makes the impetus for seeing the band play and buying the…
Scanlines
THE BEYOND D: Lucio Fulci; with Katherine MacColl, David Warbeck, Sarah Keller, Antoine Saintjohn. Toei Video A masterpiece of surreal Grand Guignol, The Beyond is Italian horror director Lucio Fulci’s grandest achievement – a nightmarish fever dream of hypnotic violence and illogical imagery that, while certainly not for the faint of heart, should more than…
Baby’s First Birthday
by Mike Clark-Madison It’s baby’s first birthday – “Corner to Corner” first appeared a year ago this week – and I feel in a valedictory mood. Not to celebrate the existence of this column, but rather the existence of its subject – henceforth, let’s make the first week of October “Austin Neighborhood Appreciation Week.” What…
The Things You Leave Behind
by Suzy Banks Walking sticks from around the world sold for a buck apiece at the last garage sale I browsed. Frenzied shoppers snatched up hundreds of hand-whittled or au naturel canes, with the collection site penciled carefully on a sanded section of the stick – Bryce Canyon, Utah; Split, Yugoslavia; Ryoko, Japan. I grabbed…
Spiritual Healing
by Roseana Auten “[People say] the Bible condemns homosexuality on the basis of Sodom and Gomorrah. What makes that a bogus argument is that if you read the story, you’ll see that it’s talking about rape – homosexual rape. One of the Bible’s highest values is the idea of hospitality. And what these Sodomites say…
About AIDS
“I’m HIV positive – Doing Okay – What Now?” If you know that you are HIV-positive, that means that at some time you answered “Yes” to the question, “Should I take the HIV antibody test?” It’s likely you’ve been grappling with questions ever since. Perhaps you’ve asked yourself, your friends, and your doctor whether AZT,…
Council Watch
The narcotic effects of some councilmeetings are well known, but it’s unlikely they could zonk out the entire city clerk’s office for seven straight days. No, the actual reason today’s program looks remarkably like the last agenda is this: Gus Garcia took a sick day last Thursday. His absence made a majority vote on some…
Coach’s Corner
by Andy “Coach” Cotton I spoke with my pal Bryant Gumbel this morning. He’d called earlier, just as I was pouring some coffee. We discussed golf – he wants me to be his partner at NBC’s annual tournament at Oak Hill. What he called for, though, was to invite me on the Today show. America,…
MCCA: Coming Home
Metropolitan Community Church of Austin (MCCA) doesn’t conceive of itself so much as the “gay church,” as the inclusive church. And indeed, no one versed in any Christian tradition should feel slighted at an MCCA service. God is referenced variously by male and female pronouns or even “Heavenly Parent.” The Gospel is read once in…
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The word “bookkeeper” has three sets of double letters. Smoking was first linked to lung cancer in 1950 by the late Morton L. Levin. In his 1938-1950 study, he found that lung cancer occurred twice as frequently among smokers as non-smokers. “June Bugging” is allegedly a practice among some Houston gay men; it it involves…
Naked City
Edited by Audrey Duff, with contributions this week by Roseana Auten, Andrea Barnett, and Alex de Marban. BASEBALL BIAS?: The Austin American-Statesman did a service when it uncovered the fact that Priorities First!, the group fighting the proposed baseball stadium, was primarily funded by businessmen interested in building their own stadium. However, the Statesman has…
Hearth & Soul
by Suzy Banks Hindsight Speculation Dear Suzy, I’m a photographer looking for a unique space to rent/buy(?). I have noticed several vacant – often boarded up – spaces for rent. How do I find out who owns them and how I should approach the owners? One location I’d be interested in is the former Nighthawk…
Resources for Gays, Lesbians, Their Families, and Friends
* Affirmation: 451-2329. Methodist group. On October 1, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church voted to welcome all people, “regardless of age, gender, race, family structure, sexual orientation, or economic class.” Other Methodist churches, like Trinity UMC, have taken a more definitive role in proclaiming themselves “reconciling churches” for their homosexual parishioners. * Dignity: 918-1707. Gay…
7 and 7 is
How lo can you go? No one limbos lo-fier than the Memphis Goons, four geeks from guess where?, whose love of Beefheart in the Seventies led to much 4-track jerking in the privacy of their living room. Two decades later Craig Koon is the first living mortal to like the tangle on tape, and voila,…
Church of Choice
When there are institutions such as the Metropolitan Community Church (MCC), founded by and dedicated to the spiritual nurturing of gays and lesbians, why would you go anywhere else? For the same reason anybody would pick one church over another – the desire for a place where the fellow-ship, interpretation of Scripture, and liturgy just…
Film Reviews
TO DIE FORD: Gus Van Sant; with Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix, Casey Affleck, Illeana Douglas, Alison Folland, Dan Hedaya, Kurtwood Smith, Wayne Knight, Maria Tucci, Holland Taylor. With great wit, humor, and style, this movie serves all America its just desserts and, while the concoction and its ingredients may not kill us, it…
Bonus Tracks
PLOWMAN Sweet (Pinche Gringo) Since the alternative explosion of the early Nineties few things have been worse off than good old hard rock. Remember when you didn’t need three suitcases worth of emotional baggage to make rock music, when all you had to do was plug in, turn up, and wail? Plowman does, and Sweet…
Film: Showtimes
Film listings are updated Friday mornings. Showtimes listed below start Friday, October 6 and cover the week ending Thursday, October 12. *An asterisk (*) before a title means that no passes or special admission discounts (apart from matinee discounts) will be accepted for any screening. *Parentheses indicate weekend showtimes for Saturdays and Sundays only, unless…
Dancing About Architecture
by Ken Lieck With all the club closings last weekend, you’d hardly think it was possible that another well-respected longtime Austin music venue would be closing its doors soon, now did you? Well, singer-songwriter haven Chicago House will be doing just that in about a month. Owner Peg Miller cites the regular closing of Sixth…
Lotto Land’s Winning Ticket
by Jennifer Scoville Some actors audition for years before landing a film role, while others break into movies without so much as a screen test. For Wendell Holmes, one of the stars of the independent film Lotto Land, a 30-year career with a New York-based blues band, the Holmes Brothers, was all the experience he…
Pop Rocks
by Margaret Moser Michelle Rule is standing in her kitchen, one hand on the stove and the other wrapped around a microphone. Her bare feet spring off the black- and-white checked linoleum floor in time to “Where Are My Shoes?” as the boys in Miss Universe spray punky chords that bounce off the walls of…
