Frogging Around
When and if you find frog legs in Austin restaurants, they’re likely to be eateries with a Cajun influence. Mandeville, Louisiana native chef Craig Sullivan grew up gigging frogs in the bayous of southwestern Louisiana and then frying up a mess of them at home. These days Sullivan is chef at the new Bertram’s restaurant…
Council Watch
Last week, Councilmember Jackie Goodman did something she’s never done before – voted in opposition to a valid neighborhood petition. Goodman joined the other six councilmembers in a unanimous vote to turn two residential lots along Marathon Blvd. into commercial-zoned parking lots for the Central Texas Regional Blood and Tissue Center. The lots are within…
Post Scripts
* THU, SEPT 14: BookPeople presents a special reading of Atoms, Bombs and Eskimo Kisses: A Memoir of Father and Son. Neither biography nor autobiography, it is the story of Emilio and Claudio Segr�, who worked on the Los Alamos project. Claudio’s wife and son will read from the book, 7pm… Award-winning poet Li-Young Lee…
Environs Agreeing on Air
by Robert Bryce It’s hard to find issues on which environmentalists and the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce can agree. But when it comes to air quality, development interests and environmentalists both say Austin needs to improve its air quality. Why? Austin’s air quality is deteriorating. (For details on the city’s recently released study on…
Scanlines
PAPER MOON D: Peter Bogdanovich; with Tatum O’Neal, Ryan O’Neal, Madeline Kahn Paramount Home Video/laserdisc It’s difficult now to imagine that when Paper Moon was released in 1973, Peter Bogdanovich was one of Hollywood’s most promising directors. His first film, Targets with Boris Karloff (based loosely on Charles Whitman’s horrific shooting spree) had become a…
Film
CLOCKERSD: Spike Lee; Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David, Pee Wee Love, Regina Taylor. From the novel by Richard Price (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Spike Lee) comes Lee’s first real look at urban drug dealing and the effects it has on life in the ‘hood. Clockers is…
About AIDS
HIV/AIDS Resource Center The information on HIV medications is constantly changing. More people of color and lower incomes are becoming infected with the virus. Research does not stay constant and the need for knowledge for the infected individual is great. We live in a time when individuals choose to manage their own disease. AIDS Services…
Film: Showtimes
Showtimes listed below start Friday, September 15 and cover the week ending Thursday, Septemer 21. *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 otherwise noted. *Changes may sometimes occur,…
Coach’s Corner
by Andy “Coach” Cotton “Jesus Christ, Dad,” says the daughter, scrunching a cherub- like face into its most revolted scowl – the little urchin is only 12 – “You look like Forrest Gump.” Two hours before, I was restlessly pacing back and forth past the Wooten Barber Shop, a UT landmark specializing in the freshman…
Naked City
Edited by Audrey Duff, with contributions this week by Louisa C. Brinsmade, Robert Bryce, and Nelson England. BADDA, BADDA, BADDA… SCHWING!: There are two outs and the bases are loaded as far as the baseball stadium battle is concerned. Baseball interests take their final turn at bat on October 7 when Austin residents vote on…
Artview: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
Las Bicicletas The Bicyclists Courtesy of Jean Charlot collection, University of Hawaii Library / Mexic-Arte Museum Story: Posada / Images: [ Bicicletas | Calaveras | Capital | Rurales | Temblor ]
Daytrips
Kenneth Laird’s Bar-B-Q Pit in Llano has moved indoors. This may not sound like exciting news to most people, but barbecue lovers who remember Laird’s backyard barbecue stand as a hit-or-miss proposition will delight in the knowledge that the delicious smoked meats are now available five days a week. The backyard barbecue business started on…
A Few Questions for a Newcomer
by Daryl Slusher In late August, the Austin American-Statesman’s new editor Richard Oppel used his column to pose “A few questions from a newcomer.” In something of an odd style of construction, Oppel then proceeded to answer the questions himself, or at least to elaborate on the thinking that led to his asking. In those…
Artview: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
Calaveras (Zalameras) de las conquets meseras Skeletons of the flirtatious waitress Courtesy of Jean Charlot collection, University of Hawaii Library / Mexic-Arte Museum Story: Posada / Images: [ Bicicletas | Calaveras | Capital | Rurales | Temblor ]
Mister Smarty Pants Knows
Some of Elvis Presley’s jumpsuits weighed over 30 pounds. In parts of South America, the word “cafe” is used to denote places that are “men only.” On the other hand, a “cafeteria” is a place where both men and women are welcome. Trapping color is achieved by using chokes and spreads. According to TV Nation’s…
Artview: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
Calaveras en monton al precio de un decimal como nunca se habra viste en todo esta capital Skeletons in piles at a fractional price as never seen before in all of the Capital Courtesy Mexic-Arte Museum Story: Posada / Images: [ Bicicletas | Calaveras | Capital | Rurales | Temblor ]
Hearth and Soul
Unswayed by Feng Shui I went without beer for several days. I drank water. I even gagged down some Ginseng tea. All this to prepare to read The Elements of Feng Shui by Man-Ho Kwok with Joanne O’Brien. It’s a shame I gave up the beer; the ancient Chinese concept of geomancy, or the “ability…
Skeletons Out of the Closet
by Rebecca Levy Sample images from the exhibit are available at the end of this article. A hundred years ago, Jos� Guadalupe Posada routinely made the rounds of printing shops in Mexico City, asking if anyone needed any illustrations. In his pocket, he carried an engraving block and burin, and he would produce the required…
7 and 7 is
Singles are the jawbones of rock & roll: Indicative of the band, but only partially – and they make fine fossils for later discovery. Looking most like artifacts are a couple of Inhalants 45s that could preserve the Austin band for posterity if news of their demise is true. A rough-hewn Unclean 7-inch, knocks out…
Artview: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
Mexico para los Mexicanos los Rurales Mexico for the Mexicans the Rurales Courtesy of Jean Charlot collection, University of Hawaii Library / Mexic-Arte Museum Story: Posada / Images: [ Bicicletas | Calaveras | Capital | Rurales | Temblor ]
Bonus Tracks
TALLBOY It’s no coincidence that Tim Kerr produced this five-song cassette – sounds like Poison 13. Only better. Whereas Kerr’s seminal Austin band chose to subvert the blues through punk, Tallboy’s doing the blues through a hardcore haze. Maybe that’s cutting it fine, but the fat, burp-gun guitar, pumping out fast and furious red-hot, meaty…
Artview: Jos� Guadalupe Posada
Courtesy Mexic-Arte Museum Story: Posada / Images: [ Bicicletas | Calaveras | Capital | Rurales | Temblor ]
Dancing About Architecture
A couple of months ago when a locally notorious skinhead leader got released from prison, a buzz started going around that trouble might soon be afoot, but then I was informed that said skinhead had relocated to San Antonio and indeed things remained quiet. One notable exception came September 1 at the Back Room, when…
Brouhaha Below the Border No Simple Answers
by Abel Salas by Paco Ignacio Taibo II Picador USA, $13 paper Drinking gin by the case, an emaciated Stan Laurel watches from the window of a Juarez hotel as the legendary Pancho Villa is brutally gunned down in his automobile. Still an English vaudevillian trapped in a less-than-lucrative North American comedy circuit, Laurel has…
Updating the Big Eight
by Andy Langer Last March, in order to impress the influx of SXSW visi-tors with tales of our town’s burgeoning music biz infrastructure, the Chronicle profiled eight local labels we called the scene’s “torch bearers.” Luckily, not only are all eight labels still in business but they all also say they’re planning to finish 1995…
Club Cafe
by Marla Akin I first saw the Club Cafe signs on road trips out west with my family in the Sixties. The highways were lined with billboards in those days, and my brother and I repeated like a rosary the advertised wonders that my father sped by at 75 miles an hour. Eat and sleep…
This Could Be the Last Time
by Tim Stegall “I hear all these people saying the Ramones are breaking up,” snorts Ben Weasel, the notoriously outspoken Chicago punk musician (cur- rently one-third of the extremely Ramones-ish Riverdales and formerly one-quarter of Screeching Weasel) and Maximum Rock `N’ Roll columnist renowned for his Ramones fixation. “I say, `Bullshit!’ The Ramones aren’t breaking…
Story of an American Music
by Alex Avila At first, Hector Gal�n couldn’t get anyone to hear the music in Tejano. When the filmmaker tried to secure funding for a film about Tejano music, he met with resistance from mainstream funding sources. Although the award-winning documentarian has had success with such films as Los Mineros, The Hunt for Pancho Villa,…
Texas Piano Professors
Doris Miller Auditorium, Sunday 17 The shows are coming fast and furious as students settle back into a new semester and the night life. In one Austin weekend, you’ve got Pearl Jam, The Ramones, R.E.M., Peter Case, Ronnie Dawson, Storyville, Medicine, Los Pinkys, Toni Price and Sue Foley, Seaweed, El Vez, The Derailers, Wayne Hancock,…
food-o-file
PICK A PEPPER Craftsman Farm Hwy290 W in Dripping Springs, 858-1090 If the multitude of incendiary comestibles at the recent Hot Sauce Challenge inspired you to become a salsa chef, here is one more local source for fresh chile peppers. Steve and Marianne Sprinkle of Creek Road in Dripping Springs will pick you a peck…
Maintaining the World’s Most Expensive Record Collections
by Tim Stegall From the moment Sam Phillips determined that what his bank account could stand would be the discovery of a Caucasian capable of the musical fire of an Afri- can-American, the small, independent record company has been the backbone of rock & roll. Sure, majors had more resources and could more efficiently disseminate…
Exploring the Edible Frog Back in the Saddle
by Bill Crawford Awhile back, I was munch- ing out at a lawyer-filled barbecue when I chomped into a batter-fried item that caught my taste buds by surprise. The bones were thin and long, kind of like a chicken wing stretched out. The meat was soft and delicate, a cross between catfish and pork. I…
AISD Notebook
by Roseana Auten Believing that to make a statement one way or the other on a proposed baseball stadium in East Austin would imply some sort of agreement between them and the Phoenix Firebirds/City of Austin, the AISD Board of Trustees declined on Monday to endorse the October 7 bond issue to help finance the…
