Naked City

Bartenders who worked at private tents during A2K say they were bilked out of thousands of dollars by the tents' promoter, who is nowhere to be found.

"...While the rest of the city was busy nursing Y2K hangovers..."

Jan. 14, 2000 News Feature by Erica C. Barnett

Dancing About Architecture

TV crews come to cover Austin's music scene as more musicians split for more lucrative climes; the Flatlanders keep it intimate, and more stuff happens, too.

"...Asleep at the Wheel will be spending most of their waking..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Even It Up

Odd guy Charles Harp advocates for even number and ponders the inherent beauty of rounding.

"...There's a pleasing psychology to curves and circles and zeros...."

Jan. 14, 2000 Features Feature by Charles Harp

The Death of Rock & Roll

Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity

"...Like this country's forefathers, it came from England. Though it didn't originate there,..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Top 10 Y2K Top 10 Lists

Our favorite things about the change of the millennium

"...Things To Do With All That Leftover “Year 2000” Crap 1. Create a time capsule;..."

Jan. 7, 2000 Features Feature by Anna Hanks

Breaking the Biker Code

Austin musician and Glass Eye expatriate Kathy McCarty sends greetings from the Sturgis, South Dakota, Black Hills Motor Classic & Rally, learns how to be a biker chick, and wishes we were there.

"...Wyoming is a wild and very sparsely populated place. Little dusty towns, hundreds of miles apart from..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty

Dancing About Architecture

Clifford Antone gets one more reprieve?, More music at the airport, and more

"...Is he or isn't he? That's been the question on everyone's lips these past couple..."

Dec. 10, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Standout Sister Act

Gentle Heat and Soothing Sweet at Mirabelle

"...Mon-Fri, 11am-2pm; Mon-Thu, 5:30-9:30pm; Fri-Sat, 5:30-10pm; Sun,10:30am-2pm..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

Dancing About Architecture

Bands seek out SXSW, SXSW searches for places to put them; the late (Liberty) Lunch gets later; plus all the news that gives us fits...

"...Where's the Beef?..."

Nov. 19, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Dancing About Architecture

Life and death on the live music club scene; Dale Watson escapes, Huey Meaux doesn't; and more tantalizing tidbits of Terpsichore...

"...Atomic Ache..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Everywhere Is War

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

"...Every revolution begins with a shot. The crack of a pistol, retort from a rifle. A..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

First, the good news ...

"...McConaughey, Defender of Justice..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Column

King Ranch

Bring your appetite and a healthy Western palate to Ranch 616.

"...Mon-Sat, 11am-3pm; Mon-Wed, 5-10:30pm; Thu-Sat, 5-11pm..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Food Feature by Virginia B. Wood

Hectic but Good

Profile of country / bluegrass singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale

"...as if Jim Lauderdale is a hitchhiker, standing on the shoulder of the musical highway, one thumb in the..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Dancing About Architecture

Is the new Sir Douglas Quintet collection is from the original masters? Doug Sahm makes the final call. Also, Michael Nesmith, Junior and Tanya Rae Brown, and Clifford Antone updates.

"...Ed Burleson is coming to the Broken Spoke this Friday to promote his new My..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

The Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

A look back at the Mother of All Texas Honky-Tonks

"...Urban Cowboy, Scott Glenn is explaining to Debra Winger the intricacies of worm swallowing. "Mess-kins say eatin' the worm'll..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

Don't Ash, Don't Tell

The city’s smoking ordinance is rather lax in bars and restaurants, but hardly anyone’s complaining

"...A cartoon posted on the door of Vic Zuliani's office underscores the restaurateur's intense..."

Oct. 8, 1999 News Feature by Mike Jasper

Postmarks

The dog-running controversy continues … and chalk another one up for Ventura.

"...It's interesting how when a minority neighborhood works together to "sweep out" a criminal nuisance, nobody gets up..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Column

Dancing About Architecture

The dulcet tones of the karaoke fill the former Electric Lounge, but that's not the fate of the building.

"...Everything seemed to sort of run together this week (plus my usual editor was..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Public Notice

Local events to benefit good causes.

"...It's such a natural combination. Young minds, not quite totally corrupted by the..."

Sept. 17, 1999 Column by Kate X Messer

Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade

In his book Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus explained punk to the world and created a bible for that music's true believers. As Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals opens its stage adaptation of Marcus' book, the author talks about the Stones, the Sex Pistols, and the "mad parade" of history.

"...have. He was finishing up his new column for the online magazine Salon and is planning a visit to..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Arts Feature by Margaret Moser

September Previews

"...Rose Troche, the director of Go Fish, at last returns with her..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Screens Feature

State of the Slam

The 1999 Austin Poetry Slam Team barely missed making the finals of the recent National Poetry Slam in Chicago, but after the trials and tribulations of the past few months (which continue into the present), the team was just happy to be there.

"...Nine-tenths of a point. That's how much the 1999 Austin Poetry..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Books Feature by Christopher Gray

Short Cuts

News from the Austin film world.

"...Those of you who sit through the credits at the end..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

Day Trips

"...The sights of central Arkansas are uniquely beautiful. photograph by..."

July 30, 1999 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

Dancing About Architecture

G-L-O-R-I-Aftermath

"...The much-touted "Gloriathon" at Liberty Lunch, wherein Van Morrison's classic..."

July 30, 1999 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Live at Liberty Lunch

The Neville Brothers

"...It was a hot Sunday afternoon late in the summer of 1978. Having arrived in town..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature

This Old House

"...One of the main tenets of the interviewing process is that..."

July 23, 1999 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Record Reviews

Barbarito Torres

"...Havana Cafe (Havana Caliente/Atlantic) PEDRO LUIS FERRER..."

July 9, 1999 Music Review

Oh, Oh, Those Summer Bites

Camp Food

"...With the onset of summer, I feel oddly displaced. Disorienting heat..."

July 9, 1999 Food Feature

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