Worlds of Flavor

As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the 2000 Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival, Mick Vann writes. My pulse quickened and I salivated uncontrollably every time the possibility of attending crossed my mind. I would love to go, but my financial picture was in its usual bleak and blurry mode. Then came the call from my editor. I had gotten a surprise, last-minute press pass.

"...As a food writer with a special passion for the foods of Southeast Asia, I was excited about the..."

March 23, 2001 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Lost at Sea and Back Again

Bill Broyles' Extraordinary Adventure Story

"...for FedEx, Noland's job is, in fact, to control the path of the items shipped all over the globe..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Letters at 3AM

Let's Get Drunk and Read Poetry

"...It falls to me to write this on the night of Gore's concession speech ("Our disappointment must be..."

Dec. 22, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

A Man and a Half

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

"...call from Jerry Wexler: Gerald Wexler, born 1917 in the Bronx to a Jewish Orthodox Polish immigrant turned window..."

Dec. 1, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Letters at 3AM

Michael Ventura reflects on the gateway of Time.

"...There's a metaphor that's been obsessing me lately. "Just a..."

Oct. 27, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...is Preston Hubbard. From 1984-94, I played bass for the platinum-selling, multi-Grammy award-nominated Fabulous Thunderbirds. Besides recording five albums..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

Poetry in Emotion

Katherine Catmull never intended to pursue a career in acting. In fact, she seriously avoided it for as long as she could, choosing instead to earn her degree in English literature. Why is revealed in this profile of one of Austin's most sophisticated and literate performers.

"...as if she could not recognize her face, and there were her hands, desperately trying, again and again, to..."

Oct. 6, 2000 Arts Feature by Robi Polgar

On the Bus

In the process of writing her new play con flama, Austin poet / writer Sharon Bridgforth discovered that the piece was not complete without her own voice in it. In the process of observing con flama's development, writer Belinda Acosta discovered something about her own voice, too.

"...Bridgforth thought she was writing a play about riding the bus. The celebrated Austin poet/playwright initially approached con flama,..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Songs of Innocence and Experience

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

"...The bathroom in the Steamy Bowl is a place that..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Hess

Animation Station

Through ADVision, Austin has become a hotspot for producing English-dubbed anime. Who knew?

"..."In the dying days of the Tukoobuwa Sho -- "..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Screens Feature by Sarah Hepola

Total Entertainment Package

Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings

"...every time he saw an empty cocktail glass at the pre-release celebration for Vallejo's Sony debut, Into the New...."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Coming Soon

The Most Memorable Sex Scenes in Film

"...Two Moon Junction "I end up in a liplock with every..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser

Hot Sweltering Summer Sex Vignettes

Author and semi-regular Chronicle contributor Spike Gillespie (All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy) has been working on a new novel called thebelljar.net, about the high-tech nightmare that Austin has become. In it, our heroine, Alice, takes on a job as "the world's oldest high tech intern" to escape her former career in food service. At her new company, The Universe, she is in charge of making coffee and copies and building an in-house Web site to act as a style guide for her higher-ups. Her self-appointed position is to keep high the morale of one of the programmers (aka moles) whom she decides is fuckable (she's naive).

"...thebelljar.net/scene1..."

Aug. 11, 2000 Features Feature by Spike Gillespie

Welcome to Texasland

Bob Bullock's final monument to himself, the Texas State History Museum, won't have many historical documents, but it promises to be entertaining.

"...you had nothing to put in it? That is the challenge facing the folks who are planning to open..."

June 23, 2000 News Feature by Bill Crawford

Out Front

Profile of newly minted solo artist Gurf Morlix

"...would prefer not to be a household name," says the nondescript, gray-bearded, shades-wearing musician hidden away in the back..."

April 14, 2000 Music Feature by Lee Nichols

Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans Les Ballet de Trockadero de Monte Carlo

Using their intimate knowledge of dance and knack for slapstick physicality, the men of the Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo lampooned the dance world from Swan Lake to Balanchine, and won the laughing adoration of a packed Paramount Theatre, including reviewer Dawn Davis.

"...Les Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo:Ballet on the Moon ... But With Attack Swans..."

March 24, 2000 Arts Review by Dawn Davis

Velvet Underdog

Sterling Morrison: An Oral History With Interviews

"...On the night of May 17, 1979, Sterling Morrison and John..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO AUSTIN: A faith-filled congregation of some..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

The Examined Life

Prior to a retrospective of his documentaries at SXSWFilm, D.A. Pennebaker reflects on a career spent as a fly on the wall.

"...There are precious few living filmmakers today as influential as..."

March 10, 2000 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Game Reviews

"...instructor in this first-person horseback riding simulator game, reportedly the first of its kind. The goal is to ride..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Screens Feature by Erica C. Barnett

No Ordinary Folk

Producer Fred Miller remembers the making of this antiwar documentary, which focuses on the music of folk legends Peter, Paul & Mary.

"...was shot or if mellifluous, acoustic harmonies like "Puff, the Magic Dragon" have context only on your "oldies" station,..."

Dec. 3, 1999 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

TV Eye

Good TV shows don't go to heaven, they go to Barnes & Noble; also, Larry David's HBO special is worth the price of cable.

"...it's time to confess. I just didn't feel like watching television this week. Oh, I tuned in to a..."

Oct. 22, 1999 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Don't Cry for Rainey

"...one. I grew up in a traditional neighborhood. My grandfather's barber shop was downstairs, right under my bedroom. I..."

July 23, 1999 Column

Off The Bookshelf

"...its seven-year-old protagonist, Scotty Ocean, and as complex as the boisterous Sixties in which Scotty grows -- if not..."

May 28, 1999 Books Review

Scanlines

Dazed and Confused

"...Affleck, Parker Posey, Anthony Rapp, Wiley Wiggins, Rory Cochrane, Matthew McConaughey. Can't Hardly Wait..."

May 28, 1999 Screens Feature

Smoke Gets in Your Mouth

Taylor

"...Second, Taylor, 512/352-6206 Mon-Thu, 9am-8pm; Fri, 9am-5pm; Sat, 9am-'til they run outta food...."

May 21, 1999 Food Feature

To Make a Long Story Short

"...is essentially his online résumé -- a page from the All-Music Guide database (http://www.allmusic.com), which sorts information from over..."

April 2, 1999 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Further Reflections

"...Elizabeth Hurley at the EDtv premiere at the Paramount Theatre. photograph by John..."

March 26, 1999 Screens Feature

Get It While You Can

"...to stardom so hard? Why would she have grabbed the golden ring but still insisted on going another round..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

1999 SXSW Music Festival

"...DAMNATIONS TX: With Half Mad Moon (Sire), the Damnations TX are poised to take over..."

March 19, 1999 Music Feature

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