Central Library
Volume 19, Number 2
features
Bad Dog
When we see a dog running free, why are we frightened? Longtime Austinite Paula James meditates on the effect that fear of the natural world has had on us.
BY PAULA JAMES
news
Making Waves
The growing number of cellular towers in Austin has prompted changes to the ordinance regulating the towers.
BY MIKE JASPER
Corner to Corner
There's more development slated for the already-crowded RM 2222 and Loop 360 interchange.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Austin Energy budget comes under fire as the utility prepares for competition; the Texas Our Texas Heritage Program has big plans for state parkland and conservation; and a new state audit highlights problems with the Texas Workforce Commission's oversight of local welfare and workforce boards.
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
East Austin residents have a say in neighborhood planning; local advocates ask for more money in city budget to fund their special interest; Bill Spelman issues some strong words against the Statesman's criticism of council on the LCRA water deal.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
The Fine Art of Dining
The work of local artisans enhances restaurant decor.
Food-o-File
Tracking recent restaurant openings and closings; plus upcoming events in Austin that cater to chileheads.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Southern Comfort
Bite-sized reviews of local comfort food restaurants.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Good Eats Cafe
Threadgill's
Soul Kitchen
Cafe 290
Barbara Ellen's
Big Earl's
Laura's Bluebonnet Kitchen
Hoover's
Sallie's
Southern Comfort
music
The Sound and the Fury
Local theatre Alamo Drafthouse teams silent films with live musical scores by favorite Austin acts.
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Scavengers of the Vast Wasteland
Whether they're riffing on punk, metal, funk, jazz, film scores, or even klezmer music, Brown Whörnet attacks each passage with a vociferous intensity that seldom fails to keep an audience at attention.
BY GREG BEETS
Dancing About Architecture
Austin Jazz & Arts Festival doesn't need saving after all; the strange sounds coming from Austin's backyards; barbecue to replace Austin Blues; Honky attacked by lesbians in Chicago!; and more news from the Live Music Capital of the World.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Dave Douglas
Songs For Wandering Souls
The Bottle Rockets
Brand New Year
Johnny Dowd
Pictures From Life's Other Side
Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley
I Feel Like Singing Today
Randy Newman
Bad Love
BIS
Social Dancing
L7
Slap-Happy
Quasi
Field Studies
Brokeback
Field Recordings From the Cook County Water Table
Basement Jaxx
Remedy
Mobb Deep
Mobb Muzik
Ali Farka Toure, Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabate
Niafunke, Kulanjan
Estrellas de Areito
Los Heroes
Loreena McKennitt
Live in Paris and Toronto
screens
Autumn Tales
The fall 1999 film season looks to be busier and noiser than ever.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN, SARAH HEPOLA, MARC SAVLOV AND MARCEL MEYER
1999 Texas Filmmakers' Production Fund Grants
Thirty-two recipients of filmmaking grants from the Austin Film Society, totaling $50,000 and ranging from $1,000-5,000.
Short Cuts
Local screenwriter Aubrey Horton offers a comedy screenwriting workshop; aGLIFF screenplay competition winners announced (and more screenplay madness); Kevin Costner to be in attendance at the premiere of For the Love of the Game, the Alamo's Cannibal Film Series; and more news from the Austin film scene.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
O St. Clare, help us in this time of Emmy nominations.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
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.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Articulations
The Austin Museum of Art has a new chief curator.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Junior Blues: A Bullet Train Through Adolescence
In this week's section of Austin Chronicle Arts reviews, Robert Faires gets hooked on Rob Nash's Junior Blues and Robi Polgar goes under the Big Top for Suzan-Lori Parks' Venus.
columns
Page Two
The LCRA water deal with the city of Austin is suspicious.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Solid Gold 40 is shocked and dismayed; non-fans of Carole Keeton Rylander add their two cents; a tear for Tony's Vineyard; and more letters to the editor.
Public Notice
It's International Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Awareness Day and Discover Commute Solutions Month!
BY KATE X MESSER
Coach's Corner
Pre-season NFL predictions to assist you in your betting pools.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Mr. Smarty Pants
Rattlesnake bites will get you in The Zone; plus tidbits on Sacajawea, George Washington, ants, and more.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Fur is back, just like it's always been.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Georgetown's Palace Theatre Guild's You Can't Do That, Dan Moody! is staged in the actual courtroom in which the play's events first took place.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
The group AIDS Action exposes AIDS drugs profiteering.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
