Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 19, Number 18
features
Party of One
Welcome to the Chronicle's guide to a New Year's home alone, loser.
BY KATE X MESSER
news
Getting School to Work
Aided by an infusion of new tax dollars from high-tech and other industries, Del Valle ISD finds success by investing heavily in school-to-career programs.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
New World Disorder
The World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle collapsed under its own weight.
BY MONTE PAULSEN
Naked City
More sponsors are added to A2K New Year's Eve party, Austin Energy Green Choice program is about to be announced.
BY AMY SMITH
food
Cookbook Reviews
Eating Between the Lines
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood surveys her favorite food publications.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Fast Food Tour
Take a Fast Food Tour with Greg Beets in this week's installment.
music
The Year It All Went Wrong
Looking back at club closings in Austin in 1999.
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Dancing About Architecture
All the good and happy things that happened in Austin music, 1999.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Beck
Midnite Vultures
Bob Marley
Chant Down Babylon
Alpha YaYa Diallo
The Message
John Lewis
Evolution
Ellis Marsalis, The Other Side of Duke Ellington, Arkadia Jazz All-Stars, Don Sebesky, Daniel Barenboim & Guests, Tony Bennett, The Symphonic Ellington, Marcus Roberts
Duke In Blue, Duke's Motivation, Thank You, Duke, Joyful Noise, Tribute to Ellington, Sings Ellington Hot & Cool, Night Creature, In Honor of Duke
Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jack Kerouac Reads "On the Road", A Coney Island of the Mind
Guy Clark
Cold Dog Soup
Sally Timms
Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos
Fiona Apple
When the Pawn...
Wheat
Hope and Adams
Talking Heads
Stop Making Sense
Eleni Karaindrou
Eternity and a Day
screens
Wild, Wild Webcasts
Why party in line when you can party online?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Hankering for millennium specials? Got 27 hours to kill? Find out what's in store this holiday season on the boob tube.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Galaxy Quest
A parody of Gene Roddenberry's TV world and its rabid fans.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen's third novel is infused with liberal doses of modern attitudes and autobiographical tidbits from the author's life.
arts & culture
El Quemado
For more than 40 years, José Francisco Treviño has been exploring the world of art. Now, in the largest retrospective it has ever presented, Mexic-Arte Museum shows us Treviño's discoveries, and Mary Jane Garza explains how they came to be.
BY MARY JANE GARZA
Articulations
Candidates in the running for artistic director of Ballet Austin.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Flaming Idiots: Agog and A-Giggle
Robert Faires gets a kick from the Flaming Idiots at the Zachary Scott Theatre Center.
Senioritis: Devilish High School Chemistry
Robi Polgar examines the Vortex production of Rob Nash's Senioritis
columns
Page Two
The oddest part of the next week or so is not how much will happen but how very little really will.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
Public Notice ponders the end of the world as we know it, and feels damn fine. Happy New Year!
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Lo-carb diets are all the rage right now. Funny thing, they've been around a long time...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
How do YOU spell Shakespeare?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The back roads of northeastern Travis County snake around enough to make a Sunday drive seem like a journey.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
A best-of-the-century roundup
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Perhaps no journey has been more momentous over the last two decades than the one experienced by those infected with and those affected by HIV/AIDS.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
