Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 19, Number 19
features
Top 10 Y2K Top 10 Lists
Our favorite things about the change of the millennium
BY ANNA HANKS
news
As Big as Texas
The year and the decade in review
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Important Council actions in 1999 and what's on the agenda for 2000.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Media Clips
The top 10 media events of 1999.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Edibles in Isolation
Chronicle food writers list their desert island must-haves.
Feasts That Define the Millennium
Food, the Original Commodity
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood looks ahead to the looming local culinary possibilities in 2000.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Death of Rock & Roll
Top 10s: Year, Decade, Eternity
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
New Year's New Clubs, New Arrangements for the Austin Music Network and, well, News.
BY KEN LIECK
screens
The Year of Being John Malkovich
Top 10 Films of the Year, Decade, and Eternity
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
We've Come a Long Way, Baby
The year's best in technology, gaming, and Web sites
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Gangsters, vampires, and conspiracy theories : the best television had to offer in 1999.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Desert Island Films
Louis Black begins his ongoing list of "desert island" videos with his first pick: Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy
Film Reviews
Magnolia
Sprawling, meaning-laden spectacle from the director of Boogie Nights.
arts & culture
FronteraFest 2000
The Chronicle's guide to Austin's biggest performance event.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Positively Operatic
The best of Austin arts' stage productions and artists from 1999 get another round of applause from the AustinChronicle Arts writers in their Top 10 lists for the year, along with an overview of the year in Austin culture, a look back at Austin theatre in the Nineties, and a musical for the millennium.
Articulations
A major change in direction for Teatro Humanidad.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Smart Growth and other millennial hallucinations ...
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Bikes, Beets, and Bastrop.
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
The paradox of possiblities exhibited by the 20th century -- from Auschwitz to Ginger & Fred.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar experiences great service at Central Market South and Christmas love in the form of Joan Crawford.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Mr. Smarty pants knows that he will not die poor and alone.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Nineteen ninety-nine: hot, dry, and touristy.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
In search of the deadly Longhorn virus.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
In the new millennium, death from AIDS should be the exception, not the norm.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Where Were You When ...
Sports lover Lisa Tozzi reflects on 1999, this "underdog" of a year.
