AFS Cinema
Volume 19, Number 20
features
Even It Up
Odd guy Charles Harp advocates for even number and ponders the inherent beauty of rounding.
BY CHARLES HARP
The Millennium Phone Call
When Margaret Thompson answers her phone, she never knows how distraught the person at the other end might be ...
BY MARGARET THOMPSON
news
Bigger, Better, Smarter
San Diego is everything Austin wants to be: livable, transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly, and downtown-centric. But will tools that worked in the nation's largest border and military base town translate to Central Texas?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
New Kid on the Block
Neighborhood Services office aims to help neighborhoods help themselves
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Candidates lining up for city council races; things are heating up in the district 48 race; the austin police association is not happy with the manner in which chief stan knee has picked his assistant chiefs, and the jesus video is being mailed to every texas household.
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Planning Commission and two council members consider measures to reduce commercial noise pollution near residential land; Vista Ridge PUD developer negotiates compromise agreement on its single-family development overlooking Bull Creek.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
food
At Home in the Outpost
R.O.'s Outpost, 17 miles west of Austin in the Hill Country, serves the kind of food, reviewer Mick Vann reports, that "the old folks grew up on, and the kind rarely found these days in our modern, fast-food, a-go-go world."
BY MICK VANN
Cookbook Lovers Are Invited to Shop!
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood gives the lowdown on the Westbank Community Library's upcoming cookbook sale.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Why were Pacifica's employees locked out of the restaurant, much to their surprise? Virginia B. Wood updates readers on that news and other restaurant updates.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Sushi
Wes Marshall covers Austin's sushi scene.
Food Reviews
Jean-Luc's French Bistro
Wes Marshall visits Jean-Luc's French Bistro on a weeknight to check out the food-wine pairings.
Liberty Pie
Liberty Pie doesn't usually meet the 30-minute deadline the pizza delivery boys do (in fact, they don't deliver at all), but that's for the better, Barbara Chisholm explains.
music
A Sound Salvation
Austin's Class of 2000
BY ANDY LANGER
Live Shots
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
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.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
screens
Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control
While the rest of the nation was rallying around the flag, screenwriter and director Sturges was spitting out a series of rapid-fire Hollywood comedies that showed untruth, injustice, inequality, corruption, chicanery, and illicit sex running rampant across this land from sea to shining sea.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Television's millennial celebrations may have been short on crises, but they were long on global partying; also, the latest in midseason changes, including the addition of a quirky new show called Malcolm in the Middle.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Desert Island Films, Part II
Louis Black continues his ongoing list of "desert island" videos with films by Preston Sturges, Quentin Tarantino, and John Ford
Film Reviews
All About My Mother
All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.
Angela's Ashes
Beefcake
Girl, Interrupted
arts & culture
Back to the Garden
The musical Candide has had as tumultuous a life as its wandering hero. Robert Faires catalogs its journey and explains what has kept it alive and why it's always a pleasure to revisit.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Robert Faires talks FronteraFest.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Page Two
Cities can manage their destinies.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Light rail, affordable housing, and reverse racism.
Public Notice
This week, Public Notice explores bike activism, the Y2K fallout, lesbians who lose their shoes, and so much more ...
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
All sixty-eight years and 170 members of the "the world's longest-running Western Swing band" are covered at the LIght Crust Doughboys Hall of Fame and Museum in Mesquite, Texas.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Touching a nerve at Todd Oldham central.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
The jury's still out on the origins of the hockey haircut.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
He may not be smart enough to put up shutters, but Coach offers his NFL divisional playoff picks nonetheless.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Smart choices are the best -- and sometimes the only -- weapon against AIDS.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
