Central Library
Volume 19, Number 25
features
The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story
Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores
BY JORDAN SMITH
news
House Hunting
Underdog Stella Roland challenges incumbent Dawnna Dukes to represent East Austin in the Texas House of Representatives.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
Mighty Real
Photo Essay: Austin's Underground Drag Scene
BY JANA BIRCHUM
Two Roads to Justice
Republican Shane Phelps takes another stab at Democrat Ronnie Earle's job for district attorney.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Danny Thomas gets the Austin Police Association PAC endorsement; city signs contract with CSC; Bill Gates appears via satellite at the Austin Convention Center; election workers needed for the March 14 primary
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Details of the Bradley Settlement are finally made public and opened up to debate; Bill Spelman announces that he will not run for re-election to Place 5.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Media Clips
Microradio wins FCC approval, but advocates of the low-wattage stations say the rules for winning a license will prohibit most stations and silence the microradio community's radical voice.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Beyond the Norm
The Impressive Euro-Asian Fare at Bistro 88
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood reveals who came to dinner on February 5, what they ate, and where their money went, and updates readers on changes in Austin's culinary world.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: American Cafes
Greg Beets profiles Austin's American cafes .
The Coffeehouse Chronicles
Mojo's Daily Grind
BY PABLEAUX JOHNSON
Food Reviews
music
Wide Open Heart
Local accordionist Bradley Jaye Williams brings together fish and fowl in his assimulation of Texas polka and conjunto music.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Sugarland Express
Laying down the law on Mayberry's favorite twang-rockers
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
Our resident Marshmallow Peep relates the news and hearsay in and around the Live Music Capital...
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
D'Angelo
Voodoo
Sekou Sundiata
Longstoryshort
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work (Rhino WordBeat)
Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like the Rivers: Black Poets Read Their Work
Dr. John
Duke Elegant
McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster
McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster
Caravana Cubana
Late Night Sessions
Enigma
The Screen Behind the Mirror
Clinton
Disco & the Halfway to Discontent
Lambchop
Nixon
Michael Penn
MP4
Aimee Mann
Songs From Magnolia
Sara Hickman
Spiritual Appliances
Le Tigre
Le Tigre
Don Walser
The Texas Plainsmen With Yodeling Donnie Walser
screens
Miracle Man
When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Hoping to cash in on the Who Wants To Be a Millionaire craze, networks are developing game shows with increasingly ridiculous premises.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Making History Personal
History is more than a bound collection of facts; it is something personal, something intimate, something that, even in contradiction, demands to be shared. Robi Polgar gleans that immediate sense of history from two plays currently running in Austin theatres: E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan -- One Voice and The America Play.
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
Changes in artistic direction for two local companies.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Dark Goddess: Remembrance of Deities Past
Skipper Chong Warson reviews the VORTEX Repertory Company's ritual theatre piece Dark Goddess.
An Evening With Stephen Mills: Versatility and Anxious Warmth
Ada Calhoun critiques Ballet Austin's An Evening With Stephen Mills
All in The Timing: Word Up!
Ada Calhoun critiques the Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre's production of All in the Timing
columns
Page Two
Welcome to SXSW season.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.
Public Notice
This week, your pals at Public Notice hit the drag shows, the lanes, the halls, and the alleys, all while making room for next week's chocolate binge : all for a good cause, o'course.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Death is not a separation, but a living presence.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Local roboticist Brooks Coleman walks the line between art and fashion with his line of sheet metal lingere.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Lung disease, french fries, and sticks of fire.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
It's Valentine's Day, and Mavericks fans are in love with Dennis Rodman. But it'll pass.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
Take your chum to the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
AIDS is not just a big city disease.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
