AFS Cinema
Volume 19, Number 37
features
In All Your Future Endeavors
A young writer comes to grips with his lot in life after graduation.
BY KEVIN WOOD
news
Austin At Risk
Tech leaders look for solution to Austin's growth problems
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Covering New Ground
Robin Rather talks about Austin's future, and her own, after stepping down as chair of the Save Our Springs Alliance.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Dell Computer moves to drinking water protection zone, sister neighborhoods program to launch May 20, Bruce Mills becomes Chief of Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Tom Ridge.
BY AMY SMITH
Media Clips
Although he's catching heat in the national media, here in Texas, Bush has been given kid-glove treatment by the media.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
The 2000 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Compendium and Restaurant Guide Index
music
Saturday Night at the Bookstore
The Dicks' Gary Floyd 20 years after Austin's first Punk Prom at the ArmadilloWorld Headquarters
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Musica del Mar
Hanging Ten with Austin trio the Sir Finks
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
A bitch session about the plight of the Austin music scene is scheduled at Threadgill's; here's hoping Negativland's long-anticpated Austin appearance doesn't dissapoint a la SRL.
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Frank Erwin Center, May 2
Los Van Van, La Zona Rosa, May 3
Ron Flynt & the Bluehearts, Continental Club, May 4
Elliott Smith, La Zona Rosa, May 5
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, Fair Grounds Race Course and across New Orleans, Louisiana, May 5 & 6
screens
Sirkus Maximus
Douglas Sirk's Fifties film melodramas expose a world of emotional turbulence lurking beneath the placid surface of the Eisenhower years.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Phil Donahue, James Lipton, Jon Stewart, Katie Couric, Johnny Carson, Tom Snyder, and more: columnist Belinda Acosta reflects on the hosts who made television great.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Center Stage
Students at the American Ballet Academy in New York vie to join the professional corps.
42 Up
Gladiator
These Coliseum slavery capers earned a Best Picture Oscar.
arts & culture
All the Way to State
A high school play contest might not sound like a big deal, but it is to the 18,000 students in 1,200 schools across Texas who participate in the state's UIL one-act play every year -- and here's a look at why.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Austin Theatre Critics' Table 1999-2000 Nominations
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
More money for the Long Center, more art for AMOA, and more national exposure for a Flaming Idiot.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Love Letters: Pen Pills
The characters in A.R. Gurney's epistolary homage to the vanishing American upper class continue their correspondence to discuss a moth-snuffing performance of the play with Stacy Keach and Joan Collins.
Today's Special: I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It ...
Shana Merlin's life may not be as tragic as those of most women who turn their lives into one-woman shows, but the youngest-child adorability and wry observations she displays in Today's Special warrant rapt attention anyway.
columns
Page Two
How do we define Austin?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
Public Notice celebrates mom, bikes, and going postal, among other things this week.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
ABC's short-lived TV show Wonderland failed to depict mental illness and its treatment in a realistic light.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
Times Square, Whiskey, Joan of Arc
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Captain Daytrips visits the Webb Folk Art Gallery and Museum in Waxahachie.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
Coach goes to the Harvey Penick Invitational, an LPGA golf tourney. But he doesn't learn anything.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
"If you're going to go out [or in this case, go in], put your rubbers on!"
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
