AFS Cinema
Volume 19, Number 39
features
It's About Time
The inadvertent theme for this year's Austin Chronicle Summer Fun issue is "refurbish and reuse" as we explore Austin's B&B and boutique scene.
BY KATE X MESSER
Bahn, Bahn, Bahn ...
Apparently, most Austinites don't know that New Braunfels' Schlitterbahn Waterpark has a resort.
BY KATE X MESSER
Austin Parks & Recreation Pool Schedule
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Holiday In Town
The Chronicle visits some local B&Bs and boutique hotels.
news
Center of Gravity
City's influx of new money and new businesses shifts council's political sails
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
No G-Strings Attached
U.S. Supreme Court ruling requires nude dancers to wear pasties and g-strings, but Austin won't be making any changes.
BY JONATHAN DAVID CARROLL
June 3 Runoff Endorsements
Naked City
Travis County GOP Chair Alan Sager is considering organizing a petition drive to recall Kirk Waston and City Council; Jerry Rusthoven is Jackie Gooman's new aide; Linda Dailey is Danny Thomas' aide; Will Wynn has hired Frank Kopic as his executive secretary; Kristen Vassallo leaves Bill Spelman's office to become Kirk Watson's chief of staff; Smithville residents are opposed to zoning change
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Intel secures $15 million in incentives to locate its facility downtown, saying only $2.5 million of that consists of actual "incentives"; the council votes to annex the property owned by the Regents School, whose sports facilities have annoyed neighbors in the nearby Travis Country subdivision.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Media Clips
Southwestern Bell and Time Warner push Jump.Net and other small Internet service providers out of the Austin market with anti-competitive pricing schemes.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Will Travel for Food
Whether it's a weekend getaway to the Alamo City, a fishing excursion to Rockport down on the coast, or a peachy drive through the Hill Country, restaurant-wise, Chronicle food writers have mapped the state to provide ideas for roadside dining this summer.
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood explains what Por Tabla is all about and gives the lowdown on the latest culinary news in Austin.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: National Pizza Chains
Chronicle writer Greg Beets writes about national pizza chains in Austin.
music
A Room With a View
Steve Wertheimer prepares to open a second Continental Club -- in Houston.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Attacked by Lesbians
Just three good ol' boys, never meanin' no harm
BY GREG BEETS
Dancing About Architecture
Another live music venue closes. So much for the Live Music Capital of the World.
Live Shots
Pocket FishRmen: The Final Blowjob, Red Eyed Fly, May 13
Little Richard, Gruene Hall, May 6
Blink-182, Bad Religion, Fenix TX, Frank Erwin Center, May 16
screens
What's the Buzz?
The lowdown on summer movies -- from A to X-Men
Summer Vacations
Five Children's Film Series Offer a Break From the Routine
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Plain Funny
Don't let Martha Kelly's librarian-like appearance fool you. Beneath the nondescript facade is a cold, dark streak of cynical comedic genius that inspires awe and laughter when it strikes.
Cool Jerks
It takes a cool character to weather the hot lights of a comedy club stage, so who better to share tips for beating the summer heat than stand-up comics from Austin, the hot-spot in Texas?
Esther's Follies: Forever Young
Even after 23 years, Austin's favorite musical comedy group, Esther's Follies, is still lively, still spirited, and the perpetual briskness and animation, the audaciousness and cheeky style, rub off on you, so that every visit is rejuvenating.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Where to find this year's Critics Table Awards party and what former Austin actress Sharron Bower is up to in NYC.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
WOMEN WHO STEAL: Crime and Fun-ishment Women Who Steal
Carter W. Lewis' play Women Who Steal is a hilarious, tightly constructed joy ride, complete with squealing tires, tequila-chugging, and Meat Loaf : yes: Meat Loaf! : blaring from the car radio, and the State Theater Company production is what good theatre is all about.
Fractured Greeks: Great Deeds, Human Follies Fractured Greeks
If any company in Austin is equipped to handle the mythological heft of the Greek tragedies, it's VORTEX Repertory Company, and under the direction of Bonnie Cullum, Fractured Greeks, a collection of scenes taken from and inspired by the Trojan War plays of Euripides and Sophocles, holds together pretty well.
columns
Page Two
Remembering actor-filmmaker Paul Bartel (Death Race 2000, Cannonball, Eating Raoul)
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
East Timor. Campaign Finance Reform. Napster. Living Wages. Little Richard.
Public Notice
Public Notice says, "Keep cool this summer and volunteer for a local public service organization."
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
The music of Tony Fruscella reminds us that art is about an unending attempt to give what we can, where we can, to whom we can.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Wimberley has small-town style in spades.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Mr. Smarty Pants gets the lead out.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
The media has dismissed both Latrell Sprewell and Allen Iverson as bad citizens, but that says more about the media than it does about the two young stars.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
Mineral Wells, Texas: "Where America Drinks Its Way to Health."
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
With its president jumping on the denial bandwagon, South Africa is sliding into AIDS chaos.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
