Central Library
Volume 19, Number 48
features
No Place Like Home
All Belinda Acosta wanted was a roof over her head that wouldn't explode into flames. Little did she know that jumping into the Austin housing market is like jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
news
Under One Roof
Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Color of Justice
A drug bust in tiny Tulia, Texas opens up old racial wounds and raises questions about the veracity of the undercover cop-for-hire who orchestrated it all.
BY NATE BLAKESLEE
Naked City
Council will appoint nine members to the Mueller Municipal Airport Implementation Advisory Commission; city may implement new septic tank rules; Suzanne Gamboa has left the Statesman; Brigid Shea starts a new consulting firm; UT professor Emerson Tiller has been nominated for the board of ICANN; Triangle project action postponed for a week.
BY AMY SMITH
Media Clips
KUT's new general manager describes his vision for the future of the public radio station.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
Take Out the Heat
Sure, complaining about the heat only makes it worse. A long string of 100 degree days presents an unsolvable problem but it just so happens that there's one summer problem we can solve. What to do about dinner on a day when the ambient blast furnace is stuck in the triple digits and operating any appliance hotter than a microwave is a sure sign of madness? Where to go, what to buy, how to put a tasty meal on the table without working up a sweat?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Your Name Here
Austin is becoming famous for its local brands; Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood reveals why.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood explains the swapping going on at the Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival and updates readers on local culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Chinese Restaurants, Part Two
Writer Greg Beets surveys some of Austin's Chinese restaurants.
music
Straight Out the Trailer
Examining the current overwhelming white trash influence in popular culture
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Barrel Chested Again
Chewing the fat with Brent Best of Denton tub-thumpers Slobberbone
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Five Pack
Making sense out of the local country-groove merry prankster quintet Li'l Cap'n Travis
BY MICHAEL BERTIN
Dancing About Architecture
Jimmie Vaughan loves George Bush; Jean Caffeine is back in town! hee hee...
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Paul Van Dyk, Sasha & John Digweed
Out There and Back, Communicate
Modest Mouse
The Moon and Antarctica
The Mermen
The Amazing California Health and Happiness Show
Andrew Hill, Greg Osby
Dusk, The Invisible Hand
Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio
Constellations
Michael Hall & the Woodpeckers
Dead by Dinner
Cowboy Nation
A Journey Out Of Time
Joni Mitchell
Both Sides Now
Miriam Makeba
Homeland
screens
The Edge of 17
At 21 years old, actress Charmian Carr couldn't have known that the character she was portraying -- Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music -- would follow her for the rest of her life. Prior to her appearance at The Sound of Music: Sing-a-Long, a benefit for Project Transitions and aGLIFF, Carr opens up about being forever Liesl.
BY KATE X MESSER
TV Eye
Here, for your consideration, are the Emmy nominations for dramas, along with nominees selected by columnist Belinda Acosta for her second annual Clare Awards.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Beau Travail
Claire Denis' deceptively dreamlike film about a French Foreign Legionnaire in Northern Africa
But I'm a Cheerleader
Campy film is fun viewing and shines light on lipstick lesbians who are willing to put their pom-poms where their mouths are.
The In Crowd
arts & culture
Everyone's a Critic
The theatre community sounds off on critics as artists.
BY ADA CALHOUN
Articulations
A new name for the merged Paramount Theatre/State Theater Company and a new artistic director.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Page Two
If we must choose between avoiding conflicts of interest or writing of the community from the inside, we choose the latter.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Recent coverage of light rail and of access-TV personality Alex Jones pushes readers' buttons this week.
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
If I were going to spend $1,100 on a jacket, I'd want to feel the fabric first.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
"Pthlllllt! Thwaarrrrp. Fweeephthtl?"
"Yes, I agree, Mr. Smarty Pants does have some interesting facts this week."
"Yes, I agree, Mr. Smarty Pants does have some interesting facts this week."
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The restored J.M. Koch Hotel Bed and Breakfast in D'Hannis is part of a vanishing breed of Texas frontier buildings.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
While contemplating his inability to do a pull-up, Coach comes to appreciate the beauty of the Tour de France and Tiger Woods' steady brilliance.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
Pump away: The new AIDS scare circulating over e-mail is a hoax.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
