Central Library
Volume 20, Number 16
features
'Twas Christmas in Austin
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
The Treats of Laredo
Shopping South of the Border Guarantees a Feliz Navidad
BY AMY SMITH
news
Faith Healers
A look inside the Teen Challenge faith-based drug treatment in Fort Worth suggests that there are problems with Christian drug rehab programs.
BY EMILY PYLE
Opening the Doors
As college access tightens, minority students and families, and educators, look for ways to help more students.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Kiddie Spree
Local curmudgeon and Style Avatar Stephen Moser takes a gaggle of tykes on the shopping trail. O-mi-god.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Lady in Waiting
Prospective First Lady Anita Perry Prepares for Life in the Spotlight
BY AMY SMITH
Swap Meet
The City Council, divided 5 votes to 2, stumbles toward an agreement with Stratus to trade land or development rights at the former Robert Mueller Airport.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
The Republican response to U.S. Supreme Court judicial activism
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Cows Go High Tech; Sweet Smell of Poison
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Three Quarters of a Baker's Dozen
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Eating Between the Lines
Books for Cooks
Food-o-File
Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood samples marvelous mail-order food and relates more local donut news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Asian Buffets
Many table-service restaurants with lunch buffets treat their sneeze-guarded fare as some sort of ugly stepchild; find out how to avoid them in this week's "Second Helpings" on Asian buffets.
music
Standing Next to a Mountain
Examining the 3-CD Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble box set.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Audio Snapshots
America's premiere archival roots label celebrates the big 4-0.
BY MIKE QUINN
How the Wolves Survived
That band from East L.A. keeps getting better
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Dancing About Architecture
Stevie Ray Vaughan box set hits stands and controversary
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
the Supremes
The Supremes
Etta James
The Chess Box
Various Artists
Rhapsodies in Black: Music and Words From the Harlem Renaissance
Louis Armstong
The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
Richard Pryor
… And It's Deep, Too!
Various Artists
The Funk Box
various
The Doo Wop Box III
Sam Cooke
The Man Who Invented Soul
Elton John
To Be Continued
Little Feat
Hotcakes & Outtakes: 30 Years of Little Feat
Rick Nelson
Legacy
Various Artists
The Best of Broadside, 1962-1998: Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine.
Various Artists
Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Tito Puente
The Complete RCA Recordings, Vol. 1
Charlie Parker
The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings
screens
True Hollywood Stories
Books About Film
Comfortably Butt Numb
11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Power Games
Eight reasons to go on living if you don't' own a PlayStation2
BY MARCEL MEYER
Don't Drink the Water
While pursuing her masters in film at UT, Laura Dunn spent every semester break in Louisiana making Green, a documentary about the toxic 100-mile stretch along the Mississippi River known as Cancer Alley. The film screens at the Alamo Drafthouse this Sunday.
BY PETER DEBRUGE
Short Cuts
Richard Linklater goes to Sundance.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The Michael Richards Show fizzles, Billy Crystal can't host the Oscars, and other odds and ends from our harried television columnist.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Nosferatu, The Golden Arm Film Project
The first release in the Alamo Drafthouse's silent-film-with-live-musical-accompaniment series is a video every self-respecting Austin hipster should own.Produced by the Co-op's Barna Kantor and the Golden Arm Trio's Graham Reynolds, this is a complete reverse of the Alamo Drafthouse's series -- these are silent films inspired by music.
Film Reviews
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.
Just Looking
arts & culture
Kids in Black
That innocuous-seeming crew of people listed beneath the actors in every program, who scurry around in black backstage and hover over the proceedings in the sound and light booth, may not be well-known to most theatregoers, but this silent, hidden army is all-powerful. Techies get almost no share in the glory, but they run the world, and here's how.
BY ADA CALHOUN
Articulations
With a tool or two, Austinites can make a lasting contribution to Frontera Productions and the Rude Mechanicals.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Santaland Diaries
In the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of The Santaland Diaries, actor Martin Burke takes the writings of David Sedaris and uses them to run the gamut from high hilarity to absolute panic to striking observation to calm elucidation. And the audience follows him everywhere he goes, laughing all the way.
The Lover
The Lover, a Harold Pinter drama staged jointly by ONE Theatre Company and the dance troupe Footesteps, is a turn-on, a balance of music, sweet lines, and sensuality.
columns
Page Two
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
We're gearing up for the holiday home stretch. Time to get those Wish Lists in and serve some good causes, all at the same time. Our list of public service opportunities still brims for you.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Go shopping with our Style Avatar and you just might find yourself having a black Christmas, which, hopefully will not put you in the red!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
On an ill-advised trip to Europe, Coach comes to a startling realization.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Make the Holidays Shine!'Adopt' Someone With AIDS
BY SHIRLEY GERBER
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
