Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 20, Number 39
features
The Graduates
Sarah Hepola goes back to Connally High School to find out how some of her ex-students are doing, now that they are preparing to graduate.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
news
Jesus Saves
With the city facing its biggest budget crunch in a decade, city manager Jesus Garza has begun to make some tough financial choices.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The Hightower Lowdown
Bush's Little Helpers; The Drug War's Dr. Strangelove
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The 2001 Austin Chronicle Restaurant Poll
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Welcome Wagon
Doyle Bramhall II, classic rock's most promising new blood
BY ANDY LANGER
Dancing About Architecture
Willie Nelson, not burnt down
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Charlie Robison
Step Right Up
Billy Joe Shaver
The World Rolls On
RC Banks
Conway's Corner
Sister Seven
Live
Prescott Curlywolf
Arkadelphia
The Applicators
What's Your Excuse
The Crack Pipes
Every Night Saturday Night
Fivehead
Big Mistake Factory
The New Year
Newness Ends
The Kiss Offs
Rock Bottom
Salvage Vanguard Theatre
The Cry Pitch Carrolls
Marilyn Rucker
Tea Pot Lady
Girls of the Big D Jamboree
Girls of the Big D Jamboree
Mark Jungers
Black Limousine
DJ Accucrack
Sorted
screens
Summer Film Previews
Interviews and features on Pearl Harbor, Planet of the Apes, AI, and The Golden Bowl.
Screens Feature
Classic films at the Paramount, all summer long
Summer Film Calendar
Your month-to-month guide to summer film
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Girls on the 50-Yard Line
Documentarian Mylène Moreno always wanted to be a professional athlete. Instead, she made True-Hearted Vixens, a film about women who did. Moreno brings Vixens, documenting the attempt to create a women's professional football league, and her short "Cormac's Trash" to the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Short Cuts
News of local film interest.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Now that the writers' strike has been averted, the networks feel secure announcing their fall television seasons. Here's a look at what's in store.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Marie Antoinette
They don't make 'em like this anymore. And thank God they don't!
Red Headed Woman
Jean Harlow was never sexier than in this pre-Hays Code comedy, risque even by today's standards.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
The Artists' Guide to the Galaxy
Three Austin visual artists -- Steve Schwake, Clare Christie, and Marie Parker -- share their impressions of life in Austin and the development of their work, defining the orbit success for their respective worlds.
BY ROB CURRAN
Articulations
Frontera names Subterranean Theatre Company the new producing company in residence at Hyde Park Theatre.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Wit: Who We Might Yet Become
Margaret Edson's drama Wit could be just another story about someone dying of a dreadful disease, but director Michael Bloom stages the State Theater Company production with the skilled and experienced hands of a surgeon and Megan Cole's striking performance as the terminally ill poetry scholar makes us face our own mortality and makes two hours feel like one.
Hyperzoo: History Behind Bars
In Hyperzoo, an installation featuring historical and mythological figures in cages, director Chad Salvata and his artistic team juxtapose ghastly horror with great beauty in a series of dreamy, stunning images.
Carmen: Hot! Hot! Hot!!
Austin Lyric Opera's latest staging of Bizet's Carmen is such a refreshing and vivid presentation -- and at the City Coliseum, no less -- that this tale of a gypsy love-sorceress and her jealous soldier-lover should smolder in audiences' imaginations well after this production's last embers have flickered out.
columns
Page Two
City Manager Jesus Garza has one of the toughest jobs in town. When things go well, nobody can remember his name; when they go badly, he receives the blame.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.
Public Notice
Things are gearing up in public service-land for Austin's sizzling summer. Here are a few things to do this weekend, plus a jump on next, to boot.
BY KATE X MESSER
'Great' Gen an' Their 'Good' War
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants
A dollop of creme de la trivia atop your weekly data eclair.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Sandora's Box in Dallas fixes up some mighty fine vittles.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
Personal style in the eye of the beholder? No way, baby.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Pokeweed protein kills HIV without harming sperm.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
I am watching my grandfather fade away because he is losing his eyesight to macular degeneration. He was always the healthiest of my grandparents, but now he can't drive or read, and he is too proud to take advantage of the services available for the blind. Is there any hope for a cure?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Coach's Corner
Coach rates the announcers on the NBA playoff broadcasts.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
