Central Library
Volume 20, Number 42
features
Mom's Travel Advisories
Guerrillas, drug lords, landmines, limb loss, organ malfunction … According to my mother, these are just a few of the terrors that await me when I arrive in South America.
BY KARLA ZIMMERMAN
news
Somebody Has to Die
The conviction of Robert Springsteen in the yogurt shop murders leaves many questions unanswered.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The Hightower Lowdown
PG&E's shell game, Bush Incorporated & Nestle's genetic engineering
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
A healthy death penalty, the Jenna and Barbara bust, and the Fannie Lou Hamer Project
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Eating Between the Lines
Literary Diversions for Foodies, With Recipes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
If you're like me, Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood writes in this week's Food-o-File, and wondered why April came and went without the usual anti-hunger fundraising dinner, here's the scoop on what's happening.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Mediterranean
Meditteranean cuisine in this week's "Second Helpings"
Food Reviews
Los Comales
Chronicle Cuisines writer Rachel Feit stopped going to Los Comales a few years ago after she was served a slightly overaged carne asada. She recently returned and is happy to report that Los Comales (both locations) is back on her family's regular restaurant rotation.
music
The Innovators
Part 2 of "Jazz," by Harvey Pekar
BY HARVEY PEKAR
The Inexpressible
Ferreting out the local avant-garde jazz scene
BY CHRISTOPHER HESS
Chanson Anglais
Air heads in America.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
Another Sixth Street club discontinues live original music, as Davíd Garza struggles to get his heard.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
screens
Thirty Years on Location
An overview of the Texas Film Commission, which has been wedding film production and the state economy for 30 years.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Short Cuts
Landmark's Paul Richardson talks strategy for saving the ailing theatre chain.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
PBS's landmark documentary series, "Point of View," announces its summer lineup.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
A Summer Place
Delmer Daves' A Summer Place is a juicy potboiler, oozing with angst over both young love and adultery.
The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
This high-tech update of the beloved Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoon has none of the wit of the original.
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Waiting for Jerry
The arrangements were made, the interview set: Jerry Hall, one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world, would be calling writer Stephen MacMillan Moser at home on his own telephone! And he waited. And waited. And waited …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Austin Critics Table Winners 2000-01
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The scoop on the 2000-01 Austin Critics Table awards ceremony
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Catfight
With improv comedy all over Austin and even on the tube, it's tougher than ever for improv newcomers to create laughs out of audience suggestions and comedic inspiration. But with a corps of female performers who are appealing and talented and share a sense of direction, the new troupe Catfight has the potential to fly, even here, even now.
The Sorcerer
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin's new revival of the G&S operetta The Sorcerer proves a genial spoof of class prejudice, at least as staged by G'Ann Boyd. Her uncluttered approach allows the work's understated satire to shine through the performers' presence and delivery of the songs.
The Apeman of Manhattan
Director Mark Ramont and his production team stage the world premiere of The Apeman of Manhattan fairly realistically, with some impressive acting, but Rosalyn Rosen's script, in which a well-off advertising executive struggles with her feelings for a former lover who is using her in the worst kind of way, may have you wondering what the show is really all about.
columns
Page Two
Editor Louis Black praises the Texas Film Commission's marriage of art and commerce, finds the Austin American-Statesman's coverage of George W. Bush's European trip untrustworthy, and urges readers to vote in our annual "Best of Austin" poll.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers sound off on a variety of touchy subjects: politicos, abandoned kittens, even the brachiation of apes.
Public Notice
Celebrate the emancipation of Texas slaves (albeit, two and a half years late) on Juneteenth!
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Fishing for striped bass in Lake Texoma.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
"After a Fashion" reviews the recent Summer Sweat & Schmoozarama presented by Star Costumes & Clothiers.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
This is what your brains wants when you aren't looking close enough.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
My 9-year old son is very active and somewhat easily distracted, so much so that I worry his teachers will someday suggest Ritalin or some other medication to control his behavior. If he really is ADHD, are there alternatives?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Prevention is the Key!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
What's worse, Patrick Roy's twitch, Dikembe Mutombo's stare, or what NBC laughably calls its "halftime show"? Coach gets a midnight call from his old pal, the Whipp.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
