Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 20, Number 45
news
Isn't It FABulous?
Austin considers a $95 million incentives package for AMD
BY AMY SMITH
A Liquid Proposition
Austin's Water Quality Protection Lands are few and far between: can they do the job they are meant to do?
BY DAN OKO
Naked City
Local news this week in Austin.
BY ERICA C. BARNETT
The Hightower Lowdown
A real Fourth of July, bushwa from D.C., & airline fairness
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Capitol Chronicle
Marty Akins for Governor, and few dozen others for statewide office
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Ceviche Sublime
Cool ceviche -- with its clean, fresh flavors of citrus-cured seafood -- is proving to be the hot dish in restaurants all over Austin this summer.
BY REBECCA CHASTENET DÉ GERY
Food-o-File
Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals some recent sandwich finds and shares the latest culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Local pizza chains in this week's Second Helpings.
music
Those Magic Moments
Clifford Antone reminisces from prison on 26 years in the blues business.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Rising Son
The son of Muddy Waters inherits the family bidness.
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Motherless Child
Obscure monument to balladry finally sees the light of day
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dancing About Architecture
Tosca are no Slackers, Pong bounces back, the Dicks still hate the police, and Ken Lieck finds a new journalist pal in this week's "Dancing."
BY KEN LIECK
Live Shots
screens
Raising the Dead
Actor Joseph Fotinos Wants to Resurrect Local Television
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Slacker turns 10, Cinemaker Co-op is feted, the Alamo Drafthouse heads north, and Bob Sabiston has "it."
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The film version of Marion Zimmer Bradley's novel The Mists of Avalon debuts on TNT, and the Top 10 Reasons to be Mrs. Colby Donaldson.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Foxy Brown
Pam Grier stars in Foxy Brown, the film that would end up cementing Grier's image as the female icon of the Blaxploitation movement.
Jeremiah Johnson
For ex-Army soldier Jeremiah Johnson (Redford), the silent, rugged mountains function as the perfect environment in which to fulfill his enigmatic goal -- total secession from the human race.
Rosalie Goes Shopping
Rosalie Goes Shopping -- starring German sex symbol Marianne Sägebrecht -- has a smirking preciousness that gets in the way of its broad satire of American consumerism.
Film Reviews
Cats & Dogs
Kiss of the Dragon
Pootie Tang
This is a nutty story about the life of the fictional ghetto hero Pootie Tang, whose struggles against corporate America after selling out become the stuff of legend.
arts & culture
The Forest for the Trees
The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Ratgirl drops her tights to comment on Wayne Alan Brenner's review of Uncaged.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Lend Me a Tenor
Need a laugh? St. Edward's University has the cure with Lend Me a Tenor, which features a tremendous amount of acting talent, most of it student, working their butts off to entertain you.
Little Footsteps
Excellent Muse's production of Ted Tally's Little Footsteps is not without things to recommend -- Kristi Fleming's performance is relaxed and true -- but in the end, this show about having a baby lacks exactly the kind of magic -- of life and love and innocence and joy -- that a baby can bring.
Dangerous Corner
Different Stages' latest attempt at a theatrical answer to a good, cheap summer beach novel, J. B. Priestly's 1932 mystery Dangerous Corner, isn't much fun. It's full of unsympathetic characters rendered in a flat and melodramatic style.
columns
Page Two
The fact that City of Austin staff is often inspiring and committed makes snafus like downtown traffic and the Fourth of July fiasco all the more perplexing.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers weigh in on the criminality of musicians, the integrity
of neighborhoods, and more.
Letters at 3AM
Robert Bly's new book of poems is a haunting work that evokes all hisotry and culture.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Public Notice
Public Notice asks not what it can do for its community but what you can. This week, you can sing, give blood, or watch movies -- all for good causes.
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
The dark matter in your ever-expanding universe of thought.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Take a dip in these secret swimming holes.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
After a Fashion
"After a Fashion" tosses a few words around about local designer Brian Frisbie, and guess what this Thursday is?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Since my 4-year-old has been in preschool, she has constantly been afflicted by colds and other infections. It just seems like her immune system is stretched too far. She can't swallow pills like my husband and I, but I want to build up her system. Where do I start?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Drug Ads Foster Dangerous Misconceptions About AIDS
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Coach's Corner
Travelling in Colorado with his daughter, Coach has time to take in some sports, and contemplate some truths about global warming and Major League baseball.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
