Austin Motel
Volume 22, Number 34
news
How Can Wynn Lose?
The mayoral odds are with Wynn, but could a run-off be a race?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Borders Backs Out
A setback for Sixth + Lamar, a victory for keeping Austin weird
BY LAURI APPLE AND MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Barton Springs Reopens, With Great Pleasure
The Statesman-spawned toxics crisis is finally over, but threats to Austin water quality remain.
BY LAURI APPLE
Lies, Damn Lies, and Polls
BY MICHAEL KING
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capitol Chronicle
This year's House budget debate reads suspiciously like Catch-22.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Austin at Large
For mayoral candidates, the rubber has yet to meet the road (or rail).
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
On the Lege
Sen. Bill Ratliff's committee shows what good government looks like as it takes up controversial HB 4.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
French's Mustard ain't French -- or American; and a traveler wonders what country he's in.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Making the Grade
Rachel Feit and Wes Marshall are on campus at the Bleu River Grille and Ventana, the Texas Culinary Academy's training restaurants.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood shares her considerable files on food with you lucky folks.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Catfish
music
This Is Electroclash
Eighties retro-synth bands like the Faint, Fischerspooner, and Austin's This Microwave World prove that the best way to move forward is to look back first.
BY MICHAEL CHAMY
The Pleasure Principle
Local bands find the dance-driven heart underneath post-punk's industrial pall
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TCB
Austin wonders if Billy Bob Thornton will hop onstage with Tori Amos.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
screens
American Movie
What to see at the sixth annual Cine Las Americas.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
All Over the Map
The "thoughtful production, informed consumption" of the Taos Talking Picture Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Dobie goes digital, understanding Sikhism, and Tom Copeland celebrates two decades at the Texas Film Commission.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Films in Complicated Women -- TCM's new festival of precode pictures -- feature many legendary actresses in film history: Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Jean Harlow, Barbara Stanwyck, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, and others.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Speaking of Dance
The difficulty of describing dance inspires choreographer Kathy Dunn Hamrick to create an ingenious 30-minute dance out of phrases from dance reviews.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Crank Up the Machine!
When Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay leads the UT New Music Ensemble in a performance of George Antheil's Ballet mécanique, he'll not only be giving the 1920s work its Austin premiere, he'll be reviving the notorious masterpiece of one of the true bad boys of music.
BY JERRY YOUNG
Piece of Work
The materials that make up Shellife are commonplace, likely to be found in any thriving household: eggshells, a white ceramic bowl, tulle, a small wood table, fabric. Yet the way artist Regina Vater has placed them together elevates them from everyday to shrinelike, allowing the installation to strike a spiritual chord.
BY MOLLY BETH BRENNER
Articulations
Two arts institutions end their runs: the iron belly muses theatre company and the South Congress visual arts venue Gallery 1313.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Black Tower
In The Black Tower, the experimental performance company ethos creates another theatrical museum through which audiences may examine living dioramas populated by Greek gods engaged in struggles with each other as old as the human race.
Fame -- the Musical
The SilverStar Theater Group production of Fame -- the Musical can't rise above the triteness of the script, but its rewards are multitudinous, with some energetic, and truly talented, young people as well.
Richard Stoltzman and Emanuel Ax
Hearing clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and pianist Emanuel Ax at Bass Concert Hall is like watching chess at Memorial Stadium, but the seasoned musicians still managed to dazzle with their virtuosity and plant music in your head that could lure you into a speeding ticket on the way home.
columns
Page Two
Songs of democracy in distress
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is coral calcium really better than other calcium sources?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
Volunteer! Texas Swing is June 6
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
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