Central Library
Volume 22, Number 37
news
A Shining Star Goes Dark
A tragedy at Reagan High School evokes a mother's courageous response.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Unfinished Business at APD?
A Monday public hearing will review a woman's "official oppression"
BY JORDAN SMITH
Place 5 'Up for Grabs' as Clarke, McCracken Square Off
BY AMY SMITH
Local Landfill Got Trashed by Garbage Giant, Jury Rules
Texas Disposal Systems wins its long-running defamation suit against Waste Management Inc. -- but isn't awarded damages.
BY LAURI APPLE
Remember Sixth + Lamar?
BY LAURI APPLE
Will The Smoke Clear Before Garcia Leaves Office?
The smoking ban gets preliminary approval but its future remains uncertain.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Library Gets Unhooked
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Springs: Dye Flows Downhill
BY AMY SMITH
Texas Wants Nuke Waste
BY MICHAEL KING
Wind Power Gains 'Velocity'
BY AMY SMITH
Try Rehab: It's Cheaper
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The House Adjourns to Oklahoma
The House Dems may be losing the legislative wars, but they're finally winning the PR battle.
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
The Texas Lege comforts the comfortable and afflicts the afflicted; and Nevada proves to be a poor dumping ground.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Pflugerville Flavor
Eating out … 30 minutes out: MM Pack and Mick Vann review the ethnic fare up north.
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Virginia B. Wood gives you all the gravy on new restaurants and old mansions becoming new restaurants.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Happy-Hour Buffets
Cheap beer and food after a long day. What an idea! Happy-hour buffets in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Do the Tighten Up
'Texas Funk' Spreads the Little-known Gospel
BY GREG BEETS
TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases and Stages
The Deathray Davies
Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Factory
Zykos
Comedy Horn
Gentleman Coward
Chances Are You're Probably Not Going to Like This
Opposite Day
Economics for Mr Ugly
The 13th Floor Elevators, Red Krayola, Lost & Found, Bubble Puppy
The Best of International Artists
Daniel Johnston
The Early Recordings Volume 1: Songs of Pain/More Songs of Pain 1980-83
Kevin Brown
Callin' the Heavens & Closin' the Bars
Bill Passalacqua, Mike Nicolai
Peace of My Mind, Rooster Nudes
Bobby Patterson
Soul is My Music: The Best of Bobby Patterson
Reckless Kelly
Under the Table & Above the Sun
Willie Nelson
Live Shot
screens
Get Your Warblog On
As conventional media stumble, the Web's armchair war reporters rise to the occasion, to questionable effect.
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Gong Show
Anything goes at the Alamo's Open Screen Night.
BY SARAH HEPOLA
Rock & Roll All Night ...
Ten years gone, and we're still Dazed and Confused.
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Short Cuts
Festival news from around the globe, as pertaining to Austin's little chunk of it.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The end of an era -- Buffy takes her final bow.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
Let There Be Light
After a $14 million facelift, UT's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center is letting the light in, literally, through new windows across the front of the structure, and philosophically, through a new mission to give the public more opportunities to see and enjoy its astonishing accumulation of cultural treasures.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Music to Hang On to Life By
Dramatizing the pull of music on a human life is no easy task, but Warren Leight's Side Man shows jazz players hanging on to their music to keep from giving in to despair, and its Austin premiere will benefit from the skill of Zachary Scott Theatre Center Artistic Director Dave Steakley, who has consistently demonstrated an uncanny knack for portraying the impact that music can have on a life and the place where drama is best expressed through music.
BY BARRY PINEO
Articulations
The unexpected passing of one of Austin's most generous artists, Tré Arenz, and a teaching honor for UT School of Music professor Judith A. Jellison.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
The House Democrats' walkout was their best option in light of Republicans' vicious and highly partisan day in the sun; ending The Chronicle Hour quiets the right-wing voices in our head.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Oh, it's spring -fever time in fashion-land, and you know what that means: events, events, events. Also, find out about the Kerrville designer who influenced millions.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
How do we know if we're getting the right amount of copper?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
BY ERIC CRABTREE
Letters at 3AM
A Little Late, For Bix
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
