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Austinites love to shed their clothes, and a number of them do it onstage -- what's up with that? Some of the city's most nakedness-prone actors, performance artists, and directors expose their reasons to arts writer Ada Calhoun.

Now in its 15th year, the Independent Spirit Awards were created to recognize the so-called "indie" filmmakers who get by with low budgets, favor originality over the formulaic, and feature lesser-known or unknown talent in front of the camera. Well, that's what it used to be like.

SXSW Records

Rock & Roll Books Spring 2000

Picks & Sleepers

An interview with Canadian documentary filmmaker Ron Mann about his newest film, Grass.

The usual suspects return: Miles Zuniga, Daniel Johnston, Sandra Bullock, Bob Schneider, and the Asylum Street Spankers; also, Patti Smith returns to Austin for SXSW, as do a bunch of other people.

Local Arts Reviews

Texas Platters

Seasick and Solitary on the Sandy Beaches Cruise

Economics, schmeconomics: Chronicle reviewer Roger Gathman compiles the latest books about the (almost) first commodity, money.

Versace tidbits, Christ on the catwalk, etc.

For 30 years, article by article, Denise Schmandt-Besserat has built an ironclad case to explain a mystery that foiled archeologists, anthropologists, and philosophers for hundreds of years.

A beginner's discography to Rock en Español

Filmmaker Jennifer Fox discusses the seven months she spent with Bill and Karen, an interracial couple at the center of her intimate 10-hour documentary.

The Debut of the International Theater Festival at San Antonio

Reviews of recent and ongoing exhibitions and performances around Austin

The passing of a longtime professor of music and the birth of a new opera by Austin Lyric Opera.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)