Comfortably Butt Numb
11 movies, 24 hours, 230 stinky film fans -- a diary from Harry Knowles' second annual Butt-Numb-a-thon
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Dec. 15, 2000 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones
Not Clucking Around
East Texas chicken magnate Bo Pilgrim wants a state permit to build a bigger chicken slaughterhouse and waste disposal facility -- right across the creek from Sen. Bill Ratliff's in-laws' vacation home.
"..."They're both more than a little hard-headed," said a lobbyist who knows them both...."
Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Postmarks
Readers' last gasps on light rail.
"...packed. In fact, Loop 1 is so packed these days that I rarely take it to work anymore, preferring..."
Nov. 3, 2000 Column
Postmarks
More Light Rail hubbub and a few Naderite cries in the wilderness.
"...If rail fails, expect lobbyists to seize the money that Cap Met has been..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Column
Making a Front Porch for the City
As he was completing the final design for the Austin Museum of Art's long-awaited downtown facility, architect Richard Gluckman took time to discuss the project, his approach to architecture, and what it means to design buildings for a boomtown.
"...mean bringing the kids in for drawing classes on Saturday morning. It's the whole spectrum of engaging a new..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Naked City
Daryl Slusher debates Max Nofziger on light rail; Garnet Coleman fights with Hugo Berlanga at the St. Louis presidential debate; Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins support a soft money campaign for Ralph Nader; the Statesman buries a Bush funeral scandal story.
"...Max Nofziger has been working as an anti-light rail lobbyist, representing South Congress merchants’ concerns that light rail will..."
Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
He's Coming Back
Who gets punished when George W. Bush comes home to Austin after losing the election.
"...In the lobby of the Canal Street Hotel where the Texas delegation..."
Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
"...and hell in a handbasket, all before your 30th birthday. It was unfortunate to be in one's twenties in..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Column by Kate X Messer
Take the A-Train
Mike Clark-Madison discusses 10 years covering light rail, and urges voters to support it.
"...with the transit triathletes who've been at this from Day One (people like Lyndon Henry and Dave Dobbs), I..."
Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison
Hello Dottie
Austinite old-school punker Dottie Farrell explains the meaning of the word 'splooge.'
"...had to take a TABC class there the next day, and I was up there in the daytime," she..."
Oct. 13, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray
Tracking the Money
"...with three and a half weeks left until election day, the pro-rail contingent has nearly $250,000 in the bank,..."
Oct. 13, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Day Trips
Latana Ridge Lodge, an hour's drive north of DFW, sits at the collision point of northern grasslands, eastern forests, and western prairies.
"...from the parking lot, the high ceiling of the lobby is reminiscent of a mountain cabin. Antique windows that..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Column by Gerald E. McLeod
Down & Out in Atlanta
The Official Crock of the '96 Summer Olympics
"...groups, all come to Atlanta on eager fundraising crusades. Sunday schools. Marching bands. Boy Scouts. Soccer teams. With them..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Features Feature by Jonathan Hennessey
Postmarks
The Starbucks Showdown continues; and readers voice their opinions on last week's Best of Austin issue.
"...question was a reprint which originally appeared during Maye's heyday in Austin. I have nothing but respect for the..."
Sept. 22, 2000 Column
Postmarks
Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.
"...our service isn't perfect, but we're getting better each day and we have the statistics, and the customers, to..."
Sept. 1, 2000 Column
Dancing About Architecture
101X fires program director Alan Smith; Man's Ruin ain't coming back after all.
"...the station, 101X program director Alan Smith was fired Friday in what was those in the know are calling..."
Sept. 1, 2000 Music Column by Ken Lieck
Read My Chips
George Bush claims he supported Children's Health Insurance in the 1999 legislative session. He did, but only at the lowest level.
"...governor was talking about 133%," Maxey said. Consumers Union lobbyist Lisa McGiffert agrees: "Initially, he said he would go..."
Sept. 1, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose
Lot of Livin' to Do
For 15 years, Paul Beutel has managed Austin's Paramount Theatre, programming its popular film series and live shows and bringing it back from financial ruin, and he still puts in six to seven days a week there. Where do his passion and devotion spring from? Would you believe Bye Bye Birdie?
"...still spends at least six out of every seven days at the theatre, running it, programming it, keeping it..."
Aug. 25, 2000 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Postmarks
Last week's Summer Smut Issue gets a whuppin' from some prudent readers.
"...but it wasn't fair. We have to deal every day with the absolutism of a designed town and the..."
Aug. 18, 2000 Column
In and Out
Controversial sodomy law may be struck down
"...in jail and were released on bail the next day. Both were fined $200 for breaking Texas' sodomy law...."
Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Jonathan David Carroll
Lust for Life
Ahhh … the good old daze
"...wasn't all limos and laminates, but it sure beat Saturday night on Sixth Street.Growing Up Groupie From the first..."
Aug. 11, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser
Naked City
Chamber releases results of AISD parent satisfaction survey; Larry Faulkner threatens disciplinary action against University of Texas staff members who join sick-out; Log Cabin Republicans happy with strides made in GOP party; Mary Cheney has made several visits to Austin; Green Party secures a spot on the statewide ballot; Libertarian Party presidential candidate Harry Browne comes to Austin.
"...School doesn't start until Monday, but AISD has already gotten its first "needs-to-improve" rating..."
Aug. 11, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith
Home for Heroes (and Others)
Transforming the storefront at 617 Congress into The
Hideout, a multilevel arts venue, has been a learning
process for proprietors Shana Merlin and Sean Hill.
But after $250,000 of investment, the developer's
dance of securing permits, and many hours of hard
labor, they have created one of Austin's most
user-friendly theatre spaces.
"...The front door leads to a lobby that will, upon completion this month, serve as a..."
Aug. 4, 2000 Arts Feature by Phil West
Through the Eyes of a Kid
Bringing kids to adult theatre is uncool, but what's
about children's theatre, where they belong? Ada
Calhoun borrows a friend's three-and-a-half-year-old
son to find out and discovers that theatre ain't all
magic when you're a preschooler.
"...participation, George (who had not had a nap that day) lost interest and started squirming and softly singing little..."
July 21, 2000 Arts Feature by Ada Calhoun
Writing Rebel
Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Stewart Stern remembers writing Rebel Without a Cause:"I was caught up in the same kind of fervency and speed that the characters were."
"...the page had been terrifyingly empty for the whole day. Director Nicholas Ray called that night and asked, "How's..."
June 16, 2000 Screens Feature by Chale Nafus
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East Timor. Campaign Finance Reform. Napster. Living Wages. Little Richard.
"...the East Timor Action Network (ETAN) during their annual Lobby Days. There are several important bills before Congress, such..."
May 26, 2000 Column
A Work in Progress
East Timor begins the process of reconstruction in its struggle for independence.
"..."Welcome," reads the banner hung in the sauna-like airport lobby in Dili, East Timor, "to the World's Most Recent..."
May 19, 2000 News Feature by John Sayles
Naked City
Dell Computer moves to drinking water protection zone, sister neighborhoods program to launch May 20, Bruce Mills becomes Chief of Austin Bergstrom International Airport, Tom Ridge.
"...in a statement to be released within the next day or so ......"
May 12, 2000 News Feature by Amy Smith
Overlapping Fireworks
It’s been six long years since Frontera artists Vicky Boone, Margery Segal, and Annie Suite have all worked with each other on a play, but the threesome still send off fireworks together, as C. Denby Swanson
"...bikers who reunite to talk about the early gritty days. They've missed each other since going legit...."
April 7, 2000 Arts Feature by C. Denby Swanson
Media Clips
Texas Triangle fires its longtime co-editor, spurring controversy over the direction of its coverage.
"...executive director is Dianne Hardy-Garcia of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas)...."
April 7, 2000 News Column by Lee Nichols
Bullock Texas State History Museum
