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A Partial Who's Who at MoMFest 2000

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

Don Toner's 13 years as producing artistic director of the State Theater Company have been full of struggles, but in Toner's world, struggles are good. They bring understanding, richness, beauty, and in his case, a new theatre and a loyal company.

Recent coverage of light rail and of access-TV personality Alex Jones pushes readers' buttons this week.

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

The epic life story of Nigerian soul superstar Fela Kuti.

Three of the newest books about the Princess of Wales, Margaret Moser writes, are by people who played roles of varying degrees of intimacy in her life; they paint a more accurate, more vibrant picture of her life than the spate of cockeyed conspiracy theories, endless photo collections, and soggy coattail remembrances that traditionally make their appearance around the summer anniversary of her death.

It used to be a commonplace of moralists that man was the only creature in the animal kingdom to slaughter his own kind. But as Chronicle writer Roger Gathman points out, kind is slaughtered by kind routinely among ants, salamanders, and, as any child can tell you, guppies. The golden rule, in nature, is not "do unto others" -- it is "why waste the protein?"

Mueller Airport Redevelopment Project Inches Toward Council Approval

Previewing Alejandro Escovedo's new autobiographical play, By the Hand of the Father.

Is It Time for Austin Actors To Go Union? And Vice Versa?

A New Drug for a New Millennium

City Council Member Gus Garcia retires after more than 30 years of public service

The divine Miss Nancy Wilson brings her lush life to Austin.

Listings

Public Notice is back to normal after the weight of post-SXSW malaise. See who's running and walking and biking and singing for good causes this week.

A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.

Bush Applies Litmus Test of Allegiance in Choosing Inner Circle

Picks & Sleepers

Picks & Sleepers

A recap of favorite SXSW venues that no longer exist, a few festival hot tips, some non-festival tips, a celebrity-sightings checklist.

Organizers of Three Recent Arts Festivals Pass on Lessons Learned

Our readers talk back.

Like twins who have grown up apart and are finally reunited, writer-performer Terry Galloway and the Austin theatre company Rude Mechanicals are creative soulmates who have at last discovered their kinship through their collaboration on Galloway's dark comedy In the House of the Moles.

Spring Previews 2000

When an actor's bio claims 14,000 performances to his credit, you rather expect the fellow to have some good stories. And Eddie Bracken doesn't disappoint. In anticipation of his appearance at a screening of Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bracken talks about Sturges, Betty Hutton, Hollywood, and hitchhiking.

Readers take us (and each other) to task over mistaken identites and misguided ideas.

Sue Graze leads an organization that works to bring the visual arts to the entire Lone Star State. She talks with Rebecca Cohen about her first year directing the Texas Fine Arts Association.