Parish
Volume 19, Number 9
features
Things That Go Bump
Young writer Eli Kooris spends the night in a haunted photography shop to see what he can scare up.
BY ELI KOORIS
Fashion Gets Grave
Austin's Caskets by Design can insure that death will become you.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Over the 8 Ball
Anna Hanks consults one of the world's most enduring toy fortune tellers just in time for Halloween.
BY ANNA HANKS
news
Eve of Destruction?
The City plans for a big New Year's Eve party downtown while East Sixth Street merchants complain of threat of competition
BY ANDY LANGER
Man of the Hour
Superintendent Pat Forgione discusses his goals for AISD in a Q&A interview with reporter Kevin Fullerton.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Election Endorsements
On Nov. 2, voters will be asked to approve a tax increase for Austin Community College and 17 constitutional amendments. The Chronicle’s endorsements and an explanation of the amendments.
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Several prospective candidates are expressing an interest in running for the council seat Gus Garcia is vacating
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Media Clips
The Austin American-Statesman accuses the Texas Department of Public Safety of witholding public information on the Waco siege; KOOP founder Jim Ellinger gets shut out of the radio station's building.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
On the Pork Trail
Noel Coward once declared that "Any part of the piggy / Is quite all right with me" but we found five pork dishes at Austin restaurants that are more alright than others.
BY RACHEL FEIT
Country Living's Handmade Halloween: Ideas for a Happy, Haunted Celebration
Six-year-old Rosalind Faires gives the low-down on a new book filled with Halloween project ideas.
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Perfect Pairings
Brio Vista and Mirabelle recently received an Award of Excellence from The Wine Spectator. See how well they fare on the elusive marriage between their menus and their wine lists.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
The Culinary Academy of Austin has joined forces with Reuben's Wine &
Spirits to highlight the various world cuisines - find out how to
participate; Mezzaluna celebrates 10 years of business; and an Organic
Update..
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Simply Seafood
Tasty, bite-sized restaurant listings compiled from new and previous reviews, guides, and poll results. This week’s entries were compiled by Mick Vann.
music
The Composer's Roots
A look at the career of a premier jazz pianist, Dallas-born Cedar Walton
BY HARVEY PEKAR
The Education of a Lifetime
A look at UT's Performing Arts Center and the process by which they bring the biggest names in jazz to Austin.
BY CHRISTOPHER HESS
Dancing About Architecture
George Jones comes to Austin and everyone gets arrested in the melee. Meanwhile, Matthew McConaughey gets naked and busted, and Austin's answer to Santana, Vallejo, signs with Gloria Estefan's Sony imprint. Maybe K-NACK, a local alt.rock station from earlier this decade, can play them online as the station returns -- on the Internet.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Sixteen Deluxe
The Moonman Is Blue
Drums and Tuba
Flatheads and Spoonies
Cyrus Rego
Cyrus Rego
Bloo
Bloo
The Standards
Between the Ditches
The Jive Bombers
Hit the Deck, It's the Jive Bombers
Brobdingnagian Bards
Marked by Great Size
The Loy Sisters Band
Where We Belong
Sarah Elizabeth Campbell & the Banned
Live
Seaman's Quartet
Seaman's Quartet
Jerry Jeff Walker
Gypsy Songman
Lee Roy Parnell
Hits and Highways Ahead
Bad Livers, Barnes, Hokkanen & Rubin
Dust on the Bible, Aka the Mad Cat Trio
Bradley Jaye Williams
Tex-Mex Gumbo
Bryan Duckworth
Begin the Seguin
The Claymores
The Claymores
Bobby Horton vs. Derek Peterson
14 Jawbreakin' Hits!
Blaze Foley
Blaze a Blaze: Volume Too
Jack Ingram
Hey You
Blue Cartoon
Downtown Shangri-La
Terry Bowness
Terry Bowness (Aardvark)
Blue Noise Band
Multi-Purpose
Lefty
Everybody Loves a Hero
ST 37
I Love to Talk, If There's Anything to Talk About
ZZ Top
XXX
screens
Eat Him Up
Reviews of the Italian horror maven's Cat in the Brain, The Beyond, Gates of Hell, and Zombie
BY MARC SAVLOV
Pigs, Pimps, and Pornographers
A look at this prolific, political Japanese filmmaker
BY SALVATORE BOTTI
Maverick Outsider
Avant-garde artist Willie Varela discusses politics, the nature of personal work, a career on the fringes, and what it's like to be a Chicano filmmaker.
BY ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
Short Cuts
News from the Cinemaker Co-op, the Austin Film Society, Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Landmark Theatres, and SXSW 2000.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Chick dramas: we just don't get it; also, what to watch this witching weekend
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Bats
The Best Man
Malcolm D. Lee, cousin of Spike, hits emotional pay dirt in this men's-eye-view of marriage, fidelity, and love. ? Marc Savlov.
Body Shots
Bringing Out the Dead
The Gambler
Lucie Aubrac
Music of the Heart
Now & Then: From Frosh to Seniors
Rosie
The Straight Story
David Lynch takes the long road to a strange story of brotherly love
Sugar Town
arts & culture
Three for the Barre
With a serious amount of movement taking place on the Austin dance scene, the Chronicle asked three of its dance critics to review recent programs by Ballet Austin, Tapestry Dance Company, and the Latino dance festival Collectivos.
BY ADA CALHOUN, DAWN DAVIS AND BARBEJOY A. PONZIO
Articulations
Robert Faires gets goosebumps from his first visit to the new Flatbed World Headquarters.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Page Two
The history of the intermittent Halloween mask covers and of burgeoning
staff dinners.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Housing, ACC, and Spooner.
Public Notice
It's time for scary season, the season that has us examining our obsession with the nevermore, puts us in touch with our mortality, and brings us that much closer to our maker (and some of us to Maker's Mark, but that's another story -- ).
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Haunting facts for Halloween season.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
After a Fashion
Austin's boutiques make our style avatar proud at Club DeVille's semi-annual fashion show.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
There is an immense, hairy creature lurking in the woods outside of the
small Texas town of Hamilton, and no, it's not your brother-in-law.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Coach's Corner
Cornhuskers vs. Longhorns: don't try this at home.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
About AIDS
The OZ Parties for HIV+ Singles Celebrates Nov. 13.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Letters at 3AM
What does this so-called "boom" mean to most Americans?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
