Parish
Volume 19, Number 17
features
Sleigh Ride
Robin Bradford takes a trip back to examine love, trust, and safety.
BY ROBIN BRADFORD
Journey Into Clarity #83
For years he'd blamed his sister for destroying his comic book, a book worth over two grand today. Looking back at a painful memory brings Wayne Alan Brenner that much closer to understanding why losing that darned comic book at age seven meant so much.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
news
Chain Reaction
Downtown construction projects raise fears that Austin will lose its charm.
BY AMY SMITH
Downtown by Design
Downtown design guidelines provide a blueprint for the future of the central city.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
High-Tech Heist
A former Power Computing company employee stole memory modules and drew a 25-year prison sentence.
BY BRETT HOLLOWAY-REEVES
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
Council denies historic zoning for old house on St. David's property.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Media Clips
The world’s major corporations have realized that the media can be big money, and they have invested heavily.
BY LEE NICHOLS
food
The Customs of Christmas
Chronicle Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood and food writers Pableaux Johnson, Mick Vann, Wes Marshall, Rebecca Chastenet de Géry, and Barbara Chisholm share their Christmas memories.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
The latest local cookbooks, changes to the menu at Vespaio, and a special Boxing Day celebration at Becker Vineyards
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Interior Mexican
Tasty, bite-sized restaurant listings compiled this week by Rachel Feit.
music
A Walking Contradiction
Exploring the legacy of one of Austin's great, unsung singer-songwriters, Blaze Foley
BY LEE NICHOLS
A Honky-Tonk Song
Profile of piano man Earl Poole Ball
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
SXSW kicks into gear, Eric Johnson gets intense, and things keep falling apart
BY KEN LIECK
Blaze Foley Reviewed
Blaze Foley
Live at the Austin Outhouse
Jewel
Joy: A Holiday Collection
98 Degrees
This Christmas
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics (American Recordings/Columbia)
Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics
Ringo Starr
I Wanna Be Santa Claus
Brenda Lee
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Ray Brown Trio
Christmas Songs
Garth Brooks, George Strait
The Magic of Christmas, Merry Christmas Wherever You Are
Al Di Meola
Winter Nights
Michael Martin Murphey, Riders in the Sky
Acoustic Christmas Carols, Christmas the Cowboy Way
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! & Horton Hears a Who!(Rhino Movie Music)
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Horton Hears a Who!
screens
The Brain Behind Cyc
Doug Lenat discusses artificial intelligence and its increasing presence in the next century.
BY SIDNEY MOODY
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
That holiday spirit getting to be too much? Here's a look at Vegging Television: what you watch when you can't watch anything.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Any Given Sunday
Stone's tale of a professional football team is full of excess, machismo, and a ripped-out eyeball.
Boys Don't Cry
Without resorting to dogma, ideological tracts, or cautionary tales, Boys Don't Cry evocatively tells the true story of a young Nebraska woman who changed her sexual identity and transformed herself (sans surgery) into a young man. Swank won her first Oscar for this role.
Liberty Heights
Man on the Moon
arts & culture
Head of the Class
With Senioritis, the conclusion to his quartet of plays set at a Catholic high school in Houston, solo performer Rob Nash is all set to graduate -- to Off-Broadway, says Robi Polgar.
BY ROBI POLGAR
Articulations
A report on the financial momentum of the proposed Long Center for the Performing Arts; the loss of two beloved area musicians and teachers.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Santaland Diaries: Mean, Mean, Mean -- But in a Good Way
Ada Calhoun finds wicked delights in Zach's production of David Sedaris' The Santaland Diaries.
Rockin' Christmas Party: Party Out of Bounds
Robert Faires gets a buzz from the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Rockin' Christmas Party.
columns
Page Two
Downtown development keeps coming; the Chronicle family keeps growing
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Public Notice
Every year, for two weeks around the holidays, "Public Notice" hands the type over to the Public Service Community and lets them directly address you, dear readers, with requests for things they need. They need you.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
What does a Dark Age demand of a good person?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Versace tidbits, Christ on the catwalk, etc.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Rockport captures the sea breeze and the hearts of visitors.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants
Merry Tiswas!
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
HIV has been taken hostage in the abstinence debate.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
