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Cross Examination
An El Paso medical supplier says the American Red Cross took part in an illegal scheme to ship medical supplies and other goods into Mexico without paying import taxes, and conspired to keep it a secret even after he was wrongfully imprisoned as a direct result.
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
Grand Old Mess
Can Travis County Republicans Ever Get It Together?
BY AMY SMITH
The Whole Truce
Gary Bradley ponders the significance of his proposed settlement agreement with the city of Austin.
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Endorsements
Naked City
Off the Desk
BY AMY SMITH
Council Watch
The Bradley deal is out in the open but no one seems to have an opinion on it.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
Macro Education
There's more to macrobiotic cooking than brown rice and tofu. Natural Epicurean Academy of Culinary Arts founders Fran Moody and Dawn Black are showing Austinites why, Cuisines editor Virgina B. Wood writes.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
In this week's edition of Food-o-file, Austin Chronicle Food editor Virginia B. Wood tells readers about several upcoming charity events that involve food (the best kind!) and mentions a Home Winemaker Conference that readers can attend.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Bakeries
Chronicle writer Greg Beets writes up local bakeries in this week's edition of Second Helpings.
Food Reviews
music
More a Man Than a Legend
Observing as the golden-throated Flatlander becomes a record-label executive
BY JIM CALIGIURI
The Right Profile
Austin singer-songwriter grows a up, grows a beard, and grows out of a strict DIY ethic.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Live Shots
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Live Shots
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
More record label shuffles for the Meat Puppets, the Hole in the Wall gets bigger, Ray Benson gets taller, and music lawsuits get uglier
BY KEN LIECK
One Endless Night Reviewed
Orquesta Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González y Su Grupo, Bass Concert Hall, February 14
20 Miles, Bob Log III; Stubb's, February 16
screens
Show and Tell
Spring Previews 2000
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN, SARAH HEPOLA AND MARCEL MEYER
A Long, Strange Trip
The long, strange trip of The Saragossa Manuscript, Jerry Garcia's favorite film.
BY DAVID LYNCH
TV Eye
Phil Alden Robinson's Freedom Song, premiering on TNTthis Sunday, is a touching depiction of a small town's grassroots Civil Rights movement; also, cheers to Frasier and jeers for Fox's Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Andre the Giant Has a Posse
The Cup
Filmed in Bhutan with a cast of unknown Tibetan nonprofessionals, The Cup takes its charming premise – pint-sized monks striving against all odds to watch a satellite broadcast of the 1998 World Cup match between Brazil and France – and runs with it.
Hanging Up
arts & culture
Two Generations, One Art
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.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
The announcement of Ballet Austin's new artistic director; the release of facility specifications for the Long Center.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Page Two
Defending the Lauryn Paige Fuller murder story.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Readers react to last week's cover story on the murder of Lauryn Paige Fuller.
Public Notice
Our weekly calendar of activist and volunteer events and fundraisers.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Get thee to the Wal-Mart, but don't take the bus.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
The nutty world of etymology and mistranslations (and cornea transplants).
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Television may have birthed the modern NBA, but now it's turned into a monster intent on killing her young.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
Fayetteville, Texas, pop. 500.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
The herb St. John's Wort could be dangerous in combination with some HIV drugs.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
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Letters to the editor, published daily
