Parish
Volume 20, Number 9
features
Grave Importance
Meiling Guentzel explores her fascination with small local graveyards and death and learns about life in the process.
BY MEILING GUENTZEL
news
Endorsements
The Hottest Race in Texas
The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House
BY MICHAEL KING
Cowboy Poker
When Bush Marches on Washington, the Deck Gets Shuffled. Our Predictions:
BY ROBERT BRYCE
All the Right Moves
Democrat Donna Howard faces self-proclaimed moderate Republican Cynthia Thornton in the general election for Austin's seat on the State Board of Education
BY KEVIN FULLERTON
The Greening of George W. Bush
An industry pollution control program started backed by Gov. George W. Bush has cleaned less than 3% of the industrial toxic emissions it aimed to clean up.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
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.
BY LOUIS DUBOSE
The Hightower Lowdown
Congress and China Trade; Rewarding Failure
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Southeast Feast
On 620, about halfway between Mansfield Dam and Lakeway, in Lakeway Plaza, is one of Austin's best pan-Asian restaurants. It's a small spot with limited seating and tiny tables turning out some of the finest Thai, Cambodian, Laotian, and Burmese cuisine around. As a matter of fact, they turn out the only Cambodian, Laotian, and Burmese cuisine in Austin, and it's not even on the menu!
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Upcoming food and wine festivals, updates on local culinary news.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Casual Fine
Casual fine dining in Austin.
Food Reviews
Dot's Place
Austin has grown so far north that Dot's Place is no longer really in the country; the construction worker clientele is now joined by hungry high tech office workers from the Silicon Hills. Diners patiently snake their way through a maze inside the front door to a cafeteria line loaded daily with an embarrassment of riches.
music
Still a Good Thing
Lady sings the blues
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Diddley Daddy
'Bo Knows Not to be Stupid'
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Dialtone, Please
Eddie Stout's Shoestring Label Sticks Close to Its R&B Roots
BY JERRY RENSHAW
Dancing About Architecture
What's up in the live music capital this week
BY KEN LIECK
Beat Box
Eminem, L.L. Cool J, Mystikal, Kimp Bizkit, Too Short, Dirty Walt, De La Soul, Wyclef Jean, Outkast
The Marshall Mathers LP, G.O.A.T., Let's Get Ready, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, You Nasty, To Put It Bluntly, Art Official Intelligence, The Ecleftic, Stankonia, New Beats from the Delta
Radiohead
Kid A
Pearl Jam
Barcelona, London, Dublin, Paris, Hamburg, Stockholm
Go-Betweens
The Friends Of Rachel Worth
2gether
Again
Dandy Warhols
Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
Spoon
Love Ways EP
Damon & Naomi, Ghost
Damon & Naomi with Ghost
Youssou N'Dour
Joko
Caetano Veloso
Aprenda Minha
Jimmy Scott
Mood Indigo
Keith Jarrett
Whisper Not
Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys
The Spectacular Sadness Of Rex Hobart & The Misery Boys
The Waco Brothers
Electric Waco Chair
At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command
screens
It's Alive!
The unassuming, 42-year-old Bill Jones is Austin's premier garage-kit model maker, and that Godzilla leering down at you from the corner of the room is only 1 / 500th scale. Lucky you.
BY MARC SAVLOV
CinemaTexas
Photos and award winners from Cinematexas5
Ask Questions First, Shoot Later
In 1967, Hobart Ison shot and killed Hugh O'Connor, who was filming a documentary on Ison's property. In her documentary Stranger With a Camera (showing at the Alamo Drafthouse this Wednesday, November 1), Elizabeth Barret examines the context that brought these two men together -- one with a gun and one with a camera.
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
American Nightmare
A new documentary on IFC examines seminal horror films of the Sixties and Seventies and persuasively argues that the images and ideology of these groundbreaking films were influenced by the mood of the times.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Does it seem like this new crop of series, including Ed and Gideon's Crossing, mask their chauvinism under fresh-faced idealism and earnestness -- or is it just us?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Night of the Living Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, Last House on the Left
Louis Black reviews Night of the Living Dead, Last House on the Left, Texas Chain-saw Massacre, and Halloween -- all featured in IFC's new documentary, American Nightmare
Film Reviews
Lucky Numbers
Pola X
Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.
The Yards
arts & culture
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.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Austin playwrights are drawing attention around the nation, and one theatre company is getting hit by the Macbeth curse smack in the face.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Macbeth
In the State Theater Company production A Macbeth, director Guy Chandler Roberts strips the Scottish Play of its dramatic spectacle and boils it down into a compelling ritual of human evil, a Black Mass.
Macbeth
Director Marshall Ryan Maresca may lose the audience at times in the female-dominated world of his Macbeth, but he keeps hearts pounding on a trip through the supernatural world of Dunsinane and the many worlds of human psychosis.
columns
Page Two
The opposition to Light Rail is rebutted by our Editor.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
More Light Rail hubbub and a few Naderite cries in the wilderness.
Public Notice
PN takes you through the final weeks of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and looks ahead to events on the public service horizon.
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
Michael Ventura reflects on the gateway of Time.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
The Style Avatar digs into the subatomic particles of the Atomic Cafe Fashion show and goes on a "Bender"…
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Coach's Corner
Coach is having none of this "Subway Series" BS. Only question is: Which team does he hate the most?
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Mr. Smarty Pants
More intriguing lumber for your mental woodpile.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
From Galveston to Cozumel on a Carnival cruise ship: food, gambling, food, and ruins.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
Volunteer Call for peer counelors at the HIV Wellness Center.
BY LEAH GRAHAM
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
