Cheer Up Charlies
Volume 19, Number 31
features
Strange Fruit
Pineapple and pizza has had a grip on Tom Reavley for almost as long as he can remember. He remembers one day when the glorious combination stripped him of his innocence.
BY TOM REAVLEY
news
The Watson Way
Mayor Kirk Watson talks about challenges for austin during his next term.
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
Easy Money
City plots downtown's retail future
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Naked City
Robin Rather, Brigid Shea, Mary Arnold leave the SOS board; Town Lake park tree not 300 yeears old after all.
BY AMY SMITH
Signed and Sealed
With Bradley Out of the Way, Council Turns Attention to Stratus
BY JENNY STAFF JOHNSON
food
SPAMTASTIC™ SPAMARAMA™
Austin's Quintessential Silly Bar Party
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A Man, A Can, A Plan
SPAMARAMA™ Founder Dave Arnsberger
BY MARGARET MOSER
Food-o-File
The state of Texas is busy with culinary contests; Cuisines editor Virginia B. Wood gives the details.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings: Tex-Mex
Food writer Rachel Feit serves up local Tex-Mex in this week's "Second Helpings."
music
Gung Ho
Q&A with punk priestess Patti Smith.
BY JODY DENBERG
Dancing About Architecture
Austin Music Commission chair Bob Livingston steps down, no one steps up; Man's Ruin returns to Austin; Michael Corcoran's suspension is puzzling.
BY KEN LIECK
Record Reviews
Steely Dan
Two Against Nature
Scritti Politti
Anomie & Bonhomie
Oasis
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
screens
Sphere of Influence
The creators of Phantasm talk about the amazing success of their work over the years and why on Earth it's been so successful in the first place.
BY MARC SAVLOV
Not Boxed In
Although filmmaker Carlos Avila grew up in Echo Park, only 10 miles from Hollywood, it couldn't have seemed farther away. With Price of Glory, Avila has finally arrived.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Short Cuts
Upcoming events and workshops of interest to the Austin film community.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
NBC actually dropped Freaks & Geeks -- the smart, funny, refreshingly true-to-life high school comedy? Well, duh. Also, a look at the WB's DC, the latest ensemble drama to feature incredibly good-looking people.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
arts & culture
One Man Talking
In these days of HDTV, IMAX theatres with SurroundSound, and interactive software in 3-D hyper-realism, who wants to listen to one man talking for 90 minutes on a stage? A lot of people, when the man is Steven Tomlinson, award-winning economics lecturer, lay preacher, and Austin's premier monologist, as Wayne Alan Brenner explains.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
A Dynamic Greater Than You Can Imagine
Buckminster Fuller believed pieces of things could be combined in new ways to create a powerful new dynamic. Now, playwright Alice Wilson is combining her words with Bucky's life for a dynamic new solo show. Wayne Alan Brenner gets the story.
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Articulations
A historic merger between the Paramount Theatre and the State Theater Company.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show: A Roaring Existentialist Campfire
Kerthy Fix's Heaving Shadows at the Skin Show is an intimate, sometimes disturbing look at a group of people in perpetual free fall. Public Domain's production of Howard Barker's Possibilities is a fascinating invitation to the Theatre of Catastrophe and to run around on the tarmac.
columns
Page Two
If you have a gossip columnist, have the courage to stand behind him.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
A plethora of environmental concerns are argued in this week's letters to the editor.
Public Notice
"Public Notice" is the sassy yet totally sincere public service column of the Austin Chronicle. This week is Part Two of a list of community groups that need YOU! (Part One ran last week.)
BY KATE X MESSER
Letters at 3AM
October 1, 1955, a half-hour show called The Honeymooners slipped in some uneasy truths under cover of laughter.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
This year's Academy Awards fashion winners and losers.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants
Hot tea in the summer, but beer popsicles anytime!
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Coach's Corner
Coach postulates that free-throw percentage determines longevity in the NCAAtournament, bitches about concession food at Frank Erwin Center.
BY ANDY "COACH" COTTON
Day Trips
Eagle Lake rallies around the endangered Attwater's Prairie Chicken population with its annual festival.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
A promising new style of condom may enhance pleasure for both parties.
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
