Austin Downtown
Arts Magazine

February 1998
Volume 4 Number 1

Ah, Fat! by Manuel Gonzales
If you enjoy the American Short Story and you have not even read John Cheever, and might not know John Cheever from Adam, then please, head to the bookstore or library, buy, check out, steal the book, and read the stories.

Austin City Blues poetry by lgjaffe

Austin's Blues Family Tree: Documentary Project Recalls East Side's Musical Heyday by Lucy Shaw
I've lived in Austin almost all my life, yet I still don't know much about East Austin. Maybe it's not just me. Maybe a lot of people don't know what's going on in East Austin.

Ernie Watts Brings "Traditional Yet Unique" Sound to Austin by Staff
Watts' love affair with music began with jazz (specifically, with hearing John Coltrane's Kind of Blue when Watts was a teenager), and to jazz he always seems to return.

Galeria Sin Fronteras: Art on the Boundary of Two Cultures by Daniel Torres
Galeria Sin Fronteras was the first to move to the area that would one day become the cultural district.

Raccoons fiction by Robert Ashker Kraft

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
The Blues Family Tree Project began in 1990 with a mission to spend 10 seasons producing live performances for archival recordings and photography. For the most part, the folks we book for these shows have some direct connection to black Eastside music history. And, yes, we focus on black folks doing this music.

Verities by Manuel Gonzales
What is it with American writers and drinking?

A White Woman Looks at Her Own Black History by Courtenay Nearburg
I am a white woman, 26, a native Texan of English / German / French-Alsatian / Cherokee Indian descent.