May 1999
Volume 5 Number 4
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Austin's Royalty:
"The King of Sixth Street"
by Adrienne Bouchard
Seven nights a week, for the past 10 years King has graced Austin with his music. Occasionally, he has left to try his hand at a nine to five job but he seems to always find himself back playing the funk.

Billy by Alex Arcone
Ask Alton B. Rison what makes a great show, and he'll give you one word: class.

Electronica Tries for Local Audience by Samira Selod
As the rave era finally comes to a close, new styles of electronic music have found their way to the urban youth. Styles stretch from hip-hop, drum and bass, house, ambient, jungle, and the list goes on and on. Whatever title or sub-title is given, electronica in all its motifs has given rise to the exploration of repetition and trance.

Major Arts Institutions Respond to Austin's Growth by Courtney Clelland
Perhaps of utmost importance in the process of responding to an expanding potential audience base is the decision as to whether these relationships will be pursued primarily as consumer relationships or community relationships.

Moore, Please:
Red Bone Press Receives Praise for Its Second Helping
by Courtney Clelland
Perhaps noticing the child's potential, her grandmother advised the young book-clutching woman "not to do things for fame or money, but do them for the respect of your peers," a piece of advice to which Lisa Moore has held steadfastly.

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Notes from the Woodshed by Paul Klemperer
Big band jazz was commercially supplanted by other musical styles, but it has maintained a niche in both commercial and educational musical institutions. Big band jazz, although historically linked to ballrooms and dance clubs, is also concert music.

Poets poetry by Valerie Bridgeman Davis

So Close by Rachel Staggs
Our lives are fashioned not by our intentions, but by the actions of others. Seen and unseen forces. It's how we are affected by other people.
-- Kathy Dunn Hamrick

Steve Brudniak's Reliquaries by Allyson Lipkin
Steve has borrowed from devout religions such as Catholicism to recreate a holy ideal. To pay homage to his mentors, Steve acted out his own "baptism" by collecting blood samples from his friends and family and enshrining them in layers of glass, brass, and tubes of formaldehyde. He also drew his own blood and enshrined it in brass.

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
Visions and dreams are good things. Having visions and dreams, however, does not make one a visionary.

Verities by Shilanda Woolridge
You like someone...but what if they don't feel the same way about you? What if there's no chance in hell that they'll ever feel the same way? What do you do?


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