An Interview with Nikki Giovanni by Sandra Beckmeier and Gretta Maxfield
I've always resented journalists doing things.
-- Nikki Giovanni

Millennium Youth Project by Wayne Wilson
It's a good thing if they really built it for the black community, but is it gonna stay that way?
-- Bruce Simmons

Notes from the Woodshed by Paul Klemperer
As the sun slowly melted into an orange glow, the young nomads applied circus makeup, set up their assemblage of high and low tech musical instruments (Australian digiridoos, an African djembe, a European accordian, an effects module hooked through a small PA system), unravelled their oil-soaked chains and batons, and prepared for their evening firedance.

November 2, 1998, on the Eve of Becoming an American Citizen poetry by Liliana Valenzuela

Out of the Mouths of Babes by Stazja McFadyen
The 1999 Austin International Poetry Festival began community outreach programs such as the "poetry slam" in The Park at Austin's Children's Hospital.

Texas Young Playwrights Festival '99 by Shilanda Woolridge
In June, six aspiring playwrights will descend upon Austin to participate in the Dougherty Art Center's Texas Young Playwrights Festival.

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
Why oh why does Austin continue to be stuck in this place of claiming to be the live music capital of the universe, of being the cultural capital of Texas, and still be so far outside of the expectations of us folks who have some idea of what these attributions would really mean in another major market, major cultural center, major American city that actually has an urbane cultural scene?

Verities by Rachel Staggs
In April of this year I challenged myself in a way that I never have before. Without a plot or plan, I dove into the ocean of filmmaking.