June - July 2000
Volume 6 Number 1
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The Call of the Berimbau by Damon Stith
Capoeria is part folk-dance, part game, and part martial art. But the essence of what Capoeira really is remains elusive.

Copwatching by Billy O'Leary
Copwatch is a grassroots organization which seeks to curb police brutality by confronting it as it occurs in the streets.

Earth Lessons by Piper Anderson
Only the universe knows who I really am or who you really are. But, through "Earth Lessons," we can discover our divine selves together.

Editor's Note by Megan McMillan
We're back.

Fried Potatoes Sent by God poetry by MIke Henry

Latino Arts Community Finds a Home by Carlos Garza
Still two years away from its long-overdue $10.9 million makeover into Austin's world-class Center for Mexican-American Cultural Arts, 600 River Street is even now a hub of activity.

Letter to Jack Kerouac poetry by Mike Henry

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"Liberated Voices" at the Austin Museum of Art by Sean Denmark
I wondered to what degree the modern art of a country whose apartheid policies kept it in constant turmoil and isolated from cultural centers would be provincial in nature, and I was curious as to what subjects post-apartheid artists would address.

A Message about the Free Radio Movement by Reckless
Free Radio Austin is an ever-changing collective of individuals, dedicated to reclaiming the "people's property": our public airwaves.

Notes from the Woodshed by Tom Benton
As opposed to creating musical spaces in which to work in performance (as is typically the task of the composer in improvised music), classical music is almost invariably thoroughly composed from beginning to end. In any case, this seems like a rather challenging undertaking.

Radical Cheerleading by Brackin Firecracker
That's right, no more cheering just for the boys playing sports. These girls (and some boys) are cheerleaders for the revolution.

Revolution Poem # 4Million 5Hundred & 62 poetry by Genevieve Van Cleve

Robinson Ear's Little Whirled of Sound by Tom Benton
Rob Halverson breathes soul. He oozes the stuff. There were points at his Cactus Cafe record release shindig where he and his rockified Americana big band,

Why You Must Go to Your Local Video Store Immediately and Wallow in the Slavic Excess of Underground by Carlos Garza
Financed in part by the French behemoth CIBY 2000 and Serbian television (closely tied to Milosevic's regime), Underground reared its impish little head right smack in the middle of the Bosnian war: a ten-hour-plus miniseries trimmed down to three hours for Cannes and awarded the Palme d'Or, well before the Dayton accords.

Up All Night by Harold McMillan
Pretty much everyone there agrees that jazz is or should be more of a cultural/artistic/commercial big deal in communities across America and around the world.

Word on the Street by Micah Magee
This new section, "Word on the Street" is dedicated to uncensored dialogue by people who do care, who don't care about admitting they care, who think that "It All" might not be all that we're capable of.


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