Austin Axis - Internet Magazine
Premiere Publication: March 31, 1995
Published by: Austin Web Publishing, Inc.
Publisher: Brian Combs
Editor In Chief: Glenn Pieper

Austin Axis is an electronic magazine available to any subscriber to the Internet via the World Wide Web. This means that anyone in the world has access to our publication. Therefore millions of readers who already subscribe to an Internet service can look at and interact with our publication.

Austin Axis was started by a diverse group of professionals in the high tech, publishing, graphics, multimedia and entertainment fields. This group formed the editorial board for an electronic magazine to serve the needs of it's target audience. We wanted to provide Austin ,and the globe, with the most up to date and valuable information on:

Departments

A. Entertainment - Music, Visual & Performing Arts - from the "Live Music Capitol of the World", Austin offers an incredibly varied and eclectic selection of musical styles. Many established veterans known throughout the world coexist with unknown, "cutting edge" performers who are stars waiting to shine. Axis Austin brings you in-depth features on the people and events that make our city an "embarrassment of riches". In addition, the University of Texas excels in supporting and attracting classical and multi-ethnic musicians and performances. There is literally no venue that cannot be experienced. Austin Axis is here to guide you to the who, where, and when - along with a little background insight before you get there. With a strong theatre and performing arts community in addition to our burgeoning movie industry there will never be a shortage of entertainment venues for us to inform you about with advance coverage, current updates, reviews and behind the scenes spotlights. Special sub-sections will also focus on:

Food & Wine - Austin has an extremely high, per capita restaurant percentage, and with good reason! Austinites love their food and wine! Entertainment Editor Tom Gasson, former restaurateur and presently involved in the Texas wine industry will bring you features such as "Chef's School"- a how to cooking class revealing some of the secrets and tricks of the trade from area master chef's, "En Vino Veritas"- a unique and revealing look at wine, a regular food column by Master Chef Jonathan Bennet and a regular wine column by noted writer and wine aficionado extraordinnaire A.J. Hernandez.

Music- Who's hot and what's what including "Beating the Bushes"- an expose of little known rising stars as well as old standbys that make Austin the live music capitol of the world, features on trends and trend setters, even daily updates on spectacular events such as the South by Southwest music conference. Our initial publication will feature an interview with multi-media keynote speaker Todd Rundgren, a live update from the Jayhawks - Doyle Bramhall - Lucinda Williams concert on Thursday night, and will have a link to Laurie Anderson and Voyager's on-line multi-media presentation, including a piece produced here in our studios.

B. High Tech - Editor David Claunch will head up our Technology Department featuring reviews on new products, high tech news and events, industry gossip and a Question and Answer column. Daily updates direct from the floor of this year's SxSW Multi-media Festival, including reports from all seminars and showrooms. Additionally, we'll reports from this year's HoHo Con, World Internet Show and the CeBit Computer Show from Germany. User group forums, tech-support forums and a local Hi-Tek events calendar round out this section. "Silicon Hills" has become a world center for high-tech, high-end graphics and multi-media production. We'll show you the brightest and the best.

C. Features - Editor Jerry Cardenas will bring us editorials from staff, E.F.F. - Electronic Frontier Foundation, and local celebrities and characters. Additionally, we'll hear from local cartoonists, writers, authors and others in our section showcasing locally and nationally recognized talent. We'll also follow stories pertinent, not only to Austin, but people around the world. Austin consistently ranks as one of the top places in the country to live. Issues such as Fiber Optics installation, City Government on the Internet, Ecological and Environmental issues will be among the first areas explored.