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Two Lives Lost
Danielle Martin and Jackson Ngai shared a close
friendship, a passionate love for music, and mental
illness. They cared for each other as best they could.
And then he killed her.
BY EMILY PYLE
ELECTION 2004
Election 2004: By the Numbers
The precinct-by-precinct breakdown holds little sign of
"change."
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Smoke Clears In Lege Races
White contemplates recount as Strama's victory is
secured
BY AMY SMITH
Better Training: An RX for APD
Police think-tank offers advice on use of force,
community outreach
BY JORDAN SMITH
Be Afraid, Coyotes – Be Very Afraid
Travis County tackles coyotes in northwest Austin
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Picking Up the Pieces
Amidst the electoral rubble shine the gems of political
opportunity – and human comedy
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Every Day Is Halloween
But will only the good corporate kids get the candy?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Public schools sell their soul, and Lockheed sells us
flying lemons
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Staying Power
Despite (or because of) its hotel bearings, Finn &
Porter is a haute spot on the Austin dining scene
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Austin is a TV town, after all; plus, Andrea Timmer is a
no-show (again), and the Filling Station is out of gas
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Athenian Grill
Things have changed at the space formerly occupied
by Jean Luc's Bistro
Santa Rita Cantina
I have a confession to make: I have never been an
enthusiast of Tex-Mex cuisine
music
The Whole Bow
Alvin Crow fiddled it his way
BY MARGARET MOSER
Equality
Ornette Coleman, speaking softly and carrying a huge
legacy
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
TCB
Troublesome pirates, returning Superflies, and British
minstrels help ease the sting of last week's election
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Elliot Smith
From a Basement on the Hill
State of Bengal & Paban Das Baul, Stephan Micus, Rokia Traoré, Radio Tarifa, Bob Marley & the Wailers
State of Bengal vs. Paban Das Baul Tani Tani, Life, Bowmboï, Fiebre, Burnin' Deluxe Edition
Brian Wilson
Smile
Robyn Hitchcock
Spooked
Pinback
Summer in Abaddon
Talib Kweli, Mos Def
The Beautiful Struggle, The New Danger
Alejandro Escovedo
Por Vida All-Star Tribute Concert
screens
Vision and Focus
In the 'Undertow' with director David Gordon Green
and first-time screenwriter Joe Conway
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Quick, Good, and Good for You
Reel Women brings Lunafest to Austin
BY JESS SAUER
Film News
Robert Rodriguez and the come-hither look of 'Rambo
4'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
My e-mail has fallen silent post-election
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Clerks. X (10th Anniversary Edition)
This officially marks a decade since the term
'snowballing' was popularized in our ever-expanding
sexual vernacular
Film Reviews
After the Sunset
Possibly the ideal film to more or less ignore while lounging poolside and sipping Jamaican rum, After the Sunset is 100-proof pap.
Being Julia
There are so few really great film roles written for middle-aged women that when one comes along and it stars the near-perfect Annette Bening, it’s disappointing that the rest of the movie does not equal her performance.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Cast is excellent; movie is OK; men and women are soooo different.
Lightning in a Bottle
Ostensibly a record of one mighty blues show, this film goes beyond the tag of concert film and achieves something more: a living history lesson, tracing the evolving sound of the blues.
Muhammad: The Last Prophet
Animated film. Not reviewed at press time.
The Polar Express
Chris Van Allsburg’s magical tale of the Christmas Eve re-education of a Santa-doubting adolescent gets the motion-capture treatment.
Undertow
Cross-pollinate the arthouse film with B-movie backwoods gothic, and you get something like Undertow’s peculiar fusion of high and low culture.
arts & culture
Dvorák's New World Inquiry
How a Czech composer helped America find its
authentic voice
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
The Bad American
Bill Maher comes out on drink, drugs, and God
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
Break-In at the Blue
Thieves broke into the Blue Theater last week and
made off with more than $6,000 worth of technical
equipment
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art From the Streets
This year's Art From the Streets sale, showing
artwork by some of our city's gifted but homeless
creators, boasts 2,300 works of art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
A great way to brush up your Shakespeare, the
epidemic of extended runs continues, and the Fall
Soiree falls through
Arts Reviews
Crowns
The Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of
Crowns sings a joyous hosanna to the African-
American tradition of the church hat
Cabaret
UT's Cabaret is a risky departmental production
sufficiently primed as postelection catharsis
Veritably Vienna
A. Mozart Fest's Veritably Vienna concert showed
that violinist Uli Speth and pianist Mary Robbins know
the benefits of collaboration in Mozart's violin sonatas
'Margarita Cabrera: Maquila'
Margarita Cabrera's show at Women & Their Work is
filled with soft, stuffed sculptures of everyday
household objects rendered in bright, cheerful colors
'Jon Langford in 'Three Britischer Cowboys''
Jon Langford, longtime member of the British band the
Mekons, has developed a great nostalgic painting
style for rendering his own version of American
heroes
columns
Page Two
Forget the middle ground: Why don't the progressives
take over the Democratic Party and make a real fight
of this thing?
BY JOHN SAYLES
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Somehow, Stephen has managed to milk attention to
his birthday out of another week's column. You'd think
they happen more frequently than once a year …
perhaps at his age, they do? Plus, some Vivid cowboy
news for those who may read this column for different
reasons …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Patton fifth in the five; and other great veterans
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
Possible treatment for facial wasting
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Is it a good idea to take aspirin every day?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Election ballots
BY LUKE ELLIS
Letters at 3AM
Cry over the election if you must, but don't let the
bastards sap your vitality. American progressives
started seriously mass-scale organizing only about a
year ago, and in just one year we came within reach
of victory.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
The Villa Del Rio captures the international influences
of the Mexican border
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Texas State Footbag Championships
Barton and Jaycee Fields, Saturday, November 13, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Last home stand for the ladies; young men in Jamaica
