FEATURES
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Give 'Til It Helps, Part 1 They ain't too proud to beg: But why should they have to?
NEWS
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Will Texas Do Better? Lege preview Part II – the wonders and the horrors
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• Budget: Manufacturing a Bogeyman
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• Jesus Christ: The Loony Bin
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• Labor: Playing Defense
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• Health and Human Services: Screw Medicaid – We Need Drug Testing!
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• Water: Rising to the Surface
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• Environment: Don't Hold Your Breath
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Point Austin: Tools for Lege Watching Considering Texas' future – a few things to keep in mind
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Then There's This: AE: The Plot Thickens City manager and consumer advocates finally agree on something
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Civics 101
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Headlines Top state and local stories of the week
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10-1: If It Ain't Baroque, Let's Fix It Strict requirements may yield a small, homogenous pile of applicants
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Council Stoked for Last Meeting of Year Agenda lineup: affordable housing, Barton Springs Zone, PUD, and more
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Community-Backed Charter in Travis Heights Goes to the Board As AISD considers dumping one charter, a new one is floated
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WTP4: What's $15 Million Among Friends? One expects Council will be more vigilant the next time around
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Hightower Report Obama won't play ball with Boehner
FOOD
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Thirty Years of Texas Wine Fall Creek Vineyards celebrates a milestone
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• Fall Creek Vineyards Photo Gallery
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Tips and Techniques From a Kosher Cooking Expert Cookbook aims to free readers from cookbooks
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Home's a Brewin' A beer enthusiast's guide to Christmas gifts
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Food-O-File This week's food news
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Meal Times Dec. 13-20
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China Dynasty No frills, just consistently excellent Chinese food
MUSIC
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Boxing Day Box sets dwindle but not in scope
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Sufjan Stevens
Silver & Gold
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William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops
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Blue Öyster Cult
The Columbia Albums Collection
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Woody Guthrie
Woody at 100
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Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966
Surf-Age Nuggets: Trash & Twang Instrumentals 1959-1966
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band
50th Anniversary Collection
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Ellington, Mingus, Monk
The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection, The Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection, The Complete Columbia Studio Albums Collection
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Blur
Blur 21: The Box
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Roxy Music
The Complete Studio Recordings
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Playback: Pachuco Hop Hanging with Joe King Carrasco in Puerto Vallarta
SCREENS
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Home Entertainment for the Holidays Best bets for DVD and Blu-ray
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• The Incredible Mel Brooks: An Irresistible Collection of Unhinged Comedy
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• Francis Ford Coppola 5-Film Collection
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• The Carol Burnett Show: The Ultimate Collection
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• How to Enjoy Movies Without the Eyestrain More gifts for film fans
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Law and Order in the Land of Pixels Web series 'Bit Parts' finds inspiration in gamer errata
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Apocalypse Now, Then MoMA Game developer Adam Saltsman pairs Mayan panic with Dikembe Mutombo
ARTS
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The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines
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Studio Visits: Autumn Ewalt In an airy South Austin studio, Autumn Ewalt makes space for individual and collaborative work
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• Ewalts' Studio Visit Photo Gallery
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'Awakening' Blue Lapis Light takes youth away from risk and on a journey
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'The End' 'Cantanker' meets its end
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Land Without Evil Sky Candy's latest production piles on so much spectacle that it's difficult to see the story
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Bridge/Tunnel Ready|Set|Go! transmutes leaden limbs to golden motion
COLUMNS
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Letters at 3AM: Did Abraham Lincoln Deserve a Second Term? In 1864, Lincoln would have seemed more in favor of war than peace
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Page Three: Council Follies Are No Joke City leaders prep for another multimillion dollar giveaway (shhh, don't talk about it; you'll ruin it)
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After a Fashion Neo-hippie aerialists have Your Style Avatar beside himself
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Gay Place Holigays are upon us, people. Have you mapped out your calendar?
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Day Trips
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Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BOOKS
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The Writing's Not on the Wall Yet Austin's print culture gets a boost from a new batch of indie presses and literary magazines
SPORTS
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Soccer Watch St. Ed's players sweep conference awards, and more
