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Dialing for Dollar$
Austin radio stations scramble to keep the money flowing in a strange new media world
BY KEVIN BRASS
Water Gushes Forth From LCRA
The utility wastes no time inking deals to moisten Hill Country sprawl
BY AMY SMITH
Johnston Tensions Land in Court
Transferred Johnston High School teacher sues Austin ISD
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Shareholders Swallow Schlotzsky's Meal Deal
Fire sale leaves sandwich-chain investors with an empty plate
BY AMY SMITH
Where the Dope Don't Grow
Feds turn down application for research-marijuana cultivation project
BY JORDAN SMITH
For the Activist Who Has Everything
Useless political gifts for the holiday season
Many Unanswered Questions in Officers' Deaths
A fatal motorcycle accident was preceded by a long afternoon of barhopping
BY JORDAN SMITH
Abstinence Makes the Head Grow Softer
A new report finds that federally funded abstinence-only
educations contains "false, misleading, or distorted
information about reproductive health."
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The DA Makes a Deal
They stole the Lege – will we get more in return than a sermon?
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Money for Love
There's a word for that sort of thing. It starts with an 'F.'
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Governments won't support local business, so we have to; and 'Support Our Troops' – and their families – must be more than rhetoric
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Cookbooks
Gift guide
Food-o-File
My fondness for community cookbooks is well known, and I've just received two that I can recommend for holiday gift-giving; plus, holiday tamales!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Reissues
Gift guide
TCB
Assessing 2004, local club owners break into a chorus of 'Staying Alive.' If only Dimebag Darrell had.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
DVDs: Part 3
Gift guide
Games: Part 2
Holiday gift guide
In Print
‘By the whole equation,’ David Thomson dares, aiming at nothing less than to set forth a single-volume history of Hollywood filmmaking in its entirety in under 400 pages, ‘I mean not just the history of American movies, but America in the time of movies’
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Red Alert
The late train on AtomFilms.com
BY MARC SAVLOV
CongratuSnizzles!
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sing-Along
TV Eye
No more Moyers – now what'll we do for news?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Brother to Brother
A festival favorite jumps to the big screen with its story that compares and contrasts life as a gay black man in the present day and the Harlem Renaissance.
Flight of the Phoenix
Sticking closely to the tone of its predecessor, this remake of Robert Aldrich’s 1965 adventure film lacks the tang of the original, and trades the late-vintage Jimmy Stewart for the shirtless Dennis Quaid.
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Thankfully, the dark tone of the beloved childrens books is carried over to the screen, and the terrific performances and production design provide extra lift.
Spanglish
The venerable filmmaker James L. Brooks stumbles badly with his new dramedy starring Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni.
arts & culture
In the Moment
Ann Hampton Callaway takes things 'Slow,' but she's
more alive live than ever
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Between the Lions
'The Play of Daniel' revives the biblical prophet just in
time for … Christmas?
BY BARRY PINEO
Hark! The Herald Organ Sings
New UT faculty members and exceptional organists
Gerre and Judith Hancock give the mighty Visser-
Rowland organ a workout with their own holiday
concert
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art Park
For four ephemeral hours on Saturday, Dec. 11, Wooldridge Park was transformed into a giant sculpture
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Christmas Carol
Two rather different versions of 'A Christmas Carol'
illustrate the power still to be tapped from Charles
Dickens' ghostly little book
columns
Page Two
A series of shifts: Mike Clark-Madison departs, our
redesign winds up, and 'Page Two' tries to find joy
while democracy crumbles
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Holiday tips for HIVers
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
What new discoveries are there in regards to vitamin
B-12?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Basketbrawl – Self Defense in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Weight Watchers, Teflon, Jacqueline Kennedy, and
the average house
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Outdoor Art Museum reproduces some of the most
famous works of the art world on the walls of the little
town of Eastland
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Indiana prevails, and a long winter's nap for international play
