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Soldier's Heart
Thousands of Iraq War veterans will come home to
face serious psychological problems and a system
unready to help them
BY DAN FROSCH
DPS Slapped in 'Troopergate' Verdict
Jury finds that agency rigged a 2001 promotional
exam to favor good ol' boys
BY JORDAN SMITH
Weed Watch
Iowa drug czar says killer (!) marijuana is wreaking
havoc
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bar Targeted in APD Bike-Wreck Probe
TABC, DPS, and APD all looking at circumstances of
Jacobsons' fatal accident.
BY JORDAN SMITH
High-Powered Help for Hospital District
But can slick, GOP-friendly HillCo defend the public
interest?
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The True Cost of Empire
The sacrifices of U.S. soldiers represent only an
installment on the payments due
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Highway Ho-Ho-Ho!
As concrete Christmas arrives, who's got the last
laugh now?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
On The Lege
Sunset proposal to do away with agency gets
optimistic response on all sides
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Jim spreads some holiday cheer
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eat, Memory
The Food staff on their fondness for holidays past:
epiphanies, friendship, near-disaster, disaster, and
always a full plate
Food-o-File
The Drafthouse draws a big-name chef; plus, V.B.W.
is giving you a big gift basket of foodie news for
Christmas!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Mighty Fine
Dixiecrat Jesse Dayton ain't banging his head against
a wall
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
DVDnds
Gift guide
Dreck the Halls
Gift guide
TCB
Going Braless in city of Small Stars and smashed
guitars
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Maestro and Muse
Jean-Pierre on 'A Very Long Engagement'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Woo, All Right Now, And Don't It Feel Like You're Going Bald and Homicidal!
Thirty years later, Jeff Lieberman is still walking on
'Blue Sunshine'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Every Word Is True: Austin lands a Killer production;
plus, Joe Conway 'Rocks,' Rodriguez wraps, and
more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Navigating the 'multicultural mess' of the holidays on
the tube takes a sense of humor and taking ourselves
less seriously; plus Paul Stekler gets a big nod from
the Writers Guild of America
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera
The plodding stage musical finally comes to the big screen, its relentlessly bombastic score intact with a vengeance.
The Aviator
Scorsese's best film in years is a work of bravura, classic Hollywood filmmaking.
Fat Albert
Bill Cosby's animated kids get a live-action makeover.
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Bill Murray won't get the elusive Oscar for this one – for all its visual majesty, The Life Aquatic is too slight – but the film is nevertheless a funny, bewildering, and giddy spectacle.
Meet the Fockers
You can Fockerize Meet the Parents all you want, but this new movie is a lame sequel to the comic hit of 2000.
A Very Long Engagement
The director of Amélie reunites with that film's star, Audrey Tautou, for this World War One love story.
arts & culture
Just Like a Woman
How the men of Naughty Austin's 'Pageant' get their
glam on
BY BARRY PINEO
Report From Art Basel
Texans find a place with the art world elite in Art Basel
Miami Beach
BY JACQUELINE MAY
Culture Flash!
The new Whole Foods will be getting some tasty new
art, the Blanton just needs another $12 million, and
where in the world is the Cultural Arts office
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire
In A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire, Rob
Nash adds a clever curve to the holiday tale, matching
Hollywood stars with Dickens' familiar characters
Rockin' Christmas Party
This year's 'Rockin' Christmas Party' is flashy fun
with an onslaught of seasonal classics and popular
rock songs that aim to tickle those humbugs away
'"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976"'
"Twister: Moving Through Color, 1965-1976" looks at
artists of that era who took the road less traveled,
continuing to investigate painting with spatial illusions
and other perceptual tricks
columns
Page Two
Acting as if God partakes in partisan or national
politics is a display of blasphemy, not faith
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Despite the change in inhabitants, the buildings,
people, and mood of the old immigrant neighborhoods
haven't changed. The streets still whisper the same
cautionary advice: Survive and get out.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen shaves his head and goes Southern ... or at
least South Austin. And this time, it's not even SoCo!!!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Brazos Bend State Park and Palmetto State Park are
unique among the hundreds of wildlife refuges in
Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
About AIDS
POZ launching new personal ads
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Taking the bark off banana trees with slippers and four
tons of potatoes
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
What's behind the rumor that there are again threats to
the availability of food supplements?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Basketbrawl – self-defense in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Dale Watson’s Annual Christmas Show and Dance
Continental Club, Saturday, December 25, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
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