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Written in Stone
UT's Jim Bob Moffett and Freeport-McMoRan ride a new wave of allegations of business as usual: exploitation, cronyism, and environmental devastation
BY ROBERT BRYCE
Hurricane Rita Coming
Hurricane Rita tracking and prediction maps, info on where evacuees should seek shelter, and ACL info
Capital Metro Workers on Strike
As of 3am Thursday morning, the majority of Amalgamated Transit Union 1091 had gone on strike against Capital Metro, and their contractor StarTran, resulting in a dramatic drop in bus service.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
APD's White Settles: The End of Mala Sangre?
Unanswered questions leave a cloud over top brass
BY JORDAN SMITH
Get on the Bus
A guide to anti-war events nationally and in Texas on Sept. 24
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headbutting Over AMD Development Continues
Were traffic study's numbers dishonest?
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Sayonara Shoal Creek Frankencurbs?
The 'consensus' that left nearly everyone unhappy leads back to square one
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Under Fire
Memo to Toby Futrell: it's called 'negotiation'
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Media swallows 'Cowboy President' spin; and Big Brother keeping an eye on bookworms
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Learn Your EATs
An epicurean orientation for students new and returning, but also for ACL visitors and recently arrived residents
Food-o-File
Scrambling to keep up at Spicewood. taking the Tour de Vin, and keeping NOLA efforts rolling.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Naked
Gettin' nekkid for fer Jon Dee Graham, oh yeah
BY SPIKE GILLESPIE
2005 ACL Music Fest Preview
All 'picks' no 'sleepers' for the Austin City Limits Music Festival, one
blurb at a time
ACL Music Festival Interviews
Checking in with some of the Austin City Limits Music Festival's featured
acts, from Roky Erickson to Coldplay
ACL Music Festival Reviews
September is CD release time; critiquing albums by Austin City Limits
Music Festival acts
Cool It
Barton Springs info
Restaurants Near Zilker
TCB
The ACL festival is here. Time to hunker down.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Son Volt
Live shot
Bob Dylan
No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture, No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7), Live at the Gaslight 1962
the Rolling Stones
A Bigger Bang
Tim Ries
The Rolling Stones Project
Devendra Banhart
Cripple Crow
Nortec Collective, Blue Sueños, Sounds Eclectico, Ozomatli, Chucho Valdés, Bebo Valdes, Paquito D'Rivera, Mercedes Sosa
Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3, Blue Sueños, Sounds Eclectico, Live at the Fillmore, Chucho Valdés Featuring Irakere, Bebo in Cuba, The Jazz Chamber Trio, Corazón Libre
Luther Vandross, Rick James, Rockers
From Luther with Love:The Videos, Rick James: Super Freak Live 1982, Rockers: 25th Anniversary Edition
Foo Fighters, Weezer
The Foo Fighters, Weezer
Molotov
Molotov, Los Abandoned
Ravi & Anoushka Shankar
Live shot
screens
Irreplaceable
Co-director Mike Johnson on 'Tim Burton's Corpse Bride' and how stop-motion has done more than survive amid the rise of computer animation
BY SPENCER PARSONS
TIFF Notes
What I took away from the Toronto International Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
On the Case: No. 3
Movin' on up
BY SPENCER PARSONS
TV Eye
From the best moments to the what-the-hell? moments
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
'People aren't as evil-minded as they were when you were a soldier, Papa,' purrs 14-year-old Emmy (Diana Lynn) to her dimly suspicious father (William Demarest), though certainly she must know better
Film Reviews
À Tout de Suite
Shot in jittery black-and-white 16mm, this French film's on-the-fly aesthetic captures the shiftlessness of bourgeois youth and some of the spirit of the French New Wave.
El Crimen Perfecto
This new black comedy by Spanish absurdist De la Iglesia involves murder and the plight of a playboy blackmailed into marriage.
Cry Wolf
A tech-centric but bloodless teen horror thriller that works best as a stinging critique of post-adolescent whininess.
Daltry Calhoun
Johnny Knoxville stars in this slapdash tale of wacky Southerners and midlife crises that feels like a compilation reel of Blue Collar TV outtakes and Coen Brothers-lite quirkiness.
Flightplan
Aiming to be a Hitchcockian-type thriller set within the tight quarters of a jetliner, this Jodie Foster vehicle runs aground.
The Memory of a Killer
A hitman who's losing his memory to Alzheimer's anchors this absorbing Belgian policier that's tightly wound and expertly unraveled.
The President's Last Bang
Roll Bounce
Hot-wiring a penchant for sports film truisms to some seriously spot-on Seventies nostalgia, this Bow Wow vehicle is an easygoing portrayal of teenage camaraderie and its attendant difficulties.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Burton's best work in ages is eye candy of the highest order and as eminently watchable as a hilltop Halloween pyre or a Día de los Muertos parade run amok.
arts & culture
Keeping Cesar Alive
Actor Ed Begley Jr. explains how he was inspired to write a musical honoring his friend Cesar Chavez
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art Aid
In the wake of Katrina, Austin artists do their part to help
BY HEATHER BARFIELD COLE
Monteverdi's 'Vespers of 1610': Heaven, I'm in Heaven
For Jeffrey Jones-Ragona and Daniel Johnson, performing Monteverdi's divine 'Vespers of 1610' in its entirety at St. Mary's Cathedral is a dream come true
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Home Entertainment: Neighbors Blowing Bubbles by the Rising Moon
In the city's back yards, Leticia Rodriguez and Tim Mateer are turning strangers into neighbors through evenings full of home entertainment
BY BARRY PINEO
Long Center: Rising to the Challenge
Only two weeks after scoring $835,000 toward a $2.5 million challenge grant amount, the Long Center is $1.35 million closer to its goal
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Rob Nash: He'll Take Manhattan
New York critics have weighed in on the off-Broadway debut of Rob Nash's Holy Cross Sucks! and given the Austin theatre artist a bushel of Big Apple praise
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Phaedra's Love
Renaissance Austin Theatre Company's staging of 'Phaedra's Love' is not for the prudish eye, what with its incest, murder, rape, and graphic scenes that require splash guards
Border Radio: The Big Jukebox in the Sky
'Border Radio: The Big Jukebox in the Sky' was as eclectic as the border radio culture it re-created, but one couldn't avoid feeling overstuffed by evening's end
columns
Page Two
Seeing clearly now
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
This week, Stephen
slathers it on at a major social-climbing event...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Sept. 28: Sculptra for facial restoration
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Are tannins responsible for the heart-healthy benefits of drinking wine?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Dog law – dogs can't be 'trusted'
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The High Plains wine country offers wine lovers a nice selection of quality wineries to tour and enjoy a sampling of their wares
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Killer whales, the Pope's e-mail, Stephen Hawking, and thousands of popping toads
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Old Pecan Street Festival
Sixth Street, Saturday, September 24, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The UT Women break their streak
