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Getting on the KUTting Edge
Austin NPR affiliate's lofty goals aim well beyond the status
quo
BY KEVIN BRASS
Schroeder Fired for Rocha Shooting
Police union accuses Knee of caving, calls for resignation
BY JORDAN SMITH
Rethinking Reagan ... and LBJ
AISD searches for student and community involvement in high school redesign program
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Changing Focus and Location at the Sustainable Food Center
Critics charge original mission of serving poor has strayed
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Katrina Evacuees: Precarious Times at La Quinta
FEMA's new Dec. 1 cutoff deadline for picking up the tab of hurricane evacuees living in Texas hotels and motels leaves thousands of people in housing limbo
BY CHERYL SMITH
Council Notes: Stack and Shuffle
Mayor worries that bond wish list doesn't anticipate SH 130
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Beside the Point
City Council takes action on Spring condos, and another homelessness ordinance
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
The Hightower Report
This basic human right gets short shrift in today's materialistic world; and Support Your Local Farmers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Harvesting History
An appreciation of the pecan
BY MM PACK
Food-o-file
What's cooking in the Central Texas food scene
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Honky-Tonkers Don't Cry
Dale Watson's heads for the streets of Baltimore
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Ten Minutes Till Heartaches
Martí Brom's 'Heartache Numbers' comes together just in time for her departure from Austin
BY JIM CALIGIURI
TCB
CDFuse, the Wannabes, Last Waltz, and MySpace make for a very happy (and busy) Thanksgiving.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
various artists
KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 13
Alejandro Escovedo String Quartet
Room of Songs
Sound Team
Work
the Glass Family
Sleep Inside This Wheel
Awesome Cool Dudes
Maxin and Relaxin
the Exit
The Way Out is Through
At All Cost
It's Time to Decide
the Gene Pool
3rd and Main
Curt Kirkwood
Snow
the Black
Tanglewood
Barbara Kooyman
Undercover:The Songs of Timbuk 3
Les Saucy Pants
Asstacular!
The Mars Volta
Scabdates
Chamillionaire
The Sound of Revenge
Blaze Foley
Wanted More Dead Than Alive
screens
Restorative Powers
Moving Image Archivists converge on Austin, ready to party
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Hollywood Detour
The independent mind of Edgar G. Ulmer
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
'SXSW Presents'
'Bike Like U Mean It'
TV Eye
So, you wanna be in pictures?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Missouri Breaks
As shape-shifting, lavender-scented 'regulator' Robert E. Lee Clayton, Marlon Brando delivers the most self-indulgent performance of his career, and that's saying a lot
Film Reviews
The Dying Gaul
Playwright and screenwriter Craig Lucas debuts as a director of his own material with this nasty little story about interpersonal deceptions and Hollywood ethics.
The Ice Harvest
Instead of an action comedy that’s as slick as ice, Harold Ramis’ sardonic new comedy is more like an uncongealed river of slush.
Just Friends
A tepid romantic comedy with a side order of vitriol.
Naked in Ashes
This documentary follows a group of spiritual voyagers through a series of pilgrimages and trips to Indian ashrams and holy festivals in order to create a portrait of the yogi life.
Rent
Despite the grating, workmanlike direction of Chris Columbus, this boisterous film is a vivacious, wiseacre musical and an inarguable morality lesson: Love is all you need.
Yours, Mine & Ours
This supersized family comedy makes The Brady Bunch look like an example of prudent family planning and sophisticated humor.
arts & culture
Here Yet Ever There
From Austin, New Orleans artists strive to save what remains of their city and work to recover it
'The Santaland Diaries': Zach's New Home for the Holidays
When it has three popular shows and only two theatres to run them in, what does Zach do? Turn the old bicycle shop next door into Santaland.
BY BARRY PINEO
Queertown: Laughs for Gays ... and Everyone Else
Dallas comedy troupe Queertown isn't coming to Austin to find refuge from Prop. 2; it's just seeking new fans for its upbeat sketch work that has quickly captivated Big D
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society finds a new artistic director in an old friend, Robyn O'Neil is the People's Choice for the Arthouse Texas Prize, and Laguna Gloria is the spot to start that yuletide spending spree
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Playboy of the Western World
As the weather cools, Different Stages brings the warmth of rural Ireland to town in its staging of J.M. Synge’s ‘The Playboy of the Western World’
'Denny McCoy: The Blue Paintings'
D Berman's exhibition 'Denny McCoy: The Blue Paintings' is just that, but to the patient viewer, the simple vertical bars of blue shimmer to life and transport you distant settings
columns
Page Two
In the Iraq war, there is no course to stay
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
Stanley Crawford's 1966 novel 'GASCOYNE' has been out of print for 35 years, a literary crime redressed this month by the Overlook Press
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Travel across Texas with your Style Avatar, and how was Stitch?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Wright House to host World AIDS Day event
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Even more reasons why vitamin C is good for you
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Free stuff - is it really free?
BY MELISSA DEVINE AND LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The Famous! King's Inn on the shores of Baffin Bay has been serving crowd-pleasing seafood since 1935
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
On portmanteaus and other things you can't be bothered to look up for yourself
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: All American Rejects, Rooney, The Action Is
La Zona Rosa, Friday, November 25, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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