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Dreaming of Buffalo
Prairie preservationists want to turn Austin's eyes – and energies – eastward
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
CRP Leak
The city wants to know who leaked the Citizens Review Panel recommendations to the press
BY KEVIN BRASS
Downtown Density Dreams
Politicos announce city resolution to hire consultants to develop a Downtown Austin Plan
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
AMD Sets Its Site on Lantana
Company trumpets facility greenbuilding; opponents ask what's downstream
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Saying 'No' to AMD
As the company moves forward, the culprits are wiping away their fingerprints
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
After five years as president, W. remains securely sealed in his political cocoon, void of real-life experiences, pure of any intrusion by the hardships of regular folks; and it's wrong to think that faith talk and photo-ops with evangelicals will be enough to convert people to the Democratic cause
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Candyland, TX
A Lamme family portrait prompts a sweet walk down memory lane
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
'A Christmas Story' gets the Alamo treatment; plus, 'Barbecue: A Love Story' and Santa Rita's Rose Bowl cocktail
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Chili Cold Blood Loves You!
Black & blues cowboy metal
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Music DVDs
Gift guide
Dreck the Halls
CD gift guide
TCB
Ho ho ho. Christmastime brickbats and bouquets.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Holiday You-Wish List
Once around the Xbox 360
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
In Print
Alain Silver's book is back and better than ever after 30 years. Still, it's not nearly as potent as Hanzo the Razor.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Event Horizon
The Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
From Camilla Parker Bowles to the perks and perils of catering to the consumer
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Rebel Samurai: Sixties Swordplay Classics
The films found in this box set are beautiful examples of a new direction in Japanese filmmaking, one that used the aesthetic and technical language of the swordplay films to expose and attack the culture that had lionized them
Film Reviews
Cheaper by the Dozen 2
This unasked-for sequel fuses the original concept with the well-worn formula of the family-vacation romp.
Fun With Dick and Jane
The original version of this comedy was a little countercultural, a lot class-conscious, and a touch subversive; this remake is all farce when what is needed is satire.
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam
Houston-based, Iranian-born filmmaker Mashayekh relates the story of the pioneering 11th-century mathematician, astronomer, and poet, and reminds Western audiences that there’s more to Iran and the Middle East than suicide bombers and hummus.
Memoirs of a Geisha
Well, we’re not in Chicago anymore, or even its soundstage approximation, but that hasn’t stopped Oscar-nominated director Rob Marshall from fashioning another epic spectacle out of two squabbling women in (a sort-of) show business.
The Ringer
A Farrelly brothers comedy that purports to have a message about treating the intellectually challenged as regular human beings and stars Johnny "Jackass" Knoxville is about as disingenuous as a comedy that urges us to see past a person’s body size to appreciate the beauty within and stars Gwyneth Paltrow in a fat suit.
Ushpizin
This Israeli comedy is a wholly original movie that's set and filmed entirely within the insular realm of Jerusalem’s ultra-orthodox Hasidim.
arts & culture
To Marfa, on a Tuesday in December
When high art and hipness move in, what happens to a tiny Texas town?
BY DAN KEANE
On the Funding Front
The National Endowment for the Arts has dropped some holiday cheer in the form of federal funding into the stockings of five area arts groups
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam
Jason Ansara Brooks, who directed, choreographed, and was performing in Pro Arts Collective's production of 'Black Nativity,' died Tuesday, Dec. 13, days before the show's closing performances
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The Long Center gets more corporate cash, AMOA wants your Christo and Jeanne-Claude stories, and the city of Austin wants your art for City Hall and the airport
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire
With his solo show 'A Christmas Carol Roasting on an Open Fire,' Rob Nash has lit a fire under Dickens' perennial fable like Austin's problem child with a grill
columns
Page Two
What it takes to win the War on the War on Christmas
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Letters at 3AM
The Devil gives you five seconds, and God gives you none at all
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Caroling, Mother Ginger, and teenage wildings? You know it's 'the season.'
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Bentsen-Rio Grande State Park comes alive with wildlife during the winter months, but is enjoyable all year long
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
What is the latest thinking on coenzyme Q-10 supplements?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
What does the term "ERISA" mean?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Luv Doc Recommends: Jerm Pollet’s Merry F%@#ing Xmas
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown, Saturday, December 24, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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