Jan. 5, 2007

Volume 26, Number 18

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news

News Top Tens

The best of 2006's news and politics

Chamber Recommends CAMPO Reorganization

Fewer and better-educated members could improve efficiency of transportation planning group, report says

BY KIMBERLY REEVES

All Eyes on Speaker Fight

Craddick fighting for his political life

BY AMY SMITH

The Hightower Report

Our "Made in China" Christmas; and Left-Wing Penguins and Devilish Tofu

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

What a Year Tastes Like

The palate pundits offer up their favorites

music

TCB

Ringing in 2007 with a brawl, a new club, Top 10s, and the Chronicle's annual Music Poll

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

screens

SXSW 07: Update No. 1 of Approximately 450

Announcements

Film Reviews

Children of Men

Children of Men brims with cinematic gusto, but the plot raises more questions than it answers.

Freedom Writers

Although based on a true story, this is another movie in which the cute white lady goes into an irascible high school and makes everybody love learnin'.

Little Children

A modern Emma Bovary and her should-have-been Mr. Right discover that while their suburban American lives may yet have a second act, it could well end up as a tragedy.

Man Push Cart

A small gem of a film about a small man doing small things in a very, very, very large world.

A Christian psychological horror thriller based on a novel by bestselling Christian author Ted Dekker, Thr3e nevertheless adopts the extreme-horror tactics currently in vogue in movies such as the Saw continuum.

arts & culture

Come Together

In 2006, Austin turned out for the arts by the tens of thousands

BY ROBERT FAIRES

columns

Page Two: Slippery Slopes

Insights on the way to a point, a peek at future topics, and an argument against reductionism

BY LOUIS BLACK

Letters @ 3AM

When your novel crawls along at about a paragraph per night and your apartment is tired of your company, then hooray for Hollywood and trans-fat popcorn: A summary of the movies seen by Ventura in 2006.