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'Austin Chronicle' Endorsements
General Election, Nov. 6 – Proposed Constitutional Amendments
The Unnecessary Death of Vilhelm Hesness
Bicycle groups question official response to driver recklessness
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Watershed Redo
How redevelopment can save the springs ... or not
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Slicing the Map
Charting single-member possibilities
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Judge Denies Laura Hall New Trial
Prosecutors failed to disclose crucial evidence during trial, appeal attorney argues
BY JORDAN SMITH
Second Street Retailers Take Stand Against Landlord
Second Street retailers hire lawyers to fight wacky billing system
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
WilCo's Latest Snafu
Illegal workers and sexual assault – just another WilCo contract
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Naked City
Reefer Madness
War on Prohibition is the new War on Drugs
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Full Court Press
The Moriarity lawsuit arrives in court – trailing a herd of lawyers
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Disneyland has its civic virtues
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Wonderland of Rudy, Mitt, and Fred; and Subsidizing Disaster
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Le Grand Fromage
Whole Foods global cheese buyer Cathy Strange
BY MM PACK
A Texas Book Festival Trio
Food-o-File
Mother's is back!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Nov. 1-8
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Fun Fun Fun Fest Preview
The blurbing of Fun Fun Fun Fest
Off the Record
Graham Williams of Transmission Entertainment breaks down this weekend's Fun Fun Fun Fest, while Ian McLagan and the Chronicle music staff sound off on the 2008 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot
BY AUSTIN POWELL
screens
Re-Re-Re-Re-Reopening Night
The Ritz: Talkie theatre, cowboy hangout, playhouse, comedy and punk club, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
BY MARC SAVLOV
On Watching Cine las Americas' La Hora Fria and John Huston's 'Under the Volcano'
While getting ready to go
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Film News
Little children and Little Children; plus, the Texas Bigfoot
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Fantasy world
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
American Gangster
A sizzling cast and their director do a crackerjack job of nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days of internal corruption and outer rot.
Bee Movie
Jerry Seinfeld delivers an agreeable though tame animated picture that more than does the trick but is unlikely to become a superbuzz movie.
The Bubble
This gay-tinged Romeo and Juliet story set largely in Tel Aviv shows the complexities of love in a land where the conflicts are as old as Western religion and as new as suicide bombers.
Confessions of a Superhero
What does Superman do when he's not posing for snapshots with tourists in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre? This documentary about Hollywood's ultimate poseurs tells all. SXSW Film Presents
Martian Child
Only in Hollywood can a movie about alien children be boring, although the terrific performances of John Cusack and Bobby Coleman help redeem this predictable mush.
My Kid Could Paint That
This truly perplexing documentary begins as a fascinating cultural investigation of a child prodigy, but gradually devolves into an unintentionally creepy and exploitative document.
Saw IV
Jigsaw died in Saw III but here we get to witness his autopsy, stem to stern, thus giving him not only the last laugh, but Being and Nothingness, as well.
Wristcutters: A Love Story
Despite the film's good-natured sense of absurdity about the afterlife, it's not enough to make up for its lack of real humor or meaning.
arts & culture
Fantastic Voyage
For 'The Odyssey,' composer Graham Reynolds goes on a journey with Austin Children's Choir
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Luke Savisky: Hands across the water
Images of hands projected across Wooldridge Park illuminate our assault on and communion with the environment
BY BENNÉ ROCKETT
Women & Their Work: Why W&TW?
Arts professionals talk feminism and women's art over the past 30 years and W&TW's role in both then and now
BY ROBERT FAIRES
2007 B. Iden Payne Awards: Prize night
Running down the winners at this year's awards from the Austin Circle of Theaters
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Io: a myth about you
Monika Bustamante's updated Greek myth comes in a top-notch production that rages about like a rough sea
Tuna Does Vegas
Taking the Tuna crew to Sin City was a huge gamble, but we end up bigger winners than losers
Cauleen Smith: NTSC
Smith uses the analog TV production standard to probe what's uniform and what's excluded in society as well as TV
columns
Page Two: Down the Drain
Even if it were possible, what would getting rid of all illegal immigration cost us?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion
Watch it, Charlize; Elvis on fire; and is Stephen saying what we think he is saying?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Terrill Antique Car Museum in De Leon makes up for its small size with some of the most unique specimens of automotive history
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Darwin's death, gorging on glutamates, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Visa to Travel – When and Why (Part 2)?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Master Pancake Theatre
Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, Friday, November 2, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Longhorns to play their final regular season game, and more
