Sandy Carson
Volume 27, Number 11
ON THE COVER:
news
Meet the winners of our Kill-a-Watt Challenge
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Are you using 'too much' energy? Inquiring drug cops want to know.
BY JORDAN SMITH
A mere 50.29% of Travis voters supported Proposition 15, the state constitutional amendment creating the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
BY LEE NICHOLS
A data nerd's dream come true, the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project's latest report is out
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
County rejects BFI deal but isn't willing to fight landfill proposal at state level
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Trilogy's anti-religious themes and author's beliefs get books banned from local Catholic schools
BY JUSTIN WARD
Freedom Communications Inc. closes its one-reporter Capitol bureau, progressives rally behind Air America, and the last of the tacky deejays
BY KEVIN BRASS
Northcross Wal-Mart fight is about a lot more than a site plan
BY MICHAEL KING
Council takes long, slow journey into night
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Save the GOP From Socialism; and $2.4 Trillion and Counting
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Drambuie tries to restore its place as a restorative
BY WES MARSHALL
Cookie baking contest tests holiday mettle
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Nov. 16-17
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Bombay Express presents a cornucopia of exotic spices to transform mundane vegetables into works of culinary street-food art
This old-timey-style diner satisfies with true American comfort food
music
The first day that Sam Baker could hear again
BY DOUG FREEMAN
The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Risk of the Roar, Firebird, Little Tiny Secrets, Never the Pretty Girl
Confidante
Of Waking
Becoming All Things
Things I Am Guilty Of
Head First
No Generation
10 Year High
The World's Affair
Suga-Water-Purple- Groove-a-Listic
Hell or High Water
It's About Time
Lazy Days
Never Met Nobody
Life Goes On
Live From the Artists Den
Feel the Boombox, A Tale of Two Midis, They Can't Deport Us All
screens
Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales
BY SPENCER PARSONS
The writers' strike hits close to home
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Casting news for Terrence Malick's new film, meet the new AFS communications manager, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The first casualties of the writers' strike.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
An 85-minute tribute to erotic confusion, the locally made Dear Pillow is both fascinated by and hostile to the absurdities of our culture's Puritanism and takes obvious joy in poking holes in them
Film Reviews
The irony inherent in using 21st century motion-control technology to tell a tale approximately 1,400 years old is just one of many bizarrely entertaining aspects of Beowulf.
This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Funny when it’s supposed to be serious and awkward when it’s supposed to be romantic, every twist in this Gabriel García Márquez adaptation is a near miss, except for the performance of Javier Bardem.
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman, and directed by the writer of Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium has whimsy coming out of its ears.
The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.
Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense
plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
arts & culture
Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art-savvy locals offer tips for where to go and who to see when you go EAST this year
BY RACHEL KOPER
In the multiform company's new production, the dancers move between cultures as well as dance styles
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Ireland native and naturalized Texan Katrina Moorhead was awarded the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
In this new play, the infamous tale of a circus elephant that was hanged is recounted in heartbreaking fashion
Though at times long-winded, Jean Anouilh's farce still has enough charm and humor to entertain
Each artist in this group show brings together disparate elements and, like patchwork, creates a larger whole
columns
Travis Co. 200th Civil District Court Judge Gisela Triana does not intend to run for appeals court's chief justice seat
BY JORDAN SMITH
Why is Stephen suddenly interested in bed jackets and catheter cozies?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Canyon Lake Gorge opens a wide crevice along the Balcones Fault, exposing layers of an ancient seabed
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Justin Perez and Toj Mora represent the Platonic ideal of their high school football team, except they're deaf
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Marijuana arrests in the U.S. set all-time record, Louisiana has more bridges than any other state, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
There goes the neighborhood – Can they park cars like that?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Jovita's, Sunday, November 18, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Houston Dynamo plays for their second MLS Championship, and more
BY NICK BARBARO