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news
Unstable Element
Are Austin's water fluoridation policies dangerous?
It depends who you ask.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Point Austin: Angels Wanna Wear Our Red Shoes
If GOP dominoes refuse to fall, maybe the Dems can take advantage
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Water on the Brain
Council wades into the conservation wetlands
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Nov. 26-Dec. 3
Developing Stories: Driving in Two Directions
CAMPO's trends vs. centers debate is shaping our future
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
MetroRail
Cap Metro announces progress on MetroRail
BY LEE NICHOLS
MetroRail Watch
Congrats, MetroRail – the arm goes up one notch
BY LEE NICHOLS
Judges Seek Alternatives to Incarceration
A review of federal sentencing guidelines reveals room for improvement
BY JORDAN SMITH
Carstarphen's Vision
AISD superintendent envisions a brighter, smarter district
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Some Guy Named Schieffer Drops Out of Guv's Race
Withdrawal announcement opens a whole new ball game for Dems
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Buying Local
Local businesses form a united front – just in time for the holidays
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Politics Gift Guide
Giving and goading this holiday season
The Hightower Report
A Monopoly on Voting; and Ideas for Banking Reform
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Crackdown
If local eggs are outlawed, will only outlaws have eggs?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Holiday baking contest winners, Empty Bowls filled for Capital Area Food Bank, and helping hands for the holidays
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
This week, foodies can run for Caritas and drink for Meals on Wheels
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beer Flights
The Texas craft-brewing scene has finally reached a benchmark: It's gotten big enough to have a book written about it
BY LEE NICHOLS
Brew News
Brewery openings and Texas winners and losers
BY LEE NICHOLS
music
Steel Bluebonnet Determination
Robin Shivers, founder of HAAM, worked behind the scenes, and yet was one of the Austin music scene's most important faces
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
Casting the annual ballot for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and paying tribute to poster artist extraordinaire Bill Narum
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 17
KGSR Broadcasts Vol. 17
Neckbone, Lil' A & Lil' Nash, Gerald G
Filthy Rags Ridin Muzik, Loyalty Is Everything, What's Really Hood
Brazos
Phosphorescent Blues
Lymbyc Systym
Shutter Release
Nelo
Two Years Ago
Sons of Hercules
A Different Kind of Ugly
Uncle Bruno
Uncle Bruno
Shelley King
Welcome Home
Norah Jones
The Fall
Jeff Lofton Quartet
Los Lonely Boys, El Tule, Hector Ward & the Big Time, Willie Alvarado
1969, Volumen II, Freightline Funk, Willie Alvarado
Two Tons of Steel
Not That Lucky
Reid Wilson & His So-Called Friends
Country Music Revolution
Clay Nightingale
Clay Nightingale
Brandon Jenkins
Brothers of Dirt
Shallows A.D.
Alien Nation
The Deaf Ears
Live Forever
Candi & the Strangers
Candi & the Strangers
Distance Runner
A Lesson in Gravity
Baby Robots
Probably Portions & Portions
screens
Born Digital, But Then What?
UT professor Craig Watkins on the migratory patterns of the Internet's first flock
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
The Balancing Act of Being in Two Places at Once
I'll Come Running director Spencer Parsons on his states of mind
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Just Can't Get Enough
DVD box sets
TV Eye
TV Eye may not love Ray Romano, but she's liking him an awful lot in his new show, Men of a Certain Age
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
De Dana Dan
In this Bollywood comedy, two men come up with a dognapping plan in order to raise money quickly to satisfy their rich girlfriends.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wes Anderson's delightful animated film has room for both existentialist dread and a grinning joie de vivre.
Kurbaan
A married Indian couple, who are both university professors living in the U.S., get caught up in some urban terrorist actions.
Ninja Assassin
No amount of fighting sticks and throwing stars can elevate this silly tale or its Korean pop-lite star Rain.
Old Dogs
Mork and Vinny Barbarino star in this witless comedy about middle-aged men caring for a couple of 7-year-olds.
The Road
Cormac McCarthy's bleak, end-of-days novel survives the transition to the screen with remarkable veracity.
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Edward and Bella are back for more thwarted young vampiric love.
arts & culture
'Bacchae' to the Future
How in (a Greek) god's name can the Rude Mechs re-create Dionysus in 69 in '09?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Kelly Fearing
At 91, this Austin artist keeps making and showing art, including a new exhibit at UT
BY MADELINE IRVINE
Okay Mountain/Rude Mechs
The two local art groups are off to make mischief at a pair of international festivals
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Bill Narum
Remembering the artist who helped fuse the worlds of art and music in Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Skin of Our Teeth
A quick-tempoed, caricaturish style serves Thornton Wilder's play well most of the time
Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project
Ambe's precise blade, cutting the flesh of books, makes them less and more than they were
columns
Page Two: Tales of the Pioneers
Hanging with Roller Derby queens and pulp fiction masters
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Stephen weighs his priorities: Purple cashmere or other people?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Gay Place is thankful for you ... and free dinner at Charlie's
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
If plans proceed, the Mineral Wells Fossil Site may become only the fourth public park in the U.S. where visitors can keep the fossils they find
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
James Brown, pants in Paris, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Do-It-Yourself Divorce in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: ThunderCloud Subs 19th Annual Turkey Trot
Waterloo Park, Thursday, November 26, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Electric Skaterland
Austin births a Roller Derby renaissance
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Soccer Watch
There's turmoil in the United Soccer Leagues, but the Aztex remain unaffected, and more
