If it's October in Austin, you can bet there are more gala events scheduled than any one person could possibly attend. Food editor Virginia B. Wood provides a rundown of them.

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

Second Helpings: Community Supported Agriculture Subscription Farms

How to join community supported agriculture subscription farms.

music

Back Home in Texas

The return of the reigning Queen of Austin Country Music

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

Phases and Stages

Explosions in the Sky

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever

Wild Seeds

I'm Sorry, I Can't Rock You All Night Long: Wild Seeds 1984-1989

screens

Snapshots From the Fest

Interviews and winners from the Austin Film Festival

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN AND KIMBERLEY JONES

Of Church and State

British director Stephen Frears discusses his new film, Liam

BY SHAWN BADGLEY

For the Love of Crap

Local doc PrizeWhores gets cozy with koozie-junkies.

BY KATE X MESSER

A Way of Life, Like Any Other

Darcy O'Brien's recently reissued, autobiographical Hollywood novel A Way of Life, Like Any Other is part satire, part insightful coming-of-age tale, and entirely funny.

BY CLAY SMITH

Web Site to Watch: mumbleboy.com

Internet design elevated to art, post-Atari

BY MICHAEL CONNOR

Film Reviews

Graveyard of Honor and Humanity

A Selection of Short Films and Videos by Austin Filmmakers

Street Trash

A liquor store owner sells a toxic brew to winos.

Is Anybody Laughing?

In the midst of economic hard times and a wave of terrorist attacks, the comedy business wonders what's funny.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Austin Playwrights Dan Dietz and Tom White get produced in L.A., playwright Colin Swanson gets two shows mounted in NYC, and set designer Christopher McCollum and painter Michael Ray Charles show up on PBS.

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

Cavani String Quartet with Gregory Allen

This Jessen Series of Distinguished Faculty Artists concert by the Cavani String Quartet saw these now-familiar Visiting Artists in Chamber Music at their performing, and pedagogic, peak.

Romeo and Juliet

St. Edward's University's lavish production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is, for the most part, an enjoyable, educational -- albeit long -- night of romance and comedic and dramatic irony, with some intense swashbuckling.

Marcel Marceau

All his life, Marcel Marceau has pushed the invisible envelope of mime with crazy experiments. On October 6, in Bass Concert Hall, he gave a rendition of some of his most successful experiments, his greatest hits.

columns

Page Two

An ineffective war and the passing of Dan Del Santo

BY LOUIS BLACK

Postmarks

Righteous readers respond to recent rape reportage, and our Best of Austin issue garners a kudo or two.

Postmarks Web Extra

Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

Letters at 3AM

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein offered a metaphor for the modern age, one in which the monster is the unacknowledged dark side of the inventor or creator.