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features
New Year's Eve Events
BY WELLS DUNBAR
news
Maps, Balls, and Testifying
The testimony gets mighty strange at the re-redistricting trial.
BY MICHAEL KING
The True Story
Grandfather fought in the Philippines -- after that, things get kinda blurry …
BY LUCIUS LOMAX
Chapman out the door, off the hook
A surprise retirement spares the APD assistant chief.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Lucy Neyens Asks: Is My Case Closed?
The APD sexual-misconduct case remains in official limbo.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Stratus 2003: Make Way for HEB
Neighborhood negotiations go much better for Stratus the second time around.
BY AMY SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
What's at Stake?
The federal redistricting trial will reverberate through national politics for years.
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: What Happens Next?
Suggestions for a 2004 City Hall to-do list
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Jim's holiday gift list; and Sears gets a present from ABC.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Go West, Young Men
All for the love of Pinot: Three Austinites make serious waves in the world of wine.
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
As 2003 swiftly comes to a close, I've taken a few minutes out of the holiday madness to ponder things I'd like to see in the coming year.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Second Helpings
Babbo’s Italian Gelato & Coffee, Bouldin Creek Coffeehouse & Cafe, Jo’s Hot Coffee & Good Food, JP’s Java, Ruta Maya International Headquarters, Trianon
music
No Dominion
A partial roll call of people who died in 2003.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Best-Ofs
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TCB
What a sampling of the Austin music scene wants for Christmas.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
'One From the Heart'
Coppola's critically, commercially, and conversationally ravaged Las Vegas romance makes a comeback
BY LOUIS BLACK
Girl of Their Dreams
Disney was struggling to find a young star for Young Black Stallion. Then, Austinite Biana Tamimi found them.
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Short Cuts
With Screaming Black Yak Day upon us, Marc Savlov kindly gives out some kudos and guidance.
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Native American actors playing Native Americans? On a major network? With no white guy in sight? This might be a good time to talk about diversity on the small screen in 2004.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Big Fish
Tim Burton is all grown up and getting serious.
Cheaper by the Dozen
Cheaper comedy dozen't add up.
Cold Mountain
Swoony kisses and true grit mark this Civil War epic from the director of The English Patient.
House of Sand and Fog
Moody and offbeat adaptation of Andre Dubus III bestseller heralds strong debut for new director and dandy performances by Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley.
Peter Pan
There's a definite sexual tension between Peter and Wendy in this live-action Pan that's heavy on the special effects.
21 Grams
Powerful performances resonate in this devastating and weighty follow-up picture from the director of Amores Perros.
arts & culture
Hanging Up the Torches
After 20 years of juggling fire and other foolery, the Flaming Idiots are calling it quits.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
New Wind to Blow Through Austin
Internationally recognized composer John Corigliano has chosen the UT School of Music to premiere his Symphony No. 3 for Wind Ensemble.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Articulations
Austin playwright John Walch goes to Louisville for its festival of new plays; Vincent Kitch goes to Washington for Americans for the Arts; and Everett Quinton goes to Seattle for a new production of Twisted Olivia.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
columns
Page Two
Meditations on memory, politics, and sexuality, brought on by the Beach Boys.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
The story of how the Style Avatar got his sew on
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Daytrips
Christmas isn't over till the last light comes down.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Christmas, Kwanzaa, Chanukah, and barely domestic fruitcakes
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Can I cancel an order and get my money back because the item is taking so long to get here?
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
Until recently I had never heard of a vitamin called biotin. What is it good for, and what foods have it?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Letters at 3AM
Learning to listen to your soul in all aspects of your life.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
About AIDS
Happy New Year ... and Thanks!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: 12 Steps to a More Dysfunctional Christmas
, Friday, December 26, 2003
BY THE LUV DOC
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