news
'Reinventing Government'
A conversation with Louis Dubose about Tom DeLay and 'The Hammer'
BY MICHAEL KING
'He's Forked Himself'
Our Full conversation with Louis Dubose about 'The
Hammer'
BY MICHAEL KING
'Iconoclast' Country
It's election time in Crawford – peace and free speech keep right on waving and smiling
BY KATE X MESSER
ELECTION 2004
Congress: The Texas Five, Plus One
Down to the last inning of Tom DeLay's little game
BY MICHAEL KING
Who Are All These Voters?
Turnout surge shifts ground (a wee bit) under congressional races
BY LEE NICHOLS
How to Cast a Write-in Ballot
BAK Barks at Big Doggett
A horrible candidate, or very expensive cannon fodder?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Whack-a-Pol: The Finals
Stick and Baxter – and Mrs. Baxter! – get nasty in the House races
BY AMY SMITH
E-Night Party Roundup!
The Dastardly eSlate
Really, the voting machines won't change your vote to Bush / Cheney. Honest.
BY LEE NICHOLS
Election Makes People Stupid
Sign-stealing, vandalism, cacti, chain saws, eggs … you do the math
BY JORDAN SMITH
In Other Election News ...
GOP PAC gets a reprieve, Bush loses the matchbook vote, and Barr backs Badnarik
AISD Fills Pipeline From Within
New partnership helps teachers' aides get degrees, meet district bilingual gap
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Fat Bastard Too 'Cheeky' for Austin Radio
Wine ads warp the moral fiber of some – but not all – local listeners
BY KEVIN BRASS
Daily Muddies the Legal Waters
'Statesman' case against Williamson candidate is more complex than they think
BY JORDAN SMITH
Iraqi Day of the Dead:
How to make your own mask
Election 2004 Updates
The latest electoral happenings in Central Texas,
updated daily
Politics Feature
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Austin @ Large: Hate Males, Not Rails
Please don't make me write this column again in four years.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Kerry Year One
No surprises at the Texas dailies – one good failure deserves another
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Dubya paints rosy pictures of the war and job creation … and on both, he's lying
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food on Fourth
A guide to small plates and good drinks for barhopping in the Warehouse District
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Dot's Place suffers a tragic fire but is already rising from the ashes; the Texas Book Festival hosts Bon Appetit, Y'all; and Halloween's around the bend
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Double Bliss
A day in the life of 'Austin City Limits' at 30
BY ANDY LANGER
Insecure
John Cale's strange relationship with Austin and Alejandro Escovedo
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
The politics of dancing, or at least politics and dancing
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Live Shots
screens
Maybe She's Born With It
Texas Documentary Tour: Liz Mermin's 'The Beauty Academy of Kabul'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Pedazo Chunk's Halloween Party
Friday, Oct. 29
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Print
Peter Bogdanovich can't get enough of himself
BY SPENCER PARSONS
Austin Film Festival Parting Shots
'The Loss of Nameless Things' gains studio attention
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
While major productions play tax-incentive hopscotch across the South and Southwest, Austin tries to figure out how to reignite its winning streak
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Series creator Josh Schwartz on the evolving OC
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Birth
If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?
The Manson Family
Shot over the course of 10 years, underground filmmkaker Jim Van Bebber tells the story we all think we know. This time, however, the story graphically unfolds from the perspective of Charles Manson.
Ray
Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.
Saw
Saw is indeed a horror movie, but not necessarily in the manner the filmmakers intended.
arts & culture
I Hear Dead People
Berkeley's art team ARCHIVE brings recorded seances to the Austin Museum of Art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshots From Zombie Nation
The nimble mind of artist KRK Ryden pieces together cartoon characters, drive-in theatres, outer space, devo-lution, mind control, and tikis to create a psychedelic pastiche of colorful painting
BY RACHEL KOPER
Mmmm! Mmmm! Good drama!
Austin Script Works has four new scripts just out of the oven that it wants you to sample
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
The UT Performing Arts Center is luring students into the voting booth with free tickets, and three local stage hits add extra performances
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ajax (por nobody)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Austin Shakespeare Festival's second bout with 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' in four years offers much by way of manic disposition, but not much by way of substance
'Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit'
The Austin Museum of Art exhibit 'Ghost Stories: The Disembodied Spirit' offers enough engaging evocations of the unearthly to give you a pleasurable shiver
columns
Page Two
At their best, our 2004 endorsements take a stand, but invite readers to agree or disagree with their reasoning
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The great days of the United States of America are over: Our country is now important economically only because of its citizens' consumption
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Will our Style Avatar Stephen audition for the new Jerry Hall reality show? We think he should, too. See inside.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane trivia of the damnned!
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
How the next President will reshape the Supreme Court
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
The evaluation of thyroid status is one of the most formidable tasks in medicine
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
About AIDS
HIVers: Get Your Flu Vaccination!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Day Trips
The spooky specters of San Antonio
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Live Under the Oaks 2004
Austin Music Hall, Friday, October 29, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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