Volume 24, Number 12
ON THE COVER:
news
Welcome to the City Hall you thought would never
come
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
White lawsuit is the latest chapter in the Mala Sangre
saga
BY JORDAN SMITH
The first Texas Clean Energy Congress issues its call
to action
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Outcry over San Antonio coal-fired power plant, and
biodiesel gets a big boost
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Breaking news from Austin and beyond.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Looking for the starting line as the Council races
begin.
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Wal-Mart gets indignant; and Cheney gets churlish
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Let the hotels, restaurants, and markets take care of it
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
V.B.W. misses the Paella party but gets the scoop
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Set in a limestone, tile-roofed building at the corner of
FM 2222 and Loop 360, Siena resembles one of those
rambling manor houses that define the Italian
countryside
Tâm Deli, open since 1999, is one of our favorite
Vietnamese cuisine venues
Finding the best breads for holiday hosting
music
Adventures in young bandom: Zykos on the road
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Godspeed, ODB. Say hi to Doug Sahm for us.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
GRAND CHAMPEEN
Phases & Stages
KGSR Broadcasts, Vol. 12
Live shot
Reclamation Process
Die Fäden
One Ten Hundred Thousand Million
This May Be the Year I Disappear
Concrete Disappointment
13 Ways to Live
Perpetual Motion
It Always Will Be, Outlaws and Angels
Solo-Style, Superpsychoticqueen, Long Way Home, All the Birds
Crimson and Clover: A Tribute to Tommy James & the Shondells
Who and Who
screens
So many questions for the gaming industry, so many
Austin game developers to answer them
BY MARC SAVLOV
Richard Kern abandons hysteria for erotica
BY MARC SAVLOV
Thursday, November 18
BY MARC SAVLOV
Thursday, November 18
BY MARC SAVLOV
Time Warner warms up your cold nights with
nonstop anime?
BY MARC SAVLOV
If it's November, it must be Christmas
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
A butcher, a baker, a police officer, a newscaster, a
phone-sex-operator mom, a dead-beat dad, and a
cheat. Ray Carver and a confused audience. A Best
Director nomination for Robert Altman.
Film Reviews
This creepy tale of a stalker and the object of his affection is adapted from an Ian McEwan novel.
Odd casting and unimaginative, workmanlike direction make the painfully overlong National Treasure an exercise in mediocrity.
Over-the-top gore is the rule when Chucky and Tiffany are resurrected by their anatomically incorrect offspring.
Nautical nonsense from a highly absorbent animated hero.
Part colorful noir, part scatterbrained comedy, Testosterone envisions the severed tether of a presumably functional relationship.
arts & culture
The third East Austin Studio Tour doubles the days,
doubles the fun
BY RACHEL KOPER
Artist Roi James' journey through landscapes,
abstracts, figurative work, and more
BY JACQUELINE MAY
Intermission at Bass Concert Hall got a lot more
interesting last month when Kala Fine Art filled the
building with 80 large pieces of contemporary art from
India
BY RACHEL KOPER
The Long Center closed out the month of October with
more than $1 million in pledges
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The postponed Creative Opportunity Orchestra
premiere of a new Tina Marsh composition lands at a
rain-free venue
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
columns
Boston '69 revisited
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our readers talk back.
Stephen does Dallas
No, wait, we mean
Houston. Stephen does Houston. In a big way. With
big names. At the Icon. Don't you wish you were this
fabulous? Oh, and he does the State Board of
Education, too. Don't they wish?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
A wholphin, some Harp seal milk, and 1 quadrillion
operations a second
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
HIV and STD testing: free and easy
BY LOIS VANLANINGHAM
Is chicken soup as good for a cold or flu as people
say it is?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Power of attorney
BY LUKE ELLIS
Capt. Day Trips ventures north of the border to
magical Victoria, British Columbia
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Cactus Cafe, Saturday, November 20, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Two brilliant Kellys, and the youngest American
champion
BY NICK BARBARO