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AISD Goes Global
Johnston High School welcomes immigrant students and makes waves in the neighborhood
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
'Balancing' the Homeless
Proposed laws would recriminalize the usual suspects
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Diagnosed With Greed?
Drug dealers seek out Downtown homeless –
with money and marketing
BY JORDAN SMITH
Under Not So Healthy Texas Skies
Report on Texas health comes up mostly snake eyes
BY AMY SMITH
Trouble on the Longhorn Pipeline?
Pipeline work proceeds in Bastrop Co. following
rumors of a leak, extensive reconditioning
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Will AISD Crack Down on Special Ed?
Advocates decry district's trend from 'disability' to
'discipline'
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Weed Watch: Senate Mulls Med-Mari Defense
Bill would allow medical use claims in drug cases;
mandatory sentencing slagged
BY JORDAN SMITH
City Loses Its Mala Sangre Brain
Outside counsel Lowell Denton – both attorney
and witness – is disqualified from the case
BY JORDAN SMITH
A Happy Ending for Historic Saga
City staff backs as existing tax exemptions preserved
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Price of an Education
As the Lege looms, don't bet the house on new money
for schools
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Wheels Down
The Great Big Mueller Deal finally hits the runway
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Some elections are clean, but the GOP campaigns
dirty
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Iron Chef
By the time Caritas' Velda Melendez finally realized
that cooking could mean a career, she realized it also
meant 450 lunches five days a week – and not
just during the holidays
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
In memoriam: The Central Texas barbecue family lost
one of its most accomplished pit masters on Nov. 6.
Laron Morgan, co-owner of Elgin's Cross Town Bar-
B-Q, died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 51.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Into the Heart
U2 drops the 'Atomic Bomb'
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Me and My Friends
Walking on the wild side with Red Hot Chili Peppers'
guitarist John Frusciante
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
TCB
'Almost Famous,' part two, starring What Made Milwaukee Famous, the Murdocks, the Good Looks, Gibby Haynes & His Problem, and Endochine
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Live Aid
Live Aid
Eminem
Encore
Santana, Molotov, Inspector, Enanitos Verdes, Michael Ramos, Omara Portuondo, Hecho en Cuba, Ely Guerra, Julieta Venegas
Santana, Con Todo Respeto, Unidad, Cerveza y Ska, En Vivo, Loteria de la Cumbia Lounge, Flor de Amor, Hecho en Cuba, Sweet & Sour, Hot & Spicy, Sí
screens
Just Like Old Times
The Drafthouse's 'Degrassi' marathon is almost as
effed up as the show itself
BY JESS SAUER
Film News
Austin movie crews are coming home for the holidays
and should quickly unpack for frightful film fun
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
There is someone I would like to thank this holiday
season, as she won't be sitting at my Thanksgiving
Day table. She is the unnamed senior producer for
CBS's overnight broadcast who dared to do
something very, very brave – or very, very
stupid, depending on your point of view.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Fearless Vampire Killers, or: Pardon Me, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck
Period horror comedies were virtually unheard of in 1967, and although all of Roman Polanski's work up to that year had shone a flair for blacker-than-pitch grave-digger humor, this would be the first time he had
experimented with outright comedy
Film Reviews
Alexander
Oliver Stone has achieved the impossible: He's made the life of Alexander the Great seem boring.
Christmas With the Kranks
Holiday pap and circumstance.
Kinsey
Kinsey enshrines the scientist at the expense of a more rigorous and more profound scrutiny.
The Machinist
Christian Bale lost 60 lbs. in order to play the unsettling title character, a man who has maybe shed his sanity along with his weight.
Moog
An admiring documentary about Robert Moog, the inventor of the music synthesizer.
arts & culture
New Elf in Town
Flaming Idiot Rob Williams trades his torches for the pointy little slippers of David Sedaris' department-store elf in 'The Santaland Diaries'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
No Art Left Behind
New campaign fights for the arts in Texas schools
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Restoring 'Pastorela'
Five of Austin's Latino theatre companies joining forces to revive one of the community's yuletide traditions: 'La Pastorela'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Stephen Mills makes a dance for ABT, and Elizabeth Crist wins an honor from ASCAP
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Arms and the Man
Different Stages' 'Arms and the Man' is an honest attempt at entertainment with a political edge, but it swallows or ignores the complex interpretation that this script deserves
columns
Page Two
The right's most troubling victory may be its brilliant subversion of the language of political debate
BY LOUIS BLACK
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Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
The numbers tell a different story than the pundits: The next election will again be the Democrats' to lose if party members don't learn to talk plainly and with respect to people who are different culturally, and are uneducated, left out, or left behind
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Advice from Butterball and Thanksgiving history
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
World AIDS Day, Dec. 1
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Is my 'natural' shampoo damaging my hair?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Directive to physicians and family (living wills)
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
San Gabriel Gardens Christmas Tree Farm packs a lot into a few acres on the San Gabriel River east of Georgetown
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: W.C. Clark's 65th Birthday Celebration
Saxon Pub, Friday, November 26, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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