KLRU
features
Holiday Wish Lists 2004, Part 2
Presents for public service
BY KATE X MESSER
news
The LCRA Moves to Turn on the Tap
Future of Hill Country waits on Authority's decisions
on water plan
BY AMY SMITH
The Depot Comes to the District Hat in Hand
Austin ISD considers a tax giveaway to mendicant
Home Depot, and the question is, who pays?
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
The 'Observer' Celebrates 50
'The Texas Observer' marks its 50th Anniversary with
a symposium on politics and media
BY LEE NICHOLS
Bicycle Nomads and the Winds of Change
Backers say winter migration to Mexico creates 'a
whole new way of life'
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
State Energy Plan: Dependent and Dirty
The Texas Energy Policy Council goes backward into
the energy future
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Sore Winners
The GOP seems determined to make representative
government a game of 'winner-take-all'
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: The Job Description
Why sane people don't run for City Council
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
On the Lege
Banning birth control; reforming Texas justice
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
All-American Spam adopts an English accent; and big
airlines stiff their workers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
At Your Service
The holidays outside the box: unique gift ideas for
your favorite culinarians
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Basket Weaving
Give the gift of Austin flavors for the holidays!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Tom Pederson's Cocoa Puro is prevalent; plus,
coming, goings, and more in this week's roundup of
Austin food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Rock & Roll Books
Gift guide
TCB
Armadillos to Addictions: a shopping guide for
discerning Austinites
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
DVDs: Part One
From Ferrell in an elf suit to Bergman at the end, the
best discs to gift this season
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Kirby Warnock's 'Border Bandits' raids the Alamo with
the ugly truth of 1915 Texas.
BY MARC SAVLOV
All About the Others
The Austin Film Society's Besides Almodovar: Other
Spanish Directors
BY WILL ROBINSON SHEFF
In Print
'Made You Laugh: The Funniest Moments in Radio,
Television, Stand-Up, and Movie Comedy'
BY JEFF TONN
TV Eye
In an unusual union between an indie-rooted movie
network and another cable network specializing in
sensational courtroom dramas comes a sustained,
multifaceted discussion on one of the most pressing
issues of our time: free speech
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Closer
Love’s fractured fairy tale, writ small and petty and almost too real to bear without flinching.
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception
"News dissector" Danny Schechter examines the media's complicity in promoting the war on terrorism.
arts & culture
Communing in the Air
With 'Lounge!,' Arthouse transforms itself into a space
that swings
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Gimme Them Biscuits
Austin theatre's barnyard brothers are ready to take
over TV – and the world
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Three Scrooges
Three different stage versions of 'A Christmas Carol'
are playing this season, and one of them is sure to
please the discriminating Dickens-lover in your
household
BY ROBERT FAIRES
In Memoriam: Robert Ellis Patterson
Robert Ellis Patterson, artist and owner of the Robert
Ellis Patterson Gallery in South Austin, died Friday,
Nov. 19
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
'Portable Worlds'
In 'Sabina's Letters,' Cuban artist Eduardo Mu&
#241;oz Ordoqui offers images in which video
correspondence is projected onto everyday objects
from his U.S. environment
columns
Page Two
The touchy, touch Republicans have become the party of
make-believe
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen lays down the law – in his own style
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Resisting enemy interrogation, government-
subsidized
health care, and hula dancing
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
About AIDS
Post-exposure prevention
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Are vitamin E supplements harmful?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Do-not-resuscitate order
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo might be the
most famous steak house in the world, or at least in
Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Project Transitions’ Holiday Swing
Dell Jewish Community Center, Saturday, December 4, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Fanless football in Italy, and potential American
European champions
