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TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT
Here Comes the Train
Can city staff, citizens, and neighborhoods realize – and build – a more livable city?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Charting the TODs
Some visual samples of the neighborhood plans for Transit Oriented Development
Policing Sixth Street – in White and Black
Two conflicting stories – did a Downtown partier get out of control, or did the cops?
BY JORDAN SMITH
What the Cops Say vs. What the Lawyer Says
BY JORDAN SMITH
McCracken Charges Toll Road Cover-up
Council Member says toll road proponents overplayed
direness of funding situation
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Pondering Planning in Southwest Travis County
Citizens try to balance development and conservation
in sensitive Hill Country land
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Now Appearing on Local Stages: Willie Nelson and Austin Biofuels
The Red-headed Stranger tries to cut down on smoke
in the air. The bad kind, that is.
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
ACC South Austin: Plain, Weird, or Just Plain Weird?
Board spends $1.1 million on architecture fees and gets a Kleenex box
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Naked City
News and happening from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
Point Austin: Getting Into Bonds
When the wish lists are written, will the money follow
the speeches?
BY MICHAEL KING
The Election, the Baby, and the Bathwater
Heflin challenge could reverberate statewide
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
Newt Gingrich is back ... hooray! And, job numbers
are up – but wages aren't.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Picking the Spread
The best bets for watching Super Bowl XXXIX in
Austin
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Tailgating Traditions
Philadelphia vs. New England
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-file
You still have a chance to Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner? for Project Transitions; plus, events from all
over the Austin food map
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Mob House Rules
Trail of Dead introduces their new epic release to the
world
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
TCB
Kicking it red-state style with the Yuppie Pricks,
Asleep at the Wheel, and Snoop Dogg. Suck it, blue
states!
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Trail of Dead Reviewed
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Worlds Apart
Bright Eyes
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
Arcade Fire
The Arcade Fire
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter
Michelle Mercer
Rufus Wainwright
Want Two
the Comas
Conductor
screens
Walk a Mile
The Texas Documentary Tour: Ramona Diaz's
'Imelda'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Possible Lives
The third annual Austin Jewish Film Festival
BY MARRIT INGMAN
The Adventures of Austin's March
Thin-slice this, bitch! SXSW 05 is on its way, and
we've got names
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
TV Eye
I'm going to Vegas, baybee! For work, of course.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
OH! Mikey: Volumes 1-6
Leave it to the Japanese, arbiters of the bizarre, to find a way to make mannequins even scarier – by
making them domestic
Film Reviews
Hide and Seek
John Polson's psychological thriller about a father (Robert De Niro), daughter (Dakota Fanning), and the creepy goings-on in their house in the woods dangles over the precipitous edge of awfulness a full 90 minutes before toppling into that abyss with a resounding clatter.
Million Dollar Baby
Glorious performances and Eastwood's confident direction result in a film that transcends the rules of its genre and shows us, with an unvarnished simplicity, how human beings struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable.
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2005
Spike & Mike has always been a hit-or-miss program, and this year is no different, with a few genuinely brilliant pieces surrounded by examples of puerile fun and juvenile humor.
arts & culture
The Company You Keep
There's no knowing Andrea Ariel without knowing the
artists she works with
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Home Front
In our post-9/11 world, Michelle Mayer's 'Open
House' hits us where we live
BY MADELINE IRVINE
Elaborate Life
His love of theatre has led 'Aida' director Matt Lenz on
an amazing journey
BY BARRY PINEO
Austin Playwrights
The playwrights of Austin Script Works are continuing
to gain ground in their takeover of the American
theatre
Culture Flash!
Esther's crowns new wits, and Chase Staggs gets a
check from SVT
Arts Reviews
St. Enid and the Black Hand
In Vortex Repertory Company's mesmerizing St. Enid
and the Black Hand,' an archetypal family enacts a
fairy tale with many-layered meanings
Enchanted April
Austin Playhouse's Enchanted April' taps the story's
timeless charms and envelops you in a captivating
glow, as warming as spring sunshine
Austin Symphony Orchestra With Peter Serkin
Despite not always fully engaging with soloist Peter
Serkin, the Austin Symphony Orchestra was clear,
tidy, and provided some sweeping music
'New Works by Liz and Maurice Treviño'
Liz and Maurice Treviño's new, poster-art-
influenced paintings are tragic, but they're too specific,
sharp, and clean to be morose
columns
Page Two
The vision of a healthy, dynamic, impressively
powerful country having a tortured, ongoing internal
dialogue about its actions serves to inspire rather than
discourage dreams
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
About AIDS
New test for TB – at last!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
Reducing the risk of appendicitis
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Topless in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
After a Fashion
This may very well be the only time you will see Barney, Tinky-Winky, Winnie the Pooh, and Cher appear in the same 'After a Fashion.' What are you waiting for?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Waiting around for pots to boil, Spock's home world,
and a fecund brain in a petri dish
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
The Benini Sculpture
Ranch outside of Johnson City uses the rugged Hill
Country landscape as a backdrop for two-dozen
designs by internationally recognized artists
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Austin Lounge Lizards' 25th Anniversary Show
Texas Union Ballroom, Saturday, January 29, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
On American soccer, and soccer in America
