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What Happened to the No-Kill Millennium?
Austin's plan to end wholesale euthanasia at Town Lake shelter remains a distant dream
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Election Breakdown
The not-so-shocking election story, in numbers
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Capital Metro's Labor Lowdown
StarTran makes its 'last, best, and final offer'
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Find the Real Reporter: A Questionnaire
The city has decided to be the arbiter of quality journalism. We decided to help them out.
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Fattenin' Frogs for Snakes
Wave a white sheet at City Hall, and the Keystone Kops kome running
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Leaked internal memo shows a company scheming to cut back on employee benefits; and winner of common-sense competition will get $100,000 smackers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Fino, Finally
The Foxes' second success
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Much ado about Manor Road; plus, Ahmad Modoni returns from Oaxca and sadness at the Chicago Dog House
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Starlite
How has the menu-rotating restaurant's fare held up after its big move?
T's Cafe
A safari in Pflugerville
music
Howlin' Wolf Does Not Wear Panties
Walter Daniels' punk blues stirs up a whole new generational ilk, like Black Joe Lewis
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Border Media Partners prove radio's not dead, especially en Español, the Wannabes remember fighting the TCU frat scene, and Dave Chappelle details his obsession with the female anatomy
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Trio Medieval, Amjad Ali Khan, Kronos Quartet & Asha Bhosle, Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabate, Amadou & Mariam, Abdel Wright, DJ Cheb I Sabbah
Stella Maris, Moksha, You've Stolen My Heart, The Heart of the Moon, Dimanche A Bamako, Abdel Wright, La Kahena
Three 6 Mafia, Ellay Khule, E-40, B-Legit, Dangerdoom
Most Known Unknown, Califormula, The Bay Bridges Compilation Vol. 1, Block Movement, The Mouse and the Mask
Fiery Furnaces
Rehearsing My Choir
The Rosebuds
Birds Make Good Neighbors
Bobby Bare
The Moon Was Blue
Wilco
Kicking Television:Live in Chicago
Cream
Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6 2005
screens
Start Lining Up Now
'Brokeback Mountain' to bring McMurtry
'SXSW Presents': East Austin Stories
East Austin Stories
Film News
Are the Coens coming back to Austin? Plus, Anne Rapp and 'Double Wide,' Jenn Garrison in Italy, and Jacob Vaughan kind of gets hit on by Dave Carradine.
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
This was one of those weeks when I was asked my 'expert' opinion on a variety of TV-related subjects
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Taxi: The Complete Third Season
It could be the series' best
Film Reviews
Bee Season
Myla Goldberg’s novel about spelling-bee fever, a family in chaos, and religious/mystic exploration arrives on the screen with all its faults intact but few of its charms.
Derailed
The first release from the new Weinstein Co. is this thriller starring Jennifer Aniston and Clive Owen that never fully engages our sympathies.
Dorian Blues
Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique, which catapult the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
The fourth Potter emphasizes the emotional over the gothic
Paradise Now
Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.
Walk the Line
Joaquin Phoenix is terrific as the musician Johnny Cash, whose rise, fall, and resurrection we watch as he does the Benzedrine 12-step in order to earn the love of country-and-gospel sasspot June Carter.
arts & culture
EAST: Now With More!
The 2005 East Austin Studio Tour boasts 40% more paintings, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry, prints ...
BY RACHEL KOPER
UT Choral Arts Society
For its fall 2005 concert, UT Choral Arts Society draws on the rich repertoire of English sacred music, transporting its audience to a London cathedral
BY BARRY PINEO
Wafflefest
The folks at the Hideout didn't scrimp on the titular treats at the third annual Wafflefest, and the waffles and their toppings were as good as the improv
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin Cabaret Theatre
To break in its new home in the Mansion at Judges' Hill, Austin Cabaret Theatre has booked a class act of the musical theatre: Lee Roy Reams
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Whole Foods is about to get more arts-friendly, Austin moves closer to Puerto Rico, Shear Madness has a new detective running the show, and art at the new fire station really rocks.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Macbeth
Intense is an apt word for describing Shakespeare's bloody Macbeth, but intense moments in the UT Department of Theatre & Dance's new revival are few and far between
'Jill Thrasher: A Studio Portrait'
The visual experience of Jill Thrasher's work in 'A Studio Portrait' offers an opportunity to explore all phases of the printmaking process
'Nude Works 13'
What draws the eye into Neil Coleman's images of female nudes is the comfort of the models with their own bodies and their connection to the photographer
columns
Page Two
Persistence of memory
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen lovingly remembers his time designing couture for Zach Scott Theatre
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Service to observe World AIDS Day, Dec. 1
BY ROGER TEMME
To Your Health
Why was my newborn given a vitamin K shot before we left the hospital?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Why do I need a will? What happens if I die without a will?
BY CARL BARRY
Day Trips
Ellison's Greenhouses in Brenham boasts an eye-popping array of poinsettias to help enliven the Christmas season
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Who ranks 16th among 21 industrialized nations when it comes to achievement in science?
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Dr. Seuss: An American Icon
Austin Museum of Art – Downtown, Saturday, November 19, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The Lady Longhorns will have to wait 'til next year.
