Capitol Grounds
news
Bringing the War Home
No More Victims works for peace, one wounded child at a time
BY EMILY PYLE
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Blame It on Grandpa
In search of heroes and villains over AMD
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Take Cheney away; and IBM's plans for the middle class
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Sparkling Examples
It's that time of year again ...
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-file
A goodbye to Gus Vayas and the GM Steakhouse occasions an explanation as to why we can't save the world
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Starry Eyes
Roky Erickson's monumental comeback
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Best Ofs
Orange Mothers
Greatest Hits
Shel Silverstein
The Best of Shel Silverstein: His Words His Songs His Friends
Johnny Cash
The Legend of Johnny Cash
Rosanne Cash
The Very Best of Rosanne Cash
Todd Snider
That Was Me 1994-1998
Tindersticks
Working for the Man: The Greatest Hits
Johnny Adams
The Great Johnny Adams Blues Album
Shirley Horn
But Beautiful: The Best of Shirley Horn
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Africa Unite: The Singles Collection
Dead Can Dance
Memento: The Very Best of Dead Can Dance
The Beta Band
The Best of the Beta Band
New Order
Singles
Nirvana
Sliver: The Best of the Box
Richard Hell
Spurts:The Richard Hell Story
Beastie Boys
Solid Gold Hits
Snoop Dogg
The Best of Snoop Dogg
Eminem
Curtain Call: The Hits
screens
New Year, Old Films
Mid-20th-century must-sees: Part I
BY LOUIS BLACK
AFS Celebrates Its 20th, and You Can, Too!
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Film News
The 2005 numbers from the Texas Film Commission? Not bad. Gary Busey coming to town? Scary. Plus, Rhiannon Elizabeth Rodriguez-Avellán, Susan Youssef, and Tracie Laymon.
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Last week, I launched a riff on 'fascinating' TV-related
events of 2005. Here's where I left off.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Ball of Fire
In a Lonely Place
Munich
Munich is dense, thoughtful filmmaking that nonetheless flies along: Seething not only with multilayered, subtextual arguments, it’s also a heck of a thriller.
The Producers
The film's wonderfully over-the-top performances often feel constrained by first-time film director Susan Stroman, whose inexperience behind the camera is all too apparent.
Rumor Has It ...
Fans of The Graduate should skip this strange comedy, which posits that the real-life inspiration for counterculture icon Benjamin Braddock grew up to be a cheesy, brainless high tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay.
Wolf Creek
Wolf Creek is an accomplished Aussie version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; it's also a viscerally told slasher film that manages to do an awful lot with very little.
arts & culture
Our Shostakovich Year
On the centenary of Dmitri Shostakovich's birth, Austin arts groups join forces to throw the Russian composer a yearlong party
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Last Shall Be First
New Year's Eve becomes a cultural extravaganza with First Night Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A Tuna Christmas
After 17 Decembers performing 'A Tuna Christmas' literally thousands of times all over the country, do the folks involved have some holiday tales to tell?
BY BARRY PINEO
National Champions of Comedy
Austin's improv headquarters is fielding its own nationally ranked team (of comedians, natch) to put a live comic spin on the Rose Bowl championship
BY ROBERT FAIRES
George Carlin
As George Carlin brings his Off-Base and On Target tour to Austin, area comics talk about this savagely funny and influential stand-up artist
BY STEVE BIRMINGHAM
columns
Page Two
Beyond Belief: Belligerent intolerance is no testament to
faith
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen's Big Western Adventure poses a big western dilemma: Do Capri pants go with the squash-blossom necklace?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Nothing seems to recharge the batteries like relaxing in a rocking chair on the front porch of a cottage surrounded by sounds of nature
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
Are Texas Drunk Driving Laws Tough Enough?
BY LUKE ELLIS
To Your Health
Does fish oil work as well as Tricor to reduce triglycerides associated with diabetes?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
Luv Doc Recommends: New Year's Eve Spectacular with the White Ghost Shivers and the Small Stars
Blue Genie Art Industries, Saturday, December 31, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
