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The Forgotten Storm
One year later, Rita's invisible evacuees still wait in the shadow of Katrina
BY CHERYL SMITH
ANN RICHARDS
Cease-Fire Ends in Southwest Road Wars
Environmentalists charge that Daugherty has been working backroom deals for southwest roads
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Election 2006
Naked City
Headlines and Happenings from Austin and Beyond
ANN RICHARDS
The Hightower Report
The Privatizer President; and Steinbrenner's Foul Deal
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Batini III
The official drink of Austin contest
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Wine(s) of the Week(s)
Tasting American wines with French winemakers
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Come and get it!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Hungry for what's happening?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Restaurant Jezebel
An ambitious menu, and it all works
Byblos Falafel and Deli
Attention to detail, excellent flavors, and authenticity
music
ACL Fest Live Shots
Reviews and photos from all three days
TCB
Lightning, humidity, Tom Petty, and a few other elements converged on Zilker Park for Austin City Limits' annual musical orgy
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
Unbelievably Incredible
Fantastic Fest II is for real
BY MARC SAVLOV
No Limits
Austin at the Toronto International Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Parallax View: The Political Economy of Images
Friday-Sunday, as part of Cinematexas 11
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Film News
Ninja-pirate-supermodels, the Austin Polish Film Festival, and zombies (of course)
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Lost in Translation
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Tick vs. Season One
Not all is well in the City, but it's good to be back
Film Reviews
A/k/a Tommy Chong
Chong cuts a hugely sympathetic figure in the story of his legal troubles after Operation Pipe Dreams, an anti-paraphernalia sweep that specifically targeted his bong business.
All the King's Men
Despite an A-list cast and director, it's astonishing how bad this movie is.
The Black Dahlia
Brian De Palma returns with a new crime thriller drawn from James Ellroy's fictional account of the notorious Los Angeles murder of a would-be Hollywood starlet dubbed the Black Dahlia.
Confetti
Even if it's not quite an affair to remember all year, this BBC Films mockumentary about three wacky weddings is pleasant and enjoyably diverting.
Everyone's Hero
Everyone's Hero displays its heart firmly on its sleeve as the pedestrian animation celebrates the pursuit of one's dreams.
Jackass: Number Two
Strange as it may be to say, Jackass: Number Two is just the kind of vicarious excitement for which the movies were invented.
The Science of Sleep
Michel Gondry's film is messy, confusing, painful, and ultimately, thanks in no small measure to the unfettered talents of Gael García Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg, utterly rewarding.
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Everyone complains about the perceived shortcomings of the MPAA, Hollywood's movie-ratings board, but nobody does anything. Nobody, that is, until activist documentarian Kirby Dick.
Time to Leave
This oddly dispassionate film about a young man dying of cancer is the French antidote to those Hollywood weepies in which the heroine courageously faces her own mortality with every hair in place.
The War Tapes
As raw and disturbing as it is wry and satirical, this film gives voice to U.S. National Guard soldiers in Iraq.
arts & culture
Let Me Show You Something You May Have Missed
Sean Perry's photographs offer to show you familiar settings in a whole new light
BY ROBERT FAIRES
BAM! Performing Arts Festival: What's that sound?
Pro Arts Collective gets your attention with BAM!, a new performing arts festival bringing dancers, actors, poets, and musicians to Austin to display the surge of creativity among African-American artists
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Gary Payne: Man of mystery
While he's best known for producing murder mystery dinner theatre, this month sees Gary Payne in a more traditional mystery: Anthony Shaffer's Sleuth
BY BARRY PINEO
Culture Flash!
The influential artwork of Micael Priest blesses the South Austin Museum of Popular Culture, and ACT wants State Theatre patrons to come to the cabaret – for free
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A Moon for the Misbegotten
The Celtic Cultural Center and Renaissance Austin Theatre Company bring O'Neill's 'A Moon for the Misbegotten' to life with an authentically dark and droll Celtic sensibility
'Kenneth J. Hale: New Works on Paper'
With his new series of collages, Austin printmaker Ken Hale trades in his flatbed press for a flatbed scanner with intriguing and sometimes luscious results
'Eric Zimmerman: Simplon Pass'
Eric Zimmerman's "Simplon Pass" plays off utopian visions of the past in ways that are beautiful and painful in their longing for release from spatial bounds
columns
ANN RICHARDS
Page Two: Tearing It Up
Tearing It Up: Smart, committed, and usually the funniest person in the room, Ann Richards kicked down doors and prepared us all for the future
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar defines "tarantism," to which we might add, "obsequious"
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is 7-keto-DHEA any better or safer than DHEA?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Student Looking for Work Visa
BY ANNIE SCHWARTZ
Day Trips
The Tower of the Americas shoots 750 feet into the air and has helped to establish San Antone as a desired tourist destination
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
No feeding the poor in Vegas, and a history of the avocado
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Fantastic Fest 2006
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, Thursday, September 21, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
The Lady Longhorns improve their record 6-2 and open conference play this week on the road, and more