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Building Utopia
After years of pipe dreams, politics, and planning, the new Mueller Neighborhood is rising at last
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Mas Noticias Las Manitas: Council Members Take Stand
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Media Watch
'Dallas Morning News' editorial staff members leap for buyouts; and 'Austin Student' publisher says 'vendetta' by former UT boss partially drove her to sell her weekly paper
BY KEVIN BRASS
Celebrating Barrientos
Gonzalo Barrientos is stepping down at the end of his current legislative term in January, after 21 years in the Senate and 10 years in the House.
BY MICHAEL KING
Election 2006
The latest from the campaign trail
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Tough Tacos
As tempers rise, the Las Manitas debate symbolizes the future of Austin
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council returns after a three-week hiatus to a lengthy and twisty agenda
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Poppies Up, Bush Down; and Biotech Mutation of Creeping Bentgrass
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
We Deem Keem Supreme
Custom candy at Farm to Market and beyond
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
New and Noteworthy
Casina Rossa Truffle & Salt
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
In spite of the sad circumstances, Bill Clinton at El Chile made Carlos Rivero's week
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Sept. 29-Oct. 5
Food Reviews
Mangieri's Pizza Cafe
His grandfather was serving up pizza in 1920s New Jersey; now, Anthony Mangieri's doing so in Southwest Austin
Ms B's Authentic Creole Restaurant
Whatever you do, order the sweet potato fries
music
Song for My Father
An epic and personal reminiscence of Don Walser and what he meant to Austin
BY MARK RUBIN
TCB
Bidding farewell to dandy Don Walser, remembering Jerry Lightfoot, helping Chris Tominaga, and shopping for HAAM
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
CAVEDWELLER
Texas Platters
Global, Strange Fruit Project, Clemits, J Kapone
Nigerian, The Healing, Last Laugh Rising Sun, Hood Tale 2
The Mars Volta
Amputechture
Dynah
Wake
Cavedweller
The Best Version of 'Gloria' Ever There Was
Johnny Edson
More Than Friends
Idgy Vaughn
Origin Story
Debo Adejobi
African Folk Tales & Music, Volume 1
screens
Out, In, and Onscreen
The 19th Austin Gay & Lesbian International FIlm Festival
Getting Through Something Hard
Kat Candler's 'jumping off bridges' screens in conjunction with the Travis County Suicide Prevention Coalition
BY C. AMBER PEARCE
'SXSW Presents' Launches Season Three on KLRU
Tuesday, Oct. 3, 9pm
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Play: Saints Row
BY JEREMY MARTIN
In Play: 'NHL 2K7' 2K Sports
BY MARK FAGAN
TV Eye
The 'Friday Night Lights' depth chart
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats
These vintage interviews could not take place today; the guests had no movies to plug and 90 minutes in which not to plug them
Film Reviews
Edmond
William H. Macy stars in this film penned by David Mamet about one man's long night's journey of the soul.
Flyboys
This story of the Lafayette Escadrille squadron, who become the first U.S. fighter pilots, is surprisingly inert.
Jet Li's Fearless
Jet Li's final martial-arts epic is fittingly peripatetic, finding the Hong Kong superstar ricocheting across the screen from action set-piece to emotional overload and back again.
Open Season
The animated Open Season is long on manic energy and bathroom humor but short on real storytelling, emotion, and characters.
School for Scoundrels
Although it stars Billy Bob Thornton and Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Heder and is jam-packed with multitalented comedians and stars, School for Scoundrels is just not funny.
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Documentary about Lennon's political activism and time spent in New York basks in the legend's presence but offers little new on the subject.
arts & culture
Out of Commission
The curious saga of 20 portraits of British literary greats that UT paid Feliks Topolski to paint, then didn't show for decades
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Payne Pleasures 2006: The nominees
Your play didn't have to tackle a political theme to earn a nomination for ACoT's 2005-2006 B. Iden Payne Awards, but the top nominees reveal that it sure didn't hurt
BY ROBERT FAIRES
365 National Festival: A Suzan-Lori play a day ...
Starting Nov. 13, Austin will join nine other cities across the country in a national festival that will produce 365 plays by Suzan-Lori Parks in 365 days
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Archives: UT makes play for Shepard, snaps up Newman, wins Woody
That treasure trove of cultural archives at UT has recently been expanded to include photographic portrait maker, playwright and actor Sam Shepard, and filmmaker Woody Allen
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Bars, Bedrooms, Bukowski
Watching 'Bars, Bedrooms, Bukowski,' a theatrical version of four Charles Bukowski stories, it's obvious that adaptor/director James Cotton loves his subject matter
Psycho Beach Party
The humor in Psycho Beach Party might seem as mindless as the targets, but with Naughty Austin's production the fun of guys in wigs, dancing hunks, and screaming chicks yanks you in
'Rembrandt's Etchings'
With the exhibition 'Rembrandt's Etchings,' the Blanton Museum of Art has created a rare and intimate opportunity for you to see, study, and absorb the impact of Rembrandt's mastery for yourself
columns
Page Two: Return of the Independents
'SXSW Presents,' season three
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
Letters at 3AM
According to a 'USA Today' survey, 30% of all American youth hope to have careers in the arts. Who's been lying to these children?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
What is keeping Stephen inside six nights a week, glued to the boob tube? And why would anyone want to go waaaaaaaay down south? Answers within.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The San Jacinto Monument has reopened its observation deck to the public, offering a beautiful view of the Houston skyline and the battlefield where Texas won its independence
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Lead exposure is an ancient problem and lead poisoning remains unnecessarily common among children
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Changing My Name – Do I Need a Lawyer?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The president pushes the button ... the Fresca button
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Freedom Network’s 11th Anniversary Celebration
Austin Music Hall, Saturday, September 30, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Two big home games for the Lady Longhorns, and more
