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news
When the Bough Breaks
In 1993, the Hyde Park Baptist Child Development Center
hired a teacher who proved to be a little 'rough' with the
children. Now the church is being sued for ignoring alleged
child abuse.
BY EMILY PYLE
Election 2006: All Their Base Are Belong to Us
Crunching the numbers on the November 2006 election
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Church Plan Unneighborly?
Redeemer Presbyterian Church's impending move from Concordia University's campus to East Austin has mix of homeowners and urban planners in Rosewood and Upper Boggy Creek area upset
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Oaxaca Unrest Continues
More of the dirty same in the southern Mexican state, where striking teachers, indigenous groups, students, and leftists have been trying to oust Gov. Ulises Ruiz from power for about the past six months
BY CHERYL SMITH
WilCo 'Snit' Writ Large
Fight over whether county commissioners violated the law when they slashed Precinct 1 Constable Gary Griffin's budget moves to 3rd Court of Appeals
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Naked City
Point Austin: Counting the Dead
Whatever their number, the Iraqi casualties lie at our feet
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
A light council agenda for this week, focusing on Downtown and salamanders
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Reefer Madness
The election roundup
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
The War Tally; and State Secrets
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
SPATCHCOCKING
Spatchcocking!
I will be your guide and translator as we cover what is sure to be a revolution in turkey preparation
BY MICK VANN
So, You're Done Spatchcocking ...
Now, what about your Thanksgiving sides? The Food writers share their recipes.
New & Noteworthy
Jake's Natural Fine Foods
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Thanksgiving edition
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Around town, with an appetite
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Get thee to a winery!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Life Is a Rhythm
Ground zero for Austin hip-hop: University Hills' 2-3
BY ROBERT GABRIEL
TCB
Sittin' sideways at the Recording Academy Honors, pondering the state of the music business with Chronicle photographer Andrew Shapter, mourning a death on the Eastside, and applying America's newfound Democratic spirit to our Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
THE OCTOPUS PROJECT
Texas Platters
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
So Divided
Mark Rubin & His Ridgetop Syncopators, Adam Ahrens, Ed Miller, Band of Heathens, Will T. Massey
Dance, Adam Ahrens, Never Frae My Mind, Band of Heathens, Letters in the Wind
Lemurs
Voxtrot
Your Biggest Fan
Octopus Project / Black Moth Super Rainbow
The House of Apples and Eyeballs
Giant Squid
Metridium Fields
Joe Doucet, Texas Southside Kings
Houston's Third Ward Blues, Texas Southside Kings
Django's Moustache, David Hamburger
South Austin Gypsy Jazz, Blues, Ballads & a Pop Song
screens
Think Outside the Book
Eric Schlosser on Richard Linklater's adaptation of his Fast Food Nation
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Jim Jones Jr.
on 'The Life and Death of Peoples Temple'
BY MARC SAVLOV
'SXSW Presents'
Light From the East
Film News
I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Couch Potato Pie
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Fallen Idol
The first of three collaborations between Carol Reed and Graham Greene
Film Reviews
American Hardcore
Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history.
Casino Royale
This is the James Bond origin story wherein we get to discover, along with incoming blond Bond Daniel Craig, where 007 got his suave daredeviltry and love of fast cars, vodka martinis, and highest-stakes cardsharpery.
Facing the Giants
A born-again high school football coach draws on a higher power to inspire his team to victory.
Fast Food Nation
Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser's noble and worthy film about meat processing and consumption smacks of good-guy agitprop and fails as a character-driven narrative.
Happy Feet
Raise your flippers in praise of these animated yet flightless fowl, who sing and dance and fight the eco-wars.
Harsh Times
A gritty drama about a disappointed military vet and his best pal, who are headed in a downward spiral in South Central Los Angeles.
The Return
Sarah Michelle Gellar plays a woman who keeps seeing a dead murder victim in her dreams, so of course she must get to the bottom of this mystery.
Shut Up and Sing
The Dixie Chicks' struggle with the conflicting demands of art and commerce as portrayed in this documentary shows that they're still not ready to make nice.
arts & culture
EAST, at Ease
The 2006 East Austin Studio Tour reveals 86 studios and one stacked pod art city with a shared alphabet
BY RACHEL KOPER
Jimmie Roulette: Hitting the jackpot, playing the Palace
Austin comic Jimmie Roulette will hit Vegas this week as part of an exclusive stand-up showcase in HBO's the Comedy Festival
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Demetri Martin: Under mild surveillance
Demetri Martin, of the "Trendspotting" segment on The Daily Show, explains his quick rise in comedy, how it feels to be semifamous, and why he chose Austin for filming his next Comedy Central special
BY DANIEL OPPENHEIMER
Culture Flash!
A big gift for Austin Lyric Opera, national honors for two of Austin's young classical musicians, and TexARTS sails up a Big River in January
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Kneeling Down at Noon
The Mary Moody Northen Theatre's Kneeling Down at Noon is a thoughtful and deeply humane drama that considers the way Islam informs the lives and actions of various characters
Double Exposure
In Double Exposure, writer/performers Wayne Alan Brenner and David Jewell offer old and new material they've created, and their knack for capturing nuance in the mundane entertains
'Buster Graybill: The Oklahoma Snorkel'
Artist Buster Graybill presents the finer points of a good day out at the lake in his solo exhibition "The Oklahoma Snorkel" at the Donkey Show
columns
After a Fashion
"Christian" Stephen gets thrown into the Austin Music "den" of Stitch(ing) "lions" and emerges beatified
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The real Flags of Our Fathers rests in Harlingen
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
Resveratrol, found in red wine, has many beneficial effects on a person's health
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Selling My Home - Disclose Death by Natural Causes?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Idi Amin's musical aspirations and the death of cursive
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: The Art of Andy Warhol
Ao5 Gallery, Saturday, November 18, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
A huge week for Texas soccer!
