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news
My Semester on the Beat
Wherein our reporter pursues the bad guys, abhors Problem People, studies community policing, and earns a perfect attendance koozie in the APD's Citizen Police Academy
BY NORA ANKRUM
It's the Carbon, Stupid!
Texas leaders continue to drag their boot heels on global warming
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Frank 'The Fetus' Strikes Again
Seemingly undaunted by his failure to push through legislation in 2005 that sought to protect pharmacists of conscience from having to fill scrips for emergency contraceptives, Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, gears up his 2007 this-is-where-life-begins agenda
BY JORDAN SMITH
Polygamous Prophet Update
Court hears testimony of alleged victim of "spiritual marriage" arranged and presided over by Warren Jeffs
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Point Austin: Invisible No More
Houston janitors strike a mighty blow for the value and dignity of labor
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
Slow week at City Council ... try to stay awake
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Neil Bush Milks Cows; and Responding to Labor
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food-o-File
Getting whiskful about Carmelo's 21st birthday
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Oh, holy crap, the holidays are here!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Asia Cafe
The best and most authentic Chinese in town?
The Belmont
Going beyond the interior design and clientele
music
Keep on Growing
Derek's main Domino Bobby Whitlock settles in his legend in Austin
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Ready to Fight
A chat with Negative Approach's John Brannon
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Second Coming
Tia Carrera's Jason Morales takes out the Lysol and sprays down the Melvins
BY AUSTIN POWELL
GIFT GUIDE
Rock & Roll Books
Gift Guide
TCB
Fun Fun Fun Fest brings punk and indie to Waterloo Park, Dixie Chicks return defiant as ever, and Mayor Will Wynn smacks down the playa-hating New York Times. Even The Onion couldn't make this up.
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
screens
GIFT GUIDE
Crew Stories
Tommy Sturgis
BY C. AMBER PEARCE
Film News
Last thoughts on Altman, courtesy of collaborator Stephen Harrigan; plus, incentives and local interest
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Xmas-Rated?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
O. Henry's Full House
His popular (and populist) short stories pretty much invited adaptations, a calculated risk that 20th Century Fox decided to gamble on in 1952
Film Reviews
Deck the Halls
It's like Neighbors, except with more Christmas lights and Danny DeVito.
Dreamland
This ensemble piece set in a rural mobile-home park has a solid emotional center despite some dramatic mood swings.
F*ck
Like the very word this documentary examines, F*ck can be found all over the place.
Heading South
North American women of a certain age, who are sex tourists at a Haitian resort in the late Seventies, provide grist for this French film's study of social and economic contrasts.
The Nativity Story
Sadly, this familiar tale is presented with a yawn-inducing neutrality more reminiscent of a community-center Christmas pageant than an epic story of divine humanity.
Turistas
Turistas is a surprisingly effective horror film with good acting and some breathless action.
arts & culture
Finding Hope ... in Bed!
Tim Miller's latest trip to Austin finds the noted performance artist optimistic about being gay
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Dan Dietz: Breath in Denver
A smoking ban extended to theatres threatens to suck the air out of a Denver production of Austinite Dan Dietz's play tempOdyssey, but where there's a will ...
BY DAN DIETZ
Austin Symphony: Meeting the orchestra the first time
The Austin Symphony gets in touch with our inner child through a concert featuring some of the classical music that most people first heard when they were young
BY BARRY PINEO
365 Days/365 Plays: Weeks 3/4
The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven short plays presented at the Blanton Museum in Week Three and seven more by Different Stages in Week Four
Ballet East: An expression of Hope
Ballet East hasn't changed its name to Alvin Ailey West, but with a fourth choreographer from the prominent dance troupe having set work on the Austin company, it could
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Review: UT Department of Theatre & Dance's The Way of the World
Despite the script's dizzying mishmash of complications, student production transports you to another time and place
Review: Different Stages' Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge
Christopher Durang's holiday spoof is a kamikaze hayride into a merry miscellany of Christmas entertainments
'Review: Testsite 06.5: I Want to See My Skirt'
Inspired by 1960s images of a Nigerian girl, filmmaker Cauleen Smith and poet A. Van Jordan create a beautiful Testsite collaboration that imagines her journey to womanhood but also reveals how we see ourselves
columns
Page Two: Selling Short in the Marketplace of Ideas
"Consequences" wrought in the pursuit of silencing speech should be of deep concern to all
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
While the rest of us were battling holiday crowds, your Style Avatar was whooping it up in Buda ... at Wal-Mart
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Mandola Estate Winery pairs handmade Italian-style wines with a Texas accent to an Old World-style Italian market and restaurant
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
To Your Health
With sadness we report that columnist and nutritionist James Heffley passed away on Sunday, Nov. 26, at the age of 65.
The Common Law
What happens if I don't show up for jury duty?
BY KATHERINE HOWARD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The state of oil and doggie doppelgängers
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: John Aielli’s Capitol Tree Lighting & Holiday Sing-Along
Capitol Grounds, Saturday, December 2, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
D-League Dreams
All roads lead to Toros training camp
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Soccer Watch
NCAA College Cups and more
