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Energy Savers
Meet the winners of our Kill-a-Watt Challenge
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
APD Pot-Hunters Are Data-Mining at AE
Are you using 'too much' energy? Inquiring drug cops want to know.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Travis Co. Vote
A mere 50.29% of Travis voters supported Proposition 15, the state constitutional amendment creating the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
BY LEE NICHOLS
Data Riches
A data nerd's dream come true, the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators Project's latest report is out
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Dumped by County, BFI Takes Landfill Plan to TCEQ
County rejects BFI deal but isn't willing to fight landfill proposal at state level
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Austin Bishop Checkmates 'Dark Materials' in Schools
Trilogy's anti-religious themes and author's beliefs get books banned from local Catholic schools
BY JUSTIN WARD
Media Watch
Freedom Communications Inc. closes its one-reporter Capitol bureau, progressives rally behind Air America, and the last of the tacky deejays
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Point Austin: Whose City Is It?
Northcross Wal-Mart fight is about a lot more than a site plan
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council takes long, slow journey into night
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Save the GOP From Socialism; and $2.4 Trillion and Counting
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Sweet Scottish Surprise
Drambuie tries to restore its place as a restorative
BY WES MARSHALL
Holiday Magic Baking Contest
Cookie baking contest tests holiday mettle
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Nov. 16-17
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Bombay Express
Bombay Express presents a cornucopia of exotic spices to transform mundane vegetables into works of culinary street-food art
Counter Cafe
This old-timey-style diner satisfies with true American comfort food
music
Terrible Beauty
The first day that Sam Baker could hear again
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Off the Record
The renovated Austin Music Hall breaks new ground; Brown Whörnet goes digital; and Roky Erickson rocks Austin City Limits with a little help from his friends
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Kim Miller, Patricia Vonne, Betty Soo
Risk of the Roar, Firebird, Little Tiny Secrets, Never the Pretty Girl
Bukka Allen
Confidante
Jade Day
Of Waking
Zookeeper
Becoming All Things
Masonic
Things I Am Guilty Of
Aliens
Head First
Lions
No Generation
Baby Robots
10 Year High
The Story Of
The World's Affair
Dysfunkshun Junkshun
Suga-Water-Purple- Groove-a-Listic
Jane Bond & Chad Tracy
Hell or High Water
Roger Wallace
It's About Time
Ana Egge
Lazy Days
Connie Jo Kirk
Never Met Nobody
Trae
Life Goes On
Patty Griffin
Live From the Artists Den
Boombox ATX, Penname, Chingo Bling
Feel the Boombox, A Tale of Two Midis, They Can't Deport Us All
screens
The End of the World as He Knows It
Richard Kelly does decadence plus dystopia in Southland Tales
BY SPENCER PARSONS
The Big Squeeze
The writers' strike hits close to home
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Film News
Casting news for Terrence Malick's new film, meet the new AFS communications manager, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
The first casualties of the writers' strike.
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Dear Pillow
An 85-minute tribute to erotic confusion, the locally made Dear Pillow is both fascinated by and hostile to the absurdities of our culture's Puritanism and takes obvious joy in poking holes in them
Film Reviews
Beowulf
The irony inherent in using 21st century motion-control technology to tell a tale approximately 1,400 years old is just one of many bizarrely entertaining aspects of Beowulf.
The District!
This animated Hungarian feature is equal parts South Park and Magyar-inflected hip-hop, and an altogether smart, urban riff on Romeo and Juliet.
Love in the Time of Cholera
Funny when it’s supposed to be serious and awkward when it’s supposed to be romantic, every twist in this Gabriel García Márquez adaptation is a near miss, except for the performance of Javier Bardem.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman, and Jason Bateman, and directed by the writer of Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium has whimsy coming out of its ears.
No Country for Old Men
The Coen brothers display magnificent form with this Cormac McCarthy tale about intransigent evil in the modern West.
P2
Horror overtakes a woman on level P2 of a parking garage, and the film's suspense
plays on our collective unease with being alone, at night, surrounded by concrete and rebar.
Southland Tales
Six years after Donnie Darko, filmmaker Richard Kelly returns with this incomprehensible, self-indulgent mess of post-apocalyptic anxiety, political paranoia, and pop-culture references.
arts & culture
Man With the Light Touch
Peter Bay leads the Austin Symphony with the finesse of Astaire
BY ROBERT FAIRES
East Austin Studio Tour
Art-savvy locals offer tips for where to go and who to see when you go EAST this year
BY RACHEL KOPER
'Footprints'
In the multiform company's new production, the dancers move between cultures as well as dance styles
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Arthouse Texas Prize
Ireland native and naturalized Texan Katrina Moorhead was awarded the 2007 Arthouse Texas Prize
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Elephant's Graveyard
In this new play, the infamous tale of a circus elephant that was hanged is recounted in heartbreaking fashion
Ring Round the Moon
Though at times long-winded, Jean Anouilh's farce still has enough charm and humor to entertain
Pokey
Each artist in this group show brings together disparate elements and, like patchwork, creates a larger whole
columns
Oops!
Travis Co. 200th Civil District Court Judge Gisela Triana does not intend to run for appeals court's chief justice seat
BY JORDAN SMITH
After a Fashion
Why is Stephen suddenly interested in bed jackets and catheter cozies?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Canyon Lake Gorge opens a wide crevice along the Balcones Fault, exposing layers of an ancient seabed
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
Justin Perez and Toj Mora represent the Platonic ideal of their high school football team, except they're deaf
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Marijuana arrests in the U.S. set all-time record, Louisiana has more bridges than any other state, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
There goes the neighborhood – Can they park cars like that?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Wash Hamilton Tribute and Benefit Concert
Jovita's, Sunday, November 18, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Houston Dynamo plays for their second MLS Championship, and more
