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news
Kyoto: 10 Years Later
Acevedo Fires Olsen
Following investigation and hearing, APD Chief Art Acevedo decides to terminate Sgt. Michael Olsen
BY JORDAN SMITH
UT's Brackenridge Tract: Speculating on Speculation
What will become of these coveted 345 acres where Lake Austin Boulevard meets Enfield Road?
BY JUSTIN WARD
Return of the Titty Tax
New 'nudity' tax could include not just strip clubs but cabarets, bars, fashion shows, and even mainstream theatres
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Naked City
Point Austin: The Convert
Mike Krusee on New Urbanism, Smart Growth, toll roads, and the importance of regional planning
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
City Council racing to get tasks done before end of year
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Bush's Hollow Support for Veterans; and Vote for America With Your Consumer Dollars
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Give a Chef for the Holidays
This holiday season
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Christmas dinner at the Ritz, tamales for the holidays from Santa Rita, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Event Menu, Dec. 7-19
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Aurelia's Chorizo
Leslie Horne's Aurelia's Chorizo produces authentic Spanish chorizo right in Austin's back yard, in Boerne
Dhaba Joy
After you're finished looking through kitschy playthings at Toy Joy, visit their connected cafe, Dhaba Joy, for vegan soft serve and baked goods
music
The San Francisco Sound
Celebrating the San Francisco Sound, 1965-1970, if not Rhino Records anthology thereof
BY LOUIS BLACK
Off the Record
Max Dropout's garage-punk festival levels Beerland to Ground Zero; David Letterman hosts a Late Show spectacular at Antone's; What Made Milwaukee Famous grapples with success on second LP
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Box Sets
Miled Davis
The Complete on the Corner Sessions
The Complete Motown SinglesVol. 8: 1968
The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 8: 1968
John Coltrane
Interplay
Ike & Tina Turner
The Ike & Tina Turner Story 1960-1975
Frank Sinatra
A Voice in Time: 1939-1952
Emmylou Harris
Songbird
Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection
Vee-Jay: The Definitive Collection
Franki Valli & the 4 Seasons
Jersey Beat: The Music of Frankie Valli & the 4 Seasons
Robyn Hitchcock
I Wanna Go Backwards
David Bowie
David Bowie Box
Luther Vandross
Love, Luther
The War: Soundtrack and Music From the Second World War
The War: Soundtrack and Music from the Second World War
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs1913-1938
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs, 1913-1938
The Brit Box
The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium
Donald Fagan
Nightfly Trilogy
Pearl Jam
Live at the Gorge 05/06
Megadeth
Warchest
The Heavy Metal Box
The Heavy Metal Box
screens
What Becomes a Legacy Most
Forever is in large part about what an artist's legacy means to the living
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
When White Meat Attacks
Troma's 'Poultrygeist' pokes holes (and punctures skin) in our fast-food nation
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
TV Eye
Wrestling With Angels is an intimate, surprisingly extensive profile of one of this nation's greatest contemporary playwrights
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Drunken Angel
In his 1948 debut for the immortal Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune unleashes a naked rage that anticipates James Dean by a half-dozen years
Film Reviews
Awake
The phenomenon of "anesthetic awareness," in which the patient is fully conscious yet physically paralyzed during surgery, is grist for this psychological thriller.
Darfur Now
For all the film’s rallying efforts, its meandering structure and absence of a central focal point result in a film about genocide that is, as unbelievable as it sounds, kind of boring.
The Golden Compass
The special effects are mostly spectacular in this story of a 12-year-old orphan whose fate is connected to a holy, multiverse war yet to come.
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten
One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made, Julien Temple's film about the former Clash musician acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth.
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Lloyd Kaufman's Poultrygeist is a campy zombie comedy that's full of jokes, chicken suits, spewing geysers of various bodily fluids, and barbs flung in the direction of the fast-food industry.
What Would Jesus Buy?
The good Reverend Billy is on an agitprop mission to convince his fellow Americans that our heedless consumerism will be their spiritual undoing.
arts & culture
Northward, Ho!
Why we're headed to the Blue Genie Art Bazaar's new home
BY RACHEL KOPER
'The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!' Saving the season with every Christmas story you've ever heard
The Yellow Tape gang works its high-energy, kitschy, crowd-pleasing magic on the holidays
BY BARRY PINEO
CreateAustin: The future is now
The cultural planning process has produced a draft with visionary recommendations and now needs public input
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Blanton Museum of Art: Adios, Pérez-Barreiro
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, the Blanton's curator of Latin American art, is leaving UT to head the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
BY RACHEL COOK
Arts Reviews
The Ultimate Christmas Musical: The Musical!
Yellow Tape's holiday musical delivers on the promise of its title with tremendous fun
Faces of America: The Light
The Miró Quartet examines our national character and finds some of America's lights still shine brightly
WorkSpace: Paul Ramirez Jonas
This installation leaves us to question our own notions of patriotism and our sense of American-ness
columns
Page Two: The Terrible Thing
Demonization of those with whom we disagree is the most dangerous disease that can infect a constitutional republic
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters @ 3AM
Americans no longer look or sound like, and will never again look or sound like, this country's rigid image of an "American"
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar Grinches about the crappy Christmas decorations on Congress Avenue and relates to one Nomi Malone
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
'Historic Hotels of Texas' is as much a history book as it is a traveler's guide
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
Fans continue to go gaga over the Dallas Cowboys
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The faith behind Nietzsche's mustache, the most expensive year for oil, the dirty truth about air driers, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
My Neighbor's Yard is a Jungle
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: 'Checking It Twice'
Hideout Theatre & Coffeehouse, Thursday, December 6, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Champions League group stage ends next week, and more
