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Drug War Blowback
Drug-raid tactics come under increasing scrutiny
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Insiders
Meet City Hall's local candidates for city manager
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Appeals Court Rules Against WilCo Constable: The fight continues
Constable Gary Griffin's attorney: 'This case is not over.'
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Politics Gift Guide Part II
More creative shopping suggestions from the Chronicle News staff
IBIZ Districts: Voting local with holiday dollars
Keep Austin weird by shopping locally
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Return to ACC's Room 221: Mercury or mystery?
Some ACC employees worry mercury still pollutes classroom that has been subject of legal wrangling over past decade
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Point Austin: Undue Process
The Griffin decision fails to hold officers accountable
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside The Point
Happy holidays to all, from 'Beside the Point'!
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Free Market Hypocrites; and Lobbyists Go Shopping
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
New Year's Eve Dining & Lodging
It's time to start making reservations, party people
BY SARA ROBBERSON AND MEGHAN RUTH SPEAKERMAN
Food-o-File
Look local for the holidays, Christmas Day dining at Manny Hattan's, and more
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
TRIO at the Four Seasons
Along with a name change, TRIO at the Four Seasons on Lady Bird Lake has reinvented itself in ambience, decor, menu, and wine list
music
Harmonic Distortion
Malekko Heavy Industry's guitar pedals of mass distortion
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Off the Record
Gary Clark Jr. becomes a Honeydripper, Tee Double sounds off on Kinetic Global, Future Clouds & Radar charts, and yet another Austin Music Hall progress report
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Music DVDs
AC / DC
Plug Me In
Tom Petty
Runnin' Down a Dream
DylanBob
The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at the Newport Folk Festival, 1963-1965
Cowboy Jack Clement
Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan: Cowboy Jack Clement's Home Movies
The Holy Modal Rounders
Bound to Lose
Stax
Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Stax/Volt Revue Live in Norway 1967, Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding
The Beatles
Help!
Ramones
It's Alive: 1974-1996
Nirvana
Unplugged in New York
Pearl Jam
Immagine in Cornice
Paul McCartney
The McCartney Years
Ravi Shankar
The Concert for World Peace
Eric Clapton
Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007
Flatt & Scruggs
Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show Vol. 3, Best of the Flatt & Scruggs TV Show Vol. 4
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Ray Price
Last of the Breed: Live in Concert
Norman Granz Presents Improvisation
Norman Granz Presents Improvisation
GG Allin
Hated: GG Allin & the Murder Junkies Special Edition
Ghostland Observatory
Live From Austin TX
The Flaming Lips
U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City
U2
Popmart: Live From Mexico City
Opry Video Classics
Opry Video Classics
Oasis
Lord Don't Slow Me Down
screens
Two Towers, Six Years, and 16 Millimeters
The remarkable journey – and uncertain toll – of Steve Bilich's 'Native New Yorker'
BY MARC SAVLOV
Rally 'Round the Writers
Local WGA members take part in Day of Action
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
What's It Good For?
Kevin Booth examines our country's disastrous War on Drugs in a new documentary
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Austin Film Critics Association Announces Top Pic(k)s
The AFCA anoints There Will Be Blood best film of the year
TV Eye
NBC late-night hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien will return to the air in early 2008; also, 'TV Eye' eyes the Golden Globe noms
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Charlie Wilson's War
Despite a script by Aaron Sorkin, direction by Mike Nichols, and star turns by Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, and Philip Seymour Hoffman, this good-natured geopolitical romp falls flat.
The Great Debaters
Denzel Washington directs and stars in this inspirational but predictable drama set in the Jim Crow South of the Thirties.
Juno
This indie comedy is funny, smart, cool, and heartfelt, and features breakout showcases for star Ellen Page and screenwriter Diablo Cody.
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling novel is brought faithfully to the screen, although the melodramatics of the story's latter section undercuts the poetic drama of the first half.
P.S. I Love You
Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank needs to call her agent before getting involved in any more romantic codswallop like this.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Tim Burton's adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim classic shows just how dull violent retribution can be when it's all someone ever talks (or, in this case, sings) about.
Taare Zameen Par
This new Bollywood picture tells the story of a teacher and his dyslexic student.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Taking cues from Ray and Walk the Line, this comedy biopic spans 70 years in the life of its hero, the fictional music legend Dewey Cox.
The Walker
Woody Harrelson stars as a professional escort for political wives in this Paul Schrader movie about sex, murder, scandal, and adultery in Washington, D.C.
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
This adventure fantasy about a boy's involvement with a mysterious animal is also a period story about childhood anxieties.
arts & culture
Reflections in a Blank Wall
Florian Slotawa's exhibition tells us more about Arthouse than the artist
BY RACHEL COOK
UT College of Fine Arts: Dempster named dean
After running UT's College of Fine Arts for a year, interim Dean Doug Dempster has gotten the job for keeps
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Gibbs Milliken In Memoriam
Gibbs Milliken, one of the UT Art Department's most adventurous instructors, has passed away at age 71
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Paramount Theatre: A million in its stocking
It's a green Christmas for the Paramount Theatre, with a $1 million grant in its stocking
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Austin prints bought by a Missouri museum, Cookie Ruiz honored, and the city calls for artists' work
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Assumption
Part Southern rock opera and part 'Hamlet,' Refraction Arts' comedy is totally captivating and hilarious
A Cathedral Christmas
The Texas Choral Consort's holiday concert was a tale of two choirs: one inspired, the other flat
columns
Page Two: Constitutionally Sound
At its best, the government is an exploding, bloated, graceless machine. That just means it's working.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters @ 3AM
Steve Erickson's new novel Zeroville shows what you have to go through to see how monotheism screws up your consciousness
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar kisses and makes up with a certain Downtown club
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
The Hill Country Regional Christmas Lighting Trail dresses 11 Central Texas communities in glowing finery
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
On baseball juicers and the president: Get away with whatever you can
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The virtual improbability of online coupling, Picasso's superstitious aversion to charity, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Ripped Off During Holiday Shopping
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Armadillo Christmas Bazaar
Austin Convention Center, Friday, December 21, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Wake Forest wins NCAA men's title, and more
