Blue Genie Art Bazaar
Gary Miller
Volume 28, Number 10
news
ELECTION WRAP-UP
President-Elect Obama
Ending the politics of fear and hate
BY MICHAEL KING
Cornyn Holds Off Noriega Challenge
Noriega missed it by a million
BY LEE NICHOLS
Texas House: GOP Hangs On to a Whisker-Thin Majority
Dems come oh so close to rocking the House
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Craddick's Grip Goosed
Who'll be the next House speaker?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
WilCo
Close calls suggest WilCo is turning, well, purple anyway
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
No Regrets for a Disappointed Doherty
Larry Joe Doherty didn't win the race, but he made it winnable, which was no small feat
BY LEE NICHOLS
Precinct 3 Upset
Dems may have Libertarian to thank for victory
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Travis Bench Is Solid Blue
Dems pick up another local judicial post, plus another high-court seat
BY JORDAN SMITH
Despite Loss, Prop. 2 Makes Its Point
The amendment lost – but not without sending a message
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
AISD
Voters support pay raise
BY MICHAEL KING
Nov. 4 Election Results
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Point Austin: We Won!
Celebrating 'the fierce urgency of now'
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Still a City to Run
Election hangover keeping you awake? Just read this agenda ... zzzz.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Res Publica
Post-election funk? There's still plenty for good citizens to do this week: Nov. 6-13.
ATU Strikes, After StarTran Rejects Compromise
Can Mike Martinez's proposal avert a bus strike?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Yogurt Shop Murders: A Rare Moment of Amity
The DNA evidence may still be an unknown, but at least both sides now know – and agree on – what to do with it
BY JORDAN SMITH
Another Dream Deferred on East 11th
Popular Eastside restaurant closes doors, raising questions about the ARA's purpose
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Is Memory Hijacking Texas' Justice System?
Eyewitness identification methods based on false assumptions about memory are putting innocent people behind bars
BY JORDAN SMITH
Ben Wizner on Taking On the CIA
The ACLU lawyer was in town recently at a screening of Secrecy
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
One Mother Makes a Difference; and What We Could Do With $700 Billion
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food-o-File
As one local foodie chapter closes, another reopens, and a local chef goes on to fresher endeavors
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Nov. 7-8
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Longhorn Po-Boys & Falafel
Don't pass up the burgers at your favorite gyro joint
Sugar Mama's Bakeshop
Olivia O'Neal uses only the freshest ingredients for her delicious cupcakes
Olivia
Try the South Austin foie gras at this hip new spot
Dahlia Cafe
Home-style cooking at its best
music
Red River Shore
Lifting the Dylan sideman vow of silence, Lone Star-style
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record
Putting on the gloves for round three of Fun Fun Fun Fest, Dangerous Toys go platinum, and Okkervil River stands for a fire demon
BY AUSTIN POWELL
FUN FUN FUN FEST
Fun Fun Fun Fest Saturday Picks
Blurbing Fun Fun Fun Fest one act at a time
Saturday Interviews
Saturday Reviews
Food! Food! Food! Fest
Eat. eat.
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Fun Fun Fun Fest Sunday Picks
Blurbing Fun Fun Fun Fest one act at a time
Sunday Interviews
Sunday Reviews
Texas Platters
Asylum Street Spankers
What? And Give Up Show Biz?
Dremnt the End
Dremnt the End
The Pons
In the Belly of a Giant
The Summer Wardrobe
Cajun Prairie Fire
Benko
Welcome to the Follow Through
Fluoxetine
Two Weeks & Holidays
Red Leaves
By Road or Rail
Stereokitsch
Get It Goin'
Fingerpistol
Young and Beautiful
The Service Industry
Keep the Babies Warm.
Sleepercar
West Texas
Black Bone Child
Black Bone Child
25 Smokin' Figurados
Divine Spirits, Holy Smoke
Last Ride In
Washed Up: The Story of Captain Chokebone
The Teeners, Iron Age, Hatred Surge
Rocket Reducer No.1, The Way Is Narrow, 'Servant' b/w 'Bestial'
The Action Is
Space Fire
Candi & the Cavities
Your Father Doesn't Play Handball
Ethan Master of the Hawaiian Ukulele
So Real
Fight Bite
Emerald Eyes
The Frontier Brothers
Space Punk Starlet
screens
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Voting Booth
AFS Documentary Tour presents Election Day
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
At Home at the Easel, If Nowhere Else
A new documentary captures Austin's homeless population finding purpose in art
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Film News
Joe R. Lansdale talks about the Bubba Ho-Tep sequel, King of the Hill gets canceled … again, Owen Egerton and pals sell a script, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Screens Reviews
Le Doulos & Le Deuxième Souffle
Cowboy gangster Jean-Pierre Melville almost always chose to die and almost always violently
TV Eye
Investigating Journalism
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Ashes of Time Redux
Dreamlike, confounding, yet possessed of a stunningly complex sensual and narrative poetry, Wong Kar-Wai's Chinese film is absolutely gorgeous.
Filth and Wisdom
Madonna's film-directing debut, which stars Gogol Bordello charismatic frontman Eugene Hutz, is a slight and philosophically dubious effort.
The Haunting of Molly Hartley
A frighteningly dull updating of The Omen and Rosemary's Baby for the Gossip Girl set.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
The slapstick humor remains, as does the slack plotting, in this animated sequel that's nevertheless fun for all.
The Other End of the Line
In this cross-cultural romantic comedy, a telephone operator in India travels to San Francisco to meet the man she falls for over the phone.
Repo! The Genetic Opera
This cyber-gothic opera set in an unsavory world of the near-future stars Sarah Brightman, Paul Sorvino, and Paris Hilton, among others.
Role Models
In this comedy, two cranky men, played by Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott, are forced by court order to take part in a child-mentoring program.
Soul Men
Samuel Jackson and Bernie Mac play a couple of washed-up and forgotten R&B backup singers, who are on an improbable road back to fame.
arts & culture
Working Playwright
Steven Dietz just wants to get in, roll up his sleeves, and make the words better
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Tutto Theatre Company
Dustin Wills' new play reconsiders Hamlet through a quintet of Ophelias
BY HANNAH KENAH
Dame Edna
The Australian gigastar visits Austin after missing a January gig due to illness
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Rude Mechs
The Rudes' next show gets tapped for a prestigious New Play Development Project
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Lyric Opera
ALO teams with KMFA and KLRU to get its season opener on public radio and television
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Unbeaten
Everybody wins in Shannon McCormick's highly enjoyable one-man show about football
Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show
A creative adaptation that offers the pleasure of seeing good puppeteers at work
Peat Duggins: Black Room
This museum room of a future race is an interior space addressing the outside world
columns
Page Two: Opportunity Born Anew
In working together as Americans, there is hope
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3am
Holden died a good death: just whiskey and a fall, no melodrama or fakery
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen is a supahstahhhhhhhh!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Smitty's Juke Box Museum has amassed an impressive variety of jukeboxes from as far back as 1926
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Two big dykes take over our town
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Quadruplet armadillos, 20 million on wheels, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
My Neighbor's Dog Won't Stop Barking – What Can I Do?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Playing Through
Shannon McCormick and Graham Reynolds' Unbeaten revels in the camp aspects of football in a loving way
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Fun Fun Fun Fest
Waterloo Park, Saturday, November 8, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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