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Stephen Romano
news
Campfire Horror Story
How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Unaccountable
In the public school testing frenzy, responsibility and consequences flow only downward
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Everybody's on Vacation
The complicated business of hiring a city auditor who's already the city auditor
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Res Publica
Your do-good guide for Nov. 20-27
Austin Unchained
Think globally, shop locally, and we'll all be better for it
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Cap Metro Aftertaste: No Love Lost
Wounds still fresh from Cap Metro/ATU conflict
BY LEE NICHOLS
Live Music Task Force (of Millions)
There's the 15-member task force, which makes its recommendations to council this week, and then there's you – what are your plans for saving Austin music?
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Fate of the Texas Two-Step
Texas Dems held the final hearing last week gathering testimony opposed and in favor of the Texas Two-Step
BY LEE NICHOLS
Solid Waste: Who's Driving the Train?
City staff's landfill-expansion decision has violated – at least in the spirit – a resolution passed by council. Now everybody wants to know why.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Who Wants to Be 'Anybody but Craddick'?
A front-runner has yet to emerge to defeat Craddick
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
An End to TYC's Problems ... and to TYC?
The Sunset Advisory Commission recommends drastic action to remedy the problems plaguing the Texas Youth Commission: dissolve the agency
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
TFN Report: Texas Scientists Support Evolution
Scientists overwhelmingly reject "creation science" and "intelligent design"
BY LEE NICHOLS
The Hightower Report
Public Works Work; and Big Oil's Charm Offensive
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food Reviews
Málaga
This tapas bar may have moved into a bigger space, but it still manages a packed house
Thai Fresh
Thai Fresh is like a mini farmers' market in Bouldin Creek
Cookie Lounge
Head to Cookie Lounge for customized, fresh-from-the-oven, gourmet treats
mulberry
Meet one of the newest residents at the 360 Condominiums
Event Menu
Nov. 22-25
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Another lightning round of local food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Music Deportment
The Live Music Task Force recommends a Music Department under Austin government. Time for the Austin music community to put its many heads together.
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Off the Record
Weighing in on the Live Music Task Force's recommendations to City Council and casting a ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Frida Hyvönen
Silence Is Wild
Ray LaMontagne
Gossip in the Grain
The Pretenders
Break Up the Concrete
screens
Inside the Mind of the Muscles
Jean-Claude Van Damme on being Jean-Claude Van Damme
BY MARC SAVLOV
A Less Wild Side to Argentina
AFS Essential Cinema: More Than Buenos Aires: Film Renaissance in Argentina
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Screens Reviews
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
"I've got the last good lay in an aging whore!" said Martin Ritts of his famously troubled star, Richard Burton
TV Eye
Hulu, Sling, YouTube, the DVR – it's the age of the hybrid viewer
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Bolt
Bolt is a canine who plays a cybernetically enhanced dog on TV but has no knowledge of how to cope in the real world in this new animated film.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Vera Farmiga is a knockout in this otherwise predictable and emotionally manipulative story about the horror of the German concentration camps.
Fuel
Fuel is a two-hour infomercial for biodiesel and the virtues of other alternative energy sources that won the Audience Award for a documentary at Sundance.
JCVD
Jean-Claude Van Damme is the JCVD of the title, and in this career-adjusting film, the Muscles From Brussels advances from laughingstock to smart, respectable action-film star.
My Name Is Bruce
Cult star Bruce Campbell directs and stars here as himself, but the actor is mistaken for his popular character Ash from the Evil Dead trilogy and is forced to fight a real monster.
arts & culture
Welcome to My Studio
The East Austin Studio Tour offers a rare chance to see where artists work and live
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Creative Research Laboratory
UT artists play prospectors, panning for new ideas out of the notion of space
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Salon Concerts
A violin and a cello made together in 1863 Paris are reunited in 2008 Austin
BY HANNAH KENAH
Arthouse
Curator Elizabeth Dunbar opened her latest exhibit on Friday, gave birth Saturday
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Ophelia
This Hamlet seen through the eyes of Ophelia – rather, five Ophelias – is astounding
The Three Sisters
A revival that is surprising and funny and offers the rich joy of Chekhov done well
The Living
Three painters show work that will have you thinking about what it means to be alive
columns
Page Two: Everybody Plays the Fool
Neither party is sainted, and dominance tends to encourage the worst of political habits
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3am
Obama won the election through a uniquely American combination of inspiration and cash
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen parties … for kids, mind you, kids
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Turn last week's national protest local at the Transgender Day of Remembrance
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
New Mexico has many lovely hotels to choose from
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
Patsy Izaguirre and Amanda Houston may not have won the Texas School for the Blind's Braille Rallye, but they had already achieved something far more important: friendship
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Saving the Marx Brothers' childhood home, energy-draining migraines, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
You Become Responsible When You Co-Sign a Loan
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Night of the Moustache
Tiniest Bar in Texas, Friday, November 21, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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