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Faces of Homelessness
Another Downtown attempt to find answers
BY MARC SAVLOV
Point Austin: Some Spare Change on Panhandling
Austin tries to balance street-level charity and public order
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: What's Your Incentive?
Citizens question the city's standards for drawing employers
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Oct. 8-15
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Gilliam Retires
Will a change in leadership give Cap Metro the fuel it needs to move forward?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Precinct 4
Former council member seeks seat on commissioners court
BY AMY SMITH
MetroRail Watch
How long will we wait for the train?
Throwdown at Travis High
LULAC, NAACP square off against principal
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Dispatches From Denmark
Katherine Gregor blogs daily from Copenhagen as the city prepares to host the U.N. Climate Change Conference
Justice Can Wait
On eve of hearing, Perry reshuffles the Forensic Science Commission
BY JORDAN SMITH
Dem Candidates Make Beeline for the Bench
Civil district court judgeships will likely be secured in the March primary
BY JORDAN SMITH
Sanders Shooting
Independent investigators criticize internal review of APD shooting
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Hyatt Riot; and The Chicken War
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Thai Me Up – Thai Me Down
'Tis the season for Thai in Austin
Austin Cocktail Throwdown
La Condesa mixes this year's Official Drink of Austin
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
TRIO at the Four Seasons' Todd Duplechan won the Texas Chef Showdown last week during Go Texan Restaurant Round-Up, and the event's produce proved that even corporate restaurants are supporting local food sources
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Foodie events in and around Austin during the month of October
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Called 'undervalued treasures' by James Halliday, all three of these McWilliam's Wines compete handily with wines twice their price
BY WES MARSHALL
music
Off the Record
Shit happens: Hosing off and cleaning up after the glorious mess that was the 2009 Austin City Limits Music Festival
BY AUSTIN POWELL
ACL Live Shots
Raphael Saadiq
The Avett Brothers
The Low Anthem
Phoenix
The Knux, K'Naan
The Knux/K'Naan
Bassnectar
Coheed & Cambria
Them Crooked Vultures
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Kings of Leon
Mos Def
Alberta Cross
Bon Iver
Levon Helm
The Levon Helm Band
The Decemberists
The Scabs
The B-52's
Pearl Jam
Alela Diane
Rodriguez
Passion Pit
Ben Sollee
Arctic Monkeys
The Dead Weather
screens
The Last Laugh
Remembering the late underground comic Mitch Hedberg
BY MARC SAVLOV
It's a Landslide ... Tie!
AFS Documentary Tour: Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Go Greek: AFS Essential Cinema
AFS Essential Cinema: From the Shadows: Greek Independent Cinema
BY MARC SAVLOV
Into the Woods, With a Canister of Film
The 2009 Art Outside festival
BY ASHLEY MORENO
'Beeswax' Buzzes Back Into Town
Andrew Bujalski's homegrown film gets a local theatrical run
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Game On, Game On Austin
So much supreme awesomeness to be had at this free, all-ages event
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
TV Eye
Charting where Austin community television has been and celebrating where it's going
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Beeswax
This Austin-shot indie from Andrew Bujalski is a remarkably naturalistic slice of life.
Couples Retreat
Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau prove they are no longer swingers, but since this film is the only new national release this week, it's sure to be "money."
Crude
Expert documentarian Joe Berlinger sheds light on the epic environmental lawsuit filed by 30,000 Ecuadorans against the oil company Texaco, which is now owned by Chevron.
The Invention of Lying
Ricky Gervais lies through his teeth for laughs.
Paranormal Activity
Should you believe the viral marketing hype about this techno-era haunted-house movie that's been playing sold-out midnight runs? Or Marc Savlov?
Paris
Paris, from the French director of When the Cat's Away, follows a half-dozen-plus Parisians and their interconnectedness.
Revanche
Austria’s nominee last year for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a taut yet unpredictable psychological thriller that deserves wide appreciation outside its homeland.
Séraphine
This is a rapturous, utterly engrossing account of the life of early 20th century French artist Séraphine de Senlis.
We Live in Public
The Internet-based social experiments of Josh Harris, the original dot-com visionary kid, are profiled in this cautionary documentary.
A Woman in Berlin
This is that rarest of wartime dramas: an intimate, sorrowful glimpse into the heart and loins of the hellish aftermath of war when sex is used as a weapon.
arts & culture
Are You Experienced?
Why art that actively engages audiences is quintessentially Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later'
Zach Theatre joins a national presentation of the epilogue to The Laramie Project
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Water Works'
The charming and fun aquatic ballets at Barton Springs Pool return on video
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Peter and the Wolf
Playwright Allison Gregory schticks it to the kids' classic in a new stage adaptation
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Frost/Nixon
The show is at its best when its two leads are locked in combat like boxers in a ring
Season Opener: Swan Lake (Act II) and The Firebird
Ballet Austin's fowl-centric program bagged a comforting swan and powerful Firebird
'Organic: Basic Inspirations'
In this show, the eye of the beholder is in the beauty as much as beauty is in that eye
columns
Page Two: And It Was All Right
Notes on a life saved by rock & roll
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Letters at 3AM: The Missiles of October
Reflections on the Cuban Missile Crisis
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen's Home Alone adventure was not at all like Macaulay Culkin's
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
This week, when you see red, you see love
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
The Brazos Indian Reservation began as an effort to provide native Texans with a homeland, yet ended in tragedy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Playing with dolls, killing widows, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
I Don't Want the Government to Take My Property
BY LUKE ELLIS AND CHRIS JOHNS
Luv Doc Recommends: Lebowski Fest
Stubb's, Friday, October 9, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Longhorn goalkeeper Alexa Gaul named Big 12 defensive player of the week, and more
