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news
'The Austin Chronicle' Endorsements
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Take Three
Texas film incentives don't always carry sufficient funding
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City Hall Hustle: The Smartest Guy in the Room
Professor Spelman breaks down the cost of WTP4
BY WELLS DUNBAR
City Counseling: CU L8R, Texters!
Technology takes a backseat to safety
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Oct. 29-Nov. 5
Media Watch: 'A Sense of Purpose'
Texas Tribune makes its debut in realm of nonprofit journalism
BY KEVIN BRASS
All Aboard: Shake-Up on the Cap Metro Board
Changes required by the Lege will put more than just new faces on the board
BY LEE NICHOLS
Halloween Mask Instructions
A-choo! Some guy just sneezed into his hand instead of the crook of his arm. Better get your mask on ...
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Critics of ARA Deal Still Wary
When is a dead deal really dead?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Reefer Madness: Medi-Pot States Free to Inhale
It's official: The feds are backing off
BY JORDAN SMITH
Getting to Bottom of Perry-Patterson Pickle
Questions go unanswered in district court appointment process
BY JORDAN SMITH
Promising Start for Dem Senate Candidates
Campaign finance reports show Houston Mayor Bill White out front
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Corporate Monsters; and Change at the Chamber
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
TEXAS BOOK FESTIVAL
Reading Menu
Sampling food writing trends at the Texas Book Festival
Book Festival Recommended Daytime Eats
A guide to keeping the appetite sated while engaging the intellect
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Event Menu
Your local foodie events for Oct. 29-Nov. 5
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Clarifications, openings, closings, and a holiday baking contest!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
High Texas Rider
Before the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados, the Lone Star State's voice of the Vox organ, Augie Meyers, was San Antonio's Lord August & the Visions of Lite
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
Inquiring into the city's new music program manager position, trick-or-treating with the Butthole Surfers, and introducing Thenewno2
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Radney Foster
Revival
the Octopus Project, Pataphysics, the Black & White Years, Krum Bums
Golden Beds, Pam, Nursery Myths, Same Old Story
Mammoth Grinder, Mammoth Grinder / Legion, Ignitor, Mala Suerte, the Flood
Extinction of Humanity, Anxiety Quest b / w Unnatural Death, The Spider Queen, The Shadow Tradition, Back to Sleep
screens
Wrap Sheet
Scenes from the 2009 Austin Film Festival
BY THE SCREENS STAFF
Castlemania
One boy's induction into horror
BY MARC SAVLOV
(Video) Game Night
Multiplayer video games that bridge the gap between the hardcore and the noobs
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
TV Eye
'V' is for 'vroom!'; plus Nancy Schiesari's stunning documentary about inked soldiers, Tattooed Under Fire
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Amelia
Hilary Swank stars as Amelia Earhart in Mira Nair's big-budget biopic.
Earth Days
Directed with a flawless eye and judicious craft, this documentary is an informative and nonpolemic look at the birth of the modern environmental movement.
The House of the Devil
This retro horror film is the freakiest and most unnerving shocker in theatres this season.
London Dreams
This new Bollywood musical centers on two childhood friends who follow separate paths to careers in music.
Michael Jackson's This Is It
Michael Jackson moonwalks among us for a final hurrah.
No Impact Man
Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man, and his cooperative family are the subjects of this documentary about their yearlong project in environmental sustainability.
Saw VI
Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood. Promises, promises.
arts & culture
Zach Theatre
The curtain is raised on the design for the new 420-seat Topfer Theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Small Corners of Existence'
Robert Shults' photographs reveal familiar buildings as secret shelters
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
A museum show for three shutterbugs, a prize for a canny sculptor, and calling all Young Masters
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Murder Ballad Murder Mystery
You'll be hard-pressed to find a riskier production in Austin this year than this strange string of ballads and mysteries
Nosferatu
When this play looks in the mirror, the dramaturg is invisible
'Flutter: New Works by Connie Arismendi'
There's no wink-nudge irony to these works of deep sincerity
columns
Page Two: Slave to the 'Rhythms'
Art is afoot, and words only slow it down
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion
Birthday boy Stephen totters with a new carved cane from the Ukraine and then some
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Gay Place loves you; keep those cards and letters comin'
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
The Aquarium at Rockport Harbor offers a glimpse into the underwater world along the Texas Gulf Coast
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Supernanny, Ben Franklin on daylight saving time, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Eminent Domain –The Government Made a Low Offer – What Next?
BY CHRIS JOHNS AND LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Zombie Ball
Sustainable Waves, Friday, October 30, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Aztex return from England a few players lighter
