Tim Doyle
Volume 29, Number 10
ON THE COVER:
news
Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Chris Hedges on the inevitable consequences of empire
BY MICHAEL KING
The ex-mayor says this may be your last chance to snap up a condo
BY WELLS DUNBAR
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Citizens' calendar, Nov. 5-12
Austin Planetarium group's persistence may finally be paying off
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nonprofit links people to people for a sustainable future
BY AMY SMITH
Shake, rattle, and roll in local radio
BY KEVIN BRASS
Both sides say they're satisfied with the deal
BY MICHAEL KING AND WELLS DUNBAR
City addresses loophole that denied benefits to employees' same-sex partners
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Texas has 11 new amendments and a thimbleful of voters
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Peace activists unwelcome at speech by former secretary of state
BY MICHAEL KING
CAMPO's recommendations open up a slot to be filled by the city
BY LEE NICHOLS
Cap Metro draws fire over proposal to start a nonprofit for low-income riders
BY LEE NICHOLS
Springsteen and Scott are free men – for now
BY JORDAN SMITH
Smarting Over 'Smart Choices'; and Afghanistan's Biggest Loser
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
An evening with Kermit Lynch
BY WES MARSHALL
Foodie news about town
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Foodie events and benefits around town
Food Reviews
Artisan sausage debuts in Austin, all wrapped up in bacon
music
FUN FUN FUN FEST
Preview
The blurbing of Fun Fun Fun Fest
Interviews
Fun Fun Fun Fest Phases
Head/Pure, Goat, Liar, Down
The Sound the Speed the Light
Born Again Revisited
Eskimo Snow
Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Invisible Girl
1372 Overton Park
Geneva
Fun facts from the Festivus for the rest of us
BY AUSTIN POWELL
screens
AFS Documentary Tour revisits Alan Berliner's 1991 film Intimate Stranger
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Character actor Sam Rockwell slips into a new guise in the goofy comedy Gentlemen Broncos
BY MARC SAVLOV
Diane Keaton takes her life to the stage
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
"TV Eye" to The Vampire Diaries: "Bite me."
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
This new Bollywood film is a romantic comedy.
Bollywood takes on the famous fairy tale to create a family-oriented adventure fantasy.
Icon on icon: Abel Ferrara documents the history and decline of New York's fabled Chelsea Hotel.
The Damned United is much more than a soccer movie; it's practically Shakespearean in its depiction of the tragedy of Brian Clough, manager of the Leeds United Football Club for only 44 days.
The novelty of this motion-capture rendition of Dickens classic eventually gives way to emotionally bland storytelling.
This pseudo-mockumentary starring Milla Jovovich echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files.
With this new film, Jared Hess elicits none of the naive charm or flagrant silliness of his earlier movies, Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.
Army experiments in the paranormal become a warped platform on which George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, and Kevin Spacey run narrative circles.
The central thesis in this ominibus of short films is that New York is not its landmarks or its landscape; New York is its people.
Martial artist Tony Jaa directs himself in this follow-up film that still delivers the moves but lacks a coherent story.
High art is both lampooned and championed in this knowing satire that stars the ever-eccentric Adam Goldberg.
arts & culture
A somewhat kaleidoscopic glimpse of Austin's screen-printing scene
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
World-class choreographers from Paris and Houston dance into Austin the same week
BY ANDREW LONG
Three musical directing pros appraise the artistry of this master of the musical
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
A version that shows us in the women of Troy the brutalized women of our own time's wars
The cast invests hook, line, and sinker in the earnestness of this old-school melodrama
An indoor/outdoor show where vast landscapes an inch high meet extremely eerie interiors
columns
Robin Shivers' life defined what makes Austin the kind of community it is
BY LOUIS BLACK
John Ertha was the first in my experience to embody the passion, courage, mind, and rascality that could be: a man
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar delivers a hardy dose of dish on a certain tattoo phenom
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Miss Rebecca Havemeyer rolls out a new revue
BY KATE X MESSER
Bob 'Daddy-O' Wade's sculptures made of junkyard parts or shiny urethane can be found in the most unusual places
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Cough remedies, lionfish, defenestration, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Eminent Domain – The Government Made a Low Offer – What Next? (Part 2)
BY LUKE ELLIS AND CHRIS JOHNS
Waterloo Park, Saturday, November 7, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Both St. Edward's teams to see postseason play, and more
BY NICK BARBARO