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John Anderson
news
The Tire Mound of Mystery
Thousands of city tires lie moldering southeast of town – and the city is claiming ignorance
BY JORDAN SMITH
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Politics Gift Guide
Let the Chronicle News staff stuff your stockings this year
Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire
Obama's expansion of the war leads nowhere
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Fluoride, Firewalls, and Fusion
The fluoride fight goes on, and in other news ...
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Dec. 3-10
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Solid Waste Services
Toward a greener future
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Pecan Street Project
The Department of Energy awards 32 grants nationwide for energy research – PSP a winner
BY MICHAEL KING
Maxey Files Ethics Complaint Against Patterson
Did judge tell the truth?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Let the Filing Begin
Political hopefuls: Get your paperwork in order
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
No Indictment in Lunt Shooting
TABC explores changes within agency in wake of shooting
BY JORDAN SMITH
MetroRail Watch
The arm drops all the way down
BY LEE NICHOLS
The Hightower Report
Commercialism Underground; and Ventriloquist Dummy Lawmakers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eat Local Week 2009
Eat Local Week keeps Austin busy and full while supporting youth outreach
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Event Menu
Dec. 3-13
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Closing, Cleaving, and grieving in Austin
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Building a Bookshelf
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Picture Book
To see or not to see
Off the Record
Another progress report from Red River, the return of Sixteen Deluxe, and Papa Mali's American beauty
BY AUSTIN POWELL
GIFT GUIDE 2009
Rock & Roll Books
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone
Nadine Cohodas
Miss O'Dell: My Hard Days and Long Nights With the Beatles, the Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved
Chris O'Dell and Katherine Ketcham
Blues & Chaos: The Music Writings of Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer and Anthony DeCurtis
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Daniel J. Levitin
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times
Ralph Stanley and Eddie Dean
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
Robin D.G. Kelly
The Tao of Wu
RZA
I Slept With Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir
Mickey Leigh and Legs McNeil
Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk From Dead Kennedys to Green Day
Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor
We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Showbiz Saga
Paul Shaffer and David Ritz
Always Been There: Rosanne Cash, the List, and the Spirit of Southern Music
Michael Streissguth
Big Man: Real Life & Tall Tales
Clarence Clemons and Don Reo
Moonwalk
Michael Jackson, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach and Michael Heatley
screens
The State We're In
Yep, it is broke, and Turk Pipkin wants us all to fix it
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Head of the Class
Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation
BY MARC SAVLOV
Nothing but Love
Bryan Poyser's Lovers of Hate to compete at Sundance
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Screens Reviews
Merry Sitcom!: Christmas Classics From TV's Golden Age
Celebrate the season from the couch
TV Eye
This column is most definitely not brought to you by the Parents Television Council
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
This long-awaited follow-up to Troy Duffy's violent, pulpy cult original is dead on arrival.
Everybody's Fine
Robert De Niro is the father of grown children (played by Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale) in a family that has trouble communicating.
One Peace at a Time
Austin-based writer, actor, and filmmaker Turk Pipkin urges us to work for solutions to world problems in this personal documentary.
Paa
In this Bollywood film, a 13-year-old boy tries to live a normal life despite suffering from progeria, which causes him to physically age prematurely.
Transylmania
In this comedy, college students on a semester abroad in Romania party hearty – with vampires.
arts & culture
Gifts of the Magi
A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ballet East
The company establishes its first dance academy for students at Eastside Memorial
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art Palace
An appreciation of the great Eastside gallery as it packs up and moves to Houston
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Austin Visual Arts Awards
A new set of honors for the city's hardworking painters, sculptors, and other artists
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Bohemian Cowboy
Directorial choices distract from this intriguing tale of a son's search for his father
The 101 Dalmatians Musical
Evidence that Dodie Smith's novel of heroic hounds didn't need to be remade as a musical
'Tony Fitzpatrick: No. 9, An Artist's Journal'
What holy file-drawer labels might look like in the main warehouse of a God of Memory
columns
Page Two: Not Rocket Science
Public discourse has abandoned reasoned debate in favor of irrationality and insult
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: The Numbers This Time
There exist co-enabling models of therapeutic and addictive wars
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Party crashing? Just ask Your Style Avatar.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
What is more delicious than a tender, caring heart?
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Where do alligators in Texas go during the winter?
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mars and the military, McDonald's, and much more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Opal Divine's Whisky Festival
Opal Divine's Penn Field, Thursday, December 3, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The NCAA Women's College Cup returns to College Station (and the tube) this weekend, and more
