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news
Big Dogs, Young Rebels, and Aging Giants
The Austin promoters who bring the music come in all shapes and sizes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Getting Mobilized
Arguments (and opponents) against the mobility bond run a little thin
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Home Away From Home
Council decamps to the Carver and considers housing the homeless
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Oct. 7-14
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
The Race for the Third
Kuhn and Goodwin face off for high-profile appeals court
BY JORDAN SMITH
Low Voting Machine Turnout
Travis County to share voting machines in wake of Harris County fire
BY LEE NICHOLS
Republican SBOE Candidates Dodge Debates
Why all the debate hate?
BY LEE NICHOLS
Stuff Like This Makes Your Face Twitch
Red dreams of ousting Doggett are just dreams
BY LEE NICHOLS
Election Headlines
Headlines from the campaign trail
Media Watch: All Things to All People Meters
New radio ratings system kicks in
BY KEVIN BRASS
Headlines
The Hightower Report
Weapons in the Name of Peace?; and Conservatism or Crackpotism?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
From the Trenches
Previewing the Austin Eats battlefield
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Restaurants Near Zilker
Beer Flights
Rock out with your bock out
BY LEE NICHOLS
Wine of the Week
Local wines are just over the next hill
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
No bull: John Bullington roasted a 550-pound steer last week for Fantastic Fest's closing night party
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Fall is flush with fests and food
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Sound and the Fury
Monsters of Folk drummer Will Johnson continues demonstrating monstrous musical and compositional gifts
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Off the Record
A curated survival guide to the Austin City Limits Music Festival
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Vinyl Platters
Cargo Cult, Texas Biscuit Bombs
Cargo Cult/Texas Biscuit Bombs
Soft Healer
Gentle One, Movie Light
Simple Circuit, Ichi Ni San Shi
Boarded Up Houses, Moon Druggies, Everything Leveling Side Views, Friend in Town
Flesh Lights
You're a Stealer, He Got Sent Away
A Giant Dog, Followed by Static
The Grand, Oy Jara, Smiles, Bones
ST 37, Linus Pauling Quartet
Lactating Purple, Monster
Daniel Francis Doyle
There Are Two of You, Sharing Stories
the Kindergarten Circus
Twin Evils, Juvenile Rock
One Against Many
Take My Pound of Flesh and Sleep Well
Pack of Wolves
Penance of Pestilence
ACL MUSIC FEST
ACL Music Fest Friday Listings
ACL Friday by the blurbs
ACL Music Fest Friday Interviews
ACL Music Fest Friday Reviews
ACL Music Fest Saturday Listings
ACL Saturday by the blurb
ACL Music Fest Saturday Interviews
ACL Music Fest Saturday Reviews
ACL Music Fest Sunday Listings
Sunday ACL handicapping
ACL Music Fest Sunday Interviews
ACL Music Fest Sunday Reviews
ACL Aftershows
Austin Eats Is Now Bigger and Better Than Ever!
If these choices aren't enough for you, we don't know what is
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Restaurants Near Zilker
Barton Springs Pool Info
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
screens
It's a Wrap: A Life in Front of Dad's Camera
AFS Documentary Tour: The Kids Grow Up
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Drawing Inspiration Out of the Past
Writer Barry Gifford, still Wild at Heart
BY MARC SAVLOV
Austin Film Festival Announces Honorees, Opening Night Films
Robert Rodriguez to receive Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
What Are You Looking At?
Our latest pop-culture fixations
TV Eye: The Axe Drops
Why isn't the new fall TV season working?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Buried
Buried takes place entirely inside a coffin where a man is buried alive.
Case 39
Renée Zellweger stars as a social worker who protects a child whose family has created dark forces around her.
It's Kind of a Funny Story
When a 15-year-old overachiever checks himself into a mental ward, he learns to affirm the good things in life without ever whitewashing the bad.
Khaleja
New Telegu movie is the story of a cabdriver who becomes involved in a complicated set of affairs despite his inclination to remain aloof.
Life as We Know It
It's Two Singletons and a Baby, starring Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel.
Never Let Me Go
The children in this story are born into a system that values them for their disposable body parts, not their discrete personalities.
Secretariat
Saddle up for some old-fashioned inspirational movie entertainment with Diane Lane in the lead as the owner of the famed Triple Crown winner.
Women Without Men
Although this film set in 1953 Iran is visually compelling, its story about four different women is slight and emblematic.
arts & culture
The Storyteller
Nobody spins a yarn like Jaston Williams
BY ROBERT FAIRES
First Night Austin
First Night's board cancels this year's party, but the city may host one instead
BY ROBERT FAIRES
2010 B. Iden Payne Awards
The homegrown musical of mayhem in the swamp leads the nominations with 11
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Sharon Marroquin Benefits
The dance community rallies around one of its own to help with medical expenses
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Rent
A Broadway-quality staging of the popular rock musical with energy to spare
One
Striking aerial dance at a site lacking the drama of other Blue Lapis Light shows
'Honora Jacob: New Paintings'
The shifting history of women explored in colorful, sartorially elegant images
columns
Page Two: The Ways Sisyphus Had It Easy
Consequences of perception
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: Where We Actually Live
A nation that lets its infrastructure crumble will wake one fine day to find itself crippled
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar rips the sheets off of the scam that is home staging
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The moments of silence for all of these suicides are deafening
BY KATE X MESSER
The Common Law
Will My Security Deposit Ever Be Returned?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Festival Hill's old-soul architecture belies the recent construction of its grottoes and ruins
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Snoop Dogg, Vikings, and more fun facts
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Freedom Network's 15th Anniversary Celebration
Bullock Texas State History Museum, Thursday, October 7, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Aztex in the D-2 Playoffs
Austin hosts Montreal
BY NICK BARBARO
Soccer Watch
Big weekend for Longhorns, New rival for Aztex?
BY NICK BARBARO
Football Watch
UT falls to OU, Texans' Foster continues to shine, and more
