Volume 30, Number 13
ON THE COVER:
features
Holiday rituals are nice, but sanity is nicer
BY MARION WINIK
news
Sputtering rail, sputtering economy – the uncertain fate of Red Line development
BY LEE NICHOLS
Picking the bones of Thanksgiving blessings
BY MICHAEL KING
If only the Pequot had filed for landmark status ... before the massacre
BY WELLS DUNBAR
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Citizens' calendar, Nov. 25-Dec. 2
AISD must ensure that new technology helps more than it hurts
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
F1 backers receive a key vote from City Council
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Court rulings whittle away Sixth Amendment
BY JORDAN SMITH
No verdict, but 'making progress'
BY MICHAEL KING
Curios for current-events connoisseurs
No more piecemeal votes on funding for Water Treatment Plant No. 4
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Hard Times, Soft Heads; and Wall Street's Resilient Greed
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
News for foodies to chew on
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Run, walk, eat, or drink away the week of Nov. 25-30
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Books for Cooks 2010
Need help making that Black Friday shopping list? Here's a selection of great cookbook ideas with something to delight any foodie you know.
Holiday wines for everyone from carnivores to vegans
BY WES MARSHALL
music
Grateful Dead + Papa Mali = 7 Walkers
BY AUSTIN POWELL
A Thanksgiving feast with Speak, A Welch Family Affair, and Ornette Coleman
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Broadcasts Vol. 18
Marathon
Favorites 1992–2001
Prize Fight
For the Sake of the Song
Fur State, Digital Antique, Flowers of the Heart
The Laziest Girl in Town
Say Goodnight to the World
Nineteen
Stochasticity
The Box
Last Days of Summer
Poacher
Dikes of Holland, Voyagers of Legend
Motor!
screens
Target Markets
The season's DVD box sets hit the spot
Making the world a better place with David Brancaccio
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
In this Hindi rom-com, two lovers undergo a separation in order to discover each other once again.
Dwayne Johnson is an ex-con out to avenge his brother's death and Billy Bob Thornton is the junkie cop on his tail.
Russell Crowe plays a man who improbably springs his wife from prison where she's been incarcerated for life.
Disney does Rapunzel.
arts & culture
The art of Markow & Norris
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Glass artist Morgan Graff wins Hanger's $10,000 art competition
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin photographer finds painterly strokes in trash bins' rust and scratches
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ghostly celebs and a killer apartment make a holiday show for the rest of us
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Assessing Paper Chairs' excavation of young Brecht is, put simply, difficult
The program of music from Mexico was unfortunately uneven in quality
The look and sense of the raw materials creates compelling harmony here
columns
Those who think budget-cutting is easy will soon learn otherwise
BY LOUIS BLACK
Stephen on the It Gets Better Project and recapturing the passion in life as a result of reconnecting with an old schoolmate
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Dinner and yard sale-ing with the fam. How ho(mo)liday-rific!
BY KATE X MESSER
14 Pews in Houston's the Heights is a beautiful community center that screens indie films, books live music, and hosts community events
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Black panthers, Sherwood Forest, Texas mortgages, not Snoop Dizzle, and potato-time
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Parish, Saturday, November 27, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Toros call the Cedar Park Center home
BY MARK FAGAN
St. Edward's women end NCAA run, and more
BY NICK BARBARO
Young out, McCoy banged up, Texans collapse, and more
BY MARK FAGAN