Trinity Church of Austin, 4001 Speedway
Volume 32, Number 12
features
FORMULA ONE
A Beginner's Guide to Formula One
Debunking myths in a crash course to race weekend
BY JORDAN SMITH
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
If only you could take a magic carpet ride
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
F1 Events
Plenty of fun in store for the Formula One crowd
Welcome to Austin
A visitors guide to the live music capitol of the world
news
The Birth of Formula One – Austin
Some welcome the new offspring, and some don't, but the high-speed newcomer is at the starting gate
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Mapping Difference
Voting picture suggests the next Austin politics
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Housing Chill
Defeat of Proposition 15 poses new challenges for city's affordability goals
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Civics 101
Quote of the Week
New Direction for New AISD Board?
New members are sworn in Nov. 19
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Council: As the Copter Spins
All about the temporary helipads for Formula One weekend
BY MICHAEL KING
Cap Metro Crisis
The local transit union has authorized a strike
BY MICHAEL KING
'Landmark' Lawsuit Rises Again: 'Broken Promise'
The city changed its rules after the last suit, but the plaintiffs argue nothing changed
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
'An Agency Run Amok': State Keeps Planned Parenthood in Limbo
Judge issues temporary injunction; attorney general immediately issued notice of appeal
BY JORDAN SMITH
State on Track To Execute Its 15th in 2012
Preston Hughes' appeals have repeatedly been denied
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
If you weren't in labor or dying, Jim Hightower doesn't want to hear it.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Undiscovered Jewels
Formula One visitors get a taste of Austin's best hotel dining
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD, GRACIE SALEM AND WES MARSHALL
The Great Texas Holiday Pie Migration
Bud Royer's plan to deliver pies from the heart of Texas to people displaced by Superstorm Sandy
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Home's A Brewin': Do You Hear the People Drink?
Local breweries unite in effort to reform restrictive brewpub legislation
BY IVY LE
Food-O-File
Thoughts on the fall of John Mueller
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Nov. 15-20
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine
Rockabilly fillies Rosie Flores and Janis Martin together through life and death
BY MARGARET MOSER
Playback: Best. DJ Gig. Ever.
Presidential crate-digger DJ Mel checks in post-election
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
screens
Tracking Shots
New Formula One documentary '1' world premieres at the Paramount
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
F1 on Film
As Ron Howard readies 'Rush,' we look back at the best racing movies
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Treat Your Car Like a Couch at Two Drive-in Venues
What could be more natural than watching movies about cars in your car?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Viewed From the Future
Photographer Sandy Carson's found film
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
Getting the Shot
Cinema Club and Louis Black celebrate Samuel Fuller's centenary with 'Forty Guns'
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
Jab Tak Hai Jaan
Bollywood romance.
A Late Quartet
A string quartet – whose members are played by the likes of Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Catherine Keener – gets stuck in its own resins.
Lincoln
Despite a monumental performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, Spielberg's film has a fussed-over theatricality that's hard to escape.
Silver Linings Playbook
David O. Russell finds finds another family in distress; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence kept it consistently fun.
Son of Sardaar
Bollywood comedy.
This Must Be the Place
In this odd but intriguing concoction, Sean Penn disappears into the strange body of a retired goth rock god who leaves his Dublin castle and goes on a road trip across America to hunt a Nazi prison guard.
arts & culture
EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR
Dawn in the EAST
Big Medium's Shea Little recalls the East Austin Studio Tour's beginning
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD
EAST-tastic
Six stops to make the 2012 East Austin Studio Tour extra special
BY ROBERT FAIRES
An 'In' at EAST
Finding artists who found their place in East Austin
Dances Made To Order
Anthropomorphism, upheaval, and memory in dance for the small screen
BY JONELLE SEITZ
'Sordid Lives'
Wimberley Players audience rejects accusation of play's obscenity
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
Arts Reviews
The Pain and the Itch
Capital T's trip to this dysfunctional family home for Thanksgiving is well worth taking
Toil and Trouble: A Troubling Turn on Shakespeare's Macbeth
Trouble Puppet makes the magic real in its magical retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Antigone
Though Oh Dragon's debut is uneven, its take on the Greek tragedy shows fiery promise
columns
Letters at 3AM: Reveries
Beauty is something you don't have to deserve
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion: Heavenly Creatures
Your Style Avatar rocked the house with his new collection at the Driskill, and a lot of folks can take a bow.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place: Thanks, Part 1
AGLCC elections, Queer Life drawing, Party Shame fill your LGBTQ bill
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Remembering the oil boom in East Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Lutropublicaphobia
Ever enter a public restroom stall that looks like Leatherface just went berserk with a chainsaw on a pile of bloody meat, semen, snot, and excrement?
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornucopia
UT honors Darrell Royal with big win over the Cyclones
BY MICHAEL CORCORAN
Soccer Watch
The season ends for the St. Ed's team, and more
