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Gifts of the Magi
A conversation about community and creativity with three wise men of the Austin arts
Sewcialist Revolution
This isn’t your grandmother’s fusty old fabric store
This Week’s Waste of Time
The last 53 (of 303) contestants in the Independent Games Festival get played
Women Council Members Back Fam-Plan Funds
Cole, Morrison, Shade back family planning funds – including abortion spending – in healthcare budget
Veolia Fires Back
A day after being canned by Cap Metro, contractor responds
Man UP, Dockers
The clothing company’s latest ad campaign makes us vom-vom in our mouths.
Making the World Safe for Fall Footwear
A few ways to protect your shoes from the ravages of winter.
White Rallies Travis [Video]
Footage from the Houston mayor’s opening gubernatorial campaign volley in Austin
COP 15 Photos
From Austinite on the scene
The Totally Awesome AusChron Newscast Takes Out the Trash!
Zoning matters, a new head for Solid Waste Services, and more Fleet Services fallout
Jerry 4 Kinky?
Land Commish Patterson woos potential opponent
Channel 6 Enters the U-verse
But it’s really Channel 99, dig?
Fam Planning for County Uninsured Up for Vote
Senate dumps abortion-care coverage ban amendment, but what about Austin?
One Man’s View
Austin’s musical decade
Cap Metro Cans Veolia
Rail firm dumped, two new contractors to be voted on this afternoon
What’s New in Queer Studies?
UT’s New Directions in Queer Studies Conference will blow your mind
Sundance Announces Shorts Program
Texans get the nod
New SWS Director Announced
California Resource Recovery Association boss Robert Gedert to run recycling
Charter Advocates Advocate for Charters
Widely touted study or request for funds and deregulation?
Election Update, 12/7/09
Dukes files, WilCo GOP primaries pick up speed
Sadun Withdraws From SBOE 10 Race
Drop-out clears path for Jennings to Democratic nomination
Want to Serve on the Cap Met Board?
Austin needs to fill citizen slot
Luck and the Literature of Football
Longhorns live to fight another day
Keep On Keepin’ On
Vic Chesnutt roasts God
Gilbert’s Sauce/Goose/Gander Moment
Parsing Hank Gilbert’s switch from gov to ag commissioner race
In It To Win It
UPDATED: First two day’s filings for 2010 elections in Travis County
The Lineup
Recommended music for the week of Dec. 4-10
Keep Hangin’ Around the Barber Shop, You’re Gonna Get a Haircut
Talkin’ “Bigtime Blues” with Malcolm Holcombe
England-U.S. Drawn for World Cup Opener
The World Cup draw is announced
Anomaly
Kiss at the Frank Erwin Center tonight ain’t Kiss with Ace Frehley (and Peter Criss).
White for Gov
Houston mayor jumps from senate race
Win a Set of Holiday Swing Tix!
Hey Swinger! Wanna go to Project Transitions’ Holiday Swing?
Picture Book
To see or not to see
Building a Bookshelf
This guide is highly recommended for the oenophile on your list
Building a Bookshelf
If one must only have one book on chiles, this should be it
Res Publica
Citizens’ calendar, Dec. 3-10
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.
Letters at 3AM: The Numbers This Time
There exist co-enabling models of therapeutic and addictive wars
Rock & Roll Books
Not-so-crazy pianism
DVD Watch
Celebrate the season from the couch
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Building a Bookshelf
In my estimation, one of the best perks of this job has always been the review copies of cookbooks sent by publishers every spring and fall. In the early days of the job, I tried to keep them all, but as my bookshelves filled up and my house became overwhelmed with stacks of books, I…
Building a Bookshelf
Over the centuries, wherever Jews have settled across the globe, they’ve absorbed and adapted local flavors into their culinary customs
Head of the Class
Spike & Mike sets aside its sick and twisted ways (for now) with New Generation Animation
Page Two: Not Rocket Science
Public discourse has abandoned reasoned debate in favor of irrationality and insult
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Mars and the military, McDonald’s, and much more
Rock & Roll Books
Follow these instructions, hip-grass-hop-per
Nothing but Love
Bryan Poyser’s Lovers of Hate to compete at Sundance
Solid Waste Services
For a city that regards itself as environmentally conscious, Austin’s recycling policies often lack coherence. Now the City Council is poised to make three important decisions that would add direction, infrastructure, and leadership to the issue: selecting a new director for Solid Waste Services, renegotiating the existing recycling contract with Greenstar North America, and building…
Building a Bookshelf
For anyone who aspires to be associated with the restaurant business in any way, this is required reading
Rock & Roll Books
Have axe, will grind
Gay Place
What is more delicious than a tender, caring heart?
Pecan Street Project
The Department of Energy awards 32 grants nationwide for energy research – PSP a winner
The Hightower Report
Commercialism Underground; and Ventriloquist Dummy Lawmakers
Building a Bookshelf
This is the first of a three-volume set covering 30 different cuisines of Asia
Rock & Roll Books
There’s a whole Gilman Street between the DKs and Green Day
Day Trips
Where do alligators in Texas go during the winter?
Maxey Files Ethics Complaint Against Patterson
Did judge tell the truth?
Ballet East
The company establishes its first dance academy for students at Eastside Memorial
Arts Review
Directorial choices distract from this intriguing tale of a son’s search for his father
Rock & Roll Books
Believe it or not, Rosanne Cash misplaced the list of 100 essential songs her father made for her!
Off the Record
Another progress report from Red River, the return of Sixteen Deluxe, and Papa Mali’s American beauty
Let the Filing Begin
Political hopefuls: Get your paperwork in order
Art Palace
An appreciation of the great Eastside gallery as it packs up and moves to Houston
Arts Review
Evidence that Dodie Smith’s novel of heroic hounds didn’t need to be remade as a musical
Rock & Roll Books
The Big Man spins his own ‘Jungleland’
Soccer Watch
The NCAA Women’s College Cup returns to College Station (and the tube) this weekend, and more
No Indictment in Lunt Shooting
TABC explores changes within agency in wake of shooting
The Austin Visual Arts Awards
A new set of honors for the city’s hardworking painters, sculptors, and other artists
Arts Review
What holy file-drawer labels might look like in the main warehouse of a God of Memory
Building a Bookshelf
Six baking books for you to sink your teeth into
Event Menu
• Win free burgers for a year at Elevation Burger (9828 Great Hills Trail, 608-4054) by being the first person to finish a 10-patty Elevation Vertigo burger with a side of olive oil fries. To enter, e-mail your name, age, and contact info to ebarboretum@gmail.com. Thursday, Dec. 3, 7pm. • The Sunset Valley Farmers Market…
Politics Gift Guide
Let the Chronicle News staff stuff your stockings this year
After a Fashion
Party crashing? Just ask Your Style Avatar.
Rock & Roll Books
Musical activist as dictator? Close enough.
Building a Bookshelf
In her latest, Judith Jones enthusiastically illustrates exactly how to cook delicious, nourishing, and soul-satisfying meals for oneself
Food-o-File
Closing, Cleaving, and grieving in Austin
MetroRail Watch
The arm drops all the way down
How to Paper a Powder Room
New books for when you’ve got a little time on your hands
Rock & Roll Books
Platinum groupie credentials
Building a Bookshelf
This book of Indian dishes is suitable for beginners as well as advanced cooks
Eat Local Week 2009
Eat Local Week keeps Austin busy and full while supporting youth outreach
Official Tire Manifest Forms Provided by the City of Austin
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality provides a standard five-part form for tracking scrapped tires. Each section is required to be filled out by officials responsible for tire disposal. In this representative form, provided by the city of Austin’s Fleet Services Division, only the first two sections are completed, certified by Fleet’s Tire Program Manager…
Picture Book
‘Picture book of people with each other’
Rock & Roll Books
The dean of rock criticism’s chaos theory
Rock & Roll Books
Three print rushes, but only the picture book tells the real story
Picture Book
These colorful heart-shaped prints achieve inspirational folk art
Rock & Roll Books
The Late Show With David Letterman bandleader spills some beans
Building a Bookshelf
This cookbook allows children and their parents to discover the joys of cooking
The Tire Mound of Mystery
Thousands of city tires lie moldering southeast of town � and the city is claiming ignorance
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.
Picture Book
Punk iconography for ‘Fits
Rock & Roll Books
Quick, name the six song types!
Building a Bookshelf
This book is an excellent introduction to the world of baking
Point Austin: Twilight of the Empire
Obama’s expansion of the war leads nowhere
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
This long-awaited follow-up to Troy Duffy’s violent, pulpy cult original is dead on arrival.
TV Eye
This column is most definitely not brought to you by the Parents Television Council
Building a Bookshelf
Every wine on the author’s short list is worth trying at least once
Building a Bookshelf
In-depth profiles of 11 successful farm families around Texas
City Hall Hustle: Fluoride, Firewalls, and Fusion
The fluoride fight goes on, and in other news …
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.
The State We’re In
Yep, it is broke, and Turk Pipkin wants us all to fix it
Rock & Roll Books
Plainspoken American history, pure and simple
Building a Bookshelf
The perfect gift for a gardener who has it all
Headlines
• Austin state Sen. Kirk Watson announced Monday his decision to step down as chair of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, the body of elected officials that drives transportation planning in Central Texas. Watson said he’ll step aside in January to open up more seats for Bastrop and Caldwell counties, which just joined CAMPO.…
Transylmania
In this comedy, college students on a semester abroad in Romania party hearty – with vampires.
Luv Doc Recommends: Opal Divine’s Whisky Festival
Truly one of the best things about the holidays is that they are an excellent and generally accepted excuse to enjoy a little recreational intoxication. Yes, you, Jesus, and Krissy Kringle can all make a solid case for the spirit of giving, but inevitably materialism is the road to ruin. It may look like a…
