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Volume 24, Number 10
news
Circling the Hearses
State funeral regulators are dancing to the
undertakers' tune – and that's bad news for
consumers
BY ROBERT BRYCE
ELECTION 2004
An Island in the Red Sea
Once again, the Scarlet Tide breaks at Travis County's blue shores
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Judge: Let's Bust Bradley's Trust
Bankruptcy ruling opens up developer's assets to
creditors
BY AMY SMITH
A Good Day for Intolerance
Voters say no to gays, marijuana, immigrants, and so
on
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON AND JORDAN SMITH
Drowning in the Red Tide
Donkeys get their asses kicked on Capitol Hill
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
ELECTION 2004
The Texas Five Minus Four
The Congressional races perform almost as the GOP
designed
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Doggett Seals the Deal
Austin's hometown hero smashes 'Armendariz!' Klein
in the 'fajita district'
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Windmills 3, Quixotes 0
The GOP prevails in three new Central Texas
strongholds
BY LEE NICHOLS
Stick Sunk; Barely Baxter; Rose Reblooms
A narrow defeat, and an even narrower win, for Travis
Co. GOP legislators
BY AMY SMITH
Has the Bleeding Stopped?
The House races may mark the roots of a Dem
revival
BY MICHAEL KING
Hamilton Takes Top Cop Slot
Democrat becomes Travis Co.'s first black sheriff
BY JORDAN SMITH
McCain Keelhauls the GOP
Democratic tide swamps a Keel brother in the
Precinct 3 constable's race
BY JORDAN SMITH
... And So Does Yelenosky
Yet another Keel fails to break the GOP's losing
streak at the courthouse
BY AMY SMITH
A Split for the 3rd Court
Democratic and GOP incumbents both hold their
seats
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Little Engine That Did
Capital Metro rides the train out of the political
doghouse
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
State Picks Up a Toll-Free Call
Road-weary local leaders win a sympathetic hearing
at Transportation Commission
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
Warren Hangs Up His Chief's Hat
After 31 years with the fire department, Gary Warren
looks back to his roots
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Siege Continues
No matter who wins the election, Iraqis awaken to
occupation, devastation, and slaughter
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Let's rein in CEO pay; and, 'conservatives' support
Big Brotherism
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
World Wide Menu
Accessing all things culinary on the Internet
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Attention, chocoholics; plus, the Granite Cafe is eroding
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Heat Stroke
Austin's Amplified Heat turn both – their amps and the
heavy metal heat
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
One Night on Red River
Darcie Stevens returns to the live music beat – for just one night – on Red River
BY DARCIE STEVENS
TCB
Looking at this microwave world from the grassy knoll
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
MATT THE ELECTRICIAN
Reviewed
Amplified Heat
In for Sin
the Riddlin' Kids
Stop the World
Freddy Powers, Johnny Bush, Randy Rogers, Jason Boland, Eric Hisaw, Leo Stokes, George Strait
My Great Escape, Honkytonic, Rollercoaster, Somewhere in the Middle, Another Great Dream of You, Good Place to Start, 50 Number Ones
Cowboy Johnson
A Grain of Sand
Danny Santos
Done Gone Got Lucky
Eric Blakely
Still Life at Full Speed
Teye & Belén
FlamencObessionArte
Matt the Electrician
Long Way Home
Todd Snider
East Nashville Skyline
Dan Dyer
…Of What Lies Beneath
Brown Whörnet
Valamaranaro
Explosions in the Sky
Friday Night Lights Soundtrack
Steve Earle, The Flatlanders, Robert Earl Keen, Susan Tedeschi
Live From Austin TX, Live From Austin TX, Live From Austin TX, Live From Austin TX
screens
Out of the Shadow
Which new scary-programming cable channel will
longtime Austin access host Joseph Fotinos choose?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Talk of the College Town
'The New Yorker' on tour in Austin
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
It Is Risen
The newly restored 'Heaven's Gate' plays the
Paramount
BY MARC SAVLOV
SXSW 2005
Scouting SXSW 05
BY MARC SAVLOV
Congratulations, Kudos, and Free Bar Tabs
'Dear Pillow' does it again
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
Fox sees Sunday as its anchor, and aims to keep it
that way
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Battle of AlgiersAlso Out Now The Battle of Algiers
In the wake of this country's most recent exercise in
colonialism, Criterion has released, on three DVDs,
Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 masterpiece, a film so rich in
aesthetic and political relevance as to be almost
uncanny
Film Reviews
Alfie
Jude Law's new Alfie is less tramp and more scamp: the modern metrosexual.
The Incredibles
Animated take on the superhero genre overflows with wonderfully silly shenanigans and knowing insight into modern parenting.
Sideways
A sophisticated date movie about male midlife malcontents and the women who love them, from the director of Election.
Stage Beauty
Victor/Victoria meets Shakespeare in Love at A Star Is Born in this gender-bending backstage story.
Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Saints alive! To each her own biopic.
Zelary
Life during wartime is always difficult, but never more so than when you're in love as this Czech movie demonstrates.
arts & culture
Becoming Birds
'The Philomel Project' allows myth to take wing at the Blue Theater
BY BARRY PINEO
November is Dvorák month in Austin!
The University of Texas is marking the centenary of Dvorák's death with an ambitious multidisciplinary festival called "New Worlds: Dvorák in Search of America."
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Culture Flash!
New theatre that aims to light a political fire under you, a new warehouse theatre for South Austin, and Central Texans sing out at Carnegie Hall
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Cherrywood
'Provocative' aptly describes the Rude Mechanicals' 'Cherrywood,' which thrusts you into a strange, relentlessly intense party that's never boring but never really engaging either
In the Pocket
Tapestry Dance Company's season premiere was a swingin' jazz affair that made the Paramount Theatre feel like a smoky little club between Birdland and heaven
'Rising Stars'
'Rising Stars' is an apt title for this small but sparkling exhibit of works by Robert Pruitt, Leona Scull-Hons, and Young-Min Kang.
columns
Page Two
Tomorrow, we fight; today, we mourn
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Whoa! Your Style Avatar is older than dirt! Oops, we mean, "just celebrated another b-day!" Come celebrate within.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Arcane ephemera from the bespectacled one
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Boondocks Cafe on TX 36 south of Caldwell isn't your ordinary Texas roadhouse
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Common Law
Power of attorney
BY LUKE ELLIS
About AIDS
Depression: HIV's Friend, Not Yours
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Luv Doc Recommends: Waiting on Godot
Hyde Park Theatre, Thursday, November 4, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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