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What Killed Michael Clark?
The official Travis Co. autopsy doesn't tell the whole story
BY JORDAN SMITH
Daniel Rocha's Last Night: Reconstruction, Recommendations, Reprimands
Chief Knee and APD investigators differ over whether Schroeder's shot was justified
BY JORDAN SMITH
Thomas Declares for Mayor
Pro Tem calls for more inclusion and openness
BY MICHAEL KING
Clean Water, Clean Government Campaign Kicks Off
SOS Alliance wants more open and more proactive government on aquifer issues
BY AMY SMITH
'Real World' Rap Sheet
MTV louts both raised and caught hell on the mean streets of Austin
BY KEVIN BRASS
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Hecht v. Dietz
Supremes find high taxes onerous, but lousy schools OK
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Bush tries branding his critics as unpatriotic, wailing that it is 'deeply irresponsible' to question his motives
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Cookbooks
Holiday gift guide
Food-o-File
The Domaine Dupeuble Pere et Fils 2005 is the one; plus, taking measure of the Mercury's rising
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Realms of Inspiration
Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
Books, video games, movie stars: TCB investigates this
'multimedia' business
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Rock & Roll Books
The Beatles: The Biography / With the Beatles / The Beatles: 365 Days
Bob Spitz, Lewis Lapham and Simon Wells
Jackie Wilson: Lonely Teardrops
Tony Douglas
Tommy Dorsey: His Life and Times
Peter Levinson
Spreadin' Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters, 1880-1930
David A. Jasen and Gene Jones
Led Zeppelin: The Story of a Band and Their Music 1968-1980
Keith Shadwick
Billy F Gibbons: Rock + Roll Gearhead
Billy F. Gibbons and Tom Vickers
Steve Earle: Fearless Heart, Outlaw Poet
David McGee
Conversations With Tom Petty
Paul Zollo
All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
Michael Corcoran
Conjunto
John Dyer, Joe Nick Patoski and Juan Tejada
Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture
Lisa L. Rhodes
The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
David Dodd
The Billboard Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues
Howard Mandel
Swag 2: Rock Posters of the '90s and Beyond
Spencer Drate and Judith Salavetz
I Hope You Are All Happy Now
Nicholas Zinner
screens
Otaku* Overload!!!
After Monster Island Studios sank, Austin's acting community and Houston animé giant A.D. Vision unleashed talent bent on vengeance and redemption (*otaku = animé geek)
BY MARC SAVLOV
'SXSW Presents': 'Prizewhores'
'Prizewhores'
Film News
Word from the Independent Spirit Awards and Sundance fronts; plus, 'No Pain, No Gain,' Bobby Cannavale, and 'Light From the East'
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
One person's idea of empowerment is another's idea of sexual looseness. So, who decides what's what?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Knowing Me Knowing You
The 'Knowing Me Knowing You' two-disc set comprises all six episodes of the show, one of the most hilarious satirical comedies in recent memory. and is loaded with special features
Film Reviews
All That I Need
Movies this bad don’t often get released anymore, a circumstance that instantly raises the curiosity factor of All That I Need.
Christmas in the Clouds
This Native American romantic comedy, which won the Audience Award at the 2001 Austin Film Festival, arrives in theatres four years late but seasonally right on time.
First Descent
This vertiginous documentary about snowboarding talks with the sport's greats and shows them in action, rocketing down crag-encrusted, virgin slopes like buckshot fired from God’s own 20-gauge.
Garçon Stupide
Love and sensation: It's all the same thing to a young gay Swiss man who leads a dangerous life.
In the Mix
Consider this brick No. 1 in the fall of the house of Usher.
arts & culture
Larkin's Journey
New York choreographer Regina Larkin keeps coming back to Ballet East
BY PATTI HADAD
King Kong: You're on the Air, Ya Big Ape!
As 'King Kong' storms into cinemas across the globe, the
Violet Crown Radio Players are bringing the simian
sovereign to life onstage in a 'lost' radio adaptation of
the 1933 film
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Pale Idiot': Return to the Rudeness That Started It All
As a celebration of 10 years of rudeness, the Rude Mechanicals are reviving the show that started it all, Kirk Lynn's absurdist comedy 'Pale Idiot'
BY BARRY PINEO
'Two Donuts': An Old-Fashioned Treat
'Two Donuts,' a play by José Cruz González, was presented to the Widen Elementary School student body by the UT Department of Theatre and Dance as part of its Fall 2005 Youth Theatre Tour
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Santaland Diaries
An infusion of Lee Eddy into 'The Santaland Diaries' makes Zach's holiday classic even more delightful
'The Fourth Season: Works by Ray Donley and Rosanne Olson'
A full array of masks populate the photographs of Rosanne Olson and paintings of Ray Donley, making 'The Fourth Season' an exhibition full of metaphor for both disguise and liberation
columns
Page Two
Requiem for decency
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
There's trouble in Nick & Jessica's paradise, and who are the Butthole Sniffers?!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
Recovery from HIV: news or rumor?
BY SANDY BARTLETT
To Your Health
How do I find out if I have 'leaky gut syndrome,' and how is it treated?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Unsolicited items in the mail – what happens if the item is for someone else?
BY MELISSA DEVINE AND LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Robert Cave's Albert Icehouse in Albert, Texas, is a great place to stop between Austin and Luckenbach for a cool beverage and live music on Saturdays
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
His facts will getcha every time
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: X-Mas Unwrapped! A Holiday Burlesque
Hyde Park Theatre, Friday, December 2, 2005
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Women's college and Champions League heat up
