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news
Developing Stories: Where Are They Now?
The latest on this year's big digs
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
God vs. Taser: Officer Sues APD
Former rookie officer claims he was forced to resign because of his religious beliefs after he refused to comply with a supervisor's order to use excessive force on a suspect
BY JORDAN SMITH
Media Watch: Marfa Ready for NPR?
An attempt to bring public radio to West Texas shows that no good deed goes unpunished
BY KEVIN BRASS
Capitalists, Conservationists Say No to Dirty Coal
Showdown taking shape over plans to build 16 old-style coal-fired power plants, which threaten to push Austin's marginal air quality into the red
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
Point Austin: Good, Bad, and Ugly
Sustainability Project snap-shoots our present, future
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
A card for council-watchers
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Prissy Politicos; and My Gift for George W.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Bubblicious
The year's best champagnes and sparkling wines
BY WES MARSHALL
Will Travel for Food and Drink
Austria, Poland, and the Czech Republic
BY WES MARSHALL
Why Whip In Rules
Sorry, Travis Heights: your secret's out
BY WES MARSHALL
Wine Shopping at Chevron
I'd received wine advice at a gas station once before and walked out with a bottle of MD 20/20
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Gallo Family Vineyards Gold Medal Awards
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2007
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
What we'd like to see happen in 2007
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Troublemaker
Ed Ward's first-hand account of Willie Nelson's Complete Atlantic Sessions.
BY ED WARD
TCB
"O Death, where is thy sting?" – 1 Corinthians 15:55
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Best Ofs
Duncan Sheik
Brighter/Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology
Cee-Lo
Closet Freak: The Best of Cee-Lo Green the Soul Machine
Luther Vandross
The Ultimate Luther Vandross
Mary J Blige
Reflections (A Retrospective)
P.O.D.
Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years
Jane's Addiction
Up from the Catacombs: The Best of Jane's Addiction
The Dead C.
Vain, Erudite and Stupid: Selected Works, 1987-2005
Jefferson Airplane
The Worst of Jefferson Airplane
Tim Buckley
The Best of
Sterolab
Serene Velocity/A Sterolab Anthology
Depeche Mode
The Best of Depeche Mode Vol. 1
U2
U218: Singles
Replacements
Don't You Know Who I Think I Was? The Best of the Replacements
Old 97's
The Best of Old 97's: Hit By a Train
Buck Owens
21 No. 1 Hits: The Ultimate Collection
Nickel Creek
Reasons Why: The Very Best Of
screens
Champion of the World Cinema
Chief curator Chale Nafus on the Austin Film Society's latest Essential series, South by Southeast: Films of Thailand and Vietnam
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Film News
TV to the rescue, 'Madman' Robert Rodriguez, and more news
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
The overs and the unders
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
City of Men
Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Mereilles-produced City of Men goes a long way to expanding the vocabulary of television and moving the medium toward a more cinematic approach
Film Reviews
Black Christmas
Although this horror remake isn't as suspenseful or emotionally draining as its influential 1974 predecessor, the film almost makes up for that with its overriding weirdness.
The Cave of the Yellow Dog
Shot on location in Mongolia with a real nomad family, The Cave of the Yellow Dog blurs the line between documentary and fiction and, in doing so, creates its own singular dramatic language.
The Painted Veil
Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Like a dream, the Quay Brothers' The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes is wispy and ethereal; like a nightmare, it lodges in your hindbrain and gnaws away with gleeful abandon.
arts & culture
All Eyes on First Night
Fireworks rule, parades with kids and bikes rule, giant art rules ...
BY RACHEL KOPER
Austin Theatre: What will be will be
Three Austin theatre artists – actress Lee Eddy, choreographer Robin Lewis, and Adam Sultan – dish about their visions of the year to come
BY HANNAH KENAH
Austin Lyric Opera: Fat lady sings for artistic/managing director split
Austin Lyric Opera Artistic Director Richard Buckley and Managing Director Tamara Hale are both leaving their posts in June 2007, after which ALO will return to a single general director running the show
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Rollin' on the 'River'
Culture Flash!
NEA grants in the stockings of three Austin arts groups, plus the Rude Mechs get their Big Apple on at the Public Theater's Under the Radar festival
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Pageant
There's something inherently entertaining about men in women's clothing, and you'll rarely see so many men in so much women's clothing as you will in Naughty Austin's quite entertaining revival of Pageant
'The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984'
The overall effect of "The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984" is almost patriotic, showing an appreciation of the radical thought and freedom of action that made the U.S. the young revolutionary in that time
'Abstract Expressionism, 1940s-1960s'
"Abstract Expressionism, 1940s-1960s" is at once a stand-alone illustration of a pivotal time in American art and a prelude to the continued explosions of radical artistic energy that marked New York throughout the 20th century
columns
Page Two: Red-State Specials
In the current political climate, reasoned debate turns too easily to ideological hate
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Throw down after throw down, 2006 was one biiiig par-tay for your Style Avatar
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Don't mess with Texas, unless it comes to per capita spending on parks, where we are ranked 49th in the country
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
It's about time for the end of time
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Late delivery on holiday present – do I still have to pay?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Oops!
Our latest batch
Luv Doc Recommends: New Year’s Eve with K-Tel Hit Machine and Tosca Strings
Playland Skate Center, Sunday, December 31, 2006
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Inter Milan wins 11 straight, and more
