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Capturing the Dragon
Two Dem Challengers contend for CD 10
BY LEE NICHOLS
License to Shrill, Uncensored
A conversation with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Houston Confronting Peak Oil
2007 Houston World Oil Conference focused on eventual point at which world oil production outpaces global demand
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Texas Voters Approve Props; Travis Narrowly Passes Cancer Measure
Constitutional-amendments election turnout low but a bit higher than we expected
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Developing Stories
Connect-the-dot conversations heard around town
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Reefer Madness
Feds ease harsh penalties on crack defendants
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: MUD in Your Eye
Northwest Austin suburb challenges the Voting Rights Act
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Council on deck to approve slip-n-slide water deal with LCRA
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Stand Up, Congress; and Money Goes In, Money Goes Out
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Bubba & Babe's Backwoods Texas Wedding
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Inwood Estates
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Nov. 10-15
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Estância Churrascaria
Go hungry, and eat slowly at this Brazilian steak house
First Chinese BBQ
Diverse ingredients come together at this Cantonese hot spot
music
Caught 'Em in Autumn
Local scene roundup
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Off the Record
Reviewing the three-ring circus of Fun Fun Fun Fest and flashing back to the Armadillo World Headquarters with Dweezil Zappa
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Fun Fun Fun Fest Live Shots
Against Me
Against Me!
Murder City Devils
The Murder City Devils
Cat Power & the Dirty Delta Blues Band
Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Band
screens
Los Angeles, I'm Yours
Thom Andersen sets the story straight on the city he loves in 'Los Angeles Plays Itself'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Jam on Wry
Primus' Les Claypool rocks the mock-doc in his directorial feature film debut, Electric Apricot
BY MARC SAVLOV
Fourth Annual Austin Asian Film Festival
Nov. 8-11
TV Eye
What to do when the writers' strike shuts down your favorite shows
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Chinatown
For many, Chinatown epitomizes the peak of Seventies Hollywood filmmaking and is perhaps the finest neo-noir ever made
Film Reviews
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Both a crime thriller and family tragedy, this stunner from octogenarian Sidney Lumet stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke as brothers whose blood runs cold.
Control
Control, Anton Corbijn's narrative portrait of Joy Division's suicidal singer, Ian Curtis, is easily one of the finest films ever made about the collision of music, madness, and the human heart.
Fred Claus
Awash with amazingly talented actors – Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Kevin Spacey, to name a few – Fred Claus is sadly just an early lump of coal under the tree.
King Corn
The film’s light hand, appealing style, and simple exposition make it an eminently watchable inquiry into the politics of food, public health, and the reasons why corn has become an ingredient in virtually everything we eat.
Lions for Lambs
Robert Redford's Lions for Lambs, in which he co-stars with Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, is a piece of nervy political theatre that argues against individual complacency in wartime.
Om Shanti Om
Via a tale of reincarnation, this new Bollywood movie offers a tribute to the Hindi spectacles of the Seventies.
Saawariya
This visually dreamy Bollywood romance is unusually financed and promoted by a Hollywood distributor.
Sleuth
Surprisingly, this powerhouse combination of writer Harold Pinter, director Kenneth Branagh, and co-stars Michael Caine and Jude Law adds up to a load of nonsense.
arts & culture
Love Craft
Stitch Austin, your rockin' showplace for indie design
BY RACHEL KOPER
Karen Kuykendall: In Memoriam
When this performer and friend of the arts died on Oct. 31, the city lost the grandest of its grande dames
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Chamber Music Center: Is that a bow in your pocket, or ... ?
For ACMC's next concert, Hot Enough for Ya, the aim is clear: Let's talk about sex
BY MICHAEL KELLERMAN
Arts Reviews
Voices Underwater
An entrancing swim through issues of communication, discrimination, and history (with a couple of eerie ghosts along for the ride)
Ashes, Ashes
In UT's staging of this postapocalyptic fairy tale, we can't help be sucked into the magic of the infinite hole
YLA 12: Embracing Chaos
Despite some enjoyable work by this year's Young Latino Artists, the show overall isn't impressive
columns
Page Two: Living Just Enough for the City
City sound limits and national anti-immigration movements share absolutism and intransigence
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Letters @ 3AM
At least four factors could determine the nominees and results of the next presidential election, and nobody's talking about them yet
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
The slipstream of leather, cashmere, faux fur, and designer logos could be seen from space: Stephen is making the scene, people; cut a swath
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Tours of Georgia O'Keeffe's home and studio in Abiquiu, N.M., allow guests unique insight into her art and life
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
The young girls go nuts for the UT women's soccer team
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Rats in India like curry, at fast-food restaurants there are more bacteria in ice machines than in toilets, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Fred Sanford is my neighbor
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Bob Dylan Hoot Night
Emo's, Thursday, November 8, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
St. Edward's women host the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional, and more
