University of Texas Tower
Craig Staggs
features
Something the Grackles Made
The life and works of Mr. Pants
BY CINDY WIDNER
news
Iraq Comes Home
Wounded Warriors return to the Thin Blue Line
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Res Publica
Your civic agenda, Sept. 18-25
Aquifer Board Seeks to Expand Its Regulatory Reach
Groundwater agency wants to tighten its grip in western Travis County
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
Let the Super Search Begin
Twelve upcoming forums give the public a large role in finding AISD's new superintendent
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
UT Students Ignite Streetcar Passions
A UT forum on light rail got heavy last week
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Bus Drivers Cry Foul Over 'Union-Busting Tactic'
Bus drivers don't like StarTran's 'final offer,' but they're still on the job
BY LEE NICHOLS
Outlook Good for Police Contract
Both sides appear satisfied with the recently negotiated employment contract for Austin police
BY JORDAN SMITH
Bike Lanes: Not Just for Bikes Anymore
Road work on Exposition highlights difficulty of preserving safe road space for bicycles
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
The Sad Case of the Cactus Planter
Judge Sam Sparks ruled against Planet K in its attempts to save its beloved junked car (aka Ralph)
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
KXAN Airs Its Time Warner Laundry
KXAN broadcasts its disgust with Time Warner
BY KEVIN BRASS
Healthcare District Budget, New Clinic Get Green Light
County commissioners sign off on building new Braker Lane clinic, despite neighborhood opposition
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Barr Too Big for His Libertarian Britches
In snubbing Ron Paul, Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr may have lost his base
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bolton's Thick Blue Line
Bolton wins law enforcement endorsements, despite opponent's law-and-order ties
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Ike Won't Spike the Vote
The show must go on: Storm damage won't stop people from casting ballots
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
GOP Oil Spiel Not So Slick
Contrary to what John Cornyn would have us believe, speculators are to blame for the oil price spike, says new report
BY LEE NICHOLS
Officials' Silence Speaks Loudly at Hutto Forum
A forum on the T. Don Hutto immigrant-detention center will go on despite no participation from Hutto supporters
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Point Austin: Charlie Wilson's Chair
When the legend becomes fact, endow the legend
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: What Would Sarah Do?
Railin' on Palin's veep credentials
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
FDA Gives In to Food Torturers; and Protecting the Integrity of Our Votes
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
SLOW FOOD
Slow Food Nation '08
Slow Food Nation works to support local food tradition, and it tastes good, too
BY MM PACK
Slow Food Nation '08 Photo Gallery
Event Menu
Sample sausages and wines on the Kiolbassa & Kab trail, bourbons at Jasper's, and spa treatments at the Belmont
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Big Brother puts the squeeze on more than just juice
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
The Mansion at Judges' Hill
The Mansion's intimacy and opulence are hard to top
Galloway Sandwich Shop
Galloway's isn't about sandwiches but delicious, Southern soul food
music
They're a Little Odd and Don't Know It
Randy Newman likes Billy Joel?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Lunacy and Sorrow
David Berman pokes the Silver Jews out of his shell
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Off the Record
Charlie Sexton and Stephen Bruton hang with the Dude, and Haunting Oboe Music's calender year
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Josh Allen
Orpheus
The Black Angels, School of Seven Bells, the Young, Camp X-Ray, Anais Mitchell & Rachel Ries
Doves, Silent Grips, the Young, Camp X-Ray, Country EP
Alex Coke, Tina Marsh, Steve Feld, Ron Westray, Joe LoCascio
It's Possible, Medical Cures for the Chromatic Commands of the Inncer City Blue Canoe, Ghosts
Delbert McClinton
Rocking the Boat: A Musical Conversation & Journey
Bruce Robison
The New World
Eve & the Exiles
Blow Your Mind
Drew Smith's Lonely Choir
Drew Smith's Lonely Choir
Susan Gibson
New Dog, Old Tricks
Bubba Hernandez
Dancing en Fuego
Steam Heat
Austin Funk
Redd Volkaert
Reddhead
The Van Buren Boys
Planet Kickass
Pimpadelic
She's Dead
Toadies
No Deliverance
Hot Club of Cowtown
The Best Of
Rob Roy Parnell
Let's Start Something
Brandon Rhyder
Every Night
Roger Creager
Here It Is
Jason Allen
The Twilight Zone
Honeybrowne
Mile by Mile
screens
Continental Drift
Scenes from the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
The Bike Stuff
The traveling 2008 Bicycle Film Festival rolls into Austin
BY ROB D'AMICO
Beware: Bigfoot Ahead
The homegrown horror of The Wild Man of Navidad
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Film News
Carolyn Banks makes her directorial debut in Bastrop
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
The presidential debates are coming, and so are the Emmys
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Edge of Heaven
This Turkish film is a transgenerational, transborder microcosm of modern cultural melding.
Ghost Town
A sweet, old-fashioned kind of picture content to burrow into the quiet spaces, where boring, ordinary adults live and fitfully try to love again. Oh, and occasionally talk to dead people.
Lakeview Terrace
By-the-book domestic thriller about the consequences of moving into a neighborhood lorded over by a rules-happy sociopath with a gun and a badge.
Righteous Kill
There's nothing righteous about this tired and tiresome good cop/bad cop NYPD procedural.
Stealing America: Vote by Vote
This documentary account of Election Day 2004 thinks it has the answer: conspiracy and treason, Republican-style.
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
One-man moviemaking machine Tyler Perry drops his usual cross-dressing comedics for this melodrama about two family dynasties – one black, one white – rocked by scandal.
Up the Yangtze
Canadian documentary effectively personalizes the effect of the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River and the 2 million it displaced.
arts & culture
Artists as Developers
A symposium gives creative types a new role in rebuilding neighborhoods
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
'Pressure': Pedaling Art
Lance Armstrong shows off his cultural side with an exhibit of bike art
BY ANDREW LONG
Ben Aqua and Faith Gay: Bound for Big D
Two Austin artists will do residencies at Dallas' new Centraltrak art facility
BY RACHEL KOPER
Austin Symphony Orchestra: The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round
ASO's first commissioned work uses Dell Hall to envelop the audience in sound
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Macbeth
Austin Shakespeare's staging is strong but at times is lost in its own sound and fury
Amadeus
At the opening of this Austin Playhouse show, some actors hadn't done the work
The Politics of War
This show of political art by Robert Levers and Chris Reno is as timely as it gets
columns
Page Two: Theatre of Cruelty
The backdrop of reality that belies the McCain-Palin pageant
BY LOUIS BLACK
Playing Through
The ladies of the Austin Valkyries women's rugby team will lay you out on the field and then buy you a beer an hour later
BY THOMAS HACKETT
After a Fashion
Barbara, Jenna, and Ranch dressing? What do you think this week's column is about?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
NatureFest in Bastrop's Fisherman's Park will celebrate the opening of Wilbarger Paddling Trail on Sept. 27
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Hurricane relief in a hurricane glass
BY KATE GETTY AND KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Hurricanes, typhoons, and hemophobia
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Homeowners' Associations – What Gives Them the Right?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Fantastic Fest Rolling Roadshow Screening of 'The Road Warrior'
Republic Square, Friday, September 19, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
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