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features
30 Things
The highs, the lows, the lists
news
How Do You Formulate a Grand Prix?
The race to nail down an F1 deal involves multiple entities
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Nov. 18-23
Point Austin: A Hill of Beans
Tom DeLay's story is a profile in political corruption
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: And the Race Begins ...
Council filings remind us there's always another campaign
BY WELLS DUNBAR
WTP4: $300 Million in One Gulp?
Council considers handing over remaining Water Treatment Plant No. 4 funds all at once
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Return of the Prodigal Plans
Council checks in on several ongoing long-range planning efforts
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Chapel of Junk?
Cathedral of Junk is back in business, sort of
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Car2Go Sweeps Austin Off Its Wheels
After a year's courtship with Austin, Car2Go takes it to the next level
BY KATE X MESSER
Highway Bribery
Would you ditch your gas-guzzling ways for cash and prizes?
BY LEE NICHOLS
New Year = New Transit Fares
Bus-dependent riders say Cap Metro favoring suburbanites
BY LEE NICHOLS
A Cure for What Trails You
The National Park Service lends a hand
BY LEE NICHOLS
Holding Fleet to the Fire
City releases audit of Fleet Services department in wake of scrap-tire fiasco
BY JORDAN SMITH
On the Lege: House GOP Goes to War – With Itself
Even in victory, Republicans are divided
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Things Are So Bad That ...
Watson condemns budget process
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Simmering Water War; and Vote and Run
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food Reviews
La Sombra Bar & Grill
Pisco sours and ceviche galore from the duo that brought you 34th Street Cafe
Phara's
Fairyland atmosphere paired with fairly grand Mediterranean specialties
Jax Neighborhood Cafe
New neighborhood joint serves up the basics
Beer Flights
It's the most suds-erful time of the year
BY LEE NICHOLS
Event Menu
Delicious ways to help you bite into the week of Nov. 18-23
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
New menus, new arrivals, new ventures, and other news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
2010 Thanksgiving Feasts Around Town
Let someone else jockey for oven space – there are plenty of options for taking the family out this year
music
Sibling Harmony
Tiffani and Britani Ginn may not look like they're from Schulenberg on the cover of their new You Can't Take a Bad Girl Home, but their harmonies tell a different tale
BY MARGARET MOSER
Off the Record
The fast and the furious: the sentencing of J Kapone, Steve Wertheimer's Hot Rod Revolution, and 'How to Tour in a Band or Whatever'
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
the Octopus Project
Hexadecagon
the Black
Sun in the Day Moon at Night
Murdocks
Distortionist
Hard Proof
Hard Proof
Old 97's
The Grand Theatre Volume One
The Black and White Years
Patterns
Master Blaster Sound System
Master Blaster Sound System
Maneja Beto
Latin Beat
Los Lonely Boys
Keep On Giving: Acoustic Live
Austin Piazzolla Quintet
Libertango
Agent Ribbons
Chateau Crone
Pauline Reese
Just Getting Started
New Mystery Girl
Twist City
Emily Shirley
Tiny Truths
Brooklyn James
Music From the Novel 'The Boots My Mother Gave Me'
Thift Store Cowboys
Light Fighter
Long Woodson
Robyville
Clay McClinton
Livin' Out Loud
Rosehill
White Lines and Stars
the Figurados
Lesson Two
Eric Tessmer
Green Diamond
Spencer Thomas
Gulf Coast Charms
Patty Zumpe McGarrigle Band
Heart of a Man, Blood of Your Mother
Soul Track Mind
Ghost of Soul
Carson Brock
Signs
screens
Hot and Cold
Two new series tap extreme climes, from Buñuel in Mexico to Iceland's endless winter
The Devil's in the Details
Andrew Bujalksi and Cinema Club screen an overlooked John Huston gem
BY MARC SAVLOV
Gift Guide 2010
Two new titles for the TV geek
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
TV Eye: 'If Only' TV
What if Sarah Palin met The Walking Dead?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The third book of Stieg Larsson's addictive Swedish trilogy is now onscreen.
Guzaarish
In this Bollywood film, a paralyzed man petitions the court to allow his mercy killing.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
This is the finest Potter film yet – darker, funnier, and more epic than everything that has come before.
127 Hours
An unrelenting tour de force thanks to Simon Beaufoy's clever script, Danny Boyle's inspired direction, and James Franco's amazing performance, 127 Hours is primarily an unforgettable examination of the human spirit under extreme duress.
Skyline
In this effects-heavy film, extraterrestrials invade Los Angeles.
Today's Special
This film about a young American taking over his family's Indian restaurant is inspired by an Obie Award-winning play by The Daily Show With Jon Stewart's Aasif Mandvi.
Unstoppable
Denzel Washington stops a runaway train loaded with toxic cargo.
arts & culture
The First To Question
Remembering the ultimate theatre historian, Oscar Brockett, 1923-2010
BY ROBERT FAIRES
John Oliver
The British comedian perseveres through pundits, politics, and Peter Pan
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ransom Center
UT acquires the archives of celebrated monologist Spalding Gray
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This revival proves Albee's 1962 drama to be as brutal and unsettling as ever
Birthday Suit(e)
Old friends Hanan Alattar and Michelle Schumann tackle the art song artfully
'Deep End: New Works by Sonya Berg'
Large graphite waterfalls and little empty swimming pools compel the eyes here
columns
Suttle as a Kick in the Head
Formula One development deal well worth more scrutiny
BY NICK BARBARO
Letters at 3AM: The Palin-Obama Convergence
Barack Obama and Sarah Palin are actually the same person
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Stephen talks about quitting smoking. Then quits smoking? Did we read right?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The transformative power of Tranarchy! and a bit of a blog shuffle
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts hosts current-day musicians while the Woodstock museum keeps alive the spirit of the '60s fest
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Viagra and pandas, helmets and death, Ohio and East Texas, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Extravagasm Fantasy Ball IX: East of Hedon
ND Austin, Friday, November 19, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Texas Stars Movember
The Texas Stars grow 'staches to raise funds to fight cancer
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
St. Ed’s hosts Sweet 16, and more
BY NICK BARBARO
Football Watch
Cowboys win! Don't ask about the Texans and Longhorns.
