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An eight-year-old fan of The Nutcracker has her dream come true when she gets to talk to a choreographer and ballerina -- Ballet Austin's Stephen Mills and Gina Patterson -- about the ballet that helps Christmas feel like Christmas.

Politics & music & the politics of music.

All Sprawled Out

Hanging with music industry legend Jerry Wexler

Q&A with the signature bluesman of the Nineties, R.L. Burnside.

Si Bon is located on South Lamar in a comfortable old home. Step through the door and you find a warm, friendly atmosphere: happy customers tended by smiling staff. A cozy bar. White tablecloths, a comfy fireplace and lip-smacking aromas. Before you ever get to your table, Si Bon makes a good impression.

Our readers talk back.

While waiting for election recount results, George W. Bush is imitating Lyndon B. Johnson while allowing his staff to run the show.

Chain Gangs! Cast Aways! Kung Fu! Chocolate! ... It's Time for the Holiday Film Previews

Gore vs. Bush vs. Nader vs. Ventura vs. Hernandez vs. Simone, approximately.

Kevin Archambault came late to dance, but his love of it and commitment to it have brought the young dancer and choreographer a long way in a short time.

Last call for SXSW entries.

Post-election political rumblings , and Music Editor Raoul Hernandez takes it on the chin from Nina Simone fans.

The state of gay writing was discussed at the third annual Behind Our Masks Literary Festival in Philadelphia last weekend.

Rants and raves about the state of the Austin fashion scene.

"As corny as it sounds, I have to say that my life changed 14 years ago," Anne S. Lewis writes, "the day my bike tire blew out -- the second time in one week -- right in front of John Trimble's house. I'd never heard of the author of the venerable Writing With Style book or his legendary UT writing classes."

Q&A with the "King of the Blues"

From poetry scrawled on walls to poetry inscribed on CD: the saga of the Gourds.

Yoga and Starbucks. Karaoke and republicans. Squirrel rifles and Al Gore. Together for the first time in this week's letters to the editor!

Cap Metro wants to hear your complaints; a reader asks whether the Summer Smut issue was worth the offense it generated; a radio fan finds sustenance in a substitute; and more letters to the editor.

In Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe tells the story of his first assignment for Rolling Stone in 1973 and a day when the youth of America believed rock & roll could change the world.

Television's best girl-power trio isn't on primetime -- it's the Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls

Recent coverage of light rail and of access-TV personality Alex Jones pushes readers' buttons this week.

Reviews

"Alex Jones is to patriotism ... what hot dogs are to meat."

Bringing kids to adult theatre is uncool, but what's about children's theatre, where they belong? Ada Calhoun borrows a friend's three-and-a-half-year-old son to find out and discovers that theatre ain't all magic when you're a preschooler.

Chrysta Bell quits the Souvenirs; the Meat Puppets' new record could come out in record time.

Our readers talk back.

Ray Lewis may not have committed murder, but he's hardly the wronged innocent that the media are now making him out to be.