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HIGHLIGHTS

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Austin Unchained Keeps Your Money Weird

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The Five Faces of Hamlet's Lover in Tutto Theatre Company's Ophelia

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'Off the Record' Weighs in on the Live Music Task Force Recommendations

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An artist's rendering of the Cedar Park Center opening in 2009

Texas Stars Name Scott White First General Manager: Brett Hull names White the first-ever GM of the Texas Stars Hockey Club

Jim Mattox Dies, Age 65: Former Democratic congressman and attorney general passes on last night: Tributes begin

Honey on the Track: Honey Homicide of the Lonestar Rollergirls talks tactics and ligaments

Campfire Horror Story

How Carole Keeton Strayhorn and the state destroyed a healing camp for kids

  • Former comptroller defends her actions on foster care
  • A green-skills program caters to children who have aged out of the foster-care system
  • Bebe Gaines talks about the day the state closed down her therapeutic camp for troubled foster kids

Point Austin: Unaccountable

In the public school testing frenzy, responsibility and consequences flow only downward

City Hall Hustle: Everybody's on Vacation

The complicated business of hiring a city auditor who's already the city auditor

Headlines

Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere

Res Publica
Your do-good guide for Nov. 20-27

Austin Unchained

Think globally, shop locally, and we'll all be better for it

Cap Metro Aftertaste: No Love Lost

Wounds still fresh from Cap Metro/ATU conflict

Live Music Task Force (of Millions)

There's the 15-member task force, which makes its recommendations to council this week, and then there's you – what are your plans for saving Austin music?

Fate of the Texas Two-Step

Texas Dems held the final hearing last week gathering testimony opposed and in favor of the Texas Two-Step

Solid Waste: Who's Driving the Train?

City staff's landfill-expansion decision has violated – at least in the spirit – a resolution passed by council. Now everybody wants to know why.

Who Wants to Be 'Anybody but Craddick'?

A front-runner has yet to emerge to defeat Craddick

An End to TYC's Problems ... and to TYC?

The Sunset Advisory Commission recommends drastic action to remedy the problems plaguing the Texas Youth Commission: dissolve the agency

TFN Report: Texas Scientists Support Evolution

Scientists overwhelmingly reject "creation science" and "intelligent design"

The Hightower Report

Public Works Work; and Big Oil's Charm Offensive

Welcome to My Studio

The East Austin Studio Tour offers a rare chance to see where artists work and live

Creative Research Laboratory

UT artists play prospectors, panning for new ideas out of the notion of space

Salon Concerts

A violin and a cello made together in 1863 Paris are reunited in 2008 Austin

Arthouse

Curator Elizabeth Dunbar opened her latest exhibit on Friday, gave birth Saturday

Arts Reviews

Ophelia
This Hamlet seen through the eyes of Ophelia – rather, five Ophelias – is astounding

The Three Sisters
A revival that is surprising and funny and offers the rich joy of Chekhov done well

The Living
Three painters show work that will have you thinking about what it means to be alive

Readings

New in Nonfiction
Two new nonfiction books work their mouths around the English language

Restaurant Reviews

Málaga
This tapas bar may have moved into a bigger space, but it still manages a packed house

Thai Fresh
Thai Fresh is like a mini farmers' market in Bouldin Creek

Cookie Lounge
Head to Cookie Lounge for customized, fresh-from-the-oven, gourmet treats

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Meet one of the newest residents at the 360 Condominiums

Event Menu

Nov. 22-25

Food-o-File

Another lightning round of local food news

Postmarks
Letters to the editor, updated daily

Page Two: Everybody Plays the Fool

Neither party is sainted, and dominance tends to encourage the worst of political habits

Letters at 3AM

Obama won the election through a uniquely American combination of inspiration and cash

After a Fashion

Stephen parties … for kids, mind you, kids

Gay Place

Turn last week's national protest local at the Transgender Day of Remembrance

Day Trips

New Mexico has many lovely hotels to choose from

Playing Through

Patsy Izaguirre and Amanda Houston may not have won the Texas School for the Blind's Braille Rallye, but they had already achieved something far more important: friendship

Soccer Watch Online

News and scores from the U.S. and abroad

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Saving the Marx Brothers' childhood home, energy-draining migraines, and more

Ask Mr. Smarty Pants
Got a question? He's got the answer.

The Common Law

You Become Responsible When You Co-Sign a Loan

The Luv Doc Recommends

A rambling recommendation to shore up that hole in your social calendar

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Inside the Mind of the Muscles

Jean-Claude Van Damme on being Jean-Claude Van Damme

A Less Wild Side to Argentina

AFS Essential Cinema: More Than Buenos Aires: Film Renaissance in Argentina

DVD Watch

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold

"I've got the last good lay in an aging whore!" said Martin Ritts of his famously troubled star, Richard Burton

TV Eye

Hulu, Sling, YouTube, the DVR – it's the age of the hybrid viewer

Film Reviews

Australia
Bolt starstarstarhalfstar
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas starstarhalfstar
Four Christmases
Fuel starhalfstar
JCVD starstarstarhalfstar
My Name Is Bruce starhalfstar
Transporter 3
Twilight

Music Deportment

The Live Music Task Force recommends a Music Department under Austin government. Time for the Austin music community to put its many heads together.

Off the Record

Weighing in on the Live Music Task Force's recommendations to City Council and casting a ballot for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame


Phases & Stages

The Cure
4:13 Dream

Of Montreal
Live Shot

AC/DC
Black Ice

Gojira
The Way of All Flesh

Frida Hyvönen
Silence Is Wild

Ray LaMontagne
Gossip in the Grain

The Pretenders
Break Up the Concrete

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