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Austin Unchained Keeps Your Money Weird
The Five Faces of Hamlet's Lover in Tutto Theatre Company's Ophelia
'Off the Record' Weighs in on the Live Music Task Force Recommendations
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
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
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
mulberry
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
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
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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