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Can Schlotzsky's Be Saved?
John Wooley and the battle to bring Schlotzsky's back to life
BY AMY SMITH
Sheriff Hopefuls: Looking-at-Jail Time
Both McNeill and Hamilton say a new lockup is TCSO's top priority
BY JORDAN SMITH
Rankings Give Schools a One-Two Punch
Both state and federal accountability measures leave Austin ISD cold
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Weed Watch: Oh, All Right, Eat the Hemp
Feds give up three-year effort to ban foods with hemp seeds and oil
BY JORDAN SMITH
Another Slowdown on Rainey Street
Staff redevelopment plan hits a roadblock at the Design Commission
BY KIMBERLY REEVES
UT Students Sell the CIA
Controversial biz-school course offers 'real-world' marketing for spy shop
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
A 'Culture of Excellence' at UT Inc.
The Commission of 125 report calls for a first-class (and blue-chip) university
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Will Alcoa Clear the Air?
The aluminum giant's power-plant replacement plan hasn't convinced enviros
BY LEE NICHOLS
World Energy Week's Hometown Highlights
Events in Austin and Fredericksburg show off region's clean-energy champions
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Global Test
Whatever happens next month, we all have plenty of work to do
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin @ Large: Triangle, Full Circle
Seven glorious years later, and did we learn anything?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
The Hightower Report
Bloomberg applauds as New York's finest crack down on the First Amendment; and 'foolproof' electronic voting looks foolish
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Ultimate Church Supper
St. Elias expects thousands to satisfy their spirits and appetites at its Mediterranean Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Pace yourself and brace yourself: October is a very busy month for foodies
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Ararat Middle East Restaurant
Attitude aside, this contemporary Xanadu is a feast for the imagination
Sunflower Restaurant
The atmosphere is mediocre, the tables are a little too close together, the service can occasionally border on indifference – but we love this place!
music
Holy Ghost
Austin's Revenant Records follows up its Grammy-winning Charley Patton box set with free jazzman Albert Ayler's 9-CD 'Holy Ghost'
BY HARVEY PEKAR
TCB
Rocking out on Red River, all the way to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Zykos
Zykos
Daniel Johnston
Discovered Covered
Ocote Soul Sounds and Adrian Quesada
El Niño y El Sol
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez
A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One
Traci Lamar, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, Sue Foley
Apasionada, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell: The Early Years, Change
Book of Shadows
Hanged Man
Ian Moore
Luminaria
Robert Earl Keen
No Kinda Dancer, A Bigger Piece of Sky, No. 2 Live Dinner
Redd Volkaert
For the Ladies
Charlie Robison
Good Times
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble, Los Lonely Boys
Live at Montreux 1982 & 1985, Texican Style: Live from Austin
screens
Imperfect Game
The Texas Documentary Tour: 'Small Ball' follows a Little League team – and their parents – to the World Series
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
AFF Opens With 'Overnight' and More
For admission information and more, see www.austinfilmfestival.com, or check back here next week for our preview
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Many Splendors of Resfest
Friday-Sunday, Oct. 8-10
BY MARC SAVLOV
'SXSW Presents'
Mobilus Media Sampler
Westlake High and 'Friday Night Lights'
Though it's really about Odessa's Permian High School, Westlake figures prominently in 'Friday Night Lights,' which opens in Austin on Friday, Oct. 8
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Short Cuts
SXSW comes up fast on the outside, and the ascent of one Keun-Pyo Park
BY MARC SAVLOV
TV Eye
The world-views of 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Boston Legal' might be absurd and sobering, but they're also worth keeping an eye on
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
John Cassavetes: Five Films
Always popular in Europe and film school, Cassavetes was largely underappreciated in his lifetime and criticized for being boring, terse, and difficult, but these films are fresher than ever
Film Reviews
Faster
Loud, swooping documentary about the sport of motorcycle racing follows 24 riders on the international circuit.
Friday Night Lights
H.G. Bissinger’s classic book about the secular religion of high school football was lovingly adapted for film prior to becoming a TV show.
I Heart Huckabees
An existential comedy, to be sure, but in the end this movie quite happily tips toward being and everythingness.
Ladder 49
No scorcher this, but nonetheless a sturdy tribute to firefighters and male camaraderie.
The Motorcycle Diaries
Young Che Guevara takes a road trip up the length of South America and discovers his humanity in this portrait of the future revolutionary as a young man.
Shark Tale
Animated Shark Tale lacks bite.
Uncovered: The War on Iraq
The filmmaker, who is also responsible for the recent documentary Outfoxed, argues that intelligence data have been manipulated by this administration to justify the decision to go to war.
The Yes Men
The Yes Men are a couple of prankster activists whose target in this movie is the World Trade Organization.
arts & culture
Expert Marx Man
Gabe Kaplan knows Groucho, and he's bringing him back to life on stage.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Payne Pleasures 2004
Sam Bass Theatre's Forever Plaid took top honors at the 30th anniversary B. Iden Payne Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ancient History Alive!
In Marc Silva's painting 'Diatessiraq,' the artist's archaic language fits like a glove around his image of fragmented stone hands touching an engraved tablet
BY RACHEL KOPER
Culture Flash!
Tapestry can dance this season after all, Austin artists may be the new Marfa lights, Angelina Eberly fires up the Avenue, and 'Cracks in the Pavement' gets national recognition
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
As produced by Austin Playhouse, Tennessee Williams' 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' leaps and lands on its feet with aplomb
Battle of Hickory Ridge
testsite 04.4: Annette Lawrence and Annette Carlozzi
In their testsite collaboration, two Annettes, Carlozzi and Lawrence, both move into rewarding new territory, transforming the experience of the art on display
columns
Page Two
The mainstreaming of extremism
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
About AIDS
Latino AIDS: 'Open Your Eyes' October 15
BY SANDY BARTLETT
After a Fashion
How does Stephen M. M. repeatedly get such hot dates? By being the Avatar's Avatar, that's how. See what local gigs he appeared at this week …
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
To Your Health
Is there any nutritional help in dealing with hemorrhoids?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Name changes in Texas
BY LUKE ELLIS
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
'Star Wars' and Honey Mushrooms
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Cornfield mazes offer fun for all ages
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc Recommends: Linucon
Austin Crowne Plaza, Friday, October 8, 2004
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Assisting UT; breakfast with Beckham
