Browsing Issue: Tuesday, November 21, 2006

News: Feature: The Gasfather If the mayor is making thousands of dollars off gas companies, why is he still voting on their requests at city hall? By JEFF PRINCE News: Letters: Finger on the Problem News: Metropolis: The Butts Stop Here A proposed smoking ban lights a fire under opponents. By ERIC GRIFFEY News: Second Thought: Rethinking Paper Feathers What are we really teaching kids about American Indians? By LAURIE BARKER JAMES News: Static: Leave Their Names Out Music: Featured Music: Coal Fever Fort Worth’s James Michael Taylor goes and tells it on Slaughter Mountain. By ANTHONY MARIANI Music: Hearsay: Packing Gatts, Clocking SAT’s Music: Last Call: Party On Music: Listen Up: Bonnie “Prince” Billy The Letting Go\r\n(Drag City) By Zack Schlachter Music: Listen Up: Doug Sahm Doug Sahm and Band\r\n(Collectors’ Choice Music) By Tom Geddie Music: Listen Up: Nina Simone Remixed & Re-Imagined\r\n(RCA/Legacy) By Tom Geddie Music: Listen Up: Sunday Drive Needle/Eye\r\n(Special Session Recordings) By Caroline Collier Music: The Show: The Evangelicals By Jimmy Fowler Film: Film Reviews: Out of the Past The heroes of The Fountain and Déjà Vu come unstuck in time, with mixed results. By KRISTIAN LIN Film: Film Reviews: The Fools of Rock Tenacious D offers up a satanically good comic \r\nrock opera. By KRISTIAN LIN Film: Film Reviews: Wishing and Hyping For Your Consideration, this comedy isn’t the best from Christopher Guest. By KRISTIAN LIN Eats: Cafe Reviewed: Soul Brother No. 1 A hearty, homecookin’ diner still lives up to its namesake’s reputation — and then some. By JIMMY FOWLER Eats: Chow, Baby: No Joy for Love Calendar: Night and Day: Reading T Leaves Arts: Books: Water Marks A New Orleans writer’s collected columns document everyday life post-Katrina. By MICHAEL TISSERAND