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news
ON THE LEGE
Big Tex Budget Blues
The money debate begins: 'Every Texan for himself' vs. 'All in this together'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nurses Workload Fight Just Begun
BY LEE NICHOLS
House Committees
Less is more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Strama Steers Clean Car Bill
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Dukes Moves to Boost Film Incentives
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Dunbar Will See Opposition in 2010
BY LEE NICHOLS
Senate: Patrick Gets Promoted
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City Counseling
The Wildflower controversy, the Leffingwell noncontroversy, and more
BY WELLS DUNBAR
ANC: Do More With Less
ANC members see breath of fresh air in new Parks director
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Mistrial, Retrial for McKay
Jurors drop bomb on prosecutors' case against man accused of bomb-making
BY DIANA WELCH
TPWD Film: Watching the Rivers Flow
Texas Parks & Wildlife hopes a new documentary will encourages Texans – and legislatures – to conserve
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Oh, Hecht!
State Supreme Court Justice says he was denied justice from Ethics Commission. Fancy that.
BY JORDAN SMITH
How to Turn Purple to Blue
Voter registration drive could turn Texas Democratic
BY LEE NICHOLS
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the state, and beyond
Res Publica
Citizen's calendar, Feb. 5-12
Point Austin: The Way of the Strayhorn
Carole's for Austin. Is Austin for Carole?
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: The Hustle for Place 1
Who are the new coalitions?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
The Cluelessness of Wall Street CEOs; and Grumpy Bushites
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Tea Gets Hot in Austin
Austin's new cup of tea
BY LINDSEY GOODWIN
Cake Envy: Paloma Efron's Coco Paloma Desserts
Paloma Efron's decadent cakes – and her home workshop – are the envy of Austin
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
R.I.P.
Mourning Roger Mollett
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Artz hangs on while Starlite shuts down, Woodland expands, and Izzoz Tacos makes a grand entrance
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Your local foodie events for Feb. 7-28
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Blood on the Tracks
The ballad of Griff Luneburg and Cactus Cafe
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record
Diving into Club 1808, the Real Heroes' Chinese democracy, and Ray Benson on Willie, Wexler, and the Wheel
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Bruce Springsteen
Working on a Dream
Andrew Bird
Noble Beast
Animal Collective
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Various
The Complete Motown Singles Vol. 11B:1971
Nesuhi Ertegun
Hommage á Nesuhi
Broken Social Scene
Bass Concert Hall, Jan. 31
screens
Fan Favorite
How the geekdom came together to save a love song to Star Wars from the dark side
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Slow Magic of Stop-Motion
Henry Selick on adapting Neil Gaiman's Coraline
BY MARC SAVLOV
Old Dog, New Tricks
Turns out there's life yet in Showbiz Pizza's animatronic band of animals, the Rock-afire Explosion
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Screens Reviews
Magnificent Obsession
This is the film that heralded Sirk's astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women's pictures
TV Eye
Looks like the government – and the people – will have a little more time to prepare for the DTV transition
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Shorts 2009
Good things come in small packages.
Coraline
An unparalleled master of the phantasmagoric image returns with this children's film.
Fanboys
This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.
Taken
Call it the last cinematic gasp of the Bush era.
The Uninvited
A generic creeper that does nothing to improve upon the South Korean original.
arts & culture
Retracing Their Steps
Two choreographers explain why it's tough to get old dances back on their feet
BY JONELLE SEITZ
In Memoriam
Remembering one of the Vortex Repertory Company's most stalwart supporters
BY HANNAH KENAH
'Sister Moses'
Dancing history to life
BY HANNAH KENAH
UT Performing Arts Center
Modlin Center for the Arts' Kathleen Panoff to University of Richmond: Gone to Texas
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
FronteraFest Short Fringe, Week Three
An atypically reflective evening of experiments, explorations, and excerpts
Rigoletto
ALO's straightforward staging of the Verdi classic offers the thrill of a tale told well
Business in the Front, Party in the Back
Heyd Fontenot's new paintings of naked people show the artist's looser, sloppier side
columns
Page Two: The Message
Republicans try to rewrite a history of privileging party over principle
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Bachelorette parties in gay bars: Sure. Why wouldn't we want to celebrate your wedding?
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Belatedly celebrating National Pie Day
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
Practitioners of parkour strive for efficient movement for its own sake
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Scrabble champions, Manila (hemp) folders, grapefruit-scented sweat, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
President Obama's Oath Mishap
BY LUKE ELLIS
Gay Place
Is there a proposition against love?
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Luv Doc Recommends: 'Office Space' 10 Year Anniversary Reunion!
Paramount Theatre, Sunday, February 8, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
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