Fri., Dec. 28, 2012
Vol.32, No.18
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NEWS

• Southern Exposure The changing face of the venerable South Lamar Plaza
• Point Austin: Can This Really Be the End? A look forward, a look back
• Then There's This: Parks and Rec in Review In a parks-centric town like Austin, it's not easy being PARD
• Civics 101
• Headlines Top state and local stories of the week
• Court to Texas: Follow Medicaid Rules or Lose Fed Money State-funded WHP set to begin Jan. 1
• Rick Perry Death Watch: Swearingen Gets Another Date With Death Fourth time execution has been scheduled
• Mr. Woods Goes to Washington UT grad student John Woods has a few ideas about reasonable gun control
• The Hightower Report: Make Dinnertime Family Time Laurie David has tips for families trying to squeeze in time together

FOOD

• Dining Out for New Year's Eve
• New Year's Beer-solutions 2013 A beer enthusiast's resolutions to be healthy, wealthy, and weiz
• Drink Better and Cheaper in 2013 We disclose the secrets of locating food friendly, relatively undiscovered, but easy to find Old World wines
• Culinary Wish List for Austin in 2013 Epicurean hopes and desires in 2013
• Meal Times Dec. 29-Jan. 3
• Food-O-File Taco originality is alive and well in Austin social media

MUSIC

• Texas Platters Finale Last local music round-up of 2012
• The Gorgeous Hands
  The Gorgeous Hands
• Shortwave Party
  "Where to Begin"/"Hopeless"
• The Well
  Seven
• Bitter Birds
  "Blacklist"/"The Hawk"
• Full Service
• The League of Extraordinary G'z
  The Plug EP
• Nazi Gold
  Nazi Gold
• Beto & the Fairlanes
  Best O Beto
• The Couch
  The Couch
• Residual Kid
  Faces
• Hello Caller
  Dark Twain
• Madisons
  Desgraciados
• The South Austin Moonlighters
  Live at the Saxon Pub
• Tump
  Tump
• • deEP end 1 deEP end 1
• Feral Future
  Come Out Swinging
• The Sideshow Tragedy
  Persona
• The Sour Notes
  Last Looks
• Borrisokane
  Disaster Face
• Opposite Day
  Space Taste Race Part 1
• Lower Class Brats
  Rock 'N' Roll Street Noize
• Texas Platters 2012
• Playback: The State of the State of the 2012 Austin Music Scene A look back at 2012

SCREENS

• Extreme Temperature Swings AFS Essential Cinema kicks off Asia: Hot and Cool series
• En Garde and Armed With Latex and Brushes Three Austin special effects makeup artists compete on SyFy's 'Face Off'
• Making Bedfellows of Metal and Bloody Movie Mayhem Phil Anselmo and Corey Mitchell unleash the Housecore Horror Film Festival in 2013

ARTS

• Pole Position For some kinds of dance, you need Brass Ovaries
• The Alley Cat Project MASS leaves artistic surprises in a dozen East Austin backyard byways
• Studio Visit: Phil Durst His studio is an empty nest filled with a million little pieces
• • Dursts' Studio Visit Photo Gallery
• Irving Berlin's White Christmas the Musical Zach Theatre delivers a sentimental stroll through a winter wonderland, with exceptionally strong dancing
• Miracle on 34th Street, The Musical The Georgetown Palace Theater has its flaws, but the kids in it bring the miracle of theatre
• 'Armageddon Outta Here' Ink Tank's show stretched between an achievement of something truly artistic and an extravagantly themed party

COLUMNS

• Letters at 3AM: Winter Reveries No matter the season, no matter the climate, when I write I write in winter
• After a Fashion: Born Again Stephen revels in rebirth – and the roll of stretch fabrics in it
• Gay Place The Gay Place thanks you from the bottom of their dark little rainbow hearts
• Day Trips The healing power of pie
• Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

SPORTS

• Hornucopia With a lightened suspension. Kabongo set to return Feb. 13
• Soccer Watch The football world is into its holiday break

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