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Volume 27, Number 22
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VMU IN REVIEW
Mixed Use, Mixed Emotions
An anniversary review of Austin's vertical mixed-use program discovers a range of responses to density, change, and planning
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
To Opt, or Not?
How one neighborhood-planning team carefully weighed VMU's power to change its surroundings
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Preserving What's Left
A 2,400-acre spot south of Buda could be the latest conservation easement purchased to maintain the health of the Edwards Aquifer
BY JACOB COTTINGHAM
Prosecutor Times Four
Part 1: Meet the candidates for Travis County district attorney
BY JORDAN SMITH
ELECTION NOTES
Dems Hunting Daugherty in Precinct 3
Dems Hunting Daugherty in Precinct 3, Voting Rolls Mystery Part 2: The County's Side, and Voter ID Bill Redux
BY LEE NICHOLS
Voting Rolls Mystery Part 2
The county's side
BY LEE NICHOLS
Voter ID Bill Redux
BY LEE NICHOLS
AISD's Fingerprints
Teachers speak out against having to get fingerprinted
BY JUSTIN WARD
Naked City
Point Austin: Union Goons
In Coxworld, the unions are always the enemy
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Duckmobile politics
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Reefer Madness
Is "Extreme Ecstasy" a serious or pretend problem?
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
The Economic Trepidations of the Rich; and Molly Ivins
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Mardi Gras
Have your cake, and laissez les bons temps rouler!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Feb. 2-3
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Patricia Bauer-Slate's new company offers local, natural, and organic school lunches, and the Gallo Family Vineyards host third Gold Medal Awards
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Kenobi Restaurant and Sushi Bar
The new Kenobi emerges as a power player in Austin's upscale Asian fusion scene
TC Noodle House
Not-to-be-missed noodle house outdoes the owners' first establishment, Tien Hong
music
A Market of Multitudes
Selling less of more is the new music industry economic paradigm
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Off the Record
Announcing the 2007-08 Austin Music Awards lineup; Charlie Sexton brings sexy back; and KOOP Radio returns to the airwaves
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Live Shots
screens
John Sayles
The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Big Time, Small Screen
Local filmmaker Ya'Ke's 'The Second Coming' screens on HBO
BY TODDY BURTON
Film News
We're No. 1! We're No. 1!
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
The floodgates are opening with a whole host of premieres and returning shows
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Honeydripper
John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.
Meet the Spartans
The working title says it all: Not Another Scary Epic Teen Date Movie.
Over Her Dead Body
In this DOA romantic comedy, Eva Longoria Parker plays a ghost who haunts her former fiancé-to-be when it's time for him to move on.
Persepolis
This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.
Rambo
In his fourth cinematic outing, Rambo's tasked with saving Christian missionaries in Burma.
Sharkwater
Rob Stewart, a marine biologist and underwater photographer, makes up for in passion what he lacks in narrative subtlety in this cautionary documentary about the eradication of the planet's sharks.
arts & culture
About This Long
Measuring the creativity of the 2008 FronteraFest Long Fringe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Glynda Cox: In Memoriam
The co-owner of beloved arts venue Chicago House and one of the great moms of the arts scene has passed
BY ROBERT FAIRES
David Mamet: Textual Perversity From Chicago
For his first residency at UT, Mamet discusses his work and career in a public conversation
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Colosseum: There Will Be Oil
Arts on Real goes WWE with six seminaked, well-greased men wrestling for a championship title
BY BARRY PINEO
Arts Reviews
Porgy and Bess
Zach's ambitious new staging of the Gershwin opera says a lot about those things that matter more than money
FronteraFest Short Fringe Week Two
Wednesday's show offered plenty of pleasant surprises in the form of good laughs and provocative moments
'The World Is Making Us Look Bad'
Can two failed ideas ever amount to greatness without creating more junk?
columns
Luv Doc Recommends: KLBJ's Pleasurefest
La Zona Rosa, Friday, February 1, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
Oops!
Page Two: Kings of Mean
The worst legacy of this administration is the terrible behavior it fostered in its citizens
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters @ 3AM
Walking nervous breakdowns are so "normal" they're barely noticed
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Keep in mind that Stephen's views on death and dying are filtered through his D&Gs
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Roy T's Old Salado Bakery is the home of legends, delicious pastries, and more
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Playing Through
Can soccer flourish in Austin? The Austin Aztex are about to find out.
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Elvis Presley had a sense of humor, selective categorizations of sectarian violence in Iraq, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Avoid Foreclosure Nightmare
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
U.S. Men vs. Mexico, Arsenal vs. Man U, and the Aztex vs. El Paso
