news

New Bike City

In time for SXSW, Austin rolls out miles of new bike lanes and features

BY KATHERINE GREGOR
SXSW Tips

Getting around on two wheels

BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Have You Heard the Dish?

The ambivalent state of political journalism

BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: The Animal Kingdom

One more round of changes proposed for the shelter plans

BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City

News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
- Primary Post-Mortem
  
  The State Commission on Judicial Conduct dismisses complaint against judge
  
  BY JORDAN SMITH
- Precinct 4 Race Saw an 'Erosion of Power'
  
  Gómez won the election but lost her progressive base
  
  BY AMY SMITH
- Get Ready for More Elections
  
  The primary run-offs are only a month away, followed quickly by elections for ACC and AISD trustees
  
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Permit Unsustained: A Bad Day at Red Bluff

Sustainable Waves pulls the plug on Austin

BY WELLS DUNBAR
Eco-Currents ...

Students vote for green funds, report surveys Texas water conservation efforts, and more

BY NORA ANKRUM
Developing Stories: 'Every Day It's Getting Worse'

Strategic Mobility Plan marks a way out of permanent gridlock

BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Can It Be? MetroRail Prepares to Launch.

Cap Metro once again announces a start date for the MetroRail

BY LEE NICHOLS
Metrorail Watch

How Long Will We Wait for the Train?
Death Row Case Evidence May Never Be Tested

When technicalities take precedence over finding out who done it

BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report

The Karzai-ization of Afghanistan; and Tauzin's Big Pharma Overdose

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

food

New to Town

Check out these new Downtown restaurants for your mid-SXSW snacking
The Partying Saint

Check out some of the day's best parties

BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews

Snack Bar
Food-o-File

A bounty of new restaurants has popped up like spring blooms

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu

Bacon, beer, and SXSW noms this week

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

SXSW MUSIC
- Casual Victim Pile
  
  Local SXSW 2010 class sampler
- Dikes of Holland
  
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
- Follow That Bird!
  
  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
- Staci Russell
  
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
- The Sour Notes
  
  BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
- The Carrots
  
  BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
- Wolfgang Gartner
  
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
- U21 Comes of Age
  
  BY MARGARET MOSER
- Brazos
  
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
- Woven Bones
  
  BY AUSTIN POWELL
- Nakia
  
  BY MARGARET MOSER
- Separated at Birth: Vega/Neon Indian
  
  BY DOUG FREEMAN
- Zeale
  
  BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
- Uncle Lucius
  
  BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record

Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film

BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters

Austin Collins & the Rainbirds, The White White Lights, Seaholm Electric, The Clouds Are Ghosts, The Stan Laurels, and Lure of the Swamp: The Screen Printed Rock Posters of Lindsey Kuhn

screens

SXSW FILM
- The Freak Goes On
  
  SXSW Film: an introduction
  
  BY KIMBERLEY JONES
- Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly
  
  Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen
  
  BY MARGARET MOSER
- Kismet in Kashmere
  
  Thunder Soul brings the generations back together
  
  BY KATE X MESSER
- To 'Mars,' With Love
  
  Reinventing the romantic comedy, to infinity and beyond
  
  BY BELINDA ACOSTA
- Quiet on the Set
  
  Less talk, more action: Aaron Katz and Cris Lankenau sound off on Cold Weather
  
  BY JAMES RENOVITCH
- Rant, Revisited
  
  A new doc explores the life and times of underground comic Bill Hicks
  
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
- Jerry's Kids
  
  A new generation dances Jerome Robbins' 'ballet in sneakers' to the big screen
  
  BY ROBERT FAIRES
- Bizarre Love Triangle
  
  Bryan Poyser's comedy of catharsis, Lovers of Hate
  
  BY MARC SAVLOV
- 'I Like Films About Naked People Yelling at Each Other'
  
  What turns Lovers of Hate producer Megan Gilbride on
  
  BY MARC SAVLOV
- Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker
  
  How a fictional music genre blossomed into a real movement
  
  BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
- Riding the New Range
  
  The Ride goes to the rodeo
  
  BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
- We Are Having a Hootenanny
  
  And Stephin Merritt is not the life of the party
  
  BY MELANIE HAUPT
- Country Bear Jamboree
  
  Malcolm Ingram finds his people, and films 'em, too
  
  BY KATE X MESSER
- Artist in Exile
  
  Can Bahman Ghobadi ever go home again?
  
  BY MARC SAVLOV
- Small Town, Big Find
  
  The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville
  
  BY JOE O'CONNELL
The Music in Moving Images

Texas Music Extravaganza and the works of Alan Govenar

BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Lone Stars in Good Company

Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards 2010

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
TV Eye

Even if you're not a fan of war entertainments, The Pacific is a must-watch miniseries

BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews

Our Family Wedding, Remember Me, SXSW 2010 Film Festival, and Terribly Happy

the arts

Wharton Dancer

The flourishing legacy of the late Lone Star dramatist Horton Foote

BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ellen Fullman

The former Austinite returns to turn Seaholm into a giant stringed instrument

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Night Owl & Early Bird

Big Medium's fundraiser has artists make art at night, sell it the next morning

BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins'

Twin sisters revive the feisty Austin journalist in a new solo play in Philly

BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews

The Atheist, Canción del Cuerpo, and 'America Letterpress: The Art of the Hatch Show Print'

columns

Page Two: And So It Begins

International spectacles of darkness and light

BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill

Hollywood is an electric dragon

BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips

The Sherwood Forest Faire takes visitors back in time to a place where men jousted to resolve disputes and women let their cleavage bask in the sunlight

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place

We are proud as peacocks to announce our new totally all-gay all-day Gay Place Web page

BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion

Stephen's hair brushes up against a woman's breast, and he survives

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

Shifting poles, spirit intake, and more

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

The Luv Doc: Real People vs. Smart Phones

Nothing breaks the ice like a flawless recitation of the Monty Python 'Albatross' sketch

Postmarks

Letters to the editor, published daily

books

The Big Kiss-Off

Julie Klausner's misadventures with men

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

sports

Will Johnson's Baseball Paintings

Centro-matic frontman is talented painter as well

BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch

Aztex gear up for Dynamo exhibition, broken legs in England, and more

BY NICK BARBARO

issue

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column

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review

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author

ARCHIVES

BY KATHERINE GREGOR

BY KATHERINE GREGOR

BY MICHAEL KING

BY WELLS DUNBAR

ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY AMY SMITH

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

BY WELLS DUNBAR

BY NORA ANKRUM

BY KATHERINE GREGOR

BY LEE NICHOLS

BY JORDAN SMITH

BY JIM HIGHTOWER

BY WES MARSHALL

Food Reviews

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

SXSW MUSIC

Casual Victim Pile

BY AUSTIN POWELL

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

BY AUDRA SCHROEDER

BY AUSTIN POWELL

BY MARGARET MOSER

BY DOUG FREEMAN

BY AUSTIN POWELL

BY MARGARET MOSER

BY DOUG FREEMAN

BY CHASE HOFFBERGER

BY JIM CALIGIURI

BY AUSTIN POWELL

Texas Platters

SXSW FILM

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

BY MARGARET MOSER

BY KATE X MESSER

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

BY JAMES RENOVITCH

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY MARC SAVLOV

BY MARC SAVLOV

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

BY RICHARD WHITTAKER

BY MELANIE HAUPT

BY KATE X MESSER

BY MARC SAVLOV

BY JOE O'CONNELL

BY KIMBERLEY JONES

BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Film Reviews

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER

BY ROBERT FAIRES

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Arts Reviews

BY LOUIS BLACK

BY MICHAEL VENTURA

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

BY KATE X MESSER

BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS