Todd V. Wolfson
Volume 31, Number 22
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news
City plans Colony Park project as a long-term Eastside neighborhood
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Perry's dismal campaign finds a worthy successor
BY MICHAEL KING
Council takes up thorny issues on land planning and utility rates
BY AMY SMITH
City's sound ordinance back on front burner
BY MIKE KANIN
Police union president calls for city action
BY JORDAN SMITH
Businesswoman Pressley sells rainwater and is an anti-fluoride activist
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Council tries to rework its CPC regulations
BY JORDAN SMITH
Eight years after Dietz ruled for massive reform, school finance returns
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Edith Jones and the 5th Circuits rule mandatory ultrasounds constitutional
BY JORDAN SMITH
SCOTUS sends San Antonio court back to the drawing board
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Rick Perry's campaign fell hard and fast in 2012
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Perry counsel conveys the governor's concern about discovery practices
BY JORDAN SMITH
Perry becomes killingest governor tonight
BY JORDAN SMITH
An ugly surprise from Big Oil
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A hardly comprehensive look at Austin's soup scene
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Sugar cubes are so like, square, man
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Television's appetite for Austin eateries is unslakable, plus a Hickory Street revival in this week's food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Bathtub gin and other delights
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
music
The gospel according to Ruthie Foster
BY DOUG FREEMAN
If your job isn't what you love, then something isn't right
BY MARGARET MOSER
Texas Platters
Rocket, Splendor
Bobby, Hater Fader, Rotten Flesh, Soul, Sin and Swishers, Project Green Gene
Live at the US Festival
Ghosts Along the Brazos
Prize and Battlefield
Before You Were Born
screens
After an Internet blackout, lawmakers see the light
BY JON LEBKOWSKY
Hell on wheels, surveilling boozehounds, and more
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
'The Tree of Life,' 'Bullhead' score Oscar nominations
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
SXSW Interactive loosens its belt, expands to 14 venues
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
My iCal is already packed, how about yours?
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Bollywood action thriller.
This melancholy picture is distinguished by Glenn Close's vanishing act in the titular role.
This semi-functional thriller tingles but never terrifies.
George Lucas exec produced – and bankrolled – this action/drama about the historic Tuskegee Airmen.
When humans sniff out the existence of vampires and Lycans, all hell breaks loose.
arts & culture
Two leading ladies reflect on their psychotic characters' unique relationships with the score
BY ADAM ROBERTS
Remembering the renowned organist, choirmaster, composer, and educator
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Stuart Moulton is getting his ACT together and taking it on the road (MoPac)
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ballet Austin shines a light on human rights and the Holocaust in reviving its 2005 work
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
This tale of a Scotsman who loved and sang country music rang Texas true
A concert which proved that eloquence survives in the age of the sound bite
The artist as data, casting the metrics of her life in visual form
columns
A metaphysical jumping-off point for a return to the good fight
BY LOUIS BLACK
NDAA: Obama's Betrayal
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Take your typewriter, pencil, or pen, and if you make a mistake, you gotta do it again!
BY KATE X MESSER
Dreams from Your Style Avatar's father
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
It serves your seafood both ways: fried and fried
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
You heard it here first: Romans were half as evil as the Koch brothers
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
High-flying dirt-bike racers invade Cedar Park
BY MARK FAGAN
A possible milestone for the Austin Aztex, and more
BY NICK BARBARO