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Volume 32, Number 22
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news
Co-op Think Tank organizes to expand member-owned movement
BY ROBYN ROSS
Guns don't kill people, but they sure make it a whole lot easier
BY MICHAEL KING
Condo Dwellers fear dark days ahead with parking structure next door
BY AMY SMITH
School finance likely to hang fire for several months
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
School district struggles to narrow its needs before getting on the May ballot
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas education is a mess of biblical proportions
BY JORDAN SMITH
Family attorney challenges official version of Carter shooting
BY JORDAN SMITH
Council starts to heat up for 2013
BY MICHAEL KING
Counting down the days, committee chairs, redistricting, and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
BY JORDAN SMITH
When police and privacy butt heads
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Quality Seafood Market celebrates a milestone
BY MM PACK
Sobering details from a three-day cocktail party
BY ROBERTO ONTIVEROS
Bodini wines are built on dreams of individuals, not institutions
BY WES MARSHALL
Jan. 25-30
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
What's cooking in the Food Lab? Creation, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Hard to pronounce, sublime to eat
music
What do Michael Jackson and Manu Chao have in common? Joe King Carrasco.
BY MARGARET MOSER
Antone's moves for the fourth time in 37 years
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Phases & Stages
Song Reader
Landing on a Hundred
screens
Paranormal show 'El Otro Lado' investigates an untapped market for Spanish-language scares
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New Mondo Gallery show frames first efforts
Screens Reviews
Film Reviews
Death is part of love’s bargain, a fact filmmaker Michael Haneke lays bare.
A charming, funny, and sentimental comedy/drama about former opera singers living in a home for retired musicians.
arts & culture
eighth blackbird helps Texas Performing Arts change how we regard classical
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Speaking Methodic Lee, David Strasberg brings his father's Method to Zach Theatre
BY ADAM ROBERTS
Austin painter joins the 'Sex Talk' in the 35th Brown Symposium at Southwestern
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The fascinating character of Truman Capote drives this thoughtful evening of theatre
This Hideout series both sincerely celebrates and lovingly pokes fun at the fantasy worlds we love
This expertly curated celebration of Austin's premier composer of camp ought not to be missed
columns
No I, only robot
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Have a soak in Mineral Wells
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Your Style Avatar previews the 2013 Texas Film Hall of Fame lineup
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Joy Division, Madame X, John Cameron Mitchell, Erasure, Christeene, Dan Savage, and Diana Ross make this a star-studded week in gay.
Is there another type of boyfriend in Austin?
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Aztex players dominate first round of MLS SuperDraft
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN