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Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Texas prosecutors use the 'law of parties' to widen the
net for capital punishment
BY JORDAN SMITH
FWS Punts Salamanders to TCEQ
Environmentalists decry shift in enforcement
responsibility
BY RACHEL PROCTOR MAY
Neighbors Call Foul on Tennis Center Expansion
Galindo residents want to keep green space
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
Headlines and happening from Austin and beyond
BY LEE NICHOLS
An Education Only a Boss Could Love
Public schools lurch a little closer to privatization with HB 2
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: A Question of Vision
Austin's possible futures are prefigured in two very different sorts of public action
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Jim hopes Dubya enjoyed his inauguration, because
polls show the next four years may be bumpy
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
For the Love of Chocolate
The taste, the look, the feel of an obsession
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Our Valentine's Day Eat, Drink, Watch Movies
screening of 'Chocolat' is sold out for Monday night, so
be sure and tune in to Majic 95FM at 6:40am on Friday
morning for the chance to win the last pair of tickets!
Meanwhile, folks at the following places will be glad to
help you choose the perfect chocolate gift for your
sweet baboo.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Five Degrees from Beethoven
UT pianist Anton Nel, figuratively descended from a
line of teachers beginning with Beethoven
BY GRAHAM REYNOLDS
TCB
Doug Sahm's and Handsome Joel's memories live on,
even as the international pipeline into Austin dries up
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
Reckless Kelly
Wicked Twisted Road
Justin Trevino
Too Many Heartaches
the Yuppie Pricks
Brokers Banquet
Broken Teeth
Blood on the Radio – Live
Baby Robots
Chartorseau
No Idea Festival
No Idea Festival
Oliver Future
The Bear Chronicles
The Onlys
Limbic System
the Explosives
KaBOOM!
Shaun Young
Wiggle Walk
Kimmie Rhodes
Windblown
Zein Al-Jundi
Traditional Songs from Syria
the Ugly Beats
Bring on the Beats!
screens
True Hollywood Stories
Texans who took a chance and headed west tell all
BY ELI KOORIS
Burnt Orange to Tell 'Children's Story'
A tale of two 12-year-old runaways is the next project
from Burnt Orange Productions, the for-profit film arm
of the University of Texas Film Institute
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Flicker's Best
Thursday, Feb. 17, 9:45pm, Alamo Drafthouse
Downtown
BY MARC SAVLOV
In Print
Scott Von Doviak's 'Hick Flicks: The Rise and Fall of
Redneck Cinema'
BY SPENCER PARSONS
TV Eye
First they came for Bob. Then, they came for Buster.
Who's next? But, more importantly, when
will this witch hunt end?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Wings of Desire
After several years in the States, where he directed
four films, German-born Wim Wenders decided to
head back home and compose a love letter to Berlin
Film Reviews
Boogeyman
Don't go into the closet.
In the Realms of the Unreal
The strange artwork and life of primitivist Harry Darger is given dimension by master documentarist Jessica Yu.
Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior
The mass release of this top-notch Thai action film should havee American audiences grinning ear to ear and shore to shore.
Shabd
Not reviewed at press time.
A Tree of Palme
It's the Pinocchio story filtered through the prism of cyberpunk animé.
William Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice
Al Pacino stars as Shylock in this film rendition of Shakespeare's thorniest play.
arts & culture
A Score Is Born
UT midwifes a new symphony by John Corigliano
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Our Motto: Be Depraved
'I Am Alpha' takes a darkly satirical look at a certain
all-American youth group
BY BARRY PINEO
Fire Aid
Assistance has been organized for the more than 70
artists and arts organizations affected by last week's
fire at the Guadalupe Arts Center
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Light' Dawns in Austin
A new ballet leads the way in an ambitious community
project promoting tolerance
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Aida
Zachary Scott Theatre Center's Aida' delivers some
memorable moments, but not all sides of the musical's
romantic triangle are in balance
'Open House'
Michelle Mayer's middle-class home installation at
Women & Their Work offers aesthetic and conceptual
strength and shows Mayer at her very best
columns
Page Two
SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon
BY LOUIS BLACK
Postmarks
Our readers talk back.
After a Fashion
Stephen weighs in on city planning issues ... at least
ones regarding how certain things look. Other than
that, he drops a lot of names and tells you where to
go. For Valentine's Day, silly.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
About AIDS
For black Americans, the time is now!
BY SANDY BARTLETT
Day Trips
The Canyon of the Eagles on Lake Buchanan outside
of Burnet is as special as its name implies
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Oops!
Our latest batch
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Concerning beans, pods, snow, wind, rain, hedgehogs,
and perfect chopsticks
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
To Your Health
What are lignans?
BY JAMES HEFFLEY, PH.D.
The Common Law
Mediation – what happens at a mediation?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
The U.S. national team sees and conquers in Port of
Spain
