Marcie Cohen Ferris traces the story of the Jewish immigrants in the South from larger urban centers like Savannah and Atlanta to more rural areas like the Mississippi Delta

BY ERIN MOSOW

Food-o-File

Ambling around the aisles at HEB Plus! and marvelling at how busy Martin Yan is these days

BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD

music

Renegade

Still mourning the death of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott 20 years later

BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ

TCB

Art, food, football, TV, and even a little music: this one's got it all

BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY

Phases and Stages

Jana Hunter

Blank Unstaring Heirs of Doom

Darden Smith

Field of Crows

B-Boy City

B-Boy City 12

Hurts to Purr

Hurts to Purr

Jack Ingram

Live Wherever You Are

Roscoe Beck

Walk On

WIll Taylor & Strings Attached, James McMurtry

WIll Taylor & Strings Attached with James McMurtry

screens

Keep Not Silent

The fourth Austin Jewish Film Festival

BY SPENCER PARSONS

Trail of Ray

Keeping track of Crashcam

BY MARC SAVLOV

High Society

AFS's 20th birthday party

In Space

Listening closely to Last.fm and Pandora

BY JESS SAUER

TV Eye

Billed as 'a new spin on drama,' the drama of 'Rollergirls' is limited to the petty arguments of whiny women having trouble getting along, because, well, you know how women are

BY BELINDA ACOSTA

Screens Reviews

The Bad Sleep Well

Sandwiched between career peaks, Kurosawa serves corporate sacrifice – suicide by seventh-story window, truck, and volcano – rather than feudal slicing and dicing

Film Reviews

Darwin's Nightmare

This delicately horrific yet artful documentary examines the destruction of Lake Victoria by the omnivorous Nile perch, and the dire consequences this causes the Tanzanian people.

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Albert Brooks again sallies forth where others fear to tread, although his comic results are more mildly amusing than riotously funny.

Marebito

Although long on style and concept, this film lacks the primal urgency of Shimizu’s 2003 J-horror blockbuster Ju-on.

Match Point

Unoriginal but pleasantly prosaic, Woody Allen's latest is a diverting story of crime, love, and luck that conducts itself with a refreshing absence of moral judgment and omniscience.

The New World

Instead of a great story about the conflicted origins of the American nation, Terrence Malick interrupts his transcendental observations for a dopey love story between John Smith and Pocahontas.

arts & culture

Hang the DJ

The new political theatre invites you into its messy, sexy conversation

BY KATHERINE CATMULL

Tapestry's 'JASS'

In remounting Tapestry Dance Company's 'JASS,' Artistic Director Acia Gray is seeing how dancers, like jazz musicians, take their time as they get older

BY ROBERT FAIRES

Spank Dance Company

The fire at 304 E. Fifth has forced choreographer Ellen Bartel of Spank Dance Company to close Center Studio, the dance space she's been managing there for a decade

BY ROBERT FAIRES

The Gospel of Lead

Arthouse's Talking Art with Dario Robleto and Jeremy Blake is a good bet for a stimulating afternoon, with two rising art stars who have a history of weirdly personal, spicy commentary