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On the Waterfront
As development accelerates along Town Lake, Austin faces urgent choices
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
On the Lege
New Comptroller Combs signals a very different style from the combative Strayhorn
BY AMY SMITH
Developing Stories
The Heritage neighborhood suspects it's receiving political payback from the city manager
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Naked City
Point Austin: Act Against the War
Doggett:"We have to do everything we can"
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
This week's cold spell had a chilling effect on public discussion of crucial items
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Immigration Surrealism; and A Little Help for Their Friends
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
On Leaving Paradise for an Oasis
An Austin foodie falls in love with Marathon and West Texas' other boutique towns
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
In Print
The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa
BY MICK VANN
Event Menu
Jan. 20-27
Wine of the Week
No code needed for Da Vinci
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
This one goes out to the ones who didn't just consume this holiday season
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
HORSE + DONKEY
Go Insane
Lindsey Buckingham swears he's not mad
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
TCB
Ghostland Observatory goes to the opera, Friday Night Lights goes to the Broken Spoke, SXSW goes to France, and everyone else stays home because of the ice storm
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Phases & Stages
the Shins
Wincing the Night Away
various artists
How Low Can You Go? Anthology of the String Bass (1925-1941)
Nellie McKay
Pretty Little Head
the Earlies
The Enemy Chorus
screens
The Serene Life
David Lynch meditates on Inland Empire
BY MARK FAGAN
The Fifth Austin Jewish Film Festival
Jan. 20-26
Four for the Weekend
Rules of the Game remastered; a Bruno S. double feature; and The Hitcher reaches its destination
Film News
Incentives, the end of Sinus, Screen Door, and more
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Who needs enemies?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
St. Elsewhere: Season One
ER? Grey's Anatomy? Scrubs? Hapless interns all.
Film Reviews
Arthur and the Invisibles
Live-action/animation hybrid from Luc Besson features a host of hip vocal talent but little more.
Guru
Bollywood film about a visionary entrepreneur and his love life.
Letters From Iwo Jima
In his companion film to Flags of Our Fathers, Clint Eastwood again shows the process by which young soldiers become unwitting fodder for their country's war effort.
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2007
The boys are back with their hyper-filthy animation show.
arts & culture
An Opera for Wartime
Philip Glass' Waiting for the Barbarians arrives when its message is urgently needed
BY ROBERT FAIRES
see. hear. speak. two: ColdTowne's festive three-way (on film, in music, and on stage)
ColdTowne presents the second edition of its own comedy festival, see. hear. speak.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?: Tragedy defined
With The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, playwright Edward Albee proves he is still able to shock us, move us, and create a true tragedy
BY BARRY PINEO
CreateAustin: Mapping our future, artswise
Help determine what Austin's cultural scene will look like in the future by getting involved with CreateAustin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
365 Days/365 Plays: Week 11
The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven plays performed by the UT Department of Theatre and Dance's Performance as Public Practice program
Arts Reviews
A Beautiful View
For much of Daniel MacIvor's A Beautiful View, its two characters keep finding and losing each another, but in the end, though something is lost, something beautiful is found again
Trickster
Vortex Repertory Company's latest production, about those weaselly mythological misfits who pull pranks and break rules, Trickster, is an extravaganza
columns
Luv Doc Recommends: FronteraFest: Best of the Week
Hyde Park Theatre, Saturday, January 20, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
Page Two: Persistence of Revision
Fascism, Frank Capra, and how legend becomes history
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM
This is the number of deaths a year caused by how we do (or don't do) health care. A decade of that, and it's as though terrorists nuked Chicago.
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Huzzah! Stephen is back, jingling his balls and getting all Carrie on yo' keister.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
Los Adaes, the first capital of Texas, once stood on the edge of the world stage
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
The LAPD goes 007
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
My car was wrecked – now what?
BY BROOKS SCHUELKE
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