Blue Genie Art Bazaar
news
Going Vertical
The new VMU zoning could transform your neighborhood – and you have 90 days to help decide how
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
'Texas Tough' Sex Crime Wave Hits the Dome
Sex-predator hysteria threatens a legal backlash
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Coal War Update
Charles "Doc" Anderson launches legislative attack against proposed coal-fired power plants, efficiency practices report, and more
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Media Watch
With circulation sliding, Austin American-Statesman turns to heavens for help
BY KEVIN BRASS
Reefer Madness
North Dakota ag commissioner still waiting to hear from feds on whether they'll waive individual federal registration for qualified farmers who gain state approval to farm hemp; and hemp revolution seeds germinating in South Carolina
BY JORDAN SMITH
Naked City
On the Lege
The Cervical Wars Part I: Perry, HPV, and the Politics of Cancer
BY AMY SMITH
Point Austin: What Molly Wrote
Ivins and her kind
BY DAVE DENISON
Beside the Point
Seaholm unveiled: Is the game worth the phalli?
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Support the Severely Wounded; and Bush's Health-Care Tax
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A Foodie's Valentine's Day Guide
... Not involving edible underwear
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Bocaditos
Mangia amore
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Wine of the Week
Love potions
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Has Top Chef hit bottom? Plus, Reed Clemons sells Capitol Brasserie.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Feb. 9-15
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Bess Bistro on Pecan
After one visit, you won't be returning for a chance glance at Ms. Bullock
music
This Town
The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine takes the Zilker Park train back to her Austin upbringing
BY MARGARET MOSER
TCB
SXSW inches closer, the Scoot Inn rises again, Arclight Records booms, and Cindi Lazzari and Chris Foley depart much too soon
BY CHRISTOPHER GRAY
Texas Platters
Joe Ely
Happy Songs From Rattlesnake Gulch
Jean Synodinos, Michelle Anthony, Autumn, Ali, Karrie Hopper
Breathe, *Frozenstarpalace, Sugarcane, Grace of Doves, An Unusual Move
The Chumps
Invent Rock 'N' Roll ('95-00)
ST 37
And Then What
the Unbearables
Just One Bite:Selections from "Bitten!: A Zombie Rock Odyssey"
the Argives
Nothing Better Beginning
Bill Baird
Silence!, Sunset
Sean Mencher
Sean Mencher
Blue Cartoon
September Songs
Onion Creek Crawdaddies
Irons in the Fire
Ruthie Foster
The Phenomenal Ruthie Foster
screens
On the Road Again
Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky's Half-Cocked Celebrates a Milestone
BY DARCIE STEVENS
Austin Film Society Documentary Tour
Jennifer Baichwal's Manufactured Landscapes
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
'SXSW Presents'
"Pedal"
TV Eye
Am I Having a Laugh?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
The Martin & Lewis Collection: Volume One
"We don't need writers"
Film Reviews
The Dead Girl
The filmmaker and an all-star cast create this somber murder mystery that has little mystery but is filled with a deep foreboding about the anguish that dominates some women's lives.
Hannibal Rising
Who would have thought mass murder and cannibalism could be so dull?
The Last Sin Eater
Jesus Christ, the original sin eater, has his hands full with a bunch of superstitious Appalachian immigrants from Wales in the 1850s.
The Messengers
This spook story is a surprisingly mediocre Hollywood debut for Hong Kong’s Pang brothers.
Norbit
The three personas Eddie Murphy adopts in this film literally fill the screen, but the script doesn't serve his multidimensional talents.
arts & culture
Throws Like a Girl: Catching Gretchen Phillips
Season four of Throws Like a Girl – the Rude Mechanicals' annual series celebrating women performers – rocks, literally, and Gretchen Phillips explains why
BY PATTI HADAD
State Theatre: The show will go on, just not very soon
The Austin Theatre Alliance is committed to restoring the flood-damaged State Theatre but expects it to take another 18 months, at least
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Mi Casa Es Su Teatro: Home is where the art is
Time again to get your theatre outside the theatre and inside someone's home, via FronteraFest's one-day, site-specific fiesta, Mi Casa Es Su Teatro
BY ROBERT FAIRES
365 Days/365 Plays: Week 13
The yearlong festival of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks continues with seven plays performed by members of M.E.M.E.
Arts Reviews
Present Laughter
You may think you know what a Noël Coward comedy is like, but the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production of Present Laughter is light years ahead of your expectations
FronteraFest Short Fringe: Week 3
No one would ever plan a night of theatre such as the night of theatre that was the FronteraFest Short Fringe Best of Week 3, but it set a high-water mark for entertainment
'Rising Stars 3'
Studio 107's "Rising Stars 3" features uniquely sculptural prints by Adreon Henry, appealing photos of rust by Fernando Lafuente, and powerfully honest portraits by Alonso Rey
columns
Page Two: When I Write the Book
On luck, anarchy, and the narrative vagaries of life
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Stephen's there as the fur and the rose petals fly ... and reconnects with Ken. No, not the doll, silly, the Neiman Marcus veep.
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Day Trips
"Body Worlds" at the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas takes the visitor on an incredible journey through the human body
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
O, verily, thou needest not a dictionary
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Small Business and Federal Tax ID – What Is It and How to Get One?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: Couple Skate Valentine's Day Benefit
Skate World, Saturday, February 10, 2007
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Soccer-related deaths in Italy, and more
