John Anderson
Volume 27, Number 23
ON THE COVER:
news
The four D.A. candidates have their critics
BY JORDAN SMITH
The CBAC makes its recommendations, and the school board ponders its options
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Because evidence was illegally obtained, Colton Pitonyak's conviction should be tossed out, lawyers argue
BY JORDAN SMITH
Disorder in the courthouse
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Music dispute is reported motive behind crime
BY JUSTIN WARD
Darling of international renewable energy circles to build its first solar-manufacturing plant here
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Election News
The Statesman goes after Glen Maxey – and gays, and the mentally ill
BY MICHAEL KING
Zoning and development action doesn't come any hotter and heavier than last week's City Council meeting.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
How About a Real Democratic Stimulus; and Google
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
CHOCOLATE RENAISSANCE
The Food staff recommends local and online chocolate retailers for Valentine's Day
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
BY MICK VANN
BY KATE THORNBERRY
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Texas Culinary Academy hosts an afternoon of wining and dining on chocolate
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Find the perfect combination for you and your sweetie
BY WES MARSHALL
The possibilities for filling Austin gift boxes are endless
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Feb. 8-14
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Haunting the dark corners of Karen Dalton
BY JIM CALIGIURI
SXSW unveils the full band list. What more could you ask for?
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
The Bedlam in Goliath
Torn From Existence
La Pollution Culturelle
Everything Cool has Been Canceled
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
Lick Lick
The Day I Realized I Might Not Make It
Fort Walnut, SFEP, Solar Power Strength!, Fevers and Fireworks, Icarus the Philistine, Suffer Fools Gladly, Live EP
Pretty Things Walk
The Door to the Morning
Little Grey Sheep
Wanderin'
Live at Antone's
The Last of the New York Sessions
Unrepentant
Two Thousand Miles
Cigarette Stars
Lucky 13
Early Morning Blues
Snake Head Red
Without You
screens
How the Japanese Do Democracy in Campaign
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Crispin Glover on the It trilogy and his departed star and screenwriter
BY MARC SAVLOV
Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Eager for new content, the networks are dipping into premium cables coffers
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Five underappreciated films from the Japanese master
Film Reviews
In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in this tale of two gorgeous, love-tossed, star-crossed treasure hunters who reunite to search for a lost 18th century galleon.
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
Playwright Martin McDonagh directs his first feature film, which is about a couple of hitmen caught between heaven and hell.
Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.
Portland-based creeper about a lonely painter and his muse/potential prey was a big hit at last year's Fantastic Fest.
In this contemplative meditation on the pained aging of literary lions, Frank Langella delivers a brilliant performance as the story's elderly New York City novelist.
When a popular wildlife TV show starts slipping in the ratings, the clueless hosts go off to the Andes in search of Bigfoot and big ratings. Big mistake.
Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.
Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.
arts & culture
Kathy Dunn Hamrick gives the lowest form of humor a lift in The BarreTenders
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Despite some offstage storms, Zach's production made a big splash – and may win a second life
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Where else to workshop this new musical drama by Jesse Sublett and Darden Smith than the Continental Club?
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Creative Capital helps Austin's projector of large-scale images get his work that much larger
BY RACHEL COOK
Arts Reviews
A program designed for Conspirare to flex its muscles and show off its versatility, which it did with great success
In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes
columns
The promise of liberty, unedited
BY LOUIS BLACK
Our Style Avatar drinks the Superbowl away and eats his way through a Project Transistions fundraiser
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
UT's female hoop star Ashley Lindsey is just starting to feel comfortable in her own shoes (and Tinker Bell socks)
BY THOMAS HACKETT
A short history of grain elevators in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
A Jewish Native American chief? Germans not the biggest beer drinkers? And more.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Foreclosure – Contact the Lender?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Parish, Sunday, February 10, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Aztex holds tryouts, MLS is coming to CenTex, and more
BY NICK BARBARO