Central Machine Works
Jason Stout
Volume 28, Number 31
news
How Many Cats Did Austin Save Last Year?
By the numbers, shelter and animal advocate efforts show significant progress
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
Point Austin: Campaign Trailing
A few notes from the run-up to your own participatory government
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: High Times at the Hunker A-Go-Go
Campaign antics are a good way to kill time in the mayor's race
BY WELLS DUNBAR
ON THE LEGE
Some Reforms Left Behind
Lege looks to account for school accountability
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SBOE: Out With the Old Weaknesses, In With the New
The State Board of Education has accomplished one step forward for science – and possibly two steps back
BY LEE NICHOLS
Original Titty-Tax Bill Loses Bounce
A rival bill emerges to tax sexually oriented businesses
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
State Budget Budges Forth
Legislators attempt to rein in governor's spending habits
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Docs Back Insurance Reforms
Can we make health coverage more transparent?
BY JORDAN SMITH
LegeLines
A little bit of lowdown on big things at the Capitol
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Judge Points Fingers
Keller tries to salvage her judicial career
BY JORDAN SMITH
Any Way to Run a Railroad?
Cap Metro temporarily derails MetroRail
BY LEE NICHOLS
City Counseling: Website Redesign Crashes
City goes back to the drawing board
BY WELLS DUNBAR
No Home for Rhizome ... for Now
Rhizome Collective looks for a new location
BY NORA ANKRUM
Austin CarShare Shares the Road
There's room in this town for two car-sharing programs
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Media Watch: 'Statesman' to Go Platinum?
Equity firm specializing in 'distressed' properties looking at Austin daily
BY KEVIN BRASS
Disharmony Over City Music Department
Live Music Task Force members resign from SAM board after Troy Dillinger criticizes city
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Fun Time With Austin Energy
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and elsewhere
Res Publica
The Hightower Report
Obama and Congress Can End Mountaintop Removal; and A Bailed-Out Bank Bails Out Its Bankers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food-o-File
Cake balls appear in Austin, finally, and sincere condolences to the family of Matt Martinez Jr.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Local food events, April 2-8
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Paqui Tortillas
Alissa Bassana and Doug Lyon ditch the factory and make their successful tortillas by hand
Zico Pure Coconut Water
Enjoy the restorative effects of Zico
Karibu Ethiopian Restaurant
Austin welcomes a new Ethiopian restaurant
Evita's Botanitas
Evita's Botanitas is still open, for now
music
Kingdom of Days
Bruce Springsteen doesn't call E Street pianist Roy Bittan "Professor" for nothing
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Off the Record
Roscoe Beck helps bring the Tower of Song to Austin, and wine-tasting with Maynard James Keenan
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Phases & Stages
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
It's Blitz!
Neko Case
Stubb's, March 31
Jackie Paris
'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris
screens
Small World and Blurred Boundaries: AFS Essential Cinema
Crossing Borders: Immigration in Global Cinema
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
What Becomes a Legend Most: The Architect or the Photographer?
AFS Documentary Tour: Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Lucky Starr
'Adventureland's Martin Starr knows it's good to be geek
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
ABC's new comedies take a swing at motherhood and matchmaking. Home run or strikeout?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Adventureland
Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy and youthful without being juvenile.
Alien Trespass
Taking its cues from several classic 1950s sci-fi films, Alien Trespass is a deeply affectionate homage to the era when every kid on the block knew what "Klaatu borada nikto" meant.
Beauty in Trouble
In this Czech film, the tumultuous marriage of a couple, who only stop quarreling for bouts of sex, faces a reckoning.
Fast & Furious
This third franchise sequel doesn't have as much smarts as speed, but it's still an uncomplicated, undemanding lark.
12 Rounds
WWE superstar wrestler John Cena teams with once-exciting action director Renny Harlin for this New Orleans-set action film.
arts & culture
Outside the System
Two artists go beyond the gallery walls to find new ways of sharing their work
BY ANDREW LONG
Carnival Ah!
ACC's central campus becomes a cultural extravaganza of music, theatre, and more
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Texas Medal of Arts Awards
The Texas Cultural Trust honors its fifth group of notable Texans in the arts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Floodlines'
Jaclyn Pryor's site-specific performance can get you lost in a familiar neighborhood
BY BARBARA CHISHOLM
Arts Reviews
The Heidi Chronicles
What makes Wendy Wasserstein's play still relevant ekes through at City Theatre
The Studio Theater Project
Both dances in the show have great music, but only one delivers great choreography
Anton Nel
In the Dell Hall solo recital, the concert pianist proved to be a man for all seasons
columns
Page Two: Love and Badges
The last 'Page Two' on SXSW 09 (probably)
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
A postcard from prison? Wish you were here!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Playing Through
Oklahoma women's basketball player Courtney Paris has it all backward
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Gay Place
BY ASH BELL AND KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Leal's Mexican Restaurants in the Panhandle named several of their combination plates after the customers who made the dishes popular
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Bearded women saints, German 'quiche,' and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Legal Issues for Website Owners
BY CHRIS JOHNS
Luv Doc Recommends: Fourth Annual Urban Music Festival
Auditorium Shores at the Long Center, Saturday, April 4, 2009
BY THE LUV DOC
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