Volume 29, Number 24
ON THE COVER:
news
Our recommendations for the March 2 primaries
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
Local races
BY THE NEWS STAFF
What we think about when we think about endorsing
BY MICHAEL KING
City Council takes yet another look at updating the sound ordinance for festival season
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Citizens' calendar, Feb. 11-18
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
Can the city deliver on East Riverside?
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Tree lovers stand their ground – and win
BY LEE NICHOLS
A new app makes life easier for UT students – but not for UT's lawyers, apparently
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Olde Austin Ragsters revive in a digital age
BY KEVIN BRASS
It ain't easy keeping track of Austin's history
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Few are claiming responsibility for the decision to shut down UT's Cactus Cafe and informal classes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Agribusiness, Mutant Germs, and Us; and A GOP Leader's Economic Plan
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
If 'Year of the Golden Tiger' doesn't sound like 'prosperity' to you, you're not trying
BY KATE THORNBERRY
BY WES MARSHALL
Enjoy this week of celebrations, congrats to Nau's Enfield Drug, condolences to the County Line family for its loss, and more foodie bites
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
This week, cigars and chocolates meet Foodways of Mexico
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Katherine Clapner's incredible chocolate confections mix sweet and savory ingredients in unexpected flavor combinations
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
music
Hannibal Lokumbe and Jeff Lofton's Jazz Traditionalism
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
A closer look at the closing of the Cactus Cafe, Beerland's Casual Victim Pile, and Watchtower's Control and Release
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Viva la Rock, Fantastico!
Celebrating With Friends
Somewhere in Time
Ocho
Hear Here
The Courage of Others
A Monument Carved With Serpents
Logan
screens
Stephen Romano's continuing adventures in fake movies
BY MARC SAVLOV
Austin filmmakers get into the online act with the Web series Call Center
BY MARC SAVLOV
Screens Reviews
You the Living charts an unrelated series of tiny dooms, culminating in one big bang of one; not since Dr. Strangelove has a film so perfectly married gallows humor to horror
Forget Lost: The British Survivors starts with a disaster scenario, too, but skips all the hinky stuff
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Jonathan Rhys Meyers plays an American diplomat in Paris who is paired with a wise-cracking, trigger-happy CIA maverick (John Travolta) to stop a terrorist attack.
This nimble movie about Tolstoy's last days stars Christopher Plummer as the author and Helen Mirren as his high-strung wife, Sofya.
In this Bollywood film, a boy with Asperger's syndrome grows up to become a husband trying to reunite with his wife after the events of 9/11.
A minister's daughter wants to experience more of life, so she runs away with an actor appearing in a touring gospel play.
Although the film sounds like a sure bet on paper, this comedy starring Steve Buscemi sadly comes up solid snake eyes.
Aggressively unfunny and unromantic, Valentine’s Day’s chief concern appears to have been the corralling of its cast of a thousand stars.
This monster reboot disappoints terribly, making up in blood and entrails what it lacks in heart and soul.
arts & culture
Five choreographers join the company in making work that undefines dance
BY JONELLE SEITZ
UT's research center lands the archives of the storied Magnum Photos agency
BY ROBERT FAIRES
How C. Denby Swanson developed a historical hoax into a drama of the fantastic
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Penfold Theatre once again mounts a chamber musical that's heartfelt and true
A production that makes Shaw's century-old ideas feel current – and very human
This pairing of works by Ed Lindlof and Sharon Kyle Kuhn gives old materials new life
columns
The endless Republican nightmare casts its shadow on health care reform
BY LOUIS BLACK
The reason I can't read Sharon Doubiago's book is that I, like she, was shaped by incest and rape
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Who dat? Why, it's Your Style Avatar!
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Turkish business cards, Poe, headscarves, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Saint Arnold Brewing Co.'s new cavernous tasting room harkens back to the days of big German beer halls where families gathered to talk and laugh and enjoy fresh beer
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Valentine's last test and proof
BY KATE X MESSER
Aces Lounge, Friday, February 12, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
UT hosts Texas Invitational
BY MARK FAGAN