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A Parliament of Experts
Did 'expert testimony' convict an innocent woman of murder?
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: Open Meetings, Empty Heads
No talking at City Hall unless we're all invited
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Make Yourself at Home
Neighborhoods split over burgeoning vacation rentals
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Naked City
A nuke offer and a guilty plea
BY JORDAN SMITH
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Feb. 3-10
Austin Water: The High Cost of Saving
Proposed water conservation measures come with a price tag
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Beyond the Super Bowl
Media scholar Robert McChesney tackles the state of journalism on Super Bowl Sunday
BY MICHAEL KING
Teapot Partying With Bailey
The Place 3 council candidate kicks off his campaign
BY MICHAEL KING
LEGELAND
Have Your Water and Drink It Too
Can the state save water and money at the same time?
BY LEE NICHOLS
What Your Senators Will Be Up To
Committee assignments, redistricting, and more
BY LEE NICHOLS
Bill of the Week
Riddle's voter ID/education/immigration smash-up
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The War on Talking About the Drug War
Border Patrol agent loses job after stating the obvious
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Congress Incorporated; and Mountaintop Tiff
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Quote of the Week
food
Juicebox & Soup Peddler: Story of a Collaboration
Grassroots foodies team up, form tasty Voltron
BY MM PACK
Food-o-File
Host your own Tex-Mex Super Bowl party, buy your sweetie a heart-shaped pie or pizza pie, or discover other food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Pigskin, rabbit, and more for Feb. 5-10
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Mi Ranchito Taqueria
This could become your go-to Mexican restaurant
Ray's Bar-B-Q
Eating at Ray's is experiencing Texas barbecue history
music
X-Ray Visions
Deep in the fifth dimension, Mark Ryan's Mind Spiders are cutting demos with Buddy Holly
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Off the Record
Courtney Love vs. Boudoir Queen, Jason Reece vs. Conrad Keely, Border Patrol vs. Texas Tornados, and other dream matchups
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Gurf Morlix
Blaze Foley's 113th Wet Dream
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Tao of the Dead
Hosea Hargrove
Ruta Maya, Jan. 28
screens
You're Going To Want To Remember This
A few words with Nora Ephron: writer, filmmaker, foodie, and turtleneck enthusiast
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Do a Little 'Dance
Austinites past and present converge on Park City
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Barbarians at the Box Office
AFS Documentary Tour: 'For the Love of Movies'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Tape Worms
A new doc and art show celebrate cassette culture
BY ASHLEY MORENO
SXSW Film Announces Lineup
It's a Win Win for everybody
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye: Crazy for Cop Shows
Cracking The Chicago Code
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Another Year
Mike Leigh directs this brilliantly acted film about the loneliness experienced by those shut out of the family circle.
The Company Men
Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, and Kevin Costner star in this drama about what happens to company men after they part company with the company.
From Prada to Nada
Former Spy Kid Alexa Vega co-stars in this comedy that provides a Hispanic spin on Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
The Rite
In this supernatural thriller, Anthony Hopkins plays a Vatican-based exorcist who trains a doubting seminary student to drive out the Devil.
Sanctum
When spelunkers rappel into a remote cave and get trapped by storm runoff, the plot and dialogue become as soggy as the characters.
Yamla Pagla Deewana
A father-and-son con-man team come to terms with their estranged family in this Bollywood masala.
arts & culture
'Best of Times'
Sara Hickman rounds up a few pals to help raise funds for Theatre Action Project
BY ROBERT FAIRES
L. Nowlin Gallery
Photographer Lesley Nowlin reflects on two years of running her own gallery
BY ROBERT FAIRES
State of the State
State Theatre reopens for a run of Christopher Titus' latest show
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
This drama about the Texas writer is informative, entertaining, and inspiring
Anton Nel, Piano, With Martin Burke, Actor
A tremendously memorable day of music that showed the breadth of Nel's skills
'Natasha Bowdoin: The Daisy Argument'
A work that takes Lewis Carroll's text undersea and lets us drown in words
columns
Page Two: A Column Where First We Ramble
Then we let others blow our horn. And with SXSW 2011 only weeks away, there's lots of horn blowing still to come.
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion
The lady behind the big Texas ladies, art shake-ups, and what to do, what to do
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
The Gay Place not only is, but will continue to be ... and better
BY KATE X MESSER
The Common Law
People's Law School
BY LUKE ELLIS
Day Trips
Carlos Moseley fashions colorful art pieces using bits of rock on a slate canvas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Plywood, water, the human heart, the kilogram, and Clint Eastwood
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Drone: A Border Affair That Crosses a Line
City Theatre, Friday, February 4, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
TSR FreezeRide
The Texas Ski Ranch holds its yearly wakeboarding extravaganza
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Austin Men's Soccer Association hosts a preseason outreach event, and more
BY NICK BARBARO
Football Watch
Chronicle prognosticators pick the Pack
