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news
The Single-Member Situation
Movement afoot – once again – to ask voters to endorse City Council districts
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Point Austin: Stop Me If You've Heard This One
Can the mayor persuade Austin voters this is a real city?
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: What the Scan Revealed
Spelman's anti-airport scanner resolution can't quite achieve liftoff
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, Feb. 24-March 3
City, AISD Look for School Fixes
A vow to work together
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Tuning In to Deaf Community
New TV program to widen civic life for deaf Austinites
BY JORDAN SMITH
Money Flows to Waller Creek
Council approves construction on tunnel project
BY WELLS DUNBAR
LEGELAND
LegeLand: Brew the Looking Glass
If Texas' liquor laws look good, you must be wearing beer goggles
BY LEE NICHOLS
LegeLand: Defunding Planned Parenthood
Abbott clears path to undermining Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
LegeLand: Bill of the Week
Not enough stuff 'under God'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
LegeLand: Reinventing the Budget Wheel
Watson takes aim at roots of budget mess
BY LEE NICHOLS
LegeLand: Redistricting Takes Shape
Block-by-block census maps released
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Arsonists, AISD cuts, and Brack tract
The Hightower Report
Scoring a Point for Community; and The Kochs Are Coming!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Quote of the Week
Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio
food
Food-o-File
No need to sugarcoat any of this news; it's already pretty sweet!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Let former Longhorns coach you in the art of eating ribs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Beer Flights: Talking Points About Drinking
What's brewing in the brewing world
BY LEE NICHOLS
Food Reviews
the backspace
Cirkiel shifts his command to the backspace
Zoot Restaurant
Takeout gets the highbrow treatment
La Pâtisserie
Get your Francophile fix on Annie Street
music
Your Name Here
Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Off the Record
Austin Music Poll winners are just going to have to wait until the Austin Music Awards, plus a closer look at SXSW's international acts
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Bottle Service, Coma in Algiers, Sally Crewe & the Sudden Moves, Crisis Hotlines, Cruddy, The Dead Space, Expensive Shit, The French Inhales, A Giant Dog, Hatchet Wound, Literature, Naw Dude, OBN III's, Rayon Beach, Serious Tracers, Simple Circuit, Women in Prison, The Zoltars
Casual Victim Pile II
Jesse Dayton
A Country Mile
Will Taylor & Strings Attached
A Country Mile
Jon Wolfe
A Country Mile
The Dark Water Hymnal
screens
'Karma' Chameleon
Is crowdsourced content the wave of the future?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Post-Production
Anish Savjani on where he's been and where he thinks the industry is going next
BY MARC SAVLOV
Game Changer
ESPN eyes prime real estate at UT's College of Communication
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Flam
Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
TV Eye
The Oscars get hip
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.
Carbon Nation
Carbon dioxide emissions will be the death of us all unless we take steps to counteract the harm already done, says this new eco-doc.
Endhiran (Robot)
This extravagant Indian/Tamil production is an apocalyptic science fiction rom-com with elaborate dance set-pieces and music by A.R. Rahman.
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never – Director's Fan Cut
This newly crafted version of the Bieb's life story lops out some earlier segments and inserts more hometown material, new songs and performances, and footage of the film premiere.
Unknown
In this psychological thriller, a man awakens after a car accident to find his wife doesn't recognize him and another man has assumed his identity.
arts & culture
Powers of Tenn
Talking Tennessee Williams' genius with critic John Lahr
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Trash Project II'
Forklift Danceworks reprises its extraordinary ballet for sanitation workers and trucks
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Texas Medal of Arts
The Texas Cultural Trust honors its sixth group of notable Texans in the arts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'The Working Homeless'
A new art exhibition speaks about and to people living on the streets
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Threepenny Opera
Inventive direction and fun acting make a wonderful spectacle of Brecht's dark world
Man and Superman
Shaw does go on, but Austin Shakespeare delivers a strong show with tight acting
'Out of Place'
This group show gives a sense of what real displacement – the forced kind – can be like
columns
Page Two: Bright Light, Hot Smoke
Here we go again: South by Southwest 2011
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: Some Kind of a Man
After a certain age, there's no avoiding how death is a permanent part of life
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Of Oscar and schlucking
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
La India Packing Company sells hundreds of different kinds of cooking seasonings and herbal remedies
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Beetles, Scientology, questions, stars, and soft drinks
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: That Takes the Cake! Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition: Caked Crusaders
North Austin Event Center, Saturday, February 26, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Legends: The Next Generation
George 'Monk' Foreman and Jennifer Wolfe co-headline historic card
Soccer Watch
U.S. men's U-17 team qualifies for U-17 World Cup, and more