Sandy Carson
Volume 30, Number 26
ON THE COVER:
news
Movement afoot – once again – to ask voters to endorse City Council districts
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Can the mayor persuade Austin voters this is a real city?
BY MICHAEL KING
Spelman's anti-airport scanner resolution can't quite achieve liftoff
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Citizens' calendar, Feb. 24-March 3
A vow to work together
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New TV program to widen civic life for deaf Austinites
BY JORDAN SMITH
Council approves construction on tunnel project
BY WELLS DUNBAR
LEGELAND
If Texas' liquor laws look good, you must be wearing beer goggles
BY LEE NICHOLS
Abbott clears path to undermining Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
Not enough stuff 'under God'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Watson takes aim at roots of budget mess
BY LEE NICHOLS
Block-by-block census maps released
BY LEE NICHOLS
Naked City
Arsonists, AISD cuts, and Brack tract
Scoring a Point for Community; and The Kochs Are Coming!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio
food
No need to sugarcoat any of this news; it's already pretty sweet!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Let former Longhorns coach you in the art of eating ribs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
What's brewing in the brewing world
BY LEE NICHOLS
Food Reviews
Cirkiel shifts his command to the backspace
Takeout gets the highbrow treatment
Get your Francophile fix on Annie Street
music
Big Boys guitarist Tim Kerr put Austin punk on the map, then spent the next quarter century painting on it
BY AUSTIN POWELL
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
Casual Victim Pile II
A Country Mile
A Country Mile
A Country Mile
Bonus Tracks
Bonus Tracks
screens
Is crowdsourced content the wave of the future?
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Anish Savjani on where he's been and where he thinks the industry is going next
BY MARC SAVLOV
ESPN eyes prime real estate at UT's College of Communication
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas Film Hall of Fame high-fives John Hawkes and Spoon, Bob Byington narrowly avoids probing Down Under, and more
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The Oscars get hip
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Martin Lawrence revisits his FBI undercover alter-ego, Big Momma.
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.
This extravagant Indian/Tamil production is an apocalyptic science fiction rom-com with elaborate dance set-pieces and music by A.R. Rahman.
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.
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
Talking Tennessee Williams' genius with critic John Lahr
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Forklift Danceworks reprises its extraordinary ballet for sanitation workers and trucks
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Texas Cultural Trust honors its sixth group of notable Texans in the arts
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A new art exhibition speaks about and to people living on the streets
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Inventive direction and fun acting make a wonderful spectacle of Brecht's dark world
Shaw does go on, but Austin Shakespeare delivers a strong show with tight acting
This group show gives a sense of what real displacement – the forced kind – can be like
columns
Here we go again: South by Southwest 2011
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a certain age, there's no avoiding how death is a permanent part of life
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar confides in Secret Circus and tattles on Texas Film Hall of Fame
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Of Oscar and schlucking
BY KATE X MESSER
La India Packing Company sells hundreds of different kinds of cooking seasonings and herbal remedies
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Beetles, Scientology, questions, stars, and soft drinks
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
North Austin Event Center, Saturday, February 26, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
George 'Monk' Foreman and Jennifer Wolfe co-headline historic card
U.S. men's U-17 team qualifies for U-17 World Cup, and more
BY NICK BARBARO