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Occupy Austin, 2011
A movement in evolution
BY MICHAEL KING AND JOHN ANDERSON
Point Austin: Activate This!
One insider's fight to make 'good old liberal Austin the city it thinks it is'
BY AMY SMITH
Quote of the Week
City Hall Hustle: The Hustle Bids Farewell ...
A bittersweet goodbye to the city politics beat
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Civics 101
Fill your new year with meetings and recycling
Headlines
Did City Stifle Free Speech?
Judge to rule soon on city's trespass citations during Occupy protest
BY JORDAN SMITH
Free To Be Beer!
Hear, hear! Judge rules for breweries.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Resurrection of Mark Weaver
Pastor Mark Weaver spent Thanksgiving at Shoal Creek Hospital
BY MICHAEL KING
Live Music Lands on Police Radar
Live music capital of the world, my ass
BY MIKE KANIN
The Hightower Report
The U.S. ranks low in standards of social justice
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin Cider Houses Rule
Is hard cider ready to make a historic comeback?
BY WES MARSHALL
Cajun Heat
Thanksgiving fire takes out Sambets
BY KATE X MESSER
Food-o-File
Texas is still big on the small screen, plus a bounty of barbecue and burger joints and a Hill Country building boom
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Jalapeno Joes Tex-Mex Bar & Grill
When fate closes a Streat, it opens a Jalapeno
music
A Boy Named Emo
What was your favorite show on Red River at Emo's?
One, Two, Tres, Cuatro
The other music Halls of Fame have had their say – time to focus locally on the Austin Texas Music Hall of Fame
BY MARGARET MOSER
Phases & Stages
The Roots
Undun
Lee Konitz, Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Charles Lloyd, Maria Farantouri, Chick Corea, Stefano Bollani, Keith Jarrett, Enrico Rava
Live at Birdland, Athens Concert, Orvieto, Rio, Tribe
screens
Reading Between the 'I's
The Secret Life of Pronouns author James Pennebaker on what your tweets reveal about your state of mind
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Austin Film Critics Association Announces Awards
Hugo wins Best Picture
Two for One Times Three
AFS Essential Cinema tracks a few masters' journeys from Old World to New
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
The Darkest Hour
Five young people lead the advance against an alien attack in Moscow.
Don 2
In this Bollywood film, an underworld boss, having conquered the Asian crime syndicate, now sets his sights on world domination.
Rajanna
this Telegu film set in the 1950s recounts the story of freedom-fighter Rajanna and the parallel story of his daughter's struggle for personal freedom.
arts & culture
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
How Parallelogramophonograph survived Scotland and became a better improv troupe
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Lisa D'Amour
Where in the world is Detroit?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
All Over Creation: Home-Cooked Art
You can't beat the taste of a concert or play reading made in your own home
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
God of Carnage
This show offers a gleeful thrill like that long, first drop on a roller coaster
'DeCola & Eusebi Studio'
Something in the season just makes leaded panes of glass apropos
columns
Letters at 3AM: What's Your Sign?
Michael Ventura observes the Occupy signs of our times
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Traipse the holiday social trail and just try to keep up with Your Style Avatar
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gayplace
Happy New Year's Gay!
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Old Rip of Eastland lived a long and eventful life by the standard of most horned lizards
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
'The Custodians,' 'use-by' dates, cheeseburgers, and more fun facts
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: NYE 1977
Spider House Ballroom, Saturday, December 31, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Toros Hold Early NBA D-League Lead
Austin hosts the Springfield Armor
