Black Pearl Books
Jason Stout/With Apologies to Alex Toth
Volume 32, Number 19
news
2012 NEWS TOP 10S
Top 10 Local Stories
WTP4, IDEA, Leslie, and more
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Top 10 City Council Stories
Bill Spelman's cancer scare, Austin Pets Alive!'s takeover at Town Lake, and more
BY MICHAEL KING
Top 10 State Stories
Rick Perry's embarrassments, education's funding battles, and more
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Top 10 Education Stories
School finance lawsuits, AISD board shakeup, and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Top 10 Environmental Stories
Save Our Springs' anniversary, Al Armendariz's move, and the bag ban
BY AMY SMITH
Top 10 Election Stories
This year wasn't just about the November ballot, but that was a very big (literally) part too
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories
Death and drugs dominated the year for Austin police
BY JORDAN SMITH
Top 10 Quotes of the Week
Notable quotables of 2012
Headlines
Texas Women's Health Program Starts – Without Planned Parenthood
BY JORDAN SMITH
Cliff Notes: Happy New Deadline!
Congressional huffing and puffing finally yields a deal
BY MICHAEL KING
Meet Your New Tax Assessor
With oath of office, Elfant goes from constable to tax assessor
Civics 101
The Hightower Report
America, it's time for a raise
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin Culinary Top 10s for 2012
A tasty sampling of Austin's finest in food
music
Deeper Water
Best albums locally, nationally, and critical poll dancing
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
2012 SCREENS TOP 10S
Impressed, Yes, but Socks Still Firmly On
It was a good year for movies – but was it great?
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Power On
Top 10 games of 2012
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Allegiance
Bow Wow plays a National Guard soldier who goes AWOL in the early Nineties in this unfoused drama
The Impossible
The sound and fury of the Christmas tsunami is deeply harrowing as shown here through the microcosm of one family's experience.
Not Fade Away
Five years after the end of The Sopranos, creator David Chase directs his first movie, which takes him back to New Jersey in the Sixties.
Promised Land
Matt Damon and John Krasinski star in this modern morality tale about fracking in America; Gus Van Sant directs.
Table No. 21
A free trip to Fiji turns into a nightmare in this Bollywood film.
arts & culture
Setting the Stage
Austin's art scene spent 2012 prepping for the big things to come
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Top 10 Theatrical Wonders of 2012
History plays with contemporary urgency and giddy surprises made the year memorable in theatre
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Top 10 (+1) Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2012
In 2012, dance memorably explored profound topics, and classical embraced Charlie Brown and George Washington
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Top 10 Designer Contributions of 2012
Celebrating the year's most exquisite – and often surprising – stage designs
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Top 10 (+1) Theatrical Joys of 2012
Recalling a year of Shakespeare on bikes, masterful Miller, and a one-woman eco-soap
BY JILLIAN OWENS
Top 10 Arts Events of 2012
Remembering the year onstage in dynamic acting, atmospheric design, and unexpected beauty
BY DAN SOLOMON
Top 10 Ensembles of 2012
The year's most memorable groupings in classical music, dance, and theatre
BY ADAM ROBERTS
Top 10 Dances With Complexity of 2012
Dances that were ferocious, vibrant, and poignant made the year remarkable
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Top 10 Visual Arts of 2012
The emergence and re-emergence of arts spaces, events, venues, and museums dominated the year in Austin art
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Top 10 From Visual Art in 2012
In an exceptional year for seeing art, deconstructed graphics, technosculpture, and detailed drawings stood out
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Recommended Reading
Our favorite books of 2012
columns
Gay Place: Tops & Bottoms
Tops? Hell, the Gay Place like Tops and Bottoms. Who's on Top? Who's on Bottom? How can we pick just 10?
BY KATE X MESSER
Oops!
After a Fashion: Top These
Your Style Avatar gets on top of the Tops of 2012
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Top 10 happenings for day-trippers
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Prognostications
A few reasons why 2013 will totally kick 2012’s ass.
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
CenTex Sports Top 10
Lance, Ricky, and F1 among the biggest stories of 2012
BY MARK FAGAN
Hornucopia: Top 10 Edition
Ten Things the 31-27 Alamo Bowl Victory over Oregon State Tells Us About Next Year's UT Football Team
BY MICHAEL CORCORAN
Soccer Watch: Top 10 Soccer Stories of the Year
The usual suspects: Aztex, Beckham, Messi, and more
BY NICK BARBARO
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