John Anderson
Volume 32, Number 20
ON THE COVER:
news
The next life of Waller Creek
BY ARI PHILLIPS
The Lege melodrama can be a hard act to swallow
BY MICHAEL KING
It just got easier for nonprofits to afford to go green
BY AMY SMITH
Scenes from the floor of the Texas House and Senate
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Neighbors aren't pleased with Little Woodrow's plan to move in
BY MICHAEL KING
City rejects complaint filed by black contractors
BY AMY SMITH
A former employee has filed a lawsuit of racial and sexual discrimination against the transit union
BY MICHAEL KING
Iowa Supreme Court out-crazies NRA, Santorum, et al.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Why brewheads are buzzing about Pinthouse Pizza's head brewer from Colorado
BY IVY LE
Coterie Market brings locally crafted treats right to your door
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Jan. 11-17
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
The craft brews are solid, but the pies are still evolving
music
Toasting My Education and its dearly departed
BY ADAM SCHRAGIN
Digging up the roots of Free Week
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Free Week Live Shots Part 1
Highlights from first half of Free Week
Highlights from first half of Free Week
Eagle Claw, Tia Carrera, Megafauna, Flesh Lights, Smoke & Feathers, My Education
Highlights from first half of Free Week
screens
'The Man From Orlando' team recalls the high stakes of making their lo-fi first feature
BY AMY GENTRY
Dan Harmon is talking to you
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
iPad trailblazer 'Holy Hell' available for two-day-only free download
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Despite uneven filmmaking and questionable facts, an extraordinary cast brings this story about mobster Mickey Cohen's attempted takeover of L.A. and the handful of honest cops who thwarted him.
Telugu action film.
Decades after the original, this story about the deranged, backwoods cannibal with a power tool still has legs – and extra 3-D torque.
The film is suspenseful, dogged, relentless, and determined – amazing considering we already know the ending of this story about the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden.
arts & culture
Manuel Gonzales leads the nonprofit Austin Bat Cave into uncharted territory while readying for a rapid literary ascent of his own
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
Performance jamboree's 20th brings back old faves and welcomes new stars
BY ROBERT FAIRES
‘Vagina’ Editor-in-Chief Hillary-Anne Crosby on zines, feminism, and – well, you know
BY AMY GENTRY
Arts Reviews
Different Stages doesn't light up the dark corners of this gothic comedy about the Marquis de Sade
This whodunit is all in fun, but Austin Playhouse isn't having as much fun with it as it could
La Follia takes the harpsichord beyond Bach and proves the instrument isn't just for the baroque
columns
Artists are but translators of that which flows through them
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Your Style Avatar examines the Crown Jewels. Don't be nasty ...
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Queerbomb is always No. 1 (or at least No. 8) to us ...
BY KATE X MESSER
Local zoo committed to saving animals
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Don't hate the bag, hate the user.
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN