news
The Great Depression
BY ROBYN ROSS
County takes one small step toward sanity on gun control
BY MICHAEL KING
A planned subdivision and code conflict spawn enviro headache
BY AMY SMITH
Campaigns get back into gear ahead of early voting
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
This week brings 99 items – and a host of potential candidates
BY MICHAEL KING
Capital case raises questions of international consular rights
BY JORDAN SMITH
Lawyers consider next move
BY JORDAN SMITH
The highly educated working poor: Adjunct professors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The first annual 'Austin Chronicle' Invitational BBQ Beef Rib Smackdown
BY MICK VANN
Yard Bar crossbreeds dog park and human bar
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Mettle GM Daniel Brooks stakes a new claim at Papi Tino's old stomping ground
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Jan. 16-22
Food Reviews
Westernized sushi and a hapless waitstaff define the Tadashi experience
music
MLK Day, ready-made for hip-hop, plus Fun Fun Fun Fest lands back at Auditorium Shores, and RIP Will Indian
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Free Week Live Shots Part II
La Migra/Night Drive/... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Brian Beattie: 'Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase'
Alejandro Escovedo's United Sounds of Austin
screens
Quentin Dupieux is back with 'Wrong Cops'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Austin Motion Artists Group frankensteins up a new music video
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Film Reviews
Bollywood romance.
Kellan Lutz muscles his way into classical mythology.
Everyone's a rat, more or less, in this animated film.
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart partner up in this rote buddy-cop action comedy that's instantly forgettable.
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
arts & culture
James Magnuson's roman à clef about a creative writing program in Texas is in many ways a loving tribute to James Michener
BY AMY GENTRY
Conspiracy theories and the painstaking work of being a graphic novelist
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Charles Long's menagerie of blobby sculptures beg to be touched, and coo approvingly when they are
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Different Stages' production explores the difficulty of articulating not just love but also marriage
Kahlil Gibran's meditations on the human condition were fiercely grounded by flamenco in A'lante's adaptation
This concert of music by neglected composer Edward Burlingame Hill returned some lost gems to the concert hall
columns
An Angel shows her halos and Queer Ride gets porny
BY KATE X MESSER
Old Town Port Aransas remains among the condos and high-rises
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The brow beat
BY AMY GENTRY
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Several hundred words of highly uninformed and recklessly speculative commentary
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE