news
Reconnect Austin: Part One
The Great Depression
BY ROBYN ROSS
Point Austin: Texas Backward
County takes one small step toward sanity on gun control
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Overlooking the Springs
A planned subdivision and code conflict spawn enviro headache
BY AMY SMITH
'Chronicle' Endorsement
Headlines
Civics 101
Quote of the Week
HD 50 Run-Off Enters Final Lap
Campaigns get back into gear ahead of early voting
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
More Agenda, More Council
This week brings 99 items – and a host of potential candidates
BY MICHAEL KING
Death Watch: Texecutioners vs. the World
Capital case raises questions of international consular rights
BY JORDAN SMITH
Death Watch: Reed Appeal Rejected at 5th Circuit
Lawyers consider next move
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
The highly educated working poor: Adjunct professors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Tickle the Ribs
The first annual 'Austin Chronicle' Invitational BBQ Beef Rib Smackdown
BY MICK VANN
Fetch Me a Beer, Sparky
Yard Bar crossbreeds dog park and human bar
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-o-File
Mettle GM Daniel Brooks stakes a new claim at Papi Tino's old stomping ground
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Meal Times
Jan. 16-22
Food Reviews
Decent Food, but Disastrous Service
Westernized sushi and a hapless waitstaff define the Tadashi experience
music
Playback: The King of Hip-Hop
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
La Migra/Night Drive/... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Black Books
George Strait
Brian Beattie, Kathy McCarty, Grace London, Bill Callahan
Brian Beattie: 'Ivy and the Wicker Suitcase'
The Well, Bridge Farmers, Spiritual Wives
Feral Future
Alejandro Escovedo, Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, Terry Allen, Lucinda Williams, Kimmie Rhodes, Rosie Flores, Roky Erickson, the Skunks, True Believers, Dr. James Polk, Elias Haslanger, Denny Freeman, Steve James
Alejandro Escovedo's United Sounds of Austin
screens
Two Wrongs Make a Right
Quentin Dupieux is back with 'Wrong Cops'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Introducing the Octopus Project's Exquisite Corpse
The Austin Motion Artists Group frankensteins up a new music video
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Film Reviews
Karle Pyaar Karle
Bollywood romance.
The Legend of Hercules
Kellan Lutz muscles his way into classical mythology.
The Nut Job
Everyone's a rat, more or less, in this animated film.
Ride Along
Ice Cube and Kevin Hart partner up in this rote buddy-cop action comedy that's instantly forgettable.
Wrong Cops
French musician-filmmaker-writer-editor Quentin Dupieux (Rubber) returns with more lo-fi absurdism.
arts & culture
On Writers and Con Men
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
Studio Visits: Matt Rebholz
Conspiracy theories and the painstaking work of being a graphic novelist
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
'Pet Sounds'
Charles Long's menagerie of blobby sculptures beg to be touched, and coo approvingly when they are
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Language Archive
Different Stages' production explores the difficulty of articulating not just love but also marriage
Prophecies
Kahlil Gibran's meditations on the human condition were fiercely grounded by flamenco in A'lante's adaptation
Austin Symphony Orchestra With Anton Nel
This concert of music by neglected composer Edward Burlingame Hill returned some lost gems to the concert hall
columns
Gay Place: Behind The Masquerade
An Angel shows her halos and Queer Ride gets porny
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Old Town Port Aransas remains among the condos and high-rises
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
In Praise of Eyebrows
The brow beat
BY AMY GENTRY
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: I Am a Sexaholic
Several hundred words of highly uninformed and recklessly speculative commentary
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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