Volume 33, Number 25
ON THE COVER:
features
THE FOOD ISSUE
The full meal deal
Critics favorites of 2014
news
THE FOOD ISSUE
Locavores planting seeds for the next phase of urban agriculture
BY ANNA TOON
SH 45 toll road hawks back in the driver's seat
BY AMY SMITH
Bad weather exposes bad road design
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
As election day nears, the sparks are flying
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
Team Wendy working on changing narrative
BY MICHAEL KING
CMs tackle stealth dorms and economic incentives deals
BY MICHAEL KING
Ranch town awarded for outdoor lighting ordinance
BY BRANDON WATSON
Residents urge alternate plan
BY MAC MCCANN
Questions still linger about brutal crime
BY JORDAN SMITH
CFO denies relationship
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
THE FOOD ISSUE
Austin's emerging restaurant empires
BY RACHEL FEIT
Haute cuisine gets buggy to promote progressive thinking about global food supplies
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Winter is killing us, but at least there are some hot new restaurants to look forward to
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Feb. 14-20
music
THE FOOD ISSUE
How do you eat healthy on tour?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Announcing the Austin Music Awards and more Valentine's Day mash notes
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
up.rooted
Whisper of the Moon
The Offering: Flesh
When It Rains It Pours
Daylight & Dark
Savage Country
Everyone's Dead Before They Leave: A Tribute to the Cherubs
Traverser
screens
THE FOOD ISSUE
Austin's favorite flag-wearing super-patriot shows you how it's done
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Local women revolutionize cooking for singles and couples, one YouTube video at a time
BY JESSI CAPE
The tech and TV tie-ins to Austin restaurants
BY MONICA RIESE AND SHELLEY HIAM
Film Reviews
Sexual perversity is released with gleeful abandon in this second film outing for Mamet's 40-year-old play.
New era, same old story: young passions, forbidden love, and parents who just don't understand.
An Italian writer and bon vivant reflects on his life in this walkabout with Felliniesque touches.
Indian film.
Bryan Poyser's Austin-made rom-com delivers splendidly on the promise of its raunchy title.
The überviolent 1987 action film gets a pointless reboot.
This month's flavor in the teen vampire continuum.
The Koyaanisqatsi director is back with his latest stream-of-vision meditation.
Neither Colin Farrell's charms nor Will Smith as the Devil can rescue this soggy valentine.
arts & culture
THE FOOD ISSUE
Look at Jody Horton's photographs of food, and you'll see the passionate folks who make it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Tiffany Harelik writes her own story through her cookbook series dedicated to Austin's food trailers
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Visiting artist's double exhibition at UT VAC digs deep into cultural identity
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Exchange Artists' latest site-specific theatre piece is a ticket to ride in eight cars in one night
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The development of electricity prompts questions about intimacy in Sarah Ruhl's play
Stephen Sondheim's tale of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a playful, minimalist revival at UT
Soft Chop takes an aesthetic stab at renegade culture
columns
It's Valentine's! Who's your lover? Gay Place, that's who.
BY KATE X MESSER
Gerald saddles up on the barbecue trail
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Tip your server well – and nab some fashion tips in return
BY AMY GENTRY
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
You're not responsible for someone else's happiness
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW