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news
Prosecutor Times Four
The four D.A. candidates have their critics
BY JORDAN SMITH
Demand and Supply
The CBAC makes its recommendations, and the school board ponders its options
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Pitonyak Case: When is a private-property search justifiable?
Because evidence was illegally obtained, Colton Pitonyak's conviction should be tossed out, lawyers argue
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Naked Court Report: From the Gilded Halls of Williamson County
Disorder in the courthouse
BY PATRICIA J. RULAND
KOOP Arson: The jazz behind the fire
Music dispute is reported motive behind crime
BY JUSTIN WARD
Solar Celebrity HelioVolt Lands in Austin
Darling of international renewable energy circles to build its first solar-manufacturing plant here
BY DANIEL MOTTOLA
Naked City
Election News
Point Austin: Special Treatment
The Statesman goes after Glen Maxey – and gays, and the mentally ill
BY MICHAEL KING
Beside the Point
Zoning and development action doesn't come any hotter and heavier than last week's City Council meeting.
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
How About a Real Democratic Stimulus; and Google
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
CHOCOLATE RENAISSANCE
Chocolate Renaissance
The Food staff recommends local and online chocolate retailers for Valentine's Day
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Retailers
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Online & Wholesale
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Elemental Chocolates
BY MICK VANN
Baked Goods
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Austin Chocolate Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Third Annual Chocolate Show and Competition at TCA
Texas Culinary Academy hosts an afternoon of wining and dining on chocolate
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
How About a Little Wine with That Chocolate?
Find the perfect combination for you and your sweetie
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
The possibilities for filling Austin gift boxes are endless
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Feb. 8-14
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
In Her Own Time
Haunting the dark corners of Karen Dalton
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Off the Record
SXSW unveils the full band list. What more could you ask for?
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Mars Volta
The Bedlam in Goliath
Shrapnel
Torn From Existence
The Ape-Shits
La Pollution Culturelle
Foot Foot
Everything Cool has Been Canceled
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
Lick Lick
Lick Lick
Chris Boehk
The Day I Realized I Might Not Make It
Silver Pines, Single Frame, the Frontier Brothers, The Soldier Thread, Eliot Fitzgerald, the Rite Flyers, Joel Laviolette's Rattletree Marimba
Fort Walnut, SFEP, Solar Power Strength!, Fevers and Fireworks, Icarus the Philistine, Suffer Fools Gladly, Live EP
the Mercers
Pretty Things Walk
Graham Weber
The Door to the Morning
Danny Schmidt
Little Grey Sheep
The Belleville Outfit
Wanderin'
The Band of Heathens
Live at Antone's
the Moonhangers
The Last of the New York Sessions
Calvin Russell
Unrepentant
Owen Temple
Two Thousand Miles
Lawrence Lander & the Best Friends Money Can Buy
Cigarette Stars
Paula Nelson Band
Lucky 13
Jon Emery
Early Morning Blues
Danny Fast Fingers
Snake Head Red
Peggy Wright
Without You
screens
See Yama-san Run
How the Japanese Do Democracy in Campaign
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
The Relativity of Fineness
Crispin Glover on the It trilogy and his departed star and screenwriter
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film News
Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March
BY JOE O'CONNELL
TV Eye
Eager for new content, the networks are dipping into premium cables coffers
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Screens Reviews
Postwar Kurosawa
Five underappreciated films from the Japanese master
Film Reviews
The Eye
In this Hong Kong horror remake, Jessica Alba stars as a blind violinist whose cure turns out to be worse than the disease.
Fool's Gold
Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star in this tale of two gorgeous, love-tossed, star-crossed treasure hunters who reunite to search for a lost 18th century galleon.
Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
In Bruges
Playwright Martin McDonagh directs his first feature film, which is about a couple of hitmen caught between heaven and hell.
Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation 2008
Another compilation of old and new animated spectacles guaranteed to rot your eyeballs.
Spiral
Portland-based creeper about a lonely painter and his muse/potential prey was a big hit at last year's Fantastic Fest.
Starting Out in the Evening
In this contemplative meditation on the pained aging of literary lions, Frank Langella delivers a brilliant performance as the story's elderly New York City novelist.
Strange Wilderness
When a popular wildlife TV show starts slipping in the ratings, the clueless hosts go off to the Andes in search of Bigfoot and big ratings. Big mistake.
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland
Back in September 2005, Vaughn decided to try his hand at the impresario game and Gathered together four young stand-up comedians for a 30-day bus tour of the heartland.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Martin Lawrence is remarkably subdued in this story about a successful professional who returns home to rural Georgia and discovers that his family still makes him feel like a petulant teenager.
arts & culture
Pun de Deux
Kathy Dunn Hamrick gives the lowest form of humor a lift in The BarreTenders
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Porgy and Bess': Lawd, it's on its way
Despite some offstage storms, Zach's production made a big splash – and may win a second life
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Marathon': Down the jackrabbit hole
Where else to workshop this new musical drama by Jesse Sublett and Darden Smith than the Continental Club?
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Luke Savisky: Creative Capitalist
Creative Capital helps Austin's projector of large-scale images get his work that much larger
BY RACHEL COOK
Arts Reviews
I Dream a World
A program designed for Conspirare to flex its muscles and show off its versatility, which it did with great success
Hills Snyder: All Good Children
In the Gallery 68 show, the artist posed as a serial killer being executed for his crimes
columns
Page Two: A Living Constitution
The promise of liberty, unedited
BY LOUIS BLACK
After a Fashion
Our Style Avatar drinks the Superbowl away and eats his way through a Project Transistions fundraiser
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Playing Through
UT's female hoop star Ashley Lindsey is just starting to feel comfortable in her own shoes (and Tinker Bell socks)
BY THOMAS HACKETT
Day Trips
A short history of grain elevators in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
A Jewish Native American chief? Germans not the biggest beer drinkers? And more.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Foreclosure – Contact the Lender?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Luv Doc Recommends: The Reivers Reunion Show
Parish, Sunday, February 10, 2008
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Aztex holds tryouts, MLS is coming to CenTex, and more
