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New Bike City
In time for SXSW, Austin rolls out miles of new bike lanes and features
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Point Austin: Have You Heard the Dish?
The ambivalent state of political journalism
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: The Animal Kingdom
One more round of changes proposed for the shelter plans
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
News briefs from Austin, the region, and beyond
ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Primary Post-Mortem
The State Commission on Judicial Conduct dismisses complaint against judge
BY JORDAN SMITH
Precinct 4 Race Saw an 'Erosion of Power'
Gómez won the election but lost her progressive base
BY AMY SMITH
Get Ready for More Elections
The primary run-offs are only a month away, followed quickly by elections for ACC and AISD trustees
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Permit Unsustained: A Bad Day at Red Bluff
Sustainable Waves pulls the plug on Austin
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Eco-Currents ...
Students vote for green funds, report surveys Texas water conservation efforts, and more
BY NORA ANKRUM
Developing Stories: 'Every Day It's Getting Worse'
Strategic Mobility Plan marks a way out of permanent gridlock
BY KATHERINE GREGOR
Can It Be? MetroRail Prepares to Launch.
Cap Metro once again announces a start date for the MetroRail
BY LEE NICHOLS
Metrorail Watch
How Long Will We Wait for the Train?
Death Row Case Evidence May Never Be Tested
When technicalities take precedence over finding out who done it
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
The Karzai-ization of Afghanistan; and Tauzin's Big Pharma Overdose
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
New to Town
Check out these new Downtown restaurants for your mid-SXSW snacking
The Partying Saint
Check out some of the day's best parties
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Reviews
Snack Bar
A diner by day and global plate purveyor by night
Food-o-File
A bounty of new restaurants has popped up like spring blooms
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Bacon, beer, and SXSW noms this week
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
SXSW MUSIC
Casual Victim Pile
Local SXSW 2010 class sampler
Off the Record
Paying tribute to Tony Campise and rolling out the red carpet for the Kashmere Stage Band and SXSW Film
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Texas Platters
Austin Collins & the Rainbirds
Wrong Control
The White White Lights
Medium Head Boy
Seaholm Electric, The Able Sea
Before I Disappoint You, The Able Sea II
The Clouds Are Ghosts
The Clouds Are Ghosts
The Stan Laurels
Death of the Sun
Lure of the Swamp: The Screen Printed Rock Posters of Lindsey Kuhn
Austin's punk poster past, one chapter anyway, in 104 pages of Lindsey Kuhn
screens
SXSW FILM
The Freak Goes On
SXSW Film: an introduction
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Letting the Freak Brothers Flag Fly
Gilbert Shelton on his iconic comic's long, strange trip to the screen
BY MARGARET MOSER
Kismet in Kashmere
Thunder Soul brings the generations back together
BY KATE X MESSER
To Mars, With Love
Reinventing the romantic comedy, to infinity and beyond
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Quiet on the Set
Less talk, more action: Aaron Katz and Cris Lankenau sound off on Cold Weather
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Rant, Revisited
A new doc explores the life and times of underground comic Bill Hicks
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Jerry's Kids
A new generation dances Jerome Robbins' 'ballet in sneakers' to the big screen
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Bizarre Love Triangle
Bryan Poyser's comedy of catharsis, Lovers of Hate
BY MARC SAVLOV
Muhammad Was a Punk Rocker
How a fictional music genre blossomed into a real movement
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Riding the New Range
The Ride goes to the rodeo
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
We Are Having a Hootenanny
And Stephin Merritt is not the life of the party
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Country Bear Jamboree
Malcolm Ingram finds his people, and films 'em, too
BY KATE X MESSER
Artist in Exile
Can Bahman Ghobadi ever go home again?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Small Town, Big Find
The energy debate gets personal in Haynesville
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The Music in Moving Images
Texas Music Extravaganza and the works of Alan Govenar
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Lone Stars in Good Company
Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards 2010
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
TV Eye
Even if you're not a fan of war entertainments, The Pacific is a must-watch miniseries
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
Our Family Wedding
This is a formulaic wedding comedy about mismatched families, but thanks to several appealing performances, this rote exercise turns out better than most.
Remember Me
Robert Pattinson gets to sink his teeth into something more than posturing in this refreshingly rendered love story.
SXSW 2010 Film Festival
Have fun … and don't forget to turn your clocks ahead for daylight saving time on Saturday night.
Terribly Happy
This Danish import is a wonderfully unhinged and a painstakingly constructed meditation on a place where good and evil meet, mate, and make sour times sublime.
arts & culture
Wharton Dancer
The flourishing legacy of the late Lone Star dramatist Horton Foote
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Ellen Fullman
The former Austinite returns to turn Seaholm into a giant stringed instrument
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Night Owl & Early Bird
Big Medium's fundraiser has artists make art at night, sell it the next morning
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins'
Twin sisters revive the feisty Austin journalist in a new solo play in Philly
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Atheist
Joey Hood's embodiment of the title character gets you loving the lying bastard
Canción del Cuerpo
The UT-Colombian dance collaboration proved more about process than product
'America Letterpress: The Art of the Hatch Show Print'
This exhibit offers rooms of graphics to grab the eye and jolt the music-loving heart
columns
Page Two: And So It Begins
International spectacles of darkness and light
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: The Dragon on Sennett's Hill
Hollywood is an electric dragon
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
The Sherwood Forest Faire takes visitors back in time to a place where men jousted to resolve disputes and women let their cleavage bask in the sunlight
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
We are proud as peacocks to announce our new totally all-gay all-day Gay Place Web page
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion
Stephen's hair brushes up against a woman's breast, and he survives
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Shifting poles, spirit intake, and more
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: SXSW Film Festival Screening of 'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil'
Alamo Drafthouse at the Ritz, Friday, March 12, 2010
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Will Johnson's Baseball Paintings
Centro-matic frontman is talented painter as well
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Aztex gear up for Dynamo exhibition, broken legs in England, and more
