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April Fooles
Our nominees for Capitol expendables
Point Austin: Capitol Craziness
April Fools' can't compete with this year's legislative follies
BY MICHAEL KING
City Hall Hustle: Recycling an Old Issue
Council weighs giving one company the entire heap
BY WELLS DUNBAR
Headlines
Naked City
Res Publica
Citizens' calendar, March 31-April 7
Quote of the Week
Final Blow: AISD Approves Job Cuts
Days numbered for hundreds of teachers, staff
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
LEGELAND
State Cuts Hitting the Bone
The tolls of a take-no-prisoners budget year
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bill of the Week
Making progress toward a Flying Spaghetti Monster Studies department
BY LEE NICHOLS
Concealed Carry on Campus?
Carry on campus bill spurs friendly fire concerns
BY JORDAN SMITH
Might Makes Voter ID
Voter ID passes
BY LEE NICHOLS
Urban Rail Public Meetings
City seeks input on proposed rail project
BY LEE NICHOLS
MetroRail vs. Pickup Truck
MetroRail made it 367 days without a crash
BY LEE NICHOLS
Council Candidates Get Neighborly Grilling
Candidates field questions from Austin Neighborhoods Council
BY WELLS DUNBAR
The Hightower Report
Don't Mess With Librarians; and Rising Economy, Downward Mobility
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Meat of the Matter
The best of the 26th annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Four words: Texas straight bourbon whiskey
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Event Menu
Foodie events for April 2-5
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Dome Sweet Dome
How do you contain an international music festival? Build a dome, and they will calm.
BY AUDRA SCHROEDER
Off the Record
Sifting through the Austin sound ordinance, paying final respects to Pinetop Perkins, and catching up with Explosions in the Sky
BY AUSTIN POWELL
Live Shots
screens
Senegal's Père du Cinéma
AFS Essential Cinema explores the films of Ousmane Sembène
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
If You Build It ...
Turk Pipkin's continuing adventures in making the world a better place
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Lovers, the Dreamers, et al.
An April shower of Muppets programming at the Alamo Ritz
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Screens Reviews
Topsy-Turvy
Notes on an Englishman
TV Eye
In praise of TV that takes its time
BY BELINDA ACOSTA
Film Reviews
The Concert
A ragtag symphony orchestra travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses in this film that won a César award for its music.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules
Wimpy kid, wimpy movie.
Game
Four strangers are summoned to a rich man's island in this Bollywood thriller.
Hop
Some films are saccharine, but Hop is pure sugar – processed sugar.
Insidious
Insidious, from the original Saw team, lacks thrills and originality.
The King's Speech
This PG-13 remix (of a film we liked considerably upon its initial release) does nothing more or less than mute and/or modify the king's utterance of the four-letter vulgarity that earned the film its initial R rating.
The Music Never Stopped
After 20 years and a loss of memory, a father and son learn to reconnect over the music of the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan.
Of Gods and Men
This Cannes Grand Prix winner is a spellbinding tale of Trappist monks amid Algerian civil chaos and finding purpose in faith.
Rubber
Rubber is a movie about a sentient, telekinetic, and homicidal tire on a rampage.
Source Code
These strangers on a train are players in a gripping science fiction roundelay.
Sucker Punch
In this visually compelling but narratively bankrupt action fantasy, an institutionalized young girl finds escape through her vivid imagination.
arts & culture
A Maestro Prepares
Before the baton goes up, conductors have to know the score – every note of it
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Art Galleries
A pair of new visual-arts showplaces gives the art of the camera its due
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Play Me, I'm Yours'
Giving 'keys to the city' a whole new meaning
BY ROBERT FAIRES
April = Art
Festivals, galleries, and museums join forces to celebrate visual art all month long
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Culture Flash!
Forklift Kickstarts Trash 2, and Austin artists get to hit the boards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Story Seekers
For their debut, the Exchange Artists have created an engaging fairy tale of a show
Much Ado About Nothing
The Present Company's debut with an open-air staging of the Bard's comedy is magical
Studio Theater Project
The mixed program offers a rich variety of dance that defies easy summation
columns
Page Two: High Dive
As they abandon their platform, Republicans threaten to take government down with them
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
After a Fashion
Elizabeth Taylor: heavenly star
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place
Sometimes Gay Place even overwhelms itself
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Caddo Lake State Park is one of the most unique environments in the state, and it has a beauty all its own
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Orchidometer, polystyrene cups, Liz Taylor, etc.
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc Recommends: Dane Sterling, Miss Leslie & the Juke Jointers
Little Longhorn Saloon, Friday, April 1, 2011
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Texas Football Spring Jamboree
Fans afforded chance to purchase player-used lockers
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
It's the frantic season for soccer fans (and players)
