AFS Cinema
John Anderson
news
The Historical Looking-Glass
A Clarksville photo gallery
BY MONICA RIESE
Point Austin: Déjà Vu
Austin's perennial SMD hobby approaches another reprise
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Think Trees
Margret Hofmann's spirit lives within Austin's urban forest
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Civics 101
Precinct 3 Race Likely a Rematch
The Precinct 3 primary looks to be a preview of a fall rematch
BY MIKE KANIN
Public Hearing: Rate Your Rate Increase
AE takes another stab, with middling results
BY AMY SMITH
Convictions Stand, Despite Eviction
After a night of police drama, Occupiers regroup
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Grading the City's New Website: Incomplete
The city launches its new website, trailing bells, whistles, and bugs
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A Plea for 'Balanced Density'
West Campus neighborhood challenges new duplex development
BY AMY SMITH
Abbott Maps Meet Minority Opposition
AG throws oppressive interim maps into the ring to meet Feb. 6 deadline
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hightower Report
Tech jobs need to come home
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
Quote of the Week
food
Love Doesn't Have To Hurt
Valentine's alternatives for the organizationally challenged
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Gifts for Life's Every Occasion: Delysia Chocolatier
Delysia engineers specialized chocolate delights
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Wines for lovers
BY WES MARSHALL
Food-o-File
Conferences for the cuisine-minded
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
A loaf of bread, a bottle of wine, some foodie events, and thou
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Live Forever
What some locals considered Cotton Mather's sophomore slump, 1997's Kontiki, may have been the only thing that Oasis' Gallagher brothers ever agreed on
BY GREG BEETS
1, 2, Tres, Cuatro: The Name Game
What's in a name? Plenty if you're a WIMP or WEENIE!
BY MARGARET MOSER
Reissues
Throbbing Gristle
20 Jazz Funk Greats, The Second Annual report, D.o.A., The Third & Final Report, Heathen Earth, Greatest Hits
The Smashing Pumpkins
Gish Deluxe Edition, Siamese Dream Deluxe Edition
Takeshi Terauchi
Nippon Guitars: Instrumental Surf, Eleki & Tsugaru Rock 1966-1974
MonoMono, Joni Haastrup
Give the Beggar a Chance, The Dawn of Awakening, Wake Up Mind
screens
Sleight of Hand
How filmmaker Yen Tan fell into a gig selling other people's movies
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Tweaking the Model, if not the Mission
Alamo Slaughter Lane set to open mid-March
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Many Lives of an Incorporeal Icon
A new 'Beetlejuice' sequel may be in development, but Warren Skaaren already pondered 'Beetlejuice in Love' two decades ago
BY LEAH CHURNER
Film Reviews
Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu
This Bollywood romantic comedy tells the story a pair who accidentally get married after a night of carousing.
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
Michael Caine zips around on a giant bumblebee and Dwayne Johnson is a pectoral spectacle in this family-friendly, fantasy-island adventure tale.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Animation
Be ready for your office Oscar pool when it rolls around later this month.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2012: Live Action
Good things come in small packages.
Pina
Wim Wenders celebrates the great, innovative, German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch – in commanding 3-D, no less.
Safe House
This hectic, deftly edited, and unexpectedly bracing thriller stars Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds.
A Separation
Nominee for a Best Foreign Language Oscar, this Iranian film is a smart, unusual, and highly involving story about making moral choices in the absence of villains.
Star Wars: Episode One – The Phantom Menace
It's time to find out if a 3-D lightsaber is any more effective than 1999's 2-D model.
arts & culture
All Over Creation: Unexpected Losses
Sudden deaths make us stop, but they should also make us think
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Diana Al-Hadid
The artist's VAC installation creates an afterimage for the afterworld
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
Arcadia
A magnificent-looking and intelligent staging of Tom Stoppard's masterpiece
Antarctica
Who knew Antarctica was really made of cheese?
Moulin Rouge: The Ballet
Truth was stranger – and more interesting – than the fiction in this Canadian dance
columns
Page Two: Drifters
Insomnia, restlessness, and poetic triumphs of free association
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: It Came From the White House
Obama and a majority of Democratic legislators support the NDAA, allowing the arrest of U.S. citizens without a warrant
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar takes on Jean Paul Gaultier and wins
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Gay Place: Boys vs. Girls
Feeling left out? The unicorn can guide you on your LGBTQuest
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Doc's Hot Links in Gilmer make sausages considered an East Texas delicacy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Looks like that John McClane is in a heap of trouble this time
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Teenage Drifters and Truck Stop Prostitutes
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Championship Motor Spectacular
Monster truck show and tractor pull
BY MARK FAGAN
Soccer Watch
Kylie Doniak in medically-induced coma following hit-and-run, and more
