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Trickle-Down Theorynew

Colorado Springs posits that giving big water users a price break will help the whole community thrive.

Colorado Springs Independent | Pam Zubeck | 02-02-2012 | Policy Issues

Frank Turner: The Second Three Yearsnew

British folk-punk singer Frank Turner is gunning for the mantle occupied by the late, revered Joe Strummer, and the restless elder statesman Billy Bragg.

Tucson Weekly | Eric Swedlund | 02-02-2012 | Reviews

Eagle vs. Sharknew

Grooveshark gets hooked by a $17 billion lawsuit — and brings the national debate over copyright infringement to Central Florida.

Orlando Weekly | Erin Sullivan | 02-01-2012 | Music

Genre Bendersnew

For the Electric Blankets, every new song is like a beloved new child.

Tucson Weekly | Eric Swedlund | 02-01-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: electric blankets

Actor Jason Mewes on podcasting with Kevin Smith, beating addictionnew

At 37 years old, actor Jason Mewes, best known as the talkative half of the drug-dealing duo Jay and Silent Bob (Clerks, Chasing Amy), admits he no longer has the stamina to rollerblade long distances or the metabolism to scarf down pizza without remorse like he could in his 20s.

San Antonio Current | Kiko Martínez | 02-01-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Kevin Smith, Kevin Smith: Live From Behind

Chuuwee & Sundown's The Millennium Falconnew

Instead of sitting on a pile of Sundown's emailed beats, Chuuwee decided to catch a flight to North Carolina for an 11-day, 12-song recording spree.

INDY Week | Eric Tullis | 02-01-2012 | Reviews

Tags: Chuuwee & Sundown

Predicting the Super Bowl, Alt-Weekly Stylenew

We made our Super Bowl predictions by consulting with oddskeepers in Vegas, a local numerologist and five meerkats from the Indianapolis Zoo.

NUVO | Kate Shoup | 02-01-2012 | Sports

Tags: New England Patriots, Super Bowl XLVI, New York Giants

Justin Robinson & the Mary Annettes' Bones for Tindernew

Robinson's gothic, chamber-hop formula works tremendously on Bones for Tinder, the first full-length following last year's EP Precious Blood, and proves he can move freely without his more famous band. (Five Head Entertainment)

INDY Week | Spencer Griffith | 02-01-2012 | Reviews

What San Antonio Auteurs Have in Store for 2012new

These filmmakers are busy people. Some do music videos, some do shorts, and some do commercials.

San Antonio Current | Enrique Lopetegui | 02-01-2012 | Movies

Tags: Wolf, Ya'Ke Smith

Sn Antonio chefs honored by StarChefsnew

Food & Wine has good reason to come to Texas (as they announced they will with a fest in April in, yawn, Austin) — we have so many great chefs in this area. StarChefs.com agrees.

San Antonio Current | Lauren W. Madrid | 02-01-2012 | Food+Drink

Tags: san antonio chefs, StarChefs

2012 Style Updatenew

I met Sofia Davis, personal shopper and New York Fashion Week stylist, to talk shop — shopping, that is. Specifically, I wanted to know what to wear in the new year.

San Antonio Current | Desiree Prieto | 02-01-2012 | Fashion

George Rodriguez lays out his go-local approach for the Tea Partynew

The mostly elderly, mostly white Tea Partiers inside the Northside sports bar sit with eyes trained on the wall of TV screens as a conference call organized by right-wing lobbying group the American Action Network is spinning rebuttals by an assortment of GOP all-stars and conservative thought-leaders to President Obama's "liberal tax-and-spend agenda" over the bar's loud speakers.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 02-01-2012 | Politics

Tags: san antonio tea party

Jesse Beaman gaining international audience without traditional album-makingnew

In 2009, Sufjan Stevens told Paste Magazine, "I no longer have faith in the album anymore. … Can't an album be eternity, or can't it be five minutes?"

San Antonio Current | Adam Villela Coronado | 02-01-2012 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: My Empty Phantom, Jesse Beaman