Here's a round-up of our favorite posts for late January/first days of February:

• Last week, the Chronic pointed out the irony that the town's famous vegan firefighters are down the street from Bert's Bar-B-Q (where the fire took place a couple weeks ago). We're sure the vegans would have come to the rescue of the Austin institution if their dispatcher had told them in time. . . but that's a whole other post.
  
• The Classes in Town blog is taking off, and they need your input as far as classes available in Austin.
  
• Chris at infobong mulls over music in coffeeshops.
  
• Celluloid Eyes posts on recommended documentaries featuring the late greats Ann Richards and Molly Ivins.
  
• Matthew O. eats at Musashino and gives his review a punny title.

Random Favorite Blog Site of the Week: We strongly recommend visiting The Texas Observer's collection of tributes to Molly Ivins, including such notables as Dave Barry, Bill Moyers, even "Shrub" and "Gov. Goodhair."

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