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All Aboard the Soccer Train!
Major League Soccer and urban rail take city by storm
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Incarceration Nation
The U.S. prison system has exploded beyond all reason
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Montopolis Is Cool With Uncool
East Austin neighborhood aims to fend off gentrification
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
ACA Deadline Monday: Getting 'Out of the Box'
Advocacy organizations address lack of education
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Council: Have Ears, Will Hear
City gets 'Central Corridor Update' from Project Connect
BY MICHAEL KING
Follow That Bus: More Changes at Cap Met
An additional MetroRapid route and an end to buses on Congress planned
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Online Privacy: Technical, Political, or Both?
When it comes to encryption, there's solidarity in numbers
BY MAC MCCANN
Twin Liquors: TABC on a 'Witch Hunt'
Temporary agreement postpones TRO and depositions until court date set
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
'Bonus babies' make a huge haul
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Chain Gangs
Torchy's Tacos and Verts Kebap: two case studies in culinary expansion
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Cold Comfort
Little Barrel and Brown is still warming up
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Picnic Perfect
Second annual Children's Picnic and Real Food Fair to celebrate local food
BY ANNA TOON
Food-o-File
More than A-OK
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Mar. 29-April 1
music
Eruption
Church on Monday guitarist Jake Langley transcends jazz
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback: Taco Queen Upgrades
Maria Taco Xpress keeps up with South Lamar, Moistboyz debut Dean Ween in Austin, and SXSW footnotes
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Something Weird This Way Comes
Alamo Drafthouse pays tribute to Mike Vraney
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Players' Guide
Adam Saltsman's new studio, plus a suite on Steam and more
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Cesar Chavez
The United Farm Workers leader and civil rights activist who managed to get housewives to stop buying grapes is the subject of this biopic.
God's Not Dead
A college kid faces flunking out if he can't prove to his classmates and atheist professor that God exists.
Legend
Telugu action film about a popular hero of the people.
The Lunchbox
This off-Bollywood charmer is a light-hearted drama about two lonely souls who forge a friendship when they start passing written notes.
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1
Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.
Sabotage
Ugly and mean-spirited, this Schwarsenegger action film starts off badly, and gets dumber as it progresses.
Teenage
Beguiling and maddening in its approach, this odd doc looks at the relatively recent invention of the teenager.
arts & culture
Park Benched
The Cost of Art, Part II: Without enough buyers for art, local galleries like Tiny Park can't make the rent
BY SETH ORION SCHWAIGER
'The Gospel at Colonus'
After 17 years, Zach Theatre revives this spirited mix of soulful music and Greek tragedy
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Moon Trees': Erica Botkin
The legacy of NASA's moon trees is documented at Co-Lab Projects' Downtown venue
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Austin Symphony Orchestra: Copland and Mexico
ASO took its audience across the border to let us 'see' our southern neighbor in music
'Meine Karten Sind Durchlöchert: My Maps Are Full of Holes'
Randi Renate Mabry's installation unearths the hidden past of her family's German heritage
columns
The Good Eye
Old Bohemia
BY AMY GENTRY
Day Trips
Fannin Battleground site lives in infamy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place: LGBTQmunity
Open your eyes to trans visibility
Oops!
The Luv Doc: Being There
All fizz and no pop
BY THE LUV DOC
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