Volume 33, Number 33
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news
What life in 'the 44' says about the two worlds of Austin
BY SAM RAMOS
Considering the LBJ legacy
BY MICHAEL KING
The fight to save the home of the woman who saved Clarksville
BY AMY SMITH
Austin Water officials agree something's got to give
BY AMY SMITH
With this week's Council late start, what will happen to Citizens Communication?
BY MICHAEL KING
BY NICK BARBARO
Attorney general in hot water over school plan
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Is the open carry movement going off half-cocked?
BY BRANDON WATSON
D.A. argues innocence can not be declared in civil court
BY JORDAN SMITH
Jose Villegas: A retardation claim
BY JORDAN SMITH
How simple is Rep. Paul Ryan?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How Thai Fresh accidentally became a mecca for gluten-free sweets
BY KATE THORNBERRY
East Side King has gone from a backyard trailer to street-food empire in five short years
BY MELANIE HAUPT
The fifth annual East Austin Urban Farm Tour celebrates local farmers and chefs
BY ANNA TOON
Where there's 'Smoke' ...
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
April 12-17
music
Austin's newest radio frequency, Fringe
BY KEVIN CURTIN
OLD SETTLER'S MUSIC FESTIVAL 2014 PREVIEW
Sarah Jarosz returns to her roots – the Old Settler's Music Festival
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
OSMF preview
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Old Settler's Music Festival Record Reviews
Black Beehive
Memories and Moments
Bad Self Portraits
Tonight, Tomorrow and Yesterday
Lickety Split
screens
Meet the homeless man who became a movie star
BY JOE O'CONNELL
The 'Oculus' team on taking a ghost story to the big screen
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour soars into the Paramount this weekend
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
This Hindi ghost returns in a sequel to settle some scores on Earth.
Baseball season arrives with Kevin Costner playing a football GM. Blasphemy!
The Kentucky Derby-winning horse Mine That Bird sprints to glory in this equine biopic.
Nic Cage and David Gordon Green are at the top of their games in this Larry Brown story, while young Tye Sheridan is an actor who's already achieved greatness.
A dark force lurks in the looking glass in this paranormal outing that's a notch above, but barely.
In this documentary, six scientists seek the mysteries of the universe through the launch of the Large Hadron Collider.
Telugu romantic action drama.
This breathtaker is a relentless wall of action filmmaking that sets a new, bloody standard.
arts & culture
The 10th Fusebox Festival gets off to an electric start with 'Mozart Requiem Undead'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
This is not your standard music festival – you'll hear sounds you've never heard before
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Art Alliance Austin's annual spring art fair brings art to the streets around City Hall
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD
Arts Reviews
You wouldn't know this Sondheim musical was a legendary flop from the impressive staging at St. Ed's
Different Stages captures the small-town feel in Preston Jones' Texas drama, but the play's age is showing
Sondheim's black comic musical about presidential killers and would-be killers gets a fantastic staging by Soubrette
columns
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Punk rock San Antonio takes Austin in an ugly show of loveliness
Sand castles come in many forms at the Texas SandFest in Port Aransas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
You call that a small house? This is a small house!
BY AMY GENTRY
Sometimes it's hard to know when a woman is just begging for it
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT