Volume 34, Number 32
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news
Surfing the wave of gentrification on the Eastside
BY TONY CANTÚ
Our politics favors war as a first option
BY MICHAEL KING
Council staffs up, swings into committee action
BY NICK BARBARO
Duty now for the future
School board makes another attempt to define and create equitable schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Talking around barbecue smoke, staffing up, and more
BY MICHAEL KING
District 4 election contest arrives in court
BY MICHAEL KING
Lege walks the line between proliferating guns, protecting businesses
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Will third time be a charm for statewide texting ban?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Just because you have a right to a lawyer, doesn't mean that they have to be any good
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Rick Barnes exits, Shaka Smart takes the helm
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Wright House reopens; continues the fight against HIV alongside other local orgs
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Climate change denialism comes for natural history museums
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How a trailer becomes brick-and-mortar
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Austin food should go to bat
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Perhaps best without the "grille" part
BY BRANDON WATSON
Clearing the air
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Game changer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez prompts Corpus Christi's inaugural "Selena Fest"
BY KATE X MESSER
EDM breaks out, Agony Column returns
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Phases & Stages
To Pimp a Butterfly
Frank Erwin Center, April 4
Shadows in the Night
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
No Cities to Love
screens
Ryan Gosling's directorial debut melds fantasy and realism
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Awards-sweeping "World of Tomorrow" is Don Hertzfeldt's first digital film
BY MARC SAVLOV
Is attempting to hide baldness on your dating profile a losing proposition or par for the course?
Film Reviews
Anton Yelchin and Vincent Vincent D'Onofrio star in this contemporary Western
The director of The Saratov Approach is back with another true Mormon epic
The “world’s first Iranian feminist vampire spaghetti western” is a spooky doozy
Being an adolescent girl of color in the working-class suburbs of Paris is no easy job
It's the latest romancer from Nicholas Sparks' by-the-numbers playbook
Ryan Gosling's controversial debut as a writer/director finally arrives
This doc calls out the spokesmen for Big Tobacco, Big Pharma, and Big Oil, as well as the tactics they use to blur the facts
Telugu family drama.
Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts suffer a midlife funk in Noah Baumbach's latest
This Hungarian film is the Battleship Potemkin of canine mutiny
Helen Mirren plays an aging Jew who wants to win back a painting looted from her family by the Nazis
arts & culture
Zach Theatre gives Robert Schenkkan's All the Way its Texas premiere on LBJ's home turf
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Finally, a Traffic Jam we can enjoy, thanks to composer Steve Parker
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Arts Reviews
The hero of this Theatre en Bloc premiere wrestles with ethical issues while working for FDR
The ensemble's treatment of Schubert was like a ride along a winding road in a finely tuned Porsche
"Witness" brings the Civil Rights Movement to the Blanton Museum of Art
columns
Selena's birthday week is Dreaming of You
BY KATE X MESSER
Wildlife viewing platform give a bird's eye view of Warren Lake
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
You are not the bait. You are the shark.
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE