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Volume 35, Number 17
news
Choosing Detention Over Death
Refugees come to the U.S. seeking protection, find detention instead
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Point Austin: Getting From Here to There
Will the driver-eat-driver "free market" imposed by billionaire corporations rule the day?
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: A Week of Peace
One final tidbit for the year
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council’s Christmas List: Call It Incomplete
Some TNC issues still not settled
BY MICHAEL KING
Council Approves Three Homestead Preservation Districts
Impoverished parts of East, North, and Southeast Austin receive affordable-housing protection
BY MARY TUMA
Acevedo Issues Two Suspensions
One cop indefinitely suspended for lying
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Workers Defense Welcomes New Executive Director
Jose Garza takes the helm
BY AMY KAMP
Uber and Lyft Go to City Hall ?
Will Austin finally have permanent rules governing TNCs
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Austin Airport Keeps Growing
ABIA plans on adding new gates to meet demand
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Foster Kids' Rights Violated
Judge rules Texas' foster care system unconstitutional
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Abbott Appoints New Education Commissioner
Education advocates criticized Morath for attempting to quietly privatize Dallas ISD
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Merry Christmas, right-wingers, the Red Pope, and Jesus
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Kitchen Scales
The cost of Austin fine dining
BY RACHEL FEIT
Juniper
Attention to detail yields small pleasures
BY BRANDON WATSON
Open Secret
The not-so-hidden pleasures of dine
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The Take-Out
Remembering Congress Restaurant
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Folk Music Fireball!
Sixty years ago this month and next, Elvis Presley destroyed Austin
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback: The FAQs of Austin Music 2015
Q: Is Austin still the "live music capital of the world"?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Ted Hawkins
Cold & Bitter Tears: The Songs of Ted Hawkins
Brennen Leigh
Sings Lefty Frizzell
Dawn & Hawkes
Yours and Mine
Doug Moreland
Bring Back the Swing
Van Wilks
21st Century Blues
the Chumps
... Gimme Headache
Coma in Algiers
Happy Forever
Faces
1970-1975: You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything ...
screens
Collaborations of Love and Pain
Creative couple Ericka Marsalis-LaManna and Ray LaManna slay their demons
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Holiday TV Cheat Sheet
A multigenerational guide for the family
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Seasonal Cinema
Forget Die Hard, here's some holiday deep cuts
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
The Big Short
The financial meltdown of 2008 is treated with terrific comic spin
Carol
Everything about this Fifties lesbian romance is sublime
Concussion
Will Smith is the doctor who pioneered research into NFL head injuries
Daddy's Home
Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg vie for the love of their shared family
The Hateful Eight
Tarantino's latest opus screens in 70mm this week at two Austin venues
Joy
Jennifer Lawrence rises above family dysfunction in this comic biopic
arts & culture
Holmes for the Holiday
Spend the yuletide at 221-B Baker Street, where the library is stocked with new books about Sherlock
BY ROBERT FAIRES
J. Scott Brownlee's Requiem for Used Ignition Cap
J. Scott Brownlee's first full-length poetry collection brings him back to Llano, powerfully
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Doctuh Mistuh's Debbie Does Dallas: The Musical
This send-up of the 1978 blue movie serves up the cheese and camp for a load of giddy fun
"Alex Diamond: Wette" at Not Gallery
An unlikely combination of violence, action, and watercolor stand out in this solo show
columns
Oops!
Page Two: The Stories We Tell
"If you'll gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell"
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place: Merry Soxmas
Ebony Stewart holds a sock drive as the holidays are upon us
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Chicken Farm Art Center, San Angelo
San Angelo artist colony offers surprising shopping, B&B, and food in West Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Speculation
The facts are merely ornaments that adorn the Luv Doc's mighty Douglas fir of speculation
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
