Volume 36, Number 21
ON THE COVER:
news
Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?
BY MARY TUMA
This week's marches begin a long and difficult resistance
BY MICHAEL KING
Plus: Calling all filmmakers, landscape architects, dog & car lovers
BY NICK BARBARO
They really said that?
"We can make the process more efficient and effective”
BY MICHAEL KING
NAKED CITY
Providers say Medicaid exclusion would be "devastating"
BY MARY TUMA
HUD will provide $5.2 million to the city
BY SARAH MARLOFF
More millennials commit suicide than any other age group
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Long-awaited land development code proposal expected Jan. 30
BY CALEB PRITCHARD
"Texas Privacy Act" isn't about privacy – it's about transphobia
BY MARY TUMA
State rep faces 15 counts relating to abuse of office
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas' death chamber is only heating up
BY SARAH MARLOFF
What is Gov. Greg Abbott trying to do to our Constitution?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How a red sauce town boiled over
BY DAN GENTILE
Get adventurous with your first meal of the day
BY EMILY BEYDA
music
From sexual assault to all-female bills, women musicians face myriad issues in the live music capital
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Financial duress buckles South Austin listening institution
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin author on his new haunted house movie
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Boy meets monster, adventure ensues
A former actor finds faith in his hometown
A shady cop searches for his kidnapped son
Another twisted (and twisty) offering from M. Night Shyamalan
Bening shines in this tender, heartfelt film
arts & culture
Now accepting your stories by snail mail or – wait for it – online
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers use Damon and Affleck to create a hilarious case study in how Hollywood murders friendship
Steven Dietz’s rumination on a great love lost lacks some of the vivid passion it needs in this staging
The Polish artist’s industrial-material sculptures at the Contemporary Austin capture the physicality of our society, the rigidity of our order
columns
Saying 'Eff You' to the new administration by raising money for women's organizations
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Small cabins on Lake Buchanan provide the basic comforts of home
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Until you can get to that forest where the tree falls and no one hears it
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS
BY JEN SORENSEN