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news
Point Austin: Happy New Year?!?
Looking forward ... 2020 could go either way
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Ho, Ho, Holidaze Continues
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
An “Awesome First Year” for Austin's Office of Police Oversight
OPO fields more than 800 incoming contacts – comments, complaints, and kudos – in 2019
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Lawsuit Seeks to Block Converting Microtel for Permanent Supportive Housing for City's Homeless
One project stalls, another moves along
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Local and State Election Ticker
Mamas Walking, Mamas Voting Edition
BY MICHAEL KING
East Austin Wellness Clinic Offers Discounts to Austin's Creatives and Service Industry
METSI Care rethinks affordable health care
BY KEVIN CURTIN
The Beto-Castro-Meter Comes to an End
Both Texans have left the Democratic candidate building
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
Texas-Based Restaurant Chains Worth Your Money
If you're going to eat at a chain, it might as well be a Texas chain
BY JESSI CAPE AND ROD MACHEN
Cruelty-Free Shop Offers Totally Vegan Tattoos
Common Difference is revolutionizing animal-free art
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 3, 2019
music
Faster Than Sound: Peacemakers Cap a Decade at Evangeline Cafe
Evangeline Cafe keeps rolling out South Austin roots, the Coconut Club brings dance and DJs Downtown, and the newly improved Austin Music Poll drops
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Kinky Friedman
Resurrection
The Channel
Multi Goods & Services
Martian Warlords
Area 69
Mike McCoy, Trompe-l'œil
Eyein' Lies
Nowherebound
Mourning Glory
The Beaumonts, Hickoids
This Is Austin, All the World's a Dressing Room
Charlie Mars
Live at the Saxon Pub With David Grissom
screens
Wrestling Legend Dustin Rhodes Keeps Steppin'
The Austin native continues a family legacy with a new TV show and a revived career
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cinematic Documentary Making Waves Might Get Loud
AFS screening the story of the people who bring sound to the movies
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Adoring
Love and pets in this Chinese ensemble rom-com
Cunningham
Remarkable record of the middle years of the choreographer who rejected labels
Ip Man 4: The Finale
The adventures of the martial arts legend come to an end ... possibly.
arts & culture
ISHIDA Dance Makes Its Debut
A world-class contemporary dance troupe for Austin makes its first moves
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
"The Sorcerer's Burden: Contemporary Art and the Anthropological Turn"
This ambitious exhibition reveals inquiring anthropologists within today’s artists
"The New Flesh" at ICOSA Gallery
It’s a body of work, but the anatomy isn’t necessarily of this Earth
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman
Sixties Baltimore is unveiled in this new crime novel
columns
Qmmunity: A Decade of Austin’s Queer History
Plus Iron Bear says farewell to Eighth Street and Joterias returns!
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Bob “Daddy-O” Wade
A tour of dearly departed Bob “Daddy-O” Wade’s art
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Bigger Check
A simple "I love you" phone call would have sufficed
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Overzealous debt collection – what are my rights?
BY LUKE ELLIS
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Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
A Legend Passes On; The Legacy Continues
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
