Elisabet Ney Museum
Volume 39, Number 21
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news
How Does School District Policing Support Local Students?
To serve and protect
BY AUTUMN A. ARNETT
Public Notice: Department of Unintended Consequences
Could the new land development code actually make Austin less affordable?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Retaliation Reported Against Some Participating in APD Racism Investigation
Activists ask city to protect those speaking out against bigotry
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
With $4 Million in Debt Trudy’s Files for Bankruptcy
Company still hopes to “win back the goodwill of the customers”
BY KEVIN CURTIN
An End to Pot Prosecutions?
Council considers resolution to effectively decriminalize low-level possession
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Point in Time Count Looks to Give Overview of Homelessness in the U.S.
Service providers, volunteers gear up for annual PIT Count
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Election Ticker: From the Council Dais to Round Rock
Endorsements are rolling in for March 2020 Primary
BY MICHAEL KING
After 17 Years In Jail, Rosa Jimenez Awaits Retrial or Release
With stage 4 kidney disease, attorneys worry retrial will turn into a death sentence
BY BRANT BINGAMON
food
An Immigrant Family Brings Iranian Cuisine to Austin
Chef Amir Hajimaleki and his family honor the fundamentals of Persian cuisine in all six of their restaurants
BY JESSI CAPE
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 23, 2020
music
The Glam Punks of 70s Austin Get Up to Their Gypsy Tricks
The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part two: Glitter rock (1972-76) fades
BY TIM STEGALL
Faster Than Sound: Demons & Delights – The Art of Billie Buck
Local illustrator makes “Hot Soup” at the relocated Austin Museum of Popular Culture
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
In Production: A Trip to Rehab in Addict Named Hal
On-set for the upcoming feature from the front lines of addiction
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
American Hypocrisy Revealed in The Misogynists
“Self-righteous, smug and wicked.” Onur Tukel pulls no punches in this extended Q&A
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
ATX Film News: Zellweger, Linklater, Bujalski, Oh My!
Plus AFF gets an NEA grant and ... Cats 2?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd: The Choice
Immersive VR doc explores the right to choose abortion
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Clemency
The death penalty reconsidered from the eyes and heart of a warden
Color Out of Space
Lovecraft adaptation finally captures eldritch horror
Detective Chinatown 3
Massively successful Chinese action-comedy series heads to Japan
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie insists on ruining our fond memories of Snatch
The Last Full Measure
A true story of a hero denied recognition
arts & culture
"Piecing It Together" Gives Credit to Austin's First Graffiti Artists
The Mexican American Cultural Center exhibition captures the lore and legends of the local graffiti scene early on
BY RACHEL KOPER
Arts Reviews
Jarrott Productions' The Niceties
In this staging of Eleanor Burgess' drama, the frictions of American society catch fire in an academic's office
Austin Playhouse's Tiny Beautiful Things
There's excellent work in Austin Playhouse's production about Cheryl Strayed writing an advice column, but where's the humility?
"PrintAustin: The Contemporary Print" at Big Medium
To go or not to go: That's ultimately a stupid question
columns
Qmmunity: Vote for the Future You Want
Plus Magical Realness returns and a sneak peek at OUTsider 2020
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Interurban Railway Museum, Plano
Remembering the interurban rails
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Sea Monkey Foot Tattoo
There is no reason to stand on principle
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
comics
