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Urban Rail: Which Way to Connect?
Project Connect recommends a rail corridor – and transit advocates board opposing trains
BY MAC MCCANN AND MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Lehmberg's Scarlet Letter
County Attorney Escamilla has disgraced his office
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This – Poor People to AE: We're Not Deadbeats
New ordinance gives needy ratepayers a payment plan they can work with
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Brown and Eckhardt Make Some Distinctions
What's the difference between the Dem Travis County Judge candidates? It all comes down to personality.
BY AMY SMITH
Parks Board Supports Shrinking Off-Leash Area
Suggested plan would require new Downtown housing to provide dog play areas
BY AMY SMITH
Candidate Filings
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
ACC Throws Book at Affordable Care Act
Administrators trim adjunct faculty hours to avoid providing health coverage
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD: Carstarphen on the Hot Seat
Trustees discuss superintendent's future
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Lehmberg NOT Removed: Déjà Vu All Over Again
Long list of dignitaries testify in defense of D.A.
BY MICHAEL KING
Council: Dem Ol' Railroad Blues
City takes on Project Connect but punts on Auditorium Shores
BY MICHAEL KING
2013 Politics Gift Guide Part II
Ideas for the armchair pundit
The Hightower Report
Congressional victims of alcoholism ... and hypocrisyitis
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Drop In, Have Drinks, Hang Out
New neighborhood hot spots
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
From Unknown to Throne
Sugar and spice from Austin's Jelly Queens
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-O-File
In-N-Out has landed
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Dec. 13-19
music
Sad, Bad Santa
Wild Bill's 'Honky Tonk Holidaze' – 'Bad Santa' gone Cheech & Chong
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Rock & Roll DVDs
Human Rights Concerts
Released! The Human Rights Concerts 1986–1998
Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen
Crossfire Hurricane, Springsteen & I
Black Sabbath, Dio
Live... Gathered in Their Masses, Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in Philly 1986
Gourds
All the Labor
Levon Helm
Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm
Big Star
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Roy Orbison
The Last Concert, Black & White Night
Graham Parker & the Rumour
This Is Live
Stooges, Ron Asheton
Tribute to Ron Asheton
Jimi Hendrix
Hear My Train A Comin'
Eric Clapton
Crossroads Guitar Festival
US Festival
'83 US Festival: Days 1-3
screens
Gaming by the Numbers
Who needs reviews when we have pure data?
BY JAMES RENOVITCH AND SHELLEY HIAM
Ready and Abel
Drafthouse Films unleashes Abel Ferrara's 'Ms. 45' on Austin and NYC
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Superior in nearly all ways to its predecessor, this second film in the prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a welcome surprise.
Out of the Furnace
The writer/director of Crazy Heart returns with an all-star cast for his sophomore effort, which takes place amid the rusted-out lives of America's steel belt.
arts & culture
All Over Creation: Nativity
A new musical by the 'Urinetown' team is born on the 40 Acres, and the chorus line craves bra-a-ains
BY ROBERT FAIRES
La Pastorela 2013: A Sheperdela's Storia
Time again for the shepherds' quest for the Christ child, with old songs and new jokes
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The North Plan
Street Corner Arts' dark comedy stumbles on its way to the revolution, but the show is worth seeing
A Christmas Story
Zach Theatre faithfully re-creates the beloved holiday film onstage, though it lacks part of the original's shine
The Undoing of Nonet
This unsettling dance by Kathy Dunn Hamrick seemed a companion piece to her shattering work, The Big Small
columns
The Good Eye
Your new style columnist, alas, is not the world's most stylish woman
BY AMY GENTRY
Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December
Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Gay Place
Sun Ra dancer and vocalist signs her book and does a reading
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Belly up to the longest bar in Texas at the Esquire Tavern in San Antonio
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Really Rude
You friends might just be self-absorbed assholes
BY THE LUV DOC
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Hornography
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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