Hyperreal Film Club
news
The Next Round of School Reform
AISD focuses again on Eastside schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Then There's This: Hard, Coal Reality
Breaking up with Fayette Power is hard to do, AE officials say
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Civics 101
Quote of the Week
AISD Going Out on a Limb
Single-sex schools aren't all they're cracked up to be
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Club 'Stacking' = Democratic Drama
Fairness of endorsement process in dispute
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
The Endorsement Race: Andy Brown, Gómez, Ko Clean Up
Andy Brown, Gómez, Ko clean up
BY BRANDON WATSON
The 'People's Court'
Pro-pot candidate enters JP race
BY JORDAN SMITH
Is the City Trying to Bust the Firefighters Union?
Minority candidate hiring is still a hot-button issue
BY JORDAN SMITH
Council Set to Tackle 'Stealth Dorms' Next Week
No meeting this week, but plenty of contention next week
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
From Russia, With Love
More than 20 years after the Soviet Union fell, Austin finally experiences some culinary glasnost
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Harmonic Convergence
Old and new Austin make sweet music at Austin Land & Cattle Company
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Plight in Flight
Can Austin save the migratory monarch by planting pit-stop snacks?
BY JESSI CAPE
Food-o-File
More openings on the horizon
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Feb. 6-13
music
Sonobeat Records
Late-Sixties local label Sonobeat – the missing link between the Vulcan Gas Company and Stubb's?
BY MARGARET MOSER
Playback: Unlocking Infest
Infest lockout, Austin Psych Fest lineup part two, Aaron Behrens' sweet new deal, and more
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Jazz Mills
EP 1
Simple Circuit
Simple Circuit
Kellye Gray
And, They Call Us Cowboys: The Texas Music Project
Phranchyze
3
Elizabeth McQueen, Johnny Dango, Joel Laviolette & Rattletree
The Laziest Remix, Johnny Dango's(Sort of) Nice Dreams, Joy
Gleeson
Gleeson II
Scott H. Biram
Nothin' but Blood
screens
Field Trip
Ben Wheatley's historical horror tackles the English Civil War
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Layers of Change
Story-centric documentary reveals the power of a child's vision
BY JESSI CAPE
A Not-So-Sunny Philadelphia
AFS Doc Nights presents 'Let the Fire Burn'
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
A Field in England
The most enticingly original film to come out of the UK this year is told in crisp, trippy, black and white.
Gloria
A middle-aged Chilean woman meets life as it comes.
Hasee Toh Phasee
Bollywood romantic comedy.
The LEGO Movie
Let's face it: We're putty in these things' hands.
The Monuments Men
George Clooney's star-studded account of the Allied rescue of the stolen art treasures of WW2 has many great scenes but no center.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Animation
Five works of superior, ambitious animation.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program A
Three remarkable stories of people's reaction to oppression.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Documentaries, Program B
A man carves majestic caves in sandstone rocks, and a prison hospice sees a lifer to the end.
Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action
Short films come in nice packages.
That Awkward Moment
Former High School Musical heartthrob Zac Efron stars in this dude-centric romantic comedy.
arts & culture
Common Purpose
Insights from Common House arts space
BY SETH ORION SCHWAIGER
'The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart'
The National Theatre of Scotland is back with this devilish mix of music and the supernatural
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Studio Visits: Lee Webster
In an old rec room, Lee Webster still animates by hand
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
The Bowie Project: A Rock & Roll Soundpainting
This music/dance/theatre collaboration wove together David Bowie's work with his life and the lives of others
Girls Gone West
A spring break art pilgrimage is ably deconstructed by five young artists
Tosca
Austin Lyric Opera brought all the power in Puccini's opera to bear in a staging that pitted heaven against hell
columns
Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago
On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law: The People's Law School – Learn the Law at No Cost
People's Law School
BY LUKE ELLIS
The Good Eye: Of Pomp and Pompadours
Beautiful people at the launch of slow-fashion brand Essential Oliver
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place
Old friends bring new art to new gallery, and it's Q as all get-out
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
New Orleans spring festival season is all about music and food
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Sweaty, Half-Naked Humping
To tell or not to tell?
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
