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When Confessions Prove False
Jonathan Holt told police he'd murdered his wife. But he hadn't killed her, and the cops should have known it.
BY JORDAN SMITH
Point Austin: ALEC by Another Name
Corporate advocacy group looks to deepen local influence
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Grandfathered Death Star
The Vested Rights Ordinance is new, but is it improved?
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: The Budget Warms Up ... and Ott's Under Fire
With substantive postponements, this week's Council meeting may bring fireworks
BY MICHAEL KING
Election Info for the Rest of Travis County
ACC Faculty Pitches Staff Stability Plan
Two-part plan proposes creating 100 new full-time positions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Piper Kerman to Speak at CARY Benefit
Memoirist will relay 'the real story' of her year in a women's federal penitentiary
BY AMY SMITH
Irreconcilable Differences: The Austin Institute Tackles Divorce
The Austin Institute tackles divorce
BY BRANDON WATSON
Council Weighs Film Incentives Deal
City looks to keep film and digital production inside city limits
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Florida official can't seem to get the hang of running elections
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Seduced by Austin
Jesse Herman – hospitality pro, mover and shaker with the Austin Food & Wine Festival – is making his mark on his adopted town
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
A Hip Girl Hops Into the Kitchen
DIY maven Kate Payne applies her prowess to cooking
BY JESSI CAPE
Jezebel's Friendly Little Sister Made Us Feel Right at Home
Tapasitas offers a tasty, reimagined bar menu and great cocktails
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-O-File
National and local talent converge at the Austin Food & Wine Festival
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Playback: Festival Buzz
Festival, Texas – spring edition
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Chairman of the Board
Antone's Blue Monday boss Derek O'Brien keeps the music alive and blue
BY MARGARET MOSER
Texas Platters
B.E. Godfrey, Grizzly Adams Family, Lost & Nameless, The Big Gun Show
Wild Desperation, Drunkalong Singalogue, Empty Spaces, The Big Gun Show
Black Pistol Fire
Hush or Howl
The Clouds Are Ghosts
Fractures
Ssleeperhold
Ruleth
Symbol
Online Architecture
Scan Hopper
Mariana Bridges
Demitasse
Blue Medicine
Tee-Double
The Home Town Kid
screens
First Quarter
Bradley Jackson and Andrew Disney kick off a festival run of their new comedy about the importance of intramurals
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Have Car, Will Travel for Film
Four Texas film festivals on the not-so-distant horizon
Film Reviews
Alan Partridge
Steve Coogan’s comical egomaniac Alan Partridge jumps from British television to the movie screen – with all of his smarm intact.
Blue Ruin
Writer, director, and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier colludes with actor Macon Blair to create an unusual spin on this revenge tale.
Heaven Is for Real
Greg Kinnear plays a dad who believes his son's claim to have seen heaven.
Only Lovers Left Alive
In this hypnotic love story, Jim Jarmusch gives us vampires who are bohemian outsiders and not blood-sucking freaks.
The Other Woman
Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, and Kate Upton play gals who team together to ruin the mutual philanderer in their lives.
The Railway Man
Colin Firth stars with Nicole Kidman in this memoir about a WWII POW in Burma who, in the present day, still suffers repercussions.
Walking With the Enemy
Ben Kingsley stars in this World War II drama that's slipped quietly into Austin.
Watermark
This documentary explores the ways in which water and human beings shape one another.
arts & culture
Never Adult Moment
Artist Michael Sieben ollies his skater years into the Visual Arts Center's vaulted elegance
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
MOONTOWER COMEDY & ODDITY FESTIVAL PREVIEW
Same Ballpark, Different Positions
Kevin McDonald explains how the Kids in the Hall have worked together 30 years
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'This Is Where I Belong'
How smarts and gumption took Noël Wells from Esther's to 'SNL'
BY ROBERT FAIRES
My Party Country, 'Tis of Thee
Colin Quinn exposes the rowdy Founding Fathers we never knew in 'Unconstitutional'
BY AMY MARTIN
Tweeter Right
Brian Gaar's monster following on Twitter paved the way for his first comedy album
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Bell Whether
Ready or not, W. Kamau Bell is leading us into a conversation about race
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Hit the Heights
Brad Williams will beat you to the punch (line) with jokes about being a dwarf, and his will be funny
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
SoundSpace: Downtown NYC 1960
Blanton Museum's music series turns the clock back to minimalism's early years in Manhattan
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Studio Visits: Briar Bonifacio
East Austin artist gives good face
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
The Gospel at Colonus
After 18 years, Zach has remounted this mix of Greek tragedy and gospel, and miracles abound
Roaring
Cyndi Williams' study of a subterranean retirement community during a catastrophe has promise but isn't always clear
columns
The Good Eye: From Bauhaus to Bang-Bang
UT design students kick off Austin Fashion Week with a 'Spectrum' of influences
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place
May Day! May Day! May Day! It's May, gays!
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Historic spring still an oasis in the West Texas town of Big Spring
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Not Cool
It’s risky business for a man to comment on a woman’s physicality in any way
BY THE LUV DOC
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BY NICK BARBARO
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This Modern World
BY TOM TOMORROW
Maakies
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
Eyebeam
BY SAM HURT
Peppermint Tears
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
