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Volume 34, Number 11
news
Getting to Zero
Will Austin's green seif-image be realized with its "zero waste" goals?
BY ROBYN ROSS
Point Austin: Thoughts Between Elections
Taking a closer look at the polls and what they mean
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: City Hall Shark Tank
Council might be no fun, but there's lots of cool stuff going on this weekend
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Next Target: Springdale
Eastside activists target another urban farm
BY ANNA TOON
Council: All You Can Eat!
Council gets stuff done
BY MICHAEL KING
Race-Based Voting?
Some candidates say names, race influenced election
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
10-1 Ticker... Endorsements All Around!
Which recently defeated candidate is endorsing which run-off contender?
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Pushback on Crosswalks
Not all business owners welcome rainbows
BY MARY TUMA
Cop Fights Law ... Law Wins
APD officer suspended after defending Buehler
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
District 9 Post-Mortem
Tovo and Riley speak post-election
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Obamacare, Take Two
Get ready to get health care
BY AMY KAMP
Jailed Before Birth
Women demand better care for pregnant inmates
BY AMY KAMP
The Hightower Report: Florida Police Swat at Barbers
Florida police want to make very sure no one's cutting hair without a license
food
Period Piece
Sawyer & Co. rings out the old
BY BRANDON WATSON
Fair Use?
Players and the UT expansion machine
BY MELANIE HAUPT
This Land Is Pie Land
The best places to satisfy your lust for crust
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Charity, rivalry, and Bribery
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Playback: Lines, Rhymes, and Redemption
The line at Fun Fun Fun Fest wasn't the only show last weekend
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Fun Fun Fun Fest Encore
Photos and live shots from Neutral Milk Hotel, Wiz Khalifa, Flying Lotus, King Diamond, Girl Talk, Nas, Modest Mouse, Judas Priest, 2 Chainz, and more!
screens
Not Another Rom-Com
Sean Mullin brings a light touch to heavy material in Amira & Sam
BY JESSI CAPE
From Baz to Batman
Costume designer Michael Wilkinson does it all from the Harvey Pekar schlump look in American Splendor to the fabulous Seventies fashions of American Hustle
BY AMY GENTRY
Help Desk
Is Venmo tearing a relationship apart or pointing out a weakness?
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
Erra Bus
Telugu film.
Kill Dil
Hindi crime film.
Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas
The former teen heartthrob turned evangelical entrepreneur shows how to put the faith back into Christmas.
Low Down
John Hawkes plays junkie jazz musician Joe Albany in this film based on his daughter's memoirs.
Occupy the Farm
This documentary captures the action when activist farmers take over an urban plot that's scheduled to become a shopping mall.
Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham
Telugu romance.
Rosewater
Jon Stewart makes his directing debut with this story about a journalist's imprisonment in Tehran.
21 Years: Richard Linklater
A subject as worthy of a documentary as this one is deserves a more thoughtful approach than this star-studded tribute.
arts & culture
Bringers of Joy
20,000 Austin kids are happily learning to make positive change in their lives through Creative Action
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
EAST Toast
Curated cocktail mixes to make your East Austin Studio Tour a tad more intoxicating
BY SETH ORION SCHWAIGER AND CAITLIN GREENWOOD
Arts Reviews
Fool for Love
The relationship of the doomed duo in Fool for Love gets explosive in Capital T's production
Wail
Gale Theatre Company's new devised work manages to feel as cathartic and personal as it does vague and mysterious
"Ellen Heck: Connections"
The walls at Wally Workman are almost alive with figurative humanity captured with a sublime printerly grace
columns
Page Two: It's 3:01AM
Michael Ventura puts his column to bed
BY LOUIS BLACK
Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By
"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Good Eye: There and Back Again
Don't mess with Texas women, bucko
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place: Well-repped at EAST
Head EAST, young thing...
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Galveston's Lafitte Steps
A notorious pirate leaves his mark
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Boobs or Balls?
If you could re-live your life as either sex, which would it be?
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
comics
