Texas State Capitol
Jason Stout
Volume 34, Number 19
news
Under Construction
As the session begins, continuity and inexperience are the major questions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: The Day That 10-1 Began
Pomp, circumstance, and possibility at the new City Hall
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Get Your Meeting On
A roundup of civic events to start the year off right
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Official Oppression
Do APD officers have a pattern of dismissing sexual assaults?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Buehler's Case Dismissed
Case dropped for interference with officer
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Hunting for Housing
Landlord lawsuit and housing research frame housing crisis
BY MARY TUMA AND MICHAEL KING
The Newest in Trustees
AISD swearing-in suggests both comity and dissension
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New CM Zimmerman Loses to Bulldog
New District 6 Council member dinged for suing publication
BY AMY KAMP
District 4 Results Confirmed
Run-off results confirmed, Pressley unsatisfied
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report: College bowl games become corporate money games
Games now bring us to the sponsors
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The Most Important Meal
It's time for Austin to have breakfast
BY BRANDON WATSON
St. Philip
St. Philip is mostly divine
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Odd Future
Is Oddwood Ales Austin's next great beer?
BY ERIC PUGA
Food-o-File
The case of the barbecue bandits
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Playback: Your Austin Music Poll Ballot
Armadillos for sale, Free Week, and an Austin Music Poll primer
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Free Week Live Shots
First weekend Free Week highlights as we head into week two
screens
One of the Good Guys
Is Chris Ohlson the nicest film producer in town, or just the hardest working?
BY MARC SAVLOV
Help Desk
Can teens and adults safely connect on social media?
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Revisiting Rivette
Essential Cinema revives the films of Jacques Rivette
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
Gopala Gopala
Telugu satire.
Inherent Vice
Highbrow mixes with lowbrow in Paul Thomas Anderson's screen adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's novel.
Selma
Although it's dramatically uneven, this film is a commendable historical drama about Martin Luther King Jr. that sidesteps the common pitfalls of adulatory biopics.
Tevar
Bollywood film.
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death
The eeriness is palpable but the suspense is not.
arts & culture
Excitingly Unpredictable
The best fringe since fashion week, FronteraFest 2015 promises a month of exhilarating alternative performance
BY SETH ORION SCHWAIGER
All Over Creation: Wide Open Spaces
A new crop of arts venues is sprouting all over Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina lets audiences literally play god and choose what happens to the House of Atreus
Bach's Herd of Harpsichords V: Double Play
You'll always find something unexpected at a La Follia harpsichord concert, but you can expect the instrument to be well-played
“Jackie Lee Young curated by Sandy Carson”
Lower Left Gallery exhibits a dusty doublewide Americana in this photographic solo show
columns
Gay Place: 13 Hours
Kick off your queer year with these Gay Place recommendeds
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Twin Sisters Dance Hall
The oldest dance hall in Texas?
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Good Eye: New Year's Resolutions
Weight, weight, don't tell me
BY AMY GENTRY
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Not. One. BJ.
How to politely ask without being crude
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
