The Ballroom
Volume 34, Number 21
news
Connecting a Whole Community
Austin and Google Fiber move to bridge the digital divide
BY MARY TUMA
Quote of the Week
Point Austin: Perry's Farewell
It's time to say goodbye to the Governor-for-Life
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Government by Committee
Tonight's Town Hall: First step in a "New Way Forward"
BY NICK BARBARO
Civics 101
Headlines
Council: Fire in the Hole
The new Council begins its re-organization
BY MICHAEL KING
AISD: New South High School(s)?
AISD mulls over a possible South Austin high school
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
10-1 Ticker... Council Updates!
Updates on the new 10-1 City Council
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Lege Lines: The 84th Session Begins
News from the first weeks of the 84th legislative session
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Gun Bullies Lead ... Lawmakers Follow
Gun activists mob Capitol to mixed reception
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER AND AMY KAMP
Lege: Here Comes the Culture War
The culture war begins as conservative lawmakers file "religious freedom" bills
BY MARY TUMA
Death Watch: Homicide, Drugs, Mental Incapacity
Garcia Glen White's time is running out
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Anti-Immigration Lawsuit on Shaky Ground
Anti-immigrant lawyers file Brownsville lawsuit against Obama order
BY TONY CANTÚ
NFL "Millions" Boost Hotline
The National Domestic Violence Hotline has more money, but also more calls to answer
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Hightower Report: McDonald's Desperately Seeks Love
McDonald's preaches "lovin'," but does that gospel extend to its treatment of its employees?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Native Family
Midwestern comfort food
BY BRANDON WATSON
Calling the Shots
The women defining Austin's cocktail culture
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
AC Food Fight: Cauliflower Tacos
The battle of the brassicas
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food-o-File
A big week for the Chameleon Group
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Nick Drake
A new tome sheds light on the mythic UK folkie
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Hanging in the House of Songs
The House of Songs, Hotel Vegas on tour, and Terminator Too: Judgment Play
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Blood Royale
The Blood Royale
Old 97's
Hitchhike to Rhome
John Wesley Coleman III
The Love That You Own
Greg Vanderpool
Rescue Letter
Christy Hays
O' Montana
Willie Nelson & Sister Bobbie
December Day: Willie's Stash, Vol. 1
Mundi
My House Is the Sky
Why Not Satellite
Why Not Satellite
Nazi Gold
Climbing the Tower
screens
Help Desk
The rise of flaky daters or just an uptick in choosiness? Help Desk takes a look.
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Humans Being Human
Bad behavior in Ruben Östlund's observational kinda-comedies
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Baby
An elite counterintelligence task force fights terrorism in India.
Beeruva
Telugu romantic comedy.
The Boy Next Door
Jennifer Lopez stars in this brazenly dumb MILF thriller.
Cake
In a rare dramatic role, Jennifer Aniston plays a woman grappling with chronic pain, painkiller addiction, and personal tragedy.
Chaar Sahibzaade
Animated historical drama. In Punjabi.
Dolly Ki Doli
Hindi romantic comedy about a con woman who serially marries men in order to steal their fortunes.
Mary's Land
This production of Spain presents the perspective of a Devil's Advocate sent to investigate religious claims about the Virgin Mary.
A Most Violent Year
Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain anchor this simmering drama set in the semi-lawless New York City of 1981.
R100
Drafthouse Films is distributing this Japanese S&M mindwarp. You could do far worse for midnight-date movie fare.
The Wedding Ringer
Kevin Hart and Josh Gad crank out this aggressively dumb and un-embarrassingly sophomoric wedding comedy.
arts & culture
Actors' Inequity
The Cost of Art IV: The artists onstage in Austin aren't just not paid what they're worth, many aren't paid at all
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
Sanctuary in the Past
In The Whispering Swarm, Michael Moorcock confronts ghosts – history's and his own – in a secret area of London
BY MICHAEL BERRY
Arts Reviews
Changelings
The Vortex's staging of Reina Hardy's magical new play, Changelings, casts a uniquely compelling spell
Mauritius
Theresa Rebeck's play about stamps has surprsingly high stakes, but they aren't always realized in Different Stages' production
The Tuning Project
The improvised movements of Julie Nathanielsz and her dancers were full of refreshing surprises
columns
The Good Eye: Oh Buoyancy
... like Sandra Bullock in the Shenzhou capsule, hours after George Clooney's dimples have drifted into the fathomless beyond
BY AMY GENTRY
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Gay Place: GSC - the Place to Be
Hoof on down to the Longhorn home of gender diversity as the GSC celebrates 10 years
Oops!
Day Trips: Kiki's Mexican Restaurant, El Paso
A little place with a big reputation
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Phallocentrism
Austin is not a swirling cesspool of sexual deviance and obsession
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
