Volume 34, Number 31
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news
What happened to the thousands of unaccompanied children who crossed the U.S. border last year?
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Indiana's RFRA is an invitation to progressive response
BY MICHAEL KING
Council's approach to money matters needs more work
BY NICK BARBARO
This week's opportunities for public engagement
Jumpolin demo results in CEO resignation
BY TONY CANTÚ
Council takes on barbecue smokers, and smoke gets in their eyes
BY MICHAEL KING
Private drilling threatens local water supplies
BY VICKI WOLF
School finance debate heats up, HHSC consolidation on hold?, and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
House wants to throw some money at border problems
BY AMY KAMP
Capital case tests limits of insanity defense
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Thousands fewer women served by Texas Women's Health Program
BY MARY TUMA
Corporations use the courts to prey on financially devastated Americans
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
A six-pack of Austin's most underrated beers
BY ERIC PUGA
Chi'Lantro renews fast casual
BY BRANDON WATSON
There's gold in them thar cakes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Where there's smoke ...
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Out of tragedy blooms East Cameron Folkcore.
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Keeping SXSW safe selectively?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Space Is Still the Place
Rituals of Self-Destruction
The Redeemer
Sweet Spirit
Get It Together
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screens
Alamo Drafthouse screens Orson Welles centennial retrospective
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
The evolution of the Blue Starlite Urban Drive-in
BY MARC SAVLOV
Aubrey Plaza discusses acting dramatic in Ned Rifle
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Film Reviews
Al Pacino is an aging rock & roller who makes an entertaining play for redemption
In this Hindi film set in the Forties, a detective works his first case
Furiouser and furiouser
Doc exposes rape culture on the university campus
Tamil romantic comedy.
John Boorman's follow-up to Hope and Glory observes the same boy who's now a young man
A French love triangle loses its balance
arts & culture
Fusebox Festival creates a pop-up village as part of its thinkEAST Living Charrette
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A brief guide to the 13 – count 'em, 13 – arts fests coming your way in April and May
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Penfold Theatre's remount of The Last Five Years tracks a failed romance with intimacy and polish
Jennifer Hart's first commission for Ballet Austin was this triple bill's highlight
Amy Yoes, Ezra Masch, and Tim Schmidt conjure the extrasensory
columns
The Good Eye says goodbye
BY AMY GENTRY
HavenCon launches this weekend
BY KATE X MESSER
Take the water shuttles around the San Antonio River Walk
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
A sad attempt at territorial boundary pissing
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW