Volume 35, Number 19
ON THE COVER:
news
Assessing the continuing black Austin experience
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
List of businesses opting out of open carry
Reflections on 10-1's rookie year accomplishments
BY MICHAEL KING
GOP refuses to be sensible about guns
BY NICK BARBARO
Activists celebrate new rules with glocks, turkey subs
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Way says she'll focus on the growing economic divide and affordability crisis if elected
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Homeless-backed trucks deliver food, clothing, and blankets to their own community
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Reed accuses TCDP's Harding of failing to properly review Cobb's application
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Driving America's yellow school bus to educational hell
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Three local purveyors search for an ethical cup
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
The many firsts of 4th Tap
BY CHERYL COUTURE
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
The return of Antone's, Free Week, and the Austin Music Poll Ballot
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Free Week Live Shots
screens
A new year, a new batch of filmmakers
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Film Reviews
A professional wrestler becomes a pastor who moonlights as a vigilante
Iñárritu’s Western loses the forest for the trees, but oh, what trees
arts & culture
The local literary duo discusses being a creative couple and how it affects their work and process
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Hyde Park Theatre and ScriptWorks' annual performance festival keeps giving artists a spot to launch a stage career in Austin
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Arts Reviews
The baroque ensemble's first concert of 2016 delivers life lessons along with the beautiful music
Personal strength, theatrical animism, and sexual dynamics dominate this exhibition
columns
Would I miss Israel for Israel? I worried.
BY LOUIS BLACK
It's Bowie's B-day!
BY KATE X MESSER
Desert playground is home to state bison and longhorn herds
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Wherein the Luv Doc unveils the key to happiness
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Nonprofit director and personal liability
BY LUKE ELLIS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS