Volume 35, Number 33
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news
As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
It doesn't matter what income bracket you're in – the living wage issue impacts everyone
BY AMY KAMP
"If a business acts like it is above the law, it will pay a heavy price."
BY NICK BARBARO
BY MARY TUMA
District and state officials remain in the dark on STAAR malfunction
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Ridesharing Works coffer dwarfs rival PAC
BY MAC MCCANN
Family fights eviction from Georgian Acres apartment
BY AMY KAMP
Complaint calls for Citizen Review Panel overhaul, Frasier's dismissal
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
APD officer fired; faces felony for illegally hunting
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Can the GOP establishment get any more out of touch?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Lambrusco and ladies
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Where to mend a broken heart
BY EMILY BEYDA
Relearning how to eat
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
Wimberley mandolin prodigy interviews the Houston Kid
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Indie Meme Film Festival spotlights South Asian films
BY JESSI CAPE
There's something for the kid in all of us at the Austin Toy Museum
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Orphan Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the appeal of the status quo
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Thai film is a realist fantasy about a strange sleeping sickness
Eat out with Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic
A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film
Bollywood film about a fan who is obsessed with a movie star
The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up
"Forget about your worries and your strife …"
Don Cheadle stars in and directs this unusual Miles Davis biopic
Tamil romantic drama
arts & culture
The service organization moves beyond talk with four ideas on how the city can expand its cultural infrastructure
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Create Space Austin kicks off the drive to secure more performing venues in the city
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Arts Reviews
This production at St. Edward's University knows just how to bring forth this modest musical's many charms
There's much to ponder in the second draft of the Rude Mechs' mash-up of Dostoyevsky, stand-up comedy, and spiritual belief
The dark physicality of these figurative sculptures brings an exquisite imposition of memories into the waking world
columns
10 favorite "Day Trips" out of 1,290
BY GERALD MCLEOD AND GERALD E. MCLEOD
Hot days, hotter nights – it's springtime in the ATX
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Maybe you were meant to date a complicated genius with a neck tattoo
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS