Volume 36, Number 20
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news
Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Obama and Doggett on our renewed responsibilities
BY MICHAEL KING
Music venues, hospitals, and neighborhood plans
BY NICK BARBARO
They really said that?
NAKED CITY
APD won't say publicly whether Zac Anam was searched before he was placed under arrest
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
When the school's grading system itself gets an "F"
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Islamic Center of Travis County burned down just months before it was set to open
BY MARY TUMA
Officer terminated for repeated domestic disturbances
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Finally, someone with some actual credentials in public office!
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Nick Chu announces candidacy
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Resistance continues in Austin
BY SARAH MARLOFF
CodeNEXT, off-site workshops push agenda through January
BY MICHAEL KING
Noted women's advocacy lawyer moves to the bench
BY MARY TUMA
Lege opens with sparring chambers, questions about Dukes' future
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Patient turned away due to HIV status
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
That Ivanka Trump Collection was manufactured where?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Uneven execution blights vegan gastropub
BY BRANDON WATSON
Serbian inspired apricot brandy defies expectations
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
music
Free Week Live Reviews
New Year's Day touched off two weeks of Free Week. Here's the first week highlights.
Ramsay Midwood co-acquires Sam's Town Point, record store news, and Spoon teases upcoming Matador Records LP.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
UT’s Simulation and Game Applications Lab helps researchers reach further
BY FELIX MORGAN
Film Reviews
Strange things are afoot in the morgue
A group of teens unleash the bogeyman
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this period gangster drama
The hunt for the Boston Marathon bombers
Vampires vs. werewolves (again)
arts & culture
Get a taste for printmaking’s infinite variety through four exhibitions at the Flatbed complex
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Capital T Theatre production of Taylor Mac's absurdist satire puts the front lines of combat inside an American home
En Route Productions makes Sarah Ruhl's lighthearted meditation on love and death both hilarious and touching
What's most interesting in this retrospective is the early work that shows just how damn good Warhol was at graphic design
columns
Some noteworthy milestones from last year
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Public or private, unspoken or expressed, the rights of every citizen are guaranteed
BY LOUIS BLACK
Community leaders hosts forum to discuss new city commission to focus on LGBTQ quality of life
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Everyone is a snowflake and we all have something unique and special to contribute
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS