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Your Guide to Giving
How to donate to local nonprofits
news
How Austin Handles Mental Health Emergencies
Police, EMS, and Integral Care work together to serve people in psychiatric crisis
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: Unfinished Business
Working Austin's weirding ways to New Year's resolutions
BY MICHAEL KING
2018 Primary Election Filing Time
And the candidates are ...
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Doug Jones
The senator-elect from Alabama runs an autopsy on his campaign
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Reposa out of Jail
DWI attorney released after 68 days
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Chauffeur Reg Revamp Rerouted
City set to level playing field between limos, taxis, and TNCs
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Van Boven Cleared of Mistreating Patients
Texas Medical Board reluctantly accepts ruling of admin judge
BY MICHAEL KING
Mobile Loaves & Money
An ATM has arrived at the Community First! Village
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Police Contract Talks Run Late
Council considers meet-and-confer agreement during special Wednesday meeting
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council: Welcome to the Holiday Rush
If you think your to-do list is too long, consider City Council's
BY MICHAEL KING
Everybody out of the Pool Plan!
Council punts Aquatic Master Plan to February
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
So You Want to Be Austin’s City Manager
Finalists hit public forum before Council's Tuesday decision
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lewis Conway Jr. Faces Long Odds for Council Candidacy
City memo suggests convicted felons aren’t eligible for office
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Austin's Disappearing Mobile Home Communities
Redeveloping a manufactured housing park isn’t the only way its new owner can turn a profit
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
A (Citizen Review) Panel of Experts?
New police contract places term limits on CRP
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Texas Wants to Bury Your Fetus, Pt. 2
It's déjà vu all over again in the fight for reproductive rights
BY MARY TUMA
food
Tex-Mex Institution Reopens as an Austin Food Truck
Austin’s newest tamale mavens, Karam’s Tamale Company
BY JESSI CAPE
Brenham’s Brazos Valley Brewing Is a Destination, Not a Pit Stop
"It's what's on the inside that counts"
BY ERIC PUGA
Food Events
music
Kalu James’ Psychedelic Awakening
Nigerian folkie fully realizes cosmic blues-rock
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
Live reviews of Big Bill, Protextor, Black Fret Ball, and Margaret Moser’s memorial concert
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Gift Guide 2017
Gift Guide 2017
Rock & Roll Books
Smithsonian Rock and Roll: Live and Unseen
by Bill Bentley
For You to See the Stars
by Radney Foster
Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few
by Diana Finlay Hendricks
Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff
by Michael Nesmith
Everything's Bigger in Texas: The Life & Times of Kinky Friedman
by Mary Lou Sullivan
My Guitar Is a Camera
by Watt M. Casey Jr.
I Said That, Volume 1: The Dicks and Mutant Rocker: The Art of Randy "Biscuit" Turner, Volume 1
by Gary Floyd; edited by David Ensminger
We Were There: Austin Concert Crowds Shot From the Pit
by Sandy Carson
screens
Gift Guide 2017
Gift Guide Grab Bag
An array of extravagance to geek out on
BY MARK FAGAN, RICHARD WHITTAKER, NGUYEN LE, TUCKER WHATLEY AND JOSH KUPECKI
What’cha Watchin’?
Distribution Manager/Luv Doc Rabble-Rouser Dan Hardick is all Showtime, all the time
Film Reviews
Darkest Hour
Gary Oldman disappears into the role of the beloved English statesman
Ferdinand
A beloved children's book gets a mediocre screen adaptation
Just Getting Started
Grumpy old men on the golf course
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
A stellar entry into the beloved franchise
arts & culture
Local Writers Hone Their Craft at the Street Lit Authors Club
Creating a space where those experiencing homelessness can tell their stories
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Seen / Soon: Dec. 15
A grand send-off to musical theatre at UT with The Drowsy Chaperone and feeding off the solstice darkness with Carla McElhaney and invoke
Arts Reviews
Theatre Synesthesia's The Brutes
Casey Wimpee’s original drama is about a Civil War-era family, but it’s deeply relevant to our own fractured time
Austin Playhouse’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley
In its rush to be fun, the show fails to tap all the potential of this rom-com sequel to Pride and Prejudice
“Rachel Stuckey: Good Days & Bad Days on the Internet” at Women & Their Work
The artist creates some genuinely geeky-cool stuff in this show that’s smart, funny, and fresh in its treatment of tech
columns
Oops!
Gay Place
Queer holiday joy
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: OS Ranch Museum, Post
Small-town art museum with a world-class collection
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: The Via Dolorosa
When is it acceptable to use the L word?
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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