Fiesta Gardens
news
Location, Location, Location
AISD is moving its administrative offices from West Sixth Street to Highway 290. Why would any government entity do that?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Amazon in Austin’s Pocket
A business model built on public subsidies shouldn’t have its hand out
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Old News on CodeNEXT
Scattershots, while waiting for Draft Three
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Champion Tract 3 Draws Fire Again
Plans for the land development run afoul of city’s Environmental Commission
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Homeless Count Saturday
Ending Community Homelessness Coalition to conduct annual survey
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Van Boven vs. the Texas Medical Board … the Sequel
Despite exoneration, Medical Board fails to clear doctor’s name
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT’s New Friend, the Strategic Mobility Plan
Plans can’t be made in silos
BY SARAH MARLOFF
City Council: As the Year Turns
Council kicks off 2018 with long agenda
BY MICHAEL KING
What Future for Flying Plastic Bags?
Supreme Court ponders single-use bag bans
BY MICHAEL KING
Immigrant Women Stuck in Detention
T. Don Hutto detainees can't get their day in court
BY MARY TUMA
Travis County Plans New Women's Jail
Del Valle's new digs
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
Death Watch: Rayford, Battaglia
Huntsville heats up
BY SARAH MARLOFF
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
APD fires two cops for excessive force and ushers in new de-escalation policy
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
food
Review: Krua Urban Thai
South Lamar restaurant offers bold flavors and mixed emotions
BY JESSI CAPE
Acornseekers Brings Jamón Ibérico to Texas
The Spanish specialty looks to make its way to the Lone Star State
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Polenta Is Just Fancy Porridge
Why chefs love polenta, or, how to polish a turd
BY DANNY PALUMBO
Food Events
music
Bassboss Speaker Systems Take Charge of Austin's Low End
These go to 11
BY DAN GENTILE
First Concert: Will Bridges
Raging at Rage Against the Machine at the long-departed South Park Meadows outback
Texas Platters
Pop / Rock
Lou Rebecca
Terminal Mind
Recordings
Randy Reynolds
Positiveness
PR Newman
Turn Out
Mike & the Moonpies
Steak Night at the Prairie Rose
Opposite Day
I Calculate Great
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's Village Songs
Den Signede Dag
Blushing
Weak
Hola Beach
The Big Game
Teevee
Bask
screens
The Austin Film Festival Calendar
Plan out your 2018 Fest schedule
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
My Obsession: Time Travel in Movies
Falling down the wormhole of chronophysics in film
BY BEARS FONTÉ
ATX Film News
Our monthly guide to what’s filming and screening
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Autobiography of the Other Woman
The real-life affair of a director and his star inspires On the Beach at Night Alone
BY JENNY NULF
Film Reviews
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
France's AIDS community battles big pharma in the 1990s
Den of Thieves
Bank heist rips off Heat for little gain
The Final Year
Behind the scenes with the Obama foreign policy team
In the Fade
Revenge, German immigration, and neo-Nazis clash
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
YA dystopian trilogy finally comes to a close
Mom and Dad
Nic Cage goes crazy/crazier in this kid-killing black comedy
arts & culture
Landmarks' Amistad América
You want a wall? Landmarks and artist José Parlá have a wall for you.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Day of Resistance
If you had 15 seconds alone with Trump, what would you say?
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Seen / Soon: Jan. 26
Photographer Nancy Mims explores unknown lands in her neighborhood, and writers Meg Gardiner and Mark Pryor kill it with crime fiction
Arts Reviews
Vortex Repertory Company's The Way She Spoke
At the Vortex, Isaac Gomez's drama made us remember the lost women of Juárez
Southwest Theatre Productions’ If I Forget
While the play is a compelling kitchen-sink drama, this staging doesn't quite reach the promise of the material
FotoATX: "Austin Women by Austin Women" at the Elisabet Ney Museum
The five women showing photographs capture the beauty, passion, grace, and resilience of being a woman in Austin today
columns
Page Three: Still Free After All These Years, But …
Ways to support your favorite alternative weekly
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Gay Place
Here and queer – UT Austin launches an LGBTQ Studies program
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Mardi Gras, Shreveport-Bossier City, La.
The food and parades are worth the drive to northwestern Louisiana
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Hard “No”
It's not uncommon to have awkward, shitty dates
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
comics
