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news
Whose Affordability Crisis?
Looking through the prism's lens
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Point Austin: If You Build It, They Will Come
Arguments over infrastructure reflect community visions
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Groundhog Day ... Again
CodeNEXT: Haven't we been through this before?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Ryan Robinson
Let the City Demographer tell you about how Austin's popular
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Voter Deadline Looms
Potential registrants have until Feb. 5
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Judge Temporarily Strikes Down Fetal Burial Rule
Ezra says law will likely show “undue burden” on women
BY MARY TUMA
Is Your Water Running ... Pink?
Dye study confirms Onion Creek as aquifer recharge source
BY MICHAEL KING
Florence of Comfort House Mugged
Ponziano punched, loses glasses in bus-ride heist
BY MICHAEL KING
Council: Back to the Dais
Short month, long agendas
BY MICHAEL KING
Ann Kitchen 1, Precourt Sports Ventures Nil
Updating the score in the quest for the Columbus Crew
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
CodeNEXT: Outlook Bleak
Land use commissioners stumble into Feb. 12 final draft
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Zaragoza Resigns From Planning Commission
Todd Shaw tapped as replacement
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Abbott to Trump: Pay Us Money We Lost for Excluding Planned Parenthood
Texas guv sends a “pretty please” to the president
BY MARY TUMA
Substantive Proposals
Police oversight, left and right
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Canvassing the City for ECHO’s Point in Time Count
Nina Hernandez takes to the 4am streets for annual survey
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
food
It Takes a Village to Eat Safely With Food Allergies
Local restaurants adapt to the growing number of Americans with food allergies
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Far Flung Correspondence: Tropical Restaurant
Nothing embodies Nigerian food quite like jollof rice
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Rap Trio Third Root's Trill Pedagogy
Ultra-enlightened hip-hop crew set to school the Austin Music Awards
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: Listening Outside the Lines
Kevin Curtin spends four days on the fringes
BY KEVIN CURTIN
First Concert: Hartt Stearns
Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick tour? Yasss.
Texas Platters
Midnight Stroll
Western Static
Doom Side of the Moon
Encore
Ignitor
Haunted by Rock & Roll
Mammoth Grinder
Cosmic Crypt
Good Field
Surface Tension
Sean Morales
Call It In
Lisa Morales
Luna Negra and the Daughter of the Sun
Montopolis
Music for Enchanted Rock
Devan Mulvaney
Whippersnapper
Gary P Nunn
At Home With the Armadillo
screens
SXSW Film Goes to A Quiet Place
Over 100 films and 43 world premieres fill a noisy nine days
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Spotlight Film Festival Shines on Locals
Monthly fest for underdogs and up-and-comers
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Going Off the Gridiron
Avoiding the Super Bowl
BY MILO WEBB
Now Streaming in Austin: Becoming Jessica Nigri
Rooster Teeth’s new cosplay documentary, Becoming Jessica Nigri
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Annette Bening soars in the last days of starlet Gloria Grahame
The Insult
Lebanon's internecine crises as courtroom drama
Living Among Us
Bloodless vampire found footage should stay in the shadows
arts & culture
In Pease Park, Patrick Dougherty Constructs a Wooden Wonder
The environmental artist sticks the landing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Austin's Large-Scale Public Art
Exploring the big ideas behind big art installations
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Seen / Soon: Feb. 2
Hearing a stately Passion from Arvo Pärt sung by Ensemble VIII and reading a Texas take on Moby Dick from Austin author Elizabeth Crook
Arts Reviews
GenEnCo's 893 | Ya-ku-za
This suspenseful two-hander serves up tension in its silences as much as its words
Austin Opera’s Ariadne auf Naxos
Dude ranch antics make this reimagining of Strauss too busy, but when the music takes center stage, it’s gorgeous
“James Surls: Man on Edge” at Flatbed
The prints by this renowned Texas artist are like portals to other worlds, revealing rapturous visions and terrifying cosmic disturbances
columns
Oops!
Gay Place
Love Jones brings queer black romance to the stage
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: O. Henry’s Bridge, San Antonio
Iron bridge spans the San Antonio River and 138 years of literary history
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Rejection
An effusively positive affirmation of your undeniable awesomeness
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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