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What You Need to Know About U.S. Senate and House Races in Texas
Early voting in Texas starts Feb. 18, 2020. Here's the view from atop your Texas primary ballot.
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Can't Say We Weren't Warned
New U.N. "emissions gap" report heightens climate change alarm.
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Here Comes the Vote
Council preps for marathon Land Development Code hearing and first reading
BY NICK BARBARO
GIFT GUIDE 2019
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Council to Consider Launching New Investigation Into APD Following Allegations of Racism
Multiple reviews and a "sense of urgency"
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Death Watch: Without Intervention, Travis Runnels Will Be the Ninth Texan Executed in 2019
A troubled life, a dishonest witness, a “changed man”
BY BRANT BINGAMON
How Texas Impact Turns Faith Into a Tool for Progress
VIDEO: See Texas Interfaith Center for Public Policy/Texas Impact’s reports from the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP25
BY JAMES SCOTT
food
GIFT GUIDE 2019
Food Forward
Traverse the foods of Texas and beyond, and help a neighbor while you’re at it
Cluck-N-Burger Gives Food Truck Vibes at Its Airport Boulevard Location
Fried chicken to wedge salad at this cool new neighborhood eatery
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of December 5, 2019
music
GIFT GUIDE 2019
Books, Box Sets & Reviews
Molly Burch
The Molly Burch Christmas Album
Broadcasts Vol. 27
Broadcasts Vol. 27
Beatles
Abbey Road (Super Deluxe Edition)
Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed: 50th Anniversary Limited Deluxe Edition
Bob Dylan
Travelin' Thru, 1967-1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15
Replacements
Dead Man's Pop
Revenge of the She-Punks
Vivien Goldman
The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock & Roll
Ian S. Port
The Messenger: The Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard
Brian T. Atkinson
Rabbit's Blues: The Life and Music of Johnny Hodges
Con Chapman
Life Is a Butt Dial: Tales From a Life Among the Tragically Hip
Cleve Hattersley
Faster Than Sound: Austin Music Video Festival Reaches 5
Local DIY videos mingle with the big leagues, Austin Music Commission forecasts 2020, and Federico Pacheco leads KOOP into its next quarter-century
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
GIFT GUIDE 2019
Gifts to Make You Look Away From Your Screens
Plenty of films to read about this holiday season
BY THE SCREENS STAFF
Austin-Made Horror Anthology Comes Back Home for Other Worlds
Delivering a Scare Package
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hidden Cost of Labor Calculated in Building the American Dream
In the rubble of the NOLA hotel collapse, Chelsea Hernandez's documentary remains relevant
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd: "A Grievance With Gravity"
Help this local short about feeling out of place raise essential funds
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The Aeronauts
Ballooning adventure never drops its baffling meet-cute ballast
Fantastic Fungi
There’s more to this wonderful biological documentary than mushrooms
In Fabric
Marianne Jean-Baptiste says yes yes yessss to the dress
Mickey and the Bear
Life on the front line of the opioid crisis
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey's Oprah-(de)endorsed junkie journal makes it to the screen
The Whistleblower
Chinese thriller uncovers business corruption
arts & culture
GIFT GUIDE 2019
Benjamin Markovits’ Christmas in Austin
In this novel of a family gathering for the holidays, Austin serves as a mirror for the characters, and perhaps for the reader
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Janine Barchas’ The Lost Books of Jane Austen
In this nonfiction book, the local scholar provides fresh insight into the ways that Jane Austen became Jane Austen, literary superstar
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Humanities Texas Holiday Book Fair Has Something for Reader on Your Gift List
Twenty-three Lone Star literary lights will be at Humanities Texas' annual shopping event
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Playhouse's She Loves Me
This old-fashioned rom-com musical oozes charm and earns its Pollyanna platitudes
Different Stages' Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Like the separate parts of the Creature's body, the technical and performance aspects unite to create a delightfully provocative production
"Jesse Narens: Creak, Crack, Creep" at Yard Dog Gallery
This Portland artist's images of nature transmogrified are a perfect antidote to holiday overcheer
columns
Qmmunity: Give, Queerly
Then get fancy with Fat Bottom Cabaret and prepare for The L Word’s return
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Holiday Gift Guide
Unique Texas gifts worth a day trip
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Engaged to a White Liar
Wherein the Luv Doc expounds on what's hot in wedding table linens
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Humbug – holiday shopping gone bad
BY LUKE ELLIS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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