Volume 39, Number 20
ON THE COVER:
news
Following the slow march toward a vote on a multibillion-dollar investment in public transit
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Abbott’s refugee rejection confirms the triumph of Trumpism
BY MICHAEL KING
Call to artists: Jump into the billion-dollar pool
BY NICK BARBARO
Early voting in the March primary election begins Feb. 18
BY SARAH MARLOFF
NAKED CITY
UPDATED: Event looks to rally the vote in 2020
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Decrease follows nationwide trend
BY SARAH MARLOFF
But they can still donate to an anti-choice group
BY MARY TUMA
On her inaugural episode, former CM bemoans her experience on the liberal Council
BY MARY TUMA
Religious orgs condemn governor for refugee ban
BY MICHAEL KING
Heidi Sloan assaulted following weekend campaigning
BY MICHAEL KING
Council considers how to get “as close as possible to zero arrests”
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Delia Garza’s Twitter tangle, Central Labor Council likes, and more
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Anyone for sake mac & cheese and other tasty surprises?
BY JESSI CAPE
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 16, 2020
music
The Austin Punk Chronicles, chapter two, part one: glam rock (1972-76)
BY TIM STEGALL
Rounding up 2020 venue news plus all things Hi, How Are You Day
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
From cowboy horror to songs to save your life
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Musical rule breaker moves into narrative podcasting with Anthem: Homunculus
BY JAMES SCOTT
The actor talks psychedelics, jobs, and ... rabbits?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin web series mixing crafts and camp needs your crowdfunding help
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Not bad, not good, just the same again from the aging action heroes
Downey has and is fun as the doctor who can talk with the animals
Trouble in the radio booth
French drama keeps the name and spirit of Hugo’s classic
Holocaust drama about a missing musical prodigy never finds its rhythm
Neo-creature feature is a soggy mess
Bizarro tribute to camcorder culture is silly and profound
A magical rainy adventure in Tokyo with sympathy for the underdog
arts & culture
Joby Talbot's adventurous new opera scales Everest
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Orion Weiss played Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with the Austin Symphony, and we were spellbound
I, for one, welcome our totes adorbs steampunk overlords
columns
Plus a trans masc social, sweet queer bluegrass, and more
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Take a hike into an ancient time capsule
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Being broke in America is a cardinal sin
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE