Wish List: Meals on Wheels Requests Deliverers
Remember your homebound neighbors
Food Gift Guide: Self Care Edition
Local treats to get you through the rest of 2016
Tiny Tails to You
The cutest way to get your party hopping
Cindy Stowell Is a Jeopardy! Champ and Champion for Cancer Research
Austinite who passed away in December pledged her winnings to research
Texas Sends Final Notice to Kick Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid
Planned Parenthood says: We’ll see you in court
Blue Starlite Lights Up in Buda
Mini urban drive-in adding overnight camping at new location
Swingle All the Way!
Stritch, Caruso deliver hit holiday cabaret from Birdland
Wish List: TENT Needs Community Engagement
Contributing to trans equality
Jackie Venson & Dale Watson’s Manhattan Mosey
How to Become a Musician – Episode 2
Is Austin’s Art.Science.Gallery. Evolving or Dying?
Crucial times for the city’s science-celebrating bastion of art
A Very Krampus Christmas
Seasonal scares at the House of Torment
Bending Branch Makes White Wines, Too
One of Texas’ best hides on their list
Hoping for an Electoral College Miracle
Capitol demos planned for Monday EC voting session
DVDanger: Horror for the Holidays, Part 1
Vintage re-releases for unseasonal scares
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Force is strong with this one
La La Land
This bittersweet musical will make your heart soar
Collateral Beauty
Will Smith mopes around in this preposterous drama
Too Late to Stop Now
Mother Love Bone / Temple of the Dog / Soundgarden / Tad
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
Unique gifts for the media lover in your life
Page Two: Time for All Those Who Voted Their Conscience to Claim Their Credit in Trump’s Election?
Congratulations on feeling pure and noble. Guess where it got us.
Lou Reed Box Set Tells Tale of Early Solo Career
The RCA & Arista Album Collection‘s 17 discs document the Seventies and Eighties
Too Late to Stop Now
(Numero Group)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
by Richard M. Isackes and Karen L. Maness
Quote of the Week
They really said that?
Public Citizen Tom “Smitty” Smith Looks Back on a Life Well Lived
The man in the white hat’s relentless hard work and willed optimism
Too Late to Stop Now
(Bad Boy)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
by Gavin Edwards
Headlines
City Council closes out 2016 today (Dec. 15) with no less than a 101-Item agenda, entirely dalmatian-free. The Grove returns for greater scrutiny and (perhaps) a final vote, and the Austin Oaks PUD arrives for an evening hearing. And there’s “biosolids” … See “Council: From Kitty Hawk to Hornsby Bend,” Dec. 15. Austin Police Monitor…
Point Austin: Losing Control … of Your Bladder
The Lege knows what’s best for you and your privates
Too Late to Stop Now
Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976] (Rhino/Parlophone)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
$35, www.mondotees.com
Public Notice (Condensed Edition)
No last-minute presents for ARG, BCRC?
“Minimum Wage Is Not Livable”
Workers get paid, but the fight for fair wages is far from over
Too Late to Stop Now
Complete Third (Omnivore)
Election Run-Off Results: Alter to City Council
Alter, Nitsch, and Hassan emerge victorious in Tuesday’s run-off
Dukes Up Between Dawnna and AISD Board?
A longstanding vendetta between Dawnna Dukes and the AISD Board?
Too Late to Stop Now
High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective (Omnivore)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
by Tim Doyle
Council: From Kitty Hawk to Hornsby Bend
The Grove, Oaks, and Austin Water in between
Too Late to Stop Now
.. It’s Too Late to Stop Now … Volumes II, III, IV & DVD (Legacy)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
Admit it: you’re drooling acidic goo all over the hull of your hypersleep chamber while awaiting the upcoming release of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. Who isn’t? (Harry Dean Stanton and Jones the cat excluded.) Fear not, the hideously talented artisans over at Etsy have your back, unlike Aliens’ trigger-happy hysteric Pvt. “Game over, man!” Hudson,…
Affordable Housing Threatens Grove Agreement
A settlement at the Grove PUD? Not so fast.
Too Late to Stop Now
Strait out of the Box: Part 2 (MCA Nashville)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
$16.99-29.99
Human Rights Commission Takes on Trump
Commission signs a resolution reaffirming city’s commitment to “inclusion, equity, and freedom for all”
Review: Delicious
Lamar Union concept clears its name
Too Late to Stop Now
Mirage Deluxe (Rhino)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
$119.99, www.shoutfactory.com
Staffing Shakeup at APD
Reyes up, Connor up, Manley in, Troy Gay out?
Dear Glutton: Where to Escape Christmas
Hide out for the holidays
Too Late to Stop Now
(4AD)
Gift Guide 2016: Holiday Grab Bag
store.roosterteeth.com
EPA Raises Questions About Dripping Springs Wastewater
Opinions differ on Onion Creek water standards
Gift Guide 2016: Local Home Goods and Tableware
Treat yo’ self
Too Late to Stop Now
Ramones 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino)
Gay Place
Support our talented local queer artists this holiday season
East Austin Crescent Sees Spike in Child Abuse
Abuse in Austin / Travis County follows an “East Austin Crescent” pattern that directly corresponds with several risk factors
How La La Land Went From Pipe Dream to Musical Fireworks
Producers on creating a city of stars
Baskerville at Austin Playhouse
Austin Playhouse’s staging of the Sherlock Holmes farce generates enough laughter to fill an empty mall
Weekend Effort to Get Sekrit Theater Up to Code
East Austin venue forced to clean up or close down
Luv Doc: Crock-Pot Potpourri
In which the Luv Doc gives a one-word answer
“Elizabeth Chapin: Careful / Uncareful” at Wally Workman Gallery
These portraits jettison the obvious for the sake of drama and harnessing the truth of a human being in a singular moment
Abortion Providers Sue to Block Fetal Burial Rule
Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, part 2
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
John Quincy Adams served in Congress for 17 years after leaving the presidency. Billy the Kid had buckteeth. Chef Peng Chang-kuei, who recently passed away at age 98, is credited with inventing General Tso’s chicken. Having fled China to Taiwan in 1949, he invented the dish at age 24 on a whim for a banquet…
“Ana Esteve Llorens: Studies for Future Objects” at Women & Their Work
The show’s mix of colored textile works and a large installation of open ovals spark an urge to interact with them
Pizzagate Targets East Side Pies
No charges will be filed in ESP harassment and vandalism incidents
Too Late to Stop Now
Digital media in analog boxes – and sometimes in mono!
Playback – Nonprofit Holidays: The Cult of Black Fret and More
Homegrown music nonprofits that need your holiday cheer
Day Trips: Camp Hearne POW Museum
The small town of Hearne remembers when German Nazis came to Texas
Judge Sanctions Austin Attorney Omar W. Rosales
Years of “creating strife and perpetuating lies” came back to haunt Rosales
Too Late to Stop Now
Rolling Stones in Mono (ABKCO)
Gift Guide 2016: Coffeetable Books
Big books give heft to big success stories about women in business, Flatbed Press, UT’s collections, Pan Am, and the Spurs
Soccer Watch
Seattle Sounders won their first-ever MLS Cup final Saturday night without managing a shot on goal over 120 minutes of regulation and overtime. They beat Toronto FC in a penalty kick shootout… Stanford repeated as NCAA men’s champion, also in a PKS after a scoreless draw… Cristiano Ronaldo won his fourth Ballon d’Or award as…
The Hightower Report: What Is The “Trump Fix”?
Who is Tom Barrack? And how involved will he be?
Austin Lawmaker Wants to Repeal Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance
Workman’s HB 577 would undo Council’s job applicant labor protection
