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A Guide to Austin Ramen
Local chefs look to give the dish the respect it deserves
Texas Vets Push for Marijuana Reform
Veterans Lobby Day held Wednesday at the Capitol
SXSW Announces Closing Night Film and More
Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal fight for their Life
The Improvised Play Festival Isn’t on Fire Downtown
The Hideout Theatre’s annual supercharging of improv is pretty hot tho
Carnal Pops Up at Parlor & Yard
Brooklyn-based barbecue wants to ignite your primal urges
I Pee With LGBT
Richard Linklater debuts ad denouncing the Texas bathroom bill
OUTsider Review: Queer Animation
Curated short films offers varying perspectives on queerness
Judge Blocks Texas From Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid
State determined to have provided “no evidence” of wrongdoing
Send a Card for Girlfriend’s Day
Director talks Bob Odenkirk’s Netflix crime comedy
OUTsider Review: Promised Land
Rudy Ramirez and his quest for queer belonging
SXSW Comedy: Your 2017 Lineup
Making you laugh this March: Cenac, Sykes, Odenkirk, Hardwick, & more
Strange Days Await Ian Moore
Singer/guitarist premieres new single
Lozano Long Conference Turns Lens to Food Systems
Humberto Ríos Labrada to deliver keynote
Council: Robert Rules, OK?
Plaza Saltillo inches forward, Capitol views move East, and tears flow
City Report on Music Division Revealed
Findings: Manager Don Pitts didn’t report fraudulent invoice
OUTsider Review: Type/Caste
Rotimi Agbabiaka’s one-man show on acting while black and queer
Sandy Carson Was There
Fund a unique photo op of ATX’s live music capital
SXSW List 8
Peanut Butter Wolf, Kasey Chambers, White Denim and 147 more
Fifty Shades Darker
Oh bondage, I’m yours!
Neruda
The famous Chilean poet is on the run in this biopic
A Cure for Wellness
Gothic mystery is hard to swallow
The Red Turtle
Poetic beauty abounds in this animated gem
Fist Fight
A comedy that revels in low-hanging fruit
Toni Erdmann
An honest and bizarre take on the parent/child relationship
Day Trips: JBS Wetland Center, Seagoville
Bald eagle couple expecting two chicks to hatch on internet TV
Soccer Watch
Some eye-openers this week in the first games of the European Champions League knockout round: notably, Barcelona getting blown out, 4-0, at Paris St. Germain, and Bayern Munich handling Arsenal, 5-1. Next week it’s Manchester City-Monaco, Porto-Juventus, Bayer Leverkusen-Atletico Madrid, and Sevilla-Leicester. Tue.-Wed., Feb. 21-22, 1:45pm on Fox Sports 1 & 2… CONCACAF Champions League…
Dear Glutton: First Date Spots for Non-Drinkers
Finding a place to drink with teetotaling options
Cruz or Cornyn vs. Castro or O’Rourke?
Texas’ next race for the Senate is shaping up already
Gay Place
OUTsider Fest heads into the woods and will “emerge ready to fight”
Building a Better School District
A bit of school consolidation in the works?
Molly Burch Record Review
Please Be Mine (Captured Tracks)
LBJ Library Director Steps Down
Mark Updegrove recalls “the greatest honor of my career”
Molly Burch Mixes Heartbroken Narratives and Fifties Pop
Austin newcomer’s debut, Please Be Mine, is a quiet triumph
AISD on ICE
Superintendent Paul Cruz wants AISD to know ICE is watching
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
The sometime Austinite tours the U.S. for the first time since 1969
Exploring the Auteurs of Early Black Cinema
AFS screens rare and influential selections from the Pioneers of African-American Cinema
Divest in Chase Bank
The city holds a $1.16 million contract with the bank
Red Guards and the Modern Face of Protest
Agitators, disrupters, or “anarchists,” these masked protesters represent a new resistance
My Obsession: Bob Byington Dials in to the 555
Austin filmmaker shares his love for new sketch comedy series
Bill of the Week: Voter Registration Made Easy?
Rep. Celia Israel wants Texans to register to vote online
Amanda Eyre Ward’s Maternal Turn
In The Nearness of You, novelist Amanda Eyre Ward writes about her most important topic yet: motherhood
Screen Shots
A miscellany of film news and events
Medicaid Patients Face a Future Without Planned Parenthood
“I don’t know where I would go”
Council Preview: Promised Land Use
Austin Oaks, Plaza Saltillo loom large at Thursday meeting
The Luv Doc: Willing
Western Europeans through most of the last few thousand years haven’t been very enthusiastic bathers
Sekrit Theater Appears Close to Shuttering
Beau Reichert is considering a sale of his East Austin arts space
Lege Lines: Left in the Dark
Who knew about the ICE raids this weekend? Not your state reps.
Book Review: The Nearness of You
Elizabeth Stone, author of A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned From Her Student, wrote, “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Loving a child, as a parent in particular, transforms the human existence, and it…
Dell Med School Debate Over Use of Funds Continues
Fred Lewis won’t quit HEALTH fight with Travis County
Point Austin: Living in Emergency
One day at a time in the former republic
Playback: The 2016/17 Austin Music Awards Reveal
In the war room, afternoons were spent spitballing, strategizing, scheming, and dreaming up performances for the 2016/17 Austin Music Awards. All the generals were there: Charlie Sexton – rock royalty guitarist with a Rolodex on his phone likely second only to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner; Celeste Quesada – the show’s…
The Hightower Report: There’s a Word for Trump’s Latest Flimflamming of Workers
Trump’s the working man’s president? Please!
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
“America First” was the name of the pro-Nazi group led by Charles Lindbergh that fought FDR to keep America neutral between Britain and Hitler’s Germany. Most birds don’t have penises. However, ducks, geese, swans, and large flightless birds like ostriches and emus do. In the 1850s, Karl Marx was a reporter for The New York…
Page Two: The U.S. Swings Like a Pendulum Do
The good news is, the Constitution is specifically designed to work amidst controversy and hatred
Salvage Vanguard Theater’s Thr3e Zisters
This zombified take on Chekhov gets reanimated right when we need women who will bite back at the patriarchy
Headlines
City Council meets today, Feb. 16, considering action on additional legal aid for immigrants, a contract for APD body cameras, and plenty of land use discussions, including the return of Plaza Saltillo and the Austin Oaks PUD. See “Council Preview: Promised Land Use,” Feb. 17. For Sale Now: Negotiations have begun for sale or lease…
Ballet Austin’s Belle Redux: A Tale of Beauty & the Beast
In its striking concept and execution, Stephen Mills’ take on the fairy tale was his most fully realized story ballet since Hamlet
Quote of the Week
Austin’s mayor speaks out on ICE
“Sally Weber: Fractured”
These photographs, made with scanners and full of distortion, offer not a precious image of a leaf but a fresh way to perceive a leaf
Public Notice: Ted Talks
AISD trustee lays it on the line about LBJ / LASA
