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UT’s Public Arts Program Debuts an Ambitious New Project
Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School
ICE Raid in Austin?
Federal immigration agency rumored to be in town for roundup
New Waterloo Announces Il Brutto
Il Brutto to serve classic Italian, wood-fired pizza
Shirley MacLaine and Sarah Green to Enter Texas Film Hall of Fame
Texas Film Awards announces more honorees
Day Trips & Beyond: February Events Roundup
Drivin’ the blues away
Council Takes Out the Trash?
Vote on future of Simple Recycling looms at Thursday meeting
Council: What’ll We Do Without Zim?
First 2017 meeting hints new alignments
SXSW Announces Film Lineup
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire, and more
Nicolas Cage Takes Over the Alamo
Watch the mega-acting star perform Edgar Allan Poe
“Get Signed Up Now!”
Doggett highlights enrollment deadline for Affordable Care Act
Austinites Win Big at Sundance
Filmmakers Macon Blair and Ramona Diaz score prizes at festival
Rooster Teeth Launches Video Game Publishing Division
Battlesloths 2025 announced for release in spring of this year
Seven Places in Austin to Eat and Drink on a Budget: Jan. 30-Feb. 5
Your day by day guide to the best local happy hours and deals
But Take Great Care, for Maybe She’s a Sort of Basilisk
Author Ottessa Moshfegh at BookPeople on Tuesday night
Austin: “Strong, Unique, and Special”
“State of the City” emphasizes change, permanence, independence
Federal Judge Again Delays Fetal Burial Rule
Anti-choice rule was to take effect Friday, Jan. 27
Bort Is Austin’s Trans-Feminine, Graffiti Trash Queen
A look into one of ATX’s most iconic street artists
Six Places to Celebrate Chinese New Year in Austin
Feast your way through the Year of the Rooster
Moontower 6: More Headliners
Jay Pharaoh, Chris Hardwick, Morgan Murphy join 2017 lineup
SXSW Music No. 5
Hurray for the Riff Raff, Naomi Achu, Cakes da Killa, and 171 more added
The Founder
Michael Keaton supersizes McDonald’s
xXx: Return of Xander Cage
Vin Diesel returns to kickstart this action series
A Dog’s Purpose
Reincarnated dog film is full of cliches
Julieta
Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman’s life
Gold
Not much glitters in this uneven film
Paterson
Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian
“Orna Feinstein: Treetopia”
The bubbles and circles of Feinstein’s monoprints are sophisticated, beautiful, even fun, but they may leave you wanting more
Headlines
City Council resumes its regular meeting schedule today (Jan. 26) with two new members (Jimmy Flannigan and Alison Alter) and an ambitious agenda, three dozen zoning cases, and renewed determination to reorganize its committee structure and late-night meetings. See “Council Roundup: Late Nights, Longer Meetings.” After three days of hearings, U.S. Federal Judge Sam Sparks…
PHOTOS: One Resistance and LGBTQ Human Rights Rallies
One Resistance and LGBTQ Human Rights Rally protesters took over downtown
Public Notice: Imagine That
Land development code draft ready at last
Day Trips: Hatco Outlet Store, Garland
Longtime Texas tradition makes more than ranch and rodeo family headwear
Soccer Watch
San Antonio FC announced their six-game preseason schedule this week; it starts Feb. 11 and 18 with two very good college teams, Incarnate Word and St. Edward’s, and includes a trip to Florida to face the newest MLS entrant, Minnesota United, in their first-ever preseason. SAFC will hold open tryouts for prospective players on Friday,…
Luv Doc: FMB
Mouths are undoubtedly festering cesspools of bacterial flora
Gay Place
The formation of groups like the CTTHC are more important now than ever
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
Your chances of being injured by a grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park are about 1 in 2.7 million, according to the National Park Service. At her Dec. 29, 1971 concert at the Las Vegas Hilton, Barbra Streisand wore a white lace gown with a red underskirt and a white choker. Before the 1972 U.S.…
“Taste of Black Austin” Explores Cultural Foodways
New photography exhibit showcases Austin’s African-American chefs
ICE’s Freezeout in Travis County
Gov. Abbott has threatened to cut off grant funding to the county
Zimmerman Is Radio’s Voice of Reason
Wouldn’t you know Zim would end up on right-wing radio?
Playback: Make the Austin Music Poll Great Again
Getting the vote out for the 2016/17 Austin Music Poll
State Supreme Court Reconsiders Same-Sex Benefits
The state’s high court will take up a case questioning the legality of “taxpayer-funded benefits” for same-sex spouses
Can a Working Musician Find a Decent Job in This Town?
Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them
Review: Curcuma and the Great Y’all
Two trucks take very different approaches to plant-based eating
“Quaker Lobbyist” Visits Austin
Diane Randall plans Austin stop to talk public policy
The Future Is in Flux for the Texas Film Incentive Program
Texas loses productions to states with bigger and better incentive programs
Curcuma
Turmeric rules at this plant-based food truck
Lege Lines: State Level Bullying Reaches New Plateau
Local reps’ mission this session? Keep the state GOP away from Austin.
Who Killed Vicki Nisbett? And Is She Even Dead?
No verifiable crime scene, no murder weapon, no motive, and no body
The Great Y’all
Asian inspired bar food that just happens to be vegan
Bill of the Week: No-Fault Divorce on the Chopping Block
Rep. Matt Krause, R-Ft. Worth, wants to make it harder to get a divorce
Council Roundup: Late Nights, Longer Meetings
Now let’s find a way to get out of meetings earlier
PHOTOS: Landmarks’ Public Art at UT
UT’s public art arts program
A Weekend of Big Rallies
The Women’s March on Austin caps off a banner weekend of civic engagement
Point Austin: Slamming the Golden Door
The sheriff, the governor, the president – and the new politics of fear
Vortex Repertory’s A Perfect Robot
Sarah Saltwick’s timely script elegantly explores the tension between idealized automatons and messy humans
The Hightower Report: How Many Working-Class Populists Are in Trump’s New Government?
More than half of The Donald’s Department of Defense transition team have worked as executives or lobbyists
Austin Chamber Music Center’s My Life
This concert of works by Brahms, Smetana, and Fujiwara contrasted autobiographical stories told within music by young composers and mature ones
Death Watch: A Death Sentence for $1.25
John Ramirez goes to the gurney for a murder committed during a robbery
PHOTOS: The Women’s March on Austin
Tens of thousands descended on the Texas State Capitol to march for human rights
Quote of the Week
Yes, they really said that.
