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Diving Right In
The new 10-1 Council begins to re-invent Austin government
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Reinventing the Wheel
May God bless the new City Council. They're gonna need Her.
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: A Modest Proposal
Zoning doesn't have to be so hard
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Legislative Committees Take Shape
Lite Guv Patrick begins making appointments
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Council: Between the Cup and the Lip
The 10-1 Council takes its first agenda
BY MICHAEL KING
Health Care Equality
Obamacare and the LGBTQ community
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Sparks Flares Over City's SOI Ordinance
Court hearing on anti-discrimination ordinance goes poorly for city
BY MARY TUMA
Standard of Care
Are pregnant inmates receiving adequate medical treatment?
BY AMY KAMP
The Perea Story
Producer fired by KTBC last year kills himself at Fox headquarters
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: Two More Executions Will Make Three in Five Weeks
Executions accelerate in 2015
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report: Death of the Lush, Green Lawn
Farewell to green lawns, hello to desertscapes
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All About That Banchan
Singing the praises of Austin's unsung Korean cuisine
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Baby Boom
The Soup Peddler family grows
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The Shopping List
Four new ways to keep it local
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food-o-File
The beef with brisket
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Robert Earl Keen
Inside REK's inner sanctum, the "Scriptorium"
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback
Last chance to vote in the Austin Music Poll!
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
My Life on Apps
The convenience and economics of living through your phone
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Do Your Worst
TV showrunner Stephen Falk on his anarchic FX rom-com, You're the Worst
BY ROD MACHEN
Not Your Usual Song and Dance
Indie Meme film showcase explores independent Indian cinema
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
2015 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films
Five Oscar nominees, plus some extra treats.
2015 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films: Program A
Program A consists of the two longest doc shorts, and they’re among the best of the batch.
2015 Academy Award-Nominated Documentary Short Films: Program B
The collected films in Program B examine suffering from different angles
2015 Academy Award-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
This live-action group is unified by a general desire to tug at the heartstrings.
Americons
The self-serving sub-prime mortgage boom of 2007 proves seductive to a fading collegiate ballplayer.
Amira & Sam
Cross-cultural love between a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi girl flourishes in the Big Apple.
Black or White
Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer play guardians who fight over the custody of their granddaughter.
Black Sea
This undersea actioner stars Jude Law as a submarine captain leading a team of Brits and Russians in the recovery of a sunken fortune.
Hawaizaada
Hindi movie about the life of scientist Shivkar Bapuji Talpade.
Mortdecai
Johnny Depp fails to unleash his inner Peter Sellers in this globetrotting spy comedy.
Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh delivers a fascinating, period-rich portrait of the latter years of the painter J.M.W. Turner.
Pataas
Telugu drama about corruption in a police department.
Strange Magic
Woodland goblins, elves, and fairies go to war in this animated movie from LucasFilm Animation.
Yennai Arindhaal
Tamil thriller tells the story of a man from the age of 13 to 38.
arts & culture
Soundpainting Bowie
In The Bowie Project 2, everyone is Bowie, and nothing stays the same
BY JONELLE SEITZ
All Over Creation: Site Specifics
Fusebox Festival helps the community envision a new kind of development with thinkEAST
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
"Extremezzotints"
Slugfest Gallery's sampling of the exquisitely complicated print process called mezzotint will have you gawking
DNA
Capital T Theatre's DNA reveals more about how animals behave in a group than an episode of Nature
"Unconscious Collective"
John Tennison's solo show lacks an editorial eye, and the exhibition suffers for it
columns
Oops
Day Trips: New Braunfels Brewing Co.
Pucker up with this brewery's sour beers
The Good Eye: Girl, Illustrated
The fine lines between the lines
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place: Big Blue Body
GIAC's Nina Diaz is her own dang thang
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: A Total Bitch
Orange is not the new black. It’s the shittiest shade of gray.
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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