John Anderson / Design by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 43, Number 21
ON THE COVER:
news
All-time highs and lows
BY LINA FISHER
Evaluations are picking up speed
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Three migrants drown after Texas blocks Border Patrol rescue
BY BRANT BINGAMON
But that didn’t work the first time
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
They are fighting to be paid for every hour they work
BY LINA FISHER
food
The chef behind Uchi (and several more notable restaurants) gets Hai all the time
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 11, 2024
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
The late Craig Stewart released early works by the Mountain Goats and more
BY JOE GROSS
Could this guitar-banjo-sax duo be on a Black Pumas trajectory?
BY AMBER WILLIAMS
Catch Lucinda Williams, Escuela Grind, or Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, GENEVIEVE WOOD, ELIZABETH BRAATEN, DOUG FREEMAN, MICHAEL TOLAND, CARYS ANDERSON AND DEREK UDENSI
Austin contingent delivers highlights on Joecephus’ 2 LP set
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Barrel-aged indie folk makes early-adulthood existentialism sound sublime
BY ELIZABETH BRAATEN
Heavy-hitting beat rider becomes swoon-worthy R&B crooner
BY GENEVIEVE WOOD
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
A celebration of Mark Reeb
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Film Critics Association honors local film
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Slasher political satire should fall on its own blade
Fictional meeting between Freud and CS Lewis makes no breakthrough
The hit kaiju film is remastered in black and white.
Hanumanthu gains the powers of Hanuman and fights to protect Anjanadri
Spacebound political thriller lacks any sense of gravity
A portrait of Amsterdam now and under Nazi occupation
Ava DuVernay's plainly spoken look at the underpinnings of bigotry
arts & culture
Austin DIY icon Tim Kerr and Houston legends Robert Hodge and Russel Gonzalez create “No Kings But Us”
BY HARIS QURESHI
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
columns
Shake off the icicles and step out on the gay Austin streets with these queer events
BY JAMES SCOTT
Houston gets into a bean war with Chicago
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Don’t deprive students of our voting power
BY MYA BARRERA AND CINDY CUELLAR
Emotionally unstable, overly dramatic people have a real flair for creating stark memories
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your weekly horoscope, January 19-25
BY ROB BREZSNY
Letters to the editor, published daily
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY JEN SORENSEN