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Volume 39, Number 17
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news
The Make It Movement Wants You to Learn a Trade and Love What You Do
Can skilled jobs and career education change Texas culture?
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Austin at Large: Equity Is Everybody’s Business
We the people of Austin own the future of our schools
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Headlines
Quote of the Week
NAKED CITY
Dark Clouds Over Travis County Expo Center?
County and city at an impasse over hotel occupancy tax monies
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
After 20 Years, Measles Return on Travis County
Austin Public Health official says resurgence of measles is "directly attributable to the anti-vaccine movement"
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Future Plans for AISD HQ Site Unveiled
The soon-to-be-former Austin ISD complex will be demolished to make way for a four-story office / retail space
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Is There an Equity Audit in AISD’s Future?
More analysis, debate likely before future school closures
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
2020 Council Races Already Taking Shape
Alter draws a challenger for D10 seat
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
City:One Challenge Finalists Focus on Healthy Living
Corporatation-funded competition aims to improve East Austin mobility
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Election Ticker: Marching Toward 2020
Early voting in the primaries is only seven weeks away
BY MICHAEL KING
food
A Brief History of Holiday Tamales
And where to acquire these little bundles of iconic Texan year-end tradition
BY EMILY BEYDA
Hangover Helpers: How to Start the Year Off Less Miserable
With a new book and local remedies, we've got you covered
BY JESSI CAPE
The Best Recipe for Your Lucky Black-Eyed Peas on New Year’s Day
Pickle the little legumes and never look back
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
music
10 Austin Acts to Catch at Free Week 2020
Free Week bands you’ll be hearing more about in the coming 12 months
BY THE MUSIC STAFF
Faster Than Sound: Blood Goes Big, Free Week Contracts
In the ATX music news: punk poetics by local septet Blood, January’s Free Week dates, and the Live Music Fund’s first feedback
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
A Decade in Austin Films
The city’s cinema, from indie visions to Oscar winners and international blockbusters
BY THE SCREENS STAFF
Now Streaming in Austin: "Pigeon: Impossible"
From "Pigeon Impossible" to Spies in Disguise
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AFS Cinema Presents Two Asian Film Classics for the Holidays
In single takes, Yi Yi and Tokyo Story explore the true meaning of family
BY JENNY NULF
Hustling Uncut Gems With the Safdie Brothers
How their family history glistens in their New York story
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
arts & culture
Dragula Star Louisianna Purchase Finds Fantasy in the Nightmare
Competing on the reality series turned this Austin drag queen into a queen of the night
BY SARAH MARLOFF AND BETH SULLIVAN
Arts Reviews
Hideout Theatre's The Hallmark Holiday Musical
This delightful improvised spin on Hallmark Christmas movies has just what the real things never do: surprises
"Tia J. Boyd: Future Inhabitants" at the Carver
Tia J. Boyd's photographic portraits of warrior women reveal the subjects' power and beauty in a post-postapocalyptic world
"Ashley Benton + Christopher Lee Gilmer" at Wally Workman Gallery
Art is, we’ll insist, transcendent when its foundation is skill and passion
columns
Qmmunity: Hope, Glitter, and Change for 2020
Ring in the new year with all the queers
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: The Museum of Illusions, Dallas
A museum that plays tricks on your mind
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Naming Conventions
A name with three syllables that ends with a breakup
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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