AFS Cinema
Volume 32, Number 14
news
Still Looking for a Home
Austin searches once again for a comprehensive solution for homelessness
BY MIKE KANIN
Point Austin: Questions for Visa
A few things we might ask before we provide corporate welfare
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Water for Sale
WTP4 has to pay for itself, by hook or by crook
BY AMY SMITH
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Headlines
City to Heyride: Not So Fast
Is this mobile ridesharing app in a legal gray area or openly violating the city's taxi franchise agreement?
BY DAN SOLOMON
Next Week's Council: It's a Porker
Zoning, WTP4, Visa, and more
BY AMY SMITH
Victories for Living Wages
Development incentives policies seem to be swinging in workers' favor
BY MIKE KANIN
ASME vs. Esme
UT student engineering organization withdraws logo based on Barrera memorial design
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report: Fixing American Airlines
Blame outsourcing and downsizing for questionable fleet maintenance
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
In the Blind
A weekend at Dai Due's Hunting School for Women
BY JESSI CAPE
Eat Drink Local Week's Culinary/Cultural Mash-Up
Eat well. Drink well. Do good.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-O-File
Tacodeli challenges Austinites to create its newest taco
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Nov. 29-Dec. 6
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Mansion at Judges' Hill
New owners are breathing life into an Austin landmark
music
Steady As He Goes
From cosmic cowboys and Americana to punk rock and legacy acts, Freddie Steady Krc keeps the beat
BY MARGARET MOSER
Playback: Teatro Negro
Reunions, fundraisers, performance videos – trying to rein in local music as 2012 draws to a close
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
The Gary
Remains
Foreign Mothers
Duh
Thousand Foot Whale Claw, Trans Upper Egypt, John Wesley Coleman III, Sands Hollow
Dope Moons Volume One, North African Berserk, Nightmare on Silly Street, Half the Night is Candlelight
screens
No Catharsis in 'The Comedy'
Rick Alverson and Tim Heidecker talk about savage reviews and the danger in grand gestures
BY SHAWN BADGLEY
GIFT GUIDE 2012
A Gift for Every Gamer
Put yourself in the shoes of your gaming giftee and answer the following questions on your path to the perfect purchase.
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
Anna Karenina
Joe Wright's bold but empty imagining of Tolstoy's classic is set mostly within the walls of a theatre.
The Comedy
Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric renown) plays a rich, cynical hipster who uses New York City as his playground.
Killing Them Softly
Some great performances punctuate the odd pacing in this adapatation of George V. Higgins' Cogan's Trade, set within the criminal underworld.
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
The fourth entry in this series is surprisingly complex and ambitious.
arts & culture
José Luis Bustamante
The disappearance, and tentative return, of a choreographic presence
BY JONELLE SEITZ
All Over Creation: The Persistence of Penguins
And Then Came Tango stirs up a fuss, but its birds fly after all
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
You Can't Take It With You
Director Mick D'Arcy warms an old chestnut at the Vortex
Sordid Lives
Del Shores' controversial comedy contains a nugget of courageous compassion among the laughs
'Randall Reid: Resurrecting the Past'
Old industrial signage bolted into steel frames make gorgeous testament to time's passage
columns
Letters at 3AM: The Lincolns of Hollywood
It is dangerous to view history through the eyes of sentimentality
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Gay Place
The season has begun. Let the merry begin, fairies.
BY KATE X MESSER
After a Fashion: For the Benefit of Mr. Jones
Stephen shares some serious and sad news
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips
Sleepy town houses exotic knives
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Hopelessness
One of the hardest lessons to learn in life
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Aztex announce tryout schedule, and more
