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The Next New Neighborhood
City and residents plan a sustainable Colony Park
BY ROBYN ROSS
Point Austin: Small Victories
Whatever the prospects, the tasks remain the same
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Faith and the Environment
Interfaith leaders push for more renewables in city's generation plan
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Project Connect: Phases and Stages
Advisory group gets closer to official Council recommendation
BY MAC MCCANN
Council: Spring Bluebonnets, Spring Candidates
The November district Council races continue to rumble into action
BY MICHAEL KING
Capital Metro Service Changes Public Meeting
AISD's Carstarphen Atlanta Bound
Superintendent named sole finalist to head Atlanta Public Schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
'No Undue Burden': 5th Circuit Upholds HB 2
5th Circuit overrules Yeakel, upholds HB 2
BY JORDAN SMITH
ACBA Summit: Austin Co-ops on the Move
Annual confab hopes to support democratic businesses
BY ROBYN ROSS
Homeless Campground: South Austin Dilemma
Larger issue still unaddressed
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Changes in Store for Duncan/BMX Park
BMX riders meet with Parks and Rec
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
To start a movement, start moving!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Take a Walk on the Wild Side
The ancient art of foraging for food is aged to perfection
BY JESSI CAPE
Blurry Vision
The Hightower hasn't found its groove – yet
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Mindful Meals
Classic and innovative kosher recipes to inspire home cooks just in time for Passover
BY AMY KRITZER
Food-O-File
New menus, remodeling, and a fresh crop of weekends for Austin Restaurant Week? Spring has sprung in the Austin foodie scene.
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Soy Quien Soy
Gina Chavez comes into her own
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Playback: Live Music and Lodging
Hotel Indigo to break ground on Red River as Max Frost breaks the same with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy on his Atlantic Records debut
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Insect Sex Act
A Fist Full of Panties, For a Few Panties More, or Once Upon a Time in Your Panties
East 35
East 35
Flaco & Max, Los Texas Wranglers
Tex Mex
screens
HBO My
Premium cable network struts its stuff with three premieres this weekend
BY MONICA RIESE
Drafthouse Hosts a Class of 1984 Reunion
He who controls the past controls the future of Alamo programming
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
He Ain't Heavy; He's My Blood Brother
AFS Doc Nights takes a trip to India for the next in its series
BY ANNE S. LEWIS
Film Reviews
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
One of the better offerings from Marvel’s growing multimedia omniverse, this film gives fans plenty to chew on.
Ernest & Celestine
The team from A Town Called Panic returns with another animated charmer – this time a tale about interspecies friendship and dentistry.
Jinn
Thrills start after a man receives a cryptic message warning that he's in imminent danger.
Le Week-End
A long-married couple amusingly dance toward the kind of despair borne from overfamiliarity.
Main Tera Hero
Bollywood masala.
Noah
Partly allegorical, partly spectacular, and wholly sincere, Darren Aronofsky gives us another memorable movie about a driven individual.
Nymphomaniac: Volume 2
Second verse, not as good as the first.
Repentance
Forest Whitaker stars as a very troubled man in this thriller opening locally at a dollar house.
Rowdy
Telugu action thriller.
arts & culture
LipSchtick Traces
When Cindy Wood scores the big laughs at Esther's Follies, she's channeling comedy's funniest femmes
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'17th Century Masterworks From Eastern Europe'
Move over, Queen! La Follia digs up some Bohemian rhapsodies you've never heard before.
BY NATALIE ZELDIN
Sondheim: Side by Side – by Side
Austin gets a triple scoop from the musical master: 'Company,' 'Merrily We Roll Along,' and 'Assassins'
BY RUSSELL M. DEMBIN
Arts Reviews
Gypsy
Though slow going, Southwestern University's staging delivered old-fashioned splendor and passion
New American Talent / Dance
Not everyone agreed with the clear winner in Ballet Austin's competition this year, and enough with the tweets
Ordinary Days
This chamber musical about two male-female duos in NYC is a refreshingly modern study of intimacy
columns
Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench
The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Oops
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Good Eye: Hitting Home
Preservation Austin knows there's no place like midcentury modern
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place
Let your hair (and other things) down at ArtErotica, Body Rock, and Lezz Dance
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Tyler's Barbecue in Amarillo ain't fooling around
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law: Tax Procrastinators Unite
Tax Procrastinators Unite
BY LUKE ELLIS
The Luv Doc: A Drinking Solution
What to drink and where to drink it
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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