Volume 34, Number 15
ON THE COVER:
news
Attorney, teacher, and veteran fighter for freedom, Barbara Hines retires from a career mentoring students
BY TONY CANTÚ
Give 'Til It Helps 2014, Part 1
BY KATE X MESSER
The end of an era, and the beginning of another
BY MICHAEL KING
If not golf, what?
BY NICK BARBARO
Should developers have to recycle?
BY ROBYN ROSS
It's the very last meeting of Council, and it's stuffed to the gills
BY MICHAEL KING
Is Zimmerman trying to keep the media from looking into his personal life?
BY AMY KAMP
The end is near
BY THE NEWS STAFF
Who's cleaning up?
Council agrees to wait before deciding Decker's fate
BY JO CLIFTON
Judge says Kellers can't prove they're innocent of a crime few believe happened
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD gets closer to finding a new superintendent
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Families head to court in a last-ditch attempt to keep loved ones at Austin SSLC
BY MARY TUMA
GOP doubles down on fear and loathing of Latino immigrants
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The last days of Tobias Pecans
BY KATE X MESSER
Manor Road's revenge of the curds
BY BRANDON WATSON
New Azul Tequila duplicates success
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Whiskey wars and brew news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Ian McLagan's swan song
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Sunny Sweeney strikes out on her own
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Box Sets
Alpha Mike Foxtrot
1992-1998
Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972
Velvet Underground: 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Adore: Super Deluxe Edition
Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced
Uncompromising Expression: 75 Years of the Finest in Jazz
The Complete Epic Recordings Collection
The Apple Years 1968-75
The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11
screens
Gifts for every kind of gamer
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Filmmaker Margaret Brown dives into the wreckage of the area residents' lives following the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
BY KATE X MESSER
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
Doc looks at the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the lives of residents in the Gulf area.
This documentary follows an American man's motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East, during which he takes up arms against Moammar Gadhafi in Libya.
A team of U.S. archeologists becomes lost and hunted in the labyrinthine catacombs of a buried pyramid.
Chris Rock is on a roll with this funny yet pointed comedy, which he wrote and directed, and also stars in.
Reese Witherspoon stars as Cheryl Strayed in this autobiographical trek of expiation.
arts & culture
Jason Phelps turns to his theatrical past to nourish the present with a Feast of My Heart
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Christmas cheer for the ear from UT Wind Ensemble, Austin Symphony Orchestra, and Conspirare
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Street Corner Arts reveals how Clifford Odets did immersive theatre nearly 80 years ago
In seven dances, Kathy Dunn Hamrick and a strong ensemble show how the now is rooted in what came before
New residence-based gallery Permanent.Collection debuts with a curious show
columns
Read your way through those visits with the in-laws
BY AMY GENTRY
Lumberjacks, queens, and Mom Jeans: Keep those receipts, kids
BY KATE X MESSER
Mystery still surrounds ancient remains
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
In general, people don’t want advice – even when they ask for it
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW