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Will Texas Patch Up TABC Before It Bursts?
If ever an agency needed to be scorched by the state’s Sunset Act, it’s the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Point Austin: How to Suppress the Vote
With its latest lies, Texas GOP reminds us: This is all they’ve got
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Higher-Ed Commissioner Raymund Paredes Retires
Steps down after 15 years helping Texans access postsecondary education
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
SAFE Tackles Work Misconduct
Austin nonprofit launches initiative to train workplaces on fostering “zero-violence environments”
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Scooters Are Not for Crimes
Scooter and cellphone data lead to Austin teen’s arrest for bank robbery
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Council Set to OK New Contract for Downtown Homeless Shelter
Council ready to take next (Front) Steps
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
AISD and City: Let’s Work Together!
Looking for mutually beneficial uses for publicly owned land
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Lege Lines: Texas GOP Tees up More Voter ID Nonsense
Secretary of State issues election advisory, ignites right-wing voter fraud frenzy
BY MARY TUMA
Racist Confederate Plaque Needs a Forever Home
State Preservation Board mulls over what to do with defrocked "Children of the Confederacy Creed" plaque
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Special Election Fills One of Three Vacant Seats in Texas House
Dem Art Fierro wins HD 79 while Houston's HD 145 goes to runoff
BY MARY TUMA
Pressley’s Zombie Council Fight Gets Snuffed
Texas Supreme Court declares an end to 2014(!) city election
BY MICHAEL KING
food
The Battle of Small Beer vs. Big Distributors Rages on With Texas Beer-To-Go Bill
Another chippy round of political beer pong
BY ERIC PUGA
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of January 31, 2019
music
Austin's House Music Scene Clings to the African-American Community That Birthed It
House music rose to prominence from Chicago’s black music community and hangs on here in its original form
BY DAN GENTILE
Faster Than Sound: I’m Just Not Into Labels
CD Baby brings DIY Musician Conference to Austin, Sidewinder won't be ready for SXSW, and PledgeMusic withholds Fastball campaign funds
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
Experimental Response Cinema’s Scott Stark Bids Farewell to Austin
Our interview with the filmmaker and programmer
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Catherine Hardwicke Unloads With Miss Bala
Twilight director and UT grad heads across the border for new film
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nicole Kidman, Still To Die For
How the Australian A-lister stays true to her indie roots
BY BRITT HAYES
Now Streaming in Austin: Love Radio
Web series Love Radio, shot in KOOP studios, takes the romance out of DJ life
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Capernaum
Lebanese drama of the destitute is tough to watch, but tougher to live
Miss Bala
Drug cartel action gets an unexpectedly glamorous makeover
Piercing
A wannabe serial killer gets more than he anticipates in this dark comedy
They Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson's extraordinary World War I documentary finds humanity in a hellish war
Unbridled
Religion and horses are insufficient therapy for this abuse drama
arts & culture
Residential Art Gallery Collection Rert Is Creative Austin as It Used to Be
Amanda Jones and Chad Hopper let the Rert ones in
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Snapshot: Cirque Italia
Water circus splashes down at Barton Creek Square mall
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Austin Opera's Silent Night
This production of the Pulitzer Prize winner powerfully creates the tension of the battlefield and just as powerfully lets it go
Bowlaway by Elizabeth McCracken
Bowling is something sacred in Elizabeth McCracken’s multigenerational novel
"Interwoven" at MASS Gallery
In this group show of fiber artists, a stitch in time saves, nein?
columns
Qmmunity
Lewkin' at the Lege
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Industry, San Marcos
New restaurant a place to relax and enjoy
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: A Very Honest Person
The Luv Doc is uncomfortable with the idea of a "hall pass"
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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