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Signs of Trouble and of Hope at Mendez Middle School
In-district charter seeks to turn around a campus’ longtime struggles
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Point Austin: Signing On to a Green New Deal
Doggett in defense of concrete steps, not “absolute purity”
BY MICHAEL KING
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NAKED CITY
AISD Moves Forward on Three Lingering Issues
School board’s busy, busy night
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Community Survey Proves Austinites Love Austin
We like us, we still really like us
BY MICHAEL KING
Spider House Saga Goes to Court
Judge hears motion to dismiss defamation lawsuit
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Abortion Clinic Displaced by Crisis Pregnancy Center
Whole Woman's Health will now be the new home to Austin LifeCare
BY MARY TUMA
Activists Say Austin Public Library Policy Change Is Overdue
Disturbing the library
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
City, UT Agree to Change Red River’s Flow
One of central Austin's main thoroughfares to be realigned and reconstructed
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
T. Don Hutto Detention Center Still Open
Controversial private prison contracts directly with ICE to house women seeking asylum
BY MARY TUMA
Lege Lines: Do It for the Kids
House Dems lay out school finance plan
BY MICHAEL KING AND MARY TUMA
Judges Not Ready to Endorse Public Defender Plan
Proposed office's future even more uncertain
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
food
Dive Deeper Into the World of Mezcal in Austin
It's agave all day at these local bars
BY VERONICA MEEWES
Austin Startup Home Run Dugout Steps Up to the Plate
Pre-booking is open for the Dell Diamond facility in advance of baseball’s opening day
BY JESSI CAPE
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of February 28, 2019
music
Here Are Your 2018/19 Austin Music Award Winners
Best band, musician, song, radio station, and more Top 10s chosen by you
Faster Than Sound: KVRX Launches the Largest College Radio Festival
KVRX station manager Gab Soong starts the largest ever student-run radio fest, national phone theft ring uncovered from ACL Fest, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek settles down outside the city
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
OFFICE SPACE AT 20
Looking Back at the Corporate Comedy Classic Office Space
Mike Judge's defining depiction of corporate America enters the Texas Film Hall of Fame
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Office Space Star David Herman Is the Real Michael Bolton
"Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks!"
BY BRITT HAYES
Gary Cole Was the Original Horrible Boss in Office Space
"Didn't you get the memo?"
BY DAN GENTILE
“I Believe You’d Get Your Ass Kicked Saying Somethin’ Like That, Man.”
Re-read our original Office Space review
Texas Film Awards 2019
The who, what, where of the biggest night in Texas cinema
John Lee Hancock Heads to the Texas Film Hall of Fame
A writer, a director, and a writer/director
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd
Austin filmmakers need your help funding new films
BY SAVANNAH J SALAZAR
Film Reviews
Climax
Gaspar Noé's acid freakout dance-a-thon teaches us that drugs are bad, m'kay
Fighting With My Family
Wrestling biopic of breakthrough WWE superstar Paige
Greta
Chloë Grace Moretz and Isabelle Huppert play cat-and-mouse in this glorious potboiler
The Hole in the Ground
Something evil in the Irish countryside
Hotel by the River
Semi-improvised South Korean family drama is as much about pauses as what it spoken
The Iron Orchard
Texas wildcatter literary classic is a sometimes too-faithful adaptation
To Dust
Two men and a pig become more than porcine comedy in this tender and cunning discussion of death
arts & culture
The Challenge of Playing Living People in Zach Theatre's Notes From the Field
The cast discusses how hard it can be getting into the skin of living people in Anna Deavere Smith’s play
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot – Inside Hopscotch: Light and Sound
This is the immersive art experience that’s all over your Instagram feed
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Ground Floor Theatre's black do crack
In this new solo show, writer-performer Florinda Bryant shatters the myth that black women must go it alone
TexARTS' Xanadu
This musical comedy embrace of Eighties pop culture is served up with all the energy, excess, and extravagance the decade deserves
Denise Elliott Jones: "Does It Match the Sofa?" at the Butridge Gallery
This divine Texas artist is straight-up messing with the fabric of reality
columns
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Qmmunity: Let’s Get Political
Guiding the city’s Queer Commission, plus cherry-picked events to queer your week
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: New Monuments, Houston
Twenty-five artists reimagine modern monuments
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Critical, Urgent Texts
Confession: The Luv Doc hates texting
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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