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Four months after using a new guideline to declare Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks ineligible for city arts funding, threatening the company's survival and sparking community concern, the Austin Arts Commission reversed course and cleared the way for the company to receive money from the city.

Leading off the new year with good news: an arts success story from the Paradox Players and grants for Austin artists from the NEA.

The city debates campaign finance reform.

The Austin Arts Commission has never been a model of bureaucratic efficiency, but this year it seems to have become a big cliché in action, a body so focused on procedure and minutiae and the concerns of the moment that it can't see the forest for the trees. It's compounding the problems in Austin's profoundly flawed public arts funding system and demonstrating just how poorly that process serves not only the city's artists but all its citizens.

LCRA Waits in Wings While City Ponders Sewer Service

The Austin theatre festival MoMFest goes away, the Austin Arts Commission welcomes Sue Graze to its membership, and a couple of Austin theatre types show up on TV.

Should Public Money Go to Private Theatre?

From biopics to end-of-day thrillers, a look at the films you'll be standing in line for this Christmas.