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features
AUSTIN PRIDE 2013
news
So Special: The Race to Replace Mark Strama [UPDATED]
House District 50 campaign features a disparate slate
BY CHRISTOPHER HOOKS
Point Austin: Budget Finish Line
Council ponders final adjustments to General Fund
BY MICHAEL KING
DOJ Declares Truce in War on Pot
Attorney General declines to act against states legalizing marijuana
BY JORDAN SMITH
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Civics 101
AISD: Budget Covers Raises, Benefits
District approves third deficit budget
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Brown Lands Watson and Doggett
County Judge candidate garners major endorsements
BY MICHAEL KING
New Abortion Regs Proceed Without State Council's Support
Arm of state health agency takes no action on recommending new abortion requirements
BY JORDAN SMITH
Smitherman: 'Make More Babies'
AG candidate flies to the far religious right
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Skinner Defense: New DNA Testing Suggests His Innocence
Attorneys suggest an uncle of Twila Busby is more likely suspect
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report: What's In Your Closet, Warren?
What's in your closet, Warren?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Eat Like the Chosen People
Rosh Hashanah recipes
BY AMY KRITZER
Food-O-File
What's stopping restaurants from providing higher wages and health benefits?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Sept. 7-12
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
Do These Farm Bird Lollipops Make Us Look Fat?
The tug between substance and style at Searsucker
music
Darkness in the Heart of Town
Will Sheff, one step forward, two steps back
BY MICHAEL CORCORAN
Playback: A Plethora of Pride
Gay Pride, Asleep at Wheel 'Then and Now,' and David Yow confirms he's a Dick
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Phases & Stages
Killer Mike & El-P
Run the Jewels
Church of Misery, Coffins
Thy Kingdom Scum, The Fleshland
Civil Wars
The Civil Wars
Oblivians
Desperation
Grant Hart
The Argument
Camera Obscura
Desire Lines
Capsula
Solar Secrets
Laura Mvula
Sing to the Moon
screens
Raise a Glass to 'Drinking Buddies'
Something big is brewing with Joe Swanberg these days
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Breaking a 'Fever'
New filmmakers hope to shed light on Navajo Nation's paradox of plenty
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
Om Is Where the Heart Is
Austin Film Society presents 'One Track Heart'
BY MONICA RIESE
Film Reviews
Austenland
Keri Russell plays a woman who vacations in a Jane Austen fantasy camp, but the film is lacking in sense and sensibility.
Instructions Not Included
In this Mexican film, a man who's raised an abandoned child for six years is confronted by the birth mother who suddenly wants the girl back.
A Random Desi Romance
The dynamics of a love triangle are in constant flux in this contemporary Hindi romantic comedy,
Thoofan
This is the Telugu version of the action film Zanjeer.
The Ultimate Life
This inspirational film based is both a sequel and prequel to The Ultimate Gift, and is based on Jim Stovall's novel.
Zanjeer
This is the Hindi version of the action film Thoofan.
arts & culture
Look Back in Wonder
The fifth Texas Biennial celebrates its past glories
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Eggheads'
Novelist Joseph Skibell reflects on his adventures in the screen trade that produced this screwball comedy
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Conspirare
New CD of Kevin Puts' music allows the company of voices to be a 'Swan' and 'Touch the Sky' once more
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Glassheart
Reina Hardy's update on 'Beauty and the Beast' is fascinating, but the premiere is oddly lacking given the talents involved
I Begin Where I Grieve
Choreographer Ellen Bartel opened her home and heart to friends for a dance about her late husband, Dave Woods
columns
Oops
Letters at 3AM: The Curious Case of the Missing Quotation
Jimmy Carter says the U.S. has no functioning democracy at present, and the press goes silent
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Common Law: New Texas Traffic Laws Take Effect in September
New Texas traffic laws take effect in September
BY LUKE ELLIS
Gay Place
The non-Pride rest of what's happening this week
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
Wheeler Branch Reservoir is a fisherman's paradise
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: A Remarkable Debut
Fold back your ear flaps, there's a new band in town
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornography
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
