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Jason Stout
news
Obamacare 101
The Affordable Care Act rolls out October 1 – here's your first day's syllabus
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Burning Down the House
Deadlock between city and firefighters reflects deeper problems
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Tuning In to Austin
Before revising land code, city performs field work with 'Code Next'
BY AMY SMITH
Enforcing the 'Double Standard'
Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin
BY TOM PALAIMA
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Headlines
Jackson's Parents File Suit
Family alleges racial profiling
BY JORDAN SMITH
Council: Short-Term Rentals, Long-Term Meeting
After clearing the budget hurdle, Council is back to the grind
BY MICHAEL KING
Adapt or Fry: UT Climate Adaptation Symposium
Forum focuses on local solutions to climate change
BY BRANDON WATSON
White Lodging Sues City Over Fees
Hotel developer seeks injunction against city for canceling agreement
BY AMY SMITH
Before Google, There Was Ellie Rucker
Consumer columnist was Austin's own finder of facts
Park, Pond, or Ballfield?
Three rivals vie for a stretch of city land
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
County Commissioners Approve Fast-Tracked Road Project
BY AMY SMITH
The Hightower Report: Roast, Grill, and Fry This Chicken – Then Toss It Out
Roast, grill, and fry this chicken – then toss it out
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Weird Science
Paul Qui may be some mad genius, but the alchemy at his eponymous restaurant fizzles
BY RACHEL FEIT
Drink Your Veggies
A cancer survivor preaches the gospel of Daily Greens
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Food-O-File
AFWA grant deadline looms; no more Artz at Abel's Rib House; and where La Condesa's new truck will be wheeling next
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Sept. 27-29
Food Reviews
Garbo's Fresh Maine Lobster
Divine lobster rolls that don't require a plane ticket to Cape Cod
music
After the Frost
Superhero Max Frost takes on the Death Star!
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Playback: Still Weary
Weary Boys reunite, Red River vies for cultural district designation, and MusicMania to close
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Bill Callahan
Dream River
Aisha Burns
Life in the Midwater
Friendly Savages
O, Joshua!
Roky Erickson
The Evil One, Don't Slander Me, Gremlins Have Pictures
Alpha Rev
Bloom
Halaska, Seven Circles, Invincible Czars
Mayantology, Imaginal Cells, Martyrs of the Alamo
Charlie Robison
Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Chili Cold Blood
And Now the Dawn
Carson Brock
Finding Frames
Patricia Vonne
Rattle My Cage
Suzi Stern
Romancing the Dark
Greezy Wheels, Mo McMorrow, Lizzy Lehman, Floramay Holliday, Amanda Mora
Kitty Cat Jesus, Hangin' on a Nail, A Place I Know You'll Love, Twirl: An Educational Children's Album, Awaiting the Sound
Nori, Bamako Airlines, El Tule, Schisms
Nori, Bamako Airlines, Hecho in Austin, Schisms
screens
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and the Naked Truth
For his first turn in the director's seat, JGL tackles pornography ... sort of
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Fade to Black
Black filmmakers take center stage at the inaugural Capital City Black Film Festival
BY AMY GENTRY
Fantastic Fest 2013
Famous People Looking Pretty
Film Reviews
Atharintiki Daaredi
Telugu comedy.
Baggage Claim
Paul Patton stars in this rom-com about a desperate-to-wed flight attendant that never achieves liftoff.
Battle of the Year
In this dance competish, it's U.S.A. all the way.
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
It's comestibles gone wild in this animated follow-up.
Don Jon
Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as a guy who prefers porn to his girlfriend Scarlet Johansson in this film which also he wrote and directed.
Enough Said
James Gandolfini and Julia Louis-Dreyfus co-star in this delicate, uncommon picture of middle-aged new love.
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
Less a doc than a lyrical presentation of the cult actor and surprising song man.
Metallica: Through the Never
The 32-year-old British quartet is shown in depth that only begins with the 3-D.
Prisoners
Jake Gyllenhaal is a detective working a troubling case, and Hugh Jackman's wound-up father of the victim is just one of his problems.
Rush
In Ron Howard's Formula One racing pic, the drama trails the action.
Still Mine
James Cromwell and Geneviève Bujold star in this octogenarian love story.
The Wizard of Oz 3-D
Watch out for the flying monkeys.
arts & culture
Young at Heart
The Austin Teen Book Festival is coming of age
BY AMY GENTRY
'The Book of Mormon'
Welshman Mark Evans is on a mission to make you believe he's an all-American prophet
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Laurie Anderson
The musical pioneer reveals multiple facets of her artistry in multiple visits to Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
National Pastime
This new baseball musical hearkens back to both a simpler era and a simpler, sweeter kind of musical
Tragedy: a tragedy
Hyde Park fave playwright Will Eno keenly satirizes the TV news biz when a team covers the day the sun doesn't rise
PowerUP
Forklift Danceworks' showcase of Austin Energy employees doing what they do was dazzling and inspiring
columns
Gay Place
Where the Gaycation is Endless and the Orita Project comes to town
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
'Daytrips' jumps the pond to burn some rubber in Scotland
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Cheech and Chong Child Care
Is being high around kids an acceptable pastime?
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Enforcing the 'Double Standard'
Major college sports insanity is entrenched at UT-Austin
BY TOM PALAIMA
Hornography
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
