Volume 33, Number 47
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news
How to fit six dozen candidates into a one-pound newspaper
BY MICHAEL KING
Abbott says Texas doesn't have to disclose companies' chemical stockpiles, but why are these chemicals in our neighborhoods in the first place?
BY MICHAEL KING
Rejection of first case under new regs portends cloudy future
BY AMY SMITH
Will the next UT president continue Powers' work repairing the relationship between UT and East Austin?
BY JESSICA LUTHER
Novus Select adds the Chronicle's Jana Birchum to its roster
BY AMY SMITH
What's the worst sidewalk in Austin?
City task force makes its recommendations for 2024 climate change protection goals
BY NORA ANKRUM
Local law enforcement got their proverbial asses whupped Saturday night at Austin's inaugural Battle of the Badges
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The fist bump heard ’round the world
BY MICHAEL KING, MARY TUMA AND NINA HERNANDEZ
The Moral Monday Movement is on the move again!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Good food moves to the 'burbs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
I'll stick with peanuts and Cracker Jack
BY MELANIE HAUPT
An all-you-can-eat buffet of local food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
July 17-23
music
Ex-Grupo Fantasma guitarist Adrian Quesada diversifies
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Supernatural advice by West Texas sage Tommy Hancock, tears from Billy Gibbons, and Casual Strangers coupling
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper
BY NEPH BASEDOW
Phases & Stages
Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III
Are We There
Deep Fantasy
Snapshot
World Peace Is None of Your Business
screens
Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'
BY DAN SOLOMON
Soccer and Spy games collide in El Rey's 'Matador'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Genre-buster is the latest in a long line of Texas gore movies
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
With Boyhood, filmmaker Richard Linklater paints his masterpiece.
How many French chefs are too many for one kitchen?
In this Disney follow-up, Dusty, the animated cropduster, still flies around like crazy, while learning to work in a group and be less of a showboat.
Back after last year's Purge struck such a unlikely chord, this story about an annual eruption of violence returns in stronger form.
Tamil love story and action film.
arts & culture
BigBoy Medlin's dark comic novel of West Texas: an excerpt
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties
BY KATE X MESSER
Arts Reviews
The intertwined monologues of Conor McPherson's drama provide a showcase for three fine Austin actors
The performance of this ancient Greek comedy is inconsistent, but the experience around it makes it worth a visit
The performance by this guitar-flute duo was equal parts intensity and grace – with rich and complex musicianship
columns
Pull up that Arvin and read about from whence it came
BY AMY GENTRY
South of the border, down Mexico way
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Just like every other day in the Austin week Sunday is way more than Bloody Marys and brunch
BY KATE X MESSER
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
You’re not the nearly flawless person you believe other people think you are
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT