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Volume 35, Number 4
news
A Safe Place?
Parties, alcohol, and attitudes are contributing to a high number of sexual assaults in Austin
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: Those Who Sow the Wind
The national GOP continues to perpetuate its permanent culture of extremism
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Trash Talking
More recycling and composting is about to take place in Austin
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Short-Term Regs Getting Longer ... and Longer
Council split on regulating Type 2 STRs
BY MICHAEL KING
The Lawyer and the Hitman
An Austin lawyer and heroin dealer has been arrested for hiring a hitman
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Closing the HIV Gap
More education, preventive tools needed
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Lanier High Wins Federal Grant
Full Service Community Schools grant will provide social services and continuing education
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Car2Go Closes Ranks
The blue-and-white cars are now available for a smaller range of Austin
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Face-to-Face
A new law requires in-person visits for Texas jails, but it's not clear if Travis County is exempt
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Saving the Church Bees
An estimated 1 million bees removed from church wall
BY JESSI CAPE
The Hightower Report
Who says America doesn't need unions?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Trailer Parked
The yin and yang of food trucks and bars
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
Liberty Kitchen
Houston restaurant group makes waves in Austin
BY BRANDON WATSON
Kid Stuff
Pure Spoon's search for a better baby food
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
The Take-Out
To be real
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Believe
Moving Panoramas flicker to life in the aftermath of a home invasion
BY LESLIE SISSON
Playback: Bob Dylan Goes Electric – Again!
Fifty years ago, Dylan and the Band went electric at Austin's Municipal Auditorium
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Fantastic Fest 2015
Following the Fantastic Owen Egerton
Local Renaissance man premieres his feature debut
BY MARC SAVLOV
The Art of Shock and Horror
Nicolas Winding Refn on his new book of classic film exploitation posters
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Darling Mickey
Prolific director Mickey Keating dials in to the Sixties
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
All Power to the People
AFS Doc Nights brings out the Black Panthers
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Feeling an Elephant
The Toronto International Film Festival's inexhaustible breadth
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story
An Austin woman confronts Internet cruelty with compassion
Captive
Ripped-from-the-headlines movie about a hostage crisis defused by a devotional book
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Alex Gibney's doc penetrates the church's cloak of secrecy
The Green Inferno
Eli Roth's long-delayed cannibal movie has passed its shelf life
Hotel Transylvania 2
The Universal monsters reunite for another animated kiddie fling
The Intern
Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro star in savvy but irksome film
Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon
Hindi romantic comedy
Meet the Patels
Funny family documentary from a brother-and-sister filmmaking team
The New Girlfriend
A Frenchwoman discovers the secret hidden by her best friend's husband
Pawn Sacrifice
Fictionalized tale of famed chess bout between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky
Stonewall
A Midwestern boy comes out amid the backdrop of the Stonewall Riots
Subramanyam for Sale
Telugu film
arts & culture
Gricelda Silva, Equal Parts Pragmatism and Whimsy
For five years, the actress has been among the busiest and best on Austin's stages
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD
Freud's Last Session Opens in Austin
Actor David Jarrott turns producer to get a drama about Freud and C.S. Lewis onstage in Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Playhouse's The Real Thing
Tom Stoppard's play receives a remarkable revival with a seasoned cast
Blue Lapis Light's Edge of Grace
Blue Lapis Light leaves its epic aerial work for an intimate and uniquely compelling dance on scaffolding
"I'll Be It" at Pump Project
The exhibit of four Austin artists' work at Pump Project exposes the fun of objecthood
columns
Page Two: You Always Remember the Dance
First steps, two step
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place: Computer Love
The robots come to town and teach us a li'l history
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: National Public Lands Day
National Public Lands Day puts a shine on America's best idea
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Luv Doc: What Is Love?
A philosophical examination of Haddaway's classic 1993 dance hit
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
