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Volume 35, Number 51
news
City Council Clashes Over 2017 Budget
Competing ideas on how to spend $969 million
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Thinking About Budgets
We are short-term planners with long-term problems
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Waitin' for the Money
Budget, bond drama overshadows all else
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Reaches Consensus on Mobility Bond
Adler's "Go Big" Baby
BY MICHAEL KING
Ott Moves On
City manager to accept position with international organization
BY MICHAEL KING
Meet the Candidates for City Council
Five incumbents fight for their seats at the dais
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Interim Voter ID Rules Put in Place for November Election
State still requires photo ID, but relaxes restrictions
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Making Car Ownership Obsolete
Zipcar, Car2Go: Our mission is to sell zero cars
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Mark Norwood Returns to Court
Accused killer in 1988 murder now three weeks from second trial
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council Takes Action on Municipal Court Reform
City has 90 days to evaluate how it handles indigent defendants
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Advocates, Lawmakers Call For Investigation Into $1.6 Million Health Contract With Anti-Choice Group
BY MARY TUMA
Austin Fire Department: Drinking in Drive-Throughs
Two firefighters arrested for DWIs in fast food parking lots
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report: Putting "The People" in a Political Platform
The Democratic Party platform is not perfect, but thanks to Bernie Sanders' revolutionary presidential campaign, it's rich in policies for the People
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
2016 AUSTIN CHRONICLE HOT SAUCE FESTIVAL
Austin When It Sizzles
Welcome to the 26th annual Hot Sauce Festival
BY BRANDON WATSON
2016 Contest & Festival Facts
Hot Takes
What to drink with the fieriest salsas at the AC Hot Sauce Festival
BY BRANDON WATSON
Cooking Tent Demos
BY BRANDON WATSON
Celebrity Judges
Food Events
music
Buena Vista Social Club Survivors Come to Austin
Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa lead the new Cuban-American frontier
BY MARÍA NÚÑEZ
Playback: Patio Smoking Ban in Flames
The Central Health Equity Policy Council's efforts to ban smoking on smoking patios meets with community resistance
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Metallurgy
Myrkur
Mausoleum
Cough
Still They Pray
Eerie
Eerie
Fates Warning
Theories of Flight
Gojira
Magma
Grave Miasma
Endless Pilgrimage
Horseback
Dead Ringers
Mantar
Ode to the Flame
Mirrors of Psychic Warfare
Mirrors of Psychic Warfare
Nails
You Will Never Be One of Us
Sarabante
Poisonous Legacy
Withered
Grief Relic
screens
Experimental Response Cinema Rises to the Surface
Avant-gardians of Austin’s underground films
BY SEAN L. MALIN
I Like to Watch: Back to Business Casual
You're the Worst picks up where Casual leaves off
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Babu Bangaram
Telugu action comedy
Equity
High-wire drama about women working on Wall St. is also made by women
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV
Animated Japanese adventure fantasy is dubbed into English
Kubo and the Two Strings
Sublime animated movie is disguised as kids' fare
Mohenjo Daro
Hindi romance
Rustom
Hindi thriller
Sausage Party
An animated film for adults from Seth Rogen and friends
War Dogs
Jonah Hill and Miles Teller star in this true tale about gun smuggling
arts & culture
Local Composer Peter Stopschinski Releases 50 Free Albums in One Summer
That’s just the kind of guy he is
BY KIRK LYNN
Arts Reviews
Gale Theatre Company's Salomé
This original drama reworks the familiar tale to give us a new perspective on the Judean princess
The Institution Theater's Fuck, It's Hot
The Austin-oriented sketch show has its rough spots, but it delivers lots of laughs as a cooling balm in the dog days
"Disparate Mythos: Women of Sculpture" at Dimension Gallery
In this varied group exhibition, Magdalena Jarkowiec's two-ness shows the richness of sameness and difference in duos
columns
Page Two: When Pointing an Accusatory Finger, Three More Point Back at You
This ugly political season grows ever more vicious
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Let's make this the greatest, gayest, most glittery Pride yet
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Caprock Canyons State Park, Quitaque
Where the High Plains drop into the rolling hills and the buffalo play all day
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc
Stand by for further ridicule
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
