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Balancing the Books After Years of Neglecting Schools
The Texas Legislature wants to fix school finance, but how?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Race Matters
The Mayor’s Task Force on racism provides a lengthy to-do list
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Race and Education
Fun times well after midnight with the AISD board
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Judge Sarah Eckhardt on the budget
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Late Meeting Leads to Big School Investment
Everyone should vote on $4.6 billion investments close to 3am, correct?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Racism Report Released
Group focuses on five issues to combat institutional racism
BY MARY TUMA
APD Officers Suspended for Thwarting Filming
Two APD officers suspended for thwarting filming
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Austin Against Trump's "Sanctuary City" Order
Austin joins brief supporting lawsuits against Trump "sanctuary city" order
BY MICHAEL KING
In the Name of Innovation
Council considers institutional racism, a suitor for Brackenridge Hospital
BY MICHAEL KING
K2 Rampages Red River
K2 continues its Downtown rampage. What can the city do?
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Pease Park Before the Flood
Preventing natural disaster when a 140-year-old statute stands in the way
BY CALEB PRITCHARD
Death Watch: No Comfort, No Closure
Jonas Cherry's parents don't want their son's killer killed
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Lege Lines: Straus vs. the Extremists
Railroad Commission spat highlights the divide between right-wingers and House leadership
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: Why Is Trump Hostile to Actual Facts?
Take the Trumpcare lie, for example
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How Austin Became the Cold Brew Capital of the World
No need to give up coffee during the sweltering season
BY DAN GENTILE
Dulcis Rethinks Almond Milk
Austin entrepreneur Sarah Velasquez on keeping the customer healthy
BY MARY BRYCE
Food Events
music
Trumpet Constant Ephraim Owens Won’t Be Rushed
New Austin Music Hall of Fame inductee substitutes kindness and ubiquity for a back catalog
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: Armadillo Tales
A review of the best book on Austin’s 1970s music scene since The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
The Son Rises With Philipp Meyer
Austin author on adapting his award-winning novel for AMC
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Film Reviews
Frantz
A bitter-sweet romance in the aftermath of WWI
Ghost in the Shell
Scar Jo as cybernetic warrior
Going in Style
Three old-timers plan to rob a bank
Smurfs: The Lost Village
The little blue critters are back
Your Name
This body-swapping anime is a stunner
The Zookeeper's Wife
World War II drama based on the bestselling book
arts & culture
The World Is Watching J. Quinton Johnson
The UT alumnus left Austin to be in "the room where it happens": in Hamilton on Broadway
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Fusebox Festival 2017
This year's model of the annual hybrid arts showcase features revolutionaries, robots, and dam dancing, oh my!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Different Stages' Mrs. Mannerly
Jeffrey Hatcher's nostalgic comedy gently leads the audience back to small-town Ohio in the Sixties
2017 Austin Dance Festival
This year's showcase of two dozen dances proved how Austin's dancing has risen to the level of its dance making
"Larry Graeber: Place to Place" at de stijl
In this collection of jazzy geometric mixed-media works and sculptures, the artist conjures wild characters in a self-contained universe
columns
Oops
Page Two: The Media Has Always Been Biased
The history of American journalism is one of slanted and limited coverage
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
The fight carries on
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: World War I Memorials
Communities around Texas remember their fallen sons from the Great War
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Li'l Spendy
The kind of economic Übermensch G-Dubs prayed for back in '07
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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