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Body Rock ATX (musicians of Texas tribute) w/ Riders Against the Storm, DJ Chorizo Funk at The Far Out Lounge & Stage

The OUTLaw Pride Fest w/ Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Joy Clark, Julie Nolen, Paisley Fields, Andrew Sa, Secret Emchy Society, Mya Byrne, Mercy Bell, Lilly Milford, Mary-Charlotte Young, Stephanie Cash at Rustic Tap

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Voxtrot: The (Re)Start of Something

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Rammstein at the Alamodome

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Fantastic Fest Cuts Into the Scarier Side of Cinema

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NEWS

Austin at Large: Battle Lines Being (Re)drawn

The imperfect ways we try to describe what’s at stake when neighborhoods change

by Mike Clark-Madison

Public Notice: More Drama in Hays County

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by Nick Barbaro

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FOOD

Chronicle Editorial Staffers Name Their Essential Dishes

We've all got our favorites

by Chronicle staff

Crow Bar’s Gone in Flames, Good Work Austin Calls In the S.I. Votes, Pizza Is Pretty Much Rampant Everywhere, Festival Season’s Coming for Us All, and This Is Fine

All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

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Food Editor Melanie Haupt’s 10 Favorite Austin Restaurants

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Crow Bar’s Gone in Flames, Good Work Austin Calls In the S.I. Votes, Pizza Is Pretty Much Rampant Everywhere, Festival Season’s Coming for Us All, and This Is Fine All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering

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The Central Market Cooking School is Alive and Well and Real, Real Tasty Local powerhouse of nourishing knowledge returns to full strength

MUSIC

Voxtrot: The (Re)start of Something

12 years after disbanding, the forerunners of modern indie-pop call on the "mystical, inexplicable force" that flowed through their Early Music

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by Rachel Rascoe

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Listen to This: David Beck Breaks Down Bloom & Fade Family ties and looking at life, track-by-track

Review: The Bearer's Chained to a Tree (Silent Pendulum) Austin metalcore trio tightens the restraints

Review: No One at the Circus – The Story of Ghostwriter Through Place and Song In one-man band's situationally annotated lyric book, the path is the goal

Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week Carrie Rodriguez's Laboratorio, itchy-O, Fontaines D.C., Ash Lauryn, Nas & Wu-Tang, and more

SCREENS

Fantastic Fest Cuts Into the Scarier Side of Cinema

Austin’s weirdest film festival returns

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Millennial Mayhem in V/H/S/99 The fifth installment in the found footage horror anthology series gets the Y2K jitters

ARTS & CULTURE

Review: Zach Theatre's The Inheritance, Part 2

Second installment of this audacious opus is too much of a good thing

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Second installment of this audacious opus is too much of a good thing

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COLUMNS

Day Trips: The Vanishing Texana Museum, Jacksonville

Train ticket leads to museum demolition

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OUTlaw Pride Festival declares there's nothin' more outlaw than being queer in country music

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