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Planned Parenthood Sues Texas Over Anti-Choice Bill SB 8
They promised a fight and now they’re delivering.
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1:00PM Thu. Jul. 20,
Drink to Me Only With Thine Lies
You want to go to a place where everybody knows your name?
That’s your house, right? Where you live?
Dollars to donuts, citizen: Everybody in your house – unless you’re being, what, burgled? – everybody there goddamn well knows your name.
8:00AM Thu. Jul. 20, Wayne Alan Brenner
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Bennu Coffee’s New Place on South Congress
You know that Bennu Coffee place on MLK, the one with the gorgeous custom-built bar? The one that’s open 24/7 and is usually filled with people slaking their need for caffeine and tasty noms and a place to hang or study their asses off?
3:45PM Tue. Jul. 18, Wayne Alan Brenner
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Song/Book: Grapes of Wrath vs. 1984
It might seem a bit odd, comparing our Trump-tainted trainwreck of a 2017 to the Spandex-flexing DayGlo paroxysm that was 1984, right?
But, when you’re talking about George Orwell's novel, well, things can get real insightful really fast – and pretty fucking creepy, too. And what about – hello, climate change – what about John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath?
2:45PM Tue. Jul. 18, Wayne Alan Brenner
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Cardboard Fantasy in Dave Made a Maze
Ever had too much time on your hands? That's what fantastical horror comedy Dave Made a Maze is about. So what's the craziest thing that producer John Charles Meyer ever built when killing time? "This movie."
9:00AM Tue. Jul. 18, Richard Whittaker
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Buzzfeed's Anne Helen Petersen on the Rise of the Unruly Woman
The westward migration from NYC to Missoula, Mont., may sound like a strange choice for a celebrity gossip writer, but makes more sense when taking into account Anne Helen Petersen’s penchant for nationally conscious storytelling that weaves the cultural into the political. Also, today’s celebrities mostly exist on the internet.
8:00AM Tue. Jul. 18, Rachel Rascoe
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Joe Biden to Come to Paramount in December
Former vice president and one-man meme Joe Biden will stop at the Paramount Theatre in December as part of his American Promise Tour. He’ll promote his new book, but also, according to the press release, "connect friends and neighbors around the topics that matter most." Is there nothing he can't do?
4:30PM Mon. Jul. 17, Jennifer Murphy
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RTX: Austin Animation Update
Mechas, Atlanteans, and vampires: While last weekend's RTX festival was under the banner of local online studio Rooster Teeth, there were big announcements there for local animation outfits Powerhouse and Mighty Coconut as well.
4:15PM Mon. Jul. 17, Richard Whittaker
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Audits Ahead for APD Crime Labs
Finally, a full year after the Austin Police Department shuttered its DNA lab due to out-of-date procedures and unqualified analysts, department officials have tapped a third party to run an audit on the five remaining crime labs currently in operation.
3:30PM Mon. Jul. 17, Sarah Marloff
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The Mayor's Plan to Fix Everything Adler to announce Downtown revitalization plan
