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news
In the Name of Ann Richards
AISD's School for Young Women Leaders is a district showcase – does its glittering reputation hide a darker side for teachers and students?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Then There's This: The Power of Threats
Lege's bullying tactics have winning record at City Hall
BY AMY SMITH
'Zombie' Projects and Lake Austin
Council will consider remedy for expired site plans and lake protections
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Keller Case Returns to Court
Hearing in Austin ritual abuse case questions evidence of sexual abuse
BY JORDAN SMITH
DPS Releases Poopgate Docs
Emails do little to prove security threat
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Skeptics Question Aquarium Owners' Record
Groups ask city to investigate animal welfare
BY JORDAN SMITH
UT Regents Fight Heats Up as Board Reshuffles
Investigation into Wallace Hall continues
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Development Plan Goes Nowhere Fast
Hancock Golf Course plan stokes outrage
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Council-Staff Tension Spills Over in Budget Talks
Spelman and Martinez drill staffers over cost projections and turnover
BY MIKE KANIN
Court Weighs New Trial For Pitonyak
Gruesome slaying in West Campus revisited by federal jurists
BY JORDAN SMITH
Gómez Pushes Road Plan Near Racetrack
Commissioner says she's concerned about access and safety issues in her precinct
BY MIKE KANIN
The Hightower Report: Police Destroy the 'Garden of Eden'
Police destroy the 'Garden of Eden'
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
23rd Annual 'Austin Chronicle' Hot Sauce Festival Winners
The heat was on
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
How to Avoid a Bad Review
One restaurant's epic fail is a lesson for us all
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-O-File
Are chef shuffles any of our business?
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
Aug. 29-Sept. 3
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Return of ... the Cassette
The Walkman revolutionized portable music. Can their fodder – cassettes – jump the shark?
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback
R&B, race relations, and rap: Black Joe Lewis and the League of Extraordinary G'z, plus Ginny's Little Longhorn
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Black Joe Lewis
Electric Slave
Jesse Woods
Get Your Burdens Lifted
Jack Wilson
Spare Key
Leo Rondeau
Take It and Break It
Colin Gilmore
The Wild and Hollow
Omar Dykes
Runnin' with the Wolf
Shakey Graves
"The Waters" b / w "Roll the Bones"
Ted Roddy & Big Foot Chester
The Wolf That Howls
Shearwater & Sharon Van Etten
"Stop Draggin' My Heart Around" b / w "A Wake for the Minotaur"
screens
Redacted, Then Redressed
AFS Essential Cinema spotlights once-banned films
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
Closed Circuit
Paranoia strikes deep in this Brit courtroom suspenser.
Cutie and the Boxer
The 40-year marriage of two visual artists is explored in this documentary.
Getaway
Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez try, but they can't getaway from this action mess.
The Grandmaster
Visual master Wong Kar-Wai tells the story of the legendary martial-arts practitioner and teacher Ip Man.
I Declare War
A bunch of sixth-graders playing capture the flag in the park lays the groundwork for a disturbingly inventive film.
One Direction: This Is Us
This big, fat kiss to the band's young, female fans is directed by that advocate for good nutrition: Super Size Me's Morgan Spurlock.
Satyagraha
Indian film.
arts & culture
Hugo Rising
The nominees for science fiction's best novel of 2013 find a new guard challenging the old
BY AMY GENTRY
Reina Hardy
For this Michener Playwriting Fellow, autumn brings local premieres of two of her plays
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'Art Show/Model Show'
Paper Chairs stages a life drawing session in which those who pose speak out about what they do
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Out of Bounds Comedy Festival
OOB's comedy podcasts will make your Labor Day weekend less labored
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The Major Arcana
Monologist Annie La Ganga enchanted a crowd with tales of tarot decks and her personal connections with the cards
A Few Good Men
The Georgetown Palace production isn't always effective, but it gets at the continued relevance of Aaron Sorkin's script
columns
Day Trips
The new Crossvine Market brings back the old-time grocery store and barbecue joint
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Can you handle a week of PRIDE? We know you can!
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Forgiveness
Waiting for the other person to die
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Hornography
Announcing the 121st running of the University of Texas Longhorns
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
comics
