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Volume 33, Number 8
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news
Living double lives in the shadow of the border
BY DEBBIE NATHAN
Health care is just the hostage to a fanatical attack on democracy
BY MICHAEL KING
Trying to get to yes on a $65 million question
BY AMY SMITH
Vince Covino defends the family business
BY JORDAN SMITH
Map-drawing plans leave many dismayed
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Urban farms, impact fees, special events, and more
BY MICHAEL KING
Suit challenges constitutionality of HB 2
BY JORDAN SMITH
Support plummets as shutdown continues
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
DA charged with official misconduct following DUI arrest
BY JORDAN SMITH
GOP unhinged by Obamacare
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food historian Rachel Laudan takes the long view
BY MM PACK
Bodegas Franco-Españolas reds
BY WES MARSHALL
Jodi Elliott branches out with Bribery and other chef comings and goings
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Oct. 17-22
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
One man's dedication to dough pays off at Bufalina
Celtic Seafare's lotsa lox
music
A poetic third act for carnival riot Shoulders
BY MARGARET MOSER
ACL Fest met both supply and demand. Mostly.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin-based Ren faire sitcom is just as funny as it sounds like it should be
BY MONICA RIESE
aGLIFF founder Scott Dinger on 25 years of queer cinema
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Film Reviews
In this Bollywood film, the hero is a one-man army.
Telugu romantic action movie.
The Alabama town that birthed two music studios and inspired great recordings by Aretha, the Rolling Stones, and scores more is viewed in this laid-back documentary.
Till death do us part …
One of mountaineering's worst disasters remains a deadly mystery despite this documentary's attempt to learn more.
In this first Saudi Arabian film ever directed by a woman, much is revealed about the reality of life for women there via its story of a 10-year-old girl who wants a bicycle.
arts & culture
For two decades, Stephen L. Clark's gallery has made a home for photographers of the region
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Tony-winning actress reveals how life has informed her singing
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Bonnie Cox stages dances drawn from traumas to move through them
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Arts Reviews
It's the small, personal moments in Zach Theatre's staging that make this epic musical sing
Neil LaBute's play about body-size and social douchebaggery gets a sharp production from Theatre en Bloc
columns
"That all things are possible is God"
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Boy, and Bern, and Cho, oh my. (Sorry, no Takai.)
BY KATE X MESSER
Make a pilgrimage to Chapel on the Dunes in Port Aransas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Getting dumped by someone you love really hurts
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW