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The Road to 10-1 ... Is Getting Crowded [Updated May 12]
As May money season opens, candidates blossom
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Race Does Matter
Sotomayor on the willfulness of judicial 'colorblindness'
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: The Road to Fewer Roads
Can the latest advances in intersection designs fix Austin's gridlock?
BY AMY SMITH
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Headlines
Shared Services Uproar: Students Busted in Tower Sit-In
Tensions around job sharing plan peak
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Council: Zoning Futures, Budget Preview, Cilantro
Light agenda heading into budget season
BY MICHAEL KING
Enchanted No More
Rising tax bill forces owner to put art venue on the market
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Elegy for the Man Behind @ATXhipsters
Kelly Wayne Noel killed by drunk driver
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Row Study: Worse Than We Thought
Report says 4.1% of death row defendants in the U.S. are innocent
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report: Perry's Mess
Rick Perry's got himself into a jam with the law, but fret not, he's got taxpayers' dollars to cover his attorney fees
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
All Hail the Jester
Changing the world – one beer at a time
BY ANNA TOON
Heavenly Chops
Biryani Pot seduces with sublime goat rib chops
BY MICK VANN
Austin's Own Bean-to-Bar Chocolates
Kiskadee's labor-intensive process yields distinctive product
BY KATE THORNBERRY
Food-O-File
The scoop at AF&WF, and sad news for breakfast taco lovers
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
May 1-8
music
AUSTIN PSYCH FEST 2014 PREVIEW
Time of the Season
Welcome to Area 51 of APF
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Psych Fest Record Reviews
screens
Outside of Society
Does Austin have enough room for two queer film festivals?
BY KATE X MESSER
An Actor and an Übermensch
Tishuan Scott connects the dots between Nietzsche and his award-winning turn in civil war drama 'The Retrieval'
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
The Pen May Be Mightier Than the Sword, but Sometimes It Makes You Want to Slit Your Wrists
The Austin Film Society's latest series zooms in on creative block
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Film Reviews
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
More proves to be less for Spidey this time out.
Anaamika
Telugu film.
Brick Mansions
In one of his last roles, Paul Walker stars in this American remake of Luc Besson's actioner District B13.
Finding Vivian Maier
After buying a storage locker full of unknown photos, the filmmaker becomes the de facto executor of the unheralded photographer of the title.
Kotha Janta
Telugu romance.
On My Way
In this road movie, Catherine Deneuve plays a Frenchwoman having an existential crisis on wheels.
The Quiet Ones
The venerable Hammer Film studio gets into the found-footage horror genre.
The Retrieval
Chris Eska's ambitious indie film is set during the waning months of the Civil War and tells a distinctive coming-of-age story.
arts & culture
Fighting City Hall
What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war
BY ROBERT FAIRES
'War Horse'
An inanimate steed of aluminum and cane Handsprings to life in this award-winning drama
BY ROBERT FAIRES
grayDUCK Gallery
Jill Schroeder's art space ends hiatus, reopens in bigger digs on East Cesar Chavez
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Much Ado About Nothing
Everyone, young and old alike, gets drawn in to Present Company's staging of this Shakespearean rom-com
One With Others
Karen Sherman's surprisingly funny, moving dance and text work was poetry in motion
Pat Snow: Monologue
The exhibition weaves anecdotes into a story of the artist's life and also his creative range
columns
Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior
Actors are musicians of behavior
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Good Eye: Are You There God? It's Me, Vagina
One zine grows up, and Austin's mags burst into bloom
BY AMY GENTRY
Day Trips
Watching the ships roll in to Galveston Bay at Fort Travis Seashore Park
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place: That's Where I Wanna Be: Lenny!
This week's week of nuts is kicked off with OUTsider's first outing: MayDayGayDay
The Luv Doc: A Big Move
An unexpected wet willie from the finger of the divine
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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