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All but Illegal
As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure
BY MARY TUMA
Point Austin: All the King's Horses
Moving toward fairness on property taxes
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Suffer the Little Children
Some Texas communities turn their backs as young refugees seek protection
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
AISD Race: A Voice for Southwest Austin
Schneider faces two challengers as he seeks a fourth term
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Council: By the Numbers
Summer break is almost over for City Council
BY MICHAEL KING
Twin Liquors Settles With TABC
The liquor giant will be allowed to keep open all of its retail operations, but faces a $500,000 fine and the end of wholesale operations in some stores.
BY BRANDON WATSON
Austin Responds to the Refugees
As the Central American refugee crisis unfolds, an Austin movement to offer aid is playing out quietly, behind the scenes.
BY TONY CANTÚ
Ethics Commission: 'Mucus' Quacks Like a Lobbyist
TEC hits Michael Quinn Sullivan with maximum fine for acting as an unregistered lobbyist
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
SBOE: No Scholars Need Apply
SBOE members nominated several unqualified panelists to a social studies textbook review committee.
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: Can a $7 billion penalty be a good deal?
Citigroup made more money from the Fed than it got fined
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Through Rosé Colored Glasses
Rae Wilson helps Austin reconsider the pink drink
BY CLAUDIA ALARCÓN
Titaya's, Take Two
Was it worth the wait?
BY JESSI CAPE
Top Dogs
T-Loc's Sonora Hot Dogs bring Mexico to Allandale
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food-o-File
Big changes at Olivia – and the Chronicle
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
There Goes the Neighborhood
North/South/Central – redistricting the live music capital
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Playback: Cherubs Flit Back
The unlikely return of Nineties noisemakers Cherubs.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Even Flow
The Wounded Warrior Project and MSNBC bring the war home via an Austin connection
BY KATE X MESSER
Golden Girl
In 'Boyhood' and beyond, Austin native Zoe Graham acts naturally
BY CINDY WIDNER
The Racial Divide in Movies
The Austin Film Society unlocks The Sepia Screen with its new series on "race" movies
BY LOUIS BLACK
Film Reviews
And So It Goes
Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas are ill-served by director by Rob Reiner in this odd-couple romance.
I Origins
The director of 2011's Another Earth is back with a another appealing yet fuzzy story about rift between empiricism and spiritualism.
Lucy
Scarlett Johansson goes totally badass in this far-fetched but riveting Luc Besson action film.
A Most Wanted Man
This post-9/11 espionage thriller is adapted from John Le Carré’s 2008 novel and stars Philip Seymour Hoffman at the head of a top-notch cast.
Persecuted
In this Christian-based thriller with a better-than-average cast, an evangelist is framed for murder by the government.
Sex Tape
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel have escapades while trying to retrieve their sexcapade.
Wish I Was Here
Zach Braff explores life in one's late 30s: troubles with unruly kids, ailing parents, and creative aspirations complicated by financial realities.
arts & culture
Road to Freedom
The Cost of Art III: How the Fusebox Festival liberated itself from charging admission
BY KATHERINE CATMULL
JULY IS CRIME MONTH
Patricia Highsmith
The crime writer's dark world is stranger than (literary) fiction
BY AMY GENTRY
The Other Side
Memoir by Houston writer Lacy Johnson recounts a personal trauma with honesty and haunting beauty
BY JESSI CAPE
Austin Chronicle Book Club: 'The Long Goodbye'
Share your thoughts about Raymond Chandler with other Chronicle readers in a Twitter chat about The Long Goodbye
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
All's Well That Ends Well
In 7 Towers Theatre's staging of the Bard's tragicomedy, comic relief is never too far behind the tense moments
'Kasey Short: 5 Plus Hearts'
The artist's comparison of war and violence with spectator sport holds promise, though not all the work is equally strong
columns
Oops!
Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
The Good Eye: In Praise of Last-Resort Wear
It's official: You may wear caftans
BY AMY GENTRY
Gay Place: Neither Dazed Nor Confused
They may not come from the land of the ice and snow, but check out Zepparella anyway
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips
From wedding cakes to king cakes, Rao's Bakery has you covered
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: A Lot of Guy Friends
This girl sounds like a keeper
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch: Playoffs This Weekend ... With Beer!
BY NICK BARBARO
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