Volume 34, Number 33
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news
Texas heavily underwrites anti-abortion centers, while slashing reproductive care
BY MARY TUMA
The Council looks in both directions on budgeting
BY MICHAEL KING
Big Saturday events for education and environment
BY NICK BARBARO
It's Old World Order vs. New in this week's news blast
Former detective argues he should be tried in federal court
BY AMY KAMP
Council's zoning meeting may get a bit distracted
BY MICHAEL KING
Lege makes an anti-city push, nixes a bill limiting police filming, the Senate passes its budget, and more...
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Rep. Dutton proposes to cut taxes for sexually-oriented business
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Despite guardian opposition, Senate passes bill to close Austin SSLC
BY MARY TUMA
New website promises quick solar cost analyses
BY NORA ANKRUM
Anti-slavery summit meets in Austin
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Lawyers' terrible job not enough to overturn a death sentence
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Hunger strikes call attention to plight of women and children refugees
BY TONY CANTÚ
No honor among these thieves
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Searching for diversity in culinary Austin
BY RACHEL FEIT
The brawl over breading
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Ortiz and Sawicki hit all the right notes
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Barbecue, pies, and lemonade
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
OLD SETTLER'S MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015
Old Settler's Music Festival assimilates
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Talking bluegrass with five OSMF headliners and a Dripping Springs dweller
OSMF baubles by blurb.
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Old Settler's Music Festival Platters
Let the Good Times Roll
Gold & Rust
Places You've Not Been
Something in the Water
Night Surfer
screens
The 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival features more female athletes, more mindfulness, and more emotion
BY JESSI CAPE
Oscar Isaac reflects on Ex Machina
BY MELANIE HAUPT
In its 18th annual edition, Cine Las Americas presents an eclectic mix
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
Smart, sinister sci-fi film about human error and techno-terror
Bio-doc about world-famous magician James "The Amazing" Randi
Hindi language sci-fi thriller about an invisible vigilante
Tamil romantic drama
Drafthouse Films reissues this truly trippy oddity from 1981
Gamblers, mobsters, and high-stakes golf matches
A writer meets the murderer who stole his identity
arts & culture
Ron White on why stand-up is the field for him and his "Tater Salad" days in Austin
BY RUSS ESPINOZA
Composer Nico Muhly's How Little You Are evokes the vastness of the West with a choir and 12 guitars
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Street Corner Arts' production of Amy Herzog's play is memorable
Forklift Danceworks' latest connected care for urban trees, a neighborhood's life, and all of us to nature
Are West Austin tastes in painting taking a swing toward the provocative?
columns
Well, OK, if it's aGLIFF, sure ...
BY KATE X MESSER
Travel through an automotive time machine
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Trust your infinite capacity for ignorance
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT