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Breaking the Chains
Slavery may be illegal, but it's not eradicated
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Point Austin: A Word About "Wards"
The homestead exemption is not just a feeble "tool," it's an inequitable one
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Bridges to Forever
The theme for the coming week is public input
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Preview
Zimmerman off to East Texas to "investigate" city biomass contract
BY MICHAEL KING
Affordable Housing in Trouble?
Report: two affordable housing agencies going broke
BY MARY TUMA
APD Officer Unfairly Punished?
Fender-bender results in 3-month suspension
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
APD Officer Terminated
After having the cops called on him several times, APD officer is canned
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Remembering Julio Santos
UNT student disappeared on a Friday; was found in Lady Bird Lake the next Sunday
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lege Races Take Shape
Empty seats up at the Capitol
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Video Visitation's End?
Bill requiring in-person visits for inmates may not benefit those at Travis County
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Ott Strikes Back
City Manager responds to blogger accusations
BY MICHAEL KING
The Hightower Report
Stop postal execs from destroying our Postal Service
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Knowing One's Station
What does it mean to be the hostess with the mostest?
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Isla
Tropical bar is more than just cocktails
BY BRANDON WATSON
Head Cook and Bottle Washer
Father's Day cookbooks for the man who gets things done
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Playback: Austin Record Label Rendezvous
The Austin Record Label Flea Market bands together local imprints, while County Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt tries to scatter mass gatherings such as Levitation
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Mondo Texas Platters
Summer Platters
New discs from Dale Watson, Danny Schmidt, Sly Stone, and many more for your solstice jams
screens
The Medium Is the Message
The co-director of Inside Out talks shop
BY MARC SAVLOV
Watching the Detectives
Austin native Gabriel Luna spills (a little) on season 2 of HBO's True Detective
BY CINDY WIDNER
Combat Rock
New doc unearths Cambodia's rock & roll spirit
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
ABCD 2 (Any Body Can Dance)
Bollywood dance-competition sequel.
Balls Out
College intramural football comedy features several SNL players
Don't Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia's Lost Rock and Roll
A doc not just for music aficionados, but a transcendent reminder that art matters
Dope
Peppy caper film features unusual characters: black high school geeks
Inside Out
Audacity is matched by artistry in the latest Pixar crowd-pleaser
The Wolfpack
This doc makes us privy to a family that's like none we've ever seen before
arts & culture
Blackout
Sarah Hepola explains how she came to write a memoir on being a blackout drinker
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Review: Loving Day
Mat Johnson's novel Loving Day is all there in black and white
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
El Nogalar
Teatro Vivo's El Nogalar provides a context for examining social class in contemporary Mexico
More Than One Complication
KDHDC and line upon line percussion provide a moving-people people-watching performance
"Colby Bird: Hope Goes With Man to the Foot of the Gallows"
The fruits of the artist's labors are evident in this new solo show
columns
Gay Place: ¡Hola Papi!
Prides loom across Texas as Austin crowns the hottest Daddy
BY KATE X MESSER
Oops!
Day Trips: Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso
A peace park on the border where generations of differences were washed under the bridge
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: A "Love Connection"
An adorable euphemism for some unnameable act like sex in the missionary position
BY THE LUV DOC
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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