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news
Collateral Damage
Assessing the cost of service for minority veterans
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Public Notice: Dog Week of Summer
BY NICK BARBARO
Beside the Point: Your Job or Your Life
It's time for workers to have better choices
BY AMY KAMP
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Meet the Candidate: John Sisson
Sheriff candidate calls for end to S-Comm
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Did APD Short Officers Overtime?
Police union pres. says lawsuit "likely"
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Remembering an "Unknown Worker"
Construction workers demand "No more deaths"
BY AMY KAMP
Pilot Program Spurs STR Crackdown
Austin Code is closely monitoring short-term rentals
BY NATALIA CIOLKO
Texas-Tied GOP Candidates Race for Debate Spot
GOP primary candidates prioritize Aug. 6 debate invite
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
What moved marriage equality from taboo to justice?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Just Desserts
Giving new life to the end of the meal
BY RACHEL FEIT
Beyond Mimosas
Austin reinvents the brunch cocktail
BY MELODY FURY
Food-o-File
Green Pastures' next chapter
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
Who Let the Dogs Out?
A playlist for the dog days of summer
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: Five Nights on Dirty Sixth
Is Dirty Sixth Street the wasteland the music scene makes it out to be? Five straight nights answer loud and clear.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Under the Skin
Psychological thriller Felt slices into rape culture
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Punk Trilogy Gets a Re-release
Penelope Spheeris speaks on her restored punk doc triptych
BY MARC SAVLOV
Class Act
Bill Wise takes us to summer school
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
Film Reviews
Ant-Man
The Marvel Universe expands to include comedy
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Hindi drama
Felt
In this psychological horror story, an artist uses her craft to fight rape culture
Gemma Bovery
Flaubert's heroine gets a modern spin, courtesy of Posy Simmonds’ comic strip
Mr. Holmes
Ian McKellen plays Sherlock Holmes at 93, as his memory begins to fail
Trainwreck
Amy Schumer adds an X chromosome to Judd Apatow's usual raunchfest
arts & culture
In Praise of Designers
A show of gratitude as two of our finest, Ia Ensterä and Jason Amato, depart Austin
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Hairspray
The musical delights again, thanks to Zilker Theatre Productions' stellar cast and quality staging
The Night Alive
Hyde Park Theatre captures five lonely Dubliners in all their broken humanity in Conor McPherson's drama
"Conner O'Leary: Requesting Entrance"
Surrealism is alive and well at Farewell Books, thanks to the art of Conner O'Leary
columns
Gay Place: Just One Hitch
We've got the officiants, baby, if you've got the time
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Horsehead Crossing, Pecos River
Old Western trails funneled through the low-water crossing in the West Texas desert
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Mind Blown!
You can’t know everything. Thinking you do is a very special kind of stupidity.
BY THE LUV DOC
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sports
Soccer Watch
Play 3v3 against Landon Donovan, Brian Ching, Stuart Holden
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
