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Crash Course
Cabs try to survive in the era of Uber
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Back to the Future
GOP officials take opportunity to demagogue on heels of Obama clean air plan announcement
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: While the Cats Were Away
The stakeholders play
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Are You Typical?
Council's first look at FY 2016 budget
BY MICHAEL KING
Council: Are We Having Fun Fun Fun Yet?
The show must go on, but where exactly?
BY MICHAEL KING
Paxton Indicted
Grand jury slaps AG with three felony charges
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A Case of Gentrifurcation?
Jumpolin site to become parking lot for cat cafe
BY TONY CANTÚ
East Side Hotel Changes Course
Developers withdraw permit application
BY TONY CANTÚ
Urban Outfitters Concept Takes Shape
The Drag gets the Brooklyn treatment
BY WAYLON CUNNINGHAM
AISD Board Pays Tribute to Schneider
AISD board members bid farewell to Schneider and discuss finding a successor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD Proposes Property Tax Cut
AISD looks to adopt FY 2016 budget
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Buehler Arrested
Cop-watch activist releases video of his arrest
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: Two Set to Die
Two inmates on death row deny murder was the end goal
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
The latest Son of a Bush has a plan to make you richer
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Pfoodies
Pflugerville dining has come a long way
BY CORINA KELLAM
Cantine
Asti meets Fino in Lamar Union
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Evening Joe
Caffe del Fuego elevates coffee liqueur
BY MELODY FURY
Food-o-File
Pizza and pastries
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
The Sacred & the Profane
The Gourds co-frontman flew the coop for Shinyribs and ain't looking back
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Phases & Stages
Kacey Musgraves
Pageant Material
The Rolling Stones
From the Vault: The Marquee – Live in 1971
The J. Geils Band
House Party: Live in Germany
The Who
Live at Shea Stadium 1982
Jason Isbell
Something More Than Free
My Morning Jacket
The Waterfall
Neil Young & Promise of the Real
The Monsanto Years
Wilco
Star Wars
Iron and Wine & Ben Bridwell
Sing Into My Mouth
screens
Rooster Teeth Levels Up
Gaming video pioneers go big with a feature film and an ever-expanding convention
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Making the Cut
New season of Project Runway puts Austin designer Lindsey Creel in the spotlight
BY ANNE HARRIS
I Smell (Kevin) Bacon
Two kids take the titular Cop Car on a joyride in this lean thriller
BY CAITLIN MOORE
Film Reviews
Call Me Lucky
Bobcat Goldthwait directs doc about fellow comic Barry Crimmins
Cop Car
Two boys go on the lam in Kevin Bacon's cop car
Drishyam
Hindi thriller based on Malayalam original
The Gift
Joel Edgerton moves to the director's chair for this white-knuckle suspenser
Irrational Man
Joaquin Phoenix plots the perfect crime in Woody Allen's new charmer
A Poem Is a Naked Person
Les Blank’s doc on Leon Russell began shooting in 1972 and is finally released
Ricki and the Flash
Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody combine talents, but where's the magic?
Samba
The latest from the directors of the French hit The Intouchables
Shaun the Sheep Movie
The latest from Aardman Animations is one baaaaaadass movie
Srimanthudu
Telugu action film
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Dramatization of the famous psychology experiment
arts & culture
Getting Political With The Tree Play and Robin Hood: An Elegy
Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Shawn Camp: Alight in the Darkness
Shawn Camp's new show at Northern-Southern breathes in the Aphotic Zone
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Into the Woods
Summer Stock Austin's talented teens tease out the enchantment in Sondheim's magical musical
columns
The Common Law
My landlord sold the house we rent
BY LUKE ELLIS
Gay Place: A Feather in the Cap
This Robin Hood is not your daddy's white guys in tights
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Sundays With Santiago, San Antonio
Accordion player Santiago Jiménez Jr. fills taco shop with free rancheras
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Trying to Be Attractive
Carefully cultivating a look of masculine nonchalance
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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BY NICK BARBARO
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