Volume 35, Number 45
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news
Vision Zero action plan aims to eliminate traffic fatalities
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
After a near-fatal hit-and-run, Elizabeth English struggles to rebuild her life
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
"Alternative" invasion conjures thoughts of contemporary journalism
BY MICHAEL KING
Art and Journalism: Incubator 1.0
BY NICK BARBARO
City Council pushes homestead exemption by thinnest of margins
BY MICHAEL KING
Friends of the Grove activist Natalie Gauldin enters race
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Tenants' efforts to organize prove successful
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
City Council to decide on tenant relocation assistance ordinance that would require landlords to cover moving costs
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Texas Advocates for Justice launches Austin chapter with training program
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
State leaders announce budget cuts
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
State releases finalized abortion statistics
BY MARY TUMA
Presidential hopeful is a child of immigrants himself
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Mixed offerings from Michi Ramen's little brother
BY BRANDON WATSON
The Beer Necessities prove that craft beer is no longer a boy's club
BY DAN GENTILE
Austin can't go home again
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
The road goes on forever and the party never ends
Omnibus staff report is imperfect, but don't stop the momentum, says mayor
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Black Widow Cinema brings a much-needed dose of "lady vengeance" to Austin
BY SEAN L. MALIN
AFS hosts Katie Cokinos' I Dream Too Much
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Looking into the mirror of Big Brother
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Zac Efron and Adam Devine are a bratty fraternity of two
The director of Twenty Feet From Stardom does another music doc
Hollywood has the cure for those dog-day afternoons of summer
Bollywood drama
Doc goes beneath the surface of competitive endurance tickling
arts & culture
This year's Austin Chamber Music Festival and Austin Classical Guitar summer series really get lit
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
This improvised spoof of a play in production conjured an old-school realistic drama with spot-on symbolism and overinflated egos
The pleasure of this production of Ibsen's drama comes in the complex exchanges among the deeply committed actors
Each of the artworks in this group show finds some place where the fantastic makes contact with the everyday
columns
When everything is gone, there is love, and the memory of love
BY LOUIS BLACK
Magical Realness, an Austin spin on vogue / drag balls
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Monument to first president of the Texas Republic is part of cemetery's art gallery
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Actually, that's not true. They don't suck at all.
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
LCRA wants to build a high-voltage power line on my property
BY LUKE ELLIS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE