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Standing Witness
On living through the history of AIDS, and seeing a rising rate of infection
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: Homestead Exemption Still Burning
How many votes can $2 a month buy?
BY MICHAEL KING
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Civics 101
Did the City Jump Into Bed With Taser Too Fast?
Lawsuit seeks to block body camera contract
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Abbott Wants to Extend Hate Crime Protections to Police
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Parks Board Member Challenges Sheri Gallo
Alison Alter says she will advocate for neighbors – not developers
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Council Candidates' Campaign Finance Reports
First campaign finance reports hit the City Clerk's office
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT Loses Another Manager
CodeNEXT project manager Jim Robertson steps down from his post after accepting a job with the city of Boulder two weeks ago
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Grove Mixed-Use Development Clears Another Hurdle
Zoning and Platting Commission votes 6-4 to recommend mixed-use community
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
School District Preps for Electoral Fight
Challengers emerge for two AISD trustee seats while three remain unchallenged
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Homestead Exemption Puts Sobriety Center at Risk
City Council will weigh the cost of sobriety
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Hightower Report: Déjà Vu All Over Again
The official National Republican Party policy document is the Republican Party platform of 1956
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Finding Community With Bread Church
Local parish comes together around baking
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Review: College RoadHouse
Korean bar and restaurant captures the spirit of Austin
BY BRANDON WATSON
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music
Space Cowboy Steve Miller's Not Joking
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist details the pompitous of musical education
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: The Return of the Austin Smoking Ban
A decade after the initial smoking ban, local health group hopes to stomp out smoking patios
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin Film Society Presents a Night of Texas Animation
Animation showcase draws artists together
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Anna Rose Holmer on Her Feature Debut The Fits
"You had to just direct from this more guttural place and go for it"
BY SEAN L. MALIN
I Like to Watch: Looking Past HBO’s Looking
“LGBT visibility” is a strange thread to pull
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Edina and Patsy hit the big screen with mixed results
Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen and family go off the grid
Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party
Another distorted salvo from Dinesh D’Souza
Ice Age: Collision Course
Latest entry of the series is overstuffed and meandering
Life, Animated
The magic of Disney unlocks a boy's mind
Lights Out
Prepare for an onslaught of jump scares
Zero Days
Chilling cyber warfare doc explores the Stuxnet virus
arts & culture
Amy Gentry on Good as Gone
This Austin author didn't set out to make her first novel a thriller, but now that it's out, she's good with that
BY JESSI CAPE
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's The Flick
Annie Baker's drama movingly shows us that the drama in a movie theatre isn't only on the screen
Shrewd Productions' Hold Me Well
Playwright Eva Suter's reworking of Othello in a world without men depicts love in many forms with power and beauty
"Scorch and Drag" at Flatbed Gallery
John Robert Craft's objects and prints, combined with the viewer's eye, creates a chamber of reverberating visions
columns
Page Two: It's the Time of the Season for Absolute Moral Certainty
The "Anybody but Hillary" movement makes strange bedfellows of the progressive left and the hard right
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Krudas Cubensi will blow yer mind and make you move
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Resaca de la Palma State Park
Former river channel provides a tropical paradise for Rio Grande Valley wildlife
BY GERALD MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Start Snapping
Not everyone needs to gaze constantly into the pool of Narcissus
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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