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Ms. Veteran America's Mission to End Female Veteran Homelessness
Molly Potter raises awareness for mental health issues
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
Beside the Point: Still Waiting for the Punch Line
Awarding an anti-choice, nonmedical group a million-dollar state health contract is nothing short of absurdist comedy
BY MARY TUMA
Public Notice: Planning for Affordability
Council tackles thorny zoning cases
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Grove at Shoal Creek Inches Forward
Council to finally consider contentious zoning case
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
After Numerous Delays, Cactus Rose Zoning Case Heads to Council
Relocation plans for residents of the mobile home park remain tentative
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Will Trump Get Out the Latino Vote?
Eddie Rodriguez previews his upcoming Texas Tribune Festival panel
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Local Highlights at Trib Fest
Mayor Steve Adler, Lance Armstrong among those representing Austin
Making the Youth Count
Panel of formerly homeless young people gives context to statewide study
BY MAKEDA EASTER
Death Watch: Appeals, Waived Appeals, and Conflicting Findings
Fifth Circuit strikes down request to test death drugs
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Crime Lab Cover-Up?
APD admits to long-running wrongdoings with its evidence
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Norwood Murder Trial Nears Conclusion
Jury expected to head out for deliberation by end of week
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report: Fed Up With Wall Street? Do Something About It!
Grassroots group taking on the money-grubbing financial complex
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Review: Coast
Simple seafood stars in tiny space
BY BRANDON WATSON
Cheap Eats: Luke's Inside Out
Coating your ribs for less than $20
BY MARY BRYCE
Dear Glutton: Looking for an Un-Kid-Friendly Restaurant
Where to play while the kids are away
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Stranger Things Blasts Local Synth Quartet Survive Into Orbit
Scoring the Netflix summer hit
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: Austin Week in Angers, France
Kevin Curtin runs into more than a handful of musical Austinites on the other side of the globe
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
East Cameron Folkcore
Better Off, Fossils
Kris Kristofferson
The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection
Midnight Stroll
Heartbreak Bugaloo
Johnny Nicholas
Fresh Air
James Arthur's Manhunt
Digital Clubbing
screens
FANTASTIC FEST 2016
Charting the Monsters of Fantastic Fest
Here there be movies
BY JOSH KUPECKI AND RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Handmaiden's Tale
Sex, lies, and secrets in the U.S. premiere of Park Chan-wook's latest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Don Coscarelli Returns With Phantasm: Ravager
Great balls of dire
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Fall Film Festival Season Kicks Off With the Toronto International Film Festival
Northern exposure
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
Come What May
Period melodrama tells a story about German refugees in France in 1940
Goat
Alpha-male fraternity bullying sparks revenge in this true story
Jyo Achyutananda
Telugu romantic comedy
The Magnificent Seven
Revisionist remake stars a diverse rainbow coalition
Max Rose
Screen legend Jerry Lewis stars in this drama's title role
My Blind Brother
Indie romantic comedy has plenty of bite
Storks
These animated birds never quite achieve liftoff
arts & culture
Awful/Lucky Martha Kelly
Austin comedian Martha Kelly has two ways of looking at her improbable path to fame
BY CARINA MAGYAR
Arts Reviews
Teatro Vivo’s EL
Raul Garza's new play explores the power of the storyteller
The Theorists’ Hiraeth
A sprawling evening of art and community organized by Amy Morrow and the Theorists showed the challenge of editing in our age
“Figure/Heads: David Bae and Erin Cunningham” at ICOSA Collective Gallery
It's rare for a show to combine work by two artists so different in such a complex and intensely unified way
columns
Day Trips: Kenedy Ranch Museum, Sarita
South Texas ranching family's history is told through colorful murals
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Into It
It's a real drag giving an anatomy lesson in the middle of a hot makeout sesh
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Gay Place
The Gender Unbound Art Fest will spotlight the work of trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming artists and musicians
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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