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Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center
Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?
BY MARY TUMA
Point Austin: It Ain’t Just About Trump
This week's marches begin a long and difficult resistance
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: The FABPAC Reaches Out
Plus: Calling all filmmakers, landscape architects, dog & car lovers
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
They really said that?
Civics 101
Council Reconsiders Committee Structure
"We can make the process more efficient and effective”
BY MICHAEL KING
NAKED CITY
Planned Parenthood Fights Texas In Court to Save Medicaid
Providers say Medicaid exclusion would be "devastating"
BY MARY TUMA
A Grant to End Youth Homelessness
HUD will provide $5.2 million to the city
BY SARAH MARLOFF
New Data on Suicide Counts in Travis County
More millennials commit suicide than any other age group
BY ANNAMARYA SCACCIA
CodeNEXT Leak Stirs Up Drama
Long-awaited land development code proposal expected Jan. 30
BY CALEB PRITCHARD
Lege Lines: Bathroom Bill Steals Spotlight
"Texas Privacy Act" isn't about privacy – it's about transphobia
BY MARY TUMA
Dawnna Dukes Indicted
State rep faces 15 counts relating to abuse of office
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Death Watch: A Future Danger?
Texas' death chamber is only heating up
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Hightower Report: The New Founder
What is Gov. Greg Abbott trying to do to our Constitution?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Tracing Austin's Italian Food Boom
How a red sauce town boiled over
BY DAN GENTILE
Dear Glutton: Breakfast Finds
Get adventurous with your first meal of the day
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
The Austin Music Scene's Spectrum of Sexism
From sexual assault to all-female bills, women musicians face myriad issues in the live music capital
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Playback: Strange Brew Empties
Financial duress buckles South Austin listening institution
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Owen Egerton Gets Spooked Writing The Axe Murders of Villisca
Austin author on his new haunted house movie
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Monster Trucks
Boy meets monster, adventure ensues
The Resurrection of Gavin Stone
A former actor finds faith in his hometown
Sleepless
A shady cop searches for his kidnapped son
Split
Another twisted (and twisty) offering from M. Night Shyamalan
20th Century Women
Bening shines in this tender, heartfelt film
arts & culture
Open for Business: The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest
Now accepting your stories by snail mail or – wait for it – online
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Matt & Ben at the Institution Theater
Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers use Damon and Affleck to create a hilarious case study in how Hollywood murders friendship
Austin Playhouse’s Bloomsday
Steven Dietz’s rumination on a great love lost lacks some of the vivid passion it needs in this staging
"Monika Sosnowska: Habitat"
The Polish artist’s industrial-material sculptures at the Contemporary Austin capture the physicality of our society, the rigidity of our order
columns
Gay Place
Saying 'Eff You' to the new administration by raising money for women's organizations
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Black Rock Park
Small cabins on Lake Buchanan provide the basic comforts of home
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Hold It
Until you can get to that forest where the tree falls and no one hears it
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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comics
Eyebeam
BY SAM HURT
This Modern World
BY TOM TOMORROW
Why So Much?
BY LANCE MYERS
Jen Sorensen Comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
