Volume 36, Number 26
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news
Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
City's "community survey" an annual public selfie
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT fears aired; hopes expressed
BY NICK BARBARO
Yes, they really said that
NAKED CITY
State determined to have provided "no evidence" of wrongdoing
BY MARY TUMA
The school system supports its students, no matter their immigration status
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Inquiring civil rights groups want to know
BY MARY TUMA
A letter from 200 professors to the White House signals a broad consensus on global warming
BY MICHAEL KING
Over 16,400 Texans signed an affidavit in order to vote
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The first Mexican-American elected to public office in Travis County was 84
BY MICHAEL KING
The dais considers what constitutes “too tall”
BY MICHAEL KING
“Everything is on hold”
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Restraining order leaves body cams in limbo
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Standing up to anti-choice rhetoric during a three-bill frenzy at the Capitol
BY MARY TUMA
More than 83% of state school districts either don't teach sex ed or teach abstinence-positive curricula
BY MARY TUMA
Entitlements? Social Security isn't a welfare program
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Jess Pryles and the making of an Austin food celebrity
BY DAN GENTILE
Upscale Tex-Mex joint is a mini vacation
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
Moving into Phase II
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Mosaic Sound Collective's music hub and ancient atmospheric Adam Torres point to the future
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
I Got Your Medicine
I Came to Sing the Song
Can't Even
The Hornet's Nest
The Bad Testament
Plays One Sound and Others
The Soul & The Heal
MF064
Man, Woman, Friend, Computer
True Color / Chaos Is
screens
A plethora of thrills and chills
BY JESSI CAPE
How Andy Paris cornered the market
BY MARC SAVLOV
Love, dreams, and destiny
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation
A stellar racially charged horror comedy
Matt Damon protects the Chinese from lizards
It's a dog … that rocks!
arts & culture
Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
This imaginative spin on Cervantes tells of walls and the stories that inspire us to tear them down
This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent
Using text interface as a visual environment, this show is messy and clean, consistent and surprising, philosophical and entertaining
columns
It is the age of little wisdom, it is the age of foolishness
BY LOUIS BLACK
Turning a trash pile into something beautiful
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Roadside eatery provides all the small town essentials
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Wallowing in a huge pig trough of hubris and mendacity
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY LANCE MYERS
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW