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The State of Trans Health Care
Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: The Way Things Are
Another victory for judicial fairness leads to … more discrimination at the polls
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: More and Cheaper Housing
Demographer's report offers new perspectives
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
D.A. Margaret Moore discusses her new Civil Rights Division
Civics 101
Council: Our House, in the Middle of the Corridor
Council considers strategic housing … again
BY MICHAEL KING
NAKED CITY
Desperately Seeking City Manager
Council to create a City Manager Search Advisory Task Force on Thursday
BY MICHAEL KING
Saldaña Quits AISD Board
Trustee cites workload for abrupt exit
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Sekrit Theater for Sale
Current price for Beau Reichert's Eastside theatre: $3.5 million
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
CRITICAL INCIDENTS
Officer-Involved Shootout?
"Sometimes perceptions are not always 100% accurate," says Chief Manley
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
D.A. Unveils New Civil Rights Division
Moore says division will replace Critical Incident Unit
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Bills Grant Texas Doctors Legal Cover to Mislead Pregnant Women
Is the Lege giving doctors a license to lie?
BY MARY TUMA
Lege Lines: Don’t Blame the Death Worm
The Texas House wants to kill off "film incentives"
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND THE NEWS STAFF
The Hightower Report: The Sad Saga of John Stumpf
Talk about a racket
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Celis Brewery Returns
The revitalization of Austin’s first big-time brewery
BY ERIC PUGA
Review: Kuneho
Does Paul Qui's new concept offer redemption?
BY MELODY FURY
Dear Glutton: Dining With Newborns
Do babies belong in nice restaurants?
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Carrie Elkin’s Life-and-Death Folk
Her father's death and daughter's birth upped the stakes of the singer's finest work
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Playback: Greetings From Euphoria
Austin’s best spring festival – correction, “experience” – faces competition after idyllic sixth year
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Will Johnson
Hatteras Night, a Good Luck Charm
Darden Smith
Everything
Greg Vanderpool
Pilot
Octopus Project
Memory Mirror
screens
The 2017 Indie Meme Film Fest
Bringing in the best of South Asian films
BY JESSI CAPE
Readily Apparent Media on Their Basketball Doc
Local production house goes for the fast break
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Film Reviews
Colossal
Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie
The Fate of the Furious
The car thieves are back to save the world
Gifted
A child prodigy gets caught up in a custody battle
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
Doc on the men behind the astronauts
Their Finest
How to make a propaganda film in World War II England
Tommy's Honour
Lacking biopic on the game of golf
The Void
A gory serving of cosmic horror
arts & culture
My Favorite My Favorite Murder
When comedians Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstack talk homicide, people listen
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
In Memoriam: Lashonda Lester
Remembering the Queen of Austin Comedy, who died April 6
BY CARINA MAGYAR
Arts Reviews
Jarrott Productions’ The Herd
In this staging of Rory Kinnear’s domestic drama, a birthday celebration reveals the stress fractures of caring for a disabled child
One Ounce Opera’s Fresh Squeezed Ounce of Opera II
Austin’s One Ounce Opera juices the night away
“Anne Siems: Weaving” at Wally Workman Gallery
The disembodied heads that populate this solo exhibition suggest departed women but are still beautiful and empowered
columns
Page Two: It’s Not That We Can’t Handle the Truth but That We No Longer Want To
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Stay informed, stay enraged, and surround yourself with good people
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Krause’s Cafe, New Braunfels
Famous German restaurant is back with a beautiful new bierhalle and 80 beers on tap
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Buy the Snake
They say it's a sin to kill a mockingbird
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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