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Why Does Everyone Hate CodeNEXT?
Can a polarized Austin reach consensus on land use by next spring?
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: What’s That Smell?
Our Austin-bashing governor knows how to spread manure
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Greg Abbott
Texas' governor is a spiteful little man
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
AISD’s Billion Dollar Bond
Plans include investments in 41 items, including five new schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Recently Deceased Labor Relations Officer Replaced
City’s first LRO Larry Watts returns to fill position
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Legal Battle With Dell Medical School Continues
Attorney Fred Lewis claims school withheld public information
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin Parks: We’re No. 46!
But dogs are happier than average!
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin Wages Legal Battle Against SB 4 in Court
Austin filing argues SB 4 violates U.S. Constitution
BY MARY TUMA
Council: Park It Here
Slouching toward a summer break
BY MICHAEL KING
Campaign 2018: Can Anyone Beat Lamar Smith?
Candidates line up to challenge longtime congressman
BY MICHAEL KING
Rideshare Wars Round 2: Fare Thee Well
First TNC drops in response to Uber and Lyft's returns
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lege Lines: Ignoring the Dawnna Dukes Problem
County Democratic Party Chair Vincent Harding doesn't want to talk about the beleaguered rep
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report: Who Is Mick Mulvaney ... and Why Is He So Awful?
Because he works for Trump, that's why
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Dripping Springs Keeps Growing, But Can the Dining Scene Keep Up?
Austin real estate pushes restaurateurs beyond city limits
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Dear Glutton: How to Step Up Your Picnic
Going beyond the typical bag of chips and cooler of beers
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
MC Sertified Arrives at a Crossroads
South Austin rapper doesn’t want to leave his hometown, but he may have to
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: “Hastily Prepared” Ordinances Head to City Council
Revised drafts of Agent of Change and OMV permitting head to Council, but again, live music interests raise alarms
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Bruce Robison
Bruce Robison & the Back Porch Band
Eliot Lipp
Skywave
Leather Girls
Leather Girls
Suspirians
Ti Bon Ange
the John-Pauls
Forget to Remember to Forget
The Cuckoos
The Cuckoos
Obscured by Echoes
Avidonia II: The Arrival
screens
ATX Television Festival 2017
Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley comes home
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Trey Edward Shults' It Comes at Night
Texas director purges his demons with latest film
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Split Screen and Nineties Indie Film
AFS celebrates John Pierson’s seminal IFC show
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
An animated adaptation of the beloved book series
Churchill
An intimate look at a leader's state of mind
It Comes at Night
A lean, mean descent into primitive tribalism
Last Men in Aleppo
Picking up the pieces of the Syrian Civil War
Megan Leavey
A soldier and her PTSD dog
The Mummy
Tom Cruise does the monster mash
arts & culture
The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest
The lowdown on the 2017 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company’s Glacier
As an elegy to the ice, this dance aestheticized doom but left us plenty of edge
“Beth Consetta Rubel: Higher Learning: Educational Toys”
Rubel’s solo show is cutting when it comes to Bill Cosby and Rachel Dolezal, but it also explores the complexities of race
columns
Gay Place
2017: glass-half-full version
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Collin Street Bakery, Corsicana
Fruitcake factory fills sales room with the warm smell of something in the oven
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Long F%#king Way From Smith
The Luv Doc has a confession to make
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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