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May 2018 Democratic Primary Coverage: Catch the Run-Off
Filtering through the final round
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Can This Code Be Saved?
Plan for a common future, or pretend it just won't happen
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Two Tales of One City
Land use commissions diverge; dogs
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Sheryl Cole
The heat's still on in House District 46
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Death Watch: What Evidence?
Juan Castillo set for execution on May 16
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Andrew Romero out at Austin Police Association
APA vice president suspended 20 days from APD, resigns from union post
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Good News for Norman and Sims Students
Merged schools to see more teachers, bilingual classes, afterschool programs, and more
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Council: A Special Event
Alison Alter, agreeing to disagree
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
CodeNEXT: “Highly Unlikely”?
Planning Commission plays along, Zoning & Platting calls to terminate
BY SARAH MARLOFF
What Drug Test?
City mulling policy rewrite after EMS asst. chief eschews standard procedure
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Soccer Volleys: Court Orders and Community Forums
Conversation could heat up in June
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Candy-Coated Copyright Infringement
Museum of Human Achievement sues Mars, associates over SXSW installation
BY KATE GROETZINGER
Chronicle Endorsements
Recommendations for the run-off
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
food
A Different Kind of Barista at Empowered Coffee
Employees with intellectual or developmental disabilities make coffee and learn life skills
BY DAN GENTILE
Diets Don’t Always Mean Deprivation
Sarno brothers release their plant-based, indulgence-focused cookbook with a Central Library demo
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
ICYMI: Full English Serves Breakfast for the Queen's Subjects
Get thee some tea sandwiches
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food Events
music
Freewheeling With the First Lady of Austin Country, Kelly Willis
Pondering her first solo album in more than a decade
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Strictly Conjunto
“We don’t want this music to die” – Johnny Degollado
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Willie Nelson
Last Man Standing
Charley Crockett
Lonesome as a Shadow
Chris Cogburn / Ingebrigt Håker Flaten / Bob Hoffnar / Henry Kaiser
En las Montañas de Excesos
screens
How Rooster Teeth Became an Online Phenomenon
9.5 million YouTube subscribers can’t be wrong
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
True Life, Unfiltered
New mini-fest AFS Doc Days scours the globe for fresh viewpoints
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Now Streaming in Austin: Distance
He said, she said, IRL and online, in Distance
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Backstabbing for Beginners
Diplomacy and corruption mix in true-life drama.
Disobedience
Rachel Weisz explores the complexities and joys of choice in Britain's Jewish communities.
Life of the Party
Melissa McCarthy goes back to school
Lu Over the Wall
Japanese mermaid tale with a big heart and a groovy beat.
Measure of a Man
Even Donald Sutherland reciting fortune cookie wisdom doesn't save this YA snore.
Overboard
Unexpected remake of the Eighties' most questionable rom-com
Racer and the Jailbird
Euro crime drama skips a gear in its switchback action.
Revenge
Bloody vengeance fit for the #MeToo era.
arts & culture
Phillip Wade and Friends on the West Austin Studio Tour
The artist has some creative friends show in his Clarksville home
BY MELANY JEAN
Snapshot: Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Music Festival
The ATX/ATL fest connection
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Theatre en Bloc's Cry It Out
This production tackles the huge challenge of exploring motherhood and class, and can't quite have it all
Tapestry Dance Company's April Fools
This remount of the tap troupe's valentine to vaudeville brought the old art form back with delights in abundance
"Dawn Okoro: Punk Noir" at the Carver Museum
The artist provides a corrective to preconceived notions of punk, exploring the ethos through black personal style
columns
Gay Place
Queer-story being made in Austin
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Bessie Coleman, Atlanta Historical Museum
Texas-born pioneer aviatrix is remembered in her hometown
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: A Flaming Hetero
No matter what we believe ourselves to be, we are what we prove ourselves to be
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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