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Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing
Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services
BY MARY TUMA
Beside the Point: Referendum, Texas
Let's vote on ... something, anything, and all of the time
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
How Efficient Is Your City?
Austin may be about to find out
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Army’s Future Is in Austin
Futures Command to set up shop in our fair city
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
We Were Once Recalling
Mastermind behind Ann Kitchen recall effort fined $1,900
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Who Invited the Libertarian?
Gubernatorial candidate Mark Tippetts wants in on lone debate
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: Chris Young Executed
Last-ditch effort to challenge Board of Pardons and Paroles falls short
BY SARAH MARLOFF
A Resolution for Lawrence Parrish
Man shot by APD officers gets one charge dropped, pleas out on two others
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
AISD: Thinking Outside the Schoolhouse
Task force schemes new ways to stabilize Austin ISD budget
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Ortiz Shooting: The Merits of Self-Defense
What would it take to believe Jason Roche's story?
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
What Set Charles Curry Off?
Questions remain following last week's shootings
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
ARCH Support
Eradicating homelessness requires a system
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
About That CodeNEXT Petition ...
Monday ruling brings confusion, clarity
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Fetal Burial Law Considered in Court
Five-day trial challenges state's latest anti-choice law
BY MARY TUMA
Gun Control? In Texas?
Lawmakers consider Governor’s modest proposals to tackle gun violence in schools
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Election Notes: Campaign Finance Time
Who's got the money?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER, MARY TUMA, NINA HERNANDEZ AND AUSTIN SANDERS
food
On the Trail of the Local Snail
Austin, in one way or another, has it escargot-ing on
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Hank’s
Windsor Park's latest dining destination is hit or miss
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food Events
music
Christy Hays' Watershed Moment
One foot in Austin, one in Montana, the singer-songwriter jumps in with both on breakout River Swimmer
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Friday the 13th Reaps Austin Music
Joe Valentine, Ponty Bone, Fai Jow all pass on the same day
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Contrast Film Festival Pushes Boundaries, Defies Gender
New film festival presents America: The Remix
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Gets "Provocative and Political!"
Getting explicit and merciless in The Misandrists
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Where in the World Is Bunny Lake?
Otto Preminger’s masterful abduction thriller still shocks and intrigues
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
One in a Crowd
Austin filmmakers need your crowdfunding help
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot
Joaquin Phoenix creates a charming warts-and-all portrait of cartoonist John Callahan
Eighth Grade
Modern middle school life has never been captured better
The Equalizer 2
Denzel Washington action sequel is a total misfire
Izzy Gets the Fuck Across Town
Mackenzie Davis is a great traveling companion for this dull roadtrip
The King
America's soul explored on a road trip in Elvis Presley's car
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
The paternity mystery is solved, but the ABBA hits keep coming
Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms
Beautiful and heartfelt fantasy anime tackles death and family
Unfriended: Dark Web
Back to the laptop in this surprisingly scary sequel to the surprise hit
arts & culture
Arts Reviews
Forklift Danceworks' Dove Springs Swims
The company's latest community production showed why Dove Springs' pool matters to that neighborhood and to all of us as well
"Margaux Crump: The Lure" at Women & Their Work
Juxtaposing natural and synthetic materials through the metaphor of the hunt, the artist blurs lines between lust and danger, the repellent and the seductive
The Undertaker's Daughter by Sara Blaedel
Denmark's Sara Blaedel brings the mystery Stateside with a Danish woman who must deal with both a funeral home she's inherited in Wisconsin and a local murder
columns
Gay Place
A sign of good things to come?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Garland BBQ
Old-fashioned pit barbecue does it low and slow
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: A Real Rasputin
There is a razor-thin line between adorable and nauseating
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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