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ELECTION COVERAGE
Election Coverage: A Glass Half-Full
Little f*cking drops of blue blood, sweat, and tears
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Election Coverage: Congressional Wrap: Closer to Victories
Five of six Travis U.S. Rep. candidates narrowly defeated
BY MICHAEL KING
Election Coverage: Refitting the Dais
Council math, with a few outstanding variables
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Election Coverage: Take Me to Your Run-Off
The next month in Council races
BY NINA HERNANDEZ, SARAH MARLOFF AND MARY TUMA
Election Coverage: “A Watershed Night”
Mayor Steve Adler basks in a big victory, big plans
BY MICHAEL KING
Election Coverage: Propositions: Nine Up, Two Down
Props J and K fall
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Election Coverage: Judicial Races: Dem Sweep Appealing
Court of Appeals seats go big-time to the left
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Election Coverage: The Texas Lege: A Tight Squeeze
Texas Dems put incumbents through the wringer
BY MARY TUMA
Election Coverage: Blowouts, Run-Offs in Education Elections
Anderson, Ashy, and a run-off at AISD
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Election Coverage: Election Miscellany
Here's to some losers and assholes
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: The Work Goes On
A mixed election bag nationwide, but real reasons for optimism
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Blue Wave Blues?
Something for everyone in Tuesday’s results
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Beto O’Rourke
He's ... what now?
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Austin Dodges the Amazon Bullet
HQ2 going somewhere (anywhere) else
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Public Safety Musical Chairs
Rebecca Bernhardt joins PSC
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
City Hires New Fire Chief
Recently retired chief in Atlanta moves west
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER AND NINA HERNANDEZ
James Baker Receives His Sentence
Disgraced firefighter gets five years probation, loses EMT and firefighting licenses
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Sunset Throws Shade at LCRA, TABC
Staff reports hardly flattering
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Ellen Troxclair: Bye, Bye, Bye
Outgoing CM shows why she won't be missed
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
MetroLink: Going That Extra (First / Last) Mile
From point A to point B, so you can better get to point C
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
C.A. + D.A. = C.D.A.?
County may send attorney merger to Lege
BY MICHAEL KING
5th Circuit Hears D&E Abortion Case
Ban of procedure has been called "undue burden" by federal judge
BY MARY TUMA
Walk-In Walk-Out
County commissioners change course on substance abuse treatment funding
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
Staying Hospitable During Our Nation's Division
Local restaurateurs discuss civility at the table
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Mangia Pizza Celebrates 30 Years
In this city that always eats, that's quite a feat
BY JESSI CAPE
Imperfect Produce Focuses on Reducing Food Waste
How ‘bout them (tiny, lopsided) apples?
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
Food Events
music
The Byrds' Sweetheart of the Rodeo Turns 50
The landmark album spins at the Moody Theater via two of its makers and their virtuosic friends
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback: The Indestructible Mr. Lewis
The trials and tribulations of Mr. Lewis & the Funeral 5, plus a UtopiaFest report, and the passing of Seth Gibbs
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Texacala Jones
Pony Island Express
Samantha Glass
Nine Memories Between Impression & Imprint
Grivo, Single Lash, Future Museums
Elude, Providence, Rosewater Ceremony Part II: Guardian of Solitude
screens
Steven Yeun Sets the Screen on Fire in Burning
Playing the outsider in working-class Korea
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
ATX Film News
Bill Hicks, vampires, and slime
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cinematographer Taylor Powell Has Two Homes Making Stoke
From Austin to Hawaii and back again
BY SHALAVÉ CAWLEY
Now Streaming in Austin: RT Extra Life
Rooster Teeth Extra Life does it for the kids
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Boy Erased
Joel Edgerton goes to gay conversion therapy's heart of darkness
Burning
Extraordinary Korean drama adds emotion to the thriller equation
Dr. Seuss' The Grinch
Everyone's favorite Christmas misanthrope loses his edge
The Girl in the Spider's Web: A New Dragon Tattoo Story
Lisbeth Salander is back, and now she's James Bond
Lez Bomb
Happy ever after in this sweet Thanksgiving queer rom-com
Nobody's Fool
Tiffany Haddish can't beat the Tyler Perry equation
Outlaw King
Chris Pine aptly fills the crown of Robert the Bruce
Overlord
How do you make killing Nazi zombies this dull?
A Private War
Rosamund Pike captures war journalist Marie Colvin
Prospect
Lo-fi sci-fi drama is driven by performances and ingenuity
Time Trap
Time-bending thriller needed more, well, time
What They Had
Authentic Alzheimer's drama steers just clear of soap opera
arts & culture
Dimension Gallery Shows Support for Art and Artists at EAST
The 2018 East Austin Studio Tour bears fruit with help from local artspace
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: UtopiaFest
The music festival may have bounced around locations, but at last weekend’s tenth-anniversary celebration, it still felt like home
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
"Steve Parker: War Tuba" at Big Medium
In exploring sound's relationship to conflict and use in it, the artist fuses past and present, melody and discord, into a remixed reveille
columns
Oops!
Qmmunity
What now?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Otis Henry Memorial, Texarkana
World War I monument memorializes the depths of a mother’s loss
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Not a Planner
The Luv Doc talks about an OG social justice warrior from back in the day
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch: One More Home Game
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
