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Austin Contemplates How to Make I-35 Suck Less
The past, present, and future of the man-made barrier through the heart of our town
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Point Austin: “The Time to Act Is Now”
Lloyd Doggett on the need to begin impeachment proceedings
BY MICHAEL KING
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NAKED CITY
No Pride Flags Flying in Williamson County
WilCo commissioners deny request to fly both LGBTQ and POW flags at county buildings
BY SARAH MARLOFF
East Austin Planned Parenthood Safe ... For Now
New state law shouldn’t impact East Seventh clinic
BY MARY TUMA
Trump's Mass Deportation Threat: Austin Responds
Mayor Adler: "We will take steps to mobilize community partners and resources"
BY MICHAEL KING
City Speeds Up Rape Kit Review
New contracts will expedite the process to clear rape kit backlog
BY SARAH MARLOFF
A Roe v. Wade Conversation With Wendy Davis and the Attorneys Who Argued the Landmark Case
Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee on abortion rights today
BY MEGAN MENCHACA
AISD Board of Trustees Approves $1.6 Billion Budget for 2019-2020
Lege gives AISD a one-year budget breather
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
A Year After Austin's Passage of the Freedom Cities Policies, Activists Urge APD to Do Better
Organizations applaud headway made, but say there's more work to be done
BY MARY TUMA
Council Plows Through Marathon Agenda
They've got 191 Items to go before decamping for summer break
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Protesters Descend On Leander Family Pride Event
LGBTQ activists and allies turn out to support attendees
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Toll Anti-Choice Laws Have on Real Lives
UT researcher interviewed 603 women about the barriers facing abortion care in Texas
BY MARY TUMA
An Intro to Our Beto-meter and Castro-meter
We'll be checking in with Texas' presidential candidates to see if their star is on the rise or fall
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
Perfectly Barked Barbecue and Unlimited Hush Puppies at the Switch
The restaurant just off Highway 290 also serves up phenomenal peach cobbler
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Austin’s Food and Ag Lab: Keeping Your Meals Safe
Local ACC-backed start-up fights the good fight for food safety and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 20, 2019
music
Black Pumas Bring Down the Hammer Behind Powerhouse Singer Eric Burton
The frontman might not admit it, but he's a professional
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Faster Than Sound: School’s Out for Dayglow
Nineteen-year-old Sloan Struble leaves UT for the bedroom-pop big leagues, while two new area record stores make their debuts
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
Austin-Travis County EMS Saves Real Lives on First Responders Live
Why are local emergency medical services on Fox's popular TV show?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Austin Film News: From A(nimation) to Z(ombies)
Production updates from around town and just beyond city limits
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
A Life Reconstructed in Noir Classic The Killers
A death in New Jersey
BY JULIAN DEBERRY
Now Streaming in Austin: Flay
Austin horror escapes the courts and creeps onto VOD
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Echo in the Canyon
History of the Laurel Canyon folk-rock scene gets lost in its own winding paths
Funan
French animation gives translucent life to a family history of surviving the Khmer Rouge
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
A taste of Eighties-style buddy-cop action-comedy hits all the right faces
Ghost Light
The curse of Macbeth is given effervescent life
Papi Chulo
A heartwarming story of the messiness of friendship between the unlikeliest of pals
Pavarotti
Ron Howard's documentary shows the great tenor in all his humanity
This One's for the Ladies
Documentary following Newark’s Nasty Boyz is only skin deep
Toy Story 4
Fourth verse, first as the first, second, third as the adventures of Woody and Buzz continue
arts & culture
The Satire's Still Timely in Gilbert & Sullivan Austin's Iolanthe
And the topsy-turvy team's show delivers a fanciful fairy tale, to boot
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
Arts Reviews
Austin Playhouse's The Book of Will
Playwright Lauren Gunderson shows how the Bard’s works came to be collected in a story of devotion and loss
An Evening With Chlane at ColdTowne Theater
In a light, enjoyable sketch show, comic couple Chloe and Lane Ingram show the cost to intimacy with just one person over others
Rub a Duck at Blue Genie
These are the kinds of movements that will make everyone moist
columns
Qmmunity: Let the Haters Eat Cake
Plus, beer that gives back, storytelling for Stonewall, and more LGBTQ events
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Big Bend Fossil Discovery Center
Discover Big Bend National Park’s fossilized past at new center
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Pause the Game
The Luv Doc loves a good metaphor
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Previewing the knockout bracket
Round of 16 matchups now set; U.S. to play Monday
BY NICK BARBARO
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