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The Austin Women Dispelling Stigma and Moving Mental Health Issues Forward
From Sheriff Sally Hernandez to state Rep. Celia Israel, local women are changing the conversation
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: The Victory of Tom DeLay
With redistricting ruling, SCOTUS says it’s OK to cheat to win
BY MICHAEL KING
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NAKED CITY
Rodney Reed Loses Latest Appeals
Longtime death row inmate will challenge the court's ruling
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Paxton Thinks Abortion Providers Get a "Pass" in Court
A.G. urges SCOTUS to make it harder for providers to fight anti-choice laws
BY MARY TUMA
Council Readies for New Budget Realities
Members might reconsider economic incentive packages
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
City Council Votes to Protect Mobile Home Residents
Nine mobile home parks rezoned for MH residential use
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
New Information in Roxanne Paltauf Disappearance
Phone records may provide clue in 2006 case
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Beto, Castro Come to Town
2020 Texans throw shade as rivalry heats up
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
State Board of Education Brings a New Anti-Sex Circus to Town
Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and creationism advocates to help revise Texas public schools’ sex education
BY MARY TUMA
District Court Candidates Announce Dem Primary Candidacies
Here come the judges ...
BY MICHAEL KING
food
25 Restaurants to Help You Eat Your Way Around the Domain in Austin
Sips, bites, sweets, and other food options from around the globe
BY THE FOOD STAFF
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of July 3, 2019
music
Soul Stunner Miss Lavelle White Turns 39 (or So)
“I had a hard life, but it channeled into the music”
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Faster Than Sound: Music Advocates Say Convention Center Expansion Key to Unlocking City Funds
Can the commercial music industry finally get a cut of the HOT action? Also: City protects venue employees from receiving sound citations and Austin rapper Hella Sketchy dies of overdose.
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Bruce Robison & Kelly Willis
Beautiful Lie
Teenage Cavegirl
Candy Cigarettes
Hector Ward & the Big Time
Smile Into Life
Gary Nicholson, Whitey Johnson
The Great Divide, More Days Like This
Destroyer of Light
Mors Aeterna
Pinkish Black
Concept Unification
screens
Rooster Teeth Pumps up the Volume With New Podcasts at RTX Austin
The media giant adds some fodder for your headphones
BY KATELYN LANDRY
The Illustrated World at AFS Cinema's New Season of Animation
There’s more to animation than Disney and Miyazaki
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Now Streaming in Austin: RTX For Austinites
A new way to get a taste of Rooster Teeth's annual convention
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Midsommar
Ari Aster’s folk-horror excursion to Scandinavia never sees the forest for the trees
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Everyone's favorite web-slinger returns for a new era of Marvel
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
A rare journey behind the words of America's poet laureate
arts & culture
What Happened to Bonnie and Clyde's Missing Gun?
In which we hear the report of a gun and a secret is revealed
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's Death Tax
This production of Lucas Hnath's play questions who really pays when the Reaper comes calling – and before
"Mathieu Grenier: Expanded Nomenclature" at grayDUCK Gallery
In his first solo show in Austin, this Montreal photographer blurs language and lines
columns
Qmmunity: Queertopia
And queer events to take you there
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Texas Prison Museum
Slammer school in Huntsville
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Crap Taste
The sweet deliverance of blissful apathy
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Finals Edition
Women's World Cup down to the Final Four
BY NICK BARBARO
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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