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Chronicle Endorsements for Austin's Propositions A and B
May 6 General and Special Elections
Want Stronger, More Transparent Oversight of APD? Vote on It.
Next month's election has justice advocates and police fighting for control
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Public Notice: Chill Out, America!
Too many stupid shootings; TGI 4/20
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Will Texas Expand Medical Marijuana Access?
Weed be a lot cooler if we did
BY DEX WESLEY PARRA
Ahead of Farm Bill, Rep. Casar Taps Central Texas Farmers for Input
Roundtable discussion urges quicker loans, more land access, and easier paperwork
BY LINA FISHER
Hays Co. Jailer Indicted in ER Room Killing Skips Jail
Rather than sit in the jail he once guarded, he's at home
BY JORDAN BUCKLEY
What Do You Have to Do to Get Fired at the Texas Veterans Commission?
Allegations of bigotry in Texas Veterans Commission don't seem to be sparking change
BY ABE ASHER
Takeover of Walnut Creek Trail Section for Self-Driving Cars Halted
Walnut Creek vs TxDOT
BY LINA FISHER
Shoot First, Create a Law to Make It Legal Later
Texas bill ensures zero consequences for police who injure people with "less lethal" rounds
BY BRANT BINGAMON
With Six Weeks Left This Session, Queer Texans Aren’t Done Fighting
Bad bills keep moving
BY JAMES SCOTT
Local Architecture Firm Opens $20K Grant Application for Nonprofits
Jump on it – applications close May 19
BY DEX WESLEY PARRA
food
Eat Trash, Save the Planet
Fighting food waste locally via Too Good to Go
BY A. RICHMOND
AAPI Family Style Passports Debut, Soupleaf Opens, Sprinkles x Nguyen Is Almost Too Good To Be True, National Pretzel Day Is Knot Happening, There’s Sotol and Bourbon and Cider, It’s Pasta Paisanos FTW, and More …
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of April 20, 2023
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
Otis Wilkins & Jake Lloyd’s Rock Star Collab and Four More Songs from Austin Artists
New music picks from More Eaze, promqueen, Being Dead, and RF Shannon
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ, LAIKEN NEUMANN, GENEVIEVE WOOD AND DOUG FREEMAN
Austin Psych Fest Interview: Vieux Farka Touré
Legacy blues scion talks Malian music and Khruangbin collaboration
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Austin Psych Fest Interview: Automatic
Los Angeles trio infuses noise-pop with biting social commentary
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Crosstalk: Hi, How Are You Mural Lasts a Long Time Despite Building Demo, and More Music News
Record Store Day and an Ice Cream Factory Studio workshop
BY RACHEL RASCOE AND DOUG FREEMAN
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
Lemon Twigs, Trouble in the Streets, Enslaved, and more local shows worth the decibels
BY TIM STEGALL, KATIE KARP, MICHAEL TOLAND, GENEVIEVE WOOD, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, JULIAN TOWERS AND DEREK UDENSI
Journeyman: JaRon Marshall's Path From Black Pumas to Jazz-Hop Debut
Methodical keyboard maestro lands atmospheric LP earth sounds
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Screens
Film Reviews
Beau Is Afraid
Joaquin Phoenix is the understated fool in this bloated Oedipal epic
Chevalier
Fascinating life story of the Black knight is foiled by its own polemic
Evil Dead Rise
Deadites go to the big city in the franchise's fifth film
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
War flick about the US exit from Afghanistan sabotaged by a weak script
The Pope's Exorcist
The true story of Father Gabriele Amorth gets a Conjuring-style makeover
River
Astonishing nature documentary forces us to reconsider our connection to our waterways
Somewhere in Queens
Sitcom royalty underdelivers with a stack of Italian American stereotypes
To Catch a Killer
Formulaic killer-with-a-gun drama has the guts to defetishise firearms
arts & culture
Five More Belly Laughs at Moontower Just for Laughs Austin
Weekend two of the comedy megafest rocks on
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Joy of Bicycling in Austin
A one-person sociological study of springtime biking where every ride is his favorite
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Review: St. Ed’s Luchadora!
Let’s get ready to stumble in this Lucha Libre drama
BY BOB ABELMAN
columns
Qmmunity: Homoscope Sweet Homoscope
Homoscopes turns to its close cousin with a tarot reading of cool queer events
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: Lake Arrowhead State Park, Wichita Falls
Finding the charms of North Texas’ relaxing recreational area on the water
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Pedal to the Metal
The Luv Doc loves a good humblebrag
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, April 21-27
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde Report: Slumping Austin FC Searches for Answers in Front of Goal
The Verde and Black have scored just one goal in the last four games
BY ERIC GOODMAN
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