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From Runways to Sidewalks
The Mueller neighborhood at midcourse
BY ROBYN ROSS
Point Austin: Follow the Money
Final city budget discussions begin in earnest
BY MICHAEL KING
Filling Potholes With Promises
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Quote of the Week
Headlines
Civics 101
Lege Lines
Sine die at last, transportation, water, and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Floating Tubes Hit NIMBY Rapids
City looks for ways to regulate Colorado River
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Council Goes Back to Work
White Lodging, Taco PUD, and more
BY AMY SMITH
APD Shooting Called 'Accidental'
Officer claims accidental shooting, and DOJ asked to investigate
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Fire Last Time: AFA and City at Impasse
I/O Solutions becomes entangled in latest dispute about AFD's hiring process
BY MIKE KANIN
Women's Health Care Access in Steady Decline
Health Commission numbers confirm decline in Texas women's care
BY JORDAN SMITH
Death Watch: Running Low on Poison
The state of Texas has three executions' worth of pentobarbitol
BY JORDAN SMITH
The Hightower Report
Here comes the border-industrial complex
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food-O-File
Local food trailers get in on the Fun Fun Fun
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Wine of the Week
Great red wines under $12 a bottle
BY WES MARSHALL
Food Events
Aug. 10-15
Food Reviews
Testing One's Mettle
Will Bridget Dunlap's new restaurant shine or tarnish on the Eastside?
Darling Daruma
Tiny ramen shop offers light, tasty twist on an old favorite
music
The Real Country
In and out of Austin with honky-tonk road crew Mike & the Moonpies
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Playback: Mother Falcon vs. Scottish Rite Theater
Mother Falcon's open letter to the Scottish Rite, Frontier Bar's transformation into Lost Well, and soul man Bobby Patterson
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Darden Smith
Love Calling
Explosions in the Sky & David Wingo
Prince Avalanche: An Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
P-Tek
DPS / LP2
The Polyphonic Spree
Yes, It's True
screens
Making a 'Killing'
Joshua Oppenheimer on the half-decade he spent filming for 'The Act of Killing'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Detroit's Rising 'Sun'
AMC brings a corrupt-cop tale to the Motor City
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Give and Let Live
Cause-driven film festival Lights. Camera. Help. hits the sweet spot between heart, mind, and action
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
The Act of Killing
In this disturbing documentary, former Indonesian death-squad leaders boastfully reenact their real-life mass killings with touches inspired by their favorite movies.
Blue Jasmine
Class difference and life's shambles are on Woody Allen's mind as he leads Cate Blanchett through a perfectly calibrated performance as a Park Avenue matron brought low by modern finance.
Elysium
In the year 2154, the rabble live on the garbage dump of Earth while the elite live in the perfect Elysium in the sky; Matt Damon is a mad Max who breaks on through.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Poseiden's son and his pals reunite to retrieve the Golden Fleece, but only the film's special effects grabbed our attention.
Planes
This new animated film is charmless and schematic.
Thalaivaa
Tamil thriller.
arts & culture
Techno-Artistic
Katie Rose Pipkin and the new art
BY MATTHEW IRWIN
'2 Awkward 2 Heavy'
Art collective Ink Tank unleashes its sequel to last summer's blockbuster 'More Awkward Than Heavy'
BY CAITLIN GREENWOOD
'Confessions of a Mexpatriate'
With this new solo show, playwright Raul Garza takes a journey deep into Mexico
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Pippin
Summer Stock Austin embraces the sprawling fun and surreal silliness of this durable coming-of-age musical
A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche may want magic and not realism, but in City Theatre's revival, it's realism that makes the magic
The Sunset Limited
Trinity Street Players production lightens heavy load.
columns
An Arbitrary Nation: Part 7
Journalists and political commentators largely ignore the facts they know
BY MICHAEL VENTURA
Day Trips
Three places in San Antonio to take the under four-foot-tall crowd
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
An Austin ex-pat returns for a film screening
BY KATE X MESSER
The Luv Doc: Cock-Blocking da Skeezers
That's no cock blocker, that's your wife
BY THE LUV DOC
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