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news
The Road to 10-1: Now We Begin
How to fit six dozen candidates into a one-pound newspaper
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Drive-By Government
Abbott says Texas doesn't have to disclose companies' chemical stockpiles, but why are these chemicals in our neighborhoods in the first place?
BY MICHAEL KING
Then There's This: Whither Vested Rights?
Rejection of first case under new regs portends cloudy future
BY AMY SMITH
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Black Eastsiders: Powers a Friend
Will the next UT president continue Powers' work repairing the relationship between UT and East Austin?
BY JESSICA LUTHER
Birchum Tapped to Join Photo Agency
Novus Select adds the Chronicle's Jana Birchum to its roster
BY AMY SMITH
Sidewalk Fails: Readers' Submissions
What's the worst sidewalk in Austin?
Affordability Key to Climate Plan Goals
City task force makes its recommendations for 2024 climate change protection goals
BY NORA ANKRUM
Firefighters Box Cops for Charity
Local law enforcement got their proverbial asses whupped Saturday night at Austin's inaugural Battle of the Badges
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Obama Eats, Bumps, and Leaves
The fist bump heard ’round the world
BY MICHAEL KING, MARY TUMA AND NINA HERNANDEZ
The Hightower Report: North Carolina's Moral Freedom Summer
The Moral Monday Movement is on the move again!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Dining Beyond the Chains
Good food moves to the 'burbs
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
I'll stick with peanuts and Cracker Jack
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food-o-File
An all-you-can-eat buffet of local food news
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
July 17-23
music
El Wizard Adrian Quesada's Multiplicity
Ex-Grupo Fantasma guitarist Adrian Quesada diversifies
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Playback: Smiling Your Way to Heaven
Supernatural advice by West Texas sage Tommy Hancock, tears from Billy Gibbons, and Casual Strangers coupling
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Live Shot
Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper
BY NEPH BASEDOW
Phases & Stages
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin I, Led Zeppelin II, Led Zeppelin III
Sharon Van Etten
Are We There
White Lung
Deep Fantasy
screens
The Time of Their Lives
Richard Linklater and Ellar Coltrane reflect on the 12 years they spent making 'Boyhood'
BY DAN SOLOMON
Gabriel Luna for the Gooooooaaaaaal!
Soccer and Spy games collide in El Rey's 'Matador'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
In Production: Found Footage 3D Wraps
Genre-buster is the latest in a long line of Texas gore movies
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Boyhood
With Boyhood, filmmaker Richard Linklater paints his masterpiece.
Le Chef
How many French chefs are too many for one kitchen?
Planes: Fire & Rescue
In this Disney follow-up, Dusty, the animated cropduster, still flies around like crazy, while learning to work in a group and be less of a showboat.
The Purge: Anarchy
Back after last year's Purge struck such a unlikely chord, this story about an annual eruption of violence returns in stronger form.
Velaiyilla Pattathari
Tamil love story and action film.
arts & culture
'Slap Noir'
BigBoy Medlin's dark comic novel of West Texas: an excerpt
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Psychedelic Acid Trope
Exhibits at the Bullock, Briscoe, and LBJ explore our recall of the Sixties
BY KATE X MESSER
Arts Reviews
Port Authority
The intertwined monologues of Conor McPherson's drama provide a showcase for three fine Austin actors
Lysistrata
The performance of this ancient Greek comedy is inconsistent, but the experience around it makes it worth a visit
Cavatina Duo
The performance by this guitar-flute duo was equal parts intensity and grace – with rich and complex musicianship
columns
The Good Eye: Nostalgia for the New
Pull up that Arvin and read about from whence it came
BY AMY GENTRY
Day Trips
South of the border, down Mexico way
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place: Way Beyond Funday
Just like every other day in the Austin week Sunday is way more than Bloody Marys and brunch
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Whoopsy!
You’re not the nearly flawless person you believe other people think you are
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
