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Season of Risk
What can be done to stop the rising rate of HIV in Austin?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Point Austin: The Appraisal Scam
TCAD can't accurately appraise commercial properties – and the Lege likes it that way
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Golf and Taxes at City Council
Proposals before Council suggest change is in the air
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Is Something Rotten at Wheatsville Co-op?
Workers call for co-op to implement living wage standard
BY AMY KAMP
Council: Taxes Are Challenging
Council prepares to challenge TCAD
BY MICHAEL KING
Suffer the Children
Anti-abortion Lege targets vulnerable minors in judicial bypass bill
BY MARY TUMA
Lege Lines: Billpocalypse!
Bills start dying as sine die draws near; schools get new A-F grading system; and more
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bill of the Week: House Bill 2474
Bill would require additional reporting of vaccine-preventable diseases
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Anti-Sharia Bill Dead, but Sentiment Alive
HB 562 unlikely to make it out of the House, but the Islamophobia behind it is here to stay
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Speculation Surrounds the Cancellation of MACC Awards
Did choice of emcee lead to cancellation of annual Latino excellence awards?
BY TONY CANTÚ
Waco Motorcycle Shooting Fallout
Questions remain after Waco motorcycle gang shoot-out
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council Proposes ABA Coverage
Advocates persuade Council on autism treatment benefits
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report: Obama's Bizarre Sales Pitch for TPP
Obama's trying to sell the TPP; Hightower's not buying it
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Written in the Stars
Inside Austin's Yelp Elite
BY CHERYL COUTURE
Mary's Pop Shop
Neighborhood eatery is mostly solid
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Bribery Bakery's Sweet Talk
Jodi Elliott's next chapter
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food-o-File
Another Austin growth spurt
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
The Ballad of Davy Jones
Hickoids guitarist keeps breathing
BY MARGARET MOSER
Playback: Austin's Revamped Record Convention
The Austin Record Convention – the biggest in the country – returns Downtown
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Shinyribs
Okra Candy
Greezy Wheels
Unusual Thing
Ethan Azarian & Jeff Johnston
Ethan Azarian & Jeff Johnston
Abram Shook
Landscape Dream
Happen-Ins
Glamour Shots
We Jam by Condos
We Jam by Condos
Jamey Simms
... At Night
Party Plants
Party Plants EP
Marie Davidson
Un Autre Voyage
Night Viking
Burrito Arena
screens
Tall Tales and Texas Rising
Fact battles fiction in new History Channel miniseries
BY JOE O'CONNELL
H.R. Giger's Sublime Nightmares
Doc profiles the late surrealist artist
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Help Desk
Is it possible to find friends on Tinder?
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
5 Flights Up
Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton play a long-married couple who consider moving from their apartment
In the Name of My Daughter
The Affaire Le Roux, a famous missing-person case, is the subject of this French drama
Saint Laurent
The celebrated fashion designer is tracked from 1967 to his death in 2008 in this live-action biopic
Slow West
A whimsical and wistful fable follows a young romantic and a hard-nosed realist out West
Tomorrowland
Seeming more like a calculation than a flight of fancy, this adventure tale has both hits and misses
The Unwanted
Sheridan Le Fanu's vampire story Carmilla is given a Southern Gothic edge
arts & culture
Joke 'Stache
Danny Palumbo wins Funniest Person in Austin 2015, advances equal rights for facial hair
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Krapp's Last Tape / Hughie
Pairing of Krapp's Last Tape and Hughie reveals haunted old men and masterful acting by Michael Stuart
"Bobby Scheidemann: Together at Sunset"
Scheidemann's rush-hour portraits of people in cars reveal the character of both individuals and highway
"Shrine of Inevitable Forces"
This exhibition in an abandoned church shows how time and pressure can reshape objects into rich new forms
columns
Gay Place
Roasting Ursula
BY KATE X MESSER
Day Trips: Southfork Ranch, Dallas
Big hats and big hair are remembered fondly at the Ewings' house
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Luv Doc: Friends With Benefits
Some people don't like peas all up in their carrots
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Austin Chronicle Adult Spelling Bee
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
