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AISD Explores Its Options
AISD has at least 10 properties it could be making better use of
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Building a Path to Literacy
Educators and nonprofits work to close the achievement gap in Dove Springs
BY SAM ANDERSON-RAMOS
Notes on Kamp: Everybody Loses
Council considers bad, outdated regs for Uber and Lyft
BY AMY KAMP
Public Notice: Mobility and Affordability
Mayor Adler chases transportation dollars
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Prop. 1 Campaign Switches Into High Gear
As more take sides on the Uber / Lyft debate, allegations of being bought out are traded
BY MAC MCCANN
Council Preview: Water, TNCs, and Housing
Council wades back into taxi / TNC debate
BY MARY TUMA
APD to Collect More Data
APD will change policy to require numbers for all stop-and-searches
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Free Tax Prep Help
Here's how to get help in advance of Tax Day
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Community First! Unveils Microhomes for the Chronically Homeless
Village is designed to be a community of 250 homes
BY MAKEDA EASTER
Friends of Fran and Dan Keller Establish Donation Fund
The Hightower Report
Corporate bamboozlers intend to widen inequality in America
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
AC Food Fight: Caesar Salads
Lettuce get ready to rumble
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: Small Victory
The next generation in Austin speakeasies
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: Paperboy
Eastside trailer wakes up breakfast
BY BRANDON WATSON
The Take-Out
Refinding the spark in Austin food
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
The Magic Kid
Hayes Carll trades in his drunken poet's dream
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Welcome to Terrordome: Sixth Street During SXSW
Appraising APD's solution to Sixth Street during SXSW
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Explosions in the Sky
The Wilderness
Dana Falconberry
From the Forest Came the Fire
Cherubs
Fist in the Air
Glenn Rexach
PanaRican
Casual Strangers
Pink Panther
Lukas Nelson, Willie Nelson
Something Real, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin
screens
Tales of Ordinary Madness
AFS screens acclaimed Arabian Nights trilogy
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
The Sound of Silence
Home invasion thriller Hush hits Netflix
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
April and the Extraordinary World
Animated French steampunk fantasy is delightfully imaginative
The Boss
This Melissa McCarthy comedy is funny, but should be even funnier
Demolition
Jake Gyllenhaal stars in dramedy as a man rebuilding his life
Hardcore Henry
Inventive spectacle and pop-culture tease finally arrives onscreen
The Invitation
Girlfight director Karyn Kusama helms dinner-party thriller
My Golden Days
Teenage first love – as only the French can depict it
Sardaar Gabbar Singh
Telugu action film
arts & culture
Steve Parker's Song for Bat / Man
For this year's Fusebox, composer Steve Parker flies a batty Austin concert with live echolocation
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Theatre en Bloc's Bright Half Life
For Tanya Barfield's two-character drama, Theatre en Bloc couples an intimate story with a relentlessly personal performance space
Underbelly's Alice in Wonderland
This new adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic sends its audience down the rabbit hole – and all over the Zach Theatre campus
"Frank Selby: High Writer" at Lora Reynolds Gallery
This show's eight works offer a rewarding investigation into the relationship between objects and images of them
columns
Page Two: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory
The path to a Republican presidency
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Sundays are the new Saturdays
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Art Car Parade, Houston
Craziest parade in the world will take you on a joyride
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Relationship Status
In your FACEbook
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Austin Sol Makes Its Home Debut in the American Ultimate Disc League
BY MARK FAGAN
comics
