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Fighting to Stay
As Austin's housing market booms, its poorest residents fight to exist
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Notes on Kamp: Why You Should Care About Fight for $15
It doesn't matter what income bracket you're in – the living wage issue impacts everyone
BY AMY KAMP
Public Notice: Can Uber and Lyft Play Nice?
"If a business acts like it is above the law, it will pay a heavy price."
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Members Spar on Affordable Housing, Meaning of Compassion
BY MARY TUMA
No Quick Answers on STAAR Glitch
District and state officials remain in the dark on STAAR malfunction
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Campaign Finance Reports Shed Light on Prop 1 PAC Spending
Ridesharing Works coffer dwarfs rival PAC
BY MAC MCCANN
A Structural Problem
Family fights eviction from Georgian Acres apartment
BY AMY KAMP
APA President Files Grievance
Complaint calls for Citizen Review Panel overhaul, Frasier's dismissal
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
This Land Is Not Your Land
APD officer fired; faces felony for illegally hunting
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
Can the GOP establishment get any more out of touch?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
AC Date Night: The Backspace
Lambrusco and ladies
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
Dear Glutton
Where to mend a broken heart
BY EMILY BEYDA
The Take-Out
Relearning how to eat
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Gulf Coast Jamboree
Wimberley mandolin prodigy interviews the Houston Kid
BY JIM CALIGIURI
Playback: RSD in ATX
Record Store Day local exclusives, and out-of-the-way wax emporiums that may carry them
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Dream Makers
Indie Meme Film Festival spotlights South Asian films
BY JESSI CAPE
Toys in the Attic
There's something for the kid in all of us at the Austin Toy Museum
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
I Like to Watch
Orphan Black, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the appeal of the status quo
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Cemetery of Splendor
Thai film is a realist fantasy about a strange sleeping sickness
City of Gold
Eat out with Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic
Darling
A woman appears to go ’round the bend in this well-done horror film
Fan
Bollywood film about a fan who is obsessed with a movie star
The First Monday in May
The Met's annual ball thrown by its Costume Institute gets its close-up
The Jungle Book
"Forget about your worries and your strife …"
Miles Ahead
Don Cheadle stars in and directs this unusual Miles Davis biopic
Theri
Tamil romantic drama
arts & culture
Austin Creative Alliance's Summit Report
The service organization moves beyond talk with four ideas on how the city can expand its cultural infrastructure
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Making Room to Play
Create Space Austin kicks off the drive to secure more performing venues in the city
BY ELIZABETH COBBE
Arts Reviews
Mary Moody Northen Theatre's She Loves Me
This production at St. Edward's University knows just how to bring forth this modest musical's many charms
The Rude Mechs' Field Guide
There's much to ponder in the second draft of the Rude Mechs' mash-up of Dostoyevsky, stand-up comedy, and spiritual belief
"Alejandra Almuelle: Locus" at Dimension Gallery
The dark physicality of these figurative sculptures brings an exquisite imposition of memories into the waking world
columns
Day Trips: 25th Anniversary
10 favorite "Day Trips" out of 1,290
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Gay Place
Hot days, hotter nights – it's springtime in the ATX
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Luv Doc: Help! I've Been Set Up!
Maybe you were meant to date a complicated genius with a neck tattoo
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
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