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Vote no on Prop. 1
Block the Vote
If you can't beat 'em, disenfranchise 'em
BY AMY KAMP
Point Austin: A Modest Proposition
How much misinformation can you buy for $2 million?
BY MICHAEL KING
Notes on Kamp: Will Austin Ever Get Smart About Public Transportation?
Mobility is closely tied to equality
BY AMY KAMP
Public Notice: Love Your Mother Earth
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council Recap: A Dissent Into Satanism
Things get devilish with Zimmerman’s Satanic amendment
BY MARY TUMA
More to the Story
Advocates work to change the conversation around human trafficking
BY LIZZIE JESPERSEN
Prop. 1: False Advertising Claims Escalate
City officials deny claims on background checks
BY MAC MCCANN
Austin Leads Pack on Early Student Aid Submissions
Local students and their families get much-needed FAFSA help
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
UT Murder Coverage Misses the Point
Article's portrayal of suspect's mom demeaning, judgmental
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Campus-Area Homeless Face Backlash in Wake of Haruka Weiser Murder
Viral petition seeks to relocate Guadalupe's homeless community
BY MAKEDA EASTER
Cyber Attacks Stymie Abortion Fundraiser
Bowl-a-Thon hack affects Lilith Fund
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Hightower Report: Why Doesn't Congress Do What the People Want and Need?
Hightower asks an age-old question about Congress
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Review: Thai-Kun
Domain brick-and-mortar is even better than the truck
BY BRANDON WATSON
The Take-Out
Expecting more from Austin's institutions
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
The Payback
Onetime James Brown impersonator Charles Bradley transcends
BY THOMAS FAWCETT
Playback: Spring Festival Season Evolves
Storms can halt an already truncated spring festival season
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Michael Fracasso
Here Come the Savages
Calliope Musicals
Time Owes You Nothing
Everybody Wants Some
Everybody Wants Some
Dave Insley
Just the Way That I Am
Ralph White + Thor Harris
Tossing Pebbles on the Sleeping Beast
Surly Gates
Lay Low
Purple
Bodacious
Honey and Salt
Seams of Value
screens
They Shoot Movies, Don't They?
Heather Page on the state of the Texas Film Commission
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Mopping Up the Red in Green Room
Austinite Macon Blair on neo-Nazis and Patrick Stewart
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Barbershop: The Next Cut
Cutting hair and cutting up
Beyond Sight: The Derek Rabelo Story
Guided by his faith, a blind Brazilian fulfills his dream of surfing
Compadres
Mexican action comedy
Criminal
Kevin Costner is a prisoner who is implanted with a CIA op's knowledge
Elvis & Nixon
Now we can do more than wonder about the day these two men met
Green Room
Punks and Nazi skinheads meet in this tense yet lovely kick in the teeth
A Hologram for the King
Tom Hanks stars in this seriocomic take on Dave Eggers’ 2012 novel
The Huntsman: Winter's War
Modernized fairy tale is a wan follow-up
A Space Program
Artist Tom Sachs guides a handmade bricolage mission to Mars
Union Bound
True story of a captured Union soldier helped back North by slaves
arts & culture
Gross In
Is any writer in Austin as revolting and entertaining as Andrew Hilbert?
BY FRANÇOIS POINTEAU
MOONTOWER COMEDY 2016
Let's Look for the Purple Banana With Princess
Judging by their tribute band, Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum would die 4 U, Prince
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
David Cross Goes Cross Country
In "Making America Great Again!!," David Cross cracks up fans from sea to shining sea
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Bryan Gutmann: A Stand-Up Guy
Telling jokes at a mic has always been the main thing for Bryan Gutmann
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Aaron Brooks Has This Story
Aaron Brooks' skill at shaping bits of life into laugh-filled tales may soon put him out of a job
Jim's Still Frank
Underground comic Jim Norton has changed the way he looks but not the way he speaks his mind
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Jenny Zigrino, History Channeler
Among Moontower comics, Jenny Zigrino is the Ren fairest of them all
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Arts Reviews
The Explorers Club
Austin Playhouse's sublimely silly satire of Victorian pomposity ventures where other comedies fear to tread
Street Corner Arts' Bull
Street Corner Arts turns a corporate office into a ring where fighting for your job is a bloodsport
"Rebecca Marino: The Best Available Evidence" at grayDUCK Gallery
The exhibit drops viewers into the middle of the mystery of UFOs, but without providing any answers
columns
Page Two: Let Us Pray and Play Guitar
The revolution is ongoing, the revolution is daily
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Gay Place
Some weeks are for the birds, others for the bears
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: W.G. Jones State Forest
Environmental study area provides habitat for endangered species and a walk on the wild side
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: His Blessing
It's hard to be worthy of someone's daughter
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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