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Public Notice: Planning for Better Plans
What's been going on at the local Planning and Zoning Department?
BY NICK BARBARO
Welcome to the Working Week-and-a-Half
A new federal provision mandating overtime pay for a new pool of salaried employees goes into effect in December. What does it mean, and how long will it last?
BY JACK CRAVER
Point Austin: Circle the Firing Squad
When you look for villains, look in the right direction
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Everyday fear in Trump's America
Civics 101
Council: Pilots, Roses, and Champions
Marathon days of zoning are soon over
BY MICHAEL KING
A Secure Platform for the Rights of Airport Workers
With a new concessions contract looming, airport workers introduce a platform for employee rights
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Election Notes: After the Fall
The fun continues through the Dec. 13 run-off
BY MICHAEL KING, ANNAMARYA SCACCIA AND NINA HERNANDEZ
Local Businesses Warn Lege on Anti-LGBTQ Laws
Discriminatory laws not just morally corrupt but financially damaging
BY MARY TUMA
Lege Limits Use of Cannabis Oil for Epileptics
Compassionate misuse
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
NAKED CITY
The Race for House District 46
The pool of potential candidates is filling up for Dawnna Dukes' seat
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Early Filing at the Lege
Early filing began this week for the upcoming state legislative sessions. Already, the war on women’s health is on.
BY MARY TUMA
That’s Commissioner David Hall Now
The longtime friend of Jimmy Fennell Jr., a key figure in the murder of Stacey Stites, just became a Calhoun County Commissioner
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Rejecting the Text
Finally, some good news from the State Board of Education
BY MARY TUMA
Potential Neuter to Austin’s No-Kill?
The rules dictating when city animal shelters should spay or neuter lost pets may be changing, and may have an effect on the future of no-kill shelters
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Trans Day of Remembrance
Countries across the world prepare for the 18th annual Trans Day of Remembrance on Sunday
BY SARAH MARLOFF
APD’s Social Media Monitoring Efforts Face Crackdowns
Facebook denies access to third-party companies
BY JOHN ANDERSON
The Hightower Report: Takeaways From the Election
Trump is in the White House, but the takeaway from voters in this election is a mandate for progressive economic populism and more diversity among public officials
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
AC Food Fight: Poke
Ola Poke and Poke Poke get raw
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: Ah Sing Den
Amateur Asian-inspired fare pales to impressive cocktails
BY MELODY FURY
Dear Glutton: Healing Through Food
Comfort food for a post-election world
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
The Rebirth of Doyle Bramhall II
For his first solo LP in 15 years, Eric Clapton’s top lieutenant may have put out the blues album of 2016
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
Playback – Still Standing: Savannah Welch
Austin songbird Savannah Welch rehabs serenely after losing her right leg
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Tele Novella
House of Souls
Giulia Millanta
Moonbeam Parade
Funeralizer
Funeralizer
Watchtower
Concepts of Math: Book One
the Well
Pagan Science
Ricky Stein
Long Summer
Wayne Hancock
Slingin' Rhythm
Croy & the Boys
Hey Come Back
Kevin Fowler
Coming to a Honky Tonk Near You
screens
Niche Streaming Sites for the Holidays
Give the gift of worlds of entertainment just a click away
BY JOSH KUPECKI, RICHARD WHITTAKER, SEAN L. MALIN, SPENCER BEGHTOL AND ASHLEY MORENO
Getting to the Truth of Teen Life in The Edge of Seventeen
Producer James L. Brooks and director Kelly Fremon Craig talk about their acclaimed teen dramedy
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
Almost Christmas
Home for the holidays (again)
Bleed for This
A boxer returns to the ring in this conventional drama
The Edge of Seventeen
Teen dramedy gets the growing pains right
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
A delightful return to the world of Harry Potter
Nocturnal Animals
A dark meditation on regret and revenge
Shut In
Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller
A Street Cat Named Bob
An addict's life is saved by a feline friend
arts & culture
EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR 2016
East Austin Studio Tour Goes Boom
For 2016, EAST explodes to more than 500 stops for art
BY ROBERT FAIRES
EAST 2016: A Crash Course
Five recommendations for a quick education on the Eastside arts scene and beyond
BY SAM ANDERSON-RAMOS
Spread Is CuisinArt
Photographers Yvonne Montero and Terra Schneider cook up sensual imagery of food
BY DAVE RANDALL
CAMIBAart Gallery's Troy Campa
Troy Campa left behind a successful career in architecture to develop a new creative life with CAMIBAart Gallery
BY MADELINE IRVINE
The 25th Annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest
Hold on to your tales just a little longer, writers!
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Salvage Vanguard Theater's With Great Difficulty Alice Sits
Hannah Kenah's new play presents an unsettling battle of wills between a mother and daughter before birth
UT Theatre & Dance's Lost Girl
Kimberly Belflower's new play is a snapshot of a woman consumed by love long lost
"Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru" at the UT VAC
Edi Hirose's documentation of massive construction projects altering Peru's landscape can put the viewer in a state of visual shock
columns
Page Two: True Stories: Then and Now
Connecting the dots between the SIMS Foundation and a day on the set of David Byrne's sleeper hit film
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Honoring those we've lost at the Transgender Day of Remembrance
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Cave Without a Name, Boerne
Hill Country underground rock formations are too beautiful to be named
The Luv Doc: Sunshine Patriot
We'll never really know if he's the Antichrist until we shave his orange toupee
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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