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Are City Employee Pensions at Risk?
Pension systems in Dallas and Houston have been beat up by bad spending.
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Point Austin: What We Think of Us
City's "community survey" an annual public selfie
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Tool of Racism?
CodeNEXT fears aired; hopes expressed
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Yes, they really said that
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Judge Blocks Texas From Kicking Planned Parenthood Out of Medicaid
State determined to have provided "no evidence" of wrongdoing
BY MARY TUMA
AISD: Education for All Residents
The school system supports its students, no matter their immigration status
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Did the White House and ICE Collude?
Inquiring civil rights groups want to know
BY MARY TUMA
Professors on Climate Change
A letter from 200 professors to the White House signals a broad consensus on global warming
BY MICHAEL KING
Protest Votes Under Scrutiny
Over 16,400 Texans signed an affidavit in order to vote
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Richard Moya R.I.P.
The first Mexican-American elected to public office in Travis County was 84
BY MICHAEL KING
Tension Mounts at City Council
The dais considers what constitutes “too tall”
BY MICHAEL KING
Who’s Testing APD’s Backlog of Evidence?
“Everything is on hold”
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Stop. Record. Pause: APD Body Cameras Delayed Indefinitely
Restraining order leaves body cams in limbo
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Lege Lines: Toxic Masculinity Drops the Hammer
Standing up to anti-choice rhetoric during a three-bill frenzy at the Capitol
BY MARY TUMA
Let’s (Not) Talk About Sex
More than 83% of state school districts either don't teach sex ed or teach abstinence-positive curricula
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: Paul Ryan Should Sit Down and Be Very Quiet
Entitlements? Social Security isn't a welfare program
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
How to Cook Meat and Influence People
Jess Pryles and the making of an Austin food celebrity
BY DAN GENTILE
Review: Grizzelda’s
Upscale Tex-Mex joint is a mini vacation
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Mayor’s Omnibus Resolution: Actualization Is Hard
Moving into Phase II
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Mosaic Sound Collective Comes Into Focus
Mosaic Sound Collective's music hub and ancient atmospheric Adam Torres point to the future
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Shinyribs
I Got Your Medicine
Adam Torres
I Came to Sing the Song
Black Books
Can't Even
Curtis McMurtry
The Hornet's Nest
Scott H. Biram
The Bad Testament
Knife in the Water
Plays One Sound and Others
Gurf Morlix
The Soul & The Heal
Survive
MF064
ManWomanFriendComputer, Thomas Echols
Man, Woman, Friend, Computer
Damase / Manican Dream
True Color / Chaos Is
screens
This Year’s Banff Lineup
A plethora of thrills and chills
BY JESSI CAPE
The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Gum King
How Andy Paris cornered the market
BY MARC SAVLOV
Linklater’s Before Trilogy comes to Criterion
Love, dreams, and destiny
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
Bitter Harvest
In 1930s Ukraine, young lovers fight Stalin and forced starvation
Get Out
A stellar racially charged horror comedy
arts & culture
Mayor's Omnibus Resolution: A Year Later
Twelve months after Mayor Steve Adler rolled out his plan to save live music and the arts, what's happened?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Glass Half Full Theatre's Don Quixote de La Redo
This imaginative spin on Cervantes tells of walls and the stories that inspire us to tear them down
Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum
This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent
"textscape: Susan Scafati and Sean Ripple"
Using text interface as a visual environment, this show is messy and clean, consistent and surprising, philosophical and entertaining
columns
Page Two: It Is the Worst of Times, It Is the Worst of Times
It is the age of little wisdom, it is the age of foolishness
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Turning a trash pile into something beautiful
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Green’s Sausage House, Zabcikville
Roadside eatery provides all the small town essentials
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Bad Ideas
Wallowing in a huge pig trough of hubris and mendacity
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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