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EARTH DAY 2017
Easy Ways to Save the Planet
How to take saving the Earth into your own hands
BY JESSI CAPE
Exploring Eco-Friendly Period Products
When Mother Earth meets Aunt Flo
BY RACHAEL HELLMAN
Confessions of a Cheapskate Posing as an Environmentalist
Mother Earth better have my money
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Turn Your Yard Into a Wildlife Habitat
Preserving the environment by letting your lawn go wild
BY JESSI CAPE
Visit These At-Risk Hill Country Water Sources
While you still can
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
4/20 Brain Buzzsters
By Park & Homer Puzzles
news
As Austin Grows, So Does the Risk of Flood
Forget the 100-year storms. City flooding happens all the time, often right in your backyard.
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Point Austin: Prisoners of Success
The ever-elusive Austin determination to "manage growth"
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Ten Things
A CodeNEXT primer, and happy Earth Day
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Mayor Adler says "chill out"
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Want to Hunt and Blow Shit Up With a Tank?
New York Times insert advertises “Tank & Machine Gun Sampler Package”
BY MICHAEL KING
Hearing on Gerrymandering Set for April 27
A hearing on congressional redistricting is set for April 27
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Nick Chu Named Pct. 5 JP
Assistant D.A. replaces retiring Judge Herb Evans
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Decisions Await for the Fate of Oakwood Chapel
Is moving graves from under the chapel adding insult to injury?
BY MONTINIQUE MONROE
Planned Parenthood Offers Hormone Therapy
The health care provider offers its hormone therapy program at two locations
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Council: It’s Always Something
This week's City Council, courtesy of CodeNEXT
BY MICHAEL KING
Lege Lines: Same Old “Sanctuary”
House version of SB 4? Still terrible.
BY MARY TUMA AND THE NEWS STAFF
APD Suspension City
Trio of suspensions lead busy week for Brian Manley
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: DNA Testing Denied for Rodney Reed
Reed and Pruett strike out. But justice for Duane Buck?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
FBI Thwarts Plan for Local Man’s Mass Shooting
Steve Boehle busted for illegal possession of firearms, lying about past convictions
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Hightower Report: Hallelujah, Trump Rushes to Aid the Needy!
America's president, free to help the bankers
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Review: Kemuri Tatsu-ya
Eastside izakaya rediscovers spirit of Austin
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Record Store Day Unearths a Roky Erickson Rarity
Reanimating one of the great Austin tributes
BY BILL BENTLEY
Playback – Dead Man Walking: Jimmy LaFave
As terminal cancer ticks down Jimmy LaFave’s life, he says the show must go on
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
EARTH DAY 2017
Revolutionizing Batteries With Sodium
UT professor looks to jump from the lab to the marketplace
BY ASHLEY MORENO
New French Cinema Week
Austin Film Society series restores a bit of hope for humanity
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
The Devil's Candy
Heavy metal and Satanism in a rural Texas town
Free Fire
A delirious shoot'em-up comedy
God Knows Where I Am
The Lost City of Z
A futile quest for an extraordinary place
The Lure
The Polish Mermaid musical you never knew you needed
The Promise
The Armenian Genocide as seen through a love triangle
Unforgettable
Another round of a psycho ex from hell
arts & culture
Making Tragedy Funny Again at Moontower Comedy
Stand-ups pull punch lines out of personal traumas
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Arts Reviews
American Berserk Theatre's For Time & Eternity
This original historical drama looks at a crisis of faith in early Mormonism honestly
American War by Omar El Akkad
This dystopian novel of a late 21st century America split by civil war shows how vengeance survives down the generations
“Jos Howard Demme: Bad Boys, Good Dogs, Everyone Else in Between”
This solo show at ATM Gallery / Studio is both romp and nightmare – Dante's Inferno dressed up like a clown
columns
Oops!
Gay Place
Dining Out for Life raises funds for HIV/AIDS related care
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Kleb Woods, Tomball
A hermit’s paradise becomes a permanent island thicket among the urban sprawl of Houston
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Soberingly Preggo
Pot, like most drugs, is pretty fucking wonderful when used recreationally
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
comics
