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news
City Budget Squeezed Between Basic Costs and State Neglect
The city has $1.03 billion in taxpayer money. Here's where it's going.
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Priority Problems
While the world burns, City Council does what it can
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Soccer at Last
Pro team, stadium planned at COTA
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Joe Straus
The House speaker, candidly on the special session
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Progress Being Made at APD Crime Lab
Number of untested rape kits continues to fall
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Mapping the Mobility Bond
Track progress with this handy online tool
BY JACK CRAVER
Honoring the First African-American Council Member
Water treatment plant named after Berl Handcox
BY MICHAEL KING
R.I.P. Mark White, Former Texas Governor
Last surviving Democratic governor dead at 77
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Louis Black Announces Chronicle Retirement
Co-founder and co-owner departs after 36 years at helm
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council: When the Mayor’s Away ...
Water, energy, and homelessness on the mind
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT: Conditions for Overlays
Draft 2.0 being readied for Sept. 15
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Combatting Overcrowding at the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless
More cops, more lighting, more bathrooms, new food
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Lege Lines: A Second Shot at Tackling Maternal Mortality
After years spent gutting women’s health care, are lawmakers doing enough?
BY MARY TUMA
Could Tax Swap Address Spiking Property Taxes?
City collab with AISD could aid homeowners
BY MICHAEL KING
Hired / Fire
Overtime, wages, hiring procedures at heart of negotiations between city, firefighters
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Federal Judge Tosses State's 'Sanctuary Cities' Suit Against Austin
Concurrent case against Texas remains pending in San Antonio
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: When Will Wall Street Quit Being Stupid?
Auto loans, this decade's mortage bubble?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Seven Urban Markets to Cure Your Dinnertime Blues
Everything from prepared foods and local beer to artisanal meats and flowers
BY SIERRA DIAZ AND THEA NEWELL
Review: DK Maria’s Legendary Tex-Mex
OK food from a problematic concept
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Playback: KINGs and Queens
Kids in a New Groove, Bull McCabe’s bows out, and underground heroes of Austin music
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Summer Jams Clearance Sale
Sam Baker
Land of Doubt
Whiskey Shivers
Some Part of Something
Magna Carda
Somewhere Between
Candace Bellamy
Undone
Brownout
Over the Covers EP
Emily Bell
Kali
Glaze
Wasted Mind
Summer Salt
So Polite
Transit Method
We Won't Get Out of Here Alive
Think No Think
Silent City
She Sir
Rival Island
Institute
Subordination
Super Thief
Stuck
Destroyer of Light
Chamber of Horrors
Reputations
Begging for More
Traveling Ones
Meet Me There
Ty Richards
Zillion
Wendy Colonna
No Moment but Now
Rebecca Loebe
Blink
screens
Yoga With Adriene Brings the Yoga Studio to You
Local YouTube star offers poses for the people
BY JESSI CAPE
From Dada to Dogme
Julian Rosefeldt’s ambitious Manifesto showcases the prowess of Cate Blanchett
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
What’cha Watchin’?
Listings Editor Mark Fagan on three standout rock docs
Film Reviews
Annabelle: Creation
The scary doll from The Conjuring is back (again)
The Dark Tower
Roland the Gunslinger hits the big screen
The Glass Castle
Jeanette Walls' beloved memoir hits the big screen
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Al Gore reminds us (once again) that climate change is real
Kidnap
Don't mess with Halle Berry
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
The animated gang return to save their park from an evil mayor
Person to Person
The New York ensemble subgenre gets some fresh air
Step
Inspiring doc on Baltimore teenagers
Wind River
Crime and punishment on a Wyoming reservation
arts & culture
Kate Shindle Talks Fun Home
The former Miss America on why she loves starring in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Historic Fayette County Dance Hall for Sale
Who wants to buy a century old landmark?
BY ANNALISE PASZTOR
Arts Reviews
Gale Theatre Company's TWENTYEIGHT
In this Afrofuturist drama by Tyler English-Beckwith, blacks labor to reach a safe space in space
“Garth Weiser: Paintings, 2008-2017” at the Contemporary Austin
In this solo show of abstract works, the painter has pinpointed the ungraspable, like grabbing a tiger by the tail
columns
Gay Place
Austin's evolution of drag
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Whale-watching
Washington state offers an exciting escape from the summer heat
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Nicely Dressed Window
True friends will hound you mercilessly until you get your act together
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Pro soccer is returning to Austin
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
