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Implementing the Mobility Bond and Corridor Construction Program, if You Can Wait for It
Going to take a long, long time
BY JACK CRAVER
Point Austin: Suffer the Little Children
Is Southwest Key providing child care at the border, or collaboration?
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Steve Adler
The mayor sets the tone for CodeNEXT talks
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
New Life for Seaholm Power Plant?
Site concepts are here ... again
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Advocacy Groups: Stop Separating Families at Border
Groups file emergency request to reunite immigrant families
BY MARY TUMA
SCOTUS Rules Jane Doe Abortion Case “Moot”
Undocumented minor had procedure done in October
BY MARY TUMA
Moravec, Woog Announce Texas Justice Initiative
Texas justice, now tracked
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Texas Supreme Court Affirms Ruling to Name Death Drugs
State will appeal decision
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council: Put on Your Hard Hats
City Council, staff get to work
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
CodeNEXT Comes to Council
Members begin deliberations on zoning rewrite
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Sudden Death for McKalla Place?
It's June. Expect a soccer showdown.
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Merging the Travis Attorneys?
D.A. Moore and C.A. Escamilla networking a possible consolidation
BY MICHAEL KING
What Home for This Home Depot?
Abandoned St. Johns site inching closer to redevelopment
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Abortion Gag Rule Could Jeopardize Local Care
More than 6,000 Austinites rely on Title X funds
BY MARY TUMA
food
The Austin Chronicle’s Battle of the Briskets
Get to know these 30 top contenders and cast a vote for your favorite
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
Bob Schneider Ages Gracefully on Blood and Bones
New LP finds emotional resonance in personal experience
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Sun June's Regret Pop
The quintet rewrites the classic tapestry of an “Austin sound”
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
Playback: CodeNEXT and the Austin Music Scene
How might the update of Austin’s land development code affect the musical landscape?
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Vinyl Bin: Vinylmnky
Vinyl subscription service courts exclusivity junkies
BY CLARA WANG
screens
ATX TELEVISION FESTIVAL 2018
Kat Candler Moves to TV With Queen Sugar
OWN’s breakout hit comes to ATX Television Festival
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Cameron Esposito Asks Us to Take My Wife
Happily streaming ever after at the ATX Television Festival
BY SARAH MARLOFF
David X. Cohen Brings Futurama Back to the Future
ATX Television Festival brings some of the cult show's voice actors together for a table read
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd
Austin filmmakers need your crowdfunding help
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Action Point
Johnny Knoxville takes one for the team (again)
Hereditary
Toni Collette's burning inferno of a performance illuminates this extraordinary horror
Hotel Artemis
A bleak but stylish future, where only criminals can afford healthcare
Mountain
Scenes from the edge of the world in this meditative documentary
Ocean's 8
Sandra Bullock is the other Ocean sibling in this all-female revamp of the heist franchise
To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor
A deeply personal examination of 2013's landmark Supreme Court gay marriage case.
arts & culture
The Ransom Center's "Vaudeville!"
This exhibition reveals how the history of that entertainment form is really the history of the U.S.
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Give Bees a Chance Dinner at Emmer & Rye
Good food for a great cause
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
La Fenice's Cthulhu Beach Party
This commedia spoof mashes up surfside love and Lovecraft for an incredibly fun romp
Performa / Dance's Artist and Muse
Performa / Dance's program of four pensive and sensitive works explored physical and emotional distress and pain in great depth
“Michael Anthony García: Continental Divide” at St. Edward’s
Layered photographs and images of empty garments across Austin allude to spaces of equality and disruption
columns
Gay Place
Is it hot in here or is it us?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Toilet Seat Art Museum, San Antonio
Hundreds of commode covers become canvases for 97-year-old artist
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Coming Correct
It's a wonder Jesus didn't crucify himself
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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