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Breathing Room for the City Budget
Proposed FY 2019 city budget features sunnier projections
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Strange Bedfellows, Stranger Politics
"Efficiency audit" petition campaign could use an independent audit
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: ZAP!
The commission was right. CodeNEXT must die. But then what?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Delia Garza
D2 council member talks about a balance with police
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Title X Money in the Right Hands
Women's Health and Family Planning Association of Texas sole statewide grantee
BY MARY TUMA
Tania Silva vs. SB 4
Mentally ill undocumented woman would not have been held on ICE detainer if not for anti-immigrant law
BY MARY TUMA
Southwest Key Boycott Brewing?
Activist group calls for full boycott against East Austin nonprofit's programs
BY MARY TUMA
Austin Justice Coalition Gets Grant
$20,000 in funding will allow AJC to "advance justice"
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Council: Back in Action
Members return to lengthy to-do list
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Election Notes: It’s a Family Affair ... Again
Susana Almanza's back in D3, and Ann Kitchen has an opponent
BY SARAH MARLOFF, CHASE HOFFBERGER AND AUSTIN SANDERS
Pick Your Plan for McKalla Place
Precourt vs. the field
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Paid Sick Leave Fight Continues
Paxton, Texas Public Policy Foundation take effort to 3rd Court of Appeals
BY MARY TUMA
County on Pace to Set Record for In-Custody Deaths
Arthur David Westley is sixth to die in custody this year
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
So Goes CodeNEXT
Fallout from a canceled rewrite
BY SARAH MARLOFF
AISD: Respect for All Who Can Pay
School district to rent Performing Arts Center to anti-LGBTQ church
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
More Trouble for Medical Board and SOAH
Dr. Van Boven sues TMB staff and hearings agency hemorrhages
BY MICHAEL KING
food
Why Are Some of Austin's Smartest Restaurants Heading Toward Dripping Springs?
The Switch, Pieous, and the League look west
BY TOM THORNTON
Home Slice Pizza's New Location as Great as the Original
The classic local hot spot serves up its New York-style slices on North Loop
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
Bridge Farmers' Superior Acid Metal
Hawkwind and Sabbath didn't spawn the Austin trio, but they should have
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Quit Your Day Job: Jess Williamson
Heart-on-sleeve song siren paid her dues, all right – right down to the staples
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: Pickathon, Texas
Austin talent looms large at Oregon fest
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
David Israel
The Year That Felt Like Two
Jeremy Nail
Live Oak
Kathy & the Kilowatts
Premonition of Love
Garrett T. Capps
In the Shadows (Again)
screens
Fear the Walking Dead Casts Its Shadow Over Austin
The AMC spin-off smash brings the dead to Texas
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Way of the Iron Dragon
Action film festival gets really hands-on
BY MARC SAVLOV
Film Reviews
BlacKkKlansman
Spike Lee's wild true-life story would be a better documentary
The Captain
A bleak warning from Nazi Germany carries modern resonance
Christopher Robin
Back to the Hundred Acre Wood in this live-action sequel
The Darkest Minds
Earth's last children hunted by their parents
Dog Days
By-the-numbers summer rom-com has more going for it than just puppers
The Meg
This giant shark tale simply lacks bite
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
YA novel adaptation gently lampoons "pray the gay away" thinking
Never Goin' Back
Augustine Frizell ingeniously revamps the stoner buddy comedy
Slender Man
Creepypasta's most iconic creature hits the big screen
Summer of 84
Kids vs. serial killer, Eighties-style
arts & culture
How Austin's Queer Community Supports Its Own
Spotlighting the LGBTQ people and orgs looking after our health, youth, elders, and art
BY SARAH MARLOFF, CHARLIE NEDDO AND BETH SULLIVAN
Snapshot – RTX 2018: Cosplay Contest
The weekend's most creative cosplayers on handcrafting costumes and blowing little kids' minds
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Summer Stock Austin's Rob1n
This new musical brings Sherwood Forest's noble outlaw to our time with a message of togetherness
Paper Chairs' The Audience
Elizabeth Doss' adaptation of García Lorca's unfinished play is less a drama than a dream, unbound by logic, reason, or convention
Austin Classical Guitar's dream
The quality of the music in this concert was exceptional, but what made it special was the quality of the listening
columns
Gay Place
This Pride keep the spark alive
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Gandhi Plaza, Irving
Revered international leader memorialized in North Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: More Advice to Be Ignored
An affirmation of already existing opinions
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
It’s new; it’s Bold!
BY NICK BARBARO
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