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features
Back to School 2018
Austin Events 2018
Longhorns Football Preview
Will talent beget success?
BY JEREMY STEINBERGER
Introducing Austin's Pre-Gaming Beers of 2018
Some suds to keep your tailgate up to date
BY ERIC PUGA
Queers on Campus
Your back-to-school guide for a gay ol' time
BY BETH SULLIVAN
news
What Follows Five Years of Failure at Mendez Middle School?
Making the grade
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Point Austin: Hard Times at the Statesman
The new owners start cutting, and the bleeding begins
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: The Calendar Turns
Happy anniversary, and here's a card ...
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Debbie Hiott
Austin American-Statesman's editor on her decision to leave the paper
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Paxton: Lethal Injection Forever
A.G. joins amicus brief in opposition to Missouri man's request for death by lethal gas
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Supremes Reject Ballot Lawsuits
Court denies requests that Council rewrite proposition language
BY MICHAEL KING
A New Pro-Choice Leader at NARAL Pro-Choice Texas
Aimee Arrambide takes over advocacy group
BY MARY TUMA
Defense Distributed ... by Mail
Cody Wilson has a workaround for judge's order
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Sick Leave in Limbo
The waiting room
BY MARY TUMA
Council: It’s Never Over
Bag bans, budgets, and Southwest Key
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
A Medication-Assisted Therapy to Treat Opioid Abuse
Sponsors unveil new partnership at CommUnityCare clinic
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Medical Marijuana Advocates Look to 2019 Lege for Program Improvements
Barriers in a budding industry
BY MARY TUMA
Election Ticker
Gotta endorse somebody
BY MICHAEL KING, CHASE HOFFBERGER, AUSTIN SANDERS AND MARY TUMA
food
The Oral History of ABGB
Pils to wake, pils to sleep
BY ERIC PUGA
28th Annual Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Festival Contest Winners
The people and critics have chosen the best of the fest
Austin Coffee Shops for Morning, Noon, and Night
Our favorite purveyors of caffeine for getting back to the grind
BY R.T. FRANK
Food Events
music
The Next Generation of Austin Hip-Hop
Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America
BY CLARA WANG
Playback: That’s the Breaks
In studio with Confucius and Fresh, hosts of KUTX’s first ever hip-hop specialty show
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Capital City Black Film Festival Returns With New Voices
After a forced hiatus, stronger than ever
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Horror Short Brings Supernatural Rage to Slavery's Story
Capital City Black Film Festival's "Swing Low"
BY CHARLIE NEDDO
The Touchdowns That Changed Texas
Civil rights and sports mix in Breaking Down Barriers: The C.R. Roberts Story
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
The Cruz vs. O'Rourke Senate Race Explored in Run Like the Devil
Meet the men behind the campaigns
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd
Help fund a new production company in Austin
BY CHARLIE NEDDO
Film Reviews
Blood Fest
Comedy-horror provides plenty of GIF-able gags
The Bookshop
British period literary drama is pretty weak tea
Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity
Kin
Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal
The Little Stranger
A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns
Madeline's Madeline
Memoir of War
WWII literary adaptation lacks the novel's spark and insight
Mr. Fish: Cartooning From the Deep End
Documentary explores the dying art of controversial editorial cartoons
Operation Finale
Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity
Paper Boy
Indian story of romance across class divides
Searching
Innovative thriller keeps the tension on the small screen
Ya Veremos
Mexican rom-com puts family first
arts & culture
Fallout Theater Says Fuck This Week
The improv alchemists of this weekly show turn the crap in your life into comedy gold
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
Snapshot: Haircuts for Homeless
How barber Roger Lopez and a small group of dedicated volunteers pay it forward
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Aztlan Dance Company's The Enchilada Western: Texas Deep Fried
In the troupe's latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied
"The Indigo Show" at Recspec Gallery
This group show is appealing for the ways in which it showcases this most intense, moody, serene, and opulent of all the blues
columns
Gay Place
The end of summer, in name only
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Snake Farm, New Braunfels
Snake Farm, just sounds nasty, but is a lot of fun
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: A Hungry Cat
The kind of maddening paradox that makes you question the existence of a loving and benevolent creator
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
Austin FC it is.
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
