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Police Oversight: Starting From Scratch
Farah Muscadin’s work in progress
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Point Austin: In the Shadow of the Capitol
Council approves its latest budget with the Lege over its shoulder
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Priest Walks Into a Bar …
Armadillo Art Squad dean Micael Priest dead at 66
BY NICK BARBARO
Quote of the Week: Spencer Cronk
City manager on city budget
Headlines
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Frank Dixon to Denton
APD Asst. Chief heads north
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Sick Leave Update
Plans stalled on rollout
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Mike Ward Out at Houston Chronicle
Veteran reporter accused of faking sources
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
More Fun in District 1
Candidates continue to pile up
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Widow of Contractor Killed on Worksite Files Suit
Lourdes Kaman seeks over $1 million
BY JACK CRAVER
Settling the FY 2019 Budget
Council sorts out tax rate, final spending
BY MICHAEL KING
People's Anti-Displacement Plan Gets Its Work in Early
Planning for the people
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Infighting Continues at Tourism Commission
Commission moves on to the 12th round
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
So Goes the Statesman
Daily paper awaits GateHouse revamp
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Coalition Issues Manifesto on East Austin Schools
Coalition issues manifesto on East Austin schools
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Mikel Kane vs. the Medical Director
ATCEMS division chief suspended, demoted for waging war against MD
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Firefighter's Legal Standoff With City Continues
Carrie Stewart battles city after cancer diagnosis
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Election Ticker: You’ve Got to Be Joking
Laughing our way through campaign season
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER, MICHAEL KING AND SARAH MARLOFF
food
Review: The Brewer’s Table
East Austin’s truly wonderful dining experience with a complicated history
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Food Events
music
Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Threadgill’s WHQ Will Close After Thanksgiving
Eddie Wilson done “clinging to the curb”
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
FOMO Factory Does It for the Gram
The new, colorful “immersive selfie space” arrives
BY EMILY BEYDA
Learn to Tell Your Steves From Your Enderman at Minefaire
The “Ultimate Minecraft Experience” digs into the wildly popular video game
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
The Dirty Secrets Behind Sex Madness Revealed
Exploitation goes meta with a new twist on a vintage sleazefest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The Apparition
French religious drama places miracles under the microscope
Danger One
Less Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, more shrug shrug, meh meh
Don't Leave Home
A strange trip to the Emerald Isle
Mandy
Nicolas Cage is stunning in this hallucinogenic revenger
The Nun
The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania
Peppermint
Jennifer Garner assumes an Alias to get revenge
Pick of the Litter
Five adorable puppies on the path to changing lives
The Predator
The Predator needs an editor
A Simple Favor
Anna Kendrick turns unlikely sleuth in this deliciously twisted romp
Unbroken: Path to Redemption
More evangelizing from the God's Not Dead folks
We the Animals
Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation
Where Hands Touch
Interracial romance against the rise of Nazi Germany
White Boy Rick
A true-life tale of coke, corruption, and betrayal
arts & culture
"Other Forms of Life" at the Contemporary Austin
With her mysterious and compelling artwork, Huma Bhabha puts us face to alien face
BY SUMAIYA MALIK
Snapshot: Austin Groove Project
Rising stars of Austin soul, blues, and hip-hop converge at Waterloo Music Festival as a supergroup to watch
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Capital T Theatre's The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece
"Vincent Valdez: The City" at the Blanton
The artist's epic portrait of Klanspeople is all the more frightening for the mundane character of its subjects
columns
Qmmunity
A space to embrace Austin’s queer artists of color
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Chandler Guest Ranch, Dryden
Former fishing camp still an oasis on the Pecos River
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: The Real Yoko
Some people aren't easily able to shamelessly express themselves through movement
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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