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news
All Politics Is Local at Texas Tribune Festival
Evan Smith leads the fest’s move Downtown and brings national newsmakers to Austin
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
You’re So Gonna Vote!
Voter registration deadline is Oct. 9
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Disorder in the Court … of Appeals
Triana/Toth race raising unusual political dust
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Beto O’Rourke
What would you say if Ted Cruz likened you to Bernie Sanders?
NAKED CITY
County Approves Budget That Allocates for New Jail
$6.6 million going toward facility preconstruction
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
UT Investigates Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Sen. Charles Schwertner
State senator accused of lewd texting to grad student
BY MARY TUMA
Teens Seeking Judicial Bypass Abortion in Texas Shamed
New study finds court process functions as “form of punishment”
BY MARY TUMA
Ashely "Flashe" Gordon Needs Your Help
Former Green Party co-chair diagnosed with a brain tumor
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Conflicts of Interest at City Hall
Give and take, everywhere you look
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Election Ticker: Endorse-a-Rama
You gotta support somebody
BY MICHAEL KING, CHASE HOFFBERGER AND AUSTIN SANDERS
Glenn Scott Fought for Her Life, and Yours
A comrade in arms
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Sendero’s Path Forward
Community health plan gets one-year budget reprieve
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
AISD: Get With the Times
Modernizing the district in more ways than one
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Consolidate the Prosecutors
District attorney, county attorney propose path for prosecutorial revamp
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Bus Stops and Court Benches
On immigration in McAllen
BY MARTÍN STEINHAGEN
food
Seeking Out Sardines
In which we visit a pair of prime dining spots for the tiny savories
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
A Good Restaurant for an Awkward Conversation?
A place to say the things and eat the meatloaf
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Make Some Noise for Native Rhymesayer Kydd Jones
With growing national buzz, why isn’t Austin paying attention?
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback – Lords of the Dance: TC Superstar
TC Superstar promotes body movement, Dallas Acid get blissed with Laraaji, a black metal binge, and Trouble in the Streets breaks rules
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Glorietta
Glorietta
Nakia
Blues Grifter
Gina Chavez
Lightbeam
Alejandro Escovedo
The Crossing
Horne + Holt
Wires
Western Youth
Western Youth
Borzoi
A Prayer for War
Otis Wilkins
Strangest Place
Nobody's Girl
Waterline
Mike Schoenfeld
Little Feet
screens
In Production: Sister Aimee is An Austin Love Letter to L.A.
Anna Margaret Hollyman on taking her vows as the mysterious mystic
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
In Production: Something Evil at Brackenridge Hospital in Scare Package
Wrestler-turned-actor Dustin Runnels getting bloody for new anthology horror
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New Taiwanese Cinema Exposes a Secret History
A rare screening of Hou Hsiao-hsien's masterpiece A City of Sadness
BY JULIAN DEBERRY
One in a Crowd
Black comedy Duncan needs your crowdfunding help
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Film Reviews
Hold the Dark
Humanity's animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness
Kusama: Infinity
The colorful world of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama
Little Women
The Louisa May Alcott classic charmlessly updated
Night School
Kevin Hart goes back to school. Sadly, not comedy school.
Science Fair
The future is as bright as these charming science kids
The Sisters Brothers
A murderers’ row of great actors in this contract killer Western comedy
Smallfoot
Furry animated antics as yetis find proof: Humans exist!
arts & culture
Jennifer Higdon, American Voice
One of this nation's most acclaimed and active composers, on our rich melting pot of music
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: SAGE Studio’s Fall Show
Eastside gallery space gives artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities a place to shine
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Hyde Park Theatre's Confessions of a Mexpatriate
Raul Garza's solo show tells us that finding your true self in another country isn't easy
Blue Lapis Light's Belonging, Part One
The work's dancers, whether on the ground or sailing through the air, were beacons of human hope and empathy
"Matt Rebholz and Rachel Wolfson Smith: We Can See Through Time" at ICOSA
Drawings in red and blue ink, intended to be viewed through 3-D glasses, pull the viewer in to landscapes that make the familiar look alien
columns
Qmmunity
Gender Unbound: bigger and better than ever
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Round Rock Honey
Take a sweet trip to the land of golden sauce
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: The Morning Grump
Part of being a monster is lacking the self-awareness that you are a monster
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
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Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
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