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A Downtown hotel is hosting a natalist, eugenics-aligned conference in December. Why Austin?

Wins for trans youth highlight resistance to theocracy

Texas has filed the most anti-LGBTQIA bills in the nation this year

Can the GOP-run House and Senate get along well enough to get anything accomplished?

Unimaginative woman-in-distress thriller

Small changes proposed in state criminal laws

Grading the Lege on women's health, drug policy, and criminal justice

Familiar efforts to decriminalize weed and criminalize salvia are unlikely to pass

A combat veteran suffering from PTSD becomes the dubious mentor of a boy whose mother has just OD'd in this heartfelt drama.

It's baaaaack!

Timid moderates join fringe Republicans in push to pass suicidal state budget

God loses faith in humanity and sends a legion of angels to start the apocalypse.

Fame: Some stories live forever. It's more or less the same story as before, just a different generation.

A Mixed Bag

This moving message film tells a story about a miscarriage of Texas justice.

What's all the ruckus? Why, it's the SXSW Film lineup!

Acting great Charles Dutton closes out BAM, and Cap City holds a comedy caucus

The story of Ernie Davis, the first African-American Heisman Trophy winner, is full of heart-pumping stadium heroics and quiet acts of dignity.

The evolution of American music and Southern race relations in Honeydripper

John Sayles’ new drama is about life in a destitute African-American cotton-farming town in Jim Crow-era Alabama and the music that gave the region its mythology.

John Sayles' 'Honeydripper' takes flight

Is Stephen a closet furry? And what did Dr. Twink diagnose?

How a former president's understated decency and the hectic birth of rock & roll electrified Toronto screens

From 'Panic' to 'Andrew Jackson'

Like a lot of sports movies, this biopic about boxing promoter Jackie Kallen is better than it has to be but not as good as it ought to be.

Halle and Penelope de-glam for this running, screaming, jumping thriller that never allows logic to interfere.

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The House Dems may be losing the legislative wars, but they're finally winning the PR battle.

Though the crowd at New York literary lion Darin Strauss' June 27 appearance at BookPeople was thin, he still read and signed The Real McCoy, while telling Mike Shea all about the life of a "hugely talented" young writer.