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Early voting in Texas starts Feb. 18, 2020. Here's the view from atop your Texas primary ballot.

Houston and other Texas sites celebrate the golden anniversary of the first lunar landing

Yellow Dog 2020: Local Dem primary dance card filling up

TBF hosts Don DeLillo, Thomas Dolby, Emma Cline, 277 more

Lightning may not be rebottled the second time around, but it's still a toe-tapping good time

Two major rulings from the Supreme Court

DOMA struck down, Prop 8 dismissed on standing

This black-tie affair celebrates the anniversary of Mexican independence

Richard Linklater explores the rich contradictions of artifice and reality, theatre and film, love and desire in Me and Orson Welles

Big. Dumb. Fun.

The week's big news, here and elsewhere

Colorblind ain't the same as blind

Like most filmmakers, New York-based Shola Lynch is attracted to a good story. Enter Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to successfully run for congress in 1968 and, in 1972, to enter presidential campaign,

Attorney General John Ashcroft is stuffing our Bill of Rights into the shredder

The Glasgow-Owens police shooting case is thrown out of court, while many questions remain unanswered

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

Our readers talk back.

The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Alvarez

Pills in the hand are worth a mouthful of Bush and some Texas Film Hall of Fame teasers are the tip of this week's dish iceberg.

Harry Akin opened for business on Christmas Eve, 1932, selling hamburgers for 15 cents apiece. Cuisines Editor Virginia B. Wood reveals how Akin turned his hamburger stand into Austin's former restaurant empire.

Using a legion of artists from the early Sixties, the Austin Museum of Art exhibition "The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65" offers an illuminating peep into a time when a measly 10-inch black-and-white TV set was the American family's window to the world.

During Gov. Bush's campaign for his party's presidential nomination last fall, reporters asked the candidate to comment on a federal government report asserting that many Texans, including large numbers of children, were going to bed hungry. "I saw the report that children in Texas are going hungry. Where?" he demanded, going on to say, "You'd think the governor would have heard if there are pockets of hunger in Texas." Indeed, you would, especially if one of those pockets is just a few miles from his front door, Virginia B. Wood explains as she explores the very pockets of hunger in Austin Bush has difficulty fathoming.

Clean Air: Optional or Mandatory?

Interfaith's Socialist Agenda

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Johnny Rodriguez on HighTone