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Volume 37, Number 25
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features
PET ISSUE 2018
Meet Social Media Star Sid, the Regal Beagle, the Inspiration Behind Zilker Bark
Man’s best friend, and life coach
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Kermit the Therapy Dog Wants to Talk About Your Funeral
This grief counselor wears a collar
BY KATARINA BROWN
Inside Austin Police's Mounted Unit
Horseplay? Only after they’ve clocked out.
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Does This Relationship Have a Future?
If dogs aren’t welcome on the Starship, I’m not going either
BY NICK BARBARO
Austin’s MVP Farmhands (Just No Opposable Thumbs)
From an 800-pound pig to cuddly baby goats, these farm animals are earning their keep
BY KATARINA BROWN
The Chronicle's Staff Pet Portraits
Our first (and probably last) bring your pet to work day
news
2018 PRIMARIES
2018 Primary Election Preview: The Texas Lege
Dukes is wild in House District 46
BY MARY TUMA
2018 Primary Election Preview: Travis Co. Races
All over the local map
2018 Primary Election Preview: Judicial Races
Motions for relief
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: For Your Consideration
When you enter the poll, make your best choice ... these are ours
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Here Comes the Spin
CodeNEXT draft three winners & losers?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Joe Pantalion
Ruminations on CodeNEXT
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Facebook “Threat” Trial Begins in New Braunfels on Tuesday
Justin Carter, five years later
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
New Program Aims to Boost Voter Registration at Travis County Jail
Are county inmates aware that they’re eligible to vote?
BY MARY TUMA
CD 31: Austin’s Sixth District
It runs through Williamson County
BY MICHAEL KING
Introducing CodeNEXT Draft Three
Now the fun begins
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Council: Doctor’s Orders
Sides lining up on paid sick time proposal
BY MICHAEL KING
Kerrtains at AFD
Fire chief to leave for Florida
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Is UT Harboring a Domestic Abuser?
Students, organizations calling for Richard Morrisett’s job
BY MARY TUMA
Van Boven Case Goes to Court
Medical whistleblower accused of breaching settlement
BY MICHAEL KING
Defense Attorneys Tell County Judges to Close Jail Reduction Docket
Demand letter threatens legal action over plea docket
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Eckhardt: The State of the County Is ...
Thursday address slams Lege, props up local entities
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Death Watch: Justice for Whom?
Kent Whitaker never wanted execution for his son
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Chronicle Endorsements
Recommendations for the county, state, and country
BY THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL BOARD
food
Black Food Matters
Taste of Black Austin returns to honor local food history and current star chefs
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Southern Heights Brewing Co. Ascends Into the Austin Beer Scene
Local brewpub reaches for the highest heights
BY ERIC PUGA
PET ISSUE 2018
Grocery Pup Creates Gourmet Dog Food Good Enough for Humans
Austin couple offers an all-natural way to feed your pup
BY JESSI CAPE
Food Events
music
Playback: Can Austin Be a Jazz City?
Two venues usher in a new era in Austin jazz. Plus music scholar Bill Bentley brings the Smithsonian Institution to bear at BookPeople.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Black Panther Comic Writer Evan Narcisse on Heroes and Afro-Futurism
From Austin to Wakanda
BY MOISÉS CHIULLÁN
ATX Film News
Our monthly guide to what's filming and screening
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
One in a Crowd
Local crowdfundung campaigns
BY MILO WEBB
Film Reviews
Black Panther
High drama and high action as Marvel gives Wakanda life.
Early Man
Aardman's prehistoric animation has some evolving to do.
The 15:17 to Paris
Eastwood cast innovative to re-create the Paris train attack.
Fifty Shades Freed
Mr. and Mrs. Grey break out the whips one last time
Mary and the Witch's Flower
Studio Ghibli alums stick to the formula for magical tale.
Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter's amiable bunny gets a CGI makeover.
arts & culture
Ellsworth Kelly's Austin Opens at the Blanton Museum of Art
By building this structure, the Blanton enabled a major modern artist to realize his masterwork
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Snapshot: Texas’ First Female-Written Torah
Congregation Agudas Achim's dedication ceremony
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Zach Theatre's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This dazzling production takes us inside the mind of a crime-solving teen on the spectrum
Jarrott Productions’ The Father
The play presents dementia from the sufferer’s perspective, but it suffers from a shortage of emotions besides exasperation
Golden Hornet’s String Quartet Smackdown IV
In this “hoot” of a competition, every one of the 16 compositions was a gem, but only one was voted the champion
columns
Gay Place
OUTsider Fest, Andrea Gibson, and more heat up the week ahead
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Angel on the Wind
Heaven’s hood ornament adorns memory park in Palestine
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: 40% of $35 Million
Consensual sodomy with an A-lister is probably the best scenario you could hope for
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
