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features
Best of Austin 2019
news
Point Austin: The Morning After
What voters said about taxes, city and county plans, and dogs
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Travis County & City of Austin Election 2019: Final Results
City propositions go down; Expo Center wins voters’ hearts
BY MICHAEL KING AND MIKE CLARK-MADISON
NAKED CITY
Death Watch: Lawmakers Ask for Rodney Reed Reprieve
Texas House Criminal Justice Reform Caucus joins celebrities, activists asking to stay the Nov. 20 execution
BY BRANT BINGAMON
APD Unveils New Interview Rooms For Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
The next step in improving sexual assault investigations in Austin?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Austinites Without Homes Find Themselves Pushed Out of Sight
Turns out those with and without shelter both want to be safe
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Death Watch: No Chaplain Needed Now in Murphy Case
Texas Seven member faces execution on Nov. 13 for a second time
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Report: Austin Leads State in Reproductive Freedom
But best-in-Texas ranking highlights what still needs to be done
BY MARY TUMA
AISD Delays Plans to Close Eight Schools
Advocates push to save Pease, Brooke
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Pour One Out for the Beto-Castro-Meter
Beto bows out gracefully while Castro hunkers down
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
food
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of November 7, 2019
music
LEVITATION 2019
Levitation Profile: Lingua Ignota
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Levitation Profile: John Cale
Founding member of Velvet Underground finds kindred spirits at psych festival
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Levitation Profile: Flipper
San Francisco noise punks bring chaos to the festival
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Plan Your Psychedelic Weekend With These Levitation Picks
Nearly two-dozen choices ranging from the Flaming Lips to Elephant Stone
BY THE MUSIC STAFF
Levitation Album Reviews
Stonefield
Bent
Brutus
Nest
Nots
3
Black Mountain
Destroyer
Warish
Down in Flames
Tim Presley's White Fence
I Have to Feed Larry's Hawk
Coathangers
The Devil You Know
Ioanna Gika
Thalassa
Chelsea Wolfe
Birth of Violence
Allah-Las
LAHS
Dallas Acid
The Spiral Arm
screens
From the Fonz to Gene Cousineau: Henry Winkler's Career of Fearless Reinvention
The man who defined cool on the changing demands of acting, being an icon, and the joy of fly fishing
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Joe Bob Briggs Teaches the History of Redneck Cinema
The original Hellbilly Deluxe
BY MARC SAVLOV
Now Streaming in Austin: RT Extra Life
Rooster Teeth's streaming charity marathon show aims to raise a million for sick kids
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Acceleration
Inept action flick marks the end of any possible Lundgrenaissance
Cyrano, My Love
The true (possibly) tale behind the writing of the French classic
Doctor Sleep
Back to the cinematic hallowed ground of the Overlook Hotel
The Irishman
Scorsese's filmmaking excellence can't mask a flawed retreading of mob history
Last Christmas
This is a movie inspired by a Wham! song, and you know what? It works.
Midway
Roland Emmerich goes all guns blazing recreating the pivotal sea battle
Playing With Fire
There's no spark in this joke-free firefighters-versus-kids flop
arts & culture
Arts Reviews
Heartland Theatre Collective's The Vineyard
The reasons to see this staging of Nicole Oglesby's new drama are the thorny questions it leaves you to answer
The Survivors/Los Sobrevivientes at Texas State University
Katie Bender's drama takes us inside the Alamo for the rare treatment of that story as something intimate, with feeling more than action
"Demons & Devils" at Recspec Gallery
Because we could all use a little more aesthetic exorcising, couldn't we?
columns
Qmmunity: Help Support Queer and Trans Students
Plus all-queer theater and queer archive rejects
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Best of Texas
Five best roadside attractions around Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Love Is Blind
When you make a presentation you should have some visual aids
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
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