Sandy Carson
Volume 31, Number 45
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news
Austin's latest attempt at single-member districts is getting a mixed response
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Health care a matter of equity and common humanity
BY MICHAEL KING
Is the pool's south side in need of a makeover?
BY AMY SMITH
Marathon meeting turns City Council members into zombies
BY MICHAEL KING
Man allegedly pretended to be a motorist in distress before pulling a gun
BY JORDAN SMITH
City says it's not a pleasure trip
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Groups ask DOJ to reopen APD investigation
BY JORDAN SMITH
Alleged kingpin will have his hearing July 10
BY JORDAN SMITH
Corrupting the Corrupt Practices Act
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Beat the heat with these crisp and affordable wines
BY WES MARSHALL
Lounge around this week with brews (or learn how to make baby food)
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Texas summer perks: peaches, wine, and Lockhart barbecue
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Reviews
An impressive array of agave spirits highlight this stand-alone bar at the Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane
In West Lake Hills, Italian fare that'll have you licking your plate
music
The album is not dead, not locally anyway
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
The future of Ray Hennig's Heart of Texas Music, Austin Vintage Guitars, and the HighBall called into question.
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Chaos and creativity in the Zellner Bros.' 'Kid-Thing'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Justin Sherburn sounds off on an avant-garde, Soviet silent
BY JOSH ROSENBLATT
Film Reviews
The Amazing Spider-Meh might be a better name for this dullish retread.
Two estranged brothers revive their childhood competitions, much to the alarm of their families in this Duplass brothers' microbudget throwback.
The film is an inoffensive slice of canny brand (or is that non-Brand?) management and marketing.
Oliver Stone’s movie is volatile, nasty, hypnotic, gory, and nearly irrestible – at least when the young 'uns aren't onscreen.
Ambling and merely passable, this new Woody Allen picture lacks a raison d'être.
No luck: Madea doesn't assume a new identity and disappear. Instead the old gal takes in Eugene Levy, playing an investor implicated in a Ponzi scheme.
arts & culture
In 'New Moon,' a dance to remind us how to let go
BY DAWN DAVIS LORING
Giving young immigrants and refugees a chance to tell their own stories
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Not everything in 7 Towers' staging of this revenge tragedy works, but the production has heart
Much masterful playing of works by the masters of the string quartet
La Follia expanded our sense of our country's founders through the music they heard and sang
columns
Stephen's brother sheds light on the shattered shards of the family looking glass
BY STEPHEN MACMILLAN MOSER
Get bent this week: Drag, yoga, and more
BY KATE X MESSER
The PumpHouse Riverside Restaurant and Bar may be one of the best bird-watching spots in Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Can I avoid a speeding ticket because there were no speed limit signs?
BY LUKE ELLIS
Sometimes you say 'yes' when you really mean 'maybe.'
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Banked-track Roller Derby rivaly re-ignites
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Aztex regular-season home finale, and more
BY NICK BARBARO