Volume 32, Number 47
ON THE COVER:
news
Moments from the battle on women's rights ... in progress
BY MICHAEL KING AND AMY SMITH
Campaign to end abortion is a national crusade
BY MICHAEL KING
County Judge and Pct. 2 Commissioner's races don't come cheap
BY AMY SMITH
With only transportation left on the special session agenda, the 2014 race begins
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER AND JORDAN SMITH
After weeks of drama, sweeping abortion restrictions pass the Lege
BY JORDAN SMITH
In the heat of the abortion protests, some say the DPS used excessive force
BY AMY GENTRY
JJ Seabrook neighborhood fights back against 'ongoing construction site'
BY ELIZABETH PAGANO
Longtime activist dies Saturday, July 13
BY AMY SMITH
The gubernatorial candidate is armed with a $21 million war chest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Redflex claims no wrongdoing in Austin
BY MIKE KANIN
Slaphappy politicos
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
'Chronicle' foodies dive into the fresh offerings out west
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Pastry chef Jessica Forkner goes brick and mortar with a homey South Austin cafe
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Blog Taco Journalism leaps to print with this ode to the best meal of the day
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Perdón! We didn't mean to fall off the tapas truck!
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
July 19-24
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Birdleggs, Strange Boys, Moonpies, Ed Hall / Gorch Fock / Brown Whörnet, and other weirdness
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Fever Forms
A Lonely Man Does Foolish Things
No More, No Less
New Romance
Troller
Get Up
Pianography
screens
With the release of 'RWBY,' Monty Oum is officially Rooster Teeth's rock star
BY DAN SOLOMON
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reunite in 'Only God Forgives'
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cult-legend rock doc returns to Austin
BY SCOTT SCHINDER
Film Reviews
Sports biopic from India based on the life of "The Flying Sikh" Milkha Singh.
This supernatural thriller from the director of Saw could be mistaken for The Amityville Exorcist.
In this fascinating Israeli film set within a community of ultra-Orthodox Jews, a young woman grapples with whether to marry her dead sister's husband.
Kristen Wiig plays the darker side of the girl who hasn't fulfilled her potential and Annette Bening co-stars as her Atlantic City mom.
Sandler and pals return to the well.
Drive's Nicolas Winding Refn reunites again with Ryan Gosling and adds Kristin Scott Thomas to the mix for this descent into heartlessness.
No wonder Bruce Willis has become the king of the sequels: He reliably delivers more of whatever it is we liked the last time.
A snail wants to race in the Indy 500 in this new animated comedy.
arts & culture
Long Center launches its new musical series with a singular sensation
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Austin Shakespeare takes its stage adaptaion of Ayn Rand's novella to off-Broadway
BY ROBERT FAIRES
A new studio provides the space, and height, for this artist's new body of work
BY ANDY CAMPBELL
Arts Reviews
Shakespeare may not seem like experimental theatre, but it is when it's being performed by improvisers
As staged by 7 Towers Theatre Company, Martin McDonagh's play takes storytelling too far in more ways than one
This photography exhibition at the Ransom Center demonstrates the life of archives
columns
This week is Red Hot; your week ain't doodly-squat
BY KATE X MESSER
Central High School National Historic Site in Little Rock, Ark. is an inspirational landmark
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The youth of today: with their hairless privates … and their interwebs … and their kombucha
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE