Parish
Volume 35, Number 21
features
Editor's Note
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
news
Finding a New D.A.
The Dem primary race turns from a default succession into a three-way wrestling match
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Thumbs Up or Down?
Will bowing to Uber and Lyft set a bad precedent for city government?
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: The New Industrial Revolution?
Is Mayor Adler our Teddy Roosevelt?
BY NICK BARBARO
Notes On Kamp: Vote Locally
It's local elections that most affect people's daily lives
BY AMY KAMP
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Safety for Some
The mayor tries to find a way to placate Uber and Lyft
BY KATIE MATLACK
Council: "Sharing" Showdown Arrives
Plenty of contentious business for the first Council meeting of the year
BY MICHAEL KING
AISD Board Gets A Fresh Start
AISD officers play musical chairs
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Hernandez Rolls Out Pot Paper
Hernandez advocates for de-prioritization of arrests for first-time minor possession of marijuana offenders
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Supermajority Rules
Planning Commission sends PUD tweak to Council sans blessing
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Death Watch: Not Their First Rodeo
Freeman will be the second Texan executed this year
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Meet the Candidate: Blake Rocap
Lobbyist turned legislator hopeful is a longtime civil and reproductive rights advocate
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Let us now praise "Lord Zuckerberg, the Magnificent!"
food
Selling Feminism One Box at a Time
Girl Scout cookies are arguably the most misunderstood foodstuff in American culture
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Raising the Roof
Techo brings mezcal to Manor Road
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
Review: Wu Chow
Downtown christens a classic
BY BRANDON WATSON
The Take-Out
Community makes Austin food
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Anthem of the Sun
Non-commercial frequency Sun Radio broadens its solar-powered Americana throughout Central Texas
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Playback – Austin Loses Its Voice: Paul Ray 1942–2016
Paul Ray 1942–2016, and now, a time without twine
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Appalachian Blues
New series Outsiders explores outlaw mountain men
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Coloring in the Margins
Pop-up series Alt Girl Cinema highlights diversity
BY JESSI CAPE
I Like to Watch
Our new TV columnist wants to believe
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Boy and the World
A singular masterpiece of mixed-media animation that is as beautiful, chaotic, depressing, and joyous as the world it depicts
Caged No More
Rescuers and prayers work to retrieve girls sold into sexual slavery
Ip Man 3
Donnie Yen returns as the grandmaster who taught Bruce Lee his moves
Norm of the North
Animated bear protects his Arctic home
arts & culture
Austin Opera's Of Mice and Men
Artistic Director Richard Buckley on returning to the Carlisle Floyd opera that launched his conducting career
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Austin Playhouse's Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar's drama delivers a raw, powerful conversation about race without the usual distractions
Shay Ishii Dance Company's Dancestry ... Vivid
Audiences gained much from this program's re-creations of historic dances by Isadora Duncan, Loïe Fuller, and Lucia Dlugoszewski
The Radiant Road
Author Katherine Catmull elegantly summons a fairy-tale timelessness for this YA story of teen anxieties, fairies, and creativity
columns
Page Two: It's Always Twine Time
Follow the music
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
2016 promises to be exciting. No one said anything about it being smooth.
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Texas Blue Crabs
Fried crustaceans are a savory delight in Texas' Golden Triangle
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Wishy Washy
When a guy asks you if you want to "Netflix and chill," he doesn't really give a damn about the Netflix
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
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
