KLRU
Volume 35, Number 38
news
Chronicle Endorsements
The Chronicle’s endorsements for the May 24 runoffs
10-1, Take Two
Five City Council incumbents up for re-election this November
BY AMY KAMP
Point Austin: Somebody Else's Job
Where does the school finance ruling leave 5 million Texas students?
BY MICHAEL KING
Notes on Kamp: Our Transportation Crisis
We can't afford to keep ignoring our infrastructure
BY AMY KAMP
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: It's All on Camera
City Council gets ready to dive back into the breach
BY MICHAEL KING
Outsmarting Traffic
Austin prepares for the final round of the Smart City Challenge
BY AMY KAMP
No Prosecution for APD Officer
Freeman won't be charged in teen's death
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Catching Up to Science
New federal guidelines reverse trend in medication abortions
BY MARY TUMA
Changing Lanes
Taxi industry braces for big changes
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
C'mon Take a Slow Ride
Chaos still reigns in Uber and Lyft's wake
BY MAC MCCANN
Saying "No" to Anti-Muslim Hate
Faith groups come together to show support for Austin's Muslim community
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
If It's Broke, Don't Fix It
Texas school finance system ruled constitutional
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report
Why Bernie will, should, and must stay in the race
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Kitchen Ghosts
Unearthing Austin's culinary history: Schneider Beer Vaults
BY RACHEL FEIT
Review: Oasthouse Kitchen + Bar
Considered dining outside the core
BY BRANDON WATSON
Shoulders to the Wheel
Flat Track Coffee rolls out a new shop
BY NEHA AZIZ
The Take-Out
Looking at Austin through new eyes
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Between Ships and Static
The "grandfather of Austin's avant-garde," Rick Reed, only don't call him that!
BY CONOR WALKER
Playback: Guy Clark 1941-2016
End Transmission: Adios Guy Clark, and Transmission Events as we knew it
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Looking at the Big Picture
Paramount Summer Classic Film Series goes large
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
The Angry Birds Movie
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a game! It's a movie!
A Bigger Splash
Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, and others meet and mix in the sun
Brahmotsavam
Telugu drama.
The Darkness
Supernatural horror film from the Blumhouse scare factory
Last Days in the Desert
Ewan McGregor plays both Jesus and the devil in this secular imagining
The Lobster
The Dogtooth director is back with another fractured parable
Mad Tiger
The ups and downs of Japanese punk band Peelander-Z
Money Monster
George Clooney plays a cable-TV guru taken hostage by an irate viewer
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Seth Rogen learns that girls just want to have fun
The Nice Guys
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe pair for laughs in this detective caper
arts & culture
Cliona Gunter, Vulnerable Maker
This artist opens her home for the West Austin Studio Tour, but more to the point, she opens herself
BY SAM ANDERSON-RAMOS
Carolyn Cohagan's Time Zero
With her new YA novel and her program Girls With Pens, the Austin author promotes literacy as girl power
BY MICHAEL BERRY
Arts Reviews
Arden of Faversham
This Shakespearean-style "true crime" drama is not without compelling elements, but a lack of polish weighs on this staging
Paper Chairs' Poor Herman
Elizabeth Doss' new play shows the literary lion Melville to be just like one of us
"De la Complicidad con la Agresión: Works by Miguel A. Aragón"
Aragón's images of drug cartel victims show the difficulty of addressing violence in today's society
columns
Oops
Page Two: Vote Yes on Prop 1
Why the hell not?
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
What an excellent day for an exorcism
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Port Mansfield
Tiny village on the Texas coast in South Texas is a fisherman's paradise
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Meathead
Vegetarians are a little farty and occasionally sanctimonious
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Hornography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
