Volume 35, Number 39
ON THE COVER:
news
Austin's "bathroom bill" aims to protect rather than demonize trans residents
BY MARY TUMA
The case of Austin's declining black population isn't so curious
BY MICHAEL KING
Labor protections are worthless if not enforced
BY AMY KAMP
Budget talks continue
BY MICHAEL KING
The Downtown square will get a face-lift and new management
BY ROBYN ROSS
Mayor Adler rolls out bond proposal on tight deadline
BY AMY KAMP
Primary run-offs close a handful of local and state races
BY MICHAEL KING
Nonprofit ride-hailing app hits Austin
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Community, developer don't agree on relocation terms
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Nearly 80 APD officers will work the Republican National Convention
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
On June 1, a judge will consider whether to allow detention centers to be licensed as child-care facilities
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Spoiled-bratism is grotesque when it comes from corporate elites
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
What happens to the food when a festival is canceled
BY DAN GENTILE
Edgerton and Wiseheart trade preciousness for accessibility
BY BRANDON WATSON
BY EMILY BEYDA
music
As the city's Economic Development Department readies its recommendations to City Council on Mayor Adler's Austin Music & Creative Ecosystem Omnibus Resolution, is it already too late for local artists in terms of local affordability?
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Begin your write-in campaign for Poison 13 duo Tim Kerr and Mike Carroll to reunite Total Sound Group Direct Action Committee – possibly at Grizzly Hall, with Leo Rondeau opening!
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Welcome Home
Stack or Starve: The American Dream
Singing Saw
Impulse
Change of Pace
Terry Jennings and Rich Kienzle
screens
Filmmaker Will Allen jumps back into his Holy Hell
BY SEAN L. MALIN
When TV gets weird
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Although it has visual panache, this new story is lifeless
One man; one mystery; two latter-day explorers; no gold
True horse saga beguiles with its simplicity and purity of heart
A cinematic chronicle of the Buddhafield cult and its participants
The true story Mohammad Assaf, the Palestinian winner of Arab Idol
What took Whit Stillman and Jane Austen so long to find each other?
Another bloated spectacle that serves neither the fans nor the story
arts & culture
The 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
American Berserk Theatre's debut is a heady, funny treat, smuggling heavy ideas in a light package
An aging chimp in show business provides the focus for this engrossing vehicle for Capital T Theatre
Kathy Dunn Hamrick's dance, performed to Steve Reich's Drumming in its entirety, had rhythms moving the dancers and moving through them
columns
Adobe building was part of German colony that brought Catholicism and education to West Texas
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Too much noise, too little quiet
BY LOUIS BLACK
You can't help but notice that adult proms are all the rage
Something very fundamental is missing
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY LANCE MYERS