Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum
Volume 36, Number 44
Issue Supplement
The Importance of Being Margaret Moser
ON THE COVER:
news
Looking Back on the Champions Tract Rezoning
Does this development belong in this particular corner of the Hill Country?
BY MARGARET NICKLAS
Point Austin: Summer Stock Agenda
The heat arrives with a litany of work for Austin and Austinites
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: No Fireworks, but a Bombshell
City Council, AISD Board adjourn for summer with work left to do
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Brian Manley
The police chief on reports that Signature Science found mold on the boxes of hundreds of APD rape kits
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
How Many Jobs Do You Need to Afford a Two-Bedroom Place?
Those making minimum wage in Austin must work 3.2 full-time jobs to afford an FMR two-bedroom place
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Invasive Zebra Mussels Found in Lake Travis
Highly invasive mollusks started showing up in Lake Travis
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
City Announces Art Space Assistance Program
Art spaces with rising rents are eligible for rent stipends and tenant improvements
BY MARIA MENDEZ
Zimmerman's Ethics
Former council member resolves complaint for paying wife to help with 2014 campaign
BY MICHAEL KING
Commissions Talk CodeNEXT
Planning and Zoning and Platting Commissions work through "a lot of barriers"
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Council: All About the Code
Heading into July break, City Council continues pondering CodeNEXT
BY MICHAEL KING
Council Considers Expanding Capitol Complex
Life between 15th Street and MLK may change a bit in the near future
BY MICHAEL KING
Billion-Dollar AISD Bond Goes to Vote in November
Billion-dollar bond will go to vote in November
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Labor Update: Work and Life at APD
Contract negotiations continue with the Austin Police Association
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Who’s Carrying Water for Greg Abbott?
The governor's got his rogues' gallery of lawmakers
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Green Stormwater Infrastructure
Green Stormwater Infrastructure: only half the battle
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Mackowiak Attacks the Sheriff
New Travis County GOP chairman quickly turns to low-hanging fruit
BY MARY TUMA
The Hightower Report: Would Even the Craziest World Leader Behave Like Trump?
Oh, hell no!
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
So You’re Thinking of Keeping Chickens
Tips for finding the perfect flock
BY ASHLEY MORENO
Review: Tillery Kitchen & Bar
Eastside eatery offers confusing experience
BY MELODY FURY
Dear Glutton: Best Breakfast Tacos
Starting you on your long journey of taco discovery
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Margaret Moser Tribute: Leader of the Pack
The importance of being Margaret Moser as told by her peers, mentors & protégés
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Playback: Robert Johnson Plays Antone’s Anniversary!
Antone’s resurrects Robert Johnson for its 42nd anniversary
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Austin Filmmakers Return to Horror
Karen Skloss, Owen Egerton, and Don Swaynos talk terror
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Grappling with GLOW
Alison Brie and Betty Gilpin on the Netflix wrestling drama
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What’cha Watchin’?
Senior Account Executive Bobby Leath on the show that inspired him to buy a metal detector
Film Reviews
Baby Driver
A heist goes wrong for a music-loving getaway driver.
The Beguiled
A steamy and engrossing Civil War thriller
The Big Sick
The rom-com is dead! Long live the rom-com!
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
The battle over NYC's urban planning
Despicable Me 3
Animated franchise confirms the law of diminishing returns
arts & culture
The Secret History of the Off Center
Looking back at the former home of the Rude Mechs and why it mattered
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Performa / Dance's Midsummer Offerings
The three dances in this mixed program all turned on the difficulty of making connections
“Island Oasis Mirage” at Big Medium
The exhibit by Michael Krueger, Kathleen McShane, and Barbara Weissberger seems a planned mess, but one that echoes a greater scheme
columns
Page Two: Leaving It Up to Her
On Margaret Moser: Happy together, then, now, and forever
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Austin ranked 24th Best LGBTQ City
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Topwater Grill, San Leon
Waterfront eatery serves up golden seafood with a beautiful view of the sunset
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Pledge of Support
An ass-kicking with a cheering section is still an ass-kicking
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Oops!
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
