The Ballroom
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Volume 39, Number 1
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news
Wheatsville's Frustrated Employees Call for Change
Mismanagement and toxic working conditions remain entrenched in the co-op’s culture
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
Public Notice: Everything in Its Place
Contemplating “urbanism”
BY NICK BARBARO
Austin at Large: Digital Spills in the Silicon Hills
On Austin’s – and our own – awkward relationship with tech
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Texas Democrats Request Special Session on Guns
Legislators in five cities press Gov. Abbott
BY MICHAEL KING
AISD Cops Take Union Head's Phone After Sex Ed Kerfuffle
Investigation stems from incident at contentious meeting
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
City Still Seeking Next Steps on Camping Policy and Homelessness
Council to flesh out next steps in coming weeks
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Texas' Latest Pro-Gun Laws Kick In
Never let it be said that Texas lawmakers have done nothing to respond to mass shootings
BY MICHAEL KING
Council, Community Urge APD to Halt Marijuana Arrests
Activists claim strategy unfairly impacts minorities, wastes resources
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Death Watch: Mark Soliz Hopes One Stay Leads to Another
Death row inmate argues fetal alcohol spectrum disorder renders him unfit for execution
BY SARAH MARLOFF
$291 Million Plan to Provide Health Care for Travis County Residents
Central Health's budget to serve nearly 200,000 residents
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
$20 Million State Grant Comes Through for Indigent Defense
Texas Indigent Defense Commission approves four-year grant to create public defender’s office
BY MICHAEL KING
food
A Story of Twin Sisters, Austin Real Estate, and Salad Dressing
SASS (Season All Stuff Sauce) forced to start over after their rent increased 350%
BY ROXY BONAFONT
Decadence With a Price at Arlo Grey at the Line Hotel
Impeccable attention to detail at the lakeside restaurant
BY JESSI CAPE
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of September 5, 2019
music
The Class Conscious Honky-Tonk of Croy & the Boys
Corey Baum’s crew nails the zeitgeist of 2019 Austin
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Faster Than Sound: Punk’s Not White at Black & Brown Fest
Austin punks of color shine at radical San Antonio collective’s second year, Mutual Feelings evolves on their own terms, and more music news
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Jimmie Vaughan
Baby, Please Come Home
Spoon
Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon
Jordan Moser
Long Night
Jacob Wise Quartet
Paseo
Church on Monday
For Being There
Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan
Alan Paul and Andy Aledort
screens
LOCAL VIDEO GAME REVIEWS
Genre Mashup Remnant: From the Ashes Gets the Recipe Right
Gunfire Games hits a bull's-eye with its new action RPG
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Rooster Teeth's Vicious Circle Could Use an Expansion
"Uncooperative shooter" is fun, but off to a slow start
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Getting in the Groove With Overpass
Driving rhythm game is perfect for beginners and experts alike
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Blue Collar Movie Making at Austin Revolution Film Festival
Beyond the micro-budget celebration of the true indies returns
BY MATTHEW MONAGLE
Film Reviews
Aquarela
Incredible documentary is a song of the power of water
Before You Know It
Theatre family gets more drama than they expected in this sweet tragicomedy
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway
World War II airborne drama is more about rescue than combat
It Chapter Two
Back to Derry as the Losers Club takes on Pennywise again
Night Hunter
Henry Cavill heads to Canada to hunt down a serial killer
Official Secrets
True story of a whistleblower who saw the lies behind the Iraq War
Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour 2019
The fest's best shorts are a diverse treat
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Supernatural horrors are less terrifying than real life in this Mexican fable
arts & culture
"Sanctum" Explores Ancestral Memories in Our DNA
Alyssa Taylor Wendt and five other artists look at inherited memory in this group show at Big Medium
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Theatre en Bloc's Dance Nation
This production of Clare Barron's play invokes the experience of puberty for girls, in all its allure and terror
Archive Theater Company's Cyrano de Bergerac
Jennifer Rose Davis' new staging immerses audiences in 19th-century France, taking them on an epic journey that's equally humorous and heartfelt
"Kate Breakey: Ornithology" at Stephen L. Clark Gallery
Where late the sweet birds sang, where now resides the egg and eye
columns
Qmmunity: The Gay Gene
Plus events, cyber babes, and local queerlebrity book release!
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Rock Art
If these walls could talk
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Buried Alive
Making metaphorical mountains out of metaphorical molehills
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
comics
