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Volume 42, Number 40
ON THE COVER:
WE HAVE AN ISSUE:
BY Kimberley Jones
news
2023 Texas Lege
Assessing the Damage the 88th Texas Legislature Has Done So Far ... and Bracing for What's Yet to Come
When the Lege hits home
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
Legislature Narrowly Averts Funneling Public School Funds to Private Schools
How schools fared in Texas' 88th legislative session
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Legislature Ensures More Gas Production in Texas, Less Renewables
Assessing this session's environmental impact
BY LINA FISHER
Texas Legislature Failed to Kill Police Oversight Statewide (for Now)
Senate Bill 2209 would have crushed Austin's oversight act
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
How Bipartisan Efforts to Increase Housing Supply Died This Session
Mourning the dead bills that could've addressed housing shortages
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Republicans Didn’t Pass Priority Bills, but Succeeded in Punishing Trans Texans
At least they couldn't pass proposed "Don't Say Gay" legislation
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Texas GOP Still Set on Sending Vigilantes to the Border
Frightening border bills haven't passed yet, but might in special session
BY BENTON GRAHAM
Silver Linings at the Lege: Texas Moms to Get 12 Months of Free Health Care
And other good news from this legislative session
BY MAGGIE Q. THOMPSON
Public Notice: Housekeeping News
Plus trying to slow the Convention Center expansion, code changes
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines / Quote of the Week
How Texas A.G. Paxton’s Trumpian Antics Led to Impeachment
Sealing his fate
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Austin Pharmacist Denies Trans Man Testosterone Prescription
Walgreens says pharmacist was uncomfortable with injection method
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Mistrial Announced for the Police Officer Who Killed Mike Ramos
The court can’t seem to find enough jurors
BY BRANT BINGAMON
Austin Water Audit Zeroes In on Problems at Treatment Plant
Weak morale, understaffing contributed to four system failures in five years
BY LINA FISHER
food
Former Barbecue Pop-Up Opens Lockhart Brick-and-Mortar
Barbs B Q expands their range
BY JAMES SCOTT
Local Pastures Brings the Farm to the City
Two farms, one trailer, seven days a week
BY DEVEN WILSON
Bill’s Oyster Does Lunch, Sawyer & Co. Brightens Breakfast, Lucky Dog Saké Spikes a Rooftop Pool, The Driskill Flaunts Some Fine Tequila, Fierce Whiskers Is About to Go Jump In the Lake, and More
All the news that’s fit to get your taste buds quivering
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmer's markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 1, 2023
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
music
S.L. Houser’s Earnest “Wind in the Door” and Five More Songs From Austin Artists
New music picks from Rod Gator, BLK ODYSSY, and Cloud Companion
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ, KEVIN CURTIN, ADAM CHERIAN, ANGELA LIM, DOUG FREEMAN AND RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Crucial Concerts for the Coming Week
A farewell party for Jim Eno, Rock the Park with Rosie Flores, and more recommended shows
BY KEVIN CURTIN, DOUG FREEMAN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, MICHAEL TOLAND, ADAM CHERIAN AND DEREK UDENSI
Crosstalk: Take a Tour of UT's Moody Center, and More Music News
New business partnerships at the Paramount and Grapetree Records
BY KRISS CONKLIN
Totally in Sync, Tribe Mafia Joins DAWA's Black Music Month Residency
Austin hip-hop duo talks TV placements ahead of Antone's show
BY KRISS CONKLIN
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
screens
How to Run a TV Festival in a TV Strike
ATX TV Festival respects writers as they work and protest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Five Films at Cine Las Americas
The best movies from the Spanish and Portuguese diaspora and Indigenous peoples at the annual film festival
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Makoto Shinkai, the Other Anime Master, Comes to AFS
The early works of Makoto Shinkai, the genius behind Your Name
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Animated Haruki Murakami adaptation finds his fabulist tendencies
The Boogeyman
Can Hollywood just knock it off with the trauma horror?
Sanctuary
Deliciously perverse battle of the sexes plays with lust and power
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Ol' Webhead's latest adventure is a breathtaking masterpiece
arts & culture
Arts Review: "Floriculture"
The impermanence of floristry and the eternal nature of tattoos highlight Pastiche House’s fusion philosophy
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Community Events
Local events, volunteer opportunities, kids' activities, and more
BY KATHERINE MCNEVINS
Arts Events
Art galleries, theatre, comedy, dance, and more
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
columns
Day Trips: Fortney House, Nacogdoches
Former Austinite’s shop is filled with eclectic home furnishings
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Donuts
A blessing and a curse
BY THE LUV DOC
Qmmunity: The Puzzle of Pride
Putting together all the pieces of queer history with Pride Month events
BY JAMES SCOTT
Opinion: End the Witch Hunt, Let LGBTQIA+ Texans Thrive
The 88th Texas Legislature will be remembered for its baseless attacks on queer Texans
BY GARRETT R. CHASE
We Have an Issue: Another Dispiriting Lege Session
Why does the Texas GOP hate Texans so much?
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, June 2-8
BY ROB BREZSNY
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
The Verde Report: In Addition to Opponents, Austin FC Is Battling Bad Injury Luck
After a charmed sophomore season, El Tree has been cursed with one groin injury after another
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
