Black Pearl Books
Jason Stout
Volume 34, Number 36
news
High Stress at EMS
ATCEMS saves lives every day, but the stresses of the job have high costs
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Budgets Is Hard
Council begins digging into the budget details, and it ain't easy
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: On the Waterfront
The latest MoPac expansion plan is only part of the problem
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
News highlights from the week of May 7th
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
This week's opportunities for public engagement
Council Considers Taxi Franchises
CM Kitchen gives cab co-op idea a boost
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Council: And the Nominees Are ...
Council considers MoPac extension, and Zimmerman's nominees
BY MICHAEL KING
Senate Votes to Ban Insurance Coverage for Abortion
GOP moves to prevent health insurers from covering abortion
BY MARY TUMA
Casar Calls Out Landlords
BY AMY KAMP
Lege Lines
Jonathan Stickland annoys his colleagues
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bill of the Week: Senate Bill 2065
Anti-LGBT "religious freedom" laws piling up at the Lege
BY MARY TUMA
Death Watch: Generations of Madness
Is Derrick Charles competent for execution?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The Hightower Report
The legalized immorality of Big Pharma
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Counter 3. Five. VII
Congress Avenue's new math
BY BRANDON WATSON
Guantanamera Cuban Cuisine
Good things come in small packages
BY MICK VANN
Food-o-File
Let them eat brisket
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Food Events
music
LEVITATION 2015
Levitation Interviews
Getting deep with Levitation headliners
Levitation Picks
Local Levitation
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Levitating Platters
Unidentified flying platters orbing Levitation.
screens
Arlo & Julie Puzzles Over Love
The Arlo & Julie team puts the pieces together
BY MARC SAVLOV
Noir City Film Festival Returns
This year's Noir City Film Festival highlights a forgotten master
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Help Desk: Whistle-Blowing Without the Blowback
The ins and outs of leaking sensitive information
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
Film Reviews
Arlo & Julie
Steve Mims concocts a mischievous story about a happy, if rudderless Austin couple
The D Train
Jack Black stars in this unorthodox comedy about a high school reunion
Far From the Madding Crowd
This Thomas Hardy adaptation is a reflection of our times
Piku
Bollywood film
Welcome to Me
Kristen Wiig stars in this odd comedy about a mentally unbalanced woman
arts & culture
Art and Motherhood on the West Austin Studio Tour
Four WEST exhibitors reveal how their work is informed by being a mom
BY ROBERT FAIRES
The Academe Is an Actress
Does Shakespeare pass the Bechdel test? and other feminist inquiries
BY ROSALIND FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Trouble Puppet's The Wars of Heaven, Part I
The eons-old battle between heaven and hell gets reorganized along gender lines
"Sara Condo/Lindsay Hutchens" at Permanent Collection
One photographer considers the mother she had while another ponders the mother she thought she'd be
columns
Gay Place: We Need Emma
Emma Goldman play opens just in time
BY KATE X MESSER
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Day Trips: 700 Springs, Junction
There's a lot of water spouts at Texas' 11th-largest spring
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Online Dating for Virgins
An immediate, unquenchable need for hot, throbbing manhood
BY THE LUV DOC
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
