Volume 34, Number 39
ON THE COVER:
news
History of racism lives on in UT monuments
BY MAC MCCANN
Marking Texas time and history by rising floodwaters
BY MICHAEL KING
What floods around, comes around
BY NICK BARBARO
Suspended APD officer incurs new sanctions
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Special-called meeting takes up postponed decisions
BY MICHAEL KING
In Pressley suit, judge grants summary judgment on grounds of "no evidence"
BY MICHAEL KING
While Senate approves water protections, another battle is on the horizon
BY VICKI WOLF
Three APD officers placed on leave after police-involved shootings
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
As sine die nears, bills drop left and right
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Texas Lege looks to finalize budget deal
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Court rules with little explanation
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Senate OKs bill restricting abortion access for abused minors
BY MARY TUMA
Under new budget deal, Planned Parenthood ousted from life-saving cancer program
BY MARY TUMA
Aid goes to the same old corporate elites
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
EPIC owners write a new chapter
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
Dining away from the hive
BY BRANDON WATSON
Building an urban legend
BY RACHEL FEIT
Playing chicken
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Charlie Pierce, the Gibby Haynes of piano, speaks out; Sweet Spirit serenades Spoon in a tour diary excerpt; and Phil Anselmo says maybe next year for a Housecore Horror ATX return
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Rock & roll summer reading 2015
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
Microbudget auteur increases marketability with fitness fable
BY MICHAEL AGRESTA
New AFS series considers Frank Capra's pre-World War II films
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
Two film series lie back and think of England
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
The French-made Connection owes much to The French Connection
A Hasidic wife and a nonreligious man find love together in Montreal
Did anyone really ask for a third helping of this stomach-turning provocation?
They're here … again. But why?
Indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski enlists Guy Pearce and others for his new movie
This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with a guffaw
Bollywood rom-com
arts & culture
The 2015 class of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Double the mayhem, double the heat when Austin Playhouse and Georgetown Palace both stage Chicago
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Artist William Gaynor illuminates a curious spiritualism in an unlikely location
Ellen Bartel continues to process loss and grief through art in this four-work concert
columns
Bedpost poetry is back
BY KATE X MESSER
Walk on the wild side of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with a pet llama
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
You can be you when you're off the clock
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT