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Volume 34, Number 49
ON THE COVER:
news
Cabs try to survive in the era of Uber
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
GOP officials take opportunity to demagogue on heels of Obama clean air plan announcement
BY MICHAEL KING
The stakeholders play
BY NICK BARBARO
Council's first look at FY 2016 budget
BY MICHAEL KING
The show must go on, but where exactly?
BY MICHAEL KING
Grand jury slaps AG with three felony charges
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Jumpolin site to become parking lot for cat cafe
BY TONY CANTÚ
Developers withdraw permit application
BY TONY CANTÚ
The Drag gets the Brooklyn treatment
BY WAYLON CUNNINGHAM
AISD board members bid farewell to Schneider and discuss finding a successor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD looks to adopt FY 2016 budget
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Cop-watch activist releases video of his arrest
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Two inmates on death row deny murder was the end goal
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The latest Son of a Bush has a plan to make you richer
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Pflugerville dining has come a long way
BY CORINA KELLAM
Asti meets Fino in Lamar Union
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Caffe del Fuego elevates coffee liqueur
BY MELODY FURY
Pizza and pastries
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
The Gourds co-frontman flew the coop for Shinyribs and ain't looking back
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Phases & Stages
Pageant Material
From the Vault: The Marquee – Live in 1971
House Party: Live in Germany
Live at Shea Stadium 1982
Something More Than Free
The Waterfall
The Monsanto Years
Star Wars
Sing Into My Mouth
screens
Gaming video pioneers go big with a feature film and an ever-expanding convention
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New season of Project Runway puts Austin designer Lindsey Creel in the spotlight
BY ANNE HARRIS
Two kids take the titular Cop Car on a joyride in this lean thriller
BY CAITLIN MOORE
Film Reviews
Bobcat Goldthwait directs doc about fellow comic Barry Crimmins
Two boys go on the lam in Kevin Bacon's cop car
Hindi thriller based on Malayalam original
Joel Edgerton moves to the director's chair for this white-knuckle suspenser
Joaquin Phoenix plots the perfect crime in Woody Allen's new charmer
Les Blank’s doc on Leon Russell began shooting in 1972 and is finally released
Meryl Streep, Jonathan Demme, Diablo Cody combine talents, but where's the magic?
The latest from the directors of the French hit The Intouchables
The latest from Aardman Animations is one baaaaaadass movie
Telugu action film
Dramatization of the famous psychology experiment
arts & culture
Two new Austin plays tackle timely subjects
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Shawn Camp's new show at Northern-Southern breathes in the Aphotic Zone
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Summer Stock Austin's talented teens tease out the enchantment in Sondheim's magical musical
columns
My landlord sold the house we rent
BY LUKE ELLIS
This Robin Hood is not your daddy's white guys in tights
BY KATE X MESSER
Accordion player Santiago Jiménez Jr. fills taco shop with free rancheras
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Carefully cultivating a look of masculine nonchalance
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE