Volume 35, Number 26
ON THE COVER:
news
Downtown is growing, and with that growth come rising tensions between police, partiers, and activists
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
For your consideration as you enter the voting booth
BY MICHAEL KING
With a decision made on STRs, perhaps we can move on to other things?
BY NICK BARBARO
Restore Rundberg, nondiscrimination also on the menu
BY MARY TUMA
Vote likely to take place in November
BY MAC MCCANN
BY MARY TUMA
Residents say ongoing construction made it impossible for disabled tenants to live safely
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
UT president announces his recommendations for implementing guns on campus
BY MAC MCCANN
Election day is almost here!
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Science and craft combine at SPUN Ice Cream
BY BRANDON WATSON
South Congress bar and grill is pleasingly out of time
BY BRANDON WATSON
What Austin dining can learn from San Antonio
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
The 13th annual No Idea Festival explores everything from phenological sound art to avant jazz and microtonal composition
BY CONOR WALKER
After the SXSW carnival leaves town, Kealing Middle School will have something to show for it – thanks to Spotify
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Innocent Victims & Evil Companions
Book of Lost Women and Absolute Divine Inspiration
Love You Strong
How the Spark Loves the Tinder
Relationshapes
Plays Cottage Vortex
Absorbed by the Forest
screens
Co-directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks aim to Kill or Be Killed
BY JOE O'CONNELL
Joe R. Lansdale's Hap and Leonard get a swampy series
BY MARC SAVLOV
Banff Mountain Film Festival descends on the Paramount
BY JESSI CAPE
Film Reviews
Mexican romantic comedy fails to seduce
Go behind the groundbreaking book of interviews; a must for cinephiles
Indian drama about the heroic flight attendant on a hijacked plane
Animated Japanese film about a woman reflecting on her childhood
A Roman soldier is sent to track a rumor about the Christ's resurrection
Hungarian Oscar entry finds original way to present a Holocaust drama
Grimy policier is an electrifying muddle with killer cast
arts & culture
Investigating the latest "persons of interest" in Texas' literary crime scene
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
The script for this baseball play is a bit wobbly, but Austin Playhouse fields a strong production for the win
The solo exhibition celebrates Devo but also the artist's sound-machine sculptures and high- and low-tech illustrations
columns
Exploitation film's family tree
BY LOUIS BLACK
In the world of queer lady party-throwing, two years feels like a victory
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Former Old West ghost town becomes scenic wine destination
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Who doesn't love sodomy?
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY LANCE MYERS
BY SAM HURT