Volume 35, Number 40
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news
Due to a city loophole, a charter school can build a campus in less than half the time AISD can
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The dead we remember, and the lessons we still need to learn
BY MICHAEL KING
Why is the right wing so scared of voting rights?
BY AMY KAMP
November elections are coming soon
BY MICHAEL KING
Groups remake North Austin neighborhood one bridge at a time
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The basic numbers of the mayor's mobility bond proposal
BY AMY KAMP
How do we make Austin's streets safer for everyone?
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
City needs more economic analysis of density bonus programs
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Developer has more work to do if it wants staff's blessing
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
The state has spent tens of thousands investigating Planned Parenthood
BY MARY TUMA
Will City Council get a policy in place on June 9?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Attorneys argue Charles Don Flores' conviction is rooted in junk science
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
What does it mean to gig American workers?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
The grate war
BY BRANDON WATSON
Two local foragers find work-life balance with De la Terre supper club
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Drinking habits can be a tough thing to swallow
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
Houston honky-tonks + Americana surrealism = Robert Ellis
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Lift to Experience returns to Texas-Jerusalem, X Games music crashes, and Prince-a-plenty
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
My Mountain
Headlunge
Narrow Birth
CAKE (Creativity, Abundance, Knowledge, Elevation)
Taster
Shift
Polyester
Strangest Things
Soulslide
Pick It Up
screens
Zack Carlson celebrates the creative spirit with new Vice series Outsider
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
New French Cinema gems courtesy of AFS
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
Telugu romantic comedy
Doc chronicles one pastor's mission to keep Ukrainian kids off the street
Three suitors beg one papa for permission to marry his daughters in this Hindi-language comedy
An American YouTube songstress finds an unlikely champion in an Israel experimental composer
A woman comes of age in this rugged Scottish saga set in the early 1900s
An eye-popping, jaw-dropping doc about sext-happy ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner
arts & culture
What's the future of the June celebration for Austin's LGBTQ community?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Arts Reviews
For a getaway steeped in Chekhovian longing and ennui, The Hotel Vanya is the only place to stay
This company has vibrant success with Bruce Norris' racial drama that shows how far we haven't come in 60 years
The artist has created a valuable space in which gallery-goers can sit and discuss racism in America
columns
The dangerous cancer of a charismatic populist demagogue leader
BY LOUIS BLACK
Saturday marks Austin's seventh annual Queerbomb, a free, all ages, all inclusive queer celebration
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Old Navy warhorse retires to beachfront property and life as a military history museum
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
You can't do what on Lady Bird Lake ...?
BY LUKE ELLIS
The Luv Doc is a bad planner
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY MARK FAGAN
BY NICK BARBARO
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT
BY LANCE MYERS
BY TOM TOMORROW