Downtown Austin
Volume 36, Number 3
Issue Supplement
Museum Day
ON THE COVER:
news
Elgin Agrarian Community Promises Co-op Living on the Blackland Prairie
“It’s like an urban twist on traditional farming.”
BY ROBYN ROSS
Beside the Point: Failing Our Teachers
Why won't we fund our schools?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Public Notice: Out of the Frying Pan ...
Council resumes regular schedule next week
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
Council: Don't Say I Told You So
FY 2017 budget passes after a three-day marathon
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Conservancy Groups Split on Grove Flood Control
Common goal is to prevent any added runoff into Shoal Creek
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
The Cost of Clearing the Rape Kit Backlog
APD agrees to fund SAFE kit testing through pre-existing funds
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Charges Against Prado Dropped, for Now
Driver in collision that killed Ofc. Abdul-Khaliq stays hung in the balance
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Teaching Truthiness
Activists, lawmakers call on State Board of Education to reject racist Mexican-American textbook
BY MARY TUMA
Central Health Faces Questions Over Budget Transparency
Commissioners to vote on the health district's FY 2017 budget on Sept. 20
BY MARY TUMA
Spoilers and Dreamers
Libertarian, Green parties scrap for votes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
County Commissioner: A Question of Viability
Newly minted Green Party co-chair aims to shake up Commissioners Court
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
The Hightower Report: Rampaging Debt Collectors Are Committing Highway Robbery
Corporate souls achieve "truly evil" status
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Review: Boiler Nine
Three isn't necessarily a charm for La Corsha's latest venture
BY BRANDON WATSON
Food Events
music
Austin Author Ed Ward Revisits Rock’s First Guitar Hero, Michael Bloomfield
“When you heard Mike Bloomfield play, you got the sense this was the real shit."
BY TIM STEGALL
Playback: No Fun Fun Fun Fest in 2016
Fun Fun Fun Fest won't happen this year and here's the exclusive on why
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Okkervil River
Away
Riverboat Gamblers
Massive Fraud
Starving Wolves
We Are One
Skeleton
I Hate I Skate
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Vol. One, Stranger Things Vol. Two
Wild Bill & the Lost Knobs
Scumbags of the Rodeo
Deer
Tempest & Rapture
Dylan Cameron
Infinite Floor
Gospel Truth
Jealous Fires
Meet Your Death
Meet Your Death
Dale Watson & His Lone Stars
Chicken S#!t Bingo Sunday: Live at the Big T Roadhouse
Jesse Dayton
The Revealer
screens
How the American Genre Film Archive Is Saving Movies One Reel at a Time
Austin nonprofit preserves cinema’s underseen and underappreciated
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
I Like to Watch: Getting Faded With High Maintenance
HBO takes another hit of the popular Vimeo series
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
Author: The JT LeRoy Story
Infamous literary scandal comes to life
Blair Witch
Stay out of the (noisy) woods
Bridget Jones's Baby
Third time's a charm, if a bit forgettable
The Disappointments Room
Kate Beckinsale moves into a haunted house
Hillsong: Let Hope Rise
Christian rock group takes over the world
The Hollars
Domestic dramedy has flashes of magic
Kicks
A boy and his Air Jordans
The Land
Teen skaters get caught up in the drug world
Other People
A writer returns home to care for his sick mother
Snowden
Oliver Stone tackles the famous whistleblower
Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Doc chronicles a shameful chapter in San Antonio history
Starving the Beast
Doc exposes big money on campus
The Vessel
Faith-based art film is simple and eloquent
When the Bough Breaks
A surrogate mother goes psycho
White Girl
Sex, drugs, and privilege
arts & culture
Austin Opera Takes Aim at the Election With Its Adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate
Composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell shoot to thrill in their opera based on Richard Condon's Cold War classic
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Mozart Requiem Undead Receives an Encore
This Austin-generated reinvention comes to Bass Concert Hall
BY ROBI POLGAR
Arts Reviews
Theatre en Bloc's The Totalitarians
This ridiculous but smart satire about a Nebraska political race may be the only political play that can deliver laughs this election season
Ethos' Atlantis: A Puppet Opera
This new musical take on the fall of Atlantis pulls us into an ancient place, powered by myth and ritual
"Femme National(e): Audrey Brown, Christina Coleman, Kasumi Chow / Desiree Michelle Espada, Emmy Laursen, Juliana Isabel Ramirez"
This group show is messy and a little berserk, but that's what makes it important and kindles joy in us
columns
Page Two: Otto Binder Had a Vision
The great science-fiction and comic book writer already had a name for Trump back in the 1950s – Bizarro
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops
Gay Place
Tegan and Sara fill our pop culture void
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Storybook Capital of Texas, Abilene
Whimsical sculptures of children's book characters enliven downtown Abilene
BY GERALD MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Beware the Righteous
Way worse than robots
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
