Volume 36, Number 22
ON THE COVER:
news
No verifiable crime scene, no murder weapon, no motive, and no body
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The sheriff, the governor, the president – and the new politics of fear
BY MICHAEL KING
Land development code draft ready at last
BY NICK BARBARO
Yes, they really said that.
NAKED CITY
Gov. Abbott has threatened to cut off grant funding to the county
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Wouldn’t you know Zim would end up on right-wing radio?
BY MARY TUMA
The state's high court will take up a case questioning the legality of "taxpayer-funded benefits" for same-sex spouses
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Diane Randall plans Austin stop to talk public policy
BY MICHAEL KING
The Women’s March on Austin caps off a banner weekend of civic engagement
BY SARAH MARLOFF AND JACK CRAVER
Now let’s find a way to get out of meetings earlier
BY MICHAEL KING
John Ramirez goes to the gurney for a murder committed during a robbery
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Local reps’ mission this session? Keep the state GOP away from Austin.
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
More than half of The Donald's Department of Defense transition team have worked as executives or lobbyists
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Two trucks take very different approaches to plant-based eating
BY BRANDON WATSON
New photography exhibit showcases Austin’s African-American chefs
BY JESSI CAPE
music
Musicians looking to subsidize their poverty-level passion already have one strike against them
BY LESLIE SISSON
Getting the vote out for the 2016/17 Austin Music Poll
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Texas loses productions to states with bigger and better incentive programs
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Reincarnated dog film is full of cliches
Michael Keaton supersizes McDonald's
Not much glitters in this uneven film
Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life
Adam Driver embodies the poetry of the quotidian
Vin Diesel returns to kickstart this action series
arts & culture
Landmarks presents Ann Hamilton’s O N E E V E R Y O N E at the Dell Medical School
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Sarah Saltwick’s timely script elegantly explores the tension between idealized automatons and messy humans
This concert of works by Brahms, Smetana, and Fujiwara contrasted autobiographical stories told within music by young composers and mature ones
The bubbles and circles of Feinstein's monoprints are sophisticated, beautiful, even fun, but they may leave you wanting more
columns
The formation of groups like the CTTHC are more important now than ever
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Longtime Texas tradition makes more than ranch and rodeo family headwear
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Mouths are undoubtedly festering cesspools of bacterial flora
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY LANCE MYERS