Volume 36, Number 41
ON THE COVER:
news
Can a polarized Austin reach consensus on land use by next spring?
BY MICHAEL KING
Our Austin-bashing governor knows how to spread manure
BY MICHAEL KING
Texas' governor is a spiteful little man
NAKED CITY
Plans include investments in 41 items, including five new schools
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
City’s first LRO Larry Watts returns to fill position
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Attorney Fred Lewis claims school withheld public information
BY MICHAEL KING
But dogs are happier than average!
BY MICHAEL KING
Austin filing argues SB 4 violates U.S. Constitution
BY MARY TUMA
Slouching toward a summer break
BY MICHAEL KING
Candidates line up to challenge longtime congressman
BY MICHAEL KING
First TNC drops in response to Uber and Lyft's returns
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
County Democratic Party Chair Vincent Harding doesn't want to talk about the beleaguered rep
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Because he works for Trump, that's why
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Austin real estate pushes restaurateurs beyond city limits
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Going beyond the typical bag of chips and cooler of beers
BY EMILY BEYDA
music
South Austin rapper doesn’t want to leave his hometown, but he may have to
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Revised drafts of Agent of Change and OMV permitting head to Council, but again, live music interests raise alarms
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Bruce Robison & the Back Porch Band
Skywave
Leather Girls
Ti Bon Ange
Forget to Remember to Forget
The Cuckoos
Avidonia II: The Arrival
screens
Fargo and Legion creator Noah Hawley comes home
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Texas director purges his demons with latest film
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AFS celebrates John Pierson’s seminal IFC show
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
An animated adaptation of the beloved book series
An intimate look at a leader's state of mind
A lean, mean descent into primitive tribalism
Picking up the pieces of the Syrian Civil War
A soldier and her PTSD dog
Tom Cruise does the monster mash
arts & culture
The lowdown on the 2017 submissions, judges, 10 finalists, and the prize-winning stories
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
As an elegy to the ice, this dance aestheticized doom but left us plenty of edge
Rubel’s solo show is cutting when it comes to Bill Cosby and Rachel Dolezal, but it also explores the complexities of race
columns
2017: glass-half-full version
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Fruitcake factory fills sales room with the warm smell of something in the oven
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc has a confession to make
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS
BY SAM HURT