Zilker Botanical Garden
Shelley Hiam
Volume 36, Number 42
news
LEGE LINES
"This Is Austin Bashing on Steroids"
This legislative session, state GOP lawmakers ran an all-out assault on municipal values
BY MARY TUMA
A Legislative Session Just for Dan Patrick
How much can go wrong in 30 days?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Point Austin: Justice Too Long Delayed
Fran and Dan Keller continue to wait in vain for their exoneration
BY MICHAEL KING
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Steve Adler
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
SB 4 on Thin ICE
A ruling in San Antonio spells trouble for state law
BY MARY TUMA
About That DPS Cutback
So, when can you get your license these days?
BY MICHAEL KING
Greg Abbott, Tree Killer
That attack on the Heritage Tree ordinance? A personal vendetta.
BY MICHAEL KING
Abbott Against the Environment
The governor vetoed $127 million out of the state's budget Monday, mostly for environmental initiatives
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
“Yogurt Shop Murders” Appeal Rejected
Court offers no comment on Robert Springsteen's case
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Alex Jones vs. the World
Megyn Kelly to interview local conspiracy theorist on Sunday night
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
More on the Chicon Mural
A new plan is in the works
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Council: Eternal Returns
City plumbing, juvenile curfews, and AFD overtime on this week's agenda
BY MICHAEL KING
CodeNEXT Advisory Group Ready for Next Steps
Second draft of land development code soon to be in the works
BY SARAH MARLOFF
AISD: Propositions for a Full Board
Trustees mull bond package after Geronimo Rodriguez tabbed to succeed Paul Saldaña in District 6
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Labor Negotiations: A Matter of Police Oversight
Police Monitor Deven Desai brings his agenda to bargaining sessions
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
The Hightower Report: Will You Enlist in Donald Trump’s War?
Afghanistan all over again
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Japanese Iced Coffee Might Change Your Daily Grind
Locals warm up to cold-brew trend
BY DAN GENTILE
Review: J.T. Youngblood’s
Fried chicken joint still a little green
BY BRANDON WATSON
Lua Brazil Brings Pão de Queijo to Austin
Brazilian cheese bread baker expands on tradition
BY JESSI DEVENYNS
Food Events
music
Playback: You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory
But you can still put your arms around Margaret Moser
BY KEVIN CURTIN
ROCK & ROLL: SUMMER READING
All Over the Map, True Heroes of Texas Music
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Cornyation: San Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition
BY ALEJANDRA RAMIREZ
The Broken Spoke: Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Cowboy Song: The Authorized Biography of Thin Lizzy's Philip Lynott
BY MICHAEL TOLAND
Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol
BY TIM STEGALL
I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
BY TIM STEGALL
Universal Harvester
BY ABBY JOHNSTON
The Show That Never Ends: The Rise & Fall of Prog Rock
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
John Prine Beyond Words
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Total Chaos: The Story of the Stooges as Told by Iggy Pop
BY RAOUL HERNANDEZ
screens
Evelyn Ngugi Makes the Internet a Better Place
A beacon of light on the dark side of the web
BY JESSI CAPE
Circling the Future
Other Worlds Austin Orbiter summer series begins
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What’cha Watchin’?
Screens Editor Josh Kupecki has an opinion on the best thing going on TV right now
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
Beatriz at Dinner
Classes clash over chow
The Book of Henry
Abandon all hope ye who purchase a ticket
Cars 3
Third times not a charm for this franchise
Dean
Demetri Martin writes, directs, and stars in this indie romance
My Cousin Rachel
Love and murder on the English Highlands
arts & culture
Jennifer Raye's Boa Retina Explores Messy Gender Uncertainty
Tech old and new explores trans issues
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Arts Reviews
Zach Theatre's In the Heights
This production of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical brings us the life and pride of an immigrant neighborhood at an important time
Shrewd Productions’ The Revolutionists
This staging of Lauren Gunderson’s satire proves the pen is mightier than the guillotine
“Sean Caulfield: Landscapes: Transformed/Transfigured”
The blackness and voids in the artwork here feels like a future world laid waste, but it also feels like us
columns
Gay Place
Pride Month With the Babadook
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Page Two: Dancing at the Revolution With the Radio On!
Louis Black recalls the joys of driving around and falling in love with pop songs
BY LOUIS BLACK
Oops!
Day Trips: Joe T. Garcia’s Restaurant, Ft. Worth
Iconic Mexican food restaurant serves a river of patrons by offering a limited menu
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: The Trouble With Trouble
Never let insurmountable facts get in the way of your deeply entrenched belief system
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
