The Pershing
Shelley Hiam
news
MoPac and the Expensive Mess That Never Ends
Engineering company renovating the beleaguered stretch of highway gets bought out
BY BRADEN MACCKE
Point Austin: Through the Looking Glass
City Council considers its threatened budget in a topsy-turvy Texas
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Other People’s Money?
Actually, it's yours. Do you know where it's going?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Steve Adler
The mayor dishes on property taxes
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Faith-Based Opposition to SB 4
Court briefs filed in support of cities' suit against state
BY MARY TUMA
City Compost Program Expands
38,000 new households will be composting this fall
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Mayor Not Losing Sleep Over a Few Nazis
Adler rains on Daily Stormer's anti-Trans parade
BY MARY TUMA
Join the Civil Service (Commission)
Who wants to decide who gets hired, fired, and suspended from the city's public safety groups?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Training APD Officers on LGBTQ Communities
Department seeks feedback before finalizing new coursework
BY SARAH MARLOFF
All This & Budget Too
Council treads water over aquatics plan
BY MICHAEL KING
Council: The FY 2018 City Budget
Maintain and sustain
BY MICHAEL KING
AFD: Woolverton on Leave, Merger Fallout Stays Hot
Aaron Woolverton on admin. leave after AFA files complaint
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lege Lines: Robbin' the Hoods
How can state lawmakers fix school finance?
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Lege Bills Target Local Planned Parenthood Office
Latest attack rooted in faulty logic
BY MARY TUMA
City to Crack Down on Graffiti?
Proposal for crackdown on unauthorized street art coming?
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
Cross Creek Up To Code?
Tenants await inspection results on beleaguered complex
BY JOSEPH CATERINE
The Hightower Report: The Living Wage Preemption Act
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Food Fight: Pickles
Pogue Mahone and Hat Creek Provisions fight a battle of the brine
BY BRANDON WATSON
First Look: Nickel City
Eastside bar returns Austin to its roots
BY THEA NEWELL
Dear Glutton: Movie Snacks
What food is acceptable to eat in a movie theatre?
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Local Musicians on Avoiding the Sophomore Slump
Five trending Austin-hatched acts that sidestepped recording’s biggest pitfall
BY TIM STEGALL, LIBBY WEBSTER, MICHAEL TOLAND, DOUG FREEMAN AND THOMAS FAWCETT
Playback: Straight Outta Calcutta
Sitar maestro Indrajit Banerjee, stoned synching Doom Side of the Moon and The Wizard of Oz, and a bigger Breakaway Records
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
Jenny Slate Returns to the Big Screen With Landline
Nineties comedy reunites the team behind Obvious Child
BY JESSI CAPE
My Obsession: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
Streaming the wildly popular video game and discovering a randomly generated reality show
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Divine Decadence, Darling
AFS presents the dark musicals of Bob Fosse
BY KIMBERLEY JONES
What’cha Watchin’?
Art Director Jason Stout programs a night of stellar series finales
Film Reviews
Detroit
The 1967 riots are brought to life in this docudrama
The Emoji Movie
What a time to be alive (in a smartphone)
Fun Mom Dinner
A girl's night out on the town gets hazy
Landline
The team behind Obvious Child is back
Some Freaks
High school misfits bond and fall in love in this unsentimental romance
arts & culture
The Cthulhu Humor of William Browning Spencer
Austin author William Browning Spencer finds the lighter side of Lovecraft and other horrors
BY MIKE BERRY
Arts Reviews
Monty Python's Spamalot
With Eric Idle's screen-to-stage musical spoof, Summer Stock Austin makes the Knights of the Round Table so very enjoy-able
Summer Stock Austin's A Shoe Story
Allen Robertson and Damon Brown's new musical reinvents "The Elves and the Shoemaker" as a timely tale of refugees but in a clever, playful way
"Radiant: A Group Show" at Davis Gallery
In this group show, artists' odes to the sun, and brilliance in general, provide a sense of life and a lot to think about
columns
Gay Place
Celebrating queer resilience
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Crocodile Encounter, Angleton
A toothy smile at this animal park means it's feeding time
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Marriage Material
A guy who has never witnessed the "miracle of birth"
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
The Common Law
Security deposits
BY LUKE ELLIS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
