Illustration by Jason Stout
Volume 37, Number 32
ON THE COVER:
news
Battle reflects Lege’s growing extremism
BY MARY TUMA
City Hall begins budget prep with a fair-to-middling forecast
BY MICHAEL KING
Looking forward to the November ballot
BY NICK BARBARO
Austin Firefighters Association president on the matter of self-policing
NAKED CITY
Mathis fired following Stallings October indictment
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
TCSO believes both men died "of natural causes"
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
New president, new weekend?
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Police, Fire, and Police Monitor all addressed
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Judicial nominee derides case as being based on "false allegation"
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Calls to remove chief administrative law judge
BY MICHAEL KING
Parks and Rec Board member joins crowded race
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Public Safety Commission continues probe into harassing behavior
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Cars, parking, and more addressed at recent meeting
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Anticipated FY 2018 General Fund surplus: right now, $750,000
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
For those about to run-off
BY MICHAEL KING
What'll happen at McKalla Place? Good question.
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Citizenship question could eat into $43 billion state receives in federal funds
BY MARY TUMA
A delisting for the birds
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
Italian food crafted with love just down the road from the Broken Spoke
BY JESSI CAPE
Transport to a bygone Austin era of funky ambience and soulful hospitality
BY ADRIENNE WHITEHORSE
Have a Mexican martini and then walk to AFS Cinema
BY JESSI CAPE
music
Songwriting at the edge of her comfort zone on Sweet Unknown
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Austin music journeys to the desert – and you're not invited
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Loma
In Water
Volume 1
The Journey for the Giant Jelly Bean
Traces of Time
Seasons
Live at Monks
Red Guitar
Anthology: Those Boys From Carolina, They Sure Enough Could Sing
screens
Telling the tale of the shattering of Camelot
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Iconic punk final tour implosion in D.O.A.
BY TIM STEGALL
Web comedy Gym Buddies gets in shape
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Film Reviews
French drama tries to find life lessons in the vineyard.
John Hamm sweats stylishly in gritty, grim spy thriller.
Butt-chugging gags can't hide Blockers' big heart.
Israeli drama brings offbeat levity to anti-war narrative.
Noir murder mystery for the selfie generation.
Evangelical film franchise rolls into volume three.
Friday Night Lights for the volleyball scene.
As monsters lurk, the world survives with a whisper
Tyler Perry takes on the "woman scorned" trope.
arts & culture
For his new dance, choreographer Stephen Mills turned to moments of inspiration in his own life
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Annual hot air balloon festival is an uplifting tradition
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
On the bus in the City of Angels with Salvage Vanguard's staging of con flama and in Mexico with John Gibley, author of I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us
Arts Reviews
Patrick Shaw’s new play is less a tale of Joan of Arc’s life than a divine meditation on love lost
This production of Steven Dietz’s play offers a deep dive into what we choose to believe and a stimulating evening of theatre
The paintings filled with nesting S-curves comes from the artist’s meditative practice, but they’re joyful in their rumination
columns
The Great Show brings modern cabaret to Austin
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Popular brewpub has the agility of a homebrewer and consistency of a craft brewer
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
We mere mortals are just feathers being blown about in the tempest of the gods
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS
BY RYAN HENNESSEE
BY SAM HURT