Photo by David Brendan Hall
Volume 37, Number 33
ON THE COVER:
news
Jimmy Flannigan’s shake-up at the Municipal Court
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Concerning the fate of Mark Conditt’s confession
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
What Council can do that's not CodeNEXT
BY NICK BARBARO
Austin's city demographer dishes on the census
NAKED CITY
Justin Carter pleas out to class A misdemeanor
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Motor voter mayhem
BY MARY TUMA
County judge accepting applications for visiting justices
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Perennial notes in city politics ...
BY MICHAEL KING
Rollin' into City Council, invited or not
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Kits have been sent out for testing, but the wait continues
BY SARAH MARLOFF
University more likely to punish employees who commit criminal acts off campus
BY MARY TUMA
Finance staff delivers tentative 2019 forecast
BY MICHAEL KING
Legalese in Ohio could slow soccer team’s move to Austin
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Also starring the People's Plan and Housing Justice Agenda
BY SARAH MARLOFF
KEYE CBS partakes in Orwellian pro-Trump script
BY MARY TUMA
food
Mueller's food scene gets elevated
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Foam over function
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
Goodbye Little Debbie, hello kale salad
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
music
Airplay with the Lord
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Groove-mongering R&B duo the Greyhounds get mule-headed, S.S. Hangover floats Laguna Gloria, and the Austin Music Commission overlooks music hub
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Adult Fear
Marbled
Fucking Fuck Fuck Fuck
Songs of Life and Death: An Izzy Cox Tribute Album, Vol. 1
No Class
Everything We Need
Out of the Gate
Hans Gruber & the Die Hards
Yard Work
screens
Indie Meme highlights the diverse visions of South Asian cinema
BY JENNY NULF
Texas Archive of the Moving Image needs your old tapes
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Kerouac-loving road trip stalls out fast.
Truth or dare? We say pass on this demonic schlock.
Tennis' greatest feud re-evaluated as an inner battle.
The car crash that changed America.
French drama follows the artist split between two women.
Oscar winner Ben Kingsley as a war criminal on the run.
What's cooking in the world's greatest ramen shops?
The Rock! The ape! The lizard! The ... flying wolf?
Charming, old-fashioned true story of one brave pupper.
Europe's great sentimentalist explores the mysteries of separation.
The modern Western goes to Northern Australia.
Joaquin Phoenix and Lynne Ramsay renew the revenger's tragedy.
arts & culture
With new book God Save Texas, The Looming Tower series on Hulu, and his play Cleo at the Alley, Lawrence Wright is the man of the moment
BY ELIZABETH BANICKI
Celebrating the sousaphone
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Every element of this production works together to get us inside the head of a troubled military flyer
Lauren Gunderson's play uses Whitman's "Song of Myself" as a vehicle for two teens on the cusp of adulthood to explore identity
The Brazilian artist explores the confluence of globalization's streams of production through the Amazon
columns
Die Felicia scares up a new night and Cheer Ups celebrates eight years with Lez Wedding
BY SARAH MARLOFF
A few of the vintage airplanes still welcome passengers
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Racing to close the gates of hell
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY LANCE MYERS