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Volume 37, Number 45
ON THE COVER:
news
A Two-Horse Race for Mayor
Can Laura Morrison hope to edge out Steve Adler?
BY MICHAEL KING
Point Austin: Left Pending
Council's summer daze leaves plenty of work in progress
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice – CodeNEXT: The Halftime Score?
If you view the code rewrite simply as a struggle between the urbanists and the preservationists, it's fair to ask, who's winning?
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Fred Lewis
They really said that?
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
City Explores Creating an Office of Immigrant Affairs
Measure passed following council members' visit to border detention facilities
BY MARY TUMA
Casa Marianella Reunites Family Separated at the Border
East Austin immigrant shelter coordinated efforts to reconnect family from Congo
BY JESSI CAPE
Activists Protest Southwest Key at CEO’s Home
Frente de Liberación Inmigrante call on Sanchez to break gov contracts
BY MARY TUMA
City Council: 1,020 Minutes Later …
Epic meeting sends Council into summer recess
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
CodeNEXT: Will We or Won’t We Vote on It?
From the petition hearing to Council, this week's land use code updates
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Countdown to a Deal
City to work on stadium deal while fielding other development offers
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Primrose Residents Face Mold, Broken A/C, and Security Issues
Seniors living in the complex are still seeking relief
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Ken Paxton Seeks to Remove Eight of Austin’s Planning Commissioners
Lawsuit will target volunteer appointees in violation of City Charter
BY SARAH MARLOFF
food
Suerte
I fell in love with a cup of hot corn
BY JESSI CAPE
Dining, Driving, and Dealing on the Vegan Food Chain
And where to find the Best Tuna Sandwich (sans tuna)
BY ALISHA MCDARRIS
Food Events
music
Is the Net Neutrality Repeal Another Blow to Tex-Mex Musicians and Broadcasters?
Bidi bidi bom bom
BY CÉSAR E. LÓPEZ LINARES
screens
Local Comedy People With Issues Takes the Long Path
Third time’s the charm for writer-director Dan Siegelstein
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
ATX Film News
Acquisitions, awards, and a big gaming rumor
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Dangerous World of Jean-Paul Belmondo
AFS explores the action star beyond Breathless
BY JOSH KUPECKI
Film Reviews
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Marvel's crime caper comedy sequel gets bigger, smaller, but still fun
Fireworks
Teen anime adds parallel timelines to a Romeo and Juliet plot.
The First Purge
Blumhouse's political-horror franchise gets a timely prequel
Sorry to Bother You
Sly sci-fi satire puts class, race, and selling out under the microscope
Three Identical Strangers
Deception, research, and an almost unbelievable mystery of triplets divided at birth
Uncle Drew
Kyrie Irving's soda campaign gets a movie spin-off
Whitney
Another glimpse behind the curtain at the late musical legend
arts & culture
Austin’s Sisters in Crime Prefer Their Ink Mixed With a Little Blood
Murders, they write
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Snapshot: Project Panic
To celebrate the Chronicle’s July Crime Month, staff go sleuthing at Austin Panic Room’s newest escape game
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
Zach Theatre's Heisenberg
In Simon Stephens' play, we observe the unlikely pairing of two people as an experiment in risk and change
Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke
A double murder in an East Texas town draws a black Texas Ranger deep into the shadows of the Piney Woods and the tangled race relations there
"We'll Just Rock for Ourselves: Selections From the Lisa Davis Archives"
The photos capture the kineticism of Austin's lesbian music scene in the Nineties and the magnitude of the photographer's legacy
columns
Gay Place
Strength in numbers, strength in community
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: The Titanic, Mayborn Museum, Waco
Artifacts of famed ocean liner sets sail at Waco museum
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Luv Doc: Faking It
Faking an orgasm is sort of like going to your happy place and finding an exercise bike
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
World Cup Watch
And then there were eight
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
