Photo by David Brendan Hall
Volume 38, Number 1
ON THE COVER:
features
Will talent beget success?
BY JEREMY STEINBERGER
Some suds to keep your tailgate up to date
BY ERIC PUGA
Your back-to-school guide for a gay ol' time
BY BETH SULLIVAN
news
Making the grade
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
The new owners start cutting, and the bleeding begins
BY MICHAEL KING
Happy anniversary, and here's a card ...
BY NICK BARBARO
Austin American-Statesman's editor on her decision to leave the paper
NAKED CITY
A.G. joins amicus brief in opposition to Missouri man's request for death by lethal gas
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Court denies requests that Council rewrite proposition language
BY MICHAEL KING
Aimee Arrambide takes over advocacy group
BY MARY TUMA
Cody Wilson has a workaround for judge's order
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
The waiting room
BY MARY TUMA
Bag bans, budgets, and Southwest Key
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Sponsors unveil new partnership at CommUnityCare clinic
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Barriers in a budding industry
BY MARY TUMA
Gotta endorse somebody
BY MICHAEL KING, CHASE HOFFBERGER, AUSTIN SANDERS AND MARY TUMA
food
Pils to wake, pils to sleep
BY ERIC PUGA
Our favorite purveyors of caffeine for getting back to the grind
BY R.T. FRANK
music
Young rappers reinvent the most streamed genre in America
BY CLARA WANG
In studio with Confucius and Fresh, hosts of KUTX’s first ever hip-hop specialty show
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
After a forced hiatus, stronger than ever
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Capital City Black Film Festival's "Swing Low"
BY CHARLIE NEDDO
Civil rights and sports mix in Breaking Down Barriers: The C.R. Roberts Story
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Meet the men behind the campaigns
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Help fund a new production company in Austin
BY CHARLIE NEDDO
Film Reviews
Comedy-horror provides plenty of GIF-able gags
British period literary drama is pretty weak tea
Nick Hornby adaptation debunks the myth of authenticity
Gritty sci-fi road trip has teen appeal
A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns
WWII literary adaptation lacks the novel's spark and insight
Documentary explores the dying art of controversial editorial cartoons
Nazi hunting history may be accurate, but lacks tension or gravity
Indian story of romance across class divides
Innovative thriller keeps the tension on the small screen
Mexican rom-com puts family first
arts & culture
The improv alchemists of this weekly show turn the crap in your life into comedy gold
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
How barber Roger Lopez and a small group of dedicated volunteers pay it forward
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
In the troupe's latest choreodramas, dancing desperados persisted and partied
This group show is appealing for the ways in which it showcases this most intense, moody, serene, and opulent of all the blues
columns
The end of summer, in name only
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Snake Farm, just sounds nasty, but is a lot of fun
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The kind of maddening paradox that makes you question the existence of a loving and benevolent creator
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Austin FC it is.
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY LANCE MYERS
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW