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Volume 38, Number 3
ON THE COVER:
news
Farah Muscadin’s work in progress
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Council approves its latest budget with the Lege over its shoulder
BY MICHAEL KING
Armadillo Art Squad dean Micael Priest dead at 66
BY NICK BARBARO
City manager on city budget
NAKED CITY
APD Asst. Chief heads north
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Plans stalled on rollout
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Veteran reporter accused of faking sources
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Candidates continue to pile up
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Lourdes Kaman seeks over $1 million
BY JACK CRAVER
Council sorts out tax rate, final spending
BY MICHAEL KING
Planning for the people
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Commission moves on to the 12th round
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Daily paper awaits GateHouse revamp
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Coalition issues manifesto on East Austin schools
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
ATCEMS division chief suspended, demoted for waging war against MD
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Carrie Stewart battles city after cancer diagnosis
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Laughing our way through campaign season
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER, MICHAEL KING AND SARAH MARLOFF
food
East Austin’s truly wonderful dining experience with a complicated history
BY MELANIE HAUPT
music
The Austin musician stands alone in showing up Miles Davis in his autobiography
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Eddie Wilson done “clinging to the curb”
BY KEVIN CURTIN
screens
The new, colorful “immersive selfie space” arrives
BY EMILY BEYDA
The “Ultimate Minecraft Experience” digs into the wildly popular video game
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
Exploitation goes meta with a new twist on a vintage sleazefest
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
French religious drama places miracles under the microscope
Less Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, more shrug shrug, meh meh
A strange trip to the Emerald Isle
Nicolas Cage is stunning in this hallucinogenic revenger
The Conjuring franchise heads to Romania
Jennifer Garner assumes an Alias to get revenge
Five adorable puppies on the path to changing lives
The Predator needs an editor
Anna Kendrick turns unlikely sleuth in this deliciously twisted romp
More evangelizing from the God's Not Dead folks
Growing up dysfunctional in this literary adaptation
Interracial romance against the rise of Nazi Germany
A true-life tale of coke, corruption, and betrayal
arts & culture
With her mysterious and compelling artwork, Huma Bhabha puts us face to alien face
BY SUMAIYA MALIK
Rising stars of Austin soul, blues, and hip-hop converge at Waterloo Music Festival as a supergroup to watch
BY DAVID BRENDAN HALL
Arts Reviews
This production of Edward Albee's play shows that hubris and catastrophe are as much a part of America now as in ancient Greece
The artist's epic portrait of Klanspeople is all the more frightening for the mundane character of its subjects
columns
A space to embrace Austin’s queer artists of color
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Former fishing camp still an oasis on the Pecos River
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Some people aren't easily able to shamelessly express themselves through movement
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT