Illustration by Jason Stout/Getty Images
Volume 38, Number 44
ON THE COVER:
news
Rival sports titans square off in soccer city
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
From the creeks to the streets, Austin gets clear on what it wants
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
NAKED CITY
Curtains down for the notoriously belligerent legislator, aka Sticky
BY MARY TUMA
The latest twist in the years-long saga over Paxton’s securities fraud charge
BY MARY TUMA
New venture hoping to expand journalism, research, public policy
BY MICHAEL KING
Enterprise Products LLC buys mag from equity firm Genesis Park
BY MICHAEL KING
In response, Abbott again threatens to save Austin from its elected leaders
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Decriminalization advocates prevail, new shelter deal OK’d
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
New plan reimagines Austin's largest park
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Breanna Williams says the 2017 incident caused emotional, physical, and professional distress
BY MEGAN MENCHACA
New taxes for Lakeside homes, operators for Butler Pitch and Putt
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
An unlikely artist at Mueller's satellite iteration of Otto Phan's omakase restaurant
BY ALEXANDRA DETMAR
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of June 27, 2019
music
Living quietly in Austin for two years now – and only for hours at a time!
BY TIM STEGALL
Queer nightlife gets a new clubhouse, SIMS Foundation faces spiked membership, Spoon’s greatest hits, and more
BY RACHEL RASCOE
Texas Platters
Fog & Bling
I Walked in Them Shoes
Denial River
Ridin' High... Again
screens
Local music show is back on the CW with its broadest lineup yet
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
It's the maverick director versus the world at AFS Cinema
BY JULIAN DEBERRY
Screengrabs from the Chronicle staff
Film Reviews
International ass-kickery with a strong but beautiful female lead? Luc Besson, back on his sh*t again.
Anybody want a slightly soiled, demonically possessed doll?
Everyone's favorite homicidal doll is back
Oscar winner Denys Arcand mixes crime, political commentary
Reygadas’ latest exercise in navel-gazing is at least pretty to look at
Imagine a world without the Beatles ... then imagine a better film
arts & culture
Multimedia, multicultural production Sacred Earth Stories appeals to the heart
BY SUMAIYA MALIK
Arts Reviews
In this engaging production, the saga of Eva Perón is told with immediacy and power
The exhibit is a personal chamber about the artist’s past wherein she recovers memories but also reveals their fragility
columns
A whole lotta events honoring Stonewall
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Cajun history in the Old State Capitol
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Wherein the Luv Doc contemplates greater and lesser acts of bestiality
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Previewing the World Cup Quarterfinals
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE