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Volume 38, Number 48
ON THE COVER:
news
Lawyers say the system has been thrown into "chaos"
BY MARY TUMA
Forced elections are now routine, but are they "grassroots"?
BY MIKE CLARK-MADISON
Code, even more NEXT
BY NICK BARBARO
NAKED CITY
Leaders discuss modernizing the U.S.'s largest and oldest service branch
BY BETH SULLIVAN
Big names, money in local Congress races
BY MICHAEL KING
Supporters launch “Progressive Justice Now” draft campaign
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Former Sex Crimes head motivated by response to sexual assault crisis
BY MARY TUMA
Travis County D.A. says dismissals will continue
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Survivors also calling on lawmakers to intervene following the appointment
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Residents turn out to support transit agency
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
food
Take a dip, then fill your piehole
BY JESSIKA ROTH
One wonders if there's such thing as too many pickles at this Southwest Austin restaurant
BY MELANIE HAUPT
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of July 25, 2019
music
Austin's reigning Best Guitarist scales the ladder to the roof
BY DEREK UDENSI
Ten sunspots on Hot Summer Nights’ triple-digit lineup
BY RACHEL RASCOE
screens
New Austin-set series explores breakups in the digital age
BY KATELYN LANDRY
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Jason Statham cult classic offers maximum overdrive
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
William B. Goss' short makes an airborne debut
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Astounding true story of first women in professional yachting's biggest race
arts & culture
Writer of Whisper Network offers a healthy dose of righteous indignation
BY M. BRIANNA STALLINGS
Arts Reviews
ColdTowne's improvised riff on The Bachelor captures the raw, trainwreck appeal of reality TV dating shows
This World Listening day installation used recorded sounds of domestic life to create a ghostly neighborhood on a street now empty of life
The sculptor mirrors up a globular array of unusual glassworks
columns
QPOC art, Bulimianne and Louisianna’s wedding celebration, and more
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Catch a whopper of a show at Fischer Haus
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Wherein the Luv Doc ponders the social lives of porn stars
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 RYAN HENNESSEE
BY TOM TOMORROW