Photo by John Anderson
Volume 38, Number 49
ON THE COVER:
news
More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Can the Dems find (and fund) the candidate to beat Cornyn?
BY MICHAEL KING
Council faces a busy first week
BY NICK BARBARO
NAKED CITY
BY SARAH MARLOFF
“Our Parks, Our Future” charts course through 2028
BY SAVANA DUNNING
Lawsuit: City fails to discipline problem cops
BY MARY TUMA
Suit argues anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ groups with "sincere religious beliefs" deserve Title X money
BY MARY TUMA
Salary move comes amid fears of shrinking budgets
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
A guide to some of the hidden (and not-so-hidden) bars around town
BY LINA FISHER
Custom Botanical Dispensary offers cannabidiol and more
BY JESSI CAPE
A step-by-step trip into the noodlicious and brothy world of ramen
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 1, 2019
music
Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles
BY TIM STEGALL
screens
On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Seligman
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
How Jeff Goldblum’s first starring role helped shape the paper we became
BY NICK BARBARO
The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: "I want to be sideways!"
BY TIM STEGALL
Short film needs your help to get en pointe
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Back body drops, and in high heels
Still waters run deep in this innovative border crime drama
Politics and Pekingese in this strange, sweet, and very Portuguese fantasy
Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.
New film asks, what happened after Blackish brought orca torture to light?
The 60 Minutes newsman's legacy makes headlines of its own
Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum in an engrossing experiment in form
Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on
Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers
Marc Maron like you've never seen him in this oddball Southern road trip to the truth
arts & culture
Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
This musical succeeds on the infectious energy of every member of its enthusiastic cast
This new musical by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown is darker than their usual fare, but there's light at the end
Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots
columns
Party with Qmmunity, That Time of the Month, and Andy Campbell
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Take the majestic tour
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
A big ol' meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY SAM HURT
BY JEN SORENSEN