June 28, 2024

David Brendan Hall / Design by Zeke Barbaro

Volume 43, Number 44

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news

Headlines / Quote of the Week

Assessing the Underwhelming Field of APD Chief Candidates

Nearly three dozen people applied. Will any make the cut?

BY AUSTIN SANDERS

Last AISD Board Meeting This School Year Covers Budget Plan, Underperforming Students

Yes, there will be a request to increase property taxes

BY BRANT BINGAMON

Federal Heat Rule Proposed Following Texas Bill That Stripped Worker Protections

After Abbott’s “Death Star” law, another attempt to protect workers from extreme heat

BY LINA FISHER

Austin Elders: Meet Stan Brooks, the 102-Year-Old World War II Vet Who’s Lived to Serve

He remembers Barton Springs before the cement

BY MAGGIE QUINLAN

food

The Strip Club: Northgate Shopping Center

Getting bossed around by meat, and liking it

BY TAYLOR HOLLAND

music

Silverada’s Solid Country Gold

Mike & the Moonpies rebrands and reloads

BY DOUG FREEMAN

Album Review: Fastball’s Sonic Ranch

With their latest, the trio creates what they call their best album yet

BY CY WHITE

Magda, Mélat, Madam Radar, and More Crucial Concerts

Recommended shows for the week in Austin

BY CY WHITE, CARYS ANDERSON, DEREK UDENSI, JAMES SCOTT, RICHARD WHITTAKER, CAT MCCARREY, CHRISTINA GARCIA, DOUG FREEMAN, RAOUL HERNANDEZ, TIM STEGALL, JASMINE LANE AND MICHAEL TOLAND

Live Music in Austin

BY DEREK UDENSI

Screens

Film Reviews

Blue Lock the Movie – Episode Nagi

Based on the bestselling manga about a program to build the best striker in the world for Japan's national soccer team

Daddio

Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson star in this two-hander about a cabbie and his passenger

Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1

You think that title’s a mouthful? Check out the running time for part one of writer-director-star Kevin Costner’s epic Western.

Janet Planet

An 11-year-old is besotted with her single mom in 1991 rural Massachusetts

Kinds of Kindness

Yorgos Lanthimos follows up Oscar winner Poor Things with a ponderous arthouse anthology film

A Quiet Place: Day One

Spinoff prequel details how those noise-hating monster aliens first came to invade Earth
arts & culture

Pool Parties, Pride Picnics, and Other Events Worth Braving the Heat

Get good and sweaty

BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, CAT MCCARREY, RICHARD WHITTAKER, LINA FISHER, JASMINE LANE, JASMINE IMAN WRIGHT, NICK BARBARO AND DEREK UDENSI

Movies, Mothers, and 4th of July Fun Highlights the Week's Events

Make your holiday weekday worth it

BY JAMES SCOTT, KATHERINE MCNEVINS, CY WHITE, RICHARD WHITTAKER, NICK BARBARO, JASMINE IMAN WRIGHT, KIMBERLEY JONES, JASMINE LANE AND BRANT BINGAMON

columns

The Austin Chronic: Mobile Head Shop the Glassmith Puts Down Roots

The Glassmith graduates to brick-and-mortar

BY KEVIN CURTIN

Opinion: Affordable Childcare Now – A Community Call to Action for Travis County

Dr. Libby Doggett makes the case for Travis County CARES, a November ballot measure that would provide high quality, affordable child care and afterschool programs for working families

BY LIBBY DOGGETT

Qmmunity: All Year, Each Month, Every Day

Pride Month musing at the end of Pride Month from Qmmunity Editor James

BY JAMES SCOTT

Day Trips: The Lhakhang, El Paso

How a Bhutanese temple landed in an El Paso college campus

BY GERALD E. MCLEOD

The Luv Doc: STFU

An exceptionally hard message to convey

BY THE LUV DOC

Mr. Smarty Pants Knows

BY MR. SMARTY PANTS

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, June 28 - July 4

BY ROB BREZSNY

Feedback

Letters to the editor, published daily
sports

The Verde Report: Austin FC Gives Osman Bukari SoCo Welcome, Announces CB Signing

Key signing fleshes out solid corner back roster

BY ERIC GOODMAN

comics

Eyebeam

BY SAM HURT

This Modern World

BY TOM TOMORROW

Peppermint Tears

BY RYAN HENNESSEE

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