David Brendan Hall / Design by Zeke Barbaro
Volume 43, Number 44
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news
Nearly three dozen people applied. Will any make the cut?
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Yes, there will be a request to increase property taxes
BY BRANT BINGAMON
After Abbott’s “Death Star” law, another attempt to protect workers from extreme heat
BY LINA FISHER
He remembers Barton Springs before the cement
BY MAGGIE QUINLAN
food
Getting bossed around by meat, and liking it
BY TAYLOR HOLLAND
music
Mike & the Moonpies rebrands and reloads
BY DOUG FREEMAN
With their latest, the trio creates what they call their best album yet
BY CY WHITE
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
BY DEREK UDENSI
Screens
Film Reviews
Based on the bestselling manga about a program to build the best striker in the world for Japan's national soccer team
Sean Penn and Dakota Johnson star in this two-hander about a cabbie and his passenger
You think that title’s a mouthful? Check out the running time for part one of writer-director-star Kevin Costner’s epic Western.
An 11-year-old is besotted with her single mom in 1991 rural Massachusetts
Yorgos Lanthimos follows up Oscar winner Poor Things with a ponderous arthouse anthology film
Spinoff prequel details how those noise-hating monster aliens first came to invade Earth
arts & culture
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
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 Glassmith graduates to brick-and-mortar
BY KEVIN CURTIN
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
Pride Month musing at the end of Pride Month from Qmmunity Editor James
BY JAMES SCOTT
How a Bhutanese temple landed in an El Paso college campus
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
An exceptionally hard message to convey
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Your weekly horoscope, June 28 - July 4
BY ROB BREZSNY
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Key signing fleshes out solid corner back roster
BY ERIC GOODMAN
comics
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE