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Volume 43, Number 51
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news
Money City Could Spend on Community Programs Likely Going to Police Raises
Council set to adopt next year’s budget on Wednesday
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Headlines / Quote of the Week
Literacy Is a Problem for Austin Kids. To Fight the Summer Slide, Libraries Have Incentives.
Librarians recommend kids read 10 hours each summer
BY ABE ASHER
Donald Trump Relies on Eugenics Concepts, UT Prof Argues in New Book
Examining modern effects of the American eugenics movement
BY NEHA KONDAVEETI
150-Year-Old House Set for Renovation in Nameless Community
A chance discovery
BY AARON SULLIVAN
Top Executive Over Police, Fire, EMS Set to Leave City Hall
Bruce Mills was one of Jesús Garza’s “interim” hires
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
music
Jody Denberg Retires, Moving Panoramas Singer Battles Cancer, and More Music News
News bites from around town
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Album Review: URBAN HEAT’s The Tower
The Tower is a grand-scale monument to the overindulgence of Eighties New Wave
BY CY WHITE
Shoegaze, Synthpop, Hip-Hop, and More Crucial Concerts
Whatever your genre, we got you
BY CY WHITE, CARYS ANDERSON, DEREK UDENSI, RACHEL RASCOE, TIM STEGALL, MICHAEL TOLAND AND RAOUL HERNANDEZ
Live Music in Austin
BY DEREK UDENSI
Screens
Film Reviews
Alien: Romulus
Fede Alvarez speed runs through earlier Alien films in this uninspired sequel
Good One
A divorced dad and his teenage daughter go on a disastrous backpacking trip
Green Border
An angry, visceral masterpiece about refugees turned into political pawns
My Penguin Friend
Jean Reno forges a bond with a penguin named DinDim in this touching family film
Rob Peace
Chiwetel Ejiofor co-stars in and directs this real-life story about a brilliant young man trying to escape Newark’s cycle of violence
Sirocco and the Kingdom of Winds
Seussian fairy tale from GKIDS about two sisters
who turn into cats
Skincare
Elizabeth Banks plays a celeb aesthetician undone when a rival guns for her business
Stree 2
Women are mysteriously abducted by a headless entity
arts & culture
Alejandro Puyana Explores the Humanity and Hardship of Venezuela With His Debut Novel
You can’t go home again
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Theatre Review: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical
ZACH creates a tapestry of Sixties poppy fun in this jukebox musical
BY CAT MCCARREY
Down the Rabbit Hole With Performa/Dance’s FINDING ALICE (IN WONDERLAND)
Things get trippy on Ballet Austin's stage
BY NEHA KONDAVEETI
Culture, Arts, and More Recommended Weekend Events
Don't let the heat get you down
BY JAMES SCOTT, KAT MCNEVINS, CY WHITE, CARYS ANDERSON, LINA FISHER, RACHEL RASCOE AND CAT MCCARREY
Thelma, Louise, Musketeers, and More Queer Films Headline Our Week in Events
Get your weekdays squared away
BY JAMES SCOTT, KAT MCNEVINS, KIMBERLEY JONES, CAT MCCARREY AND LINA FISHER
columns
The Off Beat: Austinites Still Love Non-Austinite Elliott Smith
Annual SIMS benefit show marks songwriter’s 55th birthday
BY CARYS ANDERSON
The Off Beat: Music Commission Passes Recommendation to Support Texas Music Museum
Commish suggests Council direct $850,000 in aid to Eastside gallery
BY CARYS ANDERSON
Qmmunity: Too Hot to Handle
Summertime scorchers mean more time indoors to overthink our queer lives
BY JAMES SCOTT
Day Trips: Holy Smoke BBQ, Huntsville
The legendary eatery is still smokin'
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Locker Room Cellphone Etiquette
It doesn’t exist – nor should it
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, August 16-22
BY ROB BREZSNY
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