Volume 34, Number 4
ON THE COVER:
news
Candidates building the road to 10-1 work to define Austin's new civic order
BY MICHAEL KING
Candidates ready to throw out the city with the bathwater
BY MICHAEL KING
Mike Collier, COTA, and the comptroller's scandal
BY NICK BARBARO
City Council Districts 7 and 8
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Can the city and Uber and Lyft come to an understanding?
BY MICHAEL KING
Jamie Balagia wants marijuana law reform, greater police accountability
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
10-1 election news round-up
When it's a bike
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
State representative discredits claims that abortion leads to mental health problems
BY MARY TUMA
Registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 6
BY AMY KAMP
McDonald's image problem
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Healthy eating isn't always happy eating
BY BRANDON WATSON
aRoma still needs to iron out the kinks
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
Michoacana Natural Ice Cream stands up to pricier parlors
BY MICK VANN
Pastries, pastries, pastries
BY VIRGINIA B. WOOD
music
Ali to his friends, Shakey Graves to the world
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Stop complaining there's no hip-hop scene here because now it has its own festival
BY KEVIN CURTIN
PHASES & STAGES
John Darnielle
Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
Sylvan Esso
Koch
Syro
Songs of Innocence
screens
FANTASTIC FEST 2014 QUICK CUTS
Keanu Reeves and Adrianne Palicki on John Wick's ground-and-pound action
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Justin Long's take on Tusk
BY MARC SAVLOV
Tim Schafer talks about his noir classic at Fantastic Arcade
BY JAMES RENOVITCH
Film Reviews
In this faith-based comedy, frat boys create a fake charity to pay back tuition bills.
The third time isn't the charm for this animated film from the studio that gave us the magical Coraline and ParaNorman.
Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua deliver the action goods one more time.
With their follow-up to You're Next, filmmakers Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett prove the new kings of indie horror movies.
Telugu action comedy.
Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig co-star as siblings in this dramatic workout.
When he rockets to sudden fame, a Christian songwriter is tempted by the perks of fame.
Memphis and Stax Records music artists from an earlier era mentor a younger generation in this ambient documentary.
arts & culture
In transforming buildings into altars, Sally Jacques offers a place to keep watch
BY JONELLE SEITZ
Authors Spivey and Sublett spin a complex tale of a Lubbock visionary's downfall, revenge
BY JOE O'CONNELL
We mused on the YA novel's hunks as prom dates; now who's going to Love Me Back?
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Shrewd Productions' Still Now provides a fresh perspective on cancer through butoh
Penfold's staging propels us through the time-space continuum to see one romance play out in many alternate ways
A low-key socialism is at play in Russell Etchen's solo exhibition at Test Tube Gallery
columns
If a "Rare Trend" is defined as quality fabrics, expert stitching, and an exacting eye, call us trendy
BY AMY GENTRY
It's the post-Pride comedown in the gAyTX
BY KATE X MESSER
The Dallas Farmers Market offers up a foodie's paradise
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
How to be sober and not want to kill yourself
BY THE LUV DOC
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY ERIC SOLLENBERGER
BY NICK BARBARO
comics
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW
BY RYAN HENNESSEE