Volume 35, Number 35
ON THE COVER:
news
Vote no on Prop. 1
Did misleading DNA analysis land an innocent man on death row?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Vietnam War Summit raises ghosts and questions
BY MICHAEL KING
A full week of Proposition 1
BY NICK BARBARO
The death penalty is too flawed to be saved
BY AMY KAMP
City Council gets through a brief agenda the week before budget talks begin
BY MARY TUMA
Good times continue?
BY MICHAEL KING
St. Andrew's offers sanctuary to immigrant mother and child
BY DINA SAMIR SHEHATA
Max Soffar has died of liver cancer
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
City manager reprimands police chief for comments
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Don’t ask a question you don’t want to know the answer to
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
AISD sees its money go back to the state
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
What is fueling Hurricane Donnie Trump?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Charming space still has a few kinks
BY BRANDON WATSON
music
LEVITATION FEST 2016
Levitation Interviews
Shoegazer, Aussie everywoman, ex-Sonic Youther, and Latin psych superhero talk Levitation.
Levitation Imaginings
Hard to get some psychs on the horn, so conjured them through other means
Blurbing the under and overcard
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
BY LIBBY WEBSTER
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Levitating Platters
Down in Heaven
Freaks of Nurture
Manual
Musique de Film Imaginé
The Night Creeper
Human Performance
Heron Oblivion
Gensho
City Sun Eater in the River of Light
IV
Painting With
For Use and Delight
Emotional Mugger
screens
Cine Las Americas Film Festival aims for a wider reach
BY SEAN L. MALIN
Escape from the city with the Hill Country Film Festival
BY TUCKER WHATLEY
Penny Dreadful and the Showtime curse
BY JACOB CLIFTON
Film Reviews
A refreshingly silly, unabashed mix of humor, violence, and cuteness
Danish black comedy is a nimble tone-shifter
The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself
A young writer travels to revolutionary Cuba in 1959 to meet his idol
Telugu action film
The director of Once and Begin Again helms another joyful music film
arts & culture
Catherine Davis and Michelle Thompson's site-specific dance-and-music work will move you in ways you won't expect
BY JONELLE SEITZ
A month flooded with movement closes with Jennifer Sherburn's Arena and Tapestry's Passing It Forward
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Holland Taylor captures every nuance of Ann Richards in this magnificent production
The site-specific dance inspired by Dan Flavin’s art evoked pure wonder and worked as a study of threes
The Blanton Museum of Art’s retrospective may tap nostalgia for a certain generation, but it can be deeply moving, too
columns
When someone is lying to you about something, it is usually best not to endorse and empower them
BY LOUIS BLACK
The second annual Austin International Drag Fest returns this weekend
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Former Buffalo Soldier helped establish mining in the border region.
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
Wherein the Luv Doc contemplates the soft, tender flesh of an almost-royal Canadian
BY THE LUV DOC
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
BY NICK BARBARO
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
comics
BY LANCE MYERS
BY TONY MILLIONAIRE
BY JEN SORENSEN
BY SAM HURT
BY TOM TOMORROW