Empire Control Room & Garage
Volume 35, Number 50
news
The Boys Club
Female employees say gender discrimination persists at City Hall. Could a new resolution fix the broken system?
BY MARY TUMA
Point Austin: November Mobility Bond Begins to Take Shape
Consensus on the proposed $720 million bond remains a work in progress
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: Inconvenient Details
Council aims for the stars, stuck in the dirt
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
City Council Preview: Juggling Act to Include Budget, Transportation Bond
Council agenda occupied by a handful of pressing subjects
BY MICHAEL KING
Grove Heads to Council With Valid Petition Suit Unresolved
Proposed development to hit dais, barring any more delays
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Veteran APD Officer in Trouble Again
Officer Eric Copeland named in excessive force lawsuit
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Death Watch: Executing Texas' Law of Parties
Jeff Wood never killed anybody; Robert Pruett may not have either. Why does the state want to put them both to death?
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Fetal Burial Rule May Flout Constitutional Limits
Will the state's latest abortion restriction survive a constitutional challenge?
BY MARY TUMA
Rape Kit Backlog Threatens Justice for Survivors
Closed DNA lab delays already strained system
BY SARAH MARLOFF
The Hightower Report: Brand New Congress
Is an entirely new Congress even possible?
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
Red Horn Brings Specialty Coffee and Craft Beer to Cedar Park
Single-origin beans and hoppy IPAs without the drive
BY DAN GENTILE
AC Food Fight: Okonomiyaki
Komé and the Peached Tortilla battle for Japanese pancake supremacy
BY BRANDON WATSON
AC Date Night: Mongers and Café No Sé
Poke two ways
BY ADRIENNE WHITE
Dear Glutton: Where to Go on a Friend Date
What is the least romantic restaurant in Austin?
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Pre-Eminent Local Producer Danny Reisch Moves South to Lockhart
The challenge as he moves is to maintain the same creative space and energy
BY DOUG FREEMAN
Playback: New No Wave, Old Dicks, and Woody Allen
US Weekly emerges, the Dicks reunite, and Woody Allen casts Kat Edmonson
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Phases & Stages
screens
Texas Filmmaker David Lowery Updates Pete's Dragon
Reimagining the Disney classic
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Bank Robbers and Texas Rangers Clash in Hell or High Water
West Texas noir
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Anthropoid
True story of the plot to kill the architect of the Nazis' Final Solution
Florence Foster Jenkins
Meryl Streep plays the doyenne called “the worst singer in the world”
Hell or High Water
Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, and Ben Foster shine in West Texas crime film
Indignation
Philip Roth's 2008 novel is hauntingly translated to the screen
Nine Lives
Kevin Spacey gets trapped inside the body of his family's cat
Operation Chromite
Liam Neeson stars as Douglas MacArthur in this Korean war movie
#Pellichoopulu
Urban romantic comedy; in Telugu
Pete's Dragon
Old Disney musical is remade as a new children's classic
arts & culture
The Seven Skeletons of Lydia Pyne
The local science historian debuts her new book about famous fossil hominids
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Review: Emma Cline's The Girls
This seismic literary debut tracks a California girl drawn to a dark cult in 1969
BY TIM STEGALL
Arts Reviews
Last Act Theatre Company's Postville
In Don Fried's drama, small-town Midwesterners face a clash of cultures when Hasidic Jews move in
Summer Stock Austin's Carnival
The production offers impressive spectacle, but the musical's treatment of women is still a problem
"Rachel Wolfson Smith: Midas" at grayDUCK Gallery
The vehicle crashes in this solo exhibition, artfully drawn in graphite, manage to contain both peace and a madness
columns
Gay Place
Bats and balls in play at the Gay Softball World Series
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Tucker Tower, Okla.
Stone castle tower provides spectacular view of Oklahoma's Lake Murray State Park
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Testing
Like it or not, you are always being graded – not by your words, but by your actions
BY THE LUV DOC
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
BY MR. SMARTY PANTS
Feedback
Letters to the editor, published daily
sports
Soccer Watch
BY NICK BARBARO
WWE SmackDown Live
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
comics
