AFS Cinema
Illustration by Jason Stout/thinkstock
news
What Will It Take to Get More Police Oversight?
If Greg Casar wants more accountability for cops, the city’s gonna need to give the police union some more money
BY CHASE HOFFBERGER
Point Austin: Awake in the Hurricane
Enduring the last few days of the Lege's biennial cataclysm
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: The Greatest Show on Access
ZAP, PC take turns hacking code
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week: Ken Zarifis
Teachers, don't expect any money from the state
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Community Report: Good News and Bad
CAN Dashboard Report reveals general progress but continuing racial inequities
BY MICHAEL KING
The Effort to Unseat Rep. Lamar Smith Is On
Democrats line up to challenge climate-science denying GOP incumbent
BY MICHAEL KING
APD’s New Unit to Tackle Rape Kit Backlog
Four detectives will be assigned to the new crew
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Decision Reached on Fate of Oakwood Cemetery's Unidentified Graves
City will exhume and re-inter 25 bodies discovered in former "colored grounds"
BY MONTINIQUE MONROE
Recount Numbers Stay the Same
Tiffany McMillan wanted a recount proposition vote for new Lakeway police headquarters
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Margaret Moore on ICE
The D.A. wants to work with ICE to ensure victim and criminal witness safety
BY MARY TUMA
Council: The Numbers Game
Tumbling evermore into the budget
BY MICHAEL KING
Lege Lines: Respect Us or Expect Us
The House gets its revenge on Dan Patrick
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
State: Give Us That Medicaid Money We Said We Didn’t Want
Texas lost out on a boatload of money when it declined to expand Medicaid. Now it wants that cash.
BY MARY TUMA
Exit Interview: Animal Services Chief Tawny Hammond
Hammond championed no-kill shelter policy in Austin
BY NINA HERNANDEZ
Original 12th Street Muralist Likely to Handle Replacement
Chris Rogers is still considering the subject of a new mural
BY SARAH MARLOFF
On Consent: AISD Employees See Increased Wages
A 1.5% increase will go to district employees
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
The Hightower Report: Who’ll Help America’s Hard-Hit Gold Miners?
Donald Trump will ... not. Unless you own a gold mine.
BY JIM HIGHTOWER
food
AC Food Fight: Delivery Apps
Favor and Postmates stand and deliver
BY BRANDON WATSON
Review: El Burro
Contemporary Tex-Mex does little to impress
BY BRANDON WATSON
Dear Glutton: The Cure for an Existential Hangover
The best dish to wake up the senses and shake off the gloom
BY EMILY BEYDA
Food Events
music
Drum Dynamo J.J. Johnson’s Saving Grace
Powerhouse Austin drummer strips down to his bare essence
BY KAHRON SPEARMAN
Playback: Sunday Morning Coming Down
Last Sunday marked the death of two Austin music connectors; plus, in regards to local public policy, Mayor Steve Adler calls
BY KEVIN CURTIN
Texas Platters
Xetas
The Tower
Phoebe Hunt
Shanti's Shadow
Austin Jazz Workshop
Epistrophy: Austin Jazz Workshop Plays Thelonious Monk
DJ Brimlo
Awkward Love Letters
screens
The Austin Film Society Unveils Its New Home for Cinema
Two-screen theatre will showcase the best of new and classic arthouse cinema
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Double Nickelodeons on the Dime
Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films
BY MARJORIE BAUMGARTEN
Film Reviews
Baywatch
Some people stand in the darkness ...
The Commune
Life in a Seventies Danish collective is not all that
A Dark Song
Black magic goes awry in this taut thriller
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The next installment of this franchise that no one asked for
arts & culture
James Magnuson Leaves the Michener Center
James Magnuson reflects on his 23 years as director of the Michener Center for Writers
BY ROBERT FAIRES
Arts Reviews
Trinity Street Players’ Dani Girl
This musical may be about a child with cancer, but seeing it is a funny, moving, and healing experience
Butcher Holler Here We Come
This stylized look at West Virginia miners trapped underground is more of a powerful sensory experience than a narrative drama
“Robert Collier Beam: Scry” at Pump Project
The artist uses photographs and other media to catch the invisible and intangible but in a remarkably peaceful way
columns
Page Two: When “Patriotism” Means Petulance
So much for draining the swamp
BY LOUIS BLACK
Gay Place
Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: Veterans Memorial Plaza, San Antonio
Small park in downtown San Antonio serves as a moving Memorial Day reminder
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Dog Luv
The corporate culture here at the brick bunker is that there are no bad ideas
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
comics
