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Volume 38, Number 49
ON THE COVER:
news
How Austin Is Tackling Homelessness on the Street and at City Hall
More shelters, more beds, and more fights about ordinances ahead
BY AUSTIN SANDERS
Point Austin: Money Matters, and the Senate
Can the Dems find (and fund) the candidate to beat Cornyn?
BY MICHAEL KING
Public Notice: They’re Baaack!
Council faces a busy first week
BY NICK BARBARO
Headlines
Quote of the Week
Civics 101
NAKED CITY
Stabbing Attack on Waller Creek Highlights Dangers Faced by Those Experiencing Homelessness
BY SARAH MARLOFF
PARD Releases Draft Long-Range Plan
“Our Parks, Our Future” charts course through 2028
BY SAVANA DUNNING
Austin Police Encouraged to Use Excessive Force?
Lawsuit: City fails to discipline problem cops
BY MARY TUMA
Anti-Abortionist and Heidi Group Founder Sues U.S. Government
Suit argues anti-choice and anti-LGBTQ groups with "sincere religious beliefs" deserve Title X money
BY MARY TUMA
Travis County Leaders Give Themselves Raises
Salary move comes amid fears of shrinking budgets
BY LINDSAY STAFFORD MADER
food
Uncovering the Mysteries of Austin’s Speakeasies and Secret Bars
A guide to some of the hidden (and not-so-hidden) bars around town
BY LINA FISHER
Austin’s First CBD Collective Opens Downtown
Custom Botanical Dispensary offers cannabidiol and more
BY JESSI CAPE
Comic Book Cookbook Shows You How to Make Perfect Ramen
A step-by-step trip into the noodlicious and brothy world of ramen
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Austin's Best Food and Drink Events This Week
Dinner parties, farmers' markets, beer, wine, and more for the week of August 1, 2019
music
The Origins of Austin Punk in the Aftermath of the 13th Floor Elevators
Roky Erickson hurtles toward Doug Sahm in Chapter 1, Part 1 of the Austin Punk Chronicles
BY TIM STEGALL
screens
Texas Thriller Coyote Lake Draws Suspense From True Crime
On the shores of the border with filmmaker Sara Seligman
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
We Have a Lot of History Here: The Austin Chronicle and Between the Lines
How Jeff Goldblum’s first starring role helped shape the paper we became
BY NICK BARBARO
Punk Legend John Doe Presents at AFS Cinema
The L.A. to Austin transplant on acting: "I want to be sideways!"
BY TIM STEGALL
One in a Crowd: "Dancers"
Short film needs your help to get en pointe
BY RICHARD WHITTAKER
Film Reviews
Cassandro, the Exotico!
Back body drops, and in high heels
Coyote Lake
Still waters run deep in this innovative border crime drama
Diamantino
Politics and Pekingese in this strange, sweet, and very Portuguese fantasy
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Something something family something. The unkillable franchise lumbers on.
Long Gone Wild
New film asks, what happened after Blackish brought orca torture to light?
Mike Wallace Is Here
The 60 Minutes newsman's legacy makes headlines of its own
The Mountain
Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum in an engrossing experiment in form
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood
Tarantino takes Tinseltown head-on
Sea of Shadows
Eco-crime-documentary follow the deadly impact of cartels and animal smugglers
Sword of Trust
Marc Maron like you've never seen him in this oddball Southern road trip to the truth
arts & culture
Local Band Montopolis Scores a Multimedia Ode to the Texas Coast
Galveston (and you) will be blown away by this production
BY WAYNE ALAN BRENNER
Arts Reviews
Summer Stock Austin's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
This musical succeeds on the infectious energy of every member of its enthusiastic cast
Summer Stock Austin's Haunted: A Ghost Story
This new musical by Allen Robertson and Damon Brown is darker than their usual fare, but there's light at the end
Grageriart: Design 4 Everyone at Crashbox
Math rock is hard, let's go shopping with some robots
columns
Qmmunity: Pride Week Commences
Party with Qmmunity, That Time of the Month, and Andy Campbell
BY SARAH MARLOFF
Day Trips: The Majestic Theatre
Take the majestic tour
BY GERALD E. MCLEOD
The Luv Doc: Pineapple Pizza
A big ol' meaty, cheesy, greasy gastronomical death trap
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
