The W heals your SXSW hangover, Apis goes all prix fixe, and more afternoon bites.

Loud rock specialists Otis the Destroyer crash back into your eardrums this week on a new EP. It’s the second strike for the Gibson SG-wielding local quartet, who’ve been steadily baptizing Texans with their sweaty live show since emerging on the scene with 2014 debut Dark Arts.

In this week's news roundup: The attorney of a former APD officer accused of murder files a motion to dismiss charges because key testimonies were not recorded; the implementation of campus carry at UT Austin convinces some to leave the university, and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders holds a last-minute rally with thousands attending.

Mayor Steve Adler rolled out an array of resolutions this morning to stimulate Austin’s music economy and support the extant ecosystem in times when affordability is of increasing concern in creative sectors. It’s the most substantial music and arts related action Adler’s made since taking office over a year ago.

At the end of March 2005, I'd been writing about TV for a while and I knew the communities it could create. The passion, the longing, and the fighting – the whole world of it – was fascinating, because stories are inherently fascinating: lies that say things that are truer than facts.

After a hiatus last week, City Council returned to its regular Thursday (Feb. 25) session late in the day yesterday, spending the majority of the morning hours in their monthly Austin Energy Utility Oversight Committee meeting.

If there is anything about this miserable presidential election cycle that is certain, it’s that we will all need to drown our sorrows. Luckily Justin Elliott of Congress Ave. hotspot The Townsend has a special cocktail menu that might turn Monday, Feb. 29 into a grand ole party.

Unofficial day party announcements now arriving faster than you can spell R-S-V-P, it’s easy to forget that South by Southwest Music continues making lineup announcements, including one now.

It's hard to remember a time when zombies weren't ubiquitous. But in 1972, when Alan Ormsby starred in Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, it was all fresh meat. Ormsby said, "Everybody knows the rules at this point, but we just assumed they did."